Welcome to Good Mythical More. We got slang from the Scandinavian places. And we’re gonna see if we can decipher what it really means there. Yeah, but first, let’s play “Ready, Pet, Go!” We take a look at one of your pets that you submitted with the #GMMReadyPetGo and we try to guess what the actual name of your little beastie is. I love this! This is from Jojo. Submission from Jojo. Oh my goodness! Jojo’s dog’s got a big Chewy head! Oh man, I love what you’ve done with it. I mean, did they- I love what you’ve done with it. And the wide angle lens really makes– The head looks so big. I mean, Chewy, Chewbacca, right? Oo. That was it, you got it, you got it right! Yay, first time ever! It was kind of easy. But, it could have been anything. In a world where you can name your pet anything. If it looks like that you should name him Chewy, but it’s spelled differently than I thought. C-H-U-E-Y. Well, because you don’t want them to get mixed up in public. I can’t take credit guys. I was thinking it was C-H-E-W-Y. That’s right, doesn’t count, take it away! Reverse claps! Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop! I love that we applauded you like, that was the human response to you guessing the correct dog name. It was like a studio applause situation. Yeah! I mean what are the chances? Yeah. What are the chances? It was a really good, it was worthy of applause. It just, that seemed a little traditional. I love those furry faced dogs, I tell you. I think it’s that Swedish energy. You know? That was so nice! She was so nice, and like… I really want to go to Sweden. I’ve been talking about it. The vibes. I really want to go, and now I gotta make it happen. I know, and now that you have a connection. Yes. Now, I mean, I don’t mean to talk shop here, but I kind of feel like, Rhett and I were just saying, that was fun! I feel like maybe there’s some other, like, international celebrations, traditions, that– I mean how many countries are there in the world? We should experience firsthand. I think that this could be– 210, twenty, I dunno? Let us know in the comments if you think you wanna see more of these type of episodes, main episodes. But now in more, we’re gonna do something that you’re gonna hate. No, you’re not. Stevie, should we turn this over and read it or– No, no, no. So, I’m gonna give you a saying, a phrase, translated into English, but it’s a Scandinavian phrase. Yeah. And then you’re gonna each try and guess what the meaning behind that saying or phrase is. Yep. And then whoever’s closest gets the point. I’ll reveal what it actually means. And if you, whoever’s not closest, has to read the phrase. Fun, fun. in Swedish So fun. Sounds like fun. Which as we demonstrated in the main episode, is pretty difficult. Well you demonstrated it mostly, but we did some, yeah. We did some, some game demonstrations, which all those games I thought, well, minus the hammering game looked really fun. Yeah, man. The hammer game was fun. Oh, good. You can play that. This one though… On a construction site. Oh my gosh. That was so much fun. Innit this the French? The French came up with that. The French. Taste is like a butt. Taste is like a butt? Yep. I think this is when something tastes really bad. Taste is like a butt. No, this is like, opinions are like buttholes, everyone’s got ’em, but they usually stink. Ooh, you might be on fire today, Chuey. Taste is like a butt. Like having an opinion taste is like a– Like, like… Your perspective, your taste is like a butt. Everyone has perspective. Everyone has taste. No, everyone has taste. Yeah, I’m just trying to make taste mean something. Not, not perspec– Taste is like, if you have, a legitimate opinion. Not everybody does have taste, not everybody does have taste. Oh. But… So what is your answer? Well, I’m not, I mean, I think you’re right, but I can’t agree with you, what I said first was– I mean, it could just mean, taste the butthole. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s a saying for that too. I’m just going with whatever I said first. Yeah. Link’s guess, yeah I like where you’re coming from, but the answer is, a butt is split down the middle and so is taste, in the sense that some people may like something, while others don’t. Taste is like a butt crack? Yeah, it’s kind of like, the right cheek versus the left cheek, I guess. Taste is polarizing. Taste is like a butt, you didn’t say hole. That was the problem, I got on the hole. I didn’t say hole. And I should’ve got on the crack. But you are closer! You gotta picture the whole butt . I think you’re closer. So Rhett has to read the phrase in Swedish. Okay. Taste is like a butt. So I don’t know how to like– I think that was great, I don’t know but… Arr. You know like, I don’t know how to hold my mouth to sound Swedish. If Gudrun was still here, we would ask her. She had to get out of here and do– Is that how I hold my face when I speak-a Swedish? Yes. Just, just. Nailing it. The Swedish Chef. Swedish Chef, just go full Swedish Chef. That’s what the Swedish Chef does, right? No. I’m glad Gudrun’s not here for this. We still want to officially be invited to your country. My wife drives a Volvo. We have the Swedish flags all over our car. My wife drives a Volvo. Have you noticed that, Stevie? The little Swedish flag on the seats? Yeah! Innit cool? I like it, yeah. I like it. It’s the best part about Volvo. My wife drives a Volvo. What does your wife drive? I gotta remember this voice. My wife drives a Volvo. What does your wife drive? To and from from my house! What? Your wife drives to my house. To see your wife. Your mom, your mom drives to my house. Gimme, gimme another one. Look like a birdhouse. Look like a birdhouse… That means be be on the lookout. A birdhouse is high and facing the action! And wide open. Hey, it’s like– It’s got a hole in it. It’s like, keep your eyes peeled. Look like a birdhouse today, y’all, come on! Good posture? Look like a birdhouse. Look like a birdhouse. So you’re saying it’s alert. Look like a birdhouse. A birdhouse is put together. I think like a birdhouse is, oh, it’s quaint. It’s small, it’s put together. Is it Swedish or? Swedish, yeah. All right, that’s what I’m gonna say. Like, get yours, like Dressed up. Put yourself together. Get put together. Okay. It’s someone who looks like a birdhouse when their mouth is agape from shock or surprise because of that O in the birdhouse. Ooh! That right there, that’s where the bird goes in. So Link, I think you’re the loser of this round. Yeah, because I actually made that face. Mhm. I mean, it’s not– It’s looking like a birdhouse! There you go. Wow, the word H-O-L-K, holk H-A-W-L-K, hawlk, hawlk, hawlk. Oh, I haven’t even How are we doing? I was just, it’s funny ’cause you didn’t go into these accents when Gudrun was here. No we didn’t. I was just, like, picturing if she was just sitting in front of you if, yeah, if we’d be here. Gudrun! Gudrun’s not here! When the Gudrun’s away the dumb internet boys will play! Such a pleasant person that Gudrun. Such a pleasant person. Which, you know, she’s an ambassador for a whole freaking country, Rhett. She can’t be a jerk! Yeah, yeah yeah And you know, the Swedes are sort of, they’re doin’ a little damage control ever since that thing happened on Twitter where they talked about how they don’t feed kids who come over to their house. See. You saw that? Yeah, see, you’re noddin’ your heads. So, they don’t feed kids that come over to their house? If you are a kid that is a guest, like at your friend’s house, dinnertime rolls around, they don’t feed you. If you’re sleeping over– I need more information here! They send you, like, sometimes, and people on Twitter were talking about, they’re like, yes, this is true. I grew up in Sweden and– Okay, wait, wait back up- Can you back up for a second? I don’t know how I’m out of the loop on this, but– Yeah, I thought you would know about this. I know! So, if you get invited for a sleepover– If you’re sleeping over at a friend’s house, and you’re a kid, Or you’re just playing at their house, and lunchtime rolls around, dinnertime rolls around, and there’s food time? Are we sure it’s either though? Well, the– they said it was, dinnertime is the one that I was told. Okay. So you get invited over to sleepover, and dinner approaches. After a Reddit post, this is New York Times, after a Reddit post brought an unusual Swedish dining custom to light, Nordic people are trying to explain why they won’t share the pickled herring. I don’t wanna read a whole article here, but. So, and I, people on Twitter were responding to this, and they said, this is true. I never thought anything of it, It’s just when dinnertime rolled around at my friend’s house, I would just go to their room and stay while their family ate. Yeah, there was somebody tweeted, Seeker tweeted: “Not here to judge, but I don’t understand this. How are you going to eat without inviting your friend?” And what’s the answer? Like, what’s the explanation? The question on askreddit was what is the weirdest thing you had to do at someone else’s house because of their culture slash region and– It says religion. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Culture slash religion. Top comment, best comment: while I, well, I’m not gonna read their username. “I remember going to my Swedish friend’s house. And while we were playing in his room, his mom yelled that dinner was ready and check this, he told me to wait in his room while they ate. That was wild. And then it turns out that this is common. And so what’s the explanation? I don’t know the reasoning behind it. “I slept over to friend’s house, when we woke up, he said he’s going downstairs for a few minutes. After about 15 minutes, I go on the stairs to see W-T-F is happening, and they’re eating breakfast. They see me and tell me he’s almost done, and will be up there soon.” “I still think about that 25 years later.” So, that’s what I don’t understand. So like, if you’re a kid, and you’re sleeping over at someone’s house, you don’t get fed. You gotta bring your own food. Do you bring your own? But why? They only make portions for their family? So it’s like a traditional thing that people just understand. But let me just say, that we love the Swedes. We love the Swedish culture, and we– I am shook. We were very happy with Gudrun. How did I miss– If it was a Reddit thing, I definitely missed it. It’s not just a Swedish thing either. Go back up to the top. Oh, it’s Scandinavian? Yeah, it’s more of a… Wow. Yeah. Wow! This is wild. So it says, “Unlikely to give you food is also England, but very unlikely to give you food is all of Scandinavia, and then those countries at the north of Europe, before you get into Scandinavia.” Yeah, it’s, you know, it’s not a, let’s not pass judgment. It’s a cultural thing. It’s weird, but– I think we need more information that’s not being properly given. Here’s the thing, it seems to be very, very correlated to latitude. Go back to the New York Times article. So you get down to the Mediterranean, and if you think about Mediterranean culture, it’s just like– Well, you have to read it. Food, we’re gonna give you food. We’re gonna connect to you. We bring you in, and we keep feeding you, and feeding you until you fall over. And you get into the northern latitudes, where I guess it’s a little bit colder for somehow that translated culturally into not feeding people. I don’t know, it’s fascinating! I mean, I don’t know about this. I’m gonna feed you until you fall over, Mediterranean situation. Have you ever been to, like, someone from the middle east, their home? I spent a whole semester in Israel. And they keep giving you food– Well I, no, I think it’s more, food is, I think that’s a little bit more on the, the kind of Western like– Keep scrolling. Food is a show of, like, love and like care, and welcoming someone into your home. So that’s what we’re used to. But I guess the part that I’m missing is like, so therefore, yeah, do kids do kids pack meals for the time that they’re there? And then… First of all, let me, let me give the reasoning. In the New York times article, Professor Johnson, a food studies professor at Lund University in Sweden said, “Sharing food is the foundation of culture. So he understands why other people might see this custom as a hostile act, a few years ago, he was part of a program to discuss Swedish cultural customs with immigrants, and this practice was regularly mentioned as being very strange.” Professor Johnson said, “He had not studied the custom, and it was not one his family practiced, but he guessed, he guessed, it could be traced to several parts of Swedish identity before advances were made in food storage.” He said, “Swedish people would have three to four months to harvest a year’s worth of food in the cold climate. So spontaneous dinners have never been a part of the culture.” He said, “Swedish people also want to respect the independence of the family and offering another person’s child a meal could be seen as a critique of the other person’s ability to support a family.” That makes sense, I will say that I feel like the cold climate piece of this is the bigger part, because if you get down in around the Mediterranean where it’s like, we’ve got, it’s a more bountiful agricultural region, you know, it’s just like, of course you can have this because we can go get more tomorrow, whatever. But if it’s just like, hey, we’ve been saving up this food, your mom and your dad have been saving up food for you, so if you want to eat, they need to give it to you. Yeah, that’s the part that I’m missing because… ’cause you’re saying, what we don’t have clarity on is, they bring their own and then they sit by themselves in a room? Keep scrolling. Yeah, it says right here, Ms. Larson said on Twitter that at homes of people who did practice it, she would either be told to go home at mealtime or be left in the friend’s room. Something she said was kind of fun because that gave me time to snoop around. Yeah, keep scrolling. So, it’s just a cultural expectation there, you know, they’re most– So they don’t bring their own then. According to this article. It’s not exclusive to Sweden, people in Finland, Netherlands, and other parts of Northern Europe said online, the practice was familiar. Oh, when she was raising her children, she would allow their friends to stay for a meal, but ask them to call their parents to make sure it was okay. So in other words, it’s not being stingy. It’s saying, hey, if I give you food, I’m sending this message that your parents can’t feed you. Yeah, I don’t wanna step on your toes. It’s about, it’s respect for the family unit. I’m gonna start doing this with our kids’ friends. No, no, no, no, no. Don’t stand next to the fridge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about your parents? I don’t wanna disrespect your parents. We’re almost learning too much here, Rhett’s gonna get in good graces with his parents if we don’t watch out. That’s right, I’m getting too educated. Wow, that is so interesting. It is! Culture. “There are no cows on the ice.” It’s thin, thin ice. There’s no cows out there. If they were, it would be breakin’. There’s no cows on that ice. No cows on that ice. I think it’s, so it’s something you say when you’re like, I wouldn’t, that’s not a wise move. Yeah, yeah. You’re gettin’, you’re going out on a limb here. What’s you’re considering is stupid. It’s kind of the opposite. There’s no cause for concern, there’s no immediate danger. There’s no cows on the ice, so go out there! Which is, I think kind of what, Rhett, you originally said? But yeah, like, that the cows would fall through the ice. So, but there’s no cows on the ice, there’s no danger. Well. That doesn’t compute. 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Wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, there’s another butt one. I feel like this is a must. I’m cold in the butt. I’m cold in the butt. Cold in the butt. I mean, that’s, this probably happens quite often in Sweden. In Scandinavia in general I think if you’re cold in the butt, it means you’ve been sitting too long. Well, when I spent, you know I spent the summer in Slovakia, and what we learned at that point is that young women were not supposed to sit on concrete because it would freeze their ovaries. In Slovakia. Tell me more. Some of the girls who were with our student group were sitting directly on the sidewalk, and some older Slovak women got upset with them. They didn’t have pants on? No, they’re in their jeans. Just sitting on the concrete, like, sitting on the sidewalk. Okay. With their feet on the street. So it’s not like licking a frozen pole. No. And these women were like looking at ’em and then one of the guys, one of the Slovak guys, like yeah, it is customary for young women do not sit on concrete because it’ll screw your ovaries up. That was this old, sort of traditional understanding. That’s wild. But that’s I’m cold in the ovaries, this is I’m cold in the butt. You gotta get your butt cold before your ovaries get cold. That is how it works. Did they stop sitting on the concrete? Yeah, ’cause you know being respectful– Respectful to the culture. Yeah. Okay. They just started, they laid face down on it. What’s your answer ’cause mine is, you’ve been sittin’ too long. Yours is, you can’t make babies? Yeah, I’m gonna go with that. I’m gonna say it got all the way through Scandinavia. “I’m cold in the butt” means I don’t care. Okay. But this one, so, Carney just pointed this one out, I gotta do it, I know we’re running long, but I gotta do it. Is it the horses– Oh, you’re supposed to read, go. I’m so excited about this one. And it’s Danish. Oh, sorry. Yeah, that’s Danish. This one’s Danish as well, this one I’m excited about. Is it the horse’s birthday? Is it the horse’s birthday? So don’t look a gift horse in the mouth No, this meaning is crazy. Think the weirdest possible thing. Is it the horse’s birthday? Is it the horse’s birthday? Yeah, is… Pipe cleaners are on sale. Yeah, yeah! That’s a good, yeah, exactly! Yeah, yeah. Body hair is cool! Taxes! It’s when you got, you got big, big teeth that show up in pictures. No, see that’s not crazy enough. The pipe cleaners are on sale. That’s the type of thing I’m looking for here. The fur on a peach is… alive. Yeah, those are two really good guesses. Those are my guesses. Yeah, those are good. Does it have anything to do with glue? See, you’re thinking too literal. You’re thinking teeth, you’re thinking glue, but no. He has no guesses. I have no guesses. “The rye bread is too thick on my open sandwich”. What? Is it the horse’s birthday? What, you want me to give him a little extra? Is it the horse’s birthday? ‘Cause they slice the rye bread too thick on my what sandwich? On my open sandwich. Huh. When you get too much bread on your sandwich. I get that, is it the horse’s birthday or something? Is it the horse’s birthday? is birthday. And horse is . Happy Midsommar! Is it the horse’s birthday? Let’s put shrimp, Sunny D juice, back– I can still– I can hear you when you whisper, I have headphones on! No, he turned his brain off. No, no I know Josh–