Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I’m Rhett. And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we are… What are we doing, man? What are we doing? Let me look. Let me look at what we’re doing. What do I know that we’re doing? We’re answering questions. I know that we’re gonna guess some accents. Yep. I know that we’re gonna help a surfer. I know that Jenna is in the building. In the room, actually. We gotta hear about her knee. And, you know what? We’ll save some voicemails to the end of this episode to just hear from loyal listeners who are processing the news that we’re taking in a definite break from Ear Biscuits starting at the end of this year. And we should probably be starting to say that. I just said it. At the beginning of each episode. At the beginning of each episode, because people don’t listen to everything. Just to educate. Yeah. We did a whole episode- Let the information infiltrate. about why that’s happening. So we’re not gonna tell you why, but yes. So we’ve got how many more episodes including this one are we looking at? Eight. Eight. Look at that. Eight more episodes of Ear Biscuits. The easy letdown. So we’ll get there. I’m obsessed with something. I’ve had two of them. I mentioned one of them to you, and then over the weekend I went back and got another from a different place. Kolaches? No. I like a good kolach, but you can’t really find those in LA. I saw a video of a kid who had moved from Texas to California. His mom was telling him that they don’t have kolaches, and he was just like, “What?” Right. “What? They don’t believe in ’em?” It’s a hard thing to understand if you grew up having them, because once we had ’em in outside of Austin, we were like, “WHy is this not everywhere?” Just outside of Austin. Describe a kolache for those who don’t know. Yeah, for those who don’t know, and I’m just asking for friend. Honestly, I feel like it’s a really great Hot Pocket, but it’s like, I would call it… It’s like a bun with stuff in it. It’s more of like a donut with meat inside of it, right? It’s not sweet if it has meat inside of it. But the consistency of the- It’s a stuffed bread- The bread. bun-type thing. And you can have like a lot of breakfast stuff in it. It’s nice. It’s really good. It should be more available to us. There should be more. Because we are spoiled, and we think that we have everything here in LA, and we’re not right. But you’re saying it’s not kolaches? Nope. You had one and then you wanted to go get another one. It’s a fusion dish. Sushi… Burrito. Burrito. Sushi burrito. I got one from this, a different place. The first place was like a fish shop, Fish King, and they had ’em. I was like, “I’m gonna try one of these,” but they wouldn’t let you swap anything out. And then I went to this other place. Oh, you’re a swapper. And I like to swap things out. But yeah, I’m trying to decide if it’s just too much or if I like it more than a roll. What makes it fusion other than the fact that it’s a burrito? Nothing. That’s it. I mean, the word “burrito” makes me think of Mexican food, so I assume it’s some sort of fusion. But the ingredients are all sushi ingredients. Oh, yeah. Even the wrap is, well, for me it’s soy paper, ’cause I don’t like that green crap. The seaweed, man? Seaweed, what? That changes everything. It’s wonderful. You can’t even bite through it. The moment you put that in your mouth, your body and your brain, everything is telling you, “Wait, wait, wait. You forgot to remove the wrapper. Take that outta your mouth. Spit that out.” And it tastes like garbage. You’re insulting an entire culture right now, just so you understand what’s happening. Well, listen, I’m kind of being self-deprecating. I know that… And this is a man who’s about to go to Japan. Shaking your head. People shaking their head at me. You’re about to go to Japan and you just said that about seaweed. I just don’t… I mean, you ever eaten a Starburst with the wrapper on? And you can do that. You can do that. It’s known. You can eat a Starburst with the wrapper on it. Yeah, but you gotta really work yourself up to it. You gotta be like… And as you’re doing it, be like, “It’s okay. People say you can do this.” I mean, the fact is- It’s okay. It’s not as good as if you remove the wrapper. Everything on the inside of the burrito comes from the sea, and so you take it, and you take this other thing from the sea and you wrap it. It’s the perfect expression. It’s the perfect thing. And then you’re like, “No, let’s go get some soy paper.” It’s a little bit stretchy. It’s easy to bite through. I don’t dislike soy paper. It doesn’t steal the thunder of what’s inside. I just don’t like the taste of seaweed, and I don’t like the texture of it. And what else is there to food, but taste and texture, you know? What am I supposed to like, the fact that everybody else likes it? Okay. Noted. Here’s the thing. I wouldn’t say that I like it. I would say that if people get a sushi roll… You’re offending a whole culture right now. If you get a sushi roll, and one of ’em has soy paper and one of ’em has seaweed, I will say unless someone points it out, it will go I don’t even think. It goes right over my head. But don’t let me be the one to make you start thinking about it, ’cause if you do, it might bring up problems. ‘Cause I’m not really there for that. I’m there for what’s inside. Exactly, and I don’t want to have to get through something to get to it that I don’t like, but I like everything inside, and I used to not be that way. That’s true. You have grown. Spicy tuna. You’ve grown. I subbed in spicy tuna into my crab. shrimp, avocado arrangement. I don’t really like… Instead of what? Tuna? I just added it. Oh. But I don’t, yeah, there’s a lot of… Anyway, this is supposed to be a positive conversation, of I’m moving closer to… It’s a bigger sushi. It’s like big American sushi in a Mexican wrapper. You know? I had sushi on Friday night. No. Yeah, before our little get together. Yes. Okay. And I don’t know, the burrito of it all defeats the purpose for me, because it’s just like, the whole beauty of the sushi experience is that you can get a whole lot of different stuff. Like you can get this roll and this roll, and if you get a lot of people there and you’re sharing. And then the bites. I do understand, like if you’re got… And it’s just one little bite. It’s like, “Oh, this is interesting.” You got the sticks, and you’re using the sticks to eat the bites. And if you get a rainbow roll, and it’s got all the different stuff on top. And the burrito is kind of like, I feel like I would just get tired of it. Just honking it down. There’s hand rolls. Like, it’s interesting that the sushi burrito is a thing that gets you excited about sushi, ’cause there’s plenty of rolls that have soy paper. Yeah, and I get those. In fact, I had one. I had a soy paper roll. I’m not saying it’s better than a soy paper sushi roll. I am not saying that. I’m saying it’s different enough to be something that I’m now excited about. Hold on. I’m just deconstructing this for you, because it’s hitting me now. You’re also the guy who insists on anything that we eat on the show, you insist on taking it apart before you eat it. Like sometimes it’s to get something out that you don’t like. Sometimes it’s to show the camera. Here’s the thing. A sushi roll is like a burrito that’s been cut up for you so you can see everything that’s on the inside. It’s wonderful. But so why… I love it. I’m just saying there’s something going on psychologically here. You know how it is. You know how people get excited when I diagnose you with something, so I’ll just move forward with that. I’m not saying… Something is wrong with you. I really like the roll. I like the roll. This is not replacing the roll, but I’m obsessed with it because… But why is it exciting you? Because it’s mushy. Oh, god. It’s a big honking thing of mush in your hand. It’s the reason why I like burritos, but now it’s sushi stuff inside of there. I wish they would start doing burritos as little rolls that are cut up. Here’s what I’m saying. That’s what we really need to do. Chef’s out there, if you’re listening, we need to take Mexican food and this big burrito, you need to make it in something in a way that it can be cut up and arranged on a plate so we can just take individual pieces of it and eat it and share burritos. You’re talking about tapas? No, no. I’m talking about a burrito that has been cut into little sections that me and my friends can sit down and eat one bite at a time. So Mexican sushi. Yeah. Why is that not a thing? It should be a thing. Yes. I will say, sushi burrito is better than something, a poke bowl. If I could get everything in the poke bowl in a wrap, because… You like holding the food? Is that what it is? Like, when I get a poke bowl, and I’m using the chopsticks, and I’m going in for it, and I’m trying to get my bite and stuff, at the very beginning it’s really unwieldy. Stuff’s falling off the side. It feels a little bit like chaos to me, so psychologically there’s a little bit of a control thing. All of this mush is in my hand. It comes down to mush. I forgot how much you like mush. No, and control. You like controlling mush. I like to have control over mush. And it tastes good, man. And it’s… Hey, maybe it’s not for you. That’s okay. Oh, I’m sure I would love it. It’s not that I wouldn’t like it. You’re crapping on two cultures. Three. I haven’t crapped on any culture. Crapping on culture is like the last thing that you’re gonna get outta this guy, okay? You’re crapping on sushi culture, you’re crapping on burrito culture, and all the Americans who said, “We need it all together, and we need it in our hand.” Everyone’s offended at you. Speaking of food, I am on… I mean, ’cause I didn’t think I was gonna talk about this, but it’s so ridiculous, and you’ll think it’s funny. I’m on day two of only eating sardines. Oh, god. Here he is talking about my psychology, and then he’s sitting over here on nothing but sardines? Just for three days. Oh, come on, dude. Just a little sardine reset. What’s wrong with you? Oh, I got lots wrong with me. Why are you doing this? Well, first of all, I love sardines. And it’s not just sardines. I make a little sardine… You know, a little bit of mayonnaise, a little bit of mustard, a little bit of hot sauce, a little bit of relish. I essentially make a tuna fish using sardines, or mackerel, like oily fish. And you’re doing this for the diet? So you’re eating mayonnaise, mustard, and sardine diet. Well, there’s no sugar in any of those ingredients. So that’s… So anyway, I’m not going to be taking fish oil supplements again, probably ever, because my heart situation. Like, they’re good for your heart, but for some people that can induce AFib. I was taking… Maybe, so anyway, I’m trying to get the… I eat sardines and mackerel because I try to get my omega-3s naturally, which is better anyway, right? So I eat a lot of sardines already, and I watch a lot of YouTube videos about sardines. I mean, I love the YouTube, man. I spend so much effing time on… I’m not gonna cuss for these last eight, just for y’all. Good. Yes, I am. Clean it up. I watch so many YouTube videos about very specific things, and this weekend, I got into a sardine rabbit hole. I guess that’s just a sardine hole. Bet it smells good down there. So this was a total out-of-the-blue thing. Yesterday morning… The last kind of hole I’m jumping down. Yesterday morning I was eating. I was like, you know what? I’m gonna do my little sardine thing, and I’m gonna make that. I had eaten a bunch on Saturday, and I just felt like, “Ah, I need to reset or something.” So I just was like, “I’m gonna eat sardines, and then I’m gonna go on a hike.” I went on a hike. I was on a hike for about six hours yesterday. What? I took my camera, and I just, and I took my journal. I was out there taking pictures, sitting down, writing things. You know, I was like… Breath smelled like sardines. Who wrote “Walden”? It was a Henry David Thoreau afternoon, except if he had a camera, and there was a lot of people also hiking, because it was in Los Angeles. And it wasn’t a pond. I passed many ponds. No, it was a stream. Anyway, when I got back, I was watching a… No, before I left, I was watching a video, and there was this doctor, and she was talking about this crazy experiment where this woman ate only sardines for 30 days, and all this crazy stuff that happened, right? And then she was like explaining why it happened. And then she said, “I don’t suggest that you do that, but I’ve been telling my patients to do a three-day sardine-only…” Cleanse? No, it’s not… Cleanses are… I don’t believe in cleanses necessarily. So call it something different, so you can believe it. Because a cleanse is something about like toxins and stuff like that, which I think is probably junk science. But only sardines? No, for three days. First of all, fasting in general is good for you, but what you end up doing is you raise the omega-3s in your blood. But for me, I just, I’m like, “I’m eating all this junk.” I just wanted… I had my birthday and a cake and all that. I was just like, “Lemme just take a little reset.” This will just be a fun little thing to do, right? And so I didn’t have enough sardines, so I went to the grocery store and got some, and I made like a bigger batch. And so that’s why I told Jenna I don’t need lunch today, because I have my little just sardine salad waiting for me in the fridge, and it is going to be so good because I’m so hungry. And then on Wednesday I’ll eat regular food again, maybe even a sushi burrito. I highly recommend it. All right, let’s… Well, I want to hear voicemail, but I wanna remind you that “Good Mythical Evening: Sloshed in Space” is available for you to watch and relive all of the chaotic madness that was the latest Good Mythical Evening, R-rated, streamed live, and then packaged for your subsequent enjoyment. Anything went, and it all is in there. All you gotta do is go to goodmythicalevening.com, but you better do it before November 9, because… It’ll go away forever. 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She’s aggressive, I’m not with the road rage, and yeah, I thought it’d be fun. Okay, love you guys. Bye. Longtime fan? Longtime fan. You think Link would like just a polite beep? You haven’t been paying attention. Why do you think… I have a response to that, but I’m gonna save it until after we hear from you. I would like to address the polite beep assumption, and say she might be right, but what’s your take on road rage? You have it? Yeah, I mean, the first thing I will say is that contrary to what I think is popular belief, especially because we released that video that went viral of me acting like I was upset about the chairs, and people were like, “I know this is fake, but there’s something real there.” Like people just… People want to believe that I just get mad all the time. And the fact is, is that it takes a whole lot to make me mad, and in fact I almost never get road rage. That’s true. Even when people do crazy shit, I guess I did cuss. I don’t know, there’s just like… I can vouch for this. There’s just something… It doesn’t register with me when people like do something crazy like last minute, like coming in, getting right in front of me and stuff like that. Literally, if I’m by myself, I will go, “Huh. Huh,” like, “That was interesting that you decided to do that.” I don’t know what it is. Now, but there’s been a couple of times where people will do something that’s like, you just did something that put, like legitimately put my life in danger or someone else’s life in danger. Like cutting in at the last second is just an asshole thing. That’s not a… I don’t think it’s dangerous, but… If somebody like is gonna sideswipe you and you have to swerve over to not get sideswiped or something like that. Yeah. Uniformly my response is laying on the horn. Solid. 10 seconds. Because it’s like, “Oh, shit.” Like you know that’s about what you just did. You know what I’m saying? You know. But never rolling down the window. I don’t think I’ve ever flipped the bird out of… I don’t think I’ve ever flipped the bird to anyone that it wasn’t a joke. I’ve done that a lot. I don’t think I’ve ever flipped the bird out of anger, but… I don’t think I’ve ever seen you flip the bird out of anger. So it is long horn. Longhorn Steakhouse is my sponsor. For your road rage. For my road rage. Rhett’s road rage is rare, but when happens, it is brought to you by Longhorn Steakhouse. Boy, that would be… You know what? Roll down the window. “Hey! Use my coupon code at Longhorn Steakhouse.” If there was any justice in the world, and there was any like logic in the world of marketing- People get a gift certificate. then Longhorn Steakhouse, the person who works in that department, right now would be getting on the phone and being like, “Listen. “I have an idea.” I got an idea. Or this guy had it, but we’re gonna sponsor Rhett McLaughlin’s road rage.” And listen, you should do it, and I’m available. I love Longhorn. I recently made this case on GMM. I don’t know if that episode’s out yet, but I stood up for Longhorn. Remember that? Yeah, you were really going long and hard on Longhorn. Yeah, I was. Yes, you were. I love Longhorns. I like the idea of that. You know, I mean, we’re shooting an ad for Toyota. Maybe we could get Longhorn in and we can make it about road rage. They already… The creative’s locked. They’re probably not gonna go for it. I don’t think we can make it collab. Yeah, we can’t piggyback sponsors. No, no. Longhorn, reach out. Come on, girl. Do it. We’ll get you some Rhett and Link road rage. Yeah. But I do vouch for you. I mean, we don’t have to get into the psychological part of this, of like, you feeling like you can’t let people have it. I do. I have let people have it before. It’s very rare. It’s very rare. And I think you’ve gotta be in a fight or flight response, is what it sounds like. And then you’re still just long horning it. That’s… You know, I think I’ll do it when I think that it’s necessary for what it is that I’m trying to achieve. And like somebody doing something stupid on the road is not actually gonna prevent me from getting to the destination. That guy who effed us over at that video shoot 12, 13 years ago, the reason I let him have it in front of everybody is because it was compromising what we were doing. That was great. That’s the last time I’ve really seen you, I mean, lash out. I could probably do it more. Maybe I should start doing it more. Weekly. We have an employee, a team member who I’m not gonna mention because, but I am gonna tell the story, ’cause he has footage. You walked in the room and he was showing me the footage, of there were two lanes that are like turning left, and everybody’s in the right lane, nobody’s in the left lane, and then someone who’s like halfway in the stopped lane, they’ve been in that lane waiting for a long time, they finally decide to pull over right in front of him, and he has to slam on brakes and skid to not hit this person. Whoa. And then when they turn left… How did he have footage of this? Dash cam? He has a dash cam. Then when they both turned left, she got in the right lane, and then he stayed in the left lane, and then he got up beside her. And then I was surprised to hear that the window was rolled down, and like he just let her have it. Because, you know, he thought that it could have… This could have been a big accident, Right. Yeah. When you’re skidding and almost hitting somebody because they’re pulling out in front of you. And he noticed that her back bumper was off. She’s done this before. And the side of her car had been like really bashed in kind of thing. So it was like, all right, this is somebody who’s baiting insurance checks. And then the person was a professional road rage receiver and gave it right back to him, rolled the window down, called him a dog effer. Wow. That is deep. Yeah. Yeah. That is, I mean, if you’re going that deep into road rage and you’re on the receiving end of it and you’re giving out dog effer? Dog effer is the new mother effer, I think, because… I think it’s… When somebody says mother effer, it’s just kinda like, “That makes me cool.” But dog effer, there’s nothing cool about that. Like, nobody says, “I’m a bad dog effer.” Yeah, nobody… You know what I’m saying? Nobody gets a wallet that says, “Bad dog effer” on it. No. So I think dog effer is the new mother effer. I think it is. So that’s… I mean, that one always works, I think, in a road rage situation. He thought it was funny, and then he switched his tactic and was like then really nice to her, and said like, “I hope you have a great day.” And he said something else I can’t remember, but it was a real zinger. But again, not my story to tell. For me… I haven’t heard about this one. When I think about road rage, I typically experience it on the receiving end. That’s true. Like I’ll hear a lot of horns, some short, some long, and I find myself, sometimes audibly asking, “Is that for me? Is that at me?” Yeah, a lot of times it is probably. And I think it might be, yeah. I mean, is that person rolling on their window and saying dog effer to me? Yes. It looks like it. Eye contact. No, it’s not usually. So yeah, I’ll receive a lot of road rage, and you’re exactly right, caller. I prefer a light beep. Oh, in response? Yeah. I like to receive a light beep. Sorry, you know, it happens. Oh, yeah, I thought that you give it back. No, no, no. Acknowledged. Did it. Acknowledged. I raise the hand, I tilt the head. Eh, it’s a little apologetic. I’m always touching the roof of my car in acknowledgement of someone’s patience. What is the typical scenario? I mean, I know you do the last minute cut-in. Yeah, the last minute cut-in, but there’s usually a gap. 60% of the time there’s a gap, and then the other 40% I’m having to ask forgiveness. On our commute home, which is the same route, there is a spot… This brings up another conversation which we should have. There is a spot where you have to go from the HOV lane to get on the other highway, and it almost always necessitates a cut-in of some kind. Yeah. And so in that spot, I will say I do it pretty regular, but it’s just as fast as I could get from the thing to the thing. But when I’m driving with you, when I’m riding with you, like you’re the guy that goes into the piece of the pie, the pie of pavement that no cars are supposed to be on, that’s got like rocks and shit all over it. Like, you know, it’s like this is not… This is the place where nobody drives except the like 14 guys a day. Guys all the way, who cut in at the last second across… Like, you’re off-roading for a second. It’s the safety net in order to not… If you have to come to a complete stop, you want to do it there. You don’t wanna do it in a lane. Yeah, but this raises the other question, which is we both have electric cars, and we both have been taking advantage of being able to drive in the HOV lane, and then I just found out that… Yeah, I don’t want to have this conversation. You’re supposed to own… Now it’s just for people who have a second person. However… They had the incentive to buy electric vehicles in the state, which was you can be riding a single rider if you have the HOV sticker because it’s an electric car, you can ride in that lane, and that’s going away. And they phased it out. A lot of people have electric cars now. They phased it out, but here’s the thing. And there’s still places… I don’t wanna be accountable to this information, so. There’s still places that have a sign that say, “Clean air vehicles okay.” I don’t know, man. This is a tough ethical situation for me right now, but I will say that I’m still driving in the HOV lane right now, because I got an electric car. That’s the way… That’s one of the reasons I bought it. It’s hard to take something away. And the thing is, is that… Spoiled with it. If you get pulled over, which it might happen at some point. They got a lot of lanes to pull you over. You gotta go all the way across everything. It’s a fine. It’s not a traffic violation. It’s a traffic violation, but it’s not like you gotta go to court. It’s not a speeding infraction or whatever. You don’t have to go to court? And I will say- It’s just money? I’m an honest man, I am a man of integrity, but I do plan on saying, “What?” “What? I’ve been doing this for 10 years.” Like, “What? I got the sticker.” “Oh yeah, they updated it.” “Oh, really? Thank you for letting me know.” And then after… That was six months ago, sir. And then after that ticket, which I hopefully will get out of, I’ll change my ways. But if I get out of it, maybe I won’t change my ways. Real recognizes real, man. You know I’ma do that too. “What?” And hopefully I don’t get pulled over by a cop who watches this podcast. This is the real reason we’re stopping the podcast. It’s too self-incriminating. Right. I never break the law, man. It’s just, come on, really? Like there’s nobody over there. I got an electric car. I got the sticker. I’m so used to it. I got the sticker. I’m so used to it. Oh, it’s just outta habit. Oh god, yeah. I hate it. I was not a part of this conversation. It’s either that or put a mannequin in the other seat. I thought about that. Yeah, it’s an inconvenience when you need to put a person there, though. It just needs to be the top of a mannequin, though. Maybe it could be a hologram that could turn on and off. Blindfold a mannequin head, which is basically just tying the mannequin’s head to the headrest, and it’s like, “Yeah, I have a blindfolded companion.” And then you just have a hoodie that just sort of like hangs down. But road rage for me, if I’m giving it out, is an indication that I’m mad about other things, and I need to figure that out. Let’s hear another voicemail. Okay, we’ll leave it at that. Hey, Rhett and Link. This is Andrew from the beautiful state of California, and I am just now passing one of my favorite surf spots, and I just wanted to ask you guys, if you don’t know anything about surfing, it can get a little bit hostile out there. Even though it’s meant to be all good fun and games, sometimes people get wrapped up in the competitive aspect, and they can tend to be a little bit mean. So I’m here to ask you guys, is there any comments or one-line zingers you could give me to respond to people when they may be upset at me for not the most, I guess you could say viable reasons. Yeah, your advice would be greatly appreciated. Funny comments also appreciated. But yeah, love you guys so much. See ya around. Bye. Okay. I mean, first of all, I think we’ve got the ultimate comeback: dog effer. I mean, it’s just like, I mean, if somebody says something, you call ’em a dog effer, and that’ll shut it down real fast. The problem is you paddle back out and then you’re with those people. You’re next…. Yeah, if you’re the guy who calls it. You’re hanging out with dog effers. Yeah, right. Yeah. So don’t do that. You might not know this- You gotta know the rules of surfing. but Link and I here, we’re, well… Been a while. Let’s just say we were surfers, and when we say we were surfers, we were standup paddleboard surfers, so we know all about, we know all about- Ridicule. what stuff that surfers will say out here in California. Condescension. I remember my dad told me when I was a kid, you know, ’cause we lived out here when I was three, four, and five, and, you know, there’s this stories of things that your parents tell you that just stick in your brain, and I specifically remember him talking about how brutal the surf culture was. And he was like, “Yeah, their boards are real sharp on the end, and if they get upset, they’ll throw that board right into somebody’s head and kill ’em.” And I was like, “Oh my god. Really?” So you never learned to surf. And so, well, I knew that surfing… And first of all, I don’t think that what I just said is true, but surfing, maybe it’s happened, but surfing is very territorial, and it’s territorial by how good you are, and then what class you’re in, and if you’re standing up, and if you’re an old middle-aged man standing up on a board with a paddle, you are the bottom of the rung. You’re the bottom rung. And so I’ve only ever been the bottom rung, because the couple of times I’ve tried regular surfing, 6’7″, it’s just too much body to get up on a board on your own, and by the time you’re up, the wave’s over, you know? So I like to already be standing. I wanna side with the surfers on this. I think that, you know, caller, you got, if you’re getting yelled at, or, you know, you’re doing something, you don’t understand the etiquette. You don’t understand… There’s lots of rules. You gotta be observant, and you gotta learn things, and you can’t be cutting people off, and you can’t be… I don’t know. I think you gotta take it as a… I don’t think you can have any snappy comebacks, ’cause you have to paddle back out, and you’re back out there with these people. Yep. Yep. You know? You gotta… Or you’re just gonna go somewhere else. You’re doing something you shouldn’t do, and you gotta figure it out. Yeah, yeah. So I’d be like… Maybe if you’re catching a wave and you cut somebody off and like they’re calling you the dog effer or something, I think you would turn around and say, “I’ll be back in a few minutes to receive constructive criticism,” or, you know, “I’m open to notes after I ride this amazing wave.” I think maybe this is, you turn the power of the dog effer back on itself, and if somebody yells at you, you’re like, “Sorry, I’m a dog effer.” You take resp… “Sorry. Ah, that was a dog effer move. Yep. Yep. And then… And that’s worse than sheep effer? Should you start with sheep? No, I think that if we are actually ranking the ethical quandaries that are bestiality, I think that… I think dog is worse. I think effing man’s best friend is worse than effing the livestock. Yeah. I don’t think you should do either, but if I had to do one- It would be a sheep. it’s a sheep. Not a dog. Good god. I think sheep… Sheep is bad because they’re so stupid, but goats are bad because they’re evil. They’re evil. Right. And dogs are bad because they’re your friend. They’re your friend. Yeah. And ducks are bad because like, how the hell? Yeah, yeah. I don’t even wanna think about that. Rats, that’s pretty bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rank these? Where’s rats? ‘Cause I think I’ve heard that one, rat effer. Well, I mean, okay. If you insist on talking about this, I think that rats are actually probably one of the first mammals. It’s all bad, but because we already use them in testing in a lot of ways, you know? Okay, it’s okay? It’s almost okay? But I also don’t really understand the physicality of it. Me neither. And I don’t want to. Me neither, and I don’t. It’s all bad though. Let me just say that the official position… Ear Biscuits won’t be around for much longer, but the official position of Ear Biscuits is anti-bestiality. Yeah, we are anti-bestiality, but there are levels to it. So if anybody from Longhorn, if anybody from Longhorn Steakhouse is watching, and you think that it might be problematic to have me as a sponsor, I want you to know I’m anti-bestiality. I just think it’s… What about a Longhorn? I just think it’s better to have sex with a sheep than a dog. That’s all I’m saying. If you had… Now, a cow? You’re gonna need a step stool. Maybe this could be part of the campaign. Is that their slogan? “You’re gonna need a step…” We’re against it, but if you must, then use a step stool. I’m never gonna get Longhorn as a sponsor now. Yes you are, yes you are, yes you are. No, everybody’s so scared of everything. They have bold flavors. They’re scared of everything. They’re like, “Let me tell you.” Okay, well, I’m down to the finish line. They’re like, “McLaughlin is in. He’s in for the Longhorn campaign. It’s a road rage thing. It’s great.” And then some intern’s like, “Well, let me show you this clip. He said it was better to have sex with a sheep than a dog, and then he implied it was better to have sex with a cow than a sheep.” He didn’t say that though. You know what? I’m gonna make you feel better about all this right now. Please. Please save me. Everything that you’re concerned about them hearing… They won’t. In post, we added a long horn over it. Oh, the whole thing? Over the whole thing, dude. So, even the part where you were describing it. I don’t believe that. We did add a long horn over a scene in Wonderhole, though. There was a lot of discussion about the nature of that horn. There was a guy that we went to high school with, and I would say that he was your brother’s age, and there was a rumor that we all believed that he had had relations with a sheep. Right. And clearly that was a high school rumor. That wasn’t true. Clearly. But we just believed it. That kind of stuff sticks, man. Sad. It sticks. Sad. But maybe he did though. Yeah, maybe that’s why it was a rumor. Maybe it was true. Maybe somebody caught him. No. So when you’re turning around to the surfers who’ve let you have it, we’re recommending you start with cow, then move to sheep, then if you’re really a naughty boy and you keep upsetting them, then you gotta own dog. Right. You gotta go full dog on it. Right. So what you’re saying, just to be real practical here, is if you make a mistake out there in the surf and it’s not that bad, but it’s still a mistake, you’re like, “Sorry, I’m a cow effer.” Right. If you’re really, really bad, you’re a dog effer. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, and you gotta know that you’re still swimming with these people. You’re in the water with them, sitting around waiting for the next set, taking notes. How do you feel about the fact that we haven’t been surfing? We moved further away from the ocean. I feel horrible about it. I go into my garage, and I look up there, and I see those paddleboards. I got so many surfboards in my garage. They’re like, they’re hanging up, they look beautiful. They just, they look sad, and ready to be ridden. As you talked about, you don’t have to surf. You can just go out and paddle. And usually if you just pick a random day on the California coast, like there’ll be something, but usually there’s not a lot to speak of to surf anyway. Yeah. It’s never gonna happen. It is a lot of trouble to put the boards on the thing. We should sell our boards. That feels like admitting defeat. Nothing else is gonna go where my boards are hanging. Right. Yeah. So I’m just gonna leave them hanging. Yeah. Leave them hanging. Next voice. Hey, Rhett and Link. This is Lauren. I know y’all used to do a segment where you guessed where people were from based on their accents, so I was wondering if you could guess where I’m from, ’cause I feel like I don’t have an accent at all. Okay. Sorry to laugh in your face, Lauren. You do have an accent. Okay. She sounds a little like, she’s got a little Fortune Feemster. Well, the first thing I was gonna say was North Carolina, just… I think it sounds North Carolina. It could be Virginia. Play it one more time. Hey, Rhett and Link. This is Lauren. I know y’all used to segment where you guessed where people were from based on their accents, so I was wondering if you could guess where I’m from. Wondering. Because I feel like I don’t have an accent at all. Um, from, wondering. I think might be down towards the coast. I think we’re talking Coastal Southern, still North Carolina, Virginia, not more south than that. Virginia doesn’t have a lot of Southern accents anymore. I mean, they do exist, but… Yeah, you gotta be more in the mountains. You have to be more west of Virginia. It’s time for me to just admit that I’m not good at this, that I can’t hear, because it sounded familiar to me, but then when you said West Virginia, all of a sudden I was like… I said western Virginia, but not West Virginia. I think, I’m going with down around Greenville, North Carolina, not South Carolina. Okay, I’m gonna… So ECU area, but not, but more in the sticks. And I’m gonna go with West Virginia. Really? Yeah. Okay. Let’s hear it. I’m from Mississippi. I just want to say that I love you guys, and I’m so sad to see the show leaving, but I can completely understand why. Bye. I’m just bad. I’m bad at this. I’m bad at this. Mississippi. Mississippi? Oh my gosh. Yep, we gotta hang it up. This is why we’re taking an indefinite break from the show, ’cause we just can’t. We can’t place Southern accents. We can’t guess accents. We’re like, who are we? Like I thought I could do that, but there’s so much nuance in an accent. Even now that I know that it’s Mississippi, I’m still like… Well, first of all, I don’t think I know anybody from Mississippi. You know anybody from Mississippi? I don’t think I do. Like, I know out here there’s a lot of people, there are a lot of people from North Carolina. You run into a lot of people from North Carolina. You run into a lot of people from Alabama, from Georgia, from Florida. That’s true. Louisiana. I don’t know anyone from Mississippi. Maybe they don’t get out. Maybe they don’t want to get out. What if Mississippi isn’t real? Well… Have you ever met… I’ve been there. How do you know you were there? Well, because it was a sign, said “Welcome to Mississippi,” and I remember it had so many S’s. When did you go to Mississippi? I’ve been through. My dad lived there when I was young. Okay, well. See? You do know somebody from there, your dad. Well, he’s not from there. He lived there for a while. He went back. When he was there, he was from there. Yes. And when he went somewhere else, he had come from Mississippi. Yes. I’ve never been. I’ve been. I’ve visited. Okay, well, now I believe that it is real. He also lived in Illinois. I know people from there. For a stint. Name another state, I’ve met somebody from there, but no one from Mississippi. Vermont. You don’t know anybody from Vermont. Hold on a second. I know somebody who’s living there right now. Oh really? Yeah. On a farm? Ah ha. I know a person that lives on a farm in Vermont. Probably the same guy. No, not the same person. This is somebody, they had red hair. Different guy. Okay, Jenna. Yeah. You’re here. I am. This is your first day back- It is. at the office, after having your own little lockdown for two weeks almost? Two and a half. Yeah. How crazy did you go? Slightly, slightly crazy. Yeah, yeah. I did, probably around like the week after the surgery I was losing my mind, had a little mini breakdown, you know, trying to make tea, waiting for water to boil, and I can’t stand up for a long time, and I just decided I was gonna cry in the kitchen, and, you know. But, and you were still standing, or you crumpled to the floor? No, no. I ended up hobbling to the little bench by my front door to sit down and cry. And cry. Okay. I’m sorry. Yeah. I mean, you rarely sit on that bench, right? Rarely. It’s good to sit in a place you never sat and then crumple and cry. Yeah, yeah. Well, usually I sit on that bench to put my shoes on or take my shoes off. This time it was just, it was just a cry. And how’d you feel after? I felt pretty good after. It was a solid like hour of emotions. Whoa. Laura came in, brought me some tissues, told me to go lay down on the couch. She ended up making the tea for me. Well, I’m glad you weren’t alone. Whoa. Sometimes you just have to cry about it. And then I was… And it was just the… I mean, I have a little bit of relating to this when I broke my collarbone, and it’s just like the things that I couldn’t do that were so simple. Yeah, it was all the stuff that was so simple, that I was like, I just want to do all of my comfort things to make me feel better, but all of my comfort things I was to unable to do. So like, I couldn’t take a nice hot long shower. I couldn’t, you know, cook myself some comforting food, because it was standing too long. So yeah, I couldn’t do any of my comfort stuff, so I lost it a little bit, but then I got better. But then, you know, it wasn’t my period anymore, it wasn’t the full moon. Good to know. All right. I slept a little bit, and… So where are you at with your knee? Because I saw you walk in here. Yeah. And I’ll let you describe how you walk. Because I just don’t think it’s my place to say. I definitely feel like I walk like with a peg leg. I have a peg leg at the moment. Because the brace immobilizes it? The brace immobilizes it. I can’t… When I’m not putting my full weight on it, I can unlock the brace and bend my knee, but if I’m standing or walking, I have to have the brace locked in place so I don’t bend my knee. So you’re saying that you walk like a pirate? Yes. Okay. That’s not what you would describe? It wasn’t as cool as that? You’d say… Was very waddling grandmother to me. Cool, cool, cool. That’s definitely… You made me say it. Not what I was going for. I think it’s the skirt. Peg leg is better. Let’s go with pirate. I mean, swashbuckling grandma. It’s the skirt with the walk, ’cause it’s like a nice long skirt. Well, skirts are easier to wear, ’cause it like pants, I have to like do the… It’s a whole process. The skirts are easier. Yeah, it’s a lot, but I’m doing a lot better. I almost don’t need the crutches anymore. I have them just in case, but I’m almost… What about pain? Pain, now it’s getting into the physical therapy pain of it all. Like I need to bend it, I need to like stretch it and all the things, so like the pain is coming from the physical therapy aspect of it, I guess. And then like it still hurts around the incision points a bit too. How do they make sure… Do you have to take anything to make sure your body doesn’t reject the foreign tissue? No. Uh uh. Well, they did, what’s it called, prophylactic antibiotics. Like they had me on antibiotics during the surgery so that there wouldn’t be an issue. Right, but I know like when you get like a heart transplant or something like that, like a lot of people have to take certain drugs for the rest of their life. I would just assume maybe because it’s not like as big of an organ and is integral to everything as like a heart. Like, it just hit me. Like do they have to make sure that the person had the same blood type as you, or like… It doesn’t have to be the same blood type, apparently, yeah. ‘Cause it’s just like, it’s tendon. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I don’t have any drugs I have to take. My body has accepted it. I can feel it. Everything feels in the right place. Oh wow. And you have gendered your knee as she. She. Yeah. I noticed that Jenna referred to… She’s like, “She’s doing good.” And I was like, “Oh, so your knee is a woman?” Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she’s doing real good. Well, she’s resilient. She’s working hard. She’s doing her best, just like me. Just like you. Just like me. But she is you. She is me, and I am her, and we are all together. Okay, so, see, Jenna has mentally and emotionally accepted the tissue. Yes. Yeah. As part of her she-ness. Yeah. Isn’t that great? She-ness, not to be confused with my weenus. She-ness. Yeah. I might be able to donate my weenus to somebody. And still have plenty left over. You’ve got a lot of weenus. Yeah, yeah. Be like, I’m a live donor. Put that on my license. Live weenus donor. He doesn’t even have to be dead. If you need weenus, he’s got it. You can cover seven elbows with his… Follow-up question. So what is the most acceptable form of bestiality in your mind? Still we’re against it. Mm, mm hmm. Still we’re against it. You’re not pro in any way, but like if you had to. If I had to? No. Not you personally. Not me personally. I always… You didn’t have to ask this question. I feel like the acceptable form would be… No, this is so… So, you’re thinking pig. I think the… No, see, the acceptable form is for, I think, humans to receive, and not to give the bestiality, you know what I’m saying? Yeah, so if you’re a bottom. Yeah, yeah. I think that’s the acceptable bestiality. It’s not acceptable. We’re still against it. Not acceptable. I don’t mean it’s acceptable. But the most acceptable. But here’s the thing. I haven’t told you about this. Oh my gosh. But Jessie is now, you know, she reads a lot of romance novels, and she crossed over a little bit into a book where they turn into wolves, right? Yep. So I guess they’re a werewolf. And those are called? Usually shapeshifters. Yeah. It depends on the lore. So there’s a little bit of a, you know? Like there’s a little bit of a… Okay, so we have an exception. Aliens. That’s also a romance genre. And werewolves. That’s also a romance genre as well. But I guess what I’m saying is that, to bring it all the way back to… But we are anti-bestiality. But the dog effer… In the case of… I mean, it’s technically a dog effer, technically, but I think maybe both. I don’t know the situation. There’s a carve-out. We’re gonna grandfather that in. If it’s in the context of romance? Because we are talking about… They can still speak English, right? These are fully conscious human beings, people with a full conscience and free will. The thing that makes bestiality ethically unacceptable is the fact that the animals don’t have any agency, right? Mm hmm, which Jenna is trying to address by being a bottom. That’s how it’s solved. That’s how it’s solved. How did we get here? How did we get here? Hey, listen, the Bible says it’s wrong. That’s why I think it’s wrong. Let’s just keep it simple, okay? I did… Let’s just keep it simple. To get us off of this topic. Yeah, sure. I listened back to the voicemail that I sent you all, the voice note that I sent you like right after. The beep-beep boop-boop? Yeah, ’cause I don’t remember sending it, and I didn’t save it, so I didn’t listen to it until I listened to the episode that just came out. Really? You don’t remember that at all? No. Like vague… I have a vague recollection of being like, “Laura, will you give me my phone? I have to tell Rhett and Link.” Yep. Yeah, yeah. I guess you could’ve talked for longer then, now that I know that. I could have talked for a lot longer, and honestly I have a story of, I know I do really well with anesthesia. I know I am a good time, but I vaguely remember this time when Laura and I were leaving the hospital, and like they were wheeling me out, and I was still under the effects of everything, ’cause it takes a while. Another time or this most recent? This time. Okay, yeah. This time, and, you know, I’m having a good time. I’m laughing, I’m joking with everybody in the ER. I’m like, “I got a new knee. I got no problems whatsoever.” And then they started, and like, I vaguely remember one of the nurses being like, “Ugh, I wish everyone who came in was like her.” Wow. And then Laura was just like, “No, she’s always like this.” She’s like, “Yeah, yeah. This has nothing to do with the anesthesia.” This has nothing to do with the anesthesia. She is just this way. So you cheered ’em up. I cheered everybody up. We had an amazing time. Because some people get aggressive. Yeah, yeah, and some people get sad, and then I’m just like, “Yes, absolutely. That sounds great.” Very positive. I know at one point I like said to the nurse, I was like, ’cause they were like, “Does that make sense?” And I was like, “In my brain, yes, it makes sense, but I also am on drugs, and will probably forget, and that’s not that you didn’t explain it well.” Yeah, right. That’s why they write everything down and give it to you. That’s what they kept telling me after my thing. It’s like, “By the way, we’ve written all this down.” Yeah, I was just like… Why tell you at all, because in the moment you want to hear it, but you’re not gonna remember it. Oh, yeah. But everyone at the surgery center loves me. We have a good time. I go back and visit now, and I’m like, “Hi.” I think the reason they do that is because you might remember that they told you something, but you won’t remember what it was, and then that gives you the impetus to read it, whereas if they just say, “Everything you need to know is written down,” it’d be like, “Oh, I’m not gonna read that.” But it’s like, “They told me something. What was it?” Yeah, and you need some reassurance that just positive things are happening. Well, so you’ve made it through the worst of this, and you were all facing… Right? Well, maybe not? What? You seemed like you were thinking about it. Maybe it’s not the worst of it. Well, worst of it is, I feel like, through the worst, through the biggest hurdle, yeah, yeah. Now it’s just a matter of my patience for the physical therapy- Putting in the work. for the next seven to 10, 11 months. Oh, really? Depending on… Although, once again, I am my doctor’s favorite patient, and I am ahead of schedule and doing an amazing job, so. There you go. It’ll be at least six months. Rhett and I are the same. We wanna be the best patients possible. Well, speaking of facing difficult news, we have started to process the voicemails from many of you who are processing the news of the show winding down to an indefinite break at the end of the year, so we want to hear from a few of you. This is me doing an impression of Rhett’s heart. Glad you’re doing better, Rhett. Take care. Love the pod. Bye. Yeah, not anymore. Was that cruel? It was my old heart. It was speeding up, but it wasn’t irregular enough. It would do both. It would do both, but it hasn’t done either, as far as I can tell, as far as me and my watch. You’re still totally on the up and up. I think I have had a couple of times where there’s like what I would call one rogue beat, which is a common occurrence based on the reading. And you’re still very sensitive to it. Well, no. The watch just doesn’t tell you when it happens. It just tells how much it happens over the course of a week. It’s just a percentage, and you get the message on Monday morning. Okay. Oh. But it’ll just be like, I will be doing something completely unrelated, and I’ll just feel like Like you can suddenly feel a heartbeat. You’re not really supposed to feel a heartbeat without thinking about it. And then I would be like, “Oh, that used to be the beginning of an episode, and now it’s just one beat.” And I don’t know if that’s just because the heart’s still healing, and even that will go away, or if I will maybe have rogue beats here and there. Rogue beats. Rogue beats sounds like a music library that you subscribe to. Yeah, yeah. Oh, it didn’t seem like that listener was having too much of difficulty with the loss of the show. Right. Yeah, yeah. Kind of turned it back on you. Let’s hear another, though. Yeah, after the big announcement, I found a good way to put together my feelings about Ear Biscuits ending. First of all, I’m just thrilled that Rhett is okay, and that’s like the biggest part of it, but it almost feels like when your grandmother that has Alzheimer’s is put into hospice, and you’re like, “Oh, I have to grieve, but I’m not allowed to grieve yet.” So we’re just here for the good time as long as it lasts. A weird thing I could compare it to, but I absolutely love Ear Biscuits, and I can’t wait to finish out the year with you guys. And so we’re not… We’re gonna remember less and less of it? It’s gonna be sadder and sadder? I mean, that’s such a sad way to… It seemed like that helped her, that analogy helped her, but now it’s… Yeah, whatever… You do you. Whatever is helpful for you. I don’t know. I’m kind of having a wave of sadness now, but that’s okay. That’s part of it. That’s part of it. I think you’re talking about the staggered goodbye element of this, which we chose to do. Yeah, so that we could process it together a little bit. Right, right. Maybe we’re second-guessing that now, but at least we don’t have Alzheimer’s. No, I appreciate that, and I appreciate the… I mean, we haven’t really talked about the comments and the well wishes, the, “I understand.” Yeah. Yeah. It was very encouraging to hear. I mean, obviously a lot of people are disappointed, but I think that they understand the nature of the decision, so it’s been encouraging. Yeah, I appreciated the response, and people understanding, and wishing the best for us, and understanding what went… They listened, you know, and it wasn’t just the reaction of, “Well, this is how this impacts me,” but, you know, we are open to how it impacts you, and you can call us, 1-888-EARPOD1. Let’s hear another, and then I’ll encourage people to call in about other things too. Hi, Rhett and Link. My name is Megan, and I live in Michigan. I’ve wanted to call for so long, but always thought I had the time to do it later, so I always put it off. I’m try gonna try to get through this without crying. Oh no. But with the news this morning, I have to tell you how much Ear Biscuits has meant to me. I’ve been a GMM viewer for over 10 years, and an Ear Biscuits listener since you came back the first time. It has gotten me through so many sleepless nights, and times of stress, and car rides, and boredom at work that I can’t even imagine it not in my life anymore. I knew this time would come eventually, but it’s far too soon, and I’ll, of course, always listen, or re-listen and watch GMM, but I’m so sad not to get an update from you guys in this format every week. I love you guys so much, and I’m so glad you are putting your wellbeing first, even if it comes at the expense of my sadness. This is just another opportunity for me to grow and move on and let go. Thank you so, so much for everything you’ve done for me that you didn’t even know you did. I love you guys. Whoa. Thank you for leaving that voicemail. I know that that was not easy to do, and it’s very touching. Of course, we didn’t listen to that ahead of time. We knew that there would be voicemails like this, so we’re kind of reacting in the moment to it. Maybe we should have. Maybe we should have. But yeah, it means a lot that the show means so much to so many listeners, and that it’s a source of comfort for people. I just don’t, you know… And that’s what made it difficult. This is the part of it that made it a difficult decision, because I think if you isolate our side of the experience and the stuff that we’ve talked about, it’s a very clear decision. And then whenever the attention would go to, you know, the connections that are made, and that the resource that it is for laughter and relief, that it starts, you know… There was a time when we were talking about it, it was like, well, that was the reason to keep doing it, you know? And I think that I appreciate what she had to say, that, you know, that there is a way forward, you know? She can listen to older episodes, and, you know, there’s other ways to connect with what we’re doing, and we’re pushing some personal stories to Good Mythical More, and all the stuff that we said that we’re doing. But yeah, it’s a change and it’s a big change, and that’s why we wanted to give the processing time, because we feel like it’s the right choice, and we believe that… And we want to encourage listeners to make healthy choices for themselves. I think there was another caller who was asking for recommendations of other podcasts that would kinda check the boxes. And I’m like, “Well, we don’t really know. We don’t really…” Maybe in the comments on the YouTube video, that can be something that can be discussed. You guys can make recommendations or whatever, but don’t… You know, the more that we recommend things that you can easily replace us with, the more we won’t feel as special, so we’re not really incentivized to do that. No, we just don’t… I don’t listen to a lot of podcasts like this one. Yeah, I don’t. If I recommended the podcasts that I listen to, they’re not going to fill this particular need. Yeah. Thanks for your message and for finally calling. Yeah. We have another one that has a couple pitches in it. Okay. Okay. Hey, Rhett and Link. I’m Jordan from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I’ve been listening to Ear Biscuits for over a decade now, and I am sad to hear that it’s going, but I’m excited to hear that you guys are prioritizing your health and making the content that you wanna make. I just wanted to pitch my idea of bringing back Thursday’s Means Mail on Good Mythical More, but instead of mail you could do voicemails. Let me know what’s your thoughts. Appreciate you guys. Bye-bye. Well. Thanks for the idea. Yeah, this is something that we have actually specifically talked about, so we’re on the same wavelength here. I think what we probably will do, we’re not committing to anything, but I think the only thing we’re committing to is I think we will at least try out and see what it feels like to do a voicemail-based More, and then in terms of like, how often are we gonna do that? I don’t know. I don’t think we can commit to doing it every week, but we thought about this specific idea, of like bringing back, bringing the voicemails- Over to GM More. Over to GM More. Yeah, I think that we’re thinking of Good Mythical More as being a container that’s expanding a little bit to hold some of the things that normally we would send over here to Ear Biscuits, but we also don’t want to be too aggressive in like a reformat of Good Mythical More. We want it to be something that’s more of an evolution and an expanding. So the container expands, and we can try different things. That’s what makes it engaging for us, seeing it that way, versus thinking of it in terms of like rigid ways, like announcing, “We’re gonna do Thursday Means Voicemail.” I don’t think we’re gonna go that far, but we’re looking for ways to continue to get the stories and the topics that we’re interested in talking about into Good Mythical More in a way. And I think you’ll see that, I, again, I don’t know when it airs. When we shoot things, I never know when it’s actually gonna be a thing, but we have a Good Mythical More coming up that is essentially the kind of story that you would’ve opened an Ear Biscuit with, that basically that’s the whole episode. And we want to do that. There was actually, I’m just literally just throwing ideas out here that we’ve talked about. Like we actually have been having a conversation, and we’re not committing to this, and I actually think we’re definitely not committing to it. We were like, “I don’t think we’re gonna do it.” But there was talk of, is there a way to, when we do something on Good Mythical More that is very much in the spirit of what Ear Biscuits was, if those things are taken and exported audio-only onto the Ear Biscuits feed so that the Ear Biscuits feed remains somewhat active, but I think that the issue with that is that that’s not what Ear Biscuits… We don’t know how often it’s gonna happen, and it’s gonna be a little bit confusing, because sometimes it’ll be like, “Oh, today we are looking at new barbecue chips, but Link happened to tell the story about something that happened to him.” I think that one of the things that I envision is that there are people who want that kind of content, who will be, maybe there might be a community that’s like, “Oh, there was a very Ear Biscuitsy episode of Good Mythical More today.” Maybe it’s a playlist on YouTube or something like that. You know, I don’t know, but… Right. Or maybe you just find that almost every episode of Good Mythical More is kind of like an episode of Ear Biscuits in a lot of ways. You know, I think that there’s obviously that we depart from it at times, and there’s sometimes it’s very visual, like we’re looking at things or whatever, but I do think that the way we’re thinking about it right now is it becomes the outlet for almost everything that took place here. And so I think when once the outlet of Ear Biscuits goes away, we’re still gonna keep doing things that generate stories, and we’re still gonna keep having weird opinions about things that we wanna talk about, and I think that they will slot naturally into Good Mythical More, and it’s just like, how does that net out, and then how satisfying is that to somebody who feels as strongly as the previous caller? You know, how do you give them a similar experience? It’s like, or how do they make a similar experience out of that? I don’t know. That’s a question to see it unfold. Yeah, let’s find out over time. We do welcome you leaving your voicemail. If there’s anything that you wanna share with us, try to keep it short. I know people are calling in, like, and they start talking about what Ear Biscuits means to them, and they’re like, “I promise I’ma keep it short,” and then it’s like a five-minute voicemail. Right. Which we appreciate, but… We just can’t play it. It’s hard to play those, if it’s not succinct, on the show. Also, if there’s anything else that you want us… Hey, we’re still doing the show, but this doesn’t become like a mourning, M-O-U-R-N, tour. You know, it’s not like we’re turning this into like a… what would the term be, when you’re mourning the loss of something, whatever it is. Wake? Yeah. It’s not like a wake. So we welcome your challenging and comedic voicemails as well, so give us a call, all right? 1-888-EARPOD1. And we’ll speak at you next week, all right? Hi, Rhett and Link. I’ve been listening to your podcast, every single episode for years and years now, and I will be continuing to listen to you guys on the other channels and Good Mythical More, but aside from that, I wanted to leave a comment about Rhett’s heart condition. I have a little bit of a weird story. I am a teacher with a student who has a service dog who is trained to pick up on heart conditions, and that dog actually notified me that I was having a weird arrhythmia, so I went to the doctor, and yada yada yada, but I thought that was kind of an interesting story. Shout-out Skunk the Dog who made me go get an EKG. Okay, love you guys. Bye. Watch the full recording of “Good Mythical Evening: Sloshed in Space” on demand at goodmythicalevening.com, and don’t forget to grab a limited edition tee while you’re there.