- I have amassed what I believe to be a list
of the 10 greatest mustaches of all time.
- Let's talk about those.
- Hi, I'm John from Ohio.
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When you started, I was like brushing, grooming my arm hair.
- Yeah, that's, yeah.
And I didn't want people to know that I did that.
- That's just an innate thing that happens.
- Grooming my arm hair
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I didn't- - As long as I don't groom ya,
like to pick bugs off of you, and start eating 'em.
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...now I'm sharing this part of me with you Mythical Beasts.
The fact that yes, I groom my arm hair
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- Okay, it is,
we are well into November now.
And as you may have heard- - Well into it!
- As you may have heard, some people toss around
the term Movember- - Oh before you get into that-
- ...we're gonna talk about that.
But what?
- Supernote.
- Okay, what, like a disclaimer?
- No, I wanna say that people are like,
"Well how're we gonna find out who the Supernote winner is?"
Well, we are- - Two years from now.
- ...tallying up those winners.
We're counting 'em and we're calling people
and validating that the right person is the right winner.
And on Monday, we will officially announce
the Supernote winners.
- So as I was saying, we're well into November.
You may have heard the term Movember tossed around,
and this is what we're gonna talk about.
And yes, I will get to my list
of the 10 greatest mustaches of all time.
Movember stands for Mustache November.
I believe it started in Australia, according to Viki.
I consulted with her on this.
- [Rhett] Huh, she's smart.
- [Link] She knows a lot about mustaches,
including the proper way to spell them,
which is not easy.
Is there, is there a "O" or not?
(Rhett inhaling)
- I think there should be.
- Well, I think that's another video of its own.
- 'Cause it's a mouth-stache,
and that got shortened into mouse-stache.
- Well, Movember- - Because "mustache-"
- ...Movember has an "O" in it.
- Yeah.
- So, there you go.
Mustache November- - It's different.
- ...originated in Australia as
an awareness campaign for men's health.
And I think a cornerstone of that is prostate health.
- Now aren't the mustaches under the lip in Australia?
- No.
I get it though.
Like down under, mustaches-
They call 'em mo's over there,
I do think that they do- - Oh really?
- call 'em mo's in Australia.
But anyway, it's to raise awareness for men's health.
You know, men don't like to go to the doctor.
- Haven't been in 20 years.
- So this is my little disclaimer to say,
okay, this is a worthwhile cause
to say, men get a checkup.
And as part of the awareness of that, in November,
men everywhere are encouraged to start clean-shaven
and then grow a mustache.
- Get what checked out?
- Your prostate.
Your whole health, really.
Your whole health, but including your prostate.
One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
This is no laughing matter.
- Well, but how- - Try laughing about it.
- ...How does it work, though?
- Just try laughing about it.
One in six men are diagnosed with prostate cancer.
- That's sad, but what's the procedure, though?
- See, he can't laugh.
Oh, the procedure?
I think you put your elbows an examination table,
with your pants pulled down,
and a doctor comes behind you,
and does his magic, and it takes like four seconds.
And then you know that you don't have prostate-
- I think it's longer than four seconds.
- Well it, let's just, I don't-
...I haven't had it done.
I don't, I'm not quite old enough
to have to get that as part of my exam.
- Oh.
- But getting an exam every year is the whole thing
behind getting a mustache in November.
So people are like, "Why do you have a mustache?"
Well, I'm-
- 'Cause I hate prostate cancer!
- I'm bringing awareness to men's health
and those type of things.
So what I'm really getting at here
is I think I'm gonna participate this year.
- I'm already participating.
I've already got it.
Got it going. - Yeah, but, no-
- I've been participating all year.
- You can't have a beard.
You can't have a beard,
and you're supposed to start clean-shaven,
and then just grow a mustache.
'Cause that's the only way for people to say,
"What is that guy doing?"
- Now, first of all- - "Who does he think he is
growing a mustache?" - Lemme just say
what would happen if I- - This is the twenties.
- ...If I did this. - Like the twenty-hundreds.
The two, this is the 22nd-
...1st century.
- If I were to completely- - What is this?
- If I were to completely shave my beard and mustache off,
first of all, we would lose half of our subscribers.
And then if I were to then grow just the mustache,
we would lose- - Half of our-
- We would lose all the rest of 'em.
- So, our subscriber base is based solely
on your facial hair- - On my facial hair.
- ...configuration. - Yes, exactly.
That is exactly what I intended to say.
- So, you know-
- You don't wanna see me without a beard.
Let me just tell you right now.
- I'm not, hey, I ain't arguing.
I'm not asking you to do this with me-
- Okay, I'm not doing it! - ...for that reason.
- I'm doing this for the both of us.
And I, admittedly,
I like being able to grow different facial hair,
and express myself and you know, people say,
"You look stupid."
Well, at least now I have a reason.
So, I'm-
- You talk this over with your wife?
- No.
(Rhett laughing)
- You're gonna grow a mustache for a whole month,
and you haven't talked about this with Christy?
- Well, I mean, I just thought of it, like,
when I was coming in this morning, so.
- You didn't text her?
You didn't call her?
- Well, I just feel like if I was-
...I feel like it would kind of be like asking permission
and I just don't,
I feel like this is something very sacred
to being a man. - Oh, you're a man.
- And you shouldn't- - You don't need to ask
permission for growing my facial hair out!
- You shouldn't have to run something as man-
- WOMAN! - ...manly sacred
as your facial hair past your woman.
Even if you love her.
- But- - I just feel that way.
- I mean, presumably she comes in contact
with this facial hair on a regular basis.
- Yeah, she does.
- She has an opinion, that opinion counts.
- Well, it's for a cause.
I think she's willing to go for four weeks for a cause.
It's a good cause.
- But she doesn't even know about it yet.
- Well, I mean, I'll tell her.
Yeah, honestly, her father
is a prostate cancer survivor.
- Oh.
- So I think that's the trump card to say-
- Does he have a mustache?
- He did for many years.
- Okay, all right.
- But he doesn't now.
- Okay, all right.
- He also doesn't have a prostate,
they've surgically removed it 'cause it had cancer on it.
- Well.
- But he's good, he's great! - But that's a good thing.
- He recovered from that.
Yeah, so I want to celebrate that,
and I think she'll be on board.
Hopefully you will too.
I'm gonna do it.
And I, that's why I've amassed this list
of the top 10 greatest mustaches of all time,
in my opinion.
To give me that last oomph!
To just get over the hump and say,
"You know what? I can do this."
- Okay, I believe in you, Link.
- Okay, You're listen-
- I believe you can grow a mustache!
(Link laughing)
- Thank you for that vote of confidence.
- Yes.
- Okay so, as hopefully this will inspire you men out there,
and this is not No Shave November.
- Yeah, right. - Just as clarification.
No Shave November's when you don't shave,
and it's just so you can look like a hipster.
- Yeah, like me.
- No, this is just a mustache.
- Yeah.
- You can't shave a beard all month
and then change it to a mustache.
- Yeah, that would be- - That's-
- ...lame. - Go to, you know,
go to movember.com for more information,
but stay right here for more inspiration.
- Ooh, nice!
- This is my list.
I haven't run this by anybody.
I don't care what you think,
but you can let me know in the comments.
Number 10.
(Rhett laughing)
My 10 greatest, Number 10 and the greatest-
...what, what is my list?
Greatest mustaches ever. - I think it depends.
Okay, yeah, that's good.
- Of all time.
Wyatt Earp.
- [Rhett] Now, Wyatt Earp played by an actor or what?
- [Link] No. - [Rhett] The original.
- [Link] The real one.
You see him right there.
He's got the hugest mustache I've ever seen.
Not only on a cowboy, but on anybody.
- [Rhett] He holds his extra bullets in it.
- He killed 30 men, and I think at least one of 'em
was just with his mustache.
- Yeah.
- Number nine:
- Okay.
- [Link] The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Now I'm not going with the actor will Smith,
I'm going with the character.
- Okay.
Now I wouldn't have-
...I would not have thought of him when I think of a mustache.
- It's delicate.
I's trendy.
- It's peach fuzz.
- Yet timeless.
Well, and a little bit like peach fuzz.
Number eight:
Nacho Libre.
♪ I ate some bugs, I ate some grass. ♪
♪ I use my hand to wipe my tears. ♪
- Interesting choice.
- Number seven:
Albert Einstein.
There is a reason why this man is considered a genius,
and here's a hint:
mustache.
- Sure it doesn't have anything to do with
the Theory of Relativity?
- And maybe some of that.
Number six:
Hulk Hogan.
- [Rhett] Really? - [Link] Yeah
- [Rhett] You picked Hulk Hogan?
That's not even na-
...his mustache is dyed.
- [Link] But it's hair!
And he dyes it blond, it's great.
How many men have a blond mustache,
natural or unnatural,
that you can put on a list?
Don't answer that question.
Number five: Ron Burgundy.
- If you wanna throw down in fisticuffs, fine!
I've got Jack Johnson
and Tom O'Leary waitin' for ya right here.
(Baxter barks)
- Number four:
Yosemite Sam.
Yes, my list can have cartoon characters on it.
Especially when the cartoon character's face
is entirely made of a mustache!
- My uncle's face was entirely made of a mustache.
- Really?
Show me a photo of that.
And don't doctor up a photo of Yosemite Sam.
Okay, moving right along.
Number three: Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec.
- Fishing relaxes me.
It's like yoga except I still get to kill something.
- Now I will say, I think that Ron Swanson
is going to be the spark
that will reignite mustachedom.
A mustache revival in this new century.
- Well, I there's already- - Are we in a new century?
I'm having trouble with years.
- We have been for a while,
but I, I think it's kind of already happening.
I mean, I think that people having an ironic mustache
is sort of becoming, like, acceptable at this point.
- Yeah, he's making it-
- [Both] Non-ironic.
- He's the spark that will ignite the revival
that will lead to the non-ironic mustache.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
- In other words, the ronic mustache.
- Yeah, not the ironic, just the ronic.
- Huh, and his name is Ron. - Huh.
- Maybe we should call him.
- Okay, number two: - He should call us.
- There's only two more to go, can you hang with me here?
- Kay, yep, mhmm.
- Number two:
Magnum PI.
The gold standard in mustachedom.
- [Rhett] And he wasn't the only mustache on that show.
Higgins had a mustache.
- And finally, are you ready for my number one
greatest mustache of all time?
(Link drumrolling)
The Pringles logo.
That's right.
I think, you know-
- [Rhett] You being paid by them?
- No top 10 lists are-
...they're supposed to kind of end with like a,
"What?" - Wah, wah, waaaaaah.
- But serious- - You mean that kind of thing?
- ...seriously, whoever came up with the idea
to market stackable potato chips
using a mustache is a genius!
It could have been Albert Einstein or Hulk Hogan.
- Okay. - I wouldn't be surprised
if it was.
I am thoroughly motivated. - I have many issues
with your list- - Thoroughly!
- but I don't wanna go into those.
But what I do wanna say is that,
Mythical Beasts, we are about to send Link off,
and this is gonna make this beginning of Movember
pretty interesting because-
- You mean send me off to grow a mustache?
- Yeah, because Link's gonna be away
from us for a while, Mythical Beasts.
In fact, Link will not be back
until the end of next week, at the earliest.
- That's right.
- He's going back to North Carolina to visit some family.
- I'm going, well, I'm actually going to the doctor
for a seven day prostate exam.
- And the, uh-
- It's gonna be very thorough.
- The show must go on, but this gives us
a great opportunity to see what kind of mustache
you can conjure up in about a week.
And so, while you're gone, we'll be thinking about you.
- I also didn't think about the fact
that not only,
now I'm gonna be, like, seeing all my family members
and I'm gonna have to have this conversation
with all of them.
"What's that on your lip? What are you doing?"
But that, I guess that's the point.
- You just say, I hate cancer!
- Yeah, don't you?
And men's health.
Have you gotten your checkup, Dad?
That's what I'm gonna say.
- So next week is gonna be-
- You're gonna have to hold the fort down without me.
- It's gonna be A Link-less week, everybody.
I might even sit in the middle, who knows?
What do you think about that?
And I will not have a mustache
unless it is part of a pre-existing
beard-mustache combination. - You could shave
your mustache, leave your beard, and then grow it back.
- Eww.
- Become overly emotional about everything.
- Like man, I don't- (Link sniffling)
You're leaving, and-
- I know, I've been thinking about it.
I didn't want you to bring this up
while the cameras are rolling.
- I don't think I could do this without you!
- I know, I don't think you can either, I don't know!
- I'm gonna miss you, man!
When you come back
and your mustache is so- - This chair!
- ...is so big!
- I'm gonna miss this chair!
I love this chair.
I mean, it's just a folding chair, but I just-
oh I'm just so in love with it!
(Link sobbing)
- Listen Link, you can take something with you like this.
Just take it on the plane, they won't ask any questions.
- Okay, okay.
Will you write me every day?
- I'll send you a text.
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