Science says we should all be eating our boogers.
Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning!
On Thursdays we like to think of ourselves as itinerant gardeners who move from
place to place in search of heirloom seed questions and when we find those
seed questions we bring them back to our green house of acultivation and we plant
- them in our minds. - Acultivation or cultivation?
- That's a different thing. Cultivation? - Yes.
We're not cultivating in a cult.
And then they bloom and blossom and start to grow and then we prune and prickle
- them to the point where they - (Rhett chuckles)
protrude from uh-- our brows. And then I pluck it like I do many
other things in between my brows. And I present it to you in the form of an answer.
- Wow. So glad I'm here. - That's amazingly pruned and perfect.
Well Link, I got one of those seed questions.
- (Click) Right there? (Click) - Thank you for that.
This one is from Maya. She asks, "How do I stop laughing at inappropriate times?"
I can totally relate to this, Maya,
- or May-I-Uh. - (Rhett chuckles)
First of all I laugh whenever I'm accused of something I didn't do. I don't know
why I do that but I can one up that generalization that is a character
flaw of mine with a specific story. And listen, I'm not proud of this but I had a
girlfriend in high school and she got horrible news.
Okay, this part isn't funny. Um, she found out that one
of her friends had passed away. Okay. But actually the way she found out
is cause I had to tell her because my granddad-- it's kind of a weird story but
- we were on vacation at the beach. - Okay.
My granddad tells me, "Her friend has died, you need to tell her." I'm like,
"I gotta tell her?" and then I go up and tell her. This is horrible news, right.
And then as I start to tell her I realize that there's a smile coming over my face.
I don't know why. I didn't think it was funny.
- Cause you were uncomfortable. - I was so uncomfortable that it
translated into a smile. So what did I do-- I just like-- I hugged her so that
she wouldn't see me. And like so her head was back here and
- I was telling her I'm so sorry. - But you were smiling.
And then I was like, I could start laughing at any moment.
Like, this is horrible. What type of person am I?
It doesn't mean anything bad about you it just means that you were so uncomfortable.
You shouldn't feel so bad about yourself.
- The more I thought about it the more - I can relate to that.
- I wanted to laugh. - I almost laughed at my grandmother's
funeral. I'm just-- I was sad. I started thinking, I'm so sad, I'm so uncomfortable.
I feel like people are looking at me. And I felt like I started laughing.
I think it's just the human uncomfortable reaction.
Doesn't mean you're a bad person.
- Unless we're just both really bad. - So who's gonna give us advice?
- Well I'm gonna give you advice. - Cause my advice is just hug the
- person so they don't see your face. - (Crew laughs)
- Well I wasn't on the beach. - That's the best that I came up with.
- I was in the pew. - I was like...
Now, but one of the tried and true things that a lot of actors do is that they, if
they have fingernails they will take and dig into their palm and actually to the
point of bleeding. But what I have taken to do is I have something I call freeze
face. I never laugh while making this face.
Are you serious?
- Try and make me laugh. - I've never seen you--
I just can't make you laugh. Blaahaaa! Tickling?
I can't laugh like this. I mean I may look stupid but I will not laugh.
- I would rather laugh. - Freeze face, just do it.
- (Chuckles) See, I laughed when I came out of it.
- (Chuckles) You laughed, you made yourself laugh
- No no, look. - by looking at the freeze face.
- It's ridiculous! - (Mumbles) I can't laugh right now.
You look like a human vacuum cleaner. Like it's (vacuum noise)
- (Chuckles) I look like Grimace. Grimace face.
So there are two flowers of advice. Choose which one you want.
Okay now it's time to visit another weird website in a segment we call,
The Internet Is A Weird Place. Thanks to our friends over at SquareSpace.
This week's site is designed to help you get out of any emergency that you
might find yourself in.
Yes, it's called, emergency yodel.com and let's see. If we go to the site you'll
- see it's elegantly simple. - (Rhett) Yeah.
(Link) In case of emergency, push here. And let's just say it's an emergency right
- (Rhett) Push there, Link. - (Link) now even though it's not
- (Link) and Imma push here. - (Yodeling)
- (Rhett) It's a good yodel. - (Still yodeling)
- (Rhett) That's advanced. - (Still yodeling)
And then if you push it multiple times it will stack the yodels,so like-- (beep)
- Is that an email? - Whoa. Oh no, I've got an email!
- It's an emergency! - (Yodeling)
- (Yodeling over yodeling) - It'll stack!
- Again. (Multiple yodeling at once)
- Again. - It's like a bunch of yodelers!
- Again. More. - (Immense amount of yodeling)
- Faster. - (Multiple clicks and yodeling)
- Release. - (A lot of yodeling)
- It's like a choir in the alps. - (Still yodeling)
- It's torture. - Whatever problem you are having,
- is just instantly erased. - (Yodeling comes to an end)
I think this is great because this brings something to all people via website
that I've experienced for years. Well okay, for weeks now.
Which is whenever I get into an emergency in real life I actually yodel because that
is the optimal way to get out of said emergency,
Yeah, I've noticed this. What he's been doing for the past couple of weeks is
every time he's in an uncomfortable situation, or accused of something,
he just yodels his way out of it. And it's just really frustrating me.
So much so that I actually have been documenting our lives for the past
couple of weeks because I've been frustrated with it. So you can all see
it mythical beasts. Here it is.
Who broke this antique clock that I always use to know what time it is?
(Yodels)
Who took a bite outta the ham sandwich I had set aside for myself to enjoy?
(Yodels)
Ah, I was gonna play the blues but, who broke off the top of my guitar?
(Yodels)
Who pulled all the tape out of my favorite VHS movie, "Titanic"?
(Yodels)
- So you gonna keep doin' that? - (Sings and yodels) No.
- (Laughs) - Okay, I see how it is.
Alright guys. We want you to continue to share the weirdest websites that you
know of on the Internet with us at the Internet Is A Weird Place.com
Click on submit a site. Of course if we pick yours,
we will give you credit on the show.
And you can win a limited edition, the Internet Is A Weird Place t-shirt
by designing and building your own weird website with SquareSpace.
Last month's theme was hero, and the winner is,
Kevid Judd. That's Kevid dash Judd dot Square Space dot com.
Congratulations Kevid. Enjoy the shirt. Now it is a new month, which means a
new theme and this theme is music. So, to win a t-shirt go over to The
Internet Is A Weird Place.com, click on make your own website-- music theme
this time. You'll get a free trial at SquareSpace and ten percent off
the creation of your own website.
And remember, after your site is complete go back and click submit a site for it to
be entered into the monthly contest.
And now let's answer another bad habit question. Jamie Woods asks, "If I wanted
to get a bad a habit. Which bad habit would be the least bad?"
That thing that people do when they crack their neck. (Cracking noises) And they're
trying to seem like they're athletic. (Cracking noises)
- I actually do that sometimes too. - Trying to seem athletic?
No, it just feel good. (Cracking noises)
- Oh, you did it. - Yeah, I did it. I did it.
- (Both laugh) - I told you, I do it sometimes.
It feels good.
Now, Nurul Mufauzy asks, "How to stop someone's bad habit of eating their
- own boogers." - Narul Mufauzy, the best way to
answer this question is to understand the science of eating boogers.
So it's time for another edition of,
(Both) Amazingly amazing science!
(Link) What happens when you eat your boogers?
(Rhett) Well, boogers are created when the thin layer of mucus in your nasal cavity
traps all the nasty bacteria, dirt, and dust that you breathe in to keep them
from entering your lungs.
(Link) When you eat those boogers, you're introducing a small amount of microbes
into your body. Some scientists think this can actually improve your immune system!
(Rhett) Think of it this way. Your nose is like a bathtub and your boogers are
the hair that gets caught in that little grate in the drain.
(Link) And just like those boogers, when you see that hair in the drain, you just
have to dig your finger in there and eat it.
(Rhett) Soon you discover that eating the hair makes you stronger because you're
absorbing the power of the people the hair has come from.
(Link) But eventually you want more than just the power from your roommate
Chester's chest hair clippings.
You want the powers of the hair that got through the grate.
(Rhett) So you borrow the jack hammer that Chester keeps in his room for no
apparent reason and you drill to the bottom of the bathtub, and down, and
down, and down until you reach the sewers.
(Link) There you will encounter a cornucopia (inaudible), shaved off
sideburns, unwanted underarm hair, freshly mowed mustache.
(Rhett's voice depens) You even snack on the shedded hair of sewer animals,
all the while gaining the hair powers of your victims-- Er, donors.
- ♪ (Music gets darker) ♪ - (Link's voice deepens) All of a sudden
you come upon a swirling, sieving mass of rats with their tails intertwined to the
point that they fuse together. That's right, you're face to face
- with the Rat King. - ♪ (Dramatic Music) ♪
(Rhett) A raging battle ensues, but lucky for you some of the hair that you've
been eating came from the rodent lord himself.
(Both) Rooting the rat king's rat powers, you sprout fangs and devour
the beast whole. You then take your rightful place on the rat throne.
So, next time you think about eating your boogers, do it! Before someone
else dethrones the rat king and becomes the overlord of the underworld.
(Both in high pitched voice) This has been, Amazingly Amazing Science!
So, don't not eat your own boogers. Chow down.
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(Both make clopping noises)
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- (Both) Hey. - (Both laugh)
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- Oh? You got fingers, huh? - (Link laughs)
- I have a hoof. - I'm kind of dainty in the way
- that I shake, unexpected fortune. - I was expectin' a fist bump.
- You were unexpectin' the misfortune. - (Both fake laugh)
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