(upbeat music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Rhett. – And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re talking about the surprising items that are revolutionizing our everyday lives. You know, you might, you might say, man, that product sounds stupid, but until you find yourself or someone close to you using it constantly you know, like, man, maybe there’s something to this. – Also I think this is something you thought you couldn’t, you thought you could do without, but now you realize you need it all the time. You need it every day. We got a lot of responses. – You said you asked the question, you didn’t finish the sentence. We said, what’s a surprising item that has revolutionized your everyday life, maybe it’s a special tool, a gadget, something around the house, work, school, you know, just trying to jog people’s thoughts because we put these prompts out there, y’all, if you respond to them, we’re going to talk about, we’re going to talk about your perspectives. – And we do this, we do this on Twitter, you know. – Twitter, @mythical. Follow us. – Some people have created Twitter accounts just to participate. We appreciate that. – That’s not– – We hear you, we notice. So we’ll get to that in a second, but something has happened to me two days in a row. And I just want to throw it out there and see if you think there’s any significance to it. – Oh, significance. Okay. – This is not unusual. I think that lots of people talk about this phenomenon but it hasn’t happened to me in a while and it’s happened two days in a row. – Okay. – Waking up and knowing that I have woken up one minute before my alarm goes off. – Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. – And not just, not just looking– – It’s uncanny. – Not just looking over to guess, but having a knowledge and then looking over to confirm it. – Oh, okay. So you have a knowledge, okay? Your eyes aren’t even open yet, but you know you’re waking up and you’re about to look at the clock and you’re saying, my clock is going to go off in one minute, you know that. – Well, so my phone is on a little stand, a wireless stand. Not, it’s not something that, I can live without it. It’s not an item that I’m going to talk about, but it is a new thing that I got that has my watch, my phone and my air, what do you call them, AirPods? – I don’t know. – All wirelessly charging on one thing. It was kind of cool, but my phone, here’s why I know that I’m not being influenced by seeing it. I have to hit my phone in order to turn the screen on, to see what time it is. That’s the only indication of what time it is. So yesterday I woke up. – It’s interesting. – I was like, my alarm is about to go off. Like, literally, it’s going to go off if I don’t reach over there, reach over there, 6:29. My alarm went off at 6:30, but I stopped it literally like 15 seconds. So I was like, oh, okay, well that happens. This morning, alarm is set for 6:15. I don’t get up at the same time every day. Had different things going on. That’s the weird thing. – Oh, two different time. Okay. That kind of blows the theory here. – Right, that’s why I’m so shaken by it. – That’s crazy. So today was day two, this morning? I got to get more data man ’cause– – Okay, I woke up this morning and I had the same feeling and I will say just in full disclosure, it was 6:13. So it wasn’t 6:14, it wasn’t one minute, but it was two minutes. And I was like, and I was like– – So it was the second day in a row, and you wouldn’t set it at the same time. – I did it again, here’s the thing. This isn’t normal. Now, when I get up at the same time, but I don’t get up at the same time. I don’t– – I get up at the same time and there’s many times when I wake up right before the alarm goes off. – But you also go to bed at the same time, right? – Yeah. – You go to bed at the same time and you get up at the same time. This is not unusual. But I haven’t gone to bed at the same time– – I’d like to think I was special too so. – No, because your body adjusts to a rhythm. – No, I’m special. – You’re special in other ways, everyone knows that. But I don’t go to bed at the same time every day. My bed time range is– – It’s not a circadian thing. – I mean sometimes I might be like, I’m really tired and I’ll go to bed at 9:30. Like I’ll go to bed at 9:30 and then sometimes I’ll be like, it’s midnight. I haven’t thought about bed yet. I’ll go to bed at 12:30. And any of these things can happen. It has nothing to do, it’s just whatever happens, happens. And then the morning is based on what I need to do that day. – So when you’re going to bed, do you make the decision? Do you set your alarm clock? Because that’s changing too apparently. You make a decision, is it, will it be 6:15, will it be 6:30? – Yeah. – And how big of a range is that? – No earlier than six o’clock, no later than 7:30, and if I need to, if I want to sleep later, I can’t sleep past 7:30, I cannot. It is physically, now that I’ve hit my 40s, physically impossible to sleep past 7:30 and I really, really hate that. – I can go back to sleep, but I do wake up. Well, listen, I’m going to count the third day, this morning. You got three days in a row. I think you need to keep tracking this because maybe there’s some, this is something to be harnessed. – Do you think it’s supernatural? – No. – That’s really what the question is. – I wish it was, that would be fun to talk about. – Do you think this is– – No, but you can’t say it’s supernatural. – Do you think it’s the beginning of maybe, I could be, maybe I’m like, this is my origin story, for like a superhero. The guy who can wake up right before his alarm and harnesses that as a super power. – The alarm anticipator. – That’s good, this is what I’m saying, I would be called the anticipator and I’ll start anticipating things right before they happen and saving people. – Well, okay. Like dismantling a bomb? – No, it has to be things that are based on a schedule. – Like if you were taking a nap? – Like if a train was coming. – If you were taking a nap, and there was a bomb, you could maximize your sleep and then wake up and defuse the bomb right before it goes off, thereby getting the most rest possible, so you have a good day. – I think that’s too complex. I think it’s more like, there is a child that has fallen into the place where the trains come in the subway. – Okay, you’re taking a nap and as the child is falling, you wake up right before it hits the asphalt and catch it. – No, no, no, again, I wake up right before the train comes. I let the child be down there. Maybe seven– – If the child hit the ground, it probably died. – No, no, no, he landed on his feet and then he rolled over and now everyone’s panicking, they’re trying like, should we pull him up and I’m sleeping seven to eight minutes and then I’m like, train’s coming and then I wake up and then I see the child, I didn’t know about the child, I see the child because I’ve woken up because the train is coming, and then because I got long arms– – Okay, I get it. – I pull up. – So really– – Yeah, that’s the superhero that I’m gonna be, the anticipator. – You’re really, and what that means is that you’re a superhero with no real powers except that you can maximize your sleep before doing something that you need to do. As a matter of fact, you’re kind of like a normal person that wakes up with an alarm and does something. – I think you’re seeing the wrong end of this and what I’m saying it has nothing to do with the sleep. The sleep is only the way that the anticipator begins to anticipate. So you put the anticipator in a situation where something could be on certain schedule. Like, put the anticipator in there, put him to sleep, he’ll wake up right before this thing happens. – But the reason why he’s so good– – Not to defuse the bomb, but right before the bomb goes off. So probably too late, but at least we’ll know it’s gonna happen. – Well, you can take that into account, you can anticipate the amount of time it takes to defuse the bomb if you’re the anticipator. – I don’t think I can get that sophisticated. – Then you suck. But you’re gonna be well-rested, and I think that counts for something. – Yeah. – It’s interesting because just last week we were talking about strange habits of successful people and one of the things we didn’t talk about was there’s a number of people that wake up without an alarm clock, Oprah, she’s the only one I remember off the top of my head. – Oprah, the list can stop there, and it would be a ringing endorsement. – I think after a while, there’s no ringing, that’s the point. It’s a silent endorsement of waking up without an alarm clock. So you could do that. – I could do that now. – Then that is a– – I can’t sleep past 7:30. – And here’s another thing, by the way– – But I can say, five o’clock, don’t need an alarm. Is that what she does? She sets a time and then just wakes up for it? – I think I know why this is happening with you, because you have inadvertently set up a system to train yourself to do this. You don’t have a clock that’s easily visible from your bed, you have to wake up more than you need to in order to see what time it is, to see if you need to get up, for me, I have a clock visible there, I don’t use it as the alarm, I use my phone as the wake up alarm, but I can just easily roll over and just like, kind of, quarter of the way open one eye, and see what time it is and then just immediately go back to sleep. That’s also why you’re not able to sleep later, on the weekends or something, you just need to be able to roll over and give a little crack to the eye, oh, I’ve got 20 minutes, I’ve got an hour. – The reason I can’t sleep late, is because, this is a sore subject between me and my wife, our bedroom doesn’t have blocking blinds, because whoever we bought the house from installed translucent blinds. – You can change that. – This I’ve been talking about, we’ve been in this house, for going on six years and what I told, I tell my wife, you know, when we were on tour and I would be like in a hotel with those, you know there’s like vinyl curtains that completely block out everything. And we’d be on a weird schedule and we’d be on the bus, and I wouldn’t sleep on the bus, and then we’d get there and we would have a show that night, I’d sleep till like noon, I felt like a teen again. – Because they had those blocking curtains. – The reason I can’t sleep late I believe is because the sunlight comes in and I tell Jessie, can we just get blocking blinds? And she says, well, I’m gonna redo the bedroom and she starts telling me all the things she’s gonna do on the windows, and she says, and they’ll block sun. But I’m not ready to do that. And I’m like, well, I’m ready to sleep past 7:30 and then we come to the standstill and it never goes anywhere. – It’s not really a standstill, it’s just kind of a clarification of who’s in charge. – Well, that’s for sure. – Not a stalemate, I think someone has won. – Well, yeah, she has won. She wins. – Beauty mask, man. – Well, it doesn’t stay. – Duct tape. – It doesn’t stay on my face, it’s uncomfortable. – Come on man, I’m trying to help you. – Do you still wear a beauty mask? – Look at this face, do I need a beauty mask? No, no, I don’t. – But usually when you commit to something, you don’t ever stop doing it until your death in the distant future. – I think that will come up as we go through some of these things because I’m gonna talk about some of the things in my life I can’t live without. And I use it on tour, yeah. For some of the same reasons as you’re talking about. Blocking out light, especially, I started using it on a plane when I was a plane rider, and then on the bus, on tour and stuff like that. But yeah, never at home. – I feel like I can still sense the sun on my skin. – Never at home. Let’s get to one of these. Ash responded to our prompt, Ash says, a wrist watch. I always just use my phone and would get lost in the notifications easily and sometimes even forget to check the time. It can be used for time management, meaning just the wristwatch, workouts, when someone asks for the time and even as an accessory, for fashion. Changes the game for real, #earbiscuits. Thanks, Ash, for the throwback answer right off the bat here. – Is this a smartwatch or is this just a wristwatch? – Yeah, what Ash is saying is it’s juts a wrist watch. It’s a dumb watch. – How do you use that for a workout? – I don’t, yeah, I guess timing intervals. – Timing a workout. – Just timing intervals. – Or like Tabata, you know, Tabata training. – Never heard that word. – 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off. – Tabata. – It’s just like high intensity interval training. – The word makes me hungry, it should definitely be a food. – Really? – Oh, tonight is Tabata night. – Have you had the Tabata burger from– – Tabatis. No, it’s kind of like, it’s not a burger, it’s more like, it’s like a taco and a tostata, it’s kind of like a half-folded taco. – Okay, but we are talking about a regular wrist watch which I don’t know man. – I respect the simplification of life. I mean we both have smart watches on. – Oh, yours is loose. – You’re repping the dinky– – You just went like this. – And I’m repping the, dinky Apple Watch– – Do it again. – And I’m repping the– – Why is it so loose? – The Garmin. Because when I get out of the shower, I like to of course blow dry my entire body and that includes under my watch because I don’t like having moist areas. – You’re not getting good data, man, that’s so loose. You’re not getting good body data. Your biometrics are gonna be way off. – When I’m doing a workout. – Oh then you go. – Then I tighten it up. But I don’t like it too tight. – But daily biometrics, man. – Yeah, I know, but there’s a vein right there. And I don’t like– – You think you’re gonna cut the vein off? – I feel like I’m cramping the vein. My kids know that I’m so vein sensitive. Sometimes I’ll just be sitting somewhere and just a random kid will come up and like that vein right there. – A random kid? – Well, one of my three. It’s like, once you have three. – I thought you’re like, random kids again. – When you have three kids and you interact with them, it starts to feel like you’re randomly interacting with children. Or teens. – And they touch your veins? – Just to screw with me, yeah. – They’ll like, and you know back there, when your forearm is up and the back of that forearm, there’s that one really big vein. Oh gosh I’m sorry if I’m freaking out other people too, but hey I’m with you, because they will touch that vein. Oh, just to screw with me. – So you think the watch is constricting the vein? – It’s crimping my vein, man. – I just think you’re potentially compromising the function of the watch. But we have smart watches. Now, I’m intrigued by this question because just recently, I didn’t tell you about this, I didn’t tell you about this. – You don’t have to tell me everything. – I also didn’t show you this, but– – But I do expect it. – In fact, yesterday. – Okay, come clean. – Yesterday, when I left my house, okay? My shirt was tucked in. – Oh okay, all right, I see where this is going. – Again, I feel like I’m in a weird phase of my life right now. – Yeah, you know what, it’s okay, Rhett. – And you know, it’s very okay. – Being in a weird phase is okay, what you’re about to tell me, I don’t know if it’s okay. – I’m gonna get back to wrist watch, just go with me here. I feel like I’m hitting this part of my life where I understand that I am, I’m accepting some things about myself and one of the things that I’m accepting is that I’m a 43-year-old man, right? And so there’s things happening, last time we talked about, trying to embrace like, I’m gonna dress in a certain way and I’m not gonna try to be in style or whatever, there’s other things that are coming along with that and one of the things, just yesterday and firstly, you know I wear a belt, and we’re gonna get to that later as well. – Stay tuned if you’re a belt person. – Well, somebody suggested that. I have a shirt that’s a little bit too short, but I liked it, and I was like, what if I just tucked, what if I just tucked this shirt in and I tucked the shirt in and I walked out and of course showed my wife who immediately starts laughing, but because she knows that I’m coming to ask her what she thinks about the tucked in shirt, I don’t tuck my shirt in. – Because as we’ve established, we know who has the power. – And she said, I was like, what do you think, she was like, do what you want to do. – And I was like, but do you like it? And she said– – No, no way. – No, she said, I think it looks good. – Was it a? – You saw me yesterday, it was– – Is it the button up? – It was the button up from that sponsor that we had, that I’m not gonna mention because they’re not sponsoring this episode. I love the shirt, I love the way it feels, I just wish it was about an inch longer, and so I tucked it in. – So the shirt is the problem. – And then I came in and I had to take a leak. And I was like, okay, as a man who has his shirt tucked in, not as a man who tucks his shirt in, this is a man who doesn’t tuck his shirt in, he currently has his shirt tucked in, who’s thinking about transitioning to become the man who tucks his shirt in, because why not, maybe that’s what I’m gonna become, the guy who has his shirt tucked in. – I’ll answer that question, but I’ll give you your moment. – And I was like, you know how like when we go or we’d be on a talk show and we wear a suit. – Yeah I know when we’d be on a talk show. – And you got to take a piss right before you go on. – Don’t say piss, it’s a little harsh. For the tone of this conversation. – When you take a tinkle. – Good. – When you don’t want to untuck your shirt because you got it all the way that you want. – Yes. – So you use the zipper as the zipper is intended. (laughing) – That, first of all, let me just say. That whole process– – That’s a farce, man. – That whole process of getting your tally wacker out of your underwear and out of your zipper. – Right. I’ve seen childbirth easier than that. – And then feeling like you’ve got it all out. (laughing) I don’t know, I just feel like I got to reach under there and kind of– – Talk about crimping the vein. (laughing) – I feel like I got– – You know what I’m saying? – I feel like I got to hit the evac button, you know, the evac button? You know where it is, and you feel like you got to hit it just to make sure. And this is not an old man thing, I’ve been doing this since I was a toddler. You got to hit the tank. You got to press the tank, make sure it’s all out. – You gotta touch the tank button, yeah. – And evac button is what I’m calling it. And you can’t get to the tank. – The way you talk about it, anyone who doesn’t know about this, what some people don’t know about it, and are picturing right now, is you’re reaching down there and like, you’re pressing a button and all of a sudden there’s like a gush. – Well, sometimes there is some and sometimes there’s not. That’s why you do it. It’s a safety, it’s a backup. And it’s especially important when you’ve got the tally wacker out of the pants and you’re about to go on national television, you don’t want to have a pee spot, because sometimes as you’re pulling it back in, you know what I’m saying, if you haven’t hit the evac button, it might decide to evac on its own. Right? – If the sea snake is going back in choral? He’s gonna leave a little, do they spray ink? I don’t know. – So I’m in the bathroom and I’ve got it out. – Great. – And then I’m like, what the hell am I doing? Right? So I put it back in and I unzip and I hit the evac button. – Hold on, unzip? You had already unzipped, it was out. – I undid my belt and took everything out. – Okay, okay. You unbuttoned it. – Because I couldn’t get to it. – But you didn’t put it back in first. There’s no need to do that. – I put it back in my underwear, because I had to pull my underwear down. – Oh god, forgot about that. – This is so graphic. I’m sorry. – Speaking of graphic, I kind of need a diagram to make sure people are following. – I’ll put pictures on my Instagram. No, I won’t. Okay, so anyway, after I took it out, and by that I mean my shirt tail, I’m like, what am I doing? I’ll worry about this another day and then I just left it out and I came in here and forgot all about it. But earlier that day when I was tucked, I went in and looked at myself in the full length mirror that we have in our bathroom and I was like, you know I got these boots and I got these jeans and I got my button up tucked in and I got this belt. – You got this beard, you got that face. – And then I looked at my Apple watch, my smart watch, and I was like that doesn’t fit. That doesn’t fit this persona. Like if I’m building a Sims character, this guy wouldn’t have an apple watch, he would have like real wrist watch. You would have an analog watch. – You’re talking about what I’ve got. A manly watch. – No, that’s a digital watch. It looks like a diver’s watch. I’m saying, I’m talking about a metal watch that’s shiny and has a leather band or a metal band or something like that. – A fancy, fancy watch. – And so then I was like, do I need that to complete this look? – You’re going to buy a watch to justify tucking in your shirt? You really are up-ended man. You need a retreat. – No I just think that there’s a transition happening and I feel like if you tucked a shirt in, I at least got to go back to, I have a leather band for this watch that I wear, I got to put the leather band back on the Apple watch. – Don’t go down this road. – This is the road of becoming an old man. You’re on the road too, you’re constantly denying it. – Nope. I’m not on that road. – But I am on that road and I am embracing it. I am embracing what is going to unfold over the next decade and what is going to fold, apparently my T-shirt into my pants and maybe my wiener into my zipper. I’m just saying, I just feel like that’s what this made me think about, maybe I need a watch not because I need to do all this stuff that Ash was talking about, but because I need to complete the look. – Everything you said– – Yeah, is important. – To the decision that is obvious that you need to make. You’ve made every argument as to why you should not be tucking your shirts in. – Why, how is that where you land on this? – You know what, listen to Ear Biscuits, this episode, whatever podcast you found and the past 10 minutes, listen back to it and it will all become clear to you. You should not be tucking your shirt in. – That I should be tucking your shirt in. – But I want to go back, forget what we thought we were going for the time being. – I’m going to tuck it in. – I want to go back to the peeing thing because listen man, I feel like we can help– – We always talk about this at the beginning of Ear Biscuits. Why does this happen? – Going, trying to exit, get your wiener to come out of the underwear through that thing and then go through this gauntlet in order to pee, it kinks things up, it creates problems and even if you’re gonna push that button, I mean, I’ve tried some things over the years, and while you think you’re done, you think you’ve pressed the button and stuff like that, and then you put it back in your pants, I for one peed in my pants thinking that I was done. – Yeah. – And I’m talking like within the past month it happened. But I wasn’t even tucking my shirt in. – Hold on you’re saying you did your normal technique and you still whizzed on yourself? – I can’t remember. – Is that what you’re saying? – Yeah, I can’t remember why it happened, but I definitely can’t just like, you think it works that way, but it doesn’t. Because there’s too many kinks in the hose. It’s not, especially with the tighter pants. – The tighter pants is the problem and that’s the real problem with the suits that we wear that are just way too tight, but that’s what they say we should be wearing. – I don’t want to get more graphic, but I’m going to. – Me too. – Listen, I’m not embarrassed, but you talk about pushing the button, I mean I am so afraid of peeing in my own pants or drizzling or being seen with the dribbles coming through the pants that sometimes you just have to go all the way to milk the snake. – Oh gosh. – You ever seen somebody milk a real snake? Like milk the venom out of a snake? – Yeah, that’s different, they put the fangs over the edge of a cup. (laughing) I don’t do anything with my wiener that looks like that. (laughing) – Well, I do. (laughing) I mean, I don’t like, I don’t put it on the edge of the toilet seat and then bring a foot up and stomp on myself. – Just take the other part of the seat and bring it down. (laughing) Get on your knees, like, dad, what are you doing? Don’t touch my vein! – Yeah, it’s like you better make sure the door is locked if you’re gonna take a knee and use the seat to smush out any remnants. – Yeah, I don’t have to do that. Usually it’s just a quick press of a button. – I mean, there’s a lot– – And if you don’t know about this button. – The button, I don’t think. – You don’t think everybody has the button? – The button isn’t fool proof. To me, it’s like, the button is just, picture if there were buttons all along the exit route and you’re pushing multiple buttons. – Well, that is the fool-proof way. – Out of compulsion, I’ll do that. – I’ll do that if I’m wearing like gray sweats. – Right. – If I’m wearing something that’s like. – If you can’t afford a drop. – Here’s where I’ll milk the snake, if I’m wearing gray sweats at someone else’s house. (laughing) You know what I’m saying, where I’ve got to come back out to a party. – Sweatpants party! – Those two things usually don’t happen. – I don’t want to be at my own house, man. – Gray sweats and somebody else’s house. You know, I was at your house recently, but I was wearing. – You’ve been in the bathroom for a long time too. – I was taking a dump, I took a dump in your bathroom the other night. Sorry, I thought that’s what it was for. – Not ideally, for you, no. – I mean, I don’t come over to your house thinking I’m definitely gonna take a dump, but Christy has done a really good job with that guest bathroom, it’s a nice bathroom, I like being in there. If somebody has done a really good job of designing a bathroom, as a matter of fact, everybody on the wall, in your bathroom is what you have on your shirt. – That’s right. – Is it the same artist? – I don’t know. – I think it’s either, whoever made the wallpaper is ripping off the artist who made your shirt or it’s the same artist. I like feeling like there’s an audience of a bunch of people– – Watching you– – Watching me take a dump. – Milk the snake. – No, I didn’t have to milk the snake, because I had on black jeans. – Yeah, you got to think about that. And that’s why I can wear my underwear more days than– – How has this become about this? If you’re still listening, I’m sorry. – I got a lot of backlash for confessing that I don’t, you know, I’ll wear the same pair of underwear, I don’t know what I said, but now I’m just gonna say two days in a row. And you know what, since I confessed that and people just gave me shit about it, I don’t do that anymore, but that’s because I didn’t want to talk about, well, listen, I have a bidet and I milk the snake. So there’s nothing happening inside of my underwear except for a little bit of sweat. And that’s not where I sweat. So I’m fine, y’all, I’m fine. – Okay. – Don’t judge me. Go to mythical.com. – No one has judged anybody, I’m sure. We’re half an hour into this podcast and we’ve only gotten through one question and we didn’t even really address it. – I was in the ad. 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Welcome. – Mari said, audiobooks is something I can’t live without, I didn’t think I’d retain the book as much compared to reading it myself, but I tried it out with Rhett’s rec of The Stranger in the Woods and I must say it’s been nice, lounging on the sofa, having a book read to me, kind of feel like royalty. – I think read to me. It’s spelt the same way. – You know, I’m thinking the book is reading to you. It’s a person. – I guess either one of them works technically. – Having someone read to you. – But I think they intended read, but okay. – Having a book read to me. Unless you think the book itself is reading. Either way, I’m feeling this, Mari, I too have gotten more into audiobooks, having listened to you talk about listening to books. It’s like, yeah, I should be doing that, so I’d go through like the podcast phase and I’ll go back to the book phase, and I got too many credits on my Audible account. I was looking into pausing it. Which you have to email customer service to pause it, you can pause it for three months. – You just got to get more books, man. How many credits do you have? – Eight. – Keep it going. – I only listen to books when I’m walking, sometimes in the car. I mean, I’ve never laid down and had a book read to me. – No, I don’t do that. – Sounds like fun though. – Audio books, man, I feel like it has revolutionized the book industry. It has to be, there are so many books already, but I’m reading and I use the term reading to say listening, I don’t like to qualify, I found myself over the past year or two, I would always qualify, I read that, well I listened to it on Audible. As if it was lesser, it don’t believe it was lesser, I mean, most of the history of our species was pre-written. It was oral. You got your stories via an oral story teller. Right, it’s just a very recent concept the idea that you had to justify that you’re actually getting information because it’s been translated into words, screw that. I mean written words. – You’re currently justifying it. – I’m definitely justifying it, but I’m saying I don’t qualify it anymore. – And you’re saying that you don’t need to. – Yeah, exactly. – So live in Jessie’s power. – You think my wife is– – I’m just trying to make that a runner, for the episode, that she’s powerful. – Oh she’s very powerful. – But in contrast to you. – I have no problem with admitting that. – So just listen to the books. – But here’s what I’ll say. – You’ve empowered many, me, Mari. – I’m listening, this morning, listening to a book while I worked out. I only listen to books while driving. I kind of feel like I made a choice, I really like music, but I only listen to music while I’m writing, while I’m working. I don’t listen to music at any other time now. – I have to split my time. That’s the thing for me with audio books, is that I love listening to music so much that I kind of have to make a disciplined decision to continue to get into my book, so that’s why walking, my walks has become my book zone and there’s not a temptation to listen to music. So now, when I’m mountain biking by myself, I also, I can listen to an audio book sometimes. – Usually on the uphill and then on the downhill part I might switch to music. – That’s interesting. Because, speaking of my powerful wife, she comes down and I like to work out by myself. Let’s just, I’ll be honest and she knows this, but you know there’s only so much time in the day for the both of us so sometimes we’re both down there. Now what I do when I’m working out, is I listen to an audio book and sometimes I listen to a very dry, like academic audio book about some scientific concept or something like that while I’m sitting there, going rargh! And she comes down there and she laughs at me, and she’s like, how do you do this? How do you work out hard and listen to this professor talk about this thing? – Yeah, it’s a juxtaposition. – She’s like, I got to have music. And she comes down and of course she’s the powerful one, so we listen to music. And when we’re listening to music, I feel like I’m missing out on something. I’m like, man, I had an hour here, and I was– – Learning something. – And if she wasn’t here, I would be making my body better and also making my mind better, but now I’m just listening to dribble, I’m listening to Alicia Keys say, “This girl is on fire!” As I like– – Is Jessie doing that? – Yeah, which by the way is an excellent song to work out to, I understand. – Yeah, it’s got a big beat. – And then there’s that, Jessie has put together this playlist and it’s got something, it’s not current. You know when Gwen Stefani hit that stride and was like, I don’t know when it was, it was like 10 years ago. – On that song with Eve where it’s like… – Yeah, yeah, that’s good to work out too. ♪ Let me blow your mind ♪ – Yeah, and so she’s got that kind of thing. – And I get this, I start moving, but then I’m just like, man I can’t want to get to my car to learn something. – You’re addicted to ideas. – Yeah, definitely. – Think about it. – Think about it, you’re gonna get yourself into trouble. – So what are we talking about? Audio books. – I can’t live without ’em. Of course I could live without ’em, but I see them as a necessary part of my life at this point. – Rachel said, popsocket. I thought they were so dumb till I got one and I can’t hold my phone without it. Helps when I’m fidgety, but I don’t switch out the designs. Which you could do. – You popsocketed for a while. – I did and my phone case broke and I haven’t gotten a new one because I thought I was gonna get a new phone, so instead of getting a new case, I just waited until I got a new phone, but I never got a new phone, so now I have a caseless phone and it’s slicker because there’s no case. – I don’t know how you live like that. – And I was thinking about, instead of getting a case, just getting a popsocket. Hey, we sell those. Mythical.com, get your mythical popsocket. You might think it’s stupid until you try it out. – I tried it out for a while. – I’ve got to go back to it because I’ve noticed that, here’s the thing, I hold the phone like this, and so my pinky is below the phone and it turns out there is, you know, you think you’re holding it in random places, but it goes to the exact same place, I hold my phone in the exact same way. – Right on the vein? – Yeah, I pinch the vein, now I’m getting a pain right here on my pinky finger. This isn’t funny and literally it hurts. When I got to my instinctive location to look at my phone, my pinky finger, there’s a pain spot. And I need a popsocket. – No, look, rubber. I did the same thing, but mine doesn’t hurt ’cause I’ve got a little rubber protective little thing. – And you know what I think that’s what it is. It didn’t hurt until my, my case has been gone long enough that I’ve developed– – You don’t need a popsocket, you need a case- – Carpal tunnel. We don’t sell cases. – Maybe we should. – We sell popsockets, but let me just say, this is truth in advertising, I don’t use them and I don’t– – That’s not what truth in advertising is. When you say you sell something but you don’t use it. – It is truth in advertising. – Okay, you’re being truthful about something that we advertise, but you don’t use. – I’m saying, I want you to have the opportunity to buy a mythical popsocket. – If you’re into that. – But I don’t endorse them personally or use them. I just think that what happens to me with the popsocket is it makes it, it gets caught on. I just want to get this thing in and out of my pocket, as quickly as possible, but I want it to have a little resistance. I can’t imagine, there’s been a couple of days where I’ve gone without a case, I have a case and a screen protector, a glass– – Why don’t they just make phones with the case as part of it? – Well because then you wouldn’t have the power of choice and also they wouldn’t be able to brag about how thin it is. – Make a phone good enough that you don’t need a case. – I mean that’s how Neil deGrasse Tyson famously doesn’t have a phone case and when asked about it, he will take his phone and play around with it, and show, that he’s like, I’m not gonna drop this, why would I need a case? The only reason I’d need a case if I needed the phone to be protected from me and I don’t need to protect my phone from me. But I, I’m not Neil deGrasse Tyson, I may be addicted to ides, but I’m not Neil deGrasse Tyson and I need a case because I do need to protect my phone from myself, but I don’t need a popsocket, but if you need one, more power to you. – Jafar says a memory foam pillow. I’m a tall fellow who has tremendous back and neck issues and switching to this pillow brought the pain I deal with in the morning to an almost tolerable level, I have so much trouble sleeping without it. The way you sleep is key to dealing with chronic pain, but that can’t be the extent of it. Jafar, I’m gonna point you to Rhett’s video where he shows you his stretching routine, he hasn’t made it yet, but we’re really laying on the pressure now. – Here’s what I’ll say, I just went on the internet and put together a bunch of exercises, it’s not like I’m some stretching guru. I do plan on making a video about it, but you can also just put together what feels good to you. – Now, I had neck pain, when I went to my physical therapist who told me I needed to invite my rib to the party. I believe I also told you at the time that she sold me a flax-seed filled cylindrical pillow that, I put it up on Amazon, this thing is called sachi organic buck weed, so it’s not flax seed. – Yeah, flax seed is what you eat. – Cylinder neck pillow, I think some of them do have flax seed and I’m still using that thing almost a year later. – That’s the only pillow that you use? – Yeah. – So there’s nothing else? – Nothing else. But I kind of hate it. – Do you sleep on your back or your side? – But I do think it works, it forces me to sleep on my back and it arches my– – Could you sleep on your side? – It pushes my chin down into my neck and it stretches out the back of my neck in such a way– – And it doesn’t hurt when you wake up? – It kind of puts it in traction in a good way. Oh yeah, the reviews are really positive on Amazon, 670 reviews, four and a half stars. I mean it costs like 37 bucks. But I’ll tell you, it took weeks of just saying, you know what, I’m committed to this thing and even now almost a year later, whenever I roll on my side, it’s really not that comfortable. – So you immediately wake up? – I wake up enough to go back to my back, but that’s kind of part of it. I guess this memory foam pillow, the way this one is shaped for Jafar kind of helps. I’m seeing new ones being pushed on Instagram right now, it’s a memory foam pillow with a hole in the middle basically that simulates the same posture that my seat pillow. – There’s also the square pillow. – Well that one also has, if you sleep on your side. – That’s a side sleep– – It has a big hole in the middle and two smaller holes on the side, so if you roll on your side, your ear is like suspended in a crater. I’m like okay, this sounds like a gimmick. I’m gonna stick with my buckweed pillow. I do think it’s helped. – I told you about the contraption that I bought that was designed to keep you sleeping on your back that had like, it was a belt that you wore that had these big plastic balls so if you slept on your side, you’d be sleeping on top of a ball and you’d wake up. I actually tried it for about a week, and I just, I’m a side sleeper, I want to be a back sleeper, I think it’s the best for a number of different reasons, but I don’t know, I’m not having trouble with my back or my neck because of sleeping, so I’m kind of just on my side, but I want to get your take on this, ’cause my resistance, my resistance to a particular pillow. I have two pillows, they’re both down pillows, but one of them is too like, your head goes all the way to the ground and that doesn’t work. And the other one, maybe it’s not down, it’s like synthetic down, so it’s actually got some support so it feels good. – That way you don’t hear the echoes of the screaming geese in your ears. – My resistance to pillows, specialty pillows is the fear of becoming reliant upon them. – I was about to say I travel with my buckweed pillow, it’s small enough. It’s like a quarter of the size of a normal pillow, it’s just big enough to go underneath my neck and come across my shoulders a little bit. – Yeah, you can take it with you but that’s why I’m resistant and I’m not currently hurting, but I’m glad Jafar has found a pillow. – Something else, that I was trying to think how would I answer this question, I’ve got a couple of things. A pill box. I’ve finally gotten a day of the week pill box for my supplements. – Oh so you’re not embracing your old age? Oh, Mr. Pill Box. – Talk about embracing old age, I know Christy told you this the other day, we were sitting down for dinner. – You have a special pillow and you have a pill box, I mean you should just come along and start tucking with me. – We were sitting down for dinner the other night and Christy said, “You are such an old man, “what are you drinking?” It’s 7 p.m., we’re eating dinner and I’m like, coffee. I was drinking, it was a Saturday, I like to stay up late, so I’ll drink my afternoon coffee later in the day, I realized I’ve forgotten about it, but here I was, at the dinner table, eating dinner and drinking hot coffee and that’s such an old man thing to do. But you know what, I can’t live without my pill box because that, I don’t know, there’s something rewarding about, I mean it’s so efficient, it makes me happy to know that I can efficiently just open the Thursday container, pop them all into my mouth and swallow away. – What are you taking? – It’s the stuff that Christy gave me, you know where the power lies. – Yeah, but do you know what it is? She could be poisoning you. – She could be, but I think that’s part of the trust. – How many things are we talking about? – There’s two huge black pills. – Horse pills. – That are like– – Tranquilizers. – It’s something that you and her both over the course of the pandemic have said I needed to have, but I don’t know, it’s a black pill and I’ve got the wellness that is like a multivitamin. – You legitimately do not know what it is. It’s just like, my wife told me to take it, I drink my coffee and I put it in my mouth. – Melatonin is one of them, but I think that one is really small. There’s a fish oil one– – You don’t need to be taking Melatonin every day. – I’ll let you vet my pills later. It’s a small pill. – It doesn’t matter how small it is, you don’t need to be taking Melatonin every day. – Just tell me the day I need to take it and I can put it in that corresponding bin. And I could be wrong about all this. – That’s what scares me, I’ll talk to your wife about it. – Again, I trust her. I’m not addicted to that idea of knowing what’s in my pill box. You know, like an old man should. When I put the pills in the box, all I do is I take this for the corresponding day and I just swallow all the pills. – Your case that you’re not embracing your old age is– – Diminishing. – Quickly falling apart. – I like the feeling of the efficiency of it and it also helps me know what day it is. – Well that’s important. – They certainly run together. – I have too many pills, in fact I was recently searching for how can I get a pillbox that could hold all of the things that I take. – You need a series of connected buckets like Bozo the Clown’s ping-pong toss game. – And I did, I don’t remember when it was, it was last year or year or two ago, posted the picture of all the things I was taking on my vacation, it was a two-week vacation, here’s what I’m taking and of course that’s when the internet experts come out and they’re like, there’s no reason to be taking all of that stuff, you just pee it all out. Okay, maybe, do we want to talk about pee again, is that what you’re asking? – I want to use a pillbox, that’s justification enough, that’s what you should tell ’em. – Every single morning I do something that would drive you absolutely nuts, now that you mentioned the pillbox. – You open every one individually? – It’s almost a ritual at this point. – I have a shelf that has all the things that I take. Now when I wake up, I take four things right before my workout and then after my workout I take about five or six things and then the night before I got to bed I take about seven or eight things. – Because you’re addicted to ideas. – And I have reasons for every single thing that I’m taking, but yeah, it’s almost like– – You should try having no reasons, like me. – Here’s this thing, I open it, I take it out, I take it. And I’m like, this is not sustainable, but it’s only something that has worked in quarantine because– – You got time to burn. – But when we were on our little beach vacation, a couple, I don’t remember when it was, a month ago or so. Again I don’t have a pillbox that can accommodate this, so I put everything into one ziplock bag and I was like, I’ll sort it out when I get there. – Oh God. – And that’s when I discovered that I’ve got a number of things that look similar and I’m like is that the vitamin D or is that the garlic? Well I need both of them. So anyway, if you know of a big pillbox that can accommodate about 20 supplements and then has it divided up by day, that doesn’t look like a tackle box, because I’m thinking about getting a tackle box. Because I feel like that might be the only thing that will hold it. – Oh man, I remember I had a tackle box as a kid and I would store my G.I. Joe men in there, I totally forgot about that. – All those tackle boxes? – All those little compartments, it’s so fun. – Maybe I’ll get you a tackle box for your birthday. – I loved the feeling of opening up something and then the way tackle boxes work is that you open the top shell case and then it has the tiered layers. – It’s like stadium seating in there. – Yeah, it just kind of splays out before you, man. It’s amazing. – Maybe tackle boxes are what we’re talking about. – A product that I thought was stupid, until I found that we had one, we purchased one and now I love it. I’m looking for excuses to use it, a dust buster. – The original. – I remember when those first hit the scene in the 80s– – My mom got one. – Nana and papa had one at their house and it was like, wow, it’s rechargeable, it’s a vacuum cleaner in the palm of your hand, it’s just so much better than a broom. – What do you clean up with it? – I think they bought it for kitty litter that strolls out on the ground, around the kitty litter box, I think that’s why, I think it appeared around the same time as Sokka, at the house, but now it’s recharging in the garage because apparently they didn’t want to keep it in a room, so I’m just looking, like little corners of the garage, I’m like, oh now I can get all the dust out of this corner of the garage. You know, it’s here, I’m here, have a little bonding moment. – Not an old man. – It’s just things that bring joy into your life. – Dust busting the corners of his tackle box. Samantha really brought something that I have become completely dependent upon, a white noise machine. My daughter is two and has been using it since she left the womb and now I can’t, even I can’t sleep without one. I’ve talked about my white noise machine, which is not, it’s electronic, but it’s supposed to like resemble the sound of a fan, it’s very loud and I have it on every single night for a number of reasons. One, my white, she’s so powerful and when you’re that powerful, sometimes it leads to snoring, you know, because you’re just trying to contain it. And then also, if my kids are having emergencies or whatever, I want them to deal with that on their own. So I have this thing and then when I travel, I have to get my phone, I have the white noise app on my phone, but I again, I have some shame around this because I have become, I mean I haven’t tried to sleep without it, but even when I went on my solo trip and I’m out in the middle of nowhere, I’m like, I need my little, and so I’d use my phone, my phone would be like dead in the morning. I don’t know, but I like to think about things in terms of how functional they would be as I have said for years, when the war comes. When World War III happens and we’re all, you know, basically when the apocalypse happens and my family and I are walking across a desert landscape and you know when I become meat again. – Let me just interject, we’ve established that you have already mastered as the anticipator the art of waking up without an alarm clock, yet you’re very concerned that you’re not able to go to sleep without the constant noise of an app playing. So it’s like– – Well, here’s the thing, as a despotic apocalyptic ruler who keeps people on leashes, you know, which is the role I want to assume in the apocalypse, some sort of overlord, I can’t be the guy, I can’t have the necklace made out of human baby bones around my neck and then need a white noise machine to go to sleep. That’s bad for the image. – No, I’ll tell you what’s gonna save this for you. Meat again is gonna be like, hey, Jonathan, get in here. You’re gonna stay up all night– – Making noise. – And you’re gonna (gargling) in my ear. – There’s no way, that won’t work. – You just got a guy gargling all night. – That would be very annoying. – In your tent. – It is the perfect pitch. – Binaural, you can have Jonathan and Taylor, one on each ear. – Jonathan and Taylor. – And then Thomas is down there massaging your feet. – Okay, I’ll get people to do my white noise for me. Yeah, but I feel self-conscious about the fact that I need it, but I’m such a light sleeper, man. I wake up so easily. – Most despots get fed grapes. – Grapes won’t be a thing in the apocalypse. I don’t think that agriculture can be sustained. – Should the T be silent in despot? – So enjoy the grapes. – Despot, despot, I don’t know. – I don’t think so. – Is it French? – You mean like depot? It’s silent in depot, but not despot. – Should it be though? Just in our little corner of the internet, can we make the T silent in despot? – Sure I mean do what you want. Despot, despot. – Do you want to talk about another one or do you just want to give your rec? – Oh you’re ready for my rec already? It’s been a good episode, let’s go out on a high note. – Sure. – Let’s not push it. – Okay. – You know what, I feel like the energy’s been really good this episode. – You don’t want to ruin it? – I don’t want to ruin it. – You feel like it’s hanging in the balance? – We covered a lot of ground, yeah. We’ve dangled out the zipper and now it’s all about– – We spent a lot of time talking about that, I’m sorry. – It’s all about pulling it back in, in a way to not do damage to anybody’s pants. – Oh just because I said it, I just want to give credit to the person who said it. Fisher. – We have so many more, this is such a good prompt. – We’ll do it again. – Oh you want to do it again? You want to do a sequel to this episode? – No, not a sequel. – Let’s just keep going. – I just want to give credit because I said I would to Bonsaibreath, Fisher who says, a belt, I grew up wearing belts because I had to, never thought anything of it, continue to wear belts every day, only when my favorite belt broke and I was beltless did I realize how much I need it. If I could name two things that I need, it’s the white noise machine and a belt. Because I mean, of course if I’m wearing like those gray sweats at somebody’s house and coming out with a pee spot, I don’t need a belt for sweatpants, but for jeans, I got to have a belt. Pants just work their way down, things would get exposed if I don’t have a belt. – Yeah, that must be a shape issue. – It’s a body shape thing. You don’t need a belt. – I don’t. Does that make me better than you? Maybe. – That’s up to you. – Okay then, it does, yeah. – Okay. But I don’t feel, it feels like there’s a part of me missing if there’s not a slight sinch, there’s a slight sinch in the midsection area. Got to have that sinch. – So you like pinching then, you like to pinch the veins? – It doesn’t pinch, it’s just a sinch. There’s a difference between a pinch and a sinch, and you really need to know that. If you’re thinking about a belt that has a pinch, then of course you’re not gonna wear on. – Let’s give a shoutout to the people that submitted some good stuff that we’re not, we’re gonna acknowledge their contribution, but we’re not gonna discuss it, never done that before. – This is risky. So you’re basically saying we’re throwing these to the wayside. – No, we’re not. You think we’re gonna do this again? We never do things again. – Well that’s not true, but okay, go ahead. We can always get more. – Chloe said a plug-in mug warmer, I drink my coffee very slowly and this thing keeps it warm forever. She doesn’t provide any links to anything, but it looks like just a white base– – It almost looks like a wireless charger you put a phone on. – That her, in this case, Good Mythical Morning mug, I love that. Oh, $15 on Amazon, didn’t put the link though. Fisher said a belt, Klaus said a squatty potty. NepEnut said a quality set of kitchen knives. Having a good set of knives upped my cooking game dramatically and I still have no idea how I ever managed without them. – Very important. – Yeah. I mean we can still talk about this again. But I’ll give a rec. You ready for a rec, baby rec? Baby, one, two, three, four. I don’t know what it is about Amazon’s television shows, but I think and I’m not loyal to them as a streaming platform, but I started watching things on HBO and it does lead to seeing the other things I want to check out. So I started watching what’s it called, Painting with John which debuted on HBO back in January. – You said Amazon series. – Did I say Amazon? – Yeah. – HBO. – You said Amazon because we were talking about Amazon links to HBO. – Painting with John is just a totally laid back, comedic, introspective, almost calming, it’s kind of a calming show that you can just kind of chill out to. What I didn’t realize is that John Leary, the writer, producer, star of this show, he was not only a musician and a painter, this is about him painting, and an actor. But he’s a founding member, along with his brother of the band The Lounge Lizards which is like this jazz type band. I’ve never listened to Lounge Lizards. – I just heard of them. – But I heard of them and he tells the story of meeting Berry White, he tells a lot of stories from his life and it’s while he’s painting, but in an anti-Bob Ross way. He even says in the opening episode, he’s like, Bob Ross was wrong. Everybody can’t paint. He has this like– – He has some snark. – I don’t know if the cervic is the right descriptor for his comedic sensibility, but it’s like an Anthony Bourdain-ish kind of tone, but he’s also kind of goofy at times and you can tell that this show is kind of his brain child and it’s just kind of a nice way to just relax, hear a guy telling some stories. It will get you thinking and I don’t think it’s for the children. – Unless you got adult children. – I think it’s rated R. But I can’t quite remember, I just liked it. – I don’t think that show is rated R. – Adam McKay is the executive producer. Damn, Adam McKay, man. – He’s got a lot of stuff going on. – He does some good stuff. He also had a show called Fishing with John. – I’ve heard about Fishing with John. – In 1991. – I didn’t realize it was the same guy, but I’ve seen people online talk about Fishing with John. – So Painting with John, check it out on HBO if you fell like you’re into that. – Well, thanks for engaging with us, thanks for enduring the half hour conversation about finding the special button in your tank to be able to leak your lounge lizard. – You heard it here from the anticipator and the clueless pill taker. – Okay, there we go, that’s a super-duo. – #earbiscuits, we’ll talk to you next week. 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