Welcome to Good Mythical More. I’m the man in the box. The man in the box. Buried in my . Alice in Chains. Oh, that’s such a deep cut. Yeah. You got a little Won’t you come and save me? You know? Won’t you come and save me? Stop reaching in my box. You’re afraid to put your hand in my box? No, it’s just you’ve got We’re gonna, we’re gonna- Did you get it? Did you get it? We’re gonna answer your questions that you submitted, and as we have demonstrated many times- It’s kind of cool. We know a lot of things about a lot of things, and we will say those things confidently. About. People. Questions about people. Questions about people. What’s up with people? Questions that Mythical Beasts have asked, right? Correct. What’s up up with people? Well, speaking of Alice in Chains, elkhoundsnugglebaby. Yeah. We’re gonna list them all starting with, well, not starting with- What? Including with music genres. What? Including, we’re gonna list them all. We’re gonna list them all. List what? Music genres. Okay. Rap. Dub step. Heavy metal. Glam rock. Classical. Classic Rock. Folk. Trap. Country. Electronica. Americana. Dubtronica. Just the sound of ping pong balls. Swede stomp. Wow. You know what? Just you keep going. You win. I just wanna see how many things you can name. Clank. Are these all real? There’s like three major ones that you did not say that are just like R&B. Yeah. Soul. Funk. Sure. Yeah. I know that are many but hold on Jimmy Catcher. Top 10 is usually. Easy Listening. Pop. Soft Rock. Pop. And then also Christian. Top 10 Also usually includes. Christian Rock. Christian Rap. Christian R&B. Christian Clank. Christian Swede Stomp. Christian Bump and Grind. Very disappointing. Is Swede Stomp really a thing? No. Oh, I was excited. Thanks for giving me that credit. Isn’t this cool, man? This could be my thing. Yeah, I would love your head in a box. Where’s the lid? Christian Hip hop. I could be Elkhoundboxbaby with this. Well, you know what? It would be easier to manage than those antlers. I know, I know. And then when the show’s over, you just put the lid on. You’re gonna have to change your name though. Ask us a question. Boxhead. First question comes from @PanicAtTheTato. Why do tastes differ from person to person? How is it that I can think, for example, vinegar is delicious, but my husband absolutely hates it to the point of gagging? It isn’t that tastes are different for different people. It’s that some people are just wrong. Do you see- No. No. Everything tastes a certain way and there is a certain proper interpretation of those things. For instance, black licorice, a lot of people get this one wrong is actually very good, but most people get that wrong. Just like most people can’t, you know, like tell you how far the sun is from the earth or something. You know, it’s not something everybody knows. There’s a few people that know that kind of thing. And so we should all aspire to get to a place where our taste align with the proper tastes. No. Friends. Taste is highly subjective and it resides in the tongue. And when tongues are given out to babies, then it’s just whether, it’s whether the taste angels want someone to be special in one way or special in another way. Right. Our tastes are all special, unique, and all correct. And how picky you are is based on how many sins you committed in your previous life. So the more sins you committed, the pickier you are. How discerning you are is how determinant whether you go to taste heaven. That’s right. In the next life. Uh-huh. Yep. And the more things that you like, the closer you are to taste heaven. No. No. It’s actually the- ‘Cause there’s no frontiers- more things you don’t like that you haven’t passed yet. with good reason that sends you to taste heaven. As you can see, we agree on this and I think we’ve solved this problem. You’re welcome PanicAtTheTato. PanicAtTheTato. Link is giving like, what is it? It’s almost like Mr. Roger. It’s like a form of Mr. Rogers. Like a, like a, yeah, like a kid’s PeeWee’s playhouse. But not that cool, you know? Well, yeah. Not that cool, of course. I thought it was pretty cool. It’s minimalist cool. You know what you remind me of, there was a head in a box on PeeWee’s Playhouse that was the genie. Yeah. That’s why you’re coming, that’s what you’re giving now, to use the terminology. I’m the man in the box. But there’s the collared shirt and the glasses. Buried in my Won’t you come and save me? Taste is a product of both nature and nurture. Our food preferences are determined by multiple factors including genes, experience, and age. Our genes determine the number of taste receptors we have for each taste bud type. Sweet, sour, bitter, salty or umami. Genes, huh? Yeah. While experience such as our mother’s diets while we were in the womb tells us what foods are safe to eat. Genes determine the distribution of taste receptors? Yeah, and when the style of jeans change. So like, they were skinny for a while and I was really liking, you know, a real umami when the tight jeans and as my jeans loosened to where they’re at kind of right now. Yeah? I started realizing I was getting a little bit of a sweet tooth. I don’t know what it is. It’s ’cause you have more room in your pants. Got more room in the pants. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. @JurassicNathan. Why do we get deja vu? Why do we get deja vu? Oh! Nathan, you stinker. I had an answer about this and then I forgot it. Let’s give you a second. Isn’t that ironic? The reason you get deja vu. I had an answer. Yeah, but you forgot it. But I know that I had it before. I feel like we’ve done this before. Yeah, I think we have. We’ve talked about deja vu. The reason you get deja vu is you don’t actually get deja vu. When you think you are getting deja vu and you think to yourself, “Man, I feel like I’ve experienced this exact same thing before.” It’s because you have, I mean, you have, I mean, you’re like, “I seem to remember this moment in which I like turned the wrong direction on a street and it was going the wrong way and then got embarrassed and then had to start going backwards and accidentally backed over a Frisbee that these little kids had thrown and I cracked.” Seems like you could never do that before, but you did. Right, but as as crazy as it sounds, you have done that exact thing before. That’s the way the brain works. But the, it’s not the longer you live the more deja vu you have because that’s the secondary way. The main way you have deja vu is it’s a slight dissociation. You know, when you like have, if you’ve ever had an out-of-body experience, like you feel like you’re watching yourself do something maybe because you were, you know, on some medication or maybe just because you’re mystical. I don’t know what your reasons are, but it’s a sensation that a lot of humans can have. And deja vu is just like a hint of that. You’re having an experience but you’re, part of your brain is aware of it from a distance. I think it’s when you’re tapping into- And it makes you feel like you’ve done it before. I think you’re tapping into another version of you that is connected through another dimension. So like- And that’s the third reason. There’s so many of you out there. Right. And every once in a while there’s like things, little things that happen where you get a little experience. I think when Science Mike was on the show and he stuck around for “Good Mythical More” and he answered a bunch of questions from the crew. I think Deja vu may have been one of them and he gave an answer that I don’t remember. But it wasn’t any of the three things that we said. Huh. Deja vu is caused by dysfunctional connections between the parts of your brain that play a role in memory recollection and familiarity. It’s thought that occasionally your hippocampus and surrounding brain tissue can be activated causing you to have memory experiences like deja vu. For some reason, you’re more susceptible to deja vu if you have a high level of education, travel a lot, remember your dreams, and or hold liberal beliefs. Wow. Okay. Hold liberal beliefs? Check, check, check. Oh, did you see that? I was like, what’s hidden behind my Check this out. We got a pop socket here. You can put this on your phone. You can pop that thing up. I love a good pop socket. This is the mythical pop socket. You can put it on your Hi Daddys phone case. Well, but then you don’t wanna cover Randy up. Yeah, you can put it higher. You could totally put it right there. Oh yeah, you could do both. That’s pretty nice You can totally put it right there. And this is a nice phone case ’cause like, this is the rubber case that goes on your phone. And then this is the hard case that goes over. Oh, it’s a double case. You can get these at our amazon store amazon.com/mythical. It’s the one-stop shop for tech accessories. Wow. Mythicalized. Also reissued designs and Mythical logo wear. That’s very very cool. Check out the Amazon Mythical site to get your, to get mythical and mystical. Get mythed up. And then the second time you go there, you’ll be like, “Have I been here before?” Yeah. That was hiding there. That just prompted me to do that. @KamiDTnT. What makes a person right-handed or left-handed? From birth, or shortly after, it’s apparent that we’re naturally drawn to use one hand over another. A seemingly complete 50/50 chance outcome, yet more people end up right-handed. And then that emoji with the the thinky, thinky face. You might think that this is, the answer’s within the brain, like the left brain, right brain of it all. But that has nothing to do with right or left-handedness. Right. You are right that it is something that’s determined very early, before we can, before we ever play baseball or write. It’s because your one hand, it’s whichever hand scares the other hand- Mm. Right. Into submission first. If you arm wrestle yourself, you can figure this out. Right. And if you get your newborns to arm wrestle, like if you kind of pantomime the arm wrestling, you can get one hand to scare the other hand into submission. And so that’s what happens. It’s like two twins wrestling in the womb to be the first born. See, that’s what happens. That’s what happens. So as- I was really trying. As a parent you need to make the moral decision if you want to interfere or not because you can totally control it. You can. You know, it’s kind of like, well, foot binding or like head lengthening. Right. So you don’t want to do it. You really don’t wanna do that. These are all things that- Those are all things you don’t want to do. Just because it’s possible doesn’t mean you, maybe you should do it, but. I do like your theory. I have a slightly different theory and it involves, like you talked about the taste angels. Right, yeah. There’s also hand angels. Well, they call them touch angels. And they’re the ones who are putting the hands on every baby, right? Touched by a touched angel? And they’re putting the hands on. But the thing is, is that touch angels get bored because it’s literally just like hand, baby, hand, baby, all day long. And eventually they start talking about their weekend. You know, they get distracted. And sometimes you grab the wrong hand. ‘Cause everyone is supposed to be right-handed, right? So we can all slap fives and do handshakes and write at the desks and things like that. Right. But every once in a while it’s like, “What’d you do this weekend?” “What’d you do this weekend?” I’m taking hands and putting them on babies. What are you doing? Oh, I’m putting hands on babies. So what’d you do this, be a touch angel. “What’d you do this weekend, man?” “Well, I just, I worked an extra shift.” “Oh, you feeling a little tired, huh?” “Yeah. I feel so tired. I’m not thinking about what I’m doing at all.” “You wanna take a smoke break? I think I got some.” “What are we gonna smoke?” “Angel dust?” “Oh crap. Oh, don’t tell God.” It happens about that often. Yeah. Yeah. I was totally following you. Yeah. Could you see it in my eyes? Yeah. Did you also notice that? I don’t know what you were doing when we started this scenario. It’s this freaking box, man. You were just going like this. I can’t. There was just sort of a gentle wave that was happening. I’m not completely here ’cause I’m in this box. Yeah, I kind like it. And the irony of it was I was using my left hand. Touched by a Touch Angel” starring Michael Landon. I’m a left-handed touch angel. There’s something so creepy about the phrase touch angel. Sorry. It was initially thought that a single gene controlled handedness, which I just like is a word, handedness. I don’t know if I’ve heard that. Yeah, that’s wrong. However recent studies suggest that up to 40 genes contribute to the trait. But it’s also thought that the prenatal environment, while developing the left and right side of your body, as well as cultural influences may play a role. 85 to 90% of people are right-handed while 10 to 15 are left-handed. I wonder if you’d, what percentage of actors ‘Cause we have a friend who’s told us that watch closely in commercials and TV and you’ll see- Or movies, entertainment. A very high, like a disproportionately high percentage of people with left hand. Left hand. I always, my experience is that like super creative people are always lefthanded. Or like people who have like some kind of art or design, you know, thing going on are left-handed. I definitely think there’s, I mean, there’s gotta be something. There’s gotta be something into that, right? Gotta be something to that. Who do we think is really creative? And let’s Google if they’re left-handed. Like who do you think of, like Daniel Day Lewis. Great actor. He’s a great actor. Is he, let’s see if he’s left-handed. The rapper Eve. Let’s go into music. She’s creative. Daniel Day Lewis is right-handed. Right-handed. Okay. Forget it. Forget it. Don’t even Google Eve. I think though. No, Google Eve. Does the internet know if the rapper Eve is left-handed? No. Okay. All right. Is Kendrick left-handed? Kendrick handedness. LeBron is. Anna Kendrick. LeBron’s not left-handed. Oh, tell that to CBSnews.com. Cardi B is lefthanded. Hold on. Anna Kendrick is left-handed. Is LeBron left-handed? LeBron might be lefthanded. He shoots with his right hand, doesn’t he? And someone’s looking for Kendrick Lamar. How did I not know he was lefthanded? He’s not left-handed, is he? It says he’s left-handed? That’s how you spell Kendrick, but Lamar- Do not know about Kendrick. has two Rs at the end. I feels so deceived. The internet doesn’t have a lot of, Why are you using a search site called Brave? It’s my browser, sorry. What do you mean that’s your, Your browser is Brave? Yes. So you don’t Google, you Brave? Apparently, yeah. Chase, what is Brave? That’s the mandated thing that we all do here. Everybody’s on Brave. You’re not on Brave? I’m not on, I’ve never even heard of it. Oh, according to Mikayla, Kendrick Lamar might be because of a lyric in one of his songs. He says “I’m left handed”. Well, LeBron shoots with his right hand. I just needed to confirm that. Okay. I think every girl I’ve ever dated has been left-handed. Gasp! Interesting. Chase, I just gotta tell you, if you want to Google stuff, you can’t do that on Brave. It’s like Binging something. It’s not gonna do the right thing for you. I’m on Google now. LeBron is left-handed but he shoots with his right hand. But he does all other things with his left hand. Really? Wow. That’s why, that’s one of the reasons he’s so good. That’s like me, man. ‘Cause he’s shooting with his off hand. What? What do you mean that’s like you? You play basketball like that? No, I- Oh. I use different hands for different things. Sure, sure. I spread out the skills across both my hands. LeBron said he converted into a right-handed player because of Michael Jordan and Penny Hardaway. So it was more like, “Oh, I gotta do what they do.” Of course, you could have still done. You didn’t have to do that. That’s interesting. But it worked out, it worked out okay. Now when it comes to guitarists like, of course, Jimi Hendrix left-handed. Who else is? There’s not a lot of, but that’s because you have to learn to play guitar and like you pick one up, it’s gonna be a right-handed guitar usually. Or you just turn the guitar over like he did. Yeah, but then you gotta, that’s a big hurdle to overcome, to turn it over to restring it and all that. No, no. He just, didn’t Hendrix just turned the guitar over? I don’t know. Let’s Brave it. Like I need to know what Brave is, like can you articulate why you’re using a thing called Brave? Yeah, it’s, you know, like Duck Duck Go, the search. It’s basically the whole browser protects your data and doesn’t give anything to- Okay. Google or other sites. That’s very brave of you. What are you hiding? Back when there were a lot fewer of us at Mythical Crew, and I used to search things, like how to start fire in unusual ways. I started getting nervous- Smart. that I’d end up on some- Smart. Some lists. So I started looking for ways to hide the data that I give to the world wide web. That’s not very Brave of you. No, it’s very cowardly. I’m a cowardly Chase. It’s not cowardly. That’s wise. So Jimi Hendrix always played his right-handed guitar upside down. And then another question is did Jimi Hendrix reverse the strings? Click on that. Yes, Jimi often played right-handed guitars but he took the strings off and reversed them to effectively make it a left-handed guitar. So he did reverse it. Yeah, that’s what, that’s what left-handed guitarists do. ‘Cause that way the chord configurations are the same. I mean, you of all people, should know this at this table. What? Hold on. How you gonna play a bar chord upside down? Well, he’s Jimi Hendrix. I just was thinking, maybe he figured out a way to do all that stuff in a different way. I mean, I’m just not putting anything past that guy. Yep, yep. Kurt Cobain was left-handed. I don’t. Yes. But he played a left-handed guitar. Okay. Can you answer one more question? Yes. This is very pressing from at @matthewcarney. He says, what is the evolutionary reason for fingerprints and why are everyone’s unique? Oh, he says I’ll take my answer off the air. So we don’t have to, I mean, but you’re here so you might as well. No! Take it off the air. Yeah, no, no. Hold on. Let’s put it on the air- Did you just tweet this? And then maybe we’ll take it off the air. I doubt he just tweeted it because they’ve made it into this nice graphic. I mean, Twinkie’s fast, but. That’s a cool, that’s a cool question Man. Wow. What is the evolutionary reason for, now, interestingly, koala bears have fingerprints that are indecipherable from human fingerprints from the average person, as you are pointing out now. This was something that went a little bit viral recently. I guess it’s just how your fingers are made. It’s just a byproduct of like your fingers being like the way that the skin goes at the end. I think that the touch angels knew that you were gonna do some bad things and they wanted a way to be able to keep up with who was doing the bad things. I think it would be a lot more surprising if any of them were the same. I think is really the point. I think you’re asking the wrong question. Well, I think that the real reason that there’s, I think it’s, the better question is why are there ridges in the palm skin? And I think for grip. So I think that fingerprints is basically just an evidence of ridges. ‘Cause if you don’t have the ridges, you lose a little of your grip ability. And so I just think that, yeah, they develop, you know, they develop on their own. It’s not like, they’re gonna be different on every person. Just like everything on your body’s a little bit different. Do you have an answer, Stevie? Yeah. So you’re partially correct. Though the reason for fingerprints is still a mystery, scientists have conjectured that we kept our fingerprints from our primate ancestors for help gripping rough surfaces like trees or rocks. It also seems like it helps drain water from our fingertips to maintain a dry grip during rain. Wow. As for uniqueness, our fingerprints are made during fetal development and are influence by what our mothers consume as well as the environment inside the womb. That’s why even identical twins have different fingerprints. And the finger angels. Yep. You don’t want to be Touched by a finger angel. Well. It was touch angels, but you made it worse. I thought, in my world, the touch angels take care of the finger parts too. You don’t wanna be fingered by a finger angel if you’re a criminal. Hey guys, just by the way, that was my handle in case you ever want to start following me ’cause neither of you do. @MatthewCarney. Okay. Yeah. I don’t think you want that, do you? Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for that. 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