[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I’m Lincoln I’m Rhett joining us today not at the round table of dim lighting but in a relatively well-lit room at VidCon are some mythical beasts that’s right this is the first-ever what did we just decide we’re call it a live record a live recording cuz your biscuits are alive and this is being recorded in front of people your biscuits and so this is experimental we normally sit kind of across from each other or at a 90 degree angle from one another right when doing ear bist we’re in a good mythical morning configuration right that’s kind of weird Co we’re doing I’ve never seen you with headphones you know you’ve looked at me while we’ve done this but it does make me be more aware of how we typically record on your biscuit that yeah you’re right it’s it’s dimly lit we’re at the round table a little usually leaning back if there’s not a guest we’re still like it’s not like we’re constantly looking at each other there might be an occasional glance like when are you gonna shut up so I can talk but we have a little line so we have a little cues because when two people interview one person first of all we have built-in redundancy so if one of us passes out during the interview with the other person picks up or dies let’s just go all the way this really what the whole design of this thing was about was that we could continue this thing when one of us passes away but during an air biscuit you may notice that sometimes we do start talking at the same time sometimes that’s edited out if it’s really embarrassing but there are like little like I’m because I’m embarrassing when we talk at the same time coming in like the hand has to come in a little bit early and we just not being recorded sometimes I think the guest thinks we’re coming in for like a throat jam or something I’m like yeah I don’t have to do that today cuz the irony is a we’re talking at the same time right now and be I’ve never seen this signal so it’s like totally not worked that’s another thing – I’ve no clue talking to look straight for a second so if you have glasses you may notice that your peripheral vision often is compromised yeah I can’t see you at all you know so I’m gonna be good right now apparently I’ve been making this hand signal for two years for no one except me except mines we should have talked about this yes sometimes I thought we had a system like a fingertip might fly in sometimes I’m like what I just saw like did I just catch a fingertip it’s like no that like this right I’ll reach out in front just actually just pull my ear it’s like a form of pull my fingers you that involved it’s just for podcast okay but still involves passing gas mmm so moving right along the idea today is we’re gonna take some questions that were submitted on the internet and also some questions that were submitted in real life like you and your answer them in no particular order I hit the handwriting here is it’s fabulous quizzes thanks for doing that and thanks for waiting to come in and I know a lot of you guys were waiting for quite some time so so are we it’s which made it weird we could have just no just kidding okay let’s get a question here this is Julie’s at jalisa Lee oh three tweeted at us what was your first impression of each other PS I love you guys various emoticons arts I do have a very specific memory of link in first grade that first day that we met if you know the story about being held in from recess because we wrote profanity on our desks in Miss Locklear’s class we had to sit there just the two of us coloring and I specifically remember like I’m I’m a first grader and I was I think a typical first grader at least according to how my son’s have been and it was kind of like I have a crayon and I’m just doing this you know just like this boot needs in all the area around it needs to be read and very dark and then by this you mean emotion like you’ve got a fist but you’re making a motion as if you’re like chopping down trees like erratically right but that’s me coloring yeah and then I look over and Link is like really right inside of these lines and it’s really light and it’s very calculated I was like what is wrong with this kid I’m a meticulous man I was like it’s the most he’s taking so much time in approaching this with so much care how is this possible I’ve never seen anything like this I was just thinking probably because I don’t remember but I was knowing myself now and projecting it back to then I’m pretty sure I was thinking man I don’t want to screw this up because I don’t want to be trapped in here with this guy tomorrow at recess it’s like I thought it was some sort of aptitude test it’s like I’m beating this guy I’m not gonna be in here tomorrow so yeah I sadly I’m sure that there was some sort of feeling analyzed like I was performing for somebody but it would also make you uncomfortable if I had a dis reached over and like colored your boot oh that would kill me man yeah you couldn’t handle that yeah we would it would have been we wouldn’t have been friends we would have right fault let me read another question Colin all capital letters with spaces in between each letter asks what was your dream job as a child so okay we’re still we’re still in child them yeah here in your childhood usually my dream job as a child was to be a weatherman not a meteorologist but a weatherman so growing up an unqualified meteorologist I mean let’s just first of all David Letterman was a weatherman he was Pat Sajak was a weatherman he’s the host of will of fortune that is a show you may be familiar with which is our standard of excellence in all things but I actually thought there’s no wheel involved I want no part of it I actually thought when I was 5 years old no that’s right too young too old for years old that you’re making it up it could be no age you want Pat Sajak was on the weather in California the local weather I actually lived out here when I was like 3 4 or 5 I saw him doing the weather and I thought that my dad was doing the weather because he my dad looks just like Pat Sajak and it’s about the same height he’s five nine a lot of people don’t know that anyway my dad is not Pat Sajak he has never done the weather I don’t even know I brought that up what was the question oh you wanted to be a weatherman yeah because Bob debarred 11 yeah the real weatherman was looking awesome I mean his name was Bob debarred 11 and that’s that was enough for me I mean he was on television every night and he like here’s a local celebrity he he he served he was a friend who told me what you know the conditions were going to be in my environment like a the weather it just seemed he was important you know yeah like how are you gonna know what the weather’s gonna be now Bob know in like five days into the future the dude was magical yeah yeah he’s like a prize of profit the weather promised and he was bald yeah so he looked like a prophet they’re all bald right yeah by the end yeah okay what about you what was your dream job as a child I wanted to be an architect and I would from a very early age I would make floor plans for homes like at age six like would you charge for it no I would just I got a charge from it doing it okay dad but but you this was a service you know for me anybody any given these were these were like a six-year-old kid these were hypothetical analysis yeah and there was no structural engineering you know approach to this but I would literally I don’t know what was wrong with me I don’t know but in any given time you could walk into my room and I would like have this elaborate floorplan would like doors and this is the bedroom this is the bathroom like I was like oh yeah like an overhead blueprint right yeah that’s what yeah it was a 2d floor plan link I didn’t do any 3d I didn’t make anything even make do any folds or anything oh you didn’t you didn’t incorporate or it wasn’t an origami house and I wanted to do that for a long time and you got a you but you you got a civil engineering degree but the reason I got a sibling god it was somehow related well no well no it is related because the structural and civil engineering department at NC State University is the same building is the same you you just kind of go to the same classes and then it branches off and then once I got into it I was like this is hard and there and I was like which one’s easier and they’re like well the one that where you’d make ditches is the easy one you know the one where you put water through pipes something that a farmer could do probably without an engineering degree that’s the one that I chose and that’s what I ended up getting a degree in so what are we concluding it in some way I’m living my dream I mean sometimes I’m in front of a green screen and there could be weather on it mm-hmm if we want if we so chose right you know and I could I have access to like weather forecasts that I could relay to people yeah it without having a degree which is what a weatherman is but you you just abandoned your dreams have been shattered all right I no longer make floor plans I’m sorry for pointing that out lay low no low lead wobba that’s I said this last name that’s her name she is awesome have you guys ever seriously hurt or come close to seriously hurting yourselves while filming you first since that you have the easier answer I’m sure I don’t think no I’m not I don’t think I’ve ever hurt my self while filming definitely not seriously but you’ve been hurt and then we had to film something and it it was potentially seriously compromised I’m talking about the Conan thing with your back oh yeah yeah yeah so you may know I have back issues it’s it I don’t have them right now necessarily there it’s just long yeah it’s a very long back so something’s bound to be compromised and right after we moved to LA when we were we were working on commercial Kings there’s you know when you do a television show there’s all these like there’s the PR side of it in the press tour and so that was how we were able to become guests on Conan O’Brien show and the like two days before we were supposed to go on I threw my back out it turns out it was how did you throw your back I was eating a sandwich but that’s that’s true I lit as a large sandwich a lot of meat on it oh and as I’m not kidding as I was as I was well it turns out I mean this is probably you know it’s common to throw your back out eating sandwiches because well what happens is what I was told later is or you probably did something before the sandwich and then it just happened to be while you’re eating the sandwich that it went out so I was in extreme pain like I couldn’t really stand up I definitely could not walk straight without leaning very hard to one side so much so that I was like you know we have to walk out from behind that curtain in like Sheikh Conan’s hand and sit down and it was gonna be a disaster we thought we had to address it that we had to become the whole thing I remember when I first saw you like I mean you texted me you’re like sandwich back bad we need plan call the weatherman or something but when I saw you even though you’d prepared me it was how I described it it’s like you were walking towards me like came in the room very slowly and it was I guess it’s like if you had a freeze-frame of what could be like the most painful part of like a contortionist act or like someone dodging a punch constantly like right but knowing that they’re still gonna get hit so their face is like no but and as I don’t want to be on Conan with this guy well and you may not know this but you probably have picked up on this that when you’re on a talk show the host is asked is just feeding the pre-prepared questions to the comedian or whoever it is so they can say the four or five things that they’ve that they’re cut they’ve already come up with and he knows exactly what questions are gonna be asked so cuz a producer calls you ahead of time and they’re like okay this is what we’re gonna ask you do you guys have anything else that you want to talk about let’s work it out so you kind of work out like we’re gonna show this clip and you’re Conan’s gonna ask this question and we’re gonna tell this story but then we were like there’s something we need to mention and and that’s that my back is hurt so bad that we feel like we may have to address it but he was like okay we’ll just play that by ear you could kind of tell you it’s like I don’t want your back to be a part of this man but then when we got there there’s so much adrenaline just from being on a show like that that you were healed there was absolutely no problem I felt absolutely no pain you can watch and it doesn’t look like I’m in pain cuz I wasn’t but as soon as the show was over it was horrible oh I forgot that part really yeah I was horrible I didn’t tell you about that III kind of I’ll try to leave you out of this link so you don’t have to share the burden I have enough pain of my own so right but you have been seriously hurt while filming yeah and I’ll keep this one short because there’s a whole video I mean it’s I think it’s called links fall fail is that what it’s called it’s on our second channel but basically I thought it would be cool to run at top speed for like an interstitial for commercial Kings and I just felt I didn’t fall flat on my face I actually fell on like 18 different parts of my body and rapid succession but it was caught in Sun King in such a way that like we can analyze it in slow motion and make a video out of it well and this sadly has been seen more than the television show so it was for the interstitial stuff like as we were cutting to commercial are coming back from commercial on the show they had these little needle vignettes and so this one where link nearly died it’s it was it’s violent you know he was hurt so bad so it’s like something you would show to kids before he broke his elbow you saw that they don’t run to prom you broke your elbow right or just it was they couldn’t find a break but it was dislocated I know it was it was it was bad and it was and it affected him for a while but it affected him so much she was like we have to put this in every episode so in every episode of commercial Kings before the commercial break you like here’s a question from the room no name is on it but you know your handwriting who asked this question how does making videos affect your family life how did they take the news that you are going to do youtube full-time it’s somebody you’re awesome you’re in take credit right there don’t be shy your edit take credit how did they take the news that you’re gonna do YouTube full times like well I mean we didn’t like sitting down like kids your parents are splitting up actually actually we did well it interestingly our wives are one of the reasons that we were doing what we’re doing right now because we told the stories some capacity somewhere but going back to right out of college when we’re working as engineers we wrote a song for our roommate Greg’s wedding rehearsal dinner right we basically wanted to make fun of him in front of his whole family and warn his fiancee that like it’s not too late to change your mind in a song and it was actually the song was later the lyrics were all changed and it became the unibrow song which was like one of the first songs ever on YouTube from us but this one was all about Greg and like the wedding night and how embarrassing it was gonna be for both of them it says we’ve seen Greg naked soon you will too hope you enjoy it more than we do right that was that was a chorus but but you probably won’t know we didn’t say that and but we did this song and like everybody really reacted to it well and then all the way back home where our wives who were like you guys you guys should do there should be more than just doing this like wedding receptions you know you should you should there’s something here we like you should really do something with this right so now whenever you know we’re you we have to be a way to be here or do something else that impacts our family it’s like well is it’s your fault yeah right there’s your idea we put it back on is that what you were yeah getting that and then you know with with the kids you know how do they take the news that you’re going to do YouTube full-time it’s just it’s more it’s more of okay this is what dad does and it’s like no big deal really I think is what all the kids would say it’s interesting that they’re they now have friends who find out that we are their parents are one of us did that make sense that hey are your parents one of them one of them youtubers but they but they’re no but I got fine about it I think it was kind of a everybody’s dad must do this until it was like oh okay you watch my dad on the internet that’s weird yeah yeah there I watch him at dinner sometimes there but I try to look away there’s that’s really annoying yeah they’re dealing with that in their their social lives which might check in on that which fright ask this one question it is a ears a here’s a family question Brian asks how often do your families interact oh well we definitely keep them separated they don’t add they actually don’t know about each other yeah right no you know very often you know our our kids are locked in Lincoln or like our best friends and then Lando and Shepard are our best friends it’s really you know it’s it’s cool to have to size I’m yeah it’s cool to see them to see our friendship in their friendship well and we have two chances of being replaced if like again redundancy if locking Lincoln end up just sucking you know then Lando and Shepard are like the next in line they can try and they can both do things and I’m sure Lily will want to produce the whole thing so she Lily’s the oldest of all the kids and but it was not girls it wasn’t engineers kind of an odd man out it was not enjoy well she’s a woman not quite but it wasn’t engineered and there’s always been this you know if with our wives it was okay you guys kinda have to be best friends now no one ever said that but it was sort of like this expectation that like okay well either gonna be best friends or you’re gonna have to find a way to get along but they they do get along and they are best friends and then with the kids it was like I wish you know the first you know Lily was first and then Locke who’s a year younger than she is but then Lincoln who and their grants I should say that our good friends right but they lock lock in Lincoln kind of naturally – they’re both boys they kind of gravitated towards one another and they sort of just naturally became great friends they see each other all the time and in Lando and Shepard are each other’s favorite person on earth and so it’s just that’s how it’s going right now we’re just like all right hands off guys don’t feel like you have to have a YouTube channel or a website or anything just be friends but there’s like a percolating assumption isn’t there well we have we don’t talk about me we have reserved all the web sites yes we do have all the web sites reserved or at least we’ll say that so you don’t do it right now don’t do it yeah it’s instead of just talking about our wives though it would prep now it’s probably a good time to say that hey they’re here so we’re gonna bring them out you’re such a jerk link this is okay let me tell you our wives are not here and I want to tell you something about link okay you may know this already but definitely I know this about link and everyone who works with us knows it’s about link do I know it link his style of joke is a joke that is only funny to him it’s like this no no no not all of them I hope no no no I’m saying you have this thing that happens just like that was just like I’m gonna say something right now and oh the only thing the way the way these people can react is to be disappointed okay I’m just I don’t I mean it’s testing their fervor it’s a sickness do they it is a sickness like I mean nobody’s gotten up and walked out so I actually that’s what I need I need to know that if I upset you you’re not you’re still not going to abandon me okay so it’s it has nothing to do with humor it has to do with a deep-rooted insecurities oh this is a near biscuit man like we got okay alright buddy get serious I’ve just a fear of abandonment by you guys okay let’s say you lie to them yeah that’s your application I’m not saying it’s healthy no but I I’m trying to I mean do you have another example because you gotta have more than one to say link is like this you do this all the time okay I do it outside with people it’s usually like in in groups of two or three well I think it’s the yeah just kind of adding a little bit of awkwardness into any small gathering you know turning turning people against each other well okay like which mean you know that’s an interesting thing because we I also do like awkwardness a lot one of the things that we have kind of discovered over the years is that you know when we first got started making YouTube videos and then one of the early things that were doing with local commercials right the red house furniture and the TDM auto sales and then what led to I love local commercials and the commercial kings we look that’s it the favorite in terms of what we’ve done that’s the favorite you know work that we’ve ever done we love those commercials probably because we’re not in them much and we get to see other people do things but they’re so bad and they’re so purposely awkward that we just like revel in that kind of thing but what we have found and you guys can confirm or deny this especially with like the teenage generation right now they are so uncomfortable with awkwardness that they can’t watch it so like we’ll do we’ll do something like okay so we we did an episode of good mythical morning where we one of the the back-up plan Geico sponsored ones where we were Realtors and we did the open house yeah so people were you know people were coming to the house to try to figure out if they wanted to buy it but we were there to just screw with them right and but also to learn how to be real estate agent Groh yeah right and you know Oh first of all in general a great reaction to the episode people really liked it but over the years we’ve started seeing so many more comments about like guys what would you think those people thought when you are trying to sell that house to them in that way it made me so uncomfortable I had to stop watching you guys feel that way oh you’re lying now you do in the comments okay so you still like awkwardness okay because I’d say that’s one of the reasons that we haven’t made any more local commercials honestly is because people are like are you taking advantage of these people and we’re like I just don’t you want to have that conversation anymore let’s the fine line obviously we don’t want to take advantage of people and there’s a there’s a way to mess with people that’s like still just fun and not at their expense but but there’s a it’s not a hard line it’s not black and white so you gotta get you got a dance around there’s having fun man just having fun mix it up you just have a little fun I got another question here which one did I want to read Hayley Dowell where’s that one it’s right on to the previous one oh you’re not looking at my screen oh no I’m looking at our screens are not I’m looking at my screen it how do you guys put up with each other all the time good question I’m glad it wasn’t like phrased towards one of us like Rhett how do you put up with link all the time well that was in there but I chose not to read it I did I got this one how do we what what’s the real answer to this there is a real answer but you know we had a really good conversation with the wasabi Bros on air biscuits was that last week that was a week ago basically embracing conflict well if this has happened a couple of times it happened when we had Smosh on as guests anytime we have a duo we really like to start talking to them about their process and like how they get along because we you know we’ve been working together for a really long time and what you find when you talk to somebody like Smosh or somebody even though Mesabi Brothers it’s like they’re younger they’ve been working together for a long time but they’re kind of younger they haven’t you know we’re getting old at this point and we’re like you guys haven’t really had a lot of conflict cuz we’ve like well how do you guys like resolve conflict and how do you argue with each other like well we don’t and on the if you go back and listen to the episode last week with the wasabi Bros like they had like this lay into him at that point they started talking about the fact that one of them was they’re moving out they’ve been living together another moving out they’re still working together but they’re moving out and they started like they hadn’t talked about why and so they start talking about why during the air biscuit it was great cuz it was awkward though but we like that but for us I think the answer is what we told them which is embracing conflict in order to resolve it and just to have open communication because I think the point you know the first point about this is is how do you how do you guys put up with each other all the time because it is all the time because there are a lot of people who you know a lot of duo’s will like have you know they’ll get together to do certain projects or like oh we get together on Tuesday we get to we carpool I mean we are together from 9:00 to at least six every single day and then probably talking to each other about projects and that kind of thing you know over the weekend so it’s I mean yeah because it’s like in nothing confessor because it’s it’ll but any low level of tension very quickly builds up when you’re spending that much time together I mean if you’re you know you know that from any like committed relationship type thing so you gotta get that stuff out there yeah in there and there is there is conflict I mean I think we’ve been pretty open about that that’s one of the cool things about your biscuits is that you it’s more relaxed and you know we there it’s a lot of people say it’s like a therapy session when they come on the show because we the way we start asking questions but then we start kind of talking about us and trying to relate to the people and that kind of thing and kind of processing different things but yeah it’s like I think though I don’t know I’m probably gonna get this wrong but I think what we ended up saying was conflict is guaranteed and communication is key so in any in any working relationship in any relationship period there’s gonna be conflict and so we reckon we’re constantly bouncing ideas off of one another and working on things and trying to fine-tune something develop something that and we’re in its all the time and we’re two different personalities and we actually think very differently and approach things very differently which i think is a strength but it’s just you know it’s also a source of conflict yeah so and we vacationed separately we do we’re about to do that actually we’re not going to the same place I didn’t even know you knew that I was going on vacation oh yeah I’m going on vacation at the same time oh man I thought I thought I was onto something and we’re actually heading in opposite directions yeah we’re going two separate places were literally like moving apart from each other right and really we when we shouldn’t talk or we won’t right no and I’m blocking you and when we okay I’m effectively that got some applause yeah because we always joke whenever we relaunch the new season of good mythical morning it’s like where have you been but it’s kind of true yes because we will have been on vacation separate right here’s a question morgen witted asks do you all have a favorite episode of good mythical morning we have a favorite episode of good mythical morning there’s a lot of them they all start to run together and then we’ll be thinking about something we want to talk about and I feel like we’ve talked about that and then we’ll do it and then the comments will say you’ve already talked about this that actually has that’s almost happened a couple of times so they all start to run together but you have a favorite well I think there’s an it there’s an ironic principle in this the episodes that that are the crowd favorites are probably the ones are the least favorite for us to do you know select the willit episodes the more we suffer the more people seem to respond to those things but I think there’s a difference between the two of us too and so let’s not talk about what our favorite episodes are but let’s talk about types of episodes because I do anticipate a different answer between the two of us of what type of episodes are our favorites yeah Willits are I mean they’re they’re very trying obviously for me there they’re very trying but it’s nice knowing that they’re going that you guys love them and that they’re gonna perform really well you know it’s it’s really nice to know you can put something out there and that you’re gonna not only are we gonna be proud of it but that it’s going to work that it’s gonna get a whole bunch of views like that is a great feeling having been having worked on YouTube as long as we have and before good mythical morning hey this is just the psychology of why I love these episodes even though I have vomit almost a lot of dramas right evening usually is because I you know we know there’s gonna be that return on investment before good mythical morning really took off every video was kind of like starting from scratch in a lot of ways yeah you know it was it was most likely a music video and we knew it was gonna be well-received but we didn’t know if it was gonna blow up so to speak and of course we always you want that so it’s I love the Willetts because you know they’re gonna do well so that really helps you know me stare down the barrel of that trash can and actually be happy about it but but those are my favorite types what’s your type episode I mean I definitely like the information heavy ones you know where we’re like breaking something open you know we do it we do a lot of sexually not physically right we do a lot of Lists episodes because that’s not just because that’s what works on the internet but because it’s a great way to think about information that’s why I Lister’s they’ve always been popular and will always continue to be popular but I think I like the ones where it’s more like oh this story about this guy who hibernated for 25 years or this the alien abduction ones where we each had this the most convincing alien abduction story because it because that’s those are the kinds of things that I would naturally kind of read and think about and talk about naturally because it’s there’s this principle we talk about this a lot like the way we want to present information on good mythical morning is the way that we would want to present it at a party if we were like hey you guys hear about that guy that hibernator for 25 years let’s talk about that and then present is not even the right verb in that just have a conversation about it’s like yeah but yeah when we’re at a party it’s like there’s this you know you want to let’s talk about something interesting and that’s actually why we started ear biscuits because we do this we we have this tendency that if we are together at a social function and we find somebody who like has a weird job and and sometimes they’re like or a normal job but I’m convinced there’s got to be something hidden we start asking like this guy right here you know we would say ask him some questions about his weird camera and we were like get him in a corner say wait you’re the stick guy like there’s a camera on then the stick it’s like where is they where do you get that stick and like what kind of camera is that and oh oh this is everybody gets one of these yeah under your city this is like Oprah this guy works for Google be nice to him okay all right it does say YouTube on his you know you know paychecks but we kind of like we team up on somebody who like yeah we would be always like all over I guess except septic tank pump guy he’s like man nobody’s ever asked me so many questions about my job y’all go tag-teaming me up and that’s not just an example that’s happy oh yeah yeah it’s a we end up talking to the septic tank guy for 45 minutes and like he leaves with his wife and I can only imagine man there’s these two guys I think they’re gonna start a septic tank company okay because I’ve given them all the information that they need but it’s just because we’re interested in things so but that’s also why that was the kernel that started good mythical morning is it the kernel actually the kernel the whole thing is this started been sponsored by KFC like the stealth KFC sponsorship no gonna be revealed in Episode four thousand the kernel with a K that started good mythical morning was your tendency more than mine to have a new thing that you wanted to talk to me about and so then good morning T Lincoln was well we’re we’re carpooling and we’re talking about something we should just put this on the internet which was then weird because then we had to be quiet in the car but then and then we would just put it out there this is the 10-minute conversation that we would have had it you are and those are why there’s still your favorite episodes because you’re the different than medium I think you’re more the conceptual kind of thinker is that what you say that’s a good way to put it I don’t know you’re kind of the reactor yeah so like for me my favorite episodes there’s a little less there’s more pressure when there’s something that I need to think about and have to talk about for you it’s not pressurized it’s just I’m excited to talk about this thing and I’m certainly excited to talk about you know alien abduction stories or any of that stuff – it’s not that I don’t enjoy talking about it but I think there’s a it’s a little more pressurized for me whereas where we when we play the games and it’s just okay just react just kind of go on gut and see what happens right or I like those because they’re they’re a little less pressurized for me it’s like okay that by design what I don’t know is gonna happen if it happens is gonna be the best part of the episode for me or I feel like that’s how I’m gonna contribute at least that’s how I started to think about it and it so I’m a little more it’s easier for me to just step into those episodes where it’s written like responding right and that’s why we do a lot you know we do both we do a lot of different stuff so the game formats are easy to step into I like those the and then the like the physical stuff we’re doing stuff right and we’re gonna you know we’re continuing we’re always trying to come up with a new format within good mythical morning you know that’s like oh let’s try baiting each other about something ridiculous so we’re continuing to develop those ideas and you’ll see some of those in season eight Ella house Abby asks are there unpublished gmm episodes this is a really good question I’m published is probably not the right word because I think that that would imply that we had created an episode and edited it and then decided not to upload it that’s never happened but what has happened you might be interested to know or maybe you kind of figured this is that every once in a while there’s an episode that about five minutes then we’re like okay let’s just start this again and why is that like what would what are the reasons I would say the most common reason that happens is we have like and this is a little insight into whether you know how much this is planned right so the process that creates an episode of good mythical morning has evolved quite a bit and is much more structured stringent than it used to be when it was just like oh that I got something this is trust me let’s talk about this – no let’s sit down with our team let’s decide on what we’re gonna talk about then let’s have our team you know find the find the information kind of consolidate the information so we’re not going off on the internet all the time trying to find everything then sort of reviewing it paring it down dividing it up kind of figuring out I’m taking this so it’s not scripted but it’s outlined pretty you know tightly but it’s so off the show so off-the-cuff that sometimes we’ll start this riff at the beginning of a list and realize that we just talked about some we talked about that septic tank guy for four minutes and this is an episode about something totally different and we’re and we like we’re there’s a timer we that’s why most of the episodes are about the same length because whether it’s a timer we just don’t have this innate sense to go like 11 minutes and stop and it sometimes would be like it’d be like well yeah we kind of do but it would be like a time or two one of us would be like okay let’s start this again I’d say that’s one out of 20 right because I mean let’s can we’ll continue with that answer by asking another question which was can you explain your rapid subscriber growth within the past year what has changed since then and how have you managed this new level of success I’d say one of the things that led to just the rapid growth of good mythical morning was kind of developing the format so that when we say in episodes about something with the title with a thumbnail then we deliver on that and you can you get that so we do you know we’d like to there’s this weird dance because you we never want to be so we never want the show to be rigid but we want to we want to we decide to give you guys something in an episode and then we want to give you that but then the dance is but we also want to create in the moment so like if you start talking about septic tank and there’s like this dance of decision-making of figuring out I’m not gonna go with septic guy or am I gonna go back to UFO girl you know or or UFO girl fo girl yes she’s awesome oh well she’s uh she yeah you’ve been researching her um yeah I don’t want to talk about it right now because we’ll say that we’ll save it for the episode what was my point my point was exactly well what was my point I’m not entirely sure I’m not Bob to barter Laden he’s a prophet no it was you got to have that balance of am I gonna am I gonna am I gonna give you guys what you want in the episode and I think that’s the answer to that one of the answers to this question is rapid subscriber goes that we deliver on what we say we’re gonna give you and it’s before we would do an episode and we would kind of discover what it was as you were doing it right it was more like even if we knew we were gonna talk about sometimes we through it would like well it was more about this conversation unless and now it’s like it’s like I’m talking to you talking to you I’m talking to you and talking to you the whole time but I think a probably the most significant thing that changed since the inception of good mythical morning was you may remember back in was it 2012 that we did the mythical show that right I think so so right at the beginning of 2012 we had this idea to try the longer form thing right the 30 minute version of good mythical morning essentially called a mythical show and we got some funding from YouTube to do that it was part of something called the creative creator Innovation Program where they give you a little bit of money to try something that seems to be innovative on the platform and that required us to hire a team at the time we had first two years were out here we had Jason remember remember Jason who worked on good mythical morning Jason Eman is now hosting the DC Comics DC all-access on DC Comics Channel that’s what he’s doing now but January of that year we hired Steve a shout out to Stevie and that was kind of the beginning of us building a team and Stevie was very involved in in hiring out our team to make the mythical show and that was the beginning of us functioning more like you know a team that would create a television show it was like okay this is a process we have to be we’re creating a quality piece of entertainment there’s a schedule there’s a certain standard that we’re holding ourselves accountable to and doing that even though the mythical show wasn’t a huge success it was kind of wrong time you know the wrong thing at the wrong time we were proud of it and it we learned how to function as a team and then we brought that back to good mythical morning that fall when we restarted the show and so I think that’s the biggest thing is that we the process has changed so much and then I think you know serendipitous serendipitously is that a word serendipitously yes that’s finish Lee providentially there was a change to the way that YouTube rewards your videos essentially they changed the algorithm so that the longer that people stayed on your channel or the longer that your videos led to them watching videos on YouTube the more your videos got served up to them and that’s why it wasn’t about a view it was about watch time so yeah whenever you know YouTube was smart enough as a tool to understand that you guys weren’t just clicking on something but that you were deciding to watch basically the whole thing and you know we always wanted to create something that was you know I I’m not I’m not creating a 10 minute video but I only care about the first three minutes so we also want we want to craft it in such a way that you care about all of it you know so a simple thing very early on that’s why the wheel exists one so that you have something to look forward to even if you don’t care about what we’re talking about something different what happen at the end with this shiny wheel is spinning and also we get to interact with you guys and be fueled by your ideas yeah so that that’s one example of a way that we we tried to craft an episode and that the way that YouTube worked it kind of came together yes I think it was kinda you know the other thing is just a whole bunch of videos where yeah it was like that and then they you would see one and you kind of got sucked in through related videos into watching other ones yeah so it was kind of a combination of creating the right product and then having the system reward that product in the right way and that’s why there’s just there was this astronomical growth and it ended up surpassing anything we’ve ever done on our main youtube channel and now it’s kind of the hub of what we do and then the kind of the reason that people listen to ear biscuits and the people that watch you know stuff on our main channel which I think leads into another question and I will add you know you mentioned the team but I’ll just mention them again is surrounding ourselves with great team members everybody on our team shout out to all you guys who are here everybody’s not here so there’s even more of our team like still working on stuff right now but you know that they’re great and they enable us and you know we have learned to lean on people and who are good at things to help us be better at what we’re best at so instead of just doing everything and that’s certainly advice that we try to give to I mean a lot of you are creators and you aspire to expand and make more things and you the challenge is finding people that you can trust and you can lean on and that they do things better than you and then you can just take credit for it like retina you publicly but yeah so we’re glad to give some props to the to the mythical team yeah and and unlike a lot of people have commented in the past they’re not all interns it’s just like can you guys show the interns again well we have any given time we have like one intern but they’re all like staff members employees with titles and you know it’s a production company but they’re paid in like leftover Willet food yeah right that is and they’re okay with that for some reason okay but you know seeing that good mythical morning has become that hub for so many things including what we’re doing on our main channel which you may say is nothing nice you’re not doing anything on your main channel mythical rank asked last year you talked about doing more narrative content in 2015 are you still planning to do that because it would be awesome we did we talked about that last year I think we did oh so yeah yeah we did talk about that and we are doing it so yeah so it sounded like a question no we are we are doing it aggressively actually so just one thing to note is that you know with the growth of GMM and the growth of our team and just transitions into a new studio and things like that it’s all it’s been very tough to manage and continue to maintain the quality of the show but we really really really have every intention to create story based content online so series feature films that kind of thing so those things are those things are being worked on so I mean it’s sort of the way that you’ll see that kind of rolling out towards the end of this year is more sketch comedy on the main channel kind of flexing that muscle a little bit and exercising that muscle which we haven’t done very much so stay tuned for that so the main channel is not dead it will continue to become more active do you want to see more sketch comedy is that like a good thing okay and yeah not at the expense of good mother good morning so you don’t have to worry about that so we’re gonna that that train will keep a role in question from Tesla Lemery if you two were stranded on an island would link eat rhett first / Rhett eat link first that’s my type of question right there observation we do we’ve talked about this multiple times a week I like I just love to keep talking about how they’re in a survival situation who would eat well there’s a lot of factors I think we’ve both established our humor is really dark well that’s a problem I don’t know but is that a problem you know I think this is something we need to work out because there’s a lot of people out here who are gonna be in a situation where their friends or family members and and they’re gonna have an opportunity to eat them leave me like we haven’t talked about this is it a race because the way that she framed the question no no no no no it’s not like who’s gonna do it first cuz this is after one of us died so I think the question is who’s gonna die first no that’s not what she has she would link eat Rhett first it would Rhett link first there’s no assumption of death at all which makes it really weird I think yeah one of us should die first and then we should like process it well I think that I am generally hungrier than you I mean we’ve that’s been established I like to eat more than you like to eat I eat a lot more than you eat but I’m smaller than you yeah right so therefore so I maybe should die first and I should eat you and I will live even longer than you would live if I died first and you tried to live off me that’s perfect that’s true and yes but it’s not I mean you’re asking me to make the decision to die first no I just mean I think the question is who is going to die first I’ve got a little bit of I bear a tire that I can access for maybe a week longer than you you were you gonna get that where’s the fat man it’s where’s it gonna come from you don’t have any ID I want you to die first okay I think let’s just is can we do that are we talking about this we are to aim there’s people here even the spare tire thing is supported that like you’re even supporting more like that’s even you want to watch you my spare tire whatever it I can just picture picture you oh gosh I’m gonna Maggie don’t picture me like chomping on like your belly it is much it’s gonna chew as loud as you two but there’ll be nobody there to hear it you’ll be sitting here oh and I’m filming with your TMJ jaw just chewing off my belly fat all by yourself well I’ll get yeah I’ll get I mean chase will hack you up Oh burping chase you know how and he’ll be in the bunny cop really yeah we really need chase we have to be you have to be there okay how about this to wrap things up did you just pick the final question I mean you okay if you don’t think this is a good question to end on you know the one the Jalen’s asked what’s the weirdest unusual thing you received in the mail I have to tell this story because someone sent us milk are you here it’s the person who sent us milk because we need to talk Oh in the back there so no so Jen hey Jen Jen goes to the post office she is the one who retrieves the mail and she has a special relationship with the person at the post office because there’s a lot of things that come into our mailbox and of course the people at the post office do not understand why they’re like I don’t what did they what kind of business do these guys run and why are the boxes weird shapes and decorated in weird ways and have it’s you know they’re just they’re trying to figure it out but she went one time and they were like kind of just looked out and they were like come back here and she follows never good news when you’re going into the back of the post office she follows them to the back the post-office and they’re like we’ve had this this has been sitting here we’ve been trying to you know cuz she doesn’t go everyday this has been sitting here for a couple of days and no one will touch it and it was just this box that was sitting there and someone had just put full gallon jugs of milk like multiple gallons of milk and you put it in a box was there a reason was there a stated reason they said will you start a milk a club what like your being in the Month Club thing that you do that time but it was heinous it was that these people had like gloves on didn’t they it like that’s the name of the milk club and so that was weird and I gotta say we we actually never saw it guys we never we never drank it it was disposed of at the look on location at the post office still send milk please and I saw that Stevie texted you during this thing she said she’s trying to produce this thing even from over there via text she’s like just lay off but why did you but it was I tell you what can I tell everybody what you texted well I saw the text and I was like what read it what is it says she checks a puppy bite I know what she means but for a second I was like wow yeah I’m doing we’re doing this thing and all of a sudden in the middle of it she’s texting puppy bike but okay this is what it is you have oh yes this is okay so this is a good story have we ever been injured video just you should know this but now you have to tell me exactly what you mean you have to say tell them the story about the time you were bitten by a puppy while we were making a video so yeah you were injured dude you should tell the story and Wow to the point where this video never went out so tell ya there’s a lot of things wrapped up in this okay so we did a series of videos that were kind of different like remember our Oregon Trail video that was Oregon Trail in real controlling like different physical challenges afire by that but we also wanted to do it the same day we did one about gladiators like Roman gladiators like we dressed up like gladiators and we developed these physical challenge games and we were that we were just gonna make that an episode of GMM what was in them well are we like had we’re like busting fruit so it’s just a weird series of challenges like our kids dressed came out and dressed in togas and threw eggs at us but one of the things we had was you know gladiators always battle animals so we got these puppies these really expensive puppies because you have to like rent them from the right place and there’s like a representative from the ASPCA that has to come when you use animals in a video and so there’s these really cute puppies and the idea was because we had seen another person do this online was to put puppy food all over our faces and it was you let this pack of puppies come in lick the food off your face and it’s the person who laughs first loses so I didn’t see I kind of told them well you should get like you know soft like mushy food but I don’t know it’s um somebody thought that got some chunky food and so I’m sitting there on the on my back and link is putting this really chunky food all over me and it’s getting into like my crevices and nose and my ears and they let these puppies go and these puppies as you can imagine they were they were hungry they were so hungry and they one of them and those little puppy teeth sharp puppy teeth they were like this big not the teeth the puppy it’s like a Megalodon here is a Tyrannosaurus Rex got on my ear and could not differentiate between the puppy food and my ear and just grabbed it pierced the top of my ear and just pulled and it was like I and you see you said that you heard like a pop I heard a pop and like a rip of cartilage and my job while he was your job trying not to laugh was to just taught him so I was just I was like laying into him like oh you could this is so funny you’re gonna let I had no clue what was going just like yeah just look on your face it was so intense I was like hi he’s playing it that way oh and one of them was going for my nose it could have just as easily been my nose but there was one of my nose in one of my ear and right when the ear thing happened i sat up immediately I was like like Bobby Oh like like flying off of your head I’m bit I’m bit and then once they got the puppy food off of my ear realized that Joshy it had gone all the way through and ripped not all the way through my ear but a lot a lot of ripich happened and it kind of ruined their day it kind of ruined the vibe for you a little bit I was loving it I was like oh man and the rest of the video didn’t really turn out so we never released that video we never even edited it but in fairness I guess you want cuz you definitely didn’t laughs and well and there’s a I mean can you there’s that you can’t really tell it because people’s ears are kind of weird but if you look at my left ear am i right here the left ear is totally forever different because there is just this weird bump right here from oh puppy and it’s all links well and then yeah so but but you were so upset like I mean you were in pain and you were mad that it had happened and it was like there was no salvaging the video there was there was some kind of some conflict that day yeah resolved it we communicated about the conflict and I thought it was great I was like yes this is we got a thumbnail we got it we got Rhett’s ear ripped off by puppy that’s the title like I’m talking multi-million views and it didn’t hurt me at all what loving it but you know in the end it didn’t look as if we were to put it online it wouldn’t look as graphic as that actually was no and it was a really ear pierced by puppy big deal could have gone to Claire’s you know okay guys thanks for all your questions that you guys submitted and you know it’s so cool to be able to hang out with you guys and see your faces and hopefully many of you will be able to meet us later for the signing but either way we just wanted to take a second in closing and say that thank you guys for always being your mythical best and for all your support of us and for watching all the stuff that we do and I see a lot of merch out there and we feel all the support that you guys give us in watching and hanging out with us every single day through good mythical morning so we appreciate that thanks mythical beasts yes thank you [Applause] [Music] [Music]