Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 173: AMA: What Would We Tell Our Younger Selves? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 173

Episode Date: December 10, 2018

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Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Rhett. And I'm Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we ask the question, well, we are actually gonna be asked lots of questions. It's an AMA episode, y'all. Ask me and Rhett anything. Anything, anything at all.

Of course, you know, the illusion of an AMA is that, well, you can ask anything, but that doesn't mean we're gonna answer anything. It's not answer me everything. That would be an aim. That's not how you spell aim, but okay. Ame. It's ame.

So we got lots of questions here. But we do wanna let you know. And we're gonna get into them. This is the last, actually the second to last Ear Biscuit of 2018 and something very exciting is happening in 2019. For those of you who enjoy Ear Biscuits visually, you've enjoyed it in a number of places.

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We're in the now year. You can subscribe now though. You said that. Ask me anything. How do you subscribe? You go to youtube.com slash Ear Biscuits and you click on the subscribe button. You could probably also program your computer

to automatically, you could write a script. Okay, I'm over it. And now what do we wanna talk about? You can actually go into a public library and write a script on all the computers and get them all to subscribe to it too. Now that I encourage that. So before we get to the first question.

But I'll give you a cookie. I guess I have a question for us because we didn't get to settle the conversation we were having right before we came in here because it's like, all right, you're like. Are you cold? No, I have on a coat. Were you cold?

I anticipated the potential of being cold. It's that time of year, man, you gotta bundle up. I like this jacket. It's got fur around it. But it's interesting that we're both comfortable right now. I'm just saying, I'm in a short sleeve shirt. You're in a- Isn't that a beautiful thing? You're in like an Icelandic jacket

and we're both comfortable. Isn't it beautiful that we can both be comfortable and not have to worry about what the other person's wearing? But I'm concerned about one of us and I don't know who I'm supposed to be concerned about. I think one of us may be getting sick. I'm probably just getting hot. Okay, all right.

Before we get into other people's questions, my question is can we settle the conversation that we were having right before this? I don't know if we need to settle it. I just, I was just pointing. We were coming in here and then it was like, well, hold on, I gotta go pee before we start. And then you're like, oh, me too.

And we go out there and there's two bathrooms and the doors are shut on both of them. And I'm in front of you and from my perspective, I did what I always do, because I know how to do things. Oh gosh. I knocked on the door. And immediately grabbed the handle.

And then I grabbed the handle. There was no hesitation, there was no listening. And here's the thing, when I saw you. How do you know there was no listening? Because I watched. Because my ears were closed? I witnessed you doing it, and I know your reaction time is not on the fast side,

and so the fact that you knocked and immediately lowered the hand to the handle made me realize that you are the person in this office who does the one-two combo and makes everyone else nervous. Maybe there's other people that do it, all I know is this. Oh you experienced being inside of there? I do not like the unsettling feeling of someone grabbing the handle of a bathroom door while I'm doing my business.

I mean, I will just pucker right up and everything stops for a moment because it's nerve wracking. You feel like somebody's coming in the door. Well, I guess I don't disagree with that part of it. So my technique is to knock on the door and listen and give people an adequate time to respond, which I would say is two seconds, not.2 seconds.

And then I would say 95 to 98% of the occupants in this office will respond with some sort of audible indication that they're in there. I, so, in all my years of working here, I've never had to grab the handle, not once. That's not, that can't be true because you know what? A lot of times the door's shut and there's nobody in there so you knock and then you have to grab the handle

and the door opens. Well no, I'm saying when I didn't hear anything after a certain amount of time, I was just like nobody's in there. I'm saying I haven't ever grabbed the handle and had it locked on me. I knocked. I didn't hear anything and I grabbed the handle.

You knocked and immediately grabbed the handle. Immediately, it was like, in fact, Oh you know what? It could have been the two hands. You may have knocked with one hand and grabbed with the other hand. It almost sounded simultaneous. You are undermining, see if you think

that I possibly could have been two-handed. How quickly? That was just, that's patently false. It was this quick, it was, okay, I'm gonna make the noise of the handle with my mouth, it was. Well, no it wasn't. I think what happened was I grabbed the handle

but I didn't push. I was ready. I had my hand over it, it was almost a hover and you misinterpreted that as a. I've been on the receiving end of it many times is what I'm saying. I've been in there, I've been midstream and I hear a knock and I,

immediately I say, my word is yep, because I know the question is, is there someone in there? So I just go ahead and answer. I don't say occupied, that sounds like some sort of Victorian thing. I just say, yep. I think we've, I am having flashbacks to this particular part of the conversation. I think you did convince me to change from occupied to yep, just remember that.

But here's the thing, I always say yep. Listen, nobody said anything, and you're saying it's because I did the handle too quick, but then you're saying so after I did the handle and it's locked, you don't say anything? No, no, I'm saying if you had to give an ad. Because they didn't, nobody said anything. Yeah, because you grabbed the handle at that point,

they're just trying to get in and they're like, well I guess the lock's gonna do my business now. And then you just shut up because you're nervous because you think maybe somebody's breaking in on you. Well no, now I think that the door's locked but nobody's in there. I'm just saying. That happens at my house all the time.

I don't know how my kids do it, but the, and maybe that's what ruined it for me. I'm just saying. They'll lock no one in the bathroom and then nobody can get in. Yeah, I've been there before. But that happened just out there. I'm just saying, being on,

I don't know how it is for you, you don't know because no one else does this. We should have asked, we should have waited for the person to come out and we should have asked them about the experience. And here's another thing. That would have settled it. Here's another thing.

Instead of us, me having to endure this prosecution. I don't think you have a leg to stand on because sometimes the door doesn't completely shut, sometimes people forget to lock, and at that point you've got full exposure. I did knock. Yeah, all that's in question is how long I waited. You knocked.

And that's open to interpretation. To me, I feel like it's one of those situations where it's like a word that used to be two words but became one word over time. Like your knock and twist is one action at this point. It's a knock and twist. My response to a knock is very quick. It's a knock and twist.

It's all one word. I'm immediately ready if somebody knocks to say, yep. But when you are peeing or pooping, you're focused on that and when somebody knocks, I gotta say, a lot of your brain is currently committed to just hitting the toilet properly. Fine, I'll knock twice. You need a second and a half to say, yep.

You gotta. I'm gonna knock five times from now on. It's not the number of times you knock. One, two, three, four, five. It's the number of times, no, because then you're not gonna be able to hear when they say anything. It's the amount of time you wait.

You gotta give it three seconds. Just give it three seconds, because listen, I'll tell you what happened to me. At this bathroom, the same exact bathroom that you knocked on. I went up to the bathroom and I knocked on it, and then I realized, oh, in fact, if I see that the door is slightly open, I still knock.

I'm that respectful of somebody's private space. So I knocked and I was like, oh, the door's open. Pushed it open. You knocked the door open? Someone who doesn't work here but works for us in a capacity was midstream. Oh wow. Midstream.

Now I see why you have so much pain associated with this because you've, you've. It's just called respect, man. You've been hurt, you've been. R-A-S-P-E-C-T. So you walked in on somebody. So you're very sensitive to it. That was last year.

I've always been sensitive to it because when people, some people don't knock at all. And I think. Oh, that's horrible. In my mind, your knock and twist is the same as no knock at all. It's so jarring. It might be worse because it sounds like two people

trying to get in at the same time. It's like this is a full on attack. I'm hurt to be lumped into that category. Well, you should feel bad. It's not the same category. A knock and twist is not the same as just a phantom twist. As a victim of the knock and twist, I gotta say it's as bad as the twist.

Maybe I just need one good walk in and it'll cure me. I think I just gotta, I gotta walk in on somebody. And what are you saying now when people knock? I think I heard you say it the other day. You're saying yep now too? Yeah. Yeah. You're not gonna now too? Yeah. Yeah. You're not gonna change your mind about this then.

You can't keep winning these. I mean. I'm gonna walk in. Occupy does the job. Uh-huh, does the job. Occupy, that's three whole syllables. You got it, buddy. Anything you say at all, really, could be effective.

Do you say something back? Because hey, I knocked earlier at the other bathroom, the hidden poop bathroom, and I'm pretty sure that was Alex's voice. He had time to respond. And you know what? I'm telling you, you did this, I'm sure you did the knocking twist.

I just walked away, I didn't say anything. Should I have said anything, Mr. Setting of Standards? You do not speak back to a person. I was like, yep. I was like, okay, I'll be waiting right out here listening. Yeah, you don't, no, this seems self-evident to me. You do not speak back to the person. I didn't, I just wanna make sure.

You didn't, and don't apologize. I walked away. Now, if you do the knock and twist, apologize, but if you just do the knock and they say, yep, that's it. I walked away. Your only part is called the knock and walk. Yeah. Knock and walk, totally acceptable.

I would say slink. I slinked away, defeated because I was really excited to drop a deuce in that bathroom. You gotta get at least 30 feet away. And then I'm like, now am I going back to the other one? It's right beside Feldman's desk. Well there's a wall. There's. Well, there's a wall. There's a wall, we installed a wall.

There's like a little partition wall. Does that do the job? Yeah, it makes you feel like you're not next to the bathroom, right? That was the design intention. Never thought about it, actually. You never thought about it? Seriously, that's why we put it there.

The wall made you not even think about the fact that you're right next to the bathroom, but now you're gonna think about it. It's like it's a totally different part of the office. But you're like seven feet from somebody pooping. Yeah, the more annoying thing is people walking behind me and bumping into me. Oh, well this is not a complaint session.

I don't want you just there saying, well if I am gonna complain, it's gonna be about these six things. It's not what we're, we're not expanding the conversation. Unless you're gonna defend me in my knock and twist, which seems pretty indefensible at this point. I'll grant you that.

I will think, I'm gonna think about it. I don't like counting seconds in my head though. Because they're always faster than they are in practice. I have to count them out loud. I would just say. So I'm going to do it out loud. Just remove the. Knock knock one 1,000. Just remove the twist. Just remove the. Knock, knock, one 1,000, two 1,000. Just remove the twist. Just remove the twist from your world.

The twist will come naturally when you're like, oh, nobody's in there, and then you'll just enter, and twist is just intrinsic to entering a door. I think I just had to pee really badly. Well. Can't blame a man for that. Not sure we settled anything. Many times, I mean, we could also institute

just the open door policy where it's like as many people just wanna go at once can. I mean, we're all human. That's the worst idea. It is. Again, it's kinda like counting out loud. Now that I've done it, I'm like, okay, now I know what time it is.

So to speak. So we're not, just to clarify, for legal reasons, we do not have an open door bathroom policy at Mythical Entertainment. That one guy who you walked in on apparently does. The co-founder of the company was just talking about that for entertainment purposes only. Isn't that in the description of all of our podcasts?

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Yeah, let's start with that one. What question? Yeah, let's say all the questions we're not gonna answer, I guess. Well, I think the most common question I get asked is, wow, how do you put up with that other guy? Or what makes you so amazing? Right, so tired.

How are you so amazing is probably how I should have phrased that. No, it's what's the grossest thing you guys have ever eaten on GMM? We get that question a lot. Every Q and A. And that's a fair question because it's just the first one that comes to your mind when,

you know, I told you this this morning, I don't know why, this is not much of a realization, but sometimes you realize things that are obvious and it just feels like an epiphany. At least I do that all the time. I think you just described your life. I just realized something that's been obvious to everybody else.

I realized that I can't think of another show that unapologetically eats balls like us. It's like that's what's happened to our show. It's like, Andrew, I always called him. It's like that's what's happened to our show. It's like, we're- Andrew, I always called him Zimmerman, but that's not it. Canceled, he's gone. That shit, Bizarre Foods is gone. But you're right, Zimmern.

But it wasn't, I mean, he ate a lot of balls. Just eating so much crazy stuff. But nobody on the internet, maybe. I guess we got the corner on that now. Now the Bizarre Foods is gone. Put the ball in the corner. Corner pocket. Right in the pocket. Two ball into the corner pocket.

By pocket we mean crotch. So I don't know and then I think the reason why it's so annoying is because we haven't come up with just that answer that we say all the time. I have. But then I feel the need to say, well honestly, it all runs together. It's all so bad because you say,

well congealed pork blood is the worst thing that we've eaten. But I don't even know, it's concise and it's not false. Yeah, it's an answer that's not false. There, it's just an answer that's not false. There's gotta be things that we've eaten that are just that bad. Oh, the bile was ridiculously horrible. Again, I don't even wanna answer this question.

We're answering it. We're so tired of answering it. But I think the reason why we're tired of answering it is because it's not a fun or funny answer. And we get it all the time. So it's the or funny answer. And we get it all the time. So it's the one-two punch of we get it all the time and it's not a great response. It's kind of like telling the story of how we met.

Well, we turned that into a song and then it became something that was like, okay, now we can keep telling this story. On the first day of our first grade. Well, the other question that we get asked almost as much, and I actually think it's my even more least favorite question than what you just said, because I don't have an answer for it.

I don't know what this is gonna be. What's your favorite episode of Good Mythical Morning? Oh, your favorite episode. Again, that's when I always answer, you know, to be honest with you, they all kind kinda run together. I mean, people who watch the show remember the show better than we do

and remember specific details of the show better than we do. But I did recently answer that question that, just because it just seemed like a good answer at the time that the Post Malone. Because it seemed like a good answer at the time that the Post Malone. Because it seemed like a good answer at the time. Because again, I don't really know. It's like, there's a lot of episodes

that I had a blast doing. I always say, the next one. But Post Malone, that was one that is super, maybe the most memorable one. The one that makes me feel the coolest. Yeah, but we were kind of stressed out. It's like, you know, it was a stressful environment with the musical exercise we were doing.

So it was like. Yeah I was rapping in front of Post Malone. Rapping like Post Malone in front of Post Malone. At the time. A little nerve wracking. I would say, so I don't know, it wasn't, but as an episode, but maybe not as an experience at the time. Here we go answering questions that we're tired of.

You got any other ones? Let's move on. This is a question. How tall are you before we move on? I'm just curious. Oh, no one's ever asked that. Thanks for asking. Oh, how tall are you?

5'19". See, you have the cute answer. It's like, with the question you get all the time, you should have a cute answer and you should just move on. And that's why we hate those other two because we don't have a cute answer. Let's come up with cute answers. So this, believe it or not,

it's a question that we're asked a lot. Might as well answer it. This is from Allie Dickinson. This came from two different people in two different ways. Allie Dickinson asked, what is the one thing you would tell young Rhett and Link if given the chance? And Emma, soft and better on Twitter, asked if you were given the opportunity

to go back and change one thing in your lives, would you, could be a correction of a mistake or skipping out on something you knew ended horribly or would you be too afraid of the dreaded butterfly effect? So this type of question, if you could go back, blah, blah, blah, blah, is one we're tired of being asked? Well, I think people ask that because our history, our shared history is such a part of the work that we do

and we're talking all the time about our past and then we also say things like, who would have known that going to engineering school would have led to this and so I think people, it's natural to be like, well, what would you do? Would you say something to your young Rhett and Link and what would it be and would you be afraid to screw things up?

I actually have a brand new answer to this. Like I was literally thinking about this yesterday. Okay. So I have an answer. Do you have an answer? Well, I actually kind of have a brand new, I have the same old answer in a brand new way. Do you wanna go first?

Because I was talking with my, you know what, answer it first. Well I was at the gym and I was talking with my, you know what, answer it first. Well, I was at the gym and I was thinking that my shoulders started hurting again. Hold on, you're joking. That you started thinking about this at the gym? No, I was at the gym and my shoulders started hurting and this is related to my shoulder.

Okay, well, this is kind of freaky. You'll see why in a second. Is this the butterfly effect? Why are your eyes getting so wide? Is a butterfly about to come out of them? Because it's weird that independently you went to a very similar place that I'm about to go, but just go ahead.

The gym? Yes. Really? Literally, the gym is where, and it was literally yesterday. What? Yesterday morning. Yesterday morning, yes.

We may have been exploring this question at the same time. What? Did you see a butterfly come through? If I could go back in time, I wouldn't have thought about it. It's too weird. It's way too weird. And not only did mine happen at the gym,

but it was in relationship to an injury. What? Yeah. Yep. I think this just says that we're old and decrepit. But I'll- No, no, but it's weird and like, you know, like serendipitous, man. Our lives continue to mirror each other, man.

I was looking in the mirror, too. I was, well, I was doing some pull-ups and then, stop freaking out. I mean, by the time this comes out, this video's long gone off the wave of the internet, but it was that the guy in Switzerland who was hang gliding with, Oh gosh.

In tandem with a hang gliding guide and the guy didn't strap him in so his pelvis was hanging up and being supported by the weight of his strap and the entire ride from the top of a mountain in Switzerland, the dude is hanging on, sometimes by only his left hand, for dear life, as the guy tries to steer down the side of the mountain

and the guy who trains me is like showing me this footage and then he's like, I saw it. It's crazy. He doesn't die which makes it fun to talk about. Seems to have a good sense of humor about it. But he tore his bicep. And he tore his bicep and he hurt his shoulder. And then.

Which is first of all crazy. And we said. That he was able to hold on. That long, yeah. And to hurt himself that badly. Cause. And to not let go. My trainer guy, he was like,

there's this challenge where, I can't remember where he said it was. The hang glider challenge. All YouTubers are doing it now. He was like, if you hold onto, it's Venice Beach, I can't remember where he said it was. The hang glider challenge. All YouTubers are doing it now. He was like, if you hold on to, it's Venice Beach. You can go there and if you can hold on for 100 seconds, it'll give you $100. Just hang?

Just hang for 100 seconds. Must be a lot harder than it seems. And then he's like, let's see how long you can hang. Now I had already done some pull-ups, okay? You know, full, uncheated pull-ups. Like lock, elbow, back up. But I thought that hanging was supposed to make shoulders feel good.

I'm just saying that I was a little tired and then I started hanging, okay? And he starts timing me. How long do you think I went? Well, if 100 seconds gives you $100, it means that in order to make that a profitable proposition, no more than 5% of people could do it. I would put you in the 40th percentile.

Thanks. After my pull-ups, right? I'll put you in the 30th percentile after pull-ups. So I think you went for 27 seconds. Thanks for that vote of confidence. I went 45 seconds. Oh, okay, not bad. But that was really hard.

But you know, my life wasn't in danger. I wasn't literally hovering over the Alps or wherever they were. It was really hard. That's all I could do. I bet you I couldn't do that. I bet you I couldn't do 45. So then afterward I was like,

my shoulder was already, that didn't make my shoulder hurt, my shoulder was already hurting from doing some kettlebell swings a week earlier. And I was kind of, and then, so like doing something like having fun, doing this hanging challenge is something that like I started getting nervous about and then I started thinking. You were having fun? I was having fun at this hanging challenge is something that like I started getting nervous about and then I started thinking. You were having fun?

I was having fun at the gym. Wow. But I was like, I'm nervous that my shoulder is gonna be hurt worse and then I'm like, you know what? If I could go back in time, I would go back, I guess it would be four years ago now and I would not sleep on my right arm. If you take, I would sleep on my right side

and I would put my hand behind my neck so as to be resting my right ear, and thereby my entire head, on my right arm. And I would just lay there like that and sleep, which would allow me to spoon Christy, okay? I'm just saying, you know, you wanna get snuggly. I can't sleep in that configuration. Well, I did it for at least for years.

I did it for years. I will say though that your shoulder issue was a college thing as well. I remember like on the bench press, it was sometimes you'd be like, oh, it popped out. Yeah, it was kind of weak. So it started pretty early. Well, my physical therapist,

because I went to physical therapy, this is what actually ironically got me to start going to the gym consistently was on the backside of going to, I went to the doctor for my shoulder, he sent me to physical therapy therapy which made the pain go away but what they explained in physical therapy was you need to keep doing these exercises forever.

Forever. And so then I started going to the gym. Until you die. But he also explained that like, the way that I would put my arm up like that, it's basically like if you were to raise your hand right now and then picture the two bones coming together in your shoulder and rubbing against each other

and then being in traction. And after that grinding, it wore down the cartilage and cushiony stuff and now that stuff doesn't grow back. So now if I don't get, if I don't. Stem cells man, they can make it grow back. You can go to Panama and get injected. I was like, man it's so frustrating

that if I just slept on my back and not cultivated this habit of sleeping on my right side, I wouldn't have this pain now. Now let me interject at this point. And so that is the thing that I would do. Let me interject at this point. I so that is the thing that I would do. Let me interject at this point. I'm done, you're not interjecting. Well before you, you say that you would,

but I wanna talk about whether you actually would or not because I was at the gym and I was doing the deadlift. Which first of all, for me, I'm only at the gym, I'm at the gym because I wanna be in shape and not just turn into just a ball of jelly. But I am also primarily the things that I do at the gym are intended to strengthen my back. And let me just say right now,

my back is in better shape than it has been probably in like since college. Maybe since high school, like it is in really good shape. has been probably since college. Maybe since high school. Like it is in really good shape. It could all fall apart at any moment if I twist the wrong way, but it's a lot stronger. And so my trainer has been working on introducing more exercises and of course,

the deadlift is something that you could get really wrong really easily and it could cause a lot of damage. Yeah. And as I was doing it, and I don't put hardly any weight on there, it's just like, it's the rack and then like a wheel on each side. So like 100 pounds or something.

It's like, it's just basically to just get the motion right. I'm not doing a lot. Okay. But I was like, How embarrassing. I was like, you know, in high school, I was telling my trainer, I would put three wheels on each side,

I don't know how much that is, and at Harnett Central High School at the time, weightlifting class wasn't like, well how are you supposed to do this? It was just like, they'd put three wheels on each side of the deadlift bar and then guys would just line up one by one and see if they could lift it. You know what I'm saying, it wasn't.

It was more of a contest. It was like, can you do it, can you do it? And I would look at myself in the mirror, even though I was wearing a weight belt, I don't wear a weight belt now, because if you're doing it right, you shouldn't need one. And I would be bending over and putting all the weight on my lower back and just like bending like that

and you know what? That's what created my back problems. I had a couple other weird injuries but I feel like that was the start of the real bad like herniations and sort of changed the way that I, in fact I was telling her, I was like, it kind of changed the way I played basketball my senior season because my back was messed up

and then I was like, you know, if I could go back, I would. No pun intended. I wouldn't have done that and I wish I could go back and tell my younger self, you realize that. That's stupid. If you could, like. Look at yourself. If you did this right and you did it with less weight and you got the form right,

you could actually make yourself a better athlete. You could jump higher, not from doing calf raises. We were stupid, we thought that the way to jump higher was to do calf raises. Your calves contribute to your vertical leap a very, very small amount. It's your glutes, man. It's your legs, it's your legs,

it's your upper legs. And so I was like, man, I got recruited by some colleges, I was like, if I could go back and like, I probably would've been recruited by some bigger schools. And then I was like, but you know what? I wouldn't go back and do that, because if I had gone and played college basketball, I probably wouldn't be here right now.

See, but that's different with me. And she was like, yeah, you'd be somewhere in Wisconsin. You know what, that'd be sad. So I wouldn't go back, man. I'm glad you mucked up your back, man. And I am too. But for me, I'm only talking like going back. It doesn't matter.

I'm sleeping on my back. How could that butterfly affect anything? It would affect everything. You think Christy and I would be divorced now because I didn't spoon her for that year? You would be divorced, remarried, you'd have a little kid named Link Jr. Well, that'd be weird because I'm the third.

I know, that's how weird it would be. You'd have a Link Jr. I'd have my dad? Yeah, and your whole life would be different if you slept on your back five years ago, man. Everything would be different. I don't believe in the butterfly effect when it applies to sleeping position

and I just want to stop and tell all of you now, you do not sleep, don't sleep with a contorted arm. Use common sense. And sleeping on your back is great for your back as well. Sleep on your back no matter what. It's great for everything except. Spooning. I think it does something to your face. I think it stretches your face or something.

Stretches your face. I don't know, maybe it does. Okay. We certainly spent a lot of time on that question that we didn't seem like we wanna answer. Jack Burch asks. Thank you, Emma and Allie. If you could place yourself in any fictional universe

or movie, which would you pick and why? Ooh, okay, just knee-jerk response to this for me is Middle Earth, man. I mean, and I thought specifically like, where the wood elves lived. They're the ones that, I haven't watched it in a long time, but they're the ones who I believe came out of, they were more mysterious in the woods.

They were the ones that didn't make the trek to the new land and they just kind of hunkered down where they ended up. I think they played more into the hobbit stories, which chronologically came earlier, but then it's not the Middle Earth that is so special to me from the, well, they got Toriel in them,

which is not even in the books. I do like Evangeline whatever Lily though. Do like her. Really? Yeah, I watched the first half of Ant-Man 2 on the plane. What happened to the second half? Well, the plane landed. You gotta time it better than that.

I never went back. Just like you time your knock and twist, you gotta time your plane movies. You gotta look at the flight time, do the math. It's kind of, I kinda think in my brain it's like the Ewok village. So I guess what I'm really saying is I'd like to live in the Ewok village if that were within Middle Earth with elves because it's like the Ewok village. So I guess what I'm really saying is I'd like to live in the Ewok village if that were within Middle Earth

with elves because it's hard to communicate with those Ewoks but the elves are like, you know they speak calmly and they're good warriors. Here's the thing, you would be in, you can't pick a place because I would be like, oh I'd like to live in Rivendell but this is the entire fictional universe. This is the entire movie, the entire world there.

And honestly I'd probably end up in Hobbiton just eating and gardening. That's a great answer. Thank you, Rhett. I actually disagree with it though and this is gonna be controversial and it actually leads into another question that we were asked, okay?

Because I feel like I have to have a lot of qualifiers here. Because I, as opposed to Middle Earth, would pick Narnia. Okay? And the reason I would pick Narnia is because I think ultimately it's more fun and more rewarding and much less dangerous. What do you mean more fun? What do you mean more fun?

Let's start there, because Middle Earth is very evil. The evil in Narnia is significantly less threatening than the evil in Middle Earth is very evil. The evil in Narnia is significantly less threatening than the evil in Middle Earth. So you're living in a kid's world, I think is what you're really saying. But I also think that Narnia, the thing that always intrigued me about those books, and they kind of remain like my favorite,

even though clearly Fellowship of the Ring is a better series, but it's not for kids, it's more young adult and adult, whereas Narnia is clearly for young kids. But I enjoyed it first as like a single digit age, I don't know what I was, but the first time I read them. And the accessibility, but also the way they related the real world to the imaginative

world of Narnia and the ability to like, there is a wardrobe that you can go through. Like there are these places that you can enter into the world. So it created this, I had this imagination. I would always, I would be out. You had an imagination? I would be out in the woods.

That's cool. And I would see like a tree with like a hole. You like the portal. And I was like, okay, maybe this is Narnia. Like maybe this is the time. Maybe this is, I'm gonna go up to this and I'm gonna stick my head in this hole in this tree. Well that's how you exit Narnia.

You should have been looking for a wardrobe. No, no, but you can get in there multiple ways. And I figured that in my world, not England, but the US modern day, maybe there were other ways into Narnia. But I feel like to the generation of, let's just say the millennials, I feel like Narnia has been soiled

because the movies pretty much sucked. Oh. So I think when they think about Narnia, they think about the movies. Okay, okay. And that's why I would go into this other question. Kevin Mata asks, if you were given the opportunity to remake a movie, which would you choose?

Okay. So first of all. See, Narnia, I didn't read the books. So if you're judging it off of the movies, then you're like, no contest. There's no contest between. I wish I could go back to my childhood and read those books.

Okay. I just wanted to say that. Well. There's a lot of reasons to go back now that I think about it. You're gonna screw everything up if you go back and read Narnia. So I'm just saying I don't have that,

I didn't have an expectation. Also, my kids weren't of an age to take back and read Narnia. So I'm just saying I don't have that, I didn't have an expectation. Also, my kids weren't of an age to take them and they didn't care so I actually didn't end up watching them in the theater but I did watch one and it did kinda suck. Okay, suck is probably too strong of a word. I know some of you may have really liked the movies but it was, in terms of how impactful the books were,

for me personally. But I think. First of all, the standard is. If you remade it, would you age it up? Because that wouldn't be true to the books. And I think that's really what you're saying, that's your critique of it. Is it that.

No, there are movies that are more intended for kids that capture, there was a cheesiness to the movies that, also, something that for some reason didn't seem to happen with Lord of the Rings, like it was a weird moment in CGI technology. Yeah. Not quite as weird as like five years before that. But just something about the way that you have this view

of Aslan and what he's going to mean to you. And then you see him and you're like, that's just Liam Neeson. And also it sounds like Liam Neeson is in my frickin' ear because he just did this voiceover into like a microphone like this. I think we're talking budget. I think they have budget issues.

I think they spent a lot of money. They spent, what was the budget on the Narnia movies? And then what was the budget on the Lord of the Rings? Can you just look those up real quick? But they're doing. And then we're gonna see. We're doing. But Peter Jackson, I don't even know

who directed The Chronicles of Narnia. Disney is doing these like live. Well I should do the next one. Live action remakes, you know, like The Lion King is a lot of people like. Total for all three films. Really excited about that, you know. But I think you're.

Total for all three films. I think you're pitching a remake that is like that. 560 million? Yeah. For how many movies? Three, that's a remake that is like that. 560 million? Yeah. For how many movies? Three. That's a lot of money, man. It grossed 1.6 billion.

It made a lot of money. 1.6 billion gross. It was successful because of the IP, man. Yeah, but what about Lord of the Rings? 281. 281 total? That's what it says here. Film series.

Wow, okay. Well, they don't shoot in the US. They don't shoot in the US. There you go. But they made more money. They made more than 1.6 billion. 2.9. 2.9 billion, so almost twice as much.

That's irrelevant to your point, though. Anyway, because here's the thing that I wouldn't do. A lot of people, like just a couple weeks ago on Twitter, people were talking about like, are they gonna remake Back to the Future? And a lot of people, just a couple weeks ago on Twitter, people were talking about like, are they gonna remake Back to the Future? And a lot of people wisely said, no! You don't remake movies that were perfect! You don't remake perfect movies

unless you're a freaking idiot. So that's why I think you're onto something. You make movies, remake movies that sucked. Well that didn't, they weren't as magical as they needed to be. And they can benefit from technology now. Like the way that Disney's remaking these movies. I mean, people are critiquing the trailer

and saying that the Lion King is like a shot for shot, it seems like. And it's like, is that really necessary? Okay, well, hold on, this might be an exception because remaking the Lion King in a different way is a slightly different conversation. But what are you gonna do with Back to the Future? You're gonna make another live action Back to the Future.

No, you make it animated with Legos. Lego can do that. Okay, if it translates Lego Lego back to the future. The only way to acceptably remake a movie that was done well the first time is to change the medium. That's the rule. Okay, so you can go to animation from live action, which is weird.

You can definitely go to live action from animation, which is cool because it's been done. Jungle Book, was that good? I don't know. Yeah, it was good. There was a live action character in that though. And there's not one in The Lion King. Yeah, I was like, oh, Donald Glover's in it.

And then I was like, no he's not. His voice is in it. It's different, guys. I haven't seen enough movies to know what to remake. So let's ask another question. Every movie that I've seen, I only see movies if they're fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and the audience likes them.

And I, you know, what? I don't see a lot of movies. Clearly. Right, yeah, you don't like Rotten Tomatoes reviews? You don't think they're reliable? No, I just don't think you get both of those together. Oh, you don't get both those together. Yeah, I don't watch a lot of movies in the theater.

I ain't got time for that. It's gotta be a knock it out of the park type situation. Madison Wright asks, I'm gonna remake Aquaman. Like I wanna do a low budget, I'll be Aquaman. I can't hold my breath that long. We actually, we heard an interesting sort of industry story about Aquaman that I wanted to tell.

Huh? The live action Aquaman is out right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, with Jason Momoa. But I'm a go ahead and remake it. My wife's favorite person who's not me, Jason Momoa. Now, here's something that, we heard this, this is inside industry knowledge.

We know someone who knows someone who worked in some costume design on Aquaman and they spent all this time creating this amazing in some costume design on Aquaman. And they spent all this time creating this amazing handmade Aquaman suit that was like, had the, I don't remember, I haven't seen it, I'm not gonna see it. Scale, scale.

But it's like scales and they were like made out of something and like, it was, they spent like months like working on this thing and like hand crafting it and then then they gave it to Jason Momoa and he picked it up and was like, it's too heavy. And so they ended up painting the stuff on him. Yeah. Take that.

Which we've done that. Jessie, that's what Jason Momoa will do for you. You'll work on his suit for months and then you just give it to him and he's like, too heavy. But he looks great just having paint on him. So she knows that. Yeah, right, I shouldn't have brought him up. I shouldn't even say his name

because it just puts him in her mind. I'm actually thinking about seeing that movie. And she looks at me. Oh, yeah, right. That's why I'm going to the gym, man. I'm gonna be Jason Momoa in about nine months. Okay, you wanna think about that a little bit or do you want me to move on?

Yeah, let's go with Erickson here. Oh you wanna go there. No, we'll go back, let's go back. We'll get to everybody. Madison. Why don't we read it? I gave birth to a pineapple. On your tour in Portland.

Right. Are you ever going to start sending me fruit child support or do I need to bring in my mom's cousin's daughter who's a lawyer slash opera singer? This is Madison who was incredibly memorable and actually was the first person to give birth to the pineapple. Well we didn't, you know, it's just someone on stage

who's supposed to model the pineapple. We didn't say that she had, we did not plan. No. It was an impromptu interaction that led to her simulating childbirth with a pineapple. But to answer your question. I don't think we have to send fruit child support. No, we are not. Not in California.

We're not gonna send you fruit child support. Yes, you need to bring in your mom's cousin's daughter who's a lawyer slash opera singer. I'd like to get litigated via opera. Bring it on, girl. But Madison. Can you dress as Aquaman? Yeah, there's a suit available, it's very heavy though.

Madison was very memorable and I think we were, I remember after she did that, she sat back down and I remember saying something like, we might have an opening at Mythical Entertainment for you because she was so funny in the moment. So really that's what she should have asked is, you know, where do I send my resume? But she didn't, she chose to threaten litigation

and look at her now. Getting belittled in a podcast. Now we can get to Erickson. Cause I didn't wanna. Okay, go ahead. Ray Lee Erickson asks, do you think cannibalism would solve world hunger and population control? Oh gosh, that is a morbid thought, Ray Lee.

If people ate each other, I mean, they would not be as hungry. True, that's true. And then the people who they ate, I as hungry. True. That's true. And then the people who they ate, I assume, would die. Well, is it not? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Because there's three forms of cannibalism, okay? And I don't know the technical terms.

The first form is like the movie Alive about the soccer team that gets stranded in the Alps. That is eating your friends after they've already died. That is a form of cannibalism. In order to survive, yes. And in my mind, that is acceptable. Second form of cannibalism is killing and consuming someone. In my mind, that is not acceptable.

That's murder. And the third form of cannibalism is voluntary non-fatal cannibalism where you cut off part of your body and feed it to a group of people but don't die. Ew. And now this is the most. Where does this happen?

This is the most interesting form of cannibalism in my mind. Well let's camp out here, shall we? Okay. So you're slicing off, you're like at a wedding reception, you got your leg up on the table like a ham hock. Yeah. Like a prime rib and you're just slicing your, oh gosh.

It would have been surgically removed in a sterile environment, you would be okay and then you would present it and you'd be like this week, so we all don't die, we're eating my leg. Now let's not, whether you eat your own self, I don't know, I haven't thought that far. You wouldn't remove your whole leg, you would just remove.

Like a calf muscle. Like a jerky, it would be like a jerky. You'd remove part of the muscle that would a jerky, it would be like a jerky. You'd remove part of the muscle that would then regenerate like a lizard's tail. Muscle doesn't regenerate in that way, but you can build it up and maybe get close to the massive ones. You're right, it doesn't regenerate though.

But you can. That's why it is a, it's not a renewable resource. So that's why this is a bad idea. I mean, I got glutes for days. I've been doing lots of deadlifts. So I feel like I could take, you could take a scoop of my glute out and be like, it's glute scoops tonight. But I do think we should glute scoops.

That's not gonna work. Are those meatballs? No, they're glute scoops. It's not gonna work. Hold on, why don't you think this is gonna work? Because it's not renewable. But farming lizards and then removing their tails for consumption

could help with global impoverishment. Hunger. What kind of nutritional value is there in lizard tails? Some, enough. I'm sure we can breed a meaty-tailed lizard and then you're just scaring it and it loses its tail and then it regenerates and it's like Christmas trees. You have a whole bunch of them and then they're in stages.

So it's like this group of free range, happy lizards, okay, you need lots of land, they're out there roaming around, but it's like they're bred for their meaty tails and they're at different stages. This pasture over here of lizards is, they got some fully developed tails. We're about to scare them.

It's like a crop, yeah. And then all you do is you just run through the pasture and they lose their tails. It's like a ripe peach. That's a pretty good idea. I don't know if it's a good idea. This is like Elon Musk situation, man. I should be talking to him, not you.

I think that lizard tails are probably not as good of an idea as just farming insects because farming insects. But that kills the insects. If you don't wanna kill the insect, then you gotta go with lizards. They're donating their tails, which is kinda what you're talking about with the glute scoops.

I was just trying to go with your vibe here. But if you wanna go back to cannibalism, I really think we have to talk about eating dead people. I mean, just across the board. Well, first of all, I'm not an expert on this, but it is my understanding that eating dead people is not good for humans. The people who are doing the eating,

I think that's unhealthy. I mean, it obviously depends on- More so than just eating meat. What they've died from. But you're saying you could survive- Even if it obviously depends on. More so than just eating meat. What they've died from. But you're saying you could survive. Even if it's prepared well. On a mountain for like, you could survive, but you're saying it's not good for you?

It's not gonna kill you? I seem to. It's not nutrition? I seem to have read at some point that people eating people leads to weird diseases. Maybe I'm wrong about that. That doesn't ring true to me. I mean, isn't like a glute scoop from a freshly dead person who say, you know what,

I wanna donate my glutes to be scooped for, you know, to feed the world. I don't know. Just something about it just seems like it would go bad after a while. If all you're eating is glute scoops for days you know, to feed the world. I don't know. Just something about it just seems like it would go bad after a while. If all you're eating is glute scoops for days on end. Well I'm not saying it's all you eat. I'm not trying to say that butt muscle is a balanced diet.

I'm just saying it's a part of a balanced diet. But technically he was at Ray Lee, which I like that name by the way, Ray Lee, which, I like that name by the way, Ray Lee Erickson. Sounds like. I like that name, Ray Lee Erickson. It does sound like somebody who. I like to scoop your glutes when you die.

It sounds like someone who might, honestly might commit a murder. This week, Ray Lee Erickson arrested for cannibalism in an effort to contribute to population control and solve world hunger. Sorry, I don't know. It's a beautiful name. I don't, I don't, I think it's a good idea

to eat fresh, consensual dead people. Consensual. I don't know, man, I don't know. I think if you- You're curious what it tastes like. Well, here's what- I know that. I already said that if I had to, I would, without qualms, eat a person for survival.

Life or death. But I wouldn't make it a part of my diet. But there is an interesting proposition that if for some reason it doesn't turn out to be bad for you, if we could just take all the dead people and create a slurry out of them. Oh gosh. Like Soylent Green.

What? Right, I mean that's, Soylent Green is people. Spoiler alert. But seriously, I mean, that's, Soylent Green is people, spoiler alert. But seriously, I mean like, you could potentially create a Soylent from dead human tissue and if it was. But I don't like to eat meat slurry. I like to eat, I like to eat like cuts of meat.

It would have additives in it that would make it taste okay. Okay, fine, let's do it. It seems to be better than just letting them rot or burning them. I don't think it's an abomination. I mean, it sounds like it should be, but I don't think it technically is.

I don't even know what that means. I don't know if you can determine what an abomination is on a personal level. Maybe it's not an abomination, well I think you can because if it's not an abomination, it's definitely an abomination to some people, okay? Right. But I would do it, like I said.

You wanna move on because Pete Sheridian. I think that's just Sheridan. Oh okay, Pete Sheridan asks, you know Pete, you. I think it's just Sheridan. Oh okay. Pete Sheridan asks, you know Pete, you should think about. You've been in LA too long. All you gotta do is add one more I, Pete Sheridan, and you're onto something. You and Ray Lee Erickson can eat dead people together.

Pete Sheridian and Ray Lee Erickson, the serial killing duo. Glute scooping across America. Who knew that when you ask a question on the social media that we were gonna make you into cannibalistic serial killing duo? Yeah, be careful, be careful what you ask for. Dressed as Aquaman.

Pete Sheridan asks, do you guys know what this rash on my leg is? Well, first of all, Pete, you didn't send a picture. Second of all, Pete, don't send a picture. I don't know how to identify rashes on legs, but I wonder if that impacts the viability of the meat of the leg.

You definitely do not want meat that has been bashed in hydrocortisone cream. You know what I'm saying? Or not and just has a rash. Yeah, well, you peel the skin off. Does the rash go to the muscle? If the rash goes to the muscle, Pete, you need to see a doctor immediately

because that's not a rash. to the muscle, Pete, you need to see a doctor immediately because that's not a rash. Well, kinda like an apple gets rotten, starts on the skin and then it's a little different. Yeah, that would be gangrene, that's not a rash. Okay. Don't eat the mushy parts. If the glute scoops mushy, move on.

Speaking of good names, Magnus Marr-Pason. Getting a closer look? No, no, Magnus Marr-Palson. Okay. Which is definitely some sort of Scandinavian name, I would think, right? Who are we to generalize? I get a lot of ideas and inspiration from you guys.

Wow, well thank you. From watching new GMMs and Ear Biscuits as well as just watching old Rhett and Link music videos and old GMM videos back when you guys started. I wanted to know what content creators, musicians and authors, et cetera, inspire you guys? That's a good question, MMP. Now first of all, this question makes me a little bit,

I feel a little inadequate whenever I think about this and definitely when I'm asked it. Here's why. Okay. Whenever you see like respected artists interviewed, talk about their work, it seems like the references, their influences and references to other works are like right on the tip of their tongue.

And I've always felt a little funny about that because sure, me and you are heavily, have been heavily influenced by a lot of people and a lot of forms of entertainment, but we haven't processed it very directly, right? Sometimes people are like, what did you guys think was funny growing up? And I'll be like, my dad.

Which is, which is, has influenced the way that I make the funny. But also like me and you, we were big fans of Seinfeld. We watched Seinfeld in high school. We watched SNL growing up and we would bond over the latest like Jack Handy deep thoughts. Lorne Michaels is famous for saying that people usually say that their favorite era of SNL

is when they were in high school. For us, I think it may have been when we were middle school is when we were like really connecting with it. Yeah. But anyway, sure, there's lots of like sort of the traditional things that we're influenced by, but it's not this very direct, it's not like we are just guys,

like we're not filmmakers, right? We hope to make movies. We have made a documentary, but we haven't made a scripted narrative film yet. But when we sit down to do that, it's not like we're a film director who's like, well, these are my favorite visual influences. These are the DPs that I like,

these are the directors that I like, this is the style that I like and this is the way that I'm gonna kinda take these pieces and then create my derivative yet original approach to this thing. And it's just not, that's not how we, we don't think that way directly. I think we think that way sort of inherently.

Actually, I have a list. Oh good, go for it, tell your list. Just joking. Yeah, I relate to that, but I did come up with somebody and I do think if you look at a particular medium if you look at a particular medium and then we really think about it, we can say who inspired us, okay? So if you think about music

or if you think about our favorite films or our favorite television shows, we can trace, or the internet, we can trace the things that inspire us to be creative. It just requires a little work that maybe we haven't done. But an answer did come to my mind, which is related to what I'm saying, the fact that we have aspirations in so many of these different genres,

like we wanna music, live performance, movies, television, internet, books, we wanna do all these things. Like even, it's just exciting to be creative in all the different mediums, which means that, which made me think that I'm really inspired by Donald Glover because of the way that he's done all of those things.

And refused to really be identified, or pigeonholed as any particular. Yeah, like. Any particular genre or medium. I mean, that last album is one of my favorites. You know, I can pick out his musical influences. The most recent or the previous? Awaken My Love, which is, I mean,

he's only released singles. Yeah, he's just done singles since then. You know, and then the way that Atlanta is so, it's so creative and it's a comedy, but it's so many more things than that and each episode is an opportunity to reinvent what the show is. You know, there's lots of, it's just,

I love the way he approaches his live shows. And I've, you know, he makes them so special for the people who go there and they're events, they're not just a concert. And he just has that mentality. He's working on some movie with Rihanna. Yeah, jealous much. That's pretty inspiring.

Yeah and you know what? So just that mentality of I have an idea to do this type of thing in this medium and I'm gonna do it well. A lot of people don't know, well you probably know if you're listening to this, but he started on YouTube. He was in Derek Comedy, which I don't,

I guess that channel still exists, but it was him and some of his friends just making sketches. Some people who were back making sketches on YouTube back in the day are still on YouTube. Other people are Donald Glover. But he- But we have a tremendous opportunity given the way that we've been successful

to then say, hey, we do wanna write a book or we do wanna do a stage show and then we can actually do it. write a book or we do wanna do a stage show and then we can actually do it. So I'm very much inspired by the creative terms with which he goes into something and the way that he brings his fans along with him. I may have talked about that before.

So I mean that's always inspiring. So I think that's my answer for right now. That's a good answer. If I could go back in time, I'd probably come up with even more answers. But the interesting thing is that you're inspired by him in a similar way that now I'm thinking of someone who inspires me in a similar way.

But again, it's not as direct of an inspiration. So in other words, we wanna do a lot of things, we wanna do them all in an excellent way. And Donald Glover is this sort of impossible standard that we can always sort of aspire to and never reach, but hopefully get better as we try to. But there's nothing in particular about any of the stuff that he does which is going to be like,

we're not gonna make like a funk album, whatever. By the way, did I tell you? Unless you want to. Did we tell him that I met him? Yeah, I think we told the story about meeting him at a local place. I personally thought that- Walking around a park. You should have gone up to him with your son Lando

and said, my son's name is Lando, can I get a picture with you? And it would have been like a cool, a really cool thing. I didn't need it to be for anybody else but me. But. I didn't need to share it with. But as we've established before, you went up to John C. Reilly while he was eating

with his friends in a restaurant. That was the different one. So you're not above going up to celebrities. Well, I've changed. But again, so but it's not specific works, but somebody whose career inspires me and is inspiring me right now, because I tend to be influenced by things

as I'm kind of exploring them, the Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay Duplass, they've got a book that I'm listening to, it's like a short audio book, it's like seven hours. And it's called Like Brothers. But they are brothers. And they are brothers, interesting, isn't it? Now, the thing, I wouldn't have said that like, I haven't seen all their movies and I wouldn't say

that like I'm a student of the Duplass Brothers films and obviously very familiar with them and kind of know a little bit about their story and like the independent film situation and Puffy Chair and Sundance and all that stuff. So I've always had this respect and I've always kind of known that I think they're about our age or a little bit older.

Well, reading this book has been kind of weird in one sense because these two guys from the South with a weird obsession with Lionel Richie. Really? Who both, the way they divide their work up in terms of like one's kind of the starter and one's kind of the finisher, and that's just to name a few things.

There was some other sort of like, in their book, their wives read one chapter. Really? Yeah, yeah. And then their book is sort of like a compendium of unsolicited advice, but they actually had the wherewithal to use the term unsolicited advice when they gave it. We just gave it. And then like stories from their past

and how their relationship works and that kind of thing is the way they communicate. Anyway, I told you that you should be listening to it. You should at some point. You should be listening to it as well. Why are you listening to this? You should go listen to that Duplass Brothers book. But anyway, the thing that's super inspiring about them

is just this, you listen to somebody's story about, I think the thing that they sort of represent is sticking to artistic intention and not compromising, not compromising too much. Because the other thing that they are is they're not like, and they say it multiple times in the book, but they're not these very precious artists who have this vision that cannot be compromised.

They know they're practical. They have a practical, they come from a very, like a practical place where, you know, they know how to work with people and they know how to try to get their vision but also do it in a practical way that like satisfies like a studio that they may be working with or whatever. But anyway, it just got me, I got super inspired.

To what? Or was it to what or just not? Well, we're always thinking and doing things, again, I feel like I say this a lot on Ear Biscuits, we're always thinking about and working on things that we can't talk about. But I think that some of the things that they talked about in terms of like establishing,

let's put it this way, it made me feel really good about some things that we're working on in terms of like things that kind of pull from your personal experience. They use the term mining the epic smallness of your own life, which is the idea that you have a very particular perspective and background and you kind of get in the middle of it

and you get too close of it and you can kind of discount, oh, we shouldn't be telling this person's story, we should be telling our story. Now they tell a bunch of different stories, but they're always telling it kind of through the perspective of what they know and how they see the world. I always get excited about telling stories and what we're going to do with that as our career advances.

So anyway. Well that's a good book recommendation, right? There you go. I hope we can meet him and hang out with Lionel Richie, all five of us together. That'll be a wonderful, wonderful quintuple date. Are they obsessed with the pose? Because that would be a little too close.

There's no reference to the pose. Okay, good. Oh, and they had a band together. So they were a band together. And they sang Lionel covers, which I actually don't think we ever sang a Lionel cover. That's different. We were too cool for that.

No, we just weren't good enough. Well that brings our AMA to a close, but you know what, I think we have one more answer. You inspire us. Oh wow. By listening. Yes, yes. Boy, nothing quite as inspiring as giving us attention. So thanks for doing that.

We've heard that we've been an inspiration to people. And boy, that is really nice. Yeah, I actually was. Really nice to find out that you've inspired somebody. I was looking through, as I do from time to time, Looking for? Reviews of our book of mythicality. I do that from time to time for self-validation

and I came across a review that was, somebody gave us two stars, two stars out of five, and then said, if these guys were half as interesting as they think they are, this would be a good book. And so yeah. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, we think we're pretty interesting.

Yeah, we think we're pretty interesting. I don't know what to say to that. You're not really supposed to, I just thought it was funny. Oh. But you know what else is interesting? You should go to youtube.com slash Ear Biscuits. It's a new YouTube channel. You can subscribe to it now.

There's nothing there, but there will be soon, including. Zero subscribers? We're not, I thought we were repurposing a channel. It has 2,100. Yeah, yeah, okay. So we have a little bit of a head start. But, over there. 22,000 subscribers. And subscribe to YouTube.com

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