Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 200: Evolve or Die: 200th Episode Special | Ear Biscuits Ep. 200

Episode Date: July 1, 2019

To celebrate the 200th episode of Ear Biscuits, R&L dive into an Ear Biscuits time capsule to uncover some miraculous predictions that ended up coming true, give updates on past events, and reflect on... how Ear Biscuits has evolved into its current form. Sponsored by: Stitch Fix: Get started NOW at StitchFix.com/EAR and you’ll get an extra 25% off when you keep all 5 items in your box! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This, this, this, this is mythical. Shop Best Buy's ultimate smartphone sale today. Get a Best Buy gift card of up to $200 on select phone activations with major carriers. Visit your nearest Best Buy store today. Terms and conditions apply. Before we get started, we would like to invite you to celebrate the 200th episode of Ear Biscuits with us by picking up an Ear Biscuits mug, which is 20% off for July 1st to July 5th. Oh yeah, limited time for a fantastic offer.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Also wanna get you to come out to our shows and tell people in these cities that we're gonna be there. September 4th, Houston, Texas. September 5th, New Orleans, Louisiana. Birmingham, Alabama on September 6th. Jacksonville, Florida, September 7th. Tampa, Florida on the 8th. Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 20th.
Starting point is 00:00:57 Phoenix, Arizona, November 21st. Sacramento, California the 22nd. Valley Center, California, November 23rd, wraps up our musical concert comedy extravaganza tour. Invite a friend. Of 2019. Invite a friend into the mythical universe. Even if you're not going. Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:01:16 Now let's do a biscuit. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the Round Table of Dim Lighting, we are exploring the question, how has Ear Biscuits changed over the course of 200 episodes? 200 episodes!
Starting point is 00:01:40 That's right, this is the bicentennial. Yes! We've been going for 200 years. 200 episodes. Can you say bicentennial when you're talking about just the number or does it have to be the year? Not any more than you have, but I think you've, I think you've reached the quota.
Starting point is 00:01:56 I've got a couple in my back pocket. You know what, it's been a pleasure sitting here for all too, well, there's been a few exceptions, but. Well, you're saying it like this is the last episode. Sitting at this round table. It's been a pleasure, we're stopping at 200. For 200. Hope you enjoyed it. Wow, I mean, this is a milestone,
Starting point is 00:02:15 so you know, I like to get sentimental. So in this episode, I asked Kiko to pull some clips that span the history of Ear Biscuits to kinda jog our memory of some things that we've been through here at the round table and reminisce, probably analyze and pontificate about the future, perhaps. If you've been with us since the beginning
Starting point is 00:02:43 or if you've done what some people do, and that is you get in late, but then you go in early. Go back. You go back early. Yeah. And you catch up, you've known, you've learned that what this show is has evolved pretty significantly. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:00 So I think that, I mean, first of all, the clips that we're gonna be playing are mostly, well, not mostly, it spans the changes, but we are gonna spend quite a bit of time talking, hearing from some of those people we had as guests early on, but then we'll talk about what the show has become and what we think about that. Yeah, what does Ear Biscuits mean to us?
Starting point is 00:03:24 And I think we've got a handle on what it means to you as a listener as well. So the interaction between those two things, I think we'll land there. Before we get into it, I just wanna say I'm getting whiffs of myself. This is not the first time or the last that I've done what I did this morning,
Starting point is 00:03:43 which was for the past few days, I've been rubbing my deodorant stick, sans deodorant on my underarms. You know how when it basically runs out, but you don't have a new one. So it's like, well, I bet I can't see it, but there's some deodorant on there and I'm just gonna rub harder.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Oh, how many family members do you have? Five other ones including the dog or six if Britton happens to be in town. Okay, you don't. My boys have deodorant. Hold on. I've talked to you about how big my house is. I mean it's so huge to go down there and get their deodorant.
Starting point is 00:04:22 That's what you're going for. Option number one is to use your wife's deodorant. That's what you're going for. Option number one is to use your wife's deodorant. That's what I've done. That's what I switched to. And now I'm getting wafts of this powder scent that's literally giving me a headache. I was gonna say something. I was gonna compliment you but.
Starting point is 00:04:36 It's like I'm in a freaking baby powder factory. Like I've never gone out to my wife. Did she use Secret? And I think it's Degree antiperspirant and deodorant. Powder scent, apparently. Not a sponsor. The ladies like to smell like powder. Well when I get close to her,
Starting point is 00:04:52 she also hits that Mythical number nine and that really draws me in. Mythical.store. But this powder's not, can you smell it? I'm gonna waft my jacket. I can't smell a lot of things. So I don't know if I'm a great candidate for that. The head sickness.
Starting point is 00:05:12 I'm having trouble with it. I'm thinking about getting up and wiping down my armpits. Because the past two days, I've been stinking. Like the left pit, not the right one. But I don't use antiperspirant. So today I also feel like not only am I getting powdered up, but I'm also getting clogged up because I don't use that antiperspirant.
Starting point is 00:05:31 And you know what? It will negatively affect you. Okay, so I don't know. One day of it? Well, I went. We talking about cancer? No, no. Aluminum? No, no, I went for, I'd say three days.
Starting point is 00:05:44 Okay, I don't know if we've ever talked about this on Ear Biscuits, but. Aluminum? No, no, I went for, I'd say three days, okay. I don't know if we've ever talked about this on Ear Biscuits, but we had a friend, Nick, who told us to take the Old Spice Challenge, which I don't even know if the Old Spice Challenge is what we, or he interpreted it to be. Right. But he said it was when you go deodorant only
Starting point is 00:06:02 and you stop antiperspirant. And he's like, after a certain period of time, it varies from person to person, you will no longer need antiperspirant. Now I will say that neither of us are very sweaty guys. You know, in fact, and I'm not saying this as a point of, you know. Braggadocio.
Starting point is 00:06:20 Yeah, I'm saying it because Ana, who did hair and makeup for Buddy System during a very hot summer and then has also done hair and makeup for GMM for quite some time, she said, she talks about how some actors are super sweaty and you have to like take like certain precautions. They're gonna sweat through their stuff.
Starting point is 00:06:44 You have to give them special things, you know? And she's like, you guys are very on the low end of sweatiness, so maybe this doesn't apply to everybody. But both of us took the Old Spice Challenge, went straight deodorant, I would say within. And I didn't even do it with Old Spice. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember what I did, but. The, I'll call it the deodorant channel.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Channel. The deodorant channel, it's a new YouTube channel. Why did I say channel? I don't remember what I did, but. The, I'll call it the deodorant channel. The deodorant channel, it's a new YouTube channel. Why did I say channel? I don't know, well. Challenge. Because we're YouTubers. So, and, because you know, even when you use antiperspirant, if you forget to use antiperspirant for that day, sometimes you'll just be in the middle
Starting point is 00:07:20 of a non-stressful activity and you feel like a drip come down your. Or like a fountain, like a sprout, it'll sprout. Since taking the deodorant channel, since taking the deodorant challenge. Subscribed. Since subscribing to the deodorant channel, I haven't had that drippage.
Starting point is 00:07:41 I haven't either. Ever, until I ran out of deodorant. But you know what I was doing? I made a mistake, man. I made a big mistake. I went to, I actually went to the drugstore to get deodorant to restock. And I think I do.
Starting point is 00:07:59 You got distracted by gummy bears again, didn't you? No, I got like a couple of Old Spices. Okay. You know, different, I fall for their marketing and the way they talk about the funny stuff that it says on there. And it's just deodorant. At this point, I don't need the antiperspirant, so any deodorant will work.
Starting point is 00:08:17 But there was this thing on the top in the natural section. And it said, I think it said magnesium-based or something like that. It was like no aluminum, magnesium based and it had charcoal in it. That's such a trend. I don't know why, I don't have any need for it. I just got it because I was like, hmm.
Starting point is 00:08:39 Cool, new. I wonder if, and here's what I said to myself, I wonder if there are some circumstances in which I still might need an antiperspirant. Let me test this out since this doesn't, even though I don't believe. Even though for the past four years, at least, maybe six since we've taken the subscribe
Starting point is 00:08:55 to the deodorant channel. I don't think it's been six years, but, and I personally don't believe in the aluminum thing. I think the aluminum thing being bad for you is bad science based on the last time that I looked at it. But why take a chance, right? So I used this stuff for three days. And then the reason I stopped using it
Starting point is 00:09:15 is because it was so hard. It would rip the hair under my arms out. It just, it didn't have the smooth like just go across there real fast. So I stopped using it, went back to the Old Spice. That day, drippage. Triple? I mean, trickle?
Starting point is 00:09:31 I don't understand. The words are coming out wrong. What's happening? I don't understand how your body is adjusting to this, but it was like my body got the cue that it was okay to evacuate water under my underarms. Pewch, pewch, pewch. But within three or four days.
Starting point is 00:09:47 You back? I was back to normal. Back to normal. So I encourage everybody to do that, you know, unless you're just a sweaty person. I get the deodorant, I do get Old Spice because I also fall for it. I mean, I gotta hand it to them.
Starting point is 00:09:59 It also smells good. But it smells good. They have a lot of really good smelling scents. But the one I get is Fijiiji and the main reason I do is. Oh, I've had Fiji. Because I've been to Fiji. Now that I've been to Fiji, every morning my armpits go back to Fiji.
Starting point is 00:10:11 So I gotta go in for some more Feej. Yeah, I completely understand that. I gotta feed the Feej. So I was self-conscious about the powder. I'm glad to hear that you can't smell it but I'm sorry to hear that you can't smell. That's gonna really put a damper, I don't wanna put that a damper on our 200th celebration
Starting point is 00:10:29 that we're in the middle of. As long as there's nothing else to smell, I'll be fine. You know you can access memories through smell and I had this whole thing I was gonna bring in like, oh this is episode 47. You were gonna bring articles of clothing from past guests? Well. You know how we always snip off a little part of their clothes?
Starting point is 00:10:47 Well, we haven't listened to these clips together. We'll do that. We'll go on a joy ride back through Ear Biscuits. Wherever you're going, you better believe American Express will be right there with you. Heading for adventure? We'll help you breeze through security. Meeting friends a world away? You can use your travel credit. Squeezing every drop out of the last day? How about a 4 p.m. late checkout? So let's just start at the beginning.
Starting point is 00:11:25 This is, well this is episode three, released on your birthday, October 11th of 2013. Oh I was so young back then, mid 30s. I believe Grace was our first guest. Had my whole life ahead of me. But this is a clip of Shane Dawson. Shane Dawson's still around, arguably more than ever. So, let's listen to this
Starting point is 00:11:47 very short clip. You know, when I was a kid, I grew up on horror movies. Not horror movies, horror. Horror? Horror. Horror movies. I grew up, that's all I watched, that's all I knew. Still, that's all I watch, really. So, I have, was so desensitized to violence
Starting point is 00:12:04 and cussing and boobs and all of that stuff so for me I wanted to be genuine and authentic with what I thought was funny what I thought was cool and I was into dark humor and all that stuff and I was like maybe there's other kids out there that are like that too and when YouTube first started it was those kids now it's a little more mainstream but back then it was like the dark gothic kids at school and that's what they thought was funny too. And my first, one of my first sketches was about phone sex where I had phone sex with a girl and she ended up like killing somebody. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:12:32 It was very dark. And yeah, like, and that's just what I knew. And then the moral was phone sex kills? Yeah. The moral was there's always, if you think your life is bad, there's somebody out there whose life uh is worse than yours and you should appreciate what you have it was always like the morals were very very loosely tied to it but my whole thing now is i look at it like okay now my goal is just to give five minutes of entertainment to somebody who needs it and um if there's a moral grade if there's not at least they got five minutes of free entertainment
Starting point is 00:13:03 and um and then hopefully now just keep proving people like, oh, I can actually direct because my goal now, which has been my goal since I was five, is to direct. So now I'm not really in my videos anymore. And all my last hit videos, I guess, it's so hard nowadays to get a hit. But my last couple good videos, I haven't even been in. My last couple parodies, I wasn't even in. Just behind the scenes, writing, directing. So that's kind of my goal now is to take a little step back. End of clip.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Now, this- You gonna say that every time? This is us actually talking. I'm not gonna say that anymore because now that I'm talking it seems obvious. Why don't you just do beep, boop, boop, boop. So a couple of things about that. Well, I've got a number of thoughts, but I'm not gonna hog all of the thoughts here.
Starting point is 00:13:48 You know, the fact that he talked about five minutes, you know, talk about giving somebody a five minute video and then also talking about how it's hard to find a hit and how it's, he's not even in a lot of his videos anymore and then what he aspires to. Very interesting. To me, it just shows you that Shane's mentality has always been experimenting
Starting point is 00:14:14 and he's always had his sights set on succeeding at this platform, which this may sound like an overly simplistic statement, but if you don't commit to trying to win at the game that is YouTube, you will not end up being, you may have a successful sort of stint as a YouTuber, but longevity in this game is recognizing it as somewhat of a game that has to be played, the rules constantly
Starting point is 00:14:43 change. Evolve or die. And he's done that, you know? I mean, he talked a little bit about his dark humor, which if you've been following anything, you know, his dark humor has gotten him into trouble from time to time. But I think the interesting thing about him saying that
Starting point is 00:14:58 he was moving into this place where he was directing and also not being on camera, and then you think about six years later, where he's at now, which is still kind of directing and producing, but he has reinserted himself into the center of his content because that, turns out that's what worked. And also, I can't think of many examples
Starting point is 00:15:19 where that hasn't worked on YouTube since it's so personality based. And also he's gone to the opposite extreme. He's not talking about five minutes, he's talking about like an hour and a half. I mean what is the, Oh well over an hour. Documentaries.
Starting point is 00:15:30 I think he's done almost two hour length. Two hour videos. On some of those. I'm just very grateful that Shane is doing well and is so relevant more so than ever. Well maybe I won't say that. is doing well and is so relevant more so than ever. Well, maybe I won't say that. Just as relevant as he was in his previous versions.
Starting point is 00:15:51 I'm just so glad that there's people who've been around who know how YouTube used to be and they're still making it work. That gives us hope because that's obviously what we're continuing to work hard to do. Stay relevant, stay on this thing. we're continuing to work hard to do. Stay relevant, stay on this thing. So I'm grateful for Shane because from a selfish standpoint, it gives me hope.
Starting point is 00:16:15 I was also very grateful that he came on the show because it's not the type of thing that he loves to do, I don't think. No, he didn't at the time and he still doesn't. And I, you know, we should acknowledge that if Shane hadn't done his podcast, I'm sure we've said this before, I don't know that we would have considered doing a podcast.
Starting point is 00:16:37 It wasn't the only factor by any means, but it was a factor. He was not only doing a podcast, but it was doing well and it seemed to be able to support itself financially. It was a business model there. Yeah. Because we just can't justify doing something.
Starting point is 00:16:52 It was speculative for a few years. I don't think we were making money off the podcast. There weren't sponsors involved in the very early days. But the plan was that there would be. And if you only listen now, yeah, Shane was the third guest of many guests, at least two years worth of guests. Let's go ahead and go to another guest.
Starting point is 00:17:11 Episode 25, released on March 21st of 2014. This is Colleen Ballinger. She also played Miranda in part of the Ear Biscuit. She came on as Miranda and then she- Left and came back as Colleen, yeah. Yeah, and I don't know, I think this is gonna be a Colleen clip, but I don't know for sure.
Starting point is 00:17:32 You're obviously talented, not only as a comedian, but as a singer and a performer. So, how do you balance that when you think about the future? And you're like, okay, well, I've got these two tracks. I hope that Miranda will keel over at some point or I'm going to take this all the way. What are your thoughts? Yeah, no, I don't want to kill Miranda. I think Miranda will live as long as people want to watch. She's going to get pregnant and get—
Starting point is 00:17:59 That's exciting. She's going to go through it all with me. Are you pregnant? This is the announcement. I'm pregnant, guys. Okay, you heard it first. I always wanna make sure because I wanna, that's the key to our show working
Starting point is 00:18:13 is somebody's gotta get pregnant on this show. Well, I mean. On the show. There's another Miranda tweet. There's another Marge tweet, I know. This is your fault. Whoa. And lo and behold, she did get pregnant.
Starting point is 00:18:24 Miranda got pregnant. She did. So that was a forecast, that was a premonition. So you did hear it first, Colleen is pregnant. You heard it first on Ear Biscuits, it just wasn't true at the time. And you know, she has, and the reason I asked the question about are you going to kill Miranda?
Starting point is 00:18:45 Is you never know how people feel about the thing that everybody loves about what they do. Yeah. And the thing that everyone has latched on. A lot of times it was like, well that wasn't even supposed to be the thing. Really what I want to do is this. And she is.
Starting point is 00:19:00 She's got a role in a musical. Broadway. Broadway musical. What is it, Waitress? That sounds right. Yeah. Congratulations, Colleen. She's gonna do a little run there, but that's been her dream forever, and she's not doing it as Miranda.
Starting point is 00:19:15 Nope, and she got pregnant and then had a baby. That's usually what happens after pregnancy. Yep. And then it was, so a little boy that's all what happens after pregnancy. Yep. And then it was, so a little boy that's all over Instagram. So I would like to say we broke that story. Can I say that? You can say that.
Starting point is 00:19:32 And you know, I think the thing about Colleen as well, I mean, going back to 2014, and I think this is pretty much the case with, I don't wanna get ahead of myself, but we don't have any examples of like, you remember when so and so was really popular and we interviewed them and now they're completely off the map?
Starting point is 00:19:49 We don't, I'm sure we could come up with examples of that. But we're not doing that because we're nice guys. But the way that her career has evolved and how she isn't as reliant on the YouTube game as she once was because, I mean, she's still doing very well. She had a Netflix show, she had a Netflix special that's out now. Well, and just her touring that she's done,
Starting point is 00:20:16 I mean, I'm sure that's gonna slow down or has slowed down because of the baby, but so much touring that was super successful and now getting these traditional roles. She's playing the worldwide game. She met her baby daddy on her Netflix show. She did. Yeah, because he was the love interest on the show.
Starting point is 00:20:40 That's why you gotta be careful who you cast. If you're an executive producer on your show, you gotta cast somebody that you wanna hook up with. Lesson learned. Make those babies. Casting. That's probably illegal. Like you can't, yeah, let's not get into that.
Starting point is 00:20:58 Yeah. Let's just say relationally. If you wanna get to know somebody, you could cast them. But let's just make it. Well I'm not making it anything. I'm not making it anything. So you can say I'm gonna make it. You don't say let's make it
Starting point is 00:21:11 because I didn't make it anything to begin with. Episode 29 released on April 18th, 2014. Troye Sivan and then we recorded this one at VidCon. So it may sound a little different. How many details can we get out of your secret project that you're working on that you mentioned at the beginning? Yeah, go. I'll say it's potentially the biggest thing
Starting point is 00:21:36 that I've ever done in my whole life, like work-wise. I've been working really, really, really hard on for like, I guess guess just under a year now there's going to be a big launch but you've written it it took a while to write maybe maybe I'm writing it now
Starting point is 00:21:56 can I see your palm yeah that's going to help me go ahead but okay yeah we've got the lifeline here taking a left. So it's a. Is that an actual thing? How old am I gonna be when I die?
Starting point is 00:22:10 It's an album. I can look at your palm and tell. It's a blockbuster album. And Rhett, you nailed it. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. He did not say, he didn't really respond to your prediction because he knew it was absolutely true. 100% true.
Starting point is 00:22:28 And the look on his face, which we did not, we did not have video that at the time was a, uh oh, yeah. You got me. Totally right. His first major label EP, T-R-Y-X-E. I don't know if you spell it out, if you say it, because I'm a dad, peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Had another album since then. He like shows up to perform with Taylor Swift. Yeah, he is in a different stratosphere. The music has kind of, the music thing's kind of worked. Kind of worked for Troy. And you know what? All because of you, Rhett. Because you know, up until that moment,
Starting point is 00:23:07 this is the thing I didn't want to say, it turns out that the thing that Troy was working on was not an album. It was a claymation movie and that he had spent a lot of time on. The claymation takes forever and when I said album, once the camera stopped rolling, once we stopped recording, he was like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:23:30 It's actually a claymation thing but now that you said album, I should probably do an album. And I haven't heard from Troy since. But that's pretty cool. I mean, as you, you know, I wanna talk about how what we think about this interview phase of Ear Biscuits, but let's just get through
Starting point is 00:23:50 a couple more of these interview clips. This next one, skipping forward to May 9th of 2014. This is episode 32 with a comedy duo known as Smosh. Is it Smosh? Smosh. Smosh. Okay as Smosh. Smosh. Okay, Smosh, yeah. You know, the overall plan for Smosh isn't just about
Starting point is 00:24:10 Ian and I. So our main focus isn't let's go do a movie, let's go be huge Hollywood hot shots or whatever. Let's grow the brand
Starting point is 00:24:18 and keep our comedy alive in as many different forms as we can. We have our gaming channel, we have a cartoon channel. We're trying to introduce new personalities that totally get our humor,
Starting point is 00:24:29 that we think our audience will like. They love all the Smosh Games guys now, and they love Mari. So those have been some personalities that we've introduced that totally get it. So more of that type of thing too. Other Smosh properties. Yeah, other people that we really love
Starting point is 00:24:47 that we know that our audience will totally get. Yeah, because we can't create 50 shows ourselves, but we can create other shows that other people make that our audience can enjoy just as much as they enjoy watching our shows. And I think that's cool. I guess I just need to say thanks for all that strategic development.
Starting point is 00:25:10 You know, they turned a corner at that point in terms of casting, you know, expanding the Smosh cast to include everyone that we know very well now because they work in our building. And then Anthony and Ian, they separated creatively. And if you listen back to that podcast, I think in hindsight, you can probably read into it maybe more than was actually there.
Starting point is 00:25:39 But that's a valid exercise if you wanna do it to see how, if you wanna over interpret some creative tension or just creative trajectories being kind of splitting up. And that was still pretty early, 2014. It would be another, what, four years? Before Anthony left. I mean, I don't know, if I would have known that we would have acquired Smosh and brought them in house
Starting point is 00:26:10 and given Ian the freedom with his team to continue to create as they have, I just don't know how I would feel doing that interview. It's like I'd probably be like, that's why I can't be a time traveler because I'd have this weird grin on my face. Be like, what's wrong with you, man? Well, I mean, we had no point of reference.
Starting point is 00:26:32 Absolutely no. I mean, I would say that up until the moment that it started to seem like it could happen, we had no point of reference for acquiring. You know what I'm saying? That wasn't really, it wasn't really on our minds. It wasn't part of the strategic plan. But yeah, because we've looked up to Smosh
Starting point is 00:26:56 for a really long time. You go back to the very beginning, probably when we started our YouTube channel, they had to be number one. It was either them or like Barats and Beretta. No, they were number one. Historically, they are in the top five, maybe the top three most subscribed channels on YouTube
Starting point is 00:27:18 in terms of like longevity, obviously. Holding that title for a very long time. Yeah, obviously PewDiePie is up at the top, which we also have an interview with him. We don't have a clip of talking with Felix, but. But you talked about the, another clip we're not gonna play, but I wanna talk about it,
Starting point is 00:27:36 because it is the Wasabi Brothers. We had the Wasabi Bros on. Yeah. And we actually, so whenever we have a duo on, we talk about their like- Creative dynamic, relational dynamic. All that stuff. And just to, you know, from one duo to another,
Starting point is 00:27:54 let's talk about that and how you work through things. And when we started asking those questions about how you work through things and differences, et cetera, with the Wasabi Bros, it became very evident to us, and you can go back and listen to that episode, that this didn't seem like something that was gonna last. And then I would say that within,
Starting point is 00:28:17 it was less than a year, might have been a few months, they announced that they were separating. Roy and Alex. Roy's gonna do a bunch of bathing and stuff. Yeah, they both got on to be very successful individually. It didn't seem like they had necessarily the commitment to be like this is us doing this together or bust. And that usually is required. And even when you do have that commitment,
Starting point is 00:28:45 sometimes it doesn't work out. Yeah, I think that was April 30th, 2018 when that finally came to an end. Now, like Link was saying, the majority of the episodes early on were these interviews because that was the, we probably have said this before, but we were really influenced by Marc Maron,
Starting point is 00:29:06 WTF podcast at the time, and that he was interviewing these traditional celebrities and getting into very personal things. And this wasn't something we had any experience with. Also, it's a little bit odd, there's an odd dynamic when two guys are interviewing one person typically on a personal level and so it's kind of like,
Starting point is 00:29:34 okay, this is an interesting dynamic, probably don't need two people to ask a question where 70, interview somebody where 75 to 80% of the content is gonna be the answers that this person is giving. I mean, there was some cool things that happened with us kind of bouncing things off of each other. There's two different perspectives applied to it. But we both have a lot to say.
Starting point is 00:29:57 You know what I'm saying? And so every once in a while, even back then, we would work in one of these episodes where it was just, hey, let's just talk to each other. But when we decided to do the podcast, we immediately went to the interview thing because there were so many people doing that, especially in the comedy world, like you said,
Starting point is 00:30:15 but no one was doing it in that deep, kind of introspective, analytical, raw way with YouTubers. deep, kind of introspective, analytical, raw way with YouTubers. So I was very excited about that in terms of, actually, I felt like it was like collecting YouTuber interviews as a time capsule. And I'm very proud of the interviews that we did because I do think it represented everyone's story
Starting point is 00:30:48 up until that point, how they got to that point and being so successful on YouTube. And I do think it's useful to still go back and see that. YouTube has changed so much that a lot of the success paths that they took are no longer viable paths, you know, because YouTube is a different thing, it works differently. Everything's different about everything. So, but I still think it's a time capsule, you know.
Starting point is 00:31:17 I know for the Felix interview, it was very obvious to us that he had never really, to the level that we were trying to get him to analyze his own success, really grappled with that. And it was a combination of somebody who was willing to ask those kinds of questions but also had the insight into what they were doing because it was what we were doing. It's the reason that Marc Maron's podcast works so well
Starting point is 00:31:40 is that he's talking to comedians and performers and he's a comedian and performer. Yeah, and so we, and I think it had to do with our age. Right. So well. He's talking to comedians and performers and he's a comedian and performer. Yeah, and so we, and I think it had to do with our age. You know, I think we were already old in terms of the ecosystem of YouTube. And so, and we had been doing it for a while. We knew a lot of these people and they respected us enough to say, yeah, we'll come in and talk to you.
Starting point is 00:32:01 And then it took on a life of its own because that's, a guest driven podcast works differently than a talent driven, I'm using the term talent loosely, where it's just like two guys who are gonna talk to each other every single, host driven. It works differently and it draws people in in a different way. So there were people who were coming into
Starting point is 00:32:23 an Ear Biscuits podcast because of the guest and we kind of relied on that for, you know, basically the entire first and second season. Yeah, but like you said, we would, well, and I do wanna add one thing. I do think that, there was a question in our minds, I think when we first came up with what Ear Biscuits was gonna be that, do people wanna hear us talk for an hour?
Starting point is 00:32:46 Do we wanna talk for an hour? We moved to the interview thing so quickly that I just wonder if we questioned whether what we're doing now, it's just the two of us, is something that would be viable, you know? I think we thought that we needed the name recognition of the guests to drive interest. But like you said, we, even in the midst of doing interviews,
Starting point is 00:33:12 we did pepper in some episodes that were just the two of us talking. And this next one, episode 42, released July 25th, 2014, called Obsession. We talked about your layers. Mm-hmm. Let's play a clip of that. Rhett goes through a series of obsessions like a fashion designer goes through new outfits.
Starting point is 00:33:36 These are semi-chronological order. Ultralights, chiropractic, crow hunting, wine pairings, fossils in geology, crown Victorias, barbecue, hot yoga, juicing, paddle boarding, four wheeling. Now that was edited. You don't speak that quickly. No, I move at the speed of conversation. That was the speed of an edit
Starting point is 00:34:00 because the list could have gone on and on. No, I think that was the list at the time and then we kind of unpacked the dynamic associated with it but I'm, what do you think when you hear that list? I think about, I'm like, oh yeah, mm-hmm, mm, yeah. What do you mean, mm? Yeah, that's good, that's good, ultralights, I gotta get back on that, Gotta get in one of those fossils.
Starting point is 00:34:25 Yeah, I just looked at my fossils yesterday. I did, I was rearranging some things and I looked at some of my fossils, I was like, hmm, yeah, I gotta get more of these fossils. Now you're adding on to the layers. I think that's the other way is that we can add to this list now, it's the other way to look at it.
Starting point is 00:34:42 Well, you know, I think about the, so the last two mentioned being paddle boarding and four wheeling, off-roading, whatever you call it. Yep. Are two that we did together. And I think the fact that we haven't done, we haven't gone on an off-roading trip in at least two years, I would say.
Starting point is 00:35:04 And we've paddle boarded once in the past six months maybe. Right. I think that it is indicative of a number of factors. I think it's due to a number of factors. One, professionally, oh you're going straight white t-shirt. I've taken my jacket off. Professionally, we, and we were just talking about this yesterday,
Starting point is 00:35:32 we're always as busy as we've ever been, right? Now we're not currently like in the middle of shooting, you know, a half hour comedy while trying to like work GMM into it at the same time. That's not currently happening. But there's just so many little things that we're kind of keeping up with that we've got less time when it comes to just, there's so many professional responsibilities,
Starting point is 00:35:56 but also our kids have gotten to an age where they always have stuff going on that you have to be a part of. So let's blame it on the kids. Are you saying you, I agree with that. No, I'm saying that I'm not blaming the kids. I agree. I'm saying there's things like.
Starting point is 00:36:14 They have so much to do and you got two of them, I got three of them and it's like. I don't make, I do not make weekend plans anymore. I mean, I'll make weekend plans like way in advance, like okay, I'm gonna go someplace for my anniversary or whatever. But I know that it's like, well, Locke's gonna have a basketball game
Starting point is 00:36:33 or he's gonna have some practice on the other side of town, Shepherd's gonna have a birthday party or he's gonna have to go to this golf practice or whatever. And it's just a given that at this stage in their lives, they are going to have these things that they have to do. And you combine that with the fact that there's just so much to like, and even when we do go do things like paddle boarding,
Starting point is 00:36:56 we, the last time we went paddle boarding, we turned it into like a day of brainstorming. We, it was like, hey, let's go get out in the ocean and then let's go and sit down and brainstorm a bunch of brainstorming. It was like, hey, let's go get out in the ocean and then let's go and sit down and brainstorm a bunch of ideas. Ideas that we're actually currently working on in one form or another. But are you saying you don't have any layers?
Starting point is 00:37:14 Your life is such that you can no longer have an obsession? I think that. I thought the, I mean, the lights in the house were kind of an obsession, but it's, it's more of an installation. I would say that that is a, you know. I would say home stuff is an obsession for both of us. I would say the most recent layer
Starting point is 00:37:37 is just reading horror novels. I think that, you know. That's one you can fit in. Getting, you know, writing the novel, looking for some inspiration, and then continuing to think about where we could go with that story. You know, I'd say that's the latest thing
Starting point is 00:37:59 is I'm consuming a lot of thriller slash horror novels, but in terms of things that require buying equipment, and I anticipate getting more back into the art of barbecue when we redo the outside and I've got my eye on this grill that I want or whatever, but it's not like, you know, the last I like smoked a pork butt for a large group of people. Again, I gotta plan it, I gotta get ready the night before,
Starting point is 00:38:32 I gotta spend six to eight hours on the day of like. But at least you're at home, so that's doable and you can still be a dad. No, but I can't sit there with a piece of pork if I gotta go to a basketball game or take somebody to a birthday party. Yeah, that's true. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:38:46 You gotta plan these things. I mean, those episodes where we would just talk, the two of us, and kind of share stories or talk about our songwriting process or specific dynamics of our friendship, I think we're rays of light of shining a way to where Ear Biscuits could ultimately evolve. And we were getting good feedback on those as well
Starting point is 00:39:10 from you guys. And I think that you had a mounting frustration with the interviews, more so than me, which is totally fine. And I think it got to a point where it was like, I was a little later kind of making that transition, but ultimately we both got to the point where we didn't really have an appetite
Starting point is 00:39:35 for these in-depth interviews. I mean, especially when our appetite for having more conversations started to grow, we can get into that a little bit more later, but I think as far as the waning interest in interviews, part of it was practical. You're subject to these people, guests showing up, having to be booked, having to pick people.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Are they the right kind of candidate? Do we wanna talk with them? Do we have things to say? It was a whole thing that was very- Well, and for me personally, I was, there were some guests that I was personally less motivated to talk to. I was personally less interested in their career.
Starting point is 00:40:17 I mean, just being frank about it. I respected everybody and I learned a lot. I would talk, we would sometimes have people and I was like, I really don't know anything about what you do, but I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take, you know, we would have like a research period, so we're like, we wanted to ask informed questions
Starting point is 00:40:34 and we wanted to know what we were talking about. And so there would be time that would go into learning about them and watching their videos and then coming up with some, you with some semi-intelligent questions. And that process became a little more like homework to me about a subject that I wasn't interested in. And I think that just for me, and I think you couple that with the fact that, like I said,
Starting point is 00:41:02 we both have a lot to say. Like we can fill a conversation very, very easily, both of us. Both of us individually have enough conversation in the tank to talk to one person. When you all of a sudden you got the two of us and sometimes there was this like, and I think you had more of a tendency to do this,
Starting point is 00:41:26 to be like, you had this very specific, and we wouldn't talk about it. You had a very specific way that you wanted to conduct the interview and a specific line of questioning. And so there would be like maybe a 40 minute period in a podcast where I might just say like, yeah. And you know me, that's not my jam. And so that was frustrating for me.
Starting point is 00:41:50 Yeah. Cause I was like, let's just talk, man. We got plenty to say. Yeah. You know what I think I'm realizing, or at least remembering, one of the things that really changed for me in terms of my appetite for wanting to switch the show
Starting point is 00:42:08 and make it more about us, I had this mounting guilt, maybe guilt's a strong word, but I just, I had a mounting discomfort over the course of a couple of years of doing the interviews because I would make it a practice to push so hard to get to something juicy, to get to something meaningful and introspective and new.
Starting point is 00:42:37 You know, I took it as a personal challenge to get past what they would talk about on other interviews and really understand not only how they became successful, but what made them tick. If they went through any hardship, it felt important to me to give them an opportunity to talk about that because I just felt like that's an important aspect that a lot of people didn't see.
Starting point is 00:43:06 They see the success, they see the smiles, in between, you know, jump cut together, but they don't see in between the jump cuts. And, you know, I really wanted to give people an opportunity to analyze that aspect of their own selves. And I did push kind of hard. to analyze that aspect of their own selves. And I did push kind of hard. I asked awkward questions. And that's actually not what bothered me.
Starting point is 00:43:36 I think the mounting discomfort was- We weren't doing that. We weren't doing that. We weren't sharing. I think we started talking about it. So I felt like if someone would have done to me what I did to them in the line of questioning that I presented, I would have been very uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:43:53 And I didn't feel like that was fair. I still don't feel like that was totally fair. But I'm glad that this venue and this table has evolved to be a space where we can process who we are in a way that I was trying to get other people to do. And I think that, I definitely recall people commenting about that. Like you guys will get so much personal stuff from a guest
Starting point is 00:44:29 but we don't know a lot about you personally. Right, I'll play a clip. I didn't mean to cut you off, you can finish your thought. That was all I was gonna say. So episode 91, actually we called it Let's Get Personal released on April 24th, 2017. Speaking of Lily, we took her in for just an annual checkup. They had concerns, sent her to a specialist,
Starting point is 00:44:49 and then to make a very long story short, she was diagnosed with severe scoliosis. We get the x-ray, we look at this thing, and her back is like an S. When we get in with the specialist, basically the first thing he told us was, these are where her curves are, this is what this means, these are the facts, this is what research has taught us,
Starting point is 00:45:09 therefore we're recommending spinal fusion surgery for Lily. We left the doctor's office, we went out, we got in the van, and it was like the three of us, and we talked about it some more, and we cried. You know, all three of us cried. Of course, it was and it is very scary. Yeah, so that was, you know, all three of us cried. Of course it was and it is very scary. Yeah, so that was, I believe, before she went in for surgery and then episode 95, the world's longest treasure hunt,
Starting point is 00:45:36 where Kevin came on and told us about that. Totally different format, we tried for a little bit. As part of the intro, I gave an update on Lily's recovery. We told her, you're back straight, and she started crying. The surgery went exactly how we hoped. I mean, it went off without a hitch. It came full circle when we got in the minivan again,
Starting point is 00:45:59 leaving the hospital for the first time, and we all looked at each other, and Lily was like, we did it. Now she's at home recovering. She's doing great. But the fact that they went in there and they put two metal rods that they custom bent, they like smushed her spine to be back, no longer in an S,
Starting point is 00:46:21 and then they attached those rods using titanium screws, huge screws, into her vertebrae. You know how many people. And then six weeks after that, she's like fully recovered basically. Here's the thing, what? You get a little insight into, let's do, somebody do a montage of me trying
Starting point is 00:46:44 to say something to insert something into a Link story. Kiki, you do that. I thought you were talking to Kiko. I was like, why'd you call Kiko Kiki? But I understand now. Kiki, not Kiko Kiki. Maybe that goes both ways.
Starting point is 00:47:00 I don't know. That's a good analysis. So that was after we had made the decision, this was well into us making the decision for the show to just be the two of us. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't remember exactly when that was. But yeah, we were very,
Starting point is 00:47:20 well we started saying that the thing that's gonna drive the majority of. March of 2017 is when we started. Okay so this is very soon after that. Because we were like let's use. No more interviews. The thing, you know, the stuff that happens to us is going to be the majority of the fuel
Starting point is 00:47:39 for the conversations that we have. Right. And you know, we've talked about this, many people have made the same observation that some of the personal stories that used to be the backbone, were definitely the backbone of Good Morning Chia Link and the predecessor to GMM,
Starting point is 00:47:55 and then the early stages of Good Mythical Morning, very much driven by us having conversations together. That's where let's talk about that and moving at the speed of conversation. A lot of that was actually originally GMM mode. And of course, for reasons that most of you probably understand, GMM has necessarily taken on a different tone and a different angle
Starting point is 00:48:18 and that's why it's in its 16th, it's about to be in its 16th season because we made that change. And then we took that spirit and we moved it to Ear Biscuits. And I think that that was, even from like a personal health standpoint, was a very important transition. You know, because GMM is like a playground
Starting point is 00:48:46 for our personalities in which we do things that grown men probably shouldn't do or if they're gonna do it, you might as well watch them do it. And we have fun, but it's not about being personal and it's any more than just, hey, this is us realistically reacting to something in the moment and kind of having two best friends having a good time,
Starting point is 00:49:09 but it's not two best friends sort of pulling back the layers of their lives. That's not what GMM is and GMM's not ever gonna be that again, but we do have this place that. And GMM was never. It was never that. It was never a venue to be as introspective or everything we did was for the effect of entertainment.
Starting point is 00:49:30 Like we would tell personal stories. Funny stories. We would tell the funny stories. And I don't know how much we talked about Ear Biscuits becoming a place where I think the assumption was, hey, we can share some funny stories when they happen, at least at the top of an episode before we get into something topical,
Starting point is 00:49:48 which we still do on many of these episodes. We kind of use that format when we're trying to figure out what we're gonna make an episode about. But then we also expanded it to whatever's going on. You know, when the thing with Lily happened, that might have been one of the first things that was like, you know what? I think I wanna talk about this.
Starting point is 00:50:06 And it was, at the beginning of the first Lily clip, it was like, speaking of Lily, and then I talked about what was going on, but it wasn't the entire episode, and then for the Kevin thing, it was like, hey, since I talked about Lily, I wanna give you an update, you know, on that subsequent clip we played.
Starting point is 00:50:27 Right. But it was, it felt good to be able to share and for us to process as friends, something that was such a big part of my life, you know? And that's when I felt like that level of honesty and introspection was rewarding. I think it, just for us to be able to talk about it, even without even knowing how a listener will respond to it,
Starting point is 00:50:56 and maybe that's part of what you're saying, like the more that we're able to have those type of conversations, it's difficult, you know, for us to find the time to have those type of conversations. It's difficult for us to find the time to have the conversations where we're sharing things about our experience. When the shit hits the fan, we absolutely talk about things. We don't wait to do that on the podcast.
Starting point is 00:51:19 That would be ridiculous. So I'm not saying that. It wasn't like, for instance, it wasn't like I didn't know the update with Lily, but I might not know what you did like on your vacation, that was the funny story that you're gonna tell about your RV trying to get out of the driveway. Well, you're not gonna tell that to me.
Starting point is 00:51:38 In the same way. You don't need to, you can wait, that can wait for the podcast. And that's the good morning Chia Lincoln part of it was, I'm gonna tell you this funny story about the RV. We should put that on the internet too, two for one. But then we're both gonna talk about what these vacations mean to us as humans,
Starting point is 00:51:56 husbands, fathers, you know, pet owners, you know, all of those things. So the show started to, not, well it evolved, but it started to morph a little bit. And I should just give a quick update on Lily since we've talked about her. You know, it's been over two years. We celebrated the two year anniversary of her surgery
Starting point is 00:52:18 and she had been roller skating recently and somebody came up and clipped her from behind and knocked her on her butt and then she like fell on her back and like it was the first time that we were actually scared. And everything just popped out? Yeah, her whole spine just kind of. Like Mortal Kombat.
Starting point is 00:52:36 No, she had some bruised ribs but nothing, it just so happened that her annual checkup for with the spine doctor was within the week. And it just so happened that her annual checkup for with the spine doctor was within the week. So that put our minds at rest when they did the x-ray and said, you know what, everything is totally fine. It's all metal infused. After two years.
Starting point is 00:52:57 Stronger than a normal spine. Well, the screws that they use to put the rods in, by this point in time, it's like, it's totally become one. Right, it's all grown together. So actually, in the first year or so, there is a chance. Of Mortal Kombat. No, of the screws getting loose.
Starting point is 00:53:15 Right. And them having to do something. So we've passed that milestone, her number of checkups are going down to where they don't have to be every year anymore. So it was a miraculous surgery and we're grateful for it. She's doing fabulous and she has no physical restrictions. And she has this scar that still she wears
Starting point is 00:53:39 as a badge of honor and you know, it's like when she has one of the shorter shirts that these girls are wearing now where it's like you can see the belt. I wouldn't call it a midriff, but if you bend over, you can see a little bit of the scar and it's like I'm proud every time I see it and I'm proud that she's fine
Starting point is 00:53:56 like with her bathing suit on, hanging out with her friends. It's like it's not anything she's embarrassed about and she's had many conversations over the past two years with other people who are faced with the same surgery or a similar condition and she's able to see how her experience can enrich the lives of other people and give them support.
Starting point is 00:54:20 So it was scary, it was life changing for all of us and it continues to be. And yeah, I think I have a, like I have a personal, I'm annoyed by like sentimentality porn, okay? I'll use the, for lack of a better word, meaning I'm going to say something sentimental or I'm gonna do something,
Starting point is 00:54:49 or I'm gonna share something sentimental because I know that it will affect the audience in a certain way and it's manipulation. You know, it's a manipulation thing. And so I think that there are, there are definitely like, when you talk about like vlogging, personal vlogs, that there are definitely, when you talk about vlogging, personal vlogs, where people are like, I've made a decision
Starting point is 00:55:09 that I'm gonna share my life with you, I think you get into a place where you start hoping that you're going to experience things that then will make deep, moving material that just grows your audience, right? And I just wanna be clear that that's not what we do on Ear Biscuits. I think that's probably clear.
Starting point is 00:55:32 But that's one of the reasons that we don't only format the show to be about personal things. Because if we said it's always personal, every single time, it's gonna be about what's going on in our lives, then you begin to script your life for the sake of the content that you're creating. Yeah. I think that's one of the reasons that,
Starting point is 00:55:52 and I don't have anything against people who have daily vlogs or family vlogs, but I would be lying to you if I didn't say that almost all of them without exception annoy me. And sort of, I think one of the things that annoys me about it is it's just like your family has become a show. And at that point, you begin to make decisions
Starting point is 00:56:17 where the content is driving the way you live your life as opposed to the way you live your life just being the content. Listen, I understand, I can only imagine what it would feel like to be in that kind of cycle. And I'm glad that I'm not in that cycle. But with Ear Biscuits, it's like, if something happens, you know, and I think that, you know,
Starting point is 00:56:40 just statistically or circumstantially, whatever, you know, you've kind of had, you know, I haven't had the situation happen with, I haven't had that happen with my kid. I haven't had a medical situation with my kid. I haven't had a close relative die like your grandfather died. I haven't had my mom's husband,
Starting point is 00:56:58 who incidentally is my dad, you know, hasn't been through a difficult time in the hospital. So Link has shared a lot of those things. And so I'm not saying that Link is doing sentimentality porn. I'm just saying that as things happen, if we feel that they're appropriate, we're gonna talk about them
Starting point is 00:57:15 and we're gonna process them together because we're purposely choosing to format the episodes in a way that gives us the ability to share personal things, but doesn't make the point of a podcast to be sharing personal things. At which point, I feel like we would be hoping that things would happen or sensationalizing things that are happening to us for your entertainment.
Starting point is 00:57:40 And again, this is a business. We do this in part so that we can get money from sponsors, that we can grow our business at Mythical Entertainment. I mean, that we would be dishonest if we didn't, if we weren't transparent about that. But I think more than that, it has become a place for us to process the things that we are experiencing.
Starting point is 00:58:04 And also, you know, just be like, hey, we're gonna be open about our lives. We're gonna be open about what it's like to be, to run a business, to be a best friend, to be a husband, to be a father. As these things happen to us, we're gonna try to accurately portray them and just share our experience.
Starting point is 00:58:23 And I've really tried to understand what my personal boundaries are for sharing and what the objective of that is. And I will say, I will also acknowledge that, yes, you haven't had things happen in your life since we've been sharing this type of stuff on Ear Biscuits that have had this like headline material sensational type thing like the stuff that you listed
Starting point is 00:58:49 that I've shared about. But that's not to say, I mean, I couldn't have predicted that I would have been sharing those things. If you would have told me, I would have said, I can believe you, but I don't know how we'll get there. I don't know that you would have predicted that you will be sharing openly about therapy
Starting point is 00:59:08 and the things that you're learning. But I think that it's, you know, to your credit, I think it's, you're also doing that. I mean, we're honestly processing our lives and that's what this show has become. It's processing our lives and our perspectives and but I 100% agree that it's not with an obligation to overshare, especially to the point
Starting point is 00:59:33 of sensationalizing things or hoping that something sensational happens. Right. But in terms of my boundary, I just, even though we've done episodes where they were advice themed, I never want to turn my personal experience back at the audience as advice.
Starting point is 00:59:51 You know, I just wanna honestly process and then, you know, if I'm honest, then you as a listener can take whatever is valuable to you. That's up to you. But it's, I try to be disciplined to not turn my experience into advice for somebody else, even though I do like giving advice and I like feeling like I'm right about stuff.
Starting point is 01:00:20 But I'm very grateful with the way that Ear Biscuits has expanded. I think that, again, this is not the primary venue for us to have the deepest conversations that we have, but it's that middle ground of conversation, being able to tell the story for comedic effect and us to experience that together is really fun. That's really great for our relationship.
Starting point is 01:00:49 And also, when we get into the introspective aspects of, I told you the RV story, yeah, that was funny, but then we're gonna talk about our vacations. And I think we do get at things that, it's that middle ground of conversation that's kinda like you find yourself being introspective at a point where we probably would have just moved on to working otherwise.
Starting point is 01:01:11 Right. So I do think that I'm very happy with where Ear Biscuits is for that reason. And then I'll say secondarily, I've been very encouraged, And then I'll say, secondarily, I've been very encouraged, pleasantly surprised that the more that we have been honest about our perspectives and our experiences, that listeners have related to it and that they've, that it's helped them in some way, you know?
Starting point is 01:01:44 And yeah, it's been one of the most encouraging things from people that we meet on tour. Yeah. And you know, of course, there's lots of people who are like the bright spot that GMM represents in my day has been transformative for me emotionally and again, we'd never intended that but the fact that that's a reality
Starting point is 01:02:04 is just something that blows us away. But I think that when somebody says Ear Biscuits has, I just, you know, this particular thing that you talked about changed the way that I approached this thing or thought about this thing in my life. Again, not from a hey, we're giving you advice. Usually the advice that we give is for some stupid situation
Starting point is 01:02:29 and for the sake of entertainment. But just, you know, when you hear somebody talk about something that there's a touch point in your life and you're seeing how they're navigating it, it's just, that's just how humans relate to each other. You know, it's not like, hey, look at me and do what we did, but it's just like, hey, I'm just gonna share honestly about this.
Starting point is 01:02:51 I mean, any relationship, and I do think that it's not just the relationship that we have with each other, it's the relationship that we have with you listening. Anytime that you're just open about something that's going on, that enhances, there's the opportunity for that to enhance your life.
Starting point is 01:03:09 And that's something, that's a responsibility, I think, that we didn't design the show to ever have, but I think it does now. And so we think about that. You know, when we're sharing something that we're going through, I think we're very, very much aware that there are individuals out there
Starting point is 01:03:27 who are going through something very similar, potentially, or will go through something similar. And if that can improve their experience, then that alone makes this whole thing worth it. And from a content standpoint, just to get a little more practical, I'm very encouraged when I see, well my heart sinks a little bit when I look at the,
Starting point is 01:03:50 if I see the Good Mythical Morning or the Rhett and Link Reddit thread and like a new entry will pop up where somebody says, I miss the old Good Mythical Morning or this is what I don't like about Good Mythical Morning or I miss Good Morning Chee and Lincoln and then inevitably the conversation very quickly turns to it sounds like Ear Biscuits is perfect for you, you know?
Starting point is 01:04:17 So I'm, it's funny that I don't know how much we talked about it and I don't know how intentional it was but as Good Mythical Morning has evolved, then Ear Biscuits also evolved to fill a desire for something that no longer is the chief dynamic of that show, which is just unstructured conversation that gets to personal stories that are funny.
Starting point is 01:04:47 And as we've discussed, it goes a lot further than that. So I'm glad to be 200 episodes into something that we didn't get complacent, but we continued to want to express ourselves creatively and to find a way to be engaged. we continue to want to express ourselves creatively and to find a way to be engaged. Because I think that anything that- And then this is what happened. You anticipate going for an extended period of time.
Starting point is 01:05:17 As a performer, if you're creating a product that does require you to perform on some level, this is, I mean, believe it or not, we are performing in one sense because we're not just talking to each other, we're having a conversation in this context where you're listening. Anytime you can transform that into something
Starting point is 01:05:41 that does not feel like a burden, I think you're in a good place. And not only does this not feel like a burden, but this feels like an outlet for us. Yeah. You know, and I gotta be honest, with the interviews, they began to feel like a burden. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:00 When I looked at my schedule back in the day, it was like, oh, you gotta do an Ear Biscuit and you're not prepared for that person. It felt like, ah, you gotta test. But when I see you've got an Ear Biscuit today on the schedule, and even if I haven't prepared for it, I'm like, ah, that's something I look forward to doing. It's a creative outlet.
Starting point is 01:06:21 It's a mental outlet, it's an emotional outlet. It's a lot outlet, it's a mental outlet, it's an emotional outlet, it's a lot of things for us and so yeah, I'm grateful for what it is for us and I'm grateful for what it is for you listening and I just wanna thank you for listening. At what point you started listening, that's fine. Maybe you don't wanna go back and listen to all of them, that's also fine. What's most important is that you're here
Starting point is 01:06:46 and that you enjoy hanging out with us, putting us in your ears. Thank you for sharing Ear Biscuits with other people. Yeah, anybody that you know that what this show has become, if you think that they would connect with it, don't be afraid to tell them about it. So what will the next 200 episodes hold? We don't have time to get into that now.
Starting point is 01:07:09 Maybe we will at another point, unless you wanna make a quick Troye Sivan prediction. Episode 400, what will it be saying? Well let me look at your palm. Oh, you sure you wanna know? Not if that means you really have to come up with something that's gonna be underwhelming. Well. If you got something good, yes.
Starting point is 01:07:29 If you don't, let's just keep it a mystery. Okay, well let's keep it a mystery. We'll keep it a mystery. But I do have a quick wreck in effect I'm gonna leave you with. This is one that Link has a little insight into because I shared this wreck with him yesterday. And I shared this wreck not so much as a pure recommendation
Starting point is 01:07:48 that I'm going all in on this because I have questions about this rec that I want you to explore with me, okay? Now you may know, we've talked about this before, Primitive Technology, one of our favorite YouTube channels, this guy somewhere in Australia who does all this stuff with Stone Age tools, never talks, there's no music, he never looks at the camera,
Starting point is 01:08:11 and he just builds stuff and it's amazing. Well, as you might expect, he essentially created a genre of YouTube videos and now there are other people following suit and doing the same thing. There is a guy, I'm gonna say this wrong, but his channel is Mr. Hyung Update. And I believe it's Mr. H-A-U-N-G.
Starting point is 01:08:35 No, H-E-A-N-G. There's no U. Hyung, I think. But there's no space after the period in Mr. either, at least on the YouTube channel. Mr. Hyung update. And he's got a bunch of videos. There's two from the past couple months
Starting point is 01:08:55 that he built this underground, well, this is the confusing thing. Link and I watched both videos. Using a stick, he dug into a huge pit and it's like this incredible dwelling. He made a submerged dwelling. That has a pool in it. In the bottom of it, there is a pool.
Starting point is 01:09:16 And he did one video, like a 15 minute long video where he does this and it's awesome. And then he did a second video which included footage from the same exact video, was released around the same time And then he did a second video which included footage from the same exact video, was released around the same time, but then he put a roof on it. Yeah, and made it where you couldn't see it at all. It was like it wasn't even there.
Starting point is 01:09:33 It's at, regardless of the nature of how this all happens, it is amazing and you should watch that. But the assignment and the question is what? The assignment is between those two videos, like what was, I don't understand why he decided to do one with a roof and one without a roof, release them around the same time and include footage of both things,
Starting point is 01:09:54 but also if you go and look at other things, I feel like with primitive technology, every single thing that he does is documented and you know that he didn't get any help. My question about Mr. Hyung is, is he really doing all this himself? I want to believe, I want to believe he's doing it all himself, but I have my suspicions
Starting point is 01:10:16 because first of all, we know he has a cameraman because the camera moves when he's in the- Don't give him the answers, let him look into it. Primitive technology doesn't seem to have a cameraman, but there's also many steps in Mr. Hyeong's process that you don't see. That's the Reckon Effect. I also highly recommend it.
Starting point is 01:10:31 And thank you for celebrating 200 episodes, y'all. Hashtag Ear Biscuits, let us know what you think of the evolution of Ear Biscuits. We'll talk at you next week.

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