Everyone knows that you're supposed to leave the shower curtain open so that you know there's not a murderer hiding behind it when you get up to pee in the middle of the night. Common knowledge.
Ugh. Thank you! "Monetizing the friendship." I'm a new-ish mom of an almost two year old and have struggled a ton with loneliness and depression. I finally started thinking about joining a mom's group one of my FB friends shared about... But then I started getting messages from her about her business and asking if I wanted to host a "party" for her. Suddenly I didn't want to go to the group I could've really benefited from, out of fear that I'd be pressured everytime to join the company. And it felt so gross because she started the messages by feigning interest in how me and my son were. Way to add to my feeling that people don't genuinely care at all...
Please hang in there. You will find people who don't want to monetize friendship. Still, I'm sorry you had those bad experiences. That lady was predatory and scummy. I hope you never have to deal with any more people like her. Good people will genuinely care about you, I promise. That horrible woman didn't care because she wasn't a good person. However, compassionate people will truly want to be there for you. Do your best to keep your head up until you find your true friends. I believe that you will. I'm quite proud of you for your ability to power through your loneliness and depression and take good care of your two year old. Remember you're strong enough to make it through this. I wish you nothing but the best, and I hope you're staying safe during this quarantine.
❤ People care, I'm a stranger and I care. I'm sorry you met a shitty person, that's not on you. I too hope you've found someone to truely listen and not want anything else in return x
My girlfriend had a professor during her masters that used "Onward!" as his sign-off....he was a great man and included me in the community of their masters program and his attitude towards life really resonated with me. It kind of became his thing and was a saying that stuck with me and others as a way of looking forward and pushing on. He tragically passed away just last year right before he was about to retire. I have been using his sign-off as a sign of respect and to keep his tradition going ever since.
Hey Link, if you keep picking up after your kids they'll never do it themselves. The simple solution is this: Figure out a consequence for them that logically follows. For example if they don't put the used towel in the laundry, they now have a dirty towel located on the floor to dry off with next time. When they want to use the sink next they'll have to take the underwear out of it themselves. Assuming Christy is doing their laundry, don't do it unless they've put all their dirty laundry where it belongs, & letting them wear dirty clothes is not ok, so the choice will become go out naked because they'll run out of clean clothes, or make sure their clothes are getting washed, & mom will only wash them if they pick up their own dirty laundry. You do have to put expectations on them, since you're the parent, & it's easier when they're younger. I'm a therapist btw, I have parents ask how to handle those things all the time, usually once the kids are already teenagers & really don't want to change their habits.😄 Barbara Coloroso wrote lots of self help for parents books on this subject.
I agree with this. I keep telling my mom not to pick up after me and make my bed if she wants me to do it myself, but she says she gets annoyed and does it anyway. Of course I'll never do it myself if she keeps doing it for me. And while Link's video is funny for me to watch, I would be annoyed if I were his kid. It's really passive aggressive. Sounds like he just needs to communicate with them and kindly explain the importance of maintaining good habits while also not cleaning up after their mess and letting them do that themselves.
It’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s multi level marketing, and the levels just happen to be in the shape of a triangle, and triangles aren’t pyramids, so it’s all very legal and “reputable” 🤔🧐🤯
Something that is legal and "reputable" isn't necessarily morally just and sound. There can still be an "ick" factor to it. MLMs can still open the door for destruction of relationships. MLMs can still drive people into debt (usually more debt than they are in when they get started) and seriously cause stress on the person involved, as well as their family.
oddly enough I'm encouraged by the fact that so many people have experienced some sort of slime on a shower curtain. I always thought you throw it out & get a new one before that stage. Don't know why, but it seems so satisfyingly normal that people aren't freaked out by it.
Moth Turtle Can you do that with the plastic ones? I can see it with the fabric ones but didn't know you could put plastic shower curtains in the machine.
@@caryulmer7063 Yeah, you can. Just machine wash it on cold. My mom does it every once in awhile until she decides we need a new one. Of course do not put it in the dryer hang dry it. You can even hang it back up in the bathroom to hang dry.
As a bio major I just had to confirm that the pink residue you would see in your shower is normal. Pink/orange mold feeds off the soap residue in your shower! Also I think link isn’t impeding on his kids space. Maybe it’s just how I was raised by I see it as, his house, his rules (within reason). You wouldn’t leave dirty underwear in your friends sink! I just think it’s about cleanliness and them learning to clean up after them selves.
Paige Stevens as a microbio major, it’s not mold, but gram negative bacteria called serratia marcescens :). Don’t mean to one up you but I looked it up to be sure. Maybe there is pink mold too, I’m not sure.
@@annylynn1548 You can’t say “as a microbio major” to correct them and then reveal the fact that you had to Google the answer LMAO. That’s not how it works.
Underwear in the sink ?!! WTF ?! Also easy. Just move them out of your way when you need to use the sink and put them back when you're done. Tell them only clothes that are in the clothes basket get washed. They won't like wearing dirty clothes soon enough.
You guys didn't even touch on the essential oil MLM's! But they also get that cultist feel and bring in spiritually, etc. I've got a few friends of friends in them. I use quality essential oils myself sometimes, even their brand... and I can't stand those people at this point!
Quality essential oils huh....dude i hate to tell you, you may know that mlms are scams, what if i told you essential oils are scams? Homeopathy is legit though, best deal on this flat earth
@@JessicaMary0702 which is a scam, karen. you cant cure anything from smelling patchouli besides from smelling farts and dank weed....but it has been 100% proven by science to align chakras so theres that
As a brit, shower curtains strike me as unsanitary. The glass door on the bath is more sleek and offers something more akin to a walk-in shower. And I have to ask, why do Americans shower in the centre of the bath? Stand under the shower head, surely?
I get showers with full doors. But why have a glass pane that only goes about 1/3 of the way down? Seems like you're asking to get water all over the floor.
laughing about how no one is explaining why the door isn't fully sealed. Americans have clear glass doors too, but ours are completely sealed when closed
Towells on the floor ? Easy. Leave it there so they have to pick it up off the floor next time they need to shower and try to dry off using a wet dirty towell.
I really enjoyed this episode. I find real lessons in your episodes, but this one really stuck out to me. It teaches us real life adult red flag situations in the business lifestyle, and many more things! I learned a lot of cool things today. Thanks, Rhett and Link ❤🌻 - your girl, yup!
at least with the Neal kids, Link could positively reinforce good behavior on school mornings. Any kid who leaves the bathroom and bedroom in a reasonably neat condition earns some kind of reward...whatever will motivate change. By sticking to the reward system, the good morning habits might have a chance to become ingrained.
As a Scotsman I can tell you I have learnt to shower with my elbows always pointing down so the water doesn’t splash past the half glass door on the bath. We also generally have lower water pressure in rural Scotland because most small towns and hamlets have a well instead of a reservoir or treatment plant with high demand systems. Which also means the water doesn’t spray and splash as far ✌🏻👊🏻💦💦
Link, if you do your boys work for them, they know they can just wait you out and not have to do it. What you gotta do is leave it, but keep nagging on them to do it. Every day just keep telling them. I’ve been like your boys.
I end emails with "Have a great day", but then it gets murky when it's the end of the day. So then I'll say "Have a great rest of your week", but if it's thursday-friday, I'll say "Have a great weekend".
"She had to go when she joined LuLaRoe"? The line is "I walked away when she joined Mary Kay" I guess there is an East coast and West coast version. Interesting.
with those shower curtains (British, had one in my house for 20 years), I stand always with the water hitting my body and repelling onto the wall behind me, but it's not a conscious thing that I do, I'm quite broad-shouldered so I shower compartmentally rather than getting totally enveloped by the water so I guess I'm used to it
I remember my middle school "raising funds" by recruiting us to sell Pampered Chef merchandise and they would give us shitty toys in exchange for reaching sales milestones
My school did this too. We had to sell cookie dough. I ended up getting a pair of walkie talkies because I sold the most out of my class, but now that I look back on it, the whole thing seems really messed up. I sold hundreds of dollars worth of cookie dough and got a toy that probably cost $30 tops.
My son's school does this every year. I usually buy something so he won't feel left out or be tempted to ask randos. It seems wrong though. Also, sometimes the junky prizes are even broken.
My middle school had a fundraiser that gave AMAZING prizes, including if you sold $250 dollars worth of stuff you got to stand on a scale and for every pound you weighed you got a quarter. You were allowed to hold as much as you wanted, so I had bricks in my bookbag and had a friend on my back. I think I ended up getting over $100 back.
My dad bought into a pyramid scheme and it ended My parents 18 years of marriage so I wouldn’t be surprised if the same thing happened with your ex-step dad and mom. I remember my mom saying that my dad was being really reckless with their money
My dad was part of many pyramid schemes over the years. I don't think it did my parents marriage any favors either. He spent so much money over the years on them it had to be stressful to my mom.
This is the greatest thing ever. I have been a part of to MLM schemes and it is crazy to think back on it. I sold Cutco knives and I also did Primerica insurance. I remember they pressured us into bothering all of our friends and family to southern a bunch of crap they didn't need and I always felt horrible that goes putting them through some sort of idea that they didn't want to be a part of but I had to do it in order to make any money. I made no money at all with Primerica and I think I may be made $1000 in total for Cutco because this lady felt bad and bought a huge knife set from me. I will never get dragged into that world. I was absolutely dying laughing when link was talking about being held hostage at a at a "dinner party," and he felt like he was about to die of starvation. Literal tears of laughter because I can relate so well.😆😂🤣😭 This whole thing could be a stand-up comedy bit.
I got a random kid from back in Highschool try to get me into his pyramid scheme. Invited me over to his house and everything, back in school I had probably spoken to him all of ten minutes.
NOMAD To a previous podcast where a girl R&L met in a shop recognized them but she thought that their names were Rhett and Thomas because there is singer named Thomas Rhett and got them confused with that singer because she was likely drunk
My husband's friends wife works for Mary kay. While my daughter was in the hospital recovering from open heart surgery she asked me to sit on a call with her so she could get promoted. I thought it was wildly inappropriate to ask me to do this just a day after my daughter's surgery, but she got that pink car, so good for her. I guess...
A little disappointed with the kid gloves that were used when talking about MLM’s. Many of the products ARE a scam. Herbalife, it works, beach body etc. They’re a horrible business structure that relies on products so they can say that they are not a pyramid scheme. The products are secondary, the downline is the main concern
I was about to comment about having the glass panel, in my current flat, my mums home, my last flat and the flat I’m about to move into, I think the only time I’ve ever not had that glass panel was my dads house here, and then you mentioned it! (From Scotland and watching all of these back!)
15:08 in, as an English lady I can tell you that the half glass shower curtain/door is a bad design. We do get water on the floor. The key is to angle shower head down more so you have to be right up by the tapes. Or like me, if you don't like banging your shins on the taps, also install a fabric shower curtain.
I always just say, “thanks again” if they did something for me, but “take care,” is my go to when I do a complimentary closing. It seems nice to me, but in an intentional way.
Sound advice about how to set boundaries with a friend trying to recruit you into an MLM. Just be honest and direct. I am part of an MLM and I’ve seen all sides of it. I appreciate you guys approaching this in a diplomatic manner. You don’t need any business skills or marketing education to start an MLM biz, so naturally lots of people are going to get it wrong. You absolutely can be successful without recruiting your friends and being shady. This girl’s friend just hasn’t figured out a good way yet. She might not realize the implications of how she’s going about things. Patiently educating her on how you feel could inspire her to reform her methods.
When our apartment caught on fire, the clothes that we salvaged from the wreckage (which were SOAKED from the water to put the fire out) grew a pink mold. Only time I ever saw that.
my mom is the QUEEN of mlms & pyramid schemes, but she's only participated in ones that she genuinely thinks would help us - her family. so it's easy to deal with. also, she's charming as HECK and hasn't lost friends because of this stuff, which is an anomaly, i guess. but i feel similarly about her participation as link does about former stepdad jimmy's participation: my mom means so well, and she just wants to support us! also like in a couple months she'll find a new interest :')
I think IBM's HR department and management would have been very interested in Link's boss, not just because it was unprofessional but because if you're in MLM and start losing money you could be subject to bribes (easy access point for industrial espionage). This is one of the reasons sensitive businesses now check your credit score when you apply for a job.
Rhett: “I am a thoughtful guy, I think a lot of thoughts about a lot of things”🎶 Link: Pink shower curtain sludge and cracking shower door open Rhett: hmm never thought about that🤔
Can’t tell you how many times I have thought of making a video of myself walking around the house picking up dirty child socks, putting dirty cereal dishes in the sink, putting child shoes back on the shoe stand, and hanging up backpacks on the appropriate hooks and sending it to my kids!!! Link, we are one in the same in so many ways!! Warms my heart to see you do it!!
Right away, Rhett says that MLMs and Pyramid Schemes are not the same thing. They are. Look at the shape of any MLM system, it's a pyramid. You're conflating "legal" pyramid schemes with things like Ponzi schemes which are well known to be very illegal. Just because a pyramid scheme is "legal" doesn't mean it's not a pyramid scheme. It depends on how much revenue the company gets from the outside vs. how much they get from their "partners," if they pass a certain threshold, it becomes an illegal pyramid scheme. This is why many MLMs like LuLaRoe have had to completely restructure their businesses; they got caught by the gov't in an illegal pyramid scheme. By going easy on MLMs just because you know some of your viewers are in some, you're doing everyone else a disservice.
My parents have feel for those MLM’s 2 or 3 times in their lives and they were all different products like jewelry and coffee and as of now I’m happy to say that they are doing good financially now and they learned the truth about them and they don’t fall for those horrible schemes anymore. Love your story Link thank god you don’t fall for it anymore much love too the both of you guys 👍.
Anytime that you begin to sense that someone is investing their time into you because of what you can do for them financially, it just feels bad man. Ok
My inner shower curtain always turns pink at the bottom, that's how I know it's time to replace it. My husband and I always leave the curtain open unless guests come over. Our shower has a large window in it so we enjoy the extra natural light we get by leaving the curtain open.
While my husband and I were still in college, we got asked out to dinner by this random guy my husband knew from work. We met with him AND HIS WIFE and they both tried to sign us up for a pyramid scheme. It wasn't an MLM. It was totally illegal. It was the sketchiest thing ever. And looking back, I am so so glad we got out of there as fast as possible.
I knew a woman who had that pink slime/fungus from the shower grow inside her armpit in a cyst, which had to be medically treated. It was from shaving.
I love how they say. "To enter, you have to show proof of purchase." Then right after that, they say, "No purchase necessary." Like, how does that even make sense?
@@lainee1217 And if they have to say it for legal reasons it has to be true. They are required to give an option to enter without a purchase to comply with the law.
MLMs are definitely close to a pyramid. The difference is as Rhett says, it's not a scam. I joined one and made sure to not keep harassing my friends and family. I let people come to me. I totally see this happening though. I will say it can be very misleading and the average mlm consultant makes almost nothing and very few of them actually move up to leadership or to a point where they are actually making a decent income.
I don't even understand MLM companies in the age of the internet. Everything the MLM was trying to solve for is no longer necessary to be a successful company. You don't need sales people going door to door to push product and you don't need a physical store front to sell merchandise...just buy a domain and set up an online store? You don't even need to work hard to find your audience (through single point of contact sales) online ads are so deliriously simple to target certain people/demographics/behaviors a monkey could set up a successful online ad campaign! If your product is useful and needed (it's not that's why you have to use an MLM to sell it) then people will purchase it. We don't need the majority of the absolute shit these MLMs are pushing and it's why MLMs are all duplicitous and gross.
Having worked for MLMs, it is just another business structure with strengths and weaknesses. _If_ everyone acted honestly and with integrity, the MLM develops good life skills and a clear success-oriented promotion structure. That all said, the MLM is especially prone to the worst aspects of human nature. Even if the boss isn't promoting shady techniques, the pressure to compete makes people cut corners. I left because I set boundaries that created a cap to my success. The experience also did help me get my current "legit" sales engineer position.
I used to have a 5th gen iPod (which btw was the most comfortable mobile device I've ever owned. Phones, especially now, are too big and heavy.) I changed the "sent from my iPod" to "sent from my ass"
❤ Do the kids still leave stuff all over the place, and leave stuff open? My dad used to growl and I would kill myself laughing, and couldn't take him seriously; but with you I think it shows your displeasure, and frustration. Whenever I grunt at the kids they eventually stop playing with my face; I always reinforce with a hug afterwords or doing something fun. I worry about people getting sucked into MLMs (thank you for correcting that for me), especially when it involves friendships. Like what happens if you trust someone with your merchandise, do a down payment for them to produce and sell for you, then things go down hill and that other person still has all of that money? I just can't imagine the dynamics. But I'm no economist, or business person. There are a lot of good products out there though from credible sources (like SLMD skincare, Sandra's a doctor).
My dad tried doing Primerica. Spent a bit too much money to get himself started and left when he realized he was trying to join a MLM. Being around 14-15 years old at the time, even I knew he was getting screwed. lol
Maybe they keep doing it and Link cleans up after them, so when they get back into the bathroom and their rooms, they come back to a clean and tidy environment, which enforces their behaviour. It's as if their actions had no consequences. They never come back to a messy room or bathroom.
link: *makes a completely neutral facial expression*
rhett: no that looks too seductive
oh when does that happen??
@@thereseeklund1332 19:07
but Rhett's stare-down example in that shower episode they're talking about. very seductive.
"I have a special face brush." Of course you do Link, of course you do.
It would be more surprising if he didn't, no? LOL
I have one. Keeps you from getting acne
I mean it must be working. Link seems to have GREAT skin😂☺️
He got a new one
Link knows whats up
Everyone knows that you're supposed to leave the shower curtain open so that you know there's not a murderer hiding behind it when you get up to pee in the middle of the night. Common knowledge.
RIGHT LOL
Exactly!😆😂🤣
Eggzactly
Lol my thoughts exactly
100% this. When my gf moved in with me, the mad woman actually would leave it CLOSED and that drove ME crazy lmao
Link has a resting "interested" face.
Link's story about his boss sounds like an episode of The Office.
DatPiano Dude “It’s not so much of a Pyramid scheme as it is ....” **JIM draws a triangle on a whiteboard**
John “I have to make a phone call”
"I'm gonna die young, man, but I've thought so hard."
I have never felt any statement as deeply as this one
Rhett "All the mlm's we mentioned are reputable"
Link "mmm they're legal"
nice
The pink shower curtain slime is real Rhett. It’s real.
Yeah its called bacteria. And I never had it happen til I lived in LA
Yeah I get it in my shower curtains so I change them a few times a year
Rhodotorula is the genus of the pink slime. It's technically a yeast species. It truly is real.
Ugh. Thank you! "Monetizing the friendship." I'm a new-ish mom of an almost two year old and have struggled a ton with loneliness and depression. I finally started thinking about joining a mom's group one of my FB friends shared about... But then I started getting messages from her about her business and asking if I wanted to host a "party" for her. Suddenly I didn't want to go to the group I could've really benefited from, out of fear that I'd be pressured everytime to join the company. And it felt so gross because she started the messages by feigning interest in how me and my son were. Way to add to my feeling that people don't genuinely care at all...
Please hang in there. You will find people who don't want to monetize friendship. Still, I'm sorry you had those bad experiences. That lady was predatory and scummy. I hope you never have to deal with any more people like her.
Good people will genuinely care about you, I promise. That horrible woman didn't care because she wasn't a good person. However, compassionate people will truly want to be there for you. Do your best to keep your head up until you find your true friends. I believe that you will. I'm quite proud of you for your ability to power through your loneliness and depression and take good care of your two year old.
Remember you're strong enough to make it through this. I wish you nothing but the best, and I hope you're staying safe during this quarantine.
❤ People care, I'm a stranger and I care. I'm sorry you met a shitty person, that's not on you. I too hope you've found someone to truely listen and not want anything else in return x
You're right, MLM's aren't ILLEGAL pyramid schemes--- they're legal pyramid schemes
There's no such thing as a legal pyramid scheme, pyramid schemes are illegal.
@@darrylkinslow5613 except mlms
Darryl Kinslow bruh
I recomend using “thanks in advance” when sending emails cause it’s passive aggressive
Oooh, getting a "thanks in advance" makes my blood boil ... but I sure do love using it passive aggressively!
dammit I use thanks in advance a lot lol
"I await your compliance"
" I cannot wait to see the results "
hmm I feel a little out of the loop.. can someone explain how that phrase is passive aggressive? (I don't send many emails)
My girlfriend had a professor during her masters that used "Onward!" as his sign-off....he was a great man and included me in the community of their masters program and his attitude towards life really resonated with me. It kind of became his thing and was a saying that stuck with me and others as a way of looking forward and pushing on. He tragically passed away just last year right before he was about to retire. I have been using his sign-off as a sign of respect and to keep his tradition going ever since.
Using this from now on, it's *excellent*. Onward!
Hey Link, if you keep picking up after your kids they'll never do it themselves. The simple solution is this: Figure out a consequence for them that logically follows. For example if they don't put the used towel in the laundry, they now have a dirty towel located on the floor to dry off with next time. When they want to use the sink next they'll have to take the underwear out of it themselves. Assuming Christy is doing their laundry, don't do it unless they've put all their dirty laundry where it belongs, & letting them wear dirty clothes is not ok, so the choice will become go out naked because they'll run out of clean clothes, or make sure their clothes are getting washed, & mom will only wash them if they pick up their own dirty laundry. You do have to put expectations on them, since you're the parent, & it's easier when they're younger. I'm a therapist btw, I have parents ask how to handle those things all the time, usually once the kids are already teenagers & really don't want to change their habits.😄 Barbara Coloroso wrote lots of self help for parents books on this subject.
I agree with this. I keep telling my mom not to pick up after me and make my bed if she wants me to do it myself, but she says she gets annoyed and does it anyway. Of course I'll never do it myself if she keeps doing it for me. And while Link's video is funny for me to watch, I would be annoyed if I were his kid. It's really passive aggressive. Sounds like he just needs to communicate with them and kindly explain the importance of maintaining good habits while also not cleaning up after their mess and letting them do that themselves.
I totally agree with this! My boy is 6 and we are trying to teach him young to look after himself as his dad is useless 🤪
They’ll just use the dirty towel..boys don’t care
Rhett and Link:
Thanks for doing Ear Biscuits I listen every Sunday morning while making breakfast for my family.
Thanks.
Marty B
Rhett’s dry humor and side comments while Link talks just kills me. 😂
I read the title as”how link escaped a pyramid”, potential GMM episode? Lol
Conspiracy: Link's ancestors were Egyptian!
Agogo Destroyer Conspiracy: ALL of our ancestors were Egyptian
I read the same thing at first too 🤣
CSU Long Beach isn't very far from them and it has a giant blue pyramid as a gym; they should
It’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s multi level marketing, and the levels just happen to be in the shape of a triangle, and triangles aren’t pyramids, so it’s all very legal and “reputable” 🤔🧐🤯
Something that is legal and "reputable" isn't necessarily morally just and sound. There can still be an "ick" factor to it. MLMs can still open the door for destruction of relationships. MLMs can still drive people into debt (usually more debt than they are in when they get started) and seriously cause stress on the person involved, as well as their family.
I cant read if it has sarcasm lmaoo
Renee Lupica Illuminati confirmed literally
"Let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No sir. Our model is the trapezoid!"
I like to think the neighbor is a listener of Ear Biscuits. I bet he'd be laughing pretty hard at this.
I love that Link "won" over his neighbor 😂
I've had the pink slime too Link. I think Rhett's wife cleans too good so he's never noticed.
I've cleaned houses. The pink appears in toilets or bathtubs sometimes. It's just a specific bacteria that causes it.
oddly enough I'm encouraged by the fact that so many people have experienced some sort of slime on a shower curtain. I always thought you throw it out & get a new one before that stage. Don't know why, but it seems so satisfyingly normal that people aren't freaked out by it.
@@caryulmer7063 toss it in the washing machine and it usually gets rid of it
Moth Turtle Can you do that with the plastic ones? I can see it with the fabric ones but didn't know you could put plastic shower curtains in the machine.
@@caryulmer7063 Yeah, you can. Just machine wash it on cold. My mom does it every once in awhile until she decides we need a new one. Of course do not put it in the dryer hang dry it. You can even hang it back up in the bathroom to hang dry.
As a bio major I just had to confirm that the pink residue you would see in your shower is normal. Pink/orange mold feeds off the soap residue in your shower! Also I think link isn’t impeding on his kids space. Maybe it’s just how I was raised by I see it as, his house, his rules (within reason). You wouldn’t leave dirty underwear in your friends sink! I just think it’s about cleanliness and them learning to clean up after them selves.
Paige Stevens as a microbio major, it’s not mold, but gram negative bacteria called serratia marcescens :). Don’t mean to one up you but I looked it up to be sure. Maybe there is pink mold too, I’m not sure.
@@annylynn1548 You can’t say “as a microbio major” to correct them and then reveal the fact that you had to Google the answer LMAO. That’s not how it works.
WHY do i feel like link is one of the coolest dads?!?!
Yes! He reminds me of my dad growing up!
I have no idea, I'd find it totally smothering having someone on my back all the time 🤣
"Isn't this just a 'get-rich-quick' scheme?"
"Yes, you will get rich quick! We all will!"
I know what Links talking about, the pink mold is so odd and disgusting 😖😂
I love listening to the pod cast first then watching the visuals every sunday
Haha!! Link’s grunting about the kids leaving stuff everywhere 😂
Underwear in the sink ?!! WTF ?! Also easy. Just move them out of your way when you need to use the sink and put them back when you're done. Tell them only clothes that are in the clothes basket get washed. They won't like wearing dirty clothes soon enough.
Well... They're young boys. They probably won't care that much.
@@HarryStikers When they start getting into girls they’ll start caring.
@@Jonathan-cz4ky
If they do at all, who knows? Might turn out asexual. Never know.
Someone sent me a “Cheers!” once. I distinctly remember liking that and wondering if he was European.
You guys didn't even touch on the essential oil MLM's! But they also get that cultist feel and bring in spiritually, etc. I've got a few friends of friends in them. I use quality essential oils myself sometimes, even their brand... and I can't stand those people at this point!
Quality essential oils huh....dude i hate to tell you, you may know that mlms are scams, what if i told you essential oils are scams? Homeopathy is legit though, best deal on this flat earth
@@darkinertia2 essential oils are not scams. It’s called aromatherapy.
@@JessicaMary0702 which is a scam, karen. you cant cure anything from smelling patchouli besides from smelling farts and dank weed....but it has been 100% proven by science to align chakras so theres that
Came to the comments looking for an explanation from Europeans for why your shower walls are like that. Seems like no one has figured it out yet.
As a brit, shower curtains strike me as unsanitary. The glass door on the bath is more sleek and offers something more akin to a walk-in shower. And I have to ask, why do Americans shower in the centre of the bath? Stand under the shower head, surely?
As a European, almost every shower I ever been in has or glass walls/doors or is a walk-in shower. Shower curtains disgust me😳
I get showers with full doors. But why have a glass pane that only goes about 1/3 of the way down? Seems like you're asking to get water all over the floor.
@@j.j.r.6075 How is a plastic curtain that you clean, and periodically replace more unsanitary than a door?
laughing about how no one is explaining why the door isn't fully sealed. Americans have clear glass doors too, but ours are completely sealed when closed
I'm signing the rest of my emails with "yep" from now on.
Towells on the floor ? Easy. Leave it there so they have to pick it up off the floor next time they need to shower and try to dry off using a wet dirty towell.
That sounds good but it may be the bathroom that guests have to use.
Ahah yes
Nik Greybeard 👍
This taught me as an adult lol
Now I know why Link has so many grey hairs. It’s from all those thoughts of how many inches the shower door should be open to be optimal
I really enjoyed this episode. I find real lessons in your episodes, but this one really stuck out to me. It teaches us real life adult red flag situations in the business lifestyle, and many more things! I learned a lot of cool things today. Thanks, Rhett and Link ❤🌻
- your girl, yup!
whats your ig? you look good girl
at least with the Neal kids, Link could positively reinforce good behavior on school mornings. Any kid who leaves the bathroom and bedroom in a reasonably neat condition earns some kind of reward...whatever will motivate change. By sticking to the reward system, the good morning habits might have a chance to become ingrained.
It would be a chuckle if the next time Link met his neighbor at the mailbox the man was wearing gmm merch
As a Scotsman I can tell you I have learnt to shower with my elbows always pointing down so the water doesn’t splash past the half glass door on the bath. We also generally have lower water pressure in rural Scotland because most small towns and hamlets have a well instead of a reservoir or treatment plant with high demand systems. Which also means the water doesn’t spray and splash as far ✌🏻👊🏻💦💦
22:00 is when the pyramid scheme talk starts
Thank you!
THANK YOU
Thank you!
You’re the best
Thanks even 1 year later!!!!
thats not mold. your shower curtains generate cotton candy, link
e a t i t
Its raaaannnddyyyy
i don't get how you say "no purchase necessary", when you have to purchase the book to enter?
Lobster Rock there is a mail in option also, that does not require you to buy the book.
I guess cause someone else could gift it to someone and they'd still be eligible?
Lobster Rock False advertising let’s lawyer up and make it a class action
I had that same exact question!
I’m pretty sure nothing in the US can be “purchase necessary” tbh
If I’m actually asking someone to do something I always hit them with the “thanks in advance.”
Link, if you do your boys work for them, they know they can just wait you out and not have to do it.
What you gotta do is leave it, but keep nagging on them to do it. Every day just keep telling them.
I’ve been like your boys.
I end emails with "Have a great day", but then it gets murky when it's the end of the day. So then I'll say "Have a great rest of your week", but if it's thursday-friday, I'll say "Have a great weekend".
Have a great life
Hopefully receivers life is not ending 😅
I like to use the “thanks for your time”
Wait, Link didn't explain how he escaped his boss's pyramid... That's in the title man! You gotta give it to us!
He escaped by leaving the whole thing behind him when he saw it and taking distance on his boss.
"She had to go when she joined LuLaRoe"? The line is "I walked away when she joined Mary Kay" I guess there is an East coast and West coast version. Interesting.
I noticed that too
with those shower curtains (British, had one in my house for 20 years), I stand always with the water hitting my body and repelling onto the wall behind me, but it's not a conscious thing that I do, I'm quite broad-shouldered so I shower compartmentally rather than getting totally enveloped by the water so I guess I'm used to it
I remember my middle school "raising funds" by recruiting us to sell Pampered Chef merchandise and they would give us shitty toys in exchange for reaching sales milestones
What?? is that even legal??? our school had us sell chocolate once but that was for raising money for leukemia... that's, a different thing..
My school did this too. We had to sell cookie dough. I ended up getting a pair of walkie talkies because I sold the most out of my class, but now that I look back on it, the whole thing seems really messed up. I sold hundreds of dollars worth of cookie dough and got a toy that probably cost $30 tops.
My son's school does this every year. I usually buy something so he won't feel left out or be tempted to ask randos. It seems wrong though. Also, sometimes the junky prizes are even broken.
My middle school had a fundraiser that gave AMAZING prizes, including if you sold $250 dollars worth of stuff you got to stand on a scale and for every pound you weighed you got a quarter. You were allowed to hold as much as you wanted, so I had bricks in my bookbag and had a friend on my back. I think I ended up getting over $100 back.
My dad bought into a pyramid scheme and it ended My parents 18 years of marriage so I wouldn’t be surprised if the same thing happened with your ex-step dad and mom. I remember my mom saying that my dad was being really reckless with their money
My dad was part of many pyramid schemes over the years. I don't think it did my parents marriage any favors either. He spent so much money over the years on them it had to be stressful to my mom.
Closed showers are to keep your shower curtain from being folded up wet and molding
This is the greatest thing ever. I have been a part of to MLM schemes and it is crazy to think back on it. I sold Cutco knives and I also did Primerica insurance. I remember they pressured us into bothering all of our friends and family to southern a bunch of crap they didn't need and I always felt horrible that goes putting them through some sort of idea that they didn't want to be a part of but I had to do it in order to make any money. I made no money at all with Primerica and I think I may be made $1000 in total for Cutco because this lady felt bad and bought a huge knife set from me. I will never get dragged into that world. I was absolutely dying laughing when link was talking about being held hostage at a at a "dinner party," and he felt like he was about to die of starvation. Literal tears of laughter because I can relate so well.😆😂🤣😭 This whole thing could be a stand-up comedy bit.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I so needed this episode. Especially Link and the neighbor. Especially.
how link signs off:
👀🚿,
Link
I got a random kid from back in Highschool try to get me into his pyramid scheme. Invited me over to his house and everything, back in school I had probably spoken to him all of ten minutes.
Love watching rhett and Thomas in da morning
“Hey I understood that reference!”
@@TheFlyingTurtleArchive what reference would that be?
NOMAD To a previous podcast where a girl R&L met in a shop recognized them but she thought that their names were Rhett and Thomas because there is singer named Thomas Rhett and got them confused with that singer because she was likely drunk
@@TheFlyingTurtleArchive Do you remember which one? Heheh, would like to hear it
Agogo Destroyer What's it like inside NASA?
can you guys call my mom and get her to pull out of her mlm scheme pls
My husband's friends wife works for Mary kay. While my daughter was in the hospital recovering from open heart surgery she asked me to sit on a call with her so she could get promoted. I thought it was wildly inappropriate to ask me to do this just a day after my daughter's surgery, but she got that pink car, so good for her. I guess...
That's awful :(
A little disappointed with the kid gloves that were used when talking about MLM’s. Many of the products ARE a scam. Herbalife, it works, beach body etc. They’re a horrible business structure that relies on products so they can say that they are not a pyramid scheme. The products are secondary, the downline is the main concern
Thanks for your time, looking forward to hearing back from you!
I was about to comment about having the glass panel, in my current flat, my mums home, my last flat and the flat I’m about to move into, I think the only time I’ve ever not had that glass panel was my dads house here, and then you mentioned it! (From Scotland and watching all of these back!)
15:08 in, as an English lady I can tell you that the half glass shower curtain/door is a bad design. We do get water on the floor. The key is to angle shower head down more so you have to be right up by the tapes. Or like me, if you don't like banging your shins on the taps, also install a fabric shower curtain.
I always just say, “thanks again” if they did something for me, but “take care,” is my go to when I do a complimentary closing. It seems nice to me, but in an intentional way.
Sound advice about how to set boundaries with a friend trying to recruit you into an MLM. Just be honest and direct. I am part of an MLM and I’ve seen all sides of it. I appreciate you guys approaching this in a diplomatic manner. You don’t need any business skills or marketing education to start an MLM biz, so naturally lots of people are going to get it wrong. You absolutely can be successful without recruiting your friends and being shady. This girl’s friend just hasn’t figured out a good way yet. She might not realize the implications of how she’s going about things. Patiently educating her on how you feel could inspire her to reform her methods.
When our apartment caught on fire, the clothes that we salvaged from the wreckage (which were SOAKED from the water to put the fire out) grew a pink mold. Only time I ever saw that.
The picture of the truck shown at 31:00 is Link's '87 Nissan Hardbody. Not the Tacoma about which he is speaking in the story.
I am living for these show showdown updates! Thanks,
my mom is the QUEEN of mlms & pyramid schemes, but she's only participated in ones that she genuinely thinks would help us - her family. so it's easy to deal with. also, she's charming as HECK and hasn't lost friends because of this stuff, which is an anomaly, i guess. but i feel similarly about her participation as link does about former stepdad jimmy's participation: my mom means so well, and she just wants to support us! also like in a couple months she'll find a new interest :')
My parents bought a Kirby from a door to door sales-man and we still have it, its been 15 years.
Dear Rhett and Link,
Thank you for the endless entertainment!
Regards,
Rida.
I absolutely love how there are no aggressive vegans here, thanks in advance
That's a shower wall and in my old house we had one and never figured it out. Ended up putting a curtain up anyway
yeah my hubby and I escaped amway. Wasnt the worst experience, met some great people. But hella expensive over several years..
I think IBM's HR department and management would have been very interested in Link's boss, not just because it was unprofessional but because if you're in MLM and start losing money you could be subject to bribes (easy access point for industrial espionage). This is one of the reasons sensitive businesses now check your credit score when you apply for a job.
Rhett: “I am a thoughtful guy, I think a lot of thoughts about a lot of things”🎶
Link: Pink shower curtain sludge and cracking shower door open
Rhett: hmm never thought about that🤔
Can’t tell you how many times I have thought of making a video of myself walking around the house picking up dirty child socks, putting dirty cereal dishes in the sink, putting child shoes back on the shoe stand, and hanging up backpacks on the appropriate hooks and sending it to my kids!!! Link, we are one in the same in so many ways!! Warms my heart to see you do it!!
Maybe the reason why Links kids dont pick up after themselves is because they know their dad is gonna get annoyed and do it for them
Right away, Rhett says that MLMs and Pyramid Schemes are not the same thing. They are. Look at the shape of any MLM system, it's a pyramid. You're conflating "legal" pyramid schemes with things like Ponzi schemes which are well known to be very illegal. Just because a pyramid scheme is "legal" doesn't mean it's not a pyramid scheme. It depends on how much revenue the company gets from the outside vs. how much they get from their "partners," if they pass a certain threshold, it becomes an illegal pyramid scheme. This is why many MLMs like LuLaRoe have had to completely restructure their businesses; they got caught by the gov't in an illegal pyramid scheme.
By going easy on MLMs just because you know some of your viewers are in some, you're doing everyone else a disservice.
My parents have feel for those MLM’s 2 or 3 times in their lives and they were all different products like jewelry and coffee and as of now I’m happy to say that they are doing good financially now and they learned the truth about them and they don’t fall for those horrible schemes anymore. Love your story Link thank god you don’t fall for it anymore much love too the both of you guys 👍.
Anytime that you begin to sense that someone is investing their time into you because of what you can do for them financially, it just feels bad man.
Ok
Ditch em
My inner shower curtain always turns pink at the bottom, that's how I know it's time to replace it. My husband and I always leave the curtain open unless guests come over. Our shower has a large window in it so we enjoy the extra natural light we get by leaving the curtain open.
While my husband and I were still in college, we got asked out to dinner by this random guy my husband knew from work. We met with him AND HIS WIFE and they both tried to sign us up for a pyramid scheme. It wasn't an MLM. It was totally illegal. It was the sketchiest thing ever. And looking back, I am so so glad we got out of there as fast as possible.
My professors emails always have "sent from my iPhone" or "send from windows"
I knew a woman who had that pink slime/fungus from the shower grow inside her armpit in a cyst, which had to be medically treated. It was from shaving.
The draws open and clothes in the restroom bother me too seriously who does that?!
I'm just going to leave this here:
"In my utmost magnificence, most tolerant of you,"
I love how they say. "To enter, you have to show proof of purchase." Then right after that, they say, "No purchase necessary." Like, how does that even make sense?
Smirv it’s because they have to legally say that, they literally said that for legal reasons they had to say it
@@lainee1217 And if they have to say it for legal reasons it has to be true. They are required to give an option to enter without a purchase to comply with the law.
jesondag it is true, there is a mail in option with no purchase necessary
I love you Rhett and Link!!! You guys are absolutely awesome I’m a big fan!!
MLMs are definitely close to a pyramid. The difference is as Rhett says, it's not a scam. I joined one and made sure to not keep harassing my friends and family. I let people come to me. I totally see this happening though. I will say it can be very misleading and the average mlm consultant makes almost nothing and very few of them actually move up to leadership or to a point where they are actually making a decent income.
Link: " *Whyyyy?* " 😂😂
I don't even understand MLM companies in the age of the internet. Everything the MLM was trying to solve for is no longer necessary to be a successful company. You don't need sales people going door to door to push product and you don't need a physical store front to sell merchandise...just buy a domain and set up an online store? You don't even need to work hard to find your audience (through single point of contact sales) online ads are so deliriously simple to target certain people/demographics/behaviors a monkey could set up a successful online ad campaign! If your product is useful and needed (it's not that's why you have to use an MLM to sell it) then people will purchase it. We don't need the majority of the absolute shit these MLMs are pushing and it's why MLMs are all duplicitous and gross.
Great video Thomas and Link
I never get past 15 min...I always fall asleep. Ear biscuits is my night light.
Having worked for MLMs, it is just another business structure with strengths and weaknesses. _If_ everyone acted honestly and with integrity, the MLM develops good life skills and a clear success-oriented promotion structure.
That all said, the MLM is especially prone to the worst aspects of human nature. Even if the boss isn't promoting shady techniques, the pressure to compete makes people cut corners. I left because I set boundaries that created a cap to my success. The experience also did help me get my current "legit" sales engineer position.
I used to have a 5th gen iPod (which btw was the most comfortable mobile device I've ever owned. Phones, especially now, are too big and heavy.)
I changed the "sent from my iPod" to "sent from my ass"
❤
Do the kids still leave stuff all over the place, and leave stuff open?
My dad used to growl and I would kill myself laughing, and couldn't take him seriously; but with you I think it shows your displeasure, and frustration. Whenever I grunt at the kids they eventually stop playing with my face; I always reinforce with a hug afterwords or doing something fun.
I worry about people getting sucked into MLMs (thank you for correcting that for me), especially when it involves friendships. Like what happens if you trust someone with your merchandise, do a down payment for them to produce and sell for you, then things go down hill and that other person still has all of that money?
I just can't imagine the dynamics. But I'm no economist, or business person.
There are a lot of good products out there though from credible sources (like SLMD skincare, Sandra's a doctor).
I really really appreciate this ear biscuit. And all ear biscuits! Thank you Rhett and link ❤️
My dad tried doing Primerica. Spent a bit too much money to get himself started and left when he realized he was trying to join a MLM. Being around 14-15 years old at the time, even I knew he was getting screwed. lol
If you do kids’ cleanup for them, why would they bother?
love y’all. Can we acknowledge the fact that Link is the grown up doppelgänger of Little Ricky from I Love Lucy?
Maybe they keep doing it and Link cleans up after them, so when they get back into the bathroom and their rooms, they come back to a clean and tidy environment, which enforces their behaviour. It's as if their actions had no consequences. They never come back to a messy room or bathroom.