A house party ain’t what it used to be. – Let’s talk about that. (groovy theme music) – Good mythical morning. – Thank you for making us a part of your daily routine. The Wall Street Journal just came out with a report, it said that teens, oh gotta love those teens, are spending more time on live chatting apps with their friends, than actually hanging out with their friends in person. Now, this is not, that’s not a big surprise, but there’s a study behind this. Pew Research Centers shows that one in three teens hang out with friends outside of school less than once every few days. – So one out of every three hangs out once every few days. – Yeah, one in three teens hangs out with friends less than once every few days. – So they’re not hanging out with each other a lot. – No, they’re not. – We used to see each other like every day after school. – Yeah, we would just hang out in person, or maybe talk on the phone in order to orchestrate hanging out in person. – Right, we didn’t talk on the phone just for kicks. – But instead of physical, face-to-face interaction, well I don’t mean kissing or nose touching, I just mean like being in the same physical place, teens use apps like House Party, I call that Keek, I don’t know if it’s Kik, I’m old, FamTribe, AirTime, Oovoo, – I would call it Kik. – I called it Keek, it doesn’t matter, we don’t really care. But these allow screen face to screen face interaction, which is becoming, as it turns out, more meaningful, so much so that they often leave the app open for hours at a time in the background, so they can just chill with each other, just chill, live chilling, live chilling is what it’s called. And I’m like, I’m scratching my head a little bit. – So it’s basically like a long video conference. – Yeah, that’s what I thought – Of teen friends, – I mean it’s like we use Google Hangout if we want to have a meeting, but it’s a video conference, it is, it’s work, it’s not fun. – Let me, okay, I’m gonna say, let me start by saying what the almost 40-year-old man wants to say, just my knee-jerk reaction of how I feel about this. – Okay, but then you’re gonna, what, pull back from it? – And then I’ll meter that. – Alright, meter it later. – I wanna say that this is ridiculous, – Unmeter it. – I wanna say it’s ridiculous, I wanna say that kids don’t know how to interact anymore, they don’t know how to look you in the eyes anymore, they don’t know how to speak at a volume that you can understand anymore, and this is definitely not helping, right? And also, listen, video conferences, you’re gonna have so many video conferences in your life when you get a job, and video conferences suck. You get disconnected, you talk over each other. This isn’t the kind of thing, you have so many years to enjoy the burden that is a video conference. Enjoy your youth, don’t just start video conferencing now. That’s what I wanted to say. – You’ll hate it enough later. I do understand a little bit, like, I spent some time with my stepbrother when I was, like, 17 years old, and we went to one of his friend’s house, and he was like on the phone, but he was talking to us at the same time, 30 minutes later, I noticed he was still on the phone, an hour later, still on the phone. Two hours later, the whole time we were hanging out at his house, he had been on the phone. – With a girl? – I was like, Jonathan, what’s up? He’s like, he just is on the phone with his girlfriend all the time, and they don’t talk to each other. They’re just like live chilling, and I think this guy went on to invent House Party. – That is a little bit different because you can do the little, you know, you talk in the little lovey-dovey voice. – That is different. – And I kinda understand, – But just hanging out with friends. – I haven’t been in that kind of relationship in a long time, but I do understand. – Let’s be open. – Let me give what I think could be the advantages. I mean, the first thing I think of is the fact that you don’t have to smell your friends. I mean, that is true. – That’s true. – Some people have BO, some people have bad breath, some people have weird odors that you can’t identify. – And before you would just de-friend them. But now you can just screen friend them. – Right, exactly, also you can bounce very easily, you can get out of the conversation so easily. Like if I invite you over to my house. – With the push of a button. – If I invite you over to my house, and you ate something weird, or you’re just acting strange, or whatever, and I’m like, I’m tired of this, I wanna get out of here, I have to make up a weird excuse to make you leave, or to leave my own house, or your house, or whatever. But if I’m in a video chat, I can just be like, gotta bounce, no one’s gonna ask any questions. You don’t have to wear pants. That’s a good thing, I mean I would choose not, I don’t have pants on right now. – Yes you do. – But I choose not to wear pants as much as I can. – But you did make me look. – It’s significantly cheaper, there’s no transportation costs. And you don’t have to do that weird thing where you have to agree on what you’re gonna eat. What are we gonna eat, is it gonna be pizza, is it gonna be Chinese, so you don’t have to have, what are we gonna do now, it doesn’t matter. You can all do what you wanna do, and eat what you wanna eat independently and still be together. – It’s funny how when you start throwing in transpo costs, you’re still analyzing it as a dad, I’m just saying. – I’m just being honest. – But you know what, – But don’t knock it til you try it, though, right? – Which is why I have put House Party on my phone, Rhett’s put it on his phone, and you can get up to seven of your friends, so eight total. Rhett, go ahead and step out, and then once you do that, and there’s not the interference, then we’re gonna join up with some other members of the Mythical Crew, and give it a shot. I’m also gonna record this, record my phone here right from the start. Yes, all that’s recording, we’re good. So now I’m going to, it says Rhett is here, so I’m gonna join. Hey man. – Hey. – How you doing? – This is cool, we’re together, but not together. – Yeah, you’re, oh and look, there’s Eddie. Eddie, where are you at? – I’m in the bathroom. – Okay. – Sorry, sorry. – At least your pants are up, I can tell, I can see them. Alright and there’s Stevie. Stevie, where are you? – I’m in the car, are we shooting GMM or something? – Yes, that is what’s happening. You knew about this. – We were doing that, we had to start without you. And there’s Lizzie, Lizzie, where are you exactly? – I’m near the food. – You’re guarding the fridge, the open fridge? – Yeah. – You’re wearing your studio headphones, I see. You look great. – She always does that, she’s always wearing the studio headphones, and guarding the fridge, that’s one of her primary jobs here. Okay, and then we’ve got Alex. – Yeah, what’s up? – Where are you? – I’m playing on the computer, I’m at Rhett’s desk. – Okay, and then I see Kevin joined, but Mike has been here a while. Mike? – Yeah. – Are you alright? – Well I’ve been hiding for a while, and nobody’s found me yet, getting worried. – It’s so dark, where are you? – I’m under the theater. – You’re like under the whole studio? – I come here on break sometimes, but nobody’s found me. – Okay, but you’re working. – Yep. – Mike’s video went black for a second, now he’s back. – Kevin, where are you at? – His hand is moving. – I’m just hanging out in the bathroom. – Oh, I didn’t see you there. – This is great, guys, this is what teens do. – Look at us. – How does it feel? – I feel so young now. – Good. – And I think we shouldn’t really look at each other the whole time, cause part of live chilling is just like hanging out while we’re doing other things. – I’m just walking around the storage area. – Something’s wrong with your computer Rhett. – Alex has broken, – The CPU part. – We look like The Brady Bunch. – Here’s a story. – Of a lovely lady. – Who was bringing up three very lovely girls. Everybody, all of them had hair of gold, like their mother. – The youngest one in curls. – Here’s the story of a man named Brady, who was busy with three boys of his own. They were four men, living all together, but they were all alone. Til the one day when the lady met this fellow, and they knew that it was much more than a hunch that the group would somehow form a family, that’s the way we all became The Brady Bunch. The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch, that’s the way we became The Brady Bunch. Yeah, well now that we’re all here in person, it’s better. – Yeah, let’s just cut this app off. – Thank you for liking, commenting, and subscribing. – You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Shannon at Hogwarts. 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This is when you show us a 10 second tour of your hometown, here’s one right now. – Hey GMM, I’m Eva from Germany, here we have some others staring at me, and a few stores, and most importantly, a beautiful church, hopefully see you soon, bye. – Okay see you soon. – You gotta get it out fast when you got 10 seconds, so post your 10 second tour with hashtag 10SecondTour, so we can see it. – [Link] Click on the left to watch our show after the show, Good Mythical More. – [Rhett] Click on the right to watch another episode of Good Mythical Morning. – [Link] And click the circular channel icon to subscribe. – [Rhett] Thanks for being your mythical best.