GMMore 2300: Reacting To Corny Mugs

Welcome to Good Mythical More. We are exploring the corniest coffee mugs that we could find. Oh, these are so corny. Oh, you didn’t get that last one. They’re still very corny. But first, let’s donate $1,000 to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to aid in their mission to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. The AFSPA funds research to improve interventions, educates the public about mental health and suicide prevention, and advocates for policies that will save lives. Please join us in giving at AFSP.org/donate. Um-hm, thank you for being your mythical best. Before we jump into these mugs, can I bring something up real quick? Yeah, Carney. You were talking, Rhett, specifically about how it’s difficult for you to hug people, ’cause you’re so tall, and I’m like 5′ 7″, so I’m right on average, everybody says it’s average, I looked it up, it’s average. Pretty much average, yeah, pretty much average. But I remember the one time I think we ever hugged was when we won the Streamy, at the Streamy Awards. The one time? Well, I mean, yeah, how many times have you hugged Rhett? It doesn’t happen a lot. Right, yeah, yeah. Three. I was telling Stevie about him, I’m like, “I wonder if it’s on video?” And we found the clip, and the awkward hug, the most awkward hug as we’re heading to the stage. We have queued up if you’d like to see it. Yes. Oh, yes! Pretty cool, pretty cool. Wow, you look like you had to climb him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, my point exactly. You grabbed his shoulders, and then pulled yourself up? Yeah, it’s like I’m trying to get into a tree house. See, we had a good thing, handshake. A little shoulder hit, but then I feel like, did I injure you? Boom. Oh, yeah, that was a wild pat, too, in the back. And butts so out, our butts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Our butts were like opposite magnetic attraction. He was reaching to shake your hand, and then you. Boom, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that. I was going to also hug, but I thought maybe we would start with the shake of a hand. Because that’s what you did with me, Carney. Yeah, and I was like, oh, that’s fine. You shook my hand and hugged. But with him it was the full hug. Why the difference? I think I just, the moment was overtaking me. Oh we were all just overwhelmed. We did not expect that. But as you can see, we’re all going on the left side, proving science wrong once again. You’re right, you’re right. Unless those were all romantic hugs that we didn’t realize. I gotta say, this is. That is great. I know a lot of people are like, oh, you’re tall, you’ve got it easier. Well, okay, whatever. Here’s the thing, is that I constantly feel like I’m inconveniencing people in these types of situations. You are. I constantly feel like hugging, like anything where our bodies have to interact in some way. I feel like I’m creating a challenge for people. I’m just, this is a thing. Yeah, a challenge that Carney lost. Just demonstrated, yeah. I’m sorry, you know. We forgive you, we forgive you. What? Average height. Average height, yeah, definitely average height, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like this one, let’s start with this one right here, This one’s cute. I don’t give a damn, because I am a beaver. Am a beaver. I quite like this one. It is a little bit corny, but I believe that I would maybe even unironically sip coffee out of that mug. I don’t like a mug that, in order to pull off the pun, it’s really hard to drink out of it. Now do you think that’s the case with this one? Yeah, where are you supposed to put your? Where do you put your mouth? You supposed to put it over a beaver ear? Well, where do you put your mouth when you drink? I put it on the side of the mug, 90 degrees from my. Right here. Is that hitting your mouth a little bit? But then the beaver ear is hitting the corner of my mouth a little bit. Oh, damn. I mean, you gotta think a little bit. That might cause a fever blister to pop up. That’s right, Rhett. You know, you could pierce it with an ear. That’s right. I like this one. Not for use in microwave, why is that? Well, let’s find out. I think it’s because the, I don’t know why that would be the case. I just kind of feel like it’s simple, and I appreciate the craftsmanship. This one went a long way, I mean, it wasn’t just something written on it. This is not corny, this is cutting edge. And if we’re saying that the most corny is over here, this is least corny, so kind of keep it over on that side. And I like the fact that, I hate the ears in my drinking area, but I love the fact that the handle is part of the design. It is the beaver tail. Tail. Now I’ve got one over here, and a lot of the ones that we’ve got from here on out are not nearly as creative in terms of the manufacturing. Okay, let’s see that one. This one is, “I’m an athletic trainer, “my level of sarcasm depends on your level of stupidity.” What? I don’t, that takes a left turn. Like “I’m an athletic trainer.” Okay. My level, okay, so let’s just start there. I got. Picture a trainer. I know a trainer. “My level of sarcasm,” okay, okay, okay, “depends on your level of stupidity”? Why isn’t it your level of commitment? Or, you know what I’m saying? What does sarcasm have to do with being a trainer? Yeah, what’s the connection? I had a trainer who was very sarcastic, but I just thought that was a bad experience. Well, here’s the thing. Are we missing something? Well, most– This is like, it’s for someone who doesn’t look like an athletic trainer, I believe. And they’re saying I’m clearly not an athletic trainer, and I’m being sarcastic by saying that. Oh, so we’re stupid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, this one’s good then. We fell for it, we’re stupid. Oh, but hold on, but. Yeah, but also, it’s just a kind of a bad mug. Yeah, that wasn’t. I don’t like that one. So you drink this if you’re not an athletic trainer? In order to make it work. You use this mug if you would, if you sort of appear as if you’re definitely not an athletic trainer. Okay. You know what I’m saying? So, context is key. I don’t like this one, so I’m saying it’s over here, ’cause these are the. Oh, yeah. It’s not necessarily corny though, it’s just not good. So maybe it’s just here? Let’s hide it. What about this one? I don’t fart, I just whisper in my pants. Sometimes I scream. Well, read that a little bit closer. Oh, sonetimes it’s a scream. Yeah. So there’s a misspelling. There’s a sonetimes. Sonetimes. Is it on that side? Yeah, I don’t fart, I just whisper in my pants. Here’s a picture of a rooster. Sonetimes it’s a scream. Why is there a rooster? Lemme just say. That is a rooster. If you just start, yeah, why is there a rooster is what he’s saying. Yeah, why is there a rooster? What, if it was just, “I don’t fart, sometimes I just whisper in my pants.” That’s great, you’re off to a good start. That’s great on a T-shirt, a bumper sticker. I love that. Great. “I don’t fart, I just whisper in my pants,” I need to remember that. But I need to forget the fact that there is a rooster. A rooster. I don’t mind, “Sonetimes it’s a scream.” I love everything about this mug. I really, like the rooster, the misspelling, the sentiment. That’s not, I don’t really understand. Are they saying sometimes, sometimes I poop? Is that the scream? Sometimes it’s a really loud fart, sonetimes. Yeah, yeah, sonetimes I scream. Sonetimes. Sonetimes there’s actual dookie. Sometimes it’s more than a fart. Yeah, you’re right. I think it just means sometimes it’s loud. Stevie, what’s your name? Stevie. What’s your name? You’re right, Stevie, this is so bad it’s good again. Yeah, it’s good. This is great. This is better than the beaver. Oh, better than the beaver. Better than the, sonetimes I scream. Okay. Sonetimes it’s a scream. I can’t even frickin read it. Let me see one over here, let me grab one. Oh, very impressive. Um-hm. “Be the kind of woman “that when your feet hit the floor each morning “the devil says, oh crap, she’s up.” Okay, I think you’re talking about a Proverbs 31 woman. Okay, yeah, I get it. Those of you who get that reference. But read it again, just because I really like it. “Be the kind of woman.” Yep. “That when your feet hit the floor each morning “the devil says, oh crap, she’s up.” Because you are. Oh crap, she’s up. You are everything that the devil did during the night, you are undoing one by one. Every little bad thing that your kids did, that your husband thought about. Oh, is that what this is about? That the neighborhood. Yeah, you’re undoing it, you’re doing it all. I just thought she’s simply, she’s so scary that she. Or she’s so much of a badass. Right. That she’s even more of a badass than the devil. Right. Stevie, what is your interpretation? I love it. You’re a woman. I wish it had a rooster on it. And sone mornings, you know, that would be better if it wasn’t each morning, it was sone mornings. Sone mornings. With the rooster, I love it. But wouldn’t it be funnier if it was “Be the kind of woman “that when your feet hit the floor each morning, “God says, oh crap, she’s up.” Like, wouldn’t that. That has a different meaning. That’s like, yeah, you gotta interpret what. She’s a hell raiser, man. God’s doing during the day, versus the devil. Yeah, but that would be funny, if it was God. Well that would be kind of sacrilegious. Yeah, I don’t know. God’s like, “Oh crap, she’s up.” Here’s the problem with this mug, it’s a motivational poster on a coffee mug, directed at the person who’s drinking it. I think the best mugs are the one that like when you drink from them, other people read it and thinks something about you that makes you awesome. Like I’m an athletic trainer. Yes. Yeah, so that’s a demerit, but. I agree with that, I think philosophically all mugs should say something about you, not something. Like “I’m the type of woman when I wake up in the morning, “the devil says, oh crap, she’s up.” But think about this, you use the mug, you invite women to watch you use it. Okay. And then you’re telling them. Yeah, hey, gather around women, I’m drinking from this mug. That’s to help you with. Yeah. Your outlook on life. Yeah, happy hour every Thursday at, I don’t know. So this is a mansplaining mug. Yeah, be like “Hey, hey ladies!” “Get close to my mug. “Be the kind of woman.” Be the kind of man who drinks a mug in order to tell women how to be. Oh, that’d be cool. It’s a set. I’m the kind of man that has a mug that says “Be the kind of woman.” And there’s room on there for that. “I’m the kind of man that has a mug that says,” and then it’s that. Be the kind of man that drinks from a mug. No, no, I’m the man, because we’re trying to make work with our– Oh yeah, yeah, you’re right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. “I’m the kind of man who drinks from a mug that says.” “Be the kind of woman.” Yeah, yeah. Right, yeah. So this is great. Yeah, this is, nope, it goes over there. This is great. Do you think it’s better than the beaver? What’s that one, Rhett? I’ve had such a problem reading these things, I’m gonna let you read. “Coffee spelled backwards is eeffoc, “as I don’t give eeffoc until I’ve had my coffee!” I like this one. Oh yeah, a coffee mug about coffee, check. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Naughty words. It’s first person. But not naughty words. First person. There’s also an image of a mug on the mug. Yeah, I like that mug seption. Which really, yeah, yeah. This is great, “Coffee spelled backwards is eeffoc, “as I don’t give,” I love that. Like just the grammatical gymnastics. As I don’t give eeffoc. “As I don’t give eeffoc until I’ve had my coffee.” You really need to put the emphasis on “As I don’t give eeffoc, “until I’ve had my coffee.” I just love, I mean, talk about a left turn. Coffee spelled backwards is Eeffoc, as I don’t give. Why isn’t it, “And I don’t give?” It could be. but it’s so much better that it’s “As I don’t give,” like, somebody made that decision. There is at least one person who said, this is the way to write this. It should be, “As in,” it’s like a morning situation. “As in, I don’t,” yeah, right, right, right. Oh, really? But that would’ve made it a little bit too long, maybe. They would’ve had to change the font size. So you think it’s a mistake? I think, I don’t know. Because it’s easy to lose the “in,” if you– An average heighted man would think. As I, yeah, right, right. He’s got a better vantage point of that line. He shook my hand, and then we hugged. Then he saw you, and he’s like clamoring up your body. Well, this is what happened. He thought he was gonna do the same thing, and he’s like, “Well if I don’t start reaching for him “I’m never gonna get there, so I gotta start now.” Carney, I think, I think you thought he wasn’t gonna give you anything. What, no. Is that what was happening? No, no, no, no. Were you like? There’s another moment on stage where you’re handing me the award, we probably have this on video, too, and I think you’re joking, ’cause I’m like, “Why would he give me the award right now?” And I almost dropped, and like shattered the Streamy on stage, because I thought you were joking. I wasn’t, oh, you didn’t think I was actually gonna let go? Yeah, I thought you were like “Here, take this, ha ha, yeah right.” Yeah, you never know, you never know. we can scrub forward and make that happen. You thought I was trying to embarrass you in front of everybody? No, I just embarrass myself with whatever speech I gave and don’t remember. No, it was great. Yeah, yeah, no need to watch that. Yeah, I don’t wanna watch my speech. No, no, no, I was giving, I think I was saying pass it around. Everybody get a taste. That’s what I recall. Yeah, in hindsight, yeah, that is what you were doing. I was gonna, here it is, I was trying to give it to you. It was off camera. He’s holding it. I forgot Britney Broski was just there. What happened that made Stevie make that face. Link. Oh, like Link had just said something, she’s like. Oh, that’s great. She’s like, and I’m just processing what he just said. That was unfortunate. Thanks to the support, Stevie, come on. I mean, can we play it with audio, cause I think it was warranted. I don’t remember what you said, but I remember it being. It was enthusiastic, it was pure raw emotion. No, no, no, no. It wasn’t just enthusiastic. We drank each other’s urine on our show. Oh, ha! Oh, it was me! Oh, yeah, it was you, it was Rhett, yeah. Like that was pure, like, “Oh, what are we gonna say?” I gotta think of this as we walk up here. That was good, that was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Stevie’s response was comedic as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was playing her role. Here we go, here we go. Oh, this one’s got a lot of words. Hey, hey, we didn’t talk about you can make that mug, you can also make that mug mansplaining, you just replace the coffee image with women. Women spelled backwards is. No. Is meo– “Women, coffee spelled backwards.” Nemow. So then you’re telling women how to spell, and that’s how you, that’s how that becomes, do you see what I’m saying? Is I don’t give nemow, until I’ve had my nemow. No, no, no. Until I’ve had my women. No, no, no, no, no. I. No, no, no. No. You’re making that face right now, aren’t you? You’re making Streamys face right now. All right. So where does it go on the list? Now this one has, oh. We like it. We like this one. We like it more than that, we like it the most? No, I like the rooster the most. Yeah, that’s what I thought. I can’t read this and show it to you at the same time, so I’m gonna read it, and then show it to you. It’s a lot of words. Well, I can lean in and read it. Okay. If you set it right there. “Sorry, but your password must contain,” oh, that’s too small. “Sorry, but your password must contain “at least eight characters, upper and lowercase letter, “a symbol or number, a hieroglyph, a haiku, “a musical note, the feather of a hawk, “and a drop of unicorn blood.” Oh. I see what you were trying to do there. But it definitely wasn’t worth the effort. Right. Too many words, too many words. This sucked. It’s not as bad as the athletic trainer. This feels like a sketch we would’ve made, or something. What about this? “My favorite child gave me this mug.” Huh. Okay, let’s assume you have more than one child. Let’s also assume that you’re shopping for the holidays. We just wanna remind you that today is the shipping cutoff. If you choose expedited shipping, today, the 15th of December, is the cutoff for it to show up from mythical.com, and get to you by the holidays, all right? So if you’re gifting stuff, mythical.com, just gobble it up, gobble up all those goodies, and then ship them out expedited. Yeah. And we can guarantee you, if you do that today, they’ll get there by the holidays. Man, see how that works. My favorite child gave me this mug, I have three children. I make jokes about whichever one I’m talking to, I’ll tell them they’re my favorite. Right, right, right. How does that play out here? It’s the kid’s joke, it’s not your joke. The kid gave you the mug. Right. Yeah, it’s a gift. Oh. Yeah, you have to think about the process that led up to this. So when you open this mug, you’re all “Oh, yes.” My favorite child gave me this mug. The kid is asserting they’re the favorite, yes. And then it’s obvious that you’re not. We drank each other’s urine. I don’t care for this. Yeah, I don’t. It’s just kind of blah. I think that the mugs that you have should be statements that you’re making. Yeah. Not statements that the person who gave you the mug is making. Because then forced. It’s like a power play. It’s like, “Who gave you that mug?” Oh, I mean. “My only child.” “My middle child who’s not my favorite.” I don’t have a middle child, so I can make that joke. “Before, B-E-F-O-R-E, not letter B4, “we speak English, not bingo.” So you’re using. What? Your mug to get on a soap box about text speak? Yeah, I take offense at this on many levels. This is not the type of energy that you need to be putting out into the world. If this is the type of thing that annoys you, and you’re willing to buy a mug, like it annoys you that much, that you’re willing to like drink from a mug, then. In general. You’re not a woman that the devil cares about. Yeah, right. The devil doesn’t care about you anymore. I hate this. Yeah. People who are really particular about the way things are said. Bad energy. or the way things are written, in general. Without recognizing that– Yeah, get over it. The language itself is an imprecise thing that evolves, There’s no right and wrong. It’s not some scientific thing, come on. Get off your soapbox, and drink your coffee in peace. We have our clear winner, “I don’t fart, I just whisper my pants. “Sonetimes it’s a scream. Yeah. Last minute shopping is not a problem. You can place an order@mythical.com with domestic expedited shipping by the 15th to ensure that your gifts make it on time for the holidays.

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