Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Rhett. And I’m not Link. That’s right. It’s my wonderful wife, Jessie Lane McLaughlin. Hi. Of Jessie Lane Interiors. Thanks for that plug. Yeah, like I like to do that. Any chance I get. Wow. Uh, Link is still on Spring Break. I don’t know exactly when we will release this, because we don’t know if we wanna do two Rhet and no Link episodes back to back because people might start thinking Something’s up. That’s right. Nothing is up. It’s just we’re getting ahead. You know, that’s a lot of not link. Uh, yeah, we’re getting ahead. I mean, Link’s gonna be doing something similar when I head out of town in a couple of weeks. So how are you doing? You’re back. You’re joining us again. Yeah. I’m happy to be here. We made you a little bit taller. I got a cushion. Well, I didn’t get it. Jamie got it for me. And I, I appreciate that. Well, ’cause last time we realized that, I mean, I feel like you’re looking at the way I’m talking into that. Well, you don’t, you don’t. It’s, it’s just, well, you’re doing, you know, I think, I think we may have had the same conversation last time. You don’t have to do this. The microphone is designed to reach out and grab your wonderful voice. Oh, okay. So just, well, can I just sit back? That’s too far. I mean, about if you just, you know what, follow my lead because I’m maintaining the correct distance. You’re good at maintaining the correct things. Yeah. I, and when it comes to all kinds of things, you will maintain some correctness. And that’s one of the reasons I love you. It does get harder to maintain length as you get older though. Maintain what? You know, that was a sexual joke. Oh hmm. That’s your second joke of the day that hasn’t landed. Okay. First of all, I believe, I believe that we’ll find out. Okay. Let’s talk about this. We’re going to a little dinner party tonight. And, uh, I would say that, let’s just be honest, we will be the least sophisticated people at this party. And, uh, it’s very clear. However, you know, we thought at first we might’ve been invited by mistake. That’s just to give you an idea. But I, well, I, I believe it’s legitimate. I was on, I was on the thread and you were not, and, and the person didn’t use our names. They just said, Hey, you two, which I like, I actually really like mm-hmm. Hey, you two. But it doesn’t help you identify if you were supposed to be on the thread or not. Right. But we determined that we believe that we were supposed to be invited. I mean, I’m 90% sure at this point, but then there was a little text that went out this morning that was, uh, to everyone who’s gonna be there about parking and directions and stuff. And, uh, I was like, well. I’m gonna put a little joke in this thread, which I like. I appreciate the fact that you’re keeping it a little silly. Uh, I texted after they sent the directions about where to park and the gate and all this stuff. Yeah, there’s a gate. Um, I just said, how about this? We will be tandem parachuting in to avoid parking troubles. Just keep an eye on the sky around seven o’clock we’ll be the ones with the giant — American flag streaming behind us. I just thought that was a funny thing to say. Actually, I forgot the word with. We’ll be the ones, the giant — American flag. Okay. That’s why no one has responded because I didn’t put with in there and then going through possible responses that I could use like, oh brother, here he goes. Again, that joke, star. Think you should say anything because, but so far I’ve just left it. I haven’t said anything. I don’t, I think that’s gonna, uh, communicate my. Embarrassment enough to just not say anything. I’m confident that this was a great way to introduce myself to these other folks, because when I show up and we didn’t parachute in, they’ll be shocked. They’ll be like, oh, where’s the parachute? And happy. It gives you something to talk about. Yep. Love it. Love it babes. Um, well thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. We are gonna, here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna take the questions that you asked me and Link, and me and Jesse are gonna answer them. So I didn’t wanna do that thing where I tell everybody that you’re gonna be on the podcast. Mm-hmm. And then they, you know, I, I, I, I wanna hear your perspective on the things that just, people are just wondering in general. Okay. I’m here for it. And I think that some of these things will be very pertinent to your experience. Um, which camera am I supposed to look at This? Can you know what next? Here’s the thing. No, no, no. Next time I’m gonna give you a brochure. You gave me a brochure one time. Do you remember you gave me a brochure. Wait, hanging day? Yes. When we were dating, you gave me a brochure about our date, first date ever. ’cause you seem like the kind of person that needed to be oriented. So here and, and, okay, so here’s, here’s the thing. The, that we, at the beginning, we look at the big, the camera with the two shot, right? Yeah. And then at some point, that one pretty early on, Jamie transitions to these individual cameras, you know? So now you need to look at the one that’s just pointed up at you. The next time I’m on the podcast, I’m gonna come in and sit. If there’s a next time I’m gonna come in and sit just like I’m supposed to, like a good girl. I’m gonna look at the right camera. I’m gonna be the best. That won’t be any fun, Jesse. Okay? It won’t be any fun if you just come in and do it to completely right. All right. First question. There you go. That’s right. Let’s hear the first one. Hi Brett and Link. This is Ashley from Long Island. Um, I’m in school for veterinary medicine and I just must know how Barbara is doing on her new medication. Um, she deserves the world and I hope she’s okay. Oh, thanks. How’s Barbara doing, Barbara? It’s been, it’s been a bit of a roller coaster. When we first got her on the medicine, she was like a new dog. Well, just little background. Barbara became extremely lethargic. Mm-hmm. She couldn’t jump on the bed anymore. She was gaining weight at what we thought was an alarming rate. Mm-hmm. And we just thought, maybe she’s getting old. We don’t know a thing about dogs. She’s nine. But she, you know, it just seemed a little abrupt. Mm-hmm. And finally I was just like, you know, we keep taking her in to the vet for these. Weird. She’ll get like weird bumps. And I, I was like, I feel like we need to do more. I think we’re treating the symptoms and not the problem. Mm. So I asked the vet like, can we, you know, do some tests? And so they did a full blood panel and they came, it came back that her thyroid had gone kaputz, right? So they said we need to start her on this thyroid medicine. Um, and you kind of have to figure out exactly what dose they need to be on. So they start you at a pretty high dose. Um, and, and let me tell you, it got Barbara going. Oh, she was, she was running around the house. She was jumping. She bounce, she bounce back. She did, she bounced back, but bounced back a little too far. So then when we went in to get the check, they said, oh, her numbers are too high, so we’re gonna put her on half. Seem to be fine. But then she started getting these weird dry spots, dry skin on her stomach. Did you see that or was that just me? Who said, well, I heard about it. So now we’ve gone down another half. So we’re, we’re gonna see. Oh, so it’s a quarter. It’s a quarter, yeah. You didn’t even know that. Well, this is a recent development. Yeah. We have, she has a whole new thing of pills that we’re, which I’ve learned that A raspberry, hopefully nobody tells me that like raspberries are No, I checked. They’re fine. Okay. Um, raspberries work is the perfect pill pocket. Now they’re a little expensive, but if, if you can one strawberry, one raspberry well, yeah, but only like 10 raspberries come in a raspberry container. Yeah. Our dogs like fruit. I don’t know if that’s a, a universal thing, but our dogs will eat anything and they like, and I know there’s certain fruits they shouldn’t eat, but like a blueberry is fine. Mm-hmm. A raspberry is, you know, in moderation. You don’t want to give them a, like I’m talking one a day, like one little blueberry or one, and, but the pill fits perfectly in a little raspberry. Sometimes I’ll squish it into a blueberry. She doesn’t, she doesn’t mind thing. Needs it right up. The thing is that Sean. Sean also gets wine. He, he, he gets a piece of fruit too, because he’s like, it’s fruit time and he just, and he knows that he’s supposed to just sit there and wait. He doesn’t know what’s going on. He’s like, we just get, I guess we just get fruit now once a day. And so I just say sit and he sits and he gets his little blueberry and she gets her little blueberry. They just think they get fruit now. Yeah. It would be so great to be a dog. It would, I mean, Sean. Sean, nothing has changed for Sean. Lots of things have changed for Barbara, but Sean is still in the place where he doesn’t know what anybody really wants from him. Yeah. What’s going on? What, what we would require of a dog. He kind of poops and pees when he decides to. We’ve had him for what, three years now and we have been so good. You know, Barbara rings the little bell goes outside, does her business, comes right back in. Sean follows her. It would be nice if Barbara would loan him. You know, 10% of her IQ points. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Just to, I mean, he, there was two, two things of [bleep] in the living room last night. Yeah. And it’s, it’s not that we’re not letting him out on a regular basis. If he has a [bleep] when you, when you take him out, he’ll do it outside if that happens to, to occur. If the need to do it happens to occur at that moment. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I don’t know. We’re coming to terms with accepting Sean for who he is. He’s just a cute little dog idiot. A cute little idiot. It’s hard not to love him though. It doesn’t, I never get mad at it. You don’t. It’s kind of, it’s kind and I think that’s part of the problem. I think that’s part of the problem is that when I start talking to him about his dookies, he thinks I’m happy about it. I’m like, oh, look at what you did. You did another little dookie, you crazy guy. And he is like, daddy likes it. Daddy likes it when I [bleep]. I know. It’s probably my fault. Yeah. So Barbara’s doing great. She has, she has more than fully mouthed by. I mean, we’re, well, we’re still, we’re still figuring it out. I will say that. But we’re definitely seeing, we’re still figuring out the dosage, but we’re definitely seeing the huge, I’ve been thinking about taking some of those pills based on the way she gets up in the morning. She just barks as soon as she wakes up. She does. She’s very excited. But we’ve also been trying to crate them at night because we’re kind of in a new phase where sleep is becoming very important. I guess this is what happens when you’re 44 and 47, suddenly you like really start sleep hygiene has become a priority. Mm-hmm. So we realize that the dogs moving around and the bed. Well, and maybe there’ll be a sponsor. So I’m not gonna mention the specific one that we got. We need to look into this. Mm-hmm. By the way, Jamie. But, um, yeah, I was gone. We, we’ve got a thing that may enables you to keep your, your bed cold or hot mm-hmm. On each side because, you know. We’re at different life stages and have different temperature requirements and I, I’m anticipating that becoming more of an issue at night. Mm-hmm. That’s a good thing to anticipate. And this also sort of tracks your sleep and your heart rate and how much you snore and gives you a little, you get a little text in the morning about how well you slept. Again, good morning. It gives you percentages. Onm, I’ve got the ordering too, so I’ve got like double data coming at me in the morning. It may be a little bit ridiculous, but I was like, this is a good opportunity to take the dogs outta the bed because if the thing is measuring heart rate, it’s gonna be like, well, you’ve got two heart rates on this side of the bed, one that’s slow and one that’s really, really fast. I think it might be smarter than that, but Okay. They slept in into bed last night and I actually didn’t get any weird data. Yeah. So maybe it’s fine, but I just don’t think. I think it’s time for the dogs to have their own life. Yeah. At night. And we’re trying this because we started off with Barbara creating her, I mean, most things we didn’t realize at the time, but most things were easy with Barbara. Things that Barbara just catches onto. Sean does not. Yeah. Sean doesn’t catch, literally you throw something in his face, it just hits him. Right between the ice. Barbara will catch everything. Yeah. So, uh, so, you know, we, we’ve started putting them in the crate together. We got a crate that was big enough. Mm-hmm. Um, and so we’d stick ’em in there at night. And, and they’ve done okay going in. Like they don’t fight us too much. Yeah. Yeah. They like it at first, but I think they don’t realize that we want them to stay in there all night long. And so they’ve been waking me up progressively earlier and earlier, and they wake me up by banging on the doors of the crisis. Well, Sean does his scratchy technique. Mm-hmm. And Barbara has started making a new noise because she knows we doesn’t, we don’t want her to bark. She makes basically the dog version of the fire alarm needs a new battery. Well, it sometimes it sounds like an owl, sometimes it’s like, Ooh. Oh, well sometimes she’ll stretch it out. Uhhuh. Yeah. So we’re, we’re teaching them how to talk in new ways. Um, but it’s not been great for our sleep. So last night we were like, let’s just let ’em sleep in the bed. And that was worse. Yeah. We’re gonna put ’em in a different room. I hate to say it, but we’re gonna put ’em in a different room. Mm-hmm. And, uh, they’re gonna just have to learn to be on their own. Like our kids, right? Yeah. She put ’em in a different room. Let ’em be on their own. Mm-hmm. Different state. Figuring out dinner every night can be a hassle, but HelloFresh makes it easy with farm fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and step-by-step recipes delivered right to your door. 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My name’s Tessa. I’m from Central Illinois. With Spring coming up I’ve been finding myself doing a lot of cleaning and purging clothes and items that I don’t need and donating them. And I was just wondering what you both do in order to prepare your mind, your bodies, your homes, everything for the upcoming spring and summer active seasons. Love you guys. Talk to you soon. Bye. I like this question. Spring cleaning. Is this a thing for us? Well, it’s been a thing for me. I’ve been, um, cleaning out my, my office because I’ve been getting too many. I’m at this point, you know, I work from home. Um, I think I’m at the point where I need to. Move to a dedicated office space because our dining room table is often covered in just samples. Yeah. I think this might be something that, um, someone who doesn’t, who isn’t in a relationship with or lives with an interior designer might not know, I certainly did not know. Mm-hmm. About these books of samples of things like fabrics, wallpapers you have. So like we could cover many different things in our home with just the little samples that you have in these books. Yeah. Some people do that. Like a quilt. Yes, exactly. I’ve been accumulating these. But you know, the longer you’re in this industry, the more you, you have new vendors you acquire, uh, new books, new reps. And Lindsay, who’s my studio director, has told me I’m not allowed to take any more books, kind of like we used to do with our kids. You can’t take any more books unless you give some away or throw some out. So for me, that’s my current problem. Okay. So I, I’ve been purging myself of those. Um, and while I do it, I’ll, I’ll see what else I can, I’ll pull other things out of our closet. Old toys from the kids that I maybe hung on to for a while, but it’s like, okay, they’re 21 and 16. You can, you can give these to Goodwill. Um, I’m trying to think. Clothes, you know, typical, like, I haven’t worn this thing in a year and a half. I’m never, it’s, it’s time for it to move on. Well, you have your samples. Um. I have my, my, um mm-hmm. Products mm-hmm. That you seem to have an issue with. I, I, this man loves some products. I’ve never seen somebody love so many. You got ointments. Yeah. You have creams, you have like oils. I mean, I have all of those things. Mm-hmm. I’m a, I’m like a wizard. I have so many potions. It’s, I’m, I’m, listen, like the little tray, you know, the little trays? I, I gave you one and me one. Yep. By the sink to kind of corral all of our ointments. And yours. Never stay inside the tray. Well, let me, let me go through a few of the things that I have. Okay. And, uh, I’ll just, I’m gonna tell you why all this is important to me. Um, okay. I, uh. Look for my hair. You know, my hair takes a little bit mm-hmm. Of, of, of care. Right. It’s, I love your hair, by the way, and Oh, well, thank you. And I, you know, I grow up beautiful. I grow it out and keep, keep it out for you. I mean, I would buzz it if it weren’t for you. We just got a call from our son who just buzzed his hair. He did. He said, I, I, we picked up the phone I my hair. Yeah. I’m like, we know. That’s fine. Whatever. Do what you want to. Well, I didn’t say that. I said, your hair was so beautiful. Hey, you know, in college that you, that kind of thing. I a good, I didn’t give it the good supportive mom answer that I should have. I was like, I loved your hair would look so good. Those angelic curls. It’ll grow right back. So, uh, you know, I didn’t, I I didn’t think I would get to this point. I’ll be honest with you. Uh, there was a point in my life in which I put no ointments, no lotions, no products on me other than deodorant. Hmm. Yeah. That was when we were first married. Yeah. And dating. Um, things have changed. Things have changed and I’m glad. So, uh, just a little insight into my life. Um, when I, so I have two products that I put in my hair after I wash it. Okay. Which are like the initial follow ups to the washing. Mm-hmm. And then I have, in subsequent days after washing, I have a little spray bottle of water and two other products that I put in. So there’s five bottles right there just for the hair on the counter. Right. But what happens, riddle me, this, what happens when you get to the end of the bottle and there’s like, I don’t know, like this much left in the bottle. Mm-hmm. And you leave it beside the sink in case you need just a little bit. Can we come back to that? And then you pull out the new bottle? That’s just my question. That’s a general question. You said five bottles and I think five bottles is more like seven or eight bottles. Okay. ’cause some of them count twice. Okay. That’s just my hair, uh, my, my beard. I’ve got my, my mythical beard, balm and oil. Mm-hmm. It’s two products for the beard. I’ve got, um, let’s see. From my eyes, you know, I’m having issues with my eyes. I do. I’ve been hearing about that. Um, so a lot. At any given time, I have, let’s see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different things that I put on my eyes. Mm-hmm. Six, actually. Six. ’cause there’s one that I keep with me most at the time. Well, and there’s also the thing, I’m sorry I’m interrupting. Yeah. I haven’t, I’m still a less than halfway done. Can I, do you want me to, to comment on the categories or do you want me to let you get to the end of all of them? I like, I’ll get through it because I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to remember them all. I think this is probably already frustrating for the listener. Okay. And so I just want to kind of get through all of it. Okay. Um, sorry, listener. And then I, uh, and then I’ve got one, two. 3, 4, 5 different things that I put on my face at different times, whether it’s the morning or the night, right? I’m a, I’m a, I’m a I’m an old man. I don’t want to seem old. I don’t think you need to say you’re an old man. I’m a 47-year-old man. Listen, listen. Skincare is important. Thinking about yourself as an old man actually makes you old. I’m not old. I just listened to a whole podcast about this. You’re doing it again. No, you cannot think of yourself as an old man. You have to think of yourself as a young person. That’s why I put this stuff on my face to think of myself as a young man. No, but when you’re putting it on, you don’t need to think I’m an old man putting these things on my face so I don’t look. You need to be like, I am a youthful, energetic, yeah, human. And I, I do get that as well. This is gonna help me continue to feel that way. Okay. Uh, I got a couple of, uh, fragrances. I got some stuff. I got shaving stuff. You know, you got, I, I shave up under here and I shave right over, right in here. You know, I like it when you shave there. Um, I like it when those hairs grow out. And then I have some general, like body lotions, maybe two of those, um, pretty high maintenance at this point. The, the main thing I worry about when it comes to the world ending is what I’m gonna do about all these ointments and lotions and products. If like, when I have to become meat again, which is my alter ego that I will become in the apocalypse, I’m gonna have like psoriasis everywhere and dandruff just falling off at the top of my hair. I think it’ll be part, part of my image will just be all the, I have rosacea all over my face, like all of my, um, immuno What do you, what, what do you Autoimmune skin issues that I’m constantly suppressing will just fire up and it’ll be part of my image. But until then I gotta kind of take care of this stuff. You gotta keep that skin buttery sauce. I gotta do that. And so it is a lot. Maybe, I think maybe the tray needs to be bigger now to answer your question about. The the ones that are empty. Well, and this is the thing because you don’t like, you have a fear of something running out. This is something that we’ve kind of come uhhuh to this in our marriage. Yeah. Come to over 20, almost 24 years, we’ve realized that we come from different places when it comes to, yeah, we have different philosophies. We do. We have different philosophies. I think of, I think of our house like a grocery store, just like my mom did. If you get, if you go through one toothpaste, there’s one right behind it. You get through with one deodorant, there’s one right behind it, and when you get down to one deodorant, you go ahead and buy the next two or three. So there’s a little, you open up the cabinet and there’s a little line uhhuh now in your family. Do you, what you gonna say about my family? Well, I think this is the way that it works based on observing you is that maybe I’m an outlier. You run outta deodorant and then you spend one to three weeks using something else as deodorant. You know, you run outta soap and then you use shampoo as your soap. Listen, that’s, I’m flexible. That’s called being a flexible person who can roll with the punches. This take that, this body can’t take that. If this body could take that, he would do it. But this body can’t take this. But maybe that body doesn’t know what it can take. We’ll see. No, this body has done, has lived its life without all my points. Why are we talking about your body as this body? Because I’m so disembodied. The reason I have some that are a little bit empty is that when it gets down to the very end of like a spray bottle and you can’t get the rest, but you know, there’s some in there. I know that at some point I’m gonna take that one and I’m gonna, and when this one gets a little bit lower, I’m gonna open this one up and I’m gonna pour it in there, then I’m gonna throw it away. Mm-hmm. And it’s just, I, it’s hard to get motivated to do that sometimes. Mm-hmm. You, so what you’re saying is you have a little trouble purging. There’s something in you that is, is. Is comforted by having a little extra, uh, I mean, I will say that I don’t think of myself as wanting to be prepared. Like when I’m out in the wild, I’m not like link he has a man purse with don’t bring link into this. So many things. Like I don’t if if I, this isn’t links. Your products are not link’s fault if you’ve, I’m just, I’m just saying that I don’t think of myself as being hyper prepared. Like if we travel, link has all the things that, you know, he, he, the man goes to bed with at least seven or eight things next to him. I’m sorry, link, but I’ll defend you while you, I have a lot of ointments and lotions. Mm-hmm. This is, this is wrong. If you spot me out in the wild, all I got is my wallet and my phone and maybe a little thing of eyedrops. Mm. Mm-hmm. I’ve added that recently. Mm-hmm. But that’s it. But at home I got a lot of stuff and I do realize that that affects you. Would you like us to put up a, would you like us to put up a barrier, a little curtain between your sink and my sink? Mm-hmm. That might be nice. Like a, like a little hospital curtain and then I can do whatever I want to ’em outside. I like that idea. It’s not bad. Okay, next question. Hey, red Link, this is Dante from Florida, not Link. And uh, I just wanted to ask you guys some real advice. I basically, on the weekends, the main thing me and my girlfriend and all my friends do for fun is we play d and g. And, uh, well, recently our dms wife has introduced her coworker and, and her, her husband. So a new couple into the group. And basically this guy, I can’t explain it, they’re not bad people, but the vibes just aren’t there and it’s really hard to like, address this issue. Issue is like, it doesn’t seem like anyone wants to budge and it’s, it just really has killed, killed my weekend a little bit like I. Do you have any advice on like, on how to work through that or I don’t know, you know, maybe any solutions? Mm. Yeah, that’d be nice. All right, thanks. Bye. Now, this dinner party we’re going to, tonight, we’re not playing d and d but starting to realize that based on the text that I’ve sent, haven’t gotten a response. I might be becoming this guy for this group of people. Um, I mean, my, I might be ruining these people’s nights. My first question is, hopefully the coworker, or does the coworker listen to this podcast? Hopefully they don’t. Oh. Oh, you can’t worry about this, Jesse, if we worried about who listens and what they said their name was, and then people recognizing their voice. Oh, listen, I’m stressed about it. We wouldn’t have a show. I am stressed. Don’t worry about that. I’m not trying to hurt somebody’s feelings Anyway. The thing, I don’t know a lot about d and DI think I’ve played well. You okay? That’s where you’re going with this. Maybe once. Um, but there is, there’s that chart that’s like chaotic. Neutral. Neutral, good evil. Oh, evil lawful lot. Yep. That thing, what you’re talking about. What if you put that guy in the show? I mean, he did say he’s not a bad person. He sounds like he’s a bad person. I mean, he sounds like he’s a, he may not be like a morally corrupt person, but it just sounds like he’s a bad time. A bad time. But can anybody really, if they’re not doing something to harm you, can anybody really make you have a bad time? Mm-hmm. I think you are the one who can make you have a bad time. Ooh. Can you step outside of yourself and see this person as a person doing the best they can? Playing d and d trying to make it in this world, trying to maybe make some new friends, trying to maybe make some new lifelong friends, and maybe you need to give this guy a break. Oh, maybe you’re actually the bad person. No, I’m just kidding. I think it’s an interesting thought experiment to see, to take yourself out of your body and think about this person as well. What do we say? We say like the big boss, the final boss, the final boss. If there’s somebody that’s getting on your last nerve, it’s like you’ve worked through all the levels in this video game and now this is an opportunity. To see if you can beat this final boss, which is this person who gets on your last nerves by just allowing them to do and be whatever they’re gonna do and be. I don’t know. Well, that sounds like it could be good advice. Can I give some bad advice? Please give some bad advice. Um, I mean, I don’t necessarily think that is this guy’s job to turn the game that he was playing, which was d and d with people he liked into trying to That’s a great point. Make himself like somebody that he doesn’t like who might be a complete buzzkill. Now, one of the things I have learned about d and d that I did not know until I, I played it for the very first time ever is that it’s collaborative, right? Mm-hmm. So I always thought, you know me, I’m a little bit competitive. I thought if you sat down to play a game, that you as an individual were trying to win, which, which should communicate a few things about my personality, but I have since learned that it is the team playing together. Mm-hmm. And I actually think that’s one of the beautiful things about, it’s d and d. It’s, it makes it super fun. I will say I do think you can, however, in the midst of a d and d game, direct violent actions towards a member of your team, I think you can do that. And I think that if maybe on the side. You talk to everyone else other than the Dungeon Master. ’cause the Dungeon Master made this decision to bring them in and the Dungeon Master is in charge of the complete vibe and atmosphere of the game. Is it the Dungeon Master’s husband or the dungeon Master’s coworker’s husband. I think it’s the Dungeon Master’s wife’s coworker and her husband Dungeon Master’s wife’s coworker. Okay. And then her husband is the one it sounds like. So if you could just get together and you can say, Hey, every time we get into a situation where we’re supposed to like cast a spell on this dragon or this ogre, just direct all of the violent action at him and just see what happens. Something else you can do. If you don’t wanna try to like figure out why this person is frustrating you so much, I will say, listen. At the risk of sounding super annoying, one thing that my therapist will say to me is, if you spot it, you got it. And it take took me a long time to really figure out what this means and what he’s talking about and if I even believe it. But there is something to the thing that is annoying you in another person. Often, not all the time, but often is a thing that annoys you about yourself. It’s like when I freak out at my kids about their really dirty room and then I go and look at my room and I’m like, oh, this might be why their room looks the way it does. Um, but something you can do if you don’t wanna go down that route with yourself and, you know, do some self-reflection is like, just tell them that. Um. You’ve stopped doing these Friday night or weekend d and d games and then changed the location. Whoa, Jesse, so I got you to come to the dark side real quick. Well, we’ve got lots of options like that. Is that is the thing you can do. I didn’t, I forgot that The advice that we’re giving is not always helpful. It’s just advice. It’s just for entertainment purposes. Right. Right. Which is, you know, uh, unless we, unless we intended to not be right. We, we had a game night for a long time. Uh, we’ve, since the pandemic, we’ve yet to really reinstate it. We did like a game night for your, my birthday. Whose birthday was it? I don’t know. I don’t remember. Um, and I was like, man, we should do this again. And we always say, we’re gonna restart it and then we don’t. Oh, it was Shepherd had some friends over and we did a game night for them. We played, we played, uh, werewolf. Werewolf. Yep. Now we didn’t have anybody in our game night group. That was a buzz kill, but it was, I’ll be honest with you, it was relatively curated and you love people. So much more than I do, and you have a higher tolerance for people. It makes me feel good than I do that you like me because sometimes you don’t like people. Yeah, but I won’t. Here’s the thing about me. You’re picky. I won’t. You’re a little picky thing. Once I’m there and I’m with you, I’m going to be, I’m gonna be a good time with you and I’m not gonna be mean to you and I’m gonna engage with you and I’m gonna try to like find a way to like you. But if I, it’s true everything up until the point in which I’m in your presence, I’ll do everything I can to prevent it from happening because I just don’t want to have a bad time. Well, and I also think it’s just, you’re much more of an introvert. I don’t think it’s all so nefarious. I think part of it is just, yeah, you don’t feel like you have as much energy. I. To give out in social situations as as I do. And so I think you’re, it’s a little bit harder for you to make those happen. And sometimes I expend all my energy right at the beginning of the night, like when I parachute in. Exactly. And I’m so tired and I’m like, oh, well I feel like we’ve done, like we gotta go home now. We fold up our American flag and we just take, kick an Uber back home. Oh, is it, is it gonna be okay? Is it, are we gonna walk in there and they’re just gonna ask us to leave after you send that text? Well, you know what? Here’s the thing. All of these people are very powerful in the entertainment world, and I just wanted to send them a really entertaining text. And, you know, I think it’ll be the topic of conversation tonight. I have full confidence that’s gonna happen. You did break the seal, like you broke the seal on the silliness. I just, and I appreciate that. But first of all, I, this I, this is not like it’s a snot, it’s not a stuffy crowd. And we know, uh, we know, uh, the people hosting the party. Yes. Much better than we know the people who are coming to the party. Right? And I know that they think what I said is funny, but they didn’t put a hahaha. Oh, what? They don’t, they don’t do that kind of thing. They’ve never responded. I always put ha hahas, well, there’ll be some ha hahas. I, I’m a, I give feedback. Um, so I think we’ve given you some options there. You can either try to see this person as the final boss that you have to force yourself to like, and hope for the best. Or you can construct some sort of plan, uh, to sabotage them. And it really depends on what kind of person you are as to which path you will follow. Hmm. Hey guys, my name is Austin. I’m a longtime fan, love the podcast, and I need you guys to help me settle a long, many year long debate between me and my wife. Uh, many years ago, there’s like six years ago, I was, uh, working at a restaurant, uh, and my boss’s wife would bring me, uh, desserts, homemade desserts like pineapple, pineapple upside down cake. Fruity pebble crusted cheesecake, delicious desserts, homemade like that. Now, I was dating my now wife at the time, and my wife says it was wrong of me to eat those desserts, even though they were quite delicious. I never asked for them. They were just brought to me to try and eat. And, and I, I didn’t have that. They were good desserts. I’m not just, I’m not gonna turn down the free dessert. It was delicious. So, yeah, if you could just tell the, the debate, is it wrong for me to have eaten another woman’s dessert? Uh, thank you guys for taking the question. Uh, love you guys. Give up the good work. I’m assuming that this is not a euphemism for something. Well, I don’t think fruity pebble encrusted cheese cheesecake and fruity pebble encrusted cheesecake is a euphemism for something. I know it could be. But, uh, we’re gonna just assume you’re talking about literal desserts here. Well, well, let’s, let’s track this onto our relationship. Now. This, we haven’t had this, I’ve never had a lady make desserts for me other than maybe like my mom or your mom, or, and it wasn’t ever just for me, it was like for the family. Well, I think there are some clarifying questions that could be asked, asking you. Well, she’s just make, I think we can’t do that. So let’s make assumptions. You know, what we do when we don’t have the person here is we make assumptions and we could Okay. Confidently assert them. So we’re gonna say that these were individualized desserts wrapped just for this man. I mean that, okay. She, she made the whole thing. It wasn’t like I made this last night for a group and I have a piece left over. Here you go. It certainly sounds like this is like a personalized, like cupcake sized. It has his name on it. Maybe you don’t make, that’s a little note clearly. Like, you can’t make one cupcake unless you’re doing like the mu, clearly you can make a little cheesecake. Okay. Let’s just say it’s a regular sized cheesecake, but she brings it to him and just gives it to him. The whole cheesecake. The whole cheesecake. Let’s start there. Because if it’s just, Hey, I made a cheesecake. Would you like a piece of it, then I don’t think we, I don’t think his wife would have an issue with that. If, if she did, then I think that they’ve got deeper issues that they need to work out. Hmm. But let’s just say that these were intentional desserts. He was a dessert target. Okay. What if I became the target of a woman’s desserts? Well, I think I would wanna know who this woman was, how she was connected to you. Does she look like Casey Musgraves? Uh. ’cause I hear that that’s, well, you kind of look like Casey Musgraves, so why? Oh, I mean, that’s a big compliment. I, yeah. Uh hmm. He says boss’s wife. And so I just picture this older woman. I know that’s not necessarily the case. People can be attracted to older women. The the question is, is he attracted to her? Was he attracted to this woman? Doesn’t sound like, but even if you’re attracted to somebody, you can still eat their desserts. I mean, can you only eat unattractive, unattractive people that you’re unattracted to is desserts? I, I think you can eat anybody’s desserts that you want. Right? I guess it’s what’s behind the dessert. Okay. But what if it was personalized? Like if it was like, um, it had his name on it. It was like little, it was little chocolates and it was in a li and it ca and it was like, you know, the kind of thing that you would give a valentine. Now that’s a, that’s a little different. Yeah. And I don’t think that’s what this is. What if it was a Whitman sampler? It clearly wasn’t. She was making the desserts at home. No, I’m just, I’m trying to prepare myself, not make, unless her name is Mrs. Whitman. I’m not, just be honest with you, I’m not particularly interested in their situation. Oh, I’m, I’m, I’m trying to prepare myself for what might happen with us. And I want to know at what point do I need to tell you if a woman, if an old lady gives me a Whitman sampler, do I need to come home immediately? Time? I think as long as you share it with me, it’s fine. Okay. Um, I think ma, there had to be something else going on. Is, is what I like. Not that he was doing something, but there had to be some other inciting incident with this boss’s wife that made her think that the desserts were not about just giving him a sweet treat. Well, that’s quite an assumption you’re making. I I, if it feels like she had more intentions than just the desserts, I. Does that mean you have to reject the desserts in order to reject the larger intentions? Or do you just say, well, there’s a dessert there, somebody’s gotta eat it and you eat it? I think as long as it never went past the dessert we’re okay. I don’t think, I don’t think, I mean now if he consumed the dessert in a certain way with like in front of her with lots of lick lipping, whoa, Justin and other things, what if it was chocolate covered cooking, miscon construed chocolate covered strawberries? ’cause that’s about as sexy as a food can get. I don’t think chocolate covered strawberries are actually sexy. I think they’re hard to eat. Like the chocolate breaks up, it gets all, I don’t know how they got this idea of being a sexy dessert. Okay, well what’s, what’s the sexiest food? Hmm? What’s the sexiest dessert? Moose. I was gonna say moose. I don’t even like moose, but yeah, there’s something about moose. It’s easy to eat. It silky. You can kinda run your mouth over the spoon so you could like take it and you like run your mouth and just take some off and then you hand the other person the spoon and they finish it off. That’s very sexy. Yeah. I don’t think that was what was going on there. And you can’t do that with pudding, by the way. You, you also can’t do it with fruity pebble covered cheesecake. So I, I think it was fine that he ate the desserts. Yeah. Pineapple upside down cake. That, that feels like, well, P pineapples are for swingers. No, that feels, that feels like something a grandma would make is pineapple upside down cake. I think she just thought he had a sweet tooth and that, and that was the, I think you gotta drop this one. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Her husband never complimented her desserts and she makes desserts all the time and she just wanted somebody to love her desserts. Now if a man, let’s just reverse this. Okay. If a man. Started bringing you like meat products. You know what I’m saying? Like if a man started bringing you, that would be weird. ’cause I’m, I don’t love meat products. Well, okay, but I eat meat, but I don’t like love meat products. It wouldn’t, it, it doesn’t feel, anyway, continue with your analogy. What if this began bringing, or your, your story being began bringing you sausages that would feel particularly sexual. Right. Uhhuh. So what I need to then have a conver, I’m just trying to figure out if this ever happens, if a man tries to, if my grandfather would send us summer sausage, but that was for the whole family. Yeah. But if he was still alive and he started sending the summer sausage just to you, I mean, I feel like it might make a phone call. It might be Cause it might be cause for concern. I think if, if. He gave the boss’s wife summer sausage. The wife should be mad if he ate the boss’s wife’s fruity, pe fruity pebble covered cheesecake. Fine. Okay, I, I think we’ve established our ground rules. Let’s hear another one. Hey y’all, my name is Stephanie. I am from the deep South. Well my daddy is from Chiton County, Alabama. Uh, but about 30 years ago he and my mama came back up to Detroit where my mama was from. And so I was actually raised up here and I’m pretty comfortable code switching. And I was wondering what y’all thought about code switching and did you know about what this was? And do you find yourself switching between like your dialect or who you’re talking to, where you’re at in the country and like stuff like that? I was just wondering. I think it’s really fun. I work in the auto industry now and I can definitely change how I’m talking if it’s to a supervisor or someone else on the line. Um, yeah. What are your thoughts? Love you guys. This is a great question. Uh, and I wanna talk to you, Jesse, about the way people interact with you here based on your accent. Before we do that, um, there is this phenomenon and I think that, um, I think we may have talked this about, about this on air biscuits or good mythical more. I, we talk so much on the internet that I can’t remember where I’ve said things, but there is, uh, I think generally in culture, people think that it is more virtuous to always sound exactly the same in every circumstance that you’re, you’re in, right? Mm-hmm. I think it’s just given that, that’s the virtuous thing is to, you know, never change how you talk depending on the circumstances. Always have the same personality. Well, because, and so I’ve always kind of thought that that was true, but I’ve actually been begun to question that a little bit. Because I think that the, the chameleon, the chameleon’s a bad word. ’cause it has a negative con connotation. Like somebody’s like up to no good. But there’s a chameleonlike quality where you are like, okay, I’m currently with little kids. Mm-hmm. And what are you gonna do when you, when you’re little, little kids, you kind of talk to ’em in a way that you relate to them. Or like, people who have dogs but don’t do doggy talk to them. Which dogs? Like, by the way, I, it’s scientifically proven. I have a pro, I have a problem with people who are unwilling to do what? Old doggy. Talk to your doggies. What could you, your big guy in? My favorite guy in the world, the stinkiest man on the planet. You know, I like saying things like that to my dog because he’s a dog. They’re dogs and kids. You talk to a baby in a certain way and you, and so I’m just, in my mind, I. If I’m gonna go, yeah, if I’m gonna go to the, to the, get my oil changed, you know, I’m gonna talk to the guy a little bit different than I Oh you do. Uh, we had a guy who came to, uh, cut down some trees for us in North Carolina. And boy, that dude was from the mountains of North Carolina and it was, I had not heard anybody talk like that in a while. And I actually, you know, I know that I’m this California guy now and that’s how I’m perceived by a lot of people. And so I was like, well, I’m not gonna like put my hair up in a bun for this guy because I was like, I’m just gonna put my hat. I’m gonna, I got, I got my trucker hat in here that I wear a lot. I’m gonna put it on your NC State shirt. And then it’s like, I might, I’m not gonna change, I’m wasn’t talking to him like this, but you know, you can even hear it as I do things. Depending on what mood I’m in or what mood me and Link are in, like we’ll get more, we’ll get more Southern and more country if we’re like being really stupid. And then if I’m like trying to make a point about something that I want you to really understand, I’ll like clean and it happens. And I just wonder, is that like a sign of lack of character? Of course not. It’s, I, I think the implication is that you are not authentic, that you’re different people for, you’re a different person for different people. But what if your authentic self is being a authentic self is being a little bit flexible. Well, I, right, I disagree with that idea. Like, I think one thing I tell my kids all the time is know your audience. It’s like, look, read the room. Read the room. Know your audience. That doesn’t make you. A disingenuous person, it means that you’re not a moron. Like you know that I’m gonna, I’m gonna be a certain way around you that I won’t be around anybody else. And that’s just because I know my level of safety around you. Mm-hmm. Um, and comfort. And so, I mean, we are primates, what a primates are, you know, group animals. Try what? What’s the word? Not group Animals. Social animals. Yeah, social animals. But there’s another word that I, I can’t think of, but gregarious. No, not gregarious. Anyway, they’re social animals and so you, we respond to our environment. If you are in an, I mean, I have noticed it with you because you don’t have your accent as strongly anymore, but when we go back home, it definitely comes out, especially depending on who you know, who we’re talking to. And I don’t think you’re trying to do that. I think it’s just, you also hear, we mimic without even knowing we’re doing that. So if we’re around more Southern people that’s in us, that’s gonna come out in a way that it won’t when you’re around people who are not from the South right now. Do I think it could be taken too far? Of course, but I’m just saying, I just don’t think it’s, there’s a black and white answer to this. However, there’s something else that happens. There’s two things that I’ve observed. Um, and you’ve told me stories of this, sometimes people who have never lived in the south, who’ve never had a southern accent who are talking to you out here in Los Angeles will start having a southern accent when they’re talking to you. They do. People ha do all kinds of weird things. ’cause I have a Southern accent and I know Christie feels the same way. We’ve talked about this and we’ve experienced this together. Um, and I’ve, you know, I did some acting as a child and one of the things that they taught you to do was lose your accent. Like, I could lose my accent if I had to, but I’m 44 years old now and so I just, this is my accent. This is how I sound and I’m fine with that. Um, and it also is part of who I am, part of where I came from. Um, so I’m not ashamed that I have a southern accent, um, that is part of what makes me me. But people act really weird about it and say the most bizarre things. Occasionally somebody will say something sweet and kind that’s like, I love your accent. It’s beautiful, it’s melodious, whatever. Most of the time people say the rudest things. Um, give us some examples. Uh, you still have that accent. You’ve been here 14 years and you still sound like that. Yeah. I don’t think, I mean, first of all, I would be totally fine if you did, but I you yesterday I don’t, I hear, I don’t, I mean, I know that I just, I’m kind of blind to it, but like, I don’t hear, I think you’re, I think in the same way of Southern that your height, it’s fine, doesn’t it? I’m so used to your height that I don’t realize how tall you are. I don’t think you realize how southern I sound. I don’t, because where I come from in North Carolina, this is like nothing. This is like, well, everybody back home thinks that you’ve lost your accent. Right. And they’ll, and they’ll be derogatory about that. Well, I. It’s, it, it could be worse, but yeah. People, no people have said, you know, people will openly mock you. Sometimes you can tell they’re doing it on purpose. Sometimes they don’t even know they’re doing it. So I, and I think I actually have thought about this ’cause I think like Americans will do this with British people not knowing. It’s like, you hear this sound that is different than, than the sound you normally hear coming out of people’s mouths. And you wanna try it. You wanna see if you can mimic it without even knowing it. And so that happens. Um, but sometimes it’s done and you feel like this person is a total [bleep]. Mm-hmm. Like, this is the way I talk. This isn’t just like something cute and fun I’m doing for them to laugh at. This is like how I sound. Um, yeah, right. When we first moved here, there was a guy checking me out, um, and checking you out. Checking me. Let’s get, checking me out at a register. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, he asked me for my phone number and I started, you know, I. 9 1 9, which is still, but he you for your phone number because you were just, you gotta, if if I didn’t, if I wasn’t here, you would’ve been like, there was a guy checking me out and asking me for my phone number and I just started giving it to him. He was asking for your, like rewards. Yes, he was. Which was your phone number? He was asking, he was not trying take me out. He was asking me for my rewards number and so I started to give it to him and, okay, now it’s, now it’s even worse. Give him my number. You, you really, I started to give him my number. You gotta clean up your language. And you, there was a guy checking you out, asked you for your number, so you gave it to him. And I said, it’s 9 1 9. He said nine. That’s North Carolina area code 9 1 9 started totally mocking me and then proceeded to ask me where I was from, which is like, okay, you’re gonna mock me and then like, try to make conversation. So he was like, where are you from? You know, and I, I think I said the place where people have great accents or something, I don’t know. Oh wow. He’s pretty good. Um, but yeah, it’s, it’s kind of shocking. Well, let’s just do a, we’ll do a little PSA for people who aren’t from the South who run into people from the south. First of all, do not say. Are you from Texas? Because that happens. Okay. Yeah. You know what? There’s a lot of people from the south who are from Texas. Statistically speaking, you might be right, but we’re not from Texas and we get that [bleep] all the time. And this accent is not a Texas accent. It’s not a Texas accent accent. This is, this is North Carolina accent. Don’t start doing the accent back to the person. Yes. If you do it on accident, it’s clear when somebody is doing it and doesn’t realize it. But the, I love your accent. That’s, that’s, that’s fine. That’s fine. Because, because I think that can be a compliment. Totally agree. I mean, when I hear a But what about, what about code switching? Oh, the question you mean? Yeah, let’s get back to that. Um, I, yeah, I guess what I’m saying is that I. If you think about what you are, and I’m not trying to get like super, uh, like everything is a strategy. I’m not, it’s not how I think, but like, if you think about, okay, I’m going to be in this group, or now I recognize that I’m in this group, how I present in this group has an impact on how I am perceived and what am I actually trying to accomplish in the context of this group. Mm-hmm. And would that help or would that hurt what I’m trying to accomplish? Right. And if I’m trying to connect mm-hmm. And like, get along, you might not wanna say that you’re coming in on a parachute. No, no. I think that’s great. I stand by that. And so I just think it’s about, now the thing, the, the reason that this, it becomes a thing in, in culture is because politicians will do it depending on who they’re talking to. And I think that. I think that politicians doing it like, oh, this politician is now speaking to this group of people mm-hmm. Of workers or whatever, and they’re like trying to sound real blue collar and now this, they’re talking to this group of scientists and they sound different. That signals and, and authenticity, that signals, because the thing that we’re really suspicious about when it comes to politicians is that they are catering the, you know, they are basically shaping themselves in order to please you to be able to deceive you. Mm-hmm. And I think that that’s a different thing. So I think that it, as a politician, I think it probably makes sense to be like, Hey, let’s work on you always sounding the same no matter where people are pulling the clip from, no matter who you’re in front of, you always sound the same. So what’s gonna be the way that you talk? You gotta, you gotta land on that. I do think that’s important, but I think that’s different than just you as a person hanging out with people. Hmm. I, I, I just think there’s a difference. I mean, I think it all comes down to like what you’re saying is people want someone who is principled and who is, is who is who they are. But I, I do think that your audience matters. And I do think people talk differently when they’re around family members, when they’re around somebody they know. Well, when they’re around somebody that, you know, they just met. We curse in our home. We do in front of our children. We do. Why are you, you’re gonna get us in trouble with who? People who think you shouldn’t curse in front of your kids. Yes. Those people. They can, they can. Yeah. We’ve been in trouble with ’em for a long time. But, um, and so. Is it, am I not being my authentic self because I don’t, no, I think you’re knowing your audience. Drop an F-bomb in front of my mom. I think there’s it. What’s, what is it important? What’s it gonna accomplish? What is you dropping? Occasionally I’ll drop a curse word in front of somebody that may not be comfortable with me doing that. And I think I do that because I’m trying to accomplish something. You, you have a rhetorical goal in that instance. That’s right. That’s right. And it will be helpful towards that’s, and so is it, is it something that is gonna accomplish the thing that you’re trying to accomplish if it’s not devious? Or is it you trying to pull one over on people And I think that we’re talking as people who. Maybe this is something some, some people can’t relate to. Like we, I do think about where, who, who am I with right now? And what am I actually trying to do in this group? And I think that that might be too calculated for some people’s personalities already. They might be like, what? You think? That’s how you think about things. It’s like, I can’t, that, yes. That’s how I think about things. And uh, now that I’m always trying to be like, well, what can I accomplish? But I’m just, I’m, I am thinking about, well, how am I being perceived in this group and how will that impact things for me? Some people may be like, I’m just always being exactly who I am and who I’m with has absolutely no impact on that. And I think that’s just, it’s a kind of a different personality. Mm-hmm. And I don’t think that there is like a, well, this is a worse version of a person and this is a better version of a person. I think it’s just like people who are always exactly themselves, regardless of the circumstance, is a type of person that, um, has advantages in certain ways, but disadvantages in the other. And people who are. Kind of take their audience into account and read the room before they say the thing that they’re gonna say. It’s a different personality. You probably can’t help it if you’re that kind of personality. Both of you and I are that way and we will be able to accomplish this. It’s a different set of things. Hmm. And I just think that that’s what makes humans wonderful is that we’re, we’re different. And I think the understanding like at what point would me code switching become me being manipulated by my environment and actually not being able to be my authentic self. Or you being manipulative. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Speaking of accents, last thing. Let’s, uh, we do this little thing. I don’t know if you listen to this podcast. You hear me talk enough. Um, I, if I were you, I wouldn’t listen to it, just to be honest with you. Like, I just feel like sometimes I just need to hear your voice. I need to hear you saying stupid little things when I’m driving down the road. Okay. Wow. Yeah. Um, but we like to listen to people’s accents and then try to guess where they’re from. And I’ll be honest with you, we’ve never done a good job at this, so maybe you’ll be able to do better. Hmm. Hey, Rhett and Link. It’s Ann here. Um, I was just calling to see if you wanna guess where my accent is from. Um, and one tip, Rhett, it’s not really associated with your kind of heritage, so, uh, I’ll give you a second to have a wee think. And yeah. Okay. Well that’s gotta be Scotland then, right? She said it’s really not what, it’s not really part of your heritage. ’cause I thought that Scotland was, but when she said, I was gonna say, I was gonna say like this Scotland or Ireland, that’s what, yeah, that’s, well, that’s what I was saying. But when, then, when she said wee, she said give you a, wee think that sounds Irish, but I think that, uh, I’ve, I have said that I know that I’m more Irish than Scottish. I think I am based on the spelling of my last name, but, so I’m gonna go with Scotland on this one. What is, what a Welsh people sound like? Well, I was, yep. I don’t know. Probably a lot. Is that, is that a possibility? It’s for certain, it’s a possibility. Is somebody gonna tell us or do we just have– uh, Jamie’s gonna keep playing it. Oh, okay. And then there’s, it’s gonna reveal. So you’re saying Wales? I’m saying I’m open to it being Wales. Okay. But if you’re wrong, you’ll never be able to come back on the podcast. But if I do come back on the podcast, I’m gonna sit here and not get too close to the microphone. You’ve done such a good job. And look at the right camera. No, I, I mean, it’s amazing how much I haven’t thought about that since the very beginning of this podcast. Um, so I have to give my final answer now. Yeah. And you can agree with me if you want to. But I thought you said Jamie was gonna play some more. Oh, to reveal it. Oh. Hmm. This feels important. There’s, you know, I’m still gonna let you come back. Well, you know, I, I wanna be different. Okay. So let me say, let me say Wales. She’s saying Wales. Okay. Yeah. Okay, well hopefully you guessed it. I am from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ah, Northern Ireland. She got us. She got us. Crack and really stupid stuff, but yeah. Love you guys. Bye. So the wee, I was like, when she said I’d give you a wee think, I was like, okay, Northern Ireland. Now I wanna go listen to some Welsh accents. ’cause I really don’t know what they sound like. It might be crazy, it may be nothing like this at all. ’cause I think they actually have a whole different language. Mm-hmm. They do. Yeah. Yeah. Welsh people. I watch a lot of like British Love island and stuff like that. Okay. Like I’ve heard Welsh people and they’re, uh. You, it’s like a very distinct, it’s like I could never replicate it. Okay. But it’s very distinct. Okay. And they talk really fast. Oh, okay. Well, we missed that one. We both failed. I guess you don’t get to come back on the podcast. I think yours is a better guess because it didn’t really sound what, like the, it didn’t really sound like the typical Scottish accent, but I, but I’m like, maybe just people talk different than you think, but Okay. She’s from Belfest. Um, well thank you for joining us. It’s over. Yeah. I mean, we got things to do. Okay. You know, we got places to go. I got more work to do. I’m gonna drive you around town a little bit. Oh yeah. This’ll be new. Mm-hmm. Sounds fun. Um, where can people find you, Jessie? Oh wow. You really are going hard with this. Well, you know, you are an incredibly gifted, uh, designer and I just want people to know about what you’re doing because I think it’s, it is very interesting. You’ve made a big difference in the aesthetics of all the environments that I live and work in. Aw. And I just think that people ought to know about that. That’s so sweet. I can find me on Instagram at Jessie Lane Interiors. Mm-hmm. Look at you. Alright. We will. And by we, I mean. Me and the other guy Link. We’ll speak with you next week. Hey, I’m Michelle. I’m from Venezuela. I just wanted to tell you guys that you are amazing and a safe space for me, and thank you. And yeah, you got a musical beast around here. Bye.