Our Throwback Thanks

[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I'm Rhett and I'm link this week at the roundtable of dim lighting we're going grease you up for Thanksgiving oh gosh like a turkey you know how you rub the turkey with stuff before you put it in the thing to then go through the process so you can then it eat it that's what we're doing to you ears right and what do you know about that process I've been I flip through the channels on a television I would see people preparing turkeys and sometimes Internet videos float around of people preparing turkeys in new creative ways when you're an application was that they were greasing it up yeah you just grease it up and then it's kind of like a it's kind of like a pig that you're trying to I know that would be pork butt that you were you're trying to you know you're trying to chase yeah trying to Crowley a turkey is like a pig that's greased yeah I could tell you don't spend a lot of time in the kitchen unless you're eating we're gonna we're gonna have based we're gonna based you we're gonna baste your ears oh gosh all the mental pictures that you're creating for people because this has you seen a turkey baster before this is the week of they look like some sort of dropper for a for an ogre of you know what I'm sayin the truck before it okay that this is the week to be thankful man we've we've designated that we've designated it and we can get it out of our system so the rest of the year we don't have to be thankful at all no that's not true is it this is an opportunity to be especially thankful the focus on gratitude to focus on gratitude and so we're happy to do that we're gonna do that today we dedicated an entire chapter of the book of mythicality - what we called throwback thanks and we're gonna get into what we didn't do in the book was when we thank some people we didn't get into a lot of the backstories or like we weren't able to fully flesh out why we were thinking these people we limited it to a couple of note card sized thank you notes within our book so we just thought this would be a fun opportunity for us to to expound on those things so we're gonna do that today we're also gonna hear some of the throwback things from new mythical beasts yep but first you know you're still greased up from your my birthday party I had a very late birthday party because we've been traveling a whole bunch and the only time that we could get in the venue that we wanted in the band that we wanted was this particular day but you told me that because you know I I had the advantage of turning there there are certain disadvantages of being older than you like what just being the guy that hits 41st is not that's not something you want to sign up for it's scary but the advantage that I have recently discovered is that now you have to live up to the party that I threw myself really that my wife threw for me right well for months leading up to you crossing the precipice breaking the seal on 40 there were there were murmurs there were discussions of a party it's all right well if you're gonna have a big birthday party you should be if it should be 40 and I was in full support of a great celebration then I would not have to foot the bill for but I would fully engage in enjoying but I did put it on the company so I mean you throw a big party man it was like it started small and I got a little out of hand well I wouldn't say it started well in the conversation is that I heard between you and Jesse about this party and the ones that I was involved in it was like well once she decided you were gonna get a band I don't which came first deciding to get a band or knowing about the band and then building a party around the band because well so over a year ago my wife said or probably right after I turned 39 she was like now do you want to do something substantial for your 40th birthday party because we don't they do big parties for birthdays it's just not something that you know Jesse we're usually back home in North Carolina for her birthday my birthday always comes in the middle of a really really busy time for us October is always really busy so we just haven't thrown parties but when she said that I was like I think I want to have a party on a boat and I want harbour party the band to play that was that's all I said at that time so so you thought about boat yeah it was a package deal in your mind I thought it was from the moment we saw that band which you should tell him who Harbor party is that that's the linchpin of this entire experience first of all a lot of people did a lot of social media at the party and a lot of that spread and so there's a lot of people who who or you know the people the mythical beast who do a lot of digging on the internet to find out things they already know all about this because there was a lot of smiling chats and insta stories I mean I've seen myself singing that freaking song a million times from a bunch of different angles because everybody was filming it but what were we saying what it was a question you asked me Harbor party harbor barber party so harbour party is a band that we saw play together for the first time at good times at Davey Wayne's a club a music club in Hollywood but but now just to call them a band is almost well I'm first going to say I've never been to a music club and watched a band play that I would like I've seen bands because I buy a ticket to their concert but I I mean I don't think I've ever been to a club period actually I've been to like a club for like somebody's party who had a party at a club but but I don't do the clubbing thing but our friends garen Rebecca knew about this band because garze brother was friends with the really close friends with the lead singer and they were like you're gonna love this band you're gonna love this venue we should all go and hang out and this venue it looked kind of like a when you get inside it's low ceilings and a couple of rooms and it it looks like a frat house inside like you're literally in a but it's a very very cool very very very cool place and then in the corner also like a speakeasy when you get you walk into the lobby great it looks like just a room a little shop with like a refrigerator in it hey you walk through the room or the refrigerator in division you're in this music awesome is that and then without any stage just in the corner just like you would have a house party band there's a band plan over there and it's the band that they wanted us to see Harbor party and they're playing Yacht rock which only Yacht rock which we've learned that not a lot of people knew well Yacht rock was I'm surprised because Yacht rock is my favorite type of music I mean basically to explain it to you it's um it's like late seventies early eighties soul music that is mostly played by white people I'm just gonna be you know honest that's like that's what they call blue-eyed soul look now like a Michael McDonald yeah Doobie Brothers Hall & Oates yeah it's like when white people are getting as funky as they possibly can right it's like the limit of white funk within it so and you make fun of it by saying well night if you get a rich guy on a yacht this is the music he listens to because it's kind of like it's kind of a second rate it's it's not it'll embarrass it's easy listening but it's also a little funky but it's not so funky that you begin to you're gonna hurt yourself right you can still like have a fishing rod and and so I would respect anyone I would not argue with anyone say yeah but it's not the real deal if you I mean if you want to talk about funk you couldn't talk about James Brown right we're gonna talk about somebody who actually brings the fun it's derivative this thing this is derivative right but it's still incredible and it's like smoothed out and for for palatability of people on yachts I guess I'm right now and and these guys so everybody in this band and if Michael McDonald sings a song then you're gonna bet that that's a yacht rock song right so okay for Girton and everybody in the band is a professional musician in their own right and usually a part of another band or like a studio musician so they're great at their particular instrument whether it's the voice or the base or the keyboards or whatever everybody is just an incredible musician professionally and then they all come together really as a side project you form this band that plays at places like good times at Davey Wayne's but they also will do parties and just like I told everybody at my party when I got up to give my little birthday boy speech everyone underestimates it like when you say this is a great band you're like okay why are you making such a big deal out about about this band and then you see them and experience it in person you're like well I can't I can't fathom this but I will say that there was definitely a little bit of a segregation between the old people me yes us getting into our late 30s and then the light right in the sweet spot of Millennials that we have working for us yeah and I you know in it there was there was this moment where we were up there like dancing our just dancing our butts off just like having the greatest time and I kind of looked back and like saw like a sea of Millennials and I realized that we have become our parents or like yes this is that uncles this is like when I went to a party like I would see my parents like get really excited about 50s music when I was growing up yeah and I was always like that song is good it's good stuff but like it's a little embarrassing when mom and dad start dancing to like the Four Seasons you know what I'm saying or Chuck Berry or something like that and you know what makes it even sadder for us we don't have yachts yeah we don't you know I mean into that if we had a yacht then you'd be like yeah but I got a yacht I mean I'm on it I'm dancing on the yacht well so that was the idea what the come full-circle yeah I wanted to have a Yacht rock band on a yacht then I looked into how much that cost and very quickly learned that that was not what I wanted to do I could have had like a jon boat party that would have that would have been an intimate affordable but I wanted to have you know like around a hundred people at this thing so if you want to put a hundred people on a boat don't sing if it's johnboat that's gonna sing yeah so we quickly down the under the sea thing from boat to some to club which I thought was just a perfect venue for those guys who had a nice stage but Jesse planned a lot of a lot of it was details it was perfect there wasn't there was the stage and then there was like a bar behind the you know behind the stage in it in between in between the bar in the stage there was like a little dance floor but not not too big to wear with that amount of people it was like everything was full so it didn't seem like there was like a big gap where some somebody should have been but they weren't and here's the one thing that I was able to do because I didn't have it on the boat Jesse thought it would be a great idea to get a lobster roll food truck she's a genius that was so good and the cousins Maine lobster food truck that had two types of lobster rolls Connecticut style and main style Connecticut is the warm lobster with butter on it which is the one that I get and I got and they had lobster bisque tater tots it was absolutely incredible so it's like being on a yacht that was parked and having somebody who had caught lobster and made it into lobster rolls perfectly for you and then and then she remember the pie hole that we that we shot an episode of Willett Piatt yeah we got pies from Willett pile because I tried a Earl Grey tea pie when I was in Pasadena at pie hole and I was like this is the best thing I've ever eaten and Jesse said I'm gonna have that at your birthday party so so many things just came together and of course I did choose to perform a song with the band which I was a little intimidated you know this because I was telling you in the days leading up there yeah a little pressure cuz this is it we got it really good musicians you know these professionals I got to get up there and I got a dance and I got to sing so I decided to sing not any of the songs that I know that they do so well I didn't want to ruin any of the songs that I wasn't gonna any Halla notes I was gonna sing any Toto I wasn't gonna sing any Michael Jackson they do Michael Jackson which is not exactly right but they throw in some you can't if somebody starts playing Michael Jackson you're not gonna stop so I was like I'm not going to sing any of the songs that I'll screw up but it's got to be a song that people will recognize and I can actually sing so I sing brandy and first offense parenthetically you're a fine girl Stevie and Cassie both thought so when I talked to Cassie about this shoot I was like I'm performing a song and she's like what are you singing I was like Brandi and then she went and told Stevie that I was performing a brandy song from brandy and so then when the band started playing like the whole night Cassie was like I don't understand how Rhett's gonna perform a brandy song and how this is gonna make sense and then when I perform brandy by Looking Glass a one-hit wonder who recently has come back into you know the public eye because they're on the guardians of the galaxy soundtrack but mm-hmm she was like makes a whole lot more sense and anyway you you were tell me worried about it because tell me your brave ladies days leading up to it there'd be like a lull in conversation where we were talking about work or something else and then you'd be like I was like dude I think it would be great if you just kind of like mumble to your way through it because that's kind of how he sings like I was committed to that for a couple of days but I was worried it was kind of a risk I was worried that people might not get you know I took all this time to memorize the lyrics yeah you did and then they had just had the lyrics on an iPad up there so I took I spent hours hours yeah and then well here's my experience I'm out there just having the time of my life man I was happy for you that you were indeed 40 and you know what you didn't look that decrepit I mean you got on stage you performed a song I was like there's hope for me right but then I hope started to - a little bit because one person came up and asked me something a few minutes later another person comes up asked me the same thing mm-hmm a few minutes later somebody else is talking to me and then changes the subject to say the same thing right everyone was asking me what are you gonna do for your party I'm like man I I was thinking about it a little bit but I didn't realize everybody else was thinking about it a couple of people come like complimented me on the party and then realized that it wasn't my party some people associate us so closely that I got compliments and I was like yeah it's great Christy said the same I did not spend a dime on this somebody came up to her and was like great party so I don't I I mean my response at time would be like yeah I know know what I'm gonna do but you're invited and then by then I'm like I'm not doing anything and you're not invited you're just gonna go on a trip I'm just I I was I was like I gotta go in a totally different direction maybe I'll take like what they call a sabbatical I'll take a 400 sabbatical like 40 minutes on my own I'm trying to keep it small like I want 40 minutes to myself well I don't know I I feel like we should figure out a way for you to I don't want I didn't have any other band I feel like hold on but let's think about this here's what here's an speed it'll be Brandi speaking of the book because we have a chapter in the book called throw a party that doesn't suck you know and I got to say that that chapter wasn't necessarily my favorite chapter of the book you know because I was like this isn't as I mean we told a funny story about going to the party at Red Fu's house which is a really funny thing but into it was a little more frivolous if you have to like rank the chapters from like yeah you know applicability to your life and then frivolity is that a word throwing a party that doesn't suck I would have said this as a pretty frivolous thing but having thrown a party that you know Jesse and I threw everything we could at this party to make it great and we talked on the way there though how we were more concerned about everyone else enjoying themselves than we were enjoying it ourselves kind of like you your wedding yeah but so many people came up and said they had such a great time in fact one of our friends came up and had a few drinks but he said this is the best night of my life and what a sad friend having her heard that from multiple people as pretty good night it just made me it made me so happy I was like people had such a good time it may this has given me a new perspective on parties and throwing parties and I feel like it lived up to the standard that we said in the book to throw a mythical party and so I don't feel like you can bow out I feel like you have to embrace this challenge and you've got to beat me you got to throw a better party than me you got to have live animals you got to have fire dancers we are gonna get a boat you can combine you and Chrissy's birthdays together cuz you guys are gonna be 40 in like within a month or two yeah so you got you got that going for you so financially speaking it's like you're I get to wait like four years for my wife to turn 40 before we've got to spend more money on that you don't you don't have any daughters though you made that point like this whole I mean if you have to pay for a wedding I mean does that hold true anymore I don't know thanks for new 2017 I think hope not I think that that tradition is changing a little can funnel all of that money in them into my own party I don't know I don't I haven't talked anybody's got married recently but I it's probably more collaborative than it used to be I hope so it's probably not just like the bride's family pays for the whole thing I don't know you you should negotiate that you know don't worry about that that's years away I hope so about that too I just think we got to figure out a way to minute you you got I don't mean him but I got a kids I've got an idea I definitely I've got lots of kids like toddlers there I've got an idea and I will make it my mission oh you're together with you to make this happen I there is one way that we can that we can do better than harbour party Lionel Richie did you hear you just burped because it misses Oh emotion I it wasn't a burp your soul just tried to escape and came back okay that noise came out of like my if I had a trach that's where that that's where that noise would have come out of we are going to make it our mission we have how many months do we have we've got over $6 for us to figure out how we get Lionel Richie to play at you and your wife's 40th birthday party but then you've spoiled the surprise because I would want it to be a surprise to everybody well you got a nobody me but I gotta go public with this in order to get him on board yeah yeah yeah but I'd still like Harbor party to back him up and I would like him I'm sure he's got a pretty good band yeah that's all I'm saying and it will be on a yacht I will help you I will help you make that a reality private yeah there will be no hard feelings at all if you can hovercraft to play at your birthday party feel like that's that's really you'll have a choice at this at this point mmm you could you want a sabbatical though if you don't get Lionel I mean I was definitely thinking I'm just gonna go on a trip because I get so you know how nervous I get when people when I'm in charge of making people happy yeah but yet understand I felt the same way and having been through it I've been feeling so good this week because so many people have sent emails and texts just like I had such a good time but but you makes me have to tell you that you're cool I don't need that Oh give me a break I feel like I have more to lose than the game know if you have Lionel Richie there okay and if you don't have Lana Richie we'll get a line Rashmi impersonate her and I'm gonna keep the lights low put him at a distance yeah he's over there stay over there contractually he does not allow us to come close to him okay I'll think about it think about it we're gonna continue with this but first we are going to just remind you how committed we are to beautifying you mm-hmm with our beauty products mythical beauty products we unabashedly use the term beauty when we talk about our mythical pomade works on anybody's hair we got beard oil or could beat the hair of defeat with that mythical pomade anybody's beard and I have already announced this but I am still riding the wave super excited about my all-new lip balm I've been jealous of links lip balm for the past year or so you know how I feel about your party now but I combined two of my favorite things Wood and berries and you're gonna be like would would I like to try that you would like to try it because it tastes incredible and it's got this berry flavor which is a black berry flavor added to the wood and it's almost like going up to a blackberry bush without without thorns and just rubbing your face all over and make and which I got to say is something that you want to do but it's much smoother than that and I I love Bret's lip balm as the secondary to my own but you can mitigate your perceived risk by also buying the peculiarly perfect peanut butter peppermint lip balm which is proven to be the softest most supple lip creator on Amazon and it also reviews there saying it also has new packaging to pack so that we look great together go together they look great together the mythical dots store is what you get all that for supporting internet Ament in the book we talked about hashtag TBT but how we changed it to be throwback thanks where it's the phenomenon where you reflect on milestones in your life and then realize that people played a role in that yet you forgot to thank them or you were thankful but you didn't articulate it and you know what it's never too late to go back as we proved when in our documentary looking for miss Locklear when we would track down our first grade teacher who introduced us to each other and thanked her it was a extremely rewarding experience for us she actually contributed to the book to rehash some of that it's rewarding for everybody to express thanks it's never too late so in an effort to encourage you to do that I want to I want to go through some of ours from the book again in the book we just had some thank-you notes that that we gave throw back thanks to people and but we didn't get into the story so we can give a give a little that to whet your palate we asked you guys to give some throwback thanks and I'm just gonna go with some of the light-hearted ones a lot of you guys publicly thanked a lot of people sincerely from the heart and I really enjoyed reading through those and it's powerful because you did it through the internet that was kind of the idea and it finds its way to those people which is super cool just for the sake of time and tone I'm gonna go with some of them more like time and tone Eve said some bloke on a train who matrix jumped through the closing doors to give me my gloves that I'd left on my seat oh wow somebody and then Eve never got to thank him and never found out if he got another train or if he was just stuck there you know so then he probably isn't still hashtag throwback thinks he's uh you know she got her gloves well III don't know if I would have done that I would have thrown the gloves I would have got into that just throwing them and just hope that they made it to the platform I wanted sacrifice myself that's a good man call Briley gave some throwback thinks that old lady in the jeepney i don't know what a jeepney jeepney jeepney i think it's a vehicle that old lady in the jeepney that heard me fart but didn't react at all I guess she understood me what would the fart say don't acknowledge what was to understand here well the point is cause being grateful well some things never - sometimes you want to be acknowledged sometimes if it's a big one you might want to wink or you might want a thumbs up or something you know a smile just something to know you've done your job evil snail said hashtag throwback thinks I would like to thank whoever invented the word moist because now I can make everyone eternally cringe yeah everybody hates the word moist doesn't make me cringe I'm I love it I particularly fond of it personally yeah moist brownie wouldn't be edible without it without moist Caroline Qatar ta ta army I'm so I don't know why laughter then don't laugh at her name Eliza the way you said it hashtag throwback apology yeah sorry she'd like to thank whoever looked at chicken and thought to fry it also the other beautiful soul who looked at fried chicken and thought to put it in nugget form hmm yeah that's a tough that's tough to narrow down you probably you they can't can't can't pinpoint the person who first fried chicken you can probably pinpoint the first nugget at least you know like you know a professional nugget I'm sure some grandma made a nugget first nuggets just a little piece of a chicken that fell in the fryer man right I'm sure it was parallel invented in many places we're gonna get into some of ours here what do you want to start cuz there's a lot of these and we can't get through all of them but anyway you want to start me I'd really like to start with dick Bowser okay friend of your dad's so here's what it says in the book dick Bowser thank you for nearly choking on a piece of meat at a Myrtle Beach steak house we literally think about you every time we eat meat and throw in a few extra cheese just for you this is very true and we actually back when we had our show the rhett and Link cast live what is it 10 years ago now could have been yeah 2007-2008 um we would do our show on Ustream live every week down in the basement in Lillington and occasionally we had guests having guests yeah my dad was a guest we brought dick my grandparents were in the audience every week and most of the time pop out would fall asleep during a live broadcast yeah and so we started putting a camera on them and we would we switch the camera ourselves yeah I I would we got real high-tech by the end of it we had like that camera switcher mm-hmm and I'll just switch to the camera of them not enough he's just kind of like not enough he's sitting on the couch but yeah we had dick bowser he had him on because I think at the time no relation to King Bowser no no he doesn't he doesn't spike Super Mario Brothers although every time he jumps up I do run under him what is that thing that like and hit the thing that then makes a weird like axe yes if you hit the act the bridge falls I mean I listen I went to say I was a civil engineer I've got an inch civil engineering degree I don't and the way that that bridge were some Mario Brothers is not sound right or logical there's no there's no way that that could exists first time I saw a real drawbridge I was severely disappointed but really that really kept hitting that axe and nothing happened yeah I don't it looked kind of like a haystack to me like a little loaf of hay really I don't know I think it's an axe I think it's just a switch it's like a medieval switch of some sort I really can't picture it right now anyway dick Bowser so dick Bowser works with my dad he's he teaches law with my dad and I played golf together like every week but dick was down in Myrtle Beach with his wife and maybe his entire family and eating at a steak house in Myrtle Beach oh you weren't there no oh you just heard about it I just tell the story in such a compelling manner that you assumed that I was president but what happened was is he was having dinner and he choked on a pieces began to choke on a piece of steak and it was very serious very quickly like one of those like lodged deep no air like full on if we don't get this out of my trachea I will die situations and there happened to be a man who saw him struggling I think he was a doctor isn't that how the story goes you don't have to be a doctor to know how to do this but he was qualified in some way and he came up and he did the Heimlich on him and he shot that piece of steak out across the restaurant and dick Bowser at least at the time last time we checked in with him had not eaten steak again I mean that is traumatizing for everybody involved it's like drowning in front of your family and they're just sitting there oh the scuba gear just watching you yeah I I just can't imagine I can't imagine that happens all the time I mean it's like a really really common cause of death to choking because there's so many I mean you keep sending that mail down south something's gonna end up in the wrong destination you know what I'm saying odd odds are not in your favor yeah whole trachea and esophagus coming together thing that that's an engineering flaw and so I think that you he told us that story and then we had him on the show to talk about it I don't remember I had a lot of human you bet we also had one of the people who was on the plane that Sully landed in the Hudson Mike Coleman's burger he's a friend of a friend yeah well I know he's a friend I might I didn't know him but so we I know I knew him pretty well at the time we had him on a call like just a few weeks after it happened yeah he was freaking standing on the wing in that picture of all the be the famous picture of the plane in the Hudson he's one of the people standing on the wing we had him on our show and we were like this is it we're doing it we like we got an Internet show and we got this guy on the wing of the plane talking to nobody cared though he was not still on the wing no no the loyal mythical be scared but yeah it was such a what's the word nascent form of entertainment it was very insular but I will say that I actually do think and the dick Bowser thing that didn't cause any ripples across the internet either but it caused a ripple in me and you first of all you already oh yeah you already live by this because what's your Nana told you yeah to me this is just like I told you so but I have been you know I eat like a vacuum and so it's you know I am moving my mouth the whole time but I'm also constantly swallowing and so if something just reaches the back of it it's like Hungry Hippos if something gets in that's going down you know what I mean that's how I eat yeah and but now when I eat anything that has a choke ability to it you see dicks face yeah every time I mean me to see Diggs face so but I tell that to my kids all the time time to cuz it's like you know if they're eating meat I'm like don't be a dick Bowser yeah you boys know you be a dick Bowser now the dick Bowser of today yeah doesn't eat meat and doesn't eat steak and doesn't choke chew that meat Thank You dick browser what's the next one that you wanted to talk about I know you looked at these I can tee it up tee it up for me I'll talk about it Garfield shaped phone oh there's a picture of this to prove that I had the Garfield shape phone in that picture you can also see that I have a goofy stuffed animal and a sailor boy teddy bear stuffed animal and a bulletin board with a Tony the Tiger Tail that I got from a Frosted Flakes mail-in rebate thing and then a license plate that says for fun for - fun yep that that was me the linkster for - fun and I'm wearing a shirt that says Palmetto on it which is not a brand I am familiar with I think that's like a cigarette it's like a casino or something you are in a cigarette shirt but I'm posing talking on my new Garfield phone whenever you pick up the phone now this is one of those phones that plugs into a wall they don't doesn't exist anymore right when you pick up the phone Garfield will wake up yeah he watches you have a converse you can go in retro stores like you can go to downtown Pasadena and go in a store called a retro and they'll sell these for like 70 but we found one for something we were going around somewhere I unapologetically put all this stuff in my room as a kid because I was not self-aware as a child you were you were you were much more self-aware that's why we make fun of how much I'm smiling and and you don't smile you're like you have this like cool look I'll try to be cool trying to be cool I did not have that I mean I had teddy bears but they were not on display you know yeah they were in the closet the thing keynote said Garfield shaped phone thank you for being the conduit for those couple of extremely awkward conversations I had with Leslie before she decided to dump me for Tyler Hamilton so we gave a shout out to Tyler Hamilton in this throw bag thanks and when he knows mmm I know a few years back I was having some car trouble back home and he was he was working at the UM at the place if you were they were they were they fixed the cars in fuqua a garage no in Lillington okay in Lillington well the funny story about the so we obviously you know we both dated leslie it was our first girlfriend a lot of awkward conversation and garfield fought i remember like i we both dated her for about a month maybe and it was that middle school relationship where you when you get to school your your boyfriend and girlfriend and maybe you do something like go to a dance together but then when you try to talk on the phone at that age it's just like with with rare exception it's just like little boys at age you know 12 now they just texted I don't have to worry about it but not commune it was like stage fright just to speak in speaking into the torso of the character known as Garfield doesn't help as it turns out huh sigh oh I'm gonna I'm gonna rip out the middle of Garfield and talk to it didn't look like guts in there but it still was that would've been a nice touch that would have been a nice touch but you've told me this story before and I'm sure we've told it at some point about how you were sitting there with her in school in school while dating her yeah and then she was writing she was doodling and I like leaned over and she there were hearts and stuff on her page and there was also I saw that it said Leslie Tyler Peebles yeah Leslie Tyler Peebles why and I didn't see the Peebles I just saw Leslie Tyler no no no no no you didn't you think I did you I specifically remember this story you came to me and you said she's who she likes Tyler she's writing Leslie Tyler people's yeah like they're like they're married and they took her name it hurt a lot and I said link that's her full name Lesley Tyler Peebles was her full name oh and you were like Oh sense of relief but then within a week she was dating Tyler so I was right you jerk see I think that yeah but we were both right yeah but what that wasn't a sign that she was about to dump you thanks Tyler I think she felt your insecurities both of you this is a good one and I actually have a story a story that I've heard very recently related to this Brian rat llege thank you for telling us about fiber supplements were like clockwork now this happened in college Brian rat llege told us I know I don't think I think we were I remember being out of college okay that could that could be true I remember being like 23 24 yeah and you know it's as happens you you end up talking about your bowel movement sometimes if you're here with people that you feel close enough to and he was like well let me tell you guys let me tell you right now what you need to do is you need to be taking a spoonful of Metamucil every day you should just do it just work it into your routine American diet doesn't have enough fiber it'll it'll do everything it'll regulate both ways no matter which way you you swing it'll get you right back to normal mm-hm and so okay and we both did it and we he was very serious about it this was not a joking conversation it wasn't even hey isn't it funny that we're talking about this yeah yeah he was so centered it's serious business that we gave us pause yeah and then I mean there's a reason why there's a whole half an hour aisle and like every drugstore dedicated to this stuff and so now both of us use this on a regular basis especially when traveling it is the perfect solution to you know what happens when you travel sometimes and your body is like nope hold everything in because I'm traveling like I don't know where you're at don't know where you're going and the next thing you know you've gone three days without taking a dump yeah this completely solves that problem which is amazing that your body can do that you know it's like how's my body know that I'm traveling well you know how do I know that you know his middle name is Tyler my theory is a mysterious world you know my theory about that adaptation is that when back in the day three days you're going into enemy territory and so you're nervous you're in a new place and you don't want to take a dump because that's two strikes against you the first strike is you got to stop and take a dump that's the best time to kill a man yeah oh and he's taking a dump number two squat and knock him off you're gonna leave your you're leaving yourself you're leaving a clue evidence so like that's not our our people's poop that's somebody else's poop look at that Barry I don't recognize that Barry so there's a survival adaptation to hold in your poop for a few days but when you go to summer camp or you just go on vacation or you you know you're just traveling around you don't want to hold your poop it's the hunter-gatherers it's a vestigial adaptation but certainly Brian Ratliff ound out that he was think tin the book because really jesse was like oh somebody tagged Brian rat llege in a post about your book and said hey here and I took the picture of this page and I said you're in the book of mythicality and he was like thanks for letting me know I had no idea so he actually found out that he was the recipient of throwback things I wonder if he went out and bought one went out and bought a book yeah that's a ring of Metamucil both that's why we put his name in there was this set at least we'll sell one to Brian in another one you may be thinking you should give one to Brian or you may be thinking you should have told Brian that you put this about him in the book and to both of those I say well too late you're probably right but we don't have that kind of time chewing tobacco another substance that we've experimented with okay say that one thank you for having such sobering warnings printed on your packaging as well as for tasting absolutely awful you made us a vomit as 16 year olds and then vowed to never try you again you may strike you as odd that two guys that you think seem relatively normal would have really gone in hard on some chewing tobacco but you got to understand a how old we are and be where we're from and see this way that Hank Williams jr. had over our lives at that time I don't want a dog North Carolina you know that much but you can do it and then I'll defend this a little bit well so it was customary for the boys of our age at our high school to experiment with smokeless tobacco in fact the first time that I ever well if you looked out at any window of our high school you would see a tobacco field true so it was just it was looming but I mean I was on probably what is the most preppie you know like you're thinking this is the least redneck situation you could be in I'm on the golf team right mm-hmm but it was on the golf team that Island a yacht rock that I was introduced to dip which is the you know the tune tobacco that you take and you put in your lip mmm of course it gives you mouth cancer and it's horrible for you but we were young we didn't know we didn't care and also the whole golf team we put this stuff in your lip and then of course you do it because you want to be cool and you and and then you start doing it because it's it tastes so bad but you're doing it because you want to be cool and it gives you this it does give this little effect you know you get you get this mild effect but what I think you have this a similar story but what I did is I remembered it gives me I get sick thinking about it I was at home alone and my parents were going somewhere for the day and I had like a whole day in the house and I was like I'm gonna get myself a tin of cherry skull and I just set up there in my in the upstairs room watching TV and I just sat there with there's just a dip just sitting sitting there I wasn't hanging out with it wasn't experiencing it with anybody I'm just sitting there with his cherry flavored tobacco just stinging my bottom lip as I watch TV and then like an hour and a half later I stand up and immediately it's just like I'm super lightheaded I run to the bathroom and just vomit how did you get it because it's hilly I mean I can tell the story of how we got the chewing tobacco did you just buy it you just go to the place in Lillington that doesn't ask your age well that is the story and Hank Williams Hank Williams jr. had a song cuz the boy can't survive yeah and he was he was he's who was he so angry at he says I had a good friend in New York City he never called me by my name just hillbilly but he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife for $43 my friend lost his life and then it's Dennis like wow like just finished him Beach nothing that dude's eyes and shoot him with my old 45 cause a country boy can survive country folks can survive so yeah so it's about shooting somebody he'd liked it well he wanted to spit Beechnut in his eye now Beechnut is a particular brand of chewing tobacco and then after in his eye then you shoot him shooting with a 45 because I rhymes with 45 now when you got to blind him first yeah I'm sure he would never actually do that he was he was doing what an artist did like notorious b.i.g was playing a character if you would ask like he said I'd love to we didn't say I would do I love to shoot that guy yeah I'm not going to and I didn't write not admitting anything of course we're listening to that well we're well yeah and we latched on to the Beechnut part of it we don't latch on to the 45 part no no happy to get a gun absolutely not but what we did do was we went to the corner store I didn't go to the I didn't get in Lillington I'm one of the dip around around right before you go to wombling signs around the corner from Nana and Papa's house yeah went did that one because I knew that none of my relatives went to that one now the the see mark just a few blocks away is the one that all of my relatives went to and they they knew all the cashiers and everything but the it wasn't called a junior mark whatever it was called we went there because I was like listen we'll go in there we'll get us some chewing tobacco and then we'll we'll get we'll get out and they won't recognize me right and of course we get in there and I'm like what you kind of we gonna get what kind we didn't discuss it ahead of time I was just like we'll take the Beechnut wondering how many Beechnut packs were sold because of that song hmm um yeah I see could have said red man but he didn't you open up the pouch and it you just get hit by this strong scent of tobacco with like I wouldn't say it has a chemical overtone to it but it's in like in writings about in the same in the same we have a physical reaction like if you were to open like a strong bottle of cleaner and it would be like oh and it just like knocks you back a little bit that's how pungent opening a pouch of chewing tobacco is or do I can't dip right and it takes a lot of gumption to like pull out a plug of that and then shove it in your cheat you shove in your chicken you slowly chew it and you spit my it's one of the nastier habits that there is my dad did not chew tobacco for much of his life but I do remember when I would visit him on the weekends as a very very young child and he was farming tobacco he would chew tobacco so I had this subconscious thought that was planted that like my dad who I just thought was just awesome I also thought that chewing tobacco was awesome for that reason yeah I mean I did so I felt like it was some sort of rite of passage at that point as like a 16 year old well and there is there is something about and that's what gave me the gumption to get out and it's like we're gonna do this well there's something about redoing something that's a little bit outside of the lines that you know you should be walking in that's not super know at least on the short term it's not like it's not like we were shooting up heroin you know is it's it's it's a it's a pretty low risk thing if you're gonna do it a couple of times the problem is the risk is getting addicted to it the next you know you got mouth cancer just just go just do a google search of chewing tobacco mouth cancer that's all you need to know that you should never try this but we would sit out there at the river and do it and just basically just make each other sick and says are you sick enough yet I'm sick now man let's quit you know that was pretty much what we did it's so it's so gross can't say it's I miss it now but speaking it's not it's so weird it's not like even in the short-term it's a great experience but then you get mouth cancer no it's a horrible experience at a stand just become addicted to the to the they could become addicted to the to the effects of it that's a big speed bump to drive over to get to your destination well think about the first time if you if you if you just smoked a cigarette how would you think that this that it's a fun thing or a good idea but then next thing you know you're addicted to it that's true okay I guess here's one and we're gonna pull out the paper that we have here oh yeah we want to thank the done Daily Record thank you for featuring us on your June 26 2009 cover alongside her when woman murdered teen charged in Sampson horse farm in trouble again so this is something that we had framed way back in the day and we keep it up in our office because it is very grounding in a lot of ways because it is a about as clear of a picture of where we come from as you could possibly have this is and we're at June 26th 27th 28th of 2009 innocent they did a feature article so this is like the daily paper that we got growing up not the city paper from the called the the News & Observer which came from Raleigh this is the one that came from done it was like the Harnett County paper that you got every day in a little mailbox that everybody had connected to their mailbox that said daily records yes they do so they were to come in there put it in but they didn't throw it I remember in movies I would see people throwing the paper in the drive when I realized anyhow we do it around here you put it in the Daily Record but mailbox that everybody had at the street so but we're featured in the middle right in the middle and it says enter the world of internet Ament and it's all containers in turn attainers and it's about what we were doing at the time but really ironically now what it means is if you were to enter the world of us at as Internet Tanner's back then that world would be everything that surrounds us in the other headlines which are herb urban woman murdered Irwin was the close bike town teen charged and of course Sampson horse farm in trouble again which is the other one that we we mentioned but let me we're not gonna stop there because how many times does a horse farm got to be in trouble to make the front page twice as one too many and how is a horse how is the horse farm in trouble well I think maybe they're doing something bad with the horses or maybe they don't have enough horses animal neglect that's what it was has been investigated again for the same alleged offense Benson to celebrate eighty nine years of southern gospel mmm there so like just that sentence alone you don't have I don't think you can appreciate just how many just how rich that statement is Vincent alone let me just see me before that Benson Benson knows how to celebrate because Benson is the place where every year they would have something called mule days where people would drive from from from miles miles and show up with their mules and then pareo a parade do a parade did African mule and they canceled mule days oh I just got it got to crazy man too many mules and the other thing was we used to there was something that the high schoolers used to do called cruise Benson yes and you would drive to Benson which was like 20 miles away and you would ride around with your windows rolled down and music playing yes cruising and then they made it illegal but when we right when we got our license so like we're talking like 94 they made cruising a leak I was so looking forward to like man I can't wait a cruise Benson and they freaking made it illegal and then they got rid of mule days Benson what's up man then down here we've got another thing from Irwin Irwin woman wins another preliminary she's a beauty pageant she's got a bathing suit on on the on the front of this thing she won Miss Fayetteville good work and then former Linden man charged with lewd acts on a child oh good gracious no we're not making light of any of this stuff we're no we're not trying to give you it's us you got to understand how typical every single article on this is it's so indicative of where we come from okay when you say you think Harnett County can you read that read the cat read the caption on our picture cuz we got a big picture and there's a lot of wonderful there's a lot of wonderful things about Harnett County but there's also a lot of just the things that are typical of just a rural place you know where a lot of people just get trapped you got women getting murdered by teens you got southern gospel going on for 89 years you got horse farms that are in trouble you got young ladies winning beauty pageants and you got people performing lewd acts on children oh I'm just saying I'm not I'm not making light of any of it I'm just saying that that's where we come from and then write in them and we that's why we have this thing yeah framed right in the middle here we are this is don't ever forget this don't ever forget this is who we are man this is where we come from and what does the caption say link Neal left and Rhett mcLaughlin practice one of the many songs that have made them a hit on the internet on YouTube and on their website rhettandlink.com/store is in Lillington and some of their work features the town as a backdrop that's true that's true that's true a lot of it did need to go back and help those horses yeah okay let's just pause for a moment and be thankful with silent I think that's it I think I feel great you don't want to thank anybody else well did you want to think I just first I had one more that I thought kind of fits yeah do it the theme that we're in right now is thinking the pharmacist to Elliott's in downtown Fuquay thanks for taking a break filling prescriptions to hold the mic from our epic rap battle video behind your store did we miss Bell mic okay in my seam no the reason again this is this is what editors do we had an argument not an argument but so after we wrote the book we you know we had an editor but then we had like a professional event picker yeah somebody who goes another layer deeper to think about your grammar and punctuation and everything and they and they basically go through and correct and then they get to certain places where it's not just a simple punctuation or spelling correction but it's just a decision that has to be made and then they run it by you so we've always said Mike as m.i.c cuz it's short for microphone but they said technically when you're saying Mike the short for microphone you should spell it in my ke technically that's what was correct and that's why it says that in this particular think you know well link is short for Lincoln but it's with a K so I'm not gonna argue with any of that back to the point though yeah the pharmacists as important of a job as that is he was still just able to mosey out there and be our boom operator with no particular time constraint it was great that's a that doesn't happen anymore but that that well it would be a long commute for him but I but again it was there was something special about being in a place where no one else was we didn't know anybody else who was making YouTube videos at the time did not that same time but we told this story before when we were doing commercial Kings how we shot the intro to our show on IFC we shot it in the middle of Main Street in the and the cop stopped yeah literally the Trop i was in the middle of the street and he like rolls down his window and he's like y'all mean y'all need any help and then another guy rolls down his window and says I'm the town commissioner and anytime y'all need anything just let me know it's like well you know what they did they both saw the done Daily Record exactly we're right on the front of it so there you go that's like it could carry that thing around as a credential back in a day but I you know I think the point is it's it's fun to reminisce but it's powerful when you can transition a reminisce ation into being grateful and it's never too late to think somebody you know what Brian rat llege I wonder how he felt knowing that we put his complete name in our book and associated it with Metamucil I hope he's honored I think he probably feels great if you still got the routine going yeah I'm bet he's he's doing fabulous man he just keeps it moving it's like a train I just want to encourage you mythical beasts to be your mythical best buy throw back thanking someone in your life used a hashtag if you want to TBT or throw back things I think you should use the hashtag and then I think because it can be done these days I think you should tag that person that you're thinking if they're still around to be tagged because that you know it can be very different let's like we talked about in the book it can be very difficult to thank somebody in person especially when people are like there's like a moment in time that you have to be thankful like to live like actually come out and say it yeah that you're thankful and usually if you don't say it at that moment the chance that you get the first time you never say it right because there's a lot to overcome but there's a lower threshold to thinking somebody through the internet and I don't think it means any less necessarily and usually it will lead to some kind of interaction that might actually lead to a conversation person that you can have with somebody so take that for what it's worth and it's worth a lot I would like to that's for them to say let us know using hashtag ear biscuits let us know what you think about this convo and we appreciate you hanging out with us this week you know will speak at you again next week have a great Thanksgiving yes do it [Music]

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Published: Mon Jan 07 2019