Welcome to Good Mythical More It’s a world of lies embarrassment, deception, coverups ego – Its also a world of gifted calorie because we’re donating $1,000 to an organization we feel is doing incredibly important work three fifty.org. Three fifty.org is an international movement of ordinary people working to solve the climate crisis in the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community led renewable energy for all. Please join us and giving at three fifty.org/donate. – Thank you for being your mythical best. Steve is going to present us with embarrassing scenarios, situations who knows what? And then we have to decide if we were experiencing that. Would we lie about it? I mean, what is the root of embarrassment? You know, is it ego? – What is the root of embarrassment? – Yeah Like if you have no ego, how could you be embarrassed? – Yeah yeah it’s ego. – [Stevie] How about you missed your child’s big game, play or recital because you totally forgot. – Whoa this is sad already. Dang cause now its like you gotta you gotta lie to the kid. – Would you lie about it? – Ah cause I was thinking just like a general defense of like, it wasn’t me. That works for farts, but it doesn’t work for not showing up. – It wasn’t me it wasn’t me that didn’t show up. I mean, was your other dad which is which we need to talk about that. So it’s a distract in play. – I mean, I’ve, I’ve definitely shown up late to some things like, you know the parking at Lando’s school is just, I didn’t anticipate how many, how far I’d have to park away. So I’m I’m rolling in and he’s already, the chorus is already halfway through the first, you know Christmas jingle – Yeah but they’re all singing together right? – They’re all singing together. – That’s different than like him having like a solo. – He didn’t have solo – If you missed the solo then you’re, you know a deadbeat dad. – Well He didn’t have a solo. Should I have not shown up? – I mean you could have winged it – (woman laughs) – Son do you have a solo? Okay I’m not going to be there. Call me when you’re having a solo, – Call me when you have a solo. – Ah no I think this is, – But I did lie to him. I told him I didn’t miss I didn’t miss a beat. No I didn’t lie to him. – Well I think that you know, you had to take into account cause there are circumstances in which a lie is to protect someone that you love right? Ahh – Sounds like something a liar would say. – And so like you know – [Stevie] We could also lie about the reason that you didn’t make it. Like you like you know what I mean, like, Oh, I got held up. – Yeah yeah he knows I’m not there, I’m not going to fool him about that. – Your other dad called me and decided, and it was, that won’t work – I don’t – I think I would just be that – I don’t lie to my children – Completely forgot about it and I’m sorry ill make it up to you – [Stevie] You just said that you lied – I was joking. – [Stevie] Oh, – I think I don’t remember what I said. What did I say? Yeah I said I was just joking, – But there’s, hold on. But there’s, there’s definitely a circumstance in which you might lie to your kids like, if one of your kids was like, – like not about, – Dad do you think that this project is amazing? – I don’t – And if its not what are you gonna be like? no, it sucks. – Okay good point. So I’m going to narrow it. Well I do everything I don’t try I don’t, we don’t lie to our kids about something that is related to them. Like, you know, something that like the only reason you would lie is to make yourself feel better. It’s like, Oh, – I would only lie to make them feel better. – But in that instance you wouldn’t lie because it would be, you’re saying that would make them better. That would make them feel better. – I didn’t show up because you – I didn’t show up at your recital because I was in a car accident – Cause you’re not important enough for me to remember you like that’s what you or it says like Hey man, I didn’t show up because I, I got held up and something that I just couldn’t get out of at work I’m not saying I’m, I’m just throwing that out there – I would, I think what I would say is you got to own, if you don’t own your mistakes to your children then they’re gonna, – well, of course, – They’re gonna think you can’t make mistakes, – But if you did something to wrong your children, yes but if you did something that them knowing the truth is going to make them feel smaller then I think it’s on the table to make up a white lie to protect them. I’m not saying I would do it. I haven’t met, I haven’t forgotten something. I’ve missed something cause I’ve been like on a trip or something like that. – But everyone knew it – And we’ll have a conversation about it. But ah so I haven’t been presented with this thing, but I don’t know. I’m not a hundred percent sure what I would do. – [Stevie] Okay. How about this one? We did, we did start off a little intense there. You forgot to let the dog out. And now your new sofa is ruined. – Hmm. Ja Jade has ruined some stuff, not not a new sofa, but like, like a prized rug got some brown stains, that you can’t seem to get out. – But how would you lie about that? I let her out but she just got right back in. She broke in, the dog broke in – [Stevie] No like you, you, if you forgot to let the dog out then and they messed up something – This is a simple one – [Stevie] you can say that you took them out already. – I think the answer to your question doesn’t does not inform your answer because basically if you’re still going down that same path as last time, who would you be protecting by lying? – Only myself. – Right. That’s that that makes this open and shut case. Right? – Ill agree yeah. – So there’s no one else to the lie doesn’t help anyone else so this is an easy one. – It might help the dog. You know? – No, no, no, no. The lie puts all the blame on the dog. – Right so, what if you wanted to lie on behalf of the dog to protect the dog? – (woman laughs) – So if you want it to be like hey listen, – [Stevie] it was me who took a crap on the rug. – It wasn’t Barbara it was me. I feel horrible about it. If the whole idea is to take the biggest blame and to like be the most sacrificial – That’s cool – It’s like, I don’t, you don’t, I don’t want you to smell the crap on the rug, but if you smell it you’ll smell it smells a lot like mine. – Wow the dog doesn’t know that you lied so on their behalf. – But the dog knows that my wife is mad at it. Right. She may not know what she did. She’s like why I’m only living in the present. I don’t know why you’re mad. – Yeah I don’t think the dog would realize enough for the benefit for you to do that for the dog. – No but I wouldn’t lie I wouldn’t lie – And again, that’s not really helping the dog, That’s more of a what’s the word? Enabling the dog. – Yeah you don’t want to do that. – No, don’t lie. I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t lie. – [Stevie] You clogged the toilet during a party in a tiny one bedroom apartment. – Definitely lie. How do I do this? This is what I taught. we discussed this last time we were talking about moral situations – But it was a bit just a party as well? – Yeah. – [Stevie] Yeah We, we discussed ways to lie I believe. So this would be like, yes, you would lie. – And I was reaching deep into what I would actually do to come up with and answer – No but okay let’s really, – Which is definitely lie – Let’s really explore this for a second because I was going to be completely honest with you. If I was at a party and I was in the bathroom, doing my business – You’d lie. – I clogged it. I and And there was no plunger, I think before I tried to figure out an elaborate lie, which would be very difficult to believe. I would go plunge your hand. – (people laughing) – Sometimes you got to go plunge your hand. – I think I would go plunge your hand And I mean I got a long arm, I got long fingers. I mean, it would be super nasty but only I know about it. That’s how much you care about that’s how much you hate telling somebody you clogged the toilet – Yeah yeah yeah – Because you know they’ve they got a plunger somewhere I felt all you had to do is ask. – would you ask, She said it was a one bathroom apartment. So the assumption is there’s no other plunger. I’m saying I’d go plunge your hand. Before I asked about a plunger – There has to be a plunger somewhere. – If I was in a mansion with 11 bathrooms, and I knew that if I walked out, they’re all going to be, they all, everybody knew it was me. – That’s a huge mansion everybody’s right outside of the door to your bathroom? – In this scenario Yes. – Why? It’s not an 80’s arcade game – If I knew I could come out and like find another plunger, of course I’d find one right? But I think before I asked, hey, it feels on know how well I knew the person – That that would embarrass you that much. I mean, that does this does say a lot – No, no. If it was at your house or if it was in a friends house – In that situation. I’m just saying you’re willing to go you’re willing to go plunge your hand? It must really make you feel scare you to have to tell somebody you clogged the toilet – It’s my poop. Its my poop – Are you trying to talk yourself into no plunger hand? – No I’m saying it’s my poop. I could plunge hand – So plunge your hand is not a big deal to you. – It’s not that big a deal. I mean, there’s also a sink in the bathroom where I can wash my hands. – That’s convenient That’s why it’s there for people doing plunger hand – The only person who knows I did plunger hand is me. – I don’t think you, I don’t. And I don’t. And I don’t think a minute will go by where you don’t think about it. – But here’s the worst case scenario, you do plunge your hand and you don’t solve the problem. And then you still got to ask and you’ve got plunger hand – Yeah. – That’s the worst. – I’m just, I mean, I’m not that embarrassed by clogging a toilet. – Well, what if it was like the president house? – President of what? – Like the president of the beta club. – Okay, now we’re talking. – Yeah. – Like somebody you were trying to impress. – You’re Right right, once you put it in terms of beta club president, I’m definitely going plunge your hand. What’s the next one. – [Stevie] We’re sticking with potty humor here. You farted in an elevator in front of your employees. – (man laughs) – That’s funny – Hey hear at this – We don’t have an elevator, we need to get an elevator here. – Here at this job – That’s what I’m realizing – In mythical entertainment – so that I can fart with people – I mean, I feel like there would definitely be no apology. There would probably be like a proud claiming of it. You know – I mean, is it, I mean that’s a power move right there. – I think actually I think doing it at a place of employment, you’re still too close to people. I feel like this is a, you’re in the elevator that takes you and like 12 other tourists to the top of the empire state building. So like people you don’t know. Right. And you farted and it’s just like one of it’s a sour one. – And and even if they – Everybody immediately just go like, Oh God and like, it’s so bad that people are talking about it. So it’s it’s so it’s not one of those situations where it’s like you’re smelling it – In multiple languages Cause you know, going up in the in the – Oh yeah you got international commentary – You know and fart is a universal language, everybody knows what’s happened. – Yeah. And everybody thinks that they can tell which way it came from, by which nostril entered first. Everybody thinks they’ve got a radar, a snow, snow-dar, a nose-dar that can’t figure out which way it came from. And also you begin to look at the people who, who could be responsible for that smell. I wouldn’t, I would lie my bridges off because – Exactly. – There’s not, it’s not funny. – And there’s so many other people to take the blame – There’s nothing you can say that would then get a laugh from people because they’re still smelling it. – Ha! burritos. Am I right? – Right its just like oh man. – Yeah it just makes you mad. – It makes you madder – Super mad. And there’s always someone who, even if they didn’t do it, they look guilty. They don’t they don’t know how to make the right face – Resting fart face just let them have it. – [Stevie] Okay, Your friend asks if their breath stinks, it does and it has stunk for years. – Oh you are – Oh yes. – You are rolling out the red carpet for the, for us. – The question is – I wish – Do you say it without they didn’t without them asking – I wish that would happen, The problem is that doesn’t happen, that they don’t ask the people who need to ask, don’t. You know what? Right now I want every, I want everyone – We’re going to solve some problems we are gonna help some lives right now. – I want, you don’t have to do it right now. I want you to commit to asking someone who you feel safe with if your breath stinks and then clarify and say, and I don’t mean like right now, I mean, – Have you smelled my breath stinking – Constantly habitually, cyclically? Have you smelled my breath stink on more than three occasions over the course of our relationship? – Yeah. I mean I went to a restaurant back when I used to go to restaurants and ah – Commit to it. – I sat down with my wife on a date and a and another couple sat down not even particularly close to us. – Yeah they don’t have to be close – the husband started talking and it was that very specific halitosis smell, that is like, it’s almost like you can see the bacteria like on – We’ve talked about this for years this is how our, – And I was like that poor woman, she’s either just decided to put up with this or she no longer smells it but me – She no longer smells it I hope – Five six feet away from this guy can smell it. And there’s so many people in the world who have this problem and the people who love them will not tell them. – I just think it’s like – Tell them – That’s just Henry smell. You know how some people, you can look, smell a shirt and you just know that’s Henry’s shirt. That’s just, Henry’s that’s Henry’s breath. I mean, it’s – Like it’s not, it’s not registering that it’s bad. – It’s not bad, It’s just Henry. – Oh, it’s bad. – I wish. I mean, so if asked the door is wide open, there’s not the, you know, the embarrassment, you know, there’s a, there’s a way to be gentle, but you have to find it. – And regardless of who you are, – And that’s why I’m asking you’re asking someone that you feel safe with – Once a month, all people should take a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water about one to one ratio and gargle. You’re like, what? Hydrogen peroxide that’ll kill me. We’ll look on the fricking package, it says oral debriding agent. That means you can put it in your mouth. – Divorces your throat from stank. That’s why it debrides it. – Mix it with some water, gargle it twice – Then brush that tongue brush brush that tongue – You’ll be good. – Then brushy brush everything else – If there’s any doubt at all, do that, you will help so many people please, – If we’ve accomplished nothing else today, And I don’t believe we have – Then I feel good about what we’ve just done for society. – We changed lives, yeah – We didn’t wanna get to it but we did it. – [VOICE] Get these tees shipped prime by heading over to amazon.com/mythical