[Music] welcome to ear biscuits the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time i’m link and i’m rhett this week at the round table of dim lighting we are celebrating 300 episodes of your biscuits that’s the name of the podcast we already said that and we’re going to be doing that by hearing hearing from you yes we have done we have just embraced you are now on the line modern technology it’s not gonna be live it’s not that modern actually uh thank you to all of you who recorded essentially voicemails uh filling in the blanks completing sentences we had a few prompts that we’re gonna that we went through that we sent out there into the ether and you responded many of you responded yeah with lots of heartfelt funny even some weird things that you said and uh we’re gonna be covering more than a handful yeah i mean i had a lot of fun getting a little a little taste of some of these and um selecting some of them uh if you’re a long time listener this will give you an opportunity to see how much you remember and if you agree or disagree with what was the most impactful or the most memorable moments or that type of stuff if you are new to ear biscuits are you you know there’s no shame in not having to listen to everything i mean just a little bit i certainly don’t it’s like i don’t think i was here for most of all of it yeah but if you weren’t this is an opportunity to say hey i might have to go back and find where they were talking about this or whatever this what year was episode one i remember we were in the uh yeah we were in the other studio we bought this table i mean uh i mean we were in the other studio doing that podcast for more than a year and we we’ve been in this studio for at least five six of course the ear biscuit started off as us interviewing other youtubers and getting their story that’s not what the podcast is now and i’m glad it is what it is man it’s evolved so much i don’t we’re not gonna get into that we’re basically talking about the current iteration of your biscuits and um how that’s impacted well really that’s what you’re looking for that’s what you talked about that’s true because we left it open we left it open and um no one in as far as i understood like recognized or brought up anything there’s one early days well there’s one like intermediate episode which uh which which we’ll talk about but you know i’ll give credit to stevie she was instrumental in encouraging us to start a podcast i remember back when we were trying to figure out what we were going to call it we were getting the rug we were getting the the table and you know what that turned out to be a great decision so so much of our professional development has this has been such a catalyst for that in terms of what what our brand means how we talk to ourselves ourselves and how we talk to each other that’s pretty much what it is and how that was the other option for our audience welcome to when we talk to ourselves um you know it’s it’s it’s this show has had such an impact on our lives and our our friendship and um i’m very grateful for it and i in some ways three hundred doesn’t seem like a lot when it’s once a week when you’ve done two thousand episodes of good mythical morning but that’s not a reason not to celebrate because it is a lot and damn it we are going to celebrate this is this is this is special and i think as we go through some of your responses maybe uh you know that’s going to give us some stuff to talk about about what the podcast has meant for us as it has meant things for you but before we get into that first one yeah i’m very excited about september because you know what around here in ear biscuits land it’s not called september it’s called sex timber he said sex tim that’s right starting next week and continuing through the month of september we’re going to be doing nothing but talking about sex on ear biscuits for a full freaking month i’m talking four episodes in a row um the and i’ll go ahead and say it the last episode the fourth one we will be taking your questions which we will be asking you to to submit to us over the course of uh starting now if there’s any question you want us to answer any topic you want us to discuss in the world of sex sex timber yeah so i think maybe for the full month uh you know i don’t know this is not i mean this this podcast is yeah you know it doesn’t get too it doesn’t get too damn bad that’s about as bad that’s about as bad as it gets i was just illustrating how we might curse every once in a while but let me just tell you cursing and sex have really nothing to do with each other well well it depends on if you come from an evangelical background or not but which we will get into but what i’m getting at cursing during sex let’s talk about that we’re not gonna be i mean we’re going to be talking openly we’re going to be talking openly about sex and so if that’s not something that you if you don’t want your strength your children to be educated by us and we’re not going to do this to educate you just they make they may just get you know a sideways education i guarantee you everybody’s gonna get education on us uh yeah so sex timber mark your calendars it’s pretty much just you know once a week one of the problems september one of the prompts that we put out is um the re uh shoot what is it ear biscuits is the reason i blank so let’s just start there with a few let’s listen to one beer biscuits is the reason that i get in my car in the morning and actually want to go to work i have over an hour commute and being able to listen to rhett link talk about stories through their lives and be introspective on different things that have been going on around the world is really fantastic to go into every single day starting my morning with two best friends is definitely how i’d like to start my day for the rest of my life thank you for that noah that was noah cook are we saying last names uh in that case i just did some people submitted first and last name some people just did first name some people did like nicknames so we’ll just do whatever you did thanks noah i i mean i’ve i think that i would like to ride into work with two best friends who just wouldn’t shut up in the back seat the whole time but this is the thing this is my issue with what noah said is it makes me feel like we’re not giving noah enough content i mean noah’s riding yeah well he has an hour commute riding to work on a assuming he works daily you know monday through friday we’re doing this once a week yeah i don’t know what i have to go to five times a week i don’t know what he does the other four mornings out of the week but um taylor does something different let’s listen to that voicemail hey rhett and link your biscuits is the reason i get so much stuff done around my house that is my chicken in the background if you heard him but ear biscuits helps me keep focused on what i’m doing and it’s entertaining as well so anytime that i finish an episode i realize that i’ve done about an hour’s worth of work without even realizing it so keep it up and we love you and you guys are awesome bye guys and by we i think the chicken is included yeah thank you taylor and thank you taylor’s chicken chicken i would love for loving chicken in the background i wish i could be on more phone calls with people who have chickens in the background i mean it’s just something that we need more of but i do think that that is something you know that’s how that’s how i listen to podcasts i listen to podcasts while driving yeah or while doing something i mean do does anyone just sit down and be like what are you doing well right now what i’m doing is only listening to a podcast um have you ever done this i actually yeah i’m always doing something else usually driving but i’ve started mountain biking i think i told you this uh i’ll mountain bike up when i’m doing the climbs like typically my routes are majority climb and the majority downhill some routes are a little bit of a little bit of both but like especially for the long climb routes i’ll listen to a podcast on the way up and then on the way down i’ll switch to music because you want to listen to the podcast when you’re working hard you want to listen to music when you’re just riding the gravity well yeah it’s kind of it’s it’s fun you know that the music gives me that that energy to like just it’s it’s more fun but it’s also more technical you could die if you’re not really concentrating on you know missing certain things at a higher speed because some people feel like you might need music for motivation while going up a hill but i like getting getting in the zone of of ideas when i’m just trying to granny granny crank it up you know well i just gotta say i i think i i’m glad that we can be a part of your lives in this way even if we’re in the background with your chicken or in the background as you’re as you’re driving to work we’re not asking to be front and center we’re not asking to be completely focused on we want you to focus on what you need to focus on we just want to be present it’s cool to be a companion yeah yeah to be along for the ride i really like picturing what what people are doing oh they’re getting done right i mean maybe maybe there’s people who just sit down and give it their complete you know i mean for the for the video version and there are people who who prefer to watch it on youtube uh it’s still a background thing but i think you know you’ll stop and be like whoa whoa what’s that look on his face is that an additional meaning is that another layer there’s a layer of context sometimes yeah faces let’s hear from abby air biscuits is the reason why i feel like i should install a window in my shower i love you guys i love the pod the channel’s awesome it’s just really nice to see a couple of best friends succeeding in life um just by being themselves pretty epic congrats on 300 episodes can’t wait for more happy hat sounds like that’s a nice voice it’s a it’s soothing it’s like a delilah voice you know what i’m saying like uh i would like to hear i would like to hear free falling from tom petty because i’m thinking about you know my eighth grade girlfriend even with the laugh the little i mean that was good yeah abby you need to go into radio or you at least need to because this is not a dying industry maybe you should start a podcast just start a podcast you got a great voice two friends succeeding at life by just being themselves i mean i i like that it might be a better again the slogans just keep coming yeah and that’s uh succeeded i like i like the mantra of succeed at life just by being yourself and i do think that’s something that it you know we’re processing our lives in front of these microphones and there is a level of we’ve gotten to a point where there’s a there’s a level of expectation that that we can come into this place is kind of like a safe space for us to process and i look forward to that there’s plenty of times when i’m like i don’t know exactly how i feel about this but i’m going to get it out and it’s it’s great to have a venue like that i mean that it’s kind of it’s therapeutic in that way but it’s also so encouraging to see how many people how it resonates where you know you’re having an honest conversation and um sometimes i even forget people are listening at least maybe maybe 90 percent i’m totally just in a conversation at certain points 90 huh i think there are times only 10 thinking about the fact that there is there’s someone listening yeah that’s a dangerous place for me and does that make you nervous well i actually i’m surprised based on you pretty much kept yourself in check most of the time but i it’s it’s one thing to give people what they want or something that’s going to get clicks or get listens but it’s another thing to just do something we want to do and for it to work and resonate well and i would say this whole idea of being yourself um it is you know making the decision long ago for a number of reasons to just talk to each other one of them just being it was easier yeah started us on this trajectory where you got to keep digging like you know it’s we’re not this isn’t performance mode and this isn’t you know unlike something like ron’s tap which is obviously just the scripted podcast you’re putting you’re putting your work out there you’re putting your art out there this is really putting ourselves out out there and it’s actually um given us like we’ve revealed more and more and more about ourselves and actually kind of began to mor to understand by revealing and being vulnerable actually learn more about ourselves in the process it i mean again was never the intention it’s just something that sort of happened it’s a win-win who else do we have chinese ear biscuits is the reason why i graduated with uni degree this year it helped me conquer my travel anxiety by keeping me entertained and calm on my long trips in and out of uni thank you so much shanice is saying that the reason why they got through college or uni whatever that is the same thing uh in australia i think is air biscuits i mean being being able to help it’s like okay this is the this is the show that shanice goes to when it’s when it’s like i’m traveling i’m i’m anxious well i always wanted to be he feels good a uni professor you know i mean i i i always love the idea of just walking around a campus and watching the the leaves fall then going into a classroom with with like a wild haircut and beard and like saying something that makes the students confused uh so this is as close as we’re ever gonna get and shanice has basically just validated that that dream of mine i don’t think that’s what shanice was doing okay right that’s right but it is validating oh i’ll take it do we get do we get like an honorary copy of the degree um i think we might be we might get an honorary degree at uh that said uni whichever uni that is uh we got some more good ones but first let’s promote some merch what are you wearing well um you know over in the mythical kitchen they have perfected this particular technique of the palm hill strike yes which i believe is for garlic they use for garlic but i think it can i think it transfers to many different things in the kitchen but just in case uh you need to be inspired in your own kitchen and remind yourself that you are you too are capable of a palm hill strike get the t-shirt from mythical.com i love that it’s very action oriented it’s cool i had not seen that until i just looked at it that’s beautiful you this is the first time you’re seeing it yeah i’ve been wearing it for a while since the beginning of this podcast yeah right i mean yeah i didn’t look down there almost 20 minutes did not look down there okay i’m not offended you want to keep going yeah well you were reaching for the laptop so i was assuming that’s what was happening i got three in a row who are in a similar vein still with the prompt ear biscuits is the reason i blank here’s rosie air biscuits is the reason i still understood i also stopped believing god after being raised in a very religious environment and family and the only difference between me and you was that i had to go through it all alone and hearing you guys story and how similar it is to mine even though i live across the globe just really helped me feel like i’m not alone out there thank you thank you rosie yeah thanks rosie you wanna just play you wanna move through all three of these and then we can kind of talk about them together yeah here’s matthew ear biscuits is the reason i’m much more open about losing my religion and replacing it with openness and kindness and curiosity after growing up in the south and giving so much of myself to the southern baptist church my childhood best friend and i began touring the country and processing all of that um just out on the road uh both of your stories run really parallel to ours and it’s been a joy to share such an eye-opening experience together through ear biscuits uh i love you guys thank you all so much love you too matthew thank you matthew some we got some parallelization happening there that’s like him and his best friend touring doing something touring band some sort of tour comedy show situation happening i don’t know i don’t know all right i got a third one here this is amna air biscuits is the reason i have so much knowledge about the south in the united states despite me being totally removed from it as a pakistani but you know this place i call home is also a conservative place with its islamic traditions rituals etc i find myself drawing these intricate parallels inside my head the patriarchy the underlying racism intolerance it’s just been a fascinating exercise to get this outside view of something that sounds so similar wow thank you for that that i mean it’s super cool i mean there’s so so much feedback we got at the time and even now with this prompt on our uh spiritual journey episodes our lost years sub-series deconstruction stories but it was just nice to see that you know there’s uh people who are saying they feel understood and not alone they’re they relate to our situation directly or they’re coming from a totally different place on the planet well i think the cool thing about what amna shared is this the talking talking about the patterns right and you know it doesn’t matter where you’re from and it doesn’t have to be the american south or pakistan but there are so many there are systems there are oppressive systems and people who have been in power who have been oppressing people forever right and you know they might come in different forms but so a lot of people have suffered under those systems and then at some point questioned those systems and questioned how it relates to them personally and that’s another pattern that’s a pattern that’s happening in the united states and all around the world i mean we’re most familiar with what’s happening in the united states in the evangelical church and that is people are leaving in the in the i know it might seem like things are getting more and more polarized and it might seem like certain very loud voices on the fringes are getting louder and louder and so it might seem like certain groups are growing but the the reality is is that in a lot of ways people are leaving behind those those old oppressive systems and they’re kind of collapsing on themselves and i’m sure they’ll be replaced with other things and we’re never you know it’s like we’re not immediately going to just have some utopia but it’s been amazing to see the number of people who have just by us together kind of processing our story and people hearing like oh this is this is so common right i don’t i don’t think that we were responsible for uh a movement by any means i think that we were just representative of a movement that has been happening for years and we just vocalized what was happening in our little corner of this movement and that was people beginning to question these foundational things that they had built their lives on and now they’re seeing more and more people are in the exact same boat so you know and this is just a sampling of similar messages that we got from people who are like hey i basically have gone through something very similar to what you guys went through and thanks for for talking about it to rosie’s point about loneliness you know i’m just continually grateful that we have had the the benefit of supporting each other and being there for each other throughout our entire lives yeah and especially when exploring things as weighty as your deeply held beliefs and practices you know it’s it’s just really encouraging to hear that us sharing how we leaned on each other is is then becoming something that they can lean on and i just didn’t know that was gonna happen but it’s it’s cool for people not to feel alone it’s it’s such a you know it’s that’s just one of the things if if i need to cry i can i can think about either being lonely or thinking of people being lonely like that’s that’s going to do it i don’t i don’t want to cry right now so let’s uh let’s let’s move on to mercedes actually i think this might make me want to cry a little bit more ear biscuits is the reason i was initially able to get through the loss of my lifelong best friend she’d showed me gmm years prior and when she passed away at a young age from cancer listening to their episode about the loss of a loved one on a loop each night is what brought me comfort and company in a time of isolation and they don’t know that they held my hand through that but i can’t thank them enough either way wow well we do now mercedes thanks for sharing that yeah you know it’s really remarkable how much that episode about ben yes connected with people uh and again it’s it whether you’re talking about the deconstruction series you’re talking about the episode where we we talked about you know losing ben um our our intention every time we we get ready to talk about something is not like okay well this is really gonna this is gonna bring in the listeners this is you know what i’m saying it’s like it’s really a decision to kind of look inside and be vulnerable and kind of speak from our perspective which we recognize as a very particular limited perspective but what you just find repeatedly is that somebody is going to connect with some aspect of it uh in a way that we just we’re just sitting here talking about the guy we grew up with who were sad that he’s gone uh and then you just see how many people watch that and listen i mean on youtube especially we just they were like oh the ben episode it’s broken four million views right and it’s just it’s just this phenomenon of just making a decision kind of unintentionally just to speak from the heart and sometimes i’m like well i think people watch that video because it’s the it’s it’s the rawest we’ve ever been it was a difficult episode to get you know so nice it was so raw it’s like it is are people watching for the spectacle of it and okay whatever if some are but it is really nice to hear that that is not the that is not the majority i believe of why people are watching that episode it’s a legitimate connection and i do think you know i it the experience that we have in being vulnerable and then seeing how people they take it how they will but if if it enriches their life that’s that’s there’s a reward cycle there that then says okay are there things that i am willing to explore i’m more willing to explore things because i see that people benefit from it i i think there’s a couple things and one is just personal growth and the other one is uh how it affects the programming of the show from a from a personal standpoint it and it’s not just true of being a host of a podcast i think this is true of life is that when you take a risk to be vulnerable and and and someone benefits from it like there’s there’s a connection there’s there’s intimacy there’s it’s there’s help or solace it’s it it fuels that it it gives you more courage to do that again and i think that is the development of uh a big aspect of this show from a programming standpoint you talk about something like sex timber yes there is a we know that that’s sensational if that we’re going to we’re going to talk about sex and so it’s not just i want to i really want i really want us to process sex and talk about it and figure it out cry about sex yeah it’s not i mean you’re gonna cry during there is a programming motivation that like now we’re willing to go into unmined areas of our lives um because it that’s what this show has become and so it there is a programming producerial decision in okay if we talk about sex i i think that people are going to come out of the woodwork and be introduced to ear biscuits and i’m excited about that but i’m gonna do it subject to the values that we put in place that we’re when we when we do it we’re gonna approach it with honesty and we’re not you know it’s not we’re not just trying to cash in it’s not we’re not gonna that we don’t want to do anything to make it cheap even though conceptually it could it could go that way i think we’re putting in boundaries where that’s just i mean you know as a listener that that you expect us not to not to like uh cash in is not the right word but you know what i’m saying yeah well there’s a yeah it’s the it’s the use a topic it’s the used vulnerability we try to avoid what i might call vulnerability porn right which i do think is something that exists in media and exists on the internet and it definitely exists in our industry uh and it can be a tough line to walk especially our brand is not like our brand is comedy first with almost everything we do this podcast has become a place where we are most honest and most vulnerable but when you start seeing people respond to the vulnerability then the vulnerability becomes a a a content strategy i think it’s what you’re getting at yeah and that can feel a little icky and so i ultimately what we’re trying to do is hey we’re not we understand that these subjects and us being honest about these things may connect with more people and that may be good for the bottom line of the podcast and of the business but at no point are we moving into this place where oh let’s manipulate our audience through us being vulnerable and that’s and that’s something that you got to think about something you got to keep in check yeah and so do you [Laughter] yeah right it goes both ways but we can i mean with the next prompt it kind of went in the more comedy response direction which kind of balances out what this show’s about so i think we can go there next the prompt is uh what moments live rent-free in your head from ear biscuits and let’s start with alexander congratulations on 300 episodes guys have listened to every single one and the one ear biscuit moment that just truly lives rent free in my mind is when the battleship guy was narrating you guys eating imaginary s’mores i think of it all the time and just a big ol hunger chocolate congratulations guys keep doing what you do there was our buddy dave dave d’andrea uh voice over artist extraordinaire one of the last guests we had on the show where we went through that period where occasionally we were bringing someone that we wanted to talk to uh but that wasn’t necessarily famous it was just more of subject matter based stuff and as a voiceover artist i mean we didn’t know we were gonna start asking them to like to spit ball and start doing impromptu vo’s for us but i just remember how much fun we had and it’s cool to know that like it’s cool to create stuff that people are just going about their everyday lives and they just remem they just stuff is just triggered well he was he was the voice of battleship yeah when did we play or listen to was it was that on gmn i feel like it was a good mythical more thing and we were like making a big deal about the voice and then we tracked him down yeah yeah it turns out he was much more than just the voice of a battleship yeah he was the voice of us eating s’mores right which i which i i do not remember i could not i didn’t remember the actual s’more thing stuff that we forget people you know it gets stuck in people’s brains yeah and they’re not even charging us for it how about nia hello hello ear biscuiteers the ear biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free is link’s discussion about sorting mail because it will be like that sometimes you gotta go through the laborious task of sorting through all the junk mail to reach that one niche envelope that really gets you going but it just ends up being a five dollar rebate check hey it’s better than nothing i’m really trying to follow this analogy so in that analogy of sorting the mail yeah i think i also have to go into sextober are the different pieces of mail different things that you could do with one partner uh are they multiple partners i mean i’m not i’m not not trying to make any assumptions i i took it that it was like different different practices that then oh you’ve you found the you found the right one you found that right and so you thought that you were getting something special the analogy is fun yes but it can be stretched you know i yeah i mean we’ve gone from me like speaking in code and trying to come up with but i mean that is something that christy and i would do and it is something that we can talk about in sextober it’s like how do you talk about sex in your own house with other people around children or otherwise or um but yeah we’ve gone from like speaking in code and that being like a shocking oh this is what they’re talking about now to us doing it for four weeks in a row but i also think that we’ve we’ve potentially ruined actually sorting the mail like literally sorting the mail for many people like you just i love it you want again well you want to go to your mailbox you want to see if you’ve got you know if there’s any checks in the mail and you want to get coupons and now and now all you can do is think about link in his bedroom so i on his behalf i apologize to you if if we have ruined that for you it all runs together for me because it’s sorting the mail the same story was when we were locked in the bedroom locked in our own bedroom i think it was i think that’s how i told the story i transfer whatever it is that we said and did in an episode to the internet mind right it leaves my own mind because it’s i did it i was here it’s now it’s on the internet it’s available yeah i got more room why does it need to be in my mind anymore yeah this is how i think about good mythical morning when people start asking questions about something we ate this i’m just like it is just a huge blur not even a very detailed blur let’s go to karina that your biscuit moment that lives rent free in my head is rhett talking about watching trashy reality tv for seven hours yeah you were on you were on quite a tale did i talk about it for seven hours or did i talk about watching it for seven hours i don’t know everybody in my memory it was both you i mean i’ve definitely watched a lot of at least at least seven hours worth of uh trashy reality tv you’re giving people all the time and i i hope you know let’s permission to just love that crap well they didn’t need my permission nope i think i got it what i’ve done is i’ve connected with the millions hundreds of millions of people out there who unabashedly unashamedly watch uh reality television trashy reality television and i told you this so we’re a big fan of john wilson how to with john wilson on hbo which probably was a wreck at some point on this show and super innovative documentary series very quirky very funny very real and raw he was a guest on conan o’brien’s podcast kona needs a friend and just somewhere in the middle of the conversation like conan was asking and what he enjoy like what kind of entertainment he enjoys and of course you got this like what is the word the auteur you got somebody like him and you’re like well whatever this guy likes is gonna be this thing that’s refined and he was like well i’m a big part of bachelor nation and he goes on to talk about how much he likes the bachelor and he then he i mean i think he talked about he may have talked about too hot to handle he talked about trashy reality tv i mean and i explained why he liked it and i was like you guys that’s exactly why i can start a commentary channel well that’s been done i mean yeah that’s kind of a big big fuel for the commentary fire across youtube anyway mason or mesa if that’s the french pronunciation the ear biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free is the time that link was telling a story about him and rhett were in the car on the way somewhere and the guy next to them at the stoplight got out of his car to get something out of the trunk and link was like i have a great idea i’m gonna play a little prank on this random man i’m gonna get into the driver’s seat of his car and rhett responded like it was a little zany but to me it was insane but maybe rhett is just used to this i peed my pants did you actually do it or did you say you were going to do it again i don’t remember the specifics i don’t think i actually got in the driver’s seat but i think i told the story i need to stand by i think i would remember if you actually went through with it i remember you reacting as if it was a bit zany just a little bit zany you know nothing too serious [Laughter] uh amy weighed in the ear biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free has got to be when the lighting fell down the crew quickly rushed in to clean up rats completely gone off camera and link is seeing everything is awesome into the microphone and also trying to explain what happened pretty funny and i think kiko thought he might get fired after that it because it was one of these things right it was one of these uh yeah circular spherical light fixtures i’m just like finally good content yeah something happened and i was like i’m gonna go and there was a bathroom there was a spill happening and um i mean a number of people responded about that particular moment it really lives in people’s heads because it was i guess it was such an outlier to what normally happens on the show and the fact that we just kind of went with it and kept it in there people love that and that’s why i was like yes this is this is great people are going to remember this forever but the thing you have to be careful of is then you can’t engineer the light falling down next time you know some people are not you’re not above that whoop the light and see like that right it would have seemed a little planned yeah crystal the ear biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free is when red was telling his story about his family trip to scotland and then at the very end he says well turns out we’re irish that moment that was a great moment that lives in my head that’s when i haven’t forgotten that i kind of remember pretty regularly with a little bit of shame yeah but as an earbud i’m ashamed to be irish i remember it as an ear biscuit moment because i knew it was coming but then when you hit us with it was just like i talk about burying the lead it was just perfect uh that was that just felt good that and that’s one of those things that has you know recently spending time with my family the the mclaughlins up in uh the mountains you know when i was in north carolina a while back it was the same group that had gone to scotland together and so they’re not really letting me live that down and also kind of holding me to this idea that we now have to go to ireland it’s a running joke yeah so mom can break her other ankle who who’s who’s pushing that trip the most and do they because they really someone really wants to go to ireland uh your dad my dad definitely mentions it more than anyone it’s hilarious man i mean i think we gotta make it happen i mean if we would like to talk about the top 10 funniest moments of the show which i get you know maybe at 500 episodes okay that’s what we can do that would definitely be on it like the think the biggest laughs from us anna the air biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free is it’s not that i’m stupid it’s that i can suspend my intelligence yeah i mean that it was a personal realization that i had in conversation with lando and then with lily i was just trying to i remember trying to figure out how they perceived the internet me versus the real life dad me and i just kind of i gleaned that piece of wisdom that made me feel better about i i experienced freedom through this phrase even now because it’s like i can be as stupid as i want and say you know what i don’t care if people think i’m stupid i’m in control of it right that may not be completely true but it but that’s the narrative that i’m not now putting out into the world i think that’s a good story to tell yourself and it could also be a good t-shirt i don’t know i never we never made it phoebe the biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free is one christmas when you guys were talking about christmas gifts that you were getting for everybody and where i was talking about how he was getting one for christy he was getting some sort of like some sort of food like pickled food or something and he had to jump over a fence to go to the place and he completely like ripped his leg up and it’s stories like that that get me through school that it was then and now university now so cheers guys well phoebe i’m glad i could provide that i could help you get through your day by ruining my leg i actually how’s that going by the way i went to uh pick up some food at a pizza place that was at that same intersection and i haven’t been to that intersection since the incident uh-huh and this is just a couple weeks ago and i was like oh what is familiar about this i was like oh yes there’s that place that i got those pickled stuff pickles things for christy and then there’s the fence and it just looks so harmless like from my car it just looked like how could how could how could that injure a man she really did it i don’t even remember what part of my leg it cut but it was bad but i’m glad it gave it gave phoebe some entertainment all right now let’s move on to the third and final prompt we have which was ear biscuits changed the way i look at blank you ready to get into this yeah with catalina your biscuits has changed the way that i look at therapy i now think that there’s not one person on this earth who wouldn’t benefit from therapy and i have your biscuits to thank for that oh well we definitely agree with you that’s cool yeah i think you know coming from two guys who at one point definitely believed that oh we don’t need therapy like why would why would we need therapy might be counseling yeah you always make the distinction between therapy and counseling i never really went down that rabbit hole so hard but you know i was resistant for a really long time until my wife made the appointment as i’ve told before but i completely agree with you that this this idea that the stigma around therapy is in my mind it’s as dumb as there being a stigma around having a you know a primary care physician that’s worrying about you physically um and it’s been so cool this is one of the most rewarding things that has come out of your biscuits for me just because i understand personally how beneficial therapy has been and people saying that i actually started going to therapy because there seemed to be this barrier that was broken down because you guys talked about it knowing how transformational that can be because it’s been transformational for me i mean if nothing else came from anything that we did and it was just some people like catalina decided to go to therapy then i think this whole exercise would be more than worth it you know what i think i agree with that and in that case maybe we should just end every episode with and go to therapy and then that’s the that’s the end of every episode no matter what we’re talking about no matter what the ending point is just tack it on okay matter of fact kiko when i just said it and go to therapy you can put that on the end of the episode maybe we’ll just test it on this and then you give give kiko a version of you so we can alternate so that you know it’s an us thing and not a methane and go to therapy why did you emphasize go i just wanted to be a little different i’m i i have my therapy session tonight okay you going exactly i i i have a confession to make here we go as much as we talk as as impactful as it is in my life i’m still in this i’m still in this weird place where like every time i’m like maybe maybe he won’t show up on the on the zoom call because we do it remotely now i don’t know what it is i’m so well you’re not alone we’re not going to get into this but i’m just going to say it is it it has been so rewarding to my therapeutic experience in therapy but i will say that it’s still a constant struggle from week to week in terms of how i interact with how i approach it and being ready for it and thinking that i would rather just do anything else every single week listen you’re not alone in that and i as someone who has benefited greatly from therapy rarely if ever my wife and i talk about this all the time when that appointment comes around am i like yes i’m always like man i just rather watch television you know i always want to do something else i every single time i want to do something else and then when it’s over i’m like man this is so helpful so i don’t know unlike jessie who’s like always thinking about when the next therapy is and and it just kind of embraces it i could learn from that all right here’s a here’s a different response rachel your biscuits has changed the way that i look at being from the south i grew up in a small town in kentucky and after college i moved away to a bigger city and i’ve changed the way that i look at a lot of things like religion and some social issues and rhett link have shown me especially through ear biscuits that it’s okay to still embrace your southern roots but also to grow and be a new person and have new ideas thank you rachel that’s that’s that’s a cool nuanced response because i know i know that i am guilty from time to time like if i get frustrated about something like people you know being scared of the vaccine or not believing you know in evolution or whatever i go into my southern accent and i want to portray that mentality i’m guilty of that i usually defend it by saying that i am from the south and those sentiments tend to be a little bit more highly concentrated in the south but i do i’m glad that rachel picks up on the fact that we’re not ashamed to be from the south we’re not ashamed to be from north carolina like we are proud to be from north carolina we’re pr we are who we are we talk the way that we talk and we think the way that we think and act the way that we act largely because of where we come from but at the same time we do recognize that a lot of those things that we that we thought we’re you know we’ve kind of we’ve we’ve moved beyond them we’ve changed we’ve grown and that’s and also that’s not something to be ashamed of there’s nothing to be ashamed with suddenly thinking some things and doing some things that you would have thought were unkosher or wrong or whatever when you were when you were younger so yeah it like you said this is kind of a nuanced perspective but i appreciate it because i don’t ever want to communicate that we’re like we don’t like the south and we’re ashamed of the south it’s just that there’s things that we thought and believe that we are glad that we no longer think and believe yeah i think when we talk about it it’s because we still consider ourselves southern that’s something that we will always be yeah it’s not something that we’re trying to hide let’s see what kate’s got to say beer biscuits has changed the way i look at old southern white men that’s it old southern white yeah so now we’re being more specific you you added this one into is this a trap for me uh no old southern and white i guess i am yeah i mean yeah but hey but no no i think no maybe we’re we’re changing the image of old southern white men maybe yeah there’s people who don’t have old southern white men in their lives then they’re live it will be we’ll be those guys if you need us too i think we’ll be the old southern guys oh my gosh i’m just hoping that hey kate you bought some butter beans yeah kate is is this a positive thing it didn’t necessarily sound positive but kate you need to work on your inflection of positivity if kate went through the trouble of doing this i have to believe that the intention was that it is to be taken as a compliment you know well compliment accepted there we go maggie your biscuits has changed the way i look at my own spirituality when the deconstruction videos came out i was too scared to watch them i didn’t trust myself to listen to your spiritual journeys and come out of it the same person over a year later i finally worked up the nerve to listen to them and they changed my life i was a queer evangelical christian deeply in the closet and for the first time i felt like i had the right to take steps back from the things that had hurt me my entire life thank you for that wow thank you maggie thanks for sharing um yeah the fact that there was a there was an entire year i mean listen i i totally get get it that you’re like blows me away i don’t want to you know i recall people just you know friends people that i was in contact with uh when we were kind of going through our deconstruction many years ago who would be like i listen i don’t really want i don’t want you to talk to me about this yeah because i have this sense that if you were to talk to me about this it would make me think things that are going to drastically complicate my life because listen it is incredibly difficult to extricate yourself from a belief system because usually it’s there’s there’s family tied into it there’s there’s a there’s a story and a security that’s tied into it sometimes there’s a career tied into it right and there’s so many things that make it difficult to be like yeah okay i don’t know if i necessarily believe this but the alternative is what the alternative is me going through hell in order to get out of this and if you’re still in that belief system maybe thinking that you would actually literally go to hell if you were to extricate yourself from this that’s tough that’s heavy man but you know you ca i think you can hear it you can hear it in maggie’s voice that they’re happy that they went through this process you know and i’m not saying it was easy i don’t know maggie’s particular story um prioritizing your own safety and your own well-being is such an important and at times extremely difficult thing to do in ways that i can’t even begin to imagine yeah and i just i’m honored that again us just processing our experience has a positive impact in in people’s lives i’m actually surprised that i don’t i don’t carry that around as a weight there’s something about this experience for me that is exciting and freeing because it’s i don’t have to have all the answers and i don’t have to be prescriptive for anyone but as we’ve talked about before sorry to beat a dead horse but the the cycle of reward of being vulnerable and just being honest and then letting people take it for what it’s what it’s worth and taking gleaning positive impact in their own life is it just makes me feel so good uh that i’m i’m somehow bypassing getting in my own head about it i guess it’s never too late but i’m i’m grateful that are you are this is a healthy place for me are you are you are you getting at the the dynamic of making the decision to talk about some of the things that we talk about and especially when you get into talking about religion and obviously doing it from a non-expert standpoint yeah we may have been professional christians but not you know i don’t have a a divinity degree we’re not you know it so talking about these things just from a personal perspective and then knowing that it’s going to have repercussions i mean some some of the i listened to a few of these that i actually didn’t include just because it gets not because it gets a little heavy but you just there’s a lot of people who are like listen i i basically left this beliefsum i left this belief system i left this belief system because you guys decided to share and that fee are you saying that that feels like a responsibility that you’re kind of potentially having a a a weight too too heavy of an influence on people’s like the weightiest decisions that they can make i think i could feel that but i don’t because of how because the boundary that i put in place in how i approach these conversations that it’s it’s not our people’s application is not our responsibility it’s it’s it’s the listener’s responsibility what they’re gonna apply and how it how they’re gonna how it’s gonna affect their lives just because you it’s not just hearing something it’s there’s a lot of other factors and it’s it’s their responsibility how what they do with it um i think that’s how i i think that’s how i not rationalize it but i think that’s how i i think the for me the reality is that we’re just a drop in the bucket we may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back in some situations but just like we used to say back when we were sharing the gospel with people on average people need to hear the gospel 19 times before they make a decision you know us telling our story isn’t going to take somebody from point a to point b there’s all kinds of things that are happening and sometimes it can just be a slight different perspective and again we don’t tell these stories so that people will stop being christians like that’s not the motivation i will say that my motivation is that people will remove themselves from harmful belief systems whether those belief systems are harmful to themselves or to others and in some cases that might be some forms or some expressions of things like christianity but you know yeah i think that that was maggie’s process and and maggie’s process was being in a belief system where their identity their very identity was being questioned that was something that we had the privilege of not having to worry about being who we are and the demographic that we come from our identity was anything but questioned in in that evangelical setting it was all validated so our journey is different but yeah i think that um it it is a heavy responsibility and we do take i mean i will say we take it seriously like yeah we calculate the things that we say and there are some times that we might say something and then we think about it a little bit later and we say i think that that could be taken the wrong way and to say hey kiko let’s take that out you know we don’t do this podcast live because we are very concerned about being able to we we know that people listen to it and are getting something from it and sometimes applying it to serious parts of their lives so we we take that responsibility i’m not saying we edit it on a regular basis i’m saying every once in a while we might say something and be like that might be taken the wrong way let’s not include that and it by the way credit to our our team credit to kiko as well as jenna and other team members who uh they serve as a filter for you know i they believe the best in us and they know what we’re trying what what we’re trying to do and what we’re trying to communicate and so there there are it’s not infrequent for us to have conversations about hey i feel like this might have been unintentionally triggering or came out the wrong way um and then so maybe we just cut around this just because it could be misunderstood and because we’re works in progress right yeah i i hope i hope that 10 years we say the wrong things and we didn’t even know it lots of times i mean sometimes i say things and i didn’t and i never intended it all these things happen but 10 years from now i hope that i’m different than i am right now and then 10 years later i hope i’m different than i am 10 years from now so um i don’t really i mean the point being that yeah i’m glad you don’t take it that you don’t take it you don’t take it too much on yourself you don’t see that responsibility as something that becomes debilitating and then you’re afraid to talk about it yeah and so but i will since we’re talking about the team here i’ll say you know what we wouldn’t the show wouldn’t be what it is kiko without your help jenna thanks for being here too for all your help in that and uh we really appreciate it kiko i can’t see your face but i know there it is in the glass but yeah it’s uh you know kiko’s voice is also in this thing so even though it’s not that literally usually all right we we’re not done with some good stuff though tucker let’s see what tucker’s gotta say your biscuits has changed the way i look at myself uh whether it’s from the enneagram episode or the spiritual deconstruction or really any of them it’s just nice to hear from two guys who have similar thoughts as i do and who understand what it’s like to grow up in the south and have different ideas so thanks and congrats on 300 episodes thanks tucker i had a dog named tucker and you have a brother named cole which is his last name well maybe it’s you really are connected maybe it’s actually your dog and my brother getting together and like forming an entity that is now communicating with us is that possible talk about being from the south and having different ideas [Laughter] it’s okay to have different ideas you know tucker thanks for thanks for listening jacob your biscuits has changed the way i look at my button okay but jacob is talking about the button that we discussed extensively that is the button that you press not to get as graphic as i’m gonna get during sextember but there is a button and it’s really just a region of your taint [Laughter] that you can press if you haven’t gotten all your pee outs i i saw a bunch of people talking about milking the snake and i’m like oh we’re not going back there but you get you’re getting pretty close yeah right that is part of it sometimes uh but the funny thing is is we had a discussion with a group of guy friends that listened to the to the podcast and uh if i recall correctly they were either split or college buddies they are just not just guys who listen to the podcast yeah none of them i didn’t want to specifically call them out but yes our college buddies i don’t think any of them knew about the button and i thought they all did yeah i mean maybe i don’t know if everybody’s got a button i definitely got one well i’ve told you what i thought but i just don’t want to go back into it because if i’m that’s the one that i’m like oh maybe i shouldn’t have talked about that one well but you know what it apparently had an impact on jacob all right let’s get to gabiya yeah biscuits has changed the way i look at my embarrassing or not so good moments in life hey at least i have a good start done hey listen at least i have a good start that’s our philosophy i gotta say doing this podcast has actually changed the way i think about difficult stuff there’s been a few times now i may not project that i am constantly worried about things but i’m pretty much constantly worried about things right and so like especially if i’m on like a high overlook well i’m scared of heights but no like if i’m on vacation and i and like i mean jenna can attest to this when i was in scotland and i don’t know i think we we there was a moment where i probably talked about this in the in the thing but where i realized that one of the fans weren’t insured because i thought that they were automatically insured because i’d use my credit card which automatically takes care of that but because they were beyond a certain number of passengers that they didn’t apply and so i’m driving these vans around uninsured and i’m in the middle of like the highlands of scotland and i start freaking out and i’m like calling general like we’re gonna figure out how we gotta do this and so anyway but it had doing this podcast has changed the way i approach those moments where i think the world might be about to end i know that not having uninsured vans is not like an apocalyptic situation but sometimes i can quickly get to that point but when something cr that day in scotland when all of a sudden like the bridge went out and the water was coming across and i was like i don’t know how we’re going to get back and i think my mom’s got a broken ankle and we got to take a ferry in those moments i’m holding on to the comfort of knowing i’m going to be able to talk about this on your biscuits you know if i make it i’m going to be able to bring this to the ear biscuiteers and we’re all going to connect by me talking about this harrowing experience and i but you know what you don’t have to have a podcast to have a good story and i think that’s the that’s the lesson and uh is it you just have to have a really robust blog you don’t even have to have a blog you just having a good story you know and what was it um i thought you told me that somebody told a guy back home i don’t know if he made it up but when i was leaving and moving out he said remember it’s better to have a good story than a good time and i don’t necessarily know if i specifically relate to that because i think being in the moment and having a good time if you’re not having a good time at least have a good story that’s the right thing that’s the saying if that’s what it should be if you’re not having a good time at least have a good story there you go you know put that on a t-shirt yeah those are all the voicemails that we’re going to read i’m sorry we couldn’t play all of them but that would be crazy um and but we listened to every single one actually we didn’t but we listened to enough of this to a lot of them yeah and we cherish all of them thank you for submitting your voicemails thank you for being a part of this it’s it’s a privilege it really is an honor to be to find ourselves in a position where we’re just talking and then it’s a it becomes a part of people’s lives it’s memories are triggered there’s inside jokes are had uh relationships are formed and broken and over the podcast itself is shaped so significantly by the ongoing conversation that we have with you yeah you know in the alternative timeline if you know the multi one particular understanding of the multiverse theory is correct there is one timeline where rhett and link decided to start ear biscuits and they talked to each other and they never read anybody talking about it and it’s just it’s the rhett link with no influence podcast just going on and on and on do you think about how different that version of the podcast would be than this version of the podcast which happens in the context of the community of mythical beasts who listen it drastically different it probably wouldn’t exist but it probably would be drastically different so we’ve thanked the crew we’ve thanked each other i think thank you thank you thank you um and now we’re thanking you dear listener for for making us a part of your of your listening life or if you watch on youtube you’re watching and listening life it it means a lot to us to know that for over an hour every week we’re we’re a part of your life it’s just it really is crazy to think about it hashtag ear biscuits i mean tourette’s point let’s keep the conversation going i do have a wreck you know i love a good music documentary you know and i got an i got a number of people in my life that are that will send me stuff and get me hip to some some news new music docs because i i like them but i found this one on my own well it wasn’t hard to find because when you’re if you have apple tv a new show is going to pop up and this one is called uh watch the sound with mark ronson mark ronstein of many years ago when we went to a a a youtube creator summit like an invitation only uh a small group of creators going to this room in new york and then they bring in people like wes anderson or the previous year was will smith they’re all you know um mark ronson came in there and he told a story about developing his album and getting stevie wonder to play on his album and the way that he told that story i was just i was in tears like i was crying i just remember how much it moved me and then when i saw that he has a series on apple tv i was like i gotta check this out and i i quickly remembered how he’s he’s he’s a really good storyteller and the way he’s he’s an interesting personality especially on screen but you know if you don’t know who mark ronson is he’s he’s a uh he’s a he’s the uptown funk guy with bruno mars he’s a he’s a amy winehouse’s producer and he came up that way and um so now he’s a very well established uh music producer and dj but in every episode he goes through an aspect of music production and even if it sounds kind of dry like episode one is on auto-tune episode two is on sampling i haven’t watched episode on reverb synthesizers drum machines and distortion but based on the first two i love it because it it’s really immersive he talks to really high profile guests like he he interviews paul mccartney and that interview is woven throughout at least the first two episodes the one on autotune he kind of goes through his own personal journey of of going from hating autotune to trying his hand at it and it talk about vulnerability there’s this hilarious moment where he’s like trying to sing through an auto-tune filter having never really done it and it’s like a little cringy and for a guy who like has a reputation it was just it’s just really refreshing how he approaches this thing so if you have any interest in the things i’m talking about you’ll love this watch the sound mark ronson well thanks for sticking with us on this journey of 300 episodes and you know what we’re going to be back again next week with number 301 and also the beginning of september and go to therapy to watch more ear biscuits click on the playlist on the right to watch the previous episode of your 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 [Music]