What does the future hold for obscene hand gestures?
Hey everybody, this is Omar from Orlando, Florida. Let's talk about that!
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Let's talk about the future. Today is about looking forward, and I have
as my in-studio guest, Rhett. I guess you're also co-host, but when you wear
- that I almost feel like you're a guest. - I'm gonna button up, because
I'm about to predict the future, people. When I predict the future, I wear this
futuristic jacket and turtleneck, because everyone will wear turtlenecks in
- the future. That's my first prediction. - Actually, I get to read questions
that have been submitted from the viewing public.
- And you're gonna answer those. - Yeah, I take questions from you people.
Anything you wanna know the future about accurately, to a degree of accuracy 103%.
Just submit your questions through the various vehicles that we have offered you.
So you're overshooting accuracy by three percent.
I am so right, I am right more than all the time.
Well, okay. He's so right, he becomes wrong again.
- (laughs) - Cougarflacon-- I don't know how
to say that-- asks: What is the future of invisible friends?
Okay, well, if you're talking about imaginary friends, like a child has,
- Let's say yes. - They will disappear as the child grows
older, unless the child is mentally ill. If you're talking about your friends who
have actually become invisible, they will become visible once the potion wears off.
In the future, when potions like that exist.
I'm not addressing that. Just move on.
Mojomokie: What is the future of plants?
Wow. Of all flora, huh? Um...
Let's just talk about... you know how you've got plants like the Venus Flytrap.
You've got plants that actually can kill an animal.
- I'm a really big fan of those plants. - Mmhmm. Isn't that the only one?
No, there's other ones. There's ones shaped like different things and
wasps fall into them. I predict that there will be selective breeding of vicious,
animal-killing plants for rich people. Rich people will have these huge
Venus Flytraps that could eat a dog. They'll have them at their house,
just to say, (silly voice) "Hey, I've got this--" This is how rich people talk.
(silly voice) "Hey, I've got this plant, man. Come check it out. It could eat
your freaking dog."
But, okay... forgive me for being
presumptuous in going even further into the future, but would it be possible that
then they could actually be used as protection?
You could put them around the perimeter of your home? Yes.
'Cause I hate to think that they would go through all that trouble just so they'd
have something that rich people could brag about. What about the good of society?
- Is there hope? - Well, they will originally be intended
for military purposes, but rich people will commandeer them and place them
in their house. So you could say, (silly voice) "Hey man, come check out
my dog-eating flytrap, dogtrap plant." Next question, please.
- Morbid. - I'm just predicting the future.
- I don't have any control over it. - xTwilightSakurax asks: Rhett, if the
human species was to go extinct, what species would take over next?
Kardashians.
SamSamEqualsHeart asks: What is the future of towels?
Towels?
Yeah, I take him to mean, like, when you go into the bathroom, you have that rack
and there's something that's made out of fabric hanging on it?
- A towel. Okay, a traditional towel. - Yeah.
Not the nontraditional towel, which we won't even go into what that is.
- No, I don't wanna know. - It will become something else in the
- future, is one thing. - It will become traditional, probably.
I spent a summer in Slovakia-- Just hang with me here--
and I was in a dorm-like setting, and I was given a towel from the Slovaks.
- I was not there. - To use.
- I wouldn't... you know. - And I remember going to the bathroom
with just my dirty clothes-- the clothes that I had on-- and my towel, and
I'm gonna take a shower and then I'm gonna wear my towel back to my room
- where I change into clean clothes. - Question.
- Yep? - You got naked and put on your towel
over your dirty self in order to go to the shower?
No, I went to the shower in my clothes, with a towel--
- In your hand. - I took a shower. I know for you
OCD people it's difficult to understand that sometimes it just happens really
- straightforward like this. - (laughs)
I just took my clothes off, showered naked,
- (laughs) - and then I got out, and I was like,
"Okay, I'm gonna wrap this towel around my body and I'm gonna walk back to my room
and change into my clean clothes." But when I got the towel, I realized that
their idea of a bath towel was my idea of a hand towel.
- Ooh. - Which does not go completely around
- myself. - Like about this?
- We're talking somewhere in this? - Yeah, somewhere in that region.
So I put my dirty pants back on and went back to my room.
So, first of all, towels are gonna get smaller in the future.
- Because they already are in Slovakia? - No, because of the resources shrinking,
and water shortages and natural disasters and overpopulation and all these problems
are gonna lead to us cutting back and doing things like getting smaller towels.
So in the future, when you have the small towel, take a clean pair of underwear to
the bathroom if you're in a dorm setting, in any country, especially Slovakia.
- Next question. - This prediction is basically riding on
the global propensity to emulate Slovaks.
Well, you could see it that way, but not really. It's just a fact. I don't have any
- control over facts; they just happen. - Coolme16405 asks: Rhett, what will be
the big thing in the future? Such as Facebook or the iPad today.
'Cause as we know, Facebook and the iPad are big things right now.
- They are very big things right now. - Huge things right now.
And when you do Facebook on an iPad, the world ripples.
- Double big. That's double big. - I honestly think-- no joking here--
- It will be something-- (laughs) - No joking here.
I don't know what the name of it will be but it will essentially be a hard drive.
Did you just admit-- hold on. I think you just admitted...
No, I have not been-- take that back, I haven't been joking at all.
I'm a hundred percent serious and I'm a hundred percent serious about this.
It'll be some kind of hard drive that is hardwired to your brain for accessing
the internet, the global knowledge base. You will basically be able to access any
kind of information. First, rich people will have this along with their
dog-eating plants. They'll be like, (silly voice) "Hey man, come over,
- I know everything now!" - Don't get near that plant!
"Yeah, stay away from the plant, especially your dog."
But it'll be like Brain Plus. It'll have a better name than that, but it'll be
essentially a very small, almost non-detectable hard drive that is
hardwired into your brain for extra storage and accessing the global
knowledge base, and it'll be amazing. It's the next big thing. I'd say 42 years from
now it will happen. Write that down. Next question.
Speaking of big, idanceforchrist asks: (laughs) Do you think--
- Of course he does. - No, I'm laughing at the question.
- Oh. - I've read it ahead of time and I find it
- amusing. - Okay.
Do you think in the future that big toes will get bigger? If so, how big?
- Okay, we're gonna close with this one. - Oh, gosh.
- Because it's so important. - This is a fear of mine.
I'm so glad someone else asked the question. I'm not the only one who fears
my toe getting so big in the future that I can't leave my home.
Nothing to be scared about here with the size of big toes in the future.
My prediction is that big toes are about as big as they're gonna get. However--
- How comforting. - I will say, since we've already talked
about selective breeding, we could-- given selective breeding of humans--
create very large big toes. However, it's illegal because you can't subject people
to these kind of experiments against their will. But if we get some people to just,
on their own ambition, to agree to, let's just say, try to get the biggest toe they
- can possibly get, - (laughs)
then we can really get somewhere. Because here's what I say:
- I say, if you've got a big toe, - Are you organizing a movement?
Yeah. And this is gonna take about six generations, so listen to me. It needs
to start now. If you've got a big toe, you need to insist-- you need to demand
on having children with someone else who has-- preferably marrying them first--
having a husband or a wife who also has a large big toe.
And then your kids will have big toes, and then you teach them from day one that
the most important thing is for them to marry someone else with a very large toe.
And then if we can pass this mentality through the generations, I'd say in about
six generations, we could have a 5-inch big toe.
(laughs) Your job is not to orchestrate the future, it's just to joke about it.
-Let's spin the wheel. - 5-inch big toe. Think about that.
Think about it for a second. You could stick that in one of those dog-trap plants
and come out unscathed. Submit your idea to the-- well, first of all, ask me what
you want to know the future about, then ask us what you wanna have on the Mythical
- Wheel. I don't know what I'm saying. - You know what he means.
I knew where that was gonna land because I know the future, and it is:
(Link) Halftime speech from Rhett. Okay.
- Okay. Halftime speech from-- - Now, I came up with this one, so
lemme tell you what it is. Take your glasses off. You can unbutton that too.
You know, like, you're the football coach, you're giving a halftime speech to the
people as if they're the players. You're closing down the show, but it's an
impassioned speech like something Coach Bunch back at our highschool--
the varsity football coach-- what he would say.
(loudly) All right, fellas, listen. I know we're down by 17 and you guys haven't
- scored a-- Is it football? - Yeah, yeah it's football.
You guys haven't scored a touchdown all year. Listen, there's not a lotta hope.
I'm gonna be honest with you. We're gonna lose this game.
But we can lose like champions. We can lose with dignity.
(laughs) But relate it to the show ending.
And listen, next time you come back and watch Good Mythical Morning,
even though you suck at football... even though you're not gonna have
any glory days because you guys are -- I mean, you guys really--
you are horrible at football. You're gonna lose this game and every one this season.
You can say: Well...
- See you tomorrow? - See you tomorrow.
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