GMMore 1720: Reacting To Quarantine

(rooster crows) (lion growls) – Okay. – All right, Rhett, since you called heads, then if you’re right, that means I have to run into Lando’s closet and put on one of his shirts, but if it’s wrong, if it’s tails, you gotta run into Shepherd’s closet and put on one of his shirts. Hello, Stevie. – Hi. – Welcome to Good Mythical More, everybody. – What does Stevie have to do? Just be there? – Stevie, you have to watch. You just have to watch. – Okay, here we go. – Okay. – Here we go. It is heads! Link, go get one of Lando’s shirts, please. – All right, you guys talk amongst yourselves. – Okay. – Hi, Rhett. – [Link] I got to get one of your shirts. – Hi, Stevie, you’re at home, I see. – I have this interesting situation going on where this headphone is going into my computer, so that you can hear me and I can hear you, and then this headphone’s going into my phone, so that it can record audio better, and it’s two of the same headphones, but man. – But two different headphones. – Yeah, but it’s the same brand, they’re both Apple headphones. – Oh, it’s Apple. (laughs) – Brought to you by. – Is that a picture that you drew behind you? – Hold on, let me pin myself for a second. – I’m back, check this out. – Oh, no, now I can’t see Link. I need to go back. – [Link] Look at that. – Hold on, that’s Lando’s shirt? – Well, sleeps in old shirts of mine. – Oh, come on. – This is one of his sleep shirts, it’s too small, man. – This is a cop out, man. – Look at that. – You came back with a shirt– – That’s how you used to wear your T-shirts. – Yeah, you used to wear T-shirts like that like four years ago. That’s a cop out. – (laughs) Yeah, and then I gave them all to him, because look how… I wore T-shirts this tight? – Yes. – Yes. Oh my gosh, yes. – Like three years ago, 36 months ago you wore T-shirts that tight. – So this shirt is an official shirt from T-shirt War. I think was an extra scene that didn’t make it into the actual video. – Well, just so you know, if I would have lost I would have put on one of Shepherd’s shirts. – Fine. – Okay, he’s gone again. I can talk about the artwork behind me. – Yes. – This, a friend did. Who’s super talented. Kim’s World. And then this one, actually was the reference painting for one of the paintings on our set, that we had to repaint to be completely in the clear, so hopefully no one says anything about the sunset behind me. – Oh, really? Wow. – But this is a friend’s, so we’re good. – What is it? A snail? – It’s like a representation of the world. And see this thing that’s going like this? – Yep. – It’s an arm with a peace sign. – Mm. – World peace. – That’s what we need right now. World peace. So how are you enjoying this time? – Oh, boy, I’m having a blast. Let me tell you, I’m glad we’re in this situation. (laughs) No, I mean the entire Mythical Crew has been working from home and… I mean, that’s a little bit better. That’s a little bit better. – Wow, I think what we’re learning is that– – Is I used to wear a 10 year old’s shirt. 10 year old boy’s shirts. I think I had this image that I was in better shape than I am. I feel like I’m in better shape with a smaller shirt. I’ma go back to it. – Okay. – Now I just feel kind of frumpy or whatever in my bigger, fluffier shirts. – Fluffier? – I don’t know. – Okay. – Flowier, is what I mean to say. What were you saying? – Rhett asked me if I’m having a really good time, and I am. But I was saying that the whole Mythical Crew is working from home. And we’ve made this whole adaptation, and it’s going pretty well, I think. – Yeah, we finally got there. For some reason it was just way more complicated than I ever understood. I was like, oh yeah, I’ll be on a video chat, Link will be on a video chat, we’re all YouTubers, we can figure this out. – The episode took a little bit longer. It’ll get easier. – I think we will get better at it. But I didn’t think that was a bad first split-screen episode. – No. That was great. – I felt pretty connected to what you were doing, Rhett, for the most part. – I feel pretty sick right now. – Yeah, I don’t feel great. – You feel sick? (Stevie laughs) – It’s probably not best if you say something like that during this time. – Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean, my stomach feels like it’s got a lot of horseradish in it, to be specific. I do not feel sick or anything like that. – I have a headache from eating the freaking fish sauce. I just worked myself up so much. It was horrible. – I kind of like fish sauce. – Try it by itself. – Okay. – You will not like it. It’s horrible. It’s saltier than soy sauce, and it’s fishier than like, eating a dead fish. – You normally eat live fish? (Stevie chuckles) – So Stevie what are you doing in your home environment just to stay vibrant? – Okay, I did do one… I’m rolling out a new social series for my friends. I’m not making other content, we’re making enough content, but I did decide that this past weekend, I was going to do a not lame virtual brunch hangout. – I saw that on your Instagram. – Yeah. Where I invited a few friends, and I said, make your own brunch, and we’re just gonna chat and we’re gonna hang out like we usually do at brunch. It’s a very LA thing. – Explain the non-lame part. Like, why did you feel like you had to say that? And what does that mean? – I mean, wow, we’re going deep here. (Rhett laughs) But the surface answer is that, it feels lame to do a video chat. Like, it feels weird. – Not anymore, Stevie, not anymore. – Exactly, not anymore. – [Rhett] The world is changing. – We stayed on the video chat for like two and half hours. It was really fun. And guess what, the best part of brunch is just talking to your friends, so that was maintained. So I’m also scheduling a not lame virtual happy hour. – Oh, wow. You are quite the social butterfly. (Stevie laughs) – Yeah, with pretty much the same people. That’s the thing, is that like, you know that I’m not a social butterfly, so I’m pretty okay with this whole not being able to go out thing. – But you have that butterfly tattoo, that you’re so proud of. – I do not. – You were supposed to start singing our song. You’re supposed to start singing the Facebook song, don’t you know the lyrics? – Oh, yes, yes. – No, but every girl I’ve ever dated, I think, has a butterfly tattoo somewhere. – Okay, that counts. – That’s one of the things that I’m gonna do during this time is give myself a butterfly tattoo. – Oh. – The whole virtual brunch this, we haven’t done virtual brunch yet, but we have done a virtual dinner. – Yeah, we did. – Link, you and your family were part that. – Yeah, we did a virtual dinner. – With another family. I just talked to my brother’s family last night, and I was talking to my dad on the phone, and I was like, well, we should do a video chat, like literally, never have I done a video chat with my parents, ever. But I just feel like it’s becoming… In fact, I was talking to my dad who is a law professor, and he’s doing all his classes from his house now. And he was like, you know… And he’s having like, meetings and stuff on Zoom, he’s like, this Zoom thing, he says, I don’t see why we’re ever gonna meet in person again. (laughs) For him it’s like clicked. He’s like, why get in my car and go somewhere to have a meeting, when I can just a meeting on the internet? And he’s 73 years old. – Yeah, a lot of things aren’t gonna go back, that’s true. – I gotta say, the most epic… So yeah, I have to teach my parents how to do the whole Google Hangout thing, but I have friend who decided with his family that they were going to do quarantine rap battles. In which, they each write their own rap that has to do with the quarantine and then they send that video out to their family. And then the next person does it. And then he sent me a bunch of the videos, including his mom doing one. I died. – Oh my. – It’s quite something. So I don’t think that can be beat. – Are you suggesting that we do that right now? (laughs) – I mean, you could do it, it would be good and it’d would be funny, – You start. – but it would be a different kind of funny. No! He also has like five of them on his own. He’s just cranking out beats, and he’s not gonna be pleased when he hears of this video. (everyone laughs) – I mean, we gotta put the links the in description. – Yeah, maybe I’ll ask him if he’s okay with sharing one and we can cut it in. – Of his mom. – Now what about your food? Are you doing different? For us, there’s a number of things that we haven’t be able to get when we go to the grocery store. It’s like, oh, we don’t have any eggs. Or we’ve done some online orders and stuff, and so I’ve had a lot of beans and rice, which for me is good, my family not so much. – We kind of put as much as possible into the freezer, which means you have to make the decision of what you’re eating the next day. A full 24 hours in advance. You know, so that it can defrost. But I will say, we got a pack of mac and cheese with the powder packet. Actually, we’ve had the mac and cheese conversation and your kids do mac and cheese a little bit differently than I remember as a kid. But I was gonna say, I’m sure you guys have that at your house anyway. – Mac and cheese, that’s what we call it, yeah. – But the powdered cheese packet situation. – Yeah, mac and cheese. – I know, but there’s some that have like the Velveeta– – Yeah, some do like a semi-liquid cheese, yeah. – Yeah. So we got one of those and we were actually really excited about it. And we also had a frozen thing of peas, and we realized that we had that combination, and I was like, Cassie, this might sound really gross to you but right now it sounds really good to me, and I’m actually really excited about it. And then I was like, what do you think about mac and cheese with peas? And she was like, oh my god, that sounds delicious. – And are you talking about garden peas, like green peas? – Yeah. – Yes! As a kid, that was the only green thing I would eat was green peas. – I think it sounds incredible. – And I would mix them in everything. Because they’re little balls and the mix into everything so well. – Yep, that’s exactly what we were thinking. – Yeah, little balls. – So I would mix them into my mashed potatoes and gravy. I would mix them into mac and cheese. Man, I’m hungry for that. – Well no, just the whole idea of mixing things in. So I made this big thing of beans, I made a big thing of rice, and then you just start finding like, oh, I can put meat into this beans and rice. You could put peas into the beans. You could put anything in there, and then just put a bunch of hot sauce on it. (Stevie laughs) I mean, I’ve been eating a lot of that. – I think that they way that I’ve been doing it is, I just open doors and cabinets and just grazing for stuff. – Doors? – Yeah, like cabinet doors and refrigerator doors, and I’ll like open two doors, and I’ll stand there and pick a little of this and a little of that, and then I’ll just eat it. And then I’ll shut the door, I’ll open other doors or cabinets, and I’ll eat. And what I’ve noticed is, I think I’m probably gonna gain 20 pounds. – See, that’s what I’m trying to avoid. I’m trying to not go into the snacking situation, so I’ve really limited my options on that front. – You froze all your snacks. – Cassie on the other hand, has not. – You gotta defrost your snacks for 24 hours? – No, I only got myself like pistachios. Because I do pistachios at the office, and pistachios are good, but you’re not gonna sit there and just eat an entire bag of pistachios. – They’re difficult to eat, ‘ cause you have to shell each one. – I did that once. I ate an entire bag of pistachios, and I had an allergic reactions. My hands started to itch and swell. This was back when our studio was in Fuquay, and I remember, I was like, man, my hands itching a lot, and I was just like scratching my hands, and they were swollen up like mitts. It was ’cause I ate too many pistachios. So you should freeze half of them. – Okay, I’ll freeze those pistachios. – Unless you’re not allergic. Yeah, I think I’m actually gonna eat less. I’m almost positive that I’m eating probably 500-750 a day less than I otherwise was. – I’m walking less though. – Yeah, you’re doing a lot less too. – Like, I have to make a point to walk every day. Because I’m just sitting the whole day. – Yeah, but I mean, I would never walk around our neighborhood. We’ve been here almost four or five years– – I’m encountering people like you. This is my other thing about quarantine. Is that I walk all the time in the neighborhood, usually on the weekends. – And now you’re seeing new walkers. – Yes! I’m seeing new walkers, and those walkers I’ve got to stay six feet away from, and they have a lot of people with them. – Well, they’ve gotta stay six feet away from you too. – And also the dogs greeting situation. I’ll let a little nose to nose situation happen, maybe. But other than that, I won’t let any dog interaction happen either, ’cause I’m just really worried about it. But I feel so bad, ’cause they wanna say hi to each other, so just a little nose kiss. But not a butt to nose. I feel like the anus is more likely to let out the virus. – I think you need to read some papers. (Stevie laughs) – I think it’s actually quite the opposite, right? – Yeah, it’s the opposite. You should only let them anus touch. – I’ll let them touch anus to anus. – ‘Cause the humans who might have it are definitely not licking their own dog’s anus. – But they are licking the nose. – Yeah. – Okay. – Okay. – Well, I’ll implement that moving forward. – Yeah, you gotta go out and be like, okay, this is my dog Ringo and your dog can only lick his butt. – Speaking of anuses, the toilet paper situation. So I’ve never been as conscious about the amount of toilet paper I use every time. ‘Cause I remember, there’s a children’s museum… That segue is bad, but there’s a children’s museum in Greensboro and they have a little sign, or they each have a little sign in their bathrooms, that was a rhyme about using two sheets of toilet paper. – That ain’t enough. – Yeah, but I’ve just been like, so conscious, ’cause usually you just like, you know, just grab and you don’t think like, how many sheets am I using? But now in these times, you’re like, I’m gonna think about how many sheets I’m using. – Welcome to my world. – But how many are you done to? – Your world? – I’ve been counting my sheets for years? – Yeah. Yeah, Link and Christy are not gonna run out. But how many toilet paper rolls are you down to? – Well, I will say, I had a modern day hero visit our house a couple days ago. Because Cassie’s friends with everybody in the neighborhood, and she has a really good friend who lives down the street, who just happens to be a gentlemen in his mid-60’s, but she’s very close with him. And I heard a motorcycle idling outside of our house, and I was like, about to do my whole, why were they here for so long? But then I looked out, and it was him, and he was on the motorcycle, and he had a big pack of toilet paper, that he was bringing to us. – Was he just tossing it to everybody on the street? – No. He was just tossing it to us. (Rhett laughs) – It pays to be nice to people. – Yeah. – Did you pay him? – Did you pay him? My toilet paper woes were solved by my sister-in-law, who we thought it was a little… I mean, my sister-in-law tends to give very creative gifts, and so we thought it was like, hm, okay, this is cool. We got a huge crate of toilet paper for Christmas. It’s called, “What the Crap”. What is it made from, Jessie? – Is this Link’s brand? – It’s made from bamboo. – [Jessie] “Who Gives a Crap”. “Who Gives a Crap”, not what the crap, “Who Gives a Crap”. ‘Cause what the crap would be way too specific. – That’s not Link. – “Who Gives a Crap” and it’s made from bamboo, and it doesn’t feel like you’re wiping wood on your butt. It feels like high-quality toilet paper. – Did that disappoint you? – It comes in these cool pattern, they wrap it. The toilet paper is white, but they wrap the toilet paper in these cool things. Anyway, she sent us like a giant box of this for Christmas, and so we have a giant box of toilet paper. – If there ever was an occasion. You know when you have a really good bottle a liquor or something and then you just don’t wanna drink it, ’cause you’re like, no, that’s for a special occasion, but then the special occasion, it’s never special enough? – Right. – That’s how I feel about that toilet paper description. But it is special enough for right now. – Yeah. – Oh yeah, we’re using it left and right. – It sounds like you should be asking her what stocks to invest in as well. I mean, she had a premonition. All right, guys, let’s wrap up this More, but I think that we can keep doing Mores. – Yeah. I think so. – Let’s bring in some– – And in future Mores, we’re gonna check in. – People, yeah. – Depending on how this goes technically, the idea is that we’re gonna check in on other Mythical Crew members and see what they’re doing in their homes and what stories they might have to tell about strange men on motorcycles. – Yeah. – Yeah. – Sounds good. – And in the mean time, I wanna encourage, you guys, especially if you’re a member of the Mythical Society, that’s a great place to connect, and you know, to hang out, and I was gonna say commiserate, but I think, composerate, I’m trying to come up with a new word that means to encourage each other in positivity. I’m seeing a lot of that happen on the Mythical Society, or wherever comments are found. You know, Be Your Mythical Best, and let’s see, I guess we’ll be doing… What day is this coming out? So we’re doing the Monday, Wednesday, Friday thing. – Monday, yeah. We’ll see you later. – [Rhett] Sign up for third degree, quarterly or annual plan at mythicalsociety.com, by March 31st, to get your 80’s Movies Link Hasn’t Seen! stereoscopic viewer.

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