Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 146: Resolving Your Conflicts (Taking Calls) | Ear Biscuits Ep. 146

Episode Date: June 4, 2018

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This, this, this, this is Mythical. Whoa, whoa, whoa, welcome to Ear Biscuits. I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we are taking your calls. We're doing that again? Yes, we are.

It's gonna be, well, we're doing it again. We don't know how often we're gonna do it, but we're doing it again. We don't know how often we're gonna do it, but we are doing it again. We had a good time doing it, and many of you said that you wanted to hear it again. And so we will be settling disputes. Again, we asked people to- Helping some mythical beasts with some conflict.

Who are having some kind of conflict with a friend or a spouse or just somebody in their life. Lives. Lives. You know what, they're doing the smart thing. They're doing the right thing. They're coming to us to solve something that is potentially tearing at the foundations of their relationship.

And they're coming to two dudes who just happen to have an internet show. Well look at us, but hey, no, don't sell us short. We've freaking been friends for a long time. We have. And that is not without our fair share of conflict. Right, we know how to work through conflict. We've each remained in wedlock with a person.

With a wife. For 18 years. 17 years, 18 years, yeah. May 27th was my anniversary. That's 56 years together. Combined, yeah, it's like. I'm just trying to make it sound like more than it actually is.

So it's like 56 plus the length of our friendship. Let's add all those years together. That's a lot. How many years have we known each other? Okay, well, I mean. 56 plus 30. 17 and 18 together is 35. And then we've known each other since we were six.

And now we're both 40. That's 69 years. So that is 34 plus 35, 69 years. You're right. I said that earlier. Yeah. Yeah, so with a combined conflict resolution experience of 69 years, we're taking your calls today. Really wish it had been a different number, but you know, sometimes just the way the math.

The math worked out. The math works out. You know, it's a universal language. Before we get into your calls, I would like to link, update you and you Mythical Beasts listening on a new development in my life. I mean, I'm personally excited about it. I got new golf clubs.

I mean, last week, when we talked about aging, I did mention something about you getting into golf, but listen. Getting into golf, again, and you did clarify earlier, you said in the last episode, getting back into golf. Because this is not, again, I'm always accused of having phases, but I insist that they are layers because I grew up gonna golf, this is not, again, I'm always accused of having phases, but I insist that they are layers

because I grew up playing golf, I was on the golf team at Harnett Central High School in Anger, North Carolina. Oh snap. Is there a bench? You just dropped the words from your tea bag into, what does it say, what does your tea say to you today? What, is there a fortune on it?

Yeah, there's like an inspirational statement. Huh, I didn't know that. Speak to make yourself happy. Uh-oh. Don't speak to impress others. Yes. That's the last thing that this man needed to hear. At the top of a podcast?

Woo wee. Okay. Sorry guys, but this was just for me. Yeah, so what, the impetus for, so I've had golf clubs for, I got golf clubs that were already a little bit old when I was in college, so I'm guessing that they are 25 years old,

and I don't play very often. It takes a lot of time, I don't play with my kids, you don't play, my wife doesn't play, so I don't have a lot of incentive to play golf because it is quite a time commitment. And also in Los Angeles, if you wanna go play on the weekend, which is the time that I have, you are dealing with a bunch of numb nuts out there

holding you up and it's just gonna take you five hours to play. So. Unless you have new clubs, I mean, what? Add to that the fact that my back has been significantly compromised in recent years with my disc issues but I'm back on top of my back. You've had lots of reasons to not play golf

but you've dug down to that layer and then when you got there, it seems to me you discovered that there's lots of new developments. So much has changed. That justify purchases. But the reason I'm back. Is to buy things. Well yes, is because my dad is coming into town

and he loves to play golf, he plays all the time, and I was like, I wanna play with him out here in Los Angeles, and also, if I don't have time to go and actually go to the course and play a full round, going and just knocking some balls around at the range, as they say, knock some steam off. No one has said that. What is the, blow some steam off.

Blow off some steam, man. By knocking some balls around. I can do that and it's not such a big time commitment and I also think that maybe it's something I can do when I'm with boys. Anyway, all that to say that I go into the golf shop, I went to this place that has like a swing fit machine, this is the way it works now, I think it's worked that way for several years now at least,

maybe a decade or more, where you go into a simulator and there's a video screen and- Are you talking about EA Sports Tiger Woods Golf on Xbox? Well they didn't put electrodes all over my body and then model me for a video game, if that's what you're asking. They just- No, I'm asking, did you play a video game?

No, they give you a golf club and a real golf ball and a mat and you literally go into like, it was in a strip mall, you hit a real ball, a real golf ball into a net, but there are machines around you that are measuring everything and then projecting what the ball flight would be if you were out on a golf course

and measuring all this stuff about the launch angle and the swing speed and the number of rotate spins and everything, you know, basically a full analysis of your golf swing to help you understand. They use it in instructional ways, but they also use it when they're trying to fit you with a new set of golf clubs. I frickin' felt like RoboCop if RoboCop was a golfer,

which by the way, that would be a good movie. RoboGolfer. Yeah, what a missed opportunity back when RoboCop and Caddyshack were both popular. Born at the wrong time, as I always say. Drop it. What do they, when you drop in the ball, what is that called?

When you get a drop. You get a drop. You get a drop. Yeah, drop it. Drop it. Because that's what RoboCop says. That's what he says. Drop it.

Remember that time that we went to see our Hollywood agent and we went into the, it was a high rise building in Beverly Hills and in the bottom, there's big glass doors and you walk in there and there's a fitness center down building in Beverly Hills. And in the bottom, there's big glass doors and you walk in there and there's a fitness center down there in the lobby. And RoboCop was going in the fitness center. Yeah, turns out he's just a regular man.

He's an actor. Yeah. The actor who played RoboCop. Right. And I leaned over to you and I was like, drop it. No. No, I leaned over and I said, that's RoboCop. Yeah, I was there, I remember. It was a moment for me.

Anyway. Those people aren't our agents anymore. I go through. Different agents. I go through the process, man. I'm like, I'm hitting real balls on a fake golf course. The future is here. It's 2018. In order to sell you fully customized golf clubs. Yeah, I mean, basically, I was like,

I haven't spent any money on golf in two and a half decades. You're about to make up for it. I'm going for it all the way, from the top to the bottom of the bag. So I got a driver, a three wood. I went with a hybrid for the three and the four iron. I didn't ask. And then I went from five to the pitching wedge

and then I got myself a sand wedge, which I've never actually had a sand wedge. You never had a sand wedge? No, I had one at one point and then I was just like, I'm just gonna do the pitching wedge for everything. It's kind of a hack and I got me a ping putter. I got a new putter. Not a sponsor?

Not a sponsor. And then I also got- I'd like a sand wedge that looked like a sandwich. You know, like- Sandwich? Down at the end of the pole. It's got a little sandwich. They call it a shaft. The shaft.

That's what they call it. At the tip of the shaft, there's a sandwich. The end of the shaft is probably better. There's a sandwich. That probably wouldn they call it. At the tip of the shaft, there's a sandwich. The end of the shaft is probably better. There's a sandwich. Yeah, that probably wouldn't be effective. Well, it's just painted on, brother. I got myself a Wolfpack bag, an NC State red and black, because you don't want red and white are the official

colors, but you don't want a white bag because you'll get it dirty. So you're embracing losing with whoever you play with. People are going to think that I'm like, hey, you play college golf? Until they see me swing. They are, I mean, you are, did you think about that because you are gonna get

a lot of that, a lot of that, oh, did you play college golf? Yeah. Is it your bag? I play golf in college. Yeah, I played golf in college a few times. Not for the college team, that's not lying. Yeah, I played golf in college. Hey, this guy played golf in college, yeah I played golf in college a few times, not for the college team, that's not lying. Yeah I played golf in college, hey this guy played golf in college. College golf and golf in college are two different things.

You ask me did I play golf in college, I will just say yes and let you believe whatever you wanna believe. Well I wouldn't ask you that, I'm not gonna be there. But I didn't stop with the clubs. You may notice that, again, not a sponsor, but I am wearing, I've made the turn. I've got an Apple Watch, yeah, I'm one of those guys.

You can hate me or love me, I don't know. I just got the thing. What, now I understand. I mean, I want you to have your fun, man, and I want, you don't need to justify any, how you spend your money to me. Well, I'm not justifying it. And I understand that if one is to play golf,

one should have golf clubs. Yep, yep, yep. And I'm not gonna nitpick, like, if you're gonna get bottom, top, or middle of the line golf clubs, but you've- Top of the line. But, hold on, you got an Apple Watch because you're playing golf?

Well, there are a lot of factors conspiring over the past couple years for me to get an Apple Watch. I love the idea of having a smart watch. I was always a little bit afraid of what it might say about me. I feel like if you don't have a watch, nobody judges you at all for anything but if you do have an Apple Watch, people judge you. It clearly says that you played golf in college.

Exactly. I mean it's obvious. Yeah, but having a smartwatch says something about you that may be negative in some people's minds but. What? I. Let's just. But, um. What? I. Let's just come out with it. What does it say?

I mean, I don't have anything in mind. It's just. He's got money to burn. He's techy. Money to burn? No, it's just. He's techy but in a. A little geeky, a little too techy.

In like a looking down your nose, like an elitist. He's a tech elitist with too much money on his hands. Well, I didn't say that, I'm just. I mean, you don't have to be rich to have an Apple Watch. But I just think it says something about like, maybe you're a geek, maybe you know more, maybe this guy can fix my computer. No, I can't fix it.

Oh, that. You know what I'm saying? Don't make any assumptions about me. Here's why I got it. I've wanted one for a while, wanted a smartwatch. I liked the idea of having the ability to communicate with something like Dick Tracy. And I also like the fitness features

because I am a man that likes to work out. I like to measure things like my heart rate and how many times I stand up and all that stuff. And your iPhone can do some of that but not. All the data tracking we've talked about on previous episodes. Yeah.

A lot of that's kind of. It's one step towards being a transhuman. You know, you gotta have a smartwatch somewhere along the line. Let me say two things. First of all, I don't love the way it looks. I mean, I've never been this close to someone with an Apple Watch that I could just say

exactly what I thought. I can get a different band. And now that it's here and you're wearing it. I can get a different band if you want me to. I pretty much, I don't like the way it looks. Well, I didn't get it because of a fashion statement. What don't you like about it though? I don't, it's, it looks bland.

I can make this, I can put anything on the screen though. It's all black and it's a little too, it's so sleek it looks like a stock watch that then you would, that got rejected from the factory processes before the cool stuff was done to it. Well that can be changed, all that can be changed. If I could figure out how to do it, I would change it.

Like if it, I guess I'm thinking like a tag hewer. If it looked like one of those freaking watches in like a magazine ad. Well, first of all, I can change the face to make it look like a watch. It'll still be square. I'm talking about the form factor, brother. The band can be leather.

I can get this to be brown leather, but then when you sweat into it, I had a long conversation with Ross. If you look like a diver, like a diver's watch or like a survivalist watch, like something a little more rugged. Well I had a conversation with Ross at the Apple store and he talked me back into just start small.

Start in this, you don't wanna draw too much attention. If I have some fancy watch, now everybody's looking at it and then noticing it's an Apple Watch and then I'm getting extra judgment. At this point, it's just like, oh, Apple Watch, geek, freak, whatever you wanna think. Yeah, it's over, it's not a trend anymore. But your real question is why did golf,

going to play golf lead to me getting Apple Watch? Well, because it was the- How on earth are you justifying this purchase? Yes. So I was like, okay, I know that there's a lot of technology now with the GPS and like you can use your phone while you're playing to know exactly where you're at on the course because all these golf courses

are loaded into these golf apps and so now you can get to a place and be like, I am exactly 167 yards from the front of the green and the pin is in the back and these are the wind conditions. Like golf apps have all this stuff on them. And then I'm reading about these golf apps getting ready to play with my dad. Okay.

And then it's like, oh, if you have the Apple Watch, you don't have to take your phone out. You can track all your shots and do all your data entry. Look at that, the weather. Just see that? I'm tapping it and I know that it's 65 degrees. You don't have that, just so you know. I didn't care to know that.

It's 65 degrees outside right now. It's warmer in here. I can't tell you how warm it is in here, I don't have that technology. Well if you keep this up, I'm gonna go out there and experience it. And also, I have the ability to, there's an app that tracks the swing.

Like because it's got an accelerometer on my hand, I can track my swing and measure the swing plane and the swing speed. That's a little more compelling than, I don't wanna take my phone out of my pocket while I'm golfing because it's such a difficult sport. What's more annoying, having a guy fumble for his phone in between every shot when you're trying to play with him

and get back in the cart and stuff, or just having a guy indisc for his phone in between every shot when you're trying to play with him and get back in the cart and stuff, or just having a guy indiscriminately or discreetly look down and just sort of like, boop, boop, boop. I'll tell you what's annoying. That's what is Apple Watch. You asked what's annoying? We're sitting in our office

and we're having an intense creative conversation or we're in a meeting with some other people and every time I look over at you, you're looking at your phone, Dick Tracy. You mean watch. Oh yeah. It's a watch. I mean it technically is a phone,

I can't have a conversation with my wife on it. You're looking at your watch and it's freaking annoying and it feels insulting because it feels to me like you're looking at the time. I know you're probably looking at Slack or an email or how cold it is outside. I'm also in the honeymoon phase with my watch. You're just looking at it.

I'm looking at it a lot. You're not looking at what's on the screen, you're just looking at the watch. No, I'm measuring things. But it's the thing that nobody does anymore when it's like, it's funny how when you wanna get out of a conversation or any situation, you might find yourself looking at your watch in order to like signify, I'd like wanna get out of a conversation or any situation, you might find yourself looking

at your watch in order to like signify, I'd like to check out of this predicament. Yeah, it's 2018, those days are over though. But I still interpret your body language that way and it's insulting and annoying. You're gonna have to get used to it. Because my resting heart rate right now is. When I turn and look at you, I want you looking at me

and engaged in whatever we're doing. 73 beats per minute, however. I'm gonna start looking down at my wrist. That's because I'm a little bit elevated, I'm passionate about this, but my resting heart rate on average today was 59 beats per minute. Just, that's just me in my life. My walking average today when I was walking, it was 69.

69 again, we can't get away from that number. And the. This morning when I was on the elliptical. No again, we can't get away from that number. And the- This morning when I was on the elliptical- Okay, no one asked for this. It was about 135 beats per minute, and then in my recovery it was between 131 and 101. I will say that if you do decide to get like a more of a rugged diver-esque version-

I'll ask for that. I'll take that one. No, no, I'm gonna just take the band. I gotta keep the main part, man. The watch part? Yeah. I got the cheap one too, I got the that one. No, no, I'm gonna just take the band. I gotta keep the main part, man. The watch part? Yeah, I got the cheap one too, I got the aluminum one. I didn't even go stainless steel. I mean, again, I'm not trying to show off to anybody.

If you're done with it, I'm just saying I'd use it. And last but not least, I got a dry fit polo shirt to play golf in. You oughta see me in that thing. Where can we see that, Rhett? Just go all the way. Well, I mean, I will be taking a picture of myself and posting it on my Instagram.

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And now on with the biscuit. Let's take our first call. Let's resolve a conflict. Yeah. Hello? Hello, who are you and where are you? Oh, this is John. And Amanda.

Hello. And we're from Ellisville, which is a suburb of St. Louis. St. Louis, John and Amanda. St. Louis, well welcome to Ear Biscuits, guys. Thanks for calling in. Thank you. How can we help you? Thanks.

So, a conflict that my wife and I have, she's always complaining that I have too many shirts, a combination of polos and T-shirts. And she's always wanting me to either get rid of some of my shirts or uh you know not have as many shirts or that every time i get a new shirt she's like oh another shirt so yeah how many shirts are we talking about so in preparation i counted. Yeah, good. So I have 29 t-shirts and 20 polos. 49 shirts. Wow, so you can almost make it two months.

And you're fine with this, but Amanda, let's hear your side of this. Well, I feel like every time I do laundry, it's Groundhog Day because there's, you know, half of the shirts are in one load of laundry. And I've caught them in the past triple layering these shirts, and it's just, you know, washing the same shirts over and over again. And I just feel it's just so draining to just go through this. It's like running a marathon, but with shirts. Hmm. Did you say sometimes triple layers T-shirts?

In cold weather, yes. John, have you heard of a sweatshirt? Well, I'll do like an A shirt, and then I'll do a t-shirt, maybe another t-shirt, then a polo, then a sweater. Wow. You know, it gets really cold here in St. Louis sometimes. Right.

I'm trying to figure out how the number of t-shirts impacts the amount of laundry you have to do because my snap judgment is that it's independent, right? But actually, the more shirts you have, the less you should have to do laundry because you can let it build up more because you have more shirts to go through that are still clean.

You're not necessitating washing shirts. You can go longer and do bigger loads. No, I think you become more indiscriminate when you've got a bunch of t-shirts because then you're like, I got more to wear. I'm just gonna put this one in the dirty clothes. Washing clean clothes, that's bad. Because the bottleneck on the washing

is the capacity on the washing is the capacity of the washing machine and the capacity of the people who operate said washing machine and how often they wash it, they operate it. But I think I have some insight into this because serendipitously, I just went through all my shirts. I also went through my pants,

but this isn't about pants, this is about shirts. Hey, this isn't about pants, let's stay on topic, okay? Keep it above the belt. So what, what did, why did you go through your shirts and then what was the conclusion? I went through my shirts, Jon, because I had too many T-shirts and I didn't have to have my wife tell me that.

My own heart told me that. Because what I did. Why? What is, because you know I'm a T-shirt guy. I mean, I'll wear a T-shirt. There's limited capacity. I have a T-shirt drawer, and then I have a shirt section of the closet

where I hang shirts, and I hang about five to seven t-shirts that I don't wanna have to worry about them being wrinkled and they're a little bit what I would call nicer t-shirts. Oh yeah. And then I've got the drawer full of t-shirts which are more like gonna throw something on, I'm gonna go work out, I'm going camping, whatever.

Yeah. And it was becoming difficult to fit all the t-shirts in the drawer and it was becoming difficult to fit all the T-shirts in the drawer and it was becoming difficult to fit other clothes in the shirt section of the closet. So I went through all of them and my process was taking a shirt, trying it on, full-length mirror, checking myself out, that was fun, and then making a decision very quickly

if that shirt made me feel uncomfortable in any way, I put it into the thrift store pile. And I did that and I was, you know, I was pretty, you had to have made me feel real good for it to be kept and I got rid of a number of shirts and I ended up with a drawer full of shirts that has capacity for a few more shirts if I see something I really like.

And then an easy to navigate closet. I think I'm down to about 15 t-shirts and about 10 or 15 polos and there's more stuff here at the office. I mean, but laundry was not a factor in your decision. No, because laundry is done on just when the hampers fill up at my house. So it doesn't matter how many shirts you,

it's more a question of access. What I learned is that by getting rid of T-shirts, I was making better T-shirt choices. And I was also like, oh, I've got that t-shirt. Oh, that's a cool t-shirt. But it was covered up by t-shirts that I've been rejecting and haven't been able to get down to the t-shirt that I actually would accept to my body.

Yeah, I've got a lot of t-shirts here at the office that I can just, if I need to slam on another t-shirt for whatever reason, I can just, if I need to slam on another t-shirt for whatever reason, I can do that. But definitely at home, I got two drawers for t-shirts. I got like a black and gray drawer, and then I've got a colored t-shirt drawer. Oh, exciting.

And then I've got, and then my shirts are in the closet, but I got limited amount of space, and I absolutely agree with you that you got, it's dictated by your storage space, at least for me. Now, if you're not doing your own laundry, John, then you gotta defer to the person who's willing to help you with your laundry.

So if Amanda is taking issue and if, again, I think there's some holes in her logic, but I think in terms of like more t-shirts generating more laundry, unless you're being wasteful and putting clean stuff in there, but I think all that secondary to the fact that if she's the one doing that a lot more than you, you kind of got to defer to her unless you want to start

doing more of the laundry and I think that's what I would, you know, I think she's got the power play in this and I think you could benefit from gleaning a little bit. Just hone it down to the ones that are most special and then for the ones that are super special, like I got a couple of super, super special T-shirts that have like nostalgia, those go in a couple of super, super special t-shirts that have like nostalgia. Those go in a special place that's just.

Framed. You just know that those are off limits. And if you acquiesce to Amanda a little bit, then I think the risk of you losing your most special t-shirts in a fit of laundry rage, which happens to everybody. You know, you don't wanna risk destroying some of your prized old T-shirts,

like the one that I slept in for 25 years, still sleeping. That's not normal. Or I kept every T-shirt from me playing recreation soccer as a kid. A little weird, but cool. They say Buies Creek and they have my number on the back from every year and you know what? Lando sleeps in those every night.

That's real sweet. And it makes me feel nostalgic. Yeah. And it's a super soft t-shirt, everybody wins, but you gotta give a little in order to get those special moments with those t-shirts that linger around, so I say, what is the number? Whatever Amanda says.

What do you guys think about that? You hit it, the nail on the head. With, storage was a huge issue. We actually just bought a whole other dresser. So it's been a little bit better since that. And your point about the laundry, I do completely agree. A lot of times to try and avoid this disagreement, I will try and

help fold and do laundry sometimes. But it's in anticipation of avoiding the conflict to begin with. And being helpful. John, I will just say that Rhett wasn't listening to your response because he was looking at his phone.

I mean, he was looking at his watch. Yeah, I got a new Apple Watch. I'm just joking, but he is looking at his watch a lot. I keep calling it a phone. I didn't hear anything in your retort, John, that makes me think you can't get rid of some T-shirts as just an act of goodwill. I'm saying- An olive branch.

Out of 29 T-shirts, I'd say just start with seven. Just call seven and see what happens, okay? Yeah, I think that sounds fair. They just can't be, so I have a lot of sentimental t-shirts as well. Well, I addressed it, John. You gotta set those aside. You gotta, your most sentimental t-shirts,

they're a different category. That don't get rid, you know? So you got some tough decisions to make, but I think it'll pay dividends in your relationship. And I don't know, but buying another piece of furniture might have been a mistake. Yes, so thanks for your call, guys, and good luck with that.

Oh, thank you, thank you for calling. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay, let's take another one. Okay, let's take another call. We resolved that one. Hello? Who are you, where are you? Oh, hi, hi. Hi.

I'm Madison and I'm her brother Mason. All right, and where are you guys at? We're in Bakersfield, California. Oh, right up the road, birthplace of Merle Haggard. Have you been to the birthplace? No, are you talking about Buck Owens? No, we're talking about Merle Haggard. Buck Owens wasn't born there, I know that he.

He helped create the Bakersfield Sound. He lived there and all that. But no, he's not the special one to us. We're fans of both though. How can we help you? Okay, well, it seems short and simple at first, but this is, is it better to be in hot weather or cold weather?

Okay. And what are your opinions on this? Well, I strongly believe that hot weather is better. And I believe cold weather is better by a long shot. And do you find yourself having to decide that you're going to move to colder weather? Because Bakersfield gets really hot. Exactly. No, that's, yeah, he wants to move. I wanna move so bad.

But it's more of a hypothetical situation that you would, you just want us to kind of weigh in on who's right, which we can of course do. And also, you can think of it like in a survival situation. Like if you're in, if you're stranded in the wilderness, when you have a better chance of surviving, if it's hot or if it's cold. Because I think then if you think about it that way,

you can actually find a real answer. Oh, really? Okay. Oh, see, Maddie's making her argument. I get it. Yeah, don't listen to her. Well, Mason, do you have a quick argument before we give you the right answer? Yeah, I just feel like you can always put on more clothes

in the winter but in the heat, you can't keep taking clothes off, there's a limit. Okay. That's true. Right, okay, this is a classic question and most of the time it doesn't really come up as an argument, it comes up as someone's like, I'd rather be, if they're really hot, they're like, I'd rather be cold any day,

if they're really cold, I'd rather be really hot any day. And grass is always greener, isn't it? And so, and I do, if you're talking about survival situations, I mean, at some point on both ends of the extreme, you're gonna die, right? If it gets too hot for too long, you're gonna die. If it gets too cold, even if you put a bunch of clothes on, you are eventually gonna die.

If you're in extreme cold, you're gonna die. But if you're in extreme hot, as long as you stay hydrated, you're not gonna die. Thank you, yes. But in survival situation, you don't always have water, so that's kinda hard to do. Well, let's assume. But also for the winter, I guess, but. If you assume that you have water and clothes,

even with a lot of clothes, you're ultimately gonna die, like you said, but with water, I don't think you are. So that's a factor. If we're talking about the normal range of temperatures on Earth in civilized areas, is that what you're kinda getting at? Yeah. So, I don't know, I think we probably both agree

that we don't like being cold, so we prefer being hot. So if you're saying which one is better, I'd rather be really, really hot, if we're talking about normal temperature ranges, than really, really cold, just personal preference. However, with what I've been reading about from, you know, the guru Wim Hof, and this whole idea that when you're really cold, you actually begin to activate

your brown fat stores. So you've got brown fat and white fat. Brown fat is something that we, it makes Link sneeze, basically. When I talk about brown fat, he gets very sneezy. Okay. You got another one? Not yet.

I'm gonna wait until you start talking and have another sneeze. So brown fat is something that, is something our ancestors used to remain warm in extreme cold temperatures, but now that we have such regulated environments when it comes to temperature, air conditioned environments, we have very, very little brown fat, but the thing that Wim Hof does with the whole

Iceman Wim Hof method is he builds up this brown fat. Where does the brown fat reside? It's not like white fat which is like in your belly and places like that. Like a spare tie or a muffin top. Brown fat shows up in MRI scans, like in your neck and down your that. Like a spare tire or a muffin top. Brown fat shows up in MRI scans, like in your neck and down your spine and that kind of thing, and it actually begins to burn,

it activates the white fat to begin to burn to generate heat. So it's not like you look fat. It doesn't have a bulk to it. The cool thing about it is, is if you build up your brown fat stores, you actually help your immunity. I haven't read all about this,

but basically it's better for you just as a human to have the durability that comes with having more brown fat. So while my preference is to be warm. As is mine. It would actually be better. So you said which one's better, it would be better physically and holistically

to be colder than it would be to be hotter. And there you have it, Mason. So good luck with that. Thanks for calling. Thank you. Thank you. Breaking out the Wim Hof science, right? That's good. I don't know if, I helped?

Well, it's not about helping, it's about being right. Okay. And they may die trying, but at least they're working on the brown fat. Work on that brown fat. Let's take another call. Hello? Hey, it's Rhett and Link.

Who are you and where are ya? Hi, my name is Shelly and I am in Jacksonville, Florida. And then my roommate who is just walking into the room now is, I'm Lindsey. Hello, Shelly and Lindsey. How does it feel to have just walked in the room, Lindsey? Did you know that you were going to be part of this Ear Biscuit conversation? I knew for the last couple of days that we were going to be talking about it.

Okay. But I got a phone call from Shelly when she first found out, and she was very, very excited. All right, so what is your issue? So our issue is about a backpack. Recently, I asked Lindsay to get my wallet out of my backpack and I told her it was in the back pocket. And she came back and said that it was not in the back pocket. And so she made me panic so i went to the backpack and i checked the back pocket and it was in there and so i came back to her and i was like the back pocket had my wallet where were you looking and she said that's not the back pocket um so then that led to a discussion about what is front and what is back on a backpack.

Ooh. What is the front of a backpack? This is a juicy one. Yes, I have had this argument before. Okay, so. Not with me though. No. Have we had this argument?

I don't think we've ever talked about this. You've argued with someone else about this. Okay, so just to clarify, so Shelly, which, okay, if you're wearing a backpack, the pocket that is the furthest from you, the person, you consider that the front or the back? So how I consider it is that- Was that a cat?

Yeah, that's the cat. Oh, gosh, you're cat owners. I apologize. All right, I got to recalibrate. We have a dog, too. Okay, all right. It's a balance. Are they both going in the backpack?

They are both with the dog. So, okay, so the straps for me, the pocket closest to the straps would be the back pocket. The pocket farthest to the straps would be the back pocket. The pocket farthest from the straps would be the front pocket. And Lindsay finds it to be the opposite. Okay. First of all, let me acknowledge.

I have my answer. That it is inherently confusing. I have a logic. Well, let's just say what we think. I think that the pocket furthest away from the person wearing the backpack. In the very back of the backpack. Is the front.

The back pocket. Because when you look at a backpack, the part that everybody sees is the front. And so the frontest most part is the front pocket. That's the front of the backpack, the part that everybody sees. Because if you were to hang a backpack on a rack in a store,

so as to decide to potentially purchase said backpack, you wanna look at the front of it. I think that's why it's called the front because it's the part that you look at on a backpack. I'm sympathetic to this logic, okay? The back is the part nobody ever sees. The back goes against the human back, which is just coincidence.

I'm going to steel man your argument. So I'm actually going to add to your argument before I break it down, okay? Okay. Going a straw man, you're gonna steel man my argument? Steel man. Is that what, like straw man steel man? Steel man. I've never heard that.

Steel man is when you correctly and generously state your opponent's argument. Okay, I'm glad you warned me that though you're about to agree with me, it's only ultimately to disagree with me. I get it. So if I were to- And I can take it.

If I were to see backpacks for sale, not even in a store, but just like on a website, they would show me what you consider to be the front of the backpack. Like in the same way that they would show you like the front of a T-shirt. Usually the front thing is what you would face to evaluate whether or not you were gonna purchase

said thing, and that is why this is inherently confusing. However, when a backpack is on a person, it is oriented in a way, I think it becomes a part of that person, and then everything is in reference to the person who's wearing the backpack, because if you wear a jacket, you say the front of the jacket is the front of the person, the back of the jacket is the back of the person, and so every, and the front of a hat is the thing that's on the front of the person, the back of the hat is on the back of the person. Every other article of

clothing is evaluated in reference to the human anatomy, and a backpack is for a human's back. And so to remain consistent with that logic, the front and the back line up in the same way. And then when you begin to move, when a person begins to move forward, the backpack is moving towards its front, which is the strap side.

It's difficult because when you take the backpack off of a person and you evaluate the backpack on its own, it is logical to assume that what I would call the back is now the front, but the backpack is only a backpack when it's on someone's back. I am going to steel man your steel man argument and say that that's a brilliant perspective that I 100% agree with,

except when it's not on the back, it's still a backpack. So you think it flips depending on whether somebody's wearing it or not? That is the scenario that they presented to us. She said, will you go and get my wallet out of the front of my backpack, implying that it wasn't on her person. I'm certain of that.

But we do have to come to some kind of agreement. Well we could come to the agreement that it changes depending on if it's on the backpack or not. Oh wow, okay. If it's on the back of the person. Listen, I. By the way, what if sometimes I wear a backpack on the front of my person in order to,

if I've been wearing it all day, like in an amusement park full of water bottles. At that point, it becomes a large fanny pack, which is a totally different thing. Okay, so- What happens when you are wearing the backpack and like when I wear the backpack at an amusement park and I ask my sister to get something out of it,

it is now in front of her, it is still on my back, it is in front of her, which pocket then would be the front versus the back? Well, my argument is that it should always be, even when it's not on a person, I think we have to have a convention that we stick with and maybe this is just a regional thing, like every family, every group of friends agrees

on what it is, because it is inherently confusing because it feels different when it's on somebody. But to me, when I look at a backpack, I evaluate it in its functional capacity, which is on someone's back. And so that's why I consider the back of the backpack to be the furthest thing from me, the person. And so in my family, that's what we call the back pocket

is that little pocket in the way back of the backpack. First of all, I would never call the big pocket, like the biggest area of the backpack. That's the front pocket. I wouldn't call it a pocket. That's the main compartment. I would say the big, I would say the big, I would call it a pocket, I would call it the big pocket.

You could label, you could get a labeler and label each pocket just a number system and just be like, get it out of pocket number one. If it was on me, okay, I'm trying to be impartial, it doesn't matter if I have to change my answer or even if it's because of your argument or not. I'm just saying, all right, I got the backpack on. Like, can you get something,

can you grab my keys out of my backpack? Which pocket? The outermost pocket. I mean, I think that's what I would say. I've never said, I've never wrestled with this issue, personally, because I've never said the back pocket. I'd be like, I would be- The lower pocket. I'd be like the little pocket in the back

that's not the smallest pocket that's like straight across but the bigger pocket. That's a little complicated. That's still not the biggest, yeah. That's a cumbersome conversation. So I don't know, we're a little bit of a stalemate here. I don't know what we've done for you but I kind of feel like you guys

either need a labeling system or you just need some sort of compromise to just agree. Now you can't compromise. Somebody has to win this argument. So maybe you flip a coin and then this is how you refer to it. Or Lindsey, you just know when Shelly says back that she means front and vice versa

and you just keep that straight in your mind. It'll probably make new neurons grow if you do that. I mean, the thing was, Lindsay, this was your opportunity to rummage through every pocket of her backpack. Who knows what you could have found? You know, you were just like, well, you looked in one pocket and gave up.

I think the real issue here is that you lack determination, resolve. And are you even a true friend? He's trustworthy, that's what it is. Yep, you are trustworthy. She sent you to get the wallet. I think Shelly thought you stole the wallet. Okay, did we help?

I don't think so, but good luck with that. It's all good, we appreciate it, thanks guys. Thank you. You're welcome. Back pocket, I guess I'll go with back pocket. It's a tough one. You know what? It's a tough one, man, I just. Little pocket, big pocket, little pocket.

I would just use different terminology. Let's take another call. Hello? Hey, you got Rhett and Link. Who are ya and where are you? I'm Morgan. And I'm Jordan. And we are from Stanton, Virginia.

The big VA. That's right. How goes it in VA? Good, good. What are you guys dealing with? What are you disagreeing about? Well, we're having a disagreement about whether or not it's okay to make comments during a movie.

Okay. Let me hear each of your sides to this okay so i think that it's okay to make comments during the movie and of course these aren't like random comments there are comments about the actual movie and what's going on but jordan uh i i believe that you should just sit there and enjoy the movie and like just the movie, and any disruptive comments, they're going to break the immersion. Morgan, what type of things are you talking about that can't wait? I don't know. Just something that just happened that's so crazy, just something that just happened

that's so crazy or something that, if it's like a sequel to another movie, if it ties in with something that happened in the last one and now it all makes sense or sometimes I do have questions, especially if it's a movie that Jordan has seen before and I don't completely understand. Okay. Okay, Morgan, I'm going to,

I'm gonna put this as nicely as possible. You are objectively and definitively wrong. Yeah. You're not gonna get any sympathy from us because we are movie noise Nazis around here. Oh yeah, I mean, I've told this story before We are movie noise Nazis around here. Oh yeah, I mean, I've told this story before of during the Hobbit movie, I think that was the movie, when I went with the kids and then like, these people were talking and making fun of the movie

and yeah, I think their criticism might have been valid, but it was so distracting that I turned around and I was just so angry and it just came out. I was just like, shut the hell up! And then I was so afraid that they were fans. I've never cursed at any stranger, ever! Except in this instance, and you know, I've slept on it, I've reflected on it, and I stand by it.

In front of my kids, like they were just like, ooh. So that might be a little extreme, but okay, but to Jordan's point here, now first of all, I'll get upset with my family if I'm showing them not a movie, but like one of my videos. Sometimes I have to like force my family to watch what I do for a living.

Sometimes they get the reaction. You wanted to process it. Yeah, and admittedly, there's a lot to keep up with. But sometimes I'll just, I'll look at Jessie's face while she's watching one of my videos, and she's like looking at her nails or something. Like she's looking at it but then she's distracted and she's like looking at it.

I'm like, look at the frickin' screen! Like I'll lose it. And she's talking, it's even worse. And again, I'm trying to get her to watch something that's mine but if we're sitting down watching a movie, it's like in the McLaughlin household, all the lights are off. Oh I gotta get everything right.

Nobody speaks, everything is in place. If someone has to get up to use the restroom, there is a pause. I cannot eat while watching anything because we are also artists, Morgan. When somebody crafts whatever it is that you're watching, if it's worth watching, every second has been crafted with the assumption that you're gonna be looking at it

and listening to it and not talking over it or being distracted by someone else talking over it. You know, that one moment that you're glancing over to hear what Morgan's saying, Jordan, you might be missing the most important thing. And some of the time. You don't have to say that, Jordan. We're winning the argument.

You just sit idly by and just let it happen. Yeah. Okay. You know, it's crafted in a way to be watched and processed silently. However, there are exceptions, and Morgan, I think this is where you can have a little fun. And this is when you are watching a movie nostalgically, watching a movie for a second or a third time,

watching a comedic movie or a horror movie in a group of friends. I believe that the rules change. So I think that, now it can get a little annoying sometimes if people are too into this thing, but like, I'll watch a horror movie with friends, it's something I like to do occasionally for like a birthday celebration,

and people talking just makes it fun. But like if I'm watching a movie for the first time and I'm really into it and I want to get everything that it offers, then there's no talking unless there's like an emergency if like somebody's like, you know, choking. And usually at that point they can't speak, so they just usually choke. You know Morgan, I think you can-

Sounds like a win-win. I think you can turn, again Jordan, you just need to keep quiet. Morgan, trust me. Morgan, I think this is an opportunity for you to just turn over a new leaf, you know? It's save your questions till the end. And a lot of times, questions that are being raised

in your mind while watching a movie are intentional. And they're about to be answered. And they're about to be answered. Oh gosh, I hate having to answer questions that you're not supposed to know the answer to yet. So just believe if you don't, if Christie asked me something or one of the kids, I'm like, you're not supposed to know yet.

That's why you're at, that's why the question's going through your mind. That's the beauty of the artistry. That was intentional. Yeah. I'm sorry, Morgan, I know. For dramatic effect, we're being a little mean to you, and actually then also being mean to Jordan.

Yeah, just. But please forgive us for that. You touched a nerve. Yes. But we're also just giving you a hard time. Ultimately, you guys gotta come up with a system and maybe there's a compromise that does involve with home viewing some sort of,

Jordan, you might give her X number of pauses. An intermission, maybe there's an intermission and you're like, you got any questions? Or it's just like. I'm sorry, Morgan. That might work at home, but at the movie theater, I don't have control over that. That's true. Yeah.

Okay. But in my defense, when I'm making comments about a movie, usually it's a movie that he's chosen to show me. Or this even happens with music that he has like made because he's a musician. And so I'll comment and try to show that I'm interested in what's happening because that's my way of showing it and it just makes him angry. Right.

Yeah, I mean, if Jordan's auditioning his latest hot lit track for your ears, you know, I think you just, you know, if he wants you to take it all in, just wait till the end, you know? You might need a notepad. Take a few notes. That's a good idea.

But not a phone, an actual notepad that doesn't light up. Because that's a whole different issue, phones in the theater. Okay, well, we hope we have helped at least somewhat. Like Link said, we feel pretty strongly about this, but good luck with that. Thank you. Thank you. Did we come on too strong?

I mean, I think there's sometimes you have to. Yeah, you just gotta. You know, when someone's that wrong, you have to be that right. Okay, let's take another call. Actually, we are going to just read this question. Okay. We wanted to prioritize an international call,

but we had a little technical difficulty with the international call, but just so you know, we heard your, a lot of people said, you guys are just taking calls from the United States, but we're not, we were taking one from Poland, but it's 3 a.m. there, and there's been some technical difficulties.

So she also commented her question? Yes. Okay. So this is from Adriana and her partner James. She says, we keep arguing about the proper way to load up a dishwasher. Okay. Or more specifically, about cereal bowls placement, top versus bottom rack. Oh, now this is, okay.

Yeah, this is definitely a litmus test of living together, is what you do with that dishwasher. And also it's a good personality test. And I would figure, well, I would go as far as to virtually guarantee that you have a formed opinion about dishwasher loading. Like anytime. Absolutely. Anytime like there's any moving,

like anytime that I've ever moved with Link into or out of something, he is, if he isn't the guy who's placing the things inside the moving truck, he's so anxious to be the guy that's placing things inside the moving truck that you better just let him do it, otherwise you're gonna be dealing with a very unsettled man. Yeah, I mean there's so much at stake with a dishwasher

because A, it's a puzzle. I mean, and you want to maximize the amount of stuff that goes in there because you know what's gonna happen. Anything that doesn't get in there before you close that thing up and you start washing it, anything left behind, you technically need to go ahead and wash so that you can have a clean slate. Or even if it all fits and you've succeeded,

oh boy, if you don't empty it quick, that sink is gonna load up. Especially when you got three kids running around. And a dog. And a dog throwing dishes in there. Yep. So I consider it my life's mission whenever I open that dishwasher to optimize it.

Okay. Again, to a fault. You know, we talk about our personalities and every strength can become a weakness. You know, the amount of time I spend rearranging the dishwasher. Rearranging? From what everyone else in my house has done.

Oh really, okay. It's just, it's a bit much. That's next level. But it feels so good to get it right. I mean, I'm gonna get to cereal bowls, but I mean for starters, all those utensil cubbies down there on the bottom, at least in my dishwasher, I mean in an ideal world, it would be sorted by type. So when they're clean, you take the whole caddy out,

you take it over to the drawer, and then you can just grab a section of, grab all the forks at once and slam them in. Grab all the spoons at once, big spoons. You don't do that, you don't sort it by type? I do that, yes. But you're saying that your family doesn't follow the protocol. They don't really do that.

And I also put the sharpest things at the back so that- Do you do your knives up? I do the knives down for safety. Right. And I put them at the back also so that's two reasons why no one's gonna get cut, namely me. And then I put like the baby spoons at the front because I just feel like there's no risk with baby spoons.

No risk. But with bigger spoons, I don't know what the risk is. Put an eye out, really. There's a little bit of risk so they're a little bit further back. So there's actually way too much thought going into this but it feels good when it happens that way. I don't rearrange all the utensils if it's like slam full.

I just say, I just let it go. Because at that point you're not saving any time. But I also have this, when it comes to the top rack, that's clearly meant for A, things that can't go on the bottom rack, when there's certain type of plastics that you don't want down there, it'll be too close to the heating element and it will damage them. Right.

You gotta put them on the top. And then after that you gotta put all your cups up there because that's usually, that's where they're designed to go. It's always a pet peeve of mine when I open it up and someone didn't start, they just threw a cup kind of in the middle. So you gotta start the cup at the far back left corner and then work against that and then building a tight,

cohesive puzzle of dishes. And then at the bottom rack, you've clearly got what the designers, the dishwasher god has dictated is the place for plates. Right. And not only is it the place for plates, but it's the place for plates to be facing a certain direction.

Correct. So that they lean back and they don't touch each other. All plates have to be facing the same direction for them all to be cleaned optimally. And I find myself turning around the plates all the time. You sound like you're explaining. It's important. Dishwashers to like someone who has never seen them,

which again, I know that lots of people don't function, correct? But you know like the first talk you get about like a new piece of equipment and you kind of half listen to it, you know, I know this is what the manufacturer intends, but I'm just gonna kind of do my own thing. But you're really breaking down

dishwasher etiquette in a way that would make any manufacturer proud. Bowls are the bane of my existence. Bowls are tough. Bowls are bad. I actually, you know, I tried for a while to eat things that belonged in bowls and other things just so I wouldn't have to put them

in the dishwasher. You know what's worse than a bowl, because I'll get back to a cereal bowl, is a big bowl. Oh, big bowls. Christy, I don't know how, between Lily and Christy, they go for the big bowls for things to like mix and cook stuff. Yeah, that typically is what they're used for.

And then they'll just put them in the bottom rack and a bowl, a big or medium sized bowl will obfuscate what could be a space to hold eight plates. It ruins everything. And then what are you doing? You're basically signing up to hand wash eight plates. So there are many, many days that I will open the dishwasher with dirty dishes in there

and I'll see two big bowls and I'll take them out and I'll put them in the sink to hand wash them and then I'll take the crap that's in the sink and I'll load it all in the dishwasher and I've reduced the amount of time that I'm taking washing dishes because yeah, heck yeah, I wash lots of dishes. Proud of it, but there's a right way to do it.

What do you do with the? But then those those cereal bowls are freaking tough, man. And with all the answers I have, I'm now to the point where I'm about to tell you, I don't fully know. Oh gosh. It's a puzzle, you do everything else that I said and then with the space remaining, you load it up,

starting with the smallest bowls and then going up in size until the dishwasher's full, then what's left you wash in the dishwasher. So if you're- But isn't there a bowl section in your dishwasher? It's hard to say. There is what I have deemed to be a bowl section. And it is on the bottom, right?

It is on the bottom. I do put the bowls on the bottom because Do you have a Bosch? We go through so many. What do you have? Whirlpool, not a sponsor. Okay, Bosch not a sponsor either because that would be weird, they're competing brands.

We could have competing brand sponsors and we could just go at it. I'm always brought to you by Bosch. Can we do that? Can we get, let's get competing sponsors. I wanna wear a Bosch t-shirt like two race car drivers. I'm the Bosch man, he's the Whirlpool man. For Commercial Kings,

back when we were shooting that show, we wanted to do an ad for a mattress store because they have a lot of local commercials. But we decided that we wanted to do an episode where we took a whole block of mattress stores and make a commercial for the whole block. So it's like, come to our block. And we were gonna bring together

all these different mattress store owners and proprietors. There's so many next to each other. Yeah, they're always together and bring them together in the same commercial. We thought that would be cool and buzzworthy. It was a great idea. We couldn't get them to agree. No one would agree to it, but that was their loss.

Well, let me, you know, I don't have nearly a strong of an opinion about this, but I will say. Well, my final answer is the bottom. And if you've loaded bowls earlier, you may have to take them out. You just gotta be willing to do that. And then if for some reason, when you're ready to wash,

there's room on the top and there's no room on the bottom, you put bowls wherever you can. Get that dishwasher as full as possible. Get in where you fit in. Yeah, that's my official answer. It's more of an order of operations thing than it is one correct answer. I think this all applies also in Poland.

Yeah, I believe Poland is the same. The most compelling thing you said in terms of the way I approach this personally, because I'm not gonna rearrange anything. Like if people have done something wrong, I'm just like, screw it. I'll just get the rest of this right. I just put the things in the place

that I have interpreted to be the manufacturer's intentions. Yeah. You know what I mean? And I, again, I've interpreted it to be, there's a bowl section. There's not one in my. Okay, you need a Bosch. It's a flaw. You need a Bosch, man, I'm sponsored by Bosch. I'm not, but I will be because of the bowl section.

I think I will be too. And they're all up in a nice angle and they're almost touching but not touching and sometimes I wonder how Mr. Bosch figured out how to get the water streams up into there. But the concavity of the bowl is slightly downward facing. A little bit, yeah, because it's the bowl section. Because you don't want to open a clean dishwasher

and have a pool of water in the bowl. And definitely, big bowls have no place. Big bowls are not allowed. Big bowls are hand washed every time, complete agreement. The problem in my house is people putting things in the dishwasher that have no business being in the dishwasher, like a garlic press. Like a teddy bear?

No, things that, okay, a garlic press is always only ever going to have garlic on it. Just rinse it. You just rinse it. You know what it is, garlic is already antiviral, antibacterial, it's gonna smell like garlic the next time you use it. It's just gonna be a troublesome little gadget

to put in there. So when you see it in there, you take it out? No. I just complain vocally, loudly. I say, don't put the garlic press in the Bosch! I refer to it as the Bosch. No you don't. You thought it was funny.

You're now deciding to do that because you just amused yourself. I will. Because you thought that was so funny. I will. I'm gonna hold you to that. I will from now on. You better. And also, you're not supposed to put knives, sharp knives should not be in the dishwasher

because water is bad for the sharpness of your knives. In fact, as soon as you get through using a knife, you should rinse it and dry it because it is an oxidation process. Oh, you're talking about for like a rusting. But it's more subtle than you think. You gotta have dry knives. That was my nickname in high school.

Dry knives. Dry knives and Bosch. I was so about not putting those dry knives in the Bosch that everybody was like, well, let's just call them that. But you don't do that. You do not, right when you use a sharp knife. Yes, I do. Wash it and dry it.

I wash other people's knives in my house. If I see a knife, I wash it and dry it. I am, I wash other people's knives in my house. If I see a knife, I wash it, dry it, put it back where it belongs, in the block. My in-laws do not use their dishwasher. They've never used their dishwasher. It makes me so angry because when I'm at their house, then they're hand washing dishes, all of them, with a dishwasher right there.

Have you had a conversation? I said gently, why don't we load the dishwasher? Is it a Bosch? It's a Bosch. And they're like, well, it's one of those things where you don't get an answer. Because the answer is we don't use the dishwasher. There is no answer.

They built that home for themselves. Why do they have a dishwasher? I don't know. I don't know. For emergencies you almost said. I don't know. For emergencies. I don't know what the psychology of it is.

It's something about, I don't know, it must be like of it is, it's something about, I don't know, it must be like some sort of perceived energy efficiency or something. I could not get an answer out of them and I'm in no position to argue. It's like when I go to their house, I'm just trying to keep everybody happy. So they don't even have detergent.

I mean, you couldn't, I mean, they've got hand washing detergent, but they don't even have detergent. I mean, you couldn't, I mean, they've got hand washing detergent, but they don't have, isn't it different? I don't know. And. Ask Bosch. And you know what, Christy's sister does it. She hand washes too? I think they hand wash too.

They don't use their dishwasher. I have to think they use it some. If you hadn't married your wife, she may be still hand washing. I just don't know what the reason is, it's a glorious device. Now you want it to be full for efficiency's sake, but then it's so efficient. I mean, we load up that dishwasher

and we're still constantly washing dishes. I mean we spend, when we eat dinner as a family, after dinner we all go in there, we're washing dishes, we're trying to clean up, it takes freaking an hour. It takes three times as long to clean up as it does to actually eat in my home. That's because it's a whirlpool, that's a problem. Like that's, not the, and I'm talking about

all the hand washing that we have to do in addition to loading the freaking dishwasher. Right, well we just throw everything in the Bosch with food on it. We need two dishwashers. Part of the strength of it. I think when you have five people in a home and you're eating as much stuff as-

Or like a double wide, like a double fridge, you get a double dish. I'm legitimately thinking that I'm gonna add a Bosch beside my Whirlpool. So a side-by-side comparison every night. I'm gonna have a bowl-only dishwasher. Oh, the Bowl Bosch. The Bowl Bosch.

Bosch for bowls. That's a good idea. Call me bosh. So Adriana and James, her partner, good luck with that. I don't know if we helped, but as you can see, we. You got me worked up. We definitely. I was having so much fun until the end of this

and now I'm freaking angry. You're gonna go wash dishes. Why am I so angry all of a sudden now I'm freaking angry. You're gonna go wash dishes. Why am I so angry all of a sudden? I'm so mad. Okay, well this is fun for me personally. I mean I had a good time. Again, I was having a great time until, I don't know, I didn't mean to bring,

and here's the thing, my brother-in-law, he listens. And I'm gonna get a text. Oh, yeah, you are. Okay, JB, just go ahead and text me. But can you explain, I mean, why you don't use your dishwasher? I mean, is it just because our in-laws? Because they're his in-laws, too. Yeah, that's how it works. Don't use...

Is there some sort of like legacy thing going on here? It's like, it's a wonderful thing, the dishwasher. You know, I mean, I know you know what it is. I'm not, I don't have to tell you, but I am curious why you don't use it. And I think you do use it some, it's not like, but the in-laws, I don't know,

maybe we can get through to them. Okay. It's gotta turn into a personal message. Also know that Bobby's VCR died, so he's looking for a new one. Instead of a DVD player? Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. All right. Good luck with that. I'm just so angry.