Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - How Similar are Link and His Dad? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 391

Episode Date: August 28, 2023

Charles Neal is in the building! In this episode, Rhett and Link are joined by none other than Link’s dad himself. Rhett goes through a comprehensive list of Link’s dislikes to see if they came from Charles, or from Link just being, well… Link. Plus, they talk about their experience doing their father/son podcast together, as well as if being in LA has changed Rhett and Link at all. Check out Dispatches From Myrtle Beach! https://www.youtube.com/@DispatchesFromMyrtleBeach 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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What's up, Dad? Hey, how are you boys doing? We're good. We're doing good. We had to overcome some adversity to get to this point, but you're in an interesting episode. Well, I mean, listen, you know- I'm talking about the hurricane. There's a couple of things that coincided with you coming into town.

One, a hurricane. Yep. And two, an earthquake. Yep. I didn't have nothing to do with either one of them. Neither of those things is your fault? Well, I was told when I got here that I was bringing a hurricane. I shouldn't have done that.

Is that a euphemism or something? Yes, I guess. Yeah, and listen, right before we started this, and I knew this was going to happen, we showed up today. The power had just gone off. Tim and Ben were in here trying to figure out how to get this stuff running off of battery power. Jamie was setting up all the cameras. We were literally about to roll on a completely battery-powered episode of Ear Biscuits.

And then the lights came back on. Yeah, right before we start. Because, of course, the hurricane came through last night. Yes. And it was, you know, it was... I mean, it wasn't much. A tropical storm. I mean, I've seen heavier winds in North Myrtle Beach.

It's on a Friday. Oh, yeah. When it rains pretty hard down there. You were thoroughly bored by the whole thing. Yeah, there wasn't much to it. Okay, so you're in town. You're doing a number of things with us while you're in town. So I thought it would be a good idea to have y'all sit in on this podcast,

knowing that you have a podcast that you do together. Yes, we do. It's called Dispatches from Myrtle Beach, if you didn't know about it. I'm going to be asking you, I'm going to start with a little bit of an experiment. Maybe for my own research purposes. Okay. Charles, as you know, Link is regarded by many to be a man of particular tastes, right?

Yes. There's a long list of things that he does not like and a long list of things that he does like. Well, a shorter long list of things that he does like. and a long list of things that he does like. Well, a shorter long list of things that he does like. He's saying I'm queer, Dad. And you know what that means. Yes, I do. Yeah. We've been through all of that. So what I'm going to do is I actually, Link, you've probably seen this before. Weird with specific tastes. I like how you put it. I got specific tastes.

Let's just see how specific those tastes are, because I want to know if this is your fault. If it's genetic? Sue's fault, or just environmental. Okay? So Jenna, as I go through this, if you'll just kind of keep up with how many things track, how many things they have in common, okay? It's just going to be, I'm going to go through the list of the things that Link has been, on the record, he has stated that he does not like. Most of it's food. Some of it might be like situations.

I don't really know. I haven't even read through it. And I just want you to say, yes, I agree with that, or no, I don't agree with that. And if you want to elaborate, fine. Link, if you want to defend yourself, whatever you want to do. I don't feel like I need to defend myself. I mean, this doesn't feel like my podcast, this episode. It feels like I'm a guest, so the same rules don't apply, but I don't think I need to defend any of my stances I've taken.

That's right. Okay. Yeah, this isn't, I mean... Where did you get, you I've taken. That's right. Okay. Yeah, this is, I mean... Where did you get... You said you haven't read through this. Where did you get this from? This is the retinlink.fandom.com. And this is...

Which we have no affiliation to. But... And I don't even know how accurate it is, which you could verify the accuracy as we go through. Okay. And this is... So it's like a wiki for us. That site-wiki-link-neil. So this is all about you. Oh go through. Okay. And this is... So it's like a wiki for us. That site-wiki-link-neil.

So this is all about you. Oh, wow. Okay, and this is the What Link Neil Doesn't Like section. I got a whole section? In alphabetical order. Okay. Apples.

Well, I think he likes apples. No, but what do you think about it? He wants to know if you are like me. So he's asking... Oh, yeah, I like apples. Okay. I was like, you've been thinking a long time about whether you like apples. But here's the thing.

I also like apples. Boy, you've stated at some point... I might have talked a little smack about apples in my time. I've heard you talk smack about apples multiple times. I think apples are the most frustrating thing to eat when you're hungry, because they don't fill you up. You think they're going to, but they don't. So you don't like apples.

I don't like that about apples. Okay, there's something that you don't like about apples. Listen, this is just A. Arugula. I don't even know if I know what that is. Yeah, it's a type of lettuce. I know what it is. It's kind of bitter. You can put it on pizza, right? You can put it on anything you want to.

Put it on your face. You can do whatever you want to with arugula. You can put it on your face. You can't put it on your face. You can't, it's probably treatment for something. Yeah, treatment foriggle. You can't put it on your face. You can't put it on your face. You can't. It's probably treatment for something. Yeah, treatment for something. I mean, you don't even know what it is. All of a sudden, you're going to use it as a treatment.

You don't even know what it is. Do you like bitter lettuce? No. Okay, all right. Bitter lettuce. This one comes with a parenthetical explanation. Bananas, parentheses, hard for him to eat, close parentheses. Well, I don't like green bananas, but I don't like them when they're not, you know, overripe either.

But, you know, if you get them at the right time, I like bananas. Okay, a well-timed banana you do like. I actually like a green banana. I would rather go green versus brown. If you had to choose. Well, I'm not even going to try to eat a brown banana. I'm telling you that right now. So you're on the green side too.

No, I'm on the ripe side. If you had to choose. He chooses the window when bananas are supposed to be eaten. Of course. Okay, so I don't know about that. Jenna, just do your best. I don't love bananas. Blood.

And this is the thought of blood circulating, getting your blood taken, but also the taste of blood. Well, the way my skin is now and the way I bleed when I do things, sometimes I just take and lick it and just keep going. You lick your wounds like a dog? Oh, yeah.

Then it just quits and I just keep on working. Yeah, I've never seen this man lick his own wounds. I've seen him faint or get close to it. Matter of fact, right now I have have a wound that my liquor is wounded. Look at that. What happened? I bit my tongue last night. Oh, really?

You bit your tongue? Yeah, I saw it last night. I literally bit the tip of my tongue off. There's a piece of it that's now hanging, and I couldn't even sleep well last night because it was hurting so bad. Well, if you let it fall off, it would be less likely to bite it the next time because it'd be shorter. I was just eating spaghetti last night. You got

confused. What's a noodle and what's a tongue? And my tongue just did not get out of the way. But it's a good thing. The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body. That's right. At least he bit something that would heal right up.

No need to lick it. I'm afraid of how it's going to heal, though. You know, at least he bit something that would heal right up. Right, yeah. No need to lick it. I'm afraid of how it's going to heal, though. I mean, what's it look like? It ain't as bad as it was last time. It's pretty nasty. There's a scab on it. I prefer not to see it. Let's move on.

There's a scab on it. Have you ever bitten your tongue? Do you bite your tongue? Once in a while, yeah. Like once a month? Just about like... Yeah, he bites his tongue monthly. No, I don't.

I do. Once in a while, I'll bite it. Not probably twice a year or something. A biannual biting. Okay. That's probably still above average. I think this is a Neal thing. Twice a year?

Probably twice a year. I think that's normal. Oh, yeah? Monthly is too often. You need to see somebody about that. Okay. Tongue specialist. That's why Chris had told him to just eat too fast. I think he chews too many times. We could talk about that later.

Blue cheese. Oh lord, I hate blue cheese. Okay, alright! We got a winner! Oh lord, I hate blue cheese too. We got a winner. Boiled eggs. What? Especially after the first one. I hate blue cheese, too. We got a winner. Boiled eggs. What? Especially after the first one. That's what it says here.

No, I usually eat about two boiled eggs at a time, so, I mean, I like boiled eggs. Okay. Yeah, I'll eat one, and if it's got the right seasoning on it. And this is only a late development, like over the past year. But what? Yeah, because I would buy the peanut butter sandwich snack at Starbucks, and it would have a boiled egg in there. So I learned to eat that.

I ain't eating that, Rhett. What? A peanut butter sandwich with a boiled egg in it from Starbucks. Well, not in it, but on the side of it. Oh, okay. All right, I might the side of it. Oh, okay. All right, I might do that. Okay. Bologna.

Oh, I love bologna. Yeah, I knew you liked that. Fried bologna sandwich. Ooh, baby. Yeah. Butter beans. Yeah, I like butter beans. Mm-mm.

Yep, me too. There's three things that start with butter. Butter fingers. Oh, yeah, I like butter fingers. Yeah, me too. I don't like butter fingers. Butter scotch. Yeah, I like butterfingers. Yeah, me too. I don't like butterfingers. Butterscotch. Yeah, I like butter socks candy.

I don't like that. Okay, so where did this butter hatred come from? Well, I like butter. And none of the other things you mentioned have anything to do with actual butter. Well, butterscotch kind of has a buttery, like, butter flavored candy would be butterscotch. I don't like it. like butter flavored candy would be butterscotch. I don't like it. It's just a little too rich for my blood.

Cake. Oh, I like cake. You like cake better than pie? Probably tip for tap. If it's good cake and good pie, I like both of them. I like the way you think, Charles. I'm not gonna shove them to the side. It's refreshingly normal to hear someone say,

if it's good cake or good pie, I'm gonna eat both of them. That's the way I navigate the world. I'm gonna get a piece of both. The best cake is not as good as the average pie. It just feels like too much work to think about that. But let's... we're only on C. Cake. I mean, caviar. I have not ever eaten it, so I don't know. Black eggs. Fish eggs. I still ain't eaten it. Okay. With a clarification. This one just is a sentence. Quote, I don't love

celery. Let's add it to the list. Link. That's how this one got added to the list. I guess I knew there was a list at some point. Yeah, let's add it to the list. I don't love celery. Celery. I don't like it too good either, but I will eat it with a little of Nancy's pimento cheese on it. There you go. All right, okay. We got a track in there. Cherry flavored stuff.

I don't like cherries. Okay, all right. Now, hold on. I like cherries, but I don't like anyflavored stuff. I don't like cherries. Okay! Alright! Now hold on. I like cherries. But I don't like any cherry-flavored stuff. I don't like cherries. Period. What about cherry-flavored, like a cherry Coke? Uh, no. Mm!

See, see, he's... So cherry hate came from Charles. Let's say so, yeah. Yeah, but it got diluted, because you just don't like cherry flavored stuff, but you do like cherries. Mm-hmm. That means that Sue probably likes cherries. Yeah, that's gotta be how it works.

I mean, I'm not Gregor Mendel or anything. What about watermelon versus watermelon flavored stuff? That's not on the list. Just watermelon. I don't like... No, I just Just watermelon. I don't like... No, I just like watermelon. I don't like watermelon flavored stuff. Oh, actually, it is on the list. Watermelon flavored things.

Yep, there it is. Guys, we got to go faster. Okay. This is going to take forever. I want to talk about something else. Cheez-Its. No. Chocolate chips in chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

I don't like chocolate chips. Why? I'm not much of a chocolate person anyway. Okay. You know, I'm a peanut butter cookie man. Okay, all right. Ha-ha, there we go. That tracks.

Coconut. Oh, I like coconut. Yeah, because the coconut cream. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we had that for your favorite foods. Yeah. Cooked mushrooms as opposed to raw. I like both of them.

Mm-hmm. Cooked sweet potatoes. Oh, I like cooked sweet potatoes. Cotton candy. No. Okay. Good, Dad. Crab.

Yeah, I like crab. I like crab, too. Well, you must have said you didn't like it at some point. Take that off the list. I can Good, Dad. Crab. Yeah, I like crab. I like crab, too. Well, you must have said you didn't like it at some point. Take that off the list. I can't edit it. Take crab off the list, people. Cream soda. No.

No. Cucumber. Oh, yes. Nope. Mickey Burke. Dirty martinis. Well, I hadn't ever drank one, but I'd... You like a clean martini?

I don't even know what... I mean, it's just basically gin and some other stuff in it. It's an oily beverage. No, I'm just a gin and tonic man. I don't like that. All right, and Link likes the gin and tonic. I do. Dr. Pepper.

I like Dr. Pepper. Nope. There we go. All right. Medicine. likes the gin and tonic. I do. Dr. Pepper. I like Dr. Pepper. Nope. There we go. It's bad. Medicine. Duck. Had never eaten it. Really?

Mm-mm. Had never tried it. Have you been avoiding it? I just had never ordered it, so maybe I need to do that. Okay, we'll rectify that. Just because he's asking you doesn't mean you have to change anything. We'll get you some duck. That's the real thesis here.

No one needs to change anything. Duck is my wife's favorite meat. Like, I don't, you know, I'm not a huge fan of it. It's the other dark meat. But if you really like dark meat, then it can be like an even darker meat. Are you a white meat man or a dark meat man? Dark meat chicken. See?

You might like duck. Eggnog. No. Okay. Eggs Benedict. Yes. Oh, yeah? You've like duck. Eggnog. No. Okay. Eggs Benedict. Yes. Oh, yeah? You've had that? Yeah.

Egg drop soup. No. Folgers coffee. Hey, it's coffee. Instant coffee. Frosting. Yeah, I like frosting. Okay.

Fruit punch. That's such a dumb look. No. You don't like fruit punch? No. It's not great. Fruity flavored ice creams. No.

What about like peach ice cream? Oh, no. I was thinking more like them little fruit things you see they put on ice cream. But, yeah, now, I like fruit ice cream. Like a peach ice cream? Yeah, as much peach and strawberry ice cream homemade that we make. Yeah, I like that. That did change, though, because you did agree with me that peach ice cream was the best Tillamook flavor.

Yep. Yep, that was a surprise. So maybe the list needs to be updated. Link does like fruit-flavored ice creams. I don't prefer it. Gatorade, orange and red. Quote, more of a lemon-lime man, is what Link said about himself. I like the red.

Okay, he doesn't like the red. I don't like the red. Ginger. No. Grapefruit. No. I like grapefruit. Update the list, people.

He likes grapefruit. See, there's a few things Update a list, people. He likes grapefruit. See, there's a few things here that I like he doesn't. Hard candy. No. Ha. See? What do you not like about hard candy? Because you're scratching a lot of things off the list there.

I just, and mostly, I don't like peppermint. A lot of candy is peppermint and stuff with peppermint in it and all that. You know how when the hard candy wallows around in your mouth and it hits your teeth and makes that sound? I don't like that. Yeah, I don't like that either. Hot dogs with the twisty thing at the top. Ones that turn at the end. Like a knot at the end of the hot dog?

Like the real sausage casing. Hell, I like hot dogs. I don't care how they are. Yeah, again, there's a lot of thought that goes into these preferences that I just choose to use my brain for other things. Ice cream sandwiches. Yes. They're all right. They're okay. I mean, you gotta watch out what you say, because people are getting vibes. I think sometimes you might even be just describing something you don't like

about something. Yeah. And then people end up thinking that you don't like it. Oh yeah, there's plenty I don't like about it. Key lime pie. Oh, I like key lime pie. Oh, that's my favorite dessert. It's just not the pie I would choose.

Lemon flavored stuff. No. Nope. Okay. That's right, Dad. Licorice. No. No. Okay, all right. That's right, Dad. Lima beans, which I think, I mean, those are kind of butter beans. We've already been there. They're just a lot bigger. Liver. Yes, I ate liver. Oh, this is the only thing on the list that I don't like. And I usually like it if you cook it with some onions in with it. It always smells great, and I get excited about it, and then I taste it, and I can't get it down. Something's not right about it.

M&M's. M&M's? Yeah. Oh yeah, I like M&M's. Yeah, right. Who doesn't like M&M's? I don't really like M&M's, though. Marshmallows, except in a s'more. Yes, to that. I don't really like M&M's. Marshmallows, except in a s'more.

Yes to that. Yes to that? I don't eat marshmallows unless I'm eating them in a s'more. That's right. See? There you go. Minestrone soup. No.

Mint chocolate chip ice cream. No. Because you don't like mint. There you go. See? The mint feels genetic because peppermint and mint, cherries and mint dislike feels genetic, for those people taking notes. Mole, like the dark sauce on Mexican food sometimes. No.

You've never had it. I never had it. No. You've never had it. Just say you've never had it. This is not a flavor preference. I think it's a scent preference. Most... Oh, no. I thought it said most candles in general, but it says most candies in general. Somebody...

You can't just add that to the list, person, who adds things to the list. Most candies in general. Okay. That's true, though. Seaweed. No. Okay.

Nuts in chocolate stuff. Yes. You do like them. Yeah. If you make brownies and put nuts in them, I will eat a brownie. I do. Okay. To get a good brownie.

Some chocolate stuff I don't like, but I like brownies. Keep it mushy. Don't add the crunchy. Olives. No. Okay. Yes, Dad I like brownies. Keep it mushy. Don't add the crunchy. Olives. No. Okay. Yes, Dad. You're right.

All right. Oreos. Not the chocolate ones. I like the new ones. It's the cream. You like the blonde ones? Yeah. Oh.

Mm-hmm. What do you think about the blonde ones? I probably don't like those either. I like the brunettes and the blondes. It's just not worth it. Oysters. Oh, yeah. You can't be from Myrtle Beach and not like oysters.

Or North Carolina. Pepperoni. No. Oh. I don't like pepperoni. I like pepperoni. So what do you get on a pizza? Well, I can eat it on a pizza, but I just don't.

What's your favorite pizza order? Like an extravaganza one with all kinds of vegetables. Extravaganza? Yeah. Like a Supreme. Yeah. Extravaganza is not a Supreme. Now, I don't know the difference, but...

They sound similar. Yeah. I mean, one place is the name of one thing. Yeah, right. I mean, I guarantee you somewhere out there, there's a pizza place that's called Extravaganza, and then it's just really supreme. Uh, pretzels. No.

There you go, Dad. They're burnt, right? They taste burnt. I don't know what they taste like, because I ain't eat them but several times. It's like a twig. I don't like them. Just because you tie a twig in a knot doesn't mean you need to eat it. Okay. All right.

Strong preference there. Red kidney beans. Yes. Eat them in chili. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to have too many.

Not mine to say. They make a chili. Yeah. I mean, in my mind. Root beer. No. Okay. No.

All right. So you like Dr. Pepper, you don't like root Root beer? No. Okay. No. All right. So you like Dr. Pepper, you don't like root beer? Mm-mm. Hmm. Okay. It's inconsistent there. You need to not like all of them. Runny eggs?

Oh, yeah. Well, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rum? I can live with it and live without it. Link liked rum a lot at one point, but there was an incident in a bathtub at the house that he was living at right when they got married where he got into the bathtub with a bottle of Malibu rum. When I got out, there was no more rum, and I did not feel great.

Well, that's probably, you know. It broke me. Malibu's kind of sweet. Yeah. That broke me. Malibu's kind of sweet. Yeah. And you're supposed to just mix it, not drink it by itself.

You're supposed to put it with some of that fruit punch you were talking about a while ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not supposed to get warm in a hot bath and just drink a big bottle of rum. No. I liked it too much. Probably ain't a good idea to get in the bathtub and drink a big bottle of anything. Right, except maybe just water or Gatorade. I wasn't taking a blow dryer into the tub, Dad. I mean.

Saffron. I don't know if I know what it is. It's a sweet. Really? No, it's like a particular spice that is usually in a paella is where I've had it. No. If it's too much of it, even I don't like it, but a little bit's good.

It's like gold shards. Samoas. Is that a type of Girl Scout cookie? Yeah. That's the one with the coconuts, I think. Yeah. So you probably like them. Yeah, probably like them.

Skittles. I like, no, no, I ain't too crazy about Skittles. Me neither. Okay. It's pointless. Smoked Gouda if it's really smoked. Well, Gouda's a kind of cheese, ain't it? Yeah.

No. Okay, okay, okay. Cheese hate runs pretty deep in this lineage because your dad. Oh, no. My dad. He hated cheese. Yeah, in general. He would talk so much crap about cheese.

But it had something to do with milking cows. Oh, yeah. It was from having to. His front was from. He didn't like it because he had to go out and milk cows all the time. And that was hard work. And then you had to churn it into churn. I think he had to do part of that too to get it to make butter and get the cheese.

Because he didn't eat butter either. Really? Okay. He's anti-cow work. He doesn't like dairy in general. No, he did not. Okay. Spamish meats.

No. Okay. Spamish meats. No. Okay. What about vain sausages? Well, I used to eat them when I was growing up, but I still ain't too crazy about them. Okay. Good. Yeah, yeah. Sriracha sauce.

It's that rooster sauce. Yeah. I like it. Yep. I don't like it. Steak. We know you like steak. Oh, yeah. That was one of your favorite foods, I like it. Yep. I don't like it. Steak. We know you like steak. Oh, yeah.

That was one of your favorite foods, wasn't it? Yeah. What do you not like about steak? Can you state it for the record? Maybe we can add this to the list. It's too meat slabby. It's like a big slab of meat. Yeah, yeah.

You mean a steak? I don't. It's too meat slabby. I don't love that. You like your meat to be mixed into other things? Yeah, I like it to be processed, but not too processed. But, Rhett, he needs to just get a good filet mignon that's about like that and about that thick.

It's like you've just grabbed part of a cow, yanked it out, and just put it on a plate. Well, yeah, that's kind of what meat is. Yeah, any kind of meat. Part of an animal that was grabbed and put on a plate. There's other things that happen between there and here. That's right. And it's not great for you anyway, so it's a win-win.

Sushi. No. Okay. Well, let me clarify. I have never tried it, so maybe I shouldn't answer that. You don't like the idea of it. Yeah. But let me clarify. I have never tried it, so maybe I shouldn't answer that. You don't like the idea of it. Yeah. But you like oysters.

Oh, yeah. And you'll do them on the half shell? Oh, yeah. Hey, I do them before they're cooked, anything. Okay. All right. So you probably would like it. Maybe you could do sushi there.

Okay. Alone. Tea. Yeah, I like tea. Is this true? I don't love tea, no. Thick burgers. If you're going to get a thick burger or a thin burger, which one are you going to choose?

I can eat both, so, I mean. I can eat both, but what do you prefer? But you don't have to... I really don't prefer. I mean, I don't... If it's a thick one, it can't be just raw in the middle. Right. But if it's cooked to where it's still pink, I don't mind.

Okay, there's an interesting dynamic that I see developing here. And it's interesting because what I've noticed about Link's brain is he sees a category of something and he automatically puts it into a spectrum or a binary, right? Burgers, thick, thin. Specifics, man. And then he decides that he likes one

and that necessarily means he kind of doesn't like the other end of the spectrum. Oh, yeah. I'm like you. I'm like, okay, if you pin me down, maybe I'd come up with a preference. one and that necessarily means he kind of doesn't like the other end of the spectrum oh yeah i'm like you i'm like okay if you if you pin me down maybe i'd come up with a preference but like if you give me a thick burger i'm not thinking i wish this wasn't a thick burger because what it is in front of me right now is a thick burger and i enjoy burgers seems like you and you approach your life in that way sometimes i think which you're eating a burger and it's thin,

it don't have as much taste to it as that thick burger with still some of the juices and stuff in it. I think it does. I think it has more taste. There's just things to enjoy about both thick and thin. Oh, yeah. I think I'm on Link's side here that thin is better because of surface area. But so in his defense, I think he's on the right side of the spectrum,

but he shouldn't just pick one side of the spectrum, because he's ruling out a whole side of the spectrum that he could enjoy. I can eat a thick burger. But you're not going to have a good time doing it. I'm going to wish it was a thin Burmese burger. That's going to take a lot of your energy in that moment, is not liking it. Let's move on. Thin Mints.

So we got thick burgers and thin mints. Another Girl Scout cookie. You don't like mints, so you don't like it. Tomatoes. Yes. Do you like a tomato sandwich like a good Southern man should? What's so good about it, Dad? I don't get it.

It's like a watery, it's like if you run water through some sort of, I don't know, fruit device, then it makes everything nasty about the water, and then there's like seeds. It's just like gross tasting water in a fruit. What? Well, it took a long time for you to say and not mean nothing about a good tomato sandwich. Tomatoes suck, man. No, I love it. They're gross.

And I grow them. So, and I look forward to getting the first one of the year and getting a good slab of it and put some deep mayonnaise on that white bread and get on that with some salt and pepper. Salt and pepper. And just get with it. Oh, man, that's such a good thing. And you know, they're the only thing that tastes like that. Oh, yeah.

You know, there's nothing else that tastes like a tomato. A tomato is its own thing. Well, I must have done something special because I got a son that don't like tomatoes, and I got a daughter, Lauren, that would just pluck them off the vine and eat them and still will till the day. So I got two kids that one loves them and one don't. You never know how the genes are going to— I mean, my mom likes tomatoes, too, so it ain't that. It's environmental.

Tuna. Yes. Yeah. Turkey. Yes. I don't know. I'm more of a ham man. Yeah.

But... If there's ham there and turkey there, which one are you going to choose? Turkey. I don't like ham. Oh, shoot! This is a big development. You don't like ham. You know, he's a ham man. I know. You don't even like ham. Oh, shoot. This is a big development. You don't like ham. You know, he's a ham man.

I know. You don't even like ham? He's known for overcooking them, but he's really known for liking them. Well, it's kind of like when my sister and her, Dan and her, got married. Not maybe every Sunday, but every other Sunday, my mama cooked the ham for lunch, for Sunday lunch, and everybody come and eat. After about five years, Dan told my sister, told Troy, said, would you please tell your mama I don't like ham?

It takes about five years to work up the ham courage. And that may be why I don't like it so much because, I mean, she's just. You got hammed out. Yeah. Okay. See, I respect that. I respect your decision. That's a pretty big deal.

I mean, have y'all had Thanksgiving together recently? We're planning on it this year. I'm trying to get in and make ribs. Okay. Hey, it's a win-win. We don't have to have this argument. Yeah, okay. We ain't going to argue.

He ain't got to eat no turkey. I don't care. It's more for me. Right. Okay, yeah. What do you think about ribs, though? Are you? Oh, yeah, we're going to go for the ribs.

Okay, you're open to actually. Thanksgiving ribs. That sounds good to me. You can come. Wasabi. Wasabi. That's the green stuff that comes with sushi. So if you're not a sushi person, you probably haven't had it.

Probably no. I haven't had it. I don't know. Well, you need to have it. A lot of it. We've already covered watermelon. We're in the W's. We're almost done.

Watermelon flavored things. Like watermelon flavored candy. I like. No, I don't like watermelon flavored. Yeah, that's right. Werther's Original. Hard candy, which kind of falls under all hard candy, which we've been there. But I have eaten Werther's Original kind of to help my throat, kind of liked it.

But it's causing some of them had some butterscotch in it. Yeah, there's a crossover between butterscotch and Werther's. And then finally, Worcestershire sauce. No. Nope. Thathire sauce. No. Nope. That's right. Okay. It's strange.

But I use it in a lot of stuff, but I just don't put it on something. It seems like it's something that should go on the wound of a horse or something. You could probably treat a wound with it. Yeah. It's probably better than nothing. It may have something in it like turpentine. You're right. It won't better than nothing. It may have something in it like turpentine. You're right. It won't make your horse worse.

Okay, so Jenna, just rough back of the napkin math. How are we looking percentage-wise here on how they line up? Percentages, I don't know, but we got 34 you lined up on as things you don't. There you go. Yeah, you got 34 things. That's pretty good. You can do the math at home. I don't know how.

And I'm not going to go through the list of things that he likes, even though it is significantly shorter. We're going to move on. Because the Skip app saves you so much time by delivering stuff like your favorite cool treats, groceries, and bevies, you get to spend the summer doing what you really want, like successfully cutting your jeans into jorts. Yes! Shipping the kids off to summer camp. Yes! Or winning the annual Schellenberg family water balloon fight.

Yes! Suck it, Aunt Susan. Yep, definitely the best summer ever. Squeeze more summer out of summer with Skip. Did somebody say Skip? out of summer with Skip. Did somebody say Skip? Okay, so we have established that there are some environmental factors

that have contributed to Link's preferences. But, you know, he's been in Los Angeles for 12 years now? 12 and a half years? Yeah. Do you think that L.A. has made him weirder? Twelve and a half years? Yeah.

Do you think that L.A. has made him weirder? I think it's made both of you different. That's right. He's got to pull red into this, too. Okay. I'll take it. But, I mean, you know, people ask me all the time that I get and tell them about y'all's show and get on it, and I say, now listen, they live in a different world out there,

and they're kind of different than they were when they left North Carolina, but I think they've done well, and I'm proud of them. What do you mean different? How do you mean different? When you think about that we're different, what you talking about? Well, you got different point of views about different stuff, and I ain't bringing all that up. Okay.

We get started on that, this ear biscuit thing will last till in the morning. Okay. Yeah, that's a different, that could be a whole series. You guys could talk about that on your podcast. But I mean, you know. You talking religion, politics.

That. Social justice, you know. I'm sorry. Not just that, but, I mean, I think you've changed the way, because of what y'all do, how y'all look at stuff and what comes out of y'all's brain sometimes and all these people that work for y'all look at stuff and what and what comes out of y'all's brain sometime and all these people that work for y'all i mean it's kind of amazing to me what y'all do and where it comes from

sometimes well that's something i noticed and i talked to link about is that we um you know you show up to do something with us whether it's the podcast or whether it's like Mythicon or it's the time that you're here. We get you to do so many crazy things. And you're just willing to do it. You sign up for everything. So when you think about this world, this mythical world that you step into from time to time,

because when I was telling Link, I was like, he's, you know, because I was telling Link, I was like, he's, you know, I was like, Link, you're not as compliant as you're, when we ask you to do things, like you got a lot of questions, but Link starts with a lot of questions. He wants to know exactly what he's getting himself into. We tell you, hey, put this hat on and say that your name is Chaz and that you're 22 years old or whatever we did for that episode that'll come out at some point.

And you're like, okay. So what is your thought process when we just ask you to do something? Like we made you into an alien with four arms in Mythicon. And I don't think we told you until you had already landed. You were in Austin before we told you what you were doing. Well, there's been a lot of that. Yeah, right. I mean, I don't think they tell me because they know that they just wait and it's just a spur of the moment thing that I'll go ahead and do it. If they tell me in advance, I ain't going to show up.

I'll go ahead and do it. If they tell me in advance, I ain't going to show up. You feel manipulated? I don't want you to feel manipulated, Dad. Well, how else would you feel? Okay, we'll start telling you ahead of time. No, I kind of, but no. I mean, I think sometimes the spontaneous stuff is what people like to see from me, I guess. That's right.

Because they see it from y'all all the time. Yeah, there's no need to overthink it. Just go with it. Hey, if y'all asked me to do something that I didn't want to do, I would say no. You would just say no. Yeah, I'd say no. But in general, you're trusting the process. Yeah.

It's working out very well. I mean. It's working out very well. I mean. It's fun. I mean, I enjoy doing our podcast, and I like coming in here with y'all. I mean, you can't hurt my feelings. I'm too old to get my feelings hurt. Right. You just kind of go along with a lot of it. And there's an interesting dynamic, right?

And there's an interesting dynamic, right? So the first time that y'all worked together, you were in charge because when Link started working for you, when he was raising support and he was painting, and now the dynamic has shifted a little bit where you're stepping into his world. So let's talk about that different dynamic. Like how did you – because the stories that Link tells about working for you is that you – he was like, no, he was particular about how he wanted something done on a job site. Oh, yeah. In a way that it is a completely different thing

when you're stepping into our world. So tell me about that, about how you approach what you do versus what you do when you come and work for us. Well, that's a different thing for me because I've worked for myself all my life, whether it was farming and then getting into the painting business and remodeling and stuff. So, you know, when you get into that, but it kind of came to reality when one day I got a letter in the mail at the house from Good Mythical Morning, and I opened it up, and it said this was from, I guess,

it's kind of from both of y'all, that I had to sign something on the bottom, you know, that I was representing y'all and working for y'all. And then I thought to myself, you know, if I sign this, I ain't got no say-so about what I'm going to do anyway. Yeah, you had to sign your life away to it. So, well, I don't know about that. Did you read it? You're talking about the release form that you had to sign your life away to it. Well, I don't know about that. Did you read it? You're talking about the release form that you had to sign.

Yeah, so I signed it and sent it on back. Permission to put you on camera. Yeah, and all that stuff. But, you know, it's— You said that I was your boss. That's what I said. I told someone, I said, well, it's kind of ironic. I was his boss for all them years.

Now Link's going to be my boss, and I'm going to have to do what he says, which it ain't been too bad. I mean, he don't – and Rhett don't get involved much with it, so it leaves us alone. That's right. I figure y'all can handle this. He's a looming figure. And I'm not really much of a boss.

Who's the real boss? If you were to say who's really in charge of your interactions here? Me. Oh, really? Okay, I thought you were going to say Logan. Well, Logan helps me with my interactions, but I'm pretty in charge of my interactions. Well, that is the thing.

I mean, the thing I said when we started Dispatches from Myrtle Beach, I was like, all right, Dad, this is your show. I'm just along for the ride. But, I mean, when you do your day job, would you call yourself a perfectionist? Yes, people would tell you that. But then when you're in our world, you seem to be a lot more easygoing. Like you just kind of go along with it. Do you think you're a perfectionist when it comes to this stuff?

Well, I think when you do what I do, you should know what you're doing. You got to know what you're doing to do it. When we're taping dispatches and doing stuff, it's just stuff that's kind of when people send in questions and I don't read them before, it's just something that comes off, my answers come off the top of my head and it's just more like a natural thing to kind of let things flow

and that you really don't have to worry whether it's right or wrong. It's a way to try and just react, interact with the people that are sending you stuff in and everything. It's sort of art versus science. When you're painting something or you're doing sheetrock or tile or whatever, there may be an art side to it, but if you don't mix the grout right, there's a mechanical problem. What's the worst thing that could happen with dispatches?

That people just quit watching it. Right, because it's not for them. Yeah. What's the worst thing that could happen in your day job? I call it his day job because he's moonlighting as a personality. Ask me that question again. What's the worst thing that can happen with your day job? I'd just go on and get another job.

I mean, if somebody – I've had people – Well, you could fall off a ladder and die. Well, damn, I've been doing it for 40 years and ain't done that yet. Okay. And I fell 40 foot one time, so, I mean... Really? Yeah. How did that happen? Uh, it

was... I was doing something I ought not have been doing. What do you mean? I propped a 40 foot ladder up against a house, and it was a new construction, and it was up and down, so I put a cinder block up on the one side of the ladder. When I got up at the top of the ladder, the cinder block tilted. The ladder fell over, and I had to hold the ladder on this side and the window on this side.

Oh. How long were you there, hours? Oh, no. Hell, I couldn't hold on this side. Oh. How long were you there, hours? Oh, no. Hell, I couldn't hold on that long. And I tried to find a spot to jump off and get into, so I pushed the ladder. The paint bucket went through the window inside the house, and I went to the ground.

Oh. Did you slide down the house like a – No. I jumped back from the ladder and landed in the, and it was wet enough and mud that it wasn't so hard. And I kind of hit the ground, tumbled and rolled. Wow. You didn't break anything?

No, got up, put the ladder back after I went in and we got, the boys went in and cleaned all the paint up inside the house. Put the ladder back up on the house and said, this ladder ain't going to whip me, and went back up there and painted what I was going to paint. Whoa! And when you went back up there, is that when you got struck by lightning? Oh, no, that was a long time after that.

But, Rhett, when I got up there and I got through with what I was painting up there, I noticed my legs were shaking. Like, you don't need to be up here right now. And I finally told myself, said, you ain't real confident in yourself right now. So I got down off the ladder. Went and got one of the guys working for me. We put the ladder down, put everything on the van,

and I said, boys, we going home. I carried them all home. Yeah, I was about to say. You were shook up, but it was more in your legs. Well, I mean. When you fall 40 feet, I think you can take the rest of the day off. I mean, I think that's the least that you can do. Right.

I mean, going to the hospital is also one option. Yeah. But you didn't need to do that. Oh, I was all right. What's the dumbest thing that Link ever did when he was working for you? And if you need time to narrow it down. Probably asking me. I don't know if this is the dumbest, but I put him in a job hoping that it would convince him that he needed to get a good education. And put him in a little hole somewhere up, and it was hot.

And I'd check on him once in a while. But he finally just— Painted in a hole. Well, it was in a little bathroom in a nook thing. And he come down and says, I just, I ain't doing this no more. It's too hot. You had always put me in the crappiest places. Oh, yeah.

And you were doing that. That was a strategy. Oh, yeah. You were like, I don't want you to be doing this. Well, I wanted him to figure out that if he wanted to come aboard and one day be a part of my business, that this is what it took to do it. Because, I mean, I had done it before. I never put him in a situation that I hadn't been in. But I also wanted him to see that if he got an education, he wouldn't have to work like I did.

Right. education, he wouldn't have to work like I did. Right. Well, speaking of that, he's made some pretty, well, together, we've made some pretty unconventional choices, career choices, right? I'm telling you. So when he got his engineering degree and started working as an engineer, what were you thinking at the time? Oh, man, he's made it, got out of school, got a good job,

was making good money. I mean, I knew he could look after his family and kind of do what he wanted to. So, you know, I was proud of him. And then what did you think when not too long after that he said, I'm going to be doing a different kind of job, which involves me going around and asking people for money. Well, I didn't have – you know, I was probably – I don't know if I was the only one, but family that didn't object to that. Because, I mean, if you work for yourself, you have to ask people for money and tell them how much something costs.

That's true. And if you're trying to do something like y'all did then and asking them for money, it's kind of letting them trust enough in you that that's what you needed help with and how you were going to get paid. Okay. I didn't have a problem with it. There was some people, you know, my mom and daddy, my daddy especially, mama too, but daddy, you know, he was from the same cloth,

probably grew up like your mom and daddy. You work for a living. You get a paycheck. And you don't have to rely on anybody else except for where you're working at. So, you know, I didn't have much of a problem with it. And then after that period of time, then when he said, me and Red are going to do this internet thing. Like, what were you thinking at the time when you heard that?

This is probably, you know, back in like when we first started, like 2007. Yeah. Well, I was still one of the probably the only ones in the family that didn't have a problem because it's kind of like y'all were going out and doing something together, but you were working for yourself. were going out and doing something together, but you were working for yourself. If you work for yourself, you got to pay your dues and do what you do and just keep going. And I always had the thing in the back of my head for both of you.

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And you had done a lot of, like, figuring out what it is you wanted to go for. And even if people didn't agree, you know, at some point you just can't do what other people want you to do. You've got to do what you want to do for yourself. And I think you did a lot of that, right? Yeah, I did that because, I mean, I had a job one time. If I'd have stayed there, I could have been retired from that job working at the prison department. I had about seven years in it, and I just quit and give it up to go to work somewhere else, but you do something full-time for myself

because, I mean, I had farmed and worked for myself, and sometimes when you work for yourself like y'all, you have to figure out what you want to do to be happy. It's kind of like what I've said on dispatches. You know, people have wrote in and asked me questions about what should I do, and I said, well, the first thing is find something that every time you get up in the morning, you want to be glad that you're going to work and that you enjoy it, and if you can make a living at it,

then that's what you need to be doing. Don't worry about what somebody else tells you. That's good advice. That's good advice. We've been following it for a long time. You heard about us in the Lillington basement. We were doing our thing, and then Nan and Papa came around to it because they started coming over and watching our live show, you know?

Yeah. Papa would fall asleep during the live broadcast. Right. So to the point where we started putting a second camera on him just to show that he was there but asleep. Well, it's kind of like that nap thing you did the other day and when you get old, you can take a nap most anywhere. Yeah, I don't think – yeah, I think he was happy that we were succeeding

on some level, but he wasn't particularly interested in the content himself, which is fine. He doesn't like cheese either, so we can't trust his opinion. So do you think doing the podcast together, you know, because obviously y'all had interactions growing up, but because Link lived with Sue for most of his adolescence and stuff, you know, your interactions were limited. Then obviously you worked together when he was painting for you. But do you think that the podcast,

are y'all as close as you've ever been because of the podcast? Probably closer. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I have learned something from him that, like, one day I used to call him on, like, he brought, we did this on the podcast, and he said, Dad calls me and I'd say, you need to call him like he brought me. We did this on the podcast. He said, Dad calls me, and I'd say, you need to call me right now.

You would text me that. I'd text him that like it's an emergency. I need you to call me. Yeah, and like it was an emergency, really more than an emergency. It's just somehow trying to – because you can't get him on the telephone, so you might as well text him. That's true. Which I can understand. I understand that more now, too, than before because of y'all's schedules and stuff.

But it's a, you know, so I have learned something about him that kind of pushed some buttons, and then maybe I don't need to be, you know, well, you know, throw a little bit of turmoil in your day. So, you know, I've learned to kind of let back and just be at more ease about what I ask him. So now when you want to talk to me, what do you text? That's not, I need you to call me. Well, if I text him and ask him, I just say, if you got time, how about give me a call?

See, he learned something on the podcast. Not to alarm me so much. Versus call me when you can in all caps. You don't do that anymore. I need you to call me. That's what he was saying. But, I mean, yeah, I feel like we've talked about a lot of stuff on the podcast. You know, it's just like that doesn't come up in – sometimes conversation is hard.

You know, when you're hanging out with family, especially when you don't live in the same place and then you're like – you get on the phone and it's just about catching up. All right, which of your friends is in the hospital? Yeah. How are you feeling? How's Nancy doing? What y'all been up to? And then you're talking about the weather, and then it's kind of like, all right,

and now we're at the end of our conversation. Right. You know, I didn't know how starting the podcast, what it was going to be like at all, you know? The fact that because we had a format and you were getting all these emails, it gave us other things to talk about. Oh, yeah. And sometimes, you know, I think it injected a lot of – it opened up a whole new world of stuff we could talk about.

I feel like I learned just as much about you. Like, I didn't know that you'd been struck by lightning. I mean, I didn't notice you fell 40 feet off a ladder until just now. Yeah, these are two pretty big details that you would think you know about somebody. It's got a lot of details. You know, it's just not the time. When you get on the phone with your parents, you're like, hey, Dad, tell me the last time, tell me the biggest injury you've ever had on your job.

You know, it's just kind of like, I think it would be a good practice to connect with family members or something like that to ask good, open-ended questions. But it's just not the... It just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen, you know? It's like when you're talking to your family. And even when I would text them to call me, I'm not going to get on the phone and talk to you for 30 minutes.

No. That ain't going to happen. Right. I don't understand how people do it and won't ever be there. I mean, if it's bad enough that I need to talk to you for more than five or ten minutes, I'm probably going to get on a plane and fly out here and talk to you. I mean, I'm not going to try to do it. And even with this FaceTime stuff that you could, you know, make it where you can say, that problem, I mean, if I need to talk to somebody,

I mean, if I need to talk to somebody at home and I really want to have a conversation with them, I don't do it on the phone. Right. I go see them. Mm-hmm. Because I'm going to see how to react because I can be pretty upfront how I feel and tell you about how I feel about something. You're saying sometimes the way you say things maybe rubs people the wrong way. Hell, I don't hurt somebody's feelings.

Oh, okay. Me too, man. But, I mean. That's a big, very direct. And I've been told that by Nancy that I need to calm down a little bit about that. And I try to do better, but, I mean, people that's known me all my life will tell you. That's one of the things they'll tell you about me.

You are going to know how I feel about something, whether you like it or not. That runs in the family. So that's just the way it is. So I'll get – he did get a little bit of some kind of traits from me. Well, he got a number of traits, anyone who's watching. Okay, so those are some things that you've learned about each other. What have you learned about yourself in doing the podcast together? Both of you can answer this question.

Well, I have learned that there's a lot of things I don't know anything about that maybe I ought to be trying to learn some more things about some of the questions and stuff. But then you kind of have to, because we've had some people ask some pretty serious questions about life, and they ask me my opinion. And when they ask me that, I kind of step back a little bit and say, all right, mate, you just can't tell them what you do with somebody that you know you try to give them a good answer, but one that they got some options with.

Right. And stuff. That's one of the things I have. Because, I mean, we've had some questions on dispatches that people ask me for advice for, and I give them advice. But I try to articulate to them a little bit more what they need to do than me just, if they were one of my friends, and I'd go in and tell them something, this is what you need to do, or this is what I think you need to do. You package it a little bit more carefully. Yeah, because they write back sometimes.

This is what happened when I applied your advice. Did you ever think you shouldn't do it? Especially early on when it was like, hey, why don't we do this thing? It didn't seem like it. No. No, I mean, hey, it was something new. Hey, it was something new. And, you know, it was kind of like what I said about finding something that you'd like to do.

If you enjoy it, just keep trying and see how it works out. I mean, I enjoy getting together because I get to talk to him. It's just a pretty good thing. It seems like you never really got in your own head about it. Like, I don't know if you ever were nervous about it at any point. Well, maybe the first time or two, talking into a microphone or into that camera where you're looking at and stuff, it was a little overwhelming. Right.

You know, but as it went along, it's kind of like I don't even know us there. Yeah, you adjusted very quickly. Yeah. That was my observation, that you got comfortable very quickly. I don't know what I learned about myself. I don't know what I learned about myself. I don't know. I didn't, I felt like it was, like our interactions from the beginning were like, like I said, different than like a normal phone interaction. I'm like, well, what's it, what are people going to connect with, you know?

Is it like, does it just have to be ridiculous and extreme? ridiculous and extreme. I think there's been kind of a development, like an evolution of the podcast. At first it was just like, what can I get dad to react to, you know? And then I think pretty early on we discovered that like, oh, there's actual legitimate connection here. We are learning things about each other, you know,

and learning things about ourselves, I guess. And then, yeah, I think it, like, once it's settled into, like, there's, like, moments where it's like, all right, we're just having this conversation for the fun of it. And there's other times where we're like, oh, this is a great conversation that I'm grateful that we're having. And if it wasn't for the podcast, we wouldn't be of it. And there's other times where we're like, oh, this is a great conversation that I'm grateful that we're having. And if it wasn't for the podcast, we wouldn't be having it,

but we are having it the same way we would have if it wasn't on the podcast. Right. And so being at that comfort level and getting there pretty quickly, I think was pretty, that was something

that I didn't know how it was going to feel. And then I was like, wow, this is rewarding on a number of levels. And if it's rewarding for us and if people want to listen in and whatever they're relating to or, you know, I couldn't anticipate what all those things would be. Well, it's been a lot of things, I think, Rhett, and I think somebody here told me that we are really the only father and son that's really doing a podcast like this, that people listen to.

And it's helped a lot of people that they've sent in to us that help them whether it's a daughter or a son and a mother or a father that they've been able to go in and talk to them about stuff yeah I think it's been a way to inspire people to reconnect yeah you know with their parents that parents that might not live in the same place that they don't see I think it's been a way to inspire people to reconnect with their parents, parents that might not live in the same place that they don't see all the time. Yeah, and I think that in the way that your relationship with your parents, like when you become an adult, it's one of those things that it changes,

but a lot of times it kind of, I think people get blindsided by the fact that, okay, now I'm an adult having a relationship with my adult parent, but it's hard to change the ground rules of the relationship now that everybody's an adult. It's a to change the ground rules of the relationship now that everybody's an adult. It's a different conversation. Some people get stuck at different points in that. Some people may still talk to their parents if they're in their – it might be 45, but every interaction they have with their parent is as if they're still 14.

Because you grow up in an environment, and you fall into these patterns, and you set these rules of, okay, maybe it's a power dynamic, or, you know, it's whatever the dynamic is, sometimes it's really hard to change that. And so I feel like the podcast for us kind of defined a new era of our relationship that was much more adult to adult. Yeah. And, I mean, we did it for comedic effect, like having the adult, the R-rated jokes and stuff.

the adult, the R-rated jokes and stuff, but it's, I actually think that was good for us because it really defined that, like, hey, we're both adults here. We can, if the things that I can talk about with you or any of my other friends, I can actually have that type of rapport with that, you know? Did you feel that? Like, when we started, it was like, I mean, people would send in the jokes, some of which were raunchy, and then we kind of went more into the raunchy jokes. But the fact that we were talking, we were, like, cutting up and having fun with that type of stuff,

that is not something that like growing up we'd ever done yeah no yeah you know but the thing about the what link and i talk about and they and sometimes it's stuff like that and sometimes it's different things, but people write in and say, I had my dad sit down and watch this podcast and listen to y'all talk back and forth. And that broke the ice between us being able to talk, like what Link just said, as an adult, instead of my dad talking to me like I'm still a child. Yeah, it's important. It's really important.

I thought, and there's been girls and guys do the same thing. And a lot of them was with parents. And most of them wasn't with their mother. It was with their dad. So they would kind of see things that are different in the world now, and this is the way we need to interact together with one another. I love it. I love to hear it.

I think it's, like you said, there's not many things like it. It's really special. People should go listen to it if you're not listening to it. Speaking of our schedule, we do. We're three minutes late for the thing that we said we were. Oh, really? Yeah. You know.

Okay. We have to go be CEOs. Okay. And lead our company-wide meeting. What with the power outage, we were kind of under the gun. Okay, so give a quick pitch for the show. Give a promo for the show so people can go. Well, y'all come on and watch Dispatches from Myrtle Beach.

Trying to remember my email address. You can remember it. You're going to have to tell them. I can't. Hey, I'm getting old. Sometimes I'm senile. Rather. Oh, ratherbeshagging53 at AOL.com.

There it is. Hey, it's been a while. If you send it is. Hey, it's been a while. If you send him an email, if it's a joke, we'll try to figure it out together. If it's a question, he'll try to answer it. And sometimes people ask questions that kind of mine experiences from his life so that I learn things. Those are some of my favorite questions. And then at the end of every episode, we tell each other that we love each other.

Oh, yeah. And I think that really resonates with people. A lot of people talk about that. People who don't say that they love their parents. I thought, you know, you fall out of the habit of that. And so we've heard a lot of people talk about that. I think that's the main thing is that, like, we're just having a good time cutting up. You know, that's just how we love each other.

They know that's genuine when we tell one another that at the end, Rhett. So, I mean, they can see that. Yeah. Well, I love y'all. And I wanted to tell y'all. We love you, too. Thanks for having me on Ear Biscuits, and I enjoyed it. Yeah, thanks for being here

I know we're making you do a lot of things while you're out here Your schedule's pretty packed Yeah somebody asked me Said what are you going to do I said I got to work Thursday and Friday and Monday and Tuesday And then get back on a plane Go back home and go to work So I said what's the difference

We're putting him to work while he's out here You're doing good, Dad. All right. Thanks for joining us for another Ear Biscuit. Remember, you can call us and leave us a message at 1-888-EAR-POD-1. And we'll see you next week. You got to wave that way, Dad. Hey, Rhett and Link.

This is Abby. I was listening to the duo episode, and I wanted to validate Link in his choice of Toad in Super Mario Bros. 2. Toad was indeed the best character to play with. He was fast. He was efficient. He was awesome. Peach was probably the second best because she could fly.

But Mario and Luigi, even though they're a fantastic duo, they were crap in that game. Except for Luigi, because he could jump really high and you had to use them for like one level where you had to cheat. But that's what I wanted to say. So Link, you're totally validated in using Toad. And I loved hearing you guys talk about one of my favorite games. So thanks. Bye.