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 are in the month of December in the year 2022. So it’s time to start reflecting, you know, on our activities. And what’s one of the most important activities that we do? Buy stuff. No, I just- Well this has become a tradition. This has just become a tradition. It’s kind of fun. It’s a good way to look back at our year to just, to look at our Amazon purchase histories. I think this is at least the third year we’ve done an it in a row. Who knows what comes from it. It’s a good way to reflect, not to just brag on, I mean, you can see a lot of, you will see- Brag? Some of the stuff that I bought is not, is not braggy. It just kind of highlights a lot that I’ve gone through this year. Specifically, trying to get my dog to not poop in the house. Oh, oh, oh. You know what, that reminds me? Oh, you’re adding something to your list? So we each have our own list. We haven’t shared it with each other. We’re gonna share it with you at the same time, because this is real, these conversations are real. They’re not rehearsed. It’s the first time we’ve ever talked about these things. Wouldn’t it suck? If for every episode we had to rehearse the episode and then redo it? That would be so weird. Especially if you found out that’s what we were doing. Some people do that. Well, yeah. Some people who just do a podcast, you know. But we have found a way- I should hope not. We have found a way to do the, and I mean actually it ties in well with the reason we’re doing this episode. Because when you do a podcast that’s basically every week of the year with maybe a couple breaks and you do other things, when you come up with something that fills a spot in a schedule like, “Hey, we talked about our Amazon purchases last year, that went well, let’s do that again.” You always go back to it. I mean, in one sense, you do it out of convenience. Unless you don’t like it. So you can hashtag ‘Ear Biscuits’ and let us know if this should be the last year we talk about our Amazon purchases. But we would love a suggestion for a replacement episode. 188 Ear Pod One! Ear Pod One! If you want to yell at us about it. But why would you replace it when we can start with something very exciting right out of the gate. Like my most re-che, recent purchase. Yeah? Re-shent? Measuring spoons. Oh! Look out! Watch it! You haven’t had measuring spoons? We did have a bunch of measuring spoons, but it suddenly got whittled down to just one: the tablespoon. And I find myself- Yeah and when you wanna measure like a cup, how many tablespoons do you need in a cup? Well, no, it’s not the larger than tablespoon measurements that are a problem because I still have like a, you know, like a Pyrex cup measuring kind of thing. It’s the teaspoons and the half tablespoons. Of course, you know, I’d have zero need for these things. So I’m just like, we have ’em,- Well, interestingly- But I don’t use ’em. Well of course, you don’t bake, but- I mean, if we run outta spoons, I might eat with one. But here’s the thing, it’s not for baking cause I don’t really bake. It’s for supplements and smoothie type things. Right? Because I’ve been doing a number of things like, this doesn’t make it taste good, but I put olive oil, straight olive oil in my smoothie. Really? Long story, I’ll probably talk about it at some point. But I did this program where they test your blood- Oh, a long story that ends in you just putting olive oil in your smoothie? Let’s stop everything. I want to hear that right now. It essentially is, cause you know what, I think there should be a sponsor at some point, so I’m not gonna say who it was, but basically they do a blood test and then it gives you all these biomarkers and then it gives you lifestyle changes and nutritional changes in order to address some of your deficiencies or whatever. And so I’ve got high LDL and so one of the ways to lower that, and maybe some other things that are wrong with me is more Omega-3s. You can get that in olive oil. So it was just add two tea tablespoons of olive oil to your diet every day, you know? Hmm. So it’s like, okay, I’ll do that. And I cook with olive oil, but I also put it in my smoothie now, cause why not, right? Just get it all in there. But you didn’t have the right spoon. Well, but then I also, I take creatine every day. And so that’s supposed to be a 500 gram, which is approximately two teaspoons, which is approximately two thirds of a tablespoon. You take, you know, I do think we have to have an at least a part of an episode where you go through all this stuff that you’re taking because I don’t like to think about this stuff and I think there’s some of it that I might need to be taking. And I’m just like, you take so much. I would just like for you to step through it and why, but I don’t want you to do it right now because, well, you know, I’m in holiday mode. Well, let me just say also that there are much better podcasts for going through the supplements that you should be taking. But I can give you my rationale at some point, which is just gonna be more- Listening to another podcast? Watered down rationale of another podcast. Okay. All right. But, so I’ve got this tablespoon has become me eyeballing what a third and what two thirds of the- this is just, it’s not working for me. And also I’m like, what happened to that thing? At one point we had the whole key chain of measuring spoons and then it just, once they separated it was like they all went into different places in the house. And now all I got is a tablespoon. So I feel somewhat recentered because that has come and now I have the whole thing. Let me make you feel better because I know you chalk this up to your family’s M.O., of you guys lose things and your drawers are chaos, you know? You know, open any drawer in our house and it is so perfect. I love it and I love that Christy and I are the same, but I’ll make you feel better or at least I don’t know what it will do. But I will tell you, I have noticed that our main spoons, they’ve been disappearing. I actually had a conversation with Christy a couple weeks ago, I was like, “Where are our spoons?” The normal spoons, the ones that I use for everything. And she’s like, “I don’t know, but I have been noticing that they’re dwindling.” I was like, “I think we need to buy more spoons.” And then it kind of- Sounds like a kid issue. It kind of came down to Lincoln. It’s gotta be, I was gonna say it’s Lincoln. I think he’s… I think he’s throwing away the spoons cause he takes all these dishes to his room. And then I’ve learned, whenever I’m about to run the dishwasher, I’ve developed this habit right before I hit start on that puppy. I usually do it late at night, like right before I go to bed. Nothing makes me happier than waking up to clean dishes in the dishwasher. Well a lot of things make me happy. But nothing like that. Nothing like that. So I’ve started making the trip into his bedroom and scouring the place for bowls and spoons. But apparently, like a rat nest. There’s gonna be some nest somewhere that’s just made out of spoons in his room that I haven’t found yet. Oh, that’s definitely what’s happening. Does he grab a spoon full of peanut butter and walk to his room? He eats… From what I can tell what’s left in the bowl, it’s ramen. He’s eating ramen with a spoon? I think he has a fork and a spoon. Okay, well we need to talk to him about that first of all. Since you’re start- You want me to move on? Since you’re starting with your most recent purchase, I’ll start with ours and pretty much all of these are mine, except this one is a collective one. But I did approve it, because Christy knew that it could lead to some sort of a conflict. Vickerman, seven and a half foot tall, silver tinsel fur, artificial Christmas tree. Unlit, faux silver. She was like, “I’m gonna get another Christmas tree. Do you want a a gold one, a silver one? Or?” I think she was like, “It also comes in orange.” I’m like, “What the hell?” I don’t want a damn orange Christmas tree. She was like, “Well I’m just throwing it out there. Your mom’s coming in for Christmas this year.” Maybe bronze. “And I want it to be as festive as possible.” I’m like, “You know what, that’s a good idea and I don’t have an opinion on this. If you wanna go with- So where’s the- Apparently she chose silver. The other Christmas tree is where right now? Usually? Well it’s in the garage at the Creative House because- No, no, no. I’m saying when you, this is- In a box. You’re gonna have one in the living room and one in the family area? Is that the plan? Yeah, I think maybe it’ll be in the foyer, the entrance. You know, and then just- We have one across from the piano in the main room when you first walk in the house, that’s where we put it and we have to shimmy a bunch of trees around, you know, Christy and her plants and trees. All that has to- There’s a whole musical chairs of, we gotta move this tree in order to put the Christmas tree here and then we gotta move what- And so then the tree goes where the big plant is and then the big plant goes where the smaller plant is. I have to move eight different things in a strategic round robin in order to make room for the Christmas tree. And now I think we’re putting another one in the back. You’ve opened, just so you understand, you have opened a door to a place that I would never want to go. Yeah. My wife tries to get me to go there all the time. Multiple trees? I don’t understand why and I don’t wanna sound like a, you know, like a guy from like 1986 comedian complaining about his wife. So just take this with a grain of salt. But I just feel like my wife- Say Jessie, let’s start doing that first of all. Why? Because the my wife thing in 2023. Got to stop. No, but I’m playing the guy from 1986 right now. Okay. My wife Jessie. Is that a good compromise? For this year, yeah. I’m also doing it so that when you export clips, you know that I’m talking about my wife and not, who’s Jessie? I could be talking about Jesse Helms, remember him? Oh God. Not really, yes. North Carolina Senator, let’s leave it at that. I appreciate, first of all, I mean she is so, and both of our wives, so very much skilled at making a space so welcoming. If it’s supposed to be festive, it’s gonna be festive in a tasteful and compelling way that makes everyone who comes over to your house feel great, makes you feel great when you’re in the space. But for some reason, I can’t accept the extra effort and inconvenience that comes from the decorative process. So when you talk about a second tree? Because you know it’s going to be on you. And a second tree. I know, dude. That’s why she- That’s twice the amount- Christy was asking me what color it should be, but I think she was really just giving, fair warning, there’s a whole other tree. We are one hundred- Oh, she manipulated you by asking you what color it should be. The wrong question. Yeah, and she threw the mom card. Your mom’s coming in this year and your mom’s love trees. Yeah, we need to do it up for my mom, but yeah, this is gonna be on me. Oh, so you, you fell for it immediately? I freaking fell for it. I’m not saying I would, I would’ve gone along with it. I fell for it. But I would’ve acknowledged that I was being manipulated. And the thing I didn’t do and I didn’t realize it until I freaking read it out loud. Which of these words is the trigger word? Seven feet. Actually no. Unlit. Unfreaking lit. What the hell Christy? My wife. What are you doing buying an unlit tree? I think I have to go, I have to click right now, cancel this order and then reorder a lit freaking silver tree. Did you not discuss that part? I totally forgot because that was the big breakthrough, was we bought the lit tree and now- You know me, man, I bought a lit tree one time and then we still had to put more lights on it because part of it didn’t work. So, I mean, that’s a- And we can’t even store it at my house. Like I gotta go over to the Creative House garage, get the tree that we bought a couple years ago cause it won’t fit in my garage without being seen. And I refuse to have things stored that are seen. Yep. Don’t even get into it. That are seen? I like things- I have freaking cabinets and everything’s behind a freaking cabinet. I gotta freaking light this tree? All right, well I feel for you. We do have four trees in our house, I will say that, already, but there’s only one that’s normal sized. I think I, you know what? The other three are small. I was getting excited. I almost said- So I have fallen victim to this. And we’re gonna get a live tree again this year. Yeah, we get a live tree every year. My mom’s coming. One live tree and then three small fake trees, yeah. I mean it’s just a runaround. How about this one? Try this on for size. Coarse sea salt. Coarse sea salt. Now… Is this for bathing? No, but some of these purchases- Is it like a scrub? I actually noticed in looking at my list of purchases this year, which were, you know- Most of them are not- I have a couple of big ticket items. Okay. But most of ’em are like core sea salt, which probably costs 10 bucks. A big thing of it. Is based on something that I learned, a lesson that I learned that now I am applying in life. Well, can I guess? So you said it wasn’t a scrub, does it go in your mouth still? You’re not gonna guess it. Coarse? I could give you an hour and you wouldn’t get to it. Is it for cleaning? Because that’s what I would use it for. Okay. Yes, but do you know what it’s for clean? What it’s for clean? What it’s cleaning, what it cleans, what I use it for. Cement stains? No. In your driveway? No. I’m not sure how entertaining this guessing game’s gonna be. Okay what? Cast iron pans. Okay yeah. So a big revelation this year for me was the embracing of cooking on cast iron. You know, you hear people talk about it all the time and then we had one because you’ve always, everybody’s got one and then you start cooking with it and you’re like, I don’t like- What? You can’t clean it, what? You can’t use soap? What, what? It just seems like an inconvenience, right? Yeah. And everybody says that they’re non-stick, but actually they’re not, everything sticks to ’em. So this year, I don’t know what it was, but I just, you know what it was, it was freaking TikTok. That’s what it was. It was being unable to avoid people giving you tips on how to do things correctly. And so somebody talking about a cast iron pan in a TikTok and being like, if you just do it like this, it will become the best pan that you’ve ever owned. And so I was like, okay, screw it, I’ll do it. And I did it and it is the best pan. And now I have a bigger one. And then one of the things that I figured out through another TikTok, not the same TikTok, is that a great way when you’re done cooking with it to clean it, is you kind of, you know, you kind of get everything you can out of there and then you just put a bunch of coarse sea salt in there, heat it up really hot and just take a paper towel and just sort of move it all around in there and it gets everything. And then you just take that under the sink with some water and you just boom, boom, boom. And then you put more oil on it, heat it up, and then leave it there and it becomes super seasoned. And it’s just been revolutionary for me. The interesting thing about this is that I not only know all of this, but I have personally experienced it. We are experiencing a strange intersection between the two of us. A convergence? Yeah, because I, you know, I don’t cook. I’ve already established that with the spoons and everything else I’ve talked about ever about cooking, but, it could have been on TikTok for me as well, I’m a cleaner, and I saw a TikTok where somebody got bought a worn down skillet that was rusted. And then they resurrected it. They resurrected it using those techniques. Because the good stuff’s under there. It doesn’t go away, it just gets added stuff. Because I just watch cleaning stuff, you know, on TikTok and on Instagram. So that came up for me. And then I don’t know how it happened, but we had a cast iron skillet that I think I used on the grill. Yeah. To like saute onions to go with like smash burgers. And then I left it out there and it got rust. I’ve done this. And I was really dejected. And so I don’t know which happened first, but yeah, I used the sea salt and you also use, you put oil on it, you have to oil the- When you’re done, you oil it and heat it up again and then wipe that down. So you want it to be really oiled when you’re done with it. And you can kind of store it with some oil so that it like- Yeah. You know, so it’s like coated in oil so it stays sealed and seasoned. I just, honestly, I just leave, we leave both the big one and the small one on the stove at all times. We don’t really have a place to put it up. So it’s just like, that’s what we cook in and it’s there all the time. Let’s promote something. Okay, what are we promoting? We’re still good. We’re still good. You know the game that we created along with Spin Master that many of you have already played and many of you have been talking about the good times you’ve been having with family and friends playing. It’s a party game. Party game, ‘We’re Still Good’ It’s a nice little box that you can take in your luggage to wherever you’re going. For the holidays it’s a great gift. It’s also a great thing to play with your family because it takes hilariously ridiculous disasters that everyone helps create and then everyone helps pitch the best positive spin on that to say we’re still good. So it kind of, it’s just an injection of positivity into your family or friend gatherings. I think I’m gonna play it with my extended family over the holidays. You should dude. Is it weird to play a game that has a picture of you on it? Well, it’s a cartoon picture of you and maybe they won’t notice. Okay. But here’s the big update. It’s now available at mythical.com. Yeah, it’s been at Walmart, it’s been on Amazon and you can still get it in those places. But now you can also get it at mythical.com if you’re already filling your holiday cart over there. Yes. And you definitely should. And you can get like points and stuff. We’re doing like, you know, you can get points I think- Oh really? Over at mythical.com now. So maybe, I don’t know. Either we are or we’re going to. Alright, my next thing. Recent purchase. Beringer Zenex 302 USB premiere five input mixer with Zenex Mic Preamp and USB audio interface. Two other things to go with this so you can try to guess what I’m doing. Day better. 50 50 RGB LED light strips. Kit work with Alexa and Google Assistant. Smart Wifi LED strip lights, a hundred foot. Two rolls of 50 foot LED lights for bedroom decoration. And finally, standard XLR male to female, like the sound of that, balanced microphone cable, durable and flexible noise canceling, six feet, black. I mean this is clearly EHSB stuff. Haha, E, I’ve never said EHSB. Yeah, that was right. Elk Hound Snuggle Baby. That’s right. Are you gonna try to, are you doing something in your bedroom though? Because there was a bedroom light thing. Bedroom light was one of the descriptors. Bedroom decoration. So you gonna be DJing for your wife? Are you trying to incorporate the Elkhound into love making? I’m setting up, you know how our bedroom is big. It has a whole seating area at the foot of the bed. Yeah, I would say unnecessarily large. I know, but it’s a function of the space underneath it that then created a bedroom above it that was just so big. We could have a party up there. Party for two. So, so. Okay. Party, you know, your table’s ready, party of two. I’m setting up a DJ- Practice area? A DJ console set right there facing the bed. And it’s gonna have lights, it’s gonna have visuals. They’re potentially going to time out with the music that I’m playing. So yeah, I’m gonna be doing DJ sets. I’m a be going Snugglebaby mode right there. No. And I’m lying about part of this. So that can’t be the case. No. Your wife wouldn’t let you do that in the bedroom. She wouldn’t let you put your practice facility in the bedroom. Yeah, I’m gonna set it up at the Creative House and the thing that I’ve, I don’t want to commit to this but I bought this stuff, which is trying to get me to commit to it. I was listening to John Frusciante, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers talking to Rick Rubin. You know, I got a thing for Rick Rubin and anything he does in podcast world and you’re talking about great series of interviews where they talk about the production of their last two albums and Frusciante, if you’re really into guitar stuff, you probably already like John Frusciante, but he talks about his practice method and then he gets his guitar down and he demonstrates how he warms up and he talked about his philosophy of practice as its own art form. Like he doesn’t practice what he’s gonna play on stage when he tours. He doesn’t get really good at that because he’s improvisational. All of his guitar solos are just off the top of the dome. So it’s very much about him just developing his skills for hours before every show. And he’s amazing. You know, it seems cool to like, someone who’s as amazing as he is that puts that much work into it. But it really stuck with me when he talked about, he saw practice as its own art form. He invented ways to engage in a totally different mode than how he performs. And then it subconsciously bleeds in and makes him a better performer. And I was like, you know what? I bet you there’s something to that for me. You know, cause I need to practice my DJing more. But I love an audience. When the Sunbeam Furniture place opened, you know, that Jessie decorated and Christy helped her and did the plant stuff. For that event they had a DJ which was not me, but I talked to that DJ. She was super nice and she talked about how over the course of the pandemic, along with a lot of DJs she started Twitch streaming and so I’m putting those two things together and my idea is to not just practice but to stream it. Oh, I like this. I’m not, you know, just to create. Yeah, cause if I’m gonna practice, I might as well have an audience. You know, I think that would motivate me. And you can stream any other songs? It doesn’t like- That’s my understanding, yeah. They don’t employ the technology that Instagram employs that they’ll take down your stream. So it’s a squirrly area, but yeah, that’s where DJ’s stream, unless something’s changed in the last month or so, and then my hopes will be dashed and then I could just do a muted stream where you can watch me but not hear me DJing. But I’m just trying to develop it as not a performance, but a practice as an art form that if anybody cares to be a part of it, it’ll be streamed. You know, so it’s gonna be very low key. I’m excited about that. But I wanna set it up at the Creative House cause that way I can just kind of step into it and do it but ultimately it’s just so I can practice more. So I just went on one blog and they said this is all the stuff I needed to buy. And I was like, I’m not gonna overthink this. I’m just gonna buy this crap and I’m gonna set it up. So that’s my intention. I’m putting it out there. Somebody on Twitch- Do you have a handle that- Somebody parked Elkhound Snugglebaby already. But I have to believe it was a fan. So reach out to me if you’re the one who parked Elkhound Snugglebaby on Twitch, reach out to me. Well, you can reach out to them too. I couldn’t see how to do that on Twitch. So right now it’s Link underscore Elkhound Snugglebaby. Well, so it’s gonna be one of those. It’s gonna be one of those. I don’t know when I’ll do it, but I will. Where are you setting it up at? I’ll tweet it out. I thought I would set it up where, I guess I need to get your approval of this since we’re we’re equal on this. Not in my office. So I was thinking like, you know where the records are and the record player is like where that couch is. If I could just rotate that couch out and then the backdrop could be those records and apparently some LED lighting. So you have to set it up every time you do it? I don’t know. That’s kind of what I was thinking that then I would just move the- Maybe the table can live right behind it. I don’t know. I don’t know. There’s probably room by there. Okay. Mine’s a little simpler. If not, I could do it in my office. My next one’s a little simpler. The Red Devil Venom mouth guard. Why would you need a mouth guard? Again, another revelatory thing that I learned that I figured out all on my own. Okay. Okay, so. Meaning you didn’t listen to a podcast? No, this is just a observation about myself based on things that people have been telling me. So I’ve been going to, you know, since the pandemic started winding down and we started going back to the dentist, one of my most recent trips to the dentist- Oh. Was actually after we had eaten that crazy sour thing on the Vanity Fair or whatever that was. That thing we shot where we ate that sour candy that was straight malach acid. And they were like, no one has ever kept the candy in their mouths nearly as long as you guys did. We didn’t expect you to keep going and going and going, but you know that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re us, man. We’re freaking us. And I actually think I did permanent damage to my enamel on my teeth. I know, we were both scared. And they noticed that. And when I’m scared, I don’t think about it. Like, something’s wrong with my teeth, I’m not gonna think about this anymore. And it happened to you too and you did the exact opposite. I took action. You took action. So I ended up getting some enamel repair toothpaste or whatever. But one of the things that the dentist pointed out was, she was like, well the hygienist was like, she legitimately asked me, did you get your teeth shaved down? What? Like what? Like for some sort of like, you mean for like, a religious ritual or something? She was like, your incisors look like they’re flat, they’re not pointed. Do you see that? They’re not- Yeah. Like your dog teeth, right? Like your eye teeth they call ’em. Yours are pointed and mine used to be pointed. Mine are very pointed. And so they were like, well you’re obviously grinding your teeth at night. So I went through the whole thing of getting the mouth guard at night, which I now have and which I do wear. But I was like, I don’t think I grind my teeth at night, but you don’t really know cause you’re asleep. And then I started realizing that every time in my life for the past 45 years in which I have been doing something intensely, I grit up my teeth like this. I’ve put my lower teeth over my upper teeth, my bottom teeth come out. My dad does the same thing. It’s just like this. So like, if any sports moment in my life, you’ll see it even when I like throw a dart on Good Mythical Morning like- I do. Oh wow. And I’ve just been doing this all my life and I do it when I lift weights and I’ve been doing it when I lift weights forever. And I started reading about people who do weird things with their teeth when they lift weights and I’ve been damaging my teeth for years. And in fact, last time I went to the dentist, she was pointing at those teeth and she was like, you’re basically down to the pulp on those teeth. Like you don’t have anything else left protecting those teeth. So I’m probably gonna have to get like crowns or something, like fake teeth at some point in my life. I know a guy. But in the meantime, of course, anyone who seriously, and I don’t seriously lift weights, I just lift weights for ongoing health, you know. Oh, so I thought you would say you were gonna sleep with it. No. You lift weights with a mouth guard. I have a sleeping mouth guard, which is a completely different thing. This is like an athletic mouth guard that like Steph Curry wears when he plays basketball. And so because biting down when you’re lifting weights is actually like scientifically proven to give you a certain percentage increase in strength just because it’s something about, you know- And which totally makes sense because that’s why when you’re really trying to do something, you bite down and I would bite down like, and I’ve been just ripping these teeth apart for years. So anyway, I’ve stopped the damage now and I work out with a mouth guard. And I encourage you if you lift weights on a regular basis or do anything physically active. That’s interesting. Get a mouth card. You might as well. Cherry pig. Solar mole repellent, ultrasonic mole repellent, solar powered, outdoor waterproof, ultrasonic snake repellent, for get rid of mole, gopher snakes, vole and other underground pest. Four pack. Pretty obvious, right? I’m actually surprised that it says snake repellent. I love that. So I got four of these- I had some of these and I got rid of my moles in my yard, not on my skin. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. Some people have bought mole repellent thinking that they can rub it on themselves. Yeah. This is like a steak that you put in the ground. It’s got a little solar panel thing on top. I bought ’em, the moles went away, my yard got even again. And then somehow they disappeared. They might be under Lincoln’s bed with a nest full of spoons. I don’t know. But I had to buy four more. It’s not poison, it’s just a sound. So I put, I steaked it out and yeah, it works like a charm. It forces them into my neighbor’s yard, underground. But yeah, that’s their problem. Do you know that for a fact? You seen evidence? Based on the reviews. Yeah, people describe how if you do it in one area, then they’ll just move to another area. And so the only area for them to move in here is my neighbor’s yard. I mean, maybe they went all the way into the woods. I don’t know. I don’t care. But I mean, I think that my neighbors were probably sending ’em into my yard. Everybody’s gotta work together on this. Everybody’s gotta work together. The only thing I don’t like is that it’s not a constant. So it’s silence and then it’s eeee. Eeee. So every time I would go outside it was kind of unsettling. You can hear it? Yeah. Yeah. It’s gotta be like that though because- It’s not ultrasonic. Well it says ultrasonic. It’s not freaking ultrasonic. I would just call it sonic because I can hear it. It has to cut on and off because otherwise they would adjust to it. Potentially. I don’t know. That’s a good theory. That’s what I bought. It does work, but then after a while I get annoyed with it and I take ’em up and then eventually, it took about nine months for ’em to come back and maybe it was seasonal, but the moles, voles or whatever they are came back. So I recommend that. You’re not killing ’em, you’re just shooing them. Makes you feel a little better about it. Well you could find a way to catch ’em and eat ’em. I’m not that hungry. You could probably find some recipes on TikTok for mole stew or something. Put ’em in that nicely oiled skillet. This purchase comes with a story. I bought four items, two Carolina Panthers hats and two Carolina Panthers shirts. I remember seeing you wearing this once and it was just one of those things where it’s like- You didn’t ask any questions. I thought I told you this. So- Is this a James And The Shame? Yes. So I had a PR person working on right around the launch of the album with me on some press opportunities. And one of them was, I guess it was Spin Magazine. It has this thing where they do musicians give predictions for their favorite team’s NFL season. And she was like, would you be interested? Do you watch NFL? Do you have a favorite team and would you be willing to do this? And I was like, yes. A little bit. And then to the second question, I mean I’m an NC State football fan, I like college football and that’s what I watch. But I consider myself a Rams fan being in Los Angeles. But I have a, you know, an affinity for the Carolina Panthers only because they’re in North Carolina. But I don’t really keep up with it and I don’t own any fan gear. So what I said is, yes, I’m willing to do- You can’t say that. Yes, I’m willing to do this and I can do either the Rams or the Panthers. I feel like there’s probably somebody else already representing the Rams, so yes. And I’m like, the reason I’m doing this is because of the press opportunity. So I did it. It’s all an illusion. So the first thing I needed to do was you know, get clothes. I don’t, I mean I don’t even wear NC States- Cause they were putting a picture of you? Yeah, they wanted a picture of me in Ram’s gear. I mean in Carolina Panther’s gear. So I had to find some. Well based on what I saw of you wearing that stuff, I don’t know if it’s a great PR opportunity. I’m just telling you, I mean, you looked like a dork dude. Well, can I just say, and I hate to say this, but it’s very difficult to dress up in support of your team and not look like a dork. I know. And I gotta- It’s like you’re cosplaying as what everyone thinks a fan is. Aren’t there people who are fans of sports that also like to look cool? You can, for some reason- I have a theory. This is it. They make the stuff out of the same material that they make athletic clothing out of a lot of times. So these t-shirts had this moisture wicking dry fit. So much of this stuff has this- In case you need to go out there. Well these people are just watching sports guys. On the field. Like when you go watch a concert, you can get a cool t-shirt that is like a cotton t-shirt or like a 50 50 t-shirt. You can get a cool hat that looks like someone who is ready to watch something. Fans of athletic performances should be able to wear the same things that fans of musical performances wear. You’re not playing. Hey, hey, you need to shut up. This is a business opportunity. We need to keep this to ourself till we’re ready to launch. They just don’t make any cool, they don’t make enough cool stuff. Even I would wear more NC State stuff. I would. It is just like a needle in a haystack to find a shirt that’s cool. The retro logoing is one particular avenue to coolness. Even when they brought back. Well NC State hasn’t- They brought that back. Yeah, they brought back the wolf, but then the stuff that they put it on, it’s like they’re still in this athletic mode. What do you guys think I’m doing? I’m sitting on a couch and then standing up at moments and then sitting back down on the couch. I don’t need moisture wicking material here And now posing for a photo for Spin Magazine. So what did you look, I never saw this photo. Did it happen? Oh yeah, it was just a selfie. I took it in there. You were wearing what? A jersey? No, I wore a T-shirt and a hat. But even that still felt like, this doesn’t feel like me. But I mean that’s what they wanted. The other piece of this puzzle is I had to come up with my prediction for the Carolina Panther season. So at that point I just texted my dad and said, “Dad, a research project for you, newly retired man.” Who also doesn’t care that much about NFL football, but likes college football in Georgia. He quickly like just came back with- He’s your ghost writer. Here’s what I think. And now I will say that if you read the article, any funny parts of it- Your dad wrote. I wrote, because my dad didn’t make it funny. It was very much just, here’s bullet points, including my obsession with the long snapper. I added that. Okay. So the long snapper stuff because I am genuinely interested in long snappers and the Johansen, I think his name is, played 16 seasons without missing a game or something. Anyway, so yeah, if you ever need any Carolina Panthers stuff, I got two hats and two shirts. We could go out together. That you will never wear again. Yeah, also, I’m kind of- Did anything come from it? Did you get any listens from Caroline Panthers fans that you’re now completely undermining with this story? Well, I think the name of the article was 56 Musicians Predict Their Take on their NFL season. Who else? Some people that you would recognize and a lot of people that you wouldn’t. So maybe I got one listen from that. It was worth it. That’s the world of PR man. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. Here’s a good one, sweet one. Where the Sidewalk Ends, the book. I’m familiar with it. Shell Silverstein and I didn’t write it down, but also we got a bunch of our favorite, you know, kids- Kids’ books. A couple of Shell Silversteins, like the Light in the Attic, Where the Wild Things Are. And this was- Did you get the issue of Playboy with his famous interview? Did you also get that? Uh uh, uh uh. That would’ve been a nice touch. Yeah Shell Silverstein. He wrote a boy named Sue for Johnny Cash. He’s was in that world, the outlaw country world. Anyway, but cool thing. This was in honor of- Maybe you’ve seen these, if you take a walk with your dog in a neighborhood or if you go to certain parts of town, you can see there’s these little libraries. They look like a bird box. But it’s a library where you can exchange books. You can put a book in, take a book out. And Christy did this with, well, her sister Britney and JB, they ordered and then her dad, Bobby, my father-in-law built one of these boxes and then they painted it custom color and they put the plaque on it and they put it up in honor of their, you know, their first daughter passed away hours after being born. And she would’ve been 10 years old, Sayla would’ve been 10 years old this year. So every year they celebrate her life and then their other kids, they now have two more kids. I got a niece and a nephew. They, you know, they learn about Sayla and the story of, even through all of that pain that it’s become something that’s been very beautiful, you know, in honoring her memory. So for her 10th birthday, they created one of these boxes. So we were able to buy book books for it and we were actually- Did they put it up in the neighborhood or did they put it up in front of their house or? They put it up in Lilington at the ballpark, you know where you and I did the 4th of July. Where they do the fireworks every year. That’s where I played baseball hundreds of time. And where we did our 4th of July Wax Paper Dogs concert. Yeah, they actually put it up there. And because we went back for Lance’s wedding, we were there for the ribbon cutting. So we were able to put the books in there and honor Sayla’s life and memory and it was a great family moment to be a part of that. And yeah, I wrote down the name of the… littlefreelibrary.org. Oh. So you can just make one? There’s a number of places If you register it? That will do it. But if you go to little free library.org, you can order the pieces and they’ll send it to you and you can build it and paint it yourself. And then they’ll send you like the plaque to put on it so that in their case it can say ‘In honor of Sayla’. And then, you know, it is part of the community and it looks really cool and nice and of course they got permission from the ballpark to put it there. That’s awesome. So yeah, littlefreelibrary.org, and you can do it for whatever reason you want or just do it to contribute to your community. But there’s lots of kids who are taking walks or like, “Hey, let’s go to that library. Let’s see what books are in there now. Let’s put some of my favorite books in there.” You think kids are doing that? Yeah, definitely. Kids still got books? Yeah, that’s the thing. It’s kind of this retro thing that gives you a sense of connection and being a part of something in real life. Unless you vandalize it. Yeah, I mean this is in a good place where- It only takes one. Yeah. Sadly that’s true. When you talk about that place, the Lilington ball fields there. Yeah. They’re so nostalgic to me because of the smell, which it was a mix of dirt, grass, popcorn and cigarette smoke that I felt like I smelled repeatedly as a child playing outdoor sports that was so pronounced at that particular location that I’m sure it doesn’t smell as much like cigarette smoke anymore because it’s just so much less common for people to smoke. Well the other cool part of it was that morning, our nephew Nehemiah, he had a soccer game there on the field. So we watched him play and then we dedicated the library, took some pictures, but I was like, yeah, it’s wild to come back here. I was telling, you know, telling Lincoln Orlando, I played T-ball on these fields, but you know, because I hated T-ball. It makes you feel anxious when you see the fields? Yeah. I was like, my butt hole was getting real tight. So yeah, I choose to think more about all of the fireworks. That’s what I associate with the fireworks. We do fireworks here. Fireworks every year. Okay, here’s the next one from me. Five pack USB wall charger and five pack charger cables. Oh yeah. This has to be an annual re-up. I just feel like, again, I don’t want to, I’m gonna go into the dad mode. So the thing I have asked for is, so I have a charger next to my bed right? For my phone. It is a wireless charger that I can set my phone on and I can also put my AirPods on and they can both charge. And then Jessie uses a traditional just USB cable that plugs directly into her phone. That’s a shame. Which makes her a prime target for Shepherd when he needs a phone charger. And because he is a 14 year old. Yep. Apparently they eat these things. What is it? I believe that that’s what’s happening. It’s spoons, it’s cables. I think that Shepherd is eating the cables thinking that they’re pasta maybe getting into a late night kind of thing. I don’t know he gets confused. This is such a pattern. If we took him to get his stomach X-rayed, there would be like 17 USB cables in there. That’s the only explanation for how many of these we go through. And so instead of- You might as well just put it on a monthly reorder. Well, here’s what I did. I spent months admonishing him and then Jessie would get mad because he would take her charger and then she would need to use my charger and the domino effect. And so I just said, instead of having this repeated argument, which we have about USB cables and socks. We have the sock argument, because I have two boys who wear the same socks as me and we share socks. Yes. I’m just giving- So I regularly buy socks and again, I think he may- I know He may be eating socks as well. But I just said I’m gonna have every room you go in, there’s gonna be a place to charge your phone. Oh. Cables. It’s like everywhere. Somewhere there’s a charger. Let me just say that I actually did this purchase twice this year. So there was 10 cables and 10 USB chargers and we still do not have enough. Yep, yep. Nope, it’s not gonna work. It’s not gonna work. It has to be hardwired. You have to screw ’em in. It has to become a fixture. Oh, that’s not a bad idea. Yep. You gotta like, you gotta sit there and you gotta screw it against the wall. He’ll find a way. He’ll find a way to eat them. He’ll gnaw it loose. Lube life, water-based personal lubricant for men and women. Flavorless. 12 ounce. Yep. I purchased that. Now I will say, Lube Life is a weird brand. It was very highly rated and it was like the top of the list needed to re-up on, you know, my lube. And I didn’t realize how big 12 ounces is when it comes to lube. Like this is a big, I mean- It’s like a can of coke. Well it- But then if it’s thinner it’s probably this tall. Yeah. It’s a little less than half the diameter of a can of Coke. So it’s twice as tall as a can of Coke. Can you get it in your ass? Has that worked yet? Oh God. I can’t get it in the bedside drawer. Okay. So yeah, first you get it in the drawer. That’s the problem. That’s the problem. Then you start working on your ass. Just a word of advice. When it comes to lube, smaller’s better, you know, ironically. Yeah. Because in the moment of passion, you don’t wanna pull it out. You want to be a little bit coy about it. Yeah. Here I am getting up and running into the bathroom. Because we have one drawer that it can sit straight up. Cause you don’t wanna store it sideways. And you’ve already got a hydro flask in one hand when you’re making love. Right. So you can’t have another giant container. Right. Right. No hands with it. Yeah, exactly. And plus, their marketing is strange. The bottle, it doesn’t just say lube life, it says hashtag lube life. Like they expect people to be sharing this stuff public. Well you are now. I guess I am. And you just said it, so. Hashtag lube life. So it worked. That’s my resolution. Every tweet I make in in 2023 is gonna have that hashtag. Yeah. I don’t- Pay attention to the ounces y’all. I don’t get it from Amazon. There’s some other website that I got in my lube from this year. Can’t remember what it was. You know when Sex with Emily podcast sent us the gifts, there was an appropriately sized lube there that was more drawer sized. Been using that. You can refill it with the big one. And I can refill it from the big one. Just don’t let anybody see you do that. I gotta get a lube funnel now. Okay. I’m gonna skip over a few here since I don’t want this to take forever. 60 pieces, painted figures. 60 piece. Okay. What is this? I think this is an interesting way to talk a little bit about our approach to things maybe in 2023. Oh. So… You talking about TikTok? Well, I bought 60 little figurines that you would use if you were making- Train sets? If you were a train person and you did toy train models and stuff and you created a little town or a Christmas village or something like that. And my idea at the time was to buy some of these figurines and then write sketches that featured these figurines very, very small. I mean very close up, you know, kind of like Robot Chicken-ish sort of thing. But ridiculous situations where you would take the specific figurines that you had in this set- And make a story. And make a story based on kind of what was suggested to you by this set. Kind of an old school idea. Very much an idea that I’ve had for even 20 years ago, back in the very early days of us, you know, the Fein brothers used to do some stuff with figurines, way, way back in the day that ended up getting in trouble because they were doing actual Action figures. You know, recognizable IP, but this is different. And that was when we were in our, what are we doing on TikTok and, are we doing an original strategy? Are we doing original sketches? And you know, if you’ve watched our TikTok and our short form Instagram stuff, we’ve done a bunch of different things trying to land on a strategy. Incidentally, the strategy that we have landed on at least right now is that we do so much other stuff that generates great moments and funny things that we say and do that we should just use those to fuel our TikTok. So that’s why if you go on the TikTok right now, you see it’s just all GMM clips, right? But one of the things that we did before that. And I like that. I like that. And we’ll talk about how we’re using that, the freed up mind space, time and energy that we have by not trying to make original sketches on TikTok and what that means for what we’re gonna do. Because we are gonna put that energy to something that you will be seeing. But we did make a sketch that I still think it- We should put it out. I still think we should put it out, especially in light of this conversation. Yeah, we gave notes on it twice. We need to- And we rerecorded the VO cause we didn’t really like the VO that we did the first time. And it’s ridiculous. It’s a ridiculous thing that we still should just put on TikTok. And you have those figurines on your desk at the Creative House. The Creative House. So now at least you have some decor too. And I like to play with, I like to just hold them in my hands. I feel like a giant playing with little people when I’m on a phone call. But yeah, so just so you know, we are- We’re gonna release that. We’ll release that- We’ll release that. But a lot of the energy that we’ve been putting into other things like that stuff and stuff that you may not have seen, we are finding ways in 2023 to funnel that energy into things that you will see. We’ll talk more about that in 2023 in another podcast. But just so you know what you’re not seeing in original content on TikTok, you will be seeing in other places soon. I will quickly mention Nature’s Miracle Advanced Stain and Odor Eliminator, 32 Ounce. Oh, I got one of those. Now when it comes to- The red bottle? Mine was a different brand, but it was on my list. I took it off. Yeah, well cause it’s the thing I said at the top about trying to not get my dogs to sneak and poop in the house is very difficult. And it’s really just a Jasper issue, right? Well yes, definitely a lot more. Jade will not pee in the house. But Jasper, we had a lot of problem with him peeing in the house and that’s why contrary to lube, 32 ounce is the minimum you want for something like this. Right. I mean, we had to take the rug out from under our dining room table completely. When we were trying to train him and really getting serious about it. Cause once they start peeing in a spot- They go back. They go back to that spot. So we’re not 100% out of the woods. But he’s made tremendous progress. A lot of progress this year with Jasper, going on walks, I’ve done a lot of training with him. He doesn’t bark at other people on walks anymore. My treat game is on lock. And he’s very motivated, so I’m really proud of him. And then at home he’s just gotten a lot better. You know, he’s over two years old now and I think he’s finally getting there. And it took Jade that long too. I’ve heard that it’s a Datsun thing. Housebreaking. But I just wanted to give an honorable mention to that. I’ll also give an honorable mention to broom and dust pan set with long handle. Kitchen brooms and standup dust pan magic combo set. Magic combo set for home. Lobby broom with rotation head and standing dust pan for floor cleaning. Red. Very excited about this. I replaced my broom. You don’t look as riveted as you should be. Well, I made a purchase about dog piss too and so I was gonna try to slip that in there, but then you moved on to a broom. Yeah, it’s too late. Well, no, mine’s way better than yours, so I’m gonna go back to it. Okay, cool. The broom. Well, first let’s talk about a broom. Yeah. Right. Well it’s not the broom, it’s the dust pan. The dust pan has its own handle. The previous dust pan I had, it would stick to the handle of the broom and it became a unit so they could stay together. But now I’ve upgraded to a dust pan with its own handle. Tall handle. And the broom and so there’s no bending over and it’s just beautiful. I feel like one of those people at Disneyland who just walks around cleaning up- The moment you drop something at Disneyland, whew. There’s somebody there sweeping it up. You know, I do that in my house now. Somebody dropped something, I sweep it up and then here’s- You can stream that on Twitch. Here’s the, yes, here’s the revolutionary part. There are teeths coming off of the dust pan so that when I sweep it, then I can put the broom bristles into the teeth and then move in a vertical motion. So it’s an L motion and it cleans the broom. The broom itself. And this is something that should, it’s just revo-freaking-lutionary. If you have a dust pan that doesn’t have his own handle, and it doesn’t have a bristle cleaner on the dust pan, you must upgrade immediately. You’re welcome. Okay, it’s the first thing I’m gonna do after this is I’m gonna make that purchase. Don’t, you know what, that’s what I’m gonna give you and everybody else I love for Christmas. Okay. Spoiler alert. Okay. The only time my sweep is when somebody makes, like there’s an accident. I feel like the rest is handled via vacuum. Or dog. Yeah. Back to dogs though, because as you know, similar struggles with Sean. Sean has been- Sean is a problem, dude. Sean is false advertising. I talked to you about this before when they said he was a little anxious and he was house trained. He’s very anxious and he was not house trained at all. Well I freaking came into the- like two weeks ago, I come into the freaking office and Sean’s there and he’s just barking at me. And I was like, the best thing I’m gonna do is I’m gonna ignore him. I’m not gonna give him the time of day. I’m gonna walk on my desk. So I take a step by him and the dude freaking bites me on the calf twice. Yeah. I was wearing sweatpants. Yeah. Well that’s the one aspect of his training that is going well. The training to hate you. Is the only thing that he’s responding to right now. No, the interesting thing was I had on a hat and you said, I think he has an issue with people with hats. Well our friend Jayden, when he is in town has been staying at my place and he’s a great dog trainer. One night he said, I think Sean has a thing with hats because if somebody that he actually knows comes in with a hat on- So maybe in his former life- We don’t know what happened to him in his former life, but things happened to Sean. Yeah. Poor boy. But he is getting better. I took the hat off and he did seem to chill out. Yeah. So we’ve gotta figure that out. That whole thing of biting people is obviously a big no-no. Essentially if somebody’s entering a room, he has to either be, he has to be held or he has to be on a leash and then he calms down. But the thing that he’s doing that is a constant struggle is pissing and shitting in the house. And we talk to our trainer about that. Now he will find a spot, and he’ll have a shit spot for two weeks and then it’ll shift. The shit spot shifts. Yeah. To somewhere else. And he is better about not pissing inside, but what we were doing, we don’t have any real grass outside. Peeing inside is much worse. Is much worse. So he has curbed that a little bit. But we were talking to the trainer we were like, I just don’t know if we have the discipline and the amount of commitment and time that it takes to really do this in the right way. Give us some help. So will you live with us? And the trainer said, because he had become scared of the fake grass outside, which is our only grass. I don’t know, I would love to get inside Sean’s head, but I know one thing I would find there is nightmarish fake grass. Apparently somebody with a hat took him out onto some fake grass and did some ungodly things to him in his past life, because he doesn’t like either one of those things. Oh, poor guy. But he’s adjusting very, very well, for somebody of his past. Jasper was the same way. Yeah. He’s totally a different dog now. There’s some stuff called fresh patch, which is just a patch of fresh grass most often used for people who live in apartments and they want their dog to use the bathroom on grass and you don’t wanna always have to take ’em outside or whatever. So essentially it’s just a piece of sod that comes in a cardboard box. Shipped to your door. Every two weeks, you get it. Right? First of all, I think it’s 60 bucks a month. So I know that it’s significantly more expensive than if I was just going- cause I told Stevie about this and she was like, you could just go to the hardware store and get a patch of grass for a lot cheaper than that. And I was like, yep. But I’d have to go get it. Yeah, yeah. You’re not proud of it, but- I’m not proud of it. Yeah, you’re doing it. So let me tell you, it works. Oh, so now you’re excited about it? It works. And he immediately- It’s not in the house? It’s outside on top of the artificial grass. No, it’s outside on top of the concrete area. Cause it’s closer to the door. Okay. And he immediately went out there and got on it and started using it. Something clicked. He was like, this is what’s supposed to happen on this. And then if it’s raining, I take it and I move it to the other side of the house that has a covering over there on the pool side. Yeah. And he goes out there and he uses it on that. The problem is, is that unlike Barbara who would never pee or crap in the house, ever, like she is, Barbara is- A superior dog. She would just stay there for 24 hours. Oh, I tell her that all the time. How I love her so much more because my love is conditional for dogs. And until Sean gets his together, I’m not gonna love him as much. So, but he doesn’t let you know. Barbara goes to the door, rings the bell, and then looks at you like, come on. I did this. I’m ready. Sean, a little stupid. So he’s rung the bell a couple of times. But anyway, this fresh patch thing, it’s really been the answer to us because Jessie’s got all these freaking rugs. I mean, Christy’s the same way. They get these rugs that are nice rugs and you then you got a freaking dog pissing on ’em and you can’t spray that typical cleaner on those rugs. Like Jessie will not let me put any sort of pet spray. She’s like soda water only. Oh. I mean, she’ll break up a little LaCroix and pour it right on one of those things. But only soda water. You can’t put cleaner on it. Look at the life you’re leading. Yeah I’m cleaning up things with LaCroix and paying $60 a month- Perriere. For a patch of freaking grass. I’ve already done my honorable mentions, so I’m done. Oh really? Is there anything that you want to- Yeah, I mean probably I guess two really quickly, including the most significant one. So one of the things I did this year, of course as it relates to James and the Shame is I had to look the part in terms of my photo shoot and album and promo stuff and- Hipster cowboy. Performance at Mythic Con and that kind of thing. And in an effort to continue to separate James And The Shame from whatever the Rhett McLaughlin brand is, I was like, I gotta adopt some kind of look here. I’m not a cowboy hat guy. I didn’t want do that, you know? Yeah. I’m glad. But it’s funny because the guys that I think have the best style in country music right now is Midland, right? Oh yeah. And every picture you see of those guys are like, ah, that’s cool. They’re cool, they’re cool, but it’s country. But it’s cool. It’s a little fun, that’s why I like it. And I was talking with Brian our COO here. Business Brian. He knows everybody man. That dude knows everybody. And he ends up like, yeah, my friend is their manager or something, I can’t remember the exact connection, but he immediately comes back with the brands that they wear. Oh. You know, if you’re looking for cool stuff. So they wear a lot of stuff and I’m sure they’ve got stylists for days, but H Bar C is cool Western wear, Western shirts and stuff like that. So a lot of the stuff I got this year was from them. And then, because I needed some boots cause I just didn’t have any boots. But I didn’t want to- if you go to a Western store and you get a pair of boots, there’s six or $700 for a good pair of boots. I’m like- It’s an art form. I’m not doing anything in these things. Nope. Again, I’m not, this is like unnecessary moisture wicking in a Carolina Panthers t-shirt. So I found the brand Tecovas. Austin based, you know, this is happening. People are coming in and sort of revolutionizing an industry and usually it’s two guys who have an idea who come together, like Thursday boots. It’s like, we’re gonna make boots but we’re gonna make ’em more affordable and our advertising is gonna be great and you’re gonna get this on Instagram all the time and eventually you’re gonna break down and buy ’em. I think it’s two guys because you’re a guy. But I think there’s plenty of two women too. Yeah, well I’m saying cause it’s, yeah- I’m just saying, I’m talking about for the products that are- For you. For me and Tecovas is an example of this. They’re making good boots that look just like the really expensive boots that are 250, 300 bucks for a pair, which is a much more reasonable amount. Anyways, so I’ve got a few pairs of those that has kind of completed the James and the Shame look in the times when I’ve needed to do that. Oh. So we’re doing doing apparel shoutouts. I’ll give an apparel shoutout to Imperfects. Okay. Is that like spanks? California based. It’s a surf aesthetic company, but it’s a lot of canvas wear. This jacket and all of the other ones. This year for me has been the two piece jumpsuit. Oh, that’s where you got all those from. Revolution. Right. Yeah. I’m obsessed with that brand. Very cool aesthetic and their story and their approach and their craftsmanship. Is it two guys? As far as I can tell, it’s just one dude. Okay. Who, I think he’s a surfboard shaper. At least a lot of the images are of a guy wearing these outfits shaping surfboards. Well maybe you can get into that too. Nope. And finally my biggest ticket item, my birthday present to myself. Something that I’ve wanted for a long time and I tried to find ways to get at it in a cheaper fashion and I finally just bit the bullet, literally took the plunge. Oh. And bought one of those cold plunge ice baths that were featured on Shark Tank. But that was a birthday present, right? To myself. Yeah, but that was your birthday present. My big ticket item last year was my mountain bike I believe. And it was my birthday present to myself. Yeah. But I mean it was the biggest purchase of the year for me. And you’ve used it because I made everybody- It’s basically a bathtub with a box beside it that then circulates and refrigerates the water so that, but you need, it has a top on it like a hot tub would have on it. But it’s shaped like a bathtub. Yeah and it’s pretty, you know. He has an outdoor refrigerated bathtub. It’s pretty aesthetic, you know, for how these things could go. Because what I was gonna do is I was gonna do- Aesthetic. The cheaper version, which is to take, again, there’s a bunch of YouTube videos- Like a barrel? Well people do barrels with ice in ’em, but then you have to get ice and put it in every single day. You don’t know what the temperature is. Other people will take an old freezer, open top freezer and seal it and then do this thing where it’s on a timer. So it’s not on when you’re in it and stuff, but it’s like a DIY thing and you got a freezer outside. And then I was like, why not man, just get the one that looks the part and it is got all the technology built into it and you can dial in the temperature. It’s got the ozone filtering of the water in there. So it keeps the water great for six months. And I’ve always wanted this cause you know… We know. I’m that guy that is gonna take the supplements and we get real hot and get real cold and do all that stuff. You need things, you need the things. And I absolutely love it. Did you get into it this morning? I did. I sure did. I get into it every day. So now you don’t hate it, do you? No, no, no, no. That’s the point. The point is you hate it every time. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. You hate the moment- But when you got me to do it, I did hate it. Especially the moment right before you do it every single day. That decision. Am I gonna do this today? First of all, there’s scientific evidence for certain health benefits or whatever, which are great. That’s not really the reason I’m doing it. I’m doing it because it makes you feel really good because you get this burst of, I guess it’s serotonin that lasts a few hours, but I kind of go into this ritual where it’s that minute before you get in there is this sort of, I’m gonna get into this thing and it’s gonna be very unpleasant. Especially the moment of making the decision to get in and lower yourself into this thing. Ooh yes. Every day. And right now I’ve got it at 51 degrees, it goes down to 39 and you’re supposed to decrease a degree a week. I started at 55. I’m gonna tell you right now. Is that what I got in it at? You got it at 55, which again, you may not think that’s cold- 55, I’m gonna tell you right now. Get in 55 degree water. If you don’t think that’s cold, dude. Five to 10 minutes and you’ll see, I mean your body thinks that you’re dying. You’re doing something that’s going to kill you and that’s why it responds the way that it does. Yeah. But there’s this, even this morning when I was in there hating it in the first 30 seconds, I kind of open my hands up. Cause again, opening your hands under the surface of the water makes you that much colder because your hands are, I don’t know, can’t remember the technical term for it. Some sort of surface that your heat escapes your hands, you know, it degrees. Quickly. That’s why covering, wearing gloves actually does keep you warm. But just sort of having this breathing through the adversity, which a lot of the people who do it on regular basis are like, that’s kind of why they do it because you develop this sort of physiological response to adversity and you breathe through it and you learn to expect it and accept it and kind of move through it and sort of long term creates, makes you more willing to deal with adversity. And so I’m doing it because it makes me feel good. Ironically that, well I don’t know if it’s ironic, but that’s the thing that kind of motivates me to be interested in it. So I do like that philosophically. Yeah. And I think it really does have- You might get up tomorrow and find me in it. It really does- You can come over and use it anytime you want. It really does have sort of a euphoria that happens right after, cause I get out of it, I put a robe on and then go make my smoothie, which is, you know, full of olive oil and other things and I’m freezing in that moment. But oh man, I feel good. Can you take footage of you doing this so that we could see this happening? That could probably be arranged. I mean, I don’t want a close up or anything, but just like- I am naked inside of it. Are you? Most of the time. We have guests right now, so I’m not naked in there. Just in case they come down for breakfast or whatever. Wore a little bathing suit this morning. Okay, we’ll do that for the video or let’s have some tasteful cropping. Tasteful cropping. Okay. I don’t think I had a big splurge. Well, I think I bought my DJ deck, I think that was this year. It had to have been. Yeah, for sure it was. Okay well here we are. It’s my wreck. Everything we’ve said today is basically a wreck in one form or another. So, I’m gonna put it back to the community birdhouse. Littlefreelibrary.org. Hmm. Called it a birdhouse, but you know what I mean. Don’t put birds in there, put books in there. Book house. Hashtag ear biscuits. We’ll be back at you next week. And remember, let us know what you think by sending us your voice. One-888 ♪ Ear pod ♪ ♪ One ♪ We got a couple, just two more episodes before we wrap up the season. Is that right? Yep. Yeah. So we’re gonna talk a little bit about our Thanksgiving break and then we’re gonna cover our highlights for the year. I love it. I love that one. Bye-Bye. What is up Rhett and Link. This is Jacob from Dallas, Texas. I also broke a collarbone while mountain biking. 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