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We are back! So are you.
- What are the odds? - Oh.
Now, you probably heard of the site Snopes.com.
It's a site that presents the facts around a particular issue
to help confirm or deny crazy stories, unbelievable stuff.
Comes up in conversations with us.
- Yes. - Many times, actually.
Sometimes we'll be at a party,
and somebody will say something,
- and somebody will be like... - You know how we're at parties.
- We're all partying all the time. - Partying all the time.
And they're like, "Really?: And then I'm, like,
"Snopes .com. That'll clear it up."
Because they try to get down to just the facts,
just unbiased.
'Cause there's a lot of--
- What is known about an issue. - Not that...
floating around, especially on the Internet.
- So-- - Correct.
That's the big thing.
Now, for us,
what we've decided to do
is present a commonly held belief
or a fact from an article or whatnot,
and then we know what Snopes says about it,
but the other person doesn't, so we're gonna present that to each other
and see if we can guess and be on the same page as Snopes.
- Why don't you go first? - Okay, which--
What we're saying is the side of the truth.
That's what we're saying. Snopes represents the truth.
Yeah, they are reliable, I believe.
Um, Link, is it true that when women--
no, this is-- we're getting right into it today.
- Just giving you a little-- - When women...
When women live--
No, point out, neither one of us
are one of those.
Right, but we know them.
- Yeah, we know plenty of them. - We know several,
some of them intimately.
- Is it-- - One of them intimately.
Oh, gosh, could you just keep some things in your mouth?
Why don't you talk? I'll listen.
Is it true that when women live or work closely with each other,
their menstrual cycles synchronize?
- I-- - Now, you're heard this.
I heard it in middle school.
Everybody hears this
'cause you're taught in middle school.
I think it's like a--
it's like a fourth grade curriculum thing.
A whole semester spent on--
- Nobody taught me. I-- - Menstrual cycle
- synchronization. - Our little friend group--
- No. - Our little friend group,
like the girls in middle school, told me.
- They perpetuated this... fact? - They're all--
- They're all synced up. - ...or-- or myth.
"We're all synced up."
- Um... - That's what they would say.
And they would do that.
"We're all synced up."
And I was like, "I don't know what that means."
And then they explained, I was like, "Okay, wow."
- I hear a lot-- - Is it true, though?
Well...
I've assumed it was true,
and then I've gone so far
in conversations, I think,
with other people, when you were there,
about us and how
we had-- there-- we started working this theory
that, like, we both got in a bad mood at a certain type of the month.
Certain time of the month. You and I.
And that our menstrual cycles were in sync.
- You didn't tell me about this. - Even though we don't--
You were there for it. Don't deny it.
We talked about how Rhett and I don't have menstrual cycles,
but we seem like we do.
- And they're in sync. - It's like men have nipples.
- Right. - And what do they do?
- We have something. - Maybe we also have a p--
- Something's going on for us-- - We have a period, too.
- Right. - But it's subtle.
- Subtle. - It's subtle.
It's subtle and it accomplishes nothing,
- just like our nipples. - I'm not making this up.
We did have this conversation
to-- to say well, if that's true of women--
- Yeah. - ...and we assumed that it was,
then we think it's true of us, too.
So therefore, yeah.
I'm afraid of it seeming sexist,
but I don't know why,
so I'm just gonna say yeah,
I do think it's true. I think it happens.
How about Snopes?
What does Snopes say?
Snopes says it's unproven.
- Un-- - Which is not as definitive as you wanted it to be.
- Basically-- - Well--
- Basically-- - It seemed--
if it was true, it seems pretty easy you could prove it.
Okay, there is a study--
there is one study
that was done back in 1971
at an all-female college, where they--
they had these women-- like 130 women--
that were all living together,
and they said that their cycles had been synced up, but--
- All 130? - Uh--
Right, 'cause that's what would happen.
Well, not all-- I mean, like, a substantial number,
enough to think that there was a correlation here.
Yeah, beyond standard deviation--
But--
Why are you just trying to throw out scientific terms?
- I don't know what that means. - Just let me just say
the things that I've learned.
- Why you gotta call me on it? - But it-- but it's unproven--
"You know, the standard deviation."
It turns out that when they went back
and analyzed that one study,
that it was very inconclusive,
and they thought that the d-- the data
had not been interpreted correctly,
and multiple studies since then
have not been able to prove a link.
What they think that it is
is, you know, how, like, when you're at a stoplight,
and you got your blinker on,
and your blinker's going,
and you hear your blinker,
and you see the blinker of the person in front of you--
- Is this just me? - And it's in sync.
And you're like, "Oh, it's in sync,"
and then you wait for a while,
and you're like, "Nope, it's not in sync,"
but then you're like, "Oh, it is in sync."
And you're like, "No, no, it's not in sync"--
- Oh... - ...because they're going at different rates--
It's the blinker thing.
But then they're-- oh, look at-- look at what I'm doing.
Oh, I've kind of created a situation
- with myself right there. - What's wrong with us?
I don't know what happened.
- I think it's all the cheese. - Yeah, too much cheese.
- But no-- - We've got cheese brain.
...that's what happens with women.
- Okay, and I'm-- - ( snickers )
...about to get in trouble here,
but I'm just telling you that bas--
- You women! - What science says--
Are like looking at blinkers.
What science says is that women get together,
and they're like, "It's my time of the month"--
I don't know how they communicate that.
And then they're like-- another girl's like,
"That's my time of the month." And they're like,
"Oh, we're best friends, and we're in sync,"
and they talk about it, and they get this perception
of being in sync because it's gonna happen.
But then they get out of sync, and they don't talk about it,
and then they talk about it again when they get in sync,
and there's a perception of synchronization.
- Okay, I get it. - But it's not scientific.
- I get it. - It's unproven.
- I get it. - So drop it!
I'm dropping it,
but I can't figure out why I feel disappointed.
It wasn't something you should've hoped for.
Exactly.
- You have-- - So, I don't know...
You have two ladies in your house.
I don't know-- I guess, for efficiency standpoint,
- I don't know. - We should just move on.
- I literally feel... - We should move on.
...a little disappointment.
- To a less controversial issue. - I feel like I've been lied to.
- Maybe that's it. - What's your thing?
All right, I've got another one, much lighter.
This is not going to get us in trouble with anybody,
except maybe horses.
Oh, gosh. All right.
Okay, you're already in trouble with cats.
- Yeah. - Uh...
an article went around on Facebook, September 26th, 2017.
That's this year.
26th, 2017.
On a site called Bored Panda,
which is a website dedicated mostly
to stories about interesting and adorable animals.
- Been there many times. - They posted a story
with the title "If You Ever Feel Sad,
Just Remember That Horses Can Grow Mustaches."
Can this be true?
Have you ever heard that a horse can grow a mustache?
Technically, don't all horses have mustaches?
Because they're covered in hair.
It's just it blends in with the rest of the hair.
This is a non-- this is a non-issue.
By my definition of a mustache,
I think you're still saying that no--
- A pronounced-- a pronounced mustache? - Yeah, I'm saying--
Yeah, 'cause what-- when I look at the article,
that's what I'm excited about
'cause they say, "If You Ever Feel Sad,
Remember That Horses Can Grow Mustaches."
So how big would the mustache need to be
to make you happy that it were on a horse? Pretty big.
- Uh-- - Pretty big.
Yeah, I don't think there's any mus--
mustached horse that's gonna, like, pull me
out of a deep spiral of any kind.
The mustache will never be that big.
- No. - On a horse.
No, maybe if I got to touch it in person.
But if I just-- just the knowledge of it
is not going to do anything for me.
What if it was big enough that you'd have to grab it?
You could grab it. Grab both sides of the mustache.
All right, that'd make me a little happy.
Do you think it exists?
No.
- It does. - Oh, really?
- Yes. - No, it doesn't.
- Look at these pictures. - You got pictures?
Yeah, look. There's one right there.
-
That's a mustache. That's definitely a pronounced mustache.
It is common in a breed of horse called the Gypsy Vanner,
not in all of them, but in many of them.
Also, to a lesser degree-- That's a blond one right there.
- Rhett:
That's just it, dude.
He also braided his hair. How do you do that with hooves?
It comes out that way.
And look at that one-- That's a small--
- Rhett:
-
That's a real pretty horse.
To a much lesser degree,
in the one called "The Shire,"
which is also where the Hobbits live,
but it's also a mustached horse.
Look at that. It looks like it's pasted on!
I don't know, I am happy. I gotta say
I didn't think he was going to make me happy.
I wasn't sad before-- oh, my goodness.
It is glor-- and, yeah,
some of them get huge.
That one looks like-- like the wig,
like Eleven wore in "Stranger Things."
I'm embarrassed for that one, you know--
If you have big teeth though, you'd like to cover them up.
So the grooming of it
is something that, I guess, the owners do,
- or something like that. - Oh, you mean the horses don't do it themselves?
Yeah, 'cause that one's just kind of like,
- wigged and hanging. - Okay, well, hopefully, we have cleared up
some of these controversies for you.
- Sorry, ladies. - And all of my disappointment with the ladies
has been turned to happiness with the horses.
Yeah, we made a lot of ladies mad and a lot of horses happy.
I don't-- well, maybe we should've just shut up before we said that.
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