Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Rhett's New Sweater Idea | Ear Biscuits Ep. 430

Episode Date: June 10, 2024

Stains, but make it fashion. In this episode, Rhett & Link talk about Rhett’s sweater design and how it became a “statement piece.” Plus, the two decide what half of the body they’d want to make robotic, as well as giving some sage advice to someone wanting to change career trajectories. Get Rosetta Stone’s Lifetime Membership for 50% off! Visit https://rosettastone.com/ear. Check out Gift Mode on Etsy.com 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. No. Ambition is on the inside. So that goal to be the ultimate soccer parent? Keep chasing it. Drive your ambition. Mitsubishi Motors. Welcome to Ear Biscuits, the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I'm Link. And I'm Rhett. This week at the Roundtable of Dim Lighting,

we're going to be talking, amongst other things, about career shifts. If maybe you might relate to someone who is at a point in their career where they feel like they need a shift. Are you looking for a change? We're going to give some perspective on that and talk about some other things. Or if you're here just for dumb small talk, we'll give you that. And talk about some other things. If you're here just for dumb small talk, we'll give you that. Oh, we got plenty of that. And I will say, I'm gonna go ahead and say it right now. We really enjoy hearing from you.

We really enjoy your voicemails. Like, here's the thing. I know that some people, because y'all have said, it's like, well, I don't like hearing the sound of my own voice, trust me. That's two guys don't like hearing the sound of my own voice. Trust me. That's two guys who've been hearing the sound of their own voice for 20 years and never really liking it, to be honest with you.

We can completely relate to that. You don't like your voice? You know how it is when you hear a recording of yourself. I mean, it's always like, I wish it was a little different. Huh. And I mean,

I've gotten so used to hearing it at this point that it's less pronounced as it was 20 years ago. Well, yeah. But I'm just trying to relate, Link. Let me relate, let me relate. And I know that some of you get nervous when you hear that beep, and then, oh crap, whatever I say is gonna end up on the internet. Listen, if you make yourself look stupid, we won't put it on the show.

Ah-ha! Okay? You can always call back. Yeah, you can always just say, hey, scratch that last one. I've reworded it. You want to write it down. What I'm getting at is that we like to hear from you, and it's better than you typing in something on Twitter,

because then we have to read it. We want to hear your voice. We want to hear your questions. We want to hear your comments. We're trying to, if you haven't noticed, make that a bigger part of the show because we think it's a great jumping off point for all kinds of conversations and stories that we can tell. So we're asking. Would you do that? Well, you just call the phone number 1-888-EAR-POD-1. That's the number one. Now, Jamie, help me understand something.

Maybe I'm wrong. Yes. Because I see some people say that if they are not from the United States of America, that they can't call this number. Is that true? I believe so. I don't really know. Because it's like if you dial the 1 and then the 888,

that's the area code of the country, that should work. Is it because it just costs them money? Is that the thing? Is it now they're having to pay the cost? Yeah, if there's like roaming or whatever or international charges. So here's what I'm going to promise that Jamie is going to look into. Yes, I will research. I am promising that Jamie will look into us coming up with a solution.

You're promising a process. You're not promising results. I'm not a solution, yeah. We are going to investigate the reality of what it would look like to allow anyone to call toll-free. And if that means some sort of submission that's over the internet that's not calling a number, whatever we end up coming up with. Because if we're going to make this a bigger part of the show,

and you don't live in the United States, well, we want to open it up to everybody. This is a global show. This goes across the entire spherical flat disk of the Earth. The entire show is broadcast over the big, completely flat, circular, firmament-enclosed, sitting on the back of a turtle, Earth, that we're all on right now. regular, firmament-enclosed, sitting-on-the-back-of-a-turtle earth that we're all on right now, and we would like you all to be a part of it wherever you're at on the disc. I think if they use WhatsApp, it should be fine. Okay.

They can just dial the number through WhatsApp. I'm pretty sure you can call any country. You know what we're going to do? Try that. I'm going to make a second promise. Jamie is going to contact one of her many international acquaintances or friends and get them to test this theory. Oh, that is cool.

Do you have international friends? Well, I have an old roommate that went back to England I'd rather not speak to, but for the purposes of this. Jenna, you've got lots of international friends. I do have international friends. Okay. Wow. Yeah.

Jamie just got kicked to the curb. No, it's all good. When Jenna have international friends. Okay. Wow. Yeah. Tammy just got kicked to the curb. No, it's all good. When Jenna comes back from a trip, she's got many different new friends. I do. Of all stripes. Yeah. And so she's gonna be contacting all of them and getting them.

In fact, all of the international voicemails from here on out on your biscuits will be Jenna acquaintances and friends. So it might get a little narrow in the perspective, but... Hey, what? I'm just saying. I mean, just like relatively speaking, you know. Okay, I'm done. You should have just called the narrow people.

I'm done. Got questions for me? I want you to talk about your sweatshirt. Oh, my sweatshirt. Now- Can you see on the camera how beautiful it is? So just to paint a picture for audio only. Yes.

You have a white sweatshirt. It's actually the North Face embroidered, logoed, off-white, completely white sweatshirt. Purchased at a necessary time when I was getting ready to go to the NC State versus Carolina football game and realized it was going to get down to 37 degrees while I was in the stands. And I was like, my jacket is not strong enough. to 37 degrees while I was in the stands, and I was like, my jacket is not strong enough. I need another layer and purchased this at a Dick's Sporting Goods.

Okay, but it's, you know, a baggy white sweatshirt is... It's kind of an in right now. It's cool. Yeah. Of course, it has purple splotches all over it. Oh, what are you talking about? Yeah. Now, you say now. Well, I'm saying I'm looking at it.

And I've seen it before and it didn't have that. Okay. And then I saw it. I was there for this story. So I'm just kind of teeing you up to tell the story of why your white sweatshirt. Is now fashionable and cool? Has wine stains all over it

like uh okay well let me tell this story a wine it also like a sommelier it also like

vomited on you it smells like wine and a campfire it does smell like wine and I will now unfold why

um I was at a gathering uh people DJed by Elkhound Snuggle Baby. There you go. I mean, a gathering, that kind of undersells it. Okay, what do you think it was? Well, I'd like for you to come up with, come on, come on now. A kickback is what one person called it. Okay, that's better. And it was quite a kickback. Many great smooth tunes were

played. That's right. Amongst friends, some of our closest friends. It's a record spinning party. Record spinning. Record spinning party, kickback, you know, it wasn't a dance party. It was a listen and mingle. Yeah. And at some point, someone proposed the idea that we drink alcohol. Yeah. Not a bad idea. Yeah. And we were like, well, what do we got here?

And we were at the Creative House. I'll say that because that helps too. Yeah, yeah. Because that's where my vinyl setup is. That's where your stuff is. And we have somewhat of a stocked, I mean, there's like snacks there, and there is like some various whiskeys and stuff. We don't really drink that much. Yeah.

But people do. There's like leftover beers from when people have come over and brought their own beer. Yeah. So there's like a disparate assemblage of beers in the fridge. But one of our friends was like, I would love some wine, and I was like, I don't know if we got wine.

Why don't we have wine? But we should have wine. Like we should have wine. You should always have a bottle of red, a bottle of white. You should have it just for social purposes. Yeah, didn't think we did. But I'm like, oh, we do have wine. And so I went back, I was like, we got wine.

And I was like, we don't have a bottle opener. I'm not gonna give the exact details of how I got this particular bottle opener that I got because it... Okay. I'll explain to you later why that's the case. But let's just say, over the course of about 20 to 30 minutes,

20 minutes, I commandeered a bottle opener from another friend. A wine de-corker. And it was one that this particular friend was willing to part with because he said, quote, I don't like the way this one works, so I'll give this one to you and you can have it at the creative house. Okay.

I was like, great. Go back in and begin doing the deed. And when I say that, I mean opening the wine. And boom. It was one of those you screw in, and then it's got the two things that you pull down, and it pushed down, and it pulls the thing up with leverage. And as often the case with these, apparently,

the cork broke in the middle. You pulled out the top half of the cork. Because you don't have as much, as my friend was explaining, you don't have as much control over the simpler ones where you can like adjust your position and stuff. And this is sort of like, whatever happens, happens. Yeah. And it was too much tension on the cork, broken half. So I was like, well, damn it.

Cause that other half is stuck. At the same place it's always been. Yeah. And so I was like, well, what I'm going to do, because I've encountered this situation before. I walked away at this point, I think. I'm glad. I was kind of, I saw you opening it,

and I saw the first half come out, and I just walked away. I couldn't be there for it. You've got to know when there for it. You know. You got to know when to hold them. You got to know when to fold them. You got to know when to walk away. That's when I walk away. You abandoned me.

But as you will learn, that was a smart move. So I took the butt end of a butter knife and started that. Creating some... Boom. Upward and downward motion. You were... Pushing it down.

You were jabbing it. So you were gonna force the cork... You force it down and then you just pour around it. And pour around it. It's not that big of a deal. The cork has been in... this is the bottom half of the cork. It's not like putting the top half of the cork in the wine. Okay. You know what I'm saying? This is like bottle...

It hasn't been exposed to anything except wine. Except wine. So... You were gonna make a little float. And I didn't wanna do that thing where you start trying to pick out the cork, because then it becomes a bunch of little pieces, and then you have to strain it. I wanted to push one whole cork down and then pour around. Mm-hmm.

And of course, the wine underneath the cork is, there's a, it can't, it's got nowhere to go. It's pressurized. And the air as well. And as I pushed it down, it released, but also the force of the wine came up and fountained out into the kitchen and onto yours truly and onto this sweatshirt.

It's hard to imagine that it fountained out enough to put as much as is on your shirt, but I just... Put a pin in that. Was there... You're saying it just splooshed out big time. So it wasn't just the splash of the cork hitting the wine. It was pushing down pressure and then releasing more pressure around. And you didn't see it because I cleaned it up. So it went up. It went all over the cabinets. It went all over the fridge.

It went all over the counter, and it went on me. Now, somehow, miraculously, it only hit my sweatshirt. It went all over the fridge It went all over the counter And it went on me Now Somehow Miraculously It only hit my sweatshirt And I Will say The first thing I did

Is I cleaned up The stuff on the Cabinets Because I was like I don't want this Red wine to dry Do you remember What music I was playing

At the time Was it appropriate For this I gotta say I lost track Oh yeah I lost track Okay

Alright But that would have been A little too much To expect from you To like be You know Soundtracking for this? I gotta say, I lost track. Oh yeah. I lost track. Okay. Alright. But that would have been a little too much to expect from you. To like be, you know, soundtracking that. Well,

the bar is high. I'm capable of so much. So, yes Link, this is not nearly as much wine. Well no, this is way more wine

than actually spilled on me. Well you came out to where we were outside and you brought wine to the person whose idea was to drink wine. And I said- She seemed pretty happy. I said, I hope this is the best glass of wine you've ever had, as I showed my shirt, which had basically, I would say,

between 15 and 20 small dollops of red wine on it. And then I was like, does it come out of a white sweatshirt? And they were like, ah, you're gonna have a tough time getting rid of that. I was like, well, it's kind of cool. I'll just go all the way. It seemed like it could be cool. I was like, yeah, it could be cool. I mean, there's just not enough of it to seem intentional.

could be cool. I mean, there's just not enough of it to seem intentional. And I own a couple of shirts that have an approach where somebody just took paint and just threw it on a sweatshirt. Yeah. And I bought them for like large sums of money because somebody figured it was a good idea. Right. So I took it out there, I hung it up and I took a spoon, I dipped it in wine, and it was dark. And I just sort of flipped the spoon at the shirt, and then I brought it back over to the group. I displayed it, and they were like, that looks great. Your wife, Christy, said, dip the cuffs. Yeah. And so I took the cuffs, and I dipped the cuffs in wine.

Yep. That right there was the stroke of genius. And I feel like at this point... I usually only want her to stroke my genius. Oh, God. But that right there is what tells me this is an intentional artistic move, not just a small yay gone wrong.

And I could do this for any sweatshirts, if you have a white sweatshirt. I mean... Turn around, because you did the back, too. Yeah, yeah, I did. I love this, because I get to see the back of your shirt, and you can't talk into a mic anymore. It's great. Well, tell me about it.

I did not know, now that you told me that you've used like a spoon, you like spooned it on there, you like dolloped it out. No, no, I took a spoon and threw it. Yeah, you dolloped it. I didn't pour it. Yeah, I can tell because there's like, there's impact points and then there's tails in a couple of places. Yeah.

That's nice, man. You really instinctively went with a very good technique right from the beginning. I really think a paintbrush dipped and flung... That would be a different thing. I think you really got it. Version two. Spoon dollop. Well, this is the question I have for you now,

because as I looked at this last night with Jesse, as it was still wet with wine drying... Is it dry right now? Yeah, it's dry. I was like, if you saw somebody wearing this, would you think that, A, they had been in maybe an accident? But then I think you would look and you would be like, no, it's purple.

Oh, that must be intentional. Maybe it's not your taste, whatever, but you would assume that it was one of those artsy things. Yeah, you'd pull it off. would assume that it was one of those artsy things. Yeah, you've pulled it off. But I feel like I'm tempted to give this sweatshirt a series of lives. I started with wine.

I think I might move to a different substance for my next phase of this. I think it has to be- And I might own it for many, many years and pass it to the next generation. This is a good idea, but I would encourage you to keep it honest. Only when it gets stained? Wear it to your next thing. Wear it out to a hot dog. I don't stain myself very often. I mean, that was an unusual event last night.

Well, you know, maybe you're eating a hot dog. You get a little mustard on there, and then you're like, break out the mustard dollop spoon. And then you've eating a hot dog, you get a little mustard on there, and then you're like, break out the mustard, dollop spoon. And then you've got a story. Yeah, this is when the wine happened. This is when the mustard happened. That would be wonderful if I could pull that off, but I'm afraid that that, I think I'm going to start being messy on purpose,

and I don't want that. I'd rather be Ronaldo. I didn't get that reference. Oh, I get it. Like 70% of the world did. I understand that. The global audience get that reference. Oh, I get it. Like 70% of the world did. I understand that. The global audience got that. Hold on.

I do get it. Football. Yes, football. International football. So, yeah, I'm pretty proud of it. Just enjoy that for a while. I mean, because mustard wouldn't be the next move. I don't think mustard would look right.

I think mustard's going to dry weird. I wonder if there was a different type of wine, like maybe a Merlot, maybe a Malbec. You want me to do different wines? And then I wonder, it'll be a different shade. Oh, very close, though. Very close, but subtly different. It's just a wine shirt?

Well, what else would you do? If I did it intentionally, I would start doing puff paint. No, no. Can't do soy sauce. That stuff stinks, man. Well, then what? What would be next? I've got to look at staining liquids.

Yeah, does it... What leaves a good stain? Blood? See, I don't want blood. It's already too close to blood as it is. Well, you know, I'm talking to you out of mustard, because mustard is messy. It just implies slob. Barbecue sauce, I think any type of...

Like I think you need to go with another type of beverage. Like what's a good beverage? Sunkist? Sunkist? Sunkist. I just think it would be. I think Kool-Aid is pretty staining. It's got to be something that really isn't going to get lost in the mix. Baja Blast. Baja Blast.

It's blue. That's staining. Okay. I don't know, but it's blue and it would go with the. Blue would be nice. We stock it. And I also think you could go with bleach, just some bleach dots. And then that would, because this is an off-white,

and then you've got like this like pristine white thing happening too. I feel like maybe face, like another. I think maybe what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this as my personal canvas, and then I'm going to basically take what I learn in splattering sweatshirts, and then I'm just going to start selling my own pieces. And I'm going to get selling my own pieces. And I'm gonna get... No, you're not. I'm gonna get, like, $5 Amazon sweatshirts, right?

I want the margins to be through the roof. And I'm going to stain them. I'm gonna just... I'm gonna put them all up around me in a room, and I'm just gonna Jackson Pollock that shit with all kinds of things. I think you should... And then I'm gonna sell them all up around me in a room, and I'm just gonna Jackson Pollock that shit with all kinds of things. I think you should. And then I'm gonna sell them for $500.

I think it should be a lifestyle of slob. I think you should wear it and just go ham on whatever it is you're eating. Could be ham. You know, you get a little sugar glaze all over you. And so then it's Rhett Warren slob wear. I feel like you're, I just don't think, I don't think you worn slob wear. I feel like you're... I don't think you're taking this seriously,

and I also think you're giving me bad ideas. I'm actually making it more authentic and honest and more valuable. Rhett wore this and spilled something on himself, turned it into a piece, and now you can own it. I gotta start being messier and I gotta start hanging out with messier

people in messier places. And I gotta start being messier, and I gotta start hanging out with messier people in messier places. And I gotta start telling people... Are we breaking up? Is that what's happening? And then I gotta make sure that I've got the right substances. I'm like, don't bring anything that doesn't stain to the party. What kind of idiot says that? It would be fun to have you at a party

and just to spill things on you. Yeah, but I don't want it on my pants. You would be like the hired entertainment. Now this big guy's gonna show up in like all white or off-white clothing and you just get to spill your shit on him. And then he's gonna leave and he's gonna come back and try to sell it to you.

It would be kind of interesting if I put on a full white sweatsuit, again, from Amazon, we're talking no more than $11 total for the entire outfit. Maybe some imitation white Vans. And probably a white headband. White headband? A white headband. Oh.

And then people make a little buffet for me of crazy staining things. And it's like, then we all eat. make a little buffet for me of crazy staining things. And it's like, then we all eat. And then I am the evidence of the things that were eaten and the things that were drunk. And then that whole suit is like, the name of the suit on my fashion website is just the date and the name of the event.

Can we insult you while we're spilling stuff all over you? I like that as being part of it. I don't wanna be the object of everyone's frustration. That's too much to take on personally. We could give you hollow compliments. I think there should be no speaking while it's happening. That's a little cultish. I do invite you to DJ the party.

If you want to manipulate and control the entire crowd I think there should be no speaking while it's happening. I do invite you to DJ the party, so. If you want to manipulate and control the entire crowd with your music and incite them to violence, well not violence, but to just messiness, then I'm open to that. I'm excited for you. Can I take a few moments to just pick your brain a little bit about the party? Oh, okay, I was about to move because i i i am curious about some things you know i'm looking for i i suggested that we have a

record spending party to have our friends get together because a our friends needed to get together and some people from out of town who we don't see that often and i'm you know I'm just looking for opportunity to spin these records into like practice being more of DJ which also kind of made me the host of this thing but um I limited myself to just the vinyl until we got off of like Kendrick Drake beef and we like revisited all those in chronological order I had to do that for my phone that was pretty fun but but like so for like you know it might have been three hours for lean up dad i like stuck to just playing records which is fun for me and like a challenge to work within what i've got to curate a vibe for people who are like like we said not dancing just hanging out and kind of catching up. So there was...

There's this art to like, what do you play for this type of get-together and what volume? And I had to... You know, I like to overthink these type of things because there's like a science to it. I think that, at least with this particular crowd, I think that the value in what you're bringing to the table

is mostly encompassed by the role that it plays as background music. Right. We all know each other really well, and we are catching up, and usually when we hang out, it's just background music, and we're just talking and catching up and having a good time. In other words, I don't really know. I've been to listening parties before, but it was always like, hey, I want to play some of my new music from an artist friend

or something like that. I'm playing my album for you guys and you're sitting down and you're all listening to it together. That's listening party to me, right? Because we're there to listen to this particular thing. Right. Listening party, that's friends getting together who, what those friends want to do is they want to talk,

they want to reconnect. And so I think that the music in that context serves as an additional layer of social lubrication for people to connect and converse and so that indicates what the volume should be which i think i mean there was a couple of times where it was like people told me uh tell them to turn it down a little bit so then i would say tell you to get you to turn it down a little bit, so then I would get you to turn it down. Right. Because the music was a little louder than what you'd normally expect for a hangout. But then I started to turn it. I was like, oh, everybody's, you know, people are talking more. It wasn't like I was standing back there the whole time,

but I would turn the volume down. But then if somebody showed up, and then all of a sudden the energy goes up, and everybody's like, I'm happy to see you, and I'm talking at this volume. You gotta bring the volume of the music up a little bit. It's like now we've got a new energy. I'm bolstering this energy. Right. But then you gotta bring it back down. Then you gotta change gears. And then nobody, you know...

It should be the type of thing that no one should think about. I think that my... Unless you're actually listening to something. My take on it is that the... Everyone else's experience of it is... Should be... Except for when we were like, let's listen to these this this you know these diss tracks or whatever and we were kind of focusing on that yeah it is like yeah what is

complementing the vibe and the conversational mood or whatever and that's the value in it and then but because it's more of a tactile experience and a manual thing that you're doing with records it's a cool aesthetic and a cool thing that you're doing with records, it's a cool aesthetic and a cool vibe for anybody who happens to look over there and think, oh, this isn't just Spotify, this is a man playing records. Which is cool, adds to the ambiance. But I think that mostly it's for your personal enjoyment,

which is all that it needs to be for. Well, I think we had just enough people that it worked. Any less people and it would have been a little awkward. And it would be more appropriate with a few more people. Then it becomes more of a party than a kickback where everybody's sitting down and just talking. These are the dynamics I'm thinking about. How many people allows for what level of DJing?

And then what would happen? What would be different? If a few more people were there, it would be more of like a mix and mingle party. It wouldn't be like everybody can be in one group around a campfire and talk. Right. I think that's a dynamic too.

And there's a- It's the difference between a kickback and a part. Part of it is also like, if you have to be, if you're doing like, I'm gonna be playing records the whole time, then you can't stay in a conversation for too long. Right. That's the other part of it.

So, I mean, if that's your choice, if that's what you wanna do, but that's part of it. That is another factor, yeah. Am I at the party or am I like playing music? Yeah. Okay. I had a very good time. That's what I wanted to know. I had a very good time.

That's what I wanted to know. I had a very good time. But I could also, like when observing you, I could tell, he's really thinking a lot about this, which is great. But I wasn't.

We are experiencing the benefit of it. Right. To me, it was developing a skill that then I can apply to other things. And I wanted to do that amongst friends. So that's why I was like, I said this is the type of party it was going to be.

It's kind of like me learning all of this stuff too and giving more attention to that than if it was just a normal get together that we normally throw. That was the difference. So yeah, I wasn't quite as engaged socially for that reason. But I'm seeing what other type of events can I curate and do I have the skill to kinda know what to play

and how to play it. But you don't wanna do a party? No, I would do a party. A party that you get invited to to do it? That you don't know the people? I would do that. But some of this practice informs that. Which is different than a dance party.

Right, yeah, totally. But then there was like Ward's birthday party, which was very much like... That's what he wanted a dance party. Yeah. Which in that case, it's like. A more you're like we're more traditional DJ at that point, like you're basically back there the whole time. Maybe you come out a little bit, but like that's like a that's a that's a different thing.

That's like people asking for songs and, you know. Yeah. That's like DJ asking for songs and, you know. Yeah. That's like DJing a dance party. Right. And which one do you want to do the most? I think the one, like the DJ, the non-dance party. Or maybe there's a little bit of dancing. It's like on the fringe of a dance party.

Yeah, somewhere in between the dance party and the kickback is like this sweet spot. Because the rub becomes if it's a certain group of people and they're like, I'm going to a party and I'm connecting with people. And we have friends who, like last night, we got friends from out of town who are bringing people that they know. Some of our friends are like people who are like, oh, this person should meet this person because of the work that they do.

And so we kind of curated those kinds of connections, which is very cool. And so like talking to somebody about their work or whatever. Yeah. And like it was the perfect vibe for that but if you try to make it where you're you're like hey you like you're you can't get to a place where you're trying to draw attention to the get everyone to draw attention to the music in the way that you your attention is on the music which you didn't do that but i'm

saying it's just like tonight tonight I will be playing the – now I'm moving into this. Obviously, it's like a vibe thing. It's very much a different thing other than – Right. Because I can imagine there being an actual listening party where it's like, tonight we're going to be listening to this genre, and then we're going to talk about it.

And there are some people who would want to do that. And I might even want to do that if that was why I was gathering. But if people aren't told explicitly, this is about the music. Like if it's about the people, then the music compliments the interactions, which is what last night was.

Then when it becomes about the music, the people have to, that's a different thing. And that group last night, like our core group of friends, would not, they wouldn't want to do that. Right. They would bristle at the idea that it has to be about this music. Yeah, right. You know what I mean?

Yeah. But I think I can assemble a group that would understand that this is more about the music. Yeah. So I'm interested in doing that too, throwing that type of party.

And that'll be a different set. Turns out there's a lot of different, very specific types of parties that you can throw. That's right.

But as a DJ, you gotta know what kind of party you're at. Including one where your friend wears all white Amazon sweats and eats like a pig. Okay.

And stains himself. And maybe I soil myself, I don't know. Stain the insides. Nope. Nope. I don't mean to say, what about my shirt, but we should say something about, what about my shirt? Well, Link... Carrying is cool, that's a good shirt. You know, Link, that's actually part of our Always Proud collection,

which we're always expanding the Always Proud collection. We've now got a cropped tee because people are doing that now. Oh, really? We've got a tank top because those are coming back. And we've got a rubber key chain. Very safe. Okay. And again, as is always the case, or as is the case, we always do something like this,

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We got you Rogers. You want to hear a voicemail? Yeah. Okay. Mm-hmm. You want to hear a voicemail? Yeah. Okay, I need you guys to settle a debate for my boyfriend and me. If you had to replace exactly one half of your body with robotic parts, what would it be? Left or right, top or bottom, front or back? left or right, top or bottom, front or back. My boyfriend and his cousin insist there is a correct answer,

which I disagree with. Let me know what you guys think. Good question. I have an immediate answer. Like the thing that like jumps out at me as the, this has to be the right answer. It's so obvious. Okay. And it's not the top half.

I mean, does that include your head? Well, that's why my answer is it is... It's not the bottom half. It is a lateral split. It is the right side or the left side. It's one whole side of your body because then you've got the other side that you have the best of both worlds. You have the benefit of,

you have a robotic part and a natural part to every single part of your body. And then there's a, I actually thought about this recently. Well, there's some things you only have one of. It's interesting that the symmetrical nature of the human body in that there are two of everything and then the things that line up on the center,

there's one of those, your nose, your mouth, your goozle. Your sternum. Your belly button. Your penis. Your wiener. So is the wiener robotic? Half of it is.

Actually, now I'm second guessing. I don't want the right side of my wiener to be robotic. Well, how about the left? Or that. I don't want one side to be robotic. I mean, because how does it change? I like the idea of this. I'm sure they can figure out.

If they can figure out how to put half a man onto a robot, they can figure out how the dick works. I don't. And I think this could be an incredible, incredible innovation. I don't mean to get graphic here, Link. Can I dress to the side, you know, like the tailors talk about?

Dress to the side? When a tailor asks you what side do you dress on, you know what that means. Oh. That means which leg your wiener hangs down. Okay, and so what you're saying is that you wanna keep. Because the tailor's about to put his or her or their measuring tape all the way up there into where your thigh meets your crotch.

Yeah. And if you're dressing on that side, something might get smushed or touched. A better term. Maybe hanging on that side. I think this is a great idea, and I think, first of all, the idea of having one robotic testicle. And again, we are, let's just be honest, we're 12-year-old boys trapped in middle-aged men's bodies. I'm fine with a robotic testicle. If you don't know that yet, then why are you still here? So we are going to talk about a robotic dick for a little bit.

Yeah, and we've gotten to it pretty quickly. One robotic testicle sounds... Good, Fine. Hey, is it heavier? I don't know. GPS? There's lots of things you could do with that. How heavy is GPS? It's a little computer, basically.

Could it be magnetized and I could stick my keys to it? You could do whatever you want to. Because I wouldn't lose my keys? Just talk to the engineers. But let's just talk about the penis itself, okay? Why are you saying it like that? Just say wind. I'm gonna just talk to the engineers, but let's just talk about the penis itself, okay? Why, but the way you're, why are you saying it like that? Just say weeners.

It's how it's pronounced, penis. Have you read it? Have you read it? I've read it. Have you read the word? Lately, it's penis. It's not P-E-E-N-I-S. I just don't know if you're doing it

because you think it's funny or because you're, I'm starting to question whether you're just wrong. Okay. I'm doing it for about four different reasons. Can I list them? Number one, I love making people... You're going to need at least four because no one will stand on his own. The main reason is I think it's funny, right? I don't care what you think. The second reason is I know that it makes a certain percentage of the population believe

that I actually don't know how to pronounce it, and that brings me joy. Okay. Okay? The third reason is, I believe that by saying penis, it doesn't get written out in the captions as penis, and that like does something for engagement. And the fourth reason is I don't have one. It's just three reasons.

Yeah, you got to come up with a fourth reason. So anyway, I think that, first of all, some men, you know, as you age, the idea, like, of having some kind of reinforcement is actually pretty intriguing, right? I mean, there's some guys that will have some kind of pumpable rod inserted. And what I'm saying that, like, if half of my penis was... Metal. Was not metal. It's some sort of robotic silicone reinforced.

I don't know. It could end up being in a long-term more reliable. How long? Exactly. Well, but only half of it. Only one side of it. But my natural half could probably use some encouragement from the new part.

You know, I don't know what can happen. Seems like something that could go sideways literally and figuratively. It probably could go any way you want it to. That's another thing. If half of it is robotic... It makes me uncomfortable. Well, I'm just exploring the first thing that we all thought about. It probably can go any way you want it to. That's another thing. If half of it is robotic. It makes me uncomfortable. Well, I'm just exploring the first thing

that we all thought about. And so anyway, yes, I would definitely do it, and it is definitely the right answer. But I pictured it being made out of sheet metal. The connection is worrying. Let's get back to the top, the other head, the brain. And the idea that half of your brain would be a computer and it's directly interfacing with the natural half of your brain becomes a robot. The idea that half of your brain would be a computer and it's directly interfacing

with the natural half of your brain? That's cool. We're talking just an incredible life at this point, right? I mean, because we're assuming that the engineering is working out. There's no way it's going to be flawless, though. My right eye has a 300x optical zoom, and my nose, all this stuff is robotic on one side and it's doing all this crazy analysis but then it's immediately interfacing through the power of your brain with the rest of your body.

That is an amazing life to live. Half your tongue is tasting. Your boyfriend or husband or whoever you said it was is 100, okay, one of you is 100% right because there is an obvious answer. Now if your guy said that the answer is obvious and it's the top or the bottom half, then he's just wrong. You know, but you lose internet connection and all of a sudden the right

half of your body doesn't really work. No. So I gotta drag myself to... Offline. Yes, you've got an offline mode, but it doesn't do anything for you. Robots don't have to have Wi-Fi to function. They have to have Wi-Fi to get to the internet. But it would be designed that it will only work in a robust fashion

when connected to the internet, like everything else. Why would I design it in that way? Because everything is designed that way. No, it's not. Everything is. This microphone works great. It's not connected to the internet. But you and I both know that if half of your body was a microphone,

it would be robustly internet integrated. Offline mode, everything still works. It's just you don't have access to the cloud. But you've got at least a three terabyte. I don't think you'd be able to taste. It drives. You've got to be connected to the internet in order for that side of your tongue to taste.

Why would that be the case? It's just how it would be. Maybe firmware updates, maybe. Yeah, but we don't need the internet. Well, because we're not storing all that information. All the tasting information is in the cloud, so you have to interact with that. It's like, that's just how it would be. No, the tasting information files will be downloaded. And if you were like, I would like to enjoy black licorice on the left side of my web tongue, on my robotic part,

then you could program that. You could download that module. And then once it's there, it's there. So if you were stuck, if you went on vacation, here's what might happen. Let's say you go on vacation and you go to a place that's got bad Wi-Fi. You're like, shit, I didn't download this stuff. You downloaded the licorice thing. You forgot. You were going to, but then...

You were going to a licorice country where it's all they eat. And you were planning on chewing on that one side of your mouth, and then you can't get on the internet. That could be a problem. But I don't think it's a non-starter. I think that's an easily overcome-able- I'm just trying to be realistic about how this would actually roll out.

Now, you played a man in a series that we made that had the lower half of his body replaced by a robot, if you don't recall. That's right. Played by a doctor who did the surgery. That was me. Played by a doctor who did the surgery. That was me. Yeah. Why did my character, me, choose the bottom half?

Because you were replaced by, at the time it seemed like a great idea. You were replaced by a robot. At my job. At your job. I was jealous. At my job. At your job. I was jealous.

The girl that you had a crush on, who was your coworker, fell in love with the robot, Ricardo, or whatever his name was. Yeah. And I think that you started turning yourself into a robot so she would love you? Mm-hmm. And also, your personality was very robotic. Yeah. And systematic, and it was very robotic and systematic, and it was like what you thought to be the case. There's probably another plot point that I'm leaving out. And plus, we didn't want to do the cyborg thing.

You know, the DC Comics never watched the movies, but cyborg. He seemed like half his face was robotic. That's the right answer, though. I mean, did she not give her answer? Well, I think that the point of our answer was to settle the debate or to spark it. I don't know. Well, that's it right there.

We agreed. We agreed the whole time. Even with your Wi-Fi snafu, you still agree? Yeah, and even with the wiener being half sheet metal. One arm being so powerful in the hand that could crush things, and then you've got a foot for kicking things. There's so many different things. I don't know what happens on the inside.

The intestines get a little squirrely because you've got a bunch of connections that need to take place. But it could be like, I'm going to store that on the robotic side of my stomach. Yeah, that's interesting. Your liver's got to, you got to pick what side your liver's going to be on. The liver's on one side of the body, and I think I want the liver to be robotic

because it's like a filter for everything, and I never have to replace it at that point. It would be more easily replaceable. Yeah, but if I, what's on the other side? But that's also determining what side of the brain is replaced. And of course, each half of the brain has a different focus. I do get concerned about the things that are like shared.

Like when you, I mean, when you really get down to the sphincter, it's like the cooperation between the human natural anatomy like the cooperation between the human natural anatomy and like a mechanism to control only half of the sphincter. I think that's bound to go haywire. It sounds like it could get infected. There could be problems, but I'm just assuming that in this theoretical example, that connection is perfect.

I think you've got to start with what side of the brain do you want to be robotic? And I assume that you would want the left side to be robotic. I know the left-right brain thing is not actually as pronounced as they say, but the left side of the brain is technically a little bit more technical. And so you want that left side of the brain to be the more robotic side.

You don't want your quote-unquote creative side of the brain to be the more robotic side. You don't want your quote unquote creative side of your brain to suddenly be robotic, right? Because then you just got AI algorithms feeding all your creativity. I'm going below the belt, robot, but it's a horse. So, you know. It's like Westworld? Yeah, like I'm a minotaur. A robotic minotaur.

I don't think that was an option. You can't change species. Okay, all right. I think Christy would have something to say about that. Okay, yeah. Yeah, like, where's my saddle? That's what she would say. Oh, God.

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All right. Another voicemail. Hi, this is Russell Hibbs. And I just had a question about what do you do if you have spent the past three to five years in the same field and all of a sudden you wake up every morning hating that position you used to love what you were doing now you just it fills you with dread what's the best way of just completely doing a 360 on your career life. Thanks. If you are feeling that way, and this is not just hypothetical, okay. Well, it's good to be in touch with your feelings.

I think if you're making this type of analysis and coming to these realizations, that's good. And not just saying, well, this is my life. I've got to live it. There's a saying about a life worth self-analyzing is worth having. There's a saying somewhere associated with that. Right. And I just want to set the groundwork that a life life of self looking at yourself is

there you go is a good is a good practice can we put that on a t-shirt a life of self looking at yourself is a good practice it's a good practice

so we agree with that right yeah you know it's like don't just don't assume that you're trapped. And or don't look at yourself.

Don't not look at yourself. Okay, because, yeah. Because then you might not see what could happen. You're not backtracking. Are you using the human side or the robotic side of your brain right now? Or are you using the human side or the robotic side of your brain right now? Or are you using the horse part? And you sound young. You got a lot of life ahead of you. Too much life ahead of you to be miserable if you're three to five years

into something. So I like your line of thinking. I have what I'll loosely call a disclaimer. And I've actually thought a little bit more about this general idea of people like us giving career advice. Yeah, it doesn't feel like we should do it. And listen, that doesn't stop a lot of people on the internet from doing it.

But, and I may have read something. Honestly, it's one of those things where I don't know. I had a conversation with somebody about this and I don't know how much of it was, came from this conversation. So this may have been said. I'm sure it has been said. You know, taking career advice from someone who has, who's a successful YouTuber is like taking financial advice from someone who won the lottery. Yes. They can be like, well, you just got to go to the shortstop every day and buy the scratchers. It's just like, listen, we got lucky.

Like, we didn't get here because we operated under some incredible plan. It's like, there's all kinds of circumstance and serendipity and luck involved in us sitting right here and being able to work together and do what we do.

But it's a both and. No, I'm not saying that we don't work our asses off. I'm not saying that we don't. And we looked hard for opportunities. All that's true. Capitalize on if we could. But the thing that bothers me when people start talking about how hard they worked is the implication is that most people don't. I know a lot of people, and everybody that I know works pretty damn hard.

Everyone's trying really hard. Yeah. They're like trying really hard to make shit happen. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe there's some people who don't care as much or whatever, but like, I just don't think that that is the thing. I don't think it's like, you gotta just try real hard. So I totally agree. So I'll just say that the best disclaimer is that We live in this space Where we wake up every day and we get to get paid to talk about having half a robotic penis penis Where link gets to talk about his horse bottom and his wife riding him and we get paid for that When he says she would, give me a saddle.

Ching, ching, ching, ching. And you know what? Quarters going into our bank account. You can do it too. All you gotta do is work hard, you know? And you can be just like us. Anybody can make a YouTube video. Just do it.

It'll happen for you. We guarantee it. And here's another thing I'll add to this. We're so out of touch. That's another way to say it, right? We're so out of touch. It's like, do you honestly think that you can just realize that you're not happy with your job and then all of a sudden you can be a star?

Another piece of this that has recently changed my mind about some of these things and questions like this. Again, I don't know if we're getting to your answer, but maybe some of this stuff. We're setting the groundwork for the answer. And I'm definitely using the robotic half of my brain for this. I like to watch the Rich Roll roll podcast he's a he he talks to interesting people he's a former like ultra marathon runner or whatever but he doesn't really talk about that

he just talks to interesting people and so he had a guy this i guess he's a harvard researcher or whatever scott galloway i think is his name again, I don't know everything that this guy says. I'm not endorsing everything that he says, but I did see a clip where he was talking about this career question where a lot of people like us talk about passion, find your passion, pursue your passion, because it just kind of sounds like the right thing to do. It sounds like the right thing to do um it sounds like the right thing to say and we say it from this position of privilege where the thing that we are passionate about is the thing that we get to do the point he was making was like that's not great advice

um you should focus on what you're good at and what you will find most of the time that if you really lean into the thing that you're good at something that comes naturally to you you will find most of the time, that if you really lean into the thing that you're good at, something that comes naturally to you, you will become passionate about it. Because a lot of times- You'll enjoy it. Being good at something, the point he was making is that being good at something affords really incredible opportunities a lot of times.

There's no guarantee, but getting really good at something and also kind of thinking about maybe like a place where there's an opportunity where it's not so crowded. Like, I think I'm good at this type of thing. And here's a, this is a super practical answer, but like, I'm good at this type of thing and thinking in this way. And there's an opportunity in that field. There are a lot of jobs in that field. You get into a place where becoming an expert on something, becoming someone who understands something

and studies something deeply and does something really well, for most people, that will usually lead to a great outcome in which you actually can take pride and find passion in the thing that you're doing. And of course, because the thing he was talking about is like,

your passion, you know, like have a hobby, have the thing he was talking about is, like, your passion, you know, like, have a hobby. Have something that you're passionate about. But you don't have to live in this world where you think that the hobby has to be the full-time job. And I'm not saying that's what you're saying, whatever your name is, who called. Did you say what his name was? It was, like, Christian or Dennis. I don't remember. Christian or Dennis.

Yeah, one of those two is what's coming to my mind right now. You're still important. Just because we don't know if you're Christian or Dennis doesn't mean that you're not valued and important. And that this question is very important. I'm just saying that that's another piece of the perspective that I've been thinking about lately. Because I have told people many times on this show and throughout my life to find, and I've told my kids this,

find what you're passionate about and then build your career around that. And I'm not saying that's completely horrible advice. I'm just saying it doesn't have to be that the thing that you do for a living is necessarily started out as your passion. Now, that doesn't mean you gotta do something that you hate. That's not what I'm getting at at all.

I'm just saying that sometimes the passion and the engagement can come from like, holy shit, I'm actually really good at this thing that I didn't even know about last year. So Rhett's saying maybe just get a hobby so you can like look forward to being done with the job that you hate. That's not a bad idea.

If you're in a situation where you're three to five years into a job and you're like, oh, I used to like this, but now I hate it. other opportunities or to create opportunities or to find opportunities without you know just like cold turkey quitting what you're doing and then you're in some sort of like financial lurch you know there's a responsible way to go about it but just looking for doors to push on i think having conversations with people that, you know, you never know what somebody might say that might spark. I mean, you're asking us, so you should ask other people too. You never know what's going to spark an idea or a connection is going to lead to a different type of job.

Yeah. And if you seek out people that are doing things that, people you admire or respect that are doing things that are engaging for them, whether it's a path you wanna go down or not, it's like connecting, like picking those people's brains, I think is a good idea. Maybe that's what's happening here.

And then we're saying, don't listen to us because we're just lucky. I think you just got to, if you're not happy, you got to find, think of it as more of a long play, but you got to start to like to percolate some sort of a plan. Yeah, because I, so all the stuff I was saying, again, wasn't answering the question. You're answering the question. I'm trying to.

What I don't wanna, what I wasn't saying is that, well, if you're good at it, you should just keep doing it. I'm not, you know, fun be damned. I'm not saying that. If it's just like, I hate doing this, then okay, yeah, like Link said, start trying to figure out something else. But I would say two things.

A, agree with you about, don't just quit without a plan, you know? Gotta be- Transition into something responsibly. But the second thing is, what would it look like knowing that you don't know what that timeframe is going to be? You don't know how long it's going to be before you transition from where you're at now to where you're going to be. What would it look like as a practice to try to find a way to be engaged with what it is that you're doing,

even though it sucks. Again, because you know that you, it's like if somebody wakes up and finds out that, or if you break your leg, you break your actual natural leg, not your robotic leg. Harder to fix that one. And you're like, okay.

In fact, we were with a friend last night who wanted the wine, who couldn't get up and get it because had broken her foot and leg. And she's gonna be, she's in this thing on these crutches for weeks, right? And so that sucks.

And she knows that she's gonna get out of those crutches, out of that cast soon. But in the meantime, finding a way to have perspective on it and finding a way to, not enjoy it, but like find a new way to investigate it and experience it where you can still maintain your joy despite the fact that you got a broken leg.

It's not a great analogy necessarily, but I would just say that I think that could be beneficial too. Find a way to be engaged because you might be like, oh, I can find, instead of just thinking about the fact that I hate this, I can try to force myself to find a way to engage in it, but also actively try to find a way to something else. Yeah, yeah. But again, don't listen to us because you have no reason to trust us. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty fluke-ish. Yeah.

What happened to us, you know? I don't tell my kids that enough. I mean, just last night. I'm a fluke. I stained my shirt with wine and then stained it more so that I could wear it and talk about it. There you go. What a fluke. I mean, who am I to say anything?

Yeah, so you're out of touch. I mean, his wife told me to dip my cuffs in red wine, and I did it, and here I am. That really set it off. Oh, he must have done that on purpose. Maybe people will think I was working with grapes or something. You must be working with grapes. Do you work with grapes? I have a slight thing to add to his.

Oh, thank you, Jen. Rescue us. Give us some good advice. If they've been there for three to five years, a lot of times in those situations, it's you've what you loved about the job is now something that annoys you because you haven't been challenged. that he has to see if there's a way he can stretch his brain more, to see if that can help with his distaste of having to go to work because he's still going to have to go and work. And that's an easier way of trying to find something within what you're doing.

And, of course, yes, but obviously start finding something in a different field that you feel like you can do you know 40 hours a week um that you're happy or content with anyway because you're never gonna love everything you do all the time no offense red link i don't love everything i do all the time yeah Yeah. It's because one of us more than the other? It's the whole robotic arm thing. I don't know. We really cross a line. Really cross.

Then you've got. Work is work. Work is work. Work is work. Okay. That's good advice. Work is work. You're not going to always love it.

Stretch your brain. Yeah, stretch your brain. A lot of times you're just a little bored with it, and it's also the idea of it's a choice you make. Like you're going to fall out of love with things. Like the emotion. It's the natural process. Yeah, it's a natural process. Like the emotions you had around this career that

you absolutely loved are going to go away and change you're resigning is that what you're saying no i say you you're going to change and your emotions are going to change you have anything else lined up i mean what are you gonna now what for you what's next for jenna i mean oh i wish you well jenna i'm gonna move to move to Ireland and open up a bookstore slash pub. That's what I'm going to do. Oh, dang. Yeah. Sorry, guys.

See you later. I'm going to come visit. Is that the dream? That is a dream. That is a dream. Yes. All right. Which half of you is robot?

See, I think for me, I would want my non-dominant arm to be uh robotic yes and um smart so you are you are going halfsies on the whole body halfsies but like yeah you have to go around certain like i don't want i don't want my mouth to be robotic nope oh you can speak any language i don't want that's exactly what I'm saying Mouth, wiener, sphincter You want those to be natural I think I might want to be robotic The liver though I like the liver idea

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Have at it. I'm gonna lob you some lobby. Thank you for joining us. Keep those voicemails coming. You know the number. We're not gonna say it again. And we're working actively on an international solution that may be WhatsApp. Yes!

Christian Ordenis, thanks for your question. Talk to you next week. Hi, Rhett and Link. I was just listening to the episode about talking to strangers and it got me thinking because I was just on a really long cross-country road trip with my dad and he decided that our goal every stop should be to talk to a stranger. So every gas station, every hotel, every bus stop, we needed to have an interaction with someone beyond just, can I get the code to the restroom or whatever? And I did not participate, but maybe if I'd heard this podcast beforehand, I would have. So next time, I'll actually engage with

that thanks bye