Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” We’re continuing with the science ’cause not only are we the Beaker Boys, but we now have our little Beaker boys with us that we gotta be good examples. Show them how much we know about science. They’re fragile. They’re fragile! So Stevie’s gonna tell us a scientific principle and then we are going to have to explain it. Totally accurately. Oh yeah, of course, of course. We have engineering backgrounds. From our beans. But first, we’re gonna play “Ready, Pet, Go.” We look at a pet that you submit using the #GMMReadyPetGo and we name it or we try to guess the name. This submission is from Girl Fieri. How many cats actually is that? Well, it’s two cats worth for sure. I mean, there’s a… Is that a third arm or a leg? The middle leg could be a low arm, a low left arm. I guess it’s, you know what I’m realizing? It’s a rather large cat scratching its own butt hole. Well, I think he’s actually ashamed. He’s covering his butt hole? Lots of cats cover their butt holes in pictures, when you catch ’em off guard. Like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not now. Not now. Later. I didn’t say that, either. You imply. Not now. Later. I’m gonna say Chonk. You think they named him once he got large? Sometimes you name a cat after, especially if you like, find them. If you found a cat this big, you would name it something big. If you found a cat in that position, would you adopt it? You probably wouldn’t find a cat. No feral cat’s ever looked this way. That’s the thing. This is a pampered cat, right? This is a cat that- That’s a well-fed cat. Has a home, is inside a lot. I just hope that somebody doesn’t bust through that door really quickly. Oh, don’t worry. The door’s not gonna be okay. The cat will be. The cat is gonna be just fine. Okay, well, then I call this cat Door Stop. Okay. What do we got? Max. Yeah, definitely. Hey, see? Max. Definitely a Max. That’s a Maximalist cat right there. How’s your eye? It’s, you know- Got a little glow stick in it? It’s burning a little bit. Is it, though? Jenna came up and said, “I talked to poison control.” I don’t know if she like… She didn’t like, call. I mean, like, she consulted with like, the website and said “You’re gonna be fine. You might experience a little pain.” And I don’t know if it’s just because she said that that now there’s a little burning sensation on my eyelid, but I kinda like it. Stevie, what’s your cat’s name? Well, when I got my cat, I named her Evelyn because I was like, oh, that’s weird. Yeah. But then it became difficult to call the cat that, so then it was shortened to E-V. EV. EV. Which I realized rhymes with Stevie and it’s weird. Oh, gosh. That that’s my cat’s name. Yeah. Wow. Apologies all around here. You gotta start over. Yeah. You gotta start over. She’s pretty old now, so. Just call her Min. It’s the opposite of Max. All right, so give us our first thing. She has lost quite a bit of weight in her old age. Yeah. See? And we will tell you how it works. What’s in your boy? Anything in your boy? There’s nothing in there, but I’ve got a Dum Dum here. You got a Jolly Rancher. A Dum Dum here, a Dum Dum there. Let’s see if my boy’s taking any notes. Give us the first one, Stevie Thrust. Thrust is the act of taking the middle part of your body and moving it back and forth in a gyrating motion in order to move something or potentially insert something on your body into something else. But I do wanna clarify. Thrust is only the forward motion. The backward motion is called- The opposite of thrust, which is- The durst. Tsurht. You got the thrust and the durst. Which is why Fred- Tsurht. Called himself that because he was always pulling out of the charts. Fred called himself what? I missed the middle part. Thrust? Durst. Durst. Okay. The Limp Bizkit guy. He was always pulling out of the charts. I thought you were talking about Fred, the big YouTuber. Remember that? I’ve got a clipboard in here. Is that correct, Stevie? A thrust is the- Yes. Yes. Oh, gosh. This is a big- Also, alternative definition, for those that want it. Thrust is a reaction force described in Newton’s third law. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction, the accelerated mass will cause a thrust force of equal magnitude. Right. But opposite direction to be applied to that system. So a rocket expelling gas towards the ground causes an equal force, thrust, to move it in the opposite direction. Crazy. It’s kind of like if you fart in order to move your pelvis forward. Oh, I do. Right? It’s like, there has to be a backwards force that sends the pelvis forward for it to actually be thrusting. So what would that be, besides a fart? I don’t know. It couldn’t be anything. I mean, I think it’s just my hips. I think we just justified farting while thrusting. Well, I don’t know. I think we should maybe… Yeah, defer. Think more about that. Defer to others. You should think more about that. Well, give us another one. The physics of boomerangs. The physics of boomerangs. It’s actually psychic because you got this thing. All boomerangs are made from anxious wood. Anxious wood, it has separation anxiety, so it doesn’t like to be apart from its owner. There’s an imprinting. And I’ll go a step further than that. You throw it and it’s scared, so it comes back. The wood is so anxious, not only does it wanna come back to you, but it does not want to be caught by anyone else and it doesn’t want to get lost is the main thing. You know, it’s like a little kid at the mall. Right. You know? The first thing you do, you get separated from your mom and what do you do? Right. Mom! That’s a boomerang’s mind the whole time it’s in the air. It’s the saddest projectile. Yeah. I feel sorry for all boomerangs. If your boomerang doesn’t come back to you, that means it would rather die. Yeah, it’s like a child running away. Thank you. Next one. Unless you have a different explanation. An alternative answer is a returning boomerang has two or more aerofoil section wings arranged so that wind spinning, they create unbalanced aerodynamic forces that curve its path into an ellipse, returning to its point of origin when thrown correctly. Fun fact, there are non-returning boomerangs, as well, that are traditionally used as weapons. Yeah. They’re typically heavier and designed to be thrown in a straight line to properly hit a target. Yeah. That’s not really a boomerang. Yeah. There’s a lot of TikToks of people throwing boomerangs. Saw a guy in a gas station parking lot. He was throwing it over the gas station and it was coming back to him and he did it five times in a row. Really? And it never got old. I watched until the end. You did? ‘Cause you kept thinking something else was gonna happen or it’s just satisfying? I was like, why does this have three million views? And the answer is? I think a lot of people were asking the same question. Why does this have one million views? Got the video to, why does this have two million views? Got the video to, why does this have three million views? There is something about a boomerang that like, it seems like it would be very satisfying to successfully catch it. I’ll get you one. I can get you one. I know a guy. Yeah, but you can’t give me the ability to throw it properly. I’m gonna get you one of the ones that you can’t mess up. The three pronged ones. Like from Aerobie or Nerf? Yeah, they’re made for kids. Do you think that we are like, especially view trained and view conscious? Or do you think everybody is? Are you talking about like… What do you mean? The way that I just analyzed that video? Yeah because I do the exact same thing. Like, I look at- Oh, I understand. Yeah. You check the view count to know if it’s worth watching? Yeah, well, on TikTok, it’s more of the like count because that’s right there. Yeah, likes. But I do it, yeah. Well, often, what happens with me is if it doesn’t have a lot of likes… Like, if it’s got single digit likes, skip no matter what. I don’t care what happens. Yeah, yeah. So you do look at it. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Because I’m not gonna contribute to this. I’m not gonna be the reason that this thing gets views. The algorithm is making you the Guinea pig at that point. Yeah. Well. there was also a period of time where I felt like TikTok was doing it more than they are now, where you’d get, you know, in a sesh, you’d get a few of those. But it also allows you to be the cool kid who’s the first in on something. Is that not intriguing to y’all? Well, I just guess my main question is like, do other people do that? Or is that, I mean- Well, Rhett does it. Well, no, I mean, I’m saying we are hyper conscious of views because- We’re in the industry. Yeah. It’s our job. Well, you didn’t really answer my question. I don’t do it. I think a lot of people look at the like count to decide if the community has decided that this is good. I think that’s a big part of it. Okay. So we’re not special is what you’re saying? And I also gotta tell you that based on my limited experience, the times I have watched the ones with very little likes, I’m like, I know why nobody likes this. Then I’m like, I’m gonna waste my time on this? So there’s no thrill in being an early adopter. But that’s where following accounts comes in. Because if I follow the person and I’m like, oh, this is a person that makes interesting content. Oh, I think I’m early to one of their videos. I’ll watch it. I saw a TikTok that had, you know, a decent amount like. You know, over 2 million likes, which is quite a decent amount. Yeah. And had, you know, launched. This is not an exciting story. It launched like- It sounds pretty exciting. Keep going. Two days prior, I could tell via the comments ’cause that’s also what I look for. And then someone had commented an hour before me viewing it, “This is gonna go big.” And I thought- Yeah. This is a man who- Too late, bro. Is not looking at the likes. Yeah, exactly. He’s not looking at the likes. This is gonna be a big one. I can tell right now. I feel it. I feel it! I feel it in my bones! I just haven’t fully… I just haven’t gotten into the right TikTok spot. I don’t know what place it holds in my life yet. You know what? This is really interesting because my perspective on this zone that you’re talking about, my experience with this is that I have like, two or three moods that I can be in and I would like to be able to register my mood with TikTok. ’cause sometimes it’s just like, I wanna watch people talking about philosophical stuff. I wanna watch like, you know, I’m in the deconstruction Tok. You know, people talking about that stuff. And then there are times when I’m just like, I wanna see the dumbest possible stuff that I can and that’s not the same mood. And you don’t wanna switch accounts. Yeah, right. So it’s just like, I’m a person that has different moods, TikTok. Figure it out, bro. Yeah. That is a… Yeah, I wonder if they do correlate like, time of day. Time of day. Oh, I know what mood he’s in right now. You know, I know what I wanna show him right now. I feel like I need to be able to register my mood when I log in. But if you start with an account that corresponds to that particular mood that you already follow. And you watch the whole video. It should- Okay, he’s in that mood. All right. I bet it works that way. I bet it does do a little bit of that. I also like to watch weird things that happen at church. That’s one of my favorite categories. Like, people do some crazy stuff at church, man. Like, pastors doing weird. Last night, I watched one where it was a pastor who saw a guy falling asleep while he was preaching. Okay. And he was like, and he called him by name and he called him, “Boy.” He was like, “Boy!” He was a southern preacher. And he goes out there and he goes into the audience. Was it a boy? No, it was like, a 25 year old. He like, wakes him up and then he realizes that while he’s in the audience, this is the perfect opportunity to begin just blasting anybody he wants to by name. He says, “And I’m supposed to marry y’all. And you know what? You’re not serious.” And then, he goes and talks about individual people- Who’s filming this? It’s a big church, so there’s like- A livestream situation? And then he’s like, “I guess y’all are following me around with the camera back in the video room. Speaking of the video room.” And then he is like, “Doug, you’ve turned the video room into a hangout for the youth!” And he’s like, “And listen.” This is not a bit? Oh, no, it’s incredible. It’s one of the best TikToks I’ve ever seen for me and my personality. And then he says… And the guy who works in the video booth, his mom is in the congregation and he’s like, “Lurleen, when I’m talking to him, I’m his pastor. But when I’m talking to you, I’m your pastor.” And like, “You don’t stop me from talking to him.” I mean, first of all, the guy is deeply disturbed, an egomaniac, a narcissist, like many preachers. Literally talks about the congregation submitting to him. But it’s so entertaining because he’s like, here, I got my chance. I’m gonna start calling people by name. And it all started ’cause that boy was sleeping. Yeah and so that’s the kind of stuff I love to watch on TikTok and there’s whole accounts that are just devoted to finding preachers doing dumb stuff, you know, while they’re preaching and it’s just so entertaining to me. I love it. I gotta find my thing. Hold on. You would love this, by the way. Oh, I would love that. I’m gonna show you that video. You’re gonna love it. Yeah. Give us another. Tell me about black holes. Oh, well, that cat was covering his earlier. Yeah. It’s any orifice that when you look into it, and we know that you are. Lurleen, your son is back there in the sound booth. Video room. Looking in holes left and right. And let tell you, I’m his pastor just as much as I’m yours. Every time I show up to that video room, Doug is looking at another black hole. It’s just one black hole after another and you should be ashamed doing that on the church computer! Any circular environment with no lighting on the other side of its rim is a black hole to me. Yeah. Right. So that’s it. That’s what we’re talking about. And it beckons. Yes, a black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. It can occur through a massive event, like a star dying and collapsing in on itself. And they just discovered that there’s many more black holes than they thought. I think that’s one of the things that came out of that scientific discovery that was really legitimate and big. Yeah. People weren’t excited about. That no one really explained. Who weren’t us because we’re not smart enough. Well, no, but I don’t know if you were outside at the time. I was. So we were at Science Mike’s house for his birthday party and… You got him started. Well, so Mike doesn’t do this as a public personality anymore because he’s kind of behind the scenes and he’s doing his own thing and he doesn’t want to be like, on camera all the time. So it’s like, I said, “Mike, I would like you to explain this new discovery.” And this is the thing that you probably heard like, Hank Green talk about it, right? If you follow Hank Green. So it’s this whole idea that they’ve been able like, to measure gravitational waves and it’s kind of complex. But when Mike explained it, it was so fascinating to me. And then the way he said, “And what we will be able to do with this information in the next nine to 11 years.” I just remember him saying that. Yeah. Is basically, it all came down to we’re going to be able to look at the actual moment of the birth of the universe in like, a decade. And it was just like, man, I felt like I just watched a guy say something that would be a TikTok that had 10 million views and 3 million likes and I just got it right here in the backyard. Yeah. And I thought about, I should be filming this right now. I should be filming this and posting it. He told you about it just now and I gotta say, it wasn’t the same. Yeah. Oh, yeah, because I ’cause I skipped- He’s about talking about it. 12 different steps. You didn’t really tell anything about it. You just told that he told us about it. No, because if I began to try to explain what he told me, I would get lost. That’s gonna be a new channel. I had a friend who told me about something that was amazing, but I’m only telling you that he told me and I’m not really telling you the amazing part. Yeah. But you’re saying we’ll be able to look back in time? So, okay. So right now, we have the ability to look to approximately, I’m throwing out the number, 400,000 years after the birth of the universe, based on the background radiation waves basically. ‘Cause you look back at the beginning of time because we’ve got all this stuff coming at us in these different waves and it’s gotta be wavelengths that we can interpret. And the wavelength that goes back the furthest that we can read with like, a certain type of telescope is something that sees infrared light, I think. I’m sort of guessing here. And that gets us back to 400,000 years after the birth of the universe or some number that’s like that. And Mike is saying that there’s gravitational waves and we can read them and they’ve had this thing that it’s somewhere on Earth and it’s like, three miles long. Gravitational waves are so long. Basically, every time a gravitational wave comes, the distance between this large thing that they measure somewhere on Earth, it’s like, three miles changes at like, an atomic level distance, based on a gravitational wave, right? And they can look at this and read the gravitational waves. They just developed the ability to use the entire solar system or the entire galaxy from like, one pulsar over here to one pulsar pulsar over here to create a much larger scale to read these gravitational waves. And according to Mike, they’re gonna gather this data over the next decade and they can basically use a gravitational wave telescope to look back at the beginning of the universe. And he thinks that based on the data that will be gathered, they might develop the theory of everything, which explains why everything is. And by that point, I had three old fashioned, so I was… Yeah, Mike was also making old fashioneds and had order forms for people. Of course, he did that he would then leave and get up and go make one and then come back. But yeah, so I mean, I probably botched that whole thing, but Chase was kind of nodding along, like he’s been paying attention. So yeah, I think we’re gonna discover why we’re here in about 10 years. Sit tight. Good Mythical Evening’s right around the corner! We’re gonna be going live on August 24th at 10:00 PM Eastern, 7:00 PM Pacific. Get your tickets now at goodmythicalevening.com.