Much like the Mighty Phoenix, some urban legends just wont die.
Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning! - Welcome back, mythical beasts!
- (laughs) - It's season seven!
- I am-- - That's a prime number!
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I didn't honestly-- It was a question in my mind if you were
- gonna be back, - You talking to me?
and I am relieved-- I'm talking to them!
- Oh. I was picturing that too. - I'm relieved that--
I didn't question that. What are you, crazy?
That you are back! There's always that little question though.
Are they going to come back? And here he is.
Here she is. Here they are.
- It's good to see you, Link. - And here you are!
- How you been? - I've been good, man! How 'bout you?
- (both laugh) - Good!
- I forgot what your face looked like. - Well here it is.
- Check it out! - It is-- It's--
All you gotta worry about is this side though.
You've trimmed it. I remember that side of it.
- You wanna see this side? - Yeah, just a little bit.
- That's enough. Okay. - There it is.
- It looks different than the other side. - Now let me see both sides.
Okay. That's good. Now we're good to go.
- Mine here, this side, yes? - Don't care about it.
- Ready for it? Over here? Just this side? - Don't care about it. Just that side.
- Okay. - What better way to start off a season of
Good Mythical Morning, than to clear up some misconceptions.
- That's what were gonna do. - No better way.
If you grew up at some point, or you're growing up you have heard
- Then you're on the right track. - and you have been subject
to misconceptions, urban legends if you will.
- Hmm. - Things that people will say,
"Hey! You know you shouldn't do this. You did that, or you know, this or that,"
and they're all wrong! Usually, sometimes they're wrong.
- We're gonna cover the ones that are wrong. - But they don't die.
- Urban legends do not die until today. - But you're gonna get smart today.
We're gonna clear some things up. Starting with--
I'm gonna say the urban legend like I'm-- Like it's prescriptive,
- Sure. - and then I'm gonna say that its wrong.
- Oh. - You should never touch a baby bird if it
falls out of a nest because if it falls out of the nest, and you touch it,
the mama bird will smell human on it and will abandon the baby bird and it
- will die. - Now, I've definitely heard this.
- My mama told me that. - And I've shot away from many of baby
birds for that reason, and for another reason,
I'm afraid of baby birds. They're freakish looking.
- (Rhett) That's not what this is about. - (Link) They're featherless.
- This isn't about your fear. - Me?
This is about the fact that my mom and your mom
- Okay. - and everybody else's mom told them that
- Okay. Okay. - don't touch a baby bird.
- Alright, alright. I'm cool with that. - You can touch that baby bird all you want.
You probably shouldn't for other reasons like disease,
but birds can't smell, man! They don't have all factory senses that
- can sense human. - (Link) It's just two holes and a beak.
- (Rhett) It's just two holes in a beak, man! - You know,
- how does it-- - How well does that work?
- What? How can humans get in there? - (stutters)
- That's science. - For serious, they can't smell human.
You probably shouldn't touch them because when they get out the nest,
they've been pushed out of the nest by the mother most likely so they can
- Mhm. - learn to fly on their own.
- Hmm. - So you should probably stay away,
but you can touch them just a little bit on the beak.
- The mama doesn't care, okay? - Okay,
- Glad we cleared that up. - I got another one here.
I went to New York one time-- Well I've been many times,
but one time I went up in the Empire State Building to the top,
- and you were there. - But we went together.
- What? - (both laughing)
It wasn't like "Woah! Rhett! You're up here too!"
- You made it seem like it was a - (both) happenstance.
- What are the chances? - You're like--
- Forgot what you look like! - It's like it was a dream.
- I got up there and you were there! - It was a trip.
No, it was just a trip, and I remember thinking when I got up there,
if I had a penny, and I threw it off, it could kill a person,
because for some reason, that's the thing that people talk about.
This little thing. This little bronze thing, a penny,
Killing people when going off the Empire State Building.
- That's definitely true. - Via being thrown.
You shouldn't throw it off the top because it can hit someones head and go through it
- like a bullet - Now, unless you watch Mythbusters,
and if you have, don't be saying in the comments,
"Oh, Mythbusters, blah blah blah." Just leave that out of this.
If you haven't seen that, then at this point you're thinking,
- (Link) "It's feasible." - (Rhett) That's true.
(Link) Now I'll give you the fact right now. 1250 feet tall,
you throw a penny off that thing. It's gonna reach a maximum velocity
- (Link) of 190 miles per hour. - (Rhett) That's pretty fast.
And that seems like it could kill you. It'd just cut through you like butter.
The fact is, it cannot. I will not. It will hurt a little bit,
but it will not come anywhere close to killing you.
Just as a point as reference, a bullet--
An average bullet goes at 17-hundred miles per hour.
- It goes at 17-hundred miles per hour? - It goes! Yeah!
What do you mean? Yeah, of course it goes.
So, throw as many pennies as you want off the Empire
- State Building. - No don't--
- That's just littering. - Don't throw anything that's more bullet
shaped, or anything that's gonna reach to a higher term of velocity.
- Don't throw anything off. - Don't throw anything off!
- You're right. It's selfish. - But if you do--
And it's stupid. That's what the signs should say.
- How 'bout this one? - Don't throw anything off,
- it's selfish and it's stupid. - How 'bout this one?
You know that daddy long-leg spider? It's actually the most poisonous spider
in the world, but its fangs are so little that it can't
- bite you. - Or I've heard that its mouth is so small
it can't bite you. I've heard that.
Pretty much what I said but a little bit different.
Right, and I want this to be true,
- so-- - It's wrong!
As a matter of fact, the daddy long-legs,
also known as the Harvestman, is not venomous.
You can eat that thing all you want. You can fry it up.
You can eat it raw. There's no venom in there,
and it can bite you. It can bite you!
But it has the same sized fang, or mouth as the Brown Recluse.
It just creates a little irritation that doesn't last very long.
So play with that daddy long-leg all you want to.
It might bite you, but it's gonna be negligible.
It's not venomous, and if you just want to eat one raw,
you can. You're not gonna die.
Alright, I got another one. Same thing.
I was in New York. I was on the ground this time.
- You were there. - Yeah.
- I remember thinking to myself-- - What are the chances?
I was looking at a manhole, and I do remember thinking,
- I was in there. - there-- No.
There are giant gators down there. I've heard that there are giant gators
down in the sewage system of New York City.
- (Rhett) Right. - People from Florida came up with little
gator pets, and then the gator pets got big.
- You know how they do. - Completely logical!
They get completely ferocious, so what do you do?
Just let them go and they find their way into the sewer looking for the Ninja Turtles
or whatever. You want to be afraid of a gator coming
up through the toilet, which we know is not possible,
but they can still be in those sewage stuffs.
- In those sewage stuffs, yeah. - Dating back to the 1930s,
Sensationalist Newspapers circulated the story,
- and it's still around. - That's quite a lot of s's in that sentence.
You're welcome. New York Times posted several stories
recently about finding alligators in New York and New Jersey,
none of which, except for one, mentioned anything about the sewer at all.
So it-- (stutters) It's basically debunked.
(makes buzzer sound) There's not giant gators in the sewer.
- There's no gators in the sewers. - Don't worry about it, kids.
- But Walt Disney is cryologically frozen. - Cryologically? Cryogenically frozen.
- Just like Michael Jackson. - I made up a new word.
Cryogenically frozen. If my mom were to say that,
that's how she would say it. She would say cryologically.
- You're doing the Dianne voice. - She would say it wrong.
This is actually true. No, this is not true.
This came from a couple of books that were written by him in the 80s and 90s.
Books that had a bunch of weird stuff about Walt Disney and then
biographies that had proven to be largely false.
People reaching, trying to sensationalize the Dis.
Saying that he was cryogenically frozen, and he's underneath the statue at
Disney Land. Anyway, he wasn't cryogenically frozen,
but I will let you know, Link, I would like to be.
- (Rhett) I'm putting in my video will, - (Link) (laughs)
- (Rhett) Please cryogenically freeze me. - Have you seen the size of my freezer?
- No, you get a special. - Have you seen the size of yourself?
- Yeah. - Okay, kids.
When you're going swimming, get out and eat your food.
It your riblets, but you gotta wait an hour before you get
back in the swimming pool or the swimming hole or the cement pond or
whatever it is. You've heard of this, right?
As kids, you'd blow the whistle, you gotta get out and do your eating.
Can't get back in for an hour because all the blood goes to your stomach,
- Mhm. - and it's not in your limbs,
and you're gonna-- You're gonna cramp up,
- and you're gonna drown. - Yeah, that's true.
- This is not true. - Oh.
- This is not true! - Disappointing.
Just eat all you want, wait in the pool,
and just eat. Soak the riblets in the chlorinated water,
and just eat away! Nothing bad is gonna happen.
- (Rhett) I think you're taking it too far. - This whole story--
This urban legend came from basically before the age of lifeguards.
Parents not wanting to have to watch their kids every. Single. Second while
they're at a pool of some sort. So that's their little--
That's their little remedy to have a little reprieve.
Alright kids, just sit on the side and eat your riblets,
- and then I can just-- - What's with the riblets?
I can read my magazine. Go to any Applebee's and look to the left.
- There will be a public pool right there. - (both laugh)
Okay. Hopefully we've cleared up some of these
misconceptions, and you will not continue to perpetuate
- them in the public. - I am so glad to be back!
Thanks for liking and commenting on this video.
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And that's why you should always kiss your knee three times.
Now listen, there is this guy named Patrick.
Patrick was a very inquisitive dude, and he heard about the fair.
And he said, "Well I'm gonna go and check it out
because I heard there's cows there, and I'm a big fan of cows."
And-- Um-- So-- He's smelling for cows because there
- were no signs. - And then he gets to the cow exhibit,
and they're like, "Well, you gotta have tickets to get in
- here to smell the cows! - And do you have any tickets?"
- And he said, "No!" - Say, "Well--
- I can kiss my knee." - "Well we'll do that!"
and he got in and he sniffed the cows. And that's-- Why--
When you kiss for a ticket. and that's why you should
(in unison) always kiss your knee three times!
[Captioned by Hayleigh: GMM Caption Team]