You don't need a PhD to cure an H-E-A-D-ache!
Let's talk about that.
♪ (theme music) ♪
- Good! Mythical! Morning! - All right. If you've got a headache,
- you've come to the right place. - I don't.
If you don't have a headache but you get headaches, well, you've still come to
the right place. And if you don't have a headache and you never get a headache,
then keep that to yourself! I mean, we live in the real world, okay?
- Yeah! - And headaches happen. And sometimes
you don't want to use a traditional method to cure said headache,
- Why be traditional? - but you still want to get rid of it.
Sometimes you just wanna go on the internet and find ways that people have
said you can get rid of headaches and just try 'em out one after the other.
- That's what we're gonna do today! - Yeah!
(Rhett) Let's get weird with it! Curing a headache.
All right, in order to cure a headache, you have to first have a headache.
- Do you have a headache? - No. Do you have a headache?
- I do not have a headache. - Let's get headaches! Here's how we're
gonna do that. It's a three-pronged attack. We are gonna have some loud
noises, which is basically Chase and Stevie banging some pots and pans.
We have some strong smells. We've got two bottles of perfume, one from He Who Shall
Not Be Named, and also the other from Britney Spears, both equally terrible,
we have been told. And we're gonna be eating Stilton cheese, because it
supposedly contains chemicals that are known to bring on migraines.
- Oh goodness, really? - And I like cheese!
I don't like blue cheese. All right, bring it in. Let's induce these headaches.
Now, I know that perfume always gives me a headache, so I don't even have to eat
- this nasty cheese. - (Rhett) Oh, but you do need to do it.
I mean, I just walked through that department store--
- (coughs) Oh, gosh! That's horrible! - You gotta--
- Go for it! Go! Don't hold back on me. - (banging)
Get some! Eat some! Oh, you sprayed it in my eye!
Ah!
(more banging)
- Okay! OKAY! - I'm starting to get one a little bit.
- You sprayed perfume into my eye. - I mean, I got perfume in my eye,
- Sorry! (laughs) - I got perfume on my hand.
- I got perfume on the cheese... - Want a little bit more?
- Little more? - Yeah, just one more time.
- Round two. Have some more cheese, Link. - (banging)
- I'm not eating more of that cheese. - Are you getting a headache?
Yeah. Okay, my head's hurting. It is hurting. Okay, you can stop! It's hurting.
- Success! - And I'm gonna attribute
- (slurs) most of that to the perfume. - (mocking) Moth of that!
Oh goodness, the perfume! (coughs) All right.
Oh, dude, I got one. It's lodged right between-- behind my right eye now.
Yeah, it's back behind... it went up the nose and it's behind the eyes.
(chuckles) Everyone in the studio is covering up their noses. You know what?
This is why I wish Smell-o-Vision was invented already, because you would be
experiencing this with us. But you're just gonna have to take our word for it.
- Or do it on your own in parallel. - It's stank up in here!
All right, let's try the first one.
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So, my research tells me that the gentle vibrations of an electric toothbrush can
serve as a temple massage to relieve the tensions associated with-- and my face
and head feel tense from what I just endured, so let's just, um...
- Do you brush it? You brush your temple? - Well, I think...
only this part vibrates, so... (buzzes) you gotta...
Do you use the-- What side do you use? The brush side?
- Oh! Oh yeah. Ooh. - (crew laughs)
Now, I've had bad headaches in my time, and I would give myself a temple massage.
Oh ho, my-- Do this! Do this. Make like a sunglasses shape over your eyes.
- Aw yeah. - (Rhett) It is the most amaz-- Ohhoho!
- Aw, yeah. - (laughs) Whoah! It's gonna make me sneeze!
Get right-- get right in there.
(both laugh)
- Hey, hey, hey. Turn it off for a second. - (buzzing stops)
That's not the one that was on the cow tongue, was it?
- (laughs) - You don't know! Too late now.
- It's been washed. - Here, massage my nose again.
- (buzzes) - Hold on.
This is the way to sneeze!
(both laugh)
- Oh! Oh! - (Link giggles)
Ooh! Phbbt! No, right there! Oh, gosh, it's--
- (laughs) - (gags) It makes me wanna gag
- it feels so good! - (Link) Oh, yeah.
I have forgotten all about my headache, I will tell you that much right now.
Hey, listen. (buzzing stops) You wanna have a good time?
- Buy an electric toothbrush! - Put an electric toothbrush right there.
- (both laugh) - Oh. Ohhh my goodness!
Hey, we're gonna have do an edit that's like,
"Four Hours Later" and we're still like uhhhh...
♪ (harp music) ♪
Okay, so, this definitely rings true to me that a lot of headaches
- My head is ringing. - happen in the eye area, which is where
I've got one right now, which is kind of right behind the right eye.
- Yeah, yeah. - And, like, massaging your brow kinda
like we kinda incidentally did with the toothbrushes works, but also some people
swear that putting some little -- what do you call these things? -- hair clips onto
your actual eyebrows kinda creates a pressurized constant massage on your
- eye region. - Really.
And it can remedy headaches. So I've got a lot of eyebrow hair to work with, but...
You're starting on the outside and going in?
- (crew laughs) - Oh, man, that feels strange.
- Ooh, it does. - (Rhett) Oh, I got a lotta skin.
- I got a lotta skin. - Do I have a lotta skin?
- Yeah, all over your body! - (silly voice) Yeah! It's the largest
- organ on your body! - (silly voice) It's called the epidermis!
- It's everywhere! It covers everything! - (normally) You know what? There is
something to this. Is this what people with eyebrow piercings feel like?
- 'Cause I've always wanted one of those. - Go here to the septum.
Oh man, hold on. It is really starting to hurt! This is--
Yeah, you know what I have? An eyebrow ache.
- (crew laughs) - I have a headache too.
- Oh, you still got a headache? - I got a headache, a brow ache, and
- a nose ache. - I feel like we might be cutting the
circulation off to the brow region. This is not-- Oh, this is not good.
I'm gonna try to squeeze my face really hard to see if they'll all pop off at once.
- Hold on. (buzzes) - Count down from three.
(laughs) Whoahaha! I'm serious, I can't contain myself. Stop!
- (all laugh) - We've discovered something, man!
- We discovered, like, a nerve. - That makes everything better, man!
- Okay, see if you can get 'em-- - All right.
- Oh! - Ahh!
(Rhett) Oh it hurts. It hurts so bad! It hurts so bad!
(Link groans) Mmmgh! Aaagh! (coughs)
- Squeeze your face! Oh! - (all laugh)
- It's like-- hold on. I look different. - (crew laughs)
I look like-- hold on. I look like I changed! Look, I changed!
- Look how much I changed! - (both laugh)
- I have a stronger brow now. Needed that! - Ohh. That's a lot of pain.
Now we've added to the pain, let's move on and cure all of this.
♪ (harp music) ♪
Okay, so, we're gonna put some ghee up our nose. I didn't even know what ghee was,
but ghee is clarified buther. Ba-- ba-- "buther." Butter!
- (laughs) Clarified buther! - Which is butter with all the fat removed.
So we've got some clarified butter here. Ours happens to be mixed back with canola
oil. We're gonna put this up our nose. Ghee-- or clarified butter-- is said to
have antiviral and antimac-- microbial-- Havin' some difficulty speaking because
- my head hurts. - There's a lot going on here.
- Antimicrobial properties. - I mean, we smell like Britney Spears,
first of all. I mean, my hand smells like Britney.
And that's the best thing going for you right now. Basically, dip one finger, and
- then put it up our noses. - Put it up our noses? I got the wrong
finger. I'm right-handed. I can figure it out though.
- You have to put it up both. - How deep do I go?
(Link) All the way. You know, just get a nice little antiviral coating inside of
- there., and ah... - (crew laughs)
- It's nice. It's really nice. - You might look like you need to blow your
nose a little bit, but just say, "Hey, no, this is ghee."
(Rhett) I'm treating a headache! How's your headache, by the way?
- It's at a low... - Low hum?
Low hum. It's like mrrrrr. It's there. Like, every time things get quiet,
- it's like oh, she's still there. - It still smells so strong in here.
You sprayed, like, five 16-year-olds getting ready to go to prom's worth.
Now, I'm gonna say let's move on, because maybe there'll be some cumulative effect
across all these weird ways. Because on its own... my eyebrows are still hurting.
♪ (harp music) ♪
Okay, so, I don't believe that our headaches can escape this last one.
- Oh, really? - 'Cause we're doubling up, okay?
- Okay. - The first thing we're gonna do is we're
going to wear salt herring necklaces. Yes, this is a--
Which I've been waiting for an opportunity to do this with my life.
This is a folk remedy-- oh, you didn't make my necklace big enough! I can't get
my face through this without touching salt herring!
- (Link and crew laugh) - Oh gosh!
I can't get my face through without touching salt herring!
Can you get your face through at all?
- (crew laughs and groans) - (laughs)
- Oh! (gags) - (coughs)
- Whoah, man, it's unpleasant! - I think I'm gonna be okay.
Eugh! Okay, I'm gonna tell you how this works. Apparently...
- It's dripping though. - Oh, it stank! I can't smell Britney
- anymore, I'll tell you that right now. - You might still smell Britney
- but she needs a bath! - (Rhett and crew laugh)
Herring contains an enzyme called CoQ10. It's known to prevent headaches,
but I don't know exactly how it's transferred from the necklace.
I know how it was transferred into my nose, 'cause it went right over it.
- Mm. - (Rhett) This is the first thing.
This one is a Native American remedy. But I'm gonna tell you right now that this was--
I have no idea if this is legitimate, but we're gonna find out right now by
trying it. I feel like my headache is so low grade right now that I don't think I
- should be the one receiving this. - My head still hurts. I don't know
the details of what is about to happen, but... I'm game.
Here's the details from the website: "Seven green elderberry leaves cooled in
water, water in which leaves were immersed is taken onto mouth and blown
four times on top of victim’s head--" You're the victim.
- (crew laughs) - They say "victim?"
"...as he sits in chair facing east." Okay. I didn't have any elderberry leaves,
but I got some elderberry syrup. I'm gonna spit that on your head.
- (Link) Okay. - But I need you to face east. And Link,
I have determined that east is directly into that camera right there.
- (Rhett and crew laugh) - How convenient!
So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to take this into my mouth, and then I'm
going to blow it on top of your head, but each time I have to say, 'You Apportioner!"
- What? - "You Apportioner!"
Okay. I'm gonna take my glasses off if you're gonna blow elderberry into my face.
- I'll blow it on top of your head. - Good.
Can you bend down a little bit?
- Facing east? - Yep!
(crew laughs)
- Do you need to water it down any? - I can. I can mix it up.
(swishes)
- (spits) - (water plinks into mug)
- (crew laughs) - Dude! More went into my glass
than into my head! It's supposed to be a mist! Like, can't you
- make a mist with your mouth?! - You Apportioner!
- (crew laughs) - That's one of four.
It's dripping everywhere now. Like, whatever happened to a spittake, like pfffft!
- Oh, that's what you want? - Like spray it a little bit.
- Okay, sorry. - Don't just, like, phbt!
- It's amazing how it went-- I heard it. - It was like "bloop!"
Oh man, I gotta watch the replay on that.
- I'm glad I closed my eyes. - (crew laughs)
Just... spray more!
(sprays)
(crew laughs)
You Apportioner!
(sprays)
You Apportioner!
(sprays)
You Apportioner! I still got some. You want me to go five?
- Yeah. - (sprays)
(crew laughs)
- You Apportioner. I gave you five times. - (Link giggles)
- I'm not done. I have to say this. - Please be done.
I have to say this now: "You have just come to hear! 'Medicine!'
- He has just come to say." - Is that it?
- It's on the website. - (crew laughs)
- Um... boy. - How're you doing?
- I feel a little violated... and ah... - Do you have a headache?
Ah... not really.
- No, I have a little bit of a headache. - Really?
But I'm sure it's nothing a little bit of... (buzzes) won't cure.
- (all laugh) - (coughs)
- Okay. Do you still have a headache? - Oh, then do this, trust me.
Thanks for liking, commenting, and subscribing. Oh gosh.
- (coughs) You know what time it is! - Oh, man!
Hey, I'm Travis from Gilbert, Arizona, and
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Click through to Good Mythical More. We have one more outrageous headache
remedy that we're gonna try. It involves drinking something.
(Rhett) Link is Rhett's emotions.
(silly voice) I'm so happy! Look at me! But now I'm gettin' sad 'cause I spit on
my friend and I'm just a crisis of conscience. Oh, I'm angry at myself.
Why would I be such a jerk? Spittin' on my friend? But I dunno, maybe I'm just--
my head is floppy and my eyes are kinda wonky and my shoulders are hurtin' and,
ah, man, somethin' stinks. Maybe it's that necklace I'm wearing.
[Captioned by Caitrin: GMM Captioning Team]