Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Link's Father's Day Disaster | Ear Biscuits

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

Good Old Father’s Day! What could go wrong? In this episode, Rhett and Link talk about their Father’s Day adventures, with Rhett realizing his “dad thoughts” and Link attempting to save the day in a way that almost ended in disaster. Tune in to see whether he salvaged himself. Reminder that over the summer, episodes are going to be a little short than normal, but will resume full length in August! 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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Perfect for all you forward thinkers and planning gurus. Reserve your Uber ride up to 90 days in advance. Uber Reserve. See Uber app for details. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the roundtable of dim lighting, we are going to be talking about being fathers. Link, you have a Father's Day experience that seems- Well, let's just go ahead and say it.

Rather substantial. Father's Day fail. I had a Father's Day fun that I'll talk about. I will say- I had a nearly epic fail. Oh, take that as you will. You'll find out in a moment. Now, over the summer, we are going to be,

the episodes are gonna be maybe a little bit shorter than what you're used to. You just wanted to, before you make that observation and start asking other people, have you guys noticed that the episodes during the summer are a little bit shorter? Mm-hmm. Is it just me? It's just a heads up, we're telling you.

We're just letting you know. It isn't you. They're just gonna be a little bit shorter. We will be, not too much shorter. It isn't us, it's the summer. They'll be back to regularly scheduled length. But if you use episodes of Ear Biscuits to plot your course as you're driving, it's one of the things I talked about on tour,

it became a little bit of a runner at a couple of locations as we were looking at the international map and trying to guess how far people had come to get to tour. I would use an ear biscuit as a unit of measurement for travel. You're an ear biscuit away, meaning it took you an hour and 10 minutes or so to get here. Or you're an ear biscuit and a half away. How many ear biscuits are you listening to? So to you, an ear biscuitiscuit and a half away. How many Ear Biscuits are you listening to? So to you, an Ear Biscuit's an hour ten minutes. I agree. I think that's like... The average? The average.

Jamie, you saying yes? Yes. That is the average. I'd say one ten is perfect because sometimes you guys go over, but very rarely do you go under. Right. Well, we don't like to go under an hour because we feel like we want to give you an hour. But we're just giving you the heads up that hour because we feel like we want to give you an hour. But just for the summer.

But we're just giving you the heads up that for the summer, we're going to give you a little less than an hour. We assume you've got more going on. And also, just so you know, during the summer, most people, they drive faster. Oh, yeah. It is statistically shown. But they drive more. They drive more and they drive faster during the summer because they're... I'm making this up as I go along the line just so you understand.

Do it. You go faster because it's sunny outside. You're feeling the energy. You go slow during the winter because of ice. No, no, no. That's not it. Nope. You go faster because you're excited about where you're going.

Summer's a time of excitement. You're not just like, well, I'm going there again. And so because you're driving faster, the episodes to accommodate you are gonna be a little bit not as long. This is on you from your internet fathers. That was only to bring us back to the world of fatherhood because I did wanna tell you, and I've been saving it,

like my Father's Day experience. Okay. Which, you know, I was so glad my kids each gave me a card that I could tell that their mom physically gave them the card. Christy gives them the card, but they wrote in it. It was their handwriting. It was their thoughts in it. And that was a big part of what they gave me for Father's Day

was time and energy put into putting thoughts to paper about that they love me and that they appreciate me. about that they love me and they appreciate me. And I'm glad that Lily wrote her card before we had our excursion. Oh, okay. Because if she wrote it during or after, it might be a different card. But I know that Christy gave him the cards because Lily and Lincoln's card was the same card. The exact same card?

And apparently she has a stack of these cards, like blanks. You got to have a stack of cards. At the house. You got to have the card stack. But that doesn't matter to me. It's fine. But I will say that Lando made his own card, you know. He made a card?

He made his own card. Wow. What does that feel like? The outside said Daddy-O on it, and it was an acronym. Oh, crap. Now I'm going to have to remember what the acronym is. D for drives erratically. Drives aggressively or something.

He was critiquing my driving. Check. That was the first D. The A was... Can't remember. Well, the A might be the aggressively. No. Each letter was a different thing. The second D, there's three Ds, so I guess he had some trouble.

Always. I only remember the first one. I don't remember the other ones. But I do keep all the cards. I have a stack of, a stash of cards that my family has given to me in memoriam. Like, they're all there. Mm-hmm. And a matter of fact, the stack got so tall that it wouldn't fit in the drawer anymore, so I moved it somewhere else, and I don't quite remember where that is, but I'm sure I'll find it, because I know it was an important place that I put them,

where I couldn't find them. You'll find it in a time of need, in the apocalypse, when you need kindling. I'm not going to burn them. I'm just telling you. I'm going to read them, and then I'm going to die in the apocalypse. I'm just letting you know what this might come to. My family loved me. May they rest in peace.

I'm joining you, family. No, they'll still be with you, maybe. But you will all be faced. This is one thing that a lot of people don't anticipate will happen in the apocalypse. The number of things that you will be burning that you never thought you would burn. And let me say, cards from your kids is at the top of the list. You think that it's something you're going to hold on to forever. But they're so flammable.

But when you get cold and you're looking at that, and especially the new cards that have the frilly things on them, and they're multi-layered and stuff. That's what I need to get this fire started. The pop-up cards. You take one of those pop-up cards, you open it, you light it. I mean, I'm just saying it's a fire in and of itself waiting to happen. I'm emotionally prepared for that.

I've got a card stack as well, but every time I add one, I'm like, that's gonna burn well. Is that also where you keep your matches? Is that what you tell them? You read the card and you're like, thanks, kid. That's gonna burn well. That's gonna burn well. This card's not... Don't give me one of those metal cards. Ooh. Well, we could use that as a weapon.

I just remember what the O in Daddy-O stood for. Owns his farts. That's a good thing to do. Hey, he who dealt it smelt it? No, I own it. I guess he likes that about me. Because, I mean, he doesn't like that I fart, but if I'm going to fart, I ain't blaming it on nobody. Right. Not even the dog. If you're sharing a house with someone, first of all, dog farts are easy to distinguish. True. Not easy to extinguish.

But everybody knows where their dog... First of all, I will say my dogs, something about maybe their age or their size, they don't have a stink fart. I've been around dogs that really, really have some stink fart. My dogs only eat their food. They're not fed anything else. I think that does help. That does help, it has to.

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Well, Lando's there, but they're all back home for the summer. And I'm like, listen, here's what I want to do. I want to go get some barbecue. I want to eat it as a family. And then I want to go on a one-wheel ride with Lincoln. I invited Lando, but ever since he broke his elbow on the one wheel, which, yes, was my fault. I didn't push him.

But I pushed him to ride on an uneven terrain. And, yeah, he broke his elbow. So now I'm like, it's an open invitation, but I'm not going to insist that you go even on Father's Day. He's a little gun-shy. So me and Lincoln went, and that's all I wanted, and also cards, which I didn't say, but I got. And so we went to Moose Craft Barbecue.

I was turned on to this on the show. One of the earliest naked food episodes of GMM. I just really took note of this barbecue. It was exceptional. And so a few days later, I think it was, it might have been two years ago, we went there for my birthday. But we got there so late that they were out of stuff. It was still great.

You know it's a good place if they run out. So Christy was like, well, you said you wanted to go in like early afternoon. Like, you know, the kids wake up late, they eat late breakfast. So then we need to eat a late lunch. But I'm concerned. I read that there's a line. They eat late breakfast, so then we need to eat a late lunch. But I'm concerned. I read that there's a line.

They might be out. I feel like we need to go earlier. We got out there at 1.30. They opened at noon. They're only open Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I don't even think Sunday. Really? Yeah.

Three days a week. Yep. And as I got off the 101, we were like a couple of blocks away. I'm like, look. I'm like, oh, my God. That's not the line for the barbecue place, is it? And it was. Bunch of dads.

So I dropped people off at the curb. Bunch of dads thinking they want barbecue for their Father's Day. And I was like, you know what? This is perfect. We're going to be in this this line and it's quality time. This is what I want for Father's Day. I want us to be together. And let me just guess, you were articulating

that sentiment in exactly the way you just did. Yes, because I had to, because I was trying to head off at the pass when I knew it was gonna happen. It's like, they were, I mean, I look in the rearview mirror, nobody's even gotten out of the car yet, and everybody's on their phone looking for somewhere else to go. Oh. And I'm like, no, no, no, this is it. And what I'm thinking is,

you're trapped. You're trapped with your dad. Yes. I feel sorry for your family. It's my day. At this point in the story. You have to do it. And so I set expectations that we were not backing out. We're going to embrace the line as, it's like, well, we're going to hang out somewhere, right? With your father?

Might as well be in a line. Might as well be in a line. And how long did you anticipate it being based on your estimation powers? I estimated it might be 45 minutes. And I was like, that's a lot. How long was the line? A city block. A city block?

You underestimated. When it was all said and done, I'll just skip forward to the end of this part of the story. Christy was like, let's see. We got there at 1.30. We left at 4.45. Okay. We were in line for-

Hope it was good. Like two and a half hours. But because of what happened, I didn't realize it at all. I didn't realize it at all. Okay, well, what happened? Well, we get in line, and I had a brainstorm. Full dad mode activated. I'm like, you know what?

I'm going to take care of some technical stuff for you kids that hasn't been taken care of. Lincoln had some banking issues. He didn't have a card. He needed like a debit card. And I had ordered one. But I'm like, you know what? Even though the debit card is not here

son your father can be a hero and put your debit card on your your your phone wallet like your your your apple wallet I can do that for you because I'm your father all you got to do is stand here with me and enter your passwords and send me your codes and all that jazz. So when I was doing that with him, like the other kids are like, well, I'm going to go down the street and get a coffee, you know. So I had my little one-on-one time with Lincoln consulting about his banking. And I'm sure that took 40 minutes without me knowing. Okay. But it was completely successful.

And boy, was I on dad cloud nine. I was just like, Lincoln didn't say anything. He was like, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, son, I moved your money. But you could feel the love. I moved your money. Yeah, I was like, you're gonna be able to purchase things with your own money now. Right? How do you feel about that? Nothing. But I felt

great about it. Great, okay. And I was like, and then Lily comes back with some drinks, and I'm just riding the dad wave. Like, now, what else can I do for you children? And Lily's like, well, my phone, the battery dies, like, halfway through the day, and it says that the storage is full and I can't do anything. And I'm like, huh, give me your phone. Uh-oh, oh, gosh. And she did?

She did. Yeah, I mean, I was, it's Father's Day, you know, and she did she did yeah but i mean i was it's father's day you know and she you know her phone didn't work well i'm like well there's a correlation here i believe you can't even up install an update because you don't have enough room and i'm like you know daughter of mine the photos of photos are your culprit. And I started looking at how she was managing her photos on her phone. And we use Google Photos. We have for years.

That's where our backup is. That's where I've purchased a f-f-f-f-f-family plan of 200 gigabytes of storage. Okay. And this is where all of your photos and your very lifeblood of digital experience is archived. I've provided this for you, yet here you are using a different Gmail and moving all of your photos to that.

And so your Google storage is running out, and you're not utilizing the right Google account. And what is this over here? You're also still using Apple photos, and that's maxed out too. And you've got your photos in three places. And this is so many photos, so much space. Can I ask a question at this point? So I know we talked about this a bit on a more at some point.

So if you use Google Photos with an iPhone, which I'm not gonna criticize that, boy, we got in trouble for that. I don't know if I recommend it, but we've fully committed and I can't back out now. If you use Google Photos on an iPhone, doesn't it automatically still just save them in your photo stream because that's how the phone works? Yes. So the first thing you do to create space is you delete all of the photos from your Apple photos.

Just delete it. And then once you delete all of them, and I'm talking like thousands of photos. If you started with Apple. Five, no, just like, they accumulate. Every time you take a photo, it goes to your Apple, and if you choose to sync it with iCloud, it goes to your iCloud.

Can I just say at this point that that alone makes... I'm not in. I'm not into your family plan. Yeah, I know. But I'm not either, but I can't back out. Can't you select optimize storage, and then it'll... And you can have it after a certain amount of time, it just makes it a thumbnail that then has to be downloaded if you access? I'm not a tech desk for you, it just makes it a thumbnail that then has to be downloaded if you access? I'm not a tech desk for you. Well, you're a tech dad, apparently.

I'm a tech dad for my kids, and I have my system. And it seems like this story's not going to end well just based on the way you've been foreshadowing. So I'm just asking questions, man. Lily, I say, you got to make sure you delete. Apple photos are worthless. You just delete them. And then you go into your recently deleted folder, and then you got to delete those.

Because all it does is move it to trash, but it's going to take 60 days or so to delete them. So you got to delete them immediately so that they actually go away and off your phone and free up the space. It's that simple. But the complicating factor of these other two Gmail addresses and moving in a line

in the heat... A lot of factors here. How hot was it? It was pretty hot. I was outside on Father's Day. It was hot. It was a bit warm. And I wasn't even in an urban environment. Yeah. I was on the asphalt and the concrete and getting

baked a little bit. A dad on asphalt. And the concrete getting baked a little bit. A dad on asphalt. And I started to get a little confused between all of her Gmails and apples and iClouds. I didn't think I was getting confused, but I was finding new things like, clean up your photos, create space. And I'm like, click in this. You were doing open heart surgery on Lily's phone. On Lily's memories. Yes.

Out there inside. Just on a curb. This is so precarious, man. I'm nervous. So I'm like, well, we got to stop backing up this Gmail account, but we got to keep backing up this one. And I'm trying different cleanup tools, and all of a sudden it's like, well, 8,000 photos are being deleted.

And I'm like showing it to Lily like, look, this is great. Look at what I'm doing for ya! And then I get through all of it, and we're, at this point, we're at the door to the restaurant. Timing is not great. Then you turn a corner, and there's like only eight people in between. You can smell the meat cooking at this point. Oh gosh, and it smells so good. There's only eight people in between us in the counter. Once you smell the meat, whatever you were occupying yourself with is out the window. That's when Lily said to me, Dad, let's just do this later.

Yep, that was smart. And that's when I said... We're almost there. That's a mistake. We're almost there. That's a mistake. We're almost there. If we don't finish this journey, we will never get back on the trail. And you're too important for this, Lily. Your phone storage and performance is too important.

Your father is committed to completing this task for you and making your life so much better, because you'll actually be able to use your phone again. And I pressed on. Even though Christy was then like, what sides do you want? Yeah, we're just putting together the order. Because now, we've been in line for hours, and we're getting over there, and we're like, crap, we don't know what we want at all. Well, there's only so many choices, right?

Well, and you can't see the menu until you get inside, unless you look on your phone, which, well, I was doing other things with those. Yeah, I was a little occupied. So I'm like pushing on, but I'm having to accelerate a bit. So I'm like pushing on, but I'm having to accelerate a bit. There's like four people in front of us, and I do it. I finish. And I hand Lily back her phone.

And in triumph, I move on to ordering the barbecue. And Lily's like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. And then she's like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. And then she's like, Dad, you've deleted all of my photos from this year. I have last year's photos still, but I don't have anything from this year. Like, we're halfway through the year, Dad, and they're gone. A little bit more than half, almost. And then it's like her, I think her eyes literally, they got moist. Her eyes got moist.

And then I'm like, oh, crap. And then her face got a little red. I think her eyes actually turned red. Like, you know, the scene red? Yeah. It was like, it wasn't she was about to cry. I think she was about to punch me. Yeah. Like, many times, like, you know, like, I could tell that she was doing everything she could to not pummel me in the barbecue line, literally.

And I was like, well, let's, and I took the phone back, and, well, dag gum. No photos from this year, and I'm like, maybe she's looking at the wrong account, the defunct one. I pull up the other account, they're gone, they're gone from there. One of the accounts, they were gone, all photos were gone. I go over to Apple Photos, all the photos, no photos, nil zilch in those two. And then in the one that I wanted to be the one, ain't nothing from this year. And, you know, she didn't have to tell me how important this was to her. And I'm like, oh, crap.

And, like, I'm just like, it felt like they were, like, like my body had been infiltrated with bugs, and they were eating me from the inside out. Like, all of a sudden, I just felt like a complete father failure. Please tell me that this story has a good ending. And at that point, she goes and just sits down because they said, here's a table for you, so we haven't even ordered yet. And it's like, well, you can go ahead and sit down.

She's sitting there alone, looking at her phone, and she's texting. I'm like, she's texting all her friends about how her dad has just eradicated her entire life of this year. And I'm like, I'm not going to engage, but I'm like, so then we order and we sit down and we're waiting for the food. And Christy's like, so what? She starts making conversation. I'm like, I think I can get this to a point.

I think I can fix this. I want to fix this before the food gets here. So that we can enjoy the food. Okay, please. And what I said that Christy just said was the only thing that Christy said. Because what she told me a little bit later was, yeah, I looked at Lily's face. And I looked at your face. And I looked at your face and I knew that I was gonna back away slowly. And the boys knew this too.

So me and Lily are at the end of the table and I have her phone again and I'm just like trying to figure out what to do. And ultimately I went on my phone after trying a number of things, and I logged into her Apple iCloud on my phone. And I discovered that all the photos were there. Thank God. And I turned and I showed it to Lily,

and then I was like, they're all here. What I want you to do is I want you to turn off syncing. I don't want your phone. Don't let it sync. To communicate with the cloud in order to delete all of those, and she did that. And I was like, now I know that they still exist, and when we get home, I can completely fix this because I am your hero, your father,

who has got your back. But the food, and then I could tell that she loosened up. Got your back right after I... I mean, literally right before that, while I was rummaging through my phone trying to figure out how to see if this was the case, Lily was literally like... There was a bar in this place, too.

She's like, I need a drink. You know, it's like when you're 21... She's 21. Your 21-year-old daughter is like, I just need to go to the... I'm going to go drink at the bar. Well, this is, let's just be real. If that was what had happened permanently, like, it is devastating.

Especially, like, I had a moment where I thought that, well, I did have a moment where a bunch of pictures that I had taken of the kids when Locke was like, from like the time Locke was like six months to two years old. Right. I used this very specific, you know, it was like 2005, 2006, a very specific type of camera that saved in a really weird format. And at some point in the process

of my photos sinking in the background, that format was no longer supported. And a bunch of the videos, all the videos taken from that time ended up turning into thumbnails, and that's all I have. Yeah, me too. From that time.

And it's like- That hurts. And when I realized that it was like, but you know, it was a sporadic, but when you're 21, Right. You think about the amount of memories that you are making, especially in the year 2024.

Like if you weren't able to solve this problem, it would be, I'm trying to think of like the equivalent. You know how sometimes like, you know like if you accidentally kill somebody's pet? No, no, no, I've never done that. I want to, I mean, first of all, that was, I'm not, I'm not. Don't, let's not talk about it. I'm talking about somebody that you actually know very well.

I'm not talking about running over a dog that ran in front of your car. I don't know what you're talking about. But like, I don't remember the story. I know that there's some story about somebody coming into a house and stepping on a cat or something. No, that's why I'm not talking about that either. But like, when that happens,

That's bad. you're kind of like, forever you see that person and that's what you think about. Like that, you were risking that kind of thing that for the rest of the year. For the rest of our lives, it would have been like, remember 2024? Well, not the first half. The first two quarters of 2024 is like lost forever. Right. Pieced together from other people's pictures, you know?

I have so many things that I've done over the years that I've never lived down. It's such a risky thing to do. But I felt like it was the perfect thing to do in line for apparently two and a half hours. And then the food shows up. What'd you get? An interesting thing happened. We got pulled pork. We got pork ribs. We actually didn't

order brisket. Everything was there. We were the last people to get the potato salad. Which was good. Are there collards there? They don't have collards. Beans? They have beans. What's the bread product? Potato bread. Sliced potato bread.

Very good. Very basic, but very good. Interesting. Perfect. All the food shows up, and I start eating, and I take two bites. And this is right on the heels of fixing, like, knowing that all the photos are there. Mm-hmm. And I get this stabbing pain in my stomach. And I look at Christy, I'm like, oh, God, I don't think I can.

Like my look was like, I'm hurting. I don't think I can eat. And Christy's like, it's anxiety. You are having, it's affected you. I've been looking at your face this whole time, and you've been panicking, just shitting your pants, basically. And now I'm like, well, now I think I might literally shit my pants. I don't know what's going on, but, like, it was hurting bad.

And I just, I was like, well, I'm going to start, I started eating slower, and then I And I just, I was like, well, I'm going to start, I started eating slower. And then I just couldn't, I basically couldn't enjoy the food. And then like halfway through the meal, I'm like, I have to go to the restroom. Oh, at the restaurant. Yeah. And nothing came of it. I really thought a lot. I thought it was going to be quite a ballistic experience, but there was nothing.

Nothing. Okay. Except more pain. And so, like, and I know it had to be just getting all just in knots. Like, literally, I think my guts were in knots from what I had almost done. And so I couldn't even enjoy my Father's Day lunch. Everybody else seemed to enjoy it. And Lily bounced back,

to her credit. She bounced back and she was really graceful about it. You know, so I really appreciate that. But then I was, like, walking back to the car almost limping. Like, I was, like, bent over a little bit. I was like, good God, what's going on? I was like, well, I—

Because you were still in pain? Yes. I was like, I need to get home. So we drove back home. Happy Father's Day. And when I got back home. Did you take the stuff to go so you could eat it later? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I ate some. Everybody enjoyed, got their fill. We had some leftovers. I got some to eat later. And then when I got home, it was just gas. But so much of it. And I don't know, how

does anxiety create gas? I don't know. I'm sure it does. I don't know how it, maybe I was just... It's a nervous fart, man. Oh, gosh. And there were, I mean, if they would have left me on the side of the road, I probably could have gotten home using the power of the propylation.

So my body keeps the score, so to speak, and I was like, I don't think I'm going to be able to go one-wheeling. I'm just going to have to lay on my left side. That's what they say, dude. They say lay on your left side. But then things cleared out and um i was totally fine and did you and we one wheeled and then i came back home and i was like lily i want you to download all of your apple photos from this year to your desktop locally and then we're going to upload those to the google account. We're going to fill in the gap,

and your life in digital form is going to be restored. And we did that that night. And we brought this chapter of our father-daughter relationship to a close, and we're moving forward. But it definitely took a toll on my body. Did you, like the next time that Lily runs into this particular technical problem.

I'm sure she won't share it with me. Does she now know how she will rectify it? That's not clear. But I didn't teach a daughter to fish, if that's what you're asking. Yeah. You know. That feels like the next, I think, but maybe this is a.

I just deleted all of her fish. Maybe this is a true Apple genius moment. I don't know, you don't want the Apple, the Apple genius would be like, why are you doing this again? Right. Why are you using Google Photos? Get your dad on the phone. And then I'm. For the family plan?

Then I'm being reamed out by a genius. Is it worth it? I don't know. So that was, you know, I just wanted to be the hero on Father's Day. I think that was your problem. And I wanted to utilize the downtime of a line. To armchair quarterback this a little bit, just as another dad, I think that you want, yeah, I think you overdadded.

Sure. Overdadding can happen in a number of contexts. Yeah. And you specifically did it in the context of It's hard. trying to be the tech hero in a complex environment. Yeah. Food, line, heat, you know, a surgeon would not just open up a patient

on the side of the road. They do it in a controlled environment. Yeah. They've got gloves on. It's climate controlled. They wash their hands first. Yeah. They usually, no, surgeons don't operate while hungry either.

That's a known thing. No, I think you're getting that confused with grocery shopping. Like, good grocery shoppers go on a full stomach. Well, were you the hero? No. Were you the villain? I wasn't trying to be a hero. I didn't make the mistake of trying to be a hero.

I also didn't have much of an opportunity to be. I didn't make the mistake of trying to be a hero. I also didn't have much of an opportunity to be. Surprisingly, Shepard is experiencing the battery problem with his phone, but he just uses Apple Photos. Oh, tell him to come over. So we don't really have to think about it. Tell him to meet me in the line. You know, the wonderful thing about Apple Photos

is that we just take pictures and we never think about anything else. If we want to go look at something from the past, we just click on it and it comes up. I never really think about it. I just click the optimize storage option so that it doesn't overwhelm the phones. At least I didn't delete all Lincoln's money from his bank account.

Yeah, well, that's next year. You've got time. When you get a win like that, it just creates so much dad-mentum. What'd you do? But allow me to interject for one second about this T-shirt. Oh, yes. This is the patchwork t-shirt. If you look closely, you can tell it's GMM.

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which is like... Don't worry about me. We don't... Honestly, Saturday night at about 10.30 p.m., Jessie was like, so we're going to brunch tomorrow and we're going to the Huntington Library and Gardens. I'm like, oh. And I just thought it was because we were just going to have a fun day. And she's like, it's Father's Day.

I'm like, oh, it's Father's Day? And I'm not trying to, again, I'm not being like, oh, I'm so selfless. I don't think about these things. And I probably should. Well, you also have a dad. Who I called. Who you called, but so you're the same as him. He didn't know it was Father's Day either?

It was also his anniversary. His 56th anniversary. Wow. So I had to do the double duty. But I'm just saying my birthday, the same thing. I actually am trying to get better about my birthday because my birthday's in October, and I've actually talked to Jesse about,

I want to start, I love horror, and I do the horror movie thing about I want to start I love horror and I do the horror movie thing where I invite friends over to watch a horror movie but I'm like what if we start doing like an October birthday thing that's like it's like one of those Halloween parties that you see in the movies where people are dressing up oh and. And she was like, maybe not this year. I don't disagree. But I'm actually, I want to get better about planning for that because it's not something I'm intentionally doing. So I didn't know it was Father's Day. But then when I was like, oh, oh, I'm really glad we're going to brunch

and I'm really glad we're going to the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens because I love botanical gardens. It has become a thing we went to the botanical gardens on tour when we were in atlanta when you had to go back for lando's graduation graduation the rest of us so not everybody not everybody but about half the group was into the idea of the botanical gardens beautiful botanical gardens in at. But let me tell you, it doesn't get any better than the Huntington. It's crazy. Every time I go, I'm just reminded at how over the top this place is.

This is a hot tip. If you're coming to LA and the weather's nice, it's not too hot outside. It was pretty hot. Bring an umbrella if it is, but like. And it was as crowded. Yeah, you're right. It's wonderful. It was as crowded as it an umbrella if it is, but it's wonderful. It was as crowded as it's ever been. And they have this whole

desert, California desert area. That's my favorite part. It's all amazing. There's huge trees. Some of the biggest monstera growing up the side of the hugest trees. It's awesome.

Multiple gardens that are like representative of different climates in different parts of the world. Right. It's meticulously gardened by this incredible staff and also museum pieces. And it's a private collection, right? Yeah. I mean, the Huntington family, like the story of like Mr. Huntington and his wife and they like built the place in 1919. You know, back in like those, what do you call that?

The Gilded Age when it was like possible to become like so incredibly rich that you could like buy this giant facility. And of course, at some point you donate it to, or not donate it to them. It's not a state owned thing. Now it's just, you can have a membership or you can pay and go in there. Very popular dad idea. And we didn't necessarily,

I think I underestimated how much dads would be into this. Yeah, I mean, I went there on Mother's Day and that was a mistake. Well, I can't imagine it being any more crowded because it was one of those days where there's basically no parking. Every single available parking space. We did find one eventually. But very popular. And so this is actually, and first of all, Jessie knows the things that I like and she helps to care for me

in a way that I would otherwise care for myself. But like something like knowing that I like botanical gardens, not something that registered with me. It's actually in my second half of life that I've actually become sensitive to or more sensitive to and tuned into my own preferences.

Because I think it's something about growing up as a younger sibling or something, or I don't know what it is, but it's just like some combination of factors. I'm kind of like, I like a lot of things, I have a very good time, but when you start asking me which things I prefer over other things, I'm kind of like, I don't know. What do y'all think?

You know what I'm saying? So I'm actually like, no, I do like botanical gardens. I like walking around botanical gardens and saying things like, wow, how'd they get that in here? Like, can you imagine, like, how many of those do you think are in America? That's from there. Oh, you probably couldn't take a seed out of here. If you took a seed out of here and then planted it somewhere, it'd probably be against the law. You know, dad things. Yeah. Yeah. It is an opportunity to dad really hard. Any type of

exhibit where you have to notice things. If you were to build this right now from the ground up, a greenhouse like this, California, I don't know if you could. Honestly, to find a contractor who specialized in this kind of thing, I don't think they'd be able to do it, honestly. And you're thinking all these thoughts. It'd be so cost prohibitive. And you're thinking, the people that you're with, you're like, they need to hear these thoughts because this... I'm getting better at not saying these things out loud.

This enriches the experience. I'm getting better at not saying these things out loud. But that's the impulse, though. My experience is enriched by my thoughts that other people need to hear to enrich their experience. This is the thing, Link. Especially if I'm in charge of helping make them into people. The dad final frontier is keeping things to yourself.

If you don't get there, you're going to become a bad dad. You got to be sly. You got to be tight-lipped about it. The pendulum swings. Let's just explore this for a second. There's a bad dad on one end of the pendulum, and that is a dad who's not engaged. That is a dad who isn't saying anything to anybody

because he just doesn't care enough to say anything. He's sitting on the bench. Y'all go ahead. I'm gonna sit on the bench. He doesn't care enough. This is a big circle anyway. And then there's the momentum that swings the pendulum towards the middle or the other side,

which is a dad who cares, a dad who's invested, a dad who wants to talk about the things that he is realizing how much concrete it would have taken to build this particular facility. Or clean up your daughter's phone. That's the same instinct. And set up the bank account. Right. These are things that are born out of love Love. Love and care for your family. For real. Now, you could make the argument

that they're born out of a narcissistic tendency to want everyone to see the world the way that you do, but let's just set that aside for a moment. I'm not buying that. And what I found myself doing is, and actually the thing that has brought this to light is the number of, social media has helped with this.

Because anytime you see a dad-ism parodied on social media, it's actually, and they do this all the time in like movies. And otherwise, a movie that I didn't really like, Sidney Sweeney rom-com, Anyone But You, my favorite part of the movie

was the dad character who was dadding it up and that was his angle was like making all these observations about Australia and the US when he was in Australia

and I was like, shit, he's doing the same stuff I did when I was there. Right. And so when you see it parodied and you're like, oh, he's doing the same stuff I did when I was there. Right. And so when you see it parodied and you're like, oh, they, no one cares as much as the dad cares.

And so you get to a point where you're like, you know what? I can make this observation about what the legality of taking a seed out of here would be. And I could just think about that in my own brain. That's the final frontier. Now, if you see it- Maybe you should talk to your dad about it. If you see another dad. Oh, there you go.

If you see another dad, or once my boys get to the right age, in fact, I think that Locke is there. Now, Locke wasn't with me. Locke's been abroad. He's coming back today, actually. He wasn't there. I did talk to him on the phone. But he's getting of that age where I think I can start dispensing this sort of information. Tread lightly. I'll be like, what do you think about

taking a seat out of here? It's a trick question, son. And then if he responds, how much concrete do you think is in this facility? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You throw things out like that. But you got to, just a little goes a long way. It's like salt.

Right. All right, well. So anyway, I traversed, and I was with my nephews as well. So Cole's boys were in town because they are driving Locke's car across the country to get it to the East Coast where he needs it for his college. Okay. And so they're doing a road trip. Very excited for them.

And hopefully they make it. Well, I'm glad you didn't fail at anything. But I was with them, and I didn't fail at anything. I think I was a good uncle. I was a good dad. I saw a lot of incredible plants. I spent time in the American Art Museum. You can't see all the art when you go to the Huntington.

You have to pick one of the galleries. Went to the American Art, which also includes furniture, which really got my wife excited. I've seen that. She just loves looking at furniture. Furniture.

Well, take note of that for Mother's Day. Yep, yep, yep. And so, if you've got any interesting chairs or other things that would excite my wife,

just leave us a voicemail. Oh. So it was relatively uneventful. Had a good brunch. Had a good time out in the Huntington. Would have been nice if there weren't so many other dads there. But I did not delete any photos. I did not upset my one son that was present or my nephews who were present.

They did make a few observations. You don't need to make a summary. They did make a few observations about me saying and doing the same things as their dad, my brother. Which I thought was funny. Nothing to note. They're like, yep, that's something that dad would say. But yeah, well, he's also a dad and he's also my brother. It's instinctive.

Yeah, we can't help it. We're proud dads. We're still learning. And if we keep talking, you know, it won't be a shorter episode. Yeah, so we're going to end it. My recommendation for you is simple. Find the local botanical garden and go to it. But don't dad too hard. Keep the thoughts to yourself. If you need to make notes on your phone or a notepad, learn to keep the thoughts to yourself before you tell everyone in your group.

Or just go alone and talk to yourself out loud. We'll talk at you next week. Hi, Rhett and Link. It's Niamh from Dublin in Ireland just calling to prove that yes your international mythical beasts can call Earbiscuits and say hello

Rhett, I know you've discovered recently that you're not Scottish you're actually Irish and to tell you that in here your surname would be pronounced McLaughlin, not McLaughlin so if you're Irish I thought you might want to know that Okay, thanks, bye