Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Our Thoughts on Unruly Kids in Restaurants | Ear Biscuits Ep. 402

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

This just in from Banan-news! (News written on bananas – it’s gonna be a thing). In this episode, Rhett & Link weigh in on a Georgia restaurant’s policy of charging adults a fee for bad parenting while reminiscing on their earlier parenting days. Plus, Link explains to Rhett how Rugby is played – in Link fashion. Pre-order the Mythical Cookbook at https://mythical.com/cookbook To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Squeeze more summer out of summer with Skip. Did somebody say Skip? 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, I'm going to be telling you about a controversial practice instituted by a restaurant that I would like to get our opinion on.

Okay, and I'm going to tell you about rugby. Ho! Buckle up! I'm going to tell you about rugby. Ho! Buckle up! I'm gonna tell you how rugby is, you know? You're gonna tell me about rugby? Yeah, I've learned about rugby. But I want you to start because this sounds, this sounds like, this sounds sweet, man.

This sounds like a hot take. This sounds like it might be controversial. Yeah, because I purposely have not yet formed my opinion about this. Okay. I'll do that for you. Let's have some real-time opinion forming. Okay. Okay.

So, you know, I get a lot of my news from food and wine. That's not true. It's not even a good joke, of my news from food and wine. That's not true. It's not even a good joke, but this does cover food and wine. Unless you get news from actual food and wines. Foods and wines. Well, that could be a new thing. It's like a delivery service, and you get bananas and other things with skins on them, and we use some high-tech printing

device to print the morning news on your bananas. I think you're talking about Laffy Taffy, my friend. Well, no, no. If Laffy Taffy had news instead of... Laffy Taffy is a manufacturing process that takes a while. I'm talking about fresh bananas. We print them. What's the news today? What's the news? Put it on the bananas. Send the bananas to the homes. Banana news. I think they can make...

Bananus. Bananus. Bananus. We just came up with Bananus. No, man. I'm still on... No, no, yes. This is the best thing we've ever come up with.

This is the best thing we've come up with in years. Bananus. We have bananas. They have news. You get them on your doorstep. Before they turn brown, you know all about what's going on around town. Whoa! Well... Whoa! I mean, I'm on fire!

I'm a little concerned that bananews are bruised bananews. No, our... Because if you're gonna print the news on a bananews, then the bananas are gonna be bruised. Our proprietary printing technology does not damage the banana skins. It is a laser print. It happens from a distance. There is no pressing. We're not dealing with a ribbon, my friend. No pressure?

No pressure. It's laser etching. There's no jet of an ink? It's not ink. It's lasers. It's burning. And it's edible. Completely edible.

Because it's a little burnt mark. And I'm glad you brought that up. Well,'s edible. Completely edible. Because it's just, it's a little burnt mark. And I'm glad you brought that up. Well, the peel's not edible. Oh, okay. Now, okay. The first news article that we're going to- This just in with Bananus. The first article that we're going to put on Bananus are edible.

I've told you this. I put them in my freaking, they're only edible if you put them in your smoothie. God damn. Extra fiber. Lots of extra fiber. Lots of extra banana flavor. You need to use organic, though, because – and all ours will be organic, because there's a lot of pesticides on non-organic banana skins. I hear that. So anyway, Banan-

This just in on Banan-News, they've discovered a banana that doesn't taste like a... Um... banana? Yes, that's what I wanna hear. Oh gosh. Listen, you're... okay, well this is a solo project. Yet again, yet again, another solo project for Rick. Bananews. Because he doesn't even like bananas! He doesn't like the idea! I don't hate bananas, but I don't want... and I do like fiber.

Okay, name another fruit. Name another fruit. Apple news? Oh, no, that sounds like something that exists. I've got it on my computer already. Pomegranates are just too hard to get into. Nobody actually likes pomegranates. They just like the idea of liking pomegranates. I love a pomegranate.

You think you love them. You think you love pomegranates. I know I love a pomegranate. You love the fruit of the pomegranate. You love the seeds if they are given to you, but the process is such a difficult thing that you hate yourself by the end of it. You don't actually like pomegranates. I mean, it's highly stainable. Do you have someone who does it for you? Oh, yes, I have a pomegranatizer.

Okay, who's your pomegranatizer? Your wife? You get your kid to do it, don't you? What are kids for, Rhett? If you get your kids to do it, don't you? What are kids for, Rhett? If you get your kids to do it, you can enjoy it. But if you have to, if you just start with a pomegranate and then you're trying to be the one to process it to get the stuff from inside. Well, you have a pomegranate tree. Do you have a pomegranatizer?

Yes, my son. Okay, well then it's great. They're great if someone else does it for you. And they're popping off right now. And that is just a literal son. Okay. Well, then it's great. They're great if someone else does it for you. And they're popping off right now. And that is just a literal statement. Okay. Not a trendy statement. Well, how come I haven't had a basket of pomegranates delivered to my door? I'm your virtual neighbor.

Well, it seems like they make you upset. Well, no, I've got a son as well. I've got a son who we can teach as well. How many pomegranates do you make in these days? We're on the precipice of, I don't know, anywhere from two years ago, we had like probably 38 come off of that little tree. How many of those did you consume?

Not enough. What happened to the rest of them? Gifts? They were taken around to the neighbors. Yeah. Individually wrapped. And then some of them went bad. They burst on the vine, sadly.

This just in on banana news. Pomegranate news. The Neals are wasting their pomegranates. Yeah, banana news. I don't think we're going to get any better than that. I don't think we're going to get any better than that. I don't think we're going to get any better than that. I think we've peaked. You know what?

Then I'll start to like bananas. I want fiber so bad that I'm willing to acquire the taste of bananas in order to put the peel in my smoothie. Well, and there's no... I mean, do you put that hard stem? You don't put that in there. No, I don't do that. Because all of a sudden, you're going to choke on it. I could, though.

It's just I feel like it might be too much work for my blender. You got a weak blender. It would do it. I got a strong blender, but that stem is real hard. It's a lot harder than you think. Why don't you just put flaxseed in there? I do. I put ground flaxseed in there.

Every day. Every day. I needed a little bit more this morning, apparently. And I ran out this morning because we have a jar, and we keep the flaxseed in it, and Chrissy was in the kitchen, and I'm sitting there making my smoothie, and I'm like, I try to be nice about it. I'm very appreciative of the fact that she shops at the grocery store the majority of the time.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. The majority. It can be anywhere from 51% to 100%. Right. Let's just leave it at that. To 100%. We have started going, as just a little tangent, we have started going to the grocery store together.

Oh, cool. More often. What do you do? I push cart. Good. And sometimes I'll go ahead and get something. You don't go hungry, though. You don't go to the grocery store hungry.

No. Don't do that. So this morning I said, can you add flaxseed to the list? I always get a little cagey when I start to ask, can you put something on the list? Especially when it's like, because it's like, I'm consuming something, and she's like, well, I just went yesterday. And I was like, oh, man, now what? You had to wait how long?

I don't know, like a week? Maybe three weeks. What? Well, it's... I go to the grocery store every three weeks. We get it at Trader Joe's, and we don't go to Trader Joe's every week. We're like French people over here, baguette under the arm every day. My wife rides her bike back from Ralph's every day with a baguette under both arms.

Ah-ha-ha-ha! Yeah, I mean, we go to Ralph's once a week, but we go to Trader Joe's like once a month, maybe once every three weeks. Oh, the Trader Joe's run. And that's where the flaxseed is. Well, there's flaxseed at Ralph's as well, just so you know. Oh, is there? And also on Amazon.

Huh, yeah. Yeah, there's like multiple sources. I could probably get you some within 30 minutes of this podcast. Well, she got it to me in seconds because I turned around and right there, she slammed it down and she was like, oh, you didn't believe that I knew we needed the flaxseed. She already knew. She already knew.

She was offended that I didn't. I was like, add it to the list. And she was like, I already got it. Okay. And I'm like, hey, hey, hey, we're on the same team. But do you know. You buy the flaxseed. I eat the flaxseed.

We're just different positions on the team. Okay. I have a suggestion for you because I think you've also... You're using Google Keep for some of your notes as well, right? Some of your notes. Are they being shared with you? Because I don't want you reading all my keeps. Well, only if you do share them with me.

But yes. So I started, the reason I started using Google Keep, I still use Evernote for like long-term stuff, right? Really? Oh, because you- Like journaling, because it's all in there. You didn't port everything. Or like certain ideas about certain things in certain categories. It's like because it's all in there. You didn't port everything. Or like certain ideas about certain things in certain categories.

It's like it's all in there. I'm not a huge fan of the way it works, but I don't want to change. Apple Notes, like stickies, basically. Yeah, like the Post-its. I still use those for like very short-term things. But then for shorter-term things that I need to share, I need to have a collaborative nature to, I use Google Keep.

Here's why. Because you, my friend, also have Google Home at your home. Yeah. And so all you have to do is say, Hey, Google, add flaxseed to the family grocery list. And it automatically adds it to the family grocery list. And it automatically adds it to the family grocery list. I can just say it anywhere in my house. It adds it to the grocery list and my... Anyone who... Shepard can add, Jessie can add.

What? And so then the next person who goes to the grocery store, which... It could be me. It's not uncommon. You're not above it. Has the list right there. You pull it up. And then you check it off as you get it. Ching, ching, ching, ching, check.

Check it off. Yeah. And does it disappear? It goes down below and you see. Oh shit. And so then you can be like, oh I wonder if she got flag seeded. And then you look down there and like, flag seed checked off the list, bam.

I don't even have to look in the cabinet, it's on the list, it's been checked. Modern, welcome to 2023, man. Bananews, that's the second article in the tech section of Bananus. Everyone should be using collaborative notes. Not a sponsor. Mom, dad, you should shop Amazon for back to school and save some money. See, I'm currently obsessed with superheroes and need all the superhero stuff. Superhero lunchbox, superhero backpack.

But next year, it'll be something else. Maybe dinosaurs? I don't know. I'm not a fortune teller. But I can tell you not to spend a fortune and shop low prices for school on Amazon. Okay, good chat. Amazon. Spend less, smile more. Okay. Good chat. Amazon. Spend less, smile more. But get to the restaurant. We had so much fun with bananas. Okay, Georgia Restaurant goes viral after charging parents a $50 fee for poorly behaved children.

Ah! Georgia Restaurant. Y'all know about this. Y'all heard about this. Is what now? Well, they're charging parents a $50 fee for poorly behaved children. Now, this is how this all started. What kind of restaurant is this? Well, it's a restaurant called Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in northern Georgia, and they are, quote, according to them, the home of mountain-time

seating. Seating? Seating. Mountain-time seating. I don't even know what that is. And I don't mean seating. Oh, seating. Not seating. Seating.

The home of mountain-time seating. Like sitting. What is mountain-time seating? It might be a configuration of seating. I feel like I need to see pictures. I need to know. Because this may help inform my opinion about this. What is mountain? How would you sit in the mountains?

I bet you there's a certain time. Well, mountain time... Where you sit in the seat and watch the mountains. Mountain time is a time zone, but they're in the eastern time zone, so it's not a time zone. They're in the mountains. Mountain time is just a time being in actual mountains, and they're the home of the mountain time, seating. I think it could be. Hmm?

There's a certain time of the day when you want to sit and watch the mountains because of the sun just dancing off of it. Well, they are in a place called Blue Ridge, Georgia. Mm-hmm. So, is there a time when they're most blue? What is the time when the mountains are the most blue? I would think it was either the morning or the evening. Uh, dusk. We're talking post-sunset. Post-sunset. I think that's called dusk.

So mountain time comes around and you sit down at this restaurant and you eat. And you don't want to be disturbed by children. See, now I understand why they lead with that. But actually, my prevailing theory here is that there is a brand called Mountain Time, and they make chairs. Okay. So like the front porch of a Cracker Barrel situation? Yeah, they sell chairs.

It's like, well, oh, you go over to someone's house, and they're like, oh, you have a Mountain Time chair. Oh, wow. Can I sit in it? I mean, I know it's not quite time yet, but I want to be prepared. It's like an Adirondack, but it's a little more upright. And it rocks. And it rocks.

It rocks. I'm making all this up. I like to rock while eating. A lot of people say don't do that. No, no, no. A lot of doctors say don't do that. Mountain Time is just gazing at the mountains. It's while the food is digesting, though.

You've eaten already, and then you go, you sit out and you watch the mountains. But they don't eat and watch a movie at the same time. We don't actually know the answer to what mountain time seating is. No. I think it's a brand. We've gotten a little hung up on it, actually. There is mountain time chairs, and they are wooden rocking chairs. We were right!

And they look straight out of Montana. That's what it looks like. Straight out of Montana. North Georgia. I will say the problem is that on the website it shows Colorado and not Georgia, so I don't... It's the home of Mountain Time Seating. I still am not sure

if... I don't know if we could call it the home of... I don't know if that's it. Well, if they did call it the home... If I buy a Lazy Boy chair and put it in my home, I can say, Welcome to the home of, I don't know, that's it. Well, if they did call it the home. Hold on, listen. I'm about to dig into it. If I buy a Lazy Boy chair and put it in my home, I can say, welcome to the home of Lazy Boy seating because it's my home and I've got Lazy Boy. Oh. Maybe they only have Mountain Time chairs.

I bet that's what it is, y'all. They have Mountain Time branded chairs at their locale. Wow. You can't get anything past these boys. We are right twice. It's a brand. I think the only thing I contributed is the rocking, so I got that part right.

So they say it's the home of mountaintop seating. They don't say it is the birthplace of mountaintop seating. Takoa Riverside Restaurant in northern Georgia is the home of mountaintop seating. And food and wine, they just said, we're not sure what exactly that means. Oh, they said that. I mean, they didn't even do the research.

We didn't do research. We just speculated and got it right. Right. That's what you got to do these days. Right. Just bullshit your way forward, food and wine. Here's the thing. Yeah, you're talking about food and wine.

It's not life or death. Good gracious. Okay. But someone posted a photo to one of our favorite Reddit threads, I think. Mildly interesting. You know, you don't want to be too percol Reddit threads, I think. Mildly interesting. You don't want to be too percolated. Right, right. You just want to...

I don't think I used that term right. You want to flirt with boredom. Right. That's why you're on Reddit anyway. You're flirting with boredom. Right. It's just like when you're in a gambling... Like you're in a gambling...

Zone. Zone. Trance. Stupor. Trance. Well, it's just like when you're in a gambling zone. Trance. Stupor. You're in a gambling trance when you're at the slot machines. You don't want to win too much. You don't want to lose too much. You want to be mildly interested so they can just keep taking all your money. Right.

Right. So they put this person, Pineapple Pizza Lover, which that's controversial. They charge $50. Well, here's the thing. The original thing was a picture of the menu, which has at least four fonts that I'm seeing here. Love that. And it just said gratuity of $20, 20% may be added to parties over six, separate checks, birthday menu. Adult surcharge, four adults unable to parent, and it's $3 signs, right?

Okay. So that was the first thing that people started talking about. Yeah, so they're not charging. They charge the adults for not being able to parent the children. Okay, that makes sense. Adult surcharge. And then when you do a little bit of digging. But there's no dollar amount.

Right. But the digging revealed multiple sources have reported that at least one person has said that they were charged $50 for their bad behavior. I can read a little bit about that situation. Let's see. Because they said $3 signs. So, I mean, you got to be ready. The charge, which some Google reviews have reported as a flat $50 fee has been reported several times in the past two weeks. The most disrespectful owner made a huge scene in front of the entire restaurant because our children were running through the restaurant.

One recent Google review reads, the children were down by the river. We were told we need to go to Burger King and Walmart, and that we were bad parents. They have a $50 surcharge for bad children. Another reviewer wrote that he was disappointed because although he says that his children watched a tablet until their meals arrived, could have watched the mountains. Don't get me started on that. Until their meals arrived, his family was charged $50

because of my children's behavior. What do you think about this? You've been to restaurants, you have children. They're not kids anymore, though. They're not the kind of kids that misbehave. They're older. Yeah, I just want to preface everything I'm about to say with an acknowledgement of my position of privilege. Oh, that's always a good thing to do, Link. I have children.

This is a man who grows pomegranates at his house, okay? So many that some of them die on the vine. He lets pomegranates die in his yard. This is a man of privilege. I have children who are adults. Yep. I have two of those, and then I have one that is 13, but is one of the most amazing people I've ever met.

I think he's 14. I'm biased. No, don't mess with my mind now. He's 13. Oh, he'll be 14 in like March. Yeah. Right, okay. Or February, whenever his birthday is.

You know, I don't have to remember exactly when they're, I know all of their birthdays, but I can't always match up which birthday to who person. Yeah, this is making you look like you don't care, so let's just move on past that. You know. Well, that's kind of my point. He knows, he knows.

That's kind of my point. He knows. When, I mean, I'm coasting. I know you're well past coasting. You've talked about this many times. You talk about like parenting. I have a 15-year-old. Right, and that's the youngest you got.

Another adult, you know. Historically, he would have had a wife and kids and a farm. We are living so large. Like, we basically, oh my gosh, we made it through the fire, man. Like, we basically, oh my gosh, we made it through the fire, man. So now we can ridicule parents and say that, you know what? Look at us. We made it through.

Tablets at the table. When my kids were growing up, we didn't even have tables. No, I mean tablets. We didn't have phones with, like, streaming stuff that they could watch at the table. Well, we had tablets, but they were pills. Right. It was like, you give your kid a tablet at the restaurant? What are you talking about? What is this, a Tylenol situation?

What did my kid do at the table when they were young, pre-reading age? I don't remember, but I'm going to say that they were quiet. I'm going to say that they were well-behaved. Okay, now this is speculating quite a bit. I don't remember at all. I've wiped it clean. It was a nightmare. It was horrible.

I mean, it was like you've got these people that you can't help but love dearly, and you can't get them to shut up and be quiet and stop talking. You know, it's just a bad... Oh, my gosh. I'm so glad I'm through it. This is quite an endorsement for fatherhood. Like, oh, I mean, just give up on going anywhere with them. Don't take them anywhere.

So I could ask your opinion on this news story. Okay. I'm all for this. Other people like me who've made it through the fire of parenthood wanna go to places, and we don't want to remember. We don't want to be reminded of what happened because we blocked it out. So, you know, I'll pay the fee for you. For you to just go to Walmart and Burger King. Yes. I just don't want to remember. Well, it gets even worse.

It was just too hard. It gets even worse. It was too torturous. There was another family. They don't wanna remember! It was just too hard! It gets even worse. It was too torturous! There was another family... They don't listen! There was another family there that is a part of this article. They had five families and their group included 11 children between the ages of 3 and 8.

That can't be true. Oh God, I'm crying for these parents. These dumb parents. Okay, I think... Don't know how to use birth control. You've made your... Well, that's five families and 11 kids. Oh. I mean, that's not...

I mean, you've got three kids. This commune of parents. By the way, you have more kids than the average number of kids in an American family, so you got no room to talk. And I'm so happy and I don't regret it a minute because I don't remember it. Okay. Okay. I appreciate your strong opinion about this.

I love my children. I like to think that I could have like a little bit of sympathy. Like sometimes you see somebody on a plane. A plane is even worse than a restaurant. You see somebody on a plane with an infant and you think about, I was like, that was so hard. My wife, very empathetic person. And not just an empathetic person, but an actively empathetic person.

So some people feel, some people feel and do. She is a feeler and a doer. So she will help a mom that has multiple kids or a crying baby or something like that in those situations. Change a diaper? That hasn't happened because that can get a little awkward. So you really probably shouldn't even offer to do that, just so you know. It just sets some boundaries.

However. Perform the Heimlich? Given the fact that I'm empathetic to this situation, I think that the spirit behind this particular fee is that what your party does, and maybe your kids are part of your party, impacts the level of enjoyment of the other people who are paying to have an experience. So another way to think about this is we shouldn't just charge for badly behaved kids. We should find other things to charge for. Because what about the person who's talking too loudly at a restaurant? Lisk, $25.

Yes. $30 maybe. Yes to that. Okay? Yes to that. What about the person who, I know some people can't help it, but what about the person who just has a hellacious coughing fit? Right.

Just a crazy, unappetizing coughing fit. I'm thinking there's phlegm, there's lots of things happening, you should be leaving the restaurant, you should be outside. That's a $60 fee, because I've lost my appetite. Right, right, yeah. You know what I'm saying? I gotta get a doggie bag now, because you phlegmed all over the place. If it leads to a loss of patrons' appetite, that's at least $60.

Right, right, right. Open sores! You gotta open sore above the table. Throw a bandage on the sore! If you've got leg wounds, as long as I'm not seeing them, that's fine. Or smelling them. You gotta open wound. Bandage it. You gotta bandage it. And then you gotta put fabric. You gotta make it a fashion statement.

I don't want nothing oozing through that gauze. I mean, we don't... Listen, I'm just saying, if we're taking into account everyone's experience, these are the... The loud talker thing, I will say, there's a caveat to this that I want to explore quickly. If it's interesting? Well, Jessie and I once went to a bed and breakfast that had an attached restaurant. It wasn't actually a bed and breakfast within the home, but it had an attached restaurant. Weird.

And we went into this restaurant for our included breakfast, and it was one of those restaurants that was so quiet that you feel like you have to talk like this. It's like, I mean, if we were talking at this volume. That's a bit much. The only other family that was there would hear everything we were saying. It wasn't really a family.

It was four older people, right? And there was one elderly woman that was at this table. Yeah. And we were in North Carolina. And she was talking about this loud, but she was giving North Carolina historical information. Oh, there you go.

And so we got quiet and we listened to the lecture. Free tour. So I felt like I could even pay this woman because I felt like I was taught something, but I was interested in it. It can go both ways. I think if you contribute to the corporate dining experience, you should get a little stipend. Mm-hmm. Right. So if you're talking loudly, that's a fee, but if you're talking loudly and

everyone likes it, you get paid. You get a free meal. Maybe a free dessert. If it's local tidbits, oh, a little $5. A little 10 spot here and there. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And if it's at this place, I'm just thinking out loud, workshopping here, if it's at this place, and maybe these people at the Toccoa River Restaurant have a deal with Mountain Time Seating. This is what we're guessing. Yeah. them. So now you get a loud talker. You could plant a loud talker who begins to sing the praises of mountain time seating. Uh-uh. No, no. You got like dining integration.

Yes. We got built-in integrations to the person giving the local tidbits. Local tid... Oh, everybody get quiet. This woman at this table is talking about local tidbits Of historical information Oh, no, she's talking about her chair Oh, she's really Okay And next thing you know This family's walking out

With a couple of mountain time seats Yeah, you get commission on that Somebody's got to be What's the proper exchange of goods In that situation? Yeah, I'd say you get a 10% finder's fee Finder's fee I mean, if I'm going up Going to the bathroom, if I'm encountering

four tables on the way there and I decide to say, hey, y'all need anything? Are you like a waiter? Exactly. Maybe a little bit. Just in this one instance. Y'all want some sweet and low? Yup. Y'all need another hush puppy? So you become like a volunteer waiter. Right. With the hope of making a little scratch? Yeah, there you go.

Who's going to pay you? It's going to be taken off my bill. Okay, so you go to the restroom. It's a discount. Y'all need a little sweet and low? They say yes, you get it, you bring it to them. Then you go from the bathroom to the manager, and you say, hey, not to scratch my own back here,

but these people needed sweet and low and I got it for them in a little gap when the waiter wasn't there. You leave them a little note. And we don't have any kids with us. And we're really enjoying the mountain time seats. You might get a small discount.

I think about the Arclight. May they rest in peace, my favorite movie theater. They wouldn't, they didn't have a children's fee. They didn't have a children's ticket. Everybody had to pay the same. It was a flat fee. Do they have senior discounts?

I don't know. Probably not in L.A. Not many seniors. I think maybe seniors are okay. But there was this... They're quiet. It was a subtle thing that's like, all right, if you're looking to bring your children

and you expect to save a little money, this is not the place for that. You know? We're not telling you you can't bring your kids, but we're de-incentivizing. Yes. We're de-centivizing. Yes.

You bringing your children. We don't really want them. You kind of want to do a... Leave them at home with a tablet. They'll be okay. It's just a few hours. Right, right. A tablet and some tater chips.

And probably liquid. Maybe one of the hamster bottles. Yeah, with some Hawaiian punch in it. Well, not too much sugar. You want to regulate the sugar intake. Right. But you're right. They should be charging for disruptive...

Well, let me put it the way they put it. For not proper parenting. Now, it's a very dangerous place to start critiquing other people's parenting techniques. But I think the line for me is how quickly you get the situation under control. Your kid starts crying in a performance. Take them out! Get them out! Get them out!

It's okay that they cried. It's okay that you brought them. But once they start crying, get them out! Out of there! And if your kids are doing just Hellion-type things inside of a restaurant, and you seem to not be engaged at all... Right. To the river! You gotta... Take the kids to the river. inside of a restaurant and you seem to not be engaged at all. Right. To the river! You gotta...

Take the kids to the river. Or behind the shed. You know, to me, it's... I have... Kids are hard to control. You say a lot of things before you have kids. We've earned the right to forget! I haven't forgotten. I wanna be clear about that. When I see somebody dealing with a kid situation,

I'm like, damn, that was hard. I have empathy. But then when I'm like, well, but I would not have let this go on this long. We would have gotten out of the situation. We would have removed ourselves from the situation. And a kid with a tablet, you know?

I wish we had tablets, man. Yeah, I don't know about this tablet. I mean, it's so easy to judge because we didn't have that. But we, I mean, the kids did watch a lot of television, though. I just. There was a lot of like baby Einstein, but they're going to be real smart for that. You know. Einstein.

Every parent, except like on an extreme end of the scale, is just like you're worn down over time and there's there's a there you just have a level of resignation and it's like oh my god if you just give them the damn tablet they'll be quiet it's hard to say and we can have dinner because we don't have a it's so hard to find a babysitter and somebody that you trust and, you know, this, that, and the other. I understand. You sound like you're backtracking a little bit. I do understand. You're going to write an apology letter on bananas?

But I'm going to say it's so hard to not judge on the outside. I mean, it's just – I don't – it's because I've forgotten. That's why. I'm just, oh, a tablet, huh? So you don't want to, why even bring it? Oh, so you're saying you're really judging the tablets. Oh, hell yeah. I judge that tablet so hard. And I know I'm not right. I'm not right. But I cannot help it. I just like, it just seems like. But also, let me just say. Parental failure. It's just like a billboard for parental failure.

But let me just say. And I know it's not. You had easy kids. Let's just be real about it. A lot of times people with. I had great parenting techniques. People with easy, mild-mannered children. Yeah.

You had a girl first who was the oldest one who kind of kept the boys in line. And I had to— Well, hold on. Let's give credit where credit's due. It probably has something to do with genes. You and Chris, you're great parents. But what I'm saying is that what I have learned over time and not just

observing myself as a father and my wife as a mother and other people it's just like so much of it has to do with

the disposition of the children and I'm not saying my kids weren't not well behaved my kids the level of energy that my boys brought

to any situation that they found themselves in was a was a few notches up. And so, but I think that we kind of account, we didn't take them to nice places most of the time. It'd be like, I'm not gonna take my kids to a place where-

Mountain view seating. Mountain time seating. We don't need that. We need regular seating for these children. It's a tough time. So sometimes I'm like, okay, you've got... Oh, your kid is so well-behaved. It's like, well, that kid would probably be well-behaved in any family.

I mean, it's probably... And I think that's what... I'm not saying you're not a good parent. I'm just saying that's actually what most of the child psychologists say, is that... Yeah, that's what makes you feel better. My kids are well-behaved. My kids are well-behaved. My kids are well-behaved, but their level of energy was kind of difficult

to manage at several points in their childhood. Get them out! And so we got them out, or we didn't take them in. Like, I was never once. And you had the luxury of having family nearby. Never once. At that time period. Well, Shepard was two when we moved to L.A.,

so we experienced a lot of young Shepard was two When we moved to LA So we experienced A lot of young Young Shepard Never once In the history That I can remember Have we been Asked by Another family Another person

A wait staff A manager Or anything To get our kids in line That never happened Because The moment that it felt Like it was happening

We got them out Get them out. Yeah, it's tough. It sucks. It sucks being a parent. It's also the most beautiful and rewarding thing that... Well, it's harder now. Because think about it.

Especially in LA. We know, I did, especially when the kids were babies. We were in North Carolina. You have family. You have friends. Babies. You have this network of people that is a little bit more reminiscent of what you would have had, like, for all of human history, which is just like your kids being a little asshole. Well, somebody else that you know and trust really, really well that like lives in the

hut next to you is going to help you discipline your child. That's like the most of human history, right? Yeah. And now we're in this place where we know these, we got some young parents here at Mythical and it's just like finding somebody that you trust with your kids. Very difficult to do in a place where you're kind of just, you don't have any family. You got good friends, but like they ain't gonna babysit your kids. You gotta find somebody who's willing to take care of your kids. It's a totally different game. People are like on these little family islands now. So you're like, we gotta get out of this, and you bring your chaos into the

mountain time scene. Let's go to North Georgia. Right, let's go to sit and watch the blue mountains. You know, and you haven't accounted for it. I'm sympathetic to it. You're between a rock and a hard place here. I got nothing for you but empathy, as I've thoroughly demonstrated. We have more to talk about, but we do want to talk about the mythical cookbook.

You want me to hold it up? I do. So this is something that's been a long time coming. We have incredible kitchen staff. You know. What are you looking? You look in the middle. When we do an ad, I do.

I'm going to put it next to your head. Look over there. Jamie, what do you do when we go to an ad like this? I go to the wide. You go to the wide? Yeah, see? I watch this show sometimes. Okay. Okay.

I lived it. So one of the reasons that Josh has his job, you know, we originally hired Josh to help us make food on Good Mythical Morning, but we didn't really ever know that he was going to become Mythical Chef Josh that you know and love and have this whole team of people and the Mythical Kitchen was going to be its own thing. But the reason that happened is because not only did we find that Josh could cook, but he knew everything there was to know about food. And he was really good at communicating it and really good at communicating it in a funny way. He could talk loud at a restaurant, and I'd pay his bill. Exactly.

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Download Bumble and try it for yourself. This past weekend, I... Did you have something else you wanted to... No, not about that. I have another thing after you tell me about this, but... Oh, another thing. Oh, gotcha. I might save it. This past weekend, we visited Lincoln.

Who's that? It's a former child of mine. I've already forgotten about him. Once they leave, especially other families, I forget. I've forgotten. Get out of here. He's a successful college freshman. Well, it's still early.

So far, he's doing great, dude. And I'm so glad. I'm happy for him. It's good to visit him. He's liking his roommates. He's got three of them. And when we went down there... Is that legal? It's legal, yeah. The room is zoned for that. There's four beds. Yeah. And all the roommates' parents came down for the parents' weekend. So we were all hanging out and getting to know the other parents. And one couple, the mom is from South Africa.

And it just so happened to time out that it was the World Cup, Rugby World Cup Finals. Okay. That Saturday. And so she invited all of us to this Irish bar, Irish pub. Okay. That Saturday. And so she invited all of us to this Irish bar, Irish pub. Okay. To, yeah,

I don't know. Rugby. Yeah, yeah, they do. They're going to be showing the rugby game at the Irish bar. Yes, definitely. Even though Ireland got out. And so we went there, we showed up, we spent a few hours watching the final between South Africa. This is why she couldn't miss it.

Just very enthusiastic about her rugby against the New Zealand All Blacks. This is the World Cup Championship. Oh, yeah. This is the culmination of rugbydom, and I witnessed it. Best in the land. I gotta tell you, if you're gonna be introduced to the realm of rugby,

I don't think there's any better place than a brackish Irish pub. With someone who's passionate about it. With someone who is passionate, yelling all types of stuff. Okay. Good gracious. Any South African curse words that I should be remembering?

I believe so. I definitely believe so. Okay. It was awesome. Okay. And, yes, I definitely recommend an Irish coffee. Hmm. With a, oh, yeah.

Is that coffee with Baileys in it? I didn't know about that until I got there. It was good. Like a... with Baileys in it? I didn't know about that until I got there. It was good. Like a... Is it an iced one? I got a frozen one because it was kind of hot. Is it like a coffee with cream and Baileys? I didn't do that on burgers.

It was something I thought. Hot. Yeah, it's whiskey and some sort of minty stuff and coffee and cream. Am I missing something? The mint is interesting. A lot of times they stuff and coffee and cream. Am I missing something? The mint is interesting. A lot of times they don't do that one. Typically it's Jameson coffee and Bailey's. Yeah.

And they usually do a little whipped cream on top. Yeah, that's what it was. It was great. It was fabulous. So fabulous. And that always helps. So fabulous. And that always helps.

And let me explain to you, now that I've learned everything there is to know about rugby. Now, were you just learning as you watched, or were you having it explained to you? And who was explaining it? Her husband? At the very beginning, there was... She's probably so into it. You don't want to get somebody who's so into it

to have to be explaining the rules. This is the moment for her of like she's been following this her whole life. Her country has an opportunity to win the whole thing. There was a little bit of explanation. Somebody with a little bit less skin in the game needs to explain the rules. In the first five minutes, and then it was over. I popped up a little Google search at one point. But for the most part, I just observed

and learned everything I need to know to tell you everything that you need to know about rugby. I know a little, so I'm going to see if what you have, when your knowledge of watching it one match surpasses the little bit that I know. Well, it will immediately, and then it will be comprehensive. Oh. Are you ready?

I mean, you need not Wikipedia after this. Okay, all right. All right. You're familiar with soccer, or what everyone else calls football, okay? You're going to start with soccer. Okay. Hell yeah.

All right. All right. You're not going to start with American football. Okay. All right. Absolutely not, Rhett. Okay. I am not.

Okay. That would be a huge mistake. Okay. Right, because they can only touch their feet. Zup! All right, picture soccer, or as I'm going to call it, football. Okay? Okay.

And picture people are just, you know, just kicking the ball. They're footing it around on this big green patch. I'm aware of a field, yeah. And then picture all of a sudden one person deciding to up, and I'm not talking about a goalie here. I'm talking about just a player out in the middle of the field picking up the ball and just starting to run with it. And then picture everybody on the other team getting extremely angry,

like appalled. Oh, my God. You're breaking the rules. Don't you understand the most fundamental rule of football?...extremely angry. Like, appalled! Oh my god! You're breaking the rules here. Don't you understand the most fundamental rule of football is that you don't pick up the ball with your hands! We're gonna get you! We're gonna get you, and we're gonna hit you with as much force as we can muster when we get to you. Now this ball... Up, up, up, up, up.

If you were to reference another type of ball that I might know, would you say a soccer ball or would you say an American football? Picture... Is it spherical or is it more oblong? Picture this football player... Which one does it look like? ...who's decided to pick up this soccer ball and he's grabbed it... It's a soccer ball, okay.

He's grabbed it with so much force and intention that he smushed it into some sort of an oblong egg shape. Kind of an oval shape, almost pointed at the tip. Not pointed at the tips. But not pointed. It looks like it could be if they just modified it a little bit more. It's a soccer ball that has been smushed into a permanently oblong shape because he's so afraid.

And what color is this ball? Is it black and white check or is it brown? His hands have covered so much of the ball that you can't tell. Okay, all right. Because he's so afraid of these people who are now pursuing him. And what is he trying to do with the ball? Is he trying to get it into a net at the end or is he trying to get it into more like an end zone, like a general zone? He's running towards the end where the goal would be. Okay, but there's no goal.

But he has not yet discovered... It's kind of an area. People are removing the goal! Oh, so the soccer goal's gone. They're so outraged, they're removing the whole net and the goal. Oh, so the soccer goal's gone. They're so outraged. They're removing the whole net and the goal. Okay. And this guy doesn't deserve that kind of a goal.

Okay. And then there happens to be some sort of a narrow pole-type device that's down there. Oh. But that's just, I don't know why that's there. I think that's for advertising. Is it one pole or is it two poles? It's two poles. Oh, it's two poles.

And then in between the poles, there was a sign because it was, I think that was the billboard for the soccer match. Okay. But that's getting yanked down. Okay. For the soccer match. Okay. But that's getting yanked down.

Okay. And leaving just a bare skeleton of a very narrow-ish billboard. And what are they trying to do to the guy with the ball? Are they trying to tackle him? They're trying to get this guy. They're trying to grab him and bring him down. They're trying to punish him for his long-term handball. But he can pass it to someone else as long as he passes it backwards or laterally, right? Stop it.

I'm going to tell you everything you need to know. Okay. They're so angry with this man who's smooshing their soccer ball that they want to take and they do overtake him. And they smash into his shoulder area, but not the head, the shoulder and below area. And then he gets down on his knees almost, and the whole team is down clumped onto him,

and they're on their hands and knees, and they're just smushing their faces and their shoulders into each other. And then does he take it and push it back between his legs? I would call it some sort of a scrum of sorts. And they're smushed against each other. And then the other team says, I know what he's done is indefensible, but we have to take up for our boy. And then everybody joins the handballer in smushing against the other team

until there's a whole scrumified clump of players pushing against each other while almost prone on the field. And it's just a quagmire of just pushing and grunting. I'm just going to stop interrupting so he can get through the whole thing. Pad, padless pushing. And then this goes on for minutes. Because he obviously will continue until the end. And then lo and behold, somewhere, you can't tell where, but all of a sudden, the ball pops out.

Towards the back of the pile. Yeah. And then they start chasing this person. And he gets scared. So he's like, oh, he throws somebody to his side or maybe behind him. Okay, right, yeah. But nobody runs ahead. Right, can't throw it forward.

And then everybody's going, well, we don't want it. What just happened to that person in that big scrum of a thing? Well, I don't want that to happen again. So I'm going to throw it to the other guy. And they just keep laterally letting the ball

to other people to avoid another scrum. A lot like soccer I don't want that to happen again And then Somebody Doesn't have anybody To pass it to And he's getting

And he's getting backed up And then you know what He In a panic He just kicks the ball Yeah it goes back to his soccer instincts He just punts the ball Just to get it out of there

And then The other team catches it And they're like, oh, this is fun. We're on to something. And they just continue this forever and a day. Yep. Until 80 minutes are up.

So with no timeouts. It just kind of goes. It never stops. It's like soccer in that way. And there's blood on faces. And there's no protection except a handful of the people who wear some sort of thing, I think, to prevent getting the wrestler ear. A lot of them have the cauliflower ear.

But they're looked down upon for wearing the gear. I certainly did. Yeah. I certainly did. So, and at the end, there's a winner. Who won?

Oh, I don't know. South Africa won. She was elated. What was the score? It was close. It was within one point to the very end. How many points do you get for getting into the

place where the goal used to be? I'm going to say five. Actually, I don't know. And then I think if you kick it through the goal post at a certain point, I think you can get other points for that that are less than five. Did you find yourself enjoying it?

Somewhere between two and three, I'm guessing. Did you find yourself enjoying it more than A, soccer, and B, American football? Yes. Because it's got the constant activity of soccer, but it's got the violence of football. Hmm. I mean, guys were walking around and there was just blood streaming off their face like they were a UFC fighter or something.

Yeah, it's intense. I don't know the difference in the rules of Australian rules football, but I watched a bunch of Australian rules football. Well, we're not talking about that. I have no capacity for that. I just can't add another sport it's pretty similar at all there's some differences but i couldn't tell you at this point

there's yellow cards and there's red cards i will tell you that oh yeah okay so it is just like soccer in that way yeah i take everything back it was um so it was great i was just thanking them all right rugby gods that south af Africa won because I was like, man, this whole thing is going to turn sour if she doesn't get her way. I'm talking about the mom here. But she had a great time. She had a great time. We all had a great time because they won.

And do you think that you're going to play it professionally? Yes. Start watching this? Oh, no, no. It's a sport. I ain't got time for that. So you're still in a... I mean, I'm exhausted just telling you about it. We all are. Good gosh.

Are you still in an absolute zero, we're talking zero, self-motivated. There is no scenario in which you by yourself would make a decision to watch any sport. I'm talking like, what if you're flipping through? I know there's no flipping through. We don't really flip through. Cornhole, like the cornhole championship is on ESPN. It's because there's no flipping through.

If there were still flipping through, I would stop on some cornhole, and like Lando's playing tennis some now, so I might stop on some cornhole. And like Lando's playing tennis some now, so I might stop on some tennis and be like, get in here, boy! What you trying to do? But I have no occasion like, you know,

I have no occasion where sports are presented to me. When they're presented to me, I learn a lot. You wait for things to be presented to you. Right. And that's what channel flipping was. When you talk about cornhole.

But yeah, I mean, I don't miss it. I don't miss it. And there's not a part of me that misses it. It's kind of like Sunday school. There's not a part of me that misses it. You think sports are as bad as Sunday school? No, I'm not saying that. What the hell is wrong with you?

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that I have a similar experience of not missing them from my life at all, and it's really important to other people. But when you saw this person who was like really passionately like watching it. I loved it for her. But like, if I was like, okay, because really, I don't, I watch very little sports. And I was cheering. I watch very little sports.

I was into it. And, you know, even the teams that I pull for, like, okay, I am technically like a Clippers fan. I'm not really a fan of any L.A. football. I don't really watch NFL football. But I don't find myself being like, I'm going to sit down and watch this Clippers game on television, unless it's like in the playoffs.

When we had the semi-season tickets. But going to a game, that's fun. That was the last time that I, because the boys were involved, Lincoln and I would go to the games with you and Locke. So in person. Me and Lincoln would watch the games we didn't go to. And that was fun. Yeah.

I never finish watching it, especially when you're an NC State fan. A lot of times you get your hopes up about, you know, oh, we're going to do this and we're going to do that, and then we get disappointed. So I don't find myself having watched it and then being like, that was an incredibly fulfilling experience. But when I know that State's going to be playing somebody, I'm like, I just have this sense of, it's not a sense of obligation. It's like, I still care. I'm able to understand

that my caring about it is not based in the rational part of my brain. You have an allegiance and there's a sense of obligation that goes along with it. Well, there's the— I think I cut ties completely with sports when I moved out here. There's the potential of the team that you want to win winning. That's a special feeling that I can't replicate in other areas of my life. Like this woman, this South African woman. It's a manufactured victory.

By caring about it. It's purely psychological. I didn't have anything to do with it. But there's something about it. Now then there are people who go a whole, like a many, many steps. My dad is such a huge fan of Georgia football.

Like, such a massive fan of Georgia football. Which is, you know, he's been a fan all his life. It's a good time to be a fan of Georgia football. I'm surprised he doesn't own a bulldog. He's not a dog guy.

But he knows everything about it. And, like, he's on the forums. You know what I mean? Really? Yes. Yeah. He's so fully invested, and he's got a friend who's also a big Georgia fan who lives in a different state,

and they're on the phone with each other while the game is being played. I'm glad he has somebody. I'm glad he... I mean, I would wish, I would hope that I would have something that I'm just as passionate about as the people who are that passionate about sports. I think, I think that's a, I think it's a good thing. You know, it's like, it's nice to have something.

Well, there's few things in life. And there's few things that are, that really go that far. Like, I honestly, I don't have anything that I'm that. Well, think about it. I'm so passionate about music. I think that's actually a really good point. But it's not. How many times during the week.

The experience is so different. Like, if State is playing and it's a close game, and again, I'm just in there by myself. Locke would watch stuff with me. Shepard doesn't care. So I'm kind of just like watching it by myself. Jesse doesn't care. And she's a Carolina grad anyway. Yeah.

So, I mean, the level of intensity of my reactions, there's not another thing that I'm currently engaging with where I literally would be like, yes, yes, come on, yo, yeah. Like, name another scenario in my life right now where I will yell that loudly about something. I mean, if I go... When it's not a bit. If I go to a concert, I'm going to do some yelling.

But, like, what's it going to sound like? But I'm going to be like, yay! I mean, I want... What noise do I make at a concert? Yeah, it's a little... Woo! It's stuff like that, right? Yeah, it's my life.

Woo! It's a different experience. It's great. It may be a better experience. But it's not an unfettered just release of, like, primal energy. Primal. Primal. Primal. That's what I'm getting at.

What other time? Think about it. What other time in your life? Because I don't... Listen, I'm not a road rage guy. Of course, I've never been to a battle of the bands. As many times as my fake rants have gone viral and every time people are completely convinced that they're real,

I don't actually ever really get that way in real life. And like I never, I don't road rage. I don't get mad at people and yell at people. I don't do that. But sports are the like opportunity for those emotions to come out in a way. You know what I'm saying? And it is primal. I think primal is a good word because we don't have opportunities for primal experiences in modern day life.

And so sports is the receptacle for people to act like fools. I mean, let's just face it. for people to act like fools. I mean, let's just face it. We're getting really, really excited and upset also about things that we're just sitting next to. Yeah, it's a safe- We're sitting next to it.

Place to cut loose. We're mountain time seating. Yeah. Looking at the mountains. The mountains are doing all the work. We're taking credit for it. We think that the underwear that we wore that day is causing the quarterback to do something different. Like, we're idiots.

We're morons. Yeah, you are. We think, well, I yelled really loudly on third down, and they got a false start. I was responsible for that. The closest you can come to having any sort of influence is maybe being loud enough on third down. But when you're in your, especially when you're in your living room,

you have no influence. You are in a completely sealed bubble. It's just a completely isolated experience. But you give them, it's a safe space where you have permission to just care deeply and to engage these emotions.

But doing it in a group, that's awesome too. And I guess there are, and I've been told that there are, there are like NC State groups of people out here. Because, you know, we live in Los Angeles. Lots of people have moved from other places. There are people who get together and watch state games. And I've never thought... I'm like, I'm gonna...

That feels like a level of commitment that I'm not willing to make. Right. But if you met a guy or a gal, even if you met a person who was really into watching NC State athletics. I might say, let's watch it together. Yeah, and they invited you over.

Like, Locke and I had a lot of fun watching stuff together, you know? Trevor and I watched a lot of stuff together, just not sports. But do you really want a Wolfpack friend? Because, I mean. No, I'm just exploring. They just don't win enough. This doesn't feel like a, well, having someone to commiserate with. I was actually thinking about this.

My dad, being a Georgia fan, it's funny because, speaking of this exact concept, so, okay, you probably don't know. NC State beat Clemson in football last week. Oh. Now, typically this would be- Good for us. Typically this would be a huge deal, but Clemson's not any good this year. But they've been incredible for over a decade.

Not millennium. They were horrible 30 years ago, or 20 years ago. But since the Dabo Sweeney, whatever his name is, you know who I'm talking about. He's like your quintessential football coach, and you would know him if you saw him or heard him uh he's been there for like 12 years or whatever and they have had like 10 win seasons they've won the national championship twice they played in the national championship multiple times the only other teams that have been as good as them in the past decade are Georgia and Alabama, right? And this clip of him on a radio show just went viral, like, last night. I found it.

And it was, like, a kid or a younger person calling in and complaining. And all the thing, the thing that was on Twitter was just the, his rant, this five-minute rant. From the coach? From the coach. Oh, in response to the the kid In response to this kid And basically it was like I mean It was a little

Like he's so frustrated Because he's Won the national championship And he just got beat by state And he's four and four Like he's not having a good year But they're all calling for his head Because he's not having a good year

Even though He won 11 games last year And the thing he was saying was expectation versus appreciation. He's like, we've been so good for so long that it has changed into expectation and not appreciation. And so I was thinking about my dad and how big of a fan of Georgia he is.

And you know, they won the national championship. They haven't lost a game. They didn't lose a game last year. They haven't lost a game this year as of recording this. And so being a fan of them becomes hoping that they do not lose. Like we have to win. Because in football, you lose, and this kind of screws your whole season up, right?

Yeah, it's tough being at the top. So the psychological thing, like you talk about, do you really want someone to watch State with, knowing that it's always going to be a struggle? We're going to have these really passionate, we're going to knock off Carolina, we're going to knock off Duke every once in a while. It's going to be this passionate thing,

but we're going to have these like, we're going to kind of be in the middle of the pack. Yeah. In a lot of ways. We're going to have the good years, we're going to have the bad years, we're going to have a lot of middle of the road years. So from a psychological standpoint, which one do you really really

want do you want to be the like we always win i'm i know i'm saying this because i'm trying to make it i'm trying to i'm trying to be i'm trying to say i don't want i don't even want us to be great because once you get great then you just wait to lose okay But my dad is sitting there on the phone with his buddy. Just like, in fact, Cole was home. Well, Eli was home from school. So my nephew, Cole's son. And they were going to see mom and dad on a Saturday, like the one Saturday that Eli was going to be in town. And Cole was like, this is like the window of time

when I could kind of take him down there and hang out, but it was during the Georgia game. Oh, okay. And it was like Georgia and Auburn. It was somebody they were definitely going to beat, but they weren't winning at halftime. And Cole was just like, it's like dad can't, he can't extricate himself from it.

He cannot extricate himself from this. He's so in it. Yeah. He's like, yes, my grandson is here, and I dearly love my grandson. This is Georgia football we're experiencing right now. And, you know. Charge $50 for unbehaved kids. Of course they won.

Of course they won. Hmm. So I guess I don't want, I don't know. I don't know. I think I'm just going to keep being alone in my house, you know, once a week approximately to tune into an NC State game, whether it's football or basketball. That's where I draw the line.

I don't move into any other sports. Okay. Getting either really upset or really happy in just a complete bubble that influences no one but myself. And then my wife who will kind of walk by me and just kind of look at me if I get especially loud about something. That's me watching sports.

Yeah. I'm just gonna take it. It's not quite like Link watching rugby though and thinking that it most closely relates to soccer. A little different, a little different, a little different. I'm just going to take a hike. Well, it's probably healthier. Not even literally.

It's probably healthier. It's my rec this week, so why don't you sing the rec theme song? We're bringing it back. 1-888-EAR-POD-1 That's not it, dude. 1-888-EAR-POD-1 That's not it, dude. 1-888-EAR-POD-1 What are you doing? It's the wreck theme song.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. What a moron. Wreck baby, wreck baby, one, two, three. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never done it. It's not really a song, is it? It is a song.

I mean, it's a portion of a song. Okay, fine, I'll do it. Wreck, baby, wreck, baby, one, two, three, four. Okay, my wreck is a YouTube video which I just found. If you just search Andy Griffith football story from 1953, I think maybe that one will give it to you. What it was was football. You can also search that. Andy Griffith, you know, from the Andy Griffith Show. I'm familiar. Matt Locke. He has this routine from way back then. Basically, I realized that I was channeling the Andy Griffith

when telling my rugby story because he describes what football is. Would be like if you had never seen it before? Yeah. From his like, backwards. I think I've seen this. His country, like, backwoods kind of... Just so you know, I did not pick up on the fight that's happening. What? That's what you were referencing.

Oh. Well, I wasn't... You weren't referencing it. You were unintentionally referencing it. I have a vague recollection of this, but it's like, it's a comedy routine. Right. From Andy Griffith. So, yeah.

If you like what I said about rugby, I was just channeling the 1953 Andy Griffith. What it was, was football. I've seen what you're talking about. It's very funny. And it's a little, you know, it's just, it's probably... Andy Griffith is the greatest. Andy's football routine probably started much like Link's rugby routine. You know, it starts somewhere and then you polish it over time. And you make sure different parts land and then it becomes what Andy did in 1983. Listen, if you have any feedback on anything that we said today,

we want to hear from you. You can call us. Rec baby, rec baby, one, two, three, four. 1-888-EAR-POD-1. Yeah, because we want to get into it. Yeah, we like your voicemails. Let us know. If you have any opinions on our opinions on parents, kids, parenting,

children, rugby, we want to hear it. We would love to revisit these things. We ain't scared. Based on your feedback. We ain't scared. Let us have it. And we'll talk at you next week. Hi, Rhett, and specifically Link.

This is in regards to your recent fanny pack acquisition and your question about why women are the only ones who get to carry bags. There's a really good episode of a podcast called articles of interest and the episode's called pockets. And it's all about the history of pockets and women's pockets and women's bags. That's my rec. Bye.