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This is the the WIRED A̶u̶t̶o̶*Complete* Interview. WIRED turns on dark mode as we hand-pick the very best Rhett & Link questions from the internet.
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00:00I'm Rhett.
00:00And I'm Link.
00:01And you know what we're gonna do?
00:02We're gonna do the complete interview.
00:04Not auto, just complete.
00:13This is from Death to Humans.
00:16Why is it Rhett and Link and not Link and Rhett?
00:18Good question!
00:19This is the best question!
00:21What a coincidence.
00:22We are pleased to announce that it is becoming Link and Rhett
00:26for the rest of our career.
00:27And what did that just make you think?
00:29Is it a man named Lincoln Rhett?
00:32That's the reason.
00:33Rhett's always told me that that was the reason.
00:36But the byproduct is he got to be first.
00:39So I'm like, Lincoln Rhett?
00:42Yeah, it does kind of sound like a person.
00:43It's also alphabetical.
00:45Reverse alphabetical.
00:46What are your assumptions about Rhett and Link?
00:49Fan assumption.
00:50And then Cancerous Tattoo replied,
00:54Rhett knows Link's birthday off the top of his head.
00:57Link does not have Rhett's birthday memorized.
01:01Okay.
01:02What?
01:02What's my birthday?
01:03The year included.
01:04It's the day you were born.
01:06It's a great day.
01:07What is the year?
01:07What year?
01:12October 11th, 1977.
01:14Come on.
01:15Oh, wow.
01:16Okay.
01:16That was quick.
01:17I had doubts about the year because we have a different year.
01:21What was my birthday?
01:22June 1st, 1978.
01:23Uh-huh.
01:23But the thing is, is that we're basically the same age.
01:28And I thought maybe you would just forget that the year was different because of how years work.
01:32Well, that is also an assumption.
01:34So they were wrong.
01:35I know.
01:36What do you mean how years work?
01:38I don't know how your brain works.
01:38They work sequentially.
01:40Boy-o-9,000.
01:43What do Rhett and Link think about fans approaching them in public?
01:48There's a reason why I'm wearing a hat and sunglasses and a bandana.
01:52I wear a bandana.
01:53Yeah, I looked at you.
01:54And I'm talking about in the airport.
01:57Yeah, he's like the Lone Ranger up in the airport.
01:59And then everybody's trying to get pictures with the Long Ranger.
02:02The Long Ranger.
02:03Is that what I just said?
02:04You did.
02:05I said the Long Ranger.
02:06You did.
02:07That's my name.
02:08That's good.
02:08That's my airport name.
02:09No, I think it's really cool to be recognized by people.
02:14The thing I love about what we do is that everybody who recognizes us is happy to see us.
02:22A lot of people can't say that.
02:23Hey, look, it's fine by me.
02:25I don't dress up like the Lone Ranger.
02:27This is from...
02:28Jissom Henderson.
02:30Jissom Henderson?
02:30Has Link addressed how crazy viral this picture is?
02:34I have not addressed the when the fajitas come out sizzling.
02:38We were reading all the things you needed to put in a dance in order to attract someone.
02:43I don't believe that fajitas had anything to do with that moment in time.
02:48No.
02:48Of course, that's my old haircut.
02:50Now, in this picture, Rhett, who is not pictured, of the millions and millions of views that this meme got,
02:57where I am featured, there's no Rhett to be seen.
03:01But I am directing you.
03:02But Rhett is directing me.
03:03I am directing you.
03:04He is off camera.
03:06He is here.
03:06He is in your position.
03:08I'm telling you what to do.
03:09Well, you didn't say, come on, you know, when the fajitas come out sizzling.
03:13You didn't say that.
03:14Now, you may know more than I do, but it seems to me that the picture itself got traction,
03:20and then it was attached to the fajitas come out sizzling.
03:23I don't even know what the fajitas coming out sizzling part is about.
03:27Oh, you know how they come out with the steam.
03:28I know what it makes you want to dance.
03:31It makes you feel good.
03:32I know that.
03:33Not to burst that bubble, but they just squirt some stuff on it.
03:37They just...
03:38Water.
03:38They just squirt a little water on there.
03:40They do.
03:41It's not even really that big of a deal.
03:42In fact, it's probably worse because of that.
03:44They're watering down your fajitas just so they come out sizzling.
03:48Yeah.
03:48No underscore woodpecker 4977 asks,
03:52Rhett and Link's dogs are exactly what I expected.
03:55Every time our dogs appear on the show, whether it's Sean or Barbara,
03:59how much I look like my dogs.
04:00I think they're just like a man who has a lot of hair on his face,
04:04must be a dog, must look like a dog.
04:06I can't look like both of those dogs.
04:08Don't sell yourself short.
04:09You look exactly like Sean.
04:11Sean?
04:12I can't make...
04:13Please put up a split screen with him and Sean.
04:16I cannot look at two...
04:17My visual field does not have the degree of separation that Sean does.
04:20His two eyeballs are like...
04:22It's like...
04:23Have you ever watched two different televisions at once?
04:25That's his life.
04:26I wish.
04:27Next question.
04:28What's our critical lore?
04:30Most online communities, there is a specific bit of lore
04:34that once you learn about it, you are officially in too deep
04:37and you can no longer reverse the massive psychic damage
04:40you have inflicted on yourself.
04:42In this corner of online, it's knowing about...
04:45Some more recent lore includes...
04:49Rhett hates community college
04:52and I have a pregnancy fetish.
04:55Okay, which one of those things is not true?
04:59Neither one of those is true.
05:00Yeah, I'm telling you.
05:02Community college is very respectable.
05:03I made one comment...
05:04That's where a lot of people go and work things out.
05:05...about poking...
05:08The satisfying feeling of poking a pregnant woman's belly.
05:11Okay, I think that's all we needed to hear
05:13to know that there's something wrong with you.
05:14And then it got turned into something that was just like creepy.
05:18I don't understand.
05:19What happened?
05:19No, it didn't get turned into something creepy.
05:23I've seen you interact with pregnant women.
05:25Why did I bring this up?
05:27And it's...
05:28There is no fetish.
05:30I've never seen him poke without asking,
05:32but I've seen him ask a lot.
05:33But you're not doing it anymore.
05:35I don't do it anymore.
05:36One of the things that's been happening at Mythical
05:38because we've had this company for a while
05:40and we've had people working for us for a while
05:42is that we have a...
05:42A lot of people are getting pregnant.
05:44A lot of pregnant people.
05:45Recently, we had a baby that was born
05:48to two people who met at Mythical.
05:51And I believe that baby has to work for us.
05:54And I believe it's okay for that child to work for us.
05:57I think the child labor laws allow for a child to work for you
06:00if it was born from two of your employees.
06:03Next question.
06:05Dziah 533.
06:06Have Rhett and Link ever guessed the pet name correctly
06:09on Ready Pet Go?
06:10No, that's why we stopped doing that segment.
06:12So fans will submit pictures of their pets
06:15and we would guess the name.
06:17Very confident.
06:18Turns out it's impossible.
06:20Turns out you can't guess a pet's name
06:22without being given the pet's name at a time.
06:24I mean, because what we didn't think about
06:26was just how many pets' names that the pet isn't.
06:29There are no rules for naming pets.
06:32This is one of the reasons I named my pets Sean and Barbara
06:34because I was like,
06:35we don't need to get into animal names.
06:37Because at that point,
06:38it just feels like there are no standards.
06:39Like my dogs could apply to vote,
06:42maybe get a license.
06:43And so could yours.
06:45Jasper, that's a real name.
06:46Jasper.
06:46Jade, that's a real name.
06:47But like Honeydew,
06:48that dog's never gonna drive.
06:50This is just posted on the subreddit.
06:52They have deleted their username.
06:54Oh, okay.
06:55So they're ashamed of this.
06:56After watching Rhett and Link for over seven years,
06:58did I just miss something?
06:59Oh, this says I love butt drugs.
07:01Well, yeah, you did miss something
07:02because butt drugs was a pharmacy in Corden, Indiana.
07:08We made a commercial for butt drugs
07:10back when that was something that we did,
07:13make commercials for small businesses.
07:14Buh-buh-buh-butt drugs.
07:17Buh-buh-buh-butt drugs.
07:20Buh-buh-buh-butt drugs.
07:21That's the jingle.
07:22Pretty catchy.
07:23And I love butt drugs is the bumper sticker that they sold
07:26and we put it up in our office.
07:28It's actually my garage.
07:29Free parking in the rear.
07:31That was their joke.
07:32They embraced their name.
07:33Yeah.
07:34And then we made a commercial for them
07:36and then they went out of business.
07:38And those things are not related.
07:40Nope.
07:41Quist799.
07:42Why is Link called Link?
07:46Come on now, you don't know that?
07:47Post-college, I went into a niche field of chain making.
07:52And as with everyone who goes into the chain assembly profession,
07:58or more of a hobby for me,
08:01you need to have a nickname.
08:04And can you believe it?
08:05Link wasn't taken.
08:07Yeah, it's weird.
08:08Yeah.
08:08And it's weird how they called you that when you were a kid as well.
08:11Yeah.
08:12My name is Charles Lincoln Neal III.
08:14My granddad went by Lincoln.
08:16My dad goes by Charles.
08:17But we could all have gone by any of the names.
08:20Because we have them all.
08:21411 Conner, favorite times where Rhett and or Link are laughing the hardest.
08:26I laugh really hard when I hit you in the face with that bag of dog poo.
08:30But you didn't laugh at all.
08:32It wasn't funny.
08:35Anyone know the signification of Link's tattoo?
08:38That means you're special in Elvish from Lord of the Rings.
08:44Because I am, I think.
08:45And he has that same tattoo.
08:48His daughter Lily has the same tattoo.
08:50First tattoo for both of you.
08:53Other than your wife's name on your ass, which, yes.
08:56Really KHJ says,
08:58Do they eat the food on the show fully?
09:01Well, I give it everything I got, yeah.
09:03He does, yes.
09:04I do not.
09:05I never eat anything fully.
09:07You think we're like spitting it out or something?
09:09What do you mean?
09:09No, like, I'm not going to be like...
09:11I can't eat every single thing that's put in front of me.
09:14You've watched the show.
09:15But he does.
09:16We don't eat like a whole pie when they put a pie in front of us.
09:19But sometimes he does.
09:20We do that when the cameras are off.
09:22Beans 129.
09:23Why do Rent and Link always say, not a sponsor?
09:26Is it a running joke or a requirement?
09:30It is not a requirement.
09:32But we do want to thank our sponsor for today's episode, WIRED.
09:36Oh, that's nice.
09:37Who isn't paying us to be here.
09:38So, not a sponsor.
09:39Not a sponsor.
09:40I mean, we have enough sponsors that if we aren't getting paid, I want you to know it.
09:44So, we made that up.
09:46Honestly, that's exactly why.
09:47The first episode of Good Mythical Morning, if you go back and watch it, we have a sponsor
09:51who paid us $300.
09:53I think they got their money's worth.
09:54Yeah, I think they did, too.
09:56This is how we're ending.
09:58Put that away.
10:00Those were, like, the best questions I've ever heard.
10:04Maybe those are the best questions on the internet.
10:06Yeah.
10:07I mean, I've heard really good questions IRL.
10:09But, like, that was, I mean, that was, that was something for me.
10:15I hope it was something for you.
10:16Thanks for having us for the complete interview.
10:19And thank you for making us a part of your daily routine on YouTube and now on Netflix.