Did you know that I auditioned to be on “The Real World”? – And did you know that I found the footage? – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) Good Mythical Morning. – How are you feeling about this- – Not great! – …concept of an episode? – I didn’t know we were doing this. I knew that you found this footage. – Yeah, I found… I was going through all these old tapes. Yes, the first videos that we ever made were on tapes, and I found a lot of them, and I was like, this will be so fun to put on the Mythical Society- – So fun. – …which we’re doing, have done, and continue to do. It’s like some of the earliest videos we ever made. And I just found this diamond in the rough, and- – I think it’s still a coal, actually. – And it was a complete tape of you auditioning for “The Real World,” which “The Real World” was like, on MTV, one of the first, if not the first, a pioneering reality TV show. It put a bunch of people together and a bunch of characters- – In a house, yeah. – And so all these people, and leading up to Y2K, especially. And after- – Yes. – They were submitting their audition tapes to be a part of it. – Yes, we were. – And you did that. – I did that. – And once the Mythical Crew saw it, they said, oh, we gotta do an episode about this. – I should get a medal for what you’re about to see. – Get ready to cringe. It’s time for finding out what happens when Rhett stops being polite and starts getting really cringe. (record screeches) – [Stevie] Okay, so the footage, the uncut footage, is 27 minutes long, and that’s over on the Mythical Society. But right now, we’re taking an extremely close look at five of the most awkward moments from that 27 minutes. And what we did is, everyone on the Mythical Crew has watched these moments- – Oh, really? – [Stevie] …except for me, because I wanted to preserve it for this, and I’m so excited. – Do you have to be here? I’ve already watched this with him. – [Stevie] And we have ranked them in order of least cringe to most cringe. And so we’re gonna watch all of them together, and your job is to try and guess what order the crew ranked them in. If you get more than three of the five correctly ranked- – The tape will be destroyed. – [Stevie] Well, the Mythical Crew has promised to wipe all of your cringe moments from the GMM channel permanently. It’s a big prize. – How’s that gonna happen? (crew laughing) – I mean, you have to win. – That’s a made up prize. – [Stevie] You have to win to find out. – ‘Cause they’re part of this episode. – Now, just to set the stage here, you were 21 years old. – Yeah. – So it was like senior year in college. – Listen. Before we get into this- – And I helped you make this. – What could only be described as torture, mostly for me, but also for you, as you’ll see. I need to say a couple of things. Number one, auditioning for “The Real World” was not my idea, okay? And I think you can see how uncomfortable I am in this video. It was some adults that I knew. You might know our background. We come from a semi cult-like background. And there was some adults who thought I should go on this show to be a light. (crew laughing) And I was like, “Okay, I’ll make the audition tape.” And then, while making the audition tape, which by the way, you shot the whole thing. – I did. And I didn’t even remember doing it until I saw- – This is not the audition tape. – …that I was in it. – This is the uncut footage that we then edited into like a 90-second audition. So this is every single thing that happened. – Yeah, I couldn’t- – Just so you know. I don’t know if it’s gonna help. Just, it’ll help me if you know that this was not my idea, and I never expected anyone besides him to see 90% of this. But you know what? Let’s show it to the internet. (crew laughing) Yeah. – Let’s do that. – Now. – Okay, so this first clip, like any good filmmaker, you knew well enough that the first take isn’t always the best one. So without further ado, here’s our first clip, a montage of your attempts to make the perfect intro. – Hi, Tim. Look at this. We gotta get that mic out of the way. Whatever you do, it’s very important that you don’t get the mic in there, ’cause then it looks like I really went out of my way. My name is Rhett McLaughlin. I’m 21 years old, and I live in Raleigh, North Carolina currently. What else would you like to know about me? I’m good looking, as you can see. I pluck between my eyebrows regularly, and I’m not ashamed of it. I feel that men who do not pluck between their eyebrows are cowards. (color lines beep) Let me start over. My name is Rhett McLaughlin. I’m 21 years old. (color lines beep) My name… Why is it still going? Is Rhett McLaughlin. (crew laughing) My mission is to… (Rhett sighs) – [Link] Start over. That’s good. It’s to tell you in 10 minutes who the heck I am, so you can figure out if you want me to do whatever the heck you want me to do. – I need to get a little bit more happy-go-lucky! – Animated! (crew laughing) – Animated. My name is Rhett McLaughlin. I’m 21 years old. (color lines beep) – [Link] All this is good. I think this is just going to be it, all of this. – Okay. (color lines beep) I’m gonna take a little bit more than 10 minutes outta my life to show you 10 minutes of my life, so you can consider whether or not you’re gonna put a couple of months of my life on a tape, which people will watch for a couple hours of their life during the day, which could change their life, which will bring you guys money. Oh God. Will bring me fame and glory, women on every arm, which there’s two of those arms, so both arms. Ugh. An endless supply of condoms. (Rhett laughs) (color lines beep) My name is… Oh. My name is what? (laugh) My name is who? My name is jigga, jigga, jigga. Ugh. (crew laughing) – Is it over? – No, but that’s where they stopped it. (laughs) Wow. Okay. So that’s the intro. – That’s just one? We have to do that four more times? – Yeah. – I’m not showing my face the rest of this episode. – It was a… The director made a decision to make it very crotch forward. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s your fault. I will say, I appreciate you saying “No, this is good” at some point. – Yeah. – You were lying to me. – This could be it. – Yeah. Okay. – And I… Yeah, I think you really did great. – Yeah. (exhales) – So we gotta figure out a place to put this. I mean, you had your earrings. You had a good condom joke. You really thought that was great. – Yeah. (crew laughing) – When’s the last time you laughed like that? – [Stevie] The way you laugh immediately after you say something that you think is funny. (Link laughs) There’s not even a beat. Literally you cannot get the last word out before you start laughing- Yeah, I know. – …so hard. That man does not seem well. – Unlimited amount of condoms. (laughs) – No, it was… I was screaming at the top of my lungs. (Link laughs) I don’t know. I don’t know what was wrong with me, man. I don’t know what was wrong with me. – That’s maximum cringe. – Yeah. I mean, it can’t… Is it gonna get worse? It can’t get any worse than that. – It couldn’t get worse than that. – It’s not gonna get worse than that. – Oh my gosh. – [Stevie] I can’t wait. The next clip- – Wasn’t my idea. – [Stevie] …features a, in quotes, “hilarious anecdote” about a truly iconic blender mishap. It’s just storytelling at its finest. Let’s take a look. – I wanna tell you about an incident that happened just last night, here in the kitchen area. I was using A, a blender pitcher, B, the blender base, and C, the blender top. Yeah. That’s a blender. And D, the ingredients. Yeah. And the blender, which we’re not gonna reconstruct that. But I was making a protein shake because I want to be presentable to the ladies. I realize I am already presentable to the ladies, but the more protein, the more presentable. Okay. So I’m making this protein shake, and my friend Matt is here next to me, standing right there, saying “Liquid power! Liquid power!” And as I get ready to take this shake up, I say to myself and to everyone else, “Liquid power!” and as I began to say that, the bottom of the blender fell off, and liquid power went all over the freaking place. In here. It was kind of open and it went in there. I had to clean it up and it pretty much ruined my whole day. (crew laughing) – Yeah. Put this man on the road. – Don’t you want me on television? – Pretty much ruined my whole day. Wow. This was our apartment in 3,000 C. It was a great apartment, a great story, too. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Things like that would happen all the time that we would tell each other about. Boy. – You know you’re in for a great story when a man describes a blender in three parts. (crew laughing) (Link sighs) Uh… Okay. This is only more bearable because it was shorter. – Yeah. – And I was standing, and you just weren’t staring at my crotch the whole time. – Right. This- – So this is number two. – This is not as- – Blender moment. – Not as cringe as the first one. – Think of all the blender moments that MTV could have had. This is what you passed up on. Okay. There’s more, though, right? – Oh, there’s more. – Yeah. – The next one’s called topless dancing. – [Stevie] Yeah, the setup. The setup for this one says “Up next is a lovely moment that shows the secret to your wild sex appeal,” so I’m really excited. – Welcome to the living room. Now, I’m gonna warn you about something. I’m an extremely skilled dancer, and that’s what I would like to demonstrate here. What was I thinking? And I’m gonna dance topless. What? I’m ready and willing to dance with my shirt off as I do normally in the household, and I’m just ready to amaze you. What? What’s that? Why didn’t you stop me? You were- – I think this was on a tripod. Oh, nope. Just… – Yeah, you were in the room with me. (upbeat music) You were… You were… That was, wow. (crew laughing) Okay. Hold on now. Hold on a second. The tide is turning. (Rhett laughs) Whoa! Okay, Rhett. Look at that. 21-year-old body can move around in ways that I currently cannot. Whoa. Whoa. – What are you throwing away? – I don’t know, man. My dignity. (Link laughs) – Whoa. – There we go. Oh! Here we go. – Ugh. Well, apparently, it kept going. – Oh yeah, it did. – Hey. That was awesome. – [Stevie] Wait. Did you say it kept going? (Rhett laughs) Because, yeah, that was part one. I forgot to set that up. – Really? – Yeah, yeah. We gotta… Sorry. Sorry. – This is like one of those TikToks now? – Yeah, we gotta cut to part two. (bluesy music) – I think I’m asking you to zoom in. Now, this is a difficult song to dance to. – Especially with a wig- – …like bluesy harmonica. It’s almost like it’s a different guy. – It’s not a different guy. (Link laughs) Yeah. Why did you just? You put on a wig- – I mean- – …to do a different dance. – It was there, you know? We had wigs. – I mean, that wig made this pretty cringey. – But I mean, I don’t know, man. This is… I can almost accept this. – [Link] I mean- – It makes me miss my flexible days. – In your defense, as you said at the beginning of this clip, I’m gonna take off my shirt as we do frequently. – This is a normal occurrence. – All of us, all four of us that lived in this apartment, well, as especially the three of us, me, you, and Greg- – Yeah. – We would frequently dance- – Yeah. – …shirtless. – Yeah, and that was the only candid thing that we would film ourselves. – Lots of dancing videos. – I got lots of dancing videos of us shirtless. – It’s a beautiful apartment, by the way. – Yeah. I love the placement of that fan. Topless dancing is- – It’s the least cringey thing I’ve seen. – Yeah. Yeah. – Believe it or not. – In my opinion there, too. – And I will say, especially as I really don’t want you to know this- – Great moves. – …the reason that we… when Link dug this up, I was willing to let it be on the internet is because I’m in a giving mood. And we’re gonna give you even more. There’s almost a half hour of this. – Well, there’s a 35-minute episode, never before beseen. Never for beseen? – Beseen. Never… What’s it called? – Never before seen. – Never before seen. A 35-minute episode where we go through all of this, including the 20 minutes of footage that we can’t show you here. – Yes. – And this is available to all degrees of the Mythical Society, first, second, and third. So go over there to mythicalsociety.com and join, so you can just delve into the cringe even more. – I don’t want you to miss it. Stevie, we’re not done here, right? – [Stevie] Oh no. No, apparently, we- – More. – [Stevie] …we’re gonna get your sophisticated take on the birds and the bees. – No. (crew laughing) Rhett McLaughlin on the subject of sex. Oh God. I’m a virgin! Never had sex. But I’m sure it’s good. (crew laughing) Sure I’ll enjoy it when I have it. But yeah, truthfully, I’m a virgin. Mm. (crew laughing) (Link laughs) – I love how you thought this was a bit, and then you’re like, oh man, I just, yeah. I am very sad. I’m a sad person. Yeah, that was… That’s gonna have to move the topless dancing down. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – I think that’s… Might have to move the blender down. No, I think it’s good that you made a decision to be a virgin. You stood by it. – It was definitely my decision. – You know? (Rhett laughs) (crew laughing) That’s not how you laugh at your own jokes. Try it again. (Rhett laughs) There you go. – I’m glad I broke that habit. – I actually don’t think it’s as cringey at this point- – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – …as the introduction was. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not as bad as the introduction. I agree. – Maybe it’s just I wasn’t ready for it. – But I think, hold on. But we’re trying to guess what the crew thought was cringey, and I think that- – We can rearrange it. – …the bookended admission of the virgin, that might loom a little bit larger. We’ll see. – Yeah, it might. It might. – [Stevie] Okay. This final clip features- – Thank you. Finally. – [Stevie] …one of your first ever comedy songs, but with the brave choice to leave the comedy out of it. And there’s a special cameo. – Oh God. You can’t learn about me without learning about my guitar playing and singing. Ugh. That’s a big part of me. I like to write stupid songs and singing with my friends. (color lines beep) I have a good friend, lifelong friend since first grade, Link Neil. He sings Harmony on most of the songs, and he’s… Thank you for taking some heat off of me. Today. And I’m singing a song called “Everybody Wants to Be a Backstreet Boy.” Hey. Yeah. The premise is this. We all make fun of the Backstreet Boys, but deep down inside, every guy in America would like to be a Backstreet Boy. Yeah. Please. Link agrees. – Why am I in it? (upbeat guitar music) I’m not auditioning for “The Real World.” I needed harmony. (laughs) – Am I supposed to show up at “The Real World” and sing harmony with you? (crew laughing) ♪ Wish I had some black leather pants ♪ ♪ And I wish I had a lot of jewelry ♪ Hmm. ♪ Wish I had some gel in my hair ♪ ♪ And I wish I could grow a full goatee ♪ ♪ But I can’t ♪ ♪ But I can’t ♪ – I felt stupid, too. ♪ Everybody wants to be a Backstreet Boy ♪ You don’t look too confident. ♪ Every guy has a dream to be in that group ♪ ♪ Everybody wants to be a Backstreet Boy ♪ ♪ ‘Cause the young girls think they’re cool ♪ ♪ Everybody wants to be a Backstreet Boy ♪ Thanks for taking out the second verse. You can get that in the Mythical Society. ♪ ‘Cause young girls think they’re cool ♪ Okay. End it. Okay. That was one of our latest creations. (Rhett groans) And that pretty much wraps it up. I’ll be completely honest with you, I feel kind of awkward and weird about the video that we made tonight, but I don’t think it completely encompasses me as an individual. This is one night of my life put on the 10 minutes of tape. I want you guys to get to know me better. Oh. I wanna get to know you better. Oh. Why is it so intimate? I basically have a deep desire to just be a part of what you guys are doing, and I don’t know if I’m the man to fill that position. Oh. But if I’m not, I hope you at least enjoyed this little video. Hell, you did. Thanks. Ugh. – Yeah. He did not get a callback. (crew laughing) But I did. (crew laughing) – Do you think that the person watching- – They were begging me to be on that show left and right. Oh, we want that guy who’s like, obviously not really wanting to be a part of this. I mean, this has got me in it, so I’m gonna put it lowest. – Okay. – Stevie, were you impressed with my contribution? – [Stevie] Wow. I’m still taking it all in. Yeah. – Listen. The end part of that got super cringey, man. – It really did. It really did at the end. – Topless dancing is the least cringey. – It is. Blender moment is just dumb. But what’s more dumb? This story or you bringing your friend on to make no contribution to your audition? – That part was, I don’t know. I thought that the song was kind of cringey, but I thought that the little plea about how I had a deep desire to be a part of your program or whatever I say. – To be known and get to know them. – I… – So you wanna switch these two maybe? And I think, do you wanna switch sex? – I think sex is the… This is the, you know. – I would like to keep these the other way, but I’m gonna leave it like this. I think there’s nothing wrong with being a virgin. – I didn’t say that. – There’s nothing cringey about being a virgin, but the way that you said it was pretty cringey. – Yeah. It’s the way I said it. – I’m gonna go with this. I’m good here. – Are you gonna tell us how many we got right? – [Stevie] I’m gonna let you discover that as we travel up the chart here. – Okay. – Okay. – [Stevie] So starting at the bottom, the least cringey. Blender moment. – Oh. – No, guys. Okay. – Really? – [Stevie] Blender moment. – Horrible. Stupid. – [Stevie] Next, Backstreet Boys song. – Okay, that’s in the right place. (Rhett clapping) – [Stevie] You got one. Followed by, and this is a real shocker, sex. – Sex. Oh, see? I was right. – Sex. And then topless dancing, which makes Introduction- – Yeah, you’re right. – [Stevie] the maximum-strength cringes. – That’s what I thought. See? – Yeah, yeah. – So now none of your cringe stuff is gonna be erased, dude. – It’s not worth it. Yeah, it wasn’t worth it. I shouldn’t have shown it to you, ’cause now it’s just gonna be stuck on the internet forever. – [Stevie] Well, we’ll show you what it would’ve looked like had you have won. – Okay. – Okay. – [Link] So we’re… Oh, we’re… (blows raspberry) (crew laughing) Upload a video to get started. Everything we’ve done. – Wow. You deleted the whole channel? – …has been obliterated. – Well, I’m kind of glad we didn’t win. – Wow. (Rhett sighs) Yeah. Put those videos back on there, please. (crew laughing) I fear that we have now made anyone who’s thinking of auditioning for anyone in their young age move forward with trepidation, but it can never be that bad. – Yeah. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Caitlin from Newcastle, Australia. I’m a first-degree Mythical Society member, and I’m currently eating some panda nuts, not actual panda nuts, but roasted panda peanuts. And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – Thanks for clarifying, Caitlin. Click the top link to discover which forgotten trends we bring back in “Good Mythical More.” – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. Watch hours of our earliest videos nobody’s ever seen on the Mythical Society. Join at mythicalsociety.com.