(rooster crows) (lion roars) (cannon blasts) – Welcome to Good Mythical More! Here we are, we… – Another slightly weird More where there’s no wheel, because we just showed part two… – We’re just stretching. – of our documentary. – We didn’t just show it, we watched it. We watched it so it’s fresh, – And look at this, Link. – Troublemakers. – You’re wearing… – Let’s discuss the trouble that we’ve made. – Link is wearing the Bleak Creek High School class of 96 shirt, which features a demon, because in the world of Bleak Creek, what we did, is we went back to what would have originally been the case, in Buies Creek, when they used to go K through 12 in that school, that little building, that we went through K through eighth, but now it just goes K through five But, they’ve changed it to the knights, of course, it’s not the demons anymore, but these are the official colors and this is the year that we graduated high school officially. Looks good on you, man. – But it says Bleak Creek, so it’s a little confusing. – Little confusing, ’cause Bleak Creek is not a real place. – (laughs) – We made it up for the book. – So it actually wasn’t, I mean we kinda, we grouped together the story that the through line is the trouble that we made as kids but as we were kinda goin’ around, we knew we were gonna revisit the church balcony and stuff like that. We had no clue. I don’t even think you remembered that you had written your name into the AC unit. Did you re- – No, no. – Had you forgotten that, until you saw it? – No, so when I saw, I actually thought about it as we were walking around. – That’s when you remembered that you had done that? – Before I saw it, I was like “I know there’s this old air conditioning unit”, ’cause I remember actually thinking about, there was some gravity to that moment, because I wasn’t, we were mischievious, right? But we weren’t bad kids. – Oh, mischievous. I don’t know how, – And we would, – I don’t know the right way to say it is. – And so, when I did that, I felt guilty. The thing is I felt guilty about it, but I also was like, other kids had already done some stuff, and it, I didn’t understand like, the way that this radiator worked, and so I was just like, oh I’m just gonna do this. – It’s an AC unit, it’s not a radiator. – Well, not radiator but you know, it was the – Okay – The cooling unit, right? – The radiation unit on the AC, okay. – But I remember thinking, like feeling kinda bad about it, but then realizing that no one said anything about it, ’cause no adults went back there, – You weren’t the first. – There were a lot of other people – You’re saying Matthew, – that done things. – Do you remember what, who was censored out? Matthew plus? Who was Matthew dating? – Did Matthew date Lisa at some point? – No. – Before he dated Amber? – I know he dated Amber. – I don’t think he put Amber on there. – He dated Amber before either one of you. – Before me. – So before me. – Maybe after you. – No. – Before you? – Well if it was before you it was before me, because you dated, no I dated Amber first. – I feel like I got Amber on the rebound from Matt. – Oh. – But I don’t think he would have put Amber on the air conditioner because she wasn’t, at first, baptist. – What, it’s gotta be a church member? – (laughs) I think so. – If you’re gonna do graffiti at a church, you have to reference people who only attend that church. – You know what happened? Matt put his name in there and then some other boy put his name in there and then somebody thought it would be funny to put a plus in between the names. – Oh. – Maybe you by the way that you are trying to make that happen again when we went back as adults. – Not that I remember it but yeah, if that was my instinct comedically now – It probably would have been years ago. – It probably was then, just like, as we discussed yesterday, me writing my name and putting a backdate in your attic, I think would be very funny. – The thing we haven’t discussed, though, is that I did that in probably 1988. Okay, so we’re talking 31 years ago, rough estimate, they’ve still got the same unit out there. – Now, – Maybe they replaced like the compressor on the inside. The engineer in me is worried! – I think we asked him and he said they don’t use that one. – Oh, it’s just there for posterity? Probably because I carved my name in it. – They put the other units somewhere else and to pay money to remove a unit you don’t use and is behind bushes, and it’s got an internet celebrity’s signature on it. – You know who Rhett is? (laughs) – We gotta keep that, you know? Throw a little extra in the offering plate, I’ll take you back to the AC unit. (laughs) You know what I’m saying? Take you behind the bushes. – The thing that we commented on, we talked a little bit about this but the thing we commented on for a while, actually going in there, was the design of the sanctuary. We were like “that’s a really…” the way it brought all the focus to the person standing in the middle in the balcony. It kinda felt like the Ryman in Nashville that we played at, which was originally church as well, and you felt like it was like, it was one of the coolest places we’ve ever played. Buies Creek First Baptist Church not quite the rhyming but similar vibe. Church vibe. – Yeah, man. It was so weird going back, you know, having not been back in there at all since, I mean, it had been a long time. But as far as the other things we did to be troublemakers, when you spotted your signature on the AC unit I was saying that, well I remember playing behind the church and then some of the older kids, David in particular, would talk me into skipping Sunday school and walking – DB? – Yeah, and walking down to the short stop and stealing candy – (laughs) – because he would do that. – And also the fight with him – I do not think I ever did it – was at church. Do you know that? – That’s good. It’s good to do something naughty at a place where you can be instantly forgiven. – The wrestling fight happened in the little yard we were walking through where you were saying I was too scared a guy to do that. That little side yard – You got in a tussle? – which used to have like a well or something there, there was some sort of brick structure. I just remember being on the ground and his hand was like on my face, pressing it down into the grass and I could see brick. I was like “I gotta get this brick out of “my field of vision”. I wasn’t a good wrestler, there’s too much to grab, everyone can get leverage on me, and so once you get me on the ground it’s like UFC man, I’m out. – So you’re saying you lost. – It ended in a, we just eventually gave up. You know when you get tired, you know when you don’t fight on a regular basis and then you fight for like 38 seconds and you’re like – Oh you get winded. – “(exhales) I’m tired man.” And so we just kinda like, just kinda slowly gave up and were like “yeah! Yeah yeah! “Don’t let that happen again!” – Like I said, I never once got in a fight and I think it’s – Which is very surprising – I think it’s… – Well I’m not surprised you haven’t been in a fight, I’m surprised you’ve never been punched. – Here’s my theory, (crew laughs) a lot of the teachers gave me that feedback too. My theory is that you’re much more prone to getting in a physical altercation with somebody if you have an older brother. I think that contributes a lot. As an only child I didn’t have physical contact with anybody, like there were days that I wouldn’t see humans. – Wow, okay. – I would just, you know, – That’s sad. – I would talk to my GI Joe people. – Yeah I had a lot of light fighting with my brother. – I called those ‘the weekend’! The times when I didn’t see people. – Oh, the weekend. – Called that ‘the weeekend’. – But I never punched my brother in the face, he never punched me in the face. – But you would wrestle Cole. – Well mostly he would just wrestle me and like dangle spit in my face and stuff like that. – Speaking of Cole, he’s the one at the end that starts telling the story for the effect of making Stevie even more afraid, because I think might have planted the thought in your family’s brain that we’re gonna take Stevie across the river and that she had a lot of trepidation, which is in tomorrow’s episode. You’ll see not only us but Stevie have an interesting encounter at the river. Facing her fears! – Yeah! Good on you, Stevie. – [Stevie] Thank you. – Or not! Did she survive? You’ll have to wait ’til tomorrow. What other things did we do as troublemakers? – Well I wanted to talk about the fact that one of the things, I think this really encapsulates the way that we were kinda navigating discipline from our teachers. We’ve talked about this before but like middle school, 7th, 8th grade, one of the things we would look forward to forever was performing in the talent show. And in 7th grade we performed… That was a Digital Underground year. – Yeah. – Humpty (mumbles)? – The same song. – The same song. So yeah we did the same song. And then uh… – Featuring an early appearance of 2Pac. – Right, and then the next year we did – Before people knew who 2Pac was. – ‘Scenario’ by Tribe Called Quest featuring Busta Rhymes. – ‘Cause there are a lot of people, one of the best songs of the album, a lot of people on that one so we could get a lot of friends on stage each having their little part, their little rap part. – And the teachers were very concerned that we were saying in appropriate things, so they did two things. They brought me into a room and played the entire song, so I’m sitting in a room with two teachers, just me and two teachers, and they’re playing ‘Scenario’ by, uh, – Tribe Called Quest – Tribe Called Quest and looking at my face, and of course I only know my part, – (laughs) – Which was Q-Tip’s part, but then they apparently brought you in and had you recite the lyrics. – No, what happened was apparently, after your inquisition, they didn’t learn anything, so then they told me I had to write down all the lyrics to the song because they couldn’t understand any of it. So, I wrote down, are you getting a call? Are you texting someone? – I have the lyrics to ‘Scenario’ here. – Oh! Well, okay so, I did not, there was no Lyric Genius or Google, so I just wrote down what I thought were the lyrics, and if I thought something was – For just your part? – No, for the whole song, and if different parts were suspicious I would just change the lyrics because I wasn’t really sure what they were saying anyway. And when it gets to the end – The Busta Rhymes part? – Busta Rhymes part. – “Watch as I combine all the juice from the mind, Heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind. Powerful impact, boom, – boom – from the cannon. Not bragging, try to read my mind just imagine. Vocabulary’s necessary When digging into my library. Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Eating Ital Stew like the one Peter Tosh Uh! Uh! Uh! All over the track man Uh! Pardon me, uh! As I come back As I did it yo I heard you beg your pardon When I travel through the town I roll with the squadron Raow, raow like a dungeon dragon Change your little drawers cause your pants are sagging Try to step to this, I will twist you in a turban And have you smelling ripe like some old stale urine Chickity-choco, the chocolate chicken The rear cock diesel, buttcheeks they were kicking – Buttcheeks? I didn’t know it said that. – Yo, bust it out before the Busta bust another rhyme The rhythm is in sync (Uh!) the rhythms are on time the rhymes are on time (time!) Rippin’ up the sound just like Horatio Observe the vibe and check out the scenario – Scenario. Here we go, yo. – There’s nothing wrong with that rap! I mean, he said urine. – Well, half of what he said I didn’t know, I just made up all the stuff ’cause that’s the part that I rap, but then he does say “monkey fighting” at the end. You know what I’m saying? – Yeah, right, he does say that. – He talks that, and I think someone heard that in a rehearsal, reported it, but then I you know. I didn’t say that, that was just in the tribe. So we escaped getting in trouble, there was no trouble, there was just an inquistion. It’s kinda like the time the principal called us to his office. – To the principal’s office. Mr Fewtrell. – And he said “listen, I hear that you boys “are hitting each other in the testicles “and you can’t do that.” And of course we did that in Rhett’s bedroom but everybody, it was like a wave of testicle hitting the school. Like, you’d just go up to people and, what did we call it? You would hit them with the back of your hand. (mouth pops) You’d knock ’em in the nuts with the back of your hand. What did we call that? – We didn’t come up with this. – Nut knocking? – I don’t remember, but we got in trouble for it. – Uh huh. Somebody’s (mumbles) nut knocking! Nope, nope, nope, nope that’s not it. Don’t look that up. – The principal – Oh it was called sack tapping! – I don’t, I’m not gonna say what it’s called, yeah. – Sack tapping. (laughs) – Attacks by slapping, tapping, punching, kicking, elbowing, twisting or backhanding a male victim’s testicles. The term derived from “sack”, slang that refers to the scrotum. – Scrotum. – And the activity is a form of groin attack. – (laughs) – This is from Wikipedia. – Groin attack is the category, sack tapping is the sub-category. – He said it can give you… – Apparently there’s other ways to attack a groin! – It can give you testicular cancer, that’s what the principal told us. – Oh, yeah he did. He talked about that. You also remember that time he went to that… – I don’t know if that’s true but we stopped. – He took us on a field trip and he poured a bucket of water off of somebody’s deck? From really high up, and we watched it expand? That was also Mr Fewtrell. – I was in Ms Campbell’s class, wasn’t invited to that. I don’t need to see anatomical pictures of a scrotum. – (exhales) Well, but do you know what yours look like? – I like how the picture of the scrotum, there’s a guy drinking coffee, sitting at a table, and then there’s like an arrow pointing from his crotch to an inset of what an anatomical cross-section (mumbles) – Go ahead and do a cross-section of my scrotum, I’ll just stand here and drink coffee. – Um, we were good kids. – Yeah, we were. (crew laughs) Our new novel, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, has it’s own clothing collection! Pick your favorites at mythical.com