This episode is sponsored by AutoTrader. See a car in a movie 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, I’m Link and I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re going to be answering some of your questions, uh, including just a little tease here. What are we going to do if one of us passes? What would we do within the context of Good Mythical Morning? Yeah. If one of us dies? Yeah. So we might get morbid, or maybe we’ll, maybe we’ll crack the code. Why don’t we start with something more lighthearted? Okay. Yeah. Let’s hear a voicemail. Hey, Rhett and Link. Um, it’s Gracelyn again. I’m the caller who left the voicemail about the dying of Rhett’s hair. Um, since y’all were asking, I wanted to say that I’m from Kentucky. Thank you. not Alabama. I’ll try not to be offended. But I wanted to thank you all for the compliments on my accent. It just made me so happy because I did not realize that I sounded like Colonel Sanders until I heard it played back. So I appreciate y’all not calling me a hick. Um, this leads me to asking about y’all’s lack of the North Carolina accent. Link, your dad just has the most beautiful southern dialect. So I’m just wondering where y’all’s went and if you’re happy that it’s gone. Okay, thanks again. Love you guys. Our lack of the North Carolina accent? I like it a lot. I like it so much. Gracelyn, thank you for gracing us with your wonderful voice once again. We might play all your voicemails just to hear your voice. It’s just as good as it was the first time. Kentucky, not Alabama. I gotta say, I’m not good at picking up on the distinct differences of southern accents. There are some people who are really good at that. Yeah. And we’d be like, why would you guys say Alabama, she’s obviously Kentucky. Speaking of North Carolina, before we get into why we do or don’t talk the way that we do, Uh, we had somebody, who was it that was telling us about, there’s a documentary, uh, either it’s a documentary or it’s just a YouTube video. Where a guy is going through, Mike was telling us about this. Oh, Mike was telling, it’s a woman. Who’s, who’s a dialect expert, expert who goes through in North Carolina, as we have said many times, you know, it’s a special place, not just because we came from there, but there’s something about the geography of North Carolina and sort of the mountains to the Piedmont to the beach that has created this striation of all kinds of things, culturally, barbecue sauces, as we’ve talked about. But also these different accents, and it might be one of the most linguistically unique places in the United States, for sure, maybe the world. And where people talk in these very distinct ways that even us, for being from North Carolina, wouldn’t necessarily be able to pick up on. We can, oh, that’s different, but I don’t necessarily know that I would know that this person is from the mountains, this person is from the beach, but they are super distinct. Yeah, for me it’s like if you have family members that live in different parts. They get together for the family reunions. You sound like my Aunt Virginia. You sound like my, my Uncle Willie. Uncle Willie. Uncle Willie’s from Virginia. Oh, he’s drunk again. My Aunt Virginia. Well, hold on. Now you Uncle Willie’s drunk again. You don’t know about my uncle Willie, do you , is he drunk again? Come on now. I was talking about real people. Oh, come on, Rhett. Don’t be, don’t be. Did they hit too close to Uncle Willie’s home? Well, he passed away recently. Okay, so was how, how, how? He wasn’t a drinker. He wasn’t. Okay. He was one of Nanny’s brothers. Okay. Um, good for him. I mean for not drinking, not for passing away. But the parent, but the, but his dad was. I knew I was getting close to something. Yeah Anyway, that’s that’s how I know it’s like wow, I get together with these people and they sound they sound different They got some neels down there at the beach, you know, not hoytoidas Hoytoidas is really specific. It’s like an island or something, but the long eyes That’s something that starts happening when you like something you like it a lot um That wasn’t something that There were certain eye, uh, long eyes that we would do, but then there, we never said bright light. Like, even you, when you were your most southern. Bright, bright, bright light. How would you have said it? Light. How would you have said it in third grade? I might have said light. But bright light. I remember my mom specifically, who, you’ve heard mom and dad, you’ve heard mom and dad talk, and she’s made appearances on Good Mythical Morning. She has a very, uh, strong southern accent. It’s a strong southern accent in the context of the world and the United States and people kind of being like, Oh, she talks like she’s from the South. Yeah. But in her mind and also in my mind growing up, she talked so much less Southern than the people that we were getting to know when we had moved from Georgia to California and then to North Carolina. And that she would be like, that she would make fun of the way people talked. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? Like, because she made fun of the way that I talked to your face as a kid. Yeah. Yeah. She wanted, she didn’t, she thought it was cute. She thought it was amusing. She would want you to talk like that. Yeah. Yeah. So I had it. I had it pretty bad and then when we like dig up these old cassette tapes of us in middle school, we have an old episode of Good Mythical Morning where We played the cassette tapes that I still had. And we were talking so, our voices were so high. Well, we were doing an impression of Minnie Pearl at one point. But no, by middle school, I would say we were basically the same level. Like, I, when I came from California, I talked like I was from California, but very quickly, because of the age that you move, it has such a influence on the way you talk, and you kind of lessened it a little bit. We kind of met in the middle, and we basically talked like everyone that we knew growing up talked like in high school, middle school, high school. Yeah. And then? It was, it was a strong accent. We began to It began to be chipped away. So let’s talk about now going to college chips it away, but I wouldn’t say that we don’t have a Southern accent. Some people, if you’re from the South, you don’t think we have a Southern accent, maybe, but if you’re just from the world somewhere else, you’re like when people do impressions of us, They do a Southern accent. Like, if Smosh, if the, if the people over at Smosh decide that they’re going to do a Rhett and Link impersonation, you know, they’re gonna immediately, they’re gonna put on long hair and a beard for me and use a Southern accent, they’re gonna put on glasses and a wig for you and you do a Southern accent, because we don’t, we have a little bit of a Southern accent. I think that the happier we get, the more Southern comes out. That’s true. Um. And the matter. Yeah. Yeah, when you really get more expressive, the more it comes out. Or if I’m, or if you’re talking with someone like my dad on Dispatches from Myrtle Beach, I’m sure it comes out more over there, you know? But when I’m just calm, cool, and collected, I’m taught, this is how I talk. But, if I get excited, it’s gonna start to get to me. More southern. Um, making videos and watching them back. Watching ourselves back. That does it. Is the biggest influence. You can’t hear yourself again and again and again. And you’re like, man, I say that that way. This is how I sound. You know, you get over that, the thing that, Everybody experiences, especially pre social media, video phone days of like, Oh my gosh, I sound like Colonel Sanders! That’s how I sound! You know? But you get over that quickly and you move to, well, how do I, how do I start to change that? It wasn’t a calculated decision. It’s not a conscious process. It was a subconscious decision. It is. It is. Let’s just be honest. For anyone who takes the edge off of their regional accent, and this happens to people from the Midwest, happens to people from New York, it happens to anyone who has a distinct accent or dialect in the United States. You do it because subconsciously there’s a little bit of shame around sounding like you come from a certain place. There is. Okay, I mean, shame, that’s a strong word. Can it just be judgment, or like, you’re trying to Slight embarrassment? I’m just saying I’m not saying it’s a good thing. Or just an, just an understanding, an awareness that it is going to shape how people interpret you as a person. I think that there is something, maybe shame is too strong of a word, but what I’m saying is that I think that we have a natural aversion, or some people have a natural aversion, you and I are two of those people, from people immediately being able to tell where you’re from. And I don’t, and I’m not saying I know why, and I think some of it has to do with the fact that you’re presenting yourself as, you know, what we were presenting ourselves as, like, we weren’t presenting ourselves as guys from the South. It wasn’t like, being from the South was not a conscious part of whatever we were projecting as a comedic personality. Like if you look at a Theo Vaughn, you know, it’s like, alright, this is part of my persona, I’m leaning into this. And I also think times have changed. Yeah, if we were, if we were just starting out now, we’d probably see it as an asset. Yeah, isn’t it weird? I, again, not, no conscious calculation of any of this stuff. Just afraid that people might think you’re, you know, Not quite as smart as them or as, um, well rounded or have as much cultural exposure or be associated with a certain set of beliefs that they might disagree with. There’s all these things floating around in the, in the Southern stigma. I mean, it may, when I go back to North Carolina now, and I talked to, My relatives who are kids, nieces, nephews, or whatever. Now, none of them grew up as far out of town as we did. But no one has a southern accent. They all just Oh, really? Nope. None of my nieces and nephews have a southern accent. Okay. My, uh My nephew, like, Christy’s sister, and like, so that, you know, I mean, well, first of all, Christy still has a strong southern accent, and it’s like very Kinston, and, you know, she’s never been on a lot of videos or recordings, and, um, she’s been happy with the way That that she sounds and I think if that’s not the reason she’s not on recordings because she don’t want people to hear her accent. I think she’s very comfortable with it. Jesse also has, uh, a strong southern accent, very different and I don’t know. I feel like I feel like she has a broader range of like, like where her voice goes, but Christie’s is pretty like every time we talk to a stranger, they always ask, you know, Where are we from? Every single time that they have an interaction with. If Jesse’s with me, her accent is not as strong as Christie’s, but sometimes I’m like, I don’t even hear, I don’t hear Jesse’s Southern accent at all. But people, people never ask where I’m from. People always ask where she’s from. Yeah. And then we’re like, well, we’re from the same place, right? That’s because. There’s a personality element to it. There is a, there’s a media aspect to it. There’s also a personality aspect to it, which some people are more likely to be like, Okay, I’m with these people. I’m going to talk in this way. And I’m not proud of that aspect of my personality. I try not to do that maybe as much as I used to. Chameleon? But First of all, it’s a very Enneagram 3 thing. Not a positive aspect of Enneagram 3. Well, there’s a positive aspect, which is like, you can make people like you, right? You can relate better, whatever, you know. Politicians tend to do this. If you watch them at different places, based on wherever they’re at at the time, right? They adopt a little bit of the accent. They lean into, who am I talking to here? Yeah. And so, obviously, it raises flags of, is this person genuine? And so I, I’m not, it’s not like, I think there’s something super admirable about someone who’s just like, I always talk this way regardless of where I am, but also not just because I am one of these people, but also because I understand that the process is not a conscious thing. It’s not like, Oh, I’m going into this situation. I’m going to talk differently like the fact that I adopted a strong southern accent very quickly After having adopted a super socal accent when I was five years old Which is crazy. I moved to california when I was like four four five and six and I we’ve got recordings of Of me and cole and the way we talked was like two kids from thousand oaks california in the early 80s, dude Red brah into did you like that? No, it was just like surfer. It wasn’t. No, I can’t. I don’t even think I could do an impersonation of it But it didn’t sound Southern at all. My mom was very upset about it I remember her like maybe even to the point of crying about the fact that her kids weren’t gonna have the same accent but then To move to North Carolina and immediately assimilate, I just, I am an assimilator. You know what I’m saying? Like, I’m more likely to be like, okay, I’m going to talk that way now because I’m, I’m with these people. And it’s not a conscious process. But now I feel like, as you, first of all, it happens much more readily when you’re younger, when you get older, I kind of think, if I were to move, no, it doesn’t matter where I go now, I’m probably going to always talk this way. If I were to move to Europe, I probably wouldn’t get a European accent, I probably would just talk the way that I talk now, because your brain changes and you become less receptive to like I think that, that’s true for me unless I move back home. I mean, I’d start to slip back into it. Maybe I’m, I think I’m slipping back into it. More on camera because I think we’re more comfortable and it’s less polished So i’m proud of it. Yeah, we do a lot more of just us being ourselves versus maybe early videos everything every Before gmm, especially like really early days. Yeah thinking about where i’m gonna put my hand It was all everything was super scripted, right? But you look at all that man I’m, not gonna I need to figure out where i’m gonna put my hands I just saw where I put my hands and I didn’t like it I mean, it’s not like they were down my pants or anything. It’s just it was awkward. That’s all i’m saying But if I call customer service and try to get something that I need taken care of you best believe I’m gonna be on my My best customer service voice behavior. I love listening to my mom talk to somebody on the phone Like a customer service or because the way And I’ve heard your mom do this too, not necessarily customer service. Sure. But the, the words that they choose to change to sound what they think is sophisticated, but then all the other words that don’t get changed, the words that get changed are I have a query for you about my phone warranty. It’s like, if my mom, she would be like, My phone number is 555, and I’m like, hold on mom, that’s not how you say, that’s not how you say five. They’ll understand you if you just stick with the way you say it. Your mom’s got a television phone number? Yeah, 555, my mom’s number is 555 5555. You didn’t know? I didn’t know that. I thought it was in your phone. That’s cool. Man, I hate it when you, when you gotta say, when you gotta say the number on a television show and they gotta say the 555, that, that really bumps me. Yeah. Oh, this is make believe. I’m out of it as much anymore. A lot of times they just get a Google number now. Oh, oh. Like that’s what we do, a lot of times. 5 5 5? No? Okay. I’m proud of my accent. I’m bringing it back out. I’m gonna, I’m gonna just, just, just lay it out there. That wasn’t it. That’s not, that was never my accent. I think your accent is what you’re doing right now. My accent is what I’m doing. Okay, there it is. It’s a little bit of an accent. Go to votelikeabeast. com. We have created a website where you can learn everything you need to know about your registration, how to do it, how to vote by mail, how to get all your ducks in a row, uh, connecting you to resources to get you connected with what is what matters to you and so who you want to vote for. Yeah, it’s not just about the registration process, which obviously if you’re not registered, you should register to vote. Um, But we’ve got tools there for you to figure out what the candidates in your area actually think, and what, you know, based on what you think about these different policies, what are their policies, so you can begin to make connections between your values And how that reflects in a vote. 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Um, but yeah, love you guys so much and everyone at Mythical, keep doing what you do. Thank you. See, I told you, man. Uh, my uvula used to be so big. That’s not a strong endorsement. What? What? I think the exact words were, it is not completely unrealistic. I mean, like, that’s, if I, if I’m, if I’m, if I’m a betting man. And somebody says, well, it’s not completely unrealistic that a bear could serve you a ham sandwich today. Then I would be like, well, but it’s probably not happening. But it happened to me, man. It’s my story. No, this is, uh, I will say that this leads me to believe that it is not completely unrealistic that this was just all in your imagination. Huh? No, I’m, yeah, it is possible. No, it happened. It definitely lends credibility to your story. I will say that. Okay. I don’t know what it’s going to take, but let me see it again. Let’s get some more voicemail. Hey, it’s short, man. I think used to be, how long was it? Oh, it was so long. It was, it was, it was draping down. I mean, about halfway to my tongue. Do you recall when you were looking back at your uvula after that, you would see it, it, it was literally like it, like, Oh, they burned it. Like, did you remember seeing it burned or is it just suddenly shorter? It was shorter. It, it, I came, I came, I was put under, I came back out. Everything back there was like burnt. It was like Mordor back there. Do you think they did it on purpose? They were like, Oh, this one’s too long. Uh, maybe, maybe they did me a favor. Like this one’s definitely too long. Yeah. He doesn’t, he might choke on it. Yeah. Yeah, and I think I’m for it. But apparently Rhett is not convinced, so I need another voicemail. It’s like I need a voicemail from my actual ENT at the time. Yeah, from the actual doctor. I mean, if this was a court case, I would just say, I have not been convinced beyond a reasonable doubt. But now, we might have hung jewelry. We may have hung jewelry in my mind. Jenna, you still got your uvula? I do. There’s something you’re missing now, though. You recently underwent a surgery. Yeah, there is something. Well, it’s something that wasn’t supposed to be there. Right. Yeah, I had a cyst removed from my ovaries. Oh, from both of them? From one ovary. But then, when they were in there, they discovered a lot of endometriosis. And uh, some of the endometriosis I don’t know what that means. Endometriosis is like scarring that happens, um, as you like, release your, you know Eggs? And stuff, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, it’s really, it’s extremely painful. It’s a scarring process from the natural process of shedding unfertilized eggs? Mm hmm, yeah. What? It’s not great. It, it, it explained the excessive amount of pain I was in, cause it was also like some scarring. I’m glad it wasn’t us. Yeah, the sum of the scarring was on, um, my, like, a uterine nerve of mine. So, uh, yes. Yeah. What did they do for that? They burned it out. Speaking of burning it out. There you go. Yeah, they did laparoscopic and removed the cyst and then the doctor when they’re in there of course found the endometriosis because that’s not something that shows up on ultrasounds or anything. You actually have to have surgery. So they cauterized the scarring. Yeah, they burned all that away, yeah. Doesn’t that make more scarring? Um It makes the, it makes the better scarring. Controlled Makes better scarring. Scarring. Yeah. And what about the nerve? Did they burn a nerve? No, no, no. My nerve, it’s feeling good. But you are feeling better. Yes. You’re not in pain. Yeah, only the normal amount of monthly. Yeah. Okay. Normal amount of monthly. It’s not every day. I think I’m going to throw up because things hurt so bad. Yeah. Yeah. I’m glad to hear it. I’m doing great. So how big was the incision? Um, it was laparoscopic so super teeny through your lap. Uh, yeah. Yeah specifically Uh, is that what that means? Laparoscopic just means that it’s like two it’s like tiny incisions and then they like they like kind of um Inflate the area. But yeah, there’s like a little tiny incision that went into my Belly button and then another teeny one, um, closer to like my, uh, closer to my, you know, ovary uterus lady parts areas. They like do it one hole and they make a space and then another hole for the thing to go in and do the surgery. So they blow air in there and then they’ve got a little teeny cameras and stuff. What? And you’re under. And I am under. Okay, how long was it? Uh, the whole procedure was only about like 45 minutes. And then I just had to, um, hang out until the drugs wore off enough for That’s when you left us a voicemail that you were doing, that you were okay. Yes. Did you get to keep the cyst? Or see it at least? Oh yeah, I got photos. I have photos. Oh, God. You don’t want to see that. I didn’t like seeing them. Describe, like, was it in his hand? No. Look at these. No, he just took He waited for it to wake up. Yeah. Was it in a jar? No. Well, what did He took the photo because I don’t Oh. He took the photos inside my body. And then I also have the ultrasound of when they first found the cyst. And I was like, hey, look at that. How big was it? Four centimeters. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Well that’s bigger than a golf ball. No, four centimeters. I don’t know if it’s that. Maybe. I don’t know. I feel like ping pong ball. I think it’s about the size of a golf ball. Oh, okay. Sure. Let’s, I don’t think it was, don’t think that’s four centimeters, but you know. Okay. This is why we have . I’m glad to, let’s, let’s ask. I mean, but who knows? Like I, I was enduring that pain for a really long time. High. How many centimeters across is a golf ball? Too high of a pain tolerance. That’s what it is. For real. It sounds like you might be reflecting on a difficult experience you’ve been through. Hahaha! Talking about something like enduring pain or making a tough decision. That can be really challenging. I’m here if you want to share more about what you’re feeling or going through. To answer your question. A standard golf ball has a diameter of about 4. 27 centimeters. Oh my god, really? It was a golf ball? If you need any more information What the? Chat GPT tried to be your therapist before answering your very simple question. This is like the time, this is like the time, right when I discovered this, that you could talk to Chat GPT like this. I was like, kind of annoying Jessie with it a little bit. And we were about to go out on a date, and we were talking about something else that we were kind of having a little bit of an argument about, and then I was just kind of being a little bit of an ass, uh, and like asking questions to ChatGBT, but she was doing this thing where she was just continuing to talk while I was asking her questions. And so then I started saying things like, What do you think I should do? What should I say to my wife right now? And it was like, or what should I say to Jesse right now? And chat GPT was like, it sounds like Jesse is a little upset. You might need to give her some space just because it was listening to our conversation. And it’s like, it’s like, Oh, you sound like you’ve been through something difficult. By the way, a golf ball is 4. 1, 4. 2 centimeters. It sounds like you didn’t know that you had a golf ball on your ovary. How are you dealing with this information? Um. Now you can say, I had a golf ball sized, uh, cyst removed from me. Damn, I got, now, now I’m like questioning. They should’ve given it to you in Imperial, I guess. Now I’m questioning everything. Was it that? Well, cause then, that makes me think of like, how big are ovaries then? Not that big, right? That’s what I thought. Wait, am I? I’m so confused about my own body now. How big are ovaries? Maybe I’m, maybe I’m mixing up centimeters and millimeters. Ovaries are typically about the size of an almond. We know women they are usually around 3 to 5 centimeters in length about 1. 2 to 2 inches 1. 5 to 3 centimeters in width about 0. 6 to 1. 2 inches and 1 to 1. 5 centimeters in thickness about 0. 4 to 0. 6 inches That’s bigger than however their size can vary depending on factors such as age hormonal changes and individual anatomy If you What kind of almond are you talking about that big? Okay, let’s not, let’s not. Here’s the deal, that was, that was It was bigger than your ovary though, most likely. Um. Or it was the same size. About the same. Yeah, about the same. Uh, I, I do remember seeing that in the ultrasound, but I didn’t think about how large my ovary was. I was just like, oh, it’s a size about, it’s about covering my ovary. That’s crazy. So maybe it was like a long side of it. Maybe it’s, yeah, it’s not like a perfect circumference golf ball kind of situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, might have been a little flatter, might have been a little oblong. But that does, uh, that certainly explains, uh, everything. Yeah, the pain. Yeah, on top of the endometriosis, yeah. Yeah. Which we didn’t even know about. So can you tell if it’s, uh, Um, if the endometriosis treatment has helped? Um, it’s still early days, I guess. I’ve been watching too much, uh, Love Island. Uh, early days. Uh, I’ve got a follow up in, like, nine months. But, um, as of now, it’s feeling Much better. Look at that. Yeah. Yay me. We got the old Jenna back. Congratulations, Jenna. Thank you to my doctors who listened to my pain and did something. Yeah, I’m glad you were able to get that done before your trip as well. I know that was Oh, you had to talk them into it. I had to talk them into it. I had to talk them into it. Yeah, what’s the takeaways here? As you guys discuss this, I’m going to do something I don’t often do. I’m going to go 10 1 as they say in the industry. I’m going to go urinate. Really? I thought you did right before. I’m drinking a lot of water today. Okay, fine. And I’m drinking too much, and the tea, and then I’ve got liquid death here. You need to stretch your bladder. I’m like a streamer. I gotta pee. I gotta pee. He would always say to me, you need to stretch your bladder. Don’t lock yourself out because I don’t want to get up. So what is it? What was the takeaway here? I mean, the thing that I have learned about healthcare is that you have to be your number one advocate. You got to advocate for yourself because you. Didn’t immediately, tell me what you were alluding to that you had to talk him into. I did, yeah, it was, it was a bit of a, uh, a struggle cause, well, a lot of times when some, uh, you have an ovarian cyst or like a cyst in that part of your body. Um, a lot of times. Your, uh, gynecologist will have you wait another cycle to see, because a lot of times they do take care of themselves. Oh. So when I first initially went, they made me wait a full month and then come back, um, And that wasn’t fun. And obviously it didn’t get better. Because you were already in pain when they, when they found Yeah, I had been in pain for about a solid two weeks straight at that point. Um, outside of, um, my normal, like, period days. And I was like, that’s weird. That’s suspicious. So you did the month thing that they asked for. I did the month thing that they asked for and then immediately set an appointment. Well, I had a later appointment set and then I asked for an earlier one because it wasn’t a full month. It was like six weeks later they had me come in and then I was like, yeah, this pain isn’t getting better. I’m coming in at the four week mark. And then so they had me end up meeting with another gynecologist who would. be my surgeon since that seemed to be the route that might be happening. So it’s best to just go ahead and have me meet with the surgeon as well. Who’s also gynecologist, but I don’t understand why that would make you hate Rhett so much. I don’t know. Oh, sorry. I didn’t get the, I wasn’t in on that. My bad. He didn’t say anything about you. Maybe she’s funny. So you advocated for yourself. I advocated. You got the surgery, when you went back in that month later. Yeah. It was with the surgeon and then he was, or she was like. Yeah, he looked at it and then talked with me about my pain. And was like, well, we should get you in for surgery. I was like, yay. But then that was, but then that was a whole ordeal because of insurance, because I needed post, I needed like authorization, even though the doctor’s office gave authorization, it still had to go to my insurance, then insurance approval. And then a doctor’s office had to get, wait to receive the approval from the insurance before they could schedule anything for me. So it was just this whole rigmarole. Um, that was that took an about three more weeks of me calling and being super stressed out and still being in pain And be like and getting on with interns and be like, can you just please? Wow and trying not to like cry on the phone with all these people who it’s not their fault You know, that’s a good phone voice if you if you gotta cry It’s usually me like pulling it, pulling it all together and be like, okay, I know, I know this isn’t your fault. I just need someone to get this through now so that I can then tell my doctor and I need this to be scheduled and I’m just in so much pain. I just really need someone. So like that was, that’s usually my phone voice when I’m trying not to freak out. I’m about to cry, I just need you to do this for me. Yeah. Um, yeah, and then it took about It still took three weeks. Yeah, it still took three weeks to schedule it. I ended up having to cancel a trip to see my family, which I’ve, I’ve since rescheduled. Okay. They’re gonna see me. Um, but yeah, got it in, thankfully. Uh, and the recovery was so easy. I was like, I was, I was in the office like three days later and everyone thought I was insane. Yeah. And I was like, honestly, I feel better. I’m fine. I’m fine. Yeah, it was one of those things where I was like, the recovery from the surgery, like the, the little bit of pain I have from the incisions is so much less than the pain I was in before. That I was like, I can, I can walk, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I can walk up straight and not like, think I’m gonna puke because things hurt so bad. I’m not like, scarfing down all the pain meds I can. Anywho, I’m doing wonderful. Alright, glad to hear it. Yes, yes. Let’s hit another VM. Yes. Hi Rhett and Link, this is Ashley calling from Minnesota. Uh, kind of a morbid question, and maybe it’s been asked before, but I was really curious. What would happen to Good Mythical Morning if one of you were to die? Um, obviously, like, prematurely, because, you know, I Maybe I’ll do this until you’re a hundred years old, but In that circumstance, what would you do? Is that something you’ve discussed? I know, kind of morbid, but was just kind of wondering what would happen. Thanks a lot. Love you guys. Bye. So one of us died and all she cares about is what’s going to happen to Good Mythical Morning. Well, you know, I mean, I’m sure she’s concerned about what would happen to our families and our friendship. Well, our friendship will be over. Maybe not. Maybe not. There is a way. I will haunt you. If I have the opportunity to, I mean, there’s a couple of different routes that, that we could go down with this. And I think that one of them, we can talk about the AI, but I don’t want to start with the AI route. Um, no, I don’t even want to touch it. Talk about it at all. The fact that you might die unexpectedly. No, I don’t. Oh, AI. Yeah. Okay. Well, I might, but all right. So one of us died. And, it seems like a nightmare, on top of a nightmare, because you gotta, you gotta think about, like, communication. Like, when, when do, when do you, when do you, when do I tell everybody that you’ve died? This is a good question. You know? And is that And vice versa. I would say Is that a, is that a written statement? Or is that, it’s hard to monetize a written statement. I mean, I gotta think about your, your family now. Like now I’m supporting your family too. You know? No. It’s built into, we’ve, we’ve talked about this on the podcast before. In the short term, I guess. That we have company insurance policies where, If you die, Christy gets a good amount of money and vice versa, so No, well yeah, that, hold on. If, if I die, does Jesse get money? Uh, no. Do you get money? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I’m saying is that there’s not a scenario in which you have to support my wife or I support your wife if you die. Like, that’s, That’s taken care of. That’s not part of the equation. But they still have an interest in Mythical. In Mythical, yeah. Right. They can still benefit from Mythical. Right, so here I am, running Mythical, and you’re dead. And she and your family have an ongoing interest in it. Because, I mean, you have contributed to its success. So it’s continued success. We’ve arranged so that your family will share in that even though you’re dead and vice versa Yeah, so it is kind of on me a little bit of you know, what’s gonna what’s gonna flow to what I’m saying Is that that’s why I’m that’s the only reason I’m talking about monetization of your death for your family’s sake But what okay, but what I’m saying is that it’s it is such it is the case That if one of us died, technically, you wouldn’t, like, if you just decided, you know what, Rhett died, I’m just gonna go surf. You could do that. Yeah, I could do that. You could do that. I could do that. So I don’t think talking about, I don’t think the monetary conversation is interesting. Uh, To me, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, Surfing is interesting. The, the entity of Good Mythical Morning, right? Alright. Because that, that’s where it gets really interesting because, That is the thing that most people know us from, most people are fans because of that entry point, so It would certainly be a break. But to answer your first question about when it would be communicated from one of us In the first probably in the first eight hours, I think it would be a statement. Yeah, but it wouldn’t be a video Yeah, we don’t typically like like I mean, I I watch these things play out in just the like the influencer creator world where people make videos about all kinds of things and I just Almost always think to myself I don’t think this is a good choice. I don’t think we never, we never do that type of thing. No. So, so I don’t think we would, we would not start it for that, right? There would be a statement and then there would be, unless my career changes and I’ve become one of those people. So after some amount of time to be calculated, hopefully never, there would be now if we had episodes banked, let’s just say we had a week of episodes, the episodes would stop. If, okay, if you die, I’ll go, I’ll just say what I would do. We’re giving you a heads up that he’s died, but in terms of Good Mythical Morning, he’s not going to die until next week. So just enjoy these episodes. That was what my statement would say. You wouldn’t be here to edit it. I’m saying, that’s what my statement would say. Just a heads up, Rhett’s no longer with us. Good Mythical Morning, we got five episodes in the can, so, uh, he I would never do that. I’m joking, of course. But, I’m, but I would Those episodes would be seen, but they would not be seen. I’d hold on to them. They would hold, I would hold on to them. And then as part of some sort of whatever the plan ended up being, how is it going to continue? There would be like, all right, there’s X number of episodes that are in the can. And what do you do with those? Because they, because they’re not, I’m not thinking again, this has nothing to do with money. When I say they’re valuable, they’re valuable because it’s the last thing that we did together in terms of. Good Mythical Morning. It’s a precious thing. And so is it like, you know what? They’re just for me. Those five episodes are edited and, and, and, and I get to see them and people at Mythical get to see them. It would be like, but I feel like those cinematic scenes where you’re like, you, you dig up the film strip and you’re like down in your basement or in your attic and you’re like playing it on a film strip. I can see, right. And it’s just like, I can see you doing that. It’s like Wu Tang album that the bad guy ended up buying. Martin, what’s his name? And like, you know, yeah, it’s just like those episodes just exist on a hard drive somewhere, but I think that they would be released. Okay. But what would happen with the show itself? Before answering that question, what I can safely say is after some adequate period of mourning, um, I’m not gonna just go surf. I’m not even that good at surfing. The only thing I’m actually good at is making stuff that people watch, right? So, to answer the general question of what my career would be post link mortem would be, I would keep making stuff. About me. It would all be about you. Good. Right. Um, so I’ll just answer that question. It’s like, I know that for a fact, but the question of whether or not I would want to continue to make good mythical morning without you, you just sit in the middle of the desk, I would say. Well, that would be sad, wouldn’t it? I would say, I mean, it would be sad if you didn’t move over. My knee jerk reaction to this, my seat was just empty. My knee jerk reaction to this is that I would not continue the show. I would not continue the show by myself and I would not continue to the show with another person. Cause, cause when Regis died, I’m trying to think of some sort of an analogy, some sort of comparison here. He was no longer the host of, uh, Uh, whatever the, that morning, the morning show is the Regis and Kathy Lee. And then it was Kathy Lee left and then Regis brought in, uh, Kelly. It was Regis and Kelly. And now look, it’s Kelly. Yeah, but that was, but none of them died. Yeah. And also the show had already had new hosts. And Regis might not, I don’t even know if Regis was the first host. The show had always, the show had had replacement hosts already. In short, there’s been times where. Somebody was sick, somebody was out of town or whatever, and we had people fill in, one of us or both of us. Maybe. I’m just telling you what I would want to do. I wouldn’t want to keep doing the show without you. Well yeah, it would be too sad. It may be in my best interest financially to continue doing the show without you. But I’m just saying that like, if I’m telling you what I want to do, I’d be like, no, I’ll do something else. Like that show, that was the thing that me and Link did. And it worked because it was me and Link. And I’m not saying I won’t do something with someone else. But it not good mythical warning. Well, I mean, I think uh, seems like you have ideas I don’t have ideas. So I think what I would do is I take a nice long break and now be I there might be somebody Nobody could fill your shoes. But like I mean, I don’t know What if I talk Christie into being the host then it’s not like oh my god. Look at what he did You know? Something like that. Yeah? There would be, there could be a weird like, okay, this is totally different, but like, I’m not mad at him for doing this. I don’t think you’re gonna be able to talk Christie into doing it. No, I’m not. So give me a real idea. I don’t know, Markiplier? I don’t know, he’s got a nice voice. It could be great. I don’t really know him that well. That’s the thing. That’s the thing. We could get, we could get to know each other. That would be the I don’t know, man. I don’t know, this is making me feel a little weird. Um There’s not, there’s not really a way, but I’m, I’m just trying to say, hypothetically, let’s say there’s not a way, but then let’s start moving to talking about making a way, you know, AI, we got everything. We got your voice. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants that. Oh, what if I wanted it? Okay, well let’s go with that, because I, what I’m saying is that I’m not gonna be, I’m not gonna work with the AI link. Uh, you’re dead, I’m not asking you to. Yeah, so I’m just saying that’s my half of this equation. I’m thinking, I’m thinking if, if, if it could be like really convincing in every way. Like the way that the, the, the voice AI is going now. It’s like, just give me the fit. Just give me the body, man. Oh, well, there’s no doubt that this would be possible eventually. Very possible. And maybe that would be nice for me, you know, to live in the past. You’d still have to age, but I would be in charge of that. And you’d always age more than me. Well, it does raise an interesting question because like, obviously people are rightly so very sensitive about using AI for, you know, uh, for creative endeavors or whatever. I mean, I’ve used it today to figure out how big a golf ball was, but I’m almost basically just doing a Google search is kind of like what it is. Right. But, and we said we weren’t going to talk about AI. Well, but you resisted on it. I couldn’t find another way, so go ahead. Um, but like the Keep it short. The Randy Travis of it all, right? Well, first of all, let me just say that I’m very glad that I was It turns out that I think I was very wrong about what I said at the beginning of the year. That this was going to be as significant of a year for AI as It hasn’t ended up being, and I’m very, I’m happy about that. Well, the year isn’t over. The year isn’t over? Yeah, I mean, if you want to preemptively admit you’re wrong, I’m not going to stand in your way. And I, and I got some really good information, I had a really good conversation with Science Mike about this. And we basically kind of outlined all the, the, the limitations and the cost, how cost prohibitive it all is and energy consuming all this stuff. And it gave me a little bit of like, okay, well, maybe this isn’t as, uh, It’s going to slow its roll. Maybe it’s not as imminent as it seemed at the beginning of the year. So I’m glad that that’s not happening. But, okay, it will happen where you could generate a really convincing version of me and vice versa. The Randy Travis, uh, using his voice to make this great song using this voice model of Randy Travis. People felt differently about that because they’re like, well, I mean, he can’t sing anymore because he had a stroke and it is his voice and this is what he would have done. This is a real person. This is based on a legacy that he created, right? So people might be like, well, I never heard that by the way. You never listened to it? No. It just sounded like Randy Travis singing a song. It was beautiful. Beautiful. Okay. Now He’s still living, but he cannot sing anymore. Correct. So, in this version, I mean, it’s the kind of thing that, it’s like, people would be like, I don’t know, it’s better than not having it. Some people would be like, I don’t, hell no, I’m not gonna watch Is it healthy for Link? I don’t know. Link and AI Rhett. It would be Ratt, but it would be spelled R H A I T T. But I do think the reason that I wouldn’t do it, ultimately, Ratt and Link. is because that would, for me, that would be a decision that was 100 percent based on trying to fill some need that people out there had. Like, they want it. But I don’t want that, like, we, we, like, the thing that we did together would not be comparable to the thing that me and A. I. Link did together. You know, even if it was perfect, even if it always responded in the way that you would have responded, even that, it’d be fun to play around with. Maybe I’d do, like, A annual special or something like that, but for it to be like this thing that I’m constantly entering into is interacting with this AI. Yeah, it’s like it feels super so literally soulless. Okay, you know what I mean? Well, you’re making me feel bad for it, but Um, it’s making it’s gonna make it harder for me to decide to do it when you die Now that you’re telling me all this I just think there’s a time There’s a time for something like what we do on Good Mythical Morning to come to an end. A time to be born, a time to die. And one of us dying is the, is the, is the time. You know what I’m saying? Like, that’s, because, Alright. What we do, Okay. On Good Mythical Morning, it’s like, it’s not, That’s how you want it. It’s not the format. Of a good mythical morning that makes a good mythical morning is the fact that we’re doing it. Of course the format and the packaging is like what makes it sort of like, uh, work on the internet in this algorithm, but it’s really just a package, right? The, the, the five days a week and the titles and thumbnails and the eating food and all this are just this package this bow that you put on this thing that you open up and what is it is two guys who’ve known each other their entire lives and if if it was just If it didn’t have the packaging, if it didn’t have the format, then it would just be like this, it would be boring. It would become boring, you wouldn’t, no one would care, no one would click or whatever. But, so then, if one of us dies, then the thing that the packaging is containing is gone. It just disappears, because it was the friendship. That was the thing that all the packaging was containing. So when the friendship goes away, because somebody dies, that usually ends a friendship. Then it’s kind of like, alright, well, I’ve got other things I want to do creatively, sure, but I think if, if Cathy Lee would have died, I think Regis would have brought in, uh, what’s her name? Yeah, but, but that’s not Good Mythical Morning anymore. They didn’t call it, like, if it was Regis and Cathy Lee, then it was Regis and Kelly. It’s a different thing. And I see Good Mythical Morning It was the same thing. Format it was the same packaging. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it’s different hosts now. It’s all about how you see it I can see a little bit of both. I just don’t want to have to come up with something new man I’m gonna be so sad that you’re gone. You just be easier just to find a way Okay, here’s a here’s another thing to consider What because we’ve already said this before if we’re both if one of us is gonna die Chances are it will die at the same time Right? In an accident. Probably, yeah. Some sort of accident. In that case, if the ghost version of Rhett and Link could make decisions about what happens with Good Mythical Morning at that point, then I would say, I feel differently about that. Let’s find two friends who can carry it on. Passing the torch of Good Mythical Morning to two new friends feels like a distinctly different exercise than you having somebody else or me having somebody else. Yeah, in some ways it’s harder, but it’s just the way it is. And that’s just from a, like, just a Cause it is a, I mean, from one angle, it’s a format. From another angle, it’s a relationship. You put the two together and you have it. So it, that’s feasible. But if you were with somebody else, or I was with somebody else, I think anybody who was coming into this thing would be like, Yeah, he used to do it with his lifelong best friend. And now he does it with the AI version of his nose. And now he does it with this other pretty funny person. Like, that’s really funny. Really funny person. And it isn’t, it’s not that it’s not entertaining, it’s just it’s different. But after a while, they forget about you. And it starts to work. I think it’s on the table for me. It might work, but it’s not what I would want to do. It’s not what I would want to do. Are you okay if I do it? I mean, I won’t have a say in it. Right now, are you okay? Why don’t you do whatever you want to do? You’re okay with it? I’m 100 percent fine with whatever. It’s like, I don’t have any say in that. I have no, I don’t care. But I’d like your blessing. Yeah, if you want to carry on Good Mythical Morning without me. By yourself or with somebody else. I’m all, do whatever you want to, or if you want to surf all the time, if you want to become a surf vlogger, I do not care. It’s not what I would advise for you. If you were asking my advice, my advice to you would be, what is it that. It would be like, look inside yourself and what do you, what is it that you want to do? Like, what is it that you’re actually compelled to do? And how does that translate into content? You want me to live in the future and the present, not the past? And if you’re like, you know what? It doesn’t translate to content. I don’t care about content. I don’t want to make anything else. Then I would be like, that’s great. But if you looked inside and you were like, I don’t know, I kind of feel like this or that. To me, that would be more personally healthy and fulfilling than you just being like, I just feel like I got to keep doing this thing because everybody wants it, or it’s an expectation, or whatever, you know? Is my dad dead? Because I mean, I still have that podcast. I might just do that. Yeah. Yeah, okay, well, I appreciate the advice. If I have to watch this back because you’re dead, I’m gonna be pretty upset about it. Well, we’ve made But I think I’m gonna take it. We’ve made a number of pieces of content at this point I’m not gonna do it. Where we talk about dying. But those last five episodes, where you’re living, that we make, I am going to cash in big time on that because Oh, yeah. That’s it. I think you pay all that thing. I might take it to state fairs. People, like, buy a ticket, right? People line up. Yeah? I think it’s a traveling theater thing. What if you Boy, that’d be sad, though. Make it into a documentary of some kind. Right. I’d probably do something like that. I’d totally exploit it in a very tasteful way, you know? But it was good while it lasted, and I’m sorry that you’re gone. And, uh, I do want to honor your wishes for me, as much as I can. So I appreciate that advice. Okay. And if we both die at the same time, you heard it here, find a good duo. Like there’s no reason that the show shouldn’t continue. And if not, if that doesn’t work, just find another one. I just think the thing that makes it special when me and you were involved is our friendship. So let’s put another friendship in place. Yep. It won’t, it won’t be as good, but it might, I mean, honestly, after a while, it might be better. I think it could be better. Just think about it. We’re old. Like our sense of humor is like more outdated by the, by the second. You know what I’m saying? Like, it’s hard to get young people to care about it. You know, it’s all gray haired guys. He can’t even sit through a whole podcast without having to pee himself. Gotta get up and pee, yeah. I mean, it’s boring. So, uh, how do we not end on a sad, morbid note? How do we end on a happy note? Well, I have a rec that I actually think is quite fitting. Okay. I read a sad book this summer that I won’t read again. Mention. Mention. Okay. And I actually felt like I needed to, it wasn’t really sad, it was just sort of, I don’t know, it was pretty existential and didn’t make me feel good. And so, I literally was trying to find books that would make me feel good. So you googled it. Uh, well, I asked, I asked AI. I’m sorry, I’m addicted. It’s just too easy. I feel bad about it. It’s just too easy. But, uh, the uh, A book that was recommended by many sources, some of them AI sources, was Tuesdays with Maury. Now, you may remember, this was like a movie a while back, until you’ve probably seen the, Oh yeah, I kind of remember people talking about that 20 years ago, or 25 years ago when it came out. Did not see it. I didn’t see it either. But, it is the story of a former student of a, The author is a former student of this professor who had this big impact on his life, and then the professor, Maury, gets, uh, ALS. And it’s basically him spending Tuesdays with him as he is in the final stages of dying from ALS. What? That sounds sad. No. It does sound sad, but I’ve never read something that takes what is maybe the number one, like, fear that a lot of people have is to get a disease like that, a slowly debilitating disease like that. But this, Maury’s attitude and perspective is something that is super inspiring and really kind of puts your own life in perspective. Into perspective in a way that I just right you got to read it. You know, you got to read it Like I don’t know it’s not sad. How can you take someone slowly dying and make an inspirational book? I don’t know. He did it you wreck Super hard wreck. Okay, and I think that it actually Because we’re talking about death There you go. We’re not shying away from it, we’re leaning into it, we’re finding the, the, the happiness in it. There’s a little bit of a middle ground option that we didn’t even consider, and not to bring this up to make it morbid, but it is very consistent with Tuesdays with Morrie, is I think that Your dead body’s there beside you? No. It’s not Weekend at Bernie’s. As we discuss this, what we assumed in our, in the scenario of one of us dying is that it was a sudden death. It was an accidental death that we all of a sudden had to like, address. Oh my god. But chances are, if one of us dies, it’s going to be a slower death. You know, you’re more likely, I mean, It’s probably gonna be something like cancer, right? It’s gonna be something where you can say goodbye, and you can say goodbye to your best friend, but also to the people who watch you. Ooooooh, that could happen! And so, that’s the thing that you really need to think about. And after reading Tuesdays with Maury, while you, I think a lot of people are like, just make it quick, just make it quick, I don’t wanna suffer. He makes a great case for being able to say goodbye on your own terms. So, I don’t know. It’s pretty compelling. Hmm. Well with that, we’ll invite you to call us. Let us know what you think about all of this. Man, did we, did we uh, dredge up some thoughts? Related to us or yourself? I hope so. 1 888 EAR POD 1, that’s the number one, of course. Call us, use hashtag Ear Biscuits and don’t forget to leave a review wherever you listen. Hopefully it’s positive. That helps us. Yes. Uh, we’re not planning on going anywhere. Hey Rhett and Link, this is Sterling from Illinois. I am quite literally just laying in bed at 4 in the morning, uh, listening to your podcast trying to go to sleep. But I just wanted to say I really appreciate you guys. You guys are, like, one of my favorite comfort channels. You guys make me laugh so much, and I’m really glad that I clicked on that one Multiverse Munchies video in 2018.