I gotta get better at this. Yeah, yeah. You need more practice? Find out where the wheel is gonna land. You need more practice? Yeah, I need to practice. Welcome to Good Mythical More. I don’t know how that went over. You know, I just, that’s why I got a tattoo on my elbow. You’ll never see it. You’ll never see it. So you’ll never see it. Look it. Oh, I hurt myself. It turned into a plant. Foiled again! It’s not foil. It’s a plant. Yeah, a foil, foilage again! There you go! Hey! You did it, Rhett! You recovered! I just needed some practice. Okay. What are we doing? We are, hold on, I’m gonna remember. Near death experiences. You just had one. Oh, yeah. Our crew has had near death experiences, but they could be lying. These are all things that have happened here at work. No. Really? Yeah. But first, let’s donate. $1,000 to Equal Justice Initiative to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment to challenge racial and economic injustice and to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. You can join us in giving at eji.org, and you should. Thank you for being your Mythical best. We love humans. What? We have do ins, what? We love humans. We love humans. We’ve been doing. We love humans? We’ve been doing. We love humans. Okay. Yes. I’m going to read you a story, you’re going to determine if it’s real or fake. You get a bonus point if you determine that it’s real and it is real and you guess whose story it is. Whoa. And then are we going to hear from those folk? Yeah. That too. Okay. Forward! It’s like a bonus on a bonus. Forward! You love people. Recently, I was running back to my car on a very busy street. Because I was moving quickly, I hopped down off the curb, slipped on some mud, and landed head first into the busy street. At the same time, a speeding car drove by and missed my head by a few inches. This is a fear of mine! Oh, mud? Mud on the road? I just feel like, when I’m, when I’m ever walking on the street, I just think that like, all I got to do is fall and it, you know, car run right over my head. Like it, like a cantaloupe. Most of the time the cars are. Further away than you think? Tell me. They think about the fact that there’s people. Have you noticed? I mean, if you live in a big city, I know what you’re about to say. There are just people. Cause we experienced it together. You and I, Rhett. Once you get downtown, there are just people who are not paying attention to there being crosswalks or being lights or anything. And they just, if I wanna walk across the street, they just walk across the street whenever they want to. I’m not saying they don’t get hit occasionally, but I’m saying that every time that happens to me, what do I do? I stop because it’s a person walking across the street. And we love people. Right. – And so. – They’re valuable. I think basically you can just walk on the street and you shouldn’t worry about it. What is your, what do your dogs do around cars? That’s the other thing that, you know, I get scared about, but like, they’re oblivious. We don’t take our dogs into places where that’s much of a risk. Like our neighborhood, not very busy, and so that’s where we walk them. We typically, like, you take your dogs, like, into town and stuff. No, no, no, but I’m just talking about on a walk. I’m talking about, like, normal, the traffic of your neighborhood. Oblivious. If they weren’t on a leash, they might as well just be getting run over. Well, okay, so Ringo is, is conscious enough that he, I think he would be fine. Teetay? Like, almost like pulls towards cars when they come. I’m, it’s very confusing. She get run over? I don’t understand. I don’t understand the impulse. What’s Teetay’s home life like? She’s sending you a message. Yeah. I think it’s actually, she wants to get in a car. I think she would just leave with anybody. Barbara did. Barbara did what? Literally one time, Barbara got out of the house. And somebody was driving by, they opened the door and she got in their car. Get me out of here. And they called us and they were like, we have your dog, and we paid the ransom and everything’s cool. But that did happen. Not the ransom part, but her jumping in the car. Okay, well, did this? I don’t think this happened. – This is fake because. – There’s no mud on the road. It’s just a fear. No mud on the road. It’s a fear that people have, but it never happens to anybody. Not here. We don’t have mud. I don’t want to hear about it. It’s real. Oh. How do you know it’s real? Do you want to grab a guess? Oh, who did this? Yeah. Who’s the mud slipper around these parts? Who’s fallen? Who do we know that has fallen? Well, Gwynedd kicked a. She kicked a barrel. A traffic barrel. And it knocked her teeth out. Gwynedd! That’s a good guess, but it’s. Nicole Nicole Bade Katrina! Katrina, of course it is. That was my third guess. Do you have anything to add to this? What kind of mud was it? Was it like a clay? It was when we were having all those storms. You felt like your head was in, in the, in the lane? Oh yeah, I was like, I said an inch, but I feel like I might have been closer than an inch. Did a car go by your head? Yes. Did they know? No. It was also dark out. I didn’t mention it was nighttime. And you have black hair. Thank you, yes, I do. And one of those nose rings. You have a nose ring that’s very sparkly, though. Oh, with the nose ring again. Yeah, I got a nose ring. You can get a glow in the dark one. I think it might’ve hit me because of the nose ring. How have you changed your practices after this near death experience? Nothing. I did nothing. Okay, you learned nothing, is what you’re saying? I learned that, you know, life is unpredictable and you could die at any moment. You always maintain. I already, I already knew that. Yeah, but it’s also. You maintain three points of contact while walking. It’s on you a little bit though, Katrina. Always keep one hand on the ground, Katrina. Don’t, don’t run, don’t run beside traffic. I wasn’t, okay, yeah. Even one of Stevie’s dogs knows that. I wasn’t on a run, I just hopped down quickly, excitedly. What was, what was the, what, like how many lanes of traffic are we talking? It was, I won’t say the street, but four lanes across. Why can’t you say the street? I mean I can, well, it’s Van Nuys. It’s Van Nuys Boulevard. Oh! Oh, Katrina. I guess we’re, you know. That’s a muddy road. Yeah. That’s a muddy, muddy road. Let’s hear the next one. Okay, we’re at zero points. One night. Am I louder all of a sudden? – No. – Yeah, we said turn you up. I gave the turn up signal. Forward! In my mind. See when I went like this? One night, my friends abandoned me at a college house party. So I was alone, with a dead phone, and I didn’t know how to get back. I met these two guys who said they were in the army. Suddenly, a knife fight breaks out right in front of us and everyone runs out screaming. The two army guys escorted me down the street to their house and let me charge my phone so I could call my friend. Okay. College party with army guys. Dead phone. Let’s start there. Who’s gonna let their phone die? Zayn. Okay. Okay. Is this a One Direction joke? We don’t have a Zayn who works for us? You’re just guessing names at this point? Yeah, yeah. I thought we, I thought we had a one Zayn situation. I thought we always had to have a Zayn. Bobby? Do we have a Bobby? What about a Kathryn? Do we have a Kathryn? Yeah. Was it you, Hitch? Okay. Who let their phone die? Listen, like I tell my children, okay. You’re on your own! Forward! You don’t go to a party at night, you don’t leave the house at night without a phone that is at least 75%. Okay? You don’t begin nighttime activities with a, with a, brick. With a brick. With a brick. Gotta go, which direction? What? Which direction do you have to go? Forward! No. No. Back! Yeah, you gotta go. Back! Oh, I thought it was another One Direction joke. I don’t know. Yeah, we’re almost making those left and right. Let’s go. Is this Timmy? Let’s go with Amy. Okay, so you’re saying it’s real. You’re both saying it’s real. Yeah, yeah, yeah, army party, army party. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You’re incorrect with your guess. I mean you’re correct, it’s someone. So, you do get points for that, but. I’m trying to see who’s in the room. Talked to us and knife parties. Who brings a dead phone to a knife party? Yeah, right. Zayn, definitely. I’m gonna say this is, who else is over there? Chappie. Carney, Lauren, James. Well, I like the way that you were looking at the people who could be around either of the microphones. Cause that’s a good method. But it’s Meghan. Meghan’s the answer. Oh. Yeah, of course. Yes. This makes sense. Okay, I would like to say, my phone wasn’t dead from the battery. It was just broken for some reason at the worst time. Oh, it broke at the party? Yeah, it just turned off. Army chaps. You party with army? Uh, no. They were just there. I don’t know if they went to the school. Meghan party with army Sure. Yeah. Do you stay in touch? Nope. Doesn’t seem like a near death experience. – I mean, what, what? – Knife fight, man. How knife did the fight get? I mean, there were two knives. And it was right in front of me. Did they have, did they clasp hands? In the middle? Yeah, was it one of these? Oh my God, was it you guys? Cause that’s how you do it. That’s a knife fight. Yeah, that looks way too familiar. That looks way too feminine. Oh, how did we do that? Kicked it. Nick just came out and pointed. What’s that? Okay, oh gosh, what’s happening now? Okay, give us a moment. Where’s Zayn? Okay, good work, Meghan. You survived. Next. When I was 12, my mom got me a pair of jeans from Goodwill. They were really cool and had flames up the side. It was the early 2000s. I didn’t realize the zipper was janky, so I pulled it up really hard. Go on. Is this a Something About Mary situation? One of my testicles got caught in the zipper. One of my testicles. And in a panic, I unzipped it really quick, causing my whole ball to rip open. Oh come on, this is bullcrap. My mom took me to the hospital and the doc said it was possible to bleed out from this kind of infection. Real! So real. That’s bull My mom took me to the doctor. That’s bullcrap. Please let it be bullcrap. That’s bullcrap. Because you’ve zipped your ball into a zipper before and that’s not what happened? It’s just a fear. You don’t, like, okay, so we’ve all seen this scene in Something About Mary. We don’t want to know that it can happen. Just so you understand. It can’t happen. It is physically impossible for you to hit the ball and then the zipper to go around the ball and come back together and zip up some more like it did in Something About Mary. Well, that’s not what this story said. But we do have a lot of female writers in the writer’s room. Cause it is fake. That was really gross, guys. That was really gross. Davanté didn’t want to speak up. I don’t know how balls work. I don’t know. They don’t work like that. Yeah. But you don’t want to zip them. Yeah. I mean, you could zip up, you could zip up a little bit, but not as much as the movie. It would stop immediately. You could zip up your wee woo. Yeah, but it would stop. I don’t think it would stop. And then you’d be in trouble. I’ve zipped up parts of my, you know, the little flap behind the zipper on the jacket? You know, you gotta keep the flap, the fabric flap, that fabric flap will get caught in the zipper and I have gone through that. Right, but it doesn’t get Something About Mary caught where it’s like bulging out. That’s what I said. It just like gets caught, it closes, but it’s caught on one side. Yep, yep. Yep. Oh, yeah. You were right. That can happen. That’s what you were picturing when you always picture it? Yeah. I think that was in defense of the writer’s room. Yes. Okay. That’s a fear. These are all fears of mine now. You would have to, you’d have to be going commando though, I guess. One of my friends recently told me that her parents were in town and they were doing laundry at her place. Go on. And they like mixed their laundry and she was like, oh, is this, it was actually her boyfriend’s underwear, and she asked her mom if it was her dad’s underwear and her mom told her that they’ve stopped wearing underwear now. Both of them? Yeah, that they they tried going commando and they loved it so much that that’s all they do and ever since she said that to me I think about it like maybe every other day. I think about her parents just Like leading. Oh, I thought you were thinking about just doing that every other day now. No. Maybe every other day. You gotta, let’s try every other day. Just like the idea of her parents deciding late in life. Like, we’re not wearing underwear anymore. That’s weird. We had a, a, let’s call him an acquaintance. We had an acquaintance, not a friend, who did that. And, he swore by it, and I never understood it. Well, I’m just more like. With jeans? Like, people in their 60s one day. That’s super weird. Just decided. Yeah, that is super weird. But doing it in general, You need all the support you can get. It’s still a bit odd. I mean, if you’re wearing jeans, like, he would wear jeans. Like, it’s one thing to wear, like, if you have, like, sweatpants or something, and you just wanna, just, just, just, just, flail around down there. I get that. Maybe on a, on a, on a Saturday or something. Yeah. Just on a Saturday. But like. Maybe in the woods right outside of Griffith Park. I’m just kidding. I don’t know. But the, but, but jeans on a work day? Yeah. I don’t, I mean, I don’t, I don’t get it. And I guess, I mean. Is that? So, is this, what are we saying? True? That story that Stevie told is true. That’s true. She’s not just making up lies. When I was six, my mother and father. Lie! Took me river rafting, and we ended up capsizing into the river. I was plucked out of the river by survivors that were stationed in hanging tree branches. My mother and father got swept away farther down the river. The rescue crew had to throw a rope, pulling them back to shore one at a time. Well, this happens to people. I think this is true, but I think as a six year old, it’s a lot more traumatic than it really was. It was probably a lazy river. And the people in the trees is probably not true. People in the trees, not true. They don’t have people just stationed in trees. You just, you believe. That’s a six year old invention. So, who is this? Is it true? – Yeah, it’s true. – Yeah. Right. Well. James. He had a look on his face like, yeah, there were people in trees, I’ll tell you all about it. Carney, is this you? Unresolved trauma? No, this is not me. I don’t go with water rafting. Water rafting. What are you eating? A Now Later? You got a Now Later in your mouth? Definitely something with caramel in it. I won’t tell you now. I’ll tell you in a little bit. Hey! Let’s see who this was. This might be Chase. He just walked in. Nope. This person is hiding! It’s Julien. Julien. Julien. Okay, Julien. I was definitely six, and, when we went whitewater rafting, all the guys were telling us don’t go. And my dad was just like, no, we’re, we’re going to go. I would do that. Yeah, exactly. It was in, I believe, Big Bear Whitewater Rafting. And there’s like a split and you’re supposed to go down one where the water is more calm, but because of the weather, it was just all really bad. And we ended up going down the wrong way. Okay. And so, we really did tip size, but the area that we. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, now. You tip sized? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We got it. Thank you. You caught it. We tip sized and I definitely went under, but luckily I did get plucked up really fast. And, we did all wear our life vests. Oh, you gotta have the life vests. So I was plucked out, and they took me to safety, onto the shore. Well, we heard all of that part. Yeah. But what’s the part that you’re, what’s the part that you’re embellishing, as in your six year old brain. Trees, what the trees? The guys in the trees. No, they were, because, how many people decided to go whitewater rafting. When I say survivors, it wasn’t the rescue team, it was the other people who also capsized. Oh. Oh, so it was somebody else who capsized, and they were in the trees, and they were like, we might as well get this kid while we’re at it. Because the trees are in the water. I believe it. Okay, so, there’s an opening, and then a bunch of trees, and then there was another opening over here. Sorry guys who can’t see me explain. He just went like this. And so they were actually in the trees on this area, like, trying to reach down to grab people. And then, I was pulled out and I ran over to the other side because the other side you were able to see my parents who had. Did you think they were dying? Yes. I mean you, this is trauma. Yeah. How have you, how have you dealt with this? Probably poorly. I have no idea. Okay. Do you have any residual fear of water, rafts, parents? Not water, but after I wrote this, I tried to figure out if I went water rafting afterwards, like at any point of my life, and I have not. Oh, okay. Well, alright. It’s the only time. I want whitewater rafting, All right, so it’s time for a new trip. So you learned, you learned. Talk to Katrina about that. I will. I hear that, her, she had also had a life and death situation. Yep. Whitewater rafting is no joke. It was earlier in the episode. And then what happens is, just so you know, even though they tell you this every time, I can’t tell you the number of videos. So, when you fall into the water. And you’re whitewater rafting and they throw you a bag that has a rope in it. Don’t grab the bag. Cause if you grab the bag, the rope just keeps coming out of it. You grab the rope. And there’s a lot of TikTok videos of people just grab the bag, cause they go, it’s a bag. They don’t listen. They say it every time. Don’t grab the bag, grab the rope. They grab the bag. Yep. And then it’s just like a magic trick. It’s like I have this bag and rope keeps coming out of it. I feel like, I feel like you just saved a life. Yeah, grab the rope, not the bag. But you might have also forfeited a life because you gave someone confidence to raft. They’re like, oh yeah, now I can go because I know about grabbing the rope, not the bag. Okay, we have one more. I’m just going to give it to you. It’s real. Real story. Okay. You’re going to have to guess who. We’re going into extra innings because this is a wild story. Worth it. Is it testicles? I haven’t really read it, but I’ll let you know as I’m reading it. I was 11 years old, driving with my mom to pick up my sisters from elementary school. Lie! 11 year olds can’t drive! As we pulled up to the school, I spotted a bee inside the car. I have a not small fear of bees. To escape, I tried to climb out of the car window while we were still moving at about 10 miles per hour. My foot got caught on the window and I tumbled out of the car, my head hitting the pavement. I woke up in the hospital with a concussion hours later. What? This is wild, man. As a hint, I will say, this person woke up with a concussion, and testicles. Oh, the bee gave them testicles. Well, I don’t know. I’m looking around for testicles. Carney! It’s true. I got testicles. Dude. Are you, you were so afraid of bees that you, yet you unlived yourself almost. I still don’t like bees. It’s true to this day. Dude, that is wild. I’m scared of them, too. You jumped out of a moving car window. One of multiple concussions that I got as a child, yep. Wow. Just that scared of a bee? I don’t like bees. They can be, I mean, they sting you, it’s a bad couple of minutes. Your foot was caught, so the car was still going, your head was like? Yeah, I kind of like tripped, like my foot got caught on the door handle in the interior, like trying to, I was trying to get out of the car. Dumb move. Tripped, fell out of the car. I mean, everything that Stevie just said. Through the window? Through the window. That’s crazy, dude. On the pavement. Concussion. You’re lucky you didn’t get sucked back up under the back wheel. That’ll happen sometimes. That’ll happen sometimes. Yeah, and my mom drives an 18 wheeler. Can you imagine? Yeah. Dude. I’m so glad that you made it. I don’t know what Hot Dog on a Stick would have done without you. What about this? What about? Oh yeah, okay, Hot Dog on a Stick. Also, you didn’t say that about anyone else. We weren’t, yeah, we weren’t thankful for. I wasn’t really buying any of the other ones. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. How in the world would you pronounce “sy-reen” a different way? Siren. Some people say siren. Oh my gosh. No, no. That dog wont hunt.