224: Our Lost Years | Ear Biscuits Ep. 224

Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link

Rhett & Link

Comedy

4.9 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The veil is finally lifted on the never-before discussed gap of time between R&L quitting engineering but before becoming YouTubers that they refer to as "The Lost Years." Listen to R&L reveal their entire story on how they actually came to be the Internetainers they are now, in the first video of this mind-boggling 4-part series of Ear Biscuits. Time Stamps: (00:54) - The Lost Years (6:14) - The reason for not sharing this earlier (13:05) - The true story (18:20) - Growing up in the church (22:10) - The whole story behind the Wax Paper Dogz (30:20) - NC State and Campus Crusade (34:20) - Our roles in Campus Crusade (40:27) - Making videos (47:41) - MC'ing at the Christmas conferences (53:08) - Link's growing involvement and becoming Rhett & Link (58:09) - Meeting our wives (59:03) - An aknowledgement (1:02:56) - A teaser to part 2 (1:06:32) - Rhett's Rec To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bramble.
0:01.0	Welcome to Ear Biscuits.
0:07.2	I'm Link and I'm Red.
0:09.3	This week at the Round Table of Dem lighting, we are going to be filling in a large gap,
0:17.3	not like a construction project, but kind of a large, it's got that magnitude to it.
0:22.6	Gap in our past that we're calling the lost years.
0:26.6	Yeah, and I say it's a large magnitude.
0:30.0	I really don't know if to the listener how they're going to process this or how much they're
0:36.5	going to be interested, but for us this is a really big deal.
0:40.9	You know, there's many parts of our journey of how we got to where we are right now that
0:49.7	we've told many times.
0:51.2	I mean, we've told a lot of stories a lot of times.
0:54.5	How we met on the first day of first grade, blah, blah, blah, blah, we told that story a
0:58.8	lot.
1:00.7	We told the story about how we first got on YouTube that we had a website so we didn't
1:05.2	think we needed YouTube.
1:06.6	Somebody stole a video we made called Pimp My Stroller, put it on YouTube and that's how
1:11.7	that started.
1:12.7	Well, and the question that we get, the story that has been told repeatedly in multiple
1:19.5	interviews, multiple articles is, okay, retineling.
1:24.3	You guys were engineers and then you stopped being engineers and you became full-time YouTubers.
1:31.1	And that is a very simple story that is not exactly true.
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