- We found some strange sounds.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- Mythical beasts, tonight, we're gonna do
a livestream on YouTube, where we're gonna have
a watch party for episode one of "Buddy System."
It's gonna be a commentary that then we'll have
a Q and A afterward.
Details below. - Yes.
- But right now we're gonna have a listening party.
- Oh, yes. - Okay.
- Yeah, it's gonna be a little weird.
There's lots of stuff in store.
Some sounds that we've created in musical form
a little bit later, but first, some weird sounds
that we found.
- Yes, we have scoured the internet
for some weird and strange noises.
Sounds that we're going to listen to.
We're gonna present those to each other
in something that we like to call,
"What the heck am I hearing?"
Okay, Link, are you ready to hear a sound?
- Yeah, I am.
- It's not gonna be completely impossible
because we are gonna give each other choices.
- Okay. - As to what this might be.
- Because otherwise it probably would be, I believe.
- Right, so I'm gonna give you the choices
before you hear the sound.
It's gonna be that easy. - Okay.
- Is this A, a toad croaking, B, a seal being born,
C, a swimming donkey being surprised,
or D, Lizzie 15 minutes after eating
Domino's gluten free pizza.
Here's the sound.
(creature groaning)
(Rhett and crew laughing)
- I mean-
- Notice the blah at the end.
- I would've guessed that was like a horrific burp.
That's not even one of the choices.
- No, it's not.
- It's like, you know sometimes you'll like,
a burp will brew and then it'll like,
it'll start coming out and it's still down there
and it's coming out too.
- Right, it's internal. - A long burp.
- It's not one of those, man. - A toad croaking,
a seal being born, is that what you said?
- That's a choice.
- What's the third one?
- Swimming donkey being surprised.
Or of course, the Lizzie one.
Which is not true, I'll go-
- How are you surprised as donkey?
I hope that's it.
Do I get to see this?
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna guess the donkey, but I don't know why.
Just cause I wanna see it. - All right, let's show him!
(creature groaning) - Oh, no.
Oh!
- Oh, you missed the sound!
You covered up the sound.
- I'm sorry, I had to make my own sound.
Play the end again.
Play the end again, Eddie.
(creature groaning)
- Yeah, that was what you did in response to him.
- It screamed along with me.
- That's what all seals do when they pop into the world.
That's what both of my children did
and they're not even seals.
- I made it. - Now I will say.
- That was gross.
That scarred me, man.
- The farting noise that you heard
was actually from a male seal that was
next to the seal giving birth.
So he's making his like sound with his nose.
So he's just hitting there and going, making his noise.
That's what he does.
That's what I did while my kids were being born.
Just stood in the corner farting it up.
I do not want to make eye contact with.
- Oh my goodness, okay.
In an effort to recover from that,
I have a sound to play for you.
- Oh, please do that.
- Is the sound that I'm gonna play for you, Rhett,
the sound of cracking crab legs,
a knee bending, stepping barefoot on beetles,
or all your hopes and dreams being crushed?
That's a familiar sound.
- Wow, okay.
All right, I'm ready. - See if it rings true.
- I'm ready to listen.
(cracking)
Aye.
Yeah.
- Didn't sound like a crab leg.
Definitely did not sound like a knee bending.
That would be a screwed up knee.
- Hopes and dreams?
- There was a step, steppingness to it.
Stepping barefoot on beetles.
- Sinking.
Show it to him, Eddie.
- [Rhett] Oh, it is a knee.
That guy needs to get it checked out!
(buzzer buzzing)
- No, as it says, that is a healthy knee.
They put a sensor like a microphone right there on the knee.
That's normal, dude.
- I've every time I put my ears to my own knees,
I've never heard that.
- Put your knee to my ear.
Put your ear to my knee.
(crew laughing)
- Oh!
Oh!
Oh my goodness!
It sounds just like the video!
- Really?
Let me knee your ear.
I mean ear your knee.
(cracking)
(Link laughing)
I don't know if that was Eddie playing it again.
- It wa. - Oh, okay.
- Mine didn't make any noise?
- No, it didn't.
- All right, I got another sound for you.
Is this R2-D2, a bird squawking,
a man making noises with his mouth,
or nothing, it's in your head.
(trilling)
- I mean, it started out R2-D2-ish.
Maybe it's a man doing an R2-D2 impression.
- Maybe it is.
- Like that guy from "Police Academy."
Is he still around?
Love him.
- You're about to find out.
- It sounded electric. - Okay.
- Which is why I'm going with the bird squawking.
- Okay. - Is it?
- Here it is. - It is!
- Link, this is a bird.
(trilling)
Can you believe that it?
- Yeah, it's like a transformer.
- It's an Australian bird, the liar bird.
We gotta get one, man.
- Yeah, that wouldn't be annoying to have around.
- I want him to be a free flying bird
that comes and goes as he pleases,
but then when he comes and he makes the noises for us.
It's entertainment.
- Yeah. - I'm working on it.
- I don't, okay.
Don't.
I got another one for you.
Is this sound an ornery camel,
a hungry goat, a grandpa spitting out wasabi,
or your weird uncle in his zombie Steve Harvey costume?
- How do you know about that?
- Very popular last year and this year.
- Yeah.
- Play it.
(groaning) (gasping)
- Man.
I know this has gotta be a freaking grandpa, man.
'Cause everybody's like, oh, look at Grandpa,
he put wasabi in his mouth again.
Let me, let me see.
I know I gotta be right about that.
- You're right, show him Grandpa.
(buzzer buzzing)
- No.
No.
No, man.
- It's a spitting goat, man.
- These goats acting like grandpas and humans-
- It is not Grandpa.
- I just, look, I'm not comfortable.
I feel like there's something paranormal
going on with these goats. - No, no, no.
Goat experts say that one reason goats yell or spit
and ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba is because they want be fed.
Goat experts also lie when people ask them
what they do for a living.
- Because they're not actually goat experts?
- No, who would say "I'm a goat expert?"
"What do you do for," "I'm a goat expert."
No one wants to say that.
You ever met a goat expert?
- Don't crush the dreams of future goat experts.
Let's continue this listening party.
Mythical beasts.
You guys ask us questions.
And have we ever failed to give you an adequate answer
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And so it's time for a little segment that we like to call,
"All you had to do was ask."
- Okay, so our friends at Amazon ask us to use
the Amazon Echo, the hands-free speaker
you can control with your voice,
to help us help you answer some of your questions.
Question comes from Rachel Meritt, who asks,
"what's the best way to write a song?
I would think you guys would know a lot
about song writing as you do it often.
- Well, Rachel, we're about to get vulnerable
for you right now, because we're gonna let you in
on a little background thing that we do.
- Our process.
- A lot of times what we do is we actually
start songs individually, and then we develop demos
that then we present to each other.
- And only to each other.
- And then we critique them and then
develop them into a song.
But we're about to present demos to each other for new songs
that neither of us have heard.
- Right, we have added the tracks to our personal library
on Amazon music, and we're gonna play 'em.
The way to get the Echo to listen is just to say its name.
So I've got the first track that I'm-
- Go first. - I'm gonna play for you.
- Okay. - Don't be too hard on me.
Alexa, play "Tater-Faced Boy."
- [Alexa] Playing "Tater-Faced Boy."
(rock music)
♪ Ha ♪
♪ Well, I was rolling on my tractor ♪
♪ Breezing through the mud ♪
♪ When I spotted a boy ♪
♪ With a face like a spud ♪
♪ I approached the young man ♪
♪ And boy, was it a sight ♪
♪ His face looked like fries ♪
♪ And I just wanted to take a bite ♪
♪ Tater-faced boy ♪
♪ Stay safe ♪
♪ Don't dip your head in ketchup ♪
♪ If you don't want me to eat your face ♪
- Yeah.
That's it.
- It's a little wordy at the end.
- That's all I got.
- Tater-faced boy, which is something
that we said on a previous episode.
I do remember that.
- Yeah, the band names episode.
I thought it needed to be real.
And it's got a moral, you know,
don't put your head in ketchup if it looks like a potato.
- I think we can change that.
- If you don't...
That's the whole point. - We can change that part.
- Okay.
- And some other parts.
- This is the world that I work in.
- Well, you know, speaking of that episode
where you pitched those, it's interesting
because when you pitched those different names
and you pitched some of the names of the songs
they might have, I went with one of those.
Alexa, play "If I Were a Woman, I'd Marry a Man Like Me."
- [Alexa] Playing "If I Were a Woman,
I'd Marry a Man Like Me."
(light music)
♪ If I were a woman, I'd marry a man like me ♪
♪ He'd be tall, have a beard like wood ♪
♪ And he'd like to eat greens ♪
♪ There's nothing wrong with loving yourself ♪
♪ You know what you need better than anyone else ♪
♪ If I were a woman, I'd marry a man like me ♪
♪ Sorry, girls, he's taken ♪
(Link and crew laughing)
- I like how we both try to sell our song by miming them.
I wasn't even looking at you.
I could just tell out the corner of my eye.
He's really trying to sell this thing.
- Yeah, I think I sold it well.
Now, what do you think about that?
- It's a very self-serving song.
I mean, where's my part?
- You know, it could be for anybody,
any man could sing that song.
- Wood and beans?
And beards?
- That's my verse.
- Oh, I get my own. - You get a verse.
- I get my own verse. - Yeah.
- I love it. - What else you got?
- Okay, I got another one.
I wanted to go...
I just wanted to give people a visceral experience.
Really to creep somebody out.
- Okay.
- Alexa, play "Creep You Out."
- [Alexa] Playing "Creep You Out."
(rock music)
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Velvet lips kiss the cosmic glare ♪
♪ Ziplock bags filled with children's hair ♪
♪ Bringing earwax toppings to your Taco Tuesday ♪
♪ Intelligent monkeys blowing kisses my way ♪
♪ Put a post-it note ♪
♪ Over top of your laptop webcam ♪
♪ You don't know ♪
♪ Who's watching you ♪
♪ But it's me, I am ♪
♪ Buy a ticket to the log flume ride ♪
- Your demo fades out?
(crew laughing)
- Yeah.
I wanted to leave you wanting more of the creepy.
- Wow.
I don't want any more.
I mean, that could be good for a certain, you know what?
That's good for your solo project.
- I hope that they put the lyrics on the screen
'cause I know it's hard to understand,
but that's part of it.
It's like, am I creeped out?
Am I attracted to this vocalist?
I don't know what's- - I'm concerned.
- I don't know what to feel.
- I'm concerned for you a little bit.
- Yeah, buy a ticket on the log flume ride.
- Okay, I got one for you.
Now, I think that, you know, they play a lot of music
while you're being massaged, and I feel like
they always kind of stick with just the same genre.
So I thought it was time to mix it up a little bit
for massage music.
- Okay.
- Alexa, play "Ambient Massage Song" by Rhett.
- [Alexa] Playing "Ambient Massage Song."
♪ I'm so tight ♪
♪ So stressed ♪
♪ Need someone to rub my neck ♪
♪ Oh yeah, that's the spot ♪
♪ I like the way you work my muscle knots ♪
♪ Put some oil on my back ♪
♪ Give me a two-handed attack ♪
♪ I had a really hard week ♪
♪ And I want you to rub my feet ♪
♪ I'm so stiff ♪
♪ So stressed ♪
♪ Need someone to rub my chest ♪
♪ Oh yeah, that's the spot ♪
♪ I like the way you work my booty knots ♪
(crew laughing)
- I can...
I mean, it really took me to a massage parlor.
- Yeah. - I was there.
- You were right there on the booty knot.
- Oh no, I was not on your booty knot.
- I mean, you know, metaphorically.
- No, I don't know what...
I like the beat.
- All right, you know, I just thought-
- Wow, that's-
- I thought we could sell that to the massage parlors.
- Yeah, we'll go door to door.
- Okay. - We'll keep 'em in a satchel.
- Yeah.
Okay.
So you know what?
We let you in on the process.
- They all don't make it. - Yeah.
- You know?
You don't usually-
- Usually just about 25%, so one of those songs,
probably one of mine, will be the one
that we move forward with and make.
But thanks for listening, and thanks to Amazon Echo
for sponsoring this episode.
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- You know what time it is.
- Hi, I'm Jackie.
- I'm Mike.
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Discount...
- "Discover the first chicken wing."
Man.
I'm so tired of breasts.
Hold on. - Chicken.
- What's this thing attached to it?
- I don't know, but it's right here.
- It's smaller than you're making it.
- It's folded up. - Yeah.
Man, look at that.
What is that?
It's got three parts.
One's pointy.
Why don't you try to eat a little bit of it?
Hold on, hold on.
- I wanted to try to eat it.
- Cut off the weird part and then get the other two parts.
You take the one that looks like a little leg.
- I got it.
Oh, you know what it makes me wanna do?
Wink.
We should call it a wink.
- Then she starts sticking her tongue out
to try to get it, her tongue is like this long.
It's like she's a freak of nature.
- We gave her way too much peanut butter.
- He had peanut butter squirting out the sides.
(people laughing)