Why be bored when you can be unbored?
Let's talk about that.
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So you know the drill: questions about boredom,
- answers from us. - Oh, wow.
- Hand diamonds. - Uh, hand diamonds.
Making noises.
Tiffany Lowe asks, "What can I do if I'm bored at work?"
Well, it's a great question to ask the two of us
because we both have a lot of experience being bored at work
because we were engineers before we were Internetainers.
Oh, yes. Step one is become an engineer when the economy is tanking.
- Right, and-- - And then you will bored.
- And then step three-- - That's literally what happened to me.
I was at a job where we had no projects
and I would go into work and do absolutely no work
for weeks on end-- before I got laid off,
- along with a lot of other people. - (Link laughs)
But I became an expert.
I think one of the keys, besides just surfing the internet,
- surfing the web-- - We called it the web.
(Rhett) Yeah, we called it the web back in 2002.
One of the keys is to make things that shouldn't take very long
take a long time.
Like, for instance, one of the things I used to do
is if I wanted to get a snack from the snack machine
and then a drink from the drink machine,
don't make that one trip, make that two trips.
Go all the way downstairs and get the snack,
then go back up, eat the snack and be like,
"I need a drink."
Go back down, get the drink, and come back.
Also, the long way to the bathroom.
Yeah, I love the long way to the bathroom.
Like, you could look into people's cubes.
I could take 25 minutes to get to the bathroom.
Right. And then by the time--
And then spend 25 minute in the bathroom.
(crew laughs)
It's a whole hour almost.
What I would do is called "rest up" before a meeting.
Oh, yeah.
IE, take a nap in your truck.
(both laugh)
When I worked for IBM, I had to get my truck
and drive to different buildings for different meetings,
and I would get there-- I would drive really slowly,
and when I would get there in the parking lot, I would--
That guy must be having car trouble.
- (Link laughs) - His transmissions out.
(imitates engine tanking) I would get there in the parking lot,
and then I would lay down and go to sleep.
- Yeah, that's the best. - And until I woke up.
Yeah, until the meeting.
If I missed the meeting, I missed the meeting.
But it was just a two-seater truck.
I couldn't even put the seat back. I had to lay sideways.
I might as well just have gotten into the truck bed
because people were walking by and it was like a dude
- who lived out of his car. - "Yeah, there he is again."
- With my Nextel phone. - (Rhett) Sure it's dress night.
I had one of those Nextel phones that was as big as a brick
and as heavy as a brick and it went, "Bloop bloop!"
- And it was yellow and black. - I recall it.
It was a construction phone.
I thought, because I was an engineer, I should get that phone.
Yeah, you gotta have that durable phone.
And when I got really bored, I would just push buttons on it.
You could also do that.
(Rhett) You could just get a job that isn't boring.
Just bloop bloop yourself whenever you get bored.
Bloop bloop yourself. All right.
No one else ever answered.
- (Link) Bloop bloop! - Okay, now let's get awkward.
Last week, we re-enacted an awkward teenage moment from Dakota.
I have seven nipples.
And now it's time for another one submitted by a Mythical Beast.
Because we here at GMM believe that embarrassing moments
shouldn't stay embarrassing.
They should morph into fond reminiscing and laughter.
Right. And just like teen awkwardness, we have teen acne,
and that's why we teamed up with our friends over at Clearasil
to re-enact some of your hilariously awesome awkward teenage moments.
Okay, now this week's re-enactment comes from Tracey Hopper
and her pet guinea pig.
Yeah, and keep in mind that the details from this story
comes straight from Tracey herself.
(narrator) It's time for Rhett and Link's Reen-Acne-Ments!
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(Rhett) Like many girls her age, Tracey had a best friend.
But Tracey's best friend was a little different.
Tracey's best friend was her guinea pig named Waylon.
Like Waylon Jennings.
(Rhett) Tracey and Waylon did everything together.
They had long talks together.
My favorite food is pizza with no sauce and cheese on the side.
What's your favorite food, Waylon?
Pellets.
(Rhett) They played games together.
(pieces rattle)
(Tracey laughs) (Rhett munches loudly)
(croaking laughter continues)
(Rhett) When Tracey returned home from vacation,
Waylon would squeal and hold out his arms for her to pick him up.
No! No, no, no, nooooo!
(Rhett) They even bathed together.
Until Tracey's mom said they shouldn't do that.
(door opens)
Um, no.
(Rhett) Then one night, while Tracey and Waylon were cuddling in bed,
Tracey fell asleep.
As Tracey slept, Waylon did the unthinkable.
He ate off her bangs!
(nibbling)
(Tracey shrieks)
(Rhett) But it gets worse.
The next day was school picture day.
Waylon's work was immortalized in that year's school year book.
- (camera shutter snaps) - (Rhett) But Tracey's horrible haircut
didn't last forever and neither did Waylon.
♪ (oldies music) ♪
And we just wanna clarify Tracey's guinea pig
was not actually 6'7".
Our guinea pig had to be 6'7" due to casting restrictions.
Right. Now let's move on to something a little less awkward:
another question!
This one comes from J-H-G-N-Z-L-S... don't know how to pronounce that.
But they ask, "Can you get bored of being bored?"
No, you cannot get bored of being bored.
But you can get bored of being bored of being bored.
Right, but you cannot get bored of being bored
of being bored of being bored.
However, you can get bored of being bored
of being bored of being bored of being bored.
But you cannot get bored of being bored of being bored of being bored
- of being bored... - (both) Of being bored.
So keep that in mind. It's very important.
Next question.
Treyton Nugent asks, "Is it a good idea to write songs when I'm bored?"
Treyton, thanks for this question.
It actually reminded us that our favorite band, Chunk,
- actually-- - Yes.
I feel like in that documentary that they've been making,
they actually addressed this question directly.
- They do. - Yeah, yeah.
Plus the documentary's not finished, but I think we have some footage.
- We have access to footage. - We always have access to the footage.
So this is Chunk's take on boredom.
(in British accent) It is not uncommon for us
to get super, super, super, super, super, super bored.
Boring! Boringness happens a lot.
And you don't wanna get bored when you're trying to write a song.
Definitely not.
We've got a system. We've got a system.
Well, we've got steps.
It's not steps. You can do them in any order.
The first thing you've got to do is a word association game
where he says a word, and then I say the first word--
- He associates. - That I'm associated with.
- Butterfly. - Torture.
- Rainbow sprinkles. - Murder!
- Talking unicorn. - Scabs.
Oh, we also like to stare at hot things, flames and whatnot.
It's not working.
- No, you've got to push on that. - Push?
You pull on down on that.
- You have to push forward on that-- - Two buttons?!
- Yeah, two buttons. - At the same time?
I'll do this one, you do that one.
- (Link stammers) - There you go. There it is.
We've tried staring into the restaurant candles
that are fake candles.
That's boring.
That's even more boring than not staring at anything.
You get super bored of fake candles.
(Rhett) We hate fake candles.
- (both shriek) - YOUR HAIR!!!
- (Rhett blows frantically) - (Link chimes in)
(Rhett) And then one time, this is something that happened organically.
He just opened the door and I just screamed.
I screamed right in his face.
- He was like, "That was fun." - It was not boring.
- At all! - But it wasn't fun.
So we do that too. We make it a practice.
- (Rhett) Open, close. - (Link screams feebly)
- (Link) Open, close. - (Rhett screeches loudly)
Sometimes we tickle each other.
Yeah, it's a tickle party, really.
- Tickle party. - You first.
(Link giggles girlishly)
Creeping mouse, creeping mouse,
- going up to the Rocksfeld's house! - (Rhett cackles loudly)
- (making tickling noises) - Oh! Oh! Oh!
That's a dig! That's not a tickle.
Why do you gotta be so sensitive?!
Well, you're digging!
You're a blubbering fiddleburger.
(menacingly) What did you call me?
(lowly) A blubbering fiddlebur--
- (smack!) - OOF!
(Rhett) It is physically impossible to be bored while being tickled.
(scuffling)
(Link) It's also good for our relationship.
- (punches land) - (Link groans)
(Rhett) A tickle party always works. Always works.
Well, you're not bored anymore.
(silence)
Right?
(Link, wearily) No.
(silence)
(clicking tongue) Sorry.
(clicking tongue) It's okay. I'm not bored anymore.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think Chunk needs counseling.
Yeah, you know, I just really hope
they find a way to finish that documentary.
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(both) And we're from Everett, Pennsylvania,
and it's time to spin...
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Click through to Good Mythical More, where you get the story
- behind... this. - (groans in disgust)
"World's worst court steographer."
- Ladies and gentlement of the jury-- - (Link taps table)
Um, excuse me, you're gonna have to slow down
a little bit, mister.
I'm over here typing what you're saying.
- (very slowly) Ladies and gentlemen... - (Link groans in frustration)
...of the jury. - Aah, I'm out of paper.
Hold for a second. (imitates removing paper)
Do we have any paper?
Why don't you just write on your hand?
Write on your hand. Write on your freaking hand.
I'll just write on my-- continue, I'm ready.
I have a pencil.
(extra slow) Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...
- (Link groans) - COULD YOU?!
I probably should've gotten a pen for this.
Ha ha ha! (laughter continues)
[Captioned by Sara: GMM Captioning Team]
How would things be different?
That'd be enough of a reason to kill you.