GMMore 1736: Reviewing Mythical Beast Census Results

(rooster crowing) (lion roaring) – Oh! (coin clinking) – Did you catch it? All right hold it. – I got it. – Welcome to “Good Mythical More”. All right Rhett so if you were wrong, you have to run to your nearest window and open it and yell, “I’m the oldest I’ve ever been” for the whole world, or at least your neighbors, to hear. – Okay so if it’s tails I gotta do that. If it’s heads, you have to do it. – Even if it’s on the… – It is heads! – Edge? – Heads. (laughs) Heads, all right Link, do it. Nearest window, I know there’s one in that room. I can see light coming from it. – [Link] I’m the oldest I’ve ever been! – Wow, angry. (Stevie laughs) – [Link] Oh gosh I, my window won’t close. – That’s a problem. You did that in such an angry fashion. I mean, you could’ve celebrated it. Hey, we’re the oldest we’ve ever been right now. – As an actor on Google (Stevie laughs) I make strong choices. – Yeah well you know, I definitely would’ve sung it because I’m a musical artist. (both laugh) Okay so this more looks a little bit different because we’re just talking to each other and we’ve got Stevie in our earpiece. – [Stevie] Hello! – Hello! – You know when things get back to normal Stevie, I think I would like an earpiece with your voice in it. – [Stevie] Okay! – Just as a regular part of the show. – As opposed to just in the room? – [Stevie] Yeah then I can’t hear my booming voice throughout the studio and I have that cool sports commentator mic that has the push button on it. And I really miss that thing, I gotta say. – Yeah. – Well no I would like you to work from home and be in our ear. (laughs) – [Stevie] Oh okay, deal. (laughs) – So since we’ve delved into so much data in the episode, let’s keep going but we thought it would be a good time to explore your data. No well to explore what we’ve learned from the mythical survey in terms of what’s the genetic makeup of the mythical beasts? I’m going a little too far. – Well it isn’t something we like to do for, there’s a number of reasons, I mean, we like to know who you guys are and we like to get like a mathematical representation of that because there are some people who are more active and, you know, you kind of interact with them more online. But this is a way to get a little bit better picture of like where you guys are and what you guys like. Because we’re constantly creating in the context of this community and we wanna be able to do that as well as we can. – Yeah and also. – We put out the mythical census, go head. – The other reason is, as they know full well, a large part of our business and the way that we’re enabled to make this show and to support the team of mythical beasts is through ad dollars. – And in order to work with potential sponsors, we need to be able to articulate to them who’s watching to know if they think that it’s worth investing in our content in order to connect with you. – Right, ’cause anytime you’re gonna work with a brand that’s the first question they ask, is like well who watches your show? – What’s your demographic? But we wanted to add some other questions to this census, I’m sorry to cut you off, just because those aren’t the only things that we’re interested in finding out. We’re interested in finding out things that, again like now that we can, we use these insights for us and the way we think and the way we perform and also the way, well you can learn about it too. – Yeah so 50,000 mythical beasts filled out the survey so thank you for that. When you get a group that large you get some really accurate data. – Get some robust data. – So let’s start with relationship status. – You know what? – 40 — – Maybe we shouldn’t start Because. I’m not recording. My GarageBand isn’t rolling. I must have not hit R. – Well you know what? You’ve got the camera audio. The camera audio’s not bad I’ve actually listened to it. It’s not horrible. – Okay, Morgan I’m adding some other, some second sticks for Link. (hands clap) All right actually you guys need to add second sticks too. Because this wasn’t running. – Red slate. (hands clap) – Stevie? – [Stevie] Stevie slate. – Ladies and gentlemen that’s usually what happens before we start the episode. – [Stevie] Ladies and gentlemen like you’re running a circus or something. – (Rhett laughs) It feels like a three-ring circus and I know I’m not running it, I’m the victim. I’m like (Stevie laughs) I’m the mule that’s just like doing everything man. I told you I was flustered. I think I hit the friggin’ R and then a drip fell from my ceiling and hit right on the R button. I can see it’s a little wet. Wasn’t my fault. – You should get, can you get your family to help you a little bit (Stevie laughs) because I know that you can be, you know, you can be overwhelmed with multiple things happening at once. And the idea of, I mean just recording this show right now requires like four or five different things happening. And now you’ve got leaks on top of that. – That’s what I mean man, I know. – Can you get your children to work for you? – Yeah they’re all on the roof with a tarp right now. (Stevie and Rhett laugh) – Good. – I’d rather just fight with myself internally than to bring my whole family into it because the chances of it going sour are pretty high because tensions are high with all this stuff going on. And I have to live with this specific set of people. And only interact with them. I’m trying to keep it as civil as possible. (Stevie laughs) (Link sighs) – It’s not easy, and you got one more than I do, so. I feel for you. Okay, relationship status. – It’s mostly on me but. Yeah so let’s get into some of these. – 46% of you mythical beasts said that you were single. Which, that’s the most common answer in this category. So 46%. Single mythical beasts. What that tells me is that we’ve gotta be in the business of matchmaking. – Mmm. – We gotta make some love connections. – Right I wonder if any. – Being single is fine let me just say it, being single is fine but assuming that a certain percentage of the 46% would like to end their singleness. If that’s you, then maybe we should like have a mythical matchmaker program. What do you think about that? – Well I mean it has happened organically amongst the different places where fans can connect. I mean there’s been marriages. – Yeah there’s been marriages. – I’m sure we’ve caused some divorces. Let’s just be real. (Rhett laughs) So I think the more we stick our hands in the honey pot, the more we’re gonna come out with flies in an ointment. Right? – Oh gosh. – [Stevie] What? – Let’s stay out of being matchmaker ’cause I think we could break as much as we could make. – Okay I get it. – [Stevie] Remember that time we did the hot or not episode with intern PA Alex? – Alex. – [Stevie] The other Alex? – Yeah. – Yes. – [Stevie] And it was like, the interaction on the beginning of the date part was, it was all real and it was all so wonderfully awkward, it was so awkward. – Yeah. – We should do that again. – We were typing for him on the app, making the connection and then they met in person and we put it on the show as a date. (Stevie laughs) Oh gosh, Alex S. – That was a brand deal, wasn’t it? It was a brand deal. – We got paid, that’s right. We got paid to be match makers, you see what happens. I don’t think they stuck it out. – No they’re still together. Okay, the majority of entertainment content consumption. So where do you guys find yourselves going for entertainment. 72% of you said YouTube, that’s good. (laughs) – So 28% don’t watch our show. We know it’s just 100% go to YouTube but 72% decided to put that down as the top place. The majority. – This is where you get the majority of your entertainment. Because I wouldn’t say that for me, I mean I watch YouTube but I still think that a streaming service is. So like 22% of you said streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon are where you get the majority of your entertainment which that’s the case for me personally. ‘Cause I’m old. – Less than .1%, .08% of you said the movie theater. (Rhett and Stevie laugh) What? – A few of y’all just watching a bunch of movies. But ultimately you get that reward. – Is this skewed by people being at home? They forgot that they ever went to the movies? The majority of this was filled out before. – Hold on, but that would be someone saying that the majority of my entertainment is at a movie theater. – Yeah, yeah, okay. – That’s not a lot of people. – It is sinking in. – Only 1.3% of you said that like traditional broadcast or cable TV was where you, I mean that’s crazy. Only 1.3% are saying that you’re just watching regular television. – No no, you just did what you told me not to do. It’s that the majority– – 1.3. The majority, I’m saying like that’s where you’re getting it yes I’m implying that. – Yeah. – I’m not confused, I may be confusing someone but I’m not confused. – Nobody spends the majority of their entertainment time watching broadcast television anymore. – 1.3% people do. – You say that’s high? – It’s crazy. – It’s crazy high. – No, well. (Stevie laughs) – Why is it crazy? – Let’s move on. (Stevie laughs) – [Stevie] Because that used to be like the main. – Because ten years ago 90% of people would be saying I watch television. That’s where I spend most of my time and now in 2020 1% of our audience is spending the majority of their time watching regular television. That’s crazy low, not crazy high, in my opinion. But not too surprising. – I know that’s why, but that’s why I’m not surprised. So I was just trying to figure out why you seem surprised. (Stevie laughs) – Why don’t you just find a honey pot and stick your hand in it. – Hey, listen, listen. – And get some on it. – You’re not more right than I am. I’m telling you I am not surprised by that. – (laughs) Okay, moving along. I am surprised by this. The most popular location for a response is in terms of countries, outside of the United States, was Germany. We got more responses from Germany than any other country other than the United States. – Germany, they’re, Germans are big survey takers. You know you walk down the streets of Berlin and you can’t get anywhere because you’re stopping to take surveys all the time. And people line up. – That’s gotta be what’s going on. – People in Germany they line up to take surveys. Just on the street, for nothing. They don’t get a discount in some mythical store. They get nothing except the pure satisfaction of completing a survey. – So what you’re saying is you’re not surprised that Germany was high. – I’m just saying I’m not surprised. – Right. – I’m not surprised. – Are you surprised by this? – Why are you surprised? – The least popular location. The least popular location was Sumner County, Tennessee. What’s up Sumner County, Tennessee? What y’all got against taking a freaking survey? (Stevie laughs) – I think Kevin wrote that just to mess with us. – [Stevie] No it’s real. – He didn’t make that up, that’s real. You question everything. – How could we determine the least number of responses from a county? Are you saying that every other county that existed. – [Stevie] Sumner County is also the place where people watch broadcast and cable TV, so it’s all lining up. They don’t have currywurst there. – I’m assuming there are some counties where no one responded. But this is probably the county that pinged the lowest on our scale. So you know what, there’s like one person in Sumner County who did fill out the survey so thank you to whoever you are. – Yeah. But basically we learned nothing with that stat. (Stevie laughs) – Well I’m just telling you right now I’m going to Germany before I’m going to Sumner County Tennessee. – With your surveys under your arm. – No I’m really going to bask in the results of the survey. – So we wanted to find out how many of the survey takers, how long they have been watching us. So that was GMM and even before, like an option was from the beginning of us making stuff on YouTube. – [Stevie] Yeah any mythical content. – Any mythical content so 71% of you, the highest representation, have been watching from two to five years. So we got some committed mythical beasts out there. You know we hit a, in that time frame is when we gained a lot of popularity with “Good Mythical Morning” so it does make sense that we have an influx of viewers. But the fact that so many of you started then and have stuck around since then is, that’s a good sign. And I’m not surprised by that. – Speaking of GMM, your top five favorite guests and again this was a fill in the blank so you guys volunteered these answers. Number one most popular, Post Malone. Number two, Jack Black. Number three, Terry Crews. Number four, Cotton Candy Randy. And number five, Ben Schwartz. – I don’t consider Cotton Candy Randy a guest. – He’s a friend of the show. Friend of the show. – He’s a fried of the show. He’s a special feature. So I wonder, do we know if you take Cotton Candy Randy off who number six was? Do we have? – [Stevie] I don’t know, yeah I don’t probably know. – What we do know is that the least favorite guest according to Kevin was Alex Punch. (Stevie laughs) So that was just one just one little tidbit there. – [Stevie] Facts. – Favorite music genre. The biggest piece of that pie, at 26%, was alternative slash indie. Only 1.5% of you made classical music your favorite. But that’s not surprising. – People who, I mean think about that. Like people who said classical music is their favorite musical genre. That’s just people who like drive Mercedes with gloves on. You know what I’m saying? There’s very few people. – They’re like more professors of classical music. – Yeah, yeah I mean that’s just it. – Only 7% their favorite genre was country. – I’m not surprised I mean country, I mean. – You’re not surprised? – It’s a tough sell. It’s a tough sell. I am surprised that the other most popular answer was metal. 19% of our audience, so one out of five people who responded to this, metal is your go-to jam. – Metal, I have a hard time thinking of like what’s a current metal band. Like current metal. – Who’s the most popular metal band right now? – Mastodon. – [Stevie] We have like quite a few mythical crew that are into metal and talk about it all the time too. So it’s lining up nicely. – Lamb of God, Avenged Sevenfold, we met Mastodon. On the Grammy red carpet we interviewed them. I didn’t know it was that popular. Well so I think what we gotta learn from this is that you know we just need to be doing more metal. (Stevie laughs) Or maybe we need to do be doing things more metal, like we need to be more metal. – Yeah, yeah like talk like this. Yeah. – Hey don’t alienate the metal people man. Now you’re making fun. – Here’s a good answer. When we get back in that studio and we’re sitting behind that desk, underneath the desk we should have a double kick drum. And my right foot and your left foot. (both imitate a drum beating) That should be happening under there. – Okay, double kick drum and Stevie in the earpiece. – What if the front of the desk became a double kick drum and we could cut to a wide shot to emphasize things and be like. (imitates drum beating) – Wow. – Morgan, I know you’re listening. (Rhett laughs) Take some notes. This is the type of thing that like. – You wanna turn the set into, the desk into a drum set. – A metal drum kit, totally hidden. This is the type of thing that we talk about and then we show up back at the studio and Morgan’s been there all weekend and he’s installed a double kick drum under there. (Rhett and Stevie laugh) – You’re right, wouldn’t be surprised. Okay favorite movie genre, comedy was the top one at 33%. – Hmm that’s good. – That works well. Least favorite romantic comedy. (air whooshes) Only 8% of people are into rom-coms. And we don’t do a lot of rom-com based stuff. You did urinate into my mouth with chocolate (Stevie laughs) which is pretty romantic and funny at the same time. – [Stevie] So romantic. (Rhett laughs) – What’s the last rom-com you’ve watched? Stevie, Rhett? – [Stevie] Guys I don’t even know if it was a rom-com ’cause I fell asleep halfway through but that movie “Book Club” with like Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda is on Netflix or Prime or something and I was like this is exactly what the world needs right now. – To fall asleep to. (Rhett laughs) – [Stevie] Well it’s about a book club that they start and they start reading “Fifty Shades of Gray” in the book club as these older women and that’s the premise of the movie. But I’m pretty sure something romantic happens at some point I just fell asleep before that. But I recommend the first half of the movie. Very great, very great. – Okay, and finally. Again these aren’t all the questions on the survey and we’re learning a lot more behind the scenes but in terms of the fun things to share with you, which of these catch phrases best suit you was the question and the options in reverse popularity were, starting at 11%, when did I get that mole? At 17%, if it quacks like a duck, make tacos. Moving to 19%, are those my socks? And the runner up at 19%, flippity floppity ding dang dong. Rhett I’ll give you the honors. – And the most popular. – Of the most popular. – The most popular phrase that represents you was, at 31%, double kick drum. (Link imitates a drum beating) Whoa that’s a lot of pudding! – (laughs) That’s a good one man. I think you can say that whenever you’re overwhelmed by something or when you’re really excited. When you’re overwhelmed with good news that’s the phrase. – Whoa that’s a lot of pudding! – Whoa that is a lot of pudding man. (Stevie laughs) You need to stretch out the good news. – I like that. I like that. – It’s basically when you’re experiencing like an avalanche of goodness or joy. That’s our catch phrase. – Okay whoa that’s a lot of pudding. We’re gonna put that on a t-shirt! (laughs) We should right? – Yeah yeah let’s do that. – Thank you for taking the time to fill out the mythical census, very helpful to know even more about you without having to sit down with each one of you individually. Because that would take quite some time. – But we are gonna do it. Do a blind taste test in your sleep with our mythical sleep masks available now at mythical.com.

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