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 are actually a spoiler alert. It’s not really a spoiler alert. It’s more of a explanation alert. Yeah, this is the first episode of 2025 that we’re actually recording in 2025 here we are in 2025 with you listening. We are on the same year I will say as opposed to last episode because of the way we do things we always record. Uh, the beginning of a season of GMM, or, you know, or the first Ear Biscuit. We always record the thing that’s the first thing that you see in the next year in the previous year. And without fail, WITHOUT FAIL, there’s a slew, just a slew of comments that are played. They seem, you can tell, they seem rested. You, you know, you can tell that they had a little bit of a reset. Hey, that’s us, man. And you don’t, that’s, that’s called, that’s called red light talent. It’s called people see what they want to see. You’re, you’re seeing us at the like, at the end of our rope. I want to believe. At the very end of the year, we’re like. Can we just make it? Everything’s just, we’re trying to fit it all in and then we record like, You know, a month’s worth of GMM. Oh, they seem so rested and reset. You see what you want to see. It’s okay, so do I. They give us that, uh, you know, sometimes, we’ll be told by Stevie and others. You know, it comes from all angles. Jenna, I’m sure you’ve told us this, too, at different times. It’s like, remember, we’re in next year, so. Let’s bring that New Year energy. Yeah, you can’t act like it’s the end of a year. There was a little of that, like, prodding us to give that New Year energy. But look at us with the actual New Year energy. I mean, look at this beard, Rhett! I don’t have a lot of energy. I’ll explain in a second. Oh, you got, you got your This is my New Year beard. Is this your holiday beard that’s spilling over? Or is this the 2025 Link? This is, this is just spilling over. I always think, when I get to this stage, and it’s not as itchy anymore, it’s like just on the precipice of not being itchy at this length. I’m like, well maybe I should just keep it, I’ve done the hard work. But then I look at myself in the mirror. And I’m like, with a simple flick of a clippers to turning them on, and then a grazing of the bearded area, to reduce it to almost nothing, I can lose 15 years of percepted age. Percepted. Is that a word? I don’t know if that’s true. Is it? Because this is so gray up top now. Is this all an illusion to me only? I think, uh, I think everyone knows how old I am except for me? I think that people, I mean, first of all, a beard does age people. But, but I think that, I don’t know if, I think when people look at your hair, I think they think, prematurely gray. I don’t think they think, he’s old. Because you can just see, you’re like, wait, his face doesn’t look old. Oh, thank you. So, I, I don’t think, it’s like, when you look at Anderson Cooper, do you think of a 75 year old, or you’re like, that dude’s like, got really premature white hair. Anderson Cooper’s not 75. Exactly. Well, why would I? Oh, it’s still 2025 in you. That ain’t got any smarter. I’m telling you right now. I never thought, I didn’t say I look 75. I’m saying that Anderson Cooper has white hair. Anderson Cooper looks no older than he actually is. I would say Anderson Cooper. So you want me to keep the beard? Is 50 years old. How old is he? You want me to keep the beard is what I’m asking. I said I don’t care, man. How much do you care? Look, I said he looked 50! He’s 57! I’m saying you look exactly the same age to me. I keep a little bit of a beard for Christy and I gave her a lot of beard to see what the results would be. You keep it for her? I thought she didn’t like it. She does like it. For years she didn’t like it. Well, I was doing some weird facial hair stuff. Oh, she doesn’t like weird facial hair. No, like different mustache configurations and whatnot. You’re much less likely to be accused of being a lesbian. That’s something. I mean, whether or not that matters to you, I don’t know. I’m just saying. I’m a bit tired of it. You know. Uh, well, now I’m gonna think about it. I love, everybody knows I love, love lesbians. I love lesbians, . I love them so much. Making so much loves them. I love some lesbians, everybody knows that, but I’m not one and uh, that’s why I love ’em so much. ’cause they’re, and you’re not one of those straight guys who makes jokes about how I actually am a lesbian. You know that people do that too. Oh, that’s a dumb joke. It’s a dumb because we both like women. I like women I get it I get it uh I’m glad to be back man. Uh, yeah, I want I I know that You’re in a different place. And I do want to hear about it. Emotionally? And I know that you traveled home. Spiritually? And I know, Christy and I had a protracted conversation, conjecturing about the travel with your dogs. I know that you and Jesse took Barbara and Sean back to North Carolina. And I, don’t tell me yet. Cause I don’t know. If they’re back, because I know you’re back, but Jesse’s not back. And so we were trying to figure out what was it like taking your dogs on their first plane trip and did Rhett bring them back alone? And so we were kind of wagering on that. But it’s hard to wager. There are other options. There are other options. I think it’s not binary. So I’m curious. I’m curious about that. But we can use that as a teaser. And I can tell you a little bit about my trip first. Yeah, it seems like you had a fun trip. It’s a new year, and we’re all about setting goals and actually hitting them. What you fuel your body with matters. And that’s why we’re talking about Huel. H U E L. 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Well, Lincoln’s not as much into it right now, but Lily and Lincoln are both into record collecting, so I’ve given them the vinyl bug, and like, Lando has it big time. I’m just so happy about that. So much vinyl floating around. And a new record player, uh, for Christmas. But we went, um, to Whistler. To go snowboarding and skiing after Christmas. So we left on the 27th and, um, My mom flew home and we flew to Canada. To the Northern Land. It’s a country above us. It’s huge. Part of it is right on the coast above Washington. And Vancouver is there. Thank you for telling us. They make a lot of movies there apparently. Yeah. Um, so we spent the first day in Vancouver, because we had never been. Me, Christy, Lincoln, and Lando. And then we met up with our friends, who are Canadian. It was their idea for us to go to their land. Are they from this area? And they are from this area, yeah. Uh, good friend Alex is from, uh, Vancouver Island. There’s so many little islands, and they’ve got this like, emphatic ferry system. Hmm. That. They really like to talk about it emphatically. It’s a good system, they say. It moves you from island to island, and you can commute. Oh, I live on this little island, but I work over here. Well, why would they talk down their ferry system? If it wasn’t good. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s the alternative? Are you suspicious? You just don’t think it’s good? No, I mean, the alternative is bridges. Right, that’s bridges. I mean, I don’t have to tell you, you’re a civil engineer. Bridges are much harder to build than people realize. I saw, uh, I saw an argument. I saw an argument, uh, emerging online, and peop and somebody Bridges versus fairies? No, somebody drew a line It’s the new pirates versus Somebody drew a line from Chicago to whatever big city is on the other side of that great lake. Detroit, they were talking about Detroit. And they were like, why don’t they just build a bridge here? And I was like You have no idea what it takes to build a bridge. You think you can build a bridge across the f ing Great Lake? Well, it is a lake, though. When it’s called a lake, it seems like it could be bridged. I mean, that would be like the infrastructure project. Of our lifetime. You know what I’m saying? Like, people have no idea what would be required to do that. Oh, well, you know. It made me upset. I know, this kind of hurt my feelings. And then, like, all the way to Detroit? And it was like, you could kind of just drive around it. Like, it’s not that much longer just to drive on the shoreline. On the road. Anyway, bridges are, bridges are, they’re difficult to build. That’s why it’s so, it’s hard to become a civil engineer. Mm hmm. Because it takes a lot of know how. Lots can happens with bridges. Everybody knows Rhett respects bridges. Everybody knows I know bridges are hard to build. Man, I work on the wordsmithing of that. Uh, you’ve never been to Vancouver, right? No, I’ve only been to the other side of Canada. Toronto. We went to Toronto together. Uh, great food. I love Canada. We went to the Niagara Fall on their side. Yep. We went in a Roots store. Which is like clothing brand. Anyway, Vancouver was a bit dreary. You know, I think the sun does hit occasionally, but it’s that Seattle vibe, which makes total sense. They’re pretty close. You could build a bridge from Seattle to Vancouver. And you’re also, it’s the wintertime, you know. Yeah, I’m not gonna hold it against them. Short days, probably. Uh, yeah. You’ve been shorter. I can’t say I noticed that because I never saw the sun. While I was in Vancouver, so I didn’t really know I guess I knew what was day and what was night I’m gonna try to be smarter from here on out. I’ve used my quota today. But what uh, tell me about the snowboarding. Um Whistler Whenever I told him I was going everybody was so excited. It is the largest ski resort by area in North America, so it’s bigger than Yes It’s bigger than Park City. Yes, by far. Which is the biggest one in America. Maybe, probably. Now that it’s the canyons and Park City together. So it’s way bigger than that. Oh yeah. It might be two thirds bigger. Um, it’s the largest on the planet outside of Europe. Which, does that impress you? It’s got the But it’s more better. It’s got the, that’s, that is a good question. Uh, the, the conditions were great, the crowds were dispersed, because there’s that much places to go. So more is better. Um, it’s two mountains, so you go in one direction or the other, and then there’s a peak to peak gondola, which is the large, the longest Contiguous gondola in the world. Could have been a bridge. Could have been a bridge. Just as easily. Um, so the, the sheer scope of this thing, On your first, on my first trip, It was kind of hard for me to really feel the size, But, by the third day, we, we snowboarded four days in a row, Which was, A little bit more than my body could take. I would rather do five days and have a rest day in the middle like By the end of the third day, I took a couple of falls and it could have been it could have been bad and it’s you know, and it’s you know, Jacob. Our uh, what is Jacob? He’s our head of he’s our production head. Our he’s our COO, COO. Yeah. Yeah, I don’t you know COO. He’s awesome title words. He’s so important he has titles. He’s awesome. He really screwed up his knee at Whistler. And I was talking a lot of shit because it was on a green. And of course I hadn’t gone. I was like, you know, I shouldn’t talk so much shit to him. But none of my falls resulted in major injuries. Just like some neck soreness or whatever. Like, I did plant on my face and then do kind of like a flip hinging with my face on the ground. Like, face hits, body goes over. How fast are you going? Not too fast, Rhett. I mean, I was, the blues were a little, I’m a blue guy now, but the blues were a little, they were pushing me, and, and, and when you get tired, you just gotta know your limits. Uh, but, Is Lincoln and Lando basically staying with you the whole time? Lando skis, Lincoln snowboards, and we are staying together. Uh, and then my friend Alex is, is more of a, he’s a little more wild with it. So he’s, he’s on one of those, um, he’s on the short, he’s on the little short skis that look like, uh, no, no, no, no. Like big feet, right? No, no, no, no. He is not, he’s on a snowboard. There’s always somebody on those, he’s always ahead or zooming past us or whatever. So he is making me seem like I’m going slow, which I feel like, okay, I’m in a good place. Uh, this, it, it was, it was fabulous. You get to this one place, like you go over this hill, and then there’s a couple of lifts over there in this one area, and it’s like, this is just a resort. This is. Mammoth, here, just this one part that take, you, it, you don’t have to ski like A few lifts to get over to this place. So it was a lot of fun really enjoyed it. Um, but the thing that I want to report most wholeheartedly about are the foods that Canada has to offer us That we really need to seriously Consider bringing into our American lifestyle. Some of these you know about. You went on a trip and the thing that you noted was the food. It’s just gross. I’m trying to connect with you, Rhett. I missed you so much, I was like, I’m gonna give him something that’s gonna perk him up! Alright, so we’re driving. It’s the two and a half hour drive to Whistler is one of the most scenic drives that you can take. That’s what they say. I mean, it actually is. It’s like going on the, on the coastline of the PCH, but then instead of it just being ocean out there, it’s a huge body of water with a bunch of huge islands in it. It’s beautiful. We stopped, um, in Squamish, which is this, like, hiking Rock climbing town like halfway there on the two and a half hour drive. They had some famous doughnuts that we were going to get but the place wasn’t open. Um, so then we just we had to use the bathroom christy needed to get a coffee. So she went in, what they got something called a Starbucks. So she went in there and got a coffee, and I, I went into the grocery store to get some snacks. And, um, I really just wanted to use the bathroom and, uh, get a snack. But when I got in there, I was like, this is my opportunity to come back and be like, Dad doing Canada. I’m bringing back Canadian snacks. But I was in a hurry, so I grabbed some ketchup chips. Yep. Gotta do that. And then, I looked right beside it and I saw, The All Dressed. Mm hmm. Which we know about, and we’ve had on the show. I grabbed those too. I grabbed some peanut butter cups, which weren’t talking, weren’t talking about beyond that, and, um, some Canadian bottled water, which I won’t mention anymore either. Yeah. Um, get back to the car. Christy’s not back. I was like, what, where, the kids are in the car. I was like, where is, where’s Christy? She’s still in, she was like, no, she went in the store. The store I went into? Yeah, she, she went in there because you weren’t back. And then, I see her walking back, and she’s like so happy. And she gets in the car, and she’s like, look what I got! And she pops out the ketchup chips. Ooh. And then I like reach in the back seat, and I’m like, look what I got! We got the exact same bag of ketchup chips. Which are good, right? Uh, they’re great. Ketchup chips are great. I mean, they’re They’re hard to find in America, if at all. And it’s weird that they’re not here. It’s weird. I mean, ketchup is, it’s kind of our thing, right? And it’s also, it’s not like we have, like, standards. Yeah. It’s not like we’re, like, above it. Have you seen our chip aisle? Exactly. We got everything, but for some reason, we’re not going back and scooping up ketchup chips. We’re, like, leaving that to Canada. You know? It’s strange. It is strange. But I opened them all dressed. I was like, I also got these. Did you get these? And Um, she said, no, I didn’t know about those, and I was like, see kids! Canadian dad things! And, uh, they’re better. They are so much better. The Aldris, they are ketchuped. Ketchup is part of it. They’re everything. Vinegar is part of it. Um, Little Ranch? No, I think it’s, uh, there’s like one more thing on the front. There’s an onion. I think there’s an onion on the front, vinegar, and then like a tomato. So it’s not like it’s got everything in it. It’s not like it’s got ranch and barbecue. It’s like all the way. It’s like all the way doesn’t mean everything. Yeah, yeah. But they’re so good. And then we try to go back to the ketchup chips. And it’s hard to go back to a ketchup chip when you’ve gone all dressed. You can’t. You have to start with ketchup. It’s like getting dressed up. And then, like, getting really dressed up. You know when you wear those pants that We get dressed up. We have those pants that like, they have the button, but then there’s another button over here. I’ve never once buttoned. And then there’s another button down here. I only do one button. There’s all these special buttons that no one knows about except you. Yeah. And I always button them buttons. But then it’s hard when you gotta go pee pee. That’s right. You know? That’s why I don’t do it. That’s why you don’t go to ketchup chips after all dressed. If you get all dressed, don’t try to strip down to ketchup. It’s not gonna be as good. Is the ketchup in this scenario peeing? Uh, it’s getting down to your underwear. Okay. It’s getting down to your underwear. So that’s one thing you want us to have is all dressed or ketchup or both? Uh, all dressed. Okay, got it. Not the ketchup. Got it. I actually don’t care about the ketchup. Okay. Just like you don’t care about my beard apparently. Second thing is, and you know this, We need more poutine in our lives down here. What is the problem? You can go into like a fast food store, any, any place that serves fries up there. They will, they will, they will give you ketch, uh, shh, I said ketchup. Can we scratch that from the record? Yeah, edit that out. They will give you gravy. Yeah. Yeah, because it’s Canada. French fries. Oh, you got those? Well, you want a cup of gravy? Yes! Yes, I do. Do you want some little, some little, little cheese turds? Yes, I do. I mean, we went to this breakfast place, and they had this whole section that was nothing but breakfast poutines. It was like O E B was the name of the place. It’s like a little chain. I recommend it. They had like, uh, truffle pork poutine, poached egg breakfast bowls. It was just like But Gravy is just so good on fries. It is, but I actually think that it’s good that we don’t have it. Oh? Okay, so You talking about denying yourself pleasures? I’m talking about that, but I’m also talking about if everywhere you go Yeah. You have everything that you could possibly want. Yeah. Then it’s like, it just loses its special. Why go anywhere? You know, you’re like, okay, we could easily decide to put gravy on french fries. It’s not hard. Right. You know? I could probably do it. Yeah, you could probably do it in the next ten minutes. You know what I’m saying? I don’t think you could do it in the next ten minutes, but They got, uh, instant gravy at the grocery store and I can go to a, to McDonald’s. Are you factoring in sending someone to get stuff and you’re not counting their time? No, I think I could get it in ten minutes. Alright. And then, and I’d warm it up, I’d put it on there. But it’s good that we don’t have everything here. We need to deny ourselves things and we need to keep things special. Yeah. In fact, the only explanation for why there’s not Ketchup chips, all dress chips, and poutine widely accessible in America. Is that there are people who know this, probably the deep state, and they are actively working to keep some things out of America. Keep poutine at bay. Yeah, because it’s too good. Keep poutine at customs. Because if, if the average American just thinks for a moment, which Heh heh. More than ten minutes. Right. If they think for a moment You mean I can just have Let’s say if we, let’s say if we think for a moment. Gravy on my french fries. Right. Within ten minutes at any time? They’re gonna start doing it. We can’t let them realize that. It didn’t harm the Canadians, that’s what’s so interesting. It would ruin us. Yeah, well. , that would be our downfall. Poutine coming in hard is gonna be America’s downfall. Send it. . Send it. She said . So send us your poutine. I mean we, we were on the slopes eating poutine, homie. Oh yeah. Woo. Biggest slopes in North America. Poutine al the wazoo. A plate of uh uh, French fries. Is as bad for you as 23 cigarettes? I mean, I just saw that on Tik TOK, uh, you read it. I don’t believe it. But I mean, that was a Tik TOK and I watched it. 23 seconds in your mind. Now you’ve put it. You can’t misuse your inform. Why 23, you can’t repeat. This is a Michael Jordan fact. I don’t know. I don’t think, I don’t think 23 cigarettes. French fries could give you lung cancer. I don’t know. I don’t know. Every cigarette you smoke takes 7 minutes off your life. Is that true? I read, I saw that on TikTok too. And every plate of french fries you eat takes 7 times 23. No, no. I’d be dead already. I’d be dead already. And you put, you put gravy on there. That’s another foot in the grave. I’m a, I’m gonna show you a picture, Rhett, of the last thing, cause yes, my third and final, Canadians have done it, and we need to take pause, is pictured here. Now this is a picture I took, of a canister of this that we had. My Canadian friends bought this, and I was like, what is this? It’s smooth cremeux. Cremeux? Smooth. And cremeux is the French translation of the word smooth, right? It’s just called smooth? This is peanut butter. Oh. It doesn’t have It doesn’t say peanut butter on it. It doesn’t say peanut butter on it. It’s got two bears on it. It look, it says craft, and then it’s got two peanut butter colored bear heads that look like they could be balloons. It’s, it’s the most generic Peanut butter jar, I’ve seen. I mean, like, there’s a lot that tie it as generic, but they’re all generic. This is a craft branded Craft peanut butter. Craft peanut butter. Which, we don’t have that? We don’t have this. What is it? Again, the only explanation, again, the only explanation is the deep state. Let me tell you about the taste. This is Peter Pan on crack. Is it sweet? It’s like, if you, if Peter Pan snorted crack, and then made peanut butter. This is what it would be. This is what it would be. It’s, it’s sweet. It is not good for you. It’s, it’s cut all the bad oil. It’s wonderful. It’s really hydrogenated. It’s, it’s, I didn’t read anything on the back. All I did was look at these two generic bears and say, work on your label and let’s bring this to America. This, I know you’re a Jif guy. You know, I grew up a Peter Pan boy. So, now that I’m a Peter Pan man. I can talk about him smoking crack, snorting cocaine, and I can eat his peanut butter, which is craft, actually. So, what is so special? They need to put peanut butter on the label. I didn’t know it was so And it says light on it. It actually says light. But why don’t we have this? Smooth, light. It’s, it does say peanut butter over there. It’s really small. It needs to be the big, big part. It’s, it’s It’s like if peanut, Peter Pan was just a little bit better. I can’t explain it any differently than that. It’s exactly the same. So it’s still not as good as Jif. It’s not, Jif is, is, is more peanutty than Peter Pan. My favorite actually right now. Peter Pan is almost like candy version of Jif. So if you like that idea, go to Canada. The best peanut butter right now for me is Skippy Natural. That’s what I get, because I feel like it’s better for me. It might be. And that’s what we have in our house. But for a special occasion. But you gotta get it shipped. A special sweetness occasion. This is, this is my, this is my jam. But see, you don’t wanna, you don’t wanna do that either. Why doesn’t Kraft? Kraft is an American company! The cheese! The slices! This one’s really perplexing. It’s called American cheese, and when you think of American cheese, what do you think of? Kraft. Slices. Right? Yes! People have died because of this, I guarantee you. Kraft peanut butter? He’s not even here! Somebody, multiple people, multiple people, have died under mysterious circumstances because of this. There is no explanation for why we don’t have Kraft peanut butter. Right, right. It’s a cover up. Either that or, like, the label is horrendous. You could have been the whistler blower. Rhett! That’s why I keep coming back every year, Rhett. I mean, there were a few days there when I was like, I might not come back. Yep. And that’s a rea And now I know I made the right choice. I made the right choice! You’ll make the right choice to become a member of the mythical society I just want to remind you that it houses things that you can’t see anywhere else including good mythical evening 1 and now good mythical evening 2 are there Forever for second and third degree members. Okay, if you’re a third degree member, you also get the uh, after show from that year. Go to mythicalsociety.com in order to stream, uh that hell raising event. I had an incredible start to the new year. We were in North Carolina, of course, and well, you were there for Christmas, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was there for over two weeks. Uh, my wife is still there. Mm hmm. So, we had a great Christmas, you know, celebration. It wasn’t quite as It wasn’t like we got both families together for one day like we did for Thanksgiving. That’s a Thanksgiving thing. Okay. We’re not gonna do that. Yeah. Um, but, we had a great time. I’ll get back to the Sean and Barbara if at all. But, the beginning of the New Year. So Jesse had been sick. Um. Right after Christmas, on like the 26th, or maybe even on Christmas Day, she was like, I’m not feeling great, I think I’m getting sick, and I was like, no you’re not, you know. You gotta, you gotta tell the sickness, it’s not real. Right, you gotta, words have power, apparently. But, uh, she succumbed to it. And, it ended up being a really intense cold. It wasn’t COVID or the flu as far as we know, but it was some third thing, which a lot of people have been talking about this third thing. People are getting sick. Again, I call it third thing. I see it. Well, I am. I’m using that. Uh, no, they say that there’s something there’s something that’s not COVID and flu that’s make making people have COVID and flu like symptoms. And nobody knows what it is. Maybe it’s just you took a flu test. She did. Well, she. I don’t want to spoil anything. Okay, I’ll listen. So she was sick for three or four days. And you know when, like, we had plans. We had things that we wanted to do and people that we wanted to see. And it was, it wasn’t just like, I’ve got a little bit of a cold. It was, she was, she was basically, you know, lying down for most of the day. Fever? We’re like, sleeping in different beds. Coughing? If she’s coughing during the night so I can go to a different bed. And, but so she starts getting better. She gets better just in time for New Year’s Eve. We go out with my brother and his wife on New Year’s Eve. And, you know, I’m As the, as the, the hour is approaching, the hour of 2025, I’m like, my throat’s getting a little scratchy. And I’d already told myself. That I wasn’t going to get this sickness. I mean, I’ve only been sick two times in the past five years, and it was the two times I got COVID. So I was like, I’m a new man, I don’t get sick. Unless it’s this novel coronavirus. And I was like, I just need some rest. I go to sleep. I wake up. New Year’s Day. The beginning of 2025. And I’m like, I’m sick. And I How so? You know, it was just one of those things that you can kind of just tell that everything is going south, and this is not allergies. You can feel it deeper. Oh. And, that night, the night of the first, thanks to my aura ring, I was able to tell that I had a 103 temperature. That’s it right there And so I was like I’ve got COVID because I got that I get the high fever I respond the same way every time I got COVID. I need to get it I’ll get a test and that way Jesse will know that that’s what she had and we can tell family or whatever. But I got the the test that gives you both the COVID and the flu results and it was negative I took one test. Maybe it maybe it was but my wife gave it to me. You know, that was the gift that she gave me at the beginning, yeah, of the years unleashing this biological weapon on me. Yeah. Yeah you know, you’re in the same house. You didn’t sleep together, but that wasn’t good enough yeah, and and maybe she slunk in when you were sleeping and just breathing on you and and this sort so then I basically go and I spend the first three days of the new year I’d never do this and maybe I was like, okay, maybe that was I needed a reset. This is what I needed. I just watched stuff awnd didn’t, I didn’t do anything. Except, I, I watched all of Severance. Hold on, season one. Season one, cause season two is coming out. Isn’t it good? I watched the first episode a long time ago and been like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to get, I need to get Jessie in on this. And then we never did it. And so then I left, she had made me sick. Yeah. I wasn’t gonna, I wasn’t gonna save Severance for her. Nope. So I watched that whole season, incredible, I love it. I love it. I can’t wait for the second one. And I also yery soon. The thing I Many things I love about it. But one of the main things I love about it is that they obviously wrote the first season knowing that really the only way that this story is going to make sense is if we have a second season. And so, and of course it’s taken years to make it. But, they didn’t do the thing that so many TV shows do, which is take people on their full arc in season one and basically solve all the problems. And then every subsequent season is just churning out content. So people will watch the show. And then you’re like, why am I still watching this show? Yeah. I mean, I, I, I certainly hope they have a master plan. That’s like spans even more. I read, I read about it. Okay. I read about like the creative process and the writing of it and. Did Ben Stiller write it or just acquired the rights and directed it? Uh, I know he’s an EP and I know that he directs a few episodes. I think he was very involved for a long time. Trying to bring it to fruition. There’s these, everyone has two lives. And there’s so many choices that you can make in the way that everything impacts one another. Well the only thing we need to tell you if you don’t know anything is, uh, there’s technology so that you’re your work life and your non work like are completely separate. You’re like, you don’t, you have no awareness of your, of your other self. It’s like you’re two different people. And they do a lot with that premise. Anyway, I watched that, I watched a number of movies. But, I’m still like cause you had set up like a, like a home theater system in your cabin, right? Oh yeah, so I’ve made the most of that. Did you have, do you have couches in there? Or just recliners? We have a, we have a couch. Oh my God. And then we have a platform behind that with another couch. Oh shit. So you can, you can comfortably, you know, fit a group of people in there and like get a nice shot of them. Yeah, it’s great. I spent every day, like all day. You broke, you broke it in. Yeah. Ha! And no one else could go in there. Right. Well, Shepard, Shepard and Locke were already back here. Because they wanted to hang out with their L.A. friends, so it was just me and Jesse. I’m sleeping in another bed, I’m going into the theater. I like, I was hanging out with the dogs. Um, and I would speak with my wife. But mostly for logistical purposes. You know. Uh, so yeah, we didn’t really get to connect. So, I’m, my perspective on the new year is a little bit clouded, because I’m still sort of like, In a fever dream? Well, I am still kind of getting back to normal and I’m still tired and I’m still a little congested. So that wasn’t a great thing, but I will say the highlight was bringing Sean and Barbara. I did not anticipate. Oh, yeah. Yes. I did not mean them being there. Yeah, them being with us for for the holidays. I’m a man of convenience and the dogs can tend to be not very convenient. And so I was always just like I don’t want to have to fly with them and then worry about what we’re going to do and then you got to like think about how long you’re gone from where you’re going to be and it’s like oh we’re going to go to this person’s house We’re going to go out to dinner and like, you know all the stuff you worry about when you get a dog and but boy. Especially when you were sick and you couldn’t do anything. Yeah, it was it was a great call now. It didn’t necessarily start well so. This is the first time that Sean or Barbara have ever been on a plane. So we got the little doggy carriers That you know are supposed to fit under the seat in front of you, which they don’t really No, let’s just be honest. They don’t unless you like push the thing down. You gotta smoosh them down um But I I had reason to believe that Barbara was going to do okay. She’s mild mannered, right? Yeah. The vet does give you this anti anxiety medication that you can give the dogs that is supposed to help people, which we gave them that. But, we put Sean. Now, we, we, I’m going to say we made a mistake. Uh, and did not put Sean in his carrier until it was time. Now, we had put Oh, he had Jessie told me that He had never experienced She had put, like, food in there and he had kind of gone in there and stuff, but he hadn’t, like, been closed in it and carried around. Yeah. I didn’t know that. So, we pull up to the, we pull up to the, Ah, he’s throwing her under the bus today. We pull up to the, uh, Twice already. To the airport, and we put Sean in the, we put Barbara in the carrier, And we just like let her head hang out at the top, And she’s just like looking like this. Yeah. Like a periscope. And she’s just fine. And she’s not trying to get out. You can’t do that with Sean. When you put Sean in there, first of all, it was not easy to get him into the thing. Yeah. Even though he’s like a nine pound dog. We zip the thing up, and the first thing he starts doing is like, you just see his face through the netting, he’s like, like trying to, he’s trying to bite his way out. He’s flipping out. Now, Sean doesn’t bark. He’ll bark at you. He’ll bark at people. But he doesn’t bark when he wants something. Put it together yet that if you want the people’s attention, you can also make noise. That’s good. So he doesn’t understand. I’m glad he doesn’t understand because he would have been barking his ass off. He’s in there, he’s, he’s breathing hard, he’s sniffing around, and then every time you look down you see that thing, he’s trying to bite through the netting. I’m like, and I, and, so. And he’s looking in two directions constantly. And so, I’m carrying, I’m carrying Barbara because she’s a little bit heavier, and she’s a lot a bit heavier lately. Barbara really put on some holiday weight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I’m, I’m picking, I got Barbara and Jesse has Sean. She has a different size carrier I assume, right? It’s a little bit smaller. Oh, Barbara’s is smaller? No, Sean is a little bit smaller. Oh yeah, yeah. I thought when she, my wife had Sean’s carrier. Okay, yeah. So it was a little bit smaller, a little bit lighter. And we’re walking, we’re in the airport and we’re walking to where we’re going to check in. And I, Just here from behind me. He’s out! I turn around and I see Sean running through the airport. What?! Hold on. He’s just like trotting. He’s like, I don’t know where I’m going, but it’s not back in that thing. This was before you even checked your luggage? Yes. This is on the way to just check in. Oh shit. So this could be, he had found the zipper on the inside. of the thing and unzipped himself. Oh my God. Yeah. What? And I was like, oh God, this is going to be so difficult. Well, hold on, you’re also at a check in place where like, if you run through a door, you’re out on the street. Oh, yeah. You know me. I have travel anxiety. You are so on edge at this point. This is the point where you are the most of a wreck. Yeah, I’m not, I don’t Like, always! I’ve gotten Like, coming, like, getting out on the curb at the Yeah. Well, you are a wreck, boy. Well, I am way better than I used to be. Okay. Um, let’s see how this goes. Because it took me many years to understand that it was even happening. Now I’m like, okay, you have a tendency. Pick it a little on edge on edge. Maybe you should look into like Klonopin or something, but on days that you fly, but yeah, I, uh, I see him running and at first i’m a little bit scared because like yeah, okay this is a busy airport. But he kind of runs and me and shepherd kind of like cornered him and he’s not like a bolter. So we were able to like shot and then pick him up and then stuff him back in there. He goes right back at it. He knows now he knows he can get out now and uh he’d do that for three years now. But then we have to go to this agent assist line because you have to like, get your carrier approved and pay the hundred dollar fee or whatever. And so while we’re in that line, that was when I made the mistake to bring up the fact that we had not trained or that someone And it, you know what? It’s just as much my fault as it is my wife’s fault. That this didn’t happen. I was under the impression. But she was taking care of that. And that was wrong of me. And she was like, do not do this right now. Meanwhile, Sean is like going, He’s like, I’m like, I’m embarrassed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I, because what I, you know me, I’m anxious about things like this. And I think that, everybody, everybody, well, I have this fear, everybody has an opinion. I have this fear that what’s going to happen. This is the way my mind works at the airport. I have this fear, that I’m gonna get up there, and the, and the gate lady is gonna be like, I can tell that your dog does not want to be in there. And so you are not approved. You know, like, she’s like, clearly he is not happy with his circumstances right now, and he is a danger to himself and others. Right, if this were a human denied! I can, we do not let humans acting like this on planes. Right. We cannot let dogs either. But all she did was laugh at him. Okay. She just laughed at him. She’s like, oh if a human is like going up to the check in line to like give your baggage and They’re like you’re like Uh, like chewing on your zippers and just like making weird noises and Yeah. If you, you don’t get on that plane. Well, if you have a person in your party that clear that wants to not be there as much as Sean doesn’t wanna be there, they probably think it’s some sort of kidnapping. Oh yeah. There’s sign, there’s signs in the bathrooms at airports about that. Yeah. It’s like, I feel like I should tell somebody about this. Do you? I mean, this dog has been kidnapped you. Yeah. You’re washing your hands. There’s a sign that said, do you need help? This dog needs help. So are you a dog that needs help? Are you a dog from the McLaughlin household? Meanwhile, Barbara is just like, not even making eye contact with anyone. She’s not even looking at Sean. She’s always annoyed with him. She’s also embarrassed. But she is just so above him. She’s like, you’re so immature. It’s like, bro, like, yes, this is a new experience, but let’s just be here for it. So, we eventually get through, and you know, you have to like, take him out. To go through the metal detector. To go through the metal detector. And like, once he’s out, he was like, he was, he was panting because he was so worked up. You know those masks that they put on falcons? A muzzle. It goes over the eyes, though. Yeah, I don’t know if you want to do that with a dog. I don’t think he that’s what he, that’s what he needs. Not an alligator. Well, you can do it with a horse and they’re smart. And I can’t wait for this medicine to kick in. It didn’t. Uh uh. It didn’t. You gotta give him like, uh, what’s the allergy? Benadryl. Benadryl. Well, I don’t know. I don’t know if I condone that, but uh, haven’t had to worry about that. My dogs are angels. But I knew that I was going to have to When you put a bark collar on Jasper, I do have to do that. Cause he, the problem we had with him was barking at other dogs. And or or and then jade will bark at small children like if a toddler airport. Yes um, that’s the problem I have with my dogs is barking. So Bark collar on Jasper and for Jade and Jasper, we throw a blanket over their thing so they can’t see anything. Yeah, actually helping Sean seeing like, when we like rolled up, we felt like we never use it, never use this thing. So we like rolled up one side and so you could see out and at that point he could like see out to the side instead of just seeing up and he calmed down a little bit. We took him to the pet relief area. Did you do this at LAX? Well yeah, you gotta let the pets relieve themselves. Well, they don’t you don’t drop them off by the way, it’s not a relief for you. You know, and it’s one at a time and it smells like you are just putting your nose directly on a dog’s penis. Yeah, it is the part where the pee comes. It is the worst. I cannot believe how fake grass like you got to come up with some kind of system to wash this thing. It’s unbelievable, and there’s a fake fire hydrant in there. They can pee on but it’s but Sean did pee Barbara peed. We got him on the plane and about halfway through the flight he started calming down a little bit and five hour flight, and then we ended up, we took him out and put him on our lap, which you’re technically not supposed to do unless it’s a service dog, but if you have a small dog, they don’t say anything to you about it. Right. Usually, I mean, the guy did say, technically you’re not supposed to have the dogs out. You’re supposed to have ’em in the carrier the whole time, but just make sure they stay in place. Yeah. And, uh, he ended up doing fine. And then on the way back, to answer your question, It was just me and Sean. And so I was like, hold on! Okay, that was what we were talking about. Yeah, it was Chrissy was like I was gonna take Sean by myself. Did we? Do we think that since Rhett came back along that he would bring back the dogs? It’s like we separated the dogs. You separated them? Yeah, cause Jessie is Divide and conquer. Jessie is getting like pictures, she’s doing her whole like portfolio thing for the cabin, so she’s like there with a few people working. At first, we I mean Barbara could be in some photos. I couldn’t take, cause she’ll sit there. I can’t take both dogs. You can’t I don’t think you could do that if you wanted to. Oh. I don’t think one person could take two dogs cause they’d have to have two seats. That’s right. Probably. But, uh, it also would be just hell. I couldn’t do it. We contemplated because we all like, our family is nuts. We just everyone every single person in our family flew alone on the way back. So, Locke went first. Then two days later, Shepard goes by himself, and then I go, and then Jessie comes back. And I can’t even get into the reasons. You wouldn’t even understand. We don’t hate each other. Um, but Jessie was like, we can send Sean back with Shepard. Or like, we can send Barbara back with Shepard and then Sean back with you, so I won’t have any dogs here when I’m trying to work. And I was like, so we’re gonna send a minor. With a dog that’s already escaped. Yeah. An escapee and a minor. And I was like, I don’t feel comfortable doing that, so we didn’t do that. Have you seen Con Air? Because Barbara’s easy to take care of. But, we um, on the way back. Now first of all, because I knew that we were going to fly, I spent a little bit of time, during my sickness, Putting Shep, uh, Shepard. Putting, uh, I did name my, I did name my dog a person’s name and my son a dog’s name. So, you’ll have to forgive me for getting that wrong. You’d put Sean, you’d practice with Sean in the crate. Yeah, and I would like carry him around, and then I would let him out, and he seemed to be doing better, and I also went to, I looked online at the upper end of the medication threshold. And I was like, I’m gonna give him everything I can. Low him up. And I think it did calm him down. And he actually wasn’t too big. He tried to get out a little bit. He did bite part of the inside of the crate off. And one time I looked down and there was like just this piece of cloth just like sitting there in his mouth. I was like, I, but so what are the lasting ramifications of your trip? Oh, but the main thing was how much we enjoyed the dogs while we were there. They seemed to be, they were kind of blown away by this new environment. Wow guys, I’ve heard so much about this cabin. And also blown away by just the outside. Because it’s like, it’s woods, and there’s grass, and it’s cold, and there’s deer. And, they were just like, Oh, this is like, cause you know, they don’t see real grass unless I take them on a walk because we’ve got that little patch of, our yard is a little patch of fake grass. And then that’s it. Do you let them run around freely in the woods? Um, do they come when they’re called? So what they, they come when they’re called. Barbara comes when she’s called. Well, they come if they want to come, somehow. Yeah, Jasper will come if he’s called, Jade will not ever, so she never is off leash, but Jasper. No, but they do not, um, they never run away. Like, they’re not bolters. They’re not like the dogs you had in the 80s. Right. That like, as soon as they got out anywhere, they ran as fast as they could away. Yeah, that’s how dogs were in the 80s. That’s just what dogs were. Yeah, they were trying to get away from something. Yeah. Captivity. Because that’s kind of what we had them in. So, what we would do is, you have to, like, you have to, Sean needs to be given the opportunity to use the bathroom. He will not take that opportunity on his own. So, every little bit, you know, every few hours, you’re like, Alright, come on guys, and I would open the door, and they would just go out, and they had a little spot that they went to, and then, at times, like, they would walk a little bit further, and they would like, go into the woods a little bit, and they would get like, leaves all over their hair. And then it would come back and I would pull it off and But no, they had a great time. So you’re gonna keep taking them. If you’re there for at least a certain amount of time, I would imagine. Yeah. Which is what? Is it still a week or does it have to be longer? We might take them for Thanksgiving and Christmas, I don’t know. But they were just, in fact I’m glad. You’ll be like me, you’ll start taking them on vacations. He was so happy. He was so happy. I don’t think I would take them on a vacation where I wasn’t staying at some place that was my space. I don’t know if I would do that. Yeah, I mean, Airbnb is a little, there are hotels that are dog friendly, but I’ve never done that. So that’s your, that, that this is new in 2025 for you. You’re traveling with your dogs more going back home and Sean is, was, he was so happy there and now he’s not that happy. He, he, he needs Barbara. She does not need him. Yeah, she needs Barbara. Jade is Jasper’s emotional support animal. So you can kind of see that he’s sort of like, I need that woman and that female dog. I need both of them. When are they getting back? I think the lasting impact of my trip was, um, Justin Trudeau quit. Did you hear about that? While you were there. It’s because of you. I don’t know. Sorry about that. If you were I don’t know, I think a lot of people aren’t sorry about it, but like, the Canadian guy quit. And I, I’m sorry if I had a role in that. I don’t know if I did, but maybe I did. It’s probably just coincidence. Maybe I did. That’s what I’m guessing. We, I want to, I want to get to one call at least. Yep. Um, because we love your calls and in this new year, we not going to forget about them. 1 888 EARPOD1 is the number. Call us, like this person did. Hey Rhett and Link, this is Amy from Colorado. I’m in a bit of a predicament because my name’s not actually Amy. Um, but it’s the name I use whenever I order something over the phone. So, I have been getting my nails done from the same person for like, Two and a half years, and since I always call to make my appointment, I’ve said my name is Amy, and she calls me Amy. And then we got so close that she invited my me over to her house to do my nails for free. Um, and she’s done that for a while, and she’ll like feed me at her house and stuff, and I feel like I’m almost a friend or a daughter figure to her, and She has no idea what my name is and like, sometimes I get her Starbucks and since my real name is on the mobile order ahead thing, I take those off so she doesn’t see and I had to change my Venmo name for when I tip her too. So, um, what do you think I should do? Should I? Keep living the lie, or how can I introduce my real name into the situation, if needed? Thanks. I love you. I’m under the impression that she changes her Venmo name every time she Venmos her and then changes it back. Because I see no other way around this. Or she just changed it permanently. No, because she’s Venmoing other people, and she can’t be doing that. Who’s this Amy? You know? Wow, you’ve really painted yourself into a corner here. I would like to know what your actual name is, because if your name the mail tech? If it was like, Annie. If it was something pretty close to Annie, you could just probably make the switch. Heh heh heh heh. You could probably make the switch. And then you could just say, you’ve just been pronouncing my name wrong the whole time. Yeah, yeah. Shamey? Put it on her. Wow. She’s becoming like a, you’re becoming a daughter figure to her and you’re, you’re operating under an alias. I think I have a great solution to this. I think this is quite an opportunity to actually go deeper with a relationship. Okay. So let’s just say your real name is Cheryl because in order to explain this, I just need to give you a name. Yeah. So the next time you go over there and she’s like, Amy, how are you doing? You say, you know, I’m doing really good, and I just want, there’s something I want to talk to you about. I really appreciate, you know, the time that we have together, and I feel like, you know, it started as just you doing my nails, and now I feel like we actually have a friendship, and Ha choo! I tried to make it quiet and it ended up louder. I’m so sorry. I tried to make it quiet and it didn’t work. You know, Jenna, you are, you’re a valuable contributor to Ear Biscuits, and we’re, we’re glad to have you. It’s so dusty today. And because of how close I feel like we’re getting, I want to let you know that I let those closest to me call me Cheryl. Oh. Oh. Which is my pet name. It’s my, it’s my, what’s the, what’s the, my Finsta? Finsta. It’s my Finsta name. Yeah. But the opposite. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s my realsta. What’s the real Instagram name called? Your Instagram? Oh. Oh. Okay. So, this is, this deepens the connection. Right. Because now you’re on the inside. It’s, you’re moving even closer. But revealing the truth at the same time. You’re lying, but you’re revealing the truth. I don’t see why you can’t do that and reveal the truth as part of it. It’s not as, it’s not as fun, but you, the sentiment will still be there. But you’re, what you’re sidestepping is the awkwardness that she doesn’t want to have that moment of saying, you’ve been lied to by me. Yeah. Um, I, I say there’s nothing broken here. I say this is a tremendous opportunity to lean into your alternate identities, and you should start to think about doing it more often. We are different people to different people. Like, the relationships that we have, uh, you know, you’re perceived and understood and experienced differently. Depending on who it is, and I think it should have, I should have, you should have different names everywhere, you know, I think back to the like a club name, the old Seinfeld episode where George is talking about how he doesn’t like his work, work, George and like home, George, he doesn’t like his, Severance, those to be mixed exactly like Severance. Except you have a totally different name. Your name signifies that. It’s like having a, you know, if somebody calls you on your burner phone, then you know the type of person you’re gonna be. You know? Cause you’re gonna do your burner phone business. You’re not on your other phone. If somebody hits you up on your Finsta, you’re gonna have a, you are, you immediately know the type of interaction you’re gonna have. It’s like last night, I called, or Jessie, I called Jessie. And she said, hello, and I was like, hey, or said something to her and she was like, I’m on speaker with, you know, Lindsay and then the woman who’s doing the pictures, which I do. I don’t know. And I was like, oh, hey guys, or something like that. And she was like, oh, your voice got a lot lower. Yeah, yeah, and you should have a name for that lower voice. She was like, when you started talking to these other women in the car with me, your voice got a little lower. When you were just talking to me, you had a little high voice. You have your, you have your baby voice on for you. Yeah, it was a little bit of my, it was my baby voice. I, I think, I think we should have different names at work. I think we should have different names when shopping, when getting our nails done. I’m getting my nails done more and more often. How many different It’s usually my feet. It’s exclusively my feet. How many different, I can’t have too many names. Well, I mean, I can, I can’t keep track of a lot of names, but I mean, I can probably keep track of five different versions of myself. I do believe in this, though. You know, there’s a thing. People have this, he’s really, he’s the same person. He’s always the same person, regardless of the circumstances, or regardless of who he’s with. And I’ve always been like, Really? Okay, that seems a little boring. Oh. It’s like, why, I mean, you know, It’s like, you’re in a different group. Get, like, get with the vibe, man. You know what I’m saying? Like, you’re in a different group. This group, it would be better, and you would, like, there would be. It’s a more oil in the social lubrication machine if you would like be a little bit like these people doing this thing It’s just like the chameleon nature. I don’t find I don’t see any shame in that I guess is what I’m saying. I think there’s people who can do that and it’s a good thing I understand that it makes it seem like he’s always the same person regardless of where he’s at and it makes it seem like he’s more like he’s more reliable or whatever, but I don’t know I think it can be taken too far because what if you’re just always boring. Yeah, especially if you have a boring name like Doug. Yeah, sorry, Doug’s. But y’all need to have a different type of name for your Doug. Doug is not part for your party, party. Party person, party. Doug is Dougie, uh, work. Doug can be Doug home. Doug can be Big D or just D. I would like to be called L somewhere. I just go by L, you know. I like that. I like the idea of that. I like, I like the idea of being all things to all people at different times. And this one seems like you can remember. And you can keep it this way, Amy. You can be like, If any of my professional relationships that start with Amy become deeper, I’m just always Amy to those people. And it’s fine and it’s not really that hard to keep up with. Yeah, and Amy can have secrets, you know, Amy can have secrets. Amy can know things that the other Cheryl doesn’t know. Oh, that’s right. We’re really talking about Severance again. Yeah. It’s just people calling you different names helps you keep things straight. I mean, and if you’re in, if you’re in a profession where you got to like, like, say you’re a therapist and like you run into like your client in the grocery store, well. You gotta, you gotta, like, what if, what if you don’t remember if they’re a client or not? Well, it depends on what name they call you. That’s my biggest fear. I don’t know how I know you. So, if you call me by a different name, it’s like, oh, now I know how you know me. Well, your therapist, I think, should probably recognize you. Yeah. And you should probably know that. Yeah. But, so yeah, that kind of fizzled out. But I understand the phenomenon. But the starting point was good, which was, like, a professional life of a therapist is supposed to be completely separate from personal. But, I think different names would help with that. And I want that. So I’m going to start doing that. Well, what’s your name going to be? I’m going to go with Big L in some places. I don’t know, I don’t know where. I’m gonna have to go into new environments. You know, I’m going into more, um, DJ culture environments. I was telling you about that this morning. And maybe I should, maybe I should go into there with a different name. And I just become a different person. Well, you have a DJ name. Yeah, it all counts. It could be ES. ES is like, you know. ES. ES is like an author name. Yeah, I’m ES. You go with a double initial name, that really speaks to people. Hey, I’m ES Neil. Okay, I’ll think about it. Maybe just E. E? Yeah, I like that. It could be EHSB. It’s weird to get people to I mean, it’s easy when you’re introducing yourself. Well, the problem that I We do have aliases for hotels. I’m not sharing that. But the one I will share is, you know, when I’m getting, when I’m ordering anything, and I do this for two reasons. I do it because Rhett is Seemingly an impossible name for people to understand or spell. Uh, but also, I kind of don’t, if they do know who I am, I’m kind of like, I don’t want to make it too easy, right? And so, I go by James, which is my middle name. Yep. But then, my musical alter ego is James. He’s not very popular, so it’s not really a problem. But if he got more popular If you go into a circle as that, why don’t you start introducing yourself as James? But then people are going to follow you on Instagram and you’re going to have to start a different account. It doesn’t have any followers and you want to use that blue check to your advantage. Am I right? So, I don’t think this is going to work for us. Yeah, you just completely blew the system up. Yep. Because now you’ve got like blue check. And just wanting to connect with people via social media, you have to be one person. This would have worked in the 80s when the dogs would run from you. Right. The good old days. I don’t know. I don’t know. Amy, I think we helped you. I think you’re doing a good thing, and we are clearly jealous. You know? We’re too far gone to do it. I think is what we’ve discovered. But you’re not. You’re in the middle of it. You’ve got this Nail Tech friend. Ride the wave. And that Amy, you can, Amy can be the, can be, you know, the person who makes friends with all types of people that do things for you. Yeah, you need to be Amy to someone else, and then it won’t seem like a big deal when you’re Amy to this person. Once you become Amy to multiple people, It’ll just be like, Oh my god, this, this, I’m gonna be Amy. But keep, but those people need to be as separate as possible. To keep, because you don’t want to start intermingling too much. You can’t invite them to your birthday party. Because then during the song, it’s gonna get awkward. We are officially in the year 2025. Along with you. Thanks for being here today. Um, you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to. Talk at you next week as well. Yes. Hi Link, Rhett, and the whole rest of the crew over at Mythical Entertainment. Thank you so much for truly saving my life. I wanted to think one day you will truly know how much of an impact you guys have on us Mythical Beasts. Especially me. After my dad passed in 2020, and when my wife passed last year in 2023, I, uh, I could only think of one thing. Before, um, doing something stupid, I put you guys on, and I just, uh, just want to say thank you guys. Thank you so much. And this is, uh, my name is Damien, and I hope to hopefully make your guys day just a little bit better. To know, help you guys know that, um, you guys are, you guys are doing amazing things in this world.