- Are shower oranges the key to happiness?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Good mythical morning.
- Today,
let's move at the speed of conversation, shall we?
- Let's.
Uh, and let me just warn you,
today may change your life.
I mean that is always true about this show,
but the information that we are providing today--
- Yes. - Has changed
some people's lives.
- Uh huh.
- And it may change yours.
Okay. - And ours?
Question mark. - Spreading like
wildfire in an orange grove,
the trend of the life changing shower orange
is upon us. - Shower orange, yes.
- We are in the Age of The Shower Orange.
- I didn't know it until I was told.
- Yeah, it is exactly what it sounds like,
it is eating a cold orange in a hot shower.
And this may sound inane to you,
it may sound like something you don't wanna try,
but it is changing people's lives
and it may or may not have changed our lives.
More on that in a second.
Okay, John Krewson from Men's Health,
he's an authority on men's health.
- Well, no, he just writes for a magazine,
called Men's Health.
- But he is an authority.
He said, "You must eat a cold orange in the shower
"with your bare hands every day.
"And I swear, no hyperbole, it is the," quote, "most,"
I've been quoting him the whole time,
but I decided to add quote again for emphasis.
- Yeah.
- "It is the most completely healthy mind,
"body, soul activity a person can indulge."
- That sounds a little like hyperbole to me.
- (laughing) I mean--
- "The most complete mind--"
- That's a strong statement! - Body, soul activity
a person can indulge?
- Okay, well, alright, so how did this get started?
It wasn't Krewson; it was Reddit.
- Of course. - Of course,
this happened on Reddit.
Now, this goes back almost a year.
There was a story that it got posted on Reddit
in which he was at an Italian camp.
I don't know if, I think maybe he was an Italian,
but he was at a camp, like a summer camp in Italy.
- In Italy, let's just say.
- And, uh, his camp counselor said,
"Would you like to know the most liberating,
"carnal, and best feel-good thing you can ever experience?"
- Whoa, hold on.
That's not an appropriate
question-- - Yeah, if your
camp counselor-- - For a camp counselor.
- Asks you that question, run.
(chuckling) Okay?
- Like-- - You say, "No,
"no, no, no, no, no, no, no," and you run away.
(laughing)
- Take the tent with you if you have to.
- Cover yourself with the tent.
But, in this case, all he was talking about
was eating an orange in the shower.
According to this Italian counselor,
he said, "The secret, the orange shower secret,"
or, "the shower orange secret--"
- They work in any order.
- Yes. - Secret orange shower,
shower orange secret.
- "Is letting lose your innal--
"inner," (chuckles) "primal animal--"
I'm so excited just thinking about it.
- "Innal-blo-balaro."
- "Not worrying if you're gonna get sticky or anything.
"Just rip it in half and tearing into it with your teeth
"like a savage cannibal who hasn't eaten in a week."
Now-- - Uh, eh, but, see,
When I hear this part of it--
- Yeah.
- I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt,
or maybe more, trying to get excited about it.
- Right.
- And when I heard this, I was like,
"Oh, yeah, 'cause you can get--"
- Like an animal. - You get it all over you,
but you're immediately-- - And then it's washed.
- Cleansed!
And I'm like, "I could be into this!"
- Right. - Like, anything
that where I'm immediately cleansed after being dirty,
'cause like, I'm into that.
- That's why we like bidets so much.
- I don't, I, yeah!
I don't like to have sustained dirtiness,
but this-- - Who does, really?
- But there's something euphoric about gettin' dirty, right?
- And it's not just that; according to Krewson,
again, Men's Health expert,
it has to do with aromatherapy.
He says, "The humidity in your shower transmits
"the complex aromatics in your orange more effectively
"to the nerves in your nose."
So, there is some science behind it.
But this has created a very passionate, passionate subreddit
on Reddit, here are some of the quotes.
"Fruit of my heart, you're magnificence shall be spread
"across the globe by the true believers."
- Is that a--
- That's a movement that is being started.
- That's, that's, well, that's too many words
to be a haiku, but--
- "Everything--" - It did sounds like one.
- "Everything is brand new again."
People just post a picture of the shower orange aftermath
with things like that.
- Now, there's rules of the pictures you can post,
that there all--
- Post. - Safe for work.
- Yeah, it's not-- - There's no nudity.
- There's not, there's feet.
There's lots of feet
and just like-- - [Link] Feet and orange--
- [Rhett] Shredded oranges.
- [Link] Yeah, "Everything is brand new again,
"Feet with oranges." - Very compelling.
"Black is the new orange."
That was what someone said.
(softly laughing) - What is b--
- Now-- (laughing)
- That one doesn't work.
- Uh, I think I understand what they mean though.
- If your orange is black, don't eat it anywhere,
much or less a shower.
- Now, okay, it's not just a passionate thread,
it is a sacred thread because one person tried
to get in on this business with a watermelon.
(laughing)
And they posted a picture of a watermelon
that had been completely carved out
right next to their feet.
And this actually has more responses
than anything in the thread.
Responses including, "Only oranges."
"That's just wrong!"
"Reported."
(laughing)
"You disgust me, get an orange or get out."
(laughing) - Wow.
- And, "Filthy ge-de-degenerate!"
(laughing) - Wow.
- "So angry, cannot get it out."
- Yeah, so, um, these people are very passionate,
and let me just make one observation.
This is what our society has become.
I mean, our ancestors were just happy to find a fruit.
They were just happy to find a fruit.
And then wash its remnants off later.
And now, we have the ability-- - Now you think about that.
- To seek out experiences like chilling oranges
in 'frigerator and getting into a hot shower
that has been made hot, the water has been made hot
with gas, or electricity, and then putting it together
and creating a movement around it.
Count yourself privileged!
- Now, I've, I've, uh--
(laughing)
I've drank coffee in the shower.
- That's weird.
(laughing)
- Uh, and I've, I've had just cold water in the shower.
So, I was on the precipice of this
and I didn't even know it.
- Right, and we have decided, of course,
if there's something that is this significant to people,
it's moving people in this way,
we have to try it ourselves.
We have done that and we documented ourself in the shower.
Again, this is safe for work--
- And-- - Depending on where you work,
there's some man nipple in there though.
- And, but, this is our work shower.
It's right over here.
- Yeah. - Uh,
that we, uh,
Morgan set up GoPros.
- Yeah.
- Which is dangerous 'cause they got a wide field of view.
(laughing) - Yeah, they do.
Now, let me just say while it may look
like we were in the shower together, we're not.
We were just edited back and forth between
the two different experiences, okay?
We were never there, you're gonna hear Link talk,
then me talk very closely, but we never were
in the shower together.
(laughing)
Let's watch our experience.
- Okay.
Okay.
I'm glad there's cameras here because,
um, I'm not comfortable taking a shower
without being filmed, so this is nice.
- I normally don't film my showers.
- Make it hot first.
(water running)
- Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh!
I didn't prepare myself for that.
- There we go. (water running)
There we go, now,
I keep myself an orange here.
- I feel like I should just act natural.
- Seems a little odd, hmm, smells good though.
- I'm gonna reach for the orange.
- Don't have to worry about where it's going.
- So far, this is pretty normal
other than the fact that I'm being pelted
with water in the chest.
(water running)
- Ooh!
That's cold.
(water running)
(snickers)
(water running)
(loudly swallows)
It's warmer.
- It tastes the same.
Tastes normal.
- Make sure it's clean, I guess,
I could clean it before I eat it.
(water running)
- Oh, oh!
Right in the eyes, right in the eyes.
Probably shouldn't have done that.
(water running)
- Hm.
- [Rhett] Okay. (water running)
- Whoo!
- Well, it tasted exactly like an orange.
- I feel very awake.
I felt like I ate an orange in the shower.
- It was nice not having to worry about the juices.
- Think I still have some in my teeth.
- It feels like something that might be a monthly thing.
It wasn't transformative.
Gotta be honest.
- Alright, I did it.
So you said it wasn't a transformative experience for you.
- No, it was nice, I think I was, like I said,
I will eat oranges, maybe other things.
I thought about maybe shower spaghetti and stuff like,
stuff that gets messy.
- Don't post it on Reddit.
- Because I like to shower and I like to eat, so I get that.
But in terms of combining those two things
and it being sometimes that is going to be a daily routine
and a life changing experience,
I'm sorry, shower orange aficionados,
that's not me, I can't get on board.
- Well-- - Don't hate me.
- I was very hopeful and so I was a little disappointed
that, yeah, I felt the same way,
that it, okay, it tasted like an orange.
It smelled good, but meh.
But I thought, "Okay, maybe it's because I'm being filmed."
Maybe I'm a little uncomfortable.
Part of this whole experience is just tapping into
your primal nature. - Right.
- And letting loose and not being concerned
about being naked in the woods
and being covered in juices.
- The woods, where're the woods going?
- Well, that's the primal tapping-into
type of thing. - Got it.
Eating an orange in the rain.
- Yes. - Covered in fur.
- Right.
- So,
I have shower oranged
three more times in my own shower.
- Whoa!
- With no cameras rolling. - Okay.
- But the first time, I mean,
my shower is totally see-through,
and Christy walks in and I hadn't told her
I was doing this, and,
(laughing) like, I was shower oranging
and I look over and she's like standing there.
- She's like, "My husband
has gone nuts." - She's like looking at me.
I'm like, "I'm, I'll ta--, I'll tell--
"I'll explain later, but I'm in the middle of something."
- Yeah, I'm testing something
from the internet! (laughing)
"Oh, okay,
"no more questions. - So then, that one,
that one didn't work out that well.
But then I tried it two more times
and I really gave it my all.
But, I wanted to be there with you,
and, I don't know, it was really good, but,
it was described like a spiritual experience.
And I feel like it's-- - Like it was transcendent.
- I feel like it's a spiritual experience that I just,
I haven't had, I just,
I'm not getting it, I just feel
like an outsider.
- Maybe we're being punked, you know?
Maybe--
- By the entire Reddit community?
- Yeah, I don't know, maybe--
- We'll, if that's true, then I am sincerely flattered.
- Well, just a subreddit community.
Or maybe this really has changed your life.
Try it yourself.
- Yeah, don't-- - Or if you have tried it,
let us know in the comments what you thought about it.
What are we missing, should we try again?
Should we try something and do it differently?
- Yeah.
- Let us know, we want our lives to change.
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- Hi, I'm an orange. (light jazz music)
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- Shower oranges didn't change our lives.
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