Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 266: Are We Weird? | Ear Biscuits Ep.266

Episode Date: November 30, 2020

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This week at the round table of dim lighting, we're gonna get weird, y'all. I mean, it's gonna happen. Why? Because we put out a prompt. We put out a tweet that said, finish this sentence for an upcoming hashtag Ear Biscuits discussion.

Am I weird because I blank? And I will say that this was, this is a little inside baseball, a little internal, and I don't mean like going to the doctor. I mean, I'm gonna tell you a little background on how we arrived at this question. The first question that we tweeted was something like- Here it is right here.

Ask us a question that you'd be too afraid to ask your friends. We might answer it on an ear biscuits. The thing that we were thinking in that prompt was, we're trying to get to like you guys to talk about things that you were kind of embarrassed that you might not know about or think about yourself or whatever.

But I think the mistake was when we said your friends, because people said things like, are you in love with me? Or stuff like that. Things that we wouldn't have any insight into. Am I annoying? And so we went back to the drawing board and got more specific with the,

am I weird because I blank, and you delivered. Yeah, I think we may be doing more of those types of prompts, but you would be amazed at the amount of discussions we have around putting these prompts out there because it's kinda like fishing. You don't know exactly what you, we have an idea what we wanna get. Gotta have the right lure.

I wanna catch a fish. Gotta have the right bait. I don't wanna catch a turtle, so to speak. So we have to, and can I back out even a little bit further and say, just the fact that we can- That's you backing out. We can say, you know what? Finish this sentence on social media.

Am I weird because I blank? And then people respond. People fill in the blank with things that they legitimately do and legitimately question whether it makes them strange or weird. This is fascinating to me. They are that willing.

I mean, it's just a reality check. We're at a place in our lives where we can tweet something like that and people will respond. There's plenty of people who could, anybody can get a Twitter account, Rhett. Are you just talking about the function of having followers? Yes.

Anybody can say- Hey, I'm thankful for followers, man. Finish this sentence, am I weird because I blank and then nobody will respond. Well, I think what you're getting at is sometimes I see people with one to two followers like put out a Twitter poll and I'm like, I mean, nothing against having one or two followers,

but if you've got one or two followers, your poll results are going to be incomplete. Yeah, not indicative of much other than your one or two followers. You know what, it's nice to be in a place where we can ask people questions that prompt them to put themselves in compromised positions. And not only do we get a lot of responses,

but we get a lot of strange responses that are worth talking about while mentioning their username. Because using your phishing analogy, we were trying to bait you into saying something or admitting something embarrassing about yourself. And it took two tries to get there. You know, sometimes- But boy did we get there.

When you go out to the lake, you know, I told you that I made the mistake of watching approximately 12 minutes of professional phishing recently. That still happens. Because I was like, oh, I get like every once in a while, ESPN will have professional fishing on. And most of my television that I consume that's not streaming, which most of it is streaming,

but if I'm not gonna stream, usually it's to watch a sporting event. And I use the YouTube TV, not a sponsor, YouTube TV app. And I- Peaked your interest. There was nothing on sports that I wanted to watch, but there was bass fishing. And so I was like, hmm, let me check in with bass fishing.

Why not, right? I think everybody needs- It's worth a shot. Especially everybody from North Carolina needs to check in with bass fishing at least once a decade. I checked in and I saw the most exciting part, apparently, of this tournament was these two guys who were trying to win. Different boats, different locations.

Different boats, and then they were not catching anything for the five to seven minute period that I watched. In that 12 minute period, there was one guy that caught a small bass, but- 12 minutes, one guy catches a small bass. Yeah, but during the, while they were waiting, the guy turns to the camera or, you know, just addresses the camera and he's like,

"'You know, it's different when you're out here than when you're watching at home. Like it was like, and I don't even know what his point was. Was he saying that it's more boring to be here than it is to watch it at home because at least we're watching an edited thing. I don't know what his point was. But if it's edited. It is different though.

If it's edited, I mean, it seems like they could just, I mean, with golf, you cut to somebody when they're about to putt. With fishing, why can't you just cut to somebody when they're about to catch? Well, I think it's a numbers game. In golf, there's approximately 70- There's a lot of fishermen too.

Hold on, no, this is the math. Your wife was a math major, I know you can follow this. There's like about 70 shots per person, right? I don't know how many people there are fishing versus how many golfers there are golfing in a tournament, but there's 70 times that you can tune in and see them do something. No one catches 70 fish.

The guy in the lead had caught four bass all day. Rhett, Rhett, your wife watches television, so I know you can follow this. You could edit it down to a 22 minute sitcom length of a bass tournament. That's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is golf can be, you can watch golf for five hours

and constantly see somebody hitting it. You watch bass fishing for an hour, and you watch, and I watched 12 minutes, which is one fifth of an hour, and I saw one fish get taken, there's not enough fishing. It's like they need to, and just like in order to make soccer more interesting.

Just make it a YouTube video. They need to make the goal bigger or get rid of the keeper. And then everybody's gonna fall in love with soccer. If you want people to fall in love with bass fishing, you gotta use better bait or there's gotta be bigger fish. There's gotta, I don't know, I mean. Editing.

Editing. But even then, it's still just people catching fish. And it's not as entertaining as an Instagram video that I saw recently where there was a little girl, like a year and a half years old. I don't know how you say that, a year and a half old, who her dad had called a very big bass and she was hugging it and she was saying,

it's okay fish, I love you fish. It's okay fish. And then they put the fish back. Okay. So if you can bring a baby who can talk to the fish, that's the kind of thing that I would be into. Everybody needs to have a baby in their boat who addresses the fish, that's the kind of thing that I would be into. Everybody needs to have a baby in their boat who addresses the fish before it's thrown back.

We're gonna read through your completions of the sentence, Am I weird because I blank. And you might think that we're gonna judge you and that we're gonna say, yes, you are weird, or no, you're not weird. Well, that's the point, isn't it? But the real point is that we're gonna celebrate weirdness.

You know what? Yeah, there's nothing wrong with being weird, but we are gonna tell you if you are. I once heard it said, "'Just yourself be if weird is you. Embrace it.'" And that's what this is. This is not ultimately judgment. This is celebration of strangeness.

And I'm a little biased because I know I'm weird. Can I tell you my criteria for judging these things? Yeah. To me, if there's something, if you, one of these things that you do is to like, it brings you comfort or something like that. And you can't argue with something

that brings somebody comfort, right? If this is like a self soothing thing. We can say anything we want. But to me, I'm gonna, there's two things I'm gonna judge. One, is this something that you would be considered normal? In other words, are you an exception to the majority of people because you do this?

Like, is this an unusual behavior? I think that's one way I'm gonna look at it. And the second thing is, like, should we be concerned? You know what I'm saying? Like, should we be concerned about you? Well, let's get into it. Aubrey Stamey replied to us.

She tweeted, am I weird because I rub my feet together to fall asleep? Are you a cricket? I think they're rubbing their legs together. In order to mate. I mean, do they even have feet? Cricket feet? You think it ends with a leg?

Yeah, the leg just kind of like, there's an ankle, I think, but then on the other side of the ankle, it's just a little bit more leg. I wouldn't call it a foot. That's a foot. I wouldn't call it a foot. I'd call it a short leg after an ankle. It's really no different.

Well, what's the difference between a short leg after an ankle and a foot that goes a different direction? Toes. You think you have to have toes to have a foot? Yeah, I don't think insects have feet, man. So you think, okay, what if somebody loses all their toes? Like if I Google cricket foot. By that rationale, if you lose all your toes

in an accident, you don't have a foot anymore, man. That's just more leg now. That's not true. Well, I don't wanna get into like, why you get to go straight to maiming? Because I gotta find logic somewhere. I just searched cricket foot. Which is a great name for a band.

The only thing that came up was like a closeup of a cleat on someone who's playing cricket, the Australian version of baseball. I wonder how many actions, I think I could get into that before bass fishing, watching cricket. Now I just said that cricket was Australian baseball, but cricket is from where?

Well, I mean, I think it's a British origin because it's made its way to, it's very popular in Australia, it's very popular in India. It's very popular in places that the British colonized. I'm scrolling down, nothing is related to the insect cricket. Can you do cricket leg? Hold on, cricket feet in bed is a related search

to cricket foot, I'm gonna click on that. Ah. Oh, we found it. We found it, we found what this young lady is asking about. I didn't know this was a Reddit thread, there's a Reddit thread called Does Anybody Else, D-A-E. I'm gonna have to follow this.

As soon as I hop in bed and lay down, this is somebody's post, Kristen Bryant from four years ago. And this is answering your question, is this normal? We're about to find that out. As soon as I hop in bed and lay down, I have the instant urge to begin rubbing my feet together. Most times I don't realize I'm doing it,

but then I catch myself. If I separate my feet, I'll just end up rubbing my foot feet on the bed sheets. It's like it relaxes me. I've been doing it for as long as I can remember. Top comment, you damn crickets. Right.

Which is the same thing that we said. That's the obvious joke. Someone else commented, used to do this because I have RLS, sucks. Restless leg syndrome, which I have. You's the obvious joke. Someone else commented, used to do this because I have RLS, sucks. Restless leg syndrome, which I have. You have restless leg syndrome. But interestingly. Do you do this?

I don't rub my feet together, I move my legs. My wife, however, does this. She rubs her feet together, but you know the other thing she does? How do you know she does it? Can you hear it? Yeah, because you can like see, you can kind of see her legs moving

and you can feel it in the bed, but you know the other thing that she does, and this is a little contentious. She's so much shorter than you, her feet are probably at, my knees. They're within an eye shot. She also, she rubs my feet with her feet, excuse me. She does?

And she gets upset with me because I cannot go to sleep if someone else is touching me. She does? And she gets upset with me because I cannot go to sleep if someone else is touching me. I do all kinds of touching when I'm not sleeping, but when I'm done with the touching, I'm ready for the sleeping and they're mutually exclusive. So, I mean, I'm not saying I'm not a cuddler, but I'm not a cuddle sleeper. Now that we got a bigger bed, that's the situation.

We're in a double bed, we'd have like 18 points of contact. I just can't fall asleep like that because I'm a super light sleeper. But she will have her foot on my foot and start rubbing it and my feet are sensitive, man, I don't like that. I don't like a foot massage. Yeah, for the longest time when I would- I'm trying to get a pedicure one time with her.

I would get a full body massage sans feet. Yeah, leave the feet off the table. Because they spend a lot of time on the feet and that's time that could be spent somewhere better. Boy, I miss massages. I don't get those anymore. I've been holding back on you here, Rhett. So I don't think this is weird.

I do this. Oh, you do this. Yeah, and I didn't really think about it, but I do this. And I may have mentioned this on the show, or maybe a Good Mythical More, or maybe just to you as a friend. But the new thing that I've added to my,

I get in the bed, my feet kind of rub together a little bit. It's not like my feet, I rub my feet together until I doze off. Like Lando has this habit from when he was like, almost as soon as he had hair. so I'm gonna say a newborn, but as soon as Lando had hair long enough in the back, like the mullet area, he would twirl his finger in his hair. And as long as I can remember, he's done it

and he still does it. It's kind of like a way that he falls asleep. And as a toddler, he would twist his finger in his hair and then put into bed and then he would be crying and we go back in there and his finger would be caught. He would have knotted his finger and not be able to get it out. Christy had to use scissors and cut his finger off

now to cut the knot out. But I just do it for like, just to like, oh, I'm in bed, I'm finding my spot. My feet rub together a little bit. And then I started shifting my hips and my lower back would pop. And now every single time, right before I go to sleep, I'll like, I'll Shakira my hips.

You need the pop now. And then it pops right there. And it's- And if you don't get a pop, you go to sleep with a sense of inadequacy. Yeah. I know about this. I'm becoming like a baseball player that's like got this routine before-

Or a cricket player to stay on subject. Cricket footwork is its own thing. It has its own Wikipedia entry, which I'm not gonna read. So yeah, Aubrey, you know what? You're not weird. Jesse has spoken, Link has spoken, and a lot of Redditors have spoken. Kiki Canuck said, I thought everyone did this.

If not, why not? It feels amazing. My husband and I both do it, including with each other's feet. Yeah, see, there you go. That's what my wife is trying to do to me. So there you go. If you haven't tried it, try it

and put a little Shakira into it. See, look at that. All right, so. This might surprise you. It's kind of a let down, it wasn't weird. This might surprise you. Tom Dahl's magic, who based on his profile, I think he's a real magician.

I think he seems like a magician, yeah. He has a deck of cards in his profile picture. He's holding a deck of cards right next to his cheek lovingly. Well, because you got to get it in the picture, the Twitter picture. Magicians, they have- I don't think he typically holds it next to his face.

I have a relationship with cards that is borderline inappropriate. Yeah, so Tom, you are weird because you're a magician, but that's not what you're asking. Am I weird because I bite my fingernails and floss my teeth with them? Embarrassed emoji. Well, I do this.

Well, I mean, does it work? Okay, so I do not, I no longer bite my fingernails, but I bit my fingernails, but I bit my fingernails consistently, exclusively, as a way of trimming my fingernails up until three years ago. Would you consider it a habit? Because I considered, I mean, I bite my fingernails and it's been a habit that I haven't been able to break. It was not a nervous habit.

It was a, this is how I deal with my fingernails getting too long, honestly. It was like, my fingernails are too long. We don't, we're not an organized household. So it's like finding the nail clippers. It's like, they're not always in the same place. And so I just was like, okay, I'll just start biting them. So it wasn't a nervous thing.

It was a functional thing. But then why did you stop? was like, okay, I'll just start biting them. So it wasn't a nervous thing, it was a functional thing. But then why did you stop? Because I had the, you might notice this if you ever see closeups of my hands, but you're like, what the hell is happening with Rhett's fingernails?

I thought about this before, but I've got the, basically like psoriasis-based, psoriasis under my fingernails, right? Does it taste bad? It tastes great. Psoriasis under my fingernails, right? So does it taste bad? It tastes great. But like the fingernail will detach in some places, right?

And so what I found is like, it's happening right there. See how it's getting white right there? Oh, it makes it white because there's space. And I found that it's much easier to manage them if I use a sharp thing and then like file them down. It seems to help with the problem. I don't know why. Plus we shouldn't be, you know,

we've gotten strict about not putting our hands in our mouths and in our eyes and stuff. But when I used to do this on a regular basis, I would take one and then I never even thought about the fact that I was doing this and I would not have called it flossing, but definitely I would see which teeth I could get it in between, especially the two front ones.

I put it in there and I'd start moving it back and forth. Just that was a habit. It was less of a I'm flossing and more of a habit, but it was technically flossing. I was flossing with fingernails. I'm making a gross out face because it just seems a little gross to me. It is gross and I am not a magician

and I've never been a magician and I've never even thought about being a magician, but yet I still do this. I think they're unrelated then. Okay, well, I was just trying that on for size. Well, I think this is gross. I think it's weird. You know, I mean, if it were your toenails,

it would be even more gross. You know, people, the whole cutting and sniffing your toenails. I do not bite my toenails, it would be even more gross. You know, people, the whole cutting and sniffing your toenails. I do not bite my toenails, never did. But I could, I'm flexible enough. But I mean, there is this urge to smell your own toenail and I don't know. I do that.

Why? Because it's amazing how awful it can smell sometimes. And I'm just like, what happened? What got caught under there? But there is something, there's like a primal urge associated with it. It's like you know that it stinks. Why does a dog smell its own shit sometimes?

I saw Barbara doing it the other day. I asked her, she did not respond. Because they learned something. Well, I learned something about myself when I smell my toenail clippings, like something is wrong with my feet. I need to do something about it, I don't. How many times do you need to learn that?

I think that the primal urge is different than that. It's not diagnostic. You're right, you're right. It's like eating black licorice, honestly, for me. It's extremely bad. Like if there's something in a room that smells awful, I can't help but smell it. If there's something in a movie

that's really difficult to watch, I do not turn away. If I go by a wreck, I look to see if there's a body with a sheet over it. I'm that guy. Okay, so we're back to the, I think it was called pseudo masochistic tendency when we were talking about eating spicy foods. Yeah.

So maybe there's something in there. Of course, I'm not a magician, so. Right, so neither of us. Wouldn't know for sure. I do think that this is, people do it, it's gross, but gross doesn't automatically mean weird. I think weird is kind of like, if something's gross, it increases the chances of it being weird

if it's also strange, like inventive. Like I've never heard of this before. The fact that you do this. Did. This. Okay, whatever. Then, I don't know, I'm hesitant to say this is weird. I think it's weird.

I think the average person when he's seeing, definitely if they witness this. Yeah, if someone else sees you do it. I mean, I think dude's weird. Then you become a weird person. You're on the weird spectrum. I also think he has an ace up his sleeve. In this case.

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I've never, that does not happen to me. That's a lot. I'm slightly allergic to- There's something a lot. I'm slightly allergic to- There's something floating around. I'm slightly allergic to dogs. Like when I got my allergy test a few years ago, dogs and cats registered on the very, very low. But like I ran out of my, I'm a Zyrtec man,

and I ran out and I haven't gotten any more. And then there was a part of me that was like, maybe I should just see if I can get off of it. Sometimes when you sneeze a bunch, it's like your body needs to do it. So there is a sense of relief and pleasure. You talk about a primal urge. There is pleasure associated with a sneeze,

unless it goes sideways. You mean out the ear? And you know, no, sometimes it just- It can't happen. It just doesn't come out the right way. But I mean, nine in, did you fully experience like a bell curve of pleasure and pain? It felt good every time,

but it was annoying to me and my wife. How much, what percentage of, what percentage of air comes out of your nose versus your mouth when you sneeze? Mostly out my mouth, unless I've made a decision to force it out of my nose in order to like get a, I call that a power blow. Yeah, I'm really scared of that.

I'm really scared of that. Yeah. It doesn't accomplish much because it's almost all mouth. A lot of that. Yeah. It doesn't accomplish much because it's almost all mouth. A lot of force. If you force like 95% of that force through your nose. Your eyes might pop out. I mean, you got a deviated septum.

Yeah. You could lose an eye, definitely. It could straighten it out. I don't think it can straighten out bone though. Over time, it's probably another way to fix it. Anyway, I need my allergy pills, I'm starting to be nuts. Caitlin Pemberton responded to us.

Am I weird because I can talk with my mouth closed? I've known people who could do this. I do not understand how it works. I've witnessed it. I do not think it's weird. I think it is remarkable. Well, I've never witnessed it., I've witnessed it. I do not think it's weird, I think it is remarkable. Well, I've never witnessed it. I think we should try it.

Okay, be my guest. Not even close. Can you understand what I'm saying? Not even close. You're making a series of humming noises, is all I hear. It's like I'm hearing somebody through a wall. My lips are still together,

but I'm trying to speak normally. I'm not even gonna attempt it. Sure, attempt it. Hold on, you're not saying anything. Yeah, but I can't do it. Say something. I'm saying my lips are still together. Don't say that, I said that.

You say something different. Why are your eyes getting so big? Your eyes don't have anything to do with this. I said I'm saying something different. Okay, you need to, have you not seen a YouTube video of this before? Like, what we're talking about is someone who can talk articulately as if there's another mouth inside their mouth.

You need to watch a, you should watch a video of this real quick. Just so, I mean, we can cut this out so we won't get flagged or whatever, but you just need to, so you will understand what this is. Okay, now stop that, stop that. Oh, I can do that. You sound like someone who is making preliminary sounds

but not completing them with the tongue and the lips. She sounds like someone who has tongue and lips inside her mouth, like an alien mouth. How is that possible? Yeah, she's got a talking talker trapped in there. No, physically, what is happening? Do you understand it? Because this is the real magician.

Well, when I searched, talk with your mouth closed, the first thing that comes up is a wiki how. How to speak with your mouth closed. You'll need to make sure your lips are parted ever so slightly. Without parting your lips just a little bit, you won't be able to get any sound out of your mouth.

Practice parting, oh, so this is- So it's cheating. Wiki how's never reliable though. Well, so it's cheating. So it's cheating. My friend is a real singer. My friend is a real singer. That's not what she was doing. She looks like her mouth is completely closed. So stupid. I said you were stupid. No, no, no, no, no. I said you were stupid. That's not what she was doing.

She looks like her mouth is completely closed. Yeah, this is not, wikiHow is off the rails. Touch your teeth together. Make sure your tongue can move. Look at yourself in the mirror. What? You should not be able to see your tongue. You should be able to see your teeth.

Your mouth's not closed. Yeah, this is bull crap, man. I don't want, just get away from this. Breathe normally. I think it's just magic. Oh, so we're back to that. I think that that is. It's not weird, man.

I think you're a freak, Caitlin. I think you are a freak. And there, you know, there's others. You think you are a freak. And there's others. You can find them. And then you can speak to each other that way. But it's impressive. What I'm saying is that's a legit party trick. That's not like flossing with your fingernails.

Yeah, yeah. This isn't something you do by yourself. This is something you do in the company of other people and they're impressed and they ask questions about. So you're a freak, but no, you're not weird. Yeah. You're talented. Talented, exactly. Hi responded, that's an unpronounceable,

Bixentrash4 said, I can't watch any show. Am I weird because I can't watch any show. Am I weird because I can't watch any show unless I know what happens first? Like if I'm watching an episode of some show, I have to Google what happens before I finish it or I get nervous. And then I can't watch the rest of the episode

because I'm too tense about what might happen. Even Jeopardy. You know those Jeopardy episodes. Wow, well I'll tell you, the Jeopardy always ends in one of three ways. No. One of the three people wins. Can you imagine having to Google

the episode of Jeopardy you're watching? Can you get that information? I mean, it's probably in Wiki. I mean, like the TiVo or whatever would say the episode number and then- I gotta know who's gonna win this one. But then somebody responded, Jennifer Sanford responded to this tweet and said,

OMG, I thought I was the only one who did this. My brother definitely thinks I'm weird when I do this. Okay, can I just give you my knee jerk reaction to this? Sure. I'm not a therapist. I have been in therapy for some time. Not the same thing. Not the same thing. Not the same thing, that's why I'm saying it

as a disclaimer. This has got, this is something about control. There's something about, I don't know, it's related to- The unknown, the unknown is too much to handle. Too much to take. But it feels like this is an example of, what do you call it when you,

is it called exposure therapy? Like when you're afraid of something and then you expose yourself to it in order to overcome it. This feels, and again, I'm not you, I don't understand this personally. You're putting a spider down your pants. That's double meaning exposure therapy. And if this is a real,

like if this is like a super anxious thing and I'm not giving you medical or psychological advice, but it feels like, at least with an episode of Jeopardy! might be a good place to start. Like I think, I think you can make it through an episode of Jeopardy! Well who are you to say? And let the, I'm just saying.

If you can't, I think you might need to talk it out with somebody. It's really what, I agree with that. I think that's what I'm getting at. Yeah. This is not, I wouldn't say weird though, because I feel like that makes it, you know. Judgy, you don't wanna judge if somebody's dealing with something that's, you know, that might require therapy.

But I'm sympathetic, I'm sympathetic to this and I feel like it's something that you shouldn't have to go through life with. This is a sign of a deeper issue, which maybe you're cool with it, or maybe you wanna look into it. I would have to think that this tendency has to play itself out into just life in general, right?

So this would be like, I mean, every single day is a just life in general, right? Like, so this would be like, I mean, every single day is a Jeopardy episode, right? Every single day is a day in which you don't know what Trebek's gonna say, you don't know who's gonna win, you don't know what's gonna happen in your life, but you don't have the ability to go and see, but you know when, see if this person who tweeted, and I can't pronounce their username, is listening now,

and they didn't realize what you're saying, boy, you've just made it a whole lot worse. But here's the thing, I think I can actually, in a weird way, relate to this. It's just something that's coming to me. So, you know, we've talked in the past about how I actually am much more, there's a lot more going on emotionally

than I ever realized until I started going to therapy. And one of the ways that my emotions come out is in things that feel like there's not any stakes and I'm not personally invested in, i.e. television and movies and commercials, right? I'll cry in all those scenarios. Yeah. Because it's not personal.

So I think that this particular person, Hi, might be like, I can't deal with the fact that I've got uncertainty in my life, but when I expose myself to an episode of Jeopardy or some show, I know that the outcome does exist. I can Google the outcome and I can gain a little bit of security and control in this thing in a way that I can't do in life and that brings me a sense of security, right?

Yeah. And so that's my theory as to what's going on. So if you can get to a place where you can embrace an episode of Jeopardy! not knowing which of the three people is going to win, I guess sometimes there's a tie. Is that possible? Can there be a tie and it rolls over to the next episode? No, I don't think so.

Okay, so somebody's gonna win. If you can just let that ride, then maybe you can get a little bit better at dealing with just a typical day. I don't know. I'm not a professional. Take it or leave it. Take it with a grain of salt.

Since November 2014, ties for first place following Final Jeopardy are broken with a tiebreaker clue resulting in only a single champion being named, keeping their winnings and returning to competing in the next show. If no contestant finishes Final Jeopardy with a positive total, there is no winner. So there's a fourth option.

There could be three losers. How many times has that happened? Jeopardy just got more interesting. And that was only since 2014. I mean, how could three people go into Final Jeopardy and make wagers that put them in the negative? That means somebody's not playing right. Somebody's making a bad decision.

On March 2nd, 2018, Jeopardy history was made when two contestants competed during the final tournament of Thursday's episode. While all three of the show's competitors wrote in the wrong submissions for the Channel Islands prompt, Laura and Sarah found themselves in a tie,

which led to the first ever final Jeopardy tiebreaker. First ever. And then how did they do the tiebreaker? It's just another question. With another wager. With a tiebreaker clue. Oh, a broken with a tiebreaker clue. So is it a clue about the same question?

You get a hint like GMM? That seems a little lame. I mean, we would never do that. Yeah, I think there's something, just to get back to the question. Yeah. You know, with all the Googling I'm doing today, I did some preemptive Googling when I picked this question

and I could not find something to Google that would bring up people who related to this, unlike the rubbing your feet together. You know, I can't Google, do you have to look up the results of a show before you can watch it? I know people who read and I've done this. I Googled that but nothing came up. As a kid, I would look at like the last sentence of a book

but it was for like a different reason. It wasn't to know how it was gonna end necessarily. It was just because it was there to be read. I don't know. There's an anxiety, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it, I don't do that by the way. I don't do it anymore. There's something going on here.

So we've successfully backed away. It's up to you what you wanna do with it. We're not even gonna say if it's weird or not. I don't think it's weird. I think it's not weird. What was the last thing that filled you with wonder that took you away from your desk or your car in traffic? Well, for us, and I'm going to guess for some of you, that thing is...

Anime! Hi, I'm Nick Friedman. I'm Lee Alec Murray. And I'm Leah President. And welcome to Crunchyroll Presents The Anime Effect. It's a weekly news show. With the best celebrity guests. And hot takes galore.

So join us every Friday wherever you get your podcasts and watch full video episodes on Crunchyroll or on the Crunchyroll YouTube channel. Emily Little tweeted at us, am I weird because I won't watch a movie more than once? Okay, more of a general topic. I feel like I'm one of these people. I know that I'm a weird person. So by the associative principle, Emily, you are also weird. No, I had to work up a lot of energy

to rewatch The Big Lebowski, which as we established is both of our favorite comedies of all time. It had been so long since I watched it when we were talking to our college friends, they always reference it so much. I'm like, you know what? I'd like to see this after like over a decade of not watching it.

But I rarely, and I always thought it was like movie lovers and people who are like really like students of film, they should watch the same movie again and again. I mean, you don't gain, you gain insight through that. But like a normal viewer, I just haven't related to it. I feel like there's so much stuff out there. It's hard for me to justify to myself the investment of time to rewatch something

that I know, already know what's gonna happen, kind of to the last point. It's not as fun. Here's what I find interesting about this situation between me and you is that, you know I don't watch the same movie twice. I don't do the same thing twice. I don't eat the same meal twice.

I don't go to the same restaurant twice. I don't go to the same city on vacation twice. But interestingly, you do that, right? Like you guys will go to the same restaurant twice. I don't go to the same city on vacation twice. But interestingly, you do that, right? Like you guys will go to the same place on vacation. Like you find something that you like. But it's not the same experience. But watching the show is a different experience. It's a compromised experience.

Like the surprise of what's gonna happen. Cause I'm also, you know, I'm the stickler of sticklers when it comes to trailers, I mean spoilers. Well trailers. Like I don't watch trailers of movies I'm gonna watch and I don't wanna read anything about them if I know I'm gonna watch it because it just takes away from the experience.

Like it annoys me, anything built, any marketing built around a work of art is to me a spoiler of some aspect of that experience that the artist wanted to create. Yeah. And it's annoying to me. And I'm not spoiler sensitive, like it doesn't ruin it for me, but to me, the principle that I apply to media

is the same thing I apply to a restaurant. It's like back when we used to go to restaurants on a regular basis in Los Angeles, like Jessie and I would very rarely go to the same place twice because I'm just like, I'm in one of the biggest cities in the world. There's always a new place. And we both think like that.

And so we're just like, and it doesn't always result in a better meal. No. Often it's just like, but I think when I look at movies or TV shows or whatever, I just think, and I don't, just like you were saying, it's like, if you're gonna take the time to devote two hours of your evening to something, it's like, why devote to the same thing?

However, the other night at your house, we watched us. We rewatched a movie. And the funny thing is, is when- That was my idea, by the way. When y'all said that we were gonna watch us, the movie, I wasn't excited about it. As much as I absolutely love that movie,

I've only seen it once, I wasn't excited about it, but I had an incredible time rewatching that movie. So it made me actually think twice about rewatching movies. Well, that movie is specifically constructed that, bless you, is there gonna be eight more? I just wanted to know. There might be one more at least. Jordan Peele constructed this movie in such a way

that once you've watched it, you have a- You know what to watch for. You have a different experience watching it the second time. I believe a movie with a reveal is a completely different experience. I think that's something that hit me. It's like, oh man, like if you watch a movie

with a significant reveal of some kind or a twist, you should watch it again. Now do you think that saying that a movie has a twist is a spoiler? Like does that violate your spoiler? Absolutely, yes. Spoiler alert, a little late. Yeah, that doesn't track with me,

but I'm sorry if I ruined us for you. That is a huge spoiler, to say that there's a twist at the end. Or a reveal. But how many movies, so many movies have reveals. Almost all movies have reveals except just like straight dramas. Like with, all right, I'm gonna make a spoiler alert

for Mandalorian season two, okay? So only you can skip forward 15. I haven't watched the first episode. 15 seconds. You're not gonna ruin it for me. I watched it the night, that's why I'm telling you, but I wouldn't want you to tell me this. Okay.

But on like the Twitter moments, the day after the Mandalorian episode came out, it said, Mandalorian season two premieres with an amazing character reveal. Well, of course they're gonna tell you who the Mandalorian is. I mean, you can go a second season, not knowing who the actor who plays him,

which by the way, I saw an article about the actor who plays him before I ever watched the season, before I got started. Okay, well, I don't want to, you know, in an effort, well, I hate to spoil more, but I just can't help myself to just tell you that you're wrong. Okay, but he will be revealed. Well, that's not what we're talking about.

My point is they said that there's an amazing character reveal. You misinterpreted it and I knew the answer, but I think that, again, I would not have wanted to know that and I was glad I'd already watched the episode. So that's why I make sure that I watch the episode right when it comes out. Isn't that like Baby Yoda has like a spider body

or something like that? All right, I told him to skip forward 15 seconds, we're not talking about it anymore. So we don't think that Emily is weird because she won't watch a movie more than once, but I think there's some exceptions. How about schnozomanian. Am I weird because I asked people to repeat

what they have said to me, even though I heard them loud and clear? I just do and it's completely out of my control. It's completely out of your control. We knew somebody like this. Schnauz-a-manian. I'm just gonna tell you that I feel a little anger welling up inside when I read your confession.

I mean, it's- Well, and the person that I'm thinking about right now, who we both know from our past, who will remain nameless. I don't know who you're talking about. Can you just- Huh? Huh? I almost remember, but I don't. Huh?

Like I know that there was this person in our lives, but I can't remember. Huh? Huh? Oh, are you talking about the... Back from our high school days. Oh, I thought you were... He was older than us.

He was in college when we were in high school. Huh? Huh? Just tell me and we'll have to bleep it out. Uh... Just say it. Oh, he did do that, didn't he? Huh? Huh?

While you were talking. No matter what you said, no matter at what point you were in and what you were saying, huh? He said, huh? And I guarantee you he was hearing you the whole time. Huh? So I don't know if this is what you do, Schnaz.

If this is what you do, you need to stop it immediately. Yeah, that's not, it's... And you say you can't, it's out of my control. I think that's a lie that you're telling yourself. What causes that? Do you remember it? And it doesn't have, I do now, yeah. And maybe schnoz doesn't constantly give the huh,

but even if it's like, what was that? When you're done, what'd you say? How could that even happen? Oh, I don't know. When my kids were younger, I seem to recall having an experience, a parenting experience, so I'm like, there was a phase that I think

Lily and Lincoln went through where they would be like, what, and I remember deciding to start to say, You heard me. Hold on, you heard me. What did you hear? And by the way. And then we forced them, I forced them to say. Because it was in their brains.

Yeah, I did hear it. It's like they have to replay it and then- Well, the same thing happens. They can respond. It has to go both ways. I mean, how many times have my kids asked me something and I've just, I never thought I would be this, but it turns out this is just what being a dad is. It's, your kid's asking you something-

You're asleep in a recliner with a remote on your crotch. I'm not asleep. I'm just doing what dad wants to do. And when children ask questions of me, I do not, I'm impervious to them. It's filtered. It's filtered.

And so they're like, dad, you heard me. And then I do the same thing and I'm like, oh, I did hear you. Yeah, it is in my brain, but I had not reckoned with it until now. So this goes both ways. This is not a good practice for anyone. I mean, you've gotta just take a beat and say,

I'm about to ask them to repeat themselves, but did I actually hear it? Yes, I did. I'm hearing it again now in my memory. I'm responding to it. I'm not burdening somebody to say something again. And I don't think this is weird. I think this is based on my experience.

This is just annoying. You know, to be completely harsh and honest about it. Again, I'm just going off of my personal experience with it from this one person. Well, I think, you know, that might be our next. Am I annoying because I blank? Okay, yeah, we can freaking keep going down this rabbit hole. Lara, Laraar, said,

am I weird because I eat raw pasta as a snack? The crunch when you bite it is so satisfying, like a hard candy, but it's savory. I've eaten a taut strand of spaghetti before. Taut. And I felt like it was gonna break my tooth. Was it a spaghetti? Yeah, it was.

You gotta try linguine. I didn't try, I only tried spaghetti. And I mean, there's a bit of danger involved. It's kind of like chewing glass. And the taste is very subtle. I think you might be a bit of danger involved. It's like kind of like chewing glass and the taste is very subtle. I think you might be overstating the danger, but this just seems like a preference. I mean, there are, okay, I remember one time

I went over to Peter Dinklage's house and you know, it sounds like a name drop, but that was just my neighbor growing up, a different one. And he went into the fridge and grabbed a hot dog, cold, which he called a raw hot dog. And this was before I really understood that hot dogs were precooked. Yeah.

And he just ate it out of the fridge. And I was like, he's weird, he eats raw hot dogs. But you know me, one night in my house, curiosity got the best of me. And I ate a raw hot dog and I was like, I kind of get this, I sort of get this, but it might make me weird. I don't think I would enjoy it now,

but as a kid, I would do that. I think eating uncooked pasta is more strange because it's so, I mean, I like a good crunch, but the crunch is so intense. There are other things that are crunchy and savory like crackers, chips. But nothing is as crunchy as uncooked pasta. But there are things made from wheat that are crunchy,

like a wheat thin. Like a wheat thin feels like you're getting close to just eating straight pasta, but it's been made into a form. So I think you should maybe just switch to wheat thin. I disagree. The more I think about it, I can't think of anything that you could eat

that is crunchier than uncooked pasta. I mean, it's almost like glass. You think I'm exaggerating, but have you done it? Have you ever eaten raw pasta? I'm sure I have at one point. Well, not raw, but uncooked. But it's also, there's no flavor to it. Like it hasn't been salted.

It's as hard as a fingernail. You could floss with it? That's the truth, man. I mean, it's brittle, but it's as hard, if that makes sense. I think this is, is this weird? I get the crunch. Like if you need an extreme crunch,

I can't think of anything that's gonna rival that, Laura. So I'm gonna say that it's not weird. I'm gonna say you've got a crunch fetish and I think you should explore other things. I think that this is weird, but it's okay. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's why I use the word fetish. I think that's what fetish means to me.

Weird, but okay, no judgment. Okay, well, if I was inventing a character for a story, and you know, there's the principle that Blake Snyder talks about, you know, a limp and an eye patch, you give every character in a narrative something notable, makes them a little bit different. Okay.

I think that this character eats raw pasta. Yeah, that's a good character trait. That's fun. To me, it's a good character trait. That's fun. To me, it's a little quirky. We'll take that. I would get into, I think it's weird, but it's good weird. That's my conclusion.

Margaret. All right, so we disagree. Stivers or Stivers. Am I weird because I like to mix baked beans with cottage cheese? Now this is a mixture of worlds. On a recent carpool vlog, we do videos for the Mythical Society

where we like, we're riding in the car. It's like a 20 minute video where we're just shooting the breeze. Sometimes we do answer questions, but I don't know how it came up, but I shared with you that I'm obsessed. My favorite type of cheese right now is cottage cheese. I love it.

I love to put a bowl of that sloppy, oozy, white, crumb, like what are those like nodules of cottage cheese in a bowl, throw some walnuts on it. I'm surprised that you like it because you kind of get grossed out by cheese sometimes. And I think cottage cheese, while I also like it, it feels like the grossest kind of cheese besides maybe blue cheese.

It's like a cereal, it doesn't, it tastes bland. It's in a bowl, I eat it with a spoon. Why is it called cottage? A cereal experience but with protein. Have you ever had it in a cottage? I fancy my house a cottage. Why is it a cottage? Is it it in a cottage? I fancy my house a cottage. Why is it a cottage? Is it made in cottages?

Or is it made from a region that has a lot of cottages? All right, man. I mean, I've been pretty good at Googling. Why is it called cottage cheese? It's made from different types of milk with different fat levels. The term cottage cheese is believed to have originated because the cheese was generally made in cottages

from milk leftover after making butter. The cheese is creamy, lumpy, and sold in pots. Cottage, this is from cheese.com, by the way. I think, okay, the way I'm interpreting what you just read is that more traditional cheese, like say a cheddar, is a result of a process, an intentional process, like by a cheese maker. But cottage cheese is like cheese that happened

at somebody's house in a more, this is leftover, kind of accidental way almost. Cottage cheese is thought to be the first cheese made in America. Yeah, this is making lots of sense. For centuries, farmers in Europe made fresh farmhouse cheeses with naturally soured milk after separating the curds from the whey.

Immigrants to America brought the tradition of fresh cheese making with them, and by the mid 1800s, the term cottage cheese entered the American vocabulary. Cottage cheese is so both plain and that of flavors. It's the original cheese. Cottage cheese is the original American cheese? Yeah, just like me.

Sorry, I'm sniffing, man. You should. I think we have Zyrtec here at the office. I'm gonna get some in a second. I didn't think the withdrawal would be this bad. I read a whole Reddit thread about Zyrtec withdrawal. Some people have crazy itching happen. It's not happening to me, I just got the sniffies.

What are your toenails smell like? That's gonna be an indicator. Probably couldn't smell them right now. I was also told that eating cottage cheese before you go to bed is good. Dreams. Is good for, no, it's a good way to get the type of protein that your body needs when you're sleeping.

Casein. Slow release protein. I mean, the theory is because unlike whey protein, which is an immediate release, which you should do right after your workout because your muscles are hungry for it, you take casein before you go to sleep, which, and you can buy casein just as a powder.

Sometimes I'll drink like a thing. Get it in the cottage. But maybe I should just do the cottage cheese. And also dairy before you go to sleep, my experience is causes you to have crazy dreams. I don't know what the connection is there. Two for one, because I'm starting to eat cottage cheese. But the question was mixing beans with cottage cheese.

That is weird. Yeah, that's weird. I've never heard of that. Beans and cheese, bean and cheese burrito, that's a thing. But beans and cottage cheese is not warm. Cottage cheese is cold. I mean, if I search beans and cottage cheese. What compliments cottage cheese, people ask.

Sliced bananas, crushed pineapple, berries, melon chunks, fresh peaches, chunks of apple. Everything is sweet. Everything that compliments cottage cheese is sweet. Yeah, nothing. I mean, food.com has a pork and beans with cottage cheese recipe. I think if it becomes more like a cream cheese thing,

then maybe that could be good. This is the melting of our worlds, Rhett. I bring the cottage, you bring the beans. Let's get together and make a scene. Do you heat the cottage cheese up? I mean, this is a food.com recipe. How many reviews is it? By Jeff Hammer.

I think this is user generated. Did anybody comment on this? Yeah, no, only Jeff commented. Oh, nope, down here. Don K. He said don't cook the beans. Okay, I don't know, there's not many people. It's not, food.com is not a cauldron of conversation.

Apparently. So I'm gonna say this is weird. Even, and I'm gonna go there as well. I think this is weird. I mean, you don't wanna try it? Oh, I'll try it. I gotta sneeze again. Okay.

You probably just deposited something on your right shoulder. People are gonna think you've got the COVID, man. I don't, man, it's allergies. It just happens every time I run out of my allergy pills. All right, Laura, you're weird. Margaret, you're weird. Let's get to Mary, quite contrary.

Am I weird because I hit myself when I see a crow? Because I think it gets rid of, why did I say blad? Because I think it gets rid of bad luck. So if I see four, I hit myself four times. If I see 20, yep, 20 taps on my chest. Okay, she's moved from hitting to tapping, which that's good.

I'm aware it is irrational and I try not to, but I can't help it. Hashtag Ear Biscuits. So this is obviously a compulsive superstition, right? Yeah. So I don't think it makes you weird. I mean, knocking on wood, but freaking, I mean like, to me this is kind of like Punch Bug.

Like if you're in the car and you're like, you know, when me and my mom used to ride in the car together, if we saw a Punch Bug, you'd say, you saw a Volkswagen Bug on the road and whatever color it was, say, Punch Bug Blue, if you were the first person, and you'd punch him on the shoulder. So I would punch my mom on the shoulder,

but she would also punch me on the shoulder. It was kind of like a love lick. To me that's more- Punch my green. That's more about bonding. That's a social experiment. That's a social bonding thing. That works, but then- This is something, this is a compulsive behavior.

Is it not? Yeah, it's just a, I can't make sense of it. So it doesn't make you weird, it makes you actually pretty, I mean, this is very common, this is very normal. Everyone has compulsive behavior. Some are more pronounced than others. Some cross into, as you have described,

irrationality and superstition. Like when I would feed my dog Tucker, I would always feed him and then I would pat him on the head five times. I would count, five times. Pat would pat him on the head five times, I would count. Five times, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. And then I would feel like, okay, my job is complete. I've patted him four times, he's gotten what he needs.

Five times. Five times. I don't think this is weird and I don't think that it is necessarily bad unless it becomes, if it's in other areas of your life. I mean, my wife, you know, struggles with OCD. She doesn't have this particular type, right? But it's very difficult to like, you don't like really get rid of it.

Like you are always someone who struggles with it. And I'm not saying that this isn't necessarily what it is, but like there's a number of behaviors like tapping your dog four times or tapping your chest when you see a crow that, I feel like there's a little bit of self soothing in this. It's not necessarily some debilitating thing, you know, it just depends, but you probably could help it

if you really wanted to, but I don't necessarily know that this is something you have to address in order to move on with life. But the belief of thinking that it gets rid of bad luck. That's just incorrect. Yeah. How did that make you weird? It seems like it's, you know,

from the outside looking in without knowing anything and not passing judgment, but just saying, you know, isn't this an unnecessary constraint on your life to have to know that this isn't true, but then it's like now you're tapping yourself and you don't feel soothed. Is it something that you wanna change perhaps? I mean, what about like a-

It's your call, not ours. I mean, what about like a baseball player, you know, they're notoriously superstitious, who wears a certain pair of socks. You're talking about cricket, right? Yeah, a cricket player who wears the same pair of underwear until he loses or something like that. I guess I'm in the, if this isn't hurting anybody.

Yeah, it's fun and it gives you confidence. You know, I got my lucky pair of Tiger underwear. Or like our lucky shirts that we- I haven't worn them in a long time. Our lucky shirts that we wear for the GMM countdown episodes, which I mean, of course we don't believe that there's luck in them, we're doing a bit, but I mean, if we did believe it,

it wouldn't be weird, it would just be superstitious. It's fun, it's like, I mean, but lucky underwear or something like that gives you confidence. There's a psychological thing that like, then you can hit the cricket ball or puck or whatever it is. You know, you can hit the cricket ball or puck or whatever it is. You know, you can bat better, but like thinking-

Believing something that isn't true, isn't necessarily bad, I guess is what I'm saying, right? Like the, and again- If it makes you feel better. Well, but it can also- And it doesn't hurt anybody. It can also, you know, he talks about this in the book, Sapiens, like that's actually one of the things

that makes humans humans and the ability to cooperate with each other is the fact that we can believe a fiction that like bonds us together. We can believe things that are not true about ourselves or about other people and it can be advantageous. So I'm not saying that that's necessarily what's happening with a superstition, So I'm not saying that that's necessarily what's happening with the superstition,

but I'm just saying that I don't think it's bad necessarily to believe something that's not true. If it helps you or helps a group of people, as long as it's not hurting somebody, because our grasp of what is actually true is actually, it's not as keen as we all think it is. Yeah, because we could find out one day that, you know. Tapping yourself with crows show up is really awesome.

That it really does counteract the bad luck that is real. That all crows carry. They are smart and they're a lot bigger than you think. What if. If you get right up on a crow, they're big. What about. They could peck your eye out easily. What if this person goes and watches

the black crows in concert and they tap along with the beat. Hey little thing, let me light your candle cause mama, I'm so hard to handle, yes I am. You've turned it into some sort of like strange chant. Cotton Eye Joe. Oh yeah, that too. Just yourself be if weird as you.

This celebration is now concluded. Yeah, listen, I mean, we made some judgments, but we told you that's what we were gonna do, spoiler alert. And you know, I think we'll do this again. Shall I make a rec? You shall. Okay, I made this rec to you, I'm gonna make it to you. Shall I make a rec? You shall. Okay, I made this rec to you, I'm gonna make it to you.

You know, if it's good enough for my friend, it's good enough for you. You gotta have the Apple TV Plus subscription to watch this, so if you have that, definitely check it out. The Beastie Boys story. Beastie Boys story, there was a book that was written by Adam Horowitz and Mike D.

Adam Yalke, he passed away. And the Beastie Boys were technically no more. But they wrote this memoir, which is like a super fun book. Well, I actually didn't read the book. I watched the documentary first and I love the documentary so much. Now I'm going back and listening to the book on the audio book because it's really entertaining

the way it's done. There's a whole lot more stories. And they read it, they read the book. Yeah, they do. And they have a lot of guest stars come in and read parts of the book too. Lots of people are fans of the Beastie Boys. And the thing that I encourage you to watch,

you know, it's like an hour and a half, they call it a live documentary, it's a stage show. I mean, if you saw the Tour of Mythicality, which was the stage show version of the Book of Mythicality, what they did was very similar, you know? They definitely stole our idea. It was the two of them on stage with a screen behind them and they would just cut

to like visuals to support their stories and they just told their story and it was, you know, it's scripted and it's a little stilted at times and they like use a prompter. It actually made me feel good that like, hey, they did something very similar to us. And it's, they tell the story of their friendship. Friendship is such a strong theme.

So even if you're not a fan of their music, I would say the first half is, you know, they go chronological. It's about, you know, how the band started. And it's a crazy story. But it's really the second half of the documentary. Wouldn't you agree where it like really starts to sing? Like once they achieved their initial fame

and then I just related to it so much from a creative standpoint, like working closely with a lifelong friend of mine and having to pivot from early successes to find later successes in their career. And just the, it was very inspiring to me because I related to so much of it. Yeah, I thought it was great.

I mean, I didn't know, I knew so little about them. And the thing we talked about is we were trying to figure out why we weren't more of a fan of them. All along the way, yeah. Especially like in the 90s when we were in high school, because we were like listening to 311. And I mean, 311 is no Beastie Boys. You know what I'm saying?

It's just interesting that that's what we gravitated towards. But fascinating story. Just the way things worked back in the day in the music industry and the way things kind of came up with like the new genre being invented. So I think, I mean, I enjoyed all of it. I thought the beginning was awesome too, because it's just fascinating to see

how all that came together back in the MTV days and the way it worked. So foreign. The thing that I really appreciated was they processed their entire experience through a lens of like a maturity that they grew into over time. They said, it's not that we became adults

as much as we kind kinda just gained some maturity. You know, in a lot of ways that I don't think, in a way that I relate to, in a lot of ways I don't feel like an adult, but I feel like I have this, I can look back on our career with like this level of maturity. And you know, we haven't pivoted as much as they did.

You know, from this, their first album and like the, becoming this like, becoming the trope that they were making fun of while on tour, like this fight for your right to party guys, and then coming to grips with how that wasn't who they truly were. I just really enjoyed how they processed it and presented it with like this retrospective wisdom.

That I didn't know was there. It's like you know that Adam Yauch, he became this crusader for Tibet. He's a fascinating guy and you get to know him through the lens of his friends talking about him, which I thought was really cool too. So it was a great tribute to him, it's very moving. If you like the tour of Mythicality, I think,

and if you, I can see how Mythical Beasts process us. I kind of put myself in their shoes. You put less pressure on them as performers in that moment because you're kind of taking in their story. Yeah, and I really understood each of them as an individual and began to understand their personalities. And I felt like I got to know them

and appreciate who they were. And then in going back and listening to those albums that we should have been into, you're right, before, I had this appreciation for the albums because I had an appreciation for who they were as people and the journeys that they had been on. And I feel good that we've given that to Mythical Beasts. You know, we brought them, they understand our journey.

They know us as people, they know our quirks, they know our differences, they know what makes us work together and they're pulling for us in the way that I was pulling for them and their story. So when it seemed like they broke up without even talking about it, that was a great point to see what happened

in that moment, you know? And how they're just real people. Yeah. And they put it all out there. So watch it. The Beastie Boys story. Beastie Boys story, recommended. Now what?

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