Channel: Good Mythical More
YouTube Video ID: iGxp6g4ztXM
Episode Post Date: May 13, 2026
Episode Number: 3043
Transcript
We went to Alaska. Welcome to Good Mythical More. Yes, we did. We took a trip to Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, to be specific, and a lot of people that we met up there were like, "What are you guys doing up here? Making a video? Is this an episode of Wonderhole? What's going on?" People, they, they see us together in a odd location, they're like And we're like, "No, we're just doing this for a small little segment we're gonna do for Good Mythical Morning." Uh, during a vendor reveal party. No, um- Yeah, 'cause, uh, you, I mean, you had to get these when they get- We did ... when they get stuck. Yeah, n- well- Well, the friend, the ... We have friends. Well, we w- we- yeah. We have friends you didn't know about. We, we tried to explain that we have ... Yeah, and we take vacations, and we did take a vacation together. Well, and they had been talking up the northern lights, the Aurora Borealis, for a long time to us about how we gotta go and do it, and so- And it wor- it worked out. Yes. Um, so yeah, we wanted to give you a little trip report, and we used to give trip reports on Ear Biscuits. Yes. So because we're in that vibe, Jenna, we got you on the mic. What's up? Yes. Hey, guys. Oh, my goodness. Listen to me. Have you ever been to- Just like Ear Biscuits ... Alaska before? I've never been to Alaska. It's one of the 50 I haven't made it to. I'm, uh- You haven't been to f- ... horribly jealous. You haven't been to fif- any of the 50 states? Yeah. I've, I've been to the most of the 50 states. Oh. But Alaska is one of the few left. Yeah, you actually have a thermos that has all the places that you've been with the stickers on it. Our friend- I do. I love adding stickers to it. Our friend Jacob, uh, this was him marking off the 50th state- Yep ... for him to visit. Yep. And our friend Mike, who was also there, he is now only one short of 50. Yes. He has to go to Hawaii. Hawaii. Um, no, I don't- Well, yeah, it's good to end on one of the, one of the cool ones. I don't play those games. Spoiler alert, though. Highly recommend going to Fairbanks at the right time of year to see- Yes ... the northern lights. I d- I've just been gushing about it at, at every turn. Now, you took this picture, which is amazing. Yeah. Right? Let me just say a couple ... Yeah, it is, it is an amazing picture. Thank you, Link. It looks like that tree is being sucked up into some sort of a vortex. Now, if you've taken pictures of the northern lights before, you know something that I'm about to reveal, which is the way that a camera exposes for the northern lights is more impressive than what you see in real life, okay? So I want to acknowledge that. Specifically in terms of the colors. Yeah, how green and how bright that is is something that happens inside your camera. And by the way, I took my nice camera and then I had, of course, my iPhone, and everyone else in the group was taking pictures with their iPhone just using night mode, and their pictures were incredible. I scrapped- My nice camera, just threw it in the snow. Uh, no, I put it away and I just used- Which was, like, four and a half feet deep, by the way. Yeah. I used my, uh, iPhone, so all the pictures that you're gonna see are ones that, uh, were taken with iPhones. With the naked eye, describe what this picture, what, what this would look like. I would say that would be... First of all, because you're seeing it in person, it's still unlike anything you've ever seen before, and there's a, uh, there's a m- there's a movement to that that is sort of mesmerizing. And also, it's probably 50 to 70% as bright as it shows up in the picture. So it's still like, "Whoa, I'm seeing something that..." It's the first time in my life when I've looked at something in nature and thought, "This looks like magic happening," because I h- don't have a category for it. But the color of it would be more cloud-like, grey, greyish white. And if you're, if you're fortunate and the conditions are right, you start to see colors. I don't recall s- on this night- I think you might be colorblind ... seeing the green. I could see the green. A little tinge of green. Uh, I would say p- And sometimes purple ... pale green. Pale green. Sometimes purple. Most of the time it was, like, wispy cloud-type colors, and your brain wants to make sense of it, and so it kind of makes sense of it as a cloud, like it's that close, but it's really a lot further away. Right. But they are localized to certain places that I think they start to understand where those are so that they c- you can book tours to different, like, mountaintops, uh, with viewings and things like that. I mean, we got very lucky. When we... So there was a big solar storm that was happening when we got there, and we were kind of on the, what people thought might be the tail end of it, and also the brightness of the moon was increasing each subsequent night. We had picked a certain night to do a paid tour, which you had to do weeks in advance. So we, we were stuck with the paid tour, but our friends, uh, who got there a day before us were like, "Guys, we saw an incredible Northern Light show last night, so let's go out tonight." So we, we, like, we got up at 3:00 AM to get on the shuttle to get to the airport that day, on Sunday, and then we get to Alaska- Oh, yeah, at home and they're like, "Guys, we gotta go, and we gotta stay out till 3:00 AM in order to see these things," and we did. L- we, let's sh- we can show more pictures because over the course of three nights, we saw an incredible light show that got actually better every night. Yeah, the... Our first night, it was only, like, a half hour. W- a- and, and it's d- it's determined at, based on where you are, as well as all of the other conditions. Right. So what we learned was just because it starts to kick up doesn't mean it's gonna keep going. It might have lasted 20, 30 minutes- And we got lucky ... and then it was gone. Every, every night we were, like, in the right spot when something crazy was happening. Keep going through these and we'll, and we'll get to, I mean, I- Oh, my gosh. So, like- I'm sorry, those photos are so good. Isn't that crazy? It, it is disorienting when you see it, and this one right here where it looks like it's shooting down at you, that only happened a handful of times for a few seconds at a time. Most of the time it was like you were looking at, like, Bob Ross painting the sky, like, in a long brush stroke. But then, so, like that right there, uh, those were, like, some yurts that, speaking of yurts- Yeah ... that you took a shuttle out to, and this was, like, a company that had r- you know, this private land or whatever, and you got to go inside the yurt, get some hot cocoa if you got a little cold. 'Cause by the way, temperature, we're talking probably five to 12 or 13 below Fahrenheit, below freezing at night. And apparently that's warm, so. And they were all talking about how warm it was. Like, "Yeah, it got above zero today." Like, kids walking around in, uh, just a hoodie. Yeah. In Fairbanks. W- meanwhile, we rented extremely, like, the jacket that I rented- I asked the guy, I was like, "How much does this jacket cost if I were to buy it?" He was like, "$1,600," for the jacket. And I had a jacket and gloves- It was huge. It was huge ... and, uh, a bib, and these crazy boots. He, he only gave you that one that was that expensive because you're so big and that's what he had. It was that big. Yeah, he was like, "This one's rated to 60 below." I was like, "Yes, sir, I want that." Or, like, an Arctic expedition wear. But all of the clothes were, like, crazy, crazy expensive if you were to buy them. The biggest challenge was allotting time and energy to get in and out of everything that you had to put on. Like, we, you know, we're spoiled. We're not used to any of that. But it, on this night at the yurts when we were out there from, like, midnight till 2:00 AM, you know, you kind of have bala- balaclava that you just, like, bring, bring down to just a little slit. Which I called the baklava. I'm sorry, that's what I called it. You just bring down, I mean, you just had to have a slit. But it was on the horizon, and then over the course of 30 minutes, it, it, these bands just start to come over. Yeah. And- This night especially. It's crazy ... and then they started to turn into loops, and one's looping around the moon. And, and then at, at a certain point it was filling the entire sky to, and I couldn't crane my neck anymore. I just laid down on the ground and just started wallering around like a fool. Just looking every which way. He did. He did. He may have embarrassed the group. Uh. Just, I mean, but other people were there just kind of, like, stepping over me because, um, I was on the path. Yeah. The dog sled path. You can't not be on the path because then you'll sink into five feet of snow. You sink in. Now, we're gonna show you a video, and, and the, the video is what, is the naked eye sees. To the, s- so this is what it looks like to the naked eye. Yeah. So you can see the green, you can see the purple. And again, as you, you can kinda see the scale there with the trees. As you're looking at this, it's moving so fast that your- It's crazy because your brain normalizes it to the size of a cloud, when you see it moving like that, it has this disorienting effect that you totally see why people feel like they're seeing something spiritual. Or their ancestors- Or like, or magical, right? ... communicating with them. That, I mean, there were a lot of indigenous beliefs historically of this is communication from the other side. Right. And I get it. Y- you start to see things in it like you would in a cloud. And the reaction of everyone there, like, there's our group and then there's, like, a group over here. Uh, there was, like, a group from Japan. I mean, people come from all over the world to see these. Just, like, the giggling and the, "Ha, ha." Like, you just get, people make all these noises. Like, "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah." As you're looking at it. And I'm wa- I'm, and I'm, and I'm wallowing on the ground making these noises. It was a u- Ah, ah ... it was a universal language of everybody who was watching this thing happen. Like, "We are seeing this together." Some of the times when we make those noises, it's because we were sitting in lawn chairs that then would, you'd sit down in the chair and then it would sink into the snow. Yeah. And you would just, it would turn into a recliner. That happened to me. Um, so- Absolutely amazing ... so when we, at the end of the trip, 'cause we're gonna tell you some other things we did. But it, just so you know, Jenna, when you prepare for your Alaskan trip, not to set... First of all, there's only, like, a f- even in the time of the year that we were there, which is kinda as, you know, spring is sort of beginning, which is a good time 'cause it's not too cold, but you can still see the lights. Mm-hmm. Uh, there's still only, like, a 40% chance that they're gonna appear at all in a given night. We saw them three solid nights in a row, and the locals were like, "You guys don't understand. Like, this is, like, you're getting as, this is almost as good as it gets." And so I feel very lucky that we got to see that. Yeah. So if you go, Jenna, you may not get to see this. It'll suck. It could suck for you. It might. Just so you know. I don't, I s- I can still go. I, I, my sleep schedule's a bit more loose than, say, like, Link's. So I could just stay up. Uh, his, this boy stayed up every night. That's so surprising. That's good. How did you do it, Link? Because I am a champion napper. And at any, like, I would take a nap at 5:00. I'd w- I'd go, I'd go to sleep when the sun set. I'd wake up and I'd just do whatever they told me to do. We had a pretty nocturnal schedule where pretty late mornings, and then the earliest things that we did would be, like, around 10:30, 11:00. Speaking of which, so one of the, the, one of the cool things that we did was, uh, well, the second night, let's show that. We went to a hot spring. And this is a natural hot spring where the water is, like, well over 100 degrees, and it's coming into this thing, and they've crea- This is the Chena Hot Springs, where there's a long road, like an hour and a half long drive, that just goes to this hot spring. Yeah. And there's, like, an ice museum there. It's pre- it's definitely worth a visit. And then a few brave souls, including me and you, got into the hot springs. And so it's, like, zero degrees outside, and then you're in this hot spring, so as you can see, my hair froze. Super f- super fo- Yeah, my- That is wild. I'm very jealous about this. This is very cool to me. Oh, yeah. And I think parts of it got to 130 degrees, which they had to, they had to add water to cool it down a little bit. There were some hot spots. I got a little burned. Um- Did you jump back out and roll in the snow and then get back in? No, we ran into th- the locker room- It was- as soon as we g- It was so cold ... it was surrounded by boulders. They had, like, put boulders all around it, and then the s- the boulders were covered in snow, and I did climb up and sit on a boulder just to, like, get completely freezing and then get back in. Uh, but yeah, my, my hair, it didn't look crazy like yours, but it was a complete, like- It was a shell it was like a shell. Like, like the magic shell that you put on your ice cream. Um- Dink, dink, dink ... so highly recommend that. Ice museum there was, I, you could take it or leave it, but the hot springs, for sure. So I knew that we were gonna be in Alaska, so I started listening to that James Michener Alaska, which I still haven't finished, of course, 'cause it's, like, 51 hours long. Yeah. I probably never will finish it. But I listened to enough of it- You don't have to ... to, uh, l- to, he was talking all about the wooly mammoths. And so I was like, "You know, we're going to Alaska. I wanna see some mammoths." I did a little research, and I found out about Dr. Matt Wooller, yes, interesting name, who's at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who is, like, the leading research, uh, r- researcher on a project of dating, basically figuring out the life cycle and actually where mammoths went- No, no, no when they were alive ... romantically dating- Oh, yeah, he's dating mammoths ... wooly mammoths. It's a little kinky, but I'm not gonna yuck his yum. So the thing that Matt has pioneered, and he, the reason that he's holding that ep- uh, that issue of Science Magazine with a mammoth on the front, which we'll tell you about in a second, is because he and his team pioneered this method. So you take a, a mammoth tusk, and if you look at it as it's kinda cut open, you see that it looks like a series of ice cream cones stacked on top of each other, and that's because based on the annual changes in diet of a mammoth, it's just like a tree ring. It grows at a different rate. So that's how you can look at a tusk and be like, "Oh, this mammoth lived to be..." 30 years old. So, like the new ones grow and kinda push the tusk further out? Right. So the oldest part is at the end. Now, what he figured out is, so there's this, uh, you can use isotopes, and isotopes change year by year based on, uh, well, they ch- they change based on diet and they change based on location. And so what his team did is they figured out a way to look at a layer of the tusk and then, uh, look at the isotopes, the, the information from isotopes in there to know where that mammoth was throughout its life. And his team figured out... So if you watch the movie Ice Age, which many of you probably have seen, you see that there's the migratory animals that are migrating across the plains, and the mammoths are migrating with them. He's like, "No, no. We learned that that's not what happens. Lots of animals will migrate, but- Don't watch Ice Age the movie to learn anything ... but the mammoths went- It's BS ... wherever they wanted to go," and that's based on the research that he did to figure out that they went wherever the food was. And so he, what he's doing is he's taking these tusks and he's dating them, and he's doing this isotope magic science using all this cool equipment that we got to see, and he's plotting where these things went during their life and when they were there, and it's incredible. And of course, this is the kinda thing that gets you on the cover of Science Magazine. Well, it gets the wooly mammoth on the cover. Yeah, yeah. He didn't get to be on there, like, riding the mammoth. He asked for it, but he didn't get that. He didn't ask for that, just to clarify. So take that Everybody Loves Raymond. And- ... this, this- Your misinformation is, is- Yeah ... is ruining science. This tusk that we are holding is the tusk from the mammoth that they recreated in this painting that he had commissioned that's on the cover, which in the university in this other room, he had that painting, which the artist that he commissioned for the painting of the mammoth insisted on doing it life-size. So that painting is, as you can imagine- Well, not li- it's not- It's mammoth-size. That's what he said. It's the size of a, the mammoth would have been. Oh, really? Yeah. That's why they couldn't fit it in any place in the university, and so they had to build a, they're building a special room in that lab. And the reason that the ce- ceiling goes up like that is so they're going to put- Oh. You weren't listening to the podcast. I know I was listening. I just wasn't processing- Yeah ... everything you were saying. So anyway, thanks to Dr. Matt, uh, for showing us around. That was one of the coolest a- w- and that was also the day- Can you believe that he let me hold that mammoth's femur and tusk? Yeah, he l- uh, he just let Link touch everything. And teeth. He didn't know. He, he didn't know who we were until we started walking around to another, he took us to a couple other labs, and boy were we popular on campus. But it- Well, what we learned is that there are places o- in the world where there's a high concentration of Mythical Beasts. We find those from time to time. And it turns out- Fairbanks ... Fairbanks, Alaska is one of those places. And, and word got out, word got out that, uh, that we were in town, and so we started- I mean, when you s- ... having a lot of people come up ... when you stole the jerky, when you went in there- Yeah ... you were recognized in that moment. You- Yeah weren't you? Yes. I was. So you really didn't steal it. You wanna eat it? Let's try it. Hold on, when you were recognized, did you just run away from the person when they recognized you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. 'Cause you were in there, "I, I'm stealing this jerky for GMM." Here you go. Now, now you can call this Good Mythical More, uh, salmon jerky taste test. Um. Ah, I don't- It sm- it tastes better than it smells. Oh, it does? Yeah. 'Cause it smells horrible. I have a science question while you're chewing on the, the jerky. Yeah. Uh, I wanna know if the doctor, if you then was able to, like, kind of, is there a correlation between how the mammoths are going around searching for food as if it's, like, a memory to them the same way that elephants have their pattern based on where they remember- Yeah watering holes to be? Yeah, so one of the things they've discovered, because these things lived very, very recently given, uh, the geological time. We're talking, like, 10,000 years ago-ish, I, I, I think. And so- Okay ... there's actual intact DNA in a lot of these, these fossils. They haven't even fossilized yet. It's basically just, like, specimens that are in this frozen tundra. And so they can look at the genome of a mammoth, and they can compare it to the genome of, of an elephant, and basically say, "These are very, very close," which is the reason that they believe that they're going to be able to bring back the mammoth. Bring back the mammoth. If you've heard about this. And the way that they would do that is they would take, uh, an elephant, and they would use, I guess CRISPR to edit the DNA of the elephant to match the DNA that they have found in a mammoth, and that little baby elephant would become a wooly mammoth. But they're altering the DNA so that instead of having to put saddles on them, their, their, like, their back is perfect to be ridden by tourists ad nauseam. Yeah. So, uh, I think that's why they're bringing back the mammoth, just for tourism. Yucky. Uh, this, this is a- It's- That, that's a joke. It's just a- That was a Link joke that didn't have an indication of being a joke, so that's why I'm here. Uh. They are not doing that. But we were asking Matt about that, because this is something I've known about for years, and have been reading about, and, like, very much anticipating bringing the mammoth back. And then we were, we asked him the question of, he's not gonna dev- divulge any information. Like, he's on the, he's on the team, or the board, or whatever it is that knows about this, but he wasn't gonna tell us anything about it. But we were just asking about the, uh, how you evaluate the ethics of doing such a thing, right? And he was like, "Well, there's a whole board of ethics that, that kind of think..." He's like, "I'm the researcher and I'm just gathering information, and I'm give- and I'm giving information. That's my specialty." And then there are people who are like— Yeah ... "Should we be doing this?" And so whether or not it happens- There's a couple of elephants on the board. Um, no poachers- Right ... on the board. Exactly. Uh, so that was a highlight for definitely- Also a joke, but also true ... we, we took, we took Science Mike with us, and as you can imagine, this was the highlight of the trip for him. He could have stayed in this lab forever. Yeah. He, I think he had to change his pants afterward. Yeah. Not be- not in the back, in the front. Um- Is that a joke? That's not a joke. Yeah, he in his pants. Um- Sorry, Mike. Pretty cool. That's- Can I talk about the dogs? Yeah, yeah, talk about the dogs. I mean, w- Yes, yes, please talk about the dogs. Willing mammals are one thing, but we also experienced dog sledding. Yeah. We signed up for an, uh, like an hour sled ride where a... I- I'ma call him a professional dog sledder. They, they own their own dogs. Um, m- like two people in a sled. Like, Christy and I got in there, got to, I got to put my legs around, I got to straddle my wife, and then they bundled us up, and then the guy stood on the back, and then boom, these dogs take off. And this is footage of... This is your sled, right? Yeah. I'm straddling my wife in that picture. So these are huskies. That video. And my guy had just com- two weeks earlier had completed the Iditarod, 1,000 mile race that the winner completed in 10 days. You're six hours on, six hours off, and you c- you, and you just go on that cycle until you complete the race with one 24-hour rest period in there at some point that you get to elect. There's checkpoints. The vets check out the dogs. If, if your dog experiences a problem, like a, a s- a sprain or something like that, then they're, y- you'll leave them at the checkpoint. They'll be taken out of the race, but you can't replace them. You start with 16 dogs. So, so my guy, he's done it multiple years. He and his wife both race. He's... I mean, I was just bombarding this guy with questions. But, um, this particular year, he, he checked, he, he checked a number of his dogs out, like three or four of them. So by the end, he was dwindling down to the point where he was just, it was just survival to get through it. And, and just so you, just to answer- So in 12 days he completed it ... a question that a lot of people have is like, is this like... H- what do the dogs think about this? Well, let me tell you right now. The dogs love it. We got there, and so the, all the dogs are kinda ... They, they- They were so sweet ... they live outside in these You know, they're, they're, they're adapted to this place. Like, in fact, they were talking about how they get so upset during the summer 'cause they get so hot, 'cause it'll get to, like, 70, 80, sometimes 90 degrees in Fairbanks during the summer. And so during the summer, the dogs barely move and just get fat they said, and then once it starts getting cold, they just run. They wanna run. When we showed up at this place, they were all out there kind of at their little houses, and they see the people lining up, the tourists lining up to get ready to go, and they start going, "Woo, awoo, woo." They just start going nuts, and they're all egging each other on. And then they put them into the harnesses. Yeah. And they're just, like, trying to go. They go, like, 15 times a day, and they just wanna keep going and going and going. Oh, yeah. And then multiple times we had to stop for different things. In fact, Mike and Jenny's whole sled turned up turned over at one point. And so we all, we, everybody was kinda stopped. They were fine. And when you stop, the dogs are like, "What? What are we doing? Why are we not going?" They are, they just want to run because- They don't even- ... they're made to do that ... they don't even stop to dookie. Oh, they were just crapping all over the place just in full stride. Whoa. And you would smell it when that happened. Well, unless ... Yeah, I mean, Jenna, we just, uh, remember that too when you- I know you're into that. It, and then, uh- Jenna? What? Yeah, you're- What? You're, you're- Wait ... you're into that. What? I'm just trying to engage. Hi. Thank you. We can engage in other ways. You ever seen a running dog dookie? Yes. Yeah. All right. Say mo- Okay, say more. I've, I've seen, like, dog sledding stuff before 'cause that, that race you were talking about- Okay ... is, like, based on the Balto-Togo, like, race that happened to bring, like, the medicine to people back in, like- Ah ... the 1920s. Yes. See? Yes. She's really engaged. That's a joke, not true. So they And they go for, like, uh, when they get to be about 10-ish or so, they retire and become people's pets. And so one of the ones that was there greeting us, they're all so nice, these dogs- Yeah ... are so nice, uh, was a retired sled dog. Yeah. So that's what, that's how they live out their, their older years. I think my guy said he owns 36 dogs right now, and when they reach that certain age, then they s- they, they no longer pull, and they live in the house. And then he said, "And my wife still sneaks a couple of other ones in of a night too." Um- Mm-hmm. Were there lots of puppies that you could play with? No puppies. No puppies. No. I wanted to- No puppies in sight. Oh, okay. I'll have to remember that. I won't get to play with puppies. Yeah, it was all full-grown dogs. But I did see them dookie while running. Yeah, yeah. And we know you're into that. Last thing we did, last day before we, we got on the plane to come back, is we ... You're, in fact, Christy was the one. We, we all kinda threw in the hat what we wanted to do, and Christy said, "I want to see the reindeer." So there she is seeing the reindeer. And let me just say, this picture of course is with one that is on a little harness and we're ki- she's kinda holding it. This is Poppy, the, the lead reindeer of this. She has like a 36-point rack. Is female. And- All, all, all of them are female ... all the ones that, 'cause y- the bulls you can't do what we did, which is This is maybe the only place in the world, this Running Reindeer Ranch, where they bring the reindeer out. This is just loose out in the woods, and you go on a walk with the reindeer, and it's the herd just running around you, coming up to you and running around you. Like- Yeah, very cool ... like 15 reindeer just out doing the reindeer thing. And they're- Reindeer games? Reindeer games. Reindeer games. Literally playing reindeer games. They're- And you can, like, pet them as they walk by, and they're not that interested in you. And they're, and they ... This is the fascinating thing about them. They don't drink water, they eat snow. That's how they ... I mean, of course, that kinda makes sense. But they'll, like, yeah, we don't give them water. They just, until the summertime. I didn't think that was the most fascinating thing about them. What'd you think? Um, they stand still when they dooky. Ah, yes. And it's, it's little pebbles, just like a deer, Jenna, just in case you were wondering. Yep. Thank you. Yeah, I was. Um. Yep. And that was, I, it, that was, um, that was fascinating. And then when we went to dinner that night, they had reindeer on the menu, and everybody was like- Well, they're live- it's livestock. I mean, we were basically- Yeah ... walking around with Alaskan cows. Well, so a reindeer is a domesticated caribou. So b- because of some slight domestication that has taken place, they ha- they have shorter legs, and I guess they have a little bit more meat on the bones or whatever. So they are not- Look how small ... That's the same reindeer. Look how small she looks next to Rhett in your, in your expedition pic. Yeah, they're b- yeah, they're big. They're bigger than they seem when they're next to me. Wow. Uh- That's hilarious. That's not a reindeer you can ride. No. That's a little pony. No, but we were asking her. So- Like in Tibet or something, I think they ride them ... well, yeah, they, she said, uh, the, the woman who was telling us about this said that there's an indigenous, uh, group of people I think in, yeah, Mongolia or Tibet or something. Yeah. Um- I've seen them riding them on videos ... that, that ride the, ride reindeer, or something that's very closely related to these reindeer. I'ma have to stop you now, uh, not because we're, uh, at time, but just because I think w- I think we've learned too much. Yep. Go to Alaska. Get your food fix on the Mythical Kitchen channel now. Well, unfortunately, it's pretty good. I took the world's worst approach. Wow. This is gonna make for a hell of a close-up. It really is. You look like Scarface.