{"id":877,"date":"2016-10-31T21:04:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T02:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/?p=877"},"modified":"2016-10-31T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T02:25:35","slug":"good-mythical-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/2016\/10\/31\/good-mythical-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Mythical Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we\u2019re in our sound\/audio editing unit, I thought it\u2019d be a good time to share the history of one of my favorite Youtube channels: a daily talk show called Good Mythical Morning<\/a> (or often abbreviated as GMM).<\/p>\n

GMM is actually a sub channel of the Internet entertainment duo Rhett & Link, which consists of 39-year old Rhett McLaughlin and 38-year old Link Neal. The two met in their first grade elementary school class in 1984 and have been best friends ever since. They created their main Youtube channel in 2006 and used it to share original songs, funky commercials, and eccentric skits, many of which have garnered over millions of views. Today, they are the 44th most-subscribed Youtube channel and run their own production company called \u201cMythical Entertainment,\u201d where they create much of the content that they share with their fan base (nicknamed \u201cmythical beasts\u201d).<\/p>\n

Rhett and Link\u2019s second channel, called Good Mythical Morning, started off more quietly and humbly. Created in 2008, GMM was intended to be a daily morning talk show that was more casual and conversational than the content Rhett and Link produced on their main channel. Even though each episode was released in video form, GMM was meant to be more of an audio-only podcast where Rhett and Link shared their life stories and other interesting content. In fact, Rhett and Link have encouraged their viewers many times to \u201cmake GMM a part of their daily routine,\u201d asking their audience to simply tune in as they would an old-fashioned radio station while they were driving to work or eating breakfast. To facilitate this, each episode of GMM was also made available via Soundcloud and Itunes in addition to the main Youtube upload.<\/p>\n

However, as one would expect, the more popular Rhett and Link got, the more popular GMM got as well. What was once a casual morning talk show slowly became more video-dependent as the content of GMM became more structured and deliberate. Nowadays, GMM is famous for episodes such as Rhett and Link taking a chicken noodle soup bath<\/a> or playing messy Pictionary with a buffet of foods<\/a>. As evident by the content of these videos, it\u2019s no longer possible to rely solely on audio to enjoy these episodes.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m saddened by how GMM has changed over the years, as Rhett and Link continue to produce quality content no matter the medium, but part of me does miss the casual intimacy that GMM used to have when it was more of an audio-heavy program. Like we discussed in class, there\u2019s something candid and endearing about podcasts that I think is related to a lack of visual stimulation\u2014sort of like the sense of comfort and safety you feel while drowsing in the backseat of a car at night with the radio turned down to a low hum. However, I would like to mention that, perhaps in response to GMM\u2019s changed structure, Rhett and Link have recently created a weekly podcast called \u201cEar Biscuits,\u201d which has no video version whatsoever and exists solely as an audio podcast. I guess it\u2019s nice to see that, even as their fame grows, Rhett and Link are still willing to stick to their roots for the sake of the fans that have been with them since the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that we\u2019re in our sound\/audio editing unit, I thought it\u2019d be a good time to share the history of one of my favorite Youtube channels: a daily talk show called Good Mythical Morning (or often abbreviated as GMM). GMM … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,77,51,69],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audacity","tag-audio-editing","tag-blog-post","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/maxresdefault-2.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7TOgG-e9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettevee.com\/2016cdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}