- I would not want to smell that!
- I feel like there's definitely not a bad idea
they could come up with.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- Today we see the best and the worst Amazon has--
- YES!
Dude, I [bleep] love these guys!
- (Link) Let's talk about that. - Oh!
This is Good Mythical Morning. I've seen these boys before.
- Are we really doing Good Mythical Morning?
I've been waiting for this forever.
- (Rhett) ♪ Twinkle twinkle Amazon stars ♪
♪ How I wonder which has one and which has more by far ♪
- I've watched this. I watch every single episode.
- (Rhett) We will receive two different tech products,
one of them has an overwhelming amount of five star reviews,
and the other product has an excessive amount
of one star reviews.
- (Link) After we thoroughly investigate,
Stevie is gonna give us a 3, 2, 1 and we're gonna place our hand over
what we believe to be the one star--
- I kinda miss Link's old hair.
- (GMM) First up, we've got a smart water bottle
versus a mini-donut toaster. Which one is the one star product?
- The water bottle!
- (Rhett) Actually, it seems pretty cool.
This is $65-- - $65?!
- (Rhett) Watch what happens as I drink this
and then put the cap back on. I don't know if it's gonna go down--
- They're just the best friends and they just do
random stuff on the Internet. Absolute goals!
- I love their energy and their chemistry.
I've been watching them forever.
- (Link) Bubba Chugs? - (Rhett) BadLandsChugs.
- (Link) BadLandsChugs! - (laughing) What?
- (Rhett) Who is in the market for mini donuts?
- Oh, me.
- I'm in the market for mini donuts.
- (Link) You can throw this in here, and then I'ma put it down
on number two. Let's see if we have
a one star experience or a five star donut experience.
- OH!
- Oh, my god!
- That... (laughing)
- (Link) I don't know. It's difficult to tell.
And I know what you're thinking: it's user error!
- (GMM) Three, two, one. - (Link) It's gotta be this.
I mean, this can't be my fault.
- (GMM) You are both correct. - (both) Yes!
- Okay... (laughing) I like that a lot.
They're just so funny and there's something, too,
about their set that just makes you feel at home.
- I've been watching since before they did their Alka-Seltzer road trip.
From the old, old days.
They're one of the first channels I ever watched religiously.
- I used to watch when they were just two people in a room with a mic.
But now they have sort of the budget and the means to do
just a lot more interesting stunts and it's really fun to watch.
- (FBE) So we're going to show you more in a second,
but for today's episode, one of our diamond members
from our FBE super fam, Jacob, helped us pick this episode
for you all to react to. - Oh, awesome!
- Good job, Jacob! Thank you, diamond member.
- They already suggest a lot, but to straight-up pick the video
we're doing today, that's a pretty awesome perk.
- (Link) It's time for...
- (Rhett and Link) ...Will It Ice Cream?
- (gasping) Okay, these are the best.
- Their "Will Its" are iconic.
- (Link) First up, we have beans and rice cream.
- The "Will its" are just so fun to watch because
they literally do it with all food groups.
- (Link) ...pinto beans, refried beans, black beans,
and Mexican rice and, of course-- - That's so disgusting.
- (Link) Dink it and sink it.
- And my boy use the "dink it and sink it" now,
when we eat stuff at home.
- (Link) Will it ice cream?
- I'm an adventurous eater, so I would try it, but no.
- (Link) Uggggh. - Wait, what the f--?
What is that? Is that frog?
- (Rhett) ...has always been Rocky Road.
You change one letter, you get Rocky Toad.
This, my friends, is a frog carcass.
Welcome to the jungle.
- (Link) It's the pond. Welcome to the pond.
- (Rhett) Yeah, well, here we go.
- UGH! Dude.
- (Link gagging) - Oh! That's so gross, dude.
They even have their own barf buckets, like garbage cans
with their names on then.
- (Link gagging) - Yeah.
Can we talk about Link's barfing?
Link's barfing is the best. It's just funny.
- (Rhett) I don't think it's bad. - (Link munching)
- (Rhett) Oh, you just pulled a vein out.
- OH!
- (Link) It's like a hard joint or something.
- Oh, my god.
Oh, the stuff you do to entertain your audience.
- They have influenced even my classroom.
They did a Will It Taco years ago and for two or three years
we actually did that as a last day of school activity
when I taught Language/Arts.
- (Link) It's time for Left on a Shelf--
- I've also watched these.
- (girl shrieking)
- (Link) All right, here is how this is gonna work.
We are gonna be presented with an item and two options for what happened
when that item was left in salt for three months.
- They're such peculiar video ideas.
- (Rhett) We always like to see what happens with liver--
- (gagging)
- (Rhett) We're sick.
Did the liver turn to jerky like that slab of beef I forgot about
in my attic for a year or be melted into goo
like the giant vat of ice cream--
- I'm gonna say melt into goo.
- (Rhett) I'm saying jerky. - (Link) So we're disagreeing.
- (Rhett) This is a split decision, my friend.
- (Link) Okay, let's see who's right,.
- EW!
- OOOOH! I was right.
- It really turned into goo. Ew!
- (gagging) - (Rhett) I can't get the lid off.
- (gagging) - (Rhett) Ooh.
- (gagging)
- (Link) Gosh, they're such--
- I would not want to smell that.
- Aaah! Why would you do that?
- (Link) It's kinda like gravy. - That's-- oh, my god.
But see, that's exactly what they do though
because even just seeing that part, I want to see more
of what happens when things are left in salt.
- The thing I think that's so appealing about them
is they feel like they could be your best friends.
These are dudes that are like my friends
that I hung out, I grew up with.
- (Rhett) The Human Pizza Challenge! - Oh, god.
- (Rhett) Link, as always, I'd like to start by asking
do I have your consent to turn you into a human pizza.
- (Link) Of course, Rhett. Thank you for asking.
- (Rhett) Do I have your consent...
- They've made him into so many different food items.
- (Rhett) ...to disrobe you?
- (Link) No, let me do that myself. - (Rhett) Good!
I'm glad. - (laughing)
- Their friendship is so cute.
- (Rhett) You're gonna be the doughboy.
- (Link) Are you saying that I'm doughy?
- (Rhett) Uh, I mean, I think pretty good for
a 39-year-old man.
- I love their banter.
♪ (classical music) ♪
- I feel like there's definitely not a bad idea
they could come up with.
- (Rhett) Okay, here we go.
- (Link) WHOA! It's cold!
Dang, you gotta heat up the sauce-- - Oh, my god!
- See, now that looks like fun.
- This is what I'm talking about.
Who thinks of this [bleep]?
- Oh, no!
- Oh, my god! Poor man! How is he gonna breathe?
- (Rhett spluttering)
- (cracking up)
- I also appreciate and love all their staff.
- (Rhett) Whoo! That feels good.
- (staff) I feel like blowing cheese more than I'm melting.
- (laughing)
- This is probably like therapy as well for them,
especially for Rhett.
He gets to throw all this stuff on Link.
- (Rhett) Breathe in, breathe out.
- Where do they get fricking huge things of pepper?
- (Rhett) Just lower it down.
- They put a pizza table on, too?
- Just shout-out to whoever made that giant pizza box.
- (Link) What? Hey guys... whoa! It's dark in here!
- (Rhett) Good Mythical Pizza. Hot and fresh!
- Do they deliver? (laughing)
Oh, my god! These guys are ridiculous.
I love them.
- The concept is what draws you in, and then their chemistry
and banter is what makes you stay.
- It's so ridiculous and this is so unlike
any other YouTube content that I've seen before,
that Good Mythical Morning stands out.
- I watch it every single day, I think, either in the morning,
while I'm getting ready, or as I'm going to sleep.
It's just a good 15 minutes to just not think about anything
and just watch two 40-year-old men doing weird stuff online.
- (FBE) So Good Mythical Morning was started by Rhett and Link
back in 2012. - That long ago? Okay, wow.
- (FBE) Currently, they have over 15 million subscribers
and over 5 billion video views on YouTube
on the Good Mythical Morning channel.
- Billion? Holy cow!
- Damn! That's so good, but then it makes complete sense to me
because any time I've watched Good Mythical Morning,
their fans are so supportive.
- (FBE) They used to make a lot more music videos
and sketch comedy and series, but this format is what
turned them into a whole company. - Really?
They weren't a company before that?
- The Alka-Seltzer tour was the first really strong memory
I have of them on YouTube.
They're just doing comedy, so I'm always down
for good company, and it's clean comedy,
so it's stuff I could show my classes if I thought it was funny.
And then I just watched them grow.
- (FBE) Why do you think they've been able to be
so popular for so long with this show?
- The humor.
People are attracted to a certain type of humor.
Obviously, these guys have figured it out.
- Good Mythical Morning, to me, was always this sort of wild card.
You never knew exactly what episode you were gonna
find the next week.
They adapt to change so quickly and they're constantly
putting out new content.
- I really just don't see anything else like it
on this website.
You can just tell it's kind of pure and the humor is more relatable.
- They've varied it up.
I think that they keep it fresh for themselves.
They had a YouTube Red series.
They've come out with a book.
They've done a tour.
They've been doing a tour, where they get
to bring back their music, and so that kinda helps keep it
all the parts moving, so you're not just getting stale.
- It's consistently new, and it's consistently engaging,
and it's consistently interesting to watch.
It's the same reason why the React channel
and Teens React and all these things have been so popular for so long
and it's because it's the same format, but different things every time,
and I think that's what's really engaging.
- (FBE) They release videos Monday through Saturday,
have have also much more on their secondary channels,
so what do you think about the fact that they're able
to release so much content and are still able to maintain
such a high level of quality? - That is crazy!
They must work just nonstop because their production value
is just top notch, their content's really good.
- They've been smart about who they hire
and because they've also hired some people
that, you know, take on other responsibilities.
- Being able to release that much content as a company
from Monday through Saturday, as you said, that's tough.
You gotta give credit to their team for being able to release
so much content and at a high quality level.
- It's so cool just because I think that's always just one
of the little bit of fears, I think, with some YouTubers.
It's like, oh, no, once they start growing
and once they start hiring an editor or hiring a producer,
now it's not gonna be them anymore, but I think, too, their team
works so closely with them that they're able to work on
all these things collaboratively together,
but it ends up working out great.
- (FBE) So like many, when they first started out,
it was just the two of them working on their content,
but fast forward to today, and they have founded a company
and a studio with dozens of employees.
- That's amazing.
- It's just cool to see that you can also help
and make a business, then also hire people,
and now those people have jobs.
- (FBE) And they recently even bought Smosh.
- Wait, what?!
- Wow! I didn't know that. That's crazy!
- How cool of them to be able to, friends of theirs, like Smash,
that company to be able to say, hey, you know what?
We believe in what you're doing.
Why don't you come be a part of what we're doing
after they got hosed with that whole situation.
- (FBE) Some creators on YouTube are full-time companies
with many employees and often the viewers at home
kind of forgets that.
So what do you think about the evolution of YouTubers in general,
where people who start small, like Rhett and Link,
are able to evolve in this way and become full-on studios
and production companies?
- I'm sure it's really crazy for them.
I'm sure never in their dreams thought that this would become
as massive as it was.
- It's just something to look up to because it shows
that there isn't just one path to make it in entertainment.
You don't just need to go and follow this one studio
or work in this one TV studio.
If anything, you can make something as an individual and then
make your own studio.
- YouTube isn't as simple as many believe.
There's a very bit process behind it, just like any big production,
like making a TV or TV show.
The same rules apply.
You have a whole production staff. You have the business side.
You have HR.
You have all these things. It's the same process.
We're just putting it on a different platform.
- It's supply and demand, you know what I mean?
The demand grows and they have to increase the supply
to meet the demand and the only way to do that
is to become a production company, and that's why, you know,
Nickelodeon is the way they are, and Warner Brothers,
and that's we and Smosh and Rhett and Link,
that's why they all formed the way they did.
- (FBE) Rhett and Link have been so popular
on the YouTube platform that they've been featured
on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,
Good Morning America, Conan, and more.
- No way! I didn't know that.
- (FBE) So do you think that it's important
for digital media and traditional media
to kind of be blurring the lines in this way?
- Yes, absolutely.
It gives other people who are already YouTube faithful
a reason to go check it out.
- Yes, I do still think there's a huge stigma against
digital media artists, but I do see it slowly going away.
- There's a whole generation of people out there
that don't know, they're not aware of all the entertainment
that's available on YouTube, so, yeah, yeah,
the lines should absolutely be blurred.
- (FBE) So finally, when you see how much Rhett and Link have grown
from over 10 years in web video, where do you think
they and their company will be in another 10 years?
- Man, who knows?
Maybe in 10 years from now, they've hopefully continued GMM,
but maybe now have their hands in a lot of other things.
- Shows like Conan have been on for decades.
Or The Tonight Show have been on for decades.
I don't see why Good Mythical Morning would be any different.
- I don't know if YouTube will be around in 10 years,
but I still feel like Good Mythical Morning will be,
whether it's on YouTube or whether it's on
their own TV channel.
This is their livelihood and this their job and especially
since they've built this company around it,
I think they're still just up on the rising
and there's no way that they're gonna stop.