Welcome to “Ear Biscuits,” the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Rhett, and I’m Rhett. That’s right, you just got me this week. You have one of the lifelong friends because the other lifelong friend is living it up. He’s living it up on the slopes, hopefully staying intact. I haven’t gotten any texts or any calls yet from him or anybody in his family, informing me that he has broken his other collarbone. So fingers crossed, I’m recording this on a Thursday of the week that he is gone. And he will be having his last day on the slopes tomorrow, so, so far, so good. But yeah, we were like, let’s do… I don’t think we’ve ever done this before. Jenna, do you remember us ever doing this? I do not. I don’t remember this ever happening. There’s been a couple of times in the history of “Good Mythical Morning” in which one of us has been gone, where somebody has subbed in. But we were thinking like, “Ah, what are we gonna do?” And I don’t know exactly what Link’s got planned for when I’m gonna be out of town. I don’t know how he’s gonna handle it, but I was like, “You know what, I’ll do a solo one.” And Jenna is here on the mic, so, you know, I’m comfortable doing things by myself, but I’m so used to having someone here, Link is his name, and he sits right here. And when you have somebody that you’re doing a podcast with, there are these moments that when they’re talking, you can kind of be like, “Okay, I’m not talking right now. I can think about what I’m going to say.” I can take a sip of whatever I’m drinking. Oh, yeah, where are you supposed to look now? Where are you supposed to look now? I don’t… I’m kind of just looking at my camera. But to make it easier, instead of just doing, listen, what Emma Chamberlain does is kind of remarkable when you think about it because she just sits there and talks and remains very interesting. And I don’t listen to her podcast on a regular basis, so I’m not sure if she answers questions, but the few episodes that I’ve listened to, it seems like she’s just kind of just talking the whole time. I’m gonna take the easy way out and I’m going to make this a conversation with you because we told you that I was gonna be doing this episode, and we asked you to ask me some questions. But I do want to give you a little update. This is the kind of thing that I would share with Link if he was here. And that is, I had a little bit of a full circle moment this week. You might know if you’ve been around for a while, that we are a little bit infamous for a stunt that we pulled after college, in which, as I have maintained for many years, I did not actually participate directly in this. Meaning, I did not take a dookie in the Tupperware that was placed into the chip bag and then taken into a party and put under a couch, and subsequently ruined a party. It was very immature. We had to apologize directly to the women whose house this was. And we saw it as a good-natured prank, but it was not good-natured, it was foul, and I don’t know why we continued to talk about it. ~But the reason I’m talking about it today is because this week I did something that in any other context would be considered a prank, and that is I put my shit in a box and mailed it. I’m 45, and that is when you’re supposed to start putting your shit in a box and mailing it to a lab. So I do plan on getting… I’ll explain why I did this. I do plan on getting a colonoscopy. And maybe Link and I will go get colonoscopies together. I mean, we got vasectomies together. So that is something that is… There’s a discussion that is ongoing about that. But because Link turns 45 a little bit after me, I wanted to get the head start on him. And, you know, there’s a service where you can shit in a box. It’s more than just shitting in a box, just so you understand. There’s multiple layers involved. Like, any box? No, it’s a specific box. There is a specific receptacle. There is… I mean, there is kind of a process. I’m not gonna go into the things that you have to do, but it seems… The part that was the most potentially humiliating to me… Well, first of all, I had to tell Jessie because there’s the thing that you put over the toilet to catch your shit, right? So you don’t have to like just shit in your hand and put it in a box. They don’t make you do that. Thank God. They’ve really thought about this. Maybe the first person that shipped their shit shit in their hand, but since then they have perfected this and it’s just a little plastic thing that you put on the toilet, and you just feel like you’re just taking a regular shit. But I did tell my wife, I was like, “Don’t go in the bathroom for a while because I’m working one up and I’ve already placed the contraption in the toilet, and I just don’t want you to even see this contraption.” I only want you to see the box when it’s fully sealed because I wanna maintain the romance. And we have a strong relationship, long relationship, and we are not one of those couples that don’t fart around each other. And if somebody’s defecating, maybe the door’s cracked open. I don’t know, we don’t like… We’re not sitting in each other’s laps taking shits or anything like that. Nothing against you if you do that kind of thing, but that’s not how we do it. But we’re not embarrassed about those things. Bodily functions is a natural part of being a person, but I didn’t want her to see this. So, yeah, there is a process, but you seal it up and then there’s a bag inside the box, like a sealed container goes into, you pour some kind of like preservative onto it, and then you just peel off the label and it goes to the lab, but you do have to take it into the UPS store, right? And the box has like branding on it for this company, and it says, human specimen or something like that on it. And you know that the person working at the UPS store has collected enough of these shit boxes to know when a shitbox is coming in. And I could tell by the way the woman looked at me, and she’s, “Ah-huh, yep, you’re of age. I know that there’s in this box, your shit.” And to hand somebody your shit in a box, and it’s not a prank, it’s just like, “Yep, I know where this is going.” In fact, she said, “Would you like a receipt?” I almost said no out of shame, but I said yes because I figured maybe I needed some proof that I sent my shit off. So we’ll see what happens. I read a little bit about the service, and apparently, there’s a relatively high false positive that comes from this. So you could be told that you might have colon cancer, and you don’t, like 13% of the time. So there’s like a 1 in 10 chance that I get a false positive, and then there is a chance that it detects something and I need to get a colonoscopy earlier than I thought. But, anyway, just a little personal update from me. I have a, a couple of things we’re gonna do. I’ve got your voicemail questions that some of you asked, and I’ve got some Twitter questions that some of you asked, and I’ll just be bouncing back and forth between the two. Let’s start with a voicemail. Hi, Rhett, this is Gage. I’m from Michigan, been a longtime fan. My question for you is, did you ever get made fun of in school for being so tall? Thank you, man. Have a good day. Thank you, Gage. You have a good day too. Have I ever been bullied for being tall? You know, I actually… And I probably have told this story before, I was bullied a little bit in school and it was mostly because of the fact that because I played basketball and I was on the varsity team even as a freshman. Like, I got pulled up for the playoffs as a freshman because I was tall and my brother was on the basketball team. I wasn’t that good yet. But because I was this young guy on the varsity and then the next year as a sophomore on the varsity team, I was a little bit of a target, right? And when the bullying would start, it would be about how skinny I was or how tall I was, and that was part of it. There was one guy. I won’t say his name, but it was the most like intense bullying that I’ve experienced of like being cornered in a locker room and like kind of being like punched around like, not in the face or anything, but like punched in the shoulder and stuff. At the time, it was just like, “Oh, this is what this guy does to everybody,” and I’m gonna ki, ki, kind of laugh it off and just kind of get out of it. And I didn’t even… This is the weird thing about how different it was in the ’90s. I never thought about that as bullying until I had kids in school and everyone talks about bullying in a lot more like aware and informed way. But yeah, I guess I was bullied, and it would turn into mostly how skinny I was, which I think was a function of how tall I was. So maybe not directly because of how tall I was, but I was only on the basketball team because of how tall I was initially. So I could link my bullying to my tallness in that way. Thanks for the question, Gage. This one is from… This is from Twitter. This is Novocaine96 who retweeted a tweet that I tweeted in 2019. And you know what, I figured this is as good a time as any to finally give you some direction here because I talked for many, many years about telling y’all my back routine, my like back stretching core exercise routine. I talk about how I do it every single day without fail, which is true. I like never miss it. Definitely haven’t missed a day in 2023 and probably missed like one day in 2022 because of some weird circumstance. But Novocaine said, “Rhett, is soon gonna happen? Asking for me,” or asking for a me, because I said in ’19 will share soon. Well, I’m a little late and I’m actually not gonna share my routine because I’m gonna point you to a resource, okay? And the reason I’m not gonna share my routine is because my routine is ever-evolving. It’s constantly incorporating new things based on need and based on… I’m being served up all these Instagram videos and TikTok videos about mobility, again, something about my age. Mobility, stretching, knee stuff, back stuff, and it’s like, “I’m eating that stuff up like you would not believe.” Like, they totally know their target audience. I want all of it. Anything to do with knees, anything to do with back, I’m gonna sit there for hours watching it, making my back and knee problems worse, by the way, just sitting there in bad posture watching this stuff. But what I’m gonna do is I’m going to share with you or point you to a video that I think covers the core of what I do and what has remained the core of what I do every single morning. Now, if you have any sort of lower back issues, any sort of mobility issues, basically, every single day that I get up, without fail, when I get out of the bed, my back is tight and it hurts a little bit to move. Now, there were years, probably 10 years ago, in which it was awful. Like, I would wake up in like a six or seven outta 10 in pain in the morning and just kind of thought it was normal. Now it’s more like two or three on the scale. But what I’m gonna point you to, if you just go to YouTube and you search, 6 of the Best Lower Back Exercises: Your New Back Mobility Routine. This is from a channel called [P]rehab. I’m not endorsing this channel. I mean, I am ’cause I’m pointing you to a video. But in a very quick sort of search, this guy seemed legitimate and he was doing the things that I do, like the core of what I do, and he seemed like he was informed. The most important piece of the routine for me, and the thing that I’ll do, like if I’m in a weird scenario where, I don’t know, I wake up on a boat, which actually has never happened. But let’s just assume that if I were to wake up on a boat and I didn’t have like the space that I typically have, what’s the one thing that I would do is the cat and cow. You know when you get on your hands and knees and you arch your back. Some people call it the camel, I don’t know. Cat and cow, you know what I’m talking about, Jenna? Yes, yeah, I only know it as cat and cow. So this is basically getting on all fours, your knees and your hands, and then arching your back each way slowly and like, boy, that is just… And you can really kind of just get it… Where you can move your butt around and kind of move in different positions, and like, that is such a non-negotiable for me. And the one exercise, ’cause this is all about mobility in this video, but the one exercise that I do that I would say is also indispensable, people call it different things, but it’s kind of like, you look like a dog pointing. You’re on all fours and you lift up your right arm and your left leg, and you switch and lift up your left arm and your right leg, and you keep your core really like tight ’cause you’re not actually trying to use your lower back muscles to do it, to engage. You’re engaging your entire core. Some people just call it like an arm and leg raise, whatever. I think you know what I’m talking about. I just call it the pointer thing ’cause it’s like a dog. I do that every single day too because it just kind of like it gets the blood flowing to the right places. So I don’t know how satisfying that was ’cause I did say that I was gonna make a video, and I decided not to make a video. I decided to point you to other videos, and then point you to an exercise that I cannot remember the name of. So maybe that wasn’t satisfying. Balancing table pose. Balancing table pose? That’s what they call it? That’s what they call it. I’ll take it. Let’s move on to another voicemail. Hi, Rhett. It is I, Brett. My question for you is, if you were offered immortality by an omnipotent being today, would you take it? Why or why not? And if so, what would you do with your immortal life? And let’s assume that is the regenerative kind, so any preexisting physical ailments or if you lost a finger, it would all be healed up in short time. Thanks, my partner and I are big fans, bye-bye. Brett. Rhett and Brett. I always use your name Brett as a way of explaining what my name is. My go-to is, Brett without the B. If I’m in a loud environment, “What’s your name?” “Rhett.” “Rick?” “Like, Brett without the B.” It tends to work. I’ve almost considered just changing my name to Brett because people probably don’t… Maybe people think he said Brad. “Brett, Brad?” “Brett, like, Rhett with a B.” “Oh, you’re doing, that’s what you’re doing, isn’t it?” Hmm. Immortality. First of all, I may be immortal. I don’t know. Meaning, this version of my consciousness may go on and exist after it has manifested in this body. I don’t know, right? Now, there’s a lot of people out there who believe it definitely will and that my particular consciousness will be going to hell. I’m almost certain that’s not true. I’m almost… One of the things, and I think I’ve said this before… I think I’ve said that before. I say that a lot. I think I’ve said that before. It’s something I said before, and I’m sorry I say that so much, but we talk a lot on the internet. But I think that any conception that any particular person on earth or any system of thought, including religions, any conception that they have of the afterlife, any specific conception is almost certainly not true. Like, one of the ways that you can figure out what doesn’t happen after you die is if some existing religion on earth says that that’s what happens. That’s my view of it, right? That’s how you rule things out, when somebody says, this is what happens when you die, well, that’s almost surely what doesn’t happen when you die, just mathematically speaking. But I believe… I don’t know what happens when I die. So if I was betting on it, I would bet that this particular arrangement of my consciousness goes away, right? Sure, my atoms and maybe some form of spirit that I don’t understand goes on and has some sort of existence, but because I think that most likely, like this version of me and this consciousness is finite, the idea of immortality is very attractive. So attractive in fact that I think it’s probably the reason that many of us believe in religion and why religion is so attractive, and it’s so attractive to me. But because it’s such an attractive concept and I… I really enjoy life. I enjoy new experiences and learning new things that I think I have found a way to have my cake and eat it too, Brett. I think I would say yes to immortality. And now the first thing you think when you hear that is, surely you’re gonna get tired of existing, and there’s gonna be a time in which you just want to pull the plug in it. If you are truly immortal, you can’t do that, right? But what I think you can do is I think you can induce coma. Hmm. Okay? So I know you said that this was the regenerative kind of immortality, and I don’t know if that means you’re coma resistant, but you’re still in a regular body, it’s just immortal, right? So I think you could do the whole Disney thing, like the Walt Disney thing, which I don’t actually think that he did that, but just… Did he do that? Did he freeze his head? Did he do that or is that just a rumor? I think that’s just a rumor. Okay, well people do that. I need to look it up. You can cryo-freeze yourself, right? And so I think what I would do is I would have… First thing I would do is I would just do like induced comas for like long naps. Just call ’em long naps, and I would wake back up and I would like reinvent myself. And then when I got tired of that existence, I would induce another coma. Now, first of all, yes, to answer the obvious question, I would fully fulfill my duties and finish my life with Jessie and my kids. And then at some point, my kids are gonna have kids, maybe they’re gonna… Like, at some point like, yeah, okay, I’m a great grandfather. One of these days I’ll be like, “Great, great, granddaddy Rhett is about to take a long nap. And when he wakes up, he’s not gonna have anything to do with y’all ’cause he’s… You know what I’m saying? Like, ’cause at this point, we’re just so distantly related. I’m traveling all the time, I’m spending a lot of time on the other side of the world, whatever, I will have maintained my distance from my descendants, right? Because at some point I have to detach. Then I would induce the coma for a certain amount of time. I’d have to have a really good relationship with a doctor who would somehow pass on their knowledge of my situation because I mean, worst case scenario, I guess it’s not even that worst case scenario, is I just remained in a coma forever, and then it’s just like I died, right? So I think that’s my answer. I would take immortality with intermittent comas or freezing. Fluttershy, “How is your ‘James in the Shame’ project going? Updates on the vinyl or any future songs or possibilities?” This is the question that I chose from… There was a sort of a vein of questions about “James and the Shame,” so I thought I would give my full “James and the Shame” update now while Link isn’t here and he doesn’t have to just sit there and listen to me talk about my solo project. I’ll just do it now while I’m soloing this podcast. The update on “James and the Shame,” people ask, “Are you gonna tour, are you gonna play?” Like, probably not, you know. I’m very, very focused. Like, my priorities in terms of my creative focus right now have always been and are, especially right now what we’re doing at “Mythical,” right? So what I’m doing right now, “Ear Biscuits, “Good Mythical Morning,” those are things that are gonna keep happening for an indefinite amount of time. And I have never been more excited about what we’re doing creatively on the Rhett and Link channel. And we have so many ideas that we wanna get out there, and so that’s where my sort of creative passion is right now. However, I can’t stop writing music. I’ve probably written another 10 songs since the album came out, right? And I have… I slowly dip into that continue to record demos. I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do. The good news is, is that a lot of the groundwork that I laid to kind of get everything set up, all the accounts at all the places and the website and et cetera, that’s all in place, and that took a lot of my time in the initial sort of run. Now, if I had a song and it was produced, I could just distribute it and it would show up, and it would go to all the right places. So the lift involved in getting new music out there is a lot lower. So I have plans to release more stuff, I just don’t know when that’s gonna happen. There’s no timeline on that at all. I’m just kind of keeping it active, right? Specifically, with the Human Overboard stuff, with the sort of “James and the Shame” first album. The update is, when you’re listening to this, you will likely either be getting your vinyl any day now because I have actually… I haven’t received them when I’m recording this, but they came a little bit earlier than we expected, which we were hoping. And so how that translates into when they ship out, I’m not exactly sure, but they’re printed, they’re ready to go, they’re being packed up and shipped soon. So you might have ’em by the time you listen to this. And also, I probably will have already announced that I got a secondary little merch run that I did that I’m doing for the spring. When I did the merch associated with Human Overboard, in addition to the selling the physical album, to be honest with you, like, we did some very simple designs and like threw some things together. I was happy with it, but it wasn’t like super high design, high concept, and like super creative stuff. It was like, tasteful, getting a logo onto a shirt kind of thing. But I’ve always wanted to do something that was more design conscious and more thoughtful. And so if it’s not out now, it’ll be out very, very soon at jamesandtheshame.com, is the Leviathan Collection, right? So a lot of people ask about the album cover, right? And there’s these like octopus tentacles coming up and grabbing me, and then there’s a boat in the back. And both of those things are sort of biblical imagery, right? That’s Noah’s arc in the back, which kind of represents the ship of belief as I’ve used in that analogy. And then that creature is not an octopus, not a giant squid, it’s the Leviathan, which is, you know… This is from mythology as well, not just the Bible but basically symbolic of chaos. And… ‘Cause again, that’s sort of the perception that I have always had about people who leave, who left the faith, and I know that’s the perception that a lot of people have about me from leaving the faith, is that I’m jumping into chaos and I’m being wrapped up by the world. So I love that imagery in a dark kind of sense. And we put together a few designs that if you’re watching the video right now, I’m showing you those. We’ve got this design, which is the Leviathan kind of taking over my head. We’ve got this design, which is the Leviathan taking over a guitar. And then we have a new “James and the Shame” sort of text logo that is the Leviathan tentacles making the text. And that’s gonna be released as a t-shirt, a couple of t-shirts, a hoodie, a sticker pack, and a bandana. It’s country music, so you gotta have a bandana. Anyway, I’m like very, very happy with this collection, and I think it kind of represents what I wanted to do with merch and what I plan to do with any kind of merch that I do that’s kind of got more of like a high design, high concept approach to it. So anyway, that’s the update on “James and the Shame.” I have no… It was so fun to play live at MythiCon, but there’s just the amount of coordination that would have to take place in order to play live, like, especially with a band, is just not something that’s in the cards right now. And so I just don’t… I can’t prioritize it. And I’m just more interested in getting the music out there and people being able to experience it in that way. And also, just quickly, last thing I’ll say, little to none of the music that I’m writing right now is a deconstruction themed, just so you know. I kind of felt like that was the first album and just, I don’t know. It’s of all kinds of subject matter at this point. And style-wise, kind of the same but changing a little bit. But anyway, I’m having a good time doing it. Hopefully you’ll hear it at some point. Quick announcement, speaking of vinyls, you can get this right here. The “My Hair Goes…” vinyl. This is the latest quarterly collectible item on the Mythical Society. So for years, for years, people have been asking us to rewrite the song now that my hair goes down and Link’s hair goes up, and so we did it. We completely rerecorded the song. Mark Byers is our producer. Completely redid. I mean, it’s basically an updated version of the song itself, of the original song, so it kind of sounds true to the original, but much better. You can see we’ve basically… This is an homage to the artwork that was in the song, and there it is. And then the record itself is this nice blue. I like that. I like that, those colored vinyls. You can get this. Oh, and also, not only does it have the original version of “My Hair Goes…,” it has the 2023 updated version with the reverse. And on side B, it’s got our song “Relevant,” which… Did we ever play that anywhere? We wrote it for something and we played it. Oh, we played it at… You played it on the Rent Link tour, the song, yeah. We did? Was was that the relevant one… Ooh, it was VidCon London. Yes. VidCon London, we like had a special performance of that song And I guess maybe we performed it somewhere else. Anyway, it’s a completely original Rhett and Link song that we wrote a while back that has never been distributed. It was never put on Spotify or anything, I don’t think. So anyway, you can get this at mythicalsociety.com. 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Discover your potential with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/ear today to get 10% off your first month. That’s better H-E-L-P .com/ear. Here’s another Twitter question from Brittany. “Okay, hypothetical question. In a mass zombie/shutdown situation, do you stay put for a period of time or head inland with hope of making it past the mountains for safety? Brittany, I cannot tell you how many times I’ve thought about this. Not specifically about a zombie situation. I don’t actually think that that’s plausible. But there are many shit hitting the fan types of situations that could happen. I mean, we kind of live in a constant shit hitting the fan situation right now, and so it’s like, there is nothing that could surprise me at this point. Many different things could go wrong, right? And Los Angeles is like one of the worst places you could be, right? Just like one of the worst places you could be. And I think about this on a pretty regular basis because you know how I think about the apocalypse into the world stuff. And I like to think that I’m prepared. I’m not really. I have some stuff, I’ve got some food, but not enough. I mean, we already know that Link’s gonna be at my house with his whole family, and they’re gonna be eating my stuff. I mean I gave him… When I got ready with my stuff a while back, I gave him some stuff, but, you know, he’s gonna run out, he’s gonna show up at my place. All of a sudden, all the McLaughlins and Neils were all together, and then whoever else, you know. And so, LA, if you go south, you basically… I mean, you eventually get to San Diego, eventually get to Mexico, that’s actually probably the only direction that you could head if you were trying to get out of town, right? ‘Cause if you go east, you could eventually hit desert, right? If you go north, you’re gonna very quickly come to just, it’s so desolate. It’s so desolate. Like, we just drove up there the other day for a video, and as soon as you leave Los Angeles, you’re in this desolate mountain range, and then you come down to the hill on your way to Bakersfield and it’s just, I mean, there’s nothing out there, right? Being on the East Coast would be such a better situation. And of course we have family on the East Coast. If we could get to the… If I knew something was about to hit the fan, like, if I had a real indication that things were gonna about to go sideways, I would get to the East Coast as fast as I could because there’s like more regular water sources, less people, et cetera. But I think, honestly, like, if there was a giant earthquake that shut things down, I think I’d just be holding steady for as long as I could. I definitely don’t think I’d start… There’s just no good place to go around here, right? And you’re gonna be going there with millions of people who are also trying to get on the road, so everything’s gonna be completely backed up. So I think I would just take my chances at home. But I do think about it. And I do know some of some spots in the mountains that I have like scoped out that like, there’s like little streams and stuff, but I just know I’m gonna have to like fight people over it. I think about this when I’m hiking. I’m crazy. I’m hiking and I like see a little creek, and there’s not a lot of streams and stuff like actively in the mountains. Right now, they’re all filled with water because it’s been raining, but they dry up quite a bit. But I’m like, “Hmm, yeah, I could set up a little shelter there. And then people would be coming in here to try to get water, and I’d have to like judge whether or not I was gonna let them in. And then like, we have to have some sort of system and how long would this water last.” I think about these things. “What am I gonna do to filter it?” “How many deer are there really in this woods that we could eat?” “When we can start eating each other?” Thanks for the pick me up, Brittany. Okay, let’s have another voicemail. Yeah, I just wanna know, like, what’s Rhett’s hair routine? Okay. Okay, I get asked this question a lot. And again, I’m going to take the opportunity of Link not being present. Because can you imagine? Can you imagine what Link would do to me if I went into my hair routine? Could you imagine how hard of… You people think that I give him a hard time. Have you ever actually listened to the way we interact? Have you actually ever listened to the things he says to me? Have you actually ever processed it? He wouldn’t let me get away with that for a minute without making fun of me every witch away. Just saying. Just saying. So I’m gonna take advantage of this opportunity where he’s not present to tell you my hair routine. Listen, there’s… It is not exciting. There’s not a lot that’s gonna… There’s not a lot to it. And all I do is, literally, about once a week, I wash my hair, okay? Let me just start there. I wash it and condition it and like brush it out like once a week. And if it’s a week where I’m like working out a lot or I get really sweaty, I’ll add a second wash in there, but I don’t wash it very often. That’s the first thing I do. The second thing I do… And it doesn’t stink if that’s what you’re asking. My hair doesn’t stink, okay? Partly because the only product I put into it is this curl renew spray. I’ve used a couple of different brands. I’m not going to endorse anyone. There’s many out there and they all kind of work the same as far as I can tell. I basically take a shower. And I take a shower at night, wash my hair, go to bed with my hair kind of wet. And then I wake up the next day and I spray this curl renew stuff in there, and then that’s like the only thing that I put into my hair besides spraying water on it to get it to reactivate that stuff. And that’s all I do. And that works on my hair. And people have been like, “I’m trying to grow my hair out,” and I’m like, “Listen, if you don’t have like a slightly curly hair, that probably won’t work for. You either have… Like, Jenna, you’ve got curlier hair than me. You probably have to do… You do something else, I assume? Yeah, I… Yeah, I do different stuff than you, but the spritzing with water, that’s all curly hair that works for that you do. Right, that was a big tip. Funnel in. Funnel in, funnel in. Hooked us up with that tip. And if your hair is straight with no curling at all, I mean, it’s like… I don’t think you can make it curly without like some sort of- Lots of product. Contraption or something. Lots of product and probably like a curling iron. Yeah, ’cause people are like, “Do the curly girl method,” or whatever. I’m like, listen, I don’t like having my hair long. I don’t like the inconvenience. That’s why… Listen, that’s why I wash it once. I’m not like, I washed it once a week because you shouldn’t wash your hair more than once a week, I wash it once a week because it takes too damn long to wash it and condition it and comb it all out. And so I’m just like, “Yeah, that once a week, it gets pretty naughty. I’m in the shower for a while.” It’s probably not advisable. I should probably wash it more. I don’t know. I’m just telling you what I do. That’s what you asked. I’m not recommending it. But yeah, I’m just saying put some of that curl renew stuff in there. I’ve used the cheap ones and the expensive ones, they all seem to work about the same, and then spray a little bit of water on your hair. Like, if I’m coming in and we’re gonna shoot GMM and I’ve got that stuff in my hair, I’ll just spray a little water and then it’s like, “Okay, it’s kind of curly.” Sometimes it looks better than others. Sometimes it does get a little greasy looking. Like, right now I’m on day four, okay? That’s what it looks like day four. We need to get you some dry shampoo. Well, I’ve done the dry shampoo. You don’t like it? I did it for a while but it kind of like, I don’t know, I feel like it gives me dandruff. It like dries my scalp out. I make my own. I don’t use the sprays. You make your own dry shampoo? Yeah, ’cause sprays usually for dark hair just… It doesn’t work. It doesn’t… It is always like a grayish tint that it leaves. Hmm, I can see that. Here’s a Twitter question for T1D|Chuck. “Why are you still doing what you do? This is not a jab, I love your work, but curious about what motivates you to keep going and moving forward?” This is representative of a question that seemed to come from a number of people. Like, what keeps you motivated? What gets you up in the morning? Why do you keep going? You’ve been doing this for a long time. I think it… First of all, let me just start by saying, I think it’s at least partly pathological. I don’t think I have a diagnosable disorder, but I do have a personality that is just, I don’t know. Every day I wake up, I’m kind of overwhelmed with the number of things that I want to do, and I’m sort of preoccupied with the number of things that I haven’t yet to do that I want to do professionally. The ideas that I want to bring into the world and the things that I wanna try. And so far, fingers crossed, those ideas have never stopped coming, right? The ideas continue to kind of overwhelm me. And I’m probably gonna go through… I’m sure I’ll go through some sort of creative drought. People ask about that a lot. And the reason I don’t answer that question is I’m like, “Well, it hasn’t happened yet, thankfully.” Usually it’s creative overload. It’s too many things at once, too many things that I’m really passionate about, and too many things that I want to try, and then I’ll just start doing them. And I think I kind of live my life in the deep end, meaning I’m treading water, I’m constantly treading water. And when I wake up… And this might sound like kind of torturous, and I’ll get to the good part of this in a second, but like when I wake up, it feels like I’m waking up in the deep end and I gotta… I can’t go back to sleep when I wake up because 17 things enter my mind that I could be working on that I need to be moving forward. And I’ve been this way for a really long time. And so I say pathological because I don’t think that that’s necessarily normal, and I don’t think that’s healthy. I’ve actually been doing a better job of recording my dreams lately to kind of… I’ve been doing this because so many of you suggested that I read more about Carl Jung. I think I’m just gonna say Carl Jung because every time I try to say the way you actually pronounce his name, my wife laughs at me because it’s just one of those things that I can’t quite get right? Like, I listen to a book and people say Yung, then people say Yong, and then people say Young. And I can already pronounce the word young, so I’m gonna just say that. Carl Jung. He was really into dreams, and I was just like, outta curiosity, I’m just gonna start recording more of my dreams. I’d like to get better at that. I have some crazy dreams. But what I’ve noticed is that so many of my dreams are me facing a really like insurmountable problem. Like, I’ll be in a weird situation and I’ll be like, I’m trying to get out of this canyon, and then I get to the edge, and there’s a weird incline, and I know that I’m not gonna… It’s like how am I gonna grip that? And then kind of in the middle of addressing that challenge, I’ll wake up. Last night I had a dream that I have been drafted to the NBA to play for the Lakers, which is not something I’m after at this point. I don’t wanna play for the Lakers, first of all. Let’s just be honest, I’m a Clippers fan. Second of all, I’m not NBA material. Actually never was. But in this dream, I was drafted into the NBA. And I was still living at home, but I also had Shepherd as a son, which was weird. And I was in my childhood bedroom and I was packing up to go to LA for my first game, and I couldn’t find my basketball shoes. And I was like, I think… They’re the Nikes. I was like, “Yeah, they wear Nikes.” This is… For some reason, in my dream, it was still like the ’80s where all everybody wore the same shoe versus just people wore whatever they want to. And it was like, they’re the purple and gold Nikes, and I don’t have ’em, and I’m not gonna fit in when I show up. I’ve got these green Reebok. I’m gonna get kicked off the team. That’s just an example. Like, every dream that I have that I’ve been recording in 2023, the ones that I’ve remembered have been like, I’m in this situation where there’s a peace that I don’t have, right? And I’m sure that’s a relatively… These are common dreams, but I just think there’s a lot of that, again, that waking up in the deep end, and I think that’s a huge part of what keeps me going because I just like look at all the stuff that we’ve committed to and all the stuff that I personally want to do, and that we together want to do, and that we wanna do as a company. And I just kind of like, it’s constantly there in front of me and I just have it… That’s yet to not be motivating for me. Like, it’s just always very motivating. And yeah, it gets stressful at times, but every single thing that we’re doing for the most part is so engaging. And when I say the most part, I mean, like all the stuff that you see, very engaging. There’s business stuff that I have to do that I don’t enjoy, but what we’re doing with “Good Mythical Morning” right now, I’m enjoying it more than I ever have. Like, I’m just having such a good time shooting the show, and that hasn’t always been the case. Sometimes it’s felt like work. Right now it doesn’t feel like work. I love doing this show, especially when Link’s not here. No, I’m just kidding. I love doing this show with Link. I actually think that because we don’t end up talking about a lot of things, we save certain conversations for the show. You’re hearing us talk about things for the first time sometimes. This show has been a lot about maintaining our friendship in a lot of ways. I mean, how many friends do you have that you sit down and talk to for an hour and a half every single week, right? Like, that’s a good friend. And of course we talk a lot more than that, but like, this show is basically, “Hey, our friendship on display.” I love doing this show. And of course I’ve said it a million times, what we’re doing creatively on the Rhett and Link channel, I’m super engaged with. So all this stuff is stuff that I really, really want to do, but I’m still figuring out what it is about me that commits to these things. I just throw myself in the deep end. I’m like, “Well, you gotta tread water, you gotta swim to the shallow end, you gotta do something,” and that’s the engine that has kept running the way I do things creatively for a really long time. I’m in therapy. So I’m figuring out exactly what that’s… I know that there’s like performance based family things and this my personality and all these things, trying to prove something, trying to figure out what it is that I’m trying to prove. But for me, it’s just a combination of my personality and then my job. Because if I was in a job that I didn’t enjoy, I think I would actually get pretty unmotivated because I can get a little scattered. But because I can take all these different interests and all these things that I’d like to see come into the world, and there’s a way for us at “Mythical” to make those things happen together as a team, it keeps me going. I hope that answered your question. Chris. On Twitter, introspect_cp. “How do you think you would’ve dealt with your deconstruction if Jessie wanted her and your kids to remain active in the faith? And how do you think it would affect your relationship with religion and with them had they remained to this day?” This is a really good question. I’ll say, I could imagine it would’ve been very, very difficult, right? I know families where this has happened where one person decides that they’re gonna piece out from Christianity or whatever the family’s religion is, and they’ve got kids. And I’ve seen this end in divorce. I think that’s pretty common because it’s so foundational to the way that you approach things, the way you talk about things and sort of the way that you taught your kids. But I actually think that… You know, there was never a moment where I tried to like talk Jessie into something or try to convince her of anything. I was just sharing things that were happening with me, doubts that I was having, how my faith was being reshaped in my worldview as sort of being unwound. And she responded with tears and panic. It was not good. It was not… And I would hold back the things that I was thinking because her reactions would be pretty extreme and sort of, I would just kind of slowly meter these things out over time. But slowly, she started having her own, for very different reasons than me, honestly, her own deconstruction that I’m sure was at least initiated or influenced by mine. But I think her seeing me begin to deconstruct, but remain who I was and remain committed to her and us, gave her this sense of safety and freedom to begin her own deconstruction. And so let’s just say that that had not happened. Would’ve been really, really tough. As it relates to the kids, interestingly, my kids, man, they were asking really, really difficult questions before we ever shared anything, while we were still going to church. I mean, Shepherd was a little bit too young, but Locke, I remember the first time he came back from church when he was like four and they had been talking about the Israelites and the conquest of the Promised Land. And he had a lot of questions of about the nature of God and the nature of genocide that we didn’t have great answers for at the time, right? Especially that a four year old could understand. He was asking some really difficult questions that I never asked as a kid, you know? So I’m not sure how long he would’ve stuck around, to be honest with you. So I don’t think his perspective on faith or Shepherd’s perspective on faith has actually been particularly influenced by mine. They’re very much their own people. But let’s just say that Jessie had been like, “It’s very important for me to remain a Christian and it’s very important for the kids to remain in the church and the faith,” first of all, I wouldn’t have fought that. I would not have tried to change that because for me the stakes are so much lower than they were as a Christian, right? That’s something that’s very difficult to understand when… It was very difficult for me to understand when I was a Christian because when you are a Christian, and type of Christian that I was, the stakes are so high. It is life and death, it is good and evil, it is heaven and hell, it is eternity, right? And these decisions are so weighty. And when you deconstruct and your deconstruction involves an embracing of uncertainty and just being like, “Hey, I don’t really know what I think about a lot of this stuff and I’m kind of uncertain,” and you become a lot less interested in trying to persuade people and trying to change people’s minds. And so I think that my kids having faith, my wife having faith, might be something that was a little annoying at times. You know, if they were to say something, I was like, “Well, have you thought about this?” But it wouldn’t be catastrophic in the way that it would be catastrophic from their perspective as Christians, right? So let me say that a different way. So if you are an atheist and your partner becomes a Christian, you may describe that as catastrophic, but really, it might just be disappointing or annoying or complicating, but it’s actually not catastrophic because you don’t believe that they are in danger of some sort of eternal damnation from God, in separation from God, in separation from you. But if you’re a Christian and your partner becomes an atheist and you stay in your faith, that is catastrophic because they are ensuring their own destruction, eternal destruction and damnation, unless the stakes are so high. But that’s not really a reciprocal thing. So I think it would just be like, “Yep, this is who my family is and I just kind of deal with it, and I try not to be an embarrassment to them and we try not to talk about it too much, whatever.” I hope that that’s the way that things would settle. And I think that now, ’cause I’ve kind of been through my sort of angry anti-Christian phase, and now I’m kind of more in an open place and I know that people who are still in the faith or in another faith are, in many ways, just as justified in their worldview as I am, I try to be less critical. If people wanna talk about things or get my opinion about a particular thing or the validity of something or what my perspective on it is, I’ll tell ’em. But ultimately, as I said in my deconstruction update, I feel like where I’m at is almost exclusively a combination of my particular disposition and the circumstances that I have found myself in in this life, and I think that’s how most people operate. And so I wouldn’t be too judgmental, I guess, is what I’m saying. I would just be like, “Yep, this is the situation. I’ll tell you what I think if you ask me, but I’m not gonna sit and try to make my kids become apostates with me.” Let’s have another voicemail. Hey, Rhett, I just had a question for you. I just was wondering, out of any artist in the world of all time, who would you collab with on a song? Like, a low down, dirty country song or nice blues song or bluegrass? I just wanna hear what you think, man. This is Hunter in Michigan. I just wanna say I love you and you’re doing a great job. All right, thanks. I love you too, Hunter. Low down, dirty country song. You might think that the answer to this question would be somebody I greatly respect like Merle Haggard, right? But I actually think that’s not the right answer because I think when you do a collaboration with another musician, you don’t want them to be a lot better than you. You ever heard those collaborations where you got two people singing and the one that’s like really good really stands out next to the person who’s collaborating with them. I’m not gonna call out any examples, but you probably have an idea of the kind of thing that I’m talking about. So I wouldn’t wanna like ruin a song by collaborating with Merle Haggard because his voice… When you listen to… Now, if you’re like a real music critic and understand music, you listen to “James and the Shame” and you’ll be like, “Okay, well this would be better if you had a great voice.” Like, if you really know, you know. But most people are probably be like, “Oh, ‘James and the Shame’ sounds pretty good.” But if you were listening to my voice right next to Merle Haggard’s voice, you would be like, “Oh, this is a different thing.” “This man is operating on a different plane.” There’s just a natural thing that’s happening, an effortless quality to it. So I would not wanna collaborate with somebody like that. I actually looked up a list of the most popular, yet worst singers of all time. And I found that these lists varied by quite a bit, but there were two people that were on all of these lists. Bob Dylan and Britney Spears. Damn. Okay? So popular musicians who actually cannot sing. And listen, no, Britney hate around here. I’m just saying this is what the people think. And if you think about it, you… Just think about a Britney song. You’re like, “Okay, yeah, there’s a lot of whispering happening.” There’s not as much singing happen as you think there is. Just go listen, right? And Bob Dylan cannot sing. We already knew that, he already knows that, but that’s kind of the thing about him, right? So I think I would use this as my opportunity, and I’m using it right now. Bob, Britney, if you’re listening, I’m thinking about a three-way musical collab, the three of us. Bob writes the lyrics, I write the music, Brittany does the Dance routines, music video, that’s the musical collab of my dreams. I think it’ll be great. Nobody without shying anybody else. You know, we all bring our gifts. You got any opinions about that, Jenna? I would love to see Britney choreograph songs with you and Bob Dylan. Yeah, right. I would love to see that. Yes. Free Britney. I love Britney. Okay, mae_wilsonnn. “Do you feel like the pandemic changed your perspective on parenting? I know as a teen going through it, my family/parent situation changed a lot and I’m curious how it was for your fam.” As I was indicating a little earlier when we were talking about the apocalypse, is it just me or have we become a bit numb to just how tenuous this whole civilization thing is, right? Like, as of today, I don’t know. I don’t know what it’s like when you’re listening to this, but as of today, we’re on the tail of this pandemic. We got banks that are failing, and people who know more than I do about this are like, “Ah, there’s nothing to worry about.” “These banks failed for particular reasons.” And I tend to agree, whatever, but we’re basically in World War III. I mean, let’s just be honest, right? I mean, that we’re giving a bunch of money to a country that is fighting Russia, and then there’s like other countries like around that country that are like giving their jets to the country to fight Russia. And I’m not gonna talk about the right or the wrong of the war, but I think… Oh, and also by the way, there’s aliens, right? It’s like, I mean… Or there’s something, right? There’s something that like people who are informed about this stuff and have information, access to information about things that we don’t have access to information about. I’m not talking like conspiracy level stuff, I’m talking about senators who have been briefed on things and come outta meetings and say things like, “There are things that the American people deserve to know.” What are you talking about? And it’s not even surprising to us anymore. We don’t even call anybody, right? It is just every single day. I answer it in that way, Mae, because I was thinking about this the other day as Jessie and I were talking about our kids. We worry about our kids. That’s what we do as parents, right? You worry about the decisions that they’re going to make and who they’re going to be and how involved should you be in all this. But the thing I said to Jessie was, I was like, “We live in a crazy, crazy world.” Like, when I was their age… So when I was Locke’s age, when I was 19, and it was ’97, 1997, right? I mean, I think people forget… I think people forget what it was like to be in the ’90s. So this is like pre-9/11. So that like late ’90s, pre-9/11, it was just like, anything’s possible. Anything’s possible. Like, we live in this great country. We got everything that we need. You just go to college and then you get a job and you live the American dream. It just seemed really, really simple. And then it, you know, reality. And first of all, let me just say, that wasn’t the case for everybody. I’m talking about me, upper middle class white boy from North Carolina, okay? I’m just talking about my situation. That wasn’t the case for everybody. But that was my perspective at the time. Now, there’s so many things going sideways that I don’t even understand what my kids’ life will be like when they’re my age. Like, what is the world gonna be like? So I would say, yes, the pandemic, and then every other thing that I’ve mentioned and all the things that I haven’t mentioned, have actually pretty substantially changed my perspective on parenting, because at this point, the thing that Jessie and I talk about is like, we just wanna have a relationship with our kids. Like, if we can have a good relationship with our kids, we’ve won at the game of life, right? Like, what are they gonna do, and who are they gonna be, and what are they gonna do for a living, and what are they gonna care about? It’s like, man, I just hope that they’re healthy and that I have a relationship with them. Not that we don’t continue to have conversations about what’s the best decision to make in this area of your life, and like if you want advice, we’re gonna give it to you. But I try to hold onto that like, I mean, we might just be like in a apocalyptic landscape, going around dressed in animal skins. You know what I’m saying? That could be the reality. I just want a relationship. Rebecca Bryson, “For the love of god, what did @losfamgeles,” that’s my wife, “get you for Christmas last year? You absolutely left us hanging for over a year.” I did, didn’t I? I did, and I’m sorry about that. Well, I’m gonna tell you right now what she got me. Jessie, and I don’t think I’m gonna show it to you, but I’m gonna tell you what she got for me. But I’m not gonna show it to you right now, maybe never. And that is because Jessie was getting to know… Well, she had a friend that she was doing some work with. She was talking about how, “I just don’t know what to get him for Christmas.” And she actually meant to get this for my birthday, but timing worked out, so it ended up becoming a Christmas present. She was like, he really likes pen and ink art, ’cause we had gone and stayed at this place in Big Sur for our 20th anniversary. We had a great time up there. And, you know, we had planned on going to Italy, pandemic happened, and so we kind of splurged a little bit on a California vacation and stayed at a really nice place in Big Sur. And they had… It’s one of these places that they kind of know that the people staying at this place have money, and so they have like a shop on site that’s got all this ridiculously expensive stuff that we typically do not buy, you know. But we were like, “We’re gonna look at this stuff.” So we like go into this little gift shop that’s got jewelry that’s tens of thousands of dollars for these handmade pieces and stuff. But then on display, there’s this giant drawing, I mean like 12 feet wide, pen and ink, and I immediately, I’m just so drawn to it. I’m like, this is this crazy intricate world that the closer you get to it, the more detail comes out in this thing, but it’s this giant world. And then the woman sees me looking at it and she’s like, “Oh, I can see the so-and-so has caught your eye. Well, let me tell you about that.” And she goes on to tell me that it’s these two artists in Brazil that either one or both of them are ambidextrious and draw… Ambidextrous, not ambidextrious. Ambidextrous and draw with both hands at the same time. And this particular picture, which is called something, took them over a year to make, and this was the original. And I was like, “Well, how much is it?” She was like, “It’s $150,000.” And of course I’m like, “Hmm, okay.” I act like that… Sure, of course, I did not purchase it. She said, we a print of this in one of our rooms. And I believe that… I believe that the guests of that room are… I think that they’re out of there. And as we’re walking to the room to see the print, we see Jon Hamm and his girlfriend who he met in Big Sur. Spoiler alert about “Mad Men” final season, he gets groovy in Big Sir with this woman, and they became real life partners. Anyway, we went into the room that they had been staying in, which is where this print was, and we looked at the print. She didn’t get me the print by the way because that print, just the print was like $18,000, okay? So again, I don’t wanna spend that kind of money on art. But she’s telling a friend about this, and the friend is like, “I have a friend who is actually really good at pen and ink, and he does commission pieces.” And she met with this guy, Ronnie Ray, Ronnie Ray Mendez, and she basically, Jessie wrote like a couple of pages about our life story and he used this life story to do a like four by six feet pen and ink drawing that was representative of our lives, and it was incredible. It wasn’t 12 feet wide and in Jon Hamm’s hotel room, but it was incredible and it was incredibly personal. And it ended up taking him longer than he expected ’cause he hadn’t done a piece this big before. Maybe I’ll show it at some point, but I feel like it’s just so personal and it’s so much about us. But that’s what she got me for Christmas. And she said it was the best… She was like, “I’m gonna give you the best gift that you’ve ever gotten,” and it was very, very much so the best gift I’ve ever gotten. And I’m sorry I forgot to tell you about that until right now. Let’s do couple more voicemails, then I’m gonna do a rapid fire to finish up. Hey, Rhett. This is Maggie from Denton, Texas. I was wondering, are there any habits or traits that you’ve picked up from Link over the years that you just can’t seem to shake? Love you guys. That’s a good question. You know, I was… I was talking Shepherd recently, recently as in the past year, and I was like, Shepherd’s talking a little different. I’m picking up on the fact that Shepherd’s talking a little different. Just a slight sort of one of those, can’t really put my finger on exactly what it is that’s different about the way he’s talking. Something about the inflection. And then I met his new friend. And I was like, “Oh, okay, he’s talking a little bit more like this guy,” which that’s something that’s very, very common, right? Getting to a friend group, there’s just these little subtle things about the way they communicate. And so when I read this question, I thought to myself, “Well, if there has to be so many mannerisms and ways of expressing myself that are very rooted in my friendship with Link. I don’t know if you saw this. Stevie sent it to us. I don’t know, I can’t remember the account, but somebody posted a TikTok called Rhett and Link Being in Sync for 10 Minutes or something like that, and it was exactly what it sounds like. It was a montage of all these moments that we’ve been perfectly in sync, both physically, what we’re saying, and sometimes just the noises that we’re making. And we’re pretty different guys, right? You know, there’s a contrast between the two of us that I think really works for what we do for a living in the entertainment business. You wouldn’t want two of me and you wouldn’t want two of him, but we work well together as a team. But I don’t know what those things are. I’d have to have somebody point those things out, and I think they’d be so ingrained into who I am that you’d have to go back to, I don’t know. I’ve known him since I was in freaking first grade. So I would be such a different person for multiple reasons, not just because of the way my mannerisms or my expressions or whatever have been influenced in the way that his had been influenced by me. There would be a lot more than that, but I’m sure that those things would be a part of it. But one thing I will say that I definitely thought about in answering this question is, as you might have noticed, Link has always been a few steps ahead of me in the fashion department. In the past year or two, he’s begun to do a little bit of a sprint in the fashion department, which, you know, when you are in… When you are in a duo, an entertainment duo of any kind, and you have to appear with each other in multiple settings, not the least of which is your show that you’re together all the time on, somebody moving forward at the pace that Link is moving forward in his fashion expression zone, it has an influence on me because I’m the guy that if I could wear the same thing every single day, like Dennis the Menace, that’s what I would wear, right? It would be like a comfortable, solid collared shirt that fits like this, sleeves rolled up, some sort of like not skinny but not loose jeans, probably like those Lululemon pants that are just more comfortable, you know. The ones I wear when I’m flying. And then some like dad tennis shoes, which, by the way, I bought the daddest pair of tennis shoes. I can’t wait to wear ’em on the show. You would not believe how big the bottoms of these things are. And I think they’re fashionable, I think. I’m not really good at picking up on those things. Anyway, what I’m getting at is that, while my style is not informed directly by Link, ’cause I’m not trying to do the same things that Link is doing, if you see me wearing like a new shirt or a sweater or something that seems interesting, it’s because if I don’t do that, it will get too imbalanced. That’s the honest reason. So Link has a direct impact on my fashion. And there’s things like, okay, when the jeans started getting really skinny, like, of course, Link was gonna be the one to get the really skinny jeans earlier than me, and I’m just like, “Man, I’m six foot seven, I’m gonna look like a fucking idiot in these jeans.” I got other things I gotta think about. I’m too tall for this. But eventually, here I am with my skinny jeans because I can’t be the guy next to the guy on the internet who’s got the fashionable skinny jeans on and I’ve got like the dad jeans on. I’d be fine being the guy with the dad jeans on, but I just gotta keep the balance intact. And then now of course it’s like, well, now the jeans are getting big again, and there we gotta roll ’em up and they’ve gotta be bigger. And they don’t look good, by the way. Like, the skinny ones and the big ones, neither of them look good. A good jean is just like a Levi’s 501. I mean, if you wanna be honest about it, it’s just a straight jean that’s just covering your leg and keeping you from getting caught in briars and stuff. I mean, that’s the purpose of a jean, right? That’s what I would have, is I would’ve a functional outfit. And the day that we stopped doing this, which is probably never by the way, I will just wear basically like five shirts and five pair of pants. That’s what you’ll see me in. It’ll be a little bit boring. So, yeah, that’s one of the ways that… That is a trait of Link that I have picked up, is my fashionability, if I have any. And one last voicemail before we get into some rapid fire, ’cause I wanted to get to as many questions as possible. A little birdie told me Rhett’s recording a solo episode, so I thought I’d ask a burning question I’ve had for a while. Rhett, what’s your favorite kind of cheese? Please let me know. Thank you, bye. What’s your favorite kind of cheese? Whoo! That gets me excited when you ask me these things. I’ve had so many good cheese. Cheeses. I’ve had so many good cheeses. But I do think I have a favorite. When we were in Amsterdam… Jenna, were you in Amsterdam? No. I mean I was, just not with you all. Oh gosh. No, I’ve made a mess. You are in Australia with us. That’s where- Yes. Well, when we were in Amsterdam, we did the thing where you do like the tour and you like go see the flower fields and you see the windmills and you see the wooden shoes that no one actually wears. And a cheese shop is a part of this stop. I don’t think it’s actually in… I think they say how-dah, which is Gouda. You know, we say Gouda, but it’s how-dah, or something like that in Dutch. It’s an actual city, right? It’s where that cheese comes from. And at this cheese shop that was one of the stops, they had aged Gouda cheese aged at different levels. There was like some fresh, or like three months, one year, and three years. And of course we got the cheese. And Christie was there. She got the cheese as well. And we kept this cheese for months ’cause I was just eating a little bit of it at a time. And specifically, three-year aged Gouda… Well, this is what happens when Gouda cheese ages. You’ve probably had some cheese before that had… It was kind of a smooth cheese, but as you bit into it, there were these little crystals, these little crunchy parts to it, right? I don’t understand what’s happening, but that happens with some cheeses. Like, it happens with cheddar, happens with Gouda, it happens with Parmesan. Some sort of chemical thing happens as it ages, so a good aged cheddar will have this as well where it just has this incredible creamy, sort of intense… Like, creamy texture with these intense like crystal bites that are in there, these pockets of crystals, and then the flavor is just, it’s intensified. And it’s like gotten smooth but intense somehow. So I would say, it might sound like kind of a little too simple of a cheese answer to say aged Gouda, but I just don’t think it gets better than a really good aged Gouda. You should try it. If you haven’t had it, go get some three-year aged Gouda from somewhere. I’m sure you could get older than that, but that was the oldest they had at this shop. That’s my favorite cheese. I haven’t necessarily found a brand here in the States that was as good as I had in Amsterdam. Now for some rapid fire questions from Twitter. Vanessa, “What are some things that sound like compliments but are actually insults?” This is easy. “I used to watch your videos as a kid.” Matt Dippong, “Have you done any sensory deprivation floats since the GMM episode several years ago?” I have. In fact, after that episode, we got contacted by someone who ran a local float place. And before the pandemic, I went a few times. Haven’t been since. I gotta go again. Thank you for reminding me. Kaiya, “Do you have a secret Instagram/Twitter, et cetera, for nefarious or other purposes?” Nope, I don’t. Josh Bell, “Is there any part of being an engineer that you miss?” Nope. Hardlee, a Professional…, “What you rather do: abstain from eating beans for two months or get a shave and a buzz cut?” As much as I love beans, I would go the rest of my life if I had to. You’re not gonna see this face without a beard anytime soon, unless maybe for a lot of money for charity or something. But even then, it’s gonna complicate so… Me shaving will complicate so many other people’s lives that it probably won’t be worth any amount. You know? Jenna’s like, “Oh, yeah, I can only imagine.” Yep. The continuity conversations around here. Anytime, a haircut happens. Golly, like… Link changing his damn glasses- Oh man. Created so much consternation around here. You don’t even know how the system works around here. You have no idea. They’re like, “But we have like five months worth of merch drops planned based on his old glasses in thumbnails and all the…” Anyway, me shaving would be a problem. The least of which being the way I looked. Gracie Archer, “Rhett, should I get a puppy?” Yes, of course you should. Serenity Feueropal, “Do you ever wish you could be shorter?” Yes. Six two. Madison Lessner, “How many chuggas do you say before choo choo? Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, choo, choo! Eight. Kaytlin Kent, “Have you thought about getting any more tattoos?” Yes, Kaytlin, I have. I talked about this a little bit on “Good Mythical Mor.” I would like to get something on my left forearm. Right now, the best idea I have is a full blue whale skeleton that covers the entire inside of the forearm. I may get a better idea, but I really like that idea. Trin, “Do you have any stuffed animals or perhaps physical items that bring you comfort no matter what? They could be from your childhood, a recent purchase, something that just sits on a shelf, et cetera.” I don’t, but I do find that I like holding smooth rocks. So sometimes my wife will find me a smooth rock and bring it home, and I’ll hold it. Not any rock in particular, just smooth rocks. Ash, “if you had to die by drowning in a bowl of soup, what kind of soup would you request?” My favorite soup as I’ve established is French onion soup. And I do believe that I couldn’t drown in that, just so you… I mean, I think between the bread and the cheese on top, I think I could keep my head above water, or head above soup, and then I would slowly drink my way out of it. So, foiled! Alisha, “When did you realize that you had your life together?” Not yet, Alisha. I’ll let you know when I get there. We got a team of people still trying. That’s right. That’s right. We’re working on it. And that’s it. This has been fun. 85 minutes or so of your time? Yes, we keep a count. We have a timer. If we’ve never revealed that to you before, we have a timer just to know how long winded we’re being. I knew I could do it. I knew I could go an hour and a half by myself. I’m not done because I’m gonna give you a wreck, and this is cheese related, and it is a technique you should try if you are a cheese lover that I found on TikTok or Instagram. You’ve probably seen it too, but have you tried it? Have you tried just taking some grated cheese… I used sharp cheddar. That’s what I had at the house. Heating up your pan, I used a cast iron pan, dropping it into a pile and letting it melt into just a cheese tortilla. Getting a big spatula, picking up that cheese tortilla and making your breakfast burrito out of a cheese tortilla. Ha! Oh, it is so good. It is so good. Now, I actually took a regular tortilla and put my cheese tortilla inside it like a freaking Taco Bell menu item or something, you know what I mean? And then I made my breakfast burrito, and I did it for the whole family. And the flavor, first of all, when you heat up cheese and it hardens a little bit and chars a little bit, you don’t want it to burn, it unlocks like a new flavor. So that you still put the cheese on the eggs and the bacon and the sausage and the onions that you put on the inside of the burrito, but the cheese flavor of this little cheese tortilla. And my wife, she doubted me. She saw me doing this, and I was taking the cheese tortilla and I was putting it on top of the regular tortilla and she was like, “It’s not going to roll, it’s not going to bend.” “You’ve created…” She said, “You created a chip.” I said, “No, no, no, no, this is not a chip. This is a cheese tortilla, and it is pliable.” And then she rolled it up and it was pliable. It will stay pliable ’cause it stays rubbery. It’s a little bit crispy but still rubbery. If you’re low carb, you can do it straight up with the cheese or you can just do it an extra layer in your burrito, and you will thank me. If you like cheese, you will thank me. All right, that’s it. That’s the solo episode. We’ll be back with a normal Rhett and Link episode next week. 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