(rooster crows and lion roars) – Welcome to Good Mythical More. – BYMB, Be Your Mythical Best. Also the name of our favorite Korean K-pop band. – And this is good because maybe, whatever this is, it’s something you can do over the break. – Librarian love, love. Round up all your already read books and donate to your local library. Then take a pic with your local librarian and post it with hashtag #BYMB to share the love, librarian love, Be Your Mythical Best. – Librarian love, okay, could’ve gone a couple of different ways but we went a really good way with it. – This is the good kind of librarian. – Alright let’s check out some weird New Years Day traditions from S-nope. Snopes! – Now, I will say that I saw in the comments, cause when we did the yes or Snopes thing, we were like, “Snopes unbiased and fact based.” People were like, “Snopes unbiased my big fat woop woop.” And things of that nature. But Snopes has actually responded to claims of their biases by showing that they’ve been accused of different biases in opposite directions at different times. – Biases. – There was also some article that came out. There was like a smear job done on the people who started Snopes that turns out was not based in fact. – How did you find that out? – Factcheck.org – Really? – Yeah. So factcheck.org did a fact check of Snopes and their conclusion of factcheck.org, which was unbiased, was that Snopes is unbiased. – But factcheck.org is very biased– – So take their facts! Take dem facts and sniff on them! – One tradition is called First Footing. The first person to enter your home after the stroke of midnight will influence the year you’re about to have. Ideally, he should be dark-haired, tall and good looking and it would be even better if he came bearing certain, small gifts such as a lump of coal, a silver coin, a bit of bread, a sprig of evergreen, and some salt. – That’s a lot of things. – What’s up with being dark-haired? Blonde and red head first footers bring bad luck. – Anyone who came into my house with lumps of coal, silver coins, bit of bread, I would immediately call the cops. This is a weird person that has all these little trinkets and stuff. – What if they were dark-haired though? You’d let him right in. – I would not. I don’t trust dark-haired people. – Again, this is not something Snopes believes, Snopes is a website. Why am I taking up for Snopes anyway? – Well you should because we’re going to continue to use them as an unbiased source. – The First Footer, sometimes called the Lucky Bird, should knock and be let in rather than unceremoniously use a key even if he is one of the house holders. That’s an odd one. – This is just some stuff people believe. It has been documented that people believe this. That one’s weird man. Let’s go to one that’s even less weird. Nothing goes out. Nothing, absolutely nothing, not even garbage, is to leave the house the first day of the year. If you’ve got presents to deliver on New Years Day, leave them in the car overnight. Don’t so much as shake out a rug or take the empties to the recycle bin. Some people soften this rule by saying it’s okay to remove things from the home on New Years Day provided something else has been brought in first. This is similar to the caution regarding First Footers. Back to First Footers, you can’t get away from them. The year must begin with something being added to the home before anything subtracts from it. – The First Footer thing is really weird but as a kid, is one of those things that I would think about. Like, okay it’s a new year, I wonder who’s going to be the first person I see? Or first person I talk to on the phone? Or first person that sets foot in my house? My brain works that way so I guess I feel better that there’s enough people to make it a tradition. – But your brain doesn’t go all the way into thinking that it actually is indicative of what will happen during the year. That’s when superstitions start getting into trouble, when you actually start thinking that they’re real and not just more than fun. – But what do you think about this one? Make sure to do and be successful at something related to your work on the first day of the year, even if you don’t go near your place of employment that day. Limit your activity to a token amount though because to engage in a serious work project on that day is very unlucky. So it’s kind of like beginning the week with… Like if I go to the gym and workout first thing Monday, I feel like I’ve started my week off right. And to start my whole year off right, I’m going to do something at my job that’s going to get me started on the right foot. This makes sense. – As a mindset. – As like a mindset. – It’s like setting your mind to something. – But then it turns into a fun, little tradition. I think this one is fun and innocuous. I like this one. – Also do not do the laundry on New Years Day. Problem there. – What if you work at a laundromat? – You should be closed on New Years Day. You should be at home with your family, get your priorities straight. – But how do you do something related to your work and be successful at it, if you can’t do laundry? I feel bad for those people. – Because it really doesn’t matter ultimately in the whole scheme of things. That’s what we’ve already established. – I think if you work at a laundromat you should just clean a little stain off of something from where you ate all those black-eyed-peas. That’s the tradition that both sides of my family do. You eat black-eyed-peas and there’s a corresponding. I don’t believe in it so I don’t know the actual math. But there’s a corresponding between them. – There’s a dime in the black-eyed-peas. – Oh we don’t do the dime in the black-eyed-peas. – So you guys got half of the tradition but you didn’t get the whole tradition. Mom and Nel used to put a dime. – What I was saying was there’s a ratio between how many you eat and how much money you’re going to make in the new year. – I would make a dime. – What does the dime have to do with? – Well mom would put a dime in the black-eyed-peas and whoever ate it (laughs) A) had to go to the ER, and B) was going to have a great year, when they got out of the ER. She would literally put money into the food and give it to kids to eat. – And didn’t anybody ever swallow it? – No, you could easily see it on your plate before you got it in your mouth. – Okay guys, this is the end of the season. We’re wrapping things up so this is what I’m going to call the easy let down sending you into 2018 when we’re going to come back strong. And we should hang out. We should hang out on this show in the new year. – Thank you for all you Mythical Beasts who have been your mythical best. Little bit of transition here at the end of the year with this show. But we think we’ve got our footing, our first footing, even though we don’t believe in superstitions. And we’re going to be coming back strong in the new year. – Yeah so enjoy the break. You can watch through some old episodes. Show them to your family and friends and swallow a dime for me.