Mobile Home Dorm Room

- A high school student built a mobile dorm room. and he's taking it with him to college. - Let's talk about that. - Hi, I'm Jeffrey. - And I'm Hadasa. - [Together] we're from Ohio. "Good Mythical Morning.". (light energetic music). - "Good Mythical Morning.". - This episode is brought to you by kotula's.com. where you can get this, a bear that will hold your toilet paper roll.

- My toilet paper roll? - Yeah, your toilet paper roll. - Well, thanks Link. - You know when I wipe my butt. I always think to myself, I wish a miniature black bear were staring at me, pretty cool. - Don't (indistinct), I know this means a lot. - All right, thanks for joining us today, you can put that down, do that on your own time, please. - Uh! - You have three days friends- - Uh. - Three days to join Team Mythical Beast. and join the Supernote competition.

Just make it happen, captain, get on there. and breathe deep and exhale long, join Team Mythical Beast. from Supernote competition. - You could win the whole thing. Usually there's some late entries. and someone- - Oh yeah. - Who's a contender is like. coming at the very end. - Yeah, that's right. - All right, here we go. There's a video on YouTube- - Really? - That we've seen, yeah, there's at least one on there. and I've seen it, a kid who, well, I'll say a kid, a guy named Austin, a high school student, decided to build his college dorm room.

in the back of his parents' house. And we can roll some footage from the actual video. while I tell you about it, but basically he took a, what seemed to be a flatbed trailer. and then he built what ultimately turned out. to look like a pretty nice- - Little cabin. - Little, it's like a single-wide trailer/cabin/dorm room, and he's taking it to college. He's got, it's a little desk in the front, he's got his, it's kinda like an RV, but it's homemade.

He paid $12,000, invested $12,000 in it- - And it looks like a house. - It is a little bit trailer. - He's got a couch. - He's got a couch, he's got a loft, and he's got a shower that collects rain water. and then he's got a latrine. I call it a latrine, I don't call it a bathroom. because it's basically just a fancy container. for a five-gallon bucket. - Yeah. - And he uses the bathroom in the bucket. and then puts saw dust on it. - Any Ninja Turtles in that thing?

- (chuckling) And then he puts a lid on it. and he uses it as compost. Now, most college students I know. they don't have time for composting, but I do know a lot of college students. who crap in buckets. - But you can have, you invite people over, I think he probably has a lid for it or something. - Yeah, no, he puts a lid on it, takes it outside, and brings in a new bucket, that's part of his system. - Yeah, but when you're done. you need to put a lid over it. - That's what I said, Rhett, he puts a lid on it. - You know what we oughta do, we oughta send him this. - He could put it in his...

- Yeah. - That's a good idea, well, this is ours, we could send him one like it. - Oh, you wanna send him. the toilet paper only? - No, we could. send him another one courtesy of Kotula's. That's coming your way, Austin, that's how highly we think of you and what you've done. But it got me thinking about our dorm room experience. I have very fond memories of our dorm room. - It wasn't mobile, let's just start that way. - It was not it. - It was in a dorm. - And I don't regret that. because we did make the space our own. and I think there's something in every man.

who wants to take a space and then make it. submit to him. (blowing lips). And if you're Austin, you build it in your backyard. and you make it submit to you. If you're a little kid you build a hideout, I built a hideout when I was a kid, it had plumbing. Well, it had a pipe coming through the side of it. and I would pee in the pipe. - Where did the pipe go to? - Into the woods. And I exerted my dominance over that hideout. - Did you invite me into this hideout? - Yeah, but I said, "Don't drink from that straw,

that's my latrine.". And then we go to college. and I remember it's- - It had like. a piece of PVC pipe? - It was a black PVC pipe. and it was kinda coming through the side, you don't remember this, and there was a weight bench. - It was coming. through the side, or was coming up, I mean, it's gotta come up in order to get in there. - Yeah, I learned that pretty quickly, yeah, that you pee in the high end. - Okay. - Definitely. What I'm getting at is when we got to college. it was the first time to actually be living on our own, course Rhett and I were roommates. at NC State University, 24 of Syme dorm,

that was the bottom floor. of Syme dorm- - East campus. - East campus, we were in there, and I remember walking in there and saying, "Okay, we can decorate this place, we can move everything around the way we want it, this is our space to exert dominance over.". - You've, I don't remember thinking of it like that, I wasn't trying to exert dominance over it. I was just like, "All right, let's figure out where we're gonna put this stuff, man.". - Now we have some pictures- - College. - We wanna show you of, we stayed in that dorm in two years,

so I think this is sophomore year. Here's the picture of us standing in front of our dorm room. Now I will say right off the bat. I am the one on the left with my shirt off, yes, I have my shirt off, that's the first thing. that you people are gonna comment on. And then the second thing you're gonna comment on. is how emaciated Rhett looks, you look so unhealthy. - [Rhett] No, I was actually very healthy. - [Link] Your clothes were. just five sizes to big? - I was a lot skinnier. than I am now, and I wore much bigger clothes.

because that was back when those pants were in style, at least in some groups they were in style, I gotta be honest with you, we look like a couple of punks, I wouldn't have trusted us with anything, much less the decorative aspect of a dorm room. - Right, now this is the front door of our dorm room. and everyone in our hall had a whiteboard. where people can put messages. I think our says, Link, your mom called. And then you posted a poster that says,

James is happy, that's James Brown, you thought that was funny. And you have anything else to say about this. before we go inside? - [Rhett] Why does it say happy? Why does our room say happy? - [Link] I don't know, I think it might of said happy birthday. and we took birthday off, we're crazy. - [Rhett] Let's talk about the interior of the dorm room. because it was simple, everybody had to make a decision, when you got into a dorm room that was on campus, and I guess this is how it still works on a college campus, they basically have some pieces of furniture.

that are just part of the room. So you each had your chest of drawers, Chester drawers, as you called them. - Um-hm, still do. - [Rhett] You had a bunk bed that could be taken apart. and so if you didn't really like your roommate, or you wanted to divide the room, you could take the beds apart and be on different sides. But it was just, it was a foregone conclusion, we were bunking, we were gonna be bunk buddies (laughing). - And were you the, you were the top bunk, no, I was the top bunk - I was the bottom bunk man, yeah, a big man like me.

can't fall off of that thing. I'd break every bone in my body. - And we had a "Pulp Fiction" poster. and a poster of Richard Nixon shaking hands with Elvis. - [Rhett] Iconic kinda stuff here. - And it looks like, in this photo, I had just given blood, or actually I had just given plasma, 'cause that's how I made money in college, I'm not ashamed to admit it. So yeah, and we went back, this is a special place in our lives. so much to the point that years later, I'd say this might have been. six years after we graduated,

we found ourselves back on the campus of NC State. and we went back to our dorm room, knocked on the door, and. the two guys who were roommates, answered the door. and we were like- - "Hey, we used to live here, can we come in?". - And they were like- - You could tell, you could look on their face and you could tell. this has not happened before. - No. - Who are these dudes? And we came in there. and we kinda- - We went in. - Stood in the middle of the room. and kinda looked around, "It's different you guys." - "You did some good stuff.". - "I like what you've done here, man.". - Yeah.

- "Well, you're not bunking, huh, you must not be too good of friends.". - And we had, remember on the inside of the closet. we had written a message. - Yeah. - It was kinda like a time capsule. - Yep. - We had written a message, Rhett and Link's dorm room, 1996 through 1998. - This place will never be the same, type thing. - Yeah. - It was very dramatic and they painted over it, somebody painted over it, it was gone. - Yeah. We went in there and, we asked the guys, we were like, "Did you paint the inside of your,". and they were like, "No, no, no, no.".

And I was pretty, I was pretty disappointed. - And I'd say. one of the best aspects of this dorm room, and you can go to this place on NC State's campus, first floor of Syme dorm, and see this, is that the window opened up underneath the stairs. to the front of the building, 'cause we're actually in the basement, technically, 'cause it was higher on one side. So, there was no sunlight that got into our room, but what we had done is we would open that window up. and we had got camping chairs and we'd put 'em out there. and we would sit under the stairs. and just hang out with friends,

the two of us and other people from the dorm, and across campus. So when we went back to meet these guys, we were like, "So you guys like hanging out. up under the stairs?". And they were like- - "No.". - What you- - "The window opens?". - They had never thought that they should go. under the stairs. - Well, it's pretty- - To hang out. - Pretty dirty and nasty under there. - But it's awesome. - But it's also like being a bat, I mean there was zero sunlight that came in, so I remember it would be the middle of the day. and we could be sleeping, it was a perfect scenario for college.

'cause you could sleep. But I think I started to become like a bat, in order to see my way around the dorm room, I would emit sonar, did I tell you this? - I don't recall this. - Boop-ba-boo-ba-boo. It would come back at me and I would know. how far you were away or- - I'm not buying this. - Even if you were sleeping. - I think. you're making this up. - It was dark in there, and then you went back- - I went back years later, this is just a few years ago, I went back with my son, Locke, and we walked around campus. and it's like, "Son, we're gonna go to the dorm room. that I used to live in.". "We are gonna say, hey, to the people who live in there.".

That's how I talk to my son. 'cause I want him to grow up and be a man. So I said, "Let's go in there, we're not even gonna ask permission.". So we went in there, knocked on the door, no answer. Then I started looking and I'm like, the door looks different and everything, it's no longer a dorm room, it's like a storage facility. They have deemed the room unfit for habitation. because of something to do with the lack of sunlight, they think the kids aren't getting. enough Vitamin D. - Vitamin D deficient. - And they're all gonna be depressed.

- Someone may have died. - Well, it's the best room on NC State's campus. and it's no longer a dorm room, unless they've reversed the policy, it's a sad day. - Maybe we can go back there. and be squatters. - Really? - Yeah. - This time I get the top bunk. - All right, that puts a button on it. (laughing). Leave a comment and let us know. what you aspire to do, or did, with your dorm room. (light energetic music). Here we go, oh, Link knows something,

Rhett doesn't, well, how do I narrow it down? Rhett. - Huh? - I know something you don't. - Okay, what is it? - Something, something you don't, if I told you you'd know it. - What does it pertain to? - Secret knowledge. - Secret knowledge of what? - See, you're trying to get it out of me, you're trying to get the leg up.

You can't handle it, can you, me knowing something you don't? - Are you emitting sonar right now? - IGS, dang it. Now I know nothing you don't. (upbeat energetic music). ♪ Ahhhhhhhh. ♪.