Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Can You Die From Lack of Sleep? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 346

Episode Date: August 22, 2022

What’s the proper way to recycle? Where do pizza boxes go? And how long can someone go without sleep? On this episode, Rhett and Link are going down the rabbit hole with help of a [not-so] reliable topic generator. What could go wrong? Also, Link’s vacation glasses are back by popular demand! Remember - Summer is temporary, but Drip is forever. Want to hear your voice on Ear Biscuits? Call 1-888-EAR-POD1 and we might just play your call on an upcoming episode! Get your tickets to Good Mythical Evening at GoodMythicalEvening.com for an uncensored night of fun! Presented by Moment House. 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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I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we're going to do something that we haven't done in a while and we're gonna go down the rabbit hole. Yes, yes. This is when we take like a subject, topic, and we brought nothing, we brought nothing

except ourselves into this. And no holds barred, we are going deep into the rabbit hole based on a topic that is generated. Let's link arms and dive in. We're not going yet. I'm already gone. Well I'll join you in the rabbit hole in a second. This is the last time that I will say something

about your glasses. These are my Anything Go glasses. But I just, you know, you've made this decision. I am coming to terms with it. You can do whatever you want. But you sure it's your face? But I am looking at it. Man.

I think I do. They're just glasses. I think they're cool. I think they're cool glasses. Thank you, man. It's got, you know, you got good, you made a good fashion choice. As the wise philosopher once said, "'Can't nobody tell me nothing."

Okay, I don't know who that was. The wise philosopher. Just the last thing I'll say is that, you know, there are gonna be people who stumble upon this video and other subsequent videos in which you wear these glasses and they will come to conclusions that you then may have to either confirm or deny or steer them away from.

If people want me to rest as anything. Can I put them on for a second? Anything in there. Yeah, in their, Can I put them on for a second? Yeah man. Let me just put them on for a second. Yeah, you'll see what's up. Just so, You'll see what's up. They're light. Oh, I see, that's cool man.

I'm just, all I'm just saying is that, first of all, I can't see. Now I know what's happened. Your left eye's not great, your right eye's okay. I've beat you to it. That's what you're saying. You can't wear these glasses. Well no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna wear these glasses.

In fact, I keep thinking I'm gonna have to get glasses and my vision just keeps going. So. I think those look just bomb ass on you, man. Right. It's just too bad they're mine. They do. My question is, if I wore these,

like what would you say to me if I was the one who had worn these glasses first? Because let's be honest, you're definitely the one who points things out on people a lot more than I do. Right, right. Give me a few- Fashion decisions. Hey, give me some time to think about your question

so I can come up with an answer. The exact same thing you're saying to me. Give me my glasses back. so I can come up with an answer. The exact same thing you're saying to me. Give me my glasses back. But people are drawing conclusions about me now. What conclusions are they drawing? That guy's got some bomb ass taste, man.

I mean some people might be saying that. Man, he's got some balls to back it up too. You think a guy who rides a loud motorcycle has got big balls? Usually I think it's compensating for something. I like the way these glasses look. I like the way these glasses feel. I like the way these glasses make me feel about myself.

You don't have to defend the choice of glasses. Oh I'm not defending it. I made that clear. I am establishing it. I told you this is the last time I'm ever gonna talk about them. You should get some, man. You know what? I'll get you a pair.

I'm gonna get sunglasses that you can't see my eyes. What are you gonna do about that? See, you can see my eyes. That's the great thing about them. Yeah, you can from some angles. There's a video version of this show over on YouTube. If you're only listening to this, you can wait up. We can wait six days.

You can watch it on the Ear Biscuits YouTube channel. You can watch me from behind my glasses. We've heard that the young kids, they prefer to watch. They will not. Are we right about this? We've been told that the young people have to see who's talking. I mean. Or else I guess they just have to see who's talking.

I mean. Or else I guess they just don't know who's talking. I don't understand it because- All the podcasts on Spotify are gonna be pushing for video. That's what I'm hearing. No. I do things while listening to podcasts. I'm driving, I'm working out, I'm walking.

I walked last night. I didn't listen to a podcast, I listened to a book. But I don't understand. What are they doing while they're watching? I drive, I bike, I don't watch people talk. What are they doing while they're watching? What are they doing? Getting another layer of, I mean,

we're kind of proving their point right now. Another layer of entertainment. But what are they doing? Getting another layer of, I mean, we're kind of proving their point right now, another layer of entertainment. But what are they doing right now? Because they're not just listening or watching a podcast, they're also, I'm also studying. You can't do both of those at the same time. If you're trying to do your homework and you've got this on in the background,

first of all, you know what? Yeah, you should do that. I have split interests here because I want people to watch. We need the views. But your education is important. You gotta focus on your freaking schoolwork. Now you gotta develop the ability to do what I can't, which is two things at once.

Listen to a podcast and study. Use different parts of your brain. Like divide it up. Do it. I don't think anybody can do that. Do it. So how do you wanna do this? Don't touch my computer. How do you wanna do this?

I can't let go now. Well, we used to do a thing where there would be like something written on a envelope and we'd open it up, but that was just a waste of paper. So I've gone to conversationationstarters.com. Oh, it looks like a great website. It's great graphic design at the top. Conversationstarters.com?

Is this like, you're like really apprehensive on like your first date and you like got Conversationstarters.com down there below the table at Chili's, you're kinda like looking down. Yeah, right. What are you looking at? Oh, just seeing if my fly is zipped. Nothing, you're kinda like looking down. Yeah, right. What are you looking at? Oh, just nothing. Just seeing how time it was.

It's time for me to start another conversation. Completely unrelated to the previous one. I also, just so you know. I'm having so much fun already. I also, I was going to capitalize my title.com. What? Because when you search, capitalize my.

Random topic generator or topic generator, capitalize my title. What is that? Is the first one that comes up, but it just, I don't even understand. Like if I were to go to what it is, just, what? Dude, that's an ad, X out of the ad.

Do I need to teach you how to browse the internet? No, but why is capitalize my, no, I clicked on the homepage. So now I'm at capitalizemytitle.com and it just says, making title capitalization easy. Automatically capitalize and case convert to title case. Oh, yeah that's great. When you're just writing stuff out in all that lowercase

and then you gotta like. And you have a really long title that you can't just edit. But this is like a subtitle. You've got a subtitle that also, but there's lots of ads on there. I hate having to capitalize every word in a title. It's like, it's exhausting. But if I could just paste it into a website

and then it spits it out and then I paste that, that's a lot easier. Now you can do that at capitalizemytitle.com. You can also get some Nikes based on the ads. Go to random generator. But I am gonna use that. CapitalizeMyTitle.com. But I'm going to ConversationStarter.com.

ConversationStarter.com. I like the vibe. The big brother to CapitalizeMyTitle.com. I'm gonna generate a topic. Generate a topic. Now we're not gonna start talking about this topic unless we both agree that this is something worth talking about.

But when we do, my vote is you just keep talking and you see where the rabbit hole goes and if you get to the bottom of that rabbit hole, maybe you start a new conversation. But maybe you curl up and die. What is the biggest priority in your life right now? Oh gosh, seriously? What's the biggest priority in my life right now?

Don't answer it. Don't even begin talking about it. It's a dumb question. Yeah. What is your favorite dessert? Oh what, who do you think we are? A couple of guys who eat food on the internet? Conversationsartist.com, don't ask that question on a date.

Because what if they don't have the dessert at the restaurant? What if Chili's doesn't serve that dessert? Right.. Cause what if they don't have the dessert at the restaurant? What if Chili's doesn't serve that dessert? Right. What is this, an AMA comprised of only middle schoolers? What's your favorite dessert? What did you do on your most recent birthday? Man, I don't remember.

It's poolside. Yeah, dude. Did I talk about it hereside. Yeah, dude. Did I talk about it here already? Yeah, kinda. We probably already talked about that. What is the first thing you do in the morning? I don't wanna talk to you about that. God, this site sucks, man.

Do you recycle? Do you recycle? All right, let's talk about this, man. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you recycle? I think this is a great opportunity for us to talk about things that we don't really understand, which is my favorite stuff to talk about.

Because I have feelings about this because we just received something on our trash can. Yep. Did you receive it as well? Yeah, a bucket. Did you get a bucket on top? You got a frickin' bucket on top of your trash can. Yeah, they're doing this in Los Angeles.

I think this is a good thing. This is a good thing, dude. Why are you angry? So there's, I don't know how to use it yet. I think it's a scam. So it must be an LA County thing. Had a ring at the doorbell. I go up to the door and I open it.

Hold on, you had a doorbell ring? And down there, like in the middle, like not right at the, like even further out than where they would normally drop a package. You know, package droppers are pretty good about putting it behind the flower pots and stuff like that. Getting it close.

So it won't get stolen. Yeah. This bucket, and I would say it was kind of squarish, probably 10 inches square. 14 inches tall. 14 inches tall. It's a pail, it's got a, I think it has a handle and it has a lid.

It does. Squares, it has like stickers around it. Did you read the instructions? Not yet. Oh I did, me and Jesse had a whole conversation about this thing. I keep meaning to but I was like, I'm not ready for this burden.

Well, I'm about to blow your mind. So it's a compost bucket where the, I wouldn't call it a compost bucket, that would be an overstatement. It's a plastic bucket. I would call it a bucket. Made of plastic. That is for food waste.

And you're supposed to put your food waste in it because as we know. The pigs need to eat it. Because if you start putting a bunch of food waste in the landfill, it creates methane. It's not good for the environment. So whereas if you did something, if you did the right thing with food waste,

you can turn it into soil. There's actually products, I know of at least one product out there that like, you can get like a high-falutin machine that will turn. Yeah, it was a sponsor of ours. Yeah, I don't know if it's out yet. But yeah, sponsor of ours. I'm gonna give you the instructions

and give you some additional information. Yeah, because I was talking to Lando about it. I was like, what do we do with this bucket? Because my chief question was, do they pick it up every week and dump it out? I'm gonna tell you. And is this a different truck? If you let me tell you.

Like the taxes going into this. I mean, I think this represents progress. I think this is a good thing. So I feel positive about it. I feel good about it So I'm on the, I feel positive about it. I feel good about it. I don't know how to feel about it. And I'm gonna tell you in a second why I don't know how to feel about it.

But you're right that it has to do with methane or methane, if you're British. I am not. And it has to do with the fact that methane is a greenhouse. Gotta make it all about them. Is a greenhouse gas that, while there's not nearly as much methane released on a daily basis, it is much more of a greenhouse gas.

Like the, whatever the magnitude per like metric ton of methane, like the impact in terms of greenhouse gas is much higher. So it takes a little bit of methane to make a lot of bad stuff happen. Okay. Compared to? Compared to CO2.

So, because I was also thinking like, why is this the thing that they're talking about? And again, I believe, I am an environmentalist and I believe in the science behind global warming, climate change, and I think we gotta start, we should have a long time to start doing things. So I believe in this in theory. I'll tell you why I'm questioning it in a little bit.

But what you do is you put your food waste, and it has a list of acceptable food waste. Liquids are not included in the food waste. Like you can't put liquid in there, and you can't pour like your milk in there, and you can't put like your grease in there. So we're talking like food, actual organic food waste. Banana peels, eggshells are the two things Lando told me.

I don't know about meat and bones. But I doubt you can put that in there. It's all on the thing. But what you do is you take a plastic bag and it said you can use any plastic bag, including the ones that you get from the grocery store. Okay. And you put, you line the bag with a,

you line the bucket with a plastic bag. Then you take that, you tie it up, and you throw that whole plastic bag into your green bin. What? Your yard waste bin. Yard waste bin. And so, Jesse and I were talking about this. We have three bins, just so you know.

We got a black bin, that's the naughty trash. We've got the blue bin, which is the recyclables. Turns out there's a lot of shit you can't put in there that you thought you could. And then now there's this little bucket that is a temporary container for a bag that holds food waste that goes into your green yard waste bag.

Yeah, so like, leaves and limbs and shit. If you cut a bush up on your property and you put those limbs in there, it goes in there with those. So this leads to a question. What? Which Jessie asked, She's like, well that's a really messy job for somebody. So somebody is sitting somewhere with a plastic bag, which is plastic bad. We know plastic is bad, right? Now, I will, every couple of trips to the grocery

store, ask for plastic bags because I use those plastic bags for things at home. You know, like if I'm traveling, which I have a tendency to do, I take my kit, we call it, like toiletries bag, my dad called it a kit, so that's what I ended up calling it. Okay. And I put that, because it has some liquids in there,

I put that inside of a plastic bag and- Second layer of safety. Because of what happened to your clothes. Yeah. When we were visiting Chicago like 15 years ago because I had a very, very greasy pomade, Murray's pomade. And we decided to combine suitcases, like somehow it got put in my suitcase and it exploded all over my stuff.

Let me just say that the idea to pack one suitcase was probably Mr. Frugal's idea, that was not my idea. But the idea to bring the Murray's pomade and the idea to put the Murray's pomade in my hair, it's not necessarily made for my type of hair, but I wore it for many years. It like melted and spilled out because it's not a screw top

and it leaked onto how many of your shirts? Like a lot, a lot of stuff. Everything I was wearing, man. Everything I brought. So I'm sorry about that. If I haven't apologized before. You probably didn't. But that is why, I think I did.

That is why. And I might accept your apology one day. I put things in a plastic bag, and I do other things with plastic bags. So somebody is sitting at the center where the yard waste comes, and every day up until before this thing, they just been like, okay, yeah, leaves and stuff.

And every once, you know, somebody's doing some dumb shit. Every once in a while, the guys who are collecting the yard waste are like, ah, somebody put one of them poop bags in here from the dog. Somebody on a while, the guys who are collecting the yard waste are like, ah, somebody put one of them poop bags in here from the, somebody on a walk, you know? Okay, that's the thing, that's helping me make sense of this because they're already doing the work. Because first of all, they take the green bin

and just like the blue and the black ones, a specified truck comes by, picks it up and dumps it all into the truck. So it's not like someone walks up to it and starts picking at it right there in front of your house. It's just like every other truck. And when it gets to the facility, yes, somebody is already picking through the yard waste stuff

to get out the stuff that shouldn't have been in there. So now they're gonna be a lot busier. They're getting these bags and then what are they doing with these bags? And then who's the next person who gets the bags? And they get bags that are just full of rotten food? Yeah. And then now we've got,

which leads me into the next thing, which is the reason that I think this might be a scam. It's not a scam. Is what do you do with those dirty plastic bags that got stuff all in them? Because what I've been told. You can't recycle dirty plastic. You can't recycle dirty plastic.

And now we're just putting a bunch of dirty plastic into the green bin? Tell me what I'm missing. We need to take a tour. Because I was also told that they're not actually recycling stuff anymore. Yeah, they just ship it to China. And then China buries it.

They're like, oh yeah, this makes you feel good. Now again. We don't know. I am saying, I want them to recycle. I think they should be recycling. I'm gonna choose to recycle. I'm gonna choose to recycle. I'm gonna choose to follow the system, but I have my doubts that the system is actually doing

the thing that the system promised to do. Well, it's experimental. So what do you, like, okay. I've gotta look this up. What do you do with peanut butter? Wherever you're going, you better believe American Express will be right there with you. Heading for adventure? We'll help you breeze through security.

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Visit amex.ca slash yamx. Benefits vary by card. Terms apply. If you get done with the peanut butter, do you lick the inside of it out? Do you put your peanut butter in the dishwasher, thereby using energy to get the remnants of peanut butter out? Yeah, I've of it out? Do you put your peanut butter in the dishwasher, thereby using energy to get the remnants of peanut butter out and then?

Yeah, I've washed it out. You wash out the inside of a peanut butter before you put it in the recycling? A few times and that was in the- With what, hot water? Hot water and soap because Lando did a whole presentation about this stuff. He's the one who knows about recycling.

Oh, when your kids start doing school stuff? Yeah. Then you start feeling guilty about everything. Well, he came home and was like the enforcer. Well, you gotta have one in every household. Yeah, he got on me about the peanut butter. You can't recycle this unless it's totally clean, Dad. So I started cleaning it.

And then I was like, you know what, after doing that twice, I was like, now I'm just throwing it in the regular trash. Ooh. Because I recycle, we recycle a lot. You're a bad person. It's just a lot of recycling ends up in the trash anyway is what I believed.

Starting January 1st, instead of throwing that container of fuzzy strawberries into the trash, this is the LA Times, a new law will require Californians to recycle their food scraps and other leftovers. Senate Bill 1383 mandates that you toss organic material into bins you use for other green waste such as garden trimmings, lawn trimmings, leaves. This is a part of a larger effort

to reduce short-lived climate pollutants including methane, methane, and redirect organic waste from landfills back to the soil as compost or mulch. If you're unsure about how to get started, here's some tips. Food that can be recycled, coffee grounds, coffee filters, and non-nylon tea bags. Fruit and vegetable scraps, even the moldy parts,

eggshells, used slash dirty paper food containers. Paper food containers. Paper food containers. Like if you get like In-N-Out animal fries, like that's a paper container that's greasy. Juice pulp, paper towels and tissues. What? You can put paper towels and tissues and paper plates. What? Food that can be recycled

includes paper plates. Well, I've been eating my paper plates for years, so that tracks. Some setes accept more food items. For example, Santa Monica also accepts meat, seafood scraps, and dairy products. Check with your local municipality. Does it say what happens to it?

I'm scrolling. What happens to it? No, I am right about this plastic bag part. It doesn't say what happens to it. Brian, did you see that? You do use the plastic bag, right? Because that's, in my mind, we had that conversation and Jessie was like, yes, you can use it

because it said grocery bag. Yeah, that part doesn't make sense to me because why can't I just take the raw stuff and just throw it in there with the bushes? I guess because they don't want the bushes to be mixed up. What do they do with the bushes? They're doing a different thing. The grass.

And if you're concerned about odors, you can layer the food with sawdust or line it with paper towels. Is that really gonna do it? You can also put the container in the fridge or freezer. So you, that's a, so that's why the bucket is so small, so you can put it in your freezer? Does it say anything on there about the bag?

The simplest method is putting the scraps in a brown paper bag and putting it in your freezer? Does it say anything on there about the bag? The simplest method is putting the scraps in a brown paper bag and putting it in your freezer. And then figure out where you want that to go after. Like the farmer's market. What? See, we should be composting stuff in our backyard, you know, but we're not doing that. All right, so that's LA, that doesn't say,

what should I Google, what happens? What happens next? Just Google what happens next. We all need to know. California compost law, everything you need to know. So, all right, this should include everything you need to know. So, all right, this should include everything we need to know. We need to know what happens next.

Where will all the compost go? Click. I just wanna make sure that I haven't complicated things for the compost people because- All organic waste will be converted to soil-like compost and used for agriculture. Let's explore some other options for managing your food waste.

Now, this doesn't have everything you need to know. Yeah, that's definitely not everything I need to know. You know what, this is actually an ad for Lomi, which is the freaking, I got tricked into clicking on the Lomi website, which is, Man, that. And then the number one thing you can do, use an electric composter.

And then up here it says Get Lomi, which is a sponsor on GMM, but it ain't a sponsor here, so we're gonna move on. But that is something you can do, use an electric composter. Yeah, I don't know what happens to it. Pizza boxes cannot be recycled. But can they now go in this compo, they won't fit, they're too big for the bucket.

But is cardboard a paper food container? You can put the pizza boxes in the blue bin. Oh yeah, you can, you can. But not if there's still pizza. As long as there isn't cheese on it. Yeah, yeah, if you're getting good pizza, it's got cheese on it, man. I mean, the cheese has been sticking to things.

Well, Fox 11 says, "'Banana Pills' chicken bones and leftover veggies "'won't have a place in California trash cans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program. Yeah, I wanna know what they do with it. They're just telling us what to do with it and all of this stuff.

I think they do what you said they do with it. They're gonna take it and they're like. They're gonna go through it and they're gonna make it into soil. We've got all this organic material that now is going to be used in agriculture versus just rotting in a landfill somewhere and giving off methane.

I remember one time, do you remember when we were in Asheville, North Carolina? It may have been for Bury Me Naturally on Commercial Kings. Uh-huh. We met a guy and his name was like Whistle or something like that. You know, it was like one of those guys

that sort of just like lives on the street of Asheville, an old guy, sort of a hippie. Whistle? I don't think it was Whistle, but it's like it had a name like that. He said, how much trash do you make? I remember he asked that question, how much trash do you make? And I was like, I don't know, a lot.

And he held up a bag and it was the same size as the pail that you've already described. Yeah. 10 by 10, probably 14 inches tall. He's like, this is all the trash I generate in a year. And he just holds it for a year? So he was about to throw it away. Wow, you caught him at a perfect time.

It's been one year. So he was making a point. But I will say, I think about this often, okay? So this is the part of this that bothers me and I think the reason that this conversation kinda like, it makes me feel uncomfortable because I mean there have been times, a few times actually, where we might,

you know we have people over for parties or whatever, game night and you feed people and all of a sudden, you generated more trash than you typically would as a family in those weeks. Yeah. Sometimes we can barely, one week, seven days of four people living in America, plus their friends living it up at their house a little bit,

fills up the entire trash can. Oh yeah. And then the recycling sometimes is filled up and sometimes I'll be like, okay, we're gonna have to just put this in a bag and hope they also take it because it won't fit or we'll put it in a bag and leave it next to the trash can or leave it up there and then they'll take it

and then we'll put it, it will, you know, will overflow into the next week. Right. My point is, it's clear if you just do the math, right? This is totally unsustainable. So much trash. That just a little family of four is making that much trash in a week

when Whistle is over there in Asheville making this little bag and then of course if you start, if you compare the waste that we're generating to a developing country, it's gonna be a whole lot less per capita. Like if everyone was living the way that we were living, it would just be absolute mayhem, but it kinda is mayhem. Have you been to a landfill?

Yeah, I did. It stinks. Well, should we just dig a landfill? Yeah, I did. It stinks. Well, we just dig a hole. Yeah. We just dig a hole. We keep digging a hole and throwing stuff in it. And I'm, me and my family, we're adding trash that weighs more than all of us put together

every single week. I mean, I can't defend myself. It's like, how do you do that? What do you say? I mean, I'm filling up my recycle bin every week. I'm putting on my boots and I'm getting, I'm climbing up in it and jumping up and down to get as much into the recycling as possible.

Like I couldn't recycle more unless I got a second bin, which I guess I could do. But now I'm gonna do this food waste thing. And by the way, this is still the Fox site. They're talking about somebody in Davis, Davis, California already has a mandatory food recycle program and Joy, a mother of three,

puts all of her cooking scraps into a metal bin labeled compost on her countertop. When preparing dinner, she empties excess food from the cutting board into the bin, et cetera. After a few days, she dumps the contents into her green waste bin outside that is picked up and sent to a county facility. Unpleasant countertop bin smells haven't been a problem.

All you're changing is where you're throwing things away. It's just another bin. It's really easy and it's amazing how much less trash you have. Hmm. I mean, the thing about throwing away trash is that when you get that food stuff in there, boy, that stuff starts to ooze out

and you get animals showing up. Yeah, I've had my trash can knocked over. Decimated. Four or five times since I moved to where I'm at. Raccoons. By something, I think it might be a team of raccoons in a trench coat because I don't know how they get the damn trash can over.

But it seems like they're not putting it in a bag. In Davis at least, she's dumping. Yeah, yeah, I gotta reread it. She dumps the contents directly into the green waste bin along with all of the other stuff. So the plastic bag thing is, I don't know. It feels like it might be wrong. That may be your misunderstanding.

Well, I'm gonna say my wife was the one reading it, so I'm gonna blame her. But I'm gonna read it tonight. Perpetuate it. We're gonna do another question after we talk a little bit about Good Mythical Evening. Good Mythical Evening is September 1st. It is an R-rated live event. Watch it as it happens as we go full R.

Exclusively on Moment House. Yeah, it is. Watch it as it happens as we go full R. Exclusively on Moment House. Yeah it is. I'm telling you, you should be there for it. I have promised. I'm gonna be there. That I think we all know, we've talked about the fact that Link took us all a little off guard last year

with getting a little too intoxicated and I was like, do I need to hold down the fort? And I made the decision to hold down the fort and Stevie was very thankful and let me know that. But I've let Stevie know that she is the only person who will be holding down the fort this year. So, you know, I think the question is gonna be, are you going to try to outdo yourself?

Because I mean, there could be a line that you don't need to cross. And you're gonna try to outdo yourself or am I gonna just meet you at the place that you were? Are you gonna try to separate yourself? It could get a little tricky if that's your mentality, especially if you got those glasses on. Wouldn't you like to know?

But there's only one way to find out and that's to watch Good Mythical Evening when it happens, goodmythicalevening.com. You got to buy a ticket, goodmythicalevening.com. 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. We've talked enough about recycling and stuff.

Composting. We've talked too about recycling and stuff. Composting. We've talked too much about it. I believe in it. I'm just gonna say, it stresses me out, man. We're blazing a trail. There's still plenty of places on earth and in America and many counties that they don't recycle. Well, there's no recycling bins.

If you see one of those videos where it's a literal river of plastic trash, that's probably not the US. I'm just gonna say, it's probably not the US. US has got a lot of problems and the US is generating a lot of these problems, but we don't have just rivers of plastic crap, that hasn't happened yet. But anyway, we just gotta stop making that stuff.

I think that's the thing that's frustrating is that the way that we talk about this is we talk about personal responsibility and we want every individual to do their part, which I believe in, but when you are faced with a system where every single time you go to the grocery store, 95% of the things that you're gonna buy are gonna come

in something that then creates trash. Every time you go out to eat, you're gonna create trash. There's larger systemic issues that you can't just wait for every individual to make the right decisions. We have to have systemic change so that we all don't, you can't just rely on people to make all kinds of good decisions because people are gonna do what the easy thing is, man.

People aren't gonna wash their freaking peanut butter out. It's a, yeah. Unless their kid does a project and they do it twice. It's a both and. I'm willing to accept increasing responsibility in education as long as it happens on other levels. Conversationstarters.com, not a sponsor. Yet.

Hit it. What's the longest you've gone without sleep? What is it? Okay, all right. Okay, Conversationstarters.com. Oh man, the AI heard us talking about it and was like, okay, try this one on Versace, boys. I mean, I definitely am on record saying

that I never elected to pull an all-nighter in college, which is the first place I think that you're gonna be apt to stay up all night. Except for that one time that we went snowboarding in the mountains and- It's a good place to snowboard. And we, yeah it is. So we had to- As opposed to the planes.

You know, we had to drive a number of hours. You start skiing at like 1 a.m., the night ski at Hawks Nest, same place. Seems, this was a scenario under which I broke my pelvis and suffered the concussion. But I remember at a preceding time, we did it. You start skiing at one, you ski from like one to, maybe like one to four.

Does that sound right to you? Night skiing. Night skiing, they got the lights on. I don't believe you're right about that. You think it's done by one. My best guess is that. It might be done by one. Because first of all, during the winter,

sunset is probably 530 or six. Yeah. So I think it's probably like six to midnight, night scheme. Yeah and then I think you might could go to one and then it's kind of over. Because they gotta make snow at some point. And then we had to drive back and maybe stopping at the Waffle House and all that stuff.

By the time I got back, I went, I did not sleep, I went straight to class. And I just remember being in my medieval history class and I could not stay awake and I was taking notes and I literally was able to look back at my notes and see the moment that I fell asleep because- Like a movie, just being in a squiggly line? It's just like a, yeah, the line just kind of squiggled

down off the page. That's how I want to die. I was fighting it so hard. You know, you just cannot stay awake any longer. So I remember that being an all-nighter. I don't recall that. I mean, the most recent all-nighter was when we shot Hazel and we were fighting against the sun coming up.

That's right. So this is, in case you didn't know, this is the TikTok first. We released it on TikTok and then we put it on the Rhett and Link YouTube channel, but basically our horror, you know, spending a night in the creative house kind of thing. Nobody watched it.

But if you were there for it when it happened, it was awesome. You were thrilled by it. The, which is great. We, obviously we stayed up all day because that's typically what we do because I'm not a vampire and I also don't take naps. But then the night shoot rolled around

and Ben had the shot list planned. Soon as it gets dark, we start because we gotta shoot in the dark. We had talked about potentially doing blackout of the windows but we were trying to avoid that because it takes a bunch of time. Yeah, so we had one night in the woods which did not take all night and then the next night,

I believe, is when we went back to the creative house and we were shooting all night in the house. And that's the one that went all the way till the sun came up. Yes, we actually kind of going on less sleep. I just remember the sun coming up and that was when we were packing everything up and putting it back in the trucks.

And being very tired, but not being sleepy. Like my body was like, okay, well we missed that opportunity and then I was like, I'm gonna go home. I don't- Missed that opportunity what? To sleep. To sleep. But now circadian rhythm is in play and your body's like, okay, well now it's okay, I guess another day is here.

And I have such a difficult time sleeping during the day. I know I had to, I don't remember it, but I had to have slept. You didn't sleep during the day? No, no, I went home and slept for, I think probably two hours, and then woke up and was like, I guess I'll just, you know, I'll never make up for this.

I don't think I've ever done more than that. What I've never done, because obviously we did the same thing with All Night Long, All Night Long, when we sang Lionel Richie's All Night Long literally for 11 hours all night long. It's on YouTube. Shit, check it out.

Check it out, Brian, you didn't know about that. That was from sundown to sunrise, and then again, same thing, like go home. That was easy because we were constantly Engaged. Occupied. And there were certain scenes with the Hazel thing, especially towards the morning,

like they were shooting something with you and then I had this downtime. And once you sit down and you get still, that gets difficult. We had one all nighter for Buddy System too. Well, Buddy System also, it was season one. So yeah, we've had a few all-nighters, but neither one of us have ever been the type of person

to say, let's just stay up all night and I can do that. You know, there's people who can do that. Okay. I mean, when I get really tired tired i start to feel like nauseous it's like my body just starts shutting down 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 i us, and I'm going to guess for some of you, that thing is... Anime!

Hi, I'm Nick Friedman. I'm Lee Alec Murray. And I'm Leah President. And welcome to Crunchyroll Presents The Anime Effect. It's a weekly news show. With the best celebrity guests. And hot takes galore. So join us every Friday wherever you get your podcasts

and watch full video episodes on Crunchyroll or on the Crunchyroll YouTube channel. Well, I'm about to scare you a little bit. You're about to tell me it's actually a good thing. You should be doing it on a monthly basis. No, no, no. Well, I read that book, Why We Sleep, which then I found out that at least some of the research

that the guy had quoted in it was not right, and so I don't know what part that was, I didn't follow up. Okay. But one of the things he talks about is you basically don't make up for it. Like you can't, you don't make up for loss sleep. Like whatever the effects of missing sleep have,

it's you get those effects and they're short term and then of course, compounding, there's long term effects. And like one of the things he talks about is people who are chronically under sleeping, like you hear people like Steve Harvey, he's one of them, who will say like, I sleep four hours a day.

Yeah. Jay Leno says the same thing. And there's this like pride of like, you only sleep four hours. And. Jay Leno says the same thing. And there's this pride of you only sleep four hours. And this guy's point was that, yes, there is a range of what people require, but really nobody can get away with that little sleep. They're suffering. They're suffering consequences

that are long-term health consequences. So when Steve Harvey's mustache just falls off one day, it's probably because he's only getting four hours of sleep. That's how it happens, huh? It starts with the mustache. Now there's been a couple of times, you know I told you earlier in the year when I started struggling a little bit with insomnia

and then I think I figured out that it had to do with the intermittent fasting thing I was doing and that's kind of a common side effect but it didn't go away for me. But because I'm a hypochondriac, or I have whatever health anxiety, whatever the proper term is today. Okay.

There was a point in which I was waking up and not being able to go about to sleep and I thought that I might have fatal familial insomnia. What? Fatal familial insomnia. What? Fatal familial? It's a rare genetic degenerative brain disorder. It's like you can't sleep and it kills a family member? It is, well that can happen.

It is characterized by an inability to sleep insomnia that may be initially mild but progressively worsens leading to significant physical and mental deterioration. Affected individuals may also develop dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system that controls involuntary automatic body processes. Well yeah but, basically.

Why do you think you have it? I don't have it. You just got scared. I wasn't sleeping. I mean it is a form of torture. I hate it for the people who can't sleep. Like, it's just, it is literally a form of torture. But you're not listening to me.

I'm listening to you. I'm not talking about somebody who can't sleep. I'm talking about a disease in which you slowly lose the ability to sleep and invariably die. Gosh. You're not listening to what I'm saying, bro. I'm not talking about insomnia. I'm talking about chronic insomnia that they do not

have a cure for and it happens to some people and they just freaking die. So you say awake to death. Yes. Well I heard you, I eventually. Man, that is a nightmare. And I've, you know, I hate to make, I'm not making light of it,

because I thought I had it. But somebody does have it. They don't know what to do about it. They can't do anything about it. There's no treatment for it. I mean, there's gotta be like some like high powered something to knock you out. I don't think so.

I think that whatever is in your brain that allows you to sleep eventually just goes away. But how long can you go without sleep before you die? That's another question. Yeah. I'm not getting that one from Conversationstarters.com, I got that one from my brain. How long can you stay awake without dying?

Because you can go a few days without water, right? Yeah. You can go a few weeks without water, right? Yeah. You can go a few weeks without food. You need to stay hydrated. You need to eat. Yes, the longest recorded time without sleep is approximately 264 hours or just over 11 consecutive days. What?

Now that person just probably fell asleep. I don't know if they died. Hmm. You know, and there's like, you know, you'll have like mind or body altering drugs that will keep you awake in order to get stuff done beyond caffeine, stuff I don't even wanna know about. I mean, I love sleeping.

There's times when I get in the bed and I'm just like, I'll just be so happy that I'm in my bed, I'll just squeal. Yeah, you know, just like wiggle up in there and just get snuggly. But now that these dogs, like we got Jasper and Jade in the bed and they're freaking, they move around and you know we got these aura rings that they track all of our movement

and give me a sleep score every morning and it's very helpful information and I hate to say it but it's made me think that like the dogs don't need to stay in the bed, you know? Because whenever they move around, it makes me move my hand that has my ring on it, and then my sleep score lowers. I don't know if I'm actually waking up.

Where do they sleep in relation to you and Christy, and is it consistent? Jade sleeps on my right side, in between my arm and my hip, Jade sleeps on my right side, in between my arm and my hip, facing, her nose faces down and her butt faces my armpit. So I kinda like have my arm over her. Cause you sleep on your back

cause you got a special pillow. Yeah, I sleep on my back cause it's the superior way to sleep. And then, so I've trained myself to do it with my very uncomfortable brick cylinder pillow. And then Jasper, he'll burrow down to the bottom and then in the middle of the night, we'll just hear him whimpering down there.

He doesn't know how to get out. Suffocating. No, he's not suffocating. He just, I mean, Datsuns are like burrowing dogs. They love to burrow down, but then he wants to get out and then I'll have to like wake up and often like lift the covers and then he sees the exit. Jade never had this problem when she was younger.

Jasper's probably dumber. And then, ah, I think Jasper's smarter. He's just dumb in this area. Dumb in this area. And then he will climb up and he will go and he will lay above Christy's head, which can't be good for her sleep. But he's like, I mean, if she was sitting up

and he was still in the same place, it would be like she was wearing Jasper like a hat. This happens every night? Every other night he usually gets up there and perches as a hat on her head. Yeah, so that kind of is disturbing our quality of sleep. It's more of a Jasper thing than a Jade thing. But then every four nights,

Jade will get up out of the bed and she's thirsty. Oh yeah, she's a Neal. She wants some water. And so I got a little mug of water I put in the bathroom but she won't walk in the bathroom, get it and just jump back in bed. She'll get out of the bed and she'll shake her head and like her ears to wake me up

so that I will escort her to the bathroom. This is obviously dysfunctional. Why don't you put the water bowl next to the bed? I don't know, I don't know. I mean, it feels like that problem can be solved. That's a good idea, Rhett. Like why does the water bowl have to be in the bathroom? Just put a little water bowl next to the nightstand

on the side that she comes off of. And it could be a dog bowl instead of a human cup that I used to use when I brushed my teeth. Yeah. I'm not really thinking strategically. It's just a dog bowl and then she can also probably get a little swig right before she goes to bed. You know how you go months without thinking,

you have a problem and you just don't stop and think strategically about it? Thank you for bringing me out of my stupor. I mean, it's kinda like parents who sleep with their baby in the bed and then next thing you know, their baby's six years old and still in the bed. Alicia Silverstone. You know, it's like, I mean, you got,

at a certain point, who's in charge here? Her kid's 11. No. Yeah, you get. Why don't you say something? You got 11-year-old in the bed. No, no, why don't you dig yourself a little hole? Let's talk about Alicia Silverstone and her child

who's 11 sleeping in the bed with her and dig yourself a little hole? Let's talk about Alicia Silverstone and her child who's 11 sleeping in the bed with her and dig yourself a little hole. So I mean, I just feel like you've got, I'm guilty of it. No, well, I've never done that. I'm guilty of it with the dog with the cup thing. So I'm not above reproach here, but there's a certain point when you have to come to your senses and say, who's in charge here?

Who's the parent and who's the puppy? Who's the, who's the- Talk about children. Who's clueless? Not puppies. And who's an 11 year old human? Yeah, it's like- Well, I thought her-

At a certain point, they gotta be in their own bed. Okay, tell that to all the parts of the world in which there's a family bed that they all sleep in. Oh God, Rhett, why are you doing this to me? Because I'm just, I'm showing you, because I think the same way as you. When I heard about Alicia Silverstone's child sleeping in the bed with her at 11,

I was like, well that kid's gonna have X, Y, and Z, is never gonna be able to let go of the mom. I didn't say any of that. I just said, it's like at a certain point you need to sleep but I'm just as guilty of it with a dog. No, but. Two dogs. But it was interesting and I don't think she made this. She didn't care, she doesn't care.

She obviously doesn't care. She's been, there's been a number of things that Alicia Silverstone has done in relationship to her. I think the first thing was like, she like did, she was the mama bird feeder of the child, like chewing the food and eating the food. I think, don't quote me on that, but I think that was the first sort of controversial thing

and unconventional thing. And then it was the 11 year old, it was the most recent thing. Of course, if she would have been in buddy system, as was discussed for a brief moment, we wouldn't be having this conversation now because she'd be friends. And we would totally understand.

I'm defending her. We'd be on her side. She didn't really defend herself because she doesn't care to care to, but in the article I was reading about it, somebody was talking about the fact that, yeah, there's really no evidence that this is going to cause any particular problems with the child.

The only thing you really wanna avoid is you definitely don't want your- Just having your own life. I mean, sleep means so much to me that it's just like, the kid will be okay in another room. I mean, there's exceptions to every rule, but in general, come on. I'm talking about the kid for a second.

So yes, I'm not gonna let my kid sleep with me in my bed. Yeah, because I want to be in my own bed and I wanna sleep. But if you're thinking about it from their perspective, what you really don't wanna do is you don't wanna have like a newborn baby in the bed, because that's where you roll over and you kill the baby. I mean, that happens, right? Some people don't know what's going on and stuff.

Yeah. But yeah, to me, it's't know what's going on and stuff. Yeah. But yeah, to me it's just like, it's more of a convenience thing, but the point that these like psychologists were making is that no, it's actually not, it doesn't necessarily mean that this kid's gonna have like attachment issues. We don't know that, but we don't have reason to think so.

And also, this is the way that many humans have slept together for many, many years. There was a family, still in many places in the world, there's like a family bed, there's a place, there's a room that everybody sleeps in. It's like a den of everybody sleeping together. So and I guess if you wanna, if you're mom and dad or mom and mom and dad and dad and you wanna have

a little hanky panky. Yeah, what about the hanky panky? I think you go to a different place. Go to the kid's room? They don't have a room. You go to the kitchen, I guess. While everybody's sleeping, you go to the living room. Like that couple that was having sex in the living room

we were talking about last time. Oh yeah, okay. Or a couple times ago, whenever that was having sex in the living room we were talking about last time. Oh yeah, okay. Or a couple times ago, whenever that was. Forrest, let me just, back to sleeping. For a science fair project in 1965, Randy Gardner set the world record by going 264 hours, roughly 11 days without sleep. Now first of all, I don't know who this,

I mean it wasn't more than a high school. I mean Randy Gardner, science fair, do people do science, in the 60s, were there like adults doing science fair projects? Because I don't know enough about this. But the 60s seems like the last decade in which like a eighth grader could be making this decision and everybody's like, well, Randy, you hear about Randy?

Yeah, the gardener boy, he's been up for nine days. You know, nobody's worried about whether he's gonna die. They're getting ready to do a parade. You know, in the 60s, it was like the last decade that you could really let Randy go 11 days without sleeping. Is he gonna die? We don't know if he's gonna die, but you know what? He's not gonna die.

He's doing this for the town. He's doing it for the blue ribbon. He's putting the school on the map. Randy Gardner. This resulted in significant, this is risescience.com, also not a sponsor. What happened? What happened to Randy Gardner? I would just say the web design on Rise Science

is better than Conversation Starters, my two cents. This resulted in significant declines in his concentration, motivation, perception, and higher level mental processes. All part of the experiment. A 2017 NPR interview with Gardner. Yes! Revealed signs of nausea on the third morning? That's a weird way to put that.

You mean this many years later, revealed signs of, you mean Randy told you that he was sick on the third day? Just a weird way to write it. On the third day of sleeplessness, Randy Gardner got a little nauseous. But I knew I needed to win. Most worryingly, he complained of memory loss, which he felt like an early Alzheimer's thing

brought on by lack of sleep. An early Alzheimer's thing? He's not a scientist, he's a kid who did a science project. In other words, the human body isn't made to withstand sleep deprivation to any degree. I did a science project where I was, you know, talk about the environmental thing

from the top of this conversation, where we buried toilet tissue, different types of toilet paper, and we saw the rate that it would biodegrade. Over the course of like a couple of months, like none of them biodegraded at all. It was kind of a short, short lived. So what did you conclude?

Don't bury your toilet paper. Hold on, Randy is still alive. Of course he is. He lives in San Diego. How's he doing now? How's his nausea? He's an American from Of course he is. He lives in San Diego. How's he doing now? How's his nausea? He's an American from San Diego, California. Okay, the record for the longest amount of time

a human has gone without sleep. In December 63. I don't think Guinness allows this record. They don't certify it anymore because it does harm. So I don't think they certify this type of record. 17 year old gardener stayed awake for 11 days because it does harm, you know? So I don't think they certify this type of record. 17-year-old gardener stayed awake for 11 days in 25 minutes, breaking the previous record

of 260 hours by Tom Rounds? I don't wanna hear about Tom. No. He's a loser. Oh, Tom. He's clicking on Tom. Wikipedia's trying to get me to donate. I'll do that on my own time, okay? Ooh, Tom Rounds was, means he's dead, he died in 2014,

was an American radio broadcasting executive, founder and chief executive officer of Radio Express in Burbank, California. Okay. These people who staying up for, hey man, we might be next on the list. These people who aren't sleeping are in California, Southern California, both of them.

Tom rounds and Randy Gardner. What about Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal? I think it would be a funny video for us to see how long we could stay up because it, but it only gets like, you only need to show the last hour, you know? Because like, you know that dozing off thing that you just do you like you've, that will be funny.

Yeah, I think we could do something with that. I mean, how long do you think you could stay up? Longer than you. Definitely longer. But like no caffeine, you can't have any substances to aid in your staying awake. It feels, it could be boring. I mean, this is what.

Yeah, it's edited. This is what Mr. Rounds did. Tom, while in Hawaii, he, hoping to gain publicity for his new position as a disc jockey, set the world record for sleeplessness. The period of 260 hours awake was attained while Rounds was sitting in a department store window. This is awesome.

Publicity stunt. Now I am remembering back in the burgeoning days of live streaming, Shay Carl and Charles Trippi, ever the innovators of the time, probably 2008, maybe 2007, they did a 24 seven broadcast of them staying awake. 24 hours? No, as long as they could go

to see who could go the longest between the two of them. Remember that? Because I watched some of it. Okay, I'm gonna look that up. I don't know who went longest. Charles Trippi, Shay Carl. We were down there in Lillington. Not sleeping.

It looks like there aren't many good matches for your search. I definitely remember this happening. It was like a Justin.tv, I mean Twitch didn't exist. Ustream type thing. I can't find how long they went, but. That's sad that it's not anywhere on the internet. Randy did eventually recover.

And according to news reports, Gardner's record has been broken a number of times. But there's no official certification of it. You know, I take it back. I don't wanna have anything to do with this. Sleep is way too precious for me. You know, it's just, it's like time travel. That's what I always say.

One minute, you're in one day, next minute, you're in the next day. That means you slept well though. If it feels like, if it feels like anesthesia. The Australian National Sleep Research Project, which is my favorite Australian National Sleep Research Project. Okay.

States the record for sleep deprivation is 18 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes, so that's another seven days. Wow. Almost another nine days. That is torture. I mean that is torture. It's not seven days. Wow. Almost another nine days. That is torture. I mean that is torture. It's not gonna happen to me. But sleeping, I mean.

I'm hoping it doesn't happen to me. I think that. I wanna lose my mustache. I think that the thing that I've been focusing on lately, and I do think that it has a lot to do with us getting these rings. And also before that, like when I would wear that, the reason I was wearing the Apple Watch and this

and it was kinda like, I got two smart things, well you're kinda still doing it. Yeah I'm doing two smart things. But I can only do one smart thing at a time. And, but it makes you more conscious of it and I have to, I'm the advocate for sleep in my home. This is where I think that I have a little bit more of some challenges built in because my impression

is that Christy will fall asleep before you sometimes. Yeah, I mean she's still in summer mode. She's staying up a little later now for some reason. What does she do in the summer? She has a mint julep at night? What happens, what do you mean? She just stays up later. For the summer.

For the summer, yeah. Because of the light. Because of the light? I think coming back from vacation and the kid's still out of school, she's still like kind of with the kids in terms of staying up later. But I'm not, I'm back working it.

My wife never goes to sleep before me. And I have to have these little like sessions where I'm like, hey, you know, can we try to go to bed before midnight? And she's like, you can go to bed whenever you want to. I'm like, yeah, but I'm a light sleeper. I can try to go to sleep before you do, but like you getting in the bed is gonna wake me up. Like, can we go to bed, we're gonna go to sleep before you do, but you getting into bed is gonna wake me up.

Like can we go to bed, we're gonna go to bed earlier. I'm making slow progress. But the other thing I was thinking about the other day was one of the, I follow a few different sort of like doctor accounts, like doctor influencers, like Rhonda Patrick and Andrew Huberman. Okay. Who I think they both have their own podcast but.

Who doesn't? They have podcasts where there's like legit information that is given, not just two guys with a laptop. And. Who are these two guys? They sound cool. But the one thing that she was saying the other day was, she does a thing on her Instagram where she will be like,

here's the latest study about this thing and I'm gonna summarize it and tell you what you need to know about this. Okay. And it was a study of six to 12 year olds and how basically six to 12 year olds need to get a minimum of nine hours of sleep, preferably nine to 12 hours. Wow. And if they don't get at of nine hours of sleep, preferably nine to 12 hours.

Wow. And if they don't get at least nine hours of sleep, this study shows that they end up with memory issues, attention deficit issues, impulse control issues, basically the things that you kind of think about when you think about teens. But some of these things may be diagnosable as well. And I was just thinking two things.

Number one, whoa, it's too late for my kids. You know, it's like. Too late for my kids. You know, because, like, it's very difficult to get Shepherd to have a sleep schedule. He won't go to bed on his own. You eventually, like, sometime during the pandemic, you know, eventually just kind of gave up on it.

We'd find, sometimes we'd go down in the middle of night, we'd find him like on the computer playing video games at like 3 a.m. and like, we would discipline him, we would change, you do all the things to try to stop it, but he hasn't gotten consistent sleep. Now that he's like a teenager, at least during the summer, he's sleeping late. So maybe he ends up getting, I don't know.

But the thing I was thinking in addition to, well it's too late for me and my kids was, we live in a really interesting time in which we've got all this information. We know so many things. There's so much, so many studies have been done. Still so much that we don't know. A lot more than we don't know that we do know.

But, like if I was, I feel like it would be different. It's different to be, like if we were the typical LA 44 year olds who were like, had a newborn. Just think about, at this stage, in this stage in my life. Oh my gosh. With this much more internet this stage in my life, with this much more internet having happened in my brain, and this much more access to information. You're talking about being a better parent?

I'm just talking, what I'm saying is I'm kinda glad. I'm kinda glad I'm almost done. Because I didn't know about stuff. I didn't know like, well, they should be doing this or they shouldn't be, I mean, there's things that we knew. We shouldn't, you know, we shouldn't have been giving our kids cigarettes like we were. Right. Right.

I mean, that was a mistake and I probably could have known that. No, but I'm talking about screen time and all this stuff. The lit in is on the outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, I have to figure that out. I don't know, it's a blessing and a curse, because what's done is done in one sense.

Hey, what's done is done, man. But if I was like, have I had a newborn right now? Oh gosh. All the stuff they try to sell. The world is so different too, and like there's COVID and there's, you know, these things that you gotta, well, my God, it's monkeypox, you know?

And then your kids can't be on screens and they gotta get nine to 12 hours of sleep and you gotta be taking these vitamins when you're pregnant. It's like, ignorant. And now they gotta put their like food waste in a different bucket. Yeah, our kids, they just threw the food waste out the different bucket. Yeah, our kids just threw the food waste out the car window.

You know what I'm saying? Just going down the highway, just throwing banana peels on the roadside. Now they gotta put it in a bin? I don't know, I think I'm glad my kids are, one's about to go off to college. We'll talk about that in an upcoming episode. That's right.

I don't know exactly when we're talking about that, but. After it happens, probably. He leaves very soon. So that you can tell us about it. He leaves very soon. All right. And Shepard, you know, he's coasting. He's coasting. Is this a high note or a low note?

I feel like we're ending on a low note. Steve Harvey still has his mustache. Listen, we're leaving it to you to end on a high note because you've got a wreck. Okay. Rec baby rec baby one two three four. I recommend that if you're at a loss for conversation. Oh gosh, you can't make ConversationStars.com.

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...is because you knew that you had a dumb idea. My wreck now is pudding. Fine. Oh. Eat more pudding. What flavor? Chocolate vanilla swirl. Okay. Alright. I can get down with that. But get it out of the recyclable thing and make it yourself.

Don't get the individual packs because that creates more waste. Don't forget, get your tickets to Good Mythical Evening at goodmythicalevening.com, a live ticketed event on September 1st. If you can handle it. Exclusively on Moment House. If you can handle it. And also, hashtag Ear Biscuits. Let us know what you think about the rabbit hole episodes.

I mean, we have fun when we come in here and go to ConversationStarter.com. And if you wanna weigh in, give us a little voicemail, 1-888- EarPod1. Bye. Hey Rhett and Link, this is Alex from Colorado, and I just finished listening to your podcast episode about your trip with your college guys.

And I have to say, your assessment on Colorado fashion is 100% correct. We are always dressed and ready for anything. The weather here is also very fickle, and it will change so quickly. So we have to be ready to adapt to the weather glad you had fun I hope you come back and check out more of what our beautiful state has to offer. Hi Rhett and Link I just watched the neighbor and roommate horror stories and when y'all were talking about the bush. I just absolutely loved Link being the night bush boy. I got a really good laugh this morning.

Thanks, guys. Hi, my name is Thomas and I'm nine years old. And what happens when a frog parks in an illegal parking spot? It gets towed.