Welcome to Good Mythical More, because what you had was not enough. It wasn’t. What we’re about to give you is gonna be additional. It’s gonna be more, you might say. It’s gonna be more. And it’s gonna be, about pregame rituals and being lied to. Pregame rituals? Pregame rituals. Yeah, they probably get weird. Athletes are a little bit weird. Well, some of them are fake, so they’re gonna be. Let’s tell a little 10 word story about athletes. Athletes! Conjecture. On. Topics. Like. Toads. Politics. And. Turtles. But. Often. Their Mothers. Tell. Them. That. – They. – Should. – Not. – Have. Discussions. ((Laughing)) Right. Because. – They. – Are. Stupid. Well, I was gonna say athletes, but, kind of on the nose. On the nose. You know, it’s like, why be good at a sport if you’re smart? And why be smart if you’re good at a sport? It’s like, you know, just. Don’t be everything. Choose a lane, you know? Yeah. It’s, it’s, simpler that way, you know? You can’t hog all the good stuff, you know? Pro athletes don’t need to be smart, right? Well, I mean. It’s a question, it’s not a statement. – [Stevie] Pennsylvania is not here to help you with this one. Athletes conjecture on topics like toads, politics, and turtles. I like politics is thrown in there. Yeah. But often their mothers tell them that they should not have discussions because they are athletes. Choose a lane, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Oh, that wasn’t really, yeah, the choose a lane stuff, that was just. That wasn’t really part of the thing, but okay. That was just, you know, this is all just to cover because we wish we were, like, athletes. Jocks. Jocks. Yeah. You could have been a jock, man. The jocks and the nerds. You could have been a jock at, like, a lower tier basketball school, right? The jocks and the nerds can’t mix. I was invited to be a jock at many a lower tier basketball school, thank you very much. Including? Chowan, Chowan, Chowan, what’s the name of that one? Chowan? Chowan. Chowan? Chowan? What is that one? Chowan College? That’s in North Carolina. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you know, like Division II, III, that kind of thing. I thought, you could have played at UNC Asheville, right? I got a letter from UNC Asheville. I got a letter from East Carolina University, saying that they were interested. They were interested in me. being a jock at their school. Really? ((Laughing)) A pirate? You could have been a pirate? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then we started that band and I stopped responding to all the letters. It was your fault. I mean, yeah. The Wax Paper Dolls. I was like, I don’t want to be a jock. I want to be a rock star. And your dad loved that. He loved it. – [Stevie] Link, it sounds like that was a penalty. Oh yeah, I’m going to be. ((Whistle)) Penalized. Penalty! Hey, I’m the ref in this. How are you guys doing? I’m doing great. Now, Stevie’s going to have to tell you every time it’s a penalty, then that’s not going to be a good look for you. You know, here’s the thing. They put this on me, and they gave me a whistle. You have all your teeth. You don’t have anything to complain about. I have nothing to complain about. Red card! That’s for, losing the game. You should’ve done better. ((Whistle)) Okay. So I see he’s starting pretty, pretty, pretty soft. Pretty soft. I need the cards back. Yeah, he’s gonna get the cards. He’s gonna get the cards back. Alright. ((Laughing)) So you’re gonna present us, Stevie, with a pregame ritual from a jock. – [Stevie] From a jock it could be real It could be fake. You’re gonna have to register your answers with some good ol’ baseball safe or out signals which you of course know and will demonstrate. But I’ve been told we have a video to make sure that we know how to do safe and out. – [Stevie] Let’s take a look. Out! – [Man] Ready? Set! Cut! Safe! Safe mechanic, it says. That’s the mechanics for safe. Oh, that’s not the guy’s name? He’s not, well, do you subscribe to the safe mechanic? Well, first of all, what is Tuckahoe? TuckahoeSports.org? It almost looks like something else. Tuckahoe. That’s where gardeners hide their implements. That’s how they hide them. Tuckahoe sports. Tuckahoe right over here in the corner. Every good gardener has a robe and they Tuckahoe. The thing I gotta say. Oh, Tuckahoe! The safe mechanic though is that, how would you have done, before you saw safe mechanic, how would you have done safe in Little League? You would have done thumbs up? No, I knew, I knew that this was one of them, but I thought this was out. Because you’re pushing everything out. ((Laughing)) Get it out of here! Out! Is what I would have. You really didn’t pay much attention, did you? But I would not, I never got on base. You never got safe. You only got out. ((Laughing)) Right. So, you saw a lot of this. Oh, a lot of this? This was them celebrating. They were glad. Yes! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Helped your self confidence. Why is this safe and this is out? This should be out. And that should be safe. Yes, I’m safe! You’re out! ((Whistle)) ((Laughing)) I mean, it makes sense to me. Penalty! Bit going too long. Red card. Bit going too long. Bit going too long? Bit going too long. This isn’t a bit! Yeah, yeah. This is me! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Not even a bit. Bit! Stevie, let’s see the first one. – [Stevie] Okay, you’re gonna hear it. Charles Oakley would pass the basketball to director Spike Lee before every game to inspect it. Well, Oakley did play for the Knicks. Spike Lee sat on the front row of Madison Square Garden. Maybe he still does, I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not keeping up anymore. So I’m gonna say. Safe! – Safe. – True. I’m saying safe, this is true. – [Stevie] It’s true. It’s kind of a fun little thing that they had. – [Stevie] But you’re, but, okay. Link, what you’re communicating is. The opposite of what he means. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m learning. I’ve learned. This is a bit. This is not a bit. So, you’ve learned that you’re gonna do the opposite of what is real, right? This is safe, meaning true. Oh, really? I can’t unlearn it! You never learned it, though. I can’t unlearn it. It wasn’t like something like, you were like, if I had to guess, I would say this, but now you’re committed to it. – Safe. – Out. This is out. Oh no. No, I really do have this. – [Ref] Red card. Sorry. Penalty. Untreated ADHD. You gotta take your meds. Okay. I need the cards back once again. Thanks for bringing that into the comments. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not the first time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Out! – [Stevie] Tennis player. Pete Sampras. – [Stevie] Virginia Wade. Oh, yeah. Okay. – [Stevie] Would only eat ball shaped food before every match. Yeah, she would. Ginny Wade would only eat ball food before a tennis. This is really dumb and I don’t think any athlete would ever do it. This isn’t the kind of thing an athlete would think to do. Ball shaped food. I’ll pass it to Spike Lee. Yeah. I’m, you know, throwing the. The LeBron dust into the air. So, you’re saying this is out? I’m saying this is out. No ball shaped food for Virginia. And I, it gets stranger than that. I’m saying true. Which is safe. Now you’re right about that. Safe. I’m forming a new pathway. Safe! – [Stevie] It is false. She didn’t do that. She didn’t do that? – [Stevie] No, she didn’t do that. Athletes don’t. What did she do though? Wimbledon? US Open? I haven’t heard of her, I gotta say. She’s from the 60s. – [Stevie] I bought your, your Ginny Wade reference that sounded knowledgeable. I worked, when I worked at IBM, I worked with a Virginia. She went by Ginny. – [Stevie] She won three Grand Slams. That’s Jenna’s actual name, is Virginia. Virginia, yeah. Yep. Okay, next one. – [Stevie] Wade Boggs. – Okay, alright. – Here we go. ((Laughing)) – [Stevie] Would eat chicken before every game, so much so that his nickname became Chicken Man. Chicken Man. He’d eat chicken before every game. That’s an easier one. You know, chicken. Lot of forms. Boggs was big on the chicken. That makes sense to me. Chicken Man. Somebody was called Chicken Man, and I think it was Boggs. True. Safe. – [Stevie] It’s true. Yeah, true. – [Stevie] Boggs the Chicken Man. Good ol’ Boggs. Dang. The symbol of smell bad for us. The smell bad symbol. Of old smell. Old smell. Yeah. Yeah. Classic. Yeah. – [Stevie] LSU coach. Les Miles. or “Lez”, but I don’t think so. Les. – [Stevie] He used to eat the grass at every game he coached. – He is a bit of a nut. – He used to eat the grass? I know that. Well, it checks out then. So I’m going to say safe. Because this means safe. He’s a bit of a nut, but I just don’t think. This means safe. I’m really having a hard time. I’m eating that grass. Because, the reason why I’m having such a hard time is because I, like, I applied a rationale to it and it made complete sense to me. Out. So, I think. Out? This is. And then I have to map it to, true or false. This is a, maybe a psychological, I think maybe the, the POV of the umpire is where this comes from. Think about it. So like, If you’re thinking about it from the POV of the guys playing defense on the field and not the runner, right? So like, you got him. You caught him. You got him. Or, he got away! Like, that’s how I always thought about it. Like, he, you know what I’m saying? Like. Nope! He got there before you got there. Or, you caught him. You got him. You tagged him. So, the ref is pulling for the defense? Yes! Safe! ((Whistle)) Out. You’re not joking, are you? No, it’s just. You’re clearly not joking, and I’m realizing that right now, this is not something you’re doing. Right. No. You are over intellectualizing this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m overthinking. That’s a kind way to put it. Just think about it. This just is like, no, you know? No. Yeah. Like a super villain. This is like. Yeah. There’s no rationale to what you’re saying. No, you know when you’re like, yeah. Yeah, I’ve never. No! I’ve never been like, yeah. ((Laughing)) You will now though. Okay. You caught it, you caught it, you tagged him. Boom, boom, out. Or. You caught it, you caught it. He’s out. – Safe up, nope. – He’s out. Trust me, he made it before you did. – [Stevie] That wasn’t even a penalty, the ref’s just trying to help. Yeah, he’s just trying to help you now. I don’t, I actually, Les Miles I think is a nut, but I don’t think that he eats grass. I do think he eats grass. And he’s playing defense. So, you, I think it’s out. You think it’s. Well then, yeah, I think the opposite of you. I think, I think it’s safely true. – [Stevie] It’s true. Oh, tell us more. – [Stevie] I don’t know what else to tell you. What’s it taste? I mean, did he eat the? – [Stevie] It’s gotta be a good luck. Did he eat the end zone grass? Like the painted grass? – [Stevie] My guess is not. What did he do when he went to artificial turf? Cause that’s what a lot of people use. – [Stevie] He licked it. Okay. He licked it. So he’s like a dog with a stomachache? Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. Have you ever been on an artificial turf field? Out! I’m not listening to you right now because I’m trying to. Safe! I’ve only been on an artificial turf field one time and I was really surprised that all the little black rubber balls that are in the, in it. To answer your question now, no I haven’t. What do you mean? Do they come out? So if you watch the NFL. Or any college where they’re playing on that. You’ll see as they’re like running around and cutting and stuff, there’s like this like, black stuff that’s like coming up from their feet. And I always thought it was like a cartoon effect added in post. Oh yeah? Like the first down line? And, it’s like, there’s little black rubber things that are in there I guess for like, I don’t know, I mean I’m sure they’re there for a reason. But like, yeah. Cushion? I don’t know. And they come out? They come out and then they go back down to the ground. I guess it’s like fake soil. But it does something functionally. I think maybe it makes it, you know, more like grass. I don’t know. Gives it a little give. The more you know. And I think Les Miles ate that rubber stuff. – [Stevie] I mean, the backstory is I guess he, he ate it instead of like sunflower seeds or chewing tobacco. And then it became like a superstition of his that he had to do it. No, I’m having grass today. You’re doing something and you win and then you correlate it. – [Stevie] Yeah. My pregame ritual before my, you know, my immensely successful high school soccer career. Yep. I would get so nervous before all of the games. That’s a great ritual. That I would, I would leave home and it would be like a, it was like a, maybe a ten minute drive. And I would get in my. I would get so antsy at home that I’d be like, I gotta start getting there, and I would leave so early and I would drive, like, less than 10 miles an hour. That’s a way to get into the spirit. I would drive super slow. Way to get pumped up. I drove 7 miles per hour to get to school. So it would take, you know, it would take me like 50 minutes or an hour. I just wanted to hear the story. Yeah, and then I would get there and I would not be any less nervous. It’s unsafe to go that slow on a road. It was a, you know, it’s a country road, not many people. You were so nervous that you just decided to get to the game as slow as possible? Yeah. Did you ever miss the game? No, I was still very early. Okay. Yeah. So you would show up early. This is, I mean, this, this More is really, unlike everything else is, you know, it’s just highlighting. How special you are. I need some help. ((Laughing)) Yeah, what’s the penalty? Well, it’s not a penalty. This green card has the name of a really good psychiatrist. Okay. I see them personally, and they really can help you with a lot of stuff. Knowing the difference between safe and. Right, right. I believe in it. Thank you, thank you. Okay. I’ll text it to you, too. I’m okay. I’m okay in my own skin. Yeah, you are. You are. ((Laughing)) What was your pregame ritual? In your illustrious basketball career. It was meeting you, driving to the river and swimming, swimming into the river and nearly drowning before the state playoffs, only to show up barely on time, really, really tired and then lose the game. ((Laughing)) That was the day that it was like the water was frigid and we were, we thought we were going to chase a deer. We did. I chased a deer, nearly drowned. Multiple times. Swam in a very cold river. And then you’re like, wait. I gotta get to the state playoffs! But I’m gonna go five miles per hour all the way. You obviously weren’t nervous about it. You were the opposite of me. You didn’t think twice about it. You didn’t care. I wasn’t nervous about it, but I should have been more prepared for that game. You know, I’d be a different man because that team ended up winning the whole state playoffs. And we only lost by like five points. It’s all because I went, again, it’s your fault. Yeah, well, I had bigger plans for you, Rhett. I could be an NBA assistant coach right now. Yeah, you don’t have to wear a suit anymore. Right, I wear a warm up. Yeah, what’s up with that? I love it. Okay. – [Stevie] PGA Champion. Keegan Bradley used to sniff the 18th hole in every tournament before attempting his final putt. Come on, guys. Did he sniff the hole, or did he sniff the hole? Right. Like, cause the 18th hole is the hole hole, and then there’s the cup. Did he sniff the cup? I don’t think he sniffed the cup. Which is the actual orifice of the hole. Now, Keegan Bradley, let me tell you a few things about him. He’s a tall golfer, and he reminds me, when I see him swing the golf club, I think, man, that dude’s a freak. And then I realize, this is probably what I look like when I play golf, because I’m still way taller than him. And so, that’s what I think about when I think about Keegan Bradley. And I also like sniffing the hole, so, I’m gonna say this is true. Logistically, I don’t know how he would sniff the hole. So, I’m gonna say that’s false, which is out! – [Stevie] It’s false! Oh, he doesn’t? That’s right. How would he sniff the hole? We don’t have everything that. He’d walk all the way down there, and sniff that hole, and then walk all the way back and drive? It’s very impractical. I think that’s cheating, too. ((Whistle)) Sorry, this is a penalty, but this is for the writing staff. Too much double entendre in that. Very inappropriate, you know. Kids watch this. You set them up to do a bunch of hole sniffing jokes. And we did it. And they did it, and they took the bait. Right. Naughty, naughty. Right. So you gave them a red card because, the inside of the hole is? Oh, come on. Oh, man, like, come on, dude. – Come on, man. – You gotta grow up. You could, you should have stopped, you should have stopped that. You should have stopped that. You’re full grown. I know the plans I have for you, too – [Crew] What? I. – [Ref] I want to hear. Why are you, why are you quoting Bible verses? I want to know what that meant. Why are you quoting Bible verses at the ref? Was that Bible or was that something new? ((Laughing)) Well, I, you know, I had plans for Rhett to not play basketball and be a successful entertainer. Okay, but what did you mean, oh? And I have plans for you too. Okay. To be a successful. That has nothing to do with the previous conversation about a hole? No! No, you’re reading into it. I didn’t even think about that. I didn’t. I don’t know, man. Yeah. ((Music)) ((Laughing)) – [Rhett] The Mythical Cookbook is almost here. 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