224: Our Lost Years | Ear Biscuits Ep. 224
Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link
Mythical
4.9 • 25.1K 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
Transcript
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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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