- Today's episode is accompanied
by the sweet, sweet sounds of clay cracking.
- Let's talk about that.
(theme music)
Good mythical morning.
- Today we're running on the pool deck
and diving face-first into the shallow end
of a fairly new ASMR trend
called clay cracking. - Clay cracking.
- Now this is by no means the first ASMR trend
that we've experienced behind this desk.
Which one so far has been your favorite?
- Well I was thinking soap cutting,
but then I remembered ice eating,
which reminded me of chalk eating.
Of course now I'm remembering ear cleaning.
But if I could only name one,
I'm probably gonna go with floral foam crushing.
- Oh, yeah, that was good.
Well giddy up, clay boy,
because today may top that.
We're about to try our hands
at the latest autonomous sensory meridian response mayhem
the internet has to offer.
It's time for The Weird Part of the Internet:
Clay Cracking.
Now for those of us who are constantly
in awe of the stuff that goes viral,
you know us- - I know I am.
- ASMR has continued to be a trend that,
like YouTuber apology videos, keeps popping up.
And this time, it's in the form of clay cracking.
- Yeah, clay cracking is simply creating whatever you want
out of some type of modeling clay,
covering it in a hard shell,
and then cracking it apart with your hands
in order to achieve some apparently very satisfying results.
Oh, and of course you gotta make a video
where you have a microphone that captures the cracking.
- The cracking? - Yeah.
- I thought you were gonna say the kraken.
- No, you wanna release the kraken.
- Now the two most common ways people achieve
that hard shell on the outside of the clay
are with nail polish and plaster.
We're gonna start by watching
some nail polish clay cracking videos first.
- [Link] Okay, ooh.
- [Rhett] Oh, it does something for me.
- [Link] Yes.
It kind of, the ASMR thing...
Ooh.
Man, it's just... - [Rhett] That's just...
Is that?
It's fish balls.
- [Link] It's like stepping on shells,
so I appreciate the use of shells.
- [Rhett] She needs to really get a manicure though.
- [Link] Oh, so much for the Lakers.
- [Rhett] Crush the Laker.
- [Link] Oh, that's edited. - [Rhett] We're Clippers fans.
- Oh, look at that.
That's colorful.
Oh, that had a sticker on it.
Stickers add a nice element of realism here.
So sinking your thumbs into these things,
we have not done this.
We haven't watched much more
than what you just watched with us.
But we have some here.
We have- - [Rhett] Balls.
- These nail polish-covered balls.
And you know what else we got, Rhett?
- We got a top-down cam.
- Yeah, we do.
- Hey, mom.
And you may realize or may remember
that my mother only watches the show
through my top-down cam.
She's not on yours. - Hey, Rhett's mom.
What?
- She's only on my cam. - Oh, really?
- Hey, ma.
Yeah, she gets a live feed.
Hey, mom, hope you're doing well in North Carolina.
I'm about to crack some clay.
- Who's on mine?
- [Rhett] I don't know, I don't keep up with yours.
- Is it even on?
- I don't keep up with your feed.
Okay, here we go, all right.
(clay crunching)
Ooh.
- The best ASMR,
and satisfying videos in general,
they draw you in to want to experience it.
And now I'm gonna do it.
(clay crunching)
- [Rhett] A slow technique.
- Yeah, now faster technique.
(clay crunching)
It's kind of like bubble popping.
Try another one.
I went too slow.
I just learned that.
Tell your mom.
- Hey, mom, don't worry.
I'm not getting hurt.
That's not the sound of my bones cracking.
That's the sound of the clay.
She worries about my safety.
- Well you're making her seem stupid too.
(clay crunching) (Rhett sighing)
Don't do the...
Listen. (crew laughing)
We've done enough of this ASMR stuff
to know that we don't do the, "Ah."
- Hey, that's what the pros do.
- One last one.
You're done. (Rhett sighing)
- My mama likes it when I do that. (sighs)
(Rhett laughing) - [Link] Ooh.
(Rhett sighing)
- I'm sorry- - Stop!
- I'm sorry, I can't help it!
- This is my ball.
Don't ah over it.
- It's just a guttural response.
- [Link] This is my moment. - It's a reflex.
- All right.
Like Rhett said, there's also plaster-coated clay cracking.
Let's watch some of that.
(clay crunching) Oh, look at that.
Now what character is that?
That's one of them Pokemans. - [Rhett] That's a Pikachu.
- [Link] Oh, he is...
You start to feel sorry for 'em-
- [Rhett] That's a slightly different sound.
- [Link] When they become characters.
Yeah, it's more-
- [Rhett] Something hitting some metal somewhere.
- [Link] It's more brittle.
(Rhett stuttering)
(both yelling)
- [Rhett] Hey, that's not cool.
Is that how you're supposed to react?
Hey, that's not cool.
- That's offensive.
Okay, so here I have a plaster-coated ball.
The plaster, it doesn't like to coat evenly.
So if you look there, oh, you can see it in my overhead cam.
- [Rhett] You shouldn't show that to anybody.
- [Link] That, you see how it's-
- [Rhett] I'm not gonna show my mom my ball.
- That's kind of cool though.
I'm only gonna give you this side of it.
(clay crunching)
- Ooh, it sounded a little farty.
- Fa-roop, it did sound like-
- You had a little farty sound. (laughs)
(clay crunching)
- But there's things that the mic picks up
that our ears can't.
- Hey, mom, this is completely covered evenly
around the whole thing 'cause my ball is perfect.
That's what you always told me.
- Yeah, talk to your mom.
Your mom talked about what she thought of your balls, huh?
- She said my balls were perfect.
- Is she a urologist? - [Rhett] Here we go.
(clay crunching)
- It's a bit more farty.
- Wow, it's got a different sound, doesn't it?
- It ruffles.
I'ma go with all the fingertips here.
(clay crunching)
(Rhett laughing) That's a fail.
- Yeah. - Don't try what I did.
- I'm gonna do pressure,
just pressure, pressure squeeze.
(clay crunching)
(Rhett sighing heavily)
(crew laughing)
(Link sighing mockingly)
- All right, like we saw in the previous clips,
creating pop culture figures or iconic foods out of clay
is also a popular trend within a trend.
So let's watch some of those.
Mickey, Mickey.
Oh, start with the ears. - [Rhett] SpongeBob.
- [Link] Oh, this is fast. - [Rhett] I can't even keep...
Pringles, there's pizza, eggplant or a penis.
Donut, gummy bear.
Oreo.
- That was just edited very aggressively.
- Way too fast for our Southern brains.
(crew laughing) Okay.
After seeing those experts creations,
we asked the Mythical crew to take a crack
at creating some of their own.
(laughs) Get it, crack?
I'm not talking about my butt crack.
I'm talking about the cracking
of the things that we're doing, the clay.
Our very own Mad Dog Lucas, you know him.
He locked himself in a little workshop, his little workshop.
He didn't leave until he had several one-of-a-kind,
iconic pop culture clay creations.
- Here's his first one.
Look at that.
- Is that E.T.? (laughs)
- I think this is supposed to be Shrek.
- It's gotta be Shrek because of the ears, right?
- All right, so I'ma get in.
Oh, gosh, look at that.
I'm gonna start with his antenna.
(clay crunching)
- Oh, that's promising. - Nice pop.
Ooh, and it makes it bigger.
(clay crunching) - [Rhett] Oh!
- Yeah, and then the eyes.
(clay crunching)
Ooh, that's a good one, Mad.
Ooh, look. - Oh, look what it did to him.
- Look at how different he looks.
He looks mean now. - Crush his mouth.
Look, look, look at him.
- [Link] It's like a face filter on Snapchat.
- Here's another one.
- Isn't that a bit sad?
- So I'm gonna say this is the Loch Ness Monster.
- There's no neck.
It's yellow.
- Well this is the Loch Ness Monster as a baby.
This is before it grows.
- [Stevie] Mythical creature.
- A hornless unicorn.
- [Stevie] No, no, no, no,
like the brand Mythical, you know, the one that-
- You're saying this is supposed to be the Randler?
- [Stevie] (laughs) Yeah.
- All right, we might need to have a class.
And Lucas is the only student.
And we just show him pictures of the Randler-
- [Link] It's not yellow.
- [Rhett] What the Randler actually looks like.
- All right, give it a squeeze, my friend.
- I feel like I gotta start in the tail.
(clay crunching)
- That was nice.
- Okay, back legs.
(clay crunching)
Oh, that's a pop.
- That's good.
(clay crunching)
(both sighing)
You're right, it is better.
I betcha they just cut out all of the dad grunt.
- Let's do it again on this one.
(both sighing)
You see how you let it sit?
And then you release it. - I got another one.
We can go together.
- I want this one to really sit.
- Now everybody's gonna know who this is.
- Howard the Duck. (laughs)
- I don't know what this is.
- [Stevie] Oh, you don't know what it is?
I thought you were hip.
- I know, it's that mascot
that people meme about all the time.
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- Grumpy, what's his name, Flippy?
- [Stevie] Yeah, Grumpy, no.
- I thought you were talking about the toad.
- [Stevie] Gritty.
- Gritty.
From Philadelphia.
- You push on this side.
- With my fist?
- Uh, yeah.
- Oh, let's fist... (laughs)
(crew laughing)
- Okay, yeah.
- Sorry, i stopped...
Mom, I stopped myself before I said that.
You know what I was gonna say, but I didn't say it.
- You learned all this from your mom?
- My mama has romance novels.
I learned everything I know about sex
from my mama's romance novels.
She didn't know I was reading 'em.
(clay crunching)
(both sighing loudly)
- (laughs) That is- - Look at that.
It got so big.
- Now the time has come for us
to become full-blown crackheads.
That's the name we decided to call all these people
who are into this stuff,
and we don't see a problem with it.
- Nothing, nothing wrong with it at all.
Okay, we're gonna make our own.
But before that, I just wanted to remind you,
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- All right, on these cards...
You have a card right there.
The crew has challenged each of us
to a secret clay creation challenge.
And we're gonna make these.
We're also gonna make history
and change the clay cracking game forever
because, instead of using nail polish or plaster,
we're gonna be using a wax shell.
Oh, I don't wanna spill this on my crotch.
- That would be...
We'd have a mold.
(crew laughing) - Right, we can sell that.
- You can sell crotch molds at Mythical.com.
- This is full of hot wax.
And it's gonna dry a whole lot faster
instead of waiting a whole day
'cause we ain't got that amount of time.
And we're gonna make, we're gonna each make our thing,
and put it on a skewer and dip it down in here.
- Skewer.
- It's gonna take a little time,
so we're gonna- - Okay, all right.
- Get going here.
- Gotta go, gotta get some of this here.
What's your confidence level
that I'm gonna get what you're making?
- Pretty high, I think.
I think I'm very good at this type of thing.
- I'm done. (laughs)
I'm done.
- You might have a guess as to what mine is.
But we're gonna wait.
Oh, gosh, I've got a... (laughs)
- Is that boobies?
- It's like, well, it didn't start out as boobies.
But now that I'm trying to smush it on this stick,
everything about this character-
- I'm gonna go ahead and dip while you're doing that.
- Oh.
Yeah, do one dip.
- [Rhett] Push it down a little bit for me.
- Okay, let that dry.
- I'm gonna dip that into the ice.
- [Link] I'ma dip my guy in there.
- [Rhett] So it's a guy.
You said, "My guy."
- I mean, it's just a general term.
All right, dip yours. - And then we switch.
- Oh, take a little dip.
Take a little dip.
That was two.
We're doing 10 dips?
- What if we did this?
- Nine.
Ah.
- And 10.
- And...
This is supposed to be for your hands.
I wanna try that.
- Well that kind of happened with me.
I have fused myself to my creation.
And I cannot move my fingers.
I want you to think about mine.
Mine's got motion to it.
- Yours is an octopus. - You can imagine this thing-
- [Link] Is it a sea creature?
- No, no, no.
You could go outside and see one of these right now.
I betcha we could drive 10 minutes in any direction,
and you'd see at least one.
- One of those blow up things.
- Yeah, you got it!
- All right, crack it.
- We're gonna let these dry.
But let me guess what yours is.
- Okay, guess mine.
Now, it's kind of blurry
now that it's covered in so much glaze.
But blurring is good for this.
- I remember what it looked like
before it got blurry. - What did it look like?
- A pale man with a really hairy belly.
- I'll tell you, my couch would definitely know
who this is in the office, your couch too.
My desk would definitely know.
- Oh, that's Chase.
- Yeah, you put on some pounds
over the course of the process, Chase.
I'm sorry, that wasn't intentional.
But that's your belly button, not a blur.
All right, let's wait for these things to harden.
And we're back, and we got our hardened creations here.
You wanna try to give it a squeeze for your mama?
- Mama, we invented this.
We used wax, and no one's ever done that before, ever.
- Wax cracking.
(clay squishing)
(crew laughing)
- It's a little more subtle.
(clay squishing)
It's more like a moist breaking than a crack.
- Yeah, we call this moist breaking. (laughs)
Here we go, here we go.
Here's some more moist breaking.
(clay squishing) - Definitely.
Was that a finger?
- That was the wood. (laughs)
- I forgot it was still in there.
- I got y'all.
- I was about to grab mine and pull it out,
which that's what I'm gonna do right now.
- I was like, that's the only way I can get a cracking noise
is if I break this wood, y'all.
- [Link] How do I...
Here we go, like this maybe.
(barely audible squishing)
- That was some good moist breaking.
- That was real moist.
- Get his head, get his head.
(clay squishing)
- Stop it.
Okay, it's not as good.
But it's still fun. - It's more fun in some ways.
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