Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 271: Rhett Surprises His Wife For Her Birthday | Ear Biscuits Ep.271

Episode Date: January 18, 2021

"I've never enjoyed a gift given to someone else more than how much I enjoyed the gift that you gave Jessie" - Link Neal, 2021. And it's not the Jason Momoa photobook. Listen to R&L talk about Rhett's surprise birthday gift for Jessie that had Link raving on this episode of Ear Biscuits! 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 gonna be talking about a birthday surprise that I gave my wife and I am not talking- You know what, I would say you gave it to me too. I gave it to Link. And we wanna give it to you as well. I'm not going to, I'm not talking about, the big surprise I'm talking about is not the thing

that came out on the Rhett and Link channel, the vlog, where I became Jason Momoa, and Link also helped with that. I wouldn't characterize that as you becoming Jason. I would say you made a, you made a- Valiant attempt? A cringe adjacent. Oh, adjacent? That's not a word.

A cringe adjacent coffee table book where you tried your best to- It is on the coffee table, thanks for noticing. Oh, no, it's not, is it? I don't know where it is actually. You don't even know where it is? Well, okay, first of all, let me just tell you because- Can I say, first of all, can I tell you?

Yeah, tell me whatever you want to. That's not, like you said, that's not what we're talking about today. I wanted to clarify what we were talking about. Oh yeah, do that. No, no, I wanted to clarify what we're talking about when we say Jason Momoa, because people may not understand what we're talking about.

But we'll come back to that in a second, because we are gonna talk a little bit about that. But the main thing we're gonna talk about, go ahead. Is this gift that you gave her that has nothing to do with that, that I had very little, I made an appearance. You did. But like I said.

You made a cameo. This gift, it's not that it wasn't the most specific gift for Jessie that you could give her, but it's just so enjoyable it's so enjoyable for everybody. It was so enjoyable for me. It was such an experience. I'm talking like over an hour. Like I had, it was like the best movie

that you've ever seen. Wow. It was kind of like, that was the experience I had in experiencing a gift. I think you might've. I've never enjoyed a gift given to somebody else more than how much I enjoyed that gift that you gave Jesse. What about my 40th birthday party?

My 40th birthday party. This is better. No, no way. No way. Okay, it wasn't that good, but it was pretty great. Well, and one of the reasons that- I'm talking about a specific gift, not a party. A singular gift. A singular gift. But my gift to Jesse, my gifts to Jessie were done

considering the fact that she could not have an actual 40th birthday party. Now, Jessie went out of her way to plan my 40th birthday party. Like all the details for why my party was great are because of Jessie. And she loves parties, she loves people, she loves planning stuff like that.

And for years- Great party. Because I'm older than she is. I'm three years older than she is. So for the past three years, we've been talking about how her birthday party, her 40th birthday party has gotta be even better than my 40th birthday party.

But of course, it's not my fault she decided to turn 40 in 2020. Cause she turned 40 right at the end of 2020. COVID really crapped that up. And there was all this like conjecture about whether or not, we remember the beginning of the pandemic when we didn't know what it was gonna be like

at the end of the year. Well, it turns out in LA, it's gonna be, it was as bad as it could possibly get at the end of the year. Well, it turns out in LA, it's gonna be as bad as it could possibly get at the end of the year, right? So- The worst that it's been. The worst that it's been. It's continuing to get worse as we're recording this. However, what that meant is that she couldn't have

the party that she wanted and we talked about, well, next year we'll do a whole delayed gratification party which will be one hell of a thing that happens for people. Like there's gonna be lots of people who had weddings, birthday parties and things that they postponed. Yeah. The party business, if you wanna invest in the party business in late 2021,

that's what you should be investing in. Let's buy a Party City. Okay. I've always, you know, every time I go in a Party City, I'm like, boy, I love being in here. If Party City can make it, I think Party City would be a great investment. But anyway, that's what motivated me to do

both the Jason Momoa thing and the thing we'll talk about and a couple other things. But just so you, if you don't know what we're talking about, if you're listening to this on the day that it comes out. Two days ago. Two days ago, we did ago we did a vlog, a vlog on the Rhett and Link channel, Link. Vlogs.

That's right. But we wanna say that this is not a harbinger of a lot more vlogs. You know, it's just this, you wanted to do this thing for Jesse. It was an irresistible idea to document for a vlog. Yeah. So we're like, that's what we're gonna do.

If there's something that we wanna turn into a vlog, we're gonna do it. Yeah, so we're not making a commitment to say vlogs are back. What we're just saying is- We're demonstrating that- Vlogs are a thing. They can pop up. They can, what we're just saying is- We're demonstrating that- Vlogs are a thing. They can pop up.

They can, as we are inspired and as we have something to film, the vlog channel is not dead, that's all we'll say, but it is not going to be a weekly thing. But we hope that you enjoyed what we gave you. It's a little- And what I gave my wife. Unscheduled treat zone.

And I will say, I wanna put this idea out there. I know we talked a little bit about it during the making of the Jason Momoa vlog. Just, you can go watch it after this. You could pause it and go watch it right now. But anyway, my wife is really into Jason Momoa and it's kind of like a running joke. And also as my hair has grown out,

I wouldn't say that I look like Jason Momoa, but I look more like Jason Momoa than I did before I grew my hair out, just because he also has long hair and a beard. So there's been this running joke that I'm trying to be Jason Momoa to my wife. And so we decided to go all the way and make this picture book where I recreated

these epic Jason Momoa shots, which didn't necessarily turn out epic. And I kind of regret putting myself side by side with him in the book, but that is where the most comedy comes from. Yeah. That's, that's- Now, but what's her relationship with this book?

You said you don't even know where it is anymore? Well, she has actually, it has a couple of pages have fallen out because of drool. Oh gosh. First of all, that's a self-deprecating joke, just so you know. I'm not talking about drool. I'd never assume that. I'm not, she's drooling over,

I mean, I'm assuming she's drooling over, I mean, I'm assuming she's drooling over Momoa. Yeah, but she has books that are just him that she drools over. No, she doesn't actually, actually she doesn't. But I think now that- Well, I know, listen, I know she has a coloring book. Yeah, because it was a gift from your wife, right?

Yeah, and you know, the thing that Christy, Christy was asserting that she inspired- She did. This whole idea. Because when she said- But I don't know if that's, this is your opportunity to- She did. To give her some credit. Christy showed me the coloring book of Jason Momoa, which was a lot like the coloring book that we,

like the mythical coloring book, like an adult coloring book but it was, no, not us, it was Jason Momoa. And she was like, you should make a coloring book of yourself as Jason Momoa. And I was like, you should make a coloring book of yourself as Jason Momoa. And I was like, that's a really good idea. That's a very difficult thing to do, but you know what I probably could do is I could recreate some of his actual photos.

So yeah, the idea came from Christy's suggestion to do a coloring book. But she bought Jessie the coloring book. So she does own the Jason Momoa coloring book. Yeah, yeah, she does. But where is the book you made? You really don't know? I mean, what-

It's on her bedside table. Seriously, what is the lasting response to it? Because like you see her in the video, you just get her initial reaction from the vlog. You know, she's really getting a kick out of it. It is very funny how you like put the lines in between it. Like she loved it. The fact that we made it into a video,

like what she said was, oh, I see, oh, you say this is a gift from me? Oh. You just wanted to make a video. Now, then she'll follow it up and say, oh, no, I'm kidding, it's great, I like it, I love it, I'm so glad you did it. But I mean, first of all, there's an interesting sort of,

we don't have it nearly as bad as like a family vlogger. Can you imagine that? Because then at every point, everything that you're doing, there's these split allegiances between the person you're doing it for and the audience. I couldn't imagine living like that, first of all. Yeah.

Cause having just done it, you know, the few times that we've done it, and in this case very directly, like I got really excited about the idea and I knew I could get you excited about the idea. Like not to say that you're a great friend, but there is no way in hell you would have done that without it being a video for the Rhett and Link channel.

That's an interesting question. I mean, it's just, cause you would have been like, I mean, man, like really, we gotta do this? Like, do you need me to do this? Like not, and I'm saying that as someone who would probably would do the same thing to you. I'd be like, I would like try to talk you into something to do this? Like not, and I'm saying that as someone who would probably would do the same thing to you. I'd be like, I would like to try to talk you

into something else, right? But the fact that we knew it could be a video, it was like, you're like, all right, I'll do it. And I'll, you know, I'll kind of adopt a little bit of a perspective in the video that I'm really not into this. Which I really think worked. Cause I don't know, I didn't know what else to,

I didn't know how else to play. I know, I think you played it right. But for me, the bigger question is, well, no, so to answer your question, she was very appreciative. She was more appreciative of the thing that we're gonna talk about after the break. I will say that.

As she should be. Because it actually took more work and it was just for her. Now we are talking about an on-ear biscuit, but we're not gonna, we can't let, you can't experience it for reasons that we'll get into. But the question I wanna answer before we move on or ask is as we established, this is an SAT question.

Jason Momoa is to Jessie as blank is to Christy. And the answer is Keith Urban. I don't know. No, no, listen, you can't walk this back now, man. Cause she's told, she said this many times, man. It's been a running joke for years. But it started in reality. No, I think it started when you might say

that you have a crush on Keith Urban and people might just be like, oh, I get it. Which would have been like over a decade ago. So it's a running joke that has continued to run from that amount of time. I really don't think that she's like pulling up images of Keith Urban just to like get a fancy. Young Keith Urban, whatever you wanna say,

at some point she's still into it, I would assume. She hasn't changed like, you know, her biological responses to Keith Urban, to just raw Keith Urban. So my question is, Raw Keith Urban. Is that, you know, I think that you look as much like Keith Urban as I look like Jason Momoa. I mean, you know what I'm saying?

Like we could easily get your hair to look like his hair. He's clean shaven. You know what I'm saying? Well he has, I think he still has like- Highlights. Highlights. We can do that. By the way, I still think he's stuck in that, the phase from over a decade ago where people would get it.

I don't think he's, he hasn't tried to change. The question is, and I'm telling you right now. I don't get it by the way, and I don't get Nicole Kidman. I don't get them as a couple. I don't get either. You don't get who? What do you mean you don't get it? You don't get what people see in Keith Urban?

Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess I don't personally see it, but I think I can understand. I mean, I think I can look at him and tell that like, okay, I mean, I guess I don't personally see it, but I think I can understand. I mean, I think I can look at him and tell that like, okay, I could see that people would find him attractive. You want me to do a book? That's the question is I'm willing to play the role that you played for me.

She's already turned 40. Well, I mean, whatever she turns next, can we do Link becomes Keith Urban? And listen, because it's the second video, we'll have to do something even bigger. How do you know I haven't already done that in private? Like, how do you know I haven't done it the right way? Well, listen, I also know that your dad

got a Keith Urban electric guitar for himself. I went to, this was years ago, I went to my dad's house for like, this was for Christmas years ago, and he had a guitar. My dad, I've never seen or heard of my dad playing an instrument, and I was like, you got a guitar? He was like, yeah, they were selling this Keith Urban learn to play guitar online.

It was like a cheap Keith Urban guitar. Yeah, it's just like- Complete with the lessons. The cheap fill in the blank celebrity guitar, right? I'm pretty confident that he's never played it. So I don't know, between me and my dad, we could, yeah, we both got some Keith Urban connections. We both-

When is Chrissy's birthday? Chrissy's birthday's in the spring, right? It's in May. Well, we gotta get on, we gotta start working on this. We gotta start thinking about this. May 13th. Gotta start thinking about this. May 13th. Gotta start thinking about this. I do know the date.

So anyway, what I'm saying, it's up to you if you wanna do it, but if you want to do it, if you wanna pull the Keith Urban trigger, if you wanna pull the Urban trigger, just know that I am there to hold the barrel. I mean, that's probably not the best analogy. I will support you and take pictures of you. Shop Best Buy's ultimate smartphone sale today.

Get a Best Buy gift card of up to $200 on select phone activations with major carriers. Visit your nearest Best Buy store today. Terms and conditions apply. So I want to get to the gift, but like when we were on our break and we were separate from each other, we did have this conversation. It was like, you just couldn't wait to tell me this story.

But just because you told me, first of all, I wanna hear it again and I want them to hear it. Yeah. Because it's the, beside the gift that we're about to get into. It's the best story from the break. This is the other bright spot from the break.

Cause the break, you know, just to be official about this, the break was really laying low. Yeah. You know, with the COVID of it all in LA and not going out of, you know, not going back home. And listen, I know- Just laying low. I know that you do not come to Ear Biscuits

or Good Mythical Morning or anything else to hear more talk about the pandemic. I get it, we're all tired of hearing about it. But I do wanna talk just, I think, to give you some context about what's happening in Los Angeles as we record this, right? about what's happening in Los Angeles as we record this, right? The situation is so dire in Los Angeles right now

that if you have to go to the hospital for any particular reason, COVID included, the chances of you actually not getting treated, not getting into a hospital bed are pretty high, right? People are circling, ambulances are circling, circling to use the proper term. Circling. Circling the hospitals and people are dying

of different conditions, COVID included, while they're waiting to get into a hospital. And so there's this incredible sense that like, I mean, I told my kids, I was like, "'Guys, don't do anything stupid.'" I mean, first of all, we're already doing all the COVID protocols and not going out.

If you break a leg. But like, I'm like, if you break a leg, I'm gonna put you in a splint. I got a broom and some duct tape. Because we're not, they said, "'Do not go to the emergency room "'unless it's a life or death situation.'" And I know the situation is dire in other places,

but Los Angeles has become the epicenter of the pandemic at this point for a number of factors that we won't go into. But ultimately, it's a really, really scary time locally. And anybody who has said, it's just the flu, or you know what, it's not really that serious, it's just the flu or you know what? It's not really that serious. It's just a cold. Colds and flus do not overwhelm the hospital system

in the way that COVID has. Even if there's a very likely, a high chance that you're gonna survive this thing, the net effect on a population of people experiencing COVID is that it overwhelms the medical staff and the facilities in the way that it is right now. And so that's why in Los Angeles, in order to not contribute further to the problem,

we're doing everything we can to remain safe. So- And to laugh instead of crying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep from crying. And that's what this story means to me. So again, we're not like earlier, like even just like two months ago, I would go, I might take a trip into the grocery store to pick something up or if I needed to go quickly

buy something at like the hardware store, I would mask up and go in, right? But in Los Angeles, there's been all these outbreaks at retail and grocery stores. We've clamped back down, so none of that. 30 people at so-and-so, at the Ralph's are suddenly infected or whatever. So we're doing like all delivery, we're not going out. However, there was a time over the break

where we ordered pizza. We were trying to order pizza from this place and we couldn't get them on the phone. And so I was like, all right, you know what? I need to get out. I'm just gonna drive down there from this place and we couldn't get them on the phone. And so I was like, all right, you know what? I need to get out. I'm just gonna drive down there and I'm gonna order the pizza in person or whatever. And I go to this place and I look and I see that

they've got a socially distanced line for people to order pizza, but it's inside. And so there's probably like, I don't know, maybe a total of 10 people inside this place, including like the staff behind the counter and then like the people in line. And I was, listen, we've been super locked down. So I'm like, I'm not comfortable doing this,

but you know what? I got my mask on, everybody else has got their mask on. It's a limited amount of time I'm gonna go in, but I was feeling uncomfortable like I was taking a on, everybody else has got their mask on. It's a limited amount of time I'm gonna go in, but I was feeling uncomfortable like I was taking a risk, right? So I go inside this place and I get in line and I'm in there for like five minutes or so and move like a couple of spaces.

And then I see there's a couple of girls who have just ordered their pizza and are walking out and they see me and they recognize me and they say, oh, hey, we were actually just watching you yesterday or whatever. I was like, oh, great to meet you, whatever. Now, oftentimes when this happens in public, if you get recognized in public,

people who do not know who you are feel that it is their absolute moral obligation to then ask you who you are, right? It is one of my pet peeves. It is one of my least favorite things in the world. But hey, listen, if it means that things are going well for us and- If that's what you're complaining about,

then your life's pretty good. It's a privileged problem, but it's just a pet peeve. That's all I'm saying. So two girls and a guy, approximately 20 years old, one of them behind me says, "'Excuse me, sir, who are you?' I'm like, here we go, here we go. And I'm sorry, I'm usually pretty nice,

almost always pretty nice, but when this- You're on edge. When this question is asked, and I'm also thinking about the fact that I'm not comfortable being in here, you know, I said, I smiled, but you couldn't tell because I've got my mask on.

If you don't know, you won't care. Because is that not true? It's true. It's true. Is me saying, well, I have a YouTube channel that's pretty popular, and that's where those girls knew me from. How is that gonna change this person's life? Like, you know what I'm saying?

It's like, it's just, you know, it's... I know, she's just curious. But it's also an opportunity for somebody to say they met somebody famous, even if they didn't know who it was. I get it. However, the only thing that I can think of, as I'm saying, if you don't know, you won't care,

is that the young man who is with these two girls. Still in his 20s? Yeah. Not a boy, a man. Does not have on a mask. Does not have on a mask. Now you can call me what you will. You know what I'm saying?

I know there's people who listen to this podcast who think that masks don't matter and that COVID is not a big deal. This story is just gonna piss you off. I'm cool with that. But what I said was, hey bro, where's your mask? Ooh, you did it. You went there, didn't you?

Was it calculated or was it kind of a knee-jerk reaction? I wasn't even thinking about it. I was just like, this guy doesn't have a mask on and this is the only thing I'm thinking about is the fact that I'm not comfortable being in here because COVID basically is exposure level versus time. That's how you calculate your risk level. And exposure level goes up

when someone doesn't have a mask on if they have it, right? So he's like, and this catches him off guard. And then the girl with him is like, well, it's in the car. You really should go get your mask. And I was like, you really should. And I said, you should either put on a mask or you should leave. And he was like, whoa, this guy's really telling me,

this guy's really laying it down. And I was like, yeah, this is serious, this guy's really telling me, this guy's really laying it down. And I was like, yeah, this is serious, man. It's like, this is just serious thing. It's like, it's not hard to put on a mask. And then that was when he was like- His girlfriend had on a mask. He was like, oh, you're, oh, you're from YouTube. And then, I actually just messed the story up a little bit

because after I said, you should put on a mask, or after I said, where's your mask? They said, it's in the car. And then he recognized me and said, oh, for YouTube. And I was like, yeah. And I was like, you know, yeah, you should put on a mask or you should leave.

And that was when he got really uncomfortable. And I just turned back around. You gave him the back? I turned back around to keep going in line and also to turn away from him. And that was when he got really uncomfortable and I just turned back around. You gave him the back? I turned back around to keep going in line and also to turn away from him. And that was when he said, unsubscribe. I still can't believe he said that. He unsubscribed in public, out loud.

I mean, I gotta give him- Vocally, verbally. I gotta give him respect because, I mean, you criticize people for saying things in comments that they would never say out loud, but I never thought that that, which you see frequently in comments, would be something that anyone would ever say out loud.

No, I actually appreciated it. Unsubscribe. Like I said. He just unsubscribed verbally. He said- Like, do you have to do the work then? I don't know. To find his account. I don't know if he then brings up his account and unsubscribed verbally. He said- Like, do you have to do the work then? I don't know. To find his account. I don't know if he then brings up his account and unsubscribes.

However, like I said, I wasn't mad. I'm not gonna turn into, I'm not gonna, I mean, there was a part of me that was like, if this guy really wants to like roll with me about this, what am I gonna do? Because by this point, everyone in the restaurant was listening to our conversation because no one's talking, everybody's kind of quiet.

Yeah. And so as soon as I said, bro, where's your mask? It was like a pin drop kind of moment and people were like, oh, this dude's calling this guy out in front of everybody. And he was not a small guy. And it's not like I'm a fighter. You know what I'm saying?

I'm a big guy, but it's not, the last time I fought somebody was, you know, John Carson in third grade. Big or small, one subscriber is just one subscriber. However, he then leaves. Oh, he did. He left and he came back with a mask on and he was like, I got the mask on.

And I was like, hey, and I said, I was like, hey, I really appreciate that. Thanks for doing that. And then that's when he says, resubscribe? No, no, no, no. He said, Mythical Kitchen. What? So like he made the connection or?

It was like, he was racking his, it wasn't like he's a fan. It was like, I've seen you on YouTube. But then his point of reference was, after he went back, put the mask on, thought about it, Mythical Kitchen. And I was just like, yep. You know, I'm not gonna be like, well,

Good Mythical Morning, what I, you know. So, because it's technically true. I have appeared on Mythical Kitchen. So anyway. Wow, unsubscribe. So I really appreciate, you know, listen, he has every right to unsubscribe if he doesn't like, and you have every right to unsubscribe to this

if you don't like my opinion about this stuff. But if I find you in a public place without a mask, I'm going to talk to you about it. That's just what I'm gonna do, especially in Los Angeles. You know, this is serious, man. I mean, I wonder how many YouTube professionals, as we are, have experienced being unsubscribed to verbally. I mean, it can how many YouTube professionals as we are have experienced being unsubscribed to verbally. I mean, it can't be that many.

That's great. You think it might be the first time ever? No. No, it's happened. I'm sure it's happened. But just to like, just to say that publicly, he didn't even, at that point, he didn't even know what channel as he proved later.

Yeah, yeah, right. If he unsubscribes from Mythical Kitchen because of this, I'm sorry, Josh. What can I tell you? Unsubscribe! I mean, I like it. It's succinct. It goes to the core of your-

It was very quick thinking on his part. Your well-being, you know? It was very, very quick thinking. Your livelihood. 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!

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or on the Crunchyroll YouTube channel. All right, but let's get into this gift, man. Okay, set up what you did. Okay, so again, Jesse couldn't have a party. So I was thinking, how do I get all the people who love her and would otherwise maybe come to a party to show their appreciation for her? Now, the general idea isn't particularly creative.

A lot of people have done this. You make a compilation video featuring family and friends saying something that they appreciate about Jessie. And so I was like, I definitely am gonna do that. But I was like, I don't wanna just do the same thing that everyone else does, which is just get people just to make a compilation video. It's sweet, it's nice, maybe she'll cry, maybe she'll laugh.

But how do I take this to the next level? Now, I'm sure you've heard about the service Cameo, which is essentially a service where you pay to have a celebrity make a custom video for you. And it varies in price. Some people might be $25. I think Snoop Dogg is like $900. But you can basically,

if you wanna get Snoop Dogg to wish your cousin a happy birthday or a happy graduation or give them an encouraging word or whatever, you can pay. And it's an app, right? It's a website. I think there's also an app. So they're all listed on there. And you can search basically

by different categories of celebrity. I mean, there's a few YouTubers on there. But it tends to be mostly what I would say, we're not talking A-listers here, right? You know, you cannot get Brad Pitt to deliver a cameo because Brad Pitt's time is probably more valuable spent doing whatever else Brad Pitt does rather than making videos for people.

It's interesting Snoop Dogg is the only exception. Like he is, he's like, I wouldn't call him an A-list celebrity, but I wouldn't call him anything lower either. He's like, he's in his own parallel strata of celebrity that it actually, you know, he'll show up anywhere and everywhere. Yeah. But somehow it legitimizes that thing.

It doesn't delegitimize him. And who knows, I don't know how Cameo works, but I mean, yes, Snoop gets paid each time he does it, but he probably also got a pretty sweet deal just to go onto the surface. Yeah, maybe so, yeah. You know, I'm assuming that they pay, you know, people who people would really demand

in order to get, I don't know how it works. I don't know the inner workings of it. All I know is that I was like, a lot of the people on Cameo are people who are known for things like, there's a whole reality TV section, right? So you've got people who have been

on all these reality TV shows who, they're trying to cash in on their fame a little bit. And how easy is it to just sit down and say, I'm gonna record 10 happy birthday videos for people over the course of an hour and make a few hundred bucks or whatever it comes out to, right? And I gotta think the COVID of it all

with people being more on lockdown with their hands tied, they're not actively working as much. You monetize that time, the equation changes a little bit. You might get people who normally wouldn't be on there, on there. And even though you know how it works, being that like, okay, these people make themselves available and they then get paid to do a handful of these,

however many, depends on how in demand they are. I know that they just sat down and read some facts off of a screen and did a video, and then they did another video and then another video. But despite knowing that's how it works, it still comes across as especially meaningful for the person who receives the video, especially if you don't know about Cameo.

Well, I'd like to explore that in the context of some specifics specifics because I do have some observations about the experience of that, but you have to set up how it happened. So I had two general ideas, right? I was like, I'm gonna make this video that's got all her family and friends in it. And then without telling her,

I'm going to pepper in people that are- Reality TV stars. Meaningful to me and her, I'm going to pepper in people that are- Reality TV stars. Meaningful to me and her, or just I thought it would be funny to have them involved, right? And so we'll talk about who those people are and where they're from. But the thing that I also did is because you can,

there's a section where you can write some personal information about the person who's getting the cameo. And I was like, how can I make this even more fun than it's already gonna be? Well, I'm gonna make up a bunch of stuff about Jessie that's not true. Like for instance, I'm going to say that she's turning 40

and she also has 40 tattoos. I'm going to say that she is an avid juggler. She's an avid fisher woman. She is a mountain climber who has climbed the following mountains and whose dream is to climb Everest. She grew up working on a pig farm. And also every birthday, she bakes herself a 12 layer cake. Now Jessie hates baking.

She likes cooking somewhat, hates baking because she doesn't really like being told what to do or follow directions. So baking is not for those kinds of people. And so it was like the irony of saying that she makes a 12 layer cake. It was kind of a little joke between us. So I put this information out there

and then reached out to all the people who were significant to us and a fair number of them, if not all of them responded. The first person I remember. Well, you wanna get the context for why you were there when I showed it? Yes, I forgot that. So to celebrate Jesse's birthday, we went away,

we got an Airbnb like outside of Joshua Tree, just the four of us, you know, having already been, you know, a pod, when you take the whole COVID stuff into consideration, given how much we have to work together, it's like right on the heels of us working together anyway, it was a safe decision for the four of us to be together. And so we're hanging out that night and she didn't know it. Like Christy gave her her birthday present.

And after that, you break out the laptop and you're like, I have a birthday present for you as well. Of course, Christy and I knew what it was because we contributed to it as loved ones. And Jesse kind of knows at this point, oh, he's made a video. Right. And Christy's like, well, Rhett, do you,

should we be here for this? Isn't this something that's just for Jesse? Because I mean, people say like really meaningful things that could be private for her. I don't know, they didn't necessarily think that like, we were gonna be watching this. And you were like, no, no, no, I put this thing together. And of course I knew about the cameo part

because you told me, I don't think Christy knew. You're like, no, no, no, no. It's like, this is perfect to be watched with you guys. So, you know, it was, in retrospect, I'm so grateful that like you created this thing. And like I said, I loved it. It invited me and Christy into the experience of watching Jesse watch it for the first time.

As I was editing it, I knew all along that you were gonna be there, that you and Christy were gonna be there. So when Christy said that, like, are you sure you want us to be here? I was like, well, first of all, where are you gonna go? You know, we're in this Airbnb in the middle of the desert.

So the video starts off and you know, I say I've got a little intro and then some of her friends, and actually the last person right before the first celebrity is your wife. Now we're not gonna play any of these videos because- I wish we could. The funny thing is is that- I'm frustrated.

I'm assuming that those people who made videos for Jesse who also listened to Ear Biscuits have probably been thinking up to this point that is he gonna play that video on Ear Biscuits that I made privately for Jesse? No, I'm not gonna do that. I would never do that. The only person who has seen that is of course,

Jessie and then Lincoln Christie. But I, you cannot show a Cameo video. Now, if you get a Cameo, I sound like I'm making an ad for Cameo, but if I got her to make a video, if I got somebody to make a video for Jessie on Cameo, I could put it on my personal social media. She could put it on my personal social media. She could put it on her personal social media.

But because this podcast is a commercial product, technically, you know, we- We make money off this podcast, so we can't put it in there. It's against the terms of service. I can't tell you what, or play these videos for you. But I don't think that's gonna ruin the experience for you because we're gonna talk about some of the things

that people said and just kind of explore the concept. Frustrating that most people, when they get a cameo, you know that it's gonna be shared on social media amongst the circle of friends. And you can tell by the way that certain people contributed, they would add certain context or promotional statements around it because they know more people besides this one person I'm talking to are gonna see this.

So I might as well take advantage to like promote my project or whatever. Yeah, that happened a couple of times. But as you'll see on this first one, which the first person to appear in the video is Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, just, you know, The Bachelor Enterprise, the face of that whole thing.

As you can see, I zoomed in past the watermark that says cameo on the bottom, so that the first one that she saw, she would just think that I had personally reached out to Chris Harrison. That's the beauty of this, especially if you get kind of zoom past cameo, you make people think that you've just arranged this,

because Chris Harrison basically says, hi, Jesse, your wonderful husband, Rhett, wanted me to wish you a happy 40th birthday. He's a consummate professional. Chris Harrison is the best. I mean, I think the only person- One of the best. The only person who might do as good of a job at this

is Probst. I think that Jeff Probst, who's not on there- Oh, he's gotta to be on mine. These guys just specialize in being able to sit down and just say something that feels meaningful. But the thing that Chris Harrison has is he has a rose and he gives the rose. This rose is, will you accept this rose or whatever?

I bet he didn't give that rose to anyone right before that video or in the next video he made right after. He's also the most expensive person on the list. I don't wanna disclose the prices, but. Well, you said Snoop was $900. Well, he's not as expensive as Snoop. He's the most expensive person that I personally contacted.

Okay. So Chris Harrison was the first one. And at this point, because Chris Harrison. First of all, anyone can go on Cameo. They can see how much it costs. Well, I don't know, I think he's 500 bucks. I just can't remember exactly the, you know, everything. Well, I'll tell you, it was worth it.

He was a consummate professional. He made eye contact with the camera lens. He seemed like he was peering into Jessie's soul, hell, my soul when I was watching. He also connected to her given her juggling and her fishing, which he said he enjoyed both of those. He said we should all get together and juggle and fish. And he had like, he gave her the rose, like, you know, it was a great bit.

Other people have other bits that they'll go into. Okay, so the next person who showed up was James, the jet ski guy from Tiger King. And is he sitting in a golf cart, holding a phone, just kind of talking to her? It's very, he's out in the open. He's got his aviators on. It's like cameo sent him an email.

Somebody wants to pay you to talk to him. He's like, oh, let me get on it right now in my golf cart. I think he might be relatively, so some of the people on the site have put their past work and you can see what they say and how they do it. And like he had a, I mean, I think he's pretty in demand. But the thing- He's hilarious.

The reason I wanted, first of all, because we watched Tiger King and loved it. The thing that I love about him is at the end of his cameo, and my impression based on the other- He was impressed with her tattoos. Of course, he latched onto the tattoo thing. With the aviators on, you really can't tell that he's reading some notes.

But you can tell, it's like he's reacting to the notes. He's like, what the hell, 40 tattoos? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, and what did he say? He was like, I gotta give you credit for that. Well, it was like he was, it was like someone was whispering in his ear. He invited her down to Florida to ride jet skis with him.

He did that. And then the last thing he did, he said, and you know that bitch, Carole Baskin? I think she definitely killed her husband. That's his closing. That's his like closing. He also says, check out season two of Tiger King coming soon, which I didn't even know it was a thing,

but again, promotion. You found out. And now we're telling everybody that there's a season two. But of course, I followed up James, right after he said that bitch Carole Baskin killed her husband, I followed up with Carole Baskin. Yes! And she says, hello all you cats and kittens or whatever she says, and then proceeds to talk to Jessie.

Cause some people are so entrenched in their catchphrases, they really can't get out of the fact that they're talking to one person right now. Right. So it's, you know, she's a vlogger in her own right, of sorts, so she has her vlogging catchphrases like that. But the thing I remember about Carol is that it got very candid.

Like she actually, you know- Very personal. She would take some of the notes, like she really enjoyed the factoid about the 12 layer cake. Oh, you make every, I understand that every birthday you make a 12 layer, 12 layers, that's a lot. I would really love for you to make me,

send me one of those. I would love to sink my teeth into that. And then she's like, but actually, you know what? Don't send me a cake because I can't eat anything people send me because there's people who say they're trying to kill me. And she's, you know, you can kind of tell. This is all top of mind.

She's like looking off a little bit, it's top of mind. She's like verbally processing her own situation. It's very self deprecating. It's very endearing and connecting, but it's like she really gave of herself to Jessie. She had, you know, she was like, you know what? I would love to get cake from you, but I can't because people are trying to kill me.

Right. Yeah. And so there's these, I never expected it. And it happened to a number of people where it's like, they were able to tap into a sincerity. And you know, I'm doing this video, I might as well be a real person. And then there are more than glimpses of people actually being themselves conversationally.

Yeah. And you know what? It's not an easy thing to do because as you look through all of us who aren't celebrities on Cameo who made these videos for Jesse, you know, just the act of doing it, you know, there's a lot of,

there's a risk and there's a, you gotta check a lot of your insecurity when you're not someone who's used to staring into a camera and making a video. Well, even when you are someone who's used to staring into a camera. Okay. Because. I, even when you are someone who's used to staring into a camera. Okay. Because-

I see you pulled me up here. Right after Carol- I'm hedgy. Right after Carol Baskin, Link Neal. And you know what? I didn't even have to pay Link Neal. Yeah, what's up with that? Link Neal is not on Cameo.

I should have created a Cameo. I could have got a little scratch. Do you want me to play this for us? Because I mean, this is the one that you have the permission to scratch. Do you want me to play this for us? Because I mean, this is the one that you have the permission to release. No. Okay, all right, I will respect your privacy.

I don't care, play it. Jesse, happy birthday. I wanna wish you all the good cheer and tidings. Okay, I'm going to get serious this time. I really want you to have a happy birthday. Listen, this quarantine thing, it sucks. You know what? I don't want to talk about anything negative.

I want this all to be positive. I'm stuck. Sorry. Seriously, Jesse, I just want to wish you a happy birthday and let you know that I value our friendship. Oh. You know, it's an interesting friendship to be friends because you're married to my best friend.

It's almost like we're brother and sister-in-law or something, so love you like a sister. Happy birthday. Listen, listen. Hey, that was sweet, that was good. I really wanted to say something honest, but then it's like, man, why is this so awkward? Even the thing I made at the beginning,

which was just- It puts people in a- Which was basically just like, hey baby, whatever, you know? Like I can talk to all y'all, but when you're talking to one person and it's like, and then I know that you're gonna watch it and it's like, oh, it was just a weird confidence. And you know what? It caught me at an interesting time.

Okay? Yeah. It was late, obviously I didn't have myself together. Look at me, I'm a wreck. It's great, it's great. Okay, I'm gonna catch- There's a whole story there that I'm not even gonna go in. Just because I sense how it could be frustrating to, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna just kinda rush through

a few other ones that I included and kind of tell you why I did. So the trashiest show we've ever watched together, my wife and I have ever watched together, too hot to handle on Netflix, where people basically got together at this resort and you got penalized for having sex and it was all these hot people

who wanted to have sex with each other. Okay. And Francesca from that show, who is just a very distinct personality that I knew Jessie would immediately, basically it was like, when you see Francesca give a happy birthday message to Jessie, what it communicates to Jessie is like,

oh, I remember we sat down and we watched the show together and just were kind of like horrified by the people on it. But hey, here's one of them wishing you happy birthday. So it's sort of a point of connection. Then, okay, so I did a whole episode of Ear Biscuits where I talked about our obsession with 90 Day Fiance, how Jessie and I just watched this thing and just couldn't get enough of it.

Well, and I told you about this guy, David, who I think is from Las Vegas. And he was the one that had this, what seemed to be an absolute delusion about this woman in Russia that he was chatting with, not even video chatting with, just text chatting with for years. And he would go to Russia multiple times.

And every time he went to Russia, she would come up with an excuse why she couldn't meet him. And of course, everyone watching knew the excuse was because she doesn't exist. However, the biggest spoiler alert, if you're gonna watch that season with David of 90 Day Fiance, fast forward through this. But Lana did exist and like the seventh time

he went to Russia, he actually met her. So I had to include David in the compilation. Now one thing I'll say about David is I don't know if this is because David hasn't gotten like a multitude of requests or if he just really invest a lot of time into each one that he receives. He seemed to have a lot of time on his hands.

He went for 10 minutes and I did not include his full 10 minutes in the compilation. I took about a minute or two and then we watched an extended cut later in the night. But he had a whole bit where he was blowing up balloons and talking a lot about his, you know, about his experience with marriage and love

and that kind of thing, which was very insightful. And then it was followed up by none other than Lana herself. Yes, she's also on Cameo. So you can do the David and Lana one-two punch. And she also, again, maybe for similar reasons, went for about 10 minutes. She seemed to have a script. She was reading a very long script.

She was reading a speech. It was like a political speech almost. No, it was inspirational. It was very inspirational. Yeah. It's very inspirational. But you know, catered towards Jesse. And the not, I mean, so you get the idea

of the novelty of it and you're like, okay, you get a kick out of this. But the thing that I didn't anticipate was that there's an extremely powerful overriding element here. And that's when they look at you and say your name and include details, falsified details about your life, growing up on a pig farm.

By the way, I wanna say, I don't know if I personally violated the terms of service by giving false information, but clearly that can't be a, I mean, you can make a joke out of it if you want to. But it doesn't, even though you know how ridiculous and novel this whole thing is and how fun it is, there's something, the humanity of the exercise trumps it all and you find yourself

like actually feeling something. Like, and not even the moments where people are being surprisingly real, but just the fact that they're talking to you, there's a magical engagement when somebody who you've watched on television says your name and starts talking to you. And it's, I mean, there's a magic in Cameo

that I never thought I would be describing. Well, and I did include real details, you know, my name, her name, our kids' names, our kids' ages, our height difference and stuff like that that's true, how long we've been together, how we met, all that stuff I included. So they would talk about that as well because I didn't want it just to be all fake.

I just wanted some of the details to be fake. So then we kind of get into the section of the video where I start peppering in some people that are just there for my own personal enjoyment, but I know that she will get a kick out of it as well, because I could only find so many people who had been on shows that we watched together. Yeah.

So again, I'm a child of the 80s and was in high school in the 90s, so I know who Kato Kaelin is. Kato Kaelin is the guy who was the first person on the scene after the OJ murder, who was in court and he had this hair and he was this typical like Californian dude. Well, he's gone on to, I don't know what, he's just continued to be Kato Kaelin

and he wrote a song for Jessie. He wrote a custom song that like rhymed my name with things and her name and- It was bad. It wasn't a great song, but it was- I think he knew it was bad and that was part of it. Yeah, right. So I appreciated that.

And then just because my wife is really, she is very into the news. Can I just say that? She's very into the news. And so people who have been in the news over the past few years for political reasons or otherwise, she's probably gonna be familiar with them in whatever reason, Michael Cohen,

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, who is basically, you know, no longer his lawyer, and now a very big vocal critic of the president. What was he, was he sentenced he, was he sentenced to anything? I don't know if he- He's at home in the video. I don't know. He's not in prison.

Actually, I don't know. I don't know what his legal situation is at this time, but I will say he had one of the best and most encouraging speeches. And it was also very personal. And he was just talking about like, how long he'd been married and you know, I'm not saying he didn't also tell this story

to the next cameo he did, but like, it was good. And Jesse was like, wow, that was sweet. It was strange to see Michael Cohen. I mean, I remember the hearings, you know, the Senate hearings where it's like he was testifying. Yeah. And then all of a sudden, he's talking to Jesse and he's like having the most down to earth, one sided conversation.

That's the beauty of the service, man. That's like. This is not an ad for Cameo, by the way, just so you know. I mean, we do, I would do one because I think that it's a, there's no other service like it as far as I know, and it worked well for me, but this is just a honest testimonial.

You got this, I mean, the next guy I had heard was on Cameo and that he was like, a year ago when people started talking about it or whenever that was, Gilbert Godfrey's name came up. Yeah. And here you go, you got him. I mean, of course you got him. If Gilbert Godfrey is on there, you gotta use him, right?

I mean, he really went with the whole Jesse grew up on a pig farm thing. That was his whole angle. And he used it as kind of a way to question if I was trying to insult her. Because what I said was, in my information, I said, Jesse grew up on a pig farm and everyone makes fun of her for it.

So he kind of leaned into that and said, I can't believe that your husband is calling you a pig. And then he was like, but if you are a pig, and he kind of- Yeah, it was kind of like a scathing standup comic. It was performance art. It was performance art. It was like of like a scathing standup comic. It was performance art. It was performance art. Yeah, it was like reverse heckling.

But I actually thought he was calling your bluff that like, obviously you made this up. I thought that was part of it. He could have all, he probably knows that people do that. I think he's the only, I think he's been doing it the longest. To know that people make stuff up. You can tell that he's reading.

Yeah. And he doesn't care, but then he riffs on things that make it really funny. I'm not gonna play this one, but I will say that Stevie and Cassie had a very produced angle. What I mean is like they had a bit that they were doing that I think really turned out.

Yeah, that was good. That was one of the high points in the video. So thank you to Stevie and Cassie. I didn't know who these women were. Then there are some twins. You might remember the twins. I actually don't remember their names, but they were from 90 Day Fiance as well.

They're like the twins from Connecticut who I think they're getting their own show. They're getting their own reality show because they say that in this cameo. So again, this is working. They're getting the twins from Connecticut are getting their own reality show. I didn't like them. They're getting, the twins from Connecticut are getting their own reality show. I didn't like them.

They didn't really connect with me. It felt a little canned just because they talked about how much they loved Jessie. It felt like an Instagram story. They don't know Jessie. How do they know that they love her? Another guy, Ash, who was from 90 Day Fiance, who's in Australia, who was a relationship coach who seemed to only coach women,

which was an interesting thing about him. And then we had, of course, everybody's favorite TV show host, aside from Chris Harrison and Jeff Probst, Mark Summers, host of Double Dare. And here's the thing about Mark Summers that was really funny. Yeah. Again, for the thing about Mark Summers that was really funny. Yeah.

Again, for the reasons that you talked about, because these things go out to people. He had a whole preamble. His preamble was, I'm Mark Summers, you may remember me from Double Dare. I also did some time with, and then he talks about the show he did on the Food Network. And then he talks about the fact

that he's an executive producer on like, Guy's Grocery Games. Like he basically puts all his, anything that he would talk about at the end of like a PR spot, he puts at the top of his cameo, which is smart. Yeah. He really went with the,

he really grasped hold of the mountain climbing and talked about how she must be in incredible shape if she's doing all this mountain climbing. Yeah. I think he ended with saying something like, "'Good luck with those peaks.'" Yeah, I kind of felt, I kind of started to feel for these people who were like basing, who were like regurgitating your lies.

Yeah, I felt bad about that as well, but it was also worth the laughs. Now- And then we come to it. This is, okay, first of all, if there are any children listening to this particular episode of Ear Biscuits and you're not comfortable with explicit talk

of sexual acts, you should probably have them leave because we're gonna talk about, this one I just did for myself and for the juggalos out there, Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse. And I was like, I gotta use this guy. And he went for also 10 minutes approximately. Just Insane Clown Posse.

Yeah. I had an idea, you know, of who, I mean, they're like, they wear this, they dress up like these like insane looking clowns. And I didn't understand the type of music, even though I'd watched like the documentary that the gathering the juggalos, you like got all these people who are like camp out

and it's this whole community around it was super fascinating and super specific. But it's like this, they're not metal. I get them confused with- Slipknot. Slipknot. They're nothing like Slipknot. Slipknot is like scary Marilyn Manson-

And there's also like nine members of Slipknot. Shock rock. And they wear masks. It's basically just the two dudes. And they just wear, they do like 90s, bad 90s rap. Yeah, sort of like a little bit like House of Pain sounding, but not as good. Yeah, but not as good. I don't know enough to know like what really connects people

to them in the community, so I'm not gonna, but that's just like, if you listen to one song, you're like, what is going on here? Now, Violent J took a very specific angle in his video. He was in full clown face. Full clown face. So he gets into character and the character is insane. Let's just be honest.

I mean, that's the whole point, right? So I did not include the most explicit parts in the main video because I didn't want to distract from all the good loving that she was getting from people, right? Yeah. You know, as you said, the glad tidings and cheer or whatever you said. So I basically just, I kept the beginning of his video

where he just talked about me and he talked about her and wishing her happy birthday and how old he was and stuff like that. He had a whole bit about how old he was. It was nice. But again, after the fact, we listened to his entire thing. And that was where at some point, again, I think most of this was just off the cuff.

At some point, Violent J decided that he was going to talk about his attraction to my wife. Now, I don't even have any reason to believe that he's seen a picture of her, but I just think his angle was, I'm going to turn this into me hitting on the wife of the, I know the husband made this video for her, but now I'm gonna talk about what I'm going to do

with his wife. And the thing that really stuck with you and Christy and Jessie and me as we watched this later that night was the fact that he said he was going to do 69, 69 times with my wife. Yeah, it's very catchy. And boy, that's a lot. I wanna 69 you 69 times.

Yeah, right. Yeah. I think it's what he said. Yeah. And he said other- I was like, hmm, fascinating. He said other things, but that was really sort of the peak. And that kind of captures the essence of what he was getting at.

He also did some freestyling. Yeah, it was like this off the top of the head kind of scatting, but he did it, it was like a character trait where he would like kind of get manic and start. Yeah. Like a word association, like mouth vomit. Yeah.

Of rhyming words. That was a bit scary. No, I gotta say I didn't feel threatened. I loved it. I didn't feel threatened. My wife tells me that I'm very secure in our relationship because- Meanwhile, he's making a flip book

of side by side pictures of him and you. Well, here's the thing. Sometimes Jessie will come back from someplace in public and she'll tell a story about some dude that said something to her, right? And I know that some guys have a response, which is like, where is he? I'm gonna go back there and ask him what he's doing.

But I typically, I'm just like, good for you. You can't even count to 69. I'm like, that's awesome to have somebody, you know, hit on you in that way. It just reminds you that you still got it. So when Violent J told my wife that he wanted to do 69, 69 times, and let me just say, there was a couple of times

during that night as we kept repeating it that sometimes people would say 69, 69 ways, but I'm pretty sure he said 69, 69 times. I think 69 is kind of just, that is the way. That is the way. That is the way. To quote the Mandalorian. I mean, I'm sure you can do it other ways,

but typically it is describing an action and an act. This is the way. And he the Mandalorian. I mean, I'm sure you can do it other ways, but typically it is describing an action and an act. This is the way. And he just wants to do it 69 times. And I was like, listen, Jesse, if things ever get difficult, if things get dark, if you begin to doubt that you still got it, just remember that Violent J told you that he wanted to 69 69 times.

And I don't know what 69 times 69 is. I don't do that kind of math, but it's a lot. It's a lot. Matter of fact, she doesn't have to remember it. She can just pull up the video and watch it again. We haven't watched it since though. Well, I mean, maybe she's watched it on her own. I think it should be a monthly thing.

I think this on the 69th day of the year, you should watch it 69 times. Okay, that's gonna take a while. Because like I said, he fully commits. If you're, again, this is a little bit- That's in like March. This is informative for anybody who might be thinking about doing a cameo.

Violent J is gonna go all the way and he's gonna give you, he's gonna go all the way. He's gonna, literally, he's gonna give it. I actually have never considered 69 go all the way and he's gonna give you, he's gonna go all the way. He's gonna, literally, he's gonna give it. I actually have never considered 69 going all the way. Okay, well, I think it might be going past all the way. Might be coming all the way back around. Full circle. Yeah. Jaleel White.

I got him to do it. Did I do that? He was so- Did you do that? Oh, he brought up another fact that I added, which was- He was on a golf course. I said in my false information that Jessie had the largest insect collection

west of the Mississippi River, implying that there was a bigger one east of the Mississippi River. He really went with that and actually told a personal story about the time they had a bug collector character on Family Matters and how she was really attractive and made him nervous. But that after that episode,

they would get, he would get comments about bug collecting. Urkel, you know, was into bug collecting because of this girl. Just little thing that we could have never known. We would have never known this if I had told him the truth. He was also very inspirational about, you know, like this day is the first day

of the rest of your life. I don't know if he said that specifically. Yeah. It was that kind of inspirational talk. Everybody had their approach. Yeah. And some people's approach was I'm gonna go into, I need to be a motivational speaker.

I need to say something positive to help these people out, but they have no credentials or no business doing that. Kind of reminds me of this podcast. It was kind of like a ray of light that these people who find themselves being listened to are like, you know what? I'm going to say something encouraging. It's gonna be hollow and it's gonna be based on like

something that I've read a second ago or that I'm currently reading just beside the camera, but still you gotta give him an A plus for effort. It still means things. There wasn't anybody who was like, they weren't really trying. Yeah. Was there? Was there anybody who you wouldn't get again?

Well, this one, the one I'm about to show you. Oh yeah. He was also a potential, I think the cheapest one, the fly on Mike Pence's head. If you remember one of the, if you remember the vice presidential debate when a fly landed on Mike Pence's head, well, I think this guy was really trying to ride that wave,

which that wave has crashed at this point, but- 15 minutes of fame. He has a mask, he has a fly mask on and a fly suit on. Altered voice. And an altered fly voice. And he says quite a few jokes. But you know what, it was worth a little bit of a laugh.

And actually that was the last one. That was the last one. I edited this thing last minute. And so I ended with the fly. I probably should have put him in earlier, but actually he wasn't the last one. That was the last one. I edited this thing last minute. And so I ended with the fly. I probably should have put him in earlier, but actually he wasn't the last thing. Like one of her close college friends that I knew would be a big surprise

that I was able to get her to do it. Oh yeah. Because they haven't really talked in a while. That was the one I closed with. Anyway, Jessie was, let me just say the effect of this video, now I know we spent all the time talking about the celebrities.

She really, really appreciated it. It was great. And then she asked me, did my therapist tell you that I wanted a birthday video like this? And I was like, no, no. And I was like, because I told him that that's, I was hoping that Rhett was doing this for me. I hope that he was making a video

because I couldn't have a party. And I didn't know that. I just was like, this is the next thing besides a party to show collective appreciation. And you're not one for getting her gifts that she actually wants. That's not, you're not known for that. Well, I don't think that's my problem

as much as it's her problem. I think she has a very high standard. That's all I'll say. I have whiffed on some gifts for sure. I've gotten better in the past couple of years, but there was the most pressure on this one because it was this milestone birthday. She wasn't able to do the thing, but it really,

and I was nervous, right? Cause I had done the Jason Momoa thing. I had done this video. I also got her a bunch of other like gifts and also the trip out of town with you guys was a surprise. She didn't know that was gonna happen until the day before. So. Have you paid me for that?

I keep forgetting to do that. So far, it's my gift. Yeah, yeah. We went through your Airbnb account. I need to do that right So far, it's my gift. Yeah, yeah. We went through your Airbnb account. I need to do that right as soon as it's over. We could pause, you could just do it right now. So anyway, this really works. Success, man.

It really worked. Can't do it again though, you know, but she only turned 40 once. Right, yeah, when she turns 50. But you can 69. 69 times. 69 times. I can probably get there before 50 too. Yeah, so this kind of turned into, like I said,

it kind of turned into an ad for Cameo, which it's not, but I will make that my rec. You know, I might as well, just because I'm sure that there's another service or there should be, somebody should be getting on this, but Cameo kind of got into this kind of early in the game. And what seems like this, like you're like, so again, when you think about the inner workings of it

and somebody is just sitting down doing a bunch of videos, it may seem kind of empty, but when that person watches the video that you had video that you've made for them, especially if they don't understand Cameo as a service. They're like, I can't believe you got this for me. I can't believe you did this. It's like so effective, so effective. I mean, everybody's beginning to understand,

but it's still a pretty great thing. I mean, first of all, people do things like get a star named after you, you know what I'm saying? It's better than that. There's a lot of things that you can do, like, oh, I got you, like an acre on the moon or a square foot on the moon or something like that. It doesn't mean anything,

but you can, like, were they gonna go up there? I think you did that for me once, actually. I think I've done both of those things for you as jokes. Yeah. But it's a tangible thing that results in this video that like I said, you could put on your social media or whatever and be like, look, I got, look what Violent J said about me.

And Jessie hasn't posted that one. But she is free to post any of these on her social media. Yes, she is. Because it's not a commercial thing. So to wrap things up, wishing Jessie a happy belated 40th birthday and inviting you to give a wreck, baby wreck, baby one, two, three, four.

That was my wreck. Cameo? That's what I just said. I'm just making wreck my cameo wreck. I didn't believe that. I had another wreck, but- Oh, okay. It's hard to come up with recs,

so I'm just gonna save that for next time. I mean, my rec is, yeah, now you know about Cameo. If you didn't know about it, you know how it works, and you know that I use it successfully, so that's my rec. Not a sponsor, though, maybe they should be paying us. For real. We'll talk at you next week. Hashtag Ear Biscuits, let us know

what you think about all this. Have you had a Cameo experience? I wanna hear that. Mm-hmm.