Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 121: Our Throwback Thanks| Ear Biscuits Ep. 121

Episode Date: November 20, 2017

Rhett & Link dig into the archives to give thanks to people in their lives who helped them along the way but whom they didn't feel they properly acknowledged until now on this week's Ear Biscuits. Listen to Ear Biscuits at:  Apple Podcasts: http://applepodcasts.com/earbiscuits 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 Production Manager: Jacob Moncrief Technical Director: Meggie Malloy Editor: Meggie Malloy Graphics: Matthew Dwyer Set Design/Construction: Cassie Cobb Content Manager: Becca Canote Logo Design: Carra Sykes 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. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we're gonna grease you up for Thanksgiving. Oh gosh. Like a turkey, you know how you rub the turkey with stuff before you put it in the thing

to then go through the process so you can then eat it. That's what we're doing to your ears right now. What do you know about that process? I've been, I used to flip through the channels on a television, I would see people preparing turkeys. Sometimes internet videos float around of people preparing turkeys in new creative ways. We dabble in it.

And your interpretation was that they were greasing it up? Yeah, you just grease it up and then it's kinda like a pig that you're trying to, I know that would be pork, but that you're trying to chase. Yeah, a turkey is like a pig. That's greased. Yeah, I can tell you don't spend a lot of pig. A turkey is like a pig. That's greased. Yeah. I can tell you don't spend a lot of time in the kitchen

unless you're eating. We're gonna baste. We're gonna baste you. We're gonna baste your ears. Oh gosh. All the mental pictures that you're creating for people. Have you seen a turkey baster before? This is the week of-

They look like some sort of dropper for an ogre. You know what I'm saying? A dropper for an ogre. This is the week to be thankful, man. We've designated it, we've designated it, and we can get it out of our system. So the rest of the year, we don't have to be thankful at all. No, that's not true, is it?

This is an opportunity for us to exercise. Especially thankful. The focus on gratitude. To focus on gratitude. And so we're happy to do that. We're gonna do that today. We dedicated an entire chapter of the book of mythicality to what we called throwback thanks.

And we're gonna get into, what we didn't do in the book was, when we thanked some people, we didn't get into a lot of the backstories or like we weren't able to fully flesh out why we were thanking these people. We limited it to a couple of note card sized thank you notes within our book.

So we just thought this would be a fun opportunity for us to expound on those things. So we're gonna do that today. We're also gonna hear some of the throwback things from you Mythical Beasts. Yeah. But first, you know. You're still greased up from your.

My birthday party. Your birthday party. I had a very late birthday party because we've been traveling a whole bunch and the only time that we could get the venue that we wanted and the band that we wanted was this particular day. But you told me that, because I had the advantage of turning,

there are certain disadvantages of being older than you. Like what? Just being the guy that hits 41st is not, that's not something you wanna sign up for. It's scary. But the advantage that I have recently discovered is that now you have to live up to the party that I threw for myself, or really that my wife threw for me.

Right, well, for months leading up to you crossing the precipice, breaking the seal on 40, there were murmurs, there were discussions of a party. It's like, all right, well, if you're gonna have a big birthday party, it should be 40. And I was in full support of a great celebration that I would not have to foot the bill for, but I would fully engage in enjoying. But I did put it on the company.

So, you did? Yeah, yeah. Oh goodness. So, I mean, you threw a big party, man. It was like. It started small and it got a little out of hand. Well, I wouldn't say it started, well, in the conversations that I heard between you and Jesse about this party

and the ones that I was involved in, it was like, well, once you decided you were gonna get a band, which came first, deciding to get a band or knowing about the band and then building a party around the band because- Well, so over a year ago, my wife said, or probably right after I turned 39, she was like, "'Now, do you wanna do something substantial

"'for your 40th birthday party?' "'Because we don't really do big parties for birthdays. "'It's just not something that, you know, "'Jessie, we're usually back home in North Carolina "'for her birthday. "'My birthday always comes in the middle "'of a really, really busy time for us. "'October's always really busy.

"'So we just haven't thrown parties.'" always comes in the middle of a really, really busy time for us, October's always really busy. So we just haven't thrown parties. But when she said that, I was like, I think I wanna have a party on a boat and I want Harbor Party, the band, to play. That's all I said at that time. Oh, so you thought about boat? It was a package deal in your mind.

I thought it was from the moment we saw that band, which you should tell them who Harbor Party is. Because that's the linchpin of this entire experience in my mind. Well, first of all, a lot of people did a lot of social media at the party and a lot of that spread. And so there's a lot of people who, you know, the people, the Mythical Beasts

who do a lot of digging on the internet to find out things, they already know all about this because there was a lot of Snapchats and Insta stories. I mean, I've seen myself singing that fricking song a million times from a bunch of different angles because everybody was filming it. But what were we saying? What was the question you asked me?

Harbor Party. Who is Harbor Party? So Harbor Party is a band that we saw play together for the first time at Good Times at Davey Wayne's, a club, a music club in Hollywood. But. But not just any band. To call them a band is almost not even fair.

I've never been to a music club and watched a band play that I, like I've seen bands because I buy a ticket to their concert. But I mean, I don't think I've ever been to a club, period, actually. I've been to like a club for like somebody's party who had a party at a club. But I don't do the clubbing thing.

But our friends, Gar and Rebecca, knew about this band because Gar's brother was really close friends with the lead singer and they were like, you're gonna love this band because Gar's brother was really close friends with the lead singer and they were like, you're gonna love this band, you're gonna love this venue, we should all go and hang out. And this venue, it looked kind of like a, when you get inside, it's low ceilings and a couple of rooms and it looks like a frat house inside,

like you're literally in a house. But it's a very, very cool. Very, very cool. Very cool place. And then in the corner of one of these. And it's also like a speakeasy when you get, when you walk into the lobby. Yeah, it's a secret. It looks like just a room, a little shop with like a refrigerator in it.

Oh yeah, you walk through the refrigerator. And you walk through the refrigerator. To get into this place. And then all of a sudden you're in this music club. How awesome is that? And then without any stage, just in the corner, just like you would have a house party band, there's a band playing over there

and it's the band that they wanted us to see, Harbor Party, and they're playing Yacht Rock. Which- Only Yacht Rock. Which we've learned that not a lot of people knew what Yacht Rock was. I was surprised because Yacht Rock. Which we've learned that not a lot of people knew what Yacht Rock was. I was surprised because Yacht Rock is my favorite type of music. I mean, basically, to explain it to you,

it's like late 70s, early 80s soul music that is mostly played by white people. I'm just gonna be honest. That's what they call blue-eyed soul. Like a Michael McDonald, Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates. Yeah. It's like when white people are getting as funky as they possibly can.

Right. It's like the limit of white funk. And you make fun of it by saying, well, now if you get a rich guy on a yacht, this is the music he listens to because it's kind of like maybe second rate. It's a little embarrassing. It's easy listening, but it's also a little funky,

but it's not so funky that you begin to, you're gonna hurt yourself. Right. You can still have a fishing rod. And so I would respect anyone, I would not argue with anyone and say, yeah, but it's not the real deal. If you wanna talk about funk,

you're gonna talk about James Brown. Right, right, right. You're gonna talk about somebody who actually brings the funk. It's derivative of James Brown. This is derivative. Right, but it's still incredible. And it's smoothed and for palatability

of people on yachts, I guess, I don't know. Now, and these guys, so everybody in this band. And if Michael McDonald sings a song, then you're gonna bet that that's a yacht rock song. Right, so. I keep forgetting, we're not in love anymore. Everybody in the band is a professional musician in their own right, and usually a part of another band

or like a studio musician. So they're great at their particular instrument, whether it's the voice or the bass or the keyboards or whatever. Everybody is just an incredible musician. Professionally. And then they all come together, really as a side project, to form this band

that plays at places like Good Times at Davey Wayne's but they also will do parties. And just like I told everybody at my party when I got up to give my little birthday boy speech, everyone underestimates it. Like when you say this is a great band, people are like okay, why are you making such a big deal out about this band?

And then you see them and experience it in person and you're like I can't fathom this. But I will say that there was definitely a little bit of a segregation between the old people, me, you, us, us getting into our late 30s, and then the, like right in the sweet spot of millennials that we have working for us. Yeah.

And there was this moment where we were up there like dancing our, just dancing our butts off, just like having the greatest time, and I kinda looked back and like saw like a sea of millennials and I realized that we have become our parents. Or like just sad uncles. This is like when I went to,

like I would see my parents like get really excited about 50s music when I was growing up. Yeah. And I was always like, that song is good stuff, but like it's a little embarrassing when mom and dad start dancing to like the Four Seasons, you know what I'm saying? Or Chuck Berry or something like that.

And you know what makes it even sadder for us? We don't have yachts. Yeah, we don't. Yous. Yeah we don't. You know, I mean. We should look into that. If we had a yacht, then you'd be like, yeah but I got a yacht, I mean I'm on it. I'm dancing on the yacht. So that was the idea was.

Well to come full circle, yeah, I wanted to have a yacht rot band on a yacht. Then I looked into how much that costs. And very quickly learned that that was not what I wanted to do. I could have had like a John Boat party. That would have been an affair.

That would have been an intimate affair. But I wanted to have, you know, like around 100 people at this thing. So if you want to put 100 people on a boat. It's gonna sink. If it's John Boat, it's gonna sink. Yeah, so we quickly downgraded. It'll be an under the sea theme.

From boat to Club, which I thought was just the perfect venue for those guys. It had a nice stage. But Jesse planned a lot of the details. It was perfect. There wasn't, there was the stage and then there was like a bar behind the stage. And in between the bar and the stage

there was like a little dance floor but not too big to where with that amount of people, it was like everything was full. So it didn't seem like there was like a big gap where somebody should have been but they weren't. And here's the one thing that I was able to do because I didn't have it on a boat. Jessie thought it would be a great idea

to get a lobster roll food truck. She's a genius. That was so good. And the Cousin's Maine Lobster food truck that had two types of lobster rolls, Connecticut style and Maine style. Connecticut is the warm lobster with butter on it, which is the one that I get and I got.

And they had lobster bisque, tater tots. It was absolutely incredible. So it was like being on a yacht that was parked and having somebody who had caught lobster and made it into lobster rolls perfectly for you. And then she, you remember the pie hole that we shot an episode of Will It Pie at? Yeah.

We got pies from Will It Pie Hole because I tried a Earl Grey tea pie when I was in Pasadena at Pie Hole and I was like, this is the best thing I've ever eaten and Jessie said, I'm gonna have that at your birthday party. So many things just came together and of course, I did choose to perform a song with the band which I was a little intimidated, you know this

because I was telling you in the days leading up that little pressure because we got really good musicians, you know, these professionals, I gotta get up there and I gotta dance and I gotta sing. So I decided to sing not any of the songs that I know that they do so well. I didn't wanna ruin any of the songs that they, I wasn't gonna sing any Hall & Oates,

I wasn't gonna sing any Toto, wasn't gonna sing any Michael Jackson. They do Michael Jackson, which is not exactly yacht rock. But they throw in some. If somebody starts playing Michael Jackson, you're not gonna stop them. So I was like, I'm not gonna sing any of the songs that I'll screw up, but it's gotta be a song

that people will recognize and I can actually sing, so I sing Brandy. And first of all. Parenthetically, you're a fine girl. Stevie and Cassie both thought, so when I talked to Cassie about this, I was like, I'm performing a song, and she was like, what are you singing?

I was like, Brandy. And then she went and told Stevie that I was performing a Brandy song from Brandy. And so then when the band started playing, like the whole night, Cassie was like, I don't understand how Rhett's gonna perform a Brandy song and how this is gonna make sense. And then when I performed Brandy by Looking Glass,

a one-hit wonder who recently has come back into, you know, the public eye because they're on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack. But she was like, makes a whole lot more sense. And anyway, you were concerned about it because tell me your day, days leading up to it, there'd be like a lull in our conversation where we were talking about work or something else.

And then you'd be like, I gotta learn those lyrics to Brandy. And I was like, dude, I think it would be great if you just kinda like mumbled your way through it because that's kinda how he sings, he's like. Browning, zavaflani, woo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo vo for a couple of days. From far away and the for sailors. But I was worried, it was kind of a risk. I was worried that people might not get it, you know? So I took all this time to memorize the lyrics. Yeah, you did.

And then they had just had the lyrics on an iPad up there. So I spent hours. Hours? Yeah. And then. Well, here's my experience. I'm out there just having the time of my life, man. I was happy for you that you were indeed 40

and you know what, you didn't look that decrepit. I mean you got on stage, you performed a song. I was like there's hope for me. Right. But then my hope started to dash a little bit because one person came up and asked me something. A few minutes later, another person comes up, asks me the same thing. Few minutes later, another person comes up, asked me the same thing.

Few minutes later, somebody else is talking to me and then changes the subject to say the same thing. Right. Everyone was asking me, what are you gonna do for your party? I'm like, man, I was thinking about it a little bit, but I didn't realize everybody else was thinking about it. A couple of people come, people complimented me on the party

and then realized that it wasn't my party. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people associated so closely that I got compliments and I was like, yeah, it's great, isn't it? Christy said the same thing. I did not spend a dime on this. Somebody came up to her and was like, great party. So I don't, I mean, my response at the time would be like,

yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna do, but you're invited. And then by then I'm like, I'm not doing anything and you're not invited. You're just gonna go on a trip? I'm just, I was like, I gotta go in a totally different direction. Maybe I'll take like what they call a sabbatical. I'll take a 4-0 sabbatical, like 40 minutes on my own. I'm trying to keep it small.

Like I want 40 minutes to myself. Well, I don't know. I feel like we should figure out a way for you to- I don't want, I can't have any other band? I feel like, hold on, but let's think about this. Here's what, here's the- Maybe it'll be Brandy fans. Speaking of the book,

because we have a chapter in the book called "'Throw a Party That Doesn't Suck," and I gotta say that that chapter wasn't necessarily my favorite chapter of the book. You know, because I was like, this isn't as, I mean we told a funny story about going to the party at Red Food's house, which is a really funny thing, but it was a little more frivolous if you have to rank

the chapters from like, you know, applicability to your life and then frivolity, is that a word? Throw in a party that doesn't suck. I would have said this is a pretty frivolous thing, but having thrown a party that, you know, Jessie and I threw everything we could at this party to make it great and we talked on the way there

how we were more concerned about everyone else enjoying themselves than we were enjoying it ourselves. Kind of like your wedding day. Yeah, but so many people came up and said they had such a great time. In fact, one of our friends came up and he had a few drinks, but he said, this is the best night of my life.

Oh wow. What a sad friend. Having heard that from multiple people. It was a pretty good night. It just made me so happy. I was like, people had such a good time. This is giving me a new perspective on parties and throwing parties and I feel like it lived up

to the standard that we said in the book to throw a mythical party and so I don't feel like you can bow out. I feel like you have to embrace this challenge and you've gotta beat me. You've gotta throw a better party than me. You gotta have live animals. You gotta have fire dancers.

We are gonna get a boat. You can combine you and Christy's birthdays together because you guys are gonna be 40 in like within a month or two. Yeah. So you got that going for you. So financially speaking, it's like, I get to wait like four years for my wife to turn 40

before we've gotta spend more money on that. You don't have any daughters though. You made that point that like this whole, I mean, if- You have to pay for a wedding. I mean, does that hold true anymore? I don't know. Is that true in California? It's 2017. I hope not. I think that that tradition is changing a little bit.

I can funnel all of that money into my own party? I don't know. I haven't talked to anybody who's gotten married recently, but it's probably more collaborative than it used to be. I hope so. It's probably not just like the bride's family pays for the whole thing, I don't know. You should negotiate that.

You know, don't worry about that, that's years away. I hope so about that too. I just think we gotta figure out a way to make, you got, I think. You want me to invite, and a lot of kids. I've got an idea. I definitely want lots of kids, like toddlers there. I've got an idea and I will make it my mission

together with you to make this happen. There is one way that we can do better than Harbor Party. Lionel Richie. Did you hear my- You just burped because it was so emotional. It wasn't a burp, it was like- Your soul just tried to escape and came back in. That noise came out of like,

if I had a trach, that's where that noise would have come out of. We are going to make it our mission. We have, how many months do we have? We've got over six months for us to figure out how we get Lionel Richie to play at you and your wife's 40th birthday party. But then you've spoiled the surprise

because I would want it to be a surprise to everybody. Well you gotta, no. Including me, by the way. We gotta go public with this. In order to get him on board? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'd still like Harbor Party to back him up. And I would like him to sing.

I'm sure he's got a pretty good band. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. And it will be on a yacht. I will help you, I will help you make that a reality. Maybe a private jet. There will be no hard feelings at all if you get on a plane to play at your birthday party.

I feel like that's, really you don't have a choice at this point. You could go on a sabbatical though if you don't get Lionel. I mean I was definitely thinking I'm just gonna go on a trip. That's definitely what I've been thinking. Because I get so, you know how nervous I get when I'm in charge of making people happy.

Yeah, but you gotta understand, I felt the same way and having been through it, I've been feeling so good this week because so many people have sent emails and texts just like, I had such a good time. But you need people to tell you that you're cool. I don't need that. Oh, give me a break.

I feel like I have more to lose than to gain. No, if you have Lionel Richie there, Okay. and if you don't have Lionel Richie, we'll get a Lionel Richie impersonator and we'll keep the lights low. Put him at a distance. Yeah.

He's over there, stay over there. Contractually, he does not allow us to come close to him. Okay. I'll think about it. Think about it. We're gonna continue with this, but first, Ear Biscuits is supported by NatureBox. Now we like to eat, we like to snack. We actually recently were on one of our stops

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Now on with the biscuit. In the book, we talked about hashtag TBT, but how we changed it to be throwback thanks, where it's the phenomenon where you reflect on milestones in your life and then realize that people played a role in that, yet you forgot to thank them. Or you were thankful, but you didn't articulate it.

And you know what, it's never too late to go back, as we proved in our documentary, Looking for Ms. Locklear, when we tracked down our first grade teacher who introduced us to each other and thanked her, it was an extremely rewarding experience for us. She actually contributed to the book to rehash some of that. It's rewarding for everybody to express thanks.

It's never too late. So in an effort to encourage you to do that, I wanna go through some of ours from the book. Again, in the book, we just had some thank you notes that we gave throwback thanks to people. And, but we didn't get into the story, so we can give a little of that. To wet your palate, we ask you guys

to give some throwback thanks. And I'm just gonna go with some of the lighthearted ones. A lot of you guys publicly thanked a lot of people sincerely from the heart, and I really enjoyed reading through those and it's powerful because you did it through the internet, that was kind of the idea and it finds its way to those people,

which is super cool. Just for the sake of time and tone, I'm gonna go with some of the more light hearted. Time and tone. Eve said, some bloke on a train who matrix jumped through the closing doors to give me my gloves that I'd left on my seat. Oh wow.

Somebody, and then Eve never got to thank him and never found out if he got another train or if he was just stuck there. You know, so then. He probably isn't still there. Hashtag throwback thanks. He's, you know, she got her gloves. Wow, I don't know if I would've done that. I would've thrown the gloves.

I would've gotten to the edge, just throwing them and just hope that they made it to the platform. I wouldn't have sacrificed myself. That's a good man. Carl Briley gave some throwback thinks. That old lady in the jeepney. I don't know. In the what?

A jeepney. Jeepney? Jeepney. I think it's a vehicle. That old lady in the jeepney that heard me fart but didn't react at all. I guess she understood me. What was it, did the fart say don't acknowledge me? What's to understand here?

Well, the point is, call is being grateful. Well, sometimes you wanna be acknowledged. Sometimes if it's a big one, you might wanna wink or you might wanna thumbs up or something, you know, smile. Just something to know you've done your job. Evil Snail said, hashtag throwback thinks, I would like to thank whoever invented the word moist because now I can make everyone eternally cringe.

Yeah, everybody hates the word moist. It doesn't make me cringe, I love it. I'm particularly fond of it, personally, yeah. Moist, brownie wouldn't be edible without it. Without moist. Caroline Tatar, T-A-T-A-R, man. I'm sorry, I don't know why I laughed at the name. Don't laugh at her name.

I laughed at the way you said it. Hashtag throwback apology. Yeah, sorry. She'd like to thank whoever looked at chicken and thought to fry it. Also the other beautiful soul who looked at fried chicken and thought to put it in nugget form. Yeah, that's tough to narrow down.

You probably can't pinpoint the person who first fried chicken. You can probably pinpoint the first nugget. At least, you know, like, you know, a professional nugget. I'm sure some grandma made a nugget first. Nuggets just a little piece of a chicken that fell in the fryer, man. Right.

I'm sure it was parallel invented in many places. We're gonna get into some of ours here. Where do you wanna start? Because there's a lot of these and we can't get through all of them, but any way you wanna start is fine with me. I'd really like to start with Dick Bowser. Okay, friend of your dad's.

So here's what it says in the book. Dick Bowser, thank you for nearly choking on a piece of meat at a Myrtle Beach steakhouse. We literally think about you every time we eat meat and throw in a few extra chews just for you. This is very true and we actually, back when we had our show, the Rhett and Link cast live, what is it, 10 years ago now?

Could have been, yeah, 2007, 2008. We would do our show on Ustream live every week down in the basement in Lillington and occasionally we had guests. We started having guests, yeah, my dad was a guest. We brought Dick Bowser on. My grandparents were in the audience every week and most of the time Papa would fall asleep

during the live broadcast. And so we started putting a camera on them. And we switched the camera ourselves. We got real high tech by the end of it. We had like that camera switcher. And I would just switch to the camera of them. Nodding off. He's just kinda like nodding off, sitting on the couch.

But yeah, we had Dick Bowser come in. We had him on because I think at the time. No relation to King Bowser. No, no, he doesn't have spikes on his back. From Super Mario Brothers. Although every time he jumps up, I do run under him. I'm glad you thought that was funny. What is that thing that, like, and hit the thing

that then makes a- It's a weird, like, ax. If you hit the ax, the bridge falls. I mean, I listen, I was a civil engineer. I got a civil engineering degree. I don't know. And the way that that bridge works in Mario Brothers is not sound. Right. Or logical. There's no way that that bridge works in Mario Brothers is not sound or logical. There's no way that that could exist.

First time I saw a real drawbridge, I was severely disappointed because of that. Yeah, you kept hitting that ax and nothing happened. Yeah, it looked kinda like a haystack to me, like a little loaf of hay. Really? I don't know. You think it's an ax? I think it's just a switch.

It's like a medieval switch of some sort. I really can't picture it right now. So anyway, Dick Bowser. So Dick Bowser works with my dad. He teaches law with my dad. And they play golf together like every week. But Dick was down in Myrtle Beach with his wife and maybe his entire family

and eating at a steakhouse in Myrtle Beach. Oh, you weren't there? No. Oh, you just heard about it. I tell the story in such a compelling manner that you assume that I was present. But what happened was is he was having dinner and he began to choke on a piece of steak.

And it was very serious, very quickly. Like one of those like lodged, deep, no air, like full on, if we don't get this out of my trachea, I will die situations. And there happened to be a man who saw him struggling. I think he was a doctor. Isn't that how the story goes? You don't have to be a doctor who saw him struggling. I think he was a doctor. Isn't that how the story goes? You don't have to be a doctor to know how to do this,

but he was qualified in some way. And he came up and he did the Heimlich on him and he shot that piece of steak out across the restaurant. And Dick Bowser, at least at the time, last time we checked in with him, had not eaten steak again. I mean, that is traumatizing for everybody involved. It's like drowning in front of your family.

And they're just sitting there in scuba gear just watching you. Yeah, I just can't imagine. I can't imagine, that happens all the time. I mean, it's like a really, really common cause of death, too, choking. Because there's so many, I mean, you keep sending that mail down south,

something's gonna end up in the wrong destination, you know what I'm saying? Odds are not in your favor. Yeah, that whole trachea and esophagus coming together thing, that's an engineering flaw. And so I think that he told us that story and then we had him on the show to talk about it.

I don't remember how that conversation went. We also had one of the people who was on the plane that Sully landed in the Hudson. Mike Cominsberger. He's a friend of a friend. Yeah, well, I know he's a friend. I didn't know him, but so we had. I knew him pretty well at the time.

We had him on a call, like just a few weeks after it happened. Yeah, he was freaking standing on the wing in that picture of all the, the famous picture of the plane in the Hudson. He's one of the people standing on the wing. We had him on our show and we were like, this is it, we're doing it.

We like, we got an internet show and we got this guy on the wing of the plane talking to us. Nobody cared though. He was not still on the wing. No, no, no. No, the loyal mythical beast cared, but it was such a, what's the word, nascent form of entertainment.

It was very insular. But I will say that I actually do think- And the Dick Bowser thing. That didn't cause any ripples across the internet either. But it caused a ripple in me, in you. And that's all that matters. Now first of all, you already lived by this because what your Nana told you.

Yeah, to me this is just like, I told you so. But I have been, I eat like a vacuum. And so I am moving if it, you know, I am moving my mouth the whole time, but I'm also constantly swallowing. And so if something just reaches the back of, it's like hungry hippos. If something gets in, it's going down.

You know what I mean? That's how I eat. Yeah, it is. But now when I eat, anything that has a choke ability to it. You see Dick's face? Yeah, every time chokeability to it. You see Dick's face? Yeah, every time I'm eating meat, I see Dick's face. Eat a little Bowser.

So, but I tell that to my kids all the time too, because it's like, you know, if they're eating meat, I'm like. Don't be a Dick Bowser. Yeah, you boys, you know, you be a Dick Bowser now. The Dick Bowser of today doesn't eat meat or doesn't eat steak and doesn't choke. Chew that meat. Thank you, Dick Bowser.

What's the next one that you wanted to talk about? I know you looked at these. I can tee it up. Tee it up for me, I'll talk about it. Garfield-shaped phone. Oh, there's a picture of this to prove that I had the Garfield shaped phone. In that picture, you can also see that I have

a Goofy stuffed animal. And a Sailor Boy teddy bear stuffed animal. And a bulletin board with a Tony the Tiger tail that I got from a Frosted Flakes mail-in rebate thing. And then a license plate that says, For Fun. For-Fun. Yep, that was me, the linkster. For-Fun, and I'm wearing a shirt that says Palmetto on it,

which is not a brand I am familiar with. I think that's like a- It's a cigarette. It's like a casino or something. You're wearing a cigarette shirt. But I'm posing talking on my new Garfield phone. Whenever you'd pick up the phone, now this is one of those phones that plugs into a wall. They don't exist anymore.

Right. When you pick up the phone, Garfield will wake up. Yeah, he watches you have a conversation. You can go in retro stores, like you can go to downtown Pasadena and go in a store called Retro and they'll sell these for like 70 bucks. Well, we found one for something.

We were going around somewhere. I unapologetically put all this stuff in my room as a kid because I was not self-aware as a child. You were much more self-aware. That's why we make fun of how much I'm smiling and you don't smile. You're like, you have this like cool look on your face. Trying to be cool. Trying to be cool.

I did not have that. I mean. I had teddy bears, but they were not on display. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. They were in the closet. The thinking note said, Garfield shape phone. Thank you for being the conduit for those couple of extremely awkward conversations

I had with Leslie before she decided to dump me for Tyler Hamilton. So we give a shout out to Tyler Hamilton in this throwback, thanks. I wonder if he knows. I know a few years back, I was having some car trouble back home and he was working at the place.

In Fuqua? Where they fixed the cars. In Fuqua? A garage, no in Lillington. Okay, in Lillington. Well, the funny story about, so we obviously, we both dated Leslie, it was our first girlfriend. A lot of awkward conversations in Garfield Farm.

I remember, we both dated her for about a month maybe and it was that middle school relationship where when you get to school, you're boyfriend and girlfriend and maybe you do something like go to a dance together but then when you try to talk on the phone, at that age, it's just like, with rare exception, it's just like little boys at age 12.

Now they just text, they don't even have to worry about it. But yeah, for us, it was like stage fright. It was such a difficult thing just to speak. And speaking into the torso of the character known as Garfield doesn't help, as it turns out. It's like, oh, I'm gonna rip out the middle of Garfield and talk to, it didn't look like guts in there, but it still was.

That would've been a nice touch. That would've been a nice touch. But you've told me this story before, and I'm sure we've told it at some point, about how you were sitting there with her. In school. In school, while dating her. Yeah, and then she was writing, she was doodling

and I like leaned over and she, there were hearts and stuff on her page and there was also, I saw that it said Leslie. Tyler Peebles. Yeah. Leslie Tyler Peebles. Why and I didn't see the Peebles, I just saw Leslie Tyler. No, no, no, no, no, you didn't.

You think I did? I specifically remember the story. You came to me and you said, she likes Tyler, she's writing Leslie Tyler Peebles. Yeah. Like they're married and they took her name. It hurt a lot. And I said, Link, that's her full name.

Leslie Tyler Peebles was her full name. Oh. And then you were like, oh, sense of relief. But then within a week, she was dating Tyler. So I was right, you jerk. See? I think that, yeah, but. We were both right.

Yeah, but that wasn't the sign that she was about to dump you. Thanks, Tyler. I think she felt your insecurities. Both of you. This is a good one. And I actually have a story that I've heard very recently related to this.

Brian Ratledge, thank you for telling us about fiber supplements. We're like clockwork now. This happened in college. Brian Ratledge told us, no, I don't think, I think we were, I remember being out of college. Okay, that could be true, yeah. I remember being like 23, 24.

Yeah. And you know, as happens, you end up talking about your bowel movements sometimes if you're with people that you feel close enough to. And he was like, well, let me tell you guys, let me tell you right now, what you need to do is you need to be taking a spoonful of Metamucil every day. You should just do it, just work it into your routine.

American diet doesn't have enough fiber. It'll do everything, it'll regulate both ways. No matter which way you swing, it'll get you right back to normal, and so, okay, and we both did it. And we both. He was very serious about it. This was not a joking conversation, it wasn't even, hey, isn't it funny that we're talking about this?

Yeah, yeah. He was so centered. It's serious business. That it gave us pause. Yeah. And then, I mean, there's a reason why there's a whole half an aisle in every drugstore dedicated to this stuff.

And so now both of us use this on a regular basis, especially when traveling. It is the perfect solution to, you know what happens when you travel sometimes and your body's like, nope, hold everything in because I'm traveling. Like, I don't know where you're at, don't know where you're going,

and the next thing you know, you've gone three days without taking a dump. Yeah. This completely solves that problem. Which is amazing that your body can do that. You know, it's like, how does my body know that I'm traveling? Well, you know what it is.

And how do I know that Leslie's middle name is Tyler? My theory- It's a mysterious world. You know, my theory about that adaptation is that when, back in the day, hunter-gatherer days, you're going into enemy territory. And so you're nervous, you're in a new place, and you don't wanna take a dump because that's two strikes against you. The first strike is you gotta stop and take a dump.

That's the best time to kill a man. Yeah. When he's taking a dump. Number two. Squat and knock him off. You're gonna leave your, you're leaving yourself. You're leaving a clue. Evidence. They're like, that's not our people's poop. That's somebody else's poop.

Look at that berry. I don't recognize that berry. So there's a survival adaptation to holding your poop for a few days. But when you go to summer camp or you just go on vacation or you're just traveling around, you don't wanna hold your poop. We're not hunter gatherers.

It's a vestigial adaptation, certainly. Brian Ratledge actually found out that he was thanked in the book because- Really? Jesse was like, oh, somebody tagged Brian Ratledge in a post about your book and said, and they took the picture of this page and they said, you're in the book of mythicality.

And he was like, thanks for letting me know, I had no idea. So he actually found out that're in the book of mythicality. And he was like, thanks for letting me know, I had no idea. So he actually found out that he was the recipient of Throwback Things. I wonder if he went out and bought one. Went out and bought a book? Yeah, that's the thing I met at Musil. Both, that's why we put his name in there.

At least we'll sell one to Brian. In another one. You may be thinking you should give one to Brian or you may be thinking you should have told Brian that you put this about him in the book. And to both of those I say, well, too late. You're probably right, but we don't have that kind of time.

Chewing tobacco, another substance that we've experimented with. Okay, let me read. You wanna say that one? Thank you for having such sobering warnings printed on your packaging, as well as for tasting absolutely awful. You made us vomit as 16 year olds and then vowed to never try you again.

It may strike you as odd that two guys that you think seem relatively normal would have really gone in hard on some chewing tobacco. But you gotta understand, A, how old we are, and B, where we're from. And C, the sway that Hank Williams Jr. had over our lives at that time. Right.

I don't wanna dog North Carolina, you know, that much, but you can do it and then I'll defend this a little bit. Well, so it was customary for the boys of our age at our high school to experiment with smokeless tobacco. In fact, the first time that I ever- Well, if you looked out at any window of our high school, you would see a tobacco field. True.

So it was looming. But I mean, I was on probably what is the most preppy, you know, like you're thinking this is the least redneck situation you could be in on the golf team, right? Mm-hmm. But it was on the golf team that I was introduced to dip. Oh gosh. Which is the chewed tobacco that you take

and you put in your lip. Of course it gives you mouth cancer and it's horrible for you. But we were young, we didn't know, we didn't care. And also the whole golf team, we put this stuff in your lip. And then of course you do it because you wanna be cool and then you start doing it because it tastes so bad.

But you're doing it because you wanna be cool and it does give this little effect, you know, you get this mild effect. But I think you have this similar story, but what I did is, I remember, it gives me, I get sick thinking about it. I was at home alone, and my parents were going somewhere for the day, and I had like a whole day at the house,

and I was like, I'm gonna get myself a tin of cherry skull. And I just sat up there in the upstairs room watching TV and I just sat there with just a dip, just sitting there. I wasn't hanging out with it, wasn't experiencing it with anybody, I'm just sitting there with this cherry flavored tobacco, just stinging my bottom lip as I watched TV.

And then like an hour and a half later, I stand up and immediately it's just like I'm super lightheaded and I run to the bathroom and just vomit. How did you get it, because it's illegal. I mean I can tell the story of how we got the chewing tobacco. You just buy it, you just go to a place in Lillington that doesn't ask your age.

Well that is the story, isn't it? Hank William Jr. had a song. Country Boy Can't Survive. Yeah, and he was, who was he so angry at? He says, I had a good friend in New York City. He never called me by my name, just Hillbilly. But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife. For $43, my friend lost his life.

And then it's like, I'd like to spit some beech nut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my old.45 because a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive. So yeah, so it's about shooting somebody. He liked it. Well, he wanted to spit spit beach nut in his eye. Now beach nut is a particular brand of chewing tobacco.

And then after, in his eye, then, You shoot him. Shoot him with a.45 because I rhymes with.45. Now, Well, you gotta blind him first. Yeah, I'm sure he would never actually do that. He was doing what many artists did, like Notorious B.I.G. was playing a character, if you were to ask him.

Well he said, I'd love to. He didn't say I would do. I'd love to shoot that guy. Yeah, I'm not going to and I didn't. Right. I'm not admitting anything. But of course, we're listening to that. Well, yeah, and we latched on to the beach nut part of it.

We didn't latch on to the 45 part. We didn't go out and get a gun. Absolutely not. But what we did do was we went to the corner store. I didn't go to the, I didn't go, in Lillington. The one at the Dip. Around, around. Right before you go to Womble and Sons.

Around the corner from Nana and Papa's house. Yeah. Went to that one because I knew that none of my relatives went to that one. Now the C Mart, just a few blocks away, is the one that all of my relatives went to and they knew all the cashiers and everything. But the, it wasn't called a junior Mart, whatever it was called, we went there because I was like,

listen, we'll go in there, we'll get us some chewing tobacco, and then we'll get out and they won't recognize me. Right. And of course we get in there and I'm like, what kind are we gonna get? Well, what kind do you think we're gonna get? We didn't discuss it ahead of time, it was just like, we'll take the beach nut.

I wonder how many beach nut packs were sold because of that song. He could have said Redman, but he didn't. You open up the pouch and you just get hit by this strong scent of tobacco with like, I wouldn't say it has a chemical overtone to it, but it's in the same. It's like rotting tobacco. In the same way you have a physical reaction,

like if you were to open like a strong bottle of cleaner and it would be like, oh, and it just like knocks you back a little bit, that's how pungent opening a pouch of chewing tobacco is or a can of dip. Right. And it takes a lot of gumption to like pull out a plug of that and then shove it in your cheek.

You shove it in your cheek and you slowly chew it and you spit. It's one of the nastier habits that there is. My dad did not chew tobacco for much of his life, but I do remember when I would visit him on the weekends as a very, very young child, and he was farming tobacco, he would chew tobacco. So I had this subconscious thought that was planted

that like my dad, who I just thought was just awesome, I also thought that chewing tobacco was awesome for that reason. I mean, I did, so I felt like it was some sort of rite of passage at that point as like a 16 year old. Well, and there is something about like- And that's what gave me the gumption to get up and it's like, we're gonna do this.

Well, there's something about doing something that's a little bit outside of the lines that you know you should be walking in. That's not super, at least on the short term, it's not like we were shooting up heroin. You know, it's a pretty low risk thing if you're gonna do it a couple of times. The problem is the risk is getting addicted to it

and the next thing you know you got mouth cancer. Just go, just do a Google search of chewing tobacco mouth cancer. That's all you need to know that you should never try this. But we would sit out there at the river and do it and just basically just make each other sick. And say, are you sick enough yet? I'm sick now, man, let's quit.

That was pretty much what we did. It's so gross. Can't say I miss it. But speaking of- It's so weird. It's not like even in the short term, it's a great experience, but then you get mouth cancer. No, it's a horrible experience.

Well, I think people adjust to the taste and just become addicted to the effects of it. That's a big speed bump to drive over to get to your destination. Well, think about the first time, if you just smoke a cigarette, how would you think that it's a fun thing or a good idea, but then next thing you know, you're addicted to it.

That's true. Okay. I guess. Here's one, and we're gonna pull out the paper that we have here. Oh yeah. We wanna thank the Dunn Daily Record. Thank you for featuring us on your June 26th, 2009 cover alongside Irwin Woman Murdered, Teen Charged,

and Samson Horse Farm in Trouble Again. So this is something that we had framed way back in the day and we keep it up in our office because it is very grounding in a lot of ways because it is about as clear of a picture of where we come from as you could possibly have. This is June 26th, 27th, 28th of 2009. And they did a feature article.

So this is like the daily paper that we got growing up, not the city paper called the News and Observer, which came from Raleigh. This is the one that came from Dunn. It was like the Harnett County paper that you got every day in a little mailbox that everybody had connected to their mailbox that said Daily Record.

Yes, they gave you their own mailbox. They didn't throw it. I remember in movies I would see people throwing the paper in the driveway and I'd be like, that ain't how we do it around here. You put it in the Daily Record mailbox that everybody had at the street. But we're featured in the middle, right in the Daily Record mailbox that everybody had at the street. But we're featured in the middle, right in the middle,

and it says enter the world of entertainment. And it's all- Internatainers. Internatainers, and it's all about what we were doing at the time. But really, ironically, now what it means is if you were to enter the world of us as internatainers back then,

that world would be everything that surrounds us in the other headlines, which are, Erwin Woman Murdered, Erwin was the close by town, Teen Charged. And of course, Samson Horse Farm in Trouble Again, which is the other one that we mentioned, but we're not gonna stop there because. How many times has a horse farm gotta be in trouble

to make the front page? Twice is one too many. And how is the horse farm in trouble? Well I think maybe they're doing something bad with the horses or maybe they don't have enough horses. Animal neglect. Ah, that's what it was. Has been investigated again for the same alleged effects. Benson to celebrate 89 years of Southern gospel?

Mm-hmm. There's so, like, just that sentence alone, you don't have, I don't think you can appreciate just how many, just how rich that statement is. Benson alone, just saying the word Benson. Benson knows how to celebrate because Benson is the place where every year they would have something called Mule Days where people would drive from miles.

Miles. And show up with their mules and then parade. Do a parade. Do a parade. They did a frickin' mule, and they canceled Mule Days. Oh, it just got too crazy, man. Too many mules. And the other thing was, we used to, there was something that the high schoolers used to do

called cruise Benson. Yes. And you would drive to Benson, which was like 20 miles away, and you would ride around with your windows rolled down and music playing. Yes, cruising. And then they made it illegal.

But when we, right when we got our license, so like we're talking like 94 then they made it illegal. But when we, right when we got our license, so like we're talking like 94, they made cruising a legal, I was so looking forward to like, man, I can't wait to cruise Benson. And they freaking made it illegal. And then they got rid of mule days. Benson, what's up, man?

Then down here, we've got, oh, another thing from Erwin. Erwin woman wins another preliminary. She's a beauty pageant contestant. She's got a bathing suit on on the front of this thing. She won Miss Fayetteville. Mm, mm, okay. Good work. Good work.

And then former Linden man charged with lewd acts on a child, oh good gracious. Now, we're not making light of any on a child. Oh, good gracious. Now, we're not making light of any of this stuff. No, we're not. We're just trying to give you some, you gotta understand how typical every single article on this is so indicative of where we come from, okay? When you think Harnett County.

Can you read the caption on our picture because we got a big picture right there. And there's a lot of wonderful things about Harnett County but there's also a lot of just the things that are typical of just a rural place, you know, where a lot of people just get trapped. You got women getting murdered by teens, you got Southern gospel going on for 89 years,

you got horse farms that are in trouble, you got Southern Gospel going on for 89 years, you got horse farms that are in trouble, you got young ladies winning beauty pageants, and you got people performing lewd acts on children. Oh goodness. I'm just saying, I'm not making light of any of it, I'm just saying that that's where we come from, and that's why we have this thing.

Yeah, framed. Right in the middle, here we are. Don't ever forget this, don't ever forget, this is here we are. Don't ever forget this. Don't ever forget, this is who we are, man. This is where we come from. And what does the caption say? Link Neal left and Rhett McLaughlin practiced one of the many songs

that have made them a hit on the internet, on YouTube, and on their website, rhettandlink.com, which is shown on the computer in the background. More than one million people have visited the pair's website. Yes. That's quite a stat. Their studio is in Lillington and some of their work

features the town as a backdrop. That's true. That's true. That's true, a lot of it did. Need to go back and help those horses. Yeah. Okay. Let's just pause for a moment and be thankful but silent.

I think that's it. I think I feel great. You don't wanna thank anybody else? Well, did you wanna thank one more person? I had one more that I thought kinda fit the theme that we're in right now. All right, do it. Thanking the pharmacist at Elliot's in downtown Fuquay.

Thanks for taking a break filling prescriptions to hold the mic from our epic rap battle video behind your store. Did we misspell mic? Okay. M-I-C, man. No, the reason, again, this is what editors do. We had an argument, not an argument,

but so after we wrote the book, we had an editor, but then we had like a, A professional nitpicker. Yeah, somebody who goes another layer deeper to think about your grammar and punctuation and everything. And they basically go through and correct. And then they get to certain places where it's not just a simple punctuation or spelling correction,

but it's just a decision that has to be made and then they run it by you. So we've always said mic as M-I-C because it's short for microphone, but they said technically when you're saying mic that's short for microphone, you should spell it M-I-K-E. Technically that's what's correct. And that's why it says that in this particular thing.

Well, link is short for Lincoln, but it's with a K. So I'm not gonna argue with any of that. Back to the point though. Yeah, the pharmacist, as important of a job as that is, he was still just able to mosey out there and be our boom operator with no particular time constraint. It was great.

That doesn't happen anymore. Well, it would be a long commute for him. But again, there was something special about being in a place where no one else was, we didn't know anybody else who was making YouTube videos at the time, not that same time, but we've told this story before when we were doing Commercial Kings,

how we shot the intro to our show on IFC, we shot it in the middle of Main Street and the cop stopped. Yeah, literally the tripod was in the middle of the street. And he like rolls down his window and he's like, y'all need any help? And then another guy rolls down his window and says, I'm the town commissioner.

And anytime y'all need anything, just let me know. It's like, well, you know what they did? They both saw the done daily record. Exactly. We're right on the front of it, so there you go. That's like a, we could carry that thing around as a credential back in the day. But I think the point is, it's fun to reminisce,

but it's powerful when you can transition a reminiscence into being grateful. And it's never too late to thank somebody. You know what? Brian Ratledge. I wonder how he felt knowing that we put his complete name in our book and associated it with Metamucil. I hope he's honored.

I think he probably feels great if he's still got the routine going. Yeah, I bet he's doing fabulous, man. He just keeps it moving. It's like a train. I just wanna encourage you, Mythical Beasts, to be your mythical best by throwback thanking someone in your life.

Use the hashtag if you want to, TBT or throwback thanks. I think you should use the hashtag and then I think because it can be done these days, I think you should tag that person that you're thanking if they're still around to be tagged because that, you know, it can be very difficult, let's talk about in the book, it can be very difficult to thank somebody in person,

especially when people are like, there's like a moment in time that you have to be thankful like to like actually come out and say it that you're thankful. And usually if you don't say it at that moment, the chance that you get the first time, you never say it. Right. Because there's a lot to overcome.

But there's a lower threshold to thinking somebody through the internet. And I don't think it means any less necessarily. And usually it will lead to some kind of interaction that might actually lead to a conversation person that you can have with somebody. So take that for what it's worth.

And it's worth a lot. I would like to, that's for them to say. Let us know using hashtag Ear Biscuits. Let us know what you think about this convo. And we appreciate you hanging out with us this week. You know, we'll speak at you again next week. Have a great Thanksgiving. Yes, do it. Thank you.