(rooster crowing) (lion roaring) – Welcome to Good Mythical More. We are going to try our hands at bonsai-ing. We’re going to bonsai these trees. – It’s, you know, it’s appropriate that we’re, messing with trees because we’re donating $1,000 to Cool Earth to aid in their mission to halt deforestation and its impact on climate change. So let’s cut some trees in honor of halting deforestation. – We’re pruning, and we’re bringing out character, and we’re not killing it. – Right, Cool Earth shares the most effective rainforest conservation methods around the world, and has helped protect nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest impacting thousands of local families whose futures have been transformed. Please join us in giving and help protect Earth’s the most essential ecosystem @coolearth.org. – Thank you for being your mythical best. And for, you know, the universal interest in bonsai has skyrocketed ever since that Netflix series. It’s just this guy and he just bonsais. He doesn’t talk. And I’m making this up, but I do think this is something I would watch. – I was gonna say I’ve never seen this. Well, you know, my wife, as a birthday present, about four years ago or so got me a bonsai that had been bonsaied for 25 years. – Wow. – So a lot of these that you buy, you know, they’ve been cared for and molded over the course of many years, and that’s how you get a really good looking at one like– We got a picture here, we’re going to try to approximate with what we have. Can you bring that up, Zach? Now, we’re not going to get close to that because that’s, that bonsai’s been around for awhile. – It kind of gives you a sense of scale that like it’s small, but it could be on, like, on a mountaintop. – In order to get to that point, you have to invest years. Now, she gave me this thing. It’s twenty-five years old. Actually, surprisingly, not as expensive as you think it might be, but it, I did kill it within 12 months. – Now we watched a little tutorial. – And I wasn’t trying. I was like, really. I wasn’t trying to kill it. I was really trying to do the right thing, but it’s harder than you think, man. – Step number one is scrape away soil with a metal tool or chopstick until you find the nebari. – So this is where your trying– – Which is the root flayer. – Now, I gotta get some better tools. I mean, this thing grabs. Look at this, look at this. Just comes apart. Come on now. – You need, you get, you have to be gentle to find a nebari. – There’s so many roots right here. – It’s basically, it’s just so you can see where the trunk is really situated so that you can decide which direction this tree needs to go. Now I’m going to find the front. – I think my nebari has already been revealed because I can’t get rid of any of these, these roots here. – And mine… yeah, I think this is a good looking front. – I think you want it to be going sideways from the front. You want to emphasize the sideways nature of it. – And then all the tertiary stuff you want to take off. – Oh, I see some interesting stuff going on here. First of all. Was it two years ago at the Mythical Christmas party, we were like, we need something. We need something amazing. We need something unexpected. We need some entertainment that, when all our employees show up at this bar in Los Angeles, they’re just going to be, they’re going to be talking about it for years. And Chase just mentioned it. Hey, couple of years later, he’s still talking about it. – He can’t forget it, he can’t forget it. – We hired a guy to make bonsai. – Live. – Live. – Live bonsai we called it. – It was great. I mean, it was and it wasn’t great. – I thought it was excellent. – I mean, there’s something very relaxing about just snipping. – Snipping. – Snipping, and… – Snipping and grinning. Just a couple of boys snipping and grinning. – See, Imma make a bold move here, right from the beginning. I’m taking this thing off. Like just the way that I’ve looked at the nebari. I could tell that… – Oh, I just got rid of something really serious. – That this, I didn’t need that. The nebari has told me. – This is another serious limb right here. Is that too serious? – Got all of this little stuff. It just, it… The satisfying, the snip satisfaction is through the roof. I think that that is the real appeal of a… – Sorry, I’m in your space. – Oh yeah, this is… – Okay, something’s happening over here. – Yeah, I’m feeling… – Whoops. Oh, that’s pretty good right here. I just don’t think you can have, you can’t have anything too low. – Nope. Can’t have anything too low. – I gotta, I mean, I got something that’s. I mean, look at like. – Oh wow. – What do I do with that right there? Because that’s so low, but it’s so thick. – I think you got to get rid of that. The nebari is speaking, you gotta listen. And I’ve got. – Oh gosh. – A lot of interest right here. – Interest? – Oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry nebari. – We apologize for the dad noises that Rhett has already started with. – Oh my goodness. – You got rid of– – I just cut a bush off of my bush. I mean, I got rid of a whole bush. Can I plant this and make a whole different bush? – Sure. – I had to get rid of it ’cause the nebari was speaking to me. Okay now, now I got something to work with. Back it up and reverse it. – This is, I mean, I gotta tell you, this is fun. I’d have more fun if I were outdoors and I wasn’t being watched. – What I don’t have. – But it’s still a lot of fun. – What I don’t have is anywhere to go from here because my trunk literally goes right here and then splits into a million pieces. Oh gosh, I gotta make some really choice decisions here. Gotta get rid of some of this stuff. – You need to make a decision too. Plug alert. The last quarterly item of 2020, which is our bobbleheads. There you can, you can barely see ’em right through the, through the limbs over there. This unique collectible is only available to the Mythical Society third degree members. So, if you’re not already third degree and you weren’t, by the end of October, don’t miss out. You have to join third degree, quarterly or annual plan by December 31st in order to qualify for the bobbleheads. So it’s not too late, third degree quarterly annual. Get yourself in on that bobblehead before it’s gone. – All of this. – Gotta start moving faster. – I mean, I’ve gotten rid of quite a bit. – Speed bonsai, that’s the thing. – Well, that’s what the guy did at the party. That’s why I was so into it. – And you could go up to him and talk to him while he was doing it. – And he wouldn’t look at you though. – But he would talk to you. – He talked to you, wouldn’t look at you. – I mean, it’s a relaxing practice. And then it, you know, really connects you with nature. As you’re getting rid of all this stuff. (snipping) Whoops. There goes that. I feel like I got too much going on here. – That’s so, look at this point. My bush is unruly. Got an unruly bush, man. (tools clanking) I am going. Let’s see. I got like a 1970s bush over here. It’s like, I’m just letting it go. – It’s definitely. – Don’t even care. Let’s see, I wanna get rid of this in the middle. – Oh yeah. It’s happening. ♪ Bonsaiing. ♪ ♪ I’m a bonsai man ♪ – I need a consult because look. I don’t… everything goes right here, and then just get small. Like I honestly, I don’t know where to go. I don’t have a trunk. See how this goes in. You have a trunk. I don’t have a trunk. – I’ve made good decisions. – No, I didn’t have anything, man. I had nothing to go with. I mean the biggest piece I got is this right here. I gotta keep that. – Take the, just take the little stuff off. Be indiscriminate. – Hmm. I don’t know what to do here. – Let’s see, this is we should, this should be a channel. – Also think you can trim the ends, and that’s really going to give you. – I mean, look at this deal over here. I mean, it’s like, I got, I feel like I just got to get rid of that. It’s just too big. Sometimes I’d go out in my, in my front yard, and I trim some of the lower limbs of my, I got a fig tree and a fruit tree. And one time I was chasing the dog under the fruit tree, trying to get her from going out in the street, and a limb poked me right in the eye, but I had my glasses on. If I didn’t have my glasses on, I think I would have lost my eye. And I’m not even joking. That’s that’s why it’s important to prune your trees so you can walk underneath them and dash for a dog and not lose an eye. Like, I would be wearing an eye patch right now. – Well, that would be cool I think. The eye patch bonsai man? – Well, I think it’d be cool for you to wear an eye patch. I don’t want to wear an eye patch. I’d rather have both eyes. – I think when bonsaiing, it might, I don’t think you need depth perception for bonsai. – It smells good too. This is a nice thing. – I feel like I got to just gotta get rid of this stuff. – It’s kind of like grooming a poodle. If the poodle were a plant. – I’ve gotta just… – My arm is getting tired too. It’s quite a workout. – Having to make some– – I felt a little trickle of sweat going down my back. – I may regret… – My lower back got a little trickle. – This feels unnecessary. – You talking about this whole idea? – (laughs) – There’s so many little limbs. ♪ Little limb ♪ ♪ little limb ♪ – Oh gosh, I’m really trying. This is a good thing here. Like that’s the only thing that happens on my tree that I like. – [Stevie] Neither one of you are like, like you don’t take. There’s no satisfaction you gain from going out and working in the yard, correct? I mean, you told your fruit limb story about poking yourself in the face, but. – I’m more, yeah, I’m more of an organizer than a planter. I don’t like to bring. I don’t like to bring life into my life. I like to bring organization into my life. But this area here. Yeah, I, we had a little herb garden. (metal scraping) This is turning into, like, the saddest looking thing. – Well, I think it’s all about time. It’s all about time. – Right, sadness plus time equals bonsai (laughs). That’s the equation that we’re working with. – [Stevie] I also am not the yard person in my relationship. So I feel like there’s really nothing that we can, there’s no expertise that any of us hold. – Yeah, yeah, Cassie, I mean, does she, has she ever bonsaied? – [Stevie] I don’t think she’s ever bonsaied, but, like, she’ll notice. Like she loves working in the yard, and she’ll also notice when things change or there’s something that, oh, did you see that plant did this? Or there’s like a pile of something here. I don’t know why I can not see any of these things. Like I am not, my body does not alert me to anything outside. – You’re not a plant noticer. – [Stevie] I, you know, she’s like I have to clean up the yard. Yard looks the same to me. I don’t know what it is. You know, like… – Christy very much a plant whisperer. Like she has relationships with all of her plants, and they’re all over the house. And I really liked the presence of plants, but I don’t notice them. I definitely don’t have a relationship with them. Like, I mean, she, sometimes I think, you know, I feel a little jealous honestly, with the attention that she gives them. – You should. – And I did have to give her a hand, like tying up something like, you know, she has all types of relationships. Some of her plants she ties up. – Oh gosh. – [Stevie] Oh, I have, I name only the indoor trees and tall plants do I name. And I have a cactus named Long Tall Sally. Two-parter, she’s grown some other parts since we got her. She is leaning like no other cactus has ever leaned, and she got tied right up. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. She’s got a neon green tie up situation. And Long Tall Sally’s gonna, is toppling over at some point. She is long and tall, though. – ♪ Long Tall Sally is toppling over. ♪ – I mean, I feel like that could become something given many years. (crew laughing) – Yeah, there’s some. – You know what, it finally, well at this point. So this is when– – Mine was like growth after a forest fire. You know it’s like, just give it a couple of months. It’s not dead. And they gave us this wire because what you can do is you can take this wire, and then you can wrap it around limbs, and then you can bend them… – To your will. – I didn’t know they did this. – Does your wife do that to any of her plants? Does she wire any of her plants? – She doesn’t wire, but look at that. See then you can… Well that didn’t really work. If I go like this. Imma tell you right now, I’m gonna, I’m gonna wire up this puppy. Yeah, see, you put wire around it. And then if… – You can manipulate it. – Do we have any wire cutters? – Yeah, we do right here. – Cut that. About right, right here. (metallic snipping) Oh yeah. Didn’t really do… It moved it a little bit. And then this over here, (snipping) – You just randomly snap something? – Yeah, I think. (snipping) There we go. That’s pretty, that’s pretty nice. I, you know, I, a lot of things we do on this show, I just walk away from it and someone else can either throw it away or keep it if they want, but I’m taking this home. I’m very proud of what I’ve accomplished here. This is definitely going by the front door. ‘Cause sometimes we keep the trash can right next to the front door. – No, I’m actually beginning to feel like something could happen to this. Let me see now. Okay, now I’m going to attempt a wire bend. Oh, look, it did it. – Yeah, it’ll bend a little bit. – I want mine to go completely 90 degrees right there. Now that’s a 90 degree there. – Where’s that, where’s that cutter? – Right here. – Snip that for me. – It’s easier if you cut off a bunch, and then do it and then snip it. You don’t have to hold the whole coil is what I’m saying. It’s easier that way. Last thing I’m going to do is just take this one and spread it out. – Pretty good, huh? – And be done. – Just this right here. I understand the appeal. – Yeah, well that’s the reason that Jessie got it for me ’cause she thought it would be, like, a stress relieving thing. But then I killed it. And so it’s actually like, you know, it’s a little traumatic when I think about it. – I bet you worried a lot less once you knew it was dead. – Yeah, that’s true. But that was when the guilt set in. You know, it was, there was all these expectations of what could happen. – Well, it’s like I’ve always said, better to be guilty than anxious. – And then this one just… – Where’s that snipper? – Just, oh yeah. (tools shuffling) – And now, I can bend this one. And bend this one towards you. Yeah, that actually helps a little bit, right? – In order to do that 90 degree, that’s too much. – We’re still working on this. Lipstick on a pig. – We’re always going to be working on this. – Pretty good, right? (upbeat synth music) – Trying to find an angle, but I can’t. – [Link] Hey, if you want the Rhett and Link bobbleheads, it’s the last month to join the Mythical Society third degree, quarterly or annual plans by December 31st to be eligible. Visit mythicalsociety.com for details.