Welcome to Ear Biscuits. The podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Ret. And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we gonna get weird y’all. I mean, it’s going to happen. Why? Because we put out a prompt, we put out a tweet that said, “Finish this sentence for an upcoming #earbsicuits discussion: “Am I weird because I blank?” And I will say that this was a, this is a little inside baseball, a little internal, and I don’t mean like going to the doctor, I mean, I’m going to tell you a little background on how we arrived at this question. The first question that we tweeted was something like, Here it is right here. Ask us, ask us a question that you’d be too afraid to ask your friends. We might answer it on an Ear Biscuits. The thing that we were thinking in that prompt was we’re trying to get to, like, you guys to talk about things that you were kind of embarrassed that you might not know about or think about yourself or whatever. But I think the mistake was, when we said your friends, because people said things like, “Are you in love with me?”, or stuff like that. We wouldn’t have any insight. Am I annoying? And so we went back to the drawing board and got more specific with the, “Am I aware because I blank?”, and you delivered. Yeah, I think we may be doing more of those types of prompts, but I, you would be amazed at the amount of discussions we have around putting these prompts out there. Because you know, it’s kind of like fishing. You don’t know exactly what you, we have an idea of what we want to get. Gotta have the right lure. I want to catch a fish. Gotta have the right bait. I don’t want to catch a turtle, so to speak. So we have to, And, Can I back out even a little bit further and say, Just the fact that we can, That’s you backing out. we can say, you know what? Finish this sentence on social media, “Am I weird because I blank?”, and then people respond. People fill in the blank with things that they legitimately do and legitimately question whether it makes them strange or weird. This is fascinating to you? They are that willing, I mean, it’s just a reality check. We’re at a place in our lives where we can tweet something like that. And people will respond. There’s plenty of, plenty of people who could, anybody can get a Twitter account, Ret. Are you just talking about the function of having followers? Yes. Anybody, anybody can say, Hey I’m thankful for followers. Am I weird? Finish this sentence, “Am I weird because I blank?”, and then nobody will respond. Well I think what you’re getting at, Maybe three of their friends. Sometimes I see people with one to two followers like put out a Twitter poll. And I’m like, I mean, nothing against having one or two followers, but if you’ve got one or two followers, your poll results are going to um, They’re gonna be a little shallow. Incomplete. Yeah. Not indicative of much other than your one or two followers. I’m gonna say it. You know what? It’s nice to be in a place where we can ask people questions that prompt them to put themselves in compromised positions. And not only do we get a lot of responses, but we get a lot of strange responses that are worth talking about, while mentioning their username. Cause using your fishing analogy, we were trying to bait you into saying something or admitting something embarrassing about yourself. And it took two tries to get there. You know, sometimes we, Boy did we get there. When you go out to the lake, you know, I, I told you that I made the mistake of watching approximately 12 minutes of professional fishing. Recently. That’s till happens? Cause I was like, Oh! I get, like every once in awhile, ESPN will have professional fishing on. And I, most of my television that I consume, that’s not streaming, which most of it is streaming. But if I’m not going to stream, usually it’s, So it’d be fishing. It’s to watch a sporting event. And I use the YouTube TV, not a sponsor YouTube TV app. And I, It peaked your piqued your interest. There was nothing on sports that I wanted to watch. But there was bass fishing. And so I was like, “Hmm, let me check in with bass fishing.” Why not? Right? I think everybody needs, It’s worth a shot. Especially everybody from North Carolina needs to check in with bass fishing. At least once a decade. I checked in and I saw the most exciting part, apparently, of this tournament. Was these two guys who were trying to win. Different boats, different locations. Different boats. And then, they were not catching anything for the like, five to seven minute period that I watched. There was, okay, in that 12 minute period, there was one guy that caught a small bass. But, 12 Minutes. One guy catches a small bass? Yeah. But during the, while they were waiting, the guy turns to the camera, or, you know, just addresses the camera. And he’s like, “You know, it’s different when you’re out here than when you’re watching at home.” Like it was like, and I don’t even know what his point was. Was he saying, Was he excited? that it’s more boring to be here, that it is to watch it at home? Because at least we were watching an edited thing? I don’t know what his point was. But if it’s, It is different though. If it’s edited, why, I mean, it seems like they could just, I mean. With golf you cut to somebody when they’re about to putt. With fishing, why can’t you just cut to somebody when they’re about to catch? Well I think it’s all, it’s a numbers game. In golf, there’s approximately 70, There’s a lot of fishermen too. Hold on. No, this is the math. Your wife was a math major. I know you can follow this. There’s like about 70 shots per person, right? I don’t know how many people there are fishing versus how many golf golfers there are golfing at a tournament. But there’s 70 times that you can tune in and see them do something. No one catches 70 fish! The guy in the lead had caught four bass all day. Ret, Ret. Your wife watches television. So I know you can follow this. You could edit it down to a 22 minute, sitcom length, of bass tournament. That’s what I’m saying. What I’m saying is golf can be, you can watch golf for five hours and constantly see somebody hitting it. You watch bass fishing for an hour and you watch, and I watched 12 minutes, which is one fifth of an hour, and I saw one fish get taken? There’s not enough fishing. It’s like, they need to, you know, and just like in order to make soccer more interesting, Just make it a YouTube video! They need to make the goal bigger or get rid of the keeper. And then everybody’s going to fall in love with soccer. If you want people to fall in love with bass fishing, you gotta use better bait or there’s gotta be bigger fish. There’s gotta, I don’t know, I mean. Editing. Editing! But even then, it’s still just people catching fish. And it’s not as entertaining as a, as an Instagram video that I saw recently where there was a little girl, like a year and a half years old, I don’t know how you say that a year and a half old, who her dad had caught a very big bass and she was hugging it. And she was saying, “It’s okay fish.” “I love you fish.” “It’s okay, fish.” And then they put the fish back. Okay. So if you can bring a baby who can talk to the fish, that’s the kind of thing that I would be into. Everybody needs to have a baby in their boat who addresses the fish before it’s thrown back. We’re gonna read through your completions of the sentence. “Am I weird because I blank?” And you might think that we’re going to judge you and that we’re going to say, “Yes, you are weird.” or “No, you’re not weird.” Well, that’s the point, isn’t it? But the real point, is that we’re going to celebrate weirdness. You know what? Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with being weird, but we are going to tell you if you are. Ah, I once heard it said, “Just yourself be, if weird is you.” Embrace it. And that’s what, this is. This isn’t, this is not ultimately judgment. This is celebration of strangeness. And I’m a little biased because I know I’m weird. Can I tell you my criteria for judging these things? Yeah. Um, to me If there’s something, If one of these things that you do is to like, it brings you comfort or something like that. And you can’t argue with something that brings somebody comfort, right? If this is like a self-soothing thing. Well we can say anything we want. But to me, I’m going to, there’s two things I’m gonna judge. One. Is this something that you would be considered normal? In other words, are you an exception to the majority of people because you do this? Like, is this an unusual behavior? I think that, that’s one way I’m going to look at it. And then the second is, like, is, should we be concerned? You know what I’m saying? Like, should we be concerned about you? Well, let’s, let’s get into it. Aubree Stamey replied to us. She tweeted, “Am I weird because I rub my feet together to fall asleep?” Are you a cricket? I think they’re rubbing their legs together. In order to mate. I mean, do they even have feet? Cricket feet, Or is it, ends with its, ends with its leg? Yeah. It’s just kinda like, the leg just kinda like, there’s an ankle I think. But then on the other side of the ankle, it’s just a little bit more leg. I don’t think, I wouldn’t call it a foot. That’s a foot! I wouldn’t call it a foot. I’d call it a short leg after an ankle. It’s really no different. Well what’s the difference between a short leg, after an ankle and a foot that goes a different direction? Toes. You think you have to have toes to have a foot? Yeah. I don’t think insects have feet, man. So you think, well, Okay. What if somebody, I don’t have any crickets. What if somebody loses all their toes? What if I Google “cricket foot”? By that rational, if you lose all your toes in an accident, you don’t have a foot anymore, man. That’s just more leg now. Well, I don’t want to get, I don’t want to get into like, Why you gotta go straight to maiming? Cause I got to find logic somewhere. All right, I just searched “cricket foot”. Which is a great name for a band. The only thing that came up was like, a closeup of a cleat on someone who’s playing, Cricket. Australian version of baseball. I wonder how many actions, I think I could get into that, before bass fishing. Watching cricket. Now I just said that cricket was Australian baseball, but cricket is from, is from where? Well, I mean, I think it’s of British origin. Yeah. Because it’s made its way to, it’s very popular in Australia. It’s very popular in India. It’s very popular in places that the British colonized. I’m scrolling down, nothing is related to the insect. Cricket. Can you do cricket leg? Hold on. “Cricket feet in bed” is a related search to “cricket foot”. I’m gonna click on that. Ah! Oh, we found it. We found it. We found what this, Does anybody else, you lady is asking about. I didn’t know this was a Reddit thread. There’s a Reddit thread called, “Does Anybody Else”, DAE. I’m going to have to follow this. “As soon as I hop in bed and lay down,” this is somebody’s post. Kristen Bryant from four years ago. And this is answering your question, “Is this normal?” We’re about to find that out. “As soon as I hop in bed and lay down, I have the instant urge to begin rubbing my feet together. Most times I don’t realize I’m doing it, but then I catch myself. If I separate my feet, I’ll just end up rubbing my foot, feet on the bedsheets. It’s like it relaxes me. I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember.” Top comment, “Ya damn crickets.” Right? Which is the same thing that we said. So that’s the obvious joke. Someone else commented, “Used to do this because I have RLS. Sucks. Restless Leg Syndrome. Which I have. You have Restless Leg Syndrome? But interestingly, Do you do this? I don’t rub my feet together. I’m move my legs. My wife, however, does this. She rubs her feet together. But you know, the other thing that she does, How do you know she does it? Can you hear it? Yeah, because you can like, see, you can kind of see her legs moving and you can feel it in the bed. But you know, the other thing that she does, and this is a little, She’s so much shorter than you, her feet are probably at, My knees. She also, she rubs my feet with her feet. Excuse me. She does? And she gets upset with me because I cannot go to sleep if someone else is touching me. Yeah. I do all kinds of touching when I’m not sleeping. But when I’m done with the touching, I’m ready for the sleeping and they’re mutually exclusive. So, I mean, I’m not saying I’m not a cuddler, but I’m not a cuddle-sleeper. But she, Now that we got a bigger bed. That’s the situation. We’re in a double bed. We’d be, we’d have like 18 points of contact. I just can’t fall asleep like that. Cause I’m a super light sleeper, but she will have her foot on my foot and start rubbing it. And I, and my feet are sensitive, man. I don’t like that. I don’t like a foot massage. Yeah. For the longest time when, I tried to get a pedicure one time. I would get a full body massage, sans feet. Yeah, leave the feet off the table. Because they spend a lot of time on the feet and that’s time that could be spent somewhere better. Boy, I miss massages. I don’t get those anymore. I’ve been holding back on you here, Ret. So I don’t think this is weird. I do this. Oh, you do this? Yeah. And I didn’t really think about it, but I, I do this. And I may have mentioned this on the show or maybe Good Mythical More, or maybe just to you as a friend. But the new thing that I’ve added to my, I get in the bed. I, my feet kind of rub together a little bit. It’s not like I rub my feet together until I doze off. Like Lando has this habit from when he was like, almost as soon as he had hair. So I wasn’t, I’m going to say a newborn, but like as soon as Lando had hair long enough in like the back, like the mullet area, he would, he would twirl his finger in his hair. And as long as I can remember, he’s done it. And he still does it. It’s kind of like a way that he falls asleep. And as a toddler, he would twist his finger in his hair and then it would put him to bed. And then he would be crying and we go back in there and his finger would be caught. He would have knotted his finger and not be able to get it out. Christy had to use scissors and cut his finger off. No, to cut the knot out. But I just do it for like, just to like, Oh, I’m in bed. I’m finding my spot. My feet rub together a little bit. And then I started shifting my hips and my lower back would pop. And now every single time, right before I go to sleep, I’ll like, I’ll Shakira my hips. You need to pop now. And then it pops right there. And if you don’t get a pop, you go to sleep with a sense inadequacy. Yeah, yeah. I know about this. I’m becoming like a baseball player. That’s like got this routine. Or cricket player, to stay on subject. Cricket footwork is, is its own thing. It has its own Wikipedia entry, which I’m not going to read. So yeah, Aubrey, you know what? You’re not weird. Jessie has spoken. Link has spoken. And a lot of of Redditers have spoken. Kiki Kinnock said, “I thought everyone did this. If not, why not? It feels amazing. My husband and I both do it, including with each other’s feet.” Yeah. See, there you go. That’s what my wife is trying to do to me. So there you go. If you haven’t tried it, try it and put a little Shakira into it See look at that. All right, so. So this might, Kind of a let down. It wasn’t weird. This might surprise you Tom Dolls, Tom Dolls Magic, who based on his profile, I think he’s a real magician. I think he seems like a magician. Yeah. He has a deck of cards in his profile picture. He’s holding a deck of cards right next to his cheek lovingly. Well cause you gotta get in picture, in the Twitter pictures. It’s Magicians, they have, I don’t think he typically holds it next to his face. They have a relationship with cards that is borderline inappropriate. So Tom, you are weird because you’re a magician, but that’s not what you’re asking. “Am I weird because I bite my fingernails and floss my teeth with them?” Embarrassed emoji. Well, I do this. Wow. I mean, does it work? Okay. So I do not, I no longer bite my fingernails, but I bit my fingernails consistently, exclusively as a way of trimming my fingernails up until three years ago. Would you consider it a habit? Cause I considered, I mean, I bite my fingernails and it’s, it’s been a habit that I haven’t been able to break. It was not a nervous habit. It was a, this is how I deal with my fingernails getting too long. Honestly. It was like, “Ah, my fingernails are too long.” We don’t, we’re not an organized household. So it’s like finding the nail clippers. It’s like, they’re not always in the same place. I just was like, “Ah okay, I’ll just start biting them. So it wasn’t a nervous thing. It was a functional thing. But then you, why did you stop? Because I, I, I had the, you might notice this, if you ever seen close-ups in my hands, but you’re like, “What the hell is happening with Ret’s fingernails?” I thought about this before, but I’ve got the basically like psoriasis-based, psoriasis under my fingernails. Right? So it does it taste bad? It tastes great. Oh god. But like the fingernail will detach in some places. Right? And so what I found is like, it’s happening right there. See how it’s getting white right there? Oh, it makes it white because there’s space? And I’ve found that it’s much easier to manage them if I use a sharp thing and then like file them down. It seems to help with the problem. I don’t know why. Plus we shouldn’t be, you know, we’ve gotten strict about not putting our hands in our mouths and in our eyes and stuff. But when I used to do this on a regular basis, I would take one, and then I never even thought about the fact that I was doing this and I would not have called it “flossing”, but definitely I would see which teeth I could get it in between. Especially the two front ones. I’d put it in there and I’d start moving it back and forth. Just that, that was a habit. It was less of a I’m flossing and more of a habit, but it was technically flossing. I was flossing with fingernails. I’m making a gross-out face cause it just seems a little gross. It is gross. And I am not a magician and I’ve never been a magician and I’ve never even thought about being a magician, but yet I still do this. I think they’re unrelated then. Okay, well I was just seeing, trying that on for size. Well, I think this is gross. I think it’s weird. You know? I mean, if it were your toenails, it would be even more gross. You know, people, the whole cutting and sniffing your toenails. I do not bite my toenails. Never did. But I could. I’m flexible enough. But I mean, there is this urge to smell your own toenail. And I don’t know, I do that. Why? Because it’s amazing how awful it can smell sometimes. And I’m just like, “How, what happened?” What got caught under there? But it, but there is something, there’s like a primal urge associated with it. It’s like, you know that it stinks. Why does a dog smell its own shit sometimes? Because, I saw Bobber doing it the other day. I asked her, she did not respond. Because they, they learn something. Well, I learned something about myself when I smell my toenail clippings. Like something’s wrong with my feet. I need to do something about it. But how many times do you need to learn that? I think that there’s the primal urge is, is different than that. It’s not, it’s not diagnostic. You’re right. You’re right. It’s, um, It’s like eating black licorice. Honestly. For me, it’s extremely bad. Like, if there’s something in a room that smells awful, I can’t help but smell it. If there’s something in a movie that’s really difficult to watch, I do not turn away. If I go by a wreck, I look to see if there’s a body with a sheet over it. I’m that guy. Okay. So we’re back to the, the, I think it was called pseudo masochistic tendency when we were talking about eating spicy foods. Yeah. So maybe there’s something in there. I’m not a magician., so Neither of us. So I wouldn’t know for sure. I do think that this is, people do it. It’s gross, but gross doesn’t automatically mean weird. I think weird is kind of like, if something’s gross, it increases the chances of it being weird, if it’s also strange. Like you’re inventive. Like I’ve never heard of this before. The fact that you do this. Did this. Okay. Whatever. Then, I don’t know. I’m hesitant to say, this is weird. I think it’s weird. I think the average person, when he seeing that, definitely if they witnessed this. Yeah, if someone else sees you do it I’d be like, “Ah that dude’s weird.” Then you become a weird person. You’re on the weird spectrum. I also think he has an ace up his sleeve, in this case. Okay. Okay. We’ve got more of these to go through, but we also want to remind you that we have a website. We’ve, we’ve done it. We finally did it. We got a website. mythical.com mythical.com We’ve had it for quite a while. Oh, that’s right. Yeah. I was just kind of talking like, in this lifetime we’ve got it. It used to be called retandlink.com. And then we were like, “You know what? This ain’t, this ain’t about us. This is about a world that we’re all a part of.” And then, Where you can buy things. Yeah, right. Well, that’s really the reason you should And identify with the world. That you’re a part of. We’re all in this together. But the only way to really know it, is to wear it. And, if you want to get something from mythical.com with standard shipping, and receive it by Christmas, you have to order it no later than December 10th. I think the coloring book is, There might be some exceptions to that. got its own pipeline. But for most everything else, December 10th, for domestic standard shipping, to get it by Christmas. mythical.com, we got all types of gifts and gift cards. Gift it up. I’m on, I’m on the third day in a row of not taking my allergy pill. I’ve noticed you’ve been sneezing. And I sneezed nine times in a row this morning. I’m never, that does not happen to me. That’s a lot, I’m slightly allergic to, There’s something floating around. I’m slightly allergic to dogs. Like when I got my allergy test a few years ago, dogs and cats registered on the very, very low. But like I ran out of my, I’m a Zyrtec man. And I ran out and I haven’t gotten any more. And then there was a part of me that was like, maybe I should just see if I can get off of it. Sometimes when you sneeze a bunch, it’s like your body needs to do it. So there, there is a sense of relief and pleasure. You know, you talk about a primal urge. There is, there is pleasure associated with a sneeze, unless it goes sideways. You mean out the ear? And you know, no, sometime, It can happen. It just doesn’t come out the right way. But I mean, nine in. Did you fully experience like a bell curve of pleasure and pain? It felt good every time, but it was annoying to me and my wife. How much, what percentage of, what percentage of air comes out of your nose, versus your mouth when you sneeze? Mostly out my mouth, unless I’ve made a decision to, To force it. To force it out of my nose in order to like, get a, I call that a power blow. Yeah, I’m really scared of that. I’m really scared of that. Yeah. It doesn’t accomplish much because it’s almost all mouth. A lot of force. If you, if you force like, like 95% of that force through your nose, Your eyes might pop out. You gotta, you gotta deviated septum. Yeah. You could lose an eye. It could straighten it out. I don’t think can straighten out bone though. Over time. There’s probably another way to fix it. Anyway. I need my allergy pills. It’s driving me nuts. Katelin Pemberton responded to us, “Am I weird because I can talk with my mouth closed?” I’ve known people who could do this. I do not understand how it works. I’ve witnessed it. I do not think it’s weird. I think it is remarkable. Well, I’ve never witnessed it. I think we should try it. Okay. Be my guest. Not even close. Can you understand what I’m saying? Not even close. You’re making a series of humming noises that’s all I hear. It’s I’m hearing somebody through a wall. My lips are still together, but I’m trying to speak normally. Yeah. I’m not even going to attempt it. You should attempt it! Hold on, you’re not saying anything. Yeah, because I can’t do it. Say something. I’m saying my lips are still together. Don’t say that. I said that. You say something different. Why are you eyes getting so big? Your eyes don’t have anything to do with this. I said, “I’m saying something different.” Okay. You, we, you need to, if you had, have you not seen a YouTube video this before? Like, what we’re talking about is someone who can talk articulately as if there’s another mouth inside their mouth. You need to watch a, you should watch a video of this real quick, just so, Uh, Just so you, I mean, we can cut this out so we won’t get flagged or whatever, but you just need to, so you will understand what this is. Okay. Now stop that. Stop that. Oh, I can do that. You sound like someone who is making preliminary sounds, but not completing them with the tongue and the lips. She sounds like someone who has tongue and lips inside her mouth. Like an alien mouth. How is that possible? Yeah, she’s got she’s got a talking talker trapped in there. No physically. What is happening? Do you understand it? Cause this is the real magician. Well, when I, when I searched “talk with your mouth closed”, the first thing that comes up is a WikiHow. How to speak with your mouth closed. You’ll need to make sure your lips are parted ever so slightly. Without parting your lips just a little bit, you won’t be able to get any sound out of your mouth. Practice parting. Oh, so this, So it’s cheating. WikiHow’s never reliable though. That’s not what she was doing. She looks like her mouth is completely closed. Yeah. This is not, WikiHow is off, off, off the rails. Touch your teeth together. Make sure your tongue can move. Look at yourself in the mirror. What? You should not be able to see your tongue. You should be able to see your teeth. Your mouth’s not closed! Yeah. This is bullcrap, man. I don’t want to just, Breathe normally. I think it’s just magic. Oh, so we’re back to that. I think that that is, It’s not weird, man. I think you’re a freak, Katelin. I think you are a freak and there, you know, there’s others. You can find them and then keep it to yourself. You can speak to each other that way. But it’s impressive. What I’m saying, is this a good, That’s a legit party trick. That’s not like flossing with your, with your fingernails. Yeah. Yeah. This isn’t something you do by yourself. This is something you do in the company of other people and they’re impressed and they ask, Okay. Questions about, So you’re a freak, but no, you’re not weird. Yeah. You’re talented. Talented, exactly. High responded, That’s, an unpronounceable, bxndtrxsh4 said, “I can’t watch any show. Am I weird because I can’t watch any show unless I know what happens first. Like, if I’m watching an episode of some show, I have to Google what happens before I finish it or I get nervous. And then I can’t watch the rest of the episode because I’m too tense about what might happen. Even jeopardy. You know those jeopardy episodes. Wow. Well, I’ll tell ya, the Jeopardy always ends in one of three ways. One of the three people wins. I can’t, can you imagine having to Google the episode of Jeopardy you’re watching? Can you get that information? I mean, it’s probably, it’s probably in Wiki. I mean like the TiVo or whatever would say the episode number and then, I gotta know who’s gonna win this one. But then somebody responded, Jennifer Sanford responded to this tweet and said, “OMG. I thought I was the only one who did this. My brother definitely thinks I’m weird when I do this. Okay. Can I just give you my knee jerk reaction to this? Sure. I’m not a therapist. I have been in therapy for some time. Not the same thing. Not the same thing. That’s why I’m saying it as a disclaimer, this has got, this is something about control. I mean, there there’s something about, I, I don’t know. It’s related to, The unknown. Uncertainty. Insecurity. It’s too much to handle. Too much to take. But it feels like is an example of, what do you call it when you, is it called exposure therapy? Like when you’re afraid of something and then you expose yourself to it in order to overcome it. This feels, and again, I’m not you. I don’t understand this personally, There’s not a spider down your pants. And I’m, That’s a double meaning exposure therapy. If this is a real, like, if this is like a super anxious thing and I’m not giving you medical or psychological advice, but it feels like, at least with an episode of Jeopardy might be a good place to start. Like I think, I think you can make it through an episode of Jeopardy. Well, who are you to say? And let the, I’m just saying, If you can’t, I think you might need to talk it out with somebody. Is really what, I agree with that. Yeah. I think that’s what I’m getting at. Yeah, ah, This is not this isn’t, I wouldn’t say weird though, because I feel like that makes it, you know, Judgey, you don’t want to judge somebody or dealing with something that’s, you know, that might require therapy. But I’m sympathetic. I’m sympathetic to this. And I feel like it’s something that you, that you shouldn’t have to go through life with. This is a sign of a, of a, of a deeper issue, which maybe you’re cool with it. Or maybe you want to look into it. I would have to think that this tendency has to play itself out into just life in general, right? Like, so this would be like, I mean, every single day is a Jeopardy episode, right? Every single day is a day in which you don’t know what Trebeck’s going to say. You don’t know who’s going to win. You don’t know what’s going to happen in your life, but you don’t have the ability to go and see. But you know when, See if this person, who tweeted and I can’t pronounce their username is listening now and they didn’t realize what you’re saying, boy, you’ve just made it a whole lot worse. But here’s the thing, I think I can actually in a weird way, relate to this. It’s just something that’s coming to me. So, you know, we’ve talked in the past about how I actually am much more, there’s a lot more going on emotionally than I ever realized until I started going to therapy. And one of the ways that my emotions come out is in things that feel like there’s not any stakes and I’m not personally invested in. IE television and movies and commercials, right? I’ll cry in all those scenarios. Yeah. Because it’s not personal. So I think that this particular person, “High”, might be like, I can’t deal with the fact that I’ve got uncertainty in my life, but when I expose myself to an episode of Jeopardy or some, some show, I know that the, the outcome does exist. I can Google the outcome and I can gain a little bit of security and control in this thing. And then in a way that I can’t do in life. And that brings me a sense of security, right? Yeah. And so, that’s my theory as to what’s going on. So, But if it, yeah, If you can get to a place where you can embrace an episode of Jeopardy, not knowing which of the three people is going to win, I guess sometimes there’s a tie. Um, Is that possible? Can there be a tie and it rolls over to next episode? No, I don’t think so. Okay. So somebody’s going to win. If you can just let that ride, then maybe you can get a little bit more, a little bit better at dealing with just a typical day. I don’t know. I’m not a professional. Take it or leave it. Take it with a grain of salt. Since November, 2014 ties for first place, following Final Jeopardy are broken with a breaker clue resulting in only a single champion being named, keeping their winnings and returning to compete in the next show. If no contestant finishes Final Jeopardy with a positive total, there is no winner. So there could be, So there’s a fourth option. There could be three losers. How many times has that happened? Jeopardy just got more interesting. And that was only since 2014. I mean, how could three people go into Final Jeopardy and make wagers that put them in the negative? That means somebody’s not playing right. Somebody’s making a bad decision. On March 2nd, 2018 Jeopardy history was made when two contestants competed during the final tournament of Thursday’s episode. While all three of the show’s competitors wrote in the wrong, wrote in wrong submissions for the channel islands prompt, Laura and Sarah found themselves in a tie which led to the first ever Final Jeopardy tiebreaker. First ever. And then how did they do the tie breaker? It’s just another question. With another wager. With a tiebreaker clue. Oh! Are broken with a tiebreaker clue. So is it a clue about the same question? You get a hint? Like G&M? Yeah, that seems a little lame. I mean, we would never do that. Yeah I think there’s something, just to get back to the question, you know, with all the Googling I’m doing today, I did some preemptive Googling when I picked this question and I could not find something to Google that would bring up people who related to this. Unlike the rubbing your feet together. You know, it’s, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t Google are you, do you have to look up the results of, of a show before you can watch it? I know people who read and I, and I’ve done this, I Googled that, but nothing came up. As a kid I would look at like the last sentence of a book. But it was for like a different reason. It wasn’t to know how it was going to end necessarily, it was just because it was there to be read. I don’t know. There’s an anxiety, yeah. Yeah. And it, I don’t do that by the way. I don’t do it anymore. There, there there’s something going on here. So we’ve successfully backed away. It’s up to you, what you want to do with it. We’re not even going to say if it’s weird or not. I don’t think it’s weird. I think it’s not weird. Emily Little tweeted at us, “Am I weird because I won’t watch a movie more than once?” Okay. More of a general topic. I feel like I’m one of these people. Um, I know that I’m a weird person. So by the associative principal, Emily, you are also weird. No, I, I had to work up a lot of energy to rewatch The Big Lebowski, which as we established, is both of our favorite comedies of all time. It had been so long since I watched it, when we were talking to our college friends, they always reference it so much. I’m like, you know what? I’d like to see this after like over a decade of not watching it. But I rarely, and I always thought it was like movie lovers and people who were like, really like students of film, they should watch the same movie again and again, I mean, you don’t gain, you gain insight through that. But like a normal viewer, I just haven’t related to it. I feel like there’s so much stuff out there. I, it’s hard for me to justify to myself the investment of time to rewatch something that I know, already know what’s gonna happen. Kind of to the last point. Yeah, I, It’s not as fun. I don’t, I mean, this here’s, here’s what I find interesting about this situation between me and you is that, you know I don’t watch the same movie twice. I don’t do the same thing twice. I don’t eat the same meal twice. I don’t go to the same restaurant twice. I don’t go to the same city on vacation twice. But interestingly, you do that, right? Yeah. Like you guys will go to the same place on vacation. Like you find something that you like. But it’s not the same experience. Watching the show is a different experience. It’s, it’s, it’s not, it’s a compromised experience. Like the surprise of what’s going to happen. Cause I’m also, you know, I’m the stickler of sticklers when it comes to trailers. I mean, spoilers. Well, trailers. And trailers. Like, I don’t watch trailers of movies I’m gonna watch. I don’t wanna read anything about them, if I know I’m going to watch it. Because it just takes away from the experience. Like it annoys me, anything built, any marketing built around a work of art, is to me a spoiler of some aspect of that experience that the artists wanted to create. Yeah. And it’s annoying to me. I’m not spoiler sensitive. Like it doesn’t, it doesn’t ruin it for me. But it, to me, the principle that I applied to media is the same thing that I apply to a restaurant. It’s like, back when we used to go to restaurants on a regular basis in Los Angeles. Like Jessie and I would very rarely go to the same place twice because, I’m just like, I’m in one of the biggest cities in the world. There’s always a new place. And we both think like that. And so we’re just like, it doesn’t always result in a better meal. No. Often it’s just like, Hmm. But I think when I look at movies or TV shows or whatever, I just think, Oh, there’s, and I don’t just, like you were saying, it’s like, if you’re going to take the time to devote two hours of your evening to something, it’s like, why devote to the same thing? However, the other night at your house. Yeah. We watched, We rewatched a movie. And the funny thing is, is when, That was your idea, by the way. When y’all said that we were going to watch Us, the movie. I, my, I wasn’t excited about it. As much as I absolutely love that movie. I’ve only seen it once. I, I wasn’t excited about it, but I had an incredible time rewatching that movie. So it made me actually think twice about rewatching movies. Well, that movie is specifically constructed that, Bless you. Is there going to be eight more? I just want to know. I dunno. There might be one more, at least. Jordan Peele constructed this movie in such a way that once you, once you’ve watched it, you have. You know what to watch for. You have a different experience watching it the second time. I believe a movie with a reveal is a completely different experience. I think that’s, that’s something that hit me. It was like, Oh man. Like if you watch a movie with a significant reveal of some kind or a twist, you should watch it again. Rewatch it. Now, do you think that saying that a movie has a twist is a spoiler? Does that violate your spoiler? Absolutely. Yes. Spoiler alert. A little late. Hmm. Yeah, that doesn’t track with me, but I’m sorry if, if I ruined Us for you. That is, that is a huge, to say that there’s a twist at the end. Or a reveal. But how many movies? So many movies have reveals. Almost all movies have reveals except just like straight dramas. Like with, all right I’m gonna make a, spoiler alert for Mandalorian season two. Okay? So you can skip, I have not, I haven’t watched the first episode. Fifteen seconds. You’re not gonna ruin it for me. I watched it the night, that’s why I’m telling you, but I wouldn’t want you to tell me this. Okay. But on, like the Twitter moments, the day after the Mandalorian episode came out, it said “Mandalorian, season two, premiers with an amazing character reveal.” Well, of course, they’re going to tell you who the Mandalorian is. I mean, you can go a second season, not knowing who the, the actor who plays him? Which by the way, I saw an article about the actor who plays him before I ever watched the season. Before I got started. Okay. Well, I don’t want to, you know, in an effort, well, I hate to spoil more, but I just can’t help myself to just tell you that you’re wrong. Okay. But he will be revealed. Well, that’s not what we’re talking about. My point is, they said that there’s an amazing character reveal. You, you misinterpreted it. And I knew the answer, but I think that again, I would not have wanted to know that. And I’m just glad I had already watched the episode. So that’s why I make sure that I’ll watch it episode right when it comes out. Is it like that baby Yoda has like a spider body or something like that? All right. I told them to skip forward 15 seconds. We’re not talking about it anymore. So we don’t think that Emily is weird because she won’t watch a movie more than once. But there are, I think there’s some exceptions. Yeah. How about Scnozamanian. “Am I weird because I asked people to repeat what they have to me, even though I heard them loud and clear. I just do. And it’s completely out of my control. It’s completely out of your control. We knew somebody like this. Scnozamanian, I’m just going to tell you that, I, I feel a little anger welling up inside when I read your confession. I mean, it’s. Well, and the person that I’m thinking about right now, who we both know from our past, who will remain nameless. I don’t know who you’re talking about. Can you, Huh? Just, Huh? Huh? I almost remember, but I don’t. Huh? Like, I know that there was this person in our lives, Huh? but I can’t remember. Huh? Huh? Oh! Are you talking about the, Back from our high school days. Oh, I thought you were, He was older than us. He was in college when we were in high school. Huh? Huh? Just tell me and we’ll have to bleep it out. Uh, Say it! Oh yeah! He did do that. Huh? Huh? Huh? While you were talking. How long? No matter what you said, no matter at what point you were in and what you were saying. Huh? He said, “huh?” And I guarantee you he, It was infuriating. He was hearing you. The whole time. Huh? So I don’t know, I don’t know if this is what you do, Schnoz, if this is what you do, you need to stop it immediately. Yeah. That’s not, And you say you can’t, it’s out of my control. I think that’s a lie. That you’re telling yourself. What causes that? Huh? Do you remember it? And it doesn’t have, I do now. Yeah. And it maybe Schnoz doesn’t like constantly give the “Huh?”, but even if it’s like, “What was that?”, when you’re done. What’d you say? How could that even happen? Oh, I, Now I dunno. When my kids, when my kids were younger, like I seem to recall having an experience, a parenting experience. So I’m like, they’ll, there was a phase that I think Lily and Lincoln went through where they would be like, “What?” And I remember deciding to start to say, hold on, You heard me. Hold on. You heard me. What, what did you hear? And by the way, and we forced them, I forced them to say, cause it was in their brains. Yeah, I did. I did hear it. It’s like they have to replay it, and then. Well the same things happens, it does go both ways, I mean, how many times have my kids asked me something and I’ve just, I never thought I would be this, but it turns out this is just what being a dad is. It’s your kids asking you, You’re asleep in a recliner with a remote on your crotch. I’m not asleep. I’m just doing what dad wants to do. And when children ask questions of me, I do not. I’m impervious to them. It’s filtered. And so they’re like, “Dad, you heard me!” And then I do the same thing. And I’m like, “Oh, I did hear you.” Yeah. I, it is in my brain, but I had not reckoned with it until now. So this goes both ways. This is not a good practice for anyone. I mean, you’ve, you’ve got to just take a beat and say, I’m about to ask them to repeat themselves, but did I just, did I actually hear it? Yes I did. I’m hearing it again now in my memory. I’m responding to it. Yeah. I’m not burdening somebody to say something again. And I don’t think this is weird. I think this is, based on my experience, this is just annoying. You know, to be completely harsh and honest about it. Again, and I’m just going off of my personal experience with it, from this one person. Well that might be our next, “Am I annoying because I blank?” Okay. Yeah. We can keep going down this rabbit hole. Laura, LaRawwwr! Said, “Am I weird because I eat raw pasta as a snack? The crunch when you bite, it is so satisfying. Like a hard candy, but it’s savory.” I’ve, I’ve eaten a, a taut strand of spaghetti before. Taught? And I felt like, I felt like it was going to break my tooth. Was it? And it was a spaghetti? Yeah. Or your try linguini? I didn’t try, I only tried spaghetti. And I mean, there’s a bit of danger involved. It’s kind of like chewing glass and the taste is very subtle. You might be overstating the danger, but this just seems like a preference. I mean, there are, okay, I remember one time I went over to Peter Dinklage’s house and you know, it sounds like a name drop, but that was just my neighbor growing up, a different one. And he went into the fridge and grabbed a hot dog cold, which he called a raw hotdog. And this is before I really understood that hot dogs were pre cooked. Yeah? And he just ate it out of the fridge. And I was like, he’s weird. He eats raw hot dogs. But you know me, one night in my house, curiosity got the best of me. And I ate a raw hotdog, and I was like, ah, I kinda get this. I sorta get this. But it might make me weird. I don’t think I would enjoy it now. But as a kid, I would do that. I think eating uncooked pasta is more strange, um, because it’s, it’s so, I mean, I like a good crunch, but the crunch is so intense. There are other things are that crunchy and savory. Like crackers, chips. But nothing is as crunchy as uncooked pasta. But there are things made from wheat that are crunchy, like a Wheat Thin. Like a Wheat Thin feels like you’re getting close to just eating straight pasta, but it’s been made into a form. So I think you should maybe just switch to Wheat Thins. I disagree. The more I think about it, I can’t think of anything that you could eat that is crunchier than uncooked pasta. I mean, it’s, it’s almost like glass. You think I’m exaggerating, but have you done it? You ever eaten raw pasta? I’m sure I have at one point. Well not raw, but uncooked. But also, there’s no flavor to it. Like, it hasn’t been salted. It’s as hard as it, as a fingernail. Can you floss with it? That’s the truth, man. I mean, it’s brittle, but it’s, but it’s as hard. If that makes sense. I think this is a, is this weird? I get the crunch. Like if you need an extreme crunch, I can’t think of anything that’s going to rival that, Laura. So I’m going to say, that it’s not weird. I’m gonna say you’re you, you’ve got to crunch fetish and I think you should explore other things. I think that this is weird, but it’s okay. You know what I’m saying? Like. Yeah. That’s why I use the word fetish. I think that’s what fetish means to me. Weird, but okay. No judgment. Okay. Well, if, if, if I was inventing a character for a story and you know, there’s the principle that Blake Snyder talks about, you know, a limp and an eye patch, you give every character in a narrative something notable makes them a little bit different. Okay. I think that this character eats raw pasta. Yeah. That’s a, that’s a good character trait. That’s fun, To me, it’s sort a quirky. I would say I would get into, I think it’s weird, but it’s good weird. That’s my conclusion. Margaret. All right so, we disagree. Stivers or Stivers? “Am I weird because I like to mix baked beans with cottage cheese?” Now this is a mixture of worlds. On a, on a recent carpool vlog, we do videos for the Mythical Society where we like, we, we were riding in the car. It’s like a 20 minute video where we’re just shooting the breeze. Sometimes we do answer questions, but, I don’t know how it came up, but I shared with you that I’m obsessed, my favorite type of cheese right now, is cottage cheese. I love it. I love to put a bowl of that sloppy oozy, white, crumb. Like what are those like nodules of cottage cheese in a bowl, throw some walnuts on it. I’m surprised. Dried blueberries. I’m surprised that you like it because you kind of get grossed out by cheese sometimes. And I think cottage cheese, while I also like it, It’s like, it’s like, It feels like the grossest kind of cheese besides maybe blue cheese. It’s like a cereal. It doesn’t, it tastes bland. It’s in a bowl. I eat it with a spoon. Why is it called cottage? It has like, a cereal experience. But with protein. Have you ever had it in a cottage? Ah, I fancy my house a cottage. Why is it a cottage? Is it made in cottages? Or is it made from a region that has a lot of cottages? All right, man. I mean, I’m, I’ve been pretty good at Googling. “Why it’s called cottage cheese?” It is made from different types of milk with different fat levels. The term cottage cheese is believed to have originated because the cheese was generally made in cottages from milk leftover after making butter. The cheese is creamy lumpy and sold in pots. Cottage, this is this is from cheese.com, by the way. I think. Okay. The way I’m interpreting what you just read is that more traditional cheese, like say a cheddar, is a result of a process, an intentional process, like by a cheese maker. But cottage cheese is like cheese that happened at somebody’s house in a more, this is leftover, kind of accidental way almost. Cottage cheese is thought to be the first cheese made in America. Yeah. This is making lots of sense. For centuries, farmers in Europe made fresh farmhouse cheeses with naturally soured milk after separating the curds from the whey. Immigrants to America brought the tradition of fresh cheese making with them. And by the mid 1800s, the term cottage cheese entered the American vocabulary. Cottage cheese is sold both plain. It’s the original cheese. Cottage cheese is the original American cheese? Yeah, just like me. Sorry. I’m sniffing man. You should. I think we have Zyrtec here at the office. I’m gonna get some in a second. I didn’t think that withdrawal would be this bad. I read a whole Reddit thread about Zyrtec withdraw. Some people have crazy itching happen. It’s not happening to me. I just got this sniffys. What do your toenails smell like? That’s going to be an indicator. Probably couldn’t smell them right now. I was also told that eating cottage cheese before you go to bed is good, Dreams. Is good for, no, it’s a good way to get the type of protein Casein. that your body needs when you’re sleeping. Casein, slow release protein. I mean, the theory is, because unlike whey protein, which is an immediate release, which is you should do like right after your workout cause your muscles are hungry for it. You take casein before you go to sleep, which, and you can buy casein just as a powder. Sometimes I’ll drink like the thing. Get it in the cottage. Maybe I should just the cottage cheese and also dairy. Before you go to sleep. My experience is causes you to have crazy dreams. Hmm? I don’t know what the connection is there. So two for one, cause I’m starting to eat cottage cheese. But, the question was mixing beans with cottage. That is weird. That, yeah, that’s weird. I’ve never heard of that. Beans and cheese. Bean and cheese burrito. That’s a thing. Yeah. But beans and cottage cheese is not warm. Cottage cheese is cold. I mean, if I search beans and cottage cheese. “What compliments cottage cheese?” people ask. Sliced bananas, crushed pineapple, berries, melon chunks, fresh peaches. Everything is sweet. Everything that compliments cottage cheese is sweet. Yeah, nothing. I mean food.com has a pork and beans with cottage cheese recipe. I think, if it becomes more like a cream cheese thing, then maybe that could be good. This is, this is the mix. This is the melding of our worlds, Ret. I bring the cottage. You bring the beans, let’s get together and make a scene. Do you heat the cottage cheese up? I mean, it’s a, this is a food.com recipe. How many reviews is it? By Jeff Hammer. I think this is user generated. Did anybody comment on this? Yeah, no only Jeff commented. Oh! Nope. Down here. Don Kaye. He said don’t cook the beans. Okay. I don’t know. There’s not many people. It’s not, food.com is not a cauldron of conversation. Apparently. So, I’m going to say this is, this is, this is weird. And I’m going to go there as well. I think this is weird. I mean, you don’t want to try it. Oh, I’ll try it. I gotta sneeze again. Okay. You probably just deposited something on your right shoulder. People are going to think you’ve got the COVID, man. I don’t man. It’s allergies. This happens every time I run out of my allergy pills. All right, Laura, you’re weird. Margaret. You’re weird. Let’s get to Mary, quite contrary. “Am I a weird because I hit myself when I see a crow? because I think it gets rid of, I wanna say blad, because I think it gets rid of bad luck. So If I see four, I hit myself four times. If I see 20, yep, 20 taps on my chest.” Okay, she moved from hitting to tapping. Which, that’s good. “I’m aware that it is irrational. And I try not to, but I can’t help it. #earbiscuits” So this is obviously a compulsive superstition, right? Yeah. So, yeah. It’s just, I don’t think it makes you weird. I mean, knocking on wood, but freaking, I mean, like to me this is kind of like punch bug. Like if you’re in the car and you’re like, you know, when me and my mom used to, used to ride in the car together, if we saw a punch bug, you’d say, you saw a Volkswagen bug on the road and whatever color it was say, “punch bug blue!” If you were the first person and you’d punch him, punch him on the shoulder. So I would punch my mom on the shoulder. But she would also punch me on the shoulder. It was kind of like a love lick. To me that’s more about bonding. That’s a social experiment. That’s a social bonding. That works. But then, This is something, this is a compulsive behavior. Is it not? Yeah. It’s just, I can’t make sense out of it, It doesn’t make you weird, it makes you actually pretty, I mean, this is very common. This is very normal. Everyone has compulsive behavior. Some are more pronounced than others. Some cross into, as you have described, irrationality and superstition. Like when I would feed my dog, Tucker, I would always feed him and I would pat him on the head five times. I would count. Five times. Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat. And then I would feel like, okay, my job is complete. I patted him four times. He’s gotten what he needs. Five times. _ Five times. I don’t think this, I don’t think this is weird. And I, and I don’t, and I don’t think that it is necessarily bad unless it becomes, if it’s in other areas of your life. I mean, my wife, you know, struggles with OCD, not, she doesn’t have this particular type. Right? But it’s not, it’s very difficult to like, you don’t like really get rid of it. Like, you are always someone who struggles with it. And I’m not saying that this isn’t necessarily what it is, but like, there’s a number of behaviors, like tapping your dog four times or tapping your chest when you see a crow that, I feel like there’s a little bit of self-soothing in this. It’s not necessarily some debilitating thing. You know? But you probably, you probably could help it if you really wanted to. But I don’t necessarily know that it’s like, this is like a something that you have to address in order to move on in life. But the belief of thinking that it gets rid of bad luck. That’s just incorrect. Yeah. But that don’t make you weird. It seems like it’s, you know, from the outside looking in, without knowing anything and not passing judgment, but just saying, you know, isn’t this an unnecessary constraint on your life, to have to, to know that this isn’t true. But then it’s like, now you’re tapping yourself and you don’t, you know, you don’t feel soothed. Is it something that you want to change? Perhaps? Well, I mean, what about like, It’s your call? Not ours. I mean, what about like a baseball player? You know, they’re notoriously superstitious. He wears a certain pair of socks. You’re talking about cricket, right? Yeah, a cricket player who wears the same pair of underwear until he loses or something like that. Um, I guess I’m in the, if this isn’t hurting anybody. Yeah, it’s fun. And it gives you confidence. You know, I got the, I got my lucky pair of tiger underwear. Or like our lucky shirts. I haven’t worn them in a long time. Our lucky shirts that we wear for the GMM countdown episodes, which, I mean, of course we don’t believe that there’s luck in them. We’re doing a bit, but I mean, if we did believe it, it wouldn’t be weird. It would just be superstitious. It’s fun. It’s like, I mean, but lucky underwear or something like that gives you confidence. There’s a psychological thing that like, then you can, you can hit the cricket ball or puck or whatever it is. You know, you can bat better. But like thinking, Believing something that isn’t true. Isn’t necessarily bad. I guess is what I’m saying. Right? Like the, and again, If it makes you feel better. Well, it can also, If it doesn’t hurt anybody. It can also, you know, he talks about this in the book Sapiens, like that’s actually one of the things that makes humans, humans, and the ability to cooperate with each other is the fact that we can believe a fiction that like bonds us together. We can believe things that are not true, about ourselves or about other people. And it can be advantageous. So I’m not saying that that’s necessarily what’s happening with a superstition, but I’m just saying that I don’t think it’s bad necessarily to believe something that’s not true. If it helps you, or helps a group of people, as long as it’s not hurting somebody. Because our grasp of what is actually true is actually, it’s not as keen as we all think it is. Yeah. Cause we could find out one day that, you know. Tapping yourself when crows show up is really awesome. That it really does counteract the bad luck. That is real. That all crows carry. They are smart. And they’re a lot bigger than you think. What if, If you get right up on a crow, they’re big. They could peck your eye out. What if this person goes and watches, watches The Black Crows in concert? And they tap along with the beat. ♪ Let me light your candle ♪ ♪ Cause I’m so hard to handle ♪ ♪ Yes, I am. ♪ You’ve turned it into, some sort of like strange chant. Cottoneye Joe. Oh yeah, that too. Just yourself be, if weird is you. This celebration is now concluded. Yeah. Listen, I mean, we made some judgements, but we told you that’s what we were going to do. Spoiler alert. And you know, I think we’ll do this again. Shall I make a rec? You shall. Okay, I made this rec to you. I’m going to make it to you. You know, if it’s good enough for my friend it’s good enough for you. You, you gotta have Apple, you gotta have the Apple TV plus subscription to watch this. So if you have that, definitely check it out. The Beastie Boys Story. Beastie Boys Story, there was a book that was written by Adam Horowitz and Mike D. Adam Jaak. He, you know, he passed away. The Beastie Boys were technically no more. But they wrote this memoir, which is like a super fun book. Well, I actually didn’t read the book, I watched the documentary first and I love the documentary so much, now I’m going back and listening to the book on, on the audio book because it’s, it’s really entertaining the way it’s done. There’s a lot more stories. And they read it, they read the book? Yeah, they do. And they have a lot of guest stars come in and read parts of the book too. Lots of people fans of the Beastie Boys. And the thing that, you know, I encourage you to watch it. You know, it’s, it’s like an hour and a half. It’s, they call it a live documentary. It’s a stage show. I mean, if you saw the tour Mythicality, which was the stage show version of the book of Mythicality, what they did was very similar, you know. They definitely stole our idea. It was the two, it was the two of them on stage with a screen behind them, and they would just cut to like visuals to support their stories. And they just told their story and it was, you know, it’s scripted and it’s a little stilted at times and they like used a prompter. It actually made me feel good that like, Hey, they did something very similar to us. And, they tell the story of their friendship. Friendship is such a strong theme. So even if you’re, if you’re not a fan of their music, I would say the first half is, you know, they go chronological. It’s about, you know, how the band started and it’s, it’s a crazy story. But it’s really the second half of the documentary, wouldn’t you agree where it really starts to sing? Like once they achieve their initial fame, and then, I just related to it so much from a, from a creative standpoint, like working closely with a lifelong friend of mine and having to, having to pivot from early successes to find later successes in their career. And just the, it was very inspiring to me because I related to so much of it. Yeah. I thought it was great. I mean, I, I didn’t know, I knew so little about them. And the thing we talked about is we were trying to figure out why we weren’t more of a fan All along the way. Yeah. Like, especially like in the nineties when we were in high school, because we were like listening to 311 and I mean, 311 is no Beastie Boys. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. It’s just interesting that that’s what we gravitated towards, but fascinating story. Just the way things worked back in the day, in the music industry and the way things kind of came up with like a new genre being invented. So I think, I mean, I enjoyed all of it. I thought the beginning was awesome too, because it’s just fascinating to see how all that came together back in the MTV days and the way it worked. So foreign. The thing that I really appreciated was, they processed their entire experience through a lens of like a maturity that they grew into over time. You know? They said, it’s not that we became adults as much as we kinda just gained some maturity, you know, In a lot of ways that I don’t think in, in a way that I relate to, in a lot of ways I don’t feel like an adult, but I feel like I have this, I can look back on our career with like this level of maturity and, you know, we haven’t pivoted as much as they did. You know, from this, their first album and like the becoming this, becoming the trope that they were making fun of while on tour, like this fight for your right to party guys, and then coming to grips with how that wasn’t who they truly were. I just really enjoyed how they processed it and, and presented it with like this retrospective wisdom. That, I didn’t know, I didn’t know was there. It’s like, you know that Adam Jaak, you know, he became this crusader for, for Tibet and you know, he’s a fascinating guy and you get to know him through the lens of his, of, of his friends talking about him, which I thought was really cool too. Yeah. So it was a great tribute to him. It’s very moving. If you liked the tour Mythicality, I think, you know, and if I could see, I can see how mythical beasts process us, I kind of put myself in their shoes and it, because, You put less pressure on. In being a fan of the Beastie Boys. Performers in that moment, because you’re kind of taking in their story. Yeah. And I started to, I really understood each of them as an, as an individual and began to understand their personalities. And I felt like I got to know them and appreciate who they were. And then, in going back and listening to those albums that we should have been into, you’re right, before. I had this appreciation for the albums, because I had an appreciation for who they were as people and the journeys that they had been on. And I, I feel good that I’ve, that we’ve given, we’ve given that to Mythical Beast. You know? We brought them, they understand our journey. They know us as people, they know our quirks, they know our differences. They know, they know what, what makes us work together. And they’re pulling for us in the way that I was pulling for them in their story. So when, when it seemed like they broke up without even talking about it, that was, that was a great point. Spoiler alert! So to see what happened from that, in that moment, you know? And how they’re just, they were, they’re just real people. Yeah. And they put it all out there. So. The Beastie Boys Story. Beastie Boys Story. Recommended. Now what? Well we just say, #earbiscuits to continue to conversation on the interwebs. To watch more Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist on the right to watch. 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.