- Today we dance the pain away.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat intro song)
Good mythical morning.
- Ah, dance.
It can be a pleasure
but it can also be a pain.
- Ooh. - And we asked you
to ask us some questions about dance.
You've come to the right place.
Mythical Laura asks,
"How can I dance all night in high heels
"without getting sore feet?"
- Mmm, I feel your pain Mythical Laura
and the answer actually according to Oxford University
is to dance in perfect synchronicity
with other people in high heels.
They released a study which said
that when you dance in sync like--
- Boy band. - Like a boy band,
your pain tolerance drastically increases,
much more than just if you exercise
or just if you dance normally.
- That explains why those boy bands are so tough.
- Yes, they endure so much pain from their own music.
- Right.
- But, I'm not gonna ask you
to take Oxford University's word for it.
- Yeah, who are they? - We're gonna ask you
to take our work for it
after testing out to see if it works for us.
It's time for Will Synchronized Dance Decrease the Chance
of Pain's Exist-ance?
- Okay, so we're gonna be dancing in three different rounds.
The first time we're going to dance apart from one another,
then we're going to dance together but unsynchronized,
and then we're going to dance together and synchronized
and after each one of those rounds,
we're going to measure our pain tolerance
to see if it has increased over time.
- But first, we need to establish
our baseline pain tolerance.
- Yes.
- So we've got a TENS unit hooked up
which is gonna send an electric pulse
down our forearm
or up, I don't know which direction it's gonna go
but we're gonna determine when it moves from discomfort
to starting to feel like pain.
- Right, this isn't a test of manhood
to see who can be the toughest dude.
This is about finding out when it goes
from discomfort to pain.
So we will--
- Fire it up at a lower level.
- Ellie, is going to indicate what level we're at
and we will give an indication of where we're at.
We will say uncle when we feel pain.
- Yes.
- [Ellie] Alright.
- Okay, little wince.
- [Ellie] Level one.
- Just a slight buzz.
- Ooh, it--
- [Ellie] Okay.
- Ooh, it feels, feels weird.
It makes my legs move.
- [Ellie] Level two.
- Ooh, my arm, ooh!
- [Ellie] Level three.
- Okay. - Look at,
I'm not moving my,
uncle. - Okay.
- Level four. - Look.
- Okay, level four, uncle, uncle, level four for me,
uncle. - Okay.
So I'm at three.
When my hand was coming up like that it's just,
that was involuntary.
- You weren't calling somebody and say,
come here, baby.
- Baseline established.
(upbeat music)
Okay, we each have a track that we're gonna be dancing to
playing in our earbuds
so as to isolate our musical experience
from the other person.
We also have a black veil
to isolate ourselves physically from one another
so as not to be influenced. - I can't see you.
I can't see you,
I can't feel you either.
Touch the membrane, Link.
- Okay, there you are. - Hi.
- That's enough of that.
- Okay, are you ready to dance?
- Yes.
- Ready and dance.
(hip hop music)
(slow guitar music)
♫ What's for breakfast?
♫ Is it ham and eggs or cinnamon toast
♫ Or pancakes with my maple
♫ Bring in the paper, brew the coffee
♫ Buck it like a bronco
(upbeat music)
- Okay, are you done over there?
- Yeah.
- Whoa, you seem out of breath,
I'm not.
What was your song about?
- I don't know, energy.
It was intensity.
- It wasn't a woman like going through her Apple notes
about what she was gonna do for the day
to a cool guitar?
- No.
- Well, mine was.
Okay, let's test our pain tolerance.
- I want to hear that one.
- I'll play it for you later.
- Mmhmm.
- [Ellie] Level two.
- Ooh, come here baby.
- [Ellie] Level three.
- [Link] Ooh.
- [Ellie] Level four.
- Ah, yep, painish,
- Level five. - pain, pain, stop, pain.
- Uncle.
- I think I stopped on four.
- And I went to five.
So a slight--
- We relatively went up.
- A slight increase.
- But my intense music had no greater effect
than your whatever list
music you were listening to. - I felt so relaxed and ready
to make eggs and pay that bill.
(upbeat music)
Okay, now we are going to dance together
but not synchronized
just like two dudes at the club.
- Yeah, two dudes, man. - Hey, man.
- We didn't come together but hey, here you are,
here I am. - Hit it!
(club music)
- Cool club.
- You come here often?
- First time, man.
(laughter)
- Hey, what kind of club is that?
- We almost started to sync there.
So yeah, we almost got synced up at the end there
which was weird for a couple of reasons
but also not good for science.
- I think it's 'cause we don't have enough club experience,
we didn't know how to,
we didn't know what to do.
- Yeah.
- We started to depend on one another,
codependency in the club.
- Yeah, well it's survival of the funkiest.
- Okay, let's test this--
- Alright, hit me.
- Pain tolerance.
- [Ellie] Okay, level one.
- There it is, level one,
that old familiar feeling of
weirdness. - Level two.
- Level two, hello.
- [Ellie] Level three.
- Okay, yeah.
- Oh yeah.
- [Ellie] Level four.
- Oh.
- Level five. - Yep, yep,
uncle, uncle - It's starting to feel good.
Oh yeah.
Uh uh, okay, that's the pain.
- Whoa, you went to six and I stayed at five.
Whoa!
- Yeah, take down the black curtain buddy.
(upbeat music)
Alright, now it's time to get fully synchronized.
- But first, we need our full group,
the Shiny Dancers.
- And hit it!
(upbeat music)
(laughter) (clapping)
Yeah guys, let's bring the pain.
(sighing)
- We gotta take that group on the road, man.
- Yeah.
- I mean, that's the best thing we've ever done.
- And then leave 'em.
(laughter)
- Okay let's--
- Guys, just get out here.
- Let's test the pain tolerance.
If science is true, it's gonna go up.
- Mmhmm.
- [Ellie] Level one.
- Mmhmm, there it was. - Level two.
- Wew!
- [Ellie] Level three.
- Feels weird but it's not hurting.
- Yeah, it feels kinda nice.
- Level five. - Ooh, yeah.
Oh yeah.
- [Ellie] Level six.
- Oh, it's weird.
- [Ellie] Level seven.
- Okay, okay, okay, uncle - Wow, uncles.
- Yeah, that's,
before it was just like a nice little massage
that was getting a little too aggressive.
- But hey, I mean,
I don't know if it's the heat of this suit
or just how great we feel.
- I think it might just be the physical exertion
but I don't know,
maybe it is the synchronized dancing.
I feel like I could take a lot of pain right now.
Don't punch me though.
- There you have it, Laura.
So get you one of these suits
and some other friends in their suits.
It won't be weird at all.
- No, it won't.
- Thank you. - Your feet won't hurt.
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- You know what time it is.
- My name is Annie Hite and I'm from Sandusky, Ohio
and right now I'm in Columbus for a dance competition
and it's time to spin the wheel of mythicality.
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- Yes.
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