Trash Tuesday w/ Esther Povitsky & Khalyla Kuhn - Good Mythical Tuesday w/ Rhett and Link
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Esther, how are you? How are you feeling?
We have two tall white men in the room.
I'm sweating.
I'm so, I'm like nervous.
I know.
Is it the tall part or the white part?
It's the tall part. I'm white, so I can't pretend like white people scare me.
I mean, even though white people probably don't fully accept me as one of them
because I'm half Jewish, but...
I accept you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
And that accent, it means a lot. You can call that an accent. I accept you. Thank you so much. In that accent, it means a lot.
Oh. You can call that an accent. I like that.
Hi, slugs. It's your girl with a mouthful of raisins and walnuts.
Here to tell you, I have a stand-up show in LA Friday, June 27th at the Comedy
Store. You can get tickets at the link below. I'll see you there. It's it's been real
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And shout out to our golden slugs, Brandon and Thomas.
And if you're a hater, we also have a hater tier.
Oh yeah. Just for you.
You guys, huge show today.
No, this is like the biggest crossover
that could have happened for the little trash Tuesday girls.
We have the originators of YouTube.
They invented YouTube.
Basically, I mean, legendary YouTubers,
legendary snackers.
That's true.
That part is definitely true.
Legendary friendship.
You guys have been friends forever.
We are so happy to have Rhett and Link.
Woo!
Thanks for having us.
Thank you.
Good to see you again.
I know.
Thanks for having me on your show.
Boy, when was that?
That was when I was promoting that show Alone Together.
It was probably like 2017, 18, a long time ago.
Thank you for having me then.
We never spoke after that.
No.
Until right now.
Never before, never after. It was purely like a press moment.
What we were doing, we had a weird stint on Good Mythical Morning where we, like,
YouTube decided to directly fund the show for a season.
Oh.
And they were like, we wanna do like a half hour of content every day, four or five individual videos.
And so we were shooting like five videos
every single day without,
we would stop every like five or six weeks.
So we probably were not at a good state.
Literally at the end of that,
I had this thing happen to my eyesight where I was reading and I couldn't,
like right in the middle of my field of vision,
I couldn't make anything out.
And then I go to the doctor and I have this thing
where my retina has detached.
Oh my God.
Because there's a bubble and they're like,
yeah this is a stress induced thing that was first observed
from pilots coming back from World War II.
I was like, I've just been making YouTube videos.
You're like, I just interviewed Esther Prowitzki.
Why did this happen?
Why did I go blind?
I was in a fugue state.
I was in a fugue state for that.
Oh, I love a fugue state.
I was also in a fugue state,
because I had my own TV show
and was very stressed out all the time
and didn't know what was going on outside of world.
Well the stress thing is so real
because I'm recovering from Bell's palsy
and I had no idea that sleeplessness
and just overall stress was gonna cause facial paralysis
and apparently it's just a thing.
It's true what they say.
Cause your hair to fall out, cause you to go blind,
detached retina.
But you caught it early.
No, I'm eight months out.
And I still have it.
You still have some?
Yeah, I still have it.
Like remnants of it.
So basically when I try to purse my lips, my left eye shuts.
It's like a cross-wiring.
What?
And yeah.
My wife Christy had it in college.
Did it just go away?
Well, they treated it very quickly.
Yeah. Because she woke up with, you know, she's brushing her teeth
and there's like, the water's like running out of the side of her mouth.
And it was that. It was Bell's Palsy.
That's exactly how it happened for me. I woke up in the morning.
She doesn't have any cool tricks like...
Like there's a crossword?
Yeah, that...
It kind of... especially when I eat.
I know.
You're doing like a... you're doing a duck face?
And it closes your left eye?
So when I chew, my left eye closes.
When I'm chewing food, which is why.
It's a little wink though, you have to be careful
who you look at while you're.
Right, right.
I don't know why I find it very attractive.
Thank you.
It's like kinda hot to be slightly wonky, you know?
I think that, it's like.
Keep on guessing.
It's like oh, I have a chance.
I've looked at the left side,
now what am I gonna get from the right side?
You know? Yeah, screw this definition of beauty.
Symmetry is stupid.
Symmetry really is dumb.
It's outdating.
Have you done the thing on TikTok where you can double your face on each side?
No, I'm scared.
I have.
I am literally two completely different people who may not be related.
Like, when you go one side or the other, I'm like,
-"Wow, really? That's what happens?" On my face?
See, I'm so afraid to see that for myself.
I feel like it will send me down a spiral.
I will leave the business. It will be bad. I can't.
How long have you had the beard?
Yep, right. There you go.
Yep, you know where to push.
I have only shaved this beard one time in my adult life,
and it was for, it was right around that same time.
We were working on another show, that's another reason I went half-blind.
Worked on another show, like a scripted half-hour comedy.
Called Buddy System.
And we wanted to do like a high school prom scene,
recreating like our high school prom.
With you guys in it?
Yeah. And so I was like, okay, I'm gonna shave.
I grow the beard to give the illusion of a lower half of a face.
That's why I have the beard.
If I was a man, I would have a beard.
Yeah, I have very little chin. I have my mother's non-chin.
Ten years had passed, and it's like your face changes, like from 25 to 35,
like things happen like in here that make the chin
even recede even more it seems like.
And so he was there when I shaved it.
And the thing is is that.
Wish I wasn't.
Here's the thing is that you take entirely,
this is a character flaw I'll bring up,
you take entirely too much joy in how bad I look
with other beard, like, there's so much insult to injury,
it's like somebody.
Are you referring to me busting out laughing in your face?
Yeah, literally, and also the gleam in your eye
whenever it's talked about.
It's like I'm so deeply wounded by my lack of chin, I don't need you to just
be there laughing at it every single time.
To be fair, I don't think anyone who has a beard and then shaves it ever looks better.
Even if they do have a chin. I remember I was dating a guy, he had great facial hair,
didn't warn me, shaved the beard, shaved everything.
I didn't speak.
Call me back in a month when your shit's grown back.
I felt such a stranger danger, and his face was fine.
He looked great.
Right.
But I just didn't know who he was.
Yeah.
And I wanna defend you here by saying maybe you just didn't know who he was.
It would be a stranger danger feeling.
It was like, who is this?
Yeah, you were laughing because you were nervous.
Well, that would have a stranger danger feeling. It was like, who is this? Yeah, you were laughing because you were nervous. Well, that would have been like confusion or concern.
It was, you know, it was unadulterated joy
is what it brings in.
Yeah, I mean, I might have been frightened a little bit.
Yeah.
It was scary.
So yeah, as soon as I could grow anything in high school,
I mean, I had the whole little half goatee that didn't connect, like my junior year in high school. I mean I had the whole little half goatee
that didn't connect, like my junior year in high school,
and then all through college had the chin strap.
Because I was in college in the late 90s,
so you could almost get away with it.
That'd give you a jaw.
And it wouldn't connect, so I was like,
I'm gonna grow whatever, the Amish part of my beard
is what I'm gonna grow if that's all I can grow.
Wait, were you guys best friends in elementary school?
Yeah, first grade.
Wow.
Damn. Way back.
You guys are basically a success story
because usually when people. Basically.
Basically. Only basically.
For the whole you laughing at his chinless face.
I think that's part of it.
Yeah. We are a basic success story.
Basic. Yeah.
It's not enough of this. You always hear about friends coming together,
working together, and there's always a fallout.
Except for bands like Aerosmith,
because apparently they all split it four ways.
And so that's sort of their key to their success
is that there is no money feud.
Yeah, but have you seen Steven Tyler's toes?
I've never.
Don't Google that.
Now I have to. What do they look like?
He's endured his hardships.
It may not be...
What is that from, though?
I think it's from the boots.
Oh, no way.
Oh.
Like a ballerina.
Oh, no.
Okay, do not throw ballerinas under the bus.
I know. Your feet are beautiful.
We might have calluses, but...
I don't know why I mentioned it, guys, I'm sorry.
He goes toes out now all the time, he doesn't care.
That's the reason why I felt okay to mention it,
because there's so many pictures
because he just wears sandals in public.
You know, I do have a friend who has similar feet
except the last three toes are in the air.
They never touch ground.
So he has his big toe down, his second toe down,
and the three up here, so he walks around like this.
Is your friend Bobby Lee?
No, but Bobby has weird thumbs.
He covers his thumbs, he hides his thumbs on his feet.
Yeah, so he has aerial toes that have never touched ground,
but he is so agile, I am a little confused.
Like he's a...
Yeah, that's confusing.
He seems at least ready for anything.
Yeah, yeah.
What is your guys' secret to like staying together?
What's your tips?
You know, we celebrated 40 years of friendship.
Oh my God.
At a certain point,
you're more of an old married couple than friends.
Yeah.
And more of that than, like, brothers, too.
Yeah.
I think that is the best analogy.
Old married couple because it's a given that we're gonna be together.
It's almost beyond commitment.
It's just like, this is our lifestyle.
This is not changing.
Yeah. So I do think there's a few ingredients, but I do think...
But it never threatens anything.
And I would call that commitment, yes, but also loyalty.
Right? I think we both have a fair amount of loyalty.
I mean, we both have also been... He just celebrated 25 years
of marriage. I'm celebrating 24 in like two days.
And so.
We're committed people.
We're pretty.
We're gonna be on your podcast every week from now on.
Thank you.
This is now our new thing.
There's not a lot of,
we are very rarely, if ever, the source of drama
in other friendships or groups of people
or at our place, or where we work.
So I think that's a big part of it.
We're not sources of drama for each other either.
And so we just have this sort of,
there's a little bit of built in loyalty commitment
that's just part of our makeup.
Because I think you kinda both have to have that
in any relationship that's gonna stick around
for a long time.
I think that's one ingredient.
I do like that, what you said,
where it's like there's no threat to the friendship.
You just know that it stays no matter what happens.
That's how I feel with my sister.
It's like no matter what, no one's walking away
from that relationship and I feel like that's really special.
Esther, do we have that?
What about with me?
Yeah, did you guys, I mean you can't,
if the starting point is IP,
if we're talking about making podcasts. I'll, if the starting point is IP, if we're talking about making podcasts,
start my intellectual property here,
that's no way to start a friendship.
No, our starting point was her showing her tits
in a green room.
Well, okay, then I said, wow, nice tits.
That's how the friendship started.
Okay, that's a good start.
Can we, let's.
Don't say it, let's recreate that,
if that's what you're gonna say.
I'm gonna say let's recreate that.
But I was gonna say...
It seems like you might be about to say that.
Let's camp out on that a little bit, because I'd like to know more of the details.
Um, so she was...
Maybe not, it's not, you could describe...
...Hertopolis, but it's not that as much as...
Really, it's like what was going through each of your minds.
How does that happen?
Who was going through your mind? So I had fake boobs at that time.
I think it was more her trying to bait me to show my boobs.
And she wouldn't.
And this was the first time I had met her
and we were in a green room
because she was opening up for Bobby at that time.
I was dating Bobby.
And she was like, hi, I'm Esther.
She's like, oh my God, you're so hot.
She's like, do you wanna see my boobs?
And I said sure.
Why is this what we're talking about?
Is this the way you remember it?
I remember that, but I wouldn't have called upon
that memory as a sort of our friendship.
I would say when I was in Australia
and I was having health problems.
You had tonsillitis.
And we barely knew each other,
and you were texting me all day
helping me with my health problems.
But that was after the boobs.
It was, but I didn't really feel the real connection.
The boobs broke the ice.
Yeah. Yeah.
If you were around Bobby Lee,
I mean, he'll show anything at any time.
Yeah.
So you can be influenced.
But are you an exhibitionist?
No. Is that part of your schick?
No, that was like I was super young
and it was just all girls in the room.
Not all girls, that's there.
That's not true, Bobby was not there.
Oh, I thought you meant all girls do this.
Oh, no.
No.
You know how girls do that.
Yeah, that was her line, all girls do this.
That's how she tried to get you.
As she's doing it.
Reciprocate.
But I will say, I do feel very secure in our relationship, like referencing what you said,
like this isn't gonna end.
Like I do have a security there where I feel like maybe I didn't always, because I'm anxious
attached, so I feel like through good communication, I do feel secure now.
You mean you talked about your friendship, the status of it or whatever?
I'll say this, recently there was a little something happen between us.
What little something remind me?
Where I said something to you and then you were like, well I wanna say something to you.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I freaked out and I called her and I was like, I just wanna say maybe we should get a couples therapist
and she's like, Esther, everything's fine.
And she's like, this was one small thing.
It was the weirdest thing.
I was getting an acai bowl, I remember.
And she was like, hey, I feel like I wanna tell you
something and I texted back, sure.
Let me tell you some stuff too, like I want off my chest.
And then I just continued to eat my acai bowl.
Then I get this text from her.
No, no, you texted like, hey, I'm feeling really anxious
about what you're about to tell me,
and then you called me and you were like,
do we need a couples therapist?
Oh, wow.
Oh, you hadn't even found out what the things were
before you were going to therapy over it.
No, and it was a nothing thing. It was nothing.
The way she reacted, though, to me saying couples...
You started it. That's the thing.
She was like, what are you saying? It really felt like the way my partner
has reacted to me in the past. It's like, you are spinning out.
I am not... And that made me feel so secure and comfortable.
She thought I was gonna break up with her, is what it was. Not that, but, like, you know, and that made me feel so secure and comfortable. She thought I was gonna break up with her is what it was.
Not that, but like, you know, within an inch of it.
When someone says like, I need to tell you something.
Oh, I hate that.
I'm like, she's gonna break up with Zilver, yeah.
Yeah, that was so silly.
Didn't make me giggle though.
You guys are like really freaked out
by what we just shared.
You guys have nothing to say, you're scared for us.
The observation I'm making is...
Oh no.
He has an observation to make.
I think that...
Should you get a therapist first?
I mean the fact that, and this is obviously
a generalization between men and women,
but I think the fact that you were ready to go
the couple's therapist route,
it's like there's not a lot of dudes,
even though we've thought about doing it
for entertainment purposes.
That's how I brought it up.
But I think that that is one of the things
that's also true about our relationship is that
there are some more things about the way that we relate
or communicate that are less common in male friendships.
Oh. Right.
In terms of being honest with each other
or talking about the state of your relationship
so it's not just talking about the things
that you're both interested in or you're both working on
which God knows we've got a lot of those things
that are, that's another ingredient.
Inevitably there are things that will happen
where there's resentment that will build about something
and we do a pretty good job of recognizing
that that is happening and then
having a conversation about it.
That's cool.
I would say that those types of conversations are yearly.
It's not like it's every week.
Yeah.
And a lot of male friendships that just never happens.
It might be every couple of years.
There is this challenge when you're working together
and you're creating something together,
like this podcast and stuff that we do,
it works best when the friendship fuels what you're making.
You know, it's like, even at times on our podcast,
we would have, we'd gotten into talking about something
we didn't anticipate and it would get a little
heated or we'd kinda be at each other a little bit more.
Yeah.
That's an honest part of the relationship that,
I think we, I was glad that it came out on the podcast,
I can't remember what it was.
Maybe it was when we were arguing about
if we were competitive or not.
Well that was, that was one of the times.
Ironically, it got really heated.
I was trying to convince him that he was competitive.
And I was determined to...
To win the argument.
Win the argument of not being competitive.
But it got real, you know?
And it's an example of, I guess, a negative thing
that's honest from a friendship fueling the content.
But if you have to show up to make the show
and then you're counting on that to fuel the friendship,
you're in a danger zone.
I completely agree.
We do so much, we create so much content.
I mean, we've done almost,
we're working on 3,000 episodes of Good Mythical Morning, that's five days a week,
that's 20 minutes plus right after it's the show,
after the show, that's another 20 minutes.
So that's 40 minutes of content every day.
Sometimes we block shoot things,
so we're not shooting it every single day.
Yeah.
But so much of our friendship is on camera.
And that's just Good Mythical Morning, Good Mythical More.
And then you got like our podcast.
There's just so much of this in front of the camera
that what's going on behind the camera
and is there enough actual friendship stuff happening
that then it can kind of fill up the cup so to speak.
Wait is it kind of like when you are married
and then you have a baby and it's like
you still have to like go on date night because.
Yeah, because we've used that same analogy of the baby
and because I would answer this question historically
by saying I think one of the keys to our friendship
is the fact that we've got this baby together,
this thing that we both care so deeply about
that we have created and we are nurturing
and building through our career.
I do think that is an important ingredient
because common interest and common goals
and that is like, that's what keeps the inevitability
of us coming back together, coming into the same office
over and over and over again.
So you get that time together,
whereas if there's like somebody on the East Coast
that you don't see anymore,
it's like that friendship's tough to maintain. So that is part of it.
But yeah, there was a recognition a few years ago that, okay, it can't always,
and this is nothing for me to recognize more than Link, because even when we're
hanging out and it's not work-related, I'll make it work-related because I've got
another idea I want to talk about, let's move this idea forward
even though we're just at this party with our friends,
but now we're talking, so let's talk about work.
I don't make the decision, it's just on my mind.
Yeah.
But I notice these things.
Yeah.
So I'm more of like sound the alarm,
hope I don't seem like a crybaby.
What I've learned is that, and in friendship,
you've got to state your needs.
And if you've got something to talk about,
yeah, send a text and say,
I got something I wanna talk about it.
Or maybe don't, just start talking about it
if that's gonna freak out the other person.
But I think the thing that I learned was,
it's up to me to represent my point of view and my needs
in the friendship, and then it's up to him to respond. But I can't be getting upset
and building stories in my mind about what he's not doing if we haven't talked
about it. And then you can learn a lot from the response. You know, if you put your needs and your feelings out there
in a sincere way, well, if you do that right,
then you can learn a lot from the response.
Because it can either be like,
well, I don't know what you're talking about,
or it could be an argument, or it can be like,
okay, we're speaking, we have different needs,
we have different interests here,
we have different points of view on this,
but I can tell that Rhett is seeking to understand,
he's seeking to hear me.
Yeah.
And he's seeking to respond.
And that feels so safe because all you really want
is to be heard and like, yeah, that's,
you guys are, it's shocking that you haven't been
to a couple of therapists,
cause you guys sound like you have been.
We've been to individual therapists. Yeah, because you guys sound like you have been to all other therapists.
Yeah, okay.
But are you competitive?
Uh, no, I'm not.
And I will die on that hill.
Can I tell you, as someone super competitive,
when someone would say that I was competitive,
it drove me nuts.
It drove me absolutely nuts.
It wasn't until...
Because you didn't know you were competitive?
I'm not naturally competitive. I was made to be competitive.
My mom was someone who needed me to walk a very straight line,
to be this all-succeeding young thing.
I had to be the best in my class. I had to be the best athlete.
So I feel like maybe it's not in my nature.
I was almost bred to be that way.
And so when someone tells me you are that way,
in my head I'm like, I became something
my mom wanted me to be.
So I feel like it's a diss.
But then, now I've accepted it as, you know what?
If there's any kind of competition,
my whole body lights up and I have to win.
This is just who I am now.
Even if it wasn't in my nature to begin with,
it's just who I am.
So my therapist does not allow me to compete anymore
at anything.
Wait, our therapist?
My previous therapist.
Oh, okay.
So she, because I wanted to compete
in a spearfishing competition.
Did I tell you this?
No.
Of what competition? Spearfishing? Oh, you spearfish? Yeah, because I dive. Oh, a spearfishing competition. Did I tell you this? No.
A what competition? Spearfishing?
Oh, you spearfish?
Yeah, because I dive.
Oh, we both dive, yeah.
You guys both dive?
I haven't spearfished yet, though.
But we were both scuba certified,
and I got free diving certified last year.
Oh, my God, you have to dive with me.
Yeah.
So you can be better than him?
Yes.
Let's see who's better.
Wait, do you ever go die for lobster or?
No, I wanted to do that this year.
Like, because we have a guy who works with us
who is like, he wants to, you know, actually grab some lobsters
this year.
I will be so happy to take you.
But we might give it a couple years,
because the waters are a little wet.
So you like holding your breath?
I do love holding my breath.
It's very meditative. I'm super anxious on land, so water is like the only because the waters are a little weird. So you like holding your breath? I do love holding my breath. It's very meditative.
I'm super anxious on land, so water is like the only place
where I feel a little bit okay.
I like to breathe.
Breathing is fun. Breathing is fun.
I like breathing underwater, too.
It's called drowning?
No, no, no, it's called scuba diving.
Yeah, right.
What are we gonna do if they're gonna go free diving?
I'm not gonna be holding my breath,
waiting on a lobster to come up either.
I know. I will be on land waiting for you guys as the safety captain.
I do not... I don't know why this happens to me.
I grew up as the misfit in a family of hunters and fishermen.
I don't know why... I'm having so much trauma come up from this conversation.
I'm just sitting by myself making my great-grandma grilled cheese while all
the cousins are having fun. Do you guys hunt, too?
No. I did growing up with my dad, but no.
And I've thought about, because I go back to North Carolina a lot,
and I've got people who invite me to hunt,
and I always, my dad would only hunt birds.
Like duck, dove, quail.
And we can all agree that they deserve it.
Yeah, right.
Like the symbol of peace, if there's a symbol of peace
flying through the air, my dad would kill it.
But we never went deer hunting,
and it wasn't an ethical thing, it's just a sad story,
but my mom knew somebody who's,
and this is actually pretty common,
whose dad shot his own son and killed him while deer hunting. And so it was like this family story that was like,
we don't deer hunt because of the thing that happened with my mom's friend
growing up. But I'm like, should I keep carrying on that tradition?
But also, like, if you talk about...
Should I make a joke that he looked like a deer?
I don't know. What should we do?
He was wearing antlers. It was Christmas.
Okay.
No. But if I was like, I'm gonna go hunt... I couldn't talk about it. What should we do? What's the joke? He was wearing antlers, it was Christmas.
But if I was like, I'm gonna go, I couldn't talk about it.
People are so sensitive about it now.
I feel like if I was like, I'm going deer hunting, I feel like we would lose like what
percentage of our fans if I was like, because people think it's murder.
But those are the same people that sort of, there's a huge hypocrisy just with animal consumption
anyways, right?
Just because it probably is the most sustainable way
to retrieve any kind of meat is to hunt,
but it also is a luxury to do so.
It's a luxury to spearfish, it's a luxury to go out
and get elk, everyday man can't just go fuck off from work
and for three days and hunt this giant animal and have it for a whole year.
Tens of thousands of dollars to take a week vacation
to kill one animal.
Exactly.
You're right.
It's a luxury to go to Alaska and get your salmon,
bring it back home and have it for the whole year.
All of these things are in theory the most sustainable way
but that's not our infrastructure,
the way we live just doesn't allow for that.
Imagine in LA if everyone was like, we're gonna go into the mountains and start
gathering our food.
I would be the first to get shot. I know it. I just know I'd be the first owl.
No, I'm putting you on my back and I'm saving you. Loyalty.
But you know I wanna go on your partner's back instead,
because he's stronger.
He is stronger. He is also a better hunter and a better diver, all of it. So he's a safer.
How long do you hold your breath?
Not very long. I think my lungs are very average capacity.
Yeah, but you're swimming down to grab a lobster.
The only difference between someone like you or me is that I've learned to calm
myself in the water.
It's mental.
I mean, when we went, so...
I think it's one of my top fears.
No, but see, the thing is is that when... It's a, it's, I think it's one of my top fears. No, but see, the thing is, is that when, um...
It's one of my breath.
When I was taking out with my son,
so I did the free diving thing with my 16-year-old,
and Hal, who taught us, we were at Catalina,
and he was like, I'm gonna have you guys dive
to the Jacques Cousteau, like, plaque,
which is 40, like 43 feet down today.
He's like, I promise you, on your first day,
on one breath, you will dive 43 feet and touch this thing.
Both of you.
You have to equalize at least five times.
More than that.
Yeah, basically the whole time.
You're kinda doing it the whole time.
What is equalizing?
Equalizing, so there's pressure, right?
When you descend, pressure builds in all of your...
I mean, you've been down in a pool, you go down six, eight feet, you have to equalize.
You've never done that.
I've never done that.
Thank you.
Esther's never...
You've never been underwater?
Not really.
Not enough to feel the pressure on your ears.
Yeah.
It happens pretty soon.
I'll take you underwater, but I'm not gonna be holding my breath long.
One of my dreams is to take us to shark diving.
I need to get the hole in my ear drum repaired first.
Oh, that's right, that's right.
Let's fix that first. It might help you.
Oh really? I don't know.
But you got down to their 43 feet.
It was after like an hour of the class,
he was like, okay, and we just,
all four of the people in the class,
including my 16 year old, just went down there and touched it and came back up, and you come up and you're like, oh, I we just, all four of the people in the class, including my 16 year old, just went down there
and touched it and came back up, and you come up
and you're like, oh, I still have more air.
Yeah.
It wasn't that long.
It doesn't take that long to get down there
and to get back up.
It really just is, it's a mental game.
Yeah.
If it has, I mean, of course there is some skill involved,
which is you have to know how to swim, baseline.
And you've got those big fins on that like.
And a belt, they've got weights around their belt
to make them sink.
But, but, can I say the weight belt
actually makes it easier.
Yeah.
Because you're not using your muscles to descend,
you're just letting yourself drop
so you save a lot of air in your lungs.
This is what I'll say.
I know you're right about the mental.
I would love the challenge of helping you feel at ease
in the water and hold your breath.
I would love the challenge.
Well that's like a fetish.
It is a fetish.
You're freaky.
I'm freaky and I'm gonna tell you shark diving.
You're looking into his eyes, I would love.
Just choke me right now.
I mean I'll get choked on dry land.
But then that to me, I'm terrified of the idea
of gasping for air on land.
Like I have this thing called POTS, it's an autoimmune,
like this autonomia, and so I have like air hunger.
I have this anxiety that I'm not breathing
or like some part of my brain is not regulating
my automatic breathing and I start to have anxiety
about my breath here.
But it doesn't translate in the water.
So you and I have the opposite thing.
Being in the water helps you with that.
You don't think about it.
I don't think about it.
Interesting.
But please.
Why don't you just hold your breath on land then?
I can, it's just, there's something about the water
and the pressure that feels like it's hugging you.
Right.
And it feels like it, if you have anxiety issues,
I think, sensory deprivation, tanks,
anything water related is always helpful I think.
Okay.
Do you guys have parenting advice for us?
We're new parents.
How old are these kids?
One, in the one world of one. We're new parents. How old are these kids? One. In the one world of one.
We're under one.
Oh, God, y'all.
How old are your kids? You guys have survived.
We have full-ass adults at this point.
We've got three between the two of us in college.
He's got two in college, I've got one in college,
and then we have two in high school.
We literally just have one kid home each at this point.
Yep. So, 22, my oldest daughter, 22. in high school. We literally just have one kid home each at this point.
Yep, so 22, my oldest daughter, 22.
21. 21, and then my middle son is 20.
16. And then 15.
That's so cool. Do your kids realize
who you are and how cool you are?
Or are they just dad?
I haven't kept it secret.
They're aware of our careers. We're not leading a double life, but it's always been a part...
I mean, like the 15-year-old, it's always been a part of his life.
And, you know, sometimes over the years, we get our kids to appear
very occasionally and stuff.
So my youngest, who's now 15, Lando. He and Shepard came on the show when they
were like...
Ten.
Ten, like nine and ten. I can't remember. We were playing some game on the show,
and it was, if you could pass a note to Abraham Lincoln or something...
If you could go back in time, what would you say to Abraham Lincoln?
Go back to, yeah, and he said, you wanna go to a play?
And it just like, it went viral on TikTok,
and well, I guess it was Instagram at the time.
And so like, here he is going into middle school,
and like everybody's recognizing him from this clip.
Oh my God.
By that point is years old.
Right.
And he just keeps coming back, and he's like,
oh my God, I hate the fact that you bribed me with a Lego set to come on
the show and do this. I killed so much.
But also it tells you a little something about it, because some kids would be like,
Hell yeah, I'm the...
Oh yeah, that would have changed my trajectory.
You would have been like, Yeah, you wanna go to a play? You would have been
saying it to everybody.
You wanna go to a playboy.
He got that reticence from Christy.
He didn't get the not wanting to be in the spotlight from you.
So he got a taste of it, and he didn't like it.
And it keeps coming back. But he's all right now.
Yeah.
He looks different enough now that I think he's starting to not have an impact.
Yeah. I mean, my kids, especially my oldest one, was he didn't want, he was really wary of people
becoming his friends because he was my son. But way too much, to a point that if
he sensed it at all...
I'm not your friend anymore. I see what you're up to. Right.
But it's funny because when I was moving him into college, I was like,
okay, I'll gonna, you know,
I'll help you move in, but I'm gonna wear a hat
and sunglasses or whatever.
I don't want you to be recognized.
And he was like, no, no, don't worry about it.
He says, you know, I'm a freshman,
I can use all the help I could get.
So he completely changed his tune.
So yeah, I think they kinda go through this evolution.
That's so cute. Yeah, they have to put up
with some crap, but I mean, we take nice vacations.
Oh, banana break.
Thank you so much.
Well, you know, on this show,
we usually have a banana break.
We do have a banana break on this show, and it. Yeah, so we have this. We usually have a banana break. We do have a banana break on this show
and it's something that I selfishly started
because I am a banana freak,
but also because I have a heart condition,
I eat a banana every single day.
I don't think I've ever gone without a banana for years.
Because of your heart condition?
That's sort of where it started.
I always loved banana.
Is it potassium?
Yeah, potassium.
But today we have two bananas, and why, Stella?
Well because it's sort of a Rhett and Link
banana break collab.
Okay.
One of them is from a very expensive grocery store.
Are we gonna not say the name of the grocery store?
I guess we can.
Is it Airwine?
It's, yeah.
Yeah, we love tasting stuff from Airwine.
You got an Airwine banana?
And then trying to figure out if it was worth it.
Esther, watch how he's opening the banana.
Oh.
He's doing it the Joe Rogan way.
Am I?
Well, it's the ape way.
Yeah, it's the monkey way.
It's the monkey way.
I don't want to say I do anything the Joe Rogan way.
I don't do that.
This is a handle, right?
Oh.
Yeah, that's what I do.
I mean, what's wrong with that? It's not how the monkeys do it, so that's not how I do that. This is a handle. Right? Yeah, that's what I do. What's wrong with that?
It's not how the monkeys do it, so that's not how I do it.
You know what? We've evolved.
Okay, so...
One is definitely smaller than the other.
They are both Cavendish bananas.
What'd you say?
Cavendish is the only variety that Americans eat.
I don't understand why.
Huh.
You know what? I learned this when I was in Portugal. There don't understand why. Huh. Because there's a, you know what? Cavendish.
I learned this when I was in Portugal.
There's all kinds of other bananas.
I grew up eating red bananas, saba bananas.
Have you had a pineapple banana?
I've had apple.
There's apple bananas and pineapple bananas.
What's a pineapple banana?
Is it small too?
It's small but it looks like,
it's got like the outside of a pineapple
but then you start breaking off the pieces in their banana.
Oh whoa, I've never had that.
I have had a banana full of seeds.
In the Philippines we call them the wild pacol
and they are inedible because it's just thousands of seeds.
I believe in genetic engineering
when it comes to getting the seeds out of them.
Okay, what are you thinking?
One smells a lot better than the other to me.
And that's all you've done is sniff it.
One has a stronger banana smell,
is that what you're saying?
Yeah, and the other one is like almost like nothing.
The Chiquita has a stronger smell.
One of them got a Chiquita sticker on it.
Y'all got to be taking the stickers off.
Wait, okay, so I need, where's the other one? You're selling Chiquita sticker on it. Y'all got to be taking the stickers off. Wait, okay, so I need, are you?
You know they're selling Chiquita at Air 1?
Hold on, the other one's Dole.
I mean, Dole and Chiquita are like
the two big banana brands.
Mine don't have either.
Which one's from Air 1?
Mm-mm.
That's the.
Hold on, don't say.
Oh, she said it.
That's the whole point of this episode.
We were gonna guess that.
And not be told. We don't do it every day, so we'reup. We were gonna guess that. Not be told.
We don't do it every day, so we're getting...
We were gonna guess that.
Okay.
Okay, hang on.
We were gonna say the one that was more banana-like
is from Air One.
The Air One one smells way better.
Does it?
Well, I didn't believe there would be a difference.
I don't think there would be, and I don't think there is.
Is it just the smell?
What's the taste?
Yeah, the taste-wise, what's a small one is not the air one.
Well, this blue... the one with the blue paint...
Do you know what it is?
Mine's got blue paint on it.
I think it's less the banana and more the ripe level,
because I think that Chiquita is more ripe,
and so it's giving off more.
Oh.
I actually like the dull better,
because I like a slightly...
Once it starts getting ripe, it's just not...
I don't like it as much.
I don't like a green banana, but, like,
right after it's green, you know?
That's the best time.
That is the best time.
Clila, what do you think?
You're the pro.
The smaller one from where Ralph's?
Oh!
I don't think you need to buy your produce there.
They need to add some value to the...
The riper one.
But, like, they need to add, like, colostrum
to their salad.
They gotta do something to make me think I need to pay for it.
And they just can't push a banana off the back of a truck
and say it's Airwond.
That's the thing with bananas is that you were saying
they're all from the same manufacturer or something.
Probably, I mean, like they said Dole Chiquita.
Mother nature.
There's some dark shit with these companies, right?
Like Dole companies, right?
What?
Like, the Dole especially, right?
Doesn't it?
Uh, Banana Republic?
Yeah, I don't know about the state of these affairs now, so, you know, for legal purposes.
So the term Banana Republic...
Comes from, like, the banana trade and the nefarious way that the business is run in
the South Americas.
Yeah, bananas.
We would take people out of government just so we died good deals. Well another thing about bananas is
Because we love the Cavendish variety they stay pretty on shelves for for long
Yeah, we keep pushing for this variety and we are losing other varieties
But there's this particular fungus that takes over that is really, really contagious in banana plantations.
Let's say, for instance, one banana has it,
then they have to burn down the whole farm.
So basically, if we're pushing one variety,
we're gonna lose bananas in the next 30 years,
is what they're saying, which is.
And we do that with everything, right?
Yeah. Like there's the monoculture.
So you're a red banana advocate?
Red banana, saba banana, apple banana,
tombolius, yes. Can we get those here?
In Hawaii, when I go, they have a good variety,
but not here. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you.
I have never felt more neutral about any food than bananas.
I am like so Switzerland on these.
I could take it Switzerland on these.
I could take it or leave it.
Well it's better than you used to just not like them.
I used to not like them and I've been on a journey
to become neutral towards them and I think that today
I have achieved it.
I think today is the day that I've figured out
that I've finally on my journey hit the neutral point.
Okay, well that means you're on your way.
How did you get here?
I just kept being given bananas.
Well, I think it's mostly shame.
You know?
It's mostly like soccer league banana.
And then this guy here, he's like,
hey, eat a banana.
Here, eat a banana.
All the time, he's like...
You're a banana pusher.
Wait, that's what I am too.
I'm a banana pusher. Do you like banana-flavored things?
No.
Bananas and pies or...
No.
So zero banana.
The only thing that I like is just a banana.
That is super neutral.
I can say it's not that I like it,
it's just that I'm completely 100% neutral.
What about when it's on a stick covered in chocolate?
Never had that. What about banana pancakes? Ooh a stick covered in chocolate? Never had that.
What about banana pancakes?
Ooh, those are so good.
They get slimy, don't want it.
Gosh, I really want you to taste this thing called Taron.
God, what a missed opportunity.
We'll have more opportunities.
This is the beginning of something.
What is Taron?
Taron is...
Just like with Esther.
Fried banana, it's wrapped in kind of like a filo,
kind of, and it's deep fried.
Oh, like a plantain?
Oh my God, wait, P.F. Chang's...
All right, I can do that.
P.F. Chang's has banana spring rolls.
I'm sorry to be so white, but they're so good.
Okay, similar, so it's larger.
It sounds horrible.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It sounds good.
With a caramel sauce, like fried, and like a dessert.
Oh, yeah.
So this is a Filipino Toron.
That's basically what...
That's still Steven Tyler's toast.
That's what they have at P.F. That's still Steven Tyler's toe. That's what they have if you have changes.
That would be good.
This will turn any banana hater.
I'm neutral.
Okay.
You know you were talking about the sensory deprivation tank.
You can't tell when the water stops
and the air begins and your body exists.
That's how I feel about bananas right now
and I know I keep talking about it
but I just can't tell you how special this is for me.
Not to steal your neutrality thunder
but I feel the exact same way about apples.
I'm neither here nor there about them.
It's like yeah if they're there I'll have a nibble
but I don't feel this feeling in my chest
but I also don't hate them.
Wait and I eat an apple every day,
and I'm religious about my apple life.
Oh really, what's your favorite type of apple?
It has to be Honeycrisp.
Everything else is actually disgusting to me.
Every day?
Every day, a pinch of tart.
Like a teacher or something?
Yeah, well I do it,
because I famously every day make this mix
of Greek yogurt with peanut butter, whip that up, slice your apple,
dip it, it is, you guys...
Holy shit.
It's so good.
Greek yogurt and peanut butter.
And peanut butter.
And peanut butter, famously.
Famously.
You've gotten famous for this.
Yes.
And what's it called?
It doesn't have a name, it probably should.
Yeah.
Whip that up, dip your apple slices in,
you've got protein, you've got fiber,
you've got flavor, sweet, tar, it's so good.
But you dip a banana in it?
No, no, apple.
A honey crisp banana.
You're the banana one.
He can't tell us apart.
I thought long and hard about this.
And I know you guys have tried every single snack
in the world and you're probably super snack experts.
I've brought to studio today some of my childhood
favorite Filipino snacks.
Now there are American comps, there are similar things
that you guys probably grew up on over here.
And I wanna know if you can tell the difference.
Okay.
Filipino snacks.
There's a chance that we've had these,
but we will not remember that we've had them
because that ends up happening to us on a regular basis.
Both of these are barbecue flavored chips.
One is Filipino and one is American,
and I need you to tell me what you think.
Well, one is...
Well, these look like American barbecue chips.
How I say more?
But the other ones look American too
because they look like Fritos. Well, I more. But the other ones look American too, cause they look like Fritos.
Well, I'm just saying that those are like Fritos,
but Fritos usually are just corn flavored
or like chili flavored.
So just kinda just feels like a,
like a Lay's BBQ.
Which one did you try first, the right one to the?
Yeah, the orange ones.
Okay.
That tastes pretty nostalgic, so.
But this?
That might be a clue. These Fritos are good. Yeah, the orange ones. Okay. That tastes pretty nostalgic, so... But this?
That might be a clue.
Um...
These Fritos are good.
Yeah, these are...
I don't know what they are.
I don't think this is a good comparison
because one is a potato chip and one is a Frito.
So whoever designed this game...
...already fucked it up.
Just barbecue chips.
You know what? We'll have a post-mortem later.
For now, let's just go with it.
Okay, you're right.
These are Filipino.
No, I'm thinking...
These Fritos have to be Filipino.
Filipino Frito.
Yeah, I'm thinking the Frito ones are Filipino
and the other ones are just your classic American barbecue.
I don't even know if this is barbecue on these Fritos.
They're good. They're both barbecue. I don't even know if this is barbecue on these Fritos.
They're good.
They're both barbecue.
Wait, what do you? It's salty.
Yeah, it's. It's savory,
but it's really good because it's not barbecue to me.
Why do you think that that's the Filipino one?
Cause we disagree.
Because it's not the kind of thing
that I can explain, it's a little bit,
like it was just like my body reacted it.
Okay.
And said boom, Filipino.
Yeah, yeah, it was just like something about it
was a little bit different than my experience
and I can't describe it.
Okay, the correct answer is the both of you.
It's gotta be.
These are called Chippy.
Childhood favorite, they're supposed to be barbecue flavored.
I don't quite, I see what you're saying.
Chippy?
Chippy, it's called chippy.
It's very good but yeah.
It tastes like a Frito with a slight something on it.
I'll be the racist one, I don't like them.
I'll take one for the team.
No, chippy, it's like fake barbecue.
Do you like Fritos?
I do like Fritos and I do love,
but I also, you know what, to be fair,
I love barbecue chips, like if that would be my last meal, like that is my favorite food, so
comparing anything, I know, comparing anything to barbecue chips is not gonna be
that bad.
We recently did the tier ranking of chips, and we both put barbecue.
Very low.
That's psychotic, what did you put above it?
Everything else.
What?
Name names.
What's number one through five? Cheddar sour cream was S tier.
Ruffles is the best shit.
Okay, okay.
Lays, sour cream and onion, a classic.
Yeah, sour cream and onion.
Salt and vinegar was above it.
Yes.
These are all good.
Salt and vinegar.
I think you're, I have, sorry, Esther.
No, no, no, those are all good, but barbecue is still
just as good if not better.
You know what, I think for us, it's because we're from
the South and barbecue is not a sauce,
barbecue is the meat itself, but then barbecue flavor
became a specific type of sauce that actually we don't
put on any of our stuff in North Carolina.
So it's cultural.
And so yeah, it's, we have this like a version.
Next up we have, wait now are-
These I just wanna eat chips.
These aren't quite-
These aren't quite-
The way-
These aren't comps.
Okay, I just wanted to talk-
You guys stop, what are they?
No, I was in charge of buying the Filipino snacks
and I said hey, what is a comp?
And it was hard to find something similar.
Yes.
And to be fair, she said it's a chip that's barbecue.
That was all she gave me for the first one.
And for the second one.
Yeah, you did better than her.
Well, just pretend your eyes are closed
and you're tasting just for flavor.
Just for flavor.
Yeah, okay.
Not for luck.
Oh, this was supposed to be a milla wafer?
Like, that's what it was?
Which ones are Filipino and which ones are American?
Which ones are Filipino and which ones are American?
This looks like a, like one of those big millstones. This tastes like a Salerno butter cookie,
which is American, but like a different version.
Very crunchy.
I mean, these are a gas station classic for me.
These are, and in fact, when I was little, we did a blindfolded taste test in my family
of if you could tell the difference between chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla,
and everyone in my family failed.
Your family doesn't taste well?
No, they just, they were all the same.
Oh, they were all the same?
Yeah.
You weren't the problem.
No, I swear.
I'm sorry.
Is this like a Tim Tam slam? No. The cooking might be too hard for an American. It's't the problem. No, I swear. I'm sorry. Is this like a Tim Tam slam?
No.
The cookie might be too hard for an American.
It's a wafer.
This one?
And it will soak up cotton.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't know.
That is the funniest thing.
We don't like to work too hard with our food.
The cookie's too hard to be American.
Yeah, so that's where I'm going.
I think that's Filipino.
I think the cookie's Filipino.
I think so too.
Yes, the cookie's Filipino.
They're called Residios.
Great job, everyone.
All right, you've tasted them already.
Okay, so this looks like a nacho cheese Dorito.
These are both.
Like a nacho cheese Dorito from a foreign country.
This is why sometimes we-
They make us get blindfolded a lot.
We get blindfolded.
Oh yeah.
When we do this thing.
We forgot to blindfold.
See all the things we learned, it's just a-
God, Doritos are so good.
First of all, an American company
would not let a tortilla chip that small
get out the factory, you know what I mean?
Because look, it's three.
Three of these makes one of a Doritos.
Oh my god, Doritos are so... they will ruin my life.
They are that girl that will, like, I will quit my job,
I will miss my... I will just miss my shows tonight.
Like these... ooh, they're so good.
Have you had the Cool Ranch...
Taco Bell shell?
No, the Cool Ranch...
Flamin' Hot Cool Ranch Doritos Bell shell? No, the Cool Ranch.
Flamin' Hot Cool Ranch Doritos.
Yes, yes.
Those are really, really good.
So good.
What do we think, guys?
Well.
It's like, you.
Are these little Filipino ones cheese, too?
Well, you know, we say cheese,
but we don't quite know. Right, you don't mean cheese. We don't, we say cheese, but we don't quite know.
Right, you don't mean cheese.
We don't, we might not mean cheese.
We're not a big, like, dairy country.
Right.
Just, you know, humor me, what do you think?
Well they taste good, if I don't expect cheese.
Right.
Well, this is, okay, Esther.
There's no Dory dough.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah, nothing can be., Esther. There are no Doritos. Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, nothing can be.
Obviously an easy one.
Don't Tito.
Get it?
They're called Mr. Chips,
and this was the Doritos that I,
our Doritos growing up,
which is why when we would go
to the more fancy supermarkets back home,
and there was Doritos on the shelves,
it was like, oh my God,
like the light would shine, and it was like the on the shelves, it was like, oh my god, like the light would shine
and it was like the holy grail of all chips
because otherwise we just had Mr. Chips,
which is nacho cheese flavor.
Right, there's no real nacho cheese in that.
I mean, to be fair, there probably isn't real
nacho cheese on the Doritos.
Oh, I bet there is.
Really?
Let's look it up, because now I'm curious. I like how all of these are made,
the last round and this round, by Jack and Jill.
Jack and Jill is a big...
That's like a big brand or something.
Snack company, yeah. Okay, this one is the...
Chocolate.
Real cheese? Yeah.
I mean, we should have been blindfolded.
It's like obvious the ones that are turned upside down
probably say Hershey's on them.
No, no, no, you don't know that.
You don't know that.
Nope.
Just go by flavor.
I just wanna make sure nobody's getting fired over this.
No one's getting fired.
This is great.
Paola is getting fired.
Hershey's one tasted very Hershey's.
I mean it looks like a...
Oh, the Filipino one is better.
Thank you.
It's got a swirl.
It's one of my favorites.
It's a bit chalky.
It's got a kind of poop emoji quality.
You know what I'm saying?
It is poop emoji.
It's not poop, but it's poop emoji quality.
The vibe is, they're called curly tops.
The Hershey's one tastes more like straight sugar
in a bad way.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Hershey's chocolate,
but this feels like...
There's something else in there too
that makes it a little bit chalky.
I feel like I could actually write on the sidewalk with it.
Oh, the curly top?
Tastes like Easter candy to me, in a good way.
Yeah, I can't vouch for the ingredients,
but look on the toilet today.
But what the fuck? Just kidding, just kidding, it's fine.
Okay here's where I think, hang on,
can I see what it looks like before?
There's more?
Yeah yeah, so one's this knickers bar,
and one is, you know what, this is a different game.
We just made a different game.
Yeah yeah, okay close your eyes all of you.
I'm closing my eyes.
Okay.
I hope I'm not the only one.
I'm not closing my eyes.
All right, I'm not gonna look.
So you can see me closing my eyes. It's gonna'm not the only one. I'm not closing my eyes. Alright, I'm not gonna look. So you can see me closing my eyes.
It's gonna go straight into your mouth if that's okay,
so you don't feel the tear.
Okay, okay.
But just tell me when you're feeding me,
because I don't wanna have a feed me look on my face
the whole time.
Okay, here we go, it's coming.
That's Filipino, the first one you just gave me.
Why?
Because it's not Snickers.
Damn it, Damn it.
It's Nougat though.
It is Nougat.
I like Nougat.
Do you taste the Nougat?
It's like if you gave a haircut to a Snickers and removed the caramel and the peanuts.
So you mean a Three Musketeers. Yeah. Three Musketeers. I don't think peanuts. So you mean a Three Musketeers.
Yeah.
A Three Musketeers, I don't think that's as good
as a Three Musketeers.
I don't have that here, because we have Snickers.
It's less airy.
Yeah, the nougat is not, it hasn't been,
whatever they do to the nougat in a Three Musketeers
to make it so soft.
You can open your eyes now.
Oh, it's always whipped.
No, no, I don't want to.
No. I wanted to keep...
I was in a very special place.
I'm sorry, you're in a fugue state.
So you like that a lot.
Cloud Nine was our nougat bar back home.
They're called Cloud Nine's.
I did prefer them over the
Three Musketeers growing up.
Why? Maybe because I ate it more
or it's more nostalgic
but I do think it's superior.
Are you shocked to see the snack aisles?
I mean, I don't get out that much anymore,
but I gotta pick up a prescription every now and again
at CVS or maybe bop into a gas station restroom,
but I'm not a sweet tooth kinda guy.
I am...
fearful of the amount of candy that's on these aisles.
It strikes fear into my soul. I just can't believe...
I don't buy any. I just eat it on the show.
How it works.
Like, I can't. This is too much.
We eat so much of it on the show, we don't interact with it in the real world,
except in those two instances?
When I just see it on the shelves, I'm like, how is this possible?
This is scary.
It's so crazy, the soda and candy combos that they're...
I just saw a billboard for Sprite tea.
And on Christmas time, it's cranberry Sprite.
They're just combining and doing everything now, where I feel like if that was happening
when I was seven, I would have had to go to rehab.
I can't believe what they're doing to all of us.
It's out of control. The variants...
And they don't have the little ones! I just want a little peanut butter.
I'ma treat... I went into gas station, I was like, I'ma treat myself.
I'ma get something with peanut butter and something with chocolate.
And then everything was MEGAS was mega sized and I couldn't,
I was like, I can't, I can't buy this much candy
in one packaging.
I walked out there with some almonds.
Oh.
That hurts.
Don't share that publicly.
After all that.
But they were elote flavored.
Oh that sounds good.
So I'm guessing this is Filipino.
Oh is this the one where you said you could eat the wrapper?
I think the Filipinos made it big.
I think more Filipinos love it than Japanese people.
It's called, they're called white rabbit.
Oh yes.
And the.
I know about these.
Growing up we were told that the inside wrapper was edible.
I don't know how true that is, that inside little paper.
So now you're gonna watch us eat it?
I mean, I ate it growing up.
I think it is.
Oh, look at that, so thin.
So yeah, they would say, oh, just eat it.
Why?
Who knows, we just ate it.
Because you need more, what's on the inside of?
It gets really soft in your mouth.
A water bottle you're not supposed to put in your body.
BPA?
Yeah, it's got more BPAs.
But it's basically like milky, milky candy. You can't get it off anyway, she might as well eat it.
Yeah.
Oh, that's why.
You're not protecting?
I'm like, nervous.
You can like, take a lick and lick it.
Oh yeah, you can't get the wrapper off.
I wish that that wrapper wasn't on it,
but now it's gone.
It's kinda like putting a gel cap in your mouth
and letting it melt, just so you can taste the drugs.
You do that?
Yeah.
This really...
I don't want these drugs to just work for me,
I wanna taste them.
It's not doing much for me.
No.
It's very vanilla.
Once you break into it...
Tastes like vanilla ice cream.
Which doesn't happen immediately.
It's not easy. You look like you're struggling. Which doesn't happen immediately. It's not easy.
You look like you're struggling.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
Yeah, relax your brow.
I'm gonna develop TMS.
Your brow is so tough.
They're a little bit of jaw breakers for sure, yeah.
Well how do you feel now that you made us all do that?
I am really happy that you're tasting
a bit of my childhood.
Yeah.
I mean, a little bit sad that maybe the chips don't, you know...
Nothing is comparable, but it's all good when not compared.
Good point.
So I hope that makes you... I hope that's a compliment.
Yeah, it is.
It's like if I'm the only girl in the room, I look really good.
But when you start to put like Sydney Sweeney and other pretty people nearby,
it's like then I'm a Filipino candy.
Come on, though.
Yeah.
You know, I.
Well, that's not true.
While Sydney Sweeney I know is every boy's cream dream,
I will choose you, Esther.
Thank you.
And if I were to just put on my lesbian hat, I'd choose you.
Thank you.
You're welcome. She is, I don't know if you heard this, I were to just put on my lesbian hat, I'd choose you. Thank you. You're welcome.
She is, I don't know if you heard this,
I just saw this this morning,
she's selling soap made from her used bath water.
Bath water?
It's a gimmick.
You think?
Oh I thought she was just selling her bath water,
so it's soap.
It's soap that has her.
It's made with her bath water.
Bath water in it.
Isn't that what La Mer is?
Isn't that? No.
La Mer is basically like stock product
that they like bless, right?
Or they make while like a shaman
is doing something in the background.
That's different.
To me this is completely unhygienic.
Like this is something that only men would purchase
because a woman is not gonna buy something
from another woman's bath water.
Like I don't know.
I think they knew that going in.
Yeah.
Like she could have a vaginal infection and not know it.
Like it just doesn't seem safe.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a good point.
I guess I should throw it away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Totally a gimmick and is it something
that she's just doing for, to promote something?
It's something she got talked into I'm sure.
Yeah.
Cause it's that company, is it Dr. Squatch or whatever?
Yeah, it is Dr. Squatch, yeah.
So they were like, oh.
Which is a men's brand.
Oh yeah, some dude had an idea,
like Sydney Sweeney, what can we do?
Well, what I think about when I think about Sydney Sweeney
is her bath water.
And next thing you know.
Is it really happening though?
Yes.
Is she getting in a bath?
Yeah.
How many baths? Did she show up at a factory that had a bunch of baths laid
out for her and then she hopped into one and then the next one was next?
I think they just did a tiny drop for as limited...
I'm guessing what they did is they had the water that they were gonna use for
this one batch and they were like, I mean technically if she sticks her finger in this water, it counts.
Like you know they probably, or just stick your hands in this water.
So you don't, then that's not a bath.
My guess is, none of-
Define a bath, y'all. A bath, you gotta-
Oh, bath queen. What's a bath?
Well, a sponge bath.
A bath is not a thing when you put your finger in it.
Yeah, you gotta get your ass and your pussy in the bath.
Well that's certainly what they're selling, is the idea that the water has
touched her in places that you would like to touch her.
Right. You gotta submerge the submersibles.
I think we compete. I think, Esther, I think we sell your bath water.
That's true. I take a bath every day. I haven't had a shower in like seven years.
So, yeah, I would have a lot of back stock of bath water for us.
Regardless of how much time you don't have.
Even on the road.
Even on the road, yeah.
How do you work that out? Because a lot of these hotel showers now are just like
the half glass and then just like an opening and you fill the whole bathroom.
So I'll say this, I can go a surprisingly long time without bathing if I need to.
Okay, now we know your secret.
You are just waiting for a bath every time.
Yeah, I just don't...
What are you scared of with the showers?
Showers just make me so physically uncomfortable.
I feel like there's no way to stay warm.
It's not enough water hitting your body at once.
I'm also short, so the thing is so far away.
It's just I'm not getting good pressure ever,
no matter what.
Yeah, okay, it's very rain-like for you,
no matter what.
Yes, and I even attached a shower head at my bathtub
so that I could sit and then wash my hair under the.
How do you make sure, like what is your time limit then?
Because the water does get cold, like I feel opposite.
You add hot water in the second it gets cold.
All of it, the whole time?
Not the whole time, you just, it's, I'll show you.
I like to call myself a bathtub technician.
Let the drain go a little bit, put the hot water.
You can do that.
You do it, you just slide your butt over
and activate the drain.
No.
Hands-free.
No, no, not hands-free.
And I have a question.
Well, then you're not quite. And I have a question.
Well, then you're not quite the queen I thought you were.
Since, technician, tell me when you wash your nethers,
is that the last step and then you immediately leave the bath?
Great question.
Why?
Or do you sit in your nether debris?
Yes, I sit and I bathe in my filth in my nether debris.
Yeah, is that what you want to hear?
You feel good now?
Do you like that?
That's what I assumed about you.
Okay, so you knew?
So yeah, that's what you wash and then you just sit in it?
It's 99% water and 1% nether debris, I'm fine.
Yeah, you'll probably be all right.
Yeah, it's enough.
That's what they told Sydney Sweeney, too.
Oh my God, Rhett and Link, thank you so much
for coming today and being on our show.
This flew by.
We hope that you'll come back.
We're obsessed.
Clila needs to teach you how to dive.
Yes, I'll teach you how to breathe in the water.
We'll go dive, but also I'll improve
on the whole Filipino-American snack setup.
We'll get blindfolded next time.
Yes, seriously, you guys better bring it.
Yeah, we'll make it much harder next time.
Where can people find more of you if they don't obviously already know?
Good Mythical Morning every day?
Every weekday.
Every through Friday.
Yep. YouTube.
Just Google it and you will not be able to avoid it.
Even if you try to avoid it.
You can.
If you go on YouTube, you're gonna see one of our faces.
What is it? I just have to ask,
what's the best fast food burger or fries?
What's the best?
Fast food?
I mean, we're pretty big on Shake Shack.
I think Shake Shack is just a little bit better
than In-N-Out in terms of...
But I don't really...
Burgers these days? You'll throw five guys in the mix there.
Yeah, I think burgers these days, there's just so many good
smashed burgers in LA that are not for the win.
What's your favorite?
For the win.
Ooh, I agree.
Wait, not Burgers Never Say Die, that's Spin in the Mix?
I like Burgers Never Say Die, but they're doing like a fancy McDonald's thing.
Yeah, I like that.
It's good, it's very clean, but I like the one that like the burgers
coming out of it and there's sauce everywhere.
What about a heavy-handed?
Heavy-handed is my second favorite.
Okay, what's the best fries, though?
McDonald's.
Yeah, it's hard to beat McDonald's french fries.
You guys!
Yeah.
Wow, I hate to hear that.
I really do. I don't want it to be true.
Because I don't want the best fries
to just always be available.
Oh yeah.
I want there to be something better that's harder to get.
Well you gotta eat them fast.
That's true.
So that can help you out.
That actually hurts me.
Really good fries if you're on the East Coast.
And also soon to be out here,
they're building a bunch of Bojangles French fries.
I've never even heard of it.
Bojangles is like, it's kind of the Popeyes
of the East Coast and they do this like
fry seasoning on their fries.
Yes.
It's real good.
Okay, last question.
What's your guys in and out order?
Animal style, double double.
Fries, just plain fries.
I don't do double animal style fries as well.
No, I do animal style fries and then I do double double
with onions, no tomato, and then I have to remove
every other onion ring because that's too much onion.
It's a whole disk of onion.
Yeah, I do admit that I like that,
but you already know that I have smell issues.
Do you guys get, you don't get your fries well done?
No. No.
No.
I prefer the opposite.
But I will only eat the In-N-Out fries if they're fresh.
Like really, like right after you get them.
Like if they have to be like delivered or whatever,
there's something happens to an In-N-Out fry
that's not good.
Yeah, well it's cause they're like super fresh.
They're super fresh, they're too fresh.
They need that McDonald's like won't rot for six months.
Yeah, yeah, like how, if you were probably, if you were buried, like, in your casket
with a McDonald's meal, like, and exhumed 40 years later, the McDonald's meal would
just be sitting there perfectly fresh amongst your skeletal remains.
That is not an exaggeration. It is absolutely proven.
Somebody, some guy in Finland or something.
Just like Kevin's burger.
My people.
I'm half finished.
Okay, we gotta go.
We love you guys.
Thank you.
We'll see you next week with a brand new episode.
All right.
I gave you an out, we finished.
Yeah.
Wait, we should have talked about fast food
like the whole time.