(upbeat electronic music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I’m Link. – And I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re going to be exploring the question did our careers just peak? – We are fresh off of a tour, a little mini tour, we went to St. Louis, Columbus, Washington D.C. and Nashville. And in Nashville, the venue was very special because it was the mother church of country music, the Ryman Auditorium. Yeah so I mean you just mentioned to me and we translated it into the question of this episode. You said that the thought that crossed your mind, is this the peak of our career? – Yeah. – Yeah I think, so we wanna talk to you about the whole tour. – And I was saying– – But I’m certain we will reflect on that specifically. – P-E-E-K peek. – Not did our careers just lean over and look around a corner at us. – No yes ’cause that would be P-E-E-K. – Oh that is what you meant. – Yeah. Oh you were talking about P-E-A-K. – Yes. – Or you talking about P-I-Q-U-E pique? – Not that. What do you mean by P-E-E-K? You’re just, you’re being humorous. – I’m just doing some spelling humor. – Okay. – It’s one of my favorite things to do on a podcast ’cause spelling humor goes really well in the audio. I mean I always look for a chance to spell pique P-I-Q-U-E. – Three different ways including that way, okay. – If your interest is piqued, just a little grammar lesson. It’s P-I-Q-U-E-D. It’s not P-E-A-K-E-D like it was the peak of your interest. – And if I peek around a corner and that piques your interest, then that may be a peak moment for you. – Right. – Right. – Yeah and you know what, spelling’s important. – So we kinda wanna go through, spelling’s important. – It is! – Put that on a t-shirt. – Listen, I watch, do you watch your kids– – Spell, no, it sounds quite boring. – No like, have you ever gone up behind your kid– – Hey kid, you mind if I look over your shoulder and watch you spell? – While they write a paper. – I’ve read their papers, yeah. – You’ve never been with them when they were in the process of writing a paper? Now listen, I can relate to this because I’ve become incredibly dependent on spell-check. – Yeah. – But kids these days, man. – They got it bad. – They stumble over like the and it’s autocorrected for ’em. – How else would you spell the? – T-H-E-E. – That’s also correct. – T-H-E-A. T-H-I-Q-U-E. – Your kids don’t know how to spell the? – That’s thique. – Man. So we’re gonna spell through a bunch of that, but one of the things, you don’t have a lot of time in each town, we did four, those four dates over the course of five days. So it’s pretty aggressive but you do find these little pockets of time to experience a little sliver of the locale. And one of the things that we’ve noticed that was that was across all of these cities, I think it’s something that’s sweeping the nation. – Sweeping. – Maybe the world. Of course, I didn’t see them in London or did I? No I don’t think I did. – I don’t think you did because there’s a bigger bike culture in London. – I’m talking about app accessed scooters. – I mean we are in the peak, I believe (chuckles) of scooters scootering around American cities and there’s quite a competition going right now. I mean in one, in a couple of the cities, we saw four or five different companies. You got Lime, you got Bird, you got Lyft gettin’ into it, you got Uber getting into it and there was like two other ones I can’t remember the names. – Like Jump, Flip, Skip, Hop. – Something like that. – Roller Buddies. – Roller Buddies doesn’t fit on a scooter. – Two Wheels One Cup I think was one of them. – I think it’s Two Wheels One Foot. – That’s it, that was it, that’s ours. – Two Wheels No Helmet, that’s what they call me. (both chuckle) Because incidentally that’s another thing, anytime, now first of all you got to download the apps for each one of these services and then like the first time you download the app, you sign… – You agree to the terms– – Agree to a lot of things and one of the terms is course you will wear a helmet, but literally no one on any scooter at any time that we saw had a helmet on. – Well I mean so the when we were in St. Louis, I mean we we we went to a barbecue place and then we went to the Gateway Arch, which I believe is 630 feet tall. – Well that’s– – I looked that up and then I don’t remember numbers so I’m probably wrong, but I think I’m right. – It feels right. – I looked it up very recently. Well we were gonna go up there but we didn’t have time to book a tour. You can take a frickin’ sideways or arch path elevator to the top of this thing but we couldn’t do that so we just walked around the bottom of it and we’re walking around down there and you got all these pavers and it’s undulating terrain, just little hills but there are some steps and there are some steps that then become undulating terrain and ramps and as we’re walking, it was me, Rhett and Britton, and I see these two girls, they were probably like 15. And they were careening in front of us on two of these scooters and the girl in front zips by us and then she turns around and she yells, “Don’t go on the stairs!” And that drew my eye to her so I didn’t actually see what happened but you did. – Well the way that the terrain was set up is there was a blind spot essentially so from your perspective it just looked you were gonna continue on straight ground but really there was like a three, maybe two or three step drop. – Of concrete. – Yeah and the steps were such that the further left you were, the more steps there were to go down and she just happened to choose a line that was two or three steps, like two or three feet to the left and it would have been five or six steps. Anyway. – Did she take flight? – Well like you said, her friend said at the last minute, “Don’t go off there,” or whatever, and that was exactly the wrong thing to say because she basically dismounted in the air and the scooter landed really, really hard. She actually landed on her feet. It could have been really, really ugly. – And she landed on her feet and was like immediately like plop plop plop plop plop like running in a very awkward fashion. She could have hit her head on the concrete and died, man. – We could have witnessed a death. – Well I could have witnessed her friend witnessing a death ’cause I was looking at the wrong girl. – Well and that’s the main thing that I’m thinking the whole time I’m on there, they go like 20 miles per hour and faster than that if you’re going downhill and the wheels are relatively small. There’s not necessarily, you’re supposed to be riding in bike lanes when possible but most American cities are not very bike-friendly so– – Right. – There’s very few bike lanes. – [Link] A lot of people on sidewalks. – People don’t know where to go, they go on the sidewalks. When they’re in the street, there might be potholes. People don’t have good balance, people aren’t wearing helmets and so there’s this crazy thing that’s happening where all these companies are competing against each other to try to win this market. But at the same time, people are getting hurt. – Well when we were in Austin, there was this makeup woman and we happened to start talking to her about the scooters ’cause we saw ’em around Austin and she said, yeah, my husband was on one and he went off a curb and fell over and hurt his leg, and really badly, he was in a lot of pain and the paramedics show up and after awhile, they were like you’re okay, just go home. And he went home that night and he woke up in excruciating pain and she said that he was in so much pain that he started to go into shock, and so she took him to the emergency room and he had broken his femur. On a freakin’ scooter, guys. – Yeah. – And the helmet doesn’t protect the femur last time I checked. – Well if you get a femur helmet. – That’s what we need so Two Wheels One Foot is gonna, we’re gonna figure out a way to attach the helmet to the scooter and also have like femur pads. – Right. – I mean you can really get hurt because you think you can ride a scooter but you don’t realize how fast these things can go and also you’re tempted to just steer like left, right, left, right, inky inky inky but you really should steer by leaning. – You need to be using your body weight. – You gotta be using your body weight but that’s not immediately intuitive and if you start doing that then you’re doing the shaky shaky shaky thing and then you’re like going, you’re careening out of control. – And people are, locals hate these things, I mean so– – They have to. – When we were in Nashville, by that point, Britton’s friends had showed up. Jenna was with us at the time so it was like, there was six of us in a little pod going down– – The street. – Basically the main drag in Nashville and as we continued going down, we started realizing this has almost become a highway. People are turning off of this to get on the interstate. There’s only a few stop lights. There’s no bike lane. We’re right up, we’re going across a bridge and the six of us in a line are kinda taking up the lane and people are just laying on their horns and locals hate us and they should. (Link mimics horn honking) – But we were doing the right thing because you’re not supposed to be on the sidewalk, you’re supposed to be like a bike. But they were just laying on the horn, I guess it was because some of us were waggling. – It goes beyond that though because I think what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to say don’t be here. Go on a less busy street. Wear a freaking helmet. And we were talking to– – Go back to whatever town you’re from– – Talking to Britton’s friends and apparently in Raleigh, North Carolina, they’ve gotten rid of all of ’em. – Oh really? – They’ve just gotten rid of all the scooters is what we were told, I haven’t been there to confirm this. Because they couldn’t figure out how to regulate them and then the companies were like screw it, we’re not gonna be a part of this. It just don’t know where this is gonna land because people are getting hurt and they’re gonna continue to get hurt. Personally, I love it. – When we were– – I absolutely love it. – Yeah so when we were in Columbus, I looked out my hotel window and I saw a couple people. We were downtown by the river and there’s nice river walks on either side of it and I saw some people with scooters, I was like (snaps fingers) bingo. We’re gonna do it ’cause we didn’t do it in St. Louis. I just saw that girl almost eat it and then, the next morning, here I am still thinking it’s a great idea and you know what, it was. – Oh it’s so much fun. – It was fun. I mean when you’re not just going on the surface streets like a downtown area with a lot of traffic, but you’re on a dedicated path and a relatively fresh one that doesn’t have a bunch of treachery to it, that was fun, man, the weather was great. – Yeah. – It was beautiful. It was a highlight of the trip was scooting around, man. Yay! Woo, woo! – Being off of the road, I would say that being on a not busy road or being on like a park path, park path, that is peak scooter terrain. – But you know what, I think I’m gonna start traveling with a helmet. Why are you laughing? I got to get a little helmet, man. You laugh now. But you’re not gonna laugh when you don’t remember how to laugh ’cause you hit your head. – There’s something about being on a scooter though that makes me feel, because my feet are so close to the ground already, I feel like I can just jump out of any situation, any danger and just immediately jump and be standing up whereas a motorcycle, you’re going a lot faster– – Yeah. Your feet are real close to the ground on a motorcycle too. – But you can’t just walk off of a motorcycle. – If you ride in a side saddle you can. – Yeah I don’t ride my motorcycle side saddle anymore. – How do you ride your horse, side saddle? – Backwards. I don’t want anybody sneakin’ up on me. – I ride my horses backwards. (Rhett chuckles) (Link chuckles) So I don’t know what the future of scootering is gonna be but they can’t tether the helmets to the thing because then that’s a hazard. – Lice. – Oh lice too. – Yeah that’s a lice hazard. Is that what you mean by that? – No I mean if there’s a string, a tether, so that people won’t walk away with the helmets. I think you need a helmet sharing app. – Same company, different company? – Different company. – We should do the helmet share. – So you’re gonna have to walk to the helmet and then the problem people would be scootering to the helmets. – No you gotta sign in, no no it’s gotta be the same company and you can’t, it’s like one of those things, after you get a few DUIs you can’t start a car without breathing into it, you have to step on. You have to hit– – You gotta bonk your head. – You gotta head butt the scooter with the helmet in order to get it going. – Or just be willing to head butt the scooter really hard without a helmet to make it seem like– – I think if they had a helmet that was like a zip tie, not zip tie but like a zip line, like it comes out from the handlebars and then you’re kinda like loosely tethered to the thing. – It’s kinda like– – That sounds like it might be more dangerous. – Kinda like it’s got a narrow roof on it. It’s like, have you ever seen those bikes that would have like a shell on ’em? – Yeah. – Like an aerodynamic shell, have one of those come off the handlebars, joop, goes over your whole head. – Then it’s just a little car. (Link chuckles) That’s not fun, you don’t feel the breeze anymore. I wanna feel the breeze, that’s half of it. – Okay. – Anyway, y’all gotta figure that out. And I don’t know who’s gonna win this but– – Yeah. – I don’t know if I would invest in, my gut is that this is not sustainable. But if it ends up being sustainable– – I think it is. – My gut says that now that Lyft and apparently Uber is in this game, I feel like they’re gonna win because– – You already got that app. – Yeah the main barrier is like I gotta download something, man, I don’t have good service here. – But you get so excited– – Now I gotta take pictures of my license, I don’t travel with my license. – I’ve never been so willing to download an app as when I was about to get on a scooter, I will say that. Like when I’m about to get on a scooter, I’ll download any app. I mean it could be like a credit card number sharing app, like HackMe.com app, I would download that. That’s how excited I was, dead set on gettin’ on that scooter. – That’s an interesting app. – I would agree to anything. I mean I basically signed my life away. Yeah, I’m wearing a helmet, wink, wink, wink. You know? – Yeah I’m hard headed. (Link chuckles) – And then people are taking them home and chargin’ them up and makin’ a little extra scratch, you know? – Yeah. – It’s good for everybody. And they’re not gas powered. Technically it’s good for the– – Maybe it’s not too late. – The environment. – Maybe we could get in on this. Mythical Scooters, you know what, we make ours three-wheeled. (clicks tongue) Safer. – Safer. – It’s shaped like a pyramid. It’s double-wheeled in the back. – No two wheels in the front like when a kid’s learning how to ride a scooter. Yeah. – Like a spider? – Yeah and we market it to children. That’s what we do. We’re gonna do that but first, we’re just gonna promote what we got which is this hat. It’s a GMM hat. It’s got some camouflage to it, it’s got some orange to it, it’s got accoutrements. – We also got mugs, the Ear Biscuits mug. It’s beige. – It’s so good to drink out of. It’s hefty. Once you get this thing you’ll be like man, this is a high quality mug. – Oh, Feldman wants me to say that it’s cream. I go with beige. I think beige is one of the most pleasing colors of nature. It is the color of most things. When the world ends, when the universe finally just dissipates into nothingness, it will be dissipating into beige. – Beige is the entropy of color. – Beige is before all things and after all things. Beige. – I would venture to guess before and after all the things would be just blackness. – No, it’s beigeness. That’s a common misconception. – Well I’m glad you set it straight because you had that knowledge. – Beigeness, in the beginning– – You know where to go– – Was beigeness. – Mythical.store. Rep your boys, drink, drink from the cup of biscuit. – Okay so a couple of interesting things about this tour. Now as we have, as we’ve stated repeatedly, but it cannot be overstated apparently because even some of the VIPs who showed up to meet and greet us after a few of the shows, multiple people would say something along these lines, “Man, I didn’t know you guys played music. “I mean I thought this was gonna be two hours “of Will It Burrito.” – Somebody said that specifically, yeah. – Uh and listen– – That would be a big burrito. – Now I do under– – We could do it and we would do it and we might do it. – Yeah you think that’s a great idea but that’s like– – We didn’t just do it. – Not this year. I think that it’s a little, we have a little bit of a branding problem, right, because the thing that we’re known for the most is Good Mythical Morning and let’s be honest, if you were to watch just a little highlight reel of what we do on the show, you might not come to the conclusion that these idiots had any other talents other than not being able to eat things. – Yeah I think someone said, “I didn’t know you guys were talented.” (chuckles) We got, and these are like fans paying to meet us. I mean these are like true Mythical Beasts. I didn’t know, but things come out sideways when you’re meeting somebody that you’ve watched a lot on the internet so I just find humor in it but I know they didn’t mean anything by it and I’m like– – Well and on top of that, another thing I’ll say is that, let’s say that you’re a fan of GMM and you’ve been watching that and then what you have seen of our other work is say, our really popular rap battles or other music videos that we made on YouTube. Again, anybody can make a music video. Anybody can sing along with a track. Anybody can have their voice Auto-Tuned so I think a lot of people are just like, oh well of course, you’ve done music videos but to sit down for almost two hours for us to do live instrument-based music is something that a lot of people just aren’t expecting, but again, as we explained at every show, one of the things that’s really cool about it is that it’s sort of a returning to the roots of what we did before, before YouTube started, our comedy was primarily just funny songs that we performed live for people and then we turned some of those into music videos and that was sort of the beginning of our comedy career. So this is kinda going back to what started it all and anyway– – It’s really fun to do. I’m very glad that this is what we decided to do when we now tour and by the way we are continuing to tour so if you wanna come see us, RhettAndLinkLive.com. Can I plug the dates, I should– – Plug the dates man, plug it. – [Link] Las Vegas on June 21st, Salt Lake City 22nd, Denver the 23rd, Milwaukee the 25th, Indianapolis the 26th, Detroit the 27th, Omaha the 29th, Minneapolis, the 30th. RhettAndLinkLive.com, get your tickets. I just had such a good time because I really enjoy singing the songs that we’ve written over the years but it also does capture a lot and I think of what people like about GMM and that’s the fact that we can kinda, it’s not scripted. We’re just kind of in between songs, we’re just kinda cuttin’ up and seeing what happens. – Right. – And on any given night, you never know what’s gonna happen. At the beginning, the songs were, we were a little more rusty, by the time we got to Nashville, we kinda had the songs down and we weren’t gonna forget lyrics and stuff like that, but on the first night, one of the new songs when you moved over to the piano, like you started playing it then you never started singing it and I’m like, he doesn’t remember the lyrics and all of a sudden you’re like, I can’t remember the words, and that was the most fun part of the night because like– – Oh for you. (chuckles) Real fun for you. – When something goes wrong, it’s like okay, everybody in the whole place knows this was not planned so now what are we gonna do? And so that’s what’s fun is when you don’t have to wig out, you can just say, you can just have fun with it, and that was fun. I had fun messing with you and I knew the lyrics so I chose not to tell you and kinda make you squirm but– – I sat there and played the piano for what felt like five minutes. – (laughs) It was funny, man. – Played the intro. – People loved it. – Oh I know people loved it I’m just saying that– – ‘Cause it’s honest. – I was like I really don’t know how to access what the first, the first words to the song are. But like you said, by the time we got to Nashville, we had the songs figured out. I think the thing is is that I don’t mind and actually I look forward to what’s gonna happen in between the songs and what stories are we gonna tell and it’s very loose and where is it gonna go, what kinda bent are we gonna come up with in the moment, but I don’t want all the bits to come from– – Fails. – Screwing the songs up. – Well, they didn’t. – And they didn’t, they didn’t, ’cause again, I have a lot more fun, the more I know the song– – It frees you up to then– – Then I can actually have fun in the midst of it because it’s like, it’s just one of those, it’s a little bit of a blessing and a curse that we get to do so many things but because we do so many things, it isn’t like we sit around and like rehearse– – Right. – Our music all the time. – We don’t rehearse enough but then we, again, we turn the mess ups into okay, we can make fun of that happening and we can kinda milk it for comedy but– – And maybe we’ll– – It’s also a very safe space. – Maybe we’ll have, I mean my goal is for us to have at least another new song that no one has heard at all by the time we– – Yeah in June, in June. – Go out on the summer tour. – But it’s also great, I’m very grateful that it’s such a safe space for us to perform because everybody is, even if they didn’t know what to expect, they’re a dedicated Mythical Beast or they’re there with someone who’s already oriented to what’s going on so it’s not like we have to win the crowd over. We just have to give ’em, we just have to have fun and I think it was a lot of fun and I can’t imagine how if you’re, if touring is your first thing and you’re trying to win over a crowd and trying to build an audience that way, that would be difficult, so it’s nice that we don’t– – Oh yeah. – We don’t have to do that. – Well you know, speaking of winning over a crowd who’s not familiar with you, one of the things that made this tour unique was Britton opening up for us. – Yeah. – And of course, we talk about Britton a lot, Britton Buchanon, Link’s cousin who was on The Voice and is living with Link and Christy now. And we honestly didn’t know how that was gonna go because his songs are not, it’s not comedy. – Right. – He’s just like a a legitimately great songwriter and musician and singer and so we were like well, we enjoy this. We think you’ll enjoy it too and you know that there’s the family connection but we would kinda go out and watch, not go out into the crowd but kinda go side stage and watch Britton perform and it’s like thank you to all the Mythical Beasts who received him so warmly but I’ll say that you weren’t doing it out of any sort of– – Obligation. – Obligation or pity, I think everyone was legitimate, everything that I’ve seen on the internet, everybody was legitimately impressed because he’s good. – Yeah, and he did a good job winning people over with the stuff that he would say in between songs too so. – Yeah we won’t spoil any surprises. I think we’re gonna talk a little bit more about what Britton does on tour on LTAT so we won’t get into that too much here but we also traveled with him. So he was with us the entire time. – Speaking of traveling, so we were, we have the tour bus situation and then on the tour bus, you got the front part and then you go back to the middle part and there’s these, I call ’em coffins. You sleep in a coffin, they’re like two high, on some buses they’re three high. – Well these were two high– – And you’re sleeping on this thing. – I mean you can imagine, the first time we did this, there were three high so– – You can’t sit up in it. – And I can’t even, I can’t lay all the way down. They don’t make them six foot seven. These things are probably– – Six two, six three. – Uh– – I could stretch out. – I think they might– – At six foot– – I think they might be just below my height, I think it might be like six and a half feet plus the siding or whatever so six five so– – How do you sleep in there? – Well not well. – Because you couldn’t– – To begin with I’ll say. For a couple reasons, I mean not being able to stretch out, I sleep on my side so I’m not at full height. I sleep like a baby in the womb and– – Like with your knees under your chin? – I mean if I can get ’em there, yeah. Completely balled up ready for tornadoes and– – Like in a tuck position. – I sleep on my side so I’m a little bit curled up but in my bed if I’m sleeping on my side, there’s moments during the night where I’ll kinda wake up and I’ll just for a moment just sort of stretch out completely being like– – Just unfurl the flag so to speak. – Just to remember my height. – Length. – You know and then turn to the other side so you can’t do that and also I’m such a light sleeper that pothole, I wake up. Fast turn, I wake up. – Oh yeah? – That’s not fun. But I did get better. I did get better on the second night. – I like sleepin’ in a confined space. I don’t know something about it I just felt like a cozy little child. – If it was a little bit longer and we weren’t moving– – In a coffin. – It would be great. Once we arrived– – That’s a morbid thought. – To the destination and then they kinda let you wake up on your own whenever you happen to wake up, I’ll sleep indefinitely in that scenario. – Well but you didn’t. I mean that first morning there, I woke up and I realized, I was starting to realize we’re not moving. And your coffin has a curtain so it’s like pretty dark in there even if it was bright outside which it turns out it was ’cause I looked out my curtain and then I got a text from Jenna and she was like, instructions are on the counter when you wanna come into the hotel where, and I assume where everybody else already was because I didn’t hear anything and then so I got out, no one was on the bus and then I look at Britton’s curtain’s closed and I don’t open the curtain ’cause I didn’t know what position or state he might be in in therms of clothing so I just poked the curtain and I did hit something so I’m like oh he is in there and I was like time to get up. It was 11:30. (chuckles) Britton and I were the only two people on the bus and we oriented ourselves and we go to exit the bus and Britton goes down the steps and he turns the doorknob. It doesn’t respond and then he’s like shaking all the, he’s really pulling on the lever and I’m like, “Well hold on don’t break the door.” And he’s like, “We’re locked in, man.” I’m like “Well no we’re not, just, you know,” and you look at the front of this bus which we don’t know anything about and there’s buttons, it’s like the cockpit of a airplane. There’s buttons everywhere. And so we start pushin’ all of ’em. (chuckles) And we push the ones that look like they have something to do with a door. – Right. – And I heard something click around the door but it still wouldn’t open, and then I’m over there puttin’ all my weight onto it. We were locked on the bus. For a day. (Rhett chuckles) The whole day. No we eventually got off but that was our first bus experience. I like sleepin’ on the bus but I don’t like being confined and not being able to exit the bus, that’s a little disconcerting. – Well that raises an interesting question. Are there other exists? Is there an exit in the back? Because there should be exits because what if there was a fire– – You thinkin’ about this now? – What if there’s a fire on the bus? There should be multiple exits on the bus– – I guess we need an orientation. – Obviously there’s a exit in the back of a school bus but it’s a room in the back of this thing. – There’s exits on the roof of a school bus and every window is an exit. Like if a school bus lays on its side or something, you can go out the top of a school bus. – Right. – Yeah or the window. – You can get out of a school bus in lots of different ways. – Every which way. – You don’t need a button. – Need no button. – Maybe we should be traveling in a school bus, I’m just sayin’. – Well you do have me thinkin’ that now I need to start checkin’ for exits. – I’m a little worried. – That’s why Christy should have come with me. I know that’s the first thing she looks for is the exit out of everything. I mean not our relationship. We’re doing great. – Hmm, interesting. – We played at Columbus that night once I got out of the bus and got off the scooter. That was fun, that was a great show. I mean in general I’ll just shout out, thanks to all the crowds everywhere, super supportive and then when we do the meet and greet afterward, it’s always special because you kinda get to hear just a little bit from fans in terms of how they watch the show, what watching us means to them and it always blows me away how the nature of our show being daily and I guess our friendship and I mean there’s a lot of intangibles that being on the inside, it’s just hard to get perspective on how people enjoy the show or what it means to them and helps them get through hard times and they can count on it and stuff like that so it’s really helpful to get out there and meet the people, you know? To press the flesh. It really puts things in perspective. – I mean everything except that last part. I understand, I mean yes. – Press the flesh is not the right word. That was a political term that you can’t use anymore. – That was for handshakes and we do, if you want a hug, we hug. We let you initiate whatever you wanna do. But yeah I think that– – So flesh is pressed but I mean it’s upon their initiation. – Yeah I just don’t like to use flesh and press in the context of the meet and greet, I just– – That’s true. – I’d just kinda like to abandon that terminology. – Yeah let’s abandon it. Let’s lock it in the bus. – But I did see some people on Twitter talking before this run and they were saying, “I just, I don’t know. “I don’t know, I’m nervous. “I don’t know what to say and,” and I think people have a tendency to feel like they have to have some sort of something prepared or as if they’re auditioning to be the perfect Mythical Beast in that moment and that’s not what it’s about at all. Whatever you wanna do, I mean we have one girl who sang for us. – Got another guy who performed a rap for us. – You know and those are awesome. – It’s hilarious. – If you wanna do that, do that. – I mean it was supposed to be funny and it was. – We don’t encourage everyone to do that because I mean we’d be there for seven hours if everyone had a performance. – We’d like for everyone to perform some sort of, bring your talent. – But ultimately what, and some people are like, you know what, I just, I wanna hand you this note because this is everything that I want to say and it’s more than I have time to say in this time and some people are just like hey I just want a picture. Whatever you want it to be, just know that we’re not, the way that we approach this is we are 100% grateful. We are in a attitude of gratitude, a stance of, mm– – Prance. – Something that rhymes with sta, we’re basically just humbled that you guys come to the show, some of you want to spend a little time with us and get a picture and we’re just happy that you’re there. You don’t have to say or do anything. You’re not fitting any particular expectation so if that makes you feel less nervous about it then go with that because we’re not thinking about it in that way, in fact, I heard, there was one girl at one of the shows who actually backed out of the line before she got to the end and I think we’re gonna end up sending her something and send her all the stuff that she would have gotten in the meet and greet line but– – It’s kinda nerve-wracking– – And I understand that. Some people deal with anxiety– – It is nerve-wracking, man. – More than others, I get it. – It’s nerve-wracking to stand in a line to meet somebody. – Oh I totally get that. – Because you can see the line just kinda move along and then all of a sudden you’re like the next person. I remember a few years back when DanTDM came to Long Beach and Lincoln was a fan of his and I was like I can get you in to see him, man, I got connections. And so we went in the meet and greet line and we’re in the line and I realized that I was nervous. I was like why am I nervous? Just by virtue of being in a line with a bunch of people who are also nervous, it’s like contagious. – Yeah. – And you build this expectation, it’s like, there is this moment of okay, we’re gonna shake hands and I’m supposed to say something. I have to say something, if I don’t say anything, that could be weird, you know? – Yeah but even the people who don’t say anything, it’s not weird for us. – Everything like that does make me anxious. – So I mean yeah and I’m not saying at all don’t be nervous, I’m just saying, just be yourself, if yourself is nervous, then be nervous, if yourself is excited, then just be excited and there’s no judgment at all from us. And I know, listen, we’re bigger than you realize. – Physically. – I am, I know that I am intimidating physically. People are sometimes afraid to look at me because I think I’m just like, I look like– – It’s odd. – I look like Detlef Schrempf or whatever that NBA basketball player was, you know what I’m saying? I’m a huge person. I have a lot of hair on my face, I look like a hawk. – You’re weird lookin’, man. – I’ve been called a falcon by a drunk man in a van one time. – You look like a falcon. – Man. – You look like a tall Detlef Schrempf-lookin’ falcon. – But I’m very soft and inviting. I have sweaty hands, you can shake them if you want. – That didn’t make it any less weird. (Rhett laughs) We should talk about hot chicken. So we get to Nashville and we had a little more time in Nashville ’cause we had a one day break and man, by the time I got in line at, we decided to go to Hattie B’s even though Mythical Chef Josh told us to get hot chicken from Bolton’s Spicy Chicken and Fish. And even though Wikipedia says that Prince’s is the originator of hot chicken. – We didn’t go there. – We were kinda starving, delirious and closest to Hattie B’s. – And also we tend to be very dependent upon Yelp. – And there’s so many Yelp reviews. – A lot of people– – Love it. – Don’t like that, I mean don’t like when you’re that dependent on Yelp but I just, you know, 4,000 reviews, four and a half stars, you know it’s gonna be good. – And we get there, we scootered there. – Of course we did, nearly died. – We’re there for a couple of minutes and then we hear, well it’s 45 minutes from where you are in line. – Yeah it was like being on Space Mountain. – I showed up starving, I was like, I don’t wait this long, I just don’t. It doesn’t add up, I started looking for Bolton’s. Like we could travel to Bolton’s via scooter, eat and be done and still come back and not have gone through this line probably. – Yeah but that to me, that’s all part of the experience of going to a place like that and I will say, I do think it’s worth noting that hot chicken has been exported from Nashville and of course it’s in LA and there’s a number of places that serve it, Howlin’ Rays probably being the most popular and I have seen the Howlin’ Rays line before but neither of us and I don’t know if we were just holdin’ out for Nashville or just happened circumstantially– – And never been there. – We had never had hot chicken. – Well you know, we did our Instagram stories from the line and then we finally get up there and we order and it’s, I, you know what, I’ll agree with you. I actually ended up saying, I’ll say it again, I’m glad that I waited 45 minutes and I kinda learned my lesson. You talk about gettin’ nervous in a line. I mean in this type of line when the only thing you gotta do is pay and eat food, boy, that’s a great scenario. It’s a great payoff and you’re talking like Magic Mountain or Space Mountain– – Are you saying we should serve hot chicken at the meet and greet? – I’m saying in contrast– – Logistically, that would be difficult– – To that, you don’t have to say anything besides order what you want at the end and then– – You gotta pick your spice level though. – But my point is the wait made it taste that much better. – Oh yeah, delayed gratification, man. It’s the spice of life, it’s the hot chicken of life. – And so I don’t like spicy foods, I’ve been burned, pun intended, from the show so now anything that’s spicy to me is like, it’s triggering physically so I start to feel a little nauseous, but I didn’t wanna just try mild or medium, I’m like, if it’s called hot chicken I should order a hot. – You gotta get hot. And for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, ’cause I had an idea, I thought that hot chicken was fried chicken with hot sauce on it. – Like basted on it, kinda like a hot wing. – But it is not that. It is chicken that has spice actually in the breading, first of all, so that’s the first thing that happens and so if you were to peel back the skin, you would see a little red layer of spice that is part of, so it gets all the way onto the chicken, and then on top of that, depending on what spice level you get, they add a dry rub. Now I’m sure there’s some places that do a sauce but these places do a dry rub on top of, so it’s basically like a powdery thing. I think there might be some sauce as well on Hattie B’s. I couldn’t really tell– – It’s a little, there’s a dryness and a wetness to it but there’s definitely a redness to it that makes it a bit intimidating. But I was so hungry. – But the levels were southern, which means no spice and yes, someone in our group who will remain nameless but he’s one of Britton’s friends, that’s what he got. – No one who works for us. – He’s also a Carolina fan so it all adds up. The next level is mild and then medium and then hot and then damn hot and then shut the cluck up. Those are the levels and we all went with hot. – Hot. – So Jenna got hot, we got hot, Britton got hot. – And let me tell you, it was hot. But let me tell you something else. It tasted great. – Flavor, man. – Like the hotness tasted great. – So much flavor. – And it was big and juicy, oh it was so good, I mean it was– – And you got the dark– – I love a good food experience, man, you know. And I think it’s turned me back onto hotness. When I’m ridin’ back home comin’ back, we landed in LA. It’s an hour drive to get back to the studio to get in our cars. I found myself on Yelp lookin’ for the hot chicken places around here. – And there’s quite a few. – I’m like man, I’m back on the spicy train. – We might have to have a hot chicken taste test Instagram story like when we went around and tried to find the best taco, we might have to do that with hot chicken. – But I did not order the upper echelons of hotness like you did. – So you can get a tender or a wing by itself for $2 extra and add that to your order so a lot of people do this just as a novelty kinda thing so I had a show, you know, and also I feel like I’ve eaten the world’s hottest pepper, twice, so I was like, you know what, I’m just gonna do a damn hot tender. And then Britton, you know, he’s 19. His body can take anything at this point. He got a shut the cluck up wing. No, a tender, he got a shut the cluck up tender. And if you were following along on our Instagram stories, @rhettmc and @linklamont– – Oh thank you. – You would have seen all this happen. – And Britton’s I guess, you can shout his out. – @brittonbuchanon, follow him on Instagram too because the action’s happenin’ over there when we’re traveling. – It was funny ’cause (chuckles), he ate that thing, he thought he was gonna be all right, and then his face just started crying. His eyeballs just sweated. – Right. He cried quite a bit. – Yeah, yeah. – The damn hot tender was damn hot but it was like as I was eating it, I was like, I could have gotten the sandwich this way and I would have been okay. – He texted us and said that his dad looked into it ’cause he tried to talk his dad into eating one. He said that it had– – The top shut the cluck up. – Yeah it had scorpion pepper and ghost pepper in the– – And habanero, equal parts of all three. – Gosh. – And it’s like a powder which is incidentally, it’s like the heat is super intense but it dissipates more quickly because it doesn’t have an oil base to it the way that, it doesn’t have an oil carrier the way that sauce does, ’cause sauce will get into your skin because literally, when you get essential oils and you put them into like a olive oil carrier so they’ll like– – Yeah. – Be carried further and they go into your skin. That’s why eating the pepper straight because you’ve got that oil and then even worse, when you eat a sauce. – Mm-mm. – It sticks with you, you feel it later, you feel it in your stomach, you feel it on the way out and it’s still incredibly hot in each stage. Something about the dry rub makes this, it’s like a flash, bang, of hotness but for me, an hour later I’d forgotten that I ate something so hot. – Well even when you’re eating it, I highly recommend eating it with a slaw which was great and a pickle. – You need something creamy. – The pickle and the bread that comes with– – You got every creamy side. – Oh yeah. – You got the mac and cheese, the potato salad– – Potato salad. – And the slaw. – I did. – And I ended up getting collard greens and beans of course, the beans are good. – That doesn’t help with the heat though. – But they actually, the collard greens had this enhancing effect ’cause of the vinegar, it enhanced the heat. – That’s tough. – So anyway Hattie B’s was excellent but of course, because we didn’t wanna come back and face Josh, and also Josh made an incredible dinner recommendation for a place called Husk that we went that was– – Gosh, that was amazing. – One of the best meals we’ve ever had. – Shout out to all you people working at Husk. The people in the kitchen knew who we were. And started sending out stuff that we didn’t order. They stuffed us like pigs. – Oh gosh. – They stuffed us with pigs. – Yeah. – It was crazy. – And every– – It was amazing! – First of all, the waitress described the items and I feel like she spoke for like 12 minutes unbroken describing the different items, then she would say things like, well first we take this and we put it under ashes for 12 hours and then we take it and we rub it across a pig’s back until it squeals and then we capture the squeal and we put it in a bottle and we sprinkle it on top of the collards and then we take the collards and we run them into the past. And then we bring them out of the past once they have the essence of the old days and then we bring them to the table and then we grind them up and sprinkle them on the other foods that you will be enjoying. I mean I had a frickin’ whiskey with ham in it. (Link chuckles) – Yeah that was crazy, man. – It was so good. – What a night. – And it’s in an old house. It’s in an old house that apparently is haunted, so Husk, go to Husk. – It was a surgeon from like the Civil War. – Civil War, yeah, but so Josh told us to go to there so we felt like we had to follow his recommendation. – But we also felt like we couldn’t come back until we went to Bolton’s Hot Chicken and Fish. – [Rhett] Right. – Hot, yeah, Spicy Chicken and Fish, that’s what it’s called. They got a cockatrice breathing fire, well they got a chicken breathing fire out front. – Again, Instagram, we showed you this. – They’ve got a sign when you order there and it says, basically proceed at your own risk. Do not touch your eyes or babies. When eating our hot chicken and fish. And– – Do not touch babies. – And someone had said– – Think about that. – How bad would you feel if you sauce a baby. Oh man I’m sorry, I just sauced your baby. – Well it’s really dry rubbing a baby. – I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to dry rub your baby. (Rhett chuckles) If you’ve got a nasty habit of dry rubbin’ a baby in the eyes, do not go to Nashville. – Yeah, right. – You’re not even invited. – Mm-mm. – You cannot, first of all, that’s a habit you need to break. What are you doing touching babies’ eyes? – Yeah. – If a baby’s got an eye booger, who cares? Just let him have it. It’s actually probably a good thing, it’s like a protective layer at the corner of the eyes. – Yeah. – You don’t need to– – I think in general I think you shouldn’t touch the face of a baby. – Don’t touch babies’ faces. – You know. – Eyes, like oh look at, that baby’s so cute. Can I rub its eyes, what? – Mm-hmm. – And to have to put up a sign, I mean what does that say about the people of Nashville? A lot of baby eye touchers– – They been dry rubbin’ babies. – Eye touchers. – They were dry rubbin’ babies left and right before they put that sign up. – It’s probably good for the baby though. – The spice levels at Bolton, it’s a different scale. – We were told this. – There’s no spice and then there’s light or something like that, then there’s mild, then there’s medium, then there’s hot. – But they said whatever you got at Hattie B’s is what we were told by two different people, go one level lower– – Level down. – I’m grateful that we did. – So yeah and they were right, so– – It was a different experience. – Hot there was medium at Bolton’s. And they don’t have a sandwich there. It’s just the fried chicken, similar sides. I tried the beans, actually, well, I’ll just go ahead and say that not just Josh, but most Nashvillians that we ran into and said we had been to Hattie B’s, they had this disappointed look on their face, they were like yeah of course you guys did the touristy thing. You should really go to Bolton’s, you should go to Prince’s. – Mm-hmm. – Guys. – And we did, well we went to one. It’s not– – It’s good. – Bolton’s was really good. – Really good. Really good and the atmosphere was so authentic. – It’s like cinder block buildings that look like, they look like bunkers almost. Look like I was eatin’ at a barbecue bunker. – Right. – Really, really rustic. – But we gotta say. – We both enjoyed Hattie B’s more, I mean it was just– – Yeah. – It was more of a distinct thing. – Now they do have hot fish. You can get all the same spices on fish at Bolton’s and so we got a hot fish and we went all the way to hot and they got whitefish, they got catfish, they got grouper. We got the whitefish ’cause it was at the top of the menu, we figured that was the one that was suggested. – I would recommend doing both though. – Yeah yeah you should try that ’cause I never had a spicy fish like that, it was very good. – We should skip to the Ryman because we’re at this point in our conversation and we haven’t gotten to it but being a fan of old country music and we went through the Country Music Hall of Fame and took our time, had a great time, they had an outlaws exhibit which was amazing but in a lot of the pictures that you’ll see throughout the Country Music Hall of Fame, you’ll see people performing at the Ryman Auditorium because it was the home of the Grand Ole Opry for 30 years. – And lots of people– – Which was the distinct, it was the place where country music legends were made and certified. – Yeah so basically anybody who’s anybody in country music like old country– – Yeah. – Has played, and then of course– – Hank Williams. – All the new acts have played there as well because– – Elvis Presley. – It’s still got– – Played there. – This incredible history. – But the Ryman Auditorium was originally built as an actual church like a revival venue and– – And you can totally tell when you go in there because it’s all pews, it’s all a big circle. It’s a huge balcony that follows the same semi-circular pattern and then you’ve got the stained glass windows, I mean super famous. It’s super famous for the history but it’s also super famous for the acoustics because it’s all wood. – Yeah. – And the circular thing is just like one of the best sounding places that you can play music. – And I’m doing some research when we’re in D.C. I wanna see Merle playing here and I mean he first played there as he was starting his career in 1967 but then Johnny Cash who was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was then kicked out and you can see that in the movie Walk the Line, he was let go but then he came back when he had his own television show The Johnny Cash show. He insisted that it be filmed at the Ryman Auditorium, at the home of the Grand Ole Opry. So they would film his show there and I mean, Johnny Cash is bringin’ Bob Dylan on his show. I mean this is an amazing institution within an institution, just his show, and he had as Merle was gaining popularity, he comes on the show and seeing the two of them interact is like, it just gives me goosebumps thinking about that footage but one story in particular is amazing, that of course, Merle was in prison. And just like the lyric in Mama Tried, he did turn 21 in prison. He wasn’t serving life without parole but– – 15 years of something like that. – And Johnny Cash knew this but he encouraged Merle to talk about it openly, his time in prison, which he hadn’t done, now some people knew that he had been in prison but it was on The Johnny Cash Show, on the stage that we performed on that Merle and a conversation with Johnny Cash told the world for the first time that he was… He was a prisoner, he was an ex-con. – Mm-hmm. – And not only that, he told it in the context of the story of when Johnny Cash on many occasions would go and perform concerts at prisons, Folsom Prison concert is a famous album but so is his San Quentin performance. But he performed at San Quentin a number of times and one of those times, Merle Haggard was in the audience. – [Rhett] Mm-hmm. – As a frickin’ inmate and he’s like telling that story so it’s basically his coming out that hey I was an ex-con and blowing people’s minds that Johnny, I was at your concert as an inmate and so, and to know that happened on that stage just kinda blew my mind and then I realized, man, I’m gettin’ nervous. – Well I was already nervous. (chuckles) Before we went to the hall of fame, because first of all, everyone who we talked to, if we say we’re playing the Ryman, like you’re playing the Ry– – Yeah. – You’re going to this sacred place and I’m also thinking about the thing that it is that we do which is, we’re not country musicians, I mean, we’re gonna be actin’ like fools up in this place, you know, we’re playing music but it’s stupid in a lot of ways. – We got a lot of testicle jokes. – Yeah, and so– – And we’ve got a whole rap set which feels weird. – Which feels a little out of place in the Ryman but so in seeing all that footage and people who made their debut there because one of the cool things about the Country Music Hall of Fame in addition to the memorabilia, the archival sorta stuff, or the artifacts is all the video that they have in there. – Right. – They’ve got so, all these, like you said the footage of the conversation on The Johnny Cash Show with Merle, but so much of that and so many pictures I’m like, that’s the Ryman, that’s the Ryman, that’s the Ryman, and then I kept saying like we’re playing there tonight and I started thinking a couple things like A, I’m way more nervous than I usually am before a show. And two, we had decided to play two Merle songs. Two of our favorite Merle songs. – Which is something we’ve never done. We don’t cover anybody’s songs and we’ve never performed Merle’s songs publicly that I can remember. – Right and so we did one that is a really popular old school Merle song and then one that’s a little bit of a deeper cut and I was thinking I might cry. – Oh. – I was like I don’t want, you know, I don’t wanna cry during this thing. Because I can’t cry and still continue to sing. I’m not one of those people who can like, you know– – Cry-sing? – Cry-sing. Some people can. – Kinda like Vince Gill. He seems like he’s always cry-singing. – My voice would break and so I was like I don’t want that to happen so you know, I don’t know how I’m gonna take my mind off that. But a few things about the show, I mean first of all, thankfully we did have everything down from a musical standpoint by the time we got there. It did sound like we could hear ourselves really well and you sorta feel the power of the music kinda going out and coming around that circle and coming back to you. And also, you can hear every single thing that is being, the crowd reaction is so immediate ’cause they’re right there on you and it’s 2200 people, it’s a small, small venue and they’re kinda on top of you in a lot of ways ’cause you got that huge balcony, so the furthest person from you is still relatively close. – And it makes such a big difference. I mean in the little bit of touring that we’ve done, it’s like, every venue is different and you never know exactly what you’re gonna get and what crowd is gonna show up. But everything lined up, I mean, the crowd was so boisterous and responsive. – Oh yeah. – You know I had somebody, I don’t know how we got to this me asking for anti-bacterial soap and then somebody’s like throwing– – Hand sanitizer. – Hand sanitizer up at me and like, I emptied the entire bottle that she threw to me into my hand and then I didn’t know what to do with it and we came up with something. It was a lot of fun, man, everybody was just lovin’, everybody was having a good time. So by the time in the middle of the set when we performed Silver Wings, you felt like you weren’t gonna cry? ‘Cause people, like, people said that they cried. And I was like yes. – It was very, very emotional for me, like playing both that and then Driftwood, and we played Driftwood with Britton, he got up there and killed the solo, the guitar solo and it was emotional for sure but I didn’t think that I was gonna break down at that moment. So the show just went on, it was great, and we got to that last song that we sing which is a little bit of an emotional, it’s funny, but it’s got an emotional quality and tone to it. The song that we close the show out with, and you knew this. Most people probably didn’t pick up on the fact that I flubbed two lyrics. We ended up just changing in the moment one lyric that was from a different part of the song and there was one part where I didn’t come in but you sang that part, whatever, which by this point in the tour wasn’t typical. – Right. – Especially that song. And I told you later, I was like– – What was happening? – I was so in the moment and thinking that I cannot believe how much fun this is. I cannot believe how good this is. You know what I’m sayin’, not good like, I can’t believe how good we are, just how good this is all lining up. – Yeah you were savoring it, man, I think that’s great. Yeah. – I lost the ability to be in the song ’cause I was so in the moment. It’s like I kinda left my body for a second and took a little flight around the Ryman and communed with the spirits of old country. And then came back in in my body and was like, oh, I should be singing. (chuckles) – Yeah, it was magical, man, I mean, was it the peak of our career? Yeah, I mean– – It hasn’t gotten any better than that for me personally. – Well it was two days ago. – No I’m saying, people are like, what’s the best moment in your career– – Oh wow. – I cannot think of any time where I felt as fulfilled in what we get to do. – Right. – As in that moment. – Because the other things, I mean you put out the internet video and it’s just like you can only be so fulfilled by the response of the comments, I mean, if you make, if you craft a documentary or a series or anything and you screen it and then people, you’re watching people from the back of the room and then they’re clapping, it’s like that is very thrilling. But it’s not the same as performing. I mean, as having that moment of all the faces are staring back at you and you’re like, I’m savoring this like the first bite of hot chicken I ever had. You never have, I mean, you could read about hot chicken, you can make analogies about hot chicken at the end of podcasts. – Right. – But until you eat the hot chicken on the stage of the Ryman. – Mm-hmm. – Oh shoot, that would have been peak. That’s, we blew it. – That would have been too much. That would have been sensory overload. – That’s gonna be our next tour. I mean that’s what people want anyway right? – The hot chicken tour? – Yeah we’re just gonna get on stage and eat hot chicken. – (sighs) Well and that’s another thing, I’m glad you brought that up. Not the hot chicken but the eating thing because you know me and we’ve talked about this before, it’s like, another reason that it’s so fulfilling to me, it’s like okay it’s cool when we, it’s like oh, we got to, oh there’s 15 million people subscribed to Good Mythical Morning and that’s awesome. And it’s, you know what, it’s why people show up at our frickin’ show, let’s be honest. It’s why people can show up and watch us sing. They’re not showing up to watch us sing primarily, most people because they’ve seen us sing, they’ve seen us do weird stuff on the internet and they wanna come hang out with us. But because I truly believe that we crafted something. We have crafted a show that I feel good about artistically and creatively and again that’s the kinda thing that kinda gets me going, right? Obviously I love the stuff that’s not planned and the humor that happens in the moment and the things that make that particular show unique, but the thing that really gets me going is like sitting down and over the course of a labored process, creating something special that then is crafted with the real time reception of an audience in mind. You know what I’m saying? – Yeah. And it’s very rewarding when it comes together. – And then being able to go out there and actually execute it and see the real time, feel the real time reaction from an audience in a place that’s so special, the combination of those things and the way that it came together, I was just like, it doesn’t get any better than this, I mean like we could, hopefully we’ll continue to do great things. Hopefully we’ve got bigger and better things ahead of us and there’s other creative things that we want to do. But regardless of how well those things go and how well they’re received, it can only match, in my mind it can only match the way I felt at the Ryman. – I agree with that, yeah, yeah, I feel that way too. I’m just, and it, again going out there and doing a show, it puts everything else we’ve done in perspective because we wouldn’t be able to do it if it weren’t for the other things but I’m grateful for the experience because of everything you said and also because it… It gives us perspective that we can’t have when we just sit behind our desk. – Yeah. And like we say, we say at the shows, it’s like, there’s all kinds of amazing things that have, all the interactions that we have with people online are invaluable and amazing and in volume, much greater. There’s just way more of ’em because it’s the nature of the internet but there is just something different about being in a room full of Mythical Beasts. It’s like we just don’t get to experience that. We make this podcast, we do the show, we do these other things and people experience it on this regular basis and have these special connections and then we hear about them retrospectively. And that’s really special but to be in the same room while it’s all happening and the immediate feedback, and I feel like we’ve got a very, first of all, our audience is very eclectic in a lot of ways just in terms of where people are from, their background, their ages. There’s also something very uniform about the way people are just Mythical, you know what I’m saying, so there’s a lot of like-minded people in the same room who are just like connecting, not just with us but with each other. Being in that atmosphere is just special. – Yeah so again I wanna thank you for, if you’ve come out to one of our shows, thank you, and invite you if you haven’t. Check out Rhett and Link live. All this isn’t a promotion for our, I mean it’s an inadvertent promotion, that’s why I’m just gonna, I’ll plug it again. RhettAndLinkLive.com. I’m also, I got Jenna to record our soundcheck for the Merle cover with Britton. I have that so I’m gonna post that on the Society. I’m gonna get that posted on the Society so that’s the soundcheck not from the Ryman but from D.C. ’cause we didn’t have a lot of time to check at the Ryman so we had practice– – Sounds good ’cause we were still learning. – It doesn’t matter, I’ll post it there on the Society for– – Okay so if it doesn’t sound good, it’s just a little treat. Okay, anything else that we wanna say before I go– – Give me a rec, man, give us a rec, it’s your turn. – I’m gonna give a rec, this is one of those things that many, many months behind when everyone was talking about this thing but if you’re like me, you didn’t see it originally and I watched this movie on the plane and so I’m gonna do a rec of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade. For those of you who have not taken the time to see this movie, I just highly recommend it. It’s just, there’s something about it that’s so visceral, like the way that he puts you into the experience of middle school in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable and I don’t ever feel that way when I watch stuff. You know what I’m saying, it’s like, people talk about, I can’t watch that ’cause it makes me feel uncomfortable. And I wasn’t about to stop watching it but he’s so effective and the lead actor in this, whatever his name is, something Fisher, what her name is. I don’t know what her name is. Look that up ’cause I wanna get that right. The lead actor, the lead actress in Eighth Grade. The way that, she’s incredible. She just nails it so hard and so that’s just really cool to see somebody that we knew from way back. We hung out with Bo Burnham at YouTube Live back in 2008, seven? – Probably eight. – And he was just a YouTuber, man. And he goes off and writes and directs this incredible film so I know many of you have probably seen it but a lot of you, probably more of you are like me and you just didn’t watch it the first time it came out. I just highly recommend it. – What’s her name? – Elsie Fisher. – Elsie Fisher. All right thanks for that rec. – She’s gonna go on and do even bigger things. – All right guys, thanks for hanging out with us and we’ll speak at ya again next week. We’ll give ya another biscuit for your ears. – Yeah maybe next week will be the peak of our careers. – [Link] To watch more Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist on the right. – [Rhett] To watch the previous episode of Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist to the left. – [Link] And don’t forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe. – [Rhett] If you prefer to listen to this podcast, it’s available on all your favorite podcast platforms. Thanks for being your Mythical best. (electronic music)