Can you spot the cat hidden in plain sight? Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Cats hide. Cats just are, and sometimes that means hidden. Cats are hidden. And people take pictures of their homes and environments where the cats are hidden. We’re going to look at them almost in a “Where’s Waldo” fashion. But it’s Where’s Cat. And maybe you’ll find the cat before we do. Let’s go ahead and see the first one, just to see what we’re up against here. Now this is a… First of all, look, what kind of room is this? Is this a freezer locker? Look at that door back there. I think this is a restaurant. This is the back of a restaurant. Or a convenience store storage or something. Convenience store storage. All right, I found it. Now I’ll give you a hint. The cat has a watermelon pattern on its body. Okay, it’s on the lower left-hand corner. There’s four cats over there, and they’re fat. Those are cat asses. Did you really find it? Yeah, I’ve already found it. Okay, uh… You haven’t found it? Well, now I’m looking over there on the watermelons. And cats like to get inside of baskets and boxes. I don’t know what it is about cats and boxes, but they love to get inside of ’em. Is this gonna be a full- Is this just gonna be, like, a piece of a cat? It’s like, there’s a cat paw coming outta that basket in the upper right-hand corner, but I don’t… No, it’s not- It’s like a whole face, right? That’s not a cat paw, that is the curtain hanger. Oh, yeah. Now I have an advantage here because there’s a cat that lives in my house. I’m not gonna say I have a cat or that I own a cat, because I don’t, there’s just a cat that lives in my house. In the pandemic, Lily made a PowerPoint presentation that she needed a cat, and we felt so sorry for all of us that we got her a cat, a kitten. She named it Sokka, if you don’t know, after the “Avatar the Last Airbender” Nickelodeon series. Well, I know it’s not a Nickelodeon series first, but you know what I’m saying. Maybe it was. It was on Nickelodeon, we watched it. I still haven’t found the cat. Still haven’t found the cat? I’m stalling for you! Well, I’m gonna need- Um… I’m gonna need, like, a quadrant in a second. It’s a white cat. Now you’re just… Oh, okay, it’s lying down in the middle right there on that. Right in the middle. Look at that cat, so sleepy! On that piece of styrofoam. Sokka is, like, four and a half years old now, and we’ve started to like him. It’s taken that long to start to like him. Christy now takes pictures of him. He doesn’t destroy our plants anymore. Oh, you started taking pictures of the cat. Christy, yeah. That’s an evolution in the relationship. And then he will jump in our laps now and ask for pets, and Jade doesn’t always bark at Sokka. Now, I recently attended, uh… Let’s throw up the next one while he’s talking. Just a dinner at your home. A dinner amongst friends. And I would like to maybe talk a little bit about what it’s like to eat dinner at your home with your cat. That you don’t own, that just lives with you. If you’re gonna talk about the cat that lives in my house, you have to spot a cat before me. Well, there’s a little cat, a tiny little cat right there in the lower left-hand corner, between the two little things, but that’s just, that can’t be a cat, that’s little eyes, right? That’s not it. No, that is it. Let’s zoom in. Oh, it’s a kitten! It’s a kitten! Oh, it’s a kitten. So you got that one. It looked too small. Look at that, look at the eyes of that kitten! You’re never getting that cat. You’re never gonna get that cat. Yeah, you start reaching in for that cat, and you’re gonna come back with blood on your hands. So we were having a, you know, just a small dinner with close friends, and catching up, talking about all kinds of things, you know, lighthearted things… Serious things. And… You were in a serious moment. Yes, and the first thing I noticed is that everyone was not- No one was looking at me talking. You were at the head of the table, you were sitting in my seat, by the way. Oh, you have assigned seats in your table? Yeah, that’s my seat at my house. Okay, well… Head of the table, man. I originally wasn’t in that seat. I was in a different seat, and my wife said, “You’re in my seat,” so I just moved to the next seat. Oh, you were in her seat? And then you got in my seat! Yeah, I mean, I didn’t realize that little drink that was set down with her drink. I don’t assume the head of the table, I just got forced there. So I’m sitting there, talking in a serious moment, and that’s when I, the first thing I noticed is my wife’s eyes kinda, like, there. Off to the side, and then I looked, and everyone was doing that. And then they all kind of went… I’m like, “What are these people doing? What are they looking at?” You were making a serious point, too. And it was your cat, which I will say- Not my cat. The cat that lives with me. That cat that you live with freely prances around everywhere, including every surface. Every surface. Yeah. Surface where there might be food. Yeah. Not that I care, ’cause my family, we’re not that clean, you know, I wear my shoes inside. You’re not a clean family, no. We’re not germophobes by any means. Oh, he’s very clean, he licks himself constantly. But, like, the cat is on the counter, on tables, just wherever he wants to be. It’s like when you had- Nothing to be done about it. It’s like before you have children, and you see someone with children in public, and you see the way the children is acting, and you see the things that the parent is doing, and you judge them. And you judge them because you have no experience with children. You haven’t raised children. And then once you have children, and then you’re doing the thing that you used to judge, you’re like, “I know I’m being judged right now.” I’m being judged right now. Right, and so… I will say, though- If you had have gone to someone else’s home with a cat that was on every surface, you would’ve probably been like, “Boy, they let the cat go everywhere.” It’s called defeat. Right. It’s called being broken. It’s called parenthood. Yes. Parenthood, pet ownership, you know, there’s different categories, but it’s all the same. Cat-egories! Hey! I did… I know that people weren’t looking at you and making eye contact, and I’m sorry that was distracting when you’re making a serious point. I will say I’m also sorry that I pulled up my phone and took a picture while you were talking. Did you, you have that? I don’t have my phone with me, but we’ll show it in the edit. Well, I wanna, you haven’t even shown it to me! And then- Was it a good picture? Sokka saw you were making a point, and then I just start taking a pic, I guess you thought, “Wow, he’s making a good point, I’m gonna take a picture of it.” No, I, at some point, I did know that the cat was by me. And then he knew I was taking a picture of him, so he was in this perfect pose. Like, he was just sitting there over your right shoulder, like, looking at everybody like, “Oh.” Just surveying his minions. But then when I took the picture, he started moving, so that’s… Well, the other thing he did is he went into a different room and he started making sounds as if he was being tortured. That’s just- What is that about? He talks to walls. I don’t know. Let’s see the next one. Oh! This is… This is a public produce square. Is this an Erewhon? I think I found it. I have not found… Oh, yeah, I definitely found it. I definitely found it. Um… Oh, okay, yep. Right there in the middle, in the bin, you can see the top of the ears and the back, the spine. Similar principle as that first one, like, half a top of a cat kinda thing. If you’re shopping for produce here and you see that cat, do you not buy produce? I would still buy produce. Always wash your produce. It’s just a good reminder. Always wash your produce. I think that’s why the cat’s there. Or at least it’s the top half of a cat. I’m very rarely grossed out by things near my food. I’m a, “There’s a hair in my food, I just take it out, keep on going,” kinda guy. Because once you take it out, it’s not in it anymore. Right, it’s not in there anymore. And you’re that food-motivated? The stuff that’s in there already, if you really knew it? Hair would be the least of your worries. Um, oh, here we go. It’s a fancy-schmancy house gate. I would assume that it’s gonna be somewhere in those… I thought it was under the gate, but that’s- Rafters. The wheel. Well, is that it, right there, hanging from the rafters? This is a zoom, probably a zoom situation for confirmation. We have the capability to zoom. We have this iPad here, so we could zoom, but I just feel like zooming is cheating. Well, that’s, I’m just, we’re so far from it. Well, the cat’s not in the air, and there’s a lot of air in this, so let’s just, let’s at least zoom in to where there’s no air. There’s no air. You mean sky? It’s not in the sky? Air. You know, we call that the air. There’s too much air in this! Okay, I see it now. First of all, look on that post. There’s nothing. Look on that post, what is that? Not a cat. But it could be. And then what’s that? Oh, no, there’s multiple ones. That’s like a decorative gargoyle-ish type thing. Oh! Is that a decorative gargoyle? Okay, that’s a cat. But it’s a white cat wearing a sweater. Yeah. ‘Cause there’s so much air out there. Taking in the air, it’s lightened it’s fur. Are we right, is that the cat? How could that not be the cat? “Welcome to my home.” Yeah, that’s a cat. Okay. That’s a cat. There is no cat. What’s the cross section between an outdoor cat and one that wears sweaters? Well, I think we found it. I think we have found it. Yeah, why is that thing wearing a sweater? He escaped. If you see a cat walking down the street and he’s got on a sweater, you need to try to capture. We had two, we had a situation, we’ve had two recent situations at our home involving our non-cats, small dogs. Sean doesn’t hide in plain sight, but Sean likes to hide in other, he likes, he’s always finding spots under couches, under beds, in closets. He’s always hiding from something. Again, we don’t know what happened to Sean in his first two years, but it was something that made him a little bit off. And… Or maybe it’s genetic, we don’t know, we’ll never know. So the other day, I’m home alone. Jessie, uh… Shepherd has left for school- They leave you home alone? Yeah, more and more. They let you do that? Jessie has gone to the gym, Shepherd has gone to school, and I’m about to leave for work. And Jessie comes back in the door and she’s like, “Where’s Sean?” And I’m like, “I don’t know, I’ve just been in the bathroom, getting ready.” And then she, suddenly, she’s like, “Sean, Sean, Sean!” Which will do nothing, he’s not gonna come. You know, you have to put eyes on him to know where he’s at. Okay. But we immediately, like, kinda go to all the normal spots, and he’s not there. And then that feeling starts setting in. That you’re like, “Oh, no, did he get, like… Did he get out somehow? Was there a door that was open?” And Jessie does the thing where she, like, runs down the driveway and starts going into the neighborhood. Like, she’s already full neighborhood, “Sean, Sean!” I’m like, “Well, it’s not gonna work, he doesn’t know- I don’t think he knows his name.” Doesn’t know his name? I mean, he’ll look at you, but he’ll look at you regardless of what you say. With one eye? Yeah. And I’m beginning to freak out, but I just had on jeans and no shoes or anything, so I was like, “Well, let me get dressed.” You know, ’cause I’m also thinking, “He’s probably still in here somewhere,” but then when I went under every couch, to all these locations, he’s not there. Now I’m starting to freak out a little bit. And so I… I’m going through the house, and I’m yelling, and this is waking our nephew, who is living with us right now. And he, like, this has woken Eli up, and he’s like, he, like, comes to the hallway and he’s like, “What, Sean’s gone?” So now he’s on the hunt. But at that point, as I’m about to walk downstairs, I just hear a little coming down the stairs, and he’s like, Sean just gets on the landing right there, and he’s looking at us like, “Why, what is happening? Why are you all so upset?” I have no idea where he was. I think he was in the closet somewhere, like, behind clothes. And he wouldn’t come out until we started freaking out. ‘Cause he was happy there. He was happy there. You could’ve done that thing where you, like, you spray some of the whipped cream on the floor, and he would hear that and come, wouldn’t he? I opened the fridge, ’cause when you open the fridge, he knows he’s gonna get a blueberry. And he gets excited about that, but I think he was too, too much clothes were around him. He gets a blueberry? I have another scary dog story in the midst of this cat thing. It’s really off-topic, so we gotta get back to cats. So there’s a AC unit, I bet the cat’s hiding behind that, but I can’t see it. I thought I lost my cat once, but she actually, like, made herself into the bed. Oh! Under the sheets? Under the sheets, under the comforter, under the decorative pillows. And then she pressed herself down so that, like, there was barely a lump there. So she wasn’t, like, trying to be found. No, no. She was hiding big time. At least she made the bed. And that’s where, Ringo doesn’t hide anywhere, but he will go and get under the covers, and sleep under the covers in the bed, and you cannot get him outta bed. He will not move for anything. That’s how Jade is. I feel like we gotta zoom in on that. Yeah, this is a zoom situation, I’m sorry. Sorry, I feel like we’re… I’m gonna do a little- Oh, oh, no, I found him! Yeah, right there. Right there! In the little hole, yeah. See, that’s what happens when you zoom in. I was actually gonna zoom in up here. But then, there he is in the hole, just looking at you. There’s many a morning where I’ll come downstairs, first of all, we have to lock Sokka, we have to close our doors. Because he will go in whatever doors are open, if there’s a human sleeping in there, and he will go, and he’ll climb up, and then he’ll bite your face. In what way? With his teeth. I don’t know, what do you mean, “What way?” Playfully? I don’t know! I don’t understand cat enough to know why. It’s like a cute aggression reverse or something. He’s beginning to eat you. Or he wants- He’s seeing if you resist. He wants to wake you up. ‘Cause it, you know, he’s nocturnal. He’ll bite, on the nose? He’s like, , yeah. He’s done it to the boys a lot. We always close our door because if he comes in our room, the dogs go crazy. So whenever I open the door every morning and go to walk down the stairs, he’s there, just waiting, like, on the stairs, just like… And what he’ll do is not move. Wherever he is, if he’s right where you walk, he does not think he could be stepped on. You have to accommodate him. And some mornings, I’ll wake up and he’s not there. I get downstairs, he’s not there, and then I realize, “Oh, no, we’ve locked him in the garage again.” So about every two weeks, we lock him in the garage all night. Which, and then when we open that door, he just, he has so much to say. You open the door and he’s like… “I in the garage and I peed on your laundry!” Because- “And I clawed on the boxes!” It’s because he ended up- ‘Cause he likes to go in there! He was hiding and you didn’t know. Yeah! This is, this is Lily’s cat definitively, no? It’s now Lando’s. Lando doesn’t want Lily to take the cat, so- Okay, that’s what I was gonna ask. What was that negotiation like now that Lily has her own place? Lily lives in Los Angeles again. The cat’s never leaving. So, because Lando won the back-and-forth. Yes. Okay. My parents have two cats that used to be my sister’s, so don’t keep this up, you gotta watch out. There’s a pattern. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The other day, as you look for this cat… It’s gotta be in the tree somewhere. We didn’t even realize that Barbara was not in the house anymore. We just, well, I wasn’t there, I wasn’t present for this. Jessie was home and a friend had come over and opened the door, and then shut the door, the front door, which is glass, and then there’s just… They’re walking through the, in the living room, and they just look at the front door and Barbara’s just on the porch, just, like, sitting there, looking in. Like, Barbara was like, “I know where I belong.” Right. She’s wondered the neighborhood, wandered the neighborhood… Yeah. A couple of times. And one time, got into somebody else’s car, yes, she did that. ‘Cause they opened the door and she just jumped in their car, ready to go on a ride. So, but this time, she just didn’t go anywhere, she just came right back to the front door, so I feel safe with Barbara at this point. I don’t think she’s gonna run off. This one is impossible. Oh! I see the cat. See the cat? Looking straight at you. Why do you keep moving it? Because I don’t wanna give it away. Oh. Um, oh, yeah. Right here. 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