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 dimmed lighting, we’re going to give the, uh, The perfect prescription to ruin a wedding because you need to have that in your back pocket. Boy, we are so here to help. And I’m really loving the voicemails, uh, that you’re leaving us. Boy, get a load of what we got today. And if you want to pile on to the load. We want you to do that. 1 888 EAR POD 1 You feeling good? You want to get into it? You got something else you need to tell me? I’ve had nothing significant happen in my life that you probably don’t already know about. I mean, last night, we were together. Mm hmm. We went to an event. Yep. Uh, shout out to Michelle Khare. Yes. And her, um, I mean, she, she, she released a feature length, uh, episode. Episode of Challenge Accepted. Mm hmm. 90 day black belt. She got a freaking, I mean, she Well, hey, no spoilers. She went through the process of getting a black belt in 90 days and it ain’t easy to get a black belt is what I learned. I already knew this about Michelle Carre. I already knew that she was a badass. Good God, because she does a lot of badass things. She’s like, but you the nicest person. You watch this thing and you’re just like, I would not want, she’s the nicest, badass person. I would not want her to be my adversary. No, no, no, no, no. I wouldn’t want her to be coming after me. She’d kill. Kill you with kindness and a roundhouse kick. Yes. . She may be one of the most, uh, rounded, well-rounded people I’ve ever met. Do you think, well-rounded is not the word. Just good at too many things. You think she’s hiding something? Oh yeah. She’s too good at too many things. I mean, I met her husband too. They seem, they both seem great. They seem great. I don’t know. I don’t know. I left with lower self esteem. Is that what her show’s supposed to do? No, I was actually very Inspired not I mean not to Get into Taekwondo, but oh, but but to think it’s cool. I was inspired. It’s really cool I literally and I’m not I don’t I don’t want to reveal exactly what notes I took but I literally before I went to bed Journaled about my experience about something I learned from well, why can’t you tell me just because it’s personal And I don’t really want to get it. I mean, I, I, it’s, it’s, it’s not, it’s uninteresting. It’s not worth talking about, but I’m just saying, I was impacted. So you were impacted in a completely uninteresting way, but the, no, it’s just not anything revolutionary is, uh, is an art form. Let’s just say that what I will say, uh, besides the screening, which was great. Uh, and I love. I love when our peers in the, why are you looking at me like that for? I don’t know. It’s because my face. Here’s the thing, you’re getting older and you got to be, you, you might need to review some footage of yourself. You got to be careful. You don’t make old man faces too often. Like that is such. I know that I was making an old man face. I mean, it was such an old man face, but it wasn’t just an old man face. It was like an old man. Let me see. In the early stages of dementia. Mirror it to me. I can’t even, my face is incapable of the faces that you make. I can’t make many old men face. I was just, I was raising my eyebrows. You just can’t look at people like that unless you want them to take sympathy on you and feel like they need to give you something. I need you to, well, I guess I can look, I mean, this is what I don’t know even how to respond to. It’s just like, does he need help? This? Yeah. I was like, what is you? It looks like a baby pushing out a fart or an old man pushing out a fart. I wasn’t pushing it at all. Okay. Okay. Damn, uh, I’m sorry, I’m sorry to be, I really don’t know, I just think that I haven’t used my face enough today, so I’ll like, I’m gonna raise the eyebrows. Haven’t used my face. Okay, well we’ll give you that opportunity now. I was trying to start using my face. Um. So I was stretching it. What I was gonna say. Open the eyebrows. Open the eyes. What I was gonna say is, um, I don’t know, I’m really encouraged by what’s happening in our. greater YouTube community. You’ve got Michelle, she’s been making like TV quality stuff for a long time. And, and, you know, we’ve been at some of these events with her, but we’re all trying to talk to industry people and, you know, uh, ad agency people and. About the fact that television quality stuff is being made by these digital studios like mythical and like challenge accepted Uh, and then I wake up this morning and i’m just kind of late to the news on this My wife actually told me about it. She was like, did you see? See what markiplier did and uh, I know that he’s been working on a feature that’s based on that video game But he’s also been working on, you know, his edge of sleep, Q code audio podcast. He’s been making that into a TV show. Oh, really? And I don’t know the details. I just know that it’s on Amazon prime and it actually came out before the day That they said it was going to come out and he was trying to explain to them that like, listen, if you put this on the platform, my fans will find it and I’ll have to talk about it versus waiting until the, you know, people, people in executives just don’t know how the internet works. Yeah. And so. As of this morning, him talking about it had gotten it into the top ten shows on Amazon. Uh, I haven’t watched it, I watched the trailer on his channel and it looks awesome. But anyway, I’m just excited about what the community is doing. People independently just making great stuff and, um, it’s encouraging. Yep, and um, you don’t have to be a black belt, thank God. You don’t. I ain’t gonna be breaking no boards with my hand. Before we listen to our first voicemail, Uh, just want to remind you that we did Good Mythical Evening, and if you missed it, you can still watch it, video on demand, goodmythicalevening. com. The clock is ticking though. Yeah, it’s not gonna be around for much longer. Yep. I wish I knew the exact date in which it wasn’t gonna be around, but that’s the mystery. Don’t risk missing it. Goodmythicalevening. com is where you can get it, video on demand, all right? Yeah. Hey, Ear Biscuit listener! Etsy knows what kind of holiday gifting reactions you’re looking for this year. You want squeals of delight, happy tears, and spontaneously written songs of joy, right? Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Well, to get reactions like those, you need to make sure everyone on your list feels heard with handmade, hand picked, and designed gifts from small shops on Etsy. 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So, I just don’t really know how to, um, talk to him about it, you know? I just want him to let me say what I’m gonna say and not try to guess it. Yeah. So, I was just hoping y’all could help me out. Thank you. Love y’all. Bye. Love you too, Jane. Let me just say that Oh, this is great. I would never interrupt you. I listen to you talk all day. Now, uh, let’s get in Let’s get inside the mind of an interrupter. Oh, you’re gesturing to me? Help us understand. I do not do this. You don’t do this. I don’t do this. I do not try to finish people’s sentences while they’re finishing them themselves. I have run into this before, though. I mean, but I am prone to be a little sympathetic. Like, okay, the, the believing, I wouldn’t say the worst, but believing something that’s not the best. Might include he doesn’t care what I have to say. I just want to go ahead and say well What about the flip side? It seems that he could be caring so much about what you have to say and he’s vibing with it So much that he just can’t help himself, but try to get in complete verbal sync so you can interpret it that way He is very much into what I have to say to the point where he thinks he can finish my sentences. Mm hmm Okay, she loves him. He seems like he’s probably a good guy You Except for this one thing. So there’s another, uh, phenomenon that I have observed with other people, uh, throughout my life. And it isn’t exactly the same thing, but I think it speaks to what you’re talking about. And that is what I think is probably a little bit more common. And that’s when you’re trying to tell someone a story, you’re trying to give someone some personal information about something that happened to you. Okay. And before you can finish your story. They are telling a story that’s similar that your story made them think of now I will say this is a very ADHD thing to do I have a lot of ADHD people in my life and they don’t necessarily know this is what they’re doing It’s just like they’re like dogs that see a car passing by and they have to chase it, right? And so when you tell them a story They’re immediately like, well, yeah, I, you wouldn’t believe what happened to me and you haven’t really finished your story yet. And I don’t think it sparks something in their brain and then they just go with it. And then they maybe have not developed a discipline to know that like, Oh, this seems selfish. When I do this, this seems like I’m not interested in what you’re saying, but it’s actually a bit of an attempt to relate to someone. It’s like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I told let me tell you about the time I fell into a sewer, you know, um, I have to do that with their but sometimes they do. So the charitable response to this that you’re getting at is that this is like, Oh, yeah, I know what you’re about to say. You’re about to tell me about the time you fell into a sewer. Yeah, tracking. I’m tracking with you. I’m tracking with you girl. Now, it does not matter. It, well, it matters a little bit, but it doesn’t really matter what someone’s intentions are. Let me just say that. Of course it matters. It matters somewhat but the impact of the dynamic of a conversation is that yes well she’s lost whether or not the person is being selfish and trying to take the conversation over or the person is unintentionally taking the conversation over. The impact to the person on the other end of the conversation is exactly the same. If you run over somebody And kill them because you were drunk. Well, that’s a that’s a problem If you run over and kill somebody because they ran out in front of you. Well, they still died. It’s got extreme I’m, just saying that I mean the impact is still the same So I do think it’s something that needs to be ultimately i’m saying it needs to be addressed because you can have the charitable response Which I think she’s already having jane’s like he’s a nice man. I don’t think he’s being malicious or whatever Yeah, but that you either have to be but it’s not i’m gonna deal with it Yeah I agree that she needs to curtail it because it’s having an impact on her ability to finish thoughts, much less sentences. And, uh, that ain’t good. That ain’t good. I’ll throw a couple of things out there. Okay. The moment that he starts, she could just ZOOP! Totally stop and then just let him go with it. Um, what would happen then? You’re like, nope, that wasn’t it, you know? Which brings me to my suggestion, which is, I think humor is the answer. I’m not gonna do the thing that we’ve done before, which is, well, you just, you know, you need, communication is key and you need to have a conversation. Boring! Maybe just the two of you, no. Humor is the key to unlocking this. Tig. Take some of the power back in a way that doesn’t hurt anybody. You just need to Can you demonstrate this? I, I think that there’s a funny way to, yeah, say something. Well, no, I want, I want you to start saying something. I’m gonna, you be Jane, I’ll be the father in law. Okay, alright, so, I have an idea for how I think that this could be solved, and I’m gonna use humor to do it, and, well, you’re not even cutting me off. You’re not doing anything. I’m just waiting for you. I’m going to let you get somewhere. Oh, you were literally given your idea. Just tell a story about something. Oh, well, yesterday I was driving to a sewer. No, that’s not right. I was driving through Texas, father in law, and I came upon a sewer and you fell into it. No, I came upon. Well, okay. All right. So that is two negative points for you. You have not guessed what I was doing yet. Do you want to keep playing this game? Cause you like to play the game. I’m willing to play the game if you want to. You sure it wasn’t a sewer? No, it wasn’t a sewer, so you’re at negative two points. Okay, uh, was a pot, was it a, it was a hole of some kind. It was a tumbleweed. But you fell into it. But it was, it was the biggest tumbleweed I’ve ever seen. And you fell into it. Lord knows I’ve seen a lot of tumbleweeds. Did you fall into it? And you fell into it. If you want to play the game, you need to wait until I start talking and then you need to start trying to predict what I’m saying. Go ahead. Which, you like to play this game a lot, so now I’m just putting Falling into a tubbleweed. I’m just putting points on it, okay? And then everybody else is kind of laughing uncomfortably. Okay, so you make it a game. Maybe, but you’re kind of making fun of the fact that he does it, in a way that, it’s not, it’s not completely confrontational. And it’s just gentle ribbing. I would, what I was hearing, and it may be, I like this idea, but I think it might be more difficult if the thing I didn’t pick up on the fact that she was talking about, like, recounting something that happened to her. I kind of thought that she was saying that she is giving her opinion about something and he’s finishing her opinion. Which, let me just say, when a man finishes a woman’s opinion, just, first of all, we are in a bad place. Let’s not do that. Alright, and men traditionally love to do that. I think it applies to opinions or whatever. I’m just saying, if there’s a way to start gently making fun of him for doing it and just pointing it out every time. So, if you give it a name like Oh, you’re doing the predict what I say game again. Alright. You gotta do better. Cause that wasn’t it. Maybe a slightly more caustic, if it is about opinions, it could be like, Oh no, go ahead, tell me what I think. You don’t want to get too passive aggressive. No, no, but I think when a, I think, Dale, you’re, you are, you always like to try to finish my sentences, Dale. And I’m gonna put a point value to it. Let’s call it, the Dale finishes sentences game. We’re just, Dale complete. That’s the nice version. And then every single time he does it, you say, Oh, I didn’t, we’re playing the game again. All right. Negative one point. You didn’t get it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you got it that time. You don’t want to give them too many positive points though. Cause you want to, you, you want to degrade. You don’t, you don’t want to encourage. So you want it to be punitive a little bit. I do agree my, my, my idea is more, is more caustic, but I do believe it would work really well if she just were like, Oh go ahead Dale, tell me what I think. He would never do it again. Uh, Jenna, you seem to agree. I liked that one. I’ll keep that in my pocket. But you can’t start with the aggressive, uh, I don’t think If Jane says If Jane says it in the voice that she just left that voicemail in Yeah, you shouldn’t get away with it. I think it’ll be pretty damn disarming. That’s all I gotta say. I think that’s it. I think we helped you out. Just give him a hard time about it. Come on. Take the power back. Good luck, Jane. Well, Dale, if you keep trying to finish my sentences, then I forget what I’m gonna say, and then what you say It’s usually not what I was going to say. So what if his name is Dale? Come on, Dale. Just Dale. That isn’t what I was going to say. And now I can’t remember. And you get negative points. Let’s hear the next one. Hey Rhett and Link, uh, you guys answer a lot of wedding related questions, and you’ve been on a kick of, uh, ethically dubious situations lately, so here’s mine. Uh, some people who ruined my wedding are going to be getting married soon, so I want to ask the bad boys, what is the most creative way for me to return the favor? The bad boys. Yeah, with the bad boys. What gonna do? We’re the bad boys. Now what you gonna do when we give you advice for you, the bad boy’s gonna ruin the wedding. Hold on. Have we got a reputation? Yes. Yes. We got a reputation for being bad boys’. The bad boys. . Alright. I want to know what they did to ruin your wedding. Call back. Come on. More information the better. I, I, I would love more information, but I don’t believe I need it. How, how could you ruin a wedding? Because to me that’s, that informs how you retaliate. The type of revenge, you know, it needs to be a little tit for tat, or a little tit for tit even. You know? I mean, if Dale were here, he’d be, he’d be finishing that. Tit, tit, tit for tit. That’s right, Dale. I mean, cause how, how do you, they didn’t ruin the wedding badly enough that she’s not going to show up at their wedding. So there’s still, it didn’t end the relationship, but what, so it wasn’t like this, Oh, he got drunk at the reception and started spewing secrets about. Our past We don’t know the nature of the ruining of the wedding, but it was categorized as a ruining of the wedding. I mean, what would you think could ruin a wedding? Not the reception. The actual wedding is ruined? Or maybe the whole thing? I don’t know. Standin up during that Speak now or forever hold your peace. That’ll do it. That’ll do it. Okay. That’s a little too tv. Yeah. They actually don’t even say that. I, I, I, they haven’t said that in any weddings that I’ve been to in 10 years. Is it just ever just a, is it just a movie thing? I think it’s, it’s like the reading of a will in the movie, which never happens in real life. It is like sitting down and I bequeath to soandso like that happens in the movies. But you don’t see that in real life. Yeah. Don’t they just email it out? Right. Emails, man. Everybody gets. upset in their own space. Um, well, but I mean, my dad always tells the story of Uncle Johnny throwing flour on his head when he and my mom exited the, that didn’t ruin it though. It, it almost killed him. Almost choked on it. It kind of ruined a part of it. When you almost die from choking and then you’ve got to get in your car covered in flour. Well, I think you’re on the right track though. It was something that was crankish. Oh, it could have been accidental, but it could have been somebody showing their ass, but it wasn’t something that was a relationship ruiner because they are going to their wedding. So I think the, first of all, I always think the perfect revenge plan involves getting your revenge, but not having to take responsibility for it. That’s right. And maybe even eliciting some sympathy for yourself. So I have one option. Okay. Alright. So what you’re going to do is, uh, And I, and I actually was thinking reception, but I do believe this could, you could orchestrate this for the ceremony as well. It depends on maybe if you’re in the wedding. Um, it, if you do it at the reception, what you’re going to do is you’re going to go to the reception and you are going to indulge like you’ve never indulged before. Yeah. Go to the buffet, revisit the buffet. Oh, you’re talking about food? Okay. Drinks, everything. Okay. But you need food for my plan. Oh, and then, and then. You’re gonna, you’re gonna have your, this is horrible, by the way, just let me just say, this is horrible. Well, you got, it’s gotta be ruined. You’re gonna ruin their wedding. All right, and, but they’re gonna have trouble getting mad at you unless they listen to this podcast. Which is a little bit of a meta conversation we might need to have if we’re gonna keep giving this kind of advice, but back to the point. You’re gonna indulge like you’ve never indulged before and then, what is it called? Epitap, epitap? EpiCac. EpiCac. EpiCac. Syrup of EpiCac? Yeah, yeah. So what you, I don’t know what the time on this is, but this is what makes you throw up and what you’re going to do is you got a little flask with EpiCac in it. You got an EpiCac flask and you’re going to take that. That’s a good word for such a bad thing. And when you, when you feel, EpiCac, maybe we could sell EpiFlask, which is just a flask with EpiCac in it. Um, you feel the urge, this is your moment, right? You’re going to have to time this, because you need to be congratulating both of them at the same time. This is worse than flour. And you are going to vomit like you’ve never vomited before, and it is going to get worse. On at least her dress. Oh, Rhett. I’m just saying! And then you are going to immediately begin apologizing profusely. I’m so sorry! You continue to apologize. I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry! I can’t believe this. I can’t believe this is happening. Because that’s why you’re not turning away, because you’re apologizing. Yeah, no, no. You turn away. And get some other people but then you come back and hit them. Fire hydrant. I’m so sorry to everybody. Because then everybody. The DJ will stop playing music. People, other people start vomiting. People start throwing up. That’s ruining it. You may get one of them to throw up. Can you, can we move this to the ceremony? I’d love to hear you do it. Um, I mean, uh, you know, you go up there, it’s like, you start walking up there in the middle of the ceremony, it’s like, um, excuse me, there’s, I’ve got to fix the train of your, first you’re fixing the train of the dress, and I’m like, well there, okay, I guess this person just thinks they need to fix the train of her dress while, during the ceremony, and then you start vomiting on it. Well, they’re gonna know you planned that. Maybe you need a volunteer to sing at the wedding. Oh, yeah. Okay. That’s yeah Wow, okay that would ruin it Yeah, a little a little vomit is contagious. Yeah. So I mean I told you I apologize for this. I you know, I You didn’t hear from me. Yeah, and you totally you’re you’re totally You People feel sorry for you. And then they think that maybe they did something with the food. Ooh, yeah, it’s their fault. Their fault. Yes. Alright, that’s I had some of the shrimp. Ugh. Alright. To work up to that, which is the ultimate. That’s the ultimate. Okay. If you’re not ready for that, and you still want to ruin, um, the wedding, I don’t know, maybe you can Bring a dog to the ceremony. And um, Say less. You know, walk him down the aisle. Maybe, maybe if your dog is Some people have dogs that do the ring bearer thing. Their dog The ring barker. Yeah, but this is like, uh, you bring your own ring bearer and you just like, you send him down there. Maybe they like to mark things a lot. Everybody who’s on the end of the aisle, they’re getting their shoe peed on. This could backfire, though, because everybody loves a dog. A lot of people do. But if it’s a real horrible dog. How about like a raccoon? Yeah, a raccoon. Bring a raccoon and swear it’s your dog. The ring bearer. There it is. You know what is actually a really good animal to let loose inside of a space that’s actually not harmless but really scary? It’s a possum. Ew. Cause at a certain point they’ll play dead and it up. you put a possum in a church during a wedding, that’ll ruin a wedding. Cause they don’t actually do that much. They go, hrrrrrrr And they won’t bite, they don’t bite you. You can put your hand in a, I think I’ve talked about this many times. You can put your hand in a possum’s mouth and it won’t bite, but it will ruin a wedding. It’ll ruin a wedding. people will get, people will trample each other. Dale brought a possum to the wedding! Don’t invite him next time. You’re definitely not getting invited to anything else. But again, you could plant the possum in a special location, remote control cage that releases by inside the Oregon or something or in the piano. I don’t want to hurt the possum. I’m not advocating violence to animals. How can you, what, where could you put a possum before a wedding such that it would be revealed during the wedding? Um, what kinds of things are opened up during a wedding? Well, the, the rings are usually in a pocket. Um, I don’t know. I don’t think anything’s opened up during a wedding. So maybe you’ve got to have the possum in something that you remotely open at a certain point. Yeah, that’s what I was saying. Like a cage under a pew. That’s it. And you might need, you might need a couple of possums because you never, you can’t trust one possum. Yeah. It’s tough to trust one possum. You’re going to need three possums for this, uh, operation. And you might get one to do something cool or you might get all three and it really just depends on the day and the weather. I’m going to suggest one more to work up to this because to work up to the, the vomit, you got to get the possums. To work up to the possums, I think what you want to do is you want. To have a silent power trip over the people that ruined your wedding, now at their wedding. So let’s just say, lame example, um, they ruined your wedding with, with air horns. Like, why did you bring an air horn to my wedding? They’re in the background, Haaa! You know, that would, that would, that would really put a hitch in a ceremony. Oh, during a ceremony. During a ceremony. If you’re like hitting the air horn. Great for the reception though. Still, it’s really loud. I think you need to have an air horn. You need to have, air horn represents whatever they did to you that now. You should always have an air horn. Yeah, first of all, you should always have an air horn. I got one on me right now. I mean, and, I mean, any avid boater knows that. You never know when somebody’s not paying attention while boating. Exactly. And they’ll just run right on you. I think that you’re, you’re, you’re basically. Making eye contact with, let’s just say it’s the bride that ruined your wedding, you’re making eye contact with the bride at certain points just to like, and just holding up that air horn. Your fingers right on it. Hey, are you gonna? Are you gonna? Not right now. Oh, right now. Every time they look at you, hold up the air horn. How do you get them to look at you, though? Usually they’re really enthralled with each other. You might need a little signal or something. I think you might need to, like, eek the air horn a little bit. Or wave it. Wave the air horn. How about just Aggressive throat clearing. Ha! Ah! That’ll get somebody to look. People actually can’t help it. Ha! Ah! Yeah, okay. This is not a bad idea. Mind games. Yeah. Because You’re not gonna ruin their wedding. You’re gonna let them know that you could ruin their wedding. Yeah, and this way you don’t suffer. You, you don’t suffer. Nobody, nobody else suffers, but they suffer on their big day. You could give the pastor epi epicate. Yeah, you could. Which I really honestly don’t really recommend because I think that could be illegal. Yeah, it’s kind of like poisoning somebody. If a pastor has to bow out, you can’t officially get married. Ha! You know what I’m saying? If the officiant has a physical problem. Okay. Or you could just give him an air horn. Thank you! Oh, bless you. Thank you want to give him an air horn? Pastor? Air horn? How about replace the ring with an air horn? Yep, so when he pulls it out, HRRRRRR! It’s like, oh no! Yeah, I think, I think you need to have air horns everywhere. And they, the bride and the groom, they just start to go nuts over like, Am I seeing things? Everywhere I look there’s air horns. But they’re not going off. They’re not going off. You should see them. But they could go off. Now, That’s gonna drive you nuts. One flaw in this is some people, Cannot recognize an air horn. They might think it’s a cheese whiz. That’s true. Classic mistake. So I think you might need a big legible label on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Air horn above it. Maybe you wear a hat that says I’m holding an air horn. That’s it. I trucker hat. I’m holding an air horn. This is not cheese whiz, not cheese whiz. Okay, well, we saw that one. But then I think you go up to him at the reception. Maybe you do have some cheese whiz. The whole time it was Cheez Whiz. You lace them with Cheez Whiz. Whoa, you Cheez Whiz them? Cheez Whiz them. You Cheez Whiz them during the reception? Cheez Whiz them. I mean, it’s a stepping stone to vomit. If you vomit on somebody during a ceremony or during a reception, you will be embarrassed, but your reputation will not be tarnished. That’s true. But you Cheez Whiz somebody? You probably won’t get a job after that. Uh, but you might have a little fan group on Facebook. You know, there’s some people who are like, Wow, I’m really with Cheez Whiz, dude. The Cheez Whizzlers. Cheez Whizzlers? Yeah. Yeah, is that on Facebook? So that’s it. Uh, we’ve got varying levels of ruining weddings. We give you options. And keep in mind that the possum option is three options in one. So you’ve technically got five different ways you could play this. So, take one of those please, and report back. I watched a video of a coyote at a construction site. He was being filmed by, like, a guy in a big piece of equipment. They were, like, clearing some land. And then, um, he, he runs up on a possum, just in the middle of this thing. And he grabs the possum, and he takes it. He picks it up in his jaws. And then it, of course, it plays dead. Yeah. So then he drops it. And he just kinda, he kinda looks at it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then he looks up and he makes eye contact with the guy filming him in the piece of equipment the coyote does and then he takes a couple of steps forward and he pees on the possum. He walks off. Oh my god. He walks off. And then after a while the possum gets up and walks away. With piss on him. And coyote piss is horrible. I’ve smelled that stuff. That’s bad. That’s bad. I saw a coyote video recently. And it was, and I didn’t know how to feel about it. Because I’ve got some, I don’t know how I feel about coyotes. Let me just tell you that first, because they’re around, boy, they are, they’ll run, you’ll be driving around Los Angeles in the evening, late at night. Well, not just seeing them, you’ll be driving behind a coyote. Like, it’s like, well, do you have a carpool lane sticker? You get out of the way. I would say two to three nights a week, if we’re outside. Just in my yard, the coyotes start going crazy. And what I’ve been told, and I’m not no expert. And the person that told me this wasn’t, but maybe they saw an expert. Yeah. Is that when they’re going, they start going nuts. It’s usually, and it’s not, it doesn’t sound like dogs. It’s a distinct sound. They have gotten something most likely a pet. Right? Oh. They’ve gotten, they’ve captured something, and they are all like, Frenzy? Going crazy. And they are close! They get close. I mean, first of all, they get in my front yard. And I got my dogs out there. I don’t want my dogs to get eaten by a coyote. We had coyotes behind our house in that little fenced in area between the two houses. Really? Like it’s a pathway? Two years ago, when the people next to us were redoing their house and they didn’t live there for like a year, the coyotes figured it out and they were hanging out in their yard and then they were coming up behind and they could easily have jumped. We let Sean and Barbara out to, you know, do their business and we don’t always go out there with them. Yeah, that’s, that’s, um, you gotta do that. I just don’t know how I feel about coyotes. Like, I do not put them on the level of dogs. And so, uh, I Saw a video where there was a coyote that was in distress. And this woman, like, takes it in and revitalizes it and stuff and Listen, I understand that from, like, uh, just a general, universal ethic standpoint that this is a living being and stuff. But it was just like, I didn’t like, I had, I don’t like that coyote. I don’t want more of those coyotes out there. I want less of them out there, you know what I’m saying? And so I don’t know how to reconcile my feelings. What about a fox, though? Foxes are not a problem for me personally. Foxes do not eat. And foxes kill chickens. We don’t have hens. They kill chickens. They don’t kill dogs. Maybe little teeny dogs. I’ve seen footage of um, people with like foxes as pets. Yeah, well they got a new dog fox uh, hybrid. Did you see that? What? First time. Yeah, first time it’s ever happened, at least, you know, that we know of. What do they call it, a fog? Uh, fog or a dox. Dox is not good though, because then you find out where it lives. Ha ha ha ha ha! It’s called a dogxim. Dogxim? D O G X I M. Why? I don’t know. XI ’cause of fog and a docks are both bad. Um, , but, well, you, I told you about these foxes in, I think it’s Russia, but I’m, I thought a fox is more like a cat. Am I stupid? Don’t answer that. They’re a mixed. Are those are unrelated questions. We can address this. These one foxes genetically closer related to a dog. Apparently they, they, they have similar behaviors to. Both sides of cash. Genetic. They branched off of dogs. They got a long time ago. They branched out of dogs. Coyotes branched off of dogs. Not very recently, is what my understanding was. Does that make you feel better about hating him? Yeah. But the foxes, you know, foxes can be domesticated and then bred to be very friendly. And if you look up, just Google like, Russian domesticated foxes. And they got these foxes that make dog noises, have floppy ears, and love people so much that they pee themselves when people come up to them. And there was this whole, like, movement. Movement to domesticate these foxes as pets at some point. And now there’s like the remnants of that movement somewhere. I think it’s Russia. I think. I don’t know. This could be a lot of misinformation, but You can Google to verify. I’ve seen little consequence, right? It’s just, we’re talking about domesticated foxes, but yeah. So I don’t know how it’s not like we’re ruining a wedding. I don’t know how they hybridized a dog and a fox together. Cause you have to have some sort of genetic similarities in order to do that. Right? Like you can’t just like, there’s gotta be some common ancestor. That’s not too far back. I mean, they could put, make us in a chimpanzee, half human, half chimpanzee. They could easily do that. You think they could? If scientists turned their laser focus on making a human chimpanzee hybrid, there is zero doubt that they would be able to do it. I’m not saying that they should. I mean, I’ve fallen off of the Planet of the Apes movies after Charlton Heston, but is that That’s a while back. The premise of that? Uh, I have no idea. I haven’t watched any of the recent ones. I’m just saying that like I think it’s just parallel. You can, you can, it’s something that diverged six million years ago. You can hybridize that. Yeah. So you, you basically, you want to keep the brains of a human, but you want to get the brawn of, uh, I don’t know what I’m not saying advocating for this. I’m just saying that from a, it, it would be possible. It would be possible. Okay. Let’s we need to move to higher ground. Okay. All right. This is getting scary. Next question. Hi Rhett and Link, um, my name is Jewel and I live in North Carolina, so I’m also a North Carolina native. Um, I’ve really been loving the, uh, Canada and the Chicago segment where you give your honest opinions about what you think. So I want to hear what you think about North Carolina being a North Carolina native. Alright, thanks guys. That’s right, we’re North Carolina boys. Thanks. Always and forever. We know lots about it. I mean, there’s a lot about North Carolina that might surprise you. Um, and some of the things that we’re very familiar with are the things that we do right from birth, right? So, you know, your typical thing that you would do with a baby is that, like, It comes out of the womb and then you give it the teat. Well, that’s not how it works in North Carolina, right? We give the babies a cigarette, right? Just get them just a little tobacco. Every North Carolina baby lives off smoke alone for the first 18 months, right? And of course this goes back to, um, we know that smoking is bad for you, but I mean, it’s so much industry and our state was built on it. It’s an economic decision. It’s an economic decision. Sometimes we sacrifice. Our health for economics. Um, yeah, another thing that happens is, you know, Typical baby birthday parties like one year old birthday parties You set a cake in front of the child and then they just throw their face into it. We don’t do that We set a a pig a hog, right? It’s cooked but it’s cooked and it’s small It’s I hate to say this but it is a baby pig. It’s a suckling pig. Yep. Yep, right there Every child gets a suckling pig. So what is to themselves on the first birthday? What is betty gonna do to the pig? Yeah, and then we make a lot of judgments about the future of the child based on what part of the pig it eats first. Right. Keep in mind, it does have to take its cigarette out in order to eat the pig. Well, they don’t smoke cigarettes forever. First 18 months. They’re still well into it. Okay, but yeah. It’s his first birthday. That’s true. That’s true. Um, we also know that North Carolina is better than South Carolina in every way. We do not speak to people from South Carolina. We don’t do that. If we can help it. Yeah, yeah. And when we do, we judge them. Harshly. Yeah. And, um, when you’re from North Carolina, you know about all the places in it. But, um, uh, when you’re not, you just know about Asheville and Wilmington. Right. That’s all we let outsiders know about. Yeah. And, um, you know, yeah, is it cool? Is it cool there in the mountains? Yeah, it’s pretty cool in Asheville. Yes. Okay. You’re right. We’ll give you that. Everybody knows that. It’s pretty cool in Asheville. There’s a whole middle part. Yeah, I don’t have much to say about it. That’s where I’m going. Well, uh, how about a short sidebar away from our funny talk since you brought up Asheville. I feel obligated to shout out the people of Asheville who went through hell and are still in recovery. From that. It’s going to be a long time coming. Giving our love to Asheville. The United Way of North Carolina. We supported them and the work that they’re doing out there. Encourage you to do the same. You brought it up. Hey, yeah. Sending our love, um, and support to United Way of North Carolina. We don’t have cars. We have NASCARs and you, you think you go, you know, you would come to North Carolina and you’d see, you’d see roads with stoplights. No, no, everything’s banked. Everything is a banked oval. We only take left turns. If you can’t get to a location by taking a series of left turns, then you cannot get there. If it requires a right turn in North Carolina, you got to take three lefts in order to get there. But it’s fast. Oh, it’s real fast. It’s so fast. There are no speed limits. The faster, the better, as a matter of fact. If you haven’t, uh, experienced it, you’ve probably seen, like, cloverleafs getting on and off, like, a freeway in whatever state you’ve experienced. Everything’s like that. Everything’s like getting on and off a freeway, but it’s just how the roads work. Every town. And, um, nobody gets dizzy. Because we’re all used to it. Yeah. Vestibularly. Exactly. Exactly. We are, we, most fighter pilots come from North Carolina because of, uh, the banked roadways. And when you pull into a gas station, uh, 12 men in full body suits come up and change your tires, fill your car up with gas real fast. Everything. I mean, it is absolutely nuts. And then you’re back on the road in about 15 seconds. Right, you have a fob on your, um, your, um, your visor and that’s how you pay. Right. It’s kind of like a toll booth. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and also this is really important from a religious perspective, um, is that nine out of ten North Carolinians, when they select religion on the census, they select college basketball. And everywhere you look, there are churches. But they’re just showing ACC games inside there. Right. Yep. From the, from the eighties and nineties, by the way, it reruns when they, when the, when the ACC meant something. That’s right. Yep. Love it. It’s a great place. We love growing up there. Uh, we learned so much. And also we’re first in flight, not you, Ohio, just because you produce the Wright brothers. Yeah, but they flew in us. You’re still wrong. They flew on us. Where did they go? Where did the flight happen? Kitty Hawk. Us. North Carolina. North Carolina Beach. Yeah. Right there. Ohio wasn’t good enough to fly in. Mm mm. So they had to leave and find a worthy state. Okay? And they never went back. I believe they did, but They might have visited. So that’s North Carolina. Send us your questions about any other place on Earth. Let’s hear another. Hey Rhett and Link, this voicemail is for Jenna. I want to say you’re a genius because I just listened to the episode about Um, you having a proclivity to start fires and a couple episodes or so before that you were talking about how you would be very interested in a firefighter partner and I just think that’s a great combination. I think that’s a great way to get a partner and I just think you’re next level. So. Oh, I thought this dude was gonna say he was a firefighter. Oh, no I love being called a genius. Thank you. Genius? I mean, that’s better than arsonist. Yeah, yeah. A little bit. Both could be true. So, how did this happen? Because we, we, we’ve, Started to have an idea of your type or types. I don’t know how many. Yeah. And that’s why I was like, Jenna likes, you’d like a fireman. Yes, I would. I’ve never dated a fireman. Oh, really? So, so describe what we’re picking up on, but that, you know, fully, I mean, this is, this is you, this is your preference. What’s your type and why is fireman it? Uh, fireman, I suppose we could just because, um, It’s a very physical, demanding job. Okay. You want a bulky guy. You want a muscle guy. Yeah, yeah. Not, not, it’s not, it doesn’t necessarily need to be like, uh, like a Capable. Yeah, someone who’s capable. They can, I’d still like a, a, a man that’s a little, that’s a little squishy. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay, got it. Squishy, a little squishy, but a lot capable. Yeah, a lot capable. Alright. Um, They, uh, they protect, they help the community in different ways. Um, uh, I like the uniform. Oh, let’s, yep, there we go. You like uniforms. I, yes, yeah, yeah. Marines were always my type, but I’m avoiding them for the time being because it has never worked out for me. Okay, taking a break from Marines. Yeah, taking a break. What about Air Force, Army, Space Force? Yes. I’ve never dated any of the other branches actually. Oh, really? Just Marines. Okay. They really like me, and I like them. They’re fun. They’re a little crazy. I think that’s why. I need a little A little crazy. Someone who’s going to run into a burning building. Just a little, just a little unhinged, you know, but you haven’t dated a fireman. I haven’t. I also get that. I also get the impression because you’re, you’re good in an emergency. Like you’re good. If things start going sideways, I am cool headed. And I think you would be, if you were in a relationship with a man that wasn’t good in emergencies, you would lose respect for him. Yeah. Yeah. Would, would you not? Yeah. like freezes up. I need, I need someone. How about working for a guy who’s not good in emergencies. That’s different. That’s different. That’s different. Okay, good. I’m getting, I’m getting paid to use my skills. You helped a lady with a Target bag. With a, with a Trader Joe’s bag. That’s right. You’ve proven yourself recently. Yeah, you, you did good in that emergency. That’s right. Yeah. I’m more, I’m rubbing off on you. My, my energy. Yeah. My, yeah, I, um, I think it’s also just someone, uh, because I, I am so hyper independent and can do all the things. Um, it, uh, finding a partner that, um, can take some of that from me. Oh. And allow me to be a little softer. Um, would be nice. And you have a pole in your house. Uh, not anymore, but I, yeah, I did have a pole in my house. That’s how we got on the topic. Because the pole. Yeah, I had a pole in, uh, In my apartment for a long time in college because a friend of mine was a stripper Anywhom, okay, not getting back on that topic. It didn’t go up to the next floor. It didn’t go up to the next floor It was a it was strictly a stripper. Okay. Yeah Now you’re gonna be on aren’t you gonna be on a good mythical weekend at some point? You’re gonna are they gonna bring in firefighters? They heard the runner about of us talking about firefighters and stuff and we’re like, let’s find jenna a firefighter. Yeah So, yeah, let me tell you right now You probably already know this, but in big cities, my understanding in big cities like LA, like, you know, where we come from, firefighters are volunteer firefighters, right? I’m sure they get paid something, but they all have other jobs. But like in a city like this, like it’s like a full time, good paying job with benefits. And like, like they’ve got like a predictable schedule. They know when they’re on and they know when they’re off and that kind of thing. They’re on a lot, but then when they get off, it’s, they have like long weekends. Yeah. Yeah. There’s a lot of catch up time. Yeah. And then you get your independent time because they’re, they’re like working for like. I do double shifts. Yeah, they’re doing double shifts. And then that’s my that’s my time. I think that’s and you’d like to have some alone time. I do love alone. This could be perfect. We gotta find some firefighters. Yeah, but we’ll see how the you know, the the Good Mythical Weekend episode. Uh, they’re not we’re not doing that until later. So I think they’re still looking for firefighters that they may expand to other emergency personnel. If you are a firefighter or a suit wearing firefighter, Giving Marines, but not too much because she’s not doing that right now in the Southern California in the Greater Los Angeles area. I have a habit of finding men who don’t live in the area We don’t want orange county we want greater los angeles area, okay I mean That could be an hour away. Maybe I get irvine. I mean somebody works for the irvine fire department. What if he’s perfect? well, I don’t want to Fine if they’ve got somebody that then she has to She decides to move to Orange County. Well, I mean, maybe she’s halfway to it, you know? 30 minute commute. I just think we need to be close. Okay, if you work for the Burbank Fire Department, you have a serious leg up to everybody else. I’m gonna put a radius on this because I don’t, I don’t want I don’t want to be the reason that Jenna doesn’t work with us anymore. That’s true. So this is about you all. It’s about us. It’s about all of us. It’s about all of us working together. Yeah, I don’t want a long commute. No, thank you. Yeah. And if he shows up in just those, just the pants. Oh boy. Oh, and no shirt. He certainly came. You know, the suspenders and just the pants. That’s usually a stripper. Oh, right, right. Yeah, not always. Well, they they have the fireman calendars changing. That’s true. Yeah, that’s true That’s true Okay. Well, how does yeah, how does the fireman take off everything except the pants and leave the suspenders on that is a suspicious way To get undressed. Yeah, usually there’s at least a t shirt Yeah, or a tank tank. Yeah. Yeah. He’s got a tank top on and you’re okay with the danger Of like, worrying about, now I care about this person, and they’re running into death defying situations. I have already, I have already dated men in those situations, so it wouldn’t be, um, uncommon. Yeah, I’m, yeah. You like that energy a little bit? A little bit of that is like, I’m, I’m acquainted with Well, I think it’s also, you know, if I’m It’s it’s the job that they yeah, I am acquainted with death Yeah, I am acquainted with death. Uh, but it’s the job they chose. I’m not gonna um, yeah Yeah, and I you know from a statistic standpoint, it’s not like Yeah, probably I mean they are in a more dangerous job than what we do But occasionally I mean we got we skydive every once in a while Right. Yeah, we’re not Qualified to do exactly we do You They’re fully qualified. Honestly, the dangerous part of being a firefighter around here is when you have to fight the wildfires. Right, yeah. But Even then it still rarely results in somebody getting killed. This is going to be fun if they bring, if they’re parading in all of these firemen for you. I don’t know if it’s going to be a parade. I don’t know how many people would feel like applying to be a lineup of three. It’s not, yeah, it’s not only like people who want to date me, but it’s like people want to come on the show and try and date me. So if you don’t know, we do, we do Saturday episodes on the good mythical morning channel. We call it good mythical weekend. It’s like crew stuff and like, um. Emily dated somebody, Michaela dated somebody. You’re next on the list. I’m next on the list. Yeah. Okay Yeah, this is fun. This is good a little Brush up on your backdraft Yeah, okay. That’s a great movie So i’m sure that our the mythical team is contacting climb up on that hose local fire departments But if you know anybody in the local fire department in los angeles, or you are those people just know that Be looking for that, be looking for that call, or call us and leave a voicemail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And can I clarify, when I said climb up on that hose, I was talking about the rolled up hoses on top of the fire truck. Where the, the, the, uh, Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. The lovemaking scene happened with Backdraft, I think. Yeah. I’ve only been told about it. I haven’t seen it. I watched Backdraft and don’t remember that. There was a, they were making love on the, on the, on the fire truck. You would have thought I, maybe I was watching it with my dad and you fast forwarded it. Yeah, I don’t remember. You don’t remember a lovemaking scene? Uh, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Backdraft. Uh, uh, I’ll, I’ll watch it again soon. Patrick Swayze, right? I think you may be getting confused with the porn version, Backshaft. Oh. Yeah. That’s what happened. You, you’ve seen, you saw that , okay. And, uh, yeah. And you’ve got ’em mixed up in your mind now. In fact, all of back shaft took place on top, a top of a firetruck on some big hoses. Pretty much a 45 minute movie. I mean, I want, maybe you’ll get to, to steer the back of a, of a hook and ladder truck. Oh my gosh. That’ll be so fun. I’ve been in a firetruck once before, but that’s a weird, that’s a weird story. But those are so long that these, that’s a weird story. You, you steer the back. That’s another time. That’s a hard discussion is that that really is that. Well, why is it not a time? That’s not the Davin story. That’s the Davin story. Oh, it is the Davidon story. It’s the Daon story. at when we were mythic. When we were at mythic. Yeah. He had an allergic reaction. He had an allergic reaction. And we were all at a brewery and it was a Sunday and all of us had been drinking and so, and no one had vehicles anyway. Mm-Hmm. . Even if we weren’t drinking. Right. So. Um, I, I, me and Bethany and I went to everyone in the brewery asking for, like, Benadryl something, nobody had anything. Not even, like, they didn’t even have it in the first aid kit at this brewery, so. Was his throat closing? Um, it just covered, he was getting really, really wet. Yeah, you were, you were there. Like, so many, like, really red. Like, super everywhere. Oh yeah, full on allergic reaction. From what? No idea. Uh, well, technically there is this thing. And it’s like, I don’t know if it’s always true, but it’s called Asian Flush. Okay. That when they drink that, like, that’s a thing. He’s been experiencing it. Okay. Earlier in the weekend as well, which made me think it was some sort of like in the texas air Yeah in the texas air like hay fever or something that his body wasn’t used to anyway He was having a full blown allergic reaction I go into emergency mode as as I do and I was like, well, okay There’s there’s there’s a place close benadryl Everything was closed on a Sunday, where we were. And so I just kept walking and walking and saw a fire department and was like, Excellent! They’re gonna have Benadryl. And me Um, just being the person that I am, didn’t consider how crazy it would look if I just walk right in to their kitchen. I literally walk into their kitchen and they’re all sitting there and they’re like, who is this chick? And I was like, oh, hi. Um, hello. My friend is having an allergic reaction. It’s fine, but we I just want to get some benadryl from you all because everything’s closed and they were like Well, we have to like see him and blah blah. Yeah Explain the whole thing to him and I was like, oh god Well, please it’s not an emergency like it’s like well, we gotta drive over there It’s like please don’t put on the sirens Oh boy, and they’re like please hop in hop in the truck so I get to ride in the truck I forgot that you got into the truck riding in the truck And they were like, Bethany and I, Bethany and I were riding in the truck. That’s awesome. And we get there. Something tells me they, me and Rhett wouldn’t be riding in the truck either. Here we go. We’re going to take these ladies down to the restaurant that they were in. And they drive us over and I ain’t never going to ride in a fire truck just by crashing a lunch. They would have given us directions to the local CVS. Right. And I was like, please wait here. You all don’t need to come all like barreling in to, to. Like administer first aid so I went and grabbed Davin and brought him out to the parking lot and they checked him in sure enough What did Davin say when he got a surprise for you? When he saw the fire truck. Oh, he was very excited Some of these firefighters were very attractive. So he was he was very happy. Yeah, Davin likes firefighters Yeah, we got we got to watch out for Davin on you this on your dating day, yeah He’s going to try and steal these. We got to keep him back. He might, he might conveniently have to break out in the hives again. Okay. You want to take one more quick one? Sure. Hey guys, this is Anthony. Um, I’m a truck driver, so I’m constantly listening. You guys are dispatches from Myrtle beach and hot dog is a sandwich. Why did I ask you guys? What is your network on truck? Or that’s a moving from. South to California. Um, I noticed there’s a very big difference between How truck drivers are treated in the south and the north and then out west especially in California So I want to see y’all’s outlook on what y’all thought about truck drivers and uh You guys’ opinions has changed. If you guys move. Love you guys. Thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for calling. I don’t know, I didn’t know that. Like people thought of truck drivers in different, different ways in different places. You think he’s washing early, listening. He’s a truck driver. You probably can’t see me. He’s telling, asking him to toot the horn. We got our fist in the air and we’re, we’re going up. We’re going in an up and down motion. So as you’re listening give us a hoot toot a hoot give us a honk give us a honk They are the lifeblood. I love truck drivers of America moving stuff around moving and shaking having to pulling over to way Have it. I mean you’re talking on the CB sleeping in the back going to the biggest I’m the bull of the woods. I’m the beaver from Missouri. It’s, it, there’s a Merle Haggard song called the bull of the woods. It’s about a male trucker and a female trucker. connecting romantically over a CB. Yep. It is a great song. And having a meet up. It gets a little dirty. Yep, for a little hanky panky. That’s interesting. I’ve actually always had, you know, I actually experienced this just last week. I’ve never thought about this until this question was asked. I’ve never spoken about it. But I just realized now that you’ve asked the question and I’m reflecting on a recent experience that I’ve always had, and I don’t know if it’s like something my, probably something my dad said at something, at some point as a kid. I’ve always had this reverence and respect for truck drivers. Like it was a, like it was some noble profession in that they, uh, Know a whole lot more about driving in general than anyone else because they have to they have to have a special license They’ve got this giant thing that can kill people you know and I am really, really, it’s so easy when you’re merging in this town to look for a truck to merge in front of, you know, because they keep a little bit of distance. Yeah. And a lot of these California A holes, like, for some reason, Let me just say, I don’t do this. Like, when somebody’s trying to merge, I don’t even care if they’ve, like, waited until the very end. I never play that game where I’m like, I’m not gonna let you in, I’m not gonna let you in, I’m not gonna let you in. I just don’t understand it, psychologically. I’d like to thank you for that. Okay. Because I’m one of those people merging in. I’m just like, yeah, come on, we’re all trying to go places. Let’s just let people, it’s fine, okay? Sometimes it does get excessive, I know. But you don’t do that in front of an 18 wheeler. But I always, and sometimes there’s a gap, and it is a good enough gap, and I feel okay, but I’m always like, you know, I’m Very, like, I’m like saying thank you, sir, like, very Like, I don’t know, I just had this reverence. Of course, you can’t see you do that if you do that in the cab of your car. And I saw last week a truck driver got cut off by someone and he was upset and I looked up. Well, I looked up this way because I was in my, he’s up there. And I like I just made eye contact for a moment and there was this is like I see you man I see you you’re a truck driver. I’m, sorry on that on that person’s behalf I wish I could make everybody respect you like I respect you as much as I cut people off. I always Go right behind the trucks if I have to I do not cut right in front of them because they put their buffer there because Yeah, you don’t want to be getting right right in that in in front of a big 18 wheeler barrel and down on you It takes them longer to break. Yeah, like don’t don’t do that. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. That’s why it’s there. Yeah, you don’t want that Did you know is anthony? Is that the name? I did not know that there’s a Perception that they’re treated differently. I didn’t know that either treated differently out west in california in particular You Like look down upon uh, yeah, I didn’t know that but they’re I mean they’re They got this totally different lifestyle, especially the long haul truck drivers, you know, it’s like they’re having there’s they’re camping in their car and but it’s like I watch videos on TikTok of like day in the life of a truck driver or like a get up in the morning like you see them get up get out of their bed like put their put their bunk away and like and some of them have like buddies where it’s like Two people one person’s sleeping the other person’s driving and they’ll like switch off to like really get somewhere I think there’s there’s some couples That do some truck driving together. Like probably a YouTube couple. I think this is, I think this is all very, very cool to me. I think there’s gotta be, you could do that. You’d be tag team truck drivers, tag team truck drivers. They’re nice in there and they’re huge. And I’ve always loved the idea that people need having your own little space. I love, I love when I did, when I did my solo trip and finally did one of those, no matter where you are, your home, just like having your home in there and there’s a little place you can sleep in there and you got food in there. Oh, yeah, oh there is a truck driver and the truck stop there’s a truck driver on tiktok. That’s interesting There’s a truck driver on tiktok who um shows you what he’s eating and it’s just shit that he gets from a truck stop And it’ll be like, you gotta watch yourself. He’ll be like, all right now And he’s got like a pickles and cheese and processed meat and all the stuff that I love, you know Uh, and he’s just like making a meal of it. I bet truck talk is probably yeah, I don’t know I mean, I thought about this i’ve only seen that guy There’s a, there’s a whole world out there. I mean, the Alabama song roll on that. I think that’s where we get it from really shaped. I mean, it’s such a great story. It may, it kind of gives me chills and makes me, makes me tear up. There’s two Alabama songs that actually made me think about truck drivers. So you got roll on, which is the story of a truck driver who gets stuck in a snow drift, right? And he’s trying to get back home and he doesn’t have a cell phone. Doesn’t have a way to get in touch. And then you got 40 hour week where it goes through all the blue collar, uh, jobs and basically not all of them, but it just talks about the respect. It’s the one behind the big rig bringing in the low. What a good song, man. Those both of those songs are great. It’s the plumber bending over, fixing your commode. I’d love to shame some of the, um, trucking companies, though, on their payment practices, if I may. All right, let’s do it. Let’s hear it. Just because I do love and respect the truck drivers and everything they do. Um, sometimes they will only pay the truck drivers based on miles traveled rather than hours. So it’s really up to them. It’s really frustrating for truck drivers who get stuck in traffic or they’re at ports and they have to wait to unload their cargo and they’re not getting paid for that time. So screw you truck companies that don’t properly pay your truck drivers anyway. Wow. Okay. Bullshit. Thank you for that. You’re welcome. There you go. Yeah. Man, look at that. Anyway, I have strong feelings about that. Maybe you want to date a truck driver too? Truck drivers, they’re always gone. Too much. They’re always going, unless they take me with them on some trips, no. I don’t know. Well I think that’s probably a hard part of your job, truck drivers. Think about it. You know, being on the road so much. Yeah. Get lonesome. Well, I’m glad we can There’s only so much of a relationship you can have over a CB. But I’m so glad, Anthony, that, and other truck drivers who listen to Ear Biscuits, that we can keep you company out there on the road. I love to hear that. And your seats. Your seats are like super boingy. And there’s the springs under them. Yeah. They’re like, I mean, all there’s like this air cushioning and everything, including the seat itself. Whoo wee. I bet you they got massage seats. That’s probably some really nice ones. Probably comfortable. Yeah. Real comfortable. You got to work your way up. Remember your sunscreen truck drivers. On that left arm on that left arm. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah, you gotta get you don’t want that dark arm syndrome. Yeah, you get you’ll get age spots. I saw, um, there’s a female truck driver and they were using her as an example of the need for sunscreen and it was just like the left side of her neck and the left like the aging of that part of her body compared to the right profile. It’s crazy. Take care of yourself out there, and we’ll, we’ll catch you on the flip side. Over! Uh, I do have a rec, and um, it is a book. I’m a big fan of, uh, Anne Lamont, the author. She’s been writing for a really long time. Any, any book, any book that she writes. Would you call her a philosopher? Sure, yeah. Okay. Um, Spiritual edifier. I would call her that, yes. But she also wrote a book that’s about writing. Which I found very helpful and encouraging and eliminating. Called Bird by Bird. Kind of a classic in the, like, writing community. It’s been out for a long time. But I heard, uh, Rich Roll talking about it. You had the pleasure of meeting, and I’m jealous. Yep. Rich Roll and his wife. Julie. Julie. Anyway, I’m still dealing with that. Um, but, Rich was talking to somebody on his podcast, which I listen to. They were talking about Bird by Bird. And so I was like, I’m gonna listen to it. And I listened, cause they suggested listening to it. Because, I love, we have a, we have like every Anne Lamott book on our bookshelf in our living room. Uh, but, her delivery is like, just great. And also like, she’s very funny. So if you’re into what, you’ll be into this. Well, if you’re into anything, anything creative, but it is very specifically about writing and, and, you know, writing books, which is something that we have done from time to time, but it, it basically is about the process of creating and finding your voice and accessing the things inside you and your life experience that give you energy. Voice that’s like a fingerprint, you know, okay And I just love the way that she talks about life and how they recommend it I think it would be helpful for anyone who’s interested in creating anything Especially people who are writers and anyone which is everyone who is a writer who’s dealt with any kind of creative block Bird by bird bird by bird. All right. This was fun. Thanks for hanging out Um, and listening to us, give us a call, leave us a, um, well, I’ll say 1 88 EAR POD 1 is the number. Also, leave us a review wherever you’re listening, especially if it’s a good one, it helps. Yeah, thank you. Hey Rhett and Link, today is my 40th birthday, and I just finished listening to a playlist from every year of my life. And now I can get back to listening to Ear Biscuits. I’m gonna listen to it at 2x speed because, no offense, you guys sound like the sloths from Zootopia at normal speed. But I love you, and I’m gonna get back to listening and catch up. Happy birthday to me!