Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 200: Evolve or Die: 200th Episode Special | Ear Biscuits Ep. 200
Episode Date: July 1, 2019To 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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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!
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.
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,
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
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.
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?
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
Well, we haven't listened to these clips together.
We'll do that.
We'll go on a joy ride back through Ear Biscuits.
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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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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—
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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,
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?
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
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
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
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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
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,
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?
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
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
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,
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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
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.
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,
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
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,
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
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
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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,
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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.