Channel: Good Mythical More
YouTube Video ID: hxw7vCE3qM0
Episode Number: 3059
Transcript
We're rating the most mildly interesting posts Welcome to Good Mythical More. On Reddit they have- Uh-huh … a subreddit called Mildly Interesting. Mildly Interesting. And I just think it's great that it exists. 'Cause it's not over- Do I follow it? It's not overstimulating I think I might follow it. Oh, I definitely … It's, it's one of the ones I check in on. Um, but, you know, it's just one of the reasons why Reddit performs an, a nice service for the culture, to accumulate these mildly in… How, how else would you accumulate mildly interesting things, you know? I'm just grateful. I just wanna enter this little, little thing that we're doing with gratitude. B- there's something about the fact that this couldn't exist on YouTube. I mean, we're bringing it to YouTube, but YouTube is … It rewards sensationalism a little bit too much. Mm. Niche things and e- e- even maybe more niche than Reddit, believe it or not, but there's a sensationalism to it because of the way that it has to be brought up. Yeah. Yeah, this, uh, this episode itself is gonna be mildly clickable. Mildly clickable, yeah. Yeah. Which means it won't perform well, but that's great. We're gonna, we're gonna s- rate these on a scale of interesting, zero being super uninteresting, five being mildly interesting, and 10 being- Very interesting … undeniably enthralling. So we want these to be in the middle. Yep. We're gonna, we're gonna cancel these if they are too low or too high. Yeah. Let's see the first one. Oh, yeah. Switch her up to the middle thing here. "Protein powder already came with two scoops I thought. I was digging down and unearthed a third." So I thought I don't understand the- Yeah … the way that it's written. My understanding of this is that, okay, the protein powder, which usually comes with one scoop, comes with two scoops. So if there was a second scoop, you thought maybe there's another one, and there was. Oh. Already came with two scoops, so I thought- I took it as or so I thought. Yeah. Protein powder already came with two scoops, so I thought… I was digging down, unearthed a third. Hold on. Protein powder already comes with- That's not true, because protein powder- It comes with one scoop … protein powder doesn't come with two scoops. Maybe this per- That's what we're missing, guys … maybe this person's comes with two scoops. It alread- So they thought … I think Rhett's right. Pro- protein powder already came with two scoops, which is crazy. Yeah. Twice as many scoops as you need. So I thought Why not look for a third? In your version- It's, I think, what they're thinking … it would be or so I thought There's no or It, there's nothing to or about Yeah, I'm saying, that's what I'm saying This is just weird So it's, it is weirdly described, uh, in the, the, just the title of the post, which I think is why also this was removed from r/mildlyinteresting Oh by the moderator because it broke one of the rules, and I think it was the rule, "Titles must not contain jokes, backstory, or other fluff. That information belongs in a follow-up comment." Yeah, yeah. We- And- We're not even gonna talk anymore about this This flu- yeah, the f- the fluff that they added sucks, and it screwed it up, so yes, that was a good move. I- You just need to say, "Protein powder came with three scoops." Exactly. Now, I will say Mildly interesting … I got some protein powder that came with a scoop, but then I went and got new protein powder that came in a bag and didn't come with a scoop So you thought So I thought So I took the scoop from the old protein powder and started using it in the bag And? But the scoop size for that protein powder wasn't the serving size of the protein powder in the bag. It was too much Or so you thought So I have to eyeball it, or so I think, every time So I'm kind of in protein powder hell right now Wow. And you know, I have my own protein scoop little ditty here Oh, for your Ka'Chava So, uh, I religiously eat Ka'Chava, which is a meal replacement shake. Uh, not a sponsor, but it should be 'cause I love it Mm-hmm And their scoops, they, I mean, you have to reach deep down in that bag, so, like, their scoop, which you do two of… I would've welcomed two scoops 'cause then I can take both and just… One scoop is actually two scoops, but I digress. It comes with one scoop, and the handle's long, and then I got another bag, and lo and behold, they've reduced the size of the handle on the scoop But not the scoop The scoop is the same size, but the handle is half as long. So you've gotta… So now I'm getting my knuckles in the powder Why would they do that? When I'm… To reduce the amount of plastic, I believe, which is a good cause, but thank God I hadn't thrown away my previous long-handled scoop. So now I've been hanging onto this long-handled scoop- Oh, like forever forever and replacing the short-handled scoop. And I had two of them, and then one of them went missing And ended up in this guy's protein powder Apparently Or so you think So now I'm hoarding this longer-handled scoop for my shorter-handled scoop bags Do you know the solution to this, Link? 3D printing 3D print a handle for my scoop? 3D print a whole new scoop Oh, no, I wouldn't wanna do that Why? I don't have a 3D printer We do here Yeah, we have Oh my God. Yeah, guys, do something for me every once in a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. S- send the, uh, send the art team your scoop. This has been removed. Bring it in and then- This has been removed, but- How long do you want the handle to be? Lucas can make it this long. I, even longer. Yeah. Yeah, we can go as long as you need. Um- Oh, God, yes. So it has been removed, but still I'd like you guys to tell me how interesting it is. If it w- if it was just how it should've been, protein powder came with three scoops, I would say- Six … that is a… Oh, a six. Okay, yeah, a six. Let's see the next one. My local Lowe's has a cat that lives in it. Dubai style chocolate. That's at least a seven or eight. I mean, that's pretty interesting. I mean, a cat that's inside of a big box store. It's one thing if, like, my local hardware store, my mom and pop hardware store has a cat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Big whoop. That's a two, three. But we got a cat. A chain. We have a live animal just sitting in a chain like this? Yeah. Th- what would corporate say about this? I'm, I fear that by talking about it, if we're the ones that are alerting Lowe's corporate to this, we're gonna have that cat evicted. Yeah, and they will, they, and you know what? They'll send it to the shelter, 'cause that's what they do. That's what the big corporations do. They're not gonna let somebody take it home. They're gonna be like, "No, no, we can't let somebody take it home for, for, for liability. We have to take it to the shelter." I mean, it could end badly for this cat, and it's sad to even think about it. So let's not even acknowledge it. I don't even see a cat. Yeah, yeah. We don't, what, what cat are you talking about? There's no cat there. I mean, I see a blue fish. Skip Yeah, we did. Someone tied a plastic bag- Someone tied a plastic bag- … with blueberries in it on my bicycle today. Okay, hold on, comma, someone tied a plastic bag with blueberries in it on my bas- bicycle today. That's, that's more than mildly interesting. That is, um, potentially disturbing. Also just feels like a mystery you want to solve. Yeah, like it's too interesting. 'Cause what is- Well, first of all, you ain't gonna eat them blueberries. Yeah, I wouldn't eat the blueberries. It's an interesting bike. It's a very retro bike. I think that person who had those blueberries- Thought this was their bike … just thought that… No, I think that they were like, "You know what? I, like I always say, if I ever run into someone with a blue bike, I'm gonna tie these blueberries on it." Just because of the pun, blueberries, blue bike, makes me laugh. I'm just gonna do it and see if anybody gets it. Maybe I'll end up on Mildly Interesting, and here it is happening. I think this is mildly intriguing, so I'm gonna put this one at a, at an eight. Hold on. Mildly interesting and mildly intriguing. What is in difference between intriguing and interesting? Interesting, it, it just- There's a mystery? It draws your attention. If s- if something's interesting, you, you give attention to it, a little bit, mildly interesting. Mildly intriguing is you start, you start asking questions. Asking questions. You're, you're, you're- The definition of intriguing is arousing interest. So it's interesting. But hold on. I think Link's got a point here because- Intriguing is- If I've said that someone was in- You ask questions … if I, like you said, uh, "Tell me about Daryl. You, I s- I heard you met him at the party," and I said, "Daryl's intriguing," you would immediately mean, what do you mean? Like, what, like he's a man of mystery? Like, what, what's going on with Daryl? Yeah. If I'd have said, "Daryl's interesting," you'd be like, "Oh, what? Like, does he have an interesting job? Does he have a weird haircut? Is it a middle part?" Right. You know? That kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. And so nothing, I mean, there's nothing wrong with a middle part. I'm just saying it's interesting. You know, it's worth talking about. Intriguing is more interesting because it's, uh, like a little higher level word. Goes from like elementary school- Sure … into middle school. Sure, yeah. There actually is an r/mildlyintriguing. There is? And it is, uh, there's no posts and one person is a member. I think this is the, this is a five- We gotta shift this to mildly intriguing … on intrigue, on the intriguing scale. Yeah. This is it. Yeah. Raises questions. We found an outlier. You don't want to re- you don't wanna raise questions y- to be at five on the interesting scale. You just want to give attention. Yeah, because this is gonna, you're gonna be thinking about this the rest of your life. Yeah. You, on, you're gonna be on your deathbed- I'm gonna be haunted by these blueberries … and you're gonna be like, "I should've spent more time with my children, and what about them damn blueberries?" Who put them there? Yeah, so on the interesting scale, this is way too high. Eight. Yeah. Next dental lamp looks like an African ox It does. What? It's like a- And the weird thing about this is my dentist goes on safaris and takes amateur level pictures of everything there and then puts them on a slideshow in every single room at the dentist office. And so you're sitting there. I've seen this, what is it? A musk ox? What is it, a Cape buffalo? What is this? I've seen this thing- African ox … while I'm- African, African buffalo. It, I've seen this buffalo while being worked on, but it was a real picture that he took. Y- but you were, you were underneath it and it was sh- it was a light. No, it was on the… No, it wa- It was pointing a different way is what I'm saying. No, it, it was on a screen and it was an actual one because he goes- Oh … on safari and takes pictures of them. Oh, that one. This is, this is wild. I mean, I'd really love to pierce its nose. Some of his pictures are good and some of them I wouldn't have put into a slideshow. Like every once in a while it's like, "Man, you, that's a pretty impressive shot." And some of them are like, "Eh, coulda kept that one for the fam." The dentist office, they need to, they need to do more work to their ceilings. I mean, I- They gotta be acoustic, man … they, they gotta do something better than just acoustic ceiling where I can tell that s- there was a leak and it dripped and it turned brown and it looked like- Well, that's just acoustic ceilings there was gravy j- dripping up there. Yeah, the most important thing in a dentist office is the ceilings. You got to do better. I think they can do art on them, but I do think they should, they need to be acoustical ceilings because- The screaming. Hearing other people slobbering and crying in pain and also- Sure trying to carry on a one-sided conversation- Sure, sure … with a hygienist. Yes. I don't wanna hear that crap. Yeah, yeah, that's part of it. You gotta take the into account. But we could do murals on them. I think this is a little too interesting But, uh, I mean, I'm con- it might be … It's just so uncanny, but I- It's not a five I'm, I'm not raising a question. I- It's not intriguing … all I'm doing … No, not at all. I'm just looking at it, and I'm happy about it. I'm not more … It doesn't lead to anything. I mean- But it looks so much like an African ox that- This might be a s- … it makes me think that it was intentional No … like maybe my dentist- Oh, y- who's been taking pi- he's old, first of all. You're overthinking it … he's so old, and he's probably on a dental board, and he probably is like, "This year, I'm gonna get him to do the ox head for the light." And then it worked its way around the country, and there it is. No. See, now I'm just too intrigued. This is a seven on the interest-o-meter. But you're not asking a question. Di- You're making up a story … did my dentist design this? No. That's a question. We know that. I'm giving this a six. This is- Okay … pretty close to just interesting … all right. But it's not a five. I agree with that. Next. One of my kids' Crocs got wedged in front of a heat vent for a day or so and shrunk. Banana for scale. Link, very overly ripe, ready to go in the trash banana. This is interesting, um, but it does have personal impact. There's an application to this because I'm shocked with how much this thing shrunk from one day or so. This is- Mm … hard-hitting information for Croc wearers. 'Cause I might think now if I leave my Crocs in a hot car- I mean, what am I gonna do? So guess what, Rhett? We did exactly that about five years ago. We left Crocs in a hot car, and that's what happened to it. Are you joking? No. We've done that. And by we, you mean me and Link? Uh, well, the crew. Oh. We did it, and then you examined the results. But we didn't put it … It didn't make the episode. Yes, it did. It didn't make my memory bank. Hold on. Well, those are two separate things, friendo. And then- Well, very different … not long after that, I got, uh, like, sandals for my, that I just ordered and then got the wrong size, and I was like, "I know what to do," and I put them in my car 'cause I just thought that the rubber sandals would shrink, and they definitely did not 'cause they were different material than the Crocs. But I left them in my car, like, on the dashboard for, like, a month just thinking, "Maybe they'll get down to my actual shoe size." And did it work? Nope. Nope. He's saying it didn't. Uh- So, so we already knew this. But why is that- But then I knew it again for the first time … why is the regular Croc so wide? Isn't that wider? It does look wide. Doesn't the small Croc look like the right proportions of a Croc? And the big Croc looks like a f- boy, that's a wide Croc. I think, I think there's some sha- there's some, uh- Some what? … some shadiness happening. Some shade- Yeah, could be- … and angles … the, the shading between, in between the two Crocs that makes it look wider. Let, let's not get bogged down in that. The point is this- impacts your life. So that's not just interesting, it's applicable. It's mildly applicable. But we knew about it and had forgotten about it, which makes it get back down. I was gonna say this was a seven. Seven. I'm moving it to a six because we forgot about it. Okay, that's fair. We haven't had any perfect milestones. Nothing's been perfect. I think the last one should be a five. I think the ox should be a five. I think it's perfect. It has, it has no bearing on anyone's life except, uh, I, I know what you're thinking. That the, it, that- I, I recognize- … it made the dentist start going to Africa, but he didn't if, if, that was not what I said. But- It has no bearing … your dentist is not my dentist. Isn't it cool? Even though we used to have the same dentist, and then we parted ways and went, we both went to different dentists. Yep. But I realize that that's my perspective and my bias because of my dentist and how many African animals I've seen in the office already. It looks cool, but it means nothing. He took a picture of one of those- It's a perfect five … he took a picture of one of those that had a bird on it. Great. That's one of his best pictures. I th- I said, "Hey, man, what about Nat Geo? You thought about Nat Geo for that one? 'Cause you could've won the award." He's a dentist. Don't give, don't, d- don't get his hopes up. Well, he's really trying. I mean, he's really trying with these pictures. I think he's just sharing his pictures. I mean, I appreciate it. Five. This right here, six. Seven in my opinion. Next. Next. All the holes in this bag of Life Savers Gummies were off-center. Ooh, okay. Okay, hold on. This is, my, my knee-jerk reaction to this is a solid five. Y- I feel like this- 'Cause you're, y- you, you s- you see some interest happening … yeah, it's just, like, this, I can imagine how this would happen. It's, like, it's not like, how did this happen? Right, you know how it happened. Did the guy who puts holes in the Life Savers have a bad day? It's not like the machine messed up for a second- The machine messed up … and it got through quality control. Right, exactly. But for you to be the one that has them, it's pretty cool. Something you never see, but you don't really care about. If I opened up- I'm gl- I'm glad I'm seeing it … like, if we were together and I opened up some Life Savers Gummies, I would be like, "Hey, check this out." But you know what you're not gonna do? You're not gonna be talking to me about this later- Yes … or anyone else and, and try to dig up this photo to show somebody. I, yeah, I'd be embarrassed. Right. This is a five Next. We did it. We found it. Uh, mm, no, it's all that, yeah. These grapes look- I'll let, I'll let you speak- … like tiny eggplants … on this one. The, the username- These grapes- … is interesting … that look like tiny eggplants. Just so you understand, I understand the way- Mildly interesting … to do mildly interesting, you don't say a sentence. You just say the thing that it is. You don't say, "These grapes look like tiny eggplants." It's, "These grapes that look like tiny eggplants." There's a big difference. I understand the code. I, I- I'm a real one. I'm almost fascinated by these grapes. I've never seen them in real life. Uh, I'm a- now asking the question, where would I get these grapes? What do they taste like? Are they, are they better? Are they seedless? Mm. I think we need to make it clear where this post came from. Rhett, this is your hand, this is your house. Yeah. This is the only post you ever made on Reddit. Yes. Years ago. Yes. It's- But as you can see, it was very popular. 313- I think it only got popular after you- Don't say that talked about it afterward and complained about how no one cared. I stand by this being a five. I would've never submitted it if it wasn't perfectly mildly interesting. No, I'm giving, I'm giving this a seven. Seven? I'm asking questions. I feel like we need to go to the judges for this. I'm fascinated. I didn't know it existed. I'm surprised. Well, you don't go into grocery stores. I can't help that. I'm surprised. Uh. You know? That bull over the dentist chair, I'm not surprised that that exists. I'm just, I'm interested that it's, it's so uncanny. There are a lot of posts on r/MildlyInteresting about- These grapes … these grapes. Yes. Which I feel like- People had trouble finding mine because of that … may increase the interest or decrease the interest? 'Cause, like, you're, it's, you're not the one who made this observation. No, you're not, Rhett. You're not special in any way. Exactly. That's why it's a five. You're making it seem too special. Also, it, it did get more popular. You've got two and a half thousand up votes. I gotta make another post. The, um, the, the ox at the dentist office has 25,000 up votes. Yes. So I also don't know if that puts this- Yeah … down a notch or if that puts it solidly at five. I need to make another mildly interesting post, and I need to do it right now. Well, go to your dentist. Is there anything that you see right here, without me having to get up, where I can do a mildly interesting thing? Like, what about this knot in this wood that looks like the universe? Um, this knot that looks like the eye of a lion. Dude, you can't make mildly interesting happen. It has to happen to you. Oh, no, that's actually pretty cool It look, it looks like a top-down view of a tornado It does. Is that interesting? Yeah. Look at this one. No, take a picture of the tornado Okay, this one. Oh, that's a tornado. Yeah. Okay, not a video but a ph- but a photo. Okay. Post that. Well, th- this one. Oh. Nope That, that looks like an eye Nope, you don't want that one N- no, e- even with this- Everything looks like an eye even the shading Even the shading. I'm gonna make a choice later, but just so you know- You better go with the tornado … one of my, uh, my post on mildly interesting that I will make before this episode airs will be of, of one of these dots Knots These knots. Oh, look at that one. That looks like the storm on Jupiter. I might have to do multiple posts. Check out throwback episodes of Good Mythical Morning every Thursday on Mythical 24/7, now streaming on Roku, Amazon Prime, Vizio, and more. Learn where to watch at mythical.com/24-7.