(upbeat music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I’m Link. – And I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re answering your questions that could be and are about anything. – And I’m just, man, I hope– – You’re mad. – I hope this show goes well because– – You’ve been mad since you walked in. – It’s not gonna be because of me. I mean I’m freakin’, I didn’t eat lunch. I’m freakin’ starving. – You’re hangry. – I got a bar here. I don’t wanna eat it on this show because that’s not professional. And I’m walking in, I get the bar, I go outside. I come back in, and the freaking door hits me in the heel. – Yeah. – And not just like a little– – Yeah, I made some adjustments to it. (chuckles) – You loosened it! – I made some adjustments to the door. It’s a trap! – The door always closes slowly. – Yeah, until now. – I opened the door, I walk in. It shoves me in by hitting me on the heel. – By design. I want people to get in and get out quickly. – It hurt, man. – Listen, feel free to eat your Kind bar. Not a sponsor, but a good bar. I mean it could be a sponsor. It would be if they wanted it to be. – So now you can talk about my chewing. Here it is. – Oh, my gosh. Do us all a Tay Zonday and turn away form the mic when you chew, okay? – Pull away from the mic. – Because, but hold on, but we’ve been talking about this. – I know. I’m working on my chewing volume. – Link and I actually had what I would call like a Jedi chewing training session last week. – Do a little ASMR. (foil crinkling) That’s my packaging. – And I didn’t wanna be offensive because I realize that it’s a touchy subject when you’re trying to comment on something that’s so personal with someone, which the sounds that their mouth make is about as personal as it gets for a person. So as Link and I were sitting there eating lunch in our office across from each other, as we often do, I just said, “You know, what if you, have you thought about “maybe trying to chew not so hard?” – Here’s a normal chew. – Good gracious, that’s just unadulterated? – That’s me. It’s not a horse. – That’s actually less intense than you typically do. When you’re doing thoughtless chewing, like when I look at you and I can tell that your eyes are off in nowhere and you’re doing just chewing– – I’m wonky-eyed chewing? – It’s harder than that. I think you should set a louder baseline. – Well, I am angry, so I’m gonna channel it. – Look off into the distance, like you’re not thinking about anything. Oh, gosh, that’s it. I mean the separation, the distance that your mouth separates and comes back together without opening, that alone is amazing to me. – Thank you. – But then there’s also a pop, which I believe is a TMJ thing maybe. – I don’t know, but yeah, there’s definitely a pop. – Like almost on every chew. Do it again. – I was trying to just move my jaw. – It only works when you’ve got material in there. You gotta give the wood chipper the wood before the wood chipper becomes a wood chipper. Otherwise, it’s just a chipper. (chuckles) You know what, we do not blame you if you’ve already left. – I’m sorry. – Of course, we’re not talking to you because you’re still here. – But here’s one more chew. I’m gonna try to eat like a snake and just swallow it. – You’re trying to go to the other end of the spectrum? – First of all, these things are chewy, man. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. You’re not complaining, right? They might be a sponsor one day. Don’t complain too much about it if you do want to. – I’m chewing slowly. – It’s still noisy. – I can’t do it. – You’re right up on a mic, which is an unfair way to test your chewing. You need to do it in a room as a normal person. – You eat this last piece normal, up on the mic. It sounds like if I go in my Apple library to use a sound effect for chewing, it’ll be like, that’s some gentle chewing. – I’m the one who did the Apple sound. That was before we were working together. – We’ve always worked together, you jerk. – I was four years old. – I don’t know how you do it, man. And I don’t want to. – No, but as I’ve told you before, I’m worried that you’re gonna wear out your molars like an old elephant and you’re gonna die one day. They’ve got seven sets of molars. And once they get on that last one, you gotta just let it die, or feed it pudding. – I love pudding. (Rhett laughs) Well, I love chocolate pudding. I love vanilla pudding. I love chocolate and vanilla pudding swirl. There has been a peanut butter pudding with chocolate. I’ve seen that and I like it. I don’t like a lot of other puddings, but I do like, (chuckles) I don’t know. That didn’t come out right, but chia pudding, I do like that. – I had some of that today, actually. I went to my son’s, not graduation but promotion, they call it, because when you leave eighth grade– – He’s going to high school, man. – And you go to the next thing, you just get promoted to it. – Now I was dropping Lincoln off– – I had chia pudding after that. – Did they have like a reception with chia pudding? – Yeah, that’s the thing now. No, we went to a restaurant after to celebrate, and my wife ordered– – Chia pudding at a restaurant? – Well, it was after she had already eaten breakfast, still hungry. – Okay, like a chia pudding brunch type situation. I was dropping Lincoln off late because I guess they had the eighth grade promotion, and then the seventh graders were dropped off for two hours on the last day of school to just sign yearbooks. And I noticed, I was seeing eighth graders and their parents leaving. I was like, “Well, that’ll be me next year.” And I was like, “That’s Rhett and Jessie and Locke now.” I didn’t see you, but I noticed that a lot of people were dressed up. And I was like, I’m gonna take a mental note that when this happens to me next year– – You’re not gonna dress up? – I ain’t gonna dress up. – I don’t think you have to make a mental note. – Did you dress up? – You know what I had on before I put on this shirt? – Yeah. – That’s what I wore, if you call that dressing up. – No. I mean people looked like they were putting on like Sunday best type situation. – I got on brown shoes though. I mean that’s– – No, you look like you were just coming in to the office. But there were people who looked like they were going to a church service. – Locke did wear a tie. – Oh, he did? – But he wore his shirt untucked. – Oh, okay. – You know, it was like cool formal. – Did he walk across the stage and get handed a promotion? – Yeah, 700 students or something crazy like that. – Oh, no. – And so they had an incredible system that they had practiced for hours to get right. You got people on each side calling names in alphabetical order. The kids know exactly when they’re supposed to stand up, like the different rows. They go out and they come back in. It was as quick as you can move through 700 students without just basically saying, “Should we just not do this at all?” – Right, it was clear that no one cared, but they just cared enough to know, out of obligation, they had to do it. – And there were some people who were so enthusiastic, even though you’re supposed to hold all applause till the end. – Oh, gosh. – There were some people who went really crazy for their kid. I turn to Jessie and I was like, “It’s not 1920.” Getting through eighth grade is not a big deal anymore. And also, it’s illegal not to. So it’s not like it’s really an accomplishment. I’m sorry if that sounds insensitive. – Is that what you stood up and yelled when Locke got his– – Yeah, exactly. This isn’t that big of a deal! It would be illegal if we did otherwise! (Link laughs) – Watch out now. That almost cheered me up. – Also, now this is really gonna cheer you up, you will never believe who did the commencement speech at the eighth grade promotion. – Well, do you wanna do the yes or no game? – Queen Latifah. – Oh, come on, man! I wanted to freakin’ do the yes or no game. Is it a musician? Yes. Is it a rapper? Yes. Is it a female? Yes. Is it Queen Latifah? I could have gotten it in three questions. – Are you not amazed by that? – Well, I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to arrive at it. – Because I’m lying. – Oh. – Of course Queen Latifah didn’t do it. It was the principal. – Hold on. – They didn’t even bring in a famous person. – Hold on, Queen Latifah didn’t do it? – No, the owner of many Fatburgers did not do the commencement speech at my son’s promotion because again, it’s not a big deal. Queen Latifah is not gonna– – She is the owner of many Fatburgers? – Yeah. Queen Latifah is not going to– – You were screwing with me. – Stop managing Fatburgers– – That’s not what she actively does. – Owning. And she’s an actor. She’s a musician. She does all kinds of things. She’s the queen, next to Beyonce. Now all I will say though is that she’s not going to divert her schedule to come do something that is of no consequence. – It’s funny that I was so intent on playing the yes or no game– – That you just washed over Queen Latifah. – No, your lies, man, your dirty, hip hop lies. – You think Queen Latifah would do that kind of thing? Queen Latifah would do a college graduation. – If her daughter– – For a pretty penny. – Or son went to the school, yeah. – I think Queen Latifah is like, she does speeches for hire. That’s what you needed today, what you’ve been through. What have you been through, by the way? Why are you in a bad mood? – I don’t wanna, well, if you must know, I mean I told you I didn’t eat. – Yeah, because we’re– – That’s it. I just didn’t eat. It’s that freakin’ simple. – I have to leave at a certain time because I’m going to my follow-up appointment for my eye issue, which I told you guys about. Which everything is fine with the eye, but we’re just like months down the road, we gotta do the dilation and we wanna, you know, we wanna check and make sure everything’s okay. So I have to go to that and I have to be there on time. – But you are intentionally not eating. You haven’t talked to me about this, but you’re doing, I heard you tell someone else because you didn’t wanna tell me that you’re doing intermittent fasting. I don’t know what that is except that you’re not eating. – Well, use the context to figure out what it is. – Don’t talk down to me. (Rhett laughs) I know what intermittent fasting is. – I’m fasting intermittently. – It’s when you, you’re skipping dinner for health reasons, I think. – Well, okay. First of all, I’m not doing it in any disciplined manner because, a, I eagerly accepted the Kind bar piece that you gave to me without any protest. And also– – Well, you’re doing it intermittently. – My parents are in town and I’m making scallops for them tonight. – What? – I’m making scallops for them tonight. – Scalbs? – Scallops. – Scallops. – Scallops. I’m making scallops for them tonight. – So give me– – You can bet your scallops I’m gonna eat some. – But give me the spiel publicly that you didn’t wanna give to me privately because you knew I would just give you the stink eye the whole time. – Just ’cause you don’t care about these kinds of things. – Oh, no, no. – That’s fine. – But I’m choosing to care about it now because my question is if you’re going home intermittently and not eating dinner for health reasons, which I’m semi curious about– – Semi curious. – I’m major curious about. – I think you’re curious for entertainment purposes only. That’s my guess. – No! Okay, you’re the reason I’m in a bad mood. No, it’s the door hitting me in the foot. But I’m macho curious about, mucho curious– – Mucho, yeah. Macho curious, that’s not something you should be– – About how you’re not angry at night if you don’t eat. You can get to that, but that’s the thing I’m interested in. But we do need to know why you’re fasting. – The very quick thing is I’m experimenting with intermittent fasting because there’s a plethora, a cornucopia, if you will– – Now I don’t– – Of research– – Don’t act like I’m not gonna believe you. I certainly believe you. – That suggest that not only is it a good way, I’m not really interested, I always, I have a little bit of the spare tire. I’ve had it basically my entire adult life. As I cross the threshold of 40, I just ask myself, do you think in your 40s, you could get rid of this? And so it’s sort of a personal challenge to myself. – You were asking it? – Yeah, I talk to it. I massage it. I grab it. It doesn’t speak. I can, however, I mean I can mold this thing into the shape of a mouth. That’s how much I got right there. – Okay. – And it is the last fat that you lose, for complex scientific reasons that I won’t go into. – Before you die. – If you’re trying to lose weight, typically, your belly fat is the last fat you’ll lose because of the composition of that particular fat. – However, intermittent fasting is, I’m not that interested in weight loss. What I am interested in is longevity. And intermittent fasting has been shown not only to be great for weight loss but also great for longevity. Basically, I don’t understand all the science behind it. I just know that the evidence suggests that if there’s like a 16-hour, 14 to 16-hour period per day that you’re not eating anything at all, you’re helping your body in a lot of different ways, avoiding disease, reducing cancer risk, increasing longevity in general. – I don’t like knowing that I gotta stop what I’m doing and eating three times a day because I’ve trained my body to do it. So I’m actually open to this because I don’t like, in principle, being a slave to having to eat food. – Yes, because what I will say additionally is that the principle of fasting has been a part of different faith traditions for a long time because it is a way of denying yourself of this very basic need, and you kinda overcome it with will power. I’ve done like a seven-day fast. In college, I did a seven-day fast. – Yeah. – And you do get to some interesting places mentally a few days in. I haven’t done that, but what I will say is that yes, I get home and I try to do this Monday through Thursday. And again, I’m not disciplined. If there’s a party, if there’s a get together, if people are going out, if my parents are in town– – If there’s a scallop involved. – If my best friend hands me the butt end of a Kind bar, I will break the fast. It’s not a super disciplined thing. It’s just a general principle. However, what I have found is that I do think that there is something to saying I’m going to overcome this desire to eat. I’m not gonna let it make me upset, because I do think you become a bit of a slave to your body and its needs. And if you can kinda beat the body back, you can overcome it. – So do you, like me, have a tendency to get really hangry? – I don’t think I have a tendency towards hangriness to the degree that you do. – Headaches? – Yeah, I have gotten a few headaches at night, and I’ll just pop a couple of ibuprofen, hopefully. I try to put– – That’s breaking your fast. You’re eating pills, man. – I push that off as much as possible because I do think I’ll adjust. But if it gets bad, I’m like I’m not going to be able to enjoy my nighttime activities, then I will have some ibuprofen. – Okay. – Did you like that pause that I did there after nighttime activities? – I don’t like pauses in podcasts in general because I’m like driving down the road, listening to a podcast, all of a sudden– – You think it’s buffering. – It got quiet for a second. And with the filters that, not only us, but people put on podcast, it’ll go like, it’s like when you turn off the lights in a room and it’s a magically pitch black room, auditorially speaking, that’s very shocking to me and I don’t like it. That’s why I try to heavy breathe. – Okay, good. That was really just for the people watching, not the people listening, because I also made eye contact with my camera. That’s my camera. I don’t look at it that often. Anyway, I’ll report back later. – I just– – But I don’t know much about it. I’ve just heard about it on a lot of podcasts. I’ve seen it in a bunch of articles. You see it in the news all the time. All the people who seem to know what they’re talking about when it comes to the body and life and health are singing the praises of intermittent fasting. – Do you sit down with your family and they’re eating, and you’re just sitting there like a bump on a log, chewing on ibuprofen? – I have done that. I have sat down with them and had tea while they were eating because you’re not breaking your fast if you’re having tea. – How convenient. – Also, my family is so not scheduled that everybody has something in the evening. There was only like one or two nights a week that we all sit down together anyway. So it hasn’t impacted that a whole lot. Like I get breakfast with the boys, and we see each other in the morning. – Have you had any positive results from your intermittent fasting to date? – I had a vision. – Okay. – No, I didn’t. – Of Queen Latifah? – I’ve been doing it for like a month, and there’s only been one Monday through Thursday stretch that I was consistent for all four days. So I felt good about myself in that time. But the funny thing I realized is if I was doing this ten years ago, I’m working out almost everyday, I’m doing 45 minutes of cardio, I’m doing some reasonable weight training– – You’d be lean and mean, huh. – This would be so gone. But something about getting to this age, I know you guys, we talk about how old we are a lot, but it’s amazing– – I have that. – How unresponsive the spare tire is. It is not responsive. – I can make, what did you say, a mouth? I can do that. I have that too. – Well, it could be a separate YouTube channel, just our belly mouths talking to each other. (Link chuckles) In 2006, that would have worked. – Okay, I feel okay now. I feel like we can get closer to the stated objective, which is answering any question that you have given to us, which is gonna lead to some other stuff. – But first, I wanna let you know where you can get this shirt that I’m wearing. Yes, we have created the Damnyell and Richard shirt. – [Link] Is it you on your own chest? – No, it’s Damnyell and Richard, no relation to me. – That’s a cool freaking shirt, man. The only thing that makes it not cool is the fact that it looks like you’re wearing a drawing of yourself, but you are playing a character on your own shirt. I just think it would, I should have worn it. I don’t think you should go out in public like that, but I think everybody else should support internet team. That is a freakin’ awesome shirt. I like to have fun. It says Damnyell and Richard in cursive down there. Get one at mythical.store. Support your local internetainers. Or us if we’re not local to you. – We also have this new, I don’t even know if I’m supposed to talk about it. – I noticed that. I haven’t seen that yet. – These new mythical bands. There was a bunch of them out there. – You put, you slide one on? – I just walked across the room and just put one on my arm. So I assume we’re selling those. I don’t know. Go to mythical.store and see. (chuckles) I think we will be at some point if we’re not. – Okay, let’s get into some questions. Before we do, I think at the end of this podcast, we’re gonna talk about something that if you’re a committed listener to Ear Biscuits, you’re gonna wanna stay to the end. And if you get bored, skip to the end. Maybe it might be an eight-minute conversation. – Eight minutes, okay. I got a plan for that because I gotta leave at a certain time. – Because we’re gonna talk about the nature of this show and what has happened and potentially is happening with it. And I think I just oversold something, but we’re gonna talk about that at the end of this episode with some introspection about the show itself, because I have some thoughts about it. – And Jacob just informed me that these amazing new wristbands are not being sold until early July. – Or at VidCon. – So if you’re going to VidCon, they will be available there. That’s probably why there’s so many in the office right now, because we’re taking them down there physically. Link, this first question is for you. – Oh. – So I’ll ask it. – Yes, I’m angry. – Tatyana Khoklova. Does Link have a special ritual with Jade, like the one Rhett has with Barbara, during his morning stretches? – Well, first of all, any question that starts with does Link have a special ritual, dot, dot, dot, yes. – Yes, of course. – With my beloved dog Tucker from my adolescence., I talk about the ritual of patting him on the head. Actually, I can’t remember. Was it five or seven times? – Five. – Because I wrote about it in the book. – It’s five times. – And then once I put it in the Book of Mythicality, I just, I forgot it because I know I can reference it there. – It’s also a number so. – Yeah, I don’t make a habit of remembering those. I don’t have anything that ritualistic. I mean Jade sleeps in the bed with us. I’m very ritualistic when it comes to taking her outside to use the bathroom because as it’s true with dachshunds, or dat-sunds, or however you wanna say it– – Apparently you don’t say dat-sund because I said that in– – We say dat-sunds. – A recent episode of GMM and people were like, “What is up with the way that Rhett says dachshunds?” I say it the way we say it in ‘Murica, okay? – It runs in their lineage to be hard to house break, so I’m very ritualistic about when she goes out, right before we go to bed, right when we get up in the morning. – So you get up and first thing, what’s the first thing you do when you get out of bed? You relieve yourself first, right? – I relieve myself. – And then you relieve your dog. – As long as she stays in the bed, she’s safe. She actually will not jump out of the bed on her own. She’s such a diva. – That’s convenient. – And it works. Yeah, she won’t go up the stairs on her own, and she won’t jump in and out of the bed on her own because we try to preserve her back health, which means we carry her around like a queen. – Ironically, which is what I do every morning. – Yeah. – Preserve my back health. – Huh. – Huh. Me and Jade should talk more. – She said she would like to talk to you more. – I let her lick me in the face more than you do. – But besides that, the main ritual we have is whenever I lay down on the couch, I always curl her up and she lays on my chest and then we take a nap together. That’s like the most special thing we do. Of course, we sleep together every night. (Rhett and Link chuckles) I mean she sleeps in between me and Christy and like will burrow herself down in the bottom. These dogs like to burrow in duvets. – No suffocation concerns. – We were really scared when we first got her, like little, little puppy. She would get under the covers and crawl down all the way down to her feet, and I was so nervous that she was gonna suffocate. Then we got used to it. – She hasn’t yet. – No, she comes out. When she gets hot, she comes out and she goes wherever she wants. She wakes us up not by barking but by flapping her ears. That’s how she wakes us up. – That’s so gentle. – She’s a woman of ritual herself. – There’s an update to my Barbara ritual which I think the last time I told you, it’s become so ritualistic. And again, this is something that Barbara initiated. The first thing I do when I get out of bed, well, I relieve myself, and then I come back into the bedroom. And I lay down next to the bed, on the rug, and I begin to do my stretches. And as soon as I come back in, if I have a towel in my hand, because I use a towel for the special stretch, Barbara jumps down– – You like bite down on the towel? – It’s too difficult to explain. As soon as I come back in, she jumps off the bed. She’s not concerned about her own back health. And then she gets on top of me and lays with one foot on each side of me and her head right on my head. She licks me. It’s gotten down, she just licks me one time. She just like, and then she immediately used to go back and get into bed with Jessie. So I gotta go down and get on his chest and lick him and then go. But now, in the past couple of weeks, she’s changed her routine. She gets on top of me, she gives me the one lick. And then she gets off of me and goes to my hand. – To your hand. – She goes to my hand and she starts scratching at my hand because now she just wants me to pet her. – Oh, uh-uh. – And then she scratches my hand– – You can’t do that while you’re stretching. – And then after she scratches my hand a couple of times, she takes her face and she puts both of her hands on her face. She’s showing me, “I want you to do this to me.” – (laughs) Really? – Yes, and so I do it. – She wins, huh? So you’re no longer stretching. – No, because I’m doing this thing where I’m rotating my lower body. – So your hand is free. – And my hand is free, and so I pet her a little bit. – But do you pet her on the head where she’s petting herself? – I think that she’s got a limited range of motion with her paw. I don’t think she can do this. – You infer a good configuration of petting from my very limited paw shenanigans. – Right, charades. – My paw charades. – Yeah, and she’s done that for a long time. She’s shown you how she wants to be pet. Is it petted? – It’s cute. – Or pet? – I don’t know. – But now she’s worked it into her routine. – She’s the one with the ritual. – It’s irresistible. – She’s ritualizing you. – She’s definitely. She’s in charge. She’s in charge of the whole house. – Let’s hear another question. – This is from Tracy – Dr. T. Made up games you played as kids. My brother and I shared a room until we were 10 years old. We had twin beds and pretended they were our boats. The game was called Guys and Gals. (laughs) – That doesn’t make sense, Guys and Gals. – We were obviously super bored? – Not Sailors and Boats, or Fishermen? – You got a guy boat and a gal boat I guess. – Guys and Gals. – Speaking of the Book of Mythicality, we talked pretty extensively about the game that the two of us would play where we took the Nerf basketball and we would sit down across from each other with our legs spread and roll it into each other’s nuts. The running joke in that chapter of the Book of Mythicality was what we were going to call that game. – Right, but– – Nutpocalypse or something. I don’t know what we ended up calling it in the book. – Well, in the book we got Testi-kill. – Testi-kill, yes. – Yeah, Testi-kill. – And we created the ad for Testi-kill. – We got a super slick ad. It looks like cornhole, but it’s got a person with their legs spread at the, you should get the book. I mean who are we kidding. That’s the only game that I can recall that we invented. Actually, I remember we invented a game on like a conference room type table with white– – Oh, what’s that? What did we call it? – With dry erase markers. And there’s a thing you can do with a dry erase marker where you can kinda put your fingers on top. If it’s laying down, you put your fingers on top of it, and then you press and then it will, it’ll like shoot it out like– – Back spins. – Like would back spin like a log, like a lumberjack running on a log in a river. And then it like slips off the backside, and it thrusts it forward. – This might be a complicated analogy. – Picture doing that with just your fingers. – Just pressing down on a dry erase marker and it slides down from underneath and goes across the table. And whoever can get– – [Rhett And Link] The closest. – Without going off the table. – To the far edge without falling off. And then you can knock the other people’s– – You can knock other people’s off. – Off. – What did we call that? – Well, it was kinda like shuffle board. – But we had a ridiculous name for that. It had nothing to do with dry erase markers. – I can’t remember. – That’s a great game if you– – Have a boardroom. – A boardroom and you’re bored, ha. But the game that– – I think the title is somewhere in that. – The game that I played, which I don’t know if you ever came over for this, but you remember, again, we discussed this in the Book of Mythicality, but my nextdoor neighbor was Peter Dinklage growing up. Not the Peter Dinklage, but my Peter Dinklage. When we were in like middle school or maybe even younger, his cousin came to live with him to go to school at Camden University. Remember that, Eric? And he was like the coolest guy in the world because he was a college student. – Yeah, but he hung out with– – Like on Friday night, he would hang with us. And we invented this mix of tag and hide and seek where– – Well, there is an element of tag in hide and seek, but go ahead. – But does hide and seek involve getting back to a certain home base always? Or is it just if you’re found, that’s it? – No, I think you get, in its full form, you get back to base. – Okay, then we were just playing hide and seek. – You invented hide and seek. – We invented hide and seek. No, but we played it– – With a base. – There was a tree base, and it was nighttime. – I did play this. – And we all dressed up in black. Eric, the college student would come out. And of course, now that I think about it, I’m like– – How weird is that? – It’s like, you know, he didn’t have much of a college life, but we loved it. And he would come out in a full black sweatsuit and like a black beanie. – It’s one thing for a college student to play with middle schoolers– – Sometimes a ski mask. – Participate in their game. – We were in middle school. – It’s another thing for a college student to get fully decked out in order to play a game with middle schoolers. – But I looked forward to it so much. – I do remember playing this a few times. – It gets so intense. – Well, from a young age, it seems, you had this affinity for the dark. (Rhett chuckles) And I, from a young age– – True. – Have had, what is the opposite of an affinity? – A scaredness? (laughs) – I hated it. I hated the dark. I still hate the dark. You know, when I take out the trash, I’ll go around the side of my house and I’ll take out the trash at night, and then I’ll run back in the house. (Rhett laughs) And I had lights installed at our freakin’ trashcan. I was like, “I am a man. “I am gonna conquer this “by installing lights at my trashcan–” – Yeah, but you know a really good exercise for that? – Which is not conquering it. Stop turning this into therapy. – No, it’s not that I’m not scared. I’m also scared. – Okay, turn it into therapy. – First of all, it’s Locke’s responsibility to take the trash down our long inclined driveway. – It’s Lincoln’s responsibility, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have to do it every week. – Right, exactly, they’re teenagers. So what I have done is I go down there and I to the bottom of the street. And it’s dark and there might be like a cougar or a coyote legitimately, right? – There could be a legit coyote. – Or maybe like– – A mountain lion. – Like a floating ghost. Sometimes it depends on what movie you’ve watched recently, like a little girl floating like a foot off the ground and like looking at you with dead black eyes. – Cool. – Think about that when you’re out there next to your trashcan. But what I do is I get down there and I just stop, and I don’t run. You can’t run. And I embrace it. And I say I’m going to absorb whatever this is and just stay here and take it until it goes away. – The demonic power? – And them I’m going to, yeah, absorb the demonic power. (Link laughs) And then I’m going to slowly walk up. I’m gonna resist the urge to run. – Scurry. – Don’t run. You can’t give in. You walk slowly and confidently. – The thing I love about your anecdote is that you admitted that you’re just as afraid as I am. – But I don’t show it. – You’re just more prideful than I am. – No, it’s part of the therapy, man. – Okay, I get it. – It’s like smiling to induce happiness. Walk confidently to get rid of scaredness. – What were we talking about? – I don’t know, but I’m gonna move on to another question. Cherie. Things you thought were true for the longest time and how you found out about it. – Oh, I’ve got one for this. Listen. I think Reddit is becoming too big a part of my nightlife because– – Those are your nighttime activities, Reddit? – No, no, it’s not. Well, it’s part of it. I go to sleep looking at Reddit now. Well, I don’t actually fall, well, I have. I do fall asleep sometimes with like my phone hits my chest. – Now that’s dangerous because– – I pick it up and there’s Reddit on there. – You can accidentally, especially if you do that on Twitter, you can accidentally end up liking something. – Well, I’m just sleepy. – Hold on. I mean I’m just saying you gotta be careful. – I’m not on like Ambien or anything. – I’m just saying, no, no. It’s like as it’s like falling, if you’re looking at something and you’re like, “Oh, that’s crazy,” and then it like falls on your face and you end up liking it. – Oh, I nose like something? – Yeah, I mean there’s lots of different ways it can happen. You better be careful. As soon as I get sleepy I put my phone down because it’s dangerous at that point. – Well, I don’t think it’s good to shove a screen in your face right before you go to sleep every night anyway, circadianly speaking. – Circadianly speaking. – But this blew my mind. There was a post not too long ago, and I think it was worded like, “I’m 36 or I’m 43 years old “and it’s taken me this long to figure out “that a bird of paradise plant is not the head–” – I saw this post. – It’s not the head of a cooky bird. It’s the entire body of a bird where the nose of the bird is pointing back towards the stem from which the flower comes. – And the wings are out. – And the wings are out. – I don’t think a lot of people, I think most people were under the impression that, I was definitely under the same impression that you’re under. – That it was a kooky head. – That it was a big headed bird. – Sticking its head out of like a bush. We had these in my old house. Everyday in the driveway, I would get in and out of the car, at least two times a day, I would see these things whenever they were blooming. And I never once saw it the correct way. – Why is that the correct way though? – Well, because if you look at a bird of paradise, it looks like one now. – Right, because a bird of paradise isn’t some big stork looking thing, what that interpretation of it would be. – And it just blew my mind. And I showed it to Christy ’cause she’s super into plants, you know. That’s how she gets going. – Oh, really? – I show her some plants. – And her mind was– – You put your plant costume on. I have a tree man costume. – Exploded about that. – I can show up and warm things up. (laughs) – No, can I borrow that? – Oh, sure. (Link laughs) – Oh, gosh. – I wouldn’t come inside. I’d just hang out in the yard. – And then there are other plants, not other plants. There are other Reddit posts where people have like literally taking googly eyes with Photoshop or in real life have placed eyes on the two different places that could indicate where the head and the face of the– – To make the big headed bird. – Or the small one that kinda looks like a hummingbird in flight. – It’s not as impressive as the big headed bird. – No, but it made a lot more sense. – But did she know this already? – No, she was with us. – I think most people are. You know what, something that I also– – Because it looks like a beak. – A lot of people have been talking about– – But it’s the tail. – And I think there was a Twitter moment about this weeks ago. All these people are realizing that Donald Glover and Childish Gambino are the same person. Like that is happening. And that kinda blew my mind a little bit, because I totally understand how, it depends on how you were introduced to the two different facets of his career. – I mean I guess it’s very easy to listen to and enjoy his music but not watch a music video or see a face attached to it. – No, but I think people– – Because his previous album, it’s not like he’s on the cover. – But I think these are people who have, my guess is they’ve seen him do his thing as Childish Gambibo, Gambino, and then still not put it together because the way that people reveal that they finally understood this is like this mind blowing thing that you’re like, “Oh, I thought, “oh, that guy, “oh, it is the same person.” But that did not happen to me. I knew, I knew. Birds of paradise, they got me. – I’m not gonna shame anyone for thinking that. – Donald Glover did not get me. – I get it. I’ll never look at a bird of paradise the same way again. Matter of fact, I’ll never look at one again. Ha, I win. – There’s two in my front yard. – I will avert my eyes. – This is from Emily, EmilySestak27. What is your favorite memory from GMM, Ear Biscuits, and/or the Tour of Mythicality? Mine was meeting you guys. Nice to meet you, Emily. I could see that your profile picture is the meeting that we had. – It must have been meaningful. That’s cool. – I can’t tell which stop that was. – Well, that’s it for us, Emily, meeting you. – Yup. – It seems like that has to be our answer, and it is. You know what, that’s our answer. – But what’s the second highlight besides meeting Emily? – I think one of the highlights of the Tour of Mythicality that has come up multiple times is when we went to Washington DC, I could easily figure it out but I can’t quite figure it out off the top of my head where we went from DC. – Philadelphia? – I think so. We brought Lily with us. So bringing Lily for that little leg of the tour was a highlight for me, but then she always talks about, you know, we did, and if you watch the Rhett and Link Instagram, we did some stories where we were on the mall. We did the whole mall thing. Boy, that was a highlight. But then she always talks about, I don’t know, she just brings it up a lot. She’s like, “Remember that time when we were “in Washington DC, and it was freezing outside “and we came out of the museum, “and we were like really hungry? “And there were all of those food trucks there. “And there was that one that had “like the lamb and chicken plates, and we each got one. “And it was so windy, but we sat outside and we ate them.” And I was like, “Yeah, I remember that.” She was like, “That’s one of the best meals I’ve ever had.” – (chuckles) Really? – You know, it’s one of those, you know, “the best meal you’ve ever had”, it’s so much about the surrounding experience. It always makes me feel great when she brings that up because as good as I know that that food was, and it was good– – It was very good. – She’s basically we created a memory, and you happened to be there too, Rhett. – I was there. It was a good meal, but not the best of my life. – That was certainly a highlight. And then her kind of assisting us. I could tell that she was glad to be there and she felt like she’s part of the team. – And she’s the only child between the two of us who would be capable of offering any sort of help. – Yeah. – In that capacity. – She got some tea. She got some throat coat before we went on stage. – It reminds me of the time, well, the whole chicken and rice thing. This is unrelated. So the Halal Guys in Manhattan who had a food truck, a food cart that we actually featured in our very, very, very old food cart song, which was in 2008, so 10 years ago. As part of the Alka-Seltzer Great American Road Trip, we did this song about food cart people. – It has a good message. – Doing that song, we were introduced to this, what was, at the time, probably the most famous food cart in the nation. Since then, they’ve expanded from, so it’s basically chicken and rice, and then you got like a white sauce and a hot sauce. You can get lamb or chicken or both. – Oh, and you should get both. – It’s funny how– – I mean a lot of food trucks and food carts serve this particular dish. – But they did it in a special way. – But theirs was so much better. – Here’s the funny thing. – And it’s still there. You can go there. – 10 years later, my perspective has changed significantly on this, because in 2008, I never really had chicken, lamb and rice in that fashion. – Mm-hmm. – Now living in Los Angeles, I mean I literally cannot walk seven feet without having chicken or rice hit my face. You know what I’m saying? – Right, it rains it. – Right. And that style of kinda like a Middle Eastern style of chicken and rice is everywhere. And so we don’t really go back and go to that cart anymore. We did one time when we went with Stevie and we were all out there at like two a.m. eating this chicken and rice. And I was like, “I don’t know if this was worth it,” because I’ve had a lot of chicken and rice since then. But we would go there– – That was not a good experience for me because I got sick. – You got sick. – Yeah, I was really sick. – Yeah, you got sick. We haven’t been back to the cart since then. And now that– – I remember we were sitting, we’re like we had gotten this, we were like building it up to Stevie. We’re like, “We gotta take you to this, “to get these Halal Guys. “We gotta get a tray.” And then we’re going and we’re sitting against a building. And I didn’t feel good, so I was like sitting down, and you guys were standing up. And there were some businessmen there. You remember that? – Yeah, and they started talking to us. – They started talking to us, and they didn’t realize that I was sick. – We don’t wanna talk. – And I really didn’t wanna talk. And so in the middle of the conversation, because I started standing, I remember I just kinda slid down the side of the building and sat and put my head between my knees. I created kind of an awkward moment with these businessmen. – They slowly walked away at that point. I do remember that. – I think they made fun of me a little bit. – That guy is having a problem. – Food poisoning perhaps. I don’t know. – Now those guys have– – Not from the Halal Guys but from whatever was before. – Before that. They’ve got like an actual restaurant in Glendale? – Yeah, I haven’t been to that. – But people don’t review about it. I think it’s because there’s so much good food in that style out here that, you know, it didn’t necessarily stand as much of a chance. – There’s your highlight. – So the one thing I will say about favorite memory from GMM that makes me think is I don’t remember much from GMM until somebody asks a specific question about something. Or Shepherd, Shepherd binge watches GMM, and he’ll go deep. – Uh-huh. – He doesn’t watch it on a regular basis, but sometimes you’ll find him at the downstairs computer and he’s going through, just laughing. So it does make me feel good that he thinks that we’re funny. – Yeah, that’s good. He’s got good taste. – But sometimes I’ll find him watching something, I’m like, “Oh, yeah.” – As long as he finds us funny, he has good taste. – That happened. That’s how I find out my memories is by seeing them again on my own home computer. Link, another question for you from Brittney Reneau. Link, do you ever wish you had siblings? Do you think you lack of siblings influenced your relationship, your friendship with Rhett? I’m Rhett, that’s me. – I am an only child, but I do have siblings. I have a, let’s see. My dad and my mom had me. My dad got remarried and had two more kids who are my half siblings. – Right. – So I got a half sister and a half brother. – Together they make one person. – A whole sibling. – Yeah. – And that whole sibling spread across two distinct and wonderful individuals, are people that I never lived with. And you know, I actually don’t see them that often now. We don’t have that strong of a relationship, but Christy is Facebook friends with Lauren, who is my half sister. Over the years, there was like lots of variables which kept us from being, actually having a vibrant relationship. I’ll just leave it at that. But it’s not that we’re on bad terms. And so nothing about my opinion has to do with my relationship or interactions with them, but I am strongly of the opinion, when I talk to someone who has a kid, I’m like, “Hey, do you have any kids?” They’re like, “Yeah, we got one.” I’m like, “Okay, well, you need to have another one. “Don’t do that to the,” I kinda make light of it. – I’ve seen this in action. – Do I make it awkward when I do that? Usually, this conversation is one you’re having with someone you’re just meeting– – I do believe– – When you talk about how many kids. And for someone to just come out and say, “Have another one.” – I would say it’s safe to say that unsolicited family planning advice to people you just met– – Risky. – Is not necessarily the best course of action. – But the way that I say it, I say, “Well, have another one “’cause you don’t wanna do that to your first child. “I’m an only child. “You don’t want him to turn out like me.” (laughs) Kind of a self-deprecating– – It comes back to you. – But self-deprecating– – Just like an only child. – (chuckles) Right, exactly. Exactly. You know, I do feel like I missed out on a lot. I think that I’m soft because I don’t have any siblings. The thing that I’ve observed about my kids is that they give each other such a hard time. They get on each other’s nerves so much that it’s ultimately a healthy thing. It builds a thick skin. And it also, I really think it helps them understand there’s plenty of times, and at this age, I think they would say the majority of the time, they don’t like each other, but they know that they love each other. – Mm-hmm, there is a difference. – You don’t have to say, “Well, you gotta love each other.” And they’re too smart to tell each other they love each other usually. In special, special occasions– – It’s a question of intelligence, huh? – It’ll eek out. – Yeah, my kids, we have to tell them. We have to tell them to do that. – To say they love each other. But I think they know deep down that they are experiencing true familial love, but they annoy the crap out of each other. And I just think that’s a really healthy thing to be exposed to and not think that you’re the center of the world. And I think I was definitely spoiled, and I was not punished for things. You know this. I mean you would always get frustrated when we would get in trouble for something and then you’d get punished, go home and get punished for it, come to school the next day and be like, “What about you?” I’ll be like, “Nothing, I’m cool, man. “I got no punishment.” – Well, and I think that was just your mom’s style of discipline. – Yeah. – I mean theoretically, it does make sense that, so by that rationale– – You definitely are very special when you’re the only child. – The more kids– – It’s not healthy to feel too special. – The more brothers and sisters you have, the more deference there is to other people’s needs. And I think that that probably makes you more likely to, like ’cause again, when there’s a, the parent and the child, very different roles, of course. It kinda goes without saying. But it’s just like when a parent does something for a child, whether they get you a dessert or they get you a present or whatever, when it’s just a parent giving that to one child, then they’re on the receiving end of that but almost as a point of an opportunity for teaching. Like we get our kids a dessert that they have to split. It’s horrible. It actually makes it, sometimes you wanna get ’em each their own thing because you don’t wanna deal with them fighting over getting it exactly split in the right proportions. – Oh, yeah. – But I have to believe that that practice over time does make people more willing to defer in certain situations. – I mean don’t you feel like, I mean Cole is, what, three years, four years older than you? – Three, yeah. – Do you feel like you, I mean what do you think is the chief benefit of him being there. He helped you with your interest in music, helped you get on to the right hip hop threads. – Well, I mean yeah, all that, especially as a younger brother, all the things that you get. I wouldn’t know who Kool Moe Dee was. (Rhett and Link laugh) And that’s a big thing for me now. – Right, right. Queen Latifah. – Well, I think it’s what I just said. I think it’s, and again, I don’t know. We’re not child psychologists. Do we have to remind you? – Were you jealous of him? I’ll ask it that way? – Yeah, you know, I don’t think there was, I don’t, I see this between my kids, lots of things of like Locke saying, “I would never have gotten away with that.” I think my parents were actually much more conscious about being– – Consistent? – Consistent in their discipline, in their standards from older to younger kids in a way that we relax ourselves, I know you have as well, with each one that’s gone down. It’s just like Lando can do whatever he wants to, and so can Shepherd, pretty much. – Yeah. – Who knows what’s gonna happen with those kids. But to me, I think it’s, and I do think that you can make this adjustment later on in life, especially like, you know, we shared a room in college. You lived with other people, and now, you live with Christy, so I think that, but you may have had more challenges to overcome with kinda giving somebody else their space and accommodating someone else’s preferences. But I think you being like particular about things, I don’t think that’s the result of being an only child. I think that’s just your personality makeup, like caring about certain things. – I might have gotten better at stepping outside of it earlier because I most certainly would have had to do that if I had another sibling. Now I would point out that I lived with a step sister from kindergarten to third grade. So I did have, I guess I did live with a sibling. But it’s weird because, let’s see, Amy was like, I think it was five years older than me. And I do think it starts to make a difference because I didn’t see her as my bonafide sister. I was very annoyed by her, but we didn’t, I don’t recall us doing that much together. – There’s a pretty big age difference in girl and guy. I don’t know. I mean one of the things that I’m kind of exploring in my life journey at this point is trying to deconstruct my personality and understand why I am the way that I am. And so I’ve always thought of myself as very independent, right? So when I went off to college, I was only an hour away from home, but in my mind, I didn’t talk to my mom or dad again until Thanksgiving. Now I know I probably ended up calling them, but I did not call my parents a lot. I still don’t. – Mm-hmm. – And I’m pretty independent. Like I don’t like to receive help for things. I’m uncomfortable with getting help. If I’m faced with a problem, the first thing I do is just try to figure it out on my own. And I always just thought that that was a super positive thing and that I’m just an independent person. I’m not a needy person. I don’t like to be needy. In a group of people, I don’t want to be the person who complains about something. I don’t wanna be the person that everyone’s having to adjust their course of action because of me and my needs. And I always thought that this was a positive thing. In some senses, it is a positive thing but something– – Around me, it is. Go ahead though. – Something that I’m learning is that there’s probably a time in my life, probably between the time I was three, four and five, when there was just circumstances in my life, whether that was something with my parents or something with my brother, where we were at the time, something I was going through, where I began to kinda put up a little bit of kind of thing, like I’m going to take care of things on my own. And I had an incredible childhood, you know, intact home, very stable, very loving parents. And so there’s not like some, you know, initial event that I can point to or anything like that, but I’m kinda discovering that you basically put on this shell of a personality that helps you cope with whatever you’re dealing with, and then you kinda carry that well into adulthood. And then if you begin to kinda do some work on yourself and deal with yourself, you begin to realize that, oh, part of that shell that I put on myself to kinda make it into adulthood is unnecessary now. In fact, it is a hindrance for me understanding who I am and dealing properly with my own emotions. Another thing. I always thought I’m just not an emotional guy. Jessie and I talk about this in our relationship. She’s like, “You know, sometimes I just feel like “you’re not as present as you should be. “Or you just don’t seem to be as passionate “about this at times as I would like you to be.” And I’m like, “You know, I’m just not a needy guy. “I don’t wear my emotions on my sleeve.” But it turns out that there’s a portion of that, that I’m figuring out, that is ultimately unhealthy. And so what ends up happening is I actually am experiencing emotions because everybody is experiencing emotions, but then it’ll come out sideways in like snapping at the kids or snapping at Jessie, or potentially in some sort of physical manifestation of not properly channeling my emotions. Just beginning to kinda get into this and deal with this. – You’re talking about like a vestigial arm? – Yeah, I have an arm that I have not told anybody about. – An emotional arm. – It’s on my lower back, and I will reveal it in season 14 of Good Mythical Morning. – But it’s made up of pure pent-up emotion. – I don’t know exactly where I’m going with that, but ultimately, I guess the question that got us into this is the whole sibling thing. – So you’re saying your brother screwed you up. – My brother caused this. (Link laughs) No. But I think that what, well, I know where I was going with this. I would think that while there are certain ways that kids who are in families of like six, seven, eight kids would be super self sufficient, they may have some emotional work to do later in life because they had to defer their own needs so much to kinda be a part of a family that was that big, which again makes you a person that’s easy to get along with. That’s another thing. I’m easy to get along with. I don’t complain about a lot of things. I don’t cause trouble in a group. But it also, there’s a negative side to that with, in I’m holding things in and I don’t experience them personally in a way that maybe you are better at because you didn’t have to hold any of that in because you were, most of the time, it’s just you and your mom. – And my GI Joes. – So in other words, you may have some different challenges, but you also may have some things, some benefits from that. So all that to say you probably shouldn’t be giving unsolicited family planning advice to people with one kid. They should just do whatever they feel is best in their family and see how it turns out. – Yeah, they’re gonna be, kids are gonna be screwed up no matter what. They’re gonna have to work through the crap. – There you go. – Because they’re human. (Rhett sighs) – Journey. – Yes. – Journee Rayne. That’s a name. Journee Rayne. – Yup, she does. – That almost sounds made up. She should be a weather person. I don’t know what you do, but if you ever choose to be a weather person, we will support you. What is something super nostalgic for you guys? Whether, whether, she used the term whether in this. – But not spelled that way. – Yeah, but it’s, whether it’s a smell or a taste or something you see that will remind you of something from your past. – A weird– – And I think this will be our last question. – Unless I make it like precisely quick. – No, because I wanna be able to have the conversation that you teased. – Oh, that’s right. – Because I gotta get to the eye doctor. – Maybe I’m remembering this because we were talking about the Tour of Mythicality, but this is what popped into my head. I experienced like a spike of nostalgia when we went to that one, there was this one venue that we went to. I’ll describe it to you. Maybe you can help me remember which city it’s in because they all started to run together for us. But don’t you remember, we were, the first time we saw the venue, lots of times, we would be coming from backstage and then going out on the stage to do a soundcheck. And I remember looking out at the seats and I’m like, “Oh, crap, it’s the Buies Creek auditorium seats. – Yeah, I don’t remember where it was, but I do remember you pointing it out and I definitely agree. – And there was a specific model of like wooden seat that was like a curved back seat with like the iron– – And it had a lighter stained wood that had been worked into a pattern amongst the seats. – And then the seat bottom would, you know, like a theater seat. It would go up, and then when you sat on it, it would go down. – I think it was Philadelphia. I don’t know though. – Yeah, it was an old venue, and it was the exact same model of seats that I have not seen anywhere else since Buies Creek Elementary School. And I remember sitting in those seats as a fidgety little kid for all the school assemblies from like kindergarten all the way through eighth grade. And you’d sit down, and I remember the feeling of that seat just going down. And then there were a few seats that were broken, and you knew not to sit in those. But then some people wouldn’t know and they would sit in it, and it would like, it would go sideways and you’d fall. And then some of the wood on some of them, on the backs of some of them would be stripped off because these kids would be real fidgety. And they would start to grab it and strip away the wood. – Oh, yeah. – And it’s crazy how something can trigger memories to that level, and I could smell Buies Creek auditorium. – Auditorium smell, wood and lacquer. – Now it didn’t smell like the room we were in, but my memory made me access that smell. And usually, it works in the opposite way where you like smell something that will trigger a memory. That happens all the time. – Well, I have an even stronger– – It’s like a new way to get to a memory. – I have a stronger Buies Creek smell that recently hit me. – Yeah? – And maybe this has happened to you, because this has happened a few times. So Locke was doing some basketball event at this old gym at an old school somewhere in town. I don’t remember exactly where. But I had to take a whizz, as you do. – A whizz. – A whizz. I’m not talking about the movie, which I highly recommend. That’s The Wiz. I had to just take a whizz. And I went into the boys’ bathroom, and it smelled exactly like the Buies Creek Elementary boys’ bathroom. Now– – Like a mixture of like stale urinal water. – The thing I wanna understand is because it’s tile, it’s like that green, light green tile and those old style urinals and– – Built like a tank. – Yeah, all the way to the ground. The ones in Buies Creek didn’t go all the way to the ground. These did. And I was trying to figure out what is it I’m smelling. – I think it’s the pipes and a certain water type and then urine, like just baked in urine. – But like elementary urine? – Yeah. – It’s different? Juice boxes and like– – Youngster urine. – Sweet acidophilus milk carton. Remember that? – I didn’t know what that milk was. I never got that milk. I would always get the chocolate milk. I was so picky, I didn’t even like their chocolate milk. It wasn’t the exact right type of chocolate. – Maybe there’s something about like a public school diet and the way that it interacts with like a six to 12-year-old’s body. (chuckles) – Yeah. – And then the pipes. Anyway, it’s not a pleasant smell. I wouldn’t like turn it into a fragrance. I wouldn’t recommend that. – No. Did a specific memory flash into your mind as a result of that? – Yeah. I was peeing, I was whizzing, and the memory of Maurice Cameron coming up behind me while I was whizzing, and tapping me on the butt while I was whizzing. – Tapping you on the butt? – Somebody’s in the middle of peeing and then you come up and you like kick ’em with your foot just a little bit. So you make– – So it wasn’t a tap as much as a light push, right? – It was to get you to squeeze and stop. – Yeah. – Stop the stream. – Yeah. – And then actually, I’ve been– – Trying to recover from that– – Oh, yeah. – For 38 years. – It’s very difficult for me to pee in front of another individual. I get, what do you call, I wanna say camera shy, trigger happy. What do you call it when you can’t pee in front of somebody? Something shy. Whizz shy. (laughs) – It’s like performance anxiety. – Performance anxiety? It’s not that. It’s something else, but I’ll remember it later when it’s unimportant. But I feel like I link that back to being, he kinda had, that was his thing. – Maurice messed you up. – And so I’m always thinking, “Is Maurice gonna come up behind me,” while I’m starting at the airport next to this guy, wondering whose pee is going to hit the water first, you know. It’s like this ghost of Maurice. I should write a short story called The Ghost of Maurice. – He’s not dead. – I don’t know if he is or not. – I hope he’s not. He shouldn’t be. – No, he should be out there just lightly tapping people as they whizz. – I don’t think he ever did that to me because I don’t have any problems just letting it whizz. But what about yesterday, dude? – When we whizzed? What are you talking about? – When you and I whizzed in that bathroom. Like we went to a meeting, and then after the meeting– – Oh, yeah! – We had to whizz. We had to get the key from the– – Receptionist. – Receptionist and then go unlock the door. And we unlocked the door and there’s a, three sinks and a urinal and then two stalls. – And we had to go to the stalls because there was an old man– – There was a guy at the urinal. He was a security guard. And I thought he greeted us when we walked in, but then I realized he wasn’t talking to us. He was talking to himself. But then I started to think, “Oh, he’s not talking to himself. “I think he’s talking to God,” because he looks like, it sounded like he was praying. – I heard the words. He said delicioso, which I thought was Italian, delicioso. And he also said Hesus. So he said delicious Jesus– – Oh, gosh. – As far as I can tell. – And you know what, I heard Jesus. – While peeing. But he was also– – I thought he might be on the phone, but there was no phone. – Now ladies, I’ll just let you know, a lot of times when you go into a men’s restroom and there’s older men in there and they’re whizzing, there’s a lot of like (groans). – Like sighing, like the grunting. – The deepest relief you can imagine. And all of us are making that sound in our minds, and then some of us, as we break a certain threshold of age, just let it happen audibly. But he was also thanking Jesus for the delicious moment. – Jesus, God. And it sounded just like this, “Jesus, delicioso.” (Rhett laughs) And it sounded like a chant because it repeated. I heard Jesus more than once. – But he said Hesus, which is Spanish but then– – That’s true, he said that. – But then he said delicioso, which is, is that Spanish? I thought that was Italian. I don’t know. – And then so we just go into a stall next to each other, and you were talking to me a little bit about something but then it got quiet. I was just about to start busting out laughing ’cause this guy, the whole time, he was chanting a prayer or something. – It’s like he didn’t know we were there. He did know because we made our entrance. I mean it was obvious there was other people in there. It’s a small bathroom. – And then I thought maybe Hesus responded because it got quiet for a second. And then all of a sudden, I heard (fart sound). (Rhett laughs) And I was like, “Nope, that’s not–” – That’s not an act of God. – No, it wasn’t. – That was just a fart. – And then it’s like it released another valve, then he was able to pee some more. – (laughs) Well, you never know, man. Hey, we’re heading that way real fast. – Yeah, whatever it takes. I’m sure we’ll speak about it in depth when we discover the advantages of the way to open the door, the kidney door to like another valve just by farting. – You got six minutes to make your speech. You don’t have eight. – Is that right? – Yeah, I mean– – I thought you had to leave at 20 after. – No, that’s when the appointment is. – Oh. There’s nothing wrong with your eyes, man. Don’t worry about it. – I have to go back. I’ve already postponed this appointment one time, and they charge me for it. – Well, those are all the questions we’re gonna take today, and we wanna take you for submitting those. Again, on the social media is how you communicate with us, #EarBiscuits. But the thing I wanna get to is first of all, I wanna invite you to think of, consider sharing this podcast with somebody who is not a fan of Good Mythical Morning or has never listened to Ear Biscuits. The thing that I’m realizing is I think that this show is evolving. And definitely, over this past year, we made a decision to not have guests and to settle into just us having conversations. And even though we made that decision, we’re still trying to figure out exactly what Ear Biscuits is. But I think it’s really taking shape, and I think we’re beginning to understand. I would say I think we’re in a difficult position because we’re the ones talking and doing this and kinda going on instinct to characterize what the show is. – But just as a thought starter, again, it’s open to further definition, but I would say at this point, it is open and honest conversation between two lifelong friends, who may or may not be funny to you, that is often driven by questions that are submitted, and sometimes just driven by experiences that these two guys have. There’s probably a more catchy like bumper sticker way to describe that, but it’s not subject based. It’s not about any particular thing. But if you think that there’s somebody out there, and I’m glad you mentioned like somebody that’s not a fan of GMM, because I think that because GMM has gotten so popular and it is the thing that 90% of people who know who we are know us through, and you either like it or you don’t, and I think you have a certain conception of what GMM is, and usually, it’s those guys who eat testicles on the internet. And if you’re not into that, then I think you just sort of say, “Okay, I’m gonna kinda write these guys off.” But I think there’s a lot of people out there who would enjoy the conversations that we have who may not enjoy the things that we do that are a little lower brow on GMM. – Now we enjoy both, and we’re glad to have you if you enjoy both and listen to both. We’re not saying anything negative about your taste, because I mean, that makes us feel good that you like both aspects of what we’re doing. But we do wanna acknowledge that the people who are telling us that, we’re meeting fans in person, we’re seeing tweets like Ear Biscuits, “I really got into this, “like I’m a huge fan and this is what, “I just love it.” And you can tell that they may not even know about Good Mythical Morning, and I think we’re encouraged by that. And I think it opens up the possibility for you to maybe share this podcast with someone who has a similar sensibility to these types of conversations, maybe is endeavoring creatively like we are, or as a husband, a wife, or a parent, or is just someone who is finding themselves getting older, or all the things we talk about. It’s weird for us to like overanalyze what we bring to this. So I think, ultimately, we kinda leave it to you. But we wanna invite you to think about sharing this podcast with someone who either has a reference for GMM or doesn’t have a point of reference at all for what we’re doing. – And I would say that you may know somebody who listens to podcasts because it typically goes that if you listen to podcasts, you listen to podcasts and you don’t just listen to one. I mean maybe some of you, this is the only podcast you listen to and you haven’t moved on to anything else. That’s fine, but so maybe you know somebody who’s looking for, there are certain people, certain kind of lifestyle where they want to have something in their ear while they’re doing something else, and that’s really what a podcast is great for. I love it while I’m working out. I love listening to stuff while I’m working out or while I’m driving. So if you know people who are into that kind of thing, recommend Ear Biscuits to them. But then, maybe you’re the kind of person who this was the first podcast that you listened to, and this was an introduction to the world of podcasting. And you’re like, “Oh, I never thought “that I had an appetite for this kind of content. “Now I do.” That may be a way to talk about it. Again, the whole point here is that we wanna keep doing this. The more people that listen to this, the more sense it makes for us to continue doing it. It’s just kinda how this thing works, because while it’s a passion and it’s also a release for us, and I think part of our friendship is based on these conversations that we have now a lot of times that we save to have in front of you guys, but this is also a business. That’s why we have sponsors. That’s why we say the podcast is supported by fill in the blank is because this is a part of the greater business of Mythical Entertainment. 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