Welcome to our 2,500th episode. – Let’s talk about that. ((Intro Music)) – Good Mythical Morning. – And happy 2,500th episode. ((Applause)) – Wow, you look like a Cheeto, my friend. Oh, you look like a Dorito, my friend. – Yeah, yeah. We’ve done it. – Orange you glad we matched? – “Orange”, you glad? Did you? Did you really do that? – I did. I’m so happy. – Purpose. – I’m so happy. – It’s hard to believe. 2,500 episodes. All right. Just to get some perspective on exactly what kind of accomplishment this is for all of us. We asked ChatGPT what are some major cultural touchstones that never reached the number 2,500? And you will not believe the results that we got. – Starting with the category of tennis. No tennis player has won 2,500 Grand Slam single titles. In fact, Margaret Court holds the record with 24 titles. Not even close, Margaret. – Billboard number one hits. How about that? According to ChatGPT, no Artist or band has 2,500 Billboard Hot 100 number one hits. Not one, right? Not even one. The closest is the Beatles. And they just have 20 number one hit. Pretty forgettable Beatles. – I love how you always say 2,500. Yeah, that’s my favorite part of this whole thing is how you spell out the 2,000 and the 500. – Well, that’s how you say the number, right? – Well, I usually say “twenty-five hundred” – Okay. Well, you know, if you’re colloquial. – Okay, let’s get political because we never do that on this show. There haven’t been 2,500 presidential elections in the United States. ChatGPT tells us that since its independence, the US has had fewer than 60 ((Laughing)) presidential elections. Hit the bricks, presidents. We could go all day. – But instead of making this all about us, we want to make this episode a celebration of every single person who has played a part in bringing us to this milestone. So, thank you for making this show a part of your daily routine. – Or even if this is your first time odd choice as a first episode. But thank you anyway. – Yeah. Glad you’re here. Stevie, how you feeling? – [Stevie] I have a hankering for some montages. – Oh, yeah. – You’re feeling nostalgic? – [Stevie] Yeah, yeah. – Are you emotional? – [Stevie] Yeah. And I like to watch, like, multiple clips in a row with, like, a music bed, is like, the mood that I’m in, so. – I love it. – [Stevie] I think this would be a good episode for me. So we do want this to be a celebration of everyone who helped us to get to “two-thousand five hundred” episodes. But who better to start with than you? Because at the very core of this show, what everyone connects with the most are the beautiful moments that show your amazing friendship. So to honor that friendship. We put together a nice little montage. Let’s take a look. – Why would you do that? – My slap starts the moment of impact. – So, wait, don’t touch my face. ((Intense Music)) – Beans, with an S. – You don’t get more than one guess. He should be punished for guessing bean. That’s the dumbest guess ever. Why wouldn’t you just guessed beans? – [Link] You put in a dart in the tantrum hole? Are you? You’re not even filming with a GoPro. You’re so excited about your GoPro and you’re not even using it. – We’ve got better shots for that. – Let me have, oh, the chin is so long. This. What are you doing over here? – I’m touching the side of my, the side of the beard. This is what you’re doing. You just all. Like you’re completely blocking me out from my side of the beard, man. – Let her talk, man. Why are you always interrupting, Stevie? – I’m not, I’m not the one who’s always interrupted Stevie. – That was the joke, doofus. – I’m trying to balance it out. – I’m on the freaking edge, man. I’m so frustrated. If you want to make Stevie do the show, don’t put her in that spot. – [Stevie] I do the show! – You do your part of the show. – [Stevie] Hello. And he does his part of the show. Like we write stuff. Okay, either write it or ask her to replace you. – I think I know which one I think is the best. – All right. Me too. This one. – Nope. The vanilla. – If they weren’t – A gorilla could be, could be my co-host for this show. – Screw you, man. – No. – [Robotic Voice] Totaling 505 calories. – No! That was almost so, that was so perfect, of five calories? – Don’t talk to her. Talk to yourself. – You take in five calories every time you breathe. I’m reversing the slap. I’m starting and I’m reversing. – When you slap, you stop right there? – [Stevie] Guys. I’ve told you about this. – Nobody’s chipping a tooth today. – I could probably. – Go put him to work. – A gorilla to come in here for you when you’re sick. I mean, that’s how. That’s how. – A gorilla can’t do what I do. – It’s not an insult to you. It’s just, that’s a compliment to gorillas. – You said you wanted this. – No, no, no. – No, you said you wanted it! – No, we had to split it, man. – You said you wanted it. – Best friends split. – And that’s why you shouldn’t get it. – I should just invent an imaginary S? – You guessed bean. 3, 2, 1. – Hey! – What? Don’t hit me twice ((Applause)) – As healthy as ever. – What? And why was it so many more cues of me throwing tantrums? ((Laughing)) – [Stevie] Yeah, that’s so weird. And not actually how it happened. – It’s like there needs to be some sort of, like. That’s not what you said it was going to be. – [Stevie] Yeah, actually, I was just told that was incorrect. That was the incorrect montage. But good news is well, it was to set up this next montage. – For some reason, you know, we’ve been best friends. Well, for some reason. We’ve been best friends for a long time. I can’t explain it. Do you trust me? Look at me. Tell me you trust me. – I trust you. – I trust you. Man, this is what best friendship is all about. – Okay, we call to order the meeting. – What? What are you doing? You’re crazy, man. ((Upbeat Music)) – Nothing wrong with this! – Why are we holding hands? – Because I need you right now. ((Upbeat Music)) – Oh, it was a little, it was a little different than I expected it to be. – Oh, goodness. ((Laughing)) – Okay, now, trust me. – [Both] Way different. -[Both] Whoa. Whoa! – We were being dinosaurs. – We’re being dinosaurs. – We were being dinosaurs. There’s a Link. He’s in here too. Dear Diary, today my best friend, Link, and I were discussing mooning. I love him. ((Laughing)) ((Upbeat Music)) – [Link] Is it a skirt? – It’s a skirt. ((Upbeat Music)) – This is totally normal. I don’t think I could do this without you. – I don’t want to. ((Upbeat Music)) – Link, you’ve been my best friend for quite some time. We’re going to be best friends all the way to the 23rd century together. How does it feel? – A little bit awkward. – Yeah. I love you. ((Crowd Aww’s} – Now that’s more like it. ((Applause)) – Listen, I really appreciate that. I really appreciate that. I thought you were going to cut to the montage of when, that time that Link went on the two week vacation and we brought the gorilla in. ((Laughing)) Just a screen test. – You said I love you more than me in that montage. – We’ve got so much great footage. – I know you feel like you got to, like, go hard with gorilla talk now, but I know how you feel. – Yeah, I said I love you twice. How many times did you tell me that you loved me? – Not in the montage. – But you say now. – I love you. ((Laughing)) – Thank you. I feel like you sort of gave up in the end. I love you. – But it went higher. – [Stevie] Okay. So speaking of friendships and relationships in general, we were curious to know just how many Mythical Beasts have met someone important in their lives, thanks to GMM. So we asked and they told us. – Hi Rhett and Link. – I’m Lauren. – I’m Monica – And we’re from Michigan And we were friends since first grade. – This is my friend Julia. We met when I was in first grade. She was in second and we started watching your show and it just brought us so much inspiration and creativity to make art together. – I’m Sophia from Argentina and my special someone is my friend Brenda. I was preparing the fan video for GMM 1,000th episode and she sent her submission. She messaged me through Tumblr and after that we started talking and we found that we have so many other things in common besides GMM. So we have been best friends ever since. Thank you for that. – We connected through GMM. because I had the 1,000th video coin. She saw it, she wanted it, so I gave it to her. We have been watching GMM separately before that, but once we both found out that we both like it, we started watching it all the time together. – At the mornings, at school, at dinner, any chance we got. – So I watched Good Mythical Morning for as long as I can remember. Yet I never met anyone who watched as well. And so I met this boy online who also watched it. And that’s when I first started liking him. I met him for the first time around June and here we are dating and I get to see him at the end of October. – We met in high school and Joe introduced me to Good Mythical Morning and we would watch episodes while talking on the phone and he got me this poster while we were in high school. Last year, I popped the question and now we’re engaged. – Five years ago I saw her online at a concert. She’s wearing a Good Mythical Morning hoodie, so I went up and complimented it, of course. And anyway, we did long distance during Covid. and now we’ve been dating for four years. We live together, so thank you Good Mythical Morning. – Five years ago we were in a play together and backstage we learned we both watched GMM every single day. – And now two years married, it’s still part of our daily routine. – It brought me to Mythical Twitter where I met a group of fiercely supportive friends. We might have joined a cult together. You’ll be the judge on that one, but. – We met at Mythicon and we’re still friends today. – We finally met in person for the first time at Mythicon, and it was rooty tooty fresh and fruity. – And we bonded our freshman year of high school. Playing Catch the Fish With Granddad. – We have been friends for about four years and we quickly learned about each other that we are both really big fans of the show. Since we’re little. – GMM has brought me closer to Jim a.k.a my dad. – And this is the person that GMM brought me super close to. It’s my dad. – Ever since we started watching it many years ago, it’s grown us closer as a father and son. It means a lot to us. – He passed away a few years ago from a chronic illness that was extremely painful and it was hard to see him in pain. So when he was sick we would play GMMs and guess who would win the competitions, and it was always so much fun. So thank you guys for all you do. – Thank you guys for always making us laugh. And we’ll keep being our Mythical best. – [Both] Thanks for bringing us together. We love you. – [Woman] Happy 2,500th episode. Thanks Mythical for fostering our friendship and happy 2,500 episodes. – Let’s talk about that. – Let’s talk about that. ((Inspirational Music)) ((Applause)) – I was reaching for my hanky, and It’s gone. Where did I? – You can use my hanky. – It went inside my, it went inside the lining of my jacket. – [Link] That happened to me earlier. – Oh, where did it go? I’m gonna have to cut it open. – Just use mine, man. – Oh, well, I wasn’t actually crying. ((Laughing)) I just. I just got really close. – I got a little close too. – I got very close. – It turns out friendship is contagious. ((Laughing)) I can’t even say friendship. – Friend-shrimp. – Friend-shrimp is contagious. – Are you allergic to friend-shrimp? ((Laughing)) – Hey, that was a good one. That was a really good one. I mean, it’s, you know, you do so many episodes of this thing and you can kinda lose perspective, you know? Okay, we’re going to sit down. What are we going to eat today? What are we going to do? What’s in? You know, it’s, it becomes a routine for us to do it just like it can become routine for you to watch it, I think, but, yeah, the montage is a helpful reminder of that. We are a part of people’s lives. – Friendship builds friendship. – Friendship builds friendship. ((Laughing)) – Friend-shrimp breeds friend-shrimp. – Friendship. And there’s like a comfort viewing thing that happens. – But I will say, this show may have brought you together, whether it’s a friendship, a group of friends, a romance. If and when you break up, do not blame us. We brought you together. But if you break up, it’s all on you. – And only, I met somebody last weekend, who, yeah. That happened to him and he said he hadn’t been able to watch. I was like, listen, – She got to keep GMM? – I was like, she does not get to keep GMM. ((Laughing)) It’s you, You don’t have, that doesn’t need to be divided. In a break-up. All right, so now that we got that off our chest. You sure you don’t want to cry? – I’ll cry later. I’ll save, I’ll save it all for my kids. Just walk in, torn apart. What’s wrong with dad again? – That was special. Okay. Speaking of special moments and the people that you love and appreciate, we want to recognize the crew. Of course, we couldn’t do this without the crew. So crew, come on out. We got to recognize you guys. ((Applause)) – Thank you. Thank you. – I recognize that one. I recognize her. I recognize him. I recognize him. – I’m Matt. – I recognize. I recognize. I recognize her. I recognize him. I recognize all these people. – Happy cotton candy day, daddies, you want to hear a sweet nothing? I ate snake poop and now I’m pregnant. – Recognize. ((Laughing)) – I like the orange, by the way. – Thank you. I pretty much recognize all these people I recognize you. I recognize you I recognize you – 24 – I recognize you – 25. You did it You did it right. You counted to 25 for once. – Yes. And of course there’s more crew than, we just had. Pick 25 at random. I don’t know how they were picked. – I don’t pick them. – Okay. ((Laughing)) – But you are the last one. – You’re the model, Carney, for the shirt. – Let’s see the back of this thing. – If you want to be a part of being recognized out on the street, maybe you’ll meet your future lover or your dad. I don’t know. ((Laughing)) You can get this. Especially commemorative 2,500 episode. What is this? a T-shirt? I’m so verklempt. – You’re going to make it, man. Trust me, you’ll be all right. – This shirt is available for 25 hours only, and we’re going to give you 25% off if you go to Mythical.com, and because it’s Cyber Monday, we’re giving 25% off everything – What? – In the store all day. – 25% off sitewide all day? – Thank you, Carney. – Mythical.com – Oh, my goodness pull yourself together, Rhett. – [Stevie] Okay, so before we get to the final montage, we have a couple of very special moments planned to celebrate the idea of 2,500, first, Twinkie Fingies himself has been hard at work on this one. We went all the way back to the very first episode of Good Mythical Morning, and singled out one meaningful frame. Then Twinkie Fingies did his thing and recreated that frame but did so with 2,500 pixels. – Is every pixel a special picture of like a Mythical Beast or a moment from the show? Or is it just 2500 pixels? – [Stevie] It’s 2500 pixels. – Maybe you need to move away from your screen. – Yeah, like if you do that. It starts to, if you turn it sideways a little bit. It just kind of looks like the screenshot. – [Rhett] There we go. – So it’s like an eight. Okay, thank you, thank you so much. – So thoughtful. – Twinkie Fingie. – [Stevie] Well, if that wasn’t enough, we have another little satisfying treat for you. What’s more satisfying than popping bubble wrap? So the Mythical art department raided as many stores as they could and came back with 2500 bubbles for you to pop. ((Laughing)) – Well, at least they counted. – [Rhett] Well, I guess, like. – That shows some effort. – Math is so interesting. You know? – Do you want to? – Just like, once you really think about it, 2,500 is not that many apparently. I feel like I need to apologize to Margaret Court. ((Laughing)) And the Beatles. – Do you want a goal at this? – A goal? – I cannot talk at all. Too much emotion. – I’d like a goal at it. Give me a goal at it. Oh, yeah. Okay. What else we got, Stevie? – Can you imagine meeting your spouse because of us? It’s like, that’s wild, man. – [Stevie] Well, speaking of Margaret, you know, in the sports world, the most exciting way to celebrate a big win is with a freezing cold Gatorade shower. So without further ado, to celebrate our big win here is Chase getting 2,500 drops of Gatorade dumped all over him. -[Link] Go for it. ((Laughing)) – 2,500! – Most of it missed, Davin. – Well, that’s all 2,500 right there. – I know, but. – I think I got 100. – About 2350 drop went in front of Chase’s face. ((Laughing)) But I mean, you know what? Hey. – Man, you dodged a bullet. – Yeah. – I feel so loved and cared for right now. – I know, this has been you know, it was really special and then it just got so much more special. – It keeps getting more and more special. – Where is it going to go from here, Stevie? – [Stevie] Well, now it’s all about the crew. It’s time to honor the people behind the scenes who make this show possible, and specifically the Mythical Crew members who have been here the longest. Let’s take a look. Not only are Rhett and Link the gorgeous, youthful and unnervingly handsome faces of Good Mythical Morning, but they also write the first line of voiceover in every video package we produce. However, there is also an entire team of unsung heroes working tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure your mornings are always Mythical. So please enjoy a closer look at some of the Mythical Crew members who we like to think of as our veteran visionaries, our trailblazers of tenure, our guardians of growth, our maestros of momentum, our pioneers of progress. I’m talking about the crew members who have been here the longest. We begin, of course, with Stevie, the golden haired powerhouse with a golden voice to match. And for the record, she has nothing to do with our voiceover scripts or the voiceovers themselves. Stevie joined Rhett and Link on their Mythical journey as a production manager all the way back in 2013. No one could have predicted the chaotic, yet wonderful adventure that would lead her to becoming Mythical’s Chief Creative Officer and literal voice of GMM. When it comes to Good Mythical Morning, Stevie has seen it all. Moments of triumph, moments of defeat and well, whatever this is. ((Laughing)) – That’s weird. – [Stevie] All in all, it’s been years and years of love and laughter. And where is Stevie now? Not doing this voiceover, but instead making millions off her dating app Lox of Love, a place for fashionable Jewish lesbians who know how to make men in their 40’s feel good about themselves to meet, eat smoked fish, and fall in love. And what would Good Mythical Morning be without the one and only Chase? Chase began his journey at Mythical in 2014 as a hungry intern. He was so young he couldn’t even properly rip an apple in half. – The apple hole. – Hey! – [Stevie] Adorable. Since then he’s been Rhett and Link’s right hand cartographer, Easter Bunny, serial killer. Though the one thing Chase never has been and never could be is Moochelle. Where is Chase now? Not sitting next to me, but instead being blacklisted from Mythical after releasing a tell all book detailing his time working for the company, he also illustrated it and unfortunately he used butthole quite literally. No, look back at GMA would be complete without the enigmatic glue that holds it all together. I speak, of course, about the world famous Morgan, Morgan, despite being an incredibly famous actor. Little footage of the elusive Morgan Morgan within Mythical actually exists. Some say Morgan’s Mythical journey began as an editor back in 2014, but he soon became the show’s all important director. Morgan is responsible for so many vital tasks. We couldn’t begin to name them all, mostly because we don’t know what they are. Where is Morgan Morgan now? Not behind the camera, no. As we all know, his iconic catchphrase was, We’ll make it work. But one day, Morgan could not, in fact, make it work, and his head simply imploded. ((Party Whistle)) And that brings us to the bro with the spork tattoo Mythical chef Josh. Josh first appeared on Good Mythical Morning as a guest chef for Will it Burger? way back in 2015. And after years of completely ignoring emails and DMS from Stevie. Josh rejoined the team in 2017 as an associate culinary producer. The rest is Mythical Kitchen history. Josh’s legendary rise completely revolutionizing the way Mythical approaches food content eventually led to the standalone Mythical Kitchen channel, where Josh quickly became quite comfortable in his role as the face of the channel. Very comfortable. Too comfortable? ((Party Music)) From $200 Big Macs to urine soaked marshmallows, Mythical Chef Josh is a proven master of his craft. ((Gagging)) Where is Josh now? He’s not in the Mythical Kitchen. Yes. Eventually, Josh consumed so much protein powder that he actually ascended to another plane of existence. We miss you, Josh. If you think about it, Good Mythical Morning wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for the wild oats spread by our very own Myrtle Beach celebrity, Charles Neal. As the father of Link Neal, Charles has had his literal DNA all over GMM since day one. Since then, he’s left his mark on the show, and our hearts by doing everything from crazy cookie roulette to hiding in the woods, to whatever this is. – Dad? – What the ((Bleep)) are you doing in here? – [Stevie] Where is Charles now? No longer shagging it up in South Carolina after dedicating years to his award winning podcast with his son. Charles eventually gave up the job when he shocked the world and became the next Golden Bachelor. – [Charles] Yes. – [Stevie] Sorry, Nancy. All of these wonderful, blacklisted, imploded, no longer existent, and incredibly talented, Mythical Crew members represent only a small piece of the full Mythical Crew, all of whom are indispensable to the success of Good Mythical Morning. Congrats on 2,500 episodes to the best team on YouTube and beyond. ((Applause)) – Thank you, crew. – Wow. – Shout out to the longies. ((Laughing)) And all of you for making this possible. This is so, this is so special. – It’s a wonderful thing that we get to sit here and we’re kind of like babies at this point. We show up, Lucas has orange clothes for us to put on. Just like, you know, like your momma just puts clothes out for you and you just walk in like, mommy does this fit? And you put it on, and then you come out here and then Stevie just tells you what’s next. I mean, I like being an adult baby. – It’s awesome. This is great. – Okay, well, it’s probably about time we bring this celebration to a close. ((Piano)) – Wow. 2,500 episodes of Good Mythical Morning. – They said it couldn’t be done. – Who said that? – I don’t know. Probably somebody at some point. – Whether they did or they didn’t. Here we are. – Still doing it. ((Music)) – The typical YouTube show, – You know that they come and go. – We miss you, Jenna Marbles. – Trying to keep it interesting. – Somehow we keep finding new things to eat. – When we started YouTube – Mr. Beast did not pubes. – [Both] Now we have pubes. Now, we have more and they’re substantially grayer than they were before. We’re still doing it. – I’m talking about the show. – [Both] We’re still doing it. – Not making innuendos – [Both] We’re still doing it. – Every single weekday. – [Both] Still doing it. – Slowly going crazy. – [Both] People find us on TikTok and say, you raised me and now they’re grown with kids of their own. That are, our grand babies. – But listen, we’re not going to keep them for the weekend while you go on a romantic getaway to have sex for the first time in four months. – Good luck with that. Take it away, Chase. ((Cheers)) Yeah. ((Cheers)) I can tell that you are obviously playing that. – [Both] We’re still doing it. – Secretly hating each other. – [Both] We’re still doing it. – Or maybe secretly lovers. – [Together] We’re still doing. – The views have plateaued. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – But our confidence grows. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Hanging on to our 40’s. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Oh, stink make me horny. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – On Reddit they complain. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – But you still watch every day. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Making loud chewing sounds. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – [Stevie] Go all the way down. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Dinking and Sinking. – [Together] Still doing it. – Why don’t you please buy our trinkets. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Never gonna retire. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Unless we retire. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Love to all the crew. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – And love to you. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – To the 2,499 before. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – And to 2,500 more. – [Together] We’re still doing it. – Thank you so much. ((Applause)) And as always. – Thanks for subscribing – And clicking that bell. – [Together] You know what time it is. ((Cheers)) – Hey, Rhett and Link. It’s Rhett and Link. – And definitely not AI generated versions of your voices. – Great job on 2,500 episodes. We’re so awesome. – We’re so awesome. – It’s crazy how we did this all by ourselves. With the help of no one. – We did it. Rhett and Link rule. – Everyone else drool “ssa”. – [Both] It’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. ((Laughing)) – It makes you sound especially robotic. You should contact someone, click the top link to see our 25 goals for 2025 in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where this surprise wheel is going to land – [Link] It’s Cyber Monday and the deals don’t stop. Enjoy 25% off storewide at Mythical.com