Do you remember who broke up with who?
Of course I broke up with you.
Right.
Rolling on this one.
Okay, here we go.
♪ Two grown men ♪
♪ Calling their one ex girlfriend. ♪
Okay, we wanted to interrupt today's video
to acknowledge that we are not in focus--
Neither one of us!
The background is in focus,
and it's all Link's fault.
Well, you know, I made a creative choice
for the background to be in focus.
I just thought that was important.
I'm sorry, but it was an accident.
And you know what, just try to enjoy the rest of this thing,
in spite of our fuzziness.
Or just focus on the background.
Ben, do you hate us?
Yes.
We had the same first girlfriend.
Lesli.
We talk about her a lot.
I dated her-- I mean, not like every day.
We've never talked to her about it.
And so we're gonna call her.
I feel totally unprepared.
And a little nervous.
We told her we'd call her one minute ago.
And I don't wanna be late.
Why is this camera on 40% battery?
We need to cut and re-roll.
Okay. Okay.
Hold on, let me take a couple of deep breaths.
We're seven minutes late,
she's probably gonna--
She's gonna leave us, Link.
Just like she did.
All right, let's call her.
Hello! Hey, guys.
Hey!
Alright, so, can you see us, can you hear us?
Yes, I can, can you see and hear me?
Yes. Yeah, you look the same.
Excellent, that is a great compliment.
This is a little bit weird.
We talk about the fact
that you were our first girlfriend.
We've talked about it--
Which is fun.
A bunch.
How often do you find yourself Good.
talking about us?
Let's see, well, when we're talking about old times,
or I'm telling stories to my kids.
Have you heard about,
we have like, a whole bit
that we go into in different places
where we're like,
we've shared a lot of things over the years,
in fact, we each had the same first girlfriend, Lesli.
Yes, I did know that.
How has that gotten back to you?
Well, the fact is, I remember that I was your girlfriend.
Good. There's that.
That's one way.
The other way is that I saw it on video.
Y'all are funny.
I watch you, I gotta watch my friends.
We would like to reminisce a little bit.
I've got a few things that I remember
about our short lived relationship.
Right.
You may remember is Ms. Lanier's class,
we all sat in four desks
facing one another. Oh, yeah.
And I was thinking, I haven't a girlfriend before,
I'm gonna try to go with Lesli.
But it took me basically the whole year
to work up my courage, right.
What I remember thinking was,
maybe if I could touch her knee with my knee,
then I'll be in business.
And so I got long legs,
and so I just kinda sorta leaned down,
stuck my knee out.
I was probably like, sorry, you're in my space,
I can move my leg.
But then you moved away, I went a little bit lower,
you moved away again.
By the third time, I was really low in that desk.
I made contact and you said,
Rhett, you got some really long legs.
Let's switch tracks, shall we?
I had to wait all summer long for you guys to break up.
You're in Lillington, I'm over in Buies Creek,
there's no chance for romance.
Gotta wait for 7th grade to start.
Right. And that's when
we started going together.
Now, do you remember how it happened?
Was it at the party in Lillington in the train?
The caboose in Lillington at the community canter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember being so bad at being a boyfriend.
I knew I had to call you on the phone.
Like, I knew that was part of it.
I was freaking out so much
I was like, I gotta figure something out.
And I decided I was gonna write down
three things to talk about.
The planner you.
And it was like, hey, what you doing?
Have you don't your homework?
And then there's like some third wild card, like--
Hold on, but didn't you do this list
because I told you that was my technique
when I talked to Lesli?
That may be the case.
Do you remember me being horrible on the phone,
did you get a sense that both of us
were going through a script?
Everyone was horrible on the phone.
You know what we did on the phone?
We sat there and we just breathed.
Right, sometimes that's all it took.
I think I actually probably talked to you less at school
after I was going with you
because now I was scared of you.
Yeah. Right.
But I do specifically remember a dance that we went to.
Okay?
So Matthew and Amber are next to each other
and then we're sitting next to them.
There was a point in which I reached over
and I was holding your hand,
and I also had my arm around you.
So we can demonstrate Link, here.
I had my arm around--
I'm you?
You're Lesli.
Left hand, give me your left hand.
But she's short.
Shorter than you.
So give me your left hand. It was not looking right.
Give me the other hand.
Did you get frustrated with Lesli?
Well, no. Treat me like Lesli.
Okay, so we were literally doing
the interlocking of the hands.
And my arm was around you?
Yes.
And this was in 6th grade?
This was in 6th grade.
And I remember thinking,
I'm gonna kiss her, I'm gonna kiss her.
No, first of all, Lesli was not in a receptive position.
Lesli was just Thank you.
looking straight ahead,
and I was just like, I'm gonna do it,
I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it.
But then right before I worked up the courage
to actually do it,
I look up and my dad is standing in front of me saying,
let's go.
Then I released,
and I regret that.
That was your only chance.
That was it.
'Cause y'all never kissed.
And then like a week later
I just remember my mom coming into the living room
and saying, Rhett, Lesli's on the phone.
I pick up the phone and it's Amber.
And Amber tells me that the relationship is over,
but then you got on the phone and were like, are you okay?
'Cause you were very sweet.
Oh, that was nice.
But then a week later,
I heard that you were in a relationship with Tyler .
So it turns out that was a bad move.
So 7th grade we started going together.
You talk about Tyler, though,
I remember looking over your shoulder one day,
you were writing Lesli loves Tyler, is what I thought.
Lesli, Tyler.
We're going together, but she apparently
really has feelings for Tyler.
And I was like, you idiot, that's her full name.
Leslie Tyler is her name.
She was writing her freaking name.
Is that true?
That is 100% true.
I really liked writing my name.
Now, do you remember who broke up with who?
Of course I broke up with you.
I remember you called me, I'm just kinda looking down,
'cause I know what's up.
It's like, hey Link, it's Lesli.
And I'm like, yeah, I know.
I know all of it, I know what's about to happen.
Just rip the bandaid off.
Tell the story of the time that we ended up in your closet.
We snuck y'all into our house,
but we didn't really sneak you in
because you walked right through the door
next to their bedroom.
And we being-- So it's not like you were--
All of your friends over for a slumber party, just girls.
We snuck you in,
and as any good host would,
I say, are you hungry?
Yeah.
Great, let's stop by the refrigerator
and get a little something to eat.
So you grabbed some beans.
Do you hear that, beans.
Rhett ate beans.
Of course.
And we took you upstairs.
So all of a sudden, we hear my mom coming up the steps.
So you went into the closet.
Yeah.
My mom came in, and she said,
girls, who's here?
Oh, just us, mom, we're hanging out.
And she said, no, no, no, I hear boys' voices.
So then then the two of you come out of my closet,
which is just around the wall.
And Rhett, you had to like,
really duck down low.
It's like a giraffe coming out of an enclosure.
It's exactly like that,
that's exactly what it was. Holding a can of beans.
You said, hey, Ms. .
You can't hate a big man with beans.
Even if he has snuck into your house.
No.
Okay, so now that we've accessed
a little bit of the memories about these relationships,
you gotta tell us, who was a better boyfriend?
This is putting a girl in a hard spot.
Right.
Especially all these years later
when we're all married and have children
and putting this on the internet.
And you guys ended up with such great wives.
Yep, we did.
I mean, so you're the best.
We all made out like bandits.
Yeah.
Here's where it really becomes a tie,
you two were the best friends
anyone could've had in high school.
Okay, there you go.
It became completely platonic in high school.
Yes.
At that point it was just about coming over to your house
eating beans in your closet.
Simple stuff.
Nowadays, the kids are,
I mean, they're at this age when they're like,
they're figuring out all this stuff that we figured out.
If you're going through an awkward time,
if that's middle school or at any point in your life,
just look at me and--
Look at you and know good times are coming.
Good times are coming.
What are you doing with your hand, what is that?
It's just me, I'm a good time now.
Oh, okay.
When you told Ashley this was happening,
what was his response?
And he's here.
You know what, bring him in.
Hey, man.
When she told you that we had this idea to do this,
what was the first thing that came to your mind?
I just said, go with it.
I knew it was gonna be fun.
Did you have a best friend who dated her first,
and then you had to wait for them to break up?
So I had to ask her out three different times.
Did you ever try to touch her knee with your knee?
Yes.
It doesn't matter who was the better boyfriend
because you married Ashley.
Alright.
Good to see you guys, we miss you.
Good to see you. Good to see you.
Alright. Tell Christie
and Jessie and everybody we said hey.
Okay, we'll do it. We will.
Alright. See you guys.
Bye. Bye.
Bye-bye.
That was good.
It was a little awkward for me, especially in the beginning,
but, you know what,
I'm just reminded why she's a good friend.
Not a girlfriend, just a good friend.
We've all ended up in the perfect place
where we need to be
with the people that we love the most, our soulmates.
I will say, I feel like a little bit of closure
has been brought to me.
Being able to go back to that person
who was on the other end of all that
and just get their perspective,
and realize that she doesn't even think about it at all.
You know what, closure.
She used to be my.
♪ Middle school girlfriend ♪
♪ I never got to see her in her head gear ♪
♪ In the moonlight ♪
♪ If she only knew what she was missing ♪
♪ As she was dissing ♪