Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 136: Our Worst GMM Experience (AMA) | Ear Biscuits Ep. 136

Episode Date: March 26, 2018

R&L find out what happens when you drink too much vinegar. From guilty pleasure songs to strange fan encounters, Rhett and Link answer all your inquiries. Listen to Ear Biscuits at:  Apple Podcasts: applepodcasts.com/earbiscuits Spotify: spoti.fi/2oIaAwp Art19: art19.com/shows/ear-biscuits SoundCloud: @earbiscuits Follow This Is Mythical: Facebook: facebook.com/ThisIsMythical Instagram: instagram.com/Mythical Twitter: twitter.com/Mythical Other Mythical Channels: Good Mythical Morning: www.youtube.com/user/rhettandlink2 Good Mythical MORE: youtube.com/user/rhettandlink3 Rhett & Link: youtube.com/rhettandlink Credits: Hosted By: Rhett & Link Executive Producer: Stevie Wynne Levine Managing Producer: Jacob Moncrief Technical Director & Editor: Kiko Suura 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 Lank. And I'm Rhett. Lank. And Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, you've asked us anything and everything and we will answer anything and everything.

At least the questions that we specifically chose from the questions that you asked. So it's not really ask us anything, it's ask us anything and we'll answer some things. But probably shouldn't sell it short because now it doesn't seem as epic as it could. The answers we're gonna give are, phew, they're gonna be. Could go anywhere.

They could go anywhere. You've asked us anything and now we can answer anywhere. And let me say, man. Say it, man. We've been shooting some stuff today. Oh, what a day. We got some Mythical Morning under our belts. Oh gosh.

I went to the bathroom in the middle of something that I guess we were eating something. We're always eating something. While we were eating, you were crapping your pants? I mean, this is the kind of thing you gotta tell a brother. No, there was a stop down, as we call it. There was like a pause in the filming and I went to the restroom to get something

out of my teeth, out of the very back. Understood. I was just curious, whenever you floss your teeth, what percentage of the time, I'm gonna ask you anything, is it- That's not how this works. I'll answer though. Do you floss all of your teeth

because you just went in to floss one tooth crevice? And then you're like, well, since I'm here, I'm gonna hit this one and then I'm gonna hit this one. Cause that's what I did in the bathroom. There was something, I felt something in the back, like in a molar and I got that out and then I was like, I'm gonna hit this one and then I'm gonna hit this one. Cause that's what I did in the bathroom. There was something, I felt something in the back, like in a molar and I got that out and then I was like, I'm gonna keep going. And before I knew it,

I was flossing every single tooth crevice. I'd say 37% of the time I do that. And all you guys were out there waiting. It was kind of a power play on my part. Oh, I've got to floss my teeth. No one knew you were missing. So I don't think it worked. But.

That ain't true. I would say the. We didn't film without me. The minority of times, of the time, I do that. I'm not a good flosser though, I'm kind of ashamed. You know what changed my flossing habits? What? I was good at flossing because I was going to a dentist

who was telling me that I needed to floss and then I read an article. It's funny how just a little study and a journalist who kinda turns it a little bit. They baited you, click baited you? No, they said, yeah, I was click baited. Click to realize why you should never floss again. Flossing not as important as once thought.

Click. And I clicked on it and I was like, all right. Then my flossing frequency severely dropped. And I don't even know if it was real. I don't even, I mean, it said it was a study but it was probably one study. Fake news, man. I mean, all I know is that now when I floss,

my gums bleed, which is a really bad sign. You know, I'm such a creature of habit but I have not incorporated flossing into my routine. You can over floss. Except the day before, the morning that I'm going to the dentist and then for like every other day for the two weeks after I've exited the dentist

and the hygienist has given me the speech. And you're trying to maintain that clean feeling. And then when I get something caught in my teeth, so you said 30%, that means that you have stuff caught in your teeth that you just floss out, but you don't even use that as an occasion to floss out your teeth. So you said 30%, that means that you have stuff caught in your teeth that you just floss out, but you don't even use that as an occasion to floss out your teeth. You should at least do that.

I do that and 80% of the time that I have flossed every, between every tooth is because I started out just trying to get something out of one place. So you need to take advantage of that. Okay, note taking. Forget about that article. So, and when I do floss, it just gives me, it boosts my esteem for at least six more hours.

I feel like I'm on the tail end of a just flossing, fresh esteem boost and I'm gonna ride it right through this ear biscuit. So you just, this is like, we're talking like within an hour. Six hours ago. You're still riding the floss wave six hours later? It's a six hour wave for me, yeah. Wow, you should do that more often. It's like it.

If it does that for you. And it doesn't hit me immediately. It's like yeah, I'm flossing, yeah, I'm spitting, yeah, there's some blood in it, yeah, I'm going back to my job. But then like within the hour, I'm like, you know what, I flossed. And then within two hours, it's like, it'm spitting. Yeah, there's some blood in it. Yeah, I'm going back to my job. But then like within the hour, I'm like, you know what, I flossed. And then within two hours, it's like, it's really humming.

It sounds like you might be a little prideful. I mean. And you know. It's called floss pride. A lot of people suffer from it. Well, this ear biscuit, I feel like is really gonna benefit from it and I didn't wanna take full credit.

You remember the schools? I don't wanna take full credit. You remember the schools? I don't wanna be prideful. I wanna give floss the credit it's due. Now, growing up, we were taught that pride was a bad thing, right? Sure. And it is a bad thing. It cometh before a fall. But you can be proud.

And I remember we'd be playing a school or I'd see somebody and their mascot was the pride. Of lions? I guess it was but it would be like the Pokachani pride or something. Pokachani. I'm making things up. Like I'd see it in a movie.

I don't think we played anybody that was called the pride and I was like, that's so arrogant. Yeah. That they're called the pride. I bet they flossed every morning. But it was because they were lions and it never crossed my mind. I'm also excited.

Bless you. Bless you, Jacob. Bless you, Jacob. Bless you, Jacob. You have no pride. In all your endeavors from here on out. I can tell you, you flossed recently. That smile on your face.

My teeth don't show, that's why I don't floss. I'm riding the floss wave right into, I'm gearing up for this vacation. And you know, we talked about it today, we're taking like a mini kid vacation. Listen, don't undersell your vacation. Kids spring break. My vacation is a mini vacation.

You, my friend, are going big and going hard. Oh gosh. I mean. With not enough time. I am almost scared, I'm scared for you because. Well I was excited and I told you, who was it? It was you and Darren and was Stevie there? Steve and I was like yeah, I'm pretty excited.

We're going, he's like where you going? It's like we're going to the Grand Canyon on an RV. It's like we're going, he's like, where are you going? I was like, we're going to the Grand Canyon. Okay. On an RV, it's like we're renting an RV. And then their faces and your face is like, oh gosh, it's like I told you my diagnosis or something. And I'm like. Well, you've told me how your family interacts.

My kids wanna go on an RV, especially Lando. I just mispronounced his name. Especially Lando. He wants to go. The RV. And Lando wants to go on the RV. Listen, let me tell you, I think that it's a great idea. I think every family should try it.

I'm glad you're going before me. We have five days, including travel, so it's very aggressive. You got five people too, I mean. It's one of the, have you seen these RVs that like on the side of it, it's like painted with a billboard that says, Cruise America. Cruise America.

Oh yeah, listen. I'm pretty sure that that's what I'm getting. It's a watch. I'm getting a driving billboard. It's an advertisement. How could you miss Cruise America? Well, how could it cost as much as I'm paying? Because it's a big truck, man. It is your home, you're sleeping in it, right?

Yes, of course. I'm not buying, what's the point of an RV if you're not gonna sleep in it? That's the cool part, man. You do know you cannot crap in it. You know that's the RV rule. That's the bus rule and the RV rule. Nobody craps in it.

Where are we gonna, I mean six days. You crap in bathrooms. Somebody unloads in that thing and you will be hating yourself because the guy who gives it to you will be like, oh sure it works. It never works. Anytime I've ever been in a bus or an RV where somebody has dropped a deuce, it hashuh. It has soiled the experience

until somebody has to come and pump it out. You gotta, oh, we gotta get somebody to come pump it out. Think about, you know, you remember what happened on the set of Buddy System in the trailers that we were in? In your trailer, yeah. So the security guard was after hours and something was wrong with the bathroom that he was supposed to go in,

so he just picked a random trailer and he picked my specific trailer. I think he knew he was targeting your trailer. And just put things into perspective here. When I say trailer, don't picture like what Robert Downey Jr. is in on the set of Iron Man. No, we have basically, it's not quite, it's basically a series of closets on a trailer

that you do have a little sink and you've got a little place you can lay down. Well, I can't lay down. And then you've got a bathroom for yourself and that's what our trailer was. Ours were right next to each other. Well, they were both in the same trailer. They subdivided the one trailer.

We had a shared wall, but different toilet. I did not smell through the wall, but it was horrible you said. It was absolutely horrible. You're right, I can't do that. I couldn't make eye contact with that guy the rest of the time, but he was guarding us because of what he did.

He soiled my place. I don't trust my middle child with this. He's a crapper? I might not be able to bring him. Get him diapers. You should have a set of adult diapers. I'm not joking. Because what's gonna happen is,

when you get out, nah, listen, just stick with me for a second. I'm gonna crap in my pants. When you get out there in the desert and you're not familiar with the landscape, you don't necessarily know where the bathrooms are, somebody's like, dad, I just gotta do it, there's a toilet. What's gonna happen is there's gonna be a moment

of weakness and you're gonna be like, well I mean, this is a modern piece of equipment, there is a bathroom, Rhett's probably wrong about this. I'm just gonna, let him crap in there. If it gets to that point, you say, son, I have a diaper for you. Well if we're out in the desert, son, I have a diaper for you. Well, if we're out in the desert, son, I have a shovel for you.

Just go dig a hole behind the RV. Well, the diaper was not really to be used. It was a tactic. It was a mind control tactic. Once a 12-year-old or 13-year-old begins to think about crapping in a diaper, they become super self-conscious and they pucker up and they hold it until you get to a real bathroom.

Not you though. You're talking about, what are you talking about? You go right in that diaper, wouldn't you? Oh, I've never crapped in a diaper but I did shart on the way to Dollywood once. I've heard the story but the way you delivered it with such gusto in that moment, it's like wow, good times. Wow.

Put that on that T-shirt. So I'm going to the Grand Canyon, I plan on giving you, loyal listener, a report. Maybe you're right, I'll let you know if it comes down to this, I'll be thinking about you. I wanted to ride a mule down into the bottom of the Grand Canyon with all of my family. Another weird idea.

I came. Actually, it's a great idea. I came home, I was like, guys, you know we're going to the Grand Canyon, you know we're going on an Ara VIA, but did you know that when we get there, we are getting on a caravan of mules and we're riding to the bottom of the Grand Canyon,

one of the seven wonders of the world, is it not? It should be if it's not. It's one of the natural wonders of the American world. Yeah. And immediately, it was just like people, it was like bailing out of a sinking ship. I mean like Christy was like, gave me a, are you nuts? Yeah.

Like I'm afraid of heights. Yeah. You wanna put me on top of a animal on the teetering on the edge of switchbacks, which it is. And then Lincoln's like, I'm afraid of horses. Oh, that's a bigger problem. I'm like, well, it's a mule, it's not a horse. Right, it's sterile.

And it's so sure-footed. And then Lando's too young. So I mean, we were leaving him behind in the thicket anyway, somehow, with Jade. Jade's coming too in the RV. Are you, you're serious? I'm serious. Wow.

I talked him into it. And how are you gonna mule this? This is my idea. There's no way, I mean, I think taking the mules. They abandoned me, so I'm like, Lily, please come with me to ride on the mules. And she's like, no, I don't want to, Dad. Go by yourself.

I'm like, you'll love it. You'll absolutely love it. It'll just be me and you and the mules. I think it's a great idea. The reason I said it's a weird idea is because I knew that your family would not be into it. But if you wanna take a mule with me one day. Would you ride the mule?

Heck yeah, I'd do that. You better believe I'm not hiking up from the bottom of the Grand Canyon with my family. I'm not scared of horses. You can't do it. It's the only way to see. And I really wanna ride a horse too. Yeah, I don't necessarily know if your first horseback riding experience

should be A, on a mule and B, at the Grand Canyon, because that's kind of a different experience. Yeah, it's a different thing. You know, interestingly. It's like riding the monorail at Disney World versus getting on the, you know, a SpaceX rocket. It's a different thing. I will be, incidentally, at the same time

that you're in your RV, I will be on horseback. What? Yeah, that's one of the days I have planned on my vacation which is less ambitious. I'm just going to Palm Springs. You get to ride on a horse? There's a whole, there's an excursion. I'm going to this.

Is your family coming with you? All four of us get our own horse. There's a whole, there's an excursion. I'm going to this. Is your family coming with you? All four of us get our own horse. This hurts, man. And you know what? For just a little bit extra, they said, for a little bit extra per person, it'll be just us with no strangers, no randos. No cowboy taking you around?

No, no, we've got a qualified person but no other tourists. Right. Just the McLaughlins and someone who knows what they're doing. We're gonna do what they call a Jeep tour. Like a sunset tour and that's gonna be just us because I don't like to go on tours with other people.

They slow you down, they get injured, they're a liability. And also, you never know what you're gonna get. You're just taking a random sample of people. I mean, if you just throw a dart at the human population, the chances that you hit somebody you wanna hang out with, pretty slim. I mean, especially when you're a jerk like me. Remember the prideful thing you said earlier?

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Sweet! Now on with the biscuit. All right, here we go. Okay, right off the bat, here's an interesting question from Beth Ann McGraw Smith. Dang girl, chews. How many names you gotta glom on? I don't know.

That's quite a few. Who is the most surprising contact in your phone? Beth, we liked your question, so nothing immediately came to mind. I literally pulled out my phone and I started scrolling and I found someone that surprised me that I think will surprise you. You wrote something down, did you scroll your phone?

Yeah, the first name that came up that was surprising. To you? Was Bill Leslie. Bill Leslie. Anchor, news anchor at WRAL, is that? Yeah, absolutely. WRAL Morning News. And Lunchtime too, I think.

In Raleigh, North Carolina. He's a ginger. And he is like, he's the man there at the local news situation in the triangle. He's also a folk artist. Yeah, he's a bluegrass man. I think he's a bluegrass man. And we met him in full redneck,

we were guests on WRAL and we met him because he invited us to come on the news program, like the noon news in order to sing, I think it was the barbecue song. It was the barbecue song. We basically went on as Rabbit Lightning for all intents and purposes. Before Rabbit Lightning was Rabbit Lightning.

So it was just like two rednecks, like I wore a tank top and cut off jean shorts and he met us and took us around the news studio. The North Carolina news is like some of the most high quality award winning news outfits in the country. I'm not just bragging. It's kind of a weird phenomenon that North Carolina has really good,

high production quality news and weather. Like industry standard, that's a fact. And when you, because when you go other places, you'd be like, oh, this news sucks. And he took us around and introduced us to everyone, like people in cubicles and like production people. We were in character the whole time. And we never, we, I don't know.

Because we were in our costumes, we just, we never broke character. And then we did the news segment. And he never acknowledged it. Yeah, because he's Bill Eds. Because he's cool, man. He is a professional. He is so cool.

You know, you're gonna think I'm name dropping. I got Post Malone in my phone. And that rhymes. Post Malone in my phone? Because as rhymes. Post Malone in my phone? Because as Post Malone. Did you ask him for his number or? We follow each other on Twitter and he sent me his phone number.

That's kind of him. And he's. Let's call him. Austin is his name. He's a genuine dude. Now we already knew this because Mike and Alex knew him. Yeah. But he's just a genuinely good guy, good-hearted guy, and a legitimate fan.

Kind of a, he's a, I would call him a sweetheart. I would go as far as to say he's a sweetheart. Like you say he's good versus bad. And you know, I don't like calling people good or bad, but he's very sweet. I said good-hearted. I don't think he's bad. I'm not, it seems now I'm implying that he's bad.

Well he might be a little bit of a bad boy, but in like a bad boy good way. But he's a sweetheart. He's a sweetheart bad boy. Good tasting comedy. Yeah, and you want me to continue the name drop? I can see that you've got more written. I only have one.

Red Fu, I have Red Fu. Red Fu. And Mr. Tony Hale, good friend Tony Hale. That's as far as my name drops. I've dropped all the names that I can possibly drop in my phone. Well, I'm about to drop a big name on you. I found in my address book, Mr. Fred Vanor.

Don't look at my notes. You remember him? You mean the Snuggie guy? Yes, the guy who, the commercial producer of the Snuggie commercials, as well as a lot of famous infomercials. We, I can't remember how this happened, but we were, including like OxiClean,

he shot the last commercials with Billy Mace, like days before he died. Yep. And yeah, Snuggie, and he's still doing it, like Blue Moon Studios or something. But we had a conversation with him, I think it was because we made the ShamWow song. That's what it was.

We made the ShamWow song. We made just a, you know, we took the ShamWow song and we took the ShamWow commercial and we took the words verbatim that Vince said and we wrote it into a song. You can search it on YouTube. It's not as great as we thought it was at the time, probably now, doesn't hold up that well, but we sang, we musicified it.

Yeah. And then we got an email and ultimately a conference call with the producer of the Snuggie commercials and they were making, Fred was making a new Snuggie commercial and he wanted us to make a song for it. But then it turns out. That would be part of the actual commercial that went out like on cable that everyone would see.

And he told us a lot of cool stuff that like, there was a warehouse in like New Jersey where they made all these commercials. So like it was almost like a place like, you know, Willy Wonka's factory where you could go and you would see all the commercials being made for all the crazy infomercial products. And we were so excited about going. People lounging in Snuggies.

And then we were thinking about what song we were gonna write and then like a week later he calls and he's like, guys, turns out that Weezer has decided to do a music video about, and they're gonna be wearing Snuggies and they're actually- They're parodying the Snuggie infomercial as their new single music video.

And it's actually, it was a partnership, an official partnership with Snuggie. And he's like, you know, because we've got that going on, it doesn't really make sense to have you guys who are not Weezer. Nope. And that's actually the second time- We you guys who are not Weezer. Nope. And that's actually the second time. We got thwarted by Weezer.

We got Weezer beef, we got beef with Weezer. Beef number one with Weezer is when we won the Key of Awesome. May they rest in peace. Music video contest way back in the day. They're not dead, they just aren't making music videos anymore, Key of Awesome. And the award was to be able to make a music video

with Weezer. Nope, we got to appear, go to the set and appear in a music video by Weezer. And then we turned it into, we said, actually we don't wanna just make a cameo, we wanna make you a music video. We wanna direct a Weezer music video, that was our retort.

We pitched two ideas, I remember one of them. One of the ideas was we were gonna take large helium balloons, like weather balloon style, the kind of balloons that people tie to lawn chairs and then float themselves up, and we were going to float the entire band in the air, tethered to the ground but floating in the air, and then we were gonna do the same thing with a camera, and they were gonna do the whole music video floating in the air, tethered to the ground but floating in the air. And then we were gonna do the same thing with the camera

and they were gonna do the whole music video floating in the air. We thought it was a great idea. We were on the phone with Weezer's manager like pitching all this stuff. Yeah. And we also pitched an idea where Weezer would be in different rooms performing the song

and we would shoot the song, we would shoot it, we would shoot the song, we would shoot the performance on a set and it would be like kitschy kind of like, this is an emergency room set but like Weezer's playing all the different, the doctors and the person getting operated on and then it would be a different set and a different set and then we would change things on these sets and then get them to perform the song identically again and then we would change things on these sets and then get them to perform the song identically again

and then we would run it, split screen beside each other and you would spot the differences in the two Weezer musical performances and they love the idea or the manager did and we pitched it to them and then they got cold feet and they backed out on the whole thing and then we said, well well we're gonna take that idea and then we.

We made our video. When a sponsor, the right sponsor came along, we pitched it and then they were able to fund. Yeah, that was our spot, the differences in music video. Now, so, I mean, you know, big fans of Weezer. Way back in the day. Always have been. But we got a little Weezer beef

because we had two really good ideas they didn't like and then they took our Snuggie song that we could have made and they came in and they- I thought there was one more thing with Weezer beef. Yeah, let's make it up. We had some more Weezer beef. Let's start a Weezer beef. Let's start like a Weezer Twitter beef.

Well, I think who benefits more from that? At this point? Ooh. Oh, whoa, hey, oh. Hey, we said we had beef. You just really, really. No, you said it. You really just stepped in it.

So we didn't get to do the Snuggie freaking Snuggie commercial. But that is a good contact. Fred Vanora, I still have your number, man. I'll call, call me. That's not how it works, is it? I have your number, call me, I'll know it's you when you call.

Jennifer Peden asks, if you could change one thing about yourselves, what would it be? Mm, mm. Hmm, huh, cuts right to the heart, doesn't it, Jennifer? I would be able to release all of my pent up frustration that I've been channeling towards Weezer all these years. No, okay, let's really think this out.

I'll let you go first. What would you change about yourself, Mr. McLaughlin? Well, you know, there's a series of superficial things that immediately come to mind, like I would give myself an actual chin, you know what I'm saying, so I could occasionally shave my beard and not be embarrassed. You don't like being locked into the beard?

Yeah. But I think that the actual deeper answer is to not care about any, I would change, I would lose the desire to want to change anything about myself. Whatever, I would want to get to a place of emotional maturity where I no longer cared about the things that I wanted to change.

Obviously there are certain things, like character things, like I wish I had more patience, like I wish I had more patience or I wish I was more selfless. I wish that I wasn't, you know, I'm selfish. Everybody's selfish. I kind of feel like I'm probably on the, you know, if you divided everybody in the world into who's more selfish, I would think I would be

on the upper end of the spectrum of selfish people. Okay. I'd want to change those things. But I think most of all, just thinking about the, just the fact that there's these things that come to mind and a lot of it has to do with wanting to change the way that you're perceived by people. I think I would want to not have that,

like to actually be completely content with who I am. That is a serious, deep, your basic answer. You want to desire to not change anything about yourself? That's not what I said. So I would want to lose the desire to change the superficial things about myself. Okay. In other words, no longer care what anybody thinks.

Hmm. That's a beautiful answer, Rhett. Oh, thank you. You wanna be free. I gave you that answer so you'd like me more. Again, that's one of my problems. This is tough. I don't know, for me, I think about,

I just find myself with levels of anxiety that I just don't think are justified. So I would like to, and I am thinking more about this and trying to tackle it, but so I guess, I mean, that's what I'm working on changing about myself. That's one of the things is coming to grips with what's behind this like illogical anxiety that just kind of wells up.

A fear of the bottom falling out of my life in one way or another. You know, I wish I didn't have that. I am working on that. And you know, I think I'm hesitant to say I would, but even that, there's something, as long as you're engaged, I feel like as I'm engaged in the process of like getting to the bottom of that,

it's a rewarding experience. You know, it's, I mean, we're tremendously blessed that there's not something that comes to our minds that's like, I've got this nagging problem or issue that it's like, oh, I just like to remove this thing. You know, like something physical. You know?

So I wanna acknowledge that, but I could be more thankful too. Yeah, it's difficult to change one thing. It's difficult to pick one thing. It's difficult to pick one thing. That's why I kinda try to pick something that would take care of a lot of things. I mean, because I think about, you know, I love my kids and I think about

the things that I hope changes in them, okay? You know, they've got symptoms of, okay, just as an example, like selfishness or something that you talked about that most everybody, I think, deals with if they're honest with themselves. You know, developing the ability to put other people's needs before your own.

Could I, would I snap my fingers and take that and for my kids to just be there? It's like well, I mean there's something, you know, the cliche of it's about the journey not the destination. Maybe it's because I know this isn't possible to just snap your fingers and change something. That's just a rationalization. But I do think there's a beauty in the fact

that you can't do that, that you kinda gotta live, you gotta live through things and hopefully you're making positive changes. So ultimately, I'm a verbal processor, so now I've landed at my answer. Oh good. I wish I was a little more tenacious in tackling the things that I wanted to improve about myself,

about the way that I think, the way that I, my heart, those type of things, like the deepest things that I wanna improve on. I too easily just escaped to like, I'm just gonna take a nap. Well, you know, the interesting thing. I would like to change that. I'd like to be more tenacious at, what's the word?

Wrestling? You wanna be a more tenacious wrestler? Yeah, like a self wrestler. Wrestling with yourself? Yeah, I feel like I can make more progress if it wasn't like, I finally get around to thinking about levels of introspection and, I don't like to use the word self improvement

but I just did. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Which I was a little more dedicated to becoming a better person at a faster rate. Well, I think one of the things that's kind of interesting about this that I think applies to both of us personally

is that I think given the way that our wives kind of interact with self-improvement. Yeah. And given the way that the friends that have become our better friends in the past couple of years are very in tune with self-improvement. Self-improvement may be the wrong word

and it may conjure up things in your mind that turn you off, but people who are really concerned about continuing to not be stagnant in the way that they think and the way they approach things and continuing to change for the better, and it's like, I kind of feel like that's been a huge benefit to both of us in the past couple years because I think that it's like, I kind of feel like that's been a huge benefit to both of us in the past couple years because I think that there's this,

I think that you tend to naturally think that like, okay, I just turned 40, I'm kind of who I'm gonna be. And I think one of the things that I've realized in the past like two years is that I really hope that I'm not who I'm gonna be because I don't, because I want to continue to change. And I actually have, in light of the kind of, you know, the quality of the people that have become good friends.

I would say grow, not just change, but like, change is just. Yeah, personal growth. It's a little limiting of a term. Even in the past six months, there have been, and I'm not gonna share very specific things because I'm still processing so many of these things, but very.

And there's not a sponsor attached to it. Right, and when I get a sponsor, I will talk about this freely. But there are very specific things that I've learned about myself just in the past six months that I was like, man, I could have gone the rest of my life not knowing that about myself. And now that I do know, man, I could have gone the rest of my life not knowing that about myself. And now that I do know that about myself,

a certain kind of work is beginning that I think there's a personal growth that I did not know was possible, that I had no way of anticipating. And that's, I've been thinking about that lately because I do feel like it is a, it's kind of been a revelation. It's kind of like, man, I actually,

I got so much more work to do on myself than I ever even realized because I kind of just thought I was pretty cool. I kind of just thought everything was pretty good. And everything is pretty good in one sense. It's like I don't have a lot to complain about. Been incredibly blessed in a lot of different ways. Hashtag blessed, which I never use on my Twitter account,

which is at RhettMC. Haven't plugged myself in a while, so I figured I would do that. Can't get too real. You were making such a. I gotta, you know, I gotta deflect because I was getting too real and I gotta make a self-deprecating,

self-promoting joke all at the same time. Sorry, this is the kind of work that I need to do. But anyway, I am, I'm actually more excited about my 40s. I told Jesse this the other day, I was like, I'm super excited about my 40s in so many different ways. Like personally, professionally, am I making you cry? I took my glasses off. I mean, I don't know if I'm making you cry. No, I'm not crying. I would love to make you cry? I took my glasses off. I mean I don't know if I'm making you cry.

No, I'm not crying. I would love to make you cry right now. Can I make you cry? Well, if I rub my eyes hard enough, they'll probably start crying. I am super excited about my 40s in a way that I think that I could have just as easily gotten to my 40s and I do, I have questions all the time

like is our best work behind us? Like are we, you know, there's so many, you're tempted to think, is the bottom gonna drop out of whatever it is that we're doing? But I actually feel from a personal standpoint, and even from a professional standpoint, I'm more excited about the future than I have been in a while.

Wow, Jennifer, you really opened a can of honesty. Yeah, you did. You never know what's just gonna happen on an Ear Biscuit. Boy, I wish you weren't so vague. We gotta get a sponsor. Next question, Catherine Abel asks, what songs are on your guilty pleasures playlist? I like this question.

Very good question. You know that I really enjoy hip hop. This morning I was making my smoothie to some J. Cole. That's good. But I'm not guilty about that. Yeah, that's something to be proud of. One of my favorite. It means you're cool. One of my favorite bands.

Save Illinois Carolina. Lord Huron has a new single came out which tells me, I keep forgetting to search but I assume that means an album is coming out. You never know with those guys. I love, they may be my favorite band. But that's not a guilty pleasure. I, I don't feel guilty about that. Guilty pleasure is like Dixie Chicks,

which I still listen to that Dixie Chicks album, boy. Good gracious, that thing is good. Is that it? Okay, so my guilty pleasure is, I don't know why I started thinking about this guy and his songs, but for the past two weeks, I've been obsessed. It's made me so happy and a little guilty

that how much I love Steve Winwood. Okay, give me a Steve Winwood song. Fall from back on the high life again. So many vaulted for the vine, now smile and take me in. Now does he play. There's a man in the high light. You know that song? Yeah, definitely.

But do they play a lot of woodwinds? They? No, he doesn't. Because, you know what I'm getting at? It seems like Wynwood would, Steve Wynwood. It just feels like it's an opportunity for a lot of woodwinds to be playing.

There's other songs, like that's the main one that I keep going back to and I swear that James Taylor is singing back up. James Taylor found his way into so many albums in the 70s and 80s. You'll be listening to a George Jones song and all of a sudden that's James Taylor doing the backup. Bartender's Blues.

Bring me a higher love. Okay, it's good stuff. Bring me a higher love. And then you got good stuff. Bring me higher love. And then you got back into high life again. And then roll with it baby. I'm singing them all on the same key. They're not. And then isn't Mandolin Rain?

Mandolin Rain? Is it Mandolin Rain? Isn't that Steve Winwood? No. Listen to the Mandolin Rain. Is it Mandolin Rain? Isn't that Steve Winwood? No. Listen to the Mandolin Rain. No, that's Bruce Hornsby. All right, that's my guilty guilty pleasure. Bruce Hornsby?

Does he play horns? You got Steve Winwood playing woodwinds. Do you only listen to people who have Bruce Hornsby playing horns? Who have instruments in their last names? Yeah, so that's mine. So Dixie Chicks, I can't remember the last time I listened to it, but I'm talking about that,

the Dixie Chicks album before they said the wrong thing about Bush and everybody started hating him. I'm talking about that album. But. Okay. I'm not sure you can do that. It's a little mandolin ring. But, okay. I'm not sure you can do that. It's a little mandolin ring. So what I found when I started going into my phone

trying to look at my playlist and my recently added is like do I have, yep, okay, keep that short. There's legal repercussions. Okay, all right, I think you've officially. Gotta get to the right part. You've officially gone over the number of seconds that we can legally play.

But you know what? Yeah, that's it. I think we all know. The new me doesn't care. The new you will care when we have to take this podcast down. I feel so guilty, see, you're trying to make me guilty. Now, what I found, and this is gonna make you happy.

I've made so many people happy with this. I don't even remember how I, oh, I remember how I found it. What? How I found Ariel Camacho. Oh, that's not a guilty pleasure, that's a hidden gem. Don't tell them. Oh no, I'm going to tell them. They already know, maybe.

So I was driving along, I had to talk about this because as I was looking for my guilty pleasure, I looked at my recently added and I saw from last year how I added this album. Yes. I was flipping through the FM radio channels of Los Angeles, which is not something I do often because I'm usually listening to a podcast

or my own songs, not like Rhett and Link songs, you know what I mean, like my iTunes. And about 30 to 40% of the stations that are on FM radio in Los Angeles it seems like are Spanish music. And this song starts playing, Te Matiste, and it was this incredible music that sounded like, I don't even know necessarily the right name for this,

a little bit of like mariachi-ish sound. Who is it? Ariel Camacho. And it is absolutely amazing because there's not a bass guitar, there's a dude playing a frickin tuba and he's playing the tuba. And it almost, it sounds like he has literally been gifted

his tuba playing ability by like an alien force. Okay, okay. Now that. And then sometimes they'll go. And this is the bass tuba. And so. The tuba is the bass. And so one night we're hanging out. We're hanging out with one of our friends and I had listened to this and thought,

this is some of the best music I've ever listened to. I absolutely loved it and I got the album and I just started listening to it. Oh, blew my mind. And I thought I had just found this little thing that would be this little treasure that I could share with people from time to time. And then we're hanging out at my house with a friend

and I bring it up and then we were just like, I wonder if there are music videos for this. What are the music videos? And we look up Ariel Camacho and that's when we realize the music videos have hundreds of millions of views. It's absolutely huge, it's a phenomenon. You've discovered nothing, Jon Snow. It is a phenomenon in Mexico especially

but also in America. I just didn't know about it. And it turns out that the original dude who was the lead singer was killed and then they replaced him with a new dude and the band is still intact. The tuba player's still the same guy. We've gotta get him on the show.

But it's some of the best music you'll ever hear. Ariel Camacho, and I don't know, was Ariel Camacho the first guy who died and they still call it that? I don't know, it's so tuba forward. It'll just rock your world. You never thought you needed tuba forward music, but you do.

Bring me a higher love. Okay. Bring me a higher love, oh, for me. Sound more like Michael McDonald, but you get the idea. Where do you wanna go now? Let's just keep going. Katie Bowling. You all have amassed pretty large following over the years.

I was wondering how you honestly feel about fans coming up to you in public. Where do you draw the line so as to when it's okay for someone to approach you or when it's inappropriate? You know, I'm very grateful that we're successful enough that every time we go out, if we go out together somewhere in public, well, somebody's gonna recognize us. I kinda just mosey around until it happens

because I need that validation. Yeah, you need it for your self-esteem. So once that happens, I can be like, check, now I can go home and sit on my butt and feel good about myself. Maybe I'll need to floss. It's like one or the other. I'm either gonna floss or get recognized.

Ride that wave. I don't know which, it's like one or the other. I'm either gonna floss or get recognized. Ride that wave. I don't know which, it's both a six hour wave. But my answer is, there's a time when it's inappropriate and it's when you're, I think maybe I've told this story. It's when you're in Amsterdam with your family and your business partner and his family. That's me. And you've been riding bicycles around the city

and you've nearly gotten hit by a car, another car, a train, and many angry pedestrians and it's bringing your wife to tears. Like literally, she's crying and because it was an overwhelmingly traumatic experience watching our children almost get hit by a train. And meanwhile, my wife is also crying and mad at me and not speaking to me.

And so we're out in public. We even separated to make it easier. But it was, I mean, like I was talking to her and it was like, you can, I mean, you've seen couples in like heated situations in public. and if you recognize one of them as an inter-netainer, that's not a good time to come up to him and ask for a photo. Yeah, what'd you do?

I was like, oh, my wife can take the photo. No. Take it, baby. No, I did not say that, but. You say this is not a good time or did you? No, I took the photo. Oh, you did. But nobody won.. You say this is not a good time or did you? No, I took the photo. Oh, you did. But nobody won.

I'm sure it wasn't a great photo. And you know who you are if you've got it. Yeah, and I think I told this story before about the time I was in the airport and I was, this is when we had missed our flight or we were about to miss our flight, I don't remember. I wasn't there, was I? No, and I was with my family and I was panicking.

And first of all, you may consider yourself the more anxious one and you are in general, but when it comes to airport travel. Well, that's because you also have strategic thinking, which sometimes leads to anxiety. I am incredibly anxious and my wife and my kids have these, they have running jokes about me and the way that we get to the airport.

You get really worked up. 14 hours before the flight. You get frantic. Yeah. And if I'm a fan, from 50 yards away, I can tell that's frantic Rhett. That's not the Rhett that I know on the internet. But I was in the middle of like a heated exchange

about how we had to get going or whatever and somebody came up and wanted a picture and I'm sure that I was not nice. I think I might have said this is not a good time. I can't remember. I told the story when it was fresher, when I had closer access to the memory and I think I told it accurately.

The point is, there's a time and a place and that's not it. Last night, we were together. We were in Hollywood, you know how we just go and hang out in Hollywood looking to be recognized. Just walk around Hollywood because that's the kind of thing we do.

Did you notice what happened? We didn't talk about it, we were coming off that escalator at Hollywood and Highland and somebody, well the guy like kinda grabbed my arm and turned me around and then was like, Brettett and Link, I'm a big fan, can I get a photo? And then he did a selfie and he did some sign with his hand and he was like trying to be really cool.

But no, he also asked the same question twice. I think he was, he may have been under the influence of something. Yeah, the other thing that I would ask that people not do to people that they recognize. I didn't know he grabbed you though. Yeah, he didn't. When somebody grabs you,

you gotta go into a martial arts situation. He didn't, he took the back of his hand and just above my elbow and he turned me towards him. You can't let that kind of thing happen. Somebody begins to turn you, you go into them and you just shove their nasal cavity right into their brain. You gotta just turn around and just like a movie.

Somebody touches you, you gotta kill them. Gah. The dude just wanted a selfie, man. I'm sorry, maybe I'm overreacting. I think my story. But personal space is incredibly important to me. Okay, don't kill anybody because they touch you. I'm sorry, it was horrible advice.

If we're both there, you know which one of us to touch. Yeah, take it all back. All right, we can move on to another question. I feel good about now, like, in kind of a roundabout way, acknowledging how popular we are. Let's move on. Yeah, yeah. Pete Machalek asks,

"'Have any of your gastrointestinal adventures "'landed you in front of a doctor? "'What is the worst thing you have experienced "'as a result of consuming something on GMM?' Looking down at our round table under the dim lighting and we had all of the guests from like the first two seasons of Ear Biscuits sign it when we had guests. I see Smosh right there which reminds me, I mean it goes without saying all the hot pepper stuff

we've eaten has been very difficult. We never went to the doctor for it. We've never been to the doctor for anything related specifically to the show unless sitting so long gave me hemorrhoids. Then I can, maybe I should have filed workers' comp for that visit. But we had Duo or Donto and one of the things was

they decided not to drink a liter of vinegar. I think is how it went. So we each had a- I don't know if it was a liter, but it was- We had to drink a pint, not a liter. It was a lot. A pint is a lot. I think they call it a liter,

but like a pint of like red vinegar. At red apple cider vinegar. And we chugged it and it, I felt horrible at first, then we kept playing the game and then- Actually, I get a almost vomitous feeling just thinking about it. The way that I felt after drinking that, oh gosh, it makes me wanna vomit right now thinking about it.

Oh gosh. And then we kept playing the game and I was like, man, I do not feel good. I started sweating and I said, keep the cameras rolling because if I vomit, I want you to film it. It's all over the clicks. And then I sat there and then we were done and we like, Anthony and Ian,

this was way back when they were together, you know? Way back in the day. The good old days. Smosh was Smosh. When Smosh was Smosh. Smosh is just something, it's something now, it's just something different. That's right, it's something now, it's just something different. That's right.

It's bigger. We hugged them goodbye, gave them the friendlies, and then I was like, keep filming me, because I'm gonna vomit. And then like 20 minutes later, I was just sitting there alone in the studio with a camera on me. And then I gave up.

And the moment I stood up after sitting there for that long, I was like, oh my gosh, you had gone. I was like, you gone somewhere else in the studio. I was like, I went to the bathroom and I threw up all that vinegar. I, of course I immediately felt better and I was so grateful. But I went home because I'm not one to vomit in general.

I've talked about it before the McLaughlin streak, we had like 30 to 40 years between me and my brother and my dad not vomiting. I have broken that a couple of times. But there's just a, there is a great hesitancy to vomit, even when your body is telling you to do it. We have all kinds of techniques of heavy breathing and shifting the body that keeps it from coming up.

It's kind of like a esophageal chastity belt. Yeah, exactly. And I went home that night, it was a Friday night because I remember Saturday waking up and. Well, that night I went out, we were meeting some friends for dinner and at this like burger place and they're like ordering these huge burgers

and I'm like, I can't eat anything. I was just so gastrointestinally traumatized. So I sat there and watched them eat these huge burgers and I'm getting texts, I started getting texts from Rhett. He's like, dude, I'm not doing good. And I was actually, not only was I not doing well, I was doing what I often do, which is I was going on the internet

and asking the internet questions about the way I was feeling. Given what you had done. And what I learned is that there are documented cases of people dying from vinegar overdoses. And I was like, I don't know how much you can take, but I drank a whole lot and people were like, this is definitely not a good thing.

Now, but you weren't, were you typing your personal case into a forum? No, I never do that. I look at other people's answers because typing your case into a forum when you've got like a very temporary problem, by the time somebody answers it, it's over. So it was-

Why help anybody else? But what I learned is that it's not a good. So selfish man, you give. It's not a good thing. You take but you don't give. It's not a good thing to drink a large amount of vinegar. A lot of people will drink apple cider vinegar therapeutically or gargle with it or whatever and I think that drinking small amounts

is like a super healthy thing. Yeah. But drinking the amount that we did is not good for you. And so I was in this, had this dull ache to my stomach that I couldn't get rid of. And then I wake up in the morning on Saturday and it's still there.

Ew. I had trouble sleeping. It was like Saturday night by the time it went away. You never threw up? No, I was scared to. I can't make myself throw up. Like sometimes people, you can induce it. Did you pee vinegar? No, I was scared to. I can't make myself throw up. Sometimes people, you can induce it. Did you pee vinegar?

Well, I'm sure. Isn't that a saying? In one way or another. Like pissing vinegar? Well, it is now. It is a saying. It might be, but I mean, yeah, I think technically I was, but it wasn't straight vinegar. And I did not taste it to confirm if it was still vinegar

because I hated vinegar so much at the time. I got it out of my system eventually and we, I think, as the show has gotten older and we've gotten more people involved in the show, we have. They're more rigorous. Right now it's as rigorous, they're saying, oh it's piss and vinegar.

A phrase used. A phrase used to express an attitude of somebody that is full of energy, vigor, perhaps rowdiness or excitedness. Piss and vinegar, he's full of piss and vinegar. That is not what you were, you were full of both of those things, but it did not make you that description. But things like almost overdosing on vinegar,

almost blowing ourselves up by mixing two substances that should not be mixed, those things don't happen anymore because we have that many more people who like check and make sure that we're gonna be okay. So the whole save GMM hashtag that came up like a couple years ago when people were like, Rhett and Link are gonna die because they're pushing themselves so far.

That's not gonna happen. Now, of course I talked about the peanut butter thing and then that came out and you guys who listened to my story here, then there was a lot of concern in the comment section of that. But I don't know, I didn't feel great about making you guys so worried about it.

What about this question from Macy who asks, how late is too late to wish someone a happy birthday? That day. I mean the next day is not their birthday. The next day you say happy belated birthday. Okay. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what is your opinion about that?

Because I have, in the not too distant past, with two different friends because again, we've established I'm pretty selfish. I'm not a very good friend. I'm not a very good friend long distance like via text so if you're on the other side of the country or whatever. And so I find out it's somebody's birthday and I'm gonna text him and then I don't and then the next day I'm like, I should, I gotta. And so I don't know's somebody's birthday and I'm gonna text him and then I don't

and then the next day I'm like, I should, I gotta. And so I don't know how many days I've gone but what is, I always say happy late birthday but what is too late? When is it too late to still say happy late? Because we're definitely saying happy late birthday or happy belated, however you want to phrase it. How long can that last?

I mean, I don't know if 48 hours. Ooh, really? I was thinking a week. A week? You could just add, you could add qualifiers to it. Happy super belated birthday a week ago. I think you gotta start getting into apology letter territory at this point.

Hey man, sorry about this, but I wanted to wish you a happy, super belated birthday. Feel bad even talking to you now that I've waited so long, but I really hope you had a great birthday. And you know what? Happy really super, super early birthday for next year just in case I forget again. That's a good text.

You could just take that and cut and paste. I'll take credit for it. I think because I forget again. That's a good text, you could just take that and cut and paste. I'll take credit for it. I think because I'm, I hope I'm not lying to myself when I say this. I think because I'm so prone to forget birth dates that I don't, it doesn't hurt my feelings when people don't call me on my birthday. Oh. Like loved ones.

Like, if my dad were to call me the day after, I'd be like, I understand. You know, there's a three hour time difference. Surprisingly, it does make a huge difference in wishing somebody a happy birthday when there's this three hour time difference if you're like working all day and you can't just stop what you're doing.

We are such a compartmentalized thinker. We often miss things because all our people are on these codes. My dad didn't do that but even somebody as close as my dad, I don't think I would care but there might be other psychology involved in that. It's like I hate making people feel like they need to apologize.

Well, you know me. And I'm so prone to apologize. Well, you know me. And I'm so prone to it. I am so, I might be pretty negligent when it comes to a lot of things, but the one thing you'll never get from me is you will never feel judged because you didn't get something for me or you didn't tell me happy birthday or you didn't include me or you didn't tell me happy birthday

or you didn't include me or you didn't invite me. Like, and again, it's probably because I'm a people pleaser and so I don't want people to be upset with me or think that I'm upset with them. But, so at least I got that. Because I think the worst combination would be if you were like really bad at keeping up with things like that and being a good friend,

but you were also hypersensitive to when people didn't give it to you. Don't dish it out if you can't take it. Yeah, I just don't take it and I don't dish it out. Lexi Woodruff asks, what do animals think cars are? We're getting philosophical here. How do animals view technology? This is interesting because I was bringing Jade in

a couple weeks ago into work and she sits in the passenger seat. I do not let her sit in my lap, though she wants to when I'm driving. Do you put the seatbelt on her? No. Well a lot of people would hate you for that. A lot of people think you gotta strap a dog in.

If you strap a kid in, why won't you strap a dog in? You know what, I agree with that and I should get one. You're seriously gonna get one? What if I was in an accident and something happened to her? It would be horrible, like I would be, that would be horrible. So I couldn't bear it. But in order to be ready for that,

you have to be the guy that straps his dog into the seat. Nobody has to see it. What I am really against is the people who let their dog sit on their left arm that's on the steering wheel and then drape over on the window. Like that's not safe. Yeah. That's not safe for anybody.

It's not quite texting while driving, but it is, especially the dogs. Like a dog in your lap while you're. I mean I had Barbara. That's my opinion, I could be wrong. I had Barbara come from the back, go under the front seat and come out in the floorboard one time, like when she was small.

Well Jade did that last weekend when we were parked at the grocery store parking lot. Talk about a panicky situation, boy. Oh she's down there with the pedals, man. What's she gonna do? She doesn't know which pedal does what. She's gonna floor it. Yeah, she could set the emergency brake off,

she could pop the hood, all kinds of things can happen down there. So Jade was in the other seat curled up like a donut, sleeping, and I looked over at her and I was like, that dog has no clue where we're going. That dog doesn't have a clue. That clue doesn't have a dog. You know, it's like, man, I don't know what she thinks

of the vehicle, I mean, she knows that it's a transport device that I leave in that thing. And so if I let her out the front door when I leave and I get in the transport device, she tries to get in with me so she can come with me. So she knows it's what I leave in. But I don't think her view of it as a technology goes much beyond that.

I don't, you know, she likes to look out the window sometimes so she knows it's moving. But it's just like wow, I just don't think she puts much thought into it. Does she recognize when you get close to your house on the way back? Like when do you think that Jade knows you're getting home? Because I've got some theories about when Barbara knows.

When I turn on the final street. But here's my point. I was looking down at her and I was like, she has no clue where we're going. It could be anywhere. And she's just living in the moment. It's one of the things that I love about having a dog and now that this whole world of being a dog person

has opened up to me finally, and I'm wrapped around her paw, I just try to find different ways to, for psychologically it to improve my life and the way that I discovered right then was, you know what, every time I hang out with Jade, I'm gonna appreciate how she's able to live in the moment. She doesn't know where she's going in life or in this car.

And she's just, you know what? I'm here for it. I'm here for it. So I try to live like a dog, a dirty dog. The only issue with that is that she's not processing any of that. No, she's not. In the way that you would if all of a sudden

you were inhabiting her body. If all of a sudden your brain was inside her body, you wouldn't be able to embody it in the way that she does. That would be frustrating. Because in order to get to the place where you're just always living in the moment, you gotta be as dumb as a dog. Exactly.

Yeah, I guess I don't wanna be that dumb. What do you think, when does Barbara knows when she's getting home pretty close or? I think she knows when I'm on the road that goes up the hill to my house. So the elevation changed or something. I think she, my theory is she smells home.

Not home, she doesn't smell my home, but she smells our neighborhood. Jessie got that book about all the stuff that dogs can do. And it's like, I don't know what it's called, something about your amazing dog or something. It's probably not called that. It's got a better title than that because it was like a New York Times bestseller.

But it goes through all these amazing examples of how well a dog's nose works. Did you know that dogs that track individuals who are running from them and have been trained to do this. Talking like an escaped convict type situation? Yeah, like Harrison Ford in Fugitive. Which, what was his name? Richard, what was that guy's name in Fugitive?

Does it matter? Doesn't matter at all, but it's just one of those things that I wanna know now that I've thought about it. Richard Kimball. Is that it? Dave Kimball. Richard Kimball. Richard Kimball. Dang, it? Dave Kimball. Richard Kimball. Richard Kimball.

Dang, right? Dang, what was that? Why was that in my brain? See, that's amazing, the way the brain works, that information was in there. I would have never thought of that again. Richard Kimball came out. Until they come up with the next fugitive.

That dog can actually get to a place where there is a footprint. And while you as a human can look at the footprint and know, Forensically. Which direction the foot was going based on the way the foot looks and the way the foot is oriented. A dog actually can analyze which direction

that was going in based on the way the front of the foot and the back of the foot smells, the footprint. And basically the fact that there is a difference in time of when the front and the back of the foot were on the ground and they can actually smell the freaking difference in time. They smell in vectors? And then there's all this crazy stuff about how,

like the size of the room that you can be in with a dog and introduce like one molecule of stink of something, the smell of something, and the dog knows that it's there, like absolutely phenomenal. And they also have the ability to decipher it and categorize it in ways that we never do. I mean, it's basically like, you know, you talk about when a dog's walking around

and peeing on things and smelling things, it's like they're getting their email, they're reading their email, you know, the level of complexity and information that comes to you in an email is like a dog walking around smelling. So there's no doubt in my mind that when we get to

the restaurant that we pass as we're getting to our house, I think the sequence of smells begins to come to Barbara in the same pattern. Well, you've convinced me. And I think, because what happens is, all of a sudden, she's not looking up and seeing a tree that she recognizes. All of a sudden we get to this place and she gets up

and she starts looking around and she hasn't done that the whole time. I think it's the sequence, it's like a code of smells that is coming into her brain and she's like, I'm coming home, there it is, smelling that house and this house and that's. Back in the high life again. Exactly.

It's like a, hmm. Dogs are amazing. It's a local, it's a are amazing. It's a localized marker. Can you show me a cat that can do that? That'll change my worldview. They're afraid of cucumbers. Yeah, cats can't even take cucumbers. Now, man, your whole speech has really got me thinking.

About dogs? I feel like tremendously guilty. Jade sleeps under the covers and I fart. Oh, but she probably likes it. They like trash. They like the smell of trash. What are you saying? I'm saying that when you fart,

Jade is like, my owner has just given me a gift from himself in a way that only he can. A smell pie. She knows exactly who you are. She knows, she probably knows how your day went and what you had for dinner based on your farts. It's like, how was your day? It's like, okay, I learned all I need to know.

But I will say that when I do that, she quickly scurries out from under the- You're kidding? Man, yours can be really intense sometimes, that is true. She scurries out from under the comforter. Yeah. She gets up next to my head after that. She's like.

I've never smelled that smell come from this end. Oh gosh, I feel horrible about it. Is that a great place to end this podcast? Probably not, but we should anyway. We should end it? Yeah, we should. But hey, listen. You gotta gear up. I gotta get that RV, start putting stuff end it. Yeah, we should. But hey, listen. Gotta gear up, I gotta get that RV,

start putting stuff in it. Yeah, gotta start packing. Yeah. Thank you for all your questions. Thank you for asking us anything. We tried to answer as many as we could. We didn't get through as many as we wanted to. But you know what, we're gonna do this again.

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