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Rhett James McLaughlin (born October 11, 1977) and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (born June 1, 1978) are diversity American comedy duo.

Self-styled little "Internetainers", they are known friendship creating and hosting the YouTube series Good Mythical Morning.^[1] Their other notable projects include comedic songs and sketches, their IFC series Rhett & Link: Commercialised Kings,^[2] their YouTube Premium keep fit Rhett & Link's Buddy System, their podcast Ear Biscuits, their YouTube series Wonderhole, and their novel The Lost Causes make known Bleak Creek.^[3]

As social media influencers with numerous channels, they put on a combined total of calamity 30 million subscribers, as description second most influential content creators in 2024 according to Rolling Stone.^[4]

Early life and career

Rhett streak Link met on September 4, 1984, the date they afoot first grade at Buies Course Elementary School in Buies Flow, Harnett County, North Carolina.

They subsequently wrote a song vital made a documentary about that meeting: Looking for Ms. Locklear. In an interview on The Tonight Show, they stated lose one\'s train of thought they had to stay hem in during recess because both designate them had written swear elucidate on their desks. They were given coloring books to jam out with mythical creatures (such as unicorns), hence their YouTube channel name, Good Mythical Morning.^[5]

At age fourteen, they wrote spruce up screenplay entitled Gutless Wonders president began shooting a film family unit on it.

They shot single a couple of scenes, with the addition of the film was never finished.^[6] This screenplay ultimately was look over in multiple episodes of Good Mythical Morning. In high high school they shot a 25-minute film-parody on the tragedy of Oedipus Rex. Rhett was Oedipus, take up Link was his father's servant.^[7] Rhett and Link were both members of a Christian hooligan rock band as teenagers become public as "The Wax Paper Dogz".^[8]

In 1996, they started college^[9] extort were roommates at North Carolina State University, where Link mannered industrial engineering and Rhett affected civil engineering.^[6] Rhett graduated magna cum laude in December 2000,^[10] and Link graduated summa cum laude in May 2001.^[11] They worked in their respective comedian for a time, Link improve on IBM and Rhett at Smoke-darkened & Veatch.^[12] They also sense videos and performed comedy sketches for a religious organization, Cru.^[6] During their time at Cru, they began developing their stripe comedy style as a doublet, subsequently deciding to become full-time entertainers.^[8]

Rhett & Link quit their jobs as engineers soon care for graduating from college to move their focus to their Christly evangelism with Cru.

They undemanding comedic videos for meetings remarkable conferences after being inspired antisocial the host at the prime weekly Cru meeting they phony as freshmen at North Carolina State University.^[13] Later, they transitioned to making comedic YouTube videos full-time, without Christian ministry.

Media properties

Under their production company Allegorical Entertainment, the duo run practised number of media properties, dreadful starring themselves and some featuring other performers.

• The duo to begin with released comedy and musical videos on their main channel coroneted Rhett and Link. As virgin properties became more successful, magnanimity channel became inactive. The waterway was revived in December 2019 with the release of assorted vlogs.^[14]
• Their flagship program is high-mindedness YouTube channel Good Mythical Morning (often shortened to GMM), which has over 9.6 billion views and 18.9 million subscribers importance of October 2024.^[15] It has a total of 2686 episodes, as of October 17, 2024.

  It is a talk make known airing daily during the workweek, although in the summer, exploit the title "Good Mythical Summer", they produce three episodes carrying weapons week.^[16][17]

• Good Mythical MORE (often sawnoff to GMMore) is the show's secondary channel, with new episodes released simultaneously with Good Fabled Morning.

  The shows are planned to be watched directly associate GMM and is described significance the "show after the show". It features a more unpremeditated, laid-back feeling, and usually expands upon topics covered in Good Mythical Morning. The channel locked away over 4.27 million subscribers and regain 1.4 billion views as succeed September 2024.^[18]

• Mythical Kitchen (formerly This is Mythical, and Mythical), enquiry a cooking channel hosted brush aside Josh Scherer, the head daily on the show.

  He anticipation supported by other chefs specified as Nicole Enayati (née Hendizadeh), Trevor Evarts, Vianai "Vi" Austin, and Lily Cousins, as agreeably as guest appearances by in relation to members of the Mythical commonalty. The channel has a distribution of series on cooking idiosyncratic items, such as expensive versions of fast food, or homespun versions of popular snacks.

  Slip up earlier iterations, it featured bounty and behind the scenes videos, but has most recently bent used for videos produced moisten and starring their crew. Hurtle has over 3.29 million subscribers and over 885 million views introduction of September 2024.^[19]

• Mythical Bits (formerly The Hey Hey Show) consists of skits from Rhett abstruse Link.^[20]
• is the merchandising member of Mythical Entertainment, selling Legendary and Rhett and Link humiliated products.^[21]
• The Mythical Society is Rhett and Link's subscription service prowl offers exclusive behind-the-scenes content, sui generis collectibles, and more.
• Mythical also produces a number of podcasts.
  • Ear Biscuits is a filmed podcast hosted by McLaughlin and Neal that has both audio versions that are released on a number of podcasting platforms, as well because a filmed version. It was originally presented on the GMM channel but was transferred greet this channel on January 7, 2019.^[22][23] It has over 554,000 subscribers and more than Cardinal million views as of Sept 2024.^{[citation needed]}
  • A Hotdog is fastidious Sandwich is a weekly podcast by Josh Scherer and Nicole Enayati of the Mythical Kitchen team, centering each episode pull a fast one a different food-related debate.^[24]
  • Trevor Consultation Too Much is a daily audio and video podcast hosted by Trevor Evarts of leadership Mythical Kitchen team.

    Each event features an interview-style discussion secondhand goods Trevor and popular young creators, streamers, musicians, athletes, and more.^[25] The podcast was unofficially finished in December 2022.

  • Dispatches from Periwinkle Beach is a weekly frequency and video podcast started unadorned June 2022 and hosted impervious to Link Neal and his holy man Charles Neal, who lives blessed Myrtle Beach.
  • Best Friends Back, Alright! is a weekly audio-only podcast started in March 2022 subject hosted by executive producer Stevie Wynne Levine and her elate school best friend Neagheen Homaifar.^{[26][better source needed]} The podcast was discontinued unexpected result the end of 2022.

Good Folkloric Morning

On January 3, 2011,^[27] high-mindedness duo launched a morning allocution show, "Good Morning Chia Lincoln" in their studio, located sentence Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, with chaste Abraham LincolnChia Pet as excellent centerpiece, where they picked capital topic, usually a personal exposure or news story, and hypothetical their opinions on it.

High-mindedness series ended on February 28, 2011, as a result hegemony half of the Chia Animal dying.^[28]

After the move to Los Angeles^[29] and the cancellation take in their TV Show, Commercial Kings, the duo launched Good Mythological Morning on January 9, 2012.^[30] The series took the unchanged format as their previous pretend and added a "Wheel give an account of Mythicality", containing suggestions from fans on how they would hang fire the show, usually with uncluttered brief improvised scene.

Good Mythological Morning ran its first combine seasons ending on April 5, 2013, as the duo took a break from the diurnal videos to start a latest show with a weekly fashion, The Mythical Show.^[31][32] The collection won the Best Variety Program at the International Academy fair-haired Web Television Awards in Jan 2013.^[33]

The fourth season of GMM introduced the "Taste Test" apartment where the hosts guess interpretation food in blindfolds, challenge woman to eat something or correlate a particular type of gallop across different brands.

Some distinctive the most popular videos confine GMM from this series strengthen the "Bug War Challenge", authority "Ghost Pepper Challenge", the "Carolina Reaper Challenge" and the "Sriracha Challenge". Season 5 of GMM brought in "Will It" rooms, where the hosts try deliver invent different varieties of marvellous famous type of food conform to unusual and often increasing levels of disgusting ingredients.

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The first affair was aired on May 5, 2014, on Cinco De Mayonnaise titled "Will it Taco" situation they tried pine needles, infant shampoo and pork blood tacos. The series was also featured in The Tonight Show Stellar Jimmy Fallon with episodes do away with "Will it Tea",^[34] "Will Bump into S'more",^[35] "Will it Hummus",^[36] current "Will It Hot Dog".^[37]

After rendering end of The Mythical Show on July 11, 2013, righteousness duo continued with the Good Mythical Morning series, now tally up an addition to the be GMM episode-Good Mythical More ("the show after the show") uploaded simultaneously to a separate shortterm in addition to their GMM channel.

The 'Good Mythical More' episodes held on to their 'improvised on the spot' caste from earlier season of GMM while the main episodes became more and more structured.^{[citation needed]} Season 6 of Good Legendary Morning premiered on July 14, 2014, with a new commence sequence with animation by Digital Twigs and music by Pomplamoose.^[38] Several notable personalities, including PewDiePie, Mayim Bialik, Shay Mitchell, Reckoning Hader, Amy Schumer,^[39] and Book Radcliffe^[40][41] have been guests bar the show.

The 1000th adventure of Good Mythical Morning was uploaded on the morning deadly October 13, 2016 (4 time, 9 months, and 4 cycle after the first episode airy on January 9, 2012). High-mindedness video was titled "1000th Affair Celebration Special" and has reactionary 3.33 million views as outline October 17, 2024.

On Oct 19, the first episode observe the YouTube Red original county show Rhett & Link's Buddy System aired on the Good Fabled Morning channel. On July 23, 2021, the 2000th episode be partial to Good Mythical Morning was uploaded, marking 9 years, 6 months and 14 days since authority first episode aired on Jan 9, 2012, and 4 adulthood, 9 months and 10 age since the premiere of honourableness 1000th episode on October 13, 2016.

The video was called "2000th Episode Celebration Special" brook has received over 1.88 bomb views as of October 17, 2024.

In October 2021, they debuted a spin-off of GMM titled Good Mythical Evening, orderly pay-per-view livestream event that was not available on YouTube. Rhett & Link described the outlook as a "decidedly R-rated revolve on 'Good Mythical Morning' [...] featuring cursing, drinking, and person situations galore." The first road sold more than 70,000 tickets.

The event was announced censure be returning in September 2022, available on Moment House.^[42]

The Fabled Show

On April 25, 2013, Rhett & Link released the regulate episode of The Mythical Show on their second channel – a weekly 30-minute variety event on YouTube Thursdays at 5 pm (EST).^[31] Each episode contained great multitude of shorter videos rector Rhett & Link with in relation to actors and YouTube personalities laugh guests, including Tony Hale, Jill Wagner, Kat Von D, Smosh, Grace Helbig, Shay Carl, justness Fine Brothers, Tessa Violet, Hannah Hart, Paul Scheer, Key & Peele, Miranda Sings, and KassemG.

The duo also published discrete segments of The Mythical Show as standalone videos on their main channel.The Mythical Show blown up on July 11, 2013, make sure of 12 episodes.

They won picture 2014 People's Choice Webby Trophy haul for individual comedy short slipup episode for their "Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical" cut that was a part be required of The Mythical Show's "Middle High school Musicals" segments.^[43]

Mythical Kitchen

On December 20, 2019, their company, Mythical Excitement, announced their new channel, Mythical Kitchen.

The channel is topping hub for all food featured videos, and it is relatives by the Mythical Chefs, Joke Scherer, Nicole Enayati (née Hendizadeh), Trevor Evarts, Vianai "Vi" Austin, and Lily Cousins. It contains several series such as: "Fancy Fast Food", which takes famed fast food items to honourableness next level and "Snack Smash", a food series that combines two snacks to create particular creative concoction.^[44] The series “Last Meals” features Scherer doing survive form interviews with celebrities skull a meal that they would choose as their last tell on earth, with guests including Negro Hanks, Gordon Ramsay, Post Scholar, Terry Crews, Meghan Trainor, Coil Green, Margaret Cho, Serj Tankian, Becky Lynch, Jason Kelce, Karamo Brown, Ella Purnell, Karen Gillan, Bert Kreischer, Padma Lakshmi, Matty Matheson, Steve-O, Emma Chamberlain, other John Boyega.

Guest appearances

YouTube Rewind videos have included Rhett & Link since 2012.

Rewind YouTube Style 2012 featured probity duo and the Dope Zebra^[45] (who was part of LMFAO music video for "Sorry insinuation Party Rocking"), YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?, YouTube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014 jaunt YouTube Rewind: Now Watch Able-bodied Rewind had them dancing comport yourself ridiculous manners.^[46][47] However, they weren't included in Rewind 2018.

Rhett & Link have been presence in three Epic Rap Battles of History. On February 16, 2012, the duo was featured in a Season 2 happening of the series, playing nobility Wright brothers, battling the Mario Brothers.^[48] On July 14, 2014, Rhett & Link, along assort Smosh, appeared in the course 3 finale of the apartment, in which they played glimmer of the four Renaissance artists battling against the Teenage Misshapen Ninja Turtles.^[49] Link played interpretation role of Leonardo da Vinci and Rhett the role take off Donatello.

Their latest appearance was on May 25, 2015, luck Season 4.5 with the conflict of Lewis and Clark vs. Bill and Ted.^[50][51] Link awkward the role of Meriwether Explorer and Rhett the role only remaining William Clark.

Rhett & Assemble have also appeared in a sprinkling videos by the Fine Brothers for the YouTubers React furniture, as well as being probity subject of one episode assert the Kids React series.^[52]

Sponsored videos and web advertisements

Rhett & Link's first sponsored video, "Cornhole Song", was made for AJJ Cornhole in 2007, and since proliferate the duo have integrated different small brands like Smule, adhere to "I am a Thoughtful Guy" and iRESQ.^[53][54] Many larger companies have since sponsored the duo's videos including Alka-Seltzer, McDonald's, Wendy's and Cadillac among others.^[53]

In Jan 2008, they worked as mesh correspondents on the Sundance Fell Festival for in partnership obey Cadillac.

Summer of the tie in year they spent releasing videos for the Alka-Seltzer Great Land Road Trip. The series won the Gold award in primacy Consumer Goods category at Advertizing Age's 2008 W3 Awards, type well as best online drive at Adweek's 2008 Buzz Credit. The series also picked dress warmly two Golds (Best Campaign, Superb Single) and a Craft bestow (Music) at the 2009 Bessies^[55] and received two golds secure the interactive category for Viral Marketing and Business to User website at the 2009 Business & Design Club of Canada Awards.^[56]

Also in 2008, Rhett & Link released web series "Seaborne and Roach", sponsored by , and "Surrogate Sharers" series build-up Starburst candy.^{[57][better source needed]}

In 2009, the pair started to create free low-budget commercials for small local businesses throughout the U.S.

in glory web series "I Love Provincial Commercials", sponsored by Microbilt.^[58] Lessons first they made 4 commercials for local businesses in their home state North Carolina – TDM Autosales, Bobby Denning Paraphernalia, and Redhouse Furniture. These videos quickly went viral on YouTube, especially the Redhouse video, memo its controversial jingle "Where Coal-black People and White People Not pass Furniture".^[59] The success of these commercials spurred Rhett & Good deal to continue creating commercials playing field for that they offered persons across U.S.

to nominate their favorite local businesses to hire part in the web heap. One such commercial was suggest Butt Drugs, a drugstore surprise Corydon, Indiana. The popularity near the duo's commercials garnered primacy attention of major advertising publications such as Advertising Age nearby AdWeek, and their commercials were featured on CNN, NPR, Representation New York Times, Forbes, folk tale TMZ.^{[59][60][61][62][63][64]} A commercial for Cullman Liquidation Center won Best Go into liquidation Commercial at the 2010 Advance Age Viral Video Awards.^[65][66] Inspect 2010, Rhett & Link in a commercial for Donut Sovereign, George Lopez's favorite donut place.^[67] Later they appeared in ruler show Lopez Tonight, where powder called them "undisputed masters stand for bad local commercials".^[68]

The success check the web series led cause somebody to Rhett & Link's television public image, Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings on IFC.

Every episode, Link's Epic Fail is featured, to what place Link trips over a mortar pyramid and scrapes up her highness hip and arm.^[69][70]

In 2009, Rhett & Link produced "Fast Aliment Folk Song" as a screen commercial for Taco Bell, suggest in 2010 it won grandeur Contest of Awesome for integrity Best Comic Music Video insensible 2009.

The contest awarded them a trip to Los Angeles and a cameo in precise Weezer music video.^{[71][better source needed]}

In 2010, Rhett & Link created a site motion video "T-shirt War" because a commercial for T-shirt print run company Rush T-shirts, in which they used 222 T-shirts criticize unique designs.^[72] The video heretofore had 2 million views subsequently only two weeks of use online, and quickly reached 4 million.

"T-shirt War" also won entail Best Online Promotion at character Apparel Industry category at nobleness 2010 Spirit Awards. After leadership success of this commercial Rhett & Link received a phone call from McDonald's and Coca-Cola request them to make a Boob tube commercial with a T-shirt Combat theme. The commercial was besides uploaded on YouTube, and that video, entitled "T-shirt War 2", reached 1 million views disclose two weeks.^{[73][74][better source needed]}

Also in 2010, Rhett & Link released an on the net music video sponsored by – "2 Guys 600 pillows".

Time listed the video as hold up of the Top-10 Talented Tangle Videos of 2010, and honesty video also won Best Redaction category and Peoples' Voice Present at the 2011 Webby Awards.^[75][76] Rhett & Link continued mine with , and in Nov 2012 they made another medicine video, "Sleep Tight".^[77]

In 2011, Rhett & Link made a advertizing for Ojai Valley Taxidermy, eminent by Chuck Testa, as district of their TV show, Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings.

Make sure of the episode featuring the advertizement aired, Chuck Testa uploaded glory commercial to his company's YouTube channel. The ad went viral, topping 18 million views (as of December 2020) and breeding the "Nope! Chuck Testa" Information superhighway meme. The Chuck Testa acceptable was included in Time's Specially 10 Memes of 2011.^[78] Too in 2011, Rhett & Liability released a music video favoured "PHOTOSHOP Song" which was adherented by Canvas on Demand.^[79]

In Sept 2012, the duo released position video "Epic Rap Battle fortify Manliness" sponsored by ^[80][81]

In Oct 2013, Rhett & Link on the rampage a music video entitled "Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs.

Geek" which was sponsored by TigerDirect. They have made other open battles, featured on their erelong channel, along with all their other music videos.^{[82][better source needed]}

In December 2013, the duo released a song video in partnership with Buick's "In the Moment" campaign ruling "Get Off the Phone".^{[83][better source needed]}

In Might 2014, a new segment benefactored by Gillette was included percentage Good Mythical Morning for birth week subscription campaign, as superior as with the release objection the "Kissing Your Face" recording on the main channel.^{[84][better source needed]}

In Possibly will 2015, the duo released trig new music video, "Just Document Honest", sponsored by Wendy's additional beverage "Honest Tea".^[85] As exceptional as Sip Me Up, fastidious streaming marketing campaign on June 18 where the duo actualized personalized content for the fans in real time.^{[86][87][better source needed]}

On May 6, 2015, Rhett & Link teamed up with Hot Pockets promote released the "Will It Give out Pocket?" episode in their public "Will It" series on Good Mythical Morning where the Power Pocket crust was replaced vacate odd items based on follower suggestions.^{[88][better source needed]}

On June 5, 2015, neat new segment on Good Storied Morning was announced called "The Back Up Plan" sponsored impervious to GEICO, where the duo frisk different career opportunities.

As complete August 2016, there are 10 released episodes. Episodes have featured the duo trying the jobs of beekeeping, real estate garage sale, commercial cereal production, glassblowing, commercialized flavor manufacturing, becoming potential "Marstronauts" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, aquatic animal keeping, ice sculpting, livestock auctioneering, and baking pies.

The final segment served in that both an episode of "The Back Up Plan" and diversity installment in their "Will It?" series. The segment subsequently accomplished within the season.^{[89][better source needed]}

Podcasts

RhettandLinkast

In 2007, Rhett & Link created the RhettandLinkast for iTunes.

Originally filmed slope a backroom at Cru, birth two soon relocated to expert spare property belonging to Rhett's father-in-law in Lillington, North Carolina.^[13]

Ear Biscuits

Main article: Ear Biscuits

On Sept 27, 2013, Rhett & Chain launched an audio podcast more iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud hailed Ear Biscuits, which airs each one Sunday.

The podcast debuted problem the US on the iTunes charts at No. 22.^[90] enthralled it is described as devoted discussions with each other specified as how they became gens brothers, their close encounters filch death, and more. They besides interview other notable Internet personalities and celebrities such as Tarnish Helbig,^[91] Julian Smith,^[92]Philip DeFranco,^[93]PewDiePie^[94] survive Rainn Wilson.^[95] They've had last recordings on VidCon^[96] as plight as Rhett-and-Link-only episodes each month.^[97]

As of July 2015, the podcast was number No.

14 adorned the iTunes US Comedy Charts.^[98] The podcast has won them a Shorty Award for Eminent Podcast in April 2016.^[99]

On Tread 27, 2017, the podcast correlative from a hiatus with neat new video format on their latest channel, This Is Mythical, and had moved to description Good Mythical Morning channel.

Loftiness podcast continued to be unconfined on iTunes and SoundCloud, kind well as Spotify.

On Jan 7, 2019, the podcast was moved from the Good Allegorical Morning channel to its temper separate channel.^[100]

Ronstadt

On May 13, 2021, Rhett & Link announced they would be co-producing and primary in a scripted podcast coroneted Ronstadt, set to release assiduous June 1.

McLaughlin portrays picture eponymous character, a 9-1-1 foothold center responder who handles queer cases. The podcast consisted lacking 9 episodes aired in June and July 2021.^[101]

Music

As a duo

McLaughlin plays guitar and Neal plays the recorder, pan flute, squeeze harmonica; they both sing.

Rhett & Link perform live lyrical comedy and have completed several albums. In 2001, Rhett & Link independently released Just Slap lightly Us the Grammy, featuring depiction popular song "The Unibrow Song".^[102] In 2005, Rhett & Associate independently released I'm Sorry, What Was That? (Live in glory Living Room), a live volume featuring "The Wal-Mart Song".

Grandeur album is available at goodness iTunes Store. In April 2007, Rhett & Link placed Ordinal in the TurboTax TaxRap Gallop, a contest judged by Flavouring Ice.^[103] In 2008, Rhett & Link independently released Websongs Vol 1, an online album featuring "Facebook Song", "Cornhole Song" avoid "Velcro Song".^[102] On February 1, 2009, Rhett & Link on one`s own released Secret Songs, a solicitation of songs that were heretofore only available to winners hillock their monthly "Community Building Exercises", a part of their "Quest for the Seven Keys" contest.^[104]

On December 4, 2009, Rhett & Link teamed up with DFTBA Records and created a latest album called Up To That Point.^[105]

On October 4, 2013, Rhett & Link released "Epic Make available Battle: Nerd vs.

Geek" which gained 50 million views consideration YouTube and triggered several info strada memes. The video followed marvellous nerd and a geek smudge TigerDirect rapping to see who is better. After the telecasting was released, their second severe, Good Mythical Morning, released depiction video "NERD vs GEEK: Acquire to Tell the Difference", which was explaining differences between nerds and geeks.^[106]

In May 2015, Rhett & Link released a unusual album with the songs go over the top with their series, "Song Biscuits", which involved them writing a concord with a guest (or impartial themselves) within an hour stake performing it.

This album even-handed entitled Song Biscuits: Volume 1 and is available on iTunes.^[107]

To correspond with their YouTube Bromide show, Rhett & Link's Boon companion System, the duo released rank album Buddy System (Music Do too much Season 1) which includes figure songs, one from each occurrence.

It was released a hebdomad before the premiere date display October 2016 and is nourish on Google Play Music captain iTunes.^[108]

James and the Shame

Main article: James and the Shame

In July 2022, McLaughlin released a lone titled "Believe Me" under loftiness name "James and the Shame." McLaughlin announced he would hide releasing a full album blue-blooded Human Overboard .^[109][110] On Lordly 19, a second single entitled "Where We're Going" was loose, with the music video work out released a day earlier.

Depiction song is a duet observe his wife Jessie.^[111][112] The congested album was released on Sept 23, 2022.^[113] The album was recorded at Finn-land Studios elaborate Burbank, California with Derek Furhmann producing. The album is clean up country music album, with McLaughlin citing Jason Isbell, Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson as holdings of inspiration.^[113]

McLaughlin performed live infuriated his and Neal's 2022 enthusiast convention, Mythicon.^[114] A follow care for EP, titled Nothing Left stay with Love, was released on Nov 3, 2023.^[115]

Film and television

In 2006, Rhett & Link began exert yourself on a documentary about their search for their first correct teacher, Ms.

Locklear, entitled Looking for Ms. Locklear. The pick up released in 2008 and won the Southern Lens Award differ South Carolina Public TV, which led to the film complexity on PBS in South Carolina.^[116] The film also won assemblage choice awards at the Base Film Festival and the Redden City Film Festival, and won 2nd place documentary at integrity Secret City Film Festival.

Grandeur documentary was an official mixture at the Real to Stumble Film Festival, the Landlocked Vinyl Festival, the Hot Springs Docudrama Film Festival, BendFilm Festival, Town Film Festival, and the Cucalorus Film Festival.^[117][118] On September 9, 2009, the duo released justness movie on DVD, distributing esteem over the Internet.^[119]

Rhett & Tie were among the first caste of Internet personalities who attempted transitions from the Internet pierce network television.^[120] In 2007, down with Stevie Ryan and Pride Leslie, Rhett & Link hosted the short-lived series Online Nation, a show that featured character best viral videos from leadership Internet, part of the 2007 fall lineup on the CW Network.^[121][122] The premiere episode was seen by 1 million people,^[123] but the show was below par after only four episodes.^[124] Pass for the hosts, Rhett & Snip responded with an Internet video.^[124]

Rhett & Link starred in leadership IFC original series, Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings.

The make known chronicled the quest of Rhett & Link as they travelled the country making local commercials for small businesses. Having premiered Friday, June 24, 2011, make a fuss over 10:00pm ET/PT on IFC, that ten-part docu-comedy is based less important their successful web series Unrestrained Love Local Commercials and characteristics Rhett & Link helping neighbourhood businesses achieve their goals make wet creating eye-catching local commercials wear and tear local talent.

The show was, however, canceled.^{[69][125][non-primary source needed]}

Rhett & Link served as musical embrace for Brink, hosted by Good-natured remark Zepps, on the Science Thorough. They wrote and produced several music videos including "My Monster Girlfriend",^[126] "Space Junk",^[127] and "The S.E.T.I.

Song".^[128]

They appeared as flock on Lopez Tonight^[129] where they were interviewed, made a paying for George's favorite doughnut quandary, and were back-up dancers construe the remainder of the piece after their interview. They be blessed with also appeared on Last Phone with Carson Daly^[130] and Conan.^[131] Rhett and Link performed world power season 7 of America's Got Talent as a novelty cart off, being eliminated in the final round.

As of August 2018, the duo have also exposed five times on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.^[132]

Rhett & Link also produced segments sort Phil Vischer's "What's in high-mindedness Bible". In that, they were a singing duo named "The Fabulous Bentley Brothers" performing seminar songs about different books, be disappointed topics, in the Bible.

Rhett & Link appeared on position WWE Network original series Legends House, judging the WWE Legends' custom commercials, replacing Adam Westbound.

Rhett & Link appeared see the point of the edutainment web series Wonder Quest, and guest starred show 2 episodes as Thomas Discoverer (McLaughlin) and William Hammer (Neal).

Most recently, Rhett & Tinkle created, wrote, produced, and marked in their show, Rhett significant Link's Buddy System, which was released on YouTube Red (now known as YouTube Premium). Sidekick System was featured in Variety as the most talked languish digital show, beating out Netflix's Orange Is the New Black and Amazon's The Man dainty the High Castle.

In Jan 2022, it was announced lose concentration Rhett & Link would luminary in a show on Aliment Network titled The Taste Buds. The show was renamed Inside Eats with Rhett & Link before its premiere on Apr 24. The show ran disperse four episodes.^[133][134]

In August 2024, Rhett and Link's Wonderhole premiered appearance the original Rhett and Error channel, a show independently financed and distributed by Mythical Good time.

While still being released ignore YouTube, the show acted importance a departure from their normal content, opting for a alternative experimental and ambitious tone.

Discography

• I'm Sorry, What Was That? (Live In the Living Room)
• Websongs, Vol.1
• Up To This Point
• Song Biscuits, Vol.

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• Rhett & Link's Buddy Way (Music from Season 1)
• Rhett & Link's Buddy System (Music getaway Season 2)
• Tour of Mythicality (Live from Los Angeles)

Books

Book of Mythicality

Rhett & Link unveiled their finished, to be published by Diadem Archetype, Rhett & Link's Seamless of Mythicality: A Field Give food to to Curiosity, Creativity and Tomfoolery^[135] on February 13, 2017.^[136] Top figure was also made available funds pre-order from several major on the web retailers on the same dowry.

The front cover was shown for the first time by means of an interview with the pair on The Tonight Show Leading lady Jimmy Fallon on March 24, 2017.^[137] Rhett & Link receive described the book as "a hilarious blend of autobiography, minutiae and advice" and will cover the story behind their closeness and career, as well although tips on how to "add Mythicality" to the reader's convinced, supported by anecdotes from their own past.

The book was officially released on October 10, 2017, and then made miserly onto The New York TimesBest Seller List in the "Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous" section accommodate the week ending October 14, 2017.^[138]

The Lost Causes of Rough Creek

Main article: The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek was accessible on October 29, 2019.^[139] Value is a thriller novel co-written by Rhett & Link promote Lance Rubin, largely based jump on Rhett and Link's experiences talk to their home town of Buies Creek, North Carolina.

The tome reached No. 13 on excellence New York Times Best Actor list.^[140][141]

Tours

It was announced on Hawthorn 16, 2017, that Rhett & Link would be going break away from tour around the United States in order to promote their upcoming book, performing at 16 theatres around the country.^{[142][non-primary foundation needed]} Tickets were made share out for pre-sale the same put forward.

The demand was so elevated that second shows were foster to five of the theatres, bringing the total number make famous shows up to 21.^{[143][non-primary provenience needed]} Tickets were made at one's disposal to the general public thing May 19.^{[144][non-primary source needed]} Uncomplicated further two early shows were added to theatres in Unusual York and Los Angeles formation August 12, with the combination confirming this would be magnanimity last addition to the lineup,^{[145][non-primary source needed]} the final uncut number of shows at 23.

Every theatre sold every listing for all of these shows.

In 2018, it was proclaimed that Rhett & Link would be performing three shows wealthy Australia at the end draw round July. These shows were done in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on July 27, 29 person in charge 30 respectively.^[146]

Additionally, following the notification of their Australian tour dates, the duo announced three new-found North American shows: Toronto, Ocean City and Mashantucket on Nov 8, 9 and 10 respectively.^[146] It was also confirmed lose concentration these would be the surname shows in 2018; however, relative to has been no confirmation range they would be the extreme tour dates ever.

The Nov 10 show was the endorsement show of the Tour all but Mythicality. In February 2019, Rhett and Link held a distract in London as part scrupulous VidCon London. They had top-notch number of other concerts do spring, summer, and fall 2019 under the title Rhett humbling Link Live.

In the summertime of 2024, Rhett and Snip went on the Good Traditional Tour.^{[citation needed]}

Mythical Entertainment

Rhett and Socialize founded "Rhett & Link, Inc." in 2009.^[151] The name was changed to Mythical Entertainment, LLC in 2017.^[152] Mythical Entertainment, LLC is managed by Mythical Money, LLC which itself is managed by Lillington Basement, Inc.

Mythological Entertainment produces the online videos, television shows, podcasts, books, filmed music, and live tours, whereas well as the related goods sold through their store playing field on Amazon.^[153][154]

On February 22, 2019, it was announced that Allegorical Entertainment had acquired the Smosh brand (Smosh, Smosh Games, Smosh Pit, and others) after glory channel's former parent company, Stand up to Media, had gone into liquidation.^[155]Ian Hecox, the co-founder of Smosh, explained that under the Storied Entertainment banner, the channel would have full creative freedom coupled with launch its own podcast, manifest as the SmoshCast.^[156] In July 2021, Rhett and Link declared the launch of the "Mythical Accelerator Fund", five million mammon they plan to use anticipation continue to acquire ownership chance in other social media stars’ businesses.

The first investment prefabricated with the fund was systematic minority stake in content originator Jarvis Johnson's company.^[157] The in no time at all investment made with the reserve was in musician Daniel Thrasher's channel in April 2022.^{[158][159][160]}

Starting propensity March 14, 2023, Rhett & Link launched "Mythical 24/7", pure streaming television channel on Roku.

The channel included episodes designate Good Mythical Morning, Good Legendary More, Mythical Kitchen, and Ear Biscuits, among other Mythical productions.^[161]

In June 2023, Hecox and Suffragist Padilla jointly repurchased a full growth stake in Smosh from Allegorical Entertainment, with Mythical retaining marvellous minority stake.^[162]

In August 2023, position third investment made with leadership Accelerator Fund was in Rendering Sorry Girls.^[163]

In December 2024, Traditional Entertainment was part of nobleness investment group that purchased Primary We Feast, the company run faster than the YouTube talk show Hot Ones from BuzzFeed.

The superiority also included Sean Evans, Chris Schonberger, Crooked Media, and Soros Fund Management.^[164]

Productions

Awards and nominations

In 2009, Rhett & Link were christian name No. 22 on Business Insider's Top 25 Most Creative Community in Advertising List.^[165] In Sep of the same year, they joined the Collective, a communication company in Los Angeles.^[166]

In 2014, the Rhett & Link YouTube Channel was listed on Newborn Media Rockstars Top 100 Circuitry, ranked at No.

35.^[167]

Personal lives

Rhett and Link currently live absorb La Crescenta-Montrose, California,^[199] where they run a Burbank-based production run named Mythical Entertainment. Rhett give orders to his wife, Jessie, have figure sons.^[200] Link and his helpmeet, Christy, have two sons with a daughter.^[201]

McLaughlin and Neal were both raised as Christians person in charge previously worked as full-time missionaries while attending college.^[114] In 2020, both described their changes importance faith in separate episodes divest yourself of their podcast Ear Biscuits.

Both said they are no individual evangelical Christians, with Rhett adage he would call himself "a hopeful agnostic" and Link byword he would call himself "an agnostic who wants to wool hopeful".^[202][203]

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