reading you thought it was good for you didn’t you I’m Emily stretch from Canada let’s talk about that good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by the rhett and Link community this is the home of the mythical beasts they are creating things they are exchanging ideas they are chatting lots of amazing things happening over there making the world a better place link join up or continue to contribute thank you for being your mythical best well one of the things that we want to do is we want to encourage and empower you to have a voice here on the Internet and amongst this community of mythical beasts if if I may so what we’ve done over the past few weeks is we’ve said give us your mythical perspective your opinion of matters it matters give us your opinion about something and that will dictate the conversation that we will have on Friday just like today but we’ve decided actually for next week to kind of put some more parameters so that maybe we can the Matt to size and Corral the mythical beasts a little bit we’re going to kind of corral the mythical beast back them into a corner and make them come to a decision about something right so we’re going interesting we’re going to give you a prompt so for next week we want to talk about handshakes versus fist bumps this bump versus handshake in the comments below give us your argument now we will call from those to discuss next week are we clear does that make sense yeah well you know we’ll cover to get at the end for the mythical beast who are doing something else right now but right now we’re just going to take some mythical perspectives and more of a general sense this week nikka nadir 20 that’s two zero on the end of nikka nadir tweeted at us at rhettandlink.com/store I like the cinnamon I feel as if it’s probably impossible because the thing that makes onions makes you cry is some sort of like chemical that’s coming up and getting in your eyes and irritating your eyes I can’t imagine something that would come out of an onion that would make you laugh well I to me is not even is it possible even if it were possible I’m I’m pretty concerned about going down that path because I think what makes an onion taste like an onion is also the thing that makes you cry I think they’re probably one in the same thing I don’t even care what it is I don’t even know what it is some kind of chemical but it’s a chemical and it’s what makes it on you taste the way it does if you change that and it’s no longer it looks like an onion but it doesn’t taste like one it tastes like happiness onion shouldn’t taste like happiness they should taste like onions he said he wanted to admit he want onions to make you laugh versus cry they say and I don’t know if this is true I think this might be a myth it might be a trick you play on somebody to just get them to like a fool they say if you cut an onion in half and put half of it on top of your head while you’re cutting onions it won’t make you cry is that true but are you just messing with me right now or cite your source you’re messing with me no you’re making it up you’re trying to play the trick on me right now I think it was Julia Child that told me about this I don’t think there’s an S on the end of her name she’s not don’t PluralEyes Julia no no this is a different person oh really this is Julia Child’s she hasn’t she’s a very various and she’s a niche cook she just cooks onions you people try that you people try that and let us know I think that your again it even besides taste you’re taking away the beauty of the onion if you take away the crying I mean going through the emotional upheaval associated with tears falling while cutting something that you’re preparing is part of the experience that makes it so great not even just in taste but it’s part of the experience don’t strip that away there probably are some mushrooms that would make you laugh after you consume them though but see that’s a drug so I think he’s actually saying listen make onions an illegal drug you like onions yeah level I think it’s a grand thought it’s a grand sentiment people have been getting all over us especially me that last couple episodes saying I’m pooping on everyone’s ideas listen if you got a good idea I’ll let you know keep them coming well here’s another one less underscore Russ scare us less Russ Karis at 10:16 a.m. via the web said this is copy and paste from Facebook two at a time step it says is this via the web a Trenton link reading can make you become more serious and take less jokes than if you don’t read but basically what les is saying is that the more you read the more you’re stripped of your sense of humor let’s call of our Burton up and ask him if this is true I love Warren doesn’t really strike me as a funny person you know very likeable but he’s very serious he is very serious because he’s read all those books yes and he was also in routes so once you’re in routes it’s kind of hard to be like you know a comedy career after that right but you can you can have a kids book reading career okay and the association with butterflies you know I think that might SAP your sense of humor more than actually reading don’t spend a lot of time around butterflies if you want to be funny I am very afraid of gutter fest butterflies are in the song the jingle for Reading Rainbow which we actually have covered on YouTube at some point you could find that okay so levar burton isn’t very funny he’d reads love books there’s this a little bit of anecdotal evidence for this guy’s theory I think in general less is the same less I think less is just not a reader himself and it’s just trying to justify he’s like like no mom I can’t read because I won’t be funny anymore if I read if I read too much studies show I won’t be funny anymore his opinion shows you know I I like to think that I try to be funny I’ll at least give myself that much credit and I also don’t do a lot of reading you know is you noticed so you know maybe there’s maybe there’s a correlation maybe I’m maybe I’m supporting evidence for this thing but I really consider me remotely funny right but I read a lot and I’m funnier than you so this is you know there’s evidence in both of both places but you know it it is funny not funny ha-ha but funny mm-hmm that I remember back in the day of elementary school remember when the bookmobile would come here to the house to the house to the to the school yeah did you guys have bookmobiles this is basically when a big truck that I love books it’s kinda like a bloodmobile but when you go into it you don’t give blood you get books you know and it would pull up it would back up to the library and then it would just well burn out all of these books into the library and you’d walk through the library when it was your time to do your library thing and you would look at the books and they had set up special shelves with the books on and it was like oh you going to the library you know you’re gonna see books but now there’s more books and there’s interesting books and there’s but you don’t check these out you buy these you buy the books you buy the books you know we’re talking about and you can probably give blood somewhere accidentally at least right if the books were sharp but we did I remember incidentally one of the things that we did 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 can’t explain it but yeah you know where I’m going with it but what we would do I don’t know what we would buy the same book like there’s two of us I could have read one and like given you a report and you could have read one but what we would do is we would go around and we would find the book that we would both then buy and here’s my point one of the freedoms all the time first ones I remember buying was a book called snappy put-downs and funny insults it was a book about jokes now what you’re telling me less is that if I read this book I would become less funny well you know what you’re kind of right these are the one joke that I remember was are you a man or a mouse well that’s that was it that really ends a conversation once you bring that one out that was it that’s what they call a snappy put down a lady in 1923 I don’t think that was a funny insult I remember you know as a kids book so they didn’t want to do anything that was actual are you a man or a mouse and that’s the one you remember yeah that’s not funny was when I remember the book I remember you know I had an older brother you’re an only child so you didn’t have the opportunity to be insulted constantly and have someone kind of holders pin you down and like drip their spittle on you then pull it back up and constantly accuse you of liking girls that you didn’t like things Big Brother’s do yeah so my brother would get me so upset that the reason I got the snappy put-downs book is so in the midst of him insulting me I could recall one of these snappy put-downs the problem was every time he got into a fight I would recall something like are you a man or a mouse and then he would drip spittle into your face you Billy what are you talking about for what I was a that was a snappy put-down so a little bit more a little bit more evidence for Less his perspective reading makes you unfunny hmm okay Gil Swayze loved your last name gay I called her Gil but her name is Gail Gail Swayze Gill says grocery stores should be organized in alphabetical order rather than by category so you don’t spend forever looking for the quote item without a category unquote ie french fried onions well listen I gotta admit that organizing the grocery store in a way that I could wrap my mind around is not a bad idea because when my wife sends me out to the I definitely I get sent out on trips you know I want you to go out I want you to get a B C and D she gives me the little voyage you take a ship and everything and I am completely overwhelmed when I get in there if you could see an overhead map of my journey through the grocery store for like five items it would like spell my name in cursive and come back it’s like it’s totally I’m going all over the place I don’t want to ask for help oh yeah cuz a pride the same way from me I’m looking at the the board up there it doesn’t have what I was on it if it’s not on one of the signs at the front of the aisle like peanut butter cereals flour sugar if it’s not on that I’m not getting it I will never find it if it’s not on the placard and it’s not going in my car that something like to matter I will not go down an aisle because it I’m just struck with fear well it’s not that intimidating yeah it is you know I’ve gotten along in there looking for some she sent me to get tomato paste and sunlight okay tomato paste is that a canned vegetable or is that in the sauces is it in the spice and me the sauce is visiting the vegetable it’s like in his own section but it’s not on the plug in it but doesn’t say tomato paste up on the board you have to ask the guy there he’s like aisle 7 I think and you know he doesn’t know half the time but the problem with doing it all in alphabetical order is you would start breaking up all the food that needs to be refrigerated or frozen you know and you can’t do that you got to put everything that needs to be treated in a certain way in one place right yet probably not a viable suggestion but what we like that like the cinema behind it I just say there needs to be somebody who greets you at the door at a grocery store it’s like especially if it’s a guy coming in it’s like sir what can I help you with give me your list you know dude and and then he just takes you around and shows you where everything is okay for next week we’re going to discuss fist bump versus handshake go ahead and make your argument you’re compelling argument in the comments below as I spin the wheel we are ending this episode thanks for contributing your mythical perspectives fun fun to talk about they are and as they’re corralled we’ll be able to channel even more energy into reaching some conclusion presidential debate you know we’re in an election year and here in the United States and so there’s a lot of press about nominees and debates and listen let’s debate one another in closing I’d like to say that if I get your votes that I promise that the grocery store placards will say everything that is on the aisle every single thing my candidate has made I mean my opponents my opponent I’m sorry Miami glanders my opponent has proven today that reading makes you unfunny he’s he looks funny-looking I kind of sent a little bit like a mix of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney I’m sorry I don’t know where that’s coming from I just happened to watch a lot of television a lot of cable news and I want to say that his best comeback is best put down in this debate so far was you heard it 17 minutes ago are you a man house I don’t know where it came from it sucked don’t vote for a man who can insult another candidate I think he just said that I’m the winner of this debate and I gladly accept and I don’t know if I’m going to give you a handshake or a fist bump we’ll decide next week and we will see you next week have a good weekend