- Let's do the time warp again.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
(explosion blasting)
- "Good Mythical Morning."
- Okay, I have recently made
a personal change in my life
that I would like to share with you, Link-
- Finally. - and you Mythical Beasts.
And that is that I no longer have my phone with me
in the morning.
- Really? You let it do its own thing?
What I have been doing for years
since having a smartphone
is I've been going to bed looking at the phone
and then cutting it off using it as my alarm clock.
And then the first thing I do when I wake up
as soon as I cut the alarm off, what do I do?
Whoop, social media, Instagram, Twitter, (mumbles)
And so I'm just-
- What about Tinder? Were you swipeng?
- I'm a slave to my phone.
So, I recently read an article
about how how horrible this is for us.
And I decided, I'll put the phone in the bathroom.
- Oh no.
- So it still works as an alarm clock if I need that.
But, and I don't look at it at night,
and I don't after like 10 o'clock,
and I don't look at it in the morning
until I get in my car, actually.
- So, you pee and you put your phone down,
and then it's there.
It's not in the shower, is it?
- No, it's not in the shower. It's not waterproof.
- And then when the alarm goes off,
it forces you get out of bed.
Oh, that's cool. - Yeah, but I've made
a decision to simplify my life,
to go to a simpler time, if it were-
- That's cool. - before we had smartphones.
- I mean, I'm not doing it, you can do it, but.
- But I have not gone nearly as far as the people
that we will be talking about today
Who have actually decided to live their life in another era.
- Hmm.
- Starting with-
- But their mobile phones are still in their restrooms.
Let's find out.
- -Maybe.
Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman of Port Townsend, Washington,
they have chosen to live in the Victorian era.
- Mm.
Now, for those of you who didn't pay attention
in history class
or haven't had the Victorian era class yet,
this is basically the second half of the 19th century
during Queen Victoria's reign.
That's why they call it Victoria.
- Vicky, I like to call it.
- A time when raw sewage ran through the streets,
children worked in factories- - Nice, yes!
- and women couldn't vote.
In other words, the good old days!
- Yeah, let's live there exclusively.
This is the decision they made, huh?
- Yeah, they did. - Okay.
- So for the past six years,
this couple has done everything they can
to live authentically in this era.
Okay, this is what they have done.
Of course, they have chosen to live
in a circa 1888 Victorian house.
- Mm hmm.
- That's a good detail.
If they didn't get that one right.
If they were like living in a 70s split level,
the whole thing would just be thrown off.
- Yeah, it would be.
- So they got that detail right.
But they went a lot further
than just living in a Victorian home.
- I'd live in a ranch with some horses, a miniature.
- Ranch, that's just a single story.
They don't come with horses.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Well back to- - You don't just automatically
get horse with a ranch.
- Well, back to you then. (audience laughing)
- So, every appliance in their house is period appropriate.
They do not have a refrigerator.
They have an ice box, which is just a box full of ice
that you lay your meat on.
They also have a wood fire stove,
which Sarah claims is, quote,
"much easier to control than an electric stove."
- What?! (chuckles)
- You know those controls that dial the temperature right,
are really tricky somethings. - Oh, that's tough.
Yeah, that's tough.
What kind of electric stove has she been sold that blows?
- I don't know one. One you operate with your mouth?
I don't know. (Link laughs)
(Link imitates wind) - There's also
no washing machines, no dryers,
and no dishwashers in their home.
Oh no, wait!
Actually, correction, they do have all that.
Her name is Sarah.
(audience laughs) (Link laughs)
- Okay, so, and then Sarah dresses like Vicky did.
(cup taps)
- She dresses in the approprian Victorian garb,
yes, she does.
- Approprian? (audience laugh)
- Yeah, approprian.
When you wear the right Victorian garb,
it's called approprian in it.
- Right, you're approprian in it.
- You just put it together.
And he also wears appropian garb, as you can tell.
They also-
- [Link] He's got it easier than her
'cause she's wearing a corset.
Am I right?
- Well, she wears a corset,
and she wears a hoop skirt which goes out really far.
But she says that it's like having a cat's whiskers,
and she can feel her environment.
(audience laugh)
That's what she says to justify it.
- Her dress has feelings.
- It's just like those JNCO jeans that we used to wear.
- Yeah, yeah. (chuckles)
- You couldn't sneak up on us-
- Right. (audience laughs)
- 'cause you would touch us from like four feet away.
- By the bottom of the pants. - (Rhett yells) Turn around!
- Okay, I get it, I get it.
- But, now, here's a cool thing, though,
they ride these tall bicycles.
Apparently, the male version of the bicycle,
you can see Gabriel mounting the bicycle here.
- It's kind of a hopity, hop, hop, hop, hop,
skip skip, and I'm up.
- I haven't seen any footage of him getting off,
but I can imagine it.
He looks just as cool as he does when he is getting on it
when he is dismounting the bike.
And she drives
this cool three-wheel, - Oh, man.
- sort of trike version of this thing,
because of the skirt, that hoop skirt.
You can't be riding on that thing.
You gotta be...
And they've taken like 75-mile bike trips together
on these things.
- [Link] That thing she's riding
looks like a farm implement.
- [Rhett] A farm implement, huh?
(audience laugh) - Like, I mean-
- Who's been looking at the vocabulary book this morning?
- That's pretty cool, man.
- Okay, so-
- Do I have to wear a hoop skirt to ride that?
- No, you get the other one. You get the male version.
- I want that one.
- There's a male version
and a female version- - I want that.
- of everything in the Victorian area.
Okay, so why are they doing this?
- Why are they doing this?
- Now, they say that this is an ongoing research project,
that they have a genuine interest in the era.
They love living life this way.
And they've essentially committed themselves
and a lot of their work to this.
Sarah herself has written books about this
using a period-appropriate fountain pen, no less.
- Uh huh.
- Titles of her books include, "This Victorian Life,"
"Victorian Secrets."
- No. Really?
- I'm not making any of this up.
- "Victorian Secret." - And her latest foray
into fiction,
"First Wheel in Town," a Victorian cycle club romance.
I've already ordered a copy for everyone on the crew.
Don't worry- (Link clappeng)
I've taken care of you.
(crew member whistles)
- Whoo! - Whoo!
- None of these are to be confused with her children's book,
"Everybody Poops, Except Women,
That Would be Inappropriate."
(audience laughs)
- They didn't do that until the 1900's.
- Actually, that's one I made up.
Okay, and they also maintain, wait for it,
a blog on the internet.
Yes, they use computers - But-
- know you feel ripped off, Link-
- But-
- Let me explain.
(Link sighs)
They have a blog, thisvictorianlife.com,
where they talk all about this.
I don't know how they use the fountain pen.
Maybe she hits the keyboard with the fountain pen.
- She does. - Maybe there's a way
to maintain authenticity. - She does.
But she wrote a piece for vox.com back in 2015,
where she talked about this and why they were doing it.
But she also kind of said
that they identify with lots of the ideals
of the Victorian era,
as you'd heard, those might be sort of controversial.
So, there was this huge backlash on the internet
which prompted ABC to come and do an interview with them.
And then things got a little bit awkward
during the interview.
Check this out.
- [Reporter] Reaction on the internet went viral
with some on Twitter mocking her
and websites joining in-
- Does that happen on Twitter, people get mocked?
- [Reporter] and didn't even have the right
to vote back then.
- Well, what's so big about a vote?
- The lifeline of a democracy.
- Well, I mean, - Well, not necessarily.
- America started with a lot less voters
than they've eventually become.
Conception of who should vote
has evolved over time. - Sh! Just
- But again, it's something that we don't necessarily see
as being the most important thing in the world.
- But you do agree that women should vote?
- Well, I think that voting in general is overrated.
- No, no, no! Sh! - As you can imagine,
this piece really cleared everything up
for all the people (audience laughs)
who had issues with them.
- Just keep it
to your Victorian selves. (audience laugh)
Can I introduce you to someone else?
- You can
- Meet Joanna Francis.
She is a 30 something living in Scunthcorp,
Scunthorpe. - Yeah.
- North Lincolnshire, England.
I'm sorry. - My favorite town.
- Scunthorpe. (audience laugh)
Every day of her life, she lives as though it is 1939.
- Yeah, she does.
- And look at how happy she is!
She's rosy cheek, hands on the hips
with her sweater tucked into her pants.
I'll explain why
in a little bit. (Rhett laughs)
(audience laughs) But, why is she so happy?
Because she's living in a little thing called War War II.
- Oh, okay.
(audience laugh)
- Britain law-
- You said War War II, by the way,
That's what I used to say as a kid
before I realized it was World War. (laughs)
Did I say War War?
You kind of said War War, but I like it, man.
Just roll with it. - World.
- War War II.
- Britain lost almost 1% of their total population
fighting the Nazis, but she-
- It doesn't sound like a lot, but it is a lot.
- It is a lot.
And she's chosen to go back to this time.
When she moved into her house,
she ripped out her kitchen and her bathroom
because they were too modern.
So, I admire this woman. She went all the way.
Give or take.
She now has an outdoor toilet,
and she dumps her chamber pot in it every morning.
"Oh, look, Joanna."
You know, "Joanna's coming out to dump her chamber pot,
let's watch."
(audience laughs) (Rhett chuckles)
You'd be into that, wouldn't you?
- Well, I don't think she does-
- Don't answer that. - She doesn't do it naked.
She probably goes out clothed.
It's just dookie in a pot, man.
- Well, yeah, I know, but some people are into that.
I don't know. (Rhett laughs)
I thought you would be. (audience laughing)
- Okay, I'm not into it, man.
- So, her outfit is an authentic land girl uniform,
that's what it's called.
Land girls were women that took over men's jobs
in World War I and World War II.
And I believe I have a picture of a white girl hoeing!
There she is. (Rhett laughs)
- [Rhett] Oh, wow. I can't get away from that.
- It's technically a (indistinct) I think,
but let's just go with it.
She recreates her own blackouts,
which I really didn't know what that meant,
but that's when you cover your windows
and turn all your lights out,
so the Germans couldn't see where to bomb at night.
- Right, 'cause the Germans are still out there.
You gotta look out for 'em.
- Take that Hitler!
(Rhett laughs) (audience laughs)
It sounded more like Skeletor.
(Rhett laughs) (audience laughs)
I was going for like the radio,
and now it's a thing. - Skeletor hated Hitler.
- Sorry, dude.
- Everybody hated Hitler, even Skeletor.
- So, Joanne is living her best life,
but there's one thing missing,
all she wants she says is to find a partner
who shares her passions and interests,
but for some reason it's tough.
- Oh, she want a man.
- She does acknowledge
that most of the men who fit that bill are, quote,
"probably 90 years old or dead."
- Mm hmm.
- So Joanna, we know that you couldn't do this,
so we took some liberties to create a Tinder profile-
- Oh, yeah, we did.
- for you, in order to drum up
some love and some companionship.
1939, they did not have Tinder.
But look at this, here it is today.
I'm just your average land girl
looking for a Winston Churchill type
to share my rations with.
I enjoy blackouts, soap flakes, chamber pots
and outsmarting Hitler.
(Rhett laughs) (audience laughs)
Swipe right if you'd like to enjoy a pint
and a night at the talkies.
- Ooh!
- You know, the talkies?
- The movies.
- Where they would talk, and you could hear it.
It was amazing.
- Yeah, audio
- I'd prefer that you'd be under 90 years old
and still alive, but I'm flexible.
If Italian, German, or Japanese, swipe left.
- Oh!
Okay, well, Joanna, you're in luck
because we have taken the liberty
to create some additional Tinder profiles
for men that we think would be great matches for you,
including one man named Ben Samsun-
- Real guy, right?
- Yes. He's only 120 miles away from you.
He's 37 years old, but he lives in the year 1946.
Here's his Tinder profile.
"I enjoy anything and everything from the year 1946,
including my carpet; it is 70 years."
- Bet it smells good.
- Full disclosure, I have a gal pal,
but for some reason she refuses
to share my love shack with me.
Swipe right if you'd like to swing dance with me
or see my slinky."
(Link chuckles) (audience laugh)
The slinky was invented in the 40s.
- Oh, it was? Okay.
- Yeah, everybody had one. Everybody had one.
- It goes downstairs.
- Yeah, it does.
- They have those in the 40s?.
- Yeah, they had stairs. (audience laughs)
- I've got another candidate for you, Joanna,
created a profile for him.
Aaron Whiteside, 33 years old.
He lives 130 miles away from you in Blackpool.
"I'm just your average bloke
who loves everything in the Great Depression
except the depression part.
I'm really quite jolly."
(Rhett laughs)
- Wow, that's a nice decision
you made there. "I liked my house
with four period-appropriate coal fires.
Swipe right if you'd like me
to light your period-appropriate fire too."
(audience laughs)
I would give him a little snazz.
- Oh, I know what happens there.
My guy just has a slinky, that's all I know.
- Slinky or coal fire- - Well, good luck, Joanna.
- your choice.
- You could just contact us
if you would like the keys to your Tinder profile,
and these other dudes- - Is that how Tinder works?
- Yeah, you have keys.
- It's like a car?
- Yeah, well, if you're old school, it does.
- A password.
(Rhett imitates car revving)
- You crank it up.
- Why don't we give her a password?
- That's kind of what I meant.
I was just using
an analogy. - That's what he meant,
Joanna.
Thanks for liking commenting and subscribing.
- You know what time it is.
- I'm Ryan.
- I'm Jordan.
- And we're from Toby, Ontario Canada.
- In my home studio.
And it's time to spin The Wheel of Mythically.
- We want you to time warp us.
That means illustrate us in a time period of your choosing,
post it to our Facebook page.
We're gonna pick some of our favorites,
and you all get a "Will it" volume two poster.
- Here it is!
Win this, go to our Facebook page, Illustrate.
And right now,
click through to Good Mythical More.
We're gonna give Mike and Alex a challenge,
an assignment of sorts.
- But not before
shout-out to Pink Eye.
- Shout-out to you Pink Eye
because I don't like my white eyes anyway.
- Because you make people look beautiful.
The puss, the redness, the possibility of infection,
it's all good things.
- You spread like peanut butter over multiple eyeballs.
- Actually, that's a treatment for pink eye, try it.
As a medical doctor with a PhD in doctor,
(all laugh)
I take it all back.
Pokemon GO is great for children and their bodies.
- So, we changing their assignment.
Can you guys just play Pokemon GO?
- [All] Yeah!