- We said what?
- Let's talk about that.
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- "Good Mythical Morning!"
- As we have discussed before,
human memories are highly unreliable
and they're susceptible to being influenced
and altering all sorts of unexpected ways,
at least I think we've discussed that before (snaps).
- In fact, there are a number of instances
of us saying things on this show,
and then many of you have pointed out
that we've contradicted ourselves using previous episodes.
- No, no.
- So today, we gonna lean into that.
We're gonna test how well we can accurately remember
things that we've said on GMM.
It's time for:
As humans we have many faults,
but will our memories turn out false?
Shout out to actor Christoph Waltz.
- You just rhyme false with faults.
- That's right. - But then Waltz.
- Waltz, that's all--
- Okay, here's what we're gonna do.
We've dug up some old GMM clips of one another
in which we gave a strong opinion
or belief about something very specific,
and before we reveal each clip,
we're gonna give each other the opportunity
to try to remember what we said,
and then we're gonna play the clip
and see how great or terribly our merv., memory.
(murmurs) Murmury.
- You don't remember how to say memory?
- Memory have served us.
- This is also a competition.
So the winner will receive a one-of-a-kind memory foam comb.
- Oh that sounds nice.
- Alright, I'm gonna test your memory first okay?
- It's like a steel trap.
- Here we go.
Alright, Rhett, in May 2014.
- Oh good month.
- You once proclaimed that no one should ever tweet
using the hashtag blank-life as in #mottolife,
#musicianlife, #bigbootylife.
- Oh yeah, that's so annoying.
- With one notable exception.
Well, I'll accept one,
but you actually gave three notable exceptions.
If you can remember any one of those,
I'll give you the point.
- I think this is somebody who what they do matters,
matters more than all the people that just, you just listed.
- Mm-hmm.
- And it's like notable
and people would actually want to know.
So I'm just gonna go back into that part of my brain.
- Right, go in that part of your brain.
- An astronaut.
- If you saw somebody tweet,
okay astronaut, #astronautlife.
- Why y'all laughing, that's a good answer.
It must not be the right one,
but I'm going with astronaut
because it seems something that like I would be into that.
- Alright, let's go back to May 2014
and see if he remembers correctly.
- Don't hashtag anything with--
- Or maybe it's Kylie.
- life in it, like model-life.
I see this all, actor-life.
- You see this all the time?
- Musician-life.
Yeah people are like oh writing songs 3:00 a.m.
Whatever comes to me, musicians-life.
Come on now, really?
Now unless you're an animal,
'cause if you're like doing something very dolphin-like
at 3:00 a.m. and you're like dolphin-life,
I'm into that.
- If you're a dolphin.
or I think maybe a gorilla or a chimpanzee
has probably tweeted.
Dolphin, gorillas, you're sitting on that.
(buzzard buzzes) Do you remember that?
You don't get a point.
Sadly, I do not remember that, Link.
- Yeah, it's weird, I don't.
We do a lot, we say a lot,
and we seem pretty passionate about it.
- Alright, Link, in August, 2014,
- Mm-hmm.
- you once shared a rule
involving personal space on the subway.
You said if two people are crammed so close together
on the subway that their bodies are touching
in more than two places, something must happen.
- And my first thought is you must say something.
You must acknowledge the closeness,
But maybe I said you must keep silent.
(studio members laugh)
I don't even know what I would have thought back then,
but right now I would say
you must keep silent,
but you know what,
I think I said you must acknowledge the touching.
So I'm going with acknowledge to touching,
but I'm a different man now.
Alright, let's watch the clip.
- If you are touching more than two places
with an individual that you do not know,
like are their shoulder touch, there's a knee touch,
and there's like a wrist touch
because like we're slammed together in a subway.
- It's kinda weird.
We wouldn't sit like this probably.
- In a crowded subway, you might.
I feel like at this point the rule is
you have to talk to them.
- Hey, man.
- But you should do it with an apologetic look on your face.
- I'm sorry, where you from?
- Hey, I actually live in the subway.
(laughing together)
Hey, I got it right.
- Alright, that's right. (bell dings)
- And I would not speak to anyone now.
I would not take my own rule.
- You didn't add the apologetic tone,
but that was pretty good.
I mean you basically remembered it.
You have to acknowledge it and talk to them.
- I feel like I guess I've grown as a person,
and I got a point which is more important.
- Give me one.
- I'm gonna give you one,
but first I'm gonna plug this sweatshirt.
(studio members laugh)
Feel Good Mythical Morning.
You wanna feel good in a sweatshirt,
- That's a nice sweatshirt.
- Then get this at mythical.com.
I was thinking, a lot of people say
watching this show makes them feel good.
I was like, we should put that on a shirt,
and the shirt should feel good.
- Yeah, it's very soft. - We've done it.
It's three-dimensional, the lettering.
It's not just printed,
but like you can feel the feel goodness.
- Right.
- Pretty happy about it.
It's great on a construction site too.
- Right, or what about biking at night.
- Alright, you've given a number of parenting tips
on this show.
There's one thing you said, never do.
Oh no, you said you never do it with your kids
because you believe it's bad parenting,
and that dads who do it are quote losers.
What is that thing?
This is from August, 2017.
So it's not as far back as these other ones.
- Dads who do this thing are losers?
- Yep, you never do this with your kids.
Dads who do it are losers.
- (laughs) The thing is is that
- Yep.
- I don't know what part of my brain to go into.
- Right.
I don't know if is it the part
that I was actually saying something I think
or the 99% of time I'm just BS-ing.
- Boy, that's progress.
99% of the time he's BS-ing.
- I think it has something to do with like
calling your child your like best friend
or something like that. (studio member laughs)
I know that sounds harsh, but you're not,
it's not your best friend, it's your son,
and you're the dad.
They have friends, you have friends.
I mean you have a friendly relationship.
Did I say something like that?
- Let's find out.
- That's pretty harsh.
- I've never really looked at my children's toys.
(studio members laugh)
I don't believe in that.
I believe that's bad parenting
when you get down on their level and you play with them.
I've never thought that.
Whenever I see a dad doing that,
I'm like oh what a loser.
- Getting down on your kid's level and playing with them.
(buzzard buzzes) Yeah, I still believe that.
- It was even harsher than what you guessed.
You don't get a point.
- Dang it, this is hard!
Okay. - Alright.
In August, 2016, at one point on the show
you discussed the concept of the uncanny valley.
Essentially the closer someone resembles a human
or something resembles a human
the more humans are creeped out by that thing.
You proposed the theory as to why humans
would be creeped out by humanoid robots.
What was the theory?
- This is the level of thinking
that I didn't know I ever did.
- I think you just gotta go back to that place.
That's what you did for the first one, you just.
Don't try to remember what you said.
Just think about what you would say now.
- I think it's that you're afraid of being intimate
with something that's not really human.
- Play the clip.
- I think even more so it's mate selection.
I think deep down whenever we look at something like a robot
we're asking ourselves do I wanna mate with that.
(laughs)
I'm not saying consciously.
I'm saying subconsciously, you're always thinking
do you want to mate with fill in the blank.
I did not remember that. (bell dings)
- That is crazy.
- But I just thought about
what I would have thought of about,
and I rethought it. - It's the exact same thing.
- Again, it's the concussion thing.
It's like whenever I got hit in the head,
and I kept coming to, I kept saying the same thing.
Hold on, I'm just coming to.
Evidently I've hurt my left hip.
No matter how many times I came to,
I said the exact same thing.
- Well, there's no way I'm gonna win this one. (laughs)
- In November of 2013.
- So that's a long time ago.
- You and I each made our own mind maps,
pictorial representation of a set of goals.
You remember that?
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you?
- Yeah, because you've got a question about it as well.
- Oh, okay.
- So I remembered it when I looked at the question.
- Your mind map set a list of more than 10 lifelong goals.
How many of these goals can you remember?
I'll accept three.
- I thought the mind map was a day in the life of,
but you're saying it was, this is lifelong goals.
- Yeah.
- Fly an ultralight.
- Visit Antarctica.
- What else would you have wanted to do?
- There's so many things that I wanna do.
- Since then, you may have done one of them.
- This is 2013?
- Mm-hmm.
- Something with beans?
- Something with beans, he says.
(studio members laugh)
I think you need to be more specific.
- Like bathe in a giant thing of beans?
- Okay, there's your answer so.
Visiting Antarctica, bathe in beans, and the first one?
- Fly an ultralight.
- Fly an ultralight, let's see.
- I wanna hunt for that treasure in the Rocky Mountains
that we talked about.
I would like to learn how to become a master cheese maker.
I would like to be a mayor
of a very small town at some point.
- For the water tower.
- I would like to live on an island by myself
for just a short period of time
where I am trained in hand-to-hand combat,
and then when I come back I am a superhero for hire.
I would also as I--
- Looks a lot like the Flash.
- As I stated in past episodes of the 200-year-old person,
I would like to live inside of a hollowed-out tree
at some point, and then I would like to die
while performing amazing stunts at a monster truck rally
late in life.
I'm added the fact that I would also like to do research,
intense research on renewable energy sources
because I feel like that--
- 'Cause you have time for that.
- That's the key to the future.
- With everything else that you're not gonna do.
- And in this part of my life
where I am becoming a master cheese maker,
I'm gonna have a lot of milk that I'm dealing with,
and I would like you to be a butter maker,
that's a (laughs),
and we can go in 50/50,
and I'll make the cheese and you make the butter.
It'll be called Rhett and Link's Dairy Farm.
I just, there's just, (buzzard buzzes)
I have too many things that I want to do.
I can't narrow it down.
I didn't even get one of them right.
- No, you didn't.
- I said Antarctica, which is an island.
- No, it's not, it's a continent.
- But it is an island, an island continent.
- Surrounded by water?
- It's an island continent just like Australia.
- Australia's not an island, is it?
- But I wouldn't get a point anyway.
I didn't get three.
- Yeah, that's right.
But you remembered the monster truck.
- Let's see if we can keep your streak alive, Link.
- Okay.
- You also made a mind map.
- Yes.
- Your mind map illustrated
what you wanted to achieve in a single day.
So that was why I thought that.
So you went with the day, I went with a lifetime.
Can you remember what was in the middle of your mind map?
This is November, 2013.
- Mine ended with monster trucks,
and that's the amazing thing that happened in that episode
was that we were both, that was the overlap.
We were both doing something with monster trucks,
and then I think I died in a monster truck accident.
That's my answer, died in a monster truck accident.
- The middle of your mind map
was you dying in a monster truck accident.
That's all I can remember right now.
- Okay, let's watch the clip.
- I made my mind map,
and here it is, Rhett.
Of course you can see right in the center
you have my eyeball,
and because I want to see today.
- You started with an eyeball?
So the central idea of your eye, of today is your eyeball.
- I want to see today.
- I technically think, I mean that's okay.
If it works for you, man, just do it.
I don't want to critique your mind map.
- I do want to see today, (buzzard buzzes)
but what happened to my monster truck death?
- Again. - That was a different?
- You are dead at the end of it,
but I think that it was a different episode,
but the thing that was super ironic was the fact
that you also had cheese on your mind map.
- Oh.
- I had cheese, and you had cheese.
- Oh, I do want to see today.
I think that's a great way to live.
- Go ahead.
- Alright.
- I got to get one of these right.
- Believe it or not, Rhett, at one point
you gave a strong opinion on what you think
Tom Cruise's ballsack is like.
How did you describe Tom Cruise's ballsack in March of 2018?
- Not a wrinkle on it, just as smooth as a baby's bottom.
- You seem confident.
It seems like you think about this often,
like you're not accessing a memory
but something that's very present for you.
- I mean not one crease.
Like if you dropped a drop of water
on Tom Cruise's ballsack it'd be like dropping water
on a duck's back, it just swoosh.
Tom Cruise's ballsack is hydrophobic.
- Be still, boop, boop.
Alright, let's see if he's right.
- This celebrity gets laser treatment
to smooth out wrinkles, remove hair,
and correct discoloration of the testicles,
also nicknamed ball irony.
Here's why it is Tom Cruise, Rhett.
Because this is urban legend type stuff.
This is something that comes out of Scientology,
like somebody escapes, and then they're like,
and you know what else he does?
This!
- I think that Tom Cruise has got a tight ballsack.
I mean he's probably got the tightest ballsack
of any 55 year old man or however old he is.
- You didn't say tight.
You said smooth. - Smooth.
- You said wrinkleless.
- Give me a point, man.
- But you remembered the ironing,
and so that's why you thought,
but I can't give you the point 'cause you didn't say tight.
- No, but it's so tight that it's like it's pulled tight
over the testes and it's smooth.
There's not a wrinkle.
But you didn't say the word tight.
- Just give me a point, I can't win.
- I'll give him half a point (bell dings)
because he didn't say.
- Well, if you get this wrong,
you should automatically lose
because this is the easiest one that you've got.
In September, 2013, when explaining your opinion
on why things are funny, you described laughter
in a very specific way.
You said laughter is like blank.
Can you remember what you said laughter is like?
- I only remember this 'cause it pops up occasionally.
- Right, this is one, unlike every other one,
we've re-accessed this this many times.
- Yeah, so I can't take credit for remembering this.
I remember other people remembering it on a regular basis
but laughter is like farting out of your mouth.
- Play the clip.
- I think things are funny
because the whole principle of comic relief.
Tension builds up.
Tension builds up in your body.
- Right in here.
- I don't mean to go, I don't mean to go here, but.
- You're going to.
- But tension builds up and you fart,
and then if you've, like so
laughter is like farting out of your mouth.
(laughs)
Put that a t-shirt.
- I'm gonna tell you right now, that would be funny.
(laughs)
I don't know why it would, but I can tell you right now.
- It's a release of tension.
- Laughter is like a fart from your mouth.
(laughs)
- It is.
- Put it on t-shirt.
It is. (bell dings)
- We never did.
- I'm gonna give you another half a point just because
(bell dings) I'm seeing the moment.
What's that that I was trying to do?
See the moment, be in the moment.
See the now.
- I appreciate it,
but that doesn't give me more points than you.
You got three out of four.
You win the memory foam comb, congratulations.
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- You know what time it is.
- Don't forget about us.
- I'm Rhett.
- And I'm Link.
- [Both] And we're from Saint Augustine, Florida,
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