- Today we're gonna get bent.
- Let's talk about that.
(jaunty intro music)
Good mythical morning.
- Happy Thursday, are you thirsty
for some answers to some questions,
good, because I got one from Christina Santos
who asks, some superheroes are born with their superpowers
and some get em from freak accidents.
What's the best way for me to obtain mine?
- Well, you know what, there is another way Christina.
It's called ingenuity,
cause you can't just be born with em, you can't choose
to be born with em, and you don't wanna get yourself
in a freak accident.
- Unless you're a freak.
- So we're going to be demonstrating some of that today,
but specifically the superpowers that we're going
to be doing for you, right here live on the show today,
it's not actually live, but it is for us.
- Yeah, we're alive.
- They all come from that series Avatar.
Not the James Cameron Avatar where the blue people
make love by putting their hair braids together,
not that one, no we're talking about Airbender,
Avatar, The Last Airbender.
- It's a cartoon series.
- Yes, our kids used to watch it.
Your kids as well, you didn't know.
- I didn't know. - They watched it at my place.
- I don't approve of their content.
- And basically, it's just this world of people,
some of them have powers where they can control
the elements of fire, earth, wind, and water,
and bend them, that means to control them.
- To their will, but also physically.
Let's do this!
Watch in splendor as we become element benders.
Okay, first up we have water bending,
one of the four elemental bending arts.
Of course that, as you know,
is the hydrokinetic ability to control water.
- I do know.
(water flowing)
- As it turns out, the only thing you need to bend water
is a little PVC pipe, and of course I store
mine in my forearm.
- What?!?!
- I recommend that you have a forearm sheath for this.
- I don't, but I don't need one.
- And I'm gonna create a static electric charge
using the woolen sweater vest,
not vest, it has sleeves,
and then we're gonna create a water stream here
that I'm gonna bend into your mouth.
- Right, I'm drinking from the bottom of cups in 2017,
I've always been a little bit suspect about the top of cups.
- Never know what could happen.
- Rub me Link.
- Alright, so here we go.
Creating a charge, creating a charge.
- I like that, feels good, hit my left pec.
- Feeling good, feeling good,
alright, pull the plug.
Let's bend it away.
Woah, woah, I'm not touching it.
It is bending, I did touch it a little.
- You see how much harder this would be
if Link wasn't here bending it into my mouth.
- Yeah,
it's loosing its charge.
You might have to expend the energy to get
all the way under the stream.
- Get my right pec.
Oh that feels good, too.
- I don't want it to feel good, this is for science.
- Ohhhh, my right pec had a lot of power.
Always knew that though, I've always felt that.
- Check that out, it's also a straw.
- That's not a straw,
- I have power. - That's just a pipe.
Alright, so grab a friend, grab a pipe, and go to work.
(wind blowing)
Now we're going to demonstrate
air bending, and I think this is worth mentioning,
we actually have someone here on the crew
who can do this for real, who was apparently
born with this superpower, and that's Eddie.
And he's recently been helping Micah,
one of our new crew members, who has this tendency
to do a Marilyn Monroe photo shoot every single week.
- Yeah, it's a hobby, I would say.
- This week in particular, Eddie with his airbending
capabilities was very helpful to him.
We'll show that to you.
(lush orchestral music)
(wind blowing)
(camera clicks)
- Those are some good looking shots.
- Yeah, I'm glad he's around.
- Eddie or Micah?
- Both of them.
- Okay.
- Okay, if you can't do what Eddie can do and bend air,
well all you gotta do is grab yourself some magic cups.
- Magic cups.
- Actually, they're just hair dryers.
- You put your, put a, whoop.
Put your little ping-pong action up there.
- Alright, let er rip.
(air blowing)
- Look at that.
Look at that.
You can pass it to yourself
Alright Link, I'm coming to you, I'm gonna pass this to you.
- [Link] It bounced off my handle.
- Look at that, look at Link.
He's balancing, I don't have anything,
so I'm just gonna blow dry his hair.
- This is nice man.
Oop, I lost one.
Oh that's hot, that's too hot in one place.
Alright, take it back, take it back.
There you go.
- Use the blow dryer, give me some blow dryer.
That feels so good.
As you can see.
- Here comes another, and look at this,
you can get an angle on it and it still works.
- I wonder how it feels up in my shirt?
Oh, do that.
- Here, see if you
I'm gonna blow this one.
- Heat yourself.
- See if you can catch this one in your mouth, nope.
Success!
(crash)
Okay, now let's exercise our geokinetic ability
to move earth and rock, that's right,
bend some earth using only a subwoofer,
- Only a subwoofer.
- And then up here we've got some sand
on a box top above it,
(bass-filled voice) and a microphone.
Hey guys, I'm gonna tell you about a little trick
I've learned, it's called, I gotta talk lower
to bend the earth, it's called earthbending.
Woo-woooo.
Maybe, you're deeper than me, your voice.
- Ooooohhhhhhh
(making deep sounds into mic)
- You're creating castles, here hold on.
Hold on, first of all, how are you, woah,
show me the noise you're making.
- It's a secret, it's a secret.
- No, no, no, without the mic, what noise?
- It won't be as epic.
I'm just going (makes noise).
- Oh really, alright here.
Let me make a cone.
- Yeah, make that cone.
- The aliens, - I'll break it.
- the aliens come through the cones.
(Rhett makes deep sounds again)
- [Link] Go deeper.
- That time I'm going (makes sounds)
- Let me try something.
Buh, buh, ooooh, it's wet.
God, here have it back man.
Oh my gosh.
- A lot of that (makes noises) that,
it really gets it going.
(Rhett makes deep sounds again)
- [Link] IF you're gonna earthbend,
you need to do it on your own microphone.
- I could do that all day.
(fire crackling)
Okay, so now for Firebending, which is the only bending art
where the user actually creates the element.
- Oooh yes! - Generates the element,
and then bends it. - Yes, generates it.
- And interestingly, we also have someone here
on the crew who can do this.
- But I didn't think we were gonna reveal it.
- Well I think it's only the right thing to do.
I mean this is actually from a video we made in the past,
you may remember, weird ways to start fire.
There's a little secret that we're gonna reveal
right now about how that video was done.
(fire whooshing)
- Oh gosh.
What the, what the hell.
What the crap!
What the crap guys!
- Yeah, he really went a little overboard on that one.
- You almost killed us Chase!
You almost killed us.
- There it is, the secret behind the video.
- Wasn't our fault, see.
And listen, because of that track record,
we are not going to try to bend any fire.
I mean, for our own safety, for your safety,
I mean we don't want to do anything else,
that then you would, we'd have to tell you not to emulate.
- Actually, Link, you know, I've been feeling,
I've had a feeling lately, I feel that I can do this.
I think I can bend fire.
- I feel like you shouldn't
even if you feel like you can, but.
(Rhett makes vibrating sound)
- It went all, it went all down there.
What the crap.
- Well, well, I had the feeling.
- The noises you were making,
made it extremely
- I just had a feeling, I had a feeling.
- It was already a stupid thing to do, at me,
but then to add the (making weird sounds).
- That's the only way I can conjure it.
- Please don't.
- That's the only way I can conjure it.
- That was, that was gross.
- Well there you have it, I'm a firebender.
Thanks for liking, commenting, and subscribing.
- You know what time is is.
- My name is Hugo.
(speaking in French)
And we are from France, and it's time
to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- You can do your own cold bending, and bend cold
away from your body with a good mythical hoodie.
- Or the good mythical beanie, I got one right here.
- I got one right here.
Also a loose-fitting mitten.
- Click through to Good Mythical More,
we're gonna bend some more fire and figure out
what this device is Rhett's been using.
- Gif of the Day, Jif of the Day,
Gif of the Day, Jif of the Day.
- It is old ladies on a roller coaster
- There they are.
- Or perhaps, they're old ladies in front of a green screen
holding a PVC pipe.
- But they're acting like they're really into it, though.
Oh my lord.
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after the show, Good Mythical More.
- [Rhett] Click on the right to watch another episode
of Good Mythical Morning.
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- [Rhett] Thanks for being your mythical best.