Celebrating The GMM 2000th Episode

[Music] welcome to ear biscuits the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time i'm rhett and i'm link this week at the round table of dim lighting we're celebrating and we're looking back on two thousand two thousand years two thousand episodes of good mythical morning now we recently surpassed um our 2000th episode of the show and of course you should watch the 2000th episode because as of the recording of this podcast we have yet to record that um episode so technically we don't know if we even made it to 2000. that's true i mean something can go wrong between here and now here and then this is anticipatory but um i you know if it does happen maybe it'll be emotional it'll certainly be um special so um you know what watch that to get the full experience of 2000 episodes by watching the 2000th episode so we wanted to reflect on 2000 episodes through your perspectives and also our perspective as well so we we put the question out on the internet a lot can change over 2000 episodes let us know how you have experienced the evolution of gmm and how you have evolved along with it over the years you might get a shout out on your business more than a shout out many of you guys thanks for all your responses for following us on twitter at mythical and using hashtag ear biscuits to converse about episodes and to help us know how to talk about this stuff um what's wrong with your phone i'm just needing to put it on you do not disturb i get disturbed so much so we i don't want to you know well i get disturbed twice as much as you because you have glasses well i don't understand i'm just i'm i'm sensitive to disturbances except when sleeping so yeah so we're gonna read your responses but then you know discuss those but also kind of talk about how we're talking about different aspects of the way that you can kind of contemplate the 2000 episodes and the evolution of gmm from your perspective and then we will then add our perspective and how things have changed for us our lives our perspective on the show etc uh but let's look at the present first i just want to make sure how are you okay because i know you've been you've been abandoned by your family yes well before i tell you about how i've been faring by myself i do want to remind you oh all the episodes of ronstat are out right now so a lot of people when i as i'm recording this you know not all the episodes are out and and what i see is people like man i wish i could get all the episodes like i just finished that fifth episode and man i gotta wait a week well if you've procrastinated or if you just thought i'm just not really into scripted podcasts i don't like the sound of that i don't want to do that whatever your voice is that is when you talk about why you're not listening to ronstat i'm sure it would be annoying to me what i want you to do now is i want you to go and listen and you can binge the whole daggum thing yeah because if you don't like it you can just get it over with because you do need to listen to the whole thing even if you don't like it uh so yes thanks for all the positive responses uh yes i have been alone for the weekend um my family is out of town what was at least three nights maybe four it's thursday through thursday night and yeah through and then i pick i pick lock up from the airport today jesse and um shepard'll still be gone for a little bit but yes i have been a bachelor um it doesn't make you a bachelor you don't become eligible oh did i say eligible bachelor or did i say bachelor uh it's kind of redundant right why why ever say eligible bachelor uh because sometimes you're just a bachelor who's not eligible i don't that's what technically you know that's what you are you don't know an ineligible bachelor i don't know the technical definition of bachelor if it means single man then i'm not a single man but i lived as a single man for a weekend and this isn't something that happens quite a bit very often as a married man did you try to contain your excitement as you sent them away well first of all they wanted me to go with them because we'll talk about this i guess next week we're going to talk about our uh respective trips back to north carolina right because we i mean from their perspective we just took a three-week break right but from our perspective we haven't left for north carolina yet but yet my family was already in north carolina long story there was an opportunity for me to go back a little bit early and i mean things are busy you know there's also an opportunity for them to go and you do not but you don't here's the thing about it you come out and say that yes okay cool good uh i get the sense that you don't feel that you have the freedom to say that we could talk about that later but um i was very very soft i was very clear about when jesse asked me she was like i'd like you to go she's like there's not really anything on the calendar i was like well there's always something on my calendar baby it just doesn't always show up uh just meaning that i've always got stuff i want to work on yeah but second of all it's like i could really use a weekend alone i'll just be completely honest with you i could really use a weekend on i like being alone i'm an introvert and so i could do that every once in a while and just give this to me mom um she had no problem with that she understands and uh so let me tell you the thing let me start by telling you the things that i didn't do i did not shower didn't shower uh i got into the pool that counts it does help some but i didn't like soap up you don't want soap in your pool did when you got in the pool did you scrub your scalp um no well first of all i wash my hair once a week max uh because that is in fact you know what the latest the latest research is that people are saying don't wash your hair at all i mean get it wet condition it don't put the shampoo in there though really uh yeah i i'm doing that though shampooing once a week but i didn't do that but what i did do is uh first of all i got a lot of writing done nice and there were i love to benefit and i was i was doing this thing where uh i was writing and had quite a bit to do you know i was like i don't know what made me think of doing this but i was like i'm gonna work out and write at the same time and right at the same time not at exactly the same time what i'm going to do is because a lot of people say that you know i mean i'm definitely i've never take more than like i'm a long workout for me is an hour right yeah but people who are like getting ready for marvel rolls and like bodybuilders they work out for like multiple hours a day and they take really long rest breaks between sets because apparently that's a good thing but practically you just can't do that but i was like what if i did like a really long workout where i did like a a muscle group and then i went and i wrote and then i went and did another muscle group and then i wrote see i was picturing like a a dumbbell in one hand and a pen in the other well that's that's phase two phase one is just doing them interspersed so i ended up i worked out from on sunday from 9 00 a.m to 3 p.m what what yeah i mean not crazy the total amount of working out was probably an hour right because it was just like let's do some bench press and then it was like let's go up and let's write another scene it was right when you were doing the bench press were you thinking about was the writing continuing in your brain yeah i would go and i would work things out in my mind and i would like to i would talk out loud to myself and i would be like okay but if this happens in this and then i would go back and i would write a scene talk out loud stuff and then when you were writing the scene were you grunting as if you were still working out no but let me just tell you i feel like i'm on the precipice of maybe developing a system the workout rider that i could sell though it would be called the get swole uh the swole right and we had to come up with the tightest right tight um get your body tight while you're right i don't i don't know what we gotta work on we gotta wordsmith that but it's gonna be a program there's work dvdx while you're right on specs there's gonna be dvds uh going straight to dvd just like the thing that we're writing um this is like a this is like a well it's not really a master class it's more like a uh i don't know master class well that would this yeah you would have to uh that it's based on the idea that the writing is good which is tbd um and the workouts rendered results yeah i think that's i think that i think the one thing that um doesn't require any skill is just pushing things around you know what i'm saying is like you get guaranteed results if you push things hard enough lots of technique needed but i also tried two new sandwiches and i don't mean like i went and got a recipe for a sandwich i'm meaning that i was like well you can eat whatever you want you need no one else's input so you're just gonna get new sandwiches well the funny thing is is i had in my mind that i was going to cook for myself and i was going to because i love to cook but i but like with all the working out and all the writing there's only so much time in the day so what i decided to do was get sandwiches i'm going to try that new burger king chicken sandwich because they got in on the bur on the chicken sandwich war are they calling it something king oh really the king the ch apostrophe king um and also interestingly part of their campaign was a little bit of a dig at chick-fil-a because i don't know what they they said something like a certain portion of the prophets from this sandwich or whatever are gonna are going to lgbt causes oh so they are basically just like get a little jab to chick-fil-a um which i appreciate it but um can you taste the inclusivity it's good i'm just judging the chicken um it's kind of gotten to the point where and we had that mcdonald's one on the show and everybody was like you guys didn't have the sauce on it yeah they didn't put much sauce on it at the local mcdonald's that we that we tasted it from so wasn't that great no but you know it's it's basically is this as big as the popeyes is it as breaded as the popeyes it is as crunchy as the popeyes by the way i've given up on popeyes you can't i just can't beat the chick-fil-a chicken sandwich you know um social social causes just isolated for a second right but here but i think the argument most people are making is well okay maybe they haven't made it taste as good that there are there are so many alternatives now that you just don't you don't even there's you don't have to tempt yourself with it you know and i think that pies have not had the lasting power and i have to assume that burger king hasn't topped it burger king got very close to popeyes but they are kind of just definitively a different chicken sandwich um more traditional like it looks like a pop it has the same profile as a popeye's chicken sandwich with the breading okay uh of a sauce pretty big on it it's pretty big yeah pickles and you can get the spicy one but never get the spicy one when you're testing the sandwich first i thought it was good but i don't find myself thinking i'm gonna go back and get it what was the other place uh well i'm talking about chicken sandwich yeah actually i'm using the term chicken sandwich loosely i tried the naked chicken chalupa from taco bell which i don't even know how long that's been out but i saw a commercial for it chicken it is a taco that has chicken as the shell and it's not like one of the afc double down but but a taco well the ksc doubled down was literally just two chicken breasts with stuff in between them taco bell chicken breasts doubled on itself with stuff in the middle no this is take chicken put it in a machine and make a taco show out a chicken this isn't like a i mean what you i don't even know what you're talking about you know about like taking a breast and like folding it around stuff yeah taco bell would never do something like that that would so it's a flat bendable nugget that is is uh circular and then folded over like a shell no it is a it is a nugget nugget-fied taco show meaning that it's it was flat maybe at one point but when it firmed up in the fryer it firmed up in a taco shell like it holds its own shape sound good like if if i were to take everything out of it it would just literally be a taco show that's chicken and other binding agents i'm i'm thinking that can't be good it wasn't bad but it definitely wasn't i need to do this again it was like okay that's kind of interesting and it really is i guess it's for the low carb folk oh but it's got fried stuff on it so that's not low carb it's got breading on it gotta say i wouldn't recommend that necessarily uh because also just as like a safety gotta just the kiss the the kissing the uh chicken quesadilla yep that's set which is which is which is that's a good goal it's always good it's always good um and i went to the driving range three days in a row okay that's good now this might not be sound exciting to you but this is i no you mean just standing in one place and hitting golf balls forever and well when you're as good at it as i am it's fun uh and the the uh now if you suck at golf golf is very frustrating but if you are just grooving it let me just say grooving it to the point where people a crowd begins to gather no yes are you well hold on you're telling me that you were just hitting a golf ball off of a t and people stopped and watched you yes this is not it's like pac-man final rounds like it was an exhibition okay now you know me i'm a big man i'm tall i have a big arc i'm relatively athletic and i can get some club head speed and what was happening is is after three days of practice of like hitting a bucket of balls and kind of beating my groove back were you like drunk rednecks celebrating or something like no but i did like i had my hat on my sunglasses all my hair coming out the back so i kind of look like somebody maybe i'm like a gothing personality you know what i'm saying like there are guys on the tour that like have that look yeah they're like this is the redneck golfer yeah yeah and um and so listen i wasn't trying to draw a crowd but i like step right up and watch miguel but what happened is is i'm i'm getting all my all my clubs in my bag i'm kind of getting straightened out because i'm really trying to get my back is basically better and i i haven't been golfing aggressively for a long time because of my back but my back is good right now and so i'm getting my hip turned and so i'm hitting we're at this i'm not going to say what range it was but it's a range where the fence which is probably 30 or 40 feet high is that gosh siri i wasn't talking to you i know you're interested in me and why why does she speak so loudly i don't have any idea what's going on here siri shouldn't have said her name again so just for those of you who who know about this stuff and the one percent of you who do know about this and appreciate it so this fence is like 250 yards out there 30 or 40 feet tall so to get over the fence you're carrying it at least 300 310 320 in the air before it hits the ground and begins rolling i begin hitting the ball consistently just over the fence and then i really didn't even build the place big enough to contain the redneck energy and then i realized that a guy is behind me and he his buddies come up to him and are like you ready to go he's like and he didn't hear he didn't know i was hearing he was like well i'm just watching this guy drive and you know me this is not good once i have an audience it's like i that's when i begin performing better did you acknowledge pressure did you acknowledge him you're like you played it cool like i didn't hear him and i'm not even no no i was like if this man wants a show he's going to get a show and now his boys have showed up and now all three of them are standing there and then i was like well you guys want it you're gonna get it and it was just like bam bam bam over the fence and then i was like well i mean they were into the driver let's see what they think about the seven iron and it was just like and then and they were just they stayed there for that long yeah and then the guy was like he was i would hit it and it was like coming off i mean i mean i was grooving it was coming off the clubface it makes a great sound and he was just like damn this is getting gross like i mean did they put dollar bills in your way here's the thing if you play golf and you know the mechanics of golf you know how satisfying it is when it's working and how satisfying it is to watch it work so i'm again i'm talking to the one percent of you who care about this i'm really focusing on you right dude he like he wasn't like biting his lip was he well i didn't make eye contact with him i was just listening to him i never turned around did he ever have knowledge if he if if if you could if he could mount one of his balls on your tee i think he just wanted a lesson but i was like but i was prepared to be like hey man i don't teach i just demonstrate uh anyway i'm i mean hey that's a t-shirt i mean wear that t-shirt to uh your top golf session i don't want to build it up too much but it was at least fire has a freaking has targets to hit well i was picking targets that sign that sign over the fence were you pointing you can't do that you can't babe ruth it out there no he would know that you were watching you never had a conversation you never acknowledged their the audience no because i wanted to be in the zone and i was in the zone i didn't want to be broken out of it that's funny see i had a great weekend i mean i get what i what i realized is what if something would have gone wrong like if you would have fallen or like you would have pulled something oh and then like they were watching you had to you would have acted like nothing would have happened no i would have asked for help help me but i just had a a glimpse of what you know i've been married for 20 years and what my life would have been like if i had never gotten married it would be no showering lots of gold dirty bachelor eating a lot of fast food and working out and writing and having basically no day or night rhythm it was like nothing is it's just what happens happens it's probably not sustainable okay but it was a hell of a weekend wow i had the worst weekend ever why because i ended the weekend with you uh celebrating lily that was fine um well that was great it was fine that you were there no it was great it was it was a horrible weekend because our internet went down which means our lives were grinded to a halt uh no ability to communicate at our home because our cell phones only work through our internet because we have no cell service at our house so we were cut off from society it was like we were camping but we couldn't even start have fire it was bad that sucks it was bad you could have come to miles i had lots of internet and uh i mean there's a lot of room too multiple rooms i thought about it i mean we went to the creative house one night just to watch something uh you know the credo house is a good backup for internet yeah and maybe like the apocalypse so i'm i'm glad you had a good time and i left you to it i was in misery internet-less misery yeah i don't know how you did it okay let's talk about uh 2000 episodes of gmm but first let's talk about these koozies i expect i'm telling you right now very exciting this is super cool i love a koozie every night when i drink my toppo chico i put it in a koozie okay for for someone else person can you give me the rationale um is it to keep it cold or just to keep your hands to keep it colder longer and to keep my hand from getting cold because if your hand gets cold it's sucking uh cool off of the drink so it's an insulator it's yeah but it's not for comfort it's for coldness it's for coldness so your hand doesn't get too cold but it is pretty comfortable and your hand the heat of your hand doesn't suck the cool we took thermodynamics this is thermodynamics in action and you get this mythicalized version of a sprite can so every time you pick this thing up you're like oh look what i found is that legal what we did with this yes mythical.com it's a parody get yourself a koozie if you want it on a shirt we can make that happen too i love it i love a good koozie um typically we don't put what just we've got water bottles in them just to demonstrate yeah that's typically a nice i don't i don't endorse water bottles in general okay let's talk about gmm 2000 episodes we're going to read through a number of responses and instead of going through and commenting on each one we kind of have grouped them into a few categories and we'll just kind of go through and let y'all speak and then speak to it um let's start with ally she said when i started watching gmm i was barely nine now i'm almost 17 driving i have a job i'm going into my junior year of high school and i've made leaps and bounds when it comes to my mental and emotional health rhettlink and gmm are a huge part of that and i am so grateful you want to alternate hit the next yeah sammy fox i started watching when i was 12 or 13 with my dad in the mornings before school now i'm 22 about to graduate with a degree in anthropology and i watch gmm and gmm more every morning my personality has definitely been shaped by gmm i love this elizabeth tolbert said when my husband and i started watching gmm we were just dating as freshman in college now eight years later we're married and we watch it every night after work jackson melvin i've gone through puberty that's it that's all he said i've it was a reply to us otherwise it would just be like a very profound uh it's like he just discovered it update i've gone through puberty i've made it through to the other side i'm still waiting for that to happen to have them fully drop i mean sometimes i'll get a zit and i'm like is this still residual puberty no it's not okay good bohemian maiden of mythicality uh said 11 years ago i was an awkward youth watching after school and now i'm a slightly less awkward adult who shares gmm with my three-year-old son he has apraxia of speech and makes the asl signs r and l for rent link whenever he sees the youtube logo on the tv it's something magical to have created something so enduring and stable yet ever evolving and growing uh which we'll talk more about later i hope to teach my son to emulate that in his own life congrats on achieving it thanks bohemian made his mythicality lonsdale when i started watching gmm i had short hair clean-shaven was in my 40s and hardly anyone had ever heard of my former job i now have long hair long beard in my 50s and everyone is a virologist except me and then his next tweet was i started watching in early february 2020. wait what okay so basically he was in his 40s he was like 49 yeah and now he's in and then he turned 50 but his you know his his hair grew out his look totally because he did the pandemic uh haircut thing this is more of a pandemic change than like an evolution while while watching i think i've actually seen uh richard tweet some things about he's a good he's uh if i'm not mistaken because he is a you know an actual former neurologist no he is a virologist oh he's not former he's just saying basically he's not everyone's working out no i think it's a joke oh everyone's a everyone thinks they're an expert on this except for the guy who is the expert no he said have you ever heard of my former job oh former job you're right okay well yeah but everyone does think that they're a virologist but uh thank you richard virologist yeah however you say it robin tweeted i've been watching y'all since 2015 and you raised me when no one in real life was i'm now 18 and just graduated living on my own and still wake up and watch y'all every day uh you're also the only reason i have twitter oh well i guess we're the only ones reading this assuming you don't have anybody following you maybe you have people following you i don't know let's leave that out of it robin uh leah began watching daily in 2013 when i had two children age two and three in the time since then i've gotten married adopted four cats had another child and the oldest who was born the same day as lando is now heading to middle school wow it is so crazy to to hear these responses of people and how much their life circumstance changes how much they changed as people you know going from being in grade school weathering middle school to be in high school going from uh being in school to graduating high school going off to college like dating getting married i mean we're at the top of the year we're going to celebrate it'll be the 10 year anniversary of good mythical morning so we've so we're you know we're at like nine and a half years right to get to 2 000 episodes and there's it's just it's quite a phenomenon that you know being on the inside of it like from our point of view like looking out at this it's it's so nice to hear because i just you know and it's nice to stop and celebrate in this way and think about what how much has changed how much people go through i mean you talk about puberty people sitting there and becoming adults well that's the thing that's so interesting to me and again i very little of what we've done has has i mean a lot has been strategic but a lot has just been what we thought we wanted to do right and when it came to the show in the direction of the show but it's we've whenever everybody asks us like okay well who's the show for and we can we never have a real great answer for that because we're like the audience is very abroad and that seems like a cop-out when we say well sometimes the family will come up to us and we don't know who's the bigger fan the kid or the parent and the funny thing is is in so many of your answers and lots of ones that we just read there's something very cool and i'm i'm not taking credit for it i'm saying it's just we kind of stumbled into it that we created a show that you could grow up watching and not feel like you were growing out of it that you could transition from a child to an adult you could transition from a student to a spouse um and still call it a part of your daily routine and that is it's just really cool to see and i mean when we started the show it was again it was after we moved out here to l.a you know we we had all of our kids but we were starting a new career and we were like i mean we started we did the television show and then we kind of relaunched our youtube career on the on the with good mythical morning as like a big part of that but it i mean we we've changed a lot as well even though we were already married and in parents and you know but the kids were so young and now you know the first few episodes the well the first few seasons we would have all these stories about our lives like learning to live in los angeles taking these kids to play dates in the park and like the stories from christy and jesse and everything they were going through it's like um we weren't we were sharing where we were in our lives at that point with gm and being so conversational and then i mean a lot of the conversation has shifted to your biscuits but so much has changed about us i mean look how much older i've gotten look at this look at this look at this gray hair you know it was i think the reason we were when we when we were committed to developing an audience on youtube at that time i think our instincts said we got we have to reach a younger audience and we had been doing that since at the beginning of youtube we were always older than everybody else give or take we were always ill guys who was getting traction on youtube and developing an audience so we knew we had to reach people younger than us and and and really embrace that side of ourselves well and i think there was a time and i i don't there was a few conversations about this um and i think a lot of it was precipitated by you deciding to stop dyeing your hair which was relatively late but so gm so when we had conversations with people what we noticed especially when we had like conversations with people who might be considering another project or like somebody who was in marketing maybe brand that we were going to work with whenever we told them how old we were they were like what they they always thought we were younger that we might we were probably in our 20s uh even when we were in our late 30s they thought we were in our 20s and we felt like that was an advantage yeah we were like well okay we got to work on youtube we got to hold on to that but then there was a well you know as the relationship developed between us and you guys and the way that sort of entertainment and especially you know social media and youtuber relationships with fans have evolved and uh it's become much more of like a family and there's much stronger connection than it was than we started we just started seeing the way people would talk about us as dads often uh in a like making fun of us whether it was dad humor or you guys are my internet dads we were not hiding our age as well as maybe we thought we had to in order to be as successful as we were yeah and again and it wasn't it wasn't as again i don't want to over state right it wasn't like oh we can't let them know how old we are like we were we were fine to tell you how old we were we just thought that if you thought that we were younger then that was probably an advantage and that's especially the gray hair thing yeah yeah that was like that decision point i mean i think we did have this discussion discussion but it was it was kind of like come on who are we kidding by that point it's like i just i i can't carry on with this die job and i think it looks horrible it didn't i didn't think it looked bad at the time but of course it's looking good it's very dark i just cringe i did it myself yeah yeah like and i would get we always did our own own hair there was a couple of times like maybe four times that i would i went to a shop i went to a real trendy silver lake stylist and uh he he colored my hair he's gonna tell you like huh you you've been out here just for men and like why uh he was he was a soft-spoken dude very nice and he did he didn't you know he didn't he wasn't too opinionated but i had confidence like he's the guy who gave me my uh my new haircut oh like this is before we met anna right uh who helps shape our cloths now so yeah he he cut my hair uh it was at the place was called the fox tail i'm pretty sure something like that tail it's got a tail and a fox in the title um so he so i trusted him because he's the one who like gave me my new hairstyle boy that was i mean that was a that was a big risk because it's like i need to get rid of this boyish hairstyle but then when i was like you know what i'm tired of coloring my hair myself you can do a better job than me then i i realized i just didn't like sitting there and people walking in and out and seeing me getting my hair colored like that was i just didn't like that experience like that's why i wanted to do it at home but then yeah once once i was like i i can't keep this up it's going to have to change and then we have the conversations like who are we kidding anyway i mean it's like this is actually being more of myself i need to embrace this and it's not going to imp are people watching because they think we're younger than us because if they are if we're holding on to that then that's gonna that will go away yeah it's like we need to we need to rip that band-aid off well because you talk about your hair which i mean you know is obviously different but definitely especially as we've gone back uh for the mythical society and we've done these uh react to the early videos i don't know what it when it was but for a lo for the longest time if i went back and watched an early retin-link video i kind of was like i basically look the same but my hair has changed but over the past three or four years every time i go back i'm like man i was a baby like i don't know i can't face was younger i can't tell you what has changed about my face i couldn't specifically point it out but i'm like that face is young and this face is old you know what i'm saying it's like it's i you begin to and i think that we'll talk about this later as we're gonna hear from you guys about how your you know the show has been a part of your life change not just in the stage of life but it's just who you are well so we'll talk about that personally but like you said i think that one of the cool things that's happened over over time is just us embracing who we are so part of it is yeah i'm 43 i'm gonna be 44 in the fall and it's that's that's who we are we are dads we literally were dads when we started but we could be a lot of your dads and that's kind of part of it i think yeah i definitely remember that you know i always had this fear that like when is this success going to run out and if there's anything i can control to to prevent it from from petering out i want to do that and it wasn't that i thought that people thought we were young but i didn't know for sure i was like if they you know this is one of the factors if my hair goes totally white it's like what why would you watch that guy it's you know just i was like i don't know if this is good we'll find out we'll find out yeah that's right um but i i'm just glad that we have such a wide range of people watching because we stopped just catering to a younger audience and as we talk about the evolution of the show we became more we came into more of our own we came into more of ourselves completely and i think youtube started to gain more older people would watch youtube people who were more of our contemporaries you know would go to youtube for different things and discover our show and realize that hey this can be for me if i'm you know if i have kids if i'm older if i'm you know if i'm retired what if i'm a retired virologist and the funny thing is is now youtube as a medium is feels kind of old like it you know what i'm saying compared to okay tick tock right yeah and so uh it's funny how quickly things i don't i mean i'm not not only youtube's going anywhere but as a medium it feels like this is kind of a this is sort of a young adult and older person's thing now you know well let's let's talk about the show though and how the show has changed in your eyes um christy scarpetta gmm's evolution from three men she's talking about jason who was our first editor in your garage in your backyard three men in a garage that evolution to a multi-dimensional show that still embodies the same ethos is unique as a mythical beast i recognize the similarities in my life i've had to adjust develop or start over but my core remains unchanged gmm's adaptability with stability is wonderful well this is like kind of a mission statement that we've not really articulated but thank you and i think it's kirsty oh yeah sorry christy i called you christy kirsty um mumskin joy i've been with you guys for six or seven years now i've enjoyed watching the channels grow seeing the crew getting more involved with the various channels and the interactions with you guys and each other is beautiful you build a wonderful family here's to another 2 000. i mean there is a sense of the family the people that make the show there is this family of faces some i mean they definitely change over time uh in the way that families do yeah i guess but but i think that's one of the biggest um that's one of the biggest transformations of the show in i think the reason that the show is still going on frankly is going from three guys in a garage uh coming up with everything to the amazing team that we have right now that enables us to step in and be a part of the show in the way that we are now like i can just guarantee you that the show would be finished if we were because we're still trying to do it the same way yeah we kind of shouldered that burden never for this million years uh samantha disner 13 i've been a fan for about a year found you guys in a time i definitely needed some laughter i started watching everything from good morning chia lincoln through to the current episodes so i've seen the evolution happen very quickly it's been amazing to see how you have grown as performers and how the games have evolved it's yeah that's an interesting dynamic it's like if you're a long time fan you you've experienced the evolution slowly more like we have sometimes it's harder to see but so many people all along the way have been gone back and then had this accelerated binge watching that's like it's like i mean people make time lapses but when you're catching up just from last year and you're going all the way back to chi lincoln i mean that's i actually i think that's what the what the next commenter kind of fleshes out even more yeah ltn's fridge ltn samsung smart fridge is it what is it you've you've spot you've got a samsung sponsorship in your twitter handle i believe that this could be uh a samsung smart fridge that has gone sentient oh and is now a fan okay so we accept you we will proceed with caution three years ago when i decided to click on will it donut i liked it so much that i wanted to start from the beginning so that entire summer and through out half of the next school year i binged watched all the seasons so i got to see how you and the show change whether that's waiting for link's new haircut yeah knowing it was going to come yeah seeing the change to the expanded format and back seeing rhett's hair get longer and longer and my favorite part was waiting for the new intros to see my progress to catching up overall this show changed my morning routine for the better i can look forward to the new gmm and gm more episodes instead of dreading going to school i got the sense of being a part of something bigger as i became a mythical beast i was so excited to see you live my life was changed all because i saw a pink donut and a thumbnail gotta love that thumbnail uh yeah we welcome all all appliances right yeah into the world of uh mythicality appliances don't care how old you look that's right you know what i'm saying maybe that's the future of the show it's just a bunch of ai watching it yeah that ex i mean i that i can only liken it to when i discover somebody uh a musician or a band and then you realize that they've got eight albums you know um maybe one day you know it's like i know that elvis is waiting for me if i want to become a fan one day you know and that's it's going to be quite an experience if i wanted to do that i've never done that with elvis i don't know if i will you're honestly the thing is you're more familiar with elvis than you realize you probably have heard any song that you think you've heard you've heard them all exact but that's i think that's how people who aren't mythical beasts think about good mythical moorings oh i've seen the thumbnails i have an idea of what that's like you know you're saying that we're like elvis i like i like this and then and then um but when you dig into it you're like oh there's a there's a lot more here to this experience than what i thought i think i would find that from elvis and especially because you have this whole body of work and you can you can have that time lapse experience but elvis died on the toilet and i don't want that to happen to you or me while working out in writing yeah renfrost to wrap up this section i wasn't there in the beginning but it has been part of my daily routine for years now i like how the boys have become more comfortable with themselves and it has allowed me to become more comfortable with who i am wren thanks for saying that you know i the show would not be going on if it wasn't for the crew um for the reasons that you said but there's also this beauty that like utilizing and platforming their talents frees us up to be free and i think that you know the the thing that we've learned over the course of entertaining is how valuable uh being yourself and really putting yourself out there and uh and an inviting connection in that way for people to relate to you and know that you're being real it's something that i think we've uh we were i think we were slower to evolve on that front than a lot of other successful youtubers because we were so focused on what it was we were creating early on and then we made a strategic decision with chi lincoln and good mythical morning to platform our friendship and our conversations but we still um cordoned off the things that we would talk about and i think the way that we would talk about those things where there was a lot of areas of our lives even though we were we shared a lot of personal stories that it was still very filtered and um presented and i mean i look at us now and the things that we talk about here on ear biscuits it's just like it this is just what i'm gonna tell you what happened you know i'm my filter is a lot lower you know christy still gets on me she was like you know you don't have to share everything with recent episodes but you know it's just trying to find out i just like i enjoy the freedom of uh being more myself and a lot of that i think because of your biscuits has made its way back into good mythical morning especially because the way the team sets up the episodes where we don't have to we don't have to plan something to deliver or to produce or engineer results so we're more in a reaction mode in a being ourselves mode and not a producer mode because when you try to get into that producer mode and you're thinking about the way this is being presented you're just not as engaged you're not as funny and that's not as fun to watch but yeah i think that i mean we talked a lot about this when we got ready to tell our deconstruction stories right when we uh there was this massive part of ourselves that we had kept from you that we sort of once we opened that up it was it was such a massive part of who we were and i think it kind of relates to the way that we presented ourselves right you go back to the beginning of the show so that 2012 um you know we were one year into being in la really like six months in into being in la from a spiritual standpoint where i was at at that point was i basically had a full-on crisis of faith right um but i was still think i was still calling myself a christian and still kind of believing that there was something in the sort of broken down pieces of my faith that i could assemble into something i was still going to church still call myself christian that kind of thing still had certain beliefs about jesus and but a lot it was super shaky but i in in you can speak to where you were at but you're pretty similar you were going to church as well yeah i i would say i was in a very similar place yeah it wasn't the type of place that you wanted to process that publicly right you know especially having never processed any of it publicly before then it was like and also the last point the internet was a very very different place 10 years ago meaning that there's very few people who were talking that openly about what they thought about everything it's like now everybody tells you what they think about everything and you're almost expected to say what you think about everything very different time but we kind of opened up this personal window into like our stories and our friendship but we were still in this kind of uh the default is to make this family friendly like now the interesting thing because we talked about this we and and i think what we've said in the past is we're like the show evolved in terms of its rating in terms of its fam family friendliness and it's over the years it's gotten less family-friendly whatever that particular term means to you uh and i think that the thing that we've said in the past is this is related to the fact that our kids have our kids have been growing up with the show and so our standards have changed i i think i don't remember but i would venture to guess that i was the one that articulated it this way because i felt like it i felt like we needed an explanation and i felt like for me at least this was a true but still partial explanation that i gave at the time which was you know i like to as my kids get older i think i think there's a parallel with the sh with the show aging up along with our kids because i think about like i want them to be able to watch it and it be the type of thing that i'm comfortable with the things that i'm i'm saying and the things that we're doing and the the angles we're taking the jokes we're making that uh i can watch it with my family and as my family gets older then those that those standards um start to loosen mm-hmm um it's not that i described it that way and i left it at that and it's not that it isn't true i mean for me it's not really true because i've always let my kids kind of watch whatever they wanted to watch even from a pretty young age and so they were they were already experiencing and watching things that definitely went beyond the line that gmm even goes across today when they were younger so there was an incongruity there for me but and also one of the things we i don't think we've ever shared this but like you know even when we were christians even when we were like neck deep in evangelicalism our personal unfiltered conversation with each other was i say 90 to 95 identical to what it is now in terms of how much we curse yeah like we we cur like we've cursed our entire lives there wasn't a moment there wasn't a time in which in my private life with my best friends and with my wife where i didn't curse right and even in front of my kids quite a bit like that's just how i have always talked and i never thought that cursing was some like sign of faith but we had just this idea i was a little more conservative than you but but yeah it was the type of thing that in in so that evolution it wasn't like whenever we our our beliefs started to change that we got more loose-lipped we cursed more no it's like and also with innuendo which i think we still don't curse on gmm and the reason we don't curse on gmm is because if you do curse you even if you curse and bleep it you automatically get put into a different category on the platform and you don't get served to as many people so you don't get you know you don't get as many views and our business doesn't work the same so we're going to continue to be family friendly but when it comes to the innuendo the jokes that go over the kid's head we've always been super innuendo heavy and are just conversations with each other personally personally absolutely yeah yeah i think what what you're seeing on gmm now is how we would always joke amongst the you know yeah just privately amongst friends but now i mean like ren was saying we're more comfortable being ourselves on camera yeah and so that's you know a more honest reaction might sometimes elicit uh a that then i think they had to cut around a few times because like we're we're actually so comfortable behind the desk and not just in good mythical more but especially in good mythical more that we're just we're reflecting who we've always been in that way yeah so it's not an it but it is so it's just an evolution of how we're presenting ourselves that it's more of a opening the door to who we really are more than it is to changing and the funny thing is when you see it from the outside and also you kind of know our story like you think there's a correlation these guys left the faith and they've got and they've gotten more and more crass it's like well i've kind of always been crass it's just now i'm just don't think that it matters that you know that but what i will say just in case you're getting like are you are you guys gonna keep pushing things like i feel like where we've gotten on good mythical morning is a it's honestly it's about as far as you can go before you begin getting categorized differently and so i think that we we have no desire to go any further i think that there's the right amount of innuendo on on the on good mythical morning a good mythical more but i you know maybe there's an opportunity in other venues for that and uh that's intriguing but um yeah for for gmm i think we're i mean we dance a little bit around this line and like sometimes we're still pulling back we're not just pushing pushing pushing there's some we're pulling back from some things it's like you know what oh yeah some some jokes just end up being distasteful we're not trying to provoke like okay that butt chugging joke thing was like okay if i had to do that over i wouldn't do that again because it was okay we can pull back but we're open to trying things because it's it's more we're just comfortable being more of ourselves and sometimes pushing and that might mean that some people are less comfortable with letting like coming in at this current season and letting their kids watch with them but our desire is that for most people who kind of are you know let their kids watch like pg-13 movies or whatever you're gonna be able to let your kids watch like we don't we're not trying to make gmm an adult show gmm is it is a family show but when i say family show what i mean is that no matter what part of the family you are the child the parent the grandparent there's something that you can connect with you can enjoy it yeah and if you were to be offended you're too young to be offended right or you're or you're getting a little bit of an education right that's our realizing something you need to you need to figure out but i i mean the i think the biggest evolution is just because of ear biscuits it's kind of had this retroactive impact on the show and also realizing that that's it resonates with people you know and i think as we get into more user comments uh that becomes clear so a generally distanced rennie mae at loudspeaker i found gmm in the few months following the breakup of my first serious relationship i was conf it was a confusing time because a lot of who i perceived myself to be stemmed from who my ex was so when we parted it felt like i wasn't allowed to be myself anymore gmm was the first thing i really enjoyed that was my own it taught me that it was okay to be weird and that i was allowed to like whatever the heck i wanted to like that that being myself was absolutely fine it led me to find other things and people that i really enjoyed further to that seeing gmm go through its many formats taught me that it's fine to try and fail so long as you're moving towards something better these days i'm happier and by no means perfect but i like to think i'm constantly moving towards something better thank you for that that was a three tweeter um from mythical peach i started watching in 2018 i was on disability leave because my anxiety had worsened i was so depressed my daughter suggested i watch gmm to give me something to smile at it worked i immersed myself in all things mythical and life started to have color fast forward three years and i'm at a fabulous job doing wonderfully watching every mythical thing i can get my hands on i credit rhett and link with turning my life around by showing me daily the funny weird uniqueness that is them love you guys well listen i appreciate the compliment but i'm not going to take that credit we're going to give that credit to you for the the uh the changes that you've made in your life but we are glad that gmm was a part of it and that we were along for the ride yeah that's that's that's awesome v robin said i first subscribed when i was 16 or 17 years old and this month i turned 23 in that time i've gone from hating myself realizing i wasn't straight and gender binary sad all the time with no clue from my future to a job i love knowing i'm a non-binary lesbian loving myself and working out understanding my mental health issues and helping them overall being happier and better the darkest times were when i was 18 or 19 at uni when i had insomnia anxiety and possible depression with no effort to even watch youtube i refound gmm last year and it's my daily positivity dose v slash robin yes thank you joe minnesota joe that is i am more honest about who i am now especially in the last 18 months in the deconstruction episodes i no longer feel like i failed my family or am i bad person just because i didn't fit their definition of good in good times and bad i have looked to the gmm family to share in celebration and in mourning i lost my best friend this year to covet and felt so alone the daily episodes kept me going through those first few weeks it was my version of putting one foot in front of the other joe thanks for sharing that i'm sorry for your loss of your best friend and uh yeah it's just i mean we we get a lot of messages we hear from a lot of fans and you know over the years especially when we were touring too but to to know that what we make is is such an integral part of people moving forward with their lives whenever they encounter um resistance or um uh hardship or bottom out for one reason or another uh never could have imagined uh just a couple more and then we'll unpack some of this em emma bowl 93 i've learned to be more confident in myself as we have all grown to love each other and you guys in this community i found it really impactful that self-love was a prominent feature i've learned that what i wear how i act and what i do is an integral part of my personality and it's very encouraging for me when expression in all senses of the word is included in an episode of gmm and hey just yourself be if weird is you and that's pretty cool thank you emma and finally nina nifik over the years gmm helped me through a breakup then college then surgery graduation changing friendships therapy and self-acceptance as the mythical experience moved forward i grew stronger wiser and happier and gmm connected me to the mythical hive mind got a little creepy there at the end again that's that refrigerator talking no but this is you know i think we when we started this we we said that thing the very beginning the very first episode you know we want you to we want this to be something for you we want this to be a part of your daily routine part of that was just good marketing you know it was just like we want you to see this in this way because when you because we're going to keep giving it to you we're going to give it to you the same time every day so many decisions that we made again they were made because we just kind of figured it seems like something that's not happening on youtube is a reliable show like people are getting content some people are doing it daily but you don't know when it's going to upload you have to go to their twitter to see them say oh 17 more minutes and it's going to be we were like reliable can we make something that is dependent in the same way that you can tune into a television show that you like so let's upload this thing at 6 00 a.m eastern standard time every single day without exception unless there's some crazy technical problem it's only happened a few times out of 2000 episodes right let's talk to the audience as an individual for the most part right we're talking to you we're uh a certain distance from the camera like we made a very conscious choice to be like this camera i ca i don't know what the i think we use like a we use a lens that is that kind of approximates a human field of view now we haven't really talked about this before and it wasn't um super intentional but it was it was something that was kind of behind our intentions and sort of a gut instinct that we want this to feel like you're sitting across from two people now when you watch a typical television show when you watch a newscast if you've ever been in a studio where they're making a television show and this was the case when we shot online nation we're like why is the camera so far away like why is the camera 30 to 40 feet away sometimes on online nation well that's because i mean for the newscaster thing you know how would you meet the newscasters at the at the state fair i mean i'd wait in line and meet greg fischel the meteorologist i'd wait an hour to meet that guy multiple years in a row and then you get up there and you're like i am i'm close enough to shake his hand and that's too close to a meteorologist right that's too close to uh to an anchor but we were like you know it's like i don't want you speaking the news at my face right at a point where i feel like i could smell your breath but the framing and all that was very intentional but again it wasn't this strategy where it was just like this is gonna get people to connect with this show in a way that they're going to and you know 20 seasons from now gonna write about it in this way that the the show has been with them through these transitions we never none of that was intentional we never knew that that committal money would be a life resource for people and that it would be a source of of of comfort and if i if you were to go back in time to the 2012 version of rhett and link again you got to contextualize this with where we were at spiritually which is very much still believing that there was a lot of hope for us kind of you know re-constructing our christian worldview and still seeing ourselves for lack of a better word is like an ambassador for jesus right i didn't know how it was going to happen and i didn't know what i believed but i still had this hope that i was like i'm still in this position i'm been given this platform and again we never like talked about spiritual things in like an evangelical way like trying to change people's minds about their their faith but it was but we still saw ourselves as like maybe being in the traditional christian understanding a light right in that way in a very particular way right like standing up for jesus and god's word and that kind of thing and if he honestly if you were to read some of these comments and people are like if you would have traveled back in time and read us those comments when we started goodman you guys helped me with my transition uh and now i you know i'm comfortable with the fact that i'm not straight and that kind of thing we would have been like what what is going to happen like what is this what is this show going to become are we like is this show going to become like the modern day version of sally jesse raphael or something like that like dr phil and his brother phil yeah i would not have known how to predict what the show would become hearing people talk about it in this way uh obviously you might you know what you could have sent us emails like these emails are from the future and it could have just been like you know you helped me figure out who my real father is like you helped me resolve my paternity issues i didn't even realize that maury no this is just our show became moral it's like that it could he could have gone that way apparently like that's how drastic things have developed and if you had a said no the reality is is that you're still let me show you an episode from the year 2021 and you would see like again you like communicating the fact that you were literally ingesting ramen noodles up your butthole um so that's bringing good into the world how is this edifying people's lives and it's i don't think that particular segment did as you know we ditched earlier it didn't we that won't happen again right yeah sorry about that but yeah it's like we we didn't we didn't calculate it we couldn't have anticipated it but we we've experienced personally the freedom of being more of ourselves um and and sharing that honestly and not presenting a packaged version of ourselves now we still do that even even here on the podcast i mean we still there's things we don't share a lot of times because they're not our stories to share or there's certain aspects of things but we're we're so much more free and it's been so much more rewarding to us personally and but still it wasn't calculated that oh this is going to resonate with people like i'm actually i so many people said i you know i figured out my sexual identity and i had the confidence to come out of the closet or to you know that type of thing that's to have that impact on on people's lives is just is flooring but even when people say you know what i just i learned to embrace my weirdness it is in that person's life that's an equally powerful statement you know coming from somebody who is weird and it's we harness all of this for comedy and for for entertainment value on the show so it's easy to forget that like it it is a true expression and it does make a difference so i'm really encouraged for all the people who said you know i'm if if someone has a problem with me being weird that's their problem you know and that's that's the message that we send just because we're comfortable connecting with each other and uh there's no real judgment there or very little judgment between the two of us right it's it's mostly a celebration and if we're not celebrating what the other guy does we're celebrating the fact that we can turn it into comedy which is kind of the same thing right i mean i feel like i am still i'm growing more comfortable with the fact that this is how people see the show yeah um i'll admit that this continues to be it continues to be a struggle for me um i think that for a couple of reasons i mean one there is just this in the same way that any normal person who did something who that wasn't necessarily designed or intended to help someone and then you hear that it did help them it's there's just a human sort of like embarrassment about that you know what i'm saying like i think that most people are just a little bit like oh man i didn't i didn't mean to help you in that way and so i you the fact that you're giving me credit in this way makes me feel uncomfortable um but then i think there's a for me there's a second part of it which is um a lot of this kind of goes back to the core of my personality the way that i think about things and the way that i think about entertainment and many of the reasons that i got into the entertainment business because i'm a performer you know i'm i'm trying to create things that sort of give me a sense of self-worth we're not going to go back into the enneagram episode if you want to listen to it if you haven't you should but just the idea that i'm much more comfortable with people connecting with things that i sort of do as a performance right like it's like okay well we have a song we have a music video we have a sketch and you enjoyed that creation the achievement the achievement uh but when you start talking about how no the thing that you're actually connecting with is me as a person with you as a person with the two of us and our friendship and you're kind of moving beyond the performance and the things that we're trying to put out there and the things that are very designed and curated and you're actually bypassing that not that you don't enjoy the stuff that we create but that you're actually having a more thorough and deeper connection with us as people that feels like something i can't control you know what i'm saying it feels like something that i can't manufacture it feels like something i can't go into a room and conceptualize something it's just like no you're just you're actually just connecting with us as we connect with each other um and that's just something i am continuing to grow more comfortable with as more and more people articulate it but i'll be honest with you that it's not a natural thing for me to be okay with that it's kind of akin to accepting unconditional love i mean it's i don't know that it's i think well at a certain point in a relationship yeah there there is this unconditional love that you know someone you're bonded to would have and sometimes that's maybe difficult to uh to accept you know i think it it has been nice to know that like the more that i just embrace my weaknesses and call them uniquenesses so to speak it's like i oh i discovered that i'm accepted for and celebrated for for being myself you know it's like okay so a casual viewer may think i'm just an idiot but a committed mythical beast will celebrate it's like you know what he i want to i want to be more like that in the sense that i might not want to make say that exactly what he said or do exactly what he did but the spirit behind it is something that people celebrate and it is a freedom that it's like oh these mythical beasts know enough about me that like i feel safer being myself even though i know that there's a risk that something might come out sideways because i know that i've got i'm under i'm understood more so for me it feels like uh it actually feels more safe oh i definitely i definitely feel way safer and way more comfortable than i did 10 years ago i think the the point i'm making is that there's still this in in there there's a weirdness to it not in the weirdness that you were just talking about but like there's this thing where even it's something as simple as um again we don't know whether or not we don't know how emotional we're going to get in the 2000s episode because we haven't recorded it yet but we have obviously demonstrated that both of us have the capacity to be emotional on the internet and um if you think about like okay like when we recorded the the the episode where i got emotional the most recent one talking about jesse right and it's like there's a weirdness to and maybe this is something okay i'll just be honest with you when i have seen other youtubers cry yeah some are more known for crying than others i've always had this aversion to it because i interpreted it through the lens of performance i'm not saying it wasn't authentic but like you know what it was on a video that was being monetized that had ads on it right and so and that's the case with us like we get paid it's kind of a squirrely way for getting we get paid by the advertisers uh on ear biscuits and that's how we're able to make the show and make it a part of our business right and then the more we are ourselves and the more comfortable we are and the more it's like well i'm crying right now not because i want you to see me cry but because i want to cry there still is this weird thing that when you are yeah a performer when you're on camera and now you're in do you think about the most successful episode i'm i mean i'm talking about your biscuits now but just as a way to illustrate this the most successful episode of your biscuits by a long shot is the episode about ben where we both got really really emotional talking about him and so then if you're only listening to the smart fridge out there who's telling you how you should react to the reaction of the audience the smart fridge would say you need to cry more talk about ben moore you will get more views and more money you know what i'm saying yeah it becomes this that's i'm not i don't know how well i'm articulating this but what i'm just basically saying that the more real we get the more ourselves that we are and the more that people respond to it it gets very weird for me because i see what we do still in a performance context because the more people watch the more money we get and the better our business is do you know what i'm saying so those are just things that i haven't quite reconciled i'm not saying i want to not be vulnerable and i don't want to be honest it's just weird when you put yourself out there and you are accepted and then you're like well i can actually benefit quite a bit from being accepted yeah i'm taking a risk yeah but not really because if i'm vulnerable in 2021 it's actually seen as a cool thing to be vulnerable we've yeah we've crossed that that threshold and now we're experiencing that so now we're knowing what we're having to learn what what the what the parameters for personal health and are and what the what the experiencing that tension and people say you're so brave you're so brave for saying that i'm like right it's like i guess it can be a manipulation right so it's yeah so that is the you know that that's the trap we don't want to fall into yeah it's like you want to be you want to be honest but you don't want you don't want to be dishonest with your honesty like if i do a tweet sometimes i'll do a tweet thread that's especially serious about something that i'm passionate about yeah and then 95 and the reason i'm doing it honestly the reason i'm doing it is because i hope that there's a rhett out there me from the past and i'm trying to talk to that red right i'm saying hey man go ahead come on over because these things you're holding on to it's not where the life's at man that's that's the process that's what i'm trying to do yeah but then a lot of our fans who are the ones who follow me on twitter respond in a this is brave you know i'm i thank you for saying this like and i'm not saying it doesn't help them but like it makes me uncomfortable because i feel like i'm being rewarded for my vulnerability when i'm literally just trying to say something that will get somebody to think a little bit differently right does it make sense yeah so gmm now first of all this is much more prevalent on your biscuits um but i think what you were getting at earlier is that all of this thing that's happening all the stuff that's happening across all the mythical properties that might be most concentrated in your biscuits it's spilling over into the way that we approach good mythical morning and the comfort level that we have when we're on camera we may be doing something really really stupid and we're not going to suddenly make good mythical morning into something where we're talking about political or religious things because we're trying to give you a break from all the and all the conversation to just have a laugh but we are being more our selves in that place i don't know i mean and we know we we've got we're getting better at turning like giving ourselves over to that and that is a it's a that's a performance technique to say with cameras here with crew in the room with plans being made and producers expectations and our own expectations we're learning to just go into a flow an artistic flow and and it's so there's it's still a performance but it's a but it's a personal one and and uh i'm encouraged that more and more people are noticing and that the show is evolving in that way that it you know as much as we seem to be dependent on food to get people to click on the show it's like click for the food stay for the friendship is like what we started joking about because it's like there's still a core that in in that comment earlier i think it was kirsty's comment about how we're you know we've changed so much but we're still they're still we're still who we are yeah so much of us is still the same and our our relationship is still the same in the in the right ways that like you keep coming back to that and and i'm just glad that people see it because we didn't we didn't know that's what we were presenting and we didn't know this we were creating this environment yeah and that that we were inviting this community to be built around the things that are being made mythical um and i'm just you know the people that are becoming mythical beasts are you know they're they're great people you know they're people who actually they what they they like us too it's not they're not great because they like us but it's um it's it's nice to have people notice those things about you and to just to to celebrate who we are and welcome us giving more of ourselves uh through the things that we want to create and put out there and and i want to take a second to to also say that um you know every internet creator has whatever you want to call it a fandom you know that hat is is characterized in a certain way right and there are certain there are certain fandoms that are toxic right uh the really cool thing about the the vast majority of the mythical beasts um at least as far as i've observed it and especially as i've observed it through the lens of other people so like you know i noticed science mike said this months ago maybe years ago but the first couple of times he came on gmm and the thing he said to us is the first thing he said was he says your staff is absolutely amazing i absolutely love coming to mythical and working with your team because they and he's got experience going to other places and he was just like they are so accommodating so friendly so nice and they've got their together and i appreciate that the second thing he said was your fans are so nice and encouraging and he's like you know because a lot of mythical beasts have kind of migrated into to become fans of science mike and so you can see it through somebody who's an online personality who's fielding these comments and these observations from people to just feel that encouragement i think sometimes i just kind of take it for granted i mean i know i just talked about how if i do a tweet thread that's supposed to be thought-provoking i'm uncomfortable when people say thanks for being brave or being vulnerable i'm not saying don't say that i'm just saying i'm that's for me to reconcile but i don't want that to communicate that i don't appreciate how encouraging and frankly just loving our community is right it's uh i don't think that that is a characteristic of all internet fandoms no if we have the best fans yeah i mean we i mean we have the best community of fans there may be some that match it but i don't think there's any that's that surpass it you know and um i think we wanted we if you would ask us what kind of community we would have wanted to build like when we were just getting started it would be like the most comedically critical people that still like us because right they will think that we are the funniest thing ever yeah the fact is we're not the funniest guys ever we're not i really wanted to be but i'm just slowly realizing that i'm not because we're not the funniest but we're funny and we're other things too that people uh people relate to we're we're a lot more just like normal humans who aren't always the funniest but there are other things too when it matters yeah i'm not going to say that our fans have just noticed that in us but i think they've inspired that in us too because we start to we it's a relationship that we've started to understand that there's an opportunity for us to be the best versions of ourselves as we continue to tell people to be their mythical best so we continue to evolve so many things have things changed drastically since the beginning of good mythical morning and it's so it's not the stances we've taken as much as it's the honesty in the evolution that we've experienced um as individuals as friends and also as a community yeah and i'm so i'm so grateful it turned out this way and not how we thought we wanted it to go oh yeah even though it's still a struggle to think that sometimes when you think about like a particular project we want to make or put out into the world but um i still want to be i'm not ever going to let go of it either because it's pathological or whatever i'm never going to stop trying to make the best possible thing i can make but i am very grateful that we have a community that isn't just concerned with us being excellent right and um and and what that might mean sometimes you create something that's actually not as good as everyone says that it is um and there's the the the three inside me wants you to be just tell me how it is just give me the facts man but you know what this is probably a better way to live but i i mean i'm tremendously grateful and i think this exercise it just just makes me so glad that that things are going the way that they're going and that the community uh of mythical beasts are who they are and um i just you know 2 000 episodes of any show is quite a feat how many is judge judy done do we know well yeah let's don't bring her into this because that that'll blow us out of the water yeah thank you for being here whenever you got onto the boat even if i know a lot of people got onto the boat you got off the boat and you're back on the boat uh come and go i get it i'm the same way uh but thank you for for being here at any point that you have been a part of this thing and the way that you contribute say it all the time and we mean it that we wouldn't do this without you we couldn't do this without you and you make what we do incredibly fulfilling yeah here's to that man now give us a wreck because it's your turn oh yes okay so as we come out of the pandemic and we begin to party once again if you're gonna invite people over to your home to party first of all play music not you personally oh like if you if you got a gathering of people at your home and you're not there's not a soundtrack you've missed a giant piece of the puzzle so first of all rectify that that's my first wreck the second wreck is without thinking you need to play a particular band called krung bin okay i'm gonna spell this if i can remember you can have to help me khr u u a n b i n u h there's a g in there so just remember the k h r to begin u a g b i n chromebin it's a tie word i i didn't know this it's a trio from uh texas don't let that throw you off because it does not sound like texas music they actually resist being categorized because what i would have multiple cultures like this just like funk it's just just this groove they're always in this very intoxicating groove and every single song they've ever made without exception is something that you should have playing during a party did i introduce you to them or did you introduce me to them because i i definitely found them independently of you i don't know if you i don't know if i introduced them to you but i found them independently like they came up on a spotify yeah it started getting pushed and then i was like and every time i heard it i was like man who's this old band who's this 70s is that that was what i thought like the first time i heard that was like oh this must be an old school band no they're making music now a lot of instrumental stuff but then uh they're getting into more uh uh vocals too and they're doing something album with leon bridges um the paul mccartney album that just came out they got they got a song on that and it it sounds like a krungman song and it just has a little bit of paul mccartney vocal it doesn't sound the other way oh yeah yeah well i did it the right way and then you know it for my party for my for my my hangout party like that's all we listen to we put that playlist on yeah i kept asking you i was like is this still them because yeah i i would just do like crung ben radio until it'll keep coming back and then it'll start mixing other bands in you only them but it was only them yeah and i was like how many songs can you have that are just amazing krongman all right hashtag ear biscuits next week we're going to get into the longest trips back home that each of us have taken since moving out to los angeles 10 years ago three weeks in north carolina we'll catch you on the flip side of that hashtag your biscuits let's celebrate 2000. to watch more ear biscuits click on the playlist on the right to watch the previous episode of your biscuits click on the playlist to the left and don't forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe if you prefer to 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Length: 85min 38sec (5138 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 01 2021