Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I am Rhett. And I am Link. This week at The Round Table Of Dim Lighting, we’re gonna have a really fun and upbeat conversation about famous last words, words that famous people uttered right before they died, or the last words heard before they died. And maybe in the process- But it’s gonna be fun. In the process, we can prepare. Oh yeah. In case we ever- Prepare our remarks In case we can anticipate it, we can anticipate our own deaths. We’ll know what to say. Well. So that we can be on internet lists someday, which is really the goal. Yeah. Leave a legacy. Be in a Mental Floss article after you die. A list Legacy. The first thing I thought when you said we should prepare right now was, okay. Well, I know what my last words are gonna be. It can be, “I can’t remember what I was gonna say.” That’s real, please don’t let that happen. Yeah, because I’ll prepare it and then I just, I won’t be able to remember. You should script it. Maybe I should tattoo it on my- Have it written in a- On my palm so I can read it or just write it every time I get outta the shower. Yeah, it might be overkill. It would be a good reminder, today could be the day. Write what your last words are on your hand. Speaking of today could be the day, we were, before we talk about that morbid subject, let’s talk about another morbid subject. But can we keep it upbeat? Oh, it’s good. The whole thing’s gonna be upbeat. Okay, good. We have a friend who has a very, very cute dog. I mean, such a tiny little chihuahua that’s so tiny that it’s like, how does this thing, how does its heart beat, you know what I’m saying? It’s like, it’s so small, I’m always afraid to touch it, that I’m gonna step on it. It’s a chihuahua that has the patterns of a cow. And it’s smaller than your foot. Yes. Wonderful dog. So if you stepped on it, you would lose it under your foot. And we love this dog. The thing is we- You can carry it around in your pocket, it’s so cute. When we were hanging out with our friend, we were like you really have like the perfect candidate for a TikTok dog. But then I immediately said, I shouldn’t have said that. And you do not want to be someone who owns a TikTok dog. But I said, I know you got all this cute footage of your dog. It doesn’t work that way. You can’t just take old footage. Gogi, his name is Gogi. You have to take- Here’s what I said. I said, send me all the footage and I’ll just create the account. No, you won’t. You don’t even check your email. That’s true. And then I’ll slowly disseminate. You’re gonna start a TikTok account. It’s footage, it’s not times stamped. You don’t even have your own. So I was like, you know what? Rhett, you’re right. But I’m saying is a good way to get around that. Just give your footage to somebody else and then you don’t have to be the one to do it. But the main problem you were pointing out was- There is a very high chance that you are going to outlive your famous TikTok dog, and then you are going to come on there and show your human face crying about your famous dog that died. Because it’s on the account everybody follows, they wanna see another picture of the dog. And then you gotta come on and say, guys, it’s over. And here’s the thing, just like Yelp reviews, I am a taker or receiver, not a giver, or whatever the, I use them, but I don’t give them. Yeah. I enjoy pet TikTok accounts. You’re a bottom, I think is what it’s called. The more creative the better. But the issue is, is that I don’t wanna put, first of all, I don’t have time. But if I did have time and I had a dog that I thought was a candidate for a TikTok account, which I’m not sure I do. Well. I wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t do it. I want to enjoy these, but I don’t wanna sign up for it because you know they’re gonna die. They’re gonna die before you, man. And then you have to make that video. As a side note, before I talk about the video, I will say that out of all of our dogs, all four of them, I think Barbara is the only one that’s like feed material. All of our dogs are postable, but to have a following and a consistent performance mentality. Like Jade doesn’t have patience for that. Jasper only wants to go on a walk and Sean will bite you. So, I mean, then you’re left with Barbara, who likes to perform. Maybe you’re not as thorough of a student as I am of these accounts. Because there’s several ways you can take it. Yes, if it is about the dog doing cool stuff, Barbara is the only candidate. No, I’m thinking just like cute posed photos. Can you get those outta Sean? Yeah. Listen, when we go on a walk, everyone stops us and talks about Sean. His whole side of his face is black and then the other side is white. So if many people look at it and he’s got this derpy look that people just love in pets. Okay, there you go. Maybe it’s Sean then. If we were to put Sean in outfits and just pose him in different places, Will he wear an outfit? Like Sean in Paris. Yeah. He will wear an outfit? What’s he gonna, yeah, I mean, I don’t ask him, we just put it on him. And he doesn’t start acting like, oh my gosh, what’s wrong? No, he acts as if there’s nothing that has happened to him. I mean, we did that thing where we put the flannel shirts on me, and Jessie, and Barbara, and Sean, and they were all fine. And we got by far the best pictures of Sean. Okay, well, Sean’s your one. But I don’t want to do that. But that raises the slightly related question, which is, just because we don’t have TikTok accounts dedicated to our animals, doesn’t mean that we’re not gonna have to make that video, that inevitable video when they die. We’re talking about our dogs right now. I think we are gonna have to let people know. Well, of course, we’re gonna let ’em know, but are you gonna devote a whole episode of this podcast to it? Are you gonna talk about it on Good Mythical Morning? Or is it just make a more, what do you do, what do you do with these dogs that are going to die and leave a hole in our hearts? I mean, just this morning I was watching Jon Stewart talk about his three-legged pit bull that died, and he was a crying mess, as you would expect. I watched the beginning of that video, and then I kept going because I didn’t actually see the dog. I just saw him and he wasn’t crying at the beginning. Well, yeah, he tried to get, he tried. He was at the desk, right? Yeah, he thought he was gonna, and like literally when he said brindle Pit Bull, he was like, he brought out the tissues and then he just got into it. Oh my gosh. I mean, that’s what will happen. I know. And yes, we’re going to mention it. Yes, we’re going to talk about it. Yes, I’m sure inevitably we will cry. But my question is, I think we probably did a whole episode on Jade, right? Because she was the first dog. We did a whole more on Jade, that’s for sure. I’m sure. I mean, listen, man, we’re about to just read the last words of famous people. We’ll do anything for an episode. That’s true. And there’ll be so much bereavement and it’ll be such a grieving process that I think is something that we’ll probably wanna process here. So I think it will happen, even though my initial answer I thought was gonna be, I’m just gonna put up like text, make a text post that says, please respect the family in this time of grief. And just stay out of it. Just not get into it. I don’t think it, it definitely can’t be fresh. Well, it does raise this question about what is fodder for content, right? I mean, I hate to say this. And I don’t know, maybe this is why these last words were on my mind. I mean, and Jamie put this as in the document, but maybe the reason my mind was drawn to it is because of this Jon Stewart video, but also the first TikTok I saw this morning was a man just losing his shit over the fact that his daughter had just died. Oh, gosh. Rhett, why? That just came up on your feed. This stuff happens, man. It happens. And what I’m saying is that I was like, I can’t watch this. And I think it literally just happened. And the first thing that he did was make a TikTok. I don’t quite get. Obviously, he’s not thinking straight, it’s like you’re in the middle of this grieving process. But it just made me think, wow, what an interesting world we live in. And it was literally like, I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do with this grief, so I’m gonna make a TikTok. Well, maybe he got some help as a result of it. And maybe he did. And I’m sure it’s like, okay, you end up, when you put something out in the world. It wasn’t a money grab, it was a legitimate processing of emotion. Maybe a cry for help here. Well, and the thing is, is that lots of people ask us, like, why do you guys talk about, fill-in-the-blank? Why do you guys talk so much about your deconstruction? Why do you talk about your sex lives every September? Isn’t anything sacred or whatever? Is everything just content? Are you just trying to stir the pot and get views? That’s a good question. And the honest answer to that is, well, once you create an outlet, once you create an outlet, whereby, which you are sharing your thoughts on things, the things that rise to the surface are gonna be the things that are the most significant, the most impactful. And you just end up talking about them. But it just creates this weird thing because you’re making content that is part of a business model. Yeah. And so now, and I always say that it’s actually one of the things that has, I’m still working on my anti-anxiety mantra. But one of the elements of it, at this point, it’s less of, as you said, it’s a mantra that has multiple pieces that I could say any one piece at any time, depending on the situation. Okay. So I guess it’s multiple mantras. Maybe sometimes I will say the whole thing. But one part of it is what will be, will be and will be a good story. Yeah, it seems like there could be a dark side to that. Because I get a little anxious about the future from time to time. And when I find myself entering into a situation where things could go sideways. Yeah. I think to myself, like, even- Having a podcast feels like it redeems it. There’s a silver lining to like, man, this is crappy, but I can talk about it on the podcast. Right. The content Catch 22. I don’t think that that has the ring of health to it that this is really crappy but it’s an opportunity for me to grow. I don’t think it’s quite as healthy as that. I wasn’t really thinking about our podcast when I said it will be a good story. But I think about how much of my life is based in story. In one sense, my career is based around telling stories and I love telling stories. And you spend a lot more time processing the story of the event than you do the event itself. And the stories connect people. They give you something to talk with about other people. It is a way to process and explore. So when I find myself heading into a potentially dangerous situation, uncertain situation, the what will be, will be, and will be or could be really, a good story. It’s not always a good story. Does give me this thing that like, yeah, I could go through something really, really crazy, but on the other end of it, I’ve got an experience that shapes me, but also I can share as part of the process. As long as your dog doesn’t die in the process, Well, then you’ve got two stories. Yeah. I mean, the guy who told me it’s better to have a good story than a good time was not a podcaster. Was that Abraham Lincoln? It was just a guy who, he was an older guy that I respected and I remember him telling me this, on the precipice of me moving out to LA for everything that we were going after. Okay. We didn’t start a podcast for years after that. So it was something that he had adopted as a mindset of, well, I would say it’s a growth mindset. It’s a way to turn something negative into something positive because it’s gonna happen. Sometimes things are gonna go sideways. This is a way to make the best of it, I’ll have a good story. I like it. As long as long as I survive what I’m in, then I’ll have a good story. It has a good ring to it. Not somebody else will. It has a good ring to it. The thing I don’t like about that specific quote is it really only works when you’re having a bad time. Right? Yeah. Better to have a good story than a good time. Because I actually in the moment, if things aren’t going bad, I do want to be having a good time and I wanna be able to stop and be like, oh, I do wanna have a good time. This isn’t just about preparing for something, we’ve been talking about this quite a bit, about this idea of we’ve been really results-oriented for our entire lives and our careers. And we talked about it in the Book of Mythicality a little bit. There was things like pick a direction and go. And there was stop and celebrate. And we kind of touched that there’s different ways to tease out the idea of it’s not just about the destination, it’s also about the journey. And we’re trying to figure that out with the show that we’re working on right now, which is the thing that we are most passionate about creatively. The amount of time that we’re going to spend making it is going to be so much larger than the amount of time that it ends up being, than the runtime of the thing. Right. And then also, whatever the feeling that we get from once it’s given to the world, first of all, if we’re waiting to see how people respond to it, and we’re relying on there being a net positive response to it in order to feel some sort of satisfaction, then we’re just setting ourselves up for disappointment. ‘Cause what if everybody hates it? But what if everybody hates it? But we loved everything about the process and everything that we put into it. And we loved the process and we loved the product, and then nobody else liked it. It still should be, that’s still a beautiful thing, right? Yes. I think we can have our cake and eat it too, because I believe the way that we’re crafting this series is that we are crafting rewarding experiences for us to have. We’re crafting legitimate questions for us to explore that I will say in the loosest sense of the verb, we’re documenting that process, right? And so the product is gonna be a memorial and a representation of the experience we had, the things that we actually learned and the way that we reflected or grew or I don’t know, fill-in-the-blank, enriched our friendship. So I think I will enjoy watching it back because for those reasons. It’s a way to also remember, it’s just like a wedding video. You don’t get married for the wedding video. Right. I mean, you shouldn’t. I think some people might actually, the more I think about it, but don’t get married for the wedding video. However, you really should have the best possible wedding video that you can because you will go back to it and you will watch it. Will you though, if it’s good, will you though? Well, I think. Have you done that? Yeah. I mean, not recently, but Jessie and I have gone back and watched elements of our wedding video. I have not done that because the guy who was filming our wedding. You had a little trouble. He missed a lot of it. Well, the battery ran out before the ceremony started, and somehow he didn’t know this. I’m sorry to bring up a sore subject. If I had to remember that, I wouldn’t have brought this example up. Yeah. You don’t graduate for the graduation video. I think wedding’s actually better. But anyway. By the way, my mom reminded me that you were the videographer for her wedding to Lewis. Oh. You don’t remember this either? You know my memory is pretty bad unless I take a video that I then watch again. I haven’t watched this. I’m sure I did some awesome slow zooms. Well, I’m looking for it because she wants it. Oh. And she was thinking maybe I have a copy of it. I do not remember doing this. I didn’t remember you doing it either, but Christy remembered and Mom definitely remembered. Well, I’m sure they’re right. Christy was pregnant with Lily, we sung a song in her wedding ceremony. You and Christy? Yeah. And apparently, you were there being all tall operating a camera in the back. The human tripod. But mom was talking to me, she was like, oh, here we all talking about, I mean, it’s another element of loss. Hey, it’s part of life, man. It’s a part of this episode too. She was like, I just want to hear Lewis’s voice. And I realized that I had one video and I wanted to see if I had, and I wanted to get the wedding video just so I could hear his voice again. Which is a moving request. She didn’t have videos on her phone of him talking. She didn’t take many videos, but last night I went through like all the videos on my phone. Okay. For the past decade or so, and a little over a decade. And now you’re able to search by somebody’s name and face, and then you can just, there’s all the images, and it even searched the videos, it scrubs the videos now. Right. So it pulled those up. So I had a few that I’m gonna be able to send her that I think will be nice. What were you talking about? We were talking about- You don’t get married for the wedding video. But you should make a great wedding video. But you get married, you also don’t get married for the wedding. You get married to begin the relationship. But I do think that when we watch the videos that we’re making, much more so than when you think about an episode of Good Mythical Morning, which literally what you’re seeing is what happened. Right. Everything that goes, I mean, there’s behind-the-scenes stuff, but you’re seeing this real-time unfolding of the things that we were doing or eating or whatever. And I don’t go back and watch those for that reason, I was there and watching it back is like just being there again. But these videos are like, each one is days of our time of actually doing the stuff, but months of our time of planning and all this stuff, all the things that we’re thinking about and all the conversations that we’re having together and with the team, and then you see this final product and it just represents so much time, it’s so personal to us. It’s funny because it reminds me of a video I watched recently, and it was a guy, and he was sitting there with a piece of art and it just looked like a piece of junk. But as he brought it close to the camera, he was like, I’ve been working on this for years. And it was all these metal pieces, and wires, and spirals, and then there was all these interesting stones and jewels put into it. It was almost just an intricate piece of metal art that had jewels all over it. Okay. And he was like, I have spent years on this and I’m putting it on TikTok shop and I’m listing it for $150,000. Whoa. What? And all the comments were like, yeah. You’re going to enjoy this for a long time. Like, you’re not gonna sell this for $150,000. Yeah. But it was interesting because what was happening in his mind, and I don’t know the status of it at this point, but what was happening in his mind is he was like, when I look at this thing, I think about all the time that I put into it. I think about all the care that I put into it. And one of the ways that I’ve captured up all the time, and the care, and the talent, I mean, he’s got a talent to do this thing, is in this object. But when you look at it? When I look at it, I’m like, I don’t care. I don’t care about the time and the talent that you put into that. Is that what’s gonna happen with our show? No. But it matters to him, that’s what I’m saying. Is that good enough for us? I think it should be, if you’re healthy, it should be right. Like the healthier you are, the more that simply the value that you place into the thing that you’ve created is the true value of it. Now, if that guy’s business and livelihood depended on him selling that thing for something that made sense for the hours that he put into it, yeah. That is the complicating factor that we are doing this creative exercise in the context of a business model that needs to pay people’s salaries. 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But Mental Floss tends to be a pretty reliable source in my experience. So I think there is an 84% confidence that these are all true. Okay. Starting with Joseph Wright. I don’t even know who this is. Well, when you find out who he is and what he did, this becomes fitting. He was a linguist who edited the English dialect dictionary and his last words were, “Dictionary.” His last word was dictionary. Dictionary. That’s one word. Yeah. It was really- What were the words that led up to dictionary? We don’t know. Dictionary. I can’t remember what I was gonna say, dictionary. But just think about it. If you have one thing, one indelible mark that you want to leave on the world, and you believe that it is the fact that you edited the English dialect dictionary, we’re talking about him right now. And the only reason we’re talking about him is because his last word was dictionary. It worked. I think this may be my word too. Yeah. This is what I want people to say about me. Was he a linguist? Well, not really. Did somebody else have that is their last word. Yeah, he was a linguist. Yeah, and he did a podcast once about it. So he stole somebody else’s last word? Yeah, but it was dictionary. I mean, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Dictionary. All right, that’s mine right now. Well, I think Raphael, Italian artist. Nadal? Not the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Oh. His last word was, “Happy.” The first two just start as one word. Yeah, I want some sentences. Well, we’ll get, there’s 65 of ’em. Happy, happy. Actually, also get to people that I actually know. You know Rafael. Okay. Yeah. I guess, Ninja turtle. That’s a good word. I think that might be my last word. Because you wanna leave those that you’re leaving behind with a positive sentiment. Like happy. That’s good. That’s a good one. And, well, okay. Interesting that that’s how you interpreted it. You interpreted it as him saying happy for the sake of the people around him. Or do you think he saw something? Maybe he was, it made- Happy. I like to think the veil was being lifted and he was merging with the greater consciousness and he was happy. I think yours is gonna be what, when you went under the anesthesia for the colonoscopy? No, no, no. I’m not talking about bubbles. No. You were like, ah. It was like you were going down a hole. Ah. I also said, “Oh shit,” at one point. I’m sure, “Oh shit,” has been a lot of people’s last words. Right, right. Okay. You don’t know this guy, but because it’s one word, I want to wrap up the one word. Composer, Gustav Mahler, he died in bed conducting an imaginary orchestra. And his last word was, “Mozart.” Why do you yell Mozart when you’re conducting an orchestra? I don’t know. That was his idol. That’s who he wanted to be. Maybe he always felt like he was always just chasing after to be as good as Mozart. Or maybe they were moving from one song to another. And it was like, now we’re gonna do Mozart. Okay, I’m gonna find somebody. Or is it Mozart? I always say Mozart. Now you know Old Blue Eyes. Sinatra. Sinatra. What’s his last word? Dictionary. “I’m losing.” I’m losing, baby. It was just, “I’m losing.” I think that that was half of a sentence. I’m losing life. I’m losing consciousness. No, I’m losing period, quote. I mean, that’s- I’m losing this battle. He ultimately lost. And what did he die of? Don’t we all. Because that’s a good question. If he was dying of a- Sword fight, maybe? Maybe it was a dual of some sort. It was a heart attack. Oh, it was a heart attack. Okay. Okay. But apparently, it was a- Maybe it was a competition to live. You know what I’m saying? It was 1998. So maybe he had the heart attack and then didn’t immediately die, and basically, was able to process the fact that I’m losing. Like that’s one way of seeing it. That just goes to show you that if he was truly talking about, I’m losing like, I’ve lost the ultimate battle, he wasn’t happy. Well, you could lose and be happy. I do it all the time on our show. All right. Next. George Orwell. Okay. He wrote “Nineteen Eighty-four”, famously. These are his last written words, which kind of feels like a cop-out. Well, you gotta tell us now. I didn’t see that until I got here, “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” Okay. Wow. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. And he died at the age of 46, which is- Oh, that’s ironic. That’s how old I am at the moment. So he didn’t have the face he deserved, he never got it. “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” Huh? Do you understand that? Does that just mean that like- I guess you’re aging and this is what you’ve earned. I don’t know. He didn’t make it though. He lost. I’m skipping over people that you’re gonna be like, who’s that? Good Nostradamus. I know who that is. He can tell the future, philosopher? This seems, now this might be in the estimated 16% of last words that are not true. Be cautionary about AI. How about that? He said. Don’t. What? Well, okay. Go ahead. “Tomorrow at sunrise, I shall no longer be here.” And then he died. He’s got a sense of humor. So you think that he knew that he was a man of predictions and so. I think he did know that. He was like, I’m gonna die, now a lot of people- He planned this. A lot of people know that. He wrote this on his palm. A lot of people seem to know when they are on the way out. Yeah, right. Exactly. The writing’s on the wall, dude. And also he is reading his hand. Tomorrow at dawn, I will no longer be here. Yep. Yep. Now this one’s interesting. Doctors say that about people all the time. And raises a question. He’s not gonna make it through the night. This raises a question about what our state of mind might be, and I’ll explain in a second. So, Herman Melville, writer of “Moby Dick”. “Moby Dick”. Died saying, “God bless Captain Vere,” referencing his then unpublished novel “Billy Bud”, which was found in a breadbox after he died. So this man died with the story that he was immersed in on his mind. Yeah. Like that was the thing he was thinking about. He died working. He died working. Now there’s a not-insignificant chance that we will die working. Yeah. If you could call it that. I mean, we had to take out new insurance policies just because of some of the decisions that we’re making about this new show we’re doing. Oh gosh, that’s true. Huh. You know what I’m saying? Ain’t that right, Jenna? We did it, it was complicated. We didn’t have to get a blood sample though. No, but taking out- You just had to give them money. Yeah. Taking out an insurance policy for the two founders of a company who are gonna do something risky. Was the thing we did. And we have- What was the price tag on that? It’s a lot. I don’t know. It was- Tens of thousands of dollars? It was, it was- Or a hundred? It wasn’t a hundred grand? No, no, no, no. I remember, ’cause we talked it down a little bit. So it was, it’s around five-digits. Yeah. I’ll say it’s a five-digit. Lower on the fives. That’s for each or both? Both. Okay, good. Lower on the fives. I looked up. And that’s just for the duration of this excursion? That day. That is just for the, yeah. The one day. We are insured for that one day? Doing that one activity. Well, we are insured in general. Yeah. Right. You are insured for that one activity additionally. Right. Because your typical life insurance doesn’t cover you doing the type of thing that we’re gonna be doing, I think. I don’t think it does. Well, yes, but not when it’s being filmed for something. Okay. Okay. Well, I looked up the odds on this. And also one of the crew members, they’re not doing the same thing you’re doing, but because they’re going to be in the area, we also had to get for one of the crew members. I can’t say further without giving it all away. I don’t want to do that. Yeah. No, cancel that. Cancel the crew members’ insurance? Yeah. We don’t care about that. Oh, okay. Surprise, it’s mine. No. For us, if something like, or the equipment? We also had to insure all the equipment as well. It wasn’t just you all. We had to insure a crew member? We had to ensure a crew member. For the benefit of their beneficiaries or for our benefit. Well, I’ll say it and we can bleep it out if you want. It’s because he’s in with you all. Oh, I know that. So if the- I know that part. If something were happen to the , and he’s under contract with us. So it’s also to help us because we are paying that crew member for that time. So we need to make sure that our insurance, ’cause we have insurance for all crew, but we need to make sure that this, this is outside of the crew member’s normal scope of activities. The fatality rate is very, very low. In fact, based on my calculations, it is more likely that we are seriously injured or die while driving to go do the thing we’re going to do. Well, I’m sure that’s what they say. Well, that’s what the studies show. Yes. Yeah. That is true. Let’s move on. I don’t want to, the way that I deal with this is by not thinking about it, not by getting more information about it. Marie Antoinette, who you know was famously executed via guillotine. Alright. So right before the blade comes down. Well, you’re making it a little, it wasn’t quite that dramatic because she stepped on her executioner’s foot on her way to the guillotine. And her last words were, “Pardonnez-moi, monsieur.” How polite. Excuse me, sir. Yeah. Huh? Wow. So she maintained her composure to the very end. Hmm. All right. Gimme another. Okay, here we go. Isaac Newton, man of science, man of faith. All right. Okay. Man of gravitas. Your desire for there to be a longer. He made a speech? More than one word. Here we go. “I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then, and finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Wow. I can get behind that kind of thing. So he knew that people thought highly of him and his discoveries. And he had a very humble ending. Like, hey, I’m just over here scratching for rocks. That’s nice. That’s nice. He had a nice perspective And he seemed to recognize- And he was ready to give a speech on his way out. Well, one of the things I’ve observed about people who lived back in the day, at least as you see them, you hear the writings, but also anytime they’re portrayed in any kind of movie. Yeah. You’re like, do these people really talk this way? Like, the eloquence was off the charts and the vocabulary was off the charts. And obviously, not for everybody, but like people of a certain status. Right. Yeah. Just didn’t say things that sounded informal. Communication was an art form. Right. And so- Certainly written, but also spoken. I like to think this was off the cuff is what I’m saying. I don’t think he was like, I’ve got this thing ready to go in my back pocket that I’m gonna whip out right before I die. I like to think that this is just how this man spoke. You don’t think it was a statement disseminated through PR. I mean, it maybe it was. To TMZ. Somebody you can really relate to here, Link, Leonardo da Vinci. You once played him in a rap song. Okay. He said, “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” Ha ha, wow. Ouch. A true artist. No, well, a perfectionist. Poor guy. I mean, yeah, tortured. Offended God? He has offended God and mankind. ‘Cause he did not get to where he wanted to get. The terror of that is sad versus what Newton had to say. Right. But don’t you have to be a little bit, I mean, this is the constant question. Right? Doesn’t this level of unhealthiness, doesn’t it lead to people doing things like da Vinci did? Because if he was healthier, he would’ve been like, why am I doing this? I’m gonna have a coffee. You know what I’m saying? Have a coffee. I’m gonna take a nap. Right. For real. Poor guy. I feel for him. Okay, let’s see here. Lots of people I don’t recognize. Okay. Benjamin Franklin, I recognize him. Okay. And were always people writing down what these famous people said when they were dying? I mean, I guess. Well, specifically that question is answered about Benjamin Franklin. As Benjamin Franklin lay dying at the age of 84, his daughter told him to change position in bed so he could breathe more easily. Franklin’s last words were, “A dying man can do nothing easy.” A dying man can do nothing easy. Yeah, that’s very practical. It’s very in the moment. I didn’t think he knew that he was going. He knew he was dying at some point. He called himself a dying man, of course. W.C. Fields. The one with the cigar. Yeah. Actor and comedian. His last words, “God damn the whole frigging world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta.” Carlotta. Speaking to Carlota Monty, his longtime mistress. Okay. Wow. So I guess she was there. Going out with a bang. God damn the whole frigging world and everyone in it but you, that doesn’t sound like a pleasant man to be around. Those old-school comedians- Yeah. Unless you’re Carlotta. Man, they were, I was listening to Judd Apatow talk about Jerry Lewis. Apparently, there’s a book about Jerry Lewis that I, it was designed to be a biography and the guy showed up to begin interviewing Jerry Lewis late in his life. And he was like, just famously difficult. Okay. And he ended up being so difficult that the guy just wrote the biography about how difficult he was. And it’s like this apparently a really entertaining book because he was just such an egomaniac. Well, I don’t wanna be that way. I don’t wanna be grumpy at the end. You know? I wanna be peaceful, you know. Hmm. I wanna be chill. I don’t wanna be grumps, if I’m fortunate enough to live into my old age, I have the right to be grumpy. But I don’t want to be. That sounds like you might have to be actively thinking about that. You wanna be placid. Yeah. Speaking of not grumpy, Michael Landon. Okay. “Little House on the Prairie”. “Touched by an Angel”. “Highway to heaven”. Oh, “Highway to Heaven”. Yeah. He was the angel. He famously died of cancer in 1991. Everybody was sad ’cause everybody loved him. His family had gathered around his bed and his son said it was time to move on. And Landon said, “You’re right. It’s time. I love you all.” And that was it. “You’re right. It’s time. I love you all.” That’s nice. That’s a good way to go out. That’s a good way to go out. Basically be released. Is there anybody like more modern and cool that died? How about John Wayne? All right pilgrim. I mean, yes, this article is from this year. What did he say? He said, “Of course, I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.” To his wife. At least he didn’t say it to his mistress. He said it to his wife. “Of course, I know who you are.” So apparently he was answering the question. Do you know who I am? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we’re like Sherlock Holmes over here. Ernest Hemingway. Okay. I know he wrote stuff that I haven’t read. He unalived himself. He told his wife, Mary, “Goodnight, my kitten.” My kitten. See that’s talk about language. I think I’m gonna start calling my wife my kitten. Yeah, because you were talking about how you didn’t have a- Pet name. A pet name for her. I’m gonna try it on for size this afternoon when I see her. Kitten? Hello, my kitten. My kitten. How do you think she’ll respond to that? With a crinkled brow and a chuckle, and then she’ll ascend up the chimney to deliver presents elsewhere. Not ultimately positive is how she would respond. Well, okay. What if you tried something else that was a little bit more. No, that’s what, come, my kitten, let’s- Yeah, she’s not- Let’s dine together. If you knows she’s not gonna like kitten then why are you gonna go for it? Yeah. I need something, my boo, my boo boo. Oh no. Do you have a way? Like is there another, I mean, Christy is already, it already has a Y at the end of it, like Jessie has, at the end of it, sometimes you’ll add an E sound at the end of somebody’s name to make it sound more endearing. But when they already have that name like Linky, well, you can’t say Christyee. That doesn’t make any. Rhetty. Christygator. Christ- Christygator My short-neck giraffe. How about that? She likes giraffes. Yeah. I feel like you need to spend some time working on that along with your last words. My kitten. My kitten. This is a great one. Groucho Marx. Sense of humor. Bring it. Whose last words were, “This is no way to live.” You know he was saving that one up. He was saving that up. Now his brother Chico Marx, not quite as popular. You know the Marx Brothers. Yeah. I didn’t know his name was Chico. They started communism, them and their other brother Carl. He said, “Remember honey, don’t forget what I told you. Put in my coffin a deck of cards. A mashie niblick, and a pretty blonde.” It’s not a sarcophagus man. This isn’t like an Egyptian tomb. You don’t get to like, fill it full of stuff for the afterlife. A mashie niblick is a- You could. Golf club. I guess you could. I mean, I wouldn’t put a person in there. Yeah. A blonde. Yeah. What is a mashie niblick? A golf club. Oh. He wanted to, he wanted to, you know. Play golf with a blonde. Alfred Hitchcock, “One never knows the ending, one has to die to know exactly what happens after death. Although Catholics have their hopes.” He shouldn’t have added that. He shouldn’t have added the Catholic part. It would’ve been better without it. He should have edited himself like his films. Pete Maravich famous basketball player who’s- To some people. Well, to people who know basketball, his dad Press Maravich started Campbell Basketball Camp in Bowie’s Creek, North Carolina, where yours truly, and you grew up. Did you know that his dad started that? It’s a very successful basketball. It was like one of the first ones in the nation or something. They would say things like that. Yeah. I met Vinny Del Negro there. Okay. Alright. JR Reed I also got into another fight. I got into another fight there. I forget about the fight that I got into there. What happened? Just a couple of punches to the body, body punches and then it resolved, against a guy named Brett McLaughlin. Really? Yeah. I met my mirror image. You were threatened by his name being so close to yours. He was an asshole. Hey man, change your name. Did he punch you too? Where? Body. We weren’t fighters you know. Did it hurt? It was one of those things. No, and I didn’t hurt him either. It was one of those things that you’re kind of fighting a little bit, but you don’t really wanna do damage to yourself or your hands. So that’s why I forget about it ’cause it wasn’t much of a fight. Meanwhile, Zach and I were not attendees at the basketball camp and we were rummaging through the unlocked dorm rooms that all of the campers stayed in. We didn’t steal stuff. We just messed with people’s stuff. Gimme an example of messing. Shaving cream in shoes. Oh, that’s pretty bad. Oh, that’s horrible, huh? What else? Finding some dirty mags. Found a couple of those. And left them, put some shaving cream in ’em. Well, so to speak. Well, what Pete- Never got caught. Pete Maravich, which there’s a really entertaining YouTube video of him. If you just type in Pete Maravich horse. What? Horse as in the basketball game, not like on a horse. Oh. And which is spelled the same way, but there was a televised game, one-on-one game of horse that they would use- These were different times. They would use professional basketball players playing horse against each other and broadcast it. Okay. And he was known for all these crazy moves. And so some of the stuff they’re doing is just- Like what kids would do where it’s like, I’m gonna bounce this one off the ceiling after going around my legs. His were more like you gotta go under the basket while putting the ball around your waist and then throw it over your head and go in and they would be like, he could kind of talk it out and do it. Why isn’t this part of the All-Star Game? It should be, it would be way better than the skills challenge. I watched a little bit of the All-Star festivities this year. Yeah. Yeah. The skills challenge. Even the game isn’t that entertaining anymore. The dunk contest is okay, but there’s that guy, Mac McClung, who’s the guy that’s in the G league that is actually not even in the NBA, He comes over and gets to be a part of it? But he’s like so much more creative in the way that he approaches his dunks. But then you’ve got these old heads who are judging it and they don’t, their judging is so completely bonkers. I don’t think they can actually see what’s happening or know what’s significant about the dunks. Yeah. You really need to like watch a dunk in slow motion and be like, oh, that’s what he did. And that’s why this is significant. But anyway. They need to play horse. I digress. Pete Maravich collapsed during a pickup game. He had that thing where you’ve got a hole in your heart and you don’t know about it. Oh. Oh. And so he is in great shape and had never experienced any problems. His last words were, “I feel great.” Why you laugh? It’s ironic. It was a joke. Well, I guess it wasn’t a joke. It could have been a joke. All right. Getting bored? No, I just want you to pick some good ones. Well, okay. Okay. Winston Churchill said, “I’m bored with it all.” Me too. I mean this, these last words. Emily Dickinson. She had a lot of good words. She said, “I must-” A lot pressure for a writer. “I must go in, for the fog is rising.” But she was already in. Wow. This was happening in her brain. “I must go in, for the fog is rising.” She’s a somber lady. Yeah. James Brown. Here we go. Now he could say, I feel good. And that would’ve been better than Pistol Pete saying it. He said, “I’m going away tonight.” Oh. He’s like Nostradamus. Hey. Hey, I’m going away tonight. I got two more for you, Link. You know this one, Steve Jobs. Yep. His last words were, “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” That’s cool. See, I think he was- On something. I think he was seeing something. I think he was seeing something. And finally. That’s nice. It’s kinda like propelling you into the next phase. Elvis Presley. You heard of him? A little bit. Yeah. Died on the toilet. Which is fitting because his last words were, “I’m going to the bathroom to read.” That’s funny. Was he joking? No. And by read he meant. He went to the bathroom to read and. Never came out. How’s that make you feel? Do you feel like you have something to work with now? I don’t think anybody’s gonna be quoting me. Well, with that attitude, of course not. You’ll be gone. I didn’t remember what I was gonna say. I mean, I forgot what I was gonna say, it would be pretty memorable and very much something, the kind of thing you would say. Right? I should have planned something for this moment, is also good. Yeah. What are you gonna say? Oh, I haven’t thought of it. I think I’m gonna wing it. No, you’re not a winger. You’re gonna plan it. Come on. Oh, I’m not gonna plan it yet. I can’t even come up with my mantra yet. I know you can’t. All right. It’s my rec. Baby rec, baby, one, two, three, four. I’m gonna give you some music. When I was in New Zealand, I was like, I’m gonna listen to some Kiwi artists. Oh. And I found a band, I don’t know if it’s just this vocalist, but she’s got a very soothing voice. The band is called Tiny Ruins and it’s not that she has like a Kiwi accent or anything, but I just recommend it. It’s really good, man. It’s a good vibe. How would you describe it? Singer/songwriter, indie. It was perfect for driving around the beautiful landscapes of the North Island, the pastoral nature of it all. So yeah, check out Tiny Ruins. It’s a band. There’s four of ’em. “Me at the Museum, You in the Wintergardens” is the most popular song of theirs. And I think you’ll like it. Number of albums. Yeah, I think you’ll be into it. So check it out. Well. Tiny Ruins, you’ll like ’em. There you go. Thank you for spending some time with us. Hopefully, we didn’t depress you too much. Maybe you developed a plan for what you’re going to say as your last words. Dictionary. In the meantime, remember that we want to hear from you via voicemail, call our number, let us know anything at all that you wanna let us know. Any question that you have, any comment that you have. 1-888. EARPOD1. We’ll speak at you next week. Hi, Rhett and Link. I’ve been listening to you guys for a long time and I was just listening to your most recent Ear Biscuits episode about where Rhett talks about how his anxiety is, and I just wanna say I really appreciate how you guys talk so openly about your mental health journey, especially when it comes to anxiety, and it means a lot to see two grown adult men, somewhat successful, that are still struggling with these issues is encouraging. So keep up the good work.