Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 175: What Are We Most Looking Forward To In 2019? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 175

Episode Date: January 7, 2019

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This, this, this, this is Mythical. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Rhett. And I'm Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we are asking the question, what are we most looking forward to in this, the year that is 2019? 2019. Nope, don't year that is 2019. 2000 and the 19.

Nope, don't say 2019. 2019. We've left that behind. 21 nine. It's, you know, it's so fresh. I'm so glad to be here experiencing 2019, to be in the middle of it. I don't even remember 2018.

It is such a distant memory. Yeah. That I can't even access. I can't even remember 2018. It is such a distant memory. Yeah. That I can't even access. I can't even imagine being in 2018 and thinking about 2019. I remember some things about it, like capping it off with an incredible holiday season. Yep.

Got to spend it here in Los Angeles. Yeah, first time ever. Didn't have any, there was no interpersonal conflict between me and my family. For the first time, me neither. Yeah there was no arguments at all. The kids seemed grateful for everything that they got for Christmas.

I'm talking about my presents. I'll tell you the presents I'm gonna get in a little bit. And they were perfect. Like things I didn't know that I wanted, I got and they weren't only for my benefit but for the benefit of society. Well this is probably a good time to tell you. And the New Year's Eve party, whoo!

I think this is a great time to tell you that. Party. It's still 2018 when we're recording this and we have not yet experienced any of the holiday festivities. Okay. But we're basically just trying to make it seem like they went great.

Yeah, so in the next Ear Biscuit, I predict that we will record it in the new year and that we will talk about and give each other and you an update on how our 2018 wound down in terms of the holidays and the New Years and I'm planning to go to Sedona. I'm gonna check out some Sedona. Sedona, you don't say. Sedona say.

Tried to find a pun. By the time this comes out, I will be back from that and then so the next recording, I'll tell y'all about it and my gifts that I didn't know would be so amazing and New Year's Eve and all that jazz. Well, I'm going to Mexico. That's right.

But you're going on a romantic excursion, right? Yes, I am. The children are being left alone at home to fend for themselves. You know, 10 and 14, I feel like that's adequate. I mean, back in the 1800s. Are you serious? Yeah, back in the 1800s, you could leave a 10,

you could leave a four year old alone for months and they fended for themselves. And they learned how to hunt. I mean, we gave Locke access to the car. He looks old enough to drive and the grocery store's not too far from the house. He's got a credit card, he's gonna keep them fed. I did believe you for a little bit.

You thought I was gonna leave my kids home alone? You were very convincing. Really? I mean, I thought that we ran out, we like expended all of our lives in the previous bit and I thought you were done with that. I've got lies for days. Well, that's true.

I should have known that. No, the kids will be being taken care of by a responsible adult, but they will not be with me. I'll tell you that right now. Well, my compromise, my kids are gonna be with me, but I'm gonna, we're not doing the RV thing, which I don't know if I regret that. I'll let you know.

So anyway, we're gonna give you an update on everything that happened, but for now, we are absolutely in the 2019 mindset. We've got some things that we've pulled together that we know are happening in the coming year that boy, when I start going through this list, I get excited. I like having little, some of it's like little silly or frivolous things

that I can just go ahead and put on my calendar with just like some asterisks. It's like, you know, just a little pop to your life, just a little something to look forward to. It could be a movie, it could be an album, it could be something personal or something professional, we'll get into all that. Yeah, yeah, we will get somewhat personal.

But a lot of these things are things that you're gonna have an opportunity to enjoy yourself if you have access to an internet connection and you're not living under a rock. You'll be able to enjoy these things as well. Do you wanna go ahead and talk about some of them? Yeah, let's get into it. Right now? Yeah, I think an easy category to start with is movies.

I have this, let's see, what is this? I have an app called Flickster. I got that app too. Powered by Rotten Tomatoes. Not a sponsor, but yeah, it's got, it gives all the ratings in there but it also tells you when new movies are coming out and you can scroll, sometimes you can scroll

like months and months and months in advance and boy did I find a gem in there. Well first of all, before we get into the specific movies, I know a lot of people have, you know, there's a not insignificant percentage of people who when you talk about, when you start talking about movies and what you're gonna see and it has been reviewed and you're like, ah, it didn't get great reviews.

It's only got a so and so on Rotten Tomatoes. And then they're like, I don't really go by that. No, you're saying they. I go by it, but there's not a small percentage of people who just ignore what Rotten Tomatoes says, as if Rotten Tomatoes is one thing. Rotten Tomatoes is by definition an aggregate score of both critics and then separately, fans.

And so submitting yourself to it drastically increases your chances of seeing a good movie. Feldman, you're upset about this because you like to think of yourself as like an opinionated artiste. That's why I brought this up. Who doesn't want to, it's a betting game that you'll win but what will happen is, yeah you're an individual and you might like something.

You know why you can play that game? Because you don't have children, man. If you have children, you can't risk that. You also don't have taste, just kidding. You can't risk. That's a joke, a big part of your job is taste. I'm just laughing because you're explaining Rotten Tomatoes to people.

Oh no no, no no. He's laughing because we're explaining Rotten Tomatoes to people. The reason I am explaining it is because the people who have told me they don't go by Rotten Tomatoes talk to me as if Rotten Tomatoes is just a guy named Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, if like A.O. Scott was the only person,

shout out to a film critic that I can think of, it might not even be right, if he was the only one that was on there that, I'm not gonna go by one critic's recommendations, but it's an aggregate. And it's not like, I mean, even though I do also do the same thing with restaurants and Yelp, and then people are like, but yeah, people can beat the system on Yelp.

Yes, they can, and it happens occasionally, but as a general rule, if there's a large number of reviews, it's a pretty accurate predictor of what kind of experience you're gonna have at a restaurant. There's a reason that these apps exist. Are you, okay. This is not an app, this is not an ad for an app, Flixster or Rotten Tomatoes, it's just, you know,

I think we're of the same school of thought here that I'm not gonna waste my time if it's not certified fresh. So I mean, I didn't provoke the rant, I don't know who you've been talking to. Feldman was just looking the other way and we interpreted that as Nina rant fired at him. Rant cannon on.

Star Wars Episode X is coming out. That'll be, I believe that's towards the end of the year. Here's the thing, I don't know because I try to know so little because I want to experience it with no, without being influenced by anything. So episode nine. But do you like to know at what point in the story it comes?

Well I've seen the other ones. All I wanna know is what I know from seeing the other ones. So I mean all I wanna know is what I know from seeing the other ones. Which yeah, I'll watch them again. What's the Kylo and Rey situation? What are they up to? They making babies yet? Hope they're not related and making babies.

I'll definitely see it. Will Darth Vader come back as a ghost? I'm not, you know, I'm just, I enjoy the films. I, you know, had a tradition of taking, like my whole family back in North Carolina when I was at home for Christmas, back when they were coming out every Christmas,

you couldn't get away from them. Yeah. I would take everybody to the movie, but I don't know. I just can't say that I'm particularly excited about it. I am, I really liked the last one. I'm not too picky. I'm just happy when it's done well. So I'm not gonna mention that Solo movie.

Oh, so you're extracting Solo out of this, you're saying it's like a blip on a radar and you're un-blipping it. Yeah, don't even hear it. I'll tell you what I am excited about is. But I'm not watching any, my final point is that I'm not watching or listening, no trailers. If I'm watching another movie and the trailer

for Star Wars comes on, I am literally going to close up every orifice. Like I'm gonna go into like a tornado drill type situation. I just, I like, it's just, that's what keeps it special for me and my family, they'll probably have to see them and they'll get all excited and I like. So they don't. We still get very excited about it.

They don't abide by the same principle? No they don't. No spoilers whatsoever? They can't resist, they can't resist, they get mad at me. Because they want to tell me about it and they get mad because I'm like. The movie I'm most excited about but I'm also a little bit apprehensive about, I'm anxious about it is Jordan Peele's

movie Us which is his, you could call it a follow up to Get Out. You shouldn't. But here's the thing. It has nothing to do with it, except that he's making it, right? Well, what it has to do with it, it is another horror movie that plays into,

is a commentary on racial issues. Oh it is? Yeah. And so, so first of all, that's what made Get Out so great, right? Everything about Get Out made Get Out great. A, the fact that it was completely unexpected. It's like, what is this guy from a comedic duo

suddenly doing making a movie? It would be like one of us making a movie that was good. That's not gonna happen. Speak for yourself. And all of a sudden. Yeah and you can't recreate that part of it. That unexpected huge success, $30 million opening weekend,

100 million plus dollars gross is like, he sets such a high bar that that's a difficult thing, but it also means he can write his own check at this point. But anyway, the thing that made it great was, if you haven't seen it, please, even if you're a person that's like, I don't like horror movies, I don't like them, I don't like that, I don't understand horror movies. I don't like them. I don't like that. I don't understand.

So spicy today. While anyone would want to be like purposely like around that negative energy. Like why would you submit yourself to something that kind of thing? Cause it just makes me feel triggered and I don't want to watch it. Especially if it's highly rated on Rotten Tomato.

That guy means nothing to me. If Rotten Tomato said that it was good, then my experience is that he's wrong and it's bad. So I'm not going to see it. Sorry, 2019 is the new Rhett. Even meaner than 2018. And we're not even actually in it. That's scary.

I'm just ramping up for it. Yeah. Go see it, you're not gonna get hurt. It's a movie. Who tinkled in your? It's not even Smell-O-Vision yet. Cereal. It's not even one of those rides at Disneyland

where all of a sudden you get sprinkled with water. That doesn't happen. It's just, you're in a seat, it's a screen. It's just images. Now will the Twilight. It's not gonna hurt you. I wonder if the Twilight Zone movie, which I don't know if he's directing, he's producing.

He was producing a number of movies that are coming out this year as well. So he's like, he's got this backlog. They were talking, there was one, maybe it was Us, then it was the Twilight Zone, so I don't know which one comes out first. So, I'm sorry, I keep getting sidetracked, but it was so unexpected, it was so good,

it was so legitimately scary, suspenseful, it was well acted, all the performances were great. It can't, Us can't be as good, because the surprise element's gone. It was funny, and. I hope it is. But it doesn't have to be. It was funny and. I hope it is. But it doesn't have to be. This very timely, brilliant commentary on racial issues that it was a commentary on racism in a way,

in like this fresh unexpected way that actually sort of highlighted the racism of white people who don't realize that they're racist. Right, it was this brilliant thing. Everyone's seen the movie. No, but what I'm saying is that, I'm just pointing out the fact why it was so brilliant because it was just so unexpected and so great in so many ways and then he said that he has always wanted to

for a very long period of time, had in his mind a way to explore those kinds of social issues through horror. And that he had a bunch of ideas lined up and Us was the next one that he had lined up. Let me just give you a few details because I want you to get excited about this. Oh I'm excited.

I'm afraid, I'm actually trying to lower the bar and say success is a 75% of get out. It's coming out March 2019. It centers around two couples, one black and one white. The black couple is played by Winston Duke from, he played M'Baku in Black Panther and Lupita Nyong'o is the woman in that couple and then the white couple is Elizabeth Moss.

Oh she is so white. And speaking of white, Tim Heidecker. Tim Heidecker, he's white too. Tim Heidecker of Tim and Eric. Yeah he. Plays the boyfriend or husband, I don't know the. I'd forgotten this and that's amazing. I mean he took a dramatic turn in a movie

that I didn't see that I read about. I can't remember what it's called. We stood in a very tight alley with Tim Heidecker one time for the Mythical show. Remember that tight alley? Yeah that was, they really slathered on the awkwardness. Yeah. And I could barely take it, but I didn't crumble.

The comedy was the name of Tim's movie, which was ironically titled. And not only that, Duke Nicholson, who's Jack Nicholson's 22 year old grandson is making his acting debut in this movie. What? Yeah, Jack Nicholson's grandson, man. Nicholson is a great name.

If you can't get excited about this. Sounds like an inventor, like a guy, like a Ron Popeil kind of guy. Like, and now another vegetable cutting device from the mind of Duke Nicholson. He's also an actor. Yeah, well anyway, I am super excited about it. I do realize that, and I do agree with you

that the chances that it can't, it just can't be. If it was as good as Get Out, the argument is this. The argument, for those of you who care about this, I've heard this, I heard Michael Rapaport make this argument about why Lebron can never be as good as Jordan. Okay. And that is because Michael Jordan changed the game

so significantly that no one else, unless they're like from a different planet, can change the game in the way that Jordan did. So he literally changed everything about the game. Now all of a sudden people had their own shoe and people had their own brand and he played completely differently. He introduced things that seemed otherworldly to the game

that LeBron can only add onto. So in a one-on-one match, sure, maybe LeBron would beat Jordan. We can't really, we don't know. But he can't, so what. I think we do know, but. This stage was set for Jordan to come and make, for Jordan, I'm talking about another Jordan,

I didn't even mean to say that, Jordan Peele to make this movie in a way that he can't replicate, like you said, the unexpected success. So now it's just like, is it gonna be as good? So it actually stands a great chance to be a better movie, but even it has to be a twice as good, which is impossible, right, in order to be actually better. I think about the M. Night Shyamalan

Sixth Sense being followed up by Unbreakable, which I really like Unbreakable. You know, it was kind of a shame because I really liked it for it to come out after Sixth Sense which I haven't seen. Well, what, you're joking right? Hold on, hold on, you haven't seen Sixth Sense? You're joking, that's a joke. I know you haven't seen a lot of movies

but you've seen Sixth Sense. I missed that one. You missed that one? It was kind of a Blair Witch kind of situation. No it wasn't. Yeah. What do you mean by that? I don't know why I didn't see it.

I saw Unbreakable though. I tried to catch up. Hold on. I seen the next one and I really liked it. You know why I really liked it? Because I hadn't seen Sixth Sense. But Sixth Sense didn't fall in that weird 80s time where you were in a weird situation

and I didn't understand what was happening. I think I was the person you were making fun of. It's like, this doesn't seem like a type, this seems like a spooky movie. I don't like those kind of movies. But how did I see it? What year did Sixth Sense come out, like 98? I didn't, anyway, I think the advice is

if you haven't seen Get Out, don't see it before seeing Us. Watch Us first and love it and then go back and watch Get Out second. That's what you need to do. That's it. All right, we're gonna get, I got another movie that I'm super, super excited about is happening and then we'll move on to some other stuff.

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First of all, I'm just gonna say this very quickly that at the end of July, the new Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood comes out. You just can't ignore this movie because it's got Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, the late Burt Reynolds, and how'd they do that? Al Pacino, the late Burt Reynolds, and. How'd they do that?

CGI. No, they shot the film before he died. And drum roll please. Duke Nicholson. Luke Perry. Luke Perry? Sideburns. Wow, we saw him in Mel's Diner

right when we came to Hollywood and thought we were. We were meeting with a potential manager. This is what Hollywood is. Like a Hollywood manager. Meet me at the Mel's Diner. I can be your manager. And we go in there, we sit down, he's like, hey, I can be your manager.

You got some talent. You got some talent, boys. And we look over his shoulder, he did not become our manager. So I'm not making fun of, we don't have a manager. We don't need one, man. We don't need a manager. Looked over his shoulder and there's Luke Perry.

We're like, dang, we're at the wrong table. Yeah, we want Luke Perry to be our manager. I am excited about that. I know Tarantino's a little controversial, but this is supposed to be one of his most Pulp Fiction-like movies since Pulp Fiction. So I, which is potentially. Centered on the cultural backdrop

of the Charles Manson, Tate, LaBianca murders. We'll see. Bruce Lee is in the movie. It's also controversial. How is Bruce Lee, I mean someone's playing Bruce Lee in the movie. Yeah why not? It's controversial because it centers around

the Manson murders. And some of the family members are saying you can't make a movie about that. Which I don't. Who knows what he's gonna do but it's hard to ignore. I guess I don't understand. We make movies about historical murders all the time. We should mention, I mean we should mention It,

chapter two comes out. I wanna mention it, yeah. I'm excited, It was my other. And then I've got one more. Actually, It and Get Out were two of my favorite movies of 2018 and watched both. Locke and I have kind of become horror movie buddies and we went to see It and Get Out together.

And again, the balance of horror with comedy. It was brilliant. The way that they. I thought it was brilliant. And I know a lot of people said that they weren't scared by Pennywise. Again, I don't understand. It was great.

Check your pulse, man. But I thought it was great and it was, as we've already discussed on the podcast, not even comparable to the original. The original sucked compared to the new one. Don't even get me started on that. And let me give you a couple of, let me give you a couple of tidbits. Now first of all, in the book,

in the book It, written by Stephen King, they kinda go between the original, you know, The band of kids as kids. 1989 when there were kids and then 20, is it 27 years later in 2016 is when, well in the book it was, there was 26 years or 27 years between the two time periods and whatever when he wrote it.

But anyway, it's the modern day 2016 is when it's supposed to take place but they're going back and kind of accessing memories and so you're seeing the kids from the original movie but then all the kids grown up played by James McAvoy. Well hold on, you just said that, you kind of missed the two, in the book,

Oh so that's presented as a flashback. So they're doing that in the second movie. But in the movie it was just presented as kids and then at the end there's kind of like okay, now they're gonna get older and so now we know that in the second movie, it's them coming back as adults, and then there's, but we know that there's flashbacks

because. Nick Hamilton. Is that, that's the bully? Yeah, so. Who's a Mythical Beast. Nick Hamilton. Shout out to Nick. Fan of the show, Mythical Beast, Australian,

plays, played the bully, just a complete, just horribly, awesomely horrible guy in IT. He's reached out to us and we were gonna actually spend some time with him when we went to Australia but he was in Melbourne. Guess what, he was filming IT 2, IT Chapter 2 and he couldn't be there. So we know he's in 2, and he couldn't be there.

So we know he's in it, hopefully he doesn't get cut. No, but Nick's a great guy, we hope to actually meet at some point, maybe have him on the show. You say he's a great guy. He is because. Because he likes us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got great taste and that usually translates to great character.

His Twitter messages were very amicable. Yeah. So that's enough for us to believe he's a great guy. I do believe he is. In order to play a character that evil that well, I think you actually have to be very good as a, you know, morally as a person. Anyway, the kids, the grownups in the movie,

the grownup kids played by James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Jay Ryan, Bill Hader. Bill Hader's in it. Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice guy is in it. I met him in a sports attic or some sort of shop that sells shoes. And talked to him. Talked to him.

About shoes, I think. Oh, just about shoes. And talk to him. Talk to him. About shoes, I think. Oh, just about shoes. You didn't say, you're not on a horse, or anything like that. Right. James. We've met both Old Spice men. Met Terry Crews.

Met Terry Crews. As well. Yeah. James Ransone and Andy Bean. Anyway, I'm super excited about it. Again, it's the kind of thing that. I'll definitely see that. It's difficult to imagine it being as good

as the first one. It's easier than the, it's not the Jordan Peele predicament. It's the second half of a story, it's the second half of a story, yeah. Right. I already said it, man, I said it was horrible. I said that the 1990 version was horrible. Now, it's not even watchable, it's garbage.

Let me tell you, speaking of not garbage. Okay. Speaking of amazing news, this year, Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral comes out. Wow. And this is the last, and it will be the 10th Madea Family Funeral comes out. Wow. And this is the last, and it will be the 10th Madea movie. I was gonna get you to guess, and then I forgot.

Would you have guessed the 10th Madea movie? I would have said the 15th. No you, really? I would have definitely said double digits. Definitely. I was surprised, so it's the 10th, and he said that it is the last one. I don't know if she dies,

but I do know I'm not gonna see it. I'm just gonna be very, I'm really looking forward to it coming out though. It's just like he needs to put it to bed. Have you ever watched one? I haven't. Maybe that's the problem. You know what we need to do?

A marathon. We need to catch up. Madea Marathon. We need to catch up so we can get on the Madea train. Let's watch nine movies in one sitting and just wear bags that we pee in. Hold on. Like literally not get up the whole time. Hold on.

We filmed the whole thing. I'm legitimately getting excited about this so watch out. I think that we should. Rhett and Link's Madea Marathon. We should watch every, we should make it into an event where we watch all nine, oh my gosh this is crazy. Hold on but seriously, we cannot get up. No I'm not doing that.

You have to pee into a stadium towel, the bag. No I'm not. You have to put on the external catheter. That's not healthy. I don't wanna do anything that's gonna cause me lasting physical damage. One of the things I was gonna tell you about, I was gonna save it for my personal section,

but I'll go ahead and say it. I'm thinking about wearing one to work in 2019. Because I keep having to get up from meetings to pee. And I'm having to pee more often as I get older. And so I was just like, I'm gonna wear the frickin' thing that I can just pee right into a bag. I feel like this idea makes it worse, but let's have a constructive brainstorming moment here.

And hashtag Ear Biscuits, let us know, I mean, I think this can be a seminal, mythical moment for 2019 leading up to the Madea premiere, which we are going to attend in person, but we will come straight from having watched all nine. Like how, all nine back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back. That's gotta be at least 18 hours.

Yes, and we're gonna be sleep deprived, we're gonna be nutty, and you apparently will have not, have stayed in one place. That's fine for you, man. Like live your world. I'm not gonna crap in a bag. I'll get up for that. Let's not leave this.

Let's leave it for now but let's not leave this idea, okay? Okay but. We're gonna catch up. Tyler Perry has to acknowledge this though. I'm not doing it if he doesn't acknowledge it. It's not that I'm happy that it's over. I was just making a joke at the Madea series expense but it's really that I've never watched any of them

and so why would I start with the 10th one? And we're gonna solve that. I've watched bits and pieces of the ones that have been on television, and I always find them funny. You have to go into a certain mode and sort of say that this is the type of comedy, you know, it's. There's a reason why he's made 10. Yeah, and once you kinda say,

this is not supposed to be some like super art house, art sophisticated, this is low hanging fruit humor, man. It's really funny. Okay. It's almost sophisticated in how broad it is. You know? So. Speaking of ketchup, let's move to television

and I'm just gonna throw out two things here. Stranger Things 3 is coming out. Excited about that. I never watched all of season two. Oh well then that says something about how excited you are about season three. My family left me in the dust and I never went back so I gotta go back and watch season two I think before I can watch season three

but maybe not. But like oh that person's still here, not dead, okay. Just watch the recap man. Okay. Just watch the season recap. Speaking of catch up, I do have one more. Okay I've got a TV show I'm very excited about but go ahead.

Game of Thrones, they have announced that probably beginning March, April, probably be more specific by the time this comes out, season eight which is the final season, the final six episodes of Game of Thrones are coming out. That's pretty huge. I mean that's, I mean, that's like a cultural phenomenon coming to a close.

And I just checked before I came in here because I don't know where I'm at in the series and I'm at episode two of season five. So I think I'm in trouble here because once, there's no way I can catch up before they start to come out and that's really what you need to do because at the rate I'm going, it'll be like another year from now

and I'll finally be, at the very earliest, I'll be caught up. I mean it was this time last year that I started season one. I went through five seasons so it took me a whole year. And I'm in it. You're further back than that. I'm only like season three. You basically, you're done. You're never gonna go back to it.

I read all the books and then that made it a very satisfying experience for me to watch what I've watched but my point is, once it's done and it's all in the can, I don't think I'll be motivated to keep watching. But I would love to be able to catch up and then be a part of the cultural conversation. I just don't think I can do it unless it's all I do

and I make use of that pee bag you're talking about. There's no way that you can catch up in time but that doesn't mean you shouldn't eventually watch it. I just don't think practically I will. You'll get to it if you're still going at a snail's pace right now, it will never end. But there's a motivation. In one sense, this is great.

When there's still fresh episodes coming out, it's a motivation to keep trying to catch up. Do you think this is, is this a personality thing with me? Yeah, this is a flaw. No, to me, this is the same argument that I got into with my son about watching recorded sports events. And so I would say don't tell me the score and don't watch it and don't look on the internet

because when we get home, we're gonna watch said game. What if it's the Super Bowl though? I mean, Super Bowl's a different thing because I'm not interested, I don't care about the results of the Super Bowl. I just watch the Super Bowl because it's a cultural I'm not interested, I don't care about the results of the Super Bowl. I just watch the Super Bowl because it's a cultural phenomenon. But I'm saying it's like an NC State game.

But what if you did, I think it needs to be the Super Bowl plus you cared about the results because that's really, that captures more of the cultural phenomenon of how they're gonna end this whole thing, how they're gonna wrap it up. Like. If you're talking about the inevitability of it being spoiled for you just by being a part

of conversations in Los Angeles, that's a different thing. But I'm talking about, that's not what you said. What you said was is that you were looking for motivation and knowing that it was still going gave you motivation, which is again, back to my argument, is my son said he didn't wanna watch the game because it had already happened. And I was like, well, technically,

what you're seeing on screen has already happened. There's a very small delay. Does that mean that it's not, just because you're not there but the experience is the same. It's not the same because you factor in the cultural component of even if it's just talking with one person about it. Yeah I wouldn't say.

Oh yeah remember that game that you watched two weeks ago? I watched it today, let's talk about it. I don't really wanna talk about it. Yeah I wouldn't say. Oh yeah, remember that game that you watched two weeks ago? I watched it today, let's talk about it. Okay. I don't really wanna talk about it. Well okay, all right, so maybe you got a point because if I saved, let's say I saved. Maybe, yeah. Like a state Carolina game that takes,

what if I decided to skip watching like a state Carolina game, which is a game that I care about the outcome of, and I skip the one in 2019, one of their games in 2019 and I save it for like 2023. At that point, I'm not invested because it has no impact on the current proceedings of the season and the standings and the different players, so.

I watched Mad Men. Maybe that makes sense. I watched Mad Men totally late and it was one of my favorite shows. But it's a story. It's a story though. But I missed out on an added component that I think. The social component. Yeah but I did get through Mad Men.

But didn't you wanna see the end of the story? Yes. So that's different. And then for, but I'll never watch The Sopranos. So I don't know, it kinda goes both ways. No, you might. I won't. No, no, I'm saying. I will never watch this Sopranos. So I don't know, it kinda goes both ways. It's like. You might. I won't.

No, no, I'm saying. I will never watch this, I tried, I started. I anticipate. I have no one to talk to about this to help keep me going. Well what if I started watching it? Sopranos buddies. Is that our thing, you and me, The Sopranos?

Yeah, like when we're in a retirement center, you know what I'm saying, I'm talking like when we've got a lot of time. But you're gonna be looking for stuff to binge, man. It's gonna feel like watching a silent film at that point if I live as long as I hope to live. TV that I am incredibly excited about, which we have a fun little story about this one.

So you may remember, I've talked about it before, I talked about it on the internet, 2014 movie called What We Do in the Shadows, which was, it had Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords and Taika Waititi, New Zealand based director who directed Thor, that's what he's known for, but he did a lot of amazing work before that, continues to do incredible stuff.

They were actually both, they created and were starred in this movie which was a vampire mockumentary which was just, I remember tweeting about how it was, when I watched it, it was my favorite movie of 2014 so far. Maybe my favorite movie of 2014. And again, it was one of those things that's just like, first of all, these guys are funny, I find everything that sort of loose group of New Zealanders do.

Kiwis. Those Kiwis are incredibly funny. Like I love their sense of humor. Yeah, it's a specific dryness. And they're just like. It's a friendly dryness. It's like. I just, and they just, I just.

Take a British dryness but then you make it happy. It's one of those things where every once in a while you like see guys who are doing something and you kinda know that they work together and they're friends and I'm just like, man, I would like to be friends with those guys. The movie had a very labor of love quality and I know that like all the sketches and things,

one of them did themselves and it was just like, is very unnecessary but very labor of lovish. Well and it was just, cool. It was hilarious. And it was not something, when you, it was a mockumentary. It's like, you would've thought, oh you can't do those anymore, like they're done.

Mockumentaries are done, oh played out. No, it wasn't, it was incredibly funny. And they are bringing that show, that movie, back to life as a television show on FX that premieres spring of this year, 2019. Now, there's a few things that are different. First of all, Jemaine and Taika are involved. In fact, the way we found out about this

before it was public was we actually met a PR rep from FX who I was like, we were talking about FX and how much we love FX and all the shows on there and she said, well, have you heard of What We Do in the Shadows? I was like, yes! And she was like, it's gonna be a television show. And the inside information that I got at the time,

which was probably public at this point, is that Taika was directing and Jemaine was show running, so basically they are very involved creatively. But a few things to note, it's not the same group of people, it's a different time, different place. It takes place in New. Are there still shadows? It's still very shadowy.

Are there vampires? I believe so. It takes place in New York. Are there still shadows? It's still very shadowy. Are there vampires? I believe so. It takes place in New York, specifically Staten Island and other boroughs. Okay. Why do you need other boroughs if you got Staten Island? All new lead characters, so nobody from the movie, not just actors, but I think it's actually

different characters is what's my understanding of that. So, and Paul Simms, who's the guy who collaborated with Flight of the Conchords for their television show and also is a producer on Atlanta is producing it. So we're talking about a dude who, they're just, the people involved are so talented that it just feels like it has to work and it has to be great.

And then Doug Jones who played the amphibian man in The Shape of Water, he's one of the actors in it. Oh really? I don't know if he plays an amphibian but I think he's got range. I think he can do non-amphibious work. Anyway, sometime in 2019, that is the television that I am extremely excited about.

Yeah and I'll be catching up. I'll just be over here doing my catch up. Shall we shift to music? We shall shift. There's not a place, there's not a repository on the internet that has a reliable, these are albums that are coming out. There's like a Wiki entry, but it's very.

It's too comprehensive to be useful? Well the first thing is, it's not related to a new album coming out, because that's the thing that I looked at and I didn't find anything specifically I was too excited about, honestly. Okay, I got something that's notable. Oh okay.

But, I'll get to it. Rolling Stones, they're doing a tour. How do I know about this? Am I a huge Rolling Stone fan? No, I really like the album Tattoo You, specifically the B side. I'm just waiting on a friend, slave. And the reason you like that is because

I happened to order it. On BMG, way back in the day. I don't know why that's the Rolling Stone album you got. I happened to order it. On BMG way back in the day. I don't know why that's the Rolling Stone album you got. I'm glad it was. Rolling Stone's album. I've listened to a, that was, we loved it. To me that was like their sweet spot of that like funk rock thing that they were doing that,

I don't know what the BPMs were but they're a little bit slower. Yeah, well it has the one, there was like the one big hit on it, can't remember which one it was but it's, it wasn't Satisfaction but it was basically like the one that if you don't know the Rolling Stones you still know it but then it's.

I think it's the first song on the album which again I usually listen to the B-side as well. But I'm going to their show at the Rose Bowl because Britton texted me and he was like, Rolling Stones, coming to the Rose Bowl, let's do it. I'm like, I don't wanna be a fart on a log and so I just sat on the text a little bit and then I'm like, well when is it?

Start me up. Start me up with the, and then I'm like yes, let's do it. Now I'm excited about it. Well let me give you a couple pointers. Having been to a show at the Rose Bowl in a very similar situation when Mike Edwards came into town and he's a big U2 fan and I'm not not a U2 fan but I am,

I understand and appreciate what they've done and there's some songs that I like but I'm not like. Yeah. You know. Do I need to listen to the Rolling Stones and like really become like a super fan? Well what I was gonna say. I can do that.

What I was gonna say is you need to talk to some people and try to get down in the little area next to the stage. Which. What do you mean? You pull some strings, you talk to some people or take advantage of some things. Oh, like say I'm internet famous and get like a backstage pass?

Well, you're not gonna get a backstage pass. Not to the Rolex. Mick Jagger's not gonna let you within 100 feet of him. But I'm saying you can get into the VIP area. Oh. I was, at the U2 concert, I was like right next to the little keystone thing that Bono comes out on. Did you do that instead of getting a seat?

I already had tickets. I already have tickets. And then I was like, ah, you know what I should do? I should figure out if I could get something, some special,. First of all. Well maybe I shouldn't have got. No, no, no, first of all, when you call

who you need to call in order to try to get the thing we're talking about, you gotta talk like this. Hey, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta. You gotta make them think that they're not actually doing anything for you and it usually works and you could get great seats. So you'll be standing. You can get Mick Jagger sweat on your face.

Never wash again. Now, but here's the other thing. But I'll be doing some research. Do not drive. Do not drive. Okay, all right. Do not drive to the other thing. But I'll be doing some research. Do not drive. Do not drive. Okay, all right. Do not drive to the Rose Bowl. This is getting titillating, isn't it?

Because. Don't drive to the Rose Bowl. You know how long Mike and I stayed in my car after the U2 concert waiting to leave? An hour. 90 minutes before we moved. Oh wow. So unless you've got a book on tape

or you just wanna go deep in a conversation with Britton, you need to get a helicopter. So. Call for people and get a helicopter, drop it right into the VIP and they'll pull you right out with a helicopter. So let me get this straight, when the show was over you went back to the car

and then you started up but then you couldn't get no. Exit. Yeah, motion. Music I'm not excited about but I know a lot of people are. There are four albums coming out from bands that some of you may like. Tesla, first of all, Tesla is a band, not just a brand.

Megadeth, Skid Row, and Whitesnake. Hair metal bands all just decided 2019 is the year of hair metal, it's back. It's something about. And as bad as ever. Something about their age and their sweet spot of their fans' age, it's gotta have something to do with that.

It doesn't have anything to do with me, I will say that. Yeah, I will not be partaking. Unless Britton drags me to some of that too. I don't know, I don't think he's into that. It's funny because this is not, I mean, first of all, there are people who would be like, you know, you can't put Megadeth and Whitesnake in the same category. I understand that there's probably,

that's probably faux pas for metalheads. Yeah. But I just don't know anything about it and I don't have any desire to. But I appreciate it again. Here's something you're gonna appreciate. If they came to the Rose Bowl and I could go to the VRC session, I wouldn't do it.

You would? No you wouldn't. I would not. But here's one. New album coming out from Hootie and the Blowfish. Hootie and the Blowfish. Hootie teamed back up with the Blowfish. You know he had a.

He's country now. He was country. He still is country. I know his name is Darius Rucker but he's always gonna be hootie to me and he never was to anybody officially but he's teaming back up with his people. Did you know.

With the Blowfish. Did you know that Darius Rucker did a song with Lionel? Do you know that Lionel did an album called Tuskegee? Yeah. That was a collaboration with a bunch of country artists in like 2016. I don't listen to Lionel now, I listen to the Lionel that was the sweet, sweet spot Lionel.

Well, he does a duet with Rascal Flatts too on that, which, that wasn't one of my favorite songs, but, and it's, you know, when people like Lionel do things in the present day, sometimes it has, especially when they're collaborating with country stars, the polish is, it's over polished to the point that you feel like it loses a little bit of soul. But there are some, there are some really,

really good songs. In fact, I think, I think, who does he do? You're showing your dadness here too much. What does he do? There's nothing legit about this. Hold on, you haven't listened to it. You can't judge it, man. I'm saying it's, I'm sure it's great.

What does he do with Darius Rucker? What song does he do with Darius? Why don't, so you're, what you're telling me is you're going to the Hootie and the Blowfish, you know, you're waiting in line for their album to come out. Darius and, that's kinda, it all goes together. So yeah, they did Stuck On You together and the harmonies are great. I'm sure it's great. It's, you know, you're waiting in line for their album to come out. Darius and Lionel. That's kinda, it all goes together. So yeah, they did Stuck On You together

and the harmonies are great. I'm sure it's great. You need to listen to it. It's just not relevant. Why do I care about that? Okay, that's good. I care about what sticks to my soul, man. And Lionel and Darius Rucker singing Stuck On You

sticks to my soul. I don't like artists covering their own material decades later, period, period. If it's, easy like Sunday morning, leave it on that Sunday morning. Don't give me the updated version. And it's true of Merle. It just doesn't work.

There's a sadness to it. Even if it sounds great, I'm relieved that Lionel's duet with Hootie sounds good, and I think he's still got it, but I don't want him to cover his old songs 20 years later. And here's the thing that I hated, that with streaming music, they can still sneak it in there, but I think the industry doesn't allow for it as much anymore.

I hope I'm right about this. Because when an act will release an album of their greatest hits, but they've covered their own songs so that they can, it's something about how they can make money off of it, but it's the artist covering their own song decades later. That's different. You can tell. They're like ragged voiced.

That's a different category. That's different. I hate that. I hate that as well. But that's different. And then people are like, let me listen to like, oh you like Lionel? Let me listen to some Lionel.

And they're going on Spotify and they're listening to like 2016 Lionel with Hootie. Do you know who Lionel? And they get a totally wrong impression of how amazing it is. But do you know who Lionel sings Easy with on the album? Alabama. Willie Nelson, man.

Okay. Okay, this is. Willie Nelson is an exception. Hold on, that's different though. Oh my gosh, I just realized I had a dream about Willie Nelson last night. There you go. It was you and me, we were sitting,

we were sitting somewhere like on bleachers. I was sitting here, you were on my left, and then I was looking and me, we were sitting, we were sitting somewhere like on bleachers. I was sitting here, you were on my left, and then I was looking at you, and then I leaned forward. And who was there? Easy like Sunday morning. Willie, Willie Nelson. Willie Nelson was like just on the other side of, I could have reached out and touched him

if you weren't in the way. It was amazing. And you know what? Amazing like Sunday morning. You know what I did? I leaned over into your ear and I said, he's a good looking man. He's still got it.

That's not what he's known for. He's really held up well. Those are the three things I said. He got old early, that's why he held up well. He got old early. He looked old at 30. That's the great thing about getting old early. I'm not saying he's attractive,

I'm saying he looks good. He sounds good because he also sounded old early. Just like Kris Kristofferson, if you sound old early, you can sound great forever. It was thrilling to be that close to you, Mr. Nelson, in a dream. And the reason why I have the dream is because we have a urinal on the other side

and when you're peeing in that urinal, right above the urinal there is a. That's my picture. A portrait of Willie Nelson staring you right in the face. My wife got me that and I didn't have a place to put it up inside. Your house? My house because she was thinking that we would put it up

in the office and then she just put it up over one of the urinals. I mean, nothing. I don't mind Willie watching me pee. Nothing makes me relax my prostate like staring deep into the eye holes of Willie Nelson. Willie can watch me in my Willie anytime. Willie.

Let's move on to technology, why don't we? Let's do it. Tesla. 5G is coming. What does this mean? I've heard about this, I'm like, you know. And I'm not talking about when you're on your Wi-Fi and it's like there's a 5G option.

Right. That's bull crap, man. It's like you got two different bands on your router and no one ever tells you which one you're supposed to connect to. 5G is the fifth generation. You're making me angry, I think you're just really, you've peed in my.

Peed in your grits? In my corn flakes. Some of your corn flake has gotten in my bowl. 5G is the fifth generation of mobile, of wireless technology, okay? So obviously you remember 3G and then it turned into 4G slash LTE and you remember the jump, you probably don't, but if you don't remember the jump from 3G to 4G, you basically went from forget about

ever watching a video on your phone to oh, I'm watching a video on my phone. Okay, and you forget that and sometimes if you're out and about and you, which is definitely the case in Los Angeles because of the mountains and the weirdness, you can suddenly find yourself in a 3G spot and it's almost like you don't even have a phone anymore. I mean you might be able to text,

you can have a conversation but you're not gonna use any data. You only have what used to be a phone. Right. The step from 4G to 5G will be as significant or more significant. So what am I gonna experience? Because if it's not video, streaming video.

Well first of all, the internet connection will be 10 times as fast. Okay, 10 times as fast as LTE. Latency will be reduced to a millisecond. It will be unnoticeable. So basically this means a whole lot that as, I'm not an expert on this, but I can read articles and tell you what they say.

Essentially, it's gonna do a number of things. This is sort of the beginning of the end of there being a point of reference for things taking time over the internet, okay? So we still live in a world in which we wait for things. We see something spinning on Netflix to load, et cetera, and this kind of thing. But this is the beginning of there being

wirelessly in the air, broadcast everywhere, accessible to any device that can tap into it, not waiting for anything. Now of course it's technology, it's gonna screw up, you're gonna get frustrated with it, just like any technology. Or people will start making things like, now we're gonna start streaming 3D environments

but you're gonna feel like you can't live without it and then you're gonna be frustrated with it loading. Well, loading is. I don't mean, like a hologram. So you're gonna stream holograms. Actually, so holograms, not so much, but AR. So augmented reality, virtual reality, the fact that we're gonna get down to wireless latency

being so small, you're not gonna have to have a console to experience, because basically you have to have a real world device, you've gotta have like a phone that you're putting into a device, you've gotta have Google Glasses, you've gotta have something phone that you're putting into a device, you've gotta have Google Glasses, you've gotta have something that's on your person that isn't tethered to something in order to really be immersed into the world of,

like to bring augmented reality to our world, we have to have something that is out and about and is everywhere. I can take it to the grocery store, it's gonna change the way I interact with everything. 5G is the beginning of that happening. It's like things are kind of settling but it will be that significant.

Also, any technology that, like self-driving cars, like autonomous cars, being able to communicate with each other and communicate with the internet in a way that's fast enough for them to be reliably kind of dependent upon this like inter-connected network. That's gonna happen with 5G. And it's being rolled out. It actually, it's being rolled out in a number of cities.

It depends on who your carrier is. But basically you're also gonna not have to have a cable coming into your house. You're gonna have a wireless modem that captures the 5G and then that modem, your local wifi is gonna be broadcast around your house into your television and all this stuff. You're not gonna be drilling holes into your house. The cable guy's not gonna come out and have to go

and say, well a tree limb fell on your cable and you're screwed. That's not gonna happen because it's all gonna be wireless. 5G, man, welcome to the frickin' future. The thing I found was. In selected cities. Elon Musk is gonna be sending people into space and to the International Space Station

on his space shuttle, the Dragon. Boeing's working on one too that they're supposed to have out and there's been some unmanned, well right now our astronauts have to hitch a ride on the Russian shuttles to get to the International Space Station. So NASA has contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to have our own shuttle system.

Well how hard do you think it would be for us to work out doing our Medea Marathon at the International Space Station? On the way, well it's gonna be much easier this year. Elon, if you're watching, I know you're a fan, if you would like us to have our Medea Marathon on the International Space Station, if you feel like you can pull the right strings. We're talking about

what's going on. We will do it. I'll pee in a bag. I'll pee out in the open. Your pee just turns into a yellow ball in space. Right. And then you can capture it with a net. So whatever you want, whatever it takes.

Tyler Parrelly doesn't even have to be there if we can do it all on the International Space Station. Elon Musk's cars will have, will be playing the new Tesla album only. They've worked out a deal. No they will. They should work out a deal first of all. He tweeted this around Halloween of last year

but that a Tesla will be able to drive around a parking lot and find an empty spot, read signs to confirm it's valid and park. That's helpful. And illegal. You know I mean there's too many, on a state level they have to create laws in terms of like self driving cars and stuff like that.

It's so annoying. Laws are for losers. You know, so it's like the valet. So it's just one more thing that's like tempting me, it's like, well, maybe I need to get one of those Teslas. Maybe you do, man. You oughta get one, splurge a little bit. Splurge, I just can't bring myself to something like that.

I don't know, maybe. Jazzercise is going to be celebrating 50 years. Oh now we come to it, the good stuff. I don't even exactly know what Jazzercise is because I'm picturing like Jane Fonda leotards, my mom used to take me to the church fellowship hall and I'd have to sit in the corner and like color while she was jumping around

and with like leg warmers on. She was probably doing Jazzercise. But she was doing the like church version and Amy Grant was involved. It's a system, it's a franchise. Well I don't know if they do it at churches, maybe they do but it is a franchise. 50 years though?

Well let me tell you a little bit about this because when I found this out, I was excited. Is Jane Fonda part of Jazzercise? I do not believe so. It was started by some woman named like Shepard Misset or something like that. Okay. So it was started in 1969, hence 50 years ago.

This is crazy. By 1984, Jazzercise was declared the second fastest growing franchise behind Domino's Pizza. Did you know this was happening in the 80s? You've gotta license it to do it. Today, the company boasts 8,300 franchises in 32 countries and earns roughly $100 million per year.

There's 200,000 customers dancing and sweating to Jazzercise choreography each year. There's 200,000 customers dancing and sweating to Jazzercise choreography each year. Millions of lives, this is like the press release. This is them, this is what they wrote. Yeah well it's all true. You think Jazzercise is gonna lie to you? Millions of lives have been touched during the company's 50 year history.

Jazzercise, now this is where my ears, this is where my thighs started perking up. Jazzercise will celebrate the golden anniversary. It's the wrong body part. Your thighs work in jazz. They don't perk up though. Mine do. You wanna see my thighs perk up?

There are things that can get perky but the thighs aren't two of them. Jazzercise will celebrate the golden anniversary with a two-day international convention and party June 28th through 29th, 2019 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. Over 2,000 people will attend the event that will be filled with dance fitness classes,

live entertainment, international guest performers, surprise announcements, and big reveals about the brand's future. We gotta play Jazzercise. Guest performers? We gotta play Jazzercise. What if we could play Jazzercise, do a concert at Jazzercise, 50th golden anniversary,

and do the Medea Marathon there? This is gonna be a big year for us. Clear your calendar, Link. My thighs are gonna be so perky on June 28th and 29th. I mean we. Line up and see him jump. The thing that we are doing is creating more tour dates for our music and concert extravaganza.

So I mean I don't mean to turn this into an announcement but yes we're gonna be at Jazzercise, San Diego. Well we gotta work out the details. Well we're gonna be in London next month, February, in association with VidCon. We have our own concert, retinlinklive.com. Check on tickets for that. In April we're gonna be in Nashville, St. Louis,

and Columbus, and the DC, Maryland area. So that's four shows. The national show's gonna be at the Ryman. Which was pretty exciting. The birthplace of the Grand Ole Opry, which of course then moved, but that's the original stage, man. I'm so excited.

Redlinglive.com if you wanna come see us. I mean, I. Bringing it in 2019. I'm not just trying to make this a plug. I think that that's a big thing I'm looking forward to in 2019 that we haven't been able to talk about is like specific tour dates and again, we're still, we're looking to do some more.

Write music for it, new music coming. Yeah. What about personally? Let's get to some things that we're looking forward to personally. I'm doing something I've never done before in 2019. This is ambitious, man. When you first told me about this I was like, whoa. Really? When first told me about this, I was like, whoa.

Really? When I looked at the price tag, I was like, whoa. You gonna do this? You gonna do this? I am doing it, I booked it today as a matter of fact. So I am taking the McLaughlins, or should I say, the McLaughlins to Scotland. I have been. And how many McLaughlins to Scotland. I have been.

And how many McLaughlins are we talking about? 12. How big is the clan? 12. 12 people. Okay, so here's the deal. I've been thinking about doing this for a while. I always thought that it would be

an unforgettable experience to take all the people that I know and love with the last name McLaughlin to the motherland. But did you tell any of them that? No, I told them when I knew I was gonna do it. Yeah, it was in your mind, but you didn't tell them one day I hope to take you to Scotland. No, I've never said that. I've only thought it.

And I, first of all, they're very excited. How did you tell them? Was it, this is like a gender reveal or something. Well. Like you gotta make a big deal out of it. I just thought that I shouldn't do that. I didn't wanna make a big, I wanted to make the big. Look at what I'm doing.

I wanted to make the big to do, just the going. Okay, that's admirable. So I just told them when I was home, I told them when I was home for the state fair in October and they were all very excited because I was like, you don't know if they're gonna be able to do it, you don't know what their schedules are,

it has to work out with when we're gonna be able to be getting away. So anyway, so this is who I'm taking. I'm taking, of course, my family, that's four people. I'm taking my parents, that makes six, and I'm taking my brother and his wife and their four children. So there's 12 of us all together.

And we are putting together the itinerary right now. Now I've never traced my family back specifically but you just, I've done a little bit of like the ancestry thing and it kind of gets a little murky like around the 1700s, we don't go back very far. It seems that like both sides of the family come from like poor farmers that didn't really have any way, like you know, you had to be of a certain class in order to kind of get traced back. you come from poor farmers that didn't really have any way,

you know, you had to be of a certain class in order to kind of get trace back. I'm sure I could do it if I did a little bit more research, but anyway, because our last name is McLaughlin, McLaughlin is probably what I should start saying, we do know that McLaughlin is a derivative of McLaughlin. Basically, it becomes like M-C-L-A-C-H-L-A-N and then we know that McLaughlin is a derivative of Loughlin

and so the Lough, because they would add the MCs because there was some sort of family dispute or whatever. Anyway, the Loughlin clan still exists, still has a chief. A chief? Yeah, chieftain, whatever they call him. And there's the old ruin. Basically you've got the old Loughlin Castle which is on a lock in Scotland

and then you've got the new Loughlin Castle which is where the chief still lives. Does everybody pay dues? I mean, it's a castle? It's not a homeowner's association. Well how does it? It's just a family. So is it a castle? It's like a hotel now.

There's like a hotel and a restaurant there I think. But I think that, I think a lot of, the heritage goes way back, you know, in the British Isles and so I think that there are plenty of families that still have some sort of structure intact and you know you've got your, I don't even, I'm so bad, I don't know, that you've got like your family shield

or whatever you call it which I'm gonna know all these terms. You got time to figure it out, you're not going next month, you're going later. And I'm planning the ins and outs of what we're gonna do but we hope to like meet the chief and I'm gonna submit my application to take his place when he passes so I can live in a castle in Scotland.

I don't think the central air and heating is great in those things. Oh okay well I might have to rethink it. You might wanna check, get a tour first before you bend the knee. We could do the Medea, we could do the Medea marathon there. I could bring you. I don't know what kind of internet,

don't know if they got 5G. But anyway, that's a. I'm gonna hang back. Super ambitious. I'm gonna let you have a family thing. It's a little intimidating. There's holes in castles and you squat down and you dump in them and then it goes down into the moat.

It just runs down the side of the castle. That's how those things work. I think they have plumbing. The reason I decided to do it is because my oldest nephew is turning 18 this year and he's gonna be off at college and it's like, this is like the last time when we're all kinda all living as intact families to go off and take over

the Scottish countryside. Yeah, I mean if he partners up and starts having kids, that's more people you gotta take. Yeah, I'm not doing that. You gotta get it over with before they start procreating the next generation of McLaughlin. I'm looking forward to that. I wanna make some memories, man.

That's cool, I commend you on that. You know, with you taking a vacation like that, it means I gotta figure something out. Yeah, you do, yeah. I think I just might, I don't know, I'm thinking maybe Scotland. I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I do know that we're planning a trip for Lily's 16th birthday. We said, we had some friends who did this, like one every year, they have multiple kids and they're like, all right, a kid gets to decide what they're doing, they have like a special trip. And I'm like, for Lily's 16th, we're gonna give her one of those where it's like,

just us, just her, her mom and me are gonna go and do a special 16th, you know something that she'll remember and make it special. Yeah. Anywhere she wants to go. Which is kind of, oh, what's that gonna be? She wants to go to London. I think because of all this Doctor Who and Harry Potter

and all this stuff she's been into, having never been there, she's always wanted to go and experience the life of London. I mean, I think I'm gonna end up, well we're doing a show there, it's separate from that, so I'm gonna get my share of London this year. Well, you know. And I'm gonna love it.

After the, I love you London. After the McLachlins leave Scotland, the rest of the McLaughlins besides my little clan, we're sticking around and we're driving across the United Kingdom countryside towards London and then ending in London. Okay you're gonna get some London too. So I'm gonna have to get London tips.

Yeah we both need some London tips y'all. Hashtag Ear Biscuits. Lots to look forward to this year. There's lots of other stuff we got in the works. There's a big project we've been working on for a while that will, I think in a few weeks we'll start teasing that out but we can't yet talk about it. But just be on the lookout for that.

What are you looking forward to this year? This is a good start to the year. I'm feeling great about 2019. If you haven't made your resolutions, it's not too late. Or don't make resolutions. Just find things that other people are doing that you can look forward to. Yeah, like we did today.

It can be a movie, it can be a little blip on your calendar. Make your resolution, I'm going to watch a movie that I wanna watch. And then you'll feel good about yourself. It's the little things. Set the bar low and jump right over it. All right, also wanted to say the video version of this is now living on another channel,

as well as all video versions, well, all Ear Biscuits, past, present, and future are gonna be at youtube.com slash Ear Biscuits. So all those old interviews from previous seasons, all that stuff, if you want the YouTube version and the video version and everything moving forward, that's where you need to subscribe. And if you can't spell biscuit like I can't,

it's B-I-S-C-U-I-T. You can remember that because it's like. Biscuit. C-U-I-T. It's like a sentence. Biscuit. It's just like the way I remember how to spell school. It's S-C-H-O-O-L because school's not cool.

That's how I used to remember that. Not cahool. Yeah, school's not cool. It doesn't have used to remember that. Not cahool. Yeah, school's not cool, it doesn't have the word cool in it. It's got the word hool in it. School's hool. Broken the seal on a new year, man. Woo, we're already in it. Yep, there we go.

That was good, ow, just actually hurt myself.