Can we guess if a name is more commonly a human or a dog name? Welcome to Good Mythical More! Now you have dogs, I have dogs. You have dogs with human names. Because it’s so fun. Barbara and Sean- And I will say- Which you did name both of them, right? No, I named Barbara “Barbara” because we thought it was funny. And I will say that naming your dog the name of a person is, it has become a little bit of a trend, and I’m not gonna say I started it. Oh, he started it. I’m just saying that it’s less of a fun thing to do now because so many people do it. I will say that. Hmm. But then- Hmm. What about naming your human child after a Star Wars character? Does that still happen? No, that didn’t catch on. No. But then Sean was named Sean on the website where we adopted him. And we were like, well, I mean, this makes sense. We already have a Barbara, and Sean is such a dumb dog name, so we went with it. Jade was named Jade before we got her, but Jasper was named Kobe after the late basketball player because he would jump a lot. Is that true? Yeah. You didn’t know that? And I wasn’t gonna keep a dog named after… That’s too sad. I know. I have friends who have a Kobe dog, and also Barbara was named Lola. That was her name at the… But she was literally like six-weeks-old. Sean was two-years-old. Not that he would’ve minded changing his name. Well- Because I don’t think he knows or cares what his name is. Well, one eye would’ve answered to Sean- Yeah, yeah. And the other eye would’ve answered- we can’t do this to this little guy. He’s been through whatever he went through in those first two years of life. Whatever it was, the trauma, I didn’t wanna add to it. Okay. So there is a website. Well, it’s Washington Post- Oh! It has a… Oh! I thought, this is- Oh, sophisticated! Has like a meter, like a dog name meter. And basically they tell you to picture a stadium full of 100,000 people and 100,000 dogs. I do that every day. And then they tell you, outta that stadium how many dogs or how many people would be named the name that you put in. And then, therefore it tells you on a scale, if your name is more dog-like or human-like, so you can see this example right now- Derek. With Derek. And then I’ve also been told that- Derek is a human name. Very, very human name. Like the thing that says, “See adoptable dogs named Derek.” We can also choose to click on- Don’t do it! Don’t do it! That, and we can see. Do not do it! A bunch of Derek dogs. We are not doing that. Because it’ll be playing with people, because what’ll happen is, we’ll see all the Derek dogs, and then by the time this goes on the internet, all those Derek dogs will be adopted- By us because- Except like the one really ugly one. We will have seen the Derek dogs and had to adopt them. The one ugly one, yeah. Okay. There are seven dogs named Derek in this 100,000 dog stadium. Derek, only 65 people, so we’re gonna gamify this. We’re gonna guess- Yeah. How many of each. Yeah. Starting off with a name, well, Rhett. Correct. That’s his name! Correct. How many- How many dogs? How many people in that- Well, this is tough. Stadium? This is tough ’cause it’s not very common in either scenario. There’s 65 Derek people and 7 Derek dogs. Right. Derek. I’ve never been in a stadium with 100,000 people and 100,000 dogs, but in this scenario, I’d be one of the Rhetts, just think about that. Hmm. How many of us would there be? Okay. Okay. I think… Well, you say, what do you think? I actually think that it’s relatively uncommon, but I think that there’s 11 of us people, and there’s 8 of us dogs because- Whoa, whoa, whoa! I see a lot of people- Then you’re saying that it’s almost a dog name. I see a lot of people naming their dogs Rhett. Maybe it’s just because I’m Rhett and people send that to me. Oh! Ain’t that many people naming a dog Rhett. There’s 3 dogs, but there’s 49 Rhetts. Do you think, Rhett, is this almost as common of a name as Derek? Yes, because of the movie “Gone With the Wind.” Okay, we’re typing in Rhett. Rhett is a dog name! 8 people would be named Rhett, 26 dogs. See, look at that, us Rhetts. Hold on. Huh? How do you feel about this? Okay, well… You got a dog name. Well, Link, there’s a vain way to see this, and I’ll choose to do that. That is, this thing that we- ’cause it comes easiest. This thing that we’ve been doing for the past 20 years together has generated quite a lot of people who are interested in what we do. And one of the ways that people show their affinity for what we do is naming their pets after you and me. Now occasionally they’ll name a dog. And I think, and- Low stake namings. Occasionally they’ll do a baby, but… Or like a actual human baby. Yeah. But that’s risky, and a little bit weird. So it’s low risk to name your pets us because if Link gets us canceled, then it’s kinda like, “It’s just my dog, it’s not my kids.” Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah. So I think that, I’m gonna say that- You’ve made your name- I’m gonna say, Into a dog name. This is because of us, Link. You have made- Yes. You’ve given your- That is my- Name to the dogs- Who has been naming their kids, their dogs, Rhett? And you are saying that you are currently being presented with an option to see a bunch of dogs named Rhett, and you are- Oh, I wanna see him. Okay. We gotta see Rhetts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re not gonna adopt them though. We’re going over to Petfinder, not a sponsor. Mm-hmm. Look at all these Rhett. There’s one called Rhetti Sweet baby. Rhettien. Go back up to the top There’s a Rhett Butler, not named after you. Look at that one, second row, third one. Look at that face Head tilt. He’s kind of making me feel a little bit guilty. He’s like, “Why would you not adopt me?” He looks like he’d be a good guard dog. Akita Mix. Oh my gosh! Not as many puppies. There is a puppy right there on the third row. Rhett, it’s a good name to yell when you expect somebody to respond, and come to you. Hmm. Rhett, it carries. Rhett! Now, Link, here’s the thing, if I’m correct- Then there’ll be more. There should be a bunch of Link dogs too. There should be. However, Link is a more common name than Rhett because people name as Lincoln is more common than Rhett, and then people will call it. Yeah. So I think- There was a President. I feel like… I don’t know, are we gonna do Link next? Are you suggesting the next name we do is Link? Yeah. Yeah, we’re suggesting it. Okay. Out of 100,000 people. So we said that there were 8 Rhetts people. I really am picturing the stadium. Okay, so there’s that many people, and there were 26 dogs. Shoo, I think is… And also it’s a famous character in a video game. Now you’re putting Link, not Lincoln. Yeah. Hmm, okay. That’s gonna bring it down from Lincoln, of course, just a Link. I am locked in. 29 dogs, 58 people. Wow! Okay, so you went all the way to 58 people. I went to 15 people, but we’re pretty close on the number of dogs. So I think it’s mostly a dog name. Are you saying… Link, how many Links have you met? Just as many as he’s met Dereks, apparently. I’ve met not that many Links, but I mean- Yeah, yeah, he forgot about the 65 Dereks. It’s okay, it was two rounds ago. Okay, let’s search. Whoa! So dog. 1 person. 1 person named Link. It’s me, I’m at a stadium. 16 dogs. Hold on, what? 16 dogs. Hold on, hold on. So no one’s naming their kid Link because that’s you at the stadium. Yeah. Well, we could also look up Lincoln, if you wanted to. Yeah, let’s look up Lincoln, maybe I did… Okay. Lincoln dog. Lincoln still are dog named. But… 34 dogs, 24 people. Hmm. Huh! Wow! Okay, but it’s very… You have a very dog name. Let’s go back to Link dogs. As dog of a name as you can get basically. Yeah. You got that dog in you. Yeah, that’s right. And it’s because people are naming a dog after me, man. That’s right. There’s a Blink, there’s also a Slink, there’s… Hold on. Hold on, those don’t count. Hold on, we got lots of- Slinky- Blinks and lots of Slinks. Blinky. Blinky, Link, LinkedIn. What! We need a straight up Link, where…? Just click on a Link. The numbers have been skewed. Well, first of all, that one link showing up multiple times, they’re desperate to get rid of that dog. And look, they got different pictures of him, different angles, they’re trying everything. Yeah. He’s a pit bull mix, they can be tough to get rid of, but people are scared. Okay, where do you wanna go? But Slinky. Do you wanna go- You wanna go more? You wanna go with your… Well, I don’t know what’s most interesting. We can look up whatever we want. We could do Charles, we could do Stevie. We’ll do Stevie, we’ll throw you a bone. Hey, Stevie! Stevie. How many Stevies? Stevies, Stevies. How many Stevies in the stadium? First of all, Stevie, that’s a pretty dog name. Is it though? Specifically Stevie, like Steve. Yeah, specifically Stevie. But Stevie. How many Link dogs were in there? Because there’s not a lot of guys that go by Stevie, like usually… 16 Link dogs. Um. Hmm. Stevie is a very hard name to tell someone over the phone, I’ve found because- What do they think you’re saying? Well, they’ll repeat something back, and then I’ll go Stevie, like Stevie Nicks. And then you know in that moment how old is this person and like… Mm-hmm. I guess I could go Stevie Wonder, but that would also date the reference, but often times they hear Phoebe. Friends. Hold on, say it. How do you say it? How do you say your name? Phoebe. Stevie. Stevie. I can’t tell the difference. I’m Stevie. Stevie, Phoebe. Yeah, you’re not hitting the S hard enough, Phoebe. Phoebe. It’s your fault. My name is Stevie. How many people named Stevie in the stadium? Stevie doesn’t sound like the type of person that would go to a stadium. I’ve never seen her in one. That’s right. Anti-stadium. I think this is neck and neck, 25 dogs, 30 people. Ooh, I think it’s more dog than you do, 37 and 18. Does he? Dog- 33 and 7. Woo! Hey, so all three of us got dog names. Yep. We’re dog, we’re dogs. Did you know that before today? Would you have thought that? I wouldn’t have thought of it that way. Let’s do a name that we know is a person name. Hi! Matthew. Matthew. We’re gonna go with Matthew. Matthew is a person. well, I’ve already seen it, three dogs. Oh Right? Y’all slamming in the inner button. Let’s just see it. We already seen it. Oh! 3 dogs, 451 people. 451 people named Matthew! Doesn’t that make you feel not very special? Yeah, and my middle name is Michael. Oh, wow! Matthew Michael. All right, let’s guess on Michael. At least you got a Carney at the end. Yeah, that’s worked out for me. Michael- It’s really worked out. Michael is not a dog name. This might be exactly equal to Matthew, but Michael is more common than Matthew. I’m saying it’s- Maybe to the tune of- 626 people. And then I’d say, we’re talking four dogs. I think there’s less people named Michael than Matthew, so I’m going 400, 3 dogs. 1,220! Oh! Oh! Michael is four times as popular as… I didn’t know that. Three times. I’ve been told Matt has surprising results. We’ll see, let’s see him. Matt. You don’t wanna guess. Matt is mostly a dog name. Hold on, there’s only seven people named Matt because- Maybe they mean legally. Yeah, your name isn’t Matt. Yeah. Yeah. Not really. Mm-hmm. See, surprising! I don’t wanna see a dog named Matt. Well, okay- Here’s a tough one. Angel. Angel. Mm-hmm. Hmm, because it really works for both, doesn’t it? It really… Oh, this is… But it’s unexpected. This is a 50-50 split. For both. How common is it? How many angels are among us? Countless, countless. More than 100,000 in that stadium. Um… Because everybody’s got one. And then the dogs have one, so it’s 200,000 angels. And then the dogs got… No, but then there’s the other angels that are filling the space looking for their next… I was gonna say victim, but- Someone to watch. Well, no, ’cause this is how it works. How does it work? An angel claims a baby. Okay. So they hang around hospitals. Uh, no, no, no, it happens- Ambulance chasers. It happens at the quickening, Link, is when the angels make their choice, so- I’m afraid to ask, but what do you mean by the “quickening”? I don’t know, we’re probably talking 26 weeks. Oh! And so, they’re in the stadiums looking for babies reaching that state, and then immediately attaching themselves. So there could be anywhere from 25,000 to 30,000 additional angels just hunting babies. Okay. You heard it here. I think… Now if the stadium is the Angel Stadium. Oh God! How many people on a baseball team? Yeah. These days, I think it’s 20. 24, 25. We think it’s off by one. Wow, look at that! Look at that! But we don’t know how many. 99 and 100 is what- Boo! You were close. Pretty close. But we were wrong about- Some more dogs named Angel than people. But close, it’s right in the middle. But Angela, there’s not gonna be one dog named Angela. Oh, oh-oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just add a A there. Add an A and we’re gonna, we already see it. 185 people named Angela. It’s a very, very human name. Seven dogs. Click on these dogs, I wanna see these Angelas. I’m not noticing any patterns. Some of them look happy, some of them look sad. In terms of- Which is more effective in adoption: Cute and sad? I think it is. You wanna look a little sad. Have I… I think I’ve shown y’all before. Angela. And then you just call her Angel. The Sean adoption picture, like how they… I mean, he’s obviously a cute dog, but he took his cutest picture ever. And then you fell for it, I mean… What year did we adopt that dog? Who are you looking at? You can image… You were looking in your brain? You can search Sean or dog probably. Okay, I found it. Now who is this woman on your backdrop here? Huh, no answer. Sean, dog, Rhett. Okay. Right when we adopted Sean, I also scanned in a bunch of old photos. And so there’s like hundreds of old photos that are suddenly in the middle of my camera roll from 20 years prior. So it wouldn’t be… Mm-hmm. It’s so funny. I mean, I’m seeing all these pictures pour in, but this would not be a picture you took, so I don’t think it’s gonna happen. I don’t know. Oh, here it is. Oh, you found it? I found it. Okay. This is Sean’s adoption picture. Sean Mm-hmm. I mean, he was an all-star, like on the grid, on the page- He was competitive? And it was competitive. You had to fight for him. People… But I mean, we didn’t pay anything for him, we just showed up at the adoption place. And what happened was is that, they were like lots. You were the one he didn’t bite. No, no. We showed up, and the picture was false advertising. Really? Because he had not been taken care of, and his hair was really long, and he had these massive dreads that were just dragging all over the ground in the dirt. What? And he wouldn’t make eye contact with you, and he wouldn’t get close to you, so everyone was showing up and saying no. So people would see this picture and be like, “Oh, he’s cute.” And then they’d show up and they’d be like, “Uh-huh, I don’t think so.” So he had a glow down. Yeah. And so, what did you… And so we got him ’cause we believed- Out of guilt Because, well, I was just like… I mean, I don’t know, I just felt bad, I was like, but you show up, and then you’re gonna not adopt the thing. The thing! The dog that you came out to… I’m gonna adopt the thing. And then when they gave him to us, they shaved every single dread off, and so he just had pink skin. And I was like, I don’t know if we’ve made a mistake. And…? I love him now, he’s my guy. He’s good to you. Okay. Okay, Sean. Let’s go with Sean, and then let’s wrap this up. I’m hoping it’s still a person name. It’s just gotta be a person name. And I think it’s pretty common to the tune of seven. Oh! Oop, shh, shh! Shh, shh, don’t you say it! And… Now 440 people, Sean is everywhere, 21 dogs. 5 dogs, 117 people. Okay, five dogs, it’s ticking up a little bit. Five dogs. It’s still a very human name though, so it still works. Yeah, it still works for you, but we’re putting our finger on the scales. At least we choose to believe that. A new episode of “Good Mythical Weekend” is coming your way Saturday morning. Tune in. Just there you go. Oh! Oh! Hmm. Okay. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh, huh! Somehow kind of good. Okay. Sweet and salty. I don’t believe that for a second. The way you just twitched. You almost fell over. Yeah. We also had that big twitch.