Welcome to Ear Biscuits the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time. I'm Link and I'm Rhett this week at the round table of dim lighting. We are going down the rabbit hole. Watch out now.

Using new methods. Who knows what we're going to talk about today. Who knows who's going to drop in. Sure we might have somebody special real special.

I got somebody special who who said they were going to drop in. They had something they wanted to say and because they're kin.

I can't deny request my B. Oh, his might be your son. What are your sons? Nope. You have a rogue hair. How's that? I mean, here's the thing. I think it was fine when it was down, but I know that you would want me to tell you. Thank you. So if it falls down again, you did up. You know, it's up, but I'm going to give you. I'll tell you two more times max. Okay. It happens. Just give me a second.

Let's not make this part of podcasts. Let's just make it a signal. You know, this is good. This is this is for the people who are just listening and I got to watch that YouTube version. I got to see that road.

There's little things in there like that. Link. I thought you did it on purpose for that reason. Yeah. So we're going to go down the rabbit hole. But before we go down the rabbit hole, we're going to go into the bear cave.

That's my way of saying that I'm going to tell a story about a bear. Oh, spoiler. So recently, here's the thing. I already told you this story. And can you just act like I haven't? I was going to typically I wait to say things. But we were in this mixed company situation.

And I really needed to tell you the story. I need to tell somebody else in the store. And I was like, I just don't want to do the ear biscuits thing. We're a hold it for a few weeks.

So when you say mixed company, what do you mean by that? You know, people who you do a podcast with and people you don't. Is that what you mean by this mix up?

And usually me mixed company. I thought was like when it's like it's like a co-ed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was in that sense. It was a co-ed group. Yeah. There was all types of genders. There.

And everyone was, well, I don't know if everyone was represented. No, everyone wasn't represented. Right. No. Yeah. How's that even possible? Yeah. That's true. I don't, yeah. I mean, you know, I don't even know why I said mixed company. I don't know why I made it about representate people who are my friends. And you.

That's a good story. I'm going to hear it like it's the first time. Good. Okay. So I, Jesse and I took a little weekend away with our friends Lance and Lacey, you know, our long time friends who were responsible for, you know, mixed company.

We're the beard and lady products that we sell our grooming line. That's right. Been friends for very long time, probably 15 years now. And they were coming into town. And we were like, hey, they're coming into town without their children. So we were like, hey, why don't we leave our child?

And we're going to go to the mountains. Let's get away from this heat. It was that crazy hot heat wave weekend. Yeah. We had recently. So we just went to a place that was probably 20 degrees cooler, which was nice.

In the woods. Yeah. And it is not uncommon when you visit these places in the California mountains that there's lots of, you know, if you're doing an Airbnb, there's all kinds of information that you're overwhelmed with when you arrive at the Airbnb. And in this particular case, some of that information mentioned bears.

But like more mentions than seen necessary like it was in the email, it was in the handbook, it was a sign on the door.

All kinds of stuff like do not leave any food outside. Or else, you will be fined $4,500.

Because there are bears in this here neighborhood. And they are hungry bears. And I'm like, okay, well, yeah. Yeah, I mean, theoretically. Right. Theoretically.

So we, this is first night. We, we, you know, we hang out, we eat some food. We leave food out on the side. No, on the kitchen counter. Like we had brought food, like some fruit, some chips.

Stuff that doesn't go inside the refrigerator. It's not going to go into cabinet. It's just like kind of out on the counter. Yeah. But they said don't leave the food outside.

So we didn't do that. Now the way this place was set up is that it had what I believe is like a south facing almost a complete glass wall like four sets of sliding doors.

And then a bunch of glass on top. So like, is it Southern facing like just window, you know, get the view of the valley. That's a great way to face. And let's lot of sun in.

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