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’re giving you a mashup of the funnest conversations we had about the bestest products that we’ve bought over the years. Because at the end of every year, We do a little list of our favorite purchases from the year, or just a list of things that we purchased to give you a little insight into our spending habits. Our top purchases. And so we put together some of the most interesting ones from each of us. And they’re all together, ’cause we’ve gotten feedback that you enjoy those episodes and now you’ll enjoy the most enjoyable parts in this journey, em. I like ending sentences with em. Em, emjoy. Em. And we will be back with an all new Ear Biscuit next week. How about this one, try this on for size, coarse sea salt. Coarse sea salt, is this for bathing? No, but some of these purchases, This is like a scrub. I actually noticed in looking at my list of purchases this year, which were, most of them are not, I have a couple of big ticket items. Okay. But most of them are like coarse sea salt, which probably costs 10 bucks, a big thing of it, is based on something that I learned, a lesson that I learned that now I am applying in life. Well, can I guess? So you said it wasn’t a scrub, Does it go in your mouth still? You’re not gonna guess it. Of course I can. I could give you an hour and you wouldn’t get to it. Is it for cleaning? Because that’s what I would use it for. Okay, yes, but do you know what it’s for cleaning? What it’s for clean? What it’s cleaning, what it cleans, what I use it for. Cement stains? No. In your driveway. No. I’m not sure how entertaining this guessing game’s gonna be. Okay, what? Cast iron pans. Okay, yeah. So a big revelation this year for me was the embracing of cooking on cast iron. You hear people talk about it all the time and then we had one because everybody’s got one and then you start cooking with it and you’re like, I don’t like, what, you can’t clean it, you can’t use soap, what? It just seems like an inconvenience, right. And everybody says that they’re non-stick, but actually they’re not, everything sticks to ’em. So this year, I don’t know what it was, but I just, you know what it was, it was freaking TikTok. That’s what it was. It was being unable to avoid people giving you tips on how to do things correctly. And so somebody talking about a cast iron pan in a TikTok and being like, if you just do it like this, it will become the best pan that you’ve ever owned. And so I was like, okay, screw it, I’ll do it. And I did it and it is the best pan. And now I have a bigger one. And one of the things that I figured out through another TikTok, not the same TikTok, is that a great way when you’re done cooking with it to clean it is you kind of get everything you can out of there and then you just put a bunch of coarse sea salt in there, heat it up really hot, and just take a paper towel, and just sort of move it all around in there and it gets everything. And then you just take that under the sink with some water and you just boom, boom, boom. And then you put more oil on it, heat it up, and then leave it there and it becomes super seasoned, and it’s just been revolutionary for me. The interesting thing about this is that I not only know all of this, but I have personally experienced it. We are experiencing a strange intersection between the two of us, A convergence? Yeah, because I, I don’t cook, I’ve already established that with the spoons and everything else I’ve talked about ever about cooking, but, and it could have been on TikTok for me as well, I’m a cleaner and I saw a TikTok where somebody bought a worn down skillet that was rusted and then They resurrected it. They resurrected it using those techniques. ‘Cause the good stuff’s under there. It doesn’t go away, it just gets added stuff. Because I just watch cleaning stuff on TikTok and on Instagram. So that came up for me. And then I don’t know how it happened, but we had a cast iron skillet that I think I used on the grill to saute onions to go with smash burgers. And then I left it out there and it got rust. I’ve done this. And I was really dejected. And so, I don’t know which happened first, but yeah, I used the sea salt. And you also use, you put oil on it, you have to oil the, When you’re done, you oil it and heat it, heat it up again and then wipe that down. So you want it to be really oiled when you– And you can kind of store it with some oil, so that it like, It’s like coated in oil. So it like stays seasoned. Honestly, I just leave, we leave both the big one and the small one on the stove at all times. We don’t really have a place to put it up. So it’s just like, that’s what we cook in and it’s there all the time. Solar mole repellent ultrasonic mole repellent solar powered outdoor waterproof ultrasonic snake repellent for get rid of mole, gopher, snakes, vole, and other underground pests, four pack. Pretty obvious, right? I’m actually surprised that it says snake repellent. I love that. So I got four of these. I had some of these and I got rid of my moles, in my yard, not on my skin. Some people have bought mole repellent thinking that they can rub it on themselves. Yeah, this is like a stake that you put in the ground. It’s got a little solar panel thing on top. I bought ’em, the moles went away, my yard got even again. And then somehow they disappeared. They might be under Lincoln’s bed with a nest full of spoons, I don’t know. But I had to buy four more. It’s not poison, it’s just a sound. So I staked it out, and yeah, it works like a charm. It forces them into my neighbor’s yard underground. But yeah, that’s their problem. Do you know that for a fact? Have you seen evidence? Based on the reviews, yeah, there was, people describe how if you do it in one area, then they’ll just move to another area. And so the only area for them to move in here is my neighbor’s yard. I mean, maybe they went all the way into the woods. I don’t know, I don’t care. But I mean, I think that my neighbors were probably sending ’em into my yard. Everybody’s gotta work together on this. Everybody’s gotta work together. The only thing I don’t like is that it’s not a constant, so it’s like silence, then it’s like . So every time I would go outside, it was kind of unsettling. You can hear it? Yeah, yeah. It’s gotta be like that, though, because– It’s not ultrasonic, well, it says ultrasonic. It’s not freaking ultrasonic. I would just call it sonic because I can hear it. It has to cut on and off because otherwise they would adjust to it. Potentially, I don’t know, that’s a good theory. That’s what I bought, it does work. But then after a while I get annoyed with it and I take ’em up and then eventually, like it took about nine months for ’em to come back, and maybe it was seasonal, but the moles, voles, or whatever they are came back. So I recommend that. You’re not killing ’em, you’re just shooing ’em. Makes you feel a little better about it. Well, you could find a way to catch ’em and eat ’em. I’m not that hungry. You could probably find some recipes on TikTok for mole stew or something. Put ’em in that nicely oiled skillet. This purchase comes with a story. I bought four items, two Carolina Panthers hats and two Carolina Panthers shirts. I remember seeing you wearing this once and it was just one of those things where it’s like, You didn’t ask any questions. Yeah. I thought I told you this. Is this a James and the Shame something? Yes. So I had a PR person working, right around the launch of the album, with me on some press opportunities. And one of them was, I guess it was Spin magazine, it has has this thing where they do musicians give predictions for their favorite team’s NFL season. And she was like, do you watch NFL? Do you have a favorite team? And would you be willing to do this? And I was like, yes, a little bit. And then to the second question, I mean, I’m an NC State football fan, I like college football and that’s what I watch. But I consider myself a Rams fan being in Los Angeles. But I have an affinity for the Carolina Panthers, only because they’re in North Carolina, but I don’t really keep up with it and I don’t own any fan gear. So what I said is, yes, You can’t say that. Yes, I’m willing to do this and I can do either the Rams or the Panthers. There’s probably somebody else already representing the Rams, so yes. And I’m like, the reason I’m doing this is because of the press opportunity. So I did. It’s all an illusion. So the first thing I needed to do was get clothes. I mean, I don’t wear NC State. ‘Cause they were putting a picture of you? Yeah, they wanted a picture of me in Rams gear, I mean in Carolina Panthers gear. So I had to find some. Based on what I saw of you wearing that stuff, I don’t know if it’s a great PR opportunity. I’m just telling you, I mean, you looked like a dork, dude. Well, can I just say, and I hate to say this, but it’s very difficult to dress up in support of your team and not look like a dork. I know, it’s like you’re cosplaying as what everyone thinks a fan is. Are there people who are fans of sports that also like to look cool? For some reason, I have a theory, this is it. They make the stuff out of the same material that they make athletic clothing out of a lot of times. So these t-shirts had this moisture wicking, dry fit, like so much of this stuff has this, In case you need to go out there. Well these people are just watching sports, guys. On the field. Like when you go watch a concert, you can get a cool t-shirt that is like a cotton T-shirt or like a 50 50 t-shirt, you can get a cool hat that looks like someone who is ready to watch something. Fans of athletic performances should be able to wear the same things that fans of musical performances wear. You’re not playing! Hey, hey, you need to shut up. This is a business opportunity. We need to keep this to ourselves ’til we’re ready to launch. They just don’t make any cool, they don’t make enough cool stuff. Even like, I would wear more NC State stuff, I would, but it is just like a needle in a haystack to find like a shirt that’s cool. Like the retro logoing is one particular avenue to coolness, even when they brought back, They brought that back. Yeah, they brought back the wolf. But then the stuff that they put it on, it’s like they’re still in this athletic mode. It’s like, what do you guys think I’m doing? I’m sitting on a couch and then standing up at moments and then sitting back down on the couch. And now posing for a photo I don’t need moisture wicking material here. For Spin magazine. So what did you, I never saw this photo, did it happen? Oh yeah, it was just a selfie, I took it in there. You were wearing what, a jersey? No, I wore a t-shirt and a hat. But even that still felt like this doesn’t feel like me. But I mean that’s what they wanted. The other piece of this puzzle is I had to come up with my prediction for the Carolina Panthers season. So at that point I just texted my dad and said, dad, research project for you, newly retired man who also doesn’t care that much about NFL football, but likes college football in Georgia. He quickly like just came back with, He’s your ghost writer. Here’s what I think. And now I will say that if you read the article, any funny parts of it, Your dad wrote. I wrote, ’cause my dad didn’t make it funny. It was very much just like, here’s bullet points, including my obsession with the long snapper, I added that. So the long snapper stuff, because I am genuinely interested in long snappers and the Johansson, I think his name is, has played like 16 seasons without missing a game or something. Anyway, so yeah, I had to get, so if you ever need any Carolina Panthers stuff, I got two hats and two shirts, we can go out together. That you will never wear again. Yeah, also, I’m kinda, Anything come from it? Did you get any listens from Carolina Panthers fans that you’re now completely undermining? I think the name of the article was 56 musicians predict their take on their NFL season. Who else? Some people that you would recognize and a lot of people that you wouldn’t. Maybe I got one listen from that, it was worth it. That’s the world of PR, man. Hell yeah. Oh my gosh. Oh, here’s a good one, a sweet one, “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” the book. I’m familiar with it. Shel Silverstein. I didn’t write it down, but also we just got a bunch of our favorite kids books, a couple of Shel Silverstein’s, like “The Light in the Attic,” “Where the Wild Things Are.” And this was, Did you get the issue of Playboy with this famous interview? Did you also get that? Nuh uh, nuh uh. That would’ve been a nice touch. Shel Silverstein, he wrote “A Boy Named Sue” for Johnny Cash. He was in that world, the outlaw country world. Anyway, but cool thing, this was in honor, maybe you’ve seen these, there’s like, if you take a walk with your dog in a neighborhood or if you go to certain parts of town, you can see there’s like these little libraries. They look like a bird box. But it’s a library where you can exchange books. You can put a book in, take a book out. And Christy did this with her sister, Brittany, and JB, they ordered and then her dad, Bobby, my father-in-law, built one of these boxes and then they painted it custom color and they put the plaque on it and they put it up in honor of their first daughter, passed away like hours after being born. She would’ve been 10 years old, Seila would’ve been 10 years old this year. So every year, they celebrate her life. And then their their other kids, they now have two more kids, I got a niece and a nephew, they learn about Seila and the story of even through all of that pain that it’s become something that’s been very beautiful in honoring her memory. So like for her 10th birthday, they created one of these boxes. So we were able to buy books for it. They put it up in the neighborhood or they put it up in front of their house? They put it up in Lillington at the ballpark, you know where you and I did the Fourth of July, where they do the fireworks every year? That’s where I played baseball hundreds of times. And where we did our Fourth of July Wax Paper Dogs concert. Yeah, they actually put it up there. And we were, because we went back for Lance’s wedding, we were there for the ribbon cutting. So we were able to put the books in there and honor Seila’s life and memory and it was a great family moment to be a part of that. And yeah, I wrote down the name of the littlefreelibrary.org. Oh, so you can just make one. There’s a number of places You register it? That will do it, but if you go to littlefreelibrary.org, you can order the pieces and they’ll send it to you and you can build it and paint it yourself. And then you can like, they’ll send you the plaque to put on it so that, in their case, it can say in honor of Seila. And then it’s part of the community and it looks really cool and nice and of course they got permission from the ballpark to put it there. That’s awesome. So yeah, littlefreelibrary.org. You can do it for whatever reason you want or just do it to contribute to your community. You know there’s lots of kids who are taking walks and are like, hey, let’s go to that library, let’s see what books are in there now, let’s put some of my favorite books in there. It’s like, I dunno, You think kids are doing that? Yeah, definitely. Kids still got books? Yeah, that’s the thing. It’s kind of this retro thing that gives you a sense of connection and being a part of something. Unless you vandalize it. In real life. Yeah, I mean this is in a good place where it’s like, It only takes one. Yeah, sadly, that’s true. When you talk about that place, the Lillington ball fields there, they’re so nostalgic to me because of the smell, which it was a mix of dirt, grass, popcorn, and cigarette smoke that I felt like I smelled repeatedly as a child playing outdoor sports that was so pronounced at that particular location, I’m sure it doesn’t smell as much like cigarette smoke anymore, because it’s just so much less common for people to smoke. Well we went, the other cool part of it was that morning, our nephew Nehemiah, he had a soccer game there on the field. So like we watched him play and then we dedicated the library, took some pictures, but I was like, yeah, it’s wild to come back here. I was telling Lincoln and Lando, it was like I played T-ball on these fields, but because I hated T-Ball, It makes you feel anxious when you see the fields? Yeah. I was like my butthole was getting real tight. So yeah, I choose to think more about all of the fireworks. That’s what I associate it with the fireworks. 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Visit betterhelp.com/ear today to get 10% off your first month. That’s BetterHelp, H-E-L-P, .com/ear. I was looking back through the list and I was just so shocked and I was like, okay, I got an expandable garden hose. I don’t want one that you gotta loop up and all the problems with where’s it gonna be stored and how, and how big is it, and how it just doesn’t cooperate with being coiled. I went on this journey in 2020, by the way . Did you talk about it? I don’t think, I don’t know if I did, man. ‘Cause why didn’t I land, okay, I went, ‘Cause I bought it at the hardware store. It was expandable. And then what would happen is it was black and it would scrunch up. So at the moment that all the liquid came out of it, it would shrink up like a cold wiener. And then it would be Look like a cold wiener. Very easy to store. But then when that thing gets plump again, when it’s shooting out all that water, it’s spurting outta every place. It’s cracking leaks all over the place. Just like a penis. And I’ll tell you that we bought the ones that said, oh, 100% guaranteed. And then what are you supposed to do? They break, they break, they don’t just break, and sometimes, We bought three and they were all like . They just split in the middle and like, oh, there’s just a whole section. You can’t get an expandable. So then we were so angry that we bought a flex steel, like we went to the opposite extreme. It’s like a chrome. It’s just a pipe. It’s just a pipe on a hinge. It doesn’t bend at all. It did bend. It would bend up, but it was like a little, This is not gonna leak. I can only water in this exact radius but it will never leak. What we did, and you know, honestly Christy’s the one who bought it, it was like Christy looked at those leaky wieners and she said, I’m going medieval on your ass. Like literally I’m buying the armored version of a garden hose. This is the one from the infomercial. Hmm, it’s just called Flex Steel. I think there’s an infomercial for it. Not Flex Seal, that’s an infomercial. That’s for the boats. No, no, I know it’s not the, When you want to chop a boat in half and then, ‘Cause there’s also infomercials for the expandable ones too. That’s where I fell in love with the idea. And then we ended up with, it’s called a no kink, but it’s made of different stuff than expandable, so it’s kind of expandable. Yeah, I can’t go there. It’s called no kink, You gotta go kink. I gotta go kink. So it still kinks. Yeah, because, listen, Garden hoses suck. You can’t help but kink sometimes. I mean, there’s gotta be an answer and I still haven’t found it. I gave up with the third one. It’s not leaking yet, but it is kinking even though it’s called the no kink. Well, I don’t have a record of this, ’cause again, I went to the hardware store for, ’cause I do shop local, okay, I believe in that. I went to the hardware store to get, we actually decided on a hose that is not expandable, per se, but like it gets really, really, it doesn’t shrink up, but it’s super flexible. That-what we have. And they’re black. Yes, it’s called the no kink. Okay, well I’ve got, That’s what we have. We have three of those or four of those around the house. Maybe that works. And I bought the things to wind it up, not the like crank it, wind it up, but just like this thing that sits on the side of the house and we just roll it around it. Christy wants to get a piece of pottery that I can just shove it down, Like a snake. Like a decorative, yes, it’s like a cobra coming out of a piece of pottery. You have to play an instrument to get the snake, to get the hose to come out, that’s the problem with that. I can break out my recorder. We are dadding so hard. Move on to something else. Okay. Garden hoses, man, who would’ve thought. Okay, now I’m going in chronological order and this again, this is just the stuff that I thought was notable. I bought this first thing because of you. The NeilMed, special Link brand, NeilMed sinuhaler. What? Sinuhaler, natural, non-medicated aromatherapy inhaler. So this is like you come into the office and you got something you put in your nose and you sniff. It’s a menthol stick, yeah, I got it like two years ago, maybe three, and the thing still works. Yeah, it’s amazing. I used it a few seconds ago, didn’t you see me? Yeah, so I’m not necessarily, It looks like chap stick that you throw up your nose. I do find, ’cause I’ve got a slightly deviated septum and the right nostril will sometimes be like, ah, it’s not really fully functioning this morning. It’s got a little kink in it. That Neilmed’s gonna open you up. And I , I do that and I keep it in my bag and I’ve used it probably a dozen times over the past year. And it was really good purchase. It’s super inexpensive. It kinda like makes you feel like you’re awake. But have you seen this new product? It’s all over the internet right now. And if you are on TikTok or Instagram, you’re getting ads for it, if you’re me. It’s called like, like something drops, like wake up drops. Nuh uh, I haven’t seen this. It’s caffeinated? No, no. I think it’s smelling salts. I think it’s essentially smelling salts. It’s a company that has these things that you sniff. Is it a pouch that you burst? And then it like . Like it totally wakes you up. I don’t remember the name of it, but everybody, I mean I’m getting a bunch of ads for it, ’cause I guess they know that I want that feeling. It’s probably toned down from the ones that EMTs use. I remember when my mom would always get her EMT certification, there was the smelling salts day and it’s like a little pouch. It’s kinda like, You can get ’em on Amazon, I think when the policemen get trained in how to use their tasers. You get tased and they smell it. They get tased, they line up and get tased. Well the EMTs lined up and they got smell salted. And I was curious and I took one of the pouches and you burst it and you sniff it. And boy, that was an awakening. Well it works, man, I mean, it totally works. It was almost painful. And I have to think this is a lesser version of that because you’re not knocked out. Well, it doesn’t knock you out, it brings you back. But you don’t use it when you’re knocked out, you use it just when you feel like it. If you just, there’s some people who swear by smelling salts. But you haven’t tried this, you haven’t tried this? No, but some people swear by smelling salts, like before a workout. It’s a trend and so these guys got in on that. I’m interested in that. You know, that’s akin to the NeilMed menthol sucker. But the thing is, is you don’t even use NeilMed brand, do you? Because yours is not NeilMed. It was bought for me and it lasts forever. But it is spelled N-E-I-L, so it is a different family. Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. I don’t know if you got the same brand. I actually had to go through two and then I landed on this one. The Geesta grill press steak weight burger smasher with wood handle. You stealing my thunder, man. All the stuff you’ve gotten, you got that early in the year, you didn’t tell me? No, I told you about, I forgot. I was on a quest for the perfect smash burger because it’s what my kids really, really like. Yeah, me too. I like a smash burger and a thick burger, but my family only likes, So this happened to you earlier in the year. Yeah, this is like January. And you told me about it, I totally forgot. Well, at the end of, I think at the end of 2020, I may haven’t even talked about it last year. I got one, but it wasn’t completely flat. It was like it had a ring on it and it had enough for the burger to kind of sneak up in there and you couldn’t, Yes. So I was like, this is no good. I want one that I can just smash it as thin as I possibly can. As I want it. Right, and when I was, I didn’t access this conversation because, yeah, it was three months ago, I went and got my burger smasher set. You go a set? I got a, first of all, for my Green Egg grill, I got the half-moon griddle. Yeah. So that I could smash the bur-, you can’t do that on the grates. I just, yeah. I do it inside in a pan. And then, yeah, so you gotta get the smasher, and you’re right, it cannot have a lip because then, yeah, you want it to be smashed out and for the edges to be uneven. You don’t want it to be a perfect circle. Yeah, yeah. And you gotta have the right amount of meat and you gotta measure it out. That’s dumb. You gotta really watch out for that. That’s the hottest tip I think people are gonna get today from Rhett and Link is your burger smasher cannot have a lip. Yeah. And half of ’em on Amazon, even highly rated ones, do. Yeah, And you know what else you need to get? But what did you, ’cause I went with the Geesta, and I like it because I didn’t wood handle. I didn’t even put the name brand down, but it wasn’t, mine’s fully metal, there’s no wood because wood gets stained. It looks nicer, but, But wood doesn’t, wood keeps the heat from coming into your hand. I also do recommend wearing a glove ’cause it’ll burn the back of your, Oh yeah, you gonna burn all the hairs off your knuckles. But, I mean, I’ve had some, in fact that makes me wanna do that this week, I’ve had some really good burger times. You gotta get the smash right, but then this is why I got the kit, because you also have to have a shaker ready with everything you need. So like you smash and then you shake on your salt and pepper or whatever your mixture is. It definitely needs, you want it to be salty. And then when you flip it, you flip it and you salt, you shake it again. You gotta have a smasher hand and a shaker hand. And the grill is so hot that I gotta do it fast. So I’ve got like a shaker that’s, it’s big. It’s not like, you can’t shake on something and shake on something else. You gotta have one shaker that has everything, like the deli style and it’s pretty big. So it’s like a three inch diameter. Well, you gotta get your ratios right if you do that. But then you’re shaking kind of, I mean, I’m just doing mostly salt and a little bit of pepper. Yeah. And I might put a little garlic powder, A little bit. In the meat before I mix it. But with my grill and with the timing and everything, and they grill so fast, I can’t regulate it like a stove top. So it’s like, if it gets really hot, you just gotta be fast. So I don’t have time to be shaking two things. Well that’s the other thing, too. I mean, it’s cool to be outside and do it, but I’ve actually, and I’ve got that nice smoker-slash-grill that I use for a lot of things. But I have transitioned to burgers and steaks inside, man. I’m doing burgers and steaks inside. I’m doing steak in a pan, because if you go to a fine steakhouse, they’re not grilling there. I just wanna be able to use the grill. They’re doing it on a, well, they’re doing like a broiler, but. There’s a challenge to it. I’m not great at it ’cause there is timing. The third thing in the kit is an extra wide spatula. Because when you smash that burger down, Yeah And it gets, I like to make ’em really wide. And then you gotta have a real strong spatch that you can just throw underneath that thing and flip it real fast. And then you cheese ’em on the grill, right? Cheese ’em on the grill. And then the other thing they’ll try to sell you in a kit that I opted out of is a cover. You don’t need that. Which then you can kind of, to help steam, like you put the, you flip it, salt it, put the cheese on it, and then put a cover on it to really help it melt. But I opted out of that. Unnecessary. I thought it was unnecessary. Okay, what else? I love a good smash burger. Oh. We’re going back to you. Already, ’cause that was me? No, I started that. Your smash was only a smasher. Yeah. You didn’t even have the other stuff. And then I said, yeah, I got the same thing. No, I mean, yeah, I already had the spatula and stuff. It’s just, I’ll go again. I got a whole category of stuff Okay. Related to the cat. It’s like, you get another type of animal in the house, like getting a second dog was one thing, but getting Saka in the house and then coming to grips with all the stuff that we needed to do, it’s like, okay, now there’s that chair that he always sits in, there’s hair all over that thing. And then Christy’s just scratching it with her fingernails. Like there has to be a way, so we got the ChomChom, which is like, it’s basically a lint roller that then it creates a cat hair log that you open the back of it and this big log of cat hair comes outta it. And you feed that to your dogs? And then you feed that to the dogs. No, you just feed the cat shit to the dogs, apparently. Yeah, right. Which brings me to the other thing, which was multiple litter boxes. Yeah. It’s like we had just the open cover litter box, if you’re a member of the Mythical Society and you come to our monthly AMAs, you’ve heard me regale this story, but I’ll tell it, go large here on Ear Biscuits. Jade is not into this, but Jasper loves to eat that cat dookie. Gosh, it’s so gross. I’m embarrassed that I’ve got something in my house that can’t help but eat cat shit. Like, I don’t know what it says about me, but I feel like it says something about me that I didn’t wanna be. But if you had to choose one being in your house to eat the shit of another being in your house, you would probably pick the animals. Yes. And you’d probably go dog eats cat shit. That makes me feel better about it. So we’re trying to get a type of litter box that Saka will still use, but that Jasper can’t get into. And we went through, we got a big bucket type that he crawls down inside of it. And then that was working until we noticed that every time I would go upstairs into my walk-in closet in my bedroom that I would smell, I smelled something that I described as like a meaty smell. Oh gosh. I was like, is there something that like, have I worked out and lost a piece of clothing that has gotten something growing on it that’s like it’s a very deep dark smell, Meaty? That’s almost meaty, but like gross meaty. And then Christy discovered that the duffle bag underneath all of my hanging clothes in my section of the closet has been the depository of Saka’s pee, not dookie. Saka has been crawling into that thing and just peeing in my duffel bag again and again and again. And we basically traced that to stress related to Lily leaving for college and him not being happy about that. I peed in a duffle bag when I was sad. So then we had to clean all of that out and we had to buy this angry orange detergent, deterrent is the word. I was about to say, you didn’t keep that duffle bag? No, we got rid of the duffle bag. We used some orange detergent on the duffle bag. I now keep all my gym clothes in it. No, we had to buy angry orange deterrent to spray on everything that the cat wasn’t supposed to be eating or peeing in. Orange oil. Yeah, so we sprayed in the area that the duffel bag used to be and then was very diligent about closing our door. But then, Is that why you smell like oranges and not shit now? Or not piss? Yeah, like meaty cat pee. But what we thought was that he wasn’t using his litter box but was instead using my duffel bag was because he got too big for the litter box. So now I have this whole purchase history of buying a bigger litter box that he can jump inside. But then he still didn’t want to use that. And then when we switched to a bigger litter box that he can crawl in the side of, that’s when Jasper started eating his dookie. And so it’s like one problem leads to another problem. So now I’m on the verge of buying kitty a litter box that is robotic that, Every time Jasper comes up, it just scolds him. Every time the cat poops, it scrapes it up and puts it in a place. But then it’s like, I don’t know, the maintenance of that. I don’t know, there’s lots of questions there. Yeah, but you’re already talking about how if Lily It’s a lot of trouble. Decides to take the cat with her next year, that you’re gonna be sad. Are you gonna fight for this cat? This conversation has given me renewed perspective because I’m also looking, like we bought a calming diffuser that emits the pheromones that a mama cat puts out to make the baby cats not fight with each other that also makes cats chill out. So it’s like we’re trying to deal with the cat’s stress. And then it also tracks the cat to the area where we want the cat to pee and not in the duffle bag that’s no longer there. So there’s that, multiple litter boxes, orange stuff, calming diffuser, ChomChom hair thing, and a Litter Genie, which is a fancy thing that as soon as the cat craps we scoop up the crap and we put it in a thing that then it puts it, it’s like a Diaper Genie, but for cat shit. Yeah. So we got, I like that, I recommend that. You didn’t use the robotic one. Haven’t gone there yet. Hmm, okay. They’re really pricey. And I’m also very skeptical if Saka’s going to go for it or if then he’s just gonna start shitting in the plants, again, which was the first problem we had. Well, I don’t have any cat-related purchases. I did, however, buy 40 large pinky mice. What? Oh, you’re talking about food for a snake. You still have that snake? Yeah, I mean, he’s still a part of the family, Moose, the snake. You buy 40 at a time, you said? He eats 40 at a time, no. He eats like one a week if Shepherd keeps up with it. Yeah, so I have like a handful of mice in the freezer, which Jessie isn’t happy about, but they’re in a bag that’s in another bag. There’s other animal parts in our fridge that we eat. It’s not that big of a deal. I mean you gotta, why don’t you put it in the fridge in the garage? It is in the fridge in the garage. Okay, that’s better. Let me, I’ll rattle off a couple here. “Sex Criminals Volume One, One Weird Trick.” What? This is a graphic novel. How graphic? Sex Criminals. This is a series about a woman who discovers that when she has an orgasm that time essentially stops in the afterglow. And then she meets a man who after he orgasms the same thing happens and they can interact with each other and do things in the afterglow. Uh. This is a famous graphic novel or comic series. What were you googling that you discovered this? I was googling, Can I stop time with my orgasms? Yeah, I was like, yeah, why does it feel like time has stopped after, no. I was googling highly rated graphic novels for no reason at all. And so I ended up buying this one and a few other ones. I think it misinterpreted the adjective graphic. It’s actually not that graphic, it’s very funny, and it’s very well done. I didn’t, actually I haven’t moved beyond volume one, not ’cause I don’t want to, but ’cause I feel like I learned what I needed to learn for the purposes that I was trying to learn them. What occasions sitting down to enjoy, what’s it called, Sex Crime? “Sex Criminals, “Volume One, One Weird Trick.” Like is this a before-bed reading? Is this downstairs by the fireplace? I don’t do any reading next to the fireplace. That only happens in movies, man. I mean, you got a really great place to do some. I bought it for research purposes and I just read it. I read it in a couple of nights, like a couple of nights, I was like, okay, I get it. Dude, I don’t know what you’re trying to research, but you’re not gonna stop time by ejaculating. No, believe me, I’ve tried. I do recommend it, I don’t know if that’s gonna be my rec. I’m gonna pick one of these things to be my official rec. That was sort of a weird one that stood out when I was like, oh, what did I, oh, I know why I bought that. And I bought a couple of other ones that are really well-respected, sort of timeless graphic novels that I actually can’t remember what they are at this point. Nothing’s been as good as Watchmen to me. I’m a normie when it comes to graphic novels, so. Huh. Can I borrow it? Yeah, sure. Just put it under your mattress. Like when Trent gave me that Penthouse. Some of these will have some associated background and some I might just say. And if you have a question about ’em, ask it. If you don’t, I might just move on. Okay? That’s your right. This is in reverse chronological order. So I’m starting with the most recent things and going deeper into the year. Backwards. I could have made it more interesting, but it’s this simple. First item, Best Maid dill juice. Deal juice? Dill juice. D-I-L-L. Dill juice. Okay, you’re talking about pickle juice? Yeah. All right, I know what this one is. Right, I told you about this. You made some hot chicken sandwiches at your home. Right, I made some, This is a sore subject for me. Yeah, well, we can talk about that because your wife had some choice words for you at your get-together at your house the other night. I didn’t appreciate that. Well, I didn’t say anything about it. Well, what you did say was, tomorrow I’m making hot chicken sandwiches. I’ve done research and I’m gonna make these at home. Did you know that they brine the chicken in dill pickle juice and that’s the secret? Yeah. And I’m doing this tomorrow and we’re really excited about it. And I was kinda locked in on Christy as I was talking about it ’cause I knew that she would care more than anyone else. Oh, and she did, and she was like, I’m excited about it too, can I get one? Man, I wish, and then she turned to me, she’s like, I wish you would do stuff like this. I wish that you would come up with something to cook. And then the next thing you know, you’re cooking it and then we’re eating it. Right, yeah, that’s kinda how it works. I’m like, I didn’t know what to say. Well, it’s fine because I also closed talking about it with the promise that I’m gonna become, like of my own little popup, and I’m gonna be making these things. Now I was perfecting this recipe by doing it for my family. And boy, I got it right on the first try. And so next time, and I’m gonna do this when I make brisket and when I make pulled pork and I’m gonna make more, I believe in this. This doesn’t make me mad. I’m gonna make more than I need and I’m gonna take some to my friends, including your family, for free. And you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna gladly, Eat it, Take it. But then, if it becomes a thing, I’ll be gladly to make it our thing that I could help with, you know. Well, it’s not gonna be, Promotion. It’s not a moneymaking scheme. This is just a generosity thing. And in fact, I can help with the content, the ancillary content. The last piece of the puzzle is pies. I wanna figure out how to make amazing pies. And so I bring you, actually, the whole idea, I was gonna call it thighs and pies, but it’s more than just thighs. What about p-thighs? It’s also barbecue and it’s other things. A chicken sandwich that’s made with the thigh is the best, man, nobody does that. Lindsay who works with Jessie was at the house last night and she had been at the house during the day. And I got home and I was like, where’s, ’cause I made this this weekend and I had like six pieces of this chicken left over and I got home last night and it was all gone. And I was like, oh, y’all ate all the chicken. And then Lindsay said, and she said, I ate a piece straight outta the fridge cold. She said that is the best fried chicken I have ever had in my life. But it’s not just fried chicken, it is Nashville hot chicken, right? Yeah, yeah. So if you’re saying that’s the best fried chicken you’ve had, that’s like a different category. Well, you don’t, here’s the thing, when I finish frying it and I put it in the fridge, I had not yet, it had the spicy stuff in the dredge and coating on it, but it did not have the sauce on it, which is a separate step that you do after you take it off the grill. But I didn’t want the sauce to make the breading soggy for leftovers. So they just ate it just straight up chicken. So it kind of comes across like a Bojangles Cajun chicken, which is really good. Did you deep fry it? Yeah, yeah. Or pan fry it? I fried it In like a 3/4-inch of peanut oil in big pan. Okay. So yeah, just like four minutes, turn it, that kind of thing. Anyway, that’s just one, I mean I can’t talk Keep going. About everything that much. But that was a sore spot because your wife is upset about it. I’m gonna just re-, She wasn’t upset. You might have to decipher what it is I bought because I’m literally reading word for word the name of the title on Amazon. Okay. Kohler K40090 reveal quiet close with grip tight bumpers, round front toilet seat, white. Round front toilet seat? Had to buy a toilet seat for my boys’ bathroom because they’re so rough on everything. They broke it? They broke the toilet seat. Or they permanently stained it? I think they set too hard on it or maybe they peed too hard on it. Oh god. And it was the kind of thing that two boys in a bathroom with a broken toilet seat turned into two boys in a bathroom with a toilet with no seat for longer than we should have let that happen. The seat wasn’t even on there? No seat. So they only peed in it? Yeah, and they came to my bathroom to take a dump or the guest bathroom to take a dump. And it took about six weeks for me to get tired of that. Oh gosh, did you think about getting a cushiony one that it’s got little holes in it? Well, it’s interesting that you ask this because when the toilet seat came and I said, hey Shep, hey come here, I’m gonna show you how to install a toilet seat. This is something you should know, learn from your dad. And the first thing he said, he was like, did you get a good one? I’m just like, what, was he thinking about the soft kind? Because I was like, what do you mean? He was like, you know, like a good one. I had a babysitter who had a good one. Old people, they’ll have a cushiony one and it’s, Sometimes they got carpet on ’em. Oh my, yes. It’s the most unsanitary thing here’s I’ve ever heard of. I think you’re getting something confused. The top has carpet on it. A lot of old people, they’ll put like a crocheted toilet lid cover, but it’s not on the seat itself. It’s just decorative. I think that was a fad. I think that the soft toilet seat is asking too much out of life. If you have a crocheted lid and you lift that thing up, you should be expecting a, it’s vinyl, I believe, it’s like plasticy, and then it has like foam inside of it. My grandma had one. And when you sit on it, the first time it’s like, oh, this is pleasant, but then it starts to sprout leaks and when you sit on it, it’ll, Air Little pinholes of air will just come out around your hips. Feels good though. But then you sink down into hardness. Well, old people have it, I think, because as you get older you lose muscle and fat, Butt gets bony. And you got a bony butt. So I don’t have a bony butt yet, I will, and at that point I’ll get a soft one. Shepherd will be happy. Golden saffron finest pure premium, all red saffron threads, grade a plus, highest grade saffron for tea, paella, rice, desserts, no artificial, no preservatives, two grams. So this is a, It’s another cooking expedition I’ve been on. Yeah, a lot of cooking stuff. I’ll also just throw in, Big paella. 22-inch carbon steel paella pan, 55 centimeters, bought at the same time. 22 inch. Yeah. A two-foot diameter? It’s a very large paella pan. Now, as you know, out in my grill area that just made an appearance on Fancy Fast Food, I heard about that. ‘Cause we smoked some stuff for the McRib. I didn’t watch it, I wasn’t in it. You may not have seen, but I got a big burner out there because I wanted the option to make a big paella for a lot of people who come over when the pandemic is over. Pan-dicament, the pan predicament. Pan-dicament. But again, That’s a good name for it. I’m getting my recipes on lock before I share them with my friends. So I’m testing them on my family. You’re really fixating on the hosting component and I think that is driving your culinary, You know me, I like to create experiences. That’s why I did the game night and I love, I wanna, and I like the idea of like, hey everybody, we’re gonna have this giant-ass paella that I made. And I like to experience things. Right, you like to eat things that other people make for you. Hey listen, so do I, nothing wrong with that. I like to be served. And as you know, as we talked about on the show, saffron is something that you and I both didn’t really like when they made some kind of saffron dish on the show. We talked about how it tasted like pool water. What I learned is that a little bit, I mean a tiny bit of saffron goes a very long way. I use this tiny little pinch, like four or five little strands of this stuff in like a 14-inch paella. It comes in threads? Is that what you’ve read in the, Yeah, yeah, yeah, threads. Like is it a plant or is it, Well, it’s not an animal. Well, because it’s golden and it comes in threads, I start to think of it as something that Rumpelstiltskin would fabric. It’s like that, little threads that long, anyway, It’s fabric. I’m on the saffron train ’cause I know that a little bit goes a long way. My first paella, chicken and also I got rice and chorizo from Spain and it’s absolutely heavenly. I mean, you’re gonna love it. You’re gonna absolutely love it. I’ll do it for you in the 22-inch pan, which I still haven’t used because I’ve used a small pan ’cause I’m not gonna feed my entire family with a 22-inch paella, that’s crazy. It gets a bit frou-frou, like the fried chicken, Paella frou-frou? When you’re like, I got the thing from Spain. If you’re gonna do it, do it right. Just let me, if I may. You may. When you’re hosting people, hold some of the details close to the vest, okay. Because you run the risk of, Oh, I’m not gonna tell them what’s in it. Yeah, if you’re like, well you know, I got this one, it’s kind of like, Well I’m not gonna use that voice if I say it . Yeah, you just gotta be, you gotta give them a little bit. If people are really interested, then you can give ’em a little bit more, but don’t just give them everything, like, well I sourced this from Spain and I sourced this from Switzerland and Rumpelstiltskin himself, You wait. I got him on the phone. You wait until you taste. Hey, I’m, You wait until you taste the Spanish chorizo. I. Oh gosh. I mean, I’m thinking about it right now, my mouth is watering. Let ’em, yeah, let us taste it and then see how much of the details we want. Here’s something a little less exciting. I mean, I got a list too. My latest purchase, my biggest purchase of the entire year I’ve been thinking about for over a year and I finally pulled the trigger on it because Christy gave me such a hard time, she’s like, just get the television. Oh, that’s a big television. I enjoyed it the other night, watched “Us” on it. Not us, I didn’t watch us, I didn’t watch “Good Mythical Morning,” I watched the movie “Us” on it. Yeah. I was like, the wall in our entertainment room, I had such, my TV was too small. Too small, I didn’t say anything about it, but I thought it a lot. It was dwarfed by the wall, and by the couch, and everything. It just wasn’t proportional. But I bought that television for that room. Yeah, that was a good place to watch things. But no, I’m saying I bought the television that was too small, the one that was in there for years. You went too small too early. I went too small right from the get-go. And then I’m like, I didn’t wanna return it. And then I was like, I don’t deserve a bigger television even though this one’s too small for the room. And then I’m like, every time I watch television I’m a little mad about it. But then I just can’t justify buying one of these bigger televisions. The question you should always be asking about a television is, is this too big, not is this too small? If you’re asking, is this too small, the answer is yes and you shouldn’t buy it. Is this too big, you’re in the right place, you’re getting close. Yeah, and you know what? I finally did it, a couple weeks ago I bought the television and I got the Apple TV. You know the thing that put it over the edge was at Mike’s house, he’s got an Apple TV and I’m like, what is this amazing image on your screen? And it’s just a screensaver like, Of a city. Slo-mo drone footage of flying over Los Angeles. And you can see, Everything. Inside of, you can see like inside of people’s offices. Like I stood in front of his television And orifices. And I just watched it and I was like, how do I get one of these? And he was like, well it’s the screensaver for Apple TV. But it won’t look good. if it’s not 4K. It won’t work good. So I backed into getting this big old television and I gotta say we’re enjoying it. And I should have done it years ago. Yeah, think of all the movies that could have been a little bit bigger. A little bit bigger. You’ll never get that back. Gotta go back and watch ’em all. But I thought about it for a year before I actually, Yeah, I don’t typically think that long. I think that might be your issue. As soon as you think of it, you just gotta do it. Literra men’s Can’t do it. Six pack running ankle socks, low cut, performance athletic custom, cushion, tab sock. Okay, so you got some socks. I pull the trigger on these particular socks quarterly because this is my only way to combat the problem of the missing socks in my family. Now that I’ve got two boys who are, I mean Locke especially comes into my room and takes my socks and they typically do not come back. Yeah. These athletic socks that we need for working out, or walking, or whatever. Yeah. There’s just some sort of monster that eats ’em. And so I’d have to like reload six pairs quarterly is the only way to just remain socked in my house. Are you still doing the plan that we talked about a while back that was like they’re all the same type and they’re all the same color? ’cause I’ve done that for the most part and I love it. And then your kids’ socks are different? Lincoln has the same socks. Yeah. Lincoln and I basically share socks. Well yeah, that’s what me and Locke do. And I’m sure Shepherd is getting close to being a part of that. So they’re all the same color? Essentially, yeah, I mean these are all just white ankle socks. And then I’ve got black crew socks and those are basically the only socks that I own. You know what, I actually bought some socks too. Oh. In preparation for Is that one of your four? Me and Christy’s trip. Actually it’s not, no. Well, look at that. I was like, I’m not gonna put socks on the list. I mean, I’m sure Rhett wouldn’t be talking about something. Yeah, not gonna do that. Like socks. I got some hiking socks and I got some for me and I got some for Christy, they’re kind of matching. She hated ’em. But I was like, you know, they’re very functional. Hiking socks are important. They’re important. Lifeboard, portable floor to enhance yoga, Pilates, or ballet barre exercise at home on carpet or outdoors. Portable floor? Yeah. So a hard floor to go over carpet, but there’s no carpet in your house. This was for my solo trip and any subsequent camping trip, I have to do my back exercises every single morning. And I was like, when I did my solo trip before this most recent solo trip, I didn’t have anything and I was out next to Joshua Tree and I found a piece of plywood that someone had put next to a fire. And I took that plywood and I did all my back exercises on the plywood. ‘Cause you’re having to put your knees and then lay down on the ground. Yeah, I have to do all this stuff that you gotta be on a hard surface. And so it turns out they make this plastic thing that, again, is for people who are like, I’m gonna go do Pilates in the grass in Central Park. So I want to have a board to do it or whatever. It rolls up? It’s just two pieces that fit together like this, like they kind of come together. Did you use it? Yeah, I used it. I gotta figure out a better way to travel with it. When I’m doing the solo trip, it was no big deal ’cause I got so much room in the car for myself. But we’re going camping with the boys soon and I have to take it and I don’t know exactly what I’m gonna do. You could also use it as a sunshield when you park on the windshield. It’s too big. But you can’t store it there. You could strap it to the roof. I thought about that, but I got the tent up there and it’s just like, I gotta put it under it or something. You know what, put it in the attic underneath that big bowl you bought. Gimme another one and then I’ll hit you with one Jacinto men’s casual cotton shorts, three-quarter jogger capri crop pants below knee shorts with pockets, light gray, 34. Okay, so long shorts, shorts that go past your knee. Capri pants, I bought capri pants. They’re called shorts, which helps. But if you wanna call ’em capri pants, go for it. I like them, they’re comfortable. Have I seen you wear these? No, I wear ’em at the house sometimes. Do they have a drawstring, or do they kind of cinch at the ends, or are they just flapping? It’s just like sweats. How’s that going for you? They’re comfortable. I enjoy them. As the weather begins to cool down, I can do my stretches outside in these. But your calf still stays cool. Yeah, but my knees are very warm. Okay, next thing I bought was utopia care scissors, silver, 8.99. Now these things are professional grade texturizing scissors with finger inserts. If you have small fingers, you put these finger inserts in there so that it’s still tight on your finger. This is a scissor that it only cuts half of whatever’s in it. So it’s like a thinning shear? Yeah. I’ve seen Ana use these on both of us. And I was watching her closely and then I’m like, you know what, I’m cutting my own hair in quarantine and my hair is so thick, I gotta up my game. So I had to buy some of these. It’s a bit scary to use a thinning shear because, ‘Cause you get close to the base and you cut and it feels like, And then cut, Cut and comb. And then you comb it out and all of a sudden a huge clump of hair comes out that’s like, I mean a handful. And then you just, You sure you’re doing it right. You keep doing it. I mean, your hair looks the same. Well Ana has now cut my hair again in the parking lot. So I’m not doing it anymore. But you already, you can. Oh, it definitely helped. Right. But it takes guts, man. It takes approximately, I wouldn’t do it. The same amount of guts it takes for me to purchase a wallet, or a television, or anything really to cut, to thin out my own hair. But now you’re ready for any situation in which, and you could cut my hair, you used to cut my hair for a very long time. I’d gladly cut it. Are you, is that, are you making a suggestion? No, no, no, no, nothing. What else did you buy? Well, I will just say quickly, I’m not gonna read the whole thing ’cause it’s too long, but I did buy phone screen protectors. I think I talked about this earlier. I just found that the screen protectors and the phone cases that you get when, at your provider, like if you are an AT&T, Verizon, whatever, and you buy that stuff along with your phone, you’re gonna pay really, really high prices for all that stuff. Like one of those tempered glass screen protectors, it’ll be like 35 bucks if you buy it at the store. But you can get a three pack on Amazon. Let’s see, what is the price of this thing? Three pack for 15.99. 16 bucks you get three, three! This is something that I know. I mean, for years I will be in a place looking for something and I’ll be on my phone looking at it from somewhere else just because I’m like, man, I could either have it right now or I could probably get it for 10% cheaper online or get a slightly different one or at least feel validated in my purchase. And then I’ll do that. And even when it comes to phone cases or screens, I’ll go through all of that trouble, and then you know what I’ll do? I won’t buy anything. That’s like getting ready to watch Netflix and you don’t end up watching anything. Yeah, you just look at the menu. Right, don’t be that. I mean I don’t have a, there’s no screen protector on my phone. I mean, I do have a case, but I don’t have a screen protector. I got that case for $7, $7 case, and it seems just as good as anything. I got this screen protector for $0 ’cause I don’t have one. That’s an even better deal. Exactly. Seasense air horn jumbo, eight ounce. Eight-ounce air horn? What do you mean? So like a canned air? Yeah, this is from my rap career that’s on the side. I got this, Emergency horn for boating. When I went on my solo trip, it’s just a general sort of survival thing. Also, it’s been shown to be effective in scaring away mountain lions or bears. But I also got bear spray, which incidentally you cannot get on Amazon because they will not ship it to me in California. And I don’t know if that’s a state thing, I mean they sell it on Amazon. So the only way to get bear spray is to buy it from a retail store like REI and then go pick it up. Huh. I got that, too, but that’s not one of my purchases. So did you walk around with a belt with bear spray and a horn on? I didn’t end up hiking. I couldn’t, the place that I needed it, I couldn’t get into because the national forests were closed. But I didn’t know that was gonna be the case before, because of the fires. Did you blast the horn just to test it? No, ’cause I feel like that’s like a fire extinguisher and you know. Yeah, yeah. Limited pressure. It’s eight ounces. I don’t know how many seconds that translates into. Yeah, what’s a blast? You should have bought two just so you’ll know how long you have to blast. Along that same line, the next three purchases, which I’ll go through quickly, were all for my solo trip, Atomic Bear paracord bracelet, two pack. Atomic Bear? So that’s just the brand. But this is basically a little bracelet that’s got a fire starter built into it, and also like a paracord, it’s just like so you’re completely ready for anything. This was if I was gonna go on, What do you mean? What would you use with a paracord, like a parachute string? Having rope I’ve been told is very important when you’re in a survival situation. I don’t exactly know what I would use it for, but I think if my life depended on it, I would figure it out real quick. Apparently rope is very important because it’s in all these survival things. But you don’t even know how you would use it. You bought a bracelet. I bought a bracelet that was a fire starter. Yeah, and it also has a loud whistle and an emergency knife all built into just the bracelet. I didn’t know what kind of stuff I was gonna get into. And it was real cheap. Also got a 6.5-foot pop-up, changing shower privacy tent, portable utility shelter room for camping, shower, toilet, bathroom, trade shows, beach spray, tan popup. Beach spray tan popup? Green. Yeah. Okay, so basically a shower curtain for camping. Yeah, because I was gonna be taking showers and pooping just next to my car and I didn’t know where I was gonna go. How did that go? I never pooped or showered in a place where somebody could see me, so I just showered and pooped in the open. So you didn’t use it? I opened it up one time to be like, let’s see what this feels like. I’m bringing it on our trip. Did you start a fire with you, No, I couldn’t, fires were illegal, you couldn’t start fires. See, and I don’t like being this guy, like what I’m doing to you right now, I do to myself and it’s nothing good comes of it. Like whenever I have to shop for something or whenever I find myself shopping, I’m making a decision as if I have to defend myself to somebody. Like I’m treating you the way I feel like someone will treat me with every single purchase. Like I’m gonna be grilled and have to justify everything. Seriously, like that’s how I interact. But you’re justifying it to yourself. But that’s not how it feels in my brain, it actually feels like I’m gonna be, what’s the word, where somebody in a courtroom is asking a lot of questions? Interrogated. Yeah, that’s more of like a criminal. It’s interesting because, But yeah, it’s an inner critic thing. Again, the ever, And here I am putting it on you. The ever teased Enneagram episode, we’re both self pres, I’m a self pres three, you’re a self pres one. And I think that’s one of the reasons that, I mean, I’m also an impulse buyer, but what I do is I tend to envision a scenario and I think about all the things that I need to have and be prepared for. And then I’m like, oh man, I’m gonna be camping next to somebody, I’m gonna need this. I just bought this toilet that it’s basically this bag I’m gonna take a shit in, I don’t want somebody to watch me do this, I wonder if there’s some sort of privacy thing. And then all of a sudden, there it is for 20 bucks and you just buy it. And the fact that you didn’t use it is not, it doesn’t make you feel bad about the purchase. I want to have everything, I wanna be completely prepared. Hashtag Ear Biscuits. We’ll be back at you next week. And remember, let us know what you think by sending us your voice, 1-888 Earpod. One. One. Hey, my name’s Justin, just thought I’d reach out. I just started listening to your podcast, six foot-seven, and I really feel like me and Rhett have a tall connection to where I can feel the sensitivity of his tallness emanating from wherever he’s at on this Earth. We’ll leave it at that. Have a great day. Just know I’m always feeling that tall connection. To watch more Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist on the right. 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