S1: #9 - Shagging on the Beach w/ Rhett & Link

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth S1: #9 - Shagging on the Beach w/ Rhett & Link

Hosts and Guests

• Smosh Hosts: Ian Hecox, Damien Haas
• Guests: Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Rhett & Link

Release Date: April 17, 2019

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1. Introduction and Guest Welcome (00:00 - 02:23)

The episode kicks off with the standard Ryan Seacrest advertisements promoting Chumba Casino, which are seamlessly integrated into the podcast. Shortly after, Damien Haas welcomes Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal to the Smoshcast.

Notable Quote:

• Damien Haas: "This is the first time we've met. I'm so excited." [01:38]
• Rhett McLaughlin: "Glorious to be here." [01:57]

2. Evolution of Podcasting (02:24 - 05:45)

Damien initiates a discussion about the different waves of podcasting, highlighting Rhett and Link's significant role in shaping the medium. He reflects on the growth from early, joke-based podcasts to the current era where podcasts are more structured and scripted.

Notable Quotes:

• Damien Haas: "I feel like … now we're kind of in this, like, third wave of podcasting." [03:59]
• Rhett McLaughlin: "But now that we're here, we are taking over." [03:11]

3. Maintaining Boundaries in Content Creation (05:46 - 12:42)

The conversation shifts to how content creators like Rhett and Link balance their personal lives with their public personas. They discuss the challenges of sharing intimate details without overstepping personal boundaries, especially concerning relationships and friendships.

Notable Quotes:

• Rhett McLaughlin: "You just have to know that we're never going to say anything negative." [06:02]
• Damien Haas: "I'm afraid that … maybe I'll say something about, like, a date that I went on … I'll get busted for saying something." [06:17]

4. Handling Fan Interactions and Privacy (12:43 - 20:07)

Rhett and Link delve into the complexities of interacting with fans, especially when it comes to personal stories that might involve mutual friends. They emphasize the importance of not speaking negatively about anyone and maintaining a respectful distance to preserve privacy.

Notable Quotes:

• Link Neal: "We didn't want to scare your audience." [02:56]
• Rhett McLaughlin: "I'm like, how was your trip? And you can just be like, you can give like one word answers. Good. Okay." [09:48]

5. Hilarious Anecdotes and Mishaps (20:08 - 37:20)

The episode features a series of humorous stories, including:

• Dr. Fun’s Motivational Songs: Link shares a funny story about promoting a quirky YouTuber named Dr. Fun, who offers motivational songs for a fee.

  Quote:

  • Link Neal: "I've been following his Facebook … he was catching it." [22:03]

• Firework Fiascos and Lawn Mower Races: Rhett and Link recount their adventurous attempts at lawnmower races and fireworks displays, leading to humorous accidents and close calls.

  Quotes:

  • Rhett McLaughlin: "We have to figure out when do you stop and say, listen, this is all going on my podcast." [10:42]
  • Link Neal: "There’s a number of things that could have gone wrong." [71:20]

• Confederate Flag Discussion: A heated yet humorous debate arises around the presence and symbolism of Confederate flags in modern settings, with Damien expressing his discomfort and Rhett and Link offering differing perspectives.

  Quotes:

  • Damien Haas: "It's just a little sad for me when I see those people sitting there." [32:52]
  • Link Neal: "You're flying a flag of a regime that no longer exists, that was defeated in battle and is technically the enemy of America." [53:12]

6. The "Funny News" Segment: Walruses and Climate Change (74:19 - 77:57)

Damien introduces the "Funny News" segment, where he humorously reports on a serious environmental issue: walruses committing suicide by jumping off cliffs due to climate change. The group discusses the absurdity and seriousness of the situation, blending humor with concern.

Notable Quotes:

• Damien Haas: "Climate change is making walruses commit suicide. They're gonna make them jump off cliffs." [75:00]
• Rhett McLaughlin: "It looks like Woodstock never ended over here." [78:00]

7. Final Thoughts and Closing (77:58 - 85:55)

As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on their discussions, share final anecdotes, and promote upcoming tours. They maintain a lighthearted tone, ensuring the conversation wraps up on a humorous and engaging note.

Notable Quotes:

• Rhett McLaughlin: "We could do this differently." [65:36]
• Damien Haas: "We’re going to do it at their other house, which is up on that river." [72:25]

Promotion:

• Tours Announcement: Rhett and Link promote their upcoming live shows across various cities, inviting listeners to join their musical concerts.

  Quote:

  • Link Neal: "Rhettandlinklive.com we're going to … Denver, Salt Lake City, Detroit, Minneapolis, Omaha." [83:05]

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Conclusion

In this episode of Smosh Mouth, Smosh's Damien Haas hosts Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, delving into the evolution of podcasting, the challenges of maintaining personal boundaries as content creators, and sharing a plethora of humorous anecdotes. From discussions about fan interactions and Confederate flag symbolism to the quirky cases of air-frying shoes and walruses' tragic cliff jumps, the episode blends humor with insightful conversations. The "Funny News" segment stands out as a poignant yet comedic take on environmental issues, encapsulating the show's ability to balance lightheartedness with meaningful topics. The episode concludes with a cheerful promotion of Rhett and Link's upcoming live tours, leaving listeners both entertained and informed.

Key Takeaways:

• Podcasting Evolution: Understanding the shift from casual to more scripted and structured podcast formats.
• Content Creation Boundaries: Striking a balance between sharing personal stories and maintaining privacy.
• Humorous Storytelling: Utilizing humor to discuss serious and absurd topics effectively.
• Audience Engagement: Promoting live events and fostering a connection with listeners through relatable anecdotes.

Listener Recommendation: This episode is highly recommended for fans of both Smosh and Rhett & Link, offering a blend of humor, insightful discussions, and entertaining stories that cater to a wide audience.

Transcript

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Link Neal]

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[Damien Haas]

Ramble. Apparently, like, climate change is making walruses commit suicide. They're gonna make them jump off cliffs. And I was like, there is this.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Weird thing that happens when you know every week you're gonna be talking for at least an hour that you start to save things. Like we save conversations for our podcast.

[Ian Hecox]

One day we were all just sitting around and we noticed this horrific smell. But it was more like, this might be toxic for us. And they were air frying shoes.

[Link Neal]

Like a Ruby Tuesday's waiter. Link has a tendency to bring a little flair to things. And when you bring flair to knives, people get hurt.

[Damien Haas]

So your dad can make a pretty good cult leader then.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

He could, yeah. He's spending more time down there in Myrtle beach doing some shagging.

[Damien Haas]

Oh.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

A 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4. 1, 2, 7, 9, 8, 6, 5, 4.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You know all those numbers even in that order? Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, my God. Welcome back to another Smoshcast, guys. We have three very lovely people here today, which is one more than we normally have. Today. We are joined by Damien of Smosh.

[Link Neal]

Hi.

[Damien Haas]

And Rhett. And Link of Rhett and Link.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

What up?

[Link Neal]

Hello.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Glorious to be here.

[Damien Haas]

This is the first time we've met. I'm so excited.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

This is the third time we've met this morning.

[Link Neal]

It's a big building.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah. Very, very large. Very large building we live in.

[Ian Hecox]

We were thinking it was like a Wizard of Oz situation where Stevie would just come out and be the talking head. And there was no Rhett and Link.

[Link Neal]

Well, that would be the case, but she's on vacation, so.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, well, congrats to her. I just said congrats.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Congrats.

[Ian Hecox]

Con Guards to her.

[Damien Haas]

It's early.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Did we make you do this earlier than you normally do? That was our request. We gotta do it early.

[Damien Haas]

It was one hour earlier, which is just totally throwing my game off, man. No, this is great. For those of you that don't know. I guess we'll just go through this really quickly. Rhett and Link are the ones that saved Smosh. So it took you guys long enough to get on our pod. Geez.

[Link Neal]

Well, we didn't want people to think it would be a regular thing.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, sure. That's true.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We want to be on every one of your podcasts.

[Damien Haas]

You just start showing up in all of our videos. Just becomes the Rhett and Link show.

[Link Neal]

We didn't want to scare your audience.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, no, that's understandable. I appreciate that.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But now that we're here, we are taking over.

[Damien Haas]

You guys definitely have much more podcasting experience than us. You guys have been doing it for how long?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I don't know. I mean, the first.

[Link Neal]

There was a big break.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

First Ear Biscuit was probably at the.

[Link Neal]

Same time maybe five years ago, six years ago.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, yeah, maybe so.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Damien Haas]

So that was, like. That was, like, the second wave of podcasting. Because I feel like, yeah, there's people that started podcasting, like, back when it was, like, early Internet, and people were like, I don't know. I'm just doing this, like, podcast thing, and it was a joke. And then. And then, like, there's, like, a second wave, and then that's, like, when everybody decided they were gonna sort of do a podcast, but they didn't really know what they wanted to do. And I feel like it kind of fell off, and then now we're kind of in this, like, third wave.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Of, like, podcasting, where everybody now has a podcast. And I think everyone's starting to definitely understand as, like, a listener, like, what podcasts are. And, like, now there's people that are taking more seriously and they're getting more into, like, you know, scripted type stuff. It's almost. I almost wonder if it's gonna sort of, like, do like, a full loop, like, background, like, how, like, radio used to be, where, like, they had, like, war of the Worlds and, like, full stories. I'm sure. I'm sure.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Teleplay action.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Have you listened to any of those? Like, any of the scripted podcasts?

[Damien Haas]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

A lot of auditions roll through on, like, the voice acting end. Like, it's been. It's been maybe a year now that they're just constantly coming in for things like that. And they're incredibly detailed. They'll have, like, a page of character description. It's. It's interesting. I think you're right on. That's. That's the way it's going.

[Damien Haas]

For sure. Yeah. But, I mean, I'm Stoked. I was way late into the podcast game. I think the first podcast I ever listened to was, like, two years ago.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Damien Haas]

Because I just, like. I don't know, because I equated podcasts to, like, audiobooks, and I just wasn't into that.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

But then I started listening. I was like, oh, wait, this is actually kind of fun. And I just really enjoyed the podcast where people are just, like, having a conversation.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. The second. The second wave you're talking about, that's when some YouTubers started doing podcasts.

[Damien Haas]

Right.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And now there's. There's a lot more of that. And I think. I think it's. I think it's great. I think it get. You know, I'm excited for you guys to have started one because it. It gives an added dimension to the way that you can communicate with your audience that you haven't been able to do on the other. On the other channels. You know, I think it's great. I listen to it.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you.

[Link Neal]

I think it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'll definitely listen to this one. I'm listening to it right now as I commute in.

[Damien Haas]

You should just try to recite every single word that you say. Just be driving the car with your kids and your wife and just start saying every line.

[Link Neal]

That'd be fun.

[Ian Hecox]

You'll like this part. Hold up. Listen, listen. This is the one.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

My wife started listening to our podcast once she realized from. From friends reporting to her that I talk about her on it.

[Link Neal]

Oh.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So there's, like a. There's like, a policing factor.

[Damien Haas]

I'm afraid that, like, if I, like, once I start dating, that maybe I'll say something about, like, a date that I went on, and then maybe that person will find out about the podcast, and then they'll hear it, and then I'll get busted for saying something that's my fear.

[Ian Hecox]

Or she'll be like, he's thinking about me at work. That's so sweet.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And talking about me openly and seemingly critically. You gotta watch yourself. But, yeah, you're gonna have to figure out, at what point in a relationship do you say, listen, this is all going on my podcast. I'm exploiting all of this.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Well, we regularly get, like, old friends. If we tell a story, we get old friends who text us and tell us all the details that we got wrong. Or if I'm telling a story now about any one of my friends, somehow it will get back to them. So now I'm like, every time. And we don't talk, you know, negatively about anybody.

[Damien Haas]

Sure.

[Link Neal]

But if you just kind of like. In fact. So we've talked about my friend Ralph and how he kind of like, he kind of abandoned me on the top of the mountain at Mammoth, but it was really. I told him to go down, and I was going to take a different way.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And.

[Link Neal]

And then my other friend Tim texted him, was like, ralph is a horrible friend.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

He was serious. I'm like, I thought that was hilarious.

[Ian Hecox]

No, he's not.

[Link Neal]

Did I tell that story in a way that made him seem like a horrible friend? I thought I put it all me.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

No, you kind of painted him to be the guy who abandoned you at a top of a mountain when you had zero skills to get down.

[Link Neal]

I told him to go down. I told him to go down the mountain.

[Ian Hecox]

But he didn't argue about it, though. He was halfway down. It was like, you got it.

[Link Neal]

He put up a little bit of fight, but you can't give all those details, of course.

[Ian Hecox]

Of course.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

He is a horrible friend. I'll just take the brunt of it.

[Damien Haas]

I could say with almost utmost certainty that none of my friends listen to my podcast. So. And I'm pretty sure nobody. Nobody listens to this podcast.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Talk about them more. They'll start listening to.

[Link Neal]

We can start talking about them.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Talk trash about him.

[Ian Hecox]

Talk about it loudly in a Starbucks that you have a podcast.

[Damien Haas]

Let's see. I'm trying to think of a. Rass, you suck.

[Link Neal]

See?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Well, I wouldn't talk directly to him.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, I know you didn't ask me.

[Damien Haas]

Okay, so there's this friend of mine, Rass, he sucks.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, that's it.

[Damien Haas]

Okay, that's it. I'll wait for that response.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But there is this. There is this weird thing that happens when, you know, every week you're gonna be talking for at least an hour that you start to save things. Like, we save conversations for our podcast.

[Ian Hecox]

Interesting.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But I mean, have you started doing that where it's like you're just kind of living your life and you're like, okay, this is something that I could either talk out now with somebody or at least make mental notes of. Oh, I'm gonna bring that to the Smoshcast a little bit?

[Damien Haas]

I've never. Wait, are you saying that you straight up, like, will stop a conversation, be like, wait, wait, wait, wait. Save it all the time?

[Link Neal]

Yeah. Really?

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Link Neal]

And it's also the fact that it's the. You know, our earbiscus is always the two of us. Like, it used to be guest space, but now it's every week. It's just the two of us and a lot of times it's stuff that we're experiencing or anytime we both go on separate trips, anywhere, you can't talk about it. Like, we don't speak during the week that we're gone or when we get back. There's no details. You get back. It's like, how was your trip? And you can just be like, you can give like one word answers. Good. Okay.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, I don't even think we ask off mic anything about each other. It's like, I mean, that's the extreme. Right? Like, that's what could. That's what may happen to us.

[Damien Haas]

That's so funny.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Our entire relationship is conducted on Mike. Well, I mean, it doesn't happen, but it did happen.

[Link Neal]

I think we're constantly filtering, like, is this ear biscuits worthy? If it is, I won't talk about it. Is this, like, not interesting enough or too, you know, private or whatever? Those things are for the real world. So the only thing we talk about are boring, private things. You know, anything that's interesting has been relegated to the podcast.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But you are gonna have to get out. I mean, those type of boundaries, like you think about relationships and really, at what point do you say. I mean, I wouldn't say like on your dating profile, which, you know, we've been working on together.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, you've been working on my dating profile?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We have.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, great.

[Link Neal]

Well, it's probably the same time that you. It's probably the same threshold as when you break bring somebody onto your social media.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Right.

[Link Neal]

I mean, I would think it was the same time, like, what's the policy there these days? I mean, obviously we got married before social media, so we don't.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

We didn't have to navigate these waters.

[Ian Hecox]

That's nice. If, if ever I'm on like a dating app thing. I don't connect my Instagram or whatever because I would feel extremely uncomfortable if someone was like, oh, he's a YouTube person.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, you can't.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't want to attract the type of person that. That interests, you know, for the sake. I don't know. Just the follower number thing gets stars in certain people's eyes, I think. And I don't want that.

[Link Neal]

Well, and especially if you start, like.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You don't want that right now.

[Ian Hecox]

Not right now.

[Link Neal]

The relationships that start, like the relationships that start between online personalities, it's like, okay, so when Grace and Elliot started dating, like what, a couple months ago, it was like that first post. The first post that was. Didn't say anything official. It was just suggested something. You knew they were in a relationship because they're thinking about this very carefully.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, that's Grace Helbig and Elliot Morgan. Yeah, yeah, sorry.

[Link Neal]

Yeah. For the, for those of you who aren't on the inside of the hive mind.

[Damien Haas]

But yeah, that's. But that's a big. That's a big announcement. And that was, that was something that I had to really think about when, when I was in a relationship, I think, you know, with. With one of my long term relationships, I was very guarded. I didn't really say anything really about. About my relationship. Like, I wasn't like hiding her away, but it was like, I don't know how much of my, of my, you know, private life I really want to put out there. Yeah. And then with the relationship after that, I was a little more open because she was also a sort of online personality. So it was kind of that timing thing where it's like, okay, we good? We're good. All right. We're going to tell everyone. We're just going to lay it out there for the Internet. We're gonna make it known, and then that'll be that.

[Ian Hecox]

And every person is gonna be super chill about it and not badger.

[Damien Haas]

Well, I mean, with. I wasn't so much of the heartthrob, so it actually wasn't, it wasn't as bad for me because I didn't have like as many sort of like, you know, people that had like a fantasy of dating me.

[Ian Hecox]

So this thing that made it not happen. Damn it.

[Damien Haas]

So, so, so it wasn't. So my announcement wasn't so bad. Got it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Was it an announcement?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, I did like a. Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

In what? On what?

[Damien Haas]

Like Instagram and I think maybe also cross posted to Twitter.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay.

[Damien Haas]

Because you just have to, you know, you want to, you want to cut. You want to cut through the bullshit. You want to just like say, like, this is what it is. Stop speculating. No, Anthony and I are never, we're never going to get married. So just like, give that up.

[Link Neal]

We're still dealing with that.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, you too? Yeah.

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[Damien Haas]

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[Link Neal]

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[Damien Haas]

You know, I look and I addressed it in that. In that announcement. I said, look, like, if you want to write fan fictions, that's fine. You know, be creative. That's great. If it's sort of this creative endeavor that you're doing, I think that's great. But when you start, like, coming at us like you guys are meant to be together and, like, with, like, you know, really, it's that when you cross that boundary of, like, fiction to, like, what you want the person to be in real life.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Then that's when it gets a little dicey, and I'm like, it's not gonna happen in real life. Like, that's fine. You can write those fan fictions, and that's great and everything, but, like, when. When you start trying to interfere with our real lives, then that. Then that sort of crosses a line.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, man.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like, at what point do you. At what point are you, like, character and, like, online personality, and at what point are you a real person? And that's difficult about YouTube because you are kind of both all the time. And I think some people just can't really separate that.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, but.

[Ian Hecox]

So, like, 5%. Anthony Chance. I don't know.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, yeah. Let's put it at, like. Yeah, let's put it like a three.

[Ian Hecox]

Cool.

[Damien Haas]

Three percent.

[Link Neal]

There's.

[Ian Hecox]

There's hope.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'd say we've got, like a. We're basically married.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, we have a. It's just a different type of marriage.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I've got, like a. I got a wife, and then I've got a friend. I don't want to say.

[Link Neal]

How's it say it? A friend's been a friend. I like it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We're like an old married couple. I mean, that's really how it is. I mean, when you've been together this long, you no longer have a choice.

[Damien Haas]

Sure.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You're just riding it out, and you.

[Link Neal]

No longer have sex with each other.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Right. You know what I'm saying?

[Link Neal]

So it is a lot like an old married couple. There's no sexual intimacy.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Separate. Same room.

[Link Neal]

You're sleeping in bed. Separate beds.

[Damien Haas]

Right.

[Link Neal]

You argue all the time, but you're kind of in it together.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And you never had mad.

[Damien Haas]

What's up for the children.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. We just. We stay together for the Internet. Kids.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Did you just sniff a lemon? What I. I didn't see what you did, but it looked yellow.

[Damien Haas]

I took a. I took a drink of my iced Americano. Yeah, they were out of cold. They're out of cold brew at my. At my favorite ice. At my favorite coffee shop.

[Link Neal]

Why did you think it was a lemon?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It seemed yellow to me. Is it not yellow?

[Damien Haas]

I think it was the light. I think it's not yellow at all.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

No. You know what it was. It was out of the corner of my eye, I saw your index finger, and I think you kind of have a Simpson esque complexion A little bit.

[Ian Hecox]

I'm very jaundiced. A little jaundiced.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You feeling all right?

[Link Neal]

Definitely.

[Ian Hecox]

Get your liver checked.

[Damien Haas]

I haven't seen sun in three years.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Is it weird and over sniffing a lemon? Yeah, that's what I'd like to believe.

[Damien Haas]

Well, that's fine. You can believe what you want.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'm back, guys.

[Ian Hecox]

Very weird kind of addiction. He hasn't gone down a dark path.

[Damien Haas]

I mean, you know, I'm not an expert podcaster, but I thought that's what every podcast. They just had a lemon on the side.

[Link Neal]

You don't squirt his lemons. What?

[Damien Haas]

You don't. You don't.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You guys don't.

[Link Neal]

Lemon Amateurs.

[Damien Haas]

Weird. It's so. It must be. It must be kind of weird to sit here, because this is the exact same place where you guys record your ear biscuits.

[Link Neal]

What?

[Damien Haas]

Except we just threw a blue tablecloth over the table and put up a black curtain.

[Link Neal]

When was. Was that revealed? On the. On the first moshgaz. Did you.

[Damien Haas]

I don't think we ever mentioned it. No.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Nope. This is it, Rhett.

[Ian Hecox]

So now's the time when you tell us that's not cool to do and we just cut it out.

[Link Neal]

No, I think people probably have figured, right?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, same mics. But you've got the sneeze guard up, which was our request. It seems like. Oh, it's like, why would it be. Why would you want this? It seems like, yeah, they can use our mics, but, you know, put up a sneeze guard.

[Damien Haas]

Well, it's.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

That's not what we said. But we didn't say anything.

[Damien Haas]

You applied it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It seems like we did.

[Damien Haas]

You guys don't have the pop filter when you record?

[Link Neal]

No.

[Damien Haas]

Well, I do a lot of peas.

[Ian Hecox]

Oof.

[Damien Haas]

I do a lot of peas and curse.

[Link Neal]

Yeah. So as a rule, we don't have any peas in the podcast. Yeah, that's the easy way around. You're a.

[Ian Hecox]

What do you call it?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

A pucker Pecker.

[Link Neal]

We just kind of take it out. It's just Oddcast. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Oddcast. Welcome to Oddcast. Oh, God. If Oddcast. I can't take it yet. Can I just go ahead and take that? Can.

[Damien Haas]

I'm actually really smart.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You can do your own.

[Link Neal]

There's no doubt different.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We'll need a different color tablecloth.

[Ian Hecox]

Great. There's so many left.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay.

[Damien Haas]

It would need to be like, something like Rhett's shirt. Like, something very psychedelic.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

I'm sure the Oddcast. The odd cast probably does exist.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Multiple times. And they probably all suck.

[Damien Haas]

That's true. So this could be our chance to do it, right.

[Link Neal]

The chances that it doesn't exist or it does exist, and it's also a good podcast. Very, very slim.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. What do you think the worst podcast is out there? Like, do you think there's just, like, I want to hear the worst podcast that has ever been recorded. Like, what do you think that even is?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Because, I mean, I guess there's people who, like, even if you just explore, it's hard to find the worst.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You know, because how's the worst gonna rise to the top? I can't say I've listened to any horrible podcasts, but there.

[Damien Haas]

I feel like eventually there's gotta be like a. The room of podcasts. You know what I mean? Like, there's gotta be a podcast that's so bad that it gets a cult following.

[Link Neal]

I wonder if there's a Reddit thread about this, because there's a Reddit thread, you know, the deep end of YouTube. Reddit thread. Which link turned me onto. Which finds just.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Did it turn you on horrible?

[Link Neal]

Well, sometimes every seventh or eighth post. But it finds things that it'll be like 2006. This video is called Fred Finds His Cat. One view.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Link Neal]

And then it's just. It's constantly. And then every once in a while, you're just like, you know, I love that kind of stuff. Yeah. So someone needs to do that. With podcasts, it's harder to get the idea of a podcast in the same way you can quickly gather, you know, the concept of a YouTube video. Be like, am I going to commit, like, half an hour to figure out if this is really the room of podcasts.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. It's probably a bad idea, I guess. Also, like, there is, like, with YouTube videos, there's a certain, like, amateur ness to, like, the way it's filmed. That. That adds to the allure of a video that has, like, one view. You know what I mean? Yeah, like. Like There was some video, I think, I think Bo Burnham was saying he likes to just find like really obscure YouTube videos that have like two views. Like, remember that one video that blew up? Like there was some kid where he was celebrating getting a second subscriber or something like that.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I remember seeing something and then.

[Damien Haas]

Like, obviously Reddit found the kid and they blew him up and he got thousands of like freaking out.

[Ian Hecox]

That's a good power of the Internet right there.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Link Neal]

Sometimes we did that for a while. What was that? We had a segment.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, the wheel. The wheel would land on something.

[Ian Hecox]

Isn't that hashtag, like the non used hashtag like you find.

[Link Neal]

Well, we did that where it would be creating a new hashtag or a hashtag that had been used like one time.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Link Neal]

But we did something where you just find a video and then we would send everybody to that video and we're like, you can't tell them that we sent you. Just make it feel like all these people have just discovered this video. But I don't think that people really played by the rules. The top comment is always gmm. Send me here.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, of course. Yeah. They don't keep it a secret.

[Link Neal]

Well, and on the podcast, like we. My. My good friend sent me this guy that he knew, that he knew when he lived in Pasadena, this guy who's now moved down to Cabo, and he calls himself Dr. Fun.

[Damien Haas]

You can call that Dr. Fun. LSD.

[Link Neal]

No, what this guy sells is these little, little songs where he says things like, you gotta shift, shift, shift, shift your focus till you're feeling good. And he just has all these like motivational songs that he just goes on a rooftop in Cabo and sings them into his phone.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

And it's. He's been doing it for years. And he's got a YouTube channel, he's got his Facebook. And you know, there's like, I don't know, maybe a hundred people will watch each YouTube video or whatever.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It's like a little an acapella jingle where this guy's just like self motivation.

[Damien Haas]

And he's got thousands of them, I guess.

[Link Neal]

Well, so I don't know how many songs he has, but we sent everybody to this guy because I was legitimately like memorizing these songs and finding myself singing.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Link Neal]

Because. And I stopped going to your therapist. I started using them. Like, if I was like feeling a little bit down, I'd be like, man, I gotta shift, shift, shift, shift my focus. And I'm feeling good. And I. And it would really work.

[Ian Hecox]

And but nobody knows what you're talking about. You're like, you know this.

[Link Neal]

It's just for me. And so we sent a bunch of people to his website. And then I've, like, been following his Facebook when he was like, I didn't have any idea what was going on.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, really?

[Link Neal]

Yeah. And then he was like, but I found out my friend Lance, who knows Rhett, and Link sent everybody over here. And so then he was like, here's a list of 17 songs that I will send to you if you PayPal me $10. So he's like, oh, he's catching it. Catching in.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Hey, he's living up in Cabo.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it's a cert.

[Link Neal]

It's a legitimate service, man. Like that. I was like, I haven't downloaded the playlist yet. But I'm like, yeah, if I can get all of Dr. Fun Songs in one place.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You haven't given him $10, man.

[Link Neal]

I just haven't gotten around to it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I've given him publicity, man. Everyone else can give him 10 bucks.

[Damien Haas]

I gave him exposure.

[Ian Hecox]

Right?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Well, I mean, that's what Fiverr's for, right? I mean, that sounds like a very Fiverr thing, like making jingles for people. And I'm sure some people have made some pretty good money off of Fiverr. I almost said fiber.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Don't get me started on fiber.

[Ian Hecox]

You guys are an old married couple.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, but there was like, that one. There's that one guy on, I think. I'm guessing it was a guy on Fyber. I said. I said it. Damn it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

All right, let's talk about Fyber.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Are we changing the subject?

[Damien Haas]

Fiber. Internet.

[Link Neal]

We're both. We're both on fiber.

[Damien Haas]

Great. I'm a big fan of fiber.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

In college we got turned on to like a big can of Metamucil. Not a sponsor.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Is it a sponsor?

[Damien Haas]

Is Metamucil a sponsor for this episode? Kevin.

[Link Neal]

Potential sponsor.

[Damien Haas]

No. Well, one day, you know, one. One can dream.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Changed everything. Highly recommend.

[Link Neal]

Really?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, if your diet, you don't.

[Link Neal]

Need it, but you travel, you should take some fiber. You should do a spoonful. Spoonful of Metamucil or some other sort of psyllium husk based fiber supplement. For real. You go to bed. Yeah. It changes your whole travel. Wow. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Do you guys.

[Ian Hecox]

Was a bit, but wow.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

No, man. We care about you guys. We care about the bus.

[Damien Haas]

Do you guys. When you're. Do you guys use a bus when you're touring?

[Link Neal]

Yep.

[Damien Haas]

Okay.

[Link Neal]

If the cities are close Enough. Yeah. So we. We. We slept on the bus twice this past little trip. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

And do you guys have a no pooping on the bus policy?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, yeah, yeah. There's like. I mean, it's not ours. There. There were signs that I think come with a bus because there's no bathroom.

[Link Neal]

So.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, they're just all over the box.

[Ian Hecox]

Please don't poop on.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Don't poop here.

[Link Neal]

Find a corner.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It's like that. Yeah. The dark, dark spot. Yeah. But there's. You can't poop in the. In the toilet.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Damien Haas]

It's. Well, it's not cool to the other people that are stuck on. Right on that vessel.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, I did an RV trip with my family that was. And I made that rule. I was like, all right, guys, listen up for the orientation. And that was pretty much it. Don't crap in the crapper.

[Link Neal]

And nobody violated the rule.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

No. Day one. They're like, crapping in the crapper. I mean, it's like they had to go. I mean, we're driving down. We're going 80 miles an hour down the freeway, and he's like, Lincoln's dropping a deuce in the well. I'm like, where is he? He's been gone. Did it dissipate? Yes, it did. Whatever you're thinking, yeah, it did that.

[Link Neal]

Well. Cause if it's a good system.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

No, it didn't.

[Link Neal]

If it's a good system, it can contain it. I mean, but, you know, one little leak and that's all it takes.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, you want to talk about RV maintenance and septic maintenance?

[Link Neal]

Let's get back to fiber.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Don't forget to. You got to get those little blue tablet thingies. And you gotta charge that tank. You gotta throw em down in that tank.

[Link Neal]

And then you take a bite of the blue tablet every morning.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It is tempting.

[Ian Hecox]

Have y'all done that yet?

[Damien Haas]

That's what I got down here. Instead of a lemon, I just have one of those.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Nibble it on a. Yeah. RV toilet tank.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. It gives me a nice little charge and it makes my poop smell nice.

[Link Neal]

Right? Yeah. Take care of the problem.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

How blue is this tablecloth?

[Link Neal]

Preemptively.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. But it doesn't surprise me that, you know, that'd be a little harder when you have little tiny humans. Cause, you know, their digestive tracts are a little bit smaller than ours. I'm assuming that food just goes straight through.

[Link Neal]

Right.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I don't remember that anymore.

[Link Neal]

That's how kids work.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We're so far beyond that.

[Damien Haas]

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[Rhett McLaughlin]

Fiverr.

[Link Neal]

Fiverr.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay, we're back.

[Link Neal]

What does that service? Is it called, like, Cameo or something where you can pay? Yeah, there's lots of celebrities on there and there's lots of YouTubers on there as well. I think they approached us way back in the day. Yeah, I'm sure you've been approached.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So you.

[Link Neal]

Have you ever done it?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Hold on. What is it you get?

[Link Neal]

This is like, I want Ian from Smosh to wish me happy birthday, and I'm gonna pay anywhere from, like, some people are like, 10 bucks, and some people are like $400, depending on the celebrity. And there's like, there. I mean, there's some.

[Damien Haas]

There's legitimate celebrities on there.

[Link Neal]

Recognizable celebrities, but it's typically like, a lot of, like, D list. Yeah. People that. And they'll be like, I'm gonna go on and I'm gonna do 200 happy birthday wishes. Or be like, oh, Susie graduated from vet school. Congratulations. Good luck with the dogs.

[Damien Haas]

So the.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Sounds like you've done it without me.

[Link Neal]

I haven't.

[Damien Haas]

But the celebrity sets their price, and they set, like, what they can or can't do. And then people basically, like, submit like, a bid for, like, I want you to say this. And then I think the celebrity has, like, 24 hours or 48 hours or whatever to respond and send the video, and then they get paid. They reached out to me, like, several times. I just kind of ignored it because it. I don't. I don't look down.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It feels weird.

[Damien Haas]

It feels weird for myself. I don't look down on people that do it. I know. I think Courtney did it for a short while, and then she just kinda like, eh. But it's just another way of monetizing your audience. I understand that, but it is kind of weird if you're like, oh, yeah, you want a video from me saying, Happy Birthday, $400.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it's the amount that you'd have to charge to make it worth your time if you're really busy is not the amount I'm comfortable charging a 12 year old who wants me to say Happy birthday.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Right.

[Link Neal]

You can't find that sweet spot.

[Damien Haas]

And it's like that kind of weird thing with like festivals or not festivals, conventions, the convention circuit, like all the sort of like your CW celebrities, the people that. That have this sort of like hardcore fan base. But it's a small hardcore fan base. Yeah, they're making six figures. Just. Just doing the convention circuit, just doing appearances where basically they sit at a booth and if you want a photo signed by them, it's like $20. And if you want to take a picture with them just sitting right there, that's like another $20. Yeah, it's like just kind of weird because, like, they're just kind of sitting at these booths. And we call it. At Comic Con, we call it depressing Celebrity Alley where it's like, it's just all these booths lined up and it's like you're sort of like. Like a WWE wrestler from the 90s.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Some dude that appeared in Star Trek the Next Generation. And they're just kind of sitting there.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And do they stand up for the photo?

[Ian Hecox]

I think they stay sitting.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Generally they stay seated. Right.

[Damien Haas]

It's an extra $5.

[Ian Hecox]

The one I really understand for that though is like voice actors. Right. Because voice actors don't get residuals. Like, if you're on a cartoon, it's still playing awesome. But if you're a video game, but.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You'Re a voice actor.

[Ian Hecox]

Right. You can be the biggest video game character in the world and get paid what you get paid. And everybody knows you and you're like, you're that guy. But you never get anything from that ever again. So that's why specifically those folks do that. I haven't done it. Disclaimer.

[Link Neal]

I know I'm biased.

[Ian Hecox]

I know I'm biased.

[Link Neal]

I'm not saying that I won't one day do it. I mean, we do a meet and greet at all our shows.

[Damien Haas]

Sure, yeah.

[Link Neal]

Which is hello and a picture, you know, and then they get like a little goodie bag or whatever and something already signed. That's how all, like old athletes, like, you're talking about the wwe. Like, like old football players. Yeah, that's what they do, man. In fact, we have a friend who was telling us he's like a baseball expert who was talking about Pete Rose. Like, Pete Rose apparently has a store in Vegas and He sits in the store and you can buy some memorabilia and stuff. But it's mainly him sitting there every single day and just doing what these other athletes do at conventions. It's like, go in, meet Pete Rose, get an autograph, get a picture. And that's his income.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Damien Haas]

And he just has a store where people just come through. That's really smart for Vegas because people are just coming from all over and they don't really have anything else to do other than drink alcohol and gamble. So I guess that's probably a better. That's money better spent.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Hey, what's in this store, honey?

[Link Neal]

Pete Rose.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Pete Rose right there in a folding chair.

[Damien Haas]

That's smart. But I think with Comic Con, it's just like, because people aren't specifically coming for them. Yeah, they're just like kind of walking through. They're like, oh, it's Casper Van Dieme just chillin. Like that. That was, that was me. Like, I was just walking through. I was like, oh, there's Casper Van Dieme. Okay, I love Starship Troopers.

[Ian Hecox]

But did you pay up?

[Damien Haas]

I didn't.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You just pointed.

[Damien Haas]

I just like, I just kind of like, I was like, cool. Like, it's just weird. And, and I guess it's, it's, it's. It's not, it's only. I don't know. It's. It's just a little. It's just a little sad for me when I see those people sitting there. There's nobody in the line and they're just kind of sitting there, like, just waiting for somebody to walk by. I'm like, if there's like a line of people and like, everyone's excited, like, that's really cool.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

But if it's like there's nobody there, I'm like, ah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So if you go. If you're going by, nobody's there and you just strike up a conversation. Are they like. Is there an awkward moment where they ask for like 10 bucks because you're talking to them? It's like you're the only person in line, but you are now the line.

[Link Neal]

I don't know. There's a price for just conversation.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Is there?

[Damien Haas]

Probably not, but they probably go like, so you want a photo or a sign thing? I'm like, no, I'm good.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I was doing this for you, man. I was just trying to make you not seem alone for a second. Yeah, you should pay me. They should do they. I'll do that at Comic Con. I'll be the guy who talks to the unpopular celebrities to make them feel like somebody's there.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

He's gonna pay you.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Of course I'm gonna. I'm gonna get paid a lot, but.

[Link Neal]

By, like, the relatives of the celebrities, like, the celebrity's mom is gonna pay you. That's a small market. Like old celebrities whose parents are still alive. You get paid, like, twice, maybe three times if they have, like, a stepdad. This is a horrible business model, right?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Exactly.

[Ian Hecox]

But an untapped market, right?

[Link Neal]

Yeah, I think it's smart, right? Yeah. No one else is thinking about this right now.

[Damien Haas]

I think we're onto something.

[Link Neal]

Maybe you can get Pete Rose to invest.

[Ian Hecox]

He's not busy.

[Damien Haas]

No, I think he's very busy. He's gotta stay in that store, right? Does he sit in, like, a glass, like, cube?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

He's in a claw machine. You pay a quarter, you think you can get him out?

[Damien Haas]

He's like, oh, can't get me up.

[Link Neal]

He.

[Ian Hecox]

Rose, it's no fair. He's moving.

[Damien Haas]

He's still got those jukes. I mean, I read an article that said, like, those. Those people that do those convention circuits, like, even though they were in, like, a minor show, like, some of them are bringing in, like, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and it's all in cash, so they're not reporting it. So.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

So, Yeah, I mean, good for them, man. I mean, Stan Lee was doing conventions, like, right up until the end, and I think he. But he wasn't doing it. I don't. I don't believe that he was really doing it for the money. I think he was just, honestly, like, excited by the fans and stuff. I think that was really cool.

[Link Neal]

And it never got sad with him.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Link Neal]

You know what I'm saying? Even. Even in the end, it was like. Even when he was just ancient, it was like, oh, it's still. Stan Lee's always cool.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, there was some. There was some real sketchy stuff that was going on behind the scenes with, like, his family and all this crazy stuff.

[Ian Hecox]

Was his nurse or something, right?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, there's a very long story. There's, like, people stealing his blood. Like, it's.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, gosh.

[Damien Haas]

There was some kind of, like, memorabilia thing that was. That was running where apparently, like, one of the guys that was, like, his business partner was, like, taking his blood and then using that as, like, an autograph. Like, you could buy, like, memorabilia with, like, a stain of, like, his blood or something. What?

[Link Neal]

Yeah, I got one of those.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, it's like the most sinister shit you could think of. Like, oh, what's the most evil thing we could do. Take an old man's blood.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

You also can't show that off to your friends. Like, you want to see what I got from Stan Lee? Bodily fluids?

[Link Neal]

Like, I mean, right?

[Damien Haas]

I mean, that is a pretty hardcore brag. If he had Stan Lee's blood.

[Ian Hecox]

But there's so many questions that come after that, though, that you just don't want to answer.

[Damien Haas]

That's true.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, how much did you spend?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

My mom worked as a lab tech in a health department for years.

[Damien Haas]

A phlebotomist.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

She was a phlebotomist. Yeah, she would. She would do the finger pricks and all the types of sticks, and she would. Yeah, was at the local health department. And then after we graduated from college, she actually then moved to NC State, where we went to school, and she was at the infirmary there. She wasn't there when I was there. It would have been nice having your mom at the infirmary. Take my blood pressure or something.

[Damien Haas]

She'd give you kisses on your boo boos.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, give me kisses on my boo boo.

[Ian Hecox]

No, I need medicine like everyone else, please.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But so she would always have a report of who came in there, and it would always be, like, the NC State athletes. And it would always be like, Julius Hodge came in today. You would not believe how tall he is.

[Link Neal]

Or. I've looked at the roster, so I do know.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It turns out she was keeping all their blood and selling it. No, she wasn't. But I'm thinking she could have done that. She could have made it some extra scratch. It's like, I've got. I've got Julius Hodges blood here. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know if.

[Link Neal]

Inject it before your high school basketball game. Oh, God.

[Damien Haas]

That could be a business in the future, you know, like collecting famous or athlete people's blood.

[Link Neal]

Well, they're already doing stuff with, like, young people's blood. Like, that whole thing about, like, who was it? Like, Mary. Was it Mary, Queen of Scots? Was she the one that would, like, bathe in the cause? Bloody Mary. She would bathe in the blood of virgin blood.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, wow.

[Link Neal]

But there's actually.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

She didn't take it intravenously, but, like.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, I don't know. Don't quote me on this. I don't know exactly what the science.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Is, but basically, I'll quote you on that. Rhett doesn't know exactly what the science. I'm gonna be quoting that for years.

[Link Neal]

There's. It might be the plasma. I don't know what it is. In the blood. But taking, like, young blood, like, really does have, like, anti aging effects.

[Damien Haas]

They tested it on rats, and it worked. I guess they did see a noticeable improvement in old rats by putting. Okay, so they have young rat blood.

[Link Neal]

So there's some people doing it, but there's no studies on it because it's so.

[Damien Haas]

So the rumor. Yeah, so apparently some people in Silicon Valley are doing it. The rumor is that Peter Thiel was doing it. Peter Thiel, the super rich guy that destroyed Gawker on his own through Hulk Hogan? That's a funny story, man. Yeah. Don't need to get into it. But I think that's so crazy that we're now in the age where we can be vampires. Like, oh, you want to live forever? Just take some young blood.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

This is also the stuff that thousands of years from now, when they discover our civilization, like, we hear stuff like, they used to drink mercury in ancient Egypt. What fools that killed them. Like, this is gonna be our thing. They're like, they used to drink baby blood as part of their culture.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. They injected bee venom into their faces.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

They put botulism in their face. We're here.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, the. The latest thing I was hearing this morning was they took human DNA and put it into, like, developing monkeys and made them smarter.

[Damien Haas]

Whoa.

[Ian Hecox]

I know how this movie starts.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, right.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

That was this morning or last night.

[Damien Haas]

Well, they got all.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It all blurs together.

[Damien Haas]

Was it using that crispr? That's, like, the gene editing tool?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I don't know, because I just started thinking Planet of the Apes and I wasn't getting detailed anymore.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

I think. I think we should just keep monkeys dumb or, like, as smart as they are. Let's just keep it at that level.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, right. We won. This whole evolutionary thing.

[Damien Haas]

Let's not keep it there.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, haven't you seen, like, the Olympic medalists? Like, helping the person in second when they break their leg across, too? Like, we can help out some monkeys. Or like, a turtle. I want a smart turtle.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. And when I say they got smarter, I think what they measured was their ability to differentiate between colors and shapes. And they saw an improvement. So I'm not panicking yet.

[Damien Haas]

We need them to differentiate between friend and foe before we start making them smarter, because they're really good at ripping people's faces off.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Link Neal]

Well, Coco, she had, like, all kinds of, like, messages for the world.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. That was really sweet.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Really?

[Link Neal]

Yeah. And there's a little controversy over, like, how much she was. Because there's like this one clip of like Coco saying all this stuff about how man is not treating the earth well. And it's like really complex thoughts. And I want to believe it's true so badly because it's so sweet.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Was it edited in the way they like, made Obama say like a Beyonce song or something?

[Link Neal]

No, I think it's. I think it's an old clip with like, it used to be a thing for celebrities to like, go hang out with Coco. So like, there's like a famous clip of Robin Williams with Coco.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, Coco loved Robin Williams. Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And I think Mr. Rogers, I think in his documentary a bit with Coco. Right.

[Link Neal]

Well, maybe that's where I saw. Maybe I saw that Mr. Rogers. Cause it's more recent that I've seen this clip where she's saying all this stuff about, like, people mistreating the earth and not understanding that they're part of nature. It was like, it's really complex.

[Damien Haas]

Humans bad. Must kill humans.

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[Ian Hecox]

She's saying she loves mankind.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Everyone ignore her.

[Damien Haas]

I have developed new bacteria to destroy human race.

[Ian Hecox]

She wants yogurt. That's what she said, right?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I liked your Coco hand movements too. It was just.

[Link Neal]

It's a lot like that.

[Damien Haas]

Coco definitely knows more sign language than I do. So I guess that that. That says something. That tells you something. So you guys are just in Nashville and I said while you guys were in Nashville, you had to. You had to try some of that Nashville hot chicken.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, yeah. And we had not had it before we went.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So if. Do you know where we went? Because I asked Rhett.

[Damien Haas]

Rhett. He said you guys went to Hattie B's.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Where would you have told us to go?

[Damien Haas]

I have no idea. I've never been.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, oh, you've just been. You never been to Nashville?

[Damien Haas]

No. I want to, though. But I love. I love me some hot chicken. It's.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But you haven't had it at the source.

[Damien Haas]

Nope.

[Link Neal]

And your favorite place in town is what you said.

[Damien Haas]

Well, I Went to Dave's. I went to Dave's. Hot chicken. Where's Dave's? That's over. That's over on Western. I don't know. I don't know streets. I just use Google maps. But Howlin Ray's is apparently the best hot chicken place in Los Angeles. So basically, for the people that are listening, hot chicken is basically like just some good ass chicken. And it's just basted in all this. It's like fried chicken, but it's like basted in all this spicy goodness.

[Ian Hecox]

But it's like fried too.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It's not really saucy as much as like, it's closer to a rub.

[Link Neal]

Yeah. And the rub is in the breading.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

So it kind of like, if you like peel back the skin, you see like redness like already on the meat.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

I didn't know that. I thought it was just hot sauce on chicken.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Boy, was I wrong.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, it's. It's so good.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It's really good. I mean, I did. I didn't like spicy foods. After all the spicy stuff we've eaten on our show, it like messed me up.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So I would just have like a brain block. It would just tell my stomach, you're not gonna like this. Don't eat it. Feel nauseous just by the smell. But then I got so excited about that and it turned the tide.

[Damien Haas]

Really.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It was good.

[Ian Hecox]

How did it compare? Like spice wise?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, it's tasted much better.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You know when it had a lot.

[Link Neal]

Of flavor and the dry rub doesn't have the same lasting effect of sauce.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, okay.

[Link Neal]

So like sauce, because it's got like oil in it. Well, it sticks with you and you feel it in your stomach. Something about it was just very hot immediately. And then I was like an hour later, I was like, I don't feel anything.

[Damien Haas]

Did it, did it come with. Because I don't know how they do it there, but sometimes I know they come with just like straight up white bread.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Was it. It was white bread.

[Link Neal]

Give you like two, two slices of white bread.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. And then a pickle on top. And then if you get the coleslaw with it, that helps a lot.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Okay. Because yeah. The hot chicken I've had here, they serve it on like, on like a legit bunch with like the slaw and the pickles.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Right.

[Damien Haas]

And it's so good.

[Link Neal]

Oh, God.

[Ian Hecox]

I've never tried it and I'm never south, so that's shameful.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. I've never had chicken that just like, just Just melted in my mouth. It was just like, oh, God.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Where are you from?

[Ian Hecox]

Georgia. A place called Peachtree City, which is the most Georgian name ever.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Peach Tree City.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

It's a fake place.

[Ian Hecox]

It's. It sounds made up.

[Damien Haas]

He's a secret agent.

[Ian Hecox]

Peach Tree City town, south side of Atlanta. An hour south. Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay, now, if you're going. If you're going down on. If you're going down there. Let's see, there's a big water tower with a peach on it, but I think that's in South Carolina.

[Link Neal]

Well, it's in South Carolina on House of Cards.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Because there was a whole, like. So you got the, like, season.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, but they got the peach water tower.

[Ian Hecox]

That's true. I'm sure we've got a few ourselves, though. But to be fair, I did not see a single peach tree in Peachtree City, Georgia.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Really?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Everything's just named after peaches and peach trees. And there's like, Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Street. Very few of them are in Peachtree City.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So. Did you have a Southern accent?

[Ian Hecox]

Not really. I think I sort of affected that a little bit more once I came out here because it just sort of felt like I had an identity. I spoke very, like, non regionally, but that also made it, you know, I was an actor. And it made it a little tough because if you're too proper speech and everything, you're just not a believable human, so.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Well, how old were you when you moved out here?

[Ian Hecox]

18.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

From Georgia?

[Ian Hecox]

From Georgia. Born in Germany, raised in Georgia. And now. Yeah, here's home.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But you don't. I mean, you don't have any. You eradicated it. Did you take a class?

[Ian Hecox]

No, it's just. I mean, my parents were. I mean, my mom was born in Ohio. My dad was, like, born to a German immigrant family, but, like, there was no hope of ever picking up any specific affectation. But to be fair, people generally think they don't have an accent. So I wouldn't know unless you told me I don't have an accent.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You don't have an accent.

[Ian Hecox]

I believe you. I trust you.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I don't think you, you know, I don't think you have an accent.

[Damien Haas]

I have a California accent.

[Link Neal]

Yeah. He has, like a California. Yeah, like this Sacramento accent.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You got a Sacramento accent.

[Damien Haas]

It's like a northern California accent. And then when you go up a little bit more northern, then you get people like, oh, yeah, man. Like, you know me.

[Link Neal]

And.

[Damien Haas]

I don't know. I know I definitely have, like, a little bit of a California thing going on. But. But obviously like wherever you grow up, you're like, I don't have an accent.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Damien Haas]

You know.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, but it's just, it's not nearly as, I mean, what you're describing of like sacramentites or whatever.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, you're.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, that sacramentite we also have like.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I think if they hang from the top of the cave, they're sacrament light.

[Damien Haas]

Yes, yes.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

No, that's a tight.

[Damien Haas]

We also have like a good deal of rednecks in Sacramento. So there is, there is like a little mix of like, you have a little bit of mix of California and a little mix of Kansas and a little mix of like the South. You know, I've seen a few Confederate flags flying around my town.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Wow.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, you gotta have a, you gotta be a special kind of person to not be from the south and adopt that as your symbol. Like there was somebody like I was.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Driving through basically Burbank, right?

[Link Neal]

Well, no, it was a little bit north of Burbank and I was like, does that guy. That guy has a Confederate flag flying in his front yard just outside of Los Angeles? And I mean, I don't think there's any excuse for it regardless of where you're from. But yeah, like, they're like my son was saying there was a kid that goes to school there that was. Is from California and like has adopted the whole thing. He's got a pickup truck and a rebel flag, like bumper sticker on his.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, I think, I think some people, I think for some people it's just pure ignorance. Like it's, it's a situation where, where they don't. Like they. Was it Dukes of Hazzard? Like they had the big like.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

General generally. Right. With the Confederate like logo on it. Like, so I think some people just associate with like rebelliousness and being like. Yeah, like I'm a beer drinking American, you know.

[Link Neal]

Right.

[Damien Haas]

And then there's some people that are. That, you know, they, they see it as tied to some kind of history of the south that never actually existed because that flag wasn't even used for the Confederacy. Like the actual, the actual Confederate flag that you see everybody using. I. And we'll have to fact check this, but it wasn't used in as like the flag of the Confederacy, like that flag where it's just that that X was used, I think for one battle or something. Like you'll see that it was like.

[Link Neal]

A part of the old flag.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah, you'll see it used in parts of the flag. But it's not the whole thing. So it's kind of weird that. That it only happened. It was only later on that people started using just that. That pattern. So it's like. It's kind of weird to say, like, oh, this is like, this is just a heritage thing, not a hate thing. It's like, well, it's not really a heritage thing.

[Ian Hecox]

I think it's like when people are looking for some kind of identity, any kind of identity, and, you know, there's. There's such like a meshing that happens in America, and sometimes you lose, you know, people. People don't say necessarily anymore, like, I'm German, I'm Irish, I'm Italian. A lot of it just becomes, like, white. And so then it's like, well, you can't look back. There's no, like, that history. So people are like, where are we gonna go for the. That flag? That's the closest thing I can get. And then it's like, all right, great. Now I have and some culture, and they ignore the sort of parts of that that are not so awesome.

[Damien Haas]

Sure. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

But, yeah, I think that's.

[Link Neal]

Or they actively embrace.

[Ian Hecox]

I was giving people the benefit of the doubt, but, yeah, it's a bummer.

[Link Neal]

Well, that's the thing that I've seen is like, there's just a lot more people actively embracing the hate part of the. Of the history and that. And it's like. And becoming emboldened to.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

To embrace it, getting away with it.

[Damien Haas]

And I think, you know, if you start. If you. If you're, like, kind of sporting that stuff and then people start, you know, attacking you for it, it doesn't necessarily change your mind if people are just attacking you. So it kind of just emboldens you to that flag or that identity and sort of drives you further away into that sort of realm, you know, rather than. Rather than people having, like, a legitimate conversation about it and saying, like, I understand where you're coming from, but you also understand that that flag doesn't mean what you think it means.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Rather than being like that, like, a lot of people are just quick to be like, no, you're like a racist bigot, and, like, go to hell. Blah, blah, blah. And I think that's. That's what drives people apart more. So I'd like it for the flag to just. That flag does not exist.

[Ian Hecox]

But that's not going to happen because you're also. You're flying a flag of a regime that no longer exists, that was defeated in battle and is technically the enemy Of America, the enemy. That is. So it's like literally kind of like flying a Nazi flag and just being like, no, that was just a good time for other reasons and like, no.

[Link Neal]

Right.

[Ian Hecox]

Was never. Never was.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. I'm sure we're gonna get some great comments. Great. I. I will say though, I. The. The most. One of the most entertaining things I ever saw was I. The girl I was dating at the time went to her high school reunion and it was in Kansas, which I don't believe was other ever part of the Confederacy. But there's a guy that came to the reunion. He. He came in on a riding lawnmower with a 24 pack of, of Miller High Life. And he had Confederate flag boots and a Confederate flag belt buckle and a hat, like a cowboy hat.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So he was, he was local to the, to the venue.

[Damien Haas]

Born and raised in Kansas.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But he, he was close enough to drive his lawnmower there. Did he bring it on a trailer?

[Damien Haas]

No, I'm pretty sure he drove it there.

[Link Neal]

You can get pretty fast and you know, you've got some experience with riding lawnmowers. I mean, especially the new ones, man.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, yeah, you get that hydrostatic transmission.

[Link Neal]

Have you been on one of those?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I remember the first time I got one of those, it just forward and reverses. Just this.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, it's just one of these.

[Ian Hecox]

Right. I was always so jealous of the kids that had those.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

And there's like a zero inch turning.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Radius because you just know you're talking about. I didn't. I never had the two handles.

[Link Neal]

Oh, man.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You work like a. Let's see, one of those little. A little version of a track hoe where it's like, you know, you can turn on a dime.

[Damien Haas]

Okay. Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Like, literally no one in the greater Los Angeles area has a riding lawnmower.

[Damien Haas]

Like, at that because nobody has a lawn. Right.

[Ian Hecox]

It's all like desert scrub. They're like, I don't want to deal with this. Let's put in rocks in the cactus and we're good.

[Link Neal]

There's probably some, some really wealthy guy in Beverly Hills with like one of those like 2 acre lots that's got his own riding lawnmower.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Really?

[Link Neal]

You think they're like spinning around with.

[Damien Haas]

That guy does not mow his own lawnmower.

[Link Neal]

No, no, I'm saying that he, he's, he's doing it to like in like, you know, not let go of his. Of his manhood. He's, he's using the riding lawnmower, like, but like, not always. He's just like. Like quarterly. He goes out there and just spins around in one spot in the yard.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Even though he could pay someone full time to hold his manhood for him.

[Link Neal]

Well, he also does that.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, that is like one. One like sort of redneck thing that I wish I would be able to participate in, which is the lawnmower races.

[Link Neal]

We've done it.

[Damien Haas]

You've done it?

[Ian Hecox]

Really?

[Link Neal]

We've both participated in a lawnmower race.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Well, there's different types. The one that. There's the. The race track like you're riding in a circle like you would on nascar, but you're just on a fast lawnmower. But what we did was the tractor pull. But with lawnmowers where there's the sled that has the weight and then the weight moves from the back of the sled and as you're driving it slowly creeps up and makes it harder to.

[Link Neal]

Eventually it will stop you no matter what.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But the. I mean they're like different divisions of wow. Of lawnmowers. And some of them look like drag race cars.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And sound like it's.

[Damien Haas]

They're not, they're. Yeah, they're not really lawnmowers. Lawnmowers anymore. They're like 250, 300cc.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, they don't.

[Ian Hecox]

Plus blades.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

They don't, they don't have the blades.

[Damien Haas]

Although if you wanted to make it more interesting, I was keep the blades on. You take the covers off and then he just laid all hell.

[Ian Hecox]

Was that during the days of Stevie recently unearthed on let's talk about that. Like the sizzle reel. Yeah, yeah.

[Link Neal]

We had an idea for a show. This is back 20.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It was probably 2008 is when we shot the thing. Maybe 2007.

[Link Neal]

Cause 2007 was when we did our first like really short lived TV show out here. And then we were trying to get something else going. So right after that and we were.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Like, we like dirty jobs. What's the red link version of dirty Jobs? Well, it's redneck jobs or redneck hobbies.

[Damien Haas]

Right.

[Link Neal]

So we were gonna go like noodling, you know, like fishing for catfish with your hands and stuff like that.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We were gonna experience all the redneck hobbies. And for the sizzle reel that we made, I found out from my dad, he was like, well, they do the lawnmower tractor pull right around here. I know everybody. So we just show up and my dad is like the ambassador. He was like our film permit, you know, in, you know, the walking film permit. He's like, hey, if my boys are here, can they ride on your tractor in the competition? It's like, everybody was just cool with it.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

That's great.

[Damien Haas]

So your dad has, like, a secret life as a tractor pole?

[Link Neal]

It's not very secret, no.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, yeah.

[Link Neal]

He's out Persona.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Okay.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. Everybody seems to know my dad, and he's the type of guy that will. He'll find himself being the president of things just because everybody likes him and they just appoint him that. So, like, he'll join a club. Well, like. Well, I got a solo at the cantata at church. I was like, I didn't even know you went to that church, dad. He's like, well, I didn't until I showed up one day, and then I'm singing a solo, and now I'm the priest. What's a priest? That's probably what he would say. But, yeah, he would say, well, I started going to the Lions Club, and now I'm the president. Like, literally, they just put him in charge of everything because he's, like, this charismatic guy who everybody likes, and he's good at raising money and making stuff happen or putting guys on tractors.

[Damien Haas]

So your dad can make a pretty good cult leader, then?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

He could. Yeah. He's spending more time down there in Myrtle beach doing some shagging.

[Damien Haas]

Oh.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, we talked about. You know, we kind of ripped the South a new one. But, I mean, there's some. There's some. There's some beautiful aspects to it as well. All the fried foods and then the beach shagging.

[Damien Haas]

Okay.

[Link Neal]

The beach shagging.

[Damien Haas]

Just so we're clear here, are you referring to sexual intercourse?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Sadly, no. I'm referring to.

[Damien Haas]

Cause that's the only shagging that I know.

[Link Neal]

You don't know about the dancing, the shagging?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

No, it's a dance.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, my God. I thought you were saying that your dad goes to the beach and has sex with people. I was like. I was like, whoa. I was like, this is getting really open. Okay. Jeez.

[Link Neal]

All right.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'm sure he has.

[Link Neal]

It's isolated to the south, and it's very popular in South Carolina, in Myrtle beach, specifically. And it's just like a.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You and your. You and your dance partner just kind of like, shuffling your feet. There's like, a gentle shuffle to the feet.

[Link Neal]

You've seen people dance like this. You just didn't know it was called shag.

[Ian Hecox]

Got it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Shag now, shag later kind of thing.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Okay. Thank God you cleared that up, because I was just gonna move right along with, like, okay.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

You're just openly talking about your dad's sex life.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, great relationship is that.

[Link Neal]

I don't remember who told me this story, but it was. There were some people from England visiting South Carolina, and they were on a bus with these two old couples who were talking about shagging. And they had the conversation, like, an extensive conversation about it. And they were like, whoa, South Carolina is people very open about homosexuality.

[Ian Hecox]

It looks like Woodstock never ended over here.

[Damien Haas]

What if they, like, invited those English people and then they show up to their house naked? They're like, we're ready for shagging. I think you got something wrong here.

[Link Neal]

Right.

[Damien Haas]

So speaking of shagging, actually, it has nothing to do with it. So the way that, like, the place that Smosh works out of is sort of shared with. Mythical. On our side still resides your food producer.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

And all the food that you guys are making and testing.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Mythical Chef Josh. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

And as it turns out, I don't know if everyone here knows, but you guys make some pretty disgusting food. And not only does it taste bad, it also smells really bad.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Right.

[Damien Haas]

Sorry about that. So occasionally we'll just be working, minding our own business, and this terrible smell will just waft over, and we're like, well, I guess we're just going to live with this for a couple hours.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We didn't tell you about this when you moved in. It was like, you get your own space and it's going to be great. We're not going to talk about the smells.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You don't have to eat it. Everything that you smell, just think about that. Every time you smell something horrible and you feel like you can't endure it, in a few hours, we're going to be eating it. We're going to ingest it. It's the most intimate exercise ever, is putting something. Do I have to spell this out? To put something in your mouth and then try to masticate it and then swallow it.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, it's true, but it's over.

[Link Neal]

Before you know it, though. I mean, when you smell something over.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

A period, it's so intimate. Like, smelling something is arguably pretty intimate, but it's not as intimate as putting it on your tongue, chewing it, swallowing it, letting it pass through your entirety. Right.

[Link Neal]

Why are you talking about how intimate it is?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Just to put it in perspective, whenever it stinks over there. Well, I'm going to.

[Ian Hecox]

I think I know what you're gonna say. Go for it.

[Damien Haas]

The shoes.

[Ian Hecox]

The shoes.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Okay.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We haven't eaten shoes. So what's up?

[Ian Hecox]

Go for it. So one day we were all just sitting around and we noticed this horrific smell. But it was more like, this might be toxic for us. And they were air frying shoes. And then it's not like, oh, that doesn't smell delicious. I don't want to eat that. It's like, it's a matter of, like, what is this putting into the air? What. What factory?

[Link Neal]

They did that inside.

[Damien Haas]

They did that inside. They were air frying, like, sneakers in the kitchen. And I. And I was like, this doesn't seem safe. So I, like, walked over there and I was like, hey, like, I don't think this is okay. And he had the. I was like, do you have a fan on? And he was like, well, you know how they have, like, the little range over the stove that has a fan? He's like, well, yeah, the fan's on, but it just blows right out into the room. I was like, great. Awesome. So after that, a slack message was sent out. And I think from now on, any sort of toxic substances that are being cooked are now cooked outside.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I get it. So you asking us on the podcast is really just an intervention. So you're not gonna die.

[Ian Hecox]

Please talk to Joshua.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

That's fair. That's fair. You got an alarm. Is this over?

[Damien Haas]

No, that was somebody calling me, and I. And I was rude.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, the shoe never made it on the show.

[Link Neal]

That was just a great.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So we didn't even.

[Ian Hecox]

Cause we interrupted the process. I'm sorry.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, yeah. If it wasn't for you guys, we would have had an awesome shoe for the ride. We did air fry episode of Football, though. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

That was another thing that was also cooked inside.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. Yeah, we experienced that scent and. Yeah, I don't think that was good for anybody.

[Damien Haas]

I think I'm not smarter.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'll put it that way.

[Ian Hecox]

Now we're paying attention to those, like, mesothelioma commercials that you never thought about before. And now you're like, hold up, turn it up. I should know this.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

We're already working on a class action lawsuit against mythical. No, it's really funny, though, because I. I brought it up to Josh and there was another guy there, and the other guy was like, well, I mean, like, we've been doing this kind of stuff for, like, five years, and I haven't died yet. I was like, you know, that's not the best benchmark.

[Link Neal]

I haven't died yet. Yeah, that's not how. Yeah, that's not how those illnesses work.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. A lot of the things we do, you Kind of stumble into the realization that we could have done it a different way. You know, I think that's, that's just, that's the nature of the work.

[Damien Haas]

That's the fun of the Internet. It's a new frontier. We're all trying to figure it out.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, it's. I mean, it's. That maybe that's something you could argue, could have been anticipated. Hey, let's. Let's burn this shoe outside. Yeah, but sometimes you just gotta, you gotta smell. Stop and smell the football to realize.

[Damien Haas]

Right.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We could do this differently.

[Damien Haas]

And I think another thing that, that you guys learned is that link. You can't hold knives. What's the story behind this? You're not allowed to hold on to knives on videos.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. I don't know what the first. I don't know what the genesis of this rule was, but it's gotten out of hand at this point. I mean, I can't use anything that's sharp or pointy. They still let me throw darts.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, but Chase is very far away now.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, he gets very far away because one of my darts got very close to him one time when I threw at a time when he didn't. I threw for emphasis. You know, I was making a point in my recollection and I just. It was, it was a nice punctuation.

[Link Neal]

Just think about how things would be different if you. I mean, it missed. Like he had his arm out and it went either above or below. Like his arm. Just think about how things would be different. There's a number of things that could have gone.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'm sure he had his tetanus. I mean, if he's up to date on the tetanus, it's fine.

[Link Neal]

What if he had to go right into his eyeball? Think about that.

[Damien Haas]

I mean, eye patches are pretty dope. They're kind of in these days, very animated.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I would have.

[Link Neal]

Do you think we'd still be making this show if you had us thrown a dart into someone's eye and blinded?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

We probably wouldn't be doing dart episodes anymore.

[Damien Haas]

So you've had some close calls with Knives then? Like, I don't understand, like. Well, you're just not allowed to handle.

[Link Neal]

It in his personal life. He.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

He cut himself one time, I think. I mean, it may have been six Christmases ago now that we would always go to Christie's parents house on Christmas Eve Eve. So then like that morning, because we had to go see other family, that would be the Christmas morning there. So he'd like open the presents and My daughter was of an age to get a Barbie. She opens the Barbie and she's like, dad, I can't get into the Barbie. It's like in one of those clamshell type things.

[Damien Haas]

That's the worst.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, yeah. So you're like trying to get into it. And my father in law hands me his knife, and so I just slice open the top of the Barbie doll and I just sliced the end of my finger. I didn't slice it off. I just. I cut my finger pretty deeply, my middle finger, if I remember correctly. But I'm very queasy when it comes to blood flow.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Did you pass out?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And at that point, I tried not to panic, but I did and I just grabbed my finger and I ran out of the living room into the kitchen. And I don't know why I wanted to. I just wanted to run my finger under the water in the sink.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, I mean, wash it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Does it? Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But the next thing I remember is I could see that. I opened my eyes and I saw the cabinet, like, below the sink. I was like, I was all of a sudden at a lower level. And then I looked up and I was in my father in law's arms.

[Link Neal]

Oh, wow.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And so, yeah, I was bleeding out, man. Yeah, no, it wasn't that bad at all. It was just like a little band aid fixed. But he never lets me live that down. So, like, of course, every Christmas, Bobby's trying to get. Trying to talk about the knife. It's like, well, don't give him the knife. So the rule was at his house, Link doesn't get a knife. But I'm gonna constantly talk about how I'm trying to give him a knife. Boy, this is funny. Oh, we actually don't go there for Christmas anymore. I don't even fly home. We go home for Thanksgiving now. And this is why I just couldn't ridicule.

[Damien Haas]

No, no, no. Cut the turkey.

[Link Neal]

No, they just pass it around and take bites out of it. Yeah, there's. The turkey is not.

[Ian Hecox]

There's something primal about that.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So, yeah, I mean, that. He loved it. He loved it. You know, that's. He. He's just waiting for years for me to faint in his arms. But I think it's just so he.

[Link Neal]

I think it's a general. It goes beyond the fact that you injured yourself. It's also, you give a knife to Link and you give anything to Link and he's going to, like, do something a little extra with it. And knives tend to Be dangerous to do things extra with, I hear. So it's like we just don't.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Are you trying to use like the. The cool parlance of extra? Are you saying I'm extra?

[Link Neal]

I'm not trying. I am using that.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay.

[Link Neal]

I'm just saying if you give you something, you're gonna, like, move it in a way that, like. Okay, something extra.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You're not using it. Right. If you want to seem cool, you just gotta say link is extra. Right?

[Link Neal]

Well, that kind of sounds like an insult.

[Damien Haas]

No, no, being extra. That's proper usage.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay. Yeah, but doing something a little extra.

[Link Neal]

Well, I'm using it in the traditional sense, but it's also playing into the modern parlance. You know what I'm saying? A little something additional.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

How about this?

[Link Neal]

That draws a little attention to it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'll continue to not use knives if you don't use the term extra.

[Damien Haas]

That's fair.

[Link Neal]

You want to use the term flair. Like a Ruby Tuesday's waiter. Link has a tendency to bring a little flair to things. And when you bring flair to knives, people get hurt.

[Ian Hecox]

Fair enough.

[Damien Haas]

Fireworks. You allowed around those?

[Link Neal]

He shouldn't be.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I don't think either one of us are because we nearly blew ourselves up in the parking lot.

[Link Neal]

Really? Well, that was when we combined brake fluid and. No, what was it?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that'll do it.

[Link Neal]

No, it was chlorine and brake fluid. Don't combine those.

[Ian Hecox]

Isn't that mustard gas? What are you doing?

[Damien Haas]

I always heard about that. It just combusts on its own, right?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, it was insane.

[Link Neal]

It's one of the biggest accidents we've ever had.

[Damien Haas]

I saw that.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Right.

[Link Neal]

Like a volcano. Caught some things on fire.

[Damien Haas]

Yikes.

[Link Neal]

But I'm actually for the first time because, you know.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So again, we discover things.

[Link Neal]

You can't do any fireworks, any legitimate fireworks in California for good reason because of all the fire hazards. But in South Carolina, you can basically, it's the most lenient laws. And there's a number of states that have these where you can do like the real. Like, you'll get like a mortar shell that like as big as your fist, right?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

So my father in law used to send us down to South Carolina with like a couple hundred bucks to like get just whatever we want, get the good stuff, and then come back up to North Carolina. We would do these fireworks displays. And I've told a bunch of stories about all the accidents we had. But this year, doing it again because I'm gonna be in North Carolina in July.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, really?

[Link Neal]

Oh, so.

[Damien Haas]

But is it illegal to use those fireworks in North Carolina?

[Link Neal]

Technically, yes.

[Damien Haas]

Okay, but none of the.

[Ian Hecox]

But no one's recording this.

[Link Neal]

None of the show. The police are like. They give you. Like, they'll drive right by you. They give you. They're like. We understand, man. It's just once a year celebrating the.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Freedom of our country until the vacant lot goes up in flames as it has in past years.

[Damien Haas]

Right.

[Link Neal]

But I think we're gonna do it at their other house, which is up on that river, and there's a dock that goes out into the river.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, you just burn the dock down?

[Link Neal]

Set it up? Yeah, the dock just burns into the water and then everybody walks away.

[Damien Haas]

That makes sense.

[Link Neal]

I'm pretty excited about it, though, you know, because, like, once a year, I.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Wonder what your budget is.

[Link Neal]

Everybody, you know, somebody in South Carolina loses a finger or worse.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

And there's a little. Just a little bit of, you know, I don't know, there's some adventure in there.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You really got to get your. What's it called? The wick. Fuse. The fuse. You got to get your fuse game down. Like, you're talking.

[Link Neal]

What I used to do is I would spend all day because there's the big green fuse, which burns like. I like, mathematically tested it and knew that, like 10 inches of fuse was this many seconds, and it was very reliable. And I engineered the whole thing where I just had to light one fuse, and it would do like a 25 minute fireworks show.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, nice.

[Link Neal]

I'm not gonna do that because I'm not gonna take all day. You know, I don't have the patience for that anymore.

[Damien Haas]

Just get. Just get a good mythical morning producer to do it for you.

[Link Neal]

We'll get into a. Rig it all up here, and then we'll just. I'll put it in the overhead on the plane.

[Damien Haas]

That's fine.

[Link Neal]

Sir, we need to check your bag. Wow. I'd have some residue on my fingers, if you know what I mean.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah, we'll get them working on that right outside of your office.

[Damien Haas]

Okay, great. No, they could do it inside the office. It's fine. It's fine. We've smelled worse. Well, we're coming up on our time. There's a little thing that we're doing now called Ian's Funny News.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, yeah, Okay.

[Link Neal]

I like that name.

[Damien Haas]

It's news that's only funny to me for usually terrible reasons. Okay, so I will say I heard about this story, and the way that it was worded made me go. And it's not funny. It's actually one of the worst things that I've seen in a while.

[Link Neal]

Good.

[Damien Haas]

But the way that it was worded was Shane walked up and he's like, hey, have you heard about, like, this one planet thing? Is this one planet our planet? Yeah. He's like, have you heard about this our planet thing? Apparently, like, climate change is making walruses commit suicide. Oh, I saw this. They're making them, like, jump off cliffs. And I was like. Cause it's just like. It's just like, of course climate change is making animals jump off cliffs. Like, of course. So, you know, for the sake of the podcast, I watched the episode. The thing that was funny to me.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Was by episode, you just mean footage of walrusai or whatever.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So jumping off the wall.

[Damien Haas]

So I'll show you the photo first, because I think so Twitter, of course, reported on it.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay.

[Damien Haas]

And their header photo is just this walrus doing a T pose off a cliff.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Wow.

[Damien Haas]

And it's terrible. But just. See, you wanna.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Spread eagle, man.

[Damien Haas]

As you can see, the walrus is just doing. Just doing a classic T pose.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It looks like grimace from McDonald's just peeking over the. Over the.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, maybe that's what it is, funny.

[Link Neal]

Maybe it's a viral marketing campaign.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Up here, guys.

[Link Neal]

The burgers are up here.

[Damien Haas]

So there's nothing funny about the actual thing that happened, apparently. Like, what happened? Climate change is driving, like, hundreds of thousands of walruses to this one rocky area in North Russia.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay.

[Damien Haas]

And it's like, there's like, 100,000 walruses. Walruses are not small things. They're very, very large.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Damien Haas]

So a lot of them are trying to, like, get out of the crowd. So some of them, like, hike up this or, you know, kind of wobble up this, like, mountain to get away from the crowds. But apparently walruses don't have good eyesight out of the water. So there's like, a cliffside, and then they can hear the other walruses down at the bottom, and they're like, oh, I need to get back to the water. And they just kind of, like, fall down the cliff. And it's the most. Probably one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen because they just show these.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, I've heard it's horrific.

[Damien Haas]

It's terrible. And. Yeah. So the photo is funny.

[Ian Hecox]

What is the segment called?

[Link Neal]

Well, that's funny.

[Damien Haas]

No, it's terrible. But. But the way that it was. The way that it was put to me at the very beginning Was walruses are just jumping because of climate change. I was like, of course. And the T pose was just, are.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

They hitting the land?

[Link Neal]

They hit the rocks and they tumble down.

[Damien Haas]

And then at the end they just show this just basically pile of dead walruses at the bottom. It's great for the polar bears because the polar bears just, it's easy pickings, but.

[Link Neal]

Well, there you go. I mean, they're finding some good silver lining.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. I mean, you know, if we're really talking about victims here, the polar bears are the victims. So maybe this is a good story.

[Link Neal]

Right.

[Damien Haas]

Because I think polar bears are. They're suffering more than the walruses.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It seems like it's only the introverted walruses that want to get away from the crowds. Yeah.

[Link Neal]

Let that be a lesson.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, so it's natural selection.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Like we want the party walruses, right?

[Link Neal]

Don't leave a party early because you might die, you might fall off a cliff.

[Damien Haas]

See, let that be a lesson to.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

You people, you introverts. I'm an introvert, so.

[Damien Haas]

Me too, dude.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I, I'd be spattered all across that cliffside.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, dude, I went to a wedding and I left with my parents. It was a family friend. But then a bunch of them, like the wedding party all stayed and it was in the redwoods, like up Northern California, like Mendocino County. And the thing about redwoods, if you've ever been up there is like it's pitch black. No light gets through those trees when it's dark and you know everybody's drinking, they're. They were camping and you know, somebody was drunk and they went out to pee and they just straight fell off a cliff.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

What?

[Damien Haas]

They survived. They broke their neck and they kind of landed in a shallow riverbed.

[Link Neal]

They broke their neck and they survived?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, or they're back or something. But yeah, you were there at this. I wasn't. I left before that. But yeah, pretty.

[Ian Hecox]

All the time too.

[Damien Haas]

San Diego?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. They've got cliffs down there and like usually once a year in the papers.

[Link Neal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I stayed down there one time. Really? There's a, those cliffs that you're just. There's like a road and then it's just a straight drop like for a few miles. Like I think it's near Sunset beach or something like that down there north of San Diego.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

A few mile drop.

[Link Neal]

No, the drop, the drop is like a couple hundred feet, but like it goes like that for a few miles and there's just plenty of places where you're just like, oh, I could just be walking on this grass.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

And I could just fall right off. I could totally see that happening.

[Damien Haas]

Do you ever get that. Do you ever get that feeling? They call it. What's it called?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Are you talking about the feeling where you're on a cliff edge and then it feels like your balls are hurting?

[Link Neal]

That's a different thing. That only happens to you.

[Damien Haas]

You ever, like. You ever been.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I refuse to believe that only happens to me.

[Damien Haas]

There's a word for it.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

It's like, oh, well, I'm gonna get the. So it's like a French word, and I'm gonna get it wrong. But it's lapel, du vide. Something like that. Anyone speak French? Yeah. It's the call of the void, where it's like you stand, like, over a cliff and you're like. Like. Or if you're driving and you're like, what if I just drove straight off this? Like, you're not, like, suicidal, but you're like, what if I just did that?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

The thought pops into your head, like, un volitionally. Like, it just, like, subconsciously you're thinking, oh, what if I went over.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Link Neal]

I have a similar thing that happens sometimes, and this hasn't happened recently. It was more when I was a kid. I would be, like, in a conversation with somebody, and I would be like, what if I just punch this person right in the face?

[Rhett McLaughlin]

What?

[Link Neal]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I would be like, what do you mean? Yes.

[Link Neal]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, I relate to that. As I relate to that.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I know you're relating to it. That's what I'm asking.

[Link Neal]

It isn't a desire to punch somebody. I've never punched. Punch anybody in the face. It's just. It's a simple. Like, how crazy would it be if I punch somebody in the face right now? Yeah. It would change everything if I. I'd be in a situation where just like, if I were to do this right now.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. What would happen?

[Link Neal]

Change everything.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

It's. It's like, what's the weirdest thought I could have? Right? News. Same to the same thing as the submitting to the void kind of situation. Same kind of like, I'm making eye contact, but, like, what if I just, like, bit their nose?

[Link Neal]

Like, hey, I think the same way, man.

[Damien Haas]

Thank you.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. You guys have messed up. I've never looked at somebody's nose and thought I could just bite that thing off.

[Link Neal]

Now you're going to. Now you're going to be thinking that. You'd be like, man, it'd be so weird.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah. You've ruined conversations for me forever.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, welcome to my world.

[Link Neal]

You're welcome.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, I like a piece of your face, but it's like. It's a pretty common phenomenon to. It's. It's also known as high place phenomenon, where you just kind of look over a place and you're like, no, but what if, you know, it's like, it's a weird. And like, sometimes, like, I'll get that feeling. I'm like. Like, it just gives me shivers.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I'm like, well, I just skip directly to the.

[Link Neal]

Ugh.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

And it's in my ball sack.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, it hurts.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, it hurts.

[Link Neal]

Like, it's like I've gotten to see a doctor.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It's like I've gotten kicked in the nuts.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

But it's like when you look over the edge of something.

[Damien Haas]

Ugh, I hate that.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Or when I see someone doing that. Like the. I mean, the sweaty palms.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Thread on Reddit.

[Damien Haas]

Have you been to the.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Watch that stuff?

[Damien Haas]

What's the Sears Tower, like, where they have, like, the. You could walk out over the glass.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Damien Haas]

And, like, look straight down.

[Ian Hecox]

I did that in Tokyo.

[Damien Haas]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

It was spooky.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway, I feel like that Tokyo.

[Ian Hecox]

You don't have to do it.

[Link Neal]

You know, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna pollute your.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

What is the. What is the rule? What is the rule?

[Link Neal]

I only do it. No, I have a response to make. I do it on good Mythical morning, and I will do it at live Rhett and Link events. But I don't do it in real life.

[Damien Haas]

That's fair.

[Ian Hecox]

I didn't do that intentionally. I just had to find it.

[Link Neal]

This isn't real.

[Damien Haas]

Saving a bit for the live show. Is this where you guys promote your. Do you have any tours coming up?

[Link Neal]

Yeah, we do.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Rhettandlinklive.com we're going to. Well, at the end of June, we're.

[Link Neal]

Going to the west and the upper Midwest. Las Vegas, middle of the country.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Denver, Salt Lake City, Detroit, Minneapolis, Omaha.

[Damien Haas]

Ooh, nice.

[Link Neal]

Kind of.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

It's a musical concert for the ages.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

As opposed to. I mean, we might just talk to each other until we punch each other.

[Damien Haas]

In the face or bite each other's nose.

[Link Neal]

I gotta bite Link's nose off.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

I mean, you could bite. I mean, with your bite strength, you could easily bite someone's finger off, Right?

[Ian Hecox]

Totally.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

So a nose is even easier.

[Link Neal]

You could easily bite somebody's Nose off.

[Damien Haas]

Nose would be easier because it's cartilage easy. Yeah.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Oh, gosh.

[Damien Haas]

Next, I'd love to have you guys back on for another podcast and maybe we'll get. We'll dig more into, like, which body parts would be easier to bite off. Yeah, yeah, let's save that for the next.

[Link Neal]

I've got a list.

[Ian Hecox]

Sure.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Okay. Okay.

[Damien Haas]

Work on that list, please. All right, well, thank you guys so much for coming on. I could. I could talk to you guys for forever. I hope you enjoyed my funny news because I did.

[Link Neal]

Horrible.

[Damien Haas]

I talked about it. I'm like, I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have brought this up.

[Link Neal]

No, you know what? No one will. No one will say anything about it. No one's going to be upset with you at all.

[Damien Haas]

No, trust me, people are going to be a lot more upset about the Confederate flag talk we had.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, we're going to cut most of that.

[Damien Haas]

We're going to leave all the things you said, Damian. We're going to cut the rest of our opinions.

[Ian Hecox]

I just always try to dig to, like, where does that come from? And then I end up humanizing people that I 100% don't agree with. And then I look bad and people are like, he likes confederates. I'm like, no, No, I don't.

[Damien Haas]

But thank you guys so much for coming on.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

And thank you guys for, for, for listening, you, the listeners and the viewers. Thank you so much. If you're not yet subscribed to the Smosh cast, please feel free to do that on any of your favorite podcast apps. We also got a YouTube channel. The video. The full video comes out two days after on Friday and you can subscribe to us on the YouTube channel and be sure to like the comment. Do all that fun stuff. Let us know what you. What you thought of all the things we did and who should we have on next. Let us know. I love you guys so much. Thank you again, Rhett and Link.

[Link Neal]

Bye.

[Damien Haas]

Love you guys.

[Rhett McLaughlin]

Bye.

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