Welcome to Good Mythical More. We’re gonna get to know the crew by hearing their food poisoning stories. But first. We’re just gonna say their poisoning stories. Well I mean, technically that is an umbrella term. And match them up. First, a random disturbing fact. Due to fresh drinking water being so scarce on the Galapagos Islands, the Galapagos finches, also known as vampiric finches, have adapted by drinking the blood of other birds. Wow. Did Darwin figure that out? First, one finch hops on the back of a resting Nazca booby. Oh a Nazca booby. No place better to rest than a booby. Mm-hmm. Then, it pecks at the base of its wing to drink its blood, while the other birds waited their turn. The booby doesn’t even know. Drinking blood is an unusual diet, and research published in 2018, showed that vampire finches have evolved specialized bacteria in their guts to aid digestion that is usually found in vampire bats. Wow. That’s crazy. The world’s an amazing place. I need the emotional support of some Mythical crew members. Come on in. Come on in guys. All right. So, we’re gonna get to know some crew members. Rhett, we’ve got four stories here, and we’ve got four crew members. You guys, I mean just cozy on up. All the way up. All right. All right. I’ma move over here. Rhett, why are you taking up more room than me? Well, just because. Sit back. Sit back man. I’ll just disappear. It’s fine. Like this? Sit back. Come on Danny, move on over. Oh I got you. Danny move, come on. This good? Come on, right over this. Oh here, here. Okay. Angelina come on up here. All right. Yeah so, Angelina, welcome to Good Mythical More for the first time. Oh thank you. It’s gonna be so much fun. I’m not gonna say anything to put you on the spot, or be awkward. I’m gonna be kind. Okay. To everyone. These are a little bit more. Chris, even you. I’m wonderful. He’s wonderful. These are a little bit more extensive, so I’ll try to read quickly. So as not to bore you. Burger joint. Saturday March 12th, 2022. Wow! This is like . Wow, got the date. Pretty recent. Sounds like a sport writer. A date which will live in infamy. I bleeped my pants. Wow, right outta the gate. On Friday, March 11th. Well, the gate opens. On Friday, March 11th, I had a cheeseburger from a burger joint that will remain unnamed on Santa Monica Boulevard, in West Hollywood. Address, oh no. West Hollywood? That’s your stomp. That could be anybody. But that’s your stomping grounds. But it’s popular place to hang. Yeah, I was just there this weekend. Kayln, yeah. Okay. Saturday, March 12th in the morning at 5 am, I found myself rushing to the bathroom to vomit. It was insane how much of the burger I had to retaste during my vomiting. Ew! Every 30 to 40 minutes from then on, I would throw up. And then of course, the explosive diarrhea started. Okay. There were times when I was diarrhe-ing. I’ve never seen that verb. Diarrhea-ing and vomiting at the same time. Oh gosh! This all lead to the moment where I vomited into my puke bucket and then felt something trickle down my leg. I grabbed the bottoms of the sweatpants to avoid any drippage, and methodically walked to the bathroom. This all continued until around 2 pm in the afternoon. I threw the sweatpants out. Thank you. And didn’t eat for two days. My doctor said it was likely a food-based stomach virus. Mm. Good god. Thanks for the details. Again, it seems like someone really likes to write details. We got a couple of writers here. Uh-huh. Okay. Okay. Diarrhea-ing. The West Hollywood thing. I would think of it as a verb, yeah. Yeah it’s a good verb. Diarrhea-ing. You got the sweatpants thing. I think everybody here has probably worn sweatpants. But when you’re talking about TMI, I mean I think there’s one person here who clearly takes the crown. Here you go, Chris. We’ll see. Wow. Won’t know until the end. Won’t know until the end. Play it cool. Out both ends at once, huh? Phenomenally quick recovery. It happens to people. I’ve heard stories. Yeah that’s true. Taco bell. It was a competition day for a drum line group I was apart of. Okay, all right. That’ll narrow it down. Drum line. So, a few of the moms made us a pot luck lunch to eat before we needed to perform. One of those dishes was a bean rich chili, which of course, I couldn’t resist. Maybe and hour went by before I knew I was in trouble. Like immediate pain and uncertainty. The clock was ticking so fast. I ran to the nearest bathroom, peeled off my uniform, leaving me practically in the nude, and let loose. Keep in mind, the competition was at a high school, so the bathroom was one of those tiny old ones, with only two measly stalls, and nothing but open air all around you. I felt bad for any stranger that had to be in there for any length of time in the meantime. Luckily, I did what I needed to do and managed. Blew it up! Managed to still perform later on as if my world had not just been rocked. So, drum line. Drum line. What actually is a drum line? Everybody. All four of you, just kinda get your hand moving just for a second. Let’s see who this is. I was actually in percussion. Look, he’s trying to deny that he’s the West Hollywood bandit. 4th grade to 7th grade, yeah. Okay. I’m looking at the forearms that I can see. Mm-hmm. Who’s got like… Who’s got that drummer forearm? Meaty forearm. Meaty. Whatcha think Rhett? I don’t know, I mean. That’s a tough one. I was looking at Palumbo’s. Pretty good, right? Yeah, he has a technique there. Do people call you Palumbo? Uh-huh. I have of course, yeah. It’s a cool ass name. Instead of Danny? Yeah, even my mom says the same thing. Last name. Is that… That’s not true. No. No. She could be protecting you or your dad. Yeah. When you have a last name like that it’s fun to say. Yeah. Palumbo get in here. All right, Palumbo. We’re gonna give this to you. Taco Bell. Thank you. Oh, Taco Bell road trip. We’re still on the Taco Bell theme. The last three were Taco Bell. Seems popular for food places. I think this one was chili. A few years ago on a road trip to Wisconsin, my sister and I stopped at a Taco Bell to get some dinner on our final stretch of the drive. The next day I felt so sick I couldn’t get outta bed with the exception of my numerous visits to the bathroom. The following day I was trying to feel more human by taking a shower, and I apparently blacked out, and had to be rushed to the hospital, where I stayed for a week. After they informed me I had food poisoning, which turned into a staph infection in my pelvis, which then turned into toxic shock. What! I have not eaten Taco Bell since. Ha-ha. Ha-ha. Dang, Taco Bell almost killed somebody. Toxic shock is serious. Now, we know Kayln has a sister. I do. Because she’s also a part of the Mythical crew. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Purdy. I don’t recall a sister was even mentioned. Well, that was for the first sentence. Oh. So long ago. On a road trip to Wisconsin, my sister and I stopped. Okay. Well. Wisconsin. Kayln’s from Ohio. I am. Which is like… Within driving distance. You can drive to Wisconsin from there. She has a sister. I mean, we’ve got nothing else to go on, right? She has a pelvis. Yeah, right. Exactly. I do. That’s that. It’d be hard to get around without one. All right. Under cooked chicken. We’re looking at you Angelina. At 16. I’m also looking at me right now. At 16 I was working in a restaurant after school. I was so hungry one day, that before my shift started, I ate some under cooked chicken that I didn’t realize was meant to be finished later in the oven for a party. Oo, so it was like that pre seared chicken. Within an hour I realized I had to go home. I threw up for eight hours straight, intermittently hugging the toilet, and laying on the bathroom floor. Two things I remember most about that food poisoning night. One, the Elephant Man was on TV, and it was the first time I watched it. It made me cry in between vomit sessions. Two, my mom saying, “There’s nothing we can do. You just have to be sick.” I love this mom. Nothing we can do. You just have to be sick. Brutal, but fair. Okay, Angelina. We’re stuck with giving this to you. I don’t know anything about your relationship with your mom. It’s okay. I’ll be under cooked chicken. Where are you from? Let’s get some more information here. I am from Chicago. Oo, we love a mid-westerner. Chicago. Okay. It could’ve been on that drive to Wisconsin. So, born and raised, or? Yes, but I left because I do not enjoy the cold. Fair. Okay. Okay. You’ve come to the right place. Yeah. Come to the right place. You like under cooked chicken? Certainly not. I don’t think anybody likes under cooked chicken. Yeah, well I’m sure there’s somebody who does. Somebody insists on it somewhere. Okay, before we find out how right or wrong we are. You know what? If you like conversations like this, with instead of six people, but just two people, and those two people just being me and Link. We have a podcast. We tell stories about things that happened to us. I crapped my pants on the way to Dollywood one time, and I told that story on Ear Biscuits. See, there you go. Everybody accepts you there. You didn’t even turn around. Right. Dollywood was like, “You get in for free.” Okay. I feel for all you guys. I’m starting to realize I don’t think I’ve ever had food poisoning. I’ve never had something that I can identify as food poisoning. Like that. People will say at the drop of a hat, “Oh I had food poisoning.” You know, it happens, you know. 100%. Yeah, you know. But you haven’t. I mean not you. You guys obviously have. But, when all of the people just say it. “Oh I’ve got food poisoning. My stomach is… “I vomited once.” Uh, no. That’s just a little something else. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, your brain still may associate it with what you ate. ‘Cause there’s some mechanism. I’ve had that happen. You always blame it on the most recent meal, which is almost never the thing that caused it. But then it’s hard to eat that thing. Yeah, ’cause you’re… So you gotta watch what you eat. Because, if you love it, you’re always at risk of losing the thing you love. Yeah. To food poisoning. And this is from two guys who’ve never been food poisoned. See all the stuff we know about it Okay, so. I feel most confident about Chris and the burger joint. The TMI. The details. Let’s start there. You’re gonna be shocked. It’s me. So this is very recent. Yes. I didn’t even know this happened to you. Yes. Phenomenal recovery. Thank you. Yeah, literally. Yeah, it’s the very first time I have ever gotten food poisoning, and it was just unlike anything I’d ever experienced. I went through so much. I was in bed for two days. It was on a weekend, so that’s why by the week I was coming back to. Okay. Yeah, it was… Out both ends, man. That’s scary. Yeah, it was actually crazy. It hurts too, doesn’t it? And when this happened, my partner had gotten me an ice water, and I had finished it. He went to work and I was like, “Oh I want ice water so bad.” Even though it was making me vomit, I needed it. Yeah. I carried myself into the kitchen. I put on sweatpants just ’cause I was scared. I poured the ice and I felt my stomach rumbling inside. I started pouring the water and I was like, “Oh god, it’s coming.” You grabbed the bottom of your pants. I threw up into my bucket and I was like… And it happened. Yeah. And it happened. You’ve already told us. And it happened. I just wanted you to know the details. I love your jellyfish. Okay, yeah. Yeah. I can see them ’cause I close to ya. Hard pivot. All right, Angelina. Is this you, under cooked chicken? Certainly not. Not you Chicago. Oo, okay. So which one are you? I’m the Taco Bell story about my sister. Okay. Oh you have a sister. I do have a sister. I have three sisters. Okay. Okay. And what other details happened? I’m trying to remember. Yeah, so basically. Oh yeah, you had a full week in the hospital. Two. Pelvis. Two weeks. That could’ve killed you. I mean toxic shock. Oh for surely. Yeah. That is traumatic. Just casual. Quesarito’s. Don’t eat them. They really did me dirty. Oh no. But yeah. I have not been since, just because the bell just is so… How do you get. What about doorbells? Are doorbells a problem? Just Rings. Okay. How do you go from food poisoning to, what was the second step? A staph infection in my pelvis. In your pelvis? How does that happen? Things are kinda just moving through your GI, and if it’s not treated for long enough, it just kind of starts to get progressively worse. I had no idea what was going on, and I couldn’t move. So I was just kind of laying until it got progressively worse. Oh my gosh. Well, I’m glad you’re still with us. Yeah. Thank you. Good god. Also, toxic shock specifically, does such a number on your immune system. You’re so susceptible to getting sick. The two years back to back after that I got scarlet fever. What! Whoa! Really? Which is an 1800’s era. Man. What? You’re on the Oregon Trail. You’ve had it all. Literally. Get dysentery next. Yeah, I did have in fact dysentery, and then scarlet fever, so. Well, let us know when you get the plague. Old-timey yuckiness. Is having you around mean that you’ll suck it all up, and none of us will get it? Yeah. Yeah. I only have so much sick time, so. Preferably not. All right, Palumbo. We got you with Taco Bell now. Mm-hmm. Ding-dong. It’s not it. Op. Yeah. You’re under cooked chicken? Yeah, I use to work in restaurants. Learned the hard way. Under cooked chicken actually is pretty tender. It’s pretty tender. I’m not gonna lie. Not dry at all. Wow, this is the most supple chicken I’ve ever had. Juiciest chicken I’ve ever had in my life. Did it change your relationship with chicken? No. No. I’ve been back to restaurants that I’ve had food poisoning from, because I’ve been like, “Well, what’s the chance it happens twice?” Okay. And I like the food there. You know. Yeah. You’re the opposite. I’ve had it a few times. But, Elephant Man for sure. I actually realized I haven’t watched it since I was 16, and I wanna re watch it. It’s a tear jerker. It’s great. Okay, well we’ll have a movie night. Yeah, I don’t really wanna watch it. We’ll serve under cooked chicken. No it’s fun. It sounds scary. Also, it says Taco Bell, but there was no Taco Bell involved. That was the thing. Sorry, that was my bad. It just reminded me of my Taco Bell food poisoning story, and I accidentally wrote the wrong thing. Yeah, no. I love chili. I’m originally from Tennessee, so I’m from the South. I love chili. So if I see it I’m gonna eat it. But we have those uniforms that are all the way down to your wrist, all the way down to your ankles, and it’s just one zipper. So you have to like. Oh gosh. Finagle all the way off. I was okay, but it was very close. Like very, very close. Yeah, if you had to ruin that drum uniform. It’s like wearing a banana suit. No literally, ’cause there’s only one and they take so long to re order. So, if I had ruined it. You would’ve just retired from the drum line. Yeah, I would’ve just been like, “Sorry, I have to quit.” “All right. I quit. I soiled my uniform.” It would be, yeah. Have you still got your drum line chops, you think? No. It’s been like five to eight years since I’ve played. So, if we needed a battle hymn of the Republic type drum sort of situation, for dramatic effect at some point, you couldn’t do that? I mean, I feel like I could finesse it to the point where you’re like, “Wow, she’s really doing it.” Oh okay. All right. Yeah, they won’t know. I mean what about just a little table beat? Yeah, just like that. Yeah. One of those people. Yeah. Can you do that? If it’s like that, then yes. I can definitely do that. Better than that. Yes, 100%. Okay, thank you guys. And sorry for what you had to go through, in order to get to this moment in your lives. Yeah, but this has made it all worth it, right? Absolutely. Yeah, I would say so. To get the Rhett and Link Sing Brooks and Dunn vinyl, join 3rd Degree quarterly or annual by June 30th. Mythicalsociety.com for details.