(upbeat electronic music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I’m Rhett. – And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we ask the question, well, we are actually gonna be asked lots of questions. It’s an AMA episode, y’all. Ask me and Rhett anything. – Anything. Anything at all. – Of course, the illusion of an AMA is that, well you can ask anything. But that doesn’t mean we’re gonna answer anything. – It’s not answer me everything. That would be an AME. – Not how you spell aim, but okay. – Ahm-eh. – It’s ahm-eh. So we got lots of questions here. – But we do wanna let you know– – And we’re gonna get into them. – This is the last, actually the second to last Ear Biscuit of 2018 and something very exciting is happening in 2019. For those of you who enjoy Ear Biscuits visually, you’ve enjoyed it a number of places. On the This Is Mythical channel, now the GMM channel, and in an effort to confuse you and mix things up– (both chuckling) We’re going to be putting all the Ear Biscuits, the past Ear Biscuits and the present Ear Biscuits and the future Ear Biscuits on its own YouTube channel! YouTube.com/EarBiscuits, finally! – Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. – Ask me anything. – Why you gotta get that loud about it? – Ask me anything– – It’s not– – About YouTube.com/EarBiscuits. – Why do you need to get that loud about it? – Because that’s what you have to do. I’ve been on the internet for a long time and anytime a YouTuber has an announcement, they’ve gotta get really enthusiastic about it. – Right. – You know what I’m saying? You gotta get excited about it. You have to make it seem like you’re excited so they get excited. – Go over there and describe it, I mean subscribe it. Subscribe to it. – You can describe it. It’s a YouTube channel. – YouTube.com/EarBiscuits. Past, present, future, starting in the new year. – Starting in the new year, that’s where all your new Biscuits will be housed. – But we’re not in the new year yet. We’re in the now year. – You can subscribe now though, you said that. Ask me anything. – How do you subscribe? – You go to YouTube.com/EarBiscuits and you click on the subscribe button. You could probably also program your computer to automatically, you could write a script. – Okay, I’m over it, now what do we wanna talk about? – You could actually go into a public library and write a script on all the computers and get them all to subscribe to it too. Not that I encourage that. – So before we get to the first question– – But I’ll give you a cookie. – I guess I have a question for us, because we didn’t get to settle the conversation that we were having right before we came in here ’cause it’s like, all right– – Hold on, what, are you cold? – No, I have on a coat. – Were you cold? – I anticipated the potential of being cold. It’s that time of year, man. You gotta bundle up. I like this jacket. It’s got fur around it. – But it’s interesting that we’re both comfortable right now. I’m just saying, I’m in a short sleeved shirt, you’re in a– – Isn’t that a beautiful thing? – You’re in like an Icelandic jacket and we’re both comfortable. – Isn’t it beautiful that we can both be comfortable and not have to worry about what the other person’s wearing? Psh. – But I’m concerned about one of us and I don’t know who I’m supposed to be concerned about. I think one of us may be getting sick. – I’m probably just getting hot. – Okay, all right. – Before we get in other people’s questions, my question is can we settle the conversation that we were having right before this? – I don’t know if we need to settle it. I just pointing– – Which was, we were coming in here and then it was like, well, hold on, I gotta go pee before we start. And then you’re like, oh me too. And we go out there and there’s two bathrooms and the doors are shut on both of ’em. And I’m in front of you and from my perspective, I did what I always do, ’cause I’m a, I know how to do things. – Oh gosh. – I knocked on the door– – And immediately grabbed the handle. – And then I grabbed the handle. – There was no hesitation, there was no listening. Here’s the thing, when I saw you– – How do you know there was no listening? – Because– – ‘Cause what, my ears were closed? – I witnessed you doing it and I know your reaction time is not on the fast side and so the fact that you knocked and immediately lowered the hand to the handle made me realize that you are the person in this office who does the one, two combo and makes everyone else nervous. Maybe there’s other people that do it. All I know is this. – Oh you experienced being inside of there? – Is that I do not like the unsettling feeling of someone grabbing the handle of a bathroom door while I’m doing my business. I mean I will just pucker right up and everything stops for a moment ’cause it’s nerve-wracking. You feel like somebody’s coming in the door! – Well I guess I don’t disagree with that part of it. – So my technique is to knock on the door and listen and give people an adequate time to respond, which I would say is two seconds. Not .2 seconds. – Uh– – And then I would say 95 to 98% of the occupants in this office will respond with some sort of audible indication that they’re in there. – Well listen, I knock– – In all my years of working here, I’ve never had to grab the handle. Not once. – That can’t be true because you know what, a lot of times the door’s shut and there’s nobody in there so you knock and then you have to grab the handle and the door opens. – Well no I’m saying when I didn’t hear anything after a certain amount of time, I was just like, nobody’s in there. I’m saying I haven’t ever grabbed the handle and had it locked on me. – I knocked. I didn’t hear anything and I grabbed the handle. – You knocked and immediately grabbed the handle. Immediately– – No. – In fact– – Oh you know what– – It could have been the two hands. You may have knocked with one hand and grabbed with the other hand. It almost sounded simultaneous. – You are undermining, see if you think that I possibly could have been two-handing it, then that was just– – How quickly– – That’s patently false. – It was this quick, it was– (softly knocks) Okay, I’m gonna make a, the noise of the handle with my mouth, it was– (softly knocks) Chicka-chicka. (softly knocks) Chicka-chicka. – Well no it wasn’t. (softly knocks) – Chicka-chicka. – I think what happened was– – That quick. – I grabbed the handle but I didn’t push. I was ready. I had my hand over it, it was almost a hover, and you misinterpreted that as a cucha-cucha. – I been on the receiving end of it many times is what I’m saying. I been in there, I been mid-stream, and I hear a knock, and I, immediately I say, my word is, yep. Because I know the question is, is there someone in there? So I just go ahead and answer. I don’t say occupied, that sounds like some sort of Victorian thing. I just say yep. – I think we’ve, I am having flashbacks to this particular part of the conversation. I think you did convince me to change from occupied to yep. I’m just, remember that. – But the thing, I always say yep– – Listen, nobody said anything. And you’re saying it’s ’cause I did the handle too quick, but then you’re saying so after I did the handle and it’s locked, you don’t say anything? – No no, I’m saying, if you had– – ‘Cause they didn’t. – If you had to give– – Nobody said anything. – Yeah. Because you grabbed the handle. At that point, they’re just trying to get in, and they’re like, I guess the lock’s gonna do my business now. And then you just shut up because you’re nervous ’cause you think maybe somebody’s breaking in on you. – Well no, now I think that the doors lock but nobody’s in there. – I’m just saying– – That happens at my house all the time, I don’t know how my kids do it. Maybe that’s what ruined it for me. – I’m just saying– – They’ll lock no one in the bathroom and then nobody can get in. – Yeah I been there before, but– – That happened just out there. – I’m just saying, being on, I don’t know how it is for you, you don’t know because no one else does this. – We should have asked. We should have waited for the person to come out and we should have asked them about the experience. – And here’s another thing– – That would have settled it. Instead of– – Sometimes people don’t– – Me having to endure this– – Hold on. – Prosecution. – I don’t think you have a leg to stand on. Because sometimes the door doesn’t completely shut. Sometimes people forget to lock, and at that point, you’ve got full exposure. – I did knock. All that’s in question is how long I waited. – You knocked– – And that’s open to interpretation. – To me, I feel like it’s one of those situations where it’s like a word that used to be two words but became one word over time. Like your knock and twist is one action at this point. It’s a knock and twist. – My response to a knock is very quick. – It’s a knock-and-twist. It’s all one word. – I’m immediately ready if somebody knocks to say yep! – But when you are peeing or pooping, you’re focused on that, and when somebody knocks, I gotta say, a lot of your brain is currently committed to just hitting the toilet properly. – Fine, I’ll knock twice. – You need a second and a half to say yep. – I’m gonna knock five times from now on. – It’s not the number of times you knock. – (knocking desk) One, two, three, four. – No ’cause then you’re not gonna be able to hear when they say anything. It’s the amount of time you wait. You gotta give it three seconds. Just give it three seconds. ‘Cause listen, I’ll tell you what happened to me. (Link knocks desk) At this bathroom, the same exact bathroom– – Three 1000– – That you knocked on, I went up to the bathroom and I knocked on it, and then I realized, oh, in fact, if I see that the door is slightly open, I still knock. I’m that respectful of somebody’s private space. So I knocked and I was like, oh, the door’s open. Pushed open. – You knocked the door open? – Someone who doesn’t work here but works for us in a capacity was mid-stream. – Oh wow. – Mid-stream. – Now I see why that you have so much pain associated with this ’cause you’ve– – It’s just called respect, man. – You’ve been hurt. You’ve been– – R-E-S pee, E-C-T. – So you walked in on somebody. So you’re very sensitive to it. That’s never happened to me. – That was last year. I’ve always been sensitive to it because, when people, some people don’t knock at all. And I think– – Oh, that’s horrible. – In my mind, your knock and twist is the same as no knock at all. It’s so jarring. It might be worse ’cause it sounds like two people trying to get in at the same time. (chuckling) It’s just a full-on attack. – I’m hurt to be lumped into that category. – Well, you should feel bad. – It’s not the same category. A knock and twist is not the same as just a phantom twist. – As a victim of the knock and twist, I gotta say, it’s as bad as the twist. (chuckles) – Maybe I just need one good walk-in, and it’ll cure me. I think I just gotta, I gotta walk in on somebody. – And what are you saying now? When people knock? I think I heard you say it the other day. You saying yep now too? – Yeah. – Yeah. – You’re not gonna change my mind about this then. You can’t keep winning these. – (chuckles) I mean– – I’m gonna walk in. – Occupied does the job. Uh-huh does the job. – Occupied, that’s three whole syllables. – You got it, buddy. Anything you say at all, really, could be effective. – Do you say something back because, hey, I knocked earlier at the other bathroom, the hidden poop bathroom and I’m pretty sure that was Alex’s voice. He had time to respond. – I’m telling you, I’m sure you did the knock and twist. – I just walked away. Should I have said anything, Mr. setting of standards? – You do not speak back to a person– – It was like yep, it was like, okay, I’ll be waiting right out here listening. – You don’t, no, this seems self-evident to me. You do not speak back to the person. – I didn’t, I just wanna make sure. – And don’t apologize. – I walked away. – If you do the knock and twist, apologize. But if you just do the knock and they say yep, that’s it. – I walked away. – Your only part is called the knock and walk. – Yeah. – Knock and walk, totally acceptable. – I would say slink. I slinked away, defeated because I was really excited to drop a deuce in that bathroom. – You gotta get at least 30 feet away. – And then I’m like, now am I going back to the other one that’s right beside Feldman’s desk (chuckles). There’s a wall. – There’s a wall. We installed a wall. – There’s like a little partition wall, does that do the job? – Mm-hm. – It does? – Yeah it makes you feel like you’re not next to the bathroom, right, that was the design intention. – [Feldman] Never thought about it, actually. – You never thought about it? – Seriously. That’s why we put it there. – The wall made you not even think about the fact that you’re right next to the bathroom. But now you’re gonna think about it. – You’re gonna feel like it’s a totally different part of the office. You’re like seven feet from somebody pooping. – [Feldman] Yeah, the more annoying thing is people walking behind me and bumping into me. – This is not a complaint session. (Rhett laughs) I don’t want you to start saying, well, if I am gonna complain, it’s gonna be about these six things. That’s not what we’re, we’re not expanding the conversation. Unless you’re gonna defend me in my knock and twist, which seems pretty indefensible at this point. I’ll grant you that. I’m gonna think about it. I don’t know counting seconds in my head though. ‘Cause they’re always faster than they are in practice. I have to count ’em out loud. So I’m going to do it out loud. – Just remove the– – Knock knock, one 1000, two 1000. – Just remove the twist. Just remove the twist from your world. The twist will come naturally when you’re like, oh nobody’s in there, and then you just enter and twist is just intrinsic to entering. – I think I just had to pee really badly. – Well– – Can’t blame a man for that. – Not sure we settled anything. – Many times, I mean we could also institute just a open door policy where it’s like, as many people just wanna go at once can. I mean we’re all human. – That’s the worst idea. – It is. Again, it’s kinda like counting out loud, now that I’ve done it, I’m like okay, now I know what time it is. – Yeah. – So to speak. – Just to clarify for legal reasons, we do not have an open door bathroom policy at Mythical Entertainment. – That one guy who you walked in on apparently does. – The co-founder of the company was just talking about that for entertainment purposes only. – Isn’t that in the description of all of our podcasts? – Yeah, right, for entertainment purposes only. – The views expressed here are not actual views. They’re just presented as entertainment fodder. – Let’s present some answers to some questions, but before we do that, Link, you have on a jacket that people can’t buy but you have on a shirt that people can buy. – Look at this, it’s a Mythical skate-esque shirt. – Skate-esque. – Black shirt and it says Mythical on it. It’s like that’s, I mean, can’t go wrong with that. Go to Mythical.store. – When was the last time you skated? – Uh– – On a skateboard. – Probably three months ago. Last Christmas– – How did that happen? – Christy bought me one of those trendy little skateboards and I was like, girl, you don’t want me to get on this. – And where’d you do it? On the street? – On our street, yeah. ‘Cause it was like– – Bold, man. – Lincoln and Lando would ride their scooters around. – You can also get that shirt at Amazon.com/Mythical. We do have some select merchandise over there at– – Different stuff at those two stores, so– – Amazon.com/Mythical. – Check ’em both out. – For those of you who are like, I’m only gonna do it on Amazon. Well you know what, we thought about you. You know what, let’s get into some questions. – We got sweatshirts too over there. – Let’s get into some questions here. Tatyana Khokhlova asks, what questions are you tired of being asked? #EarBiscuits. – Yeah let’s start with that one. (both laugh) – Yeah let’s say all the questions we’re not gonna answer, I guess. Well… I think the most common question I get asked is, wow, how do you put up with that other guy? Or, what makes you so amazing? – Right, so tired of it– – How are you so amazing, is probably how I should have phrased that. No it’s, what’s the grossest thing you guys have ever eaten on GMM. We get that question a lot. – Every Q&A. – And that’s a fair question because it’s just the first one that comes to your mind when, you know, I told you this this morning, this is not much of a realization, but sometimes you realize things that are obvious and it just feels like an epiphany. At least I do that all the time (chuckling). – I think you just described your life. (both laughing) – I just realized something that’s been obvious to everybody else. I realize that I can’t think of another show that unapologetically eats balls like us. That’s what’s happened to our show. – Andrew, I always called him Zimmerman, but that’s not– – Canceled, he’s gone. Bizarre Foods is gone, you’re right. Zimmern. – But it wasn’t, I mean, he ate a lot of balls. – Just eating so much crazy stuff. – But nobody on the internet maybe. – Yeah we got the corner on that now, now that Bizarre Foods is gone. – Put the ball in the corner. – Corner pocket. – Right in the pocket. Two ball in the corner pocket. – By pocket we mean crotch. So, I don’t know, and then, I think the reason why it’s so annoying is because we haven’t come up with just that answer that we say all the time. – I have. – But then I feel the need to say, well honestly, it all runs together. It’s all so bad. Because, you say, well congealed pork blood is the worst thing that we’ve eaten. – [Together] Pork blood! Will it taco? (tacos crunch) (Rhett retches) (Link retches) – But I don’t even know, it’s concise and it’s not false. – It’s just an answer that’s not false. – There’s gotta be things that we’ve eaten that are just that bad. – Oh the bile was ridiculously horrible. (both retching) (crew laughing) Again, I don’t wanna– – The cheesecake. – I don’t even wanna answer this question. We’re answering it. – But the reason why– – We’re so tired of answering it. – I think the reason why we’re tired of answering this is ’cause it’s not a fun or funny answer. And we get it all the time so it’s the one, two punch of we get it all the time and it’s not a great response. It’s kinda like telling the story of how we met. Well we turned that into a song and then it became something that was like, okay now we can keep telling this story. On the first day of first grade. – Well the other question that we get asked almost as much and I actually think it’s my even more least favorite question than what you just said because I don’t have an answer for it. – I don’t know what this is gonna be. – What’s your favorite episode of Good Mythical Morning? – Oh your favorite episode. – Again, that’s when I always answer, you know, to be honest with you, they all kinda run together. People who watch the show remember the show better than we do. And remember specific details of the show better than we do, but I did recently answer that question that… Just because it seemed like a good answer at the time that the Post Malone. ♪ I said hip hop ♪ ♪ The itty the bitty spider went down the water spit spout ♪ – ‘Cause it seemed like a good answer at the time. – Because again, I don’t really know. There’s a lot of episode that I had a blast doing. – I always say, the next one. – But Post Malone, that was one that is super, and maybe the most memorable one. The one that makes me feel the coolest. – Yeah but we were kinda stressed out. You know, it was a stressful environment with the musical exercise we were doing. – Yeah it was rapping in front of Post Malone, rapping like Post Malone in front of Post Malone. – At the time. – A little nerve-wracking. – I would say, so I don’t know. But as an episode, but maybe not as an experience at the time. – Here we go answering questions that we’re tired of. – You got any other one? Let’s move on. – This is a question– – How tall are you? Before we move on, I’m just curious. – Oh oh oh, no one’s ever asked that. Thanks for asking. – Oh, how tall are you? – 5’19”. – See, you have the queued answer. With the question you get all the time, you should have a queued answer and you should just move on. And that’s why we hate those other two ’cause we don’t have a queued answer. – Let’s come up with queued answers. So this, believe it or not, (chuckling) is a question that we’re asked a lot. Might as well answer it. This is from Allie Dickinson. This came from two different people in two different ways. Allie Dickinson asks, what is the one thing you would tell young Rhett and Link if given the chance? And Emma, @SoftandBetter on Twitter asks, if you were given the opportunity to go back and change one thing in your lives, would you? Could be a correction of a mistake or skipping out on something you knew ended horribly. Or would you be too afraid of the dreaded butterfly effect? – So this type of question, if you could go back, blah blah blah blah is one we’re tired of being asked? – Well I think people ask that because our history, our shared history is such a part of the work that we do and we’re talking all the time about our past and so, and then we also say things like, who would have known that going to engineering school would have led to this and so I think people, it’s natural to be like, what would you do? Would you say something to young Rhett and Link and what would it be? And would you be afraid to screw things up? – I actually have a brand new answer to this. – Okay. – Like I was, I was literally thinking about this yesterday. – Okay. – So I have an answer. Do you have an answer? – Well, I actually kinda have a brand new, I have the same old answer in a brand new way. If you wanna go first, because I was talking with my, you know what, answer first. – Well I was at the gym and I was thinking that my shoulder started hurting again. – Hold on, you’re joking. You started thinking about this at the gym? – No, I was at the gym and my shoulder started hurting and this is related to my shoulder. – Okay, this is kinda freaky. You’ll see why in a second. – Is this the butterfly effect? (chuckling) Why are your eyes getting so wide? Is a butterfly about to come out of ’em? – Because it’s weird that independently you went to a very similar place that I’m about to go, but go ahead. – The gym? – Yes. – Really? – Literally, the gym is where, and it was literally yesterday. – What? – Yesterday morning. – Yesterday morning. – We may have been– – What? – Exploring this question at the same time. – What? If I could– – Did you see a butterfly come through? – If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t have thought about it. It’s too weird. This is way too weird. – And not only did mine happen at the gym, but it was in relationship to an injury. – What, yeah. (Rhett laughs) – Yep. – I think this just says that we’re like old and decrepit, but I’ll– – No no, but it’s weird and like– – Yeah. Our lives continue– – Serendipitous. – To mirror each other, man. – I was looking in the mirror too. (chuckles) – Well I was doing some pull-ups and then, just stop freaking out. I mean, by the time this comes out, this video’s long gone off of the wave of the internet, but it was that, the guy in Switzerland who was hang gliding with– – Oh gosh. – In tandem with a hang gliding guide, and the guy didn’t strap him in so his pelvis was like hanging up and being supported by the weight of the strap. And the entire ride from the top of a mountain in Switzerland, the dude is hanging on sometimes by only his left hand. (chuckles) For dear life as the guy tries to steer down the side of the mountain and the guy who trains me is like showing me this footage and then he’s like– – I saw it. – It’s crazy. He doesn’t die, which makes it fun to talk about. Seems to have a good sense of humor about it. – But he tore his bicep. – And he tore his bicep and he hurt his shoulder and then– – Which is, first of all, crazy that he was able to hold on– – That long, yeah. – And to hurt himself that badly and to not let go. – My trainer guy, he was like, there’s this challenge where, I can’t remember where he said it was. – A hang glider challenge. All YouTubers are doing it now. – He was like, if you hold onto, it’s in Venice Beach. You can go there and if you can hold on for 100 seconds they’ll give you $100. – Just hang? – Just hang for 100 seconds. – Must be a lot harder than it seems. – And then he’s like, let’s see how long you can hang. Now, I had already done some pull-ups, okay. You know, full, uncheated pull-ups, like lock elbow, (clicks tongue), back up. – But I thought that hanging was supposed to make shoulders feel good. – I’m just saying that I was a little tired and then I started hanging, okay. And he starts timing me. How long do you think I went? – Well if 100 seconds gives you $100, that means that in order to make that a profitable proposition, no more than 5% of people could do it. I would put you in the 40th percentile. – Thanks. After my pull-ups, right? – I put you in the 30th percentile after pull-ups, so I think you went for 27 seconds. (Link chuckles) – Uh. Thanks for that vote of confidence. I went 45 seconds. – Oh okay, not bad. – But that was really hard. But my life wasn’t in danger. I wasn’t literally hovering over the Alps or wherever they were. It was really hard. That’s all I could do. – I betcha I couldn’t do that. I betcha I couldn’t do 45. – So then afterward I was like, my shoulder was already, that didn’t make my shoulder hurt, my shoulder was already hurting from doing some kettle bell swings a week earlier. And I was kinda, so doing something, like having fun, doing this hanging challenge is something that I started to get nervous about and then I start thinking– – You were having fun? – I was having fun at the gym. – Wow. – I was like, I’m nervous that my shoulder’s gonna be hurt worse and then I’m like, you know what, if I could go back in time, I would go back, I guess it would be four years ago now, and I would not sleep on my right arm. If you take, I would sleep on my right side and I would put my hand behind my neck so as to be resting my right ear and thereby my entire head on my right arm. And I would just lay there like that and sleep, which would allow me to spoon Christy, okay. I’m just saying. You know, you wanna get snugly. – I can’t sleep in that configuration. – Well I did it for at least, for years. I did it for years. – I will say though that your shoulder issue was a college thing as well. I remember like on the bench press, sometimes you’d be like, oh, it popped out. – Yeah, it was kinda– – So it started pretty early. – What my physical therapist, ’cause I went to physical therapy, this is what actually ironically got me to start going to the gym consistently was on the back side of going to, I went to the doctor for my shoulder, he sent me to physical therapy which made the pain go away, but what they explained in physical therapy was, you need to keep doing these exercises forever– – Forever. – So then I start going to the gym. – Until you die. – But he also explained that like the way that I would put my arm up like that, it’s basically like if you were to raise your hand right now and then picture the two bones coming together in your shoulder and rubbing against each other and then being in– – Cool. – Traction, and after that grinding, it wore down the cartilage and cushiony stuff, and now that stuff doesn’t grow back. So now if I don’t get– – Stem cells, man, they can make it grow back. – [Link] I know. – You can go to Panama and get injected. – I was like, man– – I’m gonna do that. – It’s so frustrating that– – At some point. – If I just slept on my back and not cultivated this habit of sleeping on my right side, I wouldn’t have this pain now. – Now let me interject at this point. – And so that is the thing that I would do. – Let me interject at this point. – I’m done, you’re not interjecting. But before you, you said that you would, but I wanna talk about whether you actually would or not because I was at the gym, and I was– – What? – Doing the deadlift which, first of all, for me, I’m at the gym because I wanna be in shape and not just turn into just a ball of jelly. But I am also primarily, the things that I do at the gym are intended to strengthen my back and let me just say right now, my back is in better shape than it has been probably since college. Maybe since high school, it is in really good shape. It could all fall apart at any moment if I twist the wrong way, but it’s a lot stronger. And so, my trainer has been working on introducing more exercises and of course, the deadlift is something that you could get really wrong really easily and it could cause a lot of damage. – Yeah. – And as I was doing it and I don’t put hardly any weight on there, it’s just like, it’s the rack and then a wheel on each side. So like 100 pounds or something, it’s like, it’s just basically to just get the motion right, not doing a lot. – Okay. – But I was like– – How embarrassing. – You know, in high school, I was telling my trainer, I would put three wheels on each side. I don’t know how much that is. And at Harnett Central High School at the time, weight lifting class wasn’t like, well how are you supposed to do this, it was just like, they’d put three wheels on each side of the deadlift bar and then guys would just line up one by one and see if they could lift it. You know what I’m saying, it wasn’t– – It was more of a contest, like a– – It was like, can you do it? Can you do it? And I would look at myself in the mirror, even though I was wearing a weight belt. I don’t wear a weight belt now ’cause if you’re doing it right, you shouldn’t need one, and I– – Yeah. – Would be bending over and putting all the weight on my lower back and just like– – Oh. – Bending like that. And you know what, that’s what created my back problems. There was a couple other weird injuries, but I feel like that was the start of the real bad like herniations and sort of changed the way, in fact, I was telling her, I was like, it kinda changed the way I played basketball my senior season ’cause my back was messed up, and then I was like, you know, if I could go back, I would– – No pun intended. – I wouldn’t have done that and I wish I could go back and tell my younger self, like, you realize that– – That’s stupid. – If you could– – Look at yourself. – If you did this right and you did it with less weight and you got the form right, you could actually like make yourself a better athlete. You could jump higher, not from doing calf raises. We were stupid, we thought that the way to jump higher was to do calf raises. Your calves contribute to your vertical leap a very, very small amount. It’s your glutes, man. It’s your legs, it’s your upper legs. And so I was like, man, I got recruited by some colleges. I was like, if I could go back, I probably would have been recruited by some bigger school and then I was like, you know what, I wouldn’t go back and do that, because if I had of gone and played college basketball, I probably wouldn’t be here right now. – See but that’s different with me. – She was like, yeah, you’d be somewhere in Wisconsin. – You know what, and that’d be sad. – So I wouldn’t go back, man. – I’m glad you mucked up your back, man– – I am too! – But for me, I’m only talking like going back and– – It doesn’t matter. – I’m sleeping on my back. How could that butterfly affect anything? – It would affect everything. – You think Christy and I would be divorced now ’cause I didn’t spoon her for that year? – You would be divorced, remarried, you’d have a little kid named Link Junior. – Well that’d be weird because I’m the third. – (chuckles) I know, that’s how weird it would be. You’d have a Link Junior. And– – I’d have my dad? – Yeah and your whole life would be different if you slept on your back five years ago. – No it– – Everything would be different. – I don’t believe in the butterfly effect when it applies to sleeping position, and I just want to stop and tell all of you now, you, do not sleep, don’t sleep with a contorted arm. Use common sense. – And sleeping on your back is great for your back as well. – Sleep on your back no matter what. – It’s great for everything except– – Spooning. – I think it does something to your face. I think it stretches your face or something. (Link chuckles) – Stretches your face. – I don’t know, maybe it does. – Okay. We certainly spent a lot of time on that question that we– – Didn’t wanna answer. – Didn’t seem like we want to answer. – Jack Birch asks– – Thank you Emma and Allie. – If you could place yourself in any fictional universe or movie, which would you pick and why? – Ooh, okay. Just knee-jerk response to this for me is Middle-earth, man. I mean, and I thought specifically where the wood elves lived. They’re the ones that, I haven’t watched it in a long time, but they’re the ones who I believe came out of, they were more mysterious in the woods. They were the ones that didn’t make the trek to the new land and they just kinda hunkered down where they ended up. I think they played more into the Hobbit stories, which chronological came earlier, but then, it’s not the Middle-earth is so special to me from the, well, it got Tauriel in ’em, which she’s not even in the books. I do like Evangeline, whatever her name, Lilly though. I do like her. – Really? – Yeah. I watched the first half of Ant-Man 2 on the plane. – What happened to the second half? – Well the plane landed. – You gotta time it better than that. Just like you time your knock and twist, you gotta time your plane movies. You gotta look at the flight time, do the math. – I kind of think in my brain it’s like the Ewok village, so I guess what I’m really saying is I’d like to live in the Ewok village if that were within Middle-earth. With elves, because it’s hard to communicate with those Ewoks. But the elves are like, you know they speak calmly. Good warriors. – Here’s the thing, you would be in, you can’t pick a place ’cause that would be like, oh I’d like to live in Rivendell, but this is the entire fictional universe. This is the entire movie. The entire world there. – And honestly I’d probably end up in Hobbiton, just eating and gardening. – That’s a great answer. – Thank you, Rhett. – I actually disagree with it though, and this is gonna be controversial, and it actually leads into another question that we were asked, okay, ’cause I feel like I have to have a lot of qualifiers here. Because I, as opposed to Middle-earth, would pick Narnia. Okay, and the reason I would pick Narnia is because I think ultimately, it’s more fun. And more rewarding, and much less dangerous. – What do you mean more fun, let’s start there, ’cause– – The evil– – Middle-earth is very evil and– – The evil in Narnia is significantly less threatening than the evil in Middle-earth. – So you’re living in a kids’ world I think is what you’re really saying. – But I also think that Narnia, the thing that always intrigued me about those books and they kinda remain my favorite, even though clearly, Fellowship of the Ring is a better series but it’s not for kids, it’s more young adult and adult. Whereas Narnia’s clearly for young kids. But I enjoyed it first as like a single-digit age. I don’t know what I was, but the first time I read them, and the accessibility but also the way they related the real world to the imaginative world of Narnia and the ability to like, there is a wardrobe that you can go through. There are these places that you could enter into the world, so it created this, I had this imagination. I would always, I would be out– – You had an imagination? – I would be out in the woods. – That’s cool. – And I would see like a tree with like a hole. – You like the portal. – And I was like, okay, maybe this is Narnia. Like maybe this is the time, maybe I’m gonna go up to this and I’m gonna stick my head in this hole in this tree. – Well that’s how you exit Narnia. You should have been looking for a wardrobe. – No no, but you can get in there multiple ways, and I figure that in my world– – Okay. – Not England, but the U.S., modern-day, maybe there were other ways into Narnia. But I feel like to the generation of, let’s just say the millennials, I feel like Narnia has been soiled because the movies pretty much sucked. – Oh. – So I think when they think about Narnia, they think about the movies. – Okay okay. – And that’s why I would go into this other question. – Kevin Motta asks, if you were given the opportunity to remake a movie, which would you choose? Okay. – So first of all. – See Narnia, I didn’t read the books. – So if you’re judging it off of the movies, then you’re like no contest. There’s no contest between– – I wish I could go back to my childhood and read those books. – Okay. – I just wanted to say that. I keep, there’s a lot of reasons to go back now that I think about it. – You’re gonna screw everything up if you go back and read Narnia. – So I’m just saying I don’t have that, I didn’t have an expectation, also, my kids weren’t of an age to take them and they didn’t care so I actually didn’t end up watching them in the theater but I did watch one and it did kinda suck. – Okay– – But you can’t– – Suck is probably too strong of a word. I know some of you may really like the movies, but it was, in terms of how impactful the books were, for me personally– – But I think– – First of all, the standard– – If you remade it, would you age it up because that wouldn’t be true to the books and I think that’s really what you’re saying, that’s your critique of it. Is it that– – No, there are movies that are more intended for kids that capture, there was a cheesiness to the movies that, also, something that for some reason didn’t seem to happen with Lord of the Rings, like it was a weird moment in CGI technology. – Right, yeah. – Not quite as weird as like five years before that. – Mm-hm. – But just something about the way that, you have this view of Aslan and what he’s going to mean to you and then you see him and you’re like, that’s just Liam Neeson. And also, it sounds like Liam Neeson is in my frickin’ ear because he just did this voiceover into like a microphone like this. – I think we’re talking budget. I think they have budget issues. – I think they spent a lot of money. What was the budget on the Narnia movies? And then what was the budget on The Lord of the Rings? Can you just look those up real quick? – But they’re doing– – And then we’re gonna see. Peter Jackson. I didn’t know who directed The Chronicles of Narnia. – Disney is doing these live– – I should do the next one. – Live action remakes, you know, like The Lion King is, a lot of people like– – Total for all three films– – Really excited about that, you know. – Hold on, total for all three films. – I think you’re pitching a remake that is like that. – 560 million? – For how many movies? – Three. That’s a lot of money, man. – [Crew Member] It grossed 1.6 billion. – It made a lot of money. – 1.6 billion gross. – It was successful because of the IP, man. – Yeah but what about Lord of the Rings? – [Crew Member] 281. – 281 total? – [Crew Member] Let’s see what it says here. Film series. – Wow, okay. – [Crew Member] They don’t shoot in the U.S. – They don’t shoot in the U.S. – There you go. – But they made more money, they made more than 1.6 billion. – 2.9. – 2.9 billion, so almost twice as much. – That’s irrelevant to your point though. – Anyway, because here’s the thing that I wouldn’t do. A lot of people, just a couple weeks ago on Twitter, people were talking about, are they gonna remake Back to the Future and a lot of people wisely said, no! You don’t remake movies that were perfect. You don’t remake perfect movies unless you’re a freaking idiot. – So that’s why I think you’re onto something, that Narnia– – Remake movies that sucked. – Well that didn’t, they weren’t as magical as they needed to be and they can benefit from technology now. Like the way that Disney’s remaking these movies, I mean, people are critiquing the trailer and saying that The Lion King, it’s like a shot for shot, it seems like, and it’s like, is that really necessary? And– – Okay well hold on. This might be an exception because remaking The Lion King in a different way is a slightly different conversation, but what are you gonna do with Back to the Future? You’re gonna make another live-action Back to the Future. – No, you make it animated. (Rhett laughs) With Legos. Lego could do that. – Okay. – If Lego– – If it translates– – Lego Back to the Future. – The only way to acceptably remake a movie– – That doesn’t work. – That was done well the first time is to change the medium. That’s the rule. Okay, so you can go to animation from live action, which is weird. You can definitely go to live action from animation, which is cool because it’s been done. Jungle Book, was that good? I don’t know. – Yeah, it was good. There was a live action character in that though. And there’s not one in The Lion King. – Yeah I was like– – Not technically. – Oh Donald Glover’s in it and then I was like, no he’s not. His voice is in it. It’s different, guys. – I haven’t seen enough movies to know what to remake. (chuckles) So let’s ask another question. – Okay. – Every movie that I’ve seen, I only see movies if they’re fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and the audience likes them, and I… What, I don’t see a lot of movies. – Crew Member Clearly. – Right, yeah you don’t like Rotten Tomatoes reviews, you don’t think they’re reliable? – [Crew Member] No I just don’t think you get both of those together– – Oh you don’t get both of those together. Yeah I don’t watch a lot of movies in the theater. I ain’t got time for that. It’s gotta be a knock it out of the park type situation. – Madison Wright asks– – I’m gonna remake Aquaman. Like I want to do a low budget, I’ll be Aquaman. – [Rhett] Mm. – I can’t hold my breath that long. – We actually, we heard an interesting sort of industry story about Aquaman that I wanted to tell. – Huh? – [Crew Member] The live action Aquaman is out right now. – Yeah yeah yeah, I know. – With Jason Momoa. – But I’m gonna go ahead and remake it. – My wife’s favorite person who’s not me. Jason Momoa. Now here’s something that, we heard this, this is inside industry knowledge. We know someone who knows someone who worked in some costume design on Aquaman and they spent all this time creating this amazing, handmade Aquaman suit that was like, I don’t know, I haven’t seen it, but it’s– – Scales, scales. – Scales and they were like made out of something and it was, they spent months working on this thing and hand-crafting it and then they like gave it to Jason Momoa and he picked it up and was like, “It’s too heavy.” (laughs) And so they ended up painting– – Yeah painting. – Painting the stuff on him. – Yeah. – So. Take that. – Which we’ve done that. – Jessie. That’s what Jason Momoa will do for ya. You’ll work on his suit for months and then you just give it to him and he’s like, “Too heavy.” – But he looks great just having paint on him. So she knows that. – Yeah, right. I shouldn’t have brought him up. – Right. – I shouldn’t even say his name. It just puts him in her mind. – I’m actually thinking about seeing that movie. – And then she looks at me. – Oh, yeah, right. – That’s why I’m going to the gym, man. I’m gonna be Jason Momoa in about– – No you’re not. – Nine months. (chuckles) Okay, you wanna think about that a little bit or do you want me to move on? – Yeah let’s go with Erickson here. – Oh you wanna go there. – Oh no we’ll go back. Let’s go back, we’ll get to everybody. – Madison. – Why don’t we read it? – I gave birth to a pineapple on your tour in Portland. – Right. – Are you ever going to start sending me fruit child support or do I need to bring in my mom’s cousin’s daughter who’s a lawyer slash opera singer? This is Madison who was incredibly memorable. And actually was the first person to give birth to the pineapple. – We didn’t, you know, it’s just someone on stage who’s supposed to bottle the pineapple. We did not plan. – No. – It was an impromptu interaction that led to her simulating child birth with a pineapple. But to answer your question. – I don’t think we have to send fruit child support. – No we’re– – Not in California. – We’re not gonna send you fruit child support. – Mm-mm. – Yes you need to bring in your mom’s cousin’s daughter who’s a lawyer, slash opera singer. I’d like to get litigated via opera. Bring it on, girl. – But Madison– – And can you dress as Aquaman? – Yeah there’s a suit available, it’s very heavy though. Madison was very memorable and I think I remember after she did that, she sat back down and I remember saying something like, we might have an opening at Mythical Entertainment for you because she was so funny in the moment. So really that’s what she should have asked is, where do I send my resume? – But she didn’t, she chose to threaten litigation and look at her now. She’s getting belittled in a podcast. Now we can get to Erickson. ‘Cause I didn’t wanna– – Okay go ahead. – Rae Lee Erickson asks, do you think cannibalism would solve world hunger and population control? Oh gosh, that is a morbid thought, Rae Lee. If people ate each other, I mean, they would not be as hungry. – True. – That’s true. And then, people who they ate I assume would die. – Well– – This– – Hold on, hold on, hold on. ‘Cause there’s three forms of cannibalism, okay, and I don’t know the technical terms. The first form is like the movie Alive about the soccer team that gets stranded in the Alps. – Mm-hm. – That is eating your friends after they’ve already died. That is a form of cannibalism. – In order to survive, yes. – And in my mind, that is acceptable. Second form of cannibalism is killing and consuming someone. In my mind, that is not acceptable. – That’s murder. – And the third form of cannibalism is voluntary, non-fatal cannibalism where you cut off– – Oh my gosh. – Part of your body and feed it to a group of people but don’t die. – Ew. Where does this happen? – This is the most interesting form of cannibalism in my mind. – Well let’s camp out here, shall we? – Okay. (chuckles) – So you’re slicing off… You’re like at a wedding reception, you got your leg up on the table like a ham hot. – Yeah. – Like a prime rib and you’re just slicing your, oh gosh. – Well it would have been surgically removed in a sterile environment. You would be okay, and then, you would present it. And you’d be like, this week– – Now okay. – So we all don’t die, we’re eating my leg. – Now let’s not– – Whether you eat your own self. No I haven’t thought that through. – You wouldn’t remove your whole leg. You would just remove– – Like a calf muscle. – Just part of the muscle. – Like a jerky. It would be like a jerky. – You’d remove part of the muscle that would then regenerate like a lizard’s tail. – Muscle doesn’t regenerate in that way, but you can build it up and maybe get close to the mass it was. – You’re right, it doesn’t regenerate. – But you can– – That’s why it is a, it’s not a renewable resource, so that’s why this is a bad idea. – I mean I got glutes for days. I been doing lots of dead lifts. So I feel like you could take a scoop of my glute out and be like, it’s glute scoops tonight. – But I do think we should– (Rhett chuckling) Glute scoops. That’s not gonna work. – Are those meatballs? No they’re glute scoops. – It’s not gonna work. – Hold on, why don’t you think this is gonna work? – Because it’s not renewable, but farming lizards and then removing their tails for consumption could help with global impoverishment. Hunger. – But what kind of nutritional value is there in lizard tails? – Some. Enough. – Uh, some. – I’m sure we can breed a meaty-tailed lizard. And then you’re just scaring it and it loses its tail and then it regenerates. It’s like Christmas trees, you have a whole bunch of ’em and then they’re in stages, so it’s like, this group of free-range, happy lizards. You need lots of land. They’re out there roaming around, but it’s like, they’re bred for their meaty tails and they’re at different stages. This pasture over here of lizards, they got some, they got some fully developed tails. We’re about to– – Yeah. – We’re about to scare ’em. – It’s like a crop, yeah. – And then all you do is you just run through the pasture and they lose– – It’s like a ripe peach. – You lose their tails. That’s a pretty good idea. – I don’t know if it’s a good idea. – This is like Elon Musk situation, man. I should be talking to him, not you. – I think that lizard tails are probably not as good of an idea as just farming insects because farming insects– – But that kills the insects. If you don’t wanna kill the insect, then you gotta go with lizards. They’re donating their tails, which is kinda what you’re talking about with the glute scoops. I was just trying to go with your vibe here. – Okay. – But if you wanna go back to cannibalism, I really think we have to talk about eating dead people. I mean just across the board. – Well first of all, I’m not an expert on this, but it is my understanding that eating dead people is not good for humans. The people who are doing the eating, I think it’s unhealthy. – It obviously depends on– – More so than just eating meat. – What they’ve died from. Are you saying you could survive– – Even if it’s prepared well. – On a mountain for like, you could survive, but you’re saying it’s not good for you. It’s not gonna kill you. It’s not nutritionous? – I seem to have read at some point that people eating people leads to weird diseases. Maybe I’m wrong about that. – That doesn’t ring true to me. I mean isn’t like a glute scoop from a freshly dead person who said you know what, I wanna donate my glutes to be scooped for, to feed the world. – I don’t know. Just something about it just seems like it would go bad after awhile. If all you’re eating is glute scoops for days on end. – Well I’m not saying it’s all you eat. I’m not trying to say that butt muscle is a balanced diet. I’m just saying it’s a part of a balanced diet. (both laughing) – But technically he was, at Rae Lee, which, I like that name, by the way. Rae Lee Erickson. – I like that name, Rae Lee Erickson. – It does sounds like somebody– – I’d like to scoop your glutes when you die. – It sounds like someone who might, honestly, might commit a murder. (laughs) This week, Rae Lee Erickson arrested for cannibalism in an effort to contribute to population control and solve world hunger. (chuckles) Sorry, I don’t know. It’s a beautiful name. – I don’t… I think it’s a good idea to eat fresh, consensual dead people. – Consensual? I don’t know, man, I don’t know. – You’re curious what it tastes like, I know that. – Well here’s what, well, I already said that if I had to, I would, without qualms, eat a person. For survival– – Life or death. – But I wouldn’t make it a part of my diet. But there is an interesting proposition that, if for some reason, it doesn’t turn out to be bad for you, if we can’t just take all of the dead people and create a slurry out of them. – Oh gosh. – Like Soylent Green. – What? – Right, that’s, Soylent Green is people. Spoiler alert. (Link chuckles) But seriously, I mean like, you could potentially create a Soylent from dead human tissue and if it was– – But I don’t like to eat meat slurry. I like to eat cuts of meat. – It would have additives in it that would make it taste okay. – Okay, fine. Let’s do it. – It seems to be better than, you know, just letting them rot or burning them. – I don’t think it’s an abomination. I mean, it sounds like it should be, but I don’t think it technically is. I don’t even know what that means. – I don’t know if you can determine what an abomination is– – That’s true. – On a personal level. Maybe it’s not an abomination, well, I think you can, because it’s definitely an abomination to some people, okay? – (chuckles) Right. – But I would do it, like I said. (Link laughs) – You wanna move on, because– – Yeah. – Pete Sheridian. – It says Sheridan. – Oh okay. – Pete Sheridan asks. You know Pete, you should– – You been in LA too long. – All you gotta do is add one more I, Pete Sheridan, and you’re onto something. You and Rae Lee Erickson can eat dead people together. Pete Sheridian and Rae Lee Erickson the serial killing duo. Glute scoopin’ across America. (Rhett chuckling) Who knew that when you ask a question on the social media that we were gonna make you into cannibalistic serial killing duo. – Yeah, be careful. Be careful what you ask. – Dressed as Aquaman. Pete Sheridan asks, do you guys know what this rash on my leg is? Well, first of all, Pete, you didn’t send a picture. Second of all, Pete, don’t send a picture. I don’t know how to identify rashes on legs, but I wonder if that impacts the viability of the meat of the leg. – You definitely do not want meat that has been beiged in hydrocortisone cream, you know what I’m saying. – Or not and just has a rash. – Yeah, well, you can peel the skin off. – Does the rash go to the muscle? – If the rash goes to the muscle, Pete, you need to see a doctor immediately. ‘Cause that’s not a rash. (both laugh) – Well kinda like a apple gets rotten. Starts on the skin and– – It’s a little different. Yeah that would be gangrene, that’s not a rash. – (chuckling) Okay. Don’t eat the mushy parts. If the glute scoop’s mushy, move on. – Now, speaking of good names, Magnus Mar Paisson. – Getting a closer look? – No no. Magnus Mar Palsson. – Okay. – Which is definitely some sort of Scandinavian name. I would think right? – Who are we to generalize? – I get a lot of ideas and inspiration from you guys. Wow, well thank you. From watching new GMMs and Ear Biscuits, as well as just watching old Rhett and Link music videos and old GMM videos back when you guys started. I wanted to know what content creators, musicians and authors, et cetera, inspire you guys. That’s a good question, MMP. Now first of all, this question makes me a little bit, I feel a little inadequate whenever I think about this and definitely when I’m asked it. Here’s why. – Okay. – Whenever you see a respected artist’s interviewed, talk about their work, it seems like the references, their influences and references to other works are like, right on the tip of their tongue, like. And I’ve always felt a little funny about that because sure, me and you have been heavily influenced by a lot of people and a lot of forms of entertainment, but we haven’t processed it very directly, right. Sometimes people will be like, what did you guys think was funny growing up, and I’ll be like, my dad. Which is– – That’s an influence. – Has influenced the way that I make the funny, but also me and you, we were big fans of Seinfeld. We watched Seinfeld in high school, we watched SNL growing up and we would bond over the latest Jack Handey Deep Thoughts. And Lorne Michaels is famous for saying that people usually say that their favorite era of SNL is when they were in high school. For us I think it may have been when we were in middle school is when we were really connecting with it. – Yeah. – But anyway, sure, there’s lots of traditional things that we were influenced by, but it’s not this very direct… It’s not like we are just guys, we’re not filmmakers, right. We hope to make movies. We have made a documentary, but we haven’t made a scripted, a narrative film yet. But when we sit down to do that, it’s not like we’re a film director who’s like, well these are my favorite visual influences, these are the DPs that I like, these are the directors that I like, this is the style that I like and this is the way that I’m gonna kind take these pieces and then create my derivative yet original approach to this thing, and that’s not how we… We don’t think that way directly. I think we think that way sort of inherently. – Actually I have a list. – Oh good, go for it, say your list. – Just joking. Yeah, I relate to that. But I did come up with somebody and I do think if you look at a particular medium and then we really think about it, we can say who inspired us, okay. So if you think about music or if you think about our favorite films or our favorite television shows, we can trace, or the internet, we can trace the things that inspire us to be creative. It just requires a little work that maybe we haven’t done. But an answer did come to my mind which is related to what I’m saying, the fact that we have aspirations in so many of these different genres. We wanna music, live performance, movies, television, internet. Books. We wanna do all these things, even it’s just exciting to be creative in all the different mediums, which means that, which made me think that I’m really inspired by Donald Glover because of the way that he’s done all of those things. – Refused to really be pigeonholed as any particular– – Yeah like– – In any particular genre or medium. – I mean that last album is one of my favorites. I can pick out his musical influences. – The most recent or the previous? – Awaken, My Love, which is, he’s only released singles. – Yeah he’s just done singles since then. – And then the way that Atlanta is so… It’s so creative. It’s a comedy but it’s so many more things than that and each episode is an opportunity to reinvent what the show is. There’s lot of, it’s just, I love the way he approaches his live shows. He makes them so special for the people who go there and they’re events, they’re not just a concert. He just has that mentality. He’s working on some movie with Rihanna. – Yeah, jealous much. – That’s pretty inspiring. – Yeah and you know what– – So just that mentality of, I have an idea to do this type of thing in this medium. – Hold on a second, a lot of people don’t know. Well you probably know if you’re listening to this, but he started on YouTube, he was– – Right. – In Derrick Comedy, which I guess that channel still exists, but just him and some of his friends just making sketches. Some people who were back making sketches on YouTube back in the day are still on YouTube. (Link chuckles) Other people are Donald Glover. – We have a tremendous opportunity given the way that we’ve been successful to then say, hey, we do wanna write a book. Or we do wanna do a stage show, and then we can actually do it. So I’m very much inspired by the creative terms with which he goes into something and the way that he brings his fans along with him. We may have talked about that before, so I mean that’s always inspiring, so I think that’s my answer at least for right now. – That’s a good answer. – If I could go back in time, I probably would come up with even more answers. – But interesting thing is that you’re inspired by him in a similar way that now I’m thinking of someone who inspires me in a similar way. But again, it’s not as direct of an inspiration, so in other words, we wanna do a lot of things and we wanna do them all in an excellent way. – Yeah. – And Donald Glover is this sort of impossible standard that we can always sort of aspire to and never reach but hopefully get better as we try to, but there’s nothing in particular about any of the stuff that he does which is going to be, we’re not gonna make a funk album. Whatever, you know. – By the way, did I tell you– – Unless you want to. – Did we tell ’em that I met him? – Yeah I think we told the story about meeting him at a local place. I personally thought that– – Walking around a park. – You should have gone up to him with your son Lando and said, “My son’s name is Lando. “Can I get a picture with you?” And it would have been a really cool thing. – I didn’t need it to be for anybody else but me. I didn’t need to share it with– – But as we’ve established before, you went up to John C. Reilly while he was eating with his friends in a restaurant. – That was different. – So you’re not above going up to celebrities. – Well, I’ve changed. – But again, it’s not specific works, but somebody who’s career inspires me and is inspiring me right now, ’cause I tend to be influenced by things as I’m kind of exploring them, the Duplass Brothers, Jay and Mark Duplass, they’ve got a book that I’m listening to. It’s a short audiobook that’s like seven hours, and it’s called Like Brothers. – But they are brothers. – And they are brothers, interesting, isn’t it? Now, the thing, I wouldn’t have said that like, I haven’t seen all their movies and I wouldn’t say that like I’m a student of the Duplass Brothers films and obviously very familiar with them and kinda know a little bit about their story and the independent film situation and Puffy Chair at Sundance and all that stuff. So I always had this respect and I’ve always kinda known that I think they’re about our age or a little bit older and I think, well, reading this book has been kinda weird in one sense because it’s two guys from the south with a weird obsession with Lionel Richie. – Really? – Who both, the way they divide their work up in terms of like one’s kind of the starter and one’s kind of the finisher, and that’s just to name a few things. There was some other sort of like, in their book, their wives read one chapter. Like– – Really? – Yeah and their book is sort of like a compendium of unsolicited advice but they actually had the wherewithal to use the term unsolicited advice when they gave it, we just gave it. And then stories from their past and how their relationship works and that kinda thing, the way they communicate, and anyway, I told you that you should be listening to it. You should at some point. You should be listening to it as well. Why are you listening to this? You should go listen to that Duplass Brothers book. But anyway, the thing that’s super inspiring about them is just this, you listen to somebody’s story about, I think the thing that they sort of represent is sticking to artistic intention and not compromising. Not compromising too much, because the other thing that they are is they’re not like, and they say it multiple times in the book but they’re not these very precious artists who have this vision that cannot be compromised. – Right. – They’re practical. They come from a very– – That’s like us, yeah. – Practical place where they know how to work with people and they know how to try to get their vision but also do it in a practical way that satisfies a studio that they may be working with or whatever. But anyway, it just got me, I got super inspired. – To what? Or was it to what or just not? – Well we’re always thinking and doing things. Again, I feel like I say this a lot on Ear Biscuits. We’re always thinking about and working on things that we can’t talk about. But I think that some of the things that they talked about in terms of establishing… Let’s put it this way, it made me feel really good about some things that we’re working on in terms of things that kinda pull from your personal experience. They use the term mining the epic smallness of your own life which is the idea that you have a very particular perspective and background and you kinda get in the middle of it, you get too close of it and you can kinda discount, oh, we shouldn’t be telling this person’s story. We should be telling our story. And they tell a bunch of different stories but they’re always telling it kinda through the perspective of what they know and how they see the world. I always get excited about telling stories and what we’re going to do with that as our career advances. So anyway– – Well that’s a good book recommendation, Rhett. There you go. – I hope we can meet ’em and hang out with Lionel Richie, all five of us together. That would be wonderful, wonderful quintuple date. – Are they obsessed with the pose because that would be a little too close. – There’s no reference to the pose– – Okay good. – But whoa, they had a band together. – Of course. – So they were a band together, and they sang Lionel covers which I actually don’t think we ever sang a Lionel cover. – Hm, different. We were too cool for that. – No we just weren’t good enough. – Oh. (Rhett chuckles) Well that brings our AMA to a close, but you know what, I think we have one more answer, you inspire us. – Aw. – By listening. – Yes, yes. – Boy, there’s nothing– – That sounded sincere. – Quite as inspiring as giving us attention. So thanks for doing that. We’ve heard that we’ve been an inspiration to people. And boy that is really nice. – Yeah I actually was– – Really nice to find out that you inspire somebody, so– – I was looking through, as I do from time to time– – Looking for– – Reviews. Of our Book of Mythicality. I do that from time to time for self-validation and I came across a review that was, somebody gave us two stars, two stars out of five, and then said, “If these guys were half as interesting “as they think they are, “this would be a good book.” (Link chuckles) And so yeah. – I’m glad you brought that up. (Rhett laughs) – Yeah, we think we’re pretty interesting. – I don’t know what to say to that. – You’re not really supposed to, I just thought it was funny. – Oh. – But you know what you should do? You know what else is interesting? You should go to YouTube.com/EarBiscuits. It’s a new YouTube channel. You can subscribe to it now. There’s nothing there, but there will be soon, including– – Zero subscribers? I thought we were repurposing a channel. – [Crew Member] It has 2100. – Yeah yeah, okay, so we have a little bit of a head start, but go over there– – 2000 subscribers. – And subscribe to YouTube.com/EarBiscuits. 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