(rooster crows) (lion roars) (wheel clicks) – Oh my gosh. Welcome to Good Mythical More. – Who you talkin’ about? This is when we look at a comment that you left on our videos and decide who it was about. – Okay. – Ponderosa-Paws says “find you a man who looks at you “the way blank looks at food”. – Well that’s you. – Yep, ’cause I like food. We’re gonna say that’s me. Yes! – Yeah, you look at some food now. – I will. – We’re about to look at some more food. Josh has created some protein shakes. Josh, come on in here, man. You haven’t created these for us, you created these for yourself, and you just want us to get a load of it? – Yeah, I never- – Give us- – I never get to see you guys early in the morning. – Right. – And so this is my routine, I just wanted to give you guys, there we go. (Rhett laughs) Give you guys like a little insight into my life. – So you make your own protein shakes. – Every morning, yeah. This is my breakfast, and this is the actual size of them, I will drink an entire quart deli cup of them, but I wanted to share with you today. I already drank one earlier. – This is one quart. – This is one quart, yeah. – So, how, okay, so this is pre-workout? – No, so this is post-workout. – All right, do you do anything in pre-workout? – Yes, I will take a pre-workout supplement called C4 Ultimate Explode. – Not a sponsor. – Not a sponsor. – That sounds too stupid to be a sponsor. – Oh, but not a sponsor, but might be poison, we’re not sure. – It’s got some caffeine and some other things. – Yeah. – I’ve got this pre-workout supplement that I did a whole scoop of it one time, and I nearly crapped my pants on the way to the gym. (man laughs) – Yes, yeah. – And I did crap my, I did crap. – Yeah. – In the toilet at the gym. – You made it. – And I was like 15 to 20 minutes late for my class. – In my experience, the fear of pooping your pants actually raises your adrenaline which allows you to lift more. – Right. – It’s a line you have to ride carefully. – Oh, I had one heck of a workout after that. – Oh yeah, oh yeah. – Feel a bit lighter. I was also itching all over. – Yeah, it makes your face burn. – Yes. – Mm, that’s niacin. – Yeah. – Yeah, it makes your face burn, so this is my favorite- – This doesn’t seem right, guys. – And how much protein is in your post-workout? – So 40 grams of protein, but my favorite thing about this one, I call this my prune-tein shake. So there’s about 10 to 12 prunes in each one. – Why prunes? – ‘Cause prunes are really, really nutrient dense. You get a lot of fruit. – I love prunes, in college we always had a big sack of prunes in our dorm room. – That’s good, I- – Yeah, we called it the big sack of prunes. – Cheers you guys. And it’s a gingerbread flavored protein. Why, you know, I don’t know, bought it back in the holiday season, so. – You have gingerbread flavored protein. – Mm, yep. – Uh, I can taste the prunes. – Mm hm. – But I like prunes. – And the prunes are a good thickener. – It’s better than spleen. – That is really heartening to hear that you guys ate prunes in college because I think prunes need a young spokesperson. – Well we’re not young anymore. – Well no, but I mean, back then you guys- – But we’ll be spokespeople, I’ll tell ya that. Yeah, I would gladly spokes for some prunes. – 10 to 12 prunes? You get a lot- – Yeah. – So you get almost your daily allowance of fiber right at the beginning of the day. – Right at the beginning, I hit it hard, and then the rest of the day I can eat whatever I want. – You’ve thought of everything. – Yeah. And then the rest of the day is just eating like pop tarts and stuff, but you get it in early. – Every single morning, I eat the same custom-made protein shake at my home. – What do you do? How many prunes are in there? – I custom make them myself. I don’t put any prunes in it, but I’ve been thinking about that. – But you’re thinking about it. – Right? – You’re thinking about it. – And I think it’s about, it’s probably about that much. But mine has like, I don’t know, 20 grams of protein. So you got 40. – Mm hm. – Yeah, you see the difference? – Some say you can only digest 30 grams at a time, but I just like to hit a little 10 on the top. – Yeah, right. – I also think I’m incapable of, I mean, there was one little stint of time where, one summer where I worked out as hard as I could, and I like, I just, I can’t gain a lot of weight. I can’t gain a lot of muscle mass, it’s just not. Why are you smiling? (Rhett and Josh laugh) – No, I’m not, I’m. – You should have a sad face. – I’m sorry. – Yeah, you feel that collarbone coming out? – That’s nice, that’s like an anterior delt. – Look at that, look at that. – Do you want me to touch it, or? – I can’t get muscle over that. – It’s all right, you just gotta eat more prunes. – You have to get it surgically attached. – I love shakes. – Yeah. – You have to get a cadaver’s muscle attached on top of the bone. – My dad had it done. – Actually, a lot of body builders get calf implants. – Really? – Because calves are really hard to grow, and so there are body builders who will literally just get implants in their calves. – That doesn’t seem right either. – Where are they getting the calf muscle? – Which one you want next? – What? – Oh, they’re just getting implants. – I got nothing. Let’s do this one, this one’s, okay, so this one, you were talking about the importance of carbs. Some days when I did a real hard workout in the morning, and I really wanna get carbs, I throw a lot of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in my protein shake, so that’s what this is. – Really? – Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a little bit of frozen banana, some Greek yogurt, this is fun. – Cinnamon Toast Crunch. – Dang man, you’re got some recipes. – Banana. – I’m living over on the other side of the building, man. – Is this, and then you got the 40 grams of protein. – Gingerbread protein. – It’s still gingerbread? – Gingerbread. – Still yeah, gingerbread across the board. – I’m a vanilla man. – Because you gotta use it until you work out, until you lose it. – Yeah, they only sell protein in the biggest tubs. – I like vanilla. – That’s pretty nice. – Yeah. It’s thick. – Yeah that, ooh, it’s, ooh. – How many calories are we talking in this, one of these? – Probably like seven, 800. (Rhett laughs) – This is good. – Calories are important. – This is good, lot of sugar. – It’s good, right? Lot of sugar, lot of sugar. – Yeah, I mean the banana, I don’t love banana but it doesn’t come on that strong, but it has a lot of texture. – Mm hm, yeah. – And I don’t believe in ice in a smoothie. – Me neither. – I hate that. – It’s a filler, man. – I hate that. – Freeze your fruit. – I don’t like it really cold. – Do you put frozen fruit in? – I put frozen blueberries, but it’s like a little handful, so it doesn’t really come across as a frozen. – Just enough to make it purple. – Yeah. – Mm, yeah, I have purple stains all over my face by like 8:45 in the morning. So whenever Nicole comes in, she just kinda makes a motion at me. – Like uh. – I’ll say good morning Nicole, and she’ll just be like ugh, gross. – You’ve got the purple protein stains. – The way that I eat my protein is my shake, I’ll get a spoon which we don’t have, I just sit there at the bar and I just eat it with a spoon. – I’m glad I’m not present for that. – Because I don’t eat cereal in the morning anymore, but I wanna have the sensation of eating cereal. – How fast are you with that spoon? – I’m slow. – Okay. – I just take it easy. Take it easy and just kinda spoon it in there. – Eat some protein shake with a spoon. – Every single morning, yeah. – Is it too thick for a straw? – It’s pretty thick, it’s a little bit thicker than this, but no, I just like it, I like the, it’s more like pudding to me. – Well ever since acai bowls came on the scene, they’ve changed the entire landscape, ’cause that’s just a protein shake that they dumped in a bowl, right? – Yeah. – It’s somewhere between a sherbet and a protein shake. – Yeah. – But people eat it with a spoon and it’s healthy somehow. – It’s not healthy. – It’s not healthy? – It’s just a sugar bowl. – A sugar, says the person who’s drinking Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but, you know? – Yeah, this is the sugar bowl. – Okay, before we try this last one, we wanna let you know for a limited time only, we got signed copies of The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek for sale in the Mythical store. Get yours while they last at mythical.com. Signed copies, guys. – We signed them. – Yeah, most of them, one of them was just signed by a guy who was walking by one day. Could be yours. – All right. – This is just the- – Josh, you gotta get your pour game down, you’re behind the mic. – Whoa, whoa, whoa. – This is the money moment, there you go. – This one’s purty. This one’s real purty. – Yeah, so this is just frozen blueberries, banana, peanut butter, this is the classic everyday shake. Those are when I’m feeling. – This is as close to mine as I think we’re gonna get today. You like doing a curl while drinking, is that what you’re doing? – Yeah, yeah yeah. – You’re like. – Oh, that’s good. – You gotta squeeze, and then you get the wrist muscles engaged, and then you’re gonna curl it right up to your face. – The peanut butter does it for me. I like to have some peanut butter in my shake. – Right, yeah. I agree, you were saying earlier how you prefer just the slurpability of a shake over a bar. I agree, protein bars take way too long to eat. – Well Link chooses, here’s the thing, the beauty of the shake, I might take, if I happen to be home after work, usually I’m at the gym so I get one at the little bar there. But if I do one at home, it takes me five to seven minutes to make the shake. It takes me five to seven seconds to drink to shake, and that’s the whole reason that I do it. – You should use a spoon. – The point is I take it and I go, and then I’m done, like my breakfast is over, it’s a utility thing, it’s like to sit there for 15 to 20 minutes, and spoon it like, are you thinking about things? – Yeah, yeah. – Like what, are you watching something? – Yeah, yeah. You know how like an old man would get up and he’d read the paper? – Are you reading something? – I do that without, oh no. – You’re not watching anything? – I do that minus the paper. – You’re doing nothing but just spooning? – Just kinda sitting, I’m thinking about eating it. The whole time. – Just an old man existing. – Like, I am in the moment, when I’m spooning it into my mouth and every bite I’m thinking about the spoon going into my mouth, it’s a meditative experience. – For how many minutes? – It’s probably 12, 13 minutes. – Yeah, whatever works for you man. If that’s what you like. – Me? – Yeah, you. – Just don’t make anyone ever sit there while you’re doing it. – Some people sit for a period, and then they’ll go away. Like family members come and go. – What face does your wife make when she looks at you while you’re doing that? – She’s not one of the people that comes around. (Rhett laughs) – She knows better. – I had to start using a special scraper in order to make sure I got it all out of the blender, ’cause I don’t like to leave any in there. This is very close to it. – I want a Norman Rockwell painting of just Link sitting there eating his smoothie with a spoon alone, you know? – He’s so well prepared for being old. – [Ellie] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What, go back to the special scraper that you use. – You know how you have like a bowl scraper, like a batter scraper, what’s that called? – We call that a sil-spat, silicone spatula. – A sil-spat. Yeah, and I probably have, and I think I’ve talked about this on a Mythical Society on a Q and A, and then Society members started sending me these, so I have a collection of them, but there’s only a few that actually work exactly in the right dimensions to go into my blender in exactly the right way. – Do you mean to get all the smoothie out of the blender? – Yeah, to get the, and in a quiet way, ’cause I used to use my spoon and do it, and my family would really complain. So now I said that in the Society and you said you should be using these things, and I was like, that’s a good idea, I think I have those, and then they started sending them to me. And that’s the, we have a symbiotic relationship, you know? – I also. – They are aiding and abetting me in my healthy habits. – You being a really old man at the age of 41? – Yeah. – Yeah. – But I, do you pre-make these? – No, fresh one every morning. – Yeah, is there, what I’d like to do is I’d like to make a whole week’s so then I can just grab it, but that doesn’t work. – It’s not the same, doesn’t taste as good. – No. – You need it fresh, man. – It takes a long time to make it. I should just get someone to make it for me. You wanna come over? – Uh, yeah, I can only make bars though. – Oh. – Maybe you could drink the shake and then it would be a lot less time overall. – I’m still tasting that deodorant. – [Rhett] Get yourself a limited edition signed copy of our New York Times bestselling novel, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, now at mythical.com.