How do you choose the proper ringtone?
Because what you choose says a lot about you.
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Hello, people. Thanks for joining us this morning or whenever it is in your neck
- of the world. - Neck of the world!
It is a Mythical Morning as you're watching this. You survived the blackout,
I trust. You look as if you did. We survived.
We won't do that again unless there's another thing that we will be protesting
- via blackout. - Right.
- It could happen again, I guess. - It could always happen.
Listen to this, Link. It happened in the news and so I'm gonna report it to you
and all of the people who watch Good Mythical Morning.
Those people.
An incessant iPhone ringtone during a concert this week forced Alan Gilbert to
stop the show at the New York Philharmonic.
- Mmhmm. - The universally familiar Marimba tone
kept playing during Mahler's 9th Symphony.
- Which tone was it? I'm pulling them up. - Marimba. You have it checked right there.
- Oh. - ♪ marimba music ♪
- I guess it's also my ringtone. - ♪ marimba music ♪
Very familiar. Anyway, this ringtone started happening in the audience,
for somebody who's there watching the New York Philharmonic,
- Which is an orchestra. - Yeah. And then, even after Gilbert--
This is the music director, composer, whatever he is--
I guess he's just the music director. He turned his head reproachfully.
Eventually he stopped the music, a first for the Philharmonic.
- So in other words, here we are-- - He's doing this.
He's doing (trumpet noises) and then he looks around reproachfully.
The guy's like-- he doesn't respond. The Marimba tone continues happening.
Let's just demonstrate this. Let's make this happen.
- (Link, trumpet noises) - ♪ marimba music ♪
- ♪ marimba music ♪ - He turns back around, keeps playing.
- (Link, trumpet noises) - ♪ marimba music ♪
Turns back around reproachfully. I don't know how many times he turned around.
- I'm sort of improvising. - (huffily) I am reproachfully looking
- for that Marimba sound! - I don't think he spoke, and I don't
think he's Latin, but go ahead. It happens again.
- A third time? - Yeah.
- Give me that phone! (laughs) - So now he's... (laughs) Nice.
- He's some sort of British. - I don't know what he is. Caribbean.
- So anyway. - Oh my gosh, did that come out
of my mouth? There's spit all over our table.
That's what happens when you try to impersonate a music director.
- It might have come out of my mouth. - Good gosh, I hope it didn't come out of--
How can that much something come out of your mouth and neither one of us
- know who it was? - (both laugh)
Did you see that? Somebody play the replay.
Okay. Hopefully that wasn't my mouth. Anyway.
Oh, gosh, I'm using the sleeve of my jacket.
This happened last week at the New York Philharmonic.
My lip is a little moist. I can tell that it did come from my mouth.
- (both laugh) - It was my orchestra reproach.
This is something that I fear very regularly. Not that I'll be at the
Philharmonic and it'll go off, because I'm pretty good at making sure... and also,
when I go out to different events with my wife, which I do on a regular basis...
- You're an event kind of guy. - I'm always like,
"Baby, is your ring off?" Because I always have it on vibrate. Always. I never have
my ringer on. It's always on vibrate, but she's a woman, she keeps her phone
- in the purse. - Right.
So when they keep the phone in the purse, they gotta have the ringtone so they can
hear it, because the purse buzzing could be anything, really, you know?
But women are so connected to their purses, there's almost an emotional
connection. Almost a physical connection. I believe that if they did keep it on
- vibrate, that they would still know it. - No they wouldn't.
They just don't have enough confidence in that unseen umbilical cord that connects
- them to their purse. - My wife doesn't even know when the phone
rings when the ringer is on in her purse. I call her all the time. She never answers.
- She doesn't text me back. - That's because the ringtone she chose
- is just ambient purse noise. - (laughs)
- Which is very confusing. - Which is a choice on the iPhone.
But it did occur to us that whatever ringtone you choose says a lot about you.
I think that's what you're getting at. The first thing you're saying is, you choose
a ringtone just based on minimizing the amount of embarrassment that would ensue.
There are a lot of people who say, "I choose my ringtone because, you know,
it expresses something about myself, you know? I chose this song." or, "I chose
this particular default option because it says something about me and my
- awesome personality." - Yeah.
But that's not how I choose a ringtone. I choose a ringtone exclusively on how I
- will feel if it goes off in public. - But for everyone else, when it does go
off in public, they make a judgment about who you are based on what they hear.
So I think it's a good idea for us to step through-- we have iPhones-- we're gonna
step through the ringtones offered in the iPhone and then say what we think of them.
We realize that not everybody has an iPhone. We're not trying to be elitist
- people here, but we have iPhones. - ♪ marimba music ♪
These are very popular ringtones, so whatever your ringtone is... your options
on your phone, feel free to experiment with them.
Okay, so that's the Marimba. Basically, if you choose that ringtone, it means that
you are a self-absorbed jerk who enjoys listening to live orchestration, which you
- also are totally fine with interrupting. - I think it just means you're kind of
normal, because I think that might be one of the defaults.
- Yeah, it is. It's the first one. - (loud alarm tone)
(speaking over alarm) This means you're just a total jerk. Can you imagine this
- happening during the Philharmonic? - Can you imagine that happening when
- someone calls you? - Yeah! Yeah.
If you have that ringtone-- the alarm-- I'm sorry, but you must just be stupid.
- Yeah, yeah. That's for stupid people. - ♪ cheerful ascending tones ♪
- Ascending. - I think that's somebody who, you know,
they love life. They're like, 'When my phone rings, I want people to think that
- I'm in a good mood." - ♪ cheerful ascending tones ♪
- That kind of thing. - (dog barks)
- Bark. - Dog lovers.
I'm even appalled that this is one of the choices on here.
Just a lowbrow sound effect?
Any type of animal sound... any type of sound effect is just...
- An insult. - It's an insult to your own intelligence
- if you choose it. I mean... - I think you're being too hard on it.
It's like the way you were being on the candy bars the other day.
- Yeah. - You're too hard on things.
This is for dog lovers. It's like, "Hey, I wanna think about Sparky."
- (dog barks) - Oh, it's like he's in my phone!
- (high pitched) Hey Sparky! Hey buddy! - But you're in a conversation and then
all of a sudden a dog starts barking, the first thing you think is,
- "Where's that dog?" - I'm being attacked.
You don't think, "My phone is ringing." It defeats the purpose. If the first thing
you think is not, "I'm receiving a phone call," or "My friend whom I'm conversing
with is receiving a phone call," then there's a level of stupidity
- right off the bat. - But if you're in public, like if you're
- at the Philharmonic and this happens... - (dog barks)
Everybody looks at you and you're like, "It's the chihuahua in my purse."
- Like... - You know, you can just...
- (crickets) - You can just what?
- What about crickets? - Well, crickets is... it's a borderline
acceptable animal, I think, if you're gonna have one.
- Because it's not incessant. - I think it means you're boring.
It's like... Crickets is like the sound effect that you play after somebody
makes a joke that nobody laughs at. You know, why'd the chicken cross the road?
- To get to the other side. - (duck quacks)
- (crickets and duck quacks) - What is this, Farmville?
- It goes well with the duck. - (duck quacks)
- None of these work. - I like this one. This one's angelic.
- ♪ harp strums ♪ - But you can't hear that one.
- You don't know... - ♪ harp strums ♪
- You can barely hear it. - It's like, hold on, is that my phone
- ringing or is that an angel? - An angel lighting on my shoulder.
At least it's not incessant. I'm in favor of any ringtone that doesn't totally
derail a conversation, you know? To me, that's a requirement. I'm not thinking
about the Philharmonic, I'm thinking about I'm in conversation. Because... I'm sorry,
but I get severely annoyed by all types of ringtones.
- I get it. - ♪ harp strums ♪
- That doesn't interrupt anything. - At least that's soothing.
- Pleasant. - I can continue my conversation and it
- might even take more of a sincere tone. - Now, I had this one for a while.
When I first got an iPhone, I was like, (silly voice) "iPhones are so awesome
and I have one. I'm gonna be cool and do this."
♪ high pitched sliding tones ♪
I thought that was so cool. I was like, I'm into UFOs and stuff.
How long did it take you to realize that you were wrong?
- ♪ high pitched sliding tones ♪ - The first time it went off in public.
I was in a grocery store and I was in line and this happened.
- ♪ high pitched sliding tones ♪ - People started looking around...
- People were like, "Where the nerd?" - Or the ghost, or what?
And then they looked at me. So I changed it to this and it's been this ever since.
- (old phone rings) - Oh, really?
- At least turn the volume down on it. - You know why I do this one?
- You know why? - 'Cause it sounds like a phone.
- (old phone rings) - It's a phone and it's loud, you know?
Because if I have it off of vibrate it's 'cause I wanna hear it and I wanna know
- it's a phone. It's not an old phone. - (old phone rings)
- This is the one I chose. - ♪ xylophone music ♪
- The xylophone. - Just because it was the last one
on the list and by the time I went through all of them I was totally and utterly
exhausted, so I was just like, "Ach, screw it. I'll just go with xylophone."
I kind of like it. It kinda makes you wanna dance a little bit.
I only use vibrate. Leave a comment below. Let us know what your ringtone is and what
- you think it says about you. - Let's spin the wheel, Link!
(Link) Oh yeah. (grunts) Wow! I'm definitely gonna injure myself
pulling this up. You should probably do this some of the time.
Put it on my side. I'm okay with that.
it goes counterclockwise, people. That's the direction it's built to go.
The wheel doesn't spin right when it goes clockwise. Stop asking about it, please.
(unison) Rhett beatbox, Link dance.
(beatboxing)
(Link, rhythmically over beatboxing) Yo, it's been real nice spending time with
you, but now we gotta go and do something different. So why don't you tune in
tomorrow? It'll be a Good Mythical Morning!
I was kinda hoping it would rhyme at the end but it didn't.
It doesn't matter.
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