Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 134: Our College Life Advice (Fan Questions)| Ear Biscuits Ep. 134

Episode Date: March 12, 2018

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This, this, this, this is Mythical. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we will be answering your questions about college. Now whether you are in college, have been in college, or might consider one day going to college, I think you can benefit from the conversation

we're gonna have using questions submitted by many mythical beasts as a stomping ground for ideation, advisation, You guys are bringing it. And reminiscing. We went to college, it's gonna take us back to that place again.

We've got some experiences that may offer some perspective that may or may not be helpful. But either way, hopefully you're going to be entertained. But the thing that I love about getting the questions from the mythical beasts is it, because a lot of times what we hear them say is they, we hear mythical beasts saying things about the stuff that we put out on the internet, right?

Because if you're just reading comments, you're just getting lots of opinions, right? Good, bad, and different about the stuff that you're doing. But when you go out and you ask a specific prompt like this, there's, it's like a little picture, a little picture into their, a little window into the lives of a mythical beast. Yeah, and if you're wondering how you can respond

to those prompts, that's Facebook, Twitter, maybe Instagram, I don't think we do it on Instagram, but lots of pictures on there, so you should follow us over there too. Yeah, we got cool pics, man. Cool pics every day. And hopefully the light won't crash down on us this week. Well, we've been told it has been secured with a,

it's like a metal plate up there now. Yeah, I see it's bolted. Five, four? Six, there's six screws in that thing. Actually, they only use four screws. Do you know what, I'm pretty sure it's very secure. Let's take a question, Link. Right off the bat.

Now, last time we didn't say last names because those, we shouldn't say last names. Yeah, let's. Because there's some roommate complaining going on here. There's some real situations that we're gonna have to rectify. It's gonna get very real. Let's leave some last names off.

Charos, leaving off the last name. Hey Rhett and Link. Hey. I'm gonna be moving into a rental house with four other people for this school season. Oh yeah. Oh, Charos calls it a season. Like it's a sporting, maybe he's an athlete, athlete thing.

There's only one bathroom, uh oh, with four people. How do I assert my true bathroom domination from day one? Very interesting question. Well, Charos, you're on the right track here in just identifying that this is going to be a problem. There's four of you, there's one bathroom, and what you do at the very beginning when it comes to the bathroom, the apartment situation,

you name it, those first few days, maybe weeks, those are important times. That's the sweet spot to set the right precedent. But do you not think that Charles is potentially stepping into the water on the wrong foot? I'm trying to make a bathroom analogy, it didn't work. Stepping into the toilet water? Stepping into the deep end, so to speak,

of the bathtub by saying, how do I assert my true bathroom domination? Does your bathroom have a deep end, by the way? Yeah, yours doesn't. Your bathtub, my bathtub. Yeah, I had it installed so I could stand in it. There is a slight deep end, and it's the end with the drain,

but it's only very slight. No, mine goes down like another foot. Special, special, you know. Well how does that water get out? That's where the drain is. Oh. Oh wow, you're on a slope. I'm making it all up, by the way.

It's a normal bathtub. But I think the problem is is that if everyone, again, this is, I can't remember what kind of ethics this is, my brain is not working today. Stupid ethics. But when you basically evaluate, if everyone were to bring this perspective to the situation.

There'd be trouble. There'd be trouble. So if everyone comes in with I want to dominate the bathroom you are actually setting yourself, you have to come in saying how do I get bathroom tranquility not bathroom domination. I think you're asking the wrong question right off the bat. Because I don't even know what,

yeah, I think you're approaching this wrong. You just can't dominate because then your friends will, your roommates will hate you. By the way, I don't know what bathroom domination means. The thing that I thought it meant was. I've done it before. Well, I think it. After a big burrito? Oh gosh, well, that can't be what-

The temporary validation. Is referred to here. I think it's you got one sink, I'm gonna put all my stuff around there. Now I will say after sharing, I mean we shared a bathroom in college, our first three years we were in a dorm, we were on a hallway and we shared a bathroom with college, our first three years, we were in a dorm, we were on a hallway

and we shared a bathroom with everybody on the hall but then our junior and senior, sophomore, junior, senior year, we moved into an apartment with two other guys and then added a fourth guy. And so in that situation, I was sharing a bathroom, all three of us were sharing a bathroom. No, no, no, you had your own. Me and Tim shared a bathroom.

Had a bathroom that we shared. And Greg and I shared a bathroom. The one that when we left the apartment, we got charged and one of the items that we got charged like thousands of dollars for was we took grip tape that you put in the bottom of a bathtub when there's a shower so you don't slip and we spelled our names using the grip tape.

Because Tim didn't live with us initially. And we didn't remove that and then they charged us hundreds of dollars to remove that. And if there was. We took a picture of it. It was pretty embarrassing. If there was ever any doubt as to who was responsible for this particular form of vandalism, it was Rhett, Link, and Greg because that's what it said in the bottom of the bathtub.

It said that, yeah. We did not remove it. So here's what I think. I think you shouldn't, you gotta be diplomatic about this, okay? You're forming a life, at least for a year, in a living situation with these three other people. So you can't dominate the bathroom,

but you can set the tone for how it works. And I think it comes down to two words. Caddy system. Oh gosh, I was gonna say the exact same thing. Yeah. No one can leave anything on the sink. Everyone has their own container. Just like in the dorm, because on the hallway. But you bring, now do you bring it from your room

or do you put it in a drawer and take it out? I'm going worst case scenario, there's not enough room for everybody's stuff. Keep it in your room. Keep it in your room. And you bring your little travel companion kit. We call it a kit in the McLaughlin household. Oh, here's the difference between a kit and a caddy. A kit zips up, a caddy is open face.

Okay, caddy's good. The bread's not on top of the sandwich, so to speak. The thing I like about the kit is that if I have to go away for the weekend, You already got it. I've got it all together. But access is an issue. With the caddy, it's all there. I have a caddy now, by the way.

You have a caddy in your own bathroom? I have my own sink, Christy has her own sink, we have two sinks in our bathroom. Hold on, but your bathroom is massive. I have a huge bathroom. You can play racquetball in your bathroom. And you have a caddy? And the irony is.

Might be going a little too far. We have pedestal sinks, this is how they were before we did not design this. It's just a sink that then at the edge of the sink, it just zoops down like a vase to the floor. No surface. And then there's this, underneath the mirror, there's a three inch deep glass shelf

in front of my sink and Christy's sink. And after being in the house for six months, Lincoln somehow put something on the glass and literally broke the glass shelf on my sink. So I have nothing. I have. Hold on, you just left it? I just left it.

Because Christy and I were saying, we're gonna remodel this bathroom. Yeah. And lo and behold, three years later, nothing. And I have no shelf. I have literally, if I ball my fist up and put it on either side of the two faucet handles, that's how much room I have.

Enough room for a little soap and then like a little something like. Where do you put the caddy when you go to the, where do you keep the caddy and then where do you put the caddy when you get to the sink? There's a little shelf, it's a floor shelf thing that we like, like an Ikea crappy type thing that we put in between the two sinks

and there's enough room for me to put my caddy down and use it and pick it up and then Christy puts stuff down there. But where does the caddy go when it's not in use? Into a shelf with a door on it. Somewhere else in the bathroom. Yeah, seven steps away. Like a closet. Seven steps away, yeah. Somewhere else in the bathroom. Yeah, seven steps away. Like a closet.

Seven steps away, yeah. Caddy in the closet, that sounds like a movie. I really hate it. Yeah. But you know what? It keeps me on my toes, man. You don't keep any, every, here's the thing. If you just have drawers and countertops galore

like you have in your house, you accumulate a bunch of crap that you don't use. You would not believe what my counter looks like. And it's just strewn everywhere. I've got, I think I have between 17 and 20 ointments that I apply to myself every day. And you've got 20 more that you've stopped using, you don't realize it.

And I don't even need them anymore, but the, I got so much space, I just put creams and ointments up there, I'm like, might as well put that on my body. If I can use the caddy system now, and Rhett aspires to use one one day, then it's good for you to go ahead and start doing that now, and Charles, go ahead and buy three more for your other roommates and say, you know what,

you don't have to use this, you can buy any type of caddy or kit with a zipper that you want, but I just wanted to gift this to you. That's a way to assert your dominance, but I'll call it leadership because now you're making a sacrifice, a few bucks out of your wallet in order to keep everybody in their own space. It's an incredible plan.

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Bomfell, open and close. And now on with the biscuit. Let's get back into this. Levi, I'm a sophomore in my engineering technology degree program. Engineering! And there tends to be lots of group projects this quarter, common thing in college.

It's creeping its way into the high school and middle schools, group work. How can I politely deal with partners who constantly overcomplicate every detail of the project, thereby slowing down our progress? I thought Levi was gonna say, how do I deal with people who don't wanna contribute which is a different problem.

This one, they got their, they're too nitpicky. They're slowing down, they're gumming up the works. This is a problem. Group projects present their own special set of problems because it comes down to the individuals who make up that group. Now let me just, I'll just give you a little story from my traffic engineering class.

Oh I'm listening now. Oh yeah, I got ya, I got ya. Oh you got me. I hooked ya. Yeah, you hooked me like meat on a hook. Yeah, like meat on a hook. You could have made a traffic analogy. That would have been better.

You're hooking me like a. Like a U-turn on a highway. Okay, so yes, part of the civil engineering degree at NC State University, or at least the track that I was on, had a traffic engineering component, and this was a whole class where we studied traffic. Like lights, like traffic lights, like how you determine how long things

should be green or red and we also had, the final project for the year was completing the 64 bypass, the Highway 64 bypass, which I'm pretty sure 20 years later does exist now. Mm-hmm. But at the time it didn't, so it was connecting Highway 64 from east of Raleigh to way out in Clayton,

or I don't know, just that part of the town. And so the group project was to take a map basically and use all the things that we had learned in the class to decide where exactly we were going to route the new road and then to do the topographic like map of where it was gonna be and where the bridges were gonna be and what the expenses were going to be and how much you're gonna have to pay for this thing

and how you avoid this graveyard and all that stuff. How many like farmers with their cottages you're gonna have to force off their land. Yeah because it was really a game of who am I going to inconvenience and how do we keep the cost down. You have to pay certain people off and you have to force off their land. Yeah, because it was really a game of who am I going to inconvenience and how do we keep the cost down? You have to pay certain people off and you have to avoid certain wetlands and environmental concerns.

And the craziest thing is the cemeteries. This is one thing I learned is that- You can't move those. Well, you can't go, but you gotta stay away from cemeteries. And like, if there's a cemetery in a situation, it's like you cannot impinge or infringe on that cemetery for obvious reasons, but just something you don't think about

until you get into a titillating traffic engineering class. But here's what I learned. I got partnered up with Karen and someone else, I can't remember her name. Oh, but you remember Karen. And what I learned very quickly in our first meeting is that these two women had the subject matter so wrapped up. They understood everything that we were going to do.

They knew exactly what they wanted to do, but they were deathly afraid of the final presentation. Day one, I said, guys, here's the deal. You do all the work. And I will do the presentation. And it was. You like told them that? Yes.

Because they were worked up about it. No because they. You could tell. They had all these ideas, I was like, I'm gonna stay out of the way. They're super nervous about the presentation. I said, I will get up, I will do all the talking. I will take full credit for all of your work.

I'm gonna tell jokes, I'm gonna be able to synthesize this information in a way that gets the, this is one of my highlights in college. Oh yeah? So this is a really, really boring class. Super boring class. I can't tell. I don't even remember exactly what I did.

I just know that I had a whole routine about this highway. And the professor, who had never laughed at a presentation, was doubling over in laughter throughout this entire presentation. And you know what grade I got in traffic engineering on the presentation and in the class? A plus, A plus, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. That's what I got, I got an A plus because.

But you couldn't have done it without. Karen and what's her name? Right. You know? Right. But now I'm not. So I'm bringing this back to the advice. Okay, division of labor, that's all I'm saying.

You're saying right up top. Yeah. Figure out who's good at what. You need to have a. Figure out who's good at what. You need to have a skills assessment conversation. Yeah. Where it's like, okay, what are your expectations? What are you willing to invest?

What are you bringing to the table? Right. Let's divide this thing up so that everybody's not trying to do everything. If somebody's like, you know, I'm really into the details, and somebody else is like, well, I'm really into the details, and somebody else is like, well I'm really into the details, like well only one of you can be really into the details. Well I don't know exactly how you should break it down.

It may not be as clean of a breakdown as it was for me. I'm just. I'll make it pretty clean. Okay. I'll boil it down to two words. Two words. Caddy system. Okay, so you have a caddy system for the group.

I don't know how yet, but somehow, everybody in the group gets a caddy. You're talking, I'm talking toothbrush. So it's a sleepover? I don't recommend that. No, but I think you're right. You know, I don't remember that much group work happening in my engineering class. There wasn't a lot.

But I do remember. There is now, though. I do remember we had to design, I think it was my, the course was called Facilities. Another fun one. Oh yeah, and it was. We took, oh gosh. Listen, it was a whole course on how you take like a physical environment

where something is being manufactured and you set up the manufacturing process physically within the facility. So do we need to buy fork trucks to move things or do we need to put conveyor belts in? And I remember telling him, I'm gonna do the presentation. I didn't go as far as you did. Like I actually worked on stuff

because I was with a couple of my friends. I mean, I did some. It wasn't that clean. I do remember at one point you had to load a bunch, I can't remember what we were making but it had all these like different powders and big bins that had to be moved from point A to point B and so I found this

roller bin that dumped on the internet and I was like all right, I was really proud of this thing. My whole presentation hinged around a dumping roller bin. That you bought and used in the presentation? No I just put it in the PowerPoint. Oh okay. There was no real money involved, there was no real facility involved.

This was all imagination. Got it, virtual. But I remember I showed a picture of the bin undumped and then I showed a second picture of the bin dumped and I remember saying, look at this roller bin that dumps. It's not yet dumping and look, then it's dumping. Watch the bin dump dump and I went back and forth.

You did like a Letterman thing, like dump, undump. Yep, dump, undump, I did that and it was basically like a GIF before. You invented it. I invented the GIF and I called it a GIF and I got a lot of puzzled looks. So you're telling me that it didn't go over well. We might have got a B, I don't remember.

I think you're right, you gotta have, right off the bat, you just gotta have the conversation. How are we gonna divide this up? And we all gotta be in on this. Everybody's gotta pull their weight. I do wanna make that clear. Everybody's gotta pull their weight. I think me doing the presentation was pulling a lot of weight.

Ask Karen and what's her name, they'll tell you. Here's another one, Alicia. I'm an agricultural major, animal science to be specific. We had that at NC State. And I have to spend the night in the horse barn to keep an eye on the pregnant horses in case they give birth.

Now, this is much more exciting than anything we did. Let me just tell you right off the bat. Well, at certain points it is. How can I be comfortable and get some sleep in a horse barn? I mean, this is what college is all about. Well, not usually. Camping out at the hind end of a pregnant horse.

I mean, just sleep right there at the rear and you'll wake up when you need to, trust me. I think it might be too late once the afterbirth is all over you. I mean. Ooh! Yeah, can you sleep, first of all. How can I be comfortable and get some sleep? Bunch up some hay, girl. Bunch up some hay, girl, bunch up some hay.

Horses sleep standing up. My, do horse majors sleep standing up? Ooh. That's the question. Is that part of it? This is like a animal science fraternity t-shirt. I called her a horse major, first of all, which is probably not what she calls herself. That's like a pickup line at like the ag school.

Hey baby, do you sleep standing up? I don't know where you go with that one though. Yeah, when your pickup line involves the word sleep, you're in trouble. You wanna see me sleep standing up like a horse? Yeah, you probably don't wanna say that. You know in what way I'm like a horse? You know in what way I'm like a horse? You know in what way I'm like a horse?

That's what you're looking for. That's what you're looking for. And then it's not what you're thinking. Do you know in what way I'm like a horse? We just said it. And then on the back of the T-shirt, it's not what you're thinking. And then do you give the answer

or is that in conversation? I sleep standing up. She has to ask. Oh gosh. She has to ask. I sleep standing up. My grandfather, my papa Neil, he tells a story of, I don't know,

it's gotta be like nine siblings. Back in the day when they were on the farm, the parents. They all slept in the same bed. The parents would just keep having children and they literally, the children would start taking care of the other children and then they'd start working the farm. And he tells all these stories, but he talks about at night. I mean, North Carolina's not always cold, but it gets cold.

And so they all slept in big beds where the mattress was made out of hay. Right. I mean, it's amazing how quickly things have changed in just three generations. I don't know about you, but I don't sleep on hay. Well, not usually, it's Thursday nights. Right.

If you really get in trouble, you have to go sleep on the hay. Yeah. Do that every night, man. So that's my answer, Alicia. Well, she didn't ask how do you sleep, she asked how can I get comfortable? And yeah, that is what she asked.

Yeah, I think hey is the answer. Bunch up the hey, girl. But you're way ahead of the game, Alicia, because I think you're doing something that is immediately fulfilling as I picture it. Birthing a horse. Ethan. I'll picture it. Barthing a horse. Ethan, one of my suitemates has friends, friends is in quotes, over almost every day

and when they're quote hanging out, she's very loud. Okay. See where this is going? And she sounds like a dying dog. My other suitemates and I don't really know what to do. Should we tell her that we can hear her? Should we call animal control? Should we pretend like it's not happening

but record her mating call, there you go, there's another clue as to what's going on, and randomly start playing it in the middle of the forest and see what animals come? Help. I've got some thoughts on this. I have some questions that I'm not prepared to ask. I don't think Ethan is here to respond.

I mean, right off the bat, I will say that this is what they call free entertainment. Rhett. I'm just, listen, this is not the kind. Why are you listening to a podcast when you could listen to your sweet mate and friends? In quotes. I'm just saying if this was me personally.

A dying dog? You ever heard a dying dog? I'm sure it doesn't sound that bad. It sounds actually kinda sad. All I'm saying is that if this was me and this was something that, if this was a sound that I might hear from the next room, just receive the blessing.

You know what I'm saying? Just let it wash over you and just be like, good for them and don't try to stop it and I wouldn't say anything about it. Now, maybe I can't put myself in Ethan's shoes, maybe it's so overwhelming but I gotta say that when we lived at Gorman Crossings, that's where we lived in NC State, apartment 3000C.

Yeah. If you wanna go by and check it out. And the apartment above us, there was some things that happened in that apartment and directly above where my room was. And it was a pretty regular occurrence. And to me, it was just like putting a little quarter in a machine, you know?

What kind of machine? You know, a machine that made noises. So weird. It's like a noise machine. Well I think a neighbor, your hands are kinda tied. Maybe the neighbor's too. But I think if it's your roommate, this is not, it's a sweet mate.

This sweet mate situation smacks of. Smacks is probably not a good word. Inconsiderate, man. There's a level of, I mean, if this is happening every day and the dog's dying every day, then that's a tad bit inconsiderate. It smacks of that. Now they, did he say that he said something?

No, he's just asking what they should do. First of all, do not record it and play it for animals. That does not work, I can tell you from personal experience. I thought that was a pretty good idea. I'm pretty interested in that science experiment. Well, don't publicize it. Maybe just play it in the forest. Well, don't sell tickets to it.

But don't, yeah, you don't put it on the internet. Definitely, you can get, that's illegal. Calling animal control is a genius passive aggressive move. Especially if they go all the way into the room. You hear, the dog's dying right now. I don't know whose dog it is, get in there. Animal control shows up with a net. I think that'd put a stop to it.

The kibosh on the. Well that's kinda like swatting somebody. Kabam. You know. It's like mild swatting. And swat. You know, it's like mild swatting. And swatting is highly illegal. It's like a major felony. You cannot call the swat.

Oh. If you say that there's like a situation going on at somebody's house. Does that apply to animal control too? No I'm saying that. It's not a swatting. It's a mild swatting. Calling animal control is a mild swatting.

So it's probably a misdemeanor. So we cannot advise that you break the law. You can't unnecessarily call animal control just because she sounds like a dog. I've got two words. You always like to go to the two words. Okay, I'm listening. Sound blankets.

Oh, I thought you were gonna say catty system. Nope, I would never have said that. Yeah, but now that you mention it, caddy system. Maybe you just give them a caddy system that has a sound blanket in it. Lots of, I just think they need to decorate their room with sound blankets. I mean, everybody wins.

It's warmer in there, and the sound doesn't come out. I mean, you gotta soundproof it. And you can go in 50-50 on that. Okay. I do think you gotta talk about it. Justin, I keep wanting to say the last names but I'm not. I like the way you just left it.

Justin. Justin. Has a question. My roommate refuses to empty the lint trap. Now is this another euphemism for the same thing? I doubt it. I think this is probably literal. Refuses to empty the lint trap.

Because I don't know how that would be a euphemism for it. Well, emptying the lint trap, I think is a euphemism for something. But what's the lint trap? I'll tell you later. How do I properly explain the importance of lint trap maintenance without seeming like a jerk? Well, I don't think your concern is seeming like a jerk.

I think your concern is seeming like an over-controlling goody two-shoes. Now let me tell you how to use the lint trap. Now I can say this because I am this person. I am 100% in charge of the lint trap at my house. Every time I go through my, you know, my passageway of the garage that I've talked about has the dryer in it and every time that that thing's

got some dry clothes in it or there's wet clothes in the other one, I always am happy to transfer it in there and I'll always remove that lint trap. But you know what, there's lots of times when I can tell that that lint trap has been run for three cycles. There's so much lint trapped in that thing, it's hazardous. Now, and I could take it around to everybody in my house and I could say, look what you did.

We could've, this would've caught on fire. But I've lost hope and I just take, I take pride in staying on top of it myself. So I've given up. Clarifying question. But I'm not in college. By doing it, by being the only person who does it, have you rendered the rest of the family

like basically incapable of it now? Like if you go away for an extended period of time, like if you're traveling. That's a good point. Is everybody at risk now just because you haven't done it? Justin Rhett makes a good point, don't be like me. You gotta do something. I'm not saying don't be like Link,

I'm just saying that because I am also the lint trap guy in my house. Really? Yeah. Do you lick your finger before you remove it? No, I don't have, I'm sure I do not have as developed of a system as you do.

Because if you don't lick your finger first, you're scraping for a long time, you're like a raccoon pawing at a box that has a cake in it. I just get a corner and pull and it all comes off. Well, that sounds like you've got two or three cycles on it. I definitely have two or three cycles because I'm the guy and I'm not as attentive

to detail as you are but so we may be going five, six cycles at my house. You are in the danger zone. So I think the answer to this question is I think you've got to, again, I think you've got to potentially fake a situation. Oh gosh. I think you've got to put on some,

you gotta get some clothes and like char them in certain places and you've got to just in the middle of the night, one night, run in, grab your roommate, and say, get up, get up, there's a fire, there's a fire, because we didn't change the lint in the dryer! And then he's gonna panic! And you've already been burnt

because you're wearing the clothes? Yeah, yeah, you need to look a little burnt. Okay, you don't have to do makeup, I'm just saying just a little charriness. Okay. You know, that can be done. In the T-shirt. Just a T-shirt, just a t-shirt with some char on it.

Like a nipple peeking through. You can smell a little bit like smoke if you wanna get some liquid smoke and just use it like cologne. Okay. That's another option. Good. You freak him out, he gets up,

he thinks that the place is burning down and then right before he gets out the door you say, Sike! But that's how serious this would be because you never changed the Lent Trap. Now again, I don't know about the legal repercussions of faking a fire, you cannot do that in a public place because that's illegal.

But I think you can say fire just to your roommate. You can do anything to your roommate. I don't know, we're not legal experts. Especially if he doesn't go in and tell the authorities. I was actually gonna say gather up all that lint that he should have removed over three cycles and then put it in the middle of his floor and burn it. Show him how flammable it is?

Yeah, show him how flammable it is. Again, I think that should come with a warning. Tracy. Hi guys. Hey. I teach intro to sociology at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College. I'm listening.

Sometimes it can be challenging to hold students' attention. Any suggestions for making learning more fun in the classroom? I'm not gonna make any community college jokes. Okay, because I could say something like, well, because you're teaching at a community college, I see how this is a problem.

But I'm not gonna say that. I wouldn't say anything like that. Tracy, seriously, I think I have some good advice that comes from my father, who is a law professor, who has been teaching for an incredibly long time, like since 1980. And so we're talking almost 40 years of teaching experience. for an incredibly long time, like since 1980. So we're talking almost 40 years of teaching experience. And now I don't know necessarily if this is the,

he basically uses the Socratic method to teach. What does that mean? It's basically like calling on people and having a discussion. A conversation. And you know, it's a little old school, but here's the thing that I think is great about this. So every single day, and I don't know if he still does this, I haven't talked to him about it in a while, but.

Haven't talked to him period. You should talk to your dad. I'm not talking to my dad right now. Just kidding. It's not something we should joke about. It's not something we should joke about, but we did. Okay, so in any given class that my dad is teaching, he may call on you.

Oh, there's no raising of hands. No, so he's like, okay, he gives a homework assignment or the reading assignment. He's talking about it. These are the cases that you're supposed to read this week. And then Tuesday morning rolls around and then he's sitting there and he's teaching and he's like, Mr. Neal, what do you think?

And then he asks a specific question. At that point, Mr. Neal has to stand up in class and he says sometimes the entire class will be one student standing up and him just asking them questions and having a discussion the entire class with one person standing up and him just asking them questions and having a discussion the entire class with one person standing up. He has done that before.

That has got to make some people crap their pants. But you know what it does, Tracy? But if you're gonna be a lawyer, I guess. But not all lawyers get up and speak in front of people. They're not all orators. Yeah, but here's the thing is that he's actually told me that this particular approach is a little bit, has been, people have tried to discourage him from doing it

because it does put students in an uncomfortable situation but he's old school and he's like, well, that's what they need to be put into an uncomfortable situation. If they're trying to be good at this job, they need to be able to be grilled and to take these questions and to be able to answer them. Now I'm not saying you have to go as old school

and as strict as Professor McLaughlin, but I do think that. Makes my pit sweat right now just thinking about it. But I mean we're talking about sociology at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College, okay? So I think that we're in a situation where we can expect someone to, I think you should just call on people, Tracy.

Honestly, I think that's what you should do. I think there should be random times in any given class where you're like, Mr. McLaughlin, or whatever you call your students, and then ask that question. You don't have to make them stand up, but just let them know that they could be asked a question at any time.

You will immediately have this new sense of authority as the professor in this class, and they will have this immediate respect, because no one likes to look stupid. No one, and you know what, then the people who aren't preparing. Sometimes I kinda do. Okay, that explains a lot.

But I'm just throwing that out there, food for thought. I think that would be a way to get people to perk up and pay attention and know they can be caught on at any time. Tracy, just try it a little bit if you're gonna take Rhett's advice and remember that it wasn't my advice. Taylor. I'll take credit for it.

I'm graduating from film school in the spring. Congratulations. And I have no idea what I'm going to do after college. Probably you should do something film. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should do something film. Yeah, do something film. For the first time ever, I won't be in school and that's kind of scary.

How do you decide what to do with your life when school no longer dictates everything you do? You know, this is real. I mean, Taylor's right. You spend your whole life just being taught at. Scheduled. Everything's scheduled for you. And learning. And maybe you've had a job,

maybe you've had a full-time job, or something that's flirted with jobbiness, but it's different when it's like, okay, I'm not a student anymore, I'm just out there. For me, in my junior year, they presented all the engineering students with the co-op program, which was you don't take a semester off, you're technically still a student,

but instead of taking classes, you find a job and they help you find a job somewhere for a semester and then you come back and you take another semester classes so it elongates your student career before you move on to your bona fide career by probably another year. But it's more of a soft transition into full-time work as opposed to a hard transition from school to work.

I'm obviously not advising this to you, Taylor, because you're about to graduate, but this is my perspective was, I was interested in that because I could start making some money and then I could maybe get my foot in the door somewhere because they gave a stat like over 70% of co-op students got a job with the company they were co-oping with and that actually happened with me.

I started working at IBM because they also tell you how much people pay. And you know, I was very frugal. And when somebody told me I could start making money and elongate my college career, which I was enjoying, it was like a win-win for me. And I was like, IBM pays the most. They paid like $17.19 an hour.

I don't remember numbers and I remember that number. 17, 19. It meant a lot to me. I was like, I'm gonna rake it in. Back in 1998. So I did that and I ended up getting, working for them full time afterward. But it was kinda cool to go for a semester

and then come back and, so for me, it wasn't that daunting. I didn't have that moment of, oh crap, now it's the rest of my life. Do you remember feeling that? I kinda eased into it. I liked working there and they extended a job offer. I didn't do the co-op but I did a summer.

I did a summer at Black & Veatch that then led to my job. So I did sort of like a soft co-op. So it was kind of a soft transition. But I think that specifically to. I do think that's good to my job, so I did sort of like a soft co-op. So it was kind of a soft transition, but I think that specifically to. I do think that's good advice before we, I think my first piece of advice is if you're a student, look for something, even if you don't get paid or don't get paid much at all,

to gather some, to make connections and to get some experience before you're out there. And then I think second of all, even if you haven't done that, what do I do after graduating? It's like don't think of it like the rest of your life, think about it just the next step. Well yeah, because it works totally different

than it used to. I was gonna say specifically for Taylor, because we're talking about film here, is this is very different than engineering. You can't just go off and say, I'm gonna do some engineering on the side. You usually have to be with an outfit or a firm or whatever. But as a film major, I would expect that, Taylor,

you are already creating things, have been creating things probably your whole life. But one thing that you should be doing, if you're not already doing it, is you should be very actively pursuing your own projects because we live in a place now in a time where with a few hundred bucks, which pretty much most people can find a way to make a few hundred bucks

by working somewhere or can get a digital camera and a very cheap computer or even borrow somebody's computer, get some, there's free software. Like you're in a place now where you can, and probably even use the equipment at your school, be creating a lot of stuff because any creative career, it's like, when people apply to work in Mythical Entertainment, we do not look at their GPA.

I mean some people put their GPA on their resume, like some people do, like when people are proud of it, you know, when it's like three, five or higher. Yeah. But many, many times. It is an indicator but it's not the first thing you look at. We don't look at, we don't really care

what school you went to. We don't really care what your GPA went to, we don't really care what your GPA is when it comes to entertainment business. What we care about is your portfolio, what you have to show, what's your reel, what have you done, how does it apply to what it is that we need, and then what is your interview like,

and do you feel like a good fit to what we're trying to accomplish here? So I would just say that from, you have a, there's sort of a different way of approaching things when you have a creative, you're coming from a creative background. You should be creating as much as possible because it's probably gonna be some short film

or some video or some YouTube series or something like that or just a one minute of footage that's gonna get you a job somewhere. Or being on a set and part of a large team. I think, you know, find a way to apply that no matter what your field of study is. Find a way to get your feet wet before you gotta jump into the deep end of the tub.

M asks, what can I make in the microwave to eat that's not boring? We're back in college again. Gotta use that microwave as a main form of cooking. Well, I've got a great answer to this and I've demonstrated how to make it on Good Mythical Morning before. I call it the cheese disk.

It's not boring at all. It is just one layer of Ritz crackers on a plate with then shredded cheese sprinkled on top of it to basically create a cheese blanket. You can't have blue cheese if you're feeling frisky. Then you put that thing in the microwave for approximately 60 to 90 seconds and then you stand back, you open it up,

and you have a cheese Frisbee that can either be eaten or thrown. Tell me what part of that is boring. I'm listening. Silence. That's right, crickets, baby, because it's not boring. It's the best thing that you can do with a microwave. Lauren asks, as parents, are there any hopes slash fears

you, meaning us, have with our own kids getting closer to preparing themselves for college? Hmm. Yeah, Lily is a freshman in high school. So four years from now she'll be in college. It's crazy to think about that. Four years is not a long time. Yeah and Locke has five years and he'll be in college.

This is a pretty fresh subject for me. I was just having a conversation with Locke about this last night. So, our kids just last year made the transition from homeschooling into regular school, public school. Which I would say is going well. Yeah, yeah, it's going great. Very well.

It wasn't a great transition. Like the first couple of weeks, they were a little freaked out. Locke was freaked out about, you know, his, all the work and just, you know, what are, how am I being measured and all this stuff? But he's gotten into a groove. He's done very, very well.

But now, he's in this place where these other kids are talking about prepping for college. And it is so much more competitive than it was when we were in school. So I remember when we were in high school from 1992 to 1996, like AP classes were a very new thing. In fact, I don't even know if my brother,

who was just a few years older. Got college credit? For like AP, like Advanced Placement stuff. Just because they were like rolling the program I don't know if my brother who was just a few years older. Got college credit? For like AP, like advanced placement stuff. Just because they were like rolling the program out, at least in Harnett County, they were rolling it out in the 90s. And so it was very, like we took AP physics

and we went to Michael Juby's house and just had him explain what the heck was going on with AP physics. But we didn't take that many AP classes, but now there's all this pressure to get all these AP courses if you really wanna get your first choice in college. And so Locke is very driven, he's very focused,

he's thinking about his future, his mind is in the future, he's very much like me, but yet he's not in Harnett County in 1992, so he's in a different place, and so his mentality is like he's got this pressure. Now, we've put pressure on him almost unknowingly because we kind of have this like you gotta do well. You need to put yourself in a position to be in a good college because it determines the rest of your life

and just the way we talk about academics I think has actually put some unneeded pressure on him and so just last night, we're talking about how we're trying to plan some stuff that we're gonna do for the summer, which might involve some trips and some vacations and that kind of thing. And then he's like, well, Dad,

I've got two sessions of summer school. And I'm like, well, let me look at the dates on this thing. And he basically has scheduled his entire summer as school because he's taking high school classes before he gets to high school because he's like, dad, I have to take this science so then I can have more room for AP classes and so then I can boost my GPA

and get my first choice college. And then I was like, but Locke, we won't have the ability to take a real family vacation. You won't be able to go to some of these basketball camps that you want to go to. of these basketball camps that you wanna go to. You're gonna basically be in school and with just a couple of short breaks. And I had this moment where I was like,

I feel like we've put this undue pressure on him. Maybe it's just, I mean, maybe a lot of it does come from his own mind in the way that he is. It's kind of a role reversal. Whoa, whoa, whoa, we gotta go on vacation. It's an interesting dynamic. Well, and then I started reading about,

there's a New York Times article which is about all the pressure that kids have now to like, there's this, it's super interesting because it's this thing where kids who are well off, upper middle class kids who have, their parents are supporting them and they have the ability to pay for summer classes and for expensive tutors and that kind of thing.

They're getting all this benefit from these AP classes, but then the kids who don't have as much money and don't have as much support from their kids, from their parents who are the ones who actually need the increased exposure to college, they're not doing this stuff. That's kind of a whole different issue. It's just sort of an interesting picture of the way that this has kind of created this

race to the finish for kids to get ready for school. But ultimately, what we've decided is he's not going to take both sessions because I'm like, I don't want to look back and say, you didn't get to go to these cool places and go on these cool trips and do these camps that you want to do, which I think is ultimately more enriching as a person. And I'm like, you know what, you may not be able to get as many AP classes when all is said and done, but I don't want your life to be completely defined by just trying to have all this pressure to succeed,

to just get into exactly the right school, as if that's going to make all the difference in the world. I don't know, we're just having, I don't necessarily have any specific advice about it, but it's very fresh conversation for us. Yeah, I think I'm definitely not nearly as a futurist in my thinking as you are instinctively. So for me, it takes more discipline for me to think about,

wow, in the next year or two, we're gonna be making some concrete decisions about where Lily's gonna go when she graduates. But yeah, you're exactly right. All of those decisions trickle back to a year before now. So I start to feel behind when I hear you talk about it, which is kinda, it kinda freaks me out. But I do think that our experience in doing something and finding ourselves successful at something

that we couldn't have declared as a major. Yeah. I mean. And at a school that's not prestigious. Yeah, we thought we were gonna go to film school. That was nixed before we even left high school. It just didn't happen. It didn't seem wise enough to the people who were influencing us.

But it turned out okay. It's a balance and I think you give a good example of maintaining that balance of okay, we've gotta do, we should know everything that needs to be done, but then it may not be the wisest choice to do all of that. Yeah, because yeah. To be quote successful. You know, I think it's very important that we teach our kids to listen to themselves,

to get to know themselves as they're becoming themselves. Because it could be some experience. They're so far from being who they're going becoming themselves. Because it could be some experience. They're so far from being who they're going to be. Because it could be some experience that they have over summer in something they're trying, a camp that they go to, a country that they travel to, which is important to us that they have the opportunity to do that.

I think that that will probably ultimately contribute to who they are as a person more than just having all their ducks in a row when it comes to being ready for college. And you know what? Maybe they won't get into, you know, like Locke has talked, since he was a kid, he's like, I wanna go to Stanford. And you know, and I'm like,

well that's an incredibly difficult thing to do and I'm all for it if you can work your way into that situation. But we come from a totally different place. Like, NC State is a great school for what we did, if you can work your way into that situation. But we come from a totally different place. NC State is a great school for what we did, but it is not a school that is particularly hard to get into.

It's not, and it's like we didn't have this pressure. It was a given that we were A, going to a state school. We weren't gonna go to a private school that required a lot of money. And B, it was gonna be in-state. I think at the time, things have changed so much, but I think, I remember our entire college career at NC State cost like $23,000 or something like that.

State school, especially California State School, is so much more expensive than that now, but I don't know, we need to move on to another question, but I just think that we're trying to answer those questions right now, but I don't know. We need to move on to another question, but I just think that we're trying to answer those questions right now and I think that the bottom line is we're trying to think about our kids as a whole person and realize that it's not just about the academic success and going to the right

school because I don't think, I think that they can get, it can mess them up emotionally and mentally if they apply this pressure at this developmental stage. There's so many things happening that I just don't wanna put too much pressure, especially when you start seeing that they're putting pressure on themselves. Mm-hmm.

Heather asks, what do you do when your suite mate pees all over the toilet seat? P.S., my suite mate is a girl. What? Heather? We can't help you there. No, no, no, no, no. But I think your suite mate needs help.

Justin asked, what is some of the best ways to make the cafeteria food taste better? I would like some better food for the rest of my time that I'm here as a college student. I remember staying in Syme Dorm our freshman year every night. We were on the far, that had to have been the east side, east campus,

east side of campus, and the dining hall was on basically the far East side of campus. And the dining hall was on the, basically the far west side of campus. And you remember every night, like we would, we'd gather like some friends that lived on our hall and you'd make a pilgrimage. It was a pilgrimage all the way across campus to get to the dining hall. I just have really fond memories of that moment.

It's like you're done with classes, you get back to your dorm room, everybody starts gathering up. It's like, all right, you guys ready to go to the dining hall? It's like, you know, it was a concerted effort. It was like an expedition, a backpack expedition into like the Everest or something.

You gotta get geared up, it's like you're bringing snacks, do you gotta drink? You know, it's like we gotta have something to sustain us halfway. By the time we get to Turlington Hall, we're probably gonna need to find a water fountain so that we can make it the rest of the way. And you also didn't wanna show up at the cafeteria alone.

Yeah, so it was like. I think there was this sense of like. Bring a delegation. Yeah, yeah. It was like bringing your freaking delegation to the dining hall. It's one of my favorite memories of being in college. I doubt that this is the way,

I just doubt that there's many people listening that this is their practice though. What, if they were in Syme Dorm, I'm sure. I don't know, man. I don't know other people. I think people are a lot more isolated. Oh, you mean now? Now. I thought you meant other people back then, but there were lots of delegations,

and then by the time, when you got closer, it all come together. Because we weren't connecting, again, I'm not trying to sound like an old crotchety man, but. But you are. But I will say that we weren't connecting with people via our phones because we didn't have smartphones.

So you made some legitimate connections with the people in your dorm room. Especially when you're walking cross country to get to there. And then when you get over there, I don't remember anything about the food except that there was a whole machine for chocolate milk. Oh yeah, the chocolate milk machine.

And you remember you go up to the thing with chocolate milk and it was a chrome box with chocolate milk bags. With a tube that came out. And it had the white brownish tube because the chocolate milk had stained it over the years. And then in front of that there was like a, there was like a, I'll just call it a ladle. It was a heavy metal ladle but instead of like being

a scooper, it was like a knob on the end of it and you would grab it. You'd grab it and you would lift it. It was like, it was very medical. It was like. It was like a cow. It might as well have been a cow's udder. It was more like a turning cough situation.

Yeah, but we were in an agricultural school. I think it probably was like tied into the milking technology they were using on that part of campus. The knob was as big as the palm of my hand. And you pick up a handful of that metal and you lift up the arm and then underneath it you put your glass and the chocolate milk would flow. Yeah, yeah.

That made up. It was a beautiful thing. So I think my advice is just focus on the experience. The food's gonna taste like crap. Just pour chocolate milk on it. Well, I was just gonna say hot sauce. They have that there. Just use it. Or you can bring it in your pocket. Use hot sauce

or take hot sauce with you and that'll solve a world of problems. Hot sauce and chocolate milk. Let's close with a personal one. Okay. From Morgan. What's the most annoying roommate habit you both had to deal with in college, possibly about the other person,

and how did you deal with it? So I haven't really thought about this one ahead of time. I think mine. How did I annoy you? I was annoyed, I think this is more about me than about you, but I was annoyed at you that you could so easily and without a tinge of remorse or anxiety,

drop whatever studies you were doing and play twisted metal with Greg. And it wasn't that I wasn't invited or that I felt left out. I was just so envious of your ability to just say, all this stack of stuff that I'm supposed to be doing as a, in my collegiate endeavor, oh screw it. I'm just gonna be over here having fun.

Like, and maybe this is more in retrospect, but I don't know, I know I feel this way now, looking back at the college you. I'm so annoyed that you had that ability. It's envy. Well, I did study. You did study. And I did well, but I didn't do as well as I would have

if I hadn't decided that okay, this is enough. And I was very influenced by Greg's mentality, which we've told this story before, but one time he was trying to get me to stop studying and he came into my dorm room and he said, "'Come on, let's go. "'You know what you know, you don't learn anything.'" That's what he said as I was trying to study.

And I remember you told me that. You turned to me and you're telling me that. And I'm like, what? Well, since that moment in college, many different times when anyone's trying to get ready for something, we've just said, you know what you know, you don't learn anything. Come on, let's just do it.

And you know what? While that is entirely not true, because if you knew what you knew, there'd be no need for college. You do learn things all the time. But the sentiment was, come on man, this isn't the most important thing right now. Oh is that what he meant?

My mom just made a stromboli. Here's the thing about Greg's mom, is that she had this stromboli that she would make and she would- Freeze it? Yeah, when she came to visit him, or when he went back home, he would come back with these strombolis, and then we would put them in the toaster oven.

So they were like cooked and frozen, and then we'd just put them in the toaster oven. Oh man. And this was like, this is like the perfect college taste. You know what I'm saying? Like a toaster oven thawed. It's like a pizza in a blanket. Stromboli.

And he'd put that stromboli in that toaster oven. We'd put on Twisted Metal on the PlayStation. And I would be the Cadillac that had, no the hearse. I would be the hearse that had the fire that came out of the headlights. I don't even think that's a character on the game anymore. And we would just play Twisted Metal for hours and like you start smelling that toaster oven,

heating up that Stromboli. Like if I could smell that Stromboli in that toaster oven in Greg's dorm right now, it would be, it would fill me with so much joy. You can. We can get a toaster oven in a Stromboli? In your memory, man. And there was just something about that experience

that just, I was like, this is what college is supposed to be about, twisted metal and stromboli. I never once tasted stromboli. You never came over to Greg's room and played a game. Never. Not once. Not once. Yeah, you didn't.

You missed out, man. Yeah. But hey, we're having fun now. And I hate you for it. Well, I'll tell you. It's annoying. I'll tell you something that annoyed me. How did I annoy you that speaks more about your shortcomings as a person? Well, it's interesting because I feel like

I did not have a very good, even though we were best friends all growing up and lived together all throughout college, shared a room together. I don't think that I would have ever been able to articulate your sensitivities and how particular you are about certain things until having worked with you for all these years.

Like I wouldn't have necessarily just said, because I don't think we knew ourselves very well. I don't think I would have known a lot about me personally or about you. Just we weren't thinking about those things. Right. So I don't think I would have said that like, well Link is picky or he's really particular

about what temperature it is in our room. Because I don't remember thinking any of those things until we started working together every single day for a really long time. The thing that I remember, and it was a little annoying, it was also kind of amusing, was when you were still dating your girlfriend from high school.

So we're talking freshman year. Freshman year, signed door. I don't know what you're gonna say, but. And you would talk to her on the phone and you'd be curled up on the bed. Mr. Fly? On the bed. You'd get into your bed

and you'd be laying there in your bed and you'd kind of like be. In the bunk bed? Yes, you would be in the bunk bed. Okay. And you'd be in the fetal position like facing away from me. So like kind of creating this barrier

and like having your head on the pillow and like talking into the phone. And like the nature of your voice would be like. Baby high school. Baby high school. And it was like baby talk to your girlfriend for like maybe an hour. Oh my goodness. And it happened a lot. And it was, you've forgotten about this?

Yeah. That was it. So that was one type of conversation you would have. And of course I was like still in the room, I'm like studying or doing whatever, eating stromboli, whatever I was it. So that was one type of conversation you would have and of course I was like still in the room I'm like studying or doing whatever, eating Stromboli, whatever I was doing. I think I was making dying dog noises. No, those are distinctly different. And then the other conversation that you would have,

which this wasn't annoying because you would be so quiet, was when you were talking to your mom. And you know, you guys grew up together basically. You know, you're single mom, only child, so you guys had like a different. Well she was grown up. She was the mom and I was the child. Right, but you know what I'm saying,

like it was the two of you. Two of us, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you kind of have a different relationship with your mom and like my mom would have to call me to like track me down to like talk to me. Your mom would call you as well, but she called a lot more than my mom would have to call me to track me down to talk to me. Your mom would call you as well, but she called a lot more than my mom did. And you would literally just be on the phone

for like 45 minutes and it would just be, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm, mm-hmm. Now Greg was a lot worse than me at that. That talking to his mom like that? Yes, you're getting me confused with Greg. No, no, no, but your mom. You're right, my mom would talk. I wasn't annoyed by this,

because like I said, you were just being quiet. My mom loved me more than your mom loved you, yes. Your mom would just talk to you and talk to you and fill you in on lots of things, and you would just, you were just there, you were just listening to me. I still do that now, yeah. But you have to remember that Greg's conversations

with his mom were epic. I don't recall. I distinctly do. He would be like two hours on the phone with his mom. No. And she would be doing all, he put me to shame. But that annoyed you. And while we're on it, the thing that Greg always tells,

if he was here, he always makes fun of me, even when we saw him, when we were on tour, he's in Washington State and he came in, we saw him after that show, I think he brought it up again but, it was like a running joke, but he would say, every night at a certain time, which would be my bedtime, all of a sudden he would hear,

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, this is him telling the story. And he'd be like, well, I know Link's going to bed because he's got his spoonful of peanut butter and then he's poured Nesquik into his chocolate milk and he's stirring his chocolate milk in his glass with his peanut butter spoon.

And that annoyed him to no end. That every night, wherever he was in the apartment, probably playing Twisted Metal with you, I'd be back in my room like, I'm going to bed now. I've done my studies. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I think it's the combination of how systematic it is and how aggressive you are at everything like that.

Like you chew very aggressively, you stir very aggressively. I would be in my room, I would drink it in my room. Right, but it would, it's coming out through the thing. It got him, it got him. If you were to walk in and see you doing it, you'd be like going. There's a very aggressive intentionality to the way that you do the things that you settled into.

Maybe it was twice. And I'm sure it was a certain number. Yeah, I mean, I don't recall that, but I can relate to it. And you know what? I wish you the best in your schooling careers. It seems to me you were saying, I didn't get to say this,

that Locke's definitely going to community college. Yeah, yeah, ultimately, we've made the decision. I didn't wanna leave that stone unturned given all your community college talk on Good Mythical Morning. It's no longer a four-year college degree. We're not really expecting that of him anymore. So we wish you the best and if you're studying,

if you're supposed to be studying right now and you haven't been, well get back to it. Oh you know what, you know what you know. You don't learn anything. Yeah exactly. Play some twisted metal. Go eat a stromboli. Make yourself a peanut butter spoon,

dip it in some milk and stir up that chocolate syrup. Do they allow toaster ovens in college dorms anymore? Probably not so, I don't know, you know, warm it up in your pocket. Just get a hot pocket, we had a guy that worked here for a while who put a hot pocket in his pocket and literally heat it that way. Do that, that's very college.

Talk at you next week.