The hosts of The Basement Yard share a candid, humorous, and deeply personal conversation that blends everyday anecdotes with introspective reflections on family, trauma, and childhood. They begin by discussing their sweaty hands, tracing it back to a childhood basketball story and a father’s dry-hand product, which leads into a heartfelt discussion of their grandmother’s choking death in a dream. This memory is tied to a real-life incident during a Christmas dinner where a family member choked, symbolizing unresolved guilt and emotional trauma. The conversation then shifts to practical safety topics, such as using a "suck back" device for choking and the importance of cutting hot dogs to prevent choking, emphasizing a safer, more responsible way of eating. They explore how parents use storytelling—like the "poop monster" or "wet dream" lies—to manage children’s behavior and instill fear of consequences. These stories are framed as part of a broader human tradition of using myth and fiction to control behavior. The episode also touches on personal growth, humor, and the evolving nature of parenting, concluding with a reflective tone on memory, responsibility, and the shared experiences that shape family life. Throughout, the hosts maintain a playful yet insightful tone, blending personal stories with deeper themes of identity, family, and emotional resilience.
Welcome back to The Basement Yard, me and Frank are sitting next to each other today and it's not because we like each other more than we actually do. Which could be true, we don't know. Oh, I'm the wait. I'm very confused. That's a weird place to start. Let's start again. We're sitting next to each other because we have a special guest today or two special guests. Make some noise. There's no one here for Rhett and Link. Everybody. This is going to be an interesting dynamic because you guys are now not looking at each other. I know. This is a thing that we run into, especially with Link. He doesn't have peripheral vision because of his glasses. Can't see him at all right now. I still can't see him. And now I still can't see him. And he also has the, uh, I can see him now. He doesn't know when other people are talking a lot of times. So he'll just start talking and he needs a visual. He is me. What now? I'm going to see what's going on. Thanks for letting us use your desk. Yeah. That's probably because I'm very careful. I'm just saying it. This is going to make it worse. I'm going to see how this works for you guys. I mean, I think it might work for the better of the episode on our end because normally I want to jump over and strangle him. I think I have the opportunity to do it now if I really need to. He can't. It's more of a gentle reach and strangle. Yeah. It's just like one of these instead of a, like, if I got to get up and move, that's a lot of energy to put into it, physically harming him. What she could do, what she will be sued if he does do that. Who are you? You're going to sue your own company? Do it, bitch. I feel like we're like duly newscaster. It's going to throw it over to weather. Yeah. You guys are the newscasters. But we were in at your, this is what I was actually worried about here. This is what I was actually worried about. I didn't even plan on that. It just happened. Yeah. That was beautiful. Let's see what else happens. Your body just did it out of nowhere. We were in. Don't talk to us. Wow. Okay. There you go. He has very sweaty hands. I do. Yeah. We're a clammy guy. Yeah. So clammy happened. Who do you think you're pretty clammy? Honestly, you touched me and it was a little wet. Well, I just washed my hands. That can be it. When I was in high school, my dad got me a prescription to something called dry saw, which was he was like, we're going to put something on your hands because of basketball. You got to be able to catch that basketball. Is that you were dropping the ball? You turned the ball over a lot? Well, I wasn't. Dude, your dad told you you sucked at basketball. I was actually pretty good at basketball. That's the thing. I was insulted by it. He was maybe I was like, I'm a little bit worried about how sweaty my hands get. So we got some dry saw, but I don't use that anymore. It still is on the market. It's a thing. It is our, well, now there's that there's that other product. I'm not a spokesperson for us. I'm not going to mention it. Gloves? But they're not, my hands are not nearly as bad as they were in high school. That's not a bad. Look it. Yeah, look it. It's as if it's already been lit. No, it's not that bad. It really isn't that bad. Yeah, I mean, if you're, if you're like having to like, your father is giving you a product to deal with something and you might need to admit it might be a little, a little bad. It was very bad. Is it like a power or what is it? No, it was a, it was a liquid. It was, I think it was just alcohol. I think it was just alcohol that you had to get a prescription for. Nice. That's cool. I didn't grow up in my father. Yeah. Oh. So no one told you that you had disgusting hands either? No, I have the driest hands in the world. Wow. That way you guys work so well. Is wet your dry? Yeah. It's a jacksprat type thing. There's, there's got to be like a correlation between like a father's love and just like abnormally dry hands or something like that because I had, yeah, some of his love, but I had pretty wet hands too. So maybe are you saying that dads have dry hands or the, he's saying that the more your dad actively loves you, the wetter your hands get. I would say so. Yeah. Your body feels more expressive to excrete whatever. I feel that you do. I feel that. I feel like my dad loves me a little bit less than he did when I was a child and so my hands are a little. They're drying up. Yeah, they're drying up of his love. Right. Well, I'm glad we got to the bottom of that. Now we know why people have wet hands and dry hands. Uh-huh. We, we, when it comes to like parents stuff, we, we're, we're interesting on here because we openly talk about really needing the love of our dad's time. Yep. So, so forgive us if, uh, actually you brought it up. You struck the court. Well, I was trying to tee it up. While we're talking about family, I think I was going to mention this. I, speaking of my dad, I had a dream last night. This is good. Yes. About my grandmother, his mom, Mamanelle, who has been no longer, no longer with us for like 20 years. So it's okay. It's not too soon. Very. Mamanelle, if you're watching, she has been no longer with us. Yeah. I was at my parents old house. The house that I grew up in, Mamanelle was there. She choked and I had to give her the heimlich and she, nothing, she died. It didn't come out. You killed your grandma? No, she died of choking. And I couldn't solve it. And I was, listen, and she was like frail, why? She was so little and I thought I was going to break her and I was like giving her the heimlich. And then my brother, I'm yelling. Cole, dad, Mamanelle's choking. And then my dad's like, "Mumanelle's choking." He's like making fun of me from across the house. Like I'm making a choking. So wait, she died in your arms. Does she go limp? I, she just, yeah, and then I just like sit her down and then oh, you gave up. Yeah. I did. I did. I was like, and then my, and just me and my mom standing there. It was a horrible. I wanted to start the podcast on a positive note. No, this is a great note. You set her down and she was just sitting in like a chair and she's just, yes, I went. Just gone. And then I, and then I was thinking, I'm not going to get charged with something like because if you can't save somebody, I mean, I was in a dream state, you know? So your grandma dies and your first thought is, am I going to get charged? Yeah. Yeah. What do you have to do? Yeah. That is a compliment. She's been dead for 20 years. I'm going to Mexico. So, so something you might not know about us. We are dream experts. So appointed. Great. A big part of this is obviously going to be what she was eating. What is she choking? Because that is very symbolic of maybe some guilt that you carry with you and you're very, very, what, non-dry hands. Okay. I can only be a corn liquor. It's like a country song. She had like a liquid diet of, that might have been whiskey. She was a whiskey lady. She wasn't choking on whiskey. My grandmother was a Manhattan lady. Yeah. My grandmother was a, say it, pills lady in terms of she needed them to remember anything. Right. Yeah. Well, mom and dad would drink whiskey every night. Then she would take her teeth out for us. I mean, my brothers would be like, you want me to take my teeth out and she'd take them out and then she'd talk with her teeth out. And it was the most entertaining thing I've ever experienced. That sounds awesome. Now you go to bed. She, well, I kind of go to bed. I don't run, come out. I don't remember. That's a pretty good impression. Did you know mom and dad? I'm at mom and dad. Yeah. Mom and dad. Excuse me. Is that the best impression? Did you show her mom and dad? El. El. Okay. Right. Like, we don't know where she's at. El for a loss. I don't like, I'm not making any assumptions, but it was like the whole teeth or do she take like a couple like a hockey player? The whole thing. She was gums. Do they really put them in like a glass of water? Like you see in movies? She put them in the whiskey. Oh, that's pretty sharp. Gotta let these marinade overnight. Oh, yeah. So she'd get a little drink right when she wakes up. First thing in the morning boy. Yeah. Gotta suck it off. Yeah. So you answered that question. Do you know what they're trying to interpret your dream? Okay. What did she eat? I came into the kitchen late, but this is all related to a real life event where during Christmas dinner one year, I told you about this, he choked at the table. And he choked in front of everybody. My, in my family, we're not, we're not really quick to intervene. We like work this out. Yeah, you got it. You know, we're like, yeah, we'll give you a second. Yeah, you're starting to ruin dinner. We were all having a good time and you're choking. Alright, the floor is yours. And she choked and then she spit it onto her plate. And it was, it was Christmas dinner. It was, let me probably ham. So I think this was a regurgitation, if you will, of that memory. So it's probably ham. Wow. Okay. Have you ever given someone the Heimlich and like saved a life? Nope. You're a big dude. If you gave someone the Heimlich, especially Mama Nell. Yes, you're, you're supposed to break a rip. Okay, okay. It's a wrap. Well, have you seen the thing on TikTok? The suck back. Yeah, I got one. What you got one? I got one. Yeah, because I saw it happened to the situation. The situation of Jersey Shore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He fucking, he, he saw the product, he got it and he fucking, his kid was choking and it saved his kids life. And I was like, buy five of these things because they're like single-loaded shot like cartridges. What? So yeah. So it comes with like, it looks like a plunger. And then in there are little mouthpieces and that each one is like a single shot. So we have a couple in the house. You have one on your person? Not on my person. You don't have the kids. Why am I, what's the point of my wife is with the kids right now? If I bring in it with me, she's right there. Yeah, I don't think it'll work over facial hair because I don't think you can get a tight seal. I need more. I cannot visualize this thing yet. You're saying, I don't know why I get this. You have to pick the right mouthpiece to put on it. Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, it's not perfect technology, but
but if it worked on the situation's kid, I like to think-- - And then it makes a seal on the mouth, and then you pull something back. - Yeah. - It'll suck whatever's in your throat out. - Yeah. - Like whatever you're showing me. - Way better than the hymns. - It's like a reverse super soak. - See, I imagine it would be like a plunger, like I would just in and out, because either the food is coming out, or it's going-- - Do that again. Or it's going, you're either pushing a deeper-- - A pushing a deeper. (laughing) I mean, is that not-- - Yeah, if it goes to the bottom of the lungs, it'll be fine. - Yeah. - Wait, hold on. This is a serious question. - If you ask that question, I'm going to kick you out. - When you choke on food, it gets stuck in your lungs, or just in your throat. - That was a question. - No. - If it goes in your lungs, you don't die immediately, but if they don't do emergency surgery, you will die a couple of days later. - Oh, we got days. - Let me recant my judgment. That's possible. Something can get in your lungs like that? - Yeah, if food gets into your lungs, it causes a aspiration. - Yeah, this happened on the-- The only reason I know this is because it was just on an episode of Pit. - The Pit. - The Pit. - Yeah. - Everyone loves that show, I agree with you. - I didn't watch it that. I don't-- - You don't like medical shows? - Uh-uh. - Everyone was into it, so I felt like I needed to watch it. But then I was like, you guys just tricked me into watching another medical drama. - I can't watch those shows and think any of that is real. - You should hit yourself with that thing. Just for fun, how it is. - I mean, I don't want to. I'm going to save it for like God forbid. Like we need it on one of the kids. - Yeah. - That seems-- - But you should know how to use it. - Well, it comes with like a little card and with like pictures on it. - And you've read the card already? - I've seen it. I've seen that the card is there. - You should test it on one of the neighbor's kids. - It's kind of like a taser. - You gotta make sure that it works. - You gotta get tasers in order to like, understand the power of the taser. So then you gotta-- - It's a pretty good point, honestly. - Sub back yourself. - It's called life back, by the way. - Got it. - Free plug for them, by the way. - The long cuts on your hot dogs? - Listen, my friend. Hot dogs don't last long enough to be cut in my house, okay? - There's a hot dog about? - Well, a hot dog is the perfect shaker to get stuck in a child's throat. And then that's it. - See, this is, I gotta-- - It's a good little trick of the trick. - I'm gonna be really honest with something. It's like we're talking into our future selves. Like you seem like you have the information that we need, like we love hot dogs. - Right, we're big hot dog fans. So now as you're presenting us with a more responsible way of eating hot dogs, which the responsible way that you'd hot dogs is to not, because apparently they're not good for you. That's what we need. That's the information that we need here. - So you like, you spatch cock this thing? - I don't do this anymore. My kid's-- - My kids are past the choking stage. - Got it. - At least in that form. And so basically you cut them long like this. And then now you have basically this. You can't choke on this, because air gets through that side. You see that? - Yeah, yeah. - Go ahead. - Oh, you make like a gutter. - Yeah, when you put that in. - Well, they're gonna clip that. - Yeah, we're right. That's immediately gone. You saw, there's no way I could choke doing what I just did. I don't, I hope I wasn't in it. - So what do you mean I was smiling? - I think I was smiling. - What would be the idea? - I think I was looking at him as smiling. - Well, hold his back in his hair back when he does it at the time. - Okay, we did a shorty. - So you think that we are older future use. That would be nice. - I would love if that ends up working out for us. - I'll take that as. - Yeah, I think I like this. - I mean, looks wise. Let's just, let's start there, okay? - Right. - Yep, right. - Let's start there. - All right. - We already have established. - Momoa. - Okay. - Momoa, I get it. - Yeah, right. - All right, and I mean, it just works. And it's not like we're making this up. - Yeah, the universe provided us with this. - It's said to us all the time. - Now it's two. - I mean, it just, it works. And then, I mean, you guys, you got the salt and pepper going on, which is working very well for you. - Uh-huh, yep. - You're lean, okay. You wear glasses. - I just got new glasses today. - See? - Oh, you did, yep. - And it just, it feels like Joey loves wearing things, like patterns and stuff like that. And they're like, right now you're wearing this? So, it makes sense. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So like, if this is what we have to look forward to, very happy. - Yes. - Right. - Also, very successful. We'll take that as a trajectory, you know? - I'll take that. - What else do you guys need to know, besides hot dog cutting, though? - That's it. - Oh. - A lot of what we are known for is our passion for hot dogs. Our enjoyment of hot dogs. - You got any other adjectives? - The intensity and fervor at which we consume them. - Fervor. - Yep. - That's a good point. - That you didn't think we were gonna say that. - I am surprised. - You guys cool with hot dogs? - I love hot dogs. My wife has never eaten a hot dog. - Yeah. - Divorcer. - Yeah. - Now she's young, she's really young. - Why, why, she's older than me? - She's never eaten a hot dog. - Classes are fogging up. - It's a little toast. - Now, if you're gonna start wearing glasses, they will fog up. - I think I need to defend your wife in this situation because when you say, my wife has never eaten a hot dog. - She's just been against it. - It might be like, oh, she's like super picky and she feel like she's a, but, no, like, me and his wife have like very similar tastes. - Her name is Christy. - Let's call her by her name. - Let's just call her wife. - Thank you. - But yeah, this one thing, she just, somebody told her a story about what was in a hot dog when she was a kid. - I'm a super picky eater, but she is not. She embraces everything except hot dogs because it's, she always knew that there's disturbing things lurking in there. - Oh, of course, yeah. See, I was older when I got that and it was already too late. - Too late. - Had I been debriefed at four, I probably wouldn't love them. - Right. I'll be honest, they had the opposite effect on me. I found out about the questionable things in it. Maybe more excited to eat it. - I thought I'd be like patient zero. They'd be like, well, it didn't mess him up. Now you're just making a point like, no, they are healthy. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I will continue to eat these and be fine. - Absolutely, but we fully commit to hot dogs here. I can't believe, and you've tried to offer here, try this hot dog. - Well, he's not much of a hot dog guy. I'm the last person to force any food on anybody. - What's like one food that you're like absolutely hot? - Because he does that to me all the time and I'm like, I don't wanna do that to anybody else. - What are some foods that you're like, absolutely not like? - Olives. - Come on. - I don't like them either. - What are my favorite foods? - Hot dogs and olives, dude. We're right here. - I don't like them. - What else you got? - Yeah. - Doing a fish, I feel like doing a fish. - That's pretty much it. - But I don't really like tomatoes. - I can eat tuna in a raw tomatoes. - No tomatoes. - No cherry tomatoes. - No tomatoes. - I try. - He literally specifies. - No tomatoes. - No raw tomatoes. - No raw tomatoes. - I'm like, hold on, are you? - Yeah, right. - You're getting the bad ones, man. - Yeah, like I get the big slices of tomato. They're a little annoying, but like a cherry tomato. - Tomato adjacent products, ketchup, marinara sauce. - Oh, that's good. - Oh, I was gonna say it. - And I'll drink a V8 on a plane. - That's insane. - What? - A V8? - I don't know. Something about-- - That's so funny. - A V8 is crazy. That's like a nine-year-old drink. - Right, I would never ever have a V8, but then on a plane. It's just-- - Yeah. - We got it. - We just-- - We just changed it. - I gotta tell you that. - Does it really? 'Cause we were just talking about that. When we were in Columbus, we got there, and when we were just like, for some reason on planes, people just drink straight up V8. And they're like, maybe it's like a bloody Mary thing. - No, your taste changed at that altitude. - Yeah. - See, this is why we need this information. - Yeah, see, now you know. - We would have assumed this and ran with it as if it was absolute fact, but now we're just gonna take your word on it. - They actually flavored the food differently to anticipate that change. It's also one of the reasons that ginger ale is so popular on planes. - Are you lying? - Because I, this is dangerous what you're doing. - No, it's not. - You said it was such a big shit. - I think it's dangerous to ask, because I learned to not ask years ago, because my world would just repeatedly crumble. - Yeah. - In middle school, I remember one day I showed up at the lunch table, and then Rhett starts to talk, he's like, he's doing something like this, and then he's eating, and I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, I'm activating the molecules in my-- - Hell yeah. - It tastes better if you shake it. - You know what, you guys are very alike, 'cause that does sound like something that you would do. - And I got a lot of people in the cafeteria to do it. Now I knew that that was bullshit. - You're walking in and everybody's just wanting to see if you could. - Yeah, yeah. So incredible. - Everything I've said up to this point is true. - As far as I know it. But if I begin lying, it will sound exactly like the truth. - You're a big fan of gaslighting is what I'm gathering here. - For fun, yeah. - And then it's not technically gaslighting fits for fun. It's pranks. - Yeah, yeah. It's all pranks. I don't do it for, I don't emotionally manipulate people. The only reason he's glad to have children is because it's more people to lie to. - Right. - I've told so many lies to my kids. Are you lying to your children? - Oh my God, I love it. - Yes, the best part. - It feels like that, it's what you're supposed to do. - It is a foundational part of being a parent. Is you need to lie to them? Because then if they figure it out on their own, you're done, you're screwed, you've lost. - What's like the biggest lie? 'Cause I like, I think I don't have any children, but I would think that I would make up like really good ones. Like I would tell my kids that I invented the moon and shit, like. - Yeah, those are good ones. Like toothpicks used to be 12 inches. (laughing) - Why would you lie to that one? I mean, I like it. - Because I'll use it. - Right, because. - It's meaningless. - Because it doesn't, I mean if they repeat it,
It's hilarious. - There's just more fun to be had. - Yeah, sure. - I mean, you just don't want to start lying in order to like change the behavior. - Right. - Like, you know, Santa's watching. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Or worse. You don't wanna do that. - Yeah. - But who would do that? (laughing) - But like, in consequence. - All humans are born with six fingers on their left hand, but then they eat it right before they're born. - That's a good one. - That's a good one. - I did, we were like trying our youngest to like potty train her right now. The best one that we got going right now is a monster will eat your butt. Like if you don't let us change your diaper, you'll get a monster in your butt and it'll eat you. And. - That's good. - And were there follow-up questions from your- - What are you saying? - Oh yes. I mean, no, she, maybe it's very inquisitive. She asks why, how, when? - That's the story. - She's a journalist. My questions are, how did you get there? How did you get- - And why did you use the phrase eat your butt? - That's what I want to know as well. - Which is, well, because it's, I mean, it's just, you know, the diaper is a an all-encompassing prison around, you know, like that's how she feels. So I'm like, all right. How can I make her feel more comfortable? - Monster. - I let her believe that there will be a monster. And then who's gonna say the day? Daddy. - Right. - Daddy will say the, or mommy. - Wait, so what are you trying to accomplish? - Get her afraid of not changing her diaper. - Oh. - And then she uses the- - She's saying that if she poops in her diaper, that is attracting the monster. - It is, no, it's making a monster. There's monsters. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It is the monster. - It's like an episode of Goosebumps. You know, put it like that. - It's like a monster sludge. - I've never seen that. - I've never seen that in my life. - I still don't understand. - We all have, it's like the idea of like, we all have two bears in us. You know, like the bear that we feed in the bear that, you know, we don't feed in like what manifests. We all have poop monsters in us. - Yep. - Are you allowing the poop monster to take control of you? Or are you getting rid of that poop monster? - Yeah. - Before. - Got it. - So, okay. - Really? - Because the poop is the monster. - And it is the reason for the monster. - The reason for the monster. - Yeah. - It's quite, it's like a primordial soup. - It is. - Yeah. - What's feeding it is what it is. Now I don't know. - I mean, it is a classic, greciant, you know, tragedy of our own hubris. You know, we give way to what is eventually going to be our downfall. - Yeah. - Now you got them going. - Listen, we have told ourselves stories as a society for millennia. So many years. - In order to control our behavior. We've made things up that probably aren't real in order to make sure we do the right things. You're just following in the tradition of humanity. - Who am I, if not a part of this folklore history that we have had as a human race? - Yeah. - So this is your Greek mythology. This is exactly what that is. - Got it. - You know? I mean, what is the difference between the gods of the Greek pantheon and a poop monster? - Really nothing. I don't think so. - You don't know that for sure. - I think we know it with a good amount of confidence. (beep) - All right, before we continue with this lovely episode of The Basement, we do have some sponsors. The first one being Squarespace, okay? Squarespace is going to be the platform that you're going to build your next website on, okay? Or you're going to upgrade your current website with Squarespace, okay? 'Cause they have a bunch of templates on their website that you can use. 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Exactly. It's like the riddler. Are you OK? Now we're-- This is a exception of-- The riddler can create the crime. And then be there to clean up the pieces of people like, oh my god, the riddler is kind of not a bad guy anymore, guys. He saved the day. Create the issue with the poop monster. So then if it comes up, she gets a little freaked out. Who's going to save it? Daddy. So I think the lesson that I'm learning here as someone who's not a father yet is traumatize them so that you can be the hero in that story. Yes. Got it. Is there nothing more-- Is there nothing more noble and selfless? Right. Because they need that. They need a hero. I need a hero. I need a client of your kids all the time. I don't know if you can bring them. It's been so many years at this point. So many years of lying. I mean, my youngest child is now 17 years old. That's how old I am. Wow. That's crazy. Good for you. Yeah, at a certain point, the tables turn. And they start lying. Now they just lie to me. Yeah. But I can tell. I can tell now. They're paying you back. Yeah, I can see. Do you get mad at those lies? Or are you just like, nice try? But daddy knows best. I'm mostly amused by them. Like I'm not going to give the specifics of this story, which may make it much less funny to tell. So I make it very short. Stop it. But you're using to protect some privacy when he was going. When he was 15, when he was 15, we knew that he had done something. He made up a lie. But the lie he made up was like five times worse than the thing that we knew he had done. I did that. And then when I found out what he, I was like, I know that you're lying about this. But just so you understand, the lie that you made up is worse than the thing that you actually did. Yeah. And he was like, yeah, I don't know what I was thinking. Quite noble of him. So we just had a conversation about, if you're going to lie, let's learn how to do it. Yeah. It's supposed to be less, you know, he's done that before. There's a story we've told in this podcast before where he was at a new cell phone. Yes. He got a brand new cell phone and he drank a lot of Coca-Cola before bed. Oh yeah. So he ended up peeing the bed, breaking the phone. So his dad-- He peed on the phone. Oh yeah. He peed everywhere. Not just the phone. Well, he got everything. Yeah. It was collateral damage at that point. Wow. But then his dad was very upset. So he's like, I got to think of something. I can't tell him that I peed the bed because I drank all this Coca-Cola. So instead, he inferred that he had a wet dream. He upgraded. He upgraded to-- He upgraded to-- He-- Wetest dream that's ever existed. Dad, I came on the phone. Yeah, exactly. I came so much on the phone that it broke. Well, I was-- Wow. Like there's no way-- like in the same way that you're like, I'm just like choosing to believe their story and playing along. What is going through your dad's head in that moment? I mean, I knew my dad was pissed because I was-- what? We were 13 at the time. It was a brand new next hill. And I know it was expensive. And I know it was like a chore just to get the phone as it was. So in my head, I'm thinking, all right, I know he's upset because there's stains everywhere. Because I slept on like a little like Matt. And he was-- I thought I'm mad? It was like on the mat, on the bed, it was a weird divorce parents. And I was thinking like, all right, I know my dad really wants me.
to be included in like the whole like me growing up and sharing with him and like being a being a like dad I'm gonna tell you a another like relatable guy thing so he could just be like you know what I know what this is like don't worry about it so you came on your phone for him to be closer to dad I well well done son it's quite quite a lot of cost he was pissed hey I remember he was sitting down he didn't mention like he was like he didn't go what no you didn't know so he so he was sitting down with a blow dryer drying drying the it's going to get hard yeah if it's what if it's what you're saying it is this is my dad in 2005 freshly quit smoking cigarettes he's stressed he's stressed for several reasons oh my god and and and I told and I'm like you know I it I explained you know the the story you told and he just goes no no he's he instantly called it he immediately called my bluff and I just at that point I had to double and triple down on it yeah so yeah he I mean if he if it when he sees this he'll know or if you already know probably like he oh wow you haven't clearly that was no no no no you didn't Frank no you didn't yeah yeah but it was you know in that moment I was thinking more of him than I was of myself more heroic acts now have you peed the bed as adult men no funny you say that within the last 365 days I have peed my pants pants in the middle shorts I was in bed and I was having a dream that I was peeing this has happened before but like and then when I woke up I was like I peen and then I'm like and then I look and like I didn't full fully pee I had more pee but there was it was not a couple drops that happened to me this year the tube I I was able to use my muscles I didn't physically put a clothespin on it yeah but I woke up and I was like oh my god on pee yep same thing happened to me this year yep at a fancy hotel that's a fancy hotel that's that's the time to pee though and was it a full it wasn't a full release but it was enough to leave my pants and get onto the bed that's a lot but link did it at his mom's house yeah I was an adult as yes like a couple years three years ago maybe yeah so it's I was I was I was in the bed at my mom's house with Christie your wife and I just we got that part yeah I woke up up woke up peeing yeah woke up peeing could not stop it did wait you full peed full and your wife was like what did she didn't well she didn't wake up immediately and so like then I I had to do I had to do a manual pinch yeah well yeah system override yeah system override exactly yeah right there so I and then I'm like I'm getting out of bed and I'm I'm running to the bathroom and there was more so I guess it wasn't full but it was a lot it was so much 80% where were you on the bell curved though you know what I'm talking were you like in the middle or were you like coming down I think I was like right at the peak because it was still some pressure when I got to the toilet and then when I turned around and went back to the bedroom like all the way down the hallway there was just like oh you had lead drippy drips just like did you pee through did you pee through your knuckles what I was using my finger to ask questions do you think that he wasn't like yeah yeah that's the hard project me I'm only grabbing it like like a and then pee could get through yeah yeah well yeah no it's I don't know what he's got working with over there yeah that's more disrespectful than anything right okay I see what you're saying just grab the bottom you just figured a pinch wasn't enough that's what I'm just saying like there's different ways listen it requires two hands I mean some of us some of us you grab it like an eagle it's like a like I captured a bird yeah it's not like opening a door knob so like so what was the did your mom find out well Christie I got I like laid down up I was like I'm gonna deal with this in the morning I like put down a towel oh yeah towel and then I just laid back down on the towel and then when like a couple of hours later when she rolls over I was like why is there a towel here and she was like and I was like dad I had an amazing wet dream and you did that for her but yeah I ended up telling my mom that we were gonna need to do some full full laundry we're gonna have to go all the way mom so that you know she probably like that's like oh it's just like you're young again you know you're in the room and you're pissing yourself yeah right yeah just like old times yeah you've never you haven't pissed recently no I'm afraid of like when you said like you told us recently you slept naked yeah like that's a reason I'm afraid because like if I am I really haven't peed the bed and I couldn't even tell you when but if I'm at least sir if I'm at least clothed I know that there's like a barrier a bit of a barrier you know what I mean like before you get to like unleash the hounds like you know they have to get through a couple rounds I don't think the fact that you're wearing shorts to bed is the reason why you're not pissing a bed what are the rubber shorts that's a good point honestly and also we don't know because we don't know what would happen if the inverse happened what's Schrodinger's cat yeah if you were naked you think you would pee if you're naked I think because you know you wouldn't have a barrier you'd be less likely to pee yourself well I'm not peeing myself now and nothing is less likely than it when it doesn't happen that's true wow you like that 75% of the men right here have done this as an adult yeah and it's our you will join us I can guarantee that 175 more time one more time I can guarantee you that of that 75 100% of them have slept naked more frequently than I have because zero would be no because I don't sleep naked you have I I don't know if you guys have but I think it's a safe assumption to say that you probably do why not regularly but yes it's happened I'm sure it happens let's get you see like a confident man have you pissed is that what it is recently recently no there's an adult as an adult I have okay you have it I have yeah and were you dreaming that you were peeing that doesn't that's how it always goes yeah like I woke up pissing the no and then yeah yeah you were also yeah I scared everyone in the house that's how it goes it's like woke up like Ebony's or Scrooge we well we told that story on our podcast and I was in the context of like I felt bad about the fact that I did it in a hotel bed but we were also checking out that day yeah and I was like they probably deal with all kinds of stuff in the bed and then a woman who works in hotels like called energy was like yes like wet beds for whatever reason hmm are very common it's a very common thing they don't think twice about it if I think about a hotel bed I'm like yeah let's not I think I well yeah I but I think I know why it's it's more of like a like standing up to the authority you know what I'm saying like peeing in a hotel room yeah more time what does what does that mean there's something about a hotel room that just it's it is like the poster child of capitalism yeah so like if you're in like a nice hotel and like you treat it a little poor like you're like I'm I'm one of the I'm one of the people like I'm kind of doing this for pissing the bed break a lamp yeah steal the soap yeah that kind of still so you seem like a guy who takes the conditioner oh yes yeah absolutely what about a hairdryer just take that no no no no they're typically not great yeah they're whispering at you my mentality is if I'm paying for it I'm taking it yeah I'm not paying for like the appliances but I'm paying for the soaps chocolates I've never eaten a single chocolate in a hotel room but I've taken them all did you take in the hotel we stayed at like two days ago there was a bottle of wine did you take that yeah absolutely it was cool they gave us a bottle of wine and some popcorn I had a little bit of each of the popcorn I opened the wine had a glass of wine oh so you had it there yeah you didn't oh I thought you took it with you oh no I left it there I didn't I didn't bring it home into the canton but like in theory if I consumed it I am taking it with me uh-huh yeah yeah spirit yeah exactly I mean am I right is that wrong too no it's beautiful it's absolutely beautiful uh one thing I wanted to talk about with you with you guys is that do you guys sort of recognize that you are treated as this like OGs YouTube royalty um because you've been doing it what was the first time you guys put out like a YouTube video together oh six that's it that's what I was coming on my phone you wish you were yeah yeah we we've been through a lot of phases and so like I mean good mythical morning was only the past almost 13 years oh the light there were so many is that all 13 yeah yeah and then it's like yeah we feel like we lived a couple of YouTube lifetimes yeah we're
really glad to still be here. It's crazy. I mean it's since '06 is wild. Is that do we're were you guys doing it separately or it was always together? Always together. Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah. Yeah. Came up together. First grade, you know, parallel lives. Yeah. We pretty much went through everything. I mean the I got married a year before him and that we we recently realized that the only time in our lives when it wasn't completely parallel like you know always grew up doing the you know we were best friends growing up. We went to college. We were roommates in college together and then when I got married I moved out. I'm saying I'm gonna move him with my wife now. Yeah. I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna leave you friend. Did you guys cry? No. Don't believe so. I let him keep the couch. Right. You know, so Mr. Fly. I felt like that was good enough. Well, there was where there was a rat that was living in the couch at the time. Yeah. I'm gonna let you keep that and then a rat living in the couch. Yeah. We discovered that later. Yeah. Was it? Did you guys pee on that couch? Never the rat. Never peed on the couch. Did a lot of stuff. I'm sure the rat passed on that thing. Well, okay. Well, so there was we had a another roommate Tim who shall remain nameless. Got him. He was. He was just a dirty dude. Nice. We're still friends with him. Is he still dirty? I think he's still really dirty. He knows someone's gonna scour every everything to find who this person is. He brought all the candy that he got from trick-or-treating or something. You guys have an apartment together and he's trick-or-treating. Yeah, Junior in college. He's like, I got all of this. He's put trick-or-treating. I got all of this candy and he just left it in the living room on the floor. Uh-huh. And we were like, you know what? We are not cleaning up after Tim. We're gonna leave this just like that on the floor. We made that face. And we're gonna make him. He's gonna clean up his own candy. And to his credit, you know, slowly over time, he started cleaning up the candy. But was that me eating it? He was like cleaning up. I don't know, it's like I'll give him credit. One piece at a time. Yeah. He's kind of picking it up, you know? And then it's like, this is interesting, this approach. It was all gone. Well, but there was a couple of moments there in the middle where he would eat like part of a piece of the candy and just leave it on the floor. That's a lot. Like take a bite out of a Tootsie roll and then leave it. Like, I don't like this. Yeah. And I was like, I'm like, yeah, I was like, what is happening? But we didn't talk about it. And I find this. I can smell the. I can smell the nonsense here. I'm not buying it. Keep going. So, candy gets gone. One day I get home, we've forgotten about the candy. And I open the front door and there is the apartment pellet gun, which we have one of these. Yeah. And it was propped up by the. You had a pellet gun in your apartment. They. Some roommates, not me, would shoot rabbits out of the bedroom window. That's not true. Boys, good boys. It wasn't me and it wasn't red. We would never do that. And you have no idea who it was. It was our other roommate. There it is. Yeah. It definitely wasn't us. So, pellet gun was propped up and it had a note on it. Like a posted note. Nobody at home, I like pick up the pellet going, I look at the posted note and it says, there is a rat in the apartment. If you see it, shoot it. And so, I just put the. I just put the pellet gun right there. I was like, why? In my handwriting. You recognize my handwriting. Yeah. So, what happened at that point? So, this is what happened. So, I'm home alone. Earlier that day. Doing the laundry. And of course, it's one of these like college apartments where the washer and the dryer are in the kitchen, you know. And some like doing the laundry. And then I see movement out of the corner of my eye. I turn in there is a rat coming out from underneath the fridge. It is so big that it's having to like. Oh no. Like, extricate itself. Hell yeah. And it's like doing an army crawl. And it just kind of comes out and just looks at me. And it's not even frightened. I would say this long before the tail started. Get the fuck out of here. That's a raccoon. So, that long with the tail? And so, I immediately do any normal man would do. I grab a gun. I grab the nearest pellet gun. And I think I'm going to be able to like get a shot off because it was just standing in the middle of the kitchen. But by the time I had to like go to wherever that gun was, a living room, whatever. And then I come back. And he's moving into the dining room. And then I'm like, okay, he's behind his piece of furniture. He disappears behind the piece of furniture. And then we see there's like a little hole in the wall there. So, realized we had a rat. And that's what was happening with the candy. Yeah. Yeah. Eating half a tootsie roll. Of course it wasn't Tim. He had built a nest in the cow. We started to look at all of these pixie sticks and tootsie rolls. And pretty sick. That's pretty cool. The whole of the cow tout to see where he's going in the wall. And it's like, whoa, no, no, no, he's going in the there's rat shit everywhere behind the cows. Oh my God, it was 10. How did you guys get out of there without diseases? So, here's the thing. Oh, we're getting the story progresses to the point where a couple of days later, like we didn't do the thing that you're supposed to do, which is just call it professional. Yeah. Because we're just in college, we're not paying for anything, right? It's like we will handle this two or three days later. I'm in the kitchen. I come home into the kitchen. And I see there's a mouse, not a rat, a dead mouse in the middle of the kitchen right where I had made first contact with the rat. And it was as if he was saying, look what I'm doing for you guys. Hell yeah. I'm killing the smaller versions of me. Keep me around. He stood there like, I'm like, you guys had like, this is my place now. And then when he saw you were going for the gun, he was just like, I'll be back. All right, you know, I'm here. It's a mutual respect thing. I'll prove my worth. Yeah. So we were like, okay, maybe we keep him around. We were in the process of moving out. And we later, we never saw the rat problem. When we went back to deal with the like the lady at the, the administration, where we were not getting any of our deposit back because of the, what we had done to the apartment. Right. And we were arguing with her about that. We saw our neighbors that we shared a wall with just some other college guys. And they were like, hey guys, we had talked to them about the rat. They're like, we caught the rat. We caught the rat in a trap. And he got out of the trap. They, they used a raccoon trap. He got out of the trap. And then they caught him again. And they took him to the front desk. And they just set him on the front desk. Hell yeah. That's how his story ends as far as I know it. Yeah. 20 pound rat. Are you sure that's how it ends? You guys didn't like, take the rat and like, you know, it was outside of my domain at that point. It was the neighbors. Yeah. There's always a room for a sequel. But, yeah. I don't do well with that. Bring in the rats. He's very squeamish with like little like creatures or, or, yeah, I don't like them either. When I have little hands and like, faces and shit, I don't know. It's all right. We grew up outdoors. We know what it's like. We grew up two blocks from me. We grew up outdoors. I don't, I don't, I don't touch anything with with scales or antennae or I don't touch anything. Like if there's a roach in your house. I could kill it. I just want to pick it up. Yeah. Kick it. Just just kick it. Just kick it. Yeah. We would do open the door and just try to kick it out. All right. I'm back. 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You can't eat gross shit on YouTube anymore. - You get like demonetized. - You really? - Yeah, I think you could probably still, you can eat like crickets or whatever, but that. - I mean, they don't want you vomiting, blood, or just vomit, you can't be showing vomit. - I would, I never vomited, but I would, I mean, I made it, I made quite a career. - On a gag game, dude. - Oh yeah. - For a number of years. - Absolutely. - But those days, those days are, just days are long gone. But yeah, I mean we went through like so many bugs. We were actually at one point, we were developing a party game, like a packaged party game. With, it was like a collaboration with a legitimate gaming company and it was called, who's gonna eat the bug or something like that? Will you eat the bug? And then it was gonna ship with like dried bugs in it. And then a little window in the box where you could see, like the crickets. - It was cool. We have the prototype and everything, or we can do this. We can do this. Yes, we're a legitimate gaming brand. And, but we can ship bugs to children around the world. We can do that so they can eat it. - And it came with like gummy versions of it and then like the real bug and like it was a game to figure out who's gonna be. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But then I think they realized, yes. - You know what? - We're not gonna do that. - No, we talked about that while you're really, really hard to get the bugs for some reason. To get like intact crickets. - Well, I mean, you think of like the farms and stuff like that. They don't want to be like, oh, well, we're a, you know, a cricket farm that is just raising these things for slaughter for other people. I guess. - Is that a thing? - Yeah. - There's farms? - Oh, there's there are bug farms. Yeah. - It makes sense, but I'd never even like-- - I guess that's regular farms too. So, I guess. - Yeah, it's regular farms. - They're not that bad. I mean, I don't look forward to it. - Bugs aren't bad to eat. - Like apocalyptic future. - They're a bit dry. - Where we're eating just bug protein. I'm not excited about that. - Did you eat like a spider? - That's plenty of spiders. - Spiders are ranchalists. - To ranchalists, yeah, we had some, we had crickets, we had the-- - I'm right. - I didn't eat any of that. - Danny and I did it that one time. It was like crickets and stuff like that. - You did the worst thing ever though, which we wouldn't do now and you didn't feel good about it, but you kind of put on the spot. You ate a live beetle. - Oh, that wasn't it. - And it was, that one, it was a rhino beetle. Have you seen those things? - What do they say? - Those are cool. - Oh, those are cool. - I mean, it's a building as well. - Yeah, that's, that's, my deepest regret. - I'm proud of you, you know. I'm proud of you. - I'm not proud of it. - Was it like, you felt bad because of like, it just was really tough to get through or like the ethical reason. - It was also like eating a live thing. - It was like eating like an elderly person's toenails. - They're disgusting. - Sorry. - I'm letting you know right now. There are certain people watching this and I'm just like, okay. - All right. - Toast. - Okay. - That's art. (laughs) - I mean, because you know how to older, they get the thicker they get. (laughs) - The toenails. - The toenails. - Specific. - Oh, I don't know. - You know, you're not there yet. We're not there yet. I remember, I've known some old people and I've seen their feet and they're not, they suck. - They should've seen his grandma's feet. - Yeah, it's bad. - Yeah, no. - I mean, they're not, they were in rushes. - The toenails, instead of growing out, they start growing. - Oh. - Yeah. - Oh, like another rayer. - And then like, they like, grabbed toe underneath the nail. - They're trying to protect the whole end. - It's like a helmet that grows over the toe. - Literally, it looks like a bob cut. - You let it happen. - Right. - And you go, yeah, that's what it's like eating that. - That's age. - That's scorpion, I guess. - Yeah. - That's not any of that. - It's weird because like, I am, I would be the one that would do it, but like, it's gotten to a point where like, the internet is just like, it's the thing to do to get people to watch. So like, there's really no point to do it anymore anyways. - Yeah. - Okay, the scene in The Lion King where they're eating bugs, those look delicious. - That does look really good. - Are you familiar? - The animated version? - Correct. - Well, technically they're both animated. - That's true. - What was the other one? - One scene was real good. - He got you right. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Wow. - I can't, I gotta stop calling that. - It's real real good. - Yeah, I gotta stop. - I gotta stop. - I'm not the live action. - Mission accomplished. (laughing) - When are we gonna hit him with The Lion King? - Double animation. - I need you to understand something. - I have so much useless knowledge about movies and TV that when something like that happens, that's the first part that I'm going to think about when I am resting my head on my pillow tonight, just like, I finally used it guys. - I finally worked. - You got us. - You got us. - There were both that, I made it. - Peaboy. (laughing) - But I'm glad we're through that, that phase. - Yeah. - I mean, there's occasionally something like, when we do our live show Good Mythical Morning Live and we travel, which we have done this year. There's some worm eating and some spider eating. - We have a game called Picker Peaker Poker Face. So, you got the lazy Susan and then one person gets to peak at what's under there and then they get to, and then the other person gets to decide. - Makes the decision. Are they gonna eat? - Based on what's in front of them or what's in front of them. They don't, without knowing just based on what his face look like. - Yeah, yeah. - You either get a gummy worm or a real worm or-- - You should play this. - Is it like one good thing, one bad thing? - Yeah. - And based on their reaction, you're like, I'll take it or they turn it in. I'm gonna let you have it or not. And when we're doing it on stage, it's like people are reacting. 'Cause they know-- - It really works live. - It's a fun thing. - Write that down, we're stealing the idea. I'm not getting credit. - You should do that one too. - Yeah. It works live, but it's like YouTube has sort of had it. - No, you know what? I think you guys seem like you're really married to it. You could have, you could keep doing it. - We will keep doing it. (laughing) - But maybe you can give a resurgence to it. - Let's do one together. - Okay. - A quadruple picker, picker, picker, picker, picker. - Ooh, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - We can do that. - We can do that. - Five times fast. - Yeah, never done it. - Next time we come back out, we'll do a four way. - You guys are gonna bring bugs and I'm just, if I open the thing and there's a rhino beetle or whatever the fuck it's called, video's gonna end real quick. - So you have a standard, you're like watching what works and you're deciding what you're not willing to do. - What's up? - Like you're not willing to eat gross stuff even though because other people are doing it is what you just said. - Me, yeah, no. - Yeah. - No, I'm saying for the sake of views, popularity. - Well, like I just can't, like my body physically. If there's a beetle, like there's nothing I could do. - Yeah, that's the best position to be in for entertainment. - Well, the other part of the position that he's leaving out is that growing up. 'Cause this, the dynamic was like, you know, we're 12 years old and we wanna film someone doing like, you know, getting kicked in the nuts or something like that. He wouldn't even need to say like, I'm not doing it. I'll just be like, yeah, I'll do it. And he's just like, okay, he's picking up the slack. - I'm picking up the slack in this situation. So like, even at this point, like, yeah, we're not doing that stuff now. Ironically, the thing that people wanna see us eat is very edible, but I just, my body refuses it, is mustard. - Oh yeah. - So like, anytime we do a video, this little bastard over here fits mustard in or on your hot dog guy. - No way. I am a hot dog guy. I'm not a mustard guy. - And a pretzel guy. - And I love pretzels. - No mustard on pretzel. - Absolutely not. - So just catch up on your hot dog? - I have a variety of hot dog costumes that I like. For the most part, all of them in ball ketchup. - Okay. - That's an insane way to say costumes is what? But you're, I understand. - I dress them up differently. - Yeah. - What would be the reaction to mustard if you had it? - I mean, I'm not, gagging. - You're just waiting for the right moment to. - No, it stems from, you're a picky eater, self, you've explained that you're a picky eater. When I was like four years old, my friend's mom gave me a sandwich. And I, at that time, as a kid, you know how kids are, they didn't know exactly what they're eating. If they eat something and they're like, what, you didn't tell me about this, they'll hate it forever.
don't never touch it. It was a Bologna sandwich. Big Bologna fan right here. I mean I'm up on Bologna, okay. But when I bite into Bologna and I'm told it's Bologna, it fucking better be Bologna. It was Bologna and mustard. It's tough. That happened to me when I was younger. There was a little serving dish that had sour cream in it, but I was young and I was like this is ice cream. So that kind of scarred me for a little bit, but I'm back on it. But it seems like you don't you understand that like when things happen at your expense, then that is to the to the benefit of you. I got a line. I got a line and bugs of the line. You know, I'll do other stuff for sure. But by building mustard. But by building it up, right? Like with mustard. Yes. So now you kind of set your this is how we think about it. You sort of set yourself up for the like big fundraiser or whatever. It sounds like a moment. He's going to eat mustard. He's going to get in a dunk tank. What came first the chicken or the egg? I mean, where I'm very well aware that this also might be as a result of my own creation, you know, that like people want to see me do it. But it's just the reaction is real. It's authentic. I can't I don't know when it's coming all the time. And when I went in happens, it's bad. What if we get it? So you don't want people to share that with people. It's too late. It's out there. It's too late. It's been out there for years. Okay. Got it. So at this point, it's more of just like an anticipatory thing on my end. Okay. You know, and anywhere we go for the most part, we get people dressing up as mustard hot dogs hot dogs. People offering cups of mustard. We did a show in Austin and someone walked up and gave me a cup of mustard and was like, well, what are you going to do with this? And I was peer pressured by this person in the audience. Yes. But you did need it. I did. What else are you not willing to do from like a creator standpoint? Like goofy thumbnails? Oh, like, yeah. Yeah. I would I would. I don't think I we may have. We mostly do thumbnails of like third from the video. Okay. We don't think that we've ever done photos. The jealous of that. I mean, I think that it makes probably makes for a better thumbnail to do that. It's just it. I don't know. You know what it was? Like, I feel like when I started doing YouTube, I didn't I didn't really watch anybody. It wasn't that familiar with people. So I didn't really know what was working for everyone else. I just kind of just did like I didn't have thumbnails for like five years. So like I just it was just tack. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it would just be tax or whatever or like as far as creating a really good title or something like that. Yeah. Like you didn't do it. Like emotional. No, like in the title. Yeah. It's like XXX gone wrong. Right. I can prank or never believe number four. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You levels to it. There's levels. You got to I think this is the other thing we're trying to tell you is that you're yeah. Watch out. Yeah. I was making a thumbnail face. I would say you need to watch out. I would say you haven't started. Don't do it. Started doing it. Don't start doing it. This sounds like the way that you guys were talking about it and like taking our responses and it was just like a this is something we would have changed. Like we wouldn't have done it and did all of this to where we got to now. You know, like it made the what is it? The ends are justifying the means or the means you're justifying the ends. But like you would have changed that up a little bit differently. That's right. Yeah. And the funny thing is is we are yeah. Well, when you release videos five times a week and technically ten if you count Good Mythical More, which is on its own channel. Right. So you got like two thumbnails going up every day. And that and we don't we're not like we don't get involved in that that whole like optimization of Thailand thumbnail is it's its own science team that's doing that right? We just are like, okay, we hear, well, this is working better now or this through A B testing or whatever. And so we just it's part of our process. We shoot an episode and then we just like stand up for the screen and like make some faces. And there's like a I mean, it doesn't get into like right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, there's a little bit of a like we have a line. It's somewhere between. Yeah. And there's like there's some shame, but not full shame. Yeah. But we have been told recently, they're like, Oh, we're doing some more like screen grabs from the episodes of something really interesting happens or whatever. And people are responding to that. We're like, great. Yeah. That's that's great. Why don't you guys give your best thumbnail face like they just did. Oh, yeah. Where is your line from now? Like all right. Let's get it. Yes. Start with like really crazy and then bring it down to a point where you feel comfortable. We need to see what's the emotion, what's the emotion? How do we feel? Are we tired? What day of the week? What do we have going on? Whether, whether I think let's let's go with really ecstatically happy. Yeah. Also terrified. Like you're both going to start at different places. I can start at 10 started 11. Okay. So Frank, you're super happy. Yep. I'm scared. Yeah. Okay. Joe, you're scared. Let's give one directly to the camera. Yeah. So I'll be who am I? Oh, no, we're going to start at 10. I started a follow the prompts, my friend. It gave you the prompts. I know you're terrified. Joe. Is there a static? Same time. I'm sorry. Is there a countdown or three, two, one, go. Okay. And now, and you're feeling, you're just feeling the embarrassment, right? I'm looking on that. It's just too much. Now bring it down a notch, bring it down to eight. Maybe. Oh shit. Okay. Yeah. Bring it down to eight. You're still scared, Joe. Are you, Joe, are you okay with that? I don't know. I think I think you've gone down to six. I can't breathe. I can't get more scared. I don't know how to, I don't even know how to be scared. Can you look, don't give up? You look a little scared now. You need to be a little bit happier. Now, let's get, let's go down to five. Got out of five. Okay. Now, Joe, I feel like, I'm in pain. Kind of. Could you live with this, Joe? Is this your law? Yeah. I think, now I think I lost it. Four. You're shitting your pants. All right. So go to, go to three, go to three. You just got all. Now keep going, keep going. You're at three. You're still, you're not ecstatic anymore, but you are a little happy. Why are you crying? I seem tired. You're swelling up. He hasn't blanked yet. Now the two. He isn't playing for over a minute, too. And I think you look like you're in a sweet spot. That no, that looks horrible. That's it. That is. That is your, it looks constipated. That is your used to be ecstatic. It looks a little bit constipated. That's not good. Yeah. That's it. Did she use that pain? And he's back. So this is why you can't do it. He wasn't breathing or breathing. Okay. How is that necessary? So clicks, man. Yeah. It's just the fact that the screen grab from this episode is going to be the two of you next to each other. I know. This asshole is going to do that. That's going to, that's going to get the clicks. I mean, if we're, if we're smart, the screen, the, the, there'll be somebody else in the thumbnail to it. We were actually just really pushed this. We were just talking about this, uh, very, this morning. We were talking about this. It's not any matter when we were talking. The, um, changes. So, okay. If you guys started doing something different, like noticeably different. Yeah. With like your thumbnails or whatever. The people who are like, I'm here for what you guys are doing right now. And I don't need you to sell it to me in any more sensational way than you already do. They would be upset if you started doing that because it's a signal that you're trying to reach someone. That's not them. It's not them. Right. In addition to them, maybe. Right. But those core people feel alienated by that. That's something that that we've, we've learned a few times. I think that when you change anything, like even like, because for the most part, when I started making YouTube videos, this was my mom's basement. And I would hang a sheet behind me. So it was like very low budget. Then it was not with the sheet, different angles. Still my mom's basement. Then just on a random wall, my apartment. Uh, and then in the last studio, we were against the wall, but it was like one blue wall, one white wall. That's it. Nothing on the walls. So when we did this, I was like, I'm sure this is going to be an adjustment because it's not going to feel like this. Oh, they're just, it's a, it's a low budget version of a show. And that makes it more relatable or feel good. So there was a concern of like, this is a necessary step for us to upgrade and make things look more professional and get better cameras and, you know, stuff like that and, and make those changes. But they have to be a little gradual. And I actually will say this phone in particular, there was a time where we were shooting in my apartment. And I just bought it. I thought it looked cool. And I was like dressing up to set a little bit. And the thing about picking us up was like, whenever someone said something that was like, maybe offensive or, you know, you couldn't say the right thing, you would pick up the phone and like, you're talking to the editor, like, cut that out. And like, that was like the joke. So brought it back on purpose because I think that was funny. And it kind of got lost in our next sort of setup. But a nice like, you know, thing to kind of bring it back to a regular time where the people who were fans then now have a little bit like, oh, I know what the phone is, but new people won't know what the phone is. Right. Because they don't know the old thing. But anytime you change anything, there is going to be this little dance. Yeah, you know, and then And then we slowly added this guy in, and then they were like
Who's this and what is what are you doing eventually got a camera so it was like yeah, we weren't gonna jump in here Put him in put him on camera and like make everything super different immediately. Yeah, it's like let me let me think of all Yeah, yeah, we've we've done a lot of that and then things develop a life of their own. Hey look at us We're talking shot I'll be honest. Yeah, I almost passed out. I had to stop and listen for a couple minutes because I saw tears in your eyes I'm not I'm not even yeah zero. This is no bit I'm gonna after this take a really big sip of water and tell him like What am I am I what does that was that okay? This right now if you would have fainted on this show that would have been like I would have went I've been like you hear you here You see my I'm different now like I'm I feel you went through something I we want to get to this thing where we have these two images just to get here because you guys are like Food guys, you know, you do a lot of the trying the foods and whatever. So we want to know your opinions can we pull up the DIY cereal? And see which one of these you guys are picking here Guys pancakes pop heart s'mores donuts croissants waffles cinnamon toast chocolate pancakes obviously all these need to have some milk in there Yes, and the type of milk will be important to me and only me and I'll yell you for the wrong choice the other thing We we get a little intense with our food picks here. So there is no pressure to pick something correctly But they're absolutely is pressure to pick something incorrectly, so fucking watch it Okay noted okay, so you so you would be uncomfortable with me saying that I'm just fundamentally opposed to this exercise Why that I think that that that I just don't think we as a species should let ourselves I don't think we should let ourselves do this. I think you have to draw it. I love it. I love it if you're taking the root of like listen This is just it is a bad thing to consume. Yeah, we're all there. We get it Actually, this is how Frank eats cookies the cookie one is how he eats cookies. Uh not no. Sorry incorrect. There's a little cookies Well, no, that's why he's wrong. I crushed my cookies. I don't leave them whole and you put them in a bowl with milk. Yes, I do and I am a Pro Duncan and milk dude, but you know what's gonna happen with a you know what's gonna happen, right? Yeah, it's gonna turn into a mush. That's a mush. I love I love that too, but no, no, no, no, see like Is it a is it a mush sure maybe but if you eat with the intensity and speed at which I am eating that bowl? Okay, it's not getting there intensity. Oh my god. Yeah, it's filthy when I eat So you're picking a no, I didn't say that filthy filthy. I didn't say that. Well, let's start here. How do you guys feel? He is gonna be great. I agree. I think that might be my pick a Number of these are actually Manufactured. Yeah, cereals, you know, I mean, I'm just waffles and pancakes even pop tarts I think did it we tasted that on the show. It was it was pretty good Cressants haven't seen that Doesn't go an age. I can't even a question. Well, see age is such a cheating answer because that is basically just already cinnamon toast crunch I mean the picture is literally of cinnamon toast Yeah, you can't do that with actual cinnamon anything cinnamon. It is The best cereal. Yes, agree. It is the number one. What's that? What's the second and third though? Well Okay, give us podium doesn't need to be in at this point. This is just gonna be me personally Raising nut brand. What the hell is going on over there? You'll think me later I would jump across here and hug you so hard because I'm a big big fan of raisin. It's saying nope That's not even one of my nut brand to raisin brand adjacent. I love it Know what that is except raisin brand is for losers, and you're not gonna accept your Raisin nut brand. Yeah, it has nut clusters. It has it has raisins that have been Candied rolled in nuts, so you don't know the raisins until you bite into them. All right, just before before you ruined this for me Please just go what else what else is on the podium our brand flakes. Oh, what else is on the podium? Oh Reese's puffs Minis Minis hates that him. I and I He's calling 911. I can see that he's doing that. Yeah, yeah, bring bring the gun The palette guy bring the gun. Okay, dude. They're great in the mini version and they don't hurt the roof of your mouth And I'm gonna throw it a little love the roof of the mouth is a big thing. I get that Okay, many weeks. Okay, I'm crunch Bite size. Oh Well hold on we'll get to that, but let give us give us podium cereals. Give us podium cereals I'm a cinnamon toast crunch. Yeah, smart guy. I also I like frosted flakes. I'm sorry They're so simple. They're so sugary. They're so good. More than this milk too and more than good and the milk turns Yellow I don't care what under under rock the place and honey not Cheerios. I'm sorry The other day, I just said I got a craving for honey not Cheerios like I'm pregnant or something I was like I got I was like honey not Cheerios with bananas. Nope. Have you done that? Too good. Oh, maybe when I was younger, I did that you gonna you're gonna you're gonna come out against honey nut Cheerios Yeah, absolutely. I think the whirlwind honey nut Cheerios are like Come on like you like raising brand. It's good grandma. It's good You see how he's attacking both of us when he's saying this. I'm trying to I'm trying to attack just right here because I didn't hear anything about Honey nut Cheerios out of your mouth now. He wants to attack both of us. Listen honey. I am pro honey not Cheerios Okay, so then you I'll bring a third gun then I think that I'm gonna be brave here since everyone out Thank you for standing up for what's right to white man to To sensitive to say this Captain crunch is in the top three Cuts the roof of my mouth. Yeah, you gotta watch just pull it together But see the best version of right serious the best version of Captain crunch. You're the roof of your mouth You need to be very specific because the best version of Captain Crunch isn't Captain Crunch It's oops all berries because the berries are the best part of Captain Crunch. I think it's time to grow up I'm gonna grow up. Yeah, this is how I hold on to my childhood my wonder my my my beautiful years So let's do this graphic. You spend eight dollars. We have all of these cereals Let's just go out there is oops all berries there. I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna tell you a sleeper in life and on this spend eight dollars Is life? Yes life is a great It is a sleeper cereal Don't you know it's cereal. I like don't love but I love it at the same time It's kind of like my relationship with candy corn. It's like I don't love this, but I'm gonna eat it kicks I like kicks. Yeah, it's like okay, but I'm like very very kicks very very kicks is cheating It's it's cheating, but it's kicks. It's it's on the it's right there. I think if we go one per row You got to spend eight Frank. There's rules. Yeah, you got it you you only eight bucks. Could we all Just for the sake of the argument because I think we're all in agreement here. We know CTC would be chosen. So let's just Avoid that for now yet. Let's take it off All right, so we're not doing that. So we're not even spending money on it. No, we're gonna get it But we're just not gonna spend the money are we eating this in one sitting or is this like for a week? That's a great question, and I love the conditions that you have here because these are the questions that I ask and I am scolded for it No, so this will be Your one month of cereal, okay, that helps because I don't want to eat three or four cereals at once No, no one month eat at your own leisure depending at no confinements at the time of the day No confinements of the amount also no confinements the type of milk And also this is the only breakfast you get yeah for that month no, no, no, no You could you could throw in some savory stuff every now and then just break it up crispy. What's a week? All right? Well, I'm I'm so open in on many weeks because that is a deal for a dollar first of all Oh, yeah, I didn't notice that yeah apple jacks for a dollar is like I way robbery jack my apple. I'm taking it They are they are good Apple jacks. I'm definitely doing that. It's I mean oops all barriers up there on principle alone I need to take it, but I wouldn't hate falling on corn pops Hornpops pops corn pops pops They didn't they don't even have the reflective bag any what's the big difference between pops and kicks One is more corny and one is more like Bolly Yeah got that Never been yeah pops are like something that a doctor might remove from your body. Yeah, it's a little organic Yeah, it's more polyps not pops got it Kellogg's gonna be pumped with that one Colon polyps Yeah, I think I would go the highest one I'm taking here Fruity pebbles Love Fruity pebbles Love for you. I mean you ate and I like when they get a little soggy You know I must I must admit I'm mixing it up with cocoa puffs It's only two dollars and you get it you get a chocolate. Okay. There's a lot of value there Yeah, and and you think about it. It's it's the cereal that keeps on giving because the the milk at the end Yeah of a corn pops bowl of cocoa puff. That's a quote. That's what I meant cocoa puffs. I'm sorry I'm still light headed from fucking hold on my breath for two and a half minutes earlier. What the hell is craze? Crave is like a new one that you need to be I think I've been really
really careful to not go in on some crave because my impression is that it's full dessert mode. - Is it? - Yeah. - And if you start, I might not be able to pull back. - It's chocolate, right? - So it's chocolate inside of these little packets. - Oh, it's got a feeling. - It's like a pizza, like a tortinous pizza roll but inside it's like chocolate and cream. - That feels like a violation of like a principle. - It probably is. - I am not eating it because I am too afraid of what it might do to my livestock. - It's a smart man. I am more afraid of not having lucky charms. - The most overrated cereal that's ever existed. - I can't agree with that in any capacity. - You like the marshmallows, right? - I love the marshmallows. - That type of marshmallow, which it's not real. It's like, what is it called? - It's dust. - It's called. - It's like a powdery. - It's made out of something else. - Like ketchup. - Okay, I don't care what the hot dogs are made of. - No, I don't care about that. - I prefer it. - 'Cause if you put like a real marshmallow in milk, it's like something too soft. I don't know what happens. - It's kind of like marshmallows. - I love marshmallows. - Out and about. - But those are like, I love a lucky charm. - Hell yeah. - Yeah. - And also fruity pebbles are great, but they're better when they're Christmas ones. - They taste the same. - No, they will. I will agree that they do not. - They taste like cloves and cinnamon. - No, they just like, when you-- - This is gritties. - Guys, guys, I know you're not much older than us. You remember the holiday cereals that would come out. You're gonna tell me, if I put a bowl of regular fruity pebbles in front of you. And then one, where you know that that was made by Fred Flintstone in a Santa hat. You don't like that one a little bit more. - Yeah, and they're just all red and green. - Yeah. - I like that. - I already have my picks. I'm going fruity pebbles, oops, all berries, apple jacks, and many weeds. Now that I think about it, oops, all berries and fruity pebbles are probably too similar. - No way. Different flavor profile. You get a fruity or fruity with fruity pebbles. Oops, all berries is a little more. It's a little more, I don't know how to explain it. It makes sense in my head, but it's just more of a manufactured sweetness than a natural sweetness. - What's the backstory on the, obviously he made a mistake and dropped the berries in? Oops. - Yeah, I think there was something at the factory when Aray and now they've created a better cereal. - Oops, all right. - Well, the captain, he's been out on the ship for a while. Skurvy is a real thing in the cereal mascot world. - Yep, turns into scarlet fever. - Eventually, it gets us all. So maybe the oops, all berries was just like him overcompensating for the lack of vitamin C on his cereal ship. - I'm sure it's packed, what's that A.C. - Apple jacks, lucky charms, five right there. - Yeah, three bucks. And then I don't even need to use the full eight, I'll just go oops, all berries, and then I have a dollar left over and I'll get more apple jacks. - Oh, doubling up on the jack. - Wow. - I love apple jacks. - I'm gonna go with the Reese's Puffs, even though they're not mini. - Yeah. - And then I'm gonna go with the mini weats. - Yeah. - Then I'm gonna go with the apple jacks and the special K. - Oh, you're going special K. - It's a lot of cereal, special K. - That's not a bad pick. I like the texture. - It's not a bad pick. It's an awful pick. - Yeah, it's not a good one at all. - I think it's pretty awful. - I think I need to, you know, I think I need to mix it into my other cereals just to get a little, to get some help. - I see. - You must have had like real world special K. If you think special K is a good pick, there's no chance. - Real world special. - Do you remember the commercials for special K? - I not know, I do remember the commercials for some of the others though. - It was a woman and a white piece. - Yeah, we've talked about this, yes. - She was horny for special K. - It was like, it was her leg woman who wants to be fit. Her leg would come out and make the logo. - Oh, throw it. - I'm getting very excited about it. - You haven't seen the special K. - This is why I'm told special K. - Her leg comes out and bends and then it makes the K. - Yeah, I'll never forget it. - So, I mean, nothing sells cereal better than objectifying women. I remember, nothing does. - It was four women. - There was a kid in our neighborhood that was like bigger and then lost some weight. And I remember asking, "Oh, how'd you lose all that weight?" And he said special K. I don't know if he meant K then me to be fair. - Oh, there it is, right there. - Second one, look. - Look at this, yeah. - This is just a woman. - This is recent. - Yeah, this is a woman. I'm talking about the 80s ones, but. - Let's just see what happens. So she's throwing her scale out the window. - Why is she doing that? - She's got bell bottoms on. - She's looking at pants. - Oh, see, there's the legs. - See, there's a woman putting on pants. Who's gonna argue with that? - I see no one's still selling it the same way. - But, I don't know, where's the leg? Making the K, where's the K leg? - It'll come, it'll happen. - K leg, come on, K leg. - Liars. - Wow. - Absolutely lied. - What year do you say it was from? - 80s. - Just put 80s. - I remember some of the ones when we were kids, it was just like the Reese's Puffs one was like wrapping peanut butter cups. You remember that? Like Reese's Puffs, Reese's Puffs peanut butter chocolate flavor. Reese's Puffs, don't know it. - Just put bathing suit. Now this is, it was just a figment of your imagination. - I mean, there is one with the girl who's making a bit of a-- - Oh, maybe that one was in '94. - I am also now learning that special K has been around for quite some time here. - Yeah, I mean, it looks like, remember, which one was the one that was made so people would stop bathing suit? - That certainly makes me, that's kind of like it though. See, oh, here we go. Woman in a white bathing suit with a child. What? (laughing) - Watching too many like scantily clad women in the episode. - Yeah. - How many commercials did they have? - Which one was special K, the one? - There we go. - That was K, that one. - This one? - Yeah, I think go to the end of that one. - Yeah, just go to the end. - Let's see if she's in a white bathing suit. They did that for years. - Get the shape. - Okay, they did the K leg. I know they did the K leg. - You guys have another journey ahead. - This is what happens to us. We say, like, yeah, we remember this. And then it never happened. - It's a good Mandela effect of special K. Now we're going on that up. - Which was special K, the one that was made for people to like get people to stop jerking off or was that another series? - That was just cornflakes. - Cornflakes, yeah. - Cornflakes. - Cornflakes by Mr. Kellogg. - Not only am I happy that I asked, I'm happy that you knew because it just validates what I said earlier. - It didn't work. - I'll have a question, I'm going to answer, it doesn't work, it didn't work. - No, it doesn't work. - You don't think so? So you're going to tell me you've seen a box of cornflakes and been like, it's having the opposite effect. Or have you seen a box of cornflakes be like, you know what, you actually, I'm okay right now. - I don't, they're so bland that I feel like I need to compensate somehow. You know? - Gotcha. - It's like fun. - It seems like. - It seems like Kellogg would have needed to make the most, you know, engaging cereal ever. A cereal that distracts you. - Why be sexually satisfied when I can just eat the cereal? - Kellogg actually said that the early version of Cornflakes could help suppress sexual desires and prevent self-pollution because it was so bland. - So the whole point was to be bland. - So technically, it did exactly what it wanted to do. - Yeah. - So did it work? - I mean, not for me. - No, I don't think that was enough to stop that trend. - Yeah, there was nothing that could stop me. - I mean, you could make an argument. If you say just one life, have you not done your job? - There was nothing that could stop me. Nothing was stopping that. - Now here's my question. And I know, I know, I think we'll be able to get to the bottom of this. If you were to create a cereal, and it would be a cereal to promote self-sexual love, what would it be flavored and what would be in it? - Self-sexual love. - Yeah, like a jerk off cereal. - Well, you know, there's a certain time in your life. - I don't like salty cereals. - Anything at all. - Oh god. - There's a certain time in your life where anything and everything makes you horny, like a special cake commercial that may or may not have ever happened. - Yeah. - Yeah, you know what I mean. - And so I think that anything at all like, we were talking about the catalog that your parents would get that just had like a woman on the back in a bra was enough to pull the trigger sometimes. - Well, absolutely. - So it just needs to be something, I'm trying to think of something that suggests something from the female anatomy. - Okay. - So like a flower, a tulip. - Boop, boop, boop, boop, boops. - Okay. - My fruit loops, but then you put two of them. - Absolutely. - That feels like a good problem. - Oh, we got something. - Oh, here we go. - Oh my goodness. - See? - 1987. - 1987. - This is a cereal commercial. - So I was 10 years old. - Oh, that was, that's prime. Serial eating and trying to figure out if you're into this. - Here we go. - This is an insane cereal commercial. - Think about that. And here it comes, yeah. - I knew this was not, just get my new pose. - Oh, it's, oh it's, oh it's, oh it's, oh it's, oh it's, oh it's, oh I knew this was not, just get my new pose.
One point it might have been incredible in that when it was the arm. I mean, what's what's it? What's an arm if not a top listen, where's the nearest place where we can get some special Well, it depends on what type you're looking for you are in Brooklyn Well, I think that's where we can kind of wrap up this episode right there with ketamine at the end Getting us demonetized ready at the end there flashlights the cereal That's another good one, I don't know what would be in the cereal, but on the front of the box would be the dragon from Shrek Yeah, that does it for you very horny dragon You're an eyelashes guy look at look at the dragon just look at the dragon just look at the dragon I'm not saying pull it up in Yeah, please don't pull it up Sit next to him. Hey, I just want to get the dragon commercial. Don't show me the dragon from Shrek Look at the dragon when you're alone at nine would it candle? I got other stuff to do today. Yeah, yeah, I can't spend all my time looking at the dragon But thank you guys so much for coming and doing this episode with us You know, where can they find you these guys? Yeah, where are you just why are you telling us maybe? Yeah, just log on to youtube.com. They'll pop up and try to find some thumbnails with guys doing About a 30% shocked face actually we do want people to go see Wonderhole. Yes, which which is our we you know season two is out. It's six episode. Yeah, that's right six episode season It's on the youtube.com slash ret and link channel your original channel. It's a not the good Mythical Morning channel Okay, uh the ret and link channel. Yeah, so we got two seasons of that and Yeah, I really want more people to watch it cool. Well, I'm just begging if you're if you're if you're watching this It'll be in the description so you guys can go find that easily But again, thank you guys so much. Yeah, always good to hang out with y'all always good always good and always fun uh frank You got anything you want to add? Um That's all for this week's episode Appreciate you guys so much. We'll see you next time You
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts discuss their personal habits, including sweaty hands and childhood experiences with basketball and dry hand products.
They explore a shared dream about their grandmother choking, which they interpret as a symbolic reflection of guilt and family dynamics.
A real-life incident of choking during a family Christmas dinner is linked to the dream, suggesting subconscious processing of past trauma.
The hosts debate the use of a "suck back" device to relieve choking, noting it’s not a guaranteed solution but can be effective in emergencies.
They highlight the importance of proper hot dog cutting to prevent choking, emphasizing a safer, more responsible approach to food.
The conversation touches on parental storytelling, revealing how lies are used to manage children’s behavior and create emotional narratives.
A recurring theme is the use of folklore, like the "poop monster," to teach children about boundaries and consequences.
The episode blends humor, personal stories, and deeper reflections on family, memory, and human behavior.
Summary:
The hosts of The Basement Yard share a candid, humorous, and deeply personal conversation that blends everyday anecdotes with introspective reflections on family, trauma, and childhood. They begin by discussing their sweaty hands, tracing it back to a childhood basketball story and a father’s dry-hand product, which leads into a heartfelt discussion of their grandmother’s choking death in a dream. This memory is tied to a real-life incident during a Christmas dinner where a family member choked, symbolizing unresolved guilt and emotional trauma.
The conversation then shifts to practical safety topics, such as using a "suck back" device for choking and the importance of cutting hot dogs to prevent choking, emphasizing a safer, more responsible way of eating. They explore how parents use storytelling—like the "poop monster" or "wet dream" lies—to manage children’s behavior and instill fear of consequences. These stories are framed as part of a broader human tradition of using myth and fiction to control behavior.
The episode also touches on personal growth, humor, and the evolving nature of parenting, concluding with a reflective tone on memory, responsibility, and the shared experiences that shape family life. Throughout, the hosts maintain a playful yet insightful tone, blending personal stories with deeper themes of identity, family, and emotional resilience.
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They share a personal story about their sweaty hands, referencing a childhood product called 'dry saw' prescribed by their father for basketball. This highlights a bond with their dad and a lighthearted discussion about hand hygiene and family traditions.
Frank had a dream where his grandmother, Mamanelle, choked and died in his arms. He recalls his father making fun of him during the incident, and he worries about being charged for not saving her, which reflects on guilt and emotional trauma.
The dream suggests her habit of drinking whiskey and having a liquid diet, with her taking out her teeth to talk, which the duo interprets as a symbolic connection to family traditions and personal memories.
The 'suck back' device is a life-saving tool used to remove food from a person's throat during choking. The hosts discuss its effectiveness and how it works, with a note that it may be used in emergency situations like choking.
The hosts suggest a humorous correlation: the more a father shows love, the wetter a child’s hands may be, implying that emotional expression physically manifests through bodily cues like sweat.
They discuss family traditions like eating hot dogs, sharing stories, and using imaginative tales (like the 'poop monster') to manage children’s fears, showing how humor and storytelling are central to family bonding.
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