Rhett, what's the future of swearing and cursing with your hand?
I'm glad you asked.
Hello! I'm Stephen from Melville, Saskatchewan. Let's talk about that.
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Thank you. Good Mythical Morning once again. Thanks for joining us.
It's important for us to know that we continue
to be part of your routine. We wanna do something new. We got this idea:
tomorrow's episode of Good Mythical Morning, we are calling Bring a Friend
- to G-double-M. - G-double-M, I like that.
Bring a friend to G-double-M. What you wanna do today, if you wanna invite a
friend to watch tomorrow, "Hey, have you heard of Good Mythical Morning,
Rhett & Link's morning show? It's ten minutes. You gotta watch it. You can
download it as an audio podcast, a video podcast, or you can of course watch it at
youtube.com. 6 AM Eastern time. Watch it tomorrow and then we can talk about it.
It's like Bring Your Daughter to Work except it's a friend and it's not work.
- It's... it's this. - And it could be somebody you're
interested in. You could be like, "Hey, you know, they've got this thing I want
you to-- They're doing this Bring a Friend thing and I know we're not really friends,
but we could be, especially if we talked about Good Mythical Morning together."
I give the relationship advice. You give the future predictions.
(deeply) Yes I do. I'm glad you asked. (normally) Did you notice, when I said
"Good Mythical Morning," I was trying to do my Jeff Goldblum impersonation.
'Cause I look like Jeff Goldblum with these-- (deeply) Um... Good Mythical Morning.
Hah. Ah... Good Mythical Morning. (normally) See? That's Jeff Goldblum.
It's pretty good, Rhett. I would say it's pretty good.
I could work on it. I could turn into a fly, how about that?
In the future, you might get better at it.
- ♪ (futuristic music) ♪ - Submit your questions for the future to
Rhett at @rhettmc on Twitter or on our Facebook page, facebook.com/rhettandlink.
- GusIsBackToLife asks: - Uh oh.
First of all, I'm glad to hear he's back with us. Rhett, what is the future of
- swearing and cursing with your hand? - Well... (chuckles) Gus, a lot of people
don't know, but offensive hand gestures are different all over the world.
You know, I'm not gonna make any of 'em here. I'm not gonna make the ones that
are offensive in Western culture here, because then we'll be censored. We don't
- want that. - No.
But did you know that this is really offensive in the Middle East? And I'm
making the thumbs-up for those of you just listening to the audio version.
This is a thumbs-up and it is horribly offensive in the Middle East.
So now we're bein' censored in the Middle East?
Yeah. Well, we probably are already being censored in the Middle East, because
they don't-- you know, the Taliban doesn't like guys in jackets like this.
What's gonna happen in the future, though?
Ah... well, I believe that... - I pride myself on being on the cutting
edge of hand-swearing in the future.
- This. - This?
The OK symbol will become horrendously offensive in the next 25 years.
It's kinda... it kinda has a switchblade kinda thing.
It could mean a lot of offensive things. I mean, I'm not even gonna... use your
imagination, but it's like like, whoa, that is horribly offensive.
Yeah. I'm also not gonna comment on what it could mean.
- Next question. - Queenkinzay asks: Will there be robots
everywhere and will we have to hide and go back into time to stop them from coming?
Or will they take over us and turn us into robots?
This is a complex, multipart question. Well, the first thing I would say is, if
we're going to figure out in the future how to travel into the past, we would
already know that. Think about it people. (deeply) Think about it, people. If we
were gonna be able to-- (normally) It kinda sounds like James T. Kirk at the
same time, but, (deeply) If we were going to be able to travel into the past in the
future, well, we would already know because we would have made contact with
the people who were coming from the future.
- So her question is null. - (normally) We won't-- we're not gonna--
- Are robots gonna take us over? - We're not gonna figure out time travel,
first of all. Sorry to disappoint you, sci-fi people, but it's not gonna happen.
It's impossible. We cannot break out of the 4th dimension. We're kinda stuck
- in it. But, however... - We've just lost half our fanbase.
Sorry to dash your hopes against the rocks of reality, people, but we're not gonna
time travel. And I do believe... now, robots will take over, though. That is
going to happen. And when they do take over, they will not turn us into robots.
They will kill us and enslave us. They will enslave the strong ones. They will
kill the weak ones. And they will promote some to positions of leadership, but it
will be like a mocking kind of thing. Next question. You know, that's easy.
Give me something that takes some thought, people! I have a shiny jacket
- and a turtleneck! Next question. - Take a deep breath.
I'm getting upset because the questions are so simple.
Keturahfluno asks: So, Rhett, will humankind still know the "Happy Birthday
- Song" in the future? - Now this is a good question.
- Smiley face. - Because I've thought about it and
answered it in my own mind many times. I believe that we are headed towards a
pretty intense population contraction in the next 100 years due to superbugs, as
we discussed yesterday, resource shortages, natural disasters, you know...
there's gonna be lots of things that are gonna cause a pretty significant
population contraction. And what's gonna happen is, during this contraction and
during these hard times that are to come-- this extended recession for the entire
- world that will spread like wildfire... - You're talking about people dying and
- less people procreating. - I'm talking about all kinds of hell
breaking loose. But it's okay, don't worry. Just get yourself a shiny jacket
and a turtleneck and you're gonna be okay. But seriously, when we have this
population-- my jacket rattles a lot 'cause it's got lots of buttons on it--
Ah, when we have this population contraction, one of the things that's
gonna happen is people will begin to see things like birthday parties as complete
wastes. First of all, birthday cakes will be a waste, 'cause it's just, like,
(silly voice) Hey, let's throw some sugar and some butter and some flour together.
(normally) No, you can't-- (silly voice) And make a cake with some icing on it.
(normally) No, you're not gonna do that kind of thing, because you're gonna use
that to make something that gives you some sustenance. And the last thing you're
gonna do, if you do make a birthday cake, is put candles on 'em just to light 'em
and blow 'em out! What?! Waste perfectly good candles in the contracted future? No!
You would never do that! You're gonna need things like fire to start fires to
actually cook food and to keep yourself warm because there won't be heat!
So, we're definitely not gonna have birthday parties, so there will be no need
to sing the birthday song. I know it's a sad and bleak future, but you get a
shiny jacket. You get glasses. You get a turtleneck. It's gonna be okay. Here's--
- It's a downer. - Here's the kicker: In about one hundred
years, when we've dwindled down to a very small population and we are not
celebrating birthdays, we're gonna hit the bottom. Things are gonna begin to turn
around. Things are gonna begin to pick back up. The population is gonna begin to
increase again and there's gonna be a bright future ahead of us. And then,
one day, they're gonna be like, "You know what? Robert's sixteen today. We should
do something!" And then somebody's gonna be like-- a grandpa who's still alive
because he has-- well, his brain will still be alive because it will have been
transferred to a hard drive, so he's still around. He'll be at the table, and he'll
be like, (gruffly) "Well, in my day, when someone turned a certain age, we made 'em
a cake! We put fire on the cake and then we sang a song."
(higher pitched) Grandpa! What're you talking about? It's crazy talk.
What's the song? (gruffly) Well, if I remember correctly, it's:
♪ (dramatically) Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you ♪
- What was the guy's name? - The Happy Birthday Song.
- What? Who's name? - What was his grandson's name?
- Change it to Bob. - ♪ Happy birthday dear Bobby ♪
♪ (harmonizing) Happy birthday to you ♪
And other people will start to remember. Like I was another old guy.
Yeah, like, "Oh yeah, I remember that song!"
Ah, little known fact. "Happy Birthday" is still under copyright. You cannot sing--
Did you know this, people? This is a fact. You cannot sing "Happy Birthday" in a
television show without playing money to the writer and owner of The Happy
- Birthday Song. It is not public domain. - Well, I just sang it! But I was
- technically singing it in the future. - Yeah, when the copyright runs out and
- it becomes public domain. - I am singing it in the future after it
has run out, so it's completely in the clear.
All right, we're not gonna pay it. Okay, if you want to ask more questions, do
that on Twitter at @rhettandlink. If you wanna submit a comment, you should do that
below and you should talk about what you think about all of these predictions.
Call him on it if you disagree. He can take it. Can you take it?
Of course I can take it.
(Link groaning) Let's spin the wheel, people!
(normally) Now, remember tomorrow, bring a friend to G-double-M. Go ahead and
invite them today. Tomorrow they'll watch it. Then you can talk about it. It's a
beautiful arrangement.
- Red Face. I'm excited about this one. - We made this one up. This is when you...
end the show by...
(Link wheezes) This has been such a Good Mythical Morning! (swallows audibly)
(tightly) I'm making my face as red as I possibly can.
(tightly) Oh gosh, this is painful. Thanks for joining us. See you tomorrow.
(grunts) I'm pretty sure this is difficult to look at.
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