Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 139: Our Bucket Lists (Rabbit Hole)| Ear Biscuits Ep. 139

Episode Date: April 16, 2018

Sailing to an island, surfing behind an oil tanker, and more! R&L share some of the things they want to do before they die. Listen to Ear Biscuits at:  Apple Podcasts: applepodcasts.com/earbisc...uits 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

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This, this, this, this is Mythical. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Rhett. I'm Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we're gonna go to uncharted territory, unknown zones of, oh, putting your phone in airport mode, that's right. Well, I'm putting your phone in airport mode, that's right. Well, I'm putting my phone in airplane mode.
Starting point is 00:00:26 Well, I like to just preemptively get it done on the, before I start crossing the tarmac, man, so in the airport. You gotta get that airport wifi. You know what? I know you're right, but I can't not call it airport mode because for some reason I've always done that. You know, one time I tweeted about the problem
Starting point is 00:00:46 with airport Wi-Fi, every airport has free Wi-Fi but it never works. Sometimes you gotta watch a video. Well, but I tweeted about that and then Ashton Kutcher, the Kutch man, tweeted back at me and was like, the kutch man tweeted back at me and was like, don't use airport wifi, incredibly insecure. Or incredibly unsecure. He was telling me that I'm insecure.
Starting point is 00:01:15 He was saying that it was an unsecure network. Ashton knows your insecurities. And then he pointed me towards some app that like Cisco Systems, something he was probably involved in, which is some app that you use on your phone. You're not secure in Ashton's advice for you? No, no, no, I'm sure that any security expert.
Starting point is 00:01:36 You think he was, did I turn your volume up by accident? No, it's just when you touch the volume it made me think maybe I should adjust. You know, we see somebody adjust something. I'm sorry guys, we're adjusting all types of things today. We're gonna adjust what we want. It's like when you touch the volume it made me think maybe I should adjust. You know, we see somebody adjust something. I'm sorry guys, we're adjusting all types of things today. We're gonna adjust what we want. It's like when you see somebody adjust like their shirt and then you kind of naturally,
Starting point is 00:01:52 well maybe I need to adjust my shirt. I need to adjust my hair. We also moved your phone out because we heard you. Well, we heard one person. We read one person complained about, I don't want the phone in there. So fine, it's not in here. We just want you to be happy.
Starting point is 00:02:05 Give us a frickin' break. But you're saying that Ashton was selling. No, I'm not questioning that. I believe wholeheartedly that airport WiFi is probably a bad idea and anybody knows anything about WiFi security and that kind of thing would tell you don't get on a public WiFi if you care about your information.
Starting point is 00:02:24 But I'm just thinking that Ashton Kutcher's probably also personally involved in the product that he was pushing. Nothing wrong with that. I'm not talking about an insider trading situation. Did you reply to Ashton Kutcher? No, because I got to the tweet like two days late. I was like, whoa.
Starting point is 00:02:41 You were on a two-day flight? No, it just happened to see, like sometimes I go in and I click on who's replied to me and I click on verified to be like, what verified people are interested in me today for a self image boost. You need a little pick me up. And I saw Ashton Kutcher, I was like, oh yeah,
Starting point is 00:03:00 once you punched him in the stomach, remember that? Did I punch him in the stomach? You poked him in the stomach, remember that? Did I punch him in the stomach? You poked him in the stomach with a pencil or something, I think we, well we did a misleading thumbnail at some point about. Our meeting with Ashton Kutcher. You can look that up on, that was on the Good Mythical Morning channel
Starting point is 00:03:19 before Good Mythical Morning existed. One of our first LA, not first, but one of our fledgling LA visits, we had a meeting with Ashton Kutcher, airport wifi security expert, because we wanted to make sure that we stayed secure in all of our flight endeavors. But you know, I believe he's probably. He's also an actor.
Starting point is 00:03:40 He's probably sincere. Okay, so this is a rabbit hole episode. We're gonna go down the rabbit hole. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say, uncharted territory. I need to put my phone in airport mode too because I have not done it. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:03:53 And going back to that spot. Maybe one of us needs to be available. You ever thought about that? You ever thought about the times, we go into airplane mode when we, record it in your biscuit, we go into airplane mode when we shoot GMM. But there's always someone that like,
Starting point is 00:04:09 if a loved one needs to reach us, I mean, it's easy to reach us through other people. True dat. But you know, there's this thing that if you go to a concert or comedy show or some sort of venue, they've got that pocket. Now that you put your phone in. They're taking people's phones.
Starting point is 00:04:27 No, you keep your phone, but they give you a pocket to put it in. Yeah. And then they have the key, so you can't do distracting things during the show to ruin other people's experience, like be filming or be texting or talking. But the thing that I don't understand is,
Starting point is 00:04:46 and you can go outside in order to use your phone but I don't know how you know if somebody's trying to get in touch with you. And I don't think they can get in touch with you. What if you made the bonehead move of like leaving an embarrassing ringtone turned all the way up or there's an alarm that's gonna go off and now it's in a bag.
Starting point is 00:05:03 It's not a soundproof bag. Well I'm sure they've, I kinda wanna go to a show just to experience this phone satchel. I have, I mean. What's it called, do you remember? Phone satchel sounds good enough. That's our version.
Starting point is 00:05:16 We're partnering with Ashton. I have many questions about phone satchel. Number one is what I just raised is what happens when something does happen to your phone. When it's not silenced. But the other thing is there's no way that YouTube people such as you and me could get away with this. If we did a live event and we told people
Starting point is 00:05:37 to put their phones in a phone satchel, there would be a rebellion, it would be a revolt. You know what I'm saying? Like Chris Rock can do it, and I think he actually is one of the comedians who did it recently. Traditional people can do it, but if we were to tell people that they couldn't bring their phones, it seems so anti-internet to do that, doesn't it?
Starting point is 00:06:04 Well when we did the initial round of the Tour of Mythicality, we did have this conversation and we decided not to say anything. I mean our only concern was that people would leak part of the show and that it might spoil other people's experience but we actually didn't think about spoiling people's experience when we're there. Well but there's also, there was, there were people,
Starting point is 00:06:30 I don't know who it was, somebody associated with the tour that was handling it, that were, they were policing the content that people were uploading related to our show. So in other words, if somebody uploaded like a full song performance, it may be taken down. Oh. And people can, people have mixed feelings about that. Maybe it may seem a little, you know,
Starting point is 00:06:56 too strict or whatever, but I think that the idea was is that it's fine to show, to give people an idea of what you experienced there, but when you start releasing entire performances of songs or that kind of thing, at that point, you might be spoiling the surprise for people. So I don't know what, I know, I actually saw some people tweet,
Starting point is 00:07:16 hey, I did a vlog and I put part of the tour of Mythicality in my vlog and it got taken down. Ooh. Kind of like, ah, well, not really us doing that. And I hope you put too much. Yeah. And that was a good reason to take it down, not just a little bit.
Starting point is 00:07:35 All that to say that we're not gonna tell you to put your phones in a satchel, but who knows, three years from now we're telling you to put your phones in a satchel and you're like, you remember that Ear Biscuit where you said you'd never do that? Well, then we'll just delete this Ear Biscuit. How about that?
Starting point is 00:07:49 Well, let's just say right now, you know what? We just have a feeling that we wouldn't do that, but we also have a feeling that we might. We're ambivalent on this subject. Never say you'll never do something. Can't do that anymore. You said that we would never do something. What did I say?
Starting point is 00:08:06 Oh, you might get me into trouble here. Yeah. What'd I say I'd never do? That was something. And then we were thinking about doing it. We'll never do full frontal nudity on Good Mythical Morning? Yeah, that was it.
Starting point is 00:08:19 I never say never. I don't know, people say our standards are sliding year by year, so. Who knows, by the time we're 60, we'll be just two naked dudes. And you'll have to deal with it. But it'll be below the desk. You won't see it, we'll just tell you
Starting point is 00:08:33 that it's happening down there. It'll just be the idea, just knowing that we're naked. We'll just be free. I mean, one episode will be like, I've taken my shoes off, I just want you to know. My shoes are off, it's kinda like in the plane. Do you do that? Sometimes I'll take my shoes off on a long flight.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Depends on the length of the flight, yeah. If you wait too late, then you might have stink feet when you take your shoes off. Really? I usually don't have that, but there's other members of my family that definitely have that. All the kids have stink feet, oh yeah. My boys, man, their feet's horrible.
Starting point is 00:09:09 Yeah, I was definitely only talking about my kids. And I'm like, put your shoes back on, boy. But it is an interesting. Even in the house, like if we're sitting down watching something, like we're into Planet Earth 2. Oh yeah, if they take their shoes off inside, it's like what is wrong, what is that smell? All of a sudden we're watching Planet Earth 2
Starting point is 00:09:31 and I'm smelling animal. I'm like dang it, who took their shoes off? I always think it's who brought in a new kind of cheese? And shoved it down in the couch. I know you guys don't like strong cheeses, I do. That's the only thing that can ruin Planet Earth down in the couch. I know you guys don't like strong cheeses, I do. That's the only thing that can ruin planet Earth too, by the way. It's a cheesy foot smell?
Starting point is 00:09:50 Yeah, and then you just cap it back up with a shoe or send that person out of the room. But do you think that if we, you know. I wanna talk about planet Earth, by the way. So if you're talking about something else, I'm. You'll come back to that, because I just wanna, because I'm still talking about the same thing
Starting point is 00:10:04 that we were talking about a second ago. Oh. I haven't even moved on to planet Earth yet. Okay. But do you think if we slowly introduced being completely naked? Oh, you were still on that. Okay, you wanna push that.
Starting point is 00:10:18 So shoes, then you're like, one day I'm like, as you know, my shoes have been off in the past. Well, they've been off ever since then. Now my socks are off. But I think we have to go tank top. Like one of us would go tank top, then the other of us would go tank top, then the other one would do mid-drift,
Starting point is 00:10:32 the other guy would do mid-drift. No, no, no, I'm saying it comes from the bottom up. One day we're like, we look no different, then all of a sudden it's like, I'm just not wearing pants today, nor am I wearing shorts. It's not gonna impact your, nor am I wearing shorts. It's not gonna impact your experience, or maybe it will. Don't even know what just happened physically to your face.
Starting point is 00:10:53 I burped while I was talking. But you didn't stop, you just kept talking, which I like. You burped through it. Let me see if I can do that. What was the word you were saying? What was the word that you were saying? Because I wanna say the same word. I'm sorry, I mean, that is not good podcasting form.. What was the word you were saying? What was the word that you were saying? Because I want to say the same word. I'm sorry, I mean that is not good podcasting form.
Starting point is 00:11:08 Do you know the word you were saying? If a man has got to burp during his speaking, it's bound to happen. I mean, this is more embarrassing than me and letting my wiener hang out on Good Mythical Morning. No it's not, I can't do it, I can't talk, Bert. And who wants to hear that anyway? Nobody.
Starting point is 00:11:28 I'm sorry. What's wrong with you? You didn't, it wasn't clear that's what had happened. I mean, I kinda figured. Planet Earth 2. Oh no, don't wanna talk about it now. Oh, but you've been enjoying it. When you said full frontal nudity,
Starting point is 00:11:44 I was just singing from the waist down, like newscaster nudity. That's all that really matters though, isn't it? For men. That's what I'm getting at, but then we just wouldn't stand up. We'd never go shirtless. We'd never be full nudity.
Starting point is 00:11:56 It would just be lower half frontal. I watched that, I told you I watched that Game Over Man, the Workaholics guys movies. Yeah. It was, I don't typically choose to watch comedy movies, you know this, and the old adage is if you work in comedy, you watch drama, if you work in dramedy, dramedy, drama you watch.
Starting point is 00:12:18 Is that an adage? I've heard it from many people. Oh, that makes me feel better. I feel like when I watch comedies, I'm watching them like as a student. Yeah. And I was like, all right, okay, here's a good comparison for us.
Starting point is 00:12:33 You got these guys who went and made this show and they're really funny together and then they went off and they wrote a movie. And I think that they're all very funny individually and funny together and fan of Workaholics. Yeah. And I was like, I'm gonna start watching this movie and then I'm going, because I'm waiting for my wife
Starting point is 00:12:53 to come and join me to watch the Wild Wild Country documentary on Netflix, highly recommended. Yeah. Enjoying the heck out of that. And I was like, I'm gonna wait for her and watch this movie and I'll just get the little bit of it. But she was making a cake and she never stopped making the cake, it was like 1.30 a.m.
Starting point is 00:13:14 I ended up watching the whole thing. Oh on earth. And uh. How big is this cake? Talk about full frontal nudity. Good gracious. I mean, there was so much penis in this movie. I mean, I was like, what?
Starting point is 00:13:27 I didn't sign up for this. Oh really? I didn't wanna see Adam Devine's penis multiple times. And it was not a prosthetic. Now, when they cut Daniel Stern's penis off, that was a prosthetic. What? That happened in the movie, yes.
Starting point is 00:13:41 I'm not watching this movie. Well, not just because, I mean, it's just indicative of the type, yes. I'm not watching this movie. Well, you should be. Not just because, I mean, it's just indicative of the type, no pun intended, of the type of movie that has other things that I don't know if I want. I just wasn't expecting. Was it like just for shock value? Or was it?
Starting point is 00:13:58 I don't know, I didn't find those moments particularly funny. I'm not offended by seeing someone's penis. It's not what I'm saying. It's just, it was kind of unexpected and also like, really? Why? Was it supposed to be sensual?
Starting point is 00:14:14 No, no. It was supposed to be comedic. It was supposed to be comedic. And I think I did, there was one moment when I laughed during that scene. But it was just a lot. I think they could have just pulled back a little bit. You know what I. I think they could have just pulled back a little bit. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:14:27 They could have just pulled back a little bit. Turtle could have gone in the shell a little bit. But that's all you're gonna say about it? So you are recommending it? I am not recommending it, no. I'm not recommending it. Just the way it all came together is not the way that it all came together with workaholics.
Starting point is 00:14:45 That's all I can say. I still think the guys are very funny. I just think that I was a little distracted by the amount of penis and in general, it just didn't gel in the way that their comedy has for me in the past. No pun intended. We're gonna get to a question,
Starting point is 00:15:02 your question that will lead us down the inevitable rabbit hole. Yes. But first. Ear Biscuits is supported by Burro. That's right, we got a brand new sponsor of Ear Biscuits. It's Burro, they have reinvented the luxury couch shipped directly to your home. And you know what, I'm looking on the website,
Starting point is 00:15:22 it's interesting because it's a really good looking couch that's totally customizable. And the first thing I thought was, well this couch looks like the couch that I went through a lot of trouble to get in my house. You know in the TV room where as a family we watch television together? Doesn't it look like my couch?
Starting point is 00:15:41 It does. Yeah, and it looks like a couch that I have in my house too. As two guys who just, you know. And I like to think we have taste. Recently bought houses. It's a good looking couch. Well, we have wives who have incredible taste. That's it.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Don't take any personal credit for it. Thank you for saving me on that one. But the process of getting a couch and then having the couch brought into your house, especially my house with the frickin' driveway and stairs and all that crap that you gotta get through. They're totally rethinking the way that you buy a couch because it comes in these individual boxes
Starting point is 00:16:11 but there's a really easy setup. It's modular. You can take it and move it and change the way that you put it together if you wanna rearrange it and you're inside the room with something. You can move it to a different room. So it's not heavy and expensive but it's also not cheap and flimsy.
Starting point is 00:16:26 Right, and this stuff has stain-resistant fabric. It's got a built-in USB charger. But we're not talking like, That's intriguing. When you hear built-in USB charger, you might be thinking like, is this like one of those weird gaming chairs? No, no, this is a luxury couch that looks incredible,
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Starting point is 00:18:29 Go to mattressfirm.com slash podcast to learn how your sleeping could be monumentally improved. That's mattressfirm.com slash podcast. Now back to the biscuit. Yeah, highly recommend Planet of the Earth 2. I'm not gonna talk about it now, but it's, I'm gonna open this envelope. Well it's sealed tight.
Starting point is 00:18:53 This thing's been sealed up for a while. You guys really, really licked it. Okay, here we go. Don't know what's on this, we're gonna read it. You know, it's just gonna lead us on the friendly conversation. You don't, I's on this, we're gonna read it. You know, it's just gonna lead us on the friendly conversation. I pulled the thing out and then I blew in the envelope for no, just because I saw Letterman did that,
Starting point is 00:19:12 but he would do it in order to get the thing out, but I already had the thing. Letterman or Johnny Carson? Johnny Carson definitely blew it as the amazing, what was his name? You're right, you're right. What was his name? I can't remember, the guy who told the jokes in reverse.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Ed McMahon laughed. Chris Clay asks, I would be interested in hearing your bucket list. You are both very different people, so I wonder how they compare. Ooh, bucket list. Now, I'm just gonna jump in there and say that. You gotta jump right in the bucket.
Starting point is 00:19:49 I've got like a couple of different apps that have lists and notes in them. Like there's the Notes app, Evernote. We were both big into Evernote a few years ago. I'm still pretty big into Evernote. And I still use Evernote for like my personal note taking. Just burped but I stopped talking and I did it. That's good, I like that, that's good technique.
Starting point is 00:20:09 Yeah, I'm working on it. I've thought about creating an Evernote, a personal Evernote, because I got the personal Evernote, I've got the creative Evernote, and then I've got the Rhett and Link creative shared Evernote, which we don't got the Rhett and Link creative shared Evernote. Which we don't use that much anymore
Starting point is 00:20:26 because of the Google Docs. But the link personal, I thought about putting one, calling it bucket list. I already have one. And started to create it. I'm about to break it up. I do not have one. I have one that's called thoughts.
Starting point is 00:20:42 Which is kinda like the subreddit shower thoughts, like I have those. They're just for me. Thoughts. So I'm gonna have to come up with my bucket list. You have a bucket list. It's not very long, but I think it'll be enough to get us started and I think it'll give you some ideas. And I do think every time that I've thought
Starting point is 00:21:05 about a bucket list, I've immediately thought, well, it would be nice if my good buddy Rhett created a bucket list and I could just pull from it. Yeah, well that's what's about to happen. Like if your bucket runneth over, I mean. If your bucket runneth over. I'll catch it. I mean, even when it comes to like vacation stuff,
Starting point is 00:21:26 which I tend to think about vacations a lot when it comes to bucket lists, like places I wanna visit. Like you tend to think more about that and I'm like yep, good idea. Didn't have to waste my energy, I could just harness yours. I'm like a bucket list leech, I'm proud of it. You're like a guy who gets in someone else's bucket list. And then you go to-
Starting point is 00:21:49 If somebody already is carrying a bucket, just get in the bucket. One day you're gonna go out and look in your bucket and you're gonna see it's empty because I like slurped everything out of it. I do think that you're gonna be really into many of these things and I also, I gotta say that, I pictured you being there for at least some of them.
Starting point is 00:22:03 And I will say, if you haven't listened to our classic Ear Biscuit on Rhett's layers, we go into, if I can recall correctly, a lot of detail in terms of that dynamic of what I just discussed. And many of the things that are from my layers have translated into my bucket list. I also have a list called Things I Like,
Starting point is 00:22:29 which you've been with me at different times where I've enjoyed something and then I'm like, I'm adding that to the Things I Like list. And it brings you even more pleasure. It's like we're eating at this restaurant. It's like gosh, this is so good. And then I just, it's like your face lights up, you pull out your phone, you're like,
Starting point is 00:22:45 I'm gonna put that in my favorite things list. Things I like. Things I like list. Yeah. Because then you know, oh, I'm in New York. What do I like here? Oh, let's look at the things I like. Now I will tell you, if I pulled out a list,
Starting point is 00:23:00 I could beat any list you've got with my packing for the RV trip list. So I'm not gonna feel inferior just because I'm really hedging that I'm gonna leech off of your list because I thought about, literally, I've thought about publishing my packing for an RV survival kit list. I'm sure there'd be an interested audience.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Pretty small but somebody's interested. Very interested though. Pretty small, but somebody's interested. Very interested though. Very motivated, okay. You gonna do these one at a time? Yeah. I mean, we got time. Yeah, number one, and these are no particular order, they're just in the order that I added them.
Starting point is 00:23:36 Fly and Ultralight Trike. Fly and Ultralight Trike. Is this the most recent one or the first one when you created the bucket list? B. So when you finally broke the seal on creating a bucket list, this was the idea that did it. Like, can you, what prompted this?
Starting point is 00:23:52 Were you like, did you see an ultralight trike in the air? I think I probably saw a video or a movie or something where there was one flying and I was like, man, you really let that dream fly away. No pun intended. Because this is, so this, can you tell when this list started? I mean was it in the last six months or was it,
Starting point is 00:24:16 the first time you talked about an ultralight trike was the year 2002. Oh yeah, this bucket list was created on July 28th, 2014 at 10.34 p.m. Right, so 12 years earlier. You most recently added January 14th, 2017? What, this hasn't been that long, has it? Yeah, I think it's been over a year since I updated this.
Starting point is 00:24:37 I gotta get on this bucket list. Wow. Yeah, so I was probably enjoying something. And you were reminded of your mental bucket list and how you really wanted to do an ultralight trike. And now I was just thinking about the fact that I got so into it, I actually had the trip, you know, the inaugural flight scheduled.
Starting point is 00:24:59 I was gonna go with you. You were gonna go with me? And then it got shut down somehow. It was at the Angier Airstrip. We were gonna meet the guy. No, no, no, it was in Dunn. It was right outside of Dunn. Had to go all the way to the crack capital
Starting point is 00:25:12 of North Carolina? Of the world, I think. That's what they said, yeah. Because of the 95 corridor. Yeah. So let me get this straight. An ultralight trike is a three-wheeled lawn chair underneath a fixed wing made out of what appears to be
Starting point is 00:25:35 Ziploc bags with a lawn mower motor strapped to the back of the lawn chair. That's basically, you could probably find one on Etsy. That wasn't a very generous description of what I'm picturing. But yeah, pretty much. It's basically a hang glider that has a place to sit underneath it and has a motor.
Starting point is 00:25:56 So it's motorized, that's not a glider. Because I would also, I also, underneath this, I would include those powered parachutes where the dudes have basically a backpack that has a fan and then they're basically in a parachute that's a wing. There's a dude, there's multiple dudes on YouTube. There's one guy on YouTube who,
Starting point is 00:26:15 I wish I could plug him, Mike, because I've enjoyed his videos, who has one of these powered parachutes and he takes a camera up and he'll be like, "'Today, I'm gonna fly, look this up, Jacob, "'because I think, I'm gonna fly to the McDonald's. "'I'm gonna fly to McDonald's from my house.'" He like lives in the Midwest or something,
Starting point is 00:26:39 so he's out in the country. So ultra, what's he gonna search? Just powered parachute, fly to McDonald's, and then he's got a bunch of videos, and he'll just fly to McDonald's and he's doing commentary the whole time. Oh wow. And then he lands at McDonald's, he gets a burger.
Starting point is 00:26:55 It's like a Let's Play of a flight simulator. What's that? Tucker Gott. Yes, yeah, yeah, Tucker Gott? Yeah, G-O-T-T. Yeah, Tucker Gott. With two Ts, G-O-T-T. Yeah, Tucker Gott. With two Ts, G-O-T-T. He's got one of these things.
Starting point is 00:27:08 He's got one. It just seems so. Tucker got a ultralight. It seems so fun. Whenever I bring this. Well, that's not a ultralight. That is, I mean, that's an ultralight. I mean, look at how fun that looks, man.
Starting point is 00:27:19 It's just a dude in shorts. He looks, I mean, there's a shot that's back at him, and it's, I mean, you might think he's on a fan boat in the Everglades until you realize that he's parachuting. And when you come in for. Look at that, frickin', it's a crazy, it blows my mind! When you come in for a landing,
Starting point is 00:27:37 it's like, you can come in for a landing really hard if you don't watch out. But, so you know the ride Soarin', is that at Disneyland? Yeah. Soarin'? California Adventure. California Adventure? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:50 Where you smell the oranges. Yeah, it is my favorite ride at Disneyland because of this, because the idea of flight, of personally controlled, wind in your face flight, is, it is one of my dreams. And I let the dream die, and one of the reasons is because my wife is worried about me dying. Well this is what I was gonna say because
Starting point is 00:28:17 she doesn't want me to die, why does she have to care? You had talked me into basically signing up to go on like a, like just a tandem ride with a guy. Yeah. On a fixed wing ultra light. But are you into this idea? Well, here's the thing.
Starting point is 00:28:37 It's like being a bird. I'm shocked that it's on your list now. I do not believe you would do it. What? I do not believe you would do it. What? I do not believe you would do that parachute, powered parachute thing. It's way too dangerous, dude. You have too much life to live for.
Starting point is 00:28:57 You wouldn't do it. Just think about it for a second. Well, I, but I. Like, let's either make a commitment right now to do it or just realize that you're not gonna do it. But I might do the other one, the one that's just the trike. So you're not gonna do the parachute, that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:29:15 I don't, actually I think it may be safer, ultimately. I think it may be safer. You're already parachuting. We can both. What can go wrong? I know you can get like caught up into the wing and hit the ground in a bundle of fabric. My instincts tell me that it's an easy way to just to end your life by accident, man.
Starting point is 00:29:39 Well, it's on the bucket list and it's on the bucket list as fly an ultralight trike and that could be flying while someone else is in control too. The idea of being in the air exposed to the elements, the fact that it's possible that we live in a time where it is possible to fly like a bird, that is an option for all humans.
Starting point is 00:30:01 It just seems like you have to do it once. So you would do that? You would ride, you would do what we were gonna do all those years ago, it hasn't changed. Oh, I would definitely do it, but my wife, you know, I don't know if I've ever told this story, but my wife was in a small aircraft plane crash. Like a Cessna?
Starting point is 00:30:20 When she was a baby, so she doesn't remember. But her dad was, her grandfather, her dad's dad, was shot at some point, shot in Detroit when she was a baby. And so they needed to get up there very, very quickly and so they took a small plane to Detroit, like immediately, like let's get in the plane and let's go, like I don't know what the hookup was. And then on the way back, they lost power
Starting point is 00:30:55 and ended up basically crash landing, like hit a power line and then like crash landed and nobody was hurt, they were shaken up. And so, the idea around small aircraft and the danger that comes with small aircraft is something that's just in her genes. It's part of her family heritage. And so she doesn't want me to do anything like this.
Starting point is 00:31:20 But that's akin to going on a helicopter tour like we've both done, and I did recently, but I don't know, it's just this seems so more rickety, man. It's like would you go on an unpowered glider like jump off the side of a mountain tandem with someone who's well qualified on a glider? I don't think I would do that. I don't think I would do that,
Starting point is 00:31:44 but I'd do it if it has a motor. I don't think I would do that. I don't think I would do that, but I'd do it if it has a motor. I don't think it's that much different. You're on a slippery slope and it's a long fall. Okay, well let me take you to another idea. But it did inspire something that's on my bucket list, which I have said, which is I want to ride a horse at a gallop. I wanna do no loser Palm Springs situation. I wanna ride a horse at a gallop. I wanna do no loser Palm Springs situation,
Starting point is 00:32:06 I wanna ride a horse at a gallop. That seems like a pretty easy one to get to. Great. I mean like. There's nothing like checking something off your bucket list. I mean that could probably be arranged in the next five minutes.
Starting point is 00:32:20 Like we could be down at the Burbank Equestrian Center and be like this man wants to gallop. And they'll be like, is he dying? No, he's just, he's just, he's just, this has been on his bucket list for a long time. If a bucket list is attainable, why is that a point of criticality for the said bucket list?
Starting point is 00:32:38 No, no, I'm just saying, it's almost like, you know what's on my bucket list? You know, eating a triple Whopper. The kind of thing that can be arranged really easily. Is that on there? No, it's not. Most things that are on my bucket list are things that, there's gotta be some, the logistics are difficult.
Starting point is 00:32:55 What if it's a quintuple Whopper? There should be some food-related thing. Usually you have to, it's difficult to talk him into that. It's difficult, it was difficult to talk him into that quadruple Whopper that we had that one time on the show. I think this is a series. I think Rhett and Link's twisted yet attainable bucket list
Starting point is 00:33:15 is the bucket list we should be coming up with. Why should it have a catchier name? It should have ride a horse at a gallop, eat a quintuple Whopper? Like that's. You know what a good name for that would be? What? Instead of bucket list, starts with an F.
Starting point is 00:33:34 Like that would be like a good web series name, but we wouldn't do that, we don't do that kind of thing. No, it would be. Really easy to attain bucket list items. Yeah, it's just like you're sitting on the couch with nothing to do, somebody mentions something, you're like F it. Let's list items. Yeah, it's just like you're sitting on the couch with nothing to do, somebody mentions something, you're like, F it! Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:33:48 The F it list. Let's do it, because when you F something, it's like, F it, I'll do it right now. Yeah, exactly. I'll ride a horse and a gallop right now. Things that can be arranged on the day and we just do them. That's a great idea. I came up with it. I told you it was a great idea. I came up with it.
Starting point is 00:34:05 I told you it was a great idea. Well thank you. Here's another one, sail to an. Gotta come up with a better name for it though. Sail to an island. I'm gonna group this together with sail French Polynesia. And by the way, because you plugged Tucker Gott's Ultra Parachute Channel,
Starting point is 00:34:25 I fully expect him to fly to us now. Or in- I think that's the dangerous thing. I mean he specifically is gonna invite you to go on a trip to McDonald's to get a quintuple Big Mac. And then you're gonna be turning a guy down. I mean you gotta, before you put these things on your list, you gotta think about it.
Starting point is 00:34:44 Well I'm about to shout somebody else out. Do it. Sail to an island. Now you know, if you listened to that original podcast, that another one of my deeply held convictions is that I have to sail boats at some point. Actually, at one point I looked up the- You're into risky transportation.
Starting point is 00:35:03 My heritage and the McLaughlins and they were like people of the sea, you know? And it's just like, it's in me to be on the water. Now, I've been in a sailboat twice. One time it was at Sharon Harris Lake. You know, the- Nothing like that nuclear cruise. It was a nuclear lake and there was no wind. I took a sailing class on a fake lake in North Carolina
Starting point is 00:35:30 on a day where there was like a one mile per hour northeast breeze. So I didn't learn anything. They taught me some things but there was no sailing that took place. You learned some terminology. And then we rented a sailboat in the Santa Monica Bay, not operated by me, it was like a man who was operating it
Starting point is 00:35:49 and the family went out there. And it was like we paid for like one hour of sailing around the bay. And we brought some cheese and crackers and the kids were like, dad, go get the cheese and crackers. And dad, me, went down below. And like immediately when I got down below, it was like the whole world turned upside down
Starting point is 00:36:10 and I was like, cheese and crackers, I wanna vomit cheese and crackers all over you folks. And I was able to somehow make it back out with the cheese and crackers and I just laid there trying not to vomit the entire time. The rest of the time? If the McLaughlins could only see me now. Now you know when I talk about my ancestors,
Starting point is 00:36:25 I say McLaughlin even though I'm a McLaughlin, we've lost a little bit of the heritage. So I haven't done much by way of getting ready for this, but I have a book. I have a book that is this couple that sailed around the entire world and took these amazing pictures as they went around and they stopped
Starting point is 00:36:45 at all these little islands, islands, I love islands, and the idea of just being able to sail up to an island. There's a book called Sailing Alone Around the World which my wife says this is the epitome of what you're into. She couldn't believe that this is the kind of thing I was into, a book about a dude sailing alone around the world. You bring this into your house,
Starting point is 00:37:04 kinda like thumbing your nose at your family. But I read that whole book, that's like 100 years old and it's just a crazy tale of adventure. But this is like a couple that did it in like the 80s or 90s and they have all these pictures, it's incredible. I'm sure the pictures are better than the experience. And there's these YouTube channels of people who've sold everything and just have boats
Starting point is 00:37:24 and they sail and that's their YouTube channel. There's this, again, I don't know, it's this Australian couple, they're both like really good looking Australians sailing around the world. YouTube channel. YouTube channel. Look that up, Jacob.
Starting point is 00:37:39 I don't know what it is. Australian couple YouTube sailors. And that, again, I don't know what it is, Australian couple YouTube sailors. And that, again, I don't know anybody's name, but that's, they make it look so fun, man. They do, don't they? You know, you wanna sail on an island and make a YouTube series about it? Sail to an island?
Starting point is 00:38:00 What, I'd like to introduce you to a land yacht called the RV. Oh gosh. These people? Yes, what are they called? Sailing La. Vagabond? Vagabond.
Starting point is 00:38:12 Sailing La Vagabond. How recent is the most recent video? They still doing it? What's the date on it? One day ago. One day ago, they're still doing it. That's the thing I love about that. They started a couple years ago
Starting point is 00:38:24 and it's the kind of thing that you think people are just gonna give up on. They're still freaking doing it. They're still doing it. That's the thing I love about that. They started a couple years ago and it's the kind of thing that you think people are just gonna give up on. They're still freaking doing it. They're sailing, man. They're living their life. They're freaking living a bucket list. You gotta admire that. What about the RV?
Starting point is 00:38:36 I think that the sailing thing, that's quite, I think your bucket list needs to involve things that don't take more than a day. Well, that's the effort list, man. No, I'm just saying, you're not gonna wanna sail forever around the world, I mean you're not. You want to sail a little bit and you wanna have some pictures.
Starting point is 00:38:53 That's what a bucket list is, it's a list and you do it and you check it off. I'm not saying give my. How long are you gonna be there? It doesn't say. Sail to an island. Sail to an island or sail French Polynesia. Okay.
Starting point is 00:39:02 You just do it and then you're like, I did it, man. I just wanted to make sure you weren't gonna sail around everywhere. Look at these, oh, and you know what? They had a drone. They had a company give them that catamaran, that big sailboat, because they went out and they did their stuff and then somebody said,
Starting point is 00:39:16 hey, we're gonna give you an awesome boat. You gotta be really good looking, though. Now you're gonna buy that, you wanna buy that boat. So would you do this with me? Would you sail to an island? For five to six days, yes. We're not gonna get to any cool islands in five to six days.
Starting point is 00:39:35 I think we gotta commit two months of our lives to this. I wanna sail to an island where there's nobody there. We sail to the island, we document the whole thing, we live off of the land. Are our wives there? Because you know they're not there. No, this is like after the kids have left, they're in college and the wives.
Starting point is 00:39:56 The kids aren't the wives. No, no, yeah, but see, if we leave now, what we have to do is when the kids are in college. That would be irresponsible. And then the wives, they've got their own thing, they're doing their own thing, they're sailing around the world, whatever it is. You're giving them a boat and we've got a boat?
Starting point is 00:40:12 Yeah, they have a boat. They'll love that. And at some point, they're gonna get tired of us and they're not gonna want us to be around. Which is kind of my point with us on the sailboat. Really? Okay, well we take a mediator. We would need. We take Morgan. We've already established who we're gonna take. Right. Okay, well we take a mediator. We would need. We take Morgan, we've already established who we're gonna take.
Starting point is 00:40:27 Right. Okay, we'll take Morgan. Oh gosh. All right, I got more specifics. Keep going. This one you're really going to be into. Surf, Chicama, Peru. I don't know if it's Chicama, Hicama,
Starting point is 00:40:41 I don't know how you say it, it's C-H-I-C-A-M-A, Peru. It's the longest wave in the world. I showed you a YouTube video of this. Hicama. Hicama? That probably might be right. It is the longest wave in the world, it's this super mellow wave that a couple of dads
Starting point is 00:40:59 on paddle boards could kill, and you go down there and there's nothing, there's nothing down there, it's totally remote and then there's again YouTube videos of these dudes surfing this wave, wave. They're just like lounging. I mean you can like surf the wave. Ikema. Ikema?
Starting point is 00:41:18 Yeah. Okay, I don't know how it got changed to CH in my Evernote. But it looks absolutely insane. There's like drone footage of this, like trucking along like a little train beside. Bring some of that up, Jacob. A person going on a wave. Longest wave in the world, Peru.
Starting point is 00:41:41 And it's just, I saw that and I was like, put it on the bucket list, man. Do it, do it now, put it on the bucket list. This is you talking to you or do you have a bucket list This is the inner thoughts of Rhett McLaughlin. And I mean, look at this, Link. That's a big looking thing. Well, when I saw it, it was small.
Starting point is 00:42:01 There's a video of dudes just, you know how like dudes, in fact, we should put this on the list. To the bucket list right now? Surf, you know what we need to do? Surf behind a oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico. Have you seen these videos? They create a wave that then you can surf. Surf oil tanker.
Starting point is 00:42:28 Gulf of Mexico. Now that you only have one chance at. The longest wave in Peru, I bet if you bail, there's another one, there's another set and you can pick up where you left off and keep surfing. There's always another tanker. But then you're waiting for the tanker and you're behind one tanker, you're in front of the,
Starting point is 00:42:47 I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer. Yeah, you're supposed to be. I'm your conscience. No, no, what you should be is you should be an enabler and a supporter. When somebody's got, is just chock full of ideas. You have to win me over, you know this. If you can address the safety,
Starting point is 00:43:03 economical, familial concerns. I'm the oneial concerns, then I'll get in there. I'm the one who saw the magazine cover of the people on the SUPs and then said, we gotta get that, and then we got it. So the longest is Chickama. The other one is the largest. Oh, so Chickama, not Hickama. Hickama's too big, we're dads.
Starting point is 00:43:24 Too big. I don't wanna die. We're going to Chickama. Hickama's too big, we're dads. Too big. I don't wanna die. We're going to Chicama. You go to Chicama and you just keep surfing and surfing and surfing or we just go to Texas, which is closer, get an oil tanker. But I'm the one who found the thing. Commandeer an oil tanker.
Starting point is 00:43:34 And you absolutely love it. And you're the one who's like, in fact, we should do it this week. It's time to go back, Jack. We gotta go back to our spot. But I'll put on my bucket list, commandeer and pilot an oil tanker. Like that's how I'm gonna be an enabler.
Starting point is 00:43:53 I wanna steer an oil tanker. I don't think that's the fun part though. I wonder what it would feel like, you know, you're turning and nothing's happening. Like, you know, it's like, you know what they say. It's like turning around a battleship. It's not easy. Right, it's difficult to make a decision
Starting point is 00:44:11 when all the momentum is going in one direction. It's like my nana trying to do a three point turn. Have you seen her do that? It's like a 18 point turn. Yeah. Right, she's got nowhere to be at any particular time. Picture this though, Gulf of Mexico, 78 degrees, I'm in a blue bathing suit, you're in a green bathing suit.
Starting point is 00:44:32 Can I, I like the blue. You got a blue bathing suit, I got a green bathing suit. We've got two surfboards. We're paddling along, oh, here comes the oil tanker. You catch the wave, I catch the wave, we look at each other, make eye contact. Picture this moment for one second. You're in a blue bathing suit.
Starting point is 00:44:53 I'm in a green bathing suit. You got me. I'm on a red paddle board. You're on, what color is your board? Cream. Cream, off-white board. You look at me, now I'm on a red board, I got green shorts on, you're like, Merry Christmas to us,
Starting point is 00:45:08 because it doesn't even have to be Christmas, it could be July. I'm just in a Christmas theme color, and you're like, this is the coolest thing we've ever done. And I'm like, Merry Christmas to us, you're like, what? I'm like, Merry Christmas to us, you're like, what? I can't hear you over the oil tanker! I'm like, Mary, we talked about this!
Starting point is 00:45:30 Christmas to, ah! And then I fall off, and you lean forward, and you fall off. No, you're like, you gotta wait for the next tanker! Think about us making eye contact. It'd be like that time I was kissing Amber and you were kissing Anna Anna and we made eye contact and we were like, this is the best thing that can happen. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:45:50 This is the best, was that not the best thing we had ever experienced? For me it was, not looking at you while kissing a woman, I'm just saying that kissing. You couldn't have made it more weird. Kissing Amber in the way that I was kissing her at Betsy's house, was that? Betsy, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Betsy's house, Betsy P. Kissing her was the peak of my existence up to that point, right? I mean, I was like, this is what life is about. We were both having peak moments and we were peeking at each other. And then we looked at each other and I was like, there's my boy, he's doing it too.
Starting point is 00:46:24 We don't experience that enough anymore. I want more Amber and Anna moments in our lives. And that's the freaking Gulf of Mexico, eye contact. Oh, I'm with you, I'll do it. I mean, I'm just saying like the dolphin moment from a few months back while surfing, that was a good moment. But you can't engineer that.
Starting point is 00:46:46 That was serendipitous. That makes it even better. And it was beautiful. But you weren't right next to me when it happened. The dolphin was. I'm talking, we can engineer these situations where we can both be on ultralight trikes and then we could look at each other, make eye contact, and we need a symbol or an extra big thumbs up or something.
Starting point is 00:47:05 It needs something, it's like ting! In fact, that's part of the series. When achievement is unlocked, there's like a symbol and a sound that we put in in post when we unlock something. I'd watch that. I don't think, thumbs up, I think we're gonna feel a little self-conscious at the moment. Yeah, well, I was just throwing that out there. Like giving each other a, thumbs up, I think we're gonna feel a little self-conscious at the moment. Yeah, well, I was just throwing that out there.
Starting point is 00:47:28 Like giving each other a tandem thumbs up, I just think, I think we're not gonna feel that at the time and I think that's gonna ruin it. Maybe we carry a bucket. Oh. Maybe we get bucket tattoos. And we show them. And you show them to each other.
Starting point is 00:47:41 Yeah, at that moment. And then wink. Oh, what's that? That's a zit, man. You gotta put a bucket tattoo over that thing. I'm gonna zit on my deltoid. Here's another one you'll be really into. SUP next to icebergs.
Starting point is 00:47:54 Oh! Man, they just keep coming, don't they? Talk about, it sounds cold. Yeah, you wear. Again, I'm being negative. You wear a very thick dry suit. You gotta sell me, man. I would do this.
Starting point is 00:48:06 All you have to do is Google and then you'll be like, yep, gotta do that. That looks incredible. I'll move out of water sports. Stay at a castle. Stay at a castle. Spend the night at a castle. Are they updated inside?
Starting point is 00:48:27 You mean you want like HVAC? Definitely, I mean I'm thinking more plumbing. When I went to that, you know when we were in Amsterdam a little over a year ago, I went to that castle, Muir Castle I think it was, and it was cool. You could walk around on the second floor and it wasn't a lot to it up there. It was just a fortress, you know,
Starting point is 00:48:48 to send people, attacking people away. But when you would take a crap, it would run down a hole into the moat on the outside of the castle. Right. And that would create a lot of disease. And it would be a deterrent for people trying to emote into the castle but I have to assume
Starting point is 00:49:14 that they've been retrofitted inside. Or maybe a one night camping situation, that would be pretty cool too. I'll do that. Okay. I don't feel like, I wouldn't die. You know, it's different than the ultralight thing. Yeah, here's my thing.
Starting point is 00:49:29 I could die on the horse though. When we went to Amsterdam, and you went to the two castles. Yeah. I went to. We split up, we were with our wives. I went to the one castle. It was more romantic.
Starting point is 00:49:44 When you talk about the motor, you talking about the castle that I went to that I took the tour of, or are you talking about the bigger one that's more updated? The older one that didn't have that much to it. Maybe that wasn't weird. That's the one that I took a picture of.
Starting point is 00:49:56 Shout out to RedMC on Instagram, I put a photo there, sorry I had to say that. It had a moat. Yeah, and again, I see these things in pictures and I'm like, we gotta go there. So I saw these things in pictures and I'm like, we gotta go there. So I saw that in a picture and I was like, we gotta go there. And we went and we took the tour or whatever.
Starting point is 00:50:10 But there was, what I thought, and I may have added that to the list at this time, the thing that frustrates me about touring places, like touring the Biltmore house, is I just feel like I'm part of a tour. You know what I'm saying? So like, and I've taken the- You wanna sleep over.
Starting point is 00:50:33 The Biltmore tour twice, one time at Christmas. Highly recommend it. I mean it's amazing, I love- But taking a tour of something is not a bucket list thing. Because you're walking with all these randos and you've got the headphones on and some dude recorded it a long time ago.
Starting point is 00:50:51 I feel like cattle. Yeah, yeah, I'm being herded through this thing and it's like there's ropes and there's doors you can't go through. It's like no, no, no, no, no, no, this is not what I want. What I want is I want full access. I want to be here for the night. I wanna be able to walk around naked if I please.
Starting point is 00:51:08 Play cards in the smoking room. I wanna be able to experience this castle as if I am the king for a night. And you can do that at the caverns. I think that's on my bucket list. You've already been to the caverns. But you can stay the night down in there. I'll put it on right now, put it on there.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Stay in hole overnight. What's the official name? Grand Canyon Caverns. I should probably clarify that, Grand. Stay in a hole overnight. That will be the last thing on your bucket list that you will be completing forever. Overnight.
Starting point is 00:51:50 He's typing. Okay. There's more on your bucket list. Let's make sure we don't leave anything out. Go to those huts on the water in Bora Bora. Well, we're getting close to that. We're gonna get close to that. We can't talk about exactly what,
Starting point is 00:52:12 because we don't know exactly what the plans are at this point. But that one's gonna, we're working on something like that. But it's not that specifically. No, it's not. It's not that. So that's still gonna be on the bucket list. But we could, we could go there. We should go there at some point.
Starting point is 00:52:33 Again. We decided not to go there. You could see French Polynesia. Okay, yeah. You know, which Bora Bora is like South Pacific, like right in the middle of, right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. And I've cheated, I've looked at the rest of the things on your list and they all seem to be like outdoorsy stuff
Starting point is 00:52:53 which is, it's interesting that your bucket list kinda gravitates towards like more of a retirement scenario which is again another argument for the other TBD. Well I think almost all of them are very travel oriented like visit. To be more immediate. Palau, Palau? P-A-L-A-U.
Starting point is 00:53:16 There are these amazing rock islands. What are we gonna do there? We're gonna kayak. Kayak the rock islands. We should kayak off Catalina. Yeah, yes. We've talked about that for. There's freaking caves.
Starting point is 00:53:32 Well not Catalina but if you go up to the Channel Islands. The other islands. The north, the uninhabited. There's again, islands which is, I've talked about before my fascination with them but there are these islands off the coast of California. Like if you, there's Catalina which has like a community and you can go there and I still haven't been there.
Starting point is 00:53:53 We lived here for seven years, still haven't been. You can just take a ferry from Long Beach and be there in a couple hours. And then there are the rest of the Channel Islands that are uninhabited but there's like outposts and you can go camping and there's caves. Yeah, it's like when you go north to like Santa Barbara, you can see them out there as you're going up.
Starting point is 00:54:13 We gotta get better at organizing these things and not just talking about them but doing them. Well, the kids can't come. We can't get all the, we can get the kids in the kayak but I wanted to do a stand-up paddle board. I really like that better than a kayak. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can do the stand up paddle board as well out there.
Starting point is 00:54:31 Was that all of your list? Well I also added while we were talking because this is something that's just been on my mental bucket list, silent retreat. Silent retreat. Yeah. I used to think people were nuts when they talked about this.
Starting point is 00:54:47 I remember we heard that Rivers Cuomo, incidentally we have not, I saw a few of you were interacting on Twitter and talking about the beef that we have with Weezer. Oh. Not a lot of people interested in that apparently. But. I can't remember, did we ask for them
Starting point is 00:55:04 to be interested specifically? No, sometimes you can just gauge interest on things. Right, it didn't get a lot of. Passively. Twitter conversational traction. But anyway, Rivers Cuomo, we were told at some point, does like a, oh, in fact, I think it was, when we were trying to do that original thing,
Starting point is 00:55:22 they were like, wait, Rivers is going on his month long silent retreat. Which, you know, and again, this is probably being in LA for seven years. Initially I was like, what, who, why? That's the most pretentious thing I've ever heard of. Going off to your freaking silent retreat, loser. Now I'm like, when am I gonna go on my month long silent retreat?
Starting point is 00:55:48 Month long? Well, I don't wanna start with a month. And I don't wanna do a month until, you know, again, this is one of those things that as a father, I don't wanna go away for a month. But I do wanna do a week long one. And I wanna do a week long one not into the not too distant future because I've heard from anyone who's done these,
Starting point is 00:56:10 they're like, you can't just do a weekend. It won't even be worth it. You'll get to the point where you're about to enjoy yourself, you're about to break through to the other side of whatever happens in silence and then you have to come back home. So go for a week. Now there's no way I'm invited to this. No, but listen, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:56:27 We could both go and make a lot of eye contact. We could have a lot of Amber and Anna moments. It's like we're silent, we see each other in the cafeteria. We could show our tattoo to each other. We gotta get this bucket tattoo. The thing that, the reason why I wanted, I would wanna do it together, I'd wanna go with my wife, maybe both.
Starting point is 00:56:49 I wouldn't wanna go totally by myself because I think one of my favorite things about our friendship is that we go through things together and then we can analyze it into the ground afterward. I think that's probably, that type of conversation that we have always had I think is maybe the key to our, the mind meld that I think we experience creatively or I mean our ability to work well together
Starting point is 00:57:20 and to be friends for as long as we have, I'm developing this theory. Theory. I do think that you know, you know, it's like if you really know somebody, you're like, I can finish that person's sandwiches. I know what they're thinking right now. Well for us, it's not a sixth sense,
Starting point is 00:57:41 it's not something magical. We've spent hours and hours, weeks of our lives when you add it all up, just rehashing shared experiences and then like coming to conclusions about the experience, the people, the things. Isn't that true? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:02 That's the great thing about a friendship or a partnership or whatever it is. So like for a silent retreat, I wouldn't want to go without somebody being there and it's like whenever I came out, it'd be like now, was I crazy or was that crazy? Or you know what I'm saying? I definitely agree.
Starting point is 00:58:20 I just wanna have someone who can, because when you come back and tell me about your silent retreat, I'm gonna be like, man, I'll take your word for it, but it's just like, and I'll get a kick out of it, but I, that's my bucket list, man. Talking about the shared silent retreat afterward, like having this tension build for seven days
Starting point is 00:58:42 when you're making eye contact and you're looking, you're doing thumbs up and you're looking at tattoos of each other but you can't speak and then you're like, man, I can't wait till we can talk about this. Like I don't know what happens at a silent retreat, maybe nothing, there's nothing to talk about except in your own mind but maybe I'm describing a cult because of that wild, wild thing you got me watching.
Starting point is 00:59:05 Well here's what, I totally agree with the general sentiment. My bucket list is just to be a friend. Of like, you wanna have a shared experience and I believe that just like a dream, it's really the recall of the dream that makes the dream worth having. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:59:26 I think that you're going to relive a memory and you're gonna, just science shows that as you revisit something that happened that you basically write over it and change it a little bit every time. But it's the act of remembering, it's the act of remembering, it's the act of remembering that basically makes the whole event worth living in the first place, right?
Starting point is 00:59:53 Okay. But, and so, and having somebody to share it with in the way that we talk about, a lot of, you know, Stevie says, nobody remembers their childhood like you guys do. And I'm like, well, I don't know if that's true or not, but I think one of the reasons that we do have certain details is the fact that we talked about them
Starting point is 01:00:16 so many times. You've got somebody to talk about this stuff with. Remember the time? And then you're like, yeah, and this, and you fill in the details. Yeah. And so you kind of develop this picture of your past. So that applies, but specifically with a silent retreat,
Starting point is 01:00:30 I think at least for the people that I've talked to, there is something, there's like a breakthrough that can happen in that time and it's more about solitude and like process and like looking inward and then there's like these levels of consciousness that you can kind of explore. It's a deeper thing. So while you'd wanna talk about it,
Starting point is 01:00:55 I think it would be distracting to be in the middle of wanting to get to some point and then it's like we're tapping each other on the shoulder and showing the bucket tattoo and making eye contact. So I think that it probably works for most everything except the silent retreat, because the silent retreat's about, it's about you, it's about you as an individual.
Starting point is 01:01:14 It's about getting to some deeper layer of the onion of yourself that we just haven't gotten to yet. You know what I'm saying? Okay fine, I'm not invited, I get it. No, I'm just saying we should go to different silent retreats or go to a different time because you're not gonna wanna be like, you know, this isn't a kissing Amber and Anna situation.
Starting point is 01:01:39 That's, for me, that's- That involved a lot more noise. That's icebergs and sailing and holes in the ground. That's making out with Amber and Anna. We got plenty. I do wanna add the riding a mule down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I didn't write that down from a couple weeks back,
Starting point is 01:02:03 but can you write that down on your list? Yeah, I am. And I've realized the only things that I've contributed to the list are things involving a saddle. So now I'm wondering, is there something else involving a saddle I could put on my bucket list? It helps me to narrow it down.
Starting point is 01:02:16 That's why all my kids, their names start with L. They wouldn't be named at all if I was opening the whole alphabet. Did you, have you ever been on one of those bulls at a bar, fake bulls? Ooh, that's tough. So there's a saddle. That's not passing my pain test.
Starting point is 01:02:36 How else do you use a saddle? You ever eat at the Texas Steakhouse and Saloon? Yeah, had a good burger there once. They probably got a saddle on the wall. When I worked at IBM. I've done it. Been there, done that. Okay.
Starting point is 01:02:48 I'll keep thinking about it. Is there anything else you want to add to your bucket list before we put the lid on it? No, I think I'm good right now. Okay, you're a biscueteer. I want to invite you to help us toy with this idea of the, let's come up with a better, more broadly approachable title to the F bucket list, which is something that is. How about the suck it list?
Starting point is 01:03:16 It's like, no, that's like an insult. What did I say, it was like kind of crazy yet perfectly reasonably attainable idea that can be something we put on a list so that we can start going through these things. So my long term bucket list is to check off 10 to 20 items from my short term reasonably achievable yet totally odd that you would write that down bucket list.
Starting point is 01:03:47 What's a small bucket? What's another name for a small bucket? Pale? Pale? No. Pale list, no. That just seems like a list of pale people. Use hashtag Ear Biscuits.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Come up with a good name. Yeah, or you can suggest the types of things. I mean, you can't put things on our list, but you can suggest things. Right now we have a quintuple whopper, and what was the other one? Riding a horse at Gallop. Yes, why did I forget that?
Starting point is 01:04:18 Yeah, and I think that that's probably, I think the quintuple whopper probably doesn't qualify. Nope, we need some more food on it. Okay. We're too outdoors oriented. Probably. I think the quintuple Whopper probably doesn't qualify. We need some more food on it. Okay. We're too outdoors oriented. It doesn't really reflect the brand, honestly. Sitting here indoors in dim lighting
Starting point is 01:04:36 and you're listening to us. Thanks for doing that. You know what, we're gonna speak at you again next week. Chris Clay, thank you for asking the bucket list question. I hope you weren't disappointed that I don't even have one. Yeah, and next week, Link, I'm gonna have a saddle for you to sit in. Everywhere.
Starting point is 01:04:51 No, just here. Oh. Just a saddle. I can't take it everywhere? I can't go around on like a hobby horse? I want you to be able to sit in a saddle when you do Ear Biscuits because I feel like I owe it to you. Great.

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