we’ve decided to show you some embarrassing photos we took of ourselves and we were 16 I’m Haley I’m India I’m Lina we’re from Washington Iowa let us talk about that good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by our documentary looking for miss Locklear about the search for our first grade teacher miss Locklear you can pick it up at our store rhettandlink.com/store you can also rent it on Amazon or YouTube we’re about to delve into an embarrassing strattice in our lives we’re willing to go there again we’re willing to sacrifice we’re willing to dig deep into the annals of things that we shouldn’t ever want to share with people and then expose it okay so let’s see let’s tell a little bit of the backstory again we grew up in Buies Creek North Carolina small town we’ve established many times on the show not a lot to do and Link had one of those disposable well I had an epiphany one day oh yeah just usable opit no it was none of my epiphanies are disposable but all of my cameras when I was 16 were disposable mhm so that’s what you were gonna say wasn’t it yeah you were gonna say camera you had a disposable camera i I don’t think you should start with the Epiphany you should start with the disposable camera and you were like yeah I remember specifically you said we’ve got a few I’ve got a few pictures left on this or like half the role still on this let’s just go take some pictures let me each other now let me let me pause for one second okay back in the day cameras had film in them and there was even the cheap ones had film and they would you would dial through it and it would have a little number and the number would start at like 24 I think they know this every okay so there was a certain amount left and yeah that was my idea let’s just take less let’s finish out the about the role so we can get this developed at ker drugs and see what we got because I don’t even know what’s on the beginning of the role but the end is gonna be us taking pictures of ourselves and then your epiphany you said my mom has this flower my mom has a flower maybe we should do something where we put the flower in every single picture well let’s go ahead and get into these so we’re going to show you some of these pictures and we’ll explain more as we go okay so this is me 16 years old and that that above me is well that’s the unpainted water towel you kind of had to deal with the surroundings that you were given and in our case it was things like water towers and as you can see I’m holding a fake flowers like the type that you put on the gravestone if you didn’t want to visit it that often and put real flowers and here’s the first one of you I’m also wearing a sweatshirt as you can see a burgundy one and you’re in front of an old abandoned church which is like two miles from my house at the time and I am holding the flower as you see it’s almost framed out but if you’ll notice you’re not looking at the camera but we and none of these photos are we looking at the camera because at the time we thought that was our cooler we thought it was artistic it was just cool to not know we weren’t trying to be cool we thought that there was some artistic integrity in these photos can you believe that let’s look at the third one this is a nice profile shot of me and some geeks on a on a palm those are swans that’s what made it artist oh yeah there’s a white and you’ve got your hunting boots on like you’re thinking I’m gonna eat me wanted him sworn if I could just get hold of a shotgun I could kill one maybe two two swans would one shell I think that this that was the last time I actually wore a hat now I will say I made a mistake in this one I framed out the flower and here’s you you know water is a theme and in at least two of these it looks like i’m thinking about jumping yeah we didn’t smile in any of these because of course as you know that’s not our test it’s not artistic at all you gotta have a flower you can’t look at the camera and you got us not smile we took our ideas so seriously you know I there was no part of us when we were taking these photos there was no no conversation between us is like you know this is kinda this is kind of stupid or this is funny in any way this is funny no this was totally sincere in the back of our mind we thought you’d go to like the local library and they would have put art photos on display like the most amazing photos that ever taken by Harnett County resident like we could be like the flower series were threatened link we could win honorable mention at like the County Fair it’s scary it was also kind of it was fun to make believe that we were directing each other and that we were professional photographers why don’t you stand beside the dead inside no I know I’m not gonna get all of the dead inside of the shot I’m just gonna get enough father you could say anything it could say death end but don’t look at the camera whatever you do oh and why don’t you put the flower in the dead end sign that will be that will be very artistic there’s definitely a theme with mine you’ve got me like at the church contemplating the deeper things of life and you’ve got me looking like I’m about to jump off a bridge and then you’ve got me in front of a dead inside I don’t know you tell me was that trying to tell you something yeah that you wanted to off me no just that uh you need to you need to think about these things but look no a dead end live bait oh wow see that there was a theme man you wanted to kill me now the theme was that we were just very artistic I think the theme was hey look there’s another sign why don’t you sit down in his chair beside it you might want to put the kids to bed for these next couple of photos because there was this sign on an abandoned abandoned convenience store actually was from a sign it was a graffiti and this is very much Harnett County style graffiti we did not do this graffiti and it said just posed in front of it he said these nuts and we decided you know what I should go out there I should stand right in the middle of Dee’s and nuts and we should take a picture and you know what the interesting ironic thing about this one I’m looking right at the camera really yep and you’ve got the flower coming out of your pants yeah there’s too much too much symbolism there yeah that’s a little T right on the nose I think the flower was coming out of your belt loop okay I think it wasn’t let’s just say it was in your belt loop okay all right we got a few more year okay now listen for these last two photos we debated whether even to show these photos to you we both decided we were not going to include these two photos and then you know what we changed our mind we said we’re going all in we’re digging deep and we’re we’re putting ourselves out there for you so these last ones are against our better judgment of a taking them and be showing them to you now I don’t know why we thought it was a good idea to take our shirts off well because it wasn’t as you can see from the photo we’re next to a road a road that presumably people were driving down at some frequency and you know everybody knew each other in Buies Creek so it’s just like I just could go you know there’s somebody out there right now who drove by and they’re like there’s link taking a picture of Rhett with his shirt off yeah he’s got a flower in his back pocket did we think did did the photo shoot more from being a artistic – we thought we were models or something this is so troubling I thought I was a back model now there is a house in the photo someone could have been looking out of that window right there scared calling the cops seeing this thing unfold and of course not to be outdone I took my shirt off and you get like a spread-eagle stance opposed posed at the backside of a barn it looks like I’m taking a leak I would have been so worried about these sticks in your old kids that I’ve had I found them today I mean if our parents had found these photos there’s a number of things they could have easily of conclude and not the least of which is being trying to be an Abercrombie & Fitch model yeah yeah all right so we’ve decided to try to redeem these embarrassing photos by grouping them together and making an emotionally-charged slideshow here is our artistic slideshow complete with voiceover I cherished this this flower it is the only thing I have left in this world this steeple makes me feel so small is that a belfry one of their beds in there those geese make me feel so sad wait are those swans well then I’m happy if I were a salmon and it was mating season could I jump up this waterfall yes minnows are two for a dollar I have 16 dollars how many minutes can I get I need a calculator look sad must look sad sad is artistic if I had a scarf this would be perfect there’s nothing like being in a barn I’m marking my territory this is my barn I’m way taller than that water tower like way taller Dee’s what Dee’s what these nuts so we welcome you mythical beasts out there watching this hopefully you’re still watching after not being scared away what what do you think we were thinking and have you ever done anything that is reminiscent of this and what were you thinking I mean Facebook exists now these people are you know this would be on Facebook okay kids are taking these photos putting them on Facebook okay prepare to fight the Death Star it’s right over there well the round thing that’s kind of like half-built yeah it’s like a it’s like a manmade planet and it has I gotta in it has like a depression a depression on top and we’re supposed to be the guys who destroy it I don’t I think there’s a weakness in it though it looks like if you go through that whole area and then you go through this like valley of you know you structures you can I think you can get to this little little place that’s impossible to hit listen let’s not go for that where are you getting this information I just shit I can see like an eagle to it let’s just get a coffee or something yeah you know the food’s dope cap it’s really not that big of a deal I mean yeah being someone else do it subservient to these people somebody you know somebody younger somebody let somebody else save the galaxy over good gracious anyway you got a camera let’s take our shirts off