Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Our Dog Bite Stories | Ear Biscuit Ep. 416

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

Be careful hugging a long lost friend – you might get bit by a dog! In this episode, Rhett & Link share some dog bite stories about people close to them, then Link tells Rhett about some common misconceptions the good old people of Reddit want everyone to know are false. Can Link stump Rhett? Don’t put off learning that language - there’s no better time than RIGHT NOW to get started! Get Rosetta Stone’s Lifetime Membership for 50% off! Visit https://rosettastone.com/ear. Start building your credit. Open a Chime Checking account with at least a $200 qualifying direct deposit to get started. Get started at chime.com/ear. 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

This, this, this, this is Mythical. Introducing TD Insurance for Business, with customized coverage options for your business. Because at TD Insurance, we understand that your business is unique, so your business insurance should be too. Contact a licensed TD Insurance advisor to learn more. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I'm Rhett. And I'm Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, I don't want to say that you're going to learn something

because I don't want you to think this is going to be educational. Well, I think you're just... Link, you're not, there are people, in fact, I would say most people, who do wanna learn things. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just over it.

Well, I've noticed. I know that I said that I was over the spiritual stuff. Maybe it's just because I'm over everything. Like learning. I think most people like to, like, I'm a curious guy. I mean, maybe not go back to school, but... I learned some stuff.

And because I kind of went down this rabbit hole of curiosity called a Reddit thread. Okay. misconceptions debunked by people who are in the know and severely irritated by the fact that the misconceptions are perpetuated. So I'm going to take you through the highlights that I found from this common misconception Reddit thread just to see if I can blow your mind or change your ways or learn you a little bit. You think I suffer from falling from most misconceptions?

No, no, no. I think you know it all. Okay. Well, we'll put that to the test. So it can be putting that to the test too. First, I got a couple of things that, if you'll bear with me i do want to bring to the table that i that i think will improve people's lives in their body well i'm excited for that not just their brain because i will say i just got back from a very long meeting uh and

it's the same meeting that you're gonna have to have probably next week. Yeah, you're talking... Because basically we have the same... A financial planning meeting. The same people who do things for us. But this was like me and Jesse meeting with them. And you and Chrissy are gonna have to meet with them. And it was as wonderful as a financial planning meeting can be.

You look like a shell of a man. Meaning that I'm really hoping that you've got some stuff to perk me up. Now, I did put some Diet Dr. Pepper. This is my third caffeinated drink of the day, which is... Oh, shit. I usually have... I was having two, and then I downgraded to one. And now I've gone from one to three.

That was like your actual New Year's resolution that you didn't tell anybody about, but I started to notice you'd be like, declining coffee? I was like, what's happening here? Well, what was happening was I was waking up at four o'clock in the morning and I was trying, and I kept going through things, trying to figure out what it was. And by eliminating, the funny thing is,

is eliminating my second caffeinated drink, I don't know how much it impacted it, but what I've noticed is that if I just eat more sugar, I stay asleep, which is a real bad thing to realize. More sugar makes you sleepy? Like, this weekend, three nights in a row, I made the mistake of having, like, I've got, I have a little, I got some candy in my house, right? And I'm usually really good at not eating the candy.

But Friday night, Saturday night, and yesterday, I got into the candy. And I hated myself while I was doing it. My wife is like, you have such a, she's like, you have such an unhealthy relationship with food because every time you do something, you keep calling yourself a bad boy. I'm like, the bad boy's going in the cabinet now.

Well, she's like, you gotta have more mercy on yourself. Or at least just don't say it out loud. It doesn't have to be a running commentary. Yeah, maybe I should just think it. Bad boy thinks he's going into the cabinet right now. I mean, you could say it like bad boy records. No, it's different. It's not anything to be proud of.

It made you sleep better? I didn't wake up at all. And it's just like It's not anything to be proud of. It made you sleep better? I didn't wake up at all. And it's just like, that can't be good. That's what you mean, man. No, because I feel like, shiiiit, today. Like, I was sitting in that meeting, and I was like, man, don't ever eat that sugar again. Because the thing is, I can wake up at 4 o'clock, maybe it's just because I don't need to sleep that much. Well, no, it's not. Are you sure that wasn't, that what was happening wasn't that you needed sugar in the meeting?

Why not just eat more sugar in the meeting? No. Sugar's not good for you, man, it's poison. No, that you're confusing it with alcohol. And alcohol. I had that too this weekend. You had a big weekend. I had three.

You were a bad boy. I had three. You were a bad boy. The bad boy had three hard kombuchas on an afternoon, which is highly unusual for me. Highly unusual. Three alcoholic beverages. What is the bad boy doing? But you justified it because a kombucha is good for the gut. Yeah, probably not these kombuchas. Anyway... Bad boy hurt. Yeah, probably not these kombuchas. Anyway. Bad boy hurt. I don't know, I'm still experimenting with myself

and I'll get back to you on how I'm gonna sleep through the night without just eating candy. Because I'm sure Huberman wouldn't want me to do that. Don't mention his name here. In the future I'm gonna go on Huberman and you're gonna be a podcast clip. You can't even talk. Get this man some sugar.

Me saying, well, you know, the thing that's really helped me, Andrew, is just eating a lot more candy. That's what I've found. Everybody's always saying some bullshit that's different than the next person says, and my thing is candy. I got gummy candy, I got licorice. I took black licorice and dipped it in peanut butter.

I mean, that's as bad as a boy can be. You know what I'm saying? That's as bad as a boy can be. It definitely- But y'all should try that. It sounds- If you like those things. But the sugar sleep discovery sounds like the type of thing that like, you know, people will be buzzing about that. You should- Really?

Yeah, you should publish the study. The problem is I feel like crap during the day, so I'm not gonna do that. Because I didn't feel bad when I was waking up at 4 o'clock. I just wasn't sleeping as much as my ring told me I needed to. Okay. But now you're sleeping a lot and you're feeling bad. I wonder if I could get the feedback

from my aura ring to say whether or not I was a good boy or a bad boy last night. I bet you I could get ChatGPT. Gives you a score. I bet you if I knew how to do things on the computer and to do apps and stuff. You could alter your sleep score to good boy, bad boy? I don't wanna be like,

yeah, yeah, be like, did you get a good boy score or a bad boy score? I think Jessie's right. It's just not the prop. It's shame framing. Oh, yeah. She is all over me every time. You don't need to shame frame. I am, but I'm so well motivated by shame. Like, it's propelled me through my entire life.

And I've gotten places. I had a financial planning meeting today. Yeah, you did. Look at you now. You're back here with me. I discovered over the weekend, and I want to share this story because I think now it's going to change how I behave, specifically around dogs, because of what happened to a friend of ours. And you probably haven't heard this yet, but our friend Ward got bit by a dog over the weekend and it was not minor, it was not pretty. So he had been bitten when you saw him on Saturday night?

Yeah, he's like limping in. Oh, it's a limp bite. So here's what happened. So this is at least an 80 pounder. We checked on him this morning, he's okay. He's recovering. He's not like gonna lose the leg or anything. So I don't, you know, there's a- Okay, not, like, going to lose the leg or anything. So I don't, you know, there's a...

Okay. Well, I hope not. Well, I just wanted to go ahead and tell you, like, he is okay, so now I'm going to tell the story. If there was a chance he might lose his leg, I doubt he would have showed up to your DJ practice session on Saturday night. That's all I'm saying. Well, I don all I'm saying.

Well, I don't agree with that. Okay. It was important to him to be there. So what happened? Did he give you permission to tell his story? Just spending some vinyl, having a great time. He did not give me permission, but... It was implied. I don't think he would care.

Yeah, it was implied. Permission implied. There's not a lot of details, except that he was... Is there going to be a court case? He was driving through a... No, he was implied. Because I... Permission implied. Well, there's not a lot of details except that, like, he was... Is there going to be a court case? He was driving through a... No, he was driving through a neighborhood. I'm telling this story wrong, but all the details that matter, I'm going to tell correctly. Good.

He sees a friend that he hasn't seen in a while. So, like, he walks up to the friend at the front door, and he's like, Oh, my God, I'm so happy to see you. And he like gives her a hug and her dog's there. Okay. And when he gives her a hug, the dog just like latches onto his upper thigh. Upper thigh. Upper thigh.

Did it jump to make contact with her or is this how big the dog is? He said that the dog was like this big. So it's like a lab size dog is what I took him to mean. Okay. And I was like, did you curse this dog? Like, what came out of your mouth? And he's like, you know, when you're blindsided by a dog bite

when you're in an embrace, you don't, you know, he's just like, ow! You know, that's just like, ow! That was his response because it was his... You don't want to start hitting a person's dog right in front of them. Right. And you're like, oh, your dog is doing something to me! Wow, it's hurting bad! You know, kind of a thing. Did this friend notice that it was happening? Yeah. And what did she do? I'm sure bad, you know, kind of a thing. Did this friend notice that it was happening? Well, yeah, yeah. And what did she do?

I'm sure she was embarrassed. No, but what did she do? Did she start hitting her own dog? I didn't ask. Well, how long was it latched? I didn't ask. Am I a bad friend? I ask, are you okay?

And I ask like, what, like, I ask what pants you were wearing. He was like, these pants. I was like, well, it can't be that bad because you're still wearing the pants and there's no holes in them. He was like, there's an entire, and I was like, Christy was like, how bad is it?

I was like, she wants to see it. I don't want to see it. And then- Hold on, Christy was at the DJ session? Yeah, because Andy ended up coming. Oh, okay. This is more than I thought it was going to be. Well, it turned into that, yeah.

So, but it was mainly, yeah, I'm doing, we hear the dog story, I'm doing the practicing. I told you you'd be invited eventually that I was easing into things. Okay, okay. Apparently, it's like, you know, a big chomp down. You could tell that it's a dog that is chomped down on the leg. What do you mean?

You saw it. I didn't see it. That's what he described. Because he would have to take his pants off to show you. Yeah, and that wasn't that type of party. Okay. You weren't playing the right music. I'm totally the type of person

that would walk up to a friend whose dog was beside them and give them a hug if I hadn't seen them in a while. I wouldn't think about the fact that like,

well, you never know exactly what a dog will do. Now, I do know you don't pet somebody's dog without asking permission first. I've learned that.

Thank goodness, not the hard way. But this kind of shook me up a little bit because, you know. I would say it's still unlikely. I don't want to get bit by a dog, but. And, you know, Ben, who works here, he was, like, being friendly with a friend's dog, and the dog bit him in the face. You know? Yeah.

And the owners don't seem to expect it to happen either. I mean, these aren't wild animals, but like. Not far from it. Apparently not as far from it. I have a renewed sense that I want to pass along to you, dear ear biscuetteer, to be wary around a dog you don't know. Don't hug people in front of a dog? Is that what you're saying?

Yeah, yeah. Don't hug people in front of a dog you don't know. I don't know about that. An owner. I'm not ready to support that. Jade, if I'm sitting on the couch in there, in the office, and somebody comes up to me to shake my hand or something, she's growled in the past, even if she knew him.

She's growled at you. Yeah, but she's a different. And she would nip. She's like when Sean bites you. She'll act like she bites. And this has happened multiple times. But you kind of. This has happened multiple times at my house with Sean.

If people make a sudden move towards one of us and they're like somebody that he doesn't know. And then what we, I actually, what I noticed last night, had one of our old friends over and who hasn't, he's only seen Sean like twice maybe? Yeah. And there was a couple of times

where we got kind of animated or excited and my friend would be like coming from the kitchen and like Barbara starts barking because she gets excited. And then Sean's just like, I gotta bite the closest person. You know, like just assuming I gotta, I must need to bite someone. But not anybody who's, he was the only person besides my immediate family who was in the house. He didn't bite. He didn't bite? He didn't bite him, but it was like, like, he was starting to,

and then he would go, oh, I know you, you know. He's not real smart. But, um. Well, you know he bit me. I know you remember yeah he did and we're working on that and he's getting better but he's also you know chihuahuas have the the least bite strength of all the of all the breeds so he is he kind of gives you a little it's like you've been to the doctor and got you know you got a little shot that's the kind of wound you get've been to the doctor and got a little shot. That's the kind of wound you get. Leave it to the owner to minimize it. I'm speaking on behalf of approaching somebody else's dog. Because now I'm such a, I assume all dogs are good-hearted.

Go to heaven? Even if they're barking. It's just because I haven't put my hand down there yet to let you sniff it. I'm not doing that. Let's not make a judgment of the dog's heart. I'm afraid of dogs now. I'm afraid of dogs. Even the dogs, you just said the dog wasn't good-hearted. The dog biting ward was out of the goodness of its heart because it thought that its owner was

being threatened. Yeah. It's still a good-hearted dog. It's kind of a bad boy. I can relate. You know? Jenna, you got bit by a dog? I've been bit by a dog recently. Was it a good-hearted dog? What happened?

It was during the lockdowns, and we just started being able to walk outside. I was like, yeah, I'm going to walk outside. able to walk outside i was like yeah i'm gonna walk outside and um uh my friend and i were on a walk together my roommate and there was this older woman with a german shepherd um just like in uh on like a grassy area right next to the sidewalk where i'm walking and she like had the leash and um but it was one of those retractable ones and i didn't approach nothing i did like a little like hello to her and was just continuing on my way like a hello nod like oh wow i can see a person um and then the dog just lunged at me and she didn't have hold of the leash properly and the german shepherd uh did rip my pants. Whoa! Yeah, he ripped my pants.

Are we talking above the knee? Below the knee? Yeah, yeah. It was my good thigh. He got a good chunk. He got my thigh meat in there. Oh. Did you just go to the doctor?

I didn't. No, it didn't break skin, but it was really bruised, and you could tell it was like a bite mark. And what did this woman do when her dog bit you? Nothing. Nothing? Yeah. bruised and you could tell it was like a bite mark and what did this woman do when her dog bit you nothing nothing yeah um yeah she was just like oops and i was like okay oops oops and it was just like to the dog like don't do that and it's just like well you know you could just have the leash better like i wasn't blaming the dog for it yeah but you gotta be apologetic. And you probably need to give,

I mean, what's the right thing to do? She did not apologize to me. She did not apologize. I think you exchange insurance information. Well, if you exchange, I think as a dog owner,

you're immediately afraid that like, okay, lawsuit. This person's gonna make me put my dog down. Right. That's the thing. You are scared.

I would never. Oh my goodness, I would never. Somebody. Yeah, I was annoyed that she didn't apologize. Yeah, that's a big dog, too. Yeah, it was a George Shivers. George Shivers isn't a tag dog.

I think this is the application, don't exchange information with people if your dog bites somebody. No, be careful, like, keep your distance around dogs. I think you have to be a repeat offender. I'm not, did I just, I'm not trying to blame you, Jenna. I had distance. No, it was her fault. I had distance.

But it was Jenna's. It was Jenna's fault. She should have stayed inside. She shouldn't have gone outside. Shouldn't have chanced going on a walk. Hey, listen, I can tell you, I don't know if I've ever told this story, but I think Jessie, my wife, has the best dog biting story. I wasn't present for it, but I'll tell you as best as I can remember

her telling me. Back in North Carolina, several years before we moved out here, she was having something made or fixed or something by like a dude who does something at his house. Like, I'll fix your chair or something like that, right?

Yeah. And it's one of those houses out in North Carolina where somebody lives on some land and you have to drive through two fields to get to their house. Like, you know, somebody off over the road quite a bit. Country house. And she drives up and she...

There's like a... What is it, Dalmatian. A Dalmatian. Which is a big, Dalmatian's a big dog. You're talking about the ones that come in like sets of 101 and they're on fire trucks. Yeah, I mean their image has really been cleaned up by that movie but I've known quite a few bad boy Dalmatians in my day.

I've heard they're stupid. They're just, they're big and the consequences of their actions are more significant than say, Sean. Right? So, this dog, I think I remember the dog was barking and she was hesitant to even get out of the car and then like the guy was just, like, waving her in, like, everything's cool or whatever.

And she gets out of the car, and the dog comes up and bites her on the ass. I'm sorry, I'm laughing. I mean... He bit her right on the ass. And she got into her car and drove away. And then she came home, and she told me, and I called the guy.

And it was, I don't like this, right here, you know, I could barely understand a word that he was saying, but he basically was not taking responsibility for the dog. And I don't know if we ever got the thing from him that we even needed. We didn't, we never like moved forward with any motion. But she got bit on the ass by a Dalmatian.

And then she had to get a shot, a preventative. Yeah, because the teeth went in the ass. It did break the skin. Sorry, baby. Be careful around the dogs. Keep your ass away. Keep your ass away. Keep your thighs away. If I had been there, I would have stepped in.

I would have put myself between you and that dog. Oh. Mm-hmm. You would have done that. I would have dove. One more thing that I want to do to make your life safer by making your... I want to close the loop on this Uber driver conversation that we had many weeks ago

by playing this one voicemail. Hi, this is Dante from Cincinnati. I am a part-time Uber driver. When we get a rider, we have to immediately rate the rider after we drop you off. You guys who ride for Uber can rate well after as well as tip well after. So as a driver, I may get a tip three or four days later like Link was talking about,

but I may have rated that person low because they didn't give me an immediate tip. Oh, shit. That's it. That's what explains my rating because I always tip, and I tip aggressive. You can tip before the ride is over, I'm pretty sure. Or, but like, as the ride is ending, you need to have a habit of tipping.

I'm always like, thanks, man. And then I just do it when it reminds me. I have no clue about this. Yeah, you got to do that. I think I'm going to start saying, hey, man, thanks. I'm tipping you right now. Oh, yeah. In order to get the credit for the tip, you got to do the tip immediately.

I feel like. While you're still at the tip, you gotta do the tip immediately. I feel like- While you're still at the table, so to speak. If any of the Uber development people are listening, might I just suggest a slight alteration to your system? No, they're not listening to you. If the tip comes in, then you should be able to be like, "'Shall I reevaluate?

"'Would you like to reevaluate your rating? You rated this person. Here's his picture. Here's his tip. I remember that guy. He was quiet. I thought he didn't like me, but he just tipped me.

I like him now. I'm going to give him five stars. It's kind of like, yeah, it's a cooling off period before you rate. And then, so I think that it's kind of, on the pro side, it's kind of like a movie, you know?

You know a movie's a really good movie when you get out of the movie theater and you don't know what your opinion is. You might not even like it, but then you sleep on it. The next morning, you're thinking about the movie and you realize that's a good movie. Because I'm sitting here thinking about things that the movie made me think about. That's a good test's a good movie because i'm sitting here thinking about things that the movie made me think about that's that's a good test of a good movie you have a cooling off period

to reflect on it of course when it comes to uber riders it might start to put more pressure to be memorable but the tip i guess can cover that. I have another idea for the Uber development people. I think there should be a little thing that's coming up, and when the guy does something good, you hit a little thing, and it makes a little... It makes a little noise on your phone. In real time. In real time, and it's just like...

You give him coins. Pavlovian. Like, that dude just did a really awesome turn. That was a super smooth stop. Ding, ding. And then he hears you. He's in the back. You're not talking because I don't want to talk.

I'm in the back seat and it's just like ding, ding, ding. My phone is just dinging like crazy and he knows he's killing it. Yes. And it almost becomes like a video game for him. An audio video game. Ding, ding, ding. Audio feedback. And then he's like, think about it because we always talk about how we don't like.

Both of us, maybe more than any other people that I've ever met, think about the smoothness of the stopping and the taking off. Yeah, I think about that. I told Locke as I was teaching him to drive, I was like, you should be able to put a glass of wine on the dash. First of all, don't put a glass of wine on your dash, ever. That's a horrible idea. But theoretically, you should be able to put a glass, a stemmed glass of wine on your dash. Ever. That's a horrible idea. But theoretically, you should be able to put a glass of... a stemmed glass of wine

on your dash and come to a stop and take off. That's how smooth you should be. Especially when other people are in the car. Why don't you just start doing this verbally? Ooh, I like that turn. That was a good acceleration, sir. Yeah, you could even add the ding ding ding. I'll just make the noises until Uber updates. Right, just see. So what's wrong with you?

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I mean, do you feel you can approach dogs differently? I just want to know that what I've done is sharing that story has made a difference. I feel like I'm... Your wife got bit on the ass and you didn't change anything. No, no. I'm, well, first of all, I'm significantly more cautious than you in everything.

And so I'm already more cautious than you in the way that I interact with dogs. So this is a wake up call for me. And I also don't, usually don't hug people unless they make the first move, typically. Okay. I'm a little bit scary. Have you seen me?

I know this is audio only, but you can see me, right? There is a video version. Oh yeah, that's right. I'm kind of scared. But yes, I do see you. Yeah, yeah, so. Okay, well, everything that I'm gonna share with you- And I don't hug dogs.

I don't hug dogs, unless they hug me first. Everything that I'm gonna share with you is something that I have had a misconception about. And I feel okay about it because the prompt was, what's a common misconception about a topic you're knowledgeable about that you'd like to debunk? So I didn't feel bad when I was schooled. So now I'm gonna try to school you.

And if you just keep saying, well, I already knew that. Well, I could lie to you and tell you I already knew it. Because now I know there are misconceptions. The way you're gonna do this is to just tell me, well, I already knew that. Well, I could lie to you and tell you I already knew it, because now I know there are misconceptions. The way you're gonna do this is to just tell me, is it true or false? Okay. I know they're all false. Okay, well, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna see if I can fool you.

True or false, bats- Sleep upside down. Are not blind. Bats are definitely not blind. They just, yeah, they just also use echolocation. But they have eyes. Have you seen one? Yeah, I have. But I didn't think about it. I mean, blind people have eyes too, Rhett. Yeah, but that's a subset of people who also have eyes.

Alligators have eyes too. And then they have eyelids that cover them, and then they have another eyelid that covers them. It feels like a different thing. But I wouldn't have told you. I don't know how well bats can see, because if they could see really awesome in the night, then why would they need echolocation? Exactly.

Bats are blind. Ha! Got you with the first one. Hold up. You're lying. Yeah, I am. Their eyesight is just fine, but since they're primarily nocturnal,

they may rely more on other senses. They've got- Like echolocation. I mean- For getting around. I saw a TikTok of a bat trying to get into this woman's house. You're afraid of bats. Well, I'm afraid of that bat. No, you're afraid of bats. Yeah, I don't of that bat. No, you're afraid of bats.

Yeah, I don't. Say it. Well, I've made it very clear. When I went to Mexico and I dove in the, and I swam in the cenotes and there were a bunch of bats above me, nothing, no fear, nothing. It's when I'm outside and there's a bat flying around and it's swooping, swooping in and swooping out.

You know I'm going to be the first one it gets. Because again, I'm the tallest one. I can see you. And if Heather Dinklage had not gotten necked by a bat back in the 80s, I would not have felt this fear. Your neighbor's older sister. I had a bat swoop and swarm in North Carolina at night as dusk is approaching? Mm-hmm.

Got all up in her hair. Got all caught up in her hair. I bet that was scary for you. And especially since I've grown my hair out and it's kind of like a bat net at this point. I think about it. Is that why you've done it? Yeah. But this bat was giant.

And you know how their arms are wings? You know, a lot of people, like, wings are arms, right? It's like... Evolutionarily speaking. A wing is a modified arm. It's not like you grow wings on your back and you've still got arms. Unless you're a dragon. I would actually say that the wings are more, almost hands. Like the fingers are webbed. Or the individual spines of, yeah. And this thing was like...

That's crazy. I mean, you gotta look at this video. It's one of those big, yeah. And this thing was like, I mean, you got to look at this video. It's one of those big, it's like this big. It's like a fruit bat. With Heather? There's a video? No, no, I'm talking about TikTok trying to get in. Something's wrong with this bat because it really wanted in. See, the way you feel about that bat is the way that I want to feel about strange dogs.

And I have to make that adjustment. I'm not gonna talk about animals a lot, but I am gonna talk about them a few more times. Did you think that a bat was blind? I just didn't think about it. Okay, well then you didn't involve that. I mean, there's a phrase. Blind as a bat. Blind as a bat.

Yeah. So that always meant the opposite. See, my mind is blown. Every time someone says I'm blind as a bat, it meant that they could see. They were telling me they could see.

Well, no, no, no. That's not true. Are all toads frogs or are all frogs toads? Okay, I'm just going to go with what I would have told you coming into this. Now, and keep in mind,

I should have given a disclaimer at the top of this, this is just people on Reddit. Right, but there's somebody who comes in and says, I know this, and they give you a reason. Right, but there's always, yeah, and there's always somebody else who would say, well, you're stupid and you're wrong, and it wouldn't get to the top, so this is like,

this is the gold standard in knowledge. Okay, I would have said that toads and frogs are two distinctly different things. I didn't know that one was a sub of the other. So whatever that misconception is, I thought toads weren't technically amphibians and frogs were. Or frogs did most of their time in the water or something.

What is it? It's just people saying snarky shit underneath. time in the water or something. What is it? It's just people saying snarky shit underneath. Oh, so we don't have a definitive answer? No. They say all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads. So toads are a subset of frogs. And what is it that makes them that? That they're not in the water?

Well now I'm gonna have to Google. Nobody went in and said that. Because whenever I pick up a frog, which is not common, not all the time anymore, it's wet and slimy. When you pick up a toad, it's like warty dry. Toads are warty looking, covered in little lumps and bumps,

while frogs are sleek and smooth. That's how you warty dry. Toads are warty looking, covered in little lumps and bumps, while frogs are sleek and smooth. That's how you tell the difference. Toads are virtually always have dry skin, whereas frogs look wet even when they're out of water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's just the difference. I don't think that's the... We had so many.

But hold on. We were just talking about how they were totally different things, but like... And all frogs are toads? All toads are frogs, but like, yeah, so some frogs are smooth. This isn't even... I feel like you gotta get it.

Can we just expose it? I feel like you gotta get a second source on this. From... Are frogs toads? PSU.edu, it says all toads are frogs, but not From our frogs toads. PSU.edu it says all toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads.

But then why is there so many infographics about being able to tell the difference? I think it's like are you a special

type of frog that's a toad or are you not? Yeah. I'll buy that. What do you like more? I don't like either one of them

but if I had to choose I think I would choose a non-toad frog. You can't just say frog. But for what? For a friend? Or for a pet? Because the sliminess freaks me out. If I had to hold one or the other... But you just said you'd rather have a frog. To be afraid of? I hold one or the other. But you just said you'd rather have a frog. To be afraid of. I didn't understand the question. Which do you prefer?

When somebody says, which one do you like more or which one do you prefer? It's not, which one do you prefer to be afraid of? I know, I just said it backwards. I was trying to cover for myself. You prefer a toad as a friend. I think I would No Yes

Yeah I think so as well Well I don't know Because I Here's exactly what happened in my brain I didn't like toads Because I didn't like wartiness And then I realized

I didn't like sliminess So I changed my answer In the middle of it And I seemed Like I didn't know What I was talking about Because I didn't If I had a toad

I don't like either one If I had a toad That was a friend And I had him on a little leash I feel like I didn't know what I was talking about, because I didn't. If I had a toad that was- I don't like either one. If I had a toad that was a friend and I had him on a little leash, I feel like he could go everywhere that I go. You know what I'm saying? But if I was a frog, if I had a frog friend, I feel like- You mean a non-toad frog? Like a frog frog.

Well, a toad is a frog. I feel like I would have to get him water a lot. Yeah. And that would get annoying. Time maintenance. It's like a friend who you have to constantly put lip balm on him. Yeah, yeah, you're the frog in this relationship. But I don't make you put it on me. I'm the guy, warts and all, just out in the desert.

Like, he can put me through anything, and then I just, like, hop right up to you. Oh, God. You leave this guy outside for seven minutes, and he's turned, he's hard as a rock, and the sun's completely dehydrated. Come on, man. I just, I take care of my needs. I have my bag with my bomb.

I don't need any convenience to do it all with it. If you've got a fanny pack, you're the frog in the relationship. There's nothing wrong with it. I'm just pointing it out. Well, a toad is a frog too, I hate to tell you. People talk about how we're a frog and toad. I'm toad, that's what I'm saying.

You got on a green one. And I am non-toad. Well, it's a military mechanic outfit. You're ready for action. You're ready to fix a Jeep. All right. Since we're having so much fun with animals, I'll give you one more. This person said, I want to flip a table every time I hear orcas are actually dolphins, not what? Whales. Are orcas dolphins?

Are orcas dolphins? So. Are orcas dolphins? I. He doesn't want to be wrong. No, no, no, no. They're called killer whales, but I was told at some point in the past that an orca and a dolphin are in the same. They're like on the same family tree or whatever. So you're saying orcas are dolphins?

They're a type of dolphin. That's what I would have told you. I could be wrong. And are dolphins whales? I don't know. I don't think so. I mean, maybe whale is a big category that's all mammals that swim. But if it is, that's news to you? I know that whales and dolphins are very closely related. You can't say yes. No, no, no, like, hold on, but you're asking.

Is it news to you that if a dolphin were a whale, would that be news to you? It would be like, or, yeah, I would be like, you're saying that whale is like frog. Yes. That would be news to me. Okay, all right.

Well, if I got news for you, whale. They're all whales. All dolphins are toothed whales. Okay. And so a killer whale is also a dolphin because it's toothed. Bingo, bingo. Okay. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Also, orca isn't a less offensive term for killer whale is also a dolphin because it's two. Bingo, bingo. Okay. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

Also, orca isn't a less offensive term for killer whale. Orchidus orca roughly translates to demon of the sea. Plus, it's not like orcas would give a flying F about our shitty human opinions anyways. They'd probably love being called killer whales because they're assholes. Super intelligent, badass holes. That's what somebody said. You've seen like the footage of the toothed whale orca batting around a dolphin of the flipper variety.

I've seen them do it with the seals. And the seals. But they also like bat around dolphins. They'll eat a dolphin. Man, we have- I know they are a dolphin. I can't wait- But you know what I mean.

Until we can talk to them. I just can't. They're getting close to it. They used AI to have a conversation with a humpback whale. And the- Oh, man, it's going to be crazy. It's going to be crazy because their brains are so big. The dolphin's brain is bigger than our brain.

Now... But the things that they care about are things that are so different. I would say I would go a step beyond the things that they care about. Yes, that's one way of putting it, but, like, the type of intelligence is so different so like an octopus the reason that they ended up having this conversation what they said they're using ai to have this conversation with this humpback whale in hopes of learning how to communicate with another intelligent being that doesn't think about the world in the same way that we do right we? We have this assumption that there's going to be some kind of language that we have to decipher or whatever,

but those things are so smart and way smarter than us in a whole lot of areas that we don't need to be smart in. And then we're a lot smarter in a bunch of areas that we need to be smarter in. I would love a dolphin friend, though. Put my toad on top of him so he stays out of the water. Since we're talking about language and translation, I'm going to totally call it an olive oil. I'm going to skip down to one that I wasn't ready to talk about yet.

That's the fidelity of this podcast. That's what can happen, Rhett. You can say something, and it will totally change the entire order with which I try to surprise you. Unless this is all part of your plan. No, it wasn't. I think it's been pretty clear that I've had a really loose plan. All right, so sign language american sign language is separate from other sign language american sign language i know you already know that american sign language i

know american sign language i know you don't know it but but you know that it's called American Sign Language for a reason. All right. So is it different than British Sign Language? I certainly hope not. Why? Well, I mean, if you're starting from scratch, inventing a language that is, you know, supposed to be used with hearing impaired people. It's quite an opportunity, isn't it? It's quite an opportunity to develop a universal language.

It is. So I've never thought about this before. Yeah. But just because of the way you're asking it, I'm convinced that American Sign Language is just sign language. of the way you're asking it, I'm convinced that American Sign Language is just sign language. You're making an excellent point, and I'm sorry to say that American Sign Language

and British Sign Language are completely different. The way that this person puts it, for the last 39 years, I have worked as an American Sign Language interpreter. I cannot even spell my name in British Sign Language. It's that different. British Sign Language uses two hands. American Sign Language uses one hand and is based on French Sign Language.

But you are exactly right. People were making this point. but you are exactly right. People were making this point, like Japanese sign language and American sign language are, may not be mutually intangible, but it's shocking to hear British and American, or that, like universally speaking, that they didn't take, that this opportunity wasn't taken

to just, yes, let's just keep adopting the same one. I guess they were, I mean, especially American, coming from French or like, I don't know, it's just like, it's very separatist. You know, I guess that's the American spirit. To be more French than British when separating. The idea that like, okay, Japanese sign language, if their starting point is, you know, if you think about the way like mandarin works which i can't speak it and i don't know anything about it other than the fact that there are like different tones and that we don't do that kind of thing in english

so it's a whole and obviously like the way that the characters are written is a completely different thing. So because those languages are so different, you would kind of expect the sign language to be different. But the American and British thing, that just sounds like somebody did something out of spite. Well, it's a little more like pragmatic than that. It's a little more, like, pragmatic than that. The next, you know, somebody, the first comment underneath, spoken and sign languages don't have much in common. So just because the speaking populations of Britain and the USA share a language doesn't mean that the sign languages of the respective populations are in any way mutually intelligible. Americans speak English because British people moved to the U.S. and displaced the Native Americans who spoke very different languages. There was no large-scale

migration of British sign language users to influence American sign language. BSL and ASL could be as different as English and Japanese. On a related note, consider that a congenitally deaf person learning to read the native spoken language of their country is learning abstract symbols that are totally and completely meaningless

and opaque to them. It's far more difficult for them to map the letters to their phenoms because the written word is a representation of spoken language. So that the only way in-

That they've never heard. The only way into what this language is symbolizing is the word, so you make the connection to the word versus the connection all the way to the thing the word references. Yeah. But it just feels like you could do that. You could do, okay, if I'm talking about a mug, right,

or a cup or whatever, I don't know how specific it gets. It feels like there's not, it just feels like there's an opportunity here. And I'm not saying we should be the ones to do anything about it. I'm just saying somebody should. Somebody commented your initial reaction. Somebody's like, there's different types of sign language?

And it's like, yes, it really pisses me off. We had the perfect opportunity to create a near globally recognized language for tens of millions of people or more, and we just didn't? Somebody responds, I'm reading this for the first time, so let's just see how it goes.

That's not how language works. You can't just create a universal language out of thin air. More specifically, language changes by region according to the unique anthropological factors of a given population, and children add systematic new grammar rules. This is what fuzzy old people and insufferable prescriptives are referring to when they complain about slang.

This hypothetical universal language would stop being universal within a generation. That's a good point. And then the person responded, yeah, I suppose you're right. Still, though. Well, just to piggyback off of that with the British sign language, there's also New Zealand Sign Language and Australian Sign Language, but because they use the two-handed alphabet, they're still considered the same language but different dialects because they have different slang terms and different ways of holding and motioning their hands.

Totally. They're different dialect hands. So like... Totally. They're different dialects, even though... That totally makes sense. Well, Americans can... The one hand thing, though, because you got to hold a hamburger in one hand and you got to do the sign language. That's exactly why they did it.

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those interested in crime. This is a security guard. He says, or she, CCTV. That CCTV you think is keeping an eye on your safety? Chances are it broke years ago,

and they couldn't be bothered getting a contractor out to fix it. I've never worked in a facility with more than 60% of cameras operational. But do you want to take that risk? So you're just telling me things now. You're just reading things. Yeah, yeah. This is what happens. I just start reading Reddit and it's like...

Is this CCTV person in Europe? What? I don't know. Well, because we don't have... Are they using two hands? We don't have the CCTV in America the way they have it in Europe. Oh, well, they're talking about facilities.

Like security cameras and like you know. Well, in like England. I bet you they keep those up. It's everything. Like everything you do is on camera. Everything. Yeah. You're signing with both hands

and they can get it all. And I think that those probably a lot of those probably work. But you're saying they're like a private facility. That's what I took it to mean. I mean, a lot of times people just get, they don't get the security system, they get the sign they put in their front yard that says they have the security system. Right, right. It's cheaper that way.

Yeah. All right. Here's one. Do you think, this is kind of a non sequitur, but like you have experience with this, so I want to see what you think. This person said that is combating a misunderstanding about construction work. This person asserts, construction is fun. Hard work, but fun. This is a misconception?

Yeah. I mean, it has a lot of upvotes. I mean, what kind of discipline are they exerting in this thread, this subreddit? This guy should have been kicked out. Power to the people, man. I think this is, you know, people think construction is not fun. Apparently, it is fun. We've been over here. Have you been thinking construction is not fun?

I have to be honest. I've been thinking construction is not that fun. You have to wear a hard hat. I mean, it seems like you're in constant danger. It's as if you went, you go through a neighborhood and you recognize everybody and want to hug them, but they have a dog beside them. That's what construction work is to me. But think about this. Think about the difference between data entry or even like being at a call center compared to construction work.

Like construction work, you're outside, you're doing something physical. You're right. You're working with other people. You have a sense of accomplishment. You can look at the thing and there it is. You're seeing it happen. I built that. Yeah, I think that's fun.

That's the thing I like about hiking at places that then I can go back to, and if it's a high spot, be like, I can be down from that high spot and I can go by and be like, I hiked up there once. You know, there's that high spot behind our house. And sometimes I and I can go by and be like, I hiked up there once. You know there's that high spot behind our house? And sometimes I'll just look at it and be like, I've been up there a couple of times. And sometimes I'll tell people, I've been up there. It's satisfying.

If I could go by a building, skyscraper, low scraper, I don't know, ranch house, and be like, I built that. That would be pretty satisfying, which is a component of fun. I need to go find that house that I was, I helped build in high school. I bet you Trent could help us find it. The one house that, like, the guy,

the foreman, like, put you, 16-, 16 year old Rhett in charge of framing. Me, it was Mr. Fred and me and Trent all summer long. I mean, it took us a lot longer to frame a house than it would have if we had any idea what we were doing. Did you have fun? The most fun, the most fun. We would take breaks. Mr. Fred would smoke a cigarette,

and we would eat figs from a tree in the yard. That sounds like the most fun. The fig tree. That's it? That's all it took to have fun? No, I mean, putting up a, you know, putting up a wall, getting into the corner and realizing that the closet is about a foot smaller

than it should be, and just being like, well, I mean. How many shirts do they need? And just going on about your business, that kind of thing. That's fun, man. I mean, somebody said we had a blast most days. It's raining? Sweet, let's get muddy AF and write things on the boards using the mud.

On sunny days. Okay, not really selling it. We write things on the boards with permanent markers. On sunny days... Okay, okay, I'm not really selling it. We write things on the boards with permanent markers. So you can put graffiti... So the first two things that you listed is writing on the boards? Yeah, writing on the boards. Well, what happened to the sense

of accomplishment that Link was just talking about? Being able to look at what you just built. This guy dumped... This is the same person by the way. Dump dump on the construction site. Dumped a tank of Gatorade on his supervisor once. Yeah. I mean, this is like the Super Bowl.

Talk shit all day, did you talk shit? Oh, the most shit. Oh, you did? Mr. Fred talked so much shit to us, man. Could you imagine just a couple of 16-year-olds? He was retired. He was doing it just to stay busy, just to talk shit. It's like basically getting Shepard and Lando to put up a house.

Imagine all the stuff we'd say to them. He would get angry, right? I remember you saying he would get so angry. He was so mad at us. It was wonderful. He's dead now. But apparently he had a lot of fun. Trent texted me like a few years back

and was like, Mr. Fred, Mr. Fred passed. I was like, I mean, he was sitting there smoking like a chimney in the mid 90s. I mean, quite an accomplishment that he made it as far as he did. Are you having fun? Do you want a few more? I'm having a lot of fun.

I'm almost about to fall asleep, but. Not fully. What about Egyptians didn't worship cats? Does that strike you fancy? No, not really? Okay. I didn't think that. Yeah, I didn't think that either. What about, which would you rather buy? Genuine leather or full grain leather?

These are the type of things, this is a great thread, man. Which is better, which do you wanna buy? I would be- Genuine leather? I would be completely guessing if I were to guess. So I'd know nothing about leather. Although I have watched- You're abstaining? I have watched a few TikToks of a guy making a leather drum.

Uh-huh. It's incredible. Well, so you're not gonna even commit. 50-50 chance, you're afraid- Which one's better? Which one would you rather have? Yeah. I mean, genuine probably means it's actually from a cow.

And full grain means it's from a cow that is a little bit better. Full grain, I'm going full grain. You're right, Rhett. I wish you weren't, but you are. You're right again, buddy. Full grain leather's what you want. Genuine leather means it's technically leather,

but it's often correct grain, meaning the top surface isn't really leather. Rather, the top layer of skin is sanded down or split and some kind of synthetic topping is added that looks perfect but will not wear nicely. Oh. So you want full grain leather. Full grain, because it goes all the way through.

But the thing is when you're there in the belt shop or whatever, it's not like they have both sides. You're just gonna see genuine leather and you're gonna be like, that must be the good one because it's the only one I see. Don't fall for that. Right. That's important.

That's important. That's important. Because if I got genuine leather, and then you told me that there was a fake piece of leather on top of it, I'd be like, oh, okay, that's deceptive. You don't want that. This might be the most useful thing you've told me today. All right, what about this? How do you feel about insurance adjusters?

Buckle up. This podcast is about to go through the stratosphere. Are you about to tell me why insurance adjusting is fun? Are you suspicious of insurance adjusters? Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, in light of where you're getting this information from, yes. I mean, when my house flooded and the guy showed up to adjust the insurance, I don't even know exactly why.

There's a reason, but I don't know what it is. I was very suspicious. You know, it's like, well, you're going to give me the money so that I can fix this, right? And then they were like, well, we're going to put these suckers down first to see if we can get the moisture out. And then if that doesn't work, then we'll replace everything. So I didn't have a good feeling. I was like, how long is that going to take?

And by the way, it didn't work. And then we got these suction machines that are using all my electricity, trying to suck the moisture out of my hardwood floors for over a week. Loud. Inconvenient. And then it didn't work. They tried. So I had a bad taste in my mouth about this insurance adjuster.

They got to go through their things. but let me at least let this guy defend himself. I'm an insurance adjuster. Oh, okay. This is from the adjuster's mouth. I have no intent or motivation to quote, cheat you on your claim. I've handled a zillion claims like yours. They provoke no particular reaction from me unless it involves extreme injury or death. Okay, so he's not a... Well, who does he work for? Insurance is a heavily regulated industry. We are surprise audited three times a year by the Department of Insurance on our claims and

business practices. If there was any evidence that adjusters got great raises or bonuses as if, due to the amount of money we saved on paying claims, the company would be fined millions of dollars and potentially lose the right to operate in the state in which those practices occur. And when someone says they're getting an attorney, bless you, I have to practically staple my mouth shut to avoid saying, can I offer you a referral? Because I would much rather speak to an attorney any day of the week than some distrusting... I think what he's...

He's just letting off steam here. He's like, every situation you go into, you know, people think you're... They don't trust you. You know? They think you're scum. They think you're trying to pull one over on them.

Well, this is a good example of, you know. Now, we're not talking about health insurance. That's another ball of wax. Let's just put that to the side. But this is a good example of, like, when he talks about there's no motivation, well, there was motivation at one point, and which is why they developed regulations of this particular industry. This is one of the examples.

Everybody's, like, anti-regulation, but there's so many examples of why we develop regulations of this particular industry. This is one of the examples. Everybody's like anti-regulation, but there's so many examples of why we have regulations because insurance is a private business. It is a profit-driven business, right? And so if you don't have regulations, of course you're going to get screwed by the insurance adjusters because they are motivated to make as much money as they possibly can and to keep all of the money that you've been paying in premiums and not have to pay out

adequately for whatever happened. So they're going to minimize, right? It's more of this guy. This is actually kind of comforting to know that like, yeah, we're audited. We're audited by some agency, some evil government agency that is designed to actually make sure that insurance adjusters are doing what they're supposed to do. I mean, I don't know anything about this industry at all, but this is a case of not all regulations are bad.

Regulations exist for a very particular reason in different industries. Well, I think this is really just a case of don't shoot the messenger. Like, this guy's doing his job. It's kind of like a parking, like a meter person, parking meter officer.

You know, it's like, they've got a shit job where it's like every time that they interact with somebody, it's somebody who's angry because they're just doing their job. And maybe you have your reason why you were late or you didn't, the parking was weird or you can have a defense. But like, don't make it to that person. You know, it is more of the system. But that being said, I mean, somebody was pointing out, well, can't you see that like an individual adjuster may have no reason to be inefficient, but the system itself has reasons to be inefficient because the inefficiency in making every single task

throughout the process more difficult and time-consuming and confusing as possible is beneficial to the insurance companies. How did he answer that? What did he say? He dipped. Oh, he's like what? He was out. You know, he's putting together an answer.

He was out. You know, hate the machine, don't hate the driver. You know? Okay. It's tough. It's a tough world. A lot of ins and outs. You know?

Frogs are toads, man. Nope. Toads are frogs. I already had it wrong. What have we learned today? I tried to summarize it, and I got it backwards. All toads or frogs, but not all frogs or toads. All orcas are dolphins, and all dolphins are toothed whales. But not all whales are orcas.

Right. Bats have eyes that they can use. They use. Mm-hmm. Bats have eyes that you, that you, they can use. They use. That's true. I learned a lot. Is that it?

That's it. I'll be thinking about this for quite a while. I'm sorry I disappointed you. No, you didn't disappoint me. Oh. I mean, you're so, I feel great.

You're a shell of a man, man. Are you broke? Is that the problem? Is that what you found out? That's from a financial planning meeting. I'm broke. Yeah, I got something to tell you. We are broke.

Let's just... Okay. I did find it interesting. One of the things that we discussed today, just now that you're talking about it, we're talking about insurance. And then I look at like the, the like, basically, if I die, you get money.

And if you die, I get money. But is it enough money? Well, I mean, we're always revisiting that. Okay. So you talk about incentive. Yeah. You got to make yourself worth more than what I would get to kill you. That's the incentive.

That's what our whole career is based on at this point. We have to each be worth more than it would just be for just the other guy to murder the other guy and get away with it. I don't think you'd get it if you'd murder me, dude. Oh, well, it would be accidental as far as everybody else is concerned. Okay, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think you could get away with murdering me, but I think I could get away with murdering you. I think you've made it more difficult. Now that I've talked about it on the internet, damn. The way that I've been acting for years is- I told him it was genuine leather. Let's see, I'm good at, I'm good at,

that doesn't make a lot of sense, because you don't know exactly what I'm talking about, but it's just the way I would defend myself. Your Honor, I told him it was genuine leather. I don't know what you're talking about, but I've been building my entire persona as a cover for when I murder you. Oh.

So it's like he never could have gotten away with it. Right, because it could be accidental. Yeah. He can't plan things through. If you kill me in an accident, do you still get paid? Like could you get charged with involuntary manslaughter because you like gesture with a knife and it just goes right into my jugular.

If I kill you on this show. He didn't mean to, your honor. Everyone knows you didn't mean to. But do you still get the payout? Even though you might still go to jail for negligence. Right. Or at least like a civil suit. What's gonna happen is you're gonna accidentally kill me with a knife while gesturing.

I'm gonna get the cash. You're gonna get the cash, but then my wife is gonna sue you for the cash, and she's gonna get it. Okay, okay. That sounds like a TV movie. I gotta take this into account. You might need to make this exact movie that we've just outlined.

I got a rec. It's a documentary on Netflix that you watched that then I turned around and watched with Christy, and if you're in your 40s,

like we are, then I think you might have to be at least 43 to really, really enjoy it. You think so? Yeah. But to really enjoy it, to feel like that you were old enough to have a point of reference for it. If you remember this, when it happened. It's the documentary called We Are One. It is the We Are the World documentary, the greatest night in pop.

It's the story of Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson writing the song We Are the World, and then the lionel's manager like basically producing uh the the event like the logistics of bringing together like so many stars from music to have a little piece of the uh vocal performance and the way that the way that it the way that they went about it, it was a live performance. They were all in the same room together,

and it was like one night, one fateful night. Yeah, the greatest night in pop history. And of course it... I don't watch a lot of music documentaries. I know you do. But for me, it was the point of reference of being this thing that never... The complexity of what it would take in order to actually pull this off didn't cross my mind as a child watching it. I was just like,

all my favorite people in one place. But then you start thinking, what does it take to get all your favorite people in one place? And then what happens when you have all those egos in one room for many, many hours until you're trying to get this song right. And it heavily features Lionel Richie, so you can't go wrong with that. So yeah, it's called We Are One. Check it out. And in the meantime, we would appreciate it if you would leave a rating and a review of this podcast on your favorite podcast service. And we would also appreciate it if you would leave us a voicemail with your comments, questions, accusations at 1-888-EAR-POD-1. We'll talk to you next week.

Hey, Rhett and lake i just finished an online course and during lunchtime i sorted my mail literally sorted the mail and when we came back from lunch the instructor asked everybody what they did at lunchtime and And I said, I sorted the mail, kind of hoping that someone else might know what the innuendo meant, even though I wasn't serious about it. However, nobody reacted. But at least in my own head, I was able to laugh about sorting the mail. Thanks, Link. Bye.