♪ Link can see clearly now, the glasses are gone. ♪
- (laughs) Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music begins)
Good Mythical Morning!
- Link, how often do you think to yourself,
man, if I didn't have these stupid double monocles
on my face, I'd be normal like everybody else?
- Never used the term stupid or double monocle
when related to my glasses.
I kind of like 'em but yeah, there are times when I think
especially in an athletic forum.
- Yeah, you're always in those athletic forums,
every time I turn around.
- I wish I didn't have to have these
stupid double monocles on my face.
Yes, the answer is yes.
- Today you are in luck because I'm going
to take you through a series of exercises
that stand a very good chance of allowing you
to be able to see without your double monocles.
- For reals?
- Yes.
- All right. - You ready?
- I'm in.
- Let's get to experimenting in
'Can we fix Link's optix?'
Yes, I'm going to be using something called
the Bates method, over a hundred years old.
It's based on the theory that your eyes,
the reason that they sometimes don't work is because
they're under too much tension and all you have to do-
- Well, they all the times don't work.
- All the times is just relax the eyes
so it's a series of exercises to just
relax the eyeballs and allow you to see
and there's still people today who swear by this
and we're gonna find out today, does it work?
Don't relax that much.
- [Link] Oh, okay. (laughs) - Don't don't scare me.
- But I wanna get a baseline first.
So as you can see over here, we have an eye chart.
- I can see it great.
- Please remove your double monocles.
- Oh.
- Yeah, that's that's how we're gonna test
whether or not it actually works.
- Doing both eyes at the same time
'cause that's how I look-
- I just wanna see which line you can get to
and successfully read without the assistance
of your glasses so why don't you just start on seven?
Start on seven.
- [Link] F E L O P two D.
- That's actually a Z, but I'm gonna give it to you.
- And what about eight?
O E F G T E C
- You missed a couple there.
- It's really blurry, but I'm-
- But you only successfully got through seven,
eight was very spotty so we're gonna call you a seven
even though you called the Z a two and there are
no numbers up there except the ones on the end.
- [Link] Oh, okay.
- Okay? - That's your problem.
- So you're level seven Link, your your eyesight is
it's currently level seven.
Let's get started with the first method.
Palming.
The ultimate way to relax your eyes is
to have your eyes do absolutely no work at all
and that means to stare into the void.
But we can't create a void and the Bates method,
it doesn't assume that you can find a void.
- Right, I've been looking.
- Use your palms so what I want you to do is
just like the lady in the picture here Link,
I want you to cover your eyeballs with your palms.
The key is to get absolutely
- I'm doing it! - No light in.
Hold on, don't get too excited yet.
Just because this is an old method and I wanna make sure
that we're doing our due diligence.
So face me a little bit.
- I don't know why I'm talking louder just 'cause
my eyes are closed. - Face me a little bit.
Face me a little bit.
- Okay, I also can't hear you. (laugh)
- I'm gonna make sure... now these are not my hands, okay?
I need some help here, I'm just making sure
that all the light has been blocked out.
Could you just hold those in place?
- That's helping a lot.
I'm getting more void.
Now my eyes should be open under here, right?
It's like I'm... oh, what is that, a scarf?
- Yeah, you look great.
- Oh my goodness.
- Okay, now if you let go of those.
All right, now just hold that for a little bit.
- I'm in the void.
- Yeah.
Okay, that's enough of the void.
- I feel like I went deep in the void.
- All right, we're coming outta the void Link.
- I'm like Houdini, if Houdini was really crazy.
Oh my goodness. - [Rhett] Sorry.
- You smacked my freaking glasses with the mannequin hand!
- I didn't do it, the mannequin hand did it.
- But you know what?
I'm not gonna need these after this anyway.
- Who cares?
Okay Link, let's check in with the chart.
- Okay.
- Let's see what level you can get to now.
Why don't you just try eight again?
- W F F G...
- [Rhett] What? - F B C.
- How did it get so much worse?
You started with a W.
Last time you only missed two letters.
- O? Is it an O?
- No, that's what you said last time.
Okay, so it was pretty much the same.
Are you ready for a second method?
- Don't give up yet brother.
- Visualization.
Link, this next exercise helps you
to rely on your brain and not so much on your eyes.
'Cause sometimes according to the Bates method
your eyes are just working too hard
when your brain is all that needs to be working
and accepting the information from your eyes.
- I can feel my eyes working hard now without my glasses.
I'm getting a headache. - Just relax a little bit.
I can see you've kind of got a furrowed brow.
Just stay in this relaxed state
and your vision will be cured in just a second.
That's great.
That is the perfect relaxation state that you should be in.
But I do want you to put your blindfold on real quick.
Because again, you're gonna be using
your mind's eye, not your actual eyes.
Okay, so Link, what I'm gonna ask you to do
is to visualize something and then I'm gonna
take you deeper and deeper and deeper
and smaller and smaller and smaller into this visualization
and it's gonna help train your mind's eye
to see very small things, okay?
- What? Okay.
- It's gonna work, trust me.
I want you to visualize a sandwich in front of you.
- All right.
- It is a peanut butter and relish sandwich, your favorite.
- Never heard of that.
- Can you see it?
Are you visualizing it? - Yeah, it's white bread.
I don't know, it's-
- [Rhett] I want you to visualize it being wheat bread.
- [Link] Oh, it's wheat bread, okay.
- And I want you to visualize a mustard heart on top of it.
- I see it.
- And on top of the mustard there's even smaller
sprinklies, really small sprinklies.
- And when I see it in my mind's eye
is it blurry or is it crisp?
- It's as crisp as you want your mind to see it.
- Okay, it's very crisp.
- They're green sprinklies.
- Green sprinklies, very crisp.
- Right on top of the green sprinklies,
there's little Rhett hairs.
- Yes, they're very hard to see
but I can see them because - [Rhett] Really small.
- I have 2020 vision, I can see it.
- And then on the Rhett hairs there's hair mites,
little bugs because he didn't wash.
- So if I zoom in...
- [Rhett] Yeah, little tiny- - Zoom in on my vision
I can see some mites crawling around
on my mustard hearted sandwich.
- [Rhett] And then the mites, they're eating a sandwich.
- I'm zooming in and yes.
- You see them?
- Those mites are eating a sandwich.
- What kind of sandwich do they have?
- It's a peanut butter and relish mustard-covered
hair-drenched glitter sprinkled sandwich.
- Yeah.
Take the blindfold off.
- Oh no! (laughs) It's here!
- [Rhett] Yeah. - [Link] It's really here.
- How's that, Link?
- It explains why I smelled mustard.
- Now the next part of the Bates method is
you must eat the sandwich.
These ingredients are shown to help your eyes.
Not true.
- I'll do that later.
- Okay Link.
I would like you to test your eyes once again.
The chart is a little bit different now.
So if you could start with level seven
which we know you can read
and just read that out loud for us.
- Not too faulty.
- [Rhett] There you go.
- I can read it.
- All right, if you want, you can also just read
one two and three just by sounding out the letters.
- E I C U P P.
- Uh-huh. (laughs)
Yeah, no you don't.
I don't let you watch. (laughs)
- So for eight.
Yeah, like I've been asking.
I love how you... I know you've been asking
but I don let him watch.
- You can eat a sandwich covered in my hair
but I'm not gonna let you watch me pee pee.
- I've never asked.
- Not anymore. - To watch him pee.
- Not after what happened, I'm not gonna
let you watch me pee pee. - And it's never happened.
- Okay, level eight, let's see.
Let's see if you can read that.
- D E F P...
- [Rhett] Whoa, whoa.
- Q T C C E C.
- You got better, man!
Only thing you missed was you called the O a Q.
- Yep and that's just 'cause I don't know my letters.
It's working.
- Swinging.
All right Link, you ready for some swinging?
- Wait, what are we about to do? (laughs)
- It's only with your eyes.
- Okay. - Don't worry.
Okay so Bates had this theory that if you were to
focus on something, an object that was moving quickly
in front of a background, that if you could just
relax your eyes and just focus on that object
that you could enhance your relaxation
and we already know it's working,
your vision's getting better!
- One up to Bates. - So sure this one's
gonna work. - Okay.
- Okay, so what I want you to do is
I have a little item over there, it's Alex's face.
I would like to bring in the spinny chair
- Looked like a blob to me.
- 'Cause basically the-
- No offense Alex, I don't have my glasses on.
- The way that this exercise is supposed to work is
you're supposed to go like this and just focus on Alex
as you move around but listen, again, this is 2016.
Step into this chair, my friend
and I want you to focus on Alex's face.
I know that's easy for you to do,
focus on Alex and do not focus on the background
that will be...
- Alex!
Feeling nauseous.
I'm never gonna look at Alex without wanting to vomit.
(groans)
I feel like an ice skater.
- Okay, all right.
Now you can come back up here.
- Oh.
Oh my gosh.
- Okay, now put down Alex.
- Oh my goodness, everything...
Oh. - Link.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on.
- Focus on the chart.
No, you gotta do it while it's fresh.
- I can't... the chart's moving!
- No, just focus on the chart!
Go for line eight, Link.
- Okay, I'm going... - You can do it.
- T F, what is that, is that an A? F G.
Nothing has been right so far.
- Focus on the third character.
See if you can get the third character.
- [Link] A!
- No, it's a dookie emoji but it is shaped like an A.
That's not bad. (Link laughs)
But you haven't gotten any of the letters right.
- Who needs letters when you got a dookie emoji?
- You wanna spin some more?
- Maybe the opposite direction.
- I don't think that's how it works.
I don't think you can undo it.
I don't think you can undo your dizziness.
Okay, let's move on to the last exercise.
Sunning.
This may seem a little counterintuitive
since we've been told by all the experts
that we should keep our eyes out of the sun
and wear sunglasses all the time.
But according to debates, that's all wrong.
We should be staring at the sun or at least exposing
the white parts of our eyes to the sun.
It's called sunning.
Link, first I just wanna make sure that you
can expose the white parts of your eyes.
Can I see 'em?
- I think I have to hold them.
- [Rhett] Oh gosh.
- Did I do it?
Do my bidding, humans of the earths.
I am here to... uh... to farm your... your cities.
- You think this is what aliens are gonna be like?
- Yeah, it's only in the eyes.
- There's gonna be guys going like this?
- Yep. - Humans of the earth.
- I can still see your eyes, you can't do it.
- Okay, all right, I don't have to do it.
I have 20/20 vision without glasses already.
You're about to.
- Great point.
I should stare at the sun and you shouldn't.
- Yeah, now Link, I had a little work done last night.
We now have a sunroof and I can control it with my phone.
- What? (alarm blares)
Oh wow.
- [Rhett] Look at that. - That's crazy.
- Look at that, wow!
- Looks expensive too, man.
- It was very pricey. - [Link] Dude.
- All right Link, do your alien thing.
Expose the white parts of your eyes directly to the sun.
Sun them.
Surely this is good for you.
Your eye tissues. (Link groans)
- This doesn't seem healthy.
- Hold on.
There, you were in the... you were cheating, man.
- Why do you want me to open my mouth?
- No, I was trying to move your head.
You can close your mouth.
Right there, there you go.
Get the sun in there.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
A couple more seconds.
(Link groans)
- Okay, let it go.
Let 'em down.
Let me close the roof. (alarm blares)
- That is amazing. - That's so handy.
Yeah, it comes with an app.
- Wow!
Okay, here we go.
Everything's blue, first of all.
- Okay Link, just start from the top
and just read the words.
- [Link] Rural. - What was that?
- Rural.
- Okay, whatever that was.
- Come on man! - Rural!
- I can see it, I just can't say it.
- [Rhett] All right, second line.
- [Link] E U O U A E-
- No, it's a word man.
- Euouae!
- That's perfect! - That's not a word.
- [Rhett] Third line.
- An enemy.
Amenome.
Anemone!
- Yeah, there you go.
- [Link] Sacophony.
- [Rhett] Wow, line five, you got this one.
- (stutters) Okay.
- Yeah, you know this, man.
You got it.
- [Link] Aesthetician.
- Oh, nice.
How about line six?
- Sesquipedalian.
- Wow, you're doing really good, man.
Your eyes are working so well!
(Link stutters)
Your mouth is not working well.
- Sesquipedalian.
- But yeah. - It's tough.
Subdermatoglyphic.
(stutters)
Subdermato-
- You got it, there you go.
- All right, now for the pay dirt
- Line eight.
- Mm.
That's it, it's a bunch of M's. (laughs)
Bunch of blurs, man.
Getting real blurry.
(stutters)
I got nothing.
(stutters)
- Huh?
- I gets nasty.
- [Rhett] Can you make any of it out?
- No, none of it.
- It's (stutters) antidisestablishmentarianism.
(Link stutters) Yeah, that word.
That word from Mary Poppins. - I've heard of that.
- Gosh, let me- - Is that were it's from?
(Link exclaims)
Is that where the word's from?
- Finally.
- You know what?
I will say while your vision was basically
back to normal at the end after staring into the sun,
you actually had some improvement
after step two, which was visualization.
So if you just use your brain a little bit more
you'd have better eyesight.
- That's it folks, if I just pretend
like I'm seeing things sharply, I will.
- The interesting thing is, is all these
have been proven to be faults.
(crew laughs)
So I was just kind of messing with you,
but it actually worked.
- Just kind of messing with me?
- Maybe Bates was onto something
or maybe he wasn't, according to scientists.
- Thanks Mr. Bates.
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I've got an announcement about me wearing contacts.
- Create a password to a secret club.
Hey, listen, we got the club.
I know it's just the two of us but I mean,
before we expand, gotta get a password.
Like why should it be?
- Yeah, well...
Password? No. - Nah, that's too easy.
- Word pass?
- What if it's just you just open your mouth
like you're about to say something?
- And then you look through the door.
You can't see through the door.
- How's that though?
- That's good, we're just gonna have to
put a peek hole in the door.
- A pee hole?
- A peek hole.
- Oh, thanks for clarifying.
Well, first of all, if it's a hot day,
you've got the shade down.
I've never used one of those,
but you gotta get the shade down, fold it up, tie it down.
That's a (indistinct). (Link laughs)