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 looking back at the year through the lens of our online purchases because after all, that’s how we define ourselves anyway, right? That’s how I do. No, I.. This was a lot of fun last year when we did it, and I think that you, you expand, you’ve already pre-expanded, ’cause we said this would be our Amazon purchases because I totally forgot that. ‘Cause we get so many things through Amazon. So I’ve kinda limited it to those purchases. But I know you’re going outside of that. I had to. And so I reserve the right to maybe go outside of that a little bit, ’cause I did make some significant purchases that were not on Amazon. But.. Whatever you need to fully define yourself, that’s what this is about. Well, you know, I.. ‘Cause if you, Unless you buy things, how do you know who you are? Well, how do you know, I’ve discovered that my sort of calling in life is to go into the driveway and to break down boxes, and flatten them. Oh God. And put them into recycling. Like that’s my me time ’cause I try to get my kids to do it, and they won’t, you know, I’m a failed father. ‘Cause I think, Yeah, I think last year my list was that special box cutter which I’d recommended, Yeah, yeah and it was on my list. We had to pick up something. We had to pick up a mirror that wouldn’t, every time it was delivered to the house, it was broken, so Christi arranged for us to pick it up from the shop. And then we got there, and I took my box cutter with me ’cause I’m like, I wanna open it there, and I wanna do it with my box cutter. And they were like, yeah, you don’t have to open it here because then, well, you can’t, you have to turn in the packaging. I was like, no, we’re opening it here, and I’m using my box cutter. I could tell they were really eyeing it. They liked the slice. It was broken, by the way. Your box cutter was broken? No, the mirror was broke. Oh. And so we didn’t, we still didn’t get it. Mirrors break, man. It’s one of the hazards. I’m not gonna go.. Better on their dime than ours. I’m gonna go through a lot of stuff, and more stuff than you, undoubtedly. I’m going through everything I bought. But I’m not going through my exhaustive list because that’s 141 individual items, Oh my gosh. That are just for me Now, I want you to understand, the vast majority of these are very small inconsequential, and I’ll get into some of those. It would just be.. Why are you apologizing? No, I’m just saying it’ll be.. Well, because people are like, people have lots of opinions about buying stuff on Amazon to begin with. I get it, I understand. I think in the end, we’re gonna figure this out, and I think that the convenience of the service is gonna be something that we find a way to do without qualm. But I will say that that comes out to like almost, almost buying something every other day, you know? But, I’m buying multiple things in one shipment, but still, there ends up being a lot of boxes. So there’s a little bit of guilt. There’s a little bit of guilt associated with this. I’m just saying that up front. But I mean, the place I wanted to start, just because there’s literally, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight items in just this one journey, and this is just for me. This doesn’t count the ones that Jessie got. Oh, you’re starting with… I was gonna start with the journey. Okay. Okay. This is good. Who’s got the better journey? It sounds like you’ve got a longer journey. Mine’s simple. Go for it. And that is the journey to acquire the correct face mask. Oh, uh huh. And this is something that is especially… The reason that this is so personal to me is that it has to do with the beard, right? So early on in the pandemic, when we started wearing masks a lot, I started realizing that I was getting mask beard, and it can get so pronounced. I don’t know if you remember when we were practicing the livestream that day, and we wore masks during the livestream rehearsal. Yeah. And I took it off to show everybody what my mask beard looks like. Crazy. And Paisley got a profile shot of me, which we can, Are you sure you wanna show that? You know what, I’m not gonna show it. No, it’s being shown. No, no I’m not showing it. Already happening. There is so many shots of me out there without a beard. I don’t have to show the mask beard. I don’t have to do it. I reserve the right to not show the mask beard. They already saw it. They haven’t seen it. It’s over. I’m making the call. We’re not showing it. You’ve really booked it up. And they just saw it. Oh, you know what? You can tweet it on your personal account. They’re seeing it again. Wow. So because the mask… And here’s the thing about mask beard. It’s not just that the mask beard looks bad. It’s that, Oh, we can tell it looks bad. We’re looking at it a third time. It locks in like you’ve put a curling iron. And like you can’t get rid of it. Unless you stop, and you wash your beard with shampoo, and then let it dry, like you can’t, You shampoo your beard? Yeah. I mean, in order to get… When it’s that locked in, it will not… It’s like you’ve curled your hair, and you can’t get rid of it. It’s like you don’t have a beard. You just have hair for skin against your face. And then there’s a line, and then there’s something hanging down there, like a curtain. Yeah, we’re looking at it a fifth time. So, the problem is, is that they make these masks that are, that are supposed to cover your whole beard. Yeah. And I tried a few of these, man. I’m gonna go through all the masks. So I started with the Bio-th face mask. This is just like that… Makes kinda like a duck build. It’s an N95. It’s a disposable. K95, yeah. Yeah, K95. K95, whatever it is. Pointy. And I was like, this is causing trouble. So then I did the Mashele XL Summer Face and Beard. Summer face? Head wear reusable cloth covering for dust outdoors. First of all, lots of cloth masks early on in the pandemic, before we really understood that those are not very effective. Yeah, but that was a whole year earlier. Well, this is… Well, I’m still… No, but the cloth is not really working that well. That knowledge was really dispensed in 2021. It wasn’t really dispensed in 2020. When we all kinda came to terms with the fact that, I think it was more of a 2021 thing for you because you were of getting out. We were becoming more active, and needing masks more. And trying to settle on like, We bought a lot more masks in 2021 than 2020. What is my mask gonna be? Right? And this is before I was like, okay. I’m still trying these masks that are probably not even effective. ‘Cause now you’re making a public decision. Yeah. Not just a protective decision. There’s a look here. Then I did the Toltech’s face mask, then the Purian face mask adult XL, extra large for men with beards. Then the Craft and Soul Mattana face mask. Then the EnerPlex Youth Adult three Ply face. Okay, so now I’m getting back into like… This is a point where I abandoned… I’m like, just trying to cover the whole beard is not a tight thing. It’s just, I’m not wearing a mask just to make it look like I’m wearing a mask, which is what a lot of people do who don’t even believe that the masks work, even though they clearly do, if they’re worn right, and it’s the right kind of mask. Some people are just like, I’m complying with your idea here, your rules, but I’m trying to make it as easy as possible. But I was like, I actually, I’m actually interested in doing this in an effective way. So I abandoned the beard mask ’cause it’s just not gonna happen. It’s kinda like when you wear a hat, you’re not gonna then, if you’re out with people, just take the hat off, and then walk around with hat head. You’re committing. You’re just gonna have to wear the mask all the time. Right and then, I got this Outdoor Research Essential face mask kit. A kit? You build your own? These are the words that they use. And then finally, I just landed on disposable face masks. And.. You gave up. Yeah. So now I operate with two distinct choices. There is the K95 or KN95, whatever it is, which is what we have here at the studio for everybody to wear. That was on my list of something that I… That’s what we buy a lot of. And that locks it in, and that does give me mask beard. And then I’ve got just a surgical mask, like the 3-ply surgical mask, which is effective at catching droplets. But it sits more on top of the beard, and doesn’t create… Like if I’m like, If I’m doing… If Jessie and I are going out, and we have to wear the mask into the restaurant, but then when we sit down, we take the mask off to eat… So it’s kinda like, we’re wearing a mask just to say that we wore a mask, or just because they made us wear a mask, and we went in. I believe in masks, but when you’re going in a restaurant to eat, you’re not really accomplishing anything by wearing a mask as you walk to your table. Okay, I’m taking a risk at that point. But in that case, I don’t wanna have mask beard on my date. So then that’s when I just wear the surgical one that sits right on top. I can kinda deal with that mask beard. Yeah. But there an eight point- You have a system. There was an eight point mask journey, and that didn’t even include the stuff that Jessie was buying. It went all over the place. Okay, my journey, You wanna know my version of that journey, is with garden hoses. So on a much.. You were trying to watch the virus off your face with a garden hose? Yeah. ‘Cause I don’t wear a mask, but I wash my face every day. Well, I will constantly… I’m constantly blasting my face with a garden hose. The virus can’t get in there. You just go right in here, and it comes right out your nose. Turns out, it’s really hard to find a garden hose that’s worth a damn. It’s true, man. I was looking back through the list, and I was just so shocked. I was like, okay, I got an expandable garden hose, ’cause you don’t want… I don’t want one that you got to like loop up and you know, all the problems with where is it gonna be stored? and how big is it? and how un… It just doesn’t cooperate with being coiled. I went on this journey in 2020, by the way. Did you talk about it? I don’t think. I don’t know if I did, man. Why didn’t I… Okay. I went… ‘Cause I bought it at the hardware store. It was expandable. And then what would happen is, it was like black and it was scrunch up. So the moment that all the liquid came out of it, it would shrink up like cold wiener. Looks like a cold wiener. And then it’d be very easy to store. But then when that thing gets plump again, when it’s shooting out all that water, it’s spurting out of every place. It’s cracking leaks all over the place. Just like a penis. And I will tell you, that like we bought the ones that said, “Oh, 100% guaranteed.” And then what are you supposed to do? They break. They break. They don’t just break. Sometimes.. We bought three, and they were all like… They just split in the middle. And like oh, they’re just all sectioned. You can’t get an expandable. So then we were so angry that we bought a flex steel. Like we went to the opposite extreme. It’s like a chrome… It’s just a pipe. It’s just a pipe on a hinge. You can’t… It doesn’t bend at all. It did bend. It would bend up, but it was like.. This is not gonna leak. No I can only water in this exact radius. But it will never leak. What we did and you know honestly, Christi is the one who bought it, its like Christi looked at those leaky wieners, and she said, “I’m going medieval on your ass.” Like literally, I’m buying the armored version of a garden hose. This is the one from the infomercial? It’s just called flex steel. I think there’s an infomercial for it. Not Flex Seal. That’s an infomercial. That’s for the boats. No, no, I know that’s not.. When you wanna cut chop a boat in half, and then, ‘Cause there’s also infomercials for the expandable ones too. That’s where I fell in love with the idea. And then we ended up with, it’s called a no kink, but it’s like it’s made of different stuff than expandable. So it’s kind of expandable. Yeah, I can’t go there. It’s called no kink. You gotta go kink. I gotta go kink. So its still kinks. Yeah. Because listen, Garden hoses suck. You can’t help but kink sometimes. There is… I mean, there’s gotta be an answer, and I still haven’t found it. I gave up with the third one. It’s not leaking yet, but it is kinking, even though it is called the no kink. Well, I don’t have a record of this, ’cause again, I went to the hardware store, ’cause I do shop local, okay? I believe in that. I went to the hardware store to get… We actually decided on a hose that is not expandable per say, but like it gets really… It doesn’t shrink up, but it’s super like flexible. That’s what we have. And they’re black. Yes. It’s called the no kink. Okay, well I’ve got… We have.. That’s what we have. We have three of those, or four of those Maybe that works. That are in the house And I bought the things to wind it up. Not the crank it wind it up, but just this thing that sits on the side of the house, and we just roll it around. Christi wants to get a piece of pottery that I can just shove it down. Like a snake. Like a decorative… It’s like a cobra coming out of a piece of pottery. You have to play an instrument to get the snake, to get the hose to come out. That’s the problem with that. I can break out my recorder. We are dading so hard. Move on to something else. Okay. Garden hoses, man. Who would’ve thought. Okay, now going in chronological order. Again, this is just the stuff that I thought was notable. I bought this first thing because of you. The NeilMed, special Link brand, NeilMed Sinu Inhaler. Sinu Inhaler. What? Sinu Inhaler. Natural, non-medicated, aromatherapy inhaler. So this is like… Oh. You come into the office, and you got something you put in your nose, and you sniff. It’s a menthol stick, yeah. I got it like two years ago, maybe three, and the thing still works. Yeah, it’s amazing. I used it a few seconds ago. Didn’t you see me? So I’m not necessarily.. It looks like Chapstick that you stow up your nose. But I do find, ’cause I’ve got a slightly deviated septum, and the right nostril will sometimes be like, it’s not really fully functioning this morning. It’s got a little kink in it. That NeilMed’s gonna open you up. And I, I do that, and I keep it in my bag, and I’ve used it probably a dozen times over the past year, and it was a really good purchase. It’s super inexpensive. It’s kinda like… It makes you feel like you’re awake. But have you seen this new product? It’s all over the internet right now, and if you’re on TikTok or Instagram, you’re getting ads for it, if you’re me. It’s called like, like something drops, like Wake Up Drops. It’s like.. I haven’t seen this. It’s- It’s caffeinated? No, no. I think it’s smelling salts. I think it’s essentially smelling salts. It’s a company that has these things that you sniff. Is it a.. And then you’re like… like It totally wakes you up. I don’t remember the name of it, but everybody… I’m getting a bunch of ads for it ’cause I guess they know that I want that feeling. It’s probably toned down from the ones that EMT’s use. I remember, when my mom would always get her EMT certification, there was the smelling salts day, and it’s like a little pouch. They would… It’s kinda like.. You can get them on Amazon. I think when the policeman get trained in how to use their tasers, they get tased. You can get tased, and then smell it. They line up, and get tased. Well, the EMTs lined up, and they got smell salted. And I was curious, and I took one of the pouches, and you burst it, and you sniff it. And boy, that was an awakening. Well, it works, man. It totally works. It was almost painful. And I have to think this is a lesser version of that, because you’re not knocked out. Well, it doesn’t knock you out. It brings you back. And if you.. But you don’t use it when you’re knocked out. You use it just when you feel like it. If you just.. There’s some people who swear by smelling salts. But you, you haven’t tried this. You haven’t tried this. No, but some people swear by smelling salts, like before a workout. It’s a trend and so these guys got in on that. I’m interested in that. You know that’s akin to the NeilMed menthol sucker. But you know, the thing is, you don’t even use NeilMed brand. Do you? ‘Cause yours is not NeilMed. It was bought for me and it lasts forever. But it is smelled N-E-I-L, so it a different family Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. We’re gonna talk about more products. But first.. We gotta sell you some products. Were you talking about mythical.com? Is that what we’re talking about? Last chance? Gift cards. What is it? Gift cards. Oh, okay. Oh, we’ve got gift cards? Yes. That’s perfect for the holiday season, Keko. It’s perfect. You know, It’s like you don’t know what to give somebody, but you know that they’re a mythical beast, so you give them a mythical gift card. Give them a mythical gift card. And then they can buy whatever they want with it. Am I right? That’s how gift cards work. Yeah And we have them. We’re selling them. Where? Mythical.com. Of course. I love it. One of my favorite things about this stage in my life is that there are things happening. That you take credit for. Under the banner of the company that we created, that we are told about. That’s a good place to be. Yeah Mythical smelling salts. Seems like we’re gonna have to push hard for that one. Yeah, i kissed an old man, I think we could get into that. The sniffalafagus. Something Drops, like Horse Drops. I can’t remember what it is. You got something else? Suck and Wake. We’ll go back and forth. We’ll go back and forth until you run out of things. I got some smart plugs. I committed to Wemo. Not a sponsor. None of this crap is a sponsor. But you buy one smart plug, and then all of a sudden you’ve got all these other smart plugs, and then.. Explain this to me. Is it… Taps into your router? Yeah, and it’s all in one app. Expands? You have smart lights in your house. Yeah, but I don’t have no internet on them. I do that with the Nest, How? With the Nest notes, the Google Nest notes. That’s interesting. Yeah, these, they connect through your WiFi, and then through your Google Home, I control them, which is the same thing you had. Oh, it’s not expanding your wifi signal. No, no, no. No. It’s just a smart. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so the lights that you… I went to… I had a few of those, and then we did a remodel, and there’s more lights on the outside of our house, and when the electricians came to do that, I said, “I want all of my plugs.” So I guess I’m catching up with you. Then you went Wemo. Because I already had some Wemo. But these Wemo were hardwired in. So now.. Yeah, I do the Lutron on that. And you know what I did? I didn’t get enough. Like I still have… Before I go to bed, there’s one light, I have to walk to the front of my house, and turn off the chandelier at the front door, manually. Here’s the thing, I believe in having at least one manual light, just to stay grounded. I feel like it’s done that for me. Yeah, there’s one light that you gotta actually touch. But they were all.. Just one that doesn’t even have a switch, I have to unscrew the bulb every night, just to feel grounded. You just shoot it out with a BB gun. Yeah, just put in another one. In the morning. Put it in a new bulb. Screw it, in the morning. Take a little BB gun out there, shoot it. You know somebody lives like that. Justin Timberlake apparently wears a new pair of underwear every single day. Really? I saw that on one of those Buzzfeed articles 10 years ago. I mean, once you start adding the smart light switches to your cart for every light switch, that puts a pounding on your, That’s a big cart. That’s a big cart. On your pay, on your wallet. Yeah. So I just got, I got purchase fright. So I was really excited, and then I didn’t get all the ones that I needed. Well, you can always just get more. Yeah, but then.. But then you gotta get somebody to install them. They say you can do it yourself, but.. Yeah, you can’t. But it doesn’t have my… It’s not a Neil… It doesn’t say NeilMed on it. You know what I’m saying? I know how to put something up my nose and breathe. This is not something you just smell. Therefore, this is… This requires some electrical knowledge. If you gotta… If you’ve gotta go to your power panel, and turn off the power before you do something, Yeah, that’s not happening. That’s a red flag for me being involved. I’m making a call on that one. You know? It’s like if you’re just gonna kill everything in the house, well then I gotta restart everything. I believe you also got one of these. I don’t know if you got the same brand. I actually had to go through two, and then I landed on this one. The Geesta Grill Press Steak Weight Burger Smasher, with wood handle. You stealing my thunder, man. All the stuff you’ve gotten.. When did… You got that earlier in the year? You didn’t tell me. No, I told you about, I forgot. Like I was on a quest for the perfect smash burger because it’s what my kids really really like, you know Yeah, me too. I like a smash burger, and a thick burger, but.. I totally… My family only likes.. So this happened earlier in the year. Yeah, this is like January. And you told me about it. I totally forgot. Well at the end of, I think at the end of 2020, I may have even talked about it last year. I got one, but it wasn’t completely flat. It was like it had a ring on it, and it had enough for the burger to kinda sneak up in there, and you couldn’t.. Yes. So I was like, this is no good. I want one that I can just smash it as thin as I possibly can. As I want it. Right, and when I was… I didn’t access this conversation because, yeah, it was three months ago, I went and got my burger smasher set. You got a set? I got a… First of all, for my Green Egg grill, I got the half moon griddle, Yeah So that I could smash the… You can’t do that on the grates. Yeah, I do it inside in a pan. And then, yeah, so you gotta get the smasher, and you’re right. It cannot have a lip because then… Yeah, you want it to be smashed out, and for the edges to be uneven. You don’t want it to be a perfect circle. Yeah, yeah And you gotta have the right amount of meat, and you got to measure it out. That’s dumb. You gotta really watch out for that. That’s the hottest tip I think people are gonna get today, from Rhett and Link, is your burger smasher cannot have a lip. Yeah And half of them on Amazon, even highly rated ones, do. Yeah, it actually was.. And you know what else you need to get? But what did you… ‘Cause I went with a Geesta. I like it ’cause it had a wood handle. I didn’t even put the name brand down, but it wasn’t… Mine’s fully metal. There’s no wood because wood gets stained. It looks nicer. Wood keeps the heat from coming into your hand. I also do recommend wearing gloves ’cause it’ll burn the back of your.. Oh, yeah. It’ll burn all the hairs off your knuckles. I’ve had some… In fact, it makes me want to do that this week. I’ve had some really good burger times. You gotta get the smash right, but then this is why I got the kit, because you also have to have a shaker ready with everything you need. So like you smash, and then you shake on your, your salt and pepper or whatever your mixture is. Definitely needs… You want it to be salty. And then when you flip it, you flip it, and you salt. You shake it again. So you gotta, you got to have a smasher hand, and a shaker hand. And the grill is so hot that I gotta do it fast. So I’ve got a shaker that’s big. It’s not like… You can’t shake on something, then shake on something else. You gotta have one shaker that has everything, like the deli style. And it’s pretty big. So it’s like a three inch diameter You gotta get your ratios right if you do that. But then you’re shaking kind of.. I’m just doing mostly salt, and a little bit of pepper. Yeah And I might put a little garlic powder.. A little bit. In the meat, before I mix it. But you… With my grill and with the timing and everything, and they grill so fast, I can’t regulate it like a stove top. So it’s like, if it gets really hot, you just gotta be fast. So I don’t have time to be shaking two things. Well, that’s the other thing too. I mean, it’s cool to be outside and do it, but I’ve actually… And I’ve got a nice smoker slash grill that I use for a lot of things. But I have transitioned to burgers and steaks inside, man. I’m doing burgers and steaks inside. I’m doing steak in a pan, you know because… If you go to a fine steakhouse.. Yeah, I just wanna, It’s got a grill in there. I just wanna be able to use the grill. They’re like, they’re doing it on a… Well, they’re doing a broiler. There’s a challenge to it. I’m not great at it ’cause there is timing. The third thing in the kit is an extra wide spatula because when you smash that burger down, Yeah and it gets… I like to make them really wide. And then you gotta have a real strong spatch that you can just throw underneath that thing, and flip it real fast. And then you cheese them on the grill, right? Cheese them on the grill. And the other thing they’ll try to sell you in a kit that I opted out of is a cover. You don’t need that. Which then you can… To help steam. Like you put the… You flip it, salt it, put the cheese on it, and then put a cover on it to like really help it melt. But I opted out of that Unnecessary I thought it was unnecessary Okay I’ll never get smasher burger Oh, were going about a year Already? ‘Cause that was me I said, I sorted that your smash was only a smasher. Yeah You didn’t even have the other stuff. And then I said yeah, I got the same thing I mean, yeah, I already had the spatula and stuff which is I’ll go again I gotta whole category of stuff. Okay Related to the cat. Its like you get another type of animal in the house. Like getting as second dog was one thing, but like getting Saka in the house and then coming to grips with all the stuff that we needed to do its like okay, now there’s that chair that he always sits in there’s hair all over that thing. And then Christi is like scratching it with her finger nails like there has to be a way so we got the ChomChom, which is like a, its basically like a lent roller that then it creates a cat hair log that you open the back of it and this big log of cat hair comes out. And you feed that to your dogs? And then you feed that to the dogs. No you just feed the cat shit to the dogs apparently Yeah right. Which brings me to the other thing, which is multiple litter boxes Yeah You know, its like we had just the open cover litter box. If you’re a member of the Mythical Society and you come to our monthly AMAs you’ve heard me regail the story of I’ll tell it, go large hear on Ear Bisquits. Jabe is not into this, but Jasper loves to eat that cat did he? Gosh its so gross. I’m embarrassed that I’ve got something in my house that can’t help but eat cat shit. Like, I don’t know what it says about me but I feel like it says something about me that I didn’t wanna be. But if you had to use one being in you house to eat the shit of another being in your house you’d probably pick the animals Yes. And you’d probably go, cat eat dog eats cat shit. That makes me feel better about it. So we’re like trying to get a type of litter box that Saka will still use, but that Jasper can’t get into and we went through.. We gotta big bucket type that like he crawls down inside of it and then that was working, until we noticed that every time I would go upstairs, into my walking closet in my bedroom, that I would smell, I smelt something that I described as, like, a meaty smell. Oh Gosh I was like, is there something that like, have I worked out and lost a piece of clothing that has gotten something growing on it? That’s like its the very deep dark smell Meaty? That’s almost meaty, but like gross meaty. And then Christi discovered that the duffel bag underneath all of my hanging clothes in my section of the closet, has been the depository of Saka’s pee, not dukey. Saka has been crawling into that thing and just peeing into my duffel bag, again and again and again. And we basically traced that to stress related to Lily leaving for college and him not being happy about that. I peed in a duffel bag when I was sad. So then we had clean all that out and we had to but this angry orange detergent, deterent is the word You didn’t keep that duffel bag? No we got rid of the duffel bag But you used some orange deterent on the duffel bag I now keep my gym clothes on it No we heard about angry orange deterent to spray on everything that the cat wasn’t supposed to be in peeing on. Yeah and then so we sprayed in the area that the duffel bag used to be and then was very diligent about closing our door but then.. Is that why you smell like orange juice in that shit now Yeah like meaty cat pee Yeah. But what we thought was, that he wasn’t using his litter box but was instead using my duffel bag, was because he got too big for the litter box. So now I have this whole purchase history of like buying a bigger litter box that he can jump inside but then he still didn’t wanna use that. And then when we switched to a bigger litter box, that he can crawl in the side of, thats when Jasper started eating his dukey. And so its like one problem leads to another problem. So now I’m on the verge of buying kitty a litter box that is robotic that, Every time Jasper comes up I just, scold him Every time the cat poops it scrapes it up and puts it in a place but then its like, I don’t know the maintenance of that. I don’t know, there’s a lot of questions there Yeah but you’re already talking about how if Lily really decides to take the cat with her next year, that you’re gonna be sad. Are you gonna fight for this cat? This conversation has given me a new perspective. Because I’m also looking like we bought a calming diffuser that emits the feromones that a mama cat puts out to make the baby cats not fight with each other that also makes cats chill out. So its like we’re trying to deal with the cat’s stress so that, and it also attracts the cat to the area where we want the cat to pee and not in the duffel bag that’s no longer there. So there’s that Multiple litter boxes, orange stuff calming diffuser chomchom hair thing and a litter genie, which is like a fancy thing that, as soon as the cat craps, you gotta, we scoop up the crap and put it in the thing that then it puts it, its like a diaper genie but for cat shit. So we got, I like that I recommend that. You didn’t use the robotic one Haven’t gone there yet Okay They’re really pricey and I’m also very skeptical if Saka is going to go for it or then if he’s gonna start shitting in the plants again, which was the first problem we had. Well I don’t have any cat related purchases I did however, buy 40 large pinky mice What? Oh, you’re talking about food for a snake Yeah Do you still have that snake? Yeah, I mean, he’s still a part of the family Moose, the snake You about 40 at a time, you said? He eats 40 at a time No, he eats like one a week, is shepherd keeps up with it. Yeah so I have like a hand full of mice in the freezer, which Jessie isn’t happy about but its in, they’re in a bag that’s in another bag. You know, there’s other animal parts in our fridge that we eat. Its not that big of a deal. I mean you gotta, why don’t you put It in the fridge in the garage? It is in the fridge in the garage Okay that’s better I’ll run that off with a couple here “Sex Criminals Volume One” “One Weird Trick” What? This is a graphic novel How graphic? “Sex criminals” This is a series about a woman who discovers that when she has an orgasm, that time essentially stops in the after glow. And then she meets a man who, after he orgasms, the same thing happens and they can interact with each other and do things in the afterglow. This are famous graphic novel comic series What were you googling that you discovered this? I was googling.. Can I stop time with my orgasm? Yeah why does it feel like time has stopped after.. I was googling highly rated graphic novels. For a reason, for no reason at all. And so, and I ended up buying this one in a few hours I think you misinterpreted the adjective graphic. Its actually not that graphic. Its very funny and its very well done. I didn’t actually, I haven’t even moved beyond volume one not ’cause I don’t want to, but because I feel like I learned what I needed to learn for the purposes that I was trying to learn them. What occasions sitting down to enjoy, what’s it called? Sex crime.. “Sex criminals volume one” volume one “One weird trick” Like is this like a, before bed reading is this like, downstairs by the fireplace I don’t do any reading next to the fireplace that only happens in movies man. I mean you got a really great place to do some… I bought it for research purposes. And I just read it in a couple of nights like a couple of nights I was like okay Dude, I don’t know what you trying to research but you’re not gonna stop time by ejaculating. You know what, Link I’ve tried I do recommend that, I don’t know if that’s gonna be my wreck, I’m gonna pick one of this things to be my official wreck, but that was sort of a weird one that stood out when I was like, what did I buy.. Oh I know why I bought that. And I bought a couple of other ones that are like really well respected, so its like time list graphic novels that I actually can’t remember what they are at this point. Nothing has been as good as “Watchman” to me. I’m a normy when it comes to graphic novels. Can I borrow it? Yeah sure, just put it under you mattress like when Train gave me that penthouse. What I’m I going for next? I’m gonna go with my biggest purchase of the year. Oh well, I think, yeah, my next purchase ties in with that so you go ahead and I’ll.. No, no I don’t think it does. My mountain bike Oh yeah yeah yeah I got a new mountain bike I mean this is probably my biggest purchase since I got car Sure has been ‘Cause, you know one of the main things that I got back into, year before last, was my mountain biking. You know I had fallen out of it. Nick and I would go mountain biking a lot and then it was just like, things got busy and its kinda like surfing for us its just like, it requires like, some logistics umpth to get going with it. And I got back into it, and he got a new bike like he upgraded to a full suspension bike instead of just the front suspension. And it has a fancy spring at it and then he’s talking about how much better it is when you know he’s got the adjustable seat post where its like you just hit the button and it adjust up and down Yeah And he’s like talking about how much more of an advantage he has when going down hill with his center of gravity being able to be lower and here I am, every time we’re about to do a big climb, I’m getting off my bike and I’m putting my seat up high to get, you know, ’cause you wanna climb with the seat high and then you wanna, then when we’re about to go down a hill The writing was on the wall Its like he’s about, there he goes and I’m getting off my bike and putting my seat post all the way down so that my center of gravity is lower and I’m not going over my handle bars. Right And I’m like, you know what? For my birthday, I’m gonna upgrade. And you know, saved thousands and thousands like stuffs over $5000 for a bicycle, it just seems like madness. But if you want one that’s gonna… I mean this is like your life is in This is some, there’s a lot of engineering that goes into this, its pretty amazing You can’t really get away… You can’t, especially if you’re going with someone who has that type of equipment Right Who’s made that investment All those things he was telling me he was like, he was selling me on it and it took a long time. And then with all the supply chain things that well happened and continued to happen, I had my eye on a bike that was, you, not even available for pre-order. But it was the one that I wanted and I was just like, okay, in three weeks, you sign it for the mailing list we’ll tell you in three weeks when this thing is gonna become available. And in three weeks, its like, three more weeks and then this happens for like three, four months Yeah And then one day, we’re riding and I’m just, you know I’m telling him and he’s dude there’s a bike shop right over here and they’ve got some in stock. And I’m like, its funny how I just like, I just like, I just cringe inside I’m like, oh no, you mean we’re gonna go somewhere right now and I’m gonna, imma drop six grand on a bike just right there? Like this is, this goes against every fiber of my being. But I had made a decision that I was gonna get a bike. I had picked it out, and I had spent the money in my mind so it kinda helped me and I went there and I was like, you know what? I’m never gonna get the other one. So I ended up getting the specialized bike Then you get to ride it Yeah I get to actually ride it I’d probably still be waiting for the other one, from Kenya. So I got it specialized, the tube at the bottom is a little bigger and it has a secret compartment in it, where instead of like a bythes as an accessory that go under your bike seat to hold like your other bike tubes and all that other crap that you need if something goes wrong. all of that stuff can be hidden inside of the bike itself Yeah So I, that was cool. And that got me a little bit excited. It better be cool I’m telling you. So I got that thing, and I’ve really been enjoying it. Its made a huge difference, having the full suspension. Like I’ve never dropped that money and then not, my immediate experience was not just regret. Like with all of the psychology of me spending money like that was one that I.. I’ve been so happy with it in the past 6 days I’ve gone out every other day I’m like a pretty long rag. Just by yourself? Yeah, I’ve tried to go out… I’ve got a shorter route that I can do in like.. I can be from my house and back in like an hour in ten. So I can do like a 45-minute ride and then I’ve got a good local ride that’s like two hours, that I can do. So its like, an hour and a half climb, and then its a really long 40-minute descend back down and the thing that happens is that neccessitates a lot of other purchases because you start going a little faster and you’ve got more performance and you’ve got, you start pushing yourself and so I start falling off my bike more. So its like oint medicine Yeah Manageist Well, protective gear, so like I got knee pads. I’ve got elbow pads, and I’ve still got all these bruises on my thighs and I fell off.. You need thigh pads I fell off a few days ago and I hit my hip and so now the last thing I bought was padded underwear. So I’m trying that. You need one of those air bags that if you fall off the whole thing just inflates and you become the michigan man as you roll down the mountain. I mean, these mountains that I’m on its like, I mean, its treturous One wrong move, and I’m not telling Christi this, buy yeah I could just crin off the mountain and die. Yeah You know my.. But I’m pretty good I enjoy mountain biking a little bit like when Nick was getting into it back in the day, Yeah And then like three of us went out like a couple of times, there was like, one time I was coming down the hill and I was like, the whole time I’m feeling like I’m going to go over the top of the handle bars. And I look around at everyone else doing this and I’m like no one is big as me and that was like It’s tough You know what? I’m missing something out, I’m gonna have to just say no to because, yeah I’m too worried about my body. At times were more intense than the stuff we do now. We had no business being in some of those places we were especially on the bikes we were on My bike’s like 15 years old, 20 Oh God. So, I mean so I got the protective gear and then I’m like pushing myself and coming back and I’m having these headaches that I can’t get rid of and I’m realizing I’m burning so much , so many calories and I’m not eating enough and so it like leads to figuring so many stuff out and like optimization type stuff. But then also, realizing oh I gotta be.. I can’t just be drinking water, I gotta be drinking some electrolytes. So I start buying the Tim Fares sponsored element salty stuff, you can get all types he’s not a sponsor of ours but like… So now I put up a packet of that into my… I’ve gone to a point now, where if I do like a two hour ride or I push it I’m either barely or not getting a headache between like calories afterward and like drinking enough electrolytes, I think You’re not feeling yourself in that I’m kinda.. For the first time, its kinda got me to a point where I’m feeling almost athletic. Almost athletic? You know I’ve never considered myself an athlete, but like, I think this is something… There’s older guys out in this trails and I think this could be me. I think this could be a long term version of golf for me. As long as I don’t kill myself doing it. You’re not gonna die golfing, that’s for sure. But I kinda feel like, I could be in the best shape of my life if I keep this up. Because I actually enjoy it. Like I’ve never done anything that’s pushed my body so hard that I’ve actually liked because, I mean, there’s a physical challenge of it but then there’s, I mean there’s the mental acquility of just the constant reacting to the trail. You know, so I think its good for my brain and my body. Yeah And I feel like, I’m doing something that requires a lot of padding and that kinda makes me feel a little bit cool You could probably like, slip into like, in a real football game. I mean the guys dress weird but position as he play Right So a lot of crap related to that bike Well okay, this is related to a purchase that you made which, this was unusual because a lot of times I’ll decide to buy something That’s right that then you’ll get into. And then this will work the other way. So the purchase I have related to this is again ’cause I’m limiting my Amazon Okay Is wrist cards with palm protection. And this is when we.. This is a sore subject We got the one wheels you know, we’ve talked about the one wheels you know its that thing that looks like a skateboard but it’s got one big wheel in the middle Its electric, so its pretty damn cool because its.. It kinda works like.. I have to think its the technology of, what are those, the trendy things that.. The air boards. It looks like a segway, for lack of a better.. Its essentially, the wheel itself is the thing that is both propelling you and holding you up and then balancing you. And it has vagina tip charging Yeah and I mean, And on the website when you look at this thing you like, you can go on dark trails. Its not just for pavement And some of the most fun that we.. I mean, so you got three of them, right? No I got No you got two of them I got two because I kept seeing this Instagram ads for them. Yeah And I was like, I’m trying to get the boys out of the house and like I couldn’t, I haven’t had luck getting them to ride bikes that much with me, because I end up pushing things a little too far and then they’re just dejected. And spent. So that didn’t take and I was like, this will be fun Yeah, ’cause its And its not dangerous You’re not really working too hard on this Yeah There’s some balance happening but… Its not dangerous once you learn how to do it I mean, we’re not gonna be going off on this trails but I kinda secretly hope that we’ll be going off on these trails. Right And so then I’m like, I get it and the I invite you and Shepherd over to test it out. And like Shepherd immediately took to it so then, you’re like I’m gonna get a couple of this too. So like yeah, I had the Pint for Landon, which is a smaller one and then the GT for me, the bigger one Oh that XR The XR Yeah And the you bought two XRs Right For, I mean they are not cheap It was like $1700 for an XR Very expensive And maybe $1200 for a Pint Or maybe more than that They’re one of the more.. They’re pricier, like Evs, but I gotta say you know, its same thing with Shepherd. Its not easy to get Shepherd outside of the house, away from video games, but any time I’m like, hey lets go one wheeling he says all right, he stops what he’s doing and we go. And we have gotten.. Like we have found so many cool places to go where the majority of what we’re doing is off road. And I’ve had some close calls, I posted that one on my Instagram where I fell and messed my knee up, and it actually wasn’t that bad. It was the worst fall that I had because I actually fell Well it was interesting I think because even before that happened, I was riding, you came over and then you got me and then you started riding and then you start telling me about how the type of injuries you can get on this stuff and how the dangers associated with it. And I didn’t, I had not looked into any of that I was like, wait you know, we’re just gonna be safe. You know the nose diving is the thing that.. Like if you start looking like YouTube, everyone’s got a story about, “oh I broke my collar bone” I think like Hezzy Nightstar broke his collarbone or broke something doing.. ‘Cause what happens is, if you’re comfortable you get going real fast and then it gets to a certain speed.. You go at 17 to 20 miles an hour And then it starts, pushes back a little bit to tell you, hey, we can’t keep holding you up at this speed but if you ignore that it will nose dive and then you immediately just carine off that thing. So I kinda stay away from that top speed. Yeah you have to learn it. You have to learn the limits of it and you have to wear protective gear if you’re gonna be.. That was the one thing is especially the risk guards. ‘Cause the one time I did fall on the pavement I did nose dive, but its only because I’m so big and I’m like at the upper weight limit and I was going up a hill as fast as I possibly could when it didn’t feel fast to me, it was just.. And I also couldn’t feel the pushback and nose dived or nose dove, whatever the proper term is, and I fell and caught myself with my wrist guards and it like skinned them up real bad and I’m like, man, I would’ve been real bad if I hadn’t had this wrist guards. Then what happened which brings me to You never borrow any wrist guards But I had to borrow your XR for Lincon so that Landon could ride the Pint and he and I would each have one. And so I also took your wrist guards that day and then of course they were always wearing helmets and I had elbow pads and knee pads from mountain biking that I put on the boys. Lincon had fallen and hurt his elbow without pads so I was like you gotta wear the pads from now on. And then I saw the wrist guards and Landon was over there somewhere, I told the story on go Mythical more and so I was like well, I got this pair of wrist guards Lincon put these on. Well, turns out I put the only pair of wrist guards that I borrowed from you on the wrong kid. Yeah And yeah, Landon, we were going off road and Landon was getting pretty good at it and then he just got tossed. I saw it all happen. And he said he hurt his wrist and I said, you know, just like just wait a bit and we’ll walk back Wave it off And then we took the dogs out for a walk later. He didn’t seem like he was complaining too much. I took him out to dinner later. He said he was having trouble using his hand to get the food on his folk Yeah He’s having to use the other hand. And then his mum came home from whatever she was at, late after Landon was in bed. His mom, your wife? Yeah. And then the next morning, we wake up to Landon by the bed telling his mom, how much his wrist hurts. And I didn’t tell her anything had happened. So that’s how she found out that.. And she was like you need to take her to urgent care and get him an X-RAY, which I did. And when the nurse came back in, I was pretty, you know I get nauseous and uncomfortable about potential breaks and talks of circulation and things of that nature. Talk of circulation So when the nurse comes Its pretty broad Comes in and says, yeah, we took a look at the X-RAY and his wrist is, just above his wrist it is broken clean in two, I started laughing. Yeah, every good father would But it was because I was so uncomfortable that’s… I just like, I can’t, that’s just the noise that comes out of me. And I didn’t remember this, but that’s just what Landon told me afterward, when he also told Christi His mom Yeah. He said that, you know, that the nurse said, “Sir, this is serious issue, this is not a laughing matter” I had a talk of circulation And I was laughing so much I was laughing so much uncomfortable that I didn’t hear her say that I just kept, kinda giggling. So yeah, he had a broken wrist and at this point, he’s still not released by the doctor to get back on the one wheel. But when he does, he’s got wrist guards. So he didn’t go the other day its just you and Lincon that went the other day. Yeah. Me and Shepherd went the other day it had like the best time that we’ve had I love it. Lincon and I had the best time going to the same place Well and then, funny thing going on like sandy trails off road and like, especially when you’ve got the proper protection wrist guards, elbow guards, knee guards, helmets. Well for me you have confidence The great thing about the off roading is, you don’t get as fast as you do on the pavement. So I actually feel, like I follow a lot more I fall off and then I just kind of run it out whereas when I’m on pavement, I get so fast I’m like, if I fall right now, it’s gonna be on pavement and that’s gonna be bad. And then the funny thing is, you’ve actually.. I think you’ve changed quite a bit because, you know I saw the advertisements for the new, the new ones, the GT and the Pint. The new Pint. And it was like, this new one the GT has more twork, more power and like that’s what I need. Oh, it has the treaded tyre that you can get, oh that’s what I need. Yeah Because I get on this trails and I’m just.. I get to this hills that don’t seem that steep and Shepherd, you know, weighs half as much as me he just goes right up, I get on them and I just bottoms out, like it can’t support me, I’m too big. And so, and then I tell you about it, oh you already bought one I got one coming. I’m like what? This man has gotten so loose with his cash Listen, yeah, I blame myself for the accidents that my kids have had. ‘Cause I, I’m getting another one. This is fun. Well and then what.. And I was like, okay, well I gotta get one now. So I got one of those and I’m like, We got them on order We’re gonna have six of those things we’ve got to like find a friend to just come along with us. You know the app, the app will tell you if other people in the neighborhood have it. You can meet up with strangers in one way. Yeah, I don’t wanna do that. Okay let me ride off, a few quick ones here. I got the Rapsador Mobile Launch Monitor, which is a way to keep up with how far your golf ball will go. All you do is hit it in a net and its reading the speed of the golf ball and figuring out like oh, you hit a six on this far. Oh it doesn’t say, oh you just hit a three foot into a net Yeah it tells you how far it would’ve gone. I gotta say I’ve had to back off of the, I purposely haven’t swung a golf club in about two months because I was convinced that it was causing my shoulder problem and unfortunately I think I was right. So I don’t know.. I’m having to re-evaluate my long-term future Oh did you get into mountain biking? Yeah, what I’m I gonna do? If I’m hurting myself golfing, what I’m I gonna do next. Mountain biking You know what? This is gonna be my recommendation. The Baseball Cap Carrier Case. Okay you’re like why do you need one of those? Okay so I was going… Is this what it sounds like it is? Its a way.. A plastic case? Its a way to put baseball hats in your luggage, you don’t have to worry about packing them perfectly Oh yeah so that they get messed up. When I was going back to North Carolina over the Summer, I was gonna be playing golf a few times with my dad and my brother and I wear a hat when I’m out in the sun like that. You need no one to be crinkled But I don’t wanna like, I don’t like having to then wear the hat on the plane and also there was like a couple of hats that I had. And I find this thing on Aamzon, the baseball cap carrier case and I’m like, this thing is perfect how was I, three to four baseball hats and you just put it in your luggage and you can’t, I mean you could step on this thing. Is it hollow under the back so you can still nest it on something or does it take up a lot of room. You know what I’m saying? It takes up the room of a stack of hats. It doesn’t come and… But where your head goes into the hat is that hollowed out No, no in the case? Its flat, the whole bottom is flat. Which makes it easier.. It makes it easier to pack. In some regard It looks like it takes up more space. Well, maybe you can make one of those. I don’t wanna make one of those in the Rosenbeck garden house. Okay, I’ve got two items that I bought because I have a 17 year old son. I have one more by the way. Oh you have one more? Yeah Okay, well I’ve got like.. I mean, I’ve got a few. And I’m just gonna rattle through, so if you wanna save yours for the last, to be the last thing. Okay You have these two by the way. Okay Save it for the end, we’ll be united in our purchase Okay, I share the blender with everyone but the people who use the blender in my house is me and Loc to make these protein shakes that we make. And he doesn’t clean up after himself. And so he’ll leave like some dirty.. Once you leave that blender bottle out a few times without cleaning it Yap It gets cloudy and nasty and you’ll never get rid of it. Right So what I decided to do is I was like, I’m gonna buy a replacement corough essentially but I’m going to use that one, and you’re gonna keep using the crappy one and you can do whatever you want to do to it. So now I have this blend tech corough Which you’ve hidden I keep it on the top shelf inside a cabinet and I literally, I use it, I make my smoothie, I wash it out immediately yeah yeah immediately I put it back there. You could use it as glasses. Its so clear compared to the other one that looks like its painted. This is a 70 I’m picturing you reading through a picture.. What are you doing? Are you looking at that blend tech corough? No I’m reading. And I also got a three pack of extra large shaker bottles. Congratulations You know what I’m saying because again, same thing, he uses my shaker bottle and I’ve got one, its like, the green one is mine I’ll be like, where’s my damn.. What is a shaker bottle? I don’t know what you mean. Its like a.. Shaking what? If you wanted to put a protein shake without using the blender Oh okay. Its what we put.. I mean we’ll shake like pre-workout or something in there but we also Okay just put the shakes in there. And you know how, I mean, this is typical dad but like you’re getting on the stairs and you make your smoothie and then you look.. And then immediately I just flip out, right? Because I’m just like, I know he just took my damn bottle and its like Yeah Its just one of the things You can’t have your own And so I go up there and its in his room and its got crap in it and it smells like something died inside of it. Smells meaty? Very meaty and so I bought the three pack. And I was like you can’t touch any of this. And I have three, just in case you end up touching one I got two more behind it. And I did this several times. Lightning cable, three foot, three pack Oh, good luck with that And USB wall charger with three inputs on it. Yeah yeah I don’t know how many of these, someone Eats them Someone is taking them and making like spaghetti out of them somewhere in our home. ‘Cause I was like, can’t we just have.. Like I want one kinda like, oh here’s a charger You’re moving towards just having your own house Yeah, that’s I’ve thought of this and then you got it like, there’s one that’s like behind the couch and has extra long cables Yeah So like hey I’m watching TV and my phone is about to die I plug it in, shut it down. Here’s one downstairs in the gym where we’re working out. Here’s one in the kitchen just inacase.. I had it all figured out. They end up taking them and I just have to keep buying them. I don’t know what I’m gonna do about that, I haven’t solved that other than just buying stuff. This is one, I’ve spent a second on it. I bought some tethers. I noticed that. I talked to Christi about it Yeah ‘Cause she has them I was like, is this a thing.. Well, first of all, somebody said that you’re supposed to say tethers. I don’t care. I’m gonna say tethers because that’s what I’ve always said. So.. Its the weariness This is very funny that you’re bringing this up ’cause we haven’t talked about this. So, I can’t remember where I was, I think its when we ran keywest and I like had my flip flops and I’m thinking about the fact that we’re going to.. We’re gonna spend some time in mexico over the holidays. And having like a shoe that you can wear when you’re like, we’re going and doing like some outdoor activities and I don’t wanna wear those like water shoes that are like close-toed that we had, remember like the ones that we had and everybody got one and we went to Figi. I think you’re talking about kins, which are like the REI version of like water shoes. They’re like closed, I know what you’re talking about. I’m talking about the ones that are more like sock-like. Oh, well that, of course not that’s like.. And so I was like, and so I have a bias of gifts dumb child at a wave pool type of situation I have a bias against sandals that are not flip flops, okay? I don’t like.. Jessie is like, you need to get bucket socks I’m like I don’t like the way bucket socks look. And she was like you can get some tether socks I was like, I hate the way tethers look like I’ve never seen somebody in tethers Bucket socks are like hipy but tethers are like granola Right, but here’s the thing, I have a bias against them. And I told Jessie, I was like, if I get these, and I wear these around Link, it would be the first thing he talks about when he sees me. Its funny ’cause, there’s a clip going around about, there’s an interview with Larry David from years ago Oh yeah, the one that Simon Folks says when he walks in the room he’s gonna talk about your shirt. And me and you have that kind of thing where we’ve judged everything that you could possibly wear and we’ve come to a bunch of conclusions about them. Yeah And so I think that tethers look dorky I can’t, I think they look dorky on me I cannot get.. Whether you’ve got socks on or not. When I put them on, and Jessie is like you don’t understand, they’re not dorky anymore and if they are, that’s what makes them cool, right? And so she’s basically telling me this. I put these tethers on one night, we go to Pasedina You went out To go eat and I’m walking around in these things. And I’ve also got on like, some like this cotton pants that like a drawstring kinda thing, I feel stupid the whole time. But I’m feeling great. Like I feel like I look stupid, but I’m like I keep this leaning on her like I think I might be a tether guy. Like this are incredible. The fact that they don’t flop, they feel so secure but my feet are breathing, I’m like, I kinda think that regardless of how this things look, maybe I’m just a tether guy now. Damn. Christi wore these at Disney Land both days and here I am taking off my shoes and socks in a public place Oh its revolutionary And I was like, are the straps kidding you? No no no She’s like my feet are great There’s nothing, it feels good the whole time. I go into a coffee shop Jessie is like lets get a couple of decaffs. I’m like, i’ll go in, I go in, I go to the counter just some random coffee shop on Colorado in Pasadena. And the barista says, hey, you look like you’re from Colorado She literally said that. Yeah. Of course he did. I mean the hair, the beard Yeah yeah yeah and the tethers. And so I was like, Yeah the tethers wrapped I was like, thank you. I’m gonna take that as a compliment. She says I love Colorado. But I gotta say, You know I’m from Colorado, I just listen to my wife I gotta say, that you’re gonna be seeing the tethers more often. And I think that there is a way to trascend in my mind and like I’m kinda getting through this sort of like, there’s this sort of like guys from the south kinda bias that we have against.. We are thinking of tethers in a certain way that I’m just trying to let go of. But me and you.. I know We used to wear flip flops all the time like on television, like commercial kings we’d be walking around with… No. Yeah and also like I know we didn’t get them anyway And also like looking for Mrs.Waklare were walking around with flip flops and jeans and its like, it looked horrible. That looked horrible Yeah And we did it, we thought it was cool. It kind of an anti climatic ending down there. I mean when I looked at you, the only time I saw you wearing them, you were in lounge wear at your own home and I said you know what, I’m not gonna judge a man for what he wears in his own home. Only if I didn’t go out with them So I didn’t bring it up But you thought about it. I thought about them, Yeah But that’s what I thought, I’m not gonna judge a man in his own home, you know its like, I don’t know what he’s… I don’t know where this is going but.. I might be changing my rector Tevas and Tevas if that’s how you say it. And you know what, I mean after the Disney Land air and out situation, but now, we also have this thing which is like if you have a thing we can’t both have tethers Now that can’t be my thing. Is it your thing? And now I can’t, are you boxing me out? I got the tethers before you But Christi got them before you I mean my wife is really pushing bucken socks. And all these arguments about bucken socks, I thought bucken socks were equally ugly, I can’t do it I thought they were equally ugly, but they were comfortable to me. The tethers I feel like, I can do anything, do anything and now I’ve got this platform on my feet, okay, we’re about to run out of time we actually have some place to be. But I have to say, The Continuous Water Mister This is another graphic novel? This is the follow up of “The Sex Criminals” No, its that thing, we actually have one here but I ended up getting one home Mr continuous water Its what I spray on my hair to get it to bounce back in for the curl to come back. A lot of people are asking, well what do you do? Well you spray it with a little bit of water. What doesn’t work, is wetting your hair, the mister, and you know what? You’ll be like, I need to hit my face with this, its like, you know when you go to the park and its really hot and you want one of those misters, Yeah You can have one in your hand, I highly recommend that. Put any water in it? Any water? Yeah you fill it up with.. You can use tap water if we have distilled water on hand, I’ll use that. Okay, but its refillable And the last thing, I’m actually skipping over some stuff just to spare you. The last thing, I’ll say, we also have this here, but I don’t know what I would do without it at home. The downy wrinkle releaser. The only reason I’m talking about this is because, the other day, when we were in the wardrobe room and getting ready for GMM, and Stevie walks in to ask her something, I’m like spraying this thing directly on my clothes and she looks at me and she’s like, you’re spraying yourself with fabriz? I know its not that bad. She didn’t know about the wrinkle release. And so I feel like I just have to tell the world that, there’s this spray, that if your shirt is a little bit wrinkly, and you don’t wanna steam it, and you don’t wanna iron it how it works? You just spray it lightly on it and then just, the wrinkles go away. You can get travel size, you know you people who are breaking out the ironing board in your hotel room I’m here in my Tevas just spraying myself with water on my hair and wrinkle release on my clothes. I’m from Colorado. See but were both, were plat boys today. Neither one of us is their thing. Its not yours or mine. I think you can also wear tethers. I think there’s definitely multiple situations. There’s probably whole tethered families at Disney that you just didn’t, you weren’t thinking about it. I wasn’t . The last thing I was gonna mention was, The Aura Ring. I didn’t buy a lot of crap, but that was a big thing that in full disclosure, we invested in Aura Ring After buying it independently and being satisfied with it. Well you got this because, the NBA players were wearing it monitoring their heart rate and their health and stuff and all the COVID of it all, but then its just like, all the biometric measurements in this ring are, they’re more in depth and more accurate than the biometrics on my watch that I also still enjoy and wear because it.. And you can also try I think Yeah, Keko also got one You got the Aura Ring you like it? I love it. Yeah we’re investors Yeah we, I just ordered the next generation which constantly monitors your heart rate, not just while you’re sleeping. But I love the way that it connects with the app and it like tells you what your readiness is, and it kinda gives you permission to take it easy If you need to Well they’re saying that the app will tell you to do that The reason that I love it is that, it basically lasts like a week on a charge whereas, I wear the apple watch quite a bit but like I’ll get ready to go to bed, I’m like man I gotta charge this thing and then so.. Yeah I mean, its technically four to seven days the ring will hold the charge and you would need to charge it during the day so that you could wear it while you’re sleeping. But it also charges in like 30 minutes Yeah it charges faster. I used it this past week, when I’m trying to make sure like having something tell you that you got all the sleep that you needed and that this was the nature of your sleep, Yeah For me, it gave me this like, assurance that okay yes, you’re doing all you can to keep from getting sick as your family drops like flies. The way it works with the app and the way that it communicates with you and optimizes your exhautions and your resting is.. I would say.. Is much more holistic than with the watches Your question about the tethers, I mean two guys who are best friends who both have a ring on their right hands that looks pretty similar. We have different models but essentially its just like.. I think that that’s probably more like, those guys both have rings. Now if we had the rings and the tethers at the same time And the plat And the plat, I mean And the beard I mean listen, I’m heading towards.. Here’s the deal, I’m not gonna get rid of the beard, I cant You’re eventually gonna grow a beard, I mean eventually at some point, right? Yeah we know where this is going I’m gonna get glasses at some point I mean We’re becoming one person Its gonna happen We fought it and we’re no longer caring so it is actually going to happen Yeah So that’s all the stuff that I bought, and some of the stuff that Christi bought that I took credit for. And that’s a third Not even a third, that was probably a tenth but it was inconsequential like spirelina and you know, I didn’t mention, that was one, you know got some of that, got a whole bag of it. Okay, #EarBiscuits let us know what you think about what we bought. To watch more Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist on the right. To watch the previous episodes of Ear Biscuits click on the playlist to the left. And don’t forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe. 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