#524 - Rhett & Link Are Here!

19:19But you just wanted to see if you could. Yeah, yeah. Incredible. Everything I've said up to this point. It was fun. It's true as far as I know it. But if I begin lying, it will sound exactly like the truth. You're a big fan of gaslighting is what I'm gathering here. For fun, yeah.

19:36Joe Santagato:Then it's not technically gaslighting if it's for fun. It's pranks. Yeah, yeah. It's all pranks. I don't do it for—I don't emotionally manipulate people. The only reason he's glad to have children is because it's more people to lie to. Right. I've told so many lies to my kids. Are you lying to your children? Oh, my God. I love it. Yeah, it's the best part. It feels like that's what you're supposed to do. It is a foundational part of being a parent is you need to lie to them because then if they figure it out on their own, you're done. You're screwed. You've lost. What's like the biggest lie? Because I like I think I don't have any children, but I would I would think that I would make up like really good ones.

20:09Like I would tell my kids that I invented the moon and shit like. Yeah, those are those are good ones. Like toothpicks used to be 12 inches. Why would that one? I mean, I like it because I'll use it. Right. Because it's meaningless. Because it doesn't I mean if they repeat it It's hilarious There's just more fun to be had Yeah, that's true I mean you just don't want to start Lying in order to like Change their behavior Right Like you know Santa's watching Yeah Yeah, yeah Or worse You don't want to do that Yeah Who would do that? But like Inconsequential All humans are born With six fingers on their left hand but then they eat it right before they're born.

20:56That's a good one. That's a good one. I did.

20:58Joe Santagato:We were like trying our youngest to like potty train her right now. The best one that we got going right now is a monster will eat your butt. Like if you don't let us change your diaper, you'll get a monster in your butt and it'll eat you. And that's good. And were there follow-up questions from your, what is it? Oh yes. I mean, no, she maybe is very inquisitive. She asks why, how, when. That's the scary one. She's a journalist. My questions are, how did you get there? How did you get? And why did you use the phrase, eat your butt? That's what I want to know as well. Well, because I can't be confused.

21:36Joe Santagato:It's just, you know, the diaper is an all-encompassing prison around, you know, like that's how she feels. So I'm like, all right. Yep. How can I make her feel more comfortable? Monster. I let her believe that there will be a monster. and then who's going to save the day? Daddy. Right. Daddy will save the day or mommy. Wait. So what are you trying to accomplish? Get her afraid of not changing her diaper. Oh. And then she uses the... So you're saying that if she poops in her diaper, that is attracting the monster. It is. No, it's making a monster. There's monsters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is monsters.

22:11Joe Santagato:It's like an episode of Goosebumps. You know, put it like that. It's like a monster sludge. I've never seen that episode. I still don't understand. Keep going. We all have, it's like the idea of like, we all have two bears in us, you know, like the bear that we feed and the bear that, you know, we don't feed and like what. Yes. Manifests. We all have poop monsters in us. Yeah. Are you allowing the poop monster to take control of you or are you getting rid of that poop monster? Yeah. Before. Got it. So, okay. Really? Because the poop is the monster? And it is. The reason for the monster. The reason for the monster.

22:48Yeah. It's quite poetic. It's like a primordial soup. Yeah. It is what it is. What's feeding it is what it is. Now I don't know.

22:55Joe Santagato:I mean, it is a classic Grecian tragedy of our own hubris. We give way to what is eventually going to be our downfall. Yeah. Now you got them going. Listen, we have told ourselves stories as a society for millennia. So many years. In order to control our behavior. Yeah. We've made things up that probably aren't real in order to make sure we do the right things. You're just following in the tradition of humanity. Who am I if not a part of this folklore history that we have had as a human race? Yeah. So this is your Greek mythology? This is exactly what that is. I mean, what is the difference between the gods of the Greek pantheon and a poop monster?

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26:50Joe Santagato:handle it then you know how it is whatever works at the moment daddy will slay the poop monster at that point that exactly he'll never be back right exactly it's like it's like the riddler okay now we're this is an exception of the riddler can create the the the crime and then be there to clean up the pieces and people like oh my god the riddler is kind of not a bad guy anymore guys he saved the day create the issue with the poop monster so then if it comes up she gets a little freaked out yeah who's gonna save it daddy so i think the lesson that i'm learning here as someone who's not a father yet is traumatize them so that you can be the hero in that story yes got it is there nothing more parenting is there nothing more noble and selfless right true because they need that they need a hero i know that you're lying to your kids all the time i don't know it's been so many years at this point you know so many years of lying uh i mean my youngest child is now 17 years old that's how old i am that's crazy good for you um yeah at a certain point the tables turn and they start lying now they just lie to me yeah but i can tell i can tell now they're paying you back yeah i can see do you get mad at those lies or are you just like nice try but um daddy knows best yeah um i'm mostly amused by them like i'm not going to give the specifics of this story uh which may make it much less funny to tell so I'll make it very short.

28:18Well, you're choosing to protect some privacy instead of going to entertainment. When he was 15, we knew that he had done something. He made up a lie, but the lie he made up was like five times worse than the thing that we knew he had done. I did that. And then when I found out, I was like, I know that you're lying about this, but just so you understand, the lie that you made up is worse than the thing that you actually did yeah and he was like yeah i don't know what i was thinking quite noble of him so we just had a conversation about if you're gonna lie let's learn how to do it yeah like it's supposed to be less you know he's done that before there's a story we've told on this podcast before where he was it a new cell phone uh yes he got a brand new cell phone and he drank a lot of uh coca-cola before bed oh yeah so he ended up peeing the bed, breaking the phone.

29:11You peed on the phone. He peed everywhere. Not just the phone. He got everything.

29:16Joe Santagato:It was collateral damage at that point. But then his dad was very upset, so he's like, I gotta think of something. I can't tell him that I peed the bed because I drank all this Coca-Cola. So instead, he inferred that he had a wet dream. He upgraded. He upgraded to the wettest dream that's ever existed. Dad, I came on the phone. I came so much on the phone that it broke Well I was Like there's no way Like in the same way that you're like I'm just like choosing to believe their story I'm playing along What is going through your dad's head in that moment? I mean I knew my dad was pissed Because I was what We were 13 at the time It was a brand new Next Hill And I know it was expensive And it was like a chore just to get the phone As it was So in my head I'm thinking all right i know he's upset because there there's stains everywhere uh because i slept at like on like a little like mat and he was it was just part of that it was like on the mat on the bed it was it was it was a weird divorce parents um and i was thinking like all right i know my dad really wants to be included in like the whole like me growing up and sharing with him and like being a Being a, like, Dad, I'm going to tell you another, like, relatable guy thing.

30:39Joe Santagato:So he could just be like, you know what? I know what this is like. Don't worry about it, son. You came on your phone for him. I did. To be closer to Dad. Well done, son. That's quite a lot of coffee.

30:54Oh, my God.

30:56Joe Santagato:Did he say anything? He was pissed. I remember he was sitting down. He didn't mention, like, that he was like. He didn't go, what? No, you didn't. So he was sitting down with a blow dryer, drying the mat. Oh, it's going to get hard. Yeah. If it's what you're saying it is. Yeah, I wouldn't do that, Dad. This is my dad in 2005. Freshly quit smoking cigarettes. Oh, he's stressed. He's stressed for several reasons. Oh, my God. And I'm like, you know, I explained the story you told. and he just goes no no he instantly called it he immediately called my bluff and i just at that point i had to double and triple down on it yeah so um yeah he i mean if he if it when he sees this he'll know or if he already knows he probably seems like he oh wow you haven't cleared it up with him no no no no you didn't frank uh no you didn't yeah yeah but it was you know in that moment I was thinking more of him than I was of myself.

32:01Joe Santagato:More heroic acts. Now have you peed the bed as adult men? No. Funny you say that. Within the last 365 days I have peed my pants. Pants? In the middle. Shorts. I was in bed and I was having a dream that I was peeing. This has happened before but like and then when I woke up I was like I'm peeing and then I look and like I didn't fully pee. I had more pee, but it was not a couple drops. That happened to me this year. The tube. I was able to use my muscles. I didn't physically put a clothespin on it. But I woke up and I was like, oh my God, I'm peeing. Yep. Same thing happened to me this year. Yep.

32:46At a fancy hotel. Pee at a fancy hotel bed. That's the time to pee, though. Was it a full? It wasn't a full release, but it was enough to leave my pants and get onto the bed. That's a lot. But Link did it at his mom's house. At his mom's house. Yeah. As an adult? Yeah, it was like a couple years, three years ago maybe. Yeah. I was in the bed at my mom's house with Christy. Your wife. And I just – We got that part, yeah. I woke up peeing. woke up peeing could not stop it did wait you full peed full and your wife was like what she didn't well she didn't wake up immediately and so like then i i had to do a i had to do a manual

33:40Joe Santagato:pinch yeah well yeah system override at a certain point override exactly yeah right there so i and then i'm like i'm getting out of bed and i'm running to the bathroom and there was more so So I guess it wasn't full. But it was a lot. It was so much. You were about 80 % through? It was enough. Where were you on the bell curve, though? You know what I'm talking? Were you in the middle, or were you coming down? I think I was right at the peak. Yeah. Because there was still some pressure when I got to the toilet. And then when I turned around and went back to the bedroom, all the way down the hallway, there was just like drippy drips.

34:18Joe Santagato:Did you pee through your knuckles? What does that even mean? I was using my fingertips. I asked a question. Do you think that he was going like this? Yeah, yeah. This is a hard bird technique. I wasn't grabbing it like a... And then Pete could get through. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. I don't know what he's got working with over there. That's more disrespectful than anything. Right. Okay. I see what you're saying. Just grab the bottom. You just figured a pinch wasn't enough. That's it. Well, no, no. I'm just saying there's different ways. Listen. It requires two hands. I mean, some of us. Some of us.

34:48Joe Santagato:You would grab it like an eagle? What are you saying? It's like I captured a bird. Yeah. it's not like opening a doorknob so like so what was the did your mom find out um well christy i got i like laid down up i was like i'm gonna deal with this in the morning i like put down a towel oh yeah toe and then i just laid back down on the towel and then when like a couple hours later when she rolls over and went she was just like why is there a why is there a towel here And I was like, Dad, I had an amazing wet dream. She was so confused. And you did that for her. That was smart. Yeah, that was good.

35:25But, yeah, I ended up telling my mom that we were going to need to do some full laundry. We're going to have to go all the way, Mom. So, you know, she probably liked that. It's like, oh, it's just like you're young again. You know, you're in the room and you're pissing yourself. Yeah, right, yeah. It was very special. Just like old times. Yeah. You haven't pissed recently?

35:43Joe Santagato:No, I'm afraid of, like, when you said, like, you told us recently you slept naked. Yeah. And, like, that's a reason I'm afraid. Because, like, if I am, I really haven't peed to bed, and I couldn't even tell you when. But if I'm at least clothed, I know that there's, like. A barrier. A bit of a barrier. You know what I mean? Like, before you get to, like, unleash the hounds, like, you know they have to get through a couple rounds of. I don't think the fact that you're wearing shorts to bed is the reason why you're not pissing in bed. what are the rubber shorts that's a good point honestly and also we don't know because we don't know what would happen if the inverse happened what's schrodinger's cat yeah if you were naked you think you would pee if you were naked i think because you know you you wouldn't have a barrier you'd be less likely to pee yourself well i'm not peeing myself now and nothing is less likely than it when it doesn't happen that's true wow if you like that but 75 of the men right here have done this as an adult yeah and chances are you will join us i can guarantee that 175 yep 175 one more time one more time i can guarantee you that of that 75 100 of them have slept naked more frequently than i have because zero would be no because i don't sleep naked you have i i don't know if you guys have but i think it's a safe assumption to say that you probably do at some Not regularly, but yes.

37:11Joe Santagato:It happens. I'm sure it happens. You seem like a confident man. Have you pissed the bed recently? Recently? No. As an adult. As an adult, I have. You have it. I have. And were you dreaming that you were peeing? I think that's how it always goes. I woke up, pissed, and then, no! And then, yeah. You were also, yeah, I scared everyone in the house. That's how it goes. It's like woke up like Ebenezer Scrooge. No! We told that story on our podcast in the context of I felt bad about the fact that I did it in a hotel bed, but we were also checking out that day. Yeah. And I was like, they probably deal with all kinds of stuff in the bed.

37:54And then a woman who works in hotels called in and she was like, yes, wet beds for whatever reason are very common. It's a very common thing. They don't think twice about it.

38:07Joe Santagato:if i think about a hotel bed i'm like yeah let's not i think i well yeah i but i think i know why it's it's more of like a like standing up to the authority you know what i'm saying like peeing in a hotel room yeah more time what is what does that mean there's something about a hotel room that just it's it is like the poster child of capitalism yeah so like if you're in like a nice hotel and like you treat it a little poor like you're like i'm i'm one of the i'm one of the for piss in the bed break a lamp yeah steal the soap yeah that kind of stuff you seem like a guy who takes the conditioner oh yes yeah absolutely what about the hair dryer just take that no no no no no they're typically not great yeah they're whispering at you my mentality is if i'm paying for it i'm taking it i'm not paying for like the appliances but i'm paying for the soaps chocolates i've never eaten a single chocolate in a hotel room but i've taken them all Did you take in the hotel we stayed at like two days ago there was a bottle of wine did you take that?

39:10Joe Santagato:Oh yeah absolutely it was cool they gave us a bottle of wine and some popcorn I had a little bit of each of the popcorn I opened the wine had a glass of wine oh so you had it there yeah you didn't oh I thought you took it with you decay oh no I left it there I didn't I didn't bring it home and decant it but like in theory if I consumed it I am taking it with me uh-huh yeah oh yeah In spirit. In spirit. Yeah, exactly. I mean, is that wrong too? No, it's beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful. One thing I wanted to talk about with you guys is that, do you guys sort of recognize that you are treated as this OGs YouTube royalty?

39:52Because you've been doing it. When was the first time you guys put out a YouTube video together? 06. Damn.

40:00Joe Santagato:That's sick. That's when I was coming on my phone. You wish. You wish you were. Yeah. Yeah, we've been through a lot of phases. And so, like, I mean, Good Mythical Morning was only the past almost 13 years. But like, there were so many. Is that all, 13? Yeah. That's a short amount of time. But then it's like, yeah, we feel like we've lived a couple of YouTube lifetimes. We're really glad to still be here. it's crazy i mean it's since 06 is wild is that were you guys doing it separately or it was always together always together yeah oh wow yeah came up together first grade you know parallel lives yeah we pretty much went through everything i mean the i got married a year before him and that we we recently realized that the only time in our lives when it wasn't completely parallel like Like, you know, always grew up doing, you know, we were best friends growing up.

41:02We went to college. We were roommates in college together. And then when I got married, I moved out. I was like, I'm going to move in with my wife now. Yeah. I'm going to leave. I'm going to leave you, friend. Did you guys cry? No. Don't believe so. I let him keep the couch. Right. You know, so. Mr. Fly? I felt like that was good enough. Well, there was a rat that was living in the couch at the time. Yeah, I'm gonna let you keep that. There was a rat living in the couch. Yeah, we discovered that later, yeah. Got it. Was it, did you guys pee on that couch? No, but the rat did a lot of stuff. I'm sure the rat pissed on that thing.

41:43Well, okay, so there was, we had another roommate, Tim, who shall remain nameless. Gotcha. And he was, he was just a dirty dude. Nice. We're still friends with him.

41:58Joe Santagato:Is he still dirty? I think he's still really dirty. You know someone's going to scour everything to find who this person is. Dirty Tim. He brought all the candy that he got from trick-or-treating or something. You guys have an apartment together and he's trick-or-treating? Yeah. Junior year in college, he's like, I got all of this. He just put trick-or-treating. I got all of this candy, and he just left it in the living room on the floor. And we were like, you know what? We are not cleaning up after Tim. We're gonna leave this just like that on the floor we made that and we're gonna make him he's gonna clean up his own candy And to his credit You know he slowly over time.

42:38He started cleaning up the candy, but it was I mean eating it He was like cleaning up. I don't know. It's like I'll give him credit one piece at a time Yeah, kind of picking it up, you know, and then this is interesting It was all gone. Well, no, but there was a couple of moments there in the middle where he would eat like part of a piece of the candy and just leave it on the floor like a like take a bite out of a tootsie roll and then leave it like oh i don't like this yeah and i was on the run unlike yeah i was like what is happening but we didn't talk about it i'm not buying this

43:08Joe Santagato:i can smell the the the smell the nonsense here i'm not buying it keep going so candy gets gone One day I get home, we've forgotten about the candy. And I open the front door and there is the apartment pellet gun, which we had one of these. Yeah. And it was propped up. It was the 90s North Carolina. It was propped up by the. You had a pellet gun in your apartment. It would, some roommates, not me, would shoot rabbits out of the bedroom window. Mm-hmm. That's not true. Boys being boys. It wasn't me, and it wasn't Rhett. We would never do that. And you have no idea who it was? It was our other roommate.

43:53There it is. Yeah. It definitely wasn't us. So the pellet gun was propped up, and it had a note on it, like a post-it note. Nobody at home, I pick up the pellet gun, I look at the post-it note, and it says, There is a rat in the apartment. If you see it, shoot it. And so I just put the pellet gun right there. I was like, what? In my handwriting, you recognize my handwriting. So what happened at that point? Because this is what happened. So I'm home alone one day. Earlier that day. Doing the laundry, and of course it's one of these college apartments where the washer and the dryer are in the kitchen, you know.

44:36And so I'm doing the laundry, and then I see movement out of the corner of my eye. I turn, and there is a rat coming out from underneath the fridge. It is so big that it's having to extricate itself out. Like doing an army crawl. And it just kind of comes out and just looks at me, and is not even frightened. I would say this long before the tail started. Get the fuck out of here. That's a raccoon. So that long with the tail? Oh. and so i immediately do what any normal man would do i grab a gun i grab the nearest pellet gun and i i think i'm gonna be able to like get a shot off because it was it was just standing in the middle of the kitchen but by the time i had to like go to wherever that gun was a living room whatever and then i come back and he's moving into the dining room, and then I'm like, okay, he's behind this piece of furniture.

45:38He disappears behind the piece of furniture, and then we see there's like a little hole in the wall there. So, realized we had a rat, and that's what was happening with the candy. Yeah. Eating half a Tootsie Roll. Of course it wasn't Tim. He had built a nest in the couch with all of these pixie sticks and Tootsie Rolls. Pretty sick. It's a pretty good setup. It's a hole in the bottom of the couch. He looked out to see where he's going in the wall, and it was like, whoa, no, no, no, he's going in the. There was rat shit everywhere behind the couch. Oh my God, it was like 10. Idiot. How did you guys get out of there without diseases?

46:15So here's the thing. Oh, we didn't. The story progresses to the point where a couple of days later, like we didn't do the thing that you're supposed to do, which is just call a professional. Yes. Because we were just in college, we're not paying for anything, right? It's like, we will handle this. Two or three days later, I'm in the kitchen, I come home into the kitchen and I see there's a mouse, not a rat, a dead mouse in the middle of the kitchen right where I had made first contact with the rat and it was as if he was saying, look what I'm doing for you guys. Hell yeah. I'm killing the smaller versions of me.

46:47A fucking sacrifice. Keep me around.

46:49Joe Santagato:He stood there like I'm like you guys had like this is my place now. And then when he saw you were going for the gun he was just like I'll be back. Alright. You know I'm here. It's a mutual respect thing. I'll prove my worth. Yeah. So we were like, okay, maybe we keep him around. We were in the process of moving out, and we later, we never solved the rap problem. When we went back to deal with the lady at the administration where we were not getting any of our deposit back because of what we had done to the apartment. Right. We were arguing with her about that. but we saw our neighbors that we shared a wall with, just some other college guys, and they were like, hey, guys, we had talked to them about the rat, they were like, we caught the rat.

47:37We caught the rat in a trap, and he got out of the trap. They used a raccoon trap. He got out of the trap, and then they caught him again, and they took him to the front desk, and they just set him on the front desk. Hell yeah. That's how his story ends, as far as I know it. Yeah. This big ass 20 pound rat?

47:56Joe Santagato:Are you sure that's how it ends? You guys didn't, like, take the rat and, like, you know. It was outside of my domain at that point. It was the neighbors. Yeah. There's always room for a sequel. But, yeah. I don't do well with that, dude. Bring in the rats. No, don't. Yo, he's very squeamish with, like, little, like, creatures. Yeah, I don't like them either. When they have little hands and, like, faces and shit, I don't know. It's all right. We grew up outdoors. We know what it's like. You grew up two blocks from me. We grew up outdoors. I don't touch anything with scales or antennae I don't touch any of that Like if there's a roach in your house I could kill it I just don't want to pick it up Yeah, kick it Just kick it?

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51:18Joe Santagato:and enjoy we would do uh we've we've like recently we were talking like if we were to do fear factor what it would be like i would i would be eating this stuff i'd be you know like lying in the coffin with like this stuff on top and then he'd be the one doing like the athletic stuff which I think we'd be okay if you did the athletics. It's a good tandem stuff, but like, yeah, if I got to get in the coffin, you put a bunch of hissing cockroaches on me, I can't. Nah, they're not that bad. They're just little friends. They want to live. Yeah, I don't. Have you ever eaten a bug? Yeah. Dude, we've, we've.

51:50We haven't had roaches. You guys have eaten everything. There's been, there was like the really nasty shit era of Good Mythical Morning. Yeah. For a couple of years there. It worked for a while. It might have been for over five years. It doesn't work anymore. You can't eat gross shit on YouTube anymore. You get demonetized. Really? Yeah. I think you could probably still eat, you can eat crickets or whatever, but that's... I mean, they don't want you vomiting blood or just vomit. Got it. You can't be sure of vomit. I never vomited, but I would, I mean, I made quite a career on a gagging board for a number of years.

52:26Absolutely. But those days are long gone. But yeah, I mean, we went through so many bugs. We were actually, at one point, we were developing a party game, like a packaged party game. It was like a collaboration with a legitimate gaming company, and it was called Who's Gonna Eat the Bug, or something like that. Will you eat the bug? and then it was gonna ship with dried bugs in it. And a little window in the box where you could see the crickets. It was cool. We had the prototype and everything. We got very close. We can do this, we can do this. Yes, we're a legitimate gaming brand, but we can ship bugs to children around the world.

53:18We can do that so they can eat it. And it came with gummy versions of it and then the real bug and it was a game to figure out who was gonna be the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shipping bugs to children. But then I think they realized, Because, you know what? We're not going to do that. No, we talked with our lawyer division. It turns out it was really, really hard to get the bugs for some reason. So they get, like, intact crickets.

53:38Joe Santagato:Well, I mean, you think of, like, the farms and stuff like that. They don't want to be like, oh, well, we're a cricket farm that is just raising these things for slaughter for other people, I guess. Is that a thing? There's farms? Of course there are bug farms, yeah. It makes sense, but I'd never even, like. I guess that's regular farms, too. So I guess yeah, it's regular. They're not and this is not that bad. I mean, I don't look forward to Bugs aren't bad to eat like apocalyptic future. They're eating just bug protein. I'm not excited about that Did you eat like a spider? That's plenty of spiders.

54:12Spiders are ranches

54:14Joe Santagato:Tarantulas. Yeah, we've had we had some we had crickets. We had the Danny and I did it that that one time it was like crickets and yeah, stuff like that You did the worst thing ever, though, which we wouldn't do now, and you didn't feel good about it, but you were kind of put on the spot. You ate a live beetle. Yeah. That wasn't. And it was that one, it was a rhino beetle. Have you seen those things with the giant horn? Those are cool. Those are cool. I wouldn't even be in the same building as one. Yeah, that's my deepest regret. I'm proud of you, you know. I'm proud of you. I'm not proud of it.

54:48Joe Santagato:Was it like you felt bad because it just was really tough to get through, or like the ethical reasons? It was also like eating a live thing. It was like eating an elderly person's toenails. They're disgusting. Sorry. I'm letting you know right now. There are certain people watching this that are just like, okay. All right. Toes. Okay. Hold up. Dessert? I mean, because you know how the older they get, the thicker they get. The toenails. The toenails. Oh, I didn't know. You know, we're not there yet. We're not there yet. I remember, I've known some old people, and I've seen their feet, and they're not, they suck.

55:28Joe Santagato:All you should have seen is grandma's feet. It's bad. Yeah. No. I mean, they were in rough shape. The toenail, instead of growing out, they start growing over. Yeah. Or like another layer. And then like, they like grab toe underneath the nail. They're trying to protect the whole end of the toe. It's like a helmet that grows over the front of the toe. It literally, it looks like a bob cut. You let it happen. Right. And you go, yeah, that's what it's like eating. a scorpion, I guess. Yeah, that's not... I mean, it's weird because, like, I would be the one that would do it, but, like, it's gotten to a point where, like, the internet is just, like, it's the thing to do to get people to watch, so, like, there's really no point to do it anymore anyways.

56:07Yeah. I will say, the scene in The Lion King where they're eating bugs, those look delicious. That does look really good. Are you familiar? The animated version? Correct. Well, technically, they're both animated. That's true. What was the other one? One scene was real, though. He got you right. Wow I gotta stop calling that Mission accomplished When are we gonna hit him with the Lion King Double animations bit I need you to understand something

56:35Joe Santagato:I have so much useless knowledge About movies and TV That when something like that happens That's the first part That I'm going to think about When I'm resting my head on my pillow tonight I finally used it guys it finally worked you got us they're both animated p-boys yeah but i'm glad we're through that that phase yeah i mean there's occasionally something like when we do our live show good mythical morning live when we travel which we haven't done this year there's some worm eating and some spider eating we have a game called picker peeker poker face yeah so it's you got the lazy susan and then one person gets to peek at what's under there and then they get to and then the other person gets to decide makes the decision are they gonna based on what's in front of them or what's in front of them they don't without knowing just based on what his face look like yeah yeah you get a gummy worm or a real you should play this is it like one good thing one bad thing one good thing one bad thing and based on their reaction you're like i'll take it or they I'm gonna let you have it or not.

57:41And when we're doing it on stage, it's like people are reacting. Because they know. It really works live. Write that down, we're stealing the idea, not giving credit. You should do that. Yeah. It works live, but it's like, YouTube has sort of had it.

57:54Joe Santagato:No, you know what? I think you guys seem like you're really married to it. You could have it, you could keep doing it. We will keep doing it. But maybe you can give a resurgence to it. Let's do one together. Oh, okay a quadruple pick a pick a poker. Oh, yeah Five times fast. Yeah, yeah never done it next time you come back out. We'll do a four-way If I open the thing and there was a rhino beetle or whatever the fuck it's called Videos gonna end real quick. Yeah, you have a standard you're like watching what works and you're deciding what you're not willing to do What's up? like you're not willing to eat gross stuff even though because other people are doing it what you just said me yeah no yeah i know i'm saying for the sake of views yeah popularity well like i just can't like my body physically if there's a beetle like there's nothing i could do yeah that's that's the best position to be in for entertainment well the other part of the position that he's leaving out is that growing up because this the dynamic was like you know we're 12 years old and we want to film someone doing like you know getting kicked in the nuts or something like that yeah he wouldn't even need to say like i'm not doing it i'll just be like yeah i'll do it and he's just like okay he's picking up the slack i'm picking up the slack in that situation so like even at this point like yeah we're not doing that stuff now ironically the thing that people want to see us eat is very edible but i just my body refuses it is mustard oh yeah so like anytime we do a video this little bastard over here fits mustard in or on hold on you're a hot dog guy no way i am a hot dog guy i'm not a mustard guy and a pretzel guy and i love pretzels no mustard on pretzel absolutely not so just catch up on your hot dog i have a variety of hot dog uh costumes that i like for the most part all of them involve ketchup okay that's an insane way to say costumes is what but you're i understood i dress them up differently yeah what would be the reaction to mustard if you had it i mean i'm not gagging you're just waiting for the right moment to no i i it stems from you're a picky eater you self you've explained that you're a picky eater when i was like four years old my friend's mom gave me a sandwich and i at that time as a kid You know how kids are.

1:00:22Joe Santagato:They need to know exactly what they're eating. If they eat something and they're like, you didn't tell me about this. They'll hate it forever. They'll never touch it. It was a bologna sandwich. Big bologna fan right here. I mean, I'm up on bologna, okay? Yep. But when I bite into bologna and I'm told it's bologna, it fucking better be bologna. It was bologna and mustard. It's tough. That happened to me when I was younger. there was a little serving dish that had sour cream in it, but I was young and I was like, this is ice cream, and it wasn't. So that kind of scarred me for a little bit, but I'm back on it.

1:00:57But it seems like you don't – you understand that when things happen at your expense, then that is to the benefit of your viewer. I got a line, and bugs are the line. I'll do other stuff for sure. But by building it up, right? Like with mustard. Yes. So now you kind of set your – this is how we think about it. You sort of set yourself up for the like big fundraiser or whatever. It's something. Frank's going to eat mustard. He's going to get in a dunk tank. Well, right.

1:01:30Joe Santagato:What came first, the chicken or the egg? I mean, I'm very well aware that this also might be as a result of my own creation, you know, that like people want to see me do it. But it's just the reaction is real. It's authentic. I can't. I don't know when it's coming all the time. And when it happens, it's bad. What if we get a beetle and we cover that mustard? So you don't want people to share that with people. It's too late. It's out there. It's too late. Oh, you've already done it. It's been out there for years. Okay, got it. So at this point, it's more of just like an anticipatory thing on my end.

1:02:02Okay.

1:02:02Joe Santagato:And anywhere we go, for the most part, we get people dressing up as mustard. Hot dogs. Hot dogs. People offering cups of mustard. We did a show in Austin, and someone walked up and gave me a cup of mustard and was like, well, what are you going to do with this? and I was peer pressured by this person in the audience. But you didn't need it. I did. Oh. I did a little. What else are you not willing to do from like a creator standpoint? Like goofy thumbnails? Oh, like. Yeah. Yeah. I would. I would. I don't think. We may have. We mostly do thumbnails of like they're from the video. Okay. I don't think that we've ever done like photos.

1:02:42A bit jealous of that. I mean, I think that it probably makes for a better thumbnail to do that. It's just, I don't know. You know what it was? I feel like when I started doing YouTube, I didn't really watch anybody. I wasn't that familiar with people. So I didn't really know what was working for everyone else. I just kind of just did. I didn't have thumbnails for like five years.

1:03:05Joe Santagato:It was just text. Yeah, sometimes it would just be text or whatever. Or as far as creating a really good title or something like that. I just didn't do it. Do you put emotional in the title? Yeah, it's like XXX, gone wrong, prank or whatever. You'll never believe number four. Stuff like that. There are definitely levels to it. There's levels. I think this is the other thing we're trying to tell you. Watch out. You start making them thumbnail faces. I would say. You need to watch out. I would say that if you haven't started doing it, don't start doing it. Don't start doing it. This sounds like the way that you guys were talking about it and like taking our responses in.

1:03:48It was just like this is something we would have changed.

1:03:51Joe Santagato:Like we wouldn't have done it and did all of this to where we got to now. You know, like it made the what is it? The ends are justifying the means or the means are justifying the ends. But like you would have changed that up a little bit differently. That's right. Yeah. And the funny thing is, is we are. Well, when you release videos five times a week and technically 10 if you count Good Mythical More, which is on its own channel, right? So you've got like two thumbnails going up every day. And we don't get involved in that. That whole optimization of title and thumbnail is its own team that's doing that, right?

1:04:33we just are like, okay, we hear, well, this is working better now, or this is through A-B testing or whatever. And so, we just, it's part of our process. We shoot an episode, and then we just, like, stand in front of a screen and, like, make some faces. And there's, like, a, I mean, it doesn't get into, like, you know, it might get into it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, there's a little bit of a. Like you said, we have a line, too. It's somewhere between. Yeah. And there's like, there's some shame, but not full shame. Yeah. But we have been told recently, they're like, oh, we're doing some more like screen grabs from the episodes if something really interesting happens or whatever.

1:05:14And people are responding to that. We're like, great. Yeah. That's great. Why don't you guys give your best thumbnail face like they just did? Oh, yeah. Where's your line for thumbnail faces? It's like, all right. That's kidding. That's a Halloween video. Start with like really crazy and then bring it down to a point where you feel comfortable Well, we need to see what's the emotion?

1:05:35Joe Santagato:What's the scene? What's the emotion? How do we feel? Are we tired? What day of the week? What do we got going on? Weather, weather, weather. I think Let's let's go with really ecstatically happy, but then also terrified so like you're both gonna start at different places At 10. Start at 10. Start at 11. Okay. So Frank, you're super happy. Yeah. Yeah. I'm scared. Yeah, Joe, you're scared. Let's give one directly to the camera. Yep. So I'll be, who am I? Oh, no, we're starting at 10 and then coming down. Start at 11. Follow the prompts, my friend. They gave you the prompts. We're on a team. I know.

1:06:11You're terrified, Joe. All right, you're ecstatic. Same time.

1:06:17Joe Santagato:I'm sorry, is there a countdown? Three, two, one, go. Okay, and now, and you're feeling, you're just feeling the embarrassment. I'm clicking on that. It's just too much. Now bring it down a notch. Bring it down to eight, maybe. Oh, shit. Okay. Yeah, just bring it down to eight. You're still scared, Joe. Joe, are you okay with that? I don't know. I think you've gone down to six. I can't breathe. I can't get more scared. I don't even know how to be scared right now. You look a little scared now. You need to be a little bit happier. Now let's go down to five. Let's go down to five. Okay. Now, Joe, I feel like you...

1:06:57I'm in pain, kind of. Could you live with this, Joe? Is this your line? Yeah, I think... Now I think... Yeah, I lost it. Four. You're shitting your pants. All right. That's what you're doing. So go to three. You just got all kinds of options. Keep going. Keep going. You're at three. You're still... You're not ecstatic anymore, but you are a little happy. Why are you crying? I see tears welling up. He hasn't blinked yet. Now the two. He hasn't blinked for over a minute. Two. and I think you look like you're in a sweet spot. No, that looks horrible. That's it. That is your - He looks constipated.

1:07:31That is your used to be ecstatic. He just looks a little bit constipated. That's not good. You okay? That's it. Just use that. I saw pain. And he spat. See, this is why you can't do it. This is why it's terrifying. He wasn't breathing or blinking. I didn't breathe. Okay. How is that necessary? Clicks, man. Clicks! Just the fact that the screen grab from this episode is going to be the two of you next to each other. I know this fucking asshole is going to do that. That's going to get the clicks.

1:07:57Joe Santagato:I mean, if we're smart, there will be somebody else in the thumbnail to really push this. We were just talking about this very recently. This morning we were talking about this. It doesn't even matter when we were talking about it. The changes. This morning? So, okay, if you guys started doing something different, like noticeably different, Yeah. With like your thumbnails or whatever. The people who are like, I'm here for what you guys are doing right now and I don't need you to sell it to me in any more sensational way than you already do. They would be upset if you started doing that because it's a signal that you're trying to reach someone.

1:08:38That's not them. Not them. Right. In addition to them, maybe. Right. But those core people feel alienated by that. That's something that that we we've learned a few times i think that when you change anything like even like because for the most part i when i started making youtube videos it was my mom's basement and i would hang a sheet behind me so it was like very low budget then it was not with the sheet different angle still my mom's basement then just on a random wall in my apartment uh and then in the last studio we were against a wall but it was like one blue wall one white wall that's it nothing on the walls so when we did this i was like i'm sure this is going to be an adjustment because it's not going to feel like this oh they're just it's a it's a low budget version of yeah a show and that makes it more relatable or feel good so there was a concern of like this is a necessary step for us to upgrade and make things look more professional and get better cameras and you know stuff like that and make those changes but they have to be a little gradual and i actually will say this phone in particular there was a time where we were shooting in my apartment and I just bought it because I thought it looked cool and I was like dressing up the set a little bit and the thing about picking us up was like whenever someone said something that was like maybe offensive or you know you couldn't say the right thing you'd pick up the phone and like you're talking to the editor like cut that out and like that was like the joke so brought it back on purpose because I think that was funny and it kind of got lost in our next sort of setup but a nice like you know thing to kind of bring it back to a regular time where the people who were fans then now have a little bit like, oh, I know what the phone is, but new people won't know what the phone is because they don't know the old thing.

1:10:19But anytime you change anything, there is going to be this. There's a little dance. Yeah. And then we slowly added this guy in, and then they were like, who's this and? What is he doing? And then he eventually got a camera. So it was like, we weren't going to jump in here, put him in, put him on camera, and make everything super different immediately. Yeah. If the whiplash is too intense. Yeah, we've done a lot of that. And then things develop a life of their own. Hey, look at us. We're talking shot. I'll be honest with you.

1:10:49Joe Santagato:I almost passed out. I had to stop and listen for a couple minutes. I saw tears in your eyes. I'm not even zero. This is no bit. I'm going to, after this, take a really big sip of water and tell him, like, was that okay? I'll tell you this right now. If you would have fainted on this show. That would have been, like, I would have went, like, you hear, you hear, you see my, I'm different now. Like, I feel. You went through something. I did it. Wow, it was beautiful. You've come out on the other side. We want to get to this thing where we have these two images just to get your, because you guys are like food guys, you know?

1:11:25You do a lot of the trying the foods and whatever, so we want to know your opinions. Can we pull up the DIY cereal? Gotcha. And see which one of these you guys are picking here. cookies pancakes pop tarts s'mores donuts croissants waffles cinnamon toast chocolate pancakes obviously all these need to have some milk in there yes and the type of milk will be

1:11:49Joe Santagato:important to me and only me and i'll yell at you for the wrong choice the other thing we we get a little intense with our food picks here so there is no pressure to pick something correctly but there absolutely is pressure to pick something incorrectly right so fucking watch it okay noted okay uh so you so you would be uncomfortable with me saying that i'm just fundamentally opposed to this exercise why that i think that that i just don't think we as a species should let ourselves i don't think we should let ourselves do this i think you have to draw some lines i love it If you're taking the route of like, listen, this is just, it is a bad thing to consume.

1:12:31Joe Santagato:Yeah. We're all there. We get it. Actually, this is how Frank eats cookies. The cookie one is how he eats cookies. Not, no. Sorry. Incorrect. Those are little cookies. Well, no. That's why he's wrong. I crush my cookies. I don't leave them whole. And you put them in a bowl with milk. Yes, I do. And I am a pro Dunkin' and Milk dude. Me too. But you know what's going to happen with A? You know what's going to happen, right? Yeah, it's gonna turn into a sushi. That's a mush. That's a mush. I love that. 45 seconds. I love that too. But no, no, no, no, no. See like is it is it a mush? Sure, maybe. But if you eat with the intensity and speed at which I am eating that bowl, okay, it's not getting there.

1:13:11Joe Santagato:Intensity? Oh my god, yeah. It's filthy when I eat. So you're picking A. No, I didn't say that. Filthy, filthy. I didn't say that. Well, let's start here. How do you guys feel about it? A is going to be great. I agree. I think that might be my pick. A number of these are actually manufactured cereals. You know, the waffles and pancakes. Even Pop-Tarts, I think, did it. We tasted that on the show. It was pretty good. Croissants, haven't seen that. I'm going H. Is this even a question? Well, see, H is such a cheating answer because that is basically just already Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I mean the picture is literally of a cinnamon toast Yeah, you can't do that with actual cinnamon.

1:13:59It is the best cereal. Yes, agree It is the number one. What's that? What's the second and third though? Well Okay, give us podium doesn't need to be at this point. This is just gonna be me personally

1:14:11Joe Santagato:Raising nut brand what the hell is going on over there? You'll thank me later. I would jump across here and hug you so hard because I am a big Big fan of Raisin Bran. This is insane. Nope, that's not even what I'm saying. And Nut Bran 2, Raisin Bran adjacent. I love it. He won't do the Raisin Bran. I don't even know what that is. Raisin Bran is for losers. And I'm not going to accept your support. Yours is what? Raisin Nut Bran? Yeah, it has nut clusters. It has raisins that have been... Candied? Rolled in nuts? So you don't know the raisins until you bite into them. All right, just before you ruin this for me, please, just go.

1:14:50What else? What else is on the podium? And there are brand flakes. Oh, what else is on the podium? Oh. Reese's Puffs Minis. He hates that. M-I-N-I. He's calling 911. I can see that he's doing that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:15:08Joe Santagato:Bring the gun. Bring the gun. Bring it all. The pellet gun. Bring the gun. Okay, dude. They're great in the mini version, and they don't hurt the roof of your mouth. And I'm going to throw a little love. The roof of the mouth is a big thing. I get that. No Cap 'n Crunch. No Cap 'n Crunch. Bite size. Oh, here we go. Fair. Well, hold on. We'll get to that. But, Rhett, give us podium cereals. Give us podium cereals. I'm a Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Smart. Guy. I also, I like Frosted Flakes. Me too. They're so simple. They're so sugary. They're so good. More than good. The best milk, too. And more than good.

1:15:46and the milk turns yellow. I don't care what color it is. It tastes delicious. And Honey Nut Cheerios. I'm sorry. The other day, I just said I got a craving for Honey Nut Cheerios like I'm pregnant or something. I was like, I was like, Honey Nut Cheerios. With bananas. Nope. Have you done that? I have. Maybe when I was younger, I did that. You're going to come out against Honey Nut Cheerios? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. That's insane. Reap the whirlwind.

1:16:12Joe Santagato:Honey Nut Cheerios are like, come on like you like raisin bran it's good grandma it's good you see how he's attacking both of us when he's saying this i'm trying to attack i'm trying to attack just right here because i didn't hear anything about honey nut cheerios out of your mouth now he wants to attack both of us listen honey i am pro honey nut cheerios okay so then you i'll bring a third gun then i think that i'm gonna be brave here since everyone else thank you for standing up for what's right, white man. Too sensitive to say this. Captain Crunch is in the top three. Cuts the roof of my mouth.

1:16:48Yep, you gotta watch.

1:16:49Joe Santagato:Let's just pull it together. But see, the best version of Captain Crunch. It eviscerates the roof of your mouth. You need to be very specific because the best version of Captain Crunch isn't Captain Crunch. It's oops all berries. Because the berries are the best part of Captain Crunch. I think it's time to grow up. Time to grow up? This is how I hold on to my childhood, my wonder my my beautiful years so let's do this graphic you spend eight dollars we have all of these cereals uh let's just go wow there is oops all berries there i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you a sleeper in life and on this spend eight dollars is life yes life is a great it is a sleeper cereal don't sleep you know what cereal i like don't love but i love at the same time it's kind of like my relationship with candy corn it's like i don't love this but i'm gonna eat it kicks i like kicks yeah it's like okay but i'm like i like it berry berry kicks berry berry kicks it's cheating it's it's cheating but it's kicks it's on the it's right there i think if we go one per row dude you got to spend eight frank there's rules yeah you got it you you only get eight bucks could we all just for the sake of the argument because i think we're all in agreement here we know ctc would be chosen so let's just avoid that for now yeah let's take it off all right so we're not doing that so we're not even spending money on it no we're gonna get it but we're just not gonna spend the money are we eating this in one sitting or is this like for a week that's a great question and i love the conditions that you have here because these are the questions that i ask and i am scolded for it um no so this will be uh your one month of cereal okay that helps because i don't want to eat three or four cereals at once no one month eat at your own leisure depending no confinements to the time of the day no confinements to the amount also no confinements the type of milk and also this is the only breakfast you get yeah for that month no no no no no you could you could throw in some savory stuff every now and then just break it up crispy crispy once a week all right well i'm a week i'm swooping in on mini because that is a steal for a dollar first of all oh hell yeah i didn't notice that yeah apple jacks for a dollar is like i mean highway robbery jack my apple i'm taking it well they are that they are good apple jacks i'm definitely doing that it's i mean oops all berries is up there on principle alone i need to take it but i wouldn't hate falling on corn pops corn pops pops corn pops pops they don't they don't even have the reflective bag and what's the big What difference between pops and kicks?

1:19:24Joe Santagato:Um, one is more corny and one is more like bawly. Yeah. Got that? That's the technical term. I've never been. I've never been to Bally. Yeah, pops are like something that a doctor might remove from your body. Yeah. It's a little organic in the outline. It's more polyps, not pops. Got it. Corn polyps. That's it. That's a perfect... Kellogg's gonna be pumped with that one. Colon polyps! Yum! I think I would go the highest one I'm taking here Fruity Pebbles. Love them. Love Fruity Pebbles. And I like when they get a little soggy. I must admit. I'm mixing it up with Cocoa Puffs. It's only$2 and you get some chocolate in there.

1:20:06That's a good choice. There's a lot of value there.

1:20:08Joe Santagato:And you think about it, it's the cereal that keeps on giving because the milk at the end of a Corn Pops bowl of Cocoa Puffs. That's what I meant. Cocoa Puffs. Sorry, I'm still lightheaded from fucking holding my breath for two and a half minutes earlier. What the hell is Crave? Crave is like a new one. I think I've been really careful to not go in on some Crave because my impression is that it's full dessert mode. Is it? Yeah. And if you start, I might not be able to pull back. It's chocolate, right? So it's chocolate inside of these little packets. Oh, it's got a filling? It's like a pizza, like a Totina's pizza roll, but inside it's like chocolate and cream.

1:20:50That feels like a violation of like a principle.

1:20:52Joe Santagato:It probably is. I have not eaten it because I am too afraid of what it might do to my lifestyle. That's a smart man. I am more afraid of not having Lucky Charms. The most overrated cereal that's ever existed. I can't agree with that in any capacity. You like the marshmallows, right? I love the marshmallows. I love the marshmallows. Me too. That type of marshmallow, which it's not real. It's like, what is it? It's dust. It's called. It's like a powdery. It's made out of something else. Piece of like couch. You think I don't care what the hot dogs are made of? You think I care about those? But I prefer it.

1:21:26Because if you put like a real marshmallow in milk, it's like something. Too soft. I don't know what happens. I don't even like marshmallows. I love marshmallows. Out and about. But those are like, I love a Lucky Charm. Hell yeah. Can. Yeah.

1:21:38Joe Santagato:And also Fruity Pebbles are great, but they're better when they're Christmas ones. They taste the same. No, I will agree that they do not. They taste like cloves and cinnamon. No, they just like when you. Guys, guys, I know you're not much older than us. You remember the holiday cereals that would come out. You're going to tell me if I put a bowl of regular Fruity Pebbles in front of you and then one where you know that that was made by Fred Flintstone in a Santa hat. You don't like that one a little bit more? Yeah, and they're just all red and green? Yeah. I like that. I already have my picks.

1:22:15I'm going Fruity Pebbles, Oops All Berries, Apple Jacks, and Mini Wheats. Now that I think about it, Oops All Berries and Fruity Pebbles are probably too similar.

1:22:24Joe Santagato:No way. Different flavor profile. You get a fruitier fruit with Fruity Pebbles. Oops All Berries is a little more... It's a little more... I don't know how to explain it. It makes sense in my head, but it's just more of a manufactured sweetness than a natural sweetness. What's the backstory on the... Obviously, he made a mistake and dropped the berries in. Oops. Yeah. Yeah, I think there was something at the factory went awry, and now they've created a better cereal. Oops. Well, the captain, he's been out on the ship for a while. Scurvy is a real thing in the cereal mascot world. Yep. Turns into scarlet fever.

1:23:00Joe Santagato:Eventually, it gets us all. So maybe the oops all berries was just like him overcompensating for the lack of vitamin C on his cereal ship. I'm sure it's packed with vitamin C. Um, Apple Jacks, Lucky Charms, that's five right there. Yeah, three bucks. And then I don't even need to use the full eight. I'll just go Oops All Berries, and then I have a dollar left over, and I'll get more Apple Jacks. Oh, doubling up on the jack. Wow. I love Apple Jacks. I'm going to go with the Reese's Puffs, even though they're not mini. Yeah. And then I'm going to go with the mini wheats. Yeah. Then I'm going to go with the Apple Jacks and the Special K.

1:23:47Oh, you're going Special K? It's a lot of cereals. Special K? That's not a bad pick. I like the texture.

1:23:55Joe Santagato:It's not a bad pick. It's an awful pick. Yeah. It's not a good one at all. I think it's pretty awful. I think I need to, you know, I think I need to mix it into my other cereals just to get a little, to get some help. I see what you're saying. You must have had real world Special K if you think Special K is a good pick. There's no chance. Real world Special K. You remember the commercials for Special K? I'm not, no. I do remember the commercials for some of the others, though. It was a woman in a white bathing suit. He's bathing suit. Yeah, we've talked about this, yes. I remember her. She was horny for Special K?

1:24:27It was like, it was a woman who wants to be fit. Her leg would come out and it would make the K. And her leg would make the logo. Oh! Throw it! I'm getting very excited about it. You haven't seen the Special K commercial? This is why I'm telling Special K. Her leg comes out and bends, and then it makes the K. The K? Yeah. I'll never forget it.

1:24:45Joe Santagato:So, I mean, nothing sells cereal better than objectifying women. I remember. Nothing does. It was for women. There was a kid in our neighborhood that was, like, bigger and then lost some weight. And I remember asking him, like, oh, how'd you lose all that weight? And he said Special K. I don't know if he meant ketamine, to be fair. Oh, there it is right there. Second one, look. Look at this, y 'all. This is recent. Yeah, this is more recent. I'm talking about the 80s ones. Let's just see what happens. She's throwing her scale out the window. Why is she doing that? She's got bell bottoms on. She's looking at pants.

1:25:22Oh, see? There's a leg. See? There's a woman putting on pants. Who's going to argue with that? I see no leg, guys. They're still selling it the same way. Hold on. Where's the leg making the K? Where's the K leg? It'll happen. K-Leg, come on K-Leg! Liars. Wow.

1:25:38Joe Santagato:Absolutely lied. Which year did you say it was from? 80s, just put 80s. I remember some of the ones when we were kids, it was just like the Reese's Puffs one was like wrapping peanut butter cups, you remember that? It's like Reese's Puffs, Reese's Puffs. Oh yeah, yeah. Peanut butter chocolate flavor. Reese's Puffs. Don't know it. Just put bathing suit. Now this is, was this a figment of your imagination? I mean there is one with the girl who's making a bit of a... Oh, maybe it's that one. Special K from 94? I am also now learning that Special K has been around for quite some time here. Yeah, I mean, it looks like...

1:26:15Joe Santagato:Remember, which one was the one that was made so people would stop dripping off? That certainly makes me... That's kind of like it, though. See, here we go. Woman in a white bathing suit? With a child? What? We're watching too many, like, scantily clad women in an episode. How many commercials did they have? Which one? Was Special K the one? There we go. That was me. This one? Yeah. I think go to the end of that one. Yeah, just go to the end. But see, she's in a white bathing suit. They did that for years. Get the shape. Okay. They did the K leg. I know they did the K leg. You guys might have another dream he has.

1:26:50This is what happens to us.

1:26:52Joe Santagato:We say, like, yeah, we remember this, and then it never happened. It's like the Mandela effect of Special K. Now we're figuring that out. Was Special K the one that was made for people to, like, get people to stop jerking off? or was that another cereal? That was just Corn Flakes. Corn Flakes, yeah. Kellogg's Corn Flakes by Mr. Kellogg. Not only am I happy that I asked, I'm happy that you knew because it just validates what I said earlier. It didn't work. Follow-up question. I'm going to go ahead and answer. It doesn't work, it didn't work. No, you don't think so? So you're going to tell me you've seen a box of Corn Flakes and been like, it's having the opposite effect.

1:27:31Joe Santagato:Or have you seen a box of Corn Flakes and be like, you know what, actually, I'm okay right now. They're so bland that I feel like I need to compensate somehow. You know? This isn't fun. I'm going to spice this experience up a little bit. It seems like Kellogg would have needed to make the most engaging cereal ever. A cereal that distracts you. Why be sexually satisfied when I can just eat this cereal? Kellogg's actually said that the early version of Corn Flakes could help suppress sexual desires and prevent self-pollution because it was so bland. So the whole point was to be bland. So technically, it did exactly what it wanted to do.

1:28:12Yeah.

1:28:13Joe Santagato:So did it work? I mean, not for me personally. No, I don't think that was enough to stop that train. Yeah, there was nothing that could stop me. I mean, you could make an argument. If you saved just one life, have you not done your job? There was nothing that could stop me. Nothing was stopping that train. Now, here's my question. And I know, I know, I think we'll be able to get to the bottom of this. If you were to create a cereal, and it would be a cereal to promote self-sexual love, what would it be flavored, and what would be in it? Self-sexual love. Yeah, like a jerk-off cereal. Well, you know, there's a certain time in your life where...

1:28:49I don't like salty cereals. Anything at all. God damn it. there's a certain time in your life where anything and everything makes you horny like a special k commercial that may or may not have ever happened yeah you know what i mean and so i think that anything at all like we were talking about um how the the like this the catalog that your parents would get that just had like a woman on the back in a bra was enough to pull the trigger sometimes Absolutely. So it just needs to be something. I'm trying to think of something, something that suggests something from the female anatomy. Okay.

1:29:34Joe Santagato:So like a flower, a tulip. Boob loops. Boob loops. Okay. Like fruit loops, but then you put two of them. Absolutely. That feels like you could probably pull it off. Oh, we got something. Here we go. Oh my goodness. See? 1987. Oh, this is the one? 1987. This is a cereal commercial I was 10 years old Oh that's prime Cereal eating and trying to figure out If you're into this Here we go This is an insane cereal commercial Think about that And here it comes y 'all I knew this was not just in my mind Oh it's the horn Oh it's the horn You guys were right Wrong! It was a leg! Wow! It was an elbow! Unbelievable.

1:30:22Joe Santagato:So you're our guys, apparently. So hot! It was the Mandela effect. It was the arm! Maybe it was the leg at one point. It might have been. That's incredible. In that one, it was the arm. I bet you could have to take that leg. I'm gonna find another one now. What's an arm if not a top leg? Hey, listen. Where's the nearest place where we can get some special candy? Well, it depends on what type you're looking for. You are in Brooklyn. well i think that's where we can kind of wrap up this episode right there with ketamine at the end thank you so much for getting us demonetized right at the end there fleshlights the cereal that's another good one to answer your question mine i don't know what would be in the cereal but on the front of the box would be the dragon from shrek yeah that does it for you very horny dragon You're an eyelashes guy Look at the dragon Just look at the dragon Just look at the dragon I'm not saying pull it up, Ant Yeah, please don't pull it up I'm sitting next to him Don't show me the dragon from Shrek Look at the dragon when you're alone at night with a candle on I got other stuff to do today Can't spend all my time looking at the dragon But thank you guys so much for coming and doing this episode with us Yeah, that was fun Where can they find you?

1:31:38These guys

1:31:40Joe Santagato:Just why don't you tell us maybe Just log on to youtube.com They'll pop up And try to find some thumbnails with guys doing About a 30 % shocked face Actually we do want people to go see Wonderhole Which is our Season 2 is out It's 6 episode It's on the youtube.com Slash Rhett and Link channel The original channel. So not the Good Mythical Morning channel. Okay. The Rhett and Link channel. Yeah, so we got two seasons of that. And, yeah, I really want more people to watch it. Cool. I'm just begging. If you're watching this, it'll be in the description. So you guys can go find that easily. But, again, thank you guys so much.

1:32:27Always good to hang out with y 'all. Always good. Always good and always fun. Frank, you got anything you want to add? That's all for this week's episode. appreciate you guys so much we'll see you next time

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