What's The Ultimate Relationship Red Flag? (From Good Mythical MORE)

0:00Link Neal: Is your behavior a red, green, or beige flag?

0:07Link Neal: Welcome to Good Mythical More, where we judge behaviors today. People do things, and you have to make a decision whether or not that makes you want to get into a relationship, get out of a relationship, or just... Tolerate it. Stay. All right, Chase, hit us. All right, Link. I have to walk over there, and then I will hit you as beige as I can. Grand or green? Yep, uh, beige. I don't know. Just stay over there and tell us the first scenario. How about that? Will not fart in front of ya. Ah. I mean, is that really considerate or is that too guarded? I gotta think that at a certain point in a long-term relationship, and I think it's pretty early, you gotta fart.

0:56Link Neal: You don't wanna be embarrassed years into the relationship and then something ekes out and you crumble. Like that's just weird. I mean, you look like you're working one up. Yeah, I wanted to - What are you doing? I wanted to fart in front of you and see how you felt about it.

1:18Link Neal: Well, you have. Yeah, I have. Many I tell you. We farted in front of each other a lot. when one of us farts in front of the other one, the other one always has one ready to go. It's just like we have a fart retort. So. Have you noticed that? Yeah, it's a language. It's like the sperm whales. There's never a time that one of us will fart and the other one won't have an immediate follow up. Yeah, it's the least we could do. That's the great. To carry on the conversation. I just feel like that's where the vibes reside. So one of the things that I have noticed. In the lower GI. Let's take this to a romantic relationship, which contrary to popular belief is not what we have.

1:57Link Neal: So I've definitely farted a lot in front of Jessie and she has farted a little bit in front of me. And there is a little bit of unequal standard here, you know, men and women. But what I will say is that when I do my morning stretches, you know what I'm saying? Like it's early and I work things out. and this actually, there's like, when you're doing yoga, like you're supposed to like release it, right? Like they want you to fart, which nobody ever does. I mean, I guess some people do. They? The yoga family? Like if you go into a yoga class. Jim and Jerry yoga? Like if you go to a yoga class with people that you don't know that well, you're not gonna fart when they say release pose.

2:42Link Neal: You're not actually gonna fart. Maybe there's a class like that. I can't imagine if, I mean, I've wanted to fart in gym, but I haven't. Right. Who's Jim? Have I met him? I did make it sound like gym class or something. So I go downstairs while we're home and I do all of my stretches in the garage. So I am farting up a storm. And you've seen me if you watch, we printed a 3D fart back in the day. That was... I farted up a storm in the garage. It was earthquake-like. But when Jesse and I are traveling together and we're in a hotel together, I had to find a large flat spot on the floor next to the bed to do my stretches in the morning, and I just basically told her that I'm gonna fart when I do this.

3:29Link Neal: And so she just laughs at me. I mean, she laughs at me, you know? So, you know, that's just how we roll. If she farts in front of me, it's an accident. And I don't mind, but she's not like, you can never under, oh, I'm horrified, but she's not. She's not trying to fart in front of me. and she's definitely holding herself back in a way that maybe I don't. And again, that's the double standard. Yeah. From feedback that I've gotten from my family, I've reduced the amount of feedback that I've given. I don't fart as much as I used to. Okay. I don't like to be around farts, but I think you gotta go through that cycle.

4:12Link Neal: So I actually think, Does this mean you don't date them? I don't think so. I think it's a base flag. This could be a red flag. Could be like a relationship ender. You wanna be open. Yeah. Some people are not comfortable doing it. You wanna be comfortable. What's the next one? Never responds to texts. Never responds to texts. Okay, so you're in a romantic relationship and they don't respond to your texts? What are they? like is there a big age gap or something? Could also be, I mean. They got a flip phone? Could be a flip phone. Could be maybe somebody who's just like really bad at responding, super slow.

4:56Link Neal: Hey man, this is a green flag. Go for it because if they're not responding to your text, they're not using their phone at all. They're like, they're next level. Well that's one way to think about it. Can you hear the people back here who are all disagreeing with you? I know it's frustrating. I'm gonna say it's a red flag. It's either this or this, right? The thing that I wanna talk to you about. It's a red flag. Dump them? For sure, early on. If they ignore you, then that's just no way to treat a person. Bobby doesn't have a phone. Of course he doesn't respond to text, but if Bobby does have a phone, and he's not responding to text.

5:34Link Neal: All right, I'll get on that. But the thing I wanna understand about you is, is let me just, now, of course, your notifications are off right now, because we're filming, and mine are too. But I would say most of the time. Actually, no, look. Really? Let me see. Most of the time, I'm in Do Not Disturb. Yeah, you are right now. Interesting, but like on the weekend. Oh, especially the weekend, I'm on Do Not Disturb. Yeah, but I might need to text you about something. I'll ask you a question about something. Well, text me. And then I just - You don't see it. Well, yeah, I won't see it. That's fine.

6:17Link Neal: You don't even have your phone on you, though. You just answered the phone. Hello? Hello? Hello? Who is this? Who is this? You called me. I didn't call you. Are you on Do Not Disturbed? No. and I'm being disturbed. How come I'm hearing two voices? Carney? In gym? Carney? Carney, stop disturbing me. Stop disturbing. How do I hang up on a person? For a few... For a few months, you do not disturb all the time, and there were times when it was like, we're getting together today, or something like that. But then if you hit breakthrough... Oh, I hit it all the time. But it didn't necessarily work. I'll put it on and then it'll be on for a long time.

7:12Link Neal: And then every night it comes on at a certain time. But you can also just do personal, where you have people who can get through it anytime they want. And I think I should be one of those people. Me and Jim should be one of those people. Yeah, I agree with that. I'm gonna, I'll do that. Next. Okay, how about saying bless you even after you've sneezed three plus times in a row? Every sneeze, bless you. Bless you. Yeah, that's OCD. And that's fine, that's fine, my wife's got it. And so you're gonna dump her? Yep. But she doesn't. But she's not OCD about that. It's all internal for her, it doesn't bother me that much.

7:53Link Neal: I mean, it could be a real sign of empathy. It's like, I wanna bless every single one. No demons are gonna get through my sneeze blessings. It's weird. If you did it. It's not a deal breaker. If you did it one time. You just said don't date anyone who has OCD. That's, I mean, you gotta take that back. I've been married to one for 25 years. So obviously, that's not what I'm saying. So you're being facetious. What I'm saying is that if this person does it and they do it once, I'm just speaking for myself. Achoo! Bless you. Bless you. Achoo! Bless you. Then I would say, hey. That's weird. You don't have to say, if they did it one time, or if they did it a second time, then I would know it was a pattern.

8:43And then I would say, you don't need to do that.

8:46Link Neal: And then if they insisted on doing it, after I told them they didn't need to do that with me, it would be a red flag. That's all I'm saying. Because then I would know it was, it was something that they couldn't not do. And I'm just saying, there's somebody else out there for them. I mean, it's fine. There's somebody else out there. I'm actually going green flag on this. Okay. And that felt kind of emphatic. You were like waving your green flag, which was amusing to all of us. Can I take these home and turn them into freak flags as well? And what would they signify? I will be waving my freak flag.

9:24Link Neal: I'm letting my freak flag fly. You do what you gotta do, man. All right, how about can't name three Beatles songs?

9:37Link Neal: I didn't get into the Beatles until 2002. It's a good year for you. So. This would be slightly annoying, but not. All great musical artists, like, you know, someone asked me the other day, are you into, it wasn't Prince, it wasn't Bruce Springsteen, but it was one of those, and I was like, you know what? I'm not ready yet. So I completely respect that. There's a time and a place to get into artists. Right. So I'm not very, I'm very opinionated when it comes to music, but I'm also very respectful. I try to be respectful. So are you saying it needs to be on someone's list if it's not, like if you got named three Beatles songs, you have to have that on your list to do at some point.

10:33If you hate the Beatles, if you hate the Beatles,

10:40Link Neal: that's weird. I mean, I think that might be a red flag for me if I change it to that. And I'm not like a huge Beatles fan, it's just, if you don't respect the Beatles, maybe I'll even put it that way. That makes sense. Is this a good time for me to tell you that I don't respect the Beatles? You don't respect the Beatles? I'm joking, I'm joking. I'm kind of in the same boat. Oh, it's a yellow submarine, actually. Yellow. Yellow submarine. And I like them, and sometimes I listen to them, and I'm like, oh, I should listen to more Beatles, and then I never follow through. But to me, so this is a beige flag.

11:14Link Neal: I'm like, I don't care. The red flag for me would be, and this does happen, someone who just doesn't care about music. Like, I don't care if you care about the same type of music as me, but if music isn't one of the most important things for your emotional life, then we probably won't relate very well. If you don't like music, absolutely. You know what I'm saying? There are some people who just don't care. That's such a weird thing to just not like music at all. And then there are some people who just have really bad taste in music, and that's a pink flag. No, that's a red flag for me. Okay. If I don't like the music that you like, that's better, but it's still a red flag than not liking music.

12:03Link Neal: Carney, how did you get my number?

12:08Link Neal: I've been here for about nine and a half years. I picked it up along the way. How did you get my number? Okay, how about never closing any doors or drawers? Doors or drawers? That's a green flag because I'm married to one and she's great. Yeah. She's OCD, but she doesn't close any doors. She doesn't put the tops on things. She doesn't close drawers. I do this to myself sometimes, and I get upset when I have, like, opened the drawer to pull something out, turn around in the kitchen, and then I'll turn back around and, like, hit my hip on it, and I get really upset at myself. I'll open... Every morning, I open the thing to get out the stuff to walk the dogs and, like, the leashes and stuff, and then I'll get my shoes out, and I'll bend over, where I'll put my shoes on, and then I just know I'm gonna come up and I'm gonna hit that thing that's just coming out.

13:02Link Neal: I haven't done it yet, but I swear it's gonna happen. I do that like once a week with all the coffee stuff that I have that's like high up on a drawer. Yeah. You bend down below a drawer and then hit your head on a drawer? I said drawer, because that's what the category was, but I think it's a cabinet. It's like the up high cabinet. Up high cabinet. Luckily, I'm like just short enough that I just glimpse it every time, but then once, like about once a week, I happen to get it at the right angle. I'm gonna turn this one around, forgive me. If you are a keep everything closed, that's a big green flag for me.

13:38Link Neal: That's what's happening in my house. Cause you're hiding something. Yeah, everything is put back where it goes immediately. That's a green flag for me. That's our, me and Chrissy, we are so on the same page, except when it comes to draping clothes. That's a big sticking point for us. Whoa, tell me more. As I've said in the past, I'm on record, my wife is a serial drapist. Clothes everywhere. It's like they just, it's like she walks into the bedroom and it's like they explode off her body and just land in a pile. Not for drying, for just like disrobing. She disrobes onto, the problem is we have a chair.

14:22Link Neal: in the bedroom. And yes, it swivels so it can turn towards the... It's a good draping chair. Bed. But it's, yeah, it's only used for draping. When we put them there, I was like, man, we're gonna use these chairs in the bedroom for all types of stuff. She was like, yeah, we are. Like, we're gonna sit down. We each have one. Have you ever sat and faced each other? We're gonna sit down. We've had a couple of fights in those chairs. Like, it was just like, she'll like touch me and she'll be like, we need to talk about, can we talk about something? It's a fighting chair. Is this an upstairs chair conversation?

14:59Link Neal: There's a nice fireplace. Sadly, the only thing we've done in those chairs is argue. It's like a fireside chat. Yeah, it is. There's a fireplace there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got a fireplace in your bedroom? Dude. Hey. I do. I never use it. It's actually just a painting. It's a mural. So are you, you don't care about leaving these up? No, I mean. You're saying. This is, in reality this is beige for me like because I'm not gonna, I'm not great at this anyway. So I would appreciate it if my wife put tops back on things more often than she did. But she doesn't and it really isn't a big deal. Tops, like lids?

15:47Link Neal: Lids don't get screwed back on. That is wild. They get placed. Behavior. They get placed. That's dangerous behavior. Yeah, but they don't get screwed back on. Okay. And I could choose to care about that or I could just choose to continue on. If we haven't said it before now, we are just answering for ourselves here. We're not like making a blanket. No, no, all of this applies to everyone else on Earth. How about only taking baths?

16:17Link Neal: That's strange. I mean, that's time consuming. What is this, the Wild West? Is there anyone here who does that and has a reason for it? Because I have heard about the bathers. Resounding no. I've never even heard of this. I've heard about bathers. You gotta shower, you don't use it. What? Yeah, I mean, I don't know why. I don't understand. I get out of the bath and I don't feel clean. Yeah, because you've got your water that you've just got off of yourself. I put my head under right when I get in the bathtub because the longer I wait, the less willing I am to do that. And then when I get out, I usually take a shower.

17:03Link Neal: When do you get into a bathtub? It sounds like you're getting in there against your will. I gotta put my head under first thing because she's forcing me to take a bath again. My babysitter makes me take a bath. Before I go to bed. I take a bath to relax, man. Yeah. But I don't take it to wash. I've never had a bath in my house that was big enough for me to relax it. So I still don't do it. You ever had a babysitter bathe you? No. What? Me neither, but I mean. No, you had weird babysitters, man. You had a lot of weird things. I took a bath with my papa growing up. Oh yeah, it's your granddad. Yeah, you know, that's different.

17:50Link Neal: He was babysitting me though. True, true. Cause when you grew up, everybody took a bath at the same time and then they would all, or they used the same bath water. You know, and then they'd sleep on hay. Like literally, they would sleep on a mattress made of hay. And they were fine, all together. You know what I'm saying, they were fine. I mean, it was just, you know, like you talk about farting in front of each other, Bathing and sleeping on hay together, like corporate bed. It's just, you know? They'd all eat off the same plate. They'd all farm the same fields. Yeah. What else would they do?

18:24Link Neal: Slaughter the same pigs. Oh, come on. You didn't have to go there. It's cold enough to cook, kill pigs. That's what they would say. It's cold enough to kill pigs. Kill hogs. They would say that? It's a saying. When it got really cold, it's cold enough to kill hogs. because that's when you would kill the hogs. Oh, I thought it meant the cold was cold enough to kill the hogs. No, no, no, no, no. At that time of year, everyone would get together and they would go from farm to farm and they'd work together to slaughter everybody's pigs. When it got cold enough. When it got cold enough, yeah. It was just that time of year.

18:59Link Neal: Interesting. Next. This one is weird. Yells cow whenever they see a cow.

19:09Link Neal: I mean, every time? Is it sexy? Every time. Is it like a sexy yell? Cow! I think it's like, cow! That wasn't sexy. It sounded like when Carney was the voice for the map. I don't know what you're talking about, and people liked it anyways. If you're talking about someone who points a lot of things out when they see it. I'm talking specifically about somebody who points out a cow whenever they see it. Well, here's the thing. I point out a lot of things that I see, and cows are probably part of that. He's cute. And I think maybe this is one... You know, Jessie and I don't have a lot of serious conflict.

19:52Link Neal: We have a pretty high level of, like, incidental conflict. Mm-hmm. I might walk too far ahead of her from time to time. but she might say, I might get upset with her because I see a cow or I see a lavender field or I see an impressive billboard and she's on her phone and I want her to enjoy it and then we have the same, and I'm like, no, you haven't, the billboard's gone, the cow's gone. So you want her to green flag you saying cow every time you see one, basically. Yeah, I think I'm one of these people. I think I'm a cow caller. Yeah, so green flag yourself. But do you want her pointing out things that you've already seen, which would be a cow?

20:41Link Neal: I want to experience things together. And that might be cows in the distance. You know, what kind of cows are they? What's their story? How many are there? How many feet away do you think we are from these cows? Are those dairy cows or beef cows? Are they just someone's pets? There are lots of questions about it, Cal. I'm really feeling an overwhelming desire right now to be on my phone. I'm just being honest. Next one. All right, has to get to the movie theater in time for previews. Oh gosh, yeah, I'm always telling Christy, I'm like, you know what, there's gonna be 30 minutes of previews. Let's just show, stop rushing.

21:24Link Neal: She's like, well, we gotta get there, we gotta get there. but then she's like, I like the previews. Me too. Can't argue with that. Can't argue with that. The trailers are when you eat your food. Agreed, definitely when you open up the packages, get everything ready, probably eat most of it. Especially at the Alamo. But like the AMC's now like building ads into the trailers. So, too many. Where there's commercials mid-trailers. What? Like there'll be a trailer and then a commercial and then a trailer and then a trailer and then a commercial. Is that like a mid-roll in the trailer? Yeah, it's gotten out of hand, and it really has.

22:01And then you show up to, like, a special event, like a Fathom one, and they don't do the trailers. And I've conditioned myself to show up, like, 20 minutes late, and then I miss the first 15 or 20 minutes of the movie. Oh, so who does this? Fathom? Yeah, there's, like, those special events where they'll bring back, like, Studio Ghibli movies or things like that. But a lot of times they'll do that and not have trailers at the top of the movie. so I've definitely missed the good like first portion of of the movie at least three times

22:31Link Neal: I didn't know about that I appreciate the fact that we've talked about this all of this stuff and no one's pointed out that I'm just a walking beige flag I know that's what everybody thinks of me maybe that wasn't news to us yeah it's fine, it's fine, it's fine it's fine