(rooster crowing) – Welcome to Good Mythical MORE. Can we spell the winning words from previous spelling bees? – I’m going to need you to grab that ’cause I really don’t want to touch anything. – You can’t touch anything huh? – Yeah, unless you won’t poop in Mayo. – Here you go. – I mean, you. – Name that squad. – What’s a group of Ravens called? It’s called a rank, a rank of ravens. – Isn’t that a, no murder is crows. Ravens are kind of like crows or I mean, they’re black and scary – A rivalry crows, of ravens. a rivalry of Ravens. – What’s another word for murder, homicide. – A reign of ravens. – A homicide of Ravens [Voice] An unkindness. – An unkindness of Ravens. – That’s stupid. – That’s, at a certain point. – And who made, who, comes up with these rules? Huh? – I don’t buy it. – Could you escort the wheel of, and get out of that? I’m not touching. – I’m having to do everything today. – Okay. – On these cards. – We’ve got words. – We have them. – That were the winner, this is the final word. Like the winning word. The word that like stumped somebody or somebody, this is when it gets hard. I bet neither of us can properly correctly spell any of these words. And I’ll be super surprised if either of us can. – Oh yeah, do you want to go first? – Sure. – Okay. First word is – How do I smell? – You stink, dude. – I was kind of starting to get used to it. I had neutralize myself. – I’m used to it for the most part, but. – I’m kind of like a manure smell. – Well, I feel like I’m walking in a horse barn. You said we wouldn’t be able to spell these words. I don’t know if we’ll be able to pronounce then either. – Yeah, right exactly. – Asceticism, asceticism. – Could I have the definition of the word? – The manner of life practices or principles of an ascetic a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices, extreme self-denial or self mortification for religious reasons. – Yeah. So this is like the ascetic monks. – Yep. – I’ve read this word in a book. Did I remember how it was spelled? – Asceticism. This is the winning word from 1929 I would not have guessed that the Scripps Spelling Bee’s been around that long. Was it sponsored by scripts way back in 1929? Okay. Who knows? – The question is whether the first two letters are in my mind. Is it A-C or is it A-E-C or neither? Don’t give me the eeh, until I’m done. Because I think they let him finish and get completely just bumfuzzled before they, so don’t tell me when I get it wrong. Just tell me what I get it wrong after I get it wrong. – Okay. But if I lose interest you pretty much know you’ve gotten it wrong. – Asceticism. A, pretty sure that it’s right. Can you stop and talk in between the letters? Is that against the rules? – I feel so bad for you. You can do anything you want. – C-S-E-T-I-C-I-S-M asceticism. – Eeeh! (laughing) It’s A-S-C. – Oh, so it’s like science, A-S-C Okay. Yeah. That’s, I know it doesn’t matter in the Scripp’s Spelling Bee, but I just got it backwards. – I have to sneeze because of the bait dust on me.(sneezing) – Wow. That was pretty, Oh, these are actually easier than I thought, you’re going to get this one. – Oh, you almost got that one. – Winter of 1933 Spelling Bee. – Okay. – This is back when it was like I guess back in the day, it was just easier. Right? – There just weren’t as many words back then. – Torsion. – Torsion. Can you use that in a sentence but I don’t want the sentence to be testicular torsion. – Well, that’s the sentence that scripts provided me. A competitive game of test to kill may lead to torsion of one’s junk. – Oh gosh. I hate thinking about that. Yeah. I was, I can’t remember what we were talking about but I guess it doesn’t matter. Cause I think Lincoln statement was out of the blue. He was like, “You know what, if you want to really get to me, just talk about testicular torsion.” – If you want to get to me. – And I’m like, that’s it son, That’s right. Don’t mention that around me torsion. I remember there was an Adidas shoe that was like Adidas torsion, wasn’t there? – I believe so. – And it had like a, it had a thing. – I think I have some poop in my eye. – It had a thing on the bottom of the sole that like, – Torsion – Torsion, T-O-R torsion something I-O-N T-O-R-S-I-O-N. – Correct. – Huh? Torsion. – You thought it would be a T? – Yeah. There was a shoe Adidas torsion shoe, right? – Yeah, the Addidas torsion. – And what was the principle behind that? Do you remember? It was like the front and back of the shoe were connected by this, – Torsion – by this rod almost. It looked like a rod. – It’s called the torsion rod. – Rod, – The TR. – Semaphore. – (laughing) Yeah. See how far I get. – Winning word of 1946, Semaphore. – Can you give me the definition? – An apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals such as a light whose position may be changed. – Can you give me the origin? Is that on there? – Ah ah. – Well, that would sure help. Can you give me in a sentence? – The semaphore signal from a passing ship alerted the captain of rocks ahead, Semaphore. – Okay. – I don’t really see any clues in there. – Semaphore, – Is it legal to close your eyes when you’re participating in the spelling bee? – Oh Yeah. – I don’t recall people doing that. – Lots of kids do. – Do kids do that? – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Do they squint? – Some of the best ones do this. – They do? – Yeah, yeah. Semaphore C-E-M-A-P-H-O-R. – Nope. It’s S and then there’s an E on the end. – Oh, but I got the pH. – You did get that, but you still miss too letters. – Well, the E on the end. Now I could have been here forever id never got that. – Oh yeah. So I’m looking at some Adidas torsion shoes down here. – Ooh, – You know what? that is a cool, that’s kind of a cool looking shoe. Are they back? Or are these all back in the day? – This word is one of my I wouldn’t say it’s one of my favorite words but it’s a word that I was recently discussing, – Its a cool new shoe – on the Twitter with some, what is her name? There is a woman in England who was like a word expert. And I was asking, I was looking for the definition of a certain word or if there was a word that meant this thing that I was looking for, and she suggested this word which I still don’t think the correct word, but insouciant, insouciant. – Definition please. – Free from concern, worry, or anxiety, carefree, nonchalant. This is the winning word of 1951. I want to tell you though if you want to use these cards again there’s gonna be poop and namings on them. – Insouciant. Quick reminder, if you want the Rhett and Link Bobbleheads the last collectible item of the year 2020 you got to join the Mythical Society 3rd degree, quarterly or annual plan by December 31st if you’re not already, if you weren’t already a third degree member, by the end of October you got to do an annual quarterly third to qualify December 31st mythicalsociety.com, Rhett and Liknk Bobbleheads. The box turns into the set and is a display. – Oh, it’s EO. That was the other thing I was smelling. – What’s the word again? Insouciant – Insouciant. – Insouciant. – Insouciant. – Insouciant. – E-N S-U-C-H-I-A-N-T-E insouciant – Eh, – What is it? – I-N-S-O-U-C-I-A-N-T – Oh, I’ve seen that word, insouciant. – Yeah, that’s a tough one. – Insouciant. – That’s a winning word. – 1951, you want another? – I’m going to get one, I’m going to get one. I just want to get one. – Are those torsion shoes new or is that all vintage? – [Voice] They’re all on store now, so you can get one. – These are fresh. – You can get torsion today. And is it true – There are some cool, check out the torsion shoes. – Is it true that the Adidas torsion, – mythicalsociety.com – will prevent testicular torsion. That’s what they’re for. Right? – That’s when your, – It has a little guard that comes up. – That’s when each of them – Switches places if your ball switches places, Go to the emergency room because if the balls switch places, you can lose one or both of them. – Yeah. Cause, cause they’re not just free in there, they’re attached. – Yeah. You’re right ball is your right ball and your left bal is your left ball and it’s gotta be that way. – Oh gosh. When you went from 1960. – The more recent we get, the harder they’re gonna get. I may have blown my chance to not getting the first couple ones. There’s poop in my drink. – Eudaemonic. Eudemon, it’s a Jamaican word. – Eudaemonic. – Eudaemonic. Eudaemonic. Eudaemonic, can you give me the definition. – Pertaining or conducive to happiness? – Okay. That helps, eudaemonic. – Frewy, is a main character in rat’s most eudaemonic daydreams. – Okay. Now I don’t, I’m a victim of the Harnett County school system. So, – Come on. – So, but I do know enough to know that by telling me that it meant happiness. I know that the first two letters are E-U like euphoria. – Oh yeah. – Cause of Latin, which I did not take, but I know that’s got something to do with Latin. So I’m going to go with E-U. eudaemonic, eudaemonic. Can you pronounce it very specifically and slowly – Eudaemonic. – (laughing) eudaemonic. Is it you just made a long a sound. Are you really helping me that much? – Yeah, because eudaemonic – Okay. E-U-D-A-M-O-N-I-C eudaemonic. – You’re close. E-U-D-A-E-M-O-N-I-C. – Oh, wow. – That was, I mean, that was crazy. Insouciant, I had seen. And so I’m kicking myself. I’ve never seen this. – I’ve never seen eudaemonic. – Eudaemonic, eudaemonic. – Oh gosh – I’m ready. – I don’t know who made these cards, but you guys did not put, you didn’t put emphasis on the syllables. It’s difficult to know how to pronounce them. Cause I don’t know what emphasis is where the emphasis is supposed to be. But I would just say elegiacal (audience laughing) – Elegiacal. You mean elegiacal I don’t want to see it now. Elegiacal. Elegegical, what? – Elegiacal could work. Elegiacal, elegiacal, elegiacal. – Definition. – Well, it was the winning word in 1988. It’s used in, suitable for or resembling an elergy. – [Voice] Elegiacal, I think – That makes a lot more sense. – Elegiacal. – Elegiacal. – From an allergy. You mean a eulogy? – An elergy like Hillbilly Elegy. That book, it was gonna be a movie. – Okay. So I know that’s E-L-E– – Expressing sorrow or limitation. The elegiacal ending of the notebooks still gets me. That’s the sentence I’ve decided to use. – Elgeico, elegiacal. – Elegiacal. – Elegigeigogo, elegidgeiko. – Elegiacal. – Elegiacal. – Elegiacal, I think you can get this one. – Elergy is, E-L-E-G-Y E-L-E-G-I-A-C-A-L – That’s it, elegiacal. – Elegiacal. – Elegiacal. – Let me see that. Okay. Elegiacal, yeah. – Okay, this is my last chance. Gotta have something go right today. – Winning Word of 1996, vivisepolker (laughing) I’m sorry, vivisepulture. – Vivisepulture? – Yeah. You gotta forget, supolker is a different thing. It’s not has nothing to do with this. The act or progress of burying alive. Vivisepulture. – Vivisepulture? – Yeah. – The act of burying alive? Vivisepulture. Pulture, pulture. Vivisepulture. – When burying somebody alive, you know, viva is living right? Vivisepulture. – V-I-V-A, viva sa, sepulture? S-E-P-U-L-T-U-R-E. – You said, V-I-V-A did you mean to say that? Viva – Viva. – It’s V-I-V-I – Oh, so I was right, except that one letter I was going viva instead of vivid, vivisepulture. – Yeah. Vivi, you should have gotten that part. You should have gotten that one, that was your chance. You should’ve gotten that. Let’s see if I can go at it. I really cared about the Spelling Bee. I like they gave you the pamphlet and it was sponsored by the local newspaper. And like, it was just columns of words in a pamphlet. And I would pour over that thing and practice and I still lost. I lost with the word I lost with was fruition. And that was in like third or fourth grade. I was so mad. – I lost in the first round with extraordinary. – Okay. You rarely see that word. It’s hard to, – And then when I got back to my seat and I looked it up or later when, you couldn’t look things up later when I was told how it was spelled, I was like, “Oh it’s just extra and ordinary together.” – Yeah, yeah. – I didn’t know that. I just thought, I thought it was like extraordinary. – Fruition, – Like a whole new word. – Can you spell fruition? – Mmh. ( chuckles) – All right, give me that one. – Succedaneum. (laughing) – Succedaneum. – Succedaneum. Winning word of 2001, – Is an insult? – The definition is a substitute. Sentence, I’m sorry, but almond milk is no succedaneum for whole milk, in my opinion. – Succedaneum. – Succedaneum – Succedaneum. – Succedaneum. – Succedaneum. – Succedaneum. – [Stevie] Succedaneum. – Succedaneum, is that what? – [Voice] Yeah, succedaneum – Succedaneum, sorry. Succedaneum Succedaneum. – That’s different. – Succedaneum Succedaneum – S-U-C-S-A-D-A-N-I-U-M, Succedaneum – No, this one is very difficult. S-U-C-C-E-D-A-N-E-U-M, so the C-C can be succe. – I should have known that, succedaneum. – There’s no reason you should know that. Who knows that? Besides kids who memorize it for the spelling, – No, I should have known it was two C’s. All right, there, you have it. I mean, I can stay here forever or you want to just hang out for the rest of the day. – I’m leaving. (upbeat music) Maybe shower, perhaps, – Maybe. – [Voice] Join the 3rd degree quarterly or annual plan of the Mythical Society by December 31st to get the Rhett and Link Bobbleheads visit mythicalsociety.com for details.