Welcome to "Good Mythical More." If you work or know someone who does, then this "More" is for you, because you don't wanna be that person who does the thing that is a faux pas. But first about- Especially the worst one. A random disturbing fact. All right, let's hear it. Climate change is making spiders bigger. What? That's right. Scientists have known for almost a decade that climate change would
impact spider populations. 2009 studies showed that a warmer arctic with earlier springs and longer summers can make wolf spiders both larger and, because larger spiders can
produce more offspring, more abundant. Great. Something else to be excited about. Are they big enough to eat wolves? Ooh, that would, I mean, aren't you, aren't you glad that spiders
maybe aren't as big as wolves? I am. Yeah, Link, I think about that every day. I don't like a spider. I'm so thankful for that. I don't love a spider, but you know, they eat insects, right? We're supposed to- You're not really supposed to
kill 'em when you find them. Leave them alone. You're supposed to let 'em do their job. Man, what an exciting turn of events. I am just... I, you know... There's so much adrenaline
flowing through that. It's hard to catch a fish, you know, when the competition heats up. Yeah. It makes you think if
you got like two seasoned, like professional athletes
who come from some- Maybe former professional athletes. Yeah, former professional athletes who come from some discipline where it's all about like
hand-eye coordination. Like two incredible basketball players, like would it just never end? But you have to think that the person who can do the catching, it's like, as the ability
of the flopper increases, the ability of the catcher increases. Right. It feels like it's gonna happen. Right?
Right. If, I mean, are we gonna
have like a never ending catch the fish with granddad tournament? I hope so. Like that Michael Chang tennis match. Yeah. That would- Who was he against? He got so tired he had to serve underhand. That's a really good question. And this is like freaking Wimbledon. Wasn't that wild? Michael Chang and who? Who was that? No one cared except us.
Remember that Stevie? I have nothing to add to that. I'm sorry. Well, when we were- Name a professional tennis player. Yeah. Well he just said that one. Okay. Name one professional tennis player. Serena Williams. Hey. All right. Okay. All right. Who did she say? Ivan Lendl? She said Serena Williams. Boris Becker. You only said one.
John McEnroe. You said I needed to name one. That's a good one. That was 1992. Stefan Edberg. Andre Agassi. But he lost, right? Michael Chang won. Pete Sampras. Raphael Nadal. Oh, so Michael Chang-
We were coming over- Underhand and he lost. It was the deal. Okay, let's talk about the same thing now. Oh, okay. And let's talk. Oh. Oh, oh, we're doing a show? Yeah. Okay. So workplace faux pas. I was just naming ten tennis players. We're gonna like do a,
That's all I was doing. a single elimination
tournament of our own here. Cooking stinky food versus
stealing food from the fridge. Stealing food from the fridge is- I would never do that. Is an offense. I mean this is like really? I know I did it to Tim, but it was for the show. Yeah. I don't think that counts, so let's just move past that. Thank you. But stealing food from the food is like- Pretty tempting. This is like premeditated, and it's, I mean, the stinky food thing, sometimes you don't know
it's gonna stink that much. It's temporary, like this is last- Wait, premeditated? Like you think that people who
steal fridge from the food, they go to the fridge. I mean food from the fridge. They're at home and they're like, "I'm not even gonna pack something today, "'cause I'm gonna steal something." Yeah. It's premeditated. It starts in the morning.
Okay. It's not, I thought you meant like
there was an initial look, a pass by. They closed the fridge,
they go sit down down. Some people think about it.
They think about it. I'm just saying that ruins like if you take someone's food, they don't get to eat it. Right. This is true. Yeah. From an ethical standpoint, there's more moral
damage in that situation. Sure. Whereas this is like, oh it's stinky.
Right. It ruined an afternoon. I mean this is... Maybe nothing will top that. Yeah. Could leaving a mess
in the bathroom top it? It looks like we got some, what I'm thinking is maybe
some dookie on the bowl, and then somebody tried to
do one of those tank dumps, and got some dookie on the tank too. So we got dookie in two places. That's called an upper decker. Right. So this is a real mess we're talking. You're still in like commentator cadence. "Well, that is called an upper decker." "Yes. Right, right, right." If this is exactly how
you're leaving a mess in the bathroom, this may be worse than that. I mean, you've tried both places? If you've got dookie
on the toilet at work, especially at a place
of business our size, like it's one thing if you
work at a giant corporation with like thousands of employees and people you don't even know. But like here?
You know everybody. Here? Like that dookie
is somebody's dookie. You know that person. You're gonna talk to them. I went into the-
Like that's horrible. I went into that bathroom and
Let's talk about it. down here, there was some
sort of staining down here on the neck of the toilet. The neck you call that? I call that the base. The base.
Maybe the foot. The base. I don't know how it got there, but I didn't look at it too closely. It's the lower decker. It could have been. Yeah. It's the lower... It could have been dookie down there. How? I don't know. Maybe, I think... It was like someone put their- I think it was a dirty foot. Did somebody put their feet up on it? Yeah, it's a dirty foot. Somebody got mud on it. Because there's no, they were trying to do, what's the poop stool? Squatty Potty. Squatty potty.
Yeah. We had those for a bit, but then they just looked dirty. Yeah.
Yeah. Nobody wants to... I think someone tried to
simulate a Squatty Potty by putting their feet on that, and it was like they had stepped in, whoever did this. Did anybody else see this? Absolutely not. I didn't clean it up. I never get that low. I can't even see the bottom of the toilet. It just doesn't happen. Some, well sometimes, you know, sometimes I hinge really
far when I'm down there. Hinging for what? Oh. Oh, you hinge when
you're on the toilet? Yeah. It's kinda, just like... Trying to get something to loosen up? Trying to pump it, pump it out. Hinge. Wow. Are we saying this is actually worse, because, well, it's just so gross. We certainly painted a bad picture of it. Let's just say it. I don't know. To me it can be accidental. But you got to clean that up. And that's worse than
stealing somebody's food, just by that much. Yeah. Maybe here at a, like a place of work like this. What you got for us next? Getting too drunk at the holiday party. No one's ever done this. Never happened
Yeah, yeah. at a Mythical holiday party. It has happened. Well, okay, I mean, I'll just say- Multiple times. My wonderful wife, Jessie, she got as drunk as she
has been maybe ever. Yeah, that's who I'm talking about. 'Cause she never gets drunk. Which holiday party was this? Which year? I don't know. Where were we? I don't know. I don't remember. You weren't with her? So all I remember- You just ditched her? We had some good holiday parties, so obviously it was pre-pandemic, but it was like... Was she embarrassing? The drinks were so good. No, she wasn't. She did not do anything
embarrassing at the party. You would not have known. First of all, I think my wife is drunk often when she's not, because she's got that
kind of personality. Like, she's just like... She's an oversharer. She's like, she laughs at everything. She stumbles and she
steps on people's feet. And she falls down everywhere. So I didn't think anything
of it at the party. But what I was thinking myself was, I had had four cocktails, which is a lot of cocktails for me, but those cocktails at this
particular holiday party were A, really, really good, and B, really, really strong. I'm a big man, 220 pounds. Homeboy got drunk. Four cocktails, and I was like, "This is more intoxicated
than I would like to be "at our holiday party." Right? Not a good luck for the Rhettster. And I was still in control, but I was like, man, this
has hitting me real hard. Obviously, I'm really glad that we, you know, we do like
the Lyft and Uber codes or whatever we had done that year. I was not planning on
driving at any point. But then Jessie gets into the
car and she's like, "Whoa." And I'm like, "How many
drinks did you have? "How many cocktails did you have?" She said, "Four." And I was like, "I'm twice your size,
Literally. "and I feel like this." And she, and she was like, "Yeah, I..." She got home and just felt horrible. Like she had a real tough
time going to sleep. But you know what, as long as you don't... But she took it home with her. As long as you didn't... She didn't do anything embarrassing there. As long as you keep it within yourself, you know what? As long as it doesn't turn
into somebody else's situation. But we're saying too drunk. I'm saying a situation
where you get too drunk, you share something that you shouldn't. Yeah, but as long as you
don't infringe on somebody. No, I'm saying that when
somebody does infringe. I'm saying let's just say
somebody does infringe. Well, that's... I'm just saying if somebody does something they can't take back. I'm just saying it probably just gets a little embarrassing for them, as long as they don't do anything inappropriate to somebody else, which I'm not going that far. This ain't as bad as that. You think dookie on the toilet is worse? It's an honest mistake. Well, a lot of times getting this- Wait, wait. It's not a mistake in the bathroom? You think someone is like purposeful? Not cleaning it up. Link is really, really upset about this dookie on the toilet thing. It's up here! I mean, you're right. That's your problem to clean up. You're right. Yeah, that's, you might even hit that when you're touching that handle. I mean, we've all gotten
too drunk somewhere. But this could be a two for one. If you get too drunk at the holiday party, your toilet might end up looking like that later, you know what I'm saying? Maybe that's what it is. Okay. Well- If it's getting too drunk at work. Okay, I'll say once again, we, but this leaving
the mess in the bathroom is not that big of a deal. We've gotta find something worse. Not using headphones. Yeah. There we go. We found it. Couldn't be it. Not using headphones. I mean, back in my cubicle days, I was guilty of not using headphones. I just had one office mate. So for what kind of stuff? And I was listening to internet radio back when that was a big thing. And I-
Did your office mate care? Well, it was like background music, and he was okay with it. He said he was okay with it, but then I left to go to a
meeting and it stayed on, and then something weird happened and it started playing this... When I came back, he was upset, and it was like playing like the rock and roll or something. Well, does he not
understand how to operate? He said he didn't know how
to turn off my laptop, and... How about close it? He was an engineer who worked for IBM. "I don't know. Yeah, they never told me." Now does this happen? But it ain't that bad. In the bullpen area of
Mythical Entertainment that some, I mean, I don't, I haven't seen any offenders. I mean, everyone's very
headphoned up around here when it comes to, comes to that.
Right? Anybody want to throw
anybody under the bus? Any opportunity. H is like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." Are you saying we all use
headphones appropriately, and no one's ever offended? I just said it's happened. Oh, it's happened. Okay. All right. That's all you wanna share? That's all Hitch wants to share. But it has happened. Now if you were to crap
on somebody's headphones. That's a problem. And not clean it off. That's a real problem. Okay. Leaving food in the fridge for too long. They put your name on there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa- Rhett would never leave food, period. I've never seen him leave food. There's food, he's eating it. Yeah. I wouldn't do this. Do we? We have a pretty regular like-
A system. Have a Friday policy, right? Clean it out, right?
It's just... Things get thrown away on Friday. But if we didn't have... we have that for a reason. I guess this stuff
could get pretty rancid. It could...
Yeah, but- it could grow its own biome. But if we're going by
this particular scenario in which I did it, as you can see, it's well sealed. So if it's well sealed, I think we're okay. I mean, we're not okay, but we're not dookie on
the upper deck situation. Yeah. You might be right. This might be the worst
thing you could do at work is to get dookie on the toilet. What you wanna do now? What's this? Setting meetings that could be emails. Okay.
Okay. All right. We got a little bit of a culture here. It feels like somebody's
trying to send a message. Yeah. Who wrote this one? Somebody's trying to
send a little message. It's not, you know, it's just, it's nice to
be in a room together, just working it up, saying things that you
could have said in an email. I mean, sometimes meetings- Everybody loves everybody here. Lead to emails. So it's nice to be here. Sometimes emails lead to more emails. Sometimes emails lead to confusion. How much longer until we're
not using email at all? You think that's gonna? We have other tools here
now between Slack and- You hate email.
Monday. You made it very clear. When do we, when is
email just gonna go away? You think... What's? Is there a future there? But what are you trying to... Like what are you... How are people gonna send like... I'm just thinking culturally, I think email is dying, and it will make its
way into the workplace- It's not dying for me. There's other tools. What's-
What do you mean? It's dying? I think it might be dying in
your little personal space. Like-
Yeah. Oh, definitely for me. But kids... I think you want this to be a thing. Don't use email. Like the only... Well, but you didn't, I mean- Like, my kids get emails
from their schools, but it's, they don't use. It's not a kid communication system. They use like Snapchat or something. But you wouldn't like bring Snapchat
But so much- into the email workplace. But so much of what used to be email has now moved to Slack, so
Okay. I bet you there's there's
more of that that's coming. And you're okay with that? Yeah. The thing about, I mean listen, it's highly entertaining, but my thing about Slack is that sometimes if you get a Slack and it has like a chunk of information
that you need to read, process, and then like reply to, that's not what Slack is good for. That's no-no. Yeah. I don't think it will be Slack. I'm just saying Slack
took a portion of email. What's gonna take the other portion? I think it's meetings. Yeah. It's like you get back,
Oh, really? I'm sure there's workplace
cultures out there that don't have email. There's got to be. There's got to be some forward thinking, correct environment. They have more meetings? No, I was joking. I don't know. What do I know about this? Well, I'm just trying to figure
out what the solution is, because, so Stevie, what's
the cutoff for a Slack? How many lines? No, no. It's not about like amount of words used. That's about like information
you need to process. Is it a single question? Great for Slack. Comment, update. Great for Slack. Document in which there's
a plan that's laid out? Yeah, that's an email. Not good for Slack. Well, that's a document. That's a Google doc. No, but they Slack the document. Yeah, yeah.
Sometimes. But the conversation around the document? I mean it's not that big of a deal. This is not entertaining. Yeah. And then we have... What'd you say? "This is not entertaining?" Yeah. Nobody cares about this. No, no one. Yeah. Nobody cares.
Eating on camera. Well, now this isn't what we do. That's like a Nest
surveillance cam right there. So this is eating... Is this eating a meal and going up to one of the security cameras? What? Like going- I believe it's eating when you're in a video meeting. I mean I felt the need
to turn my camera off, but I don't all the time. So I've done this. I've tried to put my face on off screen when I take a bite, but then I bring it back in to chew. I think it also depends
on who's in the meeting. You know, like if it's
like an internal meeting, it's like, you know. What's worse though?
What about somebody who- At least mute, if you're me. Exercising while in a meeting. We don't have a lot of that here. We used to have like
Like NordicTrack? one person that- But I'm thinking about
would walk around in circles and it, I did find it very distracting while in meetings with him. Well, I think this is a good time for me to run something by you guys. Okay. I really don't want to
be that middle-aged guy who has a treadmill under his desk. I don't wanna be that guy. I know how you think about him, but like, there's just so
much research to suggest that just walking a number
of times throughout the day is just so good for you.
Yeah, it's really good. It's so good for you! So I'm having a difficult time not getting one of those treadmills
that's like literally- Just for you or for all employees? Well, I'm starting with me. I'm setting the example. Of course. Oh, okay.
Okay? He setting an example. But, okay, again, I'm- But so then what would you do? Well, I'm gonna give you more information that might help to contextualize this. So as you know, I watch
a lot of internet videos. I listen to a lot of podcasts. In the world of middle
aged dudes who are like consuming this type of information, one of the latest things of course is this how important zone two exercise is, right? So this is basically like
not too crazy intense, and you're supposed to do
like several hours a week, and it's incredible for your health, and zone two is like when you are- Walking the dog? You're able to... Walking the dog, you're
not gonna get to zone two, unless you're going up a hill. Zone two is when you can still talk, but it's not super easy to talk. Like that's a good rule of thumb. Like- Well that's great for a meeting. You could tell someone... And so again, I was watching this doctor who's all about this zone two-
I started to say. and he was saying how
he takes his meetings in zone two. And I was like, "This guy's gotta be
the most annoying person "to have a meeting with," but then I was like, I kind of feel like I should be him, or be like him. So you're gonna be talking to somebody, and he's like, yes, you can
tell when somebody's in zone two because now they don't sound like that. But they might sound like this. "Okay. B-Bill, you got
a real good point there, "but have you thought about this? "Have you thought that maybe next quarter, "we could do things a
little bit differently?" So Stevie, if I start talking
to you like that in meetings, it's really because I know- Are you gonna be on the
treadmill at your desk when we're meeting in your office? I think I won't be doing that. I think this is like a
Google meet, a Zoom call, but I'm breathing a little bit heavy. Maybe I'm glistening a little bit, but I'm still listening, and I'm gonna live longer. Most importantly. Yeah. I don't know if we want that. "Good Mythical Evening"
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