(rooster crowing) (creature roaring) – Welcome to “Good Mythical More”. Let’s explore the world of Bass Pro Shops. And there’s a seedy underbelly of nasty stuff that happens. – Yeah there is. But first let’s guess what this word means. Popple. – Popple? – P-O-P-P-L-E, popple. Popple, popple, popple, popple. – Popple is a last name. – You knew a Mr. Popple? – Todd van Poppel, baseball player. – He was very promising. We had his rookie card. – Yeah. I don’t know how I remember his name. So that’s it, a promising rookie that didn’t amount to anything as far as we know, which doesn’t really mean much. – I think it’s like a nodule, like a, like a poppable. – It’s a poppable nodule. – I think as a thing on a plant that the, the meristem, a typical meristem comes out of. – Nope it’s to move in a tumbling, irregular manner, as boiling water. – Oh. – It’s like, if something is roiling. – He’s really poppling off right now. – It’s poppling. That stream is poppling. I better get to fishing. – Yeah. Todd Van Poppel’s early career. Can we look up Todd Van Poppel? – [Stevie] I did, but there’s not really like, so he started for the Oakland Athletics in 1991. And then he went to the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and retired with the New York Mets in 2005. – If he managed his money well. – So he had a 15-year career. So that’s pretty impressive. – He’s doing good. – I think he was the number one pick in ’91. So that was like, it was a really big deal to get that card. – [Stevie] Yes. I believe you are correct. So the 1990 draft. – So how are you, how are you categorizing these Bass Pro Shops stories? – [Stevie] Basically, let me say that we skipped over like the gnarly, like, Bass Pro Shop sells guns stories. These are, these are the entertaining Bass Pro Shop stories. You know what I’m saying? Like, there’s nothing like. – Nobody dies. – No gun play. – [Stevie] Yeah, exactly. So this is a true or false game. – Some of these are made up. – [Stevie] Some of them are made up. – And for that, we say bass no. – [Stevie] Correct. But all of them, boy, do they sound real. You ready for the first one? – [Both] Yeah. – [Stevie] Earlier this year a man was arrested at a Bass Pro Shops location in Bowsher City, Louisiana for jumping into the fish tank because he wanted to go viral on TikTok. – Yeah, of course. – When was this? – [Stevie] Earlier this year. – Yeah. I mean, I’m not gonna make any Louisiana jokes. I don’t have to because that’s just, that would happen anywhere. – One does not simply jump in a Bass Pro Shops aquarium. – For TikTok? Yeah, they do. – They don’t, one does not simply jump in a Bass Pro Shops aquarium, and then jump back out. – And then live to tell about it. – Yeah. Yeah. He’s definitely dead, but this is a, no, you know what? I’m gonna say we’re starting off with something that could have happened, but you made it up. – [Stevie] This is true. Kevin Wise jumped into a fish tank at Bass Pro Shops in Louisiana telling his TikTok followers to help him go viral. In another TikTok he told followers that he lost his job because of the prank. But on the plus side, he did get a lot of views and a criminal record. – Hey, it’s always worth it if you get the views. – [Stevie] I thought it said he did get a lot of wives at first. I misread. – (laughing) Some people do it for the gram, others for the wives. My in-laws, who, I mentioned my father-in-law is still in a Bass Pro Shop somewhere. We haven’t seen him since. – But he’s also a big fisherman. He’s taken you fishing. – He took me fishing many times. There were points when I almost started to like it. And of course, one of those times we were fishing on a bank and it generated the epic but true story of me hooking my own son. – Caught your own son. – On the back of the head. Not realizing, like, I was trying to cast, sorry, trying to cast. – You can see how easily it could’ve happened. – And then it got caught, and then I’m like, oh, I thought it was caught on a bush. So I jerked it a few times. – His hair was pretty bushy at the time. – I mean, it caught, it was in his skin. – Yeah. – They had to take it, shit. He had to take it and like yank it out. He was, um. – [Stevie] Was he not screaming? Like, there’s something, you hurt me? – He was so confused by the feeling of something coming up behind him and yanking him forward. – Yeah, because the line is invisible. – Because he’s like, I mean. – I don’t know what’s happening. – He was probably five. – Well, at least you didn’t get the front of his face. Think about that. You look back. – Like the nose? – And you got like an eyeball, like at that point, that happens to people, man. – Yeah. – [Stevie] I caught a boat a couple times. Speedboat passing by a dock. That wasn’t fun. ‘ Cause it like. – You caught one? – [Stevie] Yeah. And then the reel, like, goes really fast. Then you have to cut it. – Dang. – Yeah. – I love the idea of fishing. And I used to do it growing up a lot, but like, I don’t know. It would take a lot to get all the stuff you need to like really do it. Besides like, going down to the LA river, which we did earlier. – It’s such a skill. – To really do it? – It could be so relaxing, but then it’s such a skill. All right, let’s hear another one – [Stevie] In 2017, a man in Lansing, Michigan insisted on returning his boat to Bass Pro Shops because he believed it was haunted. When they refused to take the boat back, he took matters into his own hands by towing the boat right through the front doors of the store. – Oh. – What, what-ing the boat? – He towed it. – [Stevie] He towed it. – He towed it right through the, I was with you until that part. I was with you until he towed it. You crossed the line at that point. This didn’t happen. – Haunted boat. – Haunted boats happen all the time though. – Link, you locked in? – Yeah. – [Stevie] Yeah. It’s fake. – (laughing) Yeah, it’s fake. – [Stevie] I don’t know what a haunted boat would consist of, I guess if it was like a big enough boat to like have rooms in it. – That’s the thing, how big does a boat have to be for a ghost to want to haunt it? ‘Cause could a boat, could a ghost haunt a jet ski? – No, no, it needs to have a cabin. – [Stevie] That sounds like a Sweet Valley High or Goosebumps story, the haunted jet ski. – I think some ghosts have been relegated to jet skis, y’all. I think if you die on a jet ski, which happens all the time, you live on a jet ski as a ghost forever. – [Stevie] The jet ski ghost. – Can you share physical space with a ghost? Like if a ghost was like driving the jet ski and you were also driving the jet ski, would they be like. – [Stevie] They could hold you from behind. – Like a Photoshop layer. I want to know, would they like, be in your. – [Stevie] That’s the cover of the Goosebumps book. It’s like, it’s Link on the jet ski and then a ghost figure holding him from behind. – The haunted jet ski. – [Stevie] And it’s all like an illustration. – That’s a good idea. – I can see it. I’m convincing myself it exists. – I like the Kanye West, Kim on the bike music video? – [Stevie] Kind of like that, the way that there’s two people and one of them is holding the other one, but not like that in any other way. – And also the ghost has a really, yeah. Okay. Let’s move on. – [Stevie] Earlier this year, a Bass Pro Shops employee and her now husband, Pam and Lonnie, you know them? – Those names check out. – [Stevie] From Kodak, Tennessee got married inside of Bass Pro Shops right in front of the store’s fish tank. The store remained open during the ceremony. – Well, of course. We’re not gonna, ain’t gonna pay to shut it down. – Pam and Lonnie. – Y’all can get married here but it’ll be business as usual, just so you understand. – And you’re still on the clock. So you need to be answering questions and ringing people up. – Yeah. Right. So yes, this definitely happened. – Yeah, yeah. – And my next marriage, it will also happen. – Pam and Lonnie. – [Stevie] Yeah, it’s true. After the happy couple got married the Kodak Bass Pro Shops posted on Facebook, “Here at Bass Pro, we will sell you a boat, a gun, even some clothes. Shoot, you might as well even get married here. Congratulations, Pam and Lonnie.” – (laughing) Shoot. – [Stevie] It was a voice post. – I love that. – [Stevie] “The Simpsons” have accurately predicted many things over the years, including the fact that Bass Pro Shops would open a flagship store in the Memphis pyramid. Can we talk about like how we, have we ever talked about how we felt when we saw that pyramid? ‘Cause I’ve never, like, the childlike wonder of wanting to break out of the production schedule we were trying to keep and just like run to the pyramid. – We didn’t have time to go. – We could see it from our hotel room window in Memphis. The Memphis skyline is, I mean there’s, you know, there’s not a lot to it. It’s a pretty low city. – Well, that’s pyramid’s not that tall either. It’s not like it’s part of the skyline. But we were beside it. – No, I’m saying, it’s part of the skyline in Memphis. Something that’s 300 feet tall in Memphis is part of the skyline there. Did you see another skyline in Memphis? – If you illustrate the Memphis skyline, I just don’t think that that pyramid is part of it. – Oh, it’s not even close to like where some of the bigger buildings are, but I’m saying, when I’m looking out, maybe it wasn’t outside of your hotel room. I looked out of my hotel room and it was just basically like one to two story buildings and then a giant pyramid. – [Stevie] It is actually, when you Google Memphis skyline it’s in the Memphis skyline. – You know what, I can be wrong. – [Stevie] But we were on, remember, we were going to St. Jude and we were on the bus and we were like even closer to it. – Oh, we gotta get in that pyramid! – [Stevie] It really, I mean, I don’t think it was just me. I think we were all feeling it. – Stevie, I want to ask you an unrelated question. On the last one, when you played the Lonnie voicemail from Bass Pro Shops, that sounded like your voice doing an accent. – [Stevie] Is that a question? – Well, I just want to verify that was your voice doing an accent, but it leads me to something. – [Stevie] I mean, it was very good. – Every single Memphis skyline has the pyramid in it, guys. I’ve never been more wrong. – But see, it stands alone. That’s what, I was in a hotel that was looking that way. – You know what? – [Stevie] Rhett was staying in a separate hotel from the rest of us. – I did not see it from my room. – I stayed at a five star. – [Stevie] That hotel was nice. – So that was your voice, is what I’m getting at. – [Stevie] Yes, it was a very good impression, but it was my voice, yes. – What it made me think was, and I know I’m going off the rails here, but. – Just a little bit. – Do you think if you weren’t from North Carolina that we would be working together now? – [Stevie] What? Yes. – I don’t think we would. – [Stevie] Really? You think it’s my impression of the accent that has sold you all these years? – I don’t think if you weren’t from North Carolina, we’d be working together. What do you think? – Why is that? – Well, it doesn’t have anything to do with anything about Stevie seeming North Carolina, if that’s what you’re getting at, because she could be from anywhere until you ask her where she’s from, right? – Yes. – But if what you’re saying is that she is able to see something and interpret something in us, based on the fact that we’re from North Carolina, that she understands and can put us in context because she grew up in North Carolina. – Yes. That’s what I’m saying. – You’re saying that she would have quit if she wasn’t from North Carolina. If you’re saying that, then I completely agree. – I’m saying two things. First of all, I don’t think we would, I think that put it over the edge of us hiring you because well, you may not have interviewed for us because it was like, hey, she’s from North Carolina. You guys are from North Carolina. You should interview Stevie. Now you also were qualified. But I think that that was a little thing to put it over the edge. You know, when you’re from the same place as somebody, it provides. – You trust them a little more. – You trust them a little bit more. – Just a little bit. There’s no reason for that. But you trust them a little bit more. – Because there’s a shared, there’s an implied, shared experience that, you know, puts you a little bit more at ease. So we were, it only helped. But then I think you would not have worked with us for so long if you didn’t have this point of reference for. – Like when we– – Why we are the way we are. – There are certain things that we might say or do, or just faces that we might make, and. – [Stevie] North Carolina face. – And you’re like, oh yeah, that’s, they’re from North Carolina. I’ll keep working for them. – [Stevie] Yeah, Carolina face is what we call it. Resting Carolina face. Yeah, and I also left you that voice memo before you hired me that was in the same voice that I just used for that round, so I think that’s what really. – How did it go? You probably remember how it went. – [Stevie] Yeah, it was like, hi, Rhett and Link. It’s Stevie. Y’all, we haven’t met yet, but y’all are gonna want to hire me. – Yeah, I remember that. – [Stevie] I have resting Carolina face. But you never know it from looking at me. – I remember after the interview, you did leave us a voicemail. And it was something like, “Hey y’all, it’s Stevie, I’d be plumb tickled to work for you.” All right, let’s hear another one. – I said it was pandering but Link said “No, I think she’s being authentic.” – [Stevie] You heard it already. And then you asked the question, I’ll repeat it. “The Simpsons” have accurately predicted many things over the years. – Oh, oh, no way. – I mean, it’s way, way too specific. – [Stevie] In season eight, episode nine of “The Simpsons” Homer eats a hot pepper causing him to hallucinate and see visions of the future, including a pyramid turned into a Pro Shop. That episode originally aired in 1997 and the store was opened in 2015. – Oh my gosh. – That’s great. – So it wasn’t in Memphis. It was just in a pyramid. – A pyramid Pro Shop. A golf pro shop, or a? – [Stevie] It says Pro Shop. But I mean, that’s, you have two out of the three words. – I’ll take it. – Bass Pro Shops. – I was wrong. – You know what, I was wrong earlier about the skyline. – Yeah. Yeah. But you were also wrong about this now. You’re joining me. – Oh, look at that. Pro Shop, there it is. – You think that they got the idea from that? – [Stevie] Yeah, probably that’s how it worked. – I think somebody saw it and they were like, we could turn that. – [Stevie] Honestly, could you think of anything more perfect to use, like, an old pyramid for in Memphis? Like of course it’s a Bass Pro Shop. Like what else would it be? – A Christian Church? – [Stevie] Well, that, yeah. Well, it was that, but after that, you know? Earlier this year, there’s a lot of earlier this year. A lot of things have happened this year. A woman in Jacksonville demanded that the store employee who played a Dixie Chicks song, also known as just The Chicks, be fired. She threw a fit when she was asked to leave, posting a now viral Facebook status about how Bass Pro Shops was no longer a family-friendly business. – I don’t want to believe that Bass Pro Shops would do this, but. – They did. – I find myself believing that they did this. – Yeah. – [Stevie] No, it’s fake. But have you listened to the new Chicks album? It is good. I’m into it. Shout out to the Chicks. – Gaslighter? – Gaslighter. Oh, I can’t sing, sorry. – Her man did her wrong and she let him have it on way too many songs for me to stomach. – I used to listen to the Dixie Chicks I remember in gym class, in middle school, we would blast the Dixie chicks and run around the gym. And there’s one song. I can’t remember what it was. It was a song that made me feel like I could just run around that gym so hard. And it just like, we just, it was on repeat. I gotta look back at that album, but man. – That album, “Wide Open Spaces”. – “Earl”. The one about Earl. – [Stevie] Oh my God, I can sing every lyric of Earl. – That is a great album. – It’s so good. – What happened to Earl? Earl had to die. Earl, they killed Earl. And they put them in the back of his truck. I mean their their truck. – He was abusive, right? – [Stevie] And they took him down to the river, and he was abusive, yeah, he was an abusive boyfriend. And ooh, they really, I mean, “Earl” was not the thing to run to, but it did, it really inspired you to, to murder people and take them in the trunk of your car. – Bass Pro Shops had nothing to do with it. This little exercise, like someone’s gonna get confused and think that they really did it. And then it’s gonna, you know. – No, Bass Pro Shops. – [Stevie] They really did it, they really played a Dixie Chicks song, ooh. – No Bass Pro Shop employee was fired because of playing a Dixie Chicks song. – [Stevie] Oh, the firing. Yeah. – But if you played that new Chicks album in there, some people would get upset. – [Stevie] Yeah, for sure. – I mean, let’s just be honest. – [Stevie] That’s why you guessed it was real. – [Link] Spread a positive message on the go with the “Be Nicer To People” bumper sticker available now at mythical.com.