After he finished high school, his family moved to Buies Creek, North Carolina. Their friendship kindled immediately, and they even found themselves in detention together. Their first memory getting into trouble together was a few years after meeting; they were in detention for writing swear words on their desks.
In high school, they shot a short satire film on the true story of Oedipus Rex. Rhett graduated in with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering. One year later, in , Link graduated with a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering. Alongside their full-time jobs, they created videos and performed comedy sketches for Cru, a religious organization. It was their membership with Cru that truly kickstarted their career in comedy and media entertainment. They enjoyed it so much that they resigned from their professional engineering careers to pursue careers in comedic entertainment.
The episodes would typically include the pair giving opinions on trendy news topics or other personal life experiences and encounters. Nevertheless, the show did not last long, ultimately ending on February 28, They then formed their Internetainment business , originally called RhettandLinKreations, in early Their original filming studio was in an " undisclosed basement location " in Lillington, North Carolina.
Due to the fact Online Nation was filmed in California, Rhett and Link left their jobs at Campus Crusade for Christ to pursue this opportunity, which they viewed as a big break prior to revealing their missionary work, they had claimed they quit their engineering careers in order to serve as hosts.
This marked the beginning of their full-time pursuit of entertainment and online content. The show was promoted as an interactive show that would select and air Internet videos within the TV format. The show only aired four episodes before being canceled in October. The image is no longer available in Google Maps; the section of the map where Rhett's former house is located can no longer be accessed in Street View at all. Following Online Nation 's cancellation and without full-time jobs, Rhett and Link began seeking sponsors for their online videos and got their first paid Internetainment work making " The Cornhole Song ," a video sponsored by AJJCornhole.
Starting in , Rhett and Link worked on a film documentary that was released in to film festivals and to DVD as Looking for Ms. Locklear , a documentary about reconnecting with their first-grade teacher without use of the Internet to track her down.
It won several awards and was an official selection at numerous film festivals, mainly in the southeast region. This began their foray into producing over-the-top cheesy local commercials and resulted in viral videos for The Red House furniture store, Butt Drugs pharmacy , and others.
Rhett and Link each have a tattoo on their right buttocks of their respective wives' names. They received them in as part of their experience making a commercial for True Blue Tattoo parlor.
In , Rhett had his tattoo minutely updated by reinforcing the dot in the "i" in Jessie's name. In the spring of , Rhett and Link moved out of the undisclosed basement location in Lillington -- the address of which they then disclosed as 19 East Front Street, Lillington, NC -- and into a building in Fuquay-Varina , North Carolina. They named the new studio the Kave and remained there until This became the precursor to their hugely successful Good Mythical Morning show, which would start the next year.
Both of them have lived in various towns around the Buies Creek area, including Apex. Rhett and Link both lived in Fuquay-Varina until they moved to California in As a result of this, they moved with their wives and children to the Los Angeles area of California in March Just the two of them undertook a 6-day Mythical Road Trip across the U. Commercial Kings built on Rhett and Link's previous success with producing bizarre and humorous commercials for local businesses; the show resulted in the hugely viral Nope Chuck Testa commercial and subsequent Internet meme.
Commercial Kings aired for one season , from June 24, to August 26, GMM has evolved into their most successful and popular Internetainment endeavor to date, with more than 16 million subscribers to the GMM channel. In June , Rhett and Link returned to North Carolina to give the commencement speech at Harnett Central High School , the same high school from which they graduated. In , Rhett and Link moved out of their shed studio in Rhett's backyard and into a full studio building in Burbank, California.
Merle Haggard has been both Rhett and Link's favorite singer and idol since middle school , when Rhett discovered a compilation cassette in his father's collection that included "Okie from Muskogee. The experience was not quite as expected , but they finally got to meet their hero. In December , they got another chance to meet Merle , this time spending some "quality time" with him.
Along with their wives, they each submitted DNA samples to the service 23andMe in and had their genes analyzed, including both ancestral and health information. Link was found to be It's unclear if they are aware of this, as the image was discovered by a Mythical Beast.
In , Rhett and Link moved out of the first Burbank studio and into another studio building , still in Burbank. After holding out for many years , Link and his family adopted a puppy named Jade in the summer of Jade is an English long-haired miniature dachshund. Rhett stated that the McLaughlin family would follow suit and get a dog in , which was fulfilled in February, when the McLaughlins adopted a Maltese mix puppy named Barbara. Rhett and Link partnered with the new subscription service YouTube Red in to create the series Rhett and Link's Buddy System , an eight-episode scripted comedy series featuring an original song with accompanying music video integrated into each episode.
The series emerged as one of the most successful endeavors on the YouTube Red platform at the time, reaching the 1 spot in digital series in March , according to Parrot Analytics. It was officially released on October 10, Rhett and Link were first notified of this accomplishment in the middle of a Facebook livestream about the book.
The book's release was accompanied by a touring music and comedy show called the " Tour of Mythicality " spread over several months in ; it was Rhett and Link's first-ever live touring event as professional entertainers. They expanded the Tour of Mythicality to Australia for 3 shows in July , in addition to adding 3 shows in northeast North America in November Link's hair began going naturally gray sometime in his 30s.
In , he revealed he had been coloring his gray hair for at least 5 years to cover it up but that he would stop doing so and let his gray hair show. Also premiering in late November 6, , toward the end of Season 12, was the expansion of Good Mythical Morning into four daily episodes that totaled approximately 22 minutes, made in partnership with YouTube and brand advertisers.
It was unofficially referred to as " GMM Starting in Season 13, the number of daily videos was reduced to 3. Rhett began going to therapy in late and has since become an advocate for using therapy as a mental health aid, speaking publicly about it regularly. He expressed being overworked in the year , which led to such high stress and physical symptoms that his wife told him he needed to go to therapy for help.
Rhett revealed near the end of that he was invited to audition for the role of Taserface in the hit Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
Despite the fact that Rhett and Link don't typically go on auditions or perform separately, Rhett went through with the audition and was received very well, ending up part of a candidate group narrowed down to just 3 people.
Due to Rhett and Link's time constraints and their desire to still work as a duo, Rhett ultimately did not move forward any further with the audition process. Link's paternal grandparents were instrumental in helping to raise him as a child, and he described his Papa as being his hero. However, they shot only a few scenes and the film was left unfinished. In , Rhett wrote "The Tragedy," which recorded in detail the events surrounding a snowboarding accident that left Link with a broken pelvis and, more notably, a month's worth of memory loss [10].
Rhett attended North Carolina State University where he roomed with Link and two other friends, Gregg and Tim, and studied civil engineering. He was later laid off from this job but had been planning to leave anyway to pursue a life of entertainment with his best friend. Rhett has said he would be willing to pay a billion dollars to keep his beard. Rhett married Jessie Lane in and they have two sons named Locke born February 24, and Shepherd born in He is the second child of Diane and Jim McLaughlin.
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