Before we get started today we just wanna let you know that we got just a handful of concerts left. A handful. For this year, and it’s the only ones we have planned into the future at this point. So if you wanna see us do musical comedy. Oh yeah. You can come to Albuquerque, New Mexico, on November 20th, Phoenix, Arizona on the 21st, Sacramento, California on the 22nd, and Valley Center, California, on November 23rd. Singing some songs. We’re gonna make these real special shows because we aint gonna do ’em for a while. So come on up. RhettAndLinkLive.com. That’s RhettAndLinkLive.com. Get your tickets there. Don’t just google it and click on the first place you see. That’s right. Now on with the biscuit. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I’m Rhett. And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re discussing, but this is your brain child, how do you wanna put this? Uh, well, the catchy way to talk about it is our we out of touch? But the way we’re going to discover just how out of touch we might be, if we are– With ourselves? With aliens? With what? With generation Z. Oh. Are we losing our grip on the trend, on the currency of pop culture? And our kids are generation Z, by the way. Can you look up what officially, Jacob, can you look up officially what years you were supposed to be born in to be generation Z? Just to verify that. Just so when we come back to it I can seem knowledgeable. And is there, what generation are we? Actually, we are– 41/42 year old old farts. We’re right, so a lot of people call us xennials, I think is what some people call us, because we’re basically right in between generation X and milennials, and we’re not really either one. If you’re like 41, 42 years old, you’re this, I think it’s xennials or x-xennials. Okay. Is there a generation Y? Yeah. You missed it man. No one cares about those, those people. We’re off to the Zs, which Jacob will clarify if that’s our children. There is a rough range and then a specific range that some people use. Born between 1995 and 2015. Right, so all of our children. Yeah, you know, here’s the thing. I just take pride in the fact that in this town, when I tell people, when it comes up that we have kids, it’s like oh you got kids? And I’m like, “Yeah, I got a 16 year old.” And then it’s like their face just drops. Yeah they can’t believe it. You know, in this town. So I’m just grateful that I got kids that old and I still feel this young. But I am I in touch with them? A 16 year old, a 14 year old and a nine year old. I’ll get into, well we’re gonna go through some generation Z slang that was on a list that’s… The way that the list was created is very funny, and so I’ll get into that when we get into the conversation. You’re gonna test me. I’m gonna run through it with you, see if you know this stuff. It’s pretty long, I don’t know how much we’ll get through. I’m gonna tell you whether or not I knew that stuff. But the reason I thought about doing this was because I don’t even remember where I was but I realized that I was saying something and I was like I think I sound old. Because I specifically listen to the way my kids talk and some of the lingo that they use. In fact lingo’s probably a word that makes me sound old. You know what I’m saying? Like lingo, what’s that dad? And I realized that if I’m like excited about something or if I’m trying to tell somebody that I think something’s great, I might say like, “That’s awesome.” And then I was like I don’t think my kids would ever say that something was awesome anymore. I don’t hear them say that. No. My kids don’t use the word awesome. And so I just started realizing that like oh yeah, even though we are in this medium that is still considered new media, and people look at us as like oh yeah those young guys on the internet, we’re not, we’re old, and we’ve got kids that are getting older and about to go to college in just a couple years. And we are definitely out of touch to some degree. Today we’re gonna find out just how out of touch we are. Mm. I’d like to give an update on my shower window situation. Yeah, it’s quite a situation. Though it has nothing to do with being in touch. Unless you wanna talk about me being in touch with my neighbor, who I can see out of my shower window while I’m showering. Can you talk about in as, without having, you haven’t seen any of the lingo, can you talk about it as if you’re in generation Z? Perhaps bro. Wow, that’s off to a rough start. Perhaps. As I’ve preev established– You think they use the word perhaps? As I’ve preev established, my peeps, my shower is totally lit, because well it’s actually, it’d be hard to light anything in there in terms of like setting anything on fire because it’s so wet in there. Right, you’d have a waterproof light. A shower light. It’s a special light. Well there are lights in there. There are to recessed lights above the shower, which I don’t use because I have a window which lets in all of my natural light and so it is lit, by the natural glow of the environment. You don’t ever take showers when it’s dark? Very, very rarely. I take ’em in the morning. But interestingly enough, there are exceptions, and my update is related to an exceptional time that I took a shower, because, I don’t know, if you haven’t been listening to all these, don’t feel guilty, I’m bringing you up to speed. Actually feel a little bit guilty. You’re missing out on… Yeah you should keep up. On the updates. But the fact that Rhett told me when I see my neighbor leaving for work and I’m in the shower, shampooing, I gotta make eye contact and assert my dominance. I can’t remember why, and I definitely– It was for the future, it was for when the world falls apart and you’re asserting yourself as a leader of your community. And especially ’cause I can’t remember why, I don’t remember why I actually tried it, but I did. And then ever since then his car’s gone when I get in the shower, and my routine’s the same. So I think my dominance led him to adjust his routine to go to work earlier, just so he doesn’t have to almost see my out the corner of his eye staring at him when I’m shampooing my hair. Now, as I’ve established, the window is a wide screen format window, and it exposes me from the collar bones up, I think from his vantage point, when he’s in his driveway, backing out, and he looks forward he can see me. But over this past weekend I went mountain biking, me and Lincoln went mountain biking. I didn’t ask him to describe it, but he wouldn’t have said awesome, and he wouldn’t have said lit. You really gave up on the generation Z thing pretty early in this. Yeah it’s tough, too tough. So then when I got back, and let’s see, it was probably, well it was kinda late, it was dinner time, it was like six or 6:30, and I was like well I need to take a shower, you know, I’m pretty sweaty. So I get in there and I’m taking a shower, and I’m still, I got my window open, I’m looking out. It’s like oh the sun’s kinda going down, this is a beautiful time to take a shower and enjoy my window. And I looked at the driveway and I saw my neighbor’s car there. He was not in the car. And then I turned a little bit further, and I looked in a place that I had not looked, and it was my neighbor’s house. How have you not looked there? Well, because I’m looking out at the majestic scenery. There’s like mountains and stuff. I’m not gonna look at his house. No, I do, can I just interject and say that you talk about seeing the scenery while showering as if the only time you see the scenery around your house is while showering. Like out of every other window it doesn’t exist, or perhaps, bro, if you go outside, maybe you would also see it. Like you talk about it like you’re on a spaceship that has like a Holodeck situation, and the only way to experience what Earth was like at one time is to go take this shower. The only other place I can see this vantage point of the mountains is if I walk out my front door, which is nice, you know, you’re exiting, you get to see it, but I don’t have any other windows. Like both boys have a window in their bedroom that faces that same direction, but that’s the only four places you can see that vantage point. And I’m in the shower every day. I gotta look at something. And it’s not gonna be my neighbor’s house, but I happened to look over there, and they put in a new window, they remodeled, after I put in my shower window. And I looked through that window and I realized I’m looking at the family next door eat dinner. No. Yeah. How have you not seen the dinner table so far? ‘Cause they haven’t been at it? They’ve never been at it. So it’s just like kind of a dark window into nothing. So now I’m freakin’ showering, and I’m looking at, and he’s at the head of the table looking at me. Eating his dinner. Oh the tables have turned. I’m like man. I feel like a heel. He was slow playing you. He lulled you into thinking that your dominance had worked. He’s like I’m gonna leave early a couple of times but I’m just waiting for that day he accidentally takes a shower while we’re eating dinner and I’m gonna stare him down. A man looking at you while he’s eating is especially dominant. Yeah, I wasn’t eating. He has the upper hand. In the history of the animal kingdom, while you’re eating, like this is when you show who’s boss, and if you can eat and look at somebody in the eye, you own them. He owns you. ‘Cause eating is survival. It’s like I’m currently taking in the calories I need to dominate you. Are you eating right now? No, you’re just getting clean. Who needs to be clean? Yeah, right. Oh my gosh, I think you’re right, ’cause you know what? What was the expression on his face? That was two days ago. And then this morning I’m taking a shower, my normal allotted morning time– He’s back in the car. I look out there and– Yeah, he did it. I swear to you, he was in his car. He was in his car! This guy, he must be listening to the podcast. He was really in his car. And I really had a hard time looking at him. I really tried to like make it… I think this is your dominance. You’re controlling me, man. I’m sitting here staring at a guy eating dinner with his family. I will say, I’m having a lot of fun. It’s wrong, man. And I’ve never seen this man. Actually you know what– I felt bad. But nobody wants to watch a dude shower while they’re eating dinner, with their family, two young kids! The other day when I was dropping Shepherd off at your house, they were getting in the car, and I was like oh I get to see this guy. But he got in the car right as I realized. I got a good look at his wife. I mean I didn’t like make a, I didn’t try to dominate her with my looks or anything. But I didn’t get a good look at the husband. And every time I talk about this, Christy and Lily just tell me, “Dad, you gotta stop talking about this.” I mean I think– Oh you mean on this podcast? Yes! And I can’t stop talking about it. I mean I just can’t help but give you an update because it’s just all in my mind, and are you planting these things in my mind? Because Christy’s like, “You didn’t really look at him “out the window, you’re just saying that for the podcast.” And I’m like, “No I did, I did.” But you know, like my sense of reality’s being blurred by you and this shower window. Listen, you’re gonna thank me later. For what? When you’ve got that guy, when you’ve got a dog collar on that guy and you’ve got a chain around his neck, like 15 years from now. He’s listening! I’m convinced, he’s listening. After the big one happens, you’ll thank me. If he’s there tomorrow morning, man. And what if he’s eating? Well I mean it takes a little time between us recording then releasing the episode, then him listening to it and him deciding to take a turkey leg into his car as he’s going to work, and dominate me by eating in his car. If that happens, if he eats, if he makes eye contact with you while eating in the car, he’s definitely listening. Oh gosh. Now ’cause you talked about your neighbor like a year ago, and the whole thing about like the tree and stuff. And we completely reconciled the whole thing. I wouldn’t say we’re friends at this point, but we’re in regular communication about if somebody’s gonna have a loud party or whatever. Well my wife is also in communication with your neighbor. My neighbors? Yeah, she knows her now. She met her around town. No. Yeah. How does she know, how? They work out at the gym together. How does she know– And then they see each other around town. But how did it come out? I don’t know how Christy put it together, but she did. Well it doesn’t matter, we’re good friends. We exchange wine at Christmas time. I mean that’s a sign of a good neighbor. Maybe if I get in the shower with food next time, then I can still assert my dominance. And I do think it should be a large turkey leg. It’s gotta be like meat on a bone type situation. This is the one time where a turkey leg makes all sense, because– Like a tomahawk cut… Like a large beef rib. Beef rib. Could be that. It’s hard to come by though. Turkey legs, dime a dozen. And you don’t wanna do like a corn dog ’cause that’ll disintegrate in the shower. I might have to keep it, yeah, ’cause you’re right, I might have to keep that slab of meat in the shower until the right opportunity, and then I’ll have to pick it up and eat it. It’s gonna have to be there. This is, I mean… I think you know what you gotta do next. Yeah, I feel good about this. I think, I think this is the right decision. The saga continues, man. I look forward to seeing how it goes. You really gotta come up in my shower. Yeah I’m really interested. It worked before. You get a turkey leg in there, I’ll come up there. A nice steamy turkey leg. Okay we’re gonna see just how out of touch we are, but first, we wanna let you know, what are we telling people about this time? Bleak Creek merch, is just, it’s been out a week. So you can get it– No it hasn’t been out a week, it drops when you’re hearing this, right? This is the video for it. I know this is confusing. But this ad only lives in the video version. That’s right. See, I got a sharp mind. It’s been out a week. Been out a week. So this pig pickin’ shirt is an authentic replica of one that you might get at a pig pickin’, but this is related to the book. And we’ve got a hyper color shirt that changes color, temperature sensitive, just like the one we reference in the book. It says Bleak Creek on it. We got the lost causes shirt. We got a Buies Creek School, Bleak Creek School sweatshirt, it says Bleak Creek demons on it. What else have we got? Oh, all types of stuff. Check it out. Mythical.com. And also, there’s a book that all the merch comes from, called The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek. Buy it for a friend if you already have one. Or if you don’t have one, why haven’t you bought one yet? Come on, read y’all. You know? The more you know. LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow and things. All right, thank you for supporting entertainment, repping your boys. Okay, um, so there was an article– And you know what, before we get in, I did wanna mention, I wanted to acknowledge everyone who’s talking about Lost Causes of Bleak Creek. On the Mythical Society there’s great conversations happening there. We’re really enjoying hearing how you are processing the story and experiencing it. It’s a big part of our satisfaction, like it feels like a completion to hear from you guys, in terms of having worked so hard on this novel. So, on Twitter, #BleakCreek, at the Mythical Society, and wherever you wanna discuss the novel. We appreciate it. And we’re gonna enter that discussion, so make sure you are tagging all those things so we can see ’em as we begin to gather questions and comments and insights and observations that you have made about the book. And then we’re gonna do a podcast sometime soon where we enter into that conversation and maybe offer some insights into that. So what is this quiz? There’s a guy, let’s see, where is he? Where’s he at? Where’s he at? He’s in Lowell, Massachusetts. His name is Mr. Callahan, he’s a teacher. There was an article, at least in Buzzfeed, I think it may have been in other places as well, earlier this year, where he started to keep a list of the words that he heard his students using, because he was like I’m lost, I don’t understand what this stuff means, but every time I hear them use a certain phrase or a word that I don’t understand, that seems like there’s a generational divide here, I’m going to write it down and then get them to define it for me. Okay, cool, and how old is he? I don’t know specifically. I thought you told me he was about our age. Oh, yeah, 43, he’s 43. Yeah the article’s like 43 year old teacher, yeah. So he’s our age, which makes this even more relevant to us. And he’s– Our irrelevance more relevant. He’s dealing regularly with generation Z people, which we do because we are parents to them and also I know there’s a fair amount of people born between ’95 and 2015 who listen to this podcast and enjoy the other things that we do. So he started making this list, and of course when word got out about the fact that he had this list he made it into a Google Doc that is now publicly available to anyone who wants to view it. Yes, opensource it. And I think the interesting thing about this, as opposed to simply entering in these phrases into the Urban Dictionary and getting the definition, which I could have done, I wanted us to stick with Mr. Callahan’s list exclusively, because I think that maybe some of his definitions are the definitions that he got from his particular students in Massachusetts. Some people may, who know, you may have a contention with one of these definitions. I don’t know. But this is the information that he received. You’re gonna definitely know some of these and you’re definitely gonna not. Hit me with one. So, a force. So starting with the first one. Two words, a space force. A force. Yeah. Like a force to be reckoned with. It’s a complimentary… It’s a way to describe someone, like my neighbor, who showers while staring at me, is such a force. Well that’s your old man’s understanding of it. Which is what I would agree with. But it is unnecessarily excessive effort. Okay, yeah, that man who stares at me while showering is a, okay, that’s even better, and more accurate. Unnecessarily… Don’t read it ’cause you’re gonna read other things. Unnecessarily excessive effort. I don’t even know how that would be used in a sentence. He’s forcing it. Oh that’s a force. Yeah. Oh that was a force. You’re forcing it, you’re trying to hard. Now, we used to use this, my dad would say, like it’s in sports language. Like sometimes you’ll be shooting and you’re trying too hard, like shooting the basketball, he’d be like, “Don’t force it, don’t force it.” Don’t force it, let it come to you. Just shoot it. Just let it happen. Just relax into it. So is that the same thing? I think so, yeah. But it’s a force. They use it in a specific way. They’re not saying don’t force it, they’re saying a force. That’s a force. So there’s no sentence. No uses in a sentence. Callahan needs a new column in his Google Doc. Yeah Mr. Callahan, we would invite you to update your Google Doc. But I mean he needs to open it up for edits. He needs to opensource it. Bang 30s. Never heard this. Bang 30s. I’m about to go bang 30s. That means like I’m gonna, I’m gonna take a power nap. I’ma sleep for 30 minutes. I’ma bang out 30. Yeah. Uh, that’s not what it means. Power naps taken for 30 minutes, I think that’s too long, isn’t it? Yeah, it should be 20, yeah. Generation Z, they don’t… They’re sleeping too much. It means to fight someone, as in a physical altercation. So you’ve got my first plus my fist is 10. Plus your fist and your fist is 20. It’s when three people fight. No, I think it’s my fist and my fist, your fist and your fist, and then either both of my feet, both of your feet, or one of your foots, and one of my feet. But none of my feet. Either both of your feet and none of mine or one and one. So it’s a boxing match where kicking with one leg is allowed. But you don’t know where the 30 comes from. I’ve no idea. They’re banging 30s in the common area, we gotta call the po-po. We gotta… Bangin’ 20s would have made so much more sense. Banging 20s. Bangin’ 30s. Again, we have no… Callahan’s not giving us enough. I mean do you wanna… I just thought that we should just let our ignorance be on display and that might be more entertaining than actually trying to clarify some of this. It doesn’t seem like we’re ignorant. It also seems like we’re crotchety old men ’cause we’re complaining about why it doesn’t make sense even though we’ve been told what it means. Give me another one. We can have opinions. Beat your face. Beat your face? Yeah, beat your face. Beat your face. I’m getting frustrated that there’s no sentence. ‘Cause I don’t know, is this an imperative? Like hey man, beat your face. How about this? I thought my wife was ready, but then I realized she was still beating her face. Putting on makeup? Yeah. Applying makeup. Beat your face. Also cake your face, but cake your face is too easy. Beat your face, I bet this came from the, what are those people who make those YouTube videos about makeup called? Makeup people. You don’t know? Makeup gurus? Yeah. Beauty gurus. Beauty gurus. Beauty gurus. Beauty gurus. I bet it came from, I bet one of them. Said beat your face? ‘Cause here’s the thing. My kids have not said any of these. My kids don’t say lit, they don’t even say dope. Like to me, the one that if I was going to make a calculated effort to try to speak gen-Z, I’d say dope. But I cannot bring myself to do it. I’ve got too much pride and I know that I don’t mean it. That’s kinda old-school though, but also, they also say it. They all say it, right? If something’s good, if something’s cool or awesome, they say, “That’s dope, man.” Dope. And dope’s been around– Hold on, does none of your kids say that? My kids do not say that. I think Locke says it sometimes, right? Locke hasn’t said any of these, but Locke definitely, because he’s into hip-hop, I’ve heard a number of these. Maybe Lincoln has said it, maybe Lincoln has said it, ’cause it’s definitely that hip-hop, pop culture influence there. But I just… Could you ever hear yourself saying– That’s dope? Dope. Actually, out of all the things on this list, dope feels like low hanging fruit. I know, I know, that’s why I’m asking. That’s dope, man. Really, though? Would you say it? Could you say it? I’m gonna say it today. You’re gonna try it out. I’m gonna try it out. I don’t even think that’s one though. Is it? I mean it’s not on this list. It just feels a little obvious. But I do agree, they say it. Now, here’s the thing. Let’s go all the way. We have to agree that we’re cool with each other saying dope, ’cause if we’re not, you know what’s gonna happen. Well you can’t, if I say it and you’re around, you can’t look at me like oh you just dropped it. Can’t do that. And you can’t do that to me, because that’s what we do. We have this like… We’re very self aware, and, I don’t know, we have this, and maybe it’s a gift, maybe it’s a curse, but we definitely have this constant critic of ourselves that’s like how would other people be… How would I be perceiving someone else if they were doing or saying what I’m doing right now? That’s self awareness, by my definition. And then we have this second layer, because we’re together so much, that we police each other, so we’re other aware. So if either of us does anything that’s out of the ordinary, a little odd, especially when it comes to like saying something like dope, it’s a perfect example. We’d be all over that for the other one and be like, “Really? “That aint you. “You’re frontin’.” I don’t think I would say that if you said something was dope, I’d be like oh that’s an… Now if you said– Sincerely though, if I said it sincerely, I would know that something in your brain had been triggered that was like he’s trying something. It’s like when I got those pants, and I roll in with my pants and you’re like, “Your pants are, what are those, like hammer pants?” I can’t remember what you said, they’re like baggy pants, baggy jeans? I don’t know if I said anything about ’em. You didn’t have to say anything, because I knew what you were thinking because again, it’s this self policing thing. You thought something. You noticed the pants, you decided not to say anything. Well there was a big difference from your pants that you had been wearing. And all of a sudden your pants were very different, yeah. Right. So it’s like, what I needed from you man was permission. I needed you to say– You don’t need permission from me. I acknowledge your pants, and you know what, I don’t know if I like ’em yet but I applaud you expanding yourself. Like literally, the pants are expanded. You know, if you said something like that, it’s kinda like when we devoted an entire hour to talking about your hair growing out. That’s a little different. That’s not pants, I can’t take it off. But in the policing way, I stepped out of the way. Like you said your piece and I stepped out of the way. Like you knew that was not gonna be any criticism from me or constant judgment. Like cutting my eyes, like okay what is he doing? I don’t agree with this or I think this is suspicious, or this isn’t really him. You know? Can we do that with the word dope? I’m gonna say it today, and we’re going to two different places today. Together. And I believe I will use it in both circumstances. I will say dope. And maybe something else that we learn about. I have heard this one. I think when I do it I’ma, I’m gonna do it too. Can we both do it? No you need a different word. You can’t, it was my idea. Okay, well then you can have dope, I’m gonna do a different word. We can’t go into a place where we’re with somebody and then both people are like, “Rhett and Link both described different things as dope.” See, you’re so self aware, man. Who cares what they think? I don’t really care, but if we’re doing an experiment it needs to be… We gotta set all the parameters. It’s like one person says dope, see how it feels. Two people say dope, something’s in the water. Man, I’m nervous about… I don’t want people to be like, “Rhett, you know–” I’m getting flushed just thinking about saying dope today, man. You know what Rhett and Link say when they like something, they say it’s dope. I heard ’em both describe this thing as dope, within 30 minutes of each other. ‘Cause awesome is tired. Big tired. And I just made that up, like I put big in front of something, and see that didn’t work. Okay, you gotta choose another word. Well, let me get to some. I’ve heard this one. That’s our dope experiment. Bops. Bops? Now I know there’s a DaBaby song called Bop, and he’s talking about like he’s looking for a bop, like he’s looking for… He wants his track to bop. To him, it means, it means something in terms of like the feel he gets, it makes you kinda, it makes you move in a certain way that then you gotta do that certain rhyme scheme that they do now, the rappers. I think you might be overthinking it. I think it just means like it’s a good song, like an enjoyable song. He says a modern, enjoyable song. Oh, okay. I knew this one. I think it can be used in a couple of ways, because– Shout out to DaBaby. He’s North Carolina. I’ve heard Locke say that something bops. That bops. That’s because, yeah, that’s very hip-hop. That bops, or I guess you could say that’s a bop. I don’t think you can say that’s a bop. Yeah I think you can. That song… That bops though I think is better. It’s more, like that’s more refined. It’s like they wouldn’t say I’m looking for a banger. You’re looking for a bop now. You don’t want a banger anymore. Bangers are over. Bangers aren’t dope. We woulda just said a good hook. Yeah, that’s old school. Well a hook applies to a certain part of the song though. That’s a hit. Ooh that’s a hit. That’s what I would say. I think you’d say, “Another one.” That’s poppin’. That’s what you would say. Poppin’ might be on here. A bop. Is poppin’ old? I mean this is not a comprehensive list. Now this one’s… He’s got bouta in there. Bouta. Like bouta bouta. No, B-O-U-T-A. Like I’m about to, bouta. That doesn’t, I don’t know if that should, I think you should take that off the list, Mr Calahan, because I think– I’m bouta… I’m bouta dance 30s, what was it, pop 30s? Bang 30s. Bang 30s. I’m bouta bang 30s. If you don’t play my bop. Now I’ve heard, there’s two different versions of this. Catch a fade. Catch a fade. What’s the other version? Catch these hands. Catch these hands? Haven’t heard that either. Oh I’ve heard that. My son has– I think this is fighting too. Like sometimes– I’m bouta catch these hands. Me and Locke will do some like shadow boxing, slap boxing type stuff and like you know, I’ll just see him in the kitchen, I’ll go up to him and hit him. That’s what we do in the McLaughlin family, just play fight. And he’s like, “You’re gonna catch these hands, dad.” I’ve never caught the hands. But catch this fade. Catch a fade is also. I feel like a news anchor. Catch a fade. Catch a fade. Is also acceptable. I thought fade was a haircut. That’s what’s– I think it’s if you like punch someone on the side of the head where they have a fade. A glancing blow of the head. Yeah. If you give ’em a glancing blow to the temple, if you punch ’em in the temple, that’s where the fade is. Technically, if you catch a fade you would actually grab hold of the hair. See now you’re going too far. Too literal. You catch it with your face. You beat your face. But the idea of actually literally catching someone’s hands who’s trying to fight you, that’s awesome. Like if I was like describing a fight, a high school fight, and I was like, “Dude, this dude totally caught his hands.” Like he literally, he tried to punch him and he caught his hands. Yeah, yeah. Punch me in the face right now. Oh you see that. That’s like superhero stuff, man. Yeah, man. Punch me with the other hand. Yeah see that, I caught your hands. And now I’m gonna bang your hands together and make a fire– 30 times? Yeah. Make a firework. You only have to do it three times to get to 30 ’cause there’s 10 fingers. My dad would visit me in college, and leading up to Christmas time, or maybe it was my birthday. I’m pretty sure it was Christmas time ’cause I remember buying winter clothes. ‘Cause he would take me to the mall and we’d go on like a shopping spree. We did this for like two or three years in a row in college. And I remember what you said about how you and Locke would like give love licks to each other, like punch each other. I remember I was walking in the Crabtree Mall with my dad and we were shopping one Christmas, and like I was buying stuff in the 90s. And I was probably saying stuff he didn’t understand. Yeah. Awesome. As a side note, I don’t remember that we were like heavy into the like vernacular. I do think a lot of it comes from hip-hop culture, like there’s so many sayings. And then there’s the internet culture and there’s so many personalities. Like not just beauty gurus, but everybody on the internet has a way of like coming up with their phraseology and then it kind of memeifying. And I won’t even get into memes yet. But I don’t recall, as a side note, when I think back to walking down the mall with my dad, that we were saying those type of things. I mean we listened to rap music, but we also knew that it wasn’t for us to speak in the same way. It wasn’t popularized culture in the way that hip-hop is now. So I think… We call things cool. Something is cool, something is awesome. We didn’t use rad. We actually never did rad. Which, that’s come back like a hip, that’s a hipster terminology now. But when I was in California like from ages three to five, I specifically remember people saying rad. ‘Cause that was like early 80s. Well there was a surf culture and skate culture, also was a place that had a lot of terminology. They use the word tubular. And gnarly. And so a lot of those things… So you have these subcultures. Feldman remembers tubular. Did you say tubular? Did you ever use that, seriously? Just the valley. Totally dude. But I was walking down there. And I remember we were gonna buy some big baggy jeans or something, and I just reached over and I just, I punched my dad in the shoulder, just like a love lick, you know? We didn’t have that thing that you and Locke have where you’re like shadow boxing or whatever, but like just as a show of affection, we were in conversation, I can’t remember the specific context, but I punched him in the shoulder. And that was the end of it. And then it was like a year later, my dad is talking about his shoulder. He’s like, “Yeah I’m still having “some trouble with my shoulder.” I’m like, “What do you mean? “Because I actually have some trouble with my shoulder, “I think this might be a genetic thing, “like my shoulder pops out of joint.” He’s like, “Well, mine started when you “punched me that day in the mall. “I actually had to go to the doctor “and he said that like a ligament was separated.” I separated a ligament on my dad trying to give him a love lick. Listen, I’ve said this for years. This is why I don’t, any time we have to do something where it requires you hitting me or you doing something, you don’t know your own strength or you don’t, or you try to do it a little bit harder. You hit him too hard, man. Well obviously, and I felt horrible about it. I mean… You’ve never permanently injured me. I wasn’t trying to prove anything. It was obviously– No I’m just saying it’s like, you did it, it was excessive. So I tell Lincoln, like Lincoln will start to roughhouse me and I’m like very, especially ’cause I actually do have shoulder issues, and I’m doing like physical therapy for my shoulder, because I have hyper mobility. That’s what I’m diagnosed with, like all my joints, my shoulder joints and elbow joints are like, they’re a little too mobile and they’re not supported enough. So we’ll start roughhousing, ’cause I’ll grab him and put him in a bear hug or something. And I’m very aware, the combination of what I did to my dad and then how my shoulder feels. Like he’s gonna do the same thing to me and it’s gonna be a legacy. That would not be lit or dope. I will never say lit. Like dope I think I can do. Something about the way your mouth is shaped. And you can say it kinda under your breath, like dope. But like lit, it’s like it’s lit. You gotta say it like Travis Scott or something. Sometimes they say litty. I’ve heard Locke say litty, which is an alteration of lit. You know this one, clap back, that’s easy. That’s when you retort. You give back what they gave to you. Yeah, you get an insult, you respond with it, you call a greater insult. But clapped. Clapped. Now, I mean back in 90s hip-hop culture– The clap. The clap was… Was an STD. STI, we’ll call it. Don’t call ’em a disease anymore, you call it an infection. Infection, okay. Yeah, an STI. All right. Formerly known as an STD. Why did they have to change that? I dunno, just so it’s more approachable. I don’t know. Is it always an infection? I think so, yeah. What if it’s just sometimes it’s a disease? Uh, because disease– Because a disease is not something that can be, is necessarily transmitted. That can be something that is just a– I don’t think that’s the reason. I think it might be because– ‘Cause it could be a genetic disease. An infection implies like I guess you can take penicillin and cure it. You can get rid of it. But also an infection can be passed, and a disease doesn’t necessarily have to be a communicable disease, it can be an incommunicable disease, or it can be a genetic disease. And so you can’t give somebody a sexually transmitted genetic disease, unless they’re you’re offspring. And at that point it all breaks down. Like if you have a weird penis. What? Like if you have like a– That’s not, what? I’ve got an STD, it’s called weird penis. You got a weird penis. I’m saying like if you got something genetically wrong with your penis, that would be considered a disease and you pass the weird penis syndrome onto your child. That could be, that’s technically a sexually transmitted disease because it was genetic. No it’s not. And you had to have sex to have a kid. You’re wrong! You’re wrong in so many places. I’m demonstrating why they don’t use STD anymore, ’cause it’s STI. I’m sorry I brought it up ’cause neither one of us know. I have herpes on my mouth. Do you have the clap? Do you have the clap? I don’t have the clap, and I don’t know what the clap– What is the clap, is that syphilis? I don’t know. What is the clap? Can somebody look that up? Somebody clap back on the clap. Everyone is afraid to Google the clap on the work wifi. Gonorrhea. Gonorrhea. Gonorrhea. And now they’ve got super gonorrhea. You heard about this? Well this is, okay. We don’t know how to speak to the children but we have so much information that they need. My new favorite superhero, super gonorrhea. Super gonorrhea is basically a lot of infections, a lot of viral infections, are becoming impossible to treat. Or bacterial, both. Basically completely immune to treatment. And so if you get the strain of gonorrhea that they can’t treat anymore, you got super gonorrhea and I just think it never goes away. Unless you’ve got weird penis syndrome, which at that point it counteracts it. Yeah, so you don’t want gonorrhea and you definitely don’t want super gonorrhea. And ironically the people who need to communicate these things the most, need to be able to speak the language of gen-Z. So you’re saying that like if we make a brochure, like what your mother would have had at the health department, it’s all about STIs, it needs to say things like, “Got the clap? “Well clap back.” Clap back on the clap. Clap back on the clap with a condom. That’s a little too late. Clap back on the clap with– Get ahead of the clap. Penicillin. Okay, yeah. I don’t know if penicillin works anymore. Clapped means a crazy person, which even that, I don’t think gen-Z even uses the term crazy anymore. That’s not PC, you can’t call somebody crazy. Or someone who was punched. I don’t know, these people up in Massachusetts, I don’t know if this is representative of all of gen-Z, Mr Callahan. There’s a lot of reference to fighting. Man, he got clapped ’cause he caught them hands. Cracky. Crikey? Cracky. Crikey. No not crikey. Crikey That should be on the list. Cracky. Cracky. That’s when you’re like, when you laugh a lot. If only it were that simple. Man, Don is so cracky, he can’t hold it together. It’s someone who joules, vapes. Vapes, it’s a vaper. It’s like you have an addictive habit. Man, these kids, man. They’re vaping like crazy, man. Like Locke said that basically any time you go in the bathroom at their school, where all our kids go now. Yeah I encourage my kids to use the restroom frequently. Because like I encourage them to be hydrated. Now that might be working against me, ’cause now there’s a lot of vaping happening. Well they’re getting second hand vapes, man. ‘Cause the kids are vaping in there, and I don’t understand why they can’t… Kids are vaping like in class. I think they have cracked down on it. Cracky, speaking of cracky. I think they’ve cracked down on it a little bit. But there’s stories of people– There’s people dying! I mean with the people dying and they were trying to get to the bottom, as of this recording, they’re still trying to get to the bottom of what’s killing these– Oh you think some time between the recording of this and the publishing they’re gonna solve it. You’re very hopeful. Breaking news every day. I mean there’s like black market vapes being created, but they haven’t definitely said that that’s what it’s associated with. But all vaping is most likely bad for you. And not just the nicotine, which kids shouldn’t have, which we talked about when we had the surgeon general on. We had the surgeon general on, remember that? On Good Mythical Morn. Anti vaping thing. Lot of good that did. It was funny because there’s a couple of like, there’s these vaping YouTube channels, there was a couple who like came after us and they were like, “Rhett and Link don’t know what they’re talking about. “Vaping is completely safe. “They’re speaking out of ignorance.” Listen, whatever they find, right, whatever they find and I know that some people who are dying are probably getting like black market stuff that’s got other chemicals in it or whatever, but the bottom line is your lungs were made to breathe air. Right? So changing the concentration that drastically of whatever it is you’re putting into your body, even if it isn’t combusting at the same temperature that tobacco would be combusting at, it can’t be good. This is not a good thing. And if you’re cracky, meaning you’re on that thing all the time, nicotine is highly addictive. Well and the reason– And then you’re ingesting this vapor all the time. It is so much more… You’re doing so much more than you typically would with smoking because at least, when we were coming up, if you wanted to smoke you had to go to the, we had a smoking pit at Harnett Central High School. There was a smoking pit. I’m sure they don’t have this anymore. But basically there was that depressed, literally depressed and also physically depressed area, that people stood out there and smoked. But you had to go out there to do it, so how many cigarettes are you gonna get to smoke in a day, right? Yeah. But with this vape you can just, they’re doing it in class. Crackies everywhere, man. Don’t be a cracky. Find a new hobbie. We’re not even out of the Cs. Cherry pick a little bit, ’cause, I also wanna talk about the dynamic of… I think our, like us having children at the age they are now is a dynamic that I’d like to explore. Finesse. I’ve heard this one. Is this a noun or a verb? This is a verb. Well if you finesse something or someone you like, you take a light touch to get what you want. I can’t think that it means exactly that there. It means to steal. Oh, to steal? I’m gonna finesse your mug. It’s kinda like you got sticky fingers, but a light, you can stick your hand on somebody’s pocket and pull out a wallet and they won’t know it ’cause you’re very finesse. Finesse is also a hairspray. It is. Now, okay, of course everyone knows low key, and their is a high key. Thor and Loki. My kids use low key. And high key. I low key am into this, I high key want to have that. It’s a qualifier. Low key, it’s like it could be on the down low. You haven’t heard this from your children? They don’t say it. Don’t say low key? Mm-mm. Like low key is probably the most common one that I’ve heard amongst, on this list. I’ve also heard this one. Locke says this all the time. Facts. Facts. Now to me that’s meme speak, and I think that… I don’t know how I know but I can just tell when my kids go into meme speak. Lily does this a lot. I mean she created a Pinterest account just to save memes that she can go back to and laugh at and like snicker to herself on her phone– Snicker, you need a better word than that. She can cracky up with herself. No, she’s not… Look for one that is what you do with memes, but… And then she’ll say it and it won’t be just like yeet, but I can just tell, she goes into this speak that oh, you just quoted a meme, did you not? And she’s like, “Yeah.” I used to be like, “Well show it to me.” You know, ’cause it conjures up this visual that’s been– Why are you saying that about facts though? Because I think that facts is meme speak, like people will write some, there’ll be a statement, and then it’ll just say facts. And you say facts when it’s like somebody says something that you strongly agree with. I think that’s what it means. Yeah that’s definitely what it means, and I’m sure it could be in a meme, but like it’s also just, it just is slang. If somebody says something like facts. But you see it in meme form a lot, and I don’t know which came first, but I know there’s lots of things that my kids say that they’re just quoting memes to each other, conjuring a visual image that’s a shared experience and it makes the other person laugh. It’s like an inside joke. I mean my opinion, I’m just like yeet it. Yeet it. Do you know where yeet came from? Some kid who threw something, and when he threw it he said, “Yeet!” And then that’s where it came from. So it was just a little video that people passed around with this kid saying yeet, and then yeet started to mean throwing something. Yeah that’s special. That’s special, man. I like that. That’s the internet. Oh, okay. There’s a few here that are very old school and I guess they’re coming back, at least they’re coming back in Massachusetts, in Mr. Calahan’s class. Get hip, means to adopt a new trend, which is what it meant for us. Jams, an old enjoyable song. Like that’s my jam. Okay, yeah. I’m dead. It’s like… I think we elicit that response a lot. I see that in response to things that we’ve done on our show. It’s like it shook you in a positive way. It was amusing. Yeah. I’m dead. Shook you in a positive way. I’m shook. Shook could be like moved in a negative way. Yeah. I’m shook. I don’t know what to say man. Real one. Real one? Yeah. That’s referring to a person who’s authentic, and you like ’em. A valid person, somebody you trust. He’s a real one. Um. No cap. No cap. No cap, man. Are you using an accent? Why are you using an accent? I’m using a generation Z. Like slightly informed by hip-hop. Like I listen to hip-hop sometimes. Like your eyebrows have to kinda like go up– No cap, man. Your eyebrows kinda have to go together a little bit. No cap. No cap. That’s, I mean, it’s really, when you do your eyebrows like that you start to seem like you’re saying something that’s a little more cool. No cap means no limit. I can’t be contained. No, too literal. It means I’m serious, no lie, for real. This one’s interesting. Period T. It’s period with a t on the end and I don’t know if that is a typo by Mr. Callahan– Like a dot and a t? It’s just period and then– The word period? And then T on the end of it, as if it’s periodt. Periodt. Periodt. Periodt. I’m sure that’s how they say it. Periodt. It says see facts. Now it does remind me of tsk tsk tsk, which is that, do you know about these VSCO girls? Oh. I know, we sound so old. You mean the ones with the cameras. No. It’s girls, again I think, Lincoln knows, Lincoln, he said he wanted to be this for hal, he said, “I wanna be a VSCO girl for Halloween.” I’m like, “I’ve heard a little bit but tell me about that.” And he was like, “You have a hydro flask, “you have a lot of scrunchies in your hair, “and maybe on your arms. “You like have a hat or a shirt that says “like save the turtles and you’re wearing yoga pants. “You’re wearing Lululemon.” Right but where does the VSCO come from? I don’t know. V-S-C-O. I thought that, I think, well… I thought it had something to do with a camera. And I’m like so are you kinda talking like a girl who seems like she’s coming from the gym but she never went to the gym but she likes environmental causes and she has like a high ponytail like Ariana Grande? And he’s like, “Yeah.” What is it? Generally used as an insult for a young woman who posts trendy pictures of herself edited on the app VSCO. Yeah yeah, see I told you. There’s an app called VSCO. But that’s what they look like. Right, it’s a type of person who uses that app. I can imagine that. He decided to be an e-boy. Which I was like, what is that, emo? And he was like… What is an e-boy? Yeah. He’s like, “You know, you wear like a chain.” Halloween, okay. Yeah for Halloween. And you wear like black and white clothes and you part your hair down the middle. ‘Cause I was like, “I got a pizza costume you could wear.” And he’s like, “Dad I wanna look cool for Halloween.” Well be an e-boy then. You’ll slay. Oh slay is one? What do you think… I mean we’re obviously really showing our dad. I don’t think this… Are we actually more in touch with the fact that we’re, or are we more… Let me ask that again. Are we more in touch than we think, or are we more in touch that we’re out of touch because of the age of our kids? What’s the dynamic there? Well, I feel like… I think what you talked about earlier in this sort of self regulating tendency that we have. Both to regulate ourselves and regulate one another. It makes adopting like a new word into your terminology, it makes it, it makes us really hesitant to do that, right? And so, ’cause it’s like what does that say about me if I’m suddenly using this new word? And so we haven’t picked up on a lot of new… We haven’t changed the way that we’ve talked, in terms of the terminology, a lot over time. But what we have done, as illustrated by your big pants, is we’ve kinda, in ways that maybe people that we went to high school with, that didn’t choose to be YouTubers for a living, don’t necessarily follow the trends. Now one of the things… We’ve talked about fashion before, so we were gonna do a podcast about that, but we’re not. But one of the things I was talking about with Jessie, I was like something about now that I’ve got kids who… Like I’ve got a teenager in my house, and if I were to just say I’m gonna go to Urban Outfitters and I’m just gonna buy everything on the rack at Urban Outfitters and dress that way, now I’m dressing the same way as my 15 year old kid. And at some point it kinda feels like I don’t wanna do that anymore. And I told Jessie, I was like, “Is it because Locke is now a teenager “and then we’re going into the same store “and we’re looking at the same clothes, “and for the first time ever I’m just “going into a place like Urban Outfitters “and just thinking I don’t know if there’s “anything in here for me.” And she said, “Well, it could be a part of it, “but I also think that you’ve gotten to an age “where you kinda know what looks good on you. “You kinda know what shapes look good on you, “and you may not like the shapes.” Like Shia LaBeouf said on Hot Ones. And that brought us back to our favorite Hot Ones episode ever of Shia LaBeouf talking about how the way he sees clothes is he just thinks about shapes, he doesn’t think about colors or patterns. He thinks about shapes. And I was like I’ve never connected more with something. I think about shapes, and it probably has something to do with just being a big man. But anyway, I found myself resistant, like you know, and you’ve always been a little bit more, like if there’s a fashion trend that’s gonna happen, you’re gonna open that door earlier than I am. And I’ve got reasons I won’t go into that are boring about why I think I delay that. But, this latest trend with the 90s and all the athletic clothes and the boxy things and the block colors and horizontal stripes and all this. I’m not on board for this one. And I feel like I’m kind of taking an exit a little bit. Like I’ve been on this interstate for a while that’s sorta like okay I’m kinda conscious of fashion trends and I try to do something that seems fashionable and I kinda dress like a young person, but I’ve gotta feel like I’m on the exit. And I’m like I’m 42, I think I’m gonna have my own style and I’m not gonna be too worried about what the general style is anymore. And I’m just gonna wear what I feel good in. You know what I’m saying? The decision I’ve made is more about I’m gonna get on a parallel highway that still is moving. I like trying new things, but I don’t wanna emulate, I don’t wanna start looking like my son. I mean a lot of shirts are getting a little too small for me, I end up giving ’em to Lincoln. He likes maybe a third of ’em. He’ll wear some of ’em. But yeah, that’s waning. It’s just a different aesthetic. But I like to have fun with an aesthetic. But I just want it to be my own thing. It’s not just exiting and like parking. It’s like well I’m just gonna, I’m gonna go full dad. I agree with that. Pop out to Gap. Well that’s what I don’t wanna do because, you got somebody like… I don’t go on Facebook anymore, but in the same way like personally going on and looking at old friends photos and stuff like that. But I remember a decade ago when I did such a thing, you’d go on there and so a decade ago I’m just over 30 years old, and you go on there and you see somebody you went to high school with and you’re like man, that dude has just, he’s old. It isn’t oh he aged. It might be that with somebody who’s like lost hair or their hair turned gray or something like that. A lot of it is conformity. They made an aesthetic decision to be like… This is my job, I’m a professional, and so I’m going to dress and behave the same way that everyone else at this place of work does. Up to age 65/70 years old, right? And so it’s just like you see this 30 year old person and you’re like man, you don’t seem youthful anymore, you seem old, because you’ve conformed. Instead of there being a slow progression you just said I gotta get under this lane, I gotta get into professional lane, so now I got my polo tucked into my khakis. Right. But we are in the art lane. If you wanna go, and so that’s one of the things I love about, you know, where I’m at in my life, is that especially in this town where there’s no judgment for anybody being anything they wanna be and expressing themselves because there’s so much of an art centered town. Nobody looks at you funny if you dress weird. So it’s not that I wanna stay relevant to the kids, it’s that I wanna be able to express myself and say, you know, I don’t wanna conform, I don’t wanna conform to them, ’cause that’s kinda sad. It’s like okay, you’re in your 40s, you’re trying to… If this is how you’re trying to connect with your 16 and 14 year old, by dressing like them? At any moment you could– Crash their party? Well, get into some sort of– Like a narc. Ambiguous athletic event. Like maybe there’s a uniform under that tracksuit. Right. Yeah it aint gonna work for us. But tracksuits are classic though, I will say that. Still think we can do tracksuits. Find something. Yeah you could do that. I gave up on that. Well you took that, you wore that tracksuit on GMM. It really caused a ruckus. I couldn’t even wear it the whole episode. Couldn’t even. Well, um– But hold on, but I didn’t relate it back to what we’re talking about. Relate it and let’s shut this down, ’cause that’d be a dope way to end it. Oh there you go, okay. I think you’ve gotta use it in mixed company before it really counts, so that was a nice try. To relate it back to this, and the question that you asked, which is like are we out of touch? You haven’t picked your word, by the way. What’s your word? What word do you actually think you can use? Facts. That could be tough to come with. That’s a tough one because it’s so definitive. It’s a closing statement. Like when you say facts, whoever you’re talking to has nothing to say. It’s just like oh he just said facts. Facts. Facts is the end of a thought, but dope can just, you can nestle it in there. It’s a response though, if somebody says something facts. You know what, I could do low key or high key. Would that be weird? Yes but I think that’s a good idea. Are we back tracking on what we just said? Are we… That’s low key. We gotta try it, okay. I know that this is inconsistent with what I just said about getting on my own lane and being an artist and expressing myself. I feel like dope is really easy, it’s almost too easy. I legitimately like hip-hop, okay? I don’t like it so that my son will like me. So don’t judge me. Shlitty’s a good time. I love the rhythms. I’m gonna do facts. Facts, man. All right. I’ma be waiting with baited breath for that one. But to relate what I was just saying about the fashion, back to this, is I do think that I am… With the fashion thing there’s been a little bit more effort, right? And I do think that some of it is the fact that we’re free to dress how we want to, no one’s gonna fire us for dressing a certain way and there’s no dress code. Is there a dress code? I mean there probably is a dress code here, like you can’t wear a thong and nothing else at Mythical Entertainment. And if we haven’t specified that yet we should probably put that in the employee handbook. Wow. But you can dress how you want. And we’ve taken full advantage of that, right? Well, we haven’t worn a thong. Not yet. Facts. Okay that didn’t work. But with terminology, lingo, we’ve pretty much continued to talk the same way. Now we’ve lost our accent that we had in North Carolina, for the most part, it comes back at certain times. But that’s really a function of hearing yourself, hours and hours of your own voice heard back, you end up, it happens with a lot of people, your voice, you end up kinda changing– What are you getting at? I’m just saying that I feel absolutely no compulsion to try to use any of this. But we just came up with a compulsion, that you were gonna do it. Yeah we’re gonna do it because it’s fun. We’re gonna do it because it’s fun, and hey, maybe we’ll learn something. We’ll let you know. But you let us know, #EarBiscuits, if you disagree. Just feel free to put us on blast, as they say. That’s good. Rec baby, rec baby, one two three four. Rec baby, rec baby, one two. You know what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna make a recommendation for y’all. I’m actually recommending this to you ’cause I think you’ll like it. I went into a bookstore because I was told that Lost Causes of Bleak Creek had a placard at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena so I went over there and they didn’t have it. This was over a month ago now. And I was in there, I was like you know what, I’m in a freaking bookstore, it’s so sad, but I was like– Maybe you should buy a book. Maybe I should buy a book. ‘Cause I was just thinking I’m just gonna look around at all these books, but I never thought I’d actually buy one ’cause I didn’t think I’d actually read one. ‘Cause I’d gotten outta the habit. But I picked up a book, and I will recommend it, because I’m really enjoying it. The reason why… For some reason I went to the sci-fi section. I was like I want a good sci-fi book. Got a book called The Three-Body Problem. And honestly, one of the reasons that I got it was because it won an award, it won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2015. It’s part of a trilogy of novels, so if I really like it then I can kinda dig in, ’cause I really like to dig into a world if I like it. That’s why once I started reading Game of Thrones I read all of ’em. It’s originally written in Chinese and translated into English, which concerned me, but it has no impact. And then what sealed the deal and counteracted that and made me buy it, not only did it have a cool cover, but Barack Obama endorsed it. Wildly imaginative. Endorsement’s really move you. How do you get Barack Obama to endorse your sci-fi novel? He’s a sci-fi fan. Wildly imaginative. That’s what he said. I was like man, I gotta get this. The Three-Body Problem is a hard science fiction novel. Hard science fiction. I’m going hard. It is the first novel of the Remembrance of Earths Passed trilogy by writer Liu Cixin. That’s all I’m gonna say. If you’re into… Oh man this thing’s… It’s not very long either, right? It’s 320 something pages, is that what it said? A lot of times sci-fi is so long that, my attention span is like not great. I’m halfway through like so many books right now. 302 pages. Oh yeah, that’s great. So I’m halfway through. It’s a fun, wildly imaginative book. Yeah it’s got VR. The Three-Body Problem. You’ll like it because there’s a whole– That probably was a catchier title in Chinese. The Three-Body Problem actually references a problem in physics, in orbital mechanics, according to the Wikipedia. So there’s a lot of physics involved, lot of smart scientists are like the key people in this thing. But it’s also like inter, like being ready for inter-dimensional battle. And I’m only halfway through the book, so, I could spoil some things but there’s some things I’m still like is there something alien going on here? I actually, I don’t fully know yet. But there’s a lot of VR. There’s an amazing VR game within the book. The way that that world works– Sounds like it slaps. It slaps. It’s dope. That’s my rec. I’ll check it out. Yeah check it out. #EarBiscuits. We’ll speak at you next week. Speak at us that way. To watch more Ear Biscuits click on the playlist on the right. 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