This episode is sponsored by Autotrader. You see a car in a movie that you just watched? Well, you can find it on Autotrader. Shop millions of new and used cars on Autotrader. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time, or maybe a little shorter amount of time because it’s the summer, but it’s not permanent. I’m Link. And I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting we’re going to be Talking to you about something that you possibly should be doing more of. Okay. Is this, this is a life improvement episode of Ear Biscuits. Um, we’ve been talking about this. I’ve been sharing it with you and I’ve actually, there’s two aspects to this. This is the Hank jr. Thing. Well, that’s a third aspect of it. That’s the, that’s the only way I remember that you’ve talked to me about it. Well, no, I was just talking about how we should be doing it more. And then there’s another aspect. Okay. Okay, so you may have seen in other parts of the world or people who are from other parts of the world outside the United States, like it’s very common in many parts of Asia. And it’s also very common in many parts of, um, Europe and like Eastern Europe. So much so that it’s sometimes called the Slav squat or the Asian squat because they do this quite a bit. And that is, I’ll demonstrate. For those of you who can watch. You’re gonna do it on your chair? I don’t think you should stand on your chair. You’re trying to decide if you’re gonna stand on the table? Oh God, he’s gonna It’s pretty sturdy. So it’s basically Your jeans are black, and it kinda looks like you’re still just sitting on your chair, but really, your feet are on your chair, and your butt is below your knees. almost sitting on your, the heels of your feet. And if I was on the ground, my heels would be You can, the best position is if, okay, if your heels are on the ground. So basically what I’m doing is You’re not, and you’re not talking about just pooping, because I’m familiar with squatty potties when it’s like, it’s basically a ditch. And that’s in lots of parts of the world. You straddle and then you just, you drop trout and then You poop and And it’s way healthier. It’s the right It gives your body proper poop alignment. Which is why, like, products like poop stools exist to raise your feet up higher when you’re sitting on an elevated toilet. It takes the pressure off the anus. So you’re less likely to get hemorrhoids. It also spreads the cheeks, which Does a lot of great things. Does a lot of great things. Um, but the reason that this is so healthy And I’m not gonna, I mean, there’s multiple articles if you just look this up. But you’re not just talking about pooping, you’re talking about No, I’m just talking about Squatting As you get older Socially. Well, right now, however old you are, you should get to a place, you should try to get to a place. Now, I realize that, you know, not everyone is capable of doing this, and so I’m not But I’m saying that if you Bodies are different. Bodies are different, but If you think you might be able to do this, this would be a great thing to start trying and to start incorporating into every day. And that is getting in that position. Like, if you feel like you need to relax, instead of just sitting down in a chair, going into this squat position where your butt gets all the way down to the floor. Almost to the floor. And it creates this like, openness and flexibility in the hips and the ankles and the legs. And like, just having to do that is difficult. I mean, as a 46 year old 6 foot 7 man, this has not come particularly natural to me, right? But you do it. Go all the way down. And if you go down and you stay that way for for a little bit, like it really starts opening things up, starts feeling good after a while, and then you come back up. But there’s all these physical therapists and doctors are talking about how because we don’t do it in the West, what ends up happening, like if you can keep doing that as you get into your 50s and your 60s and your 70s and your 80s, there’s just, I don’t know what it is, but the correlation of people who can. Squat down like that and stand back up and longevity. There’s a tight correlation between those two things. There’s obviously a correlation between the type of toilet you use and your ability to do this. So if, if, if you’re In a culture where there are squatty potties, and if you’re pooping once, if you’re lucky twice a day, well, you’re doing it twice a day and you’re sitting there for a session. Yeah. So it’s, it’s built in. It’s built in. But a lot of people, a lot of men, but s sl squat, it implies social squatting. Right? So if you, you, you could imagine seeing you and being in Eastern Europe. And seeing like a group of men, like older men, sitting, squatting in a circle talking to each other. Like this is a thing that happens. And it’s a beautiful, wonderful, healthy thing that happens. Versus sitting in a chair in an unnatural way. I mean, I haven’t seen that. I would imagine that I would think, What’s that group of guys? Are they trying to start a campfire or something? Right. Because it’s unfamiliar to us. What’s happening? It’s very unfamiliar to us. And the reason you brought up Hank Jr. is because Hank Williams Jr. has, I mean, I don’t watch Hank Williams Jr. in concert very often, but I just happen to see, probably on Instagram or TikTok, of him in concert. And he’s old now. And he, in the middle of his concert, goes down repeatedly in squats like that and says, I can still do that. Whilst like singing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah with a guitar No, not in this clip that I watched. He just had a microphone. I can still do that. And it’s actually really impressive. You were impressed. It left an impression on you. I want to be like Hank Jr. when I get older. Uh, specifically in the area of squatting. Homeboy squats on stage. Yeah. I’m just saying that. I love that. I can still do that. Well, and there’s also a, it’s slightly related, like your ability to sit on the floor and get up on your own. Yeah. Is also very like, again, I’m not saying there are people who are incapable of doing this for all kinds of reasons, and that doesn’t make you less of a person. The thing I’m saying is, if you are capable of sitting down on the floor and standing back up, there is a strong correlation. And as we get older, it gets really, really hard to do that, but the old people who keep being able to do that live happier, healthier lives as they get older, statistically. So should, should we be removing Like couches from our I don’t think we need to be making too many adjustments ripping out toilets I think we should have a squatty potty should just be squatting more. Do you have a squatty potty? So the problem with a squatty potty with me is that which is the not a sponsor? It’s a name brand version of a poop stool, you know, if I could show you my posture on a toilet Given my height and the length of my legs, you would be like, Oh, you’re kind of already in a squatty potty position. Your knees are already by your shoulders. My knees are above my butt on a regular toilet. So, Wow. Yeah. So I have used a squatty potty, but it just feels like more of the same. I think it’s a way to get into this without squatting down. You sit down and then you pull the stool out. You push the stool out. Cause it’s like, Around the push it out and then you put your feet on it. So it’s like it’s so it’s a different way to get into that position and start to get some flexibility. I think it’s the gateway squat. So get a squatty potty sit first and then you can probably bring it into the living room when you’re like watching your favorite show you sit just sit on the edge of the couch. I think bring your squatty potty in there and put your feet up or maybe just use an ottoman. I don’t have a squatty potty. But I will and I go through phases of this while Jesse and I are like watching tv at night I’ll get up off the couch and i’ll go into a squat position and stay there while watching a show Not I mean not you know for a few minutes and i’m the weird one Ear Biscuits is supported by Rosetta Stone. You know, Lando is planting seeds for a big trip he wants to take. He wants to go to Japan. Uh oh. And he’s already learning some Japanese. Okay. So what does that mean for you? Means I need to learn it too, I think. That’s right, in comes Rosetta Stone! 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And, so, And there’s all kinds of studies that show that, like, after you eat, as an example, like a brisk 10 minute walk, just a brisk 10 minute walk after you eat has some incredible impacts on blood glucose and just, the benefits are really, it doesn’t have to be a crazy thing, it’s just like, walk around after you eat, get up, you know how, like, if you’ve got, like, an Oura Ring or you’ve got an Apple Watch, it’ll start telling you, like, time to stretch your legs, like, it’s doing that because it’s not great to just sit. Right, to get up and to move a little bit, even if it’s just a little bit, it’s great. And then, in terms of your mental capacity, and your alertness, Every couple of hours, just like, doing a few jumping jacks, Jogging in place for a second, kind of wakes you up, right? Gets the blood flowing again, like it’s all, it’s, this is just, it’s great. But, There’s a study that was done on people who are, who just do some squats. Okay. So it goes back to the squat, like just sitting down, going down, coming up, going down, coming up, just doing like 20, 10, every, like a couple of times a day. And all of a sudden you’ll be like, Oh, I feel like, uh, I was about to fall asleep a second ago. 10 squats is nothing to slouch at. I was, I was losing my focus. And then I just, Went down ten times and came back up, and now, all of a sudden, I’ve got another couple hours in me. We were squatting in the dressing room. You got me to do this. I was um, I was a little sore, you know, because I I was like damn I haven’t actually squatted. Yeah I’m, not yeah, i’m not talking about squatting. I don’t squat with any weight. I don’t do any like weighted Yeah, body weight squat squats because it’s tears my back up I’m, just talking about just me as a person going down and coming up going down and coming up It pushes off that that need for a little bit of caffeine. It does I want to go back to the squatty potty for a second. Have you You Ever used a squatty potty. Have you ever pooped into a ditch? I mean camping kind of you’ve dug a hole Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the only time we’ve done. I mean in your travels Jenna, have you ever used a squatty potty? I have a squatty potty at home. No, I mean like Proper hole like in i’ve done that. It’s great. What country? Uh, I was I was out. I was out camping and there was like, uh, it was set up like a hole. Yeah You Okay, but you weren’t in like, um, Shanghai or anything. No, no, I haven’t been in another country where it was set up where you go in and it’s, it’s a hole in the ground. I haven’t done that. Jesse’s had to do that in both Africa and Asia. Two places that I have not been. When I bought a new toilet for my in laws, Christine and I bought them a new toilet, because their toilet was like super old. We just got them a hole in the bathroom floor. We just got them a hole and told them they had to start doing it. In their own house. Now we got them a, we got them a toilet and it was um, I had, I had seen a TikTok around this time, and their toilet is, was really tall. And I guess, you know, when you get older, it’s harder. If you can’t squat, you need a taller toilet. And so that’s what we got for him. But then I was like, damn, this is a sturdy toilet. I can do what I saw this guy on TikTok do, which is like, he was like, this is how you’re supposed to poop on an American toilet. And he was barefoot and he put his feet on either side of it. And he did a squat, a squat all the way down. And just, I mean, he had his pants on, he demonstrated it. But I was like, I was like, I was concerned about the height of this toilet. And I was, And I didn’t have a squatty potty there at the in laws house. And I was like, well, I’m barefoot already. And I sat there and I perched like a bird right up there on their toilet and gave it a shot. And it was a bit strange. Well, yeah, you’re not used to it, but, um, the door was locked. You get any splash on your ankles? Uh, but I mean, just to be completely, I don’t want to be graphic, but I will be thorough here. Is that like, you got to make sure that. You know, that you, that you pee down, you don’t want to be peeing out. Yeah. Yeah. You have, you might have to redirect it a little bit. Yeah. Or it’ll just go straight over the lip. Right. Straight over the lip into the, into the bathtub. Well, that’s okay. Yeah. Maybe that’s why I was designed. Okay. As long as you, you want, you know, we’re in the water afterwards. I recommend that. Give that a shot. That’s my, um, that’s my challenge to you, your Biscuiteer. Yeah, and I’m just If you’re barefoot and you have a sturdy toilet, put a foot on either side of it. You gotta take your pants all the way off. I feel like Or at least off of one ankle. I feel like this is, you’re jumping ahead a little bit too much here. Yeah, I am. How about before you squat on the toilet? You tell them to do 20 squats. That’s a lot. Step one, just see if you can squat for 30 seconds. Like, go down into that position, let it kind of settle in. It’s like, it’s, most Americans who do this find within the first 10 seconds that they have to grab something to hold themselves up because they’re not used to balancing in this way. Well, I’m in a swivel chair. Yeah, it’s not ideal in the swivel chair. Yeah, you’re not going to have any issue with it, but most people need to hold on to something and what you’ll find is that once you kind of get into this, like it, it, it’s pulling my hips apart. I mean, but I also feel like, should I poop? I think, I think you may be associating it a little too strongly with poop. I am. Maybe I’ll associate it with being a frog or just conversation conversation or watching television or relaxing, whatever you want to do. It makes you feel great So just see if you could do that and your knees are right there. I mean you can just like you can totally just Like let’s have meetings. This is reminiscent. I see these pictures of people like you see these pictures of like Old men in Asian markets, like, doing what you’re doing right now, just kind of sitting there talking to each other. Your need for a park bench is eradicated. I mean, think about all the time you’ve spent looking for a park bench. Don’t do that anymore. You are your park bench. Right, you don’t need the bench. That’s sweet, dude. I love that. A little bench autonomy. Um, while we’re talking about squatting, we have a voicemail that is loosely related to this theme that I think we might be able to help with. Let’s listen to that. Hey guys, Jeremy from Montreal here. I have a bit of an issue for you guys to help me resolve with your expert guidance. So basically, over the summer, I’m an intern and I share an office with another intern. This fellow intern has a bad habit of farting inside said office right after dinner. Maybe that would be lunch for you guys. It would. Now, since I share the office, the risk is I don’t want anybody else walking into the office and thinking Wow, Jeremy’s the farter. He’s a big fart guy. Yeah. That’s not ideal. On top of that, I have to sit in said fart while it happens. Yeah. How do I resolve this? How do I make this end? Who do I bring up with him? Help me out here. Jeremy, not a big fart guy. Does it want to be considered a big fart guy? Yeah, not the farter. Don’t want to be known as that. Before we get into solving your problem, as we will. I got to get out of this. Um, I will say that Wasn’t easy. The best advice, which I am going to gloss right over and say just up front, I’m not going to give you. Would probably be to have a direct conversation about it, but you know what? I wouldn’t do that, so I’m not gonna ask you to do it, and it’s no fun. You wouldn’t do it, okay. It’s no, to tell you that you should just have a conversation with this guy, what, the podcast is over once we say that. Yeah. So let’s get more interesting, let’s get more creative, let’s get more realistic. Okay. Because people don’t like to have direct conversations about things like this. So I think you have to, you personally, I think we have to create, get him fired. Some sort of Pavlovian response here so that he learns that when he farts, bad things happen that aren’t necessarily, they don’t have to be related. Okay. They don’t have to be related, but do you want, but, and you don’t want him to know that you’re the source of that. I think it’s gonna take at least 15 to 18 times before this works. And so, Jeremy, you’re gonna be sitting in some fart for a while. I don’t know how often this happens. And yes, it is called lunch, where we’re at. Sitting in some fart. Um. I mean, that’s I can think of a couple of ideas. So, your boy farts, and you smell it, and you could act like you get a phone call. Um, you know, with some bad news that applies to both of you that’s like work related. That could be hard to follow up, it could be a little bit of a web of lies thing, so maybe that’s not the greatest thing. It could simply be a physical response, so that every time you start smelling the fart, you’re like, Like you have a coughing attack. And this could be even more than Pavlovian because he might begin to think that, I think my fart is making this guy choke. I think my fart is making Jeremy choke. It seems that he has a real problem with this and maybe I shouldn’t fart. That could be an even more direct thing. But I’m just trying to create some kind of passive reaction every time you smell the fart. What about smell? Just spraying, uh, bathroom spray in there, like, Every time he does it. Like, take a hint, bud. Just like, psst, psst, psst. Maybe just a little. That’s another step up the passive aggressive chain. I’m not saying I don’t like it. It’s easier than a conversation. I don’t think it’s aggressive. I think it’s Called for. It stinks in here. I’m gonna make it smell better. I’m not pointing out where the stink came from. I didn’t say it was aggressive. I said it was passive aggressive, which is a different thing. It’s passive, but I wouldn’t call it passive aggressive. So you’re telling me that if somebody farts It’s just and then you like if you pull out I mean, I’m maybe it’s the look on the person’s face that I’m picturing like you fart and I’m just like That’s passive aggressive, man. You know, because I’m not addressing it directly. How about this? But I’m saying, I’m not saying I don’t like it. How about this? Cause like, I found myself saying, reacting with surprise when you said like, I don’t want to talk to him, I don’t want to confront him, nobody wants to do that. And I was like, well, would I want to? Most people aren’t you, Link. I wonder if he works with somebody that’s, most people aren’t. That aren’t, he’s not, that aren’t like most people. Usually there’s somebody you work with. You’d have to confide in this other person. I’m, I’m recommending a collusion. With someone who you, you give them a little signal. And it’s like, it’s Judy. Judy, Judy likes confrontation. So I’m gonna ping Judy whenever my office mate toots. I’m a pinger and she knows to spring into action. She comes in and she, she has business, but then immediately she’s like, Oh, it smells kind of, do you guys smell that? I like involving another team member. And then she leaves. And then every single time he farts, pinger, Judy shows up every time you fart. She has a Judy button. You smell, and she smells it. And she’ll talk about it. You have a Judy button installed. And then after the 30 minutes, the first time you’d be like, I think I smell it, but I can’t think it’s just our office. She’s like no this isn’t your office I’ve been in your office at other times, and you and you don’t I think you know what I think it could be This could be a really good plan if Judy doesn’t say something that makes Fart guy think that it’s the It doesn’t address the fart directly. He thinks I think something must have died in here. Yeah. Yeah, you know like I think I think you start with did somebody leave some food. There might be some food that’s rotten in here Right you come up with and every time judy escalated You got to generate a list for judy to always always something eating that food that was left in here yesterday and then it farted And then the next day, it’s like, I think the thing that farted after eating the food that was left in here two days ago has now died in here. The, the, the, get, blaming the fart on like a rodent, I kind of feel like it might be too close of an association. I think we work our way up to the rodent farting. He thinks that he’s getting away with it, but He’s realizing, if I don’t stop, it’s gonna get traced back to me, so I need to plug it up. I need to take a walk. You said it yourself earlier. That’s the other thing you could do. You could send him the article Rhett was talking about. It’s like, after a meal, take a brisk walk. Get those farts out. So it’s just like, you know what we should do? After lunch, We should take a walk, and you can fart during that walk, and I won’t be there. I’m taking a different walk. That could be nice. That’s it. So you give him a post dinner walk. Yeah, the thing about Judy is I don’t love the feeling of now I’ve like talked shit about this guy, no pun intended, to Judy to get her involved. It seems a little gossipy. Well, it depends on what Judy’s life is like. This could be a gift to Judy. I don’t know what Judy does. I know, but it’s talking about him to Judy behind his back. Okay. So I don’t love that part of the advice, but, I mean, he’s farting behind his back. Yeah, he is. I don’t know. I think, the fundamental problem here I would send him the article about the wallet before I would, I would start to bring Judy in. The fundamental problem is that, Fart guy, until you do something, Jeremy. He’s gonna keep farting. Fart guy is assuming that it’s okay. Like, some people fart. He doesn’t smell it. And they’re like, I don’t think he’s smelling it. He does not smell it. You know what I’m saying? He’s probably not hearing it. Some people fart on a plane. And they, and they, and they think, they, they think, and they kind of are getting away with it because it’s so hard to trace. Yeah. And you don’t feel like it’s worth it. But. You gotta start spraying. In this situation, in an enclosed environment, where if there’s a fart that is being smelled and there’s only two person and one of the people smelling it didn’t do it. We know who else did it. You know, this is a mathematical certainty. Jeremy knows that this dude is farting. That’s the beauty of math because it can tell you who’s farting. And I would say that the most direct. If none of these plans that we’ve just proposed, we’ve given you many options. If none of these work, then I think the most direct that I would be willing to tell you to be, because this is as direct as I would be willing to be, would be It’s like plant something that he’s stolen, like office supplies. No, no, no, it’s still too indirect. I’m saying If he had soup for whatever he had for lunch, put some gas, no, when he farts, be like, that suit really did a number on you, huh? There you go. You got a little, you’re, you’re, you’re bringing it up. You’re bringing it. It’s like, I know you farted, bro. That soup did a little number. That soup really did a little number on you, huh? That burger did a little number on you. It was a pattern here. And then fill in the blank with what he eats every single day. Yeah. And then he’ll be like, oh yeah, I’m not getting away with this. And then maybe what he’ll do is if he, if he has the fart, he’ll leave the office. Problem solved. Yep, yep. I like that one. A facetious, playful investment. Did a little number on you, huh? The diddle iddle number. Diddle iddle number. Happens to the best of us. But mostly you and not me because I don’t do that here. Yeah. Now, you, you do also have the opportunity. You can see this totally different. This is your chance. The door is open or something’s open for you to start farting too. I mean, that’s what we do. I mean, burnt at the desk, me burnt at my desk. I mean, that’s what, that’s how we did it. One of us burnt first, and then the other one started doing it, and that became the culture. But I will say, I will say, that I tend to not do that if it’s a day in which there’s consequences. Like, smelling consequences. Sometimes, you know, it’s just a, it’s a fart day and it’s just for, it’s just for laughs and it’s just for sounds. Yeah, you know what I’m saying? Yeah. And, uh, but if it’s a day where there’s going to be consequences. Yeah. I don’t do it. Yeah. If it’s, if it’s, if you can tell if it’s, if, if it feels sour inside, it’s going to be sour. I will say, I think if there’s, if there, if there’s, if there’s one between us, who’s maybe going to fart more in terms of like. make more noise, it’ll be me. There you go. But I think that if it’s going to be one of us that make more smell, it’s going to be you, just historically speaking. Like there’s been a couple of times where, where you really needed to apologize. Well, you didn’t do it. You didn’t do the did a little number. You got to get a little no, we talked directly about it. No, I want the did a little number. Then I’ll know that’s, that’s how we do it. That’s how we do it. Okay, I just, if it’s a stink day, I think you should know it. If it’s a stinky linky day Then I feel like you got to take a walk. You got to go outside Let’s say hold on. You got to do it. You did a little number. I was working out with Jesse this morning. Uh huh and You know, I when I do my stretches in the morning Well, yeah, we that mean if you haven’t seen that video of yeah, we 3d printed a fart and and if you’re into this conversation And you haven’t seen that video on the Rhett and Link channel. You need to go over there and watch we 3d printed a fart You need to and if you don’t like this conversation You still need to watch it because yeah It makes farts beautiful. It makes it beautiful. Jessie doesn’t She’s not amused by it. She just kind of shakes her head. Yeah. She just kind of shakes her head, but That’s what I’m for. But it’s gonna be If it’s gonna be a stinky one, I don’t do it. Yeah. If it’s just, hey, this is just a fun sound. If we’re just making fun sounds Yeah. I’m there for it. And that’s the number one reason I try to eat clean. Right. So I have the right to make fun sounds. Right. Well, you’re welcome. Here we are again at the end of an Ear Biscuit. Again, a shorter one, but it ain’t gonna always be this way. Recommendation, we’ve already made it. Squat a little bit. Squat a little bit. Squat a lot. I can still do this! Hi Rhett and Link, I’m calling from Japan. I’m studying abroad right now. Um, Good Mythical Morning and Ear Biscuits. Always help me remember to eat healthy. My American roots and I just listened to the father’s day podcast. I’m my dad and I are a bit estranged, so it’s always nice to hear dad thoughts and dad isms. Um, yeah. Keep doing what you do. Appreciate you. Thank you.