Secret Tapes of Rhett & Link

This cassette tape contains embarrassing audio recordings from when we. were 10 years old. - I'm Ashten. - And I'm Kattie. (both) And we're from Brownsville, Kentucky. Lets talk about that. ♪ (theme music) ♪. Good mythical morninnng-ah! Today's episode is brought to you by Kotula's "The Guys With the Goods". If you have liked any of the products that we have showboated, - And we know you have. - or showcased on this program,

I'm calling it now, or anything you see at Kotulas.com. You need to go to the link. in the description to sign up for email deals, exclusive email deals and special promos. Deals you can only get on the email sign up, link in the description. In yesterdays episode we reminisced about all of the greatness that was and in. some peoples minds it turns out still is VHS tapes. But you know, we've decided. to go a step farther, further or ferther and talk about an even smaller version.

of a tape that only contains audio. And here's an example right here. This is one that we kept from our childhood. And we're going to play it in a second. But before we play it--. - Reminisce. - Lets reminisce. I moved to North Carolina in 1984, couple months after moving there, or like. a month after moving there, met Link, you know, first day of 1st grade. But before I met Link-- because I moved in the summer time.

- Yes. - I met my neighbor, Jeremy Fisher. Older kid, you know, my brother's 3 years older than me and he was 1 year older than. my brother, so, 4 years difference, you know, I'm like 5 years old, this is an. 9 year old. This is a man of the world. That's good math, Rhett. This 9 year old knew everything about everything and this 9 year old, Jermemy Fisher was listening to gangster rap at that time. That's not appropriate. No, it wasn't appropriate and it wasn't appropriate to then share it with a. 5 year old with an 8 year old, my brother. We're not talking like, MC Hammer which is just nowhere near gangster rap,

we're talking N.W.A. Did N.W.A have an album in 1984? That was too early. I don't know but it wasn't that it. - was something-- - It was inappropriate music. with foul language. Not even peppered throughout. It was like non-foul language is what was peppered throughout. Right, yeah, it was pretty foul throughout. So, I go to his house and he's playing this tape. This rap tape that has all of.

these cuss words which you know the funny thing is it didn't have cuss words. Because every couple seconds on this gangster rap tape there would a. "beep... beep". - What? - But it was like-- it wasn't like the. Walmart version where they like take out the cuss word or they reverse it or. whatever, it was like the tape stopped and there was a "beep". And it sounded a lot like a person. Like a 9 year old person saying "beep".

- Really? - But he was really good at it and he was. - like "listen--" - I never met Jeremy Fisher by the way. - Well, you missed out on a great moment. - I never met him. But he had taken this cassette tape and he had discovered that if he took little. balls of paper, put them in his mouth, made a spitball and stuck it down into. the two little wholes at the top of a tape he could record over, like a studio tape, like a tape that you buy from the store and he could go through and he would wait. until the cuss word and he would pause and then he would tape and press record and.

he would go "beep" and he would pause again and beeped out all the curse words. so that the little 5 year old could listen to it. That is great. And did he sell all these, like on the bLack market? He should have. - He's a genius, this guy was pretty inventive. You would never of learned that. if it weren't for Jeremy Fisher. He now probably works for Walmart in the clean tracks that. they create of all the bad rappers. Right so, I come over to Rhett's house and now, I'm an only child so I was very. insulated, I didn't have any Jeremy Fishers or really any friends.

So, what I would do is-- and I didn't have a television in my room. - Back when we were kids - Oh, yeah. our parents did have enough sense to not put televisions in our rooms, they just. let N.W.A and gangster rap leak in through neighbors. We had little jamboxes. So what I would do with my cassette tapes is I would buy. the ones that you were supposed to record over and they already-- you didn't have to. make spitballs they were just in there. These are kinda filled in at the top. Ready to record.

And there was this whole art to listening to the radio and then finding your. favorite song "ooh, The Beach Boys, Kokomo is coming on. I'm going to record that" and then, you know, if the DJ was talking over. the intro to the song or as the song was kinda fading out. (singing) way down in Kokomo (radio announcer voice) Aaand thank you. for listening to G105. If that comes on you're like "Ahhhh! Abort the recording". - It ruined it. - It ruined it, you had to start over. And then the next night you'd listen to the Hot 10 at 10 and you had to hit record.

at the right time and then you had to hit stop recording at the right time to get. the most pristine track. And you knew what song you wanted, like if it was Beach Boys, Kokomo, - which was a hit. - Oh yeah, that's actually. on this tape here, Kokomo. (Rhett) You were like that's definitely gonna be in the top three. but you didn't know. You were (stutters) for like an hour from 10-11 you were sitting there like, ready to go and I gotta pee really bad but I can't get up because Kokomo. might come on. (Link) Hot 10 at 10. Don't Worry Be Happy. But then I got to Rhett's house and. realize that, you know, courtesy of Jeremy Fisher, he's realized how to not.

have to buy tapes but just use ones that he doesn't want anymore like, this is the Sounds of Halloween and if you see on the top I didn't make spitballs, I just took a sticker and put it over the end. (Rhett) That was actually a better method. You could sit in your room and you could make entertainment for yourself. We didn't have video cameras we had audio recording devices. So we would just sit up there, I mean first of all, I'm upset that we've only. found one surviving recording. Which is sufficiently embarrassing.

as you will learn very quickly. But we would sit up there, we made all kinds of things. This is like, this tape and other tapes like it sort of represent the beginning of. our creative collaboration. Getting together, finding someway to. capture a moment, I'll be it this one does not show a lot of promise about anything. I would be scared if I-- If I found our sons recorded something along these lines. I'd like sit down and have a talk to them. Like try to get their heads straight. Or at least give them advice in how to improve and not be so silly.

Yeah, just so silly. It's embarrassing. -So, we're going to play this-- - That's what this show's about. Embarrassing ourselves for the sake of your entertainment. Now, on this tape I've written "favorite songs... past". Like they were recorded into the past. Then you marked over favorite songs and it just says past. Because I guess they stopped being my favorite songs after a while but they. - were always recorded in the past. - Yep. - I think I got a little of Tone Loc's 'Funky Cold Medina' in this.

And we don't edit Good Mythical Morning very often, but this is a pretty long thing. We're just gonna play it. We reserve the right to edit, not to protect our reputation, but to protect your experience because it's pretty long. ♪ (music plays) ♪ 'Cause we were listening to Tone Loc. - Yeah. I was. The last thing. - (music stops). - And then I hit stop. - (child Link) Hello. My name is Link Neal. reporting for CBS news. This morning.

Today, I will interview a Chinese monk from the monk house of monk. - Very politically correct. - Mr. Monk, (child Link) what made you decide to be a monk? - Apparently monks are mute. - (child Link) No comment. Apparently that's what we thought before the Internet. (child Link) What's the best thing about being a monk? You didn't have a predominate role in this. - (child Link) (giggles) No comment. - I don't know if I was even there. - You were there. - (child Link) Do you have any last remarks?

Do you have any last remarks? I was ten years old and very silly. (child Link) I guess not. Back to you, Dan. - Thank you, Link. - Still me. - Yeah, I mean. - (inaudible). (child Link) Now, I will interview Minnie Pearl. Minnie Pearl, why do you wear that? (child Rhett) Well-- (higher voice) Well--. - Wasn't high enough. - (child Rhett) I just like to be a. country girl. I work on the farm, and I milk the cows, and ride the horses. - I just like to do everything! - (southern accent) Ride the horses.

- (child Link) Well, any last remarks? - That's my go-to line. (child Rhett) Well, I just want to tell everybody that it's real fun milking. - the cows. - Can you pause it? - (child Link) Thank you Minnie Pearl. - Okay, so we just--. It was 1988 and this is how backwards-- We were already backwards, but this is how backwards we were. We were making jokes about Minnie Pearl, - Yeah. - Who was popular in like 1961. Right, right. (stutters) Minnie Pearl was on Hee-Haw,

- which was-- - She was our inspiration. I don't know what-- My grandparents liked it. We were so isolated! That wa--. My grandparents loved Hee Haw, and they loved Minnie Pearl, and that's the first think that came to mind, - and you just went with it. - You were like, "I'm going to interview, you should be Minnie Pearl.". - Okay. - But let's see--. - Minnie Pearl! - Let's see who do we choose to interview. - next. - (child Link) Back to you, Ted. Thank you, Dan. I am Ted Couple reporting for CNN.

- Not-- That's not right. - He didn't work for CNN ever. (child Link) I am interviewing Richard Petty. Pause it. Okay, we're in North Carolina, remember? - Richard Petty. - So now we're going to the other. - cultural icon that we could identify with. - (giggles). - Richard Petty. - Famous NASCAR racer with--. - Let's keep playing. - (child Rhett and Link giggling). - After I crack myself up. - 'Cause you're so funny. (child Link) Excuse me. Richard Petty!

- (giggling) What did you do last summer? - What did you do last summer? - (child Rhett) Well, I just raced a lot. - And then I started going into--. - I'm riffing here. - (child Link) I didn't know that! I mean, (lower voice) I didn't know that! I mean, (higher voice) I didn't know that! - Thank you. - (child Link) I mean, Comedic genius. - (normal voice) I didn't know that. - (child Rhett) I didn't know that, mommy. - I'm laughing at you. - (child Rhett) Back to you, Dan. (child Link) Thank you (inaudible) Now I will interview your bed.

- And then I decided to interview your bed. - (laughing). - Because-- - Then you didn't say anything, and then I decided to interview a sleeping person, - and then you were just snoring. - I should have taken more control of this. - situation. - Eh. What? You were--. - You were there thinking it was genius! - You can hear me snickering at you as you. go, (funny voice) "I didn't know that! I didn't do it!". - I don't know! - I thought it was funny! - I was encouraging you. - So silly. So silly, ya' know? - Share your cassette tape memories, - Oh wow. or if you got embarrassing audio recordings, feel free to share those in order to.

- make us feel better about ourselves. - As we close the episode, I will say, I'm happy that we made these. kinds of things in 1988, before the internet, because now that we have put it on the Internet, we have-- We have control over the distribution. of these cassette tapes, but today's world, you can be a ten year old, and you can somehow get something on. - YouTube, and then it's there forever. - Well just think about those crazy videos. that Locke and Shepard and Lily and Lincoln came over and made in your. - house using the photo booth on your iMac. - Yeah.

They're gonna be talking about that stuff, you know, twenty years from now. - I'll put them on YouTube. - On their own Internet show. We need to keep them for them to realize how silly they were. You know that crazy laugh, that's exactly how my kids laugh. - Yeah. - (funny laugh). - I've heard it. - We're so funny! You know? And it was just for each other. We didn't play that for anybody else. That's a good thing. - It's a good thing we're not silly anymore. - Awkward silence, as if we haven't had enough awkwardness in this episode. Well.

Um. We--. (whispering) It's silent and you keep making noise. - Oh. - Stop making noise. - I didn't mean-- - Awkward silence. It makes it awkward when you say something and then you stop. No, it makes it-- But it's not silent.

[Captioned by Hayleigh and Whit: GMM Captioning Team].