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’re going to do something that we haven’t done in a while. And we’re gonna go down the rabbit hole. Yes, yes. This is when we take like a subject, topic and we’ve brought nothing, we’ve brought nothing except ourselves into this. Nothing. And no holds barred we are going deep into the rabbit hole based on a topic that is generated. Let’s link arms and dive in. We’re not going yet. I’m already gone. Well I’ll join you in the rabbit hole in a second. This is the last time that I will say something about your glasses. These are my anything go glasses. But I just, you know, you’ve made this decision. I am coming to terms with it. You can do whatever you want. It’s your face. But I am looking at it. Yeah. I think, I do. They’re just glasses. I think they’re cool. I think they’re cool glasses. Thank you, man. It’s got, you know, you got good you made a good fashion choice. As the wise philosopher once said “Can’t nobody tell me nothing.” Okay, I don’t know who that was. The wise philosopher. Just the last thing I’ll say is that there are gonna be people who stumble upon this video and other subsequent videos in which you wear these glasses and they will come to conclusions that you then may have to either confirm or deny or steer them away from. If people want me to rest as anything. Can I put ’em on for a second? Anything in there. Yeah man. Let me just put ’em on for a second. Yeah, you’ll see what’s up. Just so. You’ll see what’s up. They’re light. I’m just saying. That’s cool, man. All I’m just saying is that, first of all, I can’t see. Now I know what’s happened. Your left eye is not great, your right eye’s okay. I’ve beat you to it. That’s what you’re saying. You can’t wear these glasses. Well, no, no, I’m not gonna wear these glasses. In fact, I keep thinking I’m gonna have to get glasses and my vision just keeps going, so. I think those look just bomb ass on you, man. Right. It’s too bad they’re mine. They do. My question is, if I wore these glasses what would you say to me if I was the one who had worn these glasses first? Because, let’s be honest you’re definitely the one who points things out on people a lot more than I do. Right, right, right, let me, give me a few. Fashion decisions. Hey, gimme some time to think about your question so I can come up with an answer. The exact same thing you’re saying to me. Gimme my glasses back. But people are drawing conclusions about me now. What conclusions are they drawing? That guy’s got some bomb ass taste, man. I mean, some people might be saying that. And he got some balls to back it up too. Hmm. Do you think a guy rides a loud motorcycle’s got big balls? Usually, I think it’s compensating for something. I like the way these glasses look. I like the way these glasses feel. I like the way these glasses make me feel about myself. You don’t have to defend the choice of glasses. Oh, I’m not defending it. I made that clear. I am establishing it. I told you, this is the last time I’m ever gonna talk about ’em. You should get some, man. You know what? I’ll get you a pair. I’m gonna get sunglasses that you can’t see my eyes. What are you gonna do about that? See, you can see my eyes that’s the great thing about ’em. Yeah, you can from some angles. There’s a video version of this show over on YouTube if you’re only listening to this you can wait you can wait six days. You can watch it on the Ear Biscuits YouTube channel. You can watch me from behind my glasses. We’ve heard that the young kids, they prefer to watch. They will not, are we right about this? We’ve been told that the young people have to see who’s talking. I mean. Or else I guess they just don’t know who’s talking. I don’t understand it, because. All the podcasts on Spotify are gonna be pushing for video. That’s what I’m hearing here. But do you watch? No. I do things while listening to podcasts. I’m driving, I’m working out, I’m walking. I walked last night. I didn’t listen to a podcast, I listened to a book, but. Cool. I don’t understand. What are they doing while they’re watching? I drive, I bike, I don’t watch people talk. What are they doing while they’re watching? What are they doing? Getting another layer of, I mean we’re kind of proving their point right now. Another layer of entertainment. What are they doing right now? ‘Cause they’re not just listening or watching a podcast. They’re also, “I’m also studying.” You can’t do both of those at the same time. If you’re trying to do your homework and you’ve got this on in the background. First of all, you know what? Yeah, you should do that. I have split interests here. Yeah. Because I want people to watch. We need the views. But your education is important. You’ve gotta focus on your freaking schoolwork. No, you’ve gotta develop. Reward yourself. Develop the ability to do what I can’t which is two things at once. Listen to a podcast and study. Use different parts of your brain. Like, divide it up. Do it. I don’t think anybody can do that. Do it. So, how do you wanna do this? Hey, hey, hey, don’t touch my computer. How do you wanna do this? I can’t let go now. Well, we used to do a thing where like there would be something written on a envelope and we’d open it up. But that was just a waste of paper. So, I’ve gone to conversationStarters.com. Oh, it looks like a great website. It’s great graphic design at the top especially. ConversationStarters.com. Is this like, you’re really apprehensive on your first date and you’ve got conversationstarters.com down there below the table at Chili’s and you’re kinda looking down. Yeah, right. “Like, what are you looking at?” “Oh, just.” Oh nothing. Just seeing what time it was. It’s time for me to start another conversation. Completely unrelated to the previous one. I also, just so you know. Oh man. I’m having so much fun already. I also. It’s probably the glasses. Well, I was going to capitalizemytitle.com. What? Because when you search random topic generator or topic generator capitalize my title. What is that? Is the first one that comes up but I don’t even understand. Like if I were to go to what it is, just. What? Dude, that’s an ad. X out of the ad. Do I need to teach you how to browse the internet? But why is? No. But why is capitalize my? I clicked on the homepage. So now I’m at capitalizemytitle.com. And it just says, “Making title capitalization easy. Automatically capitalize and case convert to title case.” Oh. I. Yeah that’s great. When you’re just writing stuff out in all a lower case and then you’ve gotta like. And you have a really long title that you can’t just edit. This is like a subtitle. You’ve gotta subtitle that also. But there’s lots of ads on it. I hate having to capitalize every word in a title. It’s exhausting. But if I could just paste it into a website and then it spits it out and then I paste that. That’s a lot. Well. A lot easier. Now you can do that at capitalizemytitle.com. You could also get some Nikes based on the ads. Two Nike ads. Go to random generator. So. But I am gonna use that capitalizemytitle.com. But I’m going to conversationstarters.com. Conversationstarters.com. I like the vibe. The big brother to capitalizemytitle.com. Okay. I’m gonna generate a topic. Generate a topic. Now we’re not gonna start talking about this topic unless we both agree that this is something worth talking about. But when we do, my vote is you just keep talking and you see where the rabbit hole goes. And if you get to the bottom of that rabbit hole maybe you start a new conversation. Mhmm. But. Maybe you curl up and die. What is the biggest priority in your life right now? Oh gosh, seriously? No, no, no. What’s the biggest priority in my life right now? Don’t answer it. Don’t even begin talking about it. It’s a dumb question. Yeah. What is your favorite dessert? Who do you think we are? What’s your favorite dessert? A couple of guys who eat food on the internet? Conversationstarters.com don’t ask that question on a date because what if they don’t have the dessert at the restaurant? What if Chili’s doesn’t serve that dessert? Right. What is this, a AMA comprised of only middle schoolers? “What’s your favorite dessert?” What did you do on your most recent birthday? Man, I don’t remember. Poolside. Yeah, I do. Did I talk about it here already? Yeah, kind of. We probably already talked about that. What is the first thing you do in the morning? I don’t wanna talk to you about that. God this site sucks, man. Do you recycle? Do you recycle? All right, let’s talk about this, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you recycle? I think this is a great opportunity for us to talk about things that we don’t really understand. Which is my favorite stuff to talk about. ‘Cause I have feelings about this because we just received something on our trash can. Yep. Did you receive it as well? Yeah, a bucket. Did you get a bucket on top? You’ve got a freaking bucket on top of your trash can. Yeah, they’re doing this in Los Angeles? But then, I think this is a good thing. Yes. This is a good thing, dude. Why are you angry? So, there’s. I don’t know how to use it yet. I think it’s a scam. So it must be an LA county thing. Had a ring at the doorbell. I go up to the door and I open it, and. You had a doorbell ring? And down there, like in the middle. Not right at the door. Even further out than where they would normally drop a package. Package droppers are pretty good about putting it behind the flower pots and stuff like that. Getting it close. So it won’t get stolen. Yeah. This bucket. And I would say it was kind of squarish. Probably 10 inches square. 14 inches tall. 14 inches tall. It’s a pail. It’s got a. I think it has a handle and it has a lid. It does. Squarish. It has like stickers around it. Did you read the instructions? Not yet. Oh, I did. Me and Jessie had a whole conversation about this thing. I keep meaning to but I was like I’m not ready for this burden. Well, I’m about to blow your mind. So it’s a compost bucket where the. I wouldn’t call it a compost bucket. That would be an overstatement. It’s a plastic bucket. I would call it a bucket. Made of plastic. That is for food waste. And you’re supposed to put your food waste in it because, as we know. The pigs need to eat it. But because if you start putting a bunch of food waste in the landfill, it creates methane. Methane. It’s not good for the environment, so. Whereas if you did the right thing with food waste you can turn it into soil. There’s actually products. I know of at least one product out there that you can, you can get like a highfalutin machine that will turn. Yeah. It was a sponsor of ours. Yeah. I don’t know if it’s out yet, but yeah. I’m gonna give you the instructions and give you some additional information. Yeah. ‘Cause I was talking to Lando about it. I was like, what do we do with this bucket? Cause my chief question was do they pick it up every week and dump it out? I’m gonna tell you. And is this a different truck? If you let me tell you. Like the taxes going into this. I’m gonna tell you. I mean this is. I think this represents progress. I think this is a good thing. So I feel positive about it. I feel good about it. I don’t know how to feel about it. And I’m gonna tell you in a second why I don’t know how to feel about it. But you’re right that it has to do with methane Or meethane if you’re British. I am not. And it has to do with the fact that methane is a greenhouse gas. They gotta make it all about them Is a greenhouse gas that while there’s not nearly as much methane released on a daily basis, it is much more of a greenhouse gas. The magnitude per like metric ton of methane. The impact in terms of greenhouse gas is much higher. So it takes a little bit of methane to make a lot of bad stuff happen. Okay. Compared to. Compared to CO2. I was also thinking why is this the thing that they’re talking about? And again, I am an environmentalist and I believe in the. I believe in the science behind global warming, climate change. And I think we gotta start, you know. We should have a long time ago started doing things. So I believe in this in theory. I’ll tell you why I’m questioning it in a little bit. But what you do is you put your food waste. And it has a list of acceptable food waste. Liquids are not included in the food waste. Like you can’t put liquid in there and you can’t pour your milk in there and you can’t put your grease in there. So we’re talking. Right Like actual organic food waste. Banana peels, eggshells are the two things Lando told me. I don’t know about meat and bones, but I doubt. I doubt you can put that in there. It’s all on the thing. But what you do is you take a plastic bag. And it said you can use any plastic bag. Including the ones that you get from the grocery store. Okay. And you put, you line the bag with a. You line the bucket with a plastic bag. Then you take that you tie it up and you throw that whole plastic bag into your green bin. What? Your yard waste bin. Yard waste bin. And so Jessie and I were talking about this. So we have we have three bins just so you know. We got a black bin. That’s the naughty trash. We’ve got the blue bin, which is the recyclables. Turns out there’s a lot of you can’t put in there that you thought you could. And then now there’s this little bucket that is a temporary container for a bag that holds food waste that goes into your green yard waste bag. Yeah. So like. With leaves and limbs and shit. If you cut a bush up on your property and you put those limbs in there. Yeah. It goes in there with those. So this leads to. This leads to a question. What? Which Jessie asked, she’s like “Well that’s a really messy job for somebody”. So somebody is sitting somewhere with a plastic bag which is plastic bad. We know plastic is bad right? Now I will, Every couple of trips to the grocery store ask for plastic bags because I use those plastic bags for things at home. Mhmm. You know, like if I’m traveling which I have a tendency to do. I take my kit we call it. Like toiletries bag. We call my dad called it a kit. So that’s what I ended up calling it. Okay. And I put that because it has some liquids in there. I put that inside of a plastic bag and. A second layer of safety. Because of what happened to your clothes. Yeah. When we were visiting Chicago like 15 years ago because I had a very, very greasy pomade. Murray’s pomade. And we decided to combine suitcases. Like somehow it got put in my suitcase. Yeah. And it exploded all over my stuff, man. Let me just say that the idea to pack one suitcase was probably Mr. Frugal’s idea. That was not my idea. Yeah. Yeah. But the idea to bring the Murray’s pomade and the idea to put the Murray’s pomade in my hair. It’s not necessarily made for my type of hair but I wore it for many years. It like melted and spilled out. ‘Cause it’s not a screw top. And it leaked onto how many of your shirts? Like a lot of stuff. Everything I was wearing, man, Everything I brought. Give or take. So I’m sorry about that if I haven’t apologized before. You probably didn’t. But that is why. I think I did. That is why. And I might accept your apology one day. I put things in a plastic bag. And I do other things with plastic bags. But so somebody is sitting at the center where the yard waste comes and every day up until before this thing they just been like, okay, yeah. Leaves and stuff. And every once, you know, somebody’s doing some dumb . Every once in a while the guys who are collecting the yard waste are like, ah somebody put one of them poop bags in here from the. Oh, from the dog. Somebody on a walk, you know? Okay. That’s the thing. That’s helping me make sense of this because they’re already doing the work. ‘Cause first of all, they take the green bin and just like the blue and the black ones a specified truck comes by picks it up and dumps it all into the truck. So it’s not like someone walks up to and takes starts picking at it right there in front of your house. It’s just like every other truck. And when it gets to the facility yes, somebody is already picking through the yard waste stuff to get out the stuff that shouldn’t have been in there. So now they’re gonna be a lot busier. They’re getting these bags and then what are they doing with these bags? And then who’s the next person who gets the bags? And they get bags that are just full of rotten food? Yeah. And then, now we’ve got this which leads me into the next thing which is the reason that I think this might be a scam. It’s not a scam. Is what do you do with those dirty plastic bags that got stuff all in them? Because what I’ve been told. You can’t recycle dirty plastic. You can’t recycle dirty plastic. And now we’re just putting a bunch of dirty plastic into the green bin? Tell me what I’m missing. We need to take a tour. Because I was also told that they’re not actually recycling stuff anymore. Yeah. They just ship it to China and then China buries it. They’re like, “Oh yeah this makes you feel good.” Now again. We don’t know. I am saying I want them to recycle. I think they should be recycling. I’m gonna choose to recycle. I’m gonna choose to follow the system. But I have my doubts that the system is actually doing the thing that the system promised to do. Well it’s experimental. So what do you? Like, okay. I’ve gotta look this up. I’m gonna look this up. What do you do with peanut butter? Compost bucket. If you get done with a peanut butter do you lick inside of it out? Do you put your peanut butter in the dishwasher thereby using energy to get the remnants of peanut butter out? Yeah, I’ve washed it out. You washed out the inside of a peanut butter before you put it in the recycling? A few times. And that was in the. With what? Hot water? Hot water and soap because Lando did a whole presentation about this stuff. He’s the one who knows about recycling. When your kids start doing school stuff. Yeah. Then you start feeling guilty about everything. Well he came home and was like the enforcer. Well you gotta have one in every household. Yeah. He got on me about the peanut butter. “You can’t recycle this unless it’s totally clean dad”. So I started cleaning it. And then I was like you know what, after doing that twice, I was like now I’m just throwing it in the regular trash. Ooh. Because I recycle. We recycle a lot You’re a bad person. It’s just a lot of recycling ends up in the trash anyway is what I believed. Starting January 1st instead of throwing that container of fuzzy strawberries into the trash. This is the LA Times. A new law will require Californians to recycle their food scraps and other leftovers. Said of bill 1383, mandates that you toss organic material into bins you use for other green waste such as garden trimmings, lawn trimmings, leaves. This is part of a larger effort to reduce short lived climate pollutants, including methane. Meethane? And redirect organic waste. Your thane. From landfills back to the soil as compost or mulch. If you’re unsure about how to get started here’s some tips. Food that can be recycled. Coffee grounds, coffee filters, and non nylon tea bags. Fruit and vegetable scraps, even the moldy parts. Eggshells, used, slash, dirty paper food containers Paper food containers. Like if you get In-N-Out animal fries. That’s a paper container that’s greasy. Juice pulp, paper towels, and tissues. What? You can put paper towels and tissues and paper plates. What? Food that can be recycled includes paper plates. Well I’ve been eating my paper plates for years. So that tracks. Some cities accept more food items. For example, Santa Monica also accepts meat seafood scraps and dairy products. Check with your local municipality. Does it say what happens to it? I’m scrolling. What happens to it? Now I am right about this plastic bag part, right?. It doesn’t say what happens to it? Brian, did you see that? You do use the plastic bag, right? Because that’s, in my mind we had that conversation and Jessie was like, yes, you can use because it said grocery bag. Yeah. That just, that part doesn’t make sense to me ’cause why can’t I just take the raw stuff and just throw it in there with the bushes? I guess ’cause they don’t want the bushes to be mixed up. What do they do with the bushes? They’re doing a different thing. And the grass? And if you’re concerned about odors you can layer the food with saw dust or line it with paper towels. Is that really gonna do it? You can also put the container in the fridge or freezer. So you. So that’s why the bucket is so small. So you can put it in your freezer? Does it say anything on there about the bag? The simplest method is putting the scraps in a brown paper bag and putting it in your freezer. And then figure out where you want that to go after. Like the farmer’s market. What? See, we should be composting stuff in our backyard. But we’re not doing that. All right, so that’s LA. That doesn’t say. What happens? Doesn’t say anything about the bags, though. What should I Google? What happens? What happens next? Just Google “what happens next”? We all need to know. California compost law. Everything you need to know. So alright. This should include everything we need to know. We need to know what happens next. Where will all the compost go? Click. I just wanna make sure that I haven’t complicated things for the compost people because. All organic waste will be converted back soil-like compost and used for agriculture. Let’s explore some other options for managing your food waste. Now this doesn’t have everything you need to know. Yeah. That’s definitely not everything I need to know. You know what? This is actually an ad for Lomi. Which is the freaking. I got tricked. I got tricked into clicking on the Lomi website which is. Man, that. And then the number one thing you can do use an electric composter. And then up here it says get Lomi. Which is a sponsor on GMM. But it ain’t a sponsor here so we’re gonna move on. But that is something you can do. Use an electric composter. I don’t know what happens to it. Pizza boxes cannot be recycled. But can they now go in this compost? They won’t fit. They’re too big for the bucket. But is cardboard a paper food container? You can put the pizza boxes in the blue bin. Oh yeah, you can. You can? But not if there’s still pizza. Long as there isn’t cheese on it. Yeah, yeah. If you’re getting good pizza it’s got cheese on it, man. I mean the cheese has been sticking to things. Well, Fox 11 says banana peels chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trash cans under the new under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program. Yeah. I wanna know what they do with it. They’re just telling us what to do with it in all of this stuff. I think they do what you said they do with it. They’re gonna take it and they’re like. They’re gonna go through it and they’re gonna make it into soil. We’ve got all this organic material that now is going to be used in agriculture versus just rotting in a landfill somewhere and giving off meethane. I remember one time, do you remember when we were in Asheville, North Carolina? It may have been for Bury Me Naturally on Commercial Kings. Uh huh. We met a guy and his name was like Whistle or something like that, you know? It was like one of those guys that sort of just like lives on the street of Asheville. An old guy. Whistle. Sort of a hippie. I don’t think it was Whistle but it’s like, he had a name like that. He said, “How much trash do you make?” He said, “How much trash do you make?” I remember he asked that question. “How much trash do you make?” And I was like, I don’t know. A lot. And he was like, and he held up a bag and it was the same size as the pail that you’ve already described. Yeah. 10 by 10, probably 14 inches tall. He’s like, ‘This is all the trash I generate in a year.” And he just holds it for a year? I think he was about to throw it away. Wow. He caught him at a perfect time. It’s been one year. So he was making a point. But I will say, I think about this often. Okay. So this is the part of this that bothers me. And I think the reason that this conversation kind of like it makes me feel uncomfortable because I mean there have been times, a few times actually where we might, you know, we have people over for parties or whatever. Game night. And you feed people and you all of a sudden you generated more trash than you typically would as a family in those weeks. Yeah. Sometimes we can barely. One week. Seven days of four people living in America. Plus their friends living it up at their house a little bit. Yep, yep. Fills up the entire trash can. Oh yeah. And then the recycling sometimes is filled up and sometimes I’ll be like, okay we’re gonna have to just put this in a bag and hope they also take it ’cause it won’t fit. Or we’ll put it in a bag and leave it next to the trash can or leave it up there and then they’ll take it and then we’ll put it, you know, we’ll overflow into the next week. Right. My point is, it’s clear if you just do the math, right? This is totally unsustainable. So much trash. That just a little family of four is making that much trash in a week when Whistle is over there in Asheville making this little bag. And then of course, if you start, if you compare what the waste that we’re generating to a developing country it’s gonna be a whole lot less per capita. Like if everyone was living the way that we were living it would just be absolute mayhem. But it kind of is mayhem. Have you been to a landfill? Yeah, I did. It stinks. Well, should we just dig a hole? Yeah. We just dig a hole. We keep digging a hole and throwing stuff in it. And I, me and my family, we’re adding trash that weighs more than all of us put together every single week. I mean, I, I’m, every. I can’t defend myself. It’s like, how do you do that? What do you say? I mean, I’m filling up my recycle bin every week. I’m putting on my boots and I’m getting. I’m climbing up in it and jumping up and down to get as much into the recycling as possible. Like I couldn’t recycle more unless I got a second bin. Which I guess I could do. But now I’m gonna do this food waste thing. And by the way. This is still the Fox site. They’re talking about somebody in Davis. Davis, California already has a mandatory food recycle program and Joy, a mother of three puts all of her cooking scraps into a metal bin labeled compost on her countertop. When preparing dinner she empties excess food from the cutting board into the bin, et cetera. After a few days she dumps the contents into her green waste bin outside that is picked up and sent to a county facility. Unpleasant countertop bin smells haven’t been a problem. All you’re changing is where you’re throwing things away. It’s just another bin. It’s really easy. And it’s amazing how much less trash you have. Hmm. I mean the thing about throwing away trash is that when you get that food stuff in there boy, that stuff starts to ooze out and you might you get animals showing up. You know? Yeah. I’ve had my trashcan knocked over Decimated. Four or five times since I moved to where I’m at. Raccoons By something. I think it might be a team of raccoons in a trench coat. Because I don’t know how they get the damn trash can over. But it seems like they’re not putting it in a bag. In Davis at least she’s dumping. Yeah. Yeah. I gotta reread it. She dumps the contents directly into the green waste bin along with all of the other stuff. So the plastic bag thing is, I don’t know. It feels like it might be wrong. That may be your misunderstanding. Well, you know, I’m gonna say my wife was the one reading it so I’m gonna blame her. But I’m gonna read it tonight. We almost perpetuated it. We’ll do another. We’re gonna do another question after we talk a little bit about Good Mythical Evening. Good Mythical Evening is September 1st. It is an R rated live event. Watch it as it happens as we go full R. Exclusively on Moment House. Yeah, it is. I’m telling you, you should be there for it. I have promised I’m gonna be there. That I think we all know. We’ve talked about the fact that Link took us all a little off guard last year with getting a little too intoxicated. And I was like, do I need to hold down the fort? And I made the decision to hold down the fort. And Stevie was very thankful and let me know that. But I’ve let Stevie know that she is the only person who will be holding down the fort this year. So, you know, I think the question is gonna be are you going to try to outdo yourself? Because there could be a line that you don’t need to cross. Are you gonna try to outdo yourself or am I gonna just meet you at the place that you were? Are you gonna try to separate yourself? It could get a little tricky if that’s your mentality. Especially if you got those glasses on. Wouldn’t you like to know? But there’s only one way to find out and that’s to watch Good Mythical Evening when it happens. Goodmythicalevening.com. You got to buy a ticket. Goodmythicalevening.com. We talked enough about recycling and stuff. Composting. We’ve talked too much about it. I believe in it. I’m just gonna say it stresses me out, man. We’re blazing a trail. There’s still plenty of places on earth and in America in many counties that they don’t recycle and there’s no recycling bins. Well, there’s plenty of places. If you see one of those videos where it’s a literal river of plastic trash that’s probably not the US. I’m just gonna say it’s probably not the US. The US has got a lot of problems and the US is generating a lot of these problems. But we don’t have just rivers of plastic crap. That hasn’t happened yet. But anyway, we just gotta stop making that stuff. I think that’s the thing that’s frustrating is that the way that we talk about this is we talk about personal responsibility and we want every individual to do what they do their part, which I believe in. But when you are faced with a system where every single time you go to the grocery store 95% of the things that you’re gonna buy are gonna come in something that then creates trash. Every time you go out to eat, you’re gonna create trash. Like there’s larger systemic issues that you can’t just wait for every individual to make the right decisions. Like we have to have systemic change so that we all don’t. You can’t just rely on people to make all kinds of good decisions because people are gonna do what the easy thing is, man. People aren’t gonna wash their freaking peanut butter out. It’s a, yeah. I think you. Unless your kid does a project and they do it twice. It’s a both, and. I’m willing to accept increasing responsibility and education. As long as it happens on other levels. Conversationstarters.com, not a sponsor. Yet. Hit it. What’s the longest you’ve gone without sleep? What is the? Okay. All right. Okay conversationstarters.com. Oh man. What’s the longest you’ve gone? The AI heard us talking about it and was like, okay try this one on first size, boys. I mean, I definitely am on record saying that I never elected to pull an all nighter in college. Which is the first place I think that you’re gonna be apt to stay up all night. Except for that one time that we went snowboarding in the mountains and. That’s a good place to snowboard. And we. Yeah, it is. We went. So we had a. As opposed to the plains. We had to drive a number of hours. You start skiing at like 1:00 AM. The night ski at Hawks nest, same place. This was the the scenario under which I broke my pelvis and suffered the concussion. But I remember at a preceding time, we did it. You start skiing at 1. You ski from like 1 to maybe, like 1 to 4. Does that sound right to you? Night skiing. Night skiing. They got the lights on. I don’t believe you’re right about that. You think it’s done by 1? My best guess is that. It might be done by 1. Because first of all during the winter sunset is probably 5:30 or 6. Yeah. So I think it’s probably like 6 to midnight. Night skiing. Yeah. And then I think, I think you might could go to 1 and then it’s kind of over. ‘Cause they gotta make snow at some point. And then we had to drive back and maybe stopping at the Waffle House and all that stuff. By the time I got back I did not sleep. I went straight to class. And I just remember being in my medieval history class and I could not stay awake. And I was taking notes and I literally was able to look back at my notes and see the moment that I fell asleep because. Like a movie it just became a squiggly line. Yeah. It’s just like a, yeah. The line just kind of squiggled down off the page and. That’s how I want to die. I was fighting. I was fighting so hard. Taking notes. You know, you just cannot stay awake any longer. That was. So I remember that being an all-nighter. I don’t recall that. I mean the most recent all-nighter was when we shot Hazel and we were fighting against the sun coming up. That’s right. So this is, in case you didn’t know this is the TikTok first. We released it on TikTok and then we put it on the Rhett and Link YouTube channel. But basically our horror, you know spending a night in the creative house kind of thing. Nobody watched it. But if you were there for it when it happened. It was awesome. You were thrilled by it. Which is great. We, obviously we stayed up all day ’cause that’s typically what we do. ‘Cause I’m not a vampire and I also don’t take naps. But then the night shoot rolled around and you know Ben had the shot list planned. Soon as it gets dark we start ’cause we gotta shoot in the dark. We had talked about potentially like doing blackout of the windows but we were trying to avoid that because it takes a bunch of time. Yeah. So it was, we had one night in the woods. Which did not take all night. And then the next night I believe is when we went back to the creative house and we were shooting all night in the house. And that’s the one that went all the way til the sun came up. Yeah so we actually kind of going on less sleep. I just remember the sun coming up. And that was when we were packing everything up and putting it back in the trucks and being very tired, but not being sleepy. My body was like, okay, well we missed that opportunity. And then I was like, I’m gonna go home. I don’t. Miss that opportunity what? To sleep To sleep. But now circadian rhythm is in play and your body’s like, okay, well now it’s okay. I guess another day is here. And I have such a difficult time sleeping during the day. I know I had to have. I don’t remember it but I had to have slept. You didn’t sleep during the day? No, no. I went home and slept for I think probably two hours and then woke up and was like I guess I’ll just, you know, I’ll never make up for this. I don’t think I’ve ever done more than that. What I’ve never done. ‘Cause obviously we did the same thing with all night long. All night long when we sang Lionel Richie’s All Night Long literally for 11 hours. All night long. It’s on YouTube. Check it out. Check it out, Brian. You didn’t know about that. That was from sundown to sunrise. And then again, same thing, like go home, go to sleep. That was easy because we were constantly Engaged. Occupied. And there were certain scenes with the Hazel thing, especially towards the morning. Like they were shooting something with you and then I had this downtime. And once you sit down and you get still that gets difficult. We had one all-nighter for Buddy System, too. Well, Buddy System also. It was season one. So yeah, we’ve had a few all-nighters, but neither one of us have ever been the type of person to say let’s just stay up all night and I can do that. You know, there’s people who can do that. Okay. I mean, I get. When I get really tired I start to feel like nauseous. It’s like my body just starts shutting down. Well, I’m about to scare you a little bit. You’re about to tell me it’s actually a good thing. You should be doing it on a monthly basis. No, no, no. Well, I read that book Why We Sleep which then I found out that at least some of the research that the guy had quoted in it was not right. And so I don’t know what part that was. I didn’t follow up. Okay. But one of the things he talks about is you basically don’t make up for it. Like you can’t, you don’t make up for lost sleep. Whatever the effects of missing sleep have, it’s you get those effects and they’re short term. And then of course compounding there’s long term effects. And like, one of the things he talks about is people who are chronically under sleeping. Like you hear people like Steve Harvey he’s one of ’em who will say like “I sleep four hours a day”. Yeah. Jay Leno says the same thing. And there’s this pride of you only sleep four hours. And this guy’s point was that yes there is a range of what people require but really nobody can get away with that little sleep. They’re suffering. They’re suffering consequences that are long-term health consequences. So when Steve Harvey’s mustache just falls off one day it’s probably ’cause he’s only getting four hours of sleep. That’s how it happens, huh? It starts with a mustache. Now there’s been a couple of times, you know I told you earlier in the year when I started struggling a little bit with insomnia and then I think I figured out that it had to do with the intermittent fasting thing I was doing. And that’s a kind of a common side effect but it didn’t go away for me. But because I’m a hypochondriac or I have whatever, health anxiety whatever the proper term is today. Okay. There was a point in which I was waking up and not being able to go back to sleep. And I thought that I might have fatal familial insomnia. What? Fatal familial? It’s a rare genetic degenerative brain disorder. Like you can’t sleep and it kills a family member? It is. Well, that can happen. It is characterized by an inability sleep. Insomnia. That may be initially mild but progressively worsens leading to significant physical and mental deterioration. Affected individuals may also develop dysfunction of the auto autonomic nervous system. The part of the nervous system that controls involuntary automatic body processes. Well, yeah, but. Basically. Why do you think you have it? I don’t have it. You just got scared. I wasn’t sleeping. I mean, it is a form of torture. I would hate. I hate it for the people who can’t sleep. Like that’s, it’s just. You’re not technically. It is literally a form of torture But you’re not listening to me. I’m listening to you. I’m not talking about somebody who can’t sleep. I’m talking about a disease in which you slowly lose the ability to sleep and invariably die. Gosh. You’re not listening to what I’m saying, bro. I’m not talking about insomnia. I’m talking about chronic insomnia that they do not have a cure for. And it happens to some people and they just freaking die. So you stay awake to death? Yes! Well, I heard you eventually. Man, that is a nightmare. And I’ve, you know, I hate to make. I’m not making light of it ’cause I thought I had it but somebody does, somebody does have it. They don’t know what to do about it. They can’t do anything about it. There’s no treatment for it. You can. I mean there’s gotta be like some high powered something to knock you out. I don’t think so. I think that you you’re. Whatever is in your brain that allows you to sleep. Oh gosh. Eventually just goes away. But what’s how long can you go without sleep before you die? That’s another question. Yeah. I’m not getting that one from conversationstarters.com. I got that one from my brain. How long can you stay awake without dying? ‘Cause you can go a few days without water. Right? Yeah I think. You can go a few weeks without food. If you’re not sleeping you need to stay hydrated. You need to eat 11 days. Yes. The longest recorded time without sleep is approximately 264 hours or just over 11 consecutive days. What? Now that person just probably fell asleep. I don’t know if they died. Hmm. And there’s like, you know you’ll have like mind or body altering drugs that will keep you awake in order to get stuff done beyond caffeine. Stuff I don’t even wanna know about. I mean, I love sleeping. There’s times when I get in the bed and I’m just like. I’ll just be so happy that I’m in my bed, I’ll just squeal. Yeah! I’ll just like wiggle up in there and just get snugly. But now that, these dogs. Like we got Jasper and Jade in the bed and they’re freaking. They move around and you know, we got these aura rings that track all of our movement and give me a sleep score every morning. And it’s very helpful information. And I hate to say it but it’s made me think that like the dogs don’t need to stay in the bed. You know? Because whenever they move around it makes me move my hand that has my ring on it. And then my sleep score lowers. I don’t know if I’m actually waking up. What is the nature? Where do they sleep in relation to you and Christy? And is it consistent? Jade sleeps on my right side in between my arm and my hip. Facing, her nose faces down and her butt faces my armpit. So I kind of like have my arm over her. ‘Cause you sleep on your back ’cause you got a special pillow. Yeah. I sleep on my back ’cause it’s the superior way to sleep. So I’ve trained myself to do it with my very uncomfortable. Brick of a pillow. Cylinder pillow. And then Jasper will he’ll burrow down to the bottom. And then in the middle of the night we’ll just hear him whimpering down there. He doesn’t know how to get out. Suffocating. No he is not suffocating. He just, I mean dachshunds are like burrowing dogs. They love to burrow down. But then he wants to get out and then I’ll have to wake up enough to lift the covers and then he sees the exit. Jade never had this problem when she was younger. Well, Jasper’s probably dumber. It’s cool. And then, uh, I think Jasper’s smarter. He’s just dumb in this area. Dumb in this area. And then he will climb up and he will go and he will lay above Christy’s head. Which can’t be good for her sleep. If she was sitting up and he was still in the same place it would be like she was wearing Jasper like a hat. This happens every night? Every other night he usually gets up there and perches as a hat on her head. Yeah, so that kind of is disturbing our quality of sleep. It’s more of a Jasper thing than a Jade thing. But then every four nights Jade will get up out of the bed and she’s thirsty. Oh yeah. She’s a Neal. She wants some water. And so I got a little mug of water I put in the bathroom but she won’t walk in the bathroom get it and just jump back in bed. She’ll get out of the bed and she’ll shake her head and flop flop flop flop flop her ears to wake me up so that I will escort her to the bathroom. This is obviously dysfunctional. Why don’t you put the water bowl next to the bed? I don’t know. I don’t know. It feels like that problem can be solved. That’s a good idea, Rhett? Like why does the water bowl have to be in the bathroom? Just put a little water bowl next to the nightstand on the side that she comes off of. And it could be a dog bowl instead of a human cup that I used to use when I brush my teeth. Yeah. We’re not really thinking strategically. It’s just a dog bowl and then she can also probably get a little swig right before she goes to bed. You know how you go months without thinking you have a problem and you just don’t stop and think strategically about it? Thank you for bringing me out of my stupor. That’s why we do this. I mean it’s kind of like parents who sleep with their baby in the bed. And then next thing you know their baby’s six years old and still in the bed. Alicia Silverstone. You know, it’s like, I mean, you got. Her kid is. At a certain point, who’s in charge here? Her kid’s 11. Now. Yeah. You get. Why don’t you say some? You got 11 year old in the bed. No, no. Why don’t you dig yourself a little hole? Let’s talk about Alicia Silverstone and her child who’s 11 sleeping in the bed with her and dig yourself a little hole. That’s what we’re here for. I just feel like you’ve got. I’m guilty of it. You’re. You. No. Well, I’ve never done that. I’m guilty of it with the dog. With the cup thing. So I’m not above reproach here. But there’s a certain point when you have to come to your senses and say, “who’s in charge here”? Who’s the parent and who’s the puppy? Who’s the, who’s the? We’re talking about children not puppies. Who’s clueless, and who’s an 11 year old human? Yeah. It’s like. I thought her. At a certain point they gotta be in their own bed. Okay. Tell that to all the parts of the world in which there’s a family bed that they all sleep in. Oh God, Rhett. Why? Why are you doing this to me? ‘Cause I’m just showing you. ‘Cause I think the same way as you. When I heard about Alicia Silverstone’s child sleeping in the bed with her at 11 I was like, well that kid’s gonna have X, Y, and Z. It’s never gonna be able to let go of the mom. I didn’t say any of that. I just said at a certain point, you need to sleep. But I’m just as guilty of it with a dog. No, but. Two dogs. But it was interesting. And I don’t think she made this. She didn’t care. She doesn’t care. She obviously doesn’t care. She’s been. There’s been a number of things Alicia Silverstone has done in relationship to her child. I like, the first thing was like, she did a. She was the mama bird feeder of the child. Like chewing the food and giving the food. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think. Don’t quote me on that. But I think that was the first sort of controversial thing and unconventional thing. And then it was the 11 year old. It was the most recent thing. Of course, if she would’ve been in Buddy System as was discussed for a brief moment. Oh yeah. We wouldn’t be having this conversation now because she would be friends and we would totally understand. I’m defending her. We’d be on her side. What I’m saying. She didn’t really defend herself ’cause she doesn’t care to. But in the article I was reading about it somebody was talking about the fact that there’s really no evidence that this is going to cause any particular problems with the child. The only thing you really wanna avoid is you definitely don’t want your. Just having your own life. I mean sleep means so much to me that it’s just like the kid will be okay in another room. I mean there’s exceptions to every rule but like in general. C’mon. I’m talking about the kid for a second. So yes. I’m not gonna let my kids sleep with me in my bed. Yeah. ‘Cause I want to be in my own bed and I wanna sleep. But if you’re thinking about it from their perspective what you really don’t wanna do is you don’t wanna have like a newborn baby in the bed because that’s where you roll over and you kill the baby. I mean that happens. Right? That’s horrible. Some people don’t know what’s going on and stuff. Yeah. But yeah, to me, it’s just like it’s more of a convenience thing. But the point that these psychologists were making is that, no, it’s actually not. It doesn’t necessarily mean that this kid’s gonna have attachment issues. We don’t know that. But we don’t have reason to think so. And also this is the way that many humans have slept together for many, many years. There was a family. Still in many places in the world. There’s like a family bed. There’s a place. There’s a room that everybody sleeps in. It’s like a den of everybody sleeping together. So, and I guess if you want to if you’re mom and dad, or mom and mom, and dad and dad and you want to have a little hanky-panky. Yeah. What about the hanky-panky? I think you go to a different place. Go to the kid’s room? They don’t don’t have a room. You go to the kitchen I guess. While everybody’s sleeping you go to the living room. Like that couple that was having sex in the living room that we were talking about last time. Oh yeah. Okay. Or a couple times ago. Whenever that was. Yeah. First let me just, back to sleeping. For a science fair project in 1965 Randy Gardner set the world record. A kid? By going 264 hours roughly 11 days, without sleep. Now, first of all. How old was? I don’t know who this Randy. If he. I mean, he wasn’t more than a high schooler probably. I mean Randy Gardner? Science fair? Do people do science? In the sixties were there adults doing science fair projects? ‘Cause I don’t know enough about this. But the sixties seems like the last decade in which a eighth grader could be making this decision. And everybody’s like, well, “Randy. You hear about Randy? Yeah. The Gardner boy. He’s been up for nine days.” You know, nobody’s worried about whether he is gonna die. They’re just getting ready to do a parade. You know in the sixties it was still like the last decade that you could really let Randy go 11 days without sleeping. Is he gonna die? “We don’t know if he’s gonna die, but you know what?” “He’s not gonna die”. “He’s doing this for the town”. “He’s doing it for the blue ribbon”. “He’s putting the school on the map”. Randy Gardner. This resulted in significant. This is risescience.com. Also not a sponsor. What happened? But the. What happened to Randy Gardner? I would just say, the web design on rise science is better than conversation starters. Meh. My two cents. Okay. This resulted in significant declines in his concentration, motivation, perception and higher level mental processes. All part of the experiment. A 2017 NPR interview with Gardner. Yes. Revealed signs of nausea. On the third morning? That’s a weird way to put that. You mean this many years later revealed signs of? You mean Randy told you that he was sick on the third day? That’s just a weird way to write it. On the third day of sleeplessness I got a little bit sick. Randy Gardner got a little nauseous. But I knew I needed to win. Most worryingly, he complained of memory loss which he felt like an early Alzheimer’s thing brought on by lack of sleep. An early Alzheimer’s thing? Well, you know. Oh. He’s not a scientist. He’s a kid who did a science project. In other words, the human body isn’t made to withstand sleep deprivation to any degree. I did a science project where I was talking about the environmental thing from the top of this conversation where we buried toilet tissue. Different types of toilet paper. And we saw the rate that it would biodegrade. Over the course of like a couple of months. Like none of them biodegraded at all. It was kind of a, it was kind of a short lived. So what did you conclude? Don’t bury your toilet paper. Hold on. Randy is still alive. Of course he is He lives in San Diego. How’s he doing now? How’s his nausea? He’s an American from San Diego, California. Okay wiki. Set the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep. In December ’63. I don’t think Guinness allows this record. They don’t certify it anymore because it does harm. You know? Yeah yeah yeah. So I don’t think they certify this type of record. 17 year old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes, breaking the previous record of 260 hours by Tom Rounds? I don’t, don’t go. I don’t wanna hear about Tom. No. He’s a loser. Oh, Tom. He’s clicking on Tom. Wikipedia is trying to get me to donate. I’ll do that on my own time, okay? Mm. Ooh. Tom Rounds was. Means he’s dead. He died in 2014. Was an American radio broadcasting executive. Founder and chief executive officer of Radio Express in Burbank, California. Okay. These people who staying up for. Hey man. We might be next on the list. These people who aren’t sleeping are in California. Southern California. Both of them. Yep. Tom Rounds and Randy Gardner. What about Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal? I think it would be a funny video for us to see how long we could stay up. Because it, but it only gets like you only need to show the last hour. You know? ‘Cause like that dozing off thing that you just do. That would be funny. Yeah. I think we could do something with that as a stunt. How long do you think you could stay up? Longer than you. Definitely longer. But like you can’t, like. No caffeine. You can’t have any substances to aid in your staying awake. It feels like it could be boring. I mean, this is what. Yeah. It’s edited. This is what Mr Rounds did. Tom, while in Hawaii, he, hoping to gain publicity for his new position as a disc jockey Mhmm. Set the world record for sleeplessness. The period of 260 hours awake was attained while Rounds was sitting in a department store window. This is awesome. Publicity stunt. Now I am remembering back in the burgeoning days of live streaming. Shay Carl and Charles Trippy ever the innovators of the time. Probably 2008. Mhmm. Maybe 2007. They did a 24/7 broadcast of them staying awake. 24 hours. No, as long as they could go to see who could go the longest between the two of ’em. Remember that? Ah, I think remember this. Cause I watched some of it. Okay. I’m gonna look that up. I don’t know who went longest. Charles Trippy, Shay Carl. We were down there in Lillington. Not sleeping. It looks like there aren’t many good matches for your search. I definitely remember this happening. It was like a Justin TV. I mean, Twitch didn’t exist. You know, Ustream type thing. I can’t find how long they went. But. That’s sad that it’s not anywhere on the internet. Randy did eventually recover. And according to news reports Gardner’s record has been broken a number of times. But there’s no official certification of it. I, you know, I take it back. I don’t want to have anything to do with this. Sleep is way too precious for me. You know? It’s just. It’s like time travel. That’s what I always say. One minute you’re in one day. Next minute you’re in the next day. That means you slept well though. If it feels like it like you know, anesthesia. The Australian National Sleep Research Project which is my favorite Australian national sleep research project. Okay. States the record for sleep deprivation is 18 days, 21 hours, and 40 minutes. So that’s another seven days. Wow. Almost another nine days. That is torture. I mean that is torture. It’s not gonna happen to me. But sleeping. I’m just like, I’m hoping it doesn’t happen to me. I think that. I don’t wanna lose my mustache. I think that the thing that I’ve been focusing on lately and I do think that it has a lot to do with us getting these rings. And also before that, like when I would wear that. I was wearing the apple watch and this and then it was kinda like, oh, I got two smart things. Oh, you’re kind of still doing it. Yeah. I’m doing two smart things. But I can only do one smart thing at a time. But it makes you more conscious of it. And I have to. I’m the advocate for sleep in my home. Now this is where I think that I have a little bit more of, some challenges built in. Because my impression is that Christy will fall asleep before you sometimes. Yeah. I mean, she’s still in summer mode. She’s staying up a little later now for some reason. What’s she do in the summer? She has a mint julep at night? What happens? What do you mean? She just stays up later. For the summer? For the summer. Yeah. Because of the light. ‘Cause of the light? I think, coming back from vacation and the kids still outta school she’s still like kind of with the kids in terms of staying up later. But I’m not. I’m back working it. My wife never goes to sleep before me. And I have to have these little sessions where I’m like Hey, you know? Can we try to go to bed before midnight? And she’s like, you can go to bed whenever you want to. And I’m like, yeah, but I’m a light sleeper and. Oh. I don’t. I can try to go to sleep before you do. But like you getting in the bed is gonna wake me up. Like, can we go to bed? Go to bed earlier? And you know, I’m making slow progress. But the other thing I was thinking about the other day was one of the. I follow a few different sort of like doctor accounts. Like doctor influencers. Like Rhonda Patrick and Andrew Huberman. Okay. Who, I think they both have their own podcast but. Who doesn’t? They have podcasts where there’s legit information that is given. Not just two guys with a laptop. And. Who are these two guys? They sound cool. But the one thing that she was saying the other day was she does a thing on her Instagram where she will be like, here’s the latest study about this thing and I’m gonna summarize it and tell you what you need to know about this. Okay. And it was a study of 6 to 12 year olds and how, basically, 6 to 12 year olds need to get a minimum of 9 hours of sleep. Preferably 9 to 12 hours. Wow. And if they don’t get at least 9 hours of sleep this study shows that they end up with memory issues attention deficit issues, impulse control issues. Basically the things that you kind of think about when you think about teens. But some of these things may be diagnosable as well. And I was just thinking two things. Number one. It’s too late for my kids. You know, it’s like. Too late for my kids. You know, because it’s very difficult to get Shepherd to have a sleep schedule. He won’t go to bed on his own. You eventually, like, sometime during the pandemic you know? Yeah. We eventually just kind of gave up on it. We’d fight sometimes. We’d go down the middle of the night. We’d find him like on the computer playing video games at like 3:00 AM. And we would discipline him. We would change. You do all the things to try to stop it. But he hasn’t gotten consistent sleep. Now that he’s like a teenager, at least during the summer he’s sleeping late. So maybe he’s ended up, ends up getting. I don’t know. But the thing I was thinking in addition to, well, it’s too late for me and my kids, was we live in a really interesting time in which we’ve got all this information. We know so many things. There’s so much. So many studies have been done. There’s still so much that we don’t know. A lot more that we don’t know that we do know. But, if I was. I feel like it would be different. It’s different to be. Like, if we were the typical LA 44 year olds who like, had a newborn. Just think about at this stage at this stage in my life. Oh my gosh. With this much more internet having happened in my brain and this much more access to information. You’re talking about being a better parent? I’m just talk. I don’t. What I’m saying is I’m kind of glad. I’m kind of glad I’m almost done. Yeah. Because I didn’t know about stuff. I didn’t know, like, well, they should be doing this or they shouldn’t be. I mean, there’s things that we knew. We shouldn’t have been giving our kids cigarettes like we were. Right, right. I mean, that was a mistake. And I probably could have known that. No, but I’m talking about. It took me while. Screen time and all this stuff. The lit end is on the outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s like I gotta figure that out. I don’t know. It’s a blessing and a curse. Because what’s done is done in one sense. Hey, what’s done is done, man. But if I was, if I had a newborn right now? Oh gosh. Like with all the stuff they try to sell. The world is so different too. And like there’s this, there’s COVID, and there’s, you know these things that you gotta, well my God there’s monkeypox, you know? And then your kids can’t be on screens and they gotta get nine to 12 hours of sleep and you gotta be taking these vitamins when you’re pregnant. It’s like. And now they gotta put their food waste in a different bucket. Yeah. Our kids just threw their food waste out the car window. You know what I’m saying? Just going down the highway just throwing banana peels on the roadside. Now they gotta put it in a bin? I don’t know. I think I’m glad my kids are. One’s about to go off to college. We’ll talk about that in an upcoming episode. That’s right. I don’t know exactly when we’re talking about that, but. After it happens, probably. He leaves very soon. So that you can tell us about it. He leaves very soon. All right. And Shepherd, you know, he’s coasting. Is this a high note or a low note? I feel like we’re ending on a low note. Steve Harvey. I can find another question. Still has his mustache. Why don’t, you know, listen. We’re leaving it to you to end on a high note because you’ve got a rec. Okay. Rec baby. Rec baby. 1, 2, 3, 4. I recommend that, you know, if you’re at a loss for conversation. Oh gosh. you can’t make conversationstarters.com. Head on over to conversationstarters.com. What about capitalize my title? Not a sponsor. And if you want. If you’ve written something out. If you’ve strung out a whole bunch of stuff and then you realize that, oh God. How do I? So many of these words need to be capitalized. Four of. Four. Capitalize my title. Four of these five words need to be capitalized. Dot com. Let me go to a website to do it. This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of, okay? I’m sorry capitalizemytitle.com. Link thinks you’re a good idea. I think the proof is in the pudding. The reason that you made your website All right, fine. Into conversationstarters.com, essentially, You know what? Is because you knew that you had a dumb idea. My rec now is pudding. Fine. Oh. Eat more pudding. What flavor? Chocolate vanilla swirl. Okay. All right. I can get down with that. But get it out of the recyclable thing and make it yourself. Don’t get it out. Don’t get the individual packs. That creates more waste. Don’t forget. Get your tickets to Good Mythical Evening at goodmythicalevening.com. A live ticketed event on September 1st. If you can handle it. Exclusively on Moment House. If you can handle it. And also, hashtag ear biscuits. Let us know what you think about the rabbit hole episode. I mean, we have fun when we come in here and go to conversationstarters.com. And if you wanna weigh in give us a little voicemail. 1-888 EARPOD1. Bye. [Alex on voicemail] Hey Rhett and link. This is Alex from Colorado. And I just finished listening to your podcast episode about your trip. Your college guys. And I have to say your assessment on Colorado fashion is a hundred percent correct. We are always dressed and ready for anything. The weather here is also very fickle and it will change so quickly. So we have to be ready to adapt to the weather. Glad you had fun. I hope you come back and check out more of what our beautiful state has offer. [Woman On Voicemail] Hi Rhett and Link. I just watched the neighbor and roommate horror stories. And when y’all were talking about the bushes I just absolutely loved Link being the night bush boy. I got a really good laugh this morning. Thanks guys. [Thomas On Voicemail] Hi, my name is Thomas and I am 9 years old. And what happens when a frog parks in an illegal parking spot? It gets toad. Hey, in case you missed it we launched a new collection over at sike.la. Everything we release over there all the products and apparel, change right before your eyes. So check it out. And we’re giving you a discount code to use on your first visit. Shop sike.la. Drop in EBMADEYOULOOK at checkout and enjoy 10% off your whole purchase. 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