Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Our Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories | Ear Biscuits Ep. 413

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

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Life's full of choices. Smart Water Alkaline is a simple one. 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 roundtable of Dim Lighting, we are going to hear about your new tattoo. Yes. First of all, we got to go ahead and say that's going to happen.

I'm going to divulge. I'm going to explain it. Yeah. You got some explaining to do because I'm personally like when I glanced at it first time I saw it I was completely I was confused in jealous of course but also jealous yeah more offended I was offended okay what I think it meant offended me deeply. Good. Speaking of which, we're on the heels of the Super Bowl,

so we got to talk about Taylor Swift. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're recording this, as you might guess, after, well, before the Super Bowl happens. It happens this weekend. But we will, I guarantee you, react and act and talk as if we actually saw it we know exactly what happened i'm going to predict the score i'm going to be 100 right well the thing that i'm going to be we're both going to be 100 right on is what each track of her new album is about because we have inside information. That's right.

That's right. About what each song from her new album is going to be about. So stay tuned for that, you biscuteers. That's a good tease. I want to talk to you about something, though, because I caught you in the act last night. Yeah. I was a bit embarrassed. You know?

So, yeah. Explain yourself. I do want to know what you were thinking when you walked in on me. I was like, why has he got sunglasses on? Why has he got sunglasses on? Well, I'll let you tell it. Okay. So, I had picked up Shepard

from his tutoring. Of course, we had been working together all day. Yeah, we'd been together all day. Seeing you all day and then I left and you left and I was coming back

to go to my house but I needed a capo sometimes a guy needs a capo actually Shepard needed a capo and I was like oh I'll go by the

creative house to grab my capo because I've got one there and I pull up to the creative house and I see to grab my capo because I've got one there. And I pull up to the Creative House and I see one Mr. Link Neal's car. Like eight o'clock on a weeknight. I mean, this man's an hour and 20 minutes away from being in bed.

What is he doing at the creative house? Right, alone, presumably. I don't see any other cars, because I was like, oh, is this like Scooter Club? Is that your little buddies that you meet with all the time? Are they having a secret meeting and like, you know, planning something? What could be going on?

And I was actually, I don't know if you noticed, as I walked in, because there's the outer door and then there's the inner door, I tried to make a lot of noise as I was coming in because I was like, I don't know what's going on. I don't know if Link and Christy wanted a change in scenery. Sometimes that happens, you know? Sometimes...

On your desk, sure. Yeah, right. And so I was like, I don't know what I'm walking myself into here. There's no doorbell. Is that how you think about walking? Like, you're escorting yourself to places? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a mental thing. And, uh...

So I was like, making a lot of, like, extra noise on the outer door, and then I got to... And was it... The outer door... It was locked. It was locked. The outer door and the inner door were locked, and I was like, what is going on? Should I just turn around?

Maybe he doesn't need a capo. And then I got to the main door, and I heard music playing. I was like, well, that doesn't necessarily change anything that could be happening. I knocked. At which point your dogs started barking like crazy. You didn't come to the door. I unlocked the door. I walk in and I see you standing in a tank top and sunglasses with headphones on.

That's your DJ thing. I call Elkhound Snuggle Baby in the act of Elkhound Snuggle Babying. All alone. With nothing but my dogs. But yeah, I was wearing... You're getting into character. You didn't have your antlers, at least. Yeah, I wasn't in full garb.

I didn't have my complete cosplay. I wasn't wearing my fur tunic and my huge antlers, which is real. I do have that for certain special public appearances, of which I've only made one. One counts. But, yeah, I was immediately self-conscious. Christy and Lando were at, like, a high school orientation. And the folly's freaking going to high school.

So, like, they're doing, like, high school. They're already orienting him? They're all, you know, getting you into the high school, getting you in the doors. So, as I explained to Lando, like, you can get all your nerves out over time. You can get acclimated. You can be nervous for this thing that doesn't matter, which is, like, an orientation, information session. You'll be less nervous when you actually go to high school. Yeah.

But I was not invited. How does that work? Limited space? No. I was specifically not invited by my son. Oh, because you... Let's face it, I'm out count snuggle band. You're a famous DJ.

I'm a famous DJ. Might be recognized. Yeah, so his preference was for me to not be there. And my preference was also to not be there. Yeah, win-win. Because I was thinking, ooh, okay. While the cat's away, the DJ mouse will play. You don't want to be a DJ mouse.

That's already a thing. I've been working on this complete vinyl DJ setup at the Creative House. I bought a mixer, and then I brought over my record player from home. But then I'm like, you know what? I want a record player at home. So I bought another record player.

It's turning into an expensive hobby. And so I had a new record player to set up and connect it with my mixer and do it in such a way to establish and start to grease the skids for my vision, which is to be able to DJ in this space as a form of practice and social connection around music. But yeah, I was setting up the record, and I got hot. Oh. I got hot, so I took my sweatshirt off, you know, I had a white tank top underneath.

So there was an outside chance you would have just been shirtless if you didn't have a tank top on, which would have been even more interesting. I think it was the tank top that was making me hot, ironically, but I probably would have just left the sweatshirt on and opened the door. But instead, yeah, I took the sweatshirt off and I had on a tank top. Yeah. And it was rainy when I was driving there. And when I'm driving there in the rain, I put on those orange sunglasses that are like tinted to make the rain feel like it's got a sunny tint to it.

And my head hurts from wearing the same glasses all day. They poke in the exact same place. So when I get in the car, I usually always put on a different type of glasses. So that's the real reason. If it's my sunglasses. Or your driving glasses. And then because they're tinted, I forgot to take them off when I went into the creative house. I thought that you were practicing... You know how DJs who have some sort of obstruction on their head, in your case, it's sunglasses? Right. You're like, I don't know how to dos who have like some sort of obstruction on their head, in your case it's sunglasses.

Right. You're like, I gotta know how to do this with limited vision. You thought I was, and you, cause when you came in, you like looked at me and you're like, I gotta get the thing. And I'm like, hey. And I was like about to explain,

I'm wearing what I'm explaining now. But you were moving so fast. Well, a shepherd was in the car. Seemed like you wanted to get out of there pretty fast. I did. So I didn't get to explain it. So you left thinking that I was cosplaying as a DJ all alone. Well, I mean, I would expect that that's what all DJs do.

But, I mean, you had to find it a little laughable. But I just imagine that the best DJs in the world Do their act? Like in the way that Oh whatever they do with their hands that you know They sit in rooms alone and do that stuff right like pump their fists and whatever. I don't know what DJs do I don't study the art Me neither really I'm just kind of reinventing it all on my own, but yeah I was a bit self-conscious when you walked in,

and here I was just like pretending. I didn't embarrass you, though. I didn't say anything embarrassing. No, but I was like. You didn't laugh. Externally. It was, I mean, it had to have been a pretty funny scene. But let me tell you, I had the best time ever.

How much longer did you stay there? By myself. Past your bedtime? Probably three, yeah, I got home at 9.30. Oh, good. Six, seven, eight, nine. So I was working on it for like three hours. Most of it was like debugging stuff.

It wasn't even like practicing dj now i can finally do that because i've been setting up this equipment but you know the thing that occurred to me was i am having so much fun just over here all by myself setting up this equipment and doing this hobby of mine and then i realized I had a flashback it felt exactly how it used to feel as an only child in my room playing with my G.I. Joes getting them exactly how I wanted them nobody I would spend hours alone in my room listening to music and this posing G.I. Joe figures and now as a 45-year-old man, I am doing the exact same thing.

Well, that could be part of your deal. Playing. What if you had little... By myself. G.I. Joe figures and WrestleMania figures that were on the record spinning and things. And it was like, if you get a close-up of Elkhound Snuggle Baby set up,

he's playing with toys at the same time. I just need to practice. I need to focus on the skills. I'm just saying maybe that's like level two. Like fully embrace the play aspect of what you're doing. Have some little figures. Now that I have a complete vinyl setup, I can still do a digital setup, but I kind of like the limitation of only playing the vinyl that I have, and it gives me an excuse to

keep buying records. So with this particular setup, there is no pre-programmed playlist. This is like, I got a record playing a song, and I got another record on deck about to play another song, and I got to keep switching the whole time. Oh, yeah.

And is there a digital safety net in this system? No, not yet. Where will there be? Yeah, there will be eventually, because you want to be able to play songs that, you know, own. Requests. But I like the challenge of just playing what I own. The next big frontier for me is, I almost don't want to say it, scratching. Oh, is that still a thing?

Of course it's a thing. Like I said, I don't study the art, man. And it's having a resurgence of like hip hop DJs, but like it takes another level of cojones to start scratching in front of people. Because then you're not just playing music. Because you can't lose the beat. That's the thing. Well yeah, I mean, but just the fact that you're doing it is kinda like your friend walks in on you and you're like, you know, you know what I was doing. Wearing sunglasses and a tank top. And if you'd been scratching when I walked in. I would've just walked right out.

I would've left my capo there. You'd have dashed out. But I'm having the time of my life all by myself with just me and my dogs and my records pretending that I'm DJing a party that no one's shown up for. Great. Well, you got to DJ your own party before you DJ anybody else's. I mean, I realize I do things solitarily. Like I mountain bike by myself a lot. I do some hiking.

We've both done some solo trips, but I've never said, I'm going to go to my room and play with my toys. You might watch a movie by yourself. I might listen to music by myself at home, but I've never just gone to my clubhouse and played with my toys. I mean, this is another level of like, Yeah. And it's exhilarating.

And you don't play video games, I don't play video games. I don't play video games. So it's not like we do that. Yeah, so, like, just playing by myself is, this is a new thing for me. But it's making you happy. So happy. It's important.

I mean, did I seem happy when I didn't seem embarrassed when you walked in? You seemed to be experiencing joy. Yeah, I was. It was the best thing ever. I'll invite you over at the right time for the right listening party. What am I gonna do?

Just sit there in front of you? You're gonna listen to music. Just by myself? Maybe. I just sit on the couch opposite Elk Hound's knuckle baby and just watch him? I don't know about that. I feel like I need to bring somebody.

Can I bring my wife? Yes, yes. Can we make out? Me and my wife. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we dance? If that's where I take you,

if that's the feelings that start coming up, you know, then I feel like that that would be a testimony to my ability to usher you into a zone. A state of rapture. Yeah, a state of rapture. So, yeah, yeah. Well, I look forward to it. All right. I'm not quite ready. I'm easing into it.

I'm like having different subsets of people come over at different times, and I'm kind of laying the groundwork. I got a record-collecting friend of mine coming over Saturday night, and we're going to play some records and, you know, listen to each other's records. You're putting together the foundation. And practicing. So, I'm actually pretty damn excited about it.

I am too. I think I'm, it might be moving above snowboarding. Whoa, careful now. Yeah, I know. To number two. So. So that's it. Now I'm gonna unabat, next time I will be shirtless. I think maybe the only request I would make

is if we could have some sort of maybe red light or something that is on over the front door if you're in that state, just so I know what I'm walking into. Is this a DJ session or is this something else? Just some kind of system. Lonely nights DJ. Okay.

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Boy, that big game last night was amazing. I certainly bit some of my nails. Yeah, you know, it's hard to believe that in the end, the Chiefs pulled it off 34 to 24. You know, I didn't, you know, it was a little touch and go in the first half, but the experience of Mahomes, as I like to call him, really at the end of the day,

I think pulled them through. And yeah, that 10 point victory that beat the spread, or I don't know. I actually don't know who was favored. I mean, and then, I mean, what can you say about Usher? I mean, the fact that his theme was, he chose to go all in on Usher.

Like, yes, that's his name, but to be an Usher at, he was directing people to their seats. Yeah, yeah. Like. And give them, sell them peanuts. Right, like, oh, that hit, do you need help with your ticket? Like, I mean, when he did it to one person, like, do you need help finding your seat?

Like, I was like, oh, that's funny. And then when he did it again, I was like, that's so funny. He's really committed to this bit. And then by like the 20th person that he helped find their seat, the altercation was interesting. Like where it was like, oh, that somebody thought it was their seat,

they were already in it, and then Usher's like, no, this isn't your seat. Oh, you remember that? DJ Khaled, he was escorted out. Right, and then, but he was adamant. And he was like, another one! Cause this is not the first time this has happened. Right, he was adamant that- And he was like, another one! Because this is not the first time this has happened. Right. He was adamant that it was his seat.

And he was like, this is my seat. And then he looked at the ticket and he was like, you know, he hung his head and he left. It was kind of sad. And then Kelsey with four receptions for a total of, I can't believe it, 91 receiving yards. So, and I love the fact that every single time he caught it, and that one touchdown that he caught,

and then when he caught it, and he spiked the ball, and then he looked up into the box where none other than Tay-Tay was there doing the... Nay-nay. What is that thing? It was a really beautiful moment. But that was the only time that they cut away to Taylor Swift. One time.

Only once. Which is interesting. You would have thought it would have happened a bunch. Yeah, but it only happened the one time. Is she here? Did she make it? I kept thinking that. Oh, there she is.

And they waited for exactly the right time. And then of course the celebration at the end. Oh, the celebration. Oh my gosh. When Travis went right past his mother and just like pushed her out of the, she fell down. Right. His mom is still on the ground.

Still on the ground. And then embraced Taylor. And then everyone, the media turned all of their attention away from anyone else and formed a circle of cameras around them that began rotating. It was like a Greek dance. And then they did that weird reenactment of that scene from The Matrix because they had all the cameras around them,

and all the cameramen were like, oh, we can do that thing where it's like 360. And then Taylor started doing that thing where the bullets, and Travis was acting like he was doing it too. Right, right, right. Bullets added in post, I will point out. Of course, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some sort of a time delay.

That was wonderful. It was wonderful. It was wonderful. And then when she pulled her hamstring. Yeah, that's really what stopped it. That was the end. It would have killed her. They cut away.

It was like. And it was really because she had had the compression socks on on the flight back from Tokyo. Right. And so she hadn't moved her legs enough. She hadn't stretched enough. Right. Because she's, I mean, that woman is in shape.

You know, she'd run around every single night. You know what I'm saying? That woman is in shape. To pull a muscle is completely unexpected, and I blame it completely on the compression socks. I'm sure that's exactly what happened. Yeah, that's what happened. That's what happened.

You know, we have, as you might already know, we don't talk about, we don't really talk about pop culture. It's never really been our thing

and it's not gonna start being our thing. Or sports. But leave it to Taylor Swift to make us talk about both. Yeah. Out of all the, like,

we couldn't be the podcast that didn't? No, we can't. Well, here's the thing. Everyone's got a take on this. There's lots of tired takes. I mean, obviously, the most tired take is all the football bros who are upset about the fact that, you know, they've been cutting to shots of Taylor. What was that calculation that you showed us? How much been cutting the shots of taylor when i what was that calculation

that you showed us how much money has taylor made the chiefs it's like 130 million lots of money yeah of course like i haven't i don't watch nf i haven't watched nfl football and i did because i was like i would the chiefs were on one sunday and i was like oh they're gonna like i'm just interested in the phenomenon of this. Do they cut to Taylor? Is that what happens? And then they did. And it's just like, the whole thing works. And then there's the people who think that the whole thing was scripted,

which, you know, since the Chiefs won 34-24, just like I said they would, you got to start thinking that maybe it was. This is all orchestrated by the NFL. I mean, it's undeniably positive and powerful PR. Oh, yeah. Enough for it to be rigged you have to ask and then of course you've got the conspiracy that um this is all just orchestrated by uh the progressive left to uh you know take over the the minds of the youth of

america and get them to vote Democratic. And that's what this is all about. And she's an agent. She is an agent of the left. But it's really, it's, talk about unprecedented. In terms of like the confluence of pop culture, it's really unprecedented. It's really unprecedented. Well, I think about the fact that, you know, the thing that sort of I think is that bothers me, not about their relationship, but about everyone's response to it, is that we just happen to live in a time where everyone has to have a take. Like people of two famous people can't, like, just think about it. Go back in time when we were kids and, like,

what if Jerry Rice started dating Janet Jackson? And we would have been like... All right. This is, like, we would have been like, that's kind of amazing. Let me just think about that for a... Let me just think about it. Let me just think about it because you can't see them. They don't have social media. Like, let me just think about Janet Jackson

and Jerry Rice right now. Let me just think about it. And that would be it. Well, I would be like, well, let me think about it until 7.30 tonight when I can watch a little blurb on entertainment tonight. Exactly. But you wouldn't be like-

Which my mom and I watched every single night of the week. I gotta have a take on this. I gotta take a side. I have to have an opinion about this relationship. I have to have an opinion about, like things just don't happen anymore without comment. We lived in a time things, most things by the way, happened without comment. You might think a little bit about them.

You might talk to your friends about them, but it wasn't like, I've gotta say something about, I should think something about this. Like, I'm not a fan, I am a fan. I don't really know about this, I like this. It's just kind of, it's sort of culturally sad, ultimately, what I'm saying is just like- When this is the thing that you have to

have an opinion on specifically. I think just beyond the fact that like, okay, they seem happy. That's wonderful. Why do I need to think anything else beyond that? Oh, it's interesting. The NFL is making more money because of this. That's an interesting little marketing thing.

We'll study that next year in Marketing 101, whatever. But I don't know. My hot take is I just think that having hot takes is sad. It's sad that we have to have a take. Yeah, I definitely don't want to have any hot takes on what her new album tracks are about right now. Right, and how they might play into certain conspiracies about her. And we would never do that. We would never make up stuff about Taylor Swift that's not true.

So let's get to it. Okay. So Tay-Tay released her album art on the heels of the Grammys, during the Grammys. Yeah. Pretty big night for us, honestly, because that was when we found out that one of our friends has made the album.

Posty's on track one. He's on track one. Which gives me sort of an existential crisis because can you be a Taylor Swift fan and also be a Miley Cyrus fan? What did you think I was going to say? Of course you can. You didn't get my joke? Of course you can.

Of course you can. Of course you can. Of course you can. So Taylor Swift has released her album art, which featured the tracks right there on the front cover. 17 of them. What she has not said is what each song is about, but wouldn't you like to know?

We're going to take care of that for you. Track number one is called Fortnite. Uh-huh. Fortnite, of course, is her capitalizing on her purchase of the video game Fortnite. Yeah, yeah. Which she now owns. This will become public knowledge.

You don't mean one brand. You mean one copy of it. You mean the whole brand. Yeah, right. I'm talking about she owns the video game and the company that makes it. Epic Studios, right? Yes.

Of course. Yes. Fortnite is the new theme song for the game, and it is performed by Taylor Swift herself. Of course, you're going to be disappointed to find out that Post Malone's feature is just the sound of him doing the floss. Oh, it's just

the sound of it? Yeah, yeah. It's just like the whispering of his clothes while flossing. But it's a pretty raspy whistle. Yeah, he is doing a Fortnite dance and the ASMR of that is featured. That's a little disappointing.

A little disappointing. But a lot of Taylor Swift, every single player now in Fortnite will be Taylor Swift. Okay. Well, something to be excited about. Different eras of. All the different eras. Eras. The Tortured Poets Department, the title track, this is actually how, this is really a message

about how Taylor finds her power. And that is, in Taylor's basement, she is and has been for a long time torturing poets. Specifically teen poets, teenage poets, because they can't be too old. Not children, but teens. She's torturing them, she's putting them through all kinds of psychological torture, and some physical torture. Their adrenaline is really

pumping and she has been harvesting the adrenochrome or adenochrome or whatever it is right from a big long, really, swirly straw. She sticks a big pink swirly straw into each one of the teens and sucks on it and that's how she has that power that she has. Yes. And then she chases that by vaping tween hormones. Yep, she does. Track number three, My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.

Of course, you could guess this one, it is indeed about Travis Kelsey, her boy, and his celebrations in the end zone where he's grabbing and and spiking the football okay you know he's just he you know how he destroys the football by spiking it right um the song not too deep the song no it's not too deep. No, it's not too deep. The song was gonna be called, I Love How He Grabs His Pigskin. Oh. Oh, God. But, uh...

Yeah. But, um... She decided against that. I'm glad she did. Yeah. Track number four, Down Bad. This is a subliminal message to keep everyone from going south to Antarctica to find her

lair. Oh. Is that where it is? Cause if you, it's like, down, bad. Down, bad. Anytime somebody gets in a plane, anytime somebody starts traveling, they know, down, bad. Stay away from the bottom of the earth, where the ice wall is, cause when you get to the ice wall and you find the door, you go in and that's Taylor's deal down there. That's where she's doing most of her, like, world domination planning. there. That's where she's doing most of her world domination planning. Right.

That's where her entire council is. And that's where the poets are in the basement. No, they're in L.A. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, the poets are in L.A. She's got basements everywhere. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

I just thought it was a Dreamville cover. Yeah. The song already exists. Track number five, So Long London, is a non sequitur in the album where she just sings about how long it takes to get across the city of London. Oh.

Wow, and how long is that? Seven days on foot. Oh. Wow, and how long is that? Seven days on foot. Oh. Yeah, it's a lot further across than you think. Right. Track number six, But Daddy, I Love Him. This is actually a script for teen girls whose dads are conservative Trump voters.

And it's about how they can defend to their dad, first time voters, why they're voting for Biden. Okay? But daddy, I love him. That's good. And it's just- That's helpful. It's just a script.

You don't have to, because the last thing we want y'all to do is think. Right, don't think, just go into the kitchen and just read this exact script to your dad. Or you could sing it. You could sing it. You could sing it. You can make it a whole performance.

Whatever is the most effective. I do like that the dad is in the kitchen. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, he is. He's in the kitchen. But he's eating in the kitchen. Right. This one's not.

And reading his paper. Yes, yes. Where we at? Track number seven, Fresh Out the Slammer. Oh. This is set in the future when after the woman who was tracking her private jet gets out of prison from the suit. So it's about what Taylor is going to do to the college student

who has been tracking her private jet after she gets out of prison because of the lawsuit. I can't wait to hear that one. Can lawsuits send you to prison? I'm sure they can. In this world that we've created, yes. Track number eight. We're all in Taylor's world. Track number eight. Florida!

Exclamation point, exclamation point. Here's the deal about Florida. Traditionally, it was a swing state. It is not expected to be a swing state. This is another political one. Not expected to be a swing state in 2024, but surprisingly, it is going to be a swing state, and the election is going to come down to the state of Florida. In a couple of days, after the election, they're going to be counting the ballots in Florida, and then Taylor is gonna drop a secret track

called Hanging Chads. Okay. Which is all about well-endowed dudes named Chad. Oh gosh. And this concert is really the thing that's gonna completely swing the count down there, and then, you know, people start cheating and, you know, Biden to win.

What feature allows them to count the votes? What feature allows them to count the votes? I don't know where you're gonna... Florence. Florence and the machine! That's what the machine is. It's the voting machine. That's right, Link, I love it. Track number nine, as we know, is called Guilty as Sin? This is an expose against the college student

who was tracking her private jet, exposing that she also has her own private jet. Oh. Mm-hmm. Yep. Mm-hmm. That's a little bit scary. Yeah, yeah.

So who's guilty now? Track number 10, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? This is Taylor's not so subtle suggestion that she is actually over 300 years old. And she made a deal with the devil in a little place called Salem Witch Trials March. You heard about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. She is, she's, Taylor's a witch. And she's admitting it. Okay. And she's over 300 years old. I thought it was vampires that were old. If you're the right kind of witch, you can live forever. Okay, okay, seems like it would've been simpler

just to make her a vampire in this joke. Oh, sorry, it's not a joke. It's not a joke. Where are we at? Track number 11, I can fix him. No, really, I can't. She can't stop writing about Trav Trav and his left elbow contusion.

Oh, mm-hmm. Yep. It has been a problem this season. Yeah. I had to Google that and everything. But who's going to fix it? Taylor. Track number 12.

I think contusion is just another word for a bruise. Track number- Just kind of go away. Sorry. Track number 12 is an acronym,usion is just another word for a bruise. Track number. Just kind of go away, sorry. Track number 12 is an acronym, L-O-M-L, which means look, only me lives, which is basically Taylor's admission that her ultimate goal is to kill every single person on earth other than herself.

Oh, wow. Yeah. That's dark. Yeah, I mean, eventually she will be by herself on a desolate landscape singing, yep, it's me.

I was the problem. It was me. So she's just coming out and writing these lyrics. No, it's all subliminal. It's subliminal, but I'm just saying. I wouldn't say it's subliminal as much as it's super catchy. Yeah, but look, only me lives. Yeah, yeah.

I know what she's saying. Well, that's cute. The grammar's not right. Track number 13, I can do it with a broken heart. And the it she's referring to here is build birdhouses. The bit she's referring to here is build birdhouses. And what are the birdhouses for? I don't know. I don't know.

Okay. That's it. It's pretty straightforward. Track number 14, the smallest man who ever lived. This is another little bit of an admission. She's revealing a lot about herself. And that is the fact that inside Taylor Swift's head, it is not a brain. No, it is a tiny little record executive

who shriveled himself up. Shriveled himself up. In order to fit inside her head. Okay, yeah. He didn't shrink himself. He shriveled himself. And basically has been manipulating her for this entire time

to take over the entire record industry. Okay. Yeah. So it's really, I hate to say it, this is actually the little old man that lives inside of Taylor's head. It's his coming out party is really what this album is all about.

Oh. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Track number 15, The Alchemy, is a completely instrumental track that will be backing her up on her Vegas residency as a magician. She's going.

Her next thing is a magician. Yeah. She raises the birds in her magic act. Yeah, I think that's where the bird houses come from. Yeah, let's really try to rescue that one. Okay. Clara Bow. This track is a prophecy, okay?

Okay. Because the last person standing when Taylor is finishing off the last of humanity will be this little girl named Clara. And she will give up a hell of a fight. Oh. I mean... It's like horror film girl type thing? Taylor versus Clara, and the only people there to see it

are the animals that are still alive, Taylor and Clara. But Taylor, unfortunately, is going to finish Clara off with a long bow as she is running away from her. Oh. Yeah, Taylor's gonna be like...

And that's it. And the animals are just gonna freak out. Oh. Yeah. Okay. Taylor's gonna be like, shh, and that's it. And the animals are just gonna freak out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she'll rule over all the animals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. There's a bonus track, if you're still listening.

Track number 17, The Manuscript is, it's a really long track because it is an audio book. Not only is it read by Britney Spears about Taylor Swift's life, but it is also written by Britney Spears. Oh, really? It's going to be great. It's going to be great. A little bit of a comeback.

Yes. And there you have it. That's what Taylor's going to be great. A little bit of a comeback. Yes. And there you have it. That's what Taylor's album is all about. Did you read Britney's autobiography? I did. I think you want her to write everyone else's. I listened to Michelle Williams read Britney's autobiography. Okay.

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To believe things? What are you guys doing? This is your podcast. That didn't feel right. You know? Now it's time for me to admit some things. That was fun. I'm gonna talk about my tattoo. People were asking why I wasn't talking about it on Good Mythical More, and I was just kinda like,

eh, I don't know, save it for the ear biscuit. But now you're doing it here. Yeah, save it for an audio medium. Right, exactly, yeah. Well, I mean, there's a video. Okay, so there are, it's, I didn't realize, well, I guess I did kind of realize it, and we'll cut to a picture of this

for those of you who are watching. When I got this tattoo, I didn't really think about the fact that somebody asking me, what's your tattoo, was going to give me me a choose your own adventure number of options to say, right? So I could be like, it's just a cool tattoo. I could be like.

Have you actually said that to somebody? No, okay, so because what I realize is that the real answer. Tell me about your tattoo, it's just cool. The real answer is this is an interpretation of a conception of the ancient Near Eastern, you know, cosmos. Of course it is. An interpretation of the ancient Near Eastern conception of the cosmos, meaning that the people in the early biblical times, you know, in that region of the world, where that text and those myths were originated,

they thought that the earth was flat. They thought that, you know, the earth was fixed and it had pillars that went down into the ground. And they thought that there was a firmament when you, cause you know, you look up at night, and you see these lights, and you're like, oh, it must be some sort of dome or whatever, and they thought that there was a... A firmament is like a shell?

Yeah, yeah. It's like a giant bubble, and there are waters above. You remember in Genesis it says the water's above and the water's below. And, you know, the Leviathan, which is the sea serpent, a lot of people think this is a dragon, and for all intents and purposes, I'm not going to argue with you. Yeah, it is, but it's a sea serpent more than a dragon. He doesn't have wings.

Well, actually, he does have arms. And this was, so I left this up to, basically what I did is there's a bunch of really cool diagrams of this sort of conception of the cosmos. If you just look up like ancient near Eastern cosmos, uh, diagram or something like that. Okay. So people have created these things and I gave them all to Michael Mendoza, who does my tattoos and your tattoos. And I was like, I think this will make a sick tat, but I want you to do your interpretation of it.

And also I want this to be on my forearm. And so we kind of need to make it fit a forearm and act in a relatively long skinny forearm, if I'm being honest with you. And so he just kind of like took some amalgam and then we sent him a bunch of pictures of Leviathans that people had done and just kind of like took some amalgam, and then I sent him a bunch of pictures of leviathans that people had done, and we kind of met, and he kind of decided,

oh, what do you think about doing it like this and like giving it some legs and stuff? Now, and then he like, he added these, his fine line work is really cool, and so he kind of added that to sort of fill it out and make it go around a little bit. Like the rivers, the waterfalls. Yeah.

And they're not really any, that's up to whatever you interpret them to be. Oh, I interpret it as water. And that's actually where water would be. So it's good that that's how you see it. And of course you've got the, this is where they thought that you went after you died. This big black pit here is Sheol. They literally thought that like the place where you went after you died. This big black pit here is Sheol. They literally thought that like the place where you went after you died and everybody went there, good, bad, indifferent,

is where you went to kind of rest and it was underneath your feet, you know? Okay. But they thought that God lived up here above the firmament. And that's why everything that was coming from the sky, whether it was sun or rain, everything, lightning, it's all, that's God doing God's stuff up here. And so they thought that heaven was above the firmament.

And so in a lot of these old diagrams, this is the realm of God. And they represent God usually just with like a word or something. And I was like, well, I've had this idea since we talked about it on GMM. Is that where it hatched? Yeah.

To get a little door tattoo, right? And so I put in the realm of God, I put a little door to something else. Now, the significance of this to me. Turn it this way a little bit. First of all, I just think it's a sick tat. But the reason I got this on my arm instead of

I know I talked a little bit about maybe getting whale skeletons which I am gonna do I'm gonna fill in some of this arm because now my right arm is is lacking because it's like

there's too much on this now I don't we'll talk about where I'm going next but so I always thought this was a really cool moment in history, but what it represents to me. Brad, this didn't really happen. more people than there should be, like significantly more people than there should be

who actually think, talk about conspiracies, actually think that the world is flat and it kind of looks like this. Seems like you're part of the problem. And so now I have to be like, I don't think the world is, the earth is flat. No, I don't think that. You have a flat earther tattoo though.

Yeah, I kind of do. You're a flat earther. I'm a flat earther in spirit. So this is what this means to me. So this is basically the way the people who wrote the Bible thought the world was. And I kind of, you know, obviously I have been on a bit of a journey over the past 20 years in how my beliefs have evolved. Now, no one, well, used to be the case that no one until pretty recently no one who like most christians don't think the earth is flat most christians believe that

the earth is a globe a sphere and they kind of take they believe the truth about the way the world is um but the people who wrote the bible this 100% definitely what they thought in an approximation of what they thought. And of course that document and the religion that flowed from it is a very significant part of kind of like who I am, why I am who I am, why I believe what I believe. But the little door in the place of God is kind of like, those beliefs were the foundation that led to the door that I went through to get to the next thing, which is, so that's one meaning of the door.

But also, you know, the door and the open door represents my general and I hope forever lasting openness towards whatever God is. Is that why there's not a doorknob? Well, because, yeah, because God opened it. There's not a doorknob because, Michael, I just don't, like, Michael's like, what do you think about this? You know me, I'm kind of like. Don't say that. Yes, there's not a doorknob because the door will never be shut.

There's a doorknob on the other side. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So did you open the door or did God blast it open? The door is open. That's the only thing I can tell you. Who opened it? The door is open.

Yeah. And also- And I don't know that it will close. I mean, I could talk to him about that. Because there's no latch. And also, the idea that there's this open door, like the next thing, the next thing that you believe

is almost always determined by the current thing that you believe. Okay. You know, so that's the meaning behind it. You could also put, like, the reflection of the door on the other side, and then it could be a door to a tunnel through your arm. And then I could have a magic act like David Blaine, and I could stick things through my entire arm. Is that what you were going to say, though?

No. And so now I've got what you might loosely call the spiritual arm and the science arm. Oh. And so that's why the idea of getting, filling in some of the space with those whale skeletons, because there's... Because basically, you need to say what your other tattoo is. Oh, yeah, this is the Voyager spacecraft. You need to say what your other tattoo is. This is the Voyager spacecraft. This is the probe,

which was launched at basically exactly the same time that I was born, like within a month or two. That's still way out there at the edges of the cosmos. It's the thing that is the furthest away from us that we've ever made. But a quick moment. I would like to acknowledge that we just had an earthquake. Did you feel it?

Yeah, I felt it. I was about to stop it for a second. I saw your face. I didn't feel anything. And I was like, she's really into this tattoo. She is shook. Oh, no. I literally was like, am I imagining this?

If it goes on longer, I should probably stop the podcast. How long was it? I didn't feel it. I felt it for a good 15 seconds I was like in my own world too it was like and then slack's going off

right now was it when I was talking about God yeah it was so the oh shit the firmament's shaking dude kitchen is filming

right now too and they yeah that's the second earthquake in a couple of weeks that yeah I've been working during.

I can't feel nothing when I'm working. We were on a video call the other day with the Rhett and Link channel team, and we had an earthquake and everyone experienced it, except you because you were- Yeah, I didn't feel it. You're out of town. I was in- Was that when I was in New Zealand?

Yeah. Yes. Oh. Yeah. You felt Oh, yeah. You felt so left out too. Cause we were all talking about it. Then I was like, I'm in New Zealand, bitches. If y'all go down, don't worry, I got this. So I don't, so.

Sucked in the shio. So I don't know what, I don't know how to interpret that. I don't know what that means that, I was talking about the pillars of the earth and the door to God, and then God gave us an earthquake. Well, in the current book that I am reading, it is a positive thing. It's like the gods are waking up, and it is a good omen. That's just a fantasy book that I'm reading right now. I'd say that's the truth that we should go with.

So you're in left arm territory. I was just like. Make sure that we don't lose a recording. Yes. But if you're in right arm territory, then you're like, I think tectonic plates just shifted a little bit, and the earth grumbles a little bit, and that's just what, that's how it works. Yeah, you have to have a different perspective. So, I don't know, I really,

I mean, first of all, I just love what Michael does, and he can nail something that's this detailed 10 hours of what ended up being very painful towards the end. What I will say is that it's... 10 hours actually under the needle. Oh yeah, straight. Yeah.

With a couple of snack breaks. But the thing that I'm realizing now is like, okay, yeah, like I have to think. It's like somebody asks you what you do for a living. It's like, what kind of conversation am I wanting to have? If somebody's interesting and interested and we have the time, then there's quite a story to tell about either one of these. If someone is neither of those things, it's like, this is a Voyager space probe. This is a dragon. A dragon. This is a dragon. It's a dragon in his home.

It's an abstract thing. It's an abstract thing. It's an abstract thing. It is whatever you want it to be. You know, I'm not getting into the... I mean, you could say it's a creation myth. Yeah. Just say that. Oh, yeah, because the Leviathan,

which was very, you know, was very significant in the whole James and the shame thing. This is like, you know, the agent of chaos, essentially, that God subdued in order to create the world. And then it's mentioned in the Bible in Job when we talk about that. But that concept comes from ancient Near Eastern creation myths that were surrounding the people who wrote the Bible. And it made its way in, but they really, you know, the Babylonians, I think, articulated that a little more specifically. And if you're listening right now and you're like,

boy, more Bible talk, I'm really into that, then hold on to your hats because the next two weeks are going to be right up your shiel. Yeah, that's true. I'm putting a teaser in here. Next week is Rhett's spiritual deconstruction update and then the next week will be mine and answering some questions so um that's the next two so you're no tattoo regret people talk about that you know especially when it's the second one on the same place but the other arm and you put a lot of time into it you met with Michael in person ahead of time and you had a presentation. You had like a PowerPoint. Oh, yeah.

And all these different references and stuff to be like, this is why this is significant and these are the things that are... Just because it's so... It is very specific and if anybody knows this stuff, I wanted it to be like, yeah, like this is... You want it to be accurately wrong. Right, exactly. Accurately. I want it to be like yeah like this is you wanted to be accurately wrong right exactly accurately accurately wrong and wrong i want to be wrong in exactly the right way

um yeah but i don't really know what you know the thing that you never know and this is like we just i discussed this with him i was like sometimes you get a tattoo and especially if you get a tattoo that is something very specific like this and then then you're like, oh, shit, I didn't realize that from a distance this looks like a jellyfish. Or this, from a distance, this looks like something embarrassing. Oh, crap, I got a penis on my arm and I didn't realize it. Did you think that about the probe? No, but I've heard, there's people who...

It's a lollipop. There's people who are like, is it a dragonfly? Like, if you see it from a distance or something, maybe, you know, it's like, I don't know exactly what that is. Yeah, I get that too. It's like, is he a lesbian? Oh yeah. Remember that?

It's a similar thing. So I think it might be a lollipop on your right arm, but then your left arm, I would say a dream catcher. You think this is like a dream catcher? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's rounded at the top. so it has a circular thing, and then it has hangy down parts underneath. It's like a dream catcher.

I like the fact that from any noticeable distance, it kind of just looks like something you're gonna have to get closer to. Yeah, yeah, it's an invitation for inspection. It's like, I don't know, he's got something on there. But I don't know where I'm going to go from here. Where are you going to go? Where am I going to go?

Yeah. Back to Studio City. Because you went really, really hard the last time. Letting Michael go down my arm. I already told you, like, my application of, like, going through all of the, like, the public conjecture and reaction to my plants is more houseplants. More plants, man. Because I've just had this idea of having a sleeve and just having a half a little bit over. It's not three quarters, but it goes over my elbow a little bit.

I just want more of that. I got to take into account the fact that I got jade on the forearm, but that's the plan. More plants for this arm. And then we'll see what happens. But, yeah, and then maybe that'll be a holding point, but I'm kind of antsy to get that to get that done Yeah, I mean, I'm not doing anything anytime soon, but I don't know. I just find it. It's funny

I mean if not somewhat ridiculous that to Mid mid 40 year old best friends who only ever had a tattoo of their wives Names on their asses that they got for for's sake. Right. Started getting arm tattoos. Right. Together. From the same guy. Yeah. But they're cool.

You know, it's a fun process. And, like, you get to express something about yourself. Yeah, and it's not a faux pas, but to go, yeah. It's like more people have them than not now, you know? Yeah, it's not like it's, I heard somebody talking recently, I don't know, I can't remember who it was, and they were like, if somebody doesn't have any tattoos, I'm suspicious of them.

Right. It's like, why? I mean, I like just the personal growth of the fact that, like, the first time I went in to get the elvish, I was feeling faint and so in my head about it. And every time I go in there now, Michael's like, man, I just can't believe it. Now you're like, oh, yeah, I just want to cover my whole arm

because of the first time you came in here, man. I didn't know if I should do even that little elvish. Yeah, you made a big deal about it. Because I was kind of freaking out about it. And so, like, Lily got me on the tattoo train. She got me over the hump. Like, I thought it was, you know, I thought tattoos were cool on other people,

is the line that we wrote for the I'm a thoughtful guy thing. And that's basically how we felt. You get to a certain point in your career and in middle age where you're like, if anybody can get tattoos and do, do whatever they want, it's us. I mean, it has like the,

the least impact, you know, it's like, we're not, we're not somebody like people talk about like not getting hand tattoos or certain jobs. Yeah, and I see like the weather woman that she wears like a sleeveless dress and then she'll like, I think I've seen her on TikTok. She'll come home and she'll remove her tattoo cover up makeup and she's she's got, like, full sleeves. Have you seen this woman?

Yeah. She's like a news lady who, like, covers it up entirely because, like, you're local news, and you don't want to be, like... Can't trust a tattooed neurologist. You don't want to have those dirty, inky arms talking about the next cold front, you know? Nobody wanted to hear about that. Cold front from an inky arm lady.

I think that's not long for this world. It's not long for this world, but if there's any stronghold of it, it's local news. Probably in the middle of who knows where. People are also suspicious of people who don't have tattoos because of undercover cops. Oh. Fun fact, a lot of undercover cops are not supposed to have any visible tattoos. So if a random man or woman comes up, I knew that from working at a bar and bartending and people and like undercover cops coming in and trying to bust you for fake IDs. Oh.

Or like try to bring in a fake ID or not have their ID checked or whatever. It seems like they should have tattoos for the very reason that they're undercover cops. Yeah, like fake ones, though. Yeah. If they don't have visible tattoos, it's always like, that's a cop. That's what you would look for. Yeah, I'd be like, oh, that's a cop. He accidentally caught a glimpse of his badge.

Yeah, no tattoos, like, that's a cop. He accidentally caught a glimpse of his badge. Yeah, no tattoos, like that's a cop. No tattoos is a cop. An undercover cop. Undercover, yeah, yeah. I don't know about just non-undercover cops. I'm sure they can't have any visible tattoos showing. So that's a stronghold of tattoo holdouts, is if you want to be an undercover cop, it's going to be a lot easier.

If you're an actor, you know, you want to play different roles, it's a lot of trouble to cover that stuff up. Yeah, yeah. The makeup nowadays is amazing, though. And pretty quick. Yeah. Yeah, they have airbrush now for a lot of it. I can't remember her name at the Grammys was, like, tatted up, and then she was like, couldn't tell at all. When you get in there, when you get in the makeup chair,

and there's somebody else is worrying about that, like, just painting you. Yeah, so when we have our big acting break, Link, it won't matter. What is good? What is good? Covered up. We're on the back end of seeming. You know, it's like a little edgy.

The back end of seeming a little edgy. It's like having a tattoo and like it like changing how people view you. It's like, oh, he has a little bit of an edge. Yeah. That's going away. It doesn't really mean anything anymore. I just, yeah, I think it's just kind of fun, right? It's just sort of fun.

It's just like, as long, now, there is always the risk, though, that you get something that you don't like, and then you're just like, all right, okay, what do I? That's why you got to pick the right person. What do I do now? That's why I'm attached to Michael, because I completely trust him. And I'm taking a big risk by getting, I think it's a slightly bigger risk

getting something that is completely original because there's the thing that's like, you might not understand that this ends up meaning something else. Right. Or somebody really unsavory starts saying that this thing means this. So I think you're in a safer place.

Yeah, with houseplants. You know what I mean? Yeah, and then if I like, if when my arm starts to wilt, I just have realistically wilted houseplants, which I think will be fitting. There's, yeah, there's lots of conjecture about, well, what is this gonna look like in 30 years?

And I'd be like, I don't know, who cares? I'll be 76 years old. A lot of people are getting hand tattoos now. Like that's the new, whoa, you did that kind of a thing. A lot of artists, what I've read, will refuse to give, certainly give a hand tattoo if it's the first tattoo. It's like, you gotta demonstrate

that you're willing to be inked up before they're going to go to your hand. Because it's so visible and it does have more of an impact on your perception or like your mobility in life, certain jobs or whatever. The skin around there as well has a high turnover rate, so you have to get touch-ups quite often, and it can bleed as well. So it's also just like some artists will kind of discourage it just because. You might not be happy with it. Yeah, or someone will know. They just have to go and get touch-ups every few years for them.

They're going to require more upkeep. I wonder if it hurts more or less. It's right on bone. It's right on bone. On my hand. Hands hurt. People get it on the palm of the hand and that goes away in two months.

Michael did this amazing looking heart in somebody's hand. And I was like, wow, that ain't going to last too long. No, it just kind of fades into dull nothingness. I'm not doing that. No hand stuff. So for me, I'm thinking down the arm.

But you got to hold another arm. Some sort of pattern. And then, I don't know. I don't know if I, you know, I think if I, I don't, I just don't feel like my right arm's complete. And like with what I'm going to go for next, that it might feel done or it might not. I have to wait and see. But that's kind of my plan. I think then it'll be in a bit, a little bit of a holding pattern.

I don't think I'm ever going to get anything bigger than, bigger than this. a little bit of a holding pattern. I don't think I'm ever gonna get anything bigger than this. It may eventually one day culminate into more, but I don't think, I mean, maybe something on this side. It's funny, as people who are on camera a lot, like, so if I'm sitting down talking to you right now,

I'm doing this, you don't see my tattoos because they're here, right? You just get a little peek. Is that, like if they're here. On the outside of your forearm? I'm not, I mean, I guess I'm gonna do some there, but it's just a different thing. It's like, oh, okay, oh, okay.

I see that at all times now. Yep. I don't think I'll go on the face, though. Or the neck. I don't like that. I'm definitely not going to do that. Yep. I'm not going to do that.

What about just behind your ear? A little musical note. I just don't like little things. A little musical note right behind your ear. That's why I kept going bigger, because I didn't want attention to be drawn to one thing. I didn't want it to be that I had a tattoo. I wanted it to be that I had an arm with tattoos on it.

That's what kept pushing me bigger. For me, that's what I wanted was more of a sleeve than a tattoo. I wanted to have a piece. Right, yeah. I don't know. That was just my preference. It's the opposite, which is like little pieces

that make something bigger. Yeah, charm bracelet versus wedding dress. Which do you want? Okay, it's quite an analogy. You know, I want a wedding dress. Well, we've done it, Link. We've done another episode of this podcast. We've done it.

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