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Rhett and Link: Parallel

Rhett and Link: Parallel

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pNuPSoUZfg

I think Link is lying, here's an analysis about what was said about the fall (starts around 10:09)

"It took the... from the way my bike was laying afterward, I guess it took a hard left..." Right at the start, he stumbles ("It took the..."), stop, and shift to analyzing the aftermath. If he was fully conscious, he wouln't need to look at how the bike was laying afterward to guess what it did; he would have felt it happen. Saying "I guess" here implies a sudden gap in time between hitting the divot and being in the air.

"...and I'm throwing the shoulder down and I'm doing a roll... And then I... I think my knees hit the ground. Or I think I actually think my knees hit the bike..." He goes from a very vivid description of flying through the air to a sudden cloudiness about the actual impact. He is certain about what he tried to do (the roll, most likely because that's what he did last time), but he's guessing about what his body actually did. If he blacked out the second his shoulder hit the ground, his brain would naturally try to "fill in the blanks" afterward with what makes sense ("I think my knees hit...").

"...and then I like rolled over and I immediately like it was one I had the dead arm." A classic sign of a brief concussion or "getting your bell rung" is waking up already on the ground, disoriented, with a sudden rush of pain. Coming to and immediately realizing your arm doesn't work can feel like a continuous timeline, even if you were out.

Why else was he lying? the phrase "my brain is so quick" as a praise to oneself in the middle of guessing/recounting the events could be self-soothing for "feeling so bad" or varnish to avoid recounting a total tale of shame (a sign of a good liar is to add an element of embarrassment), the mention of the birds and voltures, complete zoom out included in the story makes it so that we're given every single angle (notice all the "characters" he added are speaking) except his own during and briefly after the fall.