Welcome to “Ear Biscuits”, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Link. And I’m here alone this week at the round table with dim lighting. I’m holding down to Fort, you know, I went out of town and Rhett did an episode without me, and I’m like, “Okay, all right, fine. I can do that too. I can do that too.” And I’m doing that now. And I appreciate you listening and giving me your best wishes as we embark on the solo journey of potential chaos. Jenna, you ready for this? I am. I know that we put out a prompt saying, “Hey, it’s your chance to ask me questions.” And Rhett doesn’t get to weigh in so let’s see what y’all got for me. We’re gonna dig into some voicemails. We’re gonna dig into some tweets. And I’m an open book, I guess. It depends on where you wanna go. Let’s just click into this voicemail. Oh yeah, and I have to hit play here too. I’m ready. Hey Link. I’m in Sam’s Club, which is obviously the best place to ask you something. I was wondering how you choose your frames, your glasses frames because I know it can be a very personal thing, very specific. So I was wondering what factors inspire you to pick your glasses frames and why you choose what you choose? Yeah, I thought that’d be a great question. Okay, bye. Thanks for thinking of me in the Sam’s Club. I mean, there’s so many things that you could think of. Everywhere you’re looking, there’s bulk versions of stuff. At least that’s my understanding. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in like the bulk version of Walmart, even Costco. And am I saying that right? Every time I say Costco, people are like, “You say that funny, you say Costco funny.” But is there anybody here today who would say that? No Costco, right, Jenna? Right. That’s exactly how you say it. Costco.. Did you just correct me? Did I say a difference? No. I think you just corrected me. No, I said it how I thought you were saying it and I- Costco. I’m not hearing it. Costco. Costco. Yeah. I feel like I’m agreeing with you. Christy came home the other day and she was, she said, “I went to Costco with a friend of mine.” And we don’t really do Costco. I think it’s because we don’t have space to store multiple of stuff and my garage is very important. You just can’t throw multiple of stuff in my garage and me be okay with it unless it’s behind a closed cabinet and all those cabinets are allocated. So this is my life and this is my garage, and if my garage isn’t right, my life ain’t right. So I’m not happy about Costco. When I heard that Christy had gone, now there’s one exception. I got cases of Topo Chico just piled up on my garage but I do it in a neat way. I do it in a orderly way. And so whenever I walk by it, I have this sense of security. No matter what goes down in the world, I have at least, I don’t know, anywhere from two to probably a six week supply of Topo Chico at any moment. Like that keeps me on my path, on my meandering path. So yeah, she comes back from Costco and I’m like, “Well, tell me about it. It’s been so long since I’ve done something like that because I’m an internet celebrity. You know, I just can’t, I just can’t. Costco, that’s a joke.” That’s not, I already told you the reason. So that now you know that that secondary reason is just a joke. You know? Did you get any of the samples? She ain’t get no samples. They still do samples. She says she just stayed away from ’em. That’s the only thing I remember liking about Costco. And she said they sell coffins now. Freaking caskets. Like, I mean that’s like the opposite effect of me walking by my Topo Chico. Like going, you go to Costco just to escape reality, don’t you? Because nowhere else on earth is there is so much stuff stockpiled unless you’re in some weird bunker somewhere and that’s not a good vibe. Like I ain’t never been in a bunker that’s the good vibe. What was my point? Oh yeah, you strolling down the Costco. You’re trying to get that good vibe feeling, like that free sample feeling and then all of a sudden, whoop, “What is that? Is that a death box in multiple colors?” I don’t know. Is this one NASCAR themed? I didn’t ask any follow up questions ’cause I freaking… I don’t wanna hear about caskets at Costco. So she’s striking out on the samples. She’s foul balling on the caskets and here I am knowing no other baseball metaphor. What does she buy? I can’t even freaking remember what she bought. But you can drop $1,500 on a decent pink casket. My sources are telling me. I remember nothing that she bought. I think she just went to say she went with the friend. You know, ’cause you gotta use the… You gotta use that person’s card. I’m talking about glasses, right? You asked me about glasses. Oh, we’re gonna start off with some controversy here. My glasses, my go-to glasses that I’ve had for years. I mean, how long have I had those, the last glasses that I’ve had? It could be a decade. It could be. I was very attached to those glasses. They became a part of my face and then they broke. They freaking got brittle. They got brittle bone syndrome or something. The glasses version of that. And I feel like, you know what? I should have taken better care of them. And I knew this day was coming because I went back to the place years after buying my original pair. I’ll go back to this place, shout out to Society of the Spectacle. And I went there and I was like, “I’m so attached to these glasses that I’m afraid if something happens to ’em, do you have another pair?” And they did have another pair. It was their L.A Eyeworks, I believe is the brand. But, so I bought the pair, I bought a backup pair and then I kept ’em in my car or I had ’em in my car. And I actually don’t think they had ki… They didn’t have the prescription lenses in ’em because something that I was doing, I needed to wear contacts, but then I wanted to still have my glasses or maybe I just didn’t pay for the lenses. This is what you’re gonna get, this type of meandering shit. This is, I mean- Was it around buddy system? It could have been around. No buddy system was the other glasses. It was those clear glasses that I got. I know that I bought ’em just because I was so attached to ’em, I needed a backup and I had ’em in the car in my freaking driveway. And then I get in my car one morning to come to work and I’m like looking through my console. I’m like, “My sunglasses are gone.” ‘Cause I usually put them on before I drive. I don’t get people who don’t wear sunglasses. This is a tangent, but frigging wear sunglasses. I mean my granddad went, he had macular degeneration and that does, there is a genetic component to that. So I’m all about taking care of my eyeballs and sunglasses are a big part of that. So I’m pretty fastidious about wearing my sunglasses. But like, I talked to my kids, they get in the car. I’m like, “Do you want some sunglasses? It’s bright out here. We’re driving around, you’re squinting. I think I have a pair in here that aren’t prescription. You can put…” No, no, no. My kids refuse to wear sunglasses. I mean, I gotta talk to Lincoln about this again now that I’m thinking about it, ’cause he’s 18, he’s an adult-ish and he needs to be wearing sunglasses. I mean it’s… If he thought it was an adult thing to do, well now you’re an adult man, step up, protect your eyes. Have more visibility. There’s a safety component to this too. It’s like you’re driving down the road, you don’t wanna be squinting. I dropped Lando off for school today and he was like, and he crosses the street in front of me and I can tell that there were cars coming and then they’re driving into the sunlight and me and all of my wisdom, I’m thinking, well he’s probably not at 13, which is okay, I have enough time to dart across the street before these cars get here. But he’s not realizing that the cars can’t see him because of the squint factor unless they’re wearing sunglasses. You need to be wearing sunglasses. I’m saving a life right now. Somebody is deciding to wear sunglasses because of me and I feel good about that. And you know, while I’m at it, sign up on the bone marrow registry. Be the match. Bethematch.org. We’re saving lives today. Where are you Rhett? Where are you freaking… You’re freaking out. You’re on a beach somewhere in… Where Cayman Islands? Something like that. What a jerk. What a jerk. I’m sitting here saving lives with the simple things in life. Like signing up for a registry. All you gotta do is it’s just a little swab. You swab your mouth, right? Right. That’s all I did. That’s all you did. And then if you get a match, you know, you do more but like then it’s worth it. The barrier to entry is so small and you can get sunglasses is pretty cheap too, low barrier to entry with the sunglasses thing. And I also tell ’em, I’m like, “Listen, it’s a way to express yourself.” You know, it’s fashion on your face and it’s not regular glasses that you can get… You can get trapped in some regular glasses. You can wear ’em for decades and they can become part of your face. And then when they break and your second pair that you were keeping in your car were stolen along with your sunglasses outta your own damn driveway. Like, I mean, just bend me over, pull my britches down like I felt so violated. It was like, this is my driveway. Wait, you what? It’s a dead end freaking street. I live on a cul-de-sac. What are you doing? I’m just walking on the street. I’m just pulling on doorknobs man. I’m just pulling on doorknobs and seeing what opens. Oh, so this is my fault ’cause I didn’t lock my doors in my own driveway? That does remind me. I was looking for my keys this morning. I couldn’t find them. And Lando was like, “We gotta go, you gotta drop me off to school so that I can walk in front of some sunblind driver.” And I said, “Well I can’t find my keys. Go see if the car’s unlocked ’cause if it’s unlocked, the keys are in it.” And that’s what had happened. I don’t, so I’m not really learning from my mistakes here, but I got a security camera installed, pointing right at that driveway so the next time somebody steals my glasses or my entire car, because I left the keys in it, you can just, I mean, all you gotta do, you know what, there’s no ignition. It’s just a button. You open the door. It’s like, “Well I’m just walking down the street seeing, pulling on doors, man, seeing what opens. Then I’m sitting down in the seats and I’m pushing the ignition, seeing what starts, putting it in drive, seeing what goes.” My car this last night. And all I would’ve had is, well it was semi grainy, high angle footage from the security camera I installed when I learned my lesson from my sunglasses and my regular glasses being stolen. So yeah. All right, I’m still learning my lesson. It’s true. So my backup pair was gone and then my main pair, it was about another… It was months later, I went back to the glass shop and I said I need a third pair because my second pair was stolen and this is why I got the second pair. So if they were stolen, I would still have a pair, which I do, and they’re my first pair, but now I need a third pair, that is my second pair. We don’t have them anymore, you know. They only make a certain amount and then it’s why these things are so cool and why you like ’em, because everybody can’t get ’em. This isn’t Warby freaking Parker, you know. They didn’t have ’em. We went on a hunt for those glasses. And we went on a hunt for those glasses. Everywhere I would go looking for glasses ’cause I was like, “You know what, I just need to diversify.” And over the years I’ve gotten… I got those buddy system clear glasses. I got some octagonal black glasses. I then I got some other black glasses that sometimes I still wear at home. But it’s like, it just never took, it never took, when something becomes that much a part of your face, when you take ’em off and you put anything else on, it’s like, “Whoa, what’s wrong? What’s wrong with Link? Man, look at his face. Look how blanket looks right now with no glasses on.” And then you put other glasses on, it’s like, “Who’s that guy?” And I was like, I just got a bite the bullet and get some other glasses. And then I didn’t. And then I didn’t and then I didn’t. And then my- Super glue your- My freaking glasses. Like I got Lucas MadDogg is like super glue in my glasses. I got Paisley dad magic super glue in my glasses ’cause it would, they were break. And I was like, “I bet you somebody’s got the answer.” I took ’em to a shop and paid a too much money for somebody to fix them. And then they rebroke and it was just like a, it was right there next to the bridge of my nose. It’s just a clean break. And I’m wearing ’em just now, just flopping around and I’m only wearing ’em on camera and then everywhere else I’m wearing other glasses. I’m like, this is not who I want to be. This is not my ethos. I don’t wanna be somebody on camera and somebody else everywhere else. I don’t wanna be the pretend generic version of Link off camera and then the real facially recognized Link on camera. Like, I wanna be able to look at my phone and unlock it at all times. I think that works. And then they just got more and more precarious and it was just like, you could see the break and I just wasn’t happy with it. And I was like, I have to do this. I gotta get some new glasses. And as with everything, it really comes down to what Instagram sells me. Caddis, C-A-D-D-I-S not a sponsor. They start, you know, I started seeing their ads. I saw these glasses which I have. These are called… They sell ’em as readers. These are the RCA. Nowhere on the site does it say anything about Jeffrey Dahmer? Nowhere, nowhere on the site. I was like, I’m gonna get the brown ones, I’m gonna get the clear ones and I’m very happy with these glasses. And yeah, I was like, I have to commit. I cannot read comments. I am happy with these and I am moving forward. You will catch up or not. It can’t matter. It just can’t. It just can’t. So I got my old glasses in like a… Well they’re in a Smithsonian ready case. I’m just gonna put it to you that way. I have not received any calls, any text, any emails. I haven’t been beeped by the institute, but those glasses are in a safe, protected space. I.e not the center console of my unlocked car. All right? And then I get these things and I take him in for the… To my optometrist to put the prescription in it. And he takes ’em from me. He’s like, “Okay, how do you, what do you want?” And I was like, “I want a freaking progressive. I gotta read close and I gotta see far and I gotta look old when I’m looking at that paper under my nose.” Like I read like this. And he said, “Well, there’s something on the top of these things. It’s like, morse code.” And I was like, “Yeah, I did notice that.” I was like, and I’m giving them to him. So I’m like, I ain’t gonna take the time to try to decipher what that means at this point in a transaction. I got places to be, I’m an internet celebrity. I made myself and my friend famous by doing what anybody could do, which is start a YouTube channel. So he said, I said, “Well.” He said, he’s a nice guy. He said, I’ll look it up and if it’s something questionable, I’ll call you before we fill the prescription. I was like, “Hey, full service.” And I never heard from him. So I go and pick these things up and I try ’em on. I’m like, okay, and he, you know, he fits ’em like when you get glasses, you gotta go… You gotta get to get the person to bend them, get the person to fit ’em. You know, it’s like, don’t just slam ’em on and just walk out. It’s like there’s some bending that’s gotta happen because you and I are the same. We’re humans. Our ears aren’t exactly in the same place on either side of our head. Our heads aren’t the same on either side. You know, our eyes might be in separate, in like slightly different places. Where it rests on your nose, there might be, you might have a skin tag, you know, ain’t no shame in that. Gotta get ’em adjusted. I’m saving lives today. I’m feeling good. Now, people are getting their glasses adjusted, man. Rhett sucks. He said, I looked up the Morse code on your glasses. He says, Willie Waylon. And then he hands ’em to me and I was like, “What really?” No, he said Willie Waylon. And that’s just a, that’s a joke. Yeah, I just made up. He didn’t actually say that. I was like, I could tell he didn’t know what the reference was. So I was like, “Have you’ve heard of Willie Nelson, right?” He was like, “Yeah, Waylon, Jenna.” And he was like, I was like, what has your loss, man? The legendary country music masterminds and an iconic duo. So I’m like, “This is perfect for me. This is freaking perfect.” I almost couldn’t have asked for, I mean, if I would’ve asked for it, I think it would’ve said Pancho and Lefty. But that’s just, that’s me. Caddis call me, let’s get some Poncho and Lefty cooking up. And they have all kinds, but like these RCAs, I think they all say Waylon Willie. So they don’t say, again, nothing about Dahmer. And then I’m get so you know, I don’t care about those comments ’cause I’m liking these glasses. When I get home every day, I’ll take ’em off and then I’ll put on the other pair because they fit a little bit different. And it’s kind of like when I get home, I like to change. Y’all like to change when you get home? I mean, if you know you’re not going anywhere, like I’ll put on some boxers and I’ll put on some sweatpants and I’ll put on a night shirt, a shirt for the night, a soft little t-shirt, something I have, I have my favorite t-shirts. If they’re soft enough, they’ll stick with me and they’ll become my night shirts. And I’ll get into that when I get home. I’ll get into the night mode. But changing my glasses, it’s like all of a sudden your face feels like, “Oh it’s, they rest. The glasses are resting in a slightly different place.” And even the two models, they fit a little bit differently. So I kind of like to… I kinda like to get home and get a little, a fresh little teeter, you know. They teeter up here on the brim of my nose. Anyway, I digress a lot, but I think it was worth it. I’m gonna sell you this hat. I’m gonna sell it to you at mythical.com. It’s a snapback. It’s got the fish netting. It’s not full trucker hat so it’s got a little class and it’s got an embroidered GMM logo on the front, so eat your heart out. Anyone who doesn’t get ’em while supplies last, it’s a nice just versatile black cap that if you don’t feel like getting your hair ripe or it’s not doing what you want it to do, throw on this mythical hat and you’ll get the looks. Mythical.com. Ear Biscuits is brought to you by Better Help. If you like to getting to know people. What if yeah, those people are yourself. Oh, that’s interesting. You know, because you can get to know yourself in therapy. It’s a great way to say, “Oh that’s why I do that.” And of course I do that on this podcast a lot. Try to learn more about myself by bouncing myself off of you. Yeah, just live. But I also do that a lot in therapy and it’s extremely helpful. 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That’s one of the things and one of the areas that therapy has been so helpful for me. Yeah, so if you’re thinking about starting therapy, give Better Help a try. It’s entirely online so you can have your sessions anywhere you’re comfortable and it’s suited to your schedule. You just fill out a questionnaire and they will match you to a licensed therapist that meets your specific needs and you can always switch therapists at no extra cost. So discover your potential with Better Help. Visit betterhelp.com/ear today to get 10% off your first month. That’s betterhelp.com/ear. Let’s click on this one. Hi Link. I was wondering what helps bring you peace when you’re feeling anxious. As an anxious being myself, I really appreciate your assistance. Thank you so much. Bye. I only heard half that voicemail ’cause I was thinking, oh, this is a serious question. I gotta use my real voice. And I’m like, I don’t think I was using my real voice for the first part of this podcast. I think I was using an entertainer voice. How did that happen? These are the things that go through my head constantly. And I think that that’s part… I think that’s part of my anxiety. You know, it’s just like my brain’s kinda running in this like, strange gear that is not, it’s not conducive to… Sometimes it doesn’t feel conducive to a long life. You know, if your brain’s running real hot. Is it hot? Yeah, it’s a little bit hot. And so what does she ask? She asked like, what helps you when you’re feeling anxious? Oh, just think about it real hard. Just like, just bear down into it. Just think about how anxious you can get and just like, try to make a downward spiral. You’re so anxious. You’re making me anxious. You know, I never… I don’t know. It was hard for me to become convinced that I had something that could have like a label to it. And I can’t even remember the label right now. It’s like generic anxiety disorders what it sounds like, that’s not what it’s called. Something like that. I feel like it really, like, it rears its head when there’s something coming up that I have to do that I’m just not, like, I don’t feel prepared for it, but I gotta go through with it. Like, there’s been a lot of things in my life where it’s like you find yourself signing up for, I mean, I pres… I and we have pursued so much in our career that it… I’ve found myself outta my comfort zone a lot. And I think that’s a good thing but it really kind of highlights where it went where I start to feel the most anxious. And in contrast to when things are outta my control, like that’s easy for me to just kinda check out. Well there’s nothing I can do about that anyway, so why worry about it? And I think that happens subconsciously for me. And that’s very palpable because it’s very obvious to me in contrast to like, and I’ve talked about this before about how Christy has a flight anxiety. And I love flights because I’m in for the reason that she hates them ’cause I’m totally out of control. I can just like sit back and say, “Hey, this isn’t on me.” It’s why in those episode, that episode recently, I was saying, “I like to be handled because it takes this pressure off that, oh, it’s up to me and you’re gonna fuck it up.” Kind of a thing. Or this is the moment where it all implodes. This is the moment when you’re climbing the mountain and then you look up and there’s an avalanche coming down. I gotta stop watching this avalanche footage on TikTok. Like, I don’t know why, or it’s Instagram or something. I think it’s ’cause I was like, I like snow skiing. So then it’s like, oh, you like snow skiing? Well, here’s an avalanche. Here’s a POV shot of somebody who’s GoPro. And they’re like, and they’re always like, “Whoa bro, look at that. Whoa.” And then there’s, then it kind of changes to, “Oh, I think it’s gonna make it here.” And it’s like, whoa. And then they start moving and like trying to hide behind something, but there’s that first moment this is like, “Hey, I’m so glad I’m filming this.” It’s not gonna kill me. It’s too far away. And then that all changes. That’s what anxiety feels like to me sometimes when it’s like, “Oh, I got to do this.” So I try to… One of the things that is like, that really lets me know that I’m in an anxious period is when my heart starts to skip beats. At least, that’s what I call it. It’s like you get the heart flutter and I’ve had it definitely my entire adult life. So when I started my engineering job, I would come home, I’d sit on the couch, and then I would start to, I’d be like watching Seinfeld or something like a rerun, just relaxing. And all of a sudden it would be like my heart would kind of… Did my heart stop for a second? What just happened? And then sometimes I’ll be like, laying down in bed and there’s, it’ll do it. And I started over time to notice it more and correlate it to times of like extreme stress. And then, let’s see, at the beginning of 2022 is when I started taking sertraline, the generic version of Zoloft, worked up to 50 milligrams and took that every day. And I just thought that in combination with being in therapy every week, it would be something that my doctor recommended that I try, and I was very open to it. And I have close friends, loved ones who have had very positive experiences with SSRIs for treating anxiety or depression. And so I was very open to it. I just didn’t think that I was to the point where I needed it. But I was having those heart palpitations more. I was kinda, I don’t know, when I started to get really anxious I started to get pretty grumpy too, you know. It’s like that’s not the me I wanna be. And so I wanna see how this can help us, part of my holistic treatment plan, not as a silver bullet, but as part of it. And I also anticipated that 2022 was gonna be a challenging year, even when I just looked at it from a work perspective. So I say, you know what, things are only gonna get more stressful this year because of reasons. So I think that now’s a good time for me to kind of ramp up and see how this works and that has been a very good experience. The thing that I like about the heart palpitations is that it’s a pretty definitive measurement. Like, it’s hard sometimes to like measure. It’s like you really gotta pay attention to whatever you’re doing to treat your anxiety to see if it’s helping. You know, basically like a daily mood journal type thing. It was probably a really good idea and it was hard for me to do, but the thing that made it easier for me was I knew I wasn’t having the heart palpitations anymore. So it kind of made it a cut and dry victory for me. And then you fast forward to the beginning of this year, and a lot of the things that, from a business standpoint that we were working through and anticipating at the beginning of last year, they had kind of, we had gone through that and at the beginning of this year, we’re entering a new phase that now we’re very much in, which is just a creative realignment. We’ve been talking about it here on “Ear Biscuits.” You’ve been seeing it on the Rhett and Link channel. You’ve been feeling it in Good Mythical Morning, and hopefully you’re seeing it here right now in just my level of ease. I had zero anxiety about doing this podcast by myself. I think two years ago or earlier, I would’ve been like, my sweat boot would’ve been smelling weird. You know how when you get a certain type of stress and then all of a sudden it’s like, “What is that smell?” Oh, that’s me with a stress sweat type thing. So at the top of this year with this new outlook and like a tweaked creative trajectory, I was feeling like I was in a much better place. My therapy’s been going really well. And so, you might know what I’m about to say, and I think this is a common thing amongst in the world of like anxiety medication is I was like, maybe I don’t need the medication anymore. Maybe I don’t. But I didn’t say, “Hey, maybe I don’t.” You know, as if that would be some sort of victory. I did not look at it that way. I think it was an honest question in my mind of am I entering a new season where there’s less stressors? So like my low level anxiety is something that through the other methods that I’ve been working on through breath work, through therapy, through making sure that I have, that I protect my time and space for things that improve my mental health. Like walking my dog, bipedal stimulation, riding my mountain bike, bipedal stimulation, bipedal, I don’t wanna say that word again. Bipedal, two feet stimulate, two sides of the brain being simulated at the same time. If I employ all of those things and I have the support of family, friends, I’m curious if I went down on the medication, what would happen? And then I went and I talked to my doctor, talked to my therapist, talked to everybody. And you know, so I made the decision to do that to reduce my medication starting like a couple months ago. I think that I’m in a good place. I don’t, there’s still that, “Okay, am I gonna have the heart palpitations?” If that comes back and it hasn’t, then I know that I’m definitely gonna go back on the medication. But for me right now, I’m in a good place. I’m having a good experience. And so I think I’m moving forward without the medication for now, and I titrated off of it, you know, I was working with a doctor on how to do that. So you don’t just stop any of this stuff. You don’t start or stop cold Turkey. That’s a bad, bad, bad idea. And so my doctor helped me understand that. And so yeah, I feel like I’m in a good place with all of these other practices, which is the answer to your question. But that may change again in the future. The thing that I wanna reiterate for me was that I didn’t get off of it, off of some sort of guilt of like, “Oh, I’m a lesser person because I’m on a daily medication.” Like we can fall for this lie that if you’re taking an SSRI, that you’re less for some reason or that you don’t have your shit together enough, or fill in the blank with any negative judgment and let’s just eradicate that. Let’s scrape that off the table and forget about it. So I really searched my heart to know that I felt like my motivations were in the place where I wanted ’em to be to move forward with this experiment. And I’m not experiencing, like, I know some people if they go back off of medication and they’ll be like, oh, “I can, I’m not numb anymore. I can feel more, I guess for whatever reasons, for me, I’m not experiencing like that I’m crying more and that I’m more in touch with my emotions. I don’t think it was like that. I don’t think it took those things away from me or leveled that out too much. It was just more of that low level behind the scenes just constant hum of tension, you know, when there were, that for me was linked to foreboding challenges that I had to face. So it’s in my toolkit. I mean, I still have the pills. I mean, like, I’m not gonna… I would talk to my doctor and like still have guidance before I move forward with going back on it, but for now, I feel like I’m in a good place. So that’s this chapter of my anxiety story. Let’s go to a tweet. Oyvi00i tweeted, are you ever gonna make more music videos? Make more music videos. I can’t read that Rhett. Are you ever gonna make more music videos over on the Rhett and Link channel? Come on, go over to the Rhett and Link channel. “We dug a medium sized hole” is not a music video, but there’s a song in it. And let me tell you while the cat’s away and the mouse has been playing, Rhett and I worked, well, we’re working on a new Rhett and Link channel video. When it does come out, I’ll give you a hint so that like, when it does come out, you’ll know everything that I’m talking about was related to it. There’s a year involved. I’ll leave it at that. So leading up to Rhett’s vacation, it’s like, “Okay, we decided we wanted to write a song and put into this video.” So it’s not a music video, but at this point, I mean, we haven’t shot the video. We’re still writing the song that goes in the video. But as soon as Rhett gets back from vacation, we got like one day back in the office to hopefully record some vocals and then the next day we’re going out and we’re filming this thing in one day. That’s the plan. I am so excited. Creatively, but with what we’re doing on the Rhett and Link channel, because it’s getting us reacquainted and getting me reacquainted with writing, recording, producing music. And I don’t know that you’ll call this one a music video either, but because we’re throwing so many different things at it, it’s, I don’t know, it’s got some similarities to the whole video in that there’s a music videoesque part to it. But before Rhett left, we had to kind of cram at the last minute and we were like, “Okay, we got some chords. We’re like gonna demo this song out.” And I was like, “I’m gonna take this thing while you’re gone. I’m gonna keep writing lyrics and we can work on it remotely. As much as you wanna be in touch and be involved, we can still collaborate on this thing, but I got this while you’re gone.” I’m excited to like bring this song further along. But we needed to get a chorus before, I mean, it’s like the chorus is the most important part. We can like hum some gibberish for the verses just to give Mark our producer an idea of how to like build the song. But the chorus is something we need to like, we kind of need to nail down together ’cause it’s just really important and it was set where this thing goes and we only had like a two hour window and that’s a good kind of pressure because it’s exactly what I wanna be working on. And I don’t know if there’s a more exhilarating feeling in my job than having a musical breakthrough. And I’d missed that for so long. Like we’d gotten out of writing songs and getting back into it and like having these moments where I just, I’m feeling a breakthrough. Like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, it just happened. It’s happening right now. What we just came up with is good.” This is gonna, this is what we’re hoping for. You know, it’s like you sit down with the chords and it’s kind of a blank slate, and I have this feeling, I don’t think Rhett has this feeling, I have this feeling again that anxiety thing I was talking about, it’s like, “Oh man, I hope we come up with something. I really hope we come up with something.” And then it’s this relief and release when it’s like, “We did it, we got it. That’s it. That’s the spark.” Now the thing that I was so excited about, I’m pretty sure it’s not gonna change, but even if it did, it wouldn’t change the fact that in that moment, like that experience is like, nothing’s gonna top that. There’s other parts of… There’s a lot of parts of my experience that are just as exhilarating, but not, I don’t think they’re more exhilarating than that for me. And so are we gonna make more music videos? Absolutely. Are we gonna write more songs? Definitely. And this like, so I was working on the demo yesterday and I sent it out to the team and I haven’t heard back from Rhett, I guess he was 60 feet under, scuba diving. If you six feet under, you’re dead. If you’re 60 feet under, you’re swimming. He went to Costco. Gotta come on those. I just love that feeling. You know, and especially in my like in over the past couple of years, like really fanning the flame of my passion for music in general and now going back to it, to writing music, it just feels, it’s an even more rewarding experience. Erika with k, did I give you that nickname Erika? I’d like to think I did. Erika tweets, since I always seem to put my foot in my mouth when I meet you. Yeah, we met a few times. What’s your go-to recovery when you find yourself in your own foot in mouth situation? I’ve never been in that situation. I’ve never put my foot in my mouth. I mean, I’m flexible, but I mean, that’ll never happen to me. I never start speaking without knowing where the sentence is gonna end. You know? I don’t know what you’re talking about. I was at a, I’ll call it a kickback. We were at a party, it wasn’t our party, but we were somehow invited. So we go, Rhett and I went to a birthday party, like a sit down dinner. After the dinner part was over, everybody was still sitting down and just kind of having some drinks and talking. And so we show up with a group of people who were invited that invited us to go with him. So like, we show up and like, I guess some people when dinner’s over, some people left the party, they had other places to be so there were open seats. I felt a little weird about it, but we sat down at the end of the table, me and Rhett and then a crosser must, a friend of mine and then his friend that I had just met who happened to be like a really established songwriter and producer. And I was kind of piecing that together. It’s like sometimes when you meet people who are like really the shit in whatever, because of whatever they do, it’s like, you’re not gonna know it because when you’re really the shit, they don’t stink. You’re not gonna smell it ’cause it’s like they’re securing themselves. They’re just there because they wanna be there. They’re not there so that you will know who they are. So I’m kind of piecing it together Erika, and I’m like, okay, this is a fun opportunity for me to spark up a conversation with this super successful songwriter. And I mean, he’s got nobody to talk to but me and Rhett and I are other friend. Anyway, we’re down here at the end of the table and I’m like, “Well, I gotta come, this is my moment. I gotta come up with something.” And I knew that he had been doing some writing that day in the proceeding couple of days. And so I was just like, “So what’s a line that you came up with that you’re particularly proud of? I’m like, this is I’m legitimately interested in this. It’s about him, it’s not about me. I really, yeah, it’s like, I don’t know what the other thing is, but I was like, “Okay, this is good enough.” But like, I was coming up, I was just like, “Well, nobody’s talking. I’m gonna come up with this question.” It didn’t land as well as I thought it would. Like, I don’t know, it just seemed maybe a little in too journalistic. I could think it in into pieces the point, and I don’t know the reason, but he didn’t, he didn’t have an answer, you know. It wasn’t like, “Oh this is making him light up.” Like my goal was to spark conversation that got him to light up ’cause I wanna enter his world a little bit. You know, it’s like I’m always in mind and I don’t know that he wants to, he hasn’t asked me about mine, so I’m just not gonna start volunteering that information ’cause I’d seem like a dick. But that didn’t really work and I was kind of embarrassed ’cause it was just like, “Oh, did I? Is that not something you’re supposed to ask?” And I’m like, “I don’t listen to that voice. That’s not a good voice to listen to.” It met my criteria. I was interested and it was others focused too. So there you go. But then I had to regroup, so I didn’t, I wouldn’t say that was, I put my foot in my mouth because it was a decent question, right? It just, I think when you’re a songwriter, it’s a hard question to answer and not maybe he was thinking, well, okay, how am I gonna answer this question and not seem like a dick? Well I wrote this line and wasn’t it awesome? You know, it’s like, so then I switched it up and I had to make it a little bit about me and Rhett and I was like, you know, we’ve been talking about our creative process and making sure that we take time to stop and celebrate the little, especially the little moments like the one that I was just celebrating with you about. Just that spark in the songwriting process and how it just, I can ride that wave for this entire week and finish the song. Like that’s what I needed to do my part, to finish the song is get that jolt. So we start talking about that and then I’m like, when you’re in the studio and you’re writing and you’re in the moment and you’re like making this happen, like what is that feeling for you? Like what are those moments for you when you start to feel like magic is happening? And then I got him ’cause his eyes started to… He started to perk up a little bit and he was engaged and he was just talking about the process and that feeling and like the thing that keeps him after all these years of being super successful at it, that keeps him engaged and chasing that feeling and how it’s separate from an audience response or it’s separate from external recognition. Basically the stuff that Rhett and I talked about at this table weeks ago when we were talking about the whole video before it came out. Like having that conversation with another artist. And so I was able to pivot. I don’t know what you can glean from that, Erika, but maybe it’s don’t… I think when you put your foot in your mouth, it’s like if you’re, I don’t know, I always tend to err on the side of like giving it a shot. You know, it’s, you can always pivot. There’s always a second question. You can go in a different direction. And it’s especially if you’re not making it about you and or not making it about the fact that you felt like you put your foot in your mouth. It’s like if you’re sincere and if you’re engaged and if you actually care, I think that that type of thing comes through. So just ride on that wave. Wait, there’s so many questions and I’m not… I’m going so slowly ’cause I’m such a motor mouth. Kristina also with a k asks, what was the first thing you thought when you met Christy? Oh, let’s talk about Christy. If you’ve heard the story, Christy and I met in line waiting to go into a roller rink for a Christian college social. Whoa, it’s getting hot in here, so put on some roller skates. She got there early. She was in basically the front of the line with her group of girlfriends from the all girls college. And I got there late, which allowed me to peruse the entire line of people waiting to go in and yeah, she caught my eye. I mean she was a wonderful looking person to me especially. And she, I just, and she had this personality that like, that matched it. Like just jumping out of the line. Like she was probably jumping, she’s probably, or maybe she was clogging, she wasn’t wearing clogs, but she’ll break out into a clog. Like don’t mess with a girl who knows how to clog. That is a dance for any plumbers out there who just perked up. Sorry, it’s like a country line dance in, I don’t know, meets Swedish people, Dutch people, I don’t know. I don’t ask questions. It’s a lot of it’s from the hips down, it’s kind of like, it’s a little river dance-ish. Anyway, she wasn’t actually doing that, but she was, she seemed to be the ring leader of her friend group. She was outgoing, she was funny and she had an accent of the southern variety that made me melt and she didn’t know how to roller skate. And I said, “Oh, I can fix that.” So yeah, I taught her how to roller skate. It was super romantic. I tripped her on purpose and then she grabbed my big stovepipe pant leg and pulled me down with her and we made it right there in front of all the Christians. It was awesome. It was awesome. It was sweet. I love the fact that I… And there’s a picture of us from that night that like floats around. We’ll dig it up and I can show it right now. Our styles were very different. She was preppy j crew and I was alternative rock wannabe. Lainie asks me, if you could have a true bromance with anyone on the crew other than Rhett, who would it be? Who would it be? Who would it be? I got a little bit of a bromance with Ben. Like Ben’s my DJ buddy. We hang out, we listen to music, we’ll spin the wheels of steel together. We’ll trade notes. Sometimes that’ll happen. Chase is my buddy, he’s my scuba buddy. And now that Rhett and Shepherd are getting into that, he’s not disinvited, Rhett’s still gotta earn his way onto the squad because Chase is my go-to scuba buddy. I can’t have a bromance with Stevie, but she won’t invite me over to pet her dog. I don’t know what gives, I don’t know what the holdout is, but I don’t think I could have been more blatant about it than my tweet. Of course, it turns out that she wasn’t on Twitter anymore for like years. Maybe that brought her back on Twitter. Jenna, you and I got a little bit of a bromance going on here. You know, it’s like you can’t work like you, we work as closely as anybody beside me and Rhett. So it’s like, I mean it’s like this wouldn’t work if we didn’t like each other, but we don’t have any out of the office hobbies together. Right. Maybe that’s healthy for you. Right. Okay, I get it. I’d say it’s, well listen, we’ve survived terrible flights together. Oh my God. I’d say that’s bonded us more than anything. Oh yeah, all that travel and like going on tour and stuff. Oh yeah, it’s like that’s a special type bond. And then when like yeah, when you almost get slammed into the runway. I tell that story. That was just you me. That was just us. Yeah. Rhett wasn’t there for that. I tell that story occasionally ’cause you know, there’s always like the flight story comes up, everybody has their flight horror stories and yeah, we were trying to land in a hurricane. Yes, yeah. And like, you know, sometimes you’ll hit like- We weren’t but the pilots. We were just… I was gritting in my teeth. I was trying too. I was like… I accepted my fate. I like put on some Dolly Parton and I was like, if this is how it goes, this is how it goes. I mean, yeah ’cause when of, you know, if you’re flying and all of a sudden you hit this air pocket and then you’re like, you lose elevation and then it’s just like you’re free falling for a second. That’s scary, but when you’re landing and that happens, that’s really scary. And then we’re like, okay, is this thing gonna… Are we gonna do a back flip and then land? Is the pilot trying to make an Olympic move here? I love that. I’m glad that I told the complete fresh, juicy version of the story here on “Ear Biscuits.” You have to dig that one up because I can’t remember it like I did then, but I remember enough of it to know that like we did, we got as close as you can get to landing and then he took off again. Yeah. And then we landed at another airport and we got off of the plane and then you were like, I don’t know if you said anything but all I remember now this version of the story is you disappeared. I did. And then when you came, I was like, when we came back to get on the other flight, I was like, “What? Where you been?” You were like, “I’ve been at the bar.” Yeah, yeah. You got in line for food and I Yeah, and you were like in line waiting for food with everyone and I was like, “Ah, well I’ll be back.” Like, “Ah, I’m not hungry.” I went to the bar and took two shots of whiskey immediately. I went up to a bartender like, “What do you need?” I was like, “Whiskey.” It was the worst flight experience I’ve ever had. So it’s like, yeah, we’ll always have that. We’ll always. Bro. The beautiful sunset after the almost crash and they just- Oh, you remember that? I remember that. I remember the almost landing that didn’t happen and then we had to go to another airport and we went up above the clouds and it was like the prettiest sunset ever saw my whole life. And you were drunk? That was before though. That was before. Oh yeah. Yeah, it was before. Okay. Alright. Fair enough. Fair enough. What’s the can’t miss for you here before we get… I know there’s- Well I wanted to hear this. Like the rapid fire thing. I wanted to hear the bromance ’cause I hoped you would say that I was one of those which you did so that I was. Well you were, I mean, you were, you were giving me the sad eyes. The sad eyes. You guilted me into it, bro. He’s like, he said Ben, he said Chase, he’s like, even look over at me. Who else am I missing? Who’s listening to this and saying, I thought I was your bro. So before we go into rapid fire, what else? I mean, what else is the good one? I’m trying to remember what this other Erica who has a c, Erica is lost in the music. I’m trying to remember what they’re talking about from Sextember. Oh. I think I know. I feel kind of silly a for asking, but back in Sextember y’all were each gifted something. You said you’d give your opinion on your experience with it, but I don’t think you ever did. Inquiring minds wanna know about that. Butt plug. I figured Rhett will be really open to discussing. I’ll tell you. I’ve got a report, but you gonna have to wait till Sextember to hear it. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to leave a big teaser, but yeah. And you know, I can’t be talking about that without my buddy back in his saddle over there. And because of what it is, it’s like that just seemed weird to say it that way. Yeah, to say it as a saddle. Alright, so you’re gonna have to wait on that one too Jenna. You’re gonna have to wait. Y’all, will tell me at some point before then, I’m sure. Yeah, and I’ll have more, you know, as time passes, I’ll have more to tell. All right, let’s see. Is there any other… What is this? Let’s click on this voicemail. Hey Link. My name is Aaron, I’m from San Jose, California. I know that you love mountain biking. And so my question to you as a fellow mountain biker myself is just what kind of bike do you ride and what are some of your favorite trails in the LA area? Have a great day. Oh man. Why? Why? I can’t even remember the type of bike that I ride. Like here’s the thing about me and the stuff when I do the things like, yeah, I love mountain biking. I think I might be able to get on it this afternoon. I honestly can’t remember what brand it is. I think it’s a specialized, but you know, for a price it can be anything. You know, so come at me, mountain bike people, let’s work together. But yeah, I’m not typically, I’m like… My friend Nick is like my number one mountain biking buddy. And one of the great things about Nick is that whenever he gets into something, he knows everything about it. And I like being the guy with the person who knows everything about it. You know, again, it’s just like, it takes the pressure off. Like I don’t have to worry about what pressure I should ride my tires at or if I start to get this squeak, like what do I do about it? I don’t even have to search Reddit ’cause I’ve got a buddy, so Nick’s got my back and it’s, I mean, I’m not using the guy, he’s a good friend. We enjoy riding together, but it certainly is an added benefit to be like, “Hey, what type of bike do I have again?” He’s like, he probably knows everything about my bike in addition to his bike and the places to go, but in terms of the places to go, I’ve got a few. I’ve got like a 45 minute ride that I can do and then I got a two hour ride that I can do. And then there’s other places around, but I’m kind of a creature of habit, so I kind of tend to stick to those two places and I ain’t gonna tell you where they are, you know. The two hour ride is the one where I broke my collarbone. And I think there was another question in here about the collarbone and my recovery from that. Yeah, from hippiecounselor. When is that? Yeah, what has your experience been like post-wreck in regards to getting active again? Breaking my collar bone was a big setback at the end of the year. I anticipated it being the type of thing that, like, it made my top 10 of the year because, I don’t know, it’s had all these ripple effects in terms of like me continuing to be active again. Like, 10 weeks is a long time to not be doing stuff like that you love like getting on your bike. And so I’m actually still working up, like trying to reba my cardio. I haven’t done the two hour run yet. Like maybe I’ll do it today, maybe I’ll do it this weekend. So, you know, here we are in April and I’m still recovering from like that, getting to a point where I can get back to where I was Thanksgiving of last year. And that does have an impact on how I ride a little bit. I mean I’ve tried to take the pressure off myself and say I’m slowly working myself back up and I’m not doing anything really crazy and I haven’t gone on anything yet. Like when I go on the two hour ride, there’ll be a couple, there’ll be the place where I had the accident. I don’t know what I’m gonna do. I think I might take a 40 up there and just pour it out, pour one out for my old collarbone configuration. I’m not gonna drink any of it. I’m gonna pour it all out and then I’m gonna keep going up and I’m gonna come back down. But there’s a couple of places in there where coming back down, it’ll get tedious. But like, the thing that I learned is you gotta have your guard, you gotta be present pretty much. You can’t zone out too much because when you’re at speed, like I just can’t allow myself to do that. That’s a lesson that I learned. And when I’m going back down, I’m gonna be more cautious ’cause I’ll be thinking about like, is it worth the additional thrill of going that much faster here? Taking a little bit of a risk to then be knocked off my game for another 10 to 12 weeks. And I got off easy, you know, like I wasn’t in a lot of pain. Like I felt like it was the best way for me to learn that lesson, but I’ve been on my bike enough to discover that I don’t have a fear, I don’t have a new found like fixation with falling which is a relief ’cause I was kind of concerned about that. I was like… And then two days ago was the first time that I got back on the one wheel and that, I mean, mountain biking, there’s a certain zones where you gotta really be present, but when you’re on that one wheel, you kind of always have to have your guard up a little bit more. So I’ve been more nervous to get back out on that thing. But after going snowboarding and skiing, I was like, “Okay I’m gonna do this and it was fun.” It was fun ’cause when Lando took a fall and broke his wrist, he got on the one wheel a few more times but then he basically hung it up. Like, I just couldn’t, he just like, he couldn’t get loose enough to enjoy it after that and I’m just glad that didn’t happen to me. That’s where I’m at. Let’s do some, let’s do some rapid fire. I want you to just read ’em and then I’m just gonna like answer. Okay. But it’s such a strange world we live in like that I operate in like there’s so much of like ask me anything kind of vibes, you know, it’s like the fact that, I don’t know, sometimes I just think what a strange position to be in where it’s like, hey, I’m gonna talk for over an hour about me and you’re interested so ask me about me. You know, isn’t that… That’s why I had the idea for the get, I had a guest I was excited about having on this episode ’cause I’m not really a fan of all of this “ask me about me” stuff. It’s like, I don’t know. I had fun though. I did have fun and I do really appreciate the interest, the fact that I can like, take a device, type out, I’ll answer any questions you got if you’re interested. And then you got all these people asking me questions and then they want me to talk about myself. I don’t know. I feel better saying what I just said given everything that I’ve already said. And I think that’s why I said it. But the guests that I was gonna have on, still wanna make that happen. That’s gonna happen, right? Yeah, we’re gonna make that happen. All right, so enough about me. Let’s talk some more about me. Rapid fire this time. I hate rapid fire. Okay, from ChicagoMark, should the name Sarah end with an H or not? Yeah, and it should be pronounced Sarah. It’s there. It’s there. It’s just like, there should be an H in white ’cause it needs to be pronounced. I cannot say it in my house without people just laying into me. White. White. There’s an H in it. Sarah. Sarah. Sarah. I love that song. From Rebecca, Bryson and- Rebecca? Rebecca. Rebecca Bryson, rebeccabrysonmu, the tuck, did it hurt? Oh, you’re talking about when you go drag, I don’t know if it’s called go drag. I’m still learning. I learned to do the tuck. No, it wasn’t. It wasn’t that bad. Wasn’t that bad. I was also wearing like, I think it was eight layers of tights and so my toes were like already like smushed and then I crammed my foot into a high, high heeled shoe and that is painful. Pain is beauty. Painful with an H? Painful. So I think I was distracted from my testicles being somewhere like up in my bladder and my wiener pointing, folded back on the taint. I’m not gonna be more specific than that because that was more specific than I anticipated. Let’s say that’s pretty specific. Sorry. At TacoBellisgood, favorite fast food joint. In and out. I mean, it’s gotta be that. When I feel like I really wanna treat myself, that’s the first thing I think of. K_OnceUponALife asks, what is a trait you value most in other people? I’m gonna echo something I said earlier. I think sincerity. You know, I think if you… I’m sure that’s not the only one. There’s gotta be at least three other ones that tie with that but that’s what I’m going with today. You know, don’t give me lip service. Mean it, want it, put your heart into it. At fomalhaut333 Okay. Fomalhaut333, What’s your ideal “me time”? An activity you enjoy doing alone other than mountain biking? Other than mountain biking. Am I alone if I’m with my dogs? Petting my doggies is my number one hobby. Number two is probably mountain biking. What else do I like to do alone? I mean, definitely listen to music. I mean, no news’s there. Like headphones it up, lay in bed, grab a new album and just go with it. I’ll give you my rec now since it ties into that, Larry June and The Alchemist released an album called “The Greatest Escape.” And I’m obsessed with The Alchemist. This guy, yeah, he conjures, he’s got a great moniker because like it’s the vibe that he conjures is so laid… I really like the laid back stuff. And if you just concentrate on what he’s done and then you’re like, okay, what if I was a rapper and then I had to lay something over top of this, what on earth would I do? And then I think that will, that helps unlock just the magnetic collaboration between him and Larry June when like with what he’s putting over top of that. Like I love to think about that. You think about how something was made and it’s like when you take something apart and you isolate it and then you try to decide how did they inspire each other to put this together? And it’s a vibe. It’s a vibe. It’s a fun album cover too. I would just buy it just for the album cover. And I think I’m gonna do that because I’m now justifying my album purchases as also decoration. You know, when you think about, oh, I’m gonna buy this piece of art to go on my wall. It’s like, well if you’re gonna drop, you know… Yeah you could drop 40, you could drop 40, $60 on like something that you’re gonna hang on your own. You’re gonna look at it again and again and again and again. And I had it all wrong. I’m like, I’m thinking, I’m thinking so frugally like I do, I’m like, well I gotta really, really like this album and I gotta really commit to sitting down and listen to it on the vinyl and I gotta do this and I gotta do that to justify the purchase. Now I’m just saying no, it’s a cool looking album and it means something to me so I’m gonna hang it up. I think I’m gonna go to, I’m gonna change out my albums at the Creative House. It’s like they’ve been the same too long. Next. That was real quick. Okay, I’ll keep on with the music so at Charron Joelle, what artist that are alive you haven’t seen in concert and you wish you could see? I would like to see Tupac open for The Beatles. Okay, same person, different question. What song would you consider perfect or almost perfect? Always on a mountain When I fall. The reason why it’s not perfect is ’cause I’m Royal didn’t actually write it, but that performance and the production makes it my favorite. My favorite. And last question is from the same person, is there a song that makes you instantly happy? It’s gotta be Easy Lover, Philip Bailey, Phil Collins. That’s, I mean, you hear that opening riff and it gives you goosebumps back in that episode of Good Mythical Morning, way back in the day when we were like, we tried to like, to give ourselves goosebumps and that was easy for me. Just play that song. That’s happy mode activated. Metallic almonds asks, Link, what is your preferred method for cleaning your glasses both at home and out on adventure? I haven’t settled on anything great yet. We got these alcohol wipe thingies that are like, they look like condoms, right? And the package looks like a condom package. I’m not sitting there wiping my glasses with a condom. But interestingly enough that is my other answer. Just lubricated condom. No that wouldn’t work. Nothing beats hot, hot water and dish soap and then an ultra clean dry towel. But honestly I end up using paper towel. I think people say don’t use a paper towel, but nothing is gonna get my glasses cleaner than hot, hot water and some Dawn liquid dish soap. And you wet and you wash the whole glass, wash every part of the glasses. Don’t just wash the lens ’cause this, it’s been through it and when it gets stolen outta your car, you’re going to want them to be clean. It’s like, damn these are the cleanest glasses I’ve ever stolen. They’re not my prescription. I dunno what I’m gonna do with them. That’s the sad thing about that story is that like, what did they do with my glasses? Like they were just trying to find like high dollar sunglasses of which mine they took as well, but they’re prescription and odds are they’re worthless to you, you jackass. They put, he or she probably or they, I don’t know your pronouns, but I hate you for stealing my glasses. And then you probably just threw ’em away. When you put ’em on, you were like, “Oh my god. Instant headache. Both pair.” Like that’s the irony is that you stole my glasses and they were good for no one else. Like, I don’t know. Yes, you can pop out the lenses and like take ’em and get ’em replaced with something. But you think some like petty cul-de-sac thief is gonna do that? No, they’re just gonna chuck ’em. I probably could have walked down the street and if it was trash day, I probably could have looked through every his trash cans and found my damn glasses. See what you’ve done Jenna, you put me in a mood. Play Easy lover. Oh God, play it. I go well I’ll put you in a… I’ll give you a better question. Well, not a better, their question wasn’t bad. Just let’s give you a question- Did I answer it? I think you did answer it. Yeah. Paper towels that’s what you need. From Hannahaperkins, I got a good one. If you could own any animal in the world as a pet, the animal is domesticated and will not kill you, what animal would you own? A white tiger. To protect the glasses? To protect the freaking glasses? I don’t know who this guy is on platforms that’s like wrestling with tigers and pretending to be Tarzan and there’s a tar… This is the type of shit that Rhett knows about, and I don’t care for it, but it does come across my feet. This guy just like loving up on tigers and I’m jealous, I am jealous. I mean to have that much power just to like you are the pet, like you become the pet. Like, can I snuggle up with you in your bed? Like, I like the idea of that. Just like getting lost in the arms of tiger. A tamed tiger. I love that idea. I mean I bet… Suck it, see Jade is like the… Jade is the softest dog ever and I love her ’cause she’s so soft. But you know what? Saka the cat, is softer than Jade. I got to be real. Now, he doesn’t cuddle or snuggle usually, but I just got to think like a well groom tiger. I would just… Man, I would just like to just crawl up, crawl up and next to the belly of that tiger and just I said it was a white tiger, but I take it back, I’m gonna say like a Orange bengal tiger. They’re so beautiful and they got that white belly. That’s the human spot. That’s where the human sleeps, the pet human. Like I’d be on a leash for that bitch. Thanks for listening. #EarBiscuits, let me know what you think about anything. Let me know what you stank and of course you can always leave us a voicemail, 1-888-earpod1. This was fun. Thanks for the support Jenna, Jamie. Rhett, you suck man. You suck, dude. You suck. Hi Link, I hope you’re having a good solo episode. I was just calling to say that over the last six to eight months as someone who enjoys all of the content that you put out, I just wanna say that I have noticed a really distinct difference I think in you from when you kind of started your therapy and when you started talking about your medication with anxiety and who you are now. And I just think it really shows that you’ve grown into a much fuller person. And I say that with no disrespect to your former self, but I just wanna say that it was, it’s really inspiring as someone else who deals with anxiety on a general basis to see you grow into someone that you’re completely comfortable as and completely happy at. So thank you so much for everything you do. I really appreciate it, bye-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. 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