Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I’m Link. And I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we are exploring the question what’s it like to sleep on a bus? And other stories from the road. Oh yeah we’ve been on the road, y’all, we’ve been traveling around, doing shows and lots of bunk, bus bunk time for introspection. I had a horrifying experience which I’ll share a little bit later. Yeah so we’ve been– But I also had some really good experiences that– Oh well share those as well. Changed my life as well as the life of my children. Yeah so we’ve been on the road on tour and then I tacked some time in North Carolina at the end of my time and you came back here and had a staycation so we’ll get into talking about that a little bit but we do want to let you know that while we are back temporarily, we are going back out on the road. Yes we gonna keep telling you about when we’re gonna be on the road and you know what you should go on the internets and look around at all the fun that we had on our, this last tour. There’s– Well we’re gonna talk to ’em about it. There’s definitely photos though. Yeah there’s photos out there. There’s photo evidence of the things that we did and how much fun people had at the things that we were doing. Starting September 4th. That you should come to. September 4th, the next leg of the tour begins. Houston, Texas, New Orleans, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Florida, Tampa, Florida, then we go to Las Vegas October 19th. November 20th, Albuquerque, New Mexico, then Phoenix, Arizona, Sacramento, California, and Valley Center, California. Go to RhettAndLinkLive.com to get tickets. And to clarify something, we talked about this on our Instagram, one of those Instagram videos that we did where we’re eating tour food. We met somebody on the road and we tend to meet people when we’re in these cities and they tend to say things like, oh I didn’t know you were in town. That’s why we continue talking about the shows but then we met someone who did know about the show but she was like I don’t have $300, and we were like, what are you talking about, $300? And I think what she was doing and what a lot of people are doing is if you just Google Rhett and Link concert tickets, well some sponsored sites– I do that every day. Some sponsored sites where they’re reselling tickets are gonna come up and don’t buy the tickets there. Go to RhettAndLinkLive.com to get the best prices on tickets. I think we’ve got tickets starting at around $30 for these upcoming shows so we’re trying to make it as affordable as possible so that won’t be an excuse. If you don’t know about it maybe that’s our fault but if you’re paying a whole lot of money for your tickets, that might be your fault if you’re going to the wrong place. The bus life was something that was interesting which we’ll talk about but also the culinary lifestyle that we assumed while on tour was, I can’t– Consequential. I can’t decide if it was great or if it was horrible. It was both. It was both. It was great and horrible. We had this idea and if you happen to catch an Instagram live, we’re talking like an hour before our show, maybe a little bit more sometimes. We would sit down and we would eat what you or at least those of you who voted and responded to our Instagram post, we ate the two most popular signature dishes from the most signature restaurant at each city that we were in according to you. We pitted ’em against each other. And it turns out that those signature dishes are not things like kale salads. No. As you might imagine, they are things like, you just increased the probability of you having a heart attack by at least 2% every time you eat something, it’s that kind of meal. I think by a certain point in the tour, we were eating dishes that were just called cholesterol. Yes. Okay we got a big styrofoam clam shell. I open that thing up, oh look, it’s just cholesterol. Well literally one of ’em was just fried cheese that you dip in ranch dressing. That was pretty great. And you know what, it was really good, that was in Milwaukee, that was cheese curds. Yeah cheese curds. Which incidentally– Milwaukee put a hurtin’ on me, y’all. Milwaukee won, okay. Ooh wee. Milwaukee won the food contest. Not only did they have the best dish according to me, I think they had the best two dishes according to me. Now I think, and they also had custard. The custard, the hamburger, and the cheese curds. Milwaukee knows what they’re doing when it comes to eating. Cheeseburger and custard were from Kopp’s. Once you start eating a cheeseburger and it’s really good– Not just any cops though, a restaurant called Kopp’s. K-O-P-P-S. Yeah we’re not taking food from the police. Right, well, you don’t trust the police? No that’s not– You’re gonna get– That is not what– We gonna get civic on this podcast. I intended to talk about. We’re gonna have some civic controversy. We got that food from Kopp’s. Like what are you talking about from cops. Now you’re accepting food from– Well I tried to pronounce it. Police. I tried to emphasize the K and the two Ps when I said it. Yeah and no one except your own brain saw that. Right but I did see it. K-O-P-P-S. When you’re eating a cheeseburger that’s as good as that cheeseburger, you don’t merely just taste the cheeseburger. You eat the whole cheeseburger. Yeah I couldn’t– Even if you do have a whole clam shell full of curds over here and then the way to the custard is right next to it. See I made a curds and whey joke. You didn’t even have to emphasize that. I knew that you were saying W-H-E-W. W-H-E-Y. W-H-E-W, whew! Now speaking of tasting, I think I’m still tasting what I had yesterday as my last meal in North Carolina because the thing that you got to do is you got to come back to California and go back to a California diet and you probably feel like clean and light and youthful. Matter of fact, I ate a vegan dinner last night. Yeah see. I did not. Boy my farts. Well let’s not talk about your farts. We do that enough. I mean , I don’t wanna talk about ’em except to say that it ain’t all peaches and cream on this side of the table. Okay well but your body will adjust. You had a week’s worth of North Carolina hurtin’. What I did is I did the tour eating and then I went to North Carolina and I was like, I’m still on vacation and I’m here in North Carolina and I just kept on eating that way and the meal that is currently in my stomach and I have actually felt it lurching. What? Multiple times. Okay you didn’t kill it first? I went, my final meal was Cook Out. Oh my gosh. And let me tell you what I got. I love Cook Out. And I don’t even know if you know about this yet. I don’t even wanna hear this. I don’t know if you know about the, all the sides that are offered. Okay so in case you didn’t know, Cook Out is a fast food hamburger place in the south that has, what makes it unusual is not just the fact that it’s good food but the sides that you can get other than fries are basically just a ridiculous, there are no rules in the universe. They’ve thrown all rules of what a side is to the side because I got, first of all I didn’t get a cheeseburger, I got a barbecue sandwich because I was like, you know what, I’ve never had the barbecue sandwich from Cook Out. I’ve never done that either. I’ve always gotten it from Smithfield’s and we had one meal left and I was like I haven’t had a barbecue sandwich yet. Locke and Shepherd had never been to Cook Out. Dang. I already knew you were a horrible parent. Could not remember the last time they went to Cook Out. ‘Cause Locke would have been a lot younger. You hit him on the head every time you take him to Cook Out. So I got a barbecue sandwich. Like Men In Black. And then the side that I got, of course, one of the sides was a corn dog. Right. Because that’s a side. Nuggets can be a side, you get nuggets? No, the other side was a chicken quesadilla. But you just got three– I just got three mains. But that’s what makes it so crazy. They got chicken quesadilla, they actually have enchiladas as sides too is what– Now you don’t say that word right. Quesadilla? The other one. Enchilada? Yeah, it’s not an inch, it’s an ench. Enchilada. It’s an E, not an I. You can’t be talking to people about the way to pronounce words, man. Enchilada. It’s ehn-chilada if you wanna get– You say inchilada. Inchilada. Inchilada. It’s funny right. But go ahead, we know what you mean. Well then you should peench me and tell me that I’m saying it wrong. I’ll peench you. But I didn’t get, where I drew the line is I didn’t get a milkshake ’cause hey have over 40 different flavors of milkshakes including one in July, a watermelon milkshake, watermelon shake that has pieces of watermelon in it that’s only served between July and August. It’s great, it’s crazy. It’s crazy and so that– And it’s a small place. Have you ever looked through the window at them makin’ all that stuff? There’s like one person in there just spinning around. It’s like a– Like a cartoon. Well I’ve seen multiple people but there’s only room for one person. I saw one girl. I saw one girl. I think you saw six girls but they were in the space of one girl. And do you know how some Cook Outs have a table outside of them? Yeah. This Cook Out that was somewhere between the beach and RDU had nothing. It was just like we do not expect you to stick around. Well. So I just drove across the street to an abandoned parking lot, which there’s so much– Space. Abandoned buildings. Down east. There’s just nothing there, there’s nothing there between the beach and Raleigh, there’s nothing. I used to drive that every week to see my in-laws. There was a post-apocalyptic type of vibe to it. From time to time– Except for the Cook Out and the Bojangle’s. I’m tasting either a barbecue sandwich or a corn dog or a quesadilla in no particular order. I can’t believe they have enchiladas. I did not, I would have bet against that. Well I’m not confirming that. Lance, we were with Lance and Lacey and Lance told me, he may have meant quesadilla because when I got there I saw quesadilla and just got it. The menu’s so big, I didn’t wanna then continue reading to see if they had enchiladas as well. How was the barbecue sandwich? Solid, very good. It’s– Have sauce already on it? They asked me if I wanted slaw and Texas Pete on it, I said, well, who do you think I am? Texas Pete on it huh? Yes. I would have gotten it but– It was very good. Steamed bun. Texas Pete is not a barbecue sauce. And do you know that, yeah, well ’cause it’s got, you mean does it already have like vinegar, yeah it’s got some sort of vinegar sauce in the meat. Okay. Do you know, Bojangle’s is also now serving a pulled pork sandwich. It’s on the menu, I didn’t get that. Really? And I’m sorry I have to throw somebody under the bus, just quickly let me do this. Atlantic Beach, on Atlantic Beach, which is technically an outer bank. Emerald Isle and Atlantic Beach, they’re all on this island. Well there’s a Bojangle’s on that island and I was staying on that island for a few days. And I took Shepherd to Bojangle’s, I haven’t been to Bojangle’s yet. I get to Bojangle’s at Atlantic Beach, I get in line and you know how they have, the only place in the world that does the, Bojangle’s is the only place in the world that does the line where you gotta go around like you’re getting ready to go on a ride. It switches back. Oh not in the car, you’re talking about in the restaurant. In the restaurant there’s a switch back and then you get up there and then you order and they say it into the microphone. It’s awesome. Just wondering why they’re still doing that but– That’s like an amusement park ride too, it’s like buckle up. The first thing that threw me off is I’ll get in line and there’s a murmur going through the line and it’s that they’re out of dirty rice, which I wanted dirty rice. I was gonna get dirty rice and beans. Cajun pintos. I love the fact that made its way back through the line. They’re out of dirty rice, what are we gonna do? They’re out of dirty rice. The rollercoaster’s broke. Should we leave? Should we leave, should we go back to the mainland? Should we go to Morehead City? Those kinds of things are happening and then, I’m like okay well, I don’t have to get dirty rice. 45 minutes later– What? Is when I was receiving my food. 45 minutes later. This place, I love Bojangle’s but the one in Atlantic Beach is so mismanaged that it is a disgrace to the name of Bojangle’s. It is, ’cause Locke and his cousins went and they also had to wait 45 minutes at a different time. Different time? I realize that it’s peak season, but there was– You sure you weren’t going to Jobangle? There’s 11 people in line. There were 11 people in line and some of them were like three people together as a party. It wasn’t 11 different groups, it was like four different groups, 45 minutes. Did you band together with those people and– Oh I’m not done. They’re out of dirty rice, I get up there, I order, they’re still out of dirty rice at that point and I didn’t even ask for it. They’re out of honey mustard. Gah. Hey man post-apocalyptic. Then we get our tea, of course we got sweet tea. Jessie wanted, she said bring me back an unsweetened tea and then Shepherd and I were like we’re gonna get sweet tea because we’re here. When in Rome. We sit down and Shepherd’s like I think I got Mom’s tea and he says let me taste, and he taste another, says no, and then he tastes mine, says Dad these are all unsweetened. I was like Shepherd, this is just your 10 year old palate. Let me taste them. They’re all unsweet. I go back up and I say sorry, you put unsweet tea in these sweet teas, he’s like okay. 45 minutes later. That happened in about seven minutes, it wasn’t too long. Okay. He fills ’em back up, we go back down and Shepherd says Dad they’re still unsweet. I taste ’em, he’s right. They have not put any sugar in the sweet tea. I begin to see people who’ve already waited 45 minutes for their meal getting up and looking at their tea. There’s an old man walking by, he’s talking to himself. I was like, the tea’s not sweet is it? He didn’t even hear me, he was like . He goes up, he gets his tea, and then there’s a woman back there, she’s like, y’all, the tea’s not sweet. This is bad. I mean this is like– They forgot to put sugar in the tea. This is the start of a riot in North Carolina. If there’s a Bojangle’s representative listening, send help to the one in Atlantic Beach, man, because I’m not gonna go to it anymore. I don’t wanna ruin, the food is so good. I mean when Bojangle’s runs out of dirty rice– But I don’t wanna wait an hour for it. Honey mustard, you need to air drop some supplies. And I believe in– Air drop a manager in there. I believe that it might be actual sacrilege to serve sweet tea that’s not sweet. I think those people might go to hell. Me too. I think that might be an unforgivable sin. Right, especially when they’re like no, but this one is. And if you do it twice, yes, yes, you go to the third level of hell. Sorry for that little rant, I didn’t expect to do that, but I was really upset, very upset. I would be afraid. With those things happening at a Bojangle’s, I would literally, I would be like, kids, we gotta get out of here ’cause something bad’s gonna happen. Like, someone is gonna get too upset and there’s gonna be like, they’re gonna be rippin’ paper bags and I don’t know, throwing tenders. Yeah. Well they don’t call ’em tenders– They call ’em supremes. Supremes. They also have homestyle tenders. Yeah they’re not hot. They don’t have the spice in them. They’re for the children. Yeah I saw a full-grown man order those. For the weak. I shook my head at that guy. For the weak men and children. ‘Cause it’s not that hot. Oh man so you’re hurtin’. I feel good now that I got that out though. You got that Cook Out in you. I got this, man, it was like, it was beets and yams and they have this thing– Yum. They had a thing called barbecue and it was– They had a thing called barbecue. It was made out of mushrooms. Where was this at? Cafe Gratitude. Oh, that place. We talked about this place and when you order off the menu– I like that place. It’s adjectives like whole and complete and serene and when you order you’re supposed to– Whole with a W or just H-O-L-E? Put this in your hole. We’re having a real– Your mouth hole. Homonym of an episode here aren’t we? Well sometimes, man. You gotta clarify. There were no cops there. It was, what was I saying again? Whole. Oh, yeah, when you order you say I am devoted. Yeah. And then you get a dish called devoted. I have trouble. I have trouble with that system but I appreciate it. I did it. I appreciate what it’s trying to do. Trying to give you gas. And I’m not talkin’ about– And it’s succeeding. It’s not at the volume, it’s the flavor. It’s the snet, snet, the scent. All right I mean we got more to talk about in terms of our tour so let’s switch gears to going back to the tour. But first– Bus gears. But first we wanna let you know that you can grab these Ear Biscuits mugs. You can literally grab them, there’s a handle. Look at this. You can also figuratively grab them at Mythical.store. When your ears are drinking our mouths, your lips can be drinking from our mugs. Mythical.store. Thical.store. We will– Did a little– It could have been quesadilla. Enchilada come up? It could have been breading. It could have been the little hard breading on the stick at the bottom of a corn dog. That sticks with you awhile, you know, and I always eat the– Oh you nibble that stuff off. Oh that’s the best part. You nibble nibble nibble. Listen. You nibble that stick. I would buy sticks of just the hard, crusty batter. You know what you can do is you can go through the trash can of a Cook Out. Crusty sticks. You can go through the Cook Out trash can. Crusty sticks. And get out the corn dog sticks. No but people eat ’em in their cars and at home. Nobody sticks around. But when you’re driving out of the parking lot, you throw it in the trash can. I gotta go to the Corn Dog Castle for that refuse bin. Mythical.store. Get it. Before we get back into the story, we do wanna let you know that this is the next to last Ear Biscuits before we’re taking a short summer break. We’re taking a three week break. Am I right, Kiko? Three weeks without Ear Biscuits. Find another podcast, no don’t find another podcast. Listen to old Ear Biscuits, do that in the three weeks that we’re not here. Don’t get hooked on anybody else now. And then we’ll be back with more, so next to last, we’ve got one more next week and then a three week break and we’ll be back. I’ll quickly go through the rhythm of tour. Because I think it can be romanticized and there’s many ways to do it, I mean we’re spoiled on a number of fronts. First of all I just wanna brag about everybody who came out to this leg of the tour and saw us. You guys were super supportive and welcoming, and even, I’m always fascinated and we’re so analytical when it comes to anything we create or any time we perform, like the moment we’re done putting something out into the world or we come backstage after something, we’re immediately assessing how well it went. And it never fails to surprise me how different audiences are different. Well how all audiences are a little bit different, the things that as a whole that resonate with them. Some audiences are really, they like to cheer, some audiences like to laugh, some audiences do both. Some like to talk. Some like to talk to us and I think we, there are cues that we give that welcome that and sometimes at the start of a show, we kinda, we’re a little more open than other times. And we made it a point to try a few new songs and the banter in between, that’s our moment to see if we can create something new every single time, give or take. We talked about how when comedians or musicians tour, a lot of times they have to win over the audience and we never have to do that because people who show up are dedicated Mythical Beasts so there’s this comfort level and so like I said, we’re spoiled on that front. We also have a bus that we travel in. Now when the bus goes a really long distance in between shows, we do fly but we finally realized it took, for most of the Tour of Mythicality we didn’t do this but we started to realize towards the end that hey, we can sleep on the bus, this can actually be fun. This might be the best part of the whole thing. Well maybe not. For a 6’7″ young man. Well considering that the bunks are 6’6″. Yeah. In length. But we are spoiled to have a bus that has sleeping bunks. A nice bus. And then it pulls a trailer with merch and stuff behind it and so us and the crew, we basically traveled on a bus the whole time, I also brought my kids Lily and Lincoln along with us on this leg of the tour. But just having a bus like that and not having to sleep in a van or out of a crappy hotel or something was, we’re spoiled. And I don’t know if this is necessarily the case with, like a band that would be going around. I guess they do stop somewhere to shower but we do . You got that corn dog crust coming up. We do also, so basically, as soon as the show’s over, we have our meet and greet, we usually don’t get out of the town and start, the bus doesn’t start rolling until after midnight, maybe 12:30. And then we roll into the next town, most of us go to sleep immediately or within an hour or so and then you don’t set an alarm or anything, you just wake up. Well you said we roll into town and most of us go to sleep. No, once the bus starts moving, we go to sleep and then it’s driving to the place. Oh roll out of town. Roll out of town, yes. Like an hour after we leave, everybody’s pretty much asleep and so then, you don’t set an alarm, you just wake up at some, you go to bed that late, you going to bed at one, 1:30. Most people are gonna wake up at nine, 10. I’m gonna wake up at 10 or 11. And then– And realize the bus is no longer moving and that everyone has vacated the bus except for me and my children. Usually the Neals are the last off the bus. I was the last off the bus one time but most of the time, you guys, I get up and I see all your shoes, you’re still there, I’m like oh they’re still there. But then there’s Gary, our tour manager has created basically a map or a very simple set of directions for this is how you get to the hotel. Here’s your hotel key, you do have a hotel ’cause you’re gonna go there and basically shower and we would just basically shower and then– We’d have a couple of hours to do something. Go out and eat lunch and then maybe walk around or if there are scooters, we would scoot around town– Oh yeah. For a couple of hours before we have to get back for sound check and sign posters for the meet and greet and all that. I’ll tell ya, Denver’s a good place to scooter. Very good. They got this river there that’s got rapids all in it and then there’s, it’s fancy, all the paths they got around this river. Yeah that was, I’d say Denver was the scooter, scooting highlight. Yeah. Scooting capital of the world, you might say. Scooter low-light was probably– Omaha. Omaha I would say. More for Britton than for us because, man, he took a tumble. Well and I saw the whole thing in slow motion. Now let me just say that right before Britton had his incident on the scooter– He hit a hole. I was thinking about, we were in Omaha and there’s also a giant river, is it the Missouri River, is that what that was? Yeah. Coming through Omaha and we’re going all around and scooting up and down these paths and there’s this little park next to the Conagra campus there and we’re going around this pond and I was thinking after we’d been out for an hour and a half, I was like, I’m kinda surprised that no one has fallen. And I actually in my mind was like, kinda surprised that one of the kids, and when I say one of the kids, I kinda throw Britton, Britton’s more a kid than– He’s 19 but– We could be his dad. Right, he’s only five years older than Lincoln. And I was like I’m surprised that one of them hasn’t fallen on these scooters yet and literally three minutes later– You voodooed him. I didn’t say anything. Did you stab a doll? I’m going over this bridge in this park, this sort of arched bridge and we get to the, and Britton’s in front of me and it was just this change in the surface, this little bump. Sometimes all it takes is a little bump. It was a hole ’cause I hit it too. Yeah there’s a drop off. It was a drop off and then a bump on the other side ’cause it was like this depressed area of bricks. And he hit it and I saw him begin to lose control and then he over corrected and then he came back and then he over corrected again and then he flew off of of the scooter at full speed and did a pretty athletic move to fall down and roll into a back flip and then land in the grass. But I could see on his face immediately that he was shaken. All I could see as I was coming over the bridge horizon were his feet in the air. Oh so you saw that. Yeah. And then he was rollin’. Tore up his elbow and one of his hands. It’s like hold on man, those are your money makers. You’re a guitarist. Right and he had a show and we had a show, well he had a show the next night. Right because we didn’t have a show that night. Now thankfully Jenna who is here was also there at the time because Link and I just proceeded to laugh and make fun of Britton. As he just sat there and shook. And– We knew he wasn’t dead. He wasn’t really hurt. He wasn’t actively bleeding. There wasn’t anything broken. Well he was actively bleeding. He was actively bleeding. In fact he got blood all over his pants. He was shaken, he got a little pale. He was a little bit in shock but we knew that he wasn’t permanently injured so we laughed. And that’s what guys do, man. And then Jenna came in and was thinking straight and strategically. What was that magic fluid you started pouring on his arm, like contact solution or something. It was just water. Oh it was just water. Now she sacrificed– Glasses cleaner. Her glasses cloth. Oh it was cloth, I thought the, when you said I’m gonna use my glasses cleaner, I thought all of that liquid up until this moment, I thought she was pouring glasses cleaner all over his arm. I was like hmm that’s like MacGyver. But that’s also poison. I thought it was alcohol. No I think that like– Which is why I was just sitting on the side laughing. ‘Cause who am I, who knows what I would have poured in his wound. Right. Hey let me pee on it, man, I think when you get stung by some asphalt, you gotta pee on it. Right yeah, like a jellyfish. But– I probably could have convinced him, that would have been funny. Jenna took care of him and we did all scoot back to a place where we could drop the scooters off ’cause we were outside of the scooter offloading area that we couldn’t, the app would not accept us to just stop where we were. But he ended up being okay. He looked kinda cool playing the next night with a large bandage around his elbow. He got some sympathy points or whatever. But anyway in terms of the schedule, yeah we typically do something for a couple hours. Usually no one would get hurt and then, we’d show up at the venue, we’d do a soundcheck, we’d sign posters for the meet and greet and then we’d just sit backstage. We’d eat our food and so it ended up being like three hours of just kinda sitting around backstage and then doing the show and the whole thing starts over. But you would really get into the rhythm of, I can’t wait to get back to the bus. I know that was Lily’s favorite part. There’s something about climbing on this bus and at some points the bunks were three high and at some points they were two high. When they’re three high you cannot sit up in your bunk. You just gotta roll in and roll out like a log roll. But we got the two, they gave me and you– I still could– The two high. Yeah and some of the crew but the youngsters got the three high. There is something like cozy, it’s like a cozy hideout and you lay down in the thing and then you pull your curtain closed and you Velcro it and then you can take your pants off. Hmm. Take whatever you got on off if you want to. I wasn’t naked. I had the really comfortable pants though that I left on ’cause it’s almost like a blanket in and of itself. There was a little light in there, then you can set up your earphones and you can listen to some, a playlist to help you sleep. Or you can just go to sleep to the murmur and the rustle of the bus. And that was a lot of fun but I started playing, well every night I would go to sleep with, I downloaded this playlist on Spotify called Deep Sleep. And I would listen to that thing. And it was like eight or nine hours of just ambience, sleep-inducing– And then some pianos over top of that. And what headphones are you employing for this? My Bose noise-canceling in ear headphones, not a sponsor. Right ’cause you can’t use the AirPods ’cause they would run out eventually. I actually did use AirPods sometime, and they would just fall out of my ears and then I’d wake up in the middle of the night searching for an AirPod because I’d be too anxious that I’d lost it forever. So does this preclude you from sleeping on your side? I would roll all over and sometimes the whole cord would just tangle around my waist like a belt. But what about ear pain when you, I’m an exclusive side sleeper. I’m a back sleeper but I did sleep on my side some and there is inner ear pain where you’re smooshing it in. That’s why I can’t listen to things in the ears. That’s not the worst thing about it though. But I will tell you what is. And that’s when you’re listening to an eight hour playlist of just instrumental ambient music which is great to send you into a deep stupor. But you only do this while traveling. You don’t do this at home. I do not. And I’m laying there sleeping and then all of a sudden, a woman says to me, “Don’t leave me,” and I woke up terrified. And I look around, there’s no woman. Right. There’s nobody talking on this deep sleep playlist. Much less singing, this is instrumental. And I’m like, I dreamt that a woman said don’t leave me. I went back to sleep. Was it Christy’s voice? But I was kinda, it was more dramatic than that. It was a dramatic Christy– It was a dramatic, I don’t know, it was a lot of need in it. It was very disconcerting and I don’t remember dreaming anything but I was able to go back to sleep and then I went deep again, nothing. Wake up next day fine. Fast forward to the next night, same routine, I go to sleep, I’ve been asleep for a few hours. And then all of a sudden, the woman. Don’t leave me. She returned and this time I woke up and I’m like, okay, I know, is there a ghost in there? I don’t know what’s going on and I’m like it’s the frickin’ playlist. In the middle of a nine hour playlist that’s just instrumental there is one sound snippet in the middle of a song where a woman says, “Don’t leave me,” and that is terrifying. It’s a– Spotify, you gotta remove that from the playlist, and a matter of fact, I found it, because the third time I was like, you know when this happens, I’m gonna take a screenshot and I’m gonna remember so I can remember where this is. It’s just an Easter egg, man. It’s an Easter egg that people who commit fully to the playlist experience. Allana Johnson, Breathing Star. Yeah it’s Allana. Don’t leave me. I like to feel needed and wanted. Not when you’re in a deep sleep, man, it’s like what, I’m not leaving you, girl. I’m laying here asleep! You freak me out, man. So then I told the people at the show that night and then there was a good runner about don’t leave me. Yeah it really worked, it did. That’s the type of stuff you live for, you know, getting scared, the crap scared out of me. What I was thinking was gonna happen is the music was gonna drop out completely and some woman was gonna say, “Don’t leave me.” And then it was gonna come back in ’cause that would wake me up for sure. So that was a low-light but I would say a highlight of the tour besides again like I said, we’re so spoiled by, it was just a great audience reception and it was great to connect with so many Mythical Beasts and to get even more of an idea of what makes them tick and what makes them laugh, you know. It turned out to be very special for me because Lily and Lincoln were there. I didn’t think Lily was gonna be able to come but then the fact that they both were able to come, we should say that Locke was gonna come but then because of– He had like five basketball games in that 11 week period so he would have left his boys hanging. Yeah he couldn’t do it. But he was obviously invited and there was a chance he may come and then hopefully in the future he’ll be able to do something like that because it was so special for me and my kids, and of course Lando’s too young, Shepherd’s probably too young because they need to be supervised more. They have to fend for themselves. The kids have to fend for themselves. But you know, I realized that it was such a sweet and special time for me and Lily and Lincoln afterward when I started to reflect on the fact that really the only time that we spend that much time together, like every waking hour for 10 days straight, the only time we do that is if we go on a family vacation. Right. You know, and a family vacation is a totally different vibe than being on tour because everybody’s in a different mode when vacation is happening but when we were on tour, we’re in tour mode so we’re working and we’re doing things and I think they kinda rose to the challenge, I wouldn’t call it a challenge but they kinda rose to the occasion of hey, we’re part of the crew. They rolled some posters and they would hand ’em out at the meet and greets. They didn’t roll posters every night, sorry Jenna. But they felt, they were treated as equals and I could definitely see that in their takeaway as they reported back to Christy and Lando when we got back home how much they enjoyed it and they talked about tour life. I was hopeful but I didn’t wanna be too hopeful, you know me, I think, oh when they get back, they’re gonna have this perfect idea of what tour was and it’s gonna be the most influential thing in their entire lives so I didn’t wanna go into full dad Link mode with my expectations so I was pleasantly surprised that it meant so much to them and they said they had a great time and I think just spending that amount of time together, you really get to, again, when you’re not in vacation mode, it was a great opportunity for us to get to know each other, ’cause I was able to observe them interacting with the other members of the crew, and, okay, when do they choose to pipe up and what do they choose to say and what are their perspectives on things. It’s something that I don’t have the benefit of that often and actually thought about, I got a little jealous of Christy over the years who as difficult and demanding as it was for her to homeschool the kids for all those years, they’ve been at public school for, this is their third year now but and the same with Jessie, it’s like, I got to see a little bit of a side of them that I think Christy and I’m guessing Jessie got to see of our kids that we don’t get to see as much when it’s not like you’re constantly with them. You know? And then at the end of 11 days, then you’re good. You don’t have to do it anymore. Yeah right. But it just turned out to be a very special time. And you know what, they said that they enjoyed getting to know you more in kind of a work mode. Unprompted, they were like, you know what, I actually have a different view of Rhett, and I’m like, and I told them about my vacation theory and I extended, I was like, yeah a lot of times when you see Rhett it’s in family or if we do vacations together, it’s in that type of mode and it was just like, the thing that, I think it was Lincoln who said, he was like, maybe it was Lily. She was like, you know what, you guys, I thought it was cool to get to see you guys actually enjoy hanging out with each other. I was like well have you ever watched our show? But I think she knows that that’s the show. But it’s not a show, I think is what she said. I enjoyed you guys enjoying each other. Well I think– I didn’t know what I thought about, my first thought when they were gonna go, I was like, oh no, we’re gonna have to worry about them and not be able to get into places because they’re too young and et cetera, et cetera, but my thought was– You talkin’ about strip clubs again? Yeah yeah yeah. My thought– I’ve never been in a strip club just for the record. That was a joke. My thought was– No judgment if you have, hey listen, let’s change the subject. I’m just– Why you talkin’ about strip clubs? I didn’t say it, didn’t say anything about that. I was talking about bars. 18 and up or 21 and up, you know. There’s some establishments where children are not allowed. Right. Right. So but I actually think that having, and I think that Britton also contributed to this as well. Yeah. Having younger people there definitely significantly changes the dynamic ’cause we have a tendency to just be in work mode like all the time. Now sure, oh let’s go get on these scooters and run around, if it was just me and you and it has been just me and you and gone out and just scooted around or whatever, but I think that something about having kids there, it lightens the atmosphere a little bit. It’s not that we don’t know how to have fun with each other, it’s just that we have so many things going on that there’s at any moment we could stop and start talking about some work-related thing or some project and even if it’s a creative thing, we’ll do it in a very serious manner, and so I think that they actually kinda change the dynamic, the group dynamic, just being kids, just being silly. Yeah and kinda having this vibe of wanting them to have a good time so electing to do more things to have a good time versus just maybe I’ll just sit in the hotel or let’s talk about work. And I do wanna say I really do appreciate the way that you included them and it was unfortunate but totally understandable that Locke wasn’t able to come but the fact that you were able to extend yourself to include them as much as you did, they without me asking, they noticed and I really appreciated that too. I thought that was very gracious and yeah, I think fun was had by everyone except for maybe Britton’s elbow. And I think it’s cool just in conclusion that a lot of people ask us, what do your kids think about what you do? And it was just, it meant a lot to me that they thought it was fun and cool to be a part of something their dad was doing, you know? There weren’t any eye rolls. It was like hey, this is– And that– This is cool. I do want, and if Locke can’t go in the next couple years or whatever then hopefully Shepherd will be able to. I do want them to be able to experience it because… Yeah, it’s like, there’s a different feel than just saying oh I’m gonna come on set when you have a guest that I’m interested in or something like that, it’s a different thing. I’m glad that– We’ll see. We had the opportunity to give ’em that gift and I believe that they’ll remember that trip forever and that’s what I hope for so. That was my highlight but I wanna hear about your vacation too because we haven’t had a chance to talk. Yeah so we got through with the tour. I flew directly from Minneapolis to the beach in North Carolina to spend time with my wife’s family. Her parents and her sister and husband and kids. And we were going to spend a couple days in one location and a few days in another location. So you may, if you followed me on Instagram, shout-out to @rhettmc on Instagram, a very dynamic Instagram account from time to time. You may have seen my, what went down on the day of July 4th. I don’t know if you saw any of this. The only thing I saw was you looking for horses which you can leave for Instagram. After that I was like okay. Oh you missed, you missed, that was just the warmup story. You didn’t see the fireworks show? Uh-uh. Oh brother. Okay so I’ve talked about this before. I’ve talked about how my father-in-law used to get firework, together, he would produce the show, i.e. he would finance the show and then I would go down to– He would executive produce. I would go down to South Carolina and buy the fireworks and then spend all day wiring them together with extra fuses and stuff, creating as crazy of an amateur fireworks show as you can get away with, right? Illegally in North Carolina. Well, it’s illegal in the sense that going 62 in a 55 is or 64 in a 55 is because– Okay. No. Okay. On July 4th– They turn a blind eye. They turn a blind eye, in fact, I’ve had the cops and when I say cops in this setting, I mean C-O-P-S, drive by while I was in the process of lighting a crap ton of fireworks, lighting them. And they just kinda like nod at ya, it’s like oh it’s Fourth of July. So– You’re American, I’m American. Aw man I’ll have to show you. I’ve still got video of some of it because we were renting a, we were staying at one of my father-in-law’s houses that he’s got down there. They have a property company that’s got different houses that you can rent so we kinda reserved one of them. And it was one that was on the sound that had a very long dock that went out into the sound. I was like this is perfect, we’re gonna take all the fireworks out onto the dock and light them. Oh no. But I was like I’m not gonna take all day to get the extra fuse, I was like just get me a powerful lighter that is a wind-proof like torch kinda lighter and then we’ll just figure it out in the moment. You know just take some stuff out there and light it and then string some stuff together. You’re not used to all that prep anymore. You don’t work hard anymore. I’m not gonna do the work. And also I had Locke and then his two teenage cousins and then my brother-in-law so we had a lot of help to get the things out on the dock and first of all, I don’t remember exactly how much money we spent on fireworks 10 years ago which is the last time I did this but my father-in-law went a little bit nuts with the amount of stuff that he bought. He sent one of his employees down to South Carolina. The guy came back and he had like a twin cab or like quad cab truck or whatever and the whole backseat was just stacked to the ceiling with fireworks, like this guy had of been in an accident and there was a little spark– Oh my gosh. He would have created a crater. Is he a smoker? No not a smoker, he wasn’t a smoker on that day. But anyway we set these things off and the cool thing about setting the fireworks off in the sound is you’ve got all these people watching from, of course, we’ve got my family that’s up there on the deck watching from the house and then you’ve got everyone else that just come out to the back of their houses all on the sound, on both sides, to watch all the fireworks happening. Oh. So by about– Did you warn ’em? No no, by about the second round of lighting a couple of these, they basically come in these boxes of fireworks that have, it’s just a box with a fuse on it and it has got a bunch of mortars built into it. Sometimes it’s 10 shots, sometimes it’s 40 shots, right? Anywhere in between, it basically is its own little show. We had like 50 of these things. So there were times where we were lining up six and twisting two fuses together and three of us would light ’em at the same time and then run. And by the time we did the second round of these things, we had an audience. People can tell when you’ve gotten through with a little bit, one round, right. It’s like last firework goes off and then it gets quiet and then all of a sudden all these people from wider and wider radius would go, woo hoo hoo! Woo! And then we had an audience. That sounds like a rebel yell. And then there’s other people doing fireworks at their houses. But then by about the fourth, and first of all, there were like 15 rounds that we did but by the third or fourth round, one guy yells out, “You win!” It’s funny. And I was like that’s all I needed to hear. It’s funny, yeah. That’s specifically what you were after, right? You win. Not that’s awesome, he said exactly what you wanted to hear. Well no I told my father-in-law, I was like, when the guy said all the things, I was like, we are going to have the best firework show. We’re gonna win fireworks, boys. In this area. Non-professional, that is. It’s funny you talk about the woos because last year, we’re watching fireworks from our house, from our bedroom deck, we just happened to through some trees see the fireworks display of the local high school. And we realized and we ran upstairs. This year the kids watched ’em but we were hanging out downstairs, we were with some friends and you seen one firework, you seen ’em all. I’m sorry that that’s my attitude but last year– Yeah you didn’t see my– We were so elated because fireworks started going off and it was me, Christy and the kids up there and all of a sudden behind me, I just hear woo! And I turn around and Christy’s like what? I’m from Kinston, man. Yeah. I’m like and that’s almost down to the beach where you were is where she grew up and it’s like that’s a, that’s just an instinctive southern thing when you see something on fire in the sky. Woo! Yeah well here’s the thing, the reason it’s, not only is it better than a professional show because you’re the one in control of it, but you’re so close to it. Let me– So unsafe. I’m gonna show, this is Locke filming us lighting one round. Whoa! This is all on Instagram. Good gracious. Oh my word. He’s filming– The wrong part of it. He’s filming the gazebo. I critiqued him. I’ll show you when I filmed it. Even when he films the fireworks, he’s filming just below the fireworks. Look at that. Is the pier catching on fire? Well we’ll get to that in a second. Oh, what? I’ll show you one that I filmed. This is, now, you can see a flame down there, right? You see that flame? Yeah. What is that flame? Well, it’s one of the things, I didn’t put this on Instagram ’cause I was a little embarrassed about this. The zooming is– That’s Locke. A bit nauseating. Now when I filmed, ran back. Guys, a bunch of rednecks out there with their shirts off. My goodness. Now I’ll show you. That’s one set? Oh my gosh. These are huge. That’s huge. These are massive, you never seen this before. You never been present for one of these? Uh-uh. I mean like it’s a legit firework show. You thought I was talking like little bottle rockets? I didn’t know it was that big. No no, and listen, you’re right next to it. In fact, we had– You didn’t spray? We had five leftover and we took ’em to the other beach house which is up on the Intracoastal Waterway like up on the Neuse River. Okay. And there’s another dock. We take it out on that and I lit like six that night. This is Saturday night so July 7th I guess. Just a couple nights ago and technically I think they’re illegal by that point. Oh yeah they’re not turning a blind eye. But we had more. You’re going out on a dock so as to– For the view. Oh you’re not doing that so if it catches on fire, the whole will just burn into the water and then it’s safe. Well that does help. Because I’ll get back to how we had to handle that fire in a second. There was one where the wind was coming back towards us and they don’t always go as high as they should and there’s one that blew up and then it blows up into a bunch of different pieces, then it blows up again in smaller explosions. I swear there was one that happened where the second small explosion, I’m the one closest to the action ’cause I light it, then I kinda go down the stairs, ’cause this dock had like two levels and then I’m kinda watching it. One came, I swear that I was getting hit with the little sparks. It’s not safe. As I said on the Instagram, I gave a, my wife made me do a disclaimer. Jessie was like you need to do a disclaimer so people don’t do this and I said, my wife wants me to give you a disclaimer. Do not do this unless you’re a redneck is what– Is what I said. As cool as this looks and as much fun as I’m having– You will hurt yourself if you’re not a redneck. But so, fire time, so Jessie first of all she says, “Do you have a fire extinguisher?” Right before we’re getting ready to do this and I’m like, “No.” And I was like we’re doing it over the water. She’s like you need to have a fire extinguisher and I was like okay so they had one at this house like underneath the sink and what happens after these things go off as you can see, it’s so hot that sometimes they just end up catching fire after all the stuff’s gone and so, I’m looking at that and me and Chris were trying to figure out what to do so we ran and got the fire extinguisher but they basically expended, it was one of the fire extinguishers like we used in the T-Shirt War where it was the powder. Oh. And it runs out real fast and then we had more fires happening so then we had to send the boys, the fire brigade to the house to get buckets and we took sound water and started throwing it all over the fireworks and I will say that one of them was on fire before the water got there and had to throw it into the water but we did get Isaiah to go retrieve it. He had to go to the next dock. The damp– Yeah. Trash. Yeah so everything’s good. We’re still good. We still good? Yeah we’re still good. Man, you make me nervous. Now and– That’s why I’m not there. I understand that– We can’t both be there. I do understand that it’s not responsible. Somebody’s gotta carry on. It’s not responsible. One of these rednecks has gotta carry on. But you know what, you gotta have a little fun every once in awhile man, you gotta celebrate. But it was so hot. I forget how hot it is. We’ll find out next week. ♪ Hotter than the Fourth of July ♪ We’ll be back in North Carolina for something that we’ll tell you about that’s novel-related. But we’re going out there next week. That’s right. It’s unbelievably hot. I walked outside, my frickin’ sunglasses fogged up. I actually don’t remember that happening growing up in North Carolina, I walk outside, they just fogged up completely ’cause I was going from AC but– Your face, your California face gets hotter. Has adjusted? No. It’s not adjusted so when you go back to North Carolina, your California face just, it’s like oh my gosh, my face is so hot, I gotta get rid of it and it pushes it onto the glasses and they fog up. Oh that’s very scientific. But if you live there all the time, it’s like, you learn how to not fog up your glasses. And it rained– Your face learns that. It rained every day. That didn’t help. But you didn’t care because you were already wet. You cannot just, you just go outside and you’re wet. You immediately start sweating from everywhere. That’s why you said a bunch of rednecks not having shirts on but you very quickly learn, I might as well not have a shirt on. We might as well be naked. Because any clothes that you have just immediately stick to you. I put jeans on to get back on the plane coming back yesterday and I just had jeans on to basically walk to my car and I was like, I remember now why we always wore shorts. Like me and you would go to work in shorts. I remember there was a point. I actually remember– Shorts and flip flops. I remember when we were filming the documentary Looking for Ms. Locklear, we had a conversation. We wore jeans ’cause we didn’t wanna look like a couple of nimrods– Dumbasses. Walking around in shorts. Right. But we were so hot. = We were so hot. The whole summer. That was the first time we made a conscious choice to only wear pants. Did you feel like a dumbass wearing shorts everywhere? Wearing shorts, a little bit but I adjusted. I adjusted quickly, man. Yeah it’s not, you shouldn’t feel that way but we do. No no. Something about shorts just makes you seem like– And I do not– What does it make you seem like? A bare-legged man. I don’t know. If they’re pleated and you can tuck your shirt into it then you’re back. That’s not the kind that I had. You’re total, you’re just the dad. It gets so hot, it gets super hot in California as well. It’ll be like 110 towards the end of the summer here. But it’s never so hot that you actually feel like I gotta get into shorts. ‘Cause the humidity’s so different. Do you feel like there is a way for you to feel cool and I don’t mean temperature-wise, I mean like trendy. In shorts? In shorts. I don’t see an option. I think for us– That’s a good question. I just don’t think we can pull off shorts. I think there are shorts out there that are trendy shorts. I just don’t have them. And I don’t know what constitutes a trendy short. I think they’re a little bit shorter than those shorts that I wear probably. Got more interesting patterns. A little shorter. I think you gotta have like a tank top on and maybe a visor. None of those things can you pull off. I can’t either. Yeah well we should try. I think I can pull off shorts. Well I think I can pull off shorts. I don’t think you can. You see my legs? I’m not commementing, commementing on your legs. I’m just saying just the exposed nature of your legs. I have a lot of leg. I mean your thigh’s at eye-level to some people. Yeah I have a lot of leg, I do. Couple other notable things. I drove around a car that was an advertisement for my father-in-law’s dentistry. That was the car that I had, it was wrapped in an ad. Oh gosh, did you get paid? No. That’s actually better. It was wrapped in an ad that had my deceased grandmother-in-law on it. Her face? Yes. What? Yeah she was in one of the ads. What do you mean, in one of the ads? How many ads were on the car? Well it was like the whole thing was wrapped. In your dead grandmother-in-law? Yeah well she just passed like a few months ago. Was she, what position was she in? It’s just her face, she’s smiling and showing her beautiful teeth. Really? Mm-hmm. On every side of the car? Just she’s on one side and there’s another group of people, it’s like her and some other people on one side and there’s other people on the other side. So I was a driving ad. It’s free transportation, I drove it everywhere. I drove it all over the place. Yeah that’s– I did not get paid for it though and I thought it might be, I thought about asking. And when you hopped out, what were you wearing? Shorts, man. Yeah exactly. Well I didn’t– You were the total package, brother. No, every morning I woke up, I put on shorts and nothing else. No shoes, no shirt and I remained that way for all of the day. Oh I don’t blame you, I’m just saying. And if it wasn’t– It’s not good for the brand. And if it wasn’t improper, I wouldn’t have had shorts on. You know what I’m saying? It’s so hot that there’s no difference between the inside of your body– Oh I know. And the outside of your body. I know I’m just saying– You don’t need to protect it in any way. Were people coming up to you asking you about the business? Oh yeah. Really? I made stuff up. But they didn’t believe you ’cause you were in shorts. And you were shirtless so I think you kinda negated any– Who’s that shirtless man? Is he, is that the shirtless dentist? It’s so hot I understand why he doesn’t wear a shirt when he does his work. Out here there’s a plumber called The Smell Good Plumber. But the shirtless dentist is better. The shorted dentist, ’cause technically I only had shorts on. But the shirtless dentist is something that, I mean, you’re sitting in the chair laid back, all of a sudden, you got a armpit in your face. He’s reaching over trying to get a utensil. And let me tell ya, that armpit stanks. I know it does. I would put deodorant on in the morning but I might as well, because– You see the slippery slope you’re on. You just start stinking. You stink constantly. Then your hair gets long and you’re like Peter. Hi I’m Peter. I will say I had a dream about, when I was on vacation, I had a dream. Oh now. This is really crazy, I don’t understand what happened. I think I may have seen some news report because I had a dream where the Saudi crowned prince was flying a very small open hatch plane, like an old style plane, but he was pulling behind him another plane that was pulling behind it another plane that was pulling behind it a boat. A plane train with a boat caboose. That was pulling behind another boat that was very, very large like a cruise ship style boat and then on and on and on. And were those– And it was all in the air. All in the air? He was in the air. Even the boat was in the air. Where were you? You were in the dentist car? I was in some vantage point where I could see all this. From the ground? I feel like I was on a cliff and he was going by ’cause I feel like I was eye level with it but he was over the ocean. Okay you were eye level with it. And here’s what I thought in the dream, I was like, man, I gotta remember the details of this for Ear Biscuits. In the dream? But I wasn’t thinking about in the dream, I was thinking about it as if I’ve gotta remember this moment where the crowned prince flew his crazy plane train. Yeah you believed it. You believed you were living the moment. And so ironically now I’m telling you about seeing the crowned prince and his plane train but I’m telling you about it one layer removed because it was a dream about telling you about it but now I’m telling you about the dream in which I thought telling you about the plane train. Wow. That’s weird. I think you shouldn’t have told us. I think you should have kept it in dreamland. I think you should email the Saudi prince. But man you just wait, when we go back. It’s gonna be hot. I’m only packing shorts now. Can you get on a plane in nothing but shorts? Is it like no shirt, no shoes, no service type situation? You have to wear a shirt. Do you though? Yes. I’ve seen no signs that say– There’s not signs but people– Shirtless, no problem. People routinely get kicked off of planes– For taking their shirt off. No people routinely get kicked off of planes, usually women, for having overly revealing clothes. Now I’m not saying I agree with this policy but just last week there was a report of a woman who just had like a strapless tank top thing, I don’t know– A tube top. And she got asked to leave the freakin’ plane and it wasn’t even really risque. So if they do that, and I don’t know if it’s an airplane, if it’s a airline policy but yeah, you have to wear a shirt. If you just take your shirt off in the middle of the flight, they’ll ask you to put it back on. Sir could you please put your shirt back on. They’ll say that and then if you say, “It’s so hot.” But it’s so hot, officer. That’s not gonna work. I don’t know if they would turn the plane around. From the flight deck, we’re gonna have to take a U-turn, go back to RDU ’cause we’ve got a man who will not put his shirt on. I don’t think that would happen. What about a mesh tank top? You see nipple? Yeah. The straps are low and the nipples are on either side of ’em and they’re my nipples. Your nipples. Yeah. Well for reasons that I’m still beginning to try to unravel, male nipples and female nipples are perceived differently. I mean one’s acceptable on Instagram and one isn’t so I would have to say your mesh– And Instagram is the modicum of morality. Your mesh nipples will probably get by on the plane– Oh they’re not meshed, they’re beside mesh. Oh the mesh is on the inside of the nipples. That’s what you said. I put my tank top on backwards I think. I think there would be a discussion about whether or not to approach you. Right. Back there when they’re trying to sort out the almonds and the Chex Mix, they’d be like, you see seat 13B. The further back your plane is, like if you’re in the second plane or the third plane being pulled by the second plane being– Oh you’re going back to the plane dream. Then the less you can wear. So if you’re in that second boat, you can be naked. I think the Saudi crowned prince has pretty specific standards when it comes to dress though. I thought that both boats– I think that, I’m not trying to get into that, into those waters but I don’t think nipples are okay. It’s been a civic podcast. When you told me I immediately pictured a plane towing a plane towing a plane in the air towing a boat in the air towing another boat which was much bigger as you said, but that one’s in the water. None of it was in the water. I think it was in the water at one time. The last one’s in the water. I think it started out in the water. Right, were they– All boats start in the water. Well no they start in a factory, then they are launched into the water. Was it a water plane? No it was a little single engine, open top, whatever, by plane. Saudi prince is wearing goggles. Yeah I don’t even know how I recognized him. Scarf. That’s pretty much all that happened to me on my vacation. Okay. That’s worth mentioning. Well I hate to miss, I was at home doing nothing. Wasn’t even looking at your Instagram. I don’t know what I was doing. Did you, how did you occupy yourself? I’d sit in different places. Did you clean things? Oh yeah. I would sit in different places and eat different things that was usually vegan. I’m not going vegan or anything, I’m just trying to counteract what had happened on tour. It felt good to do that. Crap, am I supposed to have a Rec in Effect? No, I got a rec, I’m ready. So relieved, I was not ready. I’m ready for this. I was not ready. Don’t leave me. This is a little bit of a cheat because I’m gonna rec something that I rec’ed on Twitter which may lower the value of this recommendation but I will expand the recommendation. I will expand the recommendation as so as to make it somewhat valuable. Okay. You may have seen that I tweeted about Blake Crouch’s new book Recursion. Blake Crouch is a guy, I believe he’s from North Carolina. He doesn’t live there anymore. Is he shirtless on his book jacket? No he’s shirted. And the first books I ever read by him, he wrote a trilogy called The Wayward Pines Trilogy, the first book is Wayward Pines and then there’s two more and I read all those. That was also made into a show. And then he wrote another book called Dark Matter which– He wrote another book, what is he an author? Called Dark Matter which is, Wayward Pines, it’s all kinda like sci-fi, psychological thriller kind of situation if you’re into that kinda thing and I am. Dark Matter was all about parallel universes, the multiverse and navigating those and just super thoughtful book and when he goes into sort of the science behind these very crazy concepts and the way that he explores them. It can get a little squirrely sometimes when you’re trying to approach things that there is some sort of scientific understanding established about these things but then you’re trying to write a fictional book about them and I just feel like he strikes a really good balance and then Recursion is his latest book which is all about the nature of memory and some very sci-fi stuff that is based on some current understanding of the way memory works but taking that to a very sort of unexpected place. Anyway, highly recommend Blake Crouch in general. His latest book, you can start with any of these. His latest book is Recursion, I recommend it if you’re into sort of a wild ride for your mind. What are you doing over there? Nothing, I’m listening. I’m sorry, there was a tangle in my thing and I was just letting you do your thing. I’ll fix this afterward. Recursion you said. A wild ride for your mind that’s very, very entertaining. A wild mind ride. Yeah. Take a ride on Blake Crouch’s mind. Did you get it, you didn’t get it untangled. I said I’d do it later. All right guys, thanks for hanging out with us, listening at us and we’ll speak at you again next week. #EarBiscuits. We look at those. We look at those. Bye. To watch more Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist on the right. To watch the previous episode of Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist to the left. And don’t forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe. If you prefer to listen to this podcast, it’s available on all your favorite podcast platforms. Thanks for being your Mythical best.