(rooster sounds and growling noises) – Welcome to Good Mythical More Let’s learn more about Costco. Shall we? – Shall we. Shall we also play, “Who You Talking About?”, where we read a comment and then we have to guess whether it’s about you or it’s about you. MATTYPEE8 says, “I like that blank looked like a creepy alien man when he was a boy.” That’s gotta be me. – Your eyes were large– – You basically looked exactly the same as you do now when you were a child. – Ya, yes. Just smiling a lot. – Yeah, right. There you go. Yes. – Creepy alien man as a boy. – Yeah. Well what you don’t know, MATTYPEE8 is– (Rhett makes a noise with his mouth) – Okay. – You know how much I just communicated in that one noise? From– On my, on my planet. I basically just wrote a book to that guy by going… (Rhett makes a noise with his mouth) because we’re– our brains are very different, and there’s a lot of things that– – Very concentrated. – We pick up on (mumbles) – You better concentrate your, your stories– – Well, it’s like, there was a lot of things happen in there if you were to slow it down, you’d be able to hear it and there’s different frequencies, and there was the look on my face. So many, there’s so many different points of interest that can communicate things. Humans… Basically what I’m saying is humans are stupid. – [Stevie] I like going to Costco. It’s very entertaining. It’s like when we go to Walmart, we went to Walmart and done and we had to go there multiple times, and then like, there’s like a whole world that we didn’t know about, and it’s just, you know, the cereal aisle was just illuminating and Costco’s like that in many ways. – Everything’s so big, and then you’ve got to, I mean, like it’s a lot of stress for me. I’m picking up, you know, you’re thinking about, do I have the storage space to allocate for this much extra large family size cereal– – [Stevie] Oh ya no. I’m talking about like vacation Costco, not like– – Oh. – [Stevie] real life Costco, like going home to North Carolina, Costco where you, you’re not there to, to purchase fair life, you’re there for entertainment, you know. – You’re not actually buying anything. – You’re there for the free samples. – [Stevie] I mean, your parents are, are buying things. I’m specifically only talking about myself. – Alright, give it, give us a, give us a trivia here. – [Stevie] Okay, here’s a scandal – A scandal? – [Stevie] Yeah. It’s like a, it’s like a Costco scandal. Is is real or fake? – It’s the real or fake scandal, man. That’s what I said bro. – Oh – [Stevie] A Cincinnati area family was surprised to find that the punching bag they bought from Costco wasn’t filled with sand, but was instead stuffed full of dirty thongs, bathing suits, bras and underwear. This incident was a result of an unknown manufacturing error. And the perturbed customers said the inside of the punching bag stunk to high heaven. – Dirty thongs? – How does dirty manufacturing lead to dirty thongs? And if I could know the answer to that, that would be life changing. – I know where I want to work. I mean, you’re working in a place where, what you do all day is you stuff stuffing into punching bags and then you throw a party and you’re like, “Hey, “I’m throwing a party! I got the work keys and bring you dirty thong or get your thong dirty.” – That’s not a manufacturing issue. That’s like a, I don’t know what it is, but it sounds like a good time. – No, it’s not. Yeah, it’s– – That did not happen– – It’s a party of the plant – That did not happen. Not as much as I wish he did it. – I, I hope it did– – And first of all– – Yeah, there’s no way– – When are you gonna open up your punching bag. – [Stevie] Well, if you’re punching it and you’re like, “Oh, that feels like a dirty thong.” – Yeah, exactly. I think this has been exposed. – [Stevie] It was real. – No! – [Stevie] Yeah! I don’t know. I mean that, that excuse is certainly not real, but it was real. – Huh. I would’ve, I would’ve enjoyed to be a fly on the wall at that party. – Hmm. – A Costco in Fort Worth, Texas had to recall all of the ice cream from their shelves after dozens of customers reported getting home only to find their courts of ice cream already had perfectly– – Dirty thongs! – [Stevie] perfect scoops of ice cream missing. I did the quotes with my fingers and then I realized you can’t see me. Costco was never able to determine who the mysterious, precise scooper was– – Scooper? – [Stevie] but per the last scandal it was probably a manufacturing error. – Right. A little scooper got in there and got into, I mean– – A snooper and scooper. – You have to be, I mean, first of all, Costco is open 24 hours. Right? Or is it not? – [Stevie] I don’t think so. – They closed it just long enough that someone to get in and snoop and scoop. – [Stevie] I’m never there really late with my parents. So, I don’t know. – I believe that this happened because it was one of those “24 hours in Costco” things. – Oh. – But it was 24 hours of Costco and I’m scooping. – It’s so tempting when you’re working with, with ice cream, you can just pop that… I mean, there’s thing is there’s, there’s tamper proof seals– – Oh, now you’re think about too much – Okay, that’s why I’m going to say it’s fake. – It probably is– – Tamper proof seals– – I’m staying with my answer– – no one would– – [Stevie] it is… fake. And I would have said it’s fake because that first scoop is always really hard to get when it’s like super frozen. So you have to take it out and wait a second. – Right. – Well– – It’s not something you can just– – It depends on your scooping technique. – Yeah. And the tamper proof seals. Always look for the tamper proof seal Do you do that? You think about that? – Uh. – You think about it when it’s there, but if it’s not there, do you realize it? This is– – I saw an interest, I saw a shower thought… on the Reddit. And even though I’m trying not to go to Reddit since we played games with Reddit, but it just happens to be one of the feeds up I’m on– – Sure. – And the guy said, “we will return… like we will meticulously check our peanut butter and jelly to make sure that it’s got tamper proof seal, but yet we trust bread that just has a little it’s twisted and has a piece of plastic on it.” Like that’s a good point. Why is bread not sealed better? Or why is peanut butter not sealed as well? – Yeah. And, and you can probably trace it all back, the tamper proof seals trace it all back to just one jerk who did something very selfish and heinous who poisoned a bunch of people– – Well, there was a guy who did poison a bunch of people with, through like medicine or something like that in the 80s or 90s. That was one of the things that started it. – So you want the twisty ties on the bread– – To be up. – to then have like a wax seal placed on the, on the end of the twisty top. – [Stevie] Or like a pin. You have to enter a pin. – Yeah. – [Stevie] A bread pin. – Yeah. Where’s your bread pin. – I don’t know. It changes every loaf. – Quick reminder– – [Stevie] I’m not a robot. – Check out our Mythical Society. If you haven’t already, we want you to do that. It gives you unparalleled access to all things mythical and then exclusive series, like our React Series, our Carpool Series– – and it’s tamper proof for your protection– – quarterly physical item collectibles shipped to you in the third degree. Check it out for free by signing up as an initiate, and then downloading the mobile app for iOS or Android. – But every time you close that and make sure that you twist it and put the thing back on the plastic, cause we will not accept that if you just take it and fold it under the bread and put it back in the drawer. – [Stevie] In 2013, Costco came under fire when the jewelry company, Tiffany and Co., filed a lawsuit because Costco was selling rings labeled as “Tiffany rings”, despite Costco having no affiliation or deal with the brand. Costco was found guilty of trademark infringement and counterfeiting and had to pay over $19 million in fines – What year? – [Stevie] 2013. – 2013? Costco’s do playing this kind of game? I mean, they are messing with dirty thongs though. – Well, we know they… We know they have a ring because they have $420,000 ring on this, on the site. – But this could be the kind of thing that whoever wrote this particular one, if it is fake, was inspired by the fact that they do sell jewelry at Costco. – I think that it’s just an honest mistake. A Tiffany ring might just be like, Oh, this is, you know what, – Oh! Tiffany’s a brand? – You picture a certain type of– – I thought she was a person! I just thought it was a girl. I just thought it was, this would look great on Tiffany– – Kinda like Bikram yoga. – [Stevie] So you’re saying even if this was real, that you personally forgive Costco for doing this. – Yes. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think it’s fake real. – Real. – [Stevie] It’s real. – Alright, I wish I’d could’ve channeled some of this win energy into the putt-putt earlier. – [Stevie] In 2018, Costco caused a massive uproar when they announced that they’d be retiring their Polish hotdog. Customers were not happy, especially when it was replaced with an acai bowl amongst other things. – No, that didn’t happen because they still got, they still got them big hotdogs. They know that they know their audience. – Acai! – [Stevie] No, they did it. They did do this. And, and, and apparently it was a massive and all caps uproar, according to my– – Yeah! – [Stevie] voiceover, yeah. – You can’t take away the dog. You can add acai– – and people love the pizza. What are they trying to get rid of the pizza next? – [Stevie] How many bananas are in a Costco acai bowl? I’m just kidding. I don’t know. I don’t know. – Less than one. – [Stevie] I’m actually very– – Seven. I bet there was seven. – [Stevie] I would like to have an acai bowl from Costco. Send it my way. – You know what– – Caddie! – Caddie! Get the acai! You know what, you know what I’ve been doing lately. I suggest anybody with bananas to do this. In my house, sometimes they’ll buy too many bananas right? Or we won’t get to them fast enough and they’ll start to get brown. Now I’ll eat a brown banana, but my kids won’t, you know, these, these generation, whatever it is. And so what I’ll do is I’ll take the brown spotty bananas. I slice them, put them in a bag and freeze them and then put them into smoothies. And it’s whew. It is perfect in a smoothie to have a ripe, ripen banana, because it’s not the same negative experience. Don’t throw away your brown bananas, freeze them. You can, but you can add them to recipes for all of your banana things that you make, or, oh, banana bread! You can do a banana bread, but also your smoothies. Anybody else do that already? – [Stevie] Yeah, but we or Cassie wraps the bananas in parchment paper and then puts them in a freezer bag and then puts them in the fridge. And then when I, I mean in the freezer, and then by the time I see them, it looks like a very scary and mysterious “that’s not supposed to be there” type of situation– – She leaves the peel on? – [Stevie] No! No, no, no. – Well then what does she do with them? – [Stevie] We don’t really do anything with them, but– – parchment paper? She turned it into a tamale or something? – [Stevie] She’s making frozen banana tamales. – Well, they’re not frozen. They’re in the fridge. – [Stevie] No, no freezer. I misspoke freezer, freezer. – I do this with all rotten fruit now. – rotten fruit? – Like just the other day– – Ripe fruit. – Jessie got too many peaches. It can happen. And, and it’s like, I’m pulling them out of the bowl And I’m like these two on the bottom, my wife we’re coming here and she would see this nasty, juicy spot on these peaches. And she would throw the whole thing away, generation, whatever she is. And I’m like, no, no, no, no. We cut these up and we freeze them. And daddy puts them into smoothies. – [Stevie] Well, be careful because– – E coli. – [Stevie] Yeah, but also I commend your, you know, campaign to save bad fruit. – Save bad fruit– – Yeah because it’s not actually bad. – Yeah. Especially when it goes into a smoothie, you have no idea. And I cut the nasty part off, but the whole rest of the peach. – Oh sure. – That’s part of your smoothie. – [Stevie] A North Dakota Costco found itself in the headlines after one of its employees decided to play the 1995 blockbuster hit Show Girls across every single flat screen TV at the same time, the employee was promptly fired and Costco had no choice, but to issue a public apology. – Is the boobaloobaloobies? – Yeah. Elizabeth Hurley’s… no what? Elizabeth what’s her name? – Elizabeth Harlalalalalarbies? – What’s the girl? What’s the one? What’s her name? – Elizabeth– – from Saved by the Bell. – Olsen. – [Stevie] Oh. Yep. I know– – Who was the star of that? – [Stevie] Berkeley. – Berkeley – [Stevie] Thank you Matt Carney. – I’m definitely, I’m definitely feeling like this happened. – Man, at this point. I agree with you, but I’m so far behind that I have to make bad guesses– – This is somebody who was on their way out, this is, this is their resignation– – Didn’t happen. – [Stevie] Sounds super plausible, but it did not happen. (Rhett cheering) – Didn’t happen she says. – [Stevie] Or maybe it did happen, but we just don’t know because they never apologized for it. But I don’t think it happened. – Right. That’s an important note. If you don’t apologize, no one will ever know. – [Stevie] The California pastor found all of the Bibles in his local Costco labeled with sales stickers that categorize them as fiction. The pastor tweeted a photo of the Bible, which caused quite the uproar amongst his congregation. – That definitely happened. – But he was wearing shorts and flip flops the whole time. – Right, right, right, right. – He’s that kind of pastor, man. – And he’s got a Twitter account where he rants about things – And he thought it was funny, but then everybody came after him. – No, he did not think it was funny. He thought it was the opposite of funny. – Oh. – Does my making up things that I felt something I know nothing about– – cost no. – I think it happened. – It didn’t happen. – [Stevie] It happened. – It happened? – [Stevie] I don’t know. – So he posted it.– – [Stevie] What his opinion of the tweet was, but I can only imagine that his anger– – He might’ve been thinking, “Hey, this is, you know, this is some, this is some good humor” but then other people got it. – I don’t believe, I think– – You have no way of really knowing, don’t– – [Stevie] Well, it’s weird because when Jessie buys too many bibles you put them in the freezer too. – 90% chance that he thought it was a conspiracy from the top. Now there’s a 10% chance he thought it was funny. – [Stevie] Costco was in deep doodoo… bird doodoo to be exact, when an exposé came out, showing the horrible conditions, their chickens lived in. These conditions were deemed so inhumane that even Brad Pitt got involved asking Costco to switch to cage free policies. And they did. – Okay. The power of the Pitt. – Now this has happened on like a large scale with a lot of corporations. – Yeah. – But is it specifically a Costco thing? Maybe? – I just don’t think I don’t– – It’s happened with fast food restaurants– – would be glad to be associated with this, but I just don’t… I just don’t think Brad Pitt has ever uttered the word Costco. – He probably doesn’t know what exists is that what you’re saying? – He just has never said it. – [Stevie] You know what they say, “you mess with the chicken, you get the Pitt” because this is totally real. – Oh. But I bet he liked danced around actually singing Costco was like, you know, the big box store in bulk that shall not be named kind of thing. – What’s the score now? I feel like I’ve made a little comeback here. I don’t see it. – [Stevie] Score is tied. – Oh! – [Stevie] Two to two. Oh wait, no, it’s updating. It’s three to two. Rhett is winning. – Whoa. – I just got two in a row. That’s all that happened. – Coming back, Jack! – Alright, alright, – [Stevie] You ever had a Costco rotisserie chicken? – Um, no. – Well, we don’t have a Costco membership. We should though. – [Stevie] I don’t either! But you go home to North Carolina. – They got a rotisserie– – My parents don’t have a membership either. – There’s only two of them. – My mom’s like, “there’s too many things” – [Stevie] They gotta good, they got gotta like a seafood section. You can get like big Dungeness crabs. And they like pop it up in the middle with a, with a dude. Like that’s like surrounded by ice and, and, and seafood. – Pop it up in the middle with a dude? – [Stevie] Yeah. They make it like an event. – Okay fine, we’ll call our parents right after this. They will get Costco membership, post haste. – [Stevie] Well, or Costco could give us a call. We could personally make a paid sponsored visit to Costco. You know what I’m saying? – Oh, that’d be a great video. “Rhett and Link go to Costco.” – [Stevie] I think it would have to be “Rhett, Link and Stevie go to Costco” for it to be the best video. – I think if we get a sponsorship, Link’s going to have to start saying the name of the store correctly. – Costco. – Well, you slip into Costco quite often. – Costco. – Costco. – [Stevie] Okay. This is the last one. And it’s worth six points. – Okay. Winter take off. – [Stevie] In 2005, Costco offered vacation packages to Disney World promising a private breakfast with Mickey. Unfortunately, this was just a very regular and very public breakfast with Mickey, and the term private was used because the package guaranteed a reservation. Children everywhere, and a few middle aged adults in matching t-shirts, were crushed. – Well, that has to be real. – See, I think it has to be real. It’s you’re you’re, you’re boxing me in as, as you, as a winner. Ah, shoot. I have to change it unless, I mean, unless you want to change, I’ll give you a good reason to change it. – Okay. Give me a reason. – Cause you don’t really believe– – Believe in what? – In, in– – Mickey? – In, in, in yeah, in Mickey. In the power of the Magic Kingdom. – I’ll be honest. If you gave me a package to Disneyland and you were like same price breakfast with Mickey or no breakfast with Mickey (Link mumbles) – I’d choose no breakfast with Mickey, but I could see how a lot of people would be excited about that. So I’m sticking with my answer. – Yeah. I think that’s the answer. It’s hard for me to, I’m gonna change it… for the win. – [Stevie] It is… fake! Link Neal you have won… a breakfast with Mickey. – So that was just– – Which is real? – [Stevie] No, I mean, no, ya– – And we get to eat acai bowls and Dungeness crabs? – [Stevie] Dungeness. – Free samples? Dude popping up in the middle? – Did you literally come out of the floor? He comes out of the floor like– – [Stevie] He’s like, they eventize it. It feels special guys. If, when you see the seafood man in the middle of Costco, you’re going to, you are going to feel it. (Outro music begins) – When you see the seafood man, pop fan up, with a Dungeness crab in his hand. – Are you a member of the mythical society? Want an even easier way to dig into content like Behind the Mythicallity and Rhett and Link React? Well, download the new free mobile app now in the Apple and Google play stores.