(rooster crows) (roaring) (thud) (wheel clicking) – Welcome to Good Mythical More. – Oh! – We’re hangin’ out with Chuck, we’re gonna talk taxidermy. – First, we’re gonna check our voicemail. We got one, let’s check it out. (croaking) (thud) Yeah, okay, yeah. (laughing) – Was that Digger breathin’ into the? (laughing) – Digger called ahead. – That’s it, that was Digger’s voicemail. – Digger’s quiet now. – Yeah, what’d you know about– – Well, just give him time. (laughing) Just give him, now, so you’re sayin’ that when we worked together back in 2011, I think it was. And we made your commercial, Digger was three years old. – Right. – Okay, so he’s at least 12 now. – Three and nine is, yeah. – Twelve. – Okay. (laughing) – Look at him. – Might even be older, I don’t know. – He’s an old man. – Man, what, Chuck, I’m so glad to have you here. – Oh, I mean, I can’t believe it, man. – All right, so we’re gonna play this game where they’re gonna show a picture of an animal and– – No, we’re gonna read about a taxidermy situation, right? – Oh, okay. – And then we have to guess if it’s real or nope! – Nope. (laughing) – Nope, nope means fake. – Nope. – In this scenario. – This is basically an excuse for you to say nope a whole lot. – And we’ll count down. We’re competing, so we can say nope too. – Nope, yeah, you guys taught me. – And then we’ll do hand signals. – Every word I know. Or one of ’em. – So this is, this is nope. – Nope. – And this is real. – Okay. – Nope. – A weightlifting frog pulling off a competitive clean and jerk with impeccable form in tiny blue shorts. So a frog doing a weightlifting maneuver. – And you’re the expert here. So– – Don’t give him any clues. – You probably shouldn’t tell us if that’s possible or anything. Maybe we should vote first and then he votes. – [Stevie] Do you wanna three, two, one? – Let’s just three, two, one it. – Okay, all right. – [Stevie] ‘Kay, here we go, three, two, one. – Real! – I think so. Oh, you think real? Why you think real? – Oh, it could be, with all the– (laughing) – Because it could be. – It could be, it could be real. – No, it’s an interpretive taxidermy now. – [Stevie] You are all correct. – And they’re doing all kinds of stuff. – There it is! – Yes! – [Chuck] I knew it, see? – Now– – That’s pretty awesome. – I’m not gonna ask if you could do that because I know you could, but would you do that? – No. (croaks) (laughing) – Thank you. – Digger said, yeah, we don’t do that. – I can’t, oh, there you go. – Nope, that’s right, I forgot, sorry. – Yeah– – One, he gave me one line, one word. (laughing) One word, and I can’t do it. – We, all right, let’s see one more and then I’ll tell you a story. – A stressed out mouse cleaning up beach litter in the midst of an existential crisis about the unlikeliness of current leadership taking effective action against the mounting climate crisis. (laughing) – Oh geez, why you have to give me that one? – You might have read a lot into this, whoever wrote this. – A mouse cleaning up trash, but there’s more of a meaning here. – Okay, I’ve got my answer. – You ready to vote? – [Stevie] Three, two, one– – Nope! – Nope! – [Stevie] It is real. – (laughs) And look at it, he’s, look at Chuck, he knew it! – [Link] So that’s a, Chuck, is that a real mouse, you think? – Yeah, I do. I told you, times are changin’. (laughing) – So what, what would somebody charge for a mouse mount like that? – Well, you couldn’t pay me enough. (laughing) – Do you, now– – But my apprentice, honest to God, they’re like, they’re only chargin’ like 150 bucks. – You don’t dabble in that crap. – Oh no. – I caught a rat in my attic, man. I should’ve sent it your way. (laughing) To send you a message! – Oh, aw. (laughs) – Well, the message would be please turn this into something cool. (laughs) So, I mean, you ask us to say that you do not taxidermize pets, that’s the end of your commercial, that’s like the– – Right. – Is that still true or have you opened up? – No, I haven’t, but I have an apprentice, Shay. – Yeah? – And she’s awesome and she would probably do it. – She would do it? She doesn’t, she doesn’t have the same standards you do? – It’s not about a standard, I guess it’s a, is that a standard? (laughing) It’s just a thing with me ’cause– – Well, you told us the story about the couple that you did, you did a couple of pets. – Yeah. – And you can’t make the pet look like the dog or the lifelike dog. – It’s kinda like painting a portrait of your child. – And so, people came and they saw it and they were upset and you were like, I’m not doing this anymore. – Yeah, nah, they were crying and all of that. – But you’ve done a great job with his animatronic dog. (laughing) – He’s very animatronic, but times are different now and there’s, you know, but no, it doesn’t bother her at all. – I got another one. We have a really close friend, Mike, who we were just having, like a few months back, we were havin’ a conversation and I happened to mention like when we worked together to make your commercial, and his jaw dropped. We had known Mike for a couple of years. And he just could not believe that we made your commercial. – Well, why not? – ‘Cause he knew us well. – Yeah. – Oh. – And he thought that commercial was pretty great. – It is pretty great. – He, at the time– – If I do say so yourselfs. (croaks) (laughing) – We made a good team, man. – I did, it was awesome. – Yeah, he’s still our friend because of that and only because of that, I think. – Pretty much. – A small rabbit doing double dutch, frozen mid-hop while two mice in backwards baseball hats hold the jump ropes on either side. – Oh, that would be awesome, first of all. – [Stevie] You ready to guess? – Yeah. – Three, two, one. – Oh, that’s a tough one. – Nope! – Nope! – [Stevie] It is fake. – Aw! – I wanted that, I wanted it to be real. – I have seen, but see, I have seen so many things. – Yep, you’ve seen it all, Chuck. – Yeah, I have, I’ve seen mice doing stuff I, you can’t forget. (croaks) (laughing) – Like, just in real life. – No, I mean, permanently. – Permanently. Oh wow. – Hold on, have you seen mice fornicating in a taxidermy? – That’s now what I’m, well– – If they were married. (laughing) – I don’t know what it was, but it was wrong. (laughing) – Fornicating. – Has anybody ever asked you to mount an animal who was mounting another animal? (laughs) – Yes, yeah, sadly, yes. – Really? – Yes. – It kind of, it kinda writes itself. – It does! And you said– – Nope. (laughing) – See, he’s got it. – Yeah, that’s right. Ready for that one. The body of a pigeon, head of a rabbit, hereby declared a pabbit, with an alignment of chaotic neutral. – What’s chaotic neutral? – That’s like a D&D thing. And what I’ve learned about these things, it’s a disposition. I think it’s what I am. (laughing) – I’m just chaotic. – No, I’m, what is chaotic not neutral? – Who are you lookin’ at? Who you think– – I’m chaotic evil. – We’re both lookin’ that way for whatever reason. – I’ll look this way. (laughing) – You look that way. – Body of a pigeon, head of a rabbit, hereby declared a pabbit. – It could be, man. – Digger, what do you think? – Are you ready? Are you ready to vote? – You wanna guess? – I’m gonna just keep goin’ with it. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Real. – Yes. – [Stevie] It is real. – Yeah, let’s see it. – Let’s see it! Oh, wow, look at that. Would you do that? – [Chuck] Nope. (laughing) – Because it’s unnatural? – Yeah. It looks like they took a already mounted pigeon and stuck the rabbit head ’cause the feet are like this. – It actually looks like Photoshop. – Could be. – Now, you would draw the line there, not between the rabbit and the pigeon but you would not do this because– – Okay, here’s where it gets tricky too, but you guys aren’t in the business. To me, it’s, it’s just not what we do, you know? I feel like there’s a place for this and there’s lots of people that like to do it now, that’s why they call it interpretive or some call it rogue taxidermy. – Rogue. – Rogue taxidermy. – Oh yeah, but for me, it’s not for me. My job is to try to make ’em the most lifelike dead animals anywhere. (clapping) – That’s right! – Yeah, it is! – Period. – And that never, that never had a life. – Period! – Like, it was never a pabbit in the wild. – The most lifelike, yeah, see, and that’s why– – That’s a good line. – That’s why we crafted your commercial around you as a person, man, it represents you! – Most lifelike dead animals anywhere. – That was amazing. – People still contacting you about that thing? – I can, you know what? Every day I get at least two calls still. – What? (laughing) Seriously? – Nine years. – Nine years later, every day, you get at least two calls? Just for what? Just to talk? – Definitely, you know what? And I saved like a whole bunch ’cause I was gonna have my buddy, we were gonna do a video again like all the ones and then somehow they all got erased, but, it was gonna say, (laughs) they got a whale I want stuffed or you know, this or that or all kinds of things. – Oh, you’re talkin’ about prank calls. – Prank calls, yeah. – Oh. – Oh, so, we’re so sorry. – Oh, what, no, it’s fun! – We’re just wastin’ your time. – Or I’m your hero. – That’s cool. – No, it’s cool, or I love you, Chuck Testa, which is always nice, well, depending. – We also made a video where Chuck Testa came to like our first studio in your backyard. He dressed up like Santa Claus and like, all of our kids like told him what they wanted for Christmas, and my kids watch that all the time. Not just at Christmastime. – It’s their favorite video we’ve ever made. – Yeah, it’s pretty great. Just search Chuck Testa Claus. – And I look out here now and I remember when you had one camera guy. – Yeah. – Back in the day. – Yeah. – And now look at ya. Here you sit with me still. (laughing) – Yeah, full circle. – Full circle. – Hit us with another one. – A mouse who is dressed exactly like 2019 Joaquin Phoenix version of the Joker, complete with a haunting aura. Or aura or aura? – Of male rage. – Of male rage. – Ooh. (laughing) – Another mouse. See, that makes me think– – You can do a lot with a mouse. – Okay, let’s go, three, two, one. – Nope! – Yes. I know, I think this is something that people want. – Then I’m probably wrong on this one. – [Stevie] It’s real. – Aw, see! – Yes! Oh, wow, oh gosh! – I knew it. (laughing) I called it wrong, I just went with the nope because– – It’s fun to say. – I don’t see the aura, that’s just hair. – I see it, no, that’s pretty freaky. – Kinda looks like hilarious to me. – What are those eyeballs made out of it, if you’re doing? – Well, one, well, I can’t tell from here, but those could be either heads of black pins or they could just be brown glass eyes. – Brown glass eyes. – I mean, they’re not brown– – But they’re not the original eyes. – Hit us with another one. – Nope. – Okay, so right now, Link, you’ve got the lead. Let’s see if I can catch up. – Well, we can’t do that. – A table of Madagascar hissing cockroaches playing Texas hold ’em poker and the one with the most chips is wearing tiny sunglasses. – All right, here’s– – Ready to guess? – Three, two, one– – Nope. – Real! – [Stevie] It’s fake. (laughs) – Whew. – Oh, thanks. – Oh, actually, okay, two more, real quick. Fancy baby duckling with a big ol’ bow and a tiny little top hat. – Fancy baby duck. – I’ve got a two-headed duckling in my office. – Big ol’ bow. – Yeah, that’s probably– – I mean, a baby anything taxidermized is kinda, it’s a little sadder. – Well, you didn’t kill it, it just died. – I mean. – Most of ’em are stillborn. – Oh really? – Useless, true, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Oh, that’s not useless, that kinda helps me. So now it’s like, all right– – It’s just kinda, it lives a second life. – [Chuck] Mmhmm. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Please, Stevie. – Nope! – [Stevie] It’s real. – Yes! – Yeah! – Oh, look at that, it’s so cute, but sad! But if it’s stillborn, not as sad. But then it’s still kind of sad. – That’s actually not a bad job, too. – Yeah, they did a good job. (laughing) – He’s kinda like leanin’ over. – Well, that’s ’cause he’s whimsical. (laughing) – He’s whimsical. All right, is that? – All right, last one. – Last one, okay. – Simply a squirrel flipping us off while grabbing its nuts. – Okay, that’s real. – Okay. – Oh, this is too good to not be real. – No, I’m not gonna count, though. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Real! – Yes, come on! – [Stevie] It’s real. – Let’s see it! (laughing) That squirrel’s face is different than I thought it would be. – Yeah, that’s– – It looks like if a bulldog mated with a squirrel. That’s kinda what that– – But I don’t wanna critique anybody’s thing, but okay. – Oh, oh. – But it sucks. (laughing) – No, it doesn’t suck. Hey! Oh my God, thank God I won ’cause– – Congratulations, Chuck! – That would’ve been really bad. – Yeah, that would’ve been bad! (clapping) – And the one I didn’t, I should’ve just, mah. – He could’ve had a queen sweep is what he’s sayin’. – I didn’t, yeah, but. – Hey, if you want a Mythical necklace, go over to Mythical.com. 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