(upbeat electronic music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I’m Link. – And I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we are exploring the question, what are our top 10 memories of 2018? – And given that we have not shared these with each other, the corollary question is, and how many of them overlap? What if there’s a 100% overlap? That would say a lot about our relationships with our family. – I am 100% sure that there is not a 100% overlap. – Because you looked at my, hold on, you haven’t looked at my list have you? – If our list matches 100%, I will eat both of our lists and your jean jacket. Right now, I will eat the whole thing. – And this is a fluffy jean jacket. – In one sitting. You heard it here, now there’s a teaser. – And plus our wives and kids will probably be upset that like– – Well considering– – All of our top moments had to do with just each other. – Well because yeah. – That ain’t gonna happen. – A good percentage of mine are just personal, so if those were your favorite memories, then we’ve got something to talk about. – And yeah mine skew personal too. – That’s good, that’s healthy. – I think that is healthy. Well let’s decide at the end but it is appropriate that we’re having this conversation now because this is the last Ear Biscuit of 2018 and that’s when the top lists happen. That’s just when it happen. If we did this in January– – Well for the first time ever, yeah. – We talked about it, just waiting to do it for a January episode but I was like, man, that’s the future. – [Rhett] You don’t care about 2018 at that point. – We’re future forward. So see how many of these, I think you’ve heard some tidbits of some of these stories, but, and moments but maybe not. – So this is the last episode of 2018 like Link said. And just a quick reminder. So the first episode will be on January 7th, that’s when the next– – Of 2019. – The 2019 season starts, January 7th. But also, starting in 2019, all the video Ear Biscuits will be on their own YouTube channel. YouTube.com/EarBiscuits. It’s not just gonna be the new ones but it’s going to be all the old ones, the whole catalog of ones that we have video for and then the ones that we don’t have video for, we’re gonna just put ’em up there as audio with a picture, right? – Yep, just so we have them all in the same repository. So you can go over there right now and subscribe to that YouTube channel, YouTube.com/EarBiscuits. If you wanna watch us talk as opposed to just listen to us talk, the audio will still come out roughly a week before the video version. – Yes. – In the new year. So that’s how things are gonna work, so, I have my list, you have not cheated and looked at my list. Yours is folded up, so– – I could try to cheat. – If I could read that, I could– – You can’t read that far? – No I can. But I have to really squint. – Don’t do it. – Need glasses, that’s another thing that might happen in 2019, uh-oh! Uh-oh. – Already– – Branding problem. – Already got problems. So what I suggest we do is that we alternate presenting our 10th and then go down. I think we’re already thinking the same thing, and then maybe one on my list will be one of yours that’s higher ranking on your list, you can go ahead and mention it at that time. – Right, if referenced, go ahead and mention yours. – Get it out of the way. But I wanna go ahead and skip to one in an effort to just make a shameless plug– – Good. – Of ours. I would like to go ahead and, spoiler alert, skip to half of my number seven, okay? – Okay. – So half of mine number seven. – You got two-parters? – There’s a couple of two-parters. – I think I might have a two-parter. – One of the top, my seven top moment of 2018 happened in November when it was our last Tour of Mythicality show. We were on the stage performing. At the beginning, we each have a monologue that we say and the light’s up on me and it’s down on you and then the light comes up on you and I’m standing there. And I get to hear you talk about the start of our friendship. When we first met, our first impressions of each other and I remember making a conscious decision, this is the last one, we’re onstage in front of one of the largest crowds we’ve ever done this show to. In fact, wasn’t the largest crowd? No it was one of them. – It was the largest crowd. – It was. Foxwoods. – Like 4000. – And I just made up my mind. I’m gonna savor this moment that’s the last show we do and that was it, that’s a that’s a mental picture I have. Just like I’m looking at you now, I’m looking across the stage, you’re doing the last rendition of this show that we worked so hard on and that we took to Australia and then we took around the U.S. before that and then we did a couple more spots and then that wrapped it up so that was a big moment. – Yes. – In our career. Just kinda coalescing something that we will never do again. That you can never see if you didn’t get a ticket. I’m sorry, there’s no way to see it. – Oh this is a good setup. – The Tour of Mythicality stage show where we encapsulated lots of our Book of Mythicality in stage and dramatic form– – Or– – You can never see it. – Is there a way to see it? Yes, there is a way to see it because when we did the show in Los Angeles at The Wiltern, we actually filmed it. Yes, so we have produced our own special, the Tour of Mythicality special that you can go and get, you can pre-order right now on iTunes and you don’t just get the special. You also get a documentary that we created that documented our travels while we were on the road and also kind of some of our perspective about the tour and that kind of thing. – Yeah if you remember our Instagram stories from the tour, fall of 2017, you would see in a lot of those that one of us was also holding a camera. ‘Cause we documented some of that stuff ourselves and then we had some help and documented some things. So it’s a lot of prep, a lot of creative hand wringing behind the scenes stuff and I think you’ll really enjoy the documentary just as much as the show itself maybe. – Yeah so you can pre-order that on iTunes. So again that’s the tour and the tour documentary together on iTunes. However you can also on iTunes, or wherever music is available, right? Most places. You can get the tour album, the live album, so all the songs that we performed live and a studio version of the song that we close every single show with, The Best Friends ’til the End song. We recorded a studio version of that in this room right here we recorded that– – Wow. – ‘Cause this is also our recording studio, so you can get that album as well. Is that album available for pre-order or is that album just good to go now when you order it? – [Crew Member] Only available for pre-order on iTunes. – Pre-order all of it. – Yeah. Just buy it blindly basically is what pre-order’s all about. Just buy it based on trust. – Just trust us. – Yeah. – Just trust us. – It’s a great exercise. – Speaking of exercise, I’m glad that we did this exercise. There’s a little bit of homework involved. Actually a lot. I don’t know how you went about this. Did you just sit in a meditative state and reflect? – Well I sat down and I was like, I started to think and then I was like, ugh, I have a horrible, we actually are known for having a good memory in terms of like being able to access things from our childhood, like for the book and that kind of thing but that was because those are stories that we’ve told multiple times, we’ve re-accessed, but when I think about just my past year, I was like what am I gonna do? And then I was like, oh, photos on my camera. – That’s exactly what I did too. – I think that’s what most rational people would choose to do and I was glad that, and then I was like, well what things that I experienced that I didn’t take photos for? And then I looked at our calendar. – Then I looked at the calendar, and then the third thing I looked at– – Was tattoos of all the things that we did that you have on your back that you’re gonna reveal right now. (Link chuckles) No? – My digital journal or my note-taking digital space. I wouldn’t really call it a journal, but I do journal some thoughts that I have there and there’s dates associated and that that jogged a few memories. – I didn’t get to that. – Those three things put it together. And then I did it by month just so I would have a list and that became a journal entry now that I want to do every year which is like, at the end of the year a bi-month highlight, and then I was like I’m not gonna rank these because I don’t want to show favoritism to any of moments from my life, I just want to be able to enjoy each moment as if it were the best, and then I told you that right before we did this and you said that’s a bad idea. You should rank these. – Yeah. – Nobody wants that, a top 10 list that’s not ranked. – Yeah you gotta rank it. It’s 2018, man. – That’s a pretty good point. – It’s 2018 for just a little bit longer. – So I have ranked my list. – And it was not easy to rank and also, I think I can tell by looking at yours over there that you had some honorable mentions. I also had some honorable mentions that I was like, ah, these got shifted off as I sifted through the memories. – Yeah. Yeah. – So we’ll skip those and then maybe something that happened to me was in your honorable mention or vice versa. So, do you wanna go ahead and– – Start. – Start with number 10 before we go into our ad break. – Start with your number 10. So the least special moment of 2018 amongst the most special moments of 2018 for you was what? – That’s an uncharitable way to put it. Was when we went around town with our good friend Mike Edwards– – Oh. – To find the best al pastor taco in Los Angeles. That is something that we documented on the Rhett and Link Instagram and it was one of those things where Mike said, we talked about it a little bit but Mike said he was coming into town, he said we gotta go back to that place to get tacos, and then I was like, well what if we just went all around the whole town and found the best ones and documented the whole thing. – Do you remember when this was, what month this was? ‘Cause I need to add this to my list. – It was (chuckling)– – To my digital journal. – It was pretty early. It was January or February. – Oh it was? – Yeah it was pretty early in the year. And the thing that, first of all, I find that, and I’ve talked about this a little bit. I really like creating experiences. That’s one of the reasons why we do the game night, isn’t just because I selfishly want to play games and experience those people but I really like creating an experience. – You like being a ring master? – And then being like, let’s just (clicks tongue), do this thing all together and see what happens. – And I think that the Instagram is part of the experience. – Yeah, adding a little bit of structure. That’s why I always like a competition. That’s why if you’re all gonna get together, somebody should win something. – I liked it because we weren’t competing but there was a competition. That’s the sweet spot for me. – Yeah. – We were like, and then Mike was really cool and gracious to actually be excited about the fact that it was on our Instagram versus guys, I’m coming into town. I see you a couple of times a year. You guys gonna Instagram this whole thing? No he loved it which was really cool. – He likes to eat quite a bit so, you know, you just take a taco in his mouth and he’ll be happy about anything. (laughs) – He wasn’t unhappy about the Instagram part. – No he wasn’t, he wasn’t. That was number 10. – That was a good moment I’d totally forgotten about. – I didn’t actually– – You don’t have Instagram. You don’t go on Instagram. – I didn’t look, did you look at Instagram for your photos because I didn’t look there. – I had all the videos that we created that night as part of my photo– – Oh. – Album. – Oh okay, is that how it works? – I think if you save them, you can save them to your, I don’t know how it works but yeah I saw it on there. Maybe I just saw pictures. I’m old. – My number 10 doesn’t involve you. Sorry. – Okay. – Doesn’t involve our friend Mike, it doesn’t involve tacos. – See where this is going. – It doesn’t involve– – Anybody but you. (laughs) – Anybody but me. That’s right. In September, I don’t think I told. I might have mentioned this to you but I don’t think I’ve told anybody else. I decided, you know, like looking out from my house, I can see a mountain in the distance. I might have mentioned this, not here, but, I’m like I’m gonna go up there. And I’d been up there once and it was, actually I didn’t make it all the way. For time constraints, not for like physical constraints, because (chuckles) I’m a specimen. – Oh gosh. – No I made up my mind, you know what. That was over a year ago, I’m gonna do that again. I’m gonna get up at the butt crack of dawn so I can get back at a reasonable time and not spoil my whole Saturday. Be a little family man too. And I took a hike all the way up to that mountain top and it ended up being like a six-hour hike and I had this playlist, this like instrumental playlist that I put on my earbuds right at the beginning and it turned out, like I listened to it the whole way up and the whole way down. The way that the playlist timed out to end as I was ending my hike. It was like a magical experience. Like a magical moment of– – Were you referencing the time– – Completion. Like walking slow or walking fast? No I even took a wrong turn and had to had to backtrack like a quarter of a mile almost. And it was still, and that was fate saying I want this Spotify reflection playlist to end at just the right time. It was the most grueling hike I’ve ever done in like, I don’t know, since that time I went to Yosemite just out of college. – Really? – Yeah which says more about me than the hike. – Does it get very steep? – Well– – It’s very long. – This is more about me, but it was an exercise in solitude that honestly replaced on my list me going to Slab City which is another exercise in solitude which I’ll just honorably mention. ‘Cause I knew I’d already talked to you guys and maybe that, about it. Maybe that kind of pushed it off my list ’cause I didn’t want to share it, which is not a good way to make a list for me. I’m making it for you. – You can’t think about that. – But they’re similar things but the reason why I ranked this one a little bit higher was because it’s much more accessible for me to do again and something that’s like, it engenders a higher likelihood of an exercise in solitude just like a half day hike, versus like a two day trip. I feel like I can go out there and do that again. You know, so that’s why it was a bigger moment, especially with the playlist. – You could do it even more often if… Every time I take a hike and I get to the top of a mountain– – Yeah? – I’m like, man, I wish there was a zip line. You know what I’m saying, you get up there and you’re like I gotta go back down the same dagum trail and it’s gonna hurt my knees. – If we were in middle school– – Why didn’t they put a zip line– – We would be constructing a zip line now in order to realize this. – What do we think it would cost? And how much pushback would we get from like the county if we like put a zip line in just without asking from the peak of that mountain behind your house to your house. – Oh to my house. – All the way to the back. – That that would that would generate a lot of hiker traffic at my house with everyone coming. I don’t want a zip line to terminate at my house. – Mm-hm, yeah, good point. – Well I mean there was a project– – How about your neighbor’s house? – Proposed to put a, not a zip line, but one of those ski trolley things, it’s a big friggin’, to do one of those to and from the Hollywood sign. And it’s it’s still being considered in some circles. – A gondola. – A gondola. It’s different. – Oh okay. – So that’s my number 10. – Okay well we’ve got a lot more to go, and we’re gonna get to that in just a second but first we wanna let you know that we’ve got head wear. – Oh yeah. – Head wear at Mythical.store. Link is putting on the head wear right now. – Oh gotta take my cans off first. – These are new options. This is, we call that tan. – I kinda like to wear it kinda like this. – Is that a six panel, what do you call that? Dad hat? Unstructured– – Unstructured– – [Both] Dad hat. – ‘Cause that’s what the kids are ironically into today. – Looks even better if you’re not a dad. So if you don’t like it on me, you’ll love it on yourself. If you like it on me, you’ll also like it on yourself. – We’ve got the Mythical logo featuring the Randler. It has a leather strap. – Why are you pointing at your hand? – [Crew Member] I’m trying to get you to take it off and show the inside. – Show the inside. – Well that certainly wasn’t clear. – Look, it says– – Tell ’em about my hand. – It says Mythical all along the inside, look at that. – Leather strap. – And if that’s not warm enough for you, we have a beanie. Bringing back the beanies, this one’s black. It says Mythical, super Mythical. This is great for robbing homes. – It doesn’t have eye holes, it’s not a robber mask. It’s just a beanie, dude. – No it looks like what Pesci had on in Home Alone. He didn’t cover his face because he was Pesci. You know what I’m saying? He had it exactly the way you had it before. Back up on top. That’s the Pesci look. Roll, but his didn’t say Mythical. – You don’t have to, oh and you just unroll it. It also says– – Says Mythical both ways. You can’t get away from it. You can’t get away from the branding on this– – It’s upside down when you do that, but– – Anyway, Mythical.store. – We’re not giving notes on our merch, we’re just trying to sell it. – Mythical.store, head wear galore. – All right, oh leave that there, Kiko. I gotta fix my hair, yeah, nice. – Push that hat out a little bit more. A little bit more. Yeah just throw it on the ground. Who cares about it, it’s just a hat. – All right let’s get into your number nine, I believe we’re at. – And you know what we should probably do. Well, let’s just keep going back and forth for now. – Okay, yeah. – ‘Cause it… Okay, so, my suspicion just even just based on your first one is that you’re gonna be a little bit more of a specific, this is the time. I was looking at you and this kinda thing. And the way my brain works, it’s gonna be a little bit more general but then I have some specificity within the generality. – I’ll accept it. – So number nine for me is the fact that I kinda discovered skiing with my family. – Yes. – As a thing. – That was in January. Right at the top of the year. – Yeah so, we went to Big Bear. Our families went together. And then I ended up going back again with my boys one time after that and then I ended up going with my family to Mammoth. Which was like next level in terms of the amount of skiing that there is available and the amount of snow, just the quality of it. And now we’re planning a trip, that’s what we’re gonna do for their spring break is we’re going skiing, but I really like it as a sport. I feel like there’s danger involved and I could run into a tree at any point. But I don’t really go that fast. I could also just fall at any point. – Please don’t run into a tree. – I don’t go that fast. I take it pretty easy. I don’t go into crazy places. I don’t leave this course, or whatever they call it. The trail. But I enjoy it a lot personally but I enjoy doing that kind of thing with my boys a bunch. Jessie, she’s not so much into it. She did it and she learned how to ski basically and she’s totally fine with us going as a family to do it over spring break but she’s like, I’m gonna read a lot. – She’s a lodger. – Yeah she’s a lodger. But there was a specific moment– – That’s where the term dislodge comes from actually. You need to dislodge Jessie– – When you get your wife out of the lodge. You dislodge her. The specific memory that sticks in my mind is, so Shepherd would go to these lessons because you can kinda put the younger kids into these all day lessons which is a great way to just forget about your kid. And also get them to actually learn how to ski without biting their heads off personally ’cause you don’t know anything about skiing in my case. – Yeah. – But he would get out of skiing and then we would be able to ski just a little bit before everything closed down for the day. And there was just a moment where me and Locke and Shepherd were all kinda skiing, well trying to get down the mountain. Shepherd was falling repeatedly because the lesson was apparently not very effective, but at least in the moment where we were all on our feet and we were all going down the slopes, I was like, this is what I thought being a dad would be. (laughs) You know what I’m saying? You have those moments where you’re like all doing something super awesome on a mountain and you’re like, this is being a dad. – Finally. – Yeah and then your son falls and slides down the mountain and leaves his skis way up high and you have to somehow get back up this slope and then like a stranger starts to help him and then you’re like, I don’t know how I feel about that but I do appreciate you helping and then you’re like, I don’t like being a dad. – That’s, now you’re in it. – That’s the balance. – Yeah, that was an honorable mention for me. My kids learning to ski at the January thing, but we haven’t been back since. I got to do that. – You’re gonna write on your list, got to ski again? – Got to ski again. Number nine for me, I won’t spend much time on this ’cause it’s very fresh and I talked about it very recently. But I have reflected on it even more and it has increased in magnitude since it happened and we even talked about it on here. And that is at Thanksgiving, when my mom and Lewis were at my dad’s side of the family for Thanksgiving. That’s a moment that, I didn’t put it in any specific terms but this is what I began to appreciate. It was the first time that my mom and dad had been at an event besides, I guess my high school graduation, that I can remember since I was like two years old, so in my memory. Between high school and then college graduation and when we would have babies and they would both show up. It was the first time that there was like an elective, we don’t have to get together, but we did. And that’s, it’s gotten even more of a big thing in my mind. So again, I talked about it recently so I’m just gonna say– – Well not to ruin your memory– – That’s number nine. – But they did get together at the barbecue dinner that we did at the Tour of Mythicality. – But it was a, in order to experience the event, they both had to be there. It’s just like the birth of a child. – It was less intimate. – It wasn’t really elective. – Oh, elective. – Elective. – Okay. – It was the first elective thing that they both showed up at. – You’re saying they could have chosen not to come. – Yeah just like every other year when we have Thanksgiving separate. – Right. – Yeah. Big moment. – Number eight. For me is, my solo trip did make my list. – Okay. – Again, I talked about this relatively extensively on the podcast earlier this year. Most notably talking about the experience I had in the yoga dome. – Oh I thought you tell me when you spent 20 minutes in the bathroom like every other day. – That’s every other day. This is when I went to Avila Beach and we stayed at that weird place with the hot tub– – Yeah. – They funnel the sulfur water into your room or your deck or whatever. – I wonder if that got affected by the fires. – No. I mean it wasn’t in either of the places where there were fires. – It was in between. – Yeah it’s like Central Coast. – Okay yeah. If you had to make it a moment, do you have one? – The specific moment was, so you’ve got like the hot tub that is on the deck in your room but then you’ve got the hillside hot tubs that are on a hillside and they’re basically sort of privatized a little bit so you can see down the mountain but from the path that the other people access hot tubs in, they can’t see you so nekatittity. (laughs) – You just said that, yeah. – Nekativity. Nakedness. (laughs) – Yeah let’s go with nekatittity. – I didn’t see any titties. I just want to, I do want to say that– – That was a percussive word. – Because– (laughs) – It’s like a hi hat. (mimics hi hat drumming) – I just wanna say that mine were out. Mine were out. – Okay, great. – But I didn’t see any. When I started talking about being naked on a hot tub and then I accidentally put the word (chuckles) titty. – Say it again brother. – Went to nekatittity. I combined the word nakedness and nativity, which there’s an idea for Christmas. (both laughing) – Oh. – Sorry. – I bet that, naketivity. – You could really piss off a small southern town if you combine those two things. – I bet that’s the thing. Do you want my number eight? – But no what I was saying, I didn’t even get to my moment. – Oh sorry. – It was being– – Oh I thought that was quite a moment. – It was being naked in the hot tub. On the side of a mountain and kind of looking out. Oh wow. – Okay. – Sorry about that. – My number eight in April was when my cousin Britton, who I’ve talked about, came out here for the first time. He was on The Voice, he was just starting to compete and they holed him up in that hotel and he couldn’t leave, and of course it wasn’t the first time I’ve met him, but that was the first, it felt like it, because I was like, okay you’re out here doing this thing. I think we met in passing a few times, but in April that was the first time that we met. I met him at the Denny’s for lunch and I was talking to him about being on The Voice and it was there early on, he ended up almost winning the whole thing. But it began a friendship and a relationship to where, then every week after The Voice, Christy and the kids, we’d all pile in the car and we’d drive 20 minutes in order to meet him for dinner and whoever would be in town that was watching him on The Voice like his mom or his dad or his friends or things like that. We’d all eat dinner together and then it would be on television at the place where we were eating dinner at the hotel ’cause he wasn’t allowed to leave. – Right. – So it was really cool watching The Voice with him just after he had been on it, and it was the start of something that, now at this point, starting in January, he’s coming to live with us. – Mm-hm. – Because Christy and I ended up saying, encouraging him, hey, if you wanna make it as an artist, as a musician, you’ve got this album that Alicia Keys has helped you produce and it’s about to come out. You gotta capitalize on this. You don’t wanna be in Sanford, North Carolina, you need to be in Nashville or Los Angeles. So live with us and make this thing happen. So that’s what’s gonna happen in January. We’re all super excited. I mean the kids are getting an older brother basically. Even though he’s about to turn, he’ll turn 19 right before he moves in with us. And the living arrangement’s gonna be a little interesting because we don’t have a guest room, but we have– – You have a dog house. – I’ll save that story for later. We’re not gonna put him in the dog house. But I mean, our personal lives are gonna drastically change ’cause there’s another, it’s like we’re adopting a young adult to live with us who’s an aspiring musician. And it all started that April. So I go back to that moment, little did any of us know when we were eating, I don’t know, what you eat at Denny’s, a super slam? – Oh gosh. – That’s wrestling. – Grand slam. – Great. – Yeah. – Anyway, that’s my number seven. – As I’ve stated before, Britton is one of my favorite people now that I’ve got to know him. Potentially the best thing that’s ever come out of our friendship. (both laugh) Is Britton. – For you. – I’m looking forward to him being here. You mind if I go take a wiz real quick? – Are you serious? – I typically time that a little bit better. – Is that why your eyes are floating? Yeah, get out of here. I mean I’m gonna keep going through my list. – Eyes are floating. I put my drops in, man. Trying to keep my eyes– – Don’t be self-conscious. It’s a saying. – Trying to keep my eye, oh, oh. It’s a euphemism for having to pee. – Yeah. – Pete. I gotta get it out. I got some peat moss. I got some peat moss I need to get out. Now here’s a option, you can continue on. – I’m not. – Or you can pause it. It’s up to you. – I’m gonna pause it. I feel like maybe I should go too, ’cause we like to sync it up, you know? (toilet flushing) All right, how you feeling? – Man. – You’re back. You didn’t miss anything. I just took my jacket off. – I didn’t miss anything. But I did piss anything. – Oh gosh, okay so, what’s your number seven? I gave away half of my number seven already with the Tour of Mythicality closer. – My number seven is the day that me and you over the summer went surfing, and then went and ate at that restaurant– – Oh yeah. – What’s the name of that restaurant? Glads? – Gladstones. – Gladstones? It’s over there right off the 1. And– – I was wearing a winter coat. – I don’t recall that. – You made fun of me because I had a winter coat in my car and that I was wearing it. – And it was summer. But during that time… During the summer in general, we were kind of more in like a brainstorming phase so we were coming up with ideas for different things that, some that we’re working on now, some that we decided weren’t good enough to work on. But, and this is something we talk about relatively often about finding unstructured creative time. – Yeah. – And it was one of those times where we got to do something that we really enjoy doing which is surfing, and then making the decision to just walk in, first of all that restaurant is really interesting because, and I think it’s significantly different now. I don’t know, I think Wolfgang Puck is buying or something. I don’t know when that’s happening. But– – For it to become something else, like two years from now though. – But people were kinda like dressed up like they were going to a restaurant but we were like in bathing suits. Of course you were in a bathing suit and a winter coat. (chuckling) Which made you look like maybe you’d– – You could get away with anything in this town. – But we were there for a long time ’cause we didn’t, unlike most of the time, it’s like, well we’ll go surfing, but we gotta get back because we have a meeting or we have this thing that we have to be at because all our time is so structured, to have some unstructured time. That was a good moment, and also, we got really excited about a particular idea. Then we came back and discussed it with Stevie and she pointed out why it wasn’t a good idea. (laughs) No, it was one of those things that we were excited about certain elements of it and she was like well, have you thought about this, and then when we thought about that one thing, we were like yeah, actually, that is a problem. And we never solved that problem. – All I’ll say– – And so it kind of stalled out. – It’s kind of interesting, well, I’ll just say, it was a concept for a Christmas movie. There’s no reason not to say it. – Don’t say what it was though. – I’m not gonna say what it was. – Because I still think there’s a way to solve the problem. And still make it. – Yeah we conceptualized a Christmas movie. (chuckles) – We’re gonna make a Christmas movie. – And now here we are. It’s the holiday season and maybe we should pick it back up because we’re really in the mood, man. I woke up in the middle of the night. I was sleeping on both my arms. They were both dead. – How’d you do that? – I don’t know. – You need to be on your back, on your stomach to do that. – I know, well I don’t sleep on my side. I guess I either sleep on my back or I sleep on both my arms at once. – If I woke up and both of my arms were asleep, I would think that that was the end, it was over. My body was failing me. – It’s just like a Monday morning to me. – I’m shutting down. – But then I looked outside and it was the clearest it’s ever been in LA and then I’m like– – Super clear. – I come into work and I’m driving into work, I’m listening to Christmas music and then I start to feel my arms again. (Rhett sputters) – No. – Don’t start driving if you can’t feel your arms. – But I’m like, I had a headache when I woke up. Both my arms died but then I was like I look outside and I put on the Christmas music and then you know what, it’s all good. And I think in that light, we should we should reassess this Christmas movie. It was the wrong time of year writing a Christmas movie. – You were wearing a winter coat. You were trying to help. – I was trying my best. – You were trying to get in the Christmas spirit. – That was a good moment. So for me seven A was the last Tour of Mythicality show ever and then even though it’s a totally different time, a month earlier in October. I combined this as a top moment, is that the first Rhett and Link concert at the North Carolina State Fair was my other half of my seventh top moment of the year because just like the other one, represented something coming to a close. It’s represented something blossoming. Which we’ve, again we’ve talked about, but it was a lot of fun and you know, we’re going to London. In February. – Yeah and– – And we’re gonna we’re looking to do some other stuff. Going to Nashville. – Yeah. – After that. And we’ll see if we can go some other places. – Yeah, I, the the tour well since most of– – That’s my top seven. – Most of the tour for the Tour of Mythicality took place in 2017. Obviously, I’m gonna talk a little bit about the trip, the big vacation that we had, which included the tour. I’ll just preview that one moment. So the Australia Fiji trip is higher up on my list. – Of course. If you’re talking about the NC State, were you talking about the NC State concert? – I’m talking about the tour in general. – Okay. – I lumped the State Fair into the tour. I know it’s different, I know why it’s different and I agree with that but that didn’t make my top 10. – Being different made it a moment for me. – For me I was so… I was sick that that trip and I was like fighting off like my voice going out and I was, I didn’t feel prepared. I wanted us to have more time to like go through the songs and practice and I didn’t have all the lyrics down I didn’t have all the chords down. It was seminal. It was important but it didn’t, it wasn’t a favorite memory of mine because I was stressed out in the midst of it so I couldn’t really enjoy it the way I hoped to. – It was semi seminal? – In the way that I hope to enjoy it. – Semi seminal titty. – Okay I didn’t think we had to say titty again. There I said it again. But there was a moment when we were on tour, since you’ve already shared your tour part, when we were in Australia and you know, I also… It’s that moment where you’re talking and the light’s on you where I’m kind of, I’m in the dark. So it’s similar. It’s the time we have to like process things. – Yeah. – It’s the only time you have to process anything in the midst of– – The show. – The show, and you’ve already done a little bit, there’s a little bit of stuff that’s happening. We sang a little song. And then you’re kinda getting the vibe of the crowd. And you can kinda see people in the first few rows and I just remember thinking, we’re in Australia, man. Like, this stuff that we’re doing has connected with another continent in a way that has gotten people to show up to see it. And I just remember thinking that that was, it was very special. So that’s the tour portion of one of my top memories, which is the trip, which I’m not gonna reveal the number yet ’cause it’s higher up. – So are you going with number six? – Going with number six. – Try number six. – Number six is breakfast with my boys. Which is something that I started to do weekly in 2018. It isn’t happening right now for reasons I’ll explain in a second. But I was just like I’m gonna take them, ’cause I don’t take them to school. Because I’m gone, I’m at the gym or here before it’s time to take them to school and every once in awhile I’ll do it, but it’s not a regular part of my schedule. I was like I want there to be some regular thing that we do that means something. Again, it’s just like, you’re trying to create those Dad moments, you know, you’re trying to create those comin’ down a mountain moments. And I was like, I’m gonna take ’em to breakfast every Tuesday morning, I can’t remember what day it was. And we did that for half of the year. We did it for half of the year. We had to stop because once Locke’s basketball started, which for some reason started in the summer, he has practice really early in the morning and it’s like an hour and a half difference from when Shepherd needs to be up. So as soon as basketball season is over in February we’re gonna start again and then go through the year until we can’t do it again. But, again, you kinda want it to be this thing where you’re like, you have this thing as a dad. – Right, right, yeah. – You have this mindset where you’re like, I’m gonna take my kids to this diner and we’re going to have breakfast. – It’s gonna be like a Norman Rockwell painting. – And I’m gonna talk to them about their day and I’m gonna give them some fatherly wisdom and et cetera, et cetera. And all too often it’s sort of just like, you’re sitting across from a 10 year old and a teenager and they’re kinda just like, it’s early in the morning and they’re just eating. And you’re just like, “So what are you, “what’s happening today?” And they’re like, “I don’t know.” – Yeah. – (chuckles) It’s like, and I realize that those are Dad moments as well. But the idea of, let me say something that’s gonna change your day. Not that I didn’t do that on some degree, and I hope that the memory will loom larger in their minds as they get older. But, and it did make my list. – Yeah and– – Because it was very special. And it is special and it will be again. – I think, yeah, I totally relate to that. I think as I look through a lot of the photos and all the stuff we did as a family or even things Christy and I did… Well especially with the kids. It’s one of those, what I realized, it’s about creating an event or creating… I hate using this term, but it’s like– – Uh-oh. – You know what I’m about to say, creating space. – Oh I thought you were gonna say titty again. – I think this is a very, I don’t know if it’s just in our friend group, but there’s a lot of creating space phraseology. But it’s perfect for this ’cause you don’t know exactly what’s gonna fill the space but you’ve set parameters, like this is who I’m with for this amount of time. I’m with my kids every Tuesday morning for breakfast and then within that space, things can happen, because so much of the meaningful things that happen aren’t what you plan, it’s what happens within the context of that space, and with parenting specifically, it’s reacting to a moment. That moment when something goes wrong in one of your kids’ lives and you gotta respond to it, or something goes right and you’re there to respond to it. And to experience it or help them unpack it. So I think it’s, I totally relate to it, that it’s important that you create the space that then things can happen and then a lot of times, nothing happens and you need to have faith that we have this moment when something does happen, I’ll be here for it, or this is a space where we can talk about it and it won’t just– (mimics wind blowing) Go away, you know? – Yeah. – And I’m sure that those moments will happen and have happened. Within the context of breakfast. It’s not just about the eggs. – It just isn’t as curated as you want it to be– – Right. – Sometimes. – I even find that with vacation, you know. – It’s with everything. – I’ll get to that. Let’s see, so we’re at number six. My number six is in May. We were filming the chocolate, human chocolate fountain. Oh goodness! Woo, is it raining in here? Is it just me as a chocolate fountain? – That was a memory for me when you peed it into my mouth. – Which is one of the top episodes of the year. It was an exhilarating moment that, within the context of Good Mythical Morning, was one of the best, best moments. But I’m making it a moment here because if you remember right afterward, that was the last thing we shot in the studio for the extended 22 minute version of GMM, launching back in October 2017, it went up until the summer of this year and then it ended. Us doing three videos a day. – Four at one point. Five including More. – Yeah. – Then we went down to three plus one. – And when I look back at our calendar, I couldn’t believe the way, how much we worked and shot for the show. How much we were on camera filming. – All day every day, nonstop. – It monopolized our schedule to a point where like, I had forgotten how much. We made a decision that like okay, if this thing doesn’t continue, we’re gonna drastically change our schedule and how we work so that it doesn’t feel like this anymore. And we’ve succeeded at that. I am so grateful when I look back at the first half of our year at the calendar that that stopped. (chuckles) I’m so relieved that that stopped, and it may be, okay, that was an investment that then you can say– – This is my number two moment. – It’s your number two moment. – My number two moment is ending the extended version of Good Mythical Morning. – Yeah. (Rhett laughs) Yeah, I mean, and yeah, I can move it up my list because– – You don’t have to move it. – I’m not gonna move it. That is six on mine, it’s number two on yours, but I can totally believe, and I’m not gonna argue with it being number two because– – It was almost number one. (laughs) – It changed things– – Jacob’s like me too. – Jacob’s number one. It changed the complexion of our entire lives. – I know we’ve talked about this a little bit and there’s confusion about what that was all about and I think sort of the general consensus, sort of the nonchalant fan who hasn’t really followed the details would just assume, you guys decided to change GMM for some reason, probably because you wanted more ad revenue or whatever. And then everybody didn’t really respond to it in the way that you would have hoped and then you decided to stop doing it. That’s actually not anywhere close to what reality is. I’ve explained this a little but I’ll just say it again. Never hurts to put the truth out there. So YouTube approached us and basically said, we’ve got this new program where we’re giving people a bunch of resources to make awesome stuff. And we want Good Mythical Morning to be a part, it was a little more complicated than that. They wanted us to make another kind of show and we were like we can’t, we’ve got GMM. And they were like, okay, well what if we just made GMM even bigger and better and part of the process was, you had to have a bunch of different segments because they’re buying the ads for it and that kinda thing and that’s what turned it into the multi-segment version of GMM. Now we were very, very hesitant to do it because we had something that was a very particular way, but it was the kinda thing that the amount of resources, including people and money that would come into our company in order to make this happen is something that we really couldn’t say no to, and we were like, surely with putting this much into GMM, just like we talked about before, something’s gonna happen. This is gonna shake things up, this is gonna lead to something. And then when it started, like Link said, it was so much work and it was all GMM, all the time and as you know, we like to do other things other than GMM. We’ve got other ideas like a Christmas movie. And we wanna get to those things and we wanna have time for ’em. In our old schedule of doing one video a day did allow for us to do other things. So in the midst of it, while our company had been transformed, we ended up expanding our studio physically, we ended up expanding our staff by a lot. Getting a lot of talented people in here. A lot of really incredible things happened. We changed the way we do our production, we became more efficient. And then, when YouTube, not us, decided that they didn’t want any more of it, we were both like, wow. That is helpful. (laughs) In one sense because that is going to allow us to go back to the old school version of GMM which is what most people wanted to begin with. But we don’t regret it at all because of what it allowed us to do and how it transformed the way we even shoot the show now. But I will say that that moment that we found out that it wasn’t happening was this huge, just sigh of relief. – Oh yeah. – And transformed the second half of the year. – And like I said, without looking back at the calendar, I tend to forget how much so it was nice to go back and do that. But again, I’m saying that the moment was peeing chocolate into your mouth because– – Oh yeah that was what I say as well. – Because it encapsulates the, I mean, it was us given the opportunity to pour ourselves in, no pun intended, into GMM and then, what comes out the other side is– – Chocolate pee. – Very much beneficial to us, lessons learned. All the things, the infrastructure changes. All of that stuff but it ended on a high note. A brown, liquidy high note. – Yeah and there was some incredible things created in that stretch. – Wow so I preempted your number two. But that’s okay, from a producorial standpoint, we’re getting to some really meaningful stuff earlier because I ranked them differently on my list. – Right, right. – Okay so what is your number five, I believe. – Number five, this is the year that I discovered Palm Springs. Okay? – Okay. – And I know that sounds weird in one sense since it’s just a town that is east of here. But a couple things happened: one, took a really awesome trip with my family to Palm Springs. We went there over spring break and that was where the weird horseback riding story that I told. The guy who had the dream and, that’s just a memory, I saw pictures of that, I was like, my kids are never gonna forget that. It was just a relaxing weekend with a great experience as a family on horseback. But also some good friends of ours got a place out there and we spent some time with our close group of friends, and this is sort of representative of what we’ve talked about before, but we’ve made some really good friends that, good friends are tough to find. – Yeah. – You know, good friends are tough to find in Los Angeles, a place that has so many people but, it can be very difficult to carry on friendships and also to have meaningful friendships that aren’t shallow and aren’t based on trying to leverage something from somebody. So I would say a very large amount of the friendships in this town are strategic, and they’re about who you know so I can then do this thing that I wanna do and advance myself. It was very cool to kinda make friends with people who are, many of them are very successful in their own right and have accomplished many different things, but that isn’t the dynamic of our friendship and our relationship in our group dynamic at all. It’s not about who has done what and who has, how many Instagram followers anybody has. It’s like being in a group where, and this is interesting, once you kinda become a quote public figure, you do question what people’s motivations for friendship is. – Yeah. – And to have a group of friends that that is not the case at all has been this incredible blessing this year. And when we went to Palm Springs, we were able to basically have a time where we were vulnerable with each other and basically sitting around, kinda like talking about what’s happening in our lives and that was a moment there where just adults being vulnerable with one another and getting into each other’s lives is not something that happens very often outside of certain sort of structures, and that was a highlight for me. – I was there for that. – You were. – So it’s a highlight for me too. I kinda forgot to put it on my list though. – Whoops! – Sorry, friends. Eugh, okay. So my number five is in February and then comes back in June. In February, similar to the you having your breakfast with your boys, we both instituted Dad days where it’s like, once a month taking one kid, or more often than that and scheduling, okay, this is gonna be an extended period where I plan something just with one of my kids, and I’ve gotten many highlights from each Dad day with Lily and Lincoln but this particular one’s the first one I did with Lando and we went to an interactive hands-on museum in Pasadena. And it’s a highlight ’cause it was the first Dad day, I believe. But then there’s this thing that you climb up inside. It’s like the kids climb up inside and then it spirals up and I can’t remember if I told you guys about this. But again, there’s not much to it except I went in the thing with him and I was crawling around inside of it and we were having a good time. He was a little afraid to go up to the top without me going with him, so here I am, an adult inside of this thing. And there are a few adults in it but, it doesn’t really accommodate adults that well, so you’re questioning the whole time, am I supposed to be in here? But I did it anyway. And it was just a special moment for us that was like, nothing happened. It wasn’t like one of those stories that then it becomes an Ear Biscuits story where it’s like, and I got hurt. You know type of thing. It was just, it turns out that then, again, that was February. In June, I had a dream about that experience. I re-experienced it via dream with Lando. We were back in the thing and it was like, I was able to tap into the joy of the moment. It was amazing, it was an amazing– – Nothing weird happened in the dream? It was the same thing, it was re-living a memory? – Yeah. – Weird. – It was weird. And it helped me appreciate that, yeah, that was a very special moment that again, maybe, at the time it’s like yes, the Dad day, creating that space so to speak. Going in a museum, that was good, but it actually came down to that moment, I my brain said, okay, I’m gonna dream about this. So it became even that much more special and I held onto it having recalled the memory that now it’s even stronger, so much so that it represents Dad day, it represents my relationship with Lando. So yeah it’s a top moment where we’re just having a good time in this confined space that kinda smelled like stinky kids. – Yeah yeah it’s like a ball pit at McDonald’s. No matter how much you charge, if you let kids in there with their shoes off, forget about it. – Yeah so now whenever I smell stinky kids, I’m catapulted to a positive memory. – Catapulted to a positive memory. Okay my number four– – I sniff kids’ socks. – Oh gosh. – No I don’t. – My number four is beginning to work and continuing to work on the thing that we can’t talk about. – Right, I didn’t put that on the list, because, it’s so frustrating but it’s hard not to put it on the list because it’s defining the second half of this year in a lot of ways. – We’ll be able to talk about it soon. – Creatively. – We’re gonna talk about it soon. I don’t know when. But let me just describe it at a high level. We’re working on something that is pulling on our… Did you, why are you deciding to put a tea bag in your mouth right now in this moment? – The end of it. – Well that’s typically not how you finish a tea bag. I know you’re transitioning from coffee to tea, but– – I’ve already had my coffee this morning. I didn’t mean to distract you. I didn’t think you could see me. If I… – Unlike you, I have peripheral vision. – I couldn’t see you when I was doing it, I will say that. – You’re like an ostrich. You didn’t think you were seen. We’re working on something that’s pulling on our common experience, our friendship, and is kind of exploring that in a very new and exciting way that I think is sorta squeezing us creatively as much as we can be squeezed. So that’s what I love about it and I think that there were, kinda making the decision to begin working on it, and kind of the collaborative process that has ensued since we started working on it. Again, it’s kinda the thing that we’re working on when we’re not doing everything else that we’re doing so it’s kinda spanned this second half of the year. Really probably from the spring until now. And anyway very excited about it. Very excited about what it means for us creatively. Very excited about what you guys are gonna think about it. And to me that’s been it’s been a highlight, definitely. It was number four for me. – Number four? – Yeah, number four. And if we could talk about it, it may be even higher than number four. – Hopefully in retrospect it will be successful enough that it would even move up the ranks, oh because it led to so much. That’s an added bonus but even if that doesn’t happen, I think it’s important that it’s on the list now but having not realized its potential. – Yeah. – Or failed. – Yeah, it may fail. – My number four is a sad one. In May it was the tragic, unexpected death of my uncle. My dad’s sister’s husband, my uncle Dan. I’ll narrow down to an interesting moment. It was after, so the family went home for the funeral and then we left the funeral and then, one of the things that he always did was he was a big quail hunter and he had these, he bred and trained along with my Aunt Teesie all these hunting dogs and then after the after the funeral, there was a meal at the church or whatever and then she was, Aunt Teesie was telling my kids about well I’ve got a litter of puppies that’s just been born that then we were gonna, it would be the next batch of dogs that we were gonna train and they sell these dogs because of their bloodline and their their training, how well they’re trained. And so we went out to the farm and saw the puppies and so I’ve got this picture of my Aunt Teesie with my kids holding these newborn puppies in the wake of you know, arguably one of the saddest moments, probably the saddest moment that our family has endured. It was such an unexpected and terrible shock and still is in a lot of ways, especially for my aunt and my cousins and those closest to my uncle, their dad or husband. But that was a very surreal event and then that was a very surreal moment where it was like there was just, my aunt was able to find a little bit of joy in sharing these super cute puppies with my kids, and we took them out for the first time. She said let’s take them out for the first time into the field and we’re gonna test to see if they’re gonna come when I call them and not just run around everywhere scattershot and then it’s like we’re gonna be chasing puppies and maybe losing one. I was actually nervous. She seemed very confident having done this a lot. And so that whole event, we loaded the puppies up in these kennels and took ’em down in her four wheeler thingy. But as we’re loading them up, I look over to the left and the tractor that my uncle was on when he was in the accident was there. It overturned and that’s how he had died. They had basically turned it back over and brought it up and it was in storage there in the barn just adjacent to where we were and I look over at it and it was like, they were getting the puppies so I was alone over there with it, and it was a haunting moment to see the wrecked tractor. I was like oh my gosh, she didn’t tell me that it was here. But it’s not like they could just get rid of it that quickly I guess. That was a very haunting moment but then we got the puppies loaded and we took ’em down there and they’re running around and they’re successfully following her and the kids are just laughing and it was just in the middle of this horrible event. I’m not gonna be cheesy and try to draw some sort of like, the puppies are the beginning of life. I am in no way saying that. – But you kinda are. – I’m not really, I’m just saying that there was a moment of joy in that that she was able to have with my kids that was a little bit of a relief. – Yeah. – It was also right before we left, it was the last time that I saw my Papa before, the next time I saw him, he was on his death bed when I flew into town. So he was there. He was talking to people, he was sitting, he was eating with everybody. It was the last time he was out and about that I saw him before he passed away just two months later when we, so our family went through a lot this year and I’ve shared a lot of that in detail, but I think that that’s a defining moment and makes my number four for the year. – But the moment you had with your Papa had to be, I know the way you think, so the fact that you talked about it in a podcast, you didn’t put it on your list, but that’s obviously on your list. – Yeah, I think, I decided not to put that moment higher because I didn’t wanna re-talk about it, honestly. – I know, that’s what I’m saying. – I think that’s really what it is. So I do think the lingering question is like, wow, having heard me talk about it, why is that not higher on my list? – I know what it is, it’s what you talked about. Your tendency to not wanna rehash things, but also, the fact that you didn’t think you were ranking them until you came in here this morning. – Right. – But if I had have called you on the weekend and said, “I’m ranking mine,” you would have probably, that one would have been, based on the way you talked about it, it would have been higher. I’m saying separately from the moment with the puppies, I’m saying the moment when you shaved your grandfather’s face and all that stuff. Which we’ve talked about extensively. – Right, I don’t think that, yeah, I think officially I will probably put that at my zero which is higher than number one. If I’ve already made a number one. So I appreciate you saying that because, I think it was just, okay, I don’t wanna really get into it again in detail on the podcast. – Why don’t you go ahead, because you took my number two already, so I’ve only got two more. – Okay. – So why don’t you go ahead and share your number three? – My number three is my birthday. And my wife’s birthday together. So our 40th birthday party, which again, I talked about on here, the bowling. And going back through it, first of all, we had the big bowling party and we hired someone to take photos which, if you’ve got a big party that is meaningful to you, I highly recommend getting someone who knows how to take photos. It’s worth whatever you wanna pay them to get somebody to do that. In terms of preserving those memories. I was very happy that we did that when I look back at it. Because I think the main takeaway now having had all these months was that so many of my friends were there. Basically all of my friends made it. That’s kind of, it’s a difficult to do in LA when it’s like, can everybody show up? And I think that was such a defining, that’s what I’m gonna call the moment, the thing that I appreciate looking back at it. But that was a big moment and then I’m gonna sneak in another one as part of that because that was in May and Christy took me to a nice hotel with a rooftop pool in downtown Los Angeles and we spent the night there. We had a nice dinner. It was my birthday, we were up on this pool, rooftop pool, and I’m looking on social media and seeing all of these birthday wishes from people. I’m like, this is such a surreal place to be. Have this ideal moment where Christy and I are having some time just the two of us, celebrating my birthday. ♪ Bow chica bow wow ♪ – Oh gosh. – But then there’s this added bonus of I’ve got all these people tweeting at me about how much they want me to have a great birthday. And I was like, wow, that is a grand benefit of being YouTube famous is you got a lot of people, probably more than, like the ratio standpoint of fans who wish just normal celebrities a happy birthday. ‘Cause there’s more of a sense of connection so you get a much higher quality birthday wishes. – Right. – Which I was listening to some music, reading my birthday compliments. Sunbathing with my wife on a pool top, a rooftop pool. That’s a moment. – That reminds me, ’cause I didn’t, I haven’t said, a lot of these moments, time with my wife is sort of implicit in them, like the family moments, but I had a significant relational moment with my wife in Palm Springs that was like something that we talk about in terms of like a moment of connection and sort of, when you’ve been married for 17, 18 years. I guess it’ll be 18 in June. – Mm-hm. – A lot of those, you know each other so well so a lot of those really pivotal relational moments are things that happen like when you’re getting to know each other earlier in your marriage and then you kinda settle into your marriage and the way that you carry out your relationship and those sort of taking your relationship to a new level, those kinda moment become a little bit less, more hard to define. But we had one of those moments this year that was very significant that’s folded into that Palm Springs. I didn’t wanna forget about that. – Yeah I think there is a private list that may not be specifically shared. This is our public list. – Well yeah, yeah. – Unless you wanna give more of the details. – I don’t wanna give the details, I’m just saying. So number three for me, I went with a very general thing but I do have some specifics. It was our trip to Australia and Fiji. So I’ve already talked about the tour aspect of that. But I have two moments within that trip and I think this says something about the way that I see travel in which you kinda hinted at earlier. That I sort of remember being, when I felt the best about these trips. – Yeah. – And that was the first day after we had gotten to the hotel in Melbourne and we walked across the bridge into the city and we’re just walking through the city. We were gonna go to that restaurant that our friends, Jaden who’s from Australia, from Melbourne had told us we should go to and you’re just like walking across this bridge and walking through town and taking it all in. I’m just like, this, and I’m always, my personality is, if it’s something new and it’s something different, I’m registering all the ways that it’s better than anything that I’ve ever experienced. – I remember you specifically saying– – That’s my personality. – “Look kids. “There’s a Burger King.” You were very excited. – And it was, it’s a little different. Is it called something different? It’s called something different. – It was not called Burger King. Because they couldn’t call it that because there was a guy in Australia who had a burger stand called Burger King and he won a lawsuit and they changed the name of Burger King. – Hungry Jack’s, isn’t that what it was called? – That was it. – But anyway– – We’re not fooled, kids. That’s a Burger King, you were very excited. – This says a lot about my personality that– – That’s my number one by the way, the Hungry Jack’s. – I get very excited about circumstances, then I want everyone around me to enjoy it as much as me and I start annoying people with pointing things out and being like, “Isn’t this great?” – Right. – I gotta lean to keep that inside. But then it’s also the very beginning of the trip. Because that’s inevitably what happens with me. Because the other highlight for me of the trip was something that we talked about on the podcast before, is when we got on that boat in Fiji and went across the ocean at night, couldn’t see anything except the stars and we got the app out and we’re looking at the stargazing app and looking at all the stars and the planets and stuff and it was like the craziest, clearest skies we’ve ever seen. And then we get to this island and there’s no dock and they just drive the boat to the shore and we just roll our pants up and just step into the ocean and walk onto this island that we were gonna be staying on. (chuckles) People were singing and, again, it was the beginning of the trip. Now the rest of the trip was great. But it was the moment where the expectations are the highest and I talk about travel expectations and how you should lower them so you can have a great time but in the moment I cannot get away from it and I let it take me over and it was just this, this was such a good choice. This was such a good idea. – Yeah. – And that was a very significant moment for me. – Yeah, that was an amazing trip. I mean the fact that we were able to take a tour, take our tour over there as you’ve already mentioned. We did those three dates, they were all very special, and then we capped it off with the Fiji thing. That is my number one, okay? So you have hit my number one– – Good, ha ha. Gotcha! – And it’s that entire trip, and all of those moments are spectacular that you talked about and there’s so many more. I’ll just shout-out another one which is when we went on… We went on the day trip, you actually weren’t there, the day trip outside of Sydney. – [Rhett] Thanks for reminding. – And Lando takes– – My son was sick. – We get off, we’re like taking some pictures. This amazing overlook and Lando’s like, “Dad, how do you take a selfie?” And I’m like, well son, you just take the phone and then you hit that button so it turns around this way so you can see yourself and then you just take it. And I’m giving it to him while he does it and Lando takes his first selfie. So that’s not the number one moment of the year but it’s a moment that encapsulates the type of things that you want to happen. I ushered in my son’s first selfie on an overlook in Australia. – It’s funny that Lando’s hesitancy to take pictures, let pictures be taken of himself led to him being eight or however old he is before he took. I got selfies of non-talking Locke and Shepherd, just picking up the camera and– – ‘Cause he refused to have his picture taken. – [Rhett] And just taking pictures of themselves. – He wanted to be a ghost. Now he welcomes pictures being taken of him. Again, that’s another facet of that memory is that he’s changed and developed in terms of his self-confidence, there’s all these things wrapped up in his goofy selfie that he took. Where he’s like, he’s got that funny selfie look on his face. So yeah, that whole thing, that whole trip is my number one and it was just, man, you know we’ve carved out time in 2019 for us to have extended vacations. And we’re kinda ear marking some of that time and trying to figure it out. It actually led to that. Like okay we could, let’s go big. – Well I think that– – And carve out some time. To create more of those. – It shows you that, I mean first of all, one of the great things about travel is because it shakes up your normal routine, it tends to be the thing that you remember when you look back because it broke you out of your day to day. – Right. I even heard someone say, man, this was on a podcast. I’m sorry, I cannot remember who said it but it was great advice. Someone’s dad said, giving financial advice, that there’s only a few things you should go into debt for but one of those should be vacation. You can justify going into debt for a family vacation. Yeah the eyebrows raise a little bit, right? But it’s like– – Well that’s a provocative thing to say. – It is. – And that’s why he said it. But the thing that I have thought about this year is, when I think about what I’m spending my money on– – It wasn’t the only, there was another thing. – I have thought that this feels, if we’re paying for a trip, if we’re paying to, I’ve got some exciting stuff I’ll talk about later ’cause it’s not happening anytime soon, but paying for travel in my mind is, I’m not gonna go into debt for it, but, it’s justified. You look at the price tag, but you’re like yeah, but I’m creating this memory so yeah I think it’s definitely justified. – So that’s my number one, is that entire trip. – Okay well you’ve already had my number two which was ending GMM 22. – I’ve not looked at your number one so I don’t know what it is. But I can share my number two and we can hear your number one. – Okay. – My number two is the RV trip we took. I mean once we got out of our own driveway, which I detailed how dramatically difficult that was, we went to the Grand Canyon, we did the RV thing, confined space, the dog’s included. I’m so glad we did that. I did it just because it seemed almost a little crazy for us to do it. And again, I think you should do it. I think you should do the RV thing. – I gotta go try to sleep on one. – But we’re driving back and we’re headed to those caverns that I told you about and we’re on, instead of taking the main interstate highway, we went off on Route 66 and it felt like, you know, it’s like stuck in time. Or however you say the phrase. – Frozen in time? – Frozen in time. – It’s gotta be another Disney reference. If you’re talking about Route 66. – The kids were sleeping in the back of the RV and we were driving through this amazing Route 66 scene from Cars and Christy and I are just kinda talking about, it was just a special moment for us just kinda talking about how we are creating, we are experiencing life with these people that we love so much that came out of her loins. – Oh gosh. – And it was just very cool. Laid-back moment of just driving on the open road where you feel like you could see for hundreds of miles. Either direction of the prairie. And I just remember that moment where nothing was happening. And it was a time of reflection on the tail end of our trip, like, we did a good thing. So that’s my number two. – And you’re like, my kids will appreciate this when they’re older. (laughs) – Hopefully yeah. – You know what I’m saying? – Yeah. – It’s like… Because as a kid it’s very difficult to take it in and appreciate it. When you get older, when you have kids and life begins to move very, very quickly, you’re trying to create these experiences, you say the kids are only gonna be with us for this much longer and you’re trying to create those memories that they’ll look back and they’ll be like, I did have a good childhood. My parents did love me. When they’re gonna really need it later in life. But in the moment, I think they’re just kinda thinking, oh, when can I get home? So I can get in my room. – Yeah, yeah. All right so, I don’t know what your number one is. It better be good. – Well my number one is therapy. – Is that it? – Yeah, now therapy for me did not start in 2018, it started very, very tail end of 2017. – Okay. – I’ve talked about it a little bit. But I mean, again, I’m self-conscious anytime I talk about it ’cause I feel like it’s one of those, it’s one of those really LA things to talk about and I know that we’re out here in LA in this bubble, and you can kinda forget what it feels like to not be here. But interestingly, I would say that, again, it’s kind of very similar to what I was talking about earlier that, you change so significantly so quickly when you’re growing up. You think about how quickly our children are changing as they grow up and we haven’t changed that much, right, you change in these dramatic ways both physically but your brain is changing and then the way you see the world is changing and then even during your college time and your 20s, you’re experiencing these changes. Even in your personality, not fundamentally your personality but just different aspects and I kinda feel like in a lot of ways, up until I started kinda exploring these things with the help of a professional that I kinda just assumed I was going to kinda just be me, just be the same guy– – Yeah yeah. – For the rest of your life, you know. I’m pretty healthy in general. I originally went to therapy not because I thought that there was something wrong with me in terms of the way that I see myself or think about myself. I went because of the stress, what stress was doing to me. The fact that I kinda let stress affect me to the point that it was affecting me physically. And I was like I just need somebody to help me deal with this. I got help with that, but I think sort of the breakthrough for me or the beginning of a breakthrough was when I started beginning to understand why I am the way that I am, like why my personality’s the way that it is, why I’m so independent and why I can cry while watching a commercial. – The Lion King trailer. – Like literally, I started watching, first of all if you’re not watching Dogs on Netflix, I don’t know what you’re doing. (Link sputters) You should watch Dogs on Netflix. It’s a documentary series where they profile a different dog and a human relationship in every one and I literally the first episode started crying during the opening credits. And then I just cry the whole time every episode. – Is that when they’re sacrificing cats, like when the opening credits? – And speaking of cats, let me just say right now, you could not make this documentary about cats, okay? – Hold on, hold on, we’re talking about your therapy. Let’s get back to– – You couldn’t make it! – Don’t deflect into the world of cat hate. That was my fault. – In fact, I challenge you to make a documentary about the bond between cats and people and all the wonderful things these, watch Dogs and then tell me that they could do the same thing with cats. They couldn’t. It’s impossible. – Unless you’re about to cry, let’s bring it back to you. – I’m in therapy for this, for my cat hatred. But it’s interesting because I cry really easily at certain things like that but then, if you ask me things about, and I had a very, I had a great childhood. I didn’t experience– – [Both] Trauma. – But if you ask me about things, like the most difficult things that I experienced growing up or whatever, I don’t experience, I won’t cry, I don’t have sadness about those things. But I can tell a story about ’em and make somebody else cry. So I started learning that, your emotions have to come out in some way and so for me, I had found this way to kinda deal with them by, I’m gonna watch this documentary about dogs. But yet not deal with what’s going on inside and kind of, it’s more locked up. That’s just kinda the surface level talking about it, but anyway, therapy has been significant for me because it represents sort of the beginning of a second journey in my life of kind of going inside and figuring some things out. I feel like I’m in the very beginning of that and there’s a lot of work, you hear people talk about the work that they’re doing and then you start figuring out like oh, I need to be working on myself in this way and it’s not just about some of the more obvious things which we’ve both been doing which is like getting our schedule in order and making sure that we’ve got things for the kids, which some of that has been really assisted by therapy, but what is it about me, how can I continue to grow and then how does that then affect the relationships that I have, how does that affect what kind of father I am, what kind of husband, what kind of friend I am. So that’s been, that’s number one. No specific moment. I won’t talk about like a moment in therapy in which I had a breakthrough. – That’s your private list. – Between me and my therapist but therapy as a whole. – We will be posting our private lists on our Instagram. – Right. – Is that how I’m gonna get back on? – Yeah, sure. – Okay well thanks for that level of vulnerability in your number one. Yeah, I think, well there you have it. That’s our top 10 moments of 2018 that I’m so glad that we went back through them for our own benefit. – Yes. – I mean at least to reflect and come up with them so that we could share ’em. – No it was a good exercise. You start thinking like wow, I actually did some stuff this year. I kinda thought that I didn’t. – And I’m trying to put, now I went through the photos, I think I’m gonna put together a book. I think I’m gonna do that this year. – You can get AI to do that. – Ah, well now I made an album that’s just of moments and now I can get the AI to take it. It’s not gonna take it from a million pictures from 2018, it’s gonna take it from an album of 100 pictures. – Get the AI to caption all the pictures with fun thoughts. – Okay. Make copies for my relatives. – Yeah so that’s it. That’s Ear Biscuits for 2018 again. Reminder that we’ll be back January 7th. And then, all the video versions of the podcast will be over at the YouTube.com/EarBiscuits, brand new channel which you can subscribe to right now. And we hope you’ve enjoyed this year of Ear Biscuits. We changed things a little bit. As you know, we’re always changing, we’re always tweaking, and the way we tweaked Ear Biscuits this year was to make it just about the two of us. (chuckles) No we decided to, instead of focusing on bring people in to interview, it’s like well, there’s two of us. We can always talk about something and let’s sort of have our friendship on display as part of this podcast, both exploring some of our comedy experiences but then exploring questions together. I’ve enjoyed it. Personally, I enjoy this a whole lot more than I enjoyed when we have to figure out fancy questions to ask people. That’s just me personally. – And that wasn’t last year, that was many years ago. – Yeah yeah I know but we still flirted with that a little bit and then we kinda experimented with what the format was gonna be and anyway, let us know what you think about where this has kinda settled out. We’re obviously still always tweaking. Anything that you would like to see in 2019. – #EarBiscuits. – Anything you would not like to see in 2019. If you want it just to be now. – And we wish you– – That’s, I mean, we could do that. – I’m ignoring that. We wish you happy holidays. And may your years always come to a close. – With your clothes on. – Or actually not. – May your years always come to a close without clothes. 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