I recently had a strange urge to kiss a strange woman let’s talk about that good mythical morning so we recently went to the YouTube space down in Playa visto yeah the beach yes over the hill in order to participate in a secret project for grace I think we still have to say it’s secret a show but anyway I should probably shouldn’t said anything when we get there we’re introduced to some members of the crew that we haven’t met a meet Nick hey meet James the cameraman you know you’re being friendly meeting all these people that was are their names and then I see this one woman there who was works for YouTube who we’ve worked with before what were there on the YouTube challenge and as I’m being introduced to her it’s it’s more of shifty – oh good to see you again right but something happened in my brain hmm that has never happened before and as it was happening I realized it was happening I was like this is weird uh-huh it is weird I thought after shaking Nick’s hand and what the other dudes hand that then and I can’t remember her name because I was thinking so much about all that stuff in my lane right lane that’s right no yes maybe I wasn’t listening because I was thinking so much about the urge that I had to kiss her on the cheek I would I was I was going because it was this I’m not going to shake your hand and I’m usually gonna hug you but I’m thinking because you work for you – I should kiss that I should kiss you on out of gratitude like thank you for giving me alive no but you know we’re talking about one of those greeting well I don’t even know how to do it one of those European kiss which is a European cheek kiss thing now let me stop you for a second I’ve never thought to do this to anybody ever before which is why it’s so weird to me and me two big guys like this is good thing like what am i becoming we’ve I’ve never greeted anyone like this I’ve never seen you agreed anyone like this I have however notice that there in certain circles in Los Angeles there is a phenomenon where people who I think they’re more European are I don’t know her like do the little cheek kiss thing I’m always it always makes me uncomfortable I’m always out of reach it’s never happens to me because no woman is tall enough to get up here yeah like she’s like she kind of makes emotion she’s like I’m not gonna go for that he’s seven feet tall but it’s weird that you just crossed your mind I want to know what’s happening are you changing and I love the fact that I thought you like glanced at my mind like I saw your eyes go from my eyes like up like you would see someone look like to your brain you were looking into my brain I was I didn’t that’s all you’re here though um wires in the way I mean I’ve always thought this to be like a French greeting but when I looked on Wikipedia that’s when you use the tongue the cheek kissing is a very common relating in southern Central and Eastern Europe also the Mediterranean the Middle East different things were some research out there yeah I said I’m gonna let the people know cuz they might think it’s coming from your mind no I did we’ll just look up there and you can tell it’s not coming I could I said that over there I said that I looked on the Wikipedia okay to figure this out um but where it comes from for me is our friend Rebecca who is totally American she’s a kisser she does the cheek kiss thing she does and she was one of our first friends when we moved here to Los Angeles and every time I see her she’s like mwah mwah and she actually says mwah when she does it which is Frankie here she’s too far away which is French so I think subconsciously I associated being a Los Angeles sight I think it’s an Angeleno but with with the cheek kiss oh this isn’t just the Eastern European thing this is a Rebecca thing which may mean is a well it’s an LA thing well it’s a it’s kind of she runs in some different circles she’s got lots of famous friends etc yeah and and so I think that like you mean like me yeah like you I think that there is sort of this kind of entertainment culture that hey let’s do this we’re high-class let’s kiss each other in the cheek like the European people do but I got to say I hope Rebecca’s not watching because they’re named to denigrate sure she didn’t know no she’s high-class that’s all I’m saying okay but I’m saying for two guys who come from the the south they’re not just the south but like the middle of nowhere South it ain’t never occurred to nobody well where we’re from to kiss me by on the cheek unless you’re related to them unless it’s your aunt or your grandma it’s a woman that you’re related to you can kiss the heck out of that woman’s cheek you should I kiss all those people on the lips by the way whoa okay this is different you kiss your grandma on the lips Nana I kiss her on the lips you gonna give her a disease or something and then on my dad’s side I kiss him on the lips what I don’t have disease dude yeah old person like that you don’t need to be giving them colds I know eighty-five your leopard I have cold sores don’t give them the flu but my auntie see I’ve always kissed her on the lips you kiss wow this is getting really interesting lips are always burst now let me say something not on my mom’s side I don’t kiss uh I only kiss women that I’m related to on the cheek and all the women older than my mom and my family have died so I just have my mom to kiss but I did kiss my grandmother on the cheek uh but you know interesting I guess my mom on the cheek not on the lips your mom kisses me on the cheek she really goes for it too I’m just thinking is a good time to tell you she beckons you down to bend over and she lays she still she sticks around for a couple of seconds – she does here’s the head move side to side my head my mom’s head like is it just a peck or is it I’m the back and then a smush it’s a lingering it is lingering as long as there’s no rotation I think she likes my beard I think she likes her lips um thanks for bringing this up in this forum and I know your mom knows who watches so watching I like it I mean I mean well I’m just weird but I miss what I mean by that is that I appreciate it because I feel and you know what your mom Cindy send me a text explanation because that your aunt TC she kisses me on the cheek – I think it’s just something your family and my mom kisses me a cheek I kiss my mom back I do not kiss your women back just between you and me I let them kiss me but I’m just like this is cool I’m hugging I’m getting kissed but I’m in your grandma everyone in your Nana all of the ladies kiss me on the cheek either one depends on which one I present at well I I think it’s probably a southern thing but we but it’s not just this kissing an acquaintance on the cheek or and you know what they do is they don’t the lips don’t ever touch the cheek the lips hover beside the cheek no your mom it hits me with it I know that don’t she’s she’s southern she’s not French oh you mean the okay I’m going back to that I got it but so what I’m saying is I’m wondering if I should if I should do that if I should be a cheap kisser you should not why not I mean we’re here well let’s fully commit uh well I got a couple of reasons why you shouldn’t first of all you should hold on to your roots and there are certain things that you should hold on to like you shouldn’t completely lose your accent one thing you know try not to do that I don’t think you should start kissing like Europeans okay I think you should and here’s what I’m going to do I’m going to continue to do the thing that is probably a little bit sexist in the meaning which is I shake a man’s hand and I hug a woman that’s what I do that’s I’m from the south that’s what we do we meet a couple and we know them equally and at the end of the night you shake the man’s head and you hug the woman that’s just what we do I’m sorry I’m not gonna apologize for it you just apologized you said I’m sorry I just apologized for it but but the bigger reason is because and I and I ended up hugging Eileen a YouTube I didn’t go in for the kiss I was on and then I just went it for the hug and the person went away and but the bigger realistic with that is because the global society okay stick with me for a second okay so because of the internet and because everyone’s so interconnected okay cultural distinctiveness is disappearing a little bit we see it happen in United States you know as you interact with people from all over the world you come out here but as people are getting more and more connected to one another these particular greetings are all going to meld together so hundred years from now there’s going to be a universal greeting that everyone does and it’s going to have to take into account the fact that we’re losing the war against bacteria because of antibiotics and and so we’re going to have to all do the fist bump so that’s it is sad in we will mourn it as a loss but what I’m saying is there’s my man hi grandson will be greeted by your daughter kind of make it like it’s me and your mom again but like couple generations from now okay she won’t come up Lily won’t come up to my grandson and kiss him on the cheek she’ll fist bump them which seems weird but it’ll be totally does not actually do it but let’s get really what we’ll do it later now okay I’ll that’s how it’s gonna be but what about those guys out there who otherwise are never going to get to hug or kiss a woman on the cheek I feel sad for them I’m sad for those that can be arranged thanks for liking and commenting on this video it makes a difference you know what time it is hi I’m Parker and I’m Jess I’m Nick and we’re from Kansas City I’m not and it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality make sure you check us out on Facebook facebook.com slash rhett and Link we have exclusive videos that means they only happen on Facebook and click through to good mythical more where we survey our entire crew ayan hiyoko to see what their preferred method of greeting is are you a cheap kisser Rhett lost in the studio hey yeah yeah I have no idea what lick yeah Rhett I’m freaking out a little bit I see you back there in the corner of the room Oh what am I gonna do now uh what what is happening give me a tip give me a tip a tip how are you what to do now I’m gonna really what is wrong I’ve lost I feel like I’m in the studio though somewhere uh Lionel Richie and a fox uh where am I Rhett yeah turn around buddy Oh sometimes I get a little mixed up I’m Alexi we need a vacuum and I said we need a room about or it can’t work Nika it’s a disk cuz it just crawls around it’s um and vacuums