Welcome to Good Mythical More. We ask you to tell us what is the strangest thing that you did as a kid or that your kids did. And now we’re gonna learn about it. We’re gonna react to it. We’re tell if it’s actually strange, if you should be legitimately concerned. Yep. Or not. But first, let’s tell a 10 word story. Mom’s. Can. Sometimes. Meander. Around. Parks. While Cutting. Their. Tendrils. Tendrils? Tendrils. With. Scissors. But. If. They. Lose. Their. Scissors. They. Have. To. Improvise. With. Blunt. Sticks. That’s it. Alright, okay, everybody, you heard it. Why are we always disappointed? What would it take for us not to be disappointed? I’m never disappointed. Yeah, we always seem disappointed. Moms can sometimes meander around parks while cutting their tendrils with scissors, but if they lose their scissors, they have to improvise with blunt sticks. Blunt sticks. Blunt sticks. If you ever see a mom in a park with a couple of blunt sticks cutting her own tendrils? You’ll be like, I remember when Rhett and Link talked about that. Oh, that’s strange. That was strange! Strange. A little disappointing. I mean, we live in Los Angeles. Who hasn’t seen a mom with blunt sticks in a park? You know? Scissor sticks! That’s right. Well, okay. Scissor sticks. That’s a different kind of park. Okay. Some strange things include this first one from at freakyfoodcdn. My now 16 year old spent his entire year of kindergarten writing, that’s in quotes, writing stories about our dog Tim, including, near the end of the year, the fact that he died. This news upset his teacher so bad, she called with condolences. Friends, we did not have a dog. Hold on, he made an imaginary dog? And then he made stories about it, and then he killed it, because you can’t take that dog into first grade. Nope. That’s a kindergarten dog. They were probably like, oh, can you bring Tim in? We’d love to meet him. He’s like, well, I got another story to write first. I don’t think, I think this is like promising. I don’t think this is strange at all. I just think this shows imagination. And he stuck with it. It reminds me of when Shepherd got obsessed with. – Pigeons. – Pigeons. And every school project that year was about. Pigeons. Pigeons. In one way or another. Yeah, he created a whole land, called Paloma, which is the Spanish word for pigeon, I think. But he didn’t say that he had a pet pigeon. No, because you can’t keep pigeons as pets. It’s been tried. Yeah, but you can make that up and then he could had died. He was a pigeon for halloween and he had, he had pigeon, he did the pigeon project and then his teacher got a pigeon mug because of him. And then when we talked to him about it, I was like Shepherd, because when we went to like meet his teacher she was like I got this pigeon mug because Shepherd’s so into pigeons. And then I was like, Shepherd, where did this come from? He was like, I kinda just said it one time. And people seemed to get a kick out of it, so I just leaned into it. Leaned into it? He just leaned into it. So that’s not strange, that’s, that’s visionary. I think having an, building an entire world around a fantasy dog. I think it’s super not strange. That’s very cool. Very cool. Now the name choice. Tim. Tim. That’s good too. – Tim the dog. – You like that? You like Tim? Yeah. Okay. I don’t know if this boy is watching. You seem to be like, a little pandering towards him. No, I’m not, I’m not brown nosing a 16 year old. No, no, we need more teens to watch. Hey, we gotta replenish this audience. They’re getting old. You know who I saw yesterday that really, truly brightened my day? Like, I, the serotonin was just like, surging. Oh, serotonin? You saw her? I’m serious. I took one look at this guy and I was like, I’m so much happier right now cause I’ve, cause I’ve seen you. It’s me! Carney. Good guess. No, this is a guy. A famous person from a distance or someone you knew? He’s famous in a way. He’s had like a couple like really popular TikToks. Is this gonna tie in? He? Is his name Tim? His eyes are a little weird. You saw Shawn. Yeah. Oh, what did you do? Oh, your dog? I saw Shawn, I think we made eye contact from across the room, but it’s hard to tell. He’s always looking. And, oh boy, he really brightened my day immediately. You know what? He’s nice now, too. I was hoping when I saw that he and Barbara were here, I was like, I need to make sure that Stevie knows that they’re here. You were in a meeting. Like you always are. I see, that’s true. But, I’m glad you worked it out and you found him. And I said hi to Barbara too. Barbara is much more refined now than the last time I saw her. She’s really taken on that big sister. She’s 63 now. She’s retiring. Yep. You know? I was glad that Shawn was, he was super chill and very happy. He licked my hand. Instead of biting it, like he did before. He is quite a licker. He is quite a licker now. Let’s see another. My son, see, do you see a pattern here? Dips Twix in ranch dressing at Peeta. At Pita? Peeeta. P with three E’s. Peeeta. What does that mean? I don’t know. That’s the username. Oh, sorry, I didn’t know you were legitimately. At the PETA meetings, my son dips Twinkies in ranch dressing. No, Twix. Oh, Twix. That’s weird. Still weird. That’s strange. Chocolate and ranch? At this point, I just don’t know anyone who eats Twix. Oh, they’re good. I’m not saying they’re not good, I just, like, I didn’t know they were a part of people’s daily lives. Every Halloween. That’s what I find myself going back to from the stats. Kalyn’s mom loves Twix. Twix are good. They’re still good. They’re so good. And you can eat one and save the other for later. Or to share with a friend. Share. Yeah. Not with your dog, though. That’s strange. You can’t give your dog’s chocolate. Nope. That’s strange. That’s strange. Officially strange. Next. Oh, sorry, I didn’t know you were going to. No more discussion. Okay. My daughter, okay. At the age of six, ripped off, oh, God! I’m ready for this. Ripped off both of her pinky toenails on purpose! Okay. Her reaction was because she, quote, oh, her reason, sorry, was because she, quote, wanted to know what was underneath of them. Now, hold on. Doing that once, that’s something. Maybe she did it. Doing it twice? I think she ripped them off at the same time. I hope she did. But that’s even harder. Like, you think she grabbed each with one hand and ripped at the same time? I hope so, cause once you do the first one, how you gonna go to the second one? Maybe something different’s under the next one. Oh my god, that gives me the bad tingles. Yeah, this is, I don’t know, I’m not a child psychologist. That’s hard to do. Isn’t it? Like, are they not rooted in when you’re six years old? Let’s not talk about it. Are they just right there, just waiting to be flaked off? Maybe Tim the dog made her do it. Tim the dog told me to do it. This is strange. That’s strange. This is strange. Don’t do that. That’s like serial killer vibes. We don’t know that, Link. We don’t know. Make sure that your daughter is not a serial killer now. Usually it’s not women. Okay. My daughter’s first word wasn’t Mama or Dada. It was, it was Goldberg. The wrestler? She would chat. Chant. His name along with the crowd in WWE every time he made his entrance. Oh, I thought she was a fan of that show that Shayne Topp was on. Goldberg! The Goldbergs. Yeah. That’s, that’s not strange. That’s, that’s pretty cool. Yeah, that’s something to be proud of. What was your first word? Goldberg. Goldberg. A two syllable word. The wrestler. The wrestler. That’s pretty great. What was your first word? I don’t know what mine was. Maybe it was mama. I think most, probably mama or dada, I think. Because did you call your mama, mama growing up? Well, you were present for most of it. Do you not remember? I didn’t call her Diane. You called her, you didn’t call her mom. You called her. Mommy? Mom. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. I also mama’d my mom. That’s where we’re from. Mama. And then at some point it became like mom, but probably like high school. College. Maybe college. Really? – Yeah. – Everyone. We hang on to mama for a long time. Everyone of our friends, for the most part, call their moms mama too. And if you’re really, embedded. You’ve been where we’re from. I know! I grew up an hour away from you, but no one ever said that. We grew up in a tobacco field. We were both plucked from the pods of a tobacco plant. Like a Cabbage Patch Child. And handed to our mamas. Mama! So like, out in public? Mama. Mama! Mama, come look at this knit shirt and structure. I want it. Mama, is my braided belt that’s, it’s tied around itself and goes down my thigh. Is it too long? Mama, tell me. You just got a mental picture. My little brother would stop mid crawl whenever he got too close to the foyer and cry. When he got older, he would sit and say, I don’t want to play with you into the foyer. We later found out that that’s where the prior owner died. He was a teacher. And supposedly lovely though at MP Pony. There’s so many stories like this. Kids see ghosts. There’s so many stories of little children seeing supernatural things. What’s going on here? It’s strange. What? You’re a believer? Oh yeah. 100%. Yeah. Okay. You’ve seen, have you had a play date with ghosts? She would just be terrified in the dining room or living room. She’d be like in the corner. I couldn’t even go near there. She would just not. What’d you do about it? Saged? We moved. Oh, you moved? Oh, you moved? It’s strange, but I’m not saying it’s, I mean, it’s supernatural. It’s strange. It’s, it’s like, it’s mainline strange. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like right into your veins strange. Like if you were to have that featured, that reenactment and featured on a show, it’d be like strange encounters. Yeah, main, mainlining strange. Which in a way makes it kind of not strange. You know, it’s both strange and not strange. I don’t think it’s strange for that reason. It’s strange in a way that we’re not talking about. I don’t want to play with you. I just learned the. One of our neighbors rents their house and the woman that owns the house. Well, that’s their right, Stevie. Came by, I don’t know how, Cassie is a magnet for older people to have hour long conversations with her that she doesn’t know. So this was a good one. Elder magnet. My vantage point is always great for these because I can watch, but they can’t see me. And. What do you mean they can’t? You’re like behind a curtain? Well, she’s like out in the front yard. You’re like. And I’m like, yeah, I’m like with the dogs looking out the window. And she learned some new facts. And, and one of them was that, there used to be people that lived in our house before the people that we’d been told stories about who only lived there briefly because there was an older woman that lived a few houses down, and then an older woman that lived next to her. And they used to be good friends, but then they had a falling out. And one of the older women was like, hey, I haven’t seen this, this other woman in a few days, but I’m not, I don’t care. And I’m not gonna check on her. Everything’s fine. I hate her. And so the people who lived in our house were like, well, now we need to go check on this. older woman, make sure she’s okay, and they found her dead in her bedroom, and she’d been there for, you know, five or so days. And it freaked them out. What a jerk. So much that they moved. Because they couldn’t, like, they couldn’t be near the house. Because someone died in another house? Yeah. Okay, come on now. You gotta. Come on now. – You gotta. – I know. Listen, I didn’t fact check everything that this woman said. Don’t go to, what’s that website? Oh, I believe it. What’s the website we went to? diedinhouse.com diedinhouse.com You can find out if somebody’s died in your house. Yeah. Do that before you buy the house though. Yeah, exactly. Not after. My kids do a lot of silly things, but my oldest used to climb into the kitchen cabinets and cry about being stuck. And here’s a picture. Okay, so he’s not, he’s not stuck. You’re not stuck! You little squirt! Get out of there! Wow, that is. And get me a Gatorade. Funny. There’s nothing in your cabinets. Maybe if you’d fill it up with stuff they wouldn’t crawl in there and get stuck. Why is there nothing in your cabinet? This is, it’s hilarious. They’re fighting this. It’s hilarious is what it is. I mean, what was he thinking? Well, he’s young, Rhett. I’ll give him that. Well, I’ve seen those TikToks where there’s like a dog that. That’s not a dog, that’s a. Yeah, I know. I’m trying to make some kind of connection here. Where there’s like a dog that. There’s two French doors. And this person’s like, our dog will not go through this door, this doorway, unless we open both doors, even though there’s plenty of room. And they just showed it over and over again. He would just sit there like, and then she would open the other door and he would go through. So maybe there’s something like that that’s happening in this child. Jade does that for a couple of things. It’s like the door, I have sliding doors and I can open it wide enough for her to go out and like Jasper, he’s gone. But, like, I have to get it, like, three times as wide as her before she’s willing to go out. I’ve never, I’ve never shut her up in it. I don’t think anybody has. And sometimes, at the end of our hallway, there’s that one step up, before you go into, like, the family room. Sometimes she’ll stand in the hallway for hours, because she’s afraid to go up that one step. That, at other times, she’ll just go over, like it’s nothing. Maybe what’s going on here. She might be seeing a ghost. If you’ve got a kid this, this age, right? So, again, this is something you see parents do. Where a normal adult person can go like this. You put your hands over your head and there’s all this room. But if you’re a baby, And you do that, their hands barely touch because their head is so big. Yeah. Maybe this baby understands how big its head is. Maybe this baby feels the weight of just how it’s like, what if your head was like 30 percent of your body? You might get into a closed space and be like, I’m stuck. Yeah. Yeah. I think I’m stuck. There’s nothing. They don’t know how big my head is. To get stuck by then your head. Right. Like kids putting heads through a fence post and whatnot. Yeah. That’s a scary predicament, when you try to back out and you can’t. Well, Jessie and I were, in Portugal, and we walked, you know, we were like in those, like, cobblestone streets. And we were like, walking down one, and then we kind of come to this, like, this T, and there’s these steps, and there’s. There was, it was like nighttime, and there’s a lot of people walking. We weren’t the only people. But there was a, there was a kid who like right as we’re walking by this, the two parents are there, and the kid sticks its head out from underneath them stairs and then then can’t get his head back. And Jessie was like should we help and I’m like, what are we gonna do? Like, what, I was like the parents are right there. They’re going to figure this out. Do I need, me and the dad need to push the child’s head back? I was like, I think they’ll probably be fine. They could still be stuck and maybe I’m a bad Samaritan. Alright, you sway me. Not strange. My son Owen falls asleep on the couch all the time and he’s usually in the weirdest positions. I found him like this a few days ago. Wow. So. I’d love to be able to sleep like that. I mean, he’s in like a meditative pretzel position, “posi-tuan”, position. That is wild, dude. This goes against gravity, though. Like what, like. His heel is like stuck up under his other calf is what’s happening. Yeah, he’s got that left leg pinned with the right leg. I don’t think this is, this is, strange. I think it’s enviable. I think that, at some point, you get to a certain age and you just stop being able to do this. That’s a, it’s a bit strange, though. I, you know, it’s like, either he’s gonna be a gymnast or he’s not gonna walk after that nap. We went into Locke’s room one time, when he was about this age, and his shoulders and head were still in the bed, but everything else was out on the floor. – Like he was laying? – Completely asleep. Like just his head was still in the bed. Cause he had like a low, like toddler bed. Oh, okay. And he had taken the blanket and put it on the floor with him. It was just like, now it’s just like, I wish I could do that. He’s going to wake up and he’s not going to hurt. Yeah. That’s strange. But this is more strange. I’m saying strange. I’m saying not strange. Just because it’s envial doesn’t mean it’s not strange. Well, there you have it. Is it strange? Is it not strange? We’ll leave it on a cliffhanger. Are you ready for this year’s Good Mythical Evening? Grab your tickets for October 25th at goodmythicalevening.com today.