Welcome to “Ear Biscuits”, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time, I’m Rhett. And I’m Link. This week at the Round Table of Dim Lighting we got a special guest. What’s up, Dad? Hey, how you boys doing? We’re good. We’re doing good. We had to overcome some adversity to get to this point, but you’re in an interesting episode. Okay. Well, I mean, listen- I’m talking about the hurricane. There’s a couple of things that coincided with you coming into town. One, a hurricane. Yep. And two, an earthquake. Yep. And I didn’t have nothing to do with either one of them. Oh, yeah? Neither of those things is your fault? Well, I was told when I got here that I was bringing a hurricane. I shouldn’t have done that. Is that a euphemism for something? Yes, I guess. Yeah, and listen, right before we started this, and I knew this was gonna happen, we showed up today, the power had just gone off, Tim and Ben were in here trying to figure out how to get this stuff running off of battery power. Jamie was setting up all the cameras. We were literally about to roll on a completely battery-powered episode of “Ear Biscuits”. And then the lights came back on. Yeah, like right before we start. Of course, the hurricane came through last night. Yes. And it was- I mean, it wasn’t much. A tropical storm. I mean, I’ve seen- Yeah. Tropical storm. I’ve seen heavier winds in North Myrtle Beach- Just on a Friday. Oh, yeah. When it rains pretty hard down there. You were thoroughly bored by the whole thing. Yeah, there weren’t much to it. No. Okay, so you’re in town, you’re doing a number of things with us while you’re in town. So I thought it would be a good idea to have y’all sit in on this podcast knowing that you have a podcast that you do together. But I’m going- Yes, we do. It’s called “Dispatches from Myrtle Beach”, if you didn’t know about it. I’m gonna be asking you. I’m gonna start with a little bit of an experiment, maybe for my own research purposes. Okay. Charles, as you know, Link is regarded by many to be a man of particular tastes. Right? Yes. There’s a long list of things that he does not like, and a long list of things that he does like, well, a shorter long list of things that he does like. He’s saying, I’m queer, Dad. And you know what that means? Yes, I do. Yeah. We’ve been through all of that. So what I’m gonna do is, actually, Link, you’ve probably seen this before, I don’t- Weird with specific tastes. I like how you put it. I got specific tastes. Let’s just see how specific those tastes are. ‘Cause I wanna know if this is your fault. If it’s genetic? Sue’s fault or just environmental, okay? So, Jenna, as I go through this, if you’ll just kind of keep up with how many things track, how many things they have in common, okay? I’m gonna go through the list of the things that Link, on the record, he has stated that he does not like most of it’s food, some of it might be situations. I don’t really know. I haven’t even read through it. And I just want you to say yes, I agree with that, or no, I don’t agree with that. And if you wanna elaborate, fine. Link, if you wanna defend yourself, whatever you wanna do. I don’t feel like I need to defend myself. I mean, this doesn’t feel like my podcast, this episode. It feels like I’m a guest. So the same rules don’t apply. But I don’t think I need to defend any of my stances I’ve taken. Idiosyncrasies. That’s right. Okay. Yeah. This isn’t, I mean- You said you haven’t read through this. Where’d you get this from? This is the http://www.rhettandLink.fandom.com. And this is which we have no affiliation to and I don’t even know how accurate it is, which you could verify the accuracy as we go through. Okay. And this is- So it’s like a wiki for us? That site dash wiki, dash Link, underscore Neal. So this is all about you. Oh wow. Okay. And this is the what Link Neal doesn’t like section. Alright. I got a whole section. In alphabetical order. Okay. Apples. Well, I think he likes apples. No, but what do you think about it? He wants to know if you are like me. So he’s asking- Oh yeah, I like apples. Okay. I was like, you’re thinking a long time about whether you like apples. Well, here’s the thing. I also like apples. Well, you’ve stated at some point. I might have talked a little smack about apples in my time. I’ve heard you talk smack about apples multiple times. I think apples are the most frustrating thing to eat when you’re hungry because they don’t fill you up. Okay. You think they’re going to, but they don’t. So you don’t like apples? I don’t like that about apples. Okay. They’re something that you don’t like about apples. Alright, listen. This is just A, arugula. I don’t even know if I know what that is. Yeah, it’s- I know what it is. It’s a type of lettuce. It’s kind of bitter. You can put it on pizza, right? You can put it on anything you want to, put it on your face. You can do whatever you want to with arugula. What do you mean put it on your face? You can’t put it on your face. You can. It’s probably treatment for something. Yeah. Treatment for something. Dad, you don’t even know what it is. All of a sudden you gonna use it as a treatment. You don’t even know what it is. Do you like bitter lettuce? No. Okay. All right. Bitter lettuce. This one comes with a parenthetical explanation? Bananas. Parentheses hard for him to eat, close parentheses. Well, I don’t like green bananas, but I don’t like ’em when they’re over ripe either. But if you get ’em at the right time, I like bananas. Okay. A well-timed banana, you do like. I actually like a green banana. I would rather go green versus brown if you had to choose. Well, I’m not even gonna try to eat a brown banana. I’m telling you that right now. Okay. So you’re on the green side too? No, he’s on the other side. I’m on the right ripe side. If you had to choose? He chooses the window when bananas are supposed to be eaten. Of course. Okay. So, I don’t know about, Jenna, just do your best. I don’t love bananas. Blood. And this is the thought of blood circulating, getting your blood taken, but also the taste of blood. Well, the way my skin is now and the way I bleed when I do things, sometimes I just take and lick it and just keep going. You lick your wounds like a dog? Oh yeah. Yeah. Then it just quits and I just keep on working. Yeah. I’ve never seen this man lick his own wounds. I’ve seen him faint or get close to it. Matter of fact, right now I have a wound that my licker is wounded. Look at that. Oh, what happened? I bit my tongue last night. Oh really? You bit your tongue? You see that, Dad? Yeah, I saw it last night. I literally bit the tip of my tongue off. There’s a piece of it that’s now hanging. And I couldn’t even sleep well last night ’cause it was hurting so bad. Well, if you let it fall off, it’d be less likely to bite it the next time ’cause it’ll be shorter. I was just eating spaghetti last night. You got confused. What’s a noodle and what’s a tongue? And my tongue just did not get out of the way. But it’s a good thing. The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body. That’s right. There you go, Dad. At least he bit something that would heal right up. Right? Yeah. No need to lick it. I’m afraid of how it’s gonna heal though. I mean, what’s it look like? It aint as bad as it was last time. It’s pretty nasty. There’s a scab on it. I prefer not to see it. Let’s move on. There’s a scab on it? Have you ever bitten your tongue? Oh, yeah. Do you bite your tongue? Once in a while, yeah. Like once a month? Just about like- Yeah. He bites his tongue monthly. No, I don’t. I do. Once in a while I’ll bite it. Probably twice a year or something maybe. A biannual biting. Yeah. Okay. That’s probably still above average. I think this is a Neal thing. Twice a year? I’m probably twice a year. I think that’s normal. Oh yeah. Monthly is too often. You need to see somebody about that. Okay. A tongue specialist. That’s what Chris had told him, he just eat too fast. I think he chews too many times. We could talk about that later. Yeah. Blue cheese. Oh Lord. I hate blue cheese. Okay. All right. We got a winner. Oh Lord. I hate blue cheese too. We got a winner. Boiled eggs. Especially after the first one. That’s what it says here. No, I usually eat about two boiled eggs at a time. So, I mean, I like boiled eggs. Okay. Yeah, I’ll eat one and if it’s got the right seasoning on it, and this is only a late development like over the past year. But one. Yeah. ‘Cause I would buy the peanut butter sandwich snack at Starbucks and it would have a boiled egg in there. So I learned to eat that. I ain’t eating that, Rhett. What? A peanut butter sandwich with a boiled egg in it from Starbucks. Well, not in it. Oh. Next to it. But on the side of it. Oh, okay. Alright. I might do that. Okay. Bologna. Oh, I love bologna. Yeah, I knew you’d like Bologna. Yeah, I don’t like bologna. Fried bologna sandwich. Ooh baby. Yeah. Butter beans. Yeah. I like butter beans. Yep, me too. There’s three things that start with butter. Butter fingers. Oh yeah. I like butter fingers. Yeah. Me too. I don’t like butter fingers. Butterscotch. Yeah, I like butterscotch candy. I don’t like that. Okay. So, where did this butter hatred come from? Well, I like butter and none of the other things you mentioned have anything to do with actual butter. Well, butterscotch kind of has a butter, butter-flavored candy would be butterscotch. It’s buttery. I don’t like it. It’s a little too rich for my blood. Cake. Oh, I like cake. You like cake better than pie? Probably tip for tat if it’s good cake and good pie. I like both of ’em. I like the way you think Charles, which it sounds. I’m not gonna shove them to the side. It’s refreshingly normal to hear someone say if it’s good cake, a good pie, I’m gonna eat both of ’em because that’s the way I navigate the world. I’m gonna get a piece of both. The best cake is not as good as the average pie. It just feels like too much work to think about that. But we’re only on C, cake. I mean caviar. I have not ever eaten it. So I don’t know. Black eggs, fish eggs. I still ain’t eat it. Okay. With a clarification. Yeah. This one just is a sentence, “I don’t love celery. Let’s add it to the list,” Link. That’s how this one got added to the list. I guess I knew there was a list at some point. Yeah, let’s add it to the list. I don’t love celery. Celery. I don’t like it too good either. But I will eat it with a little of Nancy’s Parmesan cheese on it. There you go. Alright. Okay. We got a track in there. Cherry-flavored stuff. I don’t like cherries. Okay. Alright. Now hold on, I like cherries, but I don’t like any cherry-flavored stuff. I don’t like cherries, period. What about cherry-flavored, like a cherry coke? No. See, so his- So cherry hate came from Charles. Let’s say so. Yeah. Yeah. But it got diluted because you just don’t like cherry-flavored stuff. But you do like cherries. That means that Sue probably likes cherries. Yeah, that’s gotta be how it works. I mean, I’m not Gregor Mendel or anything. What about watermelon versus watermelon-flavored stuff? That’s not on the list? Just watermelon. I don’t like, no, I just like watermelon. I don’t like watermelon-flavored stuff. Oh, actually it is on the list. Watermelon-flavored things. Yep. There it is. Guys, we gotta go faster. Okay. This is gonna take forever. I wanna talk about something else. Cheez-Its. No. Oh, chocolate chips in chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I don’t like chocolate chips. Why? I’m not much of a chocolate person anyway. But I’m a peanut butter cookie man. Okay. All right. Haha, there we go. That tracks. Coconut. Oh, I like coconut though. Yeah. ‘Cause the coconut cream. Oh yeah. Yeah. We had that for your favorite foods. Yeah. Cooked mushrooms as opposed to raw. I like both of ’em. Cooked sweet potatoes. Oh, I like cooked sweet potatoes. Cotton candy? No. Okay. Great, Dad. Crab. Yeah. I like crab. I like crab too. Well, you must have said you didn’t like it at some point. Take that off the list. I can’t, I can’t edit it. Take crab off the list, people. Cream soda. No. No. Cucumber. Oh yes. No. Make you burp. Dirty martinis. Well, I hadn’t never drank one, but I. You like a clean martini? I don’t even know what. I mean it’s just basically gin and some other stuff in it. It’s an oily beverage. No, I’m just a gin-and-tonic man. I don’t like that. Okay. All right. And Link likes the gin and tonic. I do. Dr. Pepper. I like Dr. Pepper. No, it’s bad. There we go, all right. Medicine. Duck. Have never eaten it. Really. And never tried it. Have you been avoiding it? I just hadn’t never ordered it from something. Maybe I need to do that. Okay, we’ll rectify that. No, Dad. Just because he’s asking you doesn’t mean you have to change anything. We’ll get you some duck. Well, no, you might like it. That’s the real thesis here. No one needs to change anything. Duck is my wife’s favorite meat. I’m not a huge fan of it. It’s the other dark meat. But if you really like dark meat, then it can be an even darker meat. Are you a white meat man or a dark meat man? Dark meat, chicken. Yeah. See you might like duck. Eggnog. No. Okay. Eggs benedict? Yes. Oh yeah, you’ve had that? Yeah. Egg drop soup. No. Folger’s coffee. Hey, it’s coffee. Instant coffee. Yeah. Frosting. Yeah. I like frosting. Okay. Fruit punch. This is such a dumb list. No. You don’t like fruit punch? No. It’s not great. Fruity-flavored ice creams? No. Oh well, you like peach ice cream? Oh no I didn’t. I was thinking more like them little fruit things you see they put on ice cream. But yeah, I like fruit ice cream. Like a peach ice cream? Yeah, as much peach and strawberry ice cream, homemade, that we make? Yeah, I like that. That did change though, because you did agree with me that peach ice cream was the best Tillamook flavor. Yep. Yep. That was a surprise. So maybe the list needs to be updated. Link does like fruit-flavored ice creams. I don’t prefer it. Gatorade, orange and red, “More of a lemon-lime man,” is what Link said about himself. I like the red. Okay. He doesn’t like the red. I don’t like the red. Ginger. No. Grapefruit. No. I like grapefruit. Update the list, people. He likes grapefruit. See, there’s a few things here that I like he doesn’t. Hard candy. No. Hah. See. What do you not like about hard candy? Because you’re scratching a lot of things off the list there. And mostly ’cause I don’t like peppermint. Okay. A lot of candies peppermint and stuff with peppermint in it and all that. You know how when the hard candy wallows around in your mouth and it like hits your teeth and makes that sound, I don’t like that. Yeah, I don’t like that either. See. Hot dogs with the twisty thing at the top. Ones that turn at the end. Like a knot at the end of the hot dog. Like the real sausage casing. Hell, I like hot dogs. I don’t care how they are. Yeah. Yeah. Again, there’s a lot of thought that goes into these preferences that I choose to use my brain for other things. Ice cream sandwiches. Yes. They’re all right. I mean, you gotta watch out what you say because people are getting vibes. I think sometimes you might even be just describing something you don’t like about something. Yeah. And then people end up thinking that you don’t like it. Oh yeah. There’s plenty I don’t like about it. Key lime pie. Oh, I like key lime pie. Oh, that’s my favorite dessert. It’s just not the pie I would choose. Lemon-flavored stuff. No. Nope. Okay. That’s right, Dad. Licorice. No. No. Okay. All right. That’s right. Dad. Lima beans. Which I think, I mean those are kind of butter beans. We’re already been there. They’re just a lot bigger. Liver. Yes. I eat liver. Oh. This is the only thing on the list that I don’t like. And I usually like it if you cook it with some onions in with it, you need it. It always smells great. And I get excited about it, and then I taste it, and I can’t get it down. Something not right about it. M&M’S. M&M’S? Yeah. Oh yeah. I like M&M’s. Yeah. Right. Who doesn’t like M&M’s? I don’t really like M&M’s. Marshmallows, except in a s’more. Yes to that. Yes to that? I don’t eat marshmallows unless I’m eating them in a s’more over a fire. That’s right. See, there you go. Minestrone soup. No. Mint chocolate chip ice cream? No. Because you don’t like mint. Okay. There you go see. The mint feels genetic ’cause peppermint and mint. Cherries and mint dislike feels genetic for those people taking notes. Mole, like the dark sauce on Mexican food sometimes. No. You’ve never had it. I’ve never had it. Just say you’ve never had it. No, I ain’t. This is not a flavor preference. I think it’s a scent preference. Oh no, I thought it said most candles in general. But it says most candies in general. you can’t just add that to the list, person who adds things to the list. Most candies in general. Okay. That’s true though. Seaweed. No. Okay. Nuts in chocolate stuff. Yes. You do like ’em? Yeah. If you make brownies and put nuts in ’em, I will eat a brownie. I do. Okay. To get a good brownie, some chocolate stuff I don’t like, but I like brownies. Keep it mushy. Don’t add the crunchy. Olives. No. Okay. Yes, Dad, you’re right. All right. Oreos. Not the chocolate ones. I like the new ones. The cream. You like the blonde ones? Yeah. Oh. What do you think about the blonde ones? I probably don’t like those either. I like the brunettes and the blondes. It’s just not worth it. Oysters. Oh yeah. You can’t be from Myrtle Beach and not like Oysters. Or North Carolina. Pepperoni. No. Oh. Oh, you don’t like pepperoni? I like pepperoni. So what do you get on a pizza? Well, I can eat it on a pizza, but I just don’t- What’s your favorite pizza order? An extravaganza one with all kind of vegetables. Extravaganza. Yeah. Like a Supreme? Yeah. Extravaganza is not a supreme, now I don’t know the difference, but something tells- They sound similar. Yeah. I mean one place is the name of one thing. Yeah. Right. I mean I guarantee you somewhere out there there’s a pizza place that’s called Extravaganza. And then it’s just really supreme. Pretzels. No. Oh. There you go, Dad. Okay. They’re burnt, right? They taste burnt. I don’t know what it tastes like ’cause I ain’t eat them, but several times. It’s like a twig. I don’t like ’em. Okay. Just ’cause you tied twig in a knot doesn’t mean you need to eat it. Okay. Alright. Strong preference there. Red kidney beans. Yes. Eat them in chili. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don’t want to have too many. They make it chili in my mind. Root beer. No. Okay. No. All right. So you like Dr. Pepper, you don’t like root beer? Okay. That’s inconsistent, Dad. You need to not like all of them. Runny eggs. Oh yeah. Well, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rum. I can live with it and live without it. Link liked rum a lot at one point. But there was an incident in a bathtub at the house that he was living at, right when they got married, where he got into the bathtub with a bottle of Malibu rum. When I got out, there was no more rum and I did not feel great. Well, that’s probably. It broke me. Malibu’s kind of sweet. Yeah. And you supposed to just mix it, not drink it by itself. You’re supposed to put it with some of that fruit punch you was talking about a while ago. Right. Yeah, yeah. You’re not supposed to get warm in a hot bath and just drink a big bottle of rum. No. I liked it too much. Probably it ain’t a good idea to get in the bathtub and drink a big bottle of anything. Right, except maybe just water or Gatorade. Well, I wasn’t taking a blow dryer into the tub, Dad. Well. Saffron. I don’t know if I know what it is. Something sweet? No, it’s a particular spice that is usually in a paella is where I’ve had it. No. Too much of it, it’s bad, even I don’t like it. But a little bit’s good. It’s like gold shards. Samoas. Is that a type of Girl Scout Cookie? Yeah. That’s the one with coconuts I think. Yeah. So you probably like ’em. Yeah, I probably like them. Skittles. I like, No. No, I ain’t too crazy about Skittles. Me neither. Okay. It’s pointless. Smoked gouda if it’s really smoked. Well, gouda’s a kind of cheese ain’t it? Yeah. No. Okay, okay, okay. Cheese hate runs pretty deep in this lineage because your Dad. Oh no, my Dad would- He hated cheese. Yeah, in general. He would talk so much crap about cheese. Yeah. But it had something to do with milking cows. Oh yeah. He didn’t like it ’cause he had to go out and milk cows all the time, and that was hard work. And then you had to churn it into churn. I think he had to do part of that too, to get it to make butter and get the cheese. ‘Cause he didn’t eat butter either. Really? Okay. He’s anti-cow work. He doesn’t like dairy in general. He didn’t like, no, he did not. Okay. Spam-ish meats. No. Okay. What about buying the sausages? Well, I used to eat them when I was growing up, but I still ain’t too crazy about it. Okay. Good. Yeah, yeah. Sriracha sauce. It’s that rooster sauce. Yeah, I like it. Yep. I don’t like it. Steak. We know you like steak. Oh yeah. That was one of your favorite foods, wasn’t it? Yeah. What do you not like about steak, can you state for the record? Maybe they can add this to the list. It’s too meat-slaby. It’s like a big slab of meat. Yeah, yeah. You mean a steak? It’s too meat-slaby. I don’t love that. You like your meat to be mixed into other things? Yeah, I like it to be processed but not too processed. But Rhett, he needs to just get a good filet mignon that’s about like that and about that thick, made to cook and then- It’s like you’ve just grabbed part of a cow, yanked it out and just put it on a plate. Well, yeah, that’s kind of what meat is. Yeah, any kind of meat. Part of an animal that was grabbed and put on a plate. There’s other things that happened between there and here. Yep, that’s right. And it’s not great for you anyway, so it’s a win-win. Sushi? No. Okay. But lemme clarify, I have never tried it, so maybe I shouldn’t answer that. You don’t like the idea of it? Yeah. But you like oysters? Oh yeah. And you’ll do ’em on the half shell? Oh yeah. Hey, I do ’em before they’re cooked anything. Okay, alright. You probably would be like it then. Maybe you could do sushi, Dad. Okay. Alone. Tea. Yeah, I like tea. Is this true? I don’t love tea. No? Thick burgers. If you’re gonna get a thick burger or a thin burger, which one are you gonna choose? I can eat both, so I mean, yeah. I can eat both but what do you prefer? But you don’t have to- I really don’t prefer, I mean, if it’s a thick one, it can’t be just raw in the middle. Right. But if it’s cooked to where it’s still pink, I don’t mind it. Okay, there’s an interesting dynamic that I see developing here. And it’s interesting because what I’ve noticed about Link’s brain is he sees a category of something and he automatically puts it into a spectrum or a binary, right? Burgers, thick, thin. Specifics, man. And then he decides that he likes one. And that necessarily means he kind of doesn’t like the other end of the spectrum. Oh yeah. I’m like you. I’m like, okay, if you pinned me down, maybe I’d come up with a preference. But if you gimme a thick burger, I’m not thinking I wish this wasn’t a thick burger. ‘Cause what it is in front of me right now is a thick burger and I enjoy burgers. It seems like you approach your life in that way. And sometimes I think when you- Which is a better way, by the way. When you take a thin burger and it’s thin, it don’t have as much taste to it as that thick burger with still some of the juices and stuff in it. I think it does. I think it has more taste. There’s just things to enjoy about both thick and thin. Oh yeah. I think I’m on Link’s side here that thin is better because of surface area. So in his defense, I think he’s on the right side of the spectrum. But he shouldn’t just pick one side of the spectrum ’cause he’s ruling out a whole side of the spectrum that he could enjoy. I can eat a thick burger. But you’re not gonna have a good time doing it. I’m gonna wish it was a smash burger. Right. Thin burger. That’s gonna take a lot of your energy in that moment, is not liking it. Let’s move on. Thin Mints. So we got thick burgers and then Thin Mints, another Girl Scout cookie. You don’t like mint so you don’t like it. No. Tomatoes. Yes. You like a tomato sandwich? Oh yeah. Like a good southern man should. What’s so good about it, Dad? I don’t get it. It’s like a watery, like if you run water through some sort of, I don’t know, fruit device that then it makes everything nasty about the water. And then there’s seeds. It’s just gross-tasting water in a fruit. What? Well, what? It took a long time for you to say and not mean nothing about a good tomato sandwich? Tomatoes suck man. No, I love, hey. They’re gross. And I grow ’em. And I look forward to getting the first one of the year, and getting a good slab of it, and put some deep mayonnaise on that white bread and get on it some salt and pepper. Salt and pepper. And just get with it. Oh, man, that’s such a good thing. And you know they’re the only thing that tastes like that. Oh yeah. There’s nothing else that tastes like a tomato. A tomato is its own thing. Thank God. Well, I must have done something special because I got a son that don’t like tomatoes and I got a daughter, Lauren, that would just pluck ’em off the vine and eat them and still will till this day. So I got two kids that one loves ’em and one don’t. You never know how the genes are gonna go. I mean my mom likes tomatoes too, so it ain’t that. It’s environmental. Tuna. Yes. Yeah. Turkey. Yes. I dunno, I’m more of a ham man. Yeah. But if there’s ham there and turkey there, which one are you gonna choose? Turkey. I don’t like ham. Oh shoot, this is a big development. You don’t like ham? You know he’s a ham man? I know. He’s known for overcooking ’em, but he is really known for liking him. Well, it’s kind of like, Rhett, when my sister, Dan and her got married, not maybe every Sunday, but every other Sunday, my mama cooked the ham for lunch, for Sunday lunch, and everybody come and eat. After about five years, Dan told my sister, told Teresa said, would you please tell your mama I don’t like ham? It takes about five years to work up the ham courage. Wow. She’s making ham every month. And that may be why I don’t like it so much, ’cause I mean she used to- You got hammed out. Yeah. Okay. See, I respect that. I respect your decision. That’s a pretty big deal. I mean, have y’all had Thanksgiving together recently? We’re planning on it this year. A couple years ago. I’m trying to get him to make ribs. Okay. Hey, it’s a win-win. We don’t have to have this argument. Yeah, okay. We ain’t gonna argue. He ain’t gotta eat no turkey. I don’t care, it’s more for me. Right. Okay, yeah. That’s a good attitude. What do you think about ribs though? Oh yeah, we’re gonna go for the ribs. Okay, you’re open to actually. Thanksgiving ribs. That sounds good to me. You can come. Wasabi. Wasabi? That’s the green stuff that comes with sushi. So if you’re not a sushi person, you probably haven’t had it. Probably no, I ain’t had it. I don’t know. Well, you need to have it. A lot of it. We’ve already covered watermelon. We’re in the W’s, we’re almost done. Watermelon flavored things like watermelon-flavored candy. No, I don’t like watermelon flavor. Okay. Yep, that’s right. Wurther’s Original hard candy, which kind of falls under all hard candy, which we’ve been there. But I have ate a Wurther’s Original, kind of helped my throat, kind of liked it. Yeah, I kinda liked it too. ‘Cause, some of ’em had some butterscotch in it. Yeah, there’s a crossover between butterscotch in one of those. It’s not great. And then finally Worcestershire sauce. No. Nope, that’s right. Okay. It’s strange. But I use it in a lot of stuff, but I just don’t put it on something. It seems like it’s something that should go on the wound of a horse or something. You could probably treat a wound with it. You could probably, yeah. It’s probably better than nothing. It may have something in it like turpentine. Yeah, right. It won’t make your horse worse-tershire. Okay, so Jenna, just rough back of the napkin math. How are we looking percentage-wise here on how they line up? Well, percentages, I don’t know, but we got 34 you lined up on. As like things you don’t. There you go. Yeah, you got 34 things. Okay. That’s pretty good. You can do the math at home. Yeah, I don’t know how. And I’m not gonna go through the list of things that he likes even though it is significantly shorter. We’re gonna move on. “Ear Biscuits” is brought to you by BetterHelp. You know we love therapy and we want therapy to be accessible to everyone and BetterHelp is a great option, especially, when you’re uncertain about things or you wanna resolve tension. Therapy is a great answer. 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Well, what do you mean different, how do you mean different? When you think about that we’re different, what you talking about? Well, you got different point of views about different stuff and I ain’t bringing all that up. Okay. Alright. We get started on that, this “Ear Biscuit” thing will last till in the morning. Okay. Yeah, that could be a whole series. You guys could talk about that on your podcast. Yeah. You talking religion, politics. That, but I mean. Social justice. I’m sorry. And not just say it but I mean, I think you- I’m not sorry. Changed the way because of what y’all do. How y’all look at stuff. And what comes outta y’alls brain sometime and all these people that work for y’all. I mean, it’s kind of amazing to me what y’all do and where it comes from sometimes. Well, that’s something I noticed and I talked to Link about is that we, you show up to do something with us, whether it’s the podcast or whether it’s like Mythic Con or it’s the time that you’re here. We get you to do so many crazy things and you’re just willing to do it. You sign up for everything. Look, when you think about this world, this Mythical world that you step into from time to time? ‘Cause I was telling Link, I was like, Link, you’re not as compliant as you’re, when we asked you to do things, you got a lot of questions about, Link starts with a lot of questions. He wants to know exactly what he’s getting himself into. We tell you, hey, put this hat on, and say that your name is Chaz, and that you’re 22 years old or whatever we did for that episode that’ll come out at some point. And you’re like, okay. So what is your thought process when we just ask you to do something, like we made you into an alien with four arms in Mythic Con. And I don’t think we told you until you had already landed. You were in Austin before we told you what you were doing. Well, there’s been a lot of that. Yeah, right. I mean, I don’t think they tell me because they know that they just wait and it’s just a spur-of-a-moment thing, that I’ll go ahead and do it. If they tell me in advance, I ain’t gonna show up. Do you feel manipulated? I don’t want you to feel manipulated, Dad. Well, how else would you feel? Okay, we’ll start telling you ahead of time. No, I think sometimes the spontaneous stuff is what people like to see from me, I guess. That’s right. Because they see it from y’all all the time. Yeah, there’s no need to overthink it. Just go. Right. If y’all asked me to do something that I didn’t wanna do, I would say no. You would just say no? Yeah, I’d say no. But in general, you’re trusting the process. Yeah, yeah. It’s working out very well. It’s fine. I mean, I enjoy doing our podcasts and hey, I like coming in here with y’all. And I mean, you can’t hurt my feelings. I’m too old to get my feelings hurt. Right. Well, and there there’s and interesting. You just kind of go along with a lot of ’em. Yeah. Well, and there’s an interesting dynamic, right? So, the first time that y’all worked together, you were in charge because when Link started working for you, when he was raising support and he was painting. And now the dynamic has shifted a little bit where you’re stepping into his world. So let’s talk about that different dynamic. Because the stories that Link tells about working for you. Is that you, he was like, no, he was particular about how he wanted something done on a job site. Oh yeah. In a way that it’s a completely different thing when you’re stepping in our world. So tell me about that, about how you approach what you do versus what you do when you come and work for us. Well, that’s a different thing for me. ‘Cause I’ve worked for myself all my life. Whether it was farming and then getting into the painting business and remodeling and stuff. So, when you get into that. But it kind of came to reality when one day I got a letter in the mail at the house from Good Mythical Morning. And I opened it up and it said this was from, I guess, it’s kind of from both of y’all, that I had to sign something on the bottom of it, that I was representing y’all and working for y’all. And then I thought to myself, if I sign this, I ain’t got no say so about what I’m going to do anyway. Yeah, you had to sign your life away to it. Well, I don’t know about that. Did you read it? You’re talking about the release form that you had to sign. Yeah, so I signed it and sent it on back. Permission to put you on camera. Yeah, and all that stuff. He said that I was your boss. That’s what I said. I told someone, I said, well, it’s kind of ironic. I was his boss for all them years. Now Link’s going to be my boss, and I’m gonna have to do what he says. Which it ain’t been too bad. I mean, he don’t, and Rhett don’t get involved much with it, so leaves us along. That’s right. I figure y’all can handle it. He’s a looming figure. And I’m not really much of a boss, who’s the real boss? If you were to say who’s really in charge of your interactions here? Me. Oh, really? Okay, I thought you were gonna say Logan. Well, Logan helps me with my interactions, but I’m pretty in charge of my interactions. Well, that is the thing. I mean, the thing I said when we started Dispatches From Myrtle Beach, I was like, all right, Dad, this is your show. I’m just along for the ride. But I mean, when you do your day job, would you call yourself a perfectionist? Yes, people will tell you that. But then when you’re in our world you seem to be a lot more easygoing. Like you just go along with it. Do you think you’re a perfectionist when it comes to this stuff or? Well, I think when you do what I do, you should know what you’re doing. You gotta know what you’re doing to do it. When we’re taping Dispatches and doing stuff, it’s just stuff that’s kind of, when people send in questions and I don’t read them before, it’s just something that comes off the, my answers come off the top of my head. And it’s more like a natural thing to let things flow and that you really don’t have to worry whether it’s right or wrong. Right. It’s a way to try to just react, interact with the people that are sending you stuff in and everything. It’s sort of art versus science. Yeah. When you’re painting something or you’re doing sheetrock or tile or whatever, there may be an art side to it, but if you don’t mix the grout right. Oh yeah. There’s a mechanical problem. You got a problem. Yeah. What’s the worst thing that could happen with Dispatches? That people just quit watching it. Right, ’cause it’s not for them. Yeah. What’s the worst thing that could happen in your day job? I call it his day job ’cause he’s moonlighting as an internet personality. Right. Ask me that question again. What’s the worst thing that can happen with your day job? Yeah, I’d just go on, get another job. I mean, I’ve had people- Well, you could fall off a ladder and die. Oh damn. I’ve been doing it for 40 years and ain’t done that yet. Okay. And I fell 40 foot one time. Really? Yeah. How did that happen? I was doing something I ought not have been doing. What do you mean? I propped a 40-foot ladder up against the house and it was a new construction and it was up and down. So I put a cinder block up under one side of the ladder. When I got up at the top of the ladder, the cinder block tilted, the ladder fell over and I had to hold the ladder on this side and the window on this side. Oh. How long were you there, hours? Oh no. Hell, I couldn’t hold on that long. And I tried to find a spot to jump off and get into. So I pushed the ladder, the paint bucket went through the window inside the house and I went to the ground. Oh. Did you slide down the house like a? No, I jumped back from the ladder and landed in the, and it was wet enough and mud that it wasn’t so hard. And I hit the ground, tumbled, and rolled. Wow, you didn’t break anything? No. Got up, put the ladder back after I went in and we got the boys was working, went in and cleaned all the paint up inside the house. Put the ladder back up on the house and said This ladder ain’t going to whip me. And went back up there and painted what I was going to paint. Whoa. And when you went back up there, is that when you got struck by lightning? Oh no, that was a long time after that. But Rhett, when I got up there and I got through with what I was painting up, Link, I noticed my legs was shaking, like, you don’t need to be up here right now. And I finally told myself, said, you ain’t real confident in yourself right now. So I got down off the ladder, went and got one of the guys working for me. We put the ladder down, put everything on the van, and I said, boys, we going home. I carried ’em on home. Yeah, I was about to say- You were shook up, but it was more in your legs. Well, I mean. When you fall 40 feet, I think you can take the rest of the day off. I think that’s the least that you can do. Right. Going to the hospital is also one option. Yeah. But you didn’t need to do that. No, I was alright. What’s the dumbest thing that Link ever did when he was working for you? And if you need time to narrow it down. Probably asked me, I don’t know if this is the dumbest, but I put him in a job hoping that it would convince him that he needed to get a good education and put him in a little hole somewhere up and it was hot. And I’d check on him once in a while, but he finally just- Painting in a hole. Yeah. Well, it was in a little bathroom, in a nook thing. And he come down and says, I just, I ain’t doing this no more, it’s too hot. You would always put me in the crappiest places. Oh yeah. And you were doing that, that was a strategy. Oh yeah. You were like, I don’t want you to be doing this. Well, I wanted him to figure out that if he wanted to come aboard and one day be a part of my business, that this is what it took to do it. ‘Cause I mean, I had done it before. Right. I had never put him in a situation that I hadn’t been in. But I also wanted him to see that if you got an education, he wouldn’t have to work like I did. Right. Well, speaking of that, he’s made some pretty, well, together, we’ve made some pretty unconventional choices, career choices, right. I’m telling you. So when he got his engineering degree and started working as an engineer, what were you thinking at the time? Oh man, he’s made it, got outta school. I got it made. Got a good job, was making good money. And I knew he could look after his family and do what he wanted to. So I was proud of him. And then what did you think when not too long after that he said I’m going to be doing a different kind of job, which involves me going around and asking people for money. Well, I didn’t have, I was probably, I don’t know if I was the only one, but I was pretty close the only person in our family that didn’t object to that because I mean, if you work for yourself, you have to ask people for money and tell ’em how much something costs. That’s true. And if you’re trying to do something like y’all did then and asking for money, it’s kind of letting them trust enough in you that that’s what you needed help with and how you were going to get paid. Okay. So I didn’t have a problem with it. There was some people, my Momma and Daddy. Yeah. My Daddy especially, Mama too. But Daddy, he was from the same clothe, probably grew up like your Mom and Daddy, you worked for a living, you get a paycheck, and you don’t have to rely on anybody else. Right. Except for where you’re working at. So I didn’t have much of a problem with it. And then after that period of time, then when he said, me and Rhett are gonna do this internet thing, like what were you thinking at the time when you heard that this is probably back when we first started, like 2007. Yeah. Well, I was still probably the only ones in the family that didn’t have a problem. ‘Cause it’s kind of like y’all were going out and doing something together, but you were working for yourself. If you work for yourself, you gotta pay your dues, and do what you do, and just keep going. And I always had to think in the back of my head for both of you, if this don’t work out for you, you both got engineering degrees. Hell, you can find a job somewhere. Yeah. Right. And you had done a lot of figuring out what it is you wanted to go for and even if people didn’t agree. At some point, you just can’t do what other people want you to do, you gotta do what you wanna do for yourself. And I think you did a lot of that, right? Yeah, I did that. ‘Cause I mean, I had a job one time, if I’d have stayed there, I could have been retired from that job working at the prison department. And I had about seven years in it and I just quit and give it up to go to work somewhere else. But you’d do something full-time for myself because I had farmed and worked for myself. And sometimes when you work for yourself like y’all, you have to figure out what you want to do to be happy. It’s kind of like what I’ve said on Dispatches, people have wrote in and asked me questions about what should I do? And I said, well, the first thing is find something that every time you get up in the morning, you wanna be glad that you’re going to work, and that you enjoy it, and if you can make a living at it then that’s what you need to be doing, don’t worry about what something somebody else tells you. That’s good advice. It’s good advice. We’ve been following it for a long time. Yeah. You heard about us like in the Lillington Basement. We were doing our thing. Oh yeah. And then Nana and Papa came around to it ’cause they started coming over and watching our live show, Yeah. Papa would fall asleep during the live broadcast. Right. To the point where we started putting a second camera. Papa camera. On him just to show that he was there but asleep. Well, it’s kind of like that nap thing you did the other day. And when you get old you can take a nap almost anywhere, can’t you? Yeah. Yeah, I think he was happy that we were succeeding on some level, but he wasn’t particularly interested in the content himself. No. Which is fine. He doesn’t like cheese either, so we can’t trust his opinion. So do you think doing the podcast together, because, obviously, y’all had interactions growing up, but because Link lived with Sue for most of his adolescents and stuff, your interactions were limited, then obviously you worked together when he was painting for you. But do you think that the podcast, are y’all as close as you’ve ever been because of the podcast? Probably closer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I have learned something from him, like one day I used to call him up, like he brought, we did this on the podcast and he said, Dad calls me and I’d say, you need to call me right now. You would text me that. I’ll text him that like it is an emergency. I need you to call me. Yeah. And like it was an emergency, really important emergency. It’s just something I, trying to, because you can’t get him on the telephone, so you might as well text. That’s true. Which I can understand. I understand that more now too than before because of y’all’s schedules and stuff. So I have learned something about him that kind of pushed some buttons and that maybe I don’t need to need to be. Well, to throw a little bit of turmoil in your day or something. I’ve learned to let back and just be at more ease about what I ask him. So now when you want to talk to me, what do you text? It’s not, I need you to call me. Well, if I text him and asked him, I’d just say, look, if you got time, how about gimme a call. See, he learned something on the podcast, not to alarm me so much. Versus call me when you can in all caps, you don’t do that anymore. I need you to call me, what he was saying. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like we’ve talked about a lot of stuff on the podcast that doesn’t come up in, sometimes conversation is hard, when you’re hanging out with family. Especially, when you don’t live in the same place and then you get on the phone and it’s just about catching up. Alright, which of your friends is in the hospital? Yeah. How are you feeling? How’s Nancy doing? What y’all been up to? And then you’re talking about the weather and then it’s kind of like, alright. And now we’re at the end of our conversation. Right. I didn’t know how starting the podcast, what it was gonna be like at all. the fact that, because we had a format and you were getting all these emails. It gave us other things to talk about. Oh, yeah. And sometimes you, I think it injected a lot of, it opened up a whole new world of stuff we can talk about. I feel like I learned just as much about you. Like I didn’t know that you’d been struck by lightning. I mean, I didn’t know that you fell 40 feet off a ladder until just now. Yeah, these are two pretty big details. Yeah. That you would think you’d know about somebody. It’s got a lot of details, it’s just not the, like when you get on the phone with your parents, you’re like, hey, Dad, tell me the last time, tell me the biggest injury you’ve ever had on your job. I think it would be a good practice to connect with family members or something like that. To ask good open-ended questions. But it’s just not the- It just doesn’t happen. It just doesn’t happen. It’s like when you’re talking to your family. And even when I would text him to call me, I’m not gonna get on the phone, talk to you for 30 minutes. No. That ain’t going happen. Right. Right. I don’t understand how people do it And I won’t ever be there. Hey, if it’s bad enough that I need to talk to you for more than five or 10 minutes, I’m probably gonna get on a plane and fly in and talk to you. I mean, I’m not going to try to do it. And even with this FaceTime stuff that you could makes it where you can say- It’s not good enough? Then probably, I mean, if I need to talk to somebody, if I need to talk to somebody at home and I really want to have a conversation with ’em, I don’t do it on the phone. Right. I go see ’em because I’m gonna see how they react because I can be pretty upfront how I feel and tell you about how I feel about something. You’re saying, sometimes the way you say things maybe rubs people the wrong way. Hell, I’ll hurt somebody’s feelings. Oh, okay. Me too, man. Can’t we? Very direct. And I’ve been told that by Nancy that I need to calm down a little bit about that and I try to do better. But I mean, people that’s known me all my life will tell you, that’s one things they’ll tell you about me. You are going to know how I feel about something, whether you like it or not. That runs in the family. So that’s just the way it is. So he did get a little bit, some kind of traits from me. Well, he got a number of traits. Anyone who’s watching. Okay. So those are some things that you’ve learned about each other. What have you learned about yourself in doing the podcast together? Both of you can answer this question. Well, I have learned that there’s a lot of things I don’t know anything about that maybe I ought to be trying to learn some more things about some of the questions and stuff. But then you kind of have to, because we’ve had some people ask some pretty serious questions about life and they asked me my opinion. And when they asked me that, I kind of stepped back a little bit and say, alright, mate, you just can’t tell ’em what you do with somebody that you know, you try to give them a good answer, but one that they got some options with. Right. And stuff. That’s one of the things I have. ‘Cause we’ve had some questions on Dispatches that people ask me for advice for and I give them advice, but I try to articulate to ’em a little bit more. Right. What they need to do than me just, if they were one of my friends and I’d go in and tell ’em something, this is what you need to do or this is what I think you need to do. You package it a little bit more carefully. Yeah. ‘Cause they write back sometimes. This is what happened when I applied your advice. Yeah. Did you ever think you shouldn’t do it? Especially early on when it was like, hey, why don’t we do this thing? Didn’t seem like it. No, no. I mean, hey, it was something new. And it was kinda like what I said about finding something that you’d like to do, if you enjoy it, just keep trying and see how it works out. I mean, I enjoy it and getting together because I get to talk to him, and it’s just a pretty good thing. Seems like you’ve never really got in your own head about it. I don’t know if you ever were nervous about it at any point. Well, maybe the first time or two talking into a microphone or into that camera where you’re looking at and stuff that, it was a little overwhelming. Right. But as it went along it’s kind of like, I don’t even know it’s there. Yeah, you adjusted very quickly. Yeah. That was my observation, that you got comfortable very quickly. I don’t know what I learned about myself. I don’t know. I felt it was like, our interactions from the beginning were like I said, different than a normal phone interaction. I’m like, what are people gonna connect with? Does it just have to be ridiculous and extreme? I think there’s been kind of a development, an evolution of the podcast. At first, it was just what can I get Dad to react to? And then I think pretty early on we discovered that, oh, there’s actual legitimate connection here. We are learning things about each other, and learning things about ourselves I guess. And then, yeah, I think once it settled into, there’s moments where it’s like, alright, we’re just having this conversation for the fun of it. And there’s other times where we’re like, oh, this is a great conversation that I’m grateful that we’re having. And if it wasn’t for the podcast, we wouldn’t be having it, but we are having it the same way we would have if it wasn’t on the podcast. Right. And so being at that comfort level and getting there pretty quickly, I think was pretty, that was something that I didn’t know how it was gonna feel. And then I was like, wow, this is, this is rewarding on a number of levels. And if it’s rewarding for us and if people wanna listen in and whatever they’re relating to, I couldn’t anticipate what all those things would be. Yeah. Well, it’s been a lot of things I think, Rhett. And I can’t control it. And I think somebody here or someone told me that we are really the only father and son that’s really doing a podcast like this, that people listen to. And it’s helped a lot of people that they’ve sent in to us that helped them. Whether it’s a daughter or a son and a mother or a father, that they’ve been able to go in and talk to them about stuff. Yeah. I think it’s been a way to, it’s inspired people to reconnect. Yeah. With their parents, parents that might not live in the same place, that they don’t see all the time. Yeah. Yeah. And the way that your relationship with your parents, when you become an adult, it’s one of those things that it changes, but a lot of times, I think people get blindsided by the fact that, okay, now I’m an adult having a relationship with my adult parent. But it’s hard to change the ground rules of the relationship now that everybody’s an adult. It’s a different conversation. Some people get stuck at different points in that. It’s like some people may still talk to their parents if they’re in their, they might be 45, but every interaction they have with their parent is as if they’re still 14. Because you grow up in an environment, and you fall into these patterns, and you set these rules of, okay, maybe it’s a power dynamic whatever the dynamic is, sometimes it’s really hard to change that. And so I feel like the podcast for us kind of defined a new era of our relationship that was much more adult to adult. Yep. And I mean, we did it for comedic effect, having the adult, the R-rated jokes and stuff. But it’s, I actually think that was good for us because it really defined that like, hey, we’re both adults here and we can, the things that I can talk about with you or any of my other friends, I can actually have that type of rapport with Dad. Did you feel that when we started, people would send in the jokes, some of which were raunchy and then we went more into the raunchy jokes. But the fact that we were talking, we were cutting up and having fun with that type of stuff. That is not something that growing up we’d ever talk about. We had to switch tracks. Yeah. But the thing about what Link and I talk about, and sometimes it’s stuff like that and sometimes it’s different things. But people write in and say, I had my Dad sit down and watch this podcast and listen to y’all talk back and forth. And that broke the ice between us being able to talk as an, like what Link just said, as an adult instead of my Dad talking to me like I’m still a child. Yeah. It’s important. It’s really important. And there’s been girls and guys do the same thing. Right. And a lot of ’em was with parents and most of ’em wasn’t with their mother, it was with their Dad. So they would see things that are different in the world now. And this is the way we need to interact with one another. Yeah, I love it. I love to hear it. I think it’s like you said, there’s not many things like it, it’s really special. People should go listen to it if you’re not listening to it. Speaking of our schedule, we due, we’re three minutes late for the thing that we said we were. Oh really? Yeah. Okay. We have to go be CEOs. Okay. And lead our company-wide meeting. Well, with the power outage, we were kind of under the gun. Okay, so give a quick pitch for the show. Give a promo for the show so people can go. Well, y’all come on and watch “Dispatches From Myrtle Beach” and I’m trying to remember my email address. You can remember it. You’re gonna have to tell ’em I can’t. Hey, I’m getting old sometimes I’m senile. Rather. Oh, ratherbeshagging53@aol.com. There it is. Yeah. Hey, it’s been a while. If you send him an email, if it’s a joke, we’ll try to figure it out together. If it’s a question, he’ll try to answer it. And sometimes people ask questions that kind of mine experiences from his life so that I learn things. Those are some of my favorite questions. And then at the end of every episode we tell each other that we love each other. Oh yeah. And I think that really resonates with people. A lot of people talk about that. People who don’t say that they love their parents. You fall out of the habit of that. And so we’ve heard a lot of people talk about that. I think that’s the main thing is that we’re just having a good time cutting up. That’s just how we love each other. They know that’s genuine when we tell one other that at the end, Rhett. They don’t see that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I love y’all. And I wanted to tell y’all. We love you too. Thanks for having me on “Ear Biscuits” and I enjoyed it. Yeah, thanks for being here. Thanks for, I know we’re making you do a lot of things while you’re out here, your schedule’s pretty packed. Yeah, somebody asked me, said, what are you going to do? I said, I got to work Thursday, and Friday, and Monday, and Tuesday, and then get back on a plane, go back home, go to work. So I said what’s the difference? Yeah, we’re putting him to work while his out here. You’re doing good, Dad. All right, thanks for joining us for another “Ear Biscuits”. Remember you can call us and leave us a message at 1-888. Earpod1. And we’ll see you next week. You gotta wave that way, Dad. Hey Rhett and Link, this is Abby. I was listening to the duo episode and I wanted to validate Link in his choice of Toad in Super Mario Brothers 2. Toad was indeed the best character to play with. He was fast, he was efficient, he was awesome. Peach was probably the second best ’cause she could fly. But Mario and Luigi, even though they’re a fantastic duo, they were crap in that game except for Luigi. ‘Cause he could jump really high and you had to use him for one level where you had to cheat. But that’s what I wanted to say. So Link, you’re totally validated in using Toad and I loved hearing you guys talk about one of my favorite games. So thanks, Bye. To watch more “Ear Biscuits” click on the playlist on the right. To watch the previous episode of “Ear Biscuits”. Click on the playlist to the left. And don’t forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe. If you prefer to listen to this podcast, it’s available on all your favorite podcast platforms. Thanks for being your mythical best.