Welcome to “Ear Biscuits,” the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Rhett. And I’m Link. This week at the Round Table Of Dim: Boy’s Round. Boy it’s dim in here. I’ve measured it before. It’s actually not a perfect circle. And we are here to talk about, first of all, I want to tell you about, I had so much fun doing something. Oo-wee and I wanna tell you about it. You had fun? Uh-huh, I had fun without you, but I missed you, Rhett. I missed you so much when I was having so much fun without you, I was thinking, “Boy, I’m having so much fun.” And that’s where my thoughts stopped. And then later I was like, “I’ll tell Rhett about it.” And then I was like, “Well.” Oh, on the podcast? Yeah, here it is. And you’ll have so much fun. I don’t know if I’ll have as much fun as you did when you did this thing. Nope, you won’t. That’s I mean, every time you tell a story, it gets buffered a little bit. But I make it, yeah, I make it better than it was really? Is that what you’re saying? Well, maybe. Are you saying I’m a liar? Not for me. Not for me. Well, you are a- Yeah. You are a world class revisionist, history maker. But I’m saying for me, being able to have as good of a time as you had, just hearing you talk about it? Not gonna happen. Ain’t that gonna happen. Not gonna happen. Nope, not gonna happen. What are you bringing into this podcast? Just reactions. That’s it? Yeah. Okay. All right, I know we’re gonna dole out some advice. We’re gonna change your life today, dear listener. But the thing that I had so much fun, listen, if you’re visiting LA, I think one of the best things to do, if you can do it, if you’re fortunate enough to be able to get a ticket. Okay. Going to the Hollywood Bowl is quite an iconic thing to do in Los Angeles. Yeah, it’s great. It’s so fun and it’s so as, did I just say iconic? I’ll say it again. It’s this outdoor amphitheater. It’s huge. I mean, the history of this place is hallowed, I’m sure. But you’re sitting there in like the wonderful LA weather, looking at this amazing stage way down there and you’re looking at the Hollywood Hills and- It’s right in the middle of everything. It’s just in the middle of everything. It’s quite an experience. We’ve been to a good number of shows at the Hollywood Bowl, some of which have been comedy shows. Now, in my experience, a comedy show at like more of an intimate theater. That seems to be the best. If you got somebody who’s like, good at what they do- Comedy doesn’t do great in big places. Not as, it just doesn’t have that same vibe of comradery. The arena effect. The reactions bouncing off of four walls. Well, people are literally hearing the jokes at different times. Psychologically, that is not great for timing. You got that up against you. But so like, I love going to the Largo because- Very small. It’s small, but you get some great acts coming through there. I’ve had a great time there, but- You don’t want to watch a comedian on a screen. You want to able to look right at them. Well, but the Hollywood Bowl is such an experience in and of itself that if you’re seeing the right comedian that could command an audience that big, they’re good enough to keep your attention. It’s better than being at home like I was. So, my group of friends that you’re not friends with, you know, they like- I’ve met all of them and chosen not to be. They like to book, you’re not invited. Well, ’cause I met all of them. They’re not friends with you. Each one of them had decided I did not want to join. Weren’t invited. They weren’t at the… I’ve only met like one of them. They got a good knack for saying, “Hey, let’s go to this show. “Let’s go to that show.” And I’m like, I look at my calendar and if I’m in town, I’m like, “Yeah, comedy show. “Let’s go. “We’ll just see what happens when we get there or whatever.” I honestly didn’t take note of who was there, or it might have been so far in advance that I forgot. But the fact of the matter was when I met up with everybody, like we were on our way there, that’s when I found out who we were gonna see. And boy, that was a surprise. And I’m pretty sure I’d just forgotten it. This is part of like, Netflix has this comedy festival, multiple comedians and multiple venues all over LA for like a couple of weeks. Netflix is a joke. Is what it’s called. And this was one of the big headlining things. Two nights at Hollywood Bowl, totally sold out. It was Nate Bargatze, Sebastian, can’t remember his last name, but he’s pretty famous. Italian dude. Yeah, I know who you’re talking about. You know who I’m talking about. And then it was Jim Gaffigan. Okay. And Jerry Seinfeld and I’m like- I’ve heard of him. You know, I grew up watching “Seinfeld,” I’ve never seen Jerry Seinfeld live. This is gonna be awesome. And I’m like, “I don’t know much about this Sebastian guy, “but based on the other three guys, “this is the most “Middle America “just white male mainstream comedy “that you could ever assemble.” Right. Like, “Let’s just get all these white guys together.” And you’re a white guy. I’m a white guy. You’re gonna be right at home. I’m a dad. These guys are all dads with self-deprecating, safe humor. Not gonna raise too many eyebrows. Pretty clean. Very, yeah. Pretty damn clean. Nobody said the F-word. I don’t think the F-word was uttered. ‘Cause Nate does not- He’s very clean. He doesn’t. And Jim does not. Yeah. I saw his Netflix special. Funny guys, I mean. They’re all funny, I got it, I mean, I know that I’m in the demo and I know that if you’re not in the demo, you might be like, “Why?” One of the things that started happening- I think if you’re not a middle aged white man, you might- Well, hold on. Listen, well man, we don’t know that. I mean, we don’t say, it’s not just our comedy man, but I’m just saying that I know that these four guys together. Yeah when you get it all together. We’re the target audience. And what I’m started noticing happening is when there’s a dad character in a movie and they’re making fun of something that a dad does for jokes, I’m like, “Oh, I do that.” Yeah. And I’m like, “Yeah, I have become- There’s two types of dad humor. There’s the bad jokes that dads make and then there’s all the things that dads do that you make fun of. That’s what they do. I was watching a rom-com that I don’t, it’s someone with Sidney Sweeney in it, which honestly, I actually don’t recommend it. I don’t recommend it. I mean, Jesse and I watch rom-coms and I just wasn’t and I don’t know, I just wasn’t as into that movies as I thought I would be. And I told Jesse, “I prefer when Sydney Sweeney is playing someone “that I’m not supposed to like.” Like her character on “Euphoria,” or her character on “White Lotus,” like she’s so good at that. And there was just something different about her playing, like the girl next door-ish thing. I don’t know, there’s something about it just didn’t land with me, but- You should be a casting director. But the dad in that movie, they made fun of him because he was visiting Australia and they were like, “Yeah, dad can’t stop just talking about the differences “between the United States and Australia.” And then they cut and then the scene happens and he’s like, “It’s basically like America except,” and I’m like, “Shit, that’s what I did when I was there.” Yeah. Oh man, I fell right into the trap. The dad trap. I bought a ticket to this experience. Yeah, you paid for it. You know? To what you’re describing. And let me tell you, I mean, it was- You ate it up. I ate it up. This dad just ate up that humor. You licked it right up with a spoon. I mean, here was the interesting thing about it. It comes time for the show to start. Well they they had a little jazz band out there first. Of course they did. And you kind of, you didn’t even think you would like that, but you kind of did. Yeah. It was all right. It was a little something to eat your little snacks and stuff to, before they came out. Did you get some good food? They have some interesting little foodies things. I’m not gonna talk to you about the food ’cause I just don’t care about it. We brought our own food. And you can bring your own food. You can bring your own wine. Yep. And it was great. You cannot bring your own wine to all the shows. You couldn’t to this one. Oh. And you gotta read the things ’cause they were taking people’s wine on the way in. It was dad comedy and they didn’t think the dads could take the wine? They wanted you to buy the wine once you got in. That was the requirement. Oh. I think they put them all together because at least three of them are all in this new movie that’s on Netflix. The one about Pop-Tarts? Yes. Hmm. I haven’t seen it, so I’m not gonna push that. But here’s the interesting thing. They all four came out together on stage. In a trench coat on top of each other? Yeah. And then, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop and then they unstack and it’s like, “Oh look, it’s all four of them.” Oh. What do you get when you stack up four middle aged white dads? A hell of a night of comedy. Hey, there you go. For a guy like me. They all four came out and they were just kind of shooting the breeze a little bit. And I was like, “Okay, they’ve made a decision here. “What is happening?” Four guys, huh? They’re like shooting the breeze with the audience saying, “Hey, we’re so excited to be doing this. “To be sharing the stage tonight. “This is our second night doing it. “Last night was a warmup. “You guys are gonna get the best show. “Last night sucked.” Who’s doing the most talking in this situation? Jerry started. I would think so. Jerry was doing the talking and Jim was bantering with him. And then Nate wasn’t talking for a long time. And then, so then first thing Nate said was a joke about how he hadn’t said anything, but then he started talking. And then Sebastian, they really had to make fun of him because he hadn’t said anything yet. But there was a hierarchy here that I was observing. And then I’m like, “Yeah.” They had to talk in a certain order. There’s like this hierarchical behavior. What order are they gonna do? Are they all gonna four stand out there the whole time? I hope not. What order are they gonna do their sets? Okay before you tell me, can I say two things? Because the first thing I want to do is I want to make an observation about that. Who said something and who didn’t. And then I want to predict the order. Okay? Okay, yeah. Unless that ruins something for you. No, it doesn’t. You’re playing right into my hand, Rhett. Yeah, well, I’m a white dad and so I feel like I’m right there with you. Okay. Number one, I saw Nate Bargatze do, like, you know how they’ll have funny people be on Monday night football or some foot, some program, some football, maybe it’s college game day or something. And I’ll be honest with you, out of those four guys, I’m gonna laugh at Nate Bargatze the most, right. He’s from the south and we’re like the same age and- Right. His cadence is so like, laid back. But that translates to an incredible set of standup for me and my personality and my experience. But when you put him in a group like that, I saw the people on Twitter talking about like, “Who is this guy and what is he saying on,” ’cause people didn’t get him. They didn’t understand him because really he’s that, “Jim Gaffigan he’s gregarious,” and he kind of gets kind of, you know what I’m saying like. Yeah. Nate Bargatze is a fool. Yeah, that too. He’s playing the fool. He plays a fool big time. He plays a fool. And he does it great. So I could totally see that. And I don’t know, I’m not familiar with Sebastian enough to know where, but I could have told you that there- He’s very boisterous and he gets physical. But it’s not impressions. It’s more like he puts his entire body into some of his bits. But here’s the order. But he’s kind of straight faced when he does it. So he’s not goofy. His body is goofy, but his face is like gangster. Yeah, okay. He’s Italian. Okay. Bust your balls here. I was gonna say, the first thing that came to mind was Sebastian, Gaffigan, Bargatze, Seinfeld. That was the order that came to mind first. Okay. Okay. And I might stay with that. But then there was a part of me that was thinking that there’s something about starting out with Gaffigan ’cause everybody likes him so much. And you could go Gaffigan, Sebastian, Bargatze, Seinfeld. But I’m going back to the original and I’m saying Sebastian, Gaffigan, Bargatze, Seinfeld. Okay. But you pretty much knew Seinfeld needed to be last. He can’t not be. Now that’s a given. He’s the anchor. I would’ve guessed that it was, I didn’t, I don’t really know Sebastian. So I was like- I thought you were gonna say, “I don’t really remember. “This whole thing is ruined.” I don’t remember, it’s over. What do you wanna talk about? I was guessing Sebastian, Nate, Jim Gaffigan, Seinfeld. That was my guess. You can’t do that right now though. Well, this is what they said. They said, “We’re gonna bring out a hat.” Oh, then my whole thing is blown. “And then we’re gonna pull balls out of this hat “with numbers on it.” Oh, so this just becomes a psychic game. And then they happened to say, you know, “Last night it was Sebastian, Nate, Jim, Seinfeld.” I was like, “Oh, that’s what it’s gonna be again tonight. “This is just a bit,” ’cause that’s what I thought it was gonna be anyway. And they said, “That’s what we did last night. “Let’s see what happens tonight.” And I was like, “There’s no way that Seinfeld’s not going last. “I mean, he’s the biggest name. “It would be weird if he pulled the first one.” I mean, it just would. But you can’t do this bit and not be prepared to follow through. It’s not a bit. Jerry pulls the first one. Oh God. Oh God. And he said, and he’s number four. Oh! I was like, “Okay.” Okay, it is a bit. And then Jim pulls his and he was like, “Three.” And I was like, “This is a bit, it’s a bit, this is a bit.” And then Sebastian pulled two. So then Nate pulls one. Going first. Okay. So you were wrong here. I was right about Seinfeld. In terms of tenure. Of course. In terms of tenure, Seinfeld, I don’t know how, I mean, I don’t know how long Jim’s been at it versus Jerry, but like, I mean. Oh. Not, I mean, maybe in terms of actual time doing standup, about the same. They’re all probably about the same age. But like, I mean, Jerry’s the biggest draw here. So it made sense. But what I think they did was Jerry was gonna go last and Jim was gonna go before him. And then it was up to who was gonna go first and second and Sebastian and Nate switched between the two nights. Okay, okay. But the bit, but the way that they did it, the reason why the bit worked is ’cause A, it’s believable. It added some excitement. And I think it was a good look for Jerry to be like, “You know what, “I’m gonna act as if we’re all on the same level where,” because they’re all super talented and they’re all super successful standup, but who are we kidding? So I think he was like, “Yeah, I’m gonna do this bit. “So I’m not asserting the fact that I’ve gotta go last.” You know, it was like checking a little ego at the door and like giving a little bit to Nate and Sebastian I feel like. So I thought that was nice. Okay, now in terms of laughs. Nate was the best. I was gonna say, I would laugh the most at Nate. Well, first of all, he’s, yeah, I love his sense of humor for all the reasons that you said. And he went first, so it was just right out of the gate. He’s doing stuff from like, I’ve heard a few of these bits before. Like it was the best of thing. This was like knock it out of the park set kind of a thing. And it was amazing. And within that there’s a lot of dad humor. And then Sebastian comes out, dad humor. Jim comes out, dad humor. And actually Jerry- He’s not dad humor. He had a little bit of dad humor. But I was done with the dad humor. So I was glad. Jerry is complaining humor. Observational but yeah, a little bit of complaining. Well, let’s get specific. He’s complaining. Yeah, yeah. But it was nice to like, I mean, because Nate has this like, very dialed in and very, like he has so much momentum. That’s why you thought he would be third ’cause he’s doing so well right now. ‘Cause I just know he’s got like, I was thinking that- But the Dad, and so he used all the dad humor up- I was just thinking that because Seinfeld is the one who’s ultimately in charge of this. Well, you don’t necessarily want to follow the person that’s gonna get the most last ’cause then people might be like, “Oh wow,” you know, “Jerry isn’t as funny as Nate anymore,” or whatever. I don’t think, I think Jerry doesn’t care anything, I don’t think he’s, I think he’s fine, right? Yeah. He’s been doing it forever. They all were amazing. Well, they all brought it. Yeah, it wasn’t anybody that was like, okay. But Nate was my favorite. But I mean, we were just laughing. We were just laughing so hard. It’s just simple. You know, sometimes it’s just not, you know, it’s like Christy and I were like, we had a night to ourselves and I was like, “Let’s go see a movie.” And I was like, “Let’s just see something simple.” You know? Let’s just, I don’t wanna watch “Civil War,” I don’t wanna do that tonight. Let’s watch “Fall Guy.” You know, we’re sitting there watching Ryan, what’s his name? Ryan- Gosling? Gosling. Ryan Gosling jump off of a Jeeps and wink at, what’s her name? Emily? Emily Blunt? Emily Blunt. There you go. You just saw it, right? Yep, yep. You know, they have different names in the movie though. Oh, they did that? This was confusing. Weird, weird, weird. They did that. It was kind of like that. It’s like, but well, I will say that movie wasn’t funny. It was what I will call certifiably mildly amusing. But Ryan Gosling is funny. He was amusing in this movie. It just wasn’t written for actual comedy. Oh. Nope. Nope. It was written, it was cutesy and amusing. So your choice for simple didn’t work as a movie, but it worked for comedy? Well, yeah, it was just, it wasn’t heavy. It was light fair. I mean, this stuff was just like, laughing for two hours straight. Boy that’s, I mean, that’s some great therapy right there. And they’re all so good at what they do. I felt great the whole next day. Really? Yeah. Well, comedy is the, laughter’s the best medicine, Link. Yeah, I really think it is. Those guys are so honed, you know what I’m saying? It’s a different, we don’t do that. It’s a totally different thing. Like, because- Don’t compare yourself. No, no, I’m just saying that like, if we were like, ’cause we’ve talked about it before, like, we haven’t talked about it. People have asked us like, “You guys should stop by the Laugh Factory or whatever.” Like, what the hell are we gonna do? We don’t have a, I don’t- Probably laugh at comedians. I don’t- That aren’t us. I don’t have a set. Yeah. Like, do you understand how hard it is to get to that point to put together a set that everything kills like that. Like those guys have experimented in so many different settings to like mine the gold. And then you just get, and it’s just these seasoned miners just standing up there and just like crapping out their gold in front of you. Now if you’re not- Miners, don’t crap gold. If you’re not, so if you’re in the mine for long enough, it gets in your feces. If you don’t like this though, if you don’t like this kind of comedy, it might be insufferable. You know what I’m saying? Yeah, that’s true. That’s why we keep having this self-deprecating white dad thing that we keep saying ’cause we’re a little self-conscious about how funny we think it is. Right, yeah. But we know it’s not for everybody. But I think that I’ve gotta amend my list of favorite things to do. It’s like seeing a really good comedian. Oh, it’s up there. Is it better than snowboarding? No. It’s now on the list. I just think that- Is it better than sex? No. Okay, I’m just making sure. No. Yeah, but I thought that you said that snowboarding was better than sex. Did you say that? Uh… No. But you thought maybe you did say that though. I thought I might have said that, but I don’t stand by it if I said it. I’m just saying it’s entering somewhere down in like the top- The 10s? 10. Oh, okay. Oh, 10. There’s nothing like just laughing your ass off, man. And then leaving it in the amphitheater. But you can’t just go to a comedy show and expect that to happen. You have to go to somebody you know you’re gonna laugh at. You can’t just like show up at the Last Factory. But don’t get me wrong, we paid a lot of money. Yeah, right. But then at the last minute, we upgraded to a box for $43 more a couple. Whoa. Somehow we found out about that. And then so you walk in and in the middle of the amphitheater, there’s like a strata there. And like, it’s not really close. It’s not really far. What about the food there? There’s food. They’ll wait on you. Hold on, but you brought your own food, so you didn’t order anything? We ordered drinks and they brought them to us. Oh, see in that situation, I’d just go ahead and bad boy it up. I’d get the food I brought and the food that I order. You could do that. But the weird thing is when you’re sitting there, you sit there in a group of four and two people are facing the stage, and then the other two people are facing those people. So I was facing, I was looking at the crowd, the whole amphitheater with the stage behind me. And then what, like, you were just leaning back really far to watch the comedians? I was watching it all upside down. I didn’t, did I not say that? That’s the best way to watch a comedy show- Upside down. At the Hollywood Bowl is- The jokes land totally differently. Yeah, they do. I had to turn around eventually, but- Swivels? Yeah, but I made it awkward for a while. No, I had to pick up the chair and turn it around. Don’t worry about that. Well, hey, I’m a dad. I’m just thinking about- Was it a swivel chair or something? Was it a swivel chair? I mean, how did this work? What’s the deal with the swivel chairs? So it’s a loose chair that you could just steal? Yeah, you could steal it. It doesn’t seem safe. Yeah, you could fold it up. Doesn’t seem safe. Fold it up and steal it. Doesn’t seem safe. I had the best time of my life laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing, you know. They kept telling jokes and I kept laughing at them. It’s quite an arrangement. Yeah. I love it. I love it. But I won’t laugh at a joke if it’s not funny, but I was just laughing. I was just laughing and laughing and laughing. Was everyone- It feels good to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. Was your, okay now you’re- You gotta put yourself in a position where you just laugh and laugh- Now you’re trying to make me think that maybe you laughed too much. I didn’t stop laughing once I started laughing. Every joke made me laugh. Hold on, but the way that you’re talking about it now is making me uncomfortable. Laughing and laughing and laughing. What I’m saying is that if you go to a small venue, like were the people in your group looking at you laughing and thinking like, “Whoa, he’s laughing a lot?” No, everybody was laughing and laughing. I turned- What was Christy doing? Oh, she was laughing and laughing and laughing. She was laughing more than me. Okay, so maybe you’re making it seem more extreme than it was. Well, I’m just saying, we were all laughing and laughing and laughing. Everybody. But you weren’t doing a thing where somebody’s laughing so hard where they are the last person laughing. No. And then the comedian starts noticing. And if it’s a smaller venue, they have to talk to them. You weren’t doing that? I was at the Hollywood Bowl. Okay, I’m just making sure. There was a little knee slapping too. I slapped my knee a couple times. Oh, did anybody get that on video? Probably. Huh. Sometimes I’d punch a friend a couple of times. Those are the best. And then I wasn’t sitting next to Christy. She was over there for like, the first two acts. I did move next to her for the last two, but for the first two, she was sitting next to some of the girlfriends. Did she make that choice? Or it was just you divided by men and women? You did that thing. A little bit. It was one of those things. Yep. But I kept turning around and saying to Christy. “That’s me, isn’t it?” Oh no. “That is you.” Oh no. I was that guy a little bit. Okay, all right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay. “I know that was me. “I know that’s me.” I’m laughing and laughing and laughing. Thanks for painting that picture. 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Yeah, I mean, if there’s like, and you don’t know about the marital tension going on in other couples, you think this is just a hetero thing? I mean, that’s all you can speak for. Well, I’m saying, I guess if you, let’s say, so if you went out with a gay couple and a lesbian couple- Oh yeah, they’re both either guys or girls. Yeah, that’s what I’m getting at. Yeah. And so then you got to- It’s harder to split them up. You got a situation- You can split them up gay and straight. Whereas it like, yeah. Well that’s an interesting thing. That’s why you just shouldn’t split up. That’s why you should just be like, wherever you sit, you sit. But if you split up gay and straight, then you’re with couples. I’m so confused now. So if you go, if a bunch of lesbians go to a concert, is it, so it’s like a… I know, I just think, I, no- We can’t speak on this. No. Have you gone to the concert with a bunch of lesbians? Yeah, you did, you did Yes, I have. They smell like soap. Yeah, but you were with your wife at the time. I was. You did not bust there with a lot of lesbians. So you don’t know how they divide. If you’re, what we need, I mean, yeah. I mean we need to have a gay couple in our friend group. I mean, we gotta have some more queer in our friend group is what you’re really saying. That’s what you’re highlighting. Because that’s what busts this whole thing up. We’ve had gay people in our friend group- In our friend group, but that particular friend group that I have, that you’re not involved in. It’s gay people that are not in a long-term relationship. Which ends up being like, okay. Right. These people have been married for 20 years. This is the person that you’re dating now. Not that we can’t hang out. I’m not talking about our friend group. Okay. But my friend group you’re not invited to. That’s another reason you’re not invited ’cause you’re straight. We got too many of those. We need some queer in that group. Some… Yeah, but if you invite somebody because they’re queer and then they know that, that’s why you invited them. Right. I mean… But yeah, you don’t wanna go about it that way. I don’t know how to go about it. It just needs to happen. You need a bigger gathering and then let friendships happen naturally. Because if you have a lot of hetero couples and then you got, let’s say you got one lesbian couple. You know what, can you draw this out for me? I think I can hold all this in my mind at this point. Then all the straight women are over here with their charcuterie and all the straight men are over here with their- That feels like a generalization. With their beer. Jenna, do you like charcuterie? That that is a correct generalization. Okay, all right. Listen. Single people don’t have a place in this conversation. Fine. I just mean they’re not at the- Just see myself out. My friend group is only marrieds but- Only marrieds. That feels discriminatory. Yeah, thanks. Thanks a lot. It’s just you wouldn’t like it. Okay. Yeah, too much married energy. Okay. Too much long term partnership energy. Oh no, how awful. It might rub off on me. I’m just like, yeah. Do we need lesbian couples, gay couples? I don’t know, trans couple, whatever, I don’t care. All of that, yes, yes, yes. But singles, no. Definitely not. I don’t want any- So only couples. I don’t want no singles in my friend group. But other than that I’m very open. You’re talking about this other friend group? Yes. Specifically? Yes. Because of… I mean, what’s the perfect friend group? I don’t think you should mix- Well, there’s probably a sitcom that’s figured it out. You shouldn’t mix singles and marrieds, or like long-term commitment, practically marriage, whatever you call that. Why? Couples. Yeah, I know. It’s just- Why? You wouldn’t like it. No, no, no. If the dynamic has been established and it’s like four or five straight long-term, married couples, you’ve already gone in error. You know what I’m saying? I know we have. At that point, you can’t, it’s hard to invite people in. But I’m saying if you’re building the friend group from the beginning, like a sitcom cast… Mm-hmm, there we go. At that point, you just gotta make sure you’re not pushing too hard in any one direction. And that’s hard to start. But you gotta see it coming. You gotta see it happening. I have long-term relationship and married friends that invite me out and I hang out with them. I don’t understand. And you like it? Yeah. I mean, this is no offense to you. That’s okay. They’re gonna love you. You’re single. You’re living the life. Yeah. I mean all the vicarious conversations- They ask you lots of questions. Yeah. Like, “Tell me about the apps.” “What’s it like to date?” Oh my God, it’s great for the married people ’cause you’re such a fascination. But for the single person- Really, a subject really is what they consider you. You’re a specimen. A specimen. Yeah. They consider you a specimen. That’s fine. Also I have friends. I’m looking out for you. Yeah but I already have friends who are married or in long term- You think they’re your friends, but they’re really- They are my friends. They’re like, yeah, they’re like the people in charge of the experiment. They are my friends. You are a token. They care about me. And they remember my birthday. I’m sorry, Jenna. I guess we’re wrong. You’re saying that you like it. Being objectified by your- Because they’re my friends. Because they’re my friends. Can I just say, here’s what I will add to this conversation. Not that I haven’t already tried to add something. But you didn’t do yourself any favors going to that particular comedy show. I mean- No, I didn’t. It was almost like you were officially putting the clamp down on the friend group that it’s his only straight people, straight married people. You went to that comedy show as a group and like forever that group is just gonna, that’s what it’s gonna be. Yeah, I would’ve said no to that invite. That’s not- Yeah, see? She would’ve said no. I mean, I’m sure it would’ve been great, but like, it’s not a comedy show I’m necessarily interested in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it, I get it. I understand that. Exactly. I said exactly what I’m saying. What you need to do is go to like a “Julio Torres Show.” Is it though? You know? Isn’t it exactly what I’m saying? You about him? That MF’er is funny. The guy that did that shapes special I told you about, he was like on SNL and he was on a spooky or whatever that show was with Armisen. Okay. Anyway, I bet you if you went to that guy’s comedy show, you’d come back with some interesting folks. That’s all I’m saying. I like a broad range of comedians. Okay. And I’d like to have more friends to get back to that, that aren’t straight and monogamous. Oh, you want polyamorous? I don’t know what I want. You don’t have to look too far in this town. You really don’t. I could point you to a few. But that’s what’s gonna, I mean, the track that I’d like to choose for us to go back to is the one where you’re like, “The boys go to one side “and the girls go to the other side of the dance, “and then they don’t dance with each other.” Well, we were in a friend group at one point where there was a couple who actively said, “Let’s not do that.” I remember several times. Yeah. And I was like, “Okay, you know what, “this is kinda interesting.” “Yeah, we don’t have to do,” and of course we come from like, “The church- “Split them up.” Whereas like, right from the beginning, they were like, “We can’t be together.” Like in college, it was like the men’s group and the women’s group. The men’s bible study. In fact, I remember when we were freshmen, the guys in campus crews, we were in two bible studies, if you’d recall. We were going to the Campus Crusade Bible study. And we were going to the inner varsity Bible study, which was co-ed. We quite liked it. And then the crusade guys got us, and they said, “You guys are going to a co-ed Bible study, guys? “You can’t really be open and honest with the women there, “can you?” And we were like, “I guess you’re right.” Like we, you know, and then we kind of followed that track for quite some time. So we actually have to actively work against the inclination to be like, well, you sit down and you just, men talk to each other and the women talk to each other. The second half of the show, I went over and Christy and I sat next to each other. That’s beautiful. And we laughed and laughed. That was a beautiful one. You slapped her knee? Laughed and laughed and laughed. I… Did you elbow her? I grabbed her shoulder and gave her a squeeze. Reached over and bite her a little bit? Gave her a shoulder squeeze. I did not bite her, no. If something gets funny enough, I used to. Yeah, you start gnaw. I gotta have something to gnaw. Just reach over and bite the shoulder a little bit. No. That’s never happened. Try that next time. If it’s funny enough, you’ll bite. You will bite your wife if things get funny enough. Did I say anything I need to take back? Yeah, both of us probably. But we can’t worry so much, man. Well, I’m just saying. I acknowledge that. Let Jamie worry about that. Yeah. We need to have more, you know, a little more diversity in our friend group. Right. There are different races in my friend group. I will say that it’s not just a bunch of white people. Okay. Just find a way to laugh. That’s really what I’m after here. Yeah. Finding a way to laugh, going to a place where there’s a professional, who, their job is to make you laugh and if they can do that reliably, it’s worth the ticket. That’s just nice. I agree. I also agree that the shirt that I’m wearing would look great on you. It’s the… International Darts League. Oh yeah. You a member of a league? What’s it look like on the back? Like, yeah, well, you’re not turning around enough. Turn around a little bit more. Swivel chair. Is it a swivel chair? Get the International Darts League shirt. Of course, we play darts on “Good Mythical Morning,” and now you can feel like you’re part of the squad. Yeah. Mythical.com. Single, married, monogamous or not. Yeah. Straight gay, whatever you, whoever you are, whatever you do, do it in the International Darts League shirt. I like that. Whoever you are, whatever you do. Okay, let’s listen to a voicemail. Hey, Rhett and Link, this is Thomas from Saxony, Germany. And I just heard the last “Ear Biscuit” and realized that I have a Alchemist LP, which is worth around $150. So I love your show. I hear many of the last episodes and thank you a lot for doing this. Goodbye. Goodbye. You’re welcome. And thank you for proving our point from last week. It may have been somebody doing an impersonation. We don’t know. Oh, you think? You think someone’s acting like they’re from Germany? No, we’re gonna trust him. To prove that we can receive international calls? Yeah, yeah, I actually think he is from Germany. And I think that this proves that where there’s a will, there’s a way. You can get through. You can call our number somehow. I don’t know how it works. Some people said Skype. I don’t think WhatsApp actually does work, Jamie ’cause I read about that. But we’re still, you know what, we’re still looking into it if there’s a way to make it easier. But he proved you can get through. 1-888-EARPOD1. Are you gonna send me that Alchemist LP? I mean, is that what you were saying? No, he wasn’t saying that. He was just saying like, “Hey man, look, we like the same thing. “And I got it.” And I helped him realize that it was worth more money than he thought. Oh yeah. I think is what he was saying. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Yep and now he’s gonna keep it probably. You don’t need to send it to Link. If you go to rhettandlink.com. or mythical.com, I think they go to the same place and then you look at the contact information. You can figure out how to mail us something. I’ll just put that out there. Do not mail your LP to Link, please. Don’t. But if anybody else is listening and they want to, they should. If you want to get rid of it. Yeah, looking for handouts now. I’m asking for a- You can go and buy your stone thing. Well, it’s a limited edition, you know. Okay. All right. Do you want to talk anymore about this German man or do you wanna hear another voicemail? I don’t have anything else to say about the German man. What do you want me to say about the German man? You should have been like , when I said that. Nine. Isn’t that no? Yes. Okay. It’s also a number in English right after eight. Seems like it should be zero. Is nine in German, zero? No. Zero is probably zero. It’s probably the same. Okay. A lot of crossover. Let’s hear another one. Hey Rhett and Link, this is Max from Illinois. I just listened to the latest episode and Rhett said something about taste buds and an epiphany hit me. Have you guys ever thought about calling each other Taste Buds? Because you guys are eating and trying things most of the time on the show. I feel like there’s a whole line of merch that could just be, “Your favorite morning taste buds.” I don’t know. Just a thought. Well, I guess we’re gonna talk about this publicly now. I mean, we don’t have to. We haven’t already? I don’t know if we have. Okay, here we go. This is a good story. This is a good story. We can tell it now in good clean conscience. Yeah. You may recall, not too long ago we had a hit show- Blockbuster television show. It was called “Inside Eats with Rhett and Link.” It was. But it wasn’t originally called that. When we were batting around different names… This show’s gonna go for seasons, decades. This is gonna be- How could they say no to this show? This is gonna be a mark that we put on entertainment. Better be a good title for a show- It’s literally, every single episode is basically just a big commercial for a brand. People are gonna be knocking down our doors and Food Network’s doors just asking us to make this. I mean, this is gonna be like our Triple D is kind of what, you know, we never said that, but there was a thought that that could happen. And so I don’t remember who came up with it. You gotta have a whole list of names. Yeah, there was, between me and you and Stevie and probably other people. We were putting names on a list. And the name that everybody really liked was “Taste Buds.” Because hey, we’re best friends, we taste things, taste buds, double on pandora. Done, let’s do it. And then when you come up with a name that you like and you are a sophisticated media outlet, you go through this process of what they call clearance. And actually, if I recall correctly- It made it. Food Network is the one that handled the title clearance. Yes. And when they came back and said. “Clear.” “Clear.” “Let’s do it.” We worked up title cards. When we announced the show, it was “Taste Buds with Rhett and Link.” Yes, we announced it and then. And then we find out that there is a podcast called “Taste Buds” hosted by one of the guys from “Impractical Jokers.” I can’t remember. I know what he looks like, I can’t remember his name. I’m a fan of those guys. I never listened to the podcast, obviously, because I did not, we would not have named our show the same thing as their podcast. Right. And it was funny ’cause I think they ended up talking about it. Oh, we found out about it real fast. Well, yeah ’cause it’s not an unpopular podcast. I mean, it’s like- Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, it was very great. I don’t know how we missed it. Like even in the Google search, like you do the- We didn’t miss it. It didn’t come across our desk until people started saying, “Well, you know, this is gonna be weird. “’cause these guys already have a, “they have a show “and they’ve kind of been calling it that for a while.” And I don’t remember exactly what we said at that point. I think it was just like a kind of like, “Oh, let’s not talk about this widely. “Let’s just change the name quietly. Or, ’cause it’s like, sometimes you don’t wanna be like, apologized for something that you didn’t mean to do ’cause all of a sudden it’s like a bunch of people who didn’t know about it now suddenly know about it, so. Well that’s the strike. The Streisand effect they say. So it’s just like, “Okay, fine. “We’ll come up with another name.” We’re not gonna compete. There was talk. There was talk of what if it was “Taste Buddies”? There was talk of that and we were like, “Eh, no, no.” If I was tho those guys, I would not be happy about that, so. No, right, right. So we’re not gonna do that. It was like, yeah, we put ourselves in their shoes because we knew that once our show, ha! Hit the Food Network air, that anything, like, we were gonna define not only genre, but our title was gonna become ubiquitous with- Oh yeah. It was gonna be a full solar eclipse. So much success. You know. Is that why the show wasn’t reordered? Yeah. After its little mini season. I will say- Because we couldn’t name it “Taste Buds”? There was a lot of other options, but every one of them had a clearance problem. And when I’m in situations like this, a lot of times I will get my wife involved. She’s got great ideas. I consult her regularly on creative ideas. And I was like, “We can’t come up with a title for this thing “that’s not already done.” She came up with a list and on her list was “Inside Eats.” And I was like, I don’t really like it that much, but it’s the best name that any of us have come up with that is clearable and so we’re going with it. Okay. And I was like, “That’s pretty cool. “Jesse got name for the show.” And of course then, you know what happened with it. She killed it. But what we did- DOA. No one else can use that for a while because we took it for a little bit. We took it. We tarnished it. Hey, you can have it. I put it to you that way you can have it. We’re not bitter about the show not working. I’m grateful that it didn’t work. We learned a lot of lessons about it. It was very important for us. Why did it not work? I don’t know. I actually don’t know. Oh, you wanna talk about that? Well, not really. Okay. Doesn’t matter. I don’t care about opening that can of worms but… There was another- I’ll just say I personally am glad. Here’s what I would like to talk about. That it didn’t work. I’m really glad it didn’t work either. Here’s what I do want to talk about. What should we call ourselves? Okay. ‘Cause that was the starting point of this. He heard “Taste Buds” and he’s like, “You guys should call yourself Taste Buds.” Where I thought he was going with it is like, how should we address each other, you know, like if we’re… I’ve always wanted to be a Dale. Dale? Dale, D-A-L-E, dale. Dale. Dale. Dale! Hey, I mean, we never call each other or anything. We don’t have like- Linky Poo or anything like that. I never called you that. Well, I mean on the show- Link. Link, that’s what I’ve been calling you for years. Rhett, Rhett, Rhett, that’s what I call you. Rhett, Rhett, I don’t like to really pronounce it. Link! That’s what I say, I get low like that. Link! When I wanna really get your attention. Rhett. I throw like a bark. Rhett, Rhett. It’s very barky. It’s how I usually get your attention. We referred to ourselves as the Peanut Butter Boys. Yes, we have. On GMMs. We have, we have,. I mean, we could have a show called “The Peanut Butter Boys.” What kind of show would that be? Yep, yep, yeah. That could be back on Food Network. Two middle-aged white dads eat… Everything. Peanut butter. With peanut butter. The Peanut Butter Boys with Dale and Link! Yeah. Can I be Dale in this scenario? Well, I’m gonna be Link, I don’t want that to be your thing, your name. Well, what you can be first, Link and Dale. Link and Dale. Link and Dale’s. Yeah, okay, whatever. I’ll let you be first if you let me be Dale. Call me Uncle. Halfway through their illustrious career, they switched up from Rhett and Link to Link and Dale. We’re only halfway through. You see the context there? Halfway through. Okay. Yep. Are we halfway through with our career? Because now I’d like to switch our relationship from being friends to like, you can be my nephew. I don’t think that’s how it works. Uncle Link. I don’t wanna call you Uncle. God brother? That’s actually funny. We’re God brothers. God brothers. Man, if we were still Christians- We used to be God brothers. If we were still Christians doing some comedy, the God brothers. The God brothers are coming to a megachurch near you. They’re not brothers. Nope. They’re God brothers. But God. They’re not God but they’re into God. And now that they’re not into God anymore, it’s G-A-H-D brothers. GAHD Brothers. GAHD. GAHD Brothers. GAT Brothers? Okay. Yeah, we’re still workshopping as you can see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we have a name for our new show and we cleared that one. We did the diligence, what they call due diligence. And I think that’s D-U-E diligence. It’s the diligence that’s deserved after learning our lesson from “Taste Buds,” we made sure that the name, which I’m not gonna accidentally say, because it’s not time. Do you know off the top of your head, Jenna, when we’re announcing that? As it relates to this. Oh, I do not. A little bit later. I do think it is a little later, yeah, when this comes out. I feel good about that. Because this is like mid-June that we’re talking that this is out, so. Cramp! Oh, cramp. I shouldn’t have that decaf coffee. I should have water. Oh. You’re saying that you’re cramping because you had a coffee? I’m cramping because I had another diuretic instead of a water. Really? All day long. Like your stomach is cramping or your calf? Let’s compare what we’ve drank today. Is it drunk or drank? Ah, it’s always just gonna alternate. I had a big glass of water. So first thing I woke up, big glass of water. That’s what I do. I had a big glass of water with my pills. There was creatine in it. Because I was out of Kefir. What kind of give you some cramps. I usually drink Kefir straight out of the bed. Kefir first? Kefir with my pills. I’m out of Kefir, I drink a big glass of water. Mr. Hydration doesn’t start with water? ‘Cause you’ve been doing water all night. Yeah, all night. I haven’t done any water during the night. So first thing is water, then a double long shot espresso. That is my pre-workout. It’s just a straight black espresso. Oh, okay. A double shot. They’re called long shot, but I think it’s essentially, it’s just more water, but it’s the same amount of caffeine as a double shot. Well, I had just a coffee, so like a single shot. And I know you’re not supposed to have coffee within 30 minutes of waking up, whatever. Okay, I’ll be all right. Then after the workout, smoothie. Me too. See, we’re on the same track. And smoothie’s got a lot of liquid in it. I pee so much, so much in the morning because of that. Yep, and then you come into work. Come into work. But I have a big thing of water in my car and I drink that on the way into work. I don’t. Yeah. How come you’re not like literally like wet pants as you walk in? How do you do that? How do you have a smoothie and then you drink water on the way, I would be pissing myself. I’d have to wear- My urethra at some point, there’s a mechanism in it, which like pinches. This is going back to the robotic penis from last episode. Yeah, we’re not going there. I can hold my pee. Usually I’ll have a green tea. When you get in here? When I get in here. And that’s what I had today. And what did I have? And then- I had- Decaf green tea. Oh, it was? I’ve been giving you decaf green tea. Oh, she’s been slipping me decaf. You told me you wanted decaf green tea from now on. So every time I asked- I’m glad I asked you that. There you go. And you’re right because I don’t need to have that much caffeine because the next liquid I had was lunch and I had a Yoruba and that’s got caffeine in it. And it’s still like a tea. And then now this, no water since the very beginning of the day. Now this is, I’m not- You gotta work on this man. I know. Like, I’m cramping. What… Well, that’s the decaf coffee. I actually, I picked up my air up because it’s the thing that makes me drink ’cause it’s got the smell of the water and I sucked on it, there was nothing in there. And I was like, “Ah, I’m not gonna go get, “I’m not gonna fill this thing out.” Yep. You’re lazy. Yeah. You’re helpless. Yeah. You’re dehydrated. We need a spigot in our office. I’m glad we did that. I’m glad we went down that. What have you drunk today? Boy, that was worth it. Yeah, well, I mean, we’re middle-aged dads. So you gotta stay hydrated. Gotta keep each other informed. What are you gonna drink when you get home? A little night cap, a little port. Well, I’ll drink the rest of my water that’s in my car on the way home. And then when I get- You’ll drink on the way home because you’re thirsty? ‘Cause it’s there and I like to just drink. When in doubt, drink. Listen, I wish I drank as much as you, but I’m just so fascinated by it. Like a specimen, like Jenna and her married friends. And then when I get home- I look at you and I’m like, “He’s drinking? And I mean, the commute’s not that long. I only drink water usually when I get home. For the rest of the day? Yeah. Now I’m, oh. And including my one Topo Chico. Okay. Which is well timed for the treat of the evening. So I do the La Croix and I will do a diet, caffeine free soda, trying to cut back. But I’ll get one of those that’s not, that’s crampy time too. Yeah, can’t do it. It feels like maybe. Can’t do it. And then water before I go to bed, I camel up a little bit before I go to bed. I do that. I fall asleep drinking water. The one that’s in my car is the one that’s by my bed. Yeah, it’s the same bottle. Yeah. You carry it. Yeah. And I should have brought it in, but I was afraid I would leave it at work. So I left it in the car. Now, I wish I had it. Now I’m thirsty. I did something that I don’t ever do. Like me as we’ve established, me being not big drinkers. You know, I do spill wine on myself in for like decoration of shirts and stuff. You’re not a big alcohol. But I’m not a big drinker of alcohol. Notable alcoholic experiences. And I shouldn’t say alcoholic experiences, experiences that involved alcohol so far this year that were notable that I will say I kind of enjoyed. Now, first of all, a cocktail with a good meal, preceding a good meal. A good restaurant with a good bar, a mezcal something, I’ll do that. I enjoy it. Just one. Just one. But when NC State got into the Sweet 16, I broke out some of that. You know, people give us liquor all the time and they give us ice, they give us ice liquor. And I just give it to my friends. You know, I’m just like, “I have friends that want to drink,” and if they’re at my house, I’m like, “Yeah.” And they’re like, “This bottle of scotch is like $400.” I’m like, “Well, I’m not going to do anything with it.” Really? You know, it was a gift. And I’ll drink a little bit with you right now, but I just, I- You can have it. But there was a good bottle of scotch and I was like, and Tim will, he likes to break out the celebratory scotch. The pack wins. Yeah. And I was like- You gonna do that? I’m gonna do that. And I had a little shwig. How did that go over? It was great. It was great. I just, I put it on some ice, you know. Okay. And I was like- A little scotch on the rocks. I was like, “This is fun. “I don’t wanna do it again right now. “And I don’t wanna do it for a while,” but I enjoyed it. But then I played golf for the first time in sometime, in like a year the other day and I- I saw that on your Instagram, kind of. And it was, you know, there’s the girl with the cart. No. What do you mean? Oh yeah, yeah. The girl with the cart? The cart girl, yeah. She’s got a cart that’s got goodies in it. She’s driving around. She’s selling things. Like a golf, not a golf cart, a snack cart? Yeah, it’s a golf cart that has been converted into a snack cart. Oh, so she drives around. Mobile snack. Yes and she has a credit card machine. Of course she does. She’s talking to the clouds somehow. And she’s transacting right there. And she’s got beers. She’s got, she’ll mix you a little drink. A Scotch? No, I didn’t have a scotch. I had a beer. I was like, “I’m gonna have a beer while playing golf. “That’s what men-men do.” Okay. And it was pretty good. You know, it was like, “Okay, this is pretty good in this context.” A cold beer. Cold beer on a not so hot day. Okay. She had, I got a Caesar wrap. She had a Caesar wrap and some chips as well. This is what you’re telling me about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, just, I’m out there, I’m on the golf course eating a Caesar wrap and I’m like- You got it made. Caesar wrap. If I could show this experience to a caveman right now. And you see this guy with these weird synthetic clothes on with this long club hitting this little white ball on this immaculately manicured lawn, and this girl coming up in this like animal that’s like got wheels and is rolling around and she opens it up and there’s this perfectly curated little wrapped up piece of food. Like his mind would be blown. Yeah. It’s like, “What is happening?” And there’s a language barrier, so. Yeah, he would be grunting a lot. But it really hit me how good I got it. Well, I’m glad that you finally went golfing, by the way. It takes a lot. You gotta find somebody that’ll do it with you. Yeah. You gotta find somebody that’ll do it with you. Nobody likes to do it anymore. It’s just not a thing anymore. It’s dying it seems like. Okay. I’m resurrecting it. How did you shoot? Is that the proper way to ask? What did you shoot? What’s your handicap? I’ve never played enough to establish, I think. Did you, ah, guess what? Just tell me what I should, how did you do? I took, I kept score and I made a, I shot a 92, which is 20 over what you’re supposed to get is over par, which for a man that doesn’t play very often, I was pretty, you know, pretty proud. I finished strong. So 18 holes. You did 20 more than what you should have done. So on each hole you average one more stroke. Average. What that means is there’s like- That’s actually, yeah, okay. There’s like a hole where- That’s pretty good. I made an eight on one hole. That was supposed to make a four only. Like, things fall apart. Link, once I got my groove, I finished. I know no one cares, but I do, maybe you will. Par. Par. Par, birdie par. And I was like, “Oh, I found something.” Did you want to, do you want to do another 18 after that? No, no, no, no my back was like, “You are done for the day.” But then you know what it was? It was my- Now you want to go back. My back. That’s what happens, man. Even if you finish horribly, one good moment of greatness and you’re like, yeah. One good moment of greatness… It keeps you coming back. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ll do it again. But in LA it takes like five hours. This is the best podcast we’ve ever done. We’ve talked about what we drank today. Yep. And now we’re talking about golf. That’s where we’re at. I mean, this is my favorite episode. We started talking about going to see Jerry Seinfeld. Seeing the whitest- With all your married friends. Men line up. This is the whitest thing. This is the this is the whitest- Dad. Dad episode. Hey, listen, Nate Bargatze plays golf, I’d love to play with him. That would be great. We’d get along. We’d have a good time. He talked about, you know, he talks about how his dad, he grew up with his dad- A magician. A magician. Oh yeah. He talked about how he would go to, like, growing up it would like, there would be like carnivals that he would be the magician at. Yeah. But there would also be a donkey jumping off a high dive. And so he proceeds to describe what it’s like for a donkey to go off of a high dive. And you can only imagine what it would be like. And it’s like, well, I mean it’s hard to compete with that if you’re a magician. Is the point he makes. Yeah, right. But then when he describes the mechanism of getting a donkey to jump off of a high dive- It’s a little forceful. It’s a bit cringey. It’s a bit uncomfortable. Meaning they did not make the choice. No. They are forced into this. Yeah. Yeah. And he somehow he makes that very funny, you know? Yeah. And not something where you feel sorry for the donkey. You actually feel sorry for his dad. Yeah, that’s, hey, that’s genius right there. That’s how you do it. Make him feel sorry for it. Make him feel sorry for his dad. I saw a video of a donkey with a goat in its mouth. It was a goat that had gotten into the wrong part of the farm. And it was a mean donkey that picked this little goat up by its hunch. Oh. Like a hot dog. It was like biting across the back of the goat and then running around with it. And then they had to get it to drop that goat. And the goat seemed fine after that. Okay, cool. I saw a video of a guy cradling a baby donkey like it was a child. People will cradle a donkey. That is so cute. And they’re like, “You haven’t lived until you’ve cradled a donkey.” A donkey can be a good pet if you know what you’re doing. I believe they’re really, really intelligent. Yeah and they’ll protect your cows. And if you’re hurt, they can high dive as well. Yeah. Yeah. They’re not really into it, but they will do it. Dive is a term used very loosely. They will do it. I wish I remembered his bit so I could be funnier about it. You got a wreck? I do. Speaking of funny middle aged white guy. Keep it going. So you didn’t know are you call it. I have no idea that you were gonna talk about that. And I was gonna recommend “Conan O’Brien Must Go.” Here we go. All right. We need to put a warning on this episode. Yeah, definitely. Trigger warning. Two white cis male. Yeah. Just completely white cis-ed out this whole time. I’m sorry. I really, we really are. We had to get, hey listen, we had to get it out of our system, but I got a little bit more, “Conan O’Brien Must Go.” First of all, Conan is funny as hell. Always has been. He’s 60 years old now. Still as silly as he’s ever been. And he lives in that silliness in a way that, I mean he’s been doing his travel bits on the show. Right. And that has always been like him just being himself interacting with people. But the premise of the show is like, it’s an international fan that has talked to him on his podcast and he goes and meets them and kind gets involved in their life and does something. And I’ve only seen the first two. There was like a Norway episode I think and then the second episode was Argentina. But that’s all you can- So funny. I saw the first two as well. They were both great. The Argentina episode was, he’s relentless. Conan is like relentless. Like he never lets up like, like if we were trying that hard to be funny, we wouldn’t be as funny. A, but like I would be like, “Hey man, we need to float back a little bit. “We’re going,” like, he is like, “You just gonna put me in this situation “and I’m gonna be a fool the whole time.” And it’s just so great. Kind of makes me think I can go to Germany and get that guy’s record. Well then you’d just be making, I don’t know, by Conan, you know? Okay. But I recommend it. It’s just good clean! No, it’s actually not that clean in places, but it was fine. Good. Got it. Middle-aged white man, like just rack it up. I did like, I really liked the show also. I will say, so. Okay. And Stevie did too. I was talking to Stevie about it. She’s a lesbian. Yeah. I don’t know, she loves it. Single people, lesbians. I think Conan might even be, have a broader appeal than the guys that you mentioned. Oh, okay. Yep. Well, let us have it. Call us. Use #earbiscuits, of course, if you want to do that. We’ll talk, catch you next week. Appreciate it. Hi, Rhett and Link. This is Chelsea calling from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Yes, you heard that right Regina. Anyway, I was just listening to “Ear Biscuits” where you were discussing that people well, internationally couldn’t call in. So here’s my shot and hope to hear it on the show. Thanks so much. Bye!