Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Link's Daughter Graduates College

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

We are so freaking proud! In this episode, Rhett & Link talk about college graduations – from Rhett’s nephews to Link’s daughter Lily. Plus, Link & Lily’s terribly organized move out day that follows graduation, including some lessons learned along the way. Leave us a voicemail at 1-888-EARPOD-1 to be featured on the show! Signing up for Chime takes 2 minutes! Go to https://www.chime.com/ear Get a $75 job credit at https://indeed.com/ears To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This, this, this, this is Mythical. [♪ theme music playing. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time, usually. I'm Link. I'm usually Rhett. And this week at the roundtable of dim lighting, this is the first of what we're calling minis. Four minis that we're doing over the next month. Things get a little bit... Well, it's not a month. We're halfway into July, and we're going to have...

Well, four over the course of... A month can be from mid to mid. Really? Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, I've had this problem for a month. Was it exactly the month of July? Well, four weeks. You know, a month is a length of time. You just blew my mind. Like when you say your kid is 18 months old, and they were born on July 15th. That's true. Hey, you don't need to convince me, man. You already blew my mind. Okay.

Yeah, man, I've been... A woman is pregnant for nine months. 40 weeks, really. So now if I wanna say a proper month, I need to say calendar month? I think everyone else just does this automatically, instinctively in their mind without thinking about it. So just trust us all. Well, hold on, let me think about it.

So we're doing a month, four weeks in a row, of these minis. We did something like this last year. I mean, I will say, when you say we're doing a month, it does seem like... Well, now you're gonna, okay, what you're doing right now is you're appealing to the, Link's gotta point people. And those people just need to be quiet sometimes. Because if Link didn't say anything,

you would have thought what I said made total sense. But now that he's brought something up, you're gonna be like, Link's got a point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Link has made a point. Does he actually have one? I've got a point. I made it.

Four weeks. Okay, I'll change for everyone. For the next four weeks. We're doing minis. Well, for the next three weeks. And you know what? These are gonna be about a half hour long. And we're not apologizing for it. We love you.

End of story. Because let's explain what's really going on here. Okay. We're going on vacation. Well, vacation is probably the wrong term. We are taking our prescribed mental and emotional health break that we have now built into our year. Which is the- Do you need to answer that?

Well, let's see. I might need to answer this actually. This is Shepherd, he and Loc are still in North Carolina. Let me see here. Okay. Yep. You know, first of all, hold on, hold on. First of all, I can say hello first. You don't have to start talking every time.

I can say hello and then you can say, hey dad, after that. Hm hm hm hm. Ha ha ha. He's talking. He's talking to his son on the telephone. His son's doing most of the talking right now. Okay, so hold on a second. So you and Locke and Dante went to the creek at night? Yeah. Do you know how much poison ivy you've probably walked through? He's asking about his personal safety.

He's in total dad mode right now. Okay. Did you put any insect repellent on? He's being kind of judged. Have you checked for ticks? He's pretty passive aggressive. Like seriously, walking around in June in the woods of North Carolina, like, you're just like tick magnets. You have to think about these things.

I just have to wonder, when his son called him, is this what he thought he was going to get? Did a lot? Check all over? A lecture. I wonder why he actually did go. Okay, so you're saying you got, what dirty? You got your like shoes and your pants

and you don't wanna wash them because they'll get other stuff dirty? Is that what you're saying? He's asking a laundry question. Mm-hmm. It's interesting. Well, I'm gonna be there for most of July. So you wouldn't get them until the end of the summer. They're still talking.

So why don't you take a, here's what I would do. Why don't you take a trash bag, put them in a trash bag and bring them home? See, that's what dads do. We come up with solutions. Okay. Put them in a trash bag and bring them home That's what that's do we come up with solutions, okay Is everything else good you guys are about to leave maybe duct tape Did you call did you call mom and did you text her and ask her? Yeah, but she probably didn't answer. That's why he called her.

Okay, just make sure that lock checks for ticks too. Okay, love you. Bye. Just give me where there's hair. You know what I'm saying? There, you know, we left early for North Carolina so they were there, they had another night there. And it's just like, so they're like responsible

for like getting everything, like they're the last ones to leave the house that we won't return to for, I mean family will be there between now and then, but. Well it's good that he called you. Is this all part of the podcast or did we cut that out? Oh, it's all part of the podcast. Okay, good. Because you didn't tell him that he was being recorded, but I mean, he's a minor. Could he hear him? Could you hear him? I could hear, like, Mrs....

No, we couldn't hear him. You know, both of my sons, for some reason, this is why I said it at the beginning, every time they call you before you say hello, they say, hey dad. And they've always done that. And I used to mention to them, then I stopped, but I just thought I would do it because I knew I was being recorded. They think that you're just answering the phone

or just waiting for them to talk again. I've tried to teach them phone etiquette to a certain degree, I was like, when you call somebody, let them greet you. Because that's your confirmation that they are engaged. Yeah, they're listening, they're actually connected. But as soon as he, hey dad, which I guess is a really efficient way

to start the conversation, but I kinda wanna say hello. Hey son, what's up? I have many different things I could say. He doesn't come from a world where a connection has to be established. Is this like a thing that happens with other kids or is this just my children? I can't say that it's ever happened to me.

They went and got really dirty last night. In the dark, in the creek? Going back to the creek and his jeans and his boots that he likes are all messed up and so he was like, are you going? I don't wanna bring them, are you going? In a couple of weeks and you can bring him back and I was like, well, I'm gonna be there,

back to what we were saying, our mental and emotional health break that we have now built into the middle of the summer schedule. Yeah. Which I will be in North Carolina for most of that time, but I would be keeping his boots. He's gonna be at some like summer program for music that he's doing. He's gonna want his boots, he's gonna be at some like summer program for music that he's doing, he's gonna want his boots.

So once he realized that, I dadded out and said, put them in a trash bag and bring them back. That was so good, man. And he said, I'll do that. Yeah. You know? And one day, Dad to the rescue. We can only hope he will just think

of that solution himself. Mm-hmm. Or why not just wash the boots? Because he has to leave in like 10 minutes. Oh. And he has just woken up. And I sent them a text with a list of the things that they needed to do to the house to...

And they actually both individually called me to confirm things. So maybe they're learning. Okay. We're both hot off of trips. We're a little worse for wear because of it. You said you got in at 1.30 last night? Yeah, I took a, well, on Thursday night.

So this is for my, thankfully, my nephews who aren't the same age ended up somehow sinking up and graduating college at the same time. Thank you guys for doing that because it was one trip back to North Carolina to celebrate and we celebrated all weekend. We had festivities on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That's a lot.

And there was karaoke, there was a barbecue truck. I ate brisket with a fork. There was a curry truck. I ate brisket with a fork. There was a curry truck. There was an ice cream truck. Whoa. There's multiple trucks. There was a tent with tables. There was karaoke.

I sang Lady in Red. That one, huh? Jessie and I sang Islands in the Stream. You sang Lady and... Lady and Rolls. Lady and Rolls. That song? Yeah, that's the one I sang at the gay bar in Atlanta

when you were on your way and you never showed up. Oh, it's your new karaoke song? And you got into a fight with the Muppets. Yeah. Now, when I go to a real karaoke place, I bring it down a step, because you can do that at a real karaoke place. You can? You can ask him that? If you go to like a Korean karaoke bar in Los Angeles, there will be an option to

take it down as many steps as you want. Any song you want. But then it gets weird when you're trying to... Well, one step nobody notices. Yeah, no one will notice. But even knowing where to start, if you take it down three steps, then you're gonna be lost, right? I don't think so, because you just follow the chords.

Do you know that... If you're musically inclined. Do you know that virtually every musician who writes songs that are really hard to perform on the record performs in a different key when they perform a concert. Super common tactic. I can believe it.

Totally makes sense. I wouldn't say that I knew it, but I can believe it. But it, yeah, you're right. And you really can't tell. Right, because it makes it impossible to do that every single night when you're like, on the record, I'm going for it. Oh yeah. But I'm gonna do that every single night when you're like, on the record, I'm going for it. Oh yeah.

But I'm gonna do that every damn time we go out, so a step or two sometimes. Okay, so now to replay what you said in light of this. When you sang Lady in Red, you went for it because you didn't lower the key. Yeah, and I would say it's out of my range, and it is. I would say it because it is. But you're singing your falsetto.

No, I stay in chest voice the whole time. Lady in red is dancing with me Okay. Cheek, cheek, cheek. This is part. There's nobody here Oh. Yeah?

Mm-hmm. It's just you and me. It's where I wanna be. This is the part. And I can hop. I'm actually singing higher than the key is actually... I don't think you are. No, no, because first of all, it was nighttime.

It's morning. It's nighttime when I sing. What is the next part? Go for it. And I can hop. I would do that, but I did it, nighttime. It's morning. It's nighttime when I sing. What is the next part? Go for it. Like a holly, I would do that, but I did it, and I actually, it wasn't that I didn't get to the note, it's that I could not find the other notes around it. But like, I got all the way to it.

You know, it's family karaoke. Okay. So, it was fine. It was, you know, and I was looking at my wife who was wearing blue and at the end I changed it to Lady in blue. And I just looked at her and embarrassed her a little bit. Anyway, yeah, I said I did that,

but they synced up their graduations. I mean, that's just the way it worked. But I took the red eye on Thursday night and I had a layover in Atlanta. I'm in the Atlanta airport at 3 a.m. Just the middle of the night. Nothing's open. Nothing's open.

And you're there for- Your eyes are barely open. Two hours? An hour? Two hour layover, two and a half hour layover. But I was able to, once we got in An hour. Two hour layover, two and a half hour layover. Yeah. But I was able to, once we got in and we went straight to the cabin, we took a four hour nap, which it turns out I can nap when I don't sleep at night.

I bet you could, yeah. And then we partied all weekend and then I took another, for some reason, Delta, you're my favorite airline, you know I love you could, yeah. And then we partied all weekend, and then I took another, for some reason, Delta, you're my favorite airline, you know I love you. Your options from R.D.U. to LAX, not as great as some other airlines. Not enough direct flights, if you don't wanna leave at 6.30 a.m.

Which is tough. And so- When you're an hour away. Layover in Salt Lake last night, but I got in to LAX at 12.30, got rolled up into my bed at 1.30, 1.45 a.m., and here we are, ready to record a couple of podcasts and shoot a big wonder-hole video today. I'm excited about that. A promotional. Promotional video.

A promotional video for the season two premiere. It's going to make a lot of people mad probably I think. But in a good way. The good kind of mad. You know there comes a time in every business when you need some help. And when you realize you need some help, you need it yesterday.

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You did, for somebody you're directly related to. My oldest, Lily graduated from college. My oldest, Lily graduated from college and we went up there, we did the ceremony. Who was the keynote speaker at the graduation? Some guy. Some guy, yeah, I heard he's great. Yeah, it wasn't anybody that I knew. He ran like a company.

Hold on, you're telling me a state school in California just gets some guy? Yeah, Rhett. You know who Jessie got for her graduation that I went to that I totally forgot about until she reminded me this weekend? Don't tell me, Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby.

How do you remember that? I don't know,, Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby. How do you remember that? I don't know, I just remembered. I actually didn't remember, but then I knew that someone had Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby gave her a message. And that was back in the year. That's getting awkward. That was back in 2000, whenever she graduated too.

Did he go to Carolina? He didn't go to Carolina. No, no, but that was back when having Bill Cosby do your commencement was a great thing. That was before we all knew what Bill Cosby was actually about. That was when he was just Huxtable. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, it was a big positive deal. Yeah. He would do a lot of those type of... That's a weird brand right now. But if, I'm saying, contextually at the time... Because he was America's dad. To have Bill Cosby at that time do your commencement, you're like, okay, well, it was Carolina, you know, so I mean it was...

Yep. But I would just think. No. Mm-mm. I would just think. Maybe in some circles this guy was somebody, but not to me. Just some guy with a company? Some guy with a company. He made quite an impression. You don't remember his name,

you don't remember his company. What was the point of... What was his thesis? Was it funny? His thesis was stop... Drop. Drop and roll. Yeah, it was... California wildfires, man. I mean, it's important. I gotta be ready.

Keep it top of mind, I guess, if you ever find yourself on fire. If you're doing stunt work, stop. No, it wasn't stop, it was pause. He said pause. That's better. Pause, I say there were two other ones, let's see if I can remember those.

Wow. Pause, listen, feel. This was his... Stop and smell the roses? Is this what he's talking about? It's a good practice in any situation. And I've actually thought a lot about it. Not enough to remember anything besides pause, but pause... Listen and feel. Listen and feel. You know, you get in touch with yourself. Okay. It was kind of wishy- you get in touch with yourself. Okay.

It was kind of a wishy-gushy a little bit, but it was short, which is nice, because there was a crap ton of people to go across that stage. Yeah, I bet. Went off without a hitch, but the thing that I'd like to complain about and talk about at length is everything around that. I was so excited to go to the graduation. Mm-hmm. is everything around that. I was so excited to go to the graduation. You know, I kept telling Christy, I was like, this is a big moment for Lily, but I mean, it's also a big moment for us. And she was like, us? This is a representation of a lot of my work, that you just, yeah, okay, you might have paid

for some of this. That's an interesting thing to say. This is a big moment for us, too. Well, as parents, Rhett. It's a milestone. It's a milestone moment. Yeah, you know, it's our first kid graduated from college. And yes, I totally agree. It is a bigger moment for Christy,

having been Lily's primary teacher. I mean, she grew up homeschooled moment for Christy, having been Lily's primary teacher. I mean, she grew up homeschooled until freshman year of high school, I remember. So, it was a big deal for Christy, and then I was glad to be there too. And you were there. And it was a really big deal for her. You were there, pausing, listening, and feeling. Yep.

Yep. The thing that I didn't anticipate or really think about was not only is this a five and a half hour drive to celebrate a graduation, but it's also move your kid out of school weekend. And we were not ready for that. Lily was supposed to have been ready. Yeah, I'm gonna throw her under the bus. You mean no boxes and stuff? I mean, she had boxes. We showed up Thursday night, same night that you flew, we were driving down there, so we... because the graduation was Friday night.

And then, let's see, so all day Friday, we were just getting ready for the graduation and then the graduation and then all day Saturday we just left the boys there to help her start packing stuff. Because after graduation when I took her back to her house, I was like, there's no evidence of anybody being ready to move out. Yeah, they're college students. She was like, yeah, I just, you know, I hadn't gotten to that yet. And I was like, well, what am I gonna leave you? And Madison was there, you know, Lilly's BFF.

So like, they started working on boxing up stuff. And was this everyone who lives in this house moving out of it at the same time? So what, like, there's a furniture? Other, yeah, there's a furniture situation. Other people had moved out. By the next day, there was a whole room that was gone by the time we showed up on Sunday morning. Somebody had moved out Saturday. But who's taking this furniture? Because you didn't take a moving truck up there.

Exactly. We have our SUV and we have Lily's car and we're driving two back. And then the day before we're leaving, she's like, well, I'm trying to get them to agree to keep the couch. I'm like, what? And we got this shelf over here. I don't want that. And we got this chest of drawers over here. I don't want that. And I'm like, well, I can't. What am I? What are we supposed to do? You know? So the night before, I was like, I'm not showing up hours early than everybody else to then take all the stuff you don't want and donate it, and then come back and pack everything, and then drive six hours home and then unpack. I had just wasn't ready

for all of this. Good news is we had manpower. We had all the siblings and the friend and, you know. But I was like, anything that you don't want, I wanna get rid of tonight, because tomorrow's just moving out and get the hell out of here, kind of a thing. Graduate Friday, Saturday, you pack everything up, Sunday we leave. So on that Saturday,

I was like, listen, I'm just, let's just, I started taking, we couldn't fit anything in the car, so I started disassembling stuff that she didn't want. Like Ikea type shelving, you know? It's like, with Ikea shelving, when it's really beat up, it's not worth donating anymore. Yeah, yeah. And you get one screw loose and the whole thing falls apart. And then, or it doesn't. And then you're sitting there like trying to rip it apart limb from limb just to kind of get it in the back of the car. And then you're taking the drawers out and you're putting the piece in and then you're putting the

drawers back in because now it's too heavy. And then I'm, Salvation Army closes in 30 minutes or whatever it was, Goodwill. I don't know what it was. We didn't get any help with any of this stuff. That's the difference in our generation. Oh yeah. It was a flashback to that. My dad never came to our apartment in the years that we lived there. He was like 30 minutes away. And you remember what happened? The place was trash and all we did was move all our

stuff out. The same thing happened to Lily. I was like, we started moving stuff out, and I realized everything, when you move anything out, everything underneath it is completely dirty. It's like dust bunnies that are larger than raccoons. Like what, is something crouching back there? Oh no, it's just an accumulated dust bunny. And they're not getting their deposit back. Yeah, I'm like, listen, Lily, when you move out of a place...

They don't know. You... They don't know. They have to learn the hard way. You have to clean. We learned the hard way. You have to clean it. It was on my credit report, not yours, because you never signed the lease. For years.

It was on my credit report. My credit was horrible for years because of this. That's what we get for putting grip tape in the bottom of the tub so you don't slip when you're in the shower. But we spelled our names with it. And then didn't remove it when we left. So I'm like, Lily, if everything's not cleaned, you're not gonna get your deposit back.

Even if they say yes, we'll keep the count. Your name wasn't on the lease, but your name was on the bathroom... on the bathtub. So you should have been guilty, man. I was guilty. I just wasn't charged. Yeah, sorry about that. We're just oblivious, right? Oh yeah, we get all the stuff out, then they clean it. No, you have to clean it, is what I was explaining to her. You notice how everything comes with a fee these days,

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Fees apply at out of network ATMs, bank ranking, and number of ATMs according to US.S. News and World Report 2023. Chime checking account required. [♪ is not to be the last person out. There was one roommate that was left after Lilly, and I was like, Lilly, you realize you're sticking this person to have to clean everything, and then you know they're not gonna do it. Yeah, and they're all gonna be charged. So we need to... Listen. We need to bring somebody in to get rid of the junk that nobody wants, because it's everywhere. Oh, I don't want that. I'm just gonna leave it.

I don't want that. I'm just gonna leave it. That won't fit. I'm just gonna leave it. The last three hours of packing happens after you think you're done completely with packing. Like, you should almost plan a completely new day once you think that you're gonna be completely done packing and moving out, because all of that, the cataclysm you're gonna leave behind is your responsibility. You graduated from college, now you're an adult. But here's the thing.

It's not their responsibility, because our generation of parents, we make it our responsibility, and we end up doing all this stuff for them, and then they are going to learn a lesson when something is their responsibility. But do you think that your kid and those other kids learned the lesson about how to move out of an apartment? Do you think they learned it or did you dad it up in a way that took care of it? Sounds like you dadded it up. Which I would have done the same thing. Not blaming you. That's what we do. Our parents made us do everything and we learned all these lessons,

we do everything for our kids, and we probably have more dynamic emotional relationships with my kids. You can see how dynamic my conversation was with Shepard Woods. Yeah, right, exactly. No, but I am very, like, I know a lot about what my kids are dealing with emotionally, relationally, we talk about a lot of things in a way that me and my parents didn't talk about at that age.

So I do agree that their level of communication is different, but the level of responsibility that is being transferred to them is way low. We were watching the NBA finals the other night and they were talking about one of the players on the Pacers and the announcer was like, he was raised, they have these little anecdotes that they're ready to share when somebody's doing something.

He was raised in a household that had a lot of expectations. He had to make up his bed every single morning and one morning he didn to make up his bed every single morning. And one morning, he didn't make up his bed, and his mother came to school and got him out of school and made him go back home and make up his bed. And I looked over at Lock and Shepherd, and I was like, should I have done this with y'all? And they were like, maybe. Maybe. I mean, look at him, he's a pacer. He's a pacer now.

I'd like to think that the main thing I taught Lily was desperate times call for desperate measures. Okay, so wait until the last second and then scramble. Yeah, so I'm disassembling crap, putting it in the back of the SUV. I'm loading it to the gills with the stuff that we didn't want so that I can get rid of it. We're going to this Goodwill, closes in 30 minutes.

Oh, the Goodwill hates graduation weekend. They're like, oh gosh. We get there, she's like, should we go to the front? I'm like, no, drive around back, that's where the donations go. And then there's a chain link fence, and it's locked, and there's a sign on it, and it said, even though the front's open, they don't take donations

for like two hours before they close, which makes sense. And then there's also another sign that says, and don't leave anything here on the outside. College grad. Don't do that. Dad. Dad, don't be a bad example. And I knew this was gonna happen, so all the way

there, I'm just scoping left, I'm scoping right, I'm looking for any type of accessible dumpster that I can find. You know, gas stations, you ain't gonna get to their dumpsters. All of the gas station dumpsters are behind chain link fences that are locked. And they're all on high alert this weekend. And they're on high alert that weekend. But then, like a ram in the thicket. Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo two dumpsters. Ooh, that might even be a third dumpster. And he's broad daylight. But I'm like, all right, Lily, she's driving. I'm like, Lily, pull up to that

dumpster and pull out close to it. And let's get out of the car and let's get rid of this stuff. We have no other option. What business were these dumpsters associated with? It was like a strip mall of businesses that were two levels. Okay. Two levels of strip malls, so I'm like, this is great. So you're spreading out the burden across multiple businesses. Right, and there was three dumpsters there, and only one of them was full.

And they weren't locked. Oh yeah! And I opened that thing up, and I just start taking all these pieces of IKEA furniture. It is legitimately trash at this point. And I'm throwing it in there. And then Lily's getting out, and I look at Lily, and she's in a three-point stance, like a pacer, looking around. I'm like, don't look around. Just look at the task at hand and be quick about it. So I'm teaching her stuff. Yeah, yeah, you taught her something.

Yeah, you know, because looking around is guilt. Looking down and doing is task. Moving too fast is also not a great idea. You don't want darty movement. It's a give and take there because, I mean, we took out the chest of drawers. Well, we took the drawers out of the chest of drawers. Then we took the chest out of the back.

And then she started thinking we were gonna throw it in the dumpster. I'm like, no, no, no, this is a good piece. We're gonna stand it beside the dumpster. Somebody will definitely take this. Somebody will like that, maybe. I don't wanna be the one to throw it away. So then we sit it up right, and then we start to put the drawers back in, and like, making it nice and inviting, you know.

And then as, and then I start hearing voices. I'm like, okay, get in the car, get in the car. And as we're getting in the car, and I'm backing up, there's a man and a woman, and a child in a stroller. And I'm like, okay. Not very threatening. Okay, this is not very threatening. But I bet you they run one of these businesses.

It's family-owned business. But they brought the child. And before they could say anything to us, we skrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr And I feel like I don't know if I'm... I hope not. I don't know if it was a proud dad moment, but it was a necessary dad moment. It's like, you know, you gotta make it happen. Sometimes you just gotta make it happen. So the alternative was just driving back all the way with it and throwing it away somewhere?

No, no, no. Then I had to go back. You had to go back. Completely fill her car with stuff she wanted to keep. Okay, got it. To the gills. You had to get rid of it. To the gills. It was something, man. If you are out there and you are in a similar situation

and you don't wanna follow Link's lead here, I think that the thing probably to do if we're just gonna take the ethical high road here is find the landfill near your kids' residence, the closest landfill. But they have to be open. And have a plan. They have to have a plan. They have to have a plan, that's right. He does have to have a plan. But they have to be open. They have to have a plan.

They have to have a plan. He does have to have a plan. I'm just saying, that's a lesson that you can learn. Lily learned, here's what's gonna happen. Lily is going to repeat what you did when she gets to be your age. But now, someone listening, and maybe you next time, maybe for your next kid, you can have a landfill plan. I do have another one.

I have two more shots of this. Right. Or if you really wanna throw money around, you can hire someone to come pick up the junk and you can hire someone. What was the level of coordination with the other parents? I never saw another parent. Stuffed, and then I think the key takeaway is

when you're moving out of a roommate situation, especially with multiple and like a house, and especially in a college situation, don't be the last one to move out because you're gonna be stuck with everything. Well, I think it's an opportunity to develop a plan so that everyone, now I realize this is asking a lot.

You're graduating, you're the last thing you're thinking about. But what you will find is that there comes a time in your life when you're experiencing something that's overwhelming, that's all consuming, but you still have responsibilities that can't fall to the wayside.

And when you get to be an adult who's responsible for yourself and others, sometimes you don't have a choice. And so I'm just saying that it's never too early. To find the local landfill. I depended on my parents for a lot of things, right? And I think that it's gotten even more so that way To find the local landfill. I depended on my parents for a lot of things, right? And I think that it's gotten even more so that way for a lot of kids.

You're gonna be on your parents' health insurance until you're 26. You're probably, a lot of people are gonna be living at home after they graduate college because it is a different time than it was when we were coming up. No shame in that. That's true.

They might be paying your rent. They might be paying your rent. They might be paying your car payment, your insurance and stuff like that for, if they can, if they can afford it, for a little bit, they may wean you off of those things. And again, in this economy, that might be a necessary thing. But at some point, the book's gonna stop with you. It's gonna

stop with you. And you'll have to figure out how you can do something hard and do something hard and necessary and then something inconvenient and unnecessary at the same time. Like transition to a new place and then take care of your shit. Listen to Dad over here. You know what I mean? You can go into woods and have a good time, but you gotta check for ticks. Mm-hmm.

You know what I'm saying? You gotta check for ticks. You can get your boots dirty, but you need to have a trash bag to transport them in. Because the thing is, is if you get Lyme disease, that's gonna be a lot more inconvenient than checking for ticks. A lot more inconvenient. Yeah, I think that's also a lot more inconvenient

than being caught by the dumpster owner throwing trash in their dumpster. Because, I mean, it could be worse. You could just be sitting perfectly decent furniture beside their dumpster. Maybe they saw it and were like, oh, let's go check out that nice piece of furniture. I bet you that. That's where it was.

I bet you it's in their living room right now. That's what it was. They were like, oh, yes, we can go that nice piece of furniture. I bet you that's what it was. I bet you it's in their living room right now. That's what it was. They were like, oh yeah, so we can go in the baby's room. I'll paint it white. None of the drawers, they didn't really marry when you pushed them in. Well, you probably just had them in the wrong slot. Yeah, they'll figure that out. It was exhilarating.

Especially if it stays out there and gets a little bit wet, then a little bit hot, it'll all work itself out. Right. It'll bake together. It'll line right back up. Yeah. But we made it. We're proud dads of either graduates or nephews that are graduates. Right. Very proud. Sign up now to get the newest Mythical Society collectible, the Belvedere the

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Or save it and listen to it along with the one we're gonna release next week that we're about to record and we're gonna go change clothes for. Ooh. Bye-bye. Hey, Rhett and Link, you don't know me but I've seen every single Good Mythical Morning, every Good Mythical More, every EarPod for probably the last year and a half and I just want to let you know that it's 2 o' 4 in the morning right now and you guys have made a really big impact on my life and I really appreciate it so I love you guys have made a really big impact on my life and I really appreciate it, so I love you guys.