Welcome to Good Mythical More. The birthday celebration continues, if I may. I’m very excited. But first! To share some pictures of myself. We’re gonna birthday dance. Okay. Anything goes on my birthday. And let me just say before I show you some pictures, they asked for me to give, David asked for me to give some, like, some baby pictures. I think I ended up throwing a few other type of pictures in there, which I’ll show you in a second. No birthday suit pictures. You know, thank you for, I just feel, I feel so special. Thank you for. Yeah. Thank you for building this episode around me, team. It wasn’t easy to arrange that. Yeah. It wasn’t easy to take the time. I mean, I did it, but take the time to figure out nine different free things and then to decide who was going to get to bring in each thing. Thank you for going through all that effort. Doing the research on like, the rewards program. I joined all those rewards programs. You did? Yeah. Just for me. Just for that episode. And for that episode. Yep. And that was a success, and I felt very honored. And I do appreciate all the work you put into it. Happy birthday, man. You know, the other thing that happened was, ’cause as of the recording of this is not my birthday. What? So that, you know. I think the, is today my birthday or is tomorrow my birthday as of the release of this? Well, that makes sense. Why would it be? I don’t know. I was like, did my birthday fall on a Saturday? When we had the option. You know what? Let’s do his birthday episode that day before his birthday. Here’s what I’m getting at. I am now really excited about my birthday, which as you’re watching this, is happening. And what’s happening is I’m partying really hard with people that I love to be around. But without this episode, I don’t think that would’ve happened. Because I was just telling you yesterday, you were like making your wedding anniversary plans. I already did, by the way. And I said to you, “Oh, I’m not.” I asked you three times. We’re not doing anything. We’re not doing anything. If I’m gonna do something, I’ll do it later. And I was really thinking, “you know what? I’m not gonna plan anything this year.” I’ve made reservations. I told him to go ahead and do his wedding anniversary. I’m gonna be outta town. But now I’m really excited about planning my party. And over the course of that, I realized, like, I don’t need to let this opportunity pass. Like, I like to plan my own birthday parties. Yeah. And I’d forgotten that. And now I’ve decided I think I’m gonna have three. What? This feels, it feels pretty Link. I’ve gone from zero to three because I, and no gifts, we don’t have to do gifts this year. Okay. It’s not about that. Three parties. I like being, I like having fun with the people I like having fun with. But some of the people I have fun with, I don’t have fun with them in the way that I have fun with other people and I don’t have fun with ’em together. So I don’t wanna bring ’em all together and then not know, you know, there’s some separation there. This is an interesting social thing. I got my dad friend group that you’re not a part of. Because I’m not a dad. Because you’re not a dad of a friend of Lando’s. So I have like that friend group. I’m not a dad of a friend of Lando’s? Think about what you just said. Well, that’s true I guess. But you know, what I meant to say was, sorry, Rhett. You’re not a dad to a friend of Lando’s that was on his football team. Okay, there you go. That’s what I’m meant to say. So I got that group and I’ve got like, I’ve got like the buddies that we hang out together with. Yeah. And then I can probably come up with another group of friends. I’m about to say, I was trying to think of, “What’s this third group?” Maybe I still do one with everybody and then I pair people off and I think maybe it’s. So you’re gonna make people come to two parties? It’s gonna, yeah. Some people will come to two parties? Yeah, there’s gonna be a big party with everybody. ’cause you know when you have that party that has everybody, it’s like, “And who are you and how do you know?” Yeah, but that’s a great way to bring your friends together. I don’t wanna bring ’em together. I like to have ’em separate. This is like food on a plate. This is like finishing your green beans before you move to your mashed potatoes? Yeah and I like coming up with things for us to do that are exclusively the things that I want to do. And that you’re along for the ride. Okay. You do that on your birthday. I do. I make everybody watch a really horrific and traumatizing horror movie. Right. But I don’t make everybody do it. Well, they can look away. Half of the, no. Half of the people don’t watch. They just are like, “I’m not doing it.” And they stay somewhere else and then we all get back together. Yeah, yeah. But you’re planning out the things that you want to do, unapologetically. I’m like, “Why would I not do that?” Well, I mean, it’s a little late. I mean, I will say that. You’re asking people to arrange three different parties. It might be a little late. And you waited a long time to do it. I’ll arrange it. And I asked you three times and I didn’t, I made plans for my anniversary. I’m gonna arrange it and it’s gonna be after that. Okay, all right. And you’re gonna be invited to it. Let’s see a picture because I have some, I have more gifts for you. Okay. But I wanna see some pictures first. The bigger one is my mom and the little one is me. Do you remember this? I’m perched in her lap like a little doggy. No, I don’t remember this. This is probably Sears, like a Sears situation. You know, the equivalent of that thing. It could, I’m willing to bet is probably Kmart. Kmart, Kmart. I think this is a Kmart thing. People don’t do this as much anymore. People don’t do this at all anymore. ‘Cause of digital photos. No, and I don’t know. ‘Cause of iPhones? Maybe if you’re a young person, you probably know this just because you’ve got parents. But like, yes. If you needed a good picture of yourself and like good lighting that then you would use for like, you know, I don’t know what kind of purpose? It would just be in a frame in your house. Your Instagram icon. Yeah, Instagram. You gotta go to Kmart for that. You would go to a department store and there would be a photographer there with a nice little setup. Man, what a time that was. And me and mom did it. And how old am I in this? I’m probably. 18 months. Really? You don’t even think I’m two? I’m older than two. I don’t know how to, no. Two year olds can speak. You don’t think I could speak? You don’t look like somebody who would say much. I’m bad at judging kids’ ages. What am my hands doing? Yeah, I’m gonna say 18 is a pretty good guess. 16, 17. Yeah. You’re in that, you’re in that zone. Okay, 18 months. Yep, there’s my sweet mother. Making sure that I don’t fall off the carpeting. Link. Let’s see, oh. Just something to mix it up a little bit. I have a very special prize for you that you can win if you properly complete this limerick about turning 25. And you do it with a bunch of. 25, I’m 25 now. I was 54. 45. By putting in these bars. Oh ’cause it, like. That complete something. Is nothing to satisfies about. Is that what you mean? It’s like actually the? 100 Grand. Crunch. Oh, now you’re into it. Twix. Now you’re into it. Whatchamacallit. I don’t know how Twix would actually. Butterfinger. Hot Tamales. Mounds. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that’s gonna be a good one. And boy you’re gonna really like the thing you win. Turning 45 is nothing to blank about. Nothing to Crunch about. Nothing to Mound about. I don’t know what that one is. Your joints may start to. Well, well there’s one that you, I believe have on the wrong side as your lineup. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You’ve got one turned the wrong way. No. Oh, you just. Oh, well it’s showing the right way but it says something and it’s actually something else. What do you call this bar? Oh. Snickers. Yeah. But it says satisfies. Yeah, that’s not good. But what is it called? Okay, I got it. Turning 45 is nothing to Snicker about. I’ll just do that. It says Snickers right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s nothing that Snickers packed with about. Your joints may start to Crunch and your blank may not work like it used to. Your Butterfinger? Is it my Mounds may not work? Yeah, yeah. Or is it my Hot Tamales may not work like they used to? I think that’s what it is. My Hot Tamales may not work like it used to. Oh gosh, yeah. You gotta be careful about that. Oh, I can’t get it off. And let me just tell you, it’s wrong. Yeah. That’s not right. You’re a little bit stuck but it’s wrong. So you might want to guess and I’ll tell you if it’s right or not. And you, and your. And you, that says your. Your joints may start to Crunch and you blank may not work. I think it’s supposed to be R. Did I take the R off? And your blank may not work like it used to. And your Mounds, nope. And your Whatchamacallit. What about my Butterfinger may not work like it used to? Right, but. My Whatchamacallit. Let’s call it a Whatchamacallit. May not work like it used to. This is when you start to have blank. This is when you start to have Butterfingers. This is when you start to have Butterfingers and your mind plays Twix. Oh. Plays Twix on you. This is how Turbo talks. But no matter what, we wouldn’t trade you for 100 Grand because we have Mounds of fun when you’re around. Happy birthday, Hot Tamales. Look what you get, Link. What the crap? They’re each half pound Reese’s. This is a full pound. Can you break ’em out so we can look at ’em? Yeah. This is amazing. This is amazing. This might be too big. And incidentally, all of our, my Krispy Kreme donuts disappeared immediately. Yeah, yeah. After we moved from over there to over here. Oh my goodness. It’s like a pie. Look at that. It’s a pie. It’s as big as my face. Do you mind if I bite one? No. Well, yeah, go for it. You’re going for the middle? I’m gonna get some of that chocolate at the end. And look, it’s not even too powdery. It’s actually, kind of matches my outfit. Stevie, did you have fun at my party? I had so much fun. I didn’t see you, but I heard you. Oh good. Was it, did you hear me having fun? Yeah, it sounded so fun. Okay, good. All right, so we got this. Show me, let’s just see another picture of myself. My how I’ve changed. What are you laughing at? Your posture. Yeah, why am I like this? This is, I think this is a Piggly Wiggly photo. Yeah, the background’s cheaper. I mean, I had a tie on, y’all. I was working it. Does that even look like me? Yeah. Can you still, can you see that that’s me? I mean it’s like. I think it’s interesting ’cause some people, you can see them when they’re 18 months old. Yeah, it does look like me. And project them into the future. And they still look the same. And like you have one of those faces that was like locked in at like a year old. Let’s see another. You look at pictures of me as a year old, you would never know I’d end up looking the same way. Look at my hair. Now that’s Hulk hair. That’s 1980s Hulk hair. Hi. Is that when you were briefly the announcer for “The Price Is Right”? I was a cute little boy. I would put on my ties. You might wanna do that. If you wanna be truly subversive, do that haircut now. Like there’s a lot of people trying to do like, eighties type stuff right now. Yeah, yep. But if you do that and a mustache, you’d really be turning some heads. Anybody wanna buy a casket? Yeah. Is that a cow lick or is that how my hair was supposed to look in the back? I don’t know. You all right, Chase? Chase is so excited about this. I want to come back to the party. Wanna come back to the party. He just finished eating all that ice cream and fell over. That’s a good looking boy who only aims to please and that’s actually a red striped blazer. Your mind plays tricks on you a little bit. Makes it look pink. That boy wouldn’t be caught in a pink blazer. Is that what you’re trying to say? Okay, yeah. Yeah, he wouldn’t. Let’s see another one. Oh, I’m growing up. There he is. My body is growing up but my head isn’t because my head looks so small. Well, I think it’s the stripes. Yeah. I look very, very broad shouldered. Do I, actually? My sleeves are huge. Now this is actually the first picture in which I would’ve actually known you ’cause I didn’t meet you until you were six. And so this is probably 11. Yeah. Maybe 12. You may have been 12. I remember that was one of my favorite shirts. And I think those are bugle boy pants. Baggy pants. That’s, yeah, look at me. About to go through puberty. I’m not going through puberty yet. You don’t look like you know it yet, though. Puberty’s about to hit you hard. I didn’t know it until it was like almost over. I just love that these photographers, like, you know the photographers like, “Now put your right leg up, slightly right, okay.” Yeah, there was an art to it. “Hold your other arm with your other arm.” There was an art to it, you know? But like this is what, this is what they were going for. This. Oh yeah. Mission accomplished. Yeah, that’s a good one. That’s a good one. It’s a lost art. And it’s actually like a job that like, I mean, photographers still exist, but not studio photographers. Do they? Not in the same way. Like no one’s working at Kmart as a photographer. It’s a lost art. Bring it back. There’s still places at the mall where you can take your family and do a portrait. And especially for like, babies. Like a lot of people are still getting baby portraits. I think, right? You’re speaking with authority here. Do I have another one? Oh, see, there it is. That’s when puberty started to hit kind of hard. I shaved my eyebrows, got a zit right in there in the middle. And I really started. A little surprised. Really started smiling with just one side of my mouth. A little surprised. I remember, of course, this is a school picture day. You always wear your favorite shirt. You like that shirt? I liked that shirt. That shirt came from Structure. Wow. Structure. I remember that. When Structure came on the scene, we had to go up to Cary and get us a Structure shirt. Stevie, you’re too young for Structure or is Structure just guys? No, it was the guy’s Express. That’s right. Oh yeah. I don’t think it exists anymore. I haven’t seen it in a long time. But when it came onto the scene, like the paneled nature of the clothes was like a totally new thing. I was like, “Whoa, this is totally different.” And then a few years later it was like. Having a different color collar. It was before Abercrombie existed. And then after Abercrombie came on the scene, then there was like, Structure was still around. It was dressier. And then Structure went away and it became Express for men. I remember that. And it still is I guess. But after Abercrombie came on the scene, then there was like, American Eagle came on the scene and then after that it was. And Aeropostale. Aeropostale. What do you call it? Aeropostale. I think that’s right. I hope that’s the last picture of me. Is it? Yeah. Okay, good. Let’s go back to, can we leave the cutest one as the like, impression burned on you guys? Because I got awkward there. I like the pink jacket. Yeah, pink jacket. Let’s go back to the pink jacket. Let’s go back to that one. When I first showed this picture to Lando, he was like, “Oh my gosh, you’re so cute. It’s crazy.” He couldn’t believe it. He couldn’t believe how cute I was as a child. He’s got a very developed cute radar. Your mom took a lot of time on that hair, boy. Every strand. Actually, it was my aunt. Like my Aunt Tiese is the one, except for the one that my mom was in. I’m pretty sure a lot of times my Aunt Tiese would dress me up and take me to get my photo taken. That was something that she was into. Everybody needs a aunt. Yeah. That’ll do that. And she would, a lot of times she would comb my hair in a way that wouldn’t normally comb it. And she didn’t have kids, so I think she was just like cosplaying as my mom. So that right there, that haircut wasn’t typical. I remember in later years she put me in a Coca-Cola shirt and she parted my hair and I never parted my hair. That was the one where, you’ve seen that picture. Oh yeah. Sorry, I don’t have that one. That’s the one where I’m on my knees. On your knees. I’m on my knees in a Coca-Cola outfit with my hair just parted, parted easily. So you coming to one of my parties? I mean, that’s not really up to me, man. Are you inviting me? You’re invited to two. You’re invited to at least two of ’em. Okay, I’ll come to one of the two. No, you, okay. I mean, I’m a busy man. That’s all I can promise. Okay. I’ll come to the better of the two parties. Okay. Maybe I’ll rent a house. Enjoy special discounts in honor of my birthday. Now through June 5th at mythical.com and through June 9th at mythicalsociety.com.