Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Our Current Health Check In

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

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Is he serious? Is he serious? No. The Naked Gun, only in theaters August 1st. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I'm Rhett. And I'm Link. This week at the roundtable of dim lighting, we're doing another mini episode. We're gonna clock in around a half hour, so that's a heads up.

Because, like we said last episode, we're gearing up for a little sabbatical, a little break, so we, you know, we gotta, we wanna give you something you can listen to. But we're doing like two for ones, from our perspective. So it's helpful. So thank you for your support. And one of the things we wanna talk about before we get into some of the updates and discussions that we will be having is the thing that we are so excited about,

the thing that we've been working on since the fall of last year, and that is WonderHole Season Two. Whoop, whoop. And okay, there's a lot that we're about to cover about this, but just hang with us for a second because you're gonna find out where you can watch the new trailer for Season Two,

which is on the original Rhett and Link channel, which I think right now we're still calling it Rhett and Link's Wonder Hole just because the way that the SEO works and everything, that's the name of the channel. It's the original Rhett and Link channel. Yes. But over there we made the promo

that may have deceived you if it was, if it properly or if it performed as it should, it deceived you a little bit into thinking that something was going to happen, but it was the trailer for season two. I mean, you may wanna watch the trailer for season two, but a lot of people have to be tricked into watching the trailer,

and to watch in a video that's an announcement. So, you know. And ironically, that's's as we explore a little bit in the trailer, or the lead-in for the trailer. It's kind of reflective of how we approach the season in general. We don't need to get in all that right now. All you need to know is go over to the Rhett and Link channel to watch the trailer. The series premieres on August 24th. So we're starting to do the rollout and the ramp up.

But we also wanted to create a special live event where we could screen a couple of episodes of season two of WonderHole with fans, maybe you. Mm-hmm. So we constructed a premiere event in LA, and then we added the next night a premiere event in Seattle. We needed to keep it west coast because of our time commitments and things like that, but so we've got three screenings which we will physically be there, and we're calling it an evening with Rhett and Link,

where yes, we will show you two episodes before they come out, but we will also be engaging with the crowd and having a... Telling you a couple of stories, we're gonna do answer some of your questions. Stevie's gonna be up there on stage with us, moderating that. It's gonna be a there on stage with us moderating that. It's gonna be a cool, intimate, mythical beast type experience that will only

happen for those two nights, LA and then Seattle. And it's cool to watch things on the big screen with other mythical beasts. We don't get a lot of opportunities to do that. You don't get a lot of opportunities to do that. So for a very special sort of once in a lifetime thing if you wanna be a lot of opportunities to do that. You don't get a lot of opportunities to do that. So for a very special sort of once in a lifetime thing that you want if you want to be a part of that. There's gonna be some exclusive stuff there beyond that. There's some exclusive merch that can only be gotten there at the event. Also, if you are a Mythical Society member, again, there's lots of benefits to that as

it relates to WonderHole is you're actually going to be able to see WonderHole. Every episode is going to come out early on the Mythical Society so you can see those episodes before they drop widely on YouTube. And also, as it relates to this live screening premiere event with us, on this Wednesday July 23rd at 3 a.m. Eastern, or midnight Pacific. Did I say specific? Pacific. I gotcha. Specifically Pacific. You can go and get tickets for the pre-sale only as a Mythical Society member, okay?

So that's basically, if you're listening to this on Wednesday, that's gonna happen. You said buy tickets for pre-sale. If you're, yeah. Yeah. Mythical Society members get the first tickets to the live event. If you're listening to this on Wednesday, that's gonna happen. You said buy tickets are pretty slow. If you're, yeah. Yeah, Mythical Society members get the first tickets to the live event. Which are available now. Yeah. So you can go to mythicalsociety.com

and get a ticket to that event before anybody else. And that's, what you're gonna be able to do is get the VIP tickets where you get special seating in the theater, which won't be like the front row, it'll be like a section of seats that are like... The best seats. Close to, you know, you don't want to be on the front row for a movie necessarily, but you want to be pretty close because we're gonna be doing this Q&A,

but you also get, there's gonna be a limited number of VIP meet and greet tickets as well. So anyway, it's gonna be a very... An extravaganza! ...celebratory time where we can kind of watch this thing that we created and put all this time and passion into. We can enjoy it together. But for those of you who can't make that, you know, watch and share the promo. You know how excited we get about Wonder Hole.

It's where we're basically pouring our hearts and our minds into something. Um, unbridled creativity as far as what we've got to offer. And we're very excited about this season. And we'll talk more about the specifics of the season, the specific approach, and, you know, that kind of thing once it gets closer to the premiere time. Yeah. He just wrote a voicemail. I heard that we have an update on my mouth numbness. We do. Hey, Rhett and Link.

I'm Carissa. I'm from Calgary, Alberta in Canada. I just finished listening to the most recent episode and I wanted to say that I'm very proud of you, Link, for exploring the anatomy of your mouth. I think everybody should be doing that. I'm a massage therapist. And you probably got some of the numbness because your massage therapist sounds like she was pressing on it pretty hard. You don't need that much pressure, but she was probably just aggravating one of your facial nerves, the trigeminal nerves. So, Rhett, you were correct in your explanation.

Anyways, please enjoy massaging the inside of your mouth. You can do it at home. Everybody should be exploring their facial anatomy. Good job. Glad it helped. Everyone should be exploring your facial analogy. I can't talk. Analogy. Let's make an analogy with the anatomy. Did she say that my nerve was called a trigenital nerve?

There's three balls in my cheek? Yeah, yeah. Well, would you specify? You know what? When in doubt, trigenital. Is that what she said? I'm gonna look it up, cause I couldn't. That sounds right. I don't know. When people say words like that, they kind of just go whoosh right over me. Unless I have to repeat them to somebody. How are you feeling though?

My numbness has subsided. My genitals are back in my... in the right place. And what, it took what? I would say after a week it was fully better? It was more like two weeks, but I did go back in, I haven't been messing with it too much, but I did go back in with a finger yesterday just to kinda see how things were doing. But you're not trained. Like she said, it's good to explore your own body.

It feels like the kind of thing you could do to yourself, though. Oh yeah, I've started doing it to myself. Yeah, like just palpate your face. And then just get underneath there, underneath the cheeks. I haven't washed my hands, I'm not gonna do it right now. But I mean, I was eating some yogurt in the car. And you stick your finger in there while you have the yogurt in there? Well, we didn't have a spoon, so I'm eating the yogurt.

I'm squishing the yogurt out and just like using my tongue to get the yogurt out of the thing, because I'm in the car, we're driving down the road. That's what gogurt's for, man. Well, I squeezed it like a gogurt, but it was a cup. Yeah. And then after I squeezed it, I realized there was a lot of yogurt down in it. I needed that yogurt, so I took one finger, and I went down in there, and I scooped out all the yogurt, and I started sucking it off my finger.

And who were you with at the time, and what was the look on their face? Uh, Christy, and she was the look on their face? Christy, and she was driving. Okay, good, she was distracted. I'm sure she saw me out of the corner of her eye and decided not to look over. But then once I had yogurt on my finger, and my fingers in my mouth, I was like,

what a perfect opportunity. Yeah, sorry, in there. Just to start massaging the inside of my mouth. Do you experience relief? It feels good to touch the places of my mouth, you know? Do you experience relief? It feels good to touch the places of tension, yes. Even on the outside. Like sometimes now, instead of just like, if I'm listening to you, I might prop up,

I might use my left hand to prop up my face and just kind of have a little, you're doing it too. We're both kind of looking at each other, we've got a hand on our face, so now, you see what you're doing it too. We're both kinda looking at each other, we've got a hand on our face, so now, you see what I'm doing, instead of just like propping up your head with your hand, just start pushing. Can I open one eye a little bit?

And you don't need to, you don't need to go in a, Roll back. You don't even need to go in a circle. You just need to start, don't do that. You just need to find where it's tender and just kind of push and poke around. If anything's tender in there. I don't have a lot of tenderness.

Okay. Maybe you haven't found it yet. Or maybe you don't carry any tension in your face. But I feel validated. And I thank you for the call. You know? This is the power you have. You can call us in response to things that we've said, and you can make us feel better about ourselves. You'll do that by calling 1-888- EarPod One. This summer we're very much looking forward to relaxing,

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I've been researching the Vegas nerve, you know, the nerve that connects all the important things. Okay. Your gut, your heart. I don't know. It goes lots of places. the nerve that connects all the important things. Okay. Your gut, your heart, I don't know, it goes lots of places. And your vagal tone, which is like a measure of your HRV, your heart rate variability,

is an indication of your ability to basically handle stress. And my vagal tone is low. Like muscle tone, that's how you're using the term. It's not like a sound, it's like, is it toned? I don't really, I mean, it's definitely not like a sound. It's just called vagal tone. I don't know specifically.

And how are you measuring it? You get your HRV on your ring, I get it on my watch now. But. So it's just the HRV number. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so like if your vagal tone, if your HRV is low, it can be a sign of chronic stress, and basically it's a measure of your body's ability to deal with stress.

I don't know why, I don't know the mechanism of heart rate variability and how that relates to stress, but your vagus nerve is like your heart is involved, your gut is involved. So a lot of people can experience problems with their heart, their gut, like irritable bowel syndrome, and lots of things can be associated. And I'm chronically stressed out,

I have been for 20 years, but I continue to try to develop techniques to deal with it. But there are, so there's like breathing exercises and that kind of thing that are good. And there's also, this is a breathing exercise as well, but like that humming meditation that you like see when people are, you know, playing monks on television. Like, oh, mmm, like literally the humming will increase vagal tone.

But you can also, I think it's on both sides, but you can also like find it and do like little massages on it. Sure that's not a lymph node? Well, you're close to a lymph node. The lymph node is right there. But it's basically right next to the jugular. I think it runs right alongside it. And you can kind of just do a little massage,

a little hum in your eyes, roll back in your head, a little bit. Do some deep breathing exercises, do some box breathing. I've been doing lots of box breathing, just as needed as I think about it. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do some box breathing. I think it's, I mean, the numbers are going up. The specific protocol that I have been using

is a four second inhale, a seven second breath hold and an eight second exhale. And I usually do a little double inhale. So I go like inhale and then right at the end, a quick inhale to, there's a name for it. I can't remember what that's called, but basically you fill your lungs up, then you hold that for a count of seven

and then you breathe slowly out of the mouth for eight seconds. You do four of those in a row. And you're like, I'll do it to the point where sometimes I'll hold it a little bit longer. And so I get a little bit lightheaded. And sometimes if I'm not seated, I will feel like I'm gonna faint,

in which is pushing it too far, but you feel like you've just taken drugs. Like when you get done with that, there's just like euphoria that hits you with whatever, I don't know what you've done, something with oxygen, I don't know, but you feel great and you like calm down and you stop thinking about whatever it was that was bringing stress

because now you're like concentrating on the breath. Anyway, I've been doing that. And I also ordered this thing. It hasn't come yet, I don't know. I don't know where it is. But you can do a, you can get this thing that literally electrically stimulates the vagus nerve. Like a collar?

The one I got goes around the back and then like has these little things and it's just like little electrical signal. There's another one that you like take and looks like a shaver or whatever, like sticking on there for two minutes. And it, most people, because people who have vagus nerve things

can sometimes get migraines. I thank God I don't have migraines. But they'll do this stimulation of the nerve to help with migraines. But some people will do it if they're having like bowel issues or what, I'm just trying to get my HRV up, which I have through exercise, breathing and stuff. But yeah, I've got this thing that looks like,

it looks like what the Star Trek guy would have worn on his eyes, but then you just put it on your neck and turn it around. Okay. So that's the type of massage that I'm into right now. Fagal nerve. When you talk about the nerve being in all those places, it is crazy to think about, I don't know what defines a nerve. Is it like an organ?

I know you have many nerves. It's basically like saying, like if you had an artery, I understand that they name different arteries that go from point A to point B, but for one nerve to be in all those places, that's a big ass nerve. It's a big, well, nerve is essentially, I think,

I don't know, correct me. I think it's basically just a bundle of neurons, right? In short, so basically it's a way for electricity and electrical signals to move throughout the body. It's the network by which electricity moves around the body. And it's concentrated in this, basically this main river of the vagus nerve. And then there are nerve bundles and branches

that just like, you know, it's basically the way all stuff in your body propagates, like vessels and capillaries and stuff. And so it works the same way as blood vessels. But this one goes down and around and then back up. And it's actually, I think, well, I think it's different than the laryngeal nerve, which is a really interesting,

there's a really interesting thing about evolution and the way that evolution happened with the laryngeal nerve is going from your brain to your larynx. But somehow at some point, because of the way we evolved, it went under an artery that's coming out of your heart, because we used to be different, we come from fish, you know, and so it worked differently.

But then as we evolved, it still made sense for the laryngeal nerve to go under this artery. And so your laryngeal nerve goes from your brain down to your heart and then back up to your larynx. And it happens in a giraffe as well. So it goes all the way from a giraffe's brain, all the way down its neck, around its heart, and then back all the way up,

and then connects to the larynx of all mammals. And it's just one of these things that, like, at some point... A byproduct of the way that we evolved. Yeah, it's just fascinating. Yeah, it reminds me of the analogy of housing renovations. Yeah, yeah.

Where you got some old wiring, and then, well, I wanna extend this wiring, but I ran the wiring back here, but now I want it up here, but I need to use the same wire, so I'm just gonna bring it back up here now instead of ripping out all the walls and starting over because that's not how bodies are made.

And it's, and it's, You don't rip anything out. Right. And it's, You just keep adding and adding and adding. And it's this amazing evidence for the fact that this, whether you not you believe in God is unrelated and irrelevant to this question because that could be God's process.

But the fact is, is that the process is not special creation, it's- Iterative over time. It's iterative and it- It's additive over over time. It's iterative and it's additive over time. And it builds on itself. And it's like, it's always makes more sense and when the body is being built through this gene expression thing that happens, the amount of what would have to happen

in order for that route to change to be the direct route, which would obviously be more efficient. And if I was designing a giraffe from the ground up, I wouldn't do that. I would go straight to it. Because it also creates a thing where the amount of real estate that that nerve is taking up creates all these opportunities for it to get severed and,

Right. You know, and it's also just more proteins. It's even though if you're a, you know, if you're a creationist, you're gonna say that, well, God did it that way for some reason that we're gonna find out. It's better for some reason or whatever. You can back them into a corner and they're always gonna find a way to slip out. But it's just fascinating. But the vagus nerve, which is, I don't know why I was talking about the laryngeal nerve, but the vagus nerve has a strange path, but it goes and grabs all this important stuff.

And so if it's not working right, you can have a lot of things, and that's why if you're chronically stressed out, you can have heart stuff, you can have stomach issues, and other things that it connects to as well. Try yogurt though, next time you wanna massage that, put a little yogurt on your finger. People are curious about the fact that,

as a shout out to you in my fridge tour video with Spork, I had my kefir and I was like, this is kefir for pills. And I was like, it's not actually, I just said that. And I put kefir in my smoothie, which then I take my pills with that. Okay. I don't take it directly, but now everyone,

because people don't know when I'm joking a lot of the time, because I don't make it clear, are like, why are you renting Link taking pills with kefir? This is a thing. Or kefir, okay? I know that you don't say kefir, but.

Kefir? I think that you don't say kefir, but... Kefir? I think that's how you... Okay. I also don't say paris when I say Paris. You know what I'm saying? I'm not Alex Trebek. I don't say Teva when I put on my teabas either. That's right. You know, it's not the same thing, but...

Oh, you know, but speaking of health... What are you saying? That people want to know why you and I have this thing of taking pills with kefir? Yeah, yeah, people were confused. I will say... Is this something that... Did I invent this? And you were just like... You said it on your fridge tour. Well, yeah, cause I do it. And you don't do it, but did you ever do it? I take pills with water or a smoothie, and my smoothie has kefir in it.

So you did it as a shout out to me. Yeah, because I have the same exact kefir in my fridge as you do. So basically, I invented it. I invented taking pills with kefir. Do you do it because, why? Because people were like, again, I love you guys. You always think that everything that we do, you try to track it to some real good reason. And people were like,

well, they probably do it because pills can be bitter or something like that. And I'm like, I don't think so. I think he just likes kefir and he has to take pills. No, it's more than that. It's lubricative. Okay. But it's not because it covers up the taste of pills. No, no, no, no. Pills don't have taste. No, I don't taste the pills. I'm not tasting pills every morning, y'all. Don't worry. Link ain't over here tasting pills.

Link's just taking the pills down without tasting. Because it's like, it has grabbing power, it's more viscous, and so it takes the pill and throws it down. Like if you're cleaning out a pipe, you wanna like, some volume to be in the liquid, or some viscosity. I mean, my form of box breathing is sertraline. It's an anxiety medication. Right.

It's Zoloft. How big is it, though? It's very small, but it's the last pill you wanna dry swallow. Well, I never do that. Even if I take it with water, sometimes it feels like it gets stuck there, and this is a thing with this pill. It grabs it and pulls it out. It's not a cow... it's a sticky kind of pill.

I've gotten so good at taking pills, man. I feel like if I take my pill with my smoothie, which right when I get up, I take the kefir with the sertraline, and I take like a multivitamin. The multivitamins are in capsule, but they're also kind of sticky. So I swallow three of those with kefir. And then later in the morning, maybe 40, maybe an hour later, I will eat my smoothie.

But I have elected to not take my pills with my smoothie because I just believe, I don't believe that it works as well. And I know that's not true. I know that's kind of wild. No, but it depends on what you're taking. Some pills, some drugs are supposed to be taken with food, some are not. Some are fat soluble. I mean, the ones that I have don't, it doesn't matter. But citrulline is like, you can take it with or without food. Yeah. Multivitamin.

But I actually don't believe that it will be absorbed if I take it with food. This is a belief I have, which is not based on anything. A multivitamin should be taken with some healthy fats, but your kefir has healthy fat in it. So, you should probably find. I feel like I'm giving my body... This is what I think. It has nothing to do with the facts that you're telling me. Nothing about the fats.

Those are not important to you. This is what's important to me. The feeling of I'm giving my body this pill right now and it's gonna take it and use it. But I'm not gonna confuse my body with 18 other ingredients. You know what? Link has a point here. I feel like I'm being kind to my body. This is an important pill. You can eat it alone. And you need to concentrate all of your digestive powers, Link's stomach, on getting this anxiety medication where it needs to go,

because I want it. I really want it to be in the right place. You don't want it to get confusing. Just stick with the smoothie. I don't want you to just... And go straight into your poo-poo. Yeah, just poop it out, because it's just like you're overwhelmed. I've gotten so good at... And this is totally fabricating my mind, right? Right. So you have the opportunity to not perpetuate the fabrication,

but it probably doesn't matter, because I think you can take it either way, and it doesn't matter. And also, if I wait to take the pill... If you're taking a lot of stuff, you have to think about stuff. With my smoothie, then I'm afraid that I might forget to take my pill. If I don't take the pill right when I wake up, then I might not take it that day. Right. Right? Good financial habits. Earn points for paying your credit card bill in full and on time every month.

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as they transition into adulthood, they get over that and then some people remain children. It's fine. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I know some people have literal physiological issues that make it difficult to swallow pills, and so I'm going to acknowledge those people. I'm just making a joke. But I have gotten where I want to make the pill part of the I want to make it as fast as possible, so I'm taking my, I like to go outside now and get some sunlight and I'm just out there drinking my smoothie in the sunlight, like staring just below the sun, you know? And, um...

I'm the weird one, though. But I'm just doing, I'm not going on instinct here, I'm going based on what, you know, the latest research, whatever. So, sunlight early. And the... but I don't want just to have a big thing of pills. And so I've been lately, I've been seeing how many pills I can swallow in one swallow. And let me just tell you right now, it's a lot. So, the magnesium pills I have are this big

and there's three of them. And so I take all three of those together. But then I was like. So your body's not confused. But then, no, I entered all my supplements into the AI engine that I use for research. And I said that knows all about me and my habits and stuff. And I put the quantities and the specific amounts in.

And you ask it, how many can you swallow at once? No, I said, when based on the latest evidence, should I take these? What time of day and whether without food? And it just tells you and you should do it. Well. And I use one that is well vetted and resourced, it's not hallucinating, don't worry about me.

But I'm also taking a lot less supplements than I was. I'm kinda like rebuilding it. But I got where, do you just be surprised how many you can swallow? I know there's a lot of people who are really scared of taking pills, I'm saying a man with a small mouth and a relatively small neck, so probably a small throat. I'm just telling you, I figured out that you can take eight

large capsules of anything in one swallow. What? Dude, that's analogous to swallowing a steak? Like a big... Listen, I'm not a doctor. Why are you swallowing? What, what, you just, what? Because after a while I was like... Do you feel like you only got so many swallows in you? Yeah, yeah, well it's probably true, you probably do.

Like once you reach your swallow quotient, you die? Swallowing the pills. That's what determines your death day? Swallowing the pills is the least favorite part of that whole experience. And I'm like, so I'll piece them together, and it's like when you have a palm full, I think a palm full is a swallow full.

And then you just, and with the smoothie, it does what the principle of like, I don't know if I would do it with water. But you're swallowing hard with the smoothie. Big gulp. Not too hard. Just relaxing the you're swallowing hard with the smoothie. Big gulp. Not too hard. Just relaxing the throat and swallowing it in. You can't do, and I don't know how to do that.

I don't know how to relax the throat. I can't chug a drink. Is that what you're doing? It's just one swallow. It's just like, they're in there and I'm like... ... But then there's a... It's just like they're in there and I'm like...... ... It's just like somebody plunging a toilet,

but without it being ever stuck. And then my stomach's like, hello! Just takes it all in. And then it's confused. You've flooded the zone. No. Like literally, you have flooded your stomach zone with pills. Your body is gonna, it knows what to do with all that.

Now first of all, just piss out 90% of it. I don't think, like my belief about my stomach, my relationship with my stomach is that... Mine's not a belief. ...is part of me. I don't have beliefs about my stomach. I believe that my stomach is not a good multitasker. That's what I believe that my stomach is not a good multitasker.

That's what I believe, and that's why I like to swallow a little pill here, a little pill there. Link has a point here. I mean, I realize how ridiculous this is, but it makes me feel good to have, to be kind. But you also only take a multivitamin in a citrulline. I feel like I'm being kind to my GI tract. I'm easing it into pills, foods. I'm just taking all those pills at once,

and then I'm not taking anything else. I chew everything so vigorously. You know that about me? And I do that because I'm kind to my stomach. I think when I die and they do an autopsy, because they will do an autopsy. That's not something you want to predict about yourself. Oh.

Because it usually means you'd be the victim of foul play. Well... Suspected foul play. Well, then maybe I'll have a news story written about me. Maybe there'll be a podcast investigating my death. Mm-hmm. But the thing that they're gonna discover is that my stomach is the stomach of probably a 25-year-old. Well, we both had our stomachs looked at by a doctor,

and he did not seem to say, because I'm getting much better about chewing. I didn't ask you. I'm getting much better about chewing, but I have done very little chewing in my life. What do you mean you're getting better about chewing. I didn't ask. Getting much better about chewing, but I have done very little chewing in my life. What do you mean you're getting better about chewing? I'm chewing more. I'm trying to not swallow things whole.

But I'm still swallowing my pills whole, but I'm trying to like, my philosophy throughout my life has been, have you chewed it enough to be able to get it down? Choke it down, basically. And usually there's a gray area, like maybe, and then you swallow. I have no idea.

And I've been so averse to that. You might have chewed this enough to get it down. Let's find out. Swallow now. That's my philosophy. Maybe I have a choking phobia. But anyway. But now I'm chewing, but here.

More? You're chewing more? Yeah, because it's not good for you to not chew. It's better to chew. Chewing is, I mean, I think maybe when you've done some damage to your face muscles, but... See, well then, see, I'm on it. I've been on to something this whole time. It's much better, but, hold on. Sometimes I wonder, like, are you telling me that you did not know that chewing your food more is definitively better for you to do? You've just been doing it because your

grandma told you to do it when you were a kid? No, I believe that it's good. It's kind to my body. No, but there's definitive scientific reasons for why... This is a whole digestion process that's happening. And so if your mouth does more work, it does a number of things. First of all. I believe that intuitively, but not scientifically. Well, I'm gonna tell you, okay,

well, let's back up your intuition with some science because chewing the food makes you, first of all, you eat less because you take longer to eat and longer to realize that you're full. When you chew, you know, not very much like me, you end up overeating. And then also, you do overwhelm your stomach because it is having to work harder.

It's like now it's releasing more acid to like, oh shit, he just, there's a giant piece of steak in here. There's a fully intact egg. You know? There's a whole meatball in this man's stomach. There is a handful of pills. Oh, here's eight pills. Are they in a Ziploc bag still? Maybe. The pills, not an issue, because that's just the packaging, the cellulose packaging or whatever is disintegrating and then their body...

Listen, you don't need to convince me that what I'm doing is good. I'm saying that what you're doing about the chewing is good. Thank you. Welcome to my world. But no, but this is, again, what I'm laying out here is an opportunity for us to learn from each other and compromise. So I am learning from you in the way that you chew things more thoroughly, and that's a good thing. And what I'm telling you is that you need to learn from me and swallow

eight pills. You need to work your way up. Because the pills, that's totally fine. I have three pills that I swallow. Do them all at the same time. So you're telling me you want me to add five, like... No, I'm saying... Placebos? Until you get to eight pills,

do not do one pill at a time. Do them all together. Put all three pills in your palm, Here I am gonna do this? Yeah, because here's another thing, it's a confidence booster. Because a lot of this is all in your head. Yeah, I just did that.

No, seriously, like, I just choked on eight pills at once. I can do anything today. You can, because it's all mental. I can choke down anything. Again, caveat, if you have a physiological issue with swallowing, I'm not talking to you. Swallowing pills gives you confidence.

But if you have a, if you have an optimally functioning digestive system, okay, then you have the capacity to swallow, I'm not gonna say you gotta be an eight-pill guy, but you definitely a three-pill person. You should be doing three pills at a time, and you can do that. You can swallow three pills at a time. In order to give you confidence. Well, think about it. You've seen the people, you know who you are, mentally you don't want to swallow a pill,

you get it in the back there and you get a little bit nervous and then you panic and you're throwing your head up and doing things that are unnecessary. When you overcome this small little challenge of three pills at a time without looking like this, you just put them in there and then just drink like a normal person's just drinking like a cup of coffee or whatever and you swallow and then you smile.

You get where you can do that, what will you do next? They're not gonna be able to keep you from anything. Alright, so now. But if three pills are gonna stop you, what's the next thing that's gonna stop you? The Rep. McLaughlin confidence booster system. It's true! You gotta work your way up to taking eight pills at once.

With Keifer. I come out of my laundry room with eight pills that have just deposited into my stomach. I got some pep in my stomach. I thought you were in the sun. No, pills, laundry room, then you go in the sun. No. Pills, laundry room, then you go into the sun. All right, so we need to... Patent this? The eight-pill system?

Yeah. Why am I gonna do this? Why am I now gonna do this? I could maybe build... Because you started chewing, that's why. I could build a travel container. If you started chewing. I could build something that like, shoots, that should have done that. But like, shoots the pills into your mouth.

So it's just, you know, oh you know what it is? It's your pill, you send your pills to me, at a address that I will disclose. I mix them into kefir. And it's, but it's still pill form. And it's like a go-gurt. And then you just take it. It's there in a suspension fluid.

You take it and then there's a little thing that you put it in your mouth and then the thing hangs out of your mouth and then you clap on it. And it just shoots it down your throat. And everybody will do it. And you know, it's called a confidence booster. I have to spell it a little bit different

to make it proprietary. Can we put the word pill in it? Pill pack. Pill pack one, confidence boost. We'll figure that out, but I gotta work on the engineering side of it too. You're sitting here forcing yourself. We're both crazy, I'm just saying.

You can get a friend to step on it too. You are crazy too, man. I'm not saying I'm not. You're crazy, man. I'm not saying that I'm not. You're sitting there trying to take as many pills as it was as you can. I'm saying, but my- And I'm trying to take

As someone who is- As few pills as possible. The interesting thing is you pride yourself on being a man of efficiency. All the choices that I am laying out here are made out of, for efficiency's sake, which I don't think that's always a good, that's a good thing. My stomach's not going to do,

it's like, well, if there's not a pharmacist down there, do this with this, do that with that. How does my stomach know where to send everything? It's crazy. That's millions of years of evolution have figured that out. It's wild, dude. You just dump a whole bunch of stuff in your stomach

and it knows what to do with it. Well, but again, all of this has been predetermined. Beautiful. Some things work together. Like if you take vitamin D3, you need some vitamin K at the same time. If you take zinc, you need to take some copper. And most of the multivitamins are gonna take care

of this balance for you. They've thought about this because they know that people aren't gonna think about it. But then there are some things that, well, don't take these two things together because your body won't know what to do with it. Not your stomach. Your stomach isn't a problem. There are certain things that are competing for the same receptors.

Everything goes in your body in different ways. So yeah, this is why you put it in. Or you can go to a doctor if you don't like to use AI. Or you can go to probably like a website where you can enter things in and they'll use AI to help figure out what it is. But you should know when you should take the things that you are taking, because you may be taking them at the wrong time, you may be taking them with the wrong thing, you may be taking them on an anti-stomach, and you do need like some fat to take it with, or you do need a meal, or you don't need a meal, some stuff. You need to know that about the stuff that you're taking. See, this is when you lose me.

But it's so easy. This is overwhelming, but when you say X number of pills swallowed at once delivers Y amount of confidence, that's simple, that's marketing. Okay. That's what I can do. Yeah, but if people aren't supposed to take the pills with food, I can't mix them with the kefir.

They've gotta send me all the information and then I'll do the work. Sometimes it'll be just water balloons. Sometimes it's kefir balloons. They're balloons. Confidence balloons. Confidence balusters. And then if people have a swallowing problem, can you grind it all up and put it in the go-gurt? Yes. Probably, yeah. We'll figure it out.

So there'll be a pill grinding division. We'll have a website. But there'll be a lot of judgment associated with that, as you can tell. Rhett's gonna throw a lot of shade at you if he's grinding your pills for you. Yep. Wow. Okay.

Summer's in full swing for us. We're swallowing pills and we are as confident as we've ever been! And next time on a little mini, because we got two more this summer, I know somebody has a follow-up about the airline stuff that we talked about, and I have a little airline incident that happened, and I want to see what you think about it. Okay, teaser to the next one. We'll talk at you next week. Merritt. My daughter Maureen Merritt is a huge fan. She's like your biggest fan. But you probably don't know her because she's very shy. But we just had fun dialing your phone number because she actually admitted to me that she didn't know how to dial it. What's the phone number again? 1-888-EAR-POD-1. Ear-Pod-1. All right. We love your stuff. Keep on keeping on. Thanks.