Fistbump vs Handshake

which is better the handshake or the. fist bump hey I'm Taylor and I'm Jason. and we're from Colorado Springs let's. talk about. [Music]. that good mythical morning this episode. is brought to you by the r link. Community create Converse and connect. with other mythical. beasts Welcome Friends welcome thanks. for joining us on bring a friend to GM M.

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fist bump's been around I know the. handshake been around since the fifth. century we're talking about uh ancient. Greeks were known to do the handshake so. maybe that's an argument for the. handshake is that it's it's tried and. true it stood the test of time at least. since the fifth century Greeks did it. for good BC BC that's a long time ago. that's longer ago than the fifth century. ad cuz I know how work that's like 10 10. centuries earlier and I saw I saw.

somebody comment in in one of the. comments about the origin of the. handshake being like letting people know. you're disarmed like I don't have a. that's yeah that's right and but that. that's because it predates the handgun. that goes on the outside of the hand. once that came along then that was no. longer a reason that the hand gun on the. outside of the hand gun I don't recall. that hand so you're saying that the. handshake handshake goes way back it's. old and it's a sign of hey hey hey I'm. not I'm not going to kill you hey let's.

make a deal right but then I'm also. saying that if I had a gun here I could. still shoot you I don't know about that. gun part uh now there's controversy on. the origins of the fist bump uh some. people claim that it was created by. current Fairmont State University head. coach George yanek as a way to fire up. his players like come on guys come on bo. boo yeah let's get ready for basketball. and did he explode it immediately. because I have to think that was. probably added like in the 10th Century. afterward yeah I think that was an. adaptation he's actually the current.

coach like blow it up there's he's the. current coach Fairmont state is current. not 10th Century so he's trying to take. credit for the fist bump it clearly. cannot be true uh others claim I haven't. even heard of Fairmont State the Wonder. Twins minor characters in the 1970s. cartoon Super Friends who touched. Knuckles and cried Wonder Twins powers. activate were the origin. Originators Wonder Twins powers. activate Wonder Twin powers.

activate shape of octopus form of an ice. unicycle come on Jana it's up to us to. stop those. aliens nine peanut pie nine he says I. think a fist bump is best it's more. sanitary I don't mind bumping knuckles. with someone who picks their nose but a. handshake that's just nasty it's a. polite way of avoiding germs yeah I mean. Howe Mandel has built a whole career on. the fist SP yeah as a lot yeah a lot of.

OCD and a Baldhead a lot of OCD people. do it because they think it avoids germs. and the bottom line is it scientists. have studied this I don't think this is. one of the things that we don't need the. scientist for I know that touching. knuckles only is more sanitary than. shaking hands because the Palm in your. hand touches more stuff and actually. they've done studies on this and just. real quick John's Hopkins University. they did this study on graduates on. graduation day of how many serious.

bacteria was how much serious bacteria. like life-threatening infectious disease. was transferred from hand to hand of. course there's all kinds of bacteria on. you all the time so they traced how many. of the graduates died as a result of a. handshake they swabbed their hands. before all of the graduates and did an. autopsy afterward no to see if there was. like deadly bacteria on there and. basically almost all of the handshakes. there was no transfer of deadly bacteria. but maybe a couple did they said 93% the. bottom line was so seven but that 7% it.

didn't kill him like I probably have. deadly bacteria on my hand right now but. you have to take it and like put it in a. sore and then have a bad day of immunity. to for for it to lead to something the. bottom line is there's not a great risk. of disease transmission but it is. definitely higher but the but the. thought of. it is is and the and that there's even a. slightly higher risk with a handshake is. an argument to go with the fist bump. totally fist bump without a doubt more.

sanitary no question and they it just. feels you know there there's a lot more. opportunity to have just a weird feeling. in a handshake that like this is gross. like you know oh like like like the. clammy hand or the The Dead Fish. handshake the if you get a fist bump. it's just boom it's just there I mean. there's nothing can go wrong there's not. not only is there least of a less risk. of disease is what I'm trying to say but. there's also less risk of something.

gross happening well let's hear some. arguments for handshakes because I want. to I'm sure that there's people who feel. that way Aaron Cole 28 said the. handshake it's classy Timeless and works. for all ages of men women and children. you can't fist bump your 90-year-old. great grandmother you don't fist bump. when you walk into a job interview I. don't think you shake your 90-year-old. grandmother's hand either I think you. hug her but if I met you know that's. true but if I met your 90-year-old great.

grandmother you'd hug her you hug all. all women over 90 I don't care if she's. like a strange woman on the street you. hug them but if she extended her hand I. wouldn't insist on changing it to a fist. bomb because she's probably got OST. osteoporosis and you're like break every. bone up to her elbow if you give her a. fist bump you're kind of clinging to the. great grandmother aspect I think the the. strength of his argument is more in The. Classy Timeless and it and it it works. in a job interview it's it's official it. carries meaning I think when you when.

you go to fist bump somebody it's it's. very it's just very casual I don't think. anyone's going to argue with that fist. bump equals casual and handshake equals. official substantial meaningful that. that's true you Ste a deal with a. handshake but that's only because that's. the way our culture understands it I. mean in some other culture in some. parallel universe the fist bump is. probably like okay you're going in 50. I'm going in 50 50-50 deal no that's see.

you said you said probably but probably. not viewers Choice TGT says fist bumps. are for parties and Bros handshakes are. for business and sealing a deal there's. there's something substantial there. stood the test of time but yeah you've. got you're at risk of it being gross but. you're also at risk of it being. meaningful okay so what I hear there's a. pattern emerging in the comments that. they're for different purposes you've. got a fist bump which is for like a. celebratory.

and you've got a handshake which is like. a how you doing well it's a it's more of. a let's seal the deal it's it's more. there's there's just more going on. there there's more mean I wouldn't I. wouldn't say it's just I would also just. say it's casual fist bump is more of a. casual greeting but I really think it. comes down to age you never fist bump. anyone who's older than you you can. always F you can only fist bump someone. this is my r with them fist bump someone. your age or younger.

because I don't care how young you are. you should always because there's. respect in a handshake if you're going. with someone else again I I think the. question is what is a better greeting I. think we can make the fist bump the. official greeting greeting of the world. and then there would be a lot of respect. in it you go into your job interview and. it wouldn't be like what's up dog it. would be like hello very nice to meet. you yeah see you can make it serious but. you would have to add a little bit of. the bowel yeah yeah like okay okay I'll. take that I fist bump plus bow has the.

same weight as a. handshake uh solad dad Bravo One says it. can get very awkward when one goes for. the fist bump while the other goes for. the handshake it's like the Titanic. hitting a glacier it all goes. downhill see I'm going go for this and. you're GNA it's like whoa paper paper. beats Rock it's it's yeah there's a lot. of weirdness involved I think that's why. we have to come to a conclusion here so. that people will just commit to one the. problem is if someone goes in for a hand. handshake and then you see the open hand.

and you're like because what that says. is I I don't want to make hand love with. you you know it's like someone who just. is weirded out by that they just want to. give the fist it's an insult that we're. like putting two hands together it's. just it's there's a level of intimacy. that some people are okay so do you do. you have an opinion do you are you where. where you coming down on. this you tell me I I still don't know. it's like it's like ordering from the. menu go ahead and order I'll I'll be.

ready by the time you've ordered I think. given that the risk of serious disease. transmission is minimal it's just a part. of life disease transmission and. possible death is just a part of life so. just Embrace that and the handshake. because you can tell that you can. control so many more factors in a. handshake you can like if I want to. emphasize something if I'm trying to. intimidate you I hold it for longer I. hold it tighter if you've got it give me. that eye if I grab your fingers and I. and I you give me the fish hand I've got. power over you there's more I can do I.

can take the handshake and then I can go. into something else like this you know. there's just so many more plac even more. germs on the front and back of my hand. germs aside there's so many different. places that a handshake can be taken and. so many more things that it can tell you. about a person and an experience you can. tell if the person is nervous oh sweaty. hands you can tell if the person is. trying to intimidate you oh he squeeze. him back but the fist bump I can't I. can't tell enough I can't tell enough. okay I'm going to also choose the. handshake because all of the negatives.

of the. handshake are are support for doing the. handshake. because it's I'm willing to overcome all. of these negatives and still shake your. hand we have never shaken hands this. many times in one day so so yeah I'm. also going for handshake we never shake. hands everything you understand my. argument everything bad about it makes. it more substantial when you still do it. there's more at stake yeah it makes it. more meaningful I could be getting. deadly disease right now but you know.

what I'm connected it's worth it yeah. it's worth it let's seal the deal yes. I'm going to go die now deal made and. I'm actually going to add a bow. too while we're bringing the wheel up to. end this episode speaking of handshakes. and greetings we think it would be an. amazing thing if you the mythical Beast. would come up with a mythical greeting. mythical handshake mythical fist bump. whatever it is so make your video. response and then also posted on the. community demonstrating how and why it. should be the official mythical greeting.

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