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 Dim Lighting, I’m gonna be telling you about a controversial practice instituted by a restaurant that I would like to get our opinion on. Okay, and I’m gonna tell you about rugby. Oh, buckle up! I’m gonna tell you how rugby is, you know? You’re gonna tell me about rugby? Yeah, I’ve learned about rugby. But I want you to start, because this sounds, this sounds sweet, man, this sounds like a hot take. This sounds like it might be controversial. Yeah, ’cause I purposely have not yet formed my opinion about this because when I saw it I was like, I’ll do that for you. Let’s have some real-time opinion forming. So, you know I get a lot of my news from Food and Wine. That’s not true. It’s not even a good joke. But this does come from Food and Wine. Unless you get news from actual food and wines. Foods and wines? Well, that could be a new thing. It’s like a delivery service. And you get bananas and other things with skins on them and we use some high tech printing device to print the morning news on your bananas. I think you’re talking about Laffy Taffy, my friend. Well, no, no. If like Laffy Taffy, Laffy Taffy is a manufacturing process that takes a while. I’m talking about day of, fresh bananas, we print ’em. What’s the news today, what’s the news? Put it on the bananas, send the bananas to the homes. Banana news. I think they can, Banan-news, banan-news. Banan-news, we just came up with banan-news. No, man, I’m still on Laffy Taffy. No, no, yes, this is the best thing we’ve ever come up with. This is the best thing we’ve come up with in years. Banan-news, we have bananas, they have news, You get them on your doorstep. Before they turn brown, you know all about what’s going on around town. Whoa, whoa, I mean, I’m on fire. I’m a little concerned that banan-news are bruised banan-news. ‘Cause if you’re gonna print the news on a banan-news, then the bananas are gonna be bruised. Our proprietary printing technology does not damage the banana skins. It is a laser print, it happens from a distance. There is no pressing. We’re not dealing with a ribbon, my friend. No pressure? No pressure, it’s laser etching. There’s no jet of an ink? It’s not ink, it’s lasers, it’s burning. And it’s edible? Completely edible. Because it’s just, it’s a little burnt mark. And I’m glad you brought that up. Well, the peel’s not edible. Okay, now, okay, the first news article that we, This just in with banan-news. The first article Banana peels are That we’re gonna put on bananas, edible. I’ve told you this, I put them in my freaking, they’re only edible if you put them in your smoothie. God dang. Extra fiber, lots of extra fiber, lots of extra banana flavor. You need to use organic, though, because, and all ours will be organic, ’cause there’s a lot of pesticides on non-organic banana skins. I hear that. So anyway, banan-news. This just in on banan-news, they’ve discovered a banana that doesn’t taste like a Banana? Yes, that’s what I want to hear. Oh gosh. Listen, you’re, okay, well, this is a solo project yet again, yet again another solo project for Rhett, banan-news, because he doesn’t even like bananas. And he doesn’t like the idea. I don’t hate bananas, but I don’t want, and I do like fiber. Okay, name another fruit. Name another fruit, apple news? Oh, now that sounds like something that exists. I’ve got it on my computer already. Pomegranates are just too hard to get into. Nobody actually likes pomegranates, they just like the idea of liking pomegranates. I love a pomegranate. Oh, you think you love ’em. You think you love pomegranates. I know I love a pomegranate. You love the fruit of the pomegranate. You love the seeds if they are given to you. But the process is such a difficult thing that you hate yourself by the end of it. You don’t actually like pomegranates. I mean, it’s highly sustainable. Do you have someone who does it for you? Oh, yes, I have a pomegranatizer. Who’s your pomegranatizer, your wife? You get your kid to do it, don’t you? What are kids for, Rhett? If you get your kids to do it, you can enjoy it. But if you have to, if you just start with a pomegranate and then you’re trying to be the one to process it, to get the stuff from inside. Well, we have a pomegranate tree. Do you have a pomegranatizer? Yes, my son. Okay, well then it’s great. They’re great if someone else does it for you. And they’re popping off right now and that is just a literal statement. Well, how come I haven’t had a basket of pomegranates delivered to my door? I’m your virtual neighbor. Well, it seems like they make you upset. Well, no, I’ve got a son, as well. I’ve got a son who we can teach, as well. How many pomegranates are you making these days? We’re on the precipice of, I don’t know, anywhere from two years ago, we had like, probably 38 come off of that little tree. How many of those did you consume? Not enough. What happened to the rest of ’em, gifts? They were taken around to the neighbors. Yeah. Individually wrapped. And then some of ’em went bad. They burst on the vine sadly. This just in on banan-news. The Neals are wasting their pomegranates. Yeah, banan-news, I don’t think we’re gonna get any better than that. I don’t think we’re gonna get any better than that. I think we’ve peaked. You know what, then I’ll start to like bananas. I want fiber so bad Well, I got it. That I’m willing to acquire the taste of bananas in order to put the peel in my smoothie. I mean, do you put that hard stem? You don’t put that in there ’cause that, No, I don’t do that. Because all of a sudden you’re gonna choke on it. I could, though, it’s just I feel like it might be too much work for my blender. You got a weak blender? It would do it. And I got a strong blender but that stem is real hard. It’s a lot harder than you think. Why don’t you just put flaxseed in there? I put ground, I do. I put ground flaxseed in there. Every day. Every day. I needed a little bit more this morning, apparently. I ran out this morning ’cause we have a jar and we keep the flaxseed in it. And Christy was in the kitchen and I’m sitting there making my smoothie and I’m like, I try to be nice about it, I’m very appreciative of the fact that she shops at the grocery store the majority of the time. Yeah, yeah, the majority could be anywhere from 51% to, Right, let’s just leave it at that. To 100%. We have started going, as just a little tangent, we have started going to the grocery store together. Oh, cool. More often. What do you do? I push cart. Good. And sometimes I’ll go ahead and get something. You don’t go hungry, though. You don’t go to the grocery store hungry. No. Don’t do that. So this morning I said, can you add flaxseed to the list? I always get, I always get a little cagey when I start to ask can you put something on the list. Especially when it’s like, ’cause it’s like I’m consuming something. And she’s like, well, I just went yesterday. And I was like, oh man, now what? You had to wait how long? I don’t know, like, A week? Maybe three weeks. What? Y’all go to the grocery store every three weeks? Well, we get it at Trader Joe’s. And we don’t go to Trader Joe’s. We’re like French people over here, baguette under the arm every day. My wife rides her bike right back from Ralph’s every day with a baguette under both arms . Yeah, I mean, we go to Ralph’s once a week, but we go to Trader Joe’s like once a month, maybe once every three weeks. Oh, the Trader Joe’s run. And that’s where the flaxseed is that we get. Well, there’s flaxseed at Ralph’s, as well, just so you know. Oh, is it? And also on Amazon. There’s like multiple sources. I could probably get you some within 30 minutes of this podcast. Well, she got it to me in seconds, ’cause I turned around and thwump, right there, she slammed it down and she was like, oh, you didn’t believe that I knew we needed the flaxseed. She already knew. She was offended. She already knew She was offended that I didn’t, I was like, add it to the list, and she was like, I already got it. And I’m like, hey, hey, hey, we’re on the same team. You buy the flaxseed, I eat the flaxseed. We’re just different positions on the team. I have a suggestion for you because I think you’ve also, you’re using Google Keep for some of your notes as well, right, some of your notes. Are they being shared with you? Because I don’t want you reading all my Keeps. Well, only if you do share them with me. But yes. I started, the reason I started using Google Keep, I still use Evernote for long-term stuff. Really, oh, because you, Like journaling, ’cause it’s all in there. You didn’t port everything in there. Or like certain ideas about certain things in certain categories. It’s like, it’s all in there, I’m not a huge fan of the way it works, but I don’t wanna change. Apple Notes, like stickies basically, Like the post-Its. I still use those for very short-term things. But then for shorter term things that I need to share, I need to have a collaborative nature to, I use Google Keep. Here’s why, ’cause you, my friend, also have Google Home at your home. And so all you have to do is say, hey Google, add flaxseed to the family grocery list. And it automatically adds it to the family grocery list. I can just say it anywhere in my house, it adds it to the grocery list. Shepherd can add, Jessie can add, and so then the next person who goes to the grocery store, which it could be me, it’s not uncommon, You’re not above it. Has the list right there and then you check it off as you get it. Ching ching, ching ching, check. Check it off. Yeah. And does it disappear? It goes down below and you see. Oh, shit. And so then you can be like, oh, I wonder if she got flaxseed. And then you look down there and like, flaxseed checked off the list, bam, I don’t even have to look in the cabinet. It’s on the list, it’s been checked. Welcome to 2023, man. Banan-news, that’s the second article, in the tech section of banan-news. Everyone should be using collaborative notes. Not a sponsor. But bet to the restaurant. We had so much fun with banan-news. Okay, Georgia restaurant goes viral after charging parents a $50 fee for poorly behaved children. Ah, Georgia restaurant. Y’all know about this, y’all heard about this is. Is what now? Well, they’re charging parents a $50 fee for poorly behaved children. Now this is how this all started. What kind of restaurant is this? Well, it’s a restaurant called Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in northern Georgia. And they are, quote, according to them, the home of mountain time seating. Seating, Seating. Mountain time seating. I don’t even know what that is. And I don’t mean, seating, like sit. seating. Oh, seating. Not seeding, seating. The home of mountain time seating, like sitting. What is mountain time seating? It might be a configuration of seating. I feel like I need to see pictures, I need to know, because this may help inform my opinion about this. What is mountain, how would you sit in the mountains? I bet you there’s a certain time. Well, mountain time, Where you sit in the seat and watch the mountains. Mountain time is a time zone, but this isn’t, they’re not in, they’re in the eastern time zone. So it’s not a time zone, they’re in the mountains. Mountain time is just a time being in actual mountains. And they’re the home of the mountain time seating. I think it could be, there’s a certain time of the day when you wanna sit and watch the mountains because of the sun just dancing off of it. Well, they are in a place called Blue Ridge, Georgia. So is there a time when they’re most blue? What is the time when the mountains are the most blue? I would think it was either the morning or the evening. Dusk. We’re talking post-sunset. Post-sunset. I think that’s called dusk. So mountain time comes around, And it gives purple mountains. And you sit down at this restaurant and you eat. And you don’t want to be disturbed by children. You don’t want to be annoyed by children. See, now I understand why they lead with that. But actually, my prevailing theory here is that there is a brand called Mountain Time and they make chairs. So like the front porch of a Cracker Barrel situation? Yeah, they sell chairs. It’s like, well, oh, you go over to someone’s house and they’re like, oh, you have a Mountain Time chair. Oh wow, can I sit in it? I mean, I know it’s not quite time yet, but I wanna be prepared. It’s like an Adirondack but it’s a little more upright. And it rocks. And it rocks. It rocks. I’m making all this up. I like to rock while eating. A lot of people say don’t do that. A lot of doctors say don’t do that. Mountain time, I disagree with them. Is just gazing at the mountains. It’s while the food is digesting though. You’ve eaten already. And then you go, you sit out and you watch the mountains. You don’t wanna eat and watch a movie at the same time. We don’t actually know the answer to what mountain time seating is? No. I think it’s a brand. We’ve gotten a little hung up on it actually. There is Mountain Time chairs and they are wooden rocking chairs. We were right! And they look straight outta Montana, that’s what it looks like. Straight outta Montana, north Georgia. I will say the problem is is that on the website it shows Colorado and not Georgia. So I don’t, It’s the home of mountain time seating, though. So I still am not sure, I don’t know if we could call it the home of, I don’t know if that’s it. But they did call it the home. I’m about to dig into this. If I buy a La-Z-Boy chair, and put it in my home, I can say, welcome to the home of La-Z-Boy seating because it’s my home and I’ve got La-Z-Boy. Maybe they only have Mountain Time chairs. I bet that’s what it is, y’all. They have Mountain Time branded chairs at their locale. You can’t get anything past these boys. We are right twice. It’s a brand. I think the only thing I contributed is the rocking. So I got that part right. So they say it’s the home of Mountain Time seating, they don’t say it is the birthplace of mountaintop seating. Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in northern Georgia Headquarters. Is the home of Mountain Time seating. And Food and Wine, they just say, we’re not sure what exactly that means. Oh, they said that. I mean, they didn’t even do the research. They’re lazy. We didn’t do research, we just speculated and got it right. That’s what you gotta do with these days. Right, just bullshit your way forward, Food and Wine. Here’s the thing, yeah, you’re just talking about food and wine, it’s not life or death. Good gracious. But someone posted a photo to one of our favorite Reddit threads, I think, mildly interesting. You don’t wanna be too percolated. Right, right, you just wanna, you almost, I don’t think I used that term right. You wanna flirt with boredom. It’s like, that’s why you’re on Reddit anyway. You’re flirting with boredom. Well, it’s just like when you’re in a gambling, like you’re in a gambling Zone. Zone. Stupor, stupor, trance. Trance, trance, you’re in a gambling trance when you’re at the slot machines. You don’t wanna win too much, you don’t wanna lose too much. You wanna be mildly interested so they can just keep taking all your money. Right, right. So they put, this person, pineapple pizza lover, which that’s controversial. They charge $50. Well, here’s the thing. The original thing was a picture of the menu, which has at least four fonts that I’m seeing here. Love that. And it just said, gratuity of 20% may be added to parties over six, separate checks, birthday menu, adult surcharge for adults unable to parent and there’s three dollar signs. So that was the first thing that people started talking about. So they’re not charging, They charge the adults for not being able to parent the children. That makes sense, adult surcharge. And then when you do a little bit of digging, But there’s no dollar amount. Right, but the digging revealed multiple sources have reported that at least one person has said that they were charged $50 for their bad behavior. I can read a little bit about that situation, let’s see. ‘Cause they said three dollar signs. I mean, you gotta be ready. The charge, which some Google reviews have reported as a flat $50 fee has been reported several times in the past two weeks. This is quote, the most disrespectful owner made a huge scene in front of the entire restaurant because our children were running through the restaurant, quote, one recent Google Review reads. The children were down by the river. We were told we need to go to Burger King and Walmart and that we were bad parents. They have a $50 surcharge for bad children. Another reviewer wrote that he was disappointed because although he says that his children watched a tablet until their meals arrived, could have watched the mountains. Don’t get me started on that. Until their meals arrived, his family was charged $50 because of my children’s behavior. What do you think about this? You’ve been to restaurants, you have children. They’re not kids anymore, though. They’re not the kind of kids that misbehave, they’re older. Yeah, I just want to preface everything I’m about to say with an acknowledgement of my position of privilege. Oh, that’s always a good thing to do, Link. I have children. This is a man who grows pomegranates at his house, okay. So many that some of ’em die on the vine. He lets pomegranates die in his yard. This is a man of privilege. I have children who are adults. I have two of those. And then I have one that is 13 but is one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met. I think he’s 14 now. I’m biased. No, don’t mess with my mind now. He’s 13. Oh, he’ll be 14 in March. Yeah. Right, okay, yeah. Or February, whenever his birthday is. I don’t have to remember exactly when they’re, I know all of their birthdays, but I can’t always match up which birthday to who person. Yeah, this is making you look like you don’t care, so let’s just move on past that. Well, that’s kind of my point. He knows, he knows. That’s kind of my point. When I’m coasting, I know you’re well past coasting, you’ve talked about this many times. You talk about parenting, I have a 15-year-old. Right, and that’s the youngest you got. Another adult, historically he would’ve had a wife and kids and a farm. We are living so large, we basically, oh my gosh, we made it through the fire, man. So now we can ridicule parents and say that, you know what, look at us, we made it through. Tablets at the table. When my kids were growing up, we didn’t even have tables. No, I mean tablets. We didn’t even have phones with streaming stuff that they could watch at the table. Well, we had tablets, but they were pills. It was like, you give your kid a tablet at the restaurant. What are you talking about, what is this, a Tylenol situation? What did my kid do at the table when they were young, like pre-reading age? I don’t remember but I’m gonna say that they were quiet. I’m gonna say that they were well behaved. Okay, now this is speculating quite a bit. I don’t remember at all. I’ve wiped it clean. It was a nightmare, it was horrible. I mean, it was like, you got these people that you can’t help but love dearly and you can’t get ’em to shut up and be quiet and stop talking it’s just a bad, oh my gosh, I’m so glad I’m through it. This is quite an endorsement for fatherhood. I mean, just give up on going anywhere with them. Don’t take ’em anywhere. So I gotta ask your opinion on this news story. I’m all for this. Other people like me who’ve made it through the fire of parenthood want to go to places and we don’t wanna remember, we don’t wanna be reminded of what happened because we blocked it out. So, I’ll pay the fee for you, for you to just get it, just go to Walmart and Burger King, yes. I just don’t, I don’t wanna remember. Well, it gets even worse. It was just too hard. It gets even worse. It was too torturous. There was another family, They don’t listen. There was another family there that is a part of this article that they had five families and their group included 11 children between the ages of three and eight. That can’t be true. Oh God, I’m crying for these parents, these dumb parents don’t know how to use birth control. That’s five families and 11 kids. I mean, that’s not, I mean, you’ve got three kids. This commune of parents. By the way, you have more kids than the average number of kids in an American family. So you got no room to talk. And I’m so happy and I don’t regret it a minute because I don’t remember it. Okay, I appreciate your strong opinion about this. I love my children now. I like to think that I could have like a little bit of sympathy, like sometimes you see somebody on a plane, a plane’s even worse than a restaurant. You see somebody on a plane with an infant and you think about, ah, it’s like that was so hard. My wife, very empathetic person, and not just an empathetic person but an actively empathetic person. So some people feel, some people feel and do, she is a feeler and a doer. So she will help a mom that has multiple kids or a crying baby or something like that in those situations. Change a diaper? That hasn’t happened because that can get a little awkward. So you really probably shouldn’t even offer to do that. Just so you know, to set some boundaries. However, Perform the Heimlich? In fact, given the fact that I’m empathetic to this situation, I think that the spirit behind this particular fee is that what your party does, and maybe your kids are part of your party, impacts the level of enjoyment of the other people who are paying to have an experience. So another way to think about this is we shouldn’t just charge for badly behaved kids, we should find other things to charge for. Because what about the person who’s talking too loudly There we go. At a restaurant? $25. Yes. $30 maybe. Yes to that. Yes to that. What about the person who, I know some people can’t help it, but what about the person who just has a hellacious coughing fit? Just a crazy unappetizing coughing fit. I’m thinking there’s phlegm, there’s lots of things happening, you should be leaving the restaurant, you should be outside. That’s a $60 fee ’cause I’ve lost my appetite. Right, right, yeah. You know what I’m saying? I gotta get a doggy bag now because you phlegmed all over the place. If it leads to a loss of patron’s appetite, that’s at least $60. Right, right, right, open sores. You got an open sore, Throw a bandage Above the table, On the sore. If you’ve got leg wounds, as long as I’m not seeing ’em, that’s fine. Or smelling ’em. You got an open wound, Bandage it. You gotta bandage it. And then you gotta put fabric. You gotta make it a fashion statement. ‘Cause I don’t want nothing oozing through that gauze. Listen, I’m just saying if we’re taking into account everyone’s experience, these are the. The loud talker thing, I will say, there’s a caveat to this that I want to explore quickly. Jessie and I, If it’s interesting. Well, Jessie and I once went to a bed and breakfast that had an attached restaurant. It wasn’t actually a bed and breakfast within the home, but it was, it had an attached restaurant. Weird. And we went into this restaurant for our included breakfast. And it was one of those restaurants that was so quiet that you feel like you have to talk like this. It’s like, I mean, if we were talking at this volume, That’s a bit much. The only other family that was there would hear everything we were saying. It wasn’t really a family, it was four older people. And there was one elderly woman that was at this table. And we were in North Carolina. And she was talking about this loud, but she was giving North Carolina historical information. Oh, there you go, see? And so we got quiet and we listened to the lecture. Free tour. So I felt like I could even pay this woman because I felt like I was taught something, but I was interested in it. It can go both ways. I think if you contribute to the corporate dining experience, you should get a little stipend. Right, so if you’re talking loudly, that’s a fee. But if you’re talking loudly and everyone likes it, you get paid, you get a free meal, you get maybe a free dessert. If it’s local tidbits, oh, a little $5, a little 10 spot here and there Yeah, yeah, yeah, and if it’s at this place, I’m just thinking out loud, workshopping here, if it’s at this place, and maybe these people at the Toccoa River restaurant have a deal with Mountain Time seating. This is what we’re guessing. So you might go as far as to say Mountain Time seating is a sponsor of them. So now you get a loud talker, you could plant a loud talker who begins to sing the praises of Mountain Time seating. You got like dining integration? Yes, we got built-in integrations to the person giving the local tidbits. Local tid, oh, everybody get quiet. This woman at this table is talking about local tidbits of historical information. Oh no, she’s talking about her chair. Oh, she’s really, okay. And next thing you know, this family’s walking out with a couple of Mountain Time seats. Yeah, you get commission on that shit. Somebody’s gotta be, what’s the proper exchange of goods in that situation? Yeah, I say you get a 10% finder’s fee. Finder’s fee. I mean, if I’m going to the bathroom, if I’m encountering four tables on the way there and I decide to say, Hey, y’all need anything? Are you like a waiter? Exactly, maybe a little bit, just in this one instance. Y’all want some Sweet and Low? Y’all need another hush puppy? You’ve become like a volunteer waiter. Right, just ’cause, With the hope of making a little scratch? Yeah, there you go. I don’t wanna make anything. Who’s gonna pay you? It’s gonna be taken off my bill. Okay, so you go to the restroom. It’s a discount. Y’all need a little Sweet and Low, they say yes. You get it, you bring it to them. Then you go from the bathroom to the manager and you say, hey, not to scratch my own back here, but these people needed Sweet and Low and I got it for ’em in a little gap when the waiter wasn’t there. You leave him a little note. That’s why I carry around post-it notes. And we don’t have any kids with us. And we’re really enjoying the Mountain Time seats. You might get a small discount. I think about the ArcLight, may they rest in peace, my favorite movie theater. They didn’t have a children’s fee. They didn’t have a children’s ticket. Everybody had to pay the same. It was a flat fee. Did they have senior discounts? I don’t know. Probably not in LA. Not many seniors, not many seniors around here. Hey, maybe seniors are okay. But there was this, They’re quiet. It was a subtle thing that’s like, all right, if you’re looking to bring your children and you expect to save a little money, this is not the place for that. We’re not telling you you can’t bring your kids, but we’re de-incentivizing, we’re decentivizing. you bringing your children. We don’t really want ’em, You kinda wanna do a, Leave ’em at home with a tablet. They’ll be okay, it’s just a few hours. Tablet and some tater chips. And probably liquid, maybe one of the hamster bottles. Yeah, yeah , with some Hawaiian Punch in it. Well, not too much sugar. You wanna regulate the sugar intake. But you’re right, they should be charging for disruptive, well, lemme put it the way they put it, for not proper parenting. Now it’s a very dangerous place to start critiquing other people’s parenting techniques. But I think that the line for me is how quickly you get the situation under control. Your kid starts crying in a performance. Take them out. Get ’em out. Get ’em, out. Get ’em out. It’s okay that they cried, it’s okay that you brought them, but once they start crying, get ’em out. Outta there. And if your kids are doing just hellion-type things inside of a restaurant and you seem to not be engaged at all, To the river. Take the kids to the river. Or behind the shed. To me, kids are hard to control, You say a lot of things before you have kids. We’ve earned the right to forget. I haven’t forgotten, I wanna be clear about that. When I see somebody dealing with a kid situation, I’m like, damn, that was hard, I have empathy. But then when I’m like, well, but I would not have let this go on this long. We would’ve gotten out of the situa-, we would’ve removed ourselves from the situation. And a kid with a tablet . I wish we had tablets, man. Yeah, I don’t know about this tablet. I mean, it’s so easy to judge ’cause we didn’t have that. But we, I mean, the kids did watch a lot of television, though. There was a lot of Baby Einstein, but they’re gonna be real smart for that. Every parent, except like on an extreme end of the scale, is just you’re worn down over time and you just have a level of resignation. And it’s like, oh my God, if you just give ’em the damn tablet, they’ll be quiet. And we can have dinner. It’s hard to say no. Because we don’t have a, it’s so hard to find a babysitter and somebody that you trust and this, that, and the other. I understand. You sound like you’re backtracking a little bit. I do understand. You gonna write an apology letter on banan-news? But I’m gonna say, it’s so hard to not judge on the outside. I mean, it’s just, it’s because I’ve forgotten, that’s why. I’m just, oh, a tablet, huh? So you don’t wanna, why even bring ’em? Oh, so you’re saying you’re really judging the tablets. You judge the tablets. Oh hell yeah, I judge that tablet so hard and I know I’m not right. I’m not right. But I cannot help it. It just seems like, But also, let me just say, Parental failure, it’s just like a billboard for parental failure. And I know it’s not. You had easy kids. Let’s just be real about it. A lot of times people with, I had great parenting techniques. People with easy, mild mannered children, you had a girl first who was the oldest one who kind of kept the boys in line. And I had two, Well, hold on, let’s give credit where credit’s due. It probably has something to do with genes. You and Christy are great parents. But what I’m saying is that what I have learned over time, and not just observing myself as a father and my wife as a mother, but other people, it’s just so much of it has to do with the disposition of the children. And I’m not saying, my kids weren’t not well behaved, my kids, the level of energy that my boys brought to any situation that they found themselves in was a few notches up. But I think that we kind of account, we didn’t take ’em to nice places, most of the time it’d be like, I’m not gonna take my kids to a place where, Mountain view seating. Mountain Time seating, we don’t need that. We need regular seating for these children. It’s a tough time. So sometimes I’m like, okay, you’ve got, oh, your kid is so well behaved. It’s like, well that kid would probably be well behaved in any family. It’s probably, and I think that’s what, I’m not saying you’re not a good parent, I’m just saying that’s actually what most of the child psychologists say is that, Yeah, that’s what, it makes you feel better. My kids are well behaved. My kids are well behaved. But their level of energy was kind of difficult to manage at several points in their childhood. Get ’em out. And so we got ’em out or we didn’t take ’em in. Like I was never once, And you had the luxury of having family nearby. Never once At that time period. Well, Shepherd was two when we moved to LA. So we experienced a lot of young Shepherd. Yeah, that’s true. Never once in the history that I can remember, have we been asked by another family, another person, a wait staff, a manager, or anything to get our kids in line. That never happened because the moment that it felt like it was happening, we got ’em out. Get ’em out. Yeah, it’s tough, it sucks. It sucks being a parent. It’s also the most beautiful and rewarding thing that, Well, it’s harder now, because think about it, especially in LA, I did, especially when the kids were babies, we were in North Carolina, you have family, you have friends, you have this network of people that is a little bit more reminiscent of what you would’ve had for all of human history, which is just like your kid’s being a little asshole, well somebody else that you know and trust really, really well, that lives in the hut next to you is going to help you discipline your child. That’s like most of human history, right. And now we’re in this place where we we got some young parents here at Mythical, and it’s just like finding somebody that you trust with your kids, very difficult to do in a place where you’re kind of just, you don’t have any family. You got good friends, but like, they ain’t gonna babysit your kids. You gotta find somebody who’s willing to take care of your kids. It’s a totally different game. People are on these little family islands now. So you’re like, we gotta get out of this, and you bring your chaos into the Mountain Time seating. Let’s go to north Georgia. Right, let’s go to sit and watch the Blue Mountains. And you haven’t accounted for it. It’s tough. I’m sympathetic to it. You’re between a rock and a hard place here. I got nothing for you but empathy as I’ve thoroughly demonstrated. We have more to talk about but we do want to talk about “The Mythical Cookbook.” You want me to hold it up? I do. So this is something that’s been a long time coming. We have incredible kitchen staff, you know. Where you looking, you look in the middle? When we do an ad, I do. Look, I’m gonna put it next to your head and look over there. Jenny, what do you do when we go to an ad like this? I go to the wide. You go to the wide. Yeah, see, I think, I watch this show sometimes. I lived it. So one of the reasons that Josh has his job, we originally hired Josh to help us make food on Good Mythical Morning but we didn’t really ever know that he was gonna become Mythical Chef Josh that you know and love and had this whole team of people and the Mythical Kitchen was gonna be its own thing. But the reason that happened is because not only did we find that Josh could cook but he knew everything there was to know about food. And he was really good at communicating it and really good at communicating it in a funny way, an engaging way. He could talk loud at a restaurant and I’d pay his bill. Exactly. So this is a culmination I’d like to pay it forward. Of all that brain power and culinary innovation that has driven what we do here at Mythical for a really long time. In “The Mythical Cookbook,” of course, I mean, we still put ourselves on the cover. Yeah we did, eating. Yeah, yeah, I know, but we’re sitting down. This book is by Josh and the Mythical Kitchen crew. And all the recipes in there are either recipes that you have requested because you saw us eat it on the show and you thought you would love it or some original, actually quite a few original restaurants that are in that same Mythical, Restaurants, recipes. Recipes, there’s no restaurants yet. There’s recipes that are original recipes that kind of have that same mythical ethos. And it’s actually just a fun read, great pictures. There’s lots of fun parts to read, too. Go to mythical.com/cookbook and pre-order this thing so that you will be the first to get it, start making stuff. Also wanna remind you, rate and review this podcast wherever you’re listening to it. 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It’s a former child of mine. who’s now, Oh, I’ve already forgotten about him. Once they leave, especially other families, I go, I forget, I’ve forgotten. Get outta here. He’s a successful college freshman. Well, it’s still early. So far, he’s doing great, dude. And I’m so glad. Well, I’m happy for him. It’s good to visit him. He’s liking his roommates, he’s got three of them. And when we went down there, Is that legal? It’s legal, yeah, the room is zoned for that. There’s four beds. Yeah. And all the roommates’ parents came down for the parents weekend. So we were all hanging out and getting to know the other parents. And one couple, the mom is from South Africa and it just so happened to time out that it was the World Cup, Rugby World Cup finals that Saturday. And so she invited all of us to this Irish bar, an Irish pub to, yeah, I don’t know. Rugby. Yeah, they do that. They’re gonna be showing the rugby game at the Irish bar. Yes, definitely, even though Ireland got out. So we went there, we showed up, we spent a few hours watching the final between South Africa, this is why she couldn’t miss it. just very enthusiastic about her rugby, against the New Zealand All Blacks. This is the World Cup championship? Oh yeah, this is the culmination of rugby-dom and I witnessed it. Best in the land. I gotta tell you, if you’re gonna be introduced to the realm of rugby, I don’t think there’s any better place than a brackish Irish pub With someone who’s passionate about it. With someone who is passionate, yelling all types of stuff. Okay. Good gracious. Any South African curse words that I should be knowing? I believe so, I definitely believe so. It was awesome. And yes, I definitely recommend an Irish coffee with a, oh yeah. Is that coffee with Bailey’s in it? I didn’t know about that until I got there. You didn’t, it’s good. Did you get an iced one? I got a frozen one ’cause it was kind of hawt. Is it like a coffee, whipped cream, and Bailey’s? Well, it’s whiskey and some sort of minty stuff and coffee and cream. Am I missing something? The mint is interesting. A lot of times they don’t do that. Typically it’s Jameson, coffee, and Bailey’s And they usually do a little whipped cream on top. Yeah, that’s what it was. I like Jameson. It was great, it was fabulous, so fabulous. And that always helps. And let me explain to you, now that I’ve learned everything there is to know about rugby. Now, were you just learning as you watched or were you having it explained to you and who was explaining it? Her husband, because she’s probably so into it, you don’t wanna get somebody who’s so into it to have to be explaining the rules. Like this is the moment for her of she’s been following this her whole life, her country has an opportunity to win the whole thing. There was a little bit of explanation. Somebody with a little bit less skin in the game needs to explain the rules. In the first five minutes and then it was over. I popped up a little Google search at one point. But for the most part I just observed and learned everything I need to know to tell you everything that you need to know about rugby. I know a little, so I’m gonna see when your knowledge of watching it, one game, one match surpasses the little bit that I know. Well, it will immediately and then it will be comprehensive. Oh. Are you ready? I mean, you need not Wikipedia after this. Okay, all right. You’re familiar with soccer or what everyone else calls football? You’re gonna start with soccer? Hell yeah. All right. You’re not gonna start with American football? Shh. Okay, all right. Absolutely not, Rhett, I am not. That would be a huge mistake. Right, ’cause they can only touch it with their, Ah! Yeh, Zeh! Feet. All right, picture soccer or as I’m gonna call it, futbol. And picture people are just kicking the ball, they’re footing it around on this big green patch. I’m aware of a field, yeah. And then picture all of a sudden one person deciding to up, and I’m not talking about a goalie here, I’m talking about just a player out in the middle of the field picking up the ball and just starting to run with it. And then picture everybody on the other team getting extremely angry, like appalled. Oh my God, don’t you understand the most fundamental rule of futbol is that that you don’t pick up the ball with your hands. We’re gonna get you, we’re gonna get you, and we’re gonna hit you with as much force as we can muster when we get to you. Now this ball, Ah, pa, pa, pa. If you were to reference another type of ball that I might know, what would you, would you say a soccer ball or would you say an American football? Is it spherical or is it more oblong, which one? Picture this futbol player Which one does it look like? Who’s decided to pick up this soccer ball and he’s grabbed it It’s a soccer ball, okay. He’s grabbed it with so much force and intention That he’s turned it into like an egg shape. That he smooshed it into some sort of an oblong egg shape. It’s kind of an oval shape, almost pointed at the tips. Not pointed at the tips. But not pointed, it looks like it could be if they just modified it a little bit more. It’s a soccer ball that has been smooshed into a permanently oblong shape because he’s so afraid. And what color is this ball? Is it black and white check or is it brown? It’s his hands have covered so much of the ball that you can’t tell. Because he’s so afraid of these people who are now pursuing him. And what is he trying to do with the ball? Is he trying to get it into a net at the end Or is he trying to get it into more like an end zone, like a general zone? He’s running towards the, the end where the goal would be. Okay, but there’s no goal. But he has not yet discovered, It’s kind of an area. People are removing the goal. Oh, so the soccer goal’s gone. They’re so outraged. They’re removing the whole net in the goal. This guy doesn’t deserve that kind of a goal. And then there happens to be some sort of a narrow pole type device that’s down there. But that’s just, I don’t know why that’s there. I think that’s for advertising. Is it one pole or is it two poles? It’s two poles. Oh, it’s two poles. And then in between the poles, there was a sign because it was, I think that was the billboard for the soccer match. But that’s getting yanked down and leaving just a bare skeleton of a very narrowish billboard. Yeah, and what are they trying to do to the guy with the ball? Are they trying to tackle him? They’re trying to get this guy. They’re trying to grab him and bring him down? They’re trying to punish him for his long-term handball. But he can pass it to someone else as long as he passes it backwards or laterally, right? Stop, stop it. I’m gonna tell you everything you need to know. They’re so angry with this man who’s smooshing their soccer ball that they want to take and they do overtake him and they smash into his shoulder area, but not the head, the shoulder and below area. And then he gets down on his knees almost. And these other, the whole team is down clumped onto him and just, and they’re on their hands and knees and they’re just, Are you into it? They’re smooshing their faces and their shoulders into each other. And then does he take it and push it back between his legs? I would call it some sort of a scrum of sorts. And they’re smooshed against each other. And then the other team says, whoa, whoa, hold on. I know what he’s done is indefensible, but we have to take up for our boy. And then everybody joins the hand baller in smooshing against the other team until there’s a whole scrumified clump of players pushing against each other while almost prone on the field. And it’s a quagmire of just pushing and grunting. I’m just gonna stop interrupting so he can get through the whole thing. And padless pushing. And then this goes on minutes. Because he obviously will continue until the end. And then lo and behold somewhere, you can’t tell where, but all of a sudden , the ball pops out. Towards the back of the pile. Yeah. And then they start chasing this person and he gets scared. So he’s like, oh, and he throws it to somebody to his side or maybe behind him. Okay, right, yeah. But nobody runs ahead. Right, can’t throw it forward. And then everybody’s going, they said, well, we don’t want what just happened to that person in that big scrum of a thing, I don’t want that to happen again, so I’m gonna throw it to the other guy. And they just keep lateraling the ball to other people to avoid another scrum. And then somebody’s like, A lot like soccer. I don’t want that to happen again. And then somebody doesn’t have anybody to pass it to. And he’s getting backed up. And then, you know what, he, in a panic, he just kicks the ball. Yeah, goes back to his soccer instincts. He just punts the ball just to get it out of there. And then the other team catches it and they’re like, oh, this is fun, we’re onto something. And they just continue this forever and a day. Yep. Until 80 minutes are up. So, with no timeouts, it just kind of goes. It never stops. It’s like soccer in that way. And there’s blood on faces And there’s no protection except a handful of the people who wear some sort of thing, I think to prevent getting the wrestler ear, a lot of ’em have the cauliflower ear. But they’re looked down upon for wearing the gear. I certainly did, I certainly did. So, perfect question, And at the end there’s a winner. Who won? Oh, I don’t know. South Africa won, she was elated. What was the score? It was close, it was within one point to the very end. How many points do you get for getting into the place where the goal used to be? I’m gonna say five. Actually I don’t know, I don’t know. And then I think if you kick it through the goal post, at a certain point, I think you get, you can get other points for that that are less than five. Did you find yourself enjoying it? Somewhere between two and three, I’m guessing. Did you find yourself enjoying it more than, A, soccer, and B, American football? Yes. Because it’s got the constant activity of soccer but it’s got the violence of football. I mean, guys were walking around and there was just blood streaming off their face like they were a UFC fighter or something. Yeah, it’s intense. I don’t know the difference in the rules of Australian rules football, And there’s yellow cards. But I watched a bunch of Australian rules football. Well, we’re not talking about that. I just can’t, I have no capacity for that. I just can’t add another sport. It’s pretty similar. At all, There’s some differences To the conversation. But I couldn’t tell you what they are. At this point. There’s yellow cards and there’s red cards. I will tell you that. Oh, okay, so it is just like soccer. In that way. I take everything back. It was great, I was just thanking the rugby gods that South Africa won because I was like, man, this whole thing’s gonna turn sour if she doesn’t get her way. I’m talking about the mom here. But she had a great time. She had a great time, we all had a great time because they won. And do you think that you’re gonna Play it professionally, yes. Start watching this? Oh, no, no, it’s a sport. I ain’t get time for that. So you’re still in a, Whew, I mean, I’m exhausted just telling you about it. We all are. I mean, good gosh. Are you still in absolute zero, we’re talking zero, like self-motivated, there’s no scenario in which you by yourself would make a decision to watch any sport. I’m talking like, what if you’re flipping through, I know there’s no flipping through, we don’t really flip through, cornhole, like the cornhole championship is on ESPN. It’s because there’s no flipping through. If there were still flipping through, I would stop on some cornhole and Lando’s playing tennis some now, so I might stop on some tennis and be like, get in here, boy, look at what you’re trying to do. But I have no, like, I have no occasion where sports are presented to me. When they’re presented to me, I learn a lot. You wait for things to be presented to you. Right, and that’s what channel flipping was when you talk about cornhole. But yeah, I mean, I don’t miss it. I don’t miss it and there’s not a part of me that misses it. It’s kinda like Sunday school. There’s not a part of me that misses it. You think sports are as bad as Sunday school? No, I’m not saying that. What the hell is wrong with you? I’m not saying that. I’m just saying that I have a similar experience of not missing them from my life at all and it’s really important to other people. But when you saw this person who was really passionately watching it, I loved it for her, But if I was like, okay, ’cause really I watch very little sports. And I was cheering, I was into it. And even the teams that I pull for, like, okay, I am technically a Clippers fan. I’m not really a fan of any LA football. I don’t really watch NFL football. But I don’t find myself being like I’m gonna sit down and watch this Clippers game on television, unless it’s in the playoffs. When we had the semi season tickets, But going to a game, that’s fun. That was the last time that I, because the boys were involved, like Lincoln and I would go to the games with you and Locke, But so in person, Me and Lincoln would watch the games we didn’t go to and that was fun. Yeah, I never finish watching it, especially when you’re an NC State fan, a lot of times you get your hopes up about, we’re gonna do this and we’re gonna do that, and then we get disappointed. So I don’t find myself having watched it and then being like, that was an incredibly fulfilling experience. But like, when I know that State’s gonna be playing somebody, I’m like, I just have this sense of, it’s not a sense of obligation, it’s like I still care. I’m able to understand that my caring about it is not based in the rational part of my brain, but, You have an allegiance and there’s a sense of obligation that goes along with it that I think I cut ties completely with sports when I moved out here. There’s the potential of the team that you want to win, winning. That’s a special feeling that I can’t replicate in other areas of my life. Like this woman, this South African woman, right. It’s a manufactured victory. By caring about it. It’s purely psychological. I didn’t have anything to do with it. But there’s something about it. Now then there are people who go a whole, like many, many steps, my dad is such a huge fan of Georgia football, like such a massive fan of Georgia football, which is he’s been a fan all his life, it’s a good time to be a fan of Georgia football. I’m surprised he doesn’t own a bulldog. He’s not a dog guy. But he knows everything about it. He’s on the forums, you know what I mean? Oh, really? Yes. He’s so fully invested and he’s got a friend who’s also a big Georgia fan who lives in a different state and they’re on the phone with each other while the game is being played. I’m glad he has somebody. I’m glad he, I mean, I would hope that I would have something that I’m just as passionate about as the people who are that passionate about sports. I think it’s a good thing. It’s nice to have something. Well, there’s few things in life, And there’s few things that really go that far. Like, honestly, I don’t have anything that I’m that, Well think about it, I’m so passionate about music. I think that’s actually a really good point. But it’s not, it’s different. How many times during the week. The experience is so different. If State is playing and it’s a close game, and again, I’m just in there by myself. Locke would watch stuff with me, Shepherd doesn’t care. So I’m kind of just like watching it by myself. Jessie doesn’t care and she’s a Carolina grad anyway. The level of intensity of my reactions, there’s not another thing that I’m currently engaging with where I literally would be like, yes, yes, come on oh yeah! Like name another scenario in my life right now where I will yell that loudly about something. when it’s not a bit. If I go to a concert, I’m gonna do some yelling. But like, what’s it gonna sound like? But I’m gonna be like, yay. I mean, what noise do I make it a concert? Yeah, it’s a little, Woo, it’s stuff like that, right, it’s a different experience. It’s great, it may be a better experience. But it’s not an unfettered just release of primal energy . Primal, primal, that’s what I’m getting at. What other time, like think about it, what other time in your life, ’cause I don’t, listen, I’m not a road rage guy. Of course, I’ve never been to a battle of the bands. As many times as my fake rants have gone viral, and every time people are completely convinced that they’re real, I don’t actually ever really get that way in real life. I’ve never, I don’t road rage. I don’t get mad at people and yell at people. I don’t do that. But sports are the opportunity for those emotions to come out, in a way, you know what I’m saying? And it is primal, I think primal is a good word because we don’t have opportunities for primal experiences in modern-day life. And so sports is the receptacle for people to act like fools. I mean, let’s just face it, we’re getting really, really excited and upset also about things that we’re just sitting next to. Yeah. it’s a safe We’re sitting next to it. Place to cut loose. We’re Mountain Time seating, looking at the mountains. The mountains are doing all the work. We’re taking credit for it. We think that the underwear that we wore that day is causing the quarterback to do something different. Like, we’re idiots, we’re morons. Yeah, you are. We think, well, I yelled really loudly on third down and they got a false start. I was responsible for that. That’s the closest you can come to having any sort of influence is maybe being loud enough on third down. But when you’re in your, especially when you’re in your living room, you have no influence. You are in a completely sealed bubble. It’s just a completely isolated experience. It’s a safe space where you have permission to just care deeply and to engage these emotions. But doing it in a group, that’s awesome, too. And I guess there are, and I’ve been told that there are, there are NC State groups of people out here. ‘Cause you know, we live in Los Angeles, lots of people have moved from other places. There are people who get together and watch State games. And I’ve never thought, I’m gonna, that feels like a level of commitment that I’m not willing to make. But if you met a guy or a gal, you’ve met a person who was really into watching NC State athletics, I might say, let’s watch it together. Yeah, and they invited you over. Like Locke and I had lot of fun watching stuff together. Shepherd and I watched a lot of stuff together, it’s just not sports. But do you really want a Wolfpack friend? Because I mean, No, I’m just explain, They just don’t win enough. This doesn’t feel like a, well, having someone to commiserate with, I was actually thinking about this. My dad being a Georgia fan, Self-flagellation, man. It’s funny because speaking of this exact concept, you probably don’t know, NC State beat Clemson in football last week. Now typically this would be Good for us. Typically this would be a huge deal. But Clemson’s not any good this year. But they’ve been incredible for Millennium. Over a decade. Not millennium, they were horrible 30 years ago, or 20 years ago, but since the Dabo Swinney, Sweeney, whatever his name is, you know who I’m talking about. He’s like your quintessential football coach. And you would know him if you saw him or heard him. He’s been there for like 12 years or whatever and they have had 10-win seasons, they’ve won the national championship twice, they played in the national championship multiple times. The only other teams that have been as good as them over the past decade are Georgia and Alabama. And this clip of him on a radio show just went viral, like last night I found it. And it was a kid or a younger person calling in and complaining, and the thing that was on Twitter was just his rant, this five-minute rant From the coach or the kid? From the coach. Oh, in response to the kid. In response to this kid. And basically it was like, I mean it was a little, like he’s so frustrated because he’s won the national championship and he just got beat by State, and he’s 4-4, like he’s not having a good year. But they’re all calling for his head because he’s not having a good year, even though he won 11 games last year. And the thing he was saying was expectation versus appreciation. He’s like, we’ve been so good for so long that it has changed into expectation and not appreciation. And so I was thinking about my dad and how big of a fan of Georgia he is. And you know, they won the national championship, they didn’t lose a game last year, they haven’t lost a game this year as of recording this. And so being a fan of them becomes hoping that they do not lose. Like we have to win, ’cause in football you lose and it kind of screws your whole season up. Yeah, it’s tough being at the top. So the psychological thing, like you talk about do you really want someone to watch State with knowing that it’s always gonna be a struggle. We’re gonna have these really passionate, we’re gonna knock off Carolina, we’re gonna knock off Duke every once in a while, it’s gonna be this passionate thing, but we’re gonna have these like, we’re gonna kind of be in the middle of the pack Yeah. In a lot of ways. We’re gonna have the good years, we’re gonna have the bad years, we’re gonna have a lot of middle of the road years. So from a psychological standpoint, which one do you really, really want? Do you want to be like we always win? I know I’m saying this ’cause I’m trying to make it, I’m trying to say I don’t even want us to be great because once you get great, then you just wait to lose. But my dad is sitting there on the phone with his buddy. In fact, Cole was home, well Eli was home from school, so my nephew, Cole’s son. And they were going to see mom and dad on a Saturday, like the one Saturday that Eli was gonna be in town and Cole was like, this is the window of time when I could kind of take him down there and hang out. But it was during the Georgia game. And it was like Georgia and Auburn, it was somebody they were definitely gonna beat, but they weren’t winning at halftime. And Cole was just like, Dad can’t, he can’t extricate himself from it. He cannot extricate himself from this. He’s so in it. He’s like, yes, my grandson is here and I dearly love my grandson. This is Georgia football we’re experiencing right now. Charge $50 for unbehaved kids. Of course they won, of course they won. So I guess I don’t want, I don’t know. I don’t know. I think I’m just gonna keep being alone in my house once a week approximately to tune into an NC State game, whether it’s football or basketball, that’s where I draw the line. I don’t move into any other sports. Getting either really upset or really happy in just a complete bubble that influences no one but myself and then my wife who will kinda walk by me and just kinda look at me if I get especially loud about something, That’s me watching sports. Yeah. I’m just gonna take that Not quite like Link watching rugby, though, and thinking that it most closely relates to soccer. A little different, a little different, a little different. I’m just gonna take a hike. Well. it’s probably healthier. Not even literally. It’s probably healthier. It’s my rec this week. So why don’t you sing the rec theme song? We’re bringing it back. ♪ 1-888-EarPod1 ♪ That’s not it, dude. ♪ 1-888-EarPod1 ♪ That’s not, what are you doing? It’s the rec theme song. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. One more. ♪ Rec baby, rec baby, one, two, three ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’ve never done it. It’s not really a song, is it? It is a song. I mean, It’s referencing a song. It’s a portion of a song. Okay, fine, I’ll do it. ♪ Rec baby. rec baby, one, two, three, four ♪ Okay, my rec is a YouTube video, which I just found. If you just search Andy Griffith football story from 1953, I think, I think maybe that one will give it to you. What it was, was football, you can also search that. Andy Griffith, you know from “The Andy Griffith Show.” I’m familiar. Matlock, he has this routine from way back then when he, basically, I realized that I was channeling the Andy Griffith when telling my rugby story because he describes what football is. Would be like if you had never seen it before? Yeah, from his country, backwoods kinda, Just so you know, I did not pick up on the fact that that’s what . What? That’s what you were referencing. Andy, oh. Well I wasn’t, You weren’t referencing it, you unintentionally referenced it. I have a vague recollection of this, but it’s a comedy routine From Andy Griffith. So yeah, if you like what I said about rugby, I was just channeling the 1953 Andy Griffith what it was was football. I’ve seen what you’re talking about. It’s very funny and it’s a little, it’s probably, Andy Griffith is the greatest. Andy’s football routine probably started much like Link’s rugby routine. You know, it starts somewhere and then you polish it over time. You make sure the different parts land and then it becomes what Andy did in 1953. Listen, if you have any feedback on anything that we said today, we wanna hear from you. You can call us, ♪ Rec baby, rec baby, one, two, three, four ♪ 1-888-EarPod1. EarPod1. Yeah, ’cause we wanna get into it. Yeah, we like your voicemails. Let us know, if you have any opinions on our opinions on parents, kids, parenting, childrening, rugby. Anything that we say at all on the podcast. We want to hear it. We would love to revisit these things. We ain’t scared. Based on your feedback. We ain’t scared, let us have it. And we’ll talk at you next week. Hi Rhett and specifically Link. This is in regards to your recent fanny pack acquisition and your question about why women are the only ones who get to carry bags. There’s a really good episode of a podcast called Articles of Interest and the episode’s called Pockets and it’s all about the history of pockets and women’s pockets and women’s bags. That’s my rec, 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.