Is Being An Only Child Better? (AMA)

[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I'm link and I'm Rhett this week at the round table of dim lighting we're answering your questions that could be and are about anything and I'm just man I hope you're my hope this show goes well just you've been mad it's not going to be because of me I mean I freakin I'm I didn't eat lunch I'm freaking starving you're hangry I'm I got a bar here I don't want to eat it on this show because that's not professional and I'm walking in I get the bar I go outside I come back in and the freaking door that hits me in the heel yeah and not just like a little yeah I made some adjustments to it you loosened it I made some adjustments to the door the door always closes slowly a little now I open the door I walk in and it's and it's it it it it shoves me in yeah by hitting me on the heel by design I want people to get in and get out quickly hurt man Phil hey listen feel free to eat your kind bar not a sponsor but a good bar I mean could be a sponsor yeah we it would be if they wanted it to be so now you can talk about my chewing here it is hush we don't you turn around be it do it do us at all at a Zonday and turn away from the mic when you chew okay pull away from the mic because now hold on but we've been talking about no I'm working on my chewing volume like it I had a Lincoln I actually had a what I would call like a Jedi chewing training session Dillo ASM on my packaging and I didn't want to be offensive because I realized that it's a slightly it's a touchy subject when you're when you're when you're trying to comment on something that's so personal with someone which the sounds that their mouths make is about as personal as it gets for a person so but as link and I were sitting there eating lunch in our office across from each other as we often do I just said you know what if you have you thought about maybe trying to chew not so hard here's normal to you good gracious that's just unadulterated that's me that's not a horse that's actually less intense than you typically do when you're doing a thoughtless chewing like when I like when I look at you and I could tell that you're just your eyes are off in nowhere you're just just some wonky eyed chewing it's harder than that I think I upset a Aadhaar base I am angry summit channel it look off into the distance like you're not thinking about anything oh gosh that's it I mean the the separation the the distance that your that your mouth separates and comes back together without opening that alone is amazing to me thank you but then there's also a pop which I believe is a TMJ thing maybe I don't know but it yeah there's definitely a pop like almost on every - good again I was trying to work it only works when you've got material in there yeah you got to give the wood chipper the wood before the wood chipper becomes a wood chipper otherwise it's just a chipper it's so people you know what we do not blame you if you've already left I'm sorry we're not talking to you because you're still here but here's one more - I'm gonna try - I'm gonna try to eat like a snake and just swallow it you trying to go to the other end this into the spectrum well these things are chewy man yeah it would you I'm not complaining right there might be a sponsor one day don't complain too much about it if you do want to I'm chewing slowly it's still noisy I can't do it what you're yeah you're right up on a mic which is an unfair way to test your chewing you need to do it in a room as a normal person you you eat this last piece normal up on the mic sounds like a if I go into like my Apple library to like use a sound effect for chewing and be like that's some gentle chewing I'm the one who did the Apple sound but that was before we were working together we always work for your sauce jerk I don't know how you do it ma'am well and I don't want to know but as I've told you before I'm worried that you're gonna wear out your molars like an old elephant and you're gonna die one day you know they've got seven sets of molars and once they get on that last one you got to just let it die or feed it pudding I love pudding I love well I love chocolate pudding I love vanilla pudding I love chocolate and vanilla pudding swirl there it has been a peanut butter pudding the chocolate I've seen that and I like it or you know I don't like a lot of other the puddings but I do like I don't know that didn't come out right but chia pudding I do like that I had some of that today actually you know I went to my my son's not graduation but promotion they call it because when you when you leave eighth grade going to high school man you go to the next thing you just get promoted to it now I was dropping Lincoln odd chia pudding after that they did they have like a reception with chia pudding yeah that's the thing now no we went to a restaurant after to celebrate and my wife ordered chia pudding at a restaurant well it was after she had already eaten breakfast okay I was still hungry a chia pudding brunch type situation I was dropping Lincoln off late because I guess they would they had the eighth grade promotion and then the seventh graders were dropped off for for two hours on the last day of school to just sign their sign yearbooks and I noticed yeah I was seeing 8th graders and their parents leaving I was like well that'll be me next year you know I was at Hollis that's rhett and Jessi and Locke now I didn't see you but I noticed that a lot of people were dressed up and I was like I'm gonna take a mental note that when this happens to me next year you're not gonna dress I ain't gonna dress up I don't think you have to make a mental note did you dress up you should you know what I had on before I put on this shirt yeah that's what I wore if you call that dressing up no I mean people look like they were putting on like Sunday best I have all I got on brown shoes though I mean that's no it you look like you were just coming into the office but there were people who look like they were going to a church service Locke did wear a tie oh he did but he wore a shirt untucked okay you know it was like cool when he walk across the stage and get handed a promotion yeah 700 students or something crazy like that oh no and so they had an incredible system that they had practice for hours to get right you got people on each side calling names in alphabetical order the kids know exactly when they're supposed to stand up like the different rows they go out and they come back in it was as quick as you can move through 700 students without just basically saying should we just not do this at all right it was clear that no one cared but they just cared enough to know out of obligation they had to do it and there were some people who were so enthusiastic even though you're supposed to hold all applause to the end there were some people who went really crazy for their kid and it's just a thing I turned to Jesse and I was like it's not 1920 getting through eighth grade is not a big deal anymore and also it's illegal not to so it's not like it's really an accomplishment I'm sorry if that sounds insensitive is that what you stood up and yelled when yeah guys exactly this isn't that big of a deal it would be illegal if we did otherwise uh watch out now that almost cheered me up also now this is really gonna cheer you up you will never believe who did the commencement speech at the 8th grade promotion well do you want to do the yes or no game Queen Latifah oh come on man I wanted to frickin do the yes or no get is it a musician yes is it a rapper yes is it a female yes is it Queen Latifah I could have got it in three questions are you not amazed by that well I'm disappointed that I didn't get to arrive at it because I'm I'm lying of course Queen Latifah didn't do it it was the principle hold on they didn't even bring in a famous Queen Latifah didn't do it no the owner of mini fat burgers did not do the commencement speech at my son's promotion because again it's not a big deal Queen she is honored of many fat Berger's yeah Queen Latifah is not going you were screwing with me stop managing fat burgers that's not what she acted oming and she's an actor she said she's a musician she does all kinds of things she's the queen next to Beyonce now all I will say though is that she's not going to divert her schedule to come do something that is of no consequence it's funny that I was so intent on playing the yes or no game that you just washed over Queen Latifah your lies meant your dirty hip-hop lies you think Queen Latifah would do that kind of thing Queen Latifah would do a college graduation if her if her daughter for a pretty penny her son went to the school yeah I think Queen Latifah is like a she does speeches for hire that's what you needed today with what you've been through what have you been through by the way why are you in a bad mood I don't wanna well if you must know I mean I told you I didn't eat yeah because we got it that's it I just didn't eat is that freaking stump I have to leave at a certain time because I'm going to my follow-up appointment for my eye issue which I told you guys about which everything is fine with the eye but they were just like months down the road we want to you know we got to do the dilation and we want to you know we want to check and make sure everything's okay so I have to go to that not to be there on time but you are intentionally not eating I cook you haven't talked to me about this but you you're doing I heard you tell someone else because you didn't want to tell me that you're doing intermittent fasting I don't know what that is except that you're not eating well use the context figure out what it is don't don't calm him down to me I know I know what intermittent fasting is I'm fasting intermittent when you you're skipping dinner for for health reasons I think well okay in first of all I'm not doing it in any disciplined manner because a I girlie accepted the kind bar piece that you gave to me without any protest and also what you're doing it intermittently my parents are in town and I'm making scallops for him tonight what I'm making scallops for him tonight scallops scallops scallops scallops I'm making scallops for him tonight so give me and I'm you you can bet your scallop I'm gonna eat some but give me this just feel publicly that you didn't want to give to me privately because you knew I would just give you the stink eye the whole time just because you don't care about these kinds of things that's fine but but I'm choosing to care about it now okay because my question is if you're going home intermittently and not eating dinner for for health reasons which I'm I'm semi curious about semi curious I'm major curious I'm curious for entertainment purposes not only know that's my guess okay you're the reason I'm in a bad mood no it's the door I mean the foot but I'm I'm I'm macho curious about mucho qjo yeah macho curious that's about how you're not angry at night if you don't eat well you can get to that like that's the thing I'm interested in okay well but but we do need to know that well the very offense a very quick thing is I'm experimenting with intermittent fasting because there's a plethora a cornucopia if you will no I don't reach don't act like I'm not gonna believe you I don't I certainly believe you that suggests that not only is it a good way I'm not really interested it I always I have a little bit of the of the of the spare tire I've had it basically my entire adult life and I'm as I crossed the the threshold of 40 I just asked myself do you think in your 40s you could get rid of this and so it's sort of a personal challenge to myself you were asking it yeah I talked to it I massaged it and what does I grab it it doesn't speak I can however I mean I could get mold this thing into the shape of a mouth that's how much I got right there okay and it is the last fat that you lose for complex scientific reasons that I won't go into but more you die you is if you're trying to lose weight typically your belly fat is the last fat you'll lose because of the composition of that particular fat however intermittent fasting is not I'm not that interested in weight loss what I am interested in is longevity and intermittent fasting has been shown not only to be great for weight loss but also great for longevity and basically I don't understand all the science behind it I just know that the evidence suggests that if you if there's like a 16 hour 14 to 16 hour period per day that you're not eating anything at all you can you you're helping your body in a lot of different ways avoiding disease reducing cancer risk increasing longevity and in general I don't like knowing that I've got to stop what I'm doing and eating it three times a day because I've trained my body to do it so I I'm actually open to this because I don't like in principle being a slave to well having to eat yes because what I will say additionally is that the principle of fasting has been a part of different faith traditions for a long time because it is a way of denying yourself of this very basic need and you kind of overcome it with willpower and after you know ii-i've done like a seven day fast not anything like in college I did a seven day fast yeah and you do get to some interesting places mentally a few days in I haven't done that but what I will say is that yes I get home and I try to do this Monday through Thursday and again I'm not disciplined if there's a party if there's a get-together if people are going out if not the parents are in town a scallop involved if my best friend hands me the butt end of a kind bar I will break the fast it's not a super discipline thing it's just a general principle however what I have found is that I do think that there is something to saying I'm going to overcome this desire to eat I'm not gonna let it make me upset because I do think you become a bit of a slave to your body and its needs and you can kind of beat the body back so that's you can overcome it so do you like me have a tendency to get really angry I don't think I'm as I have a tendency towards hang greenness to the degree that headaches yeah I have gotten a few headaches yeah and I'll just pop a couple of ibuprofen hopefully I try to breaking your fast you're not eating pill I pushed that off as much as possible because I do think I'll adjust but if it gets bad I'm like I'm not going to be able to enjoy my nighttime activities then I will have some ibuprofen okay did you like that balls that I that I did there after a night time I did oh I don't like pauses in podcasts in general because I'm like driving down the road listen to a podcast all of a sudden you think it's buffering it got it got quiet for a second and what the filters that not only else but most people put on podcasts like it'll go like it's like when you turn off the lights in a room and it's a magically pitch-black room mmm auditorially speaking that's very shocking to me and I don't like it that's why I like try to heavy breathe okay good that was really just for the people watching not those people listening because I also made eye contact with my camera that's my camera anyway I'll report back later I I just but I don't know much about it I've just heard about it on a lot of podcasts I've seen it a bunch of articles you see it in the news all the time all the people who seem to know what they're talking about when it comes to the body and life and health are singing the praises of in a minute faster do you sit down with your family and they're eating and you're just sitting there like a bump on a log doing on IB pro/5 done that I have sat down with them and had tea while they were eating because you're not breaking your fast if you're having tea how convenient also the my family is so not scheduled that everybody has something in the evening so there was only like one or two nights a week that we all sit down together anyway so hasn't impacted that a whole lot like we get breakfast with the boys you know and we see each other in the morning have you had any positive results from your intrument fasting to date I had a vision okay no Queen Latifah I only made it I've been doing it for like a month and there's only been one Monday through Thursday stretch that I was consistent for all four days so I felt good about myself in that time but the funny thing I realized is that if I was doing this ten years ago like I'm working out almost every day I'm doing like 45 minutes of cardio I'm doing some reasonable weight training be lean and mean huh it this would be so gone but something about getting to this age I know you guys we talk about how old we are a lot but it's amazing I have that how unresponsive the spare tire is I can make it but not ready I'm out I could do that I have that too that could be a separate YouTube channel just our belly mouths talking to each other in 2006 that would have worked okay I I feel I feel okay now I feel like we can get closer to the to the stated objective which is answering any question that you have given to us which is gonna lead to some other stuff but first I want to let you know where you can get this shirt that I'm wearing yes we have created the Daniel and Richard shirt is it is it you on your own chest no it's Daniel and Richard no relation to me that's a cool frickin shirt man the only thing that makes it not cool is the fact that it looks like you're wearing a drawing of yourself but you are playing a character on your own shirt I just think it would I should have worn it I don't think you should go out in public like that but I think everybody else should support internat Ament and that is a freaking awesome shirt I like to have fun he says Daniel and Richard in cursive down there get one at mythical dot store support your local internet Tanner's or us if we're not local to you we also have these new I don't know if I'm supposed to talk about it I notice that I haven't seen that he's new mythical bands there was a bunch of them out there you probably saw when I just walked across the room and Feldmann just put one on my arm so I assume we're selling those I don't know go to mythical dot store and see I think we will be at some point if we're not okay let's get into some questions what we do I'm I did I think at the end of this podcast we're gonna talk about something that if you're a committed listener to ear biscuits you're gonna want to stay to the end and if you get bored skip to the end maybe it might be an eight minute conversation eight minutes I got a plan for that cuz I've got to leave at a certain time because we're gonna talk about the nature of this show and what what has happened and potentially is happening with it and I think I just oversold something but we are going to we're going to talk about that at the end of this episode just some introspection about the show itself because I have some thoughts about and Jacob just informed me that these amazing new wristbands are not being sold until early July or VidCon so if you're going to VidCon they will be available there that's probably why there's so many in the office right now because we're taking them down there physically like this first question is for you oh so I'll ask it yes I'm angry Tatiana coke lava does link have a special ritual with Jade like the one Rhett has with Barbara during his morning stretches well first of all any question that starts with does link have a special ritual yeah it dot yes yes of course with my beloved dog Tucker from my adolescence I talked about the ritual of patting him on the head I can't actually I can't remember was it five or seven times five because we were I wrote about it in the book then once I put it in the book of mythicality I just I forgot it because I know I can reference it there it's also a number so yeah I don't make a habit of remembering those I don't have anything that ritualistic I mean Jade sleeps in the bed with us and then when I'm very ritualistic when it comes to taking her outside to use the bathroom because as is true with dawson's or Datsuns or however you want to say apparently you don't say Dodson because I said that and we say dots in the recent episode and people are like what what is up with the way that Josh's godson - I say the way we're saying America okay it runs in their lineage to be hard to housebreak so I'm very ritualistic about when she goes out right before we go to bed right when we get up in the morning but you get up and first thing like you get what's the first thing you do when you get out of bed do you you relieve yourself first right I relieve myself didn't you really as long as she stays in the bed she's safe she actually will not jump out of the bed on her own she said Aviva any it works yeah she won't go up the stairs on her own and she won't jump in or out of the bed in her room because we try to preserve her back health which means we we carry around like a queen ironically which is what I do every morning yeah preserve my back health huh talk more she said she would like to talk to you more I let her look me in the face more than you do but besides that the main ritual we have is whenever I lay down on the couch I always call her up and she lays on my chest and then we take a nap together that's like the most special thing we do of course we sleep together every night I mean she sleeps in between me and Christie and like will burrow herself down in the bottom they like to these dogs like to burrow in in in no vase no suffocation concerned we were really scared like when we first got her like puppy she would crawl she would get under the covers and crawl down all the way down under our feet and I was so nervous that she was gonna suffocate but then we got used to it she doesn't yet know she comes out when she gets hot she comes out and she goes whatever she wants and she wakes us up not by barking but by flapping her ears that's how she wakes us up so gentle she's a woman of ritual herself I have a there's an update to my Barbara ritual which I think I last time I told you that it's become so ritualistic and again this is something that Barbara initiated the first thing I do when I get out of it well I relieve myself and then I come back into the bedroom and I lay down next to the bed on the rug and I began to do my stretches and as soon as I come back in if I have a towel in my hand because I use a towel for this special stretch Barbara jumps down he like bite down on the towel it's too difficult to explain the as soon as I come back in she gets she jumps off the bed she's not concerned about her own back health and then she gets on top of me and lays with one foot on each side of me in her head right on my head Lix she licks me it's got now she just licks me one time she's just like oh and then she immediately used to go back and get into bed with Jesse look I got to go down and get on his chest and lick him and then go but now in the past couple of weeks she's changed your routine she gets on top of me she gives me the one lick and then she gets off of me and goes to my hand to your hand she goes to my hand and she puts and she starts scratching at my hand cuz now she just wants me to pet her oh and she scratches my hand do that while you stretch and then after she scratches my hand a couple of times she takes her face and she puts both of her hands on her face she's showing me I want you to do this to me really yes and so I do it you she she wins huh so you're no longer stretching no I because I'm doing this thing where I'm rotating my my lower body so you're in a and this my hand is free and so I put her a little bit but do you pet her on the head where she's petting herself I think that she's got a limited range of motion with her Paul she's like you and I'll do this in fur a good configuration of petting from my like very limited paw shenanigans right charades my paw charades yeah and she's done that for a long time she's show she's shown you how she wants to be pet it is it pet acute or pet and she but now she's worked it into a routine so I it is the one with the ritual it's irresistible she's ritualizing she's definitely she's in charge let's do the whole let's hear another question this is from Tracy dr. T made up games you played his kids my brother and I shared a room until we were 10 years old we had twin beds and pretended they were our boats the game was called guys and gals doesn't make sense Wow guys and gals we were obviously super bored not sailors in boats yeah sure man got a guy boat in a gal boat I guess guys and gals well we you know speaking of the book of mythicality we talked pretty extensively about the game that the two of us would play where we took the nerf basketball and we would sit down across from each other with our legs spread and roll it into each other's nuts which I don't we there was what the running joke in that chapter of the book of mythicality was what we were going to call that game right and but I ain't none that Hawk ellipse or something I don't know what we ended up calling it in the book but we got a testicle testicle yes because there's the net we created the ad for testicle it's got a super slick ad it looks like cornhole but it's got a person with her legs spread at the you should get the book I mean who are we kidding all right that's the only game that I can recall that we invented well actually I remember we invented a game on like a a like a conference room type table with with white with what are the dry erase markers and there's a thing you can do with a dry erase marker where it's you can kind of put your fingers on top of if it's laying down you put your fingers on top of it and then you press and it will it'll like shoot it out like backspin like with backspin like a like a log like a lumberjack running on a log in a river and then he like slips off the backside in it plunk it thrusts it forward this might be a complicated and analogy but picture doing that with just your fingers like just pressing down on a dry erase marker and it slides out from underneath and goes across the table and it's whoever can get the closest without going off this edge without falling off and then you can not be on the knock other falls off off what do we call that well it was kind of like shuffleboard but we had a ridiculous name for that nothing to do with dry erase markers remember that's a great game if you have a boardroom boardroom and you're bored but a game that I think that the title is somewhere in that the game that I played which I don't know if you ever came over for this but you remember again we discussed this in the book of mythicality but my my next-door neighbor was Peter Dinklage growing up not the Peter Dinklage but my Peter Dinklage and he had when we were in like middle school or maybe even younger his cousin came to live with him to go to school at Campbell University remember that Eric and he was like the coolest guy in the world because he was a college student yeah but he hung out with but like like on Friday night he would hang with us and we invented this mix of tag and hide-and-seek where well there is there is an element of tagging hi Nancy but go ahead but dis hide-and-seek involved getting back to a certain home base always or is it just if you're found that's it no I think you get in its full form you get to base and we were just playing hide and seek you and written at hide-and-seek no but we played it with ace there was a tree base and a nighttime and we all dressed up in black in like like Eric the college student would come out and of course now that I think about I'm like how weird is it it's like you know he didn't have much of a college life but we loved it and he would come out in a full black sweat suit and like a black beanie it's one thing for a college sometimes a sleigh with middle schoolers we were in middle school it's another thing for a college student to get fully decked out in order to play a game of middle school but I look forward to it so much i I do remember playing this a few times he got is so intense well you you had from a young age it seems you had this affinity for the dark and I from a young age roof have had what is the opposite of an affinity a scared miss I hate it I hated the dark I still hate the dark you know when I take out the trash I got him like you know I'll go around the side of my house and I'll take out the trash at night and then I'll run back in the house and I had lights installed in our freaking trashcan just I was like I am a man I'm gonna conquer this by installing lights at my trash can no but you know a really good exercise is not conquering cuz it isn't just don't turn this into theory no it's not that I'm not scared I'm also scared okay turn it into therapy when I when I have to take that first of all it's Locke's responsibility to take the trash down our long incline Lincoln's responsibility but that doesn't mean that I don't have to do it every right exactly they're teenagers so what I have done is I go down there and I get to the bottom of the street and it's dark in him there might be like a cougar or a coyote legitimately right there could be a legit coyote or maybe like a lion like a floating ghost sometimes it depends on what movie you've watched recently like a little girl like floating like a foot off the ground and like looking at you with dead black eyes cool think about that when you're out there next year trash can but what I do is I get down there and I just stop and I don't run you can't run and I embrace it I'd say I'm going to absorb whatever this is and just stay here and take it until it goes away and then I'm going to demonic power and then I'm going to just absorb the demonic power and then I'm going to slowly walk up I'm gonna resist the urge to run like sorry don't run you get given you walk slowly and confidently the thing I love about your anecdote is that admitted that you're just as afraid as I am but I don't show it you're just more prideful than I am no it's part of the therapy okay I guess like smiling to induce happiness walk confidently to get rid of scared miss what were we talking about I don't know but I'm gonna move on to another question sherry things you thought were true for the longest time and how you found out about it Oh I've got one for this listen I think reddit is is is becoming too big a part of my night life because those are your nighttime activities now reddit no it's not what's part of it I go to sleep look at it read it now well I don't actually fall well I have I do fall asleep sometimes would like my phone hits my chest now that's dangerous hopin there's read it on you can accidentally if you especially if you do that on Twitter you can accidentally end up liking something well I'm just sleepy hold on I'm just saying you gotta be careful do not on like ambien or I'm saying be no no it's like as it's like falling like if you're looking at something you're like oh that's crazy and then it like falls on your face and you're not liking oh I'm knows like something yeah I mean it there's lots of different ways that can happen be careful as soon as I get sleepy I put my phone down cuz it's dangerous at that point well I don't think it's good to shove a screen in your face right before you go to sleep every night anyway circadian Lee speaking circadian Lee speaking but this blew my mind there was a post not too long ago and I think it was worded like I'm 36 or I'm 43 years old and it's taken me this long to figure out that a bird of paradise plant is not the head like it's not a salt it's not the head of a kooky bird it's the entire body of a bird where the the nose of the bird is pointing back towards the stem from which the flower comes and the wings are out and the wings are out I don't think a lot of people I think most people were under the impression that I definitely was under the same impression that you're under that it was a curse I was a big-headed bird sticking his head out of like a bush and like we had these in my old house like every day in the driveway I would get in and out of the car at least two times a day I would see these things whenever they were blooming and I never once saw it the correct way or why is that the correct way though well because if you look at a bird of paradise it it looks like one right because a bird of paradise isn't some big stork looking thing yeah what what that interpretation of it would be any in it just blew my mind and I told I showed it to Christie because she's super into plants you know that's her that's how she gets going really sure some plants her mind was your plant costume her her might have a tree man cause it exploded I got a bargain show up and warm things oh can I borrow that oh sure I wouldn't come inside I just stayed out in the yard and then there are other there are other plants no not other plants there are other reddit posts where people live like literally taking googly eyes and either Photoshop or in real life have placed eyes on the two different places that could indicate where the head in the face of the to make the big-headed bird or the or the the small one that kind of list looks like a hummingbird in flight it's not as impressive as the big-headed bird no but it made a lot more sense but did she did she know this all no she was she was with us yeah I think most people are you know what to something that I've also been because it looks like a beak a lot of people have been talking about but it's the tail and I think there was a Twitter moment about this weeks ago all these people are realizing that Donald Glover and childish gambino are the same person like that is happening and that kind of yeah that kind of blew my mind a little bit yeah because I totally understand how it depends on how you were introduced to the two different facets of his career but I mean it's I guess it's very easy to listen to and enjoy his music but not watch a music video or see his face attached to it no but I think people because it's previous album you know he it's not like he's on the cover but I think these are people who have my guess is they've seen him do his thing as childish game be Bebo Gambino and then still not put it together because the way that people reveal that they finally understood this yes like this mind-blowing thing that you're like oh oh oh this is the same person but that did not happen to me I knew yeah I knew birds-of-paradise they got me I'm not gonna shame anyone for thinking I don't love her did not get me I get it I'll never look at a bird of paradise the same way again matter of fact I'll never look at one again ha I win well there's two in my front yard I will avert my eyes this is from Emily your money SS Dec 27 was your favorite memory from GMM ear biscuits and/or the tour of mythicality mine was meeting you guys nice to meet you Emily I could see that your profile picture is the meeting that we had must have been meaningful that's cool I can't tell which stop that was well that's it for us Emily meeting you yep seems like that has to be our answer and it is you know what that's our answer but what's the second highlight besides meeting Emily um I think one of the highlights of the tour mythicality that has come up multiple times is when we went to Washington DC I could easily figure it out but I can't quite figure it out off the top of my head where we went from DC but Philadelphia I think so we brought Lily with us and so bringing Lily for that little leg of the tour was was a highlight for me but then she always talks about you know we did and if you watched the rhettandlink Instagram we did some stories where we were on the mall and we did we did the whole mall thing boy that was a highlight but then she always talks about I don't know she just brings it up a lot she's like remember that time when we were in Washington DC and it was freezing outside and we came out of the museum we were like really hungry and there were all of those food trucks there and there was that one that had like the lamb and chicken plates and we we each got one and it was so windy but we sat outside and we ate them and I'm like yeah I remember that she was like that's one of the best meals I've ever had oh really you know it's one of those you know the the best meal you've ever had in in quotes it's so much about the surrounding experience so it just feels it always makes me feel great when she brings that up because as good as I know that that food was and it was good it was very good she's basically saying we created a memory and you happen to be there - Rhett I was there there's a good meal so that bested me that was that was that was certainly a highlight and then her kind of assisting us I could you know I could tell that like she was glad to be there and she felt like she's part of the team and she's the only she's the only child between the two of us who would be capable of offering any sort of help yeah in in the in that capacity she got some tea she got some throat coat before we went onstage he reminds me of the time well the whole the whole chicken and rice thing then is is unrelated but so the hollow guys in in Manhattan who had a food truck a food cart that we actually featured in our very very very old food cart song which was in 2008 so 10 years ago as part of the alka-seltzer great American road trip we did this song about food cart people and has a good message we're doing that song we were introduced to this what was at the time probably the most famous food cart in the nation yeah since then they've expanded from so it's basically chicken and rice and they've got like a white sauce and a hot sauce and it's you can get even get lamb or chicken or both oh and you should get both it's funny how in its Ennis I mean a lot of food trucks and food carts serve this particular dish but they did it in a special way so much here's the funny thing and it's still there you can go there 10 years later my perspective is change significantly on this right because in 2008 I never really had chicken lamb and rice in that fashion mm-hmm now living in Los Angeles I mean I literally cannot walk seven feet without having chicken or rice hit my face you know I'm saying it rains it right and that that style of kind of like a Middle Eastern style of chicken and rice is everywhere and so I we don't really go back and getting go to that cart anymore we did one time when we went with Stevie and we're all out there at like 2:00 a.m. eating this chicken and rice and I was like I don't know if this was worth it yeah because I've had a lot of chicken and rice in sand but we would go there I would that was not a good experience for me because I got that sick yeah I was really sick yeah you got sick we haven't been back to the cart since then and now I remember we were sitting with like we had gotten this we were like building it up to Stevie we're like we got to take you to this to get these dis halal guys we got to get a tray and then there's no you know and then we're going and we're sitting against a building like and I didn't figure so I was like sitting down and you guys are standing up and there were some businessmen there you remember that yeah and they started talking they started talking to us and they didn't realize that I was sick we didn't want to talk and I really didn't want to talk and so in the middle of the conversation because I started standing I remember I just kind of slid down the the side of the building and sat and put my head between my knees and it was kind of I created kind of an awkward moment with these businessmen they slowly walked away at that point I do remember that I think they made fun of me a little bit that guy's having a problem food poisoning perhaps I don't know now those guys have not from the hello guys whatever was before before that they've got a they've got like an actual restaurant in Glendale yeah I haven't been to that but people don't people don't review it well and I think it's because there's so much good food in that style out here that he you know I didn't necessarily stand as much a chance I don't mean there's your highlight so the one thing I will say about favorite memory from GMM makes me think is a though I don't remember much from GMM until somebody asks a specific question about something or Shepherd which Shepherd binge watches GMM and help go deep uh-huh okay he doesn't watch it on a regular basis but sometimes you he'll would you just you'll find him at the downstairs computer and he's going through it just laughing so it does make me feel good that he he thinks that we're funny yeah that's good he's got good taste but sometimes I'll find him watching something like oh yeah as long as he finds us funny he that good did that happened so I that's how I find out my memories he's by seeing them again on my own home computer link another question for you from Brittany the renewed link do you ever wish you had siblings do you think your lack of siblings influenced your relationship or your friendship with Rhett I'm Rhett that's me I am an only child but I do have siblings I have a let's see my dad my dad and my mom had me my dad got remarried and had two more kids who are my half siblings right so I got a half sister and a half brother together they make a whole sibling yeah and that whole sibling spread across two distinct and wonderful individuals are people that I've never lived with and you know I actually don't see them that often now so it's not you know we don't we don't have that strong of a relationship but my book christy is Facebook friends with Lauren who is my half-sister yeah and there were over the years there was like lots of variables which kept us from being actually having a like a vibrant relationship I'll just leave it at that but it's not that we're on bad terms and so nothing about my opinion has to do with my relationship or interactions with them my but I am strongly of the opinion when I talked to someone who is has a kid I'm like hey do you haven't have any kids yeah we got one I'm like okay well you need to have another one don't do that to the I kind of I kind of make light of it I've seen this in action do I make it awkward when I do that cuz it's like people usually this conversation is when you're having with someone you're just meeting I do believe talk about how many kids and for someone just to come out and say have another one I will say it's it's safe to say the unsolicited family planning advice to people you just met risky is not necessarily the best course of action but the way that I say it I say well have another one cuz you don't want to do it you don't want to do that to to your first child I'm an only child you don't want him to turn out like me hahaha that's kind of a self-deprecating gentleman comes back to you but it's like that because like an only child right exactly exactly I I you know I I do feel like I missed out on a lot I think that I'm soft because I don't have any siblings the thing that I've observed about my kids is that they give each other such a hard time they get on each other's nerves so much that is ultimately a healthy thing it builds a thick skin and it also I really think it helps them understand that like there's plenty of times and at this age I think they would say the majority of the time they don't like each other but they know that they love each other you know it's not you know you say well you got to love each other it's like and they're too smart to tell each other they love each other usually and special special occasions are question of intelligence it'll eke out but they're my kids but that's that we have to tell them we have to tell them to do that to say they love each other but I think they know deep down that they are experiencing true familial love and there but they annoyed the crap out of each other and I just think that's a really healthy thing to be exposed to and not think that you know it's your this what you're the center of the world well I am and I I think I was definitely spoiled and I was not I was not punished for things you know this I mean you got you would always get frustrated when we would get in trouble for something and then you get punished and go home and get punished for it come to school the next day and and blow what about you I'll be like nothing I'm cool man I got no punish yeah well I got one I think that was just your mom's style of discipline but yeah yeah I mean I mean theoretically it does make sense that you know so so by that rationale you definitely are very special filter the only so more kids it's not healthy to be the more brothers the more brothers and sisters you have the more deference there is to other people's needs and I think that that probably makes you more likely to like because again when there's a the parent and the child very different roles of course it kind of goes without saying but it's just like when a parent does something for a child whether they get you a dessert or they get you they get you a present or whatever when it's just a parent giving that to one child then they're on the receiving end of that but like you know almost as a point of an opportunity for teaching like we get our kids a dessert that they have to split and it's they it's horrible it actually makes it sometimes you want to get them each their own thing because you don't want to deal with them fighting over getting exactly it - exactly split in the right proportions oh yeah but I have to believe that that practice over time does make people more more willing to defer in certain situations I mean don't you feel like I mean Cole's what 3 or 4 years old in here 3 yeah do you feel like you I mean what what do you think is the chief benefit of him being there he helped you with your interest in music helped you get on to the right hip-hop thurid's well I mean yeah I meant yeah all that this especially as a younger brother like there's all the things that you get i wouldn't know who kool Moe Dee was you know and that's and that's a big thing for me now right right Queen Latifah well I well I think it's what I just said I think it's and again this is also I don't know we're not in sighs child psychologist do we have to remind you what you jealous of him I like it that way well yeah I don't you know I don't think there was as much I don't I see this between my kids lots of things of like LOC saying I would never have gotten away with that I think my parents were actually much more conscious about being consistent consistent in their discipline and their standards from older to younger kids in a way that we've relaxed ourselves I know you have as well with each one that's gone down it's just like Lando can do whatever he wants to so can Shepherd pretty much yeah who knows what's gonna happen with those kids but I to me I think it's and I do think that it you can make this adjustment later on in life especially like you know then you we shared a room in college you lived with other people and now you live with Christie so I think that but you may have had more challenges to overcome with kind of giving somebody else their space and and accommodating someone else's preferences but I think you you have you being like particular about things I don't think that's the result of being a child I think that's just your personality makeup but like carabaos ER but I might I might have gotten better at stepping outside of it earlier because I most certainly would have had to do that if I had another sibling now I will point out that I lived with a stepsister from grade kindergarten the third grade so I did I did have a I guess I did live with a sibling but he's weird because I see Amy was like I think it was five years older than me so I do think it starts to make a difference because I didn't see her as my bonafide sister I was I was very annoyed by her but we didn't I don't recall us doing that much together we each there was a pretty big age difference and girl and guy I don't know I mean one of the things that I'm kind of exploring in my life journey at this point is trying to deconstruct my personality and understand why I am the way that I am in one and so I've always thought of myself as very independent right you know so you know when I went off to college even I was you know I was only an hour away from home but in my mind I didn't talk to my mom or dad again until Thanksgiving now I know I probably ended up calling them but I did not I did not call my parents a lot I still don't mm-hmm and I'm pretty independent like I don't like to receive help for things you know I'm uncomfortable with getting help and I like if I faced with a problem the first thing I do is just try to figure it out on my own and always just thought that like that was a super positive thing and I'm just an independent person I'm not a needy person I don't like to be needy I don't in a group of people I don't want to be the person who complains about something I don't want to be the person that everyone is having to adjust their course of action because of me and my needs and I always thought that this was a positive thing in some senses it is a positive thing but one of something I'm around me it is go ahead something that I'm learning is that there's probably a time in my life probably between the time I was like three four and five when there was a circumstances in my life whether that was something with my parents or something with my my you know my brother where we were at the time something I was going through where I began to kind of put up a little bit of kind of thing like I'm going to take care of things on my own and I had an incredible childhood I you know intact home very stable very loving parents and so there's not like some you know initial event that I can point to anything like that but I'm kind of discovering that some of you basically put on this shell of a personality that helps you cope with whatever you're dealing with and then you kind of carry that well into adulthood and then if you begin to kind of do some work on yourself and deal yourself you begin to realize that oh part of that shell that I put on myself to kind of make it into adulthood is unnecessary now in fact it's a hindrance for me understanding Who I am in dealing properly with my own emotions because that's what another thing I've always thought I'm just not an emotional guy you know it's like in Jesse and I talk about this in our relationship you know she's like I you know sometimes I just feel like you're not as present as you should be or you're you just don't seem to be as passionate about this at times as I would like you to be and I'm like well I'm just you know I'm just not a needy guy no I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve and I'm but it turns out that there's a portion of that that I'm figuring out that is ultimately unhealthy and so what ends up happening is I actually am experiencing emotions because everybody is experiencing emotions but then it'll come out sideways and like snapping at the kids or snapping at Jesse or potentially in some sort of physical manifestation of not properly channeling my emotions just beginning to kind of get into this and deal with this but I'm not like a vestigial arm yeah I have an arm that I have not told anybody about an emotional it's on my lower back and I will reveal it in season 14 of good mythical morning but it's made up of pure pent up emotion I don't know exactly where I'm going with that but I ultimately I guess the question that got us into this is the whole sibling thing so you're saying your brother screwed my brother Costas and but but I think that what well I know what every where I was going with this I would think that while there are certain ways that kids who are in families of like you know six seven eight kids would be super self-sufficient they may have some emotional work to do later in life because they had to defer their own needs so much to kind of be a part of a family that was that big which again makes you a person that's easy to get along with that's another thing I've always easy to get along with I don't I don't complain about a lot of things I don't cause trouble in a group but it also there's a negative side to that with I'm holding I end up holding things in and I don't even experience in them I don't experience them personally in a way that maybe you are better at because you didn't have to hold any of that in because you were most of the time was just you and your mom and my GI Joes so so in other words you may have some different challenges but you also may have some things some benefits from that so all that to say you probably shouldn't be giving unsolicited family planning advice to people with one kid they should just do whatever they feels best in their family and see how it turns out yeah they're gonna be kids are gonna be screwed up no matter what and they're gonna have to work through the crap because their human journey yes journey rain that's a name journey rain yep she does that almost sounds made-up should be a weather person I don't know what you do but if you ever choose to be a weather person we will support you what is something super nostalgic for you guys whether whether she used the term weather in this but not spelled that way yeah but it's whether it's a smell or a taste or something you see that will remind you of something from your past a weird and I think this will be our last question what unless I make it like precisely quick because I want no because I want to be able to have the conversation that you teased oh that's right I got to get to the DI doctor maybe I'm remembering this because we were talking about the tour Akala t but this is what popped into my head I experienced like a high spike of nostalgia when we went to that one those this one venue that we went to I'll describe it to you maybe you can help me remember which city it's in because they all started to run together for us but don't you don't you remember we were we the first time we saw the venue lots of times we would be coming from backstage and then going out on the stage to do a soundcheck and I remember looking out at the seats and I'm like oh crap it's the Buies Creek auditorium seats yeah I don't remember it was but I do remember you pointing it out and I definitely agree and they and it was a specific model of like wooden seat that was like a curved back seat with like the it had a liner wider stained wood that had been worked into a pattern amongst the seats and then the seat bottom would you know like a theater seat it would go up and then when you sat on it it would go down I think it was Philadelphia I don't know it wasn't yeah it was an old venue and it was the exact same model of seats that I have not seen anywhere else since Buies Creek Elementary School and I remember sitting in those seats as it as a fidgety little kid you know for all the school assemblies from like kindergarten all the way through eighth grade and you'd sit you'd sit down and I remember the feeling of that seat just going down and then there were a few seats that were broken and you knew not to sit in those but then some people wouldn't know and they would sit in it and it would like burp it would go sideways and you'd fall and then there were some of the wood on some of them on the backs of some of them won't be stripped off because these kids would be real fidgety and they would start to grab it and strip away that oh yeah the wood and it's it's crazy how something can trigger memories to that level and I could smell Buies Creek auditorium you know auditorium smell wood and lacquer now it didn't smell like the room we were in but I but my memory made me access that smell and usually it works in the opposite way where you like smell something that'll trigger memories I have well like a new longer a new way to get to a memory I have a stronger boys creak smell that recently hit me yeah and maybe this has happened to you because this has happened a few times so Locke was doing some basketball event at a at this old gym at an old school somewhere in town I don't remember exactly where but I had to take a whiz as you do where's wish I'm not talking about the movie which I highly recommend that's the Wiz I had to just take a whiz and I went into the boys bathroom and it smelled exactly like the Buies Creek Elementary boys bathroom now and I got like a mixture of like stale urinal water but the thing I want to understand is because it's just it's it's tile it's like that green that light green tile and those old style urinals mm-hmm and built like a tank yeah all the way to the ground the ones that Buies Creek didn't go all over the ground these did and I was trying to figure out what is it I'm smelling because it's not I think it's the pipes and a certain water tight and then urine like like just baked in your like elementary urine yeah likes different young juice boxes youngster urine sweet ass acidophilus milk carton remember remember that I didn't know what that milk was I never got that milk I would always get the chocolate milk I was so picky I didn't even like their chocolate milk it wasn't it wasn't the exact right type of Chuck maybe there's something about like a public school diet in the way that it interacts with you you know like a six to twelve year old boy yeah and then the pipes anyway it's not a pleasant smell I wouldn't like to turn it into a fragrance you know in reckon no did it did a specific memory flash into your mind as a result of that yeah I was peeing I was whizzing and the memory of Maurice Cameron coming up behind me while I was whizzing yeah and tapping me on the butt while i was whizzing tapping you on the back you know like you you you somebody's in the middle of peeing and you come up and you like kick them with your foot so a little bit so so you make so it wasn't a tap as much as a light push right it was to get you to squeeze and stop yeah stop the stream yeah and then and actually I've been I I've been trying to recover for that oh yeah 38 years it's very difficult for me to pee in front of another individual I get what do you call I want to say camera shy what do you want trigger-happy way what do you call it when you can't be in front of somebody something shy with shy performance it's like performance anxiety it's not that it's something else but I'll remember it later when it's unimportant but I feel like III link that back to being any cuz he he kind of had that was his thing he Maurice mess you up and so I'm always thinking is more he's gonna come up behind me while I'm standing at the airport next to this guy wondering who's good who's P is going to hit the water first you know he's like this ghost of Maurice I should write a short story called the ghost of Maurice he's not dead I don't know if he is or not I hope he's not he shouldn't be no they're just lightly tapping people as this is don't I don't think he ever did that to me because I don't have any problems just letting it whiz but what about yesterday dude when we whizzed what are you talking about when what you and I whizzed in that in that bathroom like we went to a meeting and then after the meeting oh yeah we we had to whiz and we had to get the key from the from the reception receptionist and then go unlock the door and we unlocked the door and there there's a three sinks in a urinal and then two stalls and we had to go to the stalls because there was a guy in at the urinal he was a security guard yeah and I I thought he greeted us when we walked in but then I realized he wasn't talking to us he was talking to himself but then I started to think oh he's not talking to himself I think he's talking to God because he look at it it sounded like he was praying I heard the words he said delicioso which I thought was Italian delicioso and he also said hey Seuss so he said delicious Jesus as far as I could tell and you know what I heard Jesus while peeing and I mean but he was also I thought he might be on the phone a lot of phone now ladies I'll just let you know a lot of times when you when you go into a men's restroom and there's older men in there and they're whizzing there's a lot of like like like signing like the grunting the deepest relief you can imagine and all of us are making that sound in our minds and then some of us as we break a certain threshold of age just let it happen all because he was also thinking Jesus for the delicious moment and it was it sounded just like this and it sounds like a chant because it repeated I heard Jesus more than once but he said hey Suz which was Spanish but that's true but then he said delicioso which is that and then the weaves go into a stall next to each other and you were talking to me a little bit about something but then it got quiet and I was like I was just about to start busting out laughing yeah cuz this guy the whole time he was chanting looks like he didn't know we're there or something he did know because that we made our entrance I mean it was obvious there were other people in there a small bathroom and and I thought maybe hey Suz responded because it got quiet for a second and all of a sudden I heard and I was like nope that's not a that's not an act of God no it was just a fart and then it's like it released another valve then he was able to pee some more well you never know man hey we're heading that way real fast what yeah whatever it takes George I'm sure we'll speak about it in depth when we discover the of how how the way to open the the door the kidney door to like it another valve okay let's just buy farty you got six minutes to make your make your speech you don't have eight is that right yeah I mean I gotta good you have to leave it at 20 after no that's when the appointment is oh there's nothing wrong with your eyes man don't worry about it I have to go back I've already postponed this appointment one time and they charge me for it well those are all the questions we're gonna take today and we want to thank you for submitting those again all the social medias is how you communicate with us hashtag ear biscuits but the thing I want to get to is first of all I want to invite you to think of consider sharing this podcast with somebody who is not a fan of good mythical morning or has never listened to ear biscuits I the thing that I'm realizing is I think that this show is evolving and definitely over this past year we we we made a decision to not have guests and to settle in to just us having conversations and even though we made that decision we're still trying to figure out exactly what your biscuits is but I think it's really taking shape and I think we're beginning to understand but it's I think we're in a difficult position because we're the ones talking and doing this and kind of going on instinct to characterize what show is but just as a thought starter mm-hmm again it's open to further definition but I would say at this point it is a open and honest conversation between two lifelong friends who may or may not be funny to you that is often driven by questions that are submitted and sometimes just driven by experiences that these two guys have there's probably a more catchy like bumper sticker way to describe that but it's not subject based it's not about any particular thing but if you think that there's somebody out there and I'm glad you mentioned like somebody who's not a fan idea man because I think that because GMM has gotten so popular and it is the thing that 90% of people who know who we are know us through and either like it or you don't and I think you have a certain conception of what GMM is and usually it's those guys who eat testicles on the internet and if you're not into that then you think you just sort of say okay I'm gonna kind of write these guys off but there's I think there's a lot of people out there who would enjoy the conversations that we have who may not enjoy the things 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Length: 75min 27sec (4527 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 07 2019