Welcome to EAR Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Link… And I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of Dem Lighting, we are celebrating 400 episodes of EAR Biscuit. Why are we doing that? Well, because we’re humans and we are supreme pattern recognizers and we like to attach significance to things like round numbers. Even though in the grand scheme of things, it means nothing. 400. But you telling me… More important than 399 or 401. Oh, I just thought, I just wanted confirmation that this was the 400th episode. Well, I mean, I’m trusting Jamie on this one. Yes, indeed, if everyone that produced this before me was accurate, then we are accurate. Yeah, you just adopted a numbering from predecessors. Yes and I believe that they were great and that they did that so I’m saying yes. Yes, this is the 400th episode. 400 of these, you know, I mean, there’s a lot of podcasts. A lot of podcasts come and go, so… Probably 400 a day new ones. And you know what? I celebrate the fact that we have done 399 of these and I was looking forward to doing this one. Yeah. Even if it is a meaningless piece of meaning. Yeah. It’s very meaningless for us to be here together. And we’re not going to just take this time to just talk about the memories. No… We’re gonna go through a few comments. We’re gonna let talk And voicemails in a little bit, but you know, we’ve got other things that we wanna talk about. We’ve got things that we want to catch up with each other over. I went to a concert and I want to tell you about this. I mentioned it a little bit, but especially sitting here telling you about it, I guess I need to contextualize the concert as another data point on the narrative journey of my sexual orientation. Okay. This was Chrissy’s idea. She was like, Brandy Carlisle is coming to the Hollywood Bowl, and Christie loves Brandy Carlisle. I really like Brandy Carlisle, but I wouldn’t say I listen to Brandy all the time, but when I do, I’m always happy. She’s great, man. Now, in terms of genre, she’s country, she’s like America… But not quite. She’s Americana… Folky, Americana . Folky, but not quite you know, it’s… Sometimes it gets a little rocky. She might show up on a feature on Miley Cyrus’s new album. She might. You know. She might do a coLab with Jacob Collier. She did and she might win album of the year. She did produced by… Shooter? Shooter Jennings. A couple of years back. So I was like, of course Christy we’re gonna go to this thing. And then you and Jesse were invited, but Jesse was gonna be out of town. So then you became uninvited, sorry. Oh, thank you. It wasn’t gonna be me, you and Christy. Well, I mean, I would’ve done it, I’m not above that. So the next time me, I mean… Yeah, I know you. I’m not winning a third deal. That’s why I didn’t invite you ’cause I knew you would… Probably would say yes. I would’ve not preferred that. So who’d you take? My wife. Oh, but who else? Nobody. Oh originally it was gonna be four of us. Yeah we were gonna buy the tickets together and then I just bought two. Okay, so you didn’t… When Jesse was outta town. You didn’t do the thing where you buy four tickets and then you have to sell two and you sell it to two people and then you have to sit next to ’em. Yeah, and you feel like you gotta make sure that they’re having a good time. Well, I mean, yeah, yeah. You guys enjoying the seats bought? Those are, And you bought from me? Yeah those were my tickets. So we’re kind of here together. You guys want something to drink? You know, you don’t need to do that. You probably should never acknowledge it actually. Okay, Brandy Carlisle. I didn’t have to ’cause I didn’t do that Great performer. I had never seen. Well, you know what I saw alive once, like back when Brit lived with me, we went… He got us into this Aretha Franklin tribute show that was being recorded for broadcast later at this like amazing theater. And we were backstage as like Smokey Robinson walked past me and went on stage. Do you have a trail of smoke behind him? He had to. I like to think. He was being trailed by tears of a clown. Oh-oh, nice, even better. Yes, thank you for setting me up for that one. Brandy Carlisle also, as she was coming off stage, Brit reminded Christie that I had met her ’cause I talked to her at that moment. Okay. But I would, I just said… Hello. Hello. I loved it or you know, I just said something in passing. It wasn’t a conversation. I love you, did you do it? Did John Mayer? I didn’t. Hello, I love you. love you. Didn’t she walked away, I love you. I didn’t tell her I love her, but… Because you didn’t love her yet. You didn’t love her, you didn’t love her yet. I didn’t love her yet. And this was the last date on her tour was called Brandy Carlisle and friends, she brought out some friends, including Annie Lennix. Wow. A rare public appearance by Annie Lennix. They seem like they were really friends? Is not that they seemed like they were just kind of doing for show? They seemed like they were really friends. Like us. Like us, yeah. And then she brought out, at the end as a grand finale, the whole stage rotated around and revealed a completely new stage that was like couches. And in the middle was this huge throne upon which sat Joni Mitchell. Oh, wow. So it was like everyone was in like deep reverence for Joni Mitchell. The queen. So it was, you know, it was a powerful woman night upon that stage. The thing that I should have known, but I did not think about until I was in line going into the venue, was that there are a lot of lesbians in attendance. Yep. At this Brandy Carlisle concert. Probably a majority. I mean, Brandy Carlisle herself is a lesbian icon. And so I was like, this makes sense, but I just didn’t think about that. Right. Because it didn’t matter to me. Right. And once I thought about it also didn’t matter to me. Of course and you fit right in. And I fit right in. I mean, let’s get to the point here. Joni Mitchell did… When she came out, Brandi told a story about how she was serving wine or liquor, and then Brandy just drank it out of the bottle. And she said, and Joni, you tell everyone what you said to me when you saw me drinking outta the bottle. And she said, you’re so butch. And I was like, totally relate. You’re so butch. I totally relate. So yeah, Chrisy and I are sitting there waiting for the show to begin. We got there kind of early, you can have a picnic at your seat. And we were doing that. Whereabouts were you sitting? In the middle, in the middle of the whole venue. Not too far back, not too close up. So you were sitting? I was seated, yes. The whole time? Yes, yes. I was at that point where it just became like, we don’t have to stand the whole time for this. Yeah, right. The best seat in the house is the first one you can sit in. Yeah, that’s kind of where we were, which is nice. And as people started filling in and the place got thick with people, that’s when I realized I’m now going to know what it’s like to be in an amphitheater full of lesbians. Okay. And I, lemme tell you, I do know. All right, so how do you know that someone’s a lesbian? Well, they all are, right? All the lesbians that were there were lesbians. Yeah, I know but how do you conclude by just looking at somebody. The same way that people concluded by looking at me on Instagram. Just total conjecture. Okay, so you, I mean, you’re making some assumptions, but you’re probably also right. Right. You have reason to make these assumptions. There were not a lot of guys there. Okay. And there were a lot of couples and both people in the couples were women. Were women. Yeah. Okay. Right. Okay. And they seemed to like couples that really loved each other. Right. That were both women. Yep. Yeah, I pretty much infer that those were lesbians. Okay I’m just checking. That’s one of the ways that I… I also ask every person. Yeah, yeah. Are you a lesbian? Right yeah, yeah. Yes, are you a yes. Are you a lesbian? And they ask you right back, right? And I’d be like, not yet. Right. Not that I know of, maybe, but I know now what it’s like to be in an amphitheater full of lesbians. And let me tell you… Seems like it might be pretty great. It smells like soap. Oh, okay. It smells like soap. A particular… I don’t… Soap? Like just soap. Everywhere I turn my nose and I wasn’t thinking of it ahead of time. I wasn’t like, I’m here. I’m gonna say something about lesbians on a podcast. I better come up with something. No, I was sitting there. Did you talk, did you confer with your wife to make sure that you were smelling soap? I was sitting there and I was like, just looking around waiting for the show to start and I just found myself, I would turn this way and I would get a whiff of a refreshing soapy scent. Okay. And then I’d look the other way. And it was a different, yet equally refreshing… But different. Whiff of clean soapy. Soap in every direction. Soap in every direction. Now when you got up and you moved about the venue. Soap. Soap, soap. Okay. I mean. So we’re not talking. There there was drinking, there was some eating, there was some picnicking, there was not really any smoking. There was no smoke. There can’t be, the Hollywood bowl can there. But typically there’ll be like weeded smoke and… Maybe a vape cloud here and there. But you can’t be smoking a cigarette in the Hollywood Bowl. So I’m not saying that there wasn’t any smokers there, but no one who smelled of smoke. There were soakers. It was an overwhelming positive sensation of soap. I’m just that… And I turned to Christy and I said, do you smell that? Mm. She was like, no what? I was like, exactly. Ah… It’s the soap, it was everywhere it was great. So… It was like the best smelling experience, not perfume. Soap. Soap. Specifically. Soap. And I believe it was bar soap something lesbians and bar soap. But you have a theory. Yeah. I’ll make it up right now. Lesbians love bar soap. Okay. Or they like to shower before they go to a concert. All right, now I’m gonna step into this pit, this hole that you’ve dug for yourself. I don’t know if you’ve dug a hole or not. I’m just saying, you smelled soap, you smelled lesbians. Everybody knows I love lesbians. Right . And now having, having another reason. It’s that they make concerts smell like soap. But I have a theory that I’d like your opinion on having been there. And I’m gonna use the lesbian that I know best to try this theory out. Okay that would be Stevie, right? Yeah. And I’m gonna make a generalization. I’m gonna, I’m just gonna, I’m digging a bigger hole. Yeah. Women smell better than men on average. Oh yeah. Okay? Yep. I don’t know all the factors that go into it, but I’ve been in women’s restrooms and I’ve been in men’s restrooms. Right. I’ve been in spaces where women have made a home, made a space for themselves. I’ve in spaces where mostly men, and it is consistent across the board for me. Not, I mean, nine times outta 10, the woman’s face is gonna smell better than the men’s space. Okay, so we got that. The second factor is, you know, maybe more lesbians on average than, or less lesbians on average than women wear traditional perfumes. If you were to go to, let’s say, a space where it was much straight ladies, you might smell a bunch of perfume. It might give you a headache. A headache? A headache if it’s just on the ache. Right. But now that you found yourself in this lesbian space… Right. We’ve got a lot of women who they’re gonna smell good, but we’re not necessarily relying too much on perfumes, which I think is consistent with what I know about Stevie. Stevie doesn’t have a fragrance that proceeds her entrance into a room or… No. You know, post proceeds her exit. No. But she’s always smells good. Yeah in a soapy way, perhaps. I don’t know if she smells like soap. I was hoping that maybe you would confirm that she… I think I’m gonna sniff her after this. And with permission… If she smells like so… I should have asked her before this. I don’t know. You haven’t… I mean. You haven’t done it yet. You don’t have to. Jamie, are you in touch with smelling lesbians? I mean. I mean, don’t I… Are we digging a hole here? Yeah, it’s fine. I know we’re making a generalization, but… Yeah I mean, I’m trying to think ’cause like, as you guys were talking about this, I’m thinking of my straight friends and my lesbian friends and the difference in their smells. But most of my friends, I would say, don’t wear a lot of perfume. So I feel like I don’t have a good… Okay. Judgment on that. Okay you’re skirting, you’re skirting this? No, but lesbians, like, I’ve been to lesbian bars they sell pretty smoke, soapy nice. Okay. Right, right, right, right. More better than a straight bar but there’s men in there, so… Yeah, yeah. See? Men smell makes something smell hard. I mean, it was open air. It’s in freaking amphitheater and I am not exaggerating. I was like, I’m smelling soap in every direction. Hmm. And then I figured it out. Okay but was your wife, did she agree when she pointed it out? Oh, you do smell soap. You have a sensitive notice. When I lean over and talk to Krissy, sometimes I kind of got the impression that she was enjoying her own moment and she didn’t need to talk to me about this. Right, right okay. Let this be something that he and his friend talk about. Yeah she didn’t take the bait. She took it as a joke, I was like, ’cause the way I said it to her, I leaned over and I was like, I now know what an amphitheater full of lesbian smells like and she was like, what? And I was like, soap and she laughed, but I guess I didn’t ask her what she smelled. But you didn’t ask anybody. You didn’t go and say, well, what soap are you wearing? No You didn’t. I didn’t. That’s good. I don’t think you should have done that. I got a little glad you didn’t too talkative early on with some other women who were around. Like, I was just being friendly. And Christy said, “You’re talking too much to people.” Okay. I was like, I’ve gotten that note before. Right I’ve been there, I’ve been there done that. with you, . Yeah, there we go. So at that point, I settled down and the show began and just to put a button on this. A soapy button. I witnessed the probably the most talented vocal performance I’ve ever seen in person. Wow. Short of when we saw Christina Aguilera sing, this “Is a Man’s World” by James Brown at the Grammy Awards, you know, 15 years ago or whenever that was. Yeah. That was a mind blowing vocal performance. But for Brandi Carlisle to be at the end of a tour and on her final night to have such an exquisite command of her voice. It was unbeliev… The first song she sang when she came out there was “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Oh… Which… A cover song. She record… Yeah it’s a cover. It’s from The Wizard of Oz. Yeah she didn’t write that. Absolutely amazing. And just, I mean, she’s just like, my jaw was just dropped. I was just, you know, I was tasting soap ’cause I, my mouth was just slacked and Christian and I were just looking at each other how effortlessly commanding her voices. And she’s got… So good. Such a distinct, like, you hear her singing and you know that it’s her singing too. And when you have the combination of the, like specificity of her voice, but then the talent behind it. Right, the songwriting. Songwriting is great. And the harmonies… The lyrics are great. You know, it was fascinating to me that like, she’s gaining so much popularity right now, but she’s got such a storied career already. So all of these fans are like coming into her world and she’s having to educate them from stage at the Hollywood Bowl. These… She says things like… These two guys, Lesbians love. So these two guys are my guys. They’ve been with me for… The twins. The twins they’ve been with me for you know, like 20 years or whatever. Like educating people on like how her band works and the fact that she’s got different versions of her songs. And I just found it very fascinating that she was like, you may be new to this, but you’re welcome. And it was like, it was very fan centric, you know, and she also like acknowledged like the elephant in the amphitheater with like, everything that’s going on with like, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Like at the beginning, she like gave a speech about it and gave everybody permission to just acknowledge it and then say what she had kind of tailored this night to be. But it could have been like a strange juxtaposition to just say, Hey, this is going on in the world, but we’re gonna ignore that here. So instead it was like, this is going on in the world there’s a lot of heartache and heartbreak and tragedy associated with this. But my hope is that this can be a space where we can get some respite, where we can recharge. Like, it was just a wonderful speech that kind of gave everybody permission to say, “I can be here in this moment and enjoy myself.” And then it will energize me to be a positive contribution to the world that I reenter on the other side of this lesbian soap fest. So, I had a blast. I am, you know, I was already a fan, but now I’m like just a fan for life, for somebody to be that good in person. And I just wanted… I wanted you to be there so bad so you could smile. Well, I wish you had had invited me. Yep, yep, yep couldn’t fo it. For the soap and for Brandy, I’m a big fan. Let me… Both things. Let me know if I’ve overstepped my bounds, hashtag Ear Biscuits or leave me a voicemail, you know. We’re hearing your voicemails, matter of fact, we’re gonna play some voicemails today to show that we listen to ’em. Speaking of incredible vocalists, now this is not a great segue. Oh, I can make it about you Link. Link Neal AKA Elk Hound snuggle baby performed on a song of mine recently that dropped today. Oh, October 30th, James and The Shame, this is the third single on the EP that drops on Friday. The single’s called “Nothing Left.” The album’s called “Nothing Left to Love,” which is the same name as the first single. But this song that dropped today is called, “I think I’m Supposed to Like This.” And because I was singing about… You could’ve caught it I think I’m supposed to link this. I almost did. And, but because I was singing about a situation kind of, you know, it’s not like I don’t get too specific, but you know, the sort of like what I’m evoking in the song, because you were, you know, you kind of went through the same thing. Yeah. So I… It’s got one of my favorite lines on that. I invited you to sing on it. What’s the line about the introvert line about wanting to be home instead? Like I was dreaming about my bed or something? What’s the line? Fantasizing about my couch and I’m cold. Yeah, . That may be the best like pluck line from the album. Oh, thank you. It’s, you know, outta context. Just put that on TikTok just outta context. But you know, did I get a feature? Does it say FEAT period? No, because you have to be a registered artist. You have to have an artist account within. You’re gonna hear from my manager… Spotify in order for that to work. Oh, really? Oh, hmm… Because it registered. Plus, let’s not get too, let’s not paint too big, I think back up. Right well. This wasn’t a duet. To me this is like when James Taylor performed on George Jones… Uncredited. What was it? Bartenders blues. Bartenders blues. You know, it’s him and that makes it cool. But he’s not listed and he’s not featured, you know. Yeah. You are on the back it does say… No, it’s just Link Neil. It says, oh, which, you know, I should go ahead and I should say this ’cause I keep forgetting to say this, and I haven’t said it on GMM, and I’ll say it again next week when the album’s out. But the physical album is available for pre-order already. The vinyl CD, the cassette. Doing it all. In a bunch of merch that’s associated with it. So you can buy it and I’m signing the first ones that are bought. So you can kind of get in on the early, even before you hear the whole album. But if you wanna wait and see how you feel about the whole album that drops on Friday. And then pre-order, you can do that or you can decide you don’t like, not pre-order but anyway, listen to the song today and then prepare for the album to drop on Friday. It was an honor, it was an honor to be included and uncredited or kind credited. 400 episodes. Well, before we get into those voicemails, we have other things to talk about. Some business? To promote. So, speaking of our favorite lesbian, we took her Stevie’s, her name, we took her to “Halloween Horror Nights” and just scared the crap out of her. And Link, frankly, they were both very scared. And the whole adventure and multi-parts is on the Mythical Society available for all degrees. First, second, and third degree mythical society.com. See, all the scares Go over there, enjoy it. Had a good time. And of course, we always forget to ask you, but rate and review this podcast wherever you listen to this podcast. We really appreciate it does help. Ear Biscuits is brought to you by Better Help. 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Nova King 96 said episode 280, “Throw me a piece of that meat! I’ll catch it.” This is looking down at my neighbor who is grilling. Ah… And I caught the meat and ate it. And I haven’t… I only talked to that guy once more since then. He’s still there though. Yeah, He put in a pool. So… You throw anything into his pool? I think… I don’t think it’s finished yet. Really still working on it? Still working on the pool. So like I expect there to be more meat thrown because he’s gonna have some pool usage. The fact that he threw you meat and you caught it and that there hasn’t been another interaction is almost unsettling to me. He hasn’t been grilling any more meat when I’ve been out there. Okay, well, lemme know when he is. All right. This is from lilacpeeps, “When I think of Ear Biscuits, I always remember episode 205. Everything about Rhett’s trip to Scotland is so funny. I will never forget the moment when Rhett told us about the plot twist. I laughed so much” I mean, that was a big moment. It’s a defining moment in my life, realizing that I’m not Scottish. And my mom, she was never the, . She was never the same. Are you crying? No, she’s fine. Are you laughing? She’s fine, her ankle recovered. Rob DeFrance22 tweeted, “The moment where the light fell from the ceiling to the table and caused a fire and panic ensued haha the best!” I vaguely remember that, but I don’t remember a fire. I think maybe there was a joke about a fire or a concern that maybe there would be a fire. I don’t think it was an actual fire, but yes it was this… The show didn’t stop. light fell. At this point it’s pretty well secured I don’t think we’re at risk anymore. Song to me. I could look at their face and tell that they didn’t even… Oh crap. Oh, okay, Are we burning? We got water, get the water up. What? The water? We’re gonna catch fire in here. But don’t block the… Oh don’t block the shots guys. This is the best thing that’s ever happened to Ear Biscuits for those of you who are just listening and not watching. Are we still rolling Kiko? Yeah. That’s the most important thing. Oh God. So, Alright, I’m gonna get a towel shoot. So the main thing that you need to know if you’re only listening to this is the sun fell from the sky. The dimm lighting has become really bright because the lighting fell right in the middle of the table, knocked over Rhett’s Ear Biscuit jar onto his phone, which is kind of wet, but it’s okay. My water’s fine. Okay, Rachel Johnson says, “During Sexptember when Link came to the realization that Rhett was jerking off to those magazines and Rhett was baffled at Link wasn’t.” Yeah, I have. This is us in high school. This… Is middle school can’t remember. This is at the grok where they were hidden in the pool table. And we were supposed to be sorting baseball cards for a dollar and hour. And I was looking at porn in the bathroom and then doing what usually you do when you do that. And you were just looking at porn and just sitting there and frustration I guess. Well, yeah, I mean you were right on the other side of the door. The door was closed. And I had to… We’ve already had this conversation. Okay, well I mean I have no regrets if that’s what you’re asking. It didn’t smell like soap in there, I’ll tell you that much. It smelled horrible in there. Good gosh. That wasn’t from me, that was the preexisting smell. Ann Cecilie said, “The 13 minute quickie.” Okay, we remember this one. Let’s don’t bring that up again. “Also, I really missed Link going reck baby, reck baby, 1-2-3-4, why did he stop?” Why’d you stop? Because I knew you didn’t like it. Oh… I’ll bring it back. Okay. I’ll bring it back. Thanks Anne for helping me bring that back. McKenzie, “Rhett describing watching his wife give birth in the hospital like a ‘scuffle in an Arby’s.’ I’m not sure even sure the episode, but it is my Roman empire. Always thinking about it? Do you remember describing it as a scuffle in an Arby’s? No, I remember describing her giving birth, like she was constantly about to be hit by an oncoming truck or something. She was screaming so much, especially, which was shepherd in particular ’cause he came so fast. But I guess at some point in that I did say a scuffle in an Arby’s, which isn’t a place that you want to have a scuffle. But you don’t remember saying… No I don’t. So many of these… Traumer, “Everything regarding Link’s, shower, and I seriously need an update on the whole situation. Have any new neighbor problems arisen? Has he cleaned more sunroofs? I need to know.” I was looking out the window while showering this morning. Hmm. And it’s still one of the best like home remodel decisions I ever made I stand by it, my neighbor’s fence is still up and I can’t see my neighbor anymore. There’s some stuff growing up even above the fence. So it’s mostly roof at this point. Things have gotten better. I haven’t sprayed the sunroof or whatever it’s called, the ceiling light off anymore. So there’s my update. We got a lot of mileage outta that. It’s entire Vlog lots of talks on here. I’d like to think that there’s windows going in showers all across the globe in remodeling efforts to increase long distance visibility while showering. It’s good for your eyes, it good for your soul. You know the one thing we’ve never talked about in all of this is the fact that my shower in my bathroom already has a window, but it’s one of those frosty ones. Yeah. I can’t open it though. But I never even thought about the fact that it was built in it was there already. What, huh? Because it lets light in, but privacy is intact. If you were to make that a clear window, what would you see on the other side? The concrete side yard. Oh… I see where the basketball goal is. Yeah, you don’t want that. It’s better the way it is. Yeah I’m not gonna, I have no plans to change it. Adam Woodbrey, “I know for me it’s when Rhett is doing his link impersonation, talking about Bojangles ‘Can I get a light biscuit?’ “It’s stupid, but that impression lives rent free in my head.” You like a light biscuit. And you know what, if you know what you like, you should be able to order it without any consequences. Well yeah, but also you should also be able to take a joke with somebody doing an impersonation of you ordering a light biscuit. Well I feel like I’ve taken the joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there’s nothing wrong with a liking and a light biscuit. But there’s also nothing wrong with when you ask for one, somebody going, “Can I get a light biscuit?” Can I get a light biscuit? Can I get a light biscuit? That’s how I say it. Nothing wrong with having preferences. I don’t say it sheepishly, I say it confidently. And nothing wrong. I say it excitedly, can I get a light biscuit? Nothing wrong with having preferences and nothing wrong with your best friend making fun of you for having those preferences. I agree, and I agree. I went through the drive through at Smithfield’s and my father-in-law said, “When you get up there, he said, what you gonna order? I said, shrimp, I always like the shrimp from Smithfield’s chicken and barbecue. I don’t know why shrimp, it should be shrimp, chicken and barbecue ’cause I like the popcorn shrimp. Oh okay. It was like “When you order the shrimp order it fried soft.” And I was like, what fried soft? He said, “Yeah, ’cause then they have to make it fresh for you. You don’t want it sitting under that lamp too long. It’s gonna be hard and shoot.” And also shrimp don’t need to be fried hard. They need to be just right. I didn’t know they had that. I will say that I felt guilty. That’s a great place to even by way. About doing that, saying I’ll take the deluxe shrimp. They give you a tray of shrimp with like the sides you want and then they give you another tray with just half thing of shrimp. That’s how much I like shrimp. I like to bury it in the slaw, cover it in pepper. Man. They dip it in tartar sauce. I haven’t half had… Fried sauce. Their barbecue and that’s chicken but I haven’t had their shrimp. It’s all great man brunwick stew. Do you know they tried to go S-C-M-B as on their sign? Yeah. And it looked like a bank and then they kind of went back. It still says SCMB on a lot of things but like that classic Smithfield chicken and barbecue. I think that they realized that they needed to say that. If you pass by one of those that, I mean that might be my, I mean when I go home, last time I went home, I eat there and I did not eat at Bojangles at all. It’s gotta be nice. Every time I go home, if I have to choose between Bojangles and Smithfields, now here’s the thing. Bojangles is a much bigger restaurant many more locations and Bojangles… Bojangles is like, I love it and it’s great. The thing about Smithfield is it’s for North Carolina style barbecue. It’s like the only place you can get for me, like a North Carolina style barbecue, fast food. It’s the only place that does it and does it right. Yep. So I go and I get that barbecue sandwich with some slaw. That’s why I go. Yep. We got an aggressive co-sign for Smithfield’s chicken and barbecue shrimp platter Fried soft. Amber tweeted “The Sextember disclaimer song about two straight guys who have only been with one woman each.” Let’s sing it again, do you remember it? ♪ We are two straight straight guys. ♪ ♪ And we don’t remember this song that we sang, ♪ ♪ But we know it’s about us being with woman each ♪ ♪ We’ve all been with one woman each. ♪ ♪ A different woman from each other. ♪ ♪ That’s still our wives. ♪ ♪ I haven’t poked another woman. ♪ Okay, all right I think it was good a couple of seconds ago. No, that’s what you sang. I’m just remembering that’s what was your part. I didn’t say anything like that. So something about… I would never say something like that on this podcast. ♪ I’m haven’t poked another woman. ♪ ♪ I’m a monogamous poker. ♪ That was all your part. Jennifer Reed, “I have to say, when Link was talking about the time he trapped his hand slash fingers in the safe when putting the passports away and he shows a video recording of it. It’s the funny walk that Link does that lives in my head and makes me laugh. ” I don’t remember… I remember the incident, but I don’t remember the walk. I don’t remember how it was caught on video, but I think it was, I don’t remember. Was this a security cam? Oh yeah, we looked at a security footage. I think that’s what it was. I’m kind of disturbed. I mean, can we fall back on the fact that we’ve done 400 of these that like, that’s why we don’t remember anything. It’s like… Well we were just talking earlier today about a very specific experience on GMM that I had completely forgotten that had many details and I’m like, ah man, I just… These things that happen on this show and the other shows that we do. I think those people who are being entertained by them are way more likely to remember specific details than us. Right, because it’s… But you’d think because it happened to us and we talked about it, we would be most likely to remember it. But I would just like to believe that our memories are just as good as everybody else’s. Oh, I think they might be, I think based on what people have told me, based on the way that we recount stories from earlier in our lives, our memories are better than the average person. We talk about something that happened in first grade, second grade, third grade. I can name you every single one of my teachers from first grade to 12th grade. Yeah but all the stuff that’s happened in between, we talk about things that are inconsequential to us. Like when you say something about a Arby’s and it just hits somebody and sticks in their head. Yeah, it sticks in a different place. You were saying extemporaneously, but even like, I remember getting my hand stuck in the safe, but I had to figure out, I don’t know what the walk is because that wasn’t part of my experience that was just part of their experience watching it. Right. So, okay I feel okay about that. Let’s listen to a voicemail. Hi Rhett and Link. This is Kylee from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was just calling with my Ear Biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free. It’s gotta be from Sextember this year when Link explained how he finally got to use the butt plug and it became a projectile. I just can’t, as much as I don’t want to be picturing it, I just can’t stop picturing it. It makes two of us. And it’s so on brand So on brand. For Link, and it’s just so comical and I love everything that you guys do with Sexptember and just the education and breaking stigma and I just think it’s amazing, thanks. Sorry to put that imagery in your head, but it’s, yeah that is my brand, but projectile, that’s my brand, . Yeah removing stigma that’s nice to hear, you know? Yeah ’cause we, I mean ’cause we also hear why do you guys talk about all this stuff? I can’t believe you talk so openly about your sex lives. Mostly from relatives. No, I mean, the occasional comment, I mean, I do think that as we take this time to reflect over 400 episodes, I do think that hearing some of the things that we talk about and the way that we talk about them 400 episodes later. Right. Would be quite shocking to episode one, Rhett and Link. Totally different. It really is wild. Like we’ve made these decisions to start and there’s certain like watershed moments, like the deconstruction episodes and then just like we wouldn’t have done Sextember even though it’s… Sextember wasn’t related to the deconstruction episodes. It was… Deconstruction had a block Sextember could run. Yeah, I mean there was the purity culture overlap because the deconstruction episodes gave us then the foundation to talk about our experience with sex or lack thereof or, you know, the whole purity culture thing. Which then was kind of getting into the… Okay, yeah, I think we are more comfortable talking about these things. You take a few risks, you say something that’s genuine or honest and also ridiculously silly at times and it’s a positive feedback loop for the most part. And maybe that’s, ’cause I don’t read enough of the comments I don’t know. I mean, you’re much more engaged when it comes to the deconstruction stuff still. And would you describe that as a positive feedback loop? Because all, it’s not. It just depends on what side of the conversation you’re coming from. It’s a… ‘Cause I recently made… I’ve made a couple of videos this year just on my, like TikTok where I just talk about some deconstruction things. And I never know how to feel about it because I would say that they get a lot of views because people feel so strongly about the issue and also because the level of engagement in the comments but mostly between people having very unfruitful discussion. And I don’t read all of ’em, you know, but I would say that there’s a lot of negative, lot of negative, mostly positive. There’s a lot of people who are like, “Why do you talk about this? We’ve heard enough, you’re leading people astray, whatever.” You know, there’s that and then there’s, “This is really helpful to have somebody articulate these things because, you know, I’m going through something very similar.” And that’s why I continue to do it because it seems to be helpful to those people. What was your original question? Is it a positive feedback loop? Like when you get the feedback, does it make you want to do it again or make you less likely to do another spiritual deconstruction, TikTok posts? I don’t know I’m processing how I feel about it because I’m trying to figure out what is my role in the ongoing deconstruction dialogue, right? And I’m trying to be very like, well, I don’t want to be somebody who argues with people and I don’t wanna be somebody who’s trying to convince people of something, but I want to be somebody who’s, I think it goes back to exactly what we’re talking about. Somebody who just speaks freely about their own experience. The only thing I’m an expert on is my own experience and maybe making YouTube videos, you know what I’m saying? But I’m not a doctor, I’m not a theologian, I’m not a PhD in anything. Right. So I wanna be careful about the things that I speak into. But like, I think that goes back to why we ended up, well I think first of all, there’s just this idea of being on the internet for so long and talking so much on the internet. One of the things I’ve thought about recently is, you know, I think that the average person when they pick up their phone to go on social media, they don’t have the option to go and see what are people saying about me today? Or what new thing did I put in the world of my self-talking or doing something stupid on the internet, right? Yeah. But that’s our experience because we make so much content that I have to be like, am I going on my phone right now to like get updated on the news? Hmm… Am I going on my phone to like check a score on a football game that I’m interested in? Because a click away is someone’s opinion about me, a new opinion that has been formed about me and has been stated on the internet. Yeah. And most of the time it’s positive. A good percentage of the time it’s negative. You know, A good percentage of the time it’s negative? No, it’s not. No, I’m saying that there are negative comments. I’m saying when I say, I mean a, it’s a small percent, a small percentage, but I’m saying when I make one of my deconstruction videos, it’s a high percentage of negative. Yeah, it’s a different experience. Yes, but what I’m saying is that caring like taking anything positive from the positive is almost as bad as taking anything negative from the negative. Like taking anything on personally that has to do with my online identity it’s probably not a healthy like psychological thing, the point but what ends up happening is you lose this, you start to become a little bit numb to people’s perception of you. Because there’s so much of you that’s just out there like 15 years ago, I might be really concerned about a particular photograph, not where I don’t look good. Now, there’s so many things of me looking absolute shit on the internet, including the most famous image of me ever the one you took of me without a beard is like, that’s, you know what I’m saying? Like… Sorry. That’s out there on the internet. So it’s like me saying something I regret on the internet, me looking away I don’t wanna look on the internet. And so, but so I think when you’re just like, am I gonna talk freely about my sex life in a way that doesn’t compromise anything about my wife? Or am I gonna talk about something that happened to me that doesn’t compromise anything about my family Whatever, I think you just become much freer. And so I think it’s just a… It’s like attrition. We talk about these things, it’s not like it’s super strategic. It’s more like, yeah, we don’t care as much as we did a decade ago, so maybe we just end up saying things and it’s like, I’m just kind of saying what I think and I hadn’t thought about it a whole lot maybe I should think about it more. Well, let’s play another voicemail and see where this leads, because I think it might continue this conversation. Hi Rhett and Link, I am Destiny and longtime Ear Biscuits listener. And the Ear biscuits moment that lives rent free in my head is definitely Link talking about sorting the mail with Christy, . It is something that I unfortunately think about often whenever I check the mail. Love the podcast, love you guys, thank you bye.” Yeah, yeah. Everybody gets mail and if you listen to our show and get mail, you might think about me having sex when you get your mail and you’re sorting through it. But that, you know, it’s… That was back when I was trying to… I think the origin of that was kind of searching for a way to talk about sex without saying it. Or maybe somehow I don’t even know, I haven’t listened back to it, you know, like the way that that came about. But I think it was, I think it was code. See, I can’t even remember. It’s like we talk about sex in such overt terms now that we didn’t then, I don’t know if I made up made up the term for you or if I made it up at home or if I said that I made it up for home, but I really made it up for you I don’t know. But you don’t have to know, that’s the wonderful thing. It’s just out there. What’s this? Hey guys, my name’s Brendan just saw the tweet about the favorite Ear Biscuit moment. A hundred percent the easiest answer it was the first thing that came to mind. I believe it was the episode with asking your wives to rate you personally, physically, et cetera and the best thing I think about this all the time I listen to this episode all the time solely for this moment was when Link was talking about how many people would, you know, he was standing there naked. He’s like, say Bush. And just the 20 minutes, it felt like at least 20 minutes of Rhett dying at it bringing it up. Link try not to laugh at it. Nothing can go wrong with a good ole bush mention. I stand by that, thank y’all. Bush! Do you remember this moment? Well, I think that episode was, it was a pandemic episode. We weren’t in the same place when we were talking about now the survey that we gave our kids was during the pandemic and then we did one with our wives maybe we were together. And should I say Bush? I don’t, I’m, I mean it’s like… You’re talking about… I don’t remember you, You bush, bush? I don’t know, I don’t know. I’m glad that it’s stuck in your head because it doesn’t live in mine. It’s like, you know, you just put it out into the world let people have their moments. This moment is for you, this Bush moment is now for you. You can, it’s yours. It’s my gift to you, neither one of us remember it. One of the things you got any more, you got any more voicemail? No, unless you want ’em. This is somewhat related. Okay. This idea that there are things that we put out into the world at some point that then take on a life of their own for someone in some way. This was brought to my attention recently around Nerd versus Geek. The epic rap battle Nerd versus Geek. Okay, yeah. That we did… How many years ago was that? I don’t know, I mean… 10, 10 years ago? Guess 10 years ago would’ve been 2013 let’s see where, what was it? October 3rd, 2013. Oh yeah, so almost exactly 10 years ago. And one of the really cool things about TikTok is the way that these things that have got a new life, and this is one of the things that has a new life, is this rap. And I’ve heard it, yeah, I’ve heard this. Well, and it’s funny ’cause I found… On TikTok? Well I found one that is from this guy. It’s Rob’s, robes Ja… His name’s Robbie, but his TikTok is Robes James, like the robes, the word and then James. So I don’t know exactly if I’m saying that right, but he posted this, it’s pretty great. It is he’s like… “Did you just call me a Nerd, Geek? Okay, so it says Nerd versus Geek getting popular reminds me of this middle school talent show classic ideas. So it’s him and his like buddy and their, you know, I guess 10 years ago. Yeah Nerd. Two middle schoolers. They did it their middle school talent show. Yes. Yes I’m a nerd. Got 255,000 likes. I love the fact that there’s so many, like music stands back there, like the orchestra’s gonna get up right after this unless you’re gonna hear the other verse. ♪ and personality, I wear my glasses sincerely. ♪ ♪ And my team is ironically, ♪ ♪ Just so you can’t learn in a class, ♪ ♪ You’re also signing up for intro too ♪ ♪ Hung not gonna be a social out. ♪ ♪ You’re just so really pointer, . ♪ I think a lot of people thought they wrote it. Oh, this is getting there quite a response. Yeah, it is. Okay so well, but then… That’s great. What I notice is that if you just click on this Nerd versus Geek hashtag just the amount of this song being reposted and little pieces of it being contextualized and mummified. And then, because we’ve been going in and looking at the Rhett Link channel a lot more now that we’re posting there again, you know on a semi-regular basis. We can see the backend performance of everything. And the funny thing is, is that, you know, these new releases that we’re doing, you know, we’re continuing to try to remind people, Hey, we’re doing these new longer form videos over there and you know, it’s catching on. We have faith that it’s gonna catch on, . But on any given day, other than the few days after release of these new videos, the top performing video by a long shot is… It goes back to this one… Nerd versus Geek. Yeah and there’s so many. It just keeps… Keeps going. It just keeps getting views. But… I’m trying to see how many views it, oh, 53 million views. Well, the thing I’m trying to process is like how it makes me feel. Yeah. How it makes me feel because obviously it’s like, well it makes me feel good, right? Yeah I feel good that it’s like got a life of its own on. But we all… We both live in this place, we’ve said before, like our pat, you know, answer for what’s your favorite video? The next one we always say the next one. Yeah. And there’s this, I don’t know, I’m trying to be like, I’m trying to be like, balance my desire and my like belief that, well we got all this other stuff that we’re gonna put on the internet with the reality of like, well we probably won’t make another video that gets 53 million views, it probably won’t happen. Like if I was betting, are we gonna make another video? No, yeah. In our lifetime. I don’t think… Gonna get 53 million views on YouTube, no, we’re not. The good news is it doesn’t need to happen. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, it’s hard thinking we also, it could happen. We’re kind of in a different place where it’s like, that’s not what we’re trying to do. It’s like, we’ve been talking about this lately about how good things are, like how happy we are right? Yeah. Like it’s like…. I’m very like, I love the stuff that we’re creating in mythical. I love what we’re doing on the Rhett and Link channel it’s very creatively fulfilling. Would it be cool if it caught on a little bit more and more people watched it? Yes, is it necessary for that to happen? No. It would help us justify the amount of time that we spend on it. I mean, it would help if it’s supported itself financially. And I think it will and I think it will, and I think we’ll get there. Yeah, we’re not gonna stop. But it is kind of… It is pretty baffling. I think it’s a good if not humbling experience for us to say that like, we’re putting these things out there that we’re really proud of, and it’s just not… It’s not connecting yet to as many people as we thought it would. It’s just, you know, and there’s a number of reasons for that. But the disparity between the overwhelming positive reaction and the comments to how many, you know, how many people are actually seeing it, that’s not quite adding up yet. It’s a little strange, but… It’s just that we operate in a very different, it’s a very different world than it was 10 years ago was way the landscape was so different than it is now. And there’s plenty of people probably somebody listening right now is like, yeah, people I’m making… I’m posting these videos and I feel so great about it. And all the comments are so positive, but it’s like, it’s a thousand views you guys have got nothing to complain about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it’s like. And I’m not… I’m not complaining. It’s not a complaint. But I’m a bit perplexed by it. But it’s just this, It’s not slowing us down. It’s, well, I think the thing that I’m talking about too is this idea of the, you know, I wanna talk more about this book that I’ve been reading at some point, maybe if, I don’t know what we’re gonna do about deconstruction updates or whatever, but there’s a… I talked about this on the Society, on the AMAs re I’ve been kind of slowly reading this book called Awareness by Anthony Dello, he’s dead now. Okay. But he was popular in the 70s, and by popular, I mean amongst, I guess he was a Jesuit priest and a psychoanalyst or psychotherapist or whatever. And just from India and just talks a lot about life, living life and happiness. Yeah. But he spends a lot of time talking about this idea which is very it definitely resonates with somebody like me who’s a performer, achiever. I think it would probably resonate with everybody but the way we have a tendency to identify with you know, the image that people have of us, and this happens interpersonally, right? Most of the time, if people like you or people don’t like you, they actually like an image of you or they dislike an image of you, an idea of you, which isn’t really you. But we have a tendency to actually attach ourselves to the labels whether that is, it could be something like dad, husband, YouTuber, whatever the thing is and we have a tendency to over identify with a label. And he’s kind of make, he’s, I mean, the book is incredible, but he talks a lot about this concept of, you know, you really can’t have that identification and happiness at the same time. It’s very hard to hold both of those things. Hmm. And the my favorite quote of the book this far is, if you, I’m paraphrasing here. If you let it, I’m gonna have to read it. I can’t, ’cause I don’t wanna butcher this. ’cause I wrote, If you let it… I wrote it down because it was so meaningful to me. If you ever let yourself feel good when they say that you’re okay, you’re preparing yourself to feel bad when they say that you’re not. Oh, so this goes back to what you were saying about the comments earlier. Well, and I’m just kind of talking about the like, I think the thing that I’m trying to, so just to repeat that, if you let yourself feel good when they say that you’re okay, you’re preparing yourself to feel bad when they say that you’re not, when you attach any of your own personal happiness and self-worth to someone’s reaction to you, and this is a really difficult thing for people who make their living, hoping for a positive reaction, which leads to views and engagement and people buying things. And the business that we run here is kind of based on people feeling connected in a positive way, at least liking one of us. If they don’t like me, they like you or you know, whatever. And I don’t know, I’ve been trying to figure out, I’m beginning when I read what people, especially, it seems very real right now as you hear people talk about a moment that you don’t remember. That is something that that person thinks about when they think about you. Yeah. So there’s an image that they have of something that you said, something that you did, and maybe it’s amalgamation of all things that you’ve said or the picture that they have. I mean, people begin to develop a picture of who I am, who you are, who we are. Right. And they either accept or reject that, and that’s fine and that’s their right. We do it too with all kinds of people. But I’m just, I don’t know, just because I’m getting old and we’ve been on the internet for a long time, and I do anticipate us continuing to put a lot of things out there for people to form opinions about developing this sense of detachment from what the response is is like, this is sort of like, I’m in the midst of the beginnings of what that feels like. And it’s a very odd thing for someone who has always sort of banked on being able to do something to elicit a certain reaction from somebody. And that’s kind of like my bread and butter is like performing, doing well, making something that’s great. So you will say it’s great. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. And detaching from that, but still wanting to make great things that we think is great. Well, yeah. I think that with the success of good mythical mourning, there was so much of like, you either like us or the idea you have of us individually and as you know, a friend duo, right? It’s like, do I like these people? Do I want to hang out with them as like friends through the internet? And then, yeah. So there’s a lot of attachment to do people like me enough to wanna spend time with me, is there enough of them to like, you know, to support my family and, you know, make a living and, you know, so that was at play. It’s been nice with what we’ve been doing on the Rhett and Link channel to say, okay, the main question I have here is not, do you like me or do you like Rhett? Or do you like our friendship? It is still a pretty big question and as at play in these videos, but at least there’s also did people connect with what we were creating? And it’s so there’s a little bit of distance there, but there can be just as much attachment to that. Did you like what I did? Oh yeah. Did you like what I made? It’s not really that different, but it’s one step removed from just being, do you like me? Do you like, what I made is… Slightly different. At least slightly different. And I think that’s what’s refreshing to us is like, can I elicit a certain response? Especially like an emotional response. I think that’s what’s been so exciting about the Rhett and Link channel is can we manufacture surprise? Can we manufacture elation? Can we provoke thought in addition to can we make you burst out laughing? Can you well up a little bit? It’s like, these are things that are I think, legitimate experiments in craft that is very engaging and we would do well to separate ourselves from the performance of those videos and say it celebrate the fact that like people did have… They did have an experience that we wanted successfully curated experience, you know? Yeah and that’s why I struggle with a struggle, I struggle with reading comments and I struggle with not reading comments. Right. ‘Cause. You gotta know if you succeeded at what you were doing It’s like… Because if you get the idea that like… There’s a chef who never hears if anybody tasted and like the food, that’s wild, that would be wild, right? Aren’t you doing it for people to eat? It’s part of the experience, right? Yeah, I don’t know, man, I… I don’t know it’s different. I’m definitely still in a place where I’m just trying to figure it out because I was telling, me and Jesse were talking about this last night, I was like I feel like anytime I read comments, and even if I go into a situation where, and because a lot of YouTubers and people in social media talk about this in general or entertainers in general, that one negative comment is enough to ruin my day or whatever. It’s like, well, yes, that is true, but even if I go and I read a hundred positive comments, people who really get what we’re trying to do on the Rhett and Link channel and are like, “Oh, I love that you guys are creating again in this specific way.” And I see, I get it, I see and then they describe it and they describe it in a way, it’s like, yes, you get it. I love that feeling that I get from that, but I’m wary of it because, you know, am I letting that determine my happiness? Like, am I walking away from that situation being like, okay, these people are responding to this in a positive way. Now I’ve let that be the source of happiness, and now I need them to respond well to it in order to be happy. But I want to be able to see what people think about it. Because I mean, that’s… I don’t know how to create in a vacuum. We’ve never done that. We’ve always created in a way that, well, this is kind of supposed to connect with enough people for it to be sustainable because it is a business. I don’t know, I don’t have any answers I’m just kind of like, these are the things that have been moving around and I’m really glad we’re having the conversation though, because we’re creating again, right? Like we are not we’ve been creating all along, but like we’ve been creating a bunch of stuff that didn’t get seen. Right. That was in development. And now it’s like, we know we’re doing the thing you, we got GMM over here, which again is like, it’s our creation in one sense. But again, it’s, you hang out with us Rhett Link stuff is like, this is as creative as we can possibly be here it is you know, I’m so glad that we’re doing that again, but I’m trying to get to a place, I’m just trying to figure out how to process it. And this people talking about the way that they view Ear Bis, the reason I’m talking about it now, and see it seems relevant in my mind, it seems like there’s a connection is that these people are talking about these moments that are significant to them based on something that we did in the past on this podcast that we may not remember. And that’s just a, it’s a… I don’t know how to process that, it’s a weird feeling. It was intentional. I mean, it’s the experience that we’ve given people that these moments that we no longer remember are very vivid to them is that’s the product. You know, it’s nice to, so it, in one sense, it’s nice to know that it works. That’s a great way to, you know, to measure whether this works for people. Whether they get it, whether they connect. Yeah ’cause it, they carry it… They carry pieces of our lives in their lives and mission accomplished, you know, I think that’s what we’re trying to do there, here and on good mythical mourning. I think we’re trying to do, we’re being much more calculated in the things that we’re creating and crafting on the Rhett Link channel. So it’s like, it’s a different, the experience we’re curating is different. Yeah. But I hope that a lot of that will live in people’s heads rent free as well. I do, I completely agree. I think it will I think it does. You know, I think it’s just the question of, you know,… It’s nice, it’s nice. I’m glad that I’m taking up room in your brain. Well and I think that’s the thing. It’s like trying. And not charging you for it. Try trying to figure out what is the balance of… You’re not charging me for it, right? Doing things that are supposed to, by definition, draw attention and entertain and then trying to not care about. It’s just I don’t know, it’s a tough… It’s a tough point. It’s a conundrum. It’s an interesting point in life I’m glad that… Look at me. I don’t care that you’re looking at me… ‘Cause I definitely spent a big portion of my life without an awareness of that, right? It’s like just being not understanding that dynamic. And so it’s not that I’ve have got like a, some fruitful advice to give at this point. It’s just more… You don’t have any. It’s more of a oh, okay, this is beginning to register in more significant ways than it has in the past and I don’t know what that means. Do you have an aha moment today? Is that what you’re saying? No, no, no, no I’m… Okay. No, no, it’s not just, it’s not aha ’cause I didn’t realize anything significant I don’t think. It’s just sort of a… Seems like it could have been significant. This is a new thing to sort out. This has been significant. I’m gonna leave you with a reck, baby, reck baby 1, 2, 3, 4 listen to Brandy Carlisle. Her album “In the Silent Days” has a song called “Stay Gentle.” That was Christie and my favorite song from the concert. “Stay gentle” And meanwhile, why don’t you stay gentle? Stay gentle. Leave us a gentle voicemail. 1-888 Earpod1, or use hashtag Ear Biscuits. Hey Rhett and Link, my name’s Carly. I’m from Columbia, South Carolina. I just got your, or we’re listening to your most recent episode about Link’s tattoo, and you were talking about how people are like, oh my gosh, they remind me of my childhood. I’m 25 and you all remind me of my twenties because I started watching Good Mythical Morning in my twenties during a really rough time in my life when I did not wanna be on this planet anymore. And you just give me a lot of smiles and laughs and refreshed me, during the day when it’s been really tough. So, I just wanted to say thank you, and that’s really it. I hope you all have a great night, bye. To watch more Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist on the right. 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