GMMore 2108: Match The Crew To Their AIM Username

Welcome to Good Mythical More. Maybe back in the days of AOL Instant Messenger, AIM, you had to come up with a username that now years later, on Good Mythical Morning as a crew member, you have to tell us about. And justify. But first, let’s donate $1,000 to the National Alliance to End Homelessness to aid in their mission to prevent and end homelessness in the United States. They work collaboratively with the public, private, and non-profit sectors leading to stronger programs and policies that help homeless individuals and families make positive changes in their lives! Boom. Please join us in giving at endhomelessness.org. Thank you for being your mythical best. Crew, come on in here. We got four members. Carney, Emily, Yeah, scoot over. Megan for the first time, and Kalyn. Let’s get to know some crewsies. Guys, you really gotta cram in. Okay. Get in here, Kalyn. Don’t be shy. Don’t be shy. Everybody in here? Yes. Now let’s go this way. Emily, you go that way. All right. Oh god, my back. There we go. Kalyn, come on over, so you can get in there. I’m squishing myself as much as I can. Now, I know that they did The Mailer, where it was like, you get AOL, internet for free, and then you had to sign up. Yeah, but for many years, including like one of our, I remember when we worked at Cru for those couple of years that everybody had their AIM, their Aim, their AOL Instant Messenger name, and that’s how we communicated. I don’t remember mine. Inter-office chat. I think it was like… I don’t remember mine, I think it was just– Leakyfaucet…Linkyfaucet? That’s cute. That’s really cute! Was that your email? No. Linky. Mine was not creative. I never used it, so I don’t really remember. Mine was like, R-J-M-C-L-A-U-G, so like my middle initials, and then my name, and then some numbers. Well, you’re a boring little boy. So basically, your Wi-Fi password. Yeah, it was just like, okay. You know, I didn’t understand at the time that you were supposed to be expressing yourself through your username. Okay, so we’re gonna see if we can match the person, and Megan, this is our first time meeting in person. Hello. Good to meet you in person. It’s like the strange pandemic of it all. Okay, it’s interesting right off the bat because the first name is IWantAlanis. IWantAlanis. IWantAlanis! Alanis Morissette, has to be. Yeah, but what do they mean by want? Do you want to listen to Alanis, or do you want to interact with Alanis in a more suggestive way? Yeah. That’s the question here. And is there a difference? I’m thinking of Carney just because… Of my age? Of your age. Yeah. And the nipple piercings. What do you think of Alanis Morissette? But if there’s a Hot Dog on a Stick thing on that later. Her hair was just amazing, wasn’t it? Yeah. My opinions on Alanis should maybe stay just down low until we’re done with this whole exercise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it Alanis. I always say Alanis Morissette. Alanis. I’m Alanis. Alanis Morissette! All right, I think it is Alanis. We’re gonna stick you with this. I mean, I watched the Alanis documentary on HBO Max a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty good. You’d be really into it, Carney, wouldn’t you? If that’s something that interested me, I may have seen it already. “If that’s something that interested me, I may have seen it already.” I know you, yeah, yeah, I mean… I’m a 90s baby. Yeah, why don’t you go around and guess all of our ages. I just didn’t know how long AOL Instant Messenger stuck around. I know. Trevor was not eligible for this game. We asked him, and he looked at us like we had two heads. Yeah, okay, okay. He was like, what’s AIM? And I said get out. So we were almost too old. I mean, we were like at our first job at the time. So it’s like, that means that there could be, I mean, they had computers as kids. It was super fun, like you part of your identity, to say like, oh, I got the cool username. You get to talk to your friends, like who’s online? Hey. It’s part of your identity. Incidentally, we met Alanis Morissette at a party and talked to her. We had a long conversation with her. That’s…interesting, go on. She was very nice, she talked about her her partner who was a rapper named Souleye. I think she’s married to a doctor these days. Oh, okay. Oh, Souleye is no longer? It’s Dr. Souleye now. Same guy. He’s an optometrist. Eye. Spleekyclean. Spleekyclean. What is a spleek? A spleek? Is a spleek a thing? Is it a clean spleen? A spleekyclean. What’s a linky faucet? Spleeky, sleeky. Spleeky, spleeky. I think it was basically like, okay, squeaky’s taken…spleeky! Spleekyclean is somebody who likes to keep things clean. Somebody who never once cursed in their AOL instant messages. That’s a very specific guess. Where are you getting that from? Oh. They keep it clean. I don’t know. I don’t have anything to go on. Let’s give it to Megan because we’re just getting to know Megan, and we can switch them around. And I haven’t heard her curse yet. Not yet. I haven’t heard you curse yet, either. Do it now. Not you, either. Don’t do it now. Oh, somebody had two! Animegal321. Animegal. And XoKissMySplashXo. Kiss my what? Splash. Kiss my splash? XoKissMySplash. Xo. Again, it’s like, you can’t say kiss my A-word. And then you’re gonna say splash. Man, that’s– Anime. Who’s into anime here? Animegal… I think this could be Kalyn. Hmm. Is it? Is it? Every time you talk to me, it’s about anime. Okay. What shows am I watching? Right now? Mhm. Um, the ones where they have the big eyes, and they emote a lot. Wow, yeah. They have whiny voices. That’s really descriptive, you’re dead on. Okay, all right. I don’t know. I don’t know how I feel about that one right now. That sounds like Riverdale. Yeah, I was gonna say. Lowkey, highkey, Riverdale’s so fun to watch, anyway. We reserve the right to change these up. Bballgirl91294! Uh oh, 91294. Carney. I was 91293. So 91294, what zip code is that? That’s a California zip code. Bball. I don’t know where Megan’s from. You know what? Megan. She might be a SoCal girl. I did tell you where I was from once. So that’s on record. You know where I’m from. I told ’em like five times. It’s Nashville, man! Yes! Y’all know where I’m from because I was there for a year. Ohio! Bballgirl91294. Mhm. Anime is big in Ohio. Actually, kinda. See? There’s like a big thing called Ohayocon. Really? Yeah, it’s a convention called Ohayo, but like, “ohayo” is like… A greeting in Japanese. Maybe we need to switch. Kissmysplash. No, I think what we gotta do is I think we’ve gotta give Megan bballgirl91294, and I think we gotta give spleekyclean to Emily. Would you guys like some Mythical lotion? I highly recommend it. Actually, yes. I love lotion. And the scent is subtle and soothing. It’s a part of our Mythical Grooming Collection that I wanna encourage you to peruse all of the parts of it. The lip balms, the beard balms. Do you want some? Sure. The pomades, all of it. The musical comb. Everything we got, amazon.com/mythical and mythical.com. You can get that. Careful there. If you’ve never tried the peculiarly perfect Peanut Butter Peppermint Lip Balm, you’re missing out. Very proud of that. Comes in a two pack. It does smell really good. I got too much on here. You’re gonna have to roll your sleeves up. This sweater is brand new. I got it from J.Crew on sale. Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, you don’t want to get lotion in that thing. No. But this lotion washes right out. Oh, whoop. I know, there’s a lot in there. Sorry, guys, okay so now, let’s see if we’re right. Carney, let’s start with you. I saw Rhett’s, this isn’t related, I saw that hat sitting on a shelf, and I thought there was a Hot Dog on a Stick bit coming up that I forgot about. You had a panic coming? I was like, what is this, what is this? Nope, no relation. Okay. No relation. We smell good. This is really amazing. It smells like something familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it. Well, we used to have a cologne that smelled like this. So this is like the price-friendly version of cologne. It’s really nice. Subtle and soothing. All right, so yeah, start with me. Umm. Yeah, this was me. I don’t know what else to say. Alanis, yeah. IWantAlanis. It’s a little weird to frame it like that these days. I wouldn’t put, I want her, but you know. Yeah, well, I mean. My love for Alanis goes deep. I had her lyrics printed on like, you know, what’s the perforated printer paper, like on my wall. I just like printed it out. Dot Matrix? Dot, yeah, like that. I went and saw her this year in concert. It was like transcendent. Oh, really? Yeah. What is an Alanis show like these days? So this was celebrating the 25th year anniversary of Jagged Little Pill. Mhm. And so she just sang the entire album with a few of her other hits, but like most of her hits are from that album coming in. Yeah. Did she do it according to the original, or like does she- No, she mixes it, she does the order a little bit different. Well, no, but like, does she stick with the original melody? For the most part. I think she’d been singing it for 25 years, so she has a little fun here and there. She’s staying true. She didn’t start rapping? No, it was like, I know that she is singing Not the Doctor right now. She married a doctor. Wow, sorry. Hey, listen. It really hurts. It’s a celebrity, things happen. Right. Yeah, you know, you move on. She’s great. Rapper to doctor. Now, does she still seem really incensed at Dave Coulier? Is the passion still there? The documentary said that it did not. It said that that was probably not. That was just an assumption. I haven’t seen the documentary. She didn’t confirm or deny, though? She seems to deny it. Okay. It wasn’t pointed. Yeah. It wasn’t a pointed denial, but it was a availed denial. I just like the rumor. Spleekyclean, are we right? Yes, you are right. Ha, oh we’re good so far! What’s the story? Explain that. So I wanted to be gleekyclean. Oh, got it. That’s how you clean yourself? Well, like, no. Imagine? At like summer camp, everybody could gleek on command, and I was the only one who couldn’t do it. What is gleeking? It’s just this like, little gland thing in the bottom, under your tongue, but can squirt spit. You know sometimes you yawn and like… And you’ll see a spray come out? You get a little spray. My friends could do it on command, and I just couldn’t do it. And so I’d be like, like, I can’t figure it out, but so I just, it was kind of that, but gleeky was actually taken. Gleekyclean. Gleekyclean was taken! Gleekyclean, of course it was taken. So it was like a pun. It was kinda like linkyfaucet. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. But I did have another username, though, because I used it to catfish my eighth grade boyfriend. Oh. To find out if he was sneaking around. Spleeking around? Yeah. That wouldn’t that one couldn’t be tied to you. What was that, IAmNotEmilyFleming? NotEmilyFleming. NotEmily, yeah! I do remember I did that, and it was like– Did it work? Well, I told on myself. I always tell on myself when I do things. I was like, psych, it was me the whole time! It was a Jeph with a P H, he spelled his name. P-H-E-F? No, it was J-E-P-H. I know, I’m just kidding. Yeah, yeah, no! I’m Jeph with a P H. He’s a roadie now. I got a thing for roadies. Gotta move on from that though. Bballgirl from Cali. It’s not me. Not you? No! I mean, I did play basketball once, but. Well, where are you from? I’m from New York. New York? Yep, sorry. Okay, okay. No way! So you are the animegal. I am, so in middle school, like fifth or sixth grade, when we weren’t allowed to have AIM, I was animegal because of Miyazaki films. And then I got to eighth grade, and I joined the swim team, and they were like, that’s not cool, so. Kissmysplash. Kissmysplash. But, Kalyn, you do love anime, don’t you? Yeah, no, I watch it all the time. Wow. See, I knew that. That’s how we bonded. Yeah, actually like the first convo that we had on Slack, like we just started talking about shows for a while I feel like. Okay, so where did the 91294 come from? It’s my birthday. Oh. Ohh. It wasn’t a zip code, it was really interesting. I didn’t even think of like, thinking of that. I don’t even know if 91294 is a place in California, but it sounds like one. No, but I was born in Tennessee. So, you’re a basketball girl? Yeah, when I was in, well, actually for most of my growing up time, I played basketball, but then growth spurts happened, and my knees gave up on me, so. I gave it away. But this was actually like an alternate username. It wasn’t my main one. Just ’cause like you couldn’t change usernames at the time. You just had to make another. So I was like, yeah, I’m a bballgirl. And this is my birthday just in case you wanted to have my information. Yeah, don’t put your birthday in your username, typically. Social Security number. Yeah, no, you always put like important information in your screen name. Is anybody still communicating with AOL’s instant messenger? Does it still happen? Does it still work? AOL is still around. Did you log in? With these names and have a conversation? This is attached to an email, so yes on that part, but I don’t know if AIM is still a thing. Are you guys gonna get a bunch of messages? I tried to log in fairly recently. Why? ‘Cause I think they were saying that they were gonna end it soon. So I was like, I have to know before it’s gone, but I couldn’t find any of my old messages. Okay, when you Google AOL Instant Messenger, the first “people also ask” says, can you still use AOL Instant Messenger? And the answer is it has risen from the ashes, now called AIM Phoenix. And it’s back, That’s so stupid. but this was from 2018. They’re really embracing that rising from the ashes thing. Oh, but bad news. There is no access to old buddy lists or messages, which, for some of us, is great news. The best part! I wanna catfish my ex boyfriend! Like Jeph is back. That’s like rain on my wedding day. Nicely done. It’s an Alanis Morissette lyric. Yeah, yeah. I-I I don’t know what that song is! That’s another lyric. That’s an Alanis lyric. I-I-I. She’s got a lot of ’em, a lot of lyrics. That was terrifying. I-I-I-I-I-I, you don’t know that song? I don’t know that one. I don’t know that one. Well… Oh, the one that’s like, I-I-I-I-I. Yes! I oughta know that one. You oughta know that one! It’s so good, so good! Unleash your legendary style with our line of Mythical Grooming & Personal Care products available now at mythical.com.

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