Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 265: Our 2020 Amazon Purchases | Ear Biscuits Ep.265

Episode Date: November 23, 2020

From glow-in-the-dark urinals to survival gear, R&L go back through and discuss their Amazon purchases from this year in this episode of Ear Biscuits! Link's Amazon Orders: Slim Wallet - https://amzn.to/3fpR6YU Thinning Scissors - https://amzn.to/3pUinaU Fiskars Lopper - https://amzn.to/3q0u007 OXO Broom - https://amzn.to/339eGUQ Rhett's Amazon Orders: Best Maid Dill Juice - https://amzn.to/334iVkH Toilet Seat - https://amzn.to/3nIKxn6 Golden Saffron - https://amzn.to/395YGqD AC Infinity Multifan - https://amzn.to/2Hrqhan United Ortho Fracture Boot - https://amzn.to/3nPeGS0 Food Grinder - https://amzn.to/3fAM6kx Carbon Steel Paella Pan - https://amzn.to/398XQJM Cantonese Wok - https://amzn.to/3kVOx1Y Outlet Timer - https://amzn.to/36YYR4m Ankle Socks - https://amzn.to/3kVOGm2 Yoga Floor - https://amzn.to/2IXjci6 Men’s Yoga Pants - https://amzn.to/33baJ1Z Iphone 12 Screen Protector - https://amzn.to/2HrqQB1 Air Horn - https://amzn.to/2ITw5dw Paracord Bracelet - https://amzn.to/2KyZLNt Privacy Tent - https://amzn.to/3pUhajS Patio Lounge Chair - https://amzn.to/3nPf3fm Heinz Baked Beans - https://amzn.to/3nTYH5f Beanz Airpod Case Cover - https://amzn.to/3nM1q0n Portable Urinal Bottle - https://amzn.to/2URzEmK Portable Bidet - https://amzn.to/3kUK7s4 Lion Tank - https://amzn.to/3lZCZfi Puma Sneaker - https://amzn.to/3kVvYLl Black Licorice - https://amzn.to/35T6jyw Massage Oil - https://amzn.to/39dlswV Reebok Walking Shoes - https://amzn.to/3kTjIuD Summit Mosquito Dunks - https://amzn.to/3pOlDoh Chest Rub - https://amzn.to/2UObfhQ Metal Compression Spring - https://amzn.to/3kWntPW Wood Blocks - https://amzn.to/338Z83I Wobble Chair - https://amzn.to/3kX6xJa Black Calypso Beans - https://amzn.to/2J6a6PZ Cannellini Beans - https://amzn.to/2J3RWyG Pinquito Beans - https://amzn.to/2KpQ97u Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener - https://amzn.to/2Hpm46T Dumbbell Weights - https://amzn.to/3foZ8kH To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week at the Round Table of Dim Lighting, we're doing something that I'm very excited about. We are going through all the things or some of the things that we have bought in 2020. We're looking back on 2020 through the lens of our Amazon shopping cart order history. This is your idea. Well, actually, I think the general idea

was Stevie's idea. Oh yeah, that's right. In the Ear Biscuits topics doc that we all share. And then forget to look at until like six months later. Because everybody, we were having these conversations about what people, everybody was buying things and knew in different ways. And I think people were, and I know I was buying things almost therapeutically,

like in quarantine, you don't have a lot of things to interact with other than your family. You find yourself like going to Amazon and thinking, I do need that. If you're me, at least. Yeah. And so when she said, what did you buy in quarantine? You know, that was like six months ago, she suggested that.

So now it's, what did you buy in 2020? Because we're almost done with the year, bro. Yeah, you can look back. I mean, it's not that we bought everything through Amazon, but I mean, I mean, It's the easiest place. We're submitting to our shopping corporate overlord. It's just, you know, you can't help yourself.

Well, I mean- We buy local too. Yeah, yeah, we're not gonna get- Mostly when it comes to foods. Yeah, we're not gonna get into a commentary of the nature of buying so many things through Amazon. Let's not even mention Amazon in this conversation. Well, but all these are gonna be Amazon links

and we're also gonna use, we're gonna link all the things that we talk about in the description of both the audio and the video podcast with our affiliate links. Oh. Because I mean, if you don't end up buying some of the stuff after I talk about it, then I'm a bad salesman. So how does that, so you're telling me

if they click on the link that we provide. I don't really know how it works. We get a little cut of it? I think it goes, it might go to charity. Honestly, all I know is that it's fun to talk about what you bought. I feel like I should know how the affiliate program works. It's better if you don't, because it makes it more pure.

Because I think it's actually very simple, but I just have never asked any questions. People are just like, oh yeah, we have an affiliate program. I'm assuming it's a referral little stipend. But that's not why we're, we're not doing this to make money. No, no, it's interesting.

We're doing this because you got a charge out of buying these things, now you get a charge out of talking about it. You might notice there's a slight difference. Now I went through my Amazon history. Now let me say that. Me too, I did as well. This is not my wife's Amazon and my Amazon. We have separate Prime accounts.

I don't know exactly how that started, but- So you're paying double. Well- You can share accounts on Prime, but that didn't work for me. The reason I started it is because I needed to get, I have to get her presents through Amazon. And I don't want her to know that I'm what I'm getting

for different holidays and birthdays and stuff. Right. So I'm sure there was a smarter way to do this, but long ago, I just started my own account. And so just to let you know, this is all things that I individually decided to buy. This is not what my kids wanted. This isn't what my wife wanted.

That's a separate account. And I picked out what I'm guessing is 10% of the items that I bought in 2020. And I have 35 things to go through. I went through my Amazon account, which I share with Christy. It's technically Christy's account because you wanna get the Prime shipping.

And then the thing where you can add my own account to her account and link the Prime shipping to be shared by the family, I didn't quite figure that out. Yeah, so the affiliate program is so complex that you really need a degree to get through it. I ain't got time for that. So the vast majority of things that I look back through on 2020 in my account,

everything our family purchases in there. So you had to find the things that you individually wanted and bought. Yeah. And how many things you had to find the things that you individually wanted and bought. Yeah. And how many things you bring to the table? Four. I bought slightly more things than that,

but they were just like. This is, there's a big difference, man. I mean, this is different personalities, different dispositions. I didn't want one of my things to be paper towels or toilet tissue, you know? You picked interesting things that are related to your- Most of the things I picked,

I think there's definitely a story behind. Like I said, nine out of 10 things I did not put on this list. We're very different people when it comes to buying things. Maybe we'll get into that later, but I'll pepper in some of mine. I mean, I've only got four, so how do you- Is one of them pepper?

How do you wanna do this? Oh, well, we should get started because I got a lot to talk about. Yeah, go for it. Some of these will have some associated background and some I might just say, and if you have a question about them, ask it. If you don't, I might just move on, okay?

This is- That's right. This is in reverse chronological order. So I'm starting with the most recent things and going deeper into the year. Backwards. I could have been made it more interesting, but it's this simple. First item, best made dill juice.

Dill juice? Dill juice. D-I-L-L. Dill juice. Okay, you're talking about pickle juice. Yeah. All right, I know what this one is. Right, I told you about this.

You made some hot chicken sandwiches at your home. Right, I made some. This is a sore subject for me. Yeah, well, we can talk about that because your wife had some choice words for you at the get together at your house the other night. I didn't appreciate that. Well, I didn't say anything about it.

Well, what you did say was, tomorrow I'm making hot chicken sandwiches. I've done research and I'm gonna make these at home. Did you know that they brine the chicken in dill pickle juice and that's the secret. Yeah. And I'm doing this tomorrow and we're really excited about it.

And I was kind of locked in on Christy as I was talking about it because I knew that she would care more than anyone else. Oh and she was like, I'm excited about it too. Can I get one? Man, I wish, and then she turned to me, she's like, I wish you would do stuff like this. I wish that you would come up with something to cook

and then the next thing you know, you're cooking it and then we're eating it. Right, yeah, that's kind of how it works. And I'm like, I didn't know what to say. Well, it's fine because I also closed talking about it with the promise that I'm gonna become like my own little pop-up and I'm gonna be making these things.

Now I was perfecting this recipe by doing it for my family and boy, I got it right on the first try. And so next time, and I'm perfecting this recipe by doing it for my family. And boy, I got it right on the first try. And so next time, and I'm gonna do this with when I make brisket and when I make pulled pork, and I'm gonna make more. I believe in this. This doesn't make me mad. I'm gonna make more than I need. And I'm gonna take some to my friends,

including your family for free. And you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna gladly- Eat it. Take it. But then, if it becomes a thing, I'll be gladly to make it our thing that like I could help with, you know, promotion. It's not a money-making scheme.

This is just a generosity thing. And in fact- I can help with the content, the ancillary content. The last piece of the puzzle is pies. I wanna figure out how to make amazing pies. And so I bring you, actually the whole idea, I was gonna call it thighs and pies, but it's more than just thighs.

What about pithighs? It's also barbecue and it's other things. A chicken sandwich that's made with the thigh is the best, man. So, you know, Lindsay- Nobody does that. Lindsay, who works with Jesse, was at the house last night and she had been at the house during the day

and I got home and I was like, cause I made this this weekend and I had like six pieces of this chicken left over and I got home last night and it was all gone. And I was like, oh, y'all ate all the chicken. And then Lindsay said, and she said, I ate a piece straight out of the fridge cold. She said, that is the best fried chicken

I've ever had in my life. But it's not just fried chicken, it is Nashville hot chicken, right? Yeah. So if you're saying that's the best fried chicken you've had, that's like a different category. Well, you don't, here's the thing. When I finished frying it and I put it in the fridge,

I had not yet, it had like the spicy stuff in the dredge and like coating on it, but it did not have it, the sauce on it, which is a separate step that you do after you take it off the grill, but I didn't want the sauce to make the breading soggy for leftovers, so they just ate it just a straight up chicken so it kind of comes across like a Bojangles like Cajun chicken, which is really good.

And what did you, did you deep fry it? Yeah, yeah, I fried it. Pan fried? I fried it in like, you know, like a Bojangles like Cajun chicken, which is really good. And what did you, you deep fry it? Yeah, yeah, I fried it. I fried it in like, you know, like a three quarters inch of peanut oil in a big pan. Okay. So yeah, just like, you know, four minutes, turn it, that kind of thing. Anyway, that's just why, I mean,

I can't talk about everything that much, but that was a sore spot because your wife is upset about it. I'm gonna just read. She wasn't upset. You might have to decipher what it is I bought because I'm literally reading word for word the name of the title on Amazon.

Okay. Kohler K40090, reveal quiet clothes with grip tight bumpers, round front toilet seat, white. Round front toilet seat. I buy a toilet seat for my boys' bathroom because they are so rough on everything. They broke it? They broke the toilet seat.

Or they permanently stained it. I think they sat too hard on it or maybe they peed too hard on it. Oh God. And it was the kind of thing that two boys in a bathroom with a broken toilet seat turned into two boys in a bathroom with a toilet with no seat for longer than we should have let that happen. The seat wasn't even on there?

No seat. So they only peed in it? Yeah, and they came to my bathroom to take a dump. Or the guest bathroom to take a dump. And it took about six weeks for me to get tired of that. Oh gosh, did you think about getting a cushiony one? That like, it's got little holes that- Well, it's interesting that you asked this

because when the toilet seat came and I said, "'Hey Shep, hey, come here. "'I'm gonna show you how to install a toilet seat. "'This is something somebody, you should know, you know, "'learn from your dad.'" And the first thing he said, he was like, "'Did you get a good one?'' I'm just like, what, what are you,

is that, was he thinking about the soft kind? Cause I was like, what do you mean? He was like, you know, like a good one. I had a babysitter who had a good one. Old people, they'll have a cushiony one and it's- Sometimes they got carpet on them. Oh my, yes. It's the most unsanitary thing I've ever heard of.

I think you're getting something confused. The top has carpet. A lot of old people, they'll put like a crocheted toilet lid cover, but it's not on the seat itself, it's just decorative. I think that was a fad. I think that the soft toilet seat is asking too much out of life.

If you have a crocheted lid and you lift that thing up, you should be expecting a, it's vinyl, I believe. It's like plasticky, but it, and then it has like styro, like foam inside of it. And when you sit on it the first time, it's like, oh, this is pleasant. But then it starts to sprout leaks. And when you sit on it, little pinholes of air

will just come out around your hips. It feels good though. But then you sink down into hardness. Well, old people have it, I think, because as you get older, you lose muscle and fat and you got a bony butt. So I don't have a bony butt yet. I will, and at that point I'll get a soft one.

Shepherd will be happy. Golden saffron, finest pure premium all red saffron threads, grade A plus, highest grade saffron for Let's move on. Finest pure premium all red saffron threads. Grade A plus, highest grade saffron for tea, paella, rice, desserts, no artificial, no preservatives, two grams. So this is a- It's another cooking expedition I've been on. Yeah, a lot of cooking stuff. I'll also just throw in-

Big paella. 22 inch carbon steel paella pan, 55 centimeters, bought at the same time. 22 inch? steel paella pan, 55 centimeters, bought at the same time. 22 inch? Yeah, so- A two foot diameter? It's a very large paella pan. Now, as you know, out in my grill area,

that just made an appearance on Fancy Fast Food. I heard about that. We smoked some stuff for the McRib. I didn't watch it, I wasn't in it. You may not have seen, but I got a big burner out there because I wanted the option to make a big paella for a lot of people who come over when the pandemic is over, right?

Pandicament. The pan predicament. Pandicament. But again, I'm getting my recipes on lock before I share them with my friends. So I'm testing them on my family. And so- You're really fixating on the hosting component.

And I think that is driving your culinary- You know me, I like to create experiences. That's why I did the game night. And I loved, I wanna, and I liked the idea of like, hey, everybody, we're gonna have this giant ass paella that I made. And I like to experience things. Right.

You like to eat things that other people make for you. Listen, so do I. I like to be served. Nothing wrong with that. I like to experience things. Right. You like to eat things that other people make for you. Listen, so do I. I like to be served. Nothing wrong with that. I like to be served. And as you know, as we talked about on the show, saffron is something that you and I both didn't really like. When they made some kind of saffron dish on the show, we talked about how it tasted like pool water.

What I learned is that a little bit, I mean a tiny bit of saffron goes a very long way. I used this tiny little pinch, like four or five little strands of this stuff in like a 14 inch pie. It comes in threads, is that what you read in the? Yeah, yeah, yeah, threads. Like, is it a plant or is it?

Well, it's not an animal. Well, because it's golden and it comes in threads, I started to think of it as like something that Rumpelstiltskin would fabric. It's like that little threads that long. Anyway- It's fabric. I'm on the saffron train because I know that a little bit goes a long way

and it just, my first paella, chicken, and also I got rice and chorizo from Spain. And it's absolutely heavenly. I mean, you're gonna love it. You're gonna absolutely love it. I'll do it for you in the 22 inch pan, which I still haven't used because I used a small pan because I'm not gonna feed my entire family

with a 22 inch paella, that's crazy. It gets a bit frou-frou, like the fried chicken. Paella frou-frou? But when you're like, I got the thing from Spain. If you're gonna do it, do it right. Let me, if I may. You may. When you're hosting people,

hold some of the details close to the vest, okay? Because you run the risk of- Well, I'm not gonna tell them what's in it. Yeah, if you're like, well, you know, I got this. It's risk of- Well, I'm not gonna tell them what's in it. Yeah, if you're like, well, you know, I got this. It's kinda like- Well, I'm not gonna use that voice if I say it. Yeah, you just gotta give them a little bit. If people are really interested,

then you can give them a little bit more. But don't just give them everything like, well, I sourced this from Spain and I sourced this from Switzerland and Rumpelstiltskin himself, I got him on the phone. You wait until you taste. You wait until you taste the Spanish chorizo. Oh gosh.

I mean, I'm thinking about it right now. My mouth is watering. Yeah, let us taste it and then see how much of the details we want. Here's something a little less exciting. I mean, I got a list too. We'll sit with this really quick and then we'll hit yours.

I'm trying to, I mean, you got four things. I'm trying to like, you know, I gotta kind of get through. But they're big. AC Infinity Multifan S7-P Quiet Dual 120 millimeter AC powered fan with speed control. UL certified for receiver DVR PlayStation Xbox component cooling.

See if you can figure that one out. Well, you got a cooling fan. So you, for what? For DVR cooling? So, you know, I've got my media set up outside. Right, I showed you that too. And you saw, we watched one little YouTube video out there. I just gave you a taste.

Yes, yes. But the receiver, and I don out there. I just gave you a taste. Yes, yes. But the receiver, and I don't know, I didn't set it up. I got a guy to do it, but the components inside the cabinet, which is outside, got so hot that I opened the thing and a heat wave burst into my face and I touched the side of it. I was like, man, I could fry an egg on this thing.

That seems like it could burn my house down. You make pie ale on it. And so then I started trying to figure out what the solutions were. And so I bought these cooling fans. So it's kind of like a fan that would be in a computer that you would build. Yeah, you can put them like in the door or you can,

what I did is I made it where the door is a little bit open up with some spacers so that there's a big crack all along the sides of the door. And then I put the fans in the front and they, some of them pull air in and some push it out. So it brings in the outside air and circulates it. And it also, this thing comes with a thermometer that a thermostat essentially,

that you can set at what temperature the cabinet has to get to before they come on. I mean, of course this exists, but I didn't know about this world of fans. And you were able to put this in yourself? Oh, it's simple. Huh. Super simple.

That reminds me when I look back through the Amazon history, I started realizing how much crap Lincoln has bought. Like he bought fans, all types of computer stuff. He built a computer. Last Christmas he got a computer and then over the course of quarantine, he has disassembled and rebuilt the entire computer.

That's what you gotta do. And he was like, you know what, I shouldn't have bought that pre-made thing. You gotta build it yourself. They're on Discord shaming each other about if they built their own computer or not. But I like the fact that this was his project and he was figuring stuff out.

He fried his motherboard because he didn't use proper techniques to troubleshoot something. There's so much LED situation inside of a computer these days. Just for show, right? Just for show. Right. And he couldn't get all that to work

and he fried his motherboard by touching the wrong thing without with it being plugged in. You gotta have like gloves on when you work with this stuff. He learned his lesson. But then he bought another motherboard. Yeah, but with his money. All of this stuff is with his money. But it is through our Amazon account.

And yeah, he went in debt to get another motherboard. But I was like, you know what? He needs to experience the sinking feeling of investing his emotional and physical energy into a project and then totally tanking it. And then having to figure out how to start over. That's an important life lesson. I could see that, the look on his face, I was like.

You were there when it happened. This is a good moment. Well, I got home from work and he was like, he had this, Christy told me, you should go in and talk to Lincoln. He's just in his room with like, just like staring dejected. And he like confessed what had happened. And then I helped, I taught him how to do some Googling

in order to really figure out what was wrong and what needed to be fixed. So I didn't do it for him, but I helped him figure out how to develop a plan of action. You helped him Google. I helped him Google the right thing. There's an art to it. So I'm sifting through all these computer parts

to get to my thing. And okay, I guess in reverse chronological order, incidentally, I feel like I've talked about all of these things in one place or another because I buy so few things. Have I talked about my ultra slim wallet? Slim minimalist front pocket RFID blocking leather wallets for men, women is what it says.

I got it in my pocket. I had a slim wallet for over 10 years and the whole thing was falling apart to the point where it had a little plastic thing that you could see the driver's license through it just like this new one has, but it had frayed open. So every time I reached to get my wallet, sometimes that little hard piece of plastic

would wedge itself in between behind my fingernail. How many? Which is a form of torch. How long did you deal with that? Probably six years. Like no exaggeration, my wallet was at that level of dilapidation for six years. And you know what? I looked on, an ad came up on Instagram

for an ultra thin wallet. Yeah, they knew you wanted one. I was like, you know what, I'm gonna click on this and I'm gonna buy it and I'm gonna tell Rhett I did it. He's gonna be so happy for me. I actually clicked on an ad and bought something. Something I'd never do, ever. Yeah.

So I did that, I dropped like $23 on this wallet and never got it. Oh, about to say, because this is Amazon, so you had to this wallet and never got it. Oh, about to say, because this is Amazon, so you had to go. I never got it. And this is, you got one like it on Amazon. I got one like it. I was like, you know what?

This freaking wallet's never coming. I emailed them and told them I want my money back. Yeah. Or give me the wallet. No response. It just fizzled out. The one time I take a risk to buy something based on an ad in an impulse kind of way,

it blows up in my face. That happened to me one time this year. I think it has something to do with- It's the only time I bought something. I don't know what the standards are for getting something on Instagram ads, but the process, and again, this is one of the reasons that so many people buy things on Amazon.

It's like you're buying a freaking kit from a Kickstarter. It's like, well, we're not really making the wallet. They haven't gotten their stuff together always. They haven't always gotten their stuff together. So I got this wallet and I've been carrying it in my computer bag more than I've been carrying it in my back pocket.

It's not slim enough for you. It is a bit bigger. So I'm not too happy. My wallet is from an Instagram ad as well. I've shown it to you. I'm not going into my Instagram purchases. That could be a whole different episode because I'm that guy who is susceptible to advertising.

So I bought that. Bought a wallet. I have so much anxiety around buying stuff. Like I just, I was mad about that wallet, man. I felt like, you know what, learn my lesson, never buying anything again. Like literally, that's how I felt. And then I like had to work up the energy to buy that wallet.

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It's a fracture boot. Yeah. Was not ever used by the way. So I have a fracture boot if you're in the market for it. Never used. He tried to use it one time and then boot if you're in the market for it. Never used. He tried to use it one time and then the next day he was okay. Let's move on, you know what, let's move on. Metal food grinder attachment for KitchenAid.

Stand mixers includes two sausage stuffer tubes. Okay, so I'm losing interest because everything's cooking related. This is a sausage maker? It's a grinder that you put on the KitchenAid. Does it work? I haven't used it yet. You haven't used it.

I got it because I want to pasteurize my own meat and grind it so that I can have medium rare and rare burgers and it'd be okay. So you have to like flash boil your meat to pasteurize it and you can get like a better cut of meat and you can grind it and you can immediately patty it and grill it. It's quite an experience.

Because you want it to be redder. If it's really good meat, yes. Okay. Now, this is not gonna- You ever been to In-N-Out or Shake Shack? You do not want a pink burger at one of those places. Yeah, but if you want a really good burger, you just go to one of those places.

But they're not gonna use the meat, I'm gonna use buddy roll. You know what, I assume it's not just so you can talk about it. You actually also enjoy the process as well, right? You're doing this for yourself. I don't just do things so I can talk about them. I didn't know we were gonna do this episode.

No, this is throughout the year I've bought these things because now, okay, I'm gonna show you a picture. Link, I can't show you the picture because my wife took it. And you're not gonna appreciate this, but I also got a 30 inch steel hand hammered Cantonese wok. 30 inch what, diameter? This wok, it feels much bigger than 30 inches.

I think the bottom might be 30 inches. Like you've ever been, have you ever looked in the back of a Chinese restaurant and seen the woks they're cooking on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a wok that is no lie this big. And I am gonna also- I can curl up inside of this wok.

Yeah, I have to keep it in the attic because I can't find any place big enough to keep it. It's in the attic. Yeah, and there to keep it in the attic because I can't find any place big enough to keep it. It's in the attic. Yeah, and there it will stay. Nope, because again, so I'm gonna have like four or five different things I can do for parties. I'm so ready to cook for parties. When the pandemic, I don't know why I can't say the word,

when the pandemic is over, we're gonna have the most kick-ass parties and I'm gonna be catering. That's not how it's gonna work. It's not like one day the pandemic's gonna be over. Well, there's gonna be a point in which we can freely gather without anybody worried about anything. And I mean, I'm just saying that

that's gonna happen eventually. Now I'm going to, and I don't know what my Chinese food recipe is going to be. I've been thinking about something in the Kung Pao space, but anyway, I'm gonna be able to make so much of it that we could have a hundred people over and I could feed all of them. I do understand this whole cooped up

and not seeing people and then, you know, you're channeling what you can learn now into something that can then be a, reach ultimate fruition later. The timing of it is the fact that we just finished the outdoor area and I, the only, I cared about like the media area with the screen and then the barbecue area, right? Those are the areas that I cared about

because this is my place where I wanted to get it just right. Give me the next one. Is it cooking? It's not food. BN Link Compact Outdoor Mechanical Timer, 24 hour. BN Link what? BN Link Compact Outdoor Mechanical Timer, 24 hour programmable dual outlet timer.

Plug in waterproof heavy duty. Accurate for lamps, outdoor Christmas lights, et cetera. Okay, just a timer. I haven't told you. I don't know if I've told you about this. A plug. So one of the things Okay, just a timer. I haven't told you. I don't know if I've told you about this. A plug. So one of the things- A plug-in timer. One of the things that I'm also going to do at the house

is I'm going to make with my son a cold plunge pool using an old or a brand, actually a new freezer. This might sound dangerous, but if you wanna get a, like, so I'm saying like, if you wanna take an ice bath, if you wanna do what the athletes do. So what I wanna do is I wanna be able to like get in the hot tub and then get in, I wanna do the cold, hot, cold, hot plunge thing and just send myself

into a euphoric state and then make prophecies. But in order to do that, if you wanna get a plunge pool and you wanna like get a real plunge pool, you're not gonna get out for less than like eight, $10,000, I don't wanna spend that kind of money. What I found- You gotta buy big pots with that money. Is I found a YouTube rabbit hole of these people

who are using top, I don't know, top loading, top loading freezers to create plunge pools. You talking about the type of freezer that like a serial killer would just dump body parts in. But you put your live body in it with water. With the lid up. With the lid up. And if that lid goes down.

Well, you can get out. Somebody should be supervising you though. You push on it. I do not recommend, I don't recommend this. And this whole, the timer is that you only want to run it because if you, you're gonna put water in there, right? And the timer is gonna run every, like in the middle of night,

it's gonna turn the freezer on to cool the water. And then it's gonna turn off because you'll just have a block of ice in there. And you get where you can monitor the temperature and you get how, based on the weather, you know how long you need to run this thing. And of get where you can monitor the temperature and you get how many, based on the weather, you know how long you need to run this thing. And of course, then before you get in it, you unplug it. Even though you silicone seal the inside

so that it won't leak, you don't want the freezer to be plugged in when you get into it. You know, electricity is bad. Yeah, Lincoln learned that with his motherboard. Yeah, so anyway, but do you know what happened during the pandemic? Top loading freezers sold out everywhere.

So I got all the ancillary pieces freezed. For this reason? Nope, because people are trying to store food. That's a better reason. They're all worried about not having enough. So everybody's like, we gotta get all our meat frozen because who knows what's gonna happen. That makes a little more sense.

Yeah, and so all these top loading freezers that are the right size, literally every big box store that I looked like a couple months ago, completely sold out, they don't know when they were gonna be back in. So you've got the timer. I haven't checked recently. I've got the timer, the sealer, the thermometer. I've got all the ancillary pieces,

I just don't have the freezer. So when the freezers are back in stock and they might be, I haven't checked lately, I'm gonna get one. And you can come over and take an ice bath anytime you want, I know you love them. A lot of things are sold out because the pipelines are screwy or shut down for whatever components of,

any number of things. I was thinking about getting a mountain bike. And you cannot buy a new mountain bike. Because everybody's like, I gotta get outside. I got a bike. Yeah, so it's like, I mean, if you pick a new one, you might be waiting six months. And that's a tenuous, I mean, it could be a year.

Right. So I didn't order one at all. And now I'm thinking, man, if I'd have ordered one a month ago. You'd have it now. Well, I wouldn't have it, but I would be a month closer to having it. Just do it, man.

Just go for it. You need a new mountain bike. You're doing it all the time now and your boy that you mountain bike with just got like a awesome mountain bike. I know he did. That makes you look bad and weak. So you need to get a good mountain bike.

I think he is having more fun than me. Yeah. And it's not jostling his Testicles? His tail as much. I've still got a hard tail. You gotta get soft tails. He's got a spongy tail.

You gotta be soft on both sides of the bike. I bet you that bee wouldn't have stung me if I'd have had one. No, you would have gone right under it. I go through all these conversations trying to justify and then I don't do it. I mean, my latest purchase, my biggest purchase of the entire year,

I've been thinking about for over a year. And I finally pulled the trigger on it because Christy gave me such a hard time. She's like, just get the television. Oh, that's a big television. I enjoyed it the other night. I got us on it. Yeah, because the-

Not us, I didn't watch us. I didn't watch like Good Mythical Morning. I watched the movie Us on it. Yeah, I was- Not us, I didn't watch us. I didn't watch like Good Mythical Morning. I watched the movie Us on it. Yeah, I was like, you know, the wall in our entertainment room is not, well, I had such, my TV was too small. Too small, I didn't say anything about it, but I thought it a lot.

It was dwarfed by the wall and by the couch and everything, it just wasn't proportional. But I bought that television for that room. Yeah, that was a good place to watch things. But no, I'm saying I bought the television that was too small, the one that was in there for years. You went too small too early. I went too small right from the get-go.

And then I'm like, I didn't wanna return it. And then I was like, I don't deserve a bigger television, even though this was too small for the room. And then I'm like, every time I watch television, I'm a little mad about it. But then I just can't justify buying one of these bigger televisions. The question you should always be asking

about a television is, is this too big? Not, is this too small? If you're asking, is this too small? The answer is yes, and you shouldn't buy it. Is this too big? You're in the right place. You're getting close. Yeah.

And you know what? I finally did it. A couple of weeks ago, I bought the television and I got the Apple TV. You know the thing that put it over the edge was when at Mike's house, he's got an Apple TV and I'm like, what is this amazing image on your screen? And it's just a screensaver like-

Of a city. Slow-mo drone footage of flying over Los Angeles and you can see- Everything. Inside of, you can see like inside of people's offices. Like I stood in front of his television- And orifices. And I just watched it and I was like,

how do I get one of these? And he was like, well, it's the screensaver. For Apple TV. But it won't work good. It won't look good if it's not 4K. Won't work good. So I backed into getting this big old television and I gotta say we're enjoying it. And I should have done it years ago.

Yeah, think of all the movies that could have been a little bit bigger. A little bit bigger. You'll never get that back. Gotta go back and watch them all. But I thought about it for a year before I actually- Yeah, I don't typically think that long. I think that might be your issue. You can't, as soon as you think of it,

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Now that I've got two boys who are, I mean, Locke especially comes into my room and takes my socks and they typically do not come back. Yeah. These athletic socks that we need for working out or walking or whatever. Yeah. There's just some sort of monster that eats them.

And so I'd have to like reload six pairs quarterly is the only way to just remain socked in my house. Are you still doing the plan that we talked about a while back that was like, they're all the same type and they're all the same color? Cause I've done that for the most part and I love it. And then your kids socks are different? Lincoln has the same socks.

Yeah. Lincoln and I basically share the socks. Well, yeah, that's what me and Locke do. And I'm sure Shepherd is getting, he's getting close to being a part of that. Yeah. So they're all the same color. Essentially, yeah.

I mean, these are all just white ankle socks. And then I've got like black crew socks. And those are basically the only socks that I've got. You know what? I actually bought some socks too. Oh. In preparation for- Is that one of your four? Me and Christy's trip.

Actually, it's not, no. Oh, look at that. I was like, I'm not gonna put socks on the list. I mean, I'm sure Rhett wouldn't like be talking about something like socks. Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. Right. I got some hiking socks and I got some for me and I got some for Christy.

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Yeah. So a hard floor to go over carpet, but there's no carpet in your house. This was for my solo trip and any subsequent camping trip. I have to do my back exercises every single morning. And I was like, when I went camping, when I did my solo trip, before this most recent solo trip,

I didn't have anything and I was out next to Joshua Tree and I found a piece of plywood that someone had put next to a fire. And I took that plywood and I did all my back exercises on the plywood. Because you're having to put your knees and then lay down on the ground. Yeah, I have to do all this stuff

that you gotta be on a hard surface. And so it turns out they make this plastic thing that again is for people who are like, I'm gonna go do Pilates in the grass in Central Park. So I wanna have like a board to do it or whatever. It rolls up? It's just two pieces that fit together like this, like they kind of come together.

Did you use it? Yeah, I used it. It's so, I gotta figure out a better way to travel with it. When I'm doing the solo trip, it was no big deal because I got so much room in the car for myself, but we're going camping with the boys soon and I have to take it and I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do.

You could also use it as a sun shield when you park on the windshield. It's too big. But you can't store it there. You could also use it as a sun shield when you park on the windshield. It's too big. But you can't store it there. You could strap it to the roof. I thought about that, but I got the tent up there and it's just like, I gotta put it under it or something. You know what, put it in the attic

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Capri pants, I bought capri pants. They're called shorts, which helps. But if you wanna call them capri pants, go for it. I like them comfortable. Have I seen you wear these? No, I wear them at the house sometimes. Do they have a drawstring or do they kind of cinch at the ends

or are they just flapping? Just like sweats. How's that going for you? They're comfortable. I enjoy them. I, you know, as the weather begins to cool down, I can do my stretches outside in these. But your calf still stays cool?

Yeah, but my knees are very warm. Okay. Next thing I bought was Utopia KR scissors, silver, 899. Now these things are professional grade texturizing scissors with finger inserts. If you have small fingers, you put these finger inserts in there so that it's still tight on your finger. This is a scissor that it only cuts

half of your whatever's in it. So it's like a thinning shear. Yeah. I've seen Ana use these on both of us. And I was watching her closely and then I'm like, you know what, I'm cutting my own hair in quarantine and my hair is so thick, I gotta up my game. Right.

So I had to buy some of these. It's a bit scary to use a thinning shear because- Because you get close to the base and you cut and it feels like- And then you cut- Cut and comb. And then you comb it out and all of a sudden, a huge clump of hair comes out that's like,

I mean, a handful. And then you just- You sure you're doing it right? You keep doing it. I mean, your hair looks the same. Well, Ana has now cut my hair again in the parking lot. So I'm not doing it anymore, but- But you already, you can. Oh, it definitely helped.

Right. But it takes guts, man. It takes approximately- I wouldn't do it. The same amount of guts it takes for me to purchase a wallet or a television or anything really to cut, to thin out my own hair. But now you're ready for any situation in which, and you could cut my hair. You used to cut my hair for a very long time.

I'd gladly cut it. Are you making a suggestion? No, no, no, nothing. What else did you buy? Well, I will just say quickly, I'm not gonna read the whole thing because it's too long, but I did buy phone screen protectors.

I think I talked about this earlier. I just found that the screen protectors and the phone cases that you get when at your provider, like if you are like an AT&T, Verizon, whatever, and you buy that stuff along with your phone, you're gonna pay really, really high prices for all this stuff. Like one of those glass,

like tempered glass screen protectors will be like 35 bucks if you buy it at the store, but you can get a three pack on Amazon. Let's see, what is the price of this thing? Three pack for 15.99. See for 16 bucks, you get three. This is something that I know. I mean, for years, I will be in a place

looking for something and I'll be on my phone looking at it from somewhere else, just because I'm like, man, I could either have it right now or I could probably get it for 10% cheaper online or get a slightly different one or at least feel validated in my purchase. And then I'll do that.

And even when it comes to like phone cases or screens, I'll go through all of that trouble. And then you know what I'll do? I won't buy anything. That's like getting ready to watch Netflix and you don't end up watching anything. Yeah, you just look at the menu. Right, don't buy anything. That's like getting ready to watch Netflix and you don't end up watching anything. Yeah, you just look at the menu. Right, don't be that.

I mean, I don't have a, there's no screen protector on my phone. I mean, I do have a case, but I don't have a screen protector. I got that case for $7. $7 case. I got this. You see, it's just as good as anything. I got this screen protector for $0

because I don't have one. That's an even better deal. Exactly. SeaSense AirHorn Jumbo, eight ounce. Eight ounce AirHorn? What do you mean? So like a canned air? Yeah, this is from my rap career that's on the side.

Mark, mark, mark, mark, mark. I got this- Emergency horn for boating. When I went on my solo trip, it's just a general sort of survival thing. Also, it's been shown to be effective in scaring away mountain lions or bears, but I also got bear spray, which incidentally,

you cannot get on Amazon because they will not ship it to me in California. And I don't know if that's a state thing. I mean, they sell it on Amazon. So the only way to get bear spray is to buy it from a retail store like REI and then go pick it up. I got that too, but that's not one of my purchases. So did you walk around with a belt with bear spray

and a horn on? I didn't end up hiking. I couldn't, the place that I needed it, I couldn't get into because the National Forest were closed, but I didn't know that was gonna be the case before because of the fires. Did you blast the horn just to test it? No, cause I feel like that's like a fire extinguisher.

And I didn't, you know. Yeah, yeah. It's limited pressure. It's eight ounces. You don't wanna- I don't know how many seconds that translates into. Yeah, what's the blast? You should have bought two just so you'll know

how long you have to blast. Along that same line, the next three purchases, which I'll go through quickly, were all for my solo trip. Atomic Bear Paracord Bracelet, two pack. Atomic Bear? So that's just the brand, but this is basically a little bracelet

that's got a fire starter built into it and also like a paracord, you know? It's just like, so you're completely ready for anything. This is what I was gonna do if I was gonna go in. What would you use with a paracord? Like a parachute string? Having rope, I've been told, is very important when you're in a survival situation.

I don't exactly know what I would use it for, but I think if my life depended on it, I would figure it out real quick. Apparently rope is very important because it's in all these survival things. But you don't even know how you would use it. You bought a bracelet. I bought a bracelet that was a fire starter.

Yeah, and it also has a loud whistle and an emergency knife all built into just the bracelet. I didn't know what kind of stuff I was gonna get into. And it was real cheap. Also got a 6.5 foot pop-up changing shower privacy tent, portable utility shelter, room for camping, shower, toilet, bathroom, trade shows, beach spray tan pop-up. Beach spray tan pop-up.

Green. Yeah. Okay, so basically a shower curtain for camping. Yeah, because I was gonna be taking showers and pooping just next to my car and I didn't know where I was gonna go. How did that go? I never pooped or showered in a place

where somebody could see me. So I just showered and pooped in the open. So you didn't use it? I opened it up one time to be like, let's see what this feels like. Okay. I'm bringing it on our trip. Did you start a fire with your... No, I couldn't, the fires were illegal.

You couldn't start fires. See, and I don't like being this guy. Like what I'm doing to you right now, I do to myself and it's not, nothing good comes of it. Like whenever I have to shop for something or whenever I find myself shopping, I'm making a decision as if I have to shop for something or whenever I find myself shopping, I'm making a decision as if I have to defend myself to somebody.

Like I'm treating you the way I feel like someone will treat me with every single purchase. Like I'm gonna be grilled and have to justify everything. Seriously. Like that's how I interact. You're justifying it to yourself. But that's not how it feels in my brain. It actually feels like I'm gonna be,

what's the word where somebody in a courtroom is asking a lot of questions? Interrogated. Yeah. It's interesting though. That's more of like a criminal. It's interesting because- But yeah, that's how, it's an inner critic thing.

Well, again, the ever- And here I am putting it on you. The ever teased Enneagram episode. We're both self-prez, I'm a self-prez three, you're a self-prez one. And I think that's one of the reasons that, I mean, I'm also an impulse buyer, but what I do is I tend to envision a scenario

and I think about all the things that I need to have and be prepared for. And then I'm like, oh man, I'm gonna be camping next to somebody. I'm gonna need this, I just bought this toilet that's basically this bag I'm gonna take a shit in. I don't want somebody to watch me do this. I wonder if there's some sort of privacy thing.

Yeah. And all of a sudden, there it is for 20 bucks and you just buy it. And the fact that you didn't use it is not, it doesn't make you feel bad about the purchase. I want to have everything, I wanna be completely prepared. We're going camping in a couple of weeks with our kids and we're gonna be on the road for a few days. And I know that they're gonna want to,

I mean, you're taking a van that has a toilet in it. Yeah, it is. But you're not gonna want everybody taking craps in your toilet, right? That's a conversation we need to have, yes. When they can take a crap in a bag that I can just throw into the trash somewhere, that's probably preferable.

But I mean, my kids don't wanna take a crap. I might take a crap in front of you and your kids. I got no shame. That's a conversation we need to have too. But the kids don't wanna do that. And so I've got a privacy thing for them. Here you go. I have an entire van. So I am loosening up and making some purchase.

I mean, I'm renting this freaking van cause I'm committed to van life. I did just purchase, my most recent purchase was the smallest Nespresso machine that they have. Like, you know, like it does. the smallest Nespresso machine that they have. Like, you know, like it- Hold on, you have like a really nice coffee machine. Whenever we go somewhere, I always get anxious about what kind of coffee machine

they're gonna have at the Airbnb. Last, when I rented the van for me and Christy, one of the things that I got excited about was like, comes with a Nespresso machine. I did the tour rented the van for me and Christy, one of the things that I got excited about was like, comes with a Nespresso machine. I did the tour of the van and I didn't see the Nespresso machine. I asked him, I was like, where's the Nespresso machine? He's like, oh, I gotta go get it from in the house.

He almost forgot to put it in there. I was like, dang, son. How big is it? It's like this big. How many inches is that? So like eight? Eight inches by four inches. And you just put the Nespresso pod,

just a little bit of, it didn't work. It didn't work on our trip. I'm like, this is not gonna happen again. Coffee is one of the key components of camping and van life. So I'm gonna have one that is a travel size that I can take anywhere I need to go. Any Airbnb, any type of thing. So yeah, I-

So you're prepared. I got one of those. Is that one of your four? No, it's not. Well- That and the, yeah, it is one of my four. It is one of my four. Oh, it is one of your four. Well, I mean, it's not, it's not one of my four, no.

Because when I searched, I went back further and I thought we were just going for weird stuff. Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be weird. But literally I haven't purchased much more. But I did purchase this, Fiskars 28 inch bypass lopper, black slash orange. What does that do? It cuts limbs.

You know, my pomegranate tree got all out of hand last year and it had pomegranates all over it and so I didn't wanna trim it. And I was like, now that there's not pomegranate tree got all out of hand last year and it had pomegranates all over it. And so I didn't wanna trim it. And I was like, now that there's not pomegranates on it, I won't feel guilty trimming her back. How many pomegranates did you eat? Not enough. That's why I wanted to trim it back

before a lot of them grew this year. And I felt guilty about not eating all the pomegranates. You could bring some to me. We like pomegranates. I made a lot of pomegranate jam. You could be the pomegranate guy. That's of course a lie. Yeah, I could have-

You don't have to cook anything. You just pick them, put them in a bag and bring them to people. I could have a pomegranate pop-up. Yeah, and it's just pomegranates. Pomegranates in the raw. I love a good pomegranate, but when there's that many- You have to give them away.

Yeah, they just rot it on the tree. That's very sad. Because I'm, yeah, that's why I got a lopper. I'll bring you a succulent barbecue and you can pay me in pomegranates. This thing could effortlessly like lop off a pinky. Oh yeah, there's so much leverage in those things. A thumb, like it could take off a thumb easy.

Yeah. Like I could lop off the end of your nose. Well, that would be very easy. In your sleep. You could do that with those scissors you bought. You take off half of the tip of my nose though. Half of it would be there, because it's thinning. I mean, I paid $26 for this thing and I've only used it.

I've only used it that one time. There's a couple of things I might want to lop and now I got something. I'm gonna rifle through a few. I got the Timber Ridge Zero Gravity Chair oversized recliner. That was for trying to connect with aliens. We already talked about that.

I had some beans on toast in, you know, just for breakfast, and I took a picture for Instagram, and a bunch of people told me that I had the wrong kind of beans, and they were like, if you wanna do it the way the Brits do it, you need to get Heinz baked beans

in the turquoise, basically, pack. So you bought that? So I bought that pack of six. And while I was buying that, next to it, it said people also bought an AirPod Pro case that was the can of beans. So I bought that as well. You bought beans and then you saw people also bought

an iPod, what? A AirPod Pro case for AirPods. The ear things. That is a Heinz baked bean can shape that is a place to keep your AirPods. Wow, talk about an upsell. Yeah. That probably had to cost four times as much as the beans.

No, it's rubber, it's like seven bucks. Oh yeah, it just goes over the case. I don't know if I talked about this, I got a glow in the dark spill proof urinal for men, screw cap plastic male urinal, portable urinal. Where do you keep that? By your bed? It basically is a jug with a glow in the dark top

that you piss in so you don't have to get out of your tent at night. When you have to wake up and pee or get up in the morning and you're super cold and you don't wanna get out of your tent, you just piss in this container. It's revolutionary. I'm taking it on the camping trip.

You can't use it, but you can watch me. No. Do you ever think about just inserting it before you went to sleep and then you wouldn't even have to wake up? It'd be like a giant plastic sleeping condom. Yeah. No. You think about that?

I didn't. Two-piece pack portable bidet. That's just like what you, I know you've got one of those. You actually have a nicer one. I've got a little squeeze one. Again, that was- Yeah, I got the- I got the tissue one. Didn't know what I was

gonna run into out there. When I use the tissue one, you can't use it, but you can watch. A lot of people ask me questions about this because my wife tweeted a picture of me earlier this year, or she basically just tweeted the picture of my tank top that I was wearing.

It was the Love Turnal 90s tank tops for men, summer tees, boys, graphic novelty, sleeveless, athletic, tropical workout, crew neck shirts, fit tank tops L,, summer tees, boys, graphic novelty, sleeveless, athletic, tropical workout, crew neck shirts fit tank tops L, which looks like this. The titles are just ridiculous. So it's a tank top with a, the one I got was the lion face on it. Why did you get that?

A lot of people worried about me and thought that this was a new fashion statement that I was trying to make. And the reality is, is I got this because I thought we were gonna do more of those sketch, those little TikToks with Terry, the stepdad. And I thought it would be funny if he always had a funny tank top on. No, he never did it.

And then we haven't done it again. I have that tank top and also have one with an American flag on it. Also have one with a cat in space on it. I have all three of those. You should bring those into the office because they could be used in a character sense. If you keep them at home,

it means that you're grown attached to them. I found a good deal on some Puma men's Roma basic fashion sneakers, size 13. As you know, typically the low top white shoes that I wear all the time are those, are Puma Romas. Okay. And I was like, I like these so much. They're getting kind of old.

I kind of want to have, like the day I throw these out, I want to already have the pair like sitting in my closet. And I found a deal on them for like 40 bucks. So I was like, they're still in the box because I haven't completely worn out the other ones, but I'm ready for them. So this is like, I get this from my mom. My mom, the way she organized our kitchen cabinets

was as if it was a grocery store. Yeah. So like you'd finish one bottle of Penrose sausage and there would be another one behind it. It's interesting because I would think that you would not want the same thing again. Again, it's like you're enticed by getting something new and getting something different.

They're just so comfortable. I just like the profile and they're so comfortable. I was like, I haven't found a better low top. Except for like Allbirds, of course. Oh yeah. They got a very comfortable low top. I wear those a lot as well. Can't wear them exclusively though.

But I also got Reebok's men's Royal Astro Storm walking shoe. Have you seen my Reebok walking shoes? No. Well, you ought to see me walk in them. I don't want to see you walk in them. We were doing so much walking at the beginning of the pandemic and I was not happy with the way my feet were feeling.

And I was like, what is a walking shoe? I've heard old people talk about these. I found them, Reeboks apparently makes them. Astro Storm. You know what else I got? What? This was a wreck. This was like early, I mean a recommendation.

This purchase wasn't like a wreck with a W. Yeah. The OXO Good Grips Any Angle Broom, silver with a dust pan. I love this thing so much I made it a wreck in effect back in April, I think. So I'm all the way back there because that's how few things I bought.

Bought this broom, still use it. I actually use this broom so much I broke it. And then I had like the, it has like a bolting mechanism that then will, it'll swivel because it's like any angle broom and like it'll click, click, click, click, click. And then you can like sweep under stuff. And I used it so much that clicker thing,

the internal mechanism, I broke it. And instead of buying a new one, I disassembled it and put a bolt, a nut and bolt in there and I fixed it. I made it stronger than it was originally. I'm still using it. Observation. Very nice.

OXO is a nice brand for a broom. So far with the exception of the Nespresso machine. And maybe the TV. Okay, yeah, the TV. We got a broom, got some loppers, and I got some hair loppers. Everything that you got off Amazon, it's very utility.

In fact, three out of four are tools, right? Yeah. So it feels like, well, I mean, a lot of the things that I bought were based on something I was going to do. It definitely feels like I'm buying a lot of things that bring me joy and pleasure. Yeah.

And you're buying things that you think that there is a very specific use for that you can justify. Easily justifiable. But the broom does bring me pleasure. I mean, I just use it to sweep. But you really enjoy sweeping. I like, yeah, I like it.

But you know, I mean, there's some deeply rooted things here. I just think that, growing up there was this scarcity. Now I'm not saying you grew up rich or you grew up, you weren't spoiled and you weren't spending money left and right and I know that's not how you were raised but I think for me there was this knowledge of scarcity.

Like oh my gosh, it's like, I mean we weren't poor but things were tight and like I had this heightened sense of that so it's like, we weren't poor, but things were tight. And like, I had this heightened sense of that. So it's like every single thing that I would purchase or ask for as a kid, I just had this real need to justify it because I would feel like, you know, if I get this GI Joe mobile command center for Christmas, I mean, how much less money is that for use with something else?

My mom never talked to me about any of this stuff, but it was just something that I- You interpreted. Internalized and interpreted my situation as I don't wanna be the reason that we go broke. And I think that's stuck with me. And it's not fun. Well, I think that at this point,

I mean, what my mom used to tell me. But I could buy stuff now. My mom used to tell me, well, I hope you make a lot of money when you grow up. Like that's what she would say to me all the time because the way that I would spend money as a kid, like again, my parents, my dad had a good job and we were well taken care of.

I mean, still definitely very much in the middle class, but we were, you know. The interesting thing was they didn't buy me a lot of things but what they would do is they would give me money for Christmas or something like that. And then what I would do is I would immediately spend all of it, right? Yeah.

I would say, okay, you gave me, you know, $50 for Christmas or whatever. All right, let's go to Brendel's. I'm gonna spend every bit of it. Like why wait? Yeah. I had a jar. And I'm not, and I wasn't, so I wasn't a sa. And I wasn't a saver, I've had to be very disciplined

about saving as an adult. But so that was my disposition already. But I do think, and again- That's how, and it can, I think, simply just be a personality thing because when I look at my three kids, like Lincoln is that way. Like he will not, he never has money.

Like the moment he gets money, it's gone. And Lando will save up money. I had a jar and I would like meticulously roll up my cash and my coins in it and I would say, I could buy this but I don't know, probably something else will come along. I'm just gonna save it to something else that like I really gotta get.

And I would just, I would look at the jar and feel good. You know, sense of security. Security, yeah. Yeah, but Lincoln's definitely not that way. And it has, but Lily's somewhere in the middle and Lando is more like me. But there's- So a lot of it's personality based on the circumstance too.

And I know, I mean, I'm sure there's some, I mean, cause there, I'm sure there's something psychological because I do impulse buy things and I take comfort in opening something up. Like seeing a box, when I get home from work, seeing a box that was delivered from Amazon and seeing that it's got my name on it.

Yeah. That means it's for me. It's exhilarating. And sometimes I'm like, I don't even remember what I ordered. You means it's for me. It's exhilarating and sometimes I'm like, I don't even remember what I ordered. You know what I'm saying? It's like, and so I know that there's something potentially negative about that process as well. But I think that the overarching thing for me is

neither of us make big purchases. Like if we're gonna make a big purchase, like we're gonna do this thing on the house. And when I say big purchase, like if we're gonna make a big purchase, like we're gonna do this thing on the house. And when I say big purchase, like, me and you don't buy expensive sports cars. We don't buy like boats or something. I'm not saying we would never buy a boat or something like that if the opportunity presented itself,

but we don't spend a lot, we don't buy big ticket items. In fact, sometimes we don't because we didn't, like when we started our careers, when we were on staff of Campus Crusade, like we were making very little money. Like our early marriage, both of us had the same salary. I mean, I'll just say what it was because I remember it. We raised $42,000 a year.

That was the salary. And in North Carolina, 15 years ago, $42,000 a year. It's not a lot of money for a family with a couple of kids, right? Like you have to budget and you have to kind of think about what you're buying. And I think that we've taken that mentality and as we've made more money,

we've still maintained what, again, sometimes we have to ask our accountant, like, can you tell us how we're doing with our money? And they're like, you guys are both very conservative because you don't spend a bunch of money all at once. Like, yes, there's a bunch of items on this list, but for me, I feel this freedom to spend 10, 20, $30 here and there on this kind of steady stream

of pleasurable items for myself. Yeah. Because I'm not dipping in and going out and buying like a $100,000 sports car or something like that, I don't do that. So I feel like I'm not being irresponsible, but I honestly, I get like, I get a lot of pleasure out of these things. Like when that giant walk shows up

and I think about what I'm gonna do in it and the experiences that it will translate into, like it brings me a lot of joy. And so I try not, but listen, it's a privilege to be able to buy the amount of stuff that I'm talking about. I understand that I have a lot of money relative to a lot of people.

And so I can freely buy these smaller ticket items without really thinking about the overall impact. I'm in a privileged position. And I know a lot of people out there do not have the means to do that. But what I'm getting at is you do, right? If everything's 50-50, you do have the means. I've loosened up some. You do, right? If everything's 50-50, you do have the means.

I've loosened up some. I mean, actually buying the television. It was like, you know what? Once I actually made the, I clicked purchase, then I was like, you know what? I can't wait for this thing to show up. And you haven't felt guilty about it at all. No.

So I think that's good. Yeah, it's not like every time I go in that room, I mean, I would come down in the mornings for the first couple of mornings and I don't have to walk through that room to go make my coffee. But yeah, I would kind of go into- Take a detour?

I take a detour and I go in the room and I just look at the television. I mean, it would be off. The screensaver wouldn't even be on. After an hour, I think that turns off. And yes, I would look at the blank, black, off television and I'd experience a little happiness. And then I'd go make my coffee.

Well, think about if you had other things. If I had a walk. No, you have definitely changed a lot in that regard. I've still got like 10 things I gotta get through. You have to get, okay. I gotta get through my list, man. People wanted it. I'm done with my list. Darryl Lee Original Black Licorice, pack of two.

Best black licorice that I have found, I've tried a lot. From Australia. You only got two. It's a pack of two, but there were many in the pack. Lots of little pieces in there. So soft, it's great, it's got a great rich flavor. Sensual Massage Oil with Relaxing Lavender Almond Oil and Jojoba for men and women.

Well, that's okay. Keep going. Let's just skip that one. Summit Mosquito Dunks, 20 dunks. Mosquito dunks. This is a little donut that you can throw in standing water and it will prevent mosquitoes from making eggs in there. This is when they were doing construction on the house

and they had to dug the pool out and it rained and there was just stagnant water. Oh. Had to dunk those mosquitoes. Did that work? I had to dunk on those mosquitoes. Well, I mean, I didn't see any babies. Purea chest rub feel instantly better

when you rub this aromatic blend of peppermint, eucalyptus, tea tree, and lavender on chest or under the nose. Okay, so vapor rub. It's a natural vapor rub. I use it in the morning before I do my stretches and my meditation because I have a deviated septum and it helps open things up.

XJS Metal Compression Spring Silver Tone, 40 pieces. Another item along with this is the Baigu 120-piece Wood Square Blocks, one inch blank wooden cubes. This is an art project that Shepard and I started and did not finish. Wood blocks. Shepard and I had the idea to create a Fibonacci sequence sculpture, which was based,

you can do the Fibonacci sequence and you can do it like a top-down view of the spiral and it's got the square block, the rectangular blocks that are the right proportions. Okay. And we were gonna do different colors and make like a full size thing where all these little wood blocks are on springs and so you can touch it and it'll shake,

but they're all, it's the Fibonacci, me and Shepard are kind of like, we have a connection over the Fibonacci sequence. We like once tried to find one that was in a park somewhere and I was fascinated by it. So we did, we painted all the blocks, but then we ran out of one thing and we had to stop. So the whole thing is like in a box,

ready to be picked up at some point, probably when he's 30. Okay. Black Calypso beans. Olive Nation cannelloni beans or cannellini beans. Susie Q Santa Maria style Paquito beans or Paquito beans. That was three different beans. I'm getting back to the beginning of quarantine.

I stocked up on dry beans. Didn't know what was gonna happen. Finally, the last two items. Work sharp knife and tool sharpener, Ken Onion edition. If you need me to sharpen your knives, I have a knife sharpener. Ken Onion. I don't know if Ken Onion is a man named Mr. Onion

or it's the guy named Ken and this is the Onion edition. I don't care though, it sharpens my knives. And finally, my first purchase of 2020, cap barbell coated hex dumbbell with contoured chrome handle, single, 60 pounds. Bought two of those. You bought weights. I already have the dial-a-weight,

Bowflex dial-a-weight that gets you up to 52.5 pounds. I was like, dude, by the end of quarantine, I'm gonna be too strong for 52 and a half pounds on each arm, I gotta go to 60. How are you using those? You know, bench. You're using them? Yeah.

Okay, good for you. Yeah, when you wanna go deep, yeah. Okay, good for you. Yeah. When you wanna go deep, yeah. Wow, what a journey. What a journey. I don't even have an attic, by the way. Yeah, well, you do. We found a rat in it.

Oh, I wouldn't call that an attic. But it's not an attic you can store things in. Yeah, I call that a rat space. Right. I bought a rat trap after that. I didn't mention that. Did it catch anything? Yeah.

It caught more rats? Yeah. How many? Two. Oh, you got the one, the- And then I bought some hole sealer. That stuff that foams up and fills holes. No more rats.

You got one of the rat traps where they stick their head up into it and it's a- Instant kill. Air compression bolt to their head. It's electric shock. So this is an episode full of wrecks. Do you have another wreck? No.

It's basically like take your pick from what I just went through. I gotta say some of my favorite things on the list, in terms of like one of the cheaper items that if you're into black licorice, A, you have good taste, and B, I do recommend Daryl Lee. It is that soft Australian style licorice,

and it comes with a little story on the back about how they discovered it because there was like an accident. That's some of the best things that are ever discovered are because of an accident. They, you know, they were typically making this hard licorice and he left it out too long or did something wrong and it came soft and turns out that that is the way

to enjoy black licorice. Darrell Lee, man. I have a feeling he better. Yeah. Wow, and the year's not even over. You'll probably keep buying stuff. Oh, I got some stuff on the way. I didn't wanna talk about that.

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