Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 190: Did Our Careers Just Peak? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 190

Episode Date: April 22, 2019

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we're going to be exploring the question, did our careers just peak? We are fresh off of a tour, a little mini tour. We went to St. Louis, Columbus, Washington D.C., and Nashville. And in Nashville, the venue was very special because it was the mother church of country music, the Ryman Auditorium.

I mean, you just mentioned to me, and we translated it into the question of this episode, you said that the thought did cross your mind, is this the peak of our career? So, yeah, I think, so we wanna talk to you about the whole tour. And I was saying. But I'm certain we will reflect on that specifically.

P-E-E-K peak. Not did our careers just like lean over and look around a corner at us. No, yes, that would be P-E-E-K. Oh, that is what you meant. Yeah, oh, you're talking about P-E-A-K? Yes. Or you're talking about P-I-Q-U-E-E-K. Oh, that is what you meant. Yeah, oh, you're talking about P-E-A-K? Yes. Or you're talking about P-I-Q-U-E, Peek.

Not that. What do you mean by P-E-E-K? You're being humorous. I'm just doing some spelling humor. Okay. It's one of my favorite things to do on a podcast. Because spelling humor goes really well in the audio. I mean, I always look for a chance to spell P-I-Q-E-D.

Three different ways, including that way. Okay. If your interest is piqued, just a little grammar lesson is P-I-Q-U-E-D. It's not P-E-A-K-E-D. Like it was the peak of your interest. And if I peek around a corner and that peaks your interest, then that may be a peak moment for you.

Right. Right. Yeah. And you know what, spelling's important. So we kinda wanna go through, spelling's important. It is. Put that on a T-shirt. Listen, do you watch your kids?

Spell? No, it sounds quite boring. No, have you ever gone up behind your kid. Hey kid, you mind if I look over your shoulder and watch your spell? While they write a paper. I've read their papers, yeah. You've never been with them when they were

in the process of writing a paper? Now listen, I can relate to this because I've become incredibly dependent on spell check. Yeah. But kids these days, man. They got it bad. I mean, they stumble over like the,

and it's auto corrected for them. How else would you spell the? T-H-E-E. That's also correct. T-H-E-A. T-H-I-Q-U-E. Your kids don't know how to spell the? That's thick.

Man. So we're gonna step through a bunch of that. But one of the things that we know, you know, you don't have a lot of time in each town. We did those four dates over the course of five days. So it's pretty aggressive. But you do find these little pockets of time to experience a little sliver of the locale.

And one of the things that we've noticed that was across all of these cities, I think it's something that's sweeping the nation. Sweeping. Maybe the world. Of course, I didn't see them in London. Or did I? No, I don't think I did. I don't think you did because there's didn't see them in London. Or did I? No, I don't think I did. I don't think you did because there's a bigger

bike culture in London already. I'm talking about app accessed scooters. I mean we are in the peak, I believe. Scooters, scootering around American cities. And there's quite a competition going right now. I mean, in a couple of the cities, we saw like four or five different companies. You got Lime. You got Bird. You got Lyft getting into it. You got Uber getting into it. Then there was like two other ones

I can't even remember the names. Like Jump, Flip, Skip, Hop. Something like that. Roller Buddies. Roller Buddies just doesn't fit on a scooter. Two wheels, one cup, I think was one of them. I think it's two wheels, one foot. That's it, that was it, that's ours.

Two wheels, no helmet, that's what they call me. Because incidentally, that's another thing. You know, first of all, you gotta download the apps for each one of these services. And then like the first time you download the app, you sign. You agree to the terms. You agree to a lot of things.

And one of the terms is that of course you will wear a helmet, but literally no one on any scooter at any time that we saw had a helmet on. Well, I mean, so the, when we were in St. Louis, I mean, we went to this barbecue place and then we went to the Gateway Arch, which I believe is 630 feet tall. Wow, that's a- I looked that up

and then I don't remember numbers, so I'm probably wrong. But I think I'm right. It feels right. I looked it up very recently. Well't remember numbers so I'm probably wrong. But I think I'm right. It feels right. I looked it up very recently. Well, we were gonna go up there but we didn't have time to book a tour. You can take a freaking sideways or arch path elevator to the top of this thing but we couldn't do that.

So we just walked around the bottom of it and we're walking around down there and you got all these pavers and it's like undulating terrain, just little hills, but there are some steps and there are some steps that then become undulating terrain and ramps. And as we're walking, it was me, Rhett and Britton and I see these two girls, they were probably like 15,

and they were careening in front of us on two of these scooters. And the girl in front zips by us, and then she turns around and she yells, don't go on the stairs! And that drew my eye to her. So I didn't actually see what happened, but you did. Well, the way that the train was set up,

there was a blind spot, essentially. So it just, from your perspective, you were gonna continue on straight ground, but really there was like a three, maybe two or three step drop. Of concrete. Yeah and the steps were such that the further left you were the more steps there were to go down and she just happened

to choose a line that was like two or three steps. Like two or three feet to the left and it would've been five or six steps. Like it was, anyway. Did she take flight? Well, like you said, her friend said at the last minute, don't go off there or whatever. And that was exactly the wrong thing to say

because she basically dismounted in the air and the scooter landed really, really hard. She actually landed on her feet. It could've been really, really ugly. And she landed on her feet and was like immediately like plop plop plop plop plop like running in a very awkward fashion. But I mean she could have hit her head on the concrete

and died, man. We could have witnessed the death. Well I could have witnessed her friend witnessing the death because I was looking at the wrong girl. Well and that's the main thing that I'm thinking the whole time I'm on there. They go like 20 miles per hour and faster than that if you're going downhill and the wheels are relatively small.

You know, there's not necessarily, you're supposed to be riding in bike lanes when possible but most American cities aren't bike friendly so there's very few bike lanes. A lot of people on sidewalks. People don't know where to go, they go on the sidewalks. When they're in the street, there might be potholes. People don't have good balance,

people aren't wearing helmets. And so there's this crazy thing that's happening where all these companies are competing against each other to try to win this market. Yeah. But at the same time, people are getting hurt. Well, when we were in Austin, there was this makeup woman and we happened to start talking to her about the scooters

because we saw them around Austin and she said, "'Yeah, my husband was on one and he went off a curb "'and fell over and hurt his leg really badly. "'Like he was in a lot of pain and the paramedics show up "'and after a while they're like, you're okay, just go home. And he went home that night and he woke up in excruciating pain and she said that he was in so much

pain that he started to go into shock. And so she took him to the emergency room and he had broken his femur. On a freaking scooter, guys. Yeah. And the helmet doesn't protect the femur, last time I checked. Well if you get a femur on a freaking scooter, guys. Yeah. And the helmet doesn't protect the femur, last time I checked.

Well, if you get a femur helmet. That's what we need. So two wheels, one foot is gonna, we're gonna figure out a way to like attach the helmet to the scooter and also have like femur pads. Right. I mean, you can really get hurt because you think you can ride a scooter

but you don't realize how fast these things can go and also you're tempted to just steer like left, right, left, right, inky, inky, inky but you really should steer by leaning. You need to be using your body weight. You gotta be using your body weight but that's not immediately intuitive and it's, I mean, if you start doing that,

then you're doing the shaky, shaky, shaky thing, and then you're like, you're careening out of control. And people are, locals hate these things. I mean, so when we have to. When we were in Nashville, by that point, Britain's friends had showed up. Jenna was with us at the time, so it was like, there was like six of us in a little pod going down the street.

Basically the main drag in Nashville, and as we continued going down, we started realizing like, this has almost become a highway. Like, people are like turning off of this to get on the interstate, There's only a few stoplights. There's no bike lane. We're going across a bridge and like the six of us in a line are kind of taking up the lane.

And people are just laying on their horns. The locals hate us and they should. But we were doing the right thing because you're not supposed to be on the sidewalk. You're supposed to be like a bike. But they were just laying on the horn. I guess it was because some of us were like waggling. It goes beyond that though

because I think what they're trying to do is they're trying to say don't be here. Like go on a less busy street. Wear a freaking helmet. You know and we were talking to. Go back to whatever town you're from. Talking to Britain's friends and apparently in Raleigh, North Carolina, they've gotten rid of all of them.

Oh really? They've just gotten rid of all the scooters is what we were told, I haven't been there to confirm this because they couldn't figure out how to regulate them and then the companies were like, well screw it, we're not gonna be a part of this. I just don't know where this is gonna land because people are getting hurt

and they're gonna continue to get hurt. Personally, I love it. When we were. I just don't know where this is gonna land because people are getting hurt and they're gonna continue to get hurt. Personally, I love it. When we were in. I absolutely love it. Yeah so when we were in Columbus, I mean I looked out my hotel window and I saw a couple people, like we were downtown by the river

and there's like nice river walks on either side of it and I saw some people with scooters. I was like bingo, we're gonna do it because we didn't do it in St. Louis. I just saw the girls almost, a girl almost eat it. And then the next morning, here I am still thinking it's a great idea. And you know what it was.

Oh, it's so much fun. It was fun. I mean, when you're not just going on the surface streets, like in a downtown area with a lot of traffic, but you're on like a dedicated path and a relatively fresh one that doesn't have like a bunch of treachery to it. That was fun, man, the weather was great. It was beautiful.

That was a highlight of the trip was scooting around, man. Being off of the road, I would say that being on a not busy road or being on like a park path, park path, that is peak scooter terrain. But you know what, I think I'm gonna start traveling with a helmet. I got, why you laughing? I gotta get a little helmet, man.

You laugh now, but you're not gonna laugh when you don't remember how to laugh because you hit your head. There's something about being on a scooter though that makes me feel, because my feet are so close to the ground already, I feel like I can just like jump out of any situation, any danger. You can just immediately jump and be standing up.

Whereas like a motorcycle, you're going a lot faster. Yeah. You know? Your feet are really close to the ground on a motorcycle too. But you can't just walk off of a motorcycle. If you're riding side saddle faster. Yeah. You know. Your feet are really close to the ground on a motorcycle too. But you can't just walk off of a motorcycle. If you're riding side saddle, you can't. Yeah, I don't ride my motorcycle side saddle anymore.

How do you ride your horse? Side saddle? Backwards. I don't want anybody sneaking up on me. I ride my horses backwards. So I don't know what the future of scootering is gonna be, but they can't tether the helmets to the thing because then that's a hazard.

You gotta- What, lice? Oh, lice too. Yeah, it's a lice hazard. Is that what you mean by that? No, I mean like if there's a string, a tether, so that people won't walk away with the helmets. I think you need a helmet sharing app. Same company, different company?

Different company. We should do the helmet sharing. So you're gonna have to like walk to the helmet and then the problem would be people be scootering to the helmets. You gotta, no, you gotta sign in. No, no, you know it's gotta be the same company and you can't, it's like one of those things

that after you get a few DUIs you can't start a car without breathing into it. This is like, you have to like step on, you have to like hit, you gotta head butt the scooter with the helmet in order to get it going. Or just be willing to head butt the scooter really hard without a helmet to make it seem like. I think if they had a helmet that was like a zip tie,

kinda, not zip tie but like a zip tie, kinda, not zip tie, but like a zip line, like it comes out from the handlebars and then you're kinda like loosely tethered to the thing. It's kinda like it's. That sounds like it might be more dangerous. Kinda like it's got a narrow roof on it. It's like, have you ever seen those bikes that would have like a shell on them?

Yeah. Like an aerodynamic shell, like have one seen those bikes that would have like a shell on them? Yeah. Like an aerodynamic shell, like have one of those come off the handlebars, zoop, goes over your whole head. Then it's just like a little car. That's no fun, you don't feel the breeze anymore. I wanna feel the breeze, that's half of it. Okay. Anyway, y'all gotta figure that out.

And I don't know who's gonna win this, but. Yeah. I don't know if I would invest in, my gut is that this is not sustainable. But if it ends up being sustainable. I think it is. My gut says that now that Lyft, and apparently Uber, is in this game,

I feel like they're gonna win. Because you already got that app. Yeah, because the main barrier is like, I gotta download something, man, I don't have good servers here. What, now I gotta take pictures of my license? I don't travel with my license. I've never been so willing to download an app

as when I was about to get on a scooter, I will say that. Like, when I'm about to get on a scooter, I'll download any app. I mean, it could be like a credit card number sharing app. Like hackme.com app, I would download that. That's how excited I was and dead set on getting on that scooter. That's an interesting app.

I would agree to anything. I mean, I basically signed my life away. Yeah, I'm wearing a helmet, wink, wink, wink. You know? Yeah, I'm hard-headed. And then people are taking them home and charging them up and making a little extra scratch. You know? Yeah.

It's good for everybody. And they're not gas-powered, technically it's good for the environment. Maybe it's not too late, maybe we can get in on this. Mythical scooters, you know what? We make ours three-wheeled. Safer, safer. It's shaped like a pyramid, it's double-wheeled in the back.

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or on the Crunchyroll YouTube channel. Okay, so a couple of interesting things about this tour. Now, as we have as we've stated repeatedly, but it cannot be overstated

apparently because even some of the VIPs who showed up to meet and greet us after a some of the VIPs who showed up to meet and greet us after a few of the shows, multiple people would say something along these lines. Man, I didn't know you guys played music. I mean, I thought this was gonna be

like two hours of Will It Burrito. Somebody said that specifically, yeah. Like that would be a big burrito. Now I do understand. We could do it and we would do it and we might do it. Yeah, you've given us a great idea but that's like. We didn't just do it. Not this year.

I think that it's a little, we have a little bit of a branding problem, right? Because the thing that we're known for the most is Good Mythical Morning and let's be honest, if you were to watch just a little highlight reel of what we do on the show, you might not come to the conclusion that these two idiots had any other talents other than not being able

to eat things. Yeah, I think someone said, I didn't know you guys were talented. And these are like fans paying to meet us. I mean these are like true mythical beasts. I didn't know, you know, but things come out sideways when you're meeting somebody that you've watched a lot on the internet so I just find humor in it

but I know they didn't mean anything by it. Well and on top of that, another thing I'll say is that let's say that you're a fan of GMM and you've been watching that and then what you have seen of our other work is say our really popular rap battles or other music videos that we made on YouTube. Again, anybody can make a music video, anybody can sing along with the track,

anybody can have their voice auto-tuned. So I think a lot of people are just like, oh well of course, yeah you've done music videos but to sit down and for almost two hours for us to do live, instrument-based music is something that a lot of people just aren't expecting. But again, as we explain at every show, one of the things that's really cool about it

is that it's sort of a returning to the roots of what we did before. Before YouTube started, our comedy was primarily just funny songs that we performed live for people. And then we turned some of those into music videos and that was sort of the beginning of our comedy career. So this is kind of going back to what started it all. And anyway.

It's really fun to do. I'm very glad that this is what we decided to do when we now tour. And by the way, we are continuing to tour so if you wanna come see us, RhettandLinklive.com. Can I plug the dates? I should, since I mentioned it. Plug it.

So the end of June, Las Vegas on June 21st, Salt Lake City, 22nd, Denver the 23rd, Milwaukee the 25th, Indianapolis the 26th, Detroit the 27th, Omaha the 29th, Minneapolis the 30th, rhettandlinklive.com, get your tickets. I just had such a good time because, you know, I really enjoy singing the songs

that we've written over the years. But it also does capture a lot, and I think, of what people like about Good Mythical Morning, and that's the fact that we can kinda, you know, it's not scripted. We're just kind of in between songs, we're just kinda cutting up and seeing what happens. And on any given night, you never know what's gonna happen.

I mean, at the beginning, the songs were, we were a little more rusty than, by the time we got to Nashville, we kind of had the songs down and we weren't gonna forget lyrics and stuff like that. But like on the first night, one of the new songs, when you moved over to the piano, like you started playing it,

then you never started singing it, and I'm like, he doesn't remember the lyrics, and all of a sudden you're like, I can't remember the words. And that was the most fun part of the night because like, Oh, for you. It was, I mean, Real fun for you. When something goes wrong, it's like, okay,

everybody in the whole place knows this was not planned, so now what are we gonna do? And so that's what's fun, is that when you don't have to wig out, you can just say, you can just have fun with it. And that was fun. I had fun messing with you and not, I knew the lyrics, so I chose not to tell you and kinda make you squirm. I sat there and played the piano

for what felt like five minutes. It was funny man. Played the intro. People loved it. Oh I know people loved it. I'm just saying that. Because it's honest. I was like I really don't know how to access

what the first words of the song are. But like you said by the time we got to Nashville, we had the songs figured out. I think the thing is is that I don't mind, and actually I look forward to what's gonna happen in between the songs and what stories are we gonna tell and it's very loose and where is it gonna go, what kind of bit are we gonna just come up with

in the moment, but I don't want all the bits to come from screwing the songs up. Well, they didn't. And they didn't, they didn't. And, because again, I also, I have a lot more fun. The more I know the song. It frees you up to then enjoy it.

Then I can actually have fun in the midst of it because it's like, it's just one of those, it's a little bit of a blessing and a curse that we get to do so many things, but because we do so many things, it isn't like we sit around and rehearse our music all the time. We don't rehearse enough, but then we turn,

again, we turn the mess ups into, okay, we can make fun of that happening and we can kind of milk it for comedy, but it's also a very safe space. I mean, have, I mean, my goal is for us to have at least another new song that no one has heard at all by the time we go out on the summer tour. But it's also great, I'm very grateful that it's such a safe space for us to perform

because everybody is, even if they didn't know what to expect, they're a dedicated mythical beast and there's, or they're there with someone who's already oriented to what's going on. So it's not like we have to win the crowd over. We just have to give them, we just have to have fun. And I think it was a lot of fun. And I can imagine how if you're,

if touring is your first thing and you're trying to win over a crowd and trying to build an audience that way, it's like that would be difficult. So it's nice that we don't have to do that. Well but you know, speaking of winning over a crowd who's not familiar with you, I mean one of the things that made this tour unique

was Britton opening up for us. Yeah. And of course you know, we talk about Britton a lot, Britton Buch up for us. Yeah. And of course, you know, we've talked about Britton a lot, Britton Buchanan, Link's cousin, who is on The Voice and is living with Link and Christy now. And we honestly didn't know how that was gonna go because his songs are not, it's not comedy. Right. He's just like a legitimately

great songwriter and musician and singer. And so we were like, well, we enjoy this. We think you'll enjoy it too. And you know that there's the family connection, but we would kind of go out and watch, not go out into the crowd, but kind of go side stage and watch Britton perform. And it's like, thank you to all the mythical beasts

who received him so warmly, but I'll say that you weren't doing it out of any sort of obligation or pity, I think everyone was legitimate, for everything that I've seen on the internet, everybody was legitimately impressed because he's good. Yeah, and he did a good job winning people over with the stuff that he would say in between his songs too. Yeah, we won't spoil any surprises.

I think we're gonna talk a little bit more about what Britton does on tour on LTAT, so we won't get into that too much here. But we also traveled with him. Yeah. So he was with us the entire time. Speaking of traveling, so we were, I mean we have like the tour bus situation

and then on the tour bus, you got the front part and then you go back to the middle part and there's these like, I call them coffins. You sleep in a coffin. They're like too high, on some buses, they're three high. Well these were, yeah these were too high so, I mean you can imagine, the first time we did this, they were three high, so. you can imagine, the first time we did this, there were three high.

You can't sit up in it. And I can't lay all the way down. They don't make them six foot seven. These things are probably. Six two, six three. I could stretch out at six foot. I think they might be just below my height. I think it might be like six and a half feet

plus the siding or whatever, so like six five. How do you sleep in there? Well not well. Because you couldn't. To begin with I'll say, for a couple reasons. I mean not being able to stretch out, I sleep on my side so I'm not at full height. I sleep like a baby in the womb.

Like with your knees under your chin? I mean if I can get them there, yeah. Just completely balled up, ready for tornadoes. Like in a tuck position. No I sleep on my side so I'm a little bit curled up. But even like in my bed if I'm sleeping on my side, there's moments during the night where I'll kinda wake up and I'll just like for a moment moment, just sort of stretch out completely.

Just unfurl the flag. Just to remember my height. Length. You know? And then turn to the other side. So you can't do that. And also, I'm such a light sleeper that, pothole, I wake up.

Fast turn, I wake up. Oh yeah. That's not fun. But I did get better. I did get better on the second night. I like sleeping in a confined space. I mean, I don't know, something about it, I just felt like a cozy little child. If it was a little bit longer and we weren't moving,

it would be great. Once we arrived to the destination, and then they kinda let you wake up on your own, whenever you happen to wake up, and the bus is, I'll sleep indefinitely in that scenario. Well, but you didn't, well I mean that first morning there, I woke up and I realized,

I started waking up and I realized, we're not moving. And you're like, your coffin has a curtain. So it's like pretty dark in there, even if it's bright outside, which it turns out it was because I looked out my curtain. And then I got a text from Jenna and she was like, instructions are on the counter when you want to come into the hotel wherever,

and I assume where everybody else already was because I didn't hear anything. And then, so I got out, no one was on the bus. And then I look and Britton's curtains closed. And I'm like, I didn't open the curtain because I didn't know what position or state he might be in in terms of clothing. So I just poked the curtain.

And I did hit something. So I'm like, oh, he is in there. And I was like, time to get up. It was 1130. Britton and I were the only two people on the bus and then we oriented ourselves and we go to exit the bus and Britton goes down the steps and he's like, turns the doorknob, he doesn't respond.

And then he's like shaking on the, I was like really pulling on the lever and I'm like, well hold on, don't break the door. And he's like we're locked in, man. I'm like what? No we're not, just you know, and we start, and you look at the front of this bus, which we don't know anything about,

and there's buttons, it's like the cockpit of an airplane. There's buttons everywhere. And so we start pushing all of them. And we push the ones that look like they have something to do with a door. Right. And I heard something click around the door but then it still wouldn't open like here

and then I'm over there like putting all my weight onto it. We were locked on the bus. For a day. The whole day. No we eventually got off, but that was our first bus experience. I like sleeping on the bus, but I don't like being confined

and not being able to exit the bus. That's a little disconcerting. Well, that raises an interesting question. Are there other exits? Is there an exit in the back? Because there should be exits. Because what if there was a fire? You think about this now? What if there's an exit in the back? Because there should be exits. Because what if there was a fire? You think about this now?

What if there was a fire on the bus? There should be multiple exits on the bus. I guess we need an orientation. Isn't there like a, I mean, obviously there's like a exit in the back of a school bus. But it's a room in the back of this thing. There's exits on the roof of a school bus. And every window is an exit.

Like if a school bus like lays on its side or something, you can go out the top of a school bus. Right. Yeah, or the window. You can get out of a school bus lots of different ways. Every which way. And you don't need a button. Need no button.

Maybe we should be traveling in a school bus, I'm just saying. Well, you do have me thinking that now I need to start checking for exits. I'm a little worried. That's do have me thinking that now I need to start checking for exits. I'm a little worried. That's why Christy should have come with me. I know that's the first thing she looks for, is the exit out of everything.

I mean, not our relationship. We're doing great. Interesting. We played at Columbus that night once I got out of the bus and got off the scooter. That was fun, that was a great show. I mean, in general, I'll just shout out, thanks to all the crowds everywhere, super supportive.

And then when we do the meet and greet afterward, it's always special because you kind of get to hear just a little bit from fans in terms of how they watch the show, what watching us means to them. And it always blows me away how the nature of our show being daily and I guess our friendship. I mean there's a lot of intangibles that like being on the inside,

it's just hard to get perspective on how people enjoy the show or what it means to them and helps them get through hard times and they can count on it and stuff like that. So it's really helpful to get out there and meet the people, to press the flesh. It really puts things in perspective.

I mean, everything except that last part. I understand, I mean, yes. Press the flesh is not the right word. That was a political term that you can't use anymore. Well, that was for handshakes. If you wanna hug, we hug. We let you initiate whatever you wanna do. But yeah, I mean, I think that.

So flesh is pressed, but I mean, it's upon their initiation. Yeah, I just don't like to use flesh and pressed in the context of the meet and greet, I just. That's true. I just kinda would like to abandon that terminology. Yeah, let's abandon it, let's lock it in the bus. But I did see some people on Twitter talking

before this run and they were saying, you know, I just, I don't know, I don't know, I'm nervous, I don't know what to say. And I think people will have a tendency to feel like they have to have some sort of something prepared or as if they're like auditioning to be the perfect mythical beast in that moment. That's not what it's about at all.

I mean, you know, whatever you wanna do. I mean, we have one girl who sang for us. We had another guy who performed a rap for us. You know, and those are awesome. It's hilarious. If you wanna do that, do that. I mean, it was supposed to be funny. We don't encourage everyone to do that

because I mean, we'd be there for seven hours if everyone had a performance. We'd like for everyone to perform some sort of, bring your talent. But ultimately what I'm saying, some people are like, you know what, I just, I'm gonna hand you this note because this is everything that I want to say

and it's more than I have time to say in this time and some people are just like, hey, I just want a picture. Whatever you want it to be, just know that like, we're not, like the way that we approach this is we are 100% grateful. Like it's just, we are in a attitude of gratitude, a stance of, something that rhymes with, like we're basically just humbled that you guys

come to the show, that some of you want to spend a little time with us and get a picture, and we're just happy that you're there. You don't have to say or do anything. You're not fitting any particular expectation. So if that makes you feel less nervous about it, then go with that because we're not thinking about it in that way.

In fact, I heard there was one girl in one of the shows who actually backed out of the line before she got to the end. And I think we're gonna end up sending her something. Send her all the stuff that she would have gotten in the meet and greet line. It's kind of nerve wracking. I understand that, some people deal with anxiety

more than others, I get it. It's nerve wracking to stand in a line to meet somebody. Oh I totally get that. Because it's, I mean, you can see it, the line just kinda move along, and then all of a sudden you're like the next person. I remember a few years back when Dan TDM came to Long Beach and Lincoln was a fan of his, and I was like,

I can get you in to see him, man, I got connections. And so we went in the meet and greet line and we're in the line and I realized that I was nervous. I was like, why am I nervous? Just by virtue of being in a line with a bunch of people who were like also nervous, it's like contagious. Yeah. And you build this expectation that it's like,

there is this moment of okay, we're gonna shake hands and I'm supposed to say something. I have to say something. If I don't say anything, that could be weird. You know? Yeah, but even the people who don't say anything, it's not weird for us. Everything like that does make me anxious.

So I mean, yeah, and I'm not saying at all, don't be nervous, I'm just saying, just be yourself. If yourself is nervous, then be nervous. If yourself is excited, then just be excited. And there's no judgment at all from us. And I know, listen, we're bigger than you realize. Physically. I am, I know that I am intimidating physically.

People are sometimes afraid to look at me because I think I'm just like, I look like, It's odd. I look like Detlef Schrempf or whatever that NBA basketball player was. You know what I'm saying? I'm a huge person. I have a lot of hair on my face.

You know, I look like a hawk. You're weird. I've been called a fal look like a hawk. You're weird looking. I've been called a falcon by a drunk man in a van one time. You look like a falcon. Man. You're like a tall, deadlift shrimp looking falcon. But I'm very soft and inviting.

You know, I have sweaty hands. You can shake them if you want. That didn't make it any less weird. We should talk about hot chicken. So we get to Nashville and we had a little more time in Nashville because we had like a one day break and man, by the time I got in line, we decided to go to Hattie B's even though

Mythical Chef Josh told us to get hot chicken from Bolton's Spicy Chicken and Fish. And even though Wikipedia says that Prince's is the originator of hot chicken. And we didn't go there. We were kinda starving, delirious, and closest to Hattie B's. And also, we tend to be very dependent upon Yelp.

And there's so many Yelp reviews. A lot of people don't like that. Don't like when you're that dependent on Yelp, but I just, you know, like 4,000 reviews, four and a half stars, you know it's gonna be good. And we get there, we scootered there. Of course we did. And then. Nearly died.

We're there for a couple of minutes and then we hear, well it's 45 minutes from where you are in line. Yeah, it was like being on Space Mountain. I showed up starving. I was like, I don't wait this long. I just don't, it doesn't add up. I started looking for Boltons and be like,

we can travel to Boltton's via scooter, eat and be done and still come back and not have gone through this line probably. Right, but that to me, that's all part of the experience of going to a place like that. And I will say, I do think it's worth noting that, you know, hot chicken has been exported from Nashville and of course it's in LA and there's a number of places

that serve it, Howlin' Ray's probably being the most popular and I have it's in LA and there's a number of places that serve it, Hall and Ray's probably being the most popular and I have seen the Hall and Ray's line before but neither of us, and I don't know if we were just holding out for Nashville or it just happened circumstantially. And never been there. We had never had hot chicken.

Well, you know, we did our Instagram stories from the line and then we finally get up there and we order and it's, you know what, I our Instagram stories from the line and then we finally get up there and we order. You know what, I'll agree with you. I actually ended up saying, I'll say it again, I'm glad that I waited 45 minutes and I kinda learned my lesson. It really, I mean, you talk about getting nervous in a line, I mean, in this type of line,

when the only thing you gotta do is pay and eat food, boy, that's a great scenario. I mean, it's a great payoff. And you're talking like Magic Mountain or Space Mountain? Are you saying we should serve hot chicken in the meet and greet? I'm saying in contrast to that, you don't have to say anything besides order what you want

at the end and then it really. You gotta pick your spice level though. But my point is the weight made it taste that much better. Oh yeah. And we both like- Delayed gratification, man. It's the spice of life, it's the hot chicken of life. And so I don't like spicy foods, I've been burned, pun intended, from the show, so now anything that's spicy

to me is like, it's triggering physically, so I start to feel a little nauseous, but I didn't wanna just try mild or medium. I'm like, if it's called hot chicken, I should order a hot. And for those of you who aren't familiar with it, because I had an idea of what, I thought that hot chicken was fried chicken with hot sauce on it.

Like basted on it, kind of like a hot wing. But it is not that. It is chicken that has spice actually in the breading, first of all, so that's the first thing that happens is so if you were to like peel back the skin, you would see like a little red layer of spice that is part of the, so it gets all the way onto the chicken.

And then on top of that, depending on what spice level you get, they add a dry rub. Now I'm sure there's some places that do a sauce, but these places do a dry rub on top of, so it's basically like a powdery thing. I think there might be some sauce as well on Hattie B's. I couldn't really tell. There's a dryness and a wetness to it,

but there's definitely a redness to it that makes it a bit intimidating. I was so hungry. But the levels were southern, which means no spice, and yes, someone in our group who will remain nameless, but he's one of Britain's friends, that's what he got. No one who worked for us. He's also a Carolina fan, so it all adds up.

The next level is mild, and then medium, and then hot, and then damn hot, and then shut the cluck up. Those are the levels. And we all went with hot. So Jenna got hot, we got hot, Britton got hot. And let me tell you, it was hot. But let me tell you something else. It tasted great.

Like the hotness tasted great. So much flavor. And it was big and juicy. Oh, it was so good. I mean it was. And you got the dark. I love a good food experience, man, you know. And I think it's turned me back on the hotness.

When I'm riding back home, coming back, we landed in LA. It's an hour drive to get back to the studio to get in our cars, I found myself on Yelp looking for the hot chicken places around here. And there's quite a few. I'm like, man, I'm back on the spicy train. We might have to have a hot chicken taste test Instagram story like when we went around

and tried to find the best taco. We might have to do that with hot chicken. But I did not order the upper echelons of hotness like you did. So you can get a tender or a wing by itself for $2 extra and add that to your order. So a lot of people do this just as a novelty kind of thing. So I had a show, you know?

And also I feel like I've eaten the world's hottest pepper twice. So I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna do a damn hot Tinder. And then Britton, you know, he's 19. His body can take anything at this point. He got a shut the cluck up wing. No, a Tinder, he got a shut the cluck up Tinder.

And if you were following along on our Instagram stories, Red MC and Link Lamont, you would have seen all this happen. And Britton's, I guess, you could shout his out. Britton Buchanan, follow him on Instagram too because the action's happening over there when we're traveling. It was funny because he ate that thing,

he thought he was gonna be all right and then his face just started crying. His eyeballs just sweated. Right, he cried quite a bit. Yeah, yeah. The damn hot tender was damn hot but it was like, as I was eating it, I was like, I could have gotten the sandwich this way.

Well, he texted. And I would have been okay. He texted and said that his dad looked into it because he tried to talk to his dad and he knew, and he said that it had. The top, shut the clock up. Yeah, it had scorpion pepper and ghost pepper in the. And habanero, equal parts of all three.

Oh gosh. And it's like a powder, which is, incidentally, it's like the heat is super intense, but it dissipates more quickly because it doesn't have an oil base to it, the way that because it doesn't have an oil base to it, the way that, it doesn't have an oil carrier the way that sauce does. Cause sauce will get into your skin,

because literally, you know like when you get essential oils and you put them into an olive oil carrier? So they'll be carried further and they go into your skin? That's why eating the pepper straight, because you've got that oil and then even worse when you eat a sauce, it sticks with you, you feel it later, you feel it in your stomach, you feel it on the way out and it's still incredibly hot

in each stage. Something about the dry rub makes this, it's like a flash bang of hotness, but for me, an hour later I'd forgotten that I ate something so hot. Well even when you're eating it, I highly recommend eating it with the slaw, which is great, and the pickle.

You need something creamy. The pickle and the bread that comes with it. You got every creamy side. Oh yeah. You got the mac and cheese, the potato salad, and the slaw. I did. And I ended up getting collard greens and beans,

of course, the beans are good. That doesn't help with the heat though. But they actually, the collard greens had this enhancing course, the beans are good. That doesn't help with the heat though. But they actually, the collard greens had this like enhancing effect because of the vinegar, it like it enhanced the heat. Yeah, that's tough. So anyway, Hattie B's was excellent, but of course because we didn't wanna come back

and face Josh, and also Josh made an incredible dinner recommendation for a place called Husk that we went. Oh gosh, that was amazing. One of the best meals we've ever had. Shout out to all you people working at Husk. The people in the kitchen knew who we were and started sending out stuff that we didn't order and they stuffed us like pigs. They stuffed us with pigs. Yeah.

It was crazy. It was amazing. First of all, the waitress described the items and I feel like she spoke for like 12 minutes unbroken describing the different items and she would say things like well first we take this and we put it in under ashes for 12 hours and then we take it and we rub it across a pig's back until it squeals and then we capture

the squeal and we put it in a bottle and we sprinkle it on top of the collards and then we take the collards and we run them into the past. And then we bring them out of the past once they have the essence of the old days and then we bring them to the table and then we grind them up and sprinkle them on the other foods that you will be enjoying. I mean I had a frickin' whiskey with ham in it.

Yeah, that was crazy, man. It was so good. What a night. And it's in an old house. It's in an old house that apparently is haunted. So, Husk, go to Husk. It was a surgeon from like the Civil War. Civil War, yeah.

But so Josh told us to go to there, so we felt like we had to follow his recommendation. But we also felt like we couldn't come back until we went to Bolton's Hot Chicken and Fish. Hot, yeah, Spicy Chicken and Fish, that's what it's called. They got a cockatrice breathing fire, well they got a chicken breathing fire out front. Again, Instagram, we showed you this.

They've got a sign when you order there and it says, basically proceed at your own risk, do not touch your eyes or babies when eating our hot chicken and fish. And. Do not touch babies. And someone had said. Think about that, how bad would you feel

if you sauce a baby? Oh man, I'm sorry, I just sauced your baby. Well it's really dry rubbing a baby. I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to dry rub your baby. I mean, if you've got a nasty habit of dry rubbing a baby in the eyes, do not go to Nashville. Yeah, right.

You're not even invited. Like you cannot, first of all, that's a habit you need to break. What are you doing touching a baby's eyes? Like if a baby's got an eye booger, who cares? Just let them have it. It's actually probably a good thing. It's like a protective layer at the corner of the eyes.

Yeah. You don't need to. I think in general you shouldn't touch the face of a baby. Don't touch baby's faces. Eyes, like, oh look at that baby, so cute. Can I rub its eyes? What? And to have to put up a sign.

I mean, what does that say about the people of Nashville? It means a lot of baby eye touch means that they've been dry rubbing babies. Eye touchers. They were dry rubbing babies left and right before they put that sign up. Probably good for the babies. The spice levels at Bolton, it's a different scale. We were told this.

There's no spice and then there's light or something like that, then there's mild, then there's medium, then there's hot. But they said whatever you got at Hattie B's is what we were told by two different people, go one level lower. I'm grateful that we did. So we got, so yeah, and they were right.

So it's a different experience. Hot there was medium at Bolton's and they don't have a sandwich there. It's just the fried chicken, similar sides. I tried the beans, actually, well, I'll just go ahead and say that not just Josh, but most Nashvillians that we ran into and said we had been to Hattie B's,

they had this disappointed look on their face. They were like, of course you guys did the touristy thing. You should really go to Bolton's or you should go to Prince's. Guys. And we did. Well we went to one and it's not, the Bolton's was really good. Really good and the atmosphere was like so authentic.

It's like cinder block buildings that look like, look like bunkers almost. Looked like I was eating in a barbecue bunker. Right. Really, it was really rustic. But we gotta say. We both enjoyed Hattie B's more. I mean it was just, it was more of a distinct thing.

Now they do have hot fish. You can get all the same spices on the fish at Bolton's and so we got a hot fish. We went all the way to hot and they got white fish, they got catfish, they got grouper, we got the white fish because it was at the top of the menu. We figured that was the one that was suggested. I would recommend doing both though.

Yeah, yeah, you should try that. Because I've never had a spicy fish like that. But we- It was very good. We should skip to the Ryman because we're at this point in our conversation, we haven't gotten to it. But being a fan of old country music and we went through the Country Music Hall of Fame

and took our time, had a great time. They had an Outlaws exhibit which was amazing but in a lot of the pictures that you'll see throughout the Country Music Hall of Fame, you'll see people performing at the Ryman Auditorium because it was the home of the Grand Ole Opry for 30 years. And a lot of people. Which was the distinct,

it was the place where country music legends were made and certified. Yeah so basically anybody who's anybody in country music like old country has played. And then of course, Hank Williams. All the new acts have played there as well because they still got this incredible history. And but the Ryman Auditorium was originally built as an actual church, like a revival venue.

And you can totally tell when you go in there because it's all pews, it's all a big circle. It's a huge balcony that follows the same semicircular pattern. And then you've got the stained glass windows. I mean, super famous. It's super famous for the history, but it's also super famous for the acoustics

because it's all wood. Yeah. And the circular thing, it's just like one of the best sounding places that you can play music. I'm doing some research when we're in DC. I'm like, I wanna see Merle playing here. And I mean, he first played there

as he was starting his career in 1967, but then Johnny Cash, who was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was then kicked out, and you can see that in the movie Walk the Line, he was let go. But then he came back when he had his own television show, The Johnny Cash show, he insisted that it be filmed at the Ryman Auditorium at the same, at the home of the Grand Ole Opry.

So they would film his show there. And I mean, Johnny Cash is bringing Bob Dylan on his show. I mean, this is an amazing institution within an institution, just his show. And he had, as Merle was gaining popularity, he comes on the show and seeing the two of them interact is like, it just gives me goosebumps thinking about that footage.

But one story in particular is amazing, that of course Merle was, Merle was in prison. And just like the Lyric and Mama tried, he did turn 21 in prison. He wasn't serving life without parole, but. 15 years or something like that. And Johnny Cash knew this, but he encouraged Merle to talk about it openly, his time in prison,

which he hadn't done. Now some people knew that he had been in prison but it was on the Johnny Cash show, on the stage that we performed on, that Merle in a conversation with Johnny Cash told the world for the first time that he was a prisoner. He was an ex-con. the world for the first time that he was a prisoner. He was an ex-con. And not only that, he told it in the context of the story

of when Johnny Cash on many occasions would go and perform concerts at prisons, Folsom Prison Concert is a famous album, but so is his San Quentin performance. But he performed at San Quentin a number of times and one of those times, Merle Haggard was in the audience as a freaking inmate and he's like telling that story. So it's basically his coming out that hey, I was an ex-con

and blowing people's minds that Johnny, I was at your concert as an inmate. And so, and to know that happened on that stage just kind of blew my mind and then I realized, man I'm getting nervous. Well I was already nervous before we went to the Hall of Fame. You know, because first of all, everyone who we talk to, if we say we're playing the rhyme,

they're like, well, you're playing the rhyme. Like, you're going to this sacred place. And I'm also thinking about the thing that it is that we do, which is we're not country musicians. I mean, we're gonna be acting like fools up in this place, you know, I mean we're playing music but it's stupid in a lot of ways. We got a lot of testicle jokes. Yeah, and so.

And we've got a whole rap set which feels weird. Which feels a little out of place in the writing. But, so in seeing all that footage, you know, people who made their debut there, because one of the cool things about the Country Music Hall of Fame, in addition to the memorabilia, the archival sort of stuff,

or the artifacts, is all the video that they have in there. Right. They've got so, all these, like you said, the footage of the conversation on the Johnny Cash Show with Merle, but so much of that and so many pictures, that's the Ryman, that's the Ryman, that's the Ryman. And then I kept saying, we're playing there tonight.

And I started thinking a couple things. I was like, A, I'm way more nervous than I usually am before a show. And two, we had decided to play two Merle songs, two of our favorite Merle songs. Which is something we've never done. We don't cover anybody's songs and we've never performed Merle songs publicly

that I can remember. Right and so we did one that is a really popular old school Merle song and then one that's a little bit of a deeper cut. And I was thinking, I might cry. Oh. I was like, I don't wanna cry during this thing because I can't cry and still continue to sing.

I'm not one of those people who can like, you know. Cry sing? Cry sing. Some people can. Kind of like Vince Gill. He seems like he's always cry singing. My voice would break and so I was like, I don't want that to happen so, you know, I don't know how I'm gonna take my mind off that.

But a few things about the show. I mean, first of all, thankfully we did have everything down from a musical standpoint by the time we got there. It did sound like we could hear ourselves really well and you sort of feel the power of the music kind of going out and coming around that circle and coming back to you. And also, you can hear every single thing that is being,

the crowd reaction is so immediate because they're right there on you and it's 2,200 people, it's a small venue and they're kind of on top of you in a lot of ways because you've got that huge balcony. Yeah. So the furthest person from you is still relatively close. And it makes such a big difference.

I mean, in the little bit of touring that we've done, it's like every venue is different and you never know exactly what you're gonna get and what crowd is gonna show up. But everything lined up. I mean, the crowd was so boisterous and responsive. Oh yeah. And you know, I had somebody,

I don't know how we got to this like, me asking for antibacterial soap and then somebody's like throwing Hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizer up at me and like I emptied the entire bottle that she threw to me into my hand and then I didn't know what to do with it and like we came up with something.

It was a lot of fun, man. Everybody was just loving, everybody was having a good time. So by the time in the middle of the set when we performed Silver Wings, you felt like you weren't gonna cry? Because people said that they cried. It was very, very emotional for me. Like playing both that and then Driftwood,

we played Driftwood with Britton, he got out there and killed the solo, the guitar solo. And it was emotional for sure, but I didn't think that I was gonna break down at that moment. So the show just went on, it was great, and we got to that last song that we sing, which is a little bit of an emotional, it's funny,

but it's got an emotional quality and tone to it, the song that we closed the show out with. And you knew this, most people probably didn't pick up on the fact that I like flubbed two lyrics. I mean, we ended up like just changing in the moment one lyric that was from a different part of the song and then there was one part where I didn't come in, but you sang that part, whatever.

Which by this point in the tour wasn't typical. Right. Especially that song. And I told you later, I was like, I was so in the moment and thinking that like, I cannot believe how much fun this is. I cannot believe how good this is. You know what I'm saying?

Not good like, I can't believe how good we are, just how good this is all lining up. Yeah, you were savoring it, man, I think that's great. And I lost the ability to be in the song because I was so in the moment. It's like I kind of left my body for a second and took a little flight around the Ryman and communed with the spirits of old country

and then came back in to my body and was like, oh, I should be singing. Yeah, it was magical, man. I mean, was it the peak of our career? Yeah, I mean. It hasn't gotten any better than that for me personally. Well, it was two days ago. No, I'm saying, people are like,

what's the best moment in your career? Oh, wow. I cannot think of any time where I felt as fulfilled in what we get to do. Right. Is in that moment. But because the other things that, I mean you put out the internet video

and it's just like you can only be so fulfilled by like the response to the comments. I mean, and you can, if you make, if you craft a documentary or a series or anything and you like screen it and then people, you're like watching people from the back of the room and then they're clapping. It's like that is very thrilling.

But it's not the same as performing. I mean as having that moment of all the faces are staring back at you and you're like, I'm savoring this like the first bite of hot chicken I ever had. Yeah. You know, you never have, I mean, you first bite of hot chicken I ever had. Yeah. You know, you never have, I mean, you can read about hot chicken,

you can make analogies about hot chicken at the end of podcasts. Right. But until you eat the hot chicken on the stage of the Ryman, oh shoot, that would have been peak. That's, we blew it. That would have been too much. That would've been too much.

That would've been sensory overload. That's gonna be our next tour. I mean, that's what people want anyway, right? The hot chicken tour? Yeah, we're just gonna get on stage and eat hot chicken. Well, and that's another thing. I'm glad you brought that up. Not the hot chicken, but the eating thing

because you know me and we've talked about this before. It's like another reason that it's so fulfilling to me, it's like okay, it's cool when we, it's like oh, we got to, oh there's 15 million people subscribed to Good Mythical Morning, and that's awesome. And it's, and you know what, it's why people show up at our freaking show, let's be honest, it's why people can show up and watch us sing.

They're not showing up to watch us sing primarily, most people because they've seen us sing, they've seen us do weird stuff on the internet and they wanna come hang out with us. But because I truly believe that we crafted something, like we have crafted a show that I feel good about artistically and creatively. And again, that's the thing that kind of gets me going.

Right? It's obviously I love the stuff that's not planned and the humor that happens in the moment and the things that make that particular show unique. But the thing that really gets me going is like sitting down and over the course of a like labored process, creating something special that then is crafted with the real time reception of an audience in mind.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and it's very rewarding when it comes together. And then being able to go out there and actually execute it and see the real time, feel the real time reaction from an audience in a place that's so special, the combination of those things and the place that's so special, the combination of those things

and the way that it came together, I was just like, it doesn't get any better than this. I mean, like we could, hopefully we'll continue to do great things. Hopefully we've got bigger and better things ahead of us. And there's other creative things that we want to do. But regardless of how well those things go and how well they're received, it can only match.

In my mind, it can only match the way I felt at the Ryman. I agree with that. Yeah, yeah, I feel that way too. I'm just, and it, again, going out there and doing a show, it puts everything else we've done in perspective because we wouldn't be able to do it if it weren't for the other things. But I'm grateful for the experience

because of everything you said and also because it, it just puts, it gives us perspective that we can't have when we just sit behind our desk. Yeah. Yeah. And like we say, we say at the shows, you know, it's like, Yeah, and like we say at the shows, it's like, there's all kinds of amazing things that have, all the interactions that we have with people online are invaluable and amazing

and in volume, much greater. There's just way more of them because it's the nature of the internet. But there is just something different about being in a room full of mythical beasts. It's like we just don't get to experience that. Like, we make this podcast, we do the show, we do these other things and people experience it

on this regular basis and have these special connections and then we hear about them retrospectively. And that's really special. But to be in the same room while it's all happening and the immediate feedback, and I feel like we've got a very, first of all, our audience is very eclectic in a lot of ways in terms of like,

just where people are from, their background, their ages, but there's also something very uniform about the way of people who are just mythical, you know what I'm saying? And so there's a lot of like-minded people in the same room who are just like connecting, not just with us but with each other. Being in that atmosphere is just special.

Yeah, so again, I wanna thank you for, if you've come out to one of our shows, thank you. And I'll invite you if you haven't to check out Rhett and Link Live. All of this isn't a promotion for us. I mean, it's an inadvertent promotion. That's why I'm just gonna, I'll plug it again, rhettandlinklive.com.

I'm also, I got Jenna to record our sound check for the Merle cover with Brittain. I have that, so I'm gonna post that on the Society. I'm gonna get that posted on the Society. So that's the sound check, not from the Ryman, but from DC, because we didn't have a lot of time to check at the Ryman, so we had to practice it. It sounds good, because we didn't have a lot of time to check at the Ryman so we had to practice. It sounds good because we were still learning it.

It don't matter, I'll post it there on the society for. Okay, so if it doesn't sound good, it's just a little treat. Okay, I got, anything else that we wanna say before I give a little rec? Give me a rec, man, give us a rec. Okay, so. It's your turn. I'm gonna give a rec.

This is one of those things that many, many months behind when everyone was talking about this thing, but if you're like me, you didn't see it originally. And I watched this movie on the plane, and so I'm gonna do a rec of Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade. For those of you who have not taken the time to see this movie, I just highly recommend it. It's just, there's something about it that's so visceral,

like the way that he puts you into the experience of middle school in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable. And I don't ever feel that way when I watch stuff. You know what I'm saying? It's like people talk about, I can't watch that because it makes me feel uncomfortable. And I wasn't about to stop watching it, but he's so effective.

And the lead actor in this, whatever her name is, something Fisher, whatever her name is. No, I don't know where her name is. Look that up, because I want to get that right. The lead actor, the lead actress in eighth grade. The way that, I mean she's incredible. She just nails it so hard. And so it's just really cool to see somebody

that we knew from way back, you know, we hung out with Bo Burnham at YouTube Live back in 2008, seven? Probably eight. And he was just a YouTuber, man. And he goes off and writes and directs this incredible film. So I know many of you have probably seen it, but a lot of you, probably more of you are like me

and you just didn't watch it the first time it came out. I just highly recommend it. What's her name? Elsie Fisher. Elsie Fisher. Elsie Fisher. Elsie Fisher. All right, thanks for that, Rhett. She's gonna go on and do even bigger things.

All right guys, thanks for hanging out with us and we'll speak at you again next week. We'll give you another biscuit for your ears. Yeah, maybe next week will be the peak of our careers.