Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Link's Two Birthday Parties | Ear Biscuits Ep. 477

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:34 Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we're going to hear about Link's two birthday parties. I was present for one of them, in which something very funny happened
Starting point is 00:01:01 for not the first time. And also, we have both now seen movies that the other guy had seen. Yes. And talked about. We need to talk about. And now we've seen them. Yeah, yeah. We'll also check some of your voicemails
Starting point is 00:01:19 because you're important to us. Yeah. Second only to family and God. I've sec, that would be, okay, so family and God are one. Tied for one. No, but what was it about Jesus, others, and you? Joy. That's the only way to spell joy.
Starting point is 00:01:44 I have instituted a two-party system in my life for my 47th birthday, and it has come to a close, and I've concluded that it is good. I have two different parties. That's what I did. I could have had a third party. I might do, next year might be a three-party system. Third party. Could be a four-party.
Starting point is 00:02:09 Don't we need one of those third party? You keep trying to push the religion and politics buttons, but they're inoperable today. Well, I mean, you're the one who responded to them. I said two-party system. Yes, that was a political pun, but nothing more than that. The third party was just really the next thing in line. You really went for it.
Starting point is 00:02:30 You're like a middle schooler deciding that his friend groups can't mix. It's Monday morning, and as of this past weekend, my two-party system was completely executed flawlessly. I had a friend party on Friday night and then I had a different friend party on Saturday night. The previous year I had had everybody at the one party, which was fine, but I felt stretched a bit thin. You also were like, even at that party, you could always tell what you're thinking about, and it usually is something like that, a very specific detail about like,
Starting point is 00:03:12 how is this party right now that I'm at? How is it going? Well, I was the host, Rhett. I know, but like, I was hosting. But you would go around and you would talk to people and then you would stand there and you would look at people and then you would say things, and I was like, he's really thinking about how this is going and I find it interesting that the application
Starting point is 00:03:30 was that something about it wasn't quite right so you needed to make a change. It was really great for what it was but this year I needed a change. I needed to have just more quality, intimate party encounters. Than a broad, stretch, thin, tight, I wanted to be a dollop and not like a spread. So this year I dolloped myself on,
Starting point is 00:03:57 you know, my long standing, I got my long standing tried and true friends. I just called you one of my true friends, Rhett. Oh, I appreciate that. Youstanding tried and true friends. I just called you one of my true friends, Rhett. Oh, I appreciate that. You were in the true friends party, and then the next night was- Those were your work friends. Was the dad friends party.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Remember that? The dad friends party. Dad friends, okay. But not their wives, right? Nope, not their wives. Okay, so you've just basically said that you don't need the wives in that group. Well, some of the wives I'm close with,
Starting point is 00:04:27 but some of the wives I'm not. Some of the wives like to show up for things and some of them don't. Oh. Yeah, so it's not as uniform there. Okay. This was my solution to fix all that. And I'm feeling great, except I think I might be a bit tired,
Starting point is 00:04:48 because it was quite a weekend. Because Friday, it was conceptualized as a small, intimate dance party with some DJing. I wanted to be doing some DJing, and... I can't remember what my point was. How late did we go? We went till like 12.30. I left till like 12.30. 12.30 or 1.00, you know? I think me and Christy got home at 1.30 from the party. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:23 We were the last to leave. Yeah, you should be, yeah. Because we hosted the party. That was a chicken nuggets and cinnamon roll party. We were the last to leave. Because we hosted the party. That was a chicken nuggets and cinnamon roll party. Pretty good, right? Yeah, and also quite a lot of charcuterie around the nuggets. I asked Christy, I said, Christy, I just want chicken nuggets and cinnamon rolls,
Starting point is 00:05:38 and then of course she rolls up with... Man, I went over there early. I went over to the Creative House where we were having this party, and I was getting some stuff ready. Turns out there wasn't that much to get ready, but I was over there an hour and a half early, okay? And then Christy shows up an hour or 45 minutes early, and she's making multiple trips, and she's talking to herself. Yeah. And I'm like, huh. And then I realize, boy, she keeps bringing stuff in.
Starting point is 00:06:10 Yep. And stuff and stuff. Like she had this board, like a five foot board, a charcuterie board that she put down, and yeah, she put chicken nuggets on it, but then she put all this other charcuterie stuff on it, and I'm realizing, oh, I should have helped. I should have helped.
Starting point is 00:06:29 I didn't even realize! I was just like, nuggets and simaroles. How easy is that gonna be? I'm gonna handle the music, I'll handle making sure that the place is leaf blown and everything's good there, and, you know, we'll meet in the middle. But there was a big discrepancy in terms of the amount of prep that Christy put into my party and how much I put in. And I walked into the midst of it. And I told you, I told you when we left work that day, I was like. You said don't be fashionably late.
Starting point is 00:06:56 Don't be fashionably late. And I was like, well, that sounds like a, it sounds like it was directed at me personally as if I was gonna be fashionably late. I wanted you and Jesse to be there on time. So we showed up at like 734. Right on time. And I noticed as I walked into the kitchen
Starting point is 00:07:15 that Christy had a look on her face and you had a look on your face. I did have a look on her face because I'm the one who put it there. And she was attempting to make this charcuterie board, and I could tell that based on what I saw, I was walking into a situation in which you were not being helpful,
Starting point is 00:07:37 but it wasn't that you weren't trying to be, but your attempts to be helpful were obviously coming across as a hindrance. And I really felt for her. I had already been monstrously unhelpful, and I think that's really what you were feeling. And what you had just done is for some reason you had cut the fan on that was above the Sharla Peter report, and you had blown stuff all over it. Well, I turned on the... I was like, there's a fan that'll suck the air out of
Starting point is 00:08:04 here, and it'll get some ventilation going because it had gotten hot in that had blown stuff all over it? Well I turned on the, I was like there's a fan that'll suck the air out of here and it'll get some ventilation going because it had gotten hot in that room with all the charcuterie. So I turned on the fan and it makes this weird noise because I've never turned on this fan at a creative house and it was like chopping stuff up. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:20 And then sprinkling it on top of it. It's just like moving everything, and then it's like all this detritus, this like, just piling up. But also, what you were, I mean. It wasn't helpful. It wasn't helpful, it was unnecessary too, because when I walked in, it was so cold. Oh. It was so cold
Starting point is 00:08:36 in the house. Well, we got our wires crossed a bit. It was like, but you were, but the first thing you said to me was like, I got the AC on, and I was thinking like, it's not a hot day, you have it on 67 and it is 67 in here. I was like, well I don't really know where this is coming from. I'm glad you're here on time so you can help us make sure everything's okay.
Starting point is 00:09:01 But the great thing about our relationship between all of the friends there is that Christy could just tell us that she was currently annoyed by you and we were like, yes. You almost said of course. And then she was able to, during the moment of bringing out
Starting point is 00:09:26 the cake, which was the cinnamon rolls, she was able to be like, I've been, you know, in a funny way, basically, yes, I've been upset with Link. But then she was like, but you all understand. And everyone was like, yes, we do. And we love him for it. And I gave a speech and the speech was like, yes, we do, and we love him for it. And I gave a speech, and the speech was basically about how, you know, it's nice to throw a party with your closest friends so you don't have to hide the fact that you're in a fight.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Yeah. And I said... It was a beautiful thing. ...and Christy's the one who called it a fight, and I said, well, hold on. It's not a fight, because was a beautiful thing. Christy's the one who called it a fight, and I said, well, hold on. It's not a fight because I agree with you. But she's like, yeah, I'm just perturbed with you because you signed me up to do all this stuff and then you're not helpful at all.
Starting point is 00:10:15 And I'm like, I agree. Not because you're not trying, it's just sometimes your choices are counterproductive. I think the word was maybe a little oblivious too. Yeah. Oblivious to what it takes. Yeah. Maybe I have what it takes, I'm just oblivious
Starting point is 00:10:31 to knowing what it takes. Yeah, only one way to find out. Try different things. I'd rather it be that than for me to be, you know, let's see. Knowingly hurting the situation. Knowing what I needed to do, but I'm incapable of doing. Yeah, that's worse.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Isn't it better to be capable, but to be oblivious, not actually do it? Don't answer that. The worst is to be both capable and knowingly make a decision to not help. That would be the worst. Oh yeah, that's not me. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:04 And she, we had a fun party and I did win her over. I started playing all of her favorite Billie Eilish songs and I won her over. And I think she was pretty decent by the end of the night. She wasn't. I mean, it was- She enjoyed all of y'all. It was a comical annoyance.
Starting point is 00:11:24 It wasn't like, I'm not speaking to you. Yeah, it's like one friend said, y'all been together for 25 years in marriage, something tells me y'all gonna be all right. I was like, yeah, exactly. And we were both standing there when that conversation was being had. But something happened.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Yeah, something happened. That has happened before. Yeah. So we had a friend. And then I'll tell you about my second party that you weren't invited to. We had a friend there who is a producer, musician. And he-
Starting point is 00:11:55 Brian, the guy who was in our We 3D Printed a Fart video. Yes. From one to whole season zero. Yeah, he's a good friend. And you know, this is the kind of friend group in which maybe if you've been working on something, you can share it with the group.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Yeah. Sometimes that happens. Yeah, he was talking to me about a new sound that he was working on, which was pretty exciting. And I was like, oh, I gotta hear this. So he was like, well, I got a couple of demos I can text to you, you can play it if you want to. So it was like, he left it on me. I was like, yeah, later on in the evening,
Starting point is 00:12:38 there was like a perfect time, everybody was hanging out, we were listening to music and I was like, all right, I'm gonna play some, Brian's letting me play some of his, a couple of demos that he's got, that he's worked up. And it's on your phone because you're connected to the system. And so everybody, most everybody comes into the room,
Starting point is 00:13:02 you start playing it and it's a dance track. Yeah. You know, so people who have been dancing continue or start to dance and then people who were in the kitchen started coming out of the kitchen and came into the living room and they start dancing and we're like, yeah, this is Brian's demo, whatever. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:23 And then right when everyone is on board, everyone is completely entranced by this sound, it goes away. And that's because Link's phone went to sleep. Because you were holding it and you were connected to it. And when your phone goes to sleep, which is about as quickly as an iPhone can go to sleep. That's because I don't like it, I like it to get its rest.
Starting point is 00:13:47 So I put it on the setting where it'll get its rest. And at that point, Mike, who was also there, said basically he was like, okay, yep, this has happened before. And then we began to recount the multiple times. I think one time we were listening to my music and another time you were trying to play a song for us, but what you would do is you would bring it up
Starting point is 00:14:12 on your phone and then you would get distracted. By the song. Put your phone down and then it would go to sleep and one time it happened I think four times in a row in the same song. Yeah. And so. So it happened to Brian's song
Starting point is 00:14:24 and then I'm looking at my phone, and you can't just wake the phone up and just unpause it. No. For some reason, with the way that I was playing it, you know, you texted, it's in some quick time play, or I don't know. You had to, like, hit a volume button. You had to do some things to keep the phone engaged. In order for me to restart it, I had to restart the song from the beginning. Right. And, but we made the call in that moment, Mike and I said, give the phone to someone else. Let's not go through this again. So we gave the phone to Brian. And Brian took your phone. And for some reason, we could have just turned the go to sleep function off
Starting point is 00:15:02 on your phone. He futz in with my settings. But Brian would just stay there and he kept like hitting the screen to make sure. Yeah, just to keep it away. He never lost focus. He played the whole song. Keep it away. Then played another song. So he's playing another song.
Starting point is 00:15:13 So he starts the second song. He's in charge of the phone. He's staying on top of it. And then I'm watching you. And you go over to the DJ booth, and you're kinda like, you're kinda into what he's doing, you're like, so you're kinda like, you're like motioning or whatever.
Starting point is 00:15:31 Yeah, I'm into what he's doing. And then you put your headphones on, but you do it in that like DJ way, where like one ear out, one ear in, and then you immediately go down to the, whatever it is, and you like hit something to like adjust it and immediately the song stops. So you found a way.
Starting point is 00:15:51 And what you did, Mike diagnosed this, is that as soon as you did anything on your system, you sent basically a signal override to your sound system to come back to whatever's happening at the DJ booth. And the funny thing is I saw you doing it and I was like thinking, what is he doing right now? Like we're all listening to this thing out here. I don't know how DJing works, so. But you were like... And then it went off and you were like... Just looked up.
Starting point is 00:16:23 Was that me? Yes. I don't think I said was that me at first. I knew it was me. Because the moment I moved the slider just slightly. And I was the only other person to witness that. And everybody else was just looking around. And Brian had the phone.
Starting point is 00:16:36 And Brian's like, I don't know, he said he's still going. No, no, everybody looked at the phone and looked at Brian, everybody thought Brian did it, and I was like, oh, I'm gonna be quiet. So I was quiet, and everybody looked at Brian. Everybody thought Brian did it. And I was like, I'm gonna be quiet. So I was quiet and everybody looked at Brian. Brian was like, it's still going. And then I was like, everybody looked at me and I was over there. It was me. Yeah. You found a way.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Well, even without the phone, I still found a way to do it. You found a way. And he was like, it was just getting to the good part. I did take the phone back and then, oh no, you know what? He found a way to fast forward back to the right part. Yeah, so we did get to listen to the good part. So we did do that, but yeah. Here's what I was thinking at that moment. This is his second demo. He's only got two. Everybody's in the room.
Starting point is 00:17:22 Everybody's into it. Oh, you want to be ready for the next song. What I have to do is I have to be ready when this song is over to ride the wave into another song. I've got everybody exactly where I want them. Brian's done his work with his demo. Now I can take how everybody's dancing in there, their vibing, and I can just... Once that song's over, everybody's gonna clap and tell Brian how great it is and how excited they are, and then as the volume goes up in celebration, then all of a sudden, bam! I drop a banger. And that's what I was doing.
Starting point is 00:17:55 And now I'm sensing a pattern. No one questions your intentions. You always intend well. Like, when you turn the fan on over the charcuterie... It was thoughtful. It was full of thought. It was full of thought, but then it ends up kind of making a mess, and in this situation, your plan was sound, your execution was where. So I just think it's about, really the North Star for you is how can your plan and your execution of the plan
Starting point is 00:18:25 come to the same level? That's really, you know what, and it's great. It's great to be 47 and to have that as your North Star. I will say at one point, another North Star is like, to DJ you have to keep your wits about you. And there was a certain point in the party when I'd gone witless. I'd just gone balls to the wall witless. And I couldn't figure out how to get any
Starting point is 00:18:52 of my DJ equipment to work. I don't know if you noticed this. Was that the lull? It was when it was quiet, when there was no music. I think this was earlier in the evening actually, when I'm playing music for my phone at a certain point and I'm trying to play music for my records and I couldn't get my records to take back over in the way that they did later for Brian inadvertently. So I ended up having just to play music for my phone, which was kind of a defeat as a DJ, you know, I have to do that, but I learned my lesson.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Oh, I thought you just made that choice at some point, to be like, I don't wanna have to worry about the records the whole time. Yeah, I leaned into that, and that worked. Like, when the dance party was at its most dance party, I actually wasn't even DJing, I was just playing music for my phone, but I was also dancing.
Starting point is 00:19:43 But it was good, I mean, it was good. Nobody, none the wiser, nobody knows. Good music. This is all stuff. I mean one time I went over there and saw that the records weren't turning, I was like oh, okay, we're doing something a little different. Yeah, even at one point, Christy was like,
Starting point is 00:19:55 oh, this is my song, he's playing my record right now, and I'm thinking, well, technically no, but it is from the record that I had that I was gonna play, but now I'm just. But I mean, record can be used as in that. That still means my song. Yeah, I got it working later. My wits came back to me.
Starting point is 00:20:13 It was a good party. Thank you. It was a good party. It was a good party, good friends, good party. Anything could have happened and it would have been a good party, because of the people we had. Jesse commented as we were going home, how blessed we were to have the friends that we have. And I definitely agree.
Starting point is 00:20:29 We have, so I think you made, so okay, a place where your plan and your execution really came together is, I think is the two-party system. I'm not saying that she would not have been saying that if you had the wider group of people, but maybe she wouldn't be. Yeah, I don't think so. Because those are people that we've really had
Starting point is 00:20:50 a lot of experiences with and we bonded and we, Right. There's a depth of trust with that group. And it is really unusual. You're not getting to, you're not being introduced to anybody. Yeah. You know, it's like if you're at a party when everybody already knows everybody,
Starting point is 00:21:11 then you're just catching up. But if there's more than like a couple of people that you're meeting for the first time, it changes the vibe entirely of the party. It does. It does. It does. It gives people the excuse to clump up and also to leave early. Yeah, I agree. This summer, we're very much looking forward to relaxing,
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Starting point is 00:23:00 HelloFresh.com slash Ear 10 FM. You know, one of the things that Jessie said... by plan. Hellofresh.com slash ear10fm. You know, one of the things that Jessie said- There's a time for it. It was interesting that she put it this way. She was like, you know, there's a lot of really good men in that group. Which is because- That's true. I think that's a hard find.
Starting point is 00:23:23 And you know, you got these guys who have been, everybody in that room has been in a relationship for a minimum of a decade. Most people a couple. And it's just like the level of drama is so low. It's beautiful. They just say, you know, it's just this low drama, high loyalty, high commitment people.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Right. And which is kind of what I was saying part of it, like it's a safe space to say that, you know, we're putting on this party and we're in the midst of a fight. You might experience some tension. Don't worry about it. And also the way that everybody was dancing. This is not what I would say is if you were to just see
Starting point is 00:24:18 a sudden video feed of this group dancing, you wouldn't be like, these are the coolest people in LA. Right. You wouldn't, you know what I'm saying? You would be like, No, we're not. These are people who just don't care.
Starting point is 00:24:34 These are people who aren't trying to be a certain way for each other. In LA, that can be such a difficult thing. Jessie, you know, she is, she's a designer, she appreciates art, and she talked me into going to an art show. I've been to a few. And one of them was at this house in Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:25:00 And it was like, you know, if you're like a member of something, like you're on some mailing list or whatever, you find out about these things. And so she's on that kind of thing. And one night she was like, let's go to this art show. It's in this like art house. Like it's a, it is a house, but there's art up in the house
Starting point is 00:25:18 and the house is in a neighborhood, but it's the neighborhood just above the Chateau Marmont. So it's that part of town. Okay. This is Hollywood Hills. And I wasn't particularly excited, but I was like, this is something a little different. I'll go to it.
Starting point is 00:25:33 And we went to it and there's a line outside. It takes a while to get in. And then we get in and just, it was a part of LA that we don't often find ourselves in. We go to parties that are sometimes industry related. And so there will be a lot of people who are trying to impress and are dressed in a certain way. And we're right there with them trying to be cool
Starting point is 00:25:58 and whatever. Yeah. But this was something in which it was just this art show. And there was this kind of a scene there. First of all, I definitely felt like the oldest person there. Young people shopping for art. Bunch of 20 something year olds who were the kind of people who would go
Starting point is 00:26:18 to an art thing in LA, all super cool, super good looking. Maybe not about the art though? I mean, a little bit about the art and a little bit about how they look and how other people look or whatever. And I definitely didn't wanna stay. We looked at the art and then we left and Jesse didn't wanna stay either.
Starting point is 00:26:38 I was like, I'm not the kind of guy that goes into a place like that and starts talking to people that I don't know. So I'm gonna see the art, I'm gonna leave. But so many of the spaces in LA can be like that. We don't go to those places very often, but it's just so refreshing to be amongst a group of people who just, it's not about that.
Starting point is 00:27:02 It's not about, what do you think of me? And that's what I'm thinking about right now. Yeah. Everyone's thinking about themselves and how they're perceived. And that can be so many spaces. It's just, it's nice. It's relaxing to have a, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:21 go to a place where that's not the case. Yeah. I didn't even think about what I was going to wear. I only thought about the weather, whether or not we were going to go outside or not. So I had a jacket. Yeah, that was good. Success, you know, and you know,
Starting point is 00:27:41 I was glad to bring us together and I appreciate you saying in the group chat that you appreciated me creating the opportunity to bring us together and I appreciate you saying in the group chat you appreciated me creating the opportunity to bring everybody together. Yeah. That's what I do, like Montell Williams. Yeah, and specifically- And Montell Jordan too.
Starting point is 00:27:54 I think what I said- I'm like both of them. Was I appreciate Link- This is how we do it. I appreciate Link being intentionally bringing all of us together and unintentionally making Christy upset. And I appreciate Christy for doing all the work.
Starting point is 00:28:13 She is so awesome. The next night, Christy wasn't invited, so she was off the hook. She was like, listen, you're doing your thing. And this is my dad club boys, there's six of us total. And I was like, all right guys, I wanna make a real go with this.
Starting point is 00:28:35 We're gonna meet up at 4.15, and we're gonna go until, I'll just go ahead and tell you, I ended up, I got in bed at four. Good God. Yeah. I can't do that anymore, man. I mean, it was a big night. I got us tickets to see Friendship, the Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd movie that you highly recommended at the Alamo Drafthouse downtown. Oh.
Starting point is 00:29:12 And I, because A, it was one of the few places that it was still playing. Yeah. You're gonna have to see it on streaming now if you haven't seen it. And two, it's an experience to see a movie at the Alamo Drafthouse. It's a really cool venue. And I was reminded, I was really happy that we had
Starting point is 00:29:30 worked with them for Good Mythical Evening two years in a row, and like, people buy tickets and they can watch the event there. If you've never been to Alamo Drafthouse, you sit down and somebody comes in front of you and waits on you. They'll bring you beers, all types of food, and then when they're playing their previews, they have custom-made previews, like original content interspersed within them. Sometimes they'll show archival footage. They curate a preview experience which is fun. So you go to the movie theater early.
Starting point is 00:30:07 The moment you sit down, you're engaged with something that's actually entertaining. Actually entertaining. Put a pin in that because I had the exact opposite experience that I want to complain about in a little bit. Okay. So here, and they will show actual trailers, which a number of these movies just seem so good. There's like this Paul P.T. Anderson movie
Starting point is 00:30:28 starring Leonardo DiCaprio that looks... Is that One Battle After Another or something like that? I can't remember what it's called, but it looks really good. His last movie I think was Licorice Pizza, which I really enjoyed. One Battle After Another? One Battle After Anotherice Pizza, which I really enjoyed. One battle after another? One battle after another, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:48 It looks really good. And so I wanted to give the boys that experience. Only one of the guys had been to Alamo Drafthouse. So it's like, you know, you're walking, every part of it is thoughtful. Except the parking and the getting to the theater. Well, we ubered. Oh, then you're great.
Starting point is 00:31:06 So you fix that. If you have to park, you park in this parking deck and then it's like a maze to one solitary elevator that moves very slowly that gets you to the right level. Oh, really? Yeah. They gotta work on that. I was dropped off curbside. But that's better.
Starting point is 00:31:21 They gotta work on that. I was dropped off curbside, but that's better. Um... So the first thing we do is we watch this movie. And let me tell you right now, I mean, I told him, I was like, listen, some of y'all might hate me when this movie's over because Tim Robinson is a very polarizing comedian. But you just need to, at the least, embrace what he's going for and his level of commitment to it. Okay? Turns out I didn't need to give that. These are my
Starting point is 00:31:54 friends. I mean, they got good taste. They hang out with me. Ha ha! That's true. They've been tolerating you for years. Right. They can take ten Robertsons. They can take a bet. Alright, you've been admiring nothing but my commitment all these years, so it's like, you know, just keep doing that. The movie was uproariously funny, man. I mean, you told me that you saw the movie with your brother and your families back home in North Carolina, and you were talking about how...
Starting point is 00:32:24 Do you talk about on this podcast? Yes, on this podcast. Yeah, on this podcast, you remember, about how being in the room with all those people laughing made all the difference. So I was really looking forward to this. People... right from the get-go were just laughing so hard at this movie. Do people laugh as soon as he came into focus and said that one line? Oh, you mean when they're in the cancer support meeting where his wife is finally free and clear of cancer.
Starting point is 00:32:51 And he's like, it's not coming back. Like that's the opening line. Yeah. And LA is a great place to watch a movie. Oh my God. It was so funny. I was really happy that Indy Theater in North Carolina was such a good spot, but the response that you get
Starting point is 00:33:11 from the audience can be, make it a much more enjoyable experience than just watching it at home. I feel like I encountered a brown lining to this cloud, this wonderful cumulus cloud of just cackling with laughter in a group of people. Brownlining? Yeah, dude. What do you think about this? Okay, so we're all sitting on a row, five of us, one guy was meanest later, and then at the end of the row there's a couple, that's the end of the row. And so it's me, my friend Brian, and then the couple. And they were laughing. Boy, they were laughing.
Starting point is 00:33:47 The woman was laughing so hard at stuff. And then I noticed that whenever something funny was said, she not only would laugh, but she would repeat... Oh, she's a repeater. She would repeat what was funny that was said. Yeah, we don't need a repeater. It's a thing. I mean, I've listened to podcasts what was funny that was said. Yeah, we don't need a repeater. It's a thing.
Starting point is 00:34:06 I mean, I've listened to podcasts where this is a thing. Culturally, where people are getting, and I think it's a podcast culture thing, in some settings when you're with friends, the way that they tell you that they think you're funny is not just by laughing at it, but by saying it back to you. People do this on podcasts and apparently in movie theaters. We don't do this.
Starting point is 00:34:32 No, I actually, I think it's a different thing. He thinks it's a different thing. No, I do this to you. But the way I do it, and usually it's on GMM, half of my jokes on GMM are just saying what you just said in a different way. To put it in context for the normal people. You're making, but you've made a new joke. I've made a new joke by just saying it with timing.
Starting point is 00:34:58 This woman was never making a new joke. I know what she was doing. She was very clearly celebrating how funny the specifics of the words were by saying those specific words again. And she was a bit too close to me. At first I liked it, cause I was like, yeah, that was funny. Just in case you didn't hear this close captioning.
Starting point is 00:35:15 It's like, what was that? Oh yeah, there it is. She cut it out herself. There it is, that's right. It's not coming back, that's it. The movie was so funny that it didn't matter. I'd rather have her repeating lines than it being quiet. I mean, it was just... I was laughing so hard. It was the
Starting point is 00:35:31 first time when I just realized it, like, I was laughing so hard that my face was just in a... it was like frozen in a fixture of smiling. It's so great. Even when you're not laughing, you're like... It's a cringe thing, too. How many people were like, oh my god! Oh no! It's classic cringe. Even when you're laughing, you're like, it's a cringe thing too. How many people are like, oh my god, oh no. Cringe comedy. Oh no.
Starting point is 00:35:49 Every single scene. There's people who covered their faces. Here's the interesting thing. He didn't write it or direct it. It was written and directed by another person. For him. For him, obviously. And to perfection, written for his character to just step in and do it.
Starting point is 00:36:06 And I'm so glad that like, I would think the chances of saying no to that are pretty high. Oh, somebody wrote something for me. I write stuff for myself. I have a, you know, I won an Emmy for my Comedy Central show. I've done another show. So I would think, okay, now all of a sudden somebody's gonna swoop in and write for my character. I don't know the ins and outs of it, but I was really encouraged that it worked so well. Every scene was set up that you knew, and you just had to just tighten up as the scene unfolded
Starting point is 00:36:37 because you're just waiting for him to just interact in it in a way that just is always the worst possible way. And also where the story goes. It never got old. The choices of where the story goes. Yeah. I don't know what my favorite, You were gushing about it.
Starting point is 00:36:59 my favorite moment of the movie is, but this one's in the trailer, so spoiler alert but this one's in the trailer. So spoiler alert, but it's in the trailer. But, and I was, I can't not watch a trailer once it starts. But the thing is, is it didn't ruin this moment for me. You talking about the sliding glass? No, when they're at, when they're in the basement for the first night and the guy's talking about
Starting point is 00:37:23 the trouble he's having and they start singing the basement for the first night and the guy's talking about the trouble that he's having and they start singing that song together. Because they're an a cappella group and you didn't know that. Right. And he didn't know that. But the choices, the choices for something like that to happen, when you conceptualize something like that,
Starting point is 00:37:42 it's really difficult to know if it's going to land. And I just feel like so many choices were not the safe choice, but they were the... Right. This would be the, this is the funniest choice. This is the most unexpected choice, but all of it completely makes sense. Going into the sewer, like it's so little boy.
Starting point is 00:38:03 Yeah. Little grownup boys who are still trying to be, who are trying to be men. Oh, I loved it. Then he takes her down there. And she was great. So she was the star of House of Cards. House of Cards, yeah, Kate Mara.
Starting point is 00:38:18 And she's perfect for the, when he's able to put, the fact that he was able to play, you have Paul Rudd essentially doing his Anchorman character. Yeah. And Kate Mara being totally straight. But still messed up in her own way. Oh yeah. Like to be with him, you have to be two screws loose.
Starting point is 00:38:39 And like, so the way that she talks about her ex-husband. And the son like you're about her ex-husband. And the son like kissing her on the lips. It's like she's intimate with everyone except him. Okay, so the other movie, the movie that I saw, and it's funny because I had, I kind of feel like, I had an opposite experience of you in a couple ways. I'm an AMC man. I'm sorry, because first of all,
Starting point is 00:39:08 there's an AMC in Burbank that I will go to. I think I'm a Stubbs member, I don't know. I go into the yellow line. Uh-huh. And- You know. Why are you going in the yellow line if you don't know? No, I know, I am. I'm not, I don't pay a certain fee
Starting point is 00:39:26 and get to watch as many movies as I want to. That's like another thing. I'm the whatever you can kinda get like a little discount on your popcorn and you go into the line early. Yeah. And they have the Coca-Cola Freestyle Machine. I know.
Starting point is 00:39:40 Okay, we made it very clear. We know that specialty. If you don't have a caffeine-free option other than mug root beer, who do you think we are? We want to sleep. Why do we not have caffeine-free options at the movie? 90% of all movie watching is done at night. Give us caffeine-free options.
Starting point is 00:39:59 It will be the number one thing people drink. Isn't that where they make all their money anyway? Caffeine-free popcorn? Yeah, I don't understand. Caffeine free diet drinks. That's what we need. But then we sat down with our water. God. Caffeine free.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Popcorn and water. Hard times. Felt like I was in the medieval times. Not the restaurant, but like literally back in those days. And I was like, the modern world, we don't need water anymore. So I sit down and I was there to see centers late to the party.
Starting point is 00:40:43 Okay. You had seen Sinners. Yep. And I gotta say, everyone is built up Sinners. Except for me. You had a different take, all you told me was, it was a little too built up for me, is what you told me.
Starting point is 00:40:57 That's all I said. And I knew nothing about the movie, nothing other than that Michael B. Jordan was in it. I didn't know he and his brother were in it. Yeah, I didn't know that either. I didn't know any, I didn't know the twist. I didn't know the unexpected thing. I didn't know it was a period piece.
Starting point is 00:41:17 I loved it. Yeah, it is great. I loved it. It was a wonderful movie. If you don't know anything. It was a wonderful movie. So you knew that was gonna happen? No.
Starting point is 00:41:28 I had an inkling. I'm just saying, I liked it so much, it overcame the regal experience. It was able to overcome regal. What about the spit? That's my favorite part. That's my favorite part. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:39 No, I loved it. It's not friendship. Like friendship. You know I've met her. Yeah, she was on a couch at a party and you went over there. You were there. And I let you do that. It's not friendship because friendship is a movie
Starting point is 00:41:53 that feels like it was made for me. Like it was like somebody looked into my brain and was like, like it's gonna happen in 10 years when you're just gonna sit down at Netflix and AI is gonna make the movie for you and we're all gonna be out of jobs. But as if you could tap into my brain and just make the thing that I wanted,
Starting point is 00:42:14 it would be friendship. It wouldn't be centers, but. But if you had to invest in something that needed to be made. It's just so, it's just. You'd invest in centers, right? It's just so well done. Yes. Great movie. It's just so well done's just so well done. Yes, great movie.
Starting point is 00:42:25 It's just so well done. It just keeps happening. Everything that happens is like, well, that was- Did you stay for the end scenes? For the end and then the end. Yeah, you knew about that. Jenna told me about that. Jenna told me about the second at the end of the credits.
Starting point is 00:42:39 I don't want movies to go away and I don't want movie theaters to go away. Because it got close and it's still a little bit hanging by a thread, like the pandemic, there's people who won't go see movies now. But I don't know, there's just something about seeing movies. They're convinced that it's, and I've been convinced that it's not better.
Starting point is 00:42:57 Just see it at home. It is better in the movie theater. Be lazy. It is better in the movie theater. But it is better. A eight foot wide head. Is better. Is better than an eight inch head. Yeah But it is better. An eight foot wide head. Is better. Is better than an eight inch head.
Starting point is 00:43:07 Yeah, it's better. You know? I mean, do we need to break out our tape? No, we don't need to measure anything. I just, I don't want to let go of that. Maybe I'm old school, but I just don't think it's the same. It's definitely not the same on a phone. There's kids who watch movies on phones.
Starting point is 00:43:24 We're your kids, yeah. Well, the kids will be the adults and then they'll make the rules. We cannot let them win this battle. So we're pulling for movies. And AMC, I think they're doing a really good job. I think they're doing a really good job. You have a Coca-Cola freestyle machine,
Starting point is 00:43:39 you're 99% of the way for me. It's the only place I can get Mellow Yellow Zero on the planet. Yes. Like I went to, what do they call them, gas stations, and I go in there, I'm like, I'm gonna go in here and get myself a treat, and I wanted a Mellow Yellow Zero. That's not gonna be in there.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Matter of fact, Mellow Yellow's not even gonna be in there. What's wrong with our coast? Nobody likes Mellow Yellow anymore. Yeah, y'all are confused about that. Mellow Yellow Zero is, I need that in my life. Can you get it in cans? ... ...
Starting point is 00:44:17 I mean, we really talked about these movies. Yeah, we did. We need to talk about our Golden Tea of Mythicality giveaway. Of course, every year we make a talk about our Golden Tea of Mythicality giveaway. Of course, every year we make a shirt called the Golden Tea of Mythicality. It's a cool design this year, and when you order it, if what shows up at your door is not the standard color, which is cool and worth the money you paid for it, but instead it's bronze, silver, or gold, you get cash.
Starting point is 00:44:44 How much cash? Well if you get the bronze tea, $5,000. If you get the silver tea, $15,000. And if you get the golden tea, you will receive $30,000. So it's all cash prizes this year. But it's this week only, now through Friday, so grab your tea for a chance to win. You gotta be 18 or older, no purchase necessary, terms and conditions apply,
Starting point is 00:45:10 or we're prohibited. Visit mythical.com for more details. Alright? So after we left there, we walked down the street to Indian restaurant that I highly recommend, Bar Bar. Oh yeah, I haven't been there, but it's supposed to be like one of the best places. I've been there twice, they know me. Oh, Bar Bar. Yeah, I might get a little extra something.
Starting point is 00:45:33 It's a Indian fusion restaurant, very thoughtful. You can get like your butter chicken and your naan, but you can get some really fun apps. Did we not go to that in New, there's one in New York, right? Yeah, there is. Yeah, and I put it on my list of restaurants, and I forgot that they had put one here.
Starting point is 00:45:54 And the booths are really fun to sit in with a group, because you're kind of sitting all in a circle, so it's fun, very good. Then our other friend met us, and we, yep. It's on the New York City list. I recommend it. I gotta go. And then we went, we left there
Starting point is 00:46:09 and we went to the arts district. There's a barcade there that has like, across from Del Anona Pizza. Yeah, yeah. It's called like, the bar's called 88 something. I don't know why I can't remember right now. But it's, you know, pinball machines, arcade games, and then DJs spinning like old school hip hop,
Starting point is 00:46:34 which is nice and I love that. So we hung out there for a while until we went to another DJ event, which you buy tickets to this event in Chinatown, you walk through the Chinatown part of LA and you go to this club and they have an event called Boombox LA that they do, I think it's the first Saturday of every month. And so they'll have established DJs come through there who are like very good at what they do. So there was like a couple,
Starting point is 00:47:09 we watched a couple of DJs there and yeah, we stayed there till like 2.30 in the morning. And then- Nobody dropped off? Nobody dropped off. Everybody did good. That's a lot. Everybody's up for it.
Starting point is 00:47:21 That's a lot. So yeah, I can count on those guys to stick with me. I can't sleep in, so I just don't stay up unless it's... I literally slept, it never happens, but after two nights of partying, my double party system, I literally slept until 12.30. Like a teenager. I wish, man. I mean, that doesn't happen to me, and it's until 12.30. Like a teenager. I mean, that doesn't happen to me, and it's happening less and less.
Starting point is 00:47:48 The more that I stay up late, I'm still getting up because my brain wakes me up saying I have to drink coffee, or I'm gonna hurt too much, is what it says to me. That's why I wake up. But that's still nowhere near any later than 7.45 a.m. I couldn't believe it. I slept until afternoon. It's never happened. That's a good sleep, too. You get good dreams when you do that morning. I skipped a whole coffee. I woke up for my next coffee. And it was fine. It was funny when I was getting out of bed, I would have bet money it was 8.30.
Starting point is 00:48:28 Like that's how out of it I was. But I had a good time. Yeah, I'm sure there's still gonna be, I'm probably gonna crash again this afternoon, I don't know, but it was totally worth it. I had a great time with both groups. I had the best time with you though, Rhett. Oh.
Starting point is 00:48:46 Yep. Mm-hmm. I had the best time with you, Link. Yep. Thank you. It was fun. Any questions? How about the parties? Oh. Yeah, any questions about my parties, Jamie? Or voicemails? How about a voicemail? Okay. Unless you do have a question.
Starting point is 00:49:05 Well, I had this thing that I saw on TikTok of this woman crashing out in real time in front of everybody in the best way. It's lighthearted. Okay. But I thought you guys would get a kick out of this. So this woman is asking what the color of her chair is. Okay. Because she's very confused about it. Is this chair gray or blue?
Starting point is 00:49:31 Because I'm giving it away to someone and I'm sending pictures and I'm like, it's a blue chair and they're like, that's gray. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure it's blue. And she's like, can you get more pictures? It's gray. And I'm like, okay, but my couch and my chair have always always been blue but now she's gaslighting me and I'm starting to believe it I'm like is it gray is this blue or gray yeah take it to take time this is the chair it's great I think it's photographing a little more gray but
Starting point is 00:49:57 it matches this couch which I've always said is blue is great it's also okay I think it's my phone it's definitely blue, yeah. Okay, I think it's my phone. It's definitely blue, what color? Is this gray or is it blue? And also, I shouldn't be stressing this much over a free Terry. You either want it or you don't. It's free?
Starting point is 00:50:14 But is it blue or is it gray? Yeah. So. It's not blue or gray, it's free, is what you should be telling the Facebook Marketplace person. Yeah, your phone is processing the information and it's spitting it out as gray.
Starting point is 00:50:31 Yeah, there's really no way that we can know, honestly. We're not there, but what you just showed us was gray. If it's in the... Like what we saw was gray. Yeah, you say, you know what? Gray to the camera, blue to the eye. That's what you should say. Gray to the camera, blue to the eye. That's what you should say. Gray to the camera, blue to the eye.
Starting point is 00:50:45 It's a feature. Not a bug. So she goes on and like makes all these different videos where she's bringing stuff around her house to show. She's going nuts. She's going absolutely nuts. And the more items she brings, like she's like, this blanket is blue and everyone's like, honey. Let me see. The blanket. Everything else she brings. Let she's like, this blanket is blue, and everyone's like, honey. Let me see. That blanket.
Starting point is 00:51:06 Everything else she brings, let me see this. Everything else she brings is not, like. She doesn't have anything blue. She has a couple blue things, and so it's interesting. She don't know what blue is. To see, like, hold on. And it got, this has almost 20 million views, by the way, of like, everyone just, this woman finding out she's colorblind in real time.
Starting point is 00:51:26 Yeah, that might be what's happening. You think that's what it is? Just wait. Just wait, I gotta mash these up right now. We're gonna do a test. It's hard to argue against 4,000 people saying that it's gray, but if this is gray, I'm... Yeah, that's gray. Okay.
Starting point is 00:51:46 So what else you got? The blinds are open, the light is on, this is blue. And blue. Oh, no, no, no. It's blue. She's got, there was a blue notebook on that thing. Okay. Gray curtains.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Yeah, that's light gray. Blue. That's blue. Jacket. Yeah, that's light gray. Blue. That's blue. Jacket. Yeah. Blue jacket. There's hope for her at this point. She's identified two things correctly.
Starting point is 00:52:14 Black. Oh, God. Three colors. This is a very similar shade of blue. Those are pretty similar. That's blue. Or like... Sorry, girl. And this is gray.
Starting point is 00:52:27 You're right about that. That's gray. This is blue. And does she have colored pencils? Hold on. She thinks the colored pencils are the same color as the couch. This blanket's blue. But this definitely has like multiple tones in it, but that's blue.
Starting point is 00:52:44 And this card is blue. Yeah. But she thinks it's the same as the card. I'm just seeing all different shades of blue. Or it looks just as different from the gray sweatshirt. Isn't she precious? Should she be protected at all costs? Is that what's about to happen? Yes. No, I don't think so. She's not. Should she be protected at all costs? Is that what's about to happen?
Starting point is 00:53:05 Yes. No, I don't think so. She's not, basically. She's not precious enough. She shouldn't be trusted in like a kindergarten classroom. She basically is. I mean, because she doesn't know the difference between blue and gray.
Starting point is 00:53:14 No, but she, because she was trying to say that yes, there are different shades. The things she was pointing out were blue, were blue, but she thought they were the same as the couch. Was where she was getting at. And she takes a colorblind test and finds out that she is colorblind. Oh yes.
Starting point is 00:53:28 Oh okay, well that makes a lot of sense. But it's just like she literally throughout all day Sunday, like this developed. Wow. Of her just crashing out and realizing that she's colorblind in front of 20 million people. I'm assuming that she's the type of colorblind where she is just seeing things that are blue as gray,
Starting point is 00:53:48 essentially, and thinks that that's blue. Meaning that gray is the, what I would say like the absence of color, right? It's just black and white. It's black and white mixed at a certain shade. So she sees, she doesn't pick up on blue things. And they just look gray to her, so gray became blue to her.
Starting point is 00:54:12 Became blue. And she never knew that she had a visual impairment of sorts. I bet she was a little bit crushed. I remember when I was told I had to get glasses. You were upset. It just feels weird, you know? It's like, but this, talk about feeling gaslit.
Starting point is 00:54:35 She was gaslit by her own eyes. That's gonna feel weirder than getting glasses. That's tough. Hold on, my entire life, my eyes have been lying to me and now it's the ridicule of TikTok that has brought clarity? I feel crushed. I mean, yeah, I'd crash out a little bit, I guess. Oh, I would too, 100%.
Starting point is 00:54:55 That's why everyone was like, I'm gonna hold your hand. It's like, it's gonna be okay. You've been living with this, nothing is gonna change except now you just have a label for this thing that you experience. Yeah, and in a follow-up, she's like, I got my mom a blue couch for her room, like, when she, for her living room, and when she was telling her this story, her mom's like, oh, okay, well, I have to tell you, honey, the couch you got me is not blue and it's
Starting point is 00:55:23 gray, and she's like, you never told me? She's like, you were so excited about it. Maybe it's just furniture or stuff you can drape over furniture. She probably thinks... At some point, she probably did think that. She thinks a donkey is blue? Well, she might. I think that would come up.
Starting point is 00:55:41 Babe the Blue Ox, that's where that came from. A colorblind writer. Potentially. Speaking of writer, didn't we get a response from our romance novel author? Oh really? Can you read that for us? Yes.
Starting point is 00:56:01 Okay, so Peyton Corrine did respond to our TikTok. She said Peyton Corrine here, to our TikTok. She said, Peyton Corrine here. I am still in shock that this happened. GMM has been a comfort to me for over 10 years now, helped me through my loneliness and the grief of losing my dad. It was something personal to me that I wanted to include in Freddie's character. And I'm so happy to say I've connected with so many more GMM fans on my tour and events. To see you guys who I've watched daily for 10 plus years holding my little book is so surreal and amazing.
Starting point is 00:56:26 Thank you for everything you've done. Truly honored, PS, very much down for an exclusive GMM cover with you guys as the models. Yes! Yes. We gotta make that happen. So we, I'll be the guy and you'll be the tutor? I think she's gonna have to write something where there's two suitors.
Starting point is 00:56:49 Yeah, you gotta write a new one. Well, I'm so glad we got that backstory. Thank you for commenting that and thank you for, you know, for incorporating us into your novel because we had an impact on your life. Sorry to hear about, you know, your dad. But had an impact on your life. Sorry to hear about your dad. Glad we were there for you. And then you returned the favor. Maybe just keep writing this stuff.
Starting point is 00:57:13 If you're right, then we can be on the cover. Two suitors. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to completely. I mean, maybe, maybe this is like a two cover situation and the love interest, whoever you want to picture. I mean, maybe, maybe this is like a two cover situation and the love interest, you can, like whoever you want to picture. No, that's not how romance novels work. There has to be like descriptions of his hair
Starting point is 00:57:34 and whether or not he's got glasses and a beard or whatever. So you're saying that you write a romance novel where the character is either me or there's a duplicate, but only difference is a different character. You can't do that or there's a duplicate, but only difference is a different character. I'm saying you can't do that. That's a good idea. You can't do that though because my wife reads romance novels enough for me to understand
Starting point is 00:57:52 that there is basically like a lumberjack type that shows up in a lot of stories and so that would be like physically what would be like me, like you could beard, long hair kind of thing. It's like that's usually a specific type of guy. Right, but then they would. That's a totally different story. We write the story. Like where that guy comes from.
Starting point is 00:58:12 If it was a different guy. Yeah, but his whole interaction would be different. I think there's gotta be two guys in the story. I think this is a good exploration of a romance novel. It starts with a choose your own adventure. After chapter one, she either goes with guy A or guy lumberjack. And then you read the rest of the novel and you know which one you're getting
Starting point is 00:58:41 because of which one of us is on the cover. Now you've made yourself out to be a lumberjack. Now what am I gonna be? Well, I'm just saying that Jessie has described the type of... What am I gonna be? ...that I would physically track onto. I'm definitely not a... Who's the guy? Who's the chopper on TikTok? I'm not that guy. Uh, Thorin Bradley? Yeah, I'm no Thorin Bradley.
Starting point is 00:59:04 Oh, okay. Thank you, Jenna. You're welcome. I'm so quickly answering that question. I'm not that sexy. I mean, I got not that guy. Thorin Bradley? Yeah, I'm no Thorin Bradley. Oh, okay, thank you, Jenna. You're welcome. I'm so quickly answering that question. Oh yeah. I'm not that sexy. I mean, I got a bad back. I can't pick up a log. Well, that's what you are in fictional world. The fictional me is Thorin Bradley.
Starting point is 00:59:16 Yeah, but who am I? The DJ? What is Link's type in a romance novel? Spy, elf? The DJ could work, yeah. What is Link's type in a romance novel? Spy? Elf? The DJ could work. Yeah. Yeah. Like world traveler DJ.
Starting point is 00:59:33 Uh-huh. Always whisk off to the next spot. Nutty Professor. You wanna come with? Nutty Professor. Well, you have a Nutty Professor vibe, though. You're like the DJ, but you don't have the tip. Like, you go against the odds.
Starting point is 00:59:47 You're not like the typical DJ trope of being like an F-boy kind of situation. Okay. You surprise the main character by being like, oh, he's a DJ, but he's got... Yeah, the main character assumes that he will be the stereotypical type and then gets to know you.
Starting point is 01:00:05 Yeah, yeah, there's something there. There's something there. But what do I look like on the cover? Just a DJ? Just a guy DJing? Yeah, you got, handphone. I don't think, I don't. Hitting the volume knob.
Starting point is 01:00:16 At the wrong time. Was that me? Was that me? It's not leading man enough. Come on, guys. What are you talking about? It's not leading man enough. Come on, guys. What are you talking about? I just feel. Women love DJs.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Not in my experience. It just depends, you know? It just depends. Can I have knives? I'd like knives. You're a knife guy. What if I was... I think Corinne's gonna have to figure this out.
Starting point is 01:00:51 What if I was the unexpected babysitter of the child from your first marriage? Okay. Who's the boss type situation? You're a Manny? I'm a Manny. Okay, all right, go with that. Go with that.
Starting point is 01:01:11 I mean, super hot, carries knives. I mean, he's still DJ, but that's what you, where do you have to go, Manny? Oh, I've got a show in Ibiza. That's like the reveal. Come with me to Ibiza. Right. You and your-
Starting point is 01:01:30 But who's going to babysit the child now? The lumberjack from the other book. The one you didn't choose. It's the ex-husband. Yeah, I do childcare. We'll bring the baby. We'll bring the little lumberjack. So in yours, in my book, she has a child by you
Starting point is 01:01:48 because that's a prequel. And I'm taking care of your baby. But then when you read my book, we also have a baby at the end that then you take care of in the other book. So each book is a prequel for the other book. Because I'm also a manny because of the like timber shortage.
Starting point is 01:02:08 Yeah, right. But my whole education system. Like the utilization of blown glass. I'm a glass blower? No, a lot of people are moving to blown glass instead of trees, so this is the plot. So now you're a man. Blown glass for what?
Starting point is 01:02:30 Construction? Paper. Yeah, I think we gotta work on that. Construction, I don't know. We gotta work on that. I don't know. I think it's the 3D printing of the houses that's happening. You know what, I'll just be a glass blower.
Starting point is 01:02:42 Sexy glass blower. I work with heat, I'm accustomed to it. Okay. I could be a construction worker. I've got a gentle touch, and I've got a delicate blow. There's a... You've seen the guy's 3D printing the houses, like it looks like a concrete deck and his shit. Yeah. A concrete... It's in a tube, and a shit. Yeah, a concrete. It's in a tube and the tube moves and yeah. I could be that guy that runs that.
Starting point is 01:03:10 Yeah, you're just, yeah. You're a concrete. But then I turn out I'm bad and I 3D print like an enclosure around her. No door. With no doors. And then you have to come in and blow a hole. Yeah, blow a glass hole. Blow a glass hole into the concrete that hasn't dried yet.
Starting point is 01:03:35 Right. But we can't make this about saving the woman. That's too old school. That's not what happens anymore. There's no saving the princess anymore. We're saving the material cost of continuing with the project. That's right. Yes. Corinne, use any of that you want.
Starting point is 01:03:51 We're gonna cut our loss. I'm so glad that you wrote back and that you saw that and that you were happy about it. Yeah. Are you happy about this? Probably not. I guess it requires another response from you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And while we're at it, that lumberjack guy,
Starting point is 01:04:06 what's his name again? Thorin Bradley. Thorin. You know about this guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've seen him, right? He chops stuff. He pops up on everybody's feet, right? He's got a wry look on his face, and I seem to think I know what he's doing.
Starting point is 01:04:20 And I seem to think he knows what he's doing. Yeah. I mean, sometimes he sets down something that's so big. I think we're all watching for different reasons, it's my guess, but he sets something down and I'm like, how many times is it gonna take? How many times is it gonna take before he splits it? And then you count?
Starting point is 01:04:42 And then you just watch it and then you're just like, yep, there he goes, up, there he goes, up, and then he splits it. It's hypnotic in that way. There's a release to it. Yeah. A symbolic release, at least for me. So are we talking to him now?
Starting point is 01:05:00 Let's have him on the show. We should have him on the show. We should have him on the show. What about the episodes where we're trying to split something perfectly? Why have we not thought about this? We need to have Desmond Oakenshield, whatever his name is. Yeah, yeah,
Starting point is 01:05:12 Oakenshield, that works too. Thorin Bradley. Thorin Oakenshield. If he knows what, he probably doesn't even come to LA, he probably knows what's best. Get your head out, y'all, and ass and come on our show. I think he lives in Northern California, like on the, he old ass, and come on our show. I think he lives in Northern California. Oh really? He's at least on the coast up here.
Starting point is 01:05:28 He's in our time zone, for sure. Okay. I didn't look too deep into it, but. I can tell by the woods. I can tell by the woods. Yeah right, it's not southern woods. It's not southern woods now. He's living in the, I can tell he's in the same time zone.
Starting point is 01:05:43 I can feel it. Okay, I promise it's not weird. I'm sorry, Thorin. Yeah. We should definitely get him on. But you're gonna, Jenna, you're gonna have to take a vacation day today. I'm gonna have to.
Starting point is 01:05:57 You can't be. We don't need another Joe Jonas situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. We're gonna have a porta potty outside for you. I don't want any part of him. Yeah, just go to the other side. You're invited.
Starting point is 01:06:11 You're invited on the show because we're not threatened by your masculinity. I can't even say the word. Yeah, I wanna see the real lumberjack looks like. I wanna, you know, I just wanna hang out and I want to be sexy by association. Yeah. So we'll look into that. Okay.
Starting point is 01:06:30 Well, I'm feeling good about today. I had a good time. I had a real good time. Nothing wrong with being colorblind. Let us know if you want us to respond to something by leaving us a voicemail. 1-888-EARPOD-1. We'll talk at you next week. Hi Rhett and Link.
Starting point is 01:06:50 My name is Rachel from Minnesota. I've been watching you guys for over 10 years now. When I first started dating my now boyfriend of about two and a half years, you know, you're just stealing somebody out, you're going on a couple dates, trying half years. You know, you're just stealing somebody out, you're going on a couple dates, trying to decide, you know, is this person for me? Are they a good person? What are the vibes? And when I found out that he watched GMM and knew who you guys were, that kind of cinched the deal for me. That was all I needed to know.
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