Is picky eating a curable condition? – Let’s talk about that. (lively music) Good Mythical Morning. – Link, this is an intervention. – I know. I feel like it is. – It is. Today, I’m going to attempt to do the impossible, cure you of your picky eating habits, at least for a few different foods, because I’m convinced that I can convince you that there are some foods that you think that you hate that are actually enjoyable. That’s what I’m here to do today. – And I’m convinced that my freshly cleaned barf bucket will not come out of this unscathed. Fellow picky eaters, give me your strength! – Well, see, here’s the thing about you picky eaters. You’re missing out on so many things, and I want to help you live an even more full life, invite more experiences into your life. That’s what life’s all about. – I’m approaching this with openness. I’m not gonna say that you can’t cure my picky eating, ’cause then what’s the point of doing this? – That’s right. That’s an open mind. – Maybe it could happen. – Okay, when I’m done with you, your parents are gonna be very proud of you. I don’t know if they’re still talking, but they’re both gonna be very proud. – Oh, they talk a lot now. – Oh, good. – Yeah. It’s actually really refreshing. – Well, I’m very happy for you, and them. It’s time for, (heavy metal music) “You’ll Eat It And You’ll Like it! Link Edition”. – Well, that was a little aggressive. – Okay, well, yeah, that’s just for the comedy of it. Okay, I’m going to be your flavor Sherpa, your guide today. This is all I’m gonna be asking of you. First of all, I’m gonna ask you to be blindfolded, because I think a lotta times you bring expectations and prejudices, predispositions, prejudging to the situation, and I don’t want you to bring any of that, right? – Okay. – I also want you to submit yourself to my counsel, ’cause this is gonna be culinary counsel, but also psychological counsel. I am not trained, but I did take Psych 101 in that really big class at NC State. Remember that? – Yeah. Yeah. – Okay. So, and at the end of this, after you, I’m gonna try different techniques for different foods, okay, and after we get through evaluating the food and trying to convince you to see it in a different light, you’re going to decide if the food is officially too icky, or if you’re just too picky, okay? – So if you can talk me into liking it, then I was just too picky. – Yep. – Okay. – Let’s do it. (heavy metal music) – As you can see, I can’t. – And that’s a good thing. – I question whether this is a good thing, ’cause you want me to taste something with no visual expectations. Okay. – Yep. – Okay. – Well, because you’ve been on record as not liking these foods. So, I mean, when we do like a taste test, – I know you’re gonna feed me– – like when we do like a gut check, – some nasty, – where we taste all these different things, when Stevie says the name of the flavor, you immediately are like, get this look on your face like, “Well, I don’t like that.” So we’re trying to eliminate that. I’m not saying you’re gonna like it. – I’m gonna try it your way. – Okay. So here’s what I’m gonna do. In this round, I’m… Now, first of all, none of these are scientifically proven. It’s just I have a lot of intuition, and I know this guy very, very well. And so I’m going to be trying different techniques that I’ve not tried, but just kind of thought of, and feel pretty good about. – So there’s no science or pre-thought. – No, actually there is, there is some science to this. It’s just very– – What do you want me to do? – loose associations. So I’ve got this food in two forms, and I’m going to give it to you in a slightly less raw form first, okay? And I’ve got a couple of little things that I’m gonna change your experience along the way, okay? So what I’m gonna do is you’re gonna get the food that you supposedly don’t like, and then I would like you to not take too big of a bite, because you will get something else, and I am trying to associate the food that you don’t like with foods that you do like, okay? – So take a little bite? – Yeah, just don’t, I don’t want you to be chewin’ too much, because– – Am I grabbing something? – No. No, no. Just, hey, put your hands down, like a baby. Put your hands down like a baby. – Well, how does a baby put their down? – In their lap. – Babies’ hands are usually out like this. – I don’t even want your hands on the table. Put your hands in your lap. – I’ve never seen a baby put his hands in his lap. They don’t reach the lap. – Okay. – Here you go. Coming in. The airplane’s coming in. Take a little bite of this. (food crunching) Okay, yes. Yes. Yes. – Oh! Okay. – And now, just when you’re letting that register, – Uh-uh. Blue cheese. – here we go, new thing. New thing. Mmm. Linky likes that. (crew sniggering) – Ooh hoo. (crew laughing) Ooh. Cereal? – Did you not get the first thing down? Here, have a little bit more. – I didn’t get the first thing down yet. – Okay. That’s my bad. (crew laughing) That’s my bad. Get it down. I told you to take a small bite. Here you go, here’s some more. Linky likes this. Come on. Here you go. You like that. That’s your favorite cereal. – Yeah, I like that. – Making you feel good? Now take the good part of your brain that just activated, and try to tie it to the bad part that was being activated. That’s science. – Why on earth would you put blue cheese on cereal? – I didn’t put it on cereal. You ate blue cheese on a nice crostini, with some pear. It’s a great preparation, Turbo. Thank you for that. And then I followed it up with your favorite cereal. Let’s try again. Small bite. Just a small bite. Just get a little bit. Too big. That’s too big, too big. There you go. There you go. There you go. Perfect. Now, this is really gonna cover a world of hurt. Here we go. – I don’t understand. – As soon as you get that down. Soon as you get that down. – It doesn’t taste like food. It tastes like funk. – Okay, here we go. Hey, hey, hey. Open your mind, man! Now open your mouth. Oh, Linky likes this. – Oh, oh! – Yeah, you like that. – Okay. – Yeah, you like that. Mm. (crew laughing) See that? You’re trying to create new connections in your brain. You see what’s happening here? – Yeah, by combining foods that I like with something that has no business going with that. – No! Think about this. You’ve got a road in your brain right now. You have like a nerdal network, right? And that neural network– – A nerdal network? – Very nerdy. You have a neural network that is telling you that you don’t like this thing that you’re eating, but you have a neural network that tells you that you do like this thing that you are are eating now. So it’s just like, get in the same pathway. You see what I’m saying? ‘Cause right now I’m about to up the ante, and I’m gonna go just a little bit more straight here, okay? But I got something else that Links likes. I got something else that he likes. Now just, here you go. Just get it… (Link gagging) – Now it’s in your lap. – Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. – How is blue cheese made? – Don’t think about it like that. It’s in caves! That’s cool. Everybody loves caves. – Okay, caves. – They age it in caves. Why are you so timid? Just take it in. – I don’t want it all. It’s pungent. You gotta gimme a new way to think about it. The neural pathway thing’s not working. – Well, this is my technique for this particular food. I’m sticking with it. A scientist has to be committed to his technique. What I’m trying to get you to do is to think what makes you happy about this, what makes you happy about this? Now hold. I’m gonna try a little bit– – Ice cream. – Now I’m doing it backwards. You’re happy. Think about what is making you happy. And now, you’re still happy, you’re still happy! Your still– (Link whining) Hold on to the happy thought. Hold on to the happy thought! Hold on to the happy thought! (Link laughing and crying) – I mean, it’s not, I don’t feel threatened. – Well, that’s good. – I don’t feel like my life is threatened by eating this now. – Oh, do you think I took some of the edge off? – It’s okay. – Okay. You can take your blindfold off. Link– – But I’m gonna keep my eyes closed. – You were eating blue cheese. (chuckling) (crew laughing) – [Link] Yeah, I knew that. – There it is. And you’re also eating ice cream, peanut butter, and Raisin Bran Crunch, your favorite things. – The ice cream actually did help me get to a point where something did happen. You actually messed up two of my favorite foods – Well, I thought– – in the process. – You know what? Sometimes it can backfire. – But something about this. – ‘Cause it’s the creaminess. It’s, you know, it’s, I love it, ’cause it’s so creamy, and it’s tangy. – What’s the blue parts, though? I do need to know that. – Mold. (crew laughing) – See… – Yeah, yeah. But, hey, listen, mold saved the world, man. Penicillin. Ever heard of that? – And you’re just, I mean, you’re not supposed to, when you see mold, you’re supposed to walk up to it and eat it? – It depends on the mold. If it’s cave mold, yeah. – I feel like the needle moved a little bit, – Yes. – and somehow, the ice cream creaminess did help. So for this one, I am willing to say I’m too picky. (heavy metal music) – Okay, I’m pretty excited, because that went very, very well. – Well, I… – Hey, we’re just moving the needle, man. – Alright, yeah. – Moving the needle. – Moving the needle. I’m trying to be open. – Okay. Slightly different technique. Still dealing with your brain and your brain/tongue connection, I guess you might call it. I’m going to be feeding you something that, again, you have said that you do not like. I’m going to be giving you the safer version of it first, and I’m going to be asking you to revisit a memory. – Oh, okay. – Okay? A memory that you seem to like. – Okay. Any memory, or are you gonna…? – I’ll prompt it. – Okay. Is this a bite or a drink? – This is a bite. And you don’t have to take the whole thing into your mouth, okay? – Yep. Good. – But before I feed this to you, I would like you to go back to fall, 1995. – Fall, 1995. – You’ve got on your Umbros. – I’m in high school. – Yes. You got on your Umbros. – I’m playing soccer. – You got on your whole uniform. Coach Brandel has decided that the lead is safe. “The lead is very safe. Let’s put Link up on offense.” – Oh yeah. – Your best friend, and all your other friends, were in the crowd, cheering you on. I think, potentially, my dad is also the PA announcer, and every time you get in the game, he’s saying, “Linksterrr!” and stuff like that, because that SNL sketch was really popular at the time. Anyway, that’s where you’re at. And the ball comes to you. (Link gasping) You’re like, “Oh, I gotta make a decision. I have to decide which foot am I gonna kick this ball with?” – My off foot, the left one. – And it goes into the goal. – Oh! What is that? – It’s good, man. You scored! – It’s slimy. – You scored. – What is this? Is that plant or meat? I can’t even tell. – It’s a little bit of both in this particular preparation. – Oh, is it an eggplant? I don’t know what that is. Not knowing what it is makes it worse, man. – Okay. Well, listen, trust the process. – It doesn’t taste bad, – The ball comes to you again, – but it feels bad. – The ball has come to you again. You’ve already scored one goal. You’re riding so high, you know you’re gonna get in the yearbook for this. – Yep. Yep. – Ball comes back to you. You gotta make another– – It’s from a corner kick. This is a corner kick. – This is a corner kick. Michael Juby has kicked a corner kick. – Yeah, but I’m just gonna close my eyes and raise my left foot again. – And here it comes. Now we’re gonna up the ante a little bit, Link. – The texture is slime, man. – Okay, well, it’s gonna get a little bit worse here, but you know what? Your memory’s gonna get a little bit better. ‘Cause I wanna take you back to maybe that same year, maybe a year before, I don’t remember. New girl at school. Janna. Little did you know that she would go on to be a dancer for the Carolina, the football team, whatever– – Cobras – Arena Cobras. You didn’t know that at the time, when she invited you over to the house and said, “You wanna ride the four-wheeler?” – Yeah. – You rode the four-wheeler with her. Then she said, “Would you like to go back to my bedroom?” – She did say that. – And you went back to the bedroom, and you got a sense that she wanted something else from you. – Just a kiss. – And you faltered. – Yeah. I was, I just, I was frozen in fear. I was petrified. – Let’s remap that memory. Let’s create a new memory, okay? This time she says, “Link, will you kiss me?” – That would’ve been nice. A little obvious cue would’ve been really nice. – You open your mouth. – Oh, I start with my mouth open? – Yeah. Yeah. You’re going in, you open your mouth a little bit, and here it comes, Janna’s tongue. – (Link crying in protest) No! – Just take it. Just take it, just take it, just take it. Just take it! Take it! It’s Janna’s tongue. – What is it? – You’re eating her tongue. It’s a little bit weird, but I’m trying to help you. I’m trying to help you. (Link gagging) Yeah, yeah. You can do it, you can do it. You can do it. It’s a new memory. It’s a new memory. It’s a new memory. It’s a new day. It’s a new day. It’s a new day. It’s a new memory. (Link crying in protest) (Link retching) Okay. Alright. Okay, so he failed once more, just like the good old days. – Too much ocean, man. Oh gosh! – Alright, Link, you can take off your blindfold. – I still can’t tell you. Oyster. – Oyster! – Oh gosh. – I thought that was pretty good though. (Link coughing) I thought. (chuckling) Here. Here, here, here. It’s your favorite drink? A plain Topo Chico. I thought the whole Janna memory thing was, I mean, you seem, you perked up a little bit. – I guess that’s why I was afraid to kiss her, ’cause she had the tongue of an oyster. (crew laughing) – They called her Old Oyster Tongue for a reason. – Ooh, Oyster Tongue. Oh, man. Janna, I’m sorry that he brought you into this. – So how do you feel about oysters now that we’ve been through this exercise? – So I just gotta say, too much ocean, too much nasty. That is officially icky. (heavy metal music) – Okay, before we try this next food, I think we have a very special visitor who has something they would like to share. – Heavy cotton candy day, daddies. – Hey, Randy. – Randy. – Would you like to hear a sweet nothing, – I would. – or a promo? – Yes. Which one first? – Sweet nothing. – Okay. (breathing heavily) If it’s okay with you, I’d like to bring a possum into our relationship. – (laughing) That sounds fine. – Hey, Link. – Hey. – Did you know that every time you think you’re talking to your dad, it’s just me in a dad suit? (crew laughing) – Ooh. That’s– – Where’s my dad? – Guess. – I don’t know. Do you have a dungeon or something? – That’s pretty dang close. Anyway, did you know that there’s a new Hello Daddies shirt? You can’t see the logo because of my beard, so I’ll move it. – Oh, Link’s wearing the baby blue version. – Yeah, I’m wearing it too. And I know that it has something on the back, like a bigger design. – Wow, that’s a beautiful shirt, both colors. – We’re looking great. – Where do people get that? – I’d say they should go to Mythical.com. – Yeah, that sounds like a great place to get it. – Wow. I love the fact that we’re putting Randy to work. – Yeah, that’s right. And as a special treat, I’ve licked every fifth shirt. – Oh. – Oh, thank you, Randy. Thanks for doing that. – Yeah, happy to do it. – You didn’t have to. – No, they’re collector’s items. – Okay. Alright. Maybe you’ll get a licked shirt. – Did you lick this one? – He can. – Yeah, I can lick it now. I didn’t have a chance, but I’m happy to start licking. – Not now. Now’s not a good time. – Just let me know. Just say go and I’ll start a-lickin’ now, now, – No. I’m not in a good place. – now, now, now. – Okay. Thanks, Randy. If you just hang to the side for a second. – Yeah, okay. I love the side. – I might need you in a second. – I appreciate what you’re trying to do here. – Hey, listen, we’ve made progress for blue cheese, and we had a little trouble with, with, you know, – Oyster. – Oyster. But now we’re moving on to something that, you’ve complained a lot about this one in particular. But I wanna do something a little bit different. I wanna get physical with you, okay? And that is because you’re a guy that likes to be pampered. You like physical touch, and you like massages. – From professionals, yes. – And you actually often like to talk about how you like massages so much that you might wanna review massage places for a living at some point. – Yep. – So just kinda put yourself in that place, and just– – A massage critique. – Yeah, so I’m gonna, and also don’t think of this thing as what it is when you taste it, think of it as a new fruit. – Okay. – Here it comes. – What’s it called? Does it have a cool name? – It’s called Link’s fruit. (crew laughing) Okay. Open wide. You’re gonna get all three flavors together here. Yeah. It doesn’t have to be too, okay, yeah, bite down. No, it doesn’t have to be so big. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Oh god. – Yeah. – Oh! Okay. – How’s that? – Okay. Yeah. – How’s that? (crew sniggering) How’s that, Link? Does it feel good? You like that? – It’s not absolutely horrible. – Oh, you like that? Yeah, you work so hard. – Yeah, that feels good. – You work so hard hating so many things. – Yeah. I need to let go of it. I need to let go of the hate! – Just relax a little bit. So that wasn’t too bad? – No, ’cause it, I think I know what that was. – Okay. – I know that there’s tomato hidden in there, but there was something, there was some oilness, and some cheeseness. – Okay, that went way better than I was expecting. – Yeah. – How about this? – It was actually okay. – You have a famous story that you once told on “Ear Biscuits”, our podcast, about the four-handed massage that you once experienced, and I believe that it did things for you. – Yeah. – Things that you decided to talk about on the internet. So that’s the only reason I’m bringing it up again– – I did talk to Christy about it first. – Okay. – Immediately afterwards. – So I want you to put yourself back in that place, and just realize there’s gonna be four hands. Don’t be alarmed. – Where on earth are the other two hands coming from? – I don’t know, but go ahead and just take a little, take a little, take a little. – Argh! – Sorry if they’re sticky. It’s syrup and something else. (crew laughing) – How’s that? – You might feel a fifth thing, but it’s not a hand. (crew laughing) It’s the chinchilla that lives under my shirt. – How’s that? – Nn-ng. – How’s that new fruit? – It’s not great. – How’s that new fruit everybody’s talking about? – Are we in my dream? – I already ate it. – How was that new fruit? – Why do you have your thumb up my sleeve? – Oh, how is that? How is that fruit fresh from the vine? Link’s fruit fresh from the vine. You don’t look well. – It’s watery. – I licked every fifth tomato too. – It’s not as bad as the oysters. – Okay. Hey, this is a good place. Okay, take your blindfold off. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Take your blindfold off. It really isn’t as bad as the oysters. – This is what you had. – Yeah, I knew that. It’s a tomato. I was aware. If it’s not too runny and seedy. – You liked the Caprese. – Yeah. And that wasn’t bad, actually. – Yeah, man, that cheese and the oil and the vinegar and the basil. – It’s just that it tastes like… – Oh, he’s going, he’s going back. Hey, you just took a bite of a tomato, man. And then you took another bite of the tomato. – I don’t like the juice. If it’s dried a little bit, if it’s just desiccated, that might be my way in. – Okay. I feel like the needle has moved. – The needle has moved a little bit more than the oysters. So I know a lotta people like tomatoes. I am willing to say I’m too picky. (heavy metal music) – Okay, listen. Way things are going, I think we might be able to get all the way to the top of the mountain for this one. – I’ve demonstrated I’m trying. – Okay. Link, I know you like massages. I know you also like music. You’re a music guy, listening to music all the time. – Love that music, boy. – Sometimes you’ll just sit ar… Ever since your stepsister moved out of the house and you could start liking music again, you’ve loved music. – I’m just loving that music. – It’s one of the things people love about you. – Yeah, it’s a universal language. – And so basically what I’m gonna do is I’m going to prepare this food that I want you to bring no preconceptions to. It’s going to have a little sauce on it. I do want you to know that. It’ll be a little bit wet, but that’s just some good old hot sauce, okay? I want you to know that. – Oh, how hot? – Not very hot. – Real hot? – Not real hot. – Okay. – And as this is coming up to your mouth, we’re gonna give you a little musical experience to really send things over the edge for you, okay? – Okay. ♪ I’m so tight, so stressed ♪ ♪ Need someone to rub my neck ♪ ♪ Oh yeah, that’s the spot. ♪ ♪ I like the way you work my muscle knots ♪ ♪ Put some oil on my back ♪ ♪ Give me a two-handed attack ♪ ♪ I had a really hard week ♪ ♪ And I want you to rub my feet. ♪ ♪ I’m so stiff, so stressed. ♪ – Okay, I think we got a little nod there. We got a little nod! – It was hot. It was fried. Right? – It was hot, it was fried. – Yeah. So, I mean, okay. – Okay. Okay. Well, all right, we’re gonna move right on to level two here. – Okay. – Okay? And you know, – No, I don’t. – it wouldn’t be the same if we didn’t have a nice musical experience for this one too. – I do like music. ♪ I’m so tight, so stressed ♪ ♪ Need someone to rub my neck ♪ ♪ Oh yeah, that’s the spot. ♪ ♪ I like the way you work my muscle knots ♪ ♪ Put some oil on my back ♪ ♪ Give me a two-handed attack ♪ ♪ I had a really hard week ♪ ♪ And I– ♪ (Link coughing and retching) (Rhett roaring) ♪ I’m so stiff, so stressed ♪ (Link coughing and retching) ♪ Need someone to rub my chest ♪ – What is is? ♪ Oh yeah, that’s– ♪ – It’s good! It’s good. ♪ I like the way you work my booty knot. ♪ (Link groaning) – How is it? – Spongy. – How you feel about it? How you feel about it, before you see it? (Link groaning) You liked it when it was fried. – The after. The aftertaste. I can’t breathe out anymore. I gotta breathe out through my nose. (Link whining) – Take a look. – Oh gaaa! – It’s a testicle that looks like it’s– – Oh, no! I thought it was a brain! (Rhett and crew laughing) – No, no, it’s a teste. (Link laughing in disgust) – Ugh! – What animal? – Bull. – Bull. It’s a bull teste. – Yeah, this is a bunch of bull, man. – Testicle. – Hey, the fried ones. – You liked the fried ones. – Oh! Oh. – Okay, what’s the verdict on this one? ‘Cause typically, you would fry it like that. You’re not going see it raw, or not raw, but just boiled. – That’s freaking icky, man. – Oh gosh. Okay. – Officially icky. – Okay, listen. Hey, but I think what we learned here today is, first of all, you kinda liked these when they were fried, and we moved the needle on both blue cheese and tomatoes, your arch nemesis. You had a Caprese salad, man. – Yeah. – How does it make you feel, to make so much progress? – Well, I’m not gonna feel any shame for the stuff that I still don’t like, but I’m gonna be proud of myself for giving it a good whirl. That’s right. I did that. And now I don’t have to do it ever again. – Well, but it went so well. – No, no, no. – And there’s more foods you don’t like. – I’m gonna order the salad. – We didn’t get to olives. – Take off the blue cheese. Take out the blue cheese dressing. Throw some ranch on there. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. And you know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Emily Donnelly, a third degree Mythical Society member from New Brunswick, Canada. And I made this Cotton Candy Randy hat for my coworker, Ashlyn, who’s also a Mythical Beast. And it’s time to spin The Wheel of Mythicality. – And then I guess you stole it back. – That’s cool. – Made a video with it. – Yeah. – That’s the way to be. Click the top link to watch us guess which celebrity face has been photoshopped on a piece of fruit in “Good Mythical More”. – And to find out where The Wheel of Mythicality’s gonna land. – [Randy] Hi. (clearing throat) I mean, Hello Daddies. 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