(rooster crows) (lion roars) (wheel clicking) – Welcome to Good Mythical More. – Okay, What’s the Word? This is when we see a word and we guess the definition, then we find out exactly what it means. Today’s word is fartlek. – Fartlek? – Fartlek. – F-A-R-T-L-E-K. – E-K. – You ever heard of this word? – No. – It’s not fart-lick, fartlek. – Fartlek. – Fartlek. – Fart, fartlek. Like a salt lick is when a deer in the woods finds like a big of salt and licks on it. I think this may be the fart version of that. – Yeah, well, I think it’s when you’re out deer hunting and then you’re like, what is that? And you turn around it’s happenin’. – I think it’s a unit of measurement going back to ancient Roman times, like, the city is one fartlek away from ours. (laughing) – Right, which is the distance, distance that a fart can be carried through the wind and still be smelled. – I, fair enough. – Which is approximately– – Which is, yes, which was how they used to, yeah, they just kinda came up with like– – For a quarter-mile. – One foot-to-foot. – A quarter-mile? – If it was a good day, yeah, you haven’t met my dad. (laughing) – I wonder, what is the farthest a fart can carry? What’s the real definition, first of all? – A bear can smell a fart from a long ways away. – The real definition is: A system of training for distance runners in which the terrain and pace are continually varied to eliminate boredom and enhance psychological aspects of conditions. – We need more fartlek on this course! Tony’s getting bored! (laughing) – Why would they call it fartlek? – So it’s kind, it’s like mixing your training regimen for distance runners. – Yeah, it seems like a Scandinavian word. – It’s kind of like– – That’s my guess. – I’m gonna run the fartlek! – Yeah. – Well, isn’t it more like, the fartlek technique? I use the fartlek technique when training for marathons. – Yeah, like a system. – Right, yeah, yeah. Back, you know, the story is, back in like the 1700s, Fartlek got really bored while just running and then he began to change up his training and he became a happy and well-adjusted man. And ever since then, it’s been known as the fartlek technique. – This is not, we’re gonna play another game now. – Oh, it’s not make up what fartlek is? – On these cards, we have Dungeons and Dragons characters. – And the reason we’re doing this is because Joe, you’re like a dungeon master, correct? – I work for Dungeons and Dragons, yeah, I am like the official ambassador. I just got back from Europe, they were launching some things in Europe and I went out for that. I also kinda help conceptualize and consult and write adventures for the adventure books. – I’m sorry, you were talking, but there’s an ant that’s crawling on my scalp right now. It’s like he’s in here. – You know, hey, hey. Just let it be. – He was in my ear and you saw it. – Just let it be. – What would be is if people didn’t see the other segment and don’t know and they’re just like, he’s on meth! (laughing) Like he did meth and now it’s like, is my left shoulder on fire? – I feel like I can feel, it’s traversing from here and it’s doing the fartlek system apparently. (laughing) – Yeah, it’s moving from ear to scalp. Keepin’ itself entertained. – So you’re travelin’ in an official capacity for Dungeons and Dragons. – Yeah. And I write, and I have like, it’s like a very notorious like a celebrity game that I run at my house whenever I’m in town and not working, when I had the bandwidth. – Is it too late to get into it? And I mean Dungeons and Dragons, but also inviting myself to your house. – M’kay. (laughing) Question number one, is it too to get in? No, man, it’s super fun. I mean, it’s great, in a lot of like our generation of people in entertainment started out as kids developing their creativity that way. A lot of writers, producers, like the biggest directors. I mean, that’s kind of what comprises my group. – The thing that I didn’t, we’ve got a really good friend who’s into it and the thing that we didn’t realize, you know, just kinda not being, and not ever playing, was that there is like the actual role-playing, you adopt characters. For some reason, I missed that entirely. – You can, I mean, as kids, we didn’t, like, I’m talking in my funny British voice, but no, we didn’t do that stuff as a kid, you know, it was a game. – Our friend does it. You do it now? – No. (laughing) – Well, he does it, he goes all out, he like dresses up and everything. – Yeah, I don’t dress up or anything. No, you can do that, you can do that, that’s certainly an aspect if you wanna go in that direction, but it’s a game, it’s a game where you can, you know, with statistics and rolling and you know, you create a character. It was video games before video games. – Got it. So, okay, so– – So you’re gonna have the advantage here. – But I run the game, so I voices and stuff, so I do do that stuff, I don’t dress up. – Water Weird, the Water Weird is an elemental life form that goes undetectable in water. Their alignment is chaotic evil and they, that’s kinda like you with cats. – Mmhmm, right. – And they will attack all living things and feed from their essence, but they cannot exist outside of water, so you won’t find these starting fights on the Jersey Boardwalk! – Ohh! – Water Weird. – Weird, Water Weird, Water Weird. – Yeah, this seems true to me. – I’m goin’ with true as well. – It’s true. – Oh, you know this one, so okay. – [Stevie] It is true! (laughing) – We’re all tied up, oh, that’s a cool rendering. – [Rhett] Wow, okay, so you do have, well, at least potentially an encyclopedic knowledge of this. – Yeah, but there’s some weird stuff I’m sure that they’ve seen before this, so we’ll see– – Maybe they’ve minded. Cacophonous Wretch. A Cacophonous Wretch is an undead humanoid being that has been reanimated irresponsibly. Spiteful and weak, they cannot sustain themselves alone, so travel in groups of three to seven. And attack primarily through pure volume of their endless screaming, which can disorient and render some unconscious. Cacophonous Wretch. – So, let me ask a technical question before we get into guessing with this. So, what do you, like, how in the midst of playing the game– – Yep. – Do you have cards? Like, how do you know, how do you know what your story is? And how do you know, like, what, okay, how do I know that my thing beats your things situation? – Well, well, you have a character sheet. So you know, like, in a video game, you’re given a character and you run around and you kill stuff and then you like level up, and you get stronger, you get a better weapon, get better armor, all of that– – I mostly drive karts, but yes. – (laughs) If you, all of that came from Dungeons and Dragons, like the idea of leveling up, the idea of like getting newer weapons, better weapons, all of that stuff. So, you have a sheet with your statistics, how strong you are, how smart you are, how wise you are, how charismatic you are, and you make rolls based upon that. – Okay. – And so, you know, depending on how good you are something, you’ll have a plus or minus and you roll the dice and you add or subtract and see if you hit that– – Okay, so the dice are where the sort of like, the numbers comes into play. – Yeah, and things go way wrong with the dice which adds this kind of craps table element where, you know, like, in my game, for example, like, there’s yelling and high-fiving at people over the table, like, you know, someone hits a roll, oh yeah, you know? Because you don’t know what’s gonna happen. – Right. – But is there a Cacophonous Wretch? – No, definitely not. Definitely not, traveling in groups of three and seven? – Traveling and screaming? And screaming, yes, yes. – Come on, you’re screwing. – I’m sayin’ yes. – I’ve never heard of it, so I’ll be surprised if there is one, I’m gonna say false. – [Stevie] It is fake. – Oh, okay. – Mm, nice, good! Who wrote that? – That was a good one. – [Stevie] This is all Ellie, Ellie’s owning this, and lemme tell you, like– – Ellie, you did your research, Ellie. – We lulled you in with that first one, Joe, but I think that it might be difficult from here on out. – All right, let’s see what we got. – All right, let’s not get crazy. (laughing) All right, Flail Snail. The Flail Snail is a giant snail-like beast with between four to six tentacles that double as powerful spiked clubs. If the tentacles sway slowly, the creature is calm, if fast, it is agitated and will strike. When dying, the Flail Snail will wail. (laughing) – Okay. – Okay. Yeah, I think that, I don’t think this represents the gameplay that you just described to me. That like when it’s calm and then when it’s bein’ incited, I just don’t think– – You don’t think it fits the parameters of the game. – I don’t think it fits, so I’m sayin’ false. – I think it doesn’t, but I think there is a real element here and then Ellie just, you know, embellished some things ’cause she wanted to get that Flail Snail wail rhyme. True. – False. – I’m going to say I’ve never heard of it, I’m gonna say false. – [Stevie] It is real. – Yeah! – Ohh! Flail Snail wail! – [Joe] Yeah, good for you. Wow. – [Stevie] Yeah, the Flail Snail will wail, and the volume of its wail will attract other beasts, so if you kill a Flail Snail and it’s wailing when it’s dying, you gotta get out of there. So, that’s true. – You gotta gag it first. – I stand corrected. – All right, you wanna read one? – Oh, I do. – I don’t know how to say that word. – Vegepygmy Chief. A Vegepygmy Chief is a humanoid plant creature with green, vegetable-like skin, a topknot of dark brown leaves, and razor-sharp claws. The chief commands a tribe of Vegepygmies, as they are most protected in groups. Not groups of three to seven, just groups. – Okay. – They are true neutral and will attack via ambush if disturbed. – They’re true neutral, I like that. – True neutral, true neutral. That seems like that’s a real word from the game. (laughing) Topknot, though, that doesn’t sound, that doesn’t sound. – Well that’s just, you know, that’s what it looks like, it’s got it, it’s gathered its fronds up in a– – Like an Akira Kurosawa samurai kind of thing. – Mmhmm. – Yes. – Yeah. – I’m sayin’ that this is fake, though. – I think it’s true. – I think this is from the game Plants vs. Zombies, but I don’t think it’s in Dungeons and Dragons. – False. – [Stevie] It is real. – Oh! – Whoa! – Oh man. – Jesus. What version of the game is this from? This is crazy. – [Link] Look at that thing, that’s pretty cool. – [Joe] Yeah. – [Link] Is it the one on the left or the right? – [Rhett] Well, the chief, I believe– – [Joe] The chief would be on the right. – [Link] Yeah, with the topknot. – All right, another technical question about this. So, because you just asked the question, which is version is this from, so, who makes the rules about what can enter into the game? Can you like show up one day and you be like, I’m a Vegepygmy Chief, if that didn’t exist and like, these are my strengths. Or does it have to be under some sort of official recognized ruling? – Well, do you wanna play by the official rules, or do you wanna make up your own? I mean, you can make up your own, you can alter the game, you can do whatever you want. But generally, that’s up to the person running the game. – Okay. – The person running the game is kinda like the referee, so me, I would probably not allow the Vegepygmy Chief unless you could really convince me that this was gonna seamlessly work in. But I’m open to things. – Okay. – Hmm. – If you wanted to play one, we could probably work it out. – What about Googolmorph? The Googolmorph is a rare shape-changing aberration with an ability to morph into an unknowable number of things, but in their resting state, they resemble a flightless bird with a large central cyclopic eye. Its alignment is chaotic evil. – This seems too difficult to contain, I think it’s false. Googolmorph, I mean, it can turn into a Googol of things. – Googolmorph. I think this is true, I think this is happenin’. – All right. God, I mean, I’m, once again, I’m on the fence here. – Hey, you know what? I think the way that you can determine this is would you let a Googolmorph into your game? – Oof. – Because if you wouldn’t– – Well, I could throw a Googolmorph at my players ’cause I run my game, so I would try to kill them with the Googolmorph. – Isn’t that great? (laughing) – See, Googolmorph, no. I’ll go false. – [Stevie] It is fake. – Fake, yep. – Oh. – Okay. – You got me. – I mean, these are crazy, these are really– – All right, final two. – [Stevie] You can use it in your game if you want. – All right, thanks, yeah, I’ll make it up. – Here, you can do the honors. – Okay, Jellied Bubble Wrath. A medium-sized ooze commonly found in the Swamp of Oblivion. His round globular bubbles are dangerously corrosive, they exhibit an ability draw people and creatures to them as they shimmer beautifully when it rests. But are revealed to be vile and awful when they move to attack. – That’s from “The Princess Bride.” (laughing) That’s not from Dungeons and Dragons. – Jellied Bubble Wrath. – Has there ever been a fight at your game? Do you call it a game? – Yeah, there’s been– – Match? – THere’s been some, there’ve been some people that have gone off on their own, kind of strayed from the group and like, split the party. When they should’ve been doing their job according to other members of the group and then afterwards there’s been like, you know, if my character dies, I’m gonna beat the hell out of you, I’m gonna beat your ass. (laughing) Like, there’s been that kind of, that kind of talk. That happens, people get pissed off when you split the party. – I love it, man, I love it. – It can get, it can get– – Yeah, we have a game night at my house– – If my character dies, you’re, you know. – And people, it can get testy, and I love it when it happens, I love it. – Yeah, you’re like constantly inciting people. – Yeah. – But game night, I play to win, I mean, that’s– – Yeah. – What’s fun about losing on game night? – You don’t go into the McLaughlin game night if you don’t play to win. – Yeah. – This is not about makin’ friends or eating. – Well, I come to it for the food. – Although we do both. – And relax. – I think this is fake. – I think it’s fake too. – See, once you said “Princes Bride,” I’m like, okay, fake. – But I’m not sure, but I think it’s fake. – [Stevie] It is fake. – All right, and finally. Good gosh. Obfuscous Moth. – I think obfucious, obfucious? – Obfuscous. Obfushoosh? – Obfucious? – What would you say? – Obfuscus? – Obfuscous? Obfuscous. – Obfuscous. – Obfuscous Moth. – An exceptionally dark-winged beast, the Obfuscous Moth is an interplanar creature of mysterious origin. Their alignment is lawful good and they are highly intelligent with limited psionic power, which their feathery antennae can amplify. Or should we say, ampli-fly. – Oh, true! Definitely true. Definitely true. – Obfuscous, obfuscouse, obfuscouse. – You ever thrown one of those around? – No, I haven’t, so I’m thinkin’ here. What do I need to do? I need to go opposite for the tie? Is that what I need to do? – Yeah, ’cause if we both go the same thing, then I definitely win, so– – I’m out of it, so– – So you said true? – I’m gonna– – All right, I mean– – I’m gonna say it’s true because it’s just so hard to pronounce. – I wanna say true but I’m gonna say false ’cause I have to at this stage in the game, this is just strategic. – Oh yeah, I like the way you think. – [Stevie] It is fake! – Oh, you did! – Awesome, you had tied it up. – Those were tough, those were very tricky. – You learned something. – Very tricky. – Well, thanks for joinin’ us. – And thanks for the invitation. – Yeah, yeah. – Thanks, yeah! – We’ll put the game on our calendar, we’ll be there. – Yeah, we’ll be there. – Yep. – There’s a long waiting list, you’re right after Marilyn Manson and Sean Astin. (laughing) But we’ll get you in there. – I’ll take it. – [Rhett] Sign sign up for a Mythical Society third degree annual plan and receive a past quarterly item of your choice while supplies last. 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