Welcome to “Ear Biscuits”. The podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Rhett. And I’m Link. This week at The Roundtable of Dim Lighting, I gotta share a privacy scare that I had. Whoa. An online privacy scare. What? Involving my TikTok account. Thanks to you my friend. Yeah I know about it. I was acting surprised. So? I was feigning surprise they say. But you don’t know, I have not told you about my experience. No, no. At all. I don’t know about your experience and I’m gonna be talking to you about something I have learned about my son’s musical taste which I think we both might find fascinating. Yeah, ’cause I actually was talking to him about his, about music the other night. The other night. When I was over at your house. Okay. Oh, oh. So yeah, put a pin in that. Can I go first? I need to get this off my chest man. Oh yeah, please go first. I didn’t know what you were signing me up for when you tagged me in a TikTok thingy. I don’t even know what, a post. What is a TikTok? If you put a TikTok on TikTok, it’s called a TikTok? Is that what it is? You emphasize the Tok? I usually just call it a TikTok and then usually, I call it a TikTok video. Or a TikTok vid if there’s young people listening. Just a TikTok vid. Oh. Sometimes a TTV. How did this work? You were teasing. Well I mean, I’m semi. A single. Semi-active, semi-active on TT. That’s what I call it. Yeah, yeah? I make TTVs. Every once in a W. Because I’ve been talking about the James and the Shame stuff, yes I’ve been a little bit more active over there and because you sang with me on the song. Right. So, a lot of people, well we were doing something that, we were doing a photo shoot for something that I don’t know, you may find out about it at some point. It was kind of a weird photo shoot. We’ll explain in some point in the future but it wasn’t Playgirl. But we were. I wish man. We were at this house. I wish I were ready for that. Yeah I’m not, I mean, there was, they did ask us, “Would you guys like to get in the pool?” And I was like, “I’m not in pool shape.” You gotta give this guy two to three months warning for pool shots. Maybe that’s what we need. Maybe we need to put one. Hey, if you. A Playgirl shoot on the calendar. If you set a date. That would be like our Marvel movie. Let’s just, baby steps. Pool, pool shoot. Oh, oh. And I’m talking about billiards. Okay, so step one. Three months from now we do a billiards shoot. Three months after that we do an actual liquid pool. Swimming pool. And then three months after that, Playgirl. That’s the pace, that’s where we’re headed. Okay. And then, a year from now, we start our OnlyFans. But it’s the two of us together. Oh I already have one. Oh, why you didn’t tell me about it? Well it’s the same thing about my TikTok. Nobody knows about it. So anyway. Until you start talking about it publicly. We were at this house. It wasn’t my house, everyone was like, “Oh now we know you got a secret room.” Anyway, it was a dumb little thing that was featuring the song that you sang on. Where you know, I opened up a secret door to a bar and you stumbled out and it was like, “Surprise, Link’s singing on my song.” People thought that was your house. Let me just say. It’s not your house. People were really happy to see that. It got over a million views. It’s all it takes Link is just for your best friend to stumble out of a bar to get a million views on TT. Yeah, you think? You know? You see what. I tagged you. See what happens when you include me in your solo projects. Okay well let me, let me. You can go look at the other views on the other videos as well. I have, I have. So there was also, I had to actually ask you in person, while we were there. “Is this your TikTok?” Like LinkNeal1. Right. And then like the actual. I joined too late to get LinkNeal. And then it was like Link Neal AKA snuggle baby is like, is what you actually call yourself. Elkhound Snugglebaby. What’d I say? You just left out the Elkhound part. Elkhound Snugglebaby? But yeah. Yeah. And you were like, “Yeah that’s me.” And no posts. No posts. At the time. I think you had like under 2000 followers at the time. So I have significantly. I think I had. Contributed. 800 followers. Oh really? Yeah I had under a thousand. Under a thousand. So I don’t know what you’re at, when we’re recording this you’re closing in on 10,000. But I’m sure it’s gonna go up. I can look at it. I have 8000 followers now. So you, you 10X’d me. Well it’s still happening, it’s still going and now we’re talking about it now, people know you got a TikTok but. LinkNeal, the number one apparently. If you want to follow nothing. I was looking at, I don’t actually. Could change. I don’t know if it was the comments or if it was a Tweet, I can’t remember, someone said, “Rhett put Link’s TikTok on blast.” And nobody knew it existed. Unless you really were digging. Link’s favorites, Link’s likes, liked videos are public. And so I get a text. So I texted you. At 9:36 at night which is pretty much guaranteed that I’m not gonna get that text usually. I was so surprised that you responded because I was like, he’s six minutes into shuteye right now. Right, exactly. Which is the name of our next song. Six minutes into shutdown, shuteye. Shutdown, exactly. It is a full shutdown, let’s be clear. It is a shutdown. I do have a gift you know? It’s not that I’m not an anxious person but it does not affect my ability to fall asleep or stay asleep and I’m so grateful for that. So yeah, I’m in bed. Getting in there a little bit later, snuggling up in my sheets. And I guess because I have my phone open, I just, the text came through. Oh, I caught you while you were grazing. Well I think I was, I was making sure that my alarm was set to the right time. Okay. Or something. All right. You know? Because I really try not to look at stuff right before I go to bed. It’s a bad habit. Because they say not to do that. They say. I don’t like to, I don’t like to plant thoughts in my head. I like to purge all thoughts? You could plant good thoughts in your head right before you go to bed. There’s apps for that. You. There’s whole videos you can listen to on YouTube where it’s like, sleep talk. And there’s people talking you to sleep. Boring stuff, that’s a good idea. Well that’s kind of what we did for the Society. “Let’s Dream About That”. When we did “Let’s Dream About That”. So yeah, you send me this text and it’s like, “People are saying that your TikTok likes are public.” And I just immediately had this physical reaction. You know when the blood drains out of your body. What did you have to be ashamed of? I’m just telling you what the physical response, not the logical response. First it was physical. The blood drained out of my body which feels weird when you’re lying down because what does it do, go out the butthole? What’s the lowest point of the lying down length? I don’t think the blood leaves the body. I think the lowest point of my prone body is the butt cheeks. You get some swollen butt cheeks like a baboon in heat but that’s about all. I think my butt cheeks were engorged with blood. Yep. As a result. Did you turn over and show your wife? Hey baby. Feel how hot my butt is. My butt is engorged right now. Is yours? So yeah it was just like this immediate, just jump to embarrassment. But you haven’t been looking at any dancing ladies or anything. Then well, yeah. You haven’t been liking it. Here’s what it felt like. This is what I likened it to. Okay, okay. It’s like, if you’re walking around a room, like let’s say you’re entering a room and you’re doing some sort of chores and stuff and you’re going about business and you’ve been in there for I don’t know, if it’s 10 minutes or an hour. Okay. And then all of a sudden, somebody speaks and you realize, oh somebody’s been in the room the whole time. Oh I didn’t see him, I cleaned right around him. You know what that feels like? It’s just like immediately, you’re running everything through your head or like. Oh what have I been saying? If you join a, like a video chat. Like a Zoom meeting. Oh yeah. Or a Google Meet. Right. On your computer and then nobody’s in the meeting yet. So then you open another tab and you start, “Well I might as well browse or do something.” You go on TikTok and start liking incriminating videos. Right, you do stuff like that and then all of a sudden you forget that you have an open webcam and video chat going when people start joining the meeting and then you’re like, it’s just you have this feeling of like, being exposed. It’s like, when you realize that you’ve been watched and you don’t know it. Right. It kind of feels like, oh my God, what? It’s not that you necessarily remember doing anything compromising. It’s just – I probably was. You were dancing like no one was watching. Exactly and so, I was like, you know, just scrambling. Scrambling to get on TikTok and I’m like, I didn’t even look at what my favorites were. Oh I did. Well I want to. That’s the first thing I did. That’s the exercise that I want to do. Well that’s the first thing I did before I called you. Oh really? Before I texted you. I texted you and then immediately went and looked at your likes. I’m scrambling, I’m scrambling like oh God, how do you privacy settings? Because when I signed up for TikTok, it’s just like everything else you sign up for. It’s okay, I’m just, I’m not planning on doing anything here. Right, just in case. And if you really gotta go all the way through all those settings. Just staking your claim. It’s like buying a square foot of the moon you know? That was going around for awhile. Yeah it’s just, it’s just a little trend. Naming a star after yourself. You do it just in case. Right. Just in case. Just in case we do populate the moon and you’re like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. “I have a certificate “that says I own a square foot of this.” But what you do. You’re not building this moon mall on my land. Exactly. But what you don’t do is you don’t go into the settings on your moon, what’s it called when you have a section? Tracked. Tracked. Moon tracked. Your moon tracked. You don’t go deep into the settings and you’re like, “Well I don’t want anybody to see “where I step around on my tracked.” It’s like who cares, it’s just going to be footprints. And you can just pretty much spin on one sore foot. You don’t really think about it. So I changed my privacy settings. And then you started looking at what people might have seen. Then I was like, “Let’s see what people have seen.” One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 21, 21 rows of three. So. 69. Is that 69? Oh 63. I wish it was 69. 63. I have favorited 69 things, that’s the first. Just scandalous things and then I’m like, “Oh crap, I gotta look through all of this.” So I’d like to look through this right now and you tell me, I have candidates for what could be the most incriminating stuff. Okay, well I saw one thing that I formed an opinion about. Yeah. I can. I know what you’re talking about. I can withhold it. Now first of all. But I’m also guilty of it. The first, really? The first, if I go all the way back to the beginning. The first thing I ever favorited on TikTok is a 30-million view video of Lizzo and of course, this was pre whatever she’s going through. That I don’t even know about. I just, I have an inkling that something happened with Lizzo and I don’t want to know about it. Okay. But yeah. Wow. At one point I favorited a Lizzo tweet. TT. TT, all right? Leave me out of it. Whatever it is or was or will be, leave me out of it. Yep. And then, a few more. There’s an overhead view of a Nutella jar and I’m like, “Oh no, this could be sexual.” Well from here it looks. People are sending me pictures of overhead views of peanut butter jars all the time. It looks like a vagina from here. I know but then I clicked on it and it’s just like, when you get to end, a Nutella jar, you fill it up and shake it up and then you’ve got a nice, a nice little Nutella milk. Oh, okay. So I was like . All right, that’s fine. And then. But I think it has 70 million views because it sort of looks like a vagina. No, it has 70,000 views. Oh okay, well guess people don’t care anymore. Yeah it’s just, is your jar of Nutella almost empty? Well, you brew your coffee into it. Oh because you gotta melt it. And then you steam your cream and you put that in it and you got a Nutella jar latte. I was like you know what? I’m gonna save this because, I might never do that and I never did. Well you know why you didn’t do it? Because you gotta have collections. Okay. You gotta save to collections. I don’t know that. That’s where you save a video instead of just liking it. Instead of liking it. So you would save that to either, categories could include ones that look like vaginas, or cool Nutella hacks. Okay. Or maybe just food. I would probably put that in just food. A lot. Which is one I have. A lot of mine are hip hop culture related stuff that I don’t even. Like producers, footage of the first time that Timbaland played a beat for Jay-Z and it was caught on camera or stuff like that. Or Frank Zappa talking about his guitar style. Or Bernard Purdie talking about his drumming technique. Okay. And maybe Trevor Noah talking about why he decided to leave “The Daily Show” and then of course, I thought I would have many more of these but like, middle-aged men showing you how to stretch stuff. I have a whole category of that. I need to make a category of that. I just call that body. Body. Body. And then I start. My body. The first thing that I started to get embarrassed by was, I would favorite or like videos featuring me. Yep, I saw that. That’s what I saw. So. That’s what I noticed. Just little, little moments from this show. That’s what I’ve noted. That I found. Yeah, like the story of me crying on my wife’s shoulder. I was like you know what? I want to be a fan of myself for that. Well hold on, is that really why you liked it? Because I’m guilty of this as well. If you look at my likes. I honestly don’t know why I liked it. I occasionally, well actually, I have a habit, if not an obligatory compulsion to, when something from the Mythical account, or the Mythical Pods account pops up. Comes across. On my FYP. Yeah. I just like it because I’m like, this is our. Support. Support your own cause. This is our business. It’s not voting for yourself in a you know, the class election. Right. That’s tacky. And occasionally, I’ll like one of my own videos if I feel like it needs a boost. So it’s not a judgment of my own video, like oh I do like this video. It’s more like, maybe liking this video will help it do better. That’s not why I did it. I did it because I felt like that was a special moment and I wanted to, I really liked it. I actually liked it. I mean, sometimes I watch some of the stuff we do and I’m like, “Well damn, if I wasn’t me, I’d still like those guys.” And so then you like it? I mean, yeah I liked it. I liked it. There’s some Merle Haggard clips in here. I liked a clip of Wynonna Judd telling everybody she’s okay. I really liked that. Yeah. I was like, “Wow I’m glad I liked this 100-year-old “Appalachian woman just talking.” Well she’s 87 but her voice is amazing. It’s great, yeah. Yeah you gotta microwave, heat your artery and just share the cup inner. Cut a teaspoon full of Jell-O, I like meal and lamb. I just love that voice. I like that, she reminded me of my nanny. If my nanny was real saucy. So I had to like that. I wasn’t embarrassed at all about that. And then let’s see, I’m gonna say the thing I was most embarrassed about. I was like, “Oh, this is kind of embarrassing. “I got this trippy Alice In Wonderland animation thing.” That just totally freaks you out when you look at it and like, I was like, “Man this is cool.” Why would you be embarrassed by that? I don’t know, it was just like, “What are you? “Some sort of hippy dude just staring at your phone?” Well here’s the thing, you avoided. I was searching for what I was going to be. You avoided the most obvious, embarrassing thing. I’m coming back to the most embarrassing thing. Well no I’m saying, I think the most incriminating thing would’ve been is if you had a hot lady. Right, right. You know, you know. Shaking her money maker. Right. The oh, the. You know? Most beautiful women from hip hop videos if I was gonna stay in the genre and then I could defend it. I have none of that. So yeah, I started to feel good but then I had this one. Did you see this one? I didn’t spend a whole lot of time. This is the one that I was like, “Oh is this the one that’s gonna get me?” It’s, I don’t know. It’s these. What in the world? It’s this hippy couple. Why did you like this? That’s, I mean it says that she’s a yoga teacher but it’s this guy with his shirt off. This feels like that love, what is that love spasm video that went viral? On Goop, the Goop video? Well it was a TikTok and it was like a girl who was like, he’s having a love fit or something. And she hugs him and shakes him and it’s like the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen. Oh yeah, it’s very cringey. This feels like you’re in that territory man. The girl, the yoga girl is wearing, she’s wearing a toga-type thing. Like a cheetah toga and the guy’s just wearing shorts. It’s a pretty wide shot though. It’s a wide shot and it’s, I don’t know who these people are but it’s called, “Intimate Reconnection” and it just goes through all of these things that they’re basically cuddling and tickling and talking to each other. Were you trying to get tips? Well I was afraid that it’d just seem like I was just gawking at this couple who were just cuddling and tickling. Well that’s what it seems like you’re doing. And giggling with each other. Yeah and it goes through steps of different things for intimate reconnection. One, non-sexual melting hug. Two, synchronized circular breathing. But they’re like, I mean, they’re scantily clad and they’re just like. They’re doing something that I wouldn’t film or put on TikTok. But do you remember when you liked this, the reason? Was it oh this is sweet? Yeah. Or I need to remember this so I can do these things. Number three. With Christy. One minute appreciation game. So you really watched this video, it’s quite a long video. I’m telling you now what’s in it. Number four make each other laugh. Number five, discuss feeling using active listening. So it’s basically just a video of these people like, connecting intimately but non-sexually but just a casual user would be like, “Oh you’re a peeping Tom on these hippies “having sexual connection.” Having a little you know, foreplay. I don’t think watching a TikTok video can make you a peeping Tom because you’re watching something that someone put on the internet to be watched. Yeah but when you’re looking through. If you went to this person’s house and looked in their window. What are people, I know. That would be a different thing. I know, we’ve never done that. No, no especially not in 8th grade with your girlfriend. Well it was your idea though. No it wasn’t. No it wasn’t. I feel really bad about it because my wife, Christy, you know her. She had a peeping Tom back in high school. Well high school, I’m just saying, middle school is the cutoff. You should never do it but if you. Right, we were in middle school. As a person going through crazy hormones and you don’t know what’s going on. You don’t know which way’s up. I am not defending. I’m not defending it but I’m saying that if it becomes an adult activity then that’s like a mental problem. Is what I’m saying, that’s like a crime. But I’m saying like two 13-year-olds looking in a window. And we were a long ways away. Oh we were behind a wood pile. We were behind a wood pile. It was on the other side of the yard. We didn’t go into the yard, we didn’t stand outside the window. Then her bedroom. We were 80 yards away. Her bedroom was on the second floor. We could not have thrown a football at this woman. And hit the window. No, not even close. And if the window was open. It would’ve landed halfway, like at the swingset. And we didn’t see. Nothing. She folded some clothes. She folded some clothes, she was folding clothes. She was folding clothes, that’s all that happened. The most enticing part was like, ooh is that underwear she’s folding? Is she folding underwear? That was the discussion that was happening. It wasn’t right. It was wrong. It was very wrong. It was wrong. We condemn it on every possible level. We condemn it on every level, from every angle. But we were 13. Help us out Jenna. No. Come on Jenna. I don’t see, I think it’s fine. It’s fine that we move on is what you’re saying. Let’s just move on. Let’s just move on, I’m sorry I brought it up. I thought that. You were young. You were teenagers, it’s fine. Yeah, we were barely in eighth grade. Right, right right right right yep. Yeah I thought what was going to incriminate us was going to be me watching hippies cuddle on TikTok. Okay, what else? This is it man. This is the thing that scared me the most but yeah, the reason why I saved it is because, I want to do this. Okay well. And this is a good reminder to do this. Long story short, you didn’t have anything to really be incriminated by. And you found that out at the same time. We were both simultaneously looking at my favorites. No, I didn’t scroll. I looked and I was like, “Oh there’s a, he liked a video of himself. “He’ll figure it out.” That’s kind of what I said and I just, I went onto. I liked a couple videos of myself. The other one I liked was my dad singing happy birthday to me on “Dispatches From Myrtle Beach”. Well that’s a sweet thing to like. Because now I have that you know? Remember it forever. Right. You can put it into a collection of times that people sing happy birthday to you as well. Yeah and I have it. Too focused. Yeah, I have it right next to a video from MURDA ON THE BEATZ talking about his come up. Such a strange world. Well I’m gonna talk to you about music. But I was so relieved. From a different perspective in a little bit. I have something else to share with you but first. You got nothing on me. We want to remind you that. You can’t catch me with my pants down. I wasn’t done, you can’t catch me with my pants down. Yeah, we’re 25 minutes in. He’s not done. Because I don’t look at TikTok with my pants down. We’re gonna let it burn out. It’s like a candle. I have nothing to hide. It’s like one of those candles. Sometimes it’s like, Link is like those trick birthday candles that you keep trying to blow out. It’s ’cause my brain works slow. So what I was about to say was, you might know. I’m done. That Link and Cotton Candy Randy have a, they don’t get along. Fraught. I do get along with Cotton Candy Randy. Relationship. And we’ve tried a number of forms of you know, working this out. We met with a therapist, that didn’t work and now it has moved to meeting with an actual legal mediator before it goes to an actual court case maybe. Right. So we had that mediation event with a real, real life mediator and things got a little bit wild. Again this is exclusively on The Mythical Society, that’s where we handle our problems with Randy. Right. It’s available for first, second and third degree. Mythicalsociety.com and also, we want to remind you that if you enjoy this podcast or even if you don’t. Well no, if you do. Rate and review it. Rate and review it, wherever you rate and review podcasts. Give us a glowing review. Ear Biscuits is supported by Rosetta Stone. I took three years of French in high school. And? I can say oui. To that, you can say yes to that. I think because it was school. Yeah. I wasn’t motivated. I slept through most of it. Somehow I still made As all three years. Good job. But I didn’t learn it. I wasn’t doing something right. Bonjour. In comes Rosetta Stone, the most trusted language learning program. Available on desktop or as an app that truly immerses you in the language you want to learn. No grades involved. They’ve used trusted experts for 30 years with millions of users and 25 languages offered. Some of which are Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Dutch and Arabic. And it’s built for fast language acquisition. By immersing you in many ways, by having no English translation so you really learn to speak, listen and think in that language. Probably the best part is Rosetta Stone’s built in TruAccent feature that gives you feedback on your pronunciation. So you can learn to speak like a pro. It’s an amazing value. A lifetime membership has all 25 languages for any and all trips or language needs in your life. It’s a $299 program but with our code, you can get it for just $179. Don’t put off learning that language. There’s no better time than right now to get started. For a very limited time, you can get Rosetta Stone’s lifetime membership for 40% off. That’s $179 for unlimited access to 25 language courses for the rest of your life. Redeem your 40% off at rosettastone.com/ear today. Before we get into what I learned about my son’s musical taste, I would like to share a piece of information that I learned. There is a thrift store in Wales that has asked people to stop donating quote, “Used and unused sex toys.” A charity-run thrift store, this is from. Really? Upi.com, a charity-run thrift store in Wales is asking supporters to stop donating their used and unused sex toys. The Barnardo’s Store which supports the children’s charity issued a statement asking donors to be careful what they bring to share. Could those of you who kindly donate please be mindful that we are a children’s charity and as such, we have a range of ages on our wonderful volunteer team. So there’s kids. Oh God. Receiving the things that are given. We therefore ask that you refrain from donating your used and unused marital aids. Oh cool. We would like to remind you. Marital aids. That the branch has CCTV, so that these items can be tracked back to their owners. Thank you. This is. There’s layers to this. Yeah may I? Before we get into the specifics of what’s happening here, I’d like to ask, what’s the first time you saw a sex toy? Because apparently this is the answer for a lot of children working in Wales. In person? Yeah. Well, first time I saw a sex toy in person was when I was working at a thrift shop. In Wales. In Wales. The first time in person, I mean honestly, it was probably, after I was married. When I bought one. When I know when that was ’cause I was there. When we bought the, we each bought a green worm. Yeah, I don’t think that’s the actual title. That’s just what we called it. Yeah, that’s the first time I saw a sex toy in person was, me and Rhett in a sex shop buying what we called green worms. The same vibrator. Hey. Two different vibrators. Right. But also, right around the same time, we bought the same television. When we first got married. Right. We did research. One guy does research on something, the other guy’s like, “What TV are you getting?” It’s like I did the research, get this TV. Why would I get a different television? What jam box are you getting to play tunes in your bedroom? This one. Right, why would I get a different jam box. It’s like he’s done all the work. We went to the store and we sort of collectively did research and we selected a small, green. Worm. Vibrator. And our wives were, we were in Charleston, South Carolina. We talked about this on Sextember right? The girls were coming into town to meet us ’cause we were traveling. Yeah. And we thought it would be a funny, we thought it’d be a fun surprise. In Charleston. with a little bit funny. Yeah, a little shrimp and grits they say. I don’t know, just trying something. Yeah, I don’t. I don’t want the word grit involved. It’s like the opposite of lube. Yeah, yeah I’ll work on that. Shrimp and lube maybe. Eew, okay yeah. For you. Not for me. You don’t use lube? I don’t have a, what I would call a shrimp. Oh okay. Well speaking of that. Which I don’t use. My goal in buying, I don’t know if I told you this. Is I felt like. It kind of looked like a dragon tail. I felt like the green. Like the kid’s show. I felt like the rules for the first vibrator you ever buy for you and your wife is A, it should be smaller than your own penis. B, it should not be the same color as your own penis. No. Because I mean hey, let’s mix things up a little bit. Right. Therefore, green. Could’ve been an alien’s dick for all we know. I’m talking neon green. Yeah yeah it was so bright. It may have been glow in the dark. I don’t know if I ever tested that. I like the lights on. I think I did, yeah and it wasn’t. Hey, that buddy lasted a long time. I don’t know where it is, I guess it’s at a thrift store somewhere. In Wales, yeah. Because I don’t have it anymore. They’re both. And I definitely donated it. Plopped on a shelf in Wales. Here’s the thing, I think that this is, I think this thrift shop has great intentions. I think they’re seeing this all wrong. I thought that they were gonna focus on the immediate, like the obvious issue which is like a sanitary one. Hygiene. Something’s been inside your body, it doesn’t need to potentially go inside somebody else’s body. However, I think we can all agree that you might buy utensils from a. Thrift shop. Thrift shop and those have been in people’s bodies. Right. You might buy a mug. How many mugs, those mugs have been inside people’s bodies. Yes it’s the other end, but it’s inside their body. Their mouth. This mug goes into my mouth. Just the rim of it. That’s the part that goes in your mouth if you drink out of it. That’s true. What about a rectal thermometer? Would you buy? Well now we’re back to the other end. A rectal thermometer at a thrift shop? Is it because we are worried about STDs or something? I mean these things can be washed very, very well. They can be completely sanitized. Yeah but you don’t want the volunteer children to be doing that. So again, so that’s what I thought they were going to be talking about was the sanitation. Right. But they’re talking about the fact that the kids are receiving these and then it probably creates difficult conversations. Don’t say the kids are receiving these by the way. Okay, the kids are seeing them and potentially. Handling. Handling them. Preparing. But I just think there’s so many other ways to describe sex toys in ways that could be fun. You don’t have to think of it as, think of all the things you could’ve done with that green worm. Okay. You got a thing that buzzes that hard, multiple speeds. I think it could be a. Looks like a dragon tail. It could be a coffee frother. Maybe, maybe. It could be an itchy ear fixer. Well the. One of the. I’m not done. Okay. It could be a, I guess I was done. One of the most famous vibrators of all time is that Hitachi. You know the Hitachi, it’s big. Who’s clearing their throat over there? Me. It’s like we said Hitachi and Jamie said. I actually know the CEO of that company. Oh really? Yeah. So if you guys ever need any. Well I’ve been through a few. The first one we ever got was, we had to plug that sucker in the wall. You could hang it off the back of a boat and right across the lake. When you’ve gotta plug a vibrator into the wall, I mean that is a serious thing. You gotta get your extension cord game going. And I will say, by the time we had upgraded to the Hitachi. What a weird flex by the way. I know the CEO of Hitachi vibrators. I know, it is weird. You know the CEO of all of Hitachi? Because Hitachi had sold it to Vibratex. Oh okay. Oh yes. Old sky. You know about the dealings of these companies. Yeah. The business. We’ll talk later. Yes. Jamie comes from a, you know. Oh she worked on the sex podcast. For years. Yeah I went to a lot of shows. Okay yeah yeah. Which I don’t know, it wasn’t the top of your resume but you buried the lead. You know? Was it not the top of my resume? I didn’t actually look at your. I know, I was like, Kiko hired me. It probably was the top of your resume. Well by the time I got the one that plugged into the wall, I had. Kiko hired you. Kiko was like, “Oh they’ll love this.” Ah I’m just, I don’t know. Well we’re talking, it’s just like. Yeah but like, what ends up happening typically is the conversation stops and then I begin to talk again and then you begin to talk in the middle of me beginning to talk. It’s cool if you still got something to say but it would be nice to just let me finish what I’m gonna say and then get back to it in a gap. Like there’s a. Well I have something to say that is what we were just talking about. Usually the time to say that is in. Just slow your brain down a little bit man. Is in the gap between. Just slow your brain down. What other people are saying. Most people are like listening to what other people are saying and then there’s a gap and they’re like, “Oh, that’s where I get in.” I get in in the gap. Weird flex, that’s all I’m saying. I’m sorry, I’ll keep trying but we need to meet in the middle. Yeah, meet in the middle of the gap between the things that I’m saying. Right here, see. Then you move on. Here’s this thing I’m saying, here’s the things I’m saying and then there’s a gap and that’s where you get in and then I do the same to you. It’s a beautiful arrangement, it’s called conversation. It works great on a podcast. By the time we had upgraded to something that you plug in the wall, I had fully embraced a vibrator that was significantly larger than my own penis. That was all I was trying to say and by getting at this point, now the third time trying to say it. Listen. It doesn’t land quite as well. I’m sorry. I know you’re, I know it rubs you the wrong way. I’ll try harder. You think I should enjoy it, is that what you’re saying? I should learn to like it. No I get it. I’m not doing it on purpose. Are we done with this story or is there more to explore here? Yeah, I totally broke his spirit. Damn. I’m just saying, I think that was it. I don’t think there’s anything else to explore here. I’m open to anything that you want to explore. Oh that’s what, oh that’s what you’re doing. Oh let me think about it. It’d probably help if you started talking about the next thing. Yeah right. That what’s really, that gives me a sense of urgency. It seems to really turn you on. Oh we’re done. Ah shit I had one more thing. Right, yep. Yep. I don’t. You’re not, okay. So I, back to music. I wanted to talk about something that I have, and it’s good that you talked to Shepherd individually. Because you know, Shepherd’s got great musical taste. Even as a young kid, I very quickly picked up on the fact that he wasn’t really interested in musical trends. He wasn’t really interested in what his peers liked. When I found out that he liked Bread, you know? And he’s in middle school, I’m like okay yes. And I think I told you about the playlist that he had called Cool Songs which he started when he was like, nine. And added to it and it became a soundtrack for our home in a lot of ways. Because he’s a great DJ. Cool Songs. He knows what, he just knows good songs. You introduce him to a genre and he immediately gravitates towards the good choices in that genre. So like when I introduced him to old country. Right. He gravitated towards Glen Campbell. Right which is. You know what I’m saying? Strangely specific. But pretty awesome. Right but kind of signals that you really, like Glen Campbell is kind of operating on another level. And I wasn’t offended that he didn’t really, you know, latch onto Merle. He has a number of Merle songs in his Cool Songs list but I appreciated that he wasn’t just, “Oh I just like these songs because my dad likes them.” Right. He’s like, “I have actually examined this genre “and come to this specific conclusion “that Glen Campbell is special.” Well it’s the thing that doesn’t happen as readily now. I don’t feel like, that you know, with popular music, you just kind of get on the bandwagon and listening to what your, there’s always music in our house but like, growing up, the music that we listened to was, there was a lot less of it. And of course, the accessibility was much more limited. But we found ourselves going back. We liked our parents’ music, I mean with your parents, it went all the way back to Frankie Valli. Doo-wop type stuff. Because my parents were 10 years older than your parents. You had an appreciation for that and the Beach. Elvis. The Beach Boys and Elvis and but then, you would also have an appreciation for Billy Joel which was still preceded us. The stuff that we like the most. But the thing that we did not do that Shepherd is doing now is first of all, I’m happy that this is happening because the idea that my kid’s musical taste is too overly influenced by my taste is not an appealing thing to me. I would be a little bit kind of like hurt, to be honest if they didn’t like any of the stuff that I liked. But if my kid’s musical taste is in complete alignment with me then the whole. That’s strange. Individuation process hasn’t happened right? And so I’ve kind of been expecting there to be some sort of you know. Branching. A test of, taste of rebellion. To actively, I think it’s important for teenagers to actively like things that their parents actively dislike. I just feel like that’s a really important. Individuation. Developmental thing. You know what I mean? And music is a safer place to do that. We actually talked about this some on “Car Biscuits” which if you don’t know, on the Mythical Society, we drive in the car and we have a mini version of this type of conversation but it’s much less structured and I never interrupt you. That’s right. It’s beautiful over there. What was my point? Yeah this concept of like, controlled, like a safe area for, not only individuation but simulated rebellion you know? We listened to gangster rap that we didn’t want our parents to know about and we were exposed to things that otherwise we would never have learned and some things that, particularly misogynistic concepts that we never latched onto but we were like, it was like oh this is, we shouldn’t be listening to this. And it’s actually, I was listening to this. There was unhealthy part of it. A psychologist talk about this concept and I think he said, “It is perfectly.” And this will make you feel good parents. It is perfectly normal from the ages of 13 to 24 I think he said, for your children to think you’re an idiot. You know? To just think that you’re an idiot and it’s, he was, I’m paraphrasing and probably getting some of this wrong but the idea seemed to be that historically, this was a time for children to sort of learn who you can trust and also, to forcibly kind of be pushed out to go and start their own thing. You know, we’re talking hunter gatherer days. Okay. Because these communities could only get so big, like 150 or so and they needed to start a new one. My cave dad is a dumbass. And basically it’s like you go through puberty and one of the things that ends up happening is you hate your parents. I’m not saying my kids hate me. Your club work is stupid dad. There’s this idea of like, I’m not going to like everything that they say, I’m not gonna like everything they do, I’m not gonna like everything they like. The pelts you like are stupid. But then when you get back to age of 24, approximately, is when you kind of are like, “Oh my parents were actually, “they actually knew what they were talking about. “I appreciate them.” So if you’re waiting for your kid. Now that I need to move back in with them. Yeah right, so if you’re waiting for your kid to express appreciation, apparently it doesn’t happen until on average, about 24. But back to Shepherd. So he’s got a group of friends and they play music together and. Like a band, or they listen to music? Like a band. And so. And he plays keyboard? He plays guitar. So Shepherd plays piano, violin and guitar. Oh. But in this band he plays guitar. Okay. And they’re not really a band. They don’t have a show yet, they don’t have any original songs or anything like that. They’re just like guys that get together when they can all get together in a garage and play music. I’m sure it’s great. But the thing that they really do is they talk about music and they connect over music and there’s this. That’s cool. Sort of method and philosophy that it’s unspoken because to speak about it is inherently uncool. So I started hearing Shepherd talk about his musical taste and some of the stuff that they were into and so I was like, “Shepherd, you’ve gotta talk me through this.” You’ve gotta talk me through the way that you guys approach this because A it’s fascinating and B, I want to talk about it on my podcast. And so, he was like, “Well you can’t talk about specifics “because that kind of ruins the whole thing.” Which is exactly the point I’m about to explore and that is, they have this thing where this group of friends will quote, “Put you onto” a band right? Yeah, yeah. That’s the term that they use. Yeah. Put you onto this band and there is, essentially clout in finding a band that nobody else in the group knows about that everyone else in the group likes. That’s the Venn diagram. Yeah totally. That’s when you have succeeded. Totally. So you can’t put somebody onto a band that everyone knows about. You can’t put someone onto a band that is super popular. It’s always like, so how many, just to put things in terms of Spotify monthly listeners? And so he starts showing me some of these bands and we’re talking about 3200 monthly listeners. These are small, these are small bands and some of them are like, people making music. I was like, “When did this album come out?” He’s like, 2006. It’s like, it’s not. Really? And it’s, so I’m what are these? And it’s all kind of like, I would say broadly emo. Ooh, that didn’t work. Well when I say emo. Emo goes into metal but it also goes into more like clean guitar but screamo is kind of a form of emo. You know? These are very emotional. It’s all very emotional. So this guy’s screaming at the top of his lungs but what he’s saying is really, you know, it’s emotional. Like what? I burnt my hand on my tea kettle? It’s more just about, he showed me. Again, I can’t point it out. I can’t put it on blast, I can’t ruin it. This is “Ear Biscuits”. You can’t direct. I can say genres. You can’t direct people to an artist because then it will get more streams. I can’t ruin it. It has to be small but good. But you’ve listened to it. I got him to play. And in your opinion. Oh I hate it. It’s bad. Oh yeah, I hate it. I actively hate it but I loved that I hated it. You know what I’m saying? Oh yeah. I was like there he is. He’s actively listening to something that is objectively bad. Okay. This makes me feel like a good dad. Was it amateur or was it just a genre that you did not like? Because you also, you also have the capability of saying. I can appreciate things. There’s skill here in execution. Great question. But it’s not for me. Does it suck or is it just not for you? Well first of all, most bands that have been playing for awhile that are still kind of hovering around 10,000 or less monthly listeners, there’s a reason for it. It didn’t connect. It doesn’t have a mass appeal right? And a lot of times that does mean yes, it’s not that great from a technical standpoint. He plays some stuff and I’m like, there’s a lot of. In fact it was so, I find myself dadding real hard a lot of times but he plays this thing and I found myself, I think I told you this on “Car Biscuits”. He plays it in, I was like, “You can hear the imperfections in this. “You can hear all the mistakes in this right?” Just making sure, as a musician, you can hear all the mistakes. Like the timing mistakes and the missed notes. Okay. And he’s like, “Yeah dad, that’s part of it.” So they’re not playing to a metronome, a lot of these bands. In fact. It’s very, it sounds like you’re describing a demo. Yes, it all sounds very demo and just a few genres to throw out there. Of course screamo but scrans? I don’t know. As a DJ, you need to be ready for this. Crust. Crust? What is? I don’t even know. Do you have a description for these? He’s 15, he couldn’t really give me one. He would play. Oh you’re not reading a list here, this is what he told you. Scrams and crust are the things I remember. And he would play some things and it was like, it all sounds pretty similar to me. Some moves a little bit more heavy metal, like oh this is metal. There’s a double kick happening here. There might be some screaming and then you kind of move into this thing where somebody’s a little bit more like this. And it’s like. Okay. Clean guitar and stuff. ♪ Ow I stubbed my toe ♪ What, did you just say, English? I said the same thing that you said about stubbing the toe. ♪ Ow I stubbed my toe ♪ Oh I stubbed my toe. I said I burnt my hand. ♪ Oh I burned my hand. ♪ On a tea kettle. On a tea kettle. Because I would think that they’re like, British. I’m not doing it justice. These are British kids. Some of them are, a lot of them aren’t. And the thing is, is that, so I was like, “Okay well I know that there is a band “that is a pretty hardcore metal band.” That are Mythical Beasts, and I don’t want to put them on blast. I just know that there’s a hardcore metal band that are Mythical Beasts. When they say put them on blast, what do you mean by that? Because I don’t think you’re using that right. I’m probably not. I don’t want to put you guys onto them. I don’t want to call them out. That is not what putting something on blast means. I don’t want to call them out. I don’t want to draw attention to it. Okay. What does put on blast mean? I think that means that you’re calling somebody out in a negative way. Okay. Right? Yes, yes. Well, technically, by calling them out, it would be potentially negative for them. I don’t want these two dads to be like, “This band likes us.” Because I don’t. Go over there and tell them. You know what I’m saying? How much they suck. Because they have an image to maintain, they can’t be outed. I love the fact that without saying. As Mythical Beasts. Who it is, now there’s probably, a whole bevy of these bands who think we’re talking about them. I hope so, that’s encouraging. That’s better. So I knew, and these dudes are super hardcore and dress up in these ridiculous outfits. Now don’t use judgey terminology. I mean they just look, they look. Try again, they dress up in what? Evil. In interesting outfits. Good. They look evil on purpose. Right. So I was like, I’m gonna play these guys for Shepherd. Oh, and so I played it and now these guys have you know. Success. They are successful. Okay. This is what they do for a living, they’re still doing it. They have hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners, whatever. I don’t know who you’re talking about by the way but go ahead. And he, I play it and he’s like, he’s kind of like listening or whatever. He’s like. The wheels are turning. He can’t like it. He’s like, a little too clean. Little too clean. And what he meant by that was they were too technically good. Talented. Too talented. Which is a whole, which opened up a whole different avenue of conversation because I was like. It sounds like punk though, what he’s describing. It’s more about. I would say it’s broadly punk. It’s more about the energy and the ethos than the execution. It’s the anti of it. It’s the anti of it because I was like, “Oh I was with some friends recently.” When we were with our buddies in Colorado and we started listening, we listened to so much music that weekend but we listened, we went on a little stint listening to very technical metal which has never been something that we’re into. Right. But when they kind of explained it to us that ultimately, metal is just nerds playing music. To be specific. It is musical nerds who are really, really technical. Yeah. Playing really, really technical music. Time signature changes and all kinds of things that are just technically hard to do and hard to memorize and hard to keep up with. Yeah. And he, we kind of connected on that level but that’s the not cool form of the thing that he’s into right now which is the, you gotta find the thing that nobody knows about, that your group of friends will like and then you gotta make sure that it doesn’t really get outside of your group of friends because then it’s not cool anymore. Yeah, yeah. Yeah you don’t want your favorite band to get successful, it’s that whole principle. Right. So it’s not necessarily a new phenomenon but the thing that’s new for me is that he’s actively into something that I actively dislike and like I said, I’m into that. Yeah, with, I never had that with my kids. With Lily, or I mean, Lando is at a point where people are asking what kind of music you’re into and he’s you know, he’s 13 but he’s like, he’s into a lot of things but music is not in the top 10 of his list of things that he’s passionate about. So he doesn’t have a quick answer for I’m into this type of music and then he’s like, he’s starting to feel bad about it. Maybe I can. I was like, “But dude, you do like a lot of music. “You know a lot of music.” All the music that we play in the house from all types of genres, now they’re all my genres, right? So it’s like, it’s kind of what you were saying. He has this foundation of knowledge but then he hasn’t really turned the corner and I told him, I didn’t really turn the corner in terms of what I really liked until you know, around his age or. And also, you went through a phase of not liking music. Right, right. That’s a really important part of the history. Yeah because my stepsister. Solo baby. Liked music. I think when you, for your DJ thing, if you want to, there could be a moment during a set where there’s a little biography. You could get Jenna to do it. Jenna reads it in her storytelling voice. Okay, yeah yeah yeah. And it’s like, once upon a time, Elkhound Snugglebaby didn’t even like music. It’s a great story. Oh yeah, like a little immersive. Because his stepsister did. Biopic moment. And then you can take some liberties with the history. It depends on how badass you want to seem. And then he, you don’t want to say you killed your stepsister. You don’t want to say anything like that because you’re not trying to go for that image. You took her music from her. Yeah, right. And now she doesn’t like music and you do. I don’t know, we gotta work on the specifics of the story but I’m just saying it’s an option. Well I mean, my mom divorced her dad. Yeah, that’s the part we don’t want. I don’t want to bring those vibes up. And I took music with me. Okay. Well now you’re talking. And with the voice. We split things up, I got the music. And DJ Elkhound Snugglebaby got the music. Right, right. He does not talk to her anymore because she doesn’t have the music. I took the music. Yeah. There it is. I mean, Lily. The thing that I love is when my kids ask me for, to turn them onto something. Like Lily started listening to A Tribe Called Quest and then she comes home from school and she’s like, “I’m just really loving Tribe Called Quest.” I played some Beastie Boys for her and she liked that and I’m taking her back to the airport and I’m playing a little bit more and she’s like, “Make me a playlist.” And I’m like, “Yes, yes.” So I got to make her a 90s rap, early 90s, which ended up being like a 90s East Coast, like I stayed in this Tribe Called Quest perimeter and you know, started to get into some Digable Planets if you remember them. And some other bands like that. So I made her a playlist and then, two weeks later, Lincoln sends me a text and he’s like, “A friend of mine invited me to, “to go the Freddie Gibbs show “down here on campus.” And Freddie Gibbs is like this, one of my favorite rappers. Who I found just in the past couple of years but he has a number of amazing albums. I was like, and he knew that I was really into Freddie Gibbs but he’s not into that type of rap really. So I was like, first of all I was like, “Maybe I need to come down there “and go to the show with you.” But I didn’t say that, I was like, I’ll let you do your own thing. But I made this playlist and he listened to it and then when we went down and visited him, he was like, “I went to the show last night. “You could’ve come down here a day earlier, “you could’ve gone with me.” I was like, “Well I kind of felt like it needed, “you needed to be your thing. “You don’t want your dad there in this small club “where everybody can see everybody “and I’m there on the front row.” But I gave him a primer on Freddie Gibbs to get him ready for the show and he was talking about which songs he liked. It was like, I actually knew some of these and then he had a great time at the show. He told me all about it, he showed me the videos that he took and then the next day, we’re walking around town and Lincoln goes, I wasn’t. He was walking with Christy and Lando and I heard it, he turned around and he said, Freddie Gibbs. And then I turned around and there he was, walking down the street and I went right up to him and give him some dap. I gave him some dap. But you didn’t get a picture. I regret that I did not, I feel like I could’ve got a lot of clout from a selfie with Freddie Gibbs. Yeah. So I’m. Missed opportunity. I’m kicking myself, yeah. Because I really would’ve liked that. But I don’t want to glamorize you know, dealing the powder you know? That’s a factor. I don’t want to endorse any of the cocaine gang. Is that what he raps about? Yeah. So I got. Bashily, he raps about that. Yeah you seem surprised. It’s hip hop. I mean, come on. Okay. Get with the program. Okay. You know? Don’t make me put you on blast. It’s hard to rhyme with fentanyl. Yeah. It’s hard to rhyme with fentanyl. Yeah, see? So he probably doesn’t include that. But you know, maybe he’s just playing a character. I don’t know this guy’s personal life. I just really like, I like his style. Yeah, well, and I think that. I like his vocal style. I’m a huge fan. If you have to – Next time I’ll do it, I’ll get a selfie. If you have to choose one thing, connecting with your kids over something is definitely. I’m glad I have that. If you have to choose one, you want that. You don’t want the thing where you’re disconnected. Right. It’s just, I was, I was kind of waiting because I was like, you know, it was like something we had. You’ve got the things where oh my parent’s music means a lot to me. I still like all, Merle Haggard’s my favorite artist of all time and it’s only because of my dad. Right and the Lionel Richie obsession for me started with my mom. Yeah. And I think that like, that’s a beautiful thing. But then yeah we had those things that like, you know at our house, we’re constantly playing music. Gotta have your own stuff. Right, and there is the music that we all agree on and it spans a lot of genres. We play a lot of music but then when Shepherd starts playing his music in this little bubble now that he’s found. Yeah. It’s like turn that off. I like having the. Yeah, you got it. I don’t want to listen to that dad moment because I feel like it’s just this formative thing. You want to have the music that you’re all listening to. Right. But if we had to play, we in the 311 and if I had’ve been playing, if you’re playing 311 in your room too loud, you need your dad to tell you to turn it off. You need that moment. Yeah. You gotta fight for your right to party man. My mom threw away my best porno mag. Yep, yep right. See. There has to be some opposition. Porn you know, they’ll probably find that on their own as well but that’s not what I’m. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m just quoting the Beastie Boys, that’s all I’m doing. That’s, you gotta fight for your right to party. Right, yeah. You can’t show up at the party and your dad’s there. Yeah yeah, right. You know? Lincoln likes a different form of hip hop than I do. Lily loves David Bowie. That’s cool. I like the idea of David Bowie but I’m not a fan of his music. Once you sit down and listen to him, it’s hard to. It’s not for me. Fully commit. Right, he’s not for me. Yeah. I have something. I’m kind of Bread at heart. Yeah yeah yeah. I have something, just a quick thing to land us here. Okay. I know you don’t like it when I ask you numbers questions. But I’m not gonna talk about how long you think a quickie is, nothing sexual at all. Okay. I mean, we could probably find a way to make this sexual as we always do. We’re human. What do you think, I want you to understand. And want you to know that the world record for stacking watermelons on top of each other. On top of each other. Was recently set. How many do you think it was? Well first of all, we’re talking nose to tail? Are we talking side to side? Horizontal or vertical? A single stack of watermelons on top of each other. Yeah but are the watermelons oriented vertically? Yeah, well how else would you stack watermelons? Because that’s where the vine comes off and. Creates a little bit of a base and if you get enough of them that are flat in that part, I just imagine. You can’t stack them like this because they’re gonna just roll off. It’s just two convex surfaces on top of each other. Well a lot of them grow in a patch and there’s a, there’s a flatter side. And I’m not talking about those square, you know how you can force a watermelon to grow as a cube? Yeah. I’m talking about free-grown watermelons. And I guess they have to be of a certain size to count. Are they little pumpkin sized? They’re this big. Oh crap, they’re full big ones. One, two, I mean three seems like it would be really tough. But if you have your pick of the litter and this is a world record. World record. World record. 17 which sounds crazy to me. It sounds crazy, it sounds crazy. You were actually much closer when you said three. It’s four. It’s four. Really? Four? Yes. Well the door is wide open y’all. Yeah yeah yeah. So the reason it’s four is there is a guy in Iran, I’m gonna try to, Rohollah Doshmanziari. Okay. And he has stacked melons. Four? He has stacked melons his entire life. Like he’s just kind of like, yeah I stack melons. But he’s never gotten past four. Well the Guinness requirements for melon stacking, they won’t even begin to consider it until you get to four. If you want to stack melons for a world record you gotta get to four before they even pick up the phone. Okay. So he just got to four and just, they gave him the world record. Because three is not a stack, three is a what? Well three is a stack. A grouping, a vertical grouping. If you make three, first of all, I think the level of difficulty between three and four. Must be. These people, this is what they do. They get paid to record world records. They’re like, stacking, gotta be four. Melons, four. But it, you know it’ll be 17 within a couple of years now. 17 is. Now that we put him on blast. 17, yeah see it makes sense to see the way that I was saying it. We’re blasting out through a megaphone, I understand. But I don’t know, it just feels like. This man’s a melon stacker. Four. He’s a melon stacker, I don’t want to take that from him but I’m just letting you know if you’re a melon stacker, the record’s four. It’s there for the taking. It feels like somebody could get to five. We wouldn’t do it, we’re not that type of people but if you want to swoop in and steal his record. Four. I’m thinking you’re gonna have to go more than five. I think you’re gonna have to go for at least 12. Well if you go to five and get in, make a phone call, you’ll get in the papers. In the papers. Yeah. You might get on Bananus. Okay, yeah. You know? Keep pushing it. We’ll definitely put that on Bananus if you stack five melons. Even if the Guinness people won’t call you back, Bananus will put you on the front peel. You want Bananus to be an alternative world record certification? I’m open to anything. We can undercut Guinness. I think it’s whatever the most interesting thing is of the day is on Bananus and if somebody stacks five melons, that might be it. The world record for banana stacking, sorry. All right, you got a rec for us? I do, this is another hot sauce rec. This is a hot sauce that you’ve all had, but I recently got some more of it. I have a lot of hot sauces at my house. I have determined that if you’re going for the Louisiana-style hot sauce. To put on friend chicken. That goes well on fried chicken, there’s the best one is Crystal. Crystal. Crystal Hot Sauce. And that’s successful. Not with a K though. Nope, it’s not the little burgers. Right. It’s Crystal with a C. And if you’re in the mood, get extra hot. It’s great. So I’ve been, as you know. Because I bought the one that has a, I thought it had a form of a chicken on it. Some sort of, it said Louisiana hot sauce and then when I got it home I was like, “This is not it.” This is not. Well. It wasn’t Crystal. The reason I was figuring out what it should be is as you know, I’ve gotta make my hot chicken sandwiches for something. And I usually just kind of, for the hot sauce part is it’s kind of an incidental ingredient in my hot chicken sandwiches because I make my own sauce out of the hot oil and cayenne pepper. But hot sauce is a part of it and usually it’s just like, oh I’ve got some Texas Pete and listen, I like Texas Pete. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. But Crystal is the one. But side by side, Crystal is the one. If you like something. Does it say Louisiana hot sauce on it? Yeah it does. Okay, all right. It’s a specific flavor profile for hot sauce that Louisiana style is crystal. Louisiana. And the thing that I recommended that, that the South American, getting into the habanero, that Marie Sharp’s. Still I gotta have that, but they don’t go on the same things. You don’t want to put Marie Sharp’s on a hot chicken sandwich because it’s got some other stuff going on that sends it in a different direction. What do you think about the truffle hot sauce, TRUFF? I have some. I’ve really gotten into that. I like it but I have to be really careful about what I put it on because it’s great on something like eggs. Because eggs are not. Bland. They’re not a dish that is trying to, there’s not other things happening flavor-wise that you’re trying to complement. Yeah. Because once you put truffle on something, it becomes a truffle dish. Yeah. I went on a truffle kick and I’m coming out of it now. I’ve found my way out but I do have two bottles now. I have the white bottle and the black bottle. Which is unusual for me. Where do you keep it? Fridge it. Fridge it. Apparently now we’re supposed to fridge everything. I got upset a few weeks ago because Christy had pulled Lando into this research on where to keep your hot sauces and the answer was in the fridge and I was just, it upset me. Yeah. It upset me because now, we’ve got a big-ass bottle of Valentina, like Lando was searching for weeks for Valentina. That’s his sauce, it’s good sauce. That’s like a Mexican hot sauce. It’s hard to find and it’s mild. He likes it better than Tapatio. Yep, oh yeah. Tapatio, I do not like Tapatio at all. It’s grainy. You like Cholula though? Cholula, yes. But you like Valentina better. Yeah. Big-ass bottle, we got the Cholula, we’ve got the TRUFF. All of it’s now taking up all this space in the fridge. I’m knocking over bottles of shit, just to try to get to the milk. And I don’t, and I don’t buy it. I don’t buy it. Who said this? Who said we had to put it in the fridge? When you put the sauce on it, it’s cold. I don’t want my sauce to be refrigerator cold either. Do you? Right, no. No, you want it to be room temperature. You don’t want cold hot sauce. When the first ingredient in something is vinegar or peppers. Don’t put it in the fridge. I’m not refrigerating it. Why do I have to? I could put little creatures in there. I could preserve things in there. It’s like formaldehyde. I don’t know. You want to search it, you want people. You know what, let us know, #EarBiscuits. Yeah, let us know if we’re crazy. Because I’m feeling like I’m gonna go home and put my foot down and usually when that happens, nothing happens. It’s like. Yeah you gotta figure it, put something else in. My foot was higher and then it got lower. That’s really the only observable difference in me putting my foot down. Put your foot and your hand down. Put all your feet and all your hands down. Get on all fours and then say something as a dad. So, are you with me or are you? Crawl into the house. Are you with us or are you against us? 188 Earpod1. Earpod1. Thanks for hanging out long enough to get that. And you know what? I understand, I understand it’s frustrating. You know what? I’m gonna get better at, when you move onto the next thing, I am making it, I will make a concerted effort. You don’t have to not move on. We’ve been through this before. No no I’m saying, you don’t have to not, you don’t have to move on if I move on. It’s just wait till I stop talking to bring us back. I understand, I understand. I understand. It’s the dynamic we talked about before and I think it’s you know, because we’re moving through more things on the show, I think it’s coming back. It’s coming back to roost. It’s just getting reacquainted with it. So I just want to be on record saying, I feel you. I appreciate that. I feel you. I appreciate that. I understand the frustration, I’m not doing it on purpose. But I will purposely do it less on not purpose. Okay. And if you have any more thoughts about it, you can all me at 188 Earpod1. Earpod 1. Okay, hi. My name’s Cole, I am from Detroit, Michigan and I just listened to the episode from this week, the thoughts on unruly kids in restaurants and I just want to say that I fully support Link’s opinion about the tablets. Granted I’m 22 and I haven’t had kids so I can’t really say anything about it but I don’t know about those tablets. You know, as a person that grew up with a lot of technology, I don’t know about those tablets. I think they’re stunting some social things. Okay, that’s pretty much it. All right, love you guys, appreciate you. Have fun, be safe I guess. 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.