Welcome to “Ear Biscuits,” a podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Link. And I’m Rhett. This week at the Round Table of Dim Lighting, we are going to be talking about your romantic mishaps. You answered our question that we put out there on the internet, which was, “Ever had a romantic plan completely fall apart, “whether you planned it or someone planned it for you? “We wanna know your romantic mishap stories.” So that we can laugh in your face, you know? ♪ Sometimes love go sideways, Rhett. ♪ Hey, listen, it can go any way you want. That’s your preference. You know what, I got a number of friends who like, they talk about their first date or like an early romantic encounter with the person that they’ve been with for like years, maybe decades now. And like, the best stories are the ones that like, start off sideways. Like, you hate each other or something catches on fire or like, you know- Spoiler alert. Venereal disease. Spoiler alert? I haven’t read any of these. I’m just saying just a metaphorical venereal disease. Well, okay, nothing catches, yeah, something catches on fire. Oh. I just, I mean, I look at the Teaser. I can look at the titles of the things that we have to go through here. Yeah, you looked at the titles this time, I didn’t. ‘Cause I was working on something else. Now what about super gonorrhea, though? I cannot speak intelligently about this nor from personal experience. Do you know what I’m talking about? No– I’m not talking about, that year I was a superhero called Super Gonorrhea. No? I’m talking about drug resistant gonorrhea. Okay. So obviously drug resistant bacteria in I guess viruses are something that we were all talking about and all really scared of until COVID happened. And then we got distracted our eye, you know, moved to that crisis. But now that we are, hopefully that crisis is subsiding now staring us straight in the face is the drug resistant bugs that we will be facing, we are already facing, millions of people dying of this already worldwide. Millions more will die soon. And that’s gonna make Now, but I’m some adjustments. I’m monogamous. I mean, let’s just make this about me. And super gonorrhea. No, I don’t think it necessarily kills you, but from what I know of it– I mean, is it just, if you’re like– It’s gonorrhea If you’re legs are spread, That you can’t treat it. Like your legs are spreading a Ralphs and you can get it? Mm. No. Okay. I think you gotta get it from somebody else with super gonorrhea. Okay. So. The point I’m making is that– Great. You said that some of the best stories of love stories start with things going sideways. And I’m just saying, I wonder if there’s a super gonorrhea becomes a super awesome relationship and I’m doubting if that’s the case. Okay. That was the joke portion of my– Yeah. Yeah. Setup. Hey, safe sex guys. All right? Safe. Wear a condom. You know what– Not two though. Don’t wear two. Do not wear. We learned that from our sex September. Not September. We learned that from the GMM episode where we talked about like questions that kids ask that’s where we learned that. Really? Yeah. When we were singing about sex ed questions. Okay. That’s what– If you wear two condoms– The friction, the chances of one of the condoms actually rupturing is much increased. Yeah. Cause the friction, it’ll start a fire. That’s where the fire– It’s like a racing. Okay. That’s a negative thing. Can I throw in a positive thing– to keep this thing up? Please. ‘Cause I’m riding high. You didn’t even think I was gonna be here today, man. We’re recording at a completely different time than I had planned for and prepared for. But we’re still good. We’re still good. We’re actually bet… I’m so good. I’m so grateful. I’m feeling so great because I am free. I have been released from jury duty. I got the thing, I’ve been calling in all week. You have to call in at like 7:00 PM at night for the next day. Yeah. Last night it was a Wednesday night. What’s the day, Thursday? Yeah. And I had made it through, I had made it through Monday, I made it through Tuesday, I had made it through Wednesday. And then, No, I gotta go in, I gotta be in there at eight o’clock. And this is the second time– this is happening. Downtown LA. We’ve both been called or summoned. Summoned To be on a, you know, to be considered for a jury. Yeah. Multiple times. I’ve called all week, I think three times since I’ve been in LA. And never been summoned. Never been summoned– and said this is the I was summed twice second time. Is it, you think it’s… it can’t be like some alphabetical thing. I’m super summable man. Yeah, but they don’t know I mean that’s what they Anything about you about me. Oh, he is so summanable. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, is there something about, I mean, I don’t know what it is. Is it glasses? They think you got better judgment. I don’t know that you– It’s my sense of justice. They don’t know that you’ve got glasses. It’s my sense of justice I’m known for that. I was ushered into some holding room. I mean, there was like over a hundred people in there. The more, the less likely it is for you to be called. They started calling people over the loud speaker, just listing out names and what, like… And then people would just get up and just go off into oblivion. Never to be heard of again. See anybody you recognize? Nope. I’m like, I mean, like, “Where’s LeBron James in all this?” It’s kind of what I’m thinking. Nobody escapes it. Nobody escapes it, man. I mean No one’s above. It’s a civic duty. They’re civic duty man. Yeah, yeah. And I’m, you know, I’m happy to do it and I did it and it didn’t take long. But I got scared, man. You know, 15 people go away, 25 people go away. And then they’re like, “All right, for this next one, “it’s gonna be a 30 day trial. “So when I call your name, “you either yell out yes or no based on whether “you have a valid excuse.” And they give you the excuses that you can choose from? They give the excuses you can choose from. Like, one of them is you’ve paid for a vacation that is non-refundable. Wow. I’m like, if you, you know… I’m looking for all types of reasons to like plan another non-refundable vacation. Like now, you know, when you’re… If you plan any sort of vacation, like even if you do like an Airbnb for one night, after you’ve prepared yourself to pay pony up, whatever, you gotta a pony up. There’s always this like, “Oh, and do you wanna add insurance?” Like, it’s kind of like when you go to rent a car and they’re like, “Oh, do you want to add insurance?” And it’s like, “Ooh. What should I do?” You don’t have to add insurance if you got it through your credit card. I mean– Yeah, that’s what I think. But now I’m like– That’s what I think “Oh, I’m not adding insurance to a vacation “because I could get called in for jury duty “and this is my out.” I did not get called Risky. for the 30 day. Good gracious. Because, and you have… And one of the excuses, valid excuses is if you’re self-employed– Self-employed and so it’s like a company, you put your company livelihood at risk, you know? Right. And there’s so much that we’re doing here that like, I was prepared to give some sort of speech to like lawyers and judge. It was like, you know– Let me show you my important work that I do. There’s lots, I mean, look at this hair. I think everyone in the proceedings will be totally distracted by this hair. Yeah. And plus I got, you know, I don’t wanna… I got all these people who just be sitting on their hands, you know, it’s like I’m kinda central to this stuff. I’m not trying to toot my own horn here. I think I could go a month without you, but I mean. But you know, it would shut down production. Everybody’s just waiting for me to show back up again. But there were like maybe– a few day trials. I was prepared to talk about that apparently. But then they kept calling, kept calling and they said a couple of Charles’s. And let me tell you, every time, every time they would say a CH name. Boy my pucker string would just tighten up. What did you think?– I was nervous, man. It was as if I was on trial. Here’s, I mean, first of all, and when I think everyone needs to, everyone needs to perform their civic duty. I did. And I do think that at some point– I was there for it Later in my life, I would actually like to be a part of this system. Right now, not a great time. I’m curious. Yeah. I wanna be able to like, I want to be a juror before I die. But my question for you– Or while I’m dying, that would be interesting. Is because, is because I think that– Last thing I do. You, like, if I were in your shoes, and again, I haven’t actually been called in, every time I’ve made the phone call, you don’t have to come in. But if I found out the night before that I was gonna have to go– You’re not summable. I would’ve gone on YouTube and I would have like, done some research about what I would say. Again, I wanna be clear. I’m not saying You’ve been clear. I’m avoiding this forever. I’m just saying that right now, really inconvenient throws a lot… Even three days right now throws a lot of… Everything is planned here in so far advanced that I don’t like to throw that wrench into the system here. But my assumption is that you did not do any sort of preparation. No. I was in complete denial that it was ever gonna happen until the moment it happened. Because you would have a much more. And then when I woke up this morning– interesting story. I forgot. If you went there and you had to go to the next stage and answer questions. Because at that point– I was so close to that last time– And oh men. There’s a way to answer the questions that is honest, but still kind of throws ’em off your scent a little bit. If you’re a long time “Ear Biscuits” listener, you can go back in time to, I don’t know when that was, back when I had to go to like, it was a different courthouse. I told that whole story. I don’t even remember it. I’ll go back and listen to it to know what happened to me. But they kept calling, they kept saying not other Charles’. And then it was like, oh, we got there at eight and it was like 11:30 by this time, they probably called seven different groups, seven different cases. And people just file out– ‘Cause that’s the interesting part from what I understand is the next part where there’s a,– I’ve experienced the case. I’ve experienced that. And then they start describing things and asking specific questions. Oh yeah. They interrogate you to see if they wanna put you on the stand. Yeah. I mean not on the stand in the jury box. Yeah. And then they moved It suddenly you’re, defending yourself. That’s what I’ve already talked about, man. Go back to the archives. Yeah. If you wanna be interested in that. But you didn’t have to get up on that, you didn’t have to answer a bunch of questions. She comes over the loudspeaker. No. And she just says, “Good news for all of you “who are still sitting in here, “you have performed your duty to completion– for a year. “You’re free to go. “And we’re gonna give you a slip on the way out. “You can sign it on you at your leisure. “But keep up with that thing “because you’re good for the next 12 months.” And then– They’re saying if you get summoned, you have to present this. Well, it’s proof. Why doesn’t the system know? It’s proof if the system tries to drag you in again. And let me tell you, when she made that announcement, everybody in there cheered. Like, it felt like I had been exonerated. Mm. Like everybody in there was just kinda looking at each other like, “We did it. “We’re innocent.” Well, the courthouse is kinda like a doctor’s office. Even if there’s nothing wrong with you, you feel like you’re that close to justice being dispensed. Yeah. It could hit you. That it makes you feel It could come out sideways, it could hit you. Like I dunno what could go wrong here. It was, I mean, it was great to be in like a government facility in like a holding room for hours and then to receive news that every single person in there was elated. Like that was a moment. Everybody needs that every once in a while. Yeah, it just felt so good. Like we just all strutted outta there. Like we had done something and we hadn’t done anything. We hadn’t done anything. Well, you’ve done more than I have. But I was ready, I was ready to give my speech to say why I couldn’t perform my civic duty. ‘Cause my civic duty is employing people. Huh. You know what? Can you take a camera in there? No. Because we could, I mean, I’m just saying we can make it content. Yeah. You can’t talk about it. Well you know, we can– I would talk about it. Well, but– In code. You could video glasses, spy glasses. I believe juror number seven, What if I just had a big shoulder camera? Yeah. Yeah. He’s definitely filming this. This is my emotional support camera, it’s not on. Yeah. Right. That’s funny. Oh man, there you go. I mean, it’s just nice to be out in the world again. You know, the fresh air, like I was just looking at the sun just like beaming down on me and the beautiful downtown Los Angeles streets. And I was just I got a new lease on life, man. Okay, well let’s ride that high into some romantic mishaps. But first let’s talk about the latest Quarterly Collectible from the Mythical Society. 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Eventually after, you know, me pining over this guy, he came over to hang out one night. It was the weekend, it was really late. A guy on drugs basically broke into my apartment while we were hanging out. I lived on the second floor of a duplex in this old, old building. And the locks and stuff I guess weren’t that great. He basically busted through the door and jumped. He didn’t even look at us. We were sitting on the couch. He just busted through the door, ran up the stairs, busted through the door, opened the window to the roof. Didn’t even look at us. Went on the roof and was hanging out on the roof. I called 911 immediately. The guy I was with was completely useless. This kind of diminished that crush on him. My roommate comes out, she’s the nicest person you’ll ever meet and she’s trying to coax this guy back into the house. And I’m like, “No, I’m calling 911. “Get this guy outta here, he’s obviously on bath salts.” You know, from 10 years ago at the height of bath salts. She’s trying to coax him in with like ice cream. And she’s like, “Come on in, please.” Like, “Come in, it’s so cold.” I’m like, “Julie, stop.” Like, “What are you doing?” Anyway, ruined the night. But now we have a story to tell when the baths salt guy broke into our house. Anyway, he fell off the roof, he did. He landed in a the snow bank. The police ended up catching him. It all worked out, whatever, we never saw him again. He didn’t hurt us, but it was a pretty intense night. So love you guys. Thanks for the opportunity to tell you my story. Okay, bye. He fell off the roof into a snow bank. He’s okay. So that’s why she was trying to coax him in with the ice cream, cause she was afraid he was gonna jump off the roof, which he did. So bath salts made it out of Florida, I guess because there’s no snow banks in Florida. But the crush was completely useless. Which gives me a great idea. I’m with you buddy. The service that we could offer. Yes. I think that there is something to this creating a situation that becomes an intense yet pointed judge of your potential partner’s character and– Wherewithal. Anything, what are, You know. What is it that you’re interested in? Right. We can construct that immersive experience and we send somebody where they might be on bath salts and the– Yeah, I mean, and I’m using quotations, cause I’m not, you know, he’s acting like he’s on bath salts. Right. Cause we’re doing a service. No one’s actually doing it. But if he needs to jump off that roof, he will do it. He’s a star man. We have a person for that. Right, right. We also have, like, if you’re gonna go on a date and you wanna test the, like, fidelity meter of your potential mate, and then maybe this is like, “Hey, well maybe we’re three, four dates in.” First you need to tell us what a fidelity meter is. Well, what I’m saying is that, okay, let’s say, And we’ll be like, “Okay, we’ll work on that.” Let’s say that you are a man who is dating a woman and– It happens. You are… The woman hires us to see if– Oh, fidelity. The man is– I was thinking like audio fidelity. Oh, okay, well you’re a DJ, you can’t help it. And so– Elcount. The test that we would have an attractive woman who would, at a certain point in the evening, would come in and flirt with the man as a test. Right. And then she would– She would have on the video glasses just to throw back there. Because we have to have evidence. This is the kind of like cheaters. And then if like, if he does not succumb to her advances, then she is like, “Well I’m just gonna go up “and jump off the roof.” And then see what he does. We don’t have to have a jumping off the roof. I think they’re all gonna jump off the roof. There’s all… But we will provide the snow bank every time. Yeah. Well that seems like an unnecessary expense. We’ll work out the kinks. Our resources are unlimited. I mean the, just given this is such a far and away the best business idea we’ve ever had. I think all we’ve really done– Test your mate– Is created a series of hard to watch social experiment YouTube videos, which are the kind of, I just, I mean, I just don’t like those videos, man. And you know what I’m talking… I’m talking about the completely fake ones. Fabricationed. Yeah. And I just– It is nice to know. I mean, it’s like, this is good data. If it’s like your crush just completely implodes. If that’s something you’re… That’s attractive to you, then you’ve learned something. If that’s something that’s not attractive to you, then you’ve also learned something. Anything that happens when you’re dating somebody is a learning opportunity. That’s what I wanna impart. Like dating is, it’s just be curious. You know, everything can teach you something, you know? Well, my wife has never let me live a particular situation down. And that was early in our marriage when we were walking down Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where we were living at the time. I had to do some time in Chapel Hill. Hmm. There was a man who was acting erratic and he was on the street, on the sidewalk. And we walked past him. And according to Jessie’s account of this story, he was kind of erratic and seemed like he was getting potentially aggressive in multiple directions, including while we walked by, her direction. And at which point I moved away from him– Behind her. No, no. It was like we were… What happened– I remember her saying behind her. No, I didn’t…. According to… The story, has grown over the past 20 years to me, like literally taking her and pushing her at him and running. Yeah. You ever see one of those like a keeper? You see how a keeper just kind of lays out, trying to like save the, you know, save the score? What I will say I did, and it was a mistake You just laid out behind her It was a mistake, is that I moved away from him. She was closer to him. My assumption was that if she was also threatened, I wasn’t actually threatened, but I was kinda like, “This guy’s a little squirrely, I dunno what’s gonna go on. “I’ll step away from him.” I was kind of expecting her to also step away, but she will never let me live down the fact that I did not step in front of her and like create like a big red barrier. Yeah. And I’m sorry That’s your fail. But, I mean, there is– What did she learn? She learned that I guess every single time we’re walking on a sidewalk– Every man for himself woman And there is any kind of character that seems to be exhibiting abnormal behavior that might lead to an incident, which happens quite often in Los Angeles. Which. She is like… Her radar is up Now. She’s not. It has to be now. She’s not worried about being hurt by someone. She’s worried about are you gonna do the thing that you did 20 years ago? Abandonment. Yeah. And so now, boy, you ought to see the way I can box out at this point. I mean, it doesn’t even have… There could be absolutely nothing about the person’s behavior. And I’ll put a full butt into ’em just to kinda create a barrier between them and my wife, you know. Just a full box out position. It could just be like a old woman ready to cross the street. I’m not helping her across the street. I’m keeping her away from my wife. You ride a gold woman. My romantic fail. I’m sure there’s been many, but the one that comes to mind right now is, it was pre pandemic, but it might have been 2019 when I took Christy on a Valentine’s date. We went to Malibu and I’d found, I’m sure I talked about it on here and I probably made it seem like it was a success. I can’t remember how I couched it. Oh gosh. But now I feel like You could do that? It was kind of… Yeah, I would never do that, would I? I’d found those tapes where we were like the cassette tapes where the long distance walkie-talkie, where we would send cassette tapes back and forth and we’d keep adding to it. And then when I played it, I surprised her that I’d found them because they were lost for years. Yeah. And I revealed the surprise by just playing the first tape for her. And after a few minutes, it was just like, what I thought would be this sweet romantic thing was just kinda like, it was so cringey that we just couldn’t, like we, it’s like we couldn’t keep listening to all of– Who was cringier? We were both pretty cringey. Like our accents were like, it was like we were just children. I mean, we’d learned a lot. It was like, wow. It’s just like, we are not the same people we were. But I just remember it just wasn’t, it didn’t it, it wasn’t enticing. It didn’t, it definitely didn’t lead to a make out session. Hmm. I see that. I can see that. But the, and we were… And then we went through the drive-through, not a drive-through. We went through the exit and there were so many cars leaving this place. There was somebody behind us, beside us in a drive-through, and we were beside ’em. And then they were having some hanky panky in the car. Oh. Like there was like some, some hand hanky panky happening. Hand jobs? I believe it was like that. Yeah. Whoa. It was– How’d you know that? You peering in? You had to really peer in– to see that. it was a broad daylight. And I was looking at their faces. Was this was a low car? Was like a Mini Cooper? No, I wasn’t able to look. All I could see was like shoulders and heads. You can tell what people are doing with their hands by looking at their shoulders and heads? Given her reaction, I could definitely tell. That’s our service, we also offer– Something was definitely going on that wasn’t happening in my car. At Roof Jumpers, we also offer the service of being able to, when you go through a parking lot and tell people, tell what is happening by looking at people’s heads and shoulders. There’s nothing worse than being on what you hope to be like a romantic date. And Valentine’s Day is built up so much and you’re in your car cringing about like your accents from college and you look over next to you and they’re like in full pleasure mode. And you know, it’s just kind of dejecting. And you’re thinking back on a time when you weren’t even kissing because you were so conservative. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It’s like, That sucks man. I was like, “I’ll have what they’re having.” This is a great segue into number 11, Link. Oh, number 11. Yeah. Right. Yeah, cause I did a little pre-screening. We don’t always do that, but had the time today because you were a jury duty. So now I can do crew segways. Right. Hey, Rhett, Link Mythical crew. My name is Mandy I’m from Seattle, big fan. Anyways, I’m calling to share a story about a romantic mishap. So buckle up. Okay, so I was a senior in high school at the time and I was finally dating the guy that I had had a crush on since middle school. Thank God. And for the sake of story, we’ll just call him Peter. We’re not together now. Peter. But we were together for five years and it was our first Valentine’s Day together. So we went out, we saw a movie pretty early in the afternoon. And we had some time to kill before our dinner reservation. My man. So we opted to go down by the river in town and watch the sunset before heading to the restaurant. We did watch the sunset, but we also got a little like frisky, I guess. Nothing too crazy. We were making out our clothes stayed on, anyways, I guess we kind of lost track of the time. And the sun was definitely down, as in it was pitched black outside. So we were making out the back of his car and all of a sudden we see a huge blinding light aimed directly at us through the windshield. And in my head I’m like, “Okay, we’re being abducted.” Like By an alien? There’s nothing else to go off of since we couldn’t see. Then we hear a loud knock on the door and it’s a freaking police officer. And he tells us to get out and he accuses us of doing more than just making out, which clearly was not the case since we were fully clothed and all that. He was super rude and demanded to see our IDs. And then that was when I realized I had left mine at home, which he really didn’t like. And then he was saying like, “Do your parents know you’re here? “Maybe I should give them a call.” Which really just pissed me off because we were clearly not doing anything else. So Peter explains that we’re killing time before the reservation and he lets us go. Unfortunately, I spent the rest of the night almost crying because I was so shaken up. And unfortunately Peter spent the rest of the night laughing at me, almost crying. So it was really rough. We had better Valentine’s Day after that. I guess it was the cops job for that Valentine’s Day to like make sure people weren’t doing the dirty next to the boat launch. But yeah, that’s my story. Love you guys. What’s wrong with doing the dirty next to the boat launch? Especially if you’re in a car. I don’t know. I don’t know. I think we should have designated places for this. This is an interesting question about what is the motivation? Is there an actual… I mean, okay, yeah, you can’t go to Disneyland and be, you know, porking in the parking lot, you know what I’m saying? You can’t do that. There have to be some standards. But if you’ve got a van and you can’t see into it, I think you should be able to do whatever you want to in your van. Right. When we were young, we used to… I think you were with me a few times, when we would… Around the country where we lived, there were a number of college students who would roll out somewhere into like a field and– There was like And hump in their car. And we would find them. We would find them. And we would find them and not– ‘Cause we were looking for ’em. I do remember one time– Once you found them, we were looking for ’em after that. Most of the time it was like, can we from a distance see something that, you know, you wanna see? Usually the windows were too fogged up or whatever, but there was a couple of spots where it was like reliably people would come. I remember one time, I dunno if you were with us this time, I seem to remember that we… It was that field now that there’s a, the second like 18 holes of Keith Elza over there. But it was kind of near Ben’s house, in that little farm pond. Yep. And they were behind the farm pond. And it was like, in my mind, it was a Pinto, it was like a Pinto wagon and it was bouncing up and down vigorously Vigorously Vigorously. And super fogged. And we just walked right up to it, like just dumb little 12 year olds, man. Just like, we’re gonna walk right up to this. And we walked– You touch it and run away. No, we didn’t touch it. Were you there for this? I don’t know, I know the story and I visualized it, but I think it was because you told it to me and then I just maybe fantasized– In such vigorous detail? Yeah. Well I don’t know who was with us. It might have been a neighbor or two Adam. And then like, we stand there for 15, 20 seconds at which point the girl sees us. Now we couldn’t see anything, but like at one point, like I’d see this head pop up and look at us in absolute horror and all of a sudden it’s like they just go away. I’m sorry if you went to Campbell University in approximately between 1988 and 1992, and you were engaging… And first of all it was illegal at the time and maybe still illegal to have someone of the opposite sex in your room. If you were caught at Campbell University in the eighties or nineties with a girl in your room, and you were a guy, you would be kicked out of school. We had a guy that was on the basketball team, that got expelled because he had a girl in his room. Why? So if you wanted to do the dirty, you had to get into a car and go to the farm pond. And I’m sorry that I took what may have been a beautiful experience and I ruined it. And whatever I could do to make up for it, just contact us at 1-888, EARPOD1. EARPOD1. Please do that. Yeah, if you wanna reach out to people who went to Campbell between 88 and 92 and got interrupted by a couple of 12 year olds while having sex. But back to this story, Peter, as she called him. Yeah. I mean, totally got cop blocked. Yeah, he got cop blocked. Yeah, had to go back to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. What are we clicking on now? Another VM. I forget I have to do this. Hey, Rhett and Link. My name is Ben from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Longtime watcher, first time voice mailer. Yep. Yay. So I’m replying to the tweet. We know The romantic plan completely falling apart. Yep. This one time I invited this girl over and I was attempting to make spaghetti for her. Like super simple. Is that a euphemism? You can’t possibly mess that up. But long story short, I ended up, my stove ended up catching on fire. And so, you know, I had to grab the fire extinguisher and I had to put it out. And then the rest of the night, me and her were, we were cleaning up the debris from the fire extinguisher. Oh, it can be a lot. Oh yeah. That was fun. It was a nice bonding experience. And to answer inquiring minds, no, we’re not together anymore. All for the best. Alright. So have a great day guys. Love y’all. Yeah. So. Yeah love ya. Yeah. So if we’re using this to gather evidence gather evidence, gather data to then bring in into Roof Jumpers, which first of all, I don’t like that name– as a business Yeah, we gotta change that name. There is a snow thing there every time. But let’s change the name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s cause it’s, no one gets hurt. No one gets hurt. But if we’re gathering data, this would lead me to believe that a fire isn’t necessarily a good thing to do on a first date because they didn’t end up staying together. And you know what? They cleaned it together. Like that was an opportunity. Yeah. This is really a great story for a couple that needs to stay together to the point where he had to tell us that they didn’t. You know, it’s like maybe, I don’t know. I don’t wanna, it could have gone another way, you know, could have gone the other way. I do think that when you’re on a date, the earlier in the relationship the better and something goes horribly wrong. It’s like you got to recognize the opportunity. There’s data to be gathered and there’s a story to be had and it’s, you know, you’re gonna face adversity. You might as well go ahead and see how your love interest responds. It can also– But don’t unleash a fire extinguisher. I mean, it just, I don’t know that stuff, Just put a lid on it or something. The one with the powder. Now if you’ve got the CO2 one– You’re okay. Which I don’t even know where you get those. But the ones that you just… If you just go to let Home Depot and get a fire extinguisher, it’s gonna be the one that’s a particulate. And boy, that stuff… You’ve probably heard us talk about this many times. Before you play the next one. I’m not going play, I do wanna talk about Anything you don’t want me to. Sometimes a traumatic experience, can I wanna use the term artificially accelerate a relationship. Yeah. But sometimes that’s good. Case in point, when Jessie and I were dating and we hadn’t been dating for long, you know, we had like a slow build in our relationship. Yeah. Where we were friends, you know. As I was waiting for her to get to college. Yeah. She had to not be a child anymore. Yeah. Okay. That’s not cool man. It’s a different time. And also I was waiting for her to be in college before we dated and I did, okay. You did. You know, I didn’t start dating her when she was 18. I waited until she was in college and almost 19. But the relationship moved pretty quickly and her grandmother died. And I remember two sort of visceral… The visceral experience was actually going into the hospital room. And I never… Maybe one time had met her grandmother. You went in the hospital room? Yes. This was a date? Well it wasn’t a date, we were dating. But why didn’t you just let her go in? You didn’t even know this woman. Well because, I mean, it was getting pretty serious. Emotional support is the correct answer and there you go. But it was one of those– I guess that’s what you’re getting at. It’s actually one of the images in my mind. I don’t like hospitals and I always get, you know, I have health anxiety and I just don’t like being in the space. But I haven’t seen a lot of like heavy stuff that takes place at hospitals in my life. I have. But one of the more, one of the heavier things was going in there and basically seeing her grandmother in the final stages of life. And like unconscious too, at the time. But it was like a little bit traumatic. And we experienced it together. And then days later her grandmother dies. We, you know, there’s the funeral and it was after the funeral, when we’re like sitting on the couch at her house where I ended up unplanned… And this is not, you know, I tend to be pretty spontaneous about life, I’m very flexible in general, but when it comes to things like, when I’m going to say I love you or when I’m going to do this, I tend to be a little bit more buttoned up and planned. And I had not planned on saying, I love you. And I ended up telling her that I loved her. Really? And it was because her grandmother died and because we experienced that thing together. Now in our case, it worked out great. We’ve been married for 20 something years. But you gotta be careful when you experience something a little bit traumatic because it might artificially accelerate things. It’s just not about gathering data. You gotta know that there’s potential for things to like, for the accelerator to be hit pretty hard. Well, when Christy and I started dating, we hadn’t been dating long when I broke my pelvis and had that like the whole concussion story. Yeah. You know. And so, I remember that my mom was so, you know, we were in the mountains, we were like hours away. And my mom was so concerned and she was like talking to Christy on the phone. Like they were commiserating. And then like, Christy… Once I came back, I stayed at the apartment. I didn’t go home with my mama. And so like Christy was coming by and checking on me and like giving my mom updates. You know, just kind of like, instead of my mom trying to figure everything out just by what I was telling her when she would come visit and kind of gave her another point, like Christy comforted my mom. And of course me. Yeah. In that time when I broke my ass. And that was definitely formative. You know, the fact that like, and you got somebody caring for you, like actively, physically. And– ‘Cause she was in that… It wasn’t Christy because we haven’t showed this yet and I think we may at some point on the society, but one of the tapes that we found was me impromptuing a song about you having busted your ass, having broken your pelvis. I don’t think Christy was there for that, but she was there for some– of the other footage. She’s in some of that footage. She might have been there for some of that, but around that same time definitely she was in that, yeah, she was in that footage that I unearthed. The other thing is, we were pretty serious, but then like I went away for the summer. Yeah. A junior year. No, was it sophomore year? Yeah, sophomore year. Summer after sophomore year. We had been dating that whole year. So that summer we were apart and I had to fly back cause my mom’s dad, that papa passed away in 1998. And Christy, like, we were spending the summer apart and like, it was difficult for us but we were ready for me to be away for 10 weeks and for us just to communicate that way. It’s when we were doing the walkie talkie that I was talking about earlier. But I came home to see my grandfather in his last day. Like, I made it home before he passed away and then he passed away and like she showed up and like, she spent the day with me and then the next day she went to the funeral with me. And like you were out of town. Like all of my friends were gone. And that was a very formative time, yeah for us. Of course I still didn’t say I love you because I had this like idea that I don’t say I love you until I’m getting engaged. Of course, of course, like everybody. But going to– It still worked out. But yeah, that was a big deal for us. And you know, honestly going to weddings with somebody that you’re dating, I think it’s just that– I think that’s more of a dangerous, like you have You have this cautionary tale of like to calculate a lot of things When tragedy hits, I actually think that’s pretty good. But like when you… Going to a wedding, I think that’s where we need to have more of a cautionary tale. ‘Cause you can get this love bug, right? Yeah. You know, you got, bridesmaids and groomsmen getting all enamored. And I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it– Hammered and enamored. I’m just saying– That’s a recipe. There’s an awareness– For disaster. There’s just needs to be an awareness. If you’re the kind of person that you’re like, actually I’m kind of trying, you know, like I’m warm to the idea of getting married and I’m trying to warm this person up to the idea of getting married. I don’t think that it’s manipulative to invite them to a friend’s wedding or to go to a friend’s wedding with them. But it could work in your favor if that’s what you’re after. I just think you have to… And then if you’re like, “Actually I am committed to not fully committing “to this relationship and I don’t want it to be, “I don’t wanna get married.” Well don’t go to a wedding– Make other plans that weekend. You know what I mean? You know what I’m saying? Yeah. Hmm. Let’s read a tweet. Oh, read it. Because that’s also a thing that we can do. Read it and weep. This is from Invader, Dizz, Dizzy Wizard 101. Dizzy Wizard. I think this is supposed be– Is he a dizzy Weezer? I think it’s supposed to be my wife and I, not why wife and I. Because that’s a whole different question. All right. My wife and I went miniature golfing with a group of friends where I planned– So hot. Where I planned to propose to her. One of the holes had a beautiful waterfall feature. Now let’s just, I mean, okay– Lotsa holes. So Flowing water, sexy. Instead of finding a waterfall in nature, the waterfall at the putt putt place was gonna do the trick. Oh yeah. So you kind of set yourself up for what happened next, which is– And there were friends there. Yeah. Yeah. The moment I hit my knee, a friend missed a putt and threw his club against the fence yelling and cursing. But it does say my wife and I. So, apparently that now, you know– Yeah, that’s not a romantic scenario. Now this whole idea of popping the question and making plans. This, to me, it happened at the right time. It happened at the appointed time. It was a bad plan. But it was a bad place, it was a bad plan. Sorry, sorry Dizzy wizard, you’re a little bit dizzy here. If you had to do your proposal over again, would you have rigged it to where there was somebody there taking photos of it? Well, that’s a great question. Considering that that is such a part of the culture now, but it was not a part of the culture in 99 or 2000– whatever it was I’m against this. You can take a photo afterward, like a selfie. But like, I don’t know. I just think it’s weird. That’s a good question because I think what I would do now, we’ve kind of told our proposal stories before. Right. There was nobody present in mine, it was just the two of us going from place to place to place and then ending up at the place that we had actually first talked and then asking the question. I think it was a great plan, I think it worked very well. Yeah, if there was a dude in the bushes though. But if I were to be planning a proposal now in the year 2023, which I’m not, I think it might involve some sort of, not public, not public aspect. I would never– Like long lens paparazzi photo type thing? I mean, there’s a type of personality that does a proposal at a baseball game. Do you know what I mean? On the jumbotron. Like if there’s a spectrum of people and at one end of the spectrum is someone who would ask someone to marry them on a jumbotron, whatever the opposite end of that spectrum is, that’s where I sit. I am, no, no, no, I do not wanna be on the jumbotron. I don’t even wanna be on the jumbotron if I’m just eating popcorn. But I don’t wanna be on the jumbotron. Yeah. I hate being on the jumbotron. That’s why I don’t like sports. But I think it’s different to– It’s never a flattering angle. To document. First of all, I mean, your proposal story is well known and that it was– Completely spontaneous. Ill advised– Sand’s ring. No, ring. You know what? ‘Cause I was planning to get the ring and then pop the question and it was gonna be a complete surprise to everyone except her parents. And I never actually made plans. Like, I can’t tell you… Like I’m glad I didn’t. I mean, if I had that probably would’ve held… I would’ve held off. You know, be like, “Oh, I got this thing all planned out.” I didn’t even get to that point. I was like, I’ll get the ring in a week or two. And at the same time I’ll also come up with a plan. I don’t know what my plan would’ve been, like if I think about it now, put myself in that situation, which I’ve never done.– So you didn’t– I don’t know what my plan would be. You never had a plan? No, that’s what I just told you, man. There never was any forethought. It was, “I’ll get the ring and then figure it out.” Or, “I’ll figure it out while I’m getting the ring.” But then I was like, you know what, let’s just go for it, I can’t, I mean, it was an overflow of emotion. It wasn’t rational. What would I have done? I don’t know. I don’t know what, what could my propo… It would’ve been awesome. What did we like to do back then? I don’t, I think we might, I don’t know. Maybe we would’ve gone to the beach. Maybe we would’ve watched the sun come up. You know? I have no clue. I think it would’ve been one of those things. I mean, you did some creative things with like the post-it notes, et cetera and all that stuff. Oh yeah So, you know. I have my moments, I have my moments. But it’s interesting that in that scenario of, you know, the groundwork that you had laid the proposal didn’t have the same sort of structure to it. Yeah. You weren’t even planning on it. ‘Cause it happened very quickly. I decided that I was gonna propose and then like, it was probably three days later that I actually did. It worked out. And it, you know– Yes it did Rhett. Thank you. And also if somebody were to say like, “I’m not gonna marry you “because of the way that you asked me to marry you.” You know, that’s not somebody you wanna be with. Right. But I still… This is actually a good segue to this tweet right here. Oh. From Pantsdamntasnic. I like that. I got stuck in traffic on the route to the Biltmore Estate. All right. Largest private residence in the United States. I love it. Where I was going to, and by the way, I think I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, no one has ever contacted us. I am interested in– Jumping off the roof of the Biltmore Estate into a snow dune. In getting access to the parts of the Biltmore Estate that not everybody gets access to, okay. I’m also interested in that. I love the Biltmore Estate, I’ve been there several times. I love it too. I love to find… And I know that there’s a whole lot of that estate y’all are keeping from the public. Yep. We wanna get in there. That’s the part that I wanna see. I don’t want… I’ve been in there enough times in a big old line. I wanna go to the secret parts, okay. I’ll make it worth your time. His foot rubs are amazing. So Biltmore Estate people. We’re, hey, we’re– I’d like to retract that statement. We’re North Carolina native sons, man. I mean, I was born in Georgia, but grew up in North Carolina. You you were born there. He was born in Boone Trail. You know what I’m saying, come on. I was born in Durham. Oh, Wikipedia. My mom worked in Boone Trail. Wikipedia says you were born in Boone Trail. I was not born in Boone Trail. I think you were born at the Boone Trail Hospital. No, I wasn’t, my mom worked at the Boone Trail Hospital, but then I was born in Durham. Wow. Well, hold on, this is a problem link. But yeah, I guess I was, I grew up, my first home was in Boone Trail. Well, right now it says that you were born in Lillington, North Carolina, it used to say Boone Trail. You need to get the Wiki updated. Well, I mean the hospital was in Durham, but like, I was raised, my first home was outside of Lillington. In Boone Trail? In Boone Trail. Okay, this guy was raised in– Boone Trail I would actually call it Raven Rock, so I think it’s more Lillington. Okay. I hope that was worth it. Let’s hear another voicemail. I haven’t finished the… I still got stuck on Biltmore Estate, ‘Cause I really wanna go to the back parts. Yep. Let’s just go to another one. No, Pantsdamntastic was stuck en route to the Biltmore Estate where I was going to propose in the gardens. Oh, they’re beautiful. So we ended up pulling over and I proposed in the parking lot, behind Burial Brewing in Asheville beside a sign that indicated you cannot let your dog poop here. Still, she married me. Get her done. So this, you can– That’s where that phrase comes from. You can relate to this. But I’m not going to. I don’t wanna associate myself with this guy. I’m skipping this one, man. I don’t, you know, there it is, you read it all the way. Hey, Rhett and link. I just saw your tweet about romantic mishaps and I immediately thought of this one time I was in college dating this guy, thought he was the love of my life. He was finally getting ready to meet my parents. They came from Pennsylvania to the state. I was going to college and basically just to meet him. And he played football at the neighboring school that I was at and I’m really excited. I did my hair, I did my makeup, I got ready. At this point, I was 18 years old, head over heels for this guy. And I’m scrolling on Twitter, listening to music, just waiting for his football game to get over on Saturday because he was coming over that night and we were doing brunch with my parents. Brunch. As I’m scrolling on Twitter, there’s a viral tweet going around of a football player jumping up into the stands, giving his girlfriend a really cute handshake and basically wishing him luck for that game. I thought it was really, really cute. I even think I savored the video. The girlfriend had tweeted it. Yeah, lo and behold it was him. It was the guy I was dating at the time, his girlfriend and I was really, really upset. He lived an hour away the next town over. And so I still made him come. I made him waste all of his gas and as soon as he got there, I basically told him to turn around and I was really upset about it for a really long time. But yeah, I immediately thought of that romantic mishap just being so excited and that happening. So that’s it, that’s me, that’s my life. Have a good one. That’s your life? Like that’s what your life is like? Well, that’s a piece of her life. You know what I just wanna celebrate that you kept your power. You said, “You know what, you’re gonna come up here. “Yeah. Come on, come on to the brunch.” Get out of the car. Schmack. I hope there was like a slap involved. It doesn’t sound like there was. There was like a situational slap. “You burned your gas. “Ha! Now turn around, put your tail between your legs “and give your girlfriend that secret handshake “that everybody’s tweeting about.” Well, that would’ve been the perfect thing to do, the handshake. Like to memorize and the hour– Oh yeah. In the hour that it took him to get there to memorize the handshake so that as he shows up, you just go right into it. And he is like, “Oh shit.” There’s something sad about it though. It’s like, okay, the whole time he’s coming up, you’re watching the video. Well, this has become a phenomenon. Not handshake, cheaters, which is a different thing. Football players going into the stands? Not that specifically, but basically– Handshakes? being found out via viral video. So you may, I mean the number of these, it happens all the time, is usually at sporting events. Cheaters with public displays of affection. Yeah. On the jumbotron. So there was one, I don’t know if it was a World Cup thing recently and the guy… Listen, first of all, I’m glad the guy got caught. I’m glad that the cheater was caught, but he totally outed himself. Because he’s sitting there like doing something with his girl or his side girl, and he sees himself on the jumbotron and like immediately like, gets nervous and like plays it off and tries to look. And everybody knows exactly what he was doing. If he had to just like not played it off, he would’ve never gone viral. It would’ve just been something that happens at a sporting event. And just the people there, you know what I’m saying? He made himself go viral and so then he gets caught. Again, I’m glad he got caught. Of course, it was probably somebody in the stands who knew him. Maybe, you don’t know And would’ve reported that. But this has become a phenomenon in which through some sort of viral situation, that’s how you get caught. Well, shoot, you know. This one’s very specific though. Well now I love jumbotrons. I think this is they’re being used for good. You think that before it was bad? That’s what I said earlier in this conversation, yeah, I didn’t like ’em. You think there’s something morally wrong with them? No– Making people’s faces that big. What? Yeah, I said it’s never a good angle. Yeah, nobody’s face. You know, I’m part of this podcast. Should be that big. You should listen to me occasionally. Well, I’m trying to get you to make the moral argument for you. Oh no, I didn’t have a moral argument. What do you want me to click on now? You could just click on, You should click on number nine. Hi Rhett and link, my name is Hannah and I’m responding to your tweet about a bad relationship meetup situation, romantic plan thing. So, it was my junior year of high school and I was going to prom and my boyfriend at the time had told me that he wanted to surprise me with the place we were going to for prom dinner. And I was a little nervous because he had specifically told me that he wanted to take his ex to this same place, which probably should have been my first red flag. And that he really did not wanna go. But he followed that story up with, “Oh babe, this place means so much to me. “It’s my favorite place. “It’s so romantic. “I just, I want it to be a surprise. “You just, you’re gonna be blown away. “You’re gonna love it.” And so I was like, “Oh my gosh, this guy is so sweet.” He’s like, just really thinking this through. And so I didn’t ask. I, you know, was just let him plan it. He hypes this up for months, months, this man hypes this up. And so prom night rolls around and I’m putting on my, the fanciest dress I’ve ever freaking worn and all the jewelry and my makeup’s done and everything. And he picks me up and he’s like, “Oh, you’re so gorgeous.” We take all these pictures and I’m so excited. We’re driving to this restaurant. And he’s like, “I just can’t wait for you to get here. “It’s so romantic.” And he pulls into the parking lot of Longhorn Steakhouse. And not just did he pull into the parking lot of Longhorn Steakhouse, but the man couldn’t have even bothered to make a reservation for Longhorn Steakhouse. So then we sat in the lobby of that restaurant and were just stared at by all these families. He’s in a full tux, I’m in this like full like ball gown. And this man is in like a like t-shirt with paint all over it and ripped jeans. And so, yeah, don’t always trust your date to plan your prom dinner, I guess, it’s a lesson there. The good old Longhorn letdown. I’m assuming that the relationship didn’t continue. Did she say that? No, we ended it at that moment. What do you think was going on here? Like really like? It’s just, you know– Forensically? Taste and standards and just the inability to plan or building it up all this time. But just not thinking… The guy, a dummy. I think he’s just probably– He sure is stupid. Just a dummy. You know, it’s just like, to build it up yet not make reservations. It’s just kind of like shortsighted. I remember a time in which– To choose Longhorn, you know, it’s just a matter of taste. I remember when, as we talked about Chili’s, Outback, these are some fantastical places. Exactly. Like Outback, which I think is a little fancier than Longhorn. It is. I don’t know what long– I took Jessie to Outback on our first official date and I thought not that it was, hmm, I don’t know how you use the term fancy, but I thought that it was much more expensive. It was pricey enough. Than anything that I had bought for her. Cause it was. Remember that Valentine Day But I did tell her to dress up. Where we like… Where there was that place in Durham that had a weird name that was like really fancy. Parizade Parizade. And you went there for Valentine’s Day and you look over and here me and Christy are walking into Parizade. We had both made reservations. Tables were right next to each other. Well, neither one of us knew that we were going to the same place with our Valentine’s dates and we had both planned it. The same person had told us we should do it. And that was a good place. I think that was a good Valentine’s Day place. But we didn’t join up tables or did we? We didn’t. No, no, no. We talked a little bit, but it wasn’t about us. No, but it made it a little weird. It was like, “Well, whose idea was this?” Hey man, great mind sneaker alike. And we both had this idea that Parizade was a really nice place for some reason. And it was, I mean, I don’t know, I wonder if that place is still open. Is it? Like, I wanna look at it and see how would interact with this place at this point. And just spoiler alert, we are so spoiled. Like, oh, you know, we just, we like to eat at like nice places. Okay. Yeah. It’s still around. Is it, what’s the reviews? Well, first of all on Google it’s 4.5 with 810 reviews. Good. So we’re not spoiled. $3 signs and you can only get four. The description is upscale locavore. Locavore? Is that a word that I don’t understand? I think it’s people who like to eat locally. Upscale locavore Mediterranean fare prepared in an open kitchen and served in an elegant dining room. Yeah. See, listen, even back then, man. We had to drive all the way to Durham to go to a place like that back in the day though. Let’s look what they have on the menu and how much it costs. Okay. Because I mean, I just wanna make the point that– We’re at time, but this seems like something to really dig into. Well, no, I’m saying that like at that time, we were, I mean, I had a very tight budget. My grocery budget for the month was either 200 or $250, for all groceries. Yeah, we were both married. We were like newlyweds ish. Yeah. $200. Definitely, we tried to do $200. Well, I think you guys need to work on your website. Did you just fail? Currently the server is down parizadedurham.com. Oh. It’s a good restaurant though. Still got great reviews Sorry to get your hopes up But that was a fancy place, but it was the limit of fancy for us. And so I think we just both sort of naturally convene there. So what have we learned today? Talk about learning stuff. I don’t know, I kind of feel like you’re the one who should have learned something. I learned that you don’t like the angles of faces on jumbotrons because I listen to every word that you say. But I learned that you don’t think that I listen to you and it offends you. Oh, there you go. All right. What did you learn today? Let us know, using #EARBISCUITS or call us 1-880- EARPODS1 EARPOD1. You got a wreck for us? I do. Parizade. Durham, North Carolina. My Wreck is a book Where I was born And the book is called “Solito.” Is this fact or fiction? It is a memoir of Javier Zamora who traveled from El Salvador to the United States. Okay. To be united with his parents. And it’s just a really, I mean, first of all, I think he either, he may have won the Polar Surprise or was nominated. It’s a great book. Like really, really well written and captivating story. He was… So, he traveled, he was a kid at the time? Yes. Yes So like. And just basically like the process, like I think it gives, even though this was written 20 years ago, the situation hasn’t changed that much. But just learning about the story of people coming across the southern border and like what their lives are like, why they’re doing that, what it’s like for them, what that experience can be like. I knew bits and pieces about how some of this, you know, works, but to hear a personal account told in a very compelling way was, it was very eye-opening for me. “Solito,” a memoir by Javier Zamora. Are you recommending the audible version as well? I did not listen to it, I actually read it. Okay. All right. Which is, you know, which is unusual for me at this point in my life. I actually read the book. I’m sure that the audible version is great, but I recommend also just actually reading it. Yeah, especially if you have jury duty. A lot of people showing up with actual physical photos. What were you doing to kill the time? I had my AirPods and I made some doctor’s appointments for myself. Okay. And I listened to some music, Some high fidelity music? Yeah, I did. I did. I listened to some music. Yeah. And I listened to some TikTok. We’ll see you next week. Hi, this is Aubrey. I am driving home through Mebane North Carolina, you know, all the way through the research triangle, all that stuff. Stuck in some bumper-to-bumper traffic. And there is an old white Pontiac in front of me. And the license plate is a vanity license plate and it says “Merl Hag” M-E-R-L, space H-A-G. And who knows, maybe it’s Merle Haggard. Anyways, love y’all. Thanks so much. Bye. To watch more “Ear Biscuits,” click on the playlist on the right. To watch the previous episode of “Ear Biscuits.” Click on the playlist to the left. And don’t forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe. If you prefer to listen to this podcast, it’s available on all your favorite podcast platforms. Thanks for being your mythical best.