Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 106: Adventures in Six Flags & New York City ft. Rhett & Link | Ear Biscuits Ep. 106

Episode Date: August 7, 2017

Rhett & Link discuss the Mythical Entertainment trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain, their 3rd appearance on Jimmy Fallon, New York cIty, and more on this week's Ear Biscuits. Listen & subscribe at: Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/29PTWTM Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2oIaAwp Art19: https://art19.com/shows/ear-biscuits SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/earbiscuits Follow This Is Mythical: Facebook: http://facebook.com/ThisIsMythical Instagram: http://instagram.com/ThisIsMythical Twitter: http://twitter.com/ThisIsMythical Other Mythical Channels: Good Mythical Morning: https://www.youtube.com/user/rhettandlink2 Good Mythical MORE: https://youtube.com/user/rhettandlink3 Rhett & Link: https://youtube.com/rhettandlink Credits: Hosted By: Rhett & Link Executive Producer: Stevie Wynne Levine Managing Producer:  Cody D'Ambrosio Technical Director / Editor:  Meggie Malloy Graphics: Matthew Dwyer Set Design/Construction: Cassie Cobb Content Manager:  Becca Canote Logo Design: Carra Sykes Featuring: Steve Pink To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This, this, this, this is Mythical. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Rhett. And I'm Link. Joining us today at the, I don't even want to, I don't want to say joining us today at the round table of dimmed lighting anymore because. Did you say dimmed? Isn't that what it is?

We talked about this before. I'm sorry. Look, all I want, I don't want to say either one of those things. It's dim light. I don't want to say dim? We talked about this before. I'm sorry. Look, I don't wanna say either one of those things. It's dim light. I don't wanna say dimmed lighting because that's wrong. I'm just, I'm admitting it. I'm admitting that right up top.

Wow, that never happens. We've got too much good stuff written on this sheet of paper that we just jotted down that we wanna talk about to get sidetracked about stupid stuff that we could normally riff on, okay? So I'm just gonna say I was wrong. I'm also gonna say, not, I'm not gonna say, joining us today at the round table of dim lighting

because we're here, we're joining each other. Now you've said it. And we don't need to unexplain that. You've explained it. Each other. We're here, we're doing this. You've explained it multiple times now. I'm very happy to be here with you by my side, Rhett. Oh really?

Likewise, I think. Yeah, it's touch and go these days as will become clear with your vocal box. Let's see about that. Lots to catch up on. Before we get into the details of not only my medical situation, which is, you know, our medical situations

have become sort of a theme of our lives, something about almost turning 40, but we'll talk about that. We're gonna talk about what we did today, which was very exciting and amusing. Yeah. And then we're gonna talk about a recent trip to the New York City.

We gotta catch you up on all of this stuff, and it's gonna be a rollercoaster ride of retro enactment. We're gonna reenact some stuff. Spoiler alert, teaser. But first, we do wanna let you know, very important, those of you who live in New York City or Los Angeles. I live in Los Angeles. We have added two shows, one in New York, one in LA,

to the Tour of Mythicality matinee shows on the same days that we already have New York and LA shows. Because they were sold out, but now, if you wanna see us in one of these two places, tourofmythicality.com, they go on sale Friday the 11th of August. But if you are a subscriber to the Mythical Monthly newsletter,

which you can do at mythicalmonthly.com, you will get very soon, probably by the time you listen to this, the Mythical Monthly newsletter, which you can do at mythicalmonthly.com, you will get very soon, probably by the time you listen to this, you'll already have it, a special code, an early access code, so you can purchase the tickets early. That's one of the many things you get when you are a Mythical Beastly subscriber

to the Mythical Monthly newsletter is perks of the Firstness. Yeah, so new shows, New York, LA, they're gonna sell quickly if the first shows were any indication, so go to Mythical Monthly to sign up for the newsletter, go to touredmythicality.com to get ticks, get the ticks. Don't get ticks, nobody wants ticks.

Or lice, for that matter. Ticks carry lots of disease. They keep finding new ticks with new diseases. Man. Very disheartening, really it really is. Good on ticks though, you know? Good for them. Good for them.

I don't believe in, I mean, my moral obligation is to humans first. Well, I didn't say that out of a moral obligation. I just said it because you know what? They're doing their thing, man. They're just doing what they need to do to survive. You gotta recognize that they're working hard at their thing and it's working.

But do they really need to spread disease to live a fulfilled life? Apparently so. I don't know, I think there's some sort of nature mess up happening. As long as they don't hurt anybody, I'm fine with it. They hurt a lot of people. Good point, I'm not fine with it.

Yeah, we should be anti-tics. I hate tics. I know you gotta be very careful what you're for and against these days. Right, I'm nervous right now. I'm nervous now that we're taking a stance about tics. If any time you take a, in 2017, when you take a stand about anything,

you offend somebody, we have offended all tick lovers. It's gonna bite you in the butt. Yeah. And incidentally, I've had members of my family who've been tick bitten on the butt. Oh man, growing up, I was kind of. One guy died. What?

The tick or the person? It was a spider, but he did die. He had a relative die and got bit by a spider on the butt? Yeah, he sat down on the outhouse toilet and a spider bit spider on the butt? Yeah, he sat down on the outhouse toilet and a spider bit him on the butt and he died from it. A tick was not involved, why are we discussing it? Are you sure that he died from the spider bite or just complications that arose from it?

Well, he didn't die immediately, he didn't like, yeah, he died from complications of whatever a spider bite gives you, man. What year was this? Don't fact check me. He was in an outhouse. So it was a long time ago, before your time. It's just like a story that lives in your family.

My nanny's side of the family, Lucille. Because one day when I was a kid, I was like, tell me about the last words of my relatives. What? I remember sparking conversation with my nanny and I said, tell me about the last words of my relatives. What? I remember sparking conversation with my nanny and I said, tell me about the last words of my relatives. Very morbid thought from a child. And she said, well, you had one so and so member

of our family who bit by a spider on the butt in the outhouse and he died. I was like, what did he say? He's like, if you gotta go, you gotta go. Get it? Did he really say that? No. That was a joke that Nanny made.

It was a joke that I just made up. I don't remember what she told me. Oh, you just made that up on the spot right now? Yeah, I was pretty proud of myself, but then he didn't laugh. Well, I was really, I was thinking like, Why aren't you laughing? Did Nanny, well.

Are you holding back for some reason? Yeah, I won't be laughing a lot. Let's get to that. Because I want the people to know why you didn't laugh at my amazing joke. When you gotta go, you gotta go. Double meaning. I'm not laughing because I'm reserving my voice.

You can probably tell. You can probably tell I sound a little bit different. There's not as much resonance in my voice as normal. You sound sad. You actually sound sad. I want the people to know that you're not sad. There's not as much resonance in my voice as normal. You sound sad. You actually sound sad. I want the people to know that you're not sad. I'm not sad. I am concerned, which we will talk about.

I don't want you. He is sad. I don't want you to be overly concerned. But if you remember from last week when we were talking to Steve Pink, friend and collaborator, director on Buddy System season two. I had to step out, I had to abruptly end the podcast because I needed to get to my ENT appointment.

Ear, nose and throat it. So I don't know how much of this I explained before but the long story short is for like the past, like the last month of Buddy System, I kinda had a on again, off again cold, like sore throat that I just kinda chalked up to, stressed out, working too much, not sleeping enough, just, you know, I've got some cold, I can't shake it because I'm not getting, you know, rest and whatever.

And also. Your immune system is weak because you're working. Right, but also in the midst. Trying to keep up with me. Like three and a half weeks or so into this sort of mild sore throat, you know, in the last week of shooting. Well first of all, there's a lot of yelling.

I did think about the fact that there was a lot of yelling this season. There was like, oh, stick your feet in this bucket and yell. Open this door. Look at this little girl and yell. Yeah, in unison. I'm gonna tell you right now, no more yelling in Buddy System.

You're gonna do all. It all happened. You're gonna do like a find and replace on every script rewrite for the word yell. You're gonna replace the word yell with whisper gently. I actually thought about this. Whisper gently and look sad. From now on when we have to yell in a narrative project, we're going to get ADR.

It's going to be somebody else who sounds like me. Designated pinch yeller. And all I'm gonna do is just open my mouth. Well it's funny because we had that scene where we opened the door and we're supposed to yell at this girl and we rehearsed it and we told her because she's pretty young, we didn't want to frighten her. We were like, we're gonna yell in your face really loud.

But then when we rehearsed it, we were like, but first we're going to just act like we're yelling but no sound is gonna come out of our throats. We actually told her that. Wish I had stayed there. You should have stayed there. Because I was yelling enough for the both of us. And coincidentally, and still fine, I'm great.

Yeah, and I think it, based on some limited reading that I've done. Limited, huh? Again, so I went to the doctor. What I thought had happened is, okay, I kind of kicked myself when I was down. Like you got compromised, you know, drainage and stuff happening in your throat,

and then you strain your voice by yelling, and I kind of like sent myself into a little bit of a tailspin, and I haven't been able to really rest my voice. And then today, we were out with a team, we'll talk about that, and it was outside, there's a lot of people, so I'm talking, so now you can kind of hear that I'm hoarse.

And this is what's been happening every day. I've been waking up and feeling fine, like a mild sore throat, and then by the end of the day, I feel like my voice is kind of strained. So I went to the doctor, and I went to the doctor right after last week, I went to the podcast right before we left for New York, because I was like, if I'm gonna have to be on some kind

of like vocal rest or something like that, if there's like a node or something on my vocal cords, if I've strained them, I need to know what to do so I don't make the problem worse. And you want things to get better. If things can get better quickly by going to the doctor before we go on Fallon and Ryan and Kelly, you'd like to actually be able to talk

when we go on these shows. Right. So you went to the doctor. And I did talk. What happened? Well it was an odd doctor's appointment. I've told you this but I will tell you this now. But I wasn't listening so tell me again.

Just listen this time then. So I had to go about an hour away from here in order to get an appointment because it was so last minute. Which I will point out that if I did listen, I could tell the story and then you could save your voice. Too late for that. And so I had to drive an hour,

I go to this doctor, and I kind of noticed that the girl behind the counter who was kind of checking me in, but also another girl, we were acting a little strange when I checked in. Like a cult? No, like, and this is, it sounds pretentious, because this has happened a few times now. Now that it is not uncommon for us,

for one of us to be recognized when we're in public because of people seeing the show. Our unending fame. Sometimes someone looks at you funny or says something in a weird way and just because we are selfish, self-absorbed people, we tend to think, oh, she must know who I am, and then there are some times where it turns out that is true, and other times,

it's like, oh no, she doesn't have any idea who I am, that was a very self-centered thing to think, because I'm an eco-maniac, you know? Just like everybody is. Well, I'm not. I think that when it happens, it happens enough that it turns out that people have recognized me, I know what that look looks like

and I recognize it. But sometimes you're mistaken. Sometimes you're mistaken. Yes, but I don't think that makes me an egomaniac. Well, I'm just saying we're all egomaniacs. We're all very self-focused. I know, I'm just trying to get out of the bucket with you. So, but they didn't say anything.

You're hedging, but you felt the same way about this receptionist. Yeah, but it was weird, because they weren't really looking me in the eye, and it was just a little strange. I was like, what's going on? And then another woman. But you thought, maybe she recognizes me.

Right, right, right, but I didn't say anything. Then another woman comes out, and she's like an older woman who is like in a pantsuit. Great. She looks like some kind of like, she's like the office manager or something like that. She's not one of the nurses, she's not an older woman who is like in a pantsuit. Great. She looks like some kind of like, she's like the office manager or something like that. She's not one of the nurses, she's not in scrubs. She says.

And that's why you said pantsuit. You're not, you didn't say something, you weren't being sexist. No, because she had on a pantsuit. Instead of scrubs. Yeah, and she's like, Rhett? And I had just gotten my paperwork, I hadn't even gone through it.

Rhett, please come on back. And so I go back there and she's like, Rhett? And I had just gotten my paperwork, I hadn't even gone through it. Rhett, please come on back. So I go back there and she's like, well, the girls in the back are really excited. And so I'm like, oh, okay, they do know who I am. And now I'm gonna feel a little awkward, right? Because what am I supposed to say? And I said something like, great. So for a second, you weren't an egomaniac,

but then you said great and you became one again? Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to play it down because I'm not looking for special treatment, you know? I just, I want normal treatment. You just want medical treatment. Yeah, right. But the girls in the back were pretty, what? Pretty excited.

That's what she said. I don't know what they thought I was gonna do for them. She's making it weird. I mean, I'm just there to have my throat looked at. So I go and sit down in an exam room. Yeah, what do you say? I say great. You say great.

So I sit down in the exam room and then she's like one of our nurses or, you know, who comes in before the doctor? Is that a nurse? That's a mystery to me. So about 10 minutes later, knock on the door, I'm done with my paperwork. A girl, young girl,

25 years old, comes in and she looks at me and she's got this kind of smile on her face and her face is getting a little bit red, little bit red and she just like smiled at me and I kind of smiled back to her and then she sits down at the computer where she's gonna take her notes for my pre-interview before the doctor comes in and she's like,

I'm so nervous and she gets up and walks out. That's all she said and she walked out? All she said, she said, I'm so nervous. And then she walked out and I was like, well golly, I'm sitting here thinking. You know me, we'll talk about this. I'm a hypochondriac, I've talked about it before. Yeah, you're pretty concerned going in here.

You know, I go through, okay, I've got throat cancer, I've got thyroid cancer, you know, it's all, I think I've got everything and I've got some sort of throat thing and I'm gonna have to be on vocal rest for weeks and it's gonna change our fall and I'm worried. You're very worried and concerned. Yeah, and so she's change our fall and I'm worried. You're very worried and concerned. Yeah, and so she's not helping by saying I'm nervous

and just walking out giggling. And so then I wait like 15 minutes. Oh. And then she comes back in with the doctor. So she couldn't even come in by herself so she's gotta come back in with the doctor. She's still got the same smile on her face. And.

Well it's flattering but it's just not a good time. But at this point, something interesting happened because I could tell that the doctor, as is not unusual, has no idea who I am, but knows that his girls know who I am and are excited about me being there. And so there was an interesting dynamic there. Uh-huh. Because. You could tell when he walked.

I could sense it. Did he walk in with a swagger? He kinda had a little bit of like, who's this big shot? You know what I'm saying? And so, and then I, so he says. You got this vibe from him. Yeah, I did, because then I,

because he's like, okay, what's going on? And I said, well, you know, I've been working a lot this summer, been doing 12 hour days on set, you know, and he was like 12 hour days, welcome to the club. Oh. He's, he's. Yeah yeah. He's asserting his power.

Yeah and of course I'm just sitting there. He's marking his territory or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he didn't pee all over. I thought he might for a second. He did not urinate on me or her or any instruments. Which is, they do teach that in medical school. Yeah, if things get desperate, you gotta break it out, you gotta whip it out and pee on stuff.

No, no, no, no, you can either sterilize your instruments with an autoclave or you can urinate upon them. Yeah, that's right. Oh my goodness, so he was basically, you just saw the psychology written all over his face because, especially when he says that. Right, but I could have been reading some things into it. He's like putting you in your place.

But he was very professional, very nice guy. But then it got a little bit embarrassing from that point because first of all, I was thrown off my game with the dynamics of what was happening. But what I wanted was I wanted that throat scope thing that you had done when we went to the plastic surgeon's office, not that we're getting plastic surgery, we made a commercial for a plastic surgeon

in Newport Beach years ago. And just to get the lay of the land, You got your throat scoped. We found out that he had a scope that could send down and get video footage of your vocal cords while you talked. And not knowing what that entailed, I was like, let's do it, and he was like, and I was like, no, let's do it.

And then he numbed my throat and shoved a camera all the way down in there and it's in that the making of a plastic surgeon, which is still on our channel. That's what I wanted done. If you wanna see my vocal cords move. And you wanted this. Yeah but what he did, he was like, okay open your mouth, say ah.

Because you were convinced that you had a node or something nasty on your vocal cords. This is, I've never had this particular situation and something seems different. You want confirmation that you don't have the worst case scenario in that moment. So what he does is he looks at the back of my throat and he's like, yeah you got inflammation, drainage.

You got inflammation from drainage. And then. Welcome to the club. Then he takes his little mirror, like a dentist mirror, like you can stick in and see different parts of the mouth. He's like, say ah, and then he sticks that mirror back into the back of my throat so he can see down my throat.

So not using the scope, but using the mirror. And I have a crazy gag reflex. So he gets it close to the back and I start going. And it's embarrassing, because I've got this fan in the room. You got a fan, you're the fan club. The rest of the fan club is gathered outside of the door. I'm choking like an idiot.

And then I'm like, sorry, I got a bad gag reflex. He's like, okay, just breathe like this. He's like, he's just getting me breathing like a pregnant woman. And then he goes back in. Another power play, by the way. It has no medical. Right, he's just doing this for fun.

But he got a couple of seconds before I choked him right out of my mouth again. of seconds before I choked him right out of my mouth again. And he was like, yep, just it's inflamed. And here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna prescribe four medications. Oh, wow. So I'm gonna give you an antibiotic, I'm gonna give you an oral steroid,

I'm gonna give a nasal steroid, and I'm gonna give you like Mucinex basically like a, so. But you were thinking I want the scope. I want definitive, I want a diagnosis or a clean prognosis. Yeah. I want something definitive. I don't want just like a little gag and mirror action.

Well because first of all. A lot of medication. I'm very much anti-antibiotics. I don't like antibiotics unless I have an infection. So I delayed. Like a probiotic. Yeah, so I delayed the start of the antibiotics until things didn't get better and I was like,

because he was like, because I could kind of feel like, again, this could be where my hypochondriac comes in, but I can like feel like some chest tightness and like, oh I kinda feel like maybe it's moving into my lungs. Like I start, and I don't know if that's in my head, if it's like a somatic or if it's legitimate, like oh this is gonna turn into bronchitis. I should take the antibiotic.

I never take antibiotics. It's okay to do it once. I'll do a probiotic at the same time I'm doing the antibiotic which I have been doing. Are you saying this stuff out loud to Jessie because? Oh yeah, I talk to her about it all the time, driving her nuts. Oh my goodness. That's horrible.

And then I also delayed the steroid because it makes you susceptible to infection but then yesterday I started the steroid. Long story short, I've now basically done all four medications that he has prescribed and I feel exactly the same. Well that's because all of them were just to express his dominance over you to the rest of his staff.

No, I don't wanna, we're not gonna get anybody in trouble. I think he did what he usually does when he sees somebody who's in my condition and most of the time. He just did it with a little more swagger. It knocks it out. But unfortunately, I still have something going on with the throat, so I feel fine, I don't feel sick, don't have swollen lymph nodes or a headache or whatever.

Basically, I wake up every morning and I feel fine. You're talking to yourself right now, by the way. And then I. This is self-talk to make himself feel better. Well, I don't feel good. I'm not saying it's working. As I talk throughout the day, and if it's a day like today where there's a lot of talking,

by the end of the day, I feel like I sound a little bit hoarse, just a little bit hoarse. I'm also talking a little softer because if I talk at a high level, there's this kind of sharp pain that then makes it feel like my voice is about to crack.

And so. You know what, open, let me look. Just open, breathe, like breathe, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then just like. You'd have a mirror. Hold your arms like a. I'm not gonna do that. Like a begging puppy dog. Now you're just trying to embarrass me. Okay.

So, and of course I get Hadil, our assistant, she's gotta worry about all this medical stuff too. She's made multiple proctology appointments for us and she calls the doctor and then the doctor, I'm like okay, well he's got an office over the hill and he's got an office way up north and it's like well he's got one type of scope at one place. So I'm basically, I need a follow up appointment

because we got a lot of things coming up. As you know, we got a pretty big fall. We got some things that were my. Many involve you speaking. My voice is kind of an important part of this whole thing. And so I'm also, I'm thinking worst case scenario. I'm like oh I've got a nodule. I've got something wrong. As long as we're clear that your looks have nothing to do with it, then I'm on worst case scenario, I'm like, oh I've got a nodule, I've got something wrong.

As long as we're clear that your looks have nothing to do with it, then I'm on board. Yeah. Hmm? My looks have nothing to do with what? Anything, it's just your voice, then I'm cool with this. What about your looks? That's pretty important.

Okay. It's all important, it all works together. I didn't know that's how it worked. I thought the older ladies like me and the younger ladies looked like you and I thought that we were good. That was my understanding. All you gotta do is be able to talk, man.

Just focus on, don't lose that. Yeah, so I'm worried. I'm worried about our plans. And so you start reading, it's like, well, you're gonna have this vocal fold thing that requires a month of vocal rest and maybe surgery and all this I'm like oh gosh, all this stuff we've got planned and then stress,

you know I think a lot of this is stress induced, I'm making it worse, so anyway. I'm making it worse? I actually don't know what to do. I'm making it worse. I don't know what to do to help you so I just make light of it. You can't help me, I mean I'm going what to do. I don't know what to do to help you so I just make light of it. You can't help me. I mean, I'm going back to the doctor.

I'm going back to the doctor on Tuesday of next week and I'm going to the office where he's got the thing that is like the. A different doctor. No, no, same doctor. Oh, same doctor? The one that you've been talking trash about this whole time, you're going back to him?

Yeah, I think he's a good doctor. What's his name? I'm not gonna say that. Oh, why not? Because he's gonna good doctor. What's his name? I'm not gonna say that. Oh, why not? And because he's gonna use the- You need his scope. He's gonna use the proper scope to get in there and get the, you hear that, scope, you see that happened?

That's what's happening. You're okay, man. And so I'm going to that appointment and then hopefully what he's gonna say is, it's gonna go away on its own. And then worst case scenario is he's like, worst case scenario is like, you're gonna die. I don't think that's gonna happen.

He probably wouldn't say that. You're gonna die and it's gonna start in the throat. But really worst case scenario I think is like, okay, you need to let your voice rest for X amount of days in order for this condition to go away because you really haven't let it rest. And then the question is, well, how long do you haven't let it rest. And then the question is, well how long do you have to let it rest?

And what does that do about when GMM comes back, et cetera, et cetera. Well, that's what I started thinking about. Just don't bring me into it. You're making me nervous now is all I'm saying. You're making me nervous. Okay, well I don't want you to be nervous. Everything's gonna be okay. Everything's gonna be okay.

He's gonna be fine. I know I'm gonna be fine. There's a direct correlation with how much he reads and how bad he feels. I'm just gonna put it that way. Oh yeah, I mean, I definitely make it worse. I don't necessarily think that I manifest it. But I do believe that like with the back problems

that I've had, I do believe that there's a big part of it that I've manifested the problems. So I do think that it's possible for me to manifest some sort of throat thing because my back's good now and so then I'm like, oh I gotta find something else to go wrong. Well let's hope that's right but I think something immediately that is gonna make you feel better

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I don't know if you can tell by the like, Shimmer? Residual shimmer on our faces that we spent the day at an amusement park. Or by just the natural glow of amusement which is coming from our face if you're watching this. Even if you're just listening to it, can you hear residual sound waves of amusement

from spending a day at the amusement park? They probably can't but. Especially because we may not be exuding those. I think, let's analyze. Well I mean it was 100 degrees out there. We went to Six Flags. Over Jordan. Over Jordan.

I was gonna say the same thing. Well I think there is one in Jordan. There is. Six Flags. We went to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita where it's approximately 10 degrees warmer than it is here so it was 101 degrees. We took the whole team which now requires a full-size bus.

Did you see that bus we were in? Did you check that bus out? Yeah, my eyes were open when I got in the bus. I saw it. I got in it. I actually said out loud, this is what this has become. Mythical Entertainment requires a big old bus. That's something to be proud of.

Yeah and then you just started to feel a little egomaniacal. Yeah right, then I was like, oh. Like that doctor's office thing. I think that's your real problem. You need to be seeing a different kind of doctor. I'm still reading that book, Ego is the Enemy. I need to read it more, I guess.

I'm still reading that book, Ego is the Enemy. I need to read it more, I guess. So we get there with the team in tow because we came back, not as many people came back. I don't know if heat strokes happened or some people drove in cars. Did we leave some people? I think Eddie was wearing jeans. Yeah, that was a mistake.

I think he and Ben, they went back a different way. I was thinking, I knew it was gonna be hot out there because I've been to Santa Clarita before and it was literally 110 degrees. I'm like, man, we're going there? And I looked on that, is it gonna be crowded? Is it packed? It wasn't 110 today.

It was 100. 100. And so I started thinking, what am I gonna wear? I gotta wear shorts, oh my gosh, and I gotta wear the right kind of shoes. I gotta wear, I gotta pack a pack. I noticed that you asked me about my pack. I was like, well I put a lot of thought in my pack.

But what was in it? A big water bottle with ice and water and it had like a straw. It was the biggest one we got. I was like, I might bring a second. I didn't, but I was like, I gotta stay hydrated. You know me. I gotta stay hydrated.

Gotta keep that voice going. But they had water at the park also. You either have to purchase it or you get it from water fountains, which I knew I would still have to go to the water fountain but I would fill up a container. Here's what happens. The whole thing is a survival situation.

It's 100 degrees out there. It felt post-apocalyptic, man. It's like there weren't that many people and it was just reptilian roller coasters everywhere and people serving hot dogs and then just lifeless people crawling from thing to thing. It wasn't that bad. It's like a deserted wasteland of amusement

and you get yourself in a line? Brother, don't get thirsty in a line because no one's gonna turn around and, oh here sir, have a hydrating beverage. No, you're on your own until you get off of this ride which all it does. No one's gonna turn around and, oh, here, sir, have a hydrating beverage. No. You're on your own until you get off of this ride, which all it does- But there are many, many places to get waters. Not when you're in a line, man.

You could be in a line for hours. But I got a bottle of water and- There's also a pain reliever in my pack. Okay, okay. When I'm still dehydrated for some reason and I get a headache, there's lip balm, which of course. Gotta have that.

I not only manufacture but I keep them in person at all times to keep the lips hydrated. That's an important part. Yeah, I think personally I believe you've become dependent on it but I don't mind because we sell it. I had sunglasses. I wore contacts because if I take my,

I don't wanna have to switch between glasses and sunglasses when I go from like an indoor line to an outdoor roller coaster. So I wore contacts and then I wore. You need to get transition lenses, man. Sunglasses, I think there's safety concerns with those because in the moment of transition, which turns out to be a couple of minutes, I think.

No, I think it's like 30 seconds. Even seconds, 30 seconds, you can run into a lot of wall in 30 seconds. But you look so cool. Trying to crawl out of them. You look so cool for 30 seconds when you walk in, it's like, that dude wears his sunglasses inside. You're like, no, no, wait, wait, wait, no, no,

they're transition lenses. You walk into a freaking like dark place and you have to freeze there until it transitions. So it's like you walk in and stand. And collect yourself. Collect yourself. I think it's great. People are piling up behind you

trying to get into the establishment and you're just trying to see. Let me tell you right now. And then you walk back outside. The days that I need glasses, they will be transition lenses. Because I've thought about this quite a bit. Oh you think you've thought about this more than me?

I had contact lenses, I had sunglasses, I had another pair of sunglasses that were also not prescription in case the first sunglasses I was wearing proved to be uncomfortable halfway through the day. I had my prescription sunglasses. How could they prove to be uncomfortable? Because sometimes the way they sit on my face,

it hurts certain places where they sit if I don't wear them every day. These glasses, which I don't wear that often, are very comfortable. These are my night glasses. I wear these when I go home because if I wear my day glasses, which are the glasses that I'm known for, at night, by the time I get home,

they start to push in certain places that I need new glasses that push in different places. So when I get home, I put on my night glasses, which I'm wearing right now, because it's night, and I packed these to go with me today in case I needed to abandon the contact lenses because they would be uncomfortable. So I packed these glasses,

and then I also packed my prescription sunglasses. So in my pack, I had. Now I see why you needed a pack. I had two pairs of non-prescription sunglasses. I didn't realize how crazy this was. I didn't add it up. A third pair of prescription sunglasses, a pair of prescription glasses,

and then you and Stevie at one point put your glasses in my pack. Do you, when you were asking me, can I put my glasses in your pack before we go on this roller coaster, you noticed I got kinda stressed. Yeah, it was very weird. Well, because that would be six pairs of glasses in my pack and I didn't know if my pack could take it. I didn't know what would happen to all those glasses.

Now that I see the level of... I'm very familiar with your... I also thought about bringing a hoodie. That would have been inappropriate. I literally thought for a second. It might get cold, it might get chilly. In the shade, even if it's 100 degrees, sometimes in the shade, it can get kinda chilly. Now. I didn't.

I've known this about you for a long time, we've talked about it. You have a different sensitivity level to these things. Lots of differences between me and you. One of the differences. I didn't pack a pack for you. Right, differences between me and you. One of the differences. I didn't pack a pack for you. Right, I'm thankful that you brought a pack. I used your pack.

You did, I was like your dad. Well, I used your pack for one ride. I put my hat, even though I specifically said, you know what, I can just leave my hat out on the shelf. And then Stevie was like, your hat may get stolen. I was like, okay, I'll put it in Link's pack. Along with Stevie's cowboy hat. Yeah, right, she had a big Stetson in there.

I don't know how she crammed it in there. It got bent a little bit because when I took it out and gave it to her it was a little bent. But I just don't have those sensitivities so I don't need the pack. I felt like I was entering a survival situation, and I was, and I made it because of the pack.

I'm just a little. You made it because of my pack. But I'm just a little bit worried for you when you are in an actual post-apocalyptic survival situation, because you were at Six Flags, not over Georgia, but Santa Clarita. It was actually, I mean mean all my needs were met. I appreciate you meeting the need of putting my hat

in your bag. But the moment. I was very hydrated because what I would do is when I saw a place that was selling water, which now, okay, you saved money. You bought water. You saved money. You supported an industry of bottled water,

which is, that's negligible. But I just got a big thing of water and I drank the whole thing. I was fully hydrated, I peed multiple times today, I sweated a lot. You know, mark my territory around Six Flags Over Georgia. I literally peed twice all day and I drank constantly. I peed three times.

I don't know how I did it. You sweated it out. But I didn't know-tis, that at the beginning, I didn't know. You didn't notice. I didn't notice whentis that at the beginning. I didn't know. You didn't notice. I didn't notice when we were getting on that bus before we left the studio that you said, you turned to me, saw my pack and you said,

you have a pack. I was interested in what you might have in there. And then I said, other people have packs and then you dropped it, which is good. We learn not to push each other's buttons when we're having a fun day. So you're to be commended for stepping back from the button. But I was genuinely interested.

You have a pack, I'm like, what's in the pack? I can see it in your eyes. I mean, it was judgment. Yeah, but that doesn't matter. I could be judging the fact that you have a pack, but I'm also just asking what's in your pack. And so you can choose to be defensive or you can just choose to be like,

well I've got seven pairs of glasses. Well I just was. Four levels of pH of different waters for different points of the day. Almost put a hoodie in there, but now there's a windbreaker. I feel like, the main reason we do, the main reason we do ear biscuits

I think has become very clear right now. This is a safe place for having a discussion that if we had the exact same starting point that of this discussion on that bus at that moment, it would have ended in a fight, not in entertainment. But it wouldn't. It would have. No, no, but if you. I'm not saying you'd be your, it may be my fault.

I would have never meant for it to be a fight. I just want it to be a conversation. No, you didn't. You judged me for having a pack and I would have been defensive. And if you judge me for having something, I would be like, I'd give you the, I'd spout the reason off.

Yeah, you would spout it. I'd spout the reason off. You'd spout it. And I'm just saying, if you feel like I'm. In an aggressive manner. If you feel like I'm judging you by asking you a question, just spout the reason off. You'd spout it. And I'm just saying if you feel like I'm judging you by asking you a question, just spout the reason off and I'd be like okay, cool, seven pairs of glasses,

I get it. Yeah right. But here in the auspices of the dim lighting, we can safely have an entertaining conversation. But you yourself just admitted that. And that's why it keeps our friendship afloat. But just you yourself just admitted. That's why you're talking.

That as. Even though you shouldn't. As you describe your own. It's freaking ridiculous. Situation, you recognize the ridiculous nature of it. Just like you recognize the fact that. It doesn't bother me though. There's nothing wrong with your throat.

I took advantage of the fact that you had a backpack. Which is great. Nothing wrong with your throat. Well that's just false. Okay I know, I know it's false. I was pushing a button but I'm saying, you knew that you were being ridiculous about having hypochondria, having extreme thoughts,

jumping to extreme conclusions about what you might have. Yeah in this environment, you were saying, you know what, it's entertaining because it's a bit ridiculous and I'm doing the same. We can do that here, that's the beauty of this tape. It's a safe space. This is a safe space for us to be ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously,

but in the front of that bus, we could have had one of those things where the driver had to back away slowly, and I mean without the bus. But that would have been ridiculous. It would have been. You do recognize that would have been ridiculous. But your fault? No.

Yes, yes. It would have been ridiculous. I'm making fun of us if we, the fight we didn't have. I'm making fun of that fight we didn't even have. But let's talk about the fun that we did have at the amusement park. Did we? We split up.

Did you have fun? Because I know you're so tall and gangly. Well, I was regaling some stories of my past and the way that I think about roller coasters. And one of the things, the main thing that I'm thinking about when I get on a roller coaster is, am I going to fit on this roller coaster? Like because there's like seven different points of contact

that could ruin a roller coaster ride for me. The main two being I don't have enough leg room so my. Well now the throat is one. Well yeah, I'll explain that in a second but. I was just joking. No but it is. You're gonna explain. Seriously yeah. Oh okay. That was an additional thing I was thinking about second. I was just joking. No but it is. You're gonna explain. Seriously. Oh okay. That was an additional thing I was thinking about today.

Oh go ahead then. Are my legs going to be jammed into the car in front of me in a way that makes it uncomfortable and makes me think that my femur's going to snap when the G-forces get applied. Ooh. And then the second thing is if it's a roller coaster that has a shoulder restraint,

they build the shoulder restraints for normal sized people within a certain range, and I'm outside of the normal range. And so, typically a shoulder restraint goes. You have no business getting on a roller coaster. A shoulder restraint goes down and then like, is parallel to the front side of your body. But for me. It's like wearing a onesie.

It's the same reason you can't wear a onesie. But the shoulder restraints come over me and then they're at like a 45 because they don't completely, so I don't feel safe in my, and then if I go too far, like if I pull down too far and it locks into place. It crunches you. Now I'm hunched and now I'm beginning to think about my back because while my back is doing good right now,

historically I've got all these disc issues with my back. And so now I'm thinking, oh, now I'm in a compromise situation and I can't get my neck back and I'm gonna be thinking, basically I'm just thinking, I'm not having any fun. Yet you ran headlong into it. Right, because I, you know. For the team.

What I thought about today is, I enjoy doing things with people like that. Like I would never just be like one of those guys that like amusement park is open, I'm by myself. I can ride any roller coaster. I would just go to the restaurants and eat. Go see the shows, that's what I did. I saw a great show.

You saw a great show. Oh gosh. You guys were there, that was a great show today. You drug Cody and Jacob to a show at Six Flags, a place known for nothing but roller coasters. Quirk, Quirk the show in the Gearworks Theater, you should check it out. I don't wanna hear about it.

So acrobatic, trampolines, there's a girl on roller skates. Was it air conditioned? Very air conditioned, that was the main reason I was there. Should've been there. But. I would've just Should have been there. But. I would have just stared at the vent. But I'm not, but I just don't, the being in fear in that moment,

it's like I used to enjoy roller coasters when I was smaller because there was this like, oh there's no chance anything's gonna go wrong and I'm comfortable and I'm just living on, I'm living on the edge but I'm totally safe. There's like, it's kinda like watching a horror movie like you're really scared and you're with friends but then you know you're safe.

Same sensation, that's why I loved it. But then I just got so big and then I started having these physical problems with my back and stuff and now I just go, I'm just there for the other people. But today, the third thing that I've never thought about was I can't yell because of my voice. So I literally just like, just held my mouth open in a screaming posture without making any noise the whole time.

Was that as good? It wasn't as good, I like to scream. You gotta scream. I'd much rather prefer to scream. On the way there, Lizzie leaned over in the bus and showed me a video on her freaking phone of this recent mishap at the, I guess it, I don't know if it was the one at the Ohio State Fair,

but it was like, the fireball, and then a whole section of, I don't know why I watched it. It's like, I think I told her, show it to me, but I don't know why the words came out of my mouth because I never would have wanted to see it. And then it was an iPhone video of the thing flailing about and then sending a whole section of it as a projectile and somebody died.

That was a state fair, though. That's not a state fair. They set it up, they take it down, they move on, they don't get dental work. Right, yeah. That's what happens. It's a carny joke. I'd laugh if I could laugh.

Right. Yeah, let's ADR it. You open your mouth more so we can, and cross your eyes a little bit. Okay. Why did you cross your eyes a little bit? Because that's, don't do that. You didn't notice?

That makes it, that makes it. I always cross my eyes when I laugh. It's unconvincing. I always cross my eyes when I laugh. It's not, I'm not convinced by it. Don't do it, but do the other part. But did you have fun? And ADR that, ADR that.

You were concerned but you forgot about that when you got to the park. I'm a compartmentalist, like mentalist, like someone who can control their brain. Yeah, right. And I can compartmentalize. You see what I did there? I combined two things into one and did that make sense?

I'm a compartmentalist. Maybe in your own brain. I can, that's my superpower. I can forget all types of things. Well the word on the street was, specifically what was said about you. So I forgot about it. We were like, where's Link and Ben? And then somebody was like, Link and Ben are going hard.

That was the specific terminology used for you guys. Eddie seemed to know everything about the place and right when we got there, he was like, we should go to the Twister Colossal, or what's it called? Colossal something. Colossal Twister. So I was like, oh, you're the guy I'm gonna follow. You're the leader now.

Which is incidentally the roller coaster featured in National Lampoon Vacation, the original. But this is the updated version. When they go to Wally World. Feldman told me this too, yeah. Hold on, the new version? No, the old version. The old version with Chevy Chase. It's this too, yeah. Hold on, the new version? No, the old version. The old version with Chevy Chase.

It's more intense, no, I'm saying the new, the roller coaster has been updated. But Wally World is Six Flags. So be it. When they pull up to Wally World in the movie, it's the place we went today. Cool. You've never seen the movie, have you?

No. Well, 98% of you who have seen the movie recognize that's pretty cool. I know they only made it to the parking lot and then it was closed. Nope. Spoiler alert. No, they get in and he uses a pistol to force his way onto all the rides.

Sounds like a funny movie. Yeah, it's very funny. I should see it. Yeah. So I was following Eddie, Ben was there, Mike and Alex were there and then they disappeared. Like I literally haven't seen them since. And Ellie, it was Ellie, Annie, and Nikki.

You and Ben weren't going hard? Not any harder than the rest of the people in our party. But that was, I mean we're not. We just got on roller coasters. I know but. But one after another and I was concerned. I got on the first one, it was rather intense. The colossal?

Yeah, you go through it and then all of a sudden you're going through it again. It's like riding the same roller coaster twice. Don't know how they did it, but I found myself doing it. So I thought it was over and then I was like, whoa, we're going around again on a parallel track that's a different color but we're doing basically the same thing.

Pretty cool, unless you're ready to get off. And at that point I literally said to myself, silently, focus on your breathing. Because you don't want to get a headache. Headache prevention. Yeah, you might get dehydrated and if your brain is shaking around in there. You are panicking about like.

I'm already a little dehydrated and I was mostly concerned about getting headache. But you're not thinking like, you're not scared that you're gonna, you don't have irrational fears about roller coasters. No, it's not like I had just watched a video of people who literally died on an amusement park ride. Well, I mean, because I rode a roller coaster with Lizzie

and she had irrational fears about dying on the roller coaster. That's why I avoided her the rest of the day because she has a knack for. But then at the end she was like, oh this is fine. Decompartmentalizing my fears. This is fine, that's what she was saying. As hers, she knows no compartments.

That's how she was enjoying this roller coaster. It was like she was freaking out as we were getting on. She was like, this is a mistake, this is a mistake. And then she was like, this is fine. I never heard anybody enjoy a roller coaster. She wasn't going like, woo. She was like, this is fine. I never heard anybody enjoy a roller coaster. She wasn't going like woo. She was like, this is fine, this is okay. Yeah, she was talking to herself.

And I was on the other side of the park going hard. I focused on my breathing in order to not get a headache and then I somehow still got a headache. I think I was dehydrated. Right, you didn't have enough water. I don't know. Should've brought a pack. Constantly drinking water.

Should've brought extra water in that pack. I think I'm addicted to water. I think my body needs too much of it. It's spoiled. But then. I'm constantly giving it water. But then we finished up the day by writing, along with Stevie, we wrote the, what was that called?

Tatsu. Tatsu. Tatsu. Tatsu, which unlike anything I've ever experienced before, this is like one of those. Was horizontal. Hangy down, so like dangly roller coasters. So like if you remember like the Big Bad Wolf from Busch Gardens.

You got an ankle dangle. But you're in this thing and your ankles are dangling but you kinda notice that your shins are locked in and then there's a soft sort of chest plate kinda thing and this all makes sense because right before the thing takes off, it leans you forward into a flying position and at that point, I got very concerned because that's when I start thinking

about safety and what I think is a rational fear because I'm like, okay, it's one thing to have G-forces push you down into a seat, which is like a part of the track, you know, part of the whole thing. But when all your weight is being put on a restraint that just moments ago was open. Yeah. So I know that- And you know it opens.

It does open, it is possible to open. So if it did open now, I would just, I'd plop out. Well and so. And the plop would take a long time because we were high up in the air. It is the highest, longest, and fastest flying roller coaster in the nation, in the world. It's like if you were in your bedroom

and then somebody picked up the house and turned it on its side and you fell out of your bedroom into the front door which was closed and then you're soaring through the air like rocketing away from Earth to some other land and you know that that door opens all the time. I go in and out of that door all the time. Let's say that the door opens out.

Is this analogy working? No. Nope. But I know what you were trying to say. It's like if you're leaning on a front door, which they usually open out. This is a great analogy. But you don't really have to make an analogy when you have the actual object that's in the story already.

Yeah. Like literally we're in a roller coaster that has a restraint that could open at any time. We don't really have to have an analogy. We can just explain how freaked out we were because I- What makes you think I don't agree? I was super freaked out and I noticed we were in a flying motion and my hair is a lot longer than normal.

I cut it but it's still long, right? And so the first thing I noticed is when we started flying, it all just covered my eyes. It just all went straight down over my eyes. That may be a good thing. I couldn't see anything and my arms were locked in and I didn't wanna. You didn't wanna touch your hair because

that's not gonna save you. Right. But the whole time I was thinking. It's. You didn't wanna touch your hair because that's not gonna save you. Right. But the whole time I was thinking. It's tough for you not to touch your hair. Cause I started thinking. Even in a life or death situation. I started thinking things like, I weigh a lot compared to normal people.

If any one of these front doors is gonna open, it's gonna be mine. It's gonna be mine, right. Well, I never thought about any of that. I was like, this is a crazy cool experience. It was a great ride. I focus on my breathing so I don't get a headache. But then Morgan was riding this with us and Stevie

and he said he was white knuckling that thing the whole time because he said if it did hinge open, he was dead set on dangling. That would have never worked. By his arms as long as it took. But as fast as we were going, on a wing and a prayer, brother. I mean how quickly would they,

if one of those things opened, I wonder how quickly the roller coaster would stop. Somebody would have to see it. Maybe there's like a sensor that sends a message back. I don't know. I don't like to think about mechanics. Do you remember our sound guy, Ben was telling me this when we got to see it. Maybe there's like a sensor that sends a message back. I don't know. I don't like to think about the mechanics. Do you remember our sound guy, Ben was telling me this when we got to the park.

Another thing I had to compartmentalize, Rich, our sound guy on some stuff. A number of things, yeah, a number of things. Well he used to work at Six Flags and one day we came in earlier and we were running one of the coasters and it launched off of the thing and landed in the parking lot

and paralyzed a security guard. The whole roller coaster? One of the cars from the roller coaster did this. And. It hit the freaking guy who was just in the parking lot. Yeah and Ben told Eddie and Eddie who grew up around here, was like yeah I remember seeing that on the news. Rich was there.

I'm not saying it was Rich's fault but. It happens. That's the thing is that these things fail, rides fail and someone's gonna be on them when they fail and it's like you, it's a, you know, the chances that you're in a wreck on the way to the amusement park are way higher than something happening to you

while you're on one of the rides. So if you just analyze the statistics, you really have nothing to fear, but you can't. I was only fearing a heat stroke or dehydration. And it felt like enough of a survival situation that. It sounds like neither of us were amused. I mean, I. I left thinking my lucky stars

that I made it out of there alive. Yeah, you're like, I don't have a headache. And I'm like, well well my back still feels good and you know my knees didn't, my femurs didn't break. I had a little bit of a headache. Yeah a little bit. But I wasn't really thirsty. So it's cool to spend the day somewhere

and then be able to say at the end of it you know I'm not that thirsty. You know it's like that's success. Oh yeah you must have had a good time. I'm not really thirsty. I it's like, that's success. Oh yeah, you must have had a good time. I'm not really thirsty. I don't care how long it takes. We gotta give them the New York City update. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I was gonna move into.

So yeah, we just, we got back from a week, oh, eight days in New York City. You know, we had the Fallon appearance and the Ryan and Kelly appearance, which turned out to be the Kelly and Andy appearance. Yeah I still wanna meet Ryan Seacrest. And then yeah, I was looking forward to that. Ryan you're gonna have to come to us.

It was a great meeting Andy. Maybe we'll go back on the show. But we, and then we tacked a handful of days. We brought the whole crowd so we had the wives and the children. And all the children, man. Yeah, so nine of us. I kept threatening things like,

we're not gonna bring you if you don't have a better attitude or if you don't blah, blah, blah, you know, you hang things over there. They all did pretty well. They all know it's empty. They all did pretty well. I'm saying before we went. And none of them had ever been in New York City.

And we've been in New York City quite a bit, but we're always there for such a short period of time that we haven't done a lot of the touristy things, you know, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and et cetera, Broadway show, like you had never seen a Broadway show, right? No. And I'd seen one in the 90s but hadn't seen one since.

So we were doing all that and taking the kids so that they could experience that for the first time but I mean starting with Fallon, they were really excited to be there. Now they were bummed because you have to be 16 to be in the audience? Yeah. Something like that.

So I mean we might could have, Lily and Locke, we might could have snuck them in. They might could have passed for 16 in proper lighting, Tonight Show lighting. Right. Which we would have been fine with that, but the other kids would have been upset. So they just stayed in our dressing room.

We each had a dressing room and so we gave one to them and then we just took the other one. And it being the third appearance on the Tonight Show, we were finally, it says a lot that we were comfortable enough to make an appearance on a show that means a lot to us because it's the Tonight Show. That's super cool and to be invited back for a third time is awesome.

So there's a lot of pressure that we put on ourselves that goes along with that but it says a lot that we were comfortable enough to bring our entire entourage, meaning all of our blood, immediate blood relatives to like be running around the place and 30 Rock is a cramped place. It's not like oh kids, you have plenty of room and no one's gonna notice.

It's like it was pretty, you know, we had to be pretty confident and like okay, we're gonna be comfortable bringing our kids in this environment like putting them in this room and doing this thing so. To give you like an idea, I mean all this building was built a long time ago and a lot of entertainment has taken place in this building but it's so interesting

because you've got like, you know, you've got the Tonight Show on one floor and then you go up another floor and you've got Seth Meyers, you go up another floor and you've got SNL. Like it's all happening right there together but and I don't know if I've got the facts right on that, but basically that's how it is. What floor's on what's on what floor, but.

The really interesting thing. And it feels kind of like an office building when you're backstage. It's a small hallway and then everybody has like their dressing room and we were just very, you know, because even here in our space in Burbank, it's like open and there's like a skylight because we're just, you know, we're not in a tall office building, but it's like open and there's like a skylight, because we're just,

we're not in a tall office building, but it's like there, it's like, it was built for efficiency a long time ago. So it's all, and then all of a sudden you kinda go in this hallway and boom, you're in the room. You're on the set, and there's the audience. Yeah, it's like how did this, it's all very tight.

How did this room fit in here, like the whole set? It's crazy. But one of the things I did notice is people, a few of you commented on some of the videos and I saw this on social media as well. They're like, oh, you guys are, the Tonight Show for the third time in a year. You guys must be close personal friends with Jimmy now.

He's bringing you back. Yeah, which is true. I mean it's cool. It's like, it's nice to now be friends with Jimmy. So before, it's like that morning we get up and it's like, hey guys, you wanna come play handball? Yes, we play. It's like, yeah, I've never played handball.

Is it like racquetball but just with your hand? Right. I didn't know until we showed up. At Jimmy's personal handball court. Right. In his apartment, which is crazy. Awesome. And all we needed were hands.

He had the balls. And then he was like, later. Cracking jokes. Later. He's so funny. If you guys wanna come back later after the show, we can do, he says usually third time guests, sleepover time. Yes.

Don't bring the kids, don't bring the wives. Right, just bring the sleeping bags. So that night is a little bit awkward but we had. In your hands. We had a sleepover. His wife and his kid were there but we didn't interact with them very much. We just played more handball.

Right. Yeah. And by handball, at this point, we still mean handball. And what I'm really saying is that this is all a lie. We didn't do any of this. I mean, Jimmy is nice enough to, he comes backstage while we're getting ready and he says, hey guys, welcome back, thanks for coming back.

And we're like, we're so glad to be back, this is awesome. There's no mention of handball, it's just like, we're grateful to be here and he's very gracious and seems happy to have us. I mean it's their invitation every time. Well think about it. And then we do it. Then he leaves and then we come out and we do the show

and then after we don't see him. This is a guy who hosts a show that has different guests on it every single night and I'm sure that he has actual close personal friends and plays handball with some of the guests that he has on there. How many people can you play handball with? Right, really. No, so to answer that question.

Just start with that, how many hands does Jimmy Fallon have? Jimmy has been incredibly welcoming. How many does he have? He's got two hands. Two. We got two, we got six between the six of us. We have four, six between the six of us. But he's incredibly accommodating and nice and welcoming

and it's always great to see him and we do have legitimate conversation when we're not doing the show. But no, it's not like, he can't hang, I mean he can't just hang out with people who come on a show, that's all he would ever do. And the same goes for us, if you come on our show, we can't hang with you.

Yeah, that's true, that's true. I'm sorry, it's like. I think the thing that I. We don't even play handball, I've never played it. But we. And the first time I play it, it can't be with you. Right, I think the thing that I was handball, I've never played it. But we. And the first time I play it, it can't be with you. Right. I think the thing that I was thinking was,

there was a certain level of nervousness the first time we went on. And I don't think any of this, if you go back and watch the clips or whatever, I don't think any of this really shows, but I was very nervous the first time. And this is nervousness that is before we come out. I think for both of us, as soon as the curtain opens

and we're on the couch, we're not nervous anymore. It's the days leading up to it and then the minutes right before the curtain opens and they call our name. That's a very nerve wracking thing. But I say the second time we went on, I was half as nervous and then this time, I was a third as nervous. It's like decreasing by a percentage every time.

Well the next time we're not gonna be zero nervous. No, we'll be a fourth as nervous. So it's, It's inversely proportional to, Asymptotic. Yeah, you'll never not be nervous but my theory is that you go down at a rate of, a fraction of the number of times you've been there.

But a function never touches its asymptote. Exactly. So you know there's always gonna be a certain low level of nervousness. And there needs to be. But I mean, we have that on our own show, Good Mythical Morning, the show we do. I didn't think like, I wasn't like, If we ever get back to doing that show.

Having like diarrhea, I think the first time we went on, I probably crapped like three or four times that show. Having like diarrhea, you know, I think the first time we went on, I probably crapped like three or four times that day. You know, you begin to evacuate everything because your body's like, you're going into battle, sucker. Evacuate so you can be light on your feet. I probably took one crap that day this time, you know. I didn't count but I will next time.

And so, but this time it's like Jimmy comes back and it's like, hey, our kids are here, come in here and we got some photos with them. I even tweeted, oh, I got a photo and I tweeted it. That's pretty good, man, for me. Pretty good for you, Link. I tweeted a photo that I took, but I was proud, man, proud of those children of ours and wives.

The wives weren't in it, because the wives weren't in the picture because they were, They were in the audience. They're over 16. They're over 18, which is even more important, and they were out there in the audience at the time that we took the picture with the Fallon. And then afterward, they did a behind the scenes,

hey can you guys do a behind the scenes for our channel? We're like absolutely, so let's do it with the kids. So like we go in there where the kids are and if you haven't seen it, you should watch it. But the miraculous thing is that Lando was in the video. I can barely get him to be in a picture. And it's still photographed. He likes to take pictures,

but he doesn't like to be in pictures. A lot of photographers are like that. Yeah, he's like Banksy, who's not a photographer. No. I know what he is. But it's similar. You didn't have to explain that analogy. I get it. He wants you to see his art, not see him.

It's like if you were in Banksy's house and it was like rocketing off of Earth to another place. Yeah, don't go there. But I asked, I was like, hey guys, Lando, you wanna be in a behind the scenes video? And he sits down and we're like all sitting, you know we're sitting on the couch and they ask us like superlatives who would get the award

and like we get the kids to say which of us should get certain awards, like most likely best gift giver and stuff like that. And Lando's sitting there the whole time in the video and I'm thinking I can't believe this is happening. I can't believe, and so then after I was like, Lando, I'm super proud of you for being in the video. And he was like, I thought you said,

do you wanna watch a behind the scenes video? That explains a lot. So he said, because behind the, There's a TV. Behind the guy who was filming this, there was a television that showed, while they were backstage in our dressing room, they could watch the show being filmed.

So they were able to watch it from backstage. And then they thought he was gonna sit down with us and watch it behind the scenes. He was just waiting for whatever was happening to be over. So he could watch. I think by the time he got into it, he knew what was happening and it was too late. He wasn't gonna show his butt, so to speak.

He wasn't gonna walk out in the middle of the video. Who would do that? Yeah, I did. And we don't have to bring up why I did, but I don't think you wanna relive that. No, I don't. You can watch the video. So I showed, so Jessie was watching this, my wife was watching the video,

and she's very self-conscious, very conscious about Shepard's haircut and how it looked in the video. Here's why. So if you watch the video, because she's like, you didn't fix Shepard's hair. I it looked in the video. Here's why. So if you watch the video, because she's like, you didn't fix Shepherd's hair. I'm like, nobody cares. He's an eight year old kid.

But what happens is if you look at Shepherd's hair, it looks like, because it is, his hair is just like combed down and just cut straight across like a home cut. Now we paid for the haircut and I'm gonna tell you why it looks like this. So what she likes to do because she doesn't want- Is this explanation something that, did Jessie want you to explain this? Is this gonna- On the show looks like this. So what she likes to do because she doesn't want to. Is this explanation something that,

did Jessie want you to explain this? Is this gonna make things better? Yeah. Well yeah, yeah, she's not gonna care. She likes us to, because of what happened with the haircut, which I'll explain, which is a funny story, she likes me to push it to the side so it looks somewhat stylish.

So if you look at that video, it's just like, his hair is just like straight across, bangs like cut straight across his forehead. Because he'd been in that room running around. No, but here's what happened. So, we've, Jessie was taking Barbara to the vet, and so she had Barbara in the car with her,

but Shepherd had to get a haircut. And so she takes Shepherd into the place to get a haircut. And she kind of tells him what to do, and then she's like, I'm gonna go to the car to be with the dog. Can't leave a dog in the car. Or a car and a dog, that would be bad. Unfortunately, what that means is that you've got

an eight-year-old who is Shepherd, who you know is very vocal, and he's gonna tell you what he thinks. Oh, and what he wants. Is now directing the haircut process. Oh. So what happened is while Jessie was like,

Comb it all down and cut it straight across. She was like, don't cut the front too short, is what she said, because we want to kind of be able to like swoop it to the side, right? But what happened was is the barber, or the stylist, I don't know what kind of place it was, basically Shepherd told Jesse, he was like,

I just kept telling him, take more of the front because I don't like it to go in my eyes. So somehow Shepherd, an eight year old, was able to convince this barber to basically just his hair. Barber to basically just, halfway up his forehead, just cut it straight across and that's what his hair looks like now. But it's your fault for not styling it before the behind the scenes video.

Yeah, well she didn't really care. And I said, but it's cute, right? It looks like a bad haircut but it's cute, it's on an eight year old. She doesn't really care but I think the lesson learned is. Did people scrutinize his hair in the comments? No, nobody noticed. Well it's funny.

Now that I've talked about it, people will. Well that picture that I just bragged about tweeting, within 10 minutes, I got people talking about the stain on Lando's shirt. And then a kind Mythical Beast went so far as to Photoshop the stain off of his shirt. And then a kind Mythical Beast went so far as to Photoshop the stain off of his shirt. I'm like, and then repost the photo without the stain because enough people were talking about the stain

on his shirt. First of all, it was a water stain. It was no stain at all. It was a moist spot that a seven year old, and then there were people who had kids or experienced with kids chiming in in the comments section and saying things like, listen, there are huge victories going on here

and not even just having him in a picture or a video, which they didn't even appreciate, but just the fact that you got a kid all in one piece in public with a little bit of stain is not an issue. But oh yeah, so again, this is the reason why we're, you know, we're a little calculated about putting our kids or loved ones on camera because you can't help but pick apart the one thing.

Like there's this great photo and then you're talking about the stain, now I think most of it was just in good fun, it's like no one was ripping him a new one because he has stain. People just like to find something that they can point out. But it was funny that they did. And then it was a funny choice to Photoshop it off. I think that person did it as a way to make fun

of the people who were talking about it, not sincerely, I don't think. I wasn't offended, I'm not offended now, but I do think it's a little funny that there was a whole sub-thread about the stain on Lando's shirt. Well speaking of sub-threads, for the Ryan and Kelly, Kelly and Ryan, Kelly and Andy appearance,

that video of us cooking the steak with the irons, that was posted on the Kelly and Ryan Facebook page, which then Jesse brought up the comments that the people who normally enjoy Kelly and Ryan's videos. I love it when this happens. I don't know what it is, but I love it when it happens. and Jesse brought up the comments that the people who normally enjoy Kelly and Ryan's videos. I love it when this happens. I don't know what it is, but I love it when it happens. But you can only imagine what the average viewer

of Kelly and Ryan. They thought we were highly intelligent, thoughtful human beings who know our culinary experts. Exactly. So there were comments like, you know, essentially, who are these fools? Why did you have them on? This is not safe.

They ruined an iron. Oh goodness. People, people. Four irons, oh great. People who are just not. Ruined four irons. Probably wouldn't enjoy our content. But then Jessie was pointing out the fact that

a good number of mythical beasts had gone in and then defended us. And she was like, and they defended you in a very thoughtful way. It was like very tactful and they were like, these are, I mean, people did say something like, do you not have a sense of humor or whatever, but you don't have to feel the need to defend us,

but I do appreciate it when you do. But the crowd wasn't necessarily ready for what we were gonna do, but the crowd in the studio was very responsive. They were into it. Very responsive in the moment. Well we walked out there for a rehearsal and they were,

live morning shows are just like, it's like chaos on camera and then everything backstage is like, what's happening, what's happening? You know we had like the cooking thing over to the side like a side stage but on the main stage the show wasn't happening, they were showing footage and I think filming the audience, their reactions to it,

my theory is to get more reactions or just to show them something while they were waiting. But we come out and the producer's like saying, all right, we're gonna walk you through this thing. She tells me this because I'm in the front of the line. You're walking behind me. And we walk out there. People are watching the show on a screen

in front of the set. But then we come out and like there's people cheering for us. And then I turn around and I look at Rhett and he's got this panicked look on his face and he says, is this it? Like for a second you thought we were doing it. Well because we. I knew it was a rehearsal,

but we were in front of the whole crowd. It was just strange because we had been backstage in this kitchen and we like went through the recipe and knew what we were gonna do. And then you were talking to the producer and I was kinda like, I was a little. Thinking about your throat. I was a little removed from that.

No, thankfully at the time, my throat felt fine. Okay. Because it was the morning. That's when it feels good. And, but when we went out there yesterday, everybody was, Drinking some water. Everybody was looking at us and we were very, very close to the,

like the audience was extremely close to us. Like, It was very intimate, yes. And so they're all looking at us and I'm like, I thought it was a rehearsal but no one told me it was a rehearsal and now I'm like, are we gonna have to do this? And then she was like, oh you're not doing this right now.

But we did stay out there for 10 minutes or so like going through what we were gonna do and this is where we're gonna stand or whatever and everybody's just kinda watching us do it. It was a little awkward. You hate that. I mean it's like if you're a musician who has to go out and do a sound check in front of an audience, you can totally relate to this.

Because we've had that experience too. It's like having to do a sound check in front of people or having to rehearse in front of people. I just don't like to do something halfway before you do it all the way. I don't even like. It's in front of the people halfway before you do it all the way. I don't even like. It's right in front of the people who are gonna see it all the way.

And also. But you hate it more than I do. And I purposely like even when like we do like rehearsals on Buddy System, I purposely don't like to. Yeah, hold back. Act in the way that I'm gonna act, which I found it interesting when we worked with Michael McDonald, not the singer, the actor.

And we were like giving him some direction in the rehearsal. We rehearsed and then after we were walking away and we started to say something about his characterization. He was like, I like to hold back on rehearsal. And I was like, me too. And I was like, okay, sorry, I didn't mean to try to tell you.

I didn't think that's what you were gonna do, but I just wanted you to know what, and then it was like, I'm gonna stop talking now. But a lot of people have commented on the picture that Stevie posted to her Instagram, the three of us. And people, at least one person was like, what is Rhett thinking with that look on his face? And the thing I'm thinking is that.

What, describe the look. Well, okay, what were you thinking? It's just uncomfortable. It looks a little constipated, and I'm thinking is that. What describe the look? Well okay, what were you thinking? It's just uncomfortable. It looks a little constipated and I'm obviously not comfortable. Again, I don't like to be in front of people unless I'm actually in front of them and I'm doing something where I'm kinda like, I kinda know what my role is and I'm in control.

Like people watching you get a photo taken for another set of people is weird. A whole audience of people watching me get a picture taken, that's the look I have, that's the look I have. You can see that on Stevie's Instagram. Maybe we'll put it in the video as well. But that's the look of a man who's a little uncomfortable. It's the look of a man who's uncomfortable

because he's posing for a photo while other people are watching that pose. Yeah. It was a success. But yeah, I don't know if the winner will have been determined by the time this podcast goes. I don't know what the time, but you can retweet their tweet about us.

Well, the way that these things works is. The way that these things works. They get people from the internet to come on their show because people from the internet can get people to vote for stuff and to churn social media. It's all a big game. And it's just how it works. So it's like, you know, you guys are extremely loyal

and you love to support us and I'm not, and we were very glad to be there. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I'm just saying that's just how it works. They wanna get people churning comments and votes and stuff like that. It's good for their show, it's good for us, it's good, everybody wins.

And a charity. As long as you're not doing it out of sense obligation but you're doing it because it's fun to support us in their show. And if we win, then $10,000 will be donated to a charity of our choice which, we've got a number of charities that we've partnered with in the past, I don't know if we've made a decision

about which one we're gonna do but it'll be one that we've vetted and worked with in the past. I don't know if we've made a decision about which one we're gonna do, but it'll be one that we've vetted and worked with. I hope that didn't sound like I didn't care about the charity. I'm just saying that like, let's be real. A lot of times, the first thing people think about is not, let's come up with something to give money to charities. Let's come up with something to churn social media and let's also benefit charity as another thought,

as a separate thought that's the best thought but it may not be the first thought and that's just how things work. It's all about entertainment though, man. It's all about entertainment, right? I have no clue. But then we shifted, once we did those two things, we tried to be very disciplined to say okay.

Personal time. To the personal time to like, that was fun for the kids, they gotta be in the audience for Ryan and Kelly and they made an exception for our family to let them do that even though there was an age limit there and that was a cool experience for them. But then we had to go on the sightseeing tour.

I think we went to the top of the Empire State Building, we rode the subways, we walked around. I know you love New York City because you gush about it every time we go and like the first thing Rhett does every time we go is we're walking around, he's like look we're just walking around, every time you turn a corner, something else. I love it.

And I look down and there's like metal doors underneath stuff, I just wanna go down in there. Yeah, I love it. And look up there, it's like people living up there and windows, it's just like a kid in a candy shop and a bull in a china shop together. I didn't break anything. It's you. I didn't break anything. It's you.

I didn't break anything. Well, who knows. No, but I do love it. It is my favorite city in the world. So the kids experienced that. But it wasn't, it isn't, I'm not saying I'd rather live there than Los Angeles, but it's my favorite city to visit.

I absolutely love it. I do love the fact that. It's like walking around in an exciting gift shop. I just love how every single step you take, there's something else that somebody is doing that's just notable. It might be somebody's acting crazy, somebody's off their rocker.

Somebody's having sexual intercourse in an alleyway. I saw that. You seriously saw that? I seriously saw that this time. And I was walking with my son when it happened, but I did not point it out to him. It's like the Wild West or something? What, where were you walking?

Well, this is another interesting thing about this trip is that Locke, you know, has moved on from diving to basketball and he's very serious about basketball. And he was very, he's trying out for his school team. So he's like, very, he was like, dad, I out for his school team so he's like, very, he was like, dad, I can't have seven days where I don't play basketball.

So we got him a basketball while we were out there and he went to like the public courts, like the street ball courts on the Lower East Side, which you know, it's not like real street ball there but it was pretty street. And he went there. Well there were streets nearby. He went like four times and played like real

pickup basketball with like real city dudes who were very happy to welcome him. And we actually let him walk out there by himself a couple of times. He was like, I'm gonna go early in the morning, is it okay? And I'm like, yeah. He's like, Dad, I did like a crime analysis of this part of the city, like you know my son.

What? Yeah, he's like, Dad. No, I'll take that at face value. Yeah, he's like, it's actually much safer here than it would be in downtown Los Angeles. Like he's got all the- Where he really wanted to go, so he had some data. Yeah, but anyway, but one time I went down there with him

and then walked back and that was when I passed the people having a transaction of some sort in the alley. And you know, it took me a second to figure out what was going on. At first I looked over and I was like, did that girl lose something and that guy's helping her? No, no, no, no. How far away?

Could you have thrown a basketball and broke it up? Oh yeah, I mean I don't know if I've got that good aim, but 30 yards. But when I realized they weren't. Hit the right spot. They weren't looking for a lost item. They were finding love. I just.

Scurried on home. I did a double take, because you don't get to see that every day. Was this in daylight? Oh yeah, it was in daylight. What on earth? It was down an alley on a stoop in the alley. I'm sorry that I brought this up.

And it was not a good scene. You know what I'm saying? It didn't seem like a romantic moment. It seemed like a transactional moment. Oh. And I didn't dwell on it very long. I hadn't thought about it again until you brought it up. But I just knew that this is,

now this is the thing. Are you a compartmentalist? My instinct was to turn to the guy that I'm with and be like, dude, check that out. But I realized dude was my 13 year old son. I was like, eh, I probably shouldn't point that out to him. He doesn't need to see that yet. So I told you about it when I got home.

And I brought it up here. Yeah, yeah. And now we roll the footage for the video viewing. I did video the whole thing. No you didn't. But I love the city and I was having the best time. Until.

I was. Can I say my highlight? Worried about my throat the whole time but I was having the best time other than that. My highlight, well I mean, I think taking, being with the family and seeing these things, like we don't go on sightseeing tours a lot, but like all of that, we did a food tour one day,

ate a lot of food, you saw like Bob Dylan's house and where he first performed and where Jimi Hendrix first performed. Awesome. It's like, and eat, and a lot of food, that was great. But just experiencing that, you know, with my family, and with your family, like that, I mean, that takes the cake, that's the biggest thing.

But if there's one like small highlight, it was actually, we went to the American Museum of Natural History right on the edge of Central Park, Neil deGrasse Tyson's observatory, planetarium, I'm saying it's his but he's like the, I don't know, he's the guy for it. He's the public face of it. We saw like a cool planetarium movie.

I tweeted about that, the dark universe, I said it was very moving. And then we come right outside and we go to Shake Shack and get burgers and shakes and they're just, it's like, it's in LA now and I've had it here and it is amazing but it was just like to have it there in the middle of the night. We definitively determined that it's both

of our favorite burgers. Yeah, well everybody, everybody was like, this is the best burger. The Shake Shack has the best burger. But I got burned in my experience. Metaphorically? Literally. I burnt my mouth on a crinkle cut fry.

The roof of my mouth, because I waited a long time for that burger and that fry. And I think it was the fry that did it. You did a pre-fry, you reached in the bag when you had the bag. Right when I got it and then I burnt the roof of my mouth and then I did something that I learned you should never do. Burn the roof of your mouth and then immediately

start sucking down a shake and I applied vacuum pressure and the end of the straw just so happened to be at the place where I hadn't yet realized it, I had burnt the roof of my mouth with the crinkle cut fry. Typically that would be a good treatment though, a cold liquid like that. And maybe that's what I was instinctively doing.

But creating the vacuum to get this thick beverage but creating the vacuum to get this thick beverage out of the straw, I'm talking about the milkshake here, it made the burn bubble up. Oh gosh. And it made it hurt bad the next day. It really didn't take full form until the next day. I was like, man, this is not just a burn. Or you're eating a burger.

The whole time I'm eating it, I'm like, I'm sucking down the shake and like every time I'm unknowingly making the burn worse. Like I'm making the roof of my mouth like very tender and very bubbly. Like three distinct bubbles where I was like. From one fry? No, from the shake after the one fry, yeah.

The burn then got. And just now, as of last night, I can eat normally again. Shh. I mean, we're talking five days of like, having to eat on the right side of the roof of my mouth. You know how hard it is to keep food on one side of the roof of your mouth?

Huh, it's real hard. I had to do that, man, but that doesn't denigrate the fact that that burger and that, and it was a vanilla shake. I didn't even get the peanut butter shake. You went plain. Well I've gotten the peanut butter shake here in Glendale, at the Glendale location, and it was lacking.

I'm being real here. But the vanilla shake was amazing. I don't do the shakes anymore. It was blister inducing heaven. But the burger was just. So good. And again, here's what I said, because I try not to eat, I try to eat healthy.

I did not eat healthy while we were in New York. I just ate whatever I wanted to and I think I'm suffering because of it. But I was like, I'm not gonna go back and just eat Shake Shack all the time in Glendale. I can't do that. No. It's gonna be the New York,

it's gonna be a special New York thing. But we know it's in Glendale. But I was like, We can go there if we have to. The bun, the burger, which you know, the bun and the burger are the two, the condiments are, you know, that's up to you. But the thing that the restaurant is really making

a choice for you is the way they do their bun and it's like a buttered toasted bun and the burger is just unbelievable. We were literally sitting, we're sitting here, we went on this big long trip, days, days and days of sightseeing and we're sitting here going on and on about a burger. It's that good and they're not even paying us.

Yeah. But we're gonna send them a bill. Yeah, can you do that? Can you do an ad for somebody then send them a bill? We're gonna try. Shake Shack, you'll be getting a bill from Mill Entertainment. The Linkster, the Redster.

At least 100 bucks. At least 100 bucks. Yeah, triple digits for that. You could buy handballs with that kind of money. How much does a handball cost? Well a good handball could run you $50, I mean a good one. You could get two.

Get two hand balls. That way if we, One for you, one for me. Well you only need one at a time, but if we lose one. It's a backup ball. Can you lose a hand ball? It's an enclosed room. Yeah, but if you got like a drain without a top on it. Don't have a hand ball court with a drain

or crack the door open. No, you need a drain because you need to, you gotta spray it down after a really on it. Don't have a handball court with a drain or crack the door open. No, you need a drain because you gotta spray it down after a really intense game. And then I can't not talk about the Lion King. Well talk about it. We went to. Are they gonna pay us as well? Yeah, we're gonna send them a bill on the Lion King.

Disney, Disney's getting a bill because we talked about how great the Lion King was. I'm sorry for yelling. Well, we need to put a little beep in, in retrospect, that people will know. Mythical Beasts will know. Link's about to yell. That beep means hold the earphones or the earbuds,

pull them out. Ah, they'll be fine. Compression, man. Limit, press it down. It didn't even hurt him? No. I'm trying to be sensitive. I don't wanna turn anybody away

because we're getting that Disney money. Now. The Lion King. Now, I think we talked a little bit about this, but. I didn't talk about it enough. I think you and me, both. Us. Teared up very early on in The Lion King.

I can tear up right now thinking about it. Listen. I mean, I teared up very early on in The Lion King. I can tear up right now thinking about it. Listen. I mean, I teared up. The opening vocal was amazing. I mean, it's like you got this, you got a character which turned out to be a. The baboon. A baboon. I didn't know that.

We didn't know that until the very end. Yeah, it's like, I didn't make any. Well, that singing woman is incredible. You know what, I compartmentalized the movie The Lion King from this experience and they were totally separate. So I wasn't trying to figure out now. Well it's been a while since I've seen The Lion King.

Is that the baboon who holds up the baby? We should have known it because she held up Simba at the very beginning. But even before that, she bust out singing. Unbelievable. And the voice was just amazing. And there was a guy off to the side singing too and the two of them were singing in another language.

Yeah. And it didn't matter what they were saying. But as the animals come in, And then there's, it was two giraffes. It was a person, giraffe. Well, I mean, I think most people do have some idea of how the Lion King musical works. We're behind on this one.

This is not new. Did you not know that that's how it was gonna be, like these puppets and stuff? I did know. I had been told. And I'd seen pictures. I'd seen pictures. But like when the cheetah girl.

Well, you have to explain it. I don't care if people have seen it. It's one person on stilts. Well that's your giraffe, yeah. That is the giraffe, yes. The cheetah, I know which one was the cheetah. Yeah, yeah, no, but I'm saying. I don't think the cheetah had long legs and a long neck.

I know that's a giraffe. No, but I'm saying that the cheetah, all of it. Cheetah was my favorite. All of it made me tear up. I teared up multiple times throughout it. When the giraffes walked out and they were singing the song, I started crying and then a cheetah comes out and it's the back leg. The cheetah was so graceful.

It's a woman whose legs are the back legs of a cheetah. And then she's puppeteering the front legs and her head is connected to the cheetah's head and when she moves her head, the cheetah's head moves and it was like so inventive and so beautiful. I've never liked puppets. I've been anti-puppet.

But now you're pro-puppet. I'm so pro-puppet now. Lion King has made you pro-puppet. These are special puppets. These aren't just like normal puppets. You're pro-special puppet, not pro-normal puppet. I'm pro-special puppet.

I'm pro-African Savannah, special Lion King puppet. I think you're pro-puppet that has a person attached to puppet that you can see them puppeteering in a very. Well, they could have done costumes and it would have been like Disney on Ice. Does that mean you're into ventriloquist now?

Yes. No, no, no, no, no, definitely not. Because it was very different. Although the bird was very much ventriloquist. The bird was a ventriloquist and I almost bought the bird. It was my least favorite part. I thought the bird was one much ventriloquist. The bird was a ventriloquist. And I almost bought the bird. It was my least favorite. I thought the bird was one of the best things. No, no, I love the bird's character.

I love what the bird said. You weren't comfortable with the ventriloquy. It was a less creative approach, but then I started thinking, what else could you do with a bird? They did what they had to do. You're thinking all this. Yeah, I'm also thinking.

I'm just thinking they could have been dressed up as animals, but instead they did this weird thing that's never been done before when it's like, you see the animal, but then you see the person, and you can focus on the person. Or the animal. Or the animal. And you make a choice. And you can constantly be choosing to appreciate the puppeteering or just the performance of the animal. Or the animal. And you make a choice. And you can constantly be choosing to appreciate

the puppeteering or just the performance of the person. Right. And the way that they were built. I mean it was like inspiring. Yeah. Those creative choices of how they said, we're not gonna do a costume and we're not gonna do puppets.

We're gonna do both and we're not gonna do either. And it's gonna be something totally new and it's gonna make people be pro-puppet. Yeah, now we become pro-puppet. So that was a highlight, that was a highlight for both of us. And I was literally tearing up when it just, it was so, it was so great. But I will say, I will say in an effort

to wrap things up here, the next to last day we were walking on the High Line, again another great experience. Met some friends from LA out there who were also in New York and we walked the High Line. The High Line is a, it's the railroad that is suspended kind of next to the river. It's the west side on the Hudson.

And then they were bringing freight and all this stuff on the railway, which was above where everyone walked around and lived their lives. But now it's been restored and turned into a place where people can walk. It's almost like a nature parkway. That then goes through the city

and there's people's apartments and buildings right up on it, super cool. Yeah, kinda long though. But I was walking next to you and you're like, well, I'm ready to go home. Like I'm sitting, you know. And the moment I said it, I knew that it wasn't, I shouldn't have said it to you.

Well, because you know, now I'm on the, we represent very opposite ends of the spectrum, right? So I'm doing something that I know is completely irrational, right? This is totally irrational. When I'm walking on the High Line, I'm seeing these apartments and I'm like, I gotta move here one day.

Like that's what I'm thinking. I'm like, we need to do like, we need to do like a year. We need to like, how much is one of those apartments to rent for a year? We should just come here for a year just to spend a year in the city. Like your mind's racing a million places. You're in the future and you're living there.

And then like of course, you can see the, this will be your daily commute. And my son is exactly the same way. By the end of the trip, he's going to NYU to play bat. Yeah, yeah. That's how we think. We've always been that way. It's like you go into a situation

and then you immediately like put yourself in it and Jessie's the same way. She's like, she gladly participates in that conversation. So I'm like, my mind is up here in the future, I'm thinking about this. I turn to you and you're like, well, I'm ready to go home. And I wish I had the ability to think a little bit more

out of my circumstances, but I think that by that point in the trip, the logistics of everything kind of started to weigh on me. Like I'm really starting to understand how sensitive I am to space, to personal space, and to, by this point in the trip, like, being in such close proximity to my family, my kids and their problems, I mean, Lando fell over and skinned his knee

and then we're having this moment and we're like searching for a bandaid and we're trying to like, okay, it's okay, just keep it down, you're falling apart here. And then the buildings start to close in on me. But they weren't actually. They weren't moving, but I recognize that. It felt that way.

And then it's just like, you know, my own space. And it's not about, yeah, maybe it's a little bit about comfort and about things that we've explored a lot on this show. But it wasn't just that, so it would be an oversimplification to say, well, in this moment, I couldn't appreciate where I was and how amazing it was and anything like that,

but it was also an accumulation of many days of another world pressing in on me and a lot of. And having the kids there, it does get, you know. I was ready to give back. Yeah, I get, you know, I could not, I would not do well, I'd have to have a serious personality adjustment to be a stay-at-home dad. Like that would be a difficult thing for me to do.

Because just. But for me, I'm not putting it all on the kids. It was everything, it was the environment and just the sheer mass of people. Like I even, we asked Lincoln, like what do you think about New York City? He was like, there's a lot of people. And he was like feeling, there's a lot of people

really close up. Yeah, and I did ask Lincoln the second night we were walking around, I'm like, what do you think about this place? He's like, meh. It's not for everybody. That was his response. I love to visit.

I don't think I love to visit anywhere too long. But the kids have, you know, kids have kid needs and there are sometimes you're just like, man, I just like, if we could just go, and we did this once, just go out on a date, but you know, with our wives and Stevie and Cassie and that was a great night. But yeah, so when I actually,

I think about some unrealistic scenario when I think about being there. I'm like, oh, this is, yeah, the kids are on their own now. The kids are in college or the kids have their own careers and we just go and spend a summer in the city. But in fairness, every time I've left to bring it back to the. But in fairness, every time I've left to bring it back to the amusement park for today, every time I've left an amusement park,

I've been like, I'm ready to go home. And I definitely feel that. I definitely thought it was like, man, wrangling these kids and keeping them all happy and like alive in this survival situation that is an amusement park. Boy, that really takes it out of you. And then, actually they weren't there today.

And I kind of felt the same, so I'm like, hmm, it's a little bit of a wake up call. Right, it's not about the kids. It's a little bit, maybe it's me. Or maybe it's just the amusement park. But I was very, but I did, there was a special feeling that I had when I got back home and I was like, this is relaxing, this is quiet.

I know there's mountains there, but I can't see it through the smog. That's something to that. But yeah, I was glad to be back and I was like, I'm glad we live here. I'm not saying I wanna live in New York City. Well, you wanna live everywhere, just be real. I don't wanna, I wanna live wherever I go.

I put myself there and I'm like, hmm, how could I live here? But no one summers in New York City. Yeah. That's what they always tell you, summer somewhere else. Yeah, it's too hot. Wow, thanks for hanging with us as we, it's just a lot of catch up.

You know, I like to process what we've been through. This episode has felt like a scrapbook. We just had a scrapbooking session. We journaled. We journaled verbally. I scrapbooked. Yeah. I didn't.

Same thing, we made memories. We cataloged memories in a way that you would like to scrapbook about, I would like to journal about, but we didn't. And now that we have a record, a time capsule, if you will, of our experience in New York and at the amusement park and at the doctor's office. Everything else.

We've recorded history, that's what we've done. And with a few tweaks, and if we tell the story a few more times, we will have played handball with Jimmy Fallon. That's the beauty of recording it now because every time you reaccess a memory, you change it. Yeah. But then we've got a record.

Oh so now we can't do it actually. We actually made it worse. So we could have played handball with Jimmy Fallon if we wouldn't have done this. We locked it in. Well. Thanks for joining us. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that

we'll be back again next week. There's a small chance that I'm gonna not be able to speak and you're gonna be talking and I'll be making motions next week. I don't know, maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. Let's find out. We'll leave our options open. Yeah.

Tune back in to find out. I'll talk at you next week, I can guarantee that. Love you.