Welcome to Good Mythical More. Let’s talk crime. Let’s talk punishment. Let’s talk fun. When you put the two together. But first, let’s give $1,000 to the Los Angeles LGBT center, which provides services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world. And this fall, your very own Mythical crew is participating in the LGBT centers, Big 5K, in order to raise critically needed funds that will leave a lasting impact on the community, where our goal is to raise $10,000. So, please support Team Mythical and support the Los Angeles LGBT center by going to lalgbtcenter.org/mythical Our very own URL. Thank you for being your Mythical best. Stevie, what’s the scenario here? Well, do you know why we’re talking about Crime and Punishment? Because what we did was the crime. And I felt like we were constantly being punished. Yeah, the treadmill was actually invented as a, a punishment device in 1818 as a means for prisoners to put in an honest day’s labor. Usually two dozen prisoners would work a single machine, which would grind grain or pump water. It looks like they’re climbing steps. It wasn’t just for the heck of it. Surely, they were using this. They’re using it to power things. Do you ever go to that ice cream place downtown that had the bike that they would use the bike to churn. I vaguely know about this. Yeah. They were making the customers do the work. Well, first of all, it wouldn’t be that hard to like rewire. I know people aren’t going to the gym as much now, but like, all the treadmills and the bikes and ellipticals and stuff, all that should be like, Just put it into the power grid. It should be powering the world, man. Huh? Why not do that? Or at least the gym itself, it looks like they’re actually walking on the paddle wheel itself, which looks really dangerous. Did it look dangerous? Yes. It looked exactly like this illustration. My teeth are soft, something about coating my mouth in horseradish. Like, my teeth feel soft. I thought you meant they get soft about the treadmill. I was worried. Like, they feel smooth. I may be onto something. Smooth or soft? Smooth and soft. Soft is a problem. We live with smooth. Silky soft. My teeth are disintegrating, like Fun Dip. Okay. So I’m going to give you, a word or a phrase that has to do with Crime and Punishment. And you’re going to have to guess, what you think that slang is. Okay. Define the slang. So, the first one is The Ducking Stool. What was the ducking stool used for? Ducking stool, in the way that I would think it would be spelled, like the animal, the duck? Yeah, like when you’re trying to type on your phone and it keeps correcting you to ducking. You say Crime and Punishment. Is this being extended into like torture situations? Well, I’ve only read Round One. So, we’ll see. Ducking stool. And now, I’ve read the reveal of Round One and I will say, yes. There’s torture. Cause I was about to say, this is different. I’ve been to the Medieval Torture Museum in Prague. And I’ve talked about it at least 12 times on this show. It stuck with you. It really stuck with you. Yeah. It’s something that sticks in you. That was the souvenir. Well, okay. I mean, when I went to the, let’s see, what’s that jail in London, the old jail where they keep the Crown Jewels. Oh, I went in there. They also had some torture devices around there, like the Tower of London or whatever it’s called. Yeah, the Tower of London. That’s just not my idea of a good day at the park. I don’t want to be walking around the park and all of a sudden, “Oh, look, there’s a medieval torture device where people were skewered, stabbed and stretched. That’s the difference between me and you. Alright. I’m saying the ducking stool. You have to sit on a stool, but then you’re ducking to dodge being skewered. But it hurts to duck, but it hurts more to be skewed. I think it’s something that compresses your head and your neck straight down into your body. Like folds you up. It is neither thing. The ducking stool also called Cucking Stool. I don’t know why I had to say that. Was used to scold unruly women, Was used to scold unruly women, in the 16th and 17th centuries. If a woman told off her husband or spread gossip, she was tied to a wooden chair and repeatedly dropped into a stream or lake. Oh. Wow. Who is clapping? That was Carney. Come on, Carney. Dark. Dark. He doesn’t mean anything by it. Carney. We’ve never got a clap from Carney. He waits until now. And he claps for the Ducking Stool You know what? He’s watching a ball game on his phone. Yeah, it’s sports-related. I think it was the dunking stool. You dunk. You don’t duck. Maybe ducking used to be dunking. And then maybe ducking was ducking or dunking was ducking, and now ducking is dunking. It’s basically like a forced bath. Forced bath. I mean, when my kids were young, I could have used one of these just to get them to bed. Right? Yeah. All right. No points for that one, apparently. Okay. Wergild. Wergild. Spell it. W E R G I L D. W E R G I L D. Define Wergild. Nothing to go on here. No. Please define the term Wergild I mean, it’s anybody’s guess, right? I also feel like, if you guys want to scrap the whiteboard, are you guys writing little dissertations? We’re not going to say the same answers after this, we don’t need them, but I am going to read what I wrote down. The Wergild. It’s a belly button expander. To death. Oh. You put it in the belly button and then it slowly expands until you die. Here’s the thing. Mine also ends with to death, but I said spin to death. This was the precursor to the Gravitron. Spinning? Is spinned a word? Why use two? ’cause you’re not doing the tracklist for SoundCloud rap. No, no. Cause it’s 2021, man. If you can use a number, you should. So you spin somebody to death. Guys, is spinned the word? I want to say this first though. I didn’t want to say this. Spun to death. You didn’t want me to write a dissertation. They stick a rod up your anus. Oh, so we’re both sticking stuff in holes? And then it goes up, and they hid a thing in it, it comes out and grabs your insides and then they spin it. You know what? [Stevie] And at what point is spin the word? That’s the kind of stuff they did in the middle ages? It was so crazy. It’s not a word, it’s spun. You should go to the museum in Prague and half the time the people, it was always dudes, of course. The dudes who invented the torture stuff. It was used on them later in life. You invent this thing and then, you’re like, “If they turn on me, then going to….” And that’s what they did, they turn on you, and then use it on you. Don’t invent that stuff. Cause they’re mad that you invented it. This has nothing to do, Same apparatus does both of these things. With orifice’s being ripped apart or, Spinned. – Expanded. The Wergild is the value set on human life in accordance with a person’s rank and status. It was a medieval punishment for the crime of murder. So, the amount of restitution paid to the victim’s family was dependent upon the victim status. Which directly relates to the spin rate of the Wergild. Nope. Okay. The more they were worth, the faster it spins. But you are saying that, the richer your killer was the more money, No, not the murderer. You, yourself. If you kill a king, the consequences are greater than if you kill a peasant. Hmm. – [Stevie] Yes, exactly. All right. We’re going whiteboard-less for this one. Please tell me what Old Bailey is. Old Bailey. You know, it was the spice, the old bay completely decimated back in the spice wars. A lot of people don’t know about Old Bailey, but basically, it’s the same as old bay. I mean, pretty much the same profile. You couldn’t tell the difference, but it was a marketing thing. To death? – Yeah. Well, Of course, Bailey’s dead. Yeah. That’s how bait killed him. With Wergild. Can we get some sort of hint here, because there’s nothing to go on? Is it something you get inside? This is, I mean, technically yes. It is a place. It is a place. It’s like a dungeon. Oh, it’s not a contraption. Put them in the old Bailey. It’s where all the crap stuff gathered. It’s a solitary confinement hole where you’re forced to stand. There’s not enough room to sit. Hmm. I like that. Oh, you want to try that out? What is it called? Matilda? Pokey? The chokey. I like the pokey better. So you know about some of these things too. Old Bailey is a famous law court in London, where serious crimes are tried. Old Bailey was built in 1539 and it houses the central criminal court for England and Wales. And it’s named for the street on which it stands. Boring! What is the term, “Chance Medley”? What is the term, “Chance Medley”? Chance medley? – Chance medley. That’s when the choir director is like, “Listen, tonight for the Christmas Cantata. There’s a chance that we’re going to do the medley. It just depends on how long the program is. You’re buying a ticket but you don’t know. If we get to the, the Cantata and I go like this, that means we’re cutting the medley. There’s a chance that we’re going to cut the medleys. So don’t count on it. It’s a chance medley. I think that the chance medley is when, multiple people, at least three, are being tortured and then their, wails start to synchronize and, wails start to synchronize and, it makes a chorus, just by chance. You know where I thought, you were going for? It is different songs in an order, that are all shorter than they would be, because it’d be a torture. You do it at the Christmas, sometime. That’s a great ideas. They’re singing three different songs that come together, until they die. But I thought what you were going to say, which would have been like a legitimately good answer is I thought it was going to be a torture device where there’s multiple people, and every time they press a button or do something, only one of them gets tortured. Ooh, the chance medley. Like, that would be so wicked. I can definitely think of this stuff, Now, hold on there. But it’s not the Middle ages. But then you’re going to die by it. I know. That’s why I’m glad it’s not in the Middle Ages. It’s just a thought exercise. What ever happened to just good old pulling teeth. You know. That was a very inventive, That was a very inventive, torture device that you’ve created. But chance medley is actually an old English phrase, meaning random mix up. And it was used to describe a squabble that escalated and resulted in the death of a person. But that death was not intended or planned. Squabble with unintended death. Chance medley. Chance medley. Okay. – I mean, it’s oddly, like nice. Okay. – I mean, it’s oddly, like nice. Like when you call it a chance medley, it’s like, “Oh yeah, we didn’t mean to kill that guy.” Yeah. Oh, it’s a chance medley. I feel a little better about it. It soften it, just like your teeth. Oh, we got this travel mug. It says, Good Mythical Morning on it. It’s the opposite of torture. If you get this thing, you can put your travel drinks in it, and then you can travel with it. You can see lit up, and you can unseal it and drink from it. And you’re drinking from the place that never touched your fingers. I’m like eating from a treadmill, mythical.com. Has anybody been to the interactive Van Gogh thing? No, but I’ve heard about it. Oh, who said yeah? Chris. Yeah. We have a few. How was it? It was pretty awesome. Was he there? He introduces himself. Did you interact with him? The cool thing, that I wanted to point out about it. It has nothing to do with the art. Clapping made me think about this. So, it’s this giant sort of like, everything’s being projected, right? All this Van Gogh, like interactive stuff and kind of feel like you’re in the paintings sort of thing, but it’s on a loop. And when the loop ends, the whole idea is that the like 300 or so people who are all like, it’s a massive space. 300 people? Well, and they projected like the socially distant, like circles all over the floor and stuff. So like, everybody’s like separated. And of course masked. But what happens is when the loop is over, they want you to leave. So, the next group can come in and the employees have been trained that as soon as the credits play, to go, to get everybody clapping and know that it’s over. And I witnessed this happen before we went in, like there was a guy like waiting at the curtain and he was waiting. He was like, the loop is almost over and he’s really calm. And anyways, and then I heard like the loop and like the music and he stuck his upper half of his body into the cart. And it was like, You know who’d be good at that? – Carney. Yeah. Carney, you can have a night job. It was the loudest clapping. It was so intense. It’s actually unsettling. I mean, somebody came up with that. They were like the only way to get these idiots to move, is Why don’t they just come over the speaker and say, “That concludes your Van Gogh journey, please exit.” No one thought of that. I mean, the credits come up and, it’s just playing credits. You think people would just stand there forever? Yeah. I would have. Did you start clapping? I was like, So you did start clapping, but I clapped like a normal. Okay. What a start the clap. You got to be a little incessant to be the one to start the clap. I mean, it’s like starting the wave at an arena, you gotta be a little obnoxious. But then you’re the hero. Yeah. That’s a good segue into this phrase, into this final phrase, which is, you’ve heard of run the gauntlet. Yeah. I’ve also heard of spinning, spunning, spooning the gauntlet. What is Run the Gantlope? All right. So the gauntlet, the gauntlet is when the things are like, swinging back and forth and you have to go through it. Is it? I thought it was a club that you threw down, maybe different parts of the country. I don’t know, ones in Wales. You throw down the gauntlet and then you run the gauntlet to different things. I always thought of the gauntlet as, there’s this thing like swinging, Are you talking to Indiana Jones? Yeah. And it’s like, compartmentalize and you got to get through. But the gamblet? What? The Goat log? Gantlope. Gantlope. Gantlope. Do you run it? Run the Gantlope. So is this, some sort of a what’s it called, when you have to run through things and there’s like obstacles? An obstacle course. I think that this is the first steam powered weed wacker. The Gant Lope. You go back into those days. You’d be surprised at some of the technology. You’re like, “Oh, I didn’t know they had that kind of thing.” But there will be somebody with a weed whacker. I’m agreeing with him. That’s also my answer. It’s a steam steam punk thing. Do you remember? There was a line of clothing when we were in high school called Gant and our friend, Josh, would always wear Gant clothing. And I had some Gant. I have no idea, I’ve never remembered this at all. He would talk about Gant and he would say it as if it were a dirty word, like the dirtiest of words, you’d be like, and I’m not going to use it in a sentence, but he would. He’d be like, “Oh, I see you’re in that Gant today.” I guess that was a sentence. And I thought that was a safe one. The way he would make it multiple syllabolic. Like, Gant. What kind of Gant clothes did he have? It was like, button up. He was like a preppy, like a button up? He was a buttoned-up. Yeah. Like a polo? – Yeah. So wait, what do you think running the gantlop means? Oh, we don’t know. Turn the weed wacker on. Okay, it’s a form of military or Naval punishment where a man ran between two rows of soldiers or sailors who struck him with sticks or knotted ropes. Okay. So it’s a tunnel of people who hurt you. All right. Sign me up. But, nobody actually gets killed. I mean, unless the [Indistinct] hits the right part of your head. I don’t know. Travel on traveler with the colorful GMM travel mug available now at mythical.com.