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 downloading you and each other on our Thanksgiving excursions. Adventures, celebrations, holiday. Uh, we spent the week apart and as of the recording of this, it is our first day back. I’m a little jet lag with each other. Yeah. Jet Lags got Rhett lagging behind. Oh, oh yes. Jet lagging got Rhett, lagging, lagging behind. He came to work ’cause he thought he’d be fine, but when he showed up. He realized he didn’t have what it takes, but he is got to do his job anyway. Jet Jet lags got lagging behind. I didn’t notice that you were, that you were lagging. I thought you brought what you needed to bring. No, I I, it, I just hit it Really just hit me. Yeah. Right now is a tough one. Well, I woke up, I woke up at 4:30 AM which would be seven 30 North Carolina time. Just came back yesterday. Mm-hmm. And I was like, oh, I’m going to urinate and I’m gonna get back in the bed and go back to sleep for some more time. Yes, yes, yes. Not gonna happen. And I did urinate. In the toilet. Good. And then I got back into bed and, uh, could not go back to sleep. Mm-hmm. And so I’ve kind of feeling that getting up at four 30. Yeah. It was dark and cold out here on the West Coast at seven. Feels like four. Um, I was gonna say something. I forgot what it was, but my arm’s in a sling. Oh. And I am gonna tell you why. I’ll also let you know that the next episode is our pen, ultimate episode biscuits. Before we take an indefinite break from this show. So next episode, we’re gonna do our top 10 Moments of the year, which is often the last episode of the year. Yeah. But not this time. I think we’re going to, we’re saving the last episode to be Ear Biscuits. The top Moments of Ear biscuits iCal focused. Uh, okay. Oh, top Moments of the Ear biscuits. Yeah, that’s right. Yeah. And some and parting words. Parting words, stuff of that nature. But I’m excited about the top 10 moments. ’cause I’m always excited about that. That’ll be next week. Okay. So next week you get that. This week you get why is your arm and a sling? What have you done to yourself? Story. And I’ll give you that. Um, I have a little something that I’ll share about an incident. Okay. A holiday incident. Alright. And, uh, we might get to some of your questions if, depending on how good our stories are. I’m, I’m well, okay. I’m, my arm’s in a sling because of my shoulder and both of my knees are just busted. Mm-hmm. Matter of fact, I looked down at my britches and I was like, dadgummit, there’s blood coming through my, my knee on my britches. But I think it’s just Neosporin ointment. But I do have two bandaids on there, bandages on top of each other. So it’s like oozing through all of that, please. And, um, yeah, so I’m, I’m having some difficulties. Approximately 24 hours ago is when I took the fall. I am not happy with myself and I, I, I really, I, I’m pretty har I’m pretty down on myself about this. So Good. Should I just wanna cut? No. Should you should be, no, I want to tell you that, so that your response can be to make me feel a little bit better by the end of this. Okay. I, I just don’t want it to happen again. So I’m gonna make you feel however that I’m, well, shame is not a good technique and you’re not my dad. Well, I don’t know. Shame or my mom shame did wonders for me. So, uh, well, I mean, we’ll see how that goes. Shame accomplished a lot, but I, that’s different than doing wonders. I was mountain biking, could you guess? And you know, I was just like, you know, I’ve been gone all week on Thanksgiving, haven’t had access to my bike. Matter of fact, I was gone almost two weeks. Yep. For secret reasons. Mm-hmm. But I was like, I’m gonna get on that bike. I’ve been, you know, I miss my bike, I miss my dogs, I miss my toilet, I miss my bike, I’m gonna get on my bike. I miss other things too. If I left you off the list and you’re expecting me to miss you. I did. I just didn’t tell you right now that I missed you. So don’t be offended if you’re thinking about that. Um, I get on my bike and I’m like, I’m not gonna do a, I’m gonna climb this mountain, but then I’m gonna come back the same way. I’m gonna do the, the easier thing. I get up to the top. And there was a place where, um. I sat down and just like, just thought about, took it all in, took it all in. Hmm. I was up at the heights. I was taking it all in. The way I put it to Christy, and I think this is accurate, is I said, I’m gonna sit up here and I’m just gonna think of what I should be worrying about. Because I wasn’t worried about anything. I was like, I know there’s something I should be worried about. Wow. That would be nice to you. And I’m sorry to rub that in brain. For those of you in that brain who are never not worrying about things like I was, I was telling Christy in that way because I knew it would just get under her skin. I was like, I, yeah, I was just trying to think of something that I should be worried about. I didn’t come up with anything. I kind of did. I was like, alright, yeah, I gotta think about this and I gotta be ready for this. And that’s one of the reasons I couldn’t go back to sleep this morning is all the, everything just started flooding in. I was like, dammit, everything flood. Well, I was like, I opened up the gate, so I was like, let it in. Let it in. I’m ready for it right now. I’m on a mountaintop experience. I’m ready to let in the floodgates of worry. It’s interesting that that’s the time that you thought to do it. ’cause usually when I get up to the top of the mountain is when I think now I don’t have to think about all the stuff that I worry about. I’m up here. You were like, I’m gonna go up to the top of a mountain and worry in order to Yeah. In order to figure out what I need to be worried about when I get back down. Okay. You know, like 10, 10 commandment type stuff. I’m, I’m bringing something down. Mm-hmm. I’m bringing, I’m, I got something to show for the trip I took to the top of the mountain, and interestingly enough, Moses did drop them on his way down the first time, so he had to go back up. This is exactly the story I, did he drop them or did he throw them down in a tantrum? In a rage? Uh, yeah, he threw ’em down. I think he was pretty mad. Yeah. But because it worked better when he just dropped them on accident, they had broke. Yeah. He, he went over his handlebars spoiler alert and dropped his tablets. Anyways, I’m coming back down and I’m listening to the same music that I was listening to in my earbuds on the way up. But in reverse, but in reverse. No. Um, hell say time, but then, but then my phone will, it will send me, you have a text from so and so, so and so. Oh, the worst. You have a long text from so and so, would you like to hear it? And then starts, she starts reading it and I’m like, no, don’t want to hear it. And I kept getting inter in, interrupted by things. And our college boys, I’m blaming our college boys. Matter of fact, I’m gonna blame Tim specifically. Oh my God. It was during that text exchange that this happened. So all of a sudden, I’m getting this, I’m going down the hill, I’m listening to my music. I’m, I’m going at a speed. You know what? I’m going down a freaking what? Speed. Freaking mouth. What speed do you think? Um, you don’t use the power going down though. You use the power of gravity? Yeah. So you’re pretty much on the brakes. Well, I was on, I was on a single track, uh, which then becomes more of a fire road. I was on the fire road by a certain point and I was probably going 13. I mean, I wasn’t going as fast. That’s not too fast. I mean, I, I could have been going 25, but I don’t think I was okay at this point. Um, but apparently Tim had done something he wanted to brag to the group about, he was like, just for reference, the ladder is seven foot tall and I got, and without using a lift, I did all of this. And so I’m trying to figure out, ’cause I can’t see, I’m not seeing the picture he sent. I’m just seeing the words that he put with it in my head because it’s being spoken to you. It’s being spoken to. So Tim is saying, well, the ladder’s seven foot tall. And I, I was like, well, I guess he put, he’s putting Christmas lights on a big Christmas tree or something. You are right. And, um, and it took a lot of my brain to try to figure out what he was talking about, and that part of my brain needed to be focused on the mountain biking. Yeah. I needed to be in complete focus because at any moment you can hit something that could just send you fine. Which is what happened to me almost two years ago to the day. Mm-hmm. I went over my handlebars and I broke my collarbone. Yeah. And, um, I don’t remember what happened because in my mind I was in a group chat with Tim trying to figure out what he was bragging about. I don’t, you know, and I’m going down the mountain autopilot again. I’m really upset at myself. And so, do you know what happened? I, there was a, there was a bump, a big bump, and then it was like, but don’t, and come back up and then keep going down. It was like where water ran down the mountain and kind of made a ditch. And if you hit it head on and you know it’s coming, you know where to put your weight on the bike. It’s, I mean, there’s a million of these on the way down, but you kind of need to be looking at all of them. You know, if, so when you’re thinking about this, where are your eyes at that point? They’re right. They’re supposed, I mean, the eyes are pointed in the right way. It’s like when you drive with your reptilian brain, oh God, you know, I was, my eyes were in the right place. For many external observer, like the crows or the vultures who are circling ahead, circling, they would’ve thought, oh, this, you know, he’s got it together. But I know this guy, I remember him from two years ago. Mm-hmm. He’s gonna take a fall and maybe I get to slurp up some blood or something. Right. Um, the bike hit the divot. It took the i from the way my bike was laying afterward, it, I guess, I guess it took a hard, the front wheel took a hard left and then the back wheel kept going straight, kind of a thing. So then I just went over the handlebars, oh God. And I, and I’m in the air, you know, and I’m thinking to myself, I remember thinking to myself fall good. Because since that last fall, I’ve actually watched videos on how to fall. Mm-hmm. And the next thing I thought, and this all happened so fast, ’cause my brain is so quick, my brain then said, go limp and roll. And so like as I was going, I, the shoulder, the right shoulder was coming down. The one that when it went down, before it went straight into the ground and broke my collar ball. Did you, did you make a choice as to No. Or the bike made a choice for which shoulder was going down? Yeah, I, as far as I know, all I was doing was going limp. Yes, the right collarbone broke. I don’t know if you just always go that way. I may, but I think because the wheel went left, it just threw me, it throws you off kind of that direction. But, and when you’re in, if you get sucked up in a tornado, you’re supposed to go limp. It’s hard though. Yeah. Unless you, it’s real hard to go limp unless you’re knocked out. But that’s supposed to help you. ’cause your body just kind of flails around and just bounces off the ground and it doesn’t break. It just kind of, I don’t know. I don’t know. But I went limp and kind of, I ducked the shoulder and then I tried to get the shoulder over and kind of, because I had my hands out. What you’re not supposed to do is catch yourself with your hands because you break your wrist, you’ll break your shoulder. All of this stuff will just, you don’t wanna, you don’t want to catch yourself with your hands. If you catch yourself, youre yourself. So as my hands was going down, I was like, Nope. I’m going limp and I’m throwing the shoulder down and I’m doing a roll and. If I took my shirts off and showed you, there’s scratches on the right there where my finger is on the back. Like if you look at the back of my shoulder just at my armpit where the crack of my armpit starts. If you go up from that, that’s where I hit the ground first. Yeah. First and then I, I think my, then my knees hit the ground, or I think, I actually think my knees hit the bike because my left knee is really banged up from, I think hitting bike. And my right knee is just really skint from hitting the ground at some point. And then I like rolled over and I immediately, like, it was one, I had the dead arm. You know when you do something and then your body says this whole thing, this whole part of your body is not gonna do anything now and you’re not gonna do anything with it, and you’re not gonna do anything to it. It’s just gonna, it’s just gonna be. Flacid just hanging there. And that’s scary because I couldn’t move my arm. I’m like, anything could be broken. When something’s broken, you can’t move it, you know? Explain that to me. So you haven’t had that type of injury? Like, I couldn’t lift my hand. My arm was just like dead at my side because I have not had that, I’ve been injured in many, many ways and it, and it hurt. It hurt. That feels like something disconnected. Well, it did. The, my shoulder popped outta socket. Oh. But then that’s gotta be it then, but, and then I knew, I was like, crap, I have done it again. I have broken my collar bone. And then I’m like, and it was hurting so bad and I was, and then I’m like trying to get myself together. Did you say any dirty words? No, I didn’t. I didn’t say anything. And then, um, and then I realized, I was like, I did my arm around once, which I also did when I broke my collarbone. But something about this, but didn’t feel as bad. And my arm. It had gone back into socket pretty much immediately. It like separated and then came back together. Oh. And that’s a f that’s a feeling that I’ve had before. That happens to you? Yeah, in the, it has happened. And, um, so then I’m just sitting there hoping that I’m not, haven’t broken anything and then I start and I can move my arm and like, and I thought everything was okay with my shoulder and then my, I mean, my right knee was like very, very bloody. And then the bike was just in a wreck and I sat there and I, like, I got myself together and I was just so mad. ’cause I knew it was my own fault. I just hadn’t, you know, I just wasn’t concentrating. And, uh, so I was already like beating myself up. And then I finally got to where I, you know, I, I didn’t feel faint and like I, um, I got back on the bike and I start. Just, I’m like, I’m just gonna take it gentle the rest of the way down. I’m just, and so then I’m going down and then I, I realize my bike’s making funny noises and I look down and the, like, the front tire is like flat as a flitter, just going everywhere. So you got back on the bike and that was when you realized that? Yeah. And um, and then I, I put the bike over and I got out my stuff. I have this like thing to, um, a CO2 canister that’ll, like, you’ll put it, put it on the, the bike valve and it’ll just blow the bike tire back up. Uh, I don’t carry a pump. I carry two of those. I bought it when I bought the bike and I’m like, damn, I can’t figure out how to connect this thing. And I’m, you know, when I bought the bike and I bought this stuff, I remember saying to them, is there anything else I need? I wanna make sure I got everything. Well, there’s something that I needed, and it’s the piece that goes between the CO2 cartridge and the valve so that I can pump up the tire. So I couldn’t pump up the tire. It was, and, and instead of it being half flat, because I think that when I went off the bike, it didn’t, it’s not like it hit a rock and busted the side, like going sideways. It took it off of the, it took it off of the rim. It, it, it pulled it off of the rim, let a lot of air out, and then popped back onto the rim. So if I could have pumped it back up, it would’ve been totally fine. It would’ve been totally good. But because I couldn’t do that and because I, I try, I started messing with the tire and I pulled it off the rim a little bit more and put it back on. It went from being like 60% flat to being like a hundred percent flat. Mm-hmm. And there’s nobody on this trail. So now you gotta ride a wheelie all the way down. Um, which I did because I was like, I’m not walking this bike all the way down. I’m just not. I’m gonna just get a new tire if I have to get a new rim. And I developed this technique where I would like almost pop a wheelie. Like lean all the way back and put all the, as much weight as possible on the back tire, not the front tire. Because you had how far to go, you think? Um, maybe three miles. Oh. And then, um, I had to get to a point where I had cell service and then I, and my phone was dying and I called Christy. I’m like, my phone’s dying. I’m gonna give you this information before my phone dies because I need you to pick me up at the bottom of this trail and I’m gonna drop a pin to the location. Okay. Hold on. Why is your phone dying? But I don’t, because I don’t, I I, well, the night before, I’m not, I didn’t get my phone on my charger the night before. Okay. It happens. 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See chime com for details. In applicable terms. Clean the wounds, put the bandages on. Um, uh, a couple of hours passed and then we, we went to, we were like, let’s go get some dinner. And, and we got in the car. I was like, can I got, I was like, can you drive? Don’t feel like driving. Matter of fact, I don’t feel that good at all. And then like I realized, woo, my shoulder started hurting. Boy. Yeah, it started stiffening up. You gotta go get yourself some ice cream after that situation. Crap. Skip dinner and get straight to ice cream. Um. So I, yeah, I, I mean, I just took some ibuprofen. I didn’t actually take any this morning. And, um, but I am wearing this sling to protect it. ’cause once, you know, once the shoulder pops out, any little thing you do, it’ll, it’s weak. It’s got, I gotta hold everything together up there. But I’m very fortunate that I didn’t break anything. As far as I know, you know, I’m, everything’s gonna be okay, I think, but it’s gonna take some time. And I’m just wearing the, the sling just to like, protect it and some just also as a, um, a message to people to like, don’t come up and punch me or hug me, or, oh, it’s a message. Squeeze me or, or yank on my arm, you know, type thing or shake my right hand. But yeah, it was kind of a wake up call that like, ah, crap, I should have worn my knee pads first of all. Hmm. I have knee pads. I’ve stopped wearing those. And um, my knees would not be hurt at all right now if I, if I’d worn those, I was wearing my elbow pads only because, and maybe this is a stupid, not, this is stupid to be the complete reason. I, I wear an elbow pad to protect my, the tattoos on my arm so that if I get in an injury, it doesn’t mess up my, my tattoos. Maybe you should just get a suit of armor. I know. I don’t think that’s stupid. Tattoos. They cost money. It’s, it’s stupid that it’s the complete reason because I also need to wear that so that I don’t mess up my elbows like I did my knees. But you don’t have to worry about weight a whole lot because you’ve got the electric part of the bike now. Yeah. So you could have, do they make like, I’m being legitimate here? Do they make not a suit of armor, like don’t go to the museum and steal it, but like, oh yeah, like an exoskeleton, like a BMX that you’re like, like a bike. I could be thrown down this mountain and I would be Okay. I mean, I mean, this might be an investment. Yes. You could probably get a sponsor and where it could just be all over. You could, it could be stickers. Put it all over me. All over you. I’m gonna wear my knee pads. I’m gonna look into the armor that you’re talking about. I’m going to be more present by a not, I’m gonna put my phone on a do not disturb. Well, that’s a clear move when I’m coming down the mountain. Would you be open to, and I’m gonna look, I’m gonna constantly be looking at where I’m going. I’m not gonna be thinking about anything. The thing I love about mountain biking is that I can think about what I’m doing and only that. Right. But would you be open to not having earbuds in at all? No. You have to have the music. Well, I like the music. I’m, and I am thinking about the music a little bit, but not a lot. I’m just saying that that is a, you have it on pass through mode, though. You don’t have noise canceling on. Uh, yeah, I do, but I You’re saying if somebody’s like yelling at me, will I hear it? Yeah. Nobody was yelling at me. Yeah. But when you’re on a single track bike trail, oh, somebody might be coming behind you. Somebody might be in front of you. Somebody might hear you coming, and they might be on the trail. I can hear, I can hear that. I don’t think that’s a problem. I’m not giving up the music. Uh, but no, just turn it on, pass through. Pre hold your AirPod down so that it, so you hear the environment at the same time that you’re, because when you’re out there and you’re not, you’re, it’s not like there’s a lot of noise that needs to be canceled. I’ll about it, but you’re not on a plane. I’ll think about it. And that way you hear music and it’s like, when I walk around the house listening to music, sometimes I just put it on pass through and it sounds great. Right? Right. But then if Jessie says, Hey, you’re there. She didn’t have to say, Hey, hey, hey, boy, with the noise canceling on. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hey, boy, I think that that’s a, I think you need to do that. I’m gonna do that. I’ll do that. Okay. And, uh, it, yeah, it was just a wake up call because I could be, I could be broken right now. I could be not. I could have two more pieces. I could have one, I guess one more piece. I could have a lot more pieces and that takes a long time to recover from. I mean, I wanna go snowboarding. I wanna keep riding my mountain bike. You know, I, I think I might want to get into, um, something else. Well, how about something that can’t kill you? Like, I think this year might be the first year that I don’t, well, last year was the first year that I didn’t go skiing because just it did the weekends didn’t, don’t talk me outta stuff. No, no. I’m just saying that like, I’m doing more other stuff, but it’s stuff that I can’t die doing. You know, there’s lots of activities that you can do, don’t get me wrong. Don’t want to die, but like, you can get hurt real bad. Yeah. There was nothing funny about that story. Snowboarding, you know, sometimes I’ll tell a story and something funny about it, but I’m just. I’m just feeling the weight of my own responsibility. I gotta do better. It was a wake up call. I’m awake now. I’m awake. Yeah. You can’t have this happen every two years. Mm-hmm. But I need to stay on the bike. The bike is my lifeline to mental health and it also is the gateway to physical health because it also has convinced me that I’ve got to do more weight training. I gotta have more muscle up here to hold my bones in their sockets. I don’t have enough muscle to hold my bones where they need to go. That’s a problem. And I need that. I need, if I’m gonna start hitting like trails and walls and I wanna be hitting, I don’t want, no, I don’t wanna be hitting stuff, but I might hit things, walls. No, I take that back. I’m just making the point that I want to be resilient. I’m not, I’m not there. I’m not there. I gotta work harder, but I gotta build on this activity, not reduce it, you know? Well link, I know something that can help with that. Are you about to transition to talking about the Oura ring? Yeah. We are investors in Oura Ring and they are a sponsor of this, um, episode Oura, the maker of the Oura ring, which we’ve been wearing for years now. Yeah. And it, it does help you with your activity because it keeps up with your activity goal and where you’re at in meeting that activity goal on any given day gives you a little progress report. The thing that I love, like when I open up the app, it detects your activities and then credits them towards your goal at 6:25 AM for 34 minutes. Did you walk. And I’m like, confirm. Yes, I did. Because that was your dog walk. That was my dog walk. I, as I’m able to confirm that, confirm yesterday’s activities. Okay. Uh, fell on your ass cycling. Yeah, that did happen. Yes. I was cycling and then I walked and was injured for 17 minutes. And I’m gonna, I’m gonna credit all of those to my activity now, because then I’m gonna look at my, I’m gonna click on my activity and my activity score for yesterday was 94. I got a crown. Of course, you know, I did fall off my bike and all that stuff. I already told you too, but it’s nice to get a crown with everything I’ve already told you. So it keeps up with how stressed you are. So I would like you all to know that right now I’m relaxed. Okay? Yay. So moment by moment. So nothing about that story stressed me out. I, I don’t have no, I have no empathy for. Yeah. That, that hurts a bit. Um, my entire day here, I’ve been mostly, I I’ve been relaxed or engaged. I was only stressed. Let’s see, when I was stressed, I’m, I got so stressed telling that story. I gotta take my shirt off. I was stressed at two 30. Two 30. Two 30. I think we started talking business. Okay. Got a little stressed. But what we’re getting at is this feedback loop of tracking your activity right. Is just another way to, for you to, that the Oura ring encourages you to Yes. Stay engaged with your goals and it’s a great way to take your long-term health seriously while also being kind of fun if you are into data like we are. So, join the over 1 million active members today by clicking the link in the description to make health and wellness a daily practice at Oura ring.com. That’s OURA ring.com/ear. Yes. Now, I had a stressful moment, uh, yesterday. Um, I flew back from North Carolina yesterday as we record this. It was the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Now I’m trying to be more observant of my anxiety as it relates to, um, travel. Mm-hmm. And so on Saturday, I was, I was in the, uh, room with Jessie and I said, I’m just gonna talk out loud about a couple of things. I was like, I’m just letting you know that I’m beginning, I’m just telling you this out loud because I’m trying to step outside my, my own experience. It’s a good practice. I am, um, beginning to get anxious about the flight tomorrow. And it, there’s absolutely no real reason to be anxious about it, but I’m just gonna let, let’s just explore this. I was like, no, it’s me and Shepherd and my nephew Eli. We’re all, we’re flying back and Sean and Barbara are coming back with us, and there’s a layover and there was a bunch of canceled flights all around the country. Yeah. And I’m seeing this on the news, and so I’m beginning to think like layover. Um, yeah. The thing about flying with, uh, the Delta flight out of RDU to LAX is if you want the direct flight, it is a really inconvenient time. If you’re, it’s like six, 6:00 PM No, it’s like in the, it’s am or so. It’s early. It’s like 6 0 5 or something like that. I don’t know. I, I don’t know what it’s, well, I took it two days ago. I, that was a Saturday night. They didn’t have that on Sunday. Oh, they didn’t? Oh, so they don’t have that every day. If you’re a Delta, uh, person, just, just so you know, you’re our favorite airline. We fly you. I am a Diamond Medallion member. What do you, what do you want? I want What do you want from them? I want a reasonable direct flight. Oh. From Rdu U to LAX on the daily. Oh God. There’s enough people in the triangle to support this. It will fill up. Trust me. And I’ll be on it a lot. Go back to your story. You were stressed, you were talking about it, but I making shouldn’t make any pleas to Delta. There’s lots of things after I’m gonna, after what I’m gonna tell you. Oh, well, um, so I, um, I was stressed out about it because I have a little bit of trauma from the time that I got stuck in Atlanta for three days because of a flight delay, because I missed my connection with my family. And that was without dogs and with wife. Mm-hmm. My wife was not with me. And I like it when she’s with me. She helped solve problems. And um, okay. I also just like her being with her just for the record, but, uh, you’re really doing a lot of pandering. So we had done Delta, your wife two, a two hour, two and a half hour layover. ’cause also I do not like to do that 40 Who, what kind of crazy psychopath does a 45 minute layover in this economy? Because your ass is gonna get left. Waiting is losing. That’s my, that’s, that’s my motto. If you have dogs and you’re going through the busiest airport in the entire world, which is the Atlanta airport busiest airport in the world, uh, um, and you have to go from D to T or whatever, you’re going across the whole thing. You were scared. I I was just like, a lot of things could go wrong and then, but I, but I told Jessie, I was like, I, you know, let’s say we do get delayed. Let’s say I do miss my flight. Let’s say I get stuck in Atlanta. With Eli Shepherd, Barbara and Sean, we’ll just create memories together. Nobody’s gonna die. I mean, the plane crashes. We’re gonna die. Oh, no, no. I never worry about the plane crashing. Never. Yeah. Zero negative. Worry about that. It’s about getting stuck somewhere. And so she was like, it’s good that you’re vocalizing this. And I was like, I’m just letting you know. It’s not like a high anxiety, I’m just like observing myself. Well, I wake up the next day. Flight delayed. Oh God. Flight already delayed. And you know what happens when the first flight gets delayed? Yeah. Starts, they all get delayed. It starts inching back a little bit. They tell you at least you were still at home. Uh, yeah. So I stayed home a little bit longer, but I still got there early. Now another thing the dogs have had, they each have their own problems with being, uh, uh, put into the carriers and taken on a flight. Sean’s problem, as I have documented before, is he becomes a wild man that wants to eat his way out of the, the container. And he has successfully done that on one more than one occasion. He broke out of the thing at LAX and went on a rampage through the airport. We were able to retrieve him though, unless we got another Sean that looks exactly like him. He could have exchanged at that point. I don’t know. Yeah. But I think it’s the same dog. And, uh, he, we had to replace a whole carrier because he chewed through one. Hm. And then Barbara doesn’t like to be in there at all, and she resists going in. And then when she’s in there, she barks every 20 seconds. It’s like a fire alarm. So, so he, she she’ll vocalize and then he’ll destroy. Yes. But they, but neither one of ’em want to be in there. But the vet gave us, uh, an anti-anxiety medication that they commonly prescribe to dogs who are about to travel. And, uh, we came up with a new system and that’s it. Because what we realized is that they get really good once the medicine kicks in, but getting them in, getting them to the airport and all this stuff, you start the night before, ’cause it’s every eight to 12 hours, so right before they go to bed, you give it to ’em. So you’re giving them a second dose in the morning. Okay. Jessie did this on the way over. How many doses can you give ’em in a row? Well, some dogs are on this medication, some stressed out dogs are on this medication all the time. Okay. Uh, but it’s a slight, you know, light sedative and it keeps them from not being anxious a every eight to 12 hours. So we did it before they went to bed. Then we did it the next morning. We put ’em in the, uh, crates at the, when we’re dropping the rental car off. And are they floppy? Like my arm when I fell off my bike? The containers? No, the dogs. Oh, are the dogs limp? No, no, no, no, no. They, they do not. You would just be like, they’re a little bit slower, dazed and moving a little bit slower and like, Sean’s kinda like, hi, blinking a little bit. Sean gets like the high eyes and Barbara doesn’t calm down as much as I would like her to, as you will find out. Oh, wow. So we put them in there and then, uh. Sean is an angel. Like this method works great for Sean. He’s not trying to get out, he’s not biting, he’s not making any noise. We take him out. You, you have to take him out when you’re going through security, I guess to show that. I mean, I guess you can’t, you just can’t put the dogs through the x-ray machine. That would be bad. But you have to put the carrier through the x-ray machine. Well, I mean, why not he, this man is a so-and-so medallion, let him put his dogs through that thing. That’s right. So I, I’m not having any issues. We get on the, the first leg of the flight and the flight to Atlanta from RDUs. Not very long, but it’s long enough for Barbara to begin. And I was like, oh, damn it, this, this isn’t, the medication’s not working. Like she’s not calm enough. Mm-hmm. And I’m like, well, I’m gonna give her a half pill. During the layover in Atlanta, because it have been like six hours almost to, but just give her a half, half dose. Okay. And, uh, and I did let her put her head out of the thing. She’ll just put her head out and then she’ll start trying to crawl out. Mm-hmm. But I just say, no, no, Barbara just your head bitch. And so, and she just looks at you like, she, she’s like, I hate you for this. Shes such a judgy face. Sean stays in the whole time. He’s great. I try to take him out and I do take him out and then they tell me to put him back in. Well, stay tuned, my friend. What? So we have the layover in Atlanta, uh, which was a shortened layover, but still long enough for us to not panic, take them to the dog relief area. Mm-hmm. Where both dogs relieved themselves. And it is a great dog relief area in El, in the Atlanta, as I’ve covered before. Okay. Not a sponsor. Um, in the Delta terminal, maybe all the terminals. I don’t know. It’s just, it’s great. It’s a hub. You know, so then we get on the plane and Barbara is basically, well, first I tried to take them into the lounge without being in the carrier. And the guy’s like, sir, you know, you have to, I said, oh, I guess I know. Well, you should have been like, no, I didn’t know. That’s why they weren’t in it. Why you be like, yeah, I know. I was just, I’m a medallion. He said that as I was going in. I’m a so and so medallion, my dogs are gonna walk in here. You’re not, you’re technically not supposed to have them out in the airport. Right. If they’re not a service animal. Oh. Um, but people do it. Everybody does it. So I put ’em in the thing, Barbara’s beginning to bark and I’m like getting a little stressed out. ’cause I don’t like to be the guy that causes the problem. That’s not my thing. My thing is being the guy that doesn’t cause the problem. Uhhuh. I’m kind of like, that’s my identity. And, uh, so it wasn’t me. And you’re like Shaggy. Yeah. And so we get on the plane. Over on the sofa. Sean is great. Barbara immediately barking and she and shepherd’s like, just let her just like let her out. Let her out, Dan. It’s fine. So I open the thing, she sticks her head out in the, in the lounge? No, no, I’m back. I’m on the plane. Oh, you’re now, you missed that part. I’m sorry. I boarded the plane. And so, but this is the flight to la so we’re like talking on a five hour flight and so one hour into it, she’s already head out and then she’s basically, I open the side and she’s like half body out. And then an hour and a half into the flight she’s out. She’s just out and she’s there between our feet. She’s trying to go under in the seat and go into the front. Oh. And I, and then I put her leash on and so I’ve got her leash on and she’s kind of down there and she’s sort of quiet down. She starts barking for whatever reason, just ’cause she’s like, I want to go see the pilot. I don’t know what it is. She wants to move. And then Shepherd. I will blame Shepherd on this. Okay. Shepherd is, you could blame a friend Tim. Yeah. Tim is also a Tim’s fault and um, I take Sean Shepherd takes Sean out of his great. I guess he thought, oh, went in wrong. Let’s get, let’s join in on the fun. Oh no. So Sean gets out of his, uh, carrier and he is just a wonderful dog, you know, when he’s drugged and, uh, he’s such a well-behaved boy. When he is drugged and he’s just kind of hanging out in Shepherd’s lap, he comes over to my lap. He licks you face a little bit. There was one time I got a picture. I’ll show you the picture. He’s just, um, he is literally. He’s just, he’s just sitting right there in between us. Just sitting. Yeah, he’s sitting right on that thing. He’s just sitting right there on the armrest, which I don’t think they like. Yeah, he’s very visible in a place where he is not supposed to be. Yeah. But, but he is looking nice. And, but you know what drugged he has, the reason I realize they let me get away with this is because he’s got his harness on and so he looks like a service dog. Ah, he’s cosplaying as a service dog. Oh, crap. But he’s doing no service to anyone. Now there are, there are a lot of people who say their dog’s a service dog, you know, emotional support, animal, whatever, they’re cracking down on that. Right. Stuff we’re not doing, we don’t do that. And so I haven’t tried to, people, people advised me to do that and I was like, ah, didn’t feel good about it. I don’t. So, um, but she’s passing by. The flight attendant’s passing by and just sort of not. We got both dogs out. We’re having a blast. Oh, they’re make, the dogs are making eyes at other people. It’s like having cute babies that aren’t crying. We are the most popular people on the plane in our section, at least, um, 30 minutes left to go. And I’m thinking, I’m gonna put ’em back in right before, right as right. Maybe after we land. I don’t care, you know, just long as they’re in before I get off the plane and, uh, I start, I smell something. Oh, my no. Oh, what? Oh no. Oh no. And I, and I was like, is that urine? Like, I thought to the first thought I had was, is that urine? Because it didn’t smell like shit. I was like, is that urine? I was like, Sean wouldn’t just piss on me, would he would. Sean’s and he is drugged. He wouldn’t just piss on me. I didn’t feel anything. And when I looked down, I saw. That he had vomited. Oh, right in the gap between my legs, like missed. Missed my jeans, but right onto the seat. And it’s clear because he basically had hardly any food. We gave him a little bit of food in the morning with his medicine. Okay. But it was like, you know how sometimes like the dogs all kind of spit up water almost. Yeah. Yeah. But it’s kind of like viscous. It’s a little viscous. So, sorry, sorry, sorry. Y’all g Jenna just gagged over there. Oh God. And so, um, if you grab one end of it, you can pick up the whole thing sometimes, but it, it looks like water. Oh, there she goes. She just, she Jenna just vomited all over the floor. Is it que g No. Goes. I, so, so then I, so then he was doing that thing where he’s vomited, but now it’s kind of like in his nose or whatever. So it’s like, I hate you both, but he’s like trying to, he’s truly trying to breathe it out, you know, dog. Stop doing that. And you’re like, oh gosh, am I dog gonna die right here in front of everybody. They’re gonna take away my diamond dead. They’re gonna dead dog medallion. They’re gonna strip your med of your medallion. So, and I was like, now if it was an actual medallion, let’s put a pin in that. Yeah. Because I was thinking like, I didn’t over, I didn’t overdose him, you know, he’s just had one dose. But is he having like a reaction to this thing? I’m panicking a little bit. Then I hit the call button because I needed napkins. Yeah. And I said, oh, he had a little accident. I’m like pointing him in between my legs. Like he, and is that me? It’s my dog, my cute dog. And then she said she, she got this look on her face and she said, um, that’s from the dog. And I was like, yeah. And she said. Okay. I’m gonna get you some napkins and a, a, a couple of moist towelettes. But is that, is he, is that a service animal or a pet? I was like, I could have lied. He did have his harness on, but I said, pet and she said, yep. Well, he shouldn’t be out. He shouldn’t have been out at all for this reason. And we now have to do, when we land, we have to do a bio biohazard cleanup of your seat. Yeah. Oh no. What It’s like, what is that? Yeah. You they have to, yeah. What a, because because of throw up it, yeah. Any, any bottle of a fluid, a person and an animal. I thought this was an insult to my dog, but it’s good to know. We also do it it for a person. It’s, it’s, it’s people and animals. ’cause it is a biohazard. Yeah. Right. Because people got stuff inside of ’em. Dogs got stuff inside of ’em. Yeah. Yeah. Well. That was when I realized that he had done it in between my legs, but he had also done it over the edge of the seat and down there onto the handle of Barbara’s carrier. Now let me just say, as I was, uh, cleaning this mess up, the main thing I was thinking was, oh, am I gonna be on, am I gonna be blacklisted? I’m not gonna be blacklisted and not be able to take my dog. So lemme just, just, just for the, the, the people of Delta, just so you understand, you are my favorite airline. You always will be. You’re better than all the rest. I’ve said this on the record several times, including one time to a Delta interviewer that was at a red carpet event who just wanted to have a conversation and I just turned it into an ad for Delta because I feel that strongly about it. Yeah. Yep. That’s, I will, I That is true. I will say that. And, um, it’s never been more true than it is right now. This is a one time thing. Um. My dogs usually don’t behave like this. We don’t exactly know what happened. So you cleaned up the viscosity? Uh, I cleaned it up. I got it. I completely cleaned it up and there was no more, I got them back in their carriers where Barbara proceeded to bark. Like she is such a problem. She, she does not want to be in there. And she, she takes her face and she like puts it up on the top of the carrier and she looks like a burglar that’s got his facing pantyhose. Oh. And she’s like, she’s so mad at me. And I’m like, this is where you belong. This is how we get you. You want me to put you in a cargo drugs? More drugs? Well, I gotta talk to the vet about it because I, I, I don’t know. I don’t know what to do. Not enough to do. She’s bigger than Sean. Well, and she takes twice the dose that he takes, which is the vet Oh. Approved dose. And his dose, which is half, works perfectly for him. Okay. Other than the fact that it occasionally makes him throw up. But, um, so then. Did when you were leaving, were people like rushing on in hazmat? No, it’s not like that. There was a lady with a vacuum. She meant, I mean she she told you she let you have it. I, I was thinking there was hazmat. I was like, golly, I’m, they’re gonna send me a bill. I didn’t know what was gonna happen, but she did say, have a great day as I was leaving. ’cause it was kind of like, I know you didn’t mean to do this and you, we don’t hate you here Diamond, but, but we’re judging you. Yeah. Yeah. And you shouldn’t have done that. You should’ve known better. And so what are you gonna do next time? Well, rule number one that I is, will communicate to Jessie and already have is we can’t do the layover with the dogs because it creates this window of Yeah. Exposure. We just need, like if it’s the inconvenient flight, yeah. We gotta get on it because we need to minimize the window of exposure. What else are you gonna do? Uh, I’m gonna talk to the vet about the. Uh, dosage. Okay. What else are you gonna do? I don’t have anything else. We’ll come up with it. I don’t have anything else. You, every time you see a Delta employee for the next six months, you’re going to, I already, always go up to them and tell ’em how good, apologize. I say, thank you for your service. You gonna apologize? Uh, no. What? You know what I need to do? I need to get one of those little clickers that, when that like emits, like a dog whistle sound when Barbara barks so I can be like, every time she barks, I’m like, that’s a good idea. So only she and all the other dogs on plane, she shuts up. Every other dog just goes ballistic. I shut the whole plane up or make ’em all go crazy. Yeah, that’s probably, I, I dunno. Let’s check a list of, of things that are allowed on a plane before you do that. But what else are you gonna do? I’m done with the things that I’m gonna do. Mm, I don’t think you are. I think maybe little hazmat gear. Hmm. Little, little packet of your own hazmat gear. That you, that you donate? I think I could get a barf bag for Sean. Did you not have one in your seat also? Oh yeah. We put all of the, we put all in there, disposed things into the baby bag. They have a a bag that says baby on it. I think it’s for very small babies. Yeah, because that’s why they put the barf bags there, because if you barf in that, they don’t have to do a whole hazmat thing, I think. How do you know about this? It’s, it’s standard cleaning procedures. Hold on. Did, did, what do you mean? Did you Just common knowledge. Me. I just Common knowledge dear. All right, fine. I’m sorry. I’m fine with that. Jenna. I don’t know everything that you know if someone, I don’t know. Everything everybody knows technically, if someone were to throw up in here. It would be a whole different cleanup procedure. No, no. Mr. Leon, may he rest in peace. Our janitor from Bowie Creek Elementary School, that magic dust it all it takes. All it takes is some saw dust or whatever that dust is. Saw dust and a little bit of time for it to absorb. And then a, and then Mr. Leon comes back in and he sweeps it around. A little sweep. A little scrape, maybe a little second. Dusting, and then he’s done. Mm-hmm. Well, elementary schools and federal and I don’t know if the, uh, your elementary school was OSHA compliant. Probably wasn’t. I will say one time it’s OSHA throwing shade at our elementary school now. Well, Mr. Leon, Liz, it, Hey, it’s okay. Come on, Janet. I know on my elementary school did the same, they weren’t osha. I’ll tell you one thing about Mr. Leon. Every single time I have like a scrape or a cut or something on my hand. Mm-hmm. I think. You gotta clean, you gotta clean that and make sure that’s not infected. Because he was changing a bulb in the auditorium. The footlights. Yeah. And he burnt. You don’t know this. And he burnt his hand and, and he did not get it checked out and had to amputate his hand. And he did all that janitorial work for like the last three or four years that we were at Bowie Creek Elementary with one hand. Yeah. Because of that. And so I always think to myself, I got a little scratch right there. And I think about Mr. Leon when I see that and I’ll be like, you gotta make sure that’s clean. Okay. All right. Well, I cleaned my wounds. Can we, can we switch the subject to something positive and upbeat? I believe that was positive. We all learned something. I mean, we made mistakes and we’ve learned something. Both of, both of our stories were like, so downer. Jenna, tell us about how awesome the. Your discovery was ’cause I think this will make people happy. My discovery. Your amusement park discovery. Which amusement park discovery. Well, you were telling us earlier that you went on the most amazing I was. Yeah. Amusement park. I didn’t know it was a discovery. Yay. Well, I didn’t know about it. Um, I went to Orlando for a Thanksgiving, uh, with Mikayla. We went together and we did a bunch of different parks, but we went to Epic Universe, Universal’s new Epic universe. And oh my gosh, I probably said that a million times. The whole time was just like, oh my God. Oh my God. This is epic. Are you serious? Epic. Oh my God. It was actually genuinely epic. Like I was happy to hear that. Universal has stepped it up and has Oh, they did? And is out Disney. Disney in your opinion? I think they al Disney. Disney. You think it’s better? Yeah. Than Disney. Yeah. Epic is so good. Well, it’s also more adult as well. Okay. Than Disney too. What about Disney adults? Well, uh, universal adults are by far better. Which, ’cause you’re one of those I am. You, you, you go to Universal here. I, yeah. I have a season pass here. Uhhuh, which, I mean, they’re doing, they’re moving and shaking here, but it’s fine. They’re doing the best they can with the space Limited. They have very, I heard a guy recently say that he thought that Disney adults didn’t have good sex. He was like, he didn’t, he, he was like, Disney adult’s, probably not good at sex. Discuss. Um, I’ve never dated a Disney adult, so I, I didn’t say, have you ever dated a Disney adult who was really good in bed? I just, just anecdotal It is. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. It’s, uh hmm. I did know. I just don’t, A guy who was a Disney adult that dated a friend of mine, um, and that did not. That was not good. Okay. He was also kind of abusive as well. Okay. Well hold on. I listen. I mean we don’t want, but the sex, apparently the sex was also not good. Okay. I feel like the Disney adult man, I’m generalizing here, will probably be worse at sex than the Disney adult female because a little crazy goes a long way in the bedroom, but only for women. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that’s, I got a couple friends like girlfriends who are Disney adults and I’ve only heard good things from Disney adult girls. Yeah. I got, okay. They tell me the things. Yeah, they sound like they have a great time. Alright. I think, I guess maybe they got Disney adults. They have a high capacity to be around children in a lot of them. And how do you make children, meaning they’re good at reproducing uhhuh? Well, well it seems like that there should be a correlation to reproduction. Listen, I’m just, Hey, I’m just asking. But Disney adults Don Tion and liking children don’t have children, I dunno, who are, and at Disney with them. What? Disney. Correct. They’re not Disney adults are not parents. Correct? Yes. So they’re not making kids. Oh yeah. ’cause then at that point you call them a Disney family. Yeah. Uhhuh, right? Yeah. Right. It’s a nice way to say these are, um, these are childless attendees of Disney. Yeah. Which like, I love when people are passionate. That’s great. I mean, I’m a universal adult. That’s my, that’s my thing. But yeah, I was obsessed the monsters. If Disney makes you horny, then what kind of sex are you gonna have? I think is really the question here. Then you get into furries ’cause like what are they watching on Disney? Yeah. It depends on what movie gets you going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you get into cleanup. Beauty and the Beast is pretty uhhuh. You know, that’s where all the Monster Romances Romancers have gone after where, uh, beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast man. Mm-hmm. Readers and then who like the Beast. Yeah. You’re, you go into Monster Romances for sure. But, but you get so. It does seem like you’d be better at sex if you’re into Universal. I don’t know. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Yeah. But what was so good about it? I mean, what was so good about it? Um, I loved it personally. Well, first of all, it was like the. Park itself was massive. Just absolutely like there was so much space. They got so much land out there. I didn’t, I didn’t, I didn’t get like claustrophobic one bit. Like there was so much space, it didn’t feel crowded at all. And then you have just a regular central area where they had music and places to eat and drink. And then you would go through these portals to the different lands that they had. And the portals really felt like when you walked through it, you were being transported. Like they had a sound effect. They had these cool like light things when you walked through it. And then you go into the land and it’s the music of whatever that movie or genre is. Gotcha. Like spectacular Burke, which is um, for those who are uh, uh, how train your Dragon fans. Stunning. So stunning. And the animatronics so cool. The animatronics for the scary monsters, huh? And what world go through the world? Okay. Yeah. The, there’s, there’s, uh, Burke for how to train your Dragon. Then you’ve got the Harry Potter world, which is kind of like set in France, but then you, um, take flu powder to go to the ministry in London anyway, which was a very cool ride. Um, and then there’s Mario Land as well. Mm-hmm. Which is cool ’cause they also have Donkey Kong. Which they don’t have here, right? Mm-hmm. And then there’s the, um, monsters, universe, all the universal monsters, Frankenstein, Dracula, invisible man, uh, mummy werewolf, like all of their monster movie monsters in one land. And I get scared. And it was a little scary and I liked it. Okay. It was so that, that was my favorite ride. Monsters Unchained by far. My favorite ride I’ve ever been on in my entire life. Okay. So what’s the, what is the approach to that one? That one is set up in like a four person, um, that it’s one of those robotic arms that has the four person seats that like move the whole thing at once. Yeah. And then you shift around and there’s a screen and animatronics and you move through the space through this whole story. Um, people have done the, uh, forbidden journey ride, Harry Potter forbid Journey Ride. Yeah. That’s a four year, which is a great ride that does the same thing except this was on another level. Anytime there’d be like a shock with like, you know, bringing. Uh, Frankenstein Monster to life or whatever. Um, you get shocked. You get shocked. What? I mean, you know, not like shocked to like painful, but it’s a startle. Like the whole time I was like, and then the mummy gets undressed. You get undressed. The mummy, you could see its brains coming out. Like we had to write it again because I was like, the animatronics were so good. I was like, I need to see this again. Like immediately. And the, the werewolf was cool. The Frankenstein, that, uh, creature. I fully obsessed. I fully obsessed. I think. I think that Rhett’s Flight Home could be one of the rides there. Think about that. Rhett’s, flight Home, Uhhuh, you have two dogs at various level of being drugged. Are you me, shepherd or like the flight attendant? Yeah. Who are you playing or the person across the aisle? Hazmat. You gotta clean it up. Yeah. I mean, you don’t wanna, you don’t wanna draw that stick, but Yeah. Uh, Universal’s not a sponsor, but if every universe wants to reach out to me and just give me tickets whenever, I mean, I love a Delta flight to universe. Y’all both just, I did take Delta. I did take a Delta flight. I love Delta the best. Y’all are needy. Uhhuh. I lost, I lost my Delta access to the lounges. So look at needy. Y’all are, it’s like, oh, we don’t have too many episodes left. We gotta Yeah. Get it all. Hey, hey, I’m never gonna be able to speak again after this. Where am I? Where do you, what are people gonna hear from me? They’re never gonna hear from me. This is my opportunity. Well, that, that can’t be true. Well, I, yeah. You know, I don’t know. Who knows? But it might be, it might be. If we don’t know if you keep this up. We haven’t caught that far ahead. Yeah. We don’t know. Um, wow. So there we go. Epic. What’s it called? Epic Universe. It it, and they have another one that’s just a bunch of roller coasters still. Right? That’s been a while. They have two, well, they have three other parks. Okay. They’ve got the waterpark and then they have the two, um, islands of adventure and uh, universal Studios, Hollywood. I don’t know if I’ll ever go to a waterpark again. Ain’t gonna a water park again. No. I’m not really a water park guy. I don’t think I, yeah, I think I’ve waterpark all. I’m gonna water Back to that hazmat thing you talk about fluids, talk about gr the great wolf water. That’s, that’s what you don’t want. Fluids. Yeah. Hey, hidden fluids in other fluids. You know what I’m saying? Nothing. You got a fluid on an armrest. That’s one thing. Or in your, in your crotch on your seat. That’s one thing. But you got a fluid in another fluid. It’s lost. You just have it if you’re swallowing it. I think if you’re between my dog’s vomit and a water park. Exactly. I think water park’s worse. Water park is better than dog. I would drink my dog. Sean’s vomit is pure vomit. He is such a cutie. No, I, before I would go to a water park, I let him lick my face within 30 minutes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. He is such a wonderful dog. I remembered half Matt, my ass. Some, something did happen. Exactly. Something did happen on my, I was, um, beside this guy who was watching football the whole way home and everybody was like, everybody was watching their movies or sleeping. I was sleeping, but the dude, he would be like, oh, oh my God. It outburst after outburst. Oh, he’s into it. He was into the football game and just bursting out with like, oh no. Oh no. You can’t be on a plane and be like, oh no. Oh no. You gotta keep it side. Oh, you flew on a Saturday. So it was college football. Yeah. And he was going nuts about it. Oh, well that makes more sense. Yeah. Yeah. College football. But, but you can’t be on a plane with, out, out outburst. Oh, you gotta keep it low. Oh, it seems like that. It wasn’t a night fight. Oh, what? Well, oh my goodness. He was saying stuff like this. Yeah. That’s, uh, over the top. And I’m sitting beside him. You slap him. And I’m like, well, where do I slap him? Right on the mouth. I think you, I think you say just pop him on the mouth. I think you lightly tapped. Sir, sir. Well, I have to keep sitting beside him, you know, so I don’t want it to be me. Okay, then what’d you do? Nothing. Nothing, nothing. And he kept it up? Yeah, he kept it up the whole time. Christy and Lando, they were sitting in front of me. They kept turning around looking and I was like, I don’t know. He was a football. I mean, he’s okay. Hmm. You know, was he bigger than? No, he was smaller and older, but he was, he was feisty. You know, he was into football on a plane. I even turned on to football for a moment to see if it was worth getting excited about it. It was worth getting excited about, could’ve joined him. Oh. Oh my gosh. I didn’t, I didn’t do it though. So it root for the other team. Oh, oh, oh. Right there beside it. Right there. That would’ve been, oh, that you had the perfect opportunity. That would’ve been great to be into the other team. Wow. That was the ultimate chess move. Yep. I didn’t have it in me. And then you look at you and be like, huh, I knew that I was gonna fall off my bike the next day. So I was like, saving up my energy for that. Mm. I just had a sense, I’m gonna go home. And what, what do they say? Um, reap the whirlwind, what’s it called? Reap I, no, there’s some saying that’s like, I attended a college football game. I saw that on your, uh, story, you went to the state, the state game, the last game of the season, regular season every year is state plays Carolina, and we go back and forth between the two stadiums. I do not go to the one there, but uh, if it’s at state, I go to it and we beat their asses for the fi fifth time in a row. And like the 14th time out of the last 19 times, it’s not, it’s not a rivalry, you know, it’s not, it’s not a rivalry. Oh, look at it at this point. That’s what they like to say about us. But it looked mighty cold. Uh, it was 30 degrees. I was very bundled up, so I wasn’t cold at all. And I was fully, I I, I was, I had my long handle underwear on, as my dad calls it, and, uh, long handles. Yeah. And I had on a hoodie and then I had on a jacket that I bought to for, like, I didn’t have a jacket that was cold enough, so now I’ve got one there. Gloves. Is it an NC State pair jacket? Two pair socks. Um, it is just a black North face jacket because I couldn’t, I, I went to Dick’s. And tried to get the heaviest NC State thing they had and they didn’t have anything. So I just had a, a beanie on, but we beat him so mercilessly Mercy Leslie. And, uh, it’s just, and you see Bill Belichick over there just on the sideline and his big ass hoodie. Just this best coach of all time just sitting there, getting his ass handed to him by, by the Wolf Pack. Look at you. It’s pretty, look at you into this. It’s, I would’ve been, oh my gosh. Help me if I watch it on the plane. But I wouldn’t watch that. I’m not in gonna be in the air when that game’s happening. Yeah. Um, but that was fun. That was, uh, definitely. Something to enjoy that I did very much enjoy. You still, you look tired still? Are you still jet lagged? I still jet lagged. Okay. All right. I’ll, I’ll nap after this. Well, we’ve done it, um, like I said, next week, the top tens, I’ve prepared mine. I’ve got all my moments. I prepared mine on the, I have not on, on the flight, actually. I have not. Oh. Mm-hmm. Wow. You didn’t sleep through it. I also slept. Um, it doesn’t take me five hours to make a list. 10 things. I have not put mine in order, but I have, I, I’m down 12 to th 12 or 13. I gotta some stuff, gotta fall off the list. Okay. Alright, well, so we’re gonna talk at you next week about that and uh, in the meantime, you know what’ll hold you over. A little love making. If you’re a Disney adult. And if you’re a Disney adult and you feel offended by that, then prove us wrong tonight in the bedroom. Try something new. Try a new position. Yeah, the Mouseketeer. I recommend that one. Yeah. Grab her by the ears and go to town. The mouse could steer. Alright, whatever. I guess we’re done, man. Hello, my name is Lily and I’m from Texas. I heard that Ear Biscuits was ending and I just wanted to say that I listened to Ear Biscuits every single day, the entire time that I was pregnant with my baby. And now. Whenever she hears either one of your voices, she gets very excited and will turn her whole ba, her whole body towards the TV or my phone or whatever you’re on. So I just wanted to say I love you and my baby loves you as well. Her name is Daisy. Give a gift. Get a gift at Mythical. 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