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(Link laughing) – [Stevie] This is a good out of context episode for someone to click on. – You’re kind of undermining the efficacy of the promotion by saying in a way that- – Hey, I’ll use my Greg voice, my new Greg voice. – People can’t understand. – I’m really excited about the Climate Reality Project, the Climate Reality Project. The Climate Reality Project. – [Stevie] I don’t think this is make it better. – Let’s just- – We seriously believe in the Climate Reality Project. – Climaterealityproject.org/donate. – The reality is there’s a climate crisis, y’all. We contributed to it. – I love my mom. I wanna make sure I’m giving her something that is worth, worthy. – [Stevie] You are here today to determine what the worst of these mother’s gifts is and Emily is here to help you and by here I mean virtually. Emily, hello. – [Emily] Hi, yes, I’m here to give my opinions. I am not a mother nor do I plan to be because of these trash gifts. – Oh, wow, okay. – Wow. – You’re saying no just because of the gifts. – They’re that bad. All right, bring in the first one, what is it. – [Stevie] One is a cookware set. – Now, Emily, are you saying specifically or you’re saying that in general giving your mom a cookware set is a bad Mother’s Day gift? – [Emily] Here’s why it’s a bad Mother’s Day gift. – In general, she’s saying. – [Emily] You’re giving your mother a gift so she can make food for you so that she can do things for you. – Yeah. – Yeah, yeah, I see. – [Emily] My opinion, she’s like oh, thanks. This is stuff really for you, but sure. Like kohls.com has Mother’s Day cookware advertised, there’s multiple websites and they’re usually on sale, too, which is insulting in my opinion. – Oh, so you’re saying it’s a conspiracy, a Kohl’s conspiracy. – [Emily] No, it’s just a bad gift. Don’t get your mom the stuff, like get her something she wants. – [Stevie] Emily, can I ask you, I have a cookware mother question. I at one point for my mother purchased her an air fryer that she- – [Emily] Oh, that’s cool. – [Stevie] Well, see I thought it was cool. – But you don’t live with her. – [Stevie] I don’t live with her. She never opened it and she refers to it in a way that is not nice that I purchased this for her, I know. Meanwhile, my aunt purchased her an Instant Pot and she likes to highlight how great the Instant Pot is. – What’d she say about the air fryer? – [Stevie] Pretty much that she doesn’t use it and has never used it before. Why would you need to bring that up. – We got an air fryer and Instant Pot. – [Stevie] I don’t know. – I’m staying out of it. – [Stevie] That was my question. I’m a- – [Emily] Well, maybe she feels that she can be honest with you and not your aunt. – [Stevie] Yeah, but why talk about the Instant Pot so much. – Just be honest with it. She loves that Instant Pot, it’s very clear, very clear. – Well, Stevie, you know what? What’s worse? Her telling you what she thinks of the gift or you telling everybody what you think of what she said on the internet? – [Stevie] Oh, she’s not gonna watch this, it’s fine. – Oh, so we can talk about when they sent you lobsters. We can talk about that. – Yeah, y’all don’t know. Gift giving’s tough man. It’s like, you know- – [Emily] It’s not that tough with this, though. I don’t think. – This is a pretty nice cookware set, though. Somebody- – Look at that. – One of y’all needs to take that home and give it to the kitchen crew. – It has a hole- – [Emily] Nothing says get in the kitchen like giving the woman in your life kitchenware. – Yeah, that’s true. – Just don’t do it in general, I agree with that. – This is on sale, huh? Nice. – [Stevie] Next up, we have mom mugs. – Okay, all right. Now Emily, before you tell us, let’s see if we can- – Mom fuel. – Let’s see if we can like this. Don’t mess with momasaurus, you’ll get jurass kicked. – Oh, that’s funny. – Pretty good. Jurass kicked. – I just got mom fuel over here, it’s pretty simple. Helps you be, oh, it’s got mom on the bottom. – [Emily] Can I say something, though? – My nickname is mom, but my full name is mom, mom, mom, mom. – Oh, that’s, yeah. – That one, I don’t like that one as much. – [Emily] Let’s give mom some more dishes to do. That’s what this says. – Ah. – Well. – Okay, you got a point there. – But you get a laugh. – [Emily] No, she doesn’t. She don’t want this. – I mean, everybody laughed at this. – Speaking for moms everywhere. – [Emily] But you don’t wanna wake up and then go I’ve given birth to all these people and there’s a man who loves me and here’s this mug. – But you know what? This one, my nickname is mom, but my full name is mom, mom, mom, mom. This is kind of like, this is almost an apology. This is an acknowledgement of how annoying you are as a child to your mom. – So it’s also a very big mug, so you can put it on a shelf as opposed to drinking out of it. – Or you just, give it to her with wine already in it. – Oh, there you go. – [Emily] If you wrote and apology with the mug, then maybe that would be good, but I don’t think- – She does have to wash it, but I do think that that kind of, either a good laugh or a nice implied apology works. But this one is a little lazy. – Mom fuel? – Mom fuel is a little lazy, but it’s a nice design. – I like the design, it’s nice. – I like the design. – It’s probably the nicest design of all three of these. – Now what we will actually do is we will keep all these here at the office and drink from them ironically. – Yeah, right. – Here’s the thing, though. We like mugs that when you drink out of them, the people who are watching you drink can see what’s on them as opposed to you even though… – We like mugs, oh, shoot, that when they get hot inside, they change colors. Oh, speaking of selling stuff. Here’s something that you get as an exclusive member of The Mythical Society. That record. – What? – It is a vinyl pressed authentic record where Rhett and I covered Lionel Ritchie and then also posed like him all over that album. You can show that off to your friends and they’ll think that you’re cool because it seems like we’re kind of cool. – Yeah, right, we seem cool on the front. – I’m just being honest. – On the front of that, we seem very cool. – If you want, the “Rhett Link Sing Lionel” vinyl, you have to be a Mythical Society Third Degree Member, and if you’re not already, you gotta join quarterly or annual by June 30, okay, to get that thing, so it’s not too late, mythicalsociety.com for details. What’s next, Emily? – [Stevie] Oh, this is a good one, Edible arrangement. – Is it a good one? Oh, wow. – I love this. – This is- – Chocolate covered apples. – Really ceramic down here. Ooh, chocolate covered apple is a nice idea. – Is that chocolate covered, yeah, chocolate covered apple. Why is this bad, Emily? – How could this be bad. – [Emily] Because most of the time, number one, there is trash fruit in there like melon and it’s usually a day old, like some of it’s a little old and it’s like get a woman some flowers. What is this? – Yeah, you gotta eat this immediately. And then you’re just asking your mom to eat a lot of fruit in one sitting, which is not good for her sugar. – Trash fruit. – [Emily] It just takes up a ton of space in the fridge, too, so every time the mom has to go back to the fridge, she looks at like just how you didn’t buy her jewelry every time she opens the fridge. – Jewelry’s hard to buy. Jewelry’s hard to buy? – I don’t know if I’ve ever bought jewelry for my mom. I mean- – You haven’t? – I’ve done it for my wife somewhat successfully. – [Emily] Well, I guess these are tools that husbands tend to get because the kids don’t buy the stuff for Mother’s Day. – Yeah, that’s true. – [Emily] It’s the husband that’s doing it, so I’m scolding the husbands more than I am the children. There’s a couple of children things later, but, you know, they’re kids. But yeah, jewelry’s good, though. – I feel a little bit lazy about this, but my mom just, either she, she likes a gift certificate, can I just be honest. – [Emily] That’s great. – Because she- – Red Lobster? – Like an Amazon gift card. – Okay. Keep it broad. – Because what she, the signal that she really sent to all of us really early was- – I don’t love you. Just kidding. – I’m gonna get myself, I can get myself something better than any of y’all can do for Christmas, for birthday, for anything. I can do a better job than y’all and so I just got myself this or I just got myself that. – You know what it’s really about? The note. It’s about the note in the card or just a note without a card. If you write something that’s like thoughtful, appreciative, acknowledging and it has a little meat to it, that, that’s the most important thing. Right, Emily? – And underline a couple of words. – [Emily] I do, I do agree with that especially if it’s from a child who, you know, that’s their only way of giving their mom a gift. They gotta make it themselves, but if you’re a husband, I really hope that you don’t just write a note like you get her something. – [Stevie] I go opposite on my- – Jewelry, huh? – Mother’s Day notes. I go for shock. I want my grandmother to keep on her toes. You know, I really want Gma to be able to decipher my jokes and I wanna be slightly inappropriate. – Give me an example. – [Stevie] I can’t recall the last one, but it was like- – You give her naughty cards? – [Stevie] Naughty’s the wrong word, but like slightly inappropriate. – Edgy, inappropriate. – [Stevie] Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta keep her young, you know. – See, we have a card, right, well, this is a whole book. Oh, it’s one of these things. This coupon book is for… – [Together] One amazing mom. – You deserve the world and more. Emily, this thing is chock full of Netflix and pizza. Homemade cookies. – Hold on- – [Emily] Who’s gonna make those cookies? Sparkling bathroom. – If you say that I am going to personally fulfill every single one of these, that’s not a bad gift. – Breakfast in bed. Now for Mother’s Day, we always try to do breakfast in bed for Christy, we try to do that. – Yeah, you have her over here and go, “Is it good, did we do good?” That’s bad, don’t do that. – And what do you make in breakfast in bed? – What? – What part do you make? – The carrying it up the stairs part. Yeah, that’s hard, there are stairs. Vacuum the house. Let’s see if this gets really creative by the end or desperate. Purchase of one nice shirt at your recommendation. – [Emily] Oh, my gosh. – So this is, I’ll buy a shirt. – [Together] For me. – That you pick out. – [Stevie] Wait, is this- – [Emily] That’s horrible. – [Stevie] As a kid or as a husband. – I think this is a husband. Yeah. This coupon, oh, oh, gosh, Emily you will love this one. This coupon is good for one tech lesson. – How to move photos to the computer or anything else you want to learn. Oh, snap. Ooh, it’s misogynist and everything. – [Emily] For a grown woman I’ve ever heard. – But let’s be real. Just kidding. – [Emily] It’s a pretty condescending gift to give to a grown woman. – This is a sweet one. This coupon is good for one class together. Learn something new together. Neither one of us knows something. So yes, you’re stupid about something, but so am I. – Yeah, yeah, we’re both dumb about this. – [Emily] These all just sound like things that people should do with their moms without a book telling them to do it. You know what I mean, though. – Oh, gosh. – This whole thing is definitely for a husband to a wife with kids. – [Emily] Like the whole thing about like you can buy me a shirt, like what? That’s terrible. – Right, this is master of the remote. – [Stevie] I feel like this is the type of book that a husband grabs at the store and doesn’t look at fully and then is like oh, crap. – [Emily] It’s better than the gas station Oscar statue that says “World’s Best Mom,” though. You got to give it a little credit I guess. – Oh, there’s a fill in the blank in the back. This is where you put the sexy stuffy. – Oh, yeah. – That’s when you just make things up that you never done. Make coupons for them. How do we do that? I don’t know, let’s figure it out. – [Emily] I think some of the stuff Link said in the episode earlier qualifies. – Whoop, whoop. – I would just start drawing diagrams. – [Stevie] Okay, next up, we have flowers, 3D popup card. – See, now we’re into card territory. – Hold on, you don’t like 3D. 3D is my favorite kind of card. – [Emily] This can’t be the only gift. – Isn’t that beautiful. – Right, I think this is a supplementary gift. – Oh, that’s how you do it. – [Emily] You don’t get this and then get out of actually buying flowers. – I found a value pack of these on Amazon, 12 pop-up cards that I was just like listen, I’m gonna do this because it’ll be me, Lock and Shepherd, we’ve always got our cards ready to go and then I was just like she’s going to be getting very similar looking cards that are always pop-up for like the next four years. So maybe I should spread this out. – Give me some of them. – Okay, I’ll give you some. – Can I keep this one? – Yeah. – [Stevie] Who are you asking? – You got your card now. – Got my card. – [Emily] I’m curious to know what you guys actually have gotten your lovely wives for Mother’s Day. – I told you, a note. – [Emily] A note. Okay, all right. I’m gonna go on mute now. – There’s one more. – I’m trying to think. – We usually do something for Jessie on Mother’s Day. – I do breakfast in bed with the kids. The kids know how to make stuff. Last- – Lock made a PowerPoint presentation for her last year. And he like, we put it on the TV and he kind of went through and it was about why she was a great mom. – That’s pretty good. – Yeah. She really did like that. – [Emily] That’s cute. – [Stevie] How about this gold-dipped natural rose? – What? – What? – It is edible. It’s got a seal on it. – [Emily] No, it’s not edible. – [Together] But it’s a gold-dipped rose. – Certificate of authenticity, dipped in pure 24-caret gold? – What? This thing’s pricey. – The Eternity Rose guarantees that every piece in our collection is genuine and authentic and carries our seal of authenticity. – How much was this thing? – [Emily] What does that mean? – So is their seal of authenticity authentic? – [Emily] But what is this authentically, though, you know? It’s just a thing that collects dust forever. – Listen, hold on. – I think that’s a real rose covered- – Here’s what’s gonna happen Emily. Your mom is gonna be sitting at home, one of her friends is gonna come over and she’s gonna be like, “Do you kids love you?” And she’s gonna be like, “One second.” And she’s gonna come back and she’s gonna come out into the room and she’s gonna be like this. – [Emily] You do not know Lois at all. – Do my kids love me? – [Emily] This would be in Lois’ wastebasket in five seconds. – What is this, though. I guess I don’t understand how gold works. That much gold- – I think a better question is how much is this? – Yeah, how much did that cost? – [Emily] It was close to 200. – It was 200 bucks? – What? – [Emily] 180. – 180 bucks. – Return this shiz. – [Emily] Yeah, get her some jewelry. – Melt this down, pawn is as a nugget and I don’t know, buy her. – I’m impressed by this. But I can’t think of any woman that I know who also would be. – You know what’s a good gift? A garage door opener, if she’s lost it. – [Emily] No, I think think should get her some jewelry, but just don’t her stuff with hearts on it and teddy bears. – Oh, my God. – And do don’t a potted plant for Valentine’s Day. – There’s an actual rose in there, though. – [Emily] Really? – Cool. – Gold dipped, yeah. – Yeah. – I mean that’s pretty cool. I mean that’s at least 180 bucks give or take. Eternity rose, will never die, wow. – Wow, that’s cray. – Thank you, Emily. – Thank you. I think that this might be a Father’s Day gift at this point that none of us knew about. – Right, yeah, what would your dad say if you sent him that for Father’s Day. – Son? I got something in the mail. I don’t think it’s for me. (all laughing) – Well, you ought to do that and tell him to record him opening it. I really wanna know what you think about it, just record yourself opening it. – Son. 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