Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Do We Remember Our Roots? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 424

Episode Date: April 29, 2024

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This, this, this, this is Mythical. How you start conversations. You can now make the first move or not. With opening moves, you simply choose a question to be automatically sent to your matches. Then sit back and let your matches start the chat. Download Bumble and try it for yourself. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for too long. I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the round table of them lighting, we're hearing about how you occupied yourself while I was occupying myself away. That's right.

And it's, you know, last week we talked about your spring break. And I had my own working spring break. Yes. Let's be real. a working lunch while the cat's away um and that's when i recorded my illustrious jenna podcast yeah which uh you know jenna people love it people have been loving your your podcast people are now Oh, it's my podcast. Yeah, that was your episode. All about Jenna's SoCal Challenge. Everybody's doing that now. Everybody's doing it thanks to Jenna. Getting in the ocean, getting in the snow, getting in the desert.

You got to work your way up to that now. Get in all the things. But then the week after you got back, which we didn't talk about last week, what you might have alluded to a little bit was that we met up in North Carolina. Oh, hell yeah, we did. And... Worked. We did some...

We worked it so hard. We filmed the dream, baby. Man, I... We had dreamed up some stuff. You know... So excited. I just want to give you a little touch point here. We're still not telling you the name of our new series.

We should do that soon, though. On the Rhett and Link channel, but it is coming out in August, and we shot principal photography for two different episodes back in North Carolina. One in our old stomping grounds and one in slightly different locations. I'm so excited about it.

I'm feeling so good. I've been telling all my family and friends who I can like divulge some of the details, I kind of tell them, okay, well, this is what happens in this one, and this is what happens in this one, and this is what we shot, and this is what happened. And I just, and also while we're doing it, I just, I'm so excited.

I'm so excited about what's happening as we're making this show. Yeah. My experience is this tension between, like, caring about it so much that a lot, you know, it's not like shooting a scripted television series or a movie where it's like, as long as we can make our days and, you know, everything's planned out right, then we know we're going to get it. Like the way that we're approaching this show is that there's so many question marks, so many open ended places in our outlines that are like dot, dot, dot. Hopefully this will will happen but maybe something different will happen and then we have to kind of roll with it and so when we're actually filming lots of times there's a huge question mark

of like what is actually going to happen we know what we wish will happen, but this is not all under our control. So there's that kind of, there's a tension of being, you know, on edge about that, making sure we've got it. But then also the flip side is this is what we've planned out and what we've like been so excited about and we're actually doing it. So I want to make sure that I'm enjoying it and saying, oh yeah, this is it, we are doing it. Yeah, and that's a really difficult thing for me to do is to enjoy the process. But I've noted either because I'm a little healthier

than I have been in the past, like mentally, in terms of my perspective. Yeah. Or just because it is what it is and we're making something that is exactly what we want to make. I don't know. I found myself having this sense of satisfaction.

And also the unpredictability, the things that are outside of our control in each step of this, the thing that hit me with those three days that we shot is that at the end of each day, especially the second and the third day, which where we were like kind of shooting the ends of two different episodes,

getting to the end of the day and being like, we got it, we got what we wanted to get, just fills me with this incredible feeling. It's a relief, then it's an excitement. Like, wow, this is actually gonna be a thing. Well, in that sense of, this is the case whether it's scripted, and you know, again, it's a little bit of a hybrid,

but whether it's scripted or not scripted, whatever we're shooting, and whether it's what we're shooting now, what we've shot in the past, there is always this sense of, I kind of just have to trust the process and trust the vision, because you do tend to get lost in the moment.

But it is those moments when I think about the pieces of like, say one of the episodes that we shot there, the episode we shot on the second day, first and second day. Yeah. In my mind, I see all the pieces of that episode coming together and then I'm like, what would I think if I was just a person watching this?

I would be delighted at the things that occurred. It's gonna be delightful. You know what I'm saying? And that's all we can do. Just wait until August. Is it gonna come together in the way that we want it to? I mean, you never know. I don't know.

I've never watched, I've never, can you name one time in the history of our career that you watched the first edit of anything and felt great. I always feel like I never feel great about the first edit. And so I just have emotionally prepared myself for, like, there's the vision, then there's what you make, and then there's working your way through it in post to get to the final product, and it's just... But we're not to that point.

It's an emotional roller coaster. But the thing that we experienced is we were back in Harnett County. Harnett County, boys, back in Harnett County. And everywhere we go, there's somebody who recognizes us. Oh, you're the hometown boys. You're those guys who are front. You know, even if you don't really understand what we do. Yeah.

You know, I went in a, Lillington's got a new coffee shop. And, you know, I stayed with mom. Oh, and I'll tell you about, like, my mom and my mother-in-law are now here. Yeah, I got to hear about this. So I got to tell you about that and that flight. But I was like, Mom, before we go visit Nana, I got to get a coffee. And there's been one drive-through place in Lillington. Yeah, the old gas station.

Well, yeah, and she said, well, there's another place now. The old photography place is now a coffee shop, and they got a nice coffee shop there, Front Street Coffee Shop, right there in Lillington. Let me tell you, shout out to Front Street Coffee. I went in there just like I had my hat and I had my sunglasses on, and I needed to get to Nana's, so I was just going to get a coffee, and I was like, I don't see anybody that I went

to grade school, high school, or that taught me anywhere. And it's like everywhere I turn, especially in Lillington, it's like, I taught you in preschool. Yeah. You know, kind of a thing. Right. Or. My cousin.

Sister. Yeah. Is dated your ex-girlfriend, and now their child wants to get on a video chat with you. So, yeah, I ordered my... I mean, I ordered an iced oat milk latte with a little bit of lavender. In Lillington, homie! Yeah. That's become your drink now. Oat milk latte with lavender. Well, don't criticize it. My point is... I feel like you need a name for it.

It was available in the county seat of Harnett. The Linconder. Okay, yeah. And in this coffee shop, I mean, Lillington has really made it. There were two booths. What's the decor like? Coffee shop. But there were these two booths. I ordered my drink, and then I kind of walked around

because I wanted to look at how advanced is this coffee shop? You looked at the plumbing? Is it rural, or is it urban out here? And they had two booths. And the people were sitting there. It was like a little table, and then people were facing each other in this booth. But it was behind glass doors.

You could have a completely private conversation. And they were tall glass doors. I could see them from foot to head. It's a privacy booth? It's a, two privacy booths in there where you can have your coffee with your friend, with your confidant, and then you can confess things. I've never seen this at any coffee shop.

Yes, yes. But what's the angle here? The future is now in Lillington. So it's like those little pods that you can put into like an office. It's like what we were talking about doing here, which is like, we have like this big bullpen area. So everybody's out there, you know,

hearing each other's phone conversations. Create some privacy pods. Yeah, create some privacy pods. They had privacy booths in the coffee shop. This is strange to me. Like I'm excited about it, but I'm also perplexed. Yeah. There were people in them?

There were people in them. What, was one of them crying? Was somebody breaking up in one of them? No. Was a priest in either one? The priest was not in either one of them. Hmm. But I-

Wow. But I did say, okay, I think one of these women in here goes to my Nana's church. But you didn't know because you couldn't hear her. I think her son is a contemporary of ours. Contemporary. So I'm going to get my coffee. I'm going to get out of here.

So they came out, and I went out another way, and then they met me. You went out the back door? I went out the front. I came in the side door, and I went out the front door because I needed to get to Nana's. They got two doors. And then they come me. You went out the back door? I went out the front, I came in the side door and I went out the front door cause I needed to get to Nana's. They got two doors. And then they come out and they're like, are you?

And I'm like, I am. And they're like, well, I work at this beauty shop down here and I just, and one of the girls who works there just watches you every day. I got you, I need you to go down there. Oh, she wants you to go down. And then the other woman said, and when you see your mama, will you tell her that so-and-so says hello?

I was like, well, she's in the car right out here. You can go talk to her while I go in the beauty parlor. And here I go in the beauty parlor. Oh, man of the people. Making a, you know, yeah, I can run for office. I mean, they have privacy booths at the coffee shop now. I don't know if you'd want to do that. I think I could go back home now.

That's what I've been waiting on. I made an appearance at the Lillington Beauty Parlor. Okay, all right. But if you wanna win the office you're running for in Harnett County, when you go to the coffee shop, don't get an oat milk latte with lavender. I'm just saying, if you wanna win. They had it, man!

No, it's great, it's a great choice for you, but I'm saying... I'm not running for office. It's not a political choice. Not a great political choice. And when we were together, of course, even more so, there's this thing... I mean, but we were out in the middle... I'm gonna tell this story. Out in the middle of nowhere, Harnett County. Oh, that story, yeah. Yes. We needed to get a drone shot.

So... Spoiler! Spoiler We needed to get a drone shot. Spoiler. Spoiler alert. There's a drone. Our new show has at least one drone shot, so buckle up for that. Drone shots are like the privacy booth of the film industry. It's like the coffee shop privacy booth of filmmaking. That's a great analogy. Right? And we pulled up. That's a great analogy. Right?

And we pulled up. I don't know how. We pulled up into the parking lot of Pleasant Union Baptist Church, is that what it is? We were just looking for a country road to shoot a nice drone shot, and then we like. Well, and they have a, their parking lot is interesting because they've somehow got parking on the road

that like, you know what I'm saying? Like you're on the road and you just pull, like you don't enter the parking lot. It's like the parking spaces are perpendicular to the road. Yeah, when you back out, you're backing out. And so we kind of like parked perpendicular to the parking spaces. Nobody was there.

We had two SUVs and another vehicle. We have three vehicles. Right. That we're using. One might call it a caravan. And have three vehicles. Right. That we're using. One might call it a caravan. And so we all parked there. And I was thinking, because this happened a couple of times during that shoot,

like when we pulled up to a place, people start asking questions. People drive by and they're like, what are these two SUVs? What are these vehicles doing? Because I don't know what's happening. Oh, and then they come out and there's a- And then the people who come out look different.

Like when they ambushed me at the coffee shop by meeting me and saying, hey, hey, hey. And I turned around and they were like, the first thing they said was, we looked at you and could tell that you're not from around here. And I'm like, oh yeah, I actually am from around here. And then they said they knew who I was,

but like, that was the first thing. And I was like, what about me? I mean. What about you? She looks like you're not from around there. Have you taken the mirror? Everything, I guess. So yeah, so we pull up there and the drone,

they went like a hundred yards down the street, down the road, not a street, in order to set up the drone shot. And it took them a while. And while they're doing that, we're just sitting back in the vehicle, just waiting, and a car pulls up, and a woman gets out. Another car pulls up, woman gets out. They're having some sort of event. Turns out this is a woman's Bible study.

Women's Bible study. Women's. Usually what I say. I mean, there's multiple women. It's not just one woman studying the Bible. But there was probably one woman in charge. I don't know how they handle it. I've never been to a women's Bible study.

I've always wanted to go. I wonder what happens in there. And I look. and there was, so it was a teenager, a mom, and then, like, an older woman. And I look, and I'm like. I think we recognized it the exact same time. That is Denise. We went to school with Denise.

Yeah, Denise was in our, like, friend group. Great school, high school with Denise, Denise was in our friend group. We went to grade school, high school with Denise. She was in our friend group. So we get out of the car, and it was Denise and Denise's youngest daughter, who's 14. And then we're like hugging Denise, saying, oh, my God, it's been so long since we've seen you, meeting her daughter.

And then the woman there, I looked at her, I was like, it was Miss Pollack, my computer applications teacher. I never had that class, but I knew her. Yeah, I was like, I was talking about you the other day. I need to teach my kids how to type properly. They don't know how to type. And she was like, well, I didn't teach you typing. I taught you computer application.

I remember when you got on top of the filing cabinet. And I'm like, I don't remember that. It was filing. You were filing. I don't like, I don't remember that. It was filing. You were filing. I don't know. I was raising hell in one way or another. And then we're waiting, waiting, and then more people show up. Every single person that showed up, we had some sort of connection.

Yeah, it was crazy. Every single car. And then Denise is like, well, let me go inside and get somebody. And then she brings out Miss Coleman. Yep. Like one of our other closest friends' mom. Right. And like, we're talking to her and.

And then other people who we don't, we never actually met who were very close to somebody that we had met. So that sort of that connection. And can y'all make a video? Yeah, we started making videos. Right now, can you make a video for this person? It's like, don't y'all have a Bible to study?

But it was cool to see them. It was just this reminder of how small, how small the, and we weren't just in one town, we were kind of in the county, but just how connected everybody is. It's nice to go back. I mean, there was a tinge of, we heard this catchphrase a number of times from people who weren't together, we didn't hear it from people,

this wasn't people glomming on to some message, but like, y'all need to remember your roots. You need to remember where you came from. Apparently the word has gotten out. Remember your roots. I'm like, well, we're back here. Yeah. You know?

It's funny. I remember. Well, the thing I told you is that. It ain't that bad. We're doing great. Well. I remember my roots and I am who I am. Right. It's a that bad. We're doing great. Well. I remember my roots, and I am who I am. Right, but.

It's a good arrangement. I think the thing that I tend to remember are the things that I've said about the things that many of those people hold dear. And I haven't said that much, but I've said enough to have ruffled feathers, you know. And it's funny because that was like, I was telling y'all when we got back in the car, I really love all those people, right?

And it's like, yeah, I disagree with some of the conclusions that they've come to. And obviously me sort of saying things about my former worldview can only be taken as a condemnation or at least a critique of their worldview. And when I meet them and I hear those things

and it feels like there's this heaviness, even as you're getting to see somebody again, there's a little bit of this like, yeah, y'all went to California and I know you said some stuff about Christianity. Maybe I haven't watched the episode, but I've heard from somebody who heard from somebody and who knows what they've actually heard at this point and what's been said.

I just feel bad. My personality, just because I'm a people pleaser, is this like, well, man, I hate that they're upset about it. Well, it's a bummer that it's like we're so happy to see each other. They're happy to see us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But after a few minutes, there's this tinge of,

I'm not quite as happy as I could have been. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, yeah. And that's okay. It's okay. Here's the thing. It doesn't make me upset with them. It doesn't make me mad at them. It makes me upset that they're upset.

Yeah, you don't wanna- You know, I'm just like, ah, man, maybe I shouldn't talk about this. You don't wanna disappoint the county. Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, and again, I don't know what it is if it's just my people pleasing. I just want people to like me. I don't want, don't not like me

because I said some weird stuff about Jesus, you know? I mean, you can still like me. I do feel like they like me a little more than they like you. Yeah, yeah. As it should be. They definitely feel like it's my fault. Right.

Most of it does seem directed at me. I have more people in Harney County too. I mean, Yeah, because my, you have your parents moved there. They don't live there anymore. But like,

I have generations who are like in Harney and the surrounding counties. So I'm more the homeboy. And clearly, just under your, your constant negative influence. Right.

You know, get, I, you know, it's like, I just need to spend more time in that coffee shop confession booth. Yeah.

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we got a text from our friend Daniel, who was our director on Commercial Kings. We've kept in touch ever since. Great guy, good friend. Him and Sarah, great couple, great friends. We just love them to death. Love them to death. We just love them to death.

And he reached out and he said, you boys want to go see, and he, like, listed a movie. I didn't pay much attention. I was like, oh, yeah, invite us to go see a movie next week. And then you replied and you were like, I'm going to be out of town. I can't do it.

And I was like, you know what? I'm going to have some more flexibility next week, even for like a matinee type situation. Oh, really? Potentially, you know. I don't like watching a movie at night during the week.

You know, that's a big commitment Oh, okay Makes me a little nervous What do you think is gonna happen? Might get stuck there? I might miss my bedtime Might miss my bedtime You said the movie

So I was like, yes, I wanna do this We set a time for Tuesday Late afternoon And then we could like grab dinner with the girls so we'd like had a double date afterward um but i don't like i didn't know anything about this movie and i was like this is this is great i knew the name of it and i knew that he wanted to see it, Late Night with the Devil. That's what it was called. And I just, when he first asked about it, I just pulled it up, Late Night with the Devil, and it says something about late night host in the 80s. It was like

some sort of rivalry. And I was like, okay, this will be fun. Sounds like a funny movie. And then I didn't look at anything else because I don't like... There's certain things where having shaped expectations are good. And there's certain things when it's bad. Like going into a movie that you know you're going to see and having all these expectations, seeing trailers, it starts to shape things too much I don't like that I love going into a movie as blind as possible so that I can experience when a filmmaker makes a movie

They're not thinking well. I got to make this movie for people well. You've already seen the trailer So you know everything that happens so now I got to make the movie Like given that you've seen all the marketing. Mm-hmm. Like, filmmakers don't think about the marketing. They think about the film. And then the marketers, like, put all that stuff on it. You know?

So the less of that you can let enter your brain, the more you can enjoy the film as the maker intended. Especially if it's a movie that you already know that you wanna see it. Like there's no question. I wanna see the next Dune or whatever. I hadn't heard of this movie. I knew I was gonna see it.

And so I didn't look at anything else. But there's the middle of the road films, which are films that you decide to see because of the trailer. But usually- I don't do that. The way I make a decision about seeing a movie is Rotten Tomatoes though. Yeah. Unless you go to the movie and see the trailers.

If I look at them when I'm at another movie. Yeah. And I'm trying to get where I can show up late and I miss those, because there's 35 minutes worth of shit before you get into the movie. Oh, 35, no, see if you go there and you're- 28.

Just last night. Definitely 20 minutes. Last night I went to a movie and I was like, same thing, I was thinking, I don't wanna sit here for this trailer. So we got there a little bit late. We got some food. I go in and then it's like, it was a six o'clock movie. Same thing, it was a school night, you know,

six o'clock movie. I go to the bathroom at 612. All the urinals were broken. I saw a line coming out of the men's restroom. I was like, this has not happened to us. We only have penises. If you have a penis, you don't have to wait for a bathroom. No, no.

It's our right. You just whip it out. It's our birthright as men. Yeah, it's one of the great things about having a penis. But there was a line. I was like, this is not good. And then after I waited for five minutes, I saw all the urinals are busted.

So it's just four stalls that we're all sharing. And then I started getting a little bit nervous. It got to 620. And I got back and there was still a trailer going. Of course. But it wasn't 35 minutes. I would say it was 27. 27 minutes, y'all.

You can show up at easily 20 minutes after the start time of your movie. Depends on what theater you go to. At AMC. AMC. If you go to AMC, that's where I go most of the time. Because they have the ads and all that other shit. Nicole Kidman. I don't care about that.

I don't care a lot about it. Sometimes I just watch it on my own. So movies aren't something that you want to have a lot of formed expectations. Beverages, totally different story. When it comes to a beverage, you need to know what you're about to drink. Is this a Guinness or is this a Sprite? Is this Coke or tobacco juice? Right.

Is this milk? I mean, milk tastes great unless you think you're going to get kombucha or vice versa. Yeah. Spoilers for beverages is a completely different thing. Exactly. You want to have expectations. So I met Daniel at the movie. We go in there.

We sit down. We were on time. So we had to endure the trailer so wasn't happy about this and let's start watching the trailer i'm like after the first trailer i turned to him i was like you know how you do it's either thumbs up thumbs down i'm gonna see that i'm not and i was like this thing looks demented i am not seeing this this movie. I'm like, no. And he's like, well, I think I got to see that. And then there was the next one was a trailer about a spider that a little girl gets. But the spider keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

And what's that called? And I think it's called Big Spider with Girl. I don't know what it's called because I don't care. I don't need to know what it's called because I'm not gonna see this. And that's what I told Daniel. And then the third trailer comes on and it's like some Texas Chainsaw type vibe.

And I turn to him and I'm like, there sure are a lot of horror trailers coming on before this comedy movie. Yeah, because you're at a movie called Late Night with the Devil. And he said, he turned, he looked at me a bit puzzled and he said,

I don't know whether to take you seriously or not. Well, yeah. But this- To stand in line. Because this is a horror movie. And I was like, I did not know that. This is like when Christy went to see Get Out.

Yes, we took Christy to see Get Out, and she had the same exact experience. She was like, why are all these? She thought it was a comedy. Because it was Jordan Peele. No one told her. Right. He's doing a different thing. So Late Night with the Devil, it's a rivalry between two late night show hosts

is what I thought I got from the thing. But look at the movie poster. I didn't look at the movie poster. Well, when you- Oh, wow. That's a horror movie, bro. It's a guy with like- That's a very cool movie poster.

It's a guy in a suit, but his head is just a flame. That's scary. And- This looks good, man. So then Daniel said, he said, well, you know when I texted you and Rhett asking you to go to the movie, I really wanted to see this movie, and I know that Rhett's really into horror movies.

So I was inviting Rhett to the movie, and then I was like, well, if I'm going to invite Rhett, I probably should invite you too. And then Rhett said he couldn't go, and you said you could go, and I was like, okay. So I'm like, well, damn, how scary is this movie going to be? You can take it. Turns out it was like it was more creepy than it was scary. And it wasn't like overly demented.

It was actually really cool and creative, the way that this movie is set up. Late Night with the Devil is this late night show host who in like the late 70s, early 80s maybe, he's second fiddle to Johnny Carson. So he never can beat him in the ratings. And it's sweeps week. This is back then, it's like this is the week that they would measure using Nielsen like who watched what.

Right. And so everybody gets desperate on sweeps week to get everybody to watch their show. And so what happened to be Halloween. So what the producer did was book all of these like scary acts like a medium and... acts like a medium and then the wife of the host is like a psychologist who has been working with this girl, little girl who's possessed by a demon. Yes.

And they kept teasing. It's the best person to be possessed is a little girl. So then what happens with the movie very early on is they set this whole premise, and then the voiceover comes on and says, the following is what aired that night, plus behind-the-scenes footage during commercial breaks. That's wonderful. And then the movie became the actual television show, like in real time, the late night show.

And whenever the late night show would cut to a commercial, it would then be behind the scenes footage of what's going on. And so all of this like super creepy stuff started happening. Like the medium is like channeling some devious and scary things. And then it go to break. And like,

it's so funny how like the host and the producer were like, so fixated on making a good show that they weren't getting freaked out by it. And there was like, he, the medium started vomiting blood and they're like, we're going to cut to commercial, you know, but it was like super creative how it was all presented. And it got increasingly creepy, but never to the point where it like made me want to run out of the theater or crap my pants or anything. I

actually thought they could have pushed it a little bit further. So I basically survived. And you recommended it. I did. I recommend it as a rental. I don't think it's in theaters anymore. Okay, all right. Yeah, I wasn't even technically, I was invited out of pity.

If I'm gonna invite Rhett, I need to invite Link too. I appreciate the fact that Daniel did that, but. Is he going to, do you think he'll invite you next? I mean, you did go. Yeah. I was out. I was out of town.

It worked out. It worked out. Another thing I did, I mean, you've never been blindsided by a movie like that, first of all? Because that's really what you want i've um no expectations i've definitely gone into movies that i had no idea what they were and somebody was just like this is a good movie yeah that's the best but there's not really i've never been like because i'm not i like movies, which would be the only like curve ball that would be like, so nothing that, I saw that, I didn't know anything about that zone of interest.

Okay. So you didn't know that that was like, it was about a- All I heard was that something about- Like a family living- Nazi Germany. Like I knew it was like historical. Adjacent to concentration camps. Didn't know anything about that.

And so, you know, you kind of have to, but because I knew it was like Holocaust related, you're Holocaust related, you're like, okay, this is gonna be- You gotta be prepared. This is gonna be emotionally heavy. Right. But I didn't have any idea about like the way that they did it or whatever.

It's just somebody, like, heavily recommended it. So. But going into. But I kind of knew it was going to be heavy. So there was that. If Christy hadn't, if I hadn't figured out with the trailers or with Get Out, Christy hadn't figured out with the trailers, that would have been a great experience.

I knew nothing about Get Out other than the fact that it was a Jordan Peele horror movie. Horror movie though. Yeah, but like I didn't know. But if you didn't know you were gonna get scared, it's like the wheels are turning at another level. You know what I'm saying? I didn't know, oh, there's a twist.

You can kind of imagine that there's always gonna be a twist. Yeah, you don't want people to tell you there was a twist. The wheels are turning at another level. You know what I'm saying? I didn't know, oh, there's a twist. You can kind of imagine that there's always going to be a twist. Yeah, you don't want people to tell you there's a twist. When somebody tells you, I know you keep getting on me about, like, I think any information about a movie is a spoiler, but, like, you would have to agree. Twist is a spoiler. Knowing that someone telling you there's a twist, but the twist, that is a spoiler.

No, no, what I'm saying is that there have been times in which somebody just saying the setting of the movie. Like, it takes place in the 16th. No, don't tell me anything about this movie. Like, I'm saying setting, and then maybe like- Setting and genre are not spoilers. I do think I want to know genre. And then I think that premise that isn't plot is,

that's a gray area. Like, it's a couple that goes camping together and things go haywire or whatever. That's not a spoiler. Oh, things go haywire? Thanks. Well, you think it's going to be just a story about just a couple camping and having a great time? You know that something's going to go wrong.

That's a YouTube genre. You know that something's going to go wrong. Okay. But how's it going to go wrong? Can we settle it? Here and now, where is the line for a spoiler? I will propose that it is any information that reveals something that, a detail of the movie that happens after a certain, like definitely after act one.

I don't wanna know anything that happens after act one. Unless it's like, well, in act three, a blue car will be seen. That's a detail incidental. There's a cameo from, I don't know, somebody. I don't. There's a cameo from somebody.

If it's not in act one, I don't wanna know it. I think that's a spoiler. Cause now I'm just waiting for, they said there was a cameo from Nick Cage. When is that gonna come in? Oh, okay, I can see that's a spoiler. Cause now I'm just waiting for, they said there was a cameo from Nick Cage. When is that gonna come in? Oh, okay, I can see that being a problem. I think you're talking about two different things though. The complete ignorance going into a movie

is a pristine experience. So I agree with that. Like the less you can know about a movie, the better. But because there's that middle ground of like, well, I'm trying to convince somebody to watch this movie. I have to say something to get them to watch. I would say- I say, tell me if it's good or not.

You can use stars, you can use, I don't care, you can use a rating, but don't tell me anything about the movie. Just tell me if it's good or not. You can use stars. You can use... I don't care. I don't know. You can use a rating. But don't tell me anything about the movie. Just tell me... Well, that doesn't work. That's not practical. Whether it's good or not.

No. Like, that's why I like looking at the Rotten Tomatoes score. Right, right, right, right. Because it doesn't tell me anything about the movie except is it good or not. Okay, okay. This is what... If I Google late night with the devil, okay? Here's what I see.

I see 2023 horror slash comedy. So that's the first thing. The second thing I see is the IMDb and the Rotten Tomatoes and the Metacritic all on one line. It's 97% Rotten Tomatoes. But then I see one sentence. In 1977, a live television broadcast goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

That's not a spoiler. You can't say that that's a spoiler. I mean, you can be technical and say, I know something about the movie, but a spoiler is something that spoils the experience of the movie. Like, that was something that I had to experience in the movie. Like, they end up dying, or they make their way out of the cave. Those are spoilers. Yes. So, do I need a new name for what I'm preserving?

Yeah, information. I don't want any information. You can't say I don't want spoilers. I don't want information about the movie. I'm a pristine viewer. Yeah, you want, yeah. I want... You're going to be a complete virgin, an information virgin when it comes to this particular movie.

Yeah. You don't even want to know the title. You don't even want to know what time it starts. You just wanna show up at the movie theater and just be like, just point at one of the theaters and I will sit there until it's ready. Wheel me in, dump me into a seat, take my blindfold off after the trailer.

But give me a drink that I know what that drink is. Yes, yes, tell me everything about that drink. It's a drink. I need to know. Is it milky? Is it fizzy? What about candy? Is it alcoholic? I feel like candy could be a surprise. I don't do candy. I'm not a candy guy.

Maybe you do candy in this scenario. Popcorn? I could do popcorn. The popcorn is either buttered or not buttered, and that's something for you to figure out. That's something, and it might be buttered at the bottom. Oh, God. How do you do that? Oh, well, just stick around with me. I'll show you how to butter the bottom of a popcorn.

You ask them to do it. No, you go and you get, you ask for the popcorn box. So they give you the popcorn bag, you ask for a box. It's a bigger, wider box. Oh yeah, and you dump all your popcorn out? Well, if you're smart, you go and you dump all your popcorn into that, and then you butter that, the whole thing, so it's flat. It's like you're crop dusting, but not in the fart way.

And then if you really like the bag experience, you can create like a folded part and you put it back into the bag and now it's all evenly buttered. Because you're making it all cold. You're creating like a heat sink for your popcorn. Hot popcorn is something that happens during the trailers. Popcorn's not hot by the time you get to 10 minutes into the movie. It's not cold. Okay, so you don't put it back in the bag.

You eat it out of the box. Well, usually what I do is one person gets the bag and one person gets the box and then you share it so you're not passing it back and forth. Oh. I got you. But if you wanted to, you could take it out of the box, out of the bag, put it in the box.

You could butter just the bottom and then you could refill it and you have a butter surprise at the bottom. Butter surprise? Problem is I get to the bottom of the popcorn 12 minutes into the movie. Because I eat like a horse at all times. That's not enough time to forget what you've done. But I did go, I went to, where did I go?

We were with Stevie, oh, it's a premiere. And they have popcorn ready. Pre-made. Everybody's seat. And I just mindlessly eat popcorn like a horse and then I'm done with it before the movie starts. They're small bags. I'm looking at Stevie

and she's doing something that I've never thought was possible. She's eating one piece of popcorn at a time, like reaching in with her long fingers, grabbing one piece of popcorn and eating it. And like not immediately going back, not doing what I do, which is like, how much can I get in my hand and how much, as long as I get nine out of 10 pieces into my mouth

and some's on my beard, doesn't matter, I'll wipe it off later. She's just so clean, just one at a time. And then I noticed she made, like, it looked like there was no progress being made. And the movie starts, 10 minutes go by, she's it looked like there was no progress being made. And the movie starts. Ten minutes go by. She's got the popcorn.

She hasn't touched it. I'm like, you gotta finish your popcorn. And she just hands me the whole bag. And I just horsed her bag, too. You horsed her bag. I horsed two bags. And that was bad popcorn, too. It was horrible.

It doesn't matter. No butter surprise. No taste. Yeah. Speaking of horsing popcorn, I feel like I need it to be like an oat bag. I need to put it around my ears and just sit there. And I just got candy and drink in the other hand, and I'm just horsing popcorn the whole movie.

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It was in a bag. It was a snack bag. It wasn't like somebody's grandma made it. Nobody behind the counter was making this. Okay, yeah. You can get that. They don't get paid enough to freeze dry popcorn, strawberries back there.

They have healthier things now. They have like Clif bars and stuff. Clif bar? I mean, to get through Dune 2, you might need it. Right, here's another thing that I did over your spring break. Me and Christy Went and got And we've done this

This is the second time we've done this It's becoming a thing for us We got a pedicure together Oh you've done this In town before? Not like on vacation? In town Oh a town pedicure

A local pedicure Christy doesn't love I like massage If I'm gonna do something To treat myself I'm gonna get a massage She likes to get a massage. She likes to get a pedicure.

So she's got this place she goes. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to go with you. I was like, oh. She was like, yeah, let's go. You can get the king pedicure. It was fit for a king. Okay.

Is that for men only? It's for men of royalty only. Okay. So do you know what they do in a pedicure place nowadays? I've had one. You've had one? But on vacation. On vacation?

I went with Jesse and I was like- This is a home thing now for me. Yeah, I- There's a massage chair, so you do get a massage. My feet are so sensitive. I just laugh my way through the whole thing. Oh, really? Yeah, my feet are so sensitive. I just laugh my way through the whole thing. Oh, really? Yeah, my feet are really ticklish. Ticklish.

I don't know. I was just kind of like, I prefer a massage. I'm not into this. It's good to get past that. It's good to get past it. You can also sell it to me. Well, one of the things that they did for me was they took a bag. I'm talking just like a run-of-the-mill plastic bag.

And it had some sort of blue yogurt in it. Okay. It looked like yogurt. And it was hot. It was very hot. Turns out it was wax of some sort. So they put my bare- Not yogurt.

Foot into this yogurt looking, it was like bluish, like it could have been blueberry yogurt, wax. Put my foot down and hot, hot. They were like, is it too hot? I was like, oh, well, my foot's already in there. Like, no, no, no. And then it hardened kind of around my foot.

They were making a mold of your foot to make a new you. Yeah, starting with the foot. Like, I know what you're doing. You're not molding the rest of my body. And then it's like my... This is after they did like all the trimming and... Oh, this is after that. All the clipping and the trimming and that type of stuff.

Okay. They put just my foot in a hot bag. Hot foot bag, I guess is what it's called. And then what? It felt good. It felt good. I can see that feeling good. Did you get a clear coat?

No, but she buffed my toes. And now, two weeks later, when I take off my socks, my big toe is just shiny. And I feel— Hold on. I wish I wouldn't have done that. Hold on. The nail. Oh, yeah.

Not the whole big toe. Yeah, that's a problem. Just the nail part. My nail is, like, glimmering, and I'm just like— You don't like that? I don't like a shiny big toe. I kind of feel like I might like that. Well, I just sold it to you.

I don't know if they could make mine shiny. The yogurt didn't do it? I got some ugly feet, man. You got ugly feet. Not ugly feet, my nails. My nails are better though. I guess if I got pedicures all the time. I'm starting to like it.

I just like other people giving me attention. Yeah, well, you made that clear. I like that, I like that. And then like other people giving me attention. Yeah, well, you made that clear. I like that. I like that. And then they had a screensaver on the wall that showed exotic locations. Drone shots. Again, it's like you can't beat a good drone shot. Do they cycle back?

Yeah, they cycle back. Okay, yeah. My dentist does that. My dentist has pictures that he has taken while traveling the world. Oh, I don't think that the pedicurists took these pictures. Oh, he did because he's in quite a few of them. Oh. So you watch a slideshow of your dentist?

I think you've told me this. He's in some of them. I remember this. He's quite a photographer, but they do cycle back after a while. He's been lots of places. So when we filmed in North Carolina, you stayed a few more days. I went to my mom's house and then I said,

you know what? I'm gonna fly you and Christy's mom out here. But I had a day that I could do what I wanted while I was in Raleigh. And I had the best day ever doing my own thing. I decided I was going to, there was a couple of record shops that I'm a fan of in Raleigh. And I was like, you know, I'm gonna make this a record day, record shopping day. And checked out of the hotel at noon.

And then I proceeded to go record shopping. Guess how many record shops I went into in an afternoon? Four. Seven. What? That can happen? And Raleigh is like, has so many record shops. And they're also, they're close to each other.

They're like going from one to another. What part of town are you in? Like centered around downtown Raleigh. You walked to Raleigh? No, no, no. I didn't walk. Everyone was like a 10-minute drive, less than 10 minutes to the next one, sometimes five minutes.

I told you Raleigh's cool, man. I could have gone to nine. I could have gone to 10. I told you, man. But they started closing, and I couldn't do it. And I just had the most amazing day. You know, like taking this DJ stuff to the next level, man. I got to do my shopping.

Did you buy some stuff? I was like, I'm going to buy some at every place. That happened for the most part. Happened for the most part. Shout out to Nice Price on Hillsborough street man i i gotta i gotta give my shout outs here oh this is um uh i went to the vinyl destination i went to shout out to sound off records owned by a mythical beast they also uh repair your hi-fi equipment. Nice Price Books and Records is right next to the coffee shop on Hillsborough Street that we used to go to. Get the triple mocha.

The caribou coffee? No. The triple mocha down there. Oh, Cup of Joe. Cup of Joe. Shout out to Hunky Dory. I went in there. You can also get a beer there.

You go, you get yourself a beer, and you search for the records. You can get so much beer in Raleigh. Oh God, there's so much beer. I wish I liked it more. There's just so many breweries. Beer and Vinyl, that was great. Also The Poor House, you know,

like the venue downtown, like the music venue. The upstairs is now just a record shop. And when you're sorting through the records, they have these like flip down cup holders where you can put your beer. I've been- You buy beer and you just shop for records. Listen, do you believe me now?

I've been telling you about how cool Raleigh is. This has done it for me. And how much it's changed since we were in school there. And- Yes. The food, the nightlife, apparently record shops. I'm just telling you, man. My favorite record shop. I'm spending a lot more time there.

If I have to go to one, my favorite record shop is Sorry State Records. So shout out to my boys at Sorry State. And the thing that I was always hoping would happen finally happened. You're looking through the crates, and you find something that you kind of had in your mind, that you knew about, but you knew it was in very limited supply,

and you didn't think you would ever be able to get it, and you find it. What was that? I'm really into a hip-hop producer called The Alchemist. I'm like, he's my favorite. And there was this used record from The Alchemist, Currency and The Alchemist. And I'm like, oh, this is great.

I'm gonna get this. And then when I took it up there, along with like four other records that I bought at the same time, the guy was like, the guy who brought this record in and sold it to me, also, if you look behind this thing

over here, he had it hidden. He was like, you'll find another one that he brought in. And I got this one out, and it was the Alchemist Sandwich. And I was like oh this is this is hard to find I've been hoping to find a record like this now it costs a hundred dollars what in the world it was a hundred dollar record but it's super cool I got it in there I'll show it to you

but it's um is this is this modern day yes this came out in 2022, actually. But there was only 200 of these made. And I'm just in a record shop in my home state of North Carolina, and some collector had bought it. It was sealed, unopened. And on his website, by the way, on the Alchemist website, where he sells all of his records, he sells it for $100 there. So it wasn't like it was a big price hike. It was very fair.

But it's a collector's item. And it was just such a thrill to be like, that was like the next to last place I went. And I'm like, yes, this is why I'm in, that's why I'm the crate digger, man. What did you eat that day? Because that's what I'm interested in. Oh.

I ate at the chicken shop. Actually, Christian's place? Yes. I ate at Beasley's. Yeah. Yeah. Chicken and honey. Chicken and honey.

Whatever it is. I ate at that. And it was great. Yeah. I mean, some places you can get like a fried chicken and it's like really good but there's something about the beasley's fried chicken and honey that the fried chicken tastes so specifically homemade i gotta go like it's it's like you can taste chicken like you don't just taste like the special breading that they put on it, which is great.

And, like, the way that they fry it is like grandma fry it. Like, grandma grabbed the chicken, wrung its neck, plucked all the feathers. I'm sorry to get graphic here. But, like, there's a certain freshness to their chicken that feels like grandma fried it up. I think to the point that some people might not like it because it's so authentic. Too chickeny. It's too chicken of fried chicken.

And they had amazing biscuits. They had a pimento mac and cheese slab. It was just like a slab. There's so much good food. So much of it has like that- And they have beets. I was like- A southern-

I gotta order the beets. I don't know, that is like beets. When you eat a lot of fried food, you need something to cut it, like a pickle or some good beets. But then I got, I went home to mom and like, we had to get up at what was the equivalent of like 2 a.m. Pacific time. Yeah.

It was like tough to get on that first flight. I went and I picked up Miss Mitzi, Christy's mom. This is a big event. Christy's mom, yes, because Christy's mom, 72 years old, never been on a plane. Never flown anywhere, ever. And how would she characterize? Because some people are like, I'm afraid to fly.

How would she characterize why? Just didn't have a need to go anywhere. But also didn't have an appetite for it. I think it wasn't an exciting prospect to her. Okay. I think it wasn't an exciting prospect to her. Okay. You know, she had a chill pill, like a little anxiety pill.

Okay. If she needed it. But she didn't have flight anxiety the way that Christy does. Okay. And, of course, hearing Christy talk about her flight anxiety and Christy's sister's the same way, it was like, no wonder you never want to get on a plane. It's like, so put a pin in that. I'll tell you what I told her about that afterward.

But I just got to kick it. I put the two of them together, and then I'm on the other side of the aisle. And I'm like, I'll probably be asleep if you need me. Just throw something at me or just holler, and I'll be there for you. I mean, this is the first time she's ever been on a plane. Did you, like, document it? I took footage. I mean, she doesn't want me posting all her footage.

Okay, okay. But, yes, I was taking pictures of Granny and Grandma filming Louise, like, rolling through the airport, checking in. Was she, like, amazed by, like, thinking? She kept her cool. But, like, the thing that I noticed when we started to take off, airport, checking in. Was she like amazed? She kept her cool. But like the thing that I noticed when we started to take off, I'm filming her because I wanted to show it to, you know,

her daughters and the family. She had the window. She had the shade pulled down. I was like, pull the shade up and look out the window. And she was like, she didn't want to look out the window. Oh, she didn't want to know what was happening. She didn't want to. And I was like, pull up the window.

And I made her pull up the window, and then she watched in amazement as, in her own words, it just took off. Yeah, that's what they do. The plane just kind of took off, she said. And then she's like looking down, and she turns, and she says, like, the first thing that you say, I think this is the first thing that everybody thinks, it's been so long since I've been on a plane, I've forgotten.

She turned and she said, it's like a bunch of ants. Yeah. Right? First time you're on a plane, you're looking down and you're like, I didn't realize we'd be this high up. Everything is just ants. She thought you'd be crop dusting the whole time.

Yeah. Not in the fart sense. Yeah. And what is your mom doing at this point? Kind of staring straight ahead and seeming a little anxious in her own right. Because she hasn't flown a lot. She hasn't flown a lot, but she was just... And then my mom was like, well, that was the smoothest flight.

Mitzi, the good Lord knew that you needed a good first flight, and that's what he gave you. He doesn't give that to Christy very often. No, she always gets the bad ones. And then, yes, and Mitzi had a, she was like, the only time it got bumpy was when we were taxiing to get off of the plane. There was some bumps on the tarmac. Yeah.

And then what about coming back? Was she just a pro at that point? Well, she's still at my house. Oh, that's right. She ain't left. Yeah, she's still there. She's still there. But she said if it was bad,

I might not leave. I might be stuck with her forever. So I love her, but I'm glad it worked out. Put her on a train. We could put her on something. I'd figure out something to send them both back. Because I said, now, I'm just telling you,

what you're describing is you're normal. You got on a plane, you went up in the air, and you came down in another place. And I'm saying this, of course, in front of Christy to give her a hard time, and I'm like, Mitzi, you are the normal one here. You just got on a plane and you went somewhere. The people who get on a plane and they freak out all the time,

you know, hey, it happens, and I understand it, but that's the abnormal thing. I think because everybody she had talked to was like, oh, my God, flying is so bad. I think she was at this point where she's like, I'm never gonna do that. Ah, yeah. I was like, well, listen, this is normal.

What happened is normal. So now maybe she'll hit some turbines, she won't even think about it, because it's just part of it. It's all part of it. You know? You don't have to be afraid of it. It's helpful not to be.

I think she's going to be okay. She might just start jet setting all around. Is that why they call it jet setting? I don't really know. Me either. I mean, but then we get to the house and like now it's 10 degrees warmer in our house for them. You get two grannies in your house, you've got to make it 10 degrees warmer. Well, that's interesting because a lot of times they like it to be cold. These grannies, grandmas like it warmer.

What is the temperature right now? Well, this morning, Christy was like, I think they may not have slept because the downstairs thermostat was set to 62. It reverted back. Are there going to be ice blocks? Because it was cold as hell. I woke up this morning and it was 40 degrees. Yeah.

But my mom got up and she was like, well. That's not cold as hell, I understand. I did okay. Some of you live in actual wintry places, but we don't. My mom said, I did okay because I used that blanket I got from Delta and I wrapped it around my feet. Oh. Because we were on the plane and she was like, she took the,

she had like that little Delta blanket, and she's wrapped up in that thing on the plane and just scrooched up in it. Well, you want to be cold when you sleep, though. When we're getting off, I do. Everyone does. I'm getting off the plane, and mom's like, I'm taking this blanket. I took the last one with the flight I was on, and I wrap my feet up in it every night because I don't like to wear socks, but I like to

have a blanket wrapped around my feet. And I'm like, well, Mom, you can't take the blanket. I think you can. They washed the blanket, and she said, no, they throw them away. I was like, you don't know that they throw them away. You just want the blanket. So you're making up a story that they throw away the blanket. I know good and well they don't throw away the blankets. They don't throw away the blanket, but know good and well they don't throw away the blanket. They don't throw away the blanket, but you can take them if you want. They're not going to say anything to her.

They didn't say anything to her, but she took that blanket. She was like, well, I'm going to bring it on the next time. I was like, well, touche. And then they'll give her another one wrapped up in plastic. She'll probably keep that one too. But I've been thinking about, because you know, you sleep much better when it's cold, like, because your body needs to go down in temperature. Yeah, we like it. And so that's not just a personal preference.

60, 62. That's a human preference. Like, I'm not saying the exact temperature. But I do bundle up. No, I'm saying being in a cold environment and having a blanket to keep you warm, but having like the exterior of the room be colder, like it causes you,

it's just scientifically proven you sleep better. You know how like sometimes you're like, oh, it's too hot in here and you can't sleep. That just means you're a normal person. Okay. But that's why they make these things. In fact, we need to get one of them to sponsor us because I want to try it.

There's a couple of companies that do this thing where, not like the, yeah, of course the sleep number bed, you can like, it's temperature controlled, but there's just a mattress topper that hooks up to this thing and it gets cold. So your bed gets cold, but then you bundle up and you stay warm. Yeah, but I don't want the surface that I'm sleeping on, the mattress to be cold.

It won't be too cold. It won't be too cold. We need to try it. We need to try it. And the thing you can do is if you do that, you don't necessarily have to have your, because like, I mean, you're talking about while it's getting colder outside, you've got it on 62.

I've got it on 55. My bedroom can get down to 55 degrees. It never does. But I've woken up and it's been 58, 59 degrees in the house, and I've just slept like a baby because I'm under this blanket. Yeah. But when you get up, ooh. But during the summer. Yeah, you might need a refrigerated mattress.

You don't want to put your temperature down 65 degrees, 64 degrees while it's hot outside. That's just you're using so much energy. Get that little cold thing. I think it might be good. I don't know how it works, but we should try it. We've got lots of things to try. I've recommended all types of things. Record shopping, ringing chicken's necks. I can't recommend that.

Pedicures. I can say you did not recommend that. What else did I talk about? Ringing chickens' necks. Getting warned about beverages and knowing nothing about movies. I feel like I've really contributed this week. So you don't have an official wreck. You have all those wrecks. Mm-hmm.

Okay. Yeah. Late Night with the devil, I guess, but we kinda spoiled pretty much all of it. Or I gave too much information. Well, here, let me. Sorry. Does it make you feel better that I still want to see it? No. I still wanna see it.

Okay. Give us a call. Let us know what you think about any of these things. I still wanna watch Three Body Problem, even though I read the book. I know you do. 1-888-EAR-POD-1. Talk at you next week.

Hey Rhett and Link, this is Madison from Bakersfield, California. I just watched the episode where Link talked about his family trip to Yosemite National Park. I was a park ranger in Yosemite last summer, and I just wanted to let everyone know you are not exaggerating about the John Muir Trail route up to Nevada Falls. That trail has for sure ended marriages. It definitely almost killed me when I hiked it. Okay, love you guys.