- You're about to get the chills. - Let's talk about that.
♪ (theme music) ♪
- Good Mythical Morning! - You know that feeling you get.
That feeling where you get a shiver, a shutter up your spine and maybe your
hair stands up on end. Some people in some parts of the world call those goosebumps.
- Goosies. - That's called the chills,
and we're about to get into the world of the chills and let me tell you,
doing a little (makes beeping sounds) research on this blew my mind because
the world of the chills goes a lot deeper
- than your epidermis. - Your skin?
- That wasn't what I was gonna say but-- - I though you were gonna toast me,
but I'll do it for you.
- Okay. - I will say that it is one of my favorite
- things in life. - To get the chills?
- Yeah because it's-- - Well you're gonna have a great time
- today, Link. - It's unexpected,
it's a pleasant surprise that heightens any experience.
It's like the perfect (makes clicking sound) on top of- It's like the cherry on top of
- a sundae. Wow, what a good sundae. - Or a (makes a clicking sound)
- But I don't really like cherries. - You're saying ice cream gives you
the chills? Is that where you're going with this?
- No. Have the chills with us today. - Okay, so what we're gonna do,
I'm going to give a little bit of the science behind the chills,
and then we are going to induce the chills in one another,
I think, at least for a few of these things, you may have
- the chills induced in you. - Is this--
It's gonna be an interactive experience.
- Is this going to get awkward or something? - Potentially, very awkward.
The first thing is the definition of just the normal chills,
"A pleasant tingling feeling associated with the flexing of hair follicles,
resulting in goosebumps, technically called piloerection, accompanied by a cold
sensation and sometimes producing a shutter or shiver."
That was okay. I'm familiar with this. It happens at certain situations.
For me, I can be listening to music, sometimes if somebody is being honored,
like, if somebody is becoming an Eagle Scout.
- (loud laughing) - I get the chills.
You're like, "Ah! He's getting the scout! The eagle! The eagle's landed!"
- Yeah, right. - When the white wizard presented himself-
Ooh! I almost got--I'm about to get chills right now thinking about it!
- The white wizard? - When Gandalf came out
- as the white wizard? - (Rhett) Gandalf the White, yeah.
- (Link) Yeah, it was like, what? What? What? And then-
- Look! Look! Look! It's happening! - (yelling) Look at the goosebumps!
- I got it! (laughing) - Goosebump cam! Goosebump cam!
- Woah! My goodness! - I am--
- You're way ahead of the game already! - I am good at this.
It went up the back of my neck.
All I gotta do is think about Gandalf in white!
(normal voice) Well that's funny because the first test I was going to do.
You can actually induce them by just thinking about something that gives you
- the chills, but before we get to... - (laughing) I passed!
..more tests, it's a lot more than just the chills.
A word that we talked about on some past episode
of Good Mythical Morning was called (French accent) frisson?
- (normal voice) This is something-- - I remember that.
It's basically another way to talk about the chills, but there are people who get
together and they're called frissoners, and they experience chills together
while listening to music and they say it's a distinctive phenomenon that lasts from
four to five seconds and has to do with anticipating changes in music.
- Mhm. - And then beyond that, there's another
episode of Good Mythical Morning that we made about ASMR, which is
- Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. - (creepy voice) Let me shave your face.
- Right, these weird videos where people-- - I'm going to shave your face right now.
make noises and they whisper and it causes the chills to happen.
Again, the people in that community say that
- that's a distinct response. - Let me pull your molar. (clicking sound)
Now while Link is pulling your molar, I will say that I'm not going to get
- into the theory as to why we get chills... - (laughs)
..because that, again, is another episode in and of itself.
Some people think it has to do with our ancestors having
a lot of hair on their bodies, and when they got scared, they got bigger.
- They were made to look-- - Like a cat.
Their hair stands up, or when they got cold, it was a way to retain heat.
Some people think it has to do with your limbic system.
There's a lot of different theories, and there's probably truth
in a lot of those things.
- I was thinking limbic system. - But, what we're going to do is
we're going to try to do the Good Mythical Morning version of what they did at
Hanover University of Music and Drama, because, you know, we're all about music
and drama here on Good Mythical Morning. And they sent 36 people through...
these tests to expose them to all these different things to try to induce
the chills, and see, what are things that will commonly give people chills?
- Was one of them Gandalf just busting-- - No--
- in through some double doors? - I'm going to go through
a few categories here. The first category
is the mind and memory test, and that is inducing a chill
just by thinking about something that
- gives you chills. - I've already passed, now you try it.
Well, no. I want to see if you can do it two times in a row--
- again? - Within minutes.
Can you think about Gandalf the White and make it happen again?
Well, me actually talking about it, I think, is what put me
in the total zone.
You think about Gandalf the White, I'll think about an Eagle Scout.
You know, they're in the forest, and then all of a sudden,
there's this blinding white light, and, " Oh no! What?
What is that? Oh! It's happening again!"
- (yelling) It is! You're a professional! - (high pitched laughing)
- You're a professional, man! - (yelling) I can do something,
- (surprised voice) That's amazing! - (normal voice) and so can you, people!
- Think of Gandalf, and then think of me. - Link, I am blown away.
It didn't happen to me. I thought about an Eagle Scout.
I've never seen an Eagle Scout happen.
I don't know why, I mean, it just seems like the kind of thing.
- Maybe if I really saw it. - Like the birth of an Eagle Scout.
Second category, the tactile test, or the "tack-tile" test.
- We're going to use this head rubbing thing-- - Oh yeah!
- Or wizard or whatever it is. - Head wizard.
- I think that's actually the name of one. - That would be Gandalf is now-
- Became the head wizard. - Now I'm going to do this to you,
- Gandalf, okay? - And this is when it gets awkward.
I think I need a bigger one. Let's just go with this one.
- Just, I want to see if this- - Ooh.
- Is it doing it? - I'm resisting it because-
- No, no, no, no. Try to let it be tactile. - You're not helping, so let me do it to you.
- Okay, it didn't work. - Okay. Wow, you're really good with that
- Gandalf thing, though. - (laughs)
- I'm, you know, blown away. - Alright.
(laughing) (yelling) Woah! It's overwhelming!
- Are you close? - (loud laughing)
- That's amazing! - Actually, this one works better.
- Are you getting any? - (normal voice) I don't get the goose
- though, man. - (both laughing)
I'm going to leave that one on there, and I'm gonna add this one.
- The double? - (both laughing)
- (Link) It looks like a torture device.
Okay, another tactile test: chewing on cotton balls, apparently.
- Give me one of those. - Or puffy fluffs, as it says right there.
Now I have never-- really? Chewing on cotton balls?
Yep. I've never done this, I haven't tested any of these.
(muffled voice) What?
(normal voice) Think of it as Gandalf's hair.
- (muffled voice) It's squeaky. - Think of it as Gandalf's hair.
- (muffled voice) It's squeaky. - Is it doing it for you?
I'm going to take these off because I don't think that's helping.
Alright, moving on to audio test. Sometimes a certain animal noise can do it
'cause you can create a fear response. You're kind of creating
a fear response at me right now. Can you just spit those that way?
How about a goat that screams like a human?
(scream)
(higher pitched scream)
Let it give you the chills.
(goat screams)
Makes me laugh. It doesn't give me the chills.
- Okay, not working. - I think if a goat gave you chills,
it would mean that you are a certain type of person.
- Like a goat farmer. - Now, music has done this for me before--
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - and in the test at the university,
for some reason, they used Phil Collin's "Easy Lover."
I love this song.
♪ (Easy Lover) ♪
Why would this give you the chills?
(singing) Easy lover.
I'm getting chills. (lipsyncing) She'll get a hold on you,
- believe it. - What? You are! What is wrong with you?
- How does this give you chills?! - Before you know it you'll be on your knees.
- (normal voice) I love this song. - Is it taking you back?
Yeah. I love this song. (lip syncing) She'll take your heart
but you won't feel it. (normal voice) Look at that.
- (laughs) - I don't think I could do that
if you injected me with some kind of goose bump inducing drug.
Okay. Note: I have not experienced any chills thus far.
The Eagle Scout didn't do it for me, and nothing else
has done it for me, but a taste test.
Something incredibly sour, like Warheads candy, has been known to--
- Okay-- - induce this response.
- Really? - Mhm.
I can feel it almost about to happen.
Boy, made me pucker up.
That's not gonna make me do anything,
- Yeah-- - Except a face.
I never heard about that.
I mean with music, anytime there's a symbol or a swell I'm like,
"Oh yeah, I'm gonna ride that wave."
It happens to me in movies, and it happens to me during certain songs, but...
I think I'm psyching myself out.
- Now-- - Maybe you gotta really get into it.
A visual test.
It has been said that looking at old pictures of yourself can induce it.
Sentimentality.
I got this picture of me and you from Christmas, maybe 1995.
(Link) Just think about if we could go back and talk to those guys,
what we would say.
(Rhett) I don't think I can get chills looking at your haircut or my facial hair.
Yeah, I'd probably say get a new haircut, or get a sense of fashion.
(Rhett) I look like a criminal.
I look like somebody three days away from a federal prison term.
- (laughing) Didn't work. I don't - - That didn't work for me. Okay.
And finally, this is my last hope. The ASMR for Men video.
(whispering) Welcome to manly ASMR.
ASMR for men.
I'm your host, Iggy.
Am I supposed to be scared? Is that how I'm supposed to get the chills?
If he had on a Gandalf costume, I'd be chilling, man.
Hold on, he's talking about--
(whispering) A sack of nuts.
(both laugh)
I ain't getting chills from no sack of nuts.
(whispering) But I always make sure...that I do.
I like to carry my sack of nuts everywhere I go.
- Do anything for you? - Making me feel a little weird.
- (laughing) - Like I need to find the nearest exit.
- Okay-- - No goosies, man.
It's only an hour and 12 minutes of that. We can watch that later.
I'm sorry to say that I did not have any chills induced.
I'm curious to find out what induced chills
from this video, or in normal life. Maybe reading your comments
will give me chills. If you comment about Gandalf,
I'm gonna get some chills. I'm going to go ahead and tell you.
If you throw in some Phil Collins, I'm gonna be off the chart chillin'.
You've given me the ability, anytime you're in a weird mood--
you know, I have dressed like Gandalf before.
- You've seen the video. - (Link laughs) Yeah.
Maybe if I dressed like Gandalf the White,
- and come into the door- - I'd be like--(stunned croaking).
Anytime you're having a bad day, I gotta go get a costume.
(laughs) (child voice) Rhett, can you be Gandalf for me please?
- (both laugh) - All right, we'll work that out
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Click through to Good Mythical More, where we go through
a few more chill-inducing tests.
(whispering) Get the chills with us.
Rhett sells Link's soul to anybody.
(yelling) Step right up! I've got one soul!
It's very easily chilled! Very easily chilled,
- especially in the presence of Gandalf. - Uh...
Can you clarify what's happening to me because I'm lost.
(normal voice) I'm auctioning off your--(whistles).
Your--(makes wind sound).
- Not your nipple, through there. - Chest.
- My lungs? - Your soul.
- Ow. - Your very essence.
(yelling) The very essence of this man, up for grabs!
- "I'll take seven." - Okay.
(normal voice) Seven dollars.
Did I mention he's really into Gandalf and Phil Collins?
[ captioned by Hayleigh: GMM Captioning Team ]