Welcome to Good Mythical More. First More of season 22. You know what? This is a fresh start. I thought the episode was, but it’s the More that’s really the fresh start of a new season for me where anything goes. And I can eat things and win stuff by throwing stuff accurately in the future. Right. Yeah. That’s right. Well, one thing- Sorry for killing your globe. One thing I will say, is that it landed on Random Disturbing Fact, and it was only when I manipulated the wheel to get this off that it went to Gifticality. So. I’m glad. Don’t think that I’m trying not to do Gifticality. Just so you know, we’ll do it when it lands there. All right. And we’re going to explore some very unique festivals around the world and see which ones we should attend. But for now, I’m gonna give you a random disturbing fact. “Slugs can stretch up to 20 times their normal length.” And live? I don’t know. Let’s find out. No, I’m just kidding. You know what? No, I’m not kidding. I might do that to a slug. I might do it. 20 times. That’s a lot. I might stretch a slug. That’s a lot. I might do it this afternoon. How would you think about me if I just stretched a slug to 21 times its length? Would you hate me? Would you stop watching this show? ‘Cause I just stretched a slug to 21 times its length? Yes, I would. Okay. Then I won’t do it. Now, I’m gonna feed these to you if you ask for ’em ’cause that’s what you earned. Nugget. Do you want the whole nugget or do you wanna bite of a nugget? And for a second one, do you want the same nugget or a new nugget? ‘Cause then you’re gonna be left with, like, shards of nugget. I would like to be treated like a king. Every time I say nugget, I would like to just eat a little bit of a new nugget. No, I’m not gonna do that because I’m not a slug stretcher. I’m not wasteful dude. Every nugget that I don’t eat I’m gonna give to my baby slugs. So just feed me the same nugget. And when I say nugget, gimme the whole nugget. Nugget. All right. So we’ve got the Monkey Buffet Festival. We’ve got some information on the back of it. “This is a buffet for the monkey population of around 2 to 3,000 in Lopburi Province, Lopburi Province north of Bangkok in Thailand.” Thighland. I didn’t interact with many monkeys when I was in Thighland. Monkeys can get mean, bro. This is a buffet they put out for the monkeys? Monkeys got expectations. “They’re gifted with a feast of 4,000 kilograms of fruits, veggies, cakes, candies every November. After the monkeys are given their treat, youths,” youths, I love a good youth and what they can do for monkeys, “dressed up as monkeys perform dances.” Youths dressed up as monkeys. It really confuses the monkeys because the monkeys are like, This is cool. “Hold on. Do we get this tomorrow? Oh, we don’t get it tomorrow.” And then they turn into little nightmares, man. They’ll kill somebody every once in a while. Those monkeys will team up and kill somebody. Take down an elephant? People. Let’s hear about yours. How about the El Colacho, the Baby Jumping Festival. I can see there’s a guy jumping over, what appears to be, myriad babies. “In Spain this festival happens 60 days after Easter during the Feast of Corpus Christi.” Huh. “The Baby Jumping Festival is a baptismal ceremony, wherein babies who were born over the last year are absolved of sin.” Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know if it works or not. Well, it’s just a representation. No, that’s not how it was described. It is not an outward symbol of an inner decision, Link. It might be. This is actually absolving these children of sin. Well, keep reading. “The religious custom dates back to the early 1600s. Men dressed in traditional devilish clothing. Terrorized the crowd before,” How do I sign up for that? Ah! Oh, that’s who you wanna be? Of course. Yeah. I wanna be the devil. “Terrorize the crowd-” I wanna be the baby. “before running down the street and jumping over the babies who have been carefully laid out on pillows.” Yeah. “No injuries have been reported, but the Catholic higher ups frown upon the ritual.” The Pope is not happy about this. Yeah. Every day they have the Pope and his boys. They’re all boys. The Pope and his boys get together and have a meeting, and they talk about this baby jumping. This gives me too much anxiety, but I wanna see monkeys have a feast. I’m goin’ to this. You with me? Yeah. This seems cool even though I’m scared of the monkeys. Nugget. Hair Freezing Contest? Wow. Let me hear it. Well, you’re eatin’ a nugget. “Every year, the town of Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada holds the International Hair Freezing Contest. The annual competition involves contestants soaking their head in water, and when lifted, the cold temperatures outside will slowly start to sculpt icy coiffures.” Give you an icy coif. “This unusual festival is held in February, and the winners are announced in March.” They’re not in it. There’s a lot of deliberation. Takes a whole month. It’s like, “Hold on. We’ll be back in two weeks. It’s very contentious. Why can’t we announce the winner the day of?” Wow. So she dipped her eyelashes and eyebrows in that freezing cold water. That’s amazing. So- And what happens when you break off the hair? She combed it. So there’s a comb. Hey, I could go to this. I could go to this and compete. Your hair already looks like it’s been frozen, but, I mean, I feel like I could compete to win in this, man. My hair’s frosty, I guess. Well, it’s just up, really. You know? It’s up and it’s frosty. I mean, it’s frosty. I don’t know. I think this will be fun. It’s very cold though. It’s very cold. This is gonna be, the weather’s gonna be nicer. Weather’s gonna be so nice. Yeah. Nugget! All right. Now, we’re familiar with this one. The Running of the Bulls. Is it that you ignore or? I think you don’t hear. I think that’s what, you don’t hear. That’s what it is. I’m learning a lot about you now. I think you were saying somethin’ not nice to me. No. As you took that one off I had said, “Nugget.” About that loud. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. And you just didn’t hear me. No, I don’t want two nuggets to make up for it. I’m sorry for killing your puppet. I didn’t mean to choke your puppet by puttin’ my arm down its throat. Don’t say puppet. Running of the Bulls. Bulls. Takes place. We don’t need to. Everybody knows about Running of the Bulls because of Hemingway. Right. Yeah, Running of the Bulls. I’d be interested in this. What town is this in though? San Fermin? Encinita? Ensenadas? No, it’s during San Fermin. I need a reminder of the details of the reasoning. Oh, it says Spain. “Hundreds of thrill seekers from all over the world come to run in front of six wild bulls plus six steers through the city’s old and narrow streets. In the mornings, the bull runs, and in the evening, visitors get to witness bull fights. The rest of the time involves food, drinks, and other engaging performances.” I don’t know what I was reading recently. It’s not great for the bulls. It wasn’t Hemingway. It was someone talking about- “Cocaine & Rhinestones”. Yeah. I wasn’t reading. I was listening to a podcast. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. On “Cocaine & Rhinestones” History of country music. talks all about how, and it is Hemingway, right? Hemingway who wrote about it? Yeah. His, whatever the one book he wrote, Took a lot of liberties. but he wrote multiple books, I think, that mentioned it. But the one he wrote that’s super famous about it, or took place in that town, it turned this whole thing into this giant tourist thing that, I think, there’s a lot of resentment around how many people come to this thing now. You know? Yeah. It’s like the opening of “City Slickers”. Oh really? Starring Billy Crystal. Clippers fan. It features the Running of the Bulls as the opening scene. And it’s like, they film it at the Running of the Bulls. But it’s not great for the bulls, but this is really great for the monkeys. Everyone leaves happy. At the end of this thing, the bulls get killed. At the end of this thing, the monkeys get fed. Right. Nugget! There you go. I’m afraid you’re gonna bite my finger. I don’t want that nugget. You can have that one. Nugget! Naki Sumo, Crying Baby Festival. What is this? “Naki Sumo is a 400-year-old tradition where Sumo wrestlers make babies cry. Takes place in Shinshoji every year in April where babies are-” Well, at the Shinshoji Temple. Oh, “at the Shinshoji Temple, where babies are paired up with a Sumo wrestler who will then try to make the little ones cry. Whoever makes one of the babies cry first, wins.” What do they do? “Traditionally, it is believed that a crying baby has the power to ward off evil spirits, and a strong, loud cry implies the child will grow strong and healthy. Though the viewers seem to enjoy this event, the unusual festival clearly takes a harsh toll on infants.” I mean it gives ’em a Sumo fear. There’s nothin’ wrong with a baby crying if there’s not a good reason for the baby to cry. Are you defending the practice of scaring babies? Of Sumo wrestlers scaring babies? I think this is a legitimate reason for a baby to be crying. And I see nothin’ wrong with it. But if the question is whether or not I wanna be here, I wanna be as far away from crying babies as I possibly can be at this point in my life. Yeah. You know what I mean? I’m morally for it, but I’m practically against it. Nugget! Oh, this seems fun. Oh snap. This seems real fun. Golden Retriever Festival? What? “It’s run by the Golden Retriever Club of Scotland and held at the ancestral home of the breed, golden retriever.” There’s a home? There’s a ancestral castle that is the home of the breed of golden retriever? Just Scotland. “The club first held such an event in 2006 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the organization, and 188 goldens showed up from around the world, at the time, the largest group ever photographed in one place.” It doesn’t feel like a lot. I feel like I could see that on TikTok in a couple hours. Well, you gotta start somewhere. “This year’s gathering, held in July, set a new record of 222 dogs. There are dog show competitions and just a bunch of people going, ‘Aww’.” That’s really sweet. Now, before we make our decision about whether we wanna spend our time with a bunch of dogs or hungry monkeys, we wanna remind you about this GMM woven blanket that you can only get by being a member of the Mythical Society. Yeah. We were gonna keep talkin’ about it because we want you to know how you can get these things. 3rd degree, quarterly, or annual by September 30th. mythicalsociety.com. If you wanna be able to recreate this set in your own home, in your own bed, on your own couch. Do you want to wrap yourself in a set? Yeah. We give you that experience. As a Society Member. I like golden retrievers a lot more than monkeys, man. Man, golden retrievers are such good dogs. Golden retrievers make you happy, and it makes them happy to make you happy. And then you make them happy, and then they make you happy. And it’s just- You think a golden retriever’s ever killed somebody? There’s a new golden retriever dynamic in my neighborhood I need to voice. Oh. Are you not happy? Well, okay. I think the pandemic has done an interesting thing to dogs in general. I’ve noticed the personality of dogs in my neighborhood changing over time. Some dogs Ringo was friendly with, no longer friendly with. But there’s two- They haven’t been socialized. What? They haven’t been socialized. Yeah. Somethin’. There’s two golden retrievers in the neighborhood, Blaze and Cooper. You may know them. No. And I have to avoid them. And they’re both golden retrievers, and so my thoughts on golden retrievers have changed. What do they do? But what do they do? Would you like a nugget? You know, like dogs do, like, growl and stuff. A golden retriever? And Matt Carney seemingly agrees with me. I’ve never seen a golden retriever growl. Stevie, I hate to break it to you. Nugget? No nugget right now. ‘Cause I’ve gotta serious thing I need to say to Stevie, It’s not time for a nugget. and I need to calculate this Not time for a nugget. ’cause I don’t wanna upset her. If your dog has a conflict with- It’s not just Ringo. I will say, with Blaze and Cooper. It is known in the neighborhood. Okay. Well, that’s what Ringo thinks. That’s what Ringo thinks? I’m saying that if your dog has a problem with a golden retriever, it’s probably your dog’s fault. And if multiple dogs have a problem with golden retrievers- I think I need Matt Carney to speak. My dog was viciously attacked by a golden retriever once. Okay. Golden retriever slander zone this is. What? Yeah. What’s wrong with y’all that you’re getting attacked by a golden retriever? Well, okay. So the trope of the golden retriever, I’m just saying, it’s a little bit of a facade that’s been broken recently for me. I mean, I don’t really believe in purebred dogs anyway. So I mean, you know me. Carney, how did that turn out? Well, it didn’t go well, but Parker is alive. But lots of surgeries later, it was a whole ordeal. What? This is really, this is serious. It was real bad. It was real bad. Golden retriever. I don’t know. Was he trying to retrieve your dog? Oh, he retrieved… Man, if you could see what happened. What happened? He, like, attacked your dog? Yeah, there were legal disputes. It was- Were you present? What’s that now? Were you present? Yeah, I was present. What kind of action were you taking? Kicking? ‘Cause, listen, I’m gonna tell you right now. If your dog attacks my dog, your dog’s gonna get hurt by me. I’m just gonna tell you right now. I don’t think that’s wrong. That’s self defense. It’s my dog. I was walking both my dogs, so I had to keep one back the whole time. So it was a real sticky situation. Yeah. I’m not blaming you for not getting involved. I’m just lettin’ you know. It was not my fault though. I’m not talkin’ about animal cruelty. I’m talkin’ about animal cruelty prevention. Yeah, you gotta kick a dog. You gotta kick a dog. I know a guy, The dog was unleashed? who unclenched the jaw hinges of a pit bull off of his dog. Cool, Rhett. Like Hulk. I mean, Cassie’s tackled a dog in the day. It’s hard though, when two dogs are fighting to, like, break them up. They move so fast, you forget which one’s yours? Yeah. You’re like, “I go in too fast. I wanna get my dog.” What are you supposed to do if a dog is attacking your dog? You know? If you get a clear kick zone, you kick it. Right. What I tend to do is scream very loudly when anything like that is happening. And it’s not helpful to the situation, but that’s what comes on. Would you kick a monkey though? No. Well there’s definitively the answer that we’re looking for. When you scream, though- When I scream? I will be honest, I don’t know that I’ve ever heard you scream. I hear your voice go high. It’s like it goes up like this. But it doesn’t get louder. Well, you’ve never been around me when two dogs are attacking each other. And I’m screaming at the dogs. Can you scream at me more? It’s not like a situation. Can we bring more of that into the workplace? It’s not a damsel in distress situation? Yeah. “Oh my God! There’s two dogs. They’re fighting!” Nugget! You stop that! You stop it! Loudly though. Oh. Yeah. Never heard that around the office. “You stop it!” I said nugget again. Man. You have to choose the festival. I’m going to go with Golden Retriever Festival ’cause I believe that y’all just got a bad batch. Yeah. I’m gonna go get licked in Scotland. I feel sorry for you guys, but yeah, definitely goin’ to this. To get the GMM woven blanket, join 3rd degree, quarterly, or annual by September 30th. mythicalsociety.com for details.