Today I'm gonna drink his pee.
Let's talk about that.
♪(intro music)♪
Good mythical morning.
Mythical beasts, your questions are like a man that has survived
alone in the wild, for weeks with no food or water,
and then, all of a sudden, the answer bear shows up.
That's us. And you think he's gonna eat you.
And then, all of a sudden, he reaches in his pocket,
and pulls out a granola bar.
That's right, the answer bear wears pants.
Yes he does.
And we asked you to ask us questions about survival,
(gruff voice) because we know how to survive around here.
- Yeah we do. - And we had a question from John Riggs,
who asks, "How do you survive without no clean water?"
- (laughs) - Now, John, we know what you mean.
Technically you asked, "How do you survive with clean water?"
- But we know what you mean. - Which is actually easy.
- Without clean water. - You drink it. Yeah.
Alright, you know what?
There's a lot of products out there
- that will filter not clean water. - Yes.
But we are gonna test one of those products today:
The LifeStraw.
Now you may have seen some people on the interwebs
(Rhett) drink some pretty nasty things through The LifeStraw.
(Rhett) That's what we're gonna do today.
Now this thing filters 99.9999% of water-borne pathogens,
like parasites and bacteria.
- However, it doesn't filter chemicals or - (both) salt.
So you don't wanna go drink ocean water with this.
- And you don't wanna drink-- - Pool water.
- Pool water. It's got a lot of chlorine in there. - Like chlorinated water is not something
that you wanna LifeStraw.
But you can drink a lot of other stuff. as we're about to do.
Are you ready for this?
No. Let's do it.
(trees rustling) ♪(tribal drums music)♪
What do you know?
Mike and Alex are taking a bath together again.
(laughs) You guys getting clean?
Yeah, I always do the scrubbing.
(laughs) Oh, god!
Okay (laughs)
Now we have asked you guys to shower less this week, than normal.
How long has it been since you showered?
I think a week each.
(Link) There's floaties in here. I definitely--
(Link) And I don't mean these. What is all that?
It's Mike and Alex!
- (all laugh) - (Link) Like skin cells and stuff.
And stuff.
You wanna be more specific? - No.
Okay, now, I've never used one of these.
- This is a great way to break it in. - Yeah, let's break it right in.
Now, there's a cap here at the bottom.
- (Rhett) I've already de-capped mine.
Cause I'm so anxious to drink this.
There's a cap here at the top.
You know, you guys just continue to do your thing,
and we're gonna drink your bathwater.
- Dink it. - We're dinking it.
- I like the color scheme of it. - It's so great.
Light blue, and dark blue.
Please do not look at me,
and I will not look at you while I'm doing this.
I'm getting nothing yet. Are you getting something?
- (strained) Yes. - (Link) (laughs) What?
I got a mouthful, man.
(Rhett) Doesn't taste bad at all. I hate to say.
How does this make you feel?
Fine.
- Eugh!
It's colorless. It's not that bad.
I don't taste any Alex, or Mike, at all.
(Link) And then when you're done,
it even says on the side, you're supposed to expel anything else.
Okay. Emptied out my straw.
- Thanks guys for your services. - Is this yours?
(laughs) Probably, yeah.
Wow! It's always in there.
Oh you're gonna drink that.
That hasn't been filtered!
(trees rustling) ♪(tribal drums music)♪
If you're not intimately acquainted with L.A.,
let me describe the L.A. river to you.
It's much less a river, and much more
- (Link) a huge concrete sewage drain. - (Rhett) Just a big ditch.
(Link) And then there's like a little steam in the middle of it,
unless it rains a whole lot, in the mountains
- And then it's a river. - And then it's a river.
And all types of stuff come through there.
Basically everything that comes into the city, water wise,
that gets into the sewage, makes its way down into those drains,
(Rhett) and it becomes this thing right here.
- Oh my goodness. - (Rhett) So not sewage.
It's runoff and drainage.
Now, Mike and Alex, you guys fetched this stuff from the river?
Well, first of all, you guys are still in the bath.
- (Rhett) Let's acknowledge that. - Well, of course they are.
They're not done. What's the story here?
Oh, well, I mean, I didn't know all that stuff,
so I went about waist deep to get the good L.A. water.
- Okay. - You waded into it?
Yeah (laughs).
(Mike) Yeah, he did.
Should have probably showered before I got in this thing, too.
Oh! (laughs)
It doesn't matter, we're about to drink it straight.
I'm trying to identify the floatiness in here.
Well, I can tell you some things that have been found in there,
and there may be remnants in the water that we're looking at right here.
There's been a taser found.
(Rhett) There's been and endless supply of shopping carts.
Dead bodies. Yes, dead bodies.
An entire phone booth. And an entire Porta-Potty.
Just to list a few of the things that have been found in the L.A. river.
There's nothing that makes me thirstier than Porta-Potty.
If this water gets into the ocean,
you're not supposed to surf for 72 hours.
- Let's do it. - Dink it.
And, you know what?
Let's spit a little bit out here,
so we can compare the before and after.
- (Rhett) Okay. - (Link) Alright, so, I'm going down.
There it is.
- Oh! - Wow!
I can't tell if it tastes like the inside of The LifeStraw,
or if it tastes like Los Angeles.
Look at that!
It's greenish-brown versus, like, totally clear!
I'm going full drink on this one.
Yeah, it doesn't taste bad at all.
(Rhett) It's a little different though, man.
I mean, I wouldn't say it's bad, but it tastes different than regular water.
It tastes soft, and better.
Soft and better. You know what we can do?
- What can we do, Rhett? - (Rhett) Let's start--
Let's start bottling L.A. river water through these things,
and call it, "Soft and better."
We could be the mascots, you'd be soft, I'll be better.
(both laugh)
I wanna be better.
Okay, you can be better, I'll be soft.
I wanna be soft. I'm soft.
Link's soft, I'm better.
It almost tastes like Juicy Fruit, or something.
- I know. There's a fruitiness to it. - Have you noticed? There's a fruitiness to it.
We're gonna have to get a third person, who's gotta be fruity.
(both) Soft, better, and fruity.
- Mike said he would be fruity. - I'll be fruity.
(both laugh)
You can be juicy. You can be fruity.
- Okay. - (Rhett) What a team.
Selling water to everybody.
(trees rustling) ♪(tribal drums music)♪
Survivalists drink their own pee,
so, I mean, it's not a big deal.
And, it's unfiltered when they do it.
- They drink it straight. - Yeah, in the woods--
Well, they usually put it into a cup and then drink it.
Straight would-- I don't even wanna think how that would be.
(Link) There's aim involved.
(Link) I have my contribution here.
In case you don't know, this is my urine.
(Link) So, we should switch.
I mean, we don't have to switch.
(Link) We could drink our own.
I mean, I don't know. I kinda feel, like,
this is like a step-- This could be a step in our friendship.
I don't think this needs to be about our friendship.
Have you guys drank each other's pee? Check!
Well, my argument, in favor of switching,
(Link) maybe you've got, you know--
You've got everything you need out of this.
But maybe I can find something.
All that stuff that we might need,
is gonna be stuck in The LifeStraw.
- I think that's the idea, right? - Well, okay.
The real question is, is it gonna be yellow when it comes through?
Because, if it's still yellow when it comes out,
- Right. - I'm not gonna be excited about it.
So, let's spit it in here, and gauge the yellowness. Okay?
Eugh!
What "eugh"? What do you mean, "eugh"?
(Rhett) It's urine, man!
The body said no to this.
You know what I mean? The body said no.
My body did.
The toilet said yes.
Alright, let's go in.
(whispering) This is so stupid.
(laughs)
Oh man!
(Rhett) Oh gosh.
This is what it-- This is what my life is.
(splutters)
- (strained voice) It's still a little yellow. - (high voice) No!
It's so traumatic! It's warm!
(high yell) Gosh!
- (all laugh) - (Rhett) I hate us!
I hate that we thought that this was a cute idea.
(strained voice) It's not cute at all.
(Link) Eugh! Alright, here we go.
We're gonna swallow this urine.
(whispers) Oh gosh.
- It helps not to think about it. - Like a sommeliere?
Yeah, like I'm not gonna swish it around my mouth or anything.
Well maybe we should do that.
Okay, I will.
Here we go.
(gags)
(crew laughs)
(gags)
(shouts) Argh!
No!
(gags)
The aftertaste.
(Rhett) It tastes like what pee smells like.
And I'm sorry.
The reason that I did that,
is because I was trying to do the swish.
And the thought of the swish, made me--
- (Rhett) I don't know how far it went. - Spray man.
You sprayed everything down there.
It's your pee.
It's like you just snuck in here, and (spray sound) peed all over the place.
- (both laugh) - (Link) When I do that on the set,
I wipe it off afterward, but--
Alright, listen, alright so eject the rest in here,
and let's forget this ever happened.
- (heavy exhale) - Eugh!
I'm sorry to myself.
(trees rustling) ♪(tribal drums music)♪
Okay, so, one of the things
that these are very useful for,
is in, like a third world country, where there's some crazy event,
where the flood takes over,
and all the sewage gets mixed up with the drinking water,
- and people can't find any clean water. - (Link) Hm mm.
You distribute these, and people can literally just
- go up to any crazy water source. - Stream; creek.
- That's got dookie in it. - Yeah.
That would typically give you all kindsa diseases,
and just drink it. So, we're gonna do that,
but we're not gonna use our own poo.
We're not even gonna use human poo.
We're gonna use Lizzie's cat's poo.
Bring it in, Chase.
(Link) Thank you, Lizzie, for donating--
- (Link) What's your cat's name? - (Lizzie) Bobby.
(both) Bobby.
Is he a girl? Or...
Bobby's big, whatever he or she is.
(Rhett) I just asked, is he a girl.
Cause I'm so discombobulated about what's about to happen.
So this is clean, nice water.
Can we just drink that?
(Link) And what we're gonna do,
is we're gonna poo the water.
We're gonna, like, grab a clump,
and we're gonna plop it.
Man!
I mean, this is-- This is what it's for.
Not so directly, though.
You go first. Go for the big juicy.
(Rhett) No.
(Rhett) I'm gonna get just a few turds here.
(Link) We got, like, organic, totally natural litter.
(Link) So there's no chemicals in this litter, correct?
(crew member) Yes.
And it was also boiled for safety, right?
- (Rhett) Here we go. - (Link) No, nothing has been
(Link) boiled for safety, sadly.
(Rhett makes disgusted sounds)
(Rhett) Eugh! One of the floats.
Come on, Bobby, what's up?
- (crew laughs) - One of them floats, Bobby!
Look at this.
(Eddie gags)
(crew members disgusted)
- Eddie's over there-- - Take that away, brother.
Eddie's over there gagging on himself.
(Link) Eugh! Man, I got the fresh one.
The big, fresh one.
Look-- It's equally translucent, man.
Open your thing, I'm giving you some of mine.
No, no no, if you do that, it's gonna spill.
I don't want dookie water
anywhere but in my mouth.
(all laugh)
Don't get it on the desk.
I just wanna drink it.
I'll drink some of yours, if I have to.
Gosh!
Golly.
(Rhett) I got a turd floating in mine, man.
Yeah, you're gonna have to dodge that with the--
I mean, there's certain advantages over there.
(Link) But mine comes up like an iceberg.
Is it gonna taste different?
I think it's best to just think about survival.
Don't think about the rec-- the rectum of a cat.
- The rec-a-tum. - (both laugh)
Don't think about the rec-a-tum of a cat.
It's like we're li--
(Link) It's like we're lighting two cigars or something.
Remember this moment.
Oh, I will.
(Rhett makes disgusted sounds)
It's in contact.
Now, the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get a mouthful,
and I'mma spit it in here so we can see how clean it is.
- Really? - Yeah, I'm not gonna swallow it first.
Here we go.
(crew laughs)
- It's-- - (strained voice) It tastes fine.
It's a little yellow, right?
(crew laughs)
(stammering) It's still a little yellow.
(strained voice) Yeah, yours is.
(Rhett) Eugh! Mine's not.
(strained voice) You shouldn't have gotten the iceberg.
(crew laughs)
(Rhett) What's that yellow from? It doesn't filter out color.
You swallowing it?
(high voice) Hm!
It's kinda berry.
(gags)
It's in your mind, man.
It tastes good.
Did you say it's kinda berry?
Now we gotta be, soft, better, juicy, fruity and berry?
- (crew laughs) - (laughs) Berry.
We should just get a guy named Barry then.
How did you think it tasted?
It tasted of just enough different to make me gag.
But it didn't taste different bad.
It wasn't different bad, I gotta be honest.
It was the idea.
Clear it.
We did it, man. We drank dookie water.
It's yellow.
What is the yellow?
I don't wanna know.
(crew) No, no, no, no!
What?
Oh, yeah!
That was the wrong end! (laughs)
- You should go wa-- - (high yell) Oh no!
No, seriously, go wash your mouth out, right now.
Don't worry about the camera at this point.
(laughs)
(crew laughs)
My name's Connor,
and this is my cat, Nibs,
I live in Roy, Utah.
It's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
Uh, I think Link is okay.
He hasn't vomited since drinking that water.
I made a coffee.
- Coffee will fix everything, Link. - Yeah!
You're gonna be okay.
If you wanna see Mike and Alex's adventure in the L.A. river,
(Rhett) getting that water for us,
(Rhett) check out his week's episode or Good Mythical Crew,
- this Saturday. - And click through to Good Mythical More,
We're gonna open your mail, give you some wilderness survival advice,
and find out the amazing backstory behind this magical rock.
But not before a unisong about skin tags.
♪(both) What is that little piece of skin
♪ hanging on my chin?
♪ I gotta do something about it, baby.
♪ Maybe you can clip it with some scissors.
♪ But I'm not going to the dermatologist!♪
- Cause that's a scam. - Yeah.
[Captioned by Jack: GMM Captioning Team]