What happens when 28,000 rubber duckies are set free in the ocean? Let’s talk about that. ♪ (theme music) ♪ – Good Mythical Morning! – Over three-quarters of the earth’s… …surface is covered with ocean, and you can just image all the things that are out there floatin’ in it. But sometimes you don’t have to imagine, because those things magically wash up onto our shores. They come to you. Now, I have never taken a barefoot stroll and stumbled upon — or over — any of these things, because these are the strangest things ever to wash up on the shore. Hit ’em with it. Let’s start up with some rubber duckies. 1992: a cargo ship leaving Hong Kong headed for the U.S. accidentally dropped 28,000 rubber duckies into the Pacific… – …Ocean. – That is a bunch o’ duck. – And they all had sunglasses. – (Link) Okay, that’s good. (Rhett) That’s important! Because Americans love rubber duckies with sunglasses. We don’t like ’em if they don’t have sunglasses, because they’re… – …not cool enough. – Gotta keep it cool. Over the next 15 years, these rubber duckies were spotted all over the world. (Rhett) Now, we’re talking about Hawaii, Alaska, South America, Scotland. Even some rubber duckies frozen in arctic ice. – Dang! They get around, man. – Yeah. They do. – I didn’t know they were migratory birds. – Oh. – (mocking Rhett) “Oh!” – Well, you know what it is? They’re not propelling themselves, Link. They’re actually being moved by the… – …ocean currents. And, incidentally… – They’re sailors. …it taught us a lot about ocean currents. Well, us… – Personally. – …not me, personally, but us. – Like, it was a wake-up call for us… – Science people. – …when we heard about this. – Scientists learned a lot about… …ocean currents and how long it takes things to go places. And 2,000 of ’em are still out there rotating in a circle in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch… – …that huge trash patch out there. – Eugh! Thank you very much, people of the world. – Recycle, guys. – Please do. Forget 28,000 rubber duckies when you can have one eight-foot-tall Lego man. I don’t think that’s standard issue. I’ve been to the Lego store. – I’ve never seen that. – No. In 2007, a giant eight-foot-tall… …Lego man washed up on the shores of Zandvoort, Netherlands. – (Rhett) Oh, Zandvoort. – (Link) Look at this picture! (Link) I mean, this thing is huge! Since then, six more have washed up on shores all around the world, from England, including Florida… – …and Japan. – Have people reported these guys missing? – What’s going on? – (stammering) I thought Legoland might… …have been hit with a tidal wave or something. – That’s possibility. – But no, that is not what happened. What happened was it’s an art installation: a floating art installation from Ego Leonard. As you can see on the t-shirt, it says, “no real… – …than you are.” – Mm. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. (stammering) I don’t know. I think there’s a word missing. Did he not consult an English speaker before he made the t-shirt? – Because it’s a great idea. – It’s cool. Of course, setting eight-foot Lego men into the ocean to just potentially run into boats and be eaten by whales: great idea. But the part with the “no real than you are;” that’s the part I’m really questioning. Well, listen. This is what he said. He said, “You can find meaning in in the text ‘no real than you are’ by asking yourself, ‘is your presence in… – …this life as real as I am in yours?’” – Oh, okay. I get it. I have no further… – …questions. – ♪ (Ocean pollution is awesome) ♪ – Oh. Oh, Lego. – That was my… Lego Movie take. August 2007: a girl is walking — this is the beginning of a book. – (deep voice) A girl. – A girl is walking along the beach… …of Jedediah Island in British Columbia and she picks up a size-12 Adidas shoe. – Score! Free shoe! But wait, there’s more. – In the shoe? There’s actually a man’s foot — a human foot — inside of the shoe. And you may be like, “Well, what are the chances?” Well, the chances apparently are pretty high in the Pacific northwest, because 2007, a shoe with a foot in it has been found almost every year. And a total of 16 shoes with feet — with feet! — have been found. Now, a couple of things to note:… – Gross! – …most of them are runners. – Running shoes. And New Balance is the… – Okay. …most well represented brand. So we’re talking New Balance running shoes with… – …feet in them. Link, any theories? – Okay, um… Ironically, New Balance wearers are losing their balance while carrying knives, falling, chopping off their foot, and then just saying, “Oh, just throw… – …it in the ocean.” – You’re right! – That’s exactly what’s happening! – (laughing) No, actually, sadly, they have been able to trace these feet back to people. And almost all of these people were dealing with mental issues and probably… – …threw themselves off bridges. – After chopping their foot off? No. And what happens is once they fall into ocean, over time, the appendages come apart. And the feet eventually disarticulate. And they float because of the shoe, and the sock and the shoe protect the foot. – That’s the gory, scientific truth. – Fromt being eaten. – Ohhh. You know what? – Sorry. Sorry I mentioned that. – Let’s move away from — – You know what? What Link said. – That’s what happened. – And let’s move away from goryness… – …with this next one. – Okay. 2012, Gino Covacci was taking his morning barefoot stroll on Pompano Beach, Florida, when he noticed something weird in the sand: a huge eyeball… – …as big as a softball. – That’s fake. – Look at — no! – That’s from the Lego man. It is not fake. It is not from the Lego man. He walks up to it, and he does what any normal man named Gino would do. He kicks it. (laughing) He thought it was a soccer ball? I think he was making sure it wasn’t alive. I mean… – Okay. – …it’s pretty scary. And then he did… …the next thing that any man named Gino would do. He threw it in a plastic bag… – …took it home, and put it in his fridge. – To eat later? Was it like one… …big meatball? I’m trying to do the Gino thing. I don’t know what… – Desparate times. And he’s always… – We need some pasta. …carrying around plastic bags? I don;t know. He called the Florida Fish and… – …Wildlife Conservation Commission… – That’s a smart move. …so he has just conserving it. He posted it on the internet. The Internet goes… …crazy conjecturing about what this this is. So do you think it is the eye of a giant squid, a humongous sea turtle, or the remains of Mike Wazowski… – (laughing) I think he’s not dead. – …from Monsters, Inc.? – His legs and arms fell off. – He’s not dead. If he were dead, then I would think this is definitely Mike Wazowski. – What’s your guess? – Uh… a turtle’s eyes aren’t that big. It looks like a squid eye. I would say that it’s a squid eye. – Nope. Just a swordfish. – Oh. That’s so unin– I was expecting… – …some sort of monster. – Swordfish got big eyes. – Swordfish got REAL big eyes. – Swordfish got REAL big eyes. – Who would’ve thought? Swordfish eyes big. – They should be embarrassed. – They should, like, keep their eyes… …closed at all times and just sword around. They can’t. They don’t even have eyelids, Link. They can’t hide that — they’ve got that big, ol’ eye and they can’t even hide it. – They do have eyelids. – July 2008, Montauk, New York. Jenna Hewitt and three of her friends find something on the beach that would become an Internet sensation, and you probably have seen pictures of this. – (Link) Eugh! – (Rhett) Yes, this is the Montauk Monster. Now, there’s a lot of speculation as to what this might be, because it doesn’t look like any animal that anyone had ever seen. – Well, first of all, he looks so peaceful. – Well, ’cause he’s dead. – Don’t wake him. – He’s not sleeping, Link. I’m sorry to say that is a dead Montauk Monster. Now, this thing based up near Plum Island, which is home to an animal disease center. So there were all kinds of conspiracy theories about what might have happened, like a military experiment gone wrong. This thing actually made appearances — not like personally showed up and sat on a couch — but was featured on… – …Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura… – “Hello.” – …and Ancient Aliens. – Is it an ancient alien? It couldn’t be studied, because according to Jenna, the girl who… …found it, “some guy took it and put it in the woods in his backyard.” That’s a quote from Jenna. And she would not say who that guy is or where his… – …woods are. So I don’t know where… – Like in a bird fountain? …the thing ended up. So scientists, using only this picture, actually have been able to come to a pretty interesting conclusion about what it actually is. Turns out that it’s the blue guy from Thundercats. – (Rhett laughing) Look, look! – (Link laughing) He does look like it. (Rhett) That is uncanny! I’m sorry to say that’s not true. It’s probably… – …just a hairless raccoon. – (laughing) All right… – Disappointing. – …let’s stick with hairless. January 2012. The coast guard at Old Portsmouth, England got a phone call. – A large, wrinkly body washed… – Eugh! Masty! …up on shore. They do check this out, and it is not human. – Oh. Oh wow! – It’s alien. Okay, it was a custom-made, life-size replica of E.T., which is technically… – …an alien. – Technically. And wrinkly. – Definitely wrinkly. – Now, four months prior, this E.T…. …had been stolen from its home. it had been living with Margaret Wells. Here’s the picture of the two of them The E.T. is the one on the left. – (Rhett) Oh, yeah! They get along great. – I don’t know… why she would have this. (stammering) The bigger question is why would you discard this? – I mean, this is… (clears throat) – No, it was stolen. It was stolen… …from her house, along with jewelry and an iron. If it was stolen, if you stole this thing, why would you keep the iron and… – …throw this thing away? – Oh. (laughing) Did they take it on a cruise or something and got bored of it? (raspy voice) “Oh, get rid of the wrinkly feller. Throw him overboard.” – Oh, it’s pirate cruise. – “Keep the iron. Throw over the… – …wrinkly feller.” – Those are my favorite cruises. “Walk the plank.” She is quoted as saying, once the police returned E.T. to her, (high voice) “I always knew E.T. would come home.” – (laughing) – “He’s lost a finger, and looks a bit… …roughed up, but he has a smile on his face!” Uh, that doesn’t look like a smile to me. It looks like he was kind of traumatized… – …by the whole thing. – Good point. – He’s still dealing with it. – All right, leave a comment. Let us know what’s wash-wash- wash-washed up on your shores. – (through laughter) Wow. – (laughing) – You know what time it is. – I’m Tim. – And I’m Ali. – And I’m Chris. And we’re docked… – …off the coast of Catalina. – (all) And it’s time to spin… – …The Wheel of Mythically. – T-shirts we sell at… …rhettanlink.com/store are guaranteed to wash up on the beach… – Ooooh! – …if you put them in the ocean. Shirt overboard! Click through to Good Mythical more. We’re gonna play a video game. It’s the sensational, paint-blood-spilling game… – Oh, gosh. – …Nidhogg. – (Rhett) “Rhett & Link wear the same… – Jousting. – …dress to prom.” – Ah! You look fabulous. How am I gonna get in there with you? (crew offscreen laughing) – Well, you start from the bottom. – (crew offscreen laughing) – I don’t mean it like that. – (crew offscreen laughing) – Like Drake or somethin’? – No you gotta just… …stick your head in there. Join me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now lemme see if I can… – Mmkay? – …lemme see if I can… …lemme see if I can button it. This is gonna be awkward when Joey comes back. [Captioned by Kevin: GMM Captioning Team]