- This simple little item holds a world of possibilities.
(upbeat music) - Let's talk about that.
(fire roaring)
Good Mythical Morning.
- My granddad used to read the paper every Sunday morning.
He would take the rubber band that held it in a roll
and he would make a rubber band ball out of it.
That thing got so big that it fell off the pedestal
that he had it displayed on,
and it broke five toes on his right foot.
Because that's how many toes he had on his right foot, five.
- I would remember this if it were true, it's not true.
You're lying. - It's not true.
Nope, it's not true.
- You just made up a lie. - Yep, I'm sorry.
- You should be ashamed
of yourself. - I'm sorry.
- So, in addition to Link lying,
what we're also gonna do today is explore some other
amazing uses for rubber bands because it's time for,
(exciting music) "Let's Get Weird With It,
Rubber Bands".
(air whooshing) - So, we've decided
to take this beautiful little machine-
- It's not technically a machine.
- Oh, well, okay, here's two of them.
And look, now it's a machine.
- Possibly. - Look at that,
and develop some life changing hacks
in a number of categories.
First, food hacks.
(air whooshing) (exciting music)
- Everybody loves it when they take out their lunch box,
pop it open and they have some pre-sliced apples.
- Oh yeah, Mom loves me.
- Yes, because you don't want to,
you could dislocate your jaw
just trying to bite a regular apple.
- True, my granddad did that.
- The problem with pre-sliced apples is the brownness.
- What's up with that? - If you wait,
like three or four hours, you're gonna get
brown apple slices, and nobody wants that.
Here comes in the rubber band.
How would you feel if you opened up your Q*bert lunch box,
that's what I had as a kid.
- Mm-hmm. - And you saw this.
- [Link] Check it out, it looks like a normal apple
with a rubber band around it.
- But it's not, Link, 'cause check it out.
Whoa! (laughing) It's like Pandora's apple box.
(Rhett imitating an explosion) - Whee!
- Look at that, it's pre-sliced apples.
Just like this.
- Oh! - Get you one of them.
- You don't eat that part, it's the core.
- Totally fresh.
(Rhett chewing)
Totally apple.
- So yeah, that's floating around Pinterest.
- Now- - We didn't invent it.
- Right, we didn't invent that one,
'cause that one has turned up on the internet before.
- But, what about if you're a banana lover,
you want to not only have sliced apples,
but you wanna slice your banana?
Well, we can slice a banana with a rubber band.
- You're gonna need a buddy for this one.
- Buddy number one holds a big rubber band.
Buddy number two peels the banana.
I mean, peeling the banana takes a lot of effort,
you know, I am- - Yeah.
- Exhausted right now.
- And we haven't figured out how
to use a rubber band for that stage, yet.
- Since I'm so exhausted, I'm like,
there's no way I could slice this.
So I'm gonna take that, I'm gonna lay her down.
- Very practical.
- And then I'm just gonna-
- Get it really swinging up there.
- Almost, three, two, one.
(rubber band thwacking)
- Okay. - And then,
well, you know, it might-
- It's a hard banana.
- It might take a couple, but-
- That's right, yeah.
- [Link] You really get it.
(rubber band thwacking)
- Okay, I think you might need what you need to do,
is you might just need to do like this.
Take it and just do a whole bunch, like a saw,
just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Like, short and sweet, just a bunch of them.
(rubber band thwacking)
Same, yeah, here you go.
Now, it's oh, here you go.
You're getting through.
(crew laughing) Yep, keep going.
Keep going, yeah, oh yeah.
Oh yeah, that's-
- [Link] It's like playing a standup bass.
- Almost through, almost through, almost all the way.
(rubber band thwacking) - Ow, tired.
Other arm, ugh. - Eventually, you'll get
a nice slice.
- Yes! - There it is.
So, super practical.
- Now I gotta pack it into the school-
- Okay. - Into the lunch box.
- You can put it right back
together. - So, that goes right here.
- You get your mom or your buddy to just slice
every single one of those pieces
into however many pieces you want.
- And then you just take, guess what?
Another rubber band.
- Yeah.
- And then you just put that right-
- Yep, you might need another one.
You left the part- (laughing)
The slice part out. - (laughing) We worked
so hard, I don't wanna leave that out.
- No, you gotta put that back in there,
or else, it's kind of pointless.
And then- - There you go.
- I can put another one on there too for you.
And then you get to lunch and everybody's like,
look at that banana he's got.
- It hasn't been prepped in any way.
- And then you pop that out,
and go, "Look what-" - But it has.
- "My mom did with the rubber band".
- That says love, right there.
- Yeah. (exciting music)
(air whooshing) - Of course, nobody likes
the jerk with the Bluetooth earpiece,
and an easy way around that is to simply
attach your phone to your head.
- Hello. - But that just seems
so obvious to us that we decided to go a step further.
How about hands-free tooth brushing?
You thought about that?
Multitasking, anybody?
- Multiple times.
- What you're gonna do is you're gonna take
a normal toothbrush and you're gonna boil it in water
and then you're gonna bend it.
Then you're gonna apply a little toothpaste
of your choosing.
- You need a couple of these,
buddy? - Set it to the side.
- Or you can do that first,
here I'll- - Get your buddy
to hold the toothbrush.
- Your toothbrush buddy.
- And then you're gonna just,
just right around here, right up over the lip like that.
And then one that's a little bit-
- You got a skin stache over your real stache.
- Yeah, one that's kind of right over the nose like that.
- And then that?
- Yeah, that's how you gonna get inside both of those.
(Rhett grunting) - Ooh, it's kinda
on your eye, it's literally on your eyeball.
- Yeah, okay, you just get into,
it's kind of the Garth Brooks position.
- Even if you said Britney Spears, that would be dated.
Yeah, Garth Brooks did that 20 years ago.
(crew laughing)
I was a fan! - I think Ariana Grande
does it today, you know, all right?
- What I like to do, is-
- You look like one of those gamers, really.
That's just how gamers brush their teeth,
you know? - Once you get in like this,
you can just move the teeth.
- Yeah. - See, I'm pretty much
just getting the bottom teeth.
- Those are the only ones
people see anyway. - Then if you don't,
then you move it up to the top teeth with the tongue.
(crew laughing) - But still,
but be playing a game,
be like typing or playing like a video game.
- I could do this playing baseball.
- It's like, what does that new pitcher
(laughing) have on his mouth?
Is it some sort of telemarketing device?
- And then when you're done,
and you just wanna be a normal person, you just take,
take the tongue out, move it outta the way,
and now you're just going about your day.
- And I know what you're thinking.
That's such a great idea,
can that also be applied to eating food?
And I'm like,
yes it can. - Yeah, of course it can.
- Of course, I'm gonna go with some cereal.
I'm gonna take my glasses off.
You don't need glasses to eat. - Good call, good call.
- And then I'm gonna put
this one right here (crew laughing)
and this one right here.
- Oh yeah, that's good.
- Oh, you don't like that,
right? - That's real good.
- Then you take this and you just put it under here,
it's the same principle.
- [Rhett] Yeah, pretty much exactly the same,
except it's the spoon.
- Except it's the spoon.
- Yeah. - And this is kinda like it's-
- Garth Brooks. - And then, you know,
you just get down in your bowl.
I'm sure this will work.
- And you can be typing something
while you're eating. - Right, right, or playing-
- Playing a game. - PlayStation.
(cereal rattling)
- Yeah, now you might say, why don't you
just eat your cereal- - Got one!
- Like a dog, but no, that's not the same.
That wouldn't be-
- You're human, don't be stupid.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Don't stoop down
to the level of-
- Don't stick your whole snout into anything.
Ever. - Like, we walk on
two legs for a reason. (crew laughing)
- Yeah, yeah. - Because these other legs
have hands on them,
and then do we do stuff while we're eating.
- Yeah, right. - Business with the hands,
pleasure with the spoon.
- Yep, right, uh-huh.
Yeah, and get it right in there,
and then when you're done eating,
you can just use your tongue and just get it out of the way.
Like, you really gotta just, yeah.
Just push it down, there you go. (laughing)
- And if you do it right, it's like a chin guard.
- Yeah, most of the day, it's a chin guard.
But then, when you're eating-
- It's like, boom, I got a spoon.
- It's a spoon.
- Look at that man
with a chin guard. - You're welcome.
(air whooshing) (exciting music)
- My grandma, after coming back from the hospital
for my granddad's foot, would always come up to me
when I was seated, and she'd be like,
"Posture, sit up straight." - Yeah, it's important.
- "Sit up straight."
- (laughing) You got banana right on the middle
of your nose.
- Really? - Like something like,
there you go. - Oh, I got it.
- That's why you have a buddy.
- So she would give me the posture
and she would just come over.
- Yeah. - And she would say,
you know what, when you're old,
you wanna lead with the chest,
just like when you're young.
It's gonna take a rubber band to do that.
A really big honkin'
rubber band. - Right, yeah.
- Get 'em at like an office supply store
or the internet.
Grandmas everywhere are gonna start doing this,
going up behind grandkids, just saying,
"Arms up, boy!"
And then put it down here around the waist,
then you grab it this way.
Turn it over to make an eight, arms up!
There we go.
(rubber band stretching) And now you got yourself
a nice belt there, and then-
- This isn't really helping with my posture yet.
- And then the second one, and then arms up!
This right here goes down here,
and then you pull really far here.
Give it another figure eight and then look up, look at me.
This is gonna be okay.
Here we go, right there.
Boop, and then look at that,
that just pulls you into place.
Look how good you look.
- I might need a turtleneck over all of it.
- Yeah, we recommend covering all this with a turtleneck.
- I can sleep like this.
I'm gonna let my body turn into jello.
(crew laughing) - No difference.
- You can't tell, let me do this to you.
Okay, come on.
- Okay, Grandma.
All right, so then pull it back.
Figure eight it. - Twist it.
- Go back over. (rubber band stretching)
All right, oh, and bring that down there, so it's like-
- Arms up. - (grunting) Oh man.
- Twist. - And then,
Grandma, is that you? - Look up.
- Oh yeah, look at that.
That's good, oh my goodness, I'm having trouble breathing.
- I gotta tell you, I've been, this has been
about a minute on my neck
and I think I'm losing a lot of blood.
- No, you're not losing it.
It's just all down here.
- I don't think my brain's getting any blood.
- My brain's not getting any blood either.
- But you know what- - You don't need blood-
- I got great posture.
- When you got posture like this.
(Stevie laughing) - I think I'm gonna faint
and just be stuck up like this.
- Look at that, see that goozle?
Check this out.
- Yeah. - Watch this.
- [Rhett] Oh gosh, this is no, no, no, no, no, no.
- Ah-ah-ah.
(Link swallowing) (Rhett and crew gasping)
That's gonna hurt you, oh, look at that.
You look like a smoker
that has like a little hole down there.
"Don't be like me.
I wish I'd stop smoking."
- "Smoking, I wish I'd stop-"
- "Now, I'm a robot."
- "Smop smoking." - "Mm."
- My brain is not thinking anymore.
- Yeah, but this is great.
(air whooshing) (exciting music)
- Okay, if you're like me, sometimes you have a guest over
to your house and they're thirsty for milk in the morning.
(Rhett laughing) - Mm-hmm.
- And if you're also like me,
sometimes your hands don't work really well in the morning.
- Oh yeah. - And you try to grab the top
of the milk and it's like, I can't-
- Floppy hand. - I just can't wake up
enough to get hold of it- - Floppy morning hand.
- Well, you know what can help with that?
- What? - If you wanna get milk
from this jug into your buddy's mouth?
- 400 rubber bands. - Rubber bands.
(air whooshing) Okay, so the reason
we have plastic all over the set
is because this is what I do when I have guests over.
I don't like to get their cooties everywhere,
(Link laughing) so I just cover my
entire house with plastic.
- Plus, we're gonna explode
a gallon of milk. - Well, we don't know
if that's gonna happen or not, right?
- I hope it doesn't.
- So you're my guest, you're my buddy.
You woke up and said- - Thanks for having me, Rhett,
I really would like a gallon of milk in my face.
- And I was like, I can't do it,
so then I was like, break out the rubber bands.
So you're gonna get your buddy, your guest,
(rubber band stretching) to give you rubber bands,
and you're going to proceed to, whoa!
To put them around the milk jug.
- Just turn it up for starters, maybe.
- It might take a while.
You're gonna want to do this, gosh.
- What is going on? - I'm having lots of trouble.
I'm nervous around my guests.
- I should be nervous.
- I'm just trying to make sure you're alive
and awake and ready to receive your milk.
You still thirsty?
- I'm parched for some lactose.
- This is gonna take, I think a few hundred.
(jug whistling) - Ooh, I hear a little-
- You hear that?
- It's singing to us.
- Oh. - Gonna go ahead
and aim it at you.
- Dang man, the cap's gonna be a projectile.
- I know, it won't hurt you, it's light.
(clock ticking)
Okay, well.
- Aim it this way. - We've been doing this
for a while now, gotten to know my friend even better.
He's still thirsty.
- [Link] I'm staring down the barrel
of a gallon of milk here.
- You know, the interesting thing is I've done
so many rubber bands on this thing that I kind of feel like
my hands have woken up.
I think I could probably just open this milk for you now.
Open wide.
(Rhett grunting) (intense music)
(Rhett laughing) (Link screaming)
(liquid sloshing)
Get it while it's fresh.
- Did you see that? - Oh gosh, it was-
- I'm so glad that missed me.
- It was such an amazing, it was just-
- A blast. - It was like
a cannon of milk. - It hit the top of my head,
I was like, ah!
- Sorry I missed your face.
- Dude, I'm glad that didn't hit my face.
- You still thirsty?
- Not so much.
Let's not try that again.
- Okay, well, you see how easy that was.
Your friend wanted a little milk
and a few rubber bands did the trick.
- Thanks for liking, commenting, and subscribing.
- You know what time it is.
- I'm Brady from West Linn, Oregon,
(upbeat music) and it's time to spin
the Wheel of Mythicality.
- If moving pictures, i.e. video, is just
(wheel clicking) too much for you to take in,
and you just wanna see one frame at a time,
you should go to our Instagram, Rhett and Link, it's easy.
- Yeah, but first, click through to Good Mythical More,
click that I, where we're gonna do
the rubber band face challenge,
because that's another weird thing you can do
with rubber bands, make yourself look awesome
in the face area.
- CrossFit, the musical.
(Rhett and Link beatboxing)
♪ Look at me ♪
♪ Look at me too ♪
♪ I'm over here ♪
♪ Pumping ♪ ♪ We do this thing together ♪
♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ That makes us ♪
♪ Cooler than you ♪
- Squat thrust!
♪ Look at my butt ♪ - Squat thrust!
♪ It's getting lots of bigger ♪ - Squat thrust!
♪ I'm putting it on Instagram ♪
♪ It's bigger ♪ - Is that what-
♪ It's bigger, it's bigger ♪ - Instagram is now?
'♪ Cause I'm a CrossFit boy
♪ Bubblin' up ♪
(upbeat music)
- I don't have hardly any on.
- I can't see out of my right eye anymore.
Look how gross I look.
- You look horrifying.
- Do something, man, do more on the face, man.
I win this rubber band challenge.