Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 280: What Would We Bring Back From Our Childhood? | Ear Biscuits Ep.280

Episode Date: March 22, 2021

School lunches, sleepovers, Saturday morning cartoons. The list goes on as R&L discuss some of the things from their childhood that they would want to bring back on this nostalgia-filled 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

This, this, this, this is mythical. 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. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I'm Rhett.

And I'm Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we are exploring your nostalgic memories because we put out a prompt at Mythical on Twitter. So be looking out there if you want, if you want to interact with us and for us to read some of your submissions and talk about it.

The prompt that we put out into the world is, what's one thing you could bring back from childhood that you wish you could? If you would, would you? Do you? You can't, but you want to. People took it in different ways. And it got us thinking about some things.

So we're gonna talk about your childhoods, our childhoods. We're talking about some entertainment practices. We're talking about some toys. We're talking about some school experiences. We rounded up some good stuff, which ring that old nostalgia bell. You know, we like to- Ding, ding, we like to look backwards fondly. Cause hey, we lived it all together, man.

Well, I mean, you know, I spent some time alone. I had some girlfriends that I got wrapped up with for a while. Yep, and you kind of left me in the dust. Well, you could have done the same. You had the freedom to do the same thing. Yeah, but you know, I had- Maybe even more opportunity to do that

and still didn't take advantage of it. I had a Nintendo. I had a television. Well, so did I. I had a Sega. I know you did. Yeah. A, B, and C buttons. I think we were over in the Nintendo

by the time you started getting into the girls, hot and heavy. But we'll get into all of that stuff. But first, I just wanted to share an experience that when I shared it, it's something that happened to me, something I participated in. Usually that's what an experience is. Something I can take credit for.

This is an experience that happened to me. But when I shared it with my family, none of them believed me. They didn't appreciate it? No, they didn't even believe that it happened. Okay, well, all right. They thought I was making it up. I told Lily, and then I'm pretty sure she believed me

because I thought I had proof. And then separately, I told Christy and Lincoln and they didn't believe me. And then when I got Lily to tell them what I told her, turns out, I thought she believed me, but she didn't either. So now I'm gonna tell you the experience. Oh, I'm not gonna believe you. Maybe you won't believe me either.

Maybe I am lying. Maybe this is just a sensational story that is made up for entertainment. And for some reason, you along with my family and everybody listening will just say, there he is again. You're gonna do a lot of damage to the reputation of yourself and this podcast if you're going to lie

about something that happened to you because we do not do that. Sometimes we're mistaken. Some stories are so good. About some things that happened to us, but we never intentionally lie about anything. Until right now, potentially. Okay, all right.

You be the judge. So you know how my backyard works. It's like this, it's pavers in a patio. The whole backyard is a pool and then a patio. There's no lawn back there. Neither of us have any grass. You have some fake grass.

I have some fake grass. You have grass in the front. Yeah, I have a lawn in the front, but in the back, I just have, you know, the pavers go all the way to this wall that is like a pony wall. It's like two and a half feet off the ground. And then there's like this cabling thing above that.

You ever try to keep a pony up there just to see if it would cross it? I think the pony would stay in because it's kind of like a fence. And then when you walk close to the edge, which this is, I was gonna be doing some grilling. You saw something, didn't you? And I looked down into my neighbor's yard below me.

So you've got, I'm on the hill and so when my neighbors, when I look down, I'm pretty elevated. So I can look down and see, like if they've got, if they're outside eating, let's say, and they've got a table of food, I'm at such a height and vantage point that I could see the whole top of the table and everything that they're eating.

You know, if anybody has a bald spot, I can see that. I'm looking down on these people, literally, not figuratively. I don't even know them that well. But your house is higher, so it makes it, I mean, you are kind of also looking down on them figuratively. So-

The higher the house on the hill, the better, right? You wanna be on the top row. I don't wanna say that, but I'd like for you to say it about me. Okay, the higher the house on the hill, the better. You wanna be the guy with the house at the top of the hill. I'm not all the way at the top. Then you're a target.

You wanna be the guy right next to the guy who's at the top of the hill. I'm not all the way at the top. Then you're a target. You wanna be the guy right next to the guy who's at the top of the hill. I don't really look, I go out my front door and then there's a street and there's people on the other side, so like no one in their backyard is looking down at me. There's someone like your neighbor in his backyard can look over and look down on you.

But he really has to get a very intentional. He's gotta work at it. And it has happened a couple of times where I'll be in my, you know, I like to be scantily clad in my backyard because it feels very private. And every once in a while, I'll be, I don't know, I can't remember his name.

He's introduced himself several times, but he'll just be standing up there. Hey! And I'm just like, hey! And you're naked? I haven't been naked yet. I mean, I haven't been naked where, I think if he saw me naked. standing up there, hey. And it's like, hey. And you're naked? I haven't been naked yet. I mean, I haven't been naked where,

I think if he saw me naked- He wouldn't say hey. He would turn around and walk back. I don't know the couple that lives down below me. You know, it's a totally different street that accesses their house. It's like, we're like backyard neighbors, right? So it's like, it's kind of a strange,

and they're so far down there. You wouldn't even know how to drive to their house. I haven't really had an interaction with them. I wanted to because they had this huge tree in their side yard that basically, it blocks some of my view, but it was huge. Don't get me started with neighbor's trees, man. I know.

You haven't got us a sore subject for me. Well, they chopped it down, which gave me a better view, but it just seems pretty open. But I'm not gonna hold that against them. And I guess I'm looking for opportunities to like- You had a problem with the tree and they cut it down and you're not gonna hold it against them. I don't understand the logic.

I had a problem with them cutting down the tree because I liked it. Oh, you liked it. Yeah. Because I'm at such a height that like I was eye level with the middle and top of the tree because I liked it. Oh, you liked it. Yeah. Because I'm at such a height that like I was eye level with the middle and top of the tree. I felt like I was in there. The foliage.

I was in their tree. Yeah. I could see like birds at eye level. It was awesome. Right. Big old tree. But I, you know, I want to mend fences, looking for opportunities.

I literally look over because I'm out there, I'm gonna start grilling, and then I smell, there's like this like, ooh, smells good, somebody's grilling out down there, and I look over. I have no idea what you're about to say. And it's one of those grills that's got, it's just like a rectangular grill with like shish kebabs going across it.

Like, what I call a lulee. You know, you got chicken shish kebab and then you got the Lule shish kebabs and boy that stuff smells so good. Just a long piece of meat. And they're grilling it out. And I look over and I see the guy who lives in the house. He's an older guy, he's probably, he might be 60.

Before I knew it, I found myself yelling at him, smells good! Such a redneck. Had he made eye contact with you before you said smells good? No. Big mistake, just right off the bat, right? Big mistake. I said smells good!

And he looked up at me and then I said, yeah I didn't think about any of this ahead of time. Well yeah, you're Link. I'm going totally on instinct and I'm like, I didn't think about any of this ahead of time. Well, yeah, you're linked. I'm going totally on instinct and I'm like, throw me a piece of that meat. Oh God.

What is wrong with you, man? I said, I'll catch it. And I held my hand out like that. And then I looked from him to like this woman that was standing next to him to see what her reaction was. And they were all just kind of like, I guess, taken aback. This guy was yelling.

Throw me a piece of that meat. I'll catch it. Smells good. And then out of the corner of my eye, as I was surveying how the crowd was responding to my friendliness, I see a piece of meat flying in the air. Oh, okay, hold on.

So you specifically called for meat to be thrown at you and then you're surprised when it happens? What is wrong with you, man? I wasn't, well, yeah, I was a little surprised. It was one of those friendly neighbor things that I just thought I was saying. It's like, smells good, throw me a piece, I'll catch it. What?

You didn't catch it. So again, it was just out of my periphery and just like a cat, I just instinctively, it wasn't coming at me, it was going far to my left. I lunged over and you know how there's those, above the pony wall, cement wall, there's like those cables that prevent someone from like standing on the pony wall if they were a toddler or something

and then just like careening over, tumbling all the way down into the neighbor's yard. So I reached as far as I could, I bent over that cable. Because he was throwing it short. He threw it short and to his right, to my left. And I reached over like this and bent down and if he had thrown it even more to the right, just a millimeter, I would not have caught it.

You caught the meat? I snagged it and I did catch it. And I held it up and I said, I got it! And I took a bite out of it. It was a strip of Lulee about that long. Was it cooked? It was cooked. I took a bite out of it and I was like, man, that's good.

And the woman turned to the man who threw it and said, wow, that was a really good throw. And I said, wow, that was a really good throw. And I said, no, that was a really good catch. And I took another bite. So did somebody who had already been served meat who had it on their plate throw it or did the guy who was grilling throw it? The guy who was grilling threw it.

And it was a surprise? No, I yelled and then I was looking at other people. So I didn't see him actually throw it. And I said to him, you know what? I didn't see you throw it. I just saw the meat in midair. And I just happened to reach over and I was able to catch it. Did they clap?

They didn't clap. And then after- What did he say? He didn't say anything. And I ate the meat and I was like, I was like, yeah, it was a good catch. And they kind of laughed a little bit, but not really. And then they just went back to what they were doing. There was no conversation.

I was smiling and I was like, I might've said one more thing, I don't know. But it wasn't like, it didn't lead to like a budding friendship like I thought it would. And I had a little piece of the meat and I went inside and I just felt like I needed to tell somebody and Lily was playing video games

and I told Lily the story. And like I said, I didn't think she wouldn't believe me, especially because I showed her the piece of meat that I still had. Where's a man gonna get a piece of meat just walking outside? So later when I told Lily and Lincoln, Lily, I mean, Christy and Lincoln,

Whatever their names are. They didn't believe me. I said, ask Lily, she saw the piece of meat. And then Lily came out later and I was like, tell him what I did. And he was like, well, dad said that he caught a piece of meat, but like, I don't believe him. And I'm like, Lily, I had the meat in my hand. She was like, well, I saw something in your hand,

but like, you know, you could have had anything in your hand. I was like, what? No one believes, so do you believe me? No, not for a second. And then I was like, fine, no one's gonna believe me. We're sitting out by the fire pit eating the dinner that I grilled and their party down. Was it as good?

Not as good. Their party had disbanded by this point. No one was outside. You don't even know this guy's name. I don't know his name. He don't know my name. He threw you meat. Threw me meat.

I mean, he walked out. That's first name basis stuff right there. I know, man. He walked out and I was like, there he is right there. You guys don't believe me. And I'm gonna, so I leaned over and I looked at the guy. I was like, hey, I just told my family about catching your meat.

And you know what? They don't believe me. And he looked up at me and he kind of smiled and nodded his head, but there wasn't an audible laugh. And then he grabbed something off of his grill and he went back- Walked back inside? He didn't say anything. I was like, my family didn't believe me.

And he like, he didn't say anything. You gotta go front door. This is a front door. This is a knock on the front door and say, hey, we gotta talk. You gotta back me up, man. You're gonna throw me meat and then deny it? I don't think it's about him validating your story

at this point. I just think it's about, you have to acknowledge this level of connection that you've made. It was cool, man. Like, I mean, like I have an abrasion on my arm where, look at that. Well, that doesn't prove anything.

That's from the cable. Now that you're showing me that, it's making me doubt your whole story. Because I reached over. You don't have to show me scars. It was a heroic catching of meat. I mean, he threw the meat as far as a man could throw a piece of Lule.

It could not have been thrown farther. You do understand what the next stage in this relationship is. You back to that assert dominance stuff? No, no, this isn't like your other neighbor where you have to assert dominance. They put up a fence by the way. Oh really?

Yeah, they can't see me in my shower anymore through the window in my shower. And then they watched the vlog? I think they did. Yeah. This isn't an assert dominance situation. This is a kinship, this is camaraderie, but you've got to return the meat.

I know, I gotta throw- You have to throw meat to this man. I gotta throw meat to him. And you- And then deny it. Like, I just don't think he's a conversationalist. I think he keeps to himself and I come on pretty strong. Well, you can say that again.

It's definitely my dad coming out in me. It's like, hey, that smells good, throw me a piece. It's just like, it just happens. But you know what, it leads to connection, usually. You know, hey, this guy's putting himself out there. He almost killed himself trying to catch my meat. We have a connection. Well, I mean, I feel like you have two options.

You could just go front door and be like, we need to talk about the meat situation. My family doesn't believe it, but it's really not about that anymore. It's just, I feel like I don't even know your name, man. And then see where it goes. Or equally valid and maybe more fun is you just need to be, you need to grill more.

You need to be out there. In fact, you need to have meat on the ready. It doesn't even have to come from your grill. Just have some meat on the ready, just a meatball maybe. Yeah, just one. If you see him, you run in, you pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds, one meatball, 20 seconds, it'll warm up.

You know, you're like, I got your meat. Not his meat. Or I wanna return the favor. I wanna return the favor. I wanna return the favor. I wanna return the flavor. Oh yes. That's what you say. I wanna return the flavor.

He will not catch it. He's, cause I mean. He's cool that he threw that meat back in. He's an older guy. I mean, probably can't see the meatball. He might need to be a bigger meatball. Isn't it cool that he threw the meat, you know? It's like. I can't believe he did it. I mean. I can't see the meatball. He might need to be a bigger meatball. Isn't it cool that he threw the meat? I can't believe he did it.

I mean, I'd rather for him to give me the silent treatment having thrown meat my way than to just not throw meat my way and make me feel stupid. Because the Venn diagram between people who will throw meat after being asked one time and will not then talk about it later, that doesn't feel like the same person. It's kind of, does he feel like we had some,

the connection was so deep, like it's an affair? Does he feel that? He feels shame. Does he feel like he needs to keep it under wraps? Do I need to? Well, he did it in front of 10 people, so I don't think so. But those people weren't impressed.

Maybe he was ridiculed. It was like, yeah, they didn't know what to say. I would have clapped. I just, to say. I would have clapped. I just, for one, I would have clapped if somebody caught me like that. I mean, they definitely think I'm a redneck, right? I don't think they know about rednecks. It was a redneck move, wasn't it?

Well, yeah, it was, but I don't think that's how they would categorize it. What do you think they think of me? Strange. What else have they seen you do? Strange and outgoing. They hear you play your music? Yeah. Strange. What else have they seen you do? Strange and outgoing. They hear you play your music? Yeah.

Yeah. They probably hate that. They have opinions about that, I'm sure. All right, well, thanks for almost believing me. Yeah, to be clear, I don't believe any of it. Let's get back into childhood. Wherever you're going, you better believe American Express

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Benefits vary by card, terms apply. Okay, if you could pick one thing from your childhood to bring back, what would it be? Let's get started with Teresa Daly, who said two words, school pizza. I was so excited about this because I was thinking not necessarily school pizza, but you know me and food. You don't have to throw meat at me to get me excited.

Yeah. I'm always thinking about food and I was thinking about the food that I enjoyed as a lad. And I was thinking, how could I recreate some of the things that I enjoyed at the Buies Creek Elementary cafeteria and square, for us, square or really rectangular pizza. You called it square pizza.

I called it square pizza, but I wonder how good it would be if I were to eat a piece right now. Would I be like, this is the worst pizza I've ever had? I didn't like it at the time. You didn't eat the pizza at the time? No, I didn't like it. You didn't even eat it? I didn't even eat it eat the pizza at the time? No, I didn't like it. You didn't even eat it?

I didn't even eat it. Did you ever try it? Yeah, I tried it. It wasn't horrible, but it was, I remember it being really soft. It was so good, I would eat other people's who didn't finish it. And it was rectangular because it was a big sheet.

And it fit into the tray. It fit into the section of the tray that was a rectangular shape and they just cut it to fit that. Our pepperonis were cubed, were they not? Well, so- They weren't circular. In high school, there was cubed pepperoni

on triangular pizza, which I also got. In elementary school, it was cheese pizza with no pepperoni on it. It was just cheese pizza. Excuse me. But then in high school. Oh, just cheese, no pepperoni. In elementary school, just cheese.

In high school, they added that middle thing, our like sophomore year, the island that had burgers, chicken sandwiches. Oh yes. Which is when I put my shoe in there or Betsy Patrick's shoe in there. I can't remember what happened. Yeah. And triangular pizza with cubed pepperonis.

I like that. I don't know. Did you eat that? Did you eat any of the pizza at school? No. What did you eat in high school? I brought my lunch. Every day? I'm pretty sure.

I don't know, high school? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I don't think I brought my lunch ever in high school. Yeah. I had to have my pudding cup. I was like, I'm in high school now, I'm kind of becoming an adult. It's time to stop bringing your lunch.

I don't think that school pizza would stand up now. But boy, I'd really like to taste it just to know what, just how good, if it could be as good as it was to me back then, now. It seems like this should be like a line in the freezer section, like school pizza. Just lean into it. But make it taste good.

It's a good idea, right? So it'd be square pizza. What else would you have? Just that, just that. Let's just start there. It's called school pizza. Yeah. And it's square.

Mm-hmm. And there's cheese, of course, and there's a couple of different flavors. And it's square. And there's cheese, of course, and there's a couple of different flavors. Yeah, there's a cup of pudding in there too. Can we do that? I know. Yes, we can. Nobody wants that. Yeah, we can.

Staying with school, Jamie Mitchell Naragon tweeted, parachute day in gym class. Yes. Elementary school, coach Elsie would break out the parachute and it was, that was something. How did the parachute become a thing? I mean, was it that like parachutist would just, I guess they would just abandon their parachutes

and then, or there was just too many parachutes around so then they started figuring out ways to use them in PE class. Do you think he had the parachute at all times or do you think it was like carried from school to school? No, he had one, he had a nice storage area. Yeah, storage room. But all the members of the class would grab the parachute

and you'd put a ball in the middle and you'd flap that thing to make the ball go up. And then we, am I correct in that two things? First of all, I remember there being a hole in the middle. And I also remember playing a game where you would throw it up, you would fluff it up, and when it was in the air, you would run underneath. You wouldn't run underneath.

You pick it up. You designate a person to run underneath. And you pull it behind you and sit down. And you'd all be underneath. And everybody would be underneath it. It'd be like, we're in a room, we're in a room! But wasn't there a game where it's like they would choose someone to run across

and get to the other side? Maybe, yeah. Boy, that was thrilling. I watched a YouTube video that was a giant parachute. It was like hundreds of people doing one of these things. It was not a real parachute. It was just one that was designed for- Like popping up a ball?

What were they doing with it? No, no, they were just doing it really high and getting underneath it. It makes you feel small in a real parachute. It was just one that was designed for- Like popping up a ball? What were they doing with it? No, no, they were just doing it really high and getting underneath it. It makes you feel small in a good way. How often do you think parachute day happened? I think it was twice a year at most. Yeah, it was special when it came out. Why was it so?

That's why I don't think it was in storage. I don't know, I think you might have bad information. I think it would be like, well, it's at Irwin today. It's in Lillington today. It's in Dunn today. We got one parachute for the county. But I think we would know, we would associate the parachute with a parachute person.

But I don't recall any parachute person showing up when the parachute was there. Well, the parachute guy drops off the parachute before you get to school. I think it's more about how if you play with that parachute four days in a row, you discover that like, oh. We're not really doing anything. It's kind of, it actually sucks.

Yeah. But when it's once or twice a school year, it's special. But Coach Ellsing knew when to take it away and he knew when to bring it back. Well, but it says followed, Jamie says followed closely by Scooter Day. And now the scooters that are pictured here are these, basically a plastic platform with handles and four wheels. I remember these.

The wheels are like casters that you would put underneath. This is a very dangerous. Like a speaker cabinet. Very dangerous toy. I don't remember this. We didn't have these. I know I've seen these before, but I don't think I've ever been on one

and we definitely didn't have them. Wouldn't that mess up the gym floor? I guess you would do that outside on the cement. You can do this on the concrete. And you would kind of, it was kind of like a, is it roller, not roller blade, roller, sit and skate? It was like a sit and skate,

but a much more rudimentary design. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't remember this, Jamie. We didn't have those at Buies Creek Elementary School. 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.

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or on the Crunchyroll YouTube channel. I've got one. Flat top haircuts. Flat top haircuts. Well, just go into the military. Well, they were really, now I had one. Yep, you had one for a while. And Rudolph Blanchard would cut it in

and then basically it's like a buzz that's about that short, like almost bald in the middle and of course, they make up for it by being a little bit higher on the sides. And then he would give you this thing that you put one of your fingers through. Like a plastic comb that would fit in the palm of your hand and go over one finger. And he would be like, and you gotta keep it up.

You gotta keep it up. I don't remember him giving me any product for it. But you know. I never had that haircut, me any product for it. But you know. I never had that haircut, but I remember the comb. You never had a buzz until college. Like. Well, high school, when we started cutting each other's hair in high school.

You did a buzz in high school? Yeah. It's funny, this is something that I've noticed when I kind of go back to the South. this is something that I've noticed when I kind of go back to the South. There is a sort of a thing and it was very common when we were coming up, but it's just like, you shave all the boys' heads.

Like if you, if you're like, if there's a family with a bunch of boys in it, just for simply, just everybody's got a shaved head. And like we did that for, we had buzzes for years on end. Do you remember the buzz days? Like me and Cole both had buzzes. Buzzes or flat tops, like flat top was as extravagant.

You're talking about elementary school. Yeah. Yeah. And the funny thing is, is my wife would never have let that happen to my boys. And I know it's like a generational thing, but like she was always interested in them just having hair. No. They never asked for a buzz.

It was the style though. It was, I mean. But if you go back to the South, there's still kids that just have buzzes. Just like, yeah, he's got a buzz. Yeah, at this point in time, in that environment, I think it's just to simplify things. Now, I- Why do you miss it?

Well, I bring it up because I wanna present this as a, I wanna present this as a question to you. Yeah. Okay, so at some point I'm going to cut my hair, right? Now listen, it could be five years from now. I'm not saying I'm gonna just let it grow. I've already trimmed it once. I'll probably trim it again.

It's getting to be kind of out of control. I'm gonna try to get it a little bit closer. But for the foreseeable future, I plan on having some sort of long haircut, right? But I'm not gonna have it forever. You gotta make a bold hair choice. And the question is, whether it's a year from now, two years from now, five years from now,

I have to go back to something. I have to go to something. I have to transition from this to something else. And I've talked to Jessie about this. I was like, I think when I, and she gets so mad. I was like, I think when I get rid of this hair, I'm going to buzz it. I was like, I don't think that I'm going to try

to cut it into a haircut. I think I'm gonna buzz it. And maybe I'll be like, huh, the buzz works. You know you're not gonna get rid of your beard. You feel like you're gonna die with a beard. Oh, no, no, I'm not getting rid of my beard. You're gonna die with a beard. The only reason I would get rid of my beard-

And that's a big factor in this. The only reason I would get rid of my beard is if I was trying to like, if I become so committed to like a spiritual discipline of detachment. That would be the, the proof would be in that pudding. It would be, cause it would be, it would be difficult for me to deal with my unshaven face

because I'm ashamed of it. Yeah, that's the real test. So maybe I'll get to some spiritual level where I, that's what I do, but no, I'm talking about still having a beard and I've never had that combo, buzz with big beard. It might be a good look. Well,

flat top with big beard. I think there's gonna come a day, Flat top. Again, if the beard gets bigger, The beard can't get any bigger than it did. But yeah, but if it got, Cause it starts, it grows again. If it got that big, I think you could, I mean, your hair is kind of pulled back.

You're kind of simulating something which has the shape of a buzz. It actually would not feel that much different. It wouldn't. So what do you think about it? I like it, I like the idea. Oh, you like it? I think you should go with flat top,

like Owen Wilson in- Flat top, that's what I'm feeling. In Bottle Rocket flat top. Big beard and like a guile flat top. I mean, Owen Wilson's flat top in that movie, Wes Anderson's first movie, Bottle Rocket, is it's pronounced. It's like a two and a half inch tall. It's got some guile qualities to it.

My hair might not support. No, I don't think it would. My hair's too curly and it wouldn't be, you would need that to be real tight and real uniform, but a buzz, anybody can support a buzz. Yeah. My wife would hate it. She would hate it. I actually don't, again, when the hair's pulled back,

it's not that much different. You know what I'm gonna do? There is gonna be a day when I'm gonna grow a beard. I'm gonna grow a big beard and it's, you know. And I'm gonna get glasses. I know you're gonna, you're not gonna get rid of your beard, but I wanna have a total beard at some point. But it makes, because it's so white,

it makes me look so much older. You look like Santa Claus. I'm not ready to do it. But at a certain point- Well, the longer you wait, the more white it'll be. Well, yeah, but it'll be like Letterman's beard. Like it's white and huge, and then he has no hair on his head.

Of course, he's bald. But I could do a buzz. Yeah, I actually had big, I had high hopes. You had big hopes? For having like a really big beard, but the terminal length of the middle of my beard, I reached it and it just grows on the side and it becomes a giant unwieldy square.

And I'm just like, okay, that's it. I reached max beard length. I wanna see what would happen to mine. I don't know. But I don't miss the flat top. I don't miss any of the haircuts I ever had. None of them. At no point?

At no point. But you only had like, you only had two haircuts before this one. Lifetime. Yeah, well. You had the same haircut all through elementary school, basically. And then you had-

It's all chronicled in the book of mythicality. If you wanna go back to that. Sweet Peach Candy, at Passionate Candy responded to us. I wish I could bring back some of the 80s cartoons. They were some of the best from Jim to She-Ra to Thundercats, Saturday mornings were awesome. Thankfully I can rewatch all my favorites to remind myself and relive the nostalgia.

So that's Saturday morning cartoons. And then somebody, she mentioned Thundercats. Marcus Nordberg also mentioned Thundercats. I wish they would make a new movie with Thundercats. Great content and always with a nice wholesome lesson at the end to sum it all up. Now, in an ad read that we did, I mentioned Thundercats and how I thought it should come back.

I don't know if I planted this thought amongst the mythical beasts, but I watched the first episode of Thundercats. Like I just put it on. Recently? Recently, yeah. Like a couple of weeks ago. Was it awful? Well, it starts off really interesting.

Like the pilot episode, like the origin story of Lion-O, he's a, he's a teen. He's a preteen. He's a prepubescent boy. And he's in this futuristic environment where all these like anthropomorphized cats are walking around and defending their fortress against these evil people.

But all of the cats that you grow to love that are like the key characters of Thundercats, they start off in the pilot episode naked. Naked. Now I say naked because when you picture or Google any of the Thundercat characters. They have suits on. They have suits on.

But when I watched the pilot episode, I'm like, oh my gosh, they are, well they're cats, but they don't have any clothes on. And they're walking around like humans. And there is- What is it, a bulge? What is it? There's the, well, there's the leopard woman

who like has this like these sexy curves. And she, I mean, she looks like, you know, like Jennifer Lawrence in the X-Men movies when like she's just blue and she's basically naked except without nipples. I have no idea what you're talking about. I've never thought about that, I've never dwelt on it. Nipple-less Jennifer Lawrence is blue.

I never picture it in the quiet moments. Me neither. Right. Me neither. So I don't know what you're talking about. I'm basically making this up. This is just like a pop culture reference that I've heard from someone. If I would've caught it in my mouth.

Such dirty old man. That would've been amazing. Such dirty old man. Well, listen, I'm watching this with my family. I'm like making them watch Thundercats and I'm like, the first thing I'm like, they're naked. That leopard woman, she's naked and she doesn't have nipples. That's the best way I can describe it.

That's the most accurate way I can describe it. Which is exactly like, yeah. And they knew it too, because like, I mean, she was strutting her stuff and at one point, she winks at the camera. She knows what's up. She winks at the camera. Mm-hmm.

And then, through a series of events, they get clothes. Like this is part of their origin story. But it's not like they were already fully their characters. They just didn't have clothes. But then they were given clothes. But for a while there, they are all naked. Was it established who gave them the clothes?

Or they showed up with clothes? I can't even remember that. Once they got clothed, I stopped watching. Yeah, I was like, this is an interesting. So it's like, yeah, I mean, there may be, it doesn't hold up once they get clothed, I stopped watching. Yeah, I was like, this is an interesting one. So it's like, yeah, I mean, there may be, it doesn't hold up once they get clothed. But before that, it is pretty exciting. I don't think it should come back.

I think that first half of the pilot episode is all you need. But here's the thing is that when you talk about television and just like Passionate Candy has pointed out here, you can get it to come back just by watching it again. Like that's the wonderful thing about media. But the Saturday morning cartoon experience is something that kids these days don't have.

Like I remember I would have to get up early enough to make sure I didn't miss Smurfs. Well, it's what John Bailey is talking about here at BaileyJohn75, appointment television. Back in the day, we had a weekly schedule of our favorite shows, Friday was TGIF, Tuesday was The Office, et cetera. Now we just binge a season in a week.

So, and this, I mean, this guy, John is significantly younger than us because he's talking about appointment television and he says The Office. Like we were adults when The Office came out. But when The Office did first come out, it was, oh, you had to watch it, you know, you had Tuesday on NBC and-

Oh yeah, and I remember when Lost first came out and I was, you know, I was working as an engineer at the time and that's, like you would watch it because that's what everyone would be talking about at lunch the next day. It was like that classic water cooler conversation. Like that literally happened to me every week.

We had a water cooler. You would stand at it and you would have a conversation about lost. Well, there's a polar bear on the island. I can't explain that. I don't know what's going on there. Don't worry, they won't. And it was, I mean, it was a big motivating factor

of just going to work just so you, cause I had something I'd watched that now I could talk about it. Well, this made me think about, I mean, you know, we're never going back to this place, right? I mean, now that, this is just not gonna happen unless the bottom drops out, technologically speaking. Or are we?

I mean, like the way that Disney Plus is releasing all of their series. I mean, that's- I mean, like we made an appointment to watch The Mandalorian and WandaVision and you know, so every week we look forward to those. That is, you know, I do think that that's part of the philosophy behind

why HBO hasn't strayed from the weekly release and Disney Plus is doing it, is that the conversation around WandaVision lasted. You know. Yeah. The duration of season one, really. So there is definitely strategy, but I think that the product that you're selling has to be good enough to be able to compete

without being binged. Game of Thrones, yep. But it made me think about not just appointment television, but going all the way back to our childhoods where it wasn't just, this is when the shows are coming on and you watch them or you don't, but just the number of channels.

And like, I'm talking 80s, I'm talking basically three channels and PBS maybe. Yeah. Like I remember, I feel like I remember, maybe I don't. I feel like I remember when Fox became a channel or when we first got it. Cause all I remember was NBC, CBS and ABC and PBS. And I was thinking about this in the context of our society.

And you know, one of the things that people have talked about is one of the things that's contributing to the high level of polarization is everybody gets their news from their own source, right? Yeah. And back in the day, it was like, well, if Walter Cronkite said it, you believed it, and that was the only source.

There are definitely times when I'm like- We didn't watch Walter, we watched Dan Rather. Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson. Yep. Tom Brokaw. Sam Donaldson, he makes appearances on news now. Really?

I know, I've seen Dan Rather make- Well, Dan Rather is like still totally with it and making funny tweets. Yeah. He's like in, he's in the conversation and he'll be a guest, but Sam Donaldson, who even when he retired, his eyebrows were already- He's like a Muppet.

Doing incredible things. In the best way possible, yeah. They're doing even more unspeakable things now. Oh really? And he, yeah, I don't know. I can't remember who, he'll come on and talk to somebody, one of these anchors. But anyway, it just makes me think about, boy,

the simpler times of A, not caring at all about the news. And then if you did care about the news, you all cared about the same news. And when I miss that. When you can't, oh yeah. And when it came to television shows, you watch stuff that you didn't like because you had to watch something.

You know what? And I think that changed everything for us. Again, I don't wanna be the old fart who says, well, this generation and back in my day. But one of the things I do think is that our options for what we could watch were so few that it kind of transferred over into everything that we could experience. Like, even when we think about what we're gonna eat

as a family, you know, I'll be like, you know, my dad would just say, we're going to the Mexican restaurant in Fuquay Varina. It wasn't like, where do you guys wanna eat? I mean, yes, you got to make a decision what you were gonna eat once you got there. They didn't order for you. But where you were gonna eat and when you were gonna eat was not a family conference.

But now everything's a family conference. And you got kids who have been given, have been empowered to the point that they can make all these choices and they're like, well, I don't like that and I don't like that and I don't like that and I don't want that. Well, we don't wanna watch that.

Just sitting down to try to watch a movie together. Like what is your process for making a decision or suggesting a family movie? Because that has gotten- I've given up. That's gotten out of hand in my family sometimes. That's why we only watch Survivor. Like, I mean, because nobody's tired of it

and there's more and more seasons and there's no conversation. The only conversation is are we gonna watch another one or not? Well, I've had some success with choosing family movies, but there's a lot of pressure and I feel like they believe me, but there was one. What was it?

What did I? Oh, we had watched Tombstone, right? Oh. We had watched Tombstone, right? Yeah. And so everybody was on board for Tombstone. Great movie, holds up. Kids loved it. Next night, Wyatt Earp. No, it didn't go Wyatt Earp.

I went too hard. I went all the way to Unforgiven. That's- Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven. Like one of his later, I mean, well, he's been around forever, but yeah. That's a great movie, but it's a little more intense, isn't it? No, what's wrong with it?

Well, I'm trying to remember what ended up happening. I think we ended up getting through it, but- Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood. It's an incredible movie. Is it slow? Is it, I can't remember what could be bad about it. It's just, well, I mean, Tombstone is like real funny

and a little bit more lighthearted. Unforgiven is just a little bit. I mean, it starts out with, you know, like the woman's face getting cut up and stuff. It's like, Oh, oh yeah. You know, I don't remember. It starts out a little rough. So they lost, I lost their trust.

But what I'm saying, my hope, my point is, is that when my dad came home with a VCR, first of all, he came home with the VCR. He rented the VCR. Like he didn't buy the VCR. He rented the VCR and the VHS tapes and walked in the door and I was like, I don't care what he has, he has a VCR. It's a movie in our house.

We have a movie in our house. This is the peak of society is what I was thinking. And it didn't matter what movie we played. And he would rent two movies. Rent it for two days, right? Watch one one night, watch one the next night. Two best nights of my life. Boy, my kids are much harder to please. You know, when you're talking about like linear programming

and if you miss it, you miss it. Like even if you really had to go to the bathroom during Seinfeld, it's like you would miss something. You couldn't get it back. You'd have to ask somebody. You'd have to infer that part. Somebody called you on the phone and you didn't screen it. You know, you'd miss that part of it.

Some people did record on a VHS. I mean, you told me that your father-in-law. Oh yeah, he was still- Still using a VCR to record soap operas as recently as like two years ago. Yeah, I think he still does even now. Oh really? Yeah, I think he does.

I guess he don't wanna be in the house during the day. But you know, we were talking about doing some sort of like, we have so much content, we've tossed around the ideas, come up a number of times of doing like- A channel. A mythical channel that's just constantly playing and you can go in there and watch it with whoever's, watch whatever's playing at that moment

with whoever else is watching at that time. If you took every Good Mythical Morning, every Good Mythical More, 24 hours. Every Ear Biscuit, every sketch, every short form thing, everything we've done on Instagram, TikTok, whatever, and you just put it back to back to back to back to back. I mean, how much content would that be

before it repeated itself? The problem is- At least a month. From a business standpoint, I think it would be fun, but from a, first of all, it would be- A difficult technical exercise. Well, to answer your question, how long would it be? I think Jacob did something where it was like, if it was just Good Mythical Morning,

I mean, we could do the math right quick. Even if we say 10 minutes an episode times, let's just go ahead and say 2000 episodes. That's 20,000 minutes divided by 60 is six will go into 2,000. It's 3,000 hours, that doesn't make sense. I think that's right. We just did the math.

It's a little over 3,000 hours. No. That sounds crazy. I can't do math in my head right now. Well, you use your calculator. But from a business standpoint, we couldn't justify it. There's a lot of trouble to make that happen.

I think it would be cool. I think you might be thinking right now. It's 300, 333 hours. So we were off by a factor of 10, but divide that by 24. So it's two weeks, 14 days, 13 points. So two, but that's just GMM. And also you're underestimating the average length

of an episode. And then you add in Good Mythical More's and you basically double that. That's a month. And then you throw in everything else. You're gonna get at least a week of stuff that we've done. Else, maybe, I don't know, maybe half a week. Yeah.

We got at least a month of content. You rerun stuff. The reason that I still think that it might be not that bad of an idea is because you can, the whole idea of linear viewing of anything is the connection between other people who are experiencing it at the same time, right? So it's just like, hey, we go to the website

where they're streaming the Mythical show, Mythical show would be on there too, the Mythical TV channel, and then you go in the chat room and you talk about it in a moment like, oh, this is that old thing they did a long time ago, I forgot all about it. I still think there's something to it. Now that we're talking about it in a moment like, oh, this is that old thing they did a long time ago, I forgot all about it. I still think there's something to it. Now that we're talking about it,

I think people are gonna ask for it. I mean, there's kids channels on YouTube that then take all of, they get millions of views on their videos and then they just make this live stream that's this concept. And they do it because they wanna be able to, parents wanna be able to put their kids

in front of something that is passive for a longer period of time. I don't know, maybe we should think about it some more. Okay, Kina or Kina. Kleep bleep. Having sleepovers with my best friend and laughing all the time. Dang, man, I mean, I miss that.

Like, I mean, would it be weird if I was like, hey, can I come over tonight? We're gonna like, we can just sleep on the couches in your living room. Yeah, it would be, yeah. It would be weird if you did that at my house too. But I'm trying to think. So it's not me that's weird, it's the act.

And I just wanna clarify that. I'm trying to figure out why do people, why do friends stop sleepovers? Because like as a kid, part of the whole idea of a sleepover is we're gonna stay up late, you don't want your parent to have to come pick you up late or whatever.

There's a sense of adventure, waking up in the morning. I mean, why don't friends, adult friends, I mean, I know that adult friends, like inside friends, like John Mayer sings about, are doing sleepovers. I'm not talking about sexual partners. I'm talking about platonic friendships as adults. Well, when you have- Plan sleepovers.

I'm not talking about like, hey man, can I crash here? I'm talking about, hey, Friday night, sleepover. How come that doesn't happen? Maybe it does happen with single friends, but like if you have a partner, if you have children in the house, it's like, you know, it's associated with kids and then it starts to feel weird.

You're telling me that you think that single people without children are planning sleepovers as adult friends right now? I haven't heard of it. I don't think that's a thing. Yeah, that should be a thing. You set up a little fort? Yeah.

See, that's where it gets to be like a kid though. Where are you gonna sleep? Hey, that's what it is. The adult body needs a bed, needs their own bed that they're familiar with. When you're a kid, I could sleep on a gym floor. I could sleep anywhere. I could sleep in a chair.

I could sleep on a fence. It gets, I mean, whenever I would sleep over at your house. I'll give you a nice mattress. You would give me, you had a mattress underneath your bed and you would pull that out and I would sleep on that. Or sometimes we would both sleep in the guest room because we had, there was a couch and a mattress in there. Maybe you'd move the mattress.

I would also just put a sleeping bag on the carpet and sleep. It was not a problem. But what, so what would we do now? Because yeah, it is difficult when you're like, well, I'm gonna, you know what? I'm kind of sleepy. I'm gonna go to my bed with my wife.

Okay, well, I'm gonna lay on the floor by you and Jessie or vice versa. You know, it's like, well, I'm just gonna sleep on your couch. You're gonna sleep in back and sleep next to us. Yeah, that's what you do. No, I think we would both need to sleep in the living room.

In a different room. Together. You can't sleep in your own bed. Yeah, I don't think this is gonna happen. And I think we discovered why. I mean, I've got it. It's the comfort of your own bed. Adults value that too much.

Why am I gonna sleep on the floor? Even if it's 3 a.m. It's not worth it. I'm gonna go back home. I'm driving home. I'm gonna go back home and get my bed. I don't wanna wake up at your house. Yeah. That's strange. That's exactly what it is.

And then you wake up in the morning and then you're like, oh, we eat breakfast together? Like what happens now? You know, yeah, you don't want that. Well, I was thinking we should talk ourselves into it. I mean, if you're- Well, we could do a vlog about it, for sure. Again, when your kids come downstairs

and like you and your best friend are like asleep on the couch, but if you're single, single friends should be sleeping over. This is a movement. I mean, we can do it for them. Are we missing something? I think this would work. Air mattresses, air mattresses.

You know, air mattresses. So it's, I mean, a lot of single people, they'll have like another bed, might have a guest bed. It may- That's not a sleepover. If you're not sleeping in the same room. You gotta be sleeping in the same room. You gotta sleep in the same room.

The second part of this is in laughing all the time. And what I think, I think, Kena, you may not necessarily be putting these two things together, but I'm assuming, I'm taking that. That's how I'm interpreting this because- Oh yeah, sleepovers and laughing all the time. Sleepover, making each other laugh, not being able to shut up, having my dad come up the stairs

and get mad at us because we were so loud because we wouldn't stop laughing about something. Like, yeah. But that level of laugh attack, that's also a difficult thing to attain as an adult. Well, you know, that's where alcohol comes in. Oh, okay, drunk sleepovers. Yeah, I mean, we're adults.

Okay, all right. I mean, going on a trip somewhere, like getting an Airbnb with your friend or friends, that's a sleepover, that's still acceptable. Because no, but- But you sleep in different rooms. But you sleep in different rooms. Everybody gets their own room.

Hmm. But that is a form of a sleepover. I insist on this coming back. It's just, you gotta remove the stigma. You know, keep the plutonic nature intact, but get rid of the stigma. Sleepovers. Hey kids, Rhett's sleeping over tonight.

We're gonna be, I got a big couch in there. Hey, it's an open invitation. Okay. You're thinking about it. Well, yeah, we'll consider it. Tell us what you think about it. But I really like this one. This one has sort of a feel to it.

From Lynn, LJCEO62179. Okay. Late summer nights sitting under the streetlight with your neighborhood best friends, discussing the universe, life, and how you would be friends forever, not knowing that life would make most of you drift apart and catch you up in the rat race of adulthood

to be young again. Hmm. Well, you know, I mean, I don't mean to rub it in, but that's kind of what we're still doing. I mean, I don't mean to rub it in, but that's kind of what we're still doing. I'm sorry you don't have that. But I mean, I definitely remember when we would have sleepovers,

we would go out and we would lay down in the pitch dark, we would lay down in the middle of the street on the like the paved road in front of my house. So few cars would come down the road at night that we would lay down in the middle of the road just because it was a funny thing to do. I remember that our neighbor came outside when he saw us walking around outside in the dark

and he was like, Link, you okay? You been drinking? Oh, I don't remember this. Yeah, and I was like, no, no, no, no, we're just hanging out outside. Yeah, that's what we do. We hadn't been drinking,

but he was patrolling us, as Christy would say. And do not try this at home. Yeah, don't lay out in the street. If a car came, we would get out. You lived on a super, super, I mean, I lived on a dead end, but you lived on a country road that the cars were flying, but you could hear them coming from a mile away, literally.

And yeah, we just get out there and there were no streetlights, first of all. No. It was pitch black or it was just the moonlight. And you'd lay right on the double yellow line. And you just felt like. The road was still warm. Yeah, but there was just something about that

lying in the middle of the road, which you knew was like at any minute a car could come and I'm just gonna be looking up into the sky. Yeah, there's just something, there's something to that. Living in a place where you can lie in the middle of the road. Yeah, I's just something, there's something to that. Living in a place where you can lie in the middle of the road, you know. I miss that. Yeah, it's like, I guess I could lie

in like the neighborhood street in front of my house, but. Yeah, I live on a dead end road now. Somebody would call somebody. I mean, if I walked outside and saw my kid, one of my kids and his friend laying in the middle of the cul-de-sac, I'd be like, I get it. Yeah. I get it.

I'll be back inside, sleeping over with my adult friend. You guys been drinking? Yeah, man. Saturday morning cartoons. What do you remember watching? I remember Smurfs. I remember, there's a show called Shirt Tails. They had like, they had little stuffed animals

that you get at Hardee's. If it was worth watching, it was worth having its own little thing at like the Hardee's version of a Happy Meal. California Raisins had a cartoon, but I didn't watch that. I did watch the Gummy Bears cartoon. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I watched that. I watched the Care Bears cartoon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a big one. Was it on one channel or did multiple channels have Saturday morning cartoons? For a while, all three had Saturday morning cartoons. So did you choose a channel or did you switch? I don't remember. There's a Mr. T cartoon. I liked that a lot.

And then at a certain point, they would switch over to being live action. So you would get, I mean, you get like the Saved by the Bells of the world and that type of stuff. When did you stop getting up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons? I don't remember.

I just, I don't remember losing interest, but I did. I definitely was not getting up in middle school. Yeah, I don't think so. I was sleeping until like one o'clock by the time I was like in seventh grade. Yeah, because at that point you stay up late, yeah. I don't know, that was nice to go down memory lane, man. Get yourself some animated gummy bears,

get that taste in your mouth. Thanks for your responses to that prompt. You know, keep the conversation going on the internet, hashtag Ear Biscuits. I got a rec though. Oh yeah, Link's got a yeah. It's my rec time. Link's got a rec. I'm gonna go back to music for this recommendation. I watched, well, I guess I'll recommend the documentary too.

I watched the Bee Gees documentary. It's on HBO, 96% are rotten tomatoes. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is the name of it. It doesn't talk about their personal lives as much as just enough for it to be a backdrop to the music. So it is a music centric documentary. It's not, it doesn't talk about, I don't know, the drug use or, you know, it goes into,

I mean, it was three brothers and then two of them died and well, there were four brothers but the youngest brother was not a member of the band until much later, he was kind of like grandfathered in, no pun intended but they're all dead except for Barry who's arguably the most recognizable BG. Or the beard and long hair blonde. Yeah.

But I just, the documentary is great if you're into music documentaries like I am. And the way, you know, there's so many fascinating points in their career, like the fact that they completely reinvented themselves and what you know is the Bee Gees, first and foremost, like defining sound of the disco era and like that falsetto voice is something that they discovered as like a second wind in their career.

And I just, I love those types of stories in the specifics of how they discovered that sound with that song Jive Talkin' and then when they released it to the radio stations, they didn't put their name on it because they didn't want people to associate it with the Bee Gees because the Bee Gees were associated with like, they came out of the Beatles era

and they were associated with kind of like this folksy movement and they were associated with kind of like this folksy movement and they had a lot of hits from that era, but then they kind of had a stigma that then where they were basically inventing and defining what disco would sound like before it got crapped on, yeah, they didn't wanna use their name.

So they, and it became a hit and they were like, "'Whoa, that's the same Bee Gees? "'Like they're singing in another register. "'This is totally different.'" What did they say that they were? They just like unbanned, unnamed? They didn't put the name on the record. I don't think they used a pseudonym.

As far as I can remember from the documentary, they just didn't say. It was just like, jive talk and play it. And then they were playing it before they knew it was the Bee Gees and then deciding that they loved it. But the one song that I'm obsessed with, because there's a stigma around the Bee Gees in like the disco era and like they get into that, they explain all of that too

and how they were brought down, but they didn't deserve it. And people like Justin Timberlake are in the documentary standing up for the Bee Gees, rightfully so. And I just, I had not intentionally avoided them, but I just had, I had missed all these amazing harmonies and like, and their melody structures are just like so enticing. But the one song that I'm obsessed with is Too Much Heaven.

Too Much Heaven, listen to that song. And if you like it, then you can watch the documentary, but it's just so sweet, man. It is sweet. Well, if you want some sweet tunes, tune into Too Much Heaven from the Bee Gees, and we'll catch you next week on another episode of Ear Biscuits.

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