(upbeat electronic music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I’m Rhett. – And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re asking the question do we like getting recognized in public? – Mm, but before we get into that discussion, we wanna let you know that we are going on tour and we’re gonna announce all the dates for the rest of– – It was weird, the way you said tour. – 2019. I wanna make it clear– – Tour. – That this is it, guys. These are the only dates for 2019. This may be the only dates for some time, okay, we don’t know if we’re gonna be going out again in 2020, we don’t know. So this might be your last chance definitely to see this show, a night of music and comedy. We’re gonna be in Las Vegas on June 21st, Salt Lake City on June 22nd, Denver on June 23rd, Milwaukee on the 25th, Indianapolis on the 26th, Detroit on the 27th, Omaha on the 29th, and Minneapolis on the 30th. So that’s coming up, that’s coming up end of June. – All right and then I got some fall dates starting September 4th. We’re gonna be on Houston, we’re gonna be on Houston, Texas. – [Rhett] Yeah we are coming on Houston. – September 4th, New Orleans September 5th, Birmingham, Alabama September 6th, Jacksonville, Florida September 7th, Tampa, Florida September 8th. Then skipping down to the end of November. Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 20th, Phoenix 21st, Sacramento, California November 22nd, and Valley Center, California– – The center of the valley. – Harrah’s Resort on November 23rd. RhettAndLinkLive.com, get your tickets. I wanna get an update, I’ve kinda gotten the update, I want you to give the listener an update on your mimic diet thing ’cause anytime you do what I’ll call an experiment on yourself, I don’t know how you would describe it. – I would describe it as a failed experiment. – Oh okay especially if it’s a failure, I wanna hear about it. I want them to hear about it. I wanna hear about it twice, I’ll put it to you that way. (chuckles) – Okay, quick refresh, it was a diet designed by a professor who got together with the people at the Anti-Aging Institute or something that’s named something like that and created a diet that tricks your body into thinking that it’s fasting so you get the benefits, the physiological benefits of fasting without going on completely nothing. But for me, for a big man like me– – What happened? – I’m just adding to the big man montage. 700 calories is not a lot so I lost nine pounds, which not hard to do when you’re as big as I am, but I actually had the benefit of– – How much did you weigh? – I was probably like 215 when I started. – Okay. – And the reason I know exactly how much I lost and the composition of what I lost is because I did that thing they have at my gym called the Mbody where you get up there and you hold the thing and it gives a very specific analysis of your, I trust that it’s accurate. – There’s one at my gym too. You stand on the thing barefoot and then you hold these things on your thumbs and you hold your arms out like that. – Yeah. – And you don’t move. – And then it gives you like this is how much muscle you have in your right arm, in your left arm. And then it gives you your BMI and all that. So before, it just happened that I did it right before and after and we were looking at it and my trainer was like, you lost nine pounds, and then she was like, six pounds of water. (chuckles) – Dang. That doesn’t sound like the right thing to lose. – Two pounds of muscle. – Oh, ‘kay. – And one pound of fat. – Yeah. – So mission not accomplished. – Not good. – I lost more of what I want, less of what I don’t want, and I want water. – Oh yeah. – It wasn’t that I had dehydrated myself, it was something about the fact that your nutrients enable water intake into your muscles or whatever, but the thing that I also notices is that I have all kinds of issues with my back, all up and down the spine and muscle stuff that happens because of weird things in my discs and all that got exacerbated to the point that it was tightening up, because your body needs stuff, it needs nutrients, especially if you’re kinda borderline about to go into a muscle spasm at any moment and so, but after a week of just regular eating, everything is back to normal. – You gained nine pounds? – Well I haven’t done that, I’m just saying that I feel good again, my back is good. – Are you still doing intermittent fasting? – Yeah I’m still doing that. – Because that is not a diet, that is a– – It’s a lifestyle. – Well some people are like, but don’t promote diets, especially ones that don’t work. – Yeah and the fasting thing– – I was reading that. – The fasting wasn’t a diet, it was a fasting period for very specific reasons and it wasn’t so I could lose weight, that wasn’t why I was doing it. I’m doing it because I wanted to have something I could go back to on a quarterly basis if it did have good results in those numbers then I’d do it again but– – So you do recommend it. – Yeah highly. – And use code ear to lose nine pounds of the wrong stuff. – Yeah, you could– – We shouldn’t be throwing our coupon code for like bump things. – If you wanna lose one pound of fat and eight pounds of muscle and water. (Link chuckles) – Oh gosh. – You got too much water and muscles. – Don’t use code– – You know who you are. (Link chuckles) – Too much muscle and water. Yeah so we’re gonna, well first of all, I got a cold. I’m three days into this thing. I actually– – Don’t breathe on me. – It’s a pet peeve of mine– – This is a bad time to get a cold, this is a tough time to get a cold. – What do you mean? – Transitioning from spring to summer, it’s just, it makes you feel like you’re out of sync with nature. – I’m gonna be good in about two days ’cause I’ve been doing this thing called the mimic diet. Mimic fasting diet. – So that’s different than the fasting mimicking diet. – Oh. – It must be different. Maybe you’ll gain muscle now. – Except trying to nap. It’s a pet peeve of mine for podcasters to go on and on about how their voice is different and apologizing about how they’re sick. – I think it’s good to acknowledge though. – I just wanna acknowledge it. Got some Kleenex down here. But yeah we’re gonna talk about a question we get often, I think when we’re being recognized, at least I know I do, is do you get recognized often? And I think the implied follow-up question is how do you feel about that or this as it’s happening? – And I also think that people wanna know if they are the, like a special source of something like maybe he doesn’t get recognized that often and I’ve made his week. – So I wanna get into that but something happened to me that I wanted, I’ve been saving this story to share with you and you, and you too Jacob. I was pointing at the camera which represents one loyal listener but then you know– – But also Jacob. – Out of the corner of his eye he saw me point. Now I am pointing at you. That’s what it feels like for me to point at you. Incidentally, pointing is a part of this story. – Oh gosh. This is not good. – It’s fine. This happened in the context of when we were taking care of my father-in-law Lewis. (chuckles) At the hospital and I took a break and I came home and I was exhausted and I was gonna take a nap but then I was like you know what, it would be therapeutic for me to walk the dog and I’m gonna make Lily come with me, so come along so I can spend some time with her ’cause I just wasn’t seeing the kids as much in that phase of caring for him in the hospital. – Right. – So we went out for a walk and we’re walking down the street and I remembered the doggy bags. A lot of times I don’t remember the doggy bags and I’m glad I did because– – Hold on when you don’t, what do you do? – I’ll use, if Jade poops, I’ll use– – A leaf? – I’ll find a big leaf and use it as a glove and then I’ll just throw it all into the woods. – What woods? – Well the woods on my walk, like trees. Not someone’s front yard. – There’s not a lot of woods where we’re out here so you’re throwing it onto somebody’s property, man. – I mean there are trees and little wooded areas. Unmowed areas of people’s yard. – (chuckles) Okay, yeah, people’s yards. (Link laughing) Okay but the wooded parts of people’s yards that they never go into. – The thing about Jade is she likes to, we’ll be walking, all of a sudden I’ll realize, ope, the leash is getting caught and I’ll look back there and she’s poppin’ a squat in the middle of the street. – Yeah, Barbara does the same thing. – Like she doesn’t go to the grass in somebody’s yard. She’s very respectful of that. She goes to the, not even on the lane of the street where she’s walking, like on the edge. She’ll go to the middle of the road and like– – Yeah she wants people to know. – I wanna have a wide berth as I– – That’s funny ’cause Barbara– – Give birth. – Does the same thing. – To this poop. – And I always thought that that was, I was doing something wrong. Like she’s stupid, she doesn’t understand. We never told her that she shouldn’t do that. – That yeah, it feels more natural to do it on the grass or some dirt. – It’s easier to clean up when it’s on the concrete. – I like to throw some dirt or some leaves on it before I pick it up so I do not like it being on the dirt. I don’t like just grabbing– – You’re like Mr. Leon throwing sawdust on vomit. – Yeah he was the janitor at our Buies Creek Elementary. – May he rest in peace. – Great man. So anyway, she pops a squat in the middle of the street and I’m like, then I’m cleaning it up with the bag. You put your hand, you know how to do this, you put your hand in the bag, then you grab it and you turn it around in your hand but it still is really bothersome to me, it’s like– – So warm. – It’s so warm and I feel like it’s coming through this bag in some way. And that’s why I like to– – Well it probably is a little bit. – Nature’s sawdust, whatever I can find, I try to let that– – Some mulch from somebody’s yard. (chuckles) – Yeah yeah a little bit of mulch. – Yeah they don’t need this. – Yeah. Have you seen me do this? – The way, the objects in your story as if you’re on a hike in Yosemite but really you’re in the suburbs of Los Angeles where there’s no woods. It’s just trees in people’s yard and the mulch that they have so carefully arranged. And you’re using it– – They don’t miss a little bit. – As sawdust. – So then I’m carrying this bag around and we turn the corner and we’re going up the street and I will say at this point, because this is the point in the street where it usually happens, there’s this car that’s typically parked there that has a vanity license plate. You know me and my Bumper Stumpers, I always notice the vanity license plates and there’s a license plate that said Mr. Noodle. – Oh. – Which, for those of you who don’t know, Mr. Noodle is a live action mime character in Elmo’s World, the Sesame Street series, and he was kinda like a clown without makeup. He would do clownish things and then Mr. Noodle had a brother Mr. Noodle and Elmo would voiceover this whole, you know Mr. Noodle, right? – Never watched it. – Lily was really into Elmo, I think Lincoln was too. – I saw the controversy come and never let my kids, I just sensed it, never let ’em watch it. – Oh. I separate the man from the puppet. – That’s a difficult thing to do when his hand is in there. (Link chuckles) (both chuckling) Pretty much becomes a dead Elmo when you take him out of the– (Link chuckling) – Okay good point, I have no response to that. I’m not even gonna tell my story now. So I will clarify that there are no controversies that I know of associated with Mr. Noodle or his brother Mr. Noodle. – Even though with that name you would think there would be. – Right. (both laughing) – If anybody’s problematic, it’s probably Mr. Noodle. – Right. Mr. Noodle’s brother Mr. Noodle was played by the guy from Evening Shade who– – Oh I loved that. – Who was also in The Green Mile but I can’t be more specific about what his name is but anyway– – Mustache. – So this license plate Mr. Noodle and then sometimes but on a rare occasion, I’ll see another car and it says, the license plate said Dr. Noodle. I’m like oh there’s a family of Noodles that live around here. – What? – And so for like two years, I’ve seen these vanity license plates, and so it’s just a part of my life. And sometimes we’ll point it out, there’s Mr. Noodle’s parked there again. That’s just a little background. So we’re walking and now I’ve got this poop bag in my hand and Lily and I are walking. I’m catching her up on the situation at the hospital and everything, we’re having a great conversation, but I’m bothered by the fact that I haven’t even completed 30% of this dog walk and I’m already holding poop in a bag. I do not like being that guy. I judge heavily the people I see walking their dog with a big sack of poop in their hand. – Right, you gotta offload that. – What a loser, but I also, I hate seeing poop bags just laying around. We are humans, you know. We’re at a point on the food chain where we need to love our earth to the point where we can’t just throw plastic poop bags down just because of pride. – You see people throw plastic poop bags down? – I see them laying down, I see evidence that they’ve been left places. Like when you go on hikes around LA, there’s people who will drop their poop bag, and you know what they’re thinking? They’re thinking, I hate walking around with a poop bag. When I come back down the trail, I’ll pick it up and throw it away. No, you don’t. – And then when they see it, they’re like, well, that could be anybody’s poop bag. – It’s not mine. Oh yeah you conveniently forget about it. I don’t wanna be that guy so I’m in a catch 22 situation, so I tell Lily, I’m like, Lily. When I spot a trash can, you’re gonna get rid of this thing. Now the trash had come recently so it wasn’t like everyone’s trash cans were out. – But there are the stragglers. – There’s some stragglers and you’re looking for that. – One out of 10. – So I’m like we’re looking for stragglers. We round this corner and go down this other dead end street. I’m talking to her like this and she’s looking at me like, you okay? – And let me say before you proceed, I believe in this. I’ll just say that. I believe in what you’re about to do. – Here’s what I believe in. – Okay. Because we’re all humans. It’s a public service. Yes it’s your trash can but I’m not changing the dynamics of your trash, you know I’m not throwing a chair in there. You know what I’m sayin’? – Or a dead body. – It’s a bag of poop, it doesn’t change anything. You should be okay with it. When you’re– – Subject, okay, I’m glad you’re backing me up but subject to some specific key points that I believe and that I wanted to relay to Lily ’cause I needed her help. I think the first thing is, you gotta pick the right trash can. There’s a green one for– – Oh of course. – There’s a blue one for recycling, there’s a black one. And I’m like Lily, look up there. I see some stragglers. There’s three trash cans. What I want you to do and this is my second point is– – You’re making your daughter do it? – We gotta, the second point is we gotta be clandestine. You gotta be secret. – You gotta be sneaky. Even though I completely believe in it, you still gotta be sneaky. – ‘Cause you never know how a person’s gonna feel looking out their window and seeing somebody open their trash can and make a little deposit. You don’t know if they’re gonna run out with some sort of a firearm or at least– – I doubt that would happen. – Armed to the gills with insults. – That could happen. – In front of my daughter and my beloved beast, Jade. – ‘Cause I will say that if I saw it happen– – You’d be mad. You would feel anger instinctively. – But I wouldn’t say anything ’cause I’d be like, you know what, for all the reasons I just said. But I understand– – But your heart rate would go up and you’d have to do some breathing. – The tendency to be protective of your trash, I get it. – It’s your domain. – It’s not logical but I get it. – So I’m like Lily, we’re gonna subtly scoot over to the left side of the road. As we’re walking, we’re not gonna stop walking. I want you to go up to the trash can, I want you to gently lift the lid like three inches. All right, you don’t have to open it all the way. I’m talking to her this way. – This may be over instruction but okay. – I’m like I just want you to just give me a little poop bag gap and then I’m gonna come in, I’m gonna swoop in and I’m just gonna, I’m gonna throw it in there– – Hold on. – And then you just gently let go. – You made this a two person job? – It has to be a two person job. – If I was there I would have been like this is a bad idea. – Listen, you short-sighted amateur. (Rhett chuckles) I’m walking a dog with a leash in one hand, I got poop in a bag in the other hand and I got a daughter with two free hands. I gotta teach her the ways, man. This is a teachable moment. This is less about what I need and more about what she needs. – I would give her the poop and let her do the whole shebang. That’s just what I would have done. – Well that’s because– – Two hands. – You’re a cruel, unfeeling father. – Lift with one, deposit with the other, and she’s also a young woman– – I lead by example. – Which I think gives her, she’s gonna get a little more leeway, they’re gonna be a little bit less likely to come out cussing or with a firearm. – Little less likely so there’s still a likelihood that your daughter could be blasted with poop bag insults. And hey, if you’re fine with that, your daughter can be thrown to the wolves. – Then she could be taught a lesson and that would be the lesson. How do you deal with that? – So I’m like, I just need three inches. And three seconds and I’ll take care of the rest. And she’s like, Dad, this isn’t a heist. – Yeah. (Link chuckles) I’m with her. – I’m like sh, we’re almost there. Just don’t, just do the plan. (soft bass music) And I’m talkin’ like this now. And– – You probably look suspicious, by the way. – And then she grabs the green. – The wrong one. – No don’t don’t don’t, you gotta go with the black one. You gotta go to the black, and then she gives me three inches on the black one and I just make the deposit. And then phew, we immediately swing back over to the other side of the road and I’m like yes. I think I literally out loud said yes. – Yeah. – And at that moment, I looked up and I saw a car with a person inside of it and the door was open. And I was like oh crap, there’s somebody there, I think they saw us and I’m like oh, nope, he didn’t see us. He was in his car detailing his dash. – But he was the owner of the trash can. – He was on the same side of the trash can. I would say most likely the man in the car cleaning the dash was the owner of the three trash cans, yes. – [Rhett] Mm-hmm. – I panic for a moment. – But as I stated before, not really the owner. They’re on loan from the city. – He’s renting it. – Yeah so we’re all paying for it. – Put yourself in his shoes, Rhett. I was a bit afraid until I realized and I told Lily, “He didn’t see it. “He didn’t see anything, we have succeeded. “We are amazing. “You know what, I hope Jade craps again. “Right now so we can just do it again.” It was exhilarating. I was like on the edge. The dude was like rubbin’ his dash down with some Armor All situation. He was like me when I first got my 1987 Nissan pickup and I thought that I was gonna wax it and it was already so old that when I waxed it, it basically just took the paint off of it. – You saw chrome underneath. – Yeah. It was like sheer metal. The dude was going at it, he never looked up. I was like, oh, that’s your fault, man. You’re too into your dash to see who’s making the stash in your can. – Okay, what happened though? – Okay yeah I should get on with this story. So I walk by and we go all the way to the end of the road and then we have to turn around and we’re walking back and I’m like, oh, the guy’s still there and then I noticed from this new vantage point I can see the license plate on the car and it says Dr. Noodle. – Oh gosh. – So then without saying anything to Lily, as we’re walking by, again his door’s open, one foot’s out and he’s still on that dash, just grinding it. He’s just like– – It’s a dirty dash. – (chuckles) It was a shiny dash by this point. We get up next to him and I’m probably as far from here to that wall so like I don’t know, seven feet away. And at that point, without really planning out what I’m gonna do, I just went with the feeling. – Surprise. – I was feeling on top of the world after what had happened and I point at him. And I say, “You must be Dr. Noodle.” And he looks up from his dash, and the look on his face went from surprise, someone’s speaking to me, to jaw-dropping amazement and he says, “You know me?” (Rhett laughs) And then, before I could say anything in response, he said, “I know you too.” (Rhett laughs) And I never stopped walking. – What? – I never stopped walking and I said, “Cool, man. “You have a good day.” – Oh gosh, man, you’re such a moron. (laughs) – And then Lily leans over– – Oh gosh. – As we’re still walking, she leans over– – You were afraid of him because of what you had done. That’s why you didn’t stop. – Lily leaned over and she said, “What’s happening?” (chuckles) I was like, we just met Dr. Noodle. That’s what’s happening, then we walked around the corner. – Well who the hell is Dr. Noodle? – Well, I don’t know, he’s that guy. But here’s the thing, he had this amazing look on his face and it was as if I had gone up to Clark Kent on the streets of Metropolis with his glasses on and I said, “You must be Superman.” It was one of those, oh. You know me? It was like, what? It’s like when someone has a name tag on and they forget and you think you’re cute because you’re like, Steve, what’s up, and they’re like (gasps), you know me? – Right. – But people don’t typically say, “You know me?” But then he also– – But you know– – He also knew me. – Since then. – I guess from the internet. – Since then, he has realized why you said that. – I walked around, what do you mean? Because of his license plate. – He saw the license plate. He realizes– – But he did know me I guess from– – Why did you, you didn’t stop subconsciously because– – I was walking a dog, I wasn’t standing a dog. – You may not even realize why you didn’t stop. You didn’t stop because you felt guilt over the poop. – Walked around the corner and guess what we saw? We saw the other car from that vantage point, it said Mr. Noodle, we were like, look, Lily. One down, one to go. One day we might just get to meet Mr. Noodle. – Hold on it’s the same house, right? – Yeah but I’d like to think there’s a Dr. and a Mr. Noodle living there. There’s two cars. – But you met the doctor. – I met the doctor. – I’m just really interested in, he obviously does something. – I think he’s a dash doctor. He’s a car doctor. Update to the story just to provide a little color commentary– – What I’m saying is you could have found out by just stopping. – I didn’t wanna have a conversation, Rhett. I was just being nice. I think I made his day. – Okay. – Maybe he made yours through that story. I was walking Jade yesterday and I walked past Dr. Noodle and daggum if he wasn’t out there again, second time, and guess what he was doing. He had the hood open of the same car. – He was cleaning the engine? – He was cleaning the engine. – Yeah he’s getting ready to sell that car. ‘Cause cleaning the engine doesn’t do anything except make people think that your car is cool. (Link chuckles) You know what I’m saying? Look how clean this engine is. – I think he just had– – It’s gonna go another 10,000 miles. – He’s a shine doctor. He’s the doctor of car shine. You know me? – What kinda car is it? – I know you too. – Is it like a car that he would take to a car show? – It was like an Accord. – Yeah, he’s going to the Accord car show. – So anyway, he recognized me and I will say that’s probably the most enjoyment I’ve ever had over being recognized, spoiler alert. – Oh it’s all downhill from there. In the negative sense. – Maybe not ’cause I don’t wanna be negative about being recognized so let’s wrestle with that. – You know what, we’re gonna be honest about being recognized. But first we’re gonna let you know that you can get a snotebook or two. – Dramatic leaning inwards. Here you got the Good Mythical Snotebook, it’s a notebook and a sketchbook in one. – And this is just the Mythical Snotebook. – Blank pages, tabula rosa. Just like my brain. – Now this one I was told not to open it up because it’d show you because it’s from Zack but I’m just gonna read a little bit of Zack’s diary. There’s nothing in here. – So there’s nothing in there, it was just a test. – People actually, no, there’s something at the beginning but I’m not gonna look at it or read it. It was just a bit. Wasn’t this designed by our very own Kaitlyn? Yeah, she draws this on every single one. Every single one is hand-drawn. It’s quite a deal, no, she hand drew it once and then we printed it on all the rest of ’em. So record your thoughts, your feelings and your life with a snotebook at Mythical.snore, snore. (both laugh) – Oh we got a sleep study going. Sign up for the Mythical sleep study. Mythical.snore. – Hopefully this podcast is not a sleep study. – Do I have Kleenex or snot on my face? – Yeah you got some, kinda yeah. But don’t dash it. Don’t do it like Dr. Noodle rubs his dash ’cause eventually it’ll turn red. You don’t wanna overdo it. Just put some Armor All on there, protect yourself. – Is it gone? – Yeah. Okay so… We’re gonna explore the dynamic. We’ve talked about this from time to time. If you’ve listened to the show for awhile, you know that we tell the story or two about being recognized in certain places and what we said and what the person said. We might retread a few of those but we’re doing it in the context of answering this question of like, what does it do for us? Mentally, emotionally, what is it like to be recognized in public and how do we deal with it, what do we think about it? And this could come across as a little bit like self-aggrandizing I think is the word that you used when we were thinking about doing this– – Yeah when I pitched the topic, I was like, let’s do something self-aggrandizing. – Yeah. – You know like talk about how often we’re recognized. – Yeah but we’re doing it because we have this conversation and I think that because you listener are perhaps the kind of person that if you saw us in public, you might feel like you had to Dr. Noodle us. And (chuckles) if you do, then this might give a little perspective. And I don’t know where it’s gonna go. There’s no agenda. We’re not trying to land at some sort of public recognition ethic or anything. Maybe we will by the end of this. I have a little story that I can start with that happened recently and I think it kinda feeds into a part of my perspective on this and that is, I think part of the positive for me and this is just a totally selfish positive is that there are times that I am with someone. Might be my family, it might be friends, and getting recognized when I’m with someone, it gives you just a little, I got recognized. You know what I’m saying? – Yeah. – It’s sort of the self-centered egotistical part of me responds to the fact that hey, I was in a group of people and I got recognized. And then when you’re with your family– – Someone that you care about their opinion of you. – Right and then if I’m with my mom gets such a kick out of it. – Right. – My mom will introduce herself. My mom will be in a conversation with somebody in public and then just in the middle of the conversation, just throw out, “Do you know Rhett and Link?” Just so that she can be like, “Well Rhett’s my son.” (laughs) – Right. – So if I’m out in public and then we get recognized, she gets a kick out of that so I kinda get a kick out of it. Well, my brother and his boys recently came out to spend some time with us and we took ’em down to the west side, the only time you go to the west side if you live on the east side is when you’ve got family in town. You don’t ever go over there on your own volition. It’s just like oh we got people in town, let’s show ’em Los Angeles that we never see. So we went to– – You talkin’ Santa Monica? – We went to Santa Monica. – You talkin’ Venice Beach? – We didn’t do Venice Beach. We have done Venice Beach with them, but you know, you need that like once every five years. So we were at Third Street Promenade, you know the outdoor mall situation down there. We go into the Urban Outfitters because you know, it’s different over there. (chuckles) – I guess. – I mean it just feels different, it’s the west side. No so we’re going through and then all of a sudden I realize that there is a dog just, a bulldog, an American bulldog. – Are you about to tell me you got recognized by a bulldog? – (chuckles) Well. – ‘Cause that is a first, man. – There’s an American bulldog– – There are cats that watch Good Mythical Morning. I hate to tell you that but we get lots of screenshots of cats watching out show. – You think you get lots of screenshots, yeah, people send ’em to me all the time. – But not as much dogs. – I appreciate the views, I mean, it still adds to the ad revenue even if it is a cat, but this American bulldog is walking around without a leash in Urban Outfitters and I was like, is this what they do on the west side? They have mascots that roam the stores? – Please tell me that he spoke English. Please. – And then I hear someone say the dog’s name which I don’t remember, let’s just say Spot, which it wasn’t. Spot! Get over here! And I look up and the source of the voice and ostensibly, the owner of the dog, Dennis Quaid. – Dennis Quaid? – Dennis Quaid. – Now for those of you who don’t fully know who Dennis Quaid is– – Okay that’s what my story’s about. – Okay ’cause okay. – Okay so right. Dennis Quaid is– – ‘Cause all I was about to say was I can’t answer that exactly. – Dennis Quaid was a very, very, very famous movie star, right, like back in the time of movie stars, like back when if you were in movies in the ’80s, so big frickin’ deal right, celebrity culture was way, way smaller so he kinda comes from that old guard. – What’s his biggest movie? – Oh gosh. – Can you look that up, but keep going. – He’s been in a bunch of stuff. He continues to act, he’s in a new insurance campaign or whatever but– – Oh. – He had on snakeskin boots first of all which was impressive. So my brother obviously gets a huge kick out of this because he’s a 40 something year old man and so obviously he knows who Dennis Quaid is and we got a kick out of the fact that Dennis Quaid has a dog off-leash in Santa Monica. – In an Urban Outfitters. – Which seems like the kinda thing that you would feel like you had the right to do if you were Dennis Quaid, you know what I’m saying, it’s like, I can do anything, I was a movie star in the ’80s, I can walk around with my dog off its leash. I do have to tell it to come to me over and over again but a leash would help with that. But Cole got a big kick out of it and then he’s literally saying kinda what you were getting at. Cole’s like, kinda crazy, comin’ in here, you see Dennis Quaid but these kids in here, they probably more readily recognize you than Dennis Quaid. They probably don’t even know who Dennis Quaid is. Literally five seconds later a group of four teenage girls walked by us and they were saying, “That was Dennis Quaid.” (both laughing) – Are you serious? (sighs happily) Really? – Yeah, yeah. – Really? – That was Dennis Quaid. – You know why, ’cause he was in the movie about the dolphin girl. – Parent Trap. – He was in Parent Trap. That was a remake of Parent Trap. – Dolphin girl’s not Parent Trap, I just saw Jacob held up Parent Trap. – What’s the dolphin girl? – Free Willy? (Link sputters) – Not unless her leg was Willy. She got a leg bitten off. – By a dolphin? – No by a shark. – That’s a, dolphin. (Link laughing) You mean the girl that lost an arm? – She lost her arm to a shark. – Soul Surfer or something like that. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was the dad in that. – Yeah. – That’s how they know him. No dolphins involved. – But they know his name, you know what I’m saying? People watch– – And then, what about you though? – Well I will say that then they did see me and they did, it’s not as good of a story when they recognized me but they did also recognize me. – Was that after you asked ’em if they knew who you were? – I did not approach them. They saw me and then one of the girls was like, it’s crazy, we’re seeing everybody in here, or something like that. So anyway, that Dennis Quaid, man. Shout-out to Dennis. If you wanna hang out at the dog park where you don’t need a leash, the only appropriate place where the dogs don’t need to be on a leash, hit us up. – A lot of people, like I said at the top, when they recognize me, like last night we were walking to meet friends including you and Jessie at, where were we, Highland Park. – Yeah. – Somebody comes around the corner like, hey man, let me, I know you, can I take a little video with you? And I’m like, oh, video. Ooh, I’m always like we can just grab a selfie, but I didn’t say that. – That’s interesting ’cause I got a video request as well. – He said video and usually they’ll ask, can you say so and so to this person? But instead he just held it up like a selfie as if it was a photo but he was doing video and I waved. I was like uh, that’s actually never happened before. And then he said, “Does this happen a lot?” So whenever I’m recognized, I do get that follow-up. I do think that like you said, people wanna know if they’re the only one that does this or if they’re maybe I guess, am I being annoying because this has happened five times as you rounded the block. So I guess I’ll answer that question a little bit in the middle. I think it does happen a lot, and basically, every single time I go out now, it’s multiple times. I had to run errands with the kids and I went to the grocery store and then the drug store next door and then we got in the car and drove a block away and went to this poke bowl place. I walked in the grocery store and I got recognized. And then I was checking out at the drug store and I got recognized. And then we went to the poke bowl place and the guy working there said something else that I’ve started to get more frequently and that is the question, “Has anyone ever told you “that you look a lot like a guy from the internet?” – That happens quite a bit. – And so what I say to that is, “I do get that. “A lot actually.” And the reason why I say that is ’cause like, one of my kids is usually with me and I like messin’ around with people and making them feel like, and Lily was like, Dad. (sighs) This is not a heist, no she said that for the other one. For this thing she said, “It is him. “He likes to mess with people.” Because when we were, I think I told this story, when we were in London at the Harry Potter thing, these kids were like, excuse me, sir. Have you ever– – Tiny Tim. – Have you ever been told that you look like– – They all sound like Tiny Tim. – You look like someone from the internet. I’m like yes, exactly. I get it a lot that I look exactly like someone from the internet, exactly, and I kept saying that and they nodded their heads and walked off. Then they came back later and got pictures because I was in a confined environment where we were all going through a tour together. (sighs) I mean, after, I should just say that it’s frickin’ surreal to find yourself walking around and just, it’s happening, I don’t know if we’re the most popular we ever been but it’s happening more now than ever. Like it continues to happen more and more. – Right. – I think it’s the nature of just the popularity of the medium. Like more and more people are watching, even if you don’t watch our videos, you can’t escape our thumbnails. So I think, and that brings me to a theory about something else which I’m sure we’ll get into about what you hear people saying a lot, but I don’t know if we’re the most popular we’ve ever been but we’re the most visible. And I guess maybe they’re the same thing. So it’s happening a lot and I just wanna say I’m extremely grateful because it’s an indicator– – Right. – Of things working, like oh, we create our stuff to be seen and so when people see it and we get recognized more, that’s like that’s a good sign, oh this is working. It’s also freakin’ surreal because in my innermost being, I have a hard time actually thinking of myself as a famous person. It’s like I don’t think of myself as an adult either a lot of times, I mean, I know how my brain works. I know the thoughts and feelings and processes I go through and I feel like I might as well be in fourth grade a lot of times, you know? – I can attest to that. – And in a similar way, I feel like I know who famous people are. I mean, I’ve seen Parent Trap, the remake with Dennis Quaid. But I just don’t feel like I’m one of those people but you know what, I guess I am because I get recognized everywhere I go. – And I think there’s a few dynamics. One is, like you said, it’s an indicator, so be grateful. It can be a little bit of a nuisance, at times. Now in the moment I never, I wanna make this clear, in the moment, unless somebody says or does something that is particularly annoying which we’ll get into, I appreciate it and there’s nothing against an individual who comes up and recognizes me. But it’s sometimes going into the situation, knowing that it could happen, that’s what’s annoying, not the person who did it but just the dynamic of the fact that it could happen. For instance, we were coming back from someplace and I was like I’d like to make some, I can’t remember what it was, I think I wanted to make some burgers and I’d watch the YouTube video about the perfect skillet burger or whatever and I was like I’m gonna make these burgers with this really nice beef or whatever and Jessie’s like okay well I don’t have any of that stuff so let’s just go by the grocery store. And we pull up to the grocery store and I’m like, can you go? She was super tired, she was like, I don’t wanna go in. If you wanna cook this stuff, you go in. I was like, I don’t wanna go in because I just, I really don’t wanna be recognized right now. It wasn’t like I was having a bad hair day or something. Sometimes I get into the grocery store and– – Well you have to be– – I have to have multiple interactions. – Yeah and they have to be for that person. Every interaction you have is for that person, it’s not for you. I don’t go into the grocery store unless I’m taking someone I wanna impress I guess. I don’t go into these places saying I wanna stop and have interactions. – Yeah yeah yeah. – That are for that person to make them feel special. – Sometimes you might be in that mood which I wanna talk about that, but sometimes you’re in the I don’t wanna get recognized mood because I just wanna get in and get out– – No one would win. – Because I want the interaction to be something that is positive and memorable to this person ’cause I do care about anyone who watches what we do enough to know who we are, I care about that person. So I don’t wanna be an, to this person even if I’m feeling particularly like an, at the time. So Jessie was like you’re not gonna get recognized at the grocery store. She was basically trying to manipulate me so I would be the one to go in. ‘Cause she had her feet up on the dash. – Oh she did. – Speaking of dirty dashes. (Rhett laughs) – I know a guy– – I need to call Dr. Noodle to buff out those Doc Marten stains. (chuckles) But so, not a sponsor. I don’t know why I felt the need to say what brand of shoes my wife had on at the time. – I thought you were saying Dr. Noodle’s not a sponsor. But he will be. – So Locke and I go in together. Literally I walk in to the grocery store and I’m like where are the, what do you call the things? Carrying things. – [Both] Baskets. – I was like where are the baskets at, and a guy was like oh, right over here. You from Good Mythical Morning? (chuckles) It was literally the first guy we talked to and Locke just got a kick out of it ’cause he was like Mom said you wouldn’t get recognized and then it happened two more times in the seven minutes that I was getting the three ingredients that I needed. And again it’s not like it was some big inconvenience but it was just like, again, you feel like, if this person has a question, I wanna give them the time that, this is a one chance and they wanna have an interaction that’s special or whatever and so but I just wanna get burgers and go. But then there’s the opposite end of the spectrum which is I remember one time our friend Gar who we met Tony Hale through and obviously Tony at this point is like a huge star and would be recognized basically anywhere that he went, at the time he was pretty much known for Arrested Development. – Yeah. Veep had not started. – Veep had not started, yeah and he wasn’t gonna be the frickin’ main character in the upcoming Toy Story. – Were you up for that role or something? Why’d you get angry? (Rhett laughs) My friend got more famous, gah! – I’m not angry, no. But in fact, if anybody should get what he’s gotten, it’s him. – Absolutely, yeah. – But Gar said, you know, he was joking ’cause Gar has this way of finding this thing out about you or assuming something about you in a way that it’s just funny, right. – Yeah yeah. – So he was like, you know, whenever Tony needs a self-confidence boost, he just goes to the Apple Store. (laughs) – ‘Cause they’re Arrested Development. – Right because the people who work at Apple and/or shop at Apple at the time, Gar’s joke was that there was a lot of crossover, those people were the Arrested Development crowd and they would recognize him. Now he didn’t actually go to the, he went to the Apple Store to get a product, but that was Gar’s little joke is he was like anytime he’s been with him in an Apple Store, he’s gotten recognized so he must do this for self-confidence boosts. – Whenever we wanna get a self-confidence boost, we go to the meat section in a Ralphs. – (chuckles) That’s right. That’s where the Mythical Beasts hang out. – No I was making a statement more about us and our proclivity to eat butchered refuse. – But I will say– – So the back of the butcher counter. The stuff they don’t put out front. – Those are the two dynamics, right. There’s the I’m in a situation right now where I’m at the airport and I’m trying to move to a location or I’m at an amusement park and I don’t want to suddenly have to get a picture with somebody ’cause that might lead to this other person wanting a picture and this other person wanting a picture. There are situations like that where it seems like an inconvenience and then there are times where it’s just like, you know what, and this is never something that you think but it’s just like oh I’m with these people right now, or I’m in this place right now. I’m in this place that I think the people here are particularly cool or something. I have some reason to think that these people have a particular taste in comedy, boy it’d be cool to get recognized here. Again, this isn’t an actual conscious thought process but this is sort of the emotional undercurrent that is happening from time to time. ‘Cause you remember when we were– – There are times when we wanna be recognized like I’m in this, I’m in Melbourne, Australia, and I think this is one of the coolest places I’ve ever been and then if I feel like I’m in one of the coolest places I’ve ever been, if somebody with a cool backpack meets me on the bridge going over the river and I get recognized, even if they don’t know that we have a show that night, I can get over that because I’m like, oh that was a cool backpack. I really, I like that person’s taste in backpacks. And they like my show so hmm, there’s a correlation there. – I’m cool. (laughs) Right. – Therefore, I am cool. – Right. – Well you remember, so we were in New York and we were lower east side or something, we’re walking along and there are six to eight guys sitting on this stoop and basically like it feels like a television show, it’s like this is a scene from a movie, this isn’t normal, this isn’t– – It was nighttime and it was a bit seedier than, this wasn’t network TV, this was like, this could be a scene in an HBO seedy movie. – Like The Wire. – Yeah. – But it wasn’t Baltimore, it was New York. And so you got these guys kinda sitting on this stoop– – Not seedy but gritty. Let’s say gritty. – And some guys who were sort of embodying the grittiness of the area, shall we say. – Right. We were fish out of water walking by. – We walk by, we actually get past them, and all of a sudden, a guy’s like hold up! – We might have even sped up, honestly. – Rhett and Link? And I’m like what? And then a guy who I’m just describing him because he’s actually known on the internet for this. He calls himself T-Rex, I think he’s got an Instagram. But he does not have arms, he has hands. He just has hands and no arms. And he wears this as a badge of honor. He didn’t have a shirt on. It’s his thing, he has fully embraced it. – Yeah. – And so he comes up to us and he’s like, I’m a big fan. And he’s tellin’ the other guys and another guy’s like, yeah I know who they are or whatever. And then I was blown away, I was like this interesting combination of the coolest guys who’ve ever recognized us are saying that they’re fans and then he explained who he was and he puts on a T-Rex head and goes around and does T-Rex motions. (Link chuckles) – Yeah it was wild, it was wild. – But that was this thing that we talk about that all the time because it was just like those guys watch. – Yeah we’re in each other’s orbits, it’s weird. – And ’cause– – In a cool way. – Again, I feel like I wanna constantly apologize for, we’re just trying to be honest about the way our thoughts work, it’s like I’m not trying to be like oh look we get recognized by cool people. I’m trying to explain the psyche of what it does to you and what it could do to us. I could easily see how this could become something that you sort of rely on like an injection into your arm. You know what I’m saying? – So I think a healthier response is to, if I’m gonna err on the side of something, it’s being over it versus desiring it, so I guess it’s a good sign that the struggle that we have is being gracious and continuing to be grateful. So being gracious to the person no matter what they say, if it’s awkward or if it’s unintentionally insulting. – Well yeah. – Which happens a lot. – That’s a whole category we can get into. – That’s a whole category, but then switching to being gracious, like you said, and grateful. So how we feel about it. And so we can land there in a few minutes I think and also talk about boundaries ’cause I’m starting to think about that and I have one story but before we do, I do think that there are unintentionally insulting things, I think we’ve talked about these before and it’s just funny. It’s not that we’re actually, well I don’t know. Maybe go through and then we’ll see if– – There’s one situation where– – If it actually hurts or if it’s just kinda funny and that’s why we’re talking about it. – I told the story before about the one time I was at the airport and we were panicking, we had missed a flight and somebody came up and I think I was probably as short as I have ever been with somebody but… I don’t think I’m exaggerating, 70% of the time, people say one of two things. One is I used to watch you all the time. – Right. – And the second thing is my fill in the blank, cousin, sister, kid, mom, brother, is the biggest fan. – Somebody besides me. – Somebody besides the person who’s coming up to you. So 70, and this is just anecdotal but 70% of the time, somebody says something that basically says that, me currently, the one coming up to you, I’m not a fan, I don’t care. (chuckles) I used to care or somebody else cares. – Right. – And so that’s– – So I’m bothering you to tell you that I’m not really into you is the worst interpretation. – And basically what I say every time is, if somebody says my so and so is a big fan, I’m like, you’re not? That’s what I say. And then if somebody says I used to watch, I’m like why’d you stop? Because I mean, I’m not being a jerk, I’m just legitimately like okay. – Well it’s a little jerkish. They say I used to watch, I’ll say, like the guy in the poke bowl place who I had to wait for the order so we ended up talking to him for like eight minutes. But the kick-off was I used to watch you. After he said, “Has anyone told you you look like “the guy from the internet that I used to watch,” I guess, you put it all together. And I’m like well we’re still doing it man. And that’s when it starts to feel like we’re getting recognized more but we got all these people who are recognizing us for not watching anymore. What does that mean, we’re falling off and it plays into my insecurities, I’m like ugh. So that’s not healthy. – Well, first of all, I think if you’re talking about our emotional state, this is good right? This is good. I don’t want to be somebody who is constantly like– – Adulated. – Adulated and built up by other people ’cause A, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable, but also it turns you into a jerk. It’s very difficult if you are just a normal person. Even if you’re a normal, well-adjusted person who, this all happened to us after we were fully adults with kids, married, we got lots of things in our lives that ground us, but even with all those things in place, if suddenly everyone cares about you because of something you did and they wanna be around you or they, that can create problems. You can become a person that no one wants to be around so we are constantly guarding against that, but it helps when 70% of the time people recognize you, they’re kind of insulting you. – Well– – It kinda balances things out. – Obviously they’re not intentionally insulting us and I think it’s an insecurity that leads to it being interpreted as an insult but it’s also a good thing, it’s also a position indicator that our work is getting out there and again, I wanna talk about our work and not talk about us because that’s what I want this to be about, it’s the stuff that we create even if we’re the center of the show or whatever. It’s a sign that it’s getting out there to the point where even if you don’t watch it, you know about it. People say millions in marketing for just that to happen. Awareness, not even enjoyment. – Yeah. – Awareness is arguably just as powerful, it’s like I’ve got an opinion about something that I don’t even actively watch. – I think that’s evidenced by, so you’re kinda talking about people who– – That’s a good sign. – Aren’t familiar and this is something that has happened repeatedly that demonstrates what you’re talking about is definitely the case that people just kind of know. A, they don’t know the name of the show. B, they don’t know our names. But the most interesting and funniest thing that’s happened is I’ll be with someone who is not you. (Link chuckles) Okay. This most recently happened with my brother, same trip when he was in town. And somebody came up and they were like, ah, oh, uh, you’re that guy. You’re that guy from the internet. And I helped him, I was like yeah Good Mythical Morning. They’re like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. And then my brother’s with me and they’re like, and you’re the other guy. And my brother was like yeah! (both chuckle) – ‘Cause he’s your brother and that’s a thing that– – So we got a picture– – Right with what? – The two of us got a picture with this woman. That’s happened like five times. – Ironically was I not like a block and a half away and we had just split up to go in different stores at that moment. – No that wasn’t that day, that was a different day. – ‘Cause that happened then too. No someone got a picture with you and you didn’t tell ’em that I was across the street, you spared me. – Yeah yeah, a lot of times people are like where’s Link? And 99% of the time I’m like, well, I don’t know. I don’t have a geotag on him or whatever. – Right I have one on you so I tell them exactly where you are, that’s why you get recognized so much. People are going after you. – In that moment, you were literally on the opposite street corner. – I was watching it happen. – Where’s Link, I don’t know. I currently see him over your shoulder. (laughs) But I’m not gonna sick ’em on you. – Sometimes I like to, if people are takin’ a picture with you, I like to sneak up at the last second and get in the photo, kinda like how really famous people do when they’re like in the Marvel universe and then they show up and sneak in the photos. – Well and that, ’cause you know what you were talking about with, I don’t feel, again, I watched that documentary about Bill Murray which by the way, I don’t know if I could recommend it because I was kind of annoyed by the filmmaker and I just didn’t like the way the film was made but I really like Bill Murray and I really like these stories about people. – He shows up at places. – He shows up and he does these things and he’s Bill. We’re not Bill Murray but I also have this abiding sense that I could never do that because I’m this guy from the internet. There may be some circles that if I showed up, me and you showed up, it would be a big deal for people, but for the majority of people, there’s one person in the group who knows who we are and then everyone else starts asking, who are those guys? And then people start asking us. – Oh that’s the worst. – That happened in a coffee shop the other day. We were down in Seal Beach where Locke had some basketball games and he had a game in the afternoon and a game at night so we had all this time to kill, we’re walking around, go into this coffee shop. – All these seals to kill, what did you say? – Time to kill. – Okay good. – At Seal Beach. – Okay, better. – Did not kill any seals. Didn’t even see any. – Did you have a club? – It’s a misnomer. – They show up when you have a club. – I go into the coffee shop and the girl working the register is like oh hey. A big fan of your show. And we had a pleasant interaction. – That’s perfect. – And then an older woman who was in line behind me, she was like, well what do you do? – Oh gosh. – This happens quite a bit. – I hate having to explain what I do to people who don’t actually care. – Well ever since… A few dozen times, I was like, I got a show on the internet that, you know. Well what do you do on the show? That conversation, that annoys me, okay. And all the things that happen with getting recognized, that is the thing that annoys me the most is you’re making me tell you why someone that, so what I do now, whether it’s a child who recognizes me and the parents are like why do they, I say– – I feel like it’s even worse with the parents because they have a relationship with the person who knows us so that could be an easy way to have a conversation. – It was worse when I lean over, I turn to the girl who was waiting on me at the cash register and I said, “She’ll tell you all about it.” (laughs) – Oh. – So that’s what I do now, it’s like what do you? I say, “Well, ask her.” I mean, I know that I’m putting that person in a situation and I know that I’m kinda seeming like a complete jerk now, I’ve told you that the way I respond to these things but it happens, I just had these sort of back pocket responses for people. I used to watch, why’d you stop? – May I make a suggestion? I think if you tweak your language a little bit, it could be a little more self-deprecating. Like instead of saying, “Ask her.” Even with the up at the end. – I say it nicely. – Well I know you say it nicely. But you could go a step further and you could say something like, “I think it would be better hearing it from her.” And then it’s like, what? – I think the tone– – He’s embarrassed to talk about what he does, he must be a porn star. – I think the tone of, I say, you know what– – Then you got her. – I say– – Then she’s afraid to ask. – I say it in a joking way. In all those responses. – I know, I know. – So I say, “She’ll tell ya all about it.” And then it usually just results in no one saying anything else and I just get my coffee and start drinking it. – Yeah that’s, I don’t like that either. When the parent asking multiple questions to figure out why the kid likes us. I mean it’s like you know– – Well it’d be one thing if it was like I’m an actor. It’s like– – Right, right, it’s hard to explain. – If I tell you I’m a YouTuber, you’ll have a question about that, and then if I tell you what I do on YouTube, you’ll have a question about that. – Right. – And then you’ll just be like why’s my child a fan of this? – It’s the same principle as if you do get a selfie with somebody at an amusement park or crowded area, like a mall or something, then there is a chance that a little line will form. Which brings me to, I think the biggest sensitivity to this whole thing is being out with our families. Because it really puts a wrench, we don’t make public plans in the family that involve adding 10% margin to accommodate for us being stopped, me being stopped. And then having to separate from me so that they won’t be in the photo, you know. And then so I think it’s… it really tests their patience and I fully understand that. Or do I? I was at, we went to the Shazam movie premiere and it was thrilling. We did Instagram stories like I had Shando with me and you in the Ferris wheel, with my wife by the way, right? – No. I was with my– – Were you? – Your wife and your daughter– – Were in the Ferris wheel. – Different cart. – Okay and she’s afraid of heights so I wanted to watch her be in a Ferris wheel but I’m glad you weren’t there. In such a tender moment. – Did she have a difficult time? – I think she did great, she overcame some sort of Ferris wheel fear. They frickin’ shut down the Hollywood Boulevard and set up a whole carnival. And then it was just invite only, you know, fortunately we got in on that. And we’re walking around, getting free fair food and all this stuff and then Christy turns to Lily when I’m standing there, she’s like, look it’s Sterling K. Brown. One of the stars of This Is Us, the show that even mentioning it makes you cry. (Rhett sniffles) They both love the show and they bonded over it and I know who the guy is, I haven’t watched the show and of course we had the other guy from This Is Us on Good Mythical Morning. – Chris. – Chris Sullivan, absolutely. Anyway, Sterling has not been on our show. We had never met him but when my wife and my daughter are talking about how much of a connection they make with the show and they’re like geeking out and I actually think that Christy, I’m gonna pull her under the bus with me here, I do think she said, “Maybe we can get a picture.” He’s sittin’ right there. He and his son who was like grade school, were enjoying some fair food on a bench. We were standing there whispering about him. I just was like I’ll ask him for a photo. And they’re like oh oh, okay. And I go up there and I’m like, Sterling, how you doing? And I shook his hand, I was like, I’m Link. I just wanna let you know, boy, as I’m telling this, there’s a lot of faux pas here that we’ve discussed. The first thing I said was– – I used to be a fan. – My wife and daughter are huge fans. Would you mind if I snapped a photo? So again, I was like– – I feel like, go on, but I feel like that’s different. Because they were there. – Yeah it is different. – And I’m not annoyed by it, I’m just saying, it’s just the case that most people say that. – And Sterling K. Brown said– – No. – His face changed to this apologetic, yet kind, I can make you cry at will on television face. He said, “This is really family time for me and my son, “so I’m gonna need to pass.” I don’t know if he said I’m gonna need to pass but he said something the most gracious way. I was like hmm, I’m gonna write that down. And then I walked away, totally, I felt like a total jack for asking him for the photo. And then I turn around and I yelled at Christy and Lily in front of everybody, “Look what you made me do!” No I didn’t, I was like, he’s having family time. And I was like, and then it clicked for them too and they’re like, all three of us, it clicked in our minds I think at that moment, it’s like wait, I bet we could have that too. You know, it was like the tables– – We could have family time. – The tables turned where it was like what if, learning from my mentor, Sterling K. Brown, I adopted a similar mantra when it came to, I’m out in public but I’m having special time with my wife or my kids. – This is a difficult one. – I respected him totally and I felt– – I have no judgment of him, by the way. – I felt bad for asking him. I felt like– – Did you talk to him the other night at that thing? He did not recognize, we went to a party and he was there and we might tell more of the details of that party later so I wanna save it. – Okay. – Except for the fact that I shook his hand and I looked in his eyes and I was like, is he gonna recognize me as that guy? – No, I’m sure he wouldn’t. – He didn’t. Even though it was me and Christy there. – This is interesting because okay, at that same thing– – ‘Cause I wanna talk about these boundaries, that’s what I’m getting at. – ‘Cause at the same premiere, a number of people, 10, I don’t know, came up– – And asked to get pictures with us. – And got pictures with us and some people, like one of ’em was, it was a mom, she came up and she was like, my son is a huge fan. And he was there and turns out, he was in the freakin’ movie. He was one of the kids in the family in Shazam. And we, and that, I think two things are going on. Number one, we don’t see ourselves on the level of Sterling K. Brown, right, I know there are some people who are like that’s ridiculous. There’s no difference between what you do and, well I’m just telling you, I see him as a real celebrity and I see myself as a YouTuber and I know that’s, I’m selling the whole platform short by saying that but just mentally, because anybody can make a YouTube video. Not anybody can just go and say, I’m on an episode of This Is Us. You can make your own show on YouTube just as easily as we can. So it just feels like it’s– – Or can you? – It feels like there’s a different thing going on. Maybe he has experienced, well, if I come, I’m bringing my kid to this thing and if I get a picture with one person, it would lead to a picture with, and all of a sudden, this is about me and not about my son. So I completely understand that. But for me when we were at the Shazam premiere, I always feel like we shouldn’t be there, imposter syndrome. I’m like how did we, we’re just two guys from North Carolina who just kinda got lucky and nobody knows that we’re just a couple of dumb rednecks that just know how to put hair product in. – And maybe if Sterling K. Brown sees us get a picture with somebody, then something will, maybe we can be friends with him. – Exactly, and so when you’re in this mode, yeah, I got to admit, it’s like oh, the other real celebrities here. If somebody wants a picture with me, there’s that dynamic and so, but Sterling K. Brown is not thinking about it like that. He isn’t trying to impress anybody. – Right. – And so, I guess when you get to this centered, balanced place, you can say things like I’m having family time right now so I’m gonna have to pass. And you say that without apology. So are you now saying that that is what you’re gonna say when you’re with your family? – I think I’m going to, when I go into certain situations. If it’s a special event that I’m bringing one of my kids to because they are particularly excited about that and it is about, hey I’m bringing you to this thing, we’re talking about it, and there’s a buildup to it and then we get there and I’m spending 10% of my time taking photos with people, I think that that sends, it’s a missed opportunity to send a message to that child that you’re the priority and this is about you, this is not about me. I think we’ve just broken down the psychology of what selfies could mean to us in a situation like that. And I think that so I’m not saying across the board but I’m saying I’m gonna choose, I’m gonna try to choose going into events, like a mindset of doing that, like especially if it’s an enclosed space where there’s lots of people that could be fans. – I think the environment is a big deal. If you’re walking down the street– – Leads to another, leads to another. – If you’re just walking down the street with your family, having family time, and somebody’s like hey, can I get a picture? That’s a 10 second interaction or whatever. If they wanna start talking and they have a bunch of questions, at that point may be like, I’m sorry, I’m with my family now. People are still gonna think you’re a jerk for doing it, just so you know, ’cause people are gonna be like, why can’t he just give me a minute? That’s just the way people are. Like you actually took a very mature perspective on the way that you responded to Sterling K. Brown and you’re only able to do that because you can relate. But if somebody couldn’t relate, they would just be like he’s kind of a jerk for doing that. They wouldn’t go to the next step and be like, oh that’s sweet that he’s doing that for his kid. Because there’s dynamics that people don’t understand going on. So I do think that the environment is really important. If I’m just out in the middle of somewhere where it’s not like all of a sudden a crowd could form or somebody else, I’m gonna say, “Okay sure. “Let’s do a quick photo or whatever.” But I do think that if it’s, amusement parks are the supreme situation because you’re there for your family to have a good time and one recognition and one picture leads to more and then it becomes, the first time I went to Disneyland with my kids right when people were starting to recognize us, I ruined their day. It ruined their day. – Right. – ‘Cause I was trying to be nice and I’m like oh, I’m the approachable guy from YouTube, yeah of course you can get a picture with me. And that turned into I’ve gotta get a hat. I’ve gotta get a hat and sunglasses and then I always felt like one of those douches walking around with a hat and, I’m wearing a hat and sunglasses at Disneyland so you won’t recognize me douche. – Excuse me sir, can I get a picture with you because I’ve never seen someone so douche-like. (Rhett chuckles) Your douche level is so high. – I ruined my family’s day so I do think that you kinda have to evaluate the environment and then you have to have, I’m sure he said that line, I’m sorry. I’m having family time right now so I’m gonna have to pass. He’s worked on that line. – Yeah. – He’s made it as un-disarming as possible. – Sterling K. disarmament. That’s what I’m gonna be doing from now on. Yeah I think that’s helpful, I think… I think that’s a good stopping point, you know. Food for thought, I think this has been beneficial for us. I don’t know what it’s done for you but thanks for hanging in there. – Hopefully it hasn’t made you incredibly nervous about if you see us in public. I don’t know what to do now that they’ve talked about it like this. Just be yourself, just be yourself. Be yourself and evaluate the environment. We’ll be doing the same thing. – Yeah, but it’s on us to set the boundary. Leave that to us. We will crush you. No we won’t. – You have a rec for us? – Oh yeah, as a reward for hanging on so long, give you a recommendation. ♪ Check baby check baby one, two, three, four ♪ ♪ Rec baby rec ♪ You know what, I’d like to recommend going over and perusing and maybe participating in the Good Mythical Morning and Rhett and Link Reddit threads. Subreddits. In the occasional times that I go through there, I’m encouraged about the thoughtful exchanges that are happening around our content. So check that out. And then, if you want more relational and even deeper interactions with people, other Mythical Beasts, then of course, I’ll tack on a recommendation for becoming a member of the Mythical Society. But yeah, I’m encouraged by the tone and the thoughtfulness of the exchanges on Reddit and if you haven’t been there you might be pleasantly surprised in lurking and then joining in. So those two subreddits. So there you have it. – Well thank you for joining us once again. We will be doing the same thing. Just slightly different. We’ll be talking about something different. But the same two guys sitting at the same table in the same formation. Link’s voice may be a little bit different because he won’t have a cold anymore. – #EarBiscuits. Let us know ♪ What your thoughts are ♪ ♪ And don’t be afraid ♪ ♪ To let it shine ♪ ♪ If the sun is hidin’ ♪ ♪ Then your teeth can make the difference ♪ ♪ In someone’s life ♪ ♪ Just smile a little smile ♪ ♪ And brighten the environment ♪ – So that’s an original, right? We don’t have to pay anybody for that. – I think that was painfully obvious, yes. (Rhett chuckles) I went to, I was at lunch yesterday. – Are you done now? – I’m not done. – Oh. – And this one, I could tell that I got recognized by someone who was seated with us and then they were seated further down. Me and Christy were on a date and the whole time, in the back of my mind I knew that there was this, these people who recognized me, they were fans. It was a little more like giddy fan energy. So I’ve learned to deal with the fact that like okay, I know I’m being watched right now even though I’m on a date. – Yep. – It’s like, there was a couple of years there were it was like that did a number on me. But I think I’m over that. But– – I thought this was gonna end with, and I went and sat with them. – We got a picture afterward. We ended up leaving at the same time and they were waiting outside for me to come out so at least they didn’t approach me at the table so I thought that was a nice boundary. But it was weird ’cause you know, you ever feel like you’re being watched when you’re on a date? – And it’s actually much easier than people realize for you to notice that they’ve noticed you. You don’t even have to try. – Even though I’m oblivious. – Right. – So thank goodness I’m oblivious. You notice twice as much as I do. – I have a great vantage point. Okay, now we’re done. – [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)