Syd & Olivia Talk Sh*t - Rhett & Link VS Syd & Olivia!

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

This week on the big bad podcast for you it's the battle of the century! Comedy duo Rhett & Link VERSUS Syd & Olivia! Right now, Syd and Olivia Talk Shit listeners can save 30% on their first order! Just head to https://cornbreadhemp.com/TALK and use code TALK at checkout. Remember these episodes now go up a few days early AND with bonus content on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/syd_and_olivia Listen to the show on the go! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2j0iQxY9Pf0h4mXEOFxgmk?si=a95ba3e2a2844ec4 Rhett & Link https://www.youtube.com/goodmythicalmorning Chapters 00:37 | Intro 00:47 | The People Who Invented Being Two People 02:40 | Living By The Fart Bridge 04:20 | Link’s Accident 09:56 | Rhett & Rhett 13:32 | Who Is The Most Best Friends? 16:18 | Favorite App To Use? 19:02 | Favorite Food? 23:05 | Favorite Holiday? 26:30 | Link’s Birthday 27:52 | Secret Tattoos 33:04 | Switch Sides 33:21 | Favorite Emoji? 38:45 | Go To Karaoke Song? 43:14 | Beefing With Sesame Street 45:24 | Celebrity Crush? 46:28 | Biggest Fear? 48:50 | Biggest Pet Peeve? This is a 7equis Network Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got our first tattoo together. That was... Oh my God, cute. But it was for entertainment purposes. It was our wives' names on our ass for a video. Did your wives like that? They didn't know. It was a surprise.

And I just kind of showed it to my wife when I got home. Link didn't. He wanted her to find it. And apparently, as she was caressing his ass, she exclaimed, I think you have ringworm. Hi, everyone. Hi. Welcome to the Big Bad podcast for you.

I'm the Sid one. I'm the Olivia one. This is Sid and Olivia talk. And today we have like two of the most special other ones. Yeah, that's true. If you were to like rank the other ones, these ones are pretty freaking special. Like you think you know like what a duo is. You think you know what friendship is.

Go fuck yourself. Until you see this. You're going to be freaking out. You're going to be like, oh my God. It's the people who invented being two people. Yeah. Ooh, I like that. Yeah.

You guys, it's Red and Link. The people who invented being two people. Yes. Write that down, Link. Oh, my gosh. How are you guys? Sorry, it's really long. That came from your box.

Yeah. You want to show them some of your favorite sounds? Yeah. This came from my box. That's good. It's not kind of cool. All right. I like it.

I will say I'm a little bit concerned for you guys. Okay. Because we couldn't park very close. We walked a little bit. And I'm worried. And this is the case for us as well. Right. About the things you might be being exposed to in this area of town.

Oh, yeah. The walk here was quite rich. The industrial elements. Oh, you mean like some crazy stuff? Chemicals. Fumes. There's no way it's not in the water and the air. A lot of noises.

I'm huffing the fumes of Burbank. We're really close to the L.A. River, which everyone knows gives off the best fumes. Right. Yeah, really good specific fumes. Yeah, really good, really specific. We did have a guy here, juggle whips outside near the L.A. River. Juggle whips?

Yeah, sometimes we'll like make a euphemism. No, we brought the guy who gets the most pussy at the Renfair onto the podcast, and he is the whip guy. Naturally. He showed us how to juggle whips. Well, he showed us how to whip, and then he juggled the whips. Out near the L.A. River. I went to the LA River and all I got were these stupid juggling wet-wits.

What about the new apartment complex that is going up right next to the wastewater treatment plant? Because that's the thing that a lot of people in Burbank are talking about. How many people are going to rent one of those nice-looking apartments that we call that the fart bridge? Because if you don't know that there's a stink, right? I mean, it's a couple blocks from. I don't know if it's a stink a couple blocks from here? Wait, there's a stink a couple blocks from here. Like a notorious way.

So if you're on Burbank Boulevard, you're crossing on Burbank Boulevard over the bridge into downtown Burbank. And you get on that bridge and you haven't been there before, you will assume that a person in your car pass gas. The bridge. And you will blame it. I've seen it happen many times. Pooted. Furt Bridge. And now there is an apartment complex that is being a beautiful, large one.

A sharpment complex. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Huge. There's going to be lots of blaming going on. Wow. Oh, my goodness. And that's a reality show. Do we think that the fart smell is going to cause really bad things to happen to these people?

Probably. Yeah, probably. A lot of blaming. Fart-induced insanity. Well, even past blaming, like, do you think it has chemical in it? It's going to make people like turn gill. It has chemical in it. It has chemical in it.

It has chemical in it. For sure. We think it has chemical in, right? No. You'll be fine. Just move right in. You want me specifically to move it. Right.

We've put the right type of filters in for you. Just come on, move right in. Move right in. It's fine. It's not a visible stink. Just keep your windows close. Yeah, if you get gills, that's an added bonus. You didn't even have paid for those.

Then you can swim in the L.A. River. Yeah, you can. God, I love swimming in the L.A. River. It's the perfect place to swim. Yeah. You guys know the AMC Burbank parking lot also smells like death and has a ghost? It does.

It has, oh, yeah. You saw the ghost thing. I saw the ghost of the AMC Burbank parking lot. Is this the smaller parking dock or the bigger parking lot? The bigger one. The one. The one. You go all the way down and then you realize that it's full until you come all the way back up.

And then there's the Ross signs and they're like, fuck off. And there's the ghost. And there's a ghost. There's a man in a trench coat. I don't know about the ghost. Okay, man in a trench coat. I've seen him twice. Old man in a trench coat.

Shaking. People walking past him like he is not there. And I and. What kind of shake are we talking about? Like both times. Trimmer? Like a full body. We weren't that close to him.

No. Shaking visibly enough for someone who's a little bit. far away to see. And both times I was with somebody and both times we were like, does no one else see this? I've seen a guy dressed as the Grim Reaper walking around the bus stops in Burbank

with a scythe. Right. Maybe it's just saying that I was saying that. You guys haven't seen that way. No, I haven't seen that. And that's my theater. That's the one I go to. Oh yeah.

Well, next time maybe keep your eyes open. The Riper was outside flags. I stopped going into that parking deck because the feeling of disappointment of going all the way down and then coming all the way back up wasn't worth it. So I parked at a distance now. Yeah. That's fair.

I always immediately turn left and I don't go where everybody else goes. That's how I live my life. Yeah, turn left. By the way. Go where everyone else goes. But I do, I'm a bit scarred by this stink garage because I had an accident in there and it was a little embarrassing. Oh, no.

Like a poopy accident or like a car accident? It was car. Oh. I was picturing a poopy accident. and I was like, I'm like, I'm a pretty place to have it. I know what you're into. So, Christy was out of town and I don't know why, but I was driving, she had a minivan at the time. We don't do minivans anymore, but we did for a while.

A good while. They're pretty much the best vehicle for a certain phase of life. Oh, yeah. Which I'm sadly now on the other side of. But, well, actually, very happily on the other side of. It just means that. You're post-socker mommy. I'm post-socer mom.

And I was driving her minivan alone, and I went down there and I parked. And I thought I balanced out driving a minivan by watching the NWA biopic. You know, the Ice Cube, EasyE. Right. So yeah, that was kind of my justification. Because that's so cool that maybe the big van is fine.

I can get in the minivan early. It's okay. And then I'm leaving. I'm leaving and I'm walking to my car and I'm having this awkward walk with other people. Yeah. And then they recognize me, okay? Oh, okay.

Okay, you can't help it. I just can't help. I can't help having my face. They recognize one, one person recognized me and was trying to explain to the other person who I was. Oh no, that's the best. It's the best. That's gotta be so best.

So good. How were you described and were you happy with it? I didn't, I don't remember, but I'm never happy with it. Right. I'm usually called. and then it's downhill from there. Oh, put a pin in that.

I have something for you. We have stories for you guys, left, right, center. I have something for you. But I'm in the middle of this one, so can I finish it? Yeah, I'm putting a pin in what I'm thinking. All right, good, do that mentally. Yeah. So I'm trying to time my rate of approach to my minivan

because I don't want to take pictures of these people in front of a minivan. Right, right, right. Is that really what I was, I was self-conscious about it. in front of somebody else's car and be like, whoa, it's crazy. This is my car. I'm just walking towards the coolest car you can find. And then, I don't know, I was just very self-conscious about this minivan. So we take the picture, but then they keep going, and then I go and I get in a minivan,

and I start to drive off. And as I drive off, I hang the right to leave and there to the left. And I'm thinking, I was just in my head about them seeing me in this minivan. Did you hit that? It's ridiculous. Yeah, he mowed them all of them. I hang her right and then I all of a sudden I'm not going anymore. And I'm hearing the scraping.

Oh no. But it wasn't enough scraping to stop. So I was like, I think I can just power through this. Power through the scraping. And it was the, you know, you've got the big columns. And I was sitting here trying to take the edge off a column with my minivan. I had to back up and give it another shot. and then when I back up to start over completely.

I'm like, should I get out of the car? And then I look over and all of those people who had taken the picture with me, they were all just watching this whole thing happen. Oh my God, that's so embarrassing. Yeah, it was pretty embarrassed. And yeah, so it took a complete redo to get out of there. It took a complete redo to get out of there.

But yeah, I should have just mowed them over so they wouldn't have a story to tell. You should have rolled down. window and said something. Said that was for comedy. Yeah. You know me. Comedy, I'm Rhett.

And then you run them over. I'm Red. You know, classic Rett and then hit them. Yeah. I'll have this fix before my wife comes back into town. I'll never tell her I did it. Yeah. Which I did.

That's beautiful. And she's not going to watch this. No. No. I expect to she's not. Exactly. Exactly. And so we're all safe.

Right. You're often called Rett. Are you often called Link? No. Or is this not? You're just Red and Ret? You're Red and Ret? So, I think so, yeah.

I don't know. I don't, I have my, my theory is just, it's simply, it's the first name in the duo. It's just the first name that comes to your mind. Oh, no. And so, and also Link is another word for a lot of other things that people use, right? So maybe Ret is like, I don't know. There's some reason. I have bad news for you guys.

That's not it. that's not it No because often I'll be this often I'll be at like Muffin Can Stop Us The Egg McMuffin Place because it's very cheap and delicious You guys want to give me free food or what But I'll be there

And this has happened twice One time Just at Muffin Can Stop Us? Not at Muffin Can Stop Us But this has happened in life twice At Muffin Can Stop Us This guy went oh my God Olivia and I went the other one

and then kept walking. Yep, uh-huh. So unfortunately, I don't think of that. A lot of people say to me, Rhett, and I'll say close. Yeah. I did that for about a year, and now I just say,

what's up? So you don't even correct them. So just this past, maybe two weeks ago when I was in North Carolina, I got a link. No way. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, this is probably the second one ever. And I said the other one. How long have you guys been in? And how long have you known each other? It was, okay. Officially a duo? Yeah. That is a...

When'd you make... There's a gray area there. Well... Those are like non-exclusive for a while? We... I mean, we've known each other for 40 years... 41 years. But when did people start referring to us...

And we were friends the whole time. He's what? First grade. Yeah, first grade. That was first grade. That's so crazy. I would say middle school is when they would start referring to us together. Damn.

Because we would, we performed at the fall festival. Yeah, it coincided with beginning to try to get attention like officially, in like an official capacity, a talent show. Yeah. That's beautiful. The fall festival. Right. We rewrote OPP.

I don't know if you remember that song. It's a, we're older than you are. But it was by a band called Nottie by Nation. Cassim knows about this. Okay. It's still for other people's property, but it was also other people's penis and other people's pussy. Is that what your guys's rap was? No.

It was fall festival, so we went with, you down with Halloween. Yeah. And it was all about Halloween. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That feels right for fall and for like middle schoolers.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's perfect. Wow. So we haven't known each other since first grade. No, we've known each other since we were 14 and 15.

Which is pretty good. You know, it's something. It's not nothing. I will say, to be fair, when we were 14 and 15, we did have the brains of people who would be in first grade. That's a really good point. We're a little bit. That's a good point in that way. But we figured, like, it's not often that we get to actually, like, hang out with another duo.

And a super duo. And a duo that, like, kicks our duo in the teeth in terms of how long you guys have known each other. A duo that. We curb stomp your duo. Yeah. I mean, listen, we're going to get a little competitive here. Okay. Because we have a game plan.

and with the one and only Kassum G. This is a segment called Who is the Most Best Friends? Music. Cut the music. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, cut it. Do you guys think that you know each other better than we know each other? Yes.

I think probably objectively, yes. Okay. But I don't know. Is that always going to come out in a game like this? I'm just hedging a little bit. I think. You seem confident, though. Well, I'm just, I don't want them to get their hopes.

Okay. Well, I'm betting on you guys and I'll tell you why. Yeah. Because we didn't write the questions, because that would be cheating. Cast them out the questions. And the questions are, while lovely, they're very normal. And we don't know, we know a lot of weird stuff about each other. We don't really communicate about like normal things as much.

So I could really see you guys sweeping the floor with us. But let's see, I guess. Yeah. Like I know. what keeps her up at night, but I don't know what her favorite snack is. Yeah. I don't know what my favorite snack is. I would spiral if you asked me that question. Yeah. And that's part of my... We want to ask you. I promise. Okay. Thank you. Actually, you might. It might be one of these. I can't remember. Well, I'm not going to ask it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Rent.

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Yeah. Yeah, and it's, I'm not going to say exactly because he's currently answering. Now he's answering, yes. The reason I believe that this is your favorite app is because it is the app that I see you using the most. I mean, it's just as simple as that. This is a quantity thing. Okay.

And that app is, flip your card. That app is TikTok. Oh, nice, nice, nice. TikTok. Link, what'd you write down? Oh, dude. It is Reddit. I don't really use...

I don't consume TikTok that often. I think the only time I use it is when I'm with you and I'm just kind of bored of whatever we're up to. I mean, it's a last resort for me. I'm sorry. But this is what you... You're a scroller. You are a scroller.

You are a scroller. In between when we're shooting GMM episodes, Like on a shoot date, like, I don't see you on Reddit. I see you on TikTok. What messages does that send? To me? Yeah. Don't talk to me?

Yeah. Yeah. I know more about what's going on on TikTok based on just looking over your shoulder. Oh, really? Yeah. Then why do you always shame me about all this stuff I don't know about? This is the first one and we're already really getting into it. No, no, no, no, I love it.

I love it. But you prefer Reddit. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Interesting. All right, Sydney. So you know what Olivia's favorite app to use it.

Okay, so that was an interesting take. So when I heard you say, stop. When I heard you say like, oh, it's the one you're on the most. I was like, that's an interesting way to think of it because that's not what I thought of. Because I know you're on like socials the most. Yeah, yeah, yeah. However, I was like, socials make you sad. They do.

Because how could they not? Yeah. And I know that to combat that sometimes when you're on the treadmill, you'll place solitaire. Yes. So I said Solitaire, L.O.L. Yes. Okay. So that is probably my favorite app. I answered it with what I'm on the most. Um, and

I'm sorry about that. The question was favorite. I'm sorry. I said Instagram, sad face. I hate it, sad face. See? Because I do hate it. I hate it. But I'm always. So it's like we were, we were wrong. But the idea was there. Yeah. Yeah. If I

answered with, with like the app, I like them. No one gets what you're at. So the good news is no one gets a point at all. Okay, next question. Sydney, what's Olivia's favorite food? I know, but I don't know if she does. Did you read it? Yeah.

I know what Olivia's favorite food is because she gets it when she's drunk. So it has to be your favorite food. Very unfiltered. I never get it when I'm sober. But when she's sober, she's like, I'll just have like a little salad. Yeah. Or like a little bowl of fruit with nothing on it. Yes.

That is very accurate. But when she's drunk, she's like, give me the pasta with the clams. Yep, yep, yep. It's linguine vonglo. It is linguine with clams. Yep, absolutely. Ding, ding, ding.

I don't know if I fucking spelled it right, but it is. You're getting drunk and then going to like a sit down Italian restaurant. No, no, no, no, it's even worse. No, no, it's even worse. And being like, fuck, there's Linguini Vangelae here. And it's like, I think I need to fix it.

It's something I've made fun of Olivia for years here, which is we'll go to like truly like Big Bear. Yeah. And it'll be like a gastro pub and she'll be like, they have clams on you. I can probably get that. And I'll be like, no, no, no, no, don't do that. And she'll be like, I got to get the clams.

And then they'll be bad. And then they'll come out. They usually are. Oh, it'll be cat food. It'll look like cat food. And I'll be like, real cat food. And she'll be like, what the fuck is this. And I'll be like, I couldn't.

You're in Arizona. That's what that was going to be. But you're drunk. So. I am drunk. And I'm still like sad about it because I'm like, the fuck is this. And it's like, get what I need to do is I need to get drunk at nice restaurants. But we go to a restaurant.

I'll pick out restaurants where specifically I see that there are linguine plants on the menu. Going in, I'll be like, well, I'll have the chicken with nothing. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll go in and she'll be like, I'll just have a boiled chicken. Red? I'm like, that's just not at all. Okay. Brett, what is Link's favorite food? So I know that the answer that he put is cereal.

Nice. But I'll tell you why I put goddess cheese. when I filled out the Google Doc. Because he has been on one about cottage cheese. Like, it is, in fact, now that I've saying, hold on, maybe you did put it. So, no, no, he doesn't realize. He doesn't understand that cottage cheese is cheese,

first of all, because he would say that he doesn't like cheese. And then I'm like, cottage cheese. I don't love cheese. You don't like cottage cheese isn't. Let's be honest. Right. It really isn't. It is cheese, but it isn't cheese.

It's like the cellulite on the ass of cheese. But he's been having, he's been having so much cut-off cheese. But his actual, his sole favorite food is cereal. And you ever put them together? Yeah, you ever mix them up? Shake it in a big container. No, because I don't want any. The only crunch I want my cottage cheese is walnuts.

But then I also want black pepper and honey. I don't know. I go to the hospital. That's my like homemade snack of all snacks. Really? Black pepper. I thought drunk clams was weird. I've like never seen anyone like really love cottage cheese.

That's like a new thing. It's a strange thing. It's so that I'm a I'm like a, what's it called? The mouth feel. texture. You like a lump. Yeah. You're a lump guy.

I like lumps in the, I like soft lumps in the mouth. And I've always said that about you. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see Link's answer. I wrote Cheeseburger. Oh. I don't know.

Because I, I, I, I really would like a cheeseburger. What? How do you're like the cereal guy? And I know it's not great for me, so I feel guilty right in it. Oh, wow. Cheeseburger? My three favorite things are cereal, cottage cheese, and cheeseburgers.

Three favorite things? That's so weird. Yeah, that's really great thing. More than my kids, like, cottage cheese, cereal, and cheese burgers. You even changed your answer and didn't get it more right. But this is on me. I got this wrong. Yeah, there's no way I got this. I would never in a million years.

Never in a million years. We're going to get so many things wrong. Yeah. This is fascinating and I like hearing the thought. No, I love it. You were doubly right. Okay. The real win is the talking about it along the way.

Yeah, that's right. All right, Rhett, what's Link's favorite holiday? Really think about this. Why do you really think about it? What do you think I've been doing? Think about your favorite holiday. I don't know, let me really think about this. Because if you really think about it, it's really obvious.

That feels like a hint. I hate this question. I don't think I should be forced to have a favorite holiday. Right. I feel like abstaining. You could write bah humbuck, I hate holidays. That seems a little Christmas directed. All right, I've really thought about it.

I think he's going to get this. I think I know what it is. Oh, you do? This is so. This is so... I just realized. I just realized... Yeah.

Because I really thought about it. It's his own birthday. That's what I was going to guess. Yeah, it is. Yeah, that's a holiday. That counts. The only time I see Link get enthusiastic about a day is his own birth. That's lovely.

Because you get to have all the cottage cheese you want. Because I don't share it with anybody that I know of. Because everyone's always trying to get your cottage. It's a very only child thing. Wait, what is your birthday? To be June 1st. Okay. Yeah.

That's slow flare. Okay. Okay. Nice. Yeah. It's a good day. After you said that, after we were talking about it could be not an official holiday, I was like, oh, your favorite holiday could be also your birthday. I do like my birthday, but it's not my favorite holiday. But the thing I put and the thing I think it is, is like Christmas but non-denominations. Yeah. I'm such a whore for Christmas. I just have, like, it's like the childhood cells that are still in my body get all actually. activated by Christmas and I go like, oh my God.

And I just love. I love when my childhood smells get activated. I'm not religious in any way, shape, or form. I just love the, the, like, pagan. You like the Satan part. I love the Satan Christmas. I just love Christmas. I love the snow.

I love the trees. I love getting presents for people because I put all my, like, compulsive energy into it and I start presents in, like, July, usually. But, I mean, this year I have no money, so it's, like, going to be a lot of, like, drawings. Do you two exchange gifts either for Christmas? Yeah. Oh, wow.

Okay. I, we'll write each other like fan fictions, like 40 page long fan fictions. Yeah. And it'll be like a lot of effort. Yeah. And I'll like, featuring. Featuring whatever the inside joke of the year is. Yeah, whatever is like the funniest thing to us that year, we'll write like a like 70 page.

When did this start? Long time, college, I think? 19, 20, probably. Yeah. And we were writing about other people. first and giving them to them and they would say I hate this and we would go and it would just be a roast like it would be awful we wrote one for our friend who was like kind of our friend but like he didn't know us that well yeah yeah and we were just like oh we love him and we wrote him one about

how he lost his virginity and he was like no yeah and it was like it was a christmas story was all in rhyme and it was he called it simultaneously the nicest and meanest thing anyone's ever done for him and we were like oh fun yeah i love christmas i love being all That's good. So you learn to just do that, give that to each other. Yes, that was the lesson. Yeah, it was really fun. We don't do gifts ever.

Your friendship is the gift. Yes, our time. Yeah. We do some birthday gifts, but I will say a lot of times the birthday gifts end up happening through Good Mythical Morning. And it's on the episode that we shoot. That's fair. That's fair. For the birthday, which is like sometimes two months ahead.

Multi-task. Right. Yeah, but then is it you guys who are getting the gift? At times, yes, but sometimes it's like the writers or somebody who's like, hey, this is your gift for Link. That's good. I'm like, yes, it is. Yes, it is. You bet it is.

But then you had like, well, one of the pieces of evidence for why his birthday is his favorite holiday is he liked multiple parties. This year you had three, I think. Yeah. And I threw them all myself. Wow. Wow. Well, I asked Christy to help me, which meant, yeah, she threw the parties. That's fun.

And I got you. I decided to keep my friend groups separate. Yeah. And I have at least three distinct friend groups. Right. Were you invited to all of them? No. There's a friend group that I'm not, there's, well, there's definitely one that I'm not a part of.

And a couple of times I've been with those guys, I'm like, I'm glad I'm not. Oh, my God. No, that's fair. We have, we have separate. Different friend groups and together friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Okay, what's next?

Okay, Rhett, if Link had to get a tattoo today, what would that tattoo be? Oh. So we both have tattoos at this point. We got our first tattoo together. That was... Oh, my God, cute. But that, it was for entertainment purposes. It was our wives' names on our asses for a video for a tattoo parlor in Austin, Texas.

True Blue Tattoo. Did your wives like that? They didn't know. It was a surprise. And I just kind of showed it to my wife when I got home. Link didn't. He wanted her to find it. And apparently as she was caressing his ass, she exclaimed, I think you have ringworm.

Yeah. Because she felt it? Yeah. Yeah, it's like a raised. It was raised. Yeah. The C in her name was raised. And then she looked and said, oh, thank you for this.

I think, maybe. That's really good. So much better than ringworm. Yeah. Oh, what a lovely surprise. Yeah, a tattoo of your name on your husband's butt is way better than ringworm. Totally better than that.

But then we, but then like there was the- I was like, take a look at that ringworm. Ten years later, we started getting our arms tattooed. Around the same time, it was very cute that this is happening like basically the same year. Yeah, what happened? I don't know what happened. It's just being mid-40s, I think. I think I got this with my daughter.

This is Elvish for your special, which is like an inside joke between the two of us. That's really cute. And we're big in the Lord of the Rings. So it was her idea when she turned 18, I guess, to get a tattoo. And she knew she could lure me into, like, paying for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

By saying, let's do matching tattoos. That's really cute, though. Yeah, so I did that one. And then I put my dog here. And then I started putting plants of my arms. That's so plants. So that the, yeah, so that the internet would say that I was a lesbian. Okay, more than they already said.

Beautiful, beautiful. That's great with that. What are you, what, do you have a? Minor kind of conceptual. It's like a solar system-y kind of thing? This is the Voyager spacecraft. Okay. And this is the ancient Near Eastern cosmology of the world.

Okay, great. And they both have deep backstories that are pretentious and not worth going into on a comedy podcast. Okay, perfect. I literally was like, so is space, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what would Link get? Yeah, today.

Okay. So now that I'm thinking, now that he's going through his tattoos, I think the better answer is probably you would get Jasper. You would get your other dog now to have the other dog. But my instinct was to go with more plants. Nice. I have space for more plants, but, I think the next one needs to be a Christy's ass touch up.

Oh, wow. Oh, because you got ringworm on it? You got so much ringworm on it? No, it's just, it's kind of. They faded. It doesn't feel like ringworm anymore and you miss that. It's kind of splotched. Yeah, I want to re-ringworm it.

Yeah, that's fair. It's splotched because you've been rubbing your butt against things or? I think I think that's what happens to the ass. Yeah. It's what happens to the ass. Yeah. Right. That makes sense.

Yeah. Okay, I said, so there are two things you've mentioned wanting as tattoos. Yeah. One of them was like an arrow on your finger. You used to draw an arrow on your finger a lot. Okay. And I don't remember the exact phrase, but there was something your dad went to school and they would say like Spartans always get up or something. Yeah.

Is that and you were going to get that tattooed? Yeah. Okay. So. Spartans always get up. Isn't that what it was? I, it was if you're, so okay, my dad went. my dad went to, my dad escaped Catholic school.

But when he was there, the basket, they were the Holy Spirit Spartans. And when they would play basketball, if someone would like fall down and like fuck themselves up and like really hurt themselves. This was in New Jersey. The crowd would chant, if you're a Spartan, you'll get up.

Oh, that's healthy. And so, and so I was like, oh, that'd be a fun thing to, because like I need some help getting up sometimes. I pussy out a lot. If you're a Spartan. You'll get up. Like, it's like a keep going thing. And same with the arrow.

Like that would have, that's actually one that I probably would get. Um, of just like, yeah, just like, just like, just keep going. Just keep going. Yeah. Yeah. I, um, so I wrote, uh, which you're right about, uh, one of these. I wrote snake or something about my dad. And, uh, that is absolutely.

Something about my dad. That's at least half a half a point. Yeah. Absolutely. Something about my dad. Um, yeah. Yeah. So.

And a lot of people actually. call snakes the arrow. Yeah, the arrow of the reptile world. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. I just think snakes will be aesthetically cool. Yeah. But it would also be hard to get a snake tattoo because then you'd be a girl with a snake tattoo.

And then I don't know if that's what I'm committing to yet. Okay, great. See, this is why I only have one tattoo is because I like, I'm paralyzed with decisions. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Beautiful.

Okay. Okay. Beautiful. Time to switch sides. Okay. So, uh, Rhett, you're going to take the blank stack with a marker. And... A big marker time.

Sid, you're going to take a blank stack? Yeah. You're going to stack. Link and Olivia, you'll grab your answers. Great. Mm-hmm. Okay. Olivia, what's Sid's favorite emoji and same to you, Link?

Okay. It's hard because she's not the biggest emoji girl. No. I'm not. Yeah, that's definitely what her facial expression is saying right now. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

For Sid's favorite emoji, I wrote down the little twinkling stars used sarcastically. Oh, I do that sometimes. Yeah. I wrote sobbing. Oh, you do like the sobbing emoji. Yeah. I like saying something and then sobbing. Yeah, the sobbing emoji is, yeah, that's a really, that's fair.

Yeah, I like a sparkle ironically, and I also like a sobbing ironically. Yeah. Right. Damn it. That's okay. You missed on, Jesse does a lot of, she's a sobbing emoji girl. Yep, she is. Talking about your wife here.

This is difficult for us though because neither one of us is, you know, neither one of us uses a lot of emojis, but I'm pretty positive the one I actually use most often. And I'm a tad embarrassed by it. And apparently it makes me very like, I mean, I'm Gen X, but I'm a bit of, but I'm a tad embarrassed, I mean, I'm Gen X, but apparently it's very millennial. I know exactly what it is. Oh, I know what it is, but. None.

You know, I was saying it was none, dude. I mean, I've never seen you use an emoji at all. Well, ever. No. Period. I don't think I've ever used one in a text with you. Full stop. I don't think I've ever emojis you.

I mean, I'm almost positive. Because you know better. In fact, let's look at our text thread. I put crying laughing because. Right. And are you talking crying, laughing straightforward or tilted? No, I haven't. He can't tilt.

He doesn't know about that. Tilted is like very parent. I haven't tilted. Oh. I haven't tilted. But let's see. Sobbing is very like Gen Z. Laughing crying,

straightforward is very millennial. I also like the one that is like. Oh. Yeah, the comic face. The one that's like. Yeah. Oh, no. I hate that you said that now because people are going to be like,

oh, that's the coming. That's your coming. And it's not. I know that that's not her coming face, okay? So first of all, there's very few emojis in our, going back to March, but... Is this one I like when I'll come? Yeah. Yeah.

One thing that you do... When I come? And I think that, yeah, when you come, the thing that I've noticed that you do is just the, just the big thumbs up. Yeah. Big thumbs up is good. Right? You'll do the big thumbs up. Okay?

Yeah. But you haven't done any emojis. The only emojis that I- I-break out a devil. Is I did- like the purple devil. Yeah, okay. I did the straight-faced emoji when I gave him some not great news.

Yeah. And I used the... He's going three years back to find this. No, I thought it was right now. My not-good news emoji choices recently have been... Oh, and then I used the sad face emoji when I gave you some other. There was bad news.

Okay, so you're just retromatizing. In between May 4th and May 8th of this year, I had bad news twice. Oh, no. Not that bad, but like, that's the only emoji that I can see in 2025 between us. Yeah. Did I devil emoji here? No. None, man.

We use, like, stickers a fair amount, but we only use one sticker. We only have one sticker. And I just sent it to Cass. We use that a lot instead of emojis. We use this sticker. It's a really good. sticker. Oh. It's the only sticker I have on my phone. So sometimes, like, my work. Is that you two? Yeah, that's us. Fake naked. With sensor bars. Oh. From something we did where we had to

be like people who escaped prison and like went to the zoo naked or something that got arrested. You're sending you fake naked picks to each other. And to all our friends, they hate it. We'll like do it as a sticker. Yeah. You can stick. And is it, does it fit a certain situation or is it is just like, it's time for it? It never fits any. It never fits at all. And that's what. Like somebody will be like, meet at two and I'll do a sticker of myself and my friend naked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And we both look like unwell. Yeah. So that's that. Yeah. We don't have, like, we don't have anything like that. The thing that we also don't have is we don't, if you were to look at our entire text conversation with each other, it is so serious. Oh, yeah. So serious.

Yeah. It is just logistics. Yeah. It's a logistics. It's a logistics. That's so funny. Occas and bad news. That's all it is.

We do a lot of logistics too. We have two modes. It's like logistics or bad things are happening in life or like just fucking being so stupid. Yeah. And there's no in between. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I think it's great that you guys are still stupid over text with each other.

Oh, yeah. That's good. We're stupid in general. Yeah. We worked really hard to be stupid. We worked really hard to inhale with him. We do too, but it's about to channel it. Wait, so what did you say yours was?

Crying laughing. Oh, crying laughing. Yeah, right, right, right. Okay. Okay. No point. Yep. Okay.

Link, Olivia, what is your partner's go-to karaoke song? I got this. I know an answer. I never go to karaoke. What's the point? My answer is not. It's fun. You should try it.

Okay. Go to K-T. Yeah, yeah. Locked up in one of those rooms. I love getting a lot. You know what? It's a good time or whatever. The thing I like about karaoke is that I can't do it without panicking, so I don't do it at all.

Oh. I have to get, like, lacked out to do karaoke. I try so often to be like, I'm just going to go up and then I just, it's like, is it the strangers? Because the K-town karaoke rooms are just the prize friends. I don't know where you're supposed to land. I don't know if you're supposed to try or if you're not supposed to try. I don't know if you're supposed to try to be good.

Well, it depends on the songs. Yeah, and like I don't know a lot of songs. I don't know. Okay, I think I know what you put. Okay. I put Minion espresso. Is that what you put? Oh, I didn't, but I, you know what?

But that is a beautiful song. Okay, I did something that I've seen you do before multiple times. That is this, that is a minion covering the Sabrina Carpenter. Oh, yeah. So it's banana me banana no. That's that me banana. That's a minion. That's, that's, it's a pinion.

By Minion Sabrina Carpenter. And it's by Minion Sabrina Carpenter, which isn't real. And it was because I was in the pool once and I was drunk. And I said, you guys, you guys, I made everyone stop what they were doing. And I said, you guys, Minion Sabrina Carpenter, banana me, banana, no. That's that me, banana. Is that anything? And she kept asking if that was anything like, no.

Absolutely. Okay. So I put your go-to karaoke song is Suddenly Seymour against your will. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yes. That is actually true. I have one friend named Rod who is about to be in ragtime on Broadway.

Oh, me! You should go see it. Congratulations, Rod. Yeah, he's very talented and he's wonderful. And every time I see him, he will drag me into some sort of karaoke place and sign us up for suddenly some more. Okay. And I never agree to it. But she does do it.

And then every time he pulls me up and then we do it. And it's always fun. Oh, we've done it. That was in time. She played Audrey. I think Audrey in high school. Oh, okay. So I know.

Yeah. But like. I bet you that killed. Oh, it does. It absolutely does. But it's not, it's against her will. It's never by choice. Yeah.

God damn, and I really thought it was going to be a minion Sabrina Carpenter. It is a good song that if it was like, what's the song you sing the most? That would be it. That's probably it. All right, Link. In sharp contrast, you need to give your real answer that no one is going to know unless they're of a certain age. And why would they? Yeah.

It's a lady. Why would they know this? Lady in Red. Oh. Is dancing with me cheek to cheek? Yeah. Who even sings that? Oh, cheek to cheek.

Chris. Not Chris Isaac. Chris Evans. No, it's not Chris to Berg. Christa Berg. No, dude. Dgging up bones, Randy Travis. Digging up bones.

Yeah, that was, I mean, I would sing that in high school. But I had a great, Legitimately. This is before he like got naked in the and then like really Randy Travick. I was like before you did. You sing that before you go into a naked ditch. Well, you know what? You missed this because-

This is an 80s country music icon, if you don't know. Okay. While I was at, me and the mythical crew were at a gay bar in Atlanta waiting for you to show up to sing karaoke, I sang Lady and Red in flip-flops. Whoa. And- Well, I missed that. Crushed it.

Wow. You know what I was up to. And this is become. This has become my go-to. Okay. Especially if you, you know how, the thing about the one in Korea town, like a good karaoke place you can bring down the key a little bit. I didn't even know that was the thing. You can step it down.

I like the idea of the places that like have the live band. Like that's the coolest shit in the world. Oh, I haven't even heard of that. That shit is so cool. You don't think that's going to make you less anxious? No, I would never do it, but it is so cool. But lady and red down like two steps and flip-flops. Yeah, that's it.

I asked my flip-flops or else call it off. Or else bring it back up, bring the key back up. Right. We had actually picked out, um, your flip-up. Chenaya Twain's, man, I feel like a woman for you, that you were on the list.

And you never showed up. He never showed up because he got into an altercation with the cast of the Muppets live show. That's the thing. Sesame Street live show. What? Yeah. What altercation did you get in with Sesame Street?

Well, I was going to my hotel room to change. I had flown into town and then I was meeting them for karaoke, but I went past someone was making noise and laughing inside of another hotel room across the hallway. And they kept telling me, hurry up, get to the karaoke. And then I heard Rhett laughing inside of this hotel room. And I was like, damn it, they are pulling a trick on me. They're just gonna send me over to this karaoke place while they're just yucking it up over here.

Like we would sussly. And so I would go up to the door and it was a little bit cracked and that's why I could hear him so well. And I knew it was him. And so I just like bang on the door. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Housekeeping. And then everybody gets quiet.

And then I like committed to it. And then finally somebody opens the door, complete, stranger and I'm like, I know you're in there. And I was like, I thought you were, I thought you were my friend. That was the cast of the Sesame Street live show. Wow. And they had flown in the guy who is their like coach for all their characters, who also is. Played Elmo's dad.

He's almost dad on Sesame Street. I didn't even know Elmo had it. Me neither. And they were like having like a work meeting in the hotel room. And you said how, housekeeping. Wow. That's everywhere. And then I ended up kind of, you know,

hanging out with him for a little water. That's good. All right. But then it got weird and then I left. Yeah, that's not weird. Yeah, it got weird. They get sexy. That's kind of what it sounds like.

It didn't get that, no. It didn't get that sexy, but it got third. It didn't get fun. It got weird. Sesame Street after dark. It doesn't get fun. It gets weird. All right.

Next question. Olivia and Link, who are your partner's celebrity crushes? Okay. Olivia. Yeah. is Sid's celebrity crush. Okay.

I wrote The Fox from Zootopia. Okay. I do have two. And it's Zoe Kravitz and the Fox from The Toges. Nice, nice, nice. You didn't even say,

Hear Me Out. Yeah. Well, no, you don't need to be heard out. It's the Fox from Zootopia. Have you seen him? Yeah. Oh my God, that guy. Yeah.

Okay. So, all right. You got it. Okay, Link. Okay, Link. Okay. At you guys. Who is Rhett?

I want to say Rihanna, even though I usually say Rihanna. Wow. Did we spell it the same way? Is that correct? I don't know. No, we spelled it differently. Everybody says Rihanna, but I think it's just. You guys spelled it the same way.

I don't know if that's how you fucked. Is she R-H-I? I thought it's R-I-H. I just copied whatever the Google form was. Great. Yay. Yeah, but we nailed that one. Good job, guys.

Quartz to everyone. That's the only thing you've nailed associated with that. That's true. That's true. Olivia and Link, what is your partner's biggest fear? Biggest fear? This one was hard for me, to guess, because I was like, I know what it is, but it's not like a fun answer. Yeah, it's not. Hmm. Hmm. This is not immediately obvious to me.

Because you have a lot of fears. For my own self. Okay. So I went based on. what Sid has nightmares about. Oh, no. Which is just everyone she loves suddenly hating her like she's in a nightmare. Yeah, that for sure. And also planes and drowning.

Yeah, that's true. No, I think I just have many fears. Yeah. No, that's fair. I think it's a scary world. Plains are scary. Drowning is scary. And can you imagine if you woke up and everybody who ever loved you actually hated you? Yeah. All of a sudden for no reason.

Those are all scary. things. And they were filling a cockpit up with water. Yes. And they were like, get in and we're weighing you down. Everyone you love is flooding the plane. Right. As it goes down. Yeah. And saying this is your fault somehow. That would be so much scarier than snakes on a plane. Like that would be the scary. People you love drowning you want a plane. Yeah. That's the scariest movie of all time. There's too many fucking people I love drowning me on this. Motherfucking. Okay. Okay. Ironically, it's heights. Yeah. So I said, I didn't go with anything.

I was thinking, is it something existential? Wait, why did you write heights and then write heights? Because he spelled it. I spelled it both ways to see which one looked right and then I crossed out the one that I think is wrong. Okay. I thought it was too identical. The eye and the east thing really gets me. Yeah.

I before you except after C. That's not always true, though. That's the thing. It's true in this case. No, see, it's not true. It's not true in this case. What? Oh, fuck.

Except for exceptions like, neighbor and way hates. Except after C. What? See, it's not true. Oh, it's not true. See, exactly. That's why I'm so scared.

Everything is alive. So I'm so scared of English. Um, yeah. So I didn't get existentialist. It's just, you know. He's pretty fine. But you're starting to get like medical fears that are overtaking the, um, medical.

I'm actually doing better with that. Okay. Now that I'm just, now that I'm just, now that I'm just, why we're doing so good with that? Why be scared? Why be scared? Okay. Final question.

Mm-hmm. This is for everything. Oh, shit. Oh, really? Olivia and Link. What's your partner's biggest pet peeve? Oh, my. Okay.

I did, I tried to answer as honestly as possible. Based on what I see her get your job about. No, no hints. Okay. That's such a good point. Now, I think this is, I think I've gotten this one. Rett's biggest pet peeve is being interrupted, and I'll say it by me. A lot.

Well, I think I'm, this could apply. This could apply to you. I said it is to do with you. It was Link's chewing. So it's just me in general probably. Yeah. I don't know which one's worse. I actually think the interrupting is probably practically worse.

Yeah, at this point. He has, he's an aggressive chewer. His grandmother told him, to chew everything 30 times. Whoa. Yeah. And I've always... And you still do it?

And he's always... Including the cottage. I can't help it. Oh yeah. I chew cottage cheese. Yes. That's the thing that's upsetting is that if the man is eating pudding,

he will chew it. Uh-huh. And like a person chewing pudding next to you... Yeah. How do you even do that? Give this man some pudding and he will show you. We'll have to give him some pudding. You know, it's the sounds.

Yeah. You don't like the sounds of the... Oh, yeah. It's like, and there's something, there's also something mechanically wrong with your jaw that there's a popping that's happened. I don't know. I get a pop too. Yeah. What is that?

It's from aggressive chewing. It's from chewing. Oh. You know how like an elephant dies simply because it's molars wear out? No, I didn't know that. That's why they die most of the time. Really? Their molars get old and they can't eat anymore.

Like, he's gone through, he has the jaw of like a 90-year-old man. Wow. Like it's, so I don't know what's going to happen. A tube of some kind I've never had to mu Um Oh yeah Yeah

Yeah Yeah wow All right We didn't get that one Wow Yep Whatever Biggest pet pee

Yes it's biggest pet pee What is my biggest pet pee? I said that it was People making everything about themselves Yes I do Absolutely Like when a celebrity dies And someone is like

Actually this is About me This is my nightmare This is my late Like one time I had a dream about this celebrity and so therefore they knew like you know like that yeah that is actually probably it i hate that so much there is something i get it i don't know what it is it's like how did you make that

about you well you also have a holocaust grandma yeah i do right so when people are like oh no everything's about me you're like shut on my grandma survived the holocaust i said um dishonesty yeah but i think that like yeah the other one i was going to say is people being fake parentheses in meetings Yes. There is something I hate about somebody being like, oh my God, you're incredible. I love you. Everything you've ever done is amazing and having no fucking clue who you are. It's like, don't lie to me. So you don't like agents. No, I don't. I just don't like. It's general meeting trauma. Yes. I don't like in meetings and in entertainment, this idea that we all have to kiss ass, but like nobody means it. Like, if you mean it, if I like somebody's work, I will be like, oh my God, I think you're great. And I mean that. And that's why it means something. But if you're just saying that to everybody, it doesn't mean anything. And then who cares? Yeah. And also, like, you don't have to let you know, you don't have to. You know, you're just told to go on this general with you. Tell us about yourself.

Yeah. And like, you don't have to be like. You know what you could say? So nice to meet you. Yeah. Great. Amazing. And going like, oh, my God, we're totally going to work together. And it's like, you don't have you ever called it out in the moment. No, we should start. I don't think so. I don't think so. We should start. I should be like, prove it. Purs it. Kiss me. You like so much. Kiss me.

Yeah, I just, I don't, yeah, I don't know. Or it's just, I don't know. I like when people's words mean something. That's valid. That is very fair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, guys. Can't argue with that. We got so newly wedded. Oh, my God. We did. Did we determine? Yeah, but who won't? I think we were both pretty bad.

Well, the team here has been hard at work, tallying the votes, keeping track of the scores, adding them up, subtracting. Oh, wow. And dividing. And we have a winner. Oh, no. By half a point, the best duo is right in link. Yes.

Half a point. Yes. Okay. That's right. Well, you guys have so many years of friendship on us. I'm actually proud of us. Oh, yeah. You did great.

You did great. I was surprised. Guys, how does it feel to be the best two people to ever be two people? It feels really good You know, I'm I do want to plug our episode that we're in But this actually very specifically Reminds me of

Yeah That's what we shot together Yes, yeah So I mean the episode of Wonderhole season two We were lucky enough to be asked To attend Yeah and to represent Well you guys are playing

friendship analysts who are best friends in real life to like a creepy level. Yeah. And we were exploring, so you are the authorities subjecting us to a series of test to determine how strong

our best friendship is. And spoiler alert, you annihilate us. We had so much for me. Emotionally. Yeah, it was so fun. No, it was so fun. And also just fun fact, if you saw our Girls' Night episode with the goblins, those pajamas we were wearing are from that episode. Oh, yeah.

You already reusing our wardrobe. We literally took the pajamas home because they were the most comfortable to come us ever. And then every time we see them, I'm like, oh, Red and Link gave us these pajamas. Yeah. That's so nice. Friendship pajamas. Friendship pajamas. No, it was so fun.

And I'm so happy we could do that. And I'd already told you guys, but I remember specifically seeing your fake local commercial for the seafood warehouse and thinking it was a real commercial and showing everybody in my life and all of them being like, no, it's so funny. It's not real. I don't know why you think it is real. It's not. And I was like stupid. And that is just such a good memory. No, I was obsessed with the ones where you'd make a sketch and then you'd have YouTube auto caption it.

Caption. Yeah. And then you'd go back. There was like a window of time in which that could work on YouTube. shit was so fucking. I mean, because I just love when nonsense. When nonsense is said like it means something. Yeah.

Yeah. And just the escalation of that. It was just like my favorite series. So good. I was obsessed with that. Yeah. It was so cool to come and work. No, you guys did great.

Yeah. It was so good. Because we, as you figured out once we got there, like, we're doing the whole very loosely scripted. Like, you kind of know where you're going, but we don't know exactly what's going to come out of your mouths. Right. And that was a good, that's a good mode for y'all.

It was really fun. Thank you. It was so fun. It was so fun to improvise with you guys too. Like it was just, it was just such a blast. Yeah. And I'm just really excited to see the episode. And you guys should see the episode too.

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