(rooster crows) (lion roars) – Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Let’s explore some vintage products that are too strange to believe. – Speaking of products, congratulations, Geena. You get a $30 Mythical gift card for repping that merch out in the wild with #Merchicality. – Geena got that double E in her name there. She’s hogging the vowels, Geena. – Hey, there’s enough vowels to go around. – I like that “listen to more Merle” shirt. – Listen to more Merle. – Listen to more Merle. Remember when we would find Merle that we hadn’t heard before? And we had, I mean, we were like the ’90s versions of crate diggers, but it was like, it was because you had cassette tape diggers. – We didn’t dig that hard. – Everywhere, everywhere I went, I looked for some Merle tapes. – There could have been a reality show about us. It was like every, yeah. – And when I would, when I would come home with a tape that we didn’t have, I would call you immediately. – Oh yeah. The thing is, there’s a little bit of a law of diminishing returns. – Yeah. – The deeper you go into some and you start finding out the reason that, oh, there’s a reason I don’t know about this one. – Yeah. – You know, not just, you know, disparage Merle, but you know, every single song wasn’t perfect. – But there was some gems in there. – Yeah. – Like Colorado, remember when we found? I remember when I found that one. Okay. Anyway. – Yeah. – [Stevie] You guys want to hear about some crazy vintage products that could or could not be real? – Most def. – [Stevie] Okay, so you’re gonna have to guess if this is a lie or not, but the first thing we’re gonna talk about is called the Vibra-Finger. – Okay, we will. – [Stevie] This was a dentist-recommended gum massager from the 1950s. It was a rubber finger attached to a small device you plug into the wall and once turned on, it vibrated kind of like an electric toothbrush. – Oh yeah, exactly, that’s what I was thinking. – So you’re supposed to massage your gums with it. – [Stevie] Yeah, it was designed to stimulate gum tissue. – Yes, yes, yes. – For babies, right? – [Stevie] No, for adults. – ‘Cause if you’re, if you’re doing this, if you’re doing this for a long time, you’re like, man, I need something to plug in because I just can’t keep this up, rubbing gums. – But you can give like soothing things to baby’s gums. – [Stevie] These are not babies, for babies. It’s for adults, you know? Because like that’s part of what flossing is. And gum massagers. – I’m gonna say this is heck yes this is real. – I mean, it feels like it would be real the way you’re describing it. – [Stevie] I did give it a little bit too much passion there at the end, it’s real. – Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Look at, Vibra-Finger. – [Rhett] Oh, and it’s shaped like a finger. – [Link] This is a winner. Bring this back. – [Rhett] You know, it has been brought back, Link, many, many times. – There’s nothing like this. – I can take you to some places on the internet where we can get all kinds of things. – It’s sanitary. It fits in your hand. It increases circulation. It’s cleansing. – [Stevie] Makes a different and useful gift. – [Rhett] It is different. – [Link] It is, I don’t, where does it say that? – [Stevie] Down in that little box. – Look at that dentist’s face, like stare into his eyes when you’re using that thing in your mouth, all right. – [Stevie] Okay. – That’s disquieting. – [Stevie] Up next, we’ve got the toe stretcher from the 1950s. These are little toe ring-like things you’d slip on your toes with rope attached that you’d tie to your bed posts at night. The goal was to keep yourself in a stretched position to stretch your body a couple of inches or so. – Oh, like this. – [Stevie] Yeah. – So it would make you taller? – Fake, man. – [Stevie] Well, I mean, I don’t know if it actually would make you taller, but I do believe that’s the claim. – But it’s supposed to make babies taller? It’s just for babies, right? – Yeah. Just for babies. – Like them short babies gotta be made taller. Hmm. – I think this is fake. They do have, at least they have like surgeries that they can do to make you taller. – Like what? Like, like put more bone in the femur? – Yeah, it’s a, there’s a leg extension surgery. – This is um, this is fake. – [Stevie] Yeah, it’s fake. – Oh wow, it made that one toe really long. – But Zach made the ad. Toe stretchers. Good gosh. – [Stevie] Wow Zach, this looks really cool. I didn’t, I mean, not that I didn’t assume that it was gonna look really cool. – [Rhett] He went all out for that, man. – This should go on a t-shirt. Well, maybe a poster, maybe the back of a magazine. – Toe stretchers. – So it makes the toe longer. It doesn’t make you taller. – Well, I think there may be between– – Zach, you didn’t read the topic. – I think maybe Zach got his wires crossed a little bit but you know what, he ended up making a better thing than I would have expected. – My family makes fun of how long my toes are. And you can’t tell from this angle, it’s really, you really need to do it from this angle, I guess. – [Stevie] My toes are so long. They’re finger toes. I have longer toes than you do, Link. – All right, you want to measure them? – Yeah you do. – [Stevie] We’ll do it off camera. – I think I got some pretty long toes, so let’s do it. – Stevie, you think you got a longer second toe than me? – [Stevie] Yeah, I have very long toes. – I have seen it and it is long, but it’s long, it’s long proportionate to your foot. But if it were on my foot. – Well I’m curious now. – You’ve already put your shoes back on. – I had to, I was cold. – Yeah. So, oh my gosh. – That’s pretty long. – It’s got a, it’s got a permanent crink in it. Again, from that angle, you have to really turn it around, turn it around. Can you turn it around? I think yours is, yeah, yours is longer than mine. Well, your foot, I mean, again, it’s relative. Yours is also very bulbous. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can actually– – Why is it all so wrinkly? – I’m a tree frog, I can grab on to, I can grab on to trees. – Your foot looks water-logged dude. Is that from the, from the toe bounce? – Yeah I toe bounced so hard that it wrinkled my foot. My foot has been like that since I was a baby, wrinkle foot, I think it has to do with my arch. – Yeah, mine’s, I have a flat foot and a smooth, a smooth-bottomed flat foot. Let’s move on. – [Stevie] Next we’ve got the Slinky satellite beanie. This fun product was also from the 1950s. It was essentially a helmet with a Slinky built into the top that bobbled around when you moved your head. It was more of a toy for children. – Oh, so this one is for babies. – [Stevie] Children, yeah. – And it walks down the stairs when you, but you’re not recommended when your head– – So it’s just a hat with a Slinky on top of it. – [Stevie] Yeah. – I mean, I feel like that should be a thing, and would have been a thing. – That’s stupid, but I think it’s real. – And that’s a lot of fun. – [Stevie] Yeah, it’s real. – [Rhett] Oh, look at that. – [Link] Oh, the Slinky is. – That kid puts his bow tie on to play. That’s a little weird. All right, Junior, go get dressed up and go play with your Slinky hat. That’s how it was back in the day. You know what I’m saying? You had to get dressed up to get on a plane. You had to get dressed up to go play. – Yeah, yeah. A dollar 29. – Nobody dresses up. You think when all this is over, people are gonna be much more casual, or people are gonna be like, people have gotten so used to like the sweats ratio and their like closet has gone way up. – Yeah. It’s hard, it’s gonna be hard to put all that back. – Do you think it’s gonna be carried over? Or you think people will be like, wow, I get to put my suit on and my tie and I’m so happy now. – I think that, I think there’ll be two types of people, yeah. I think there’ll be the people who never go back. – Are you ready to dress up? I think it’s a question I’m asking. – Um, no. – [Stevie] I think it’s become more difficult for some reason, like I’m perplexed when I look at my closet in the morning if I have to go anywhere. – Yeah. – [Stevie] ‘Cause I’ve been doing like a Steve Jobs situation where I just wear like a black t-shirt of some kind every day. – Right. – You realize, you realize, wow, there’s something to this Dennis the Menace situation. – I thought when you said that you’ve been doing a Steve Jobs thing, you were saying you being sort of, sort of mean and direct lately to me. – [Stevie] Well, yeah. – Kind of short with me and your expectations are too high. – [Stevie] Yeah. That too. – But you’ve got a lot of good ideas. – Speaking of expectations. – But your relationship with your daughter is really on the rocks. – [Stevie] All of that tracks. – May he rest in peace. – [Stevie] And if we’re talking about my cat– – Speaking of expectations being too high, if you expect that this mug is going to change when you pour hot water into it and reveal an amazingly dynamic, oh yours is hot. – Yeah look, it’s been revealed, dude. – Then those expectations will be met by this mug. Mythical.com, cold water does this, hot liquids. – Do that. – Magically changes the same mug into that. Mythical.com. I’m just telling you. – Mythical.com, Mythical.com. – I want to see more Zach’s handiwork. Can you show me a fake one? – [Stevie] How about this solar bath apparatus from the 1930s, it enclosed your head in a metal drum and beamed it with ultraviolet rays. The solar bath apparatus was meant to cure head-related illnesses and clear out mucus buildup in the ears, nose and throat. – This doesn’t make any sense on any level. That doesn’t mean it’s not real, but it sounds fake. – Your head gets hot and it makes your nose run. That’s what I’m hearing. But I hope it’s fake ’cause I want to see a Zach rendering. – [Stevie] It’s real. – Oh gosh. – [Rhett] Whoa, that’s quite a Halloween costume. – [Link] Gee, the visibility seems to be compromised. That wire is– – [Rhett] I don’t think you have to walk with it. – [Stevie] It says “no, the peculiar-looking device in the photo at left is not a camera.” Because that looks like a camera? I guess it looked like a camera at the time. That’s how you stuck your head in it. – Oh, yeah, actually. Yeah. Cameras did look like that. They were big, big boxes. – [Link] Nor even a telescope. Okay. Yeah, that, that doesn’t look good. Even if you’re in your like, your ceremonial robes of some sort. I don’t know. – [Rhett] The main purpose of this device is to cure sickness of the head like catarrh of the nose and throat or of the ears. – [Link] Catarrh, with an H. – [Rhett] Catarrh. – C-A-T-A-R-R-H. Let’s see the next one. That’s disturbing. – [Stevie] Next we’ve got the dog de-shredder, de-shedder. – Put your dog back together if you’ve accidentally shredded it. – I accidentally shredded my dog. But don’t worry, I’ve got the de-shredder. It’s gonna come back a different breed, but he’ll come back. – How does it work? – [Stevie] This contraption was supposed to be the chemical-free way of de-shedding a very fluffy dog in the 1960s. It was a dog cage with large cone-like drying missiles? – Missiles? – [Stevie] Protruding out of the cage pointed at the dog. You merely plugged it into an electrical outlet, turn it on, and it would blast all the loose fur off your furry companion – We’re due for a fake. – Yeah, we’re due for a fake, but the thing that she said missiles like– – Seems real. – That sounds like it’s something from the ’60s, those missiles that blow fur off. – Yeah. Yeah. – I’m going with heck yes it’s real. – I think it’s a air cone. – [Stevie] It’s fake. – [Rhett] Oh. Oh, missiles, yeah. – [Link] Oh yeah. – [Rhett] Looking good, pooch. Dang. – [Link] That’s fun, what you did, Zach, but it’s not what I pictured, okay. – [Rhett] Dog de-shredder. – [Link] That is a missile. Literally he took a missile. – [Rhett] Yeah. Right. – [Link] Dog doesn’t seem upset. – [Rhett] Nope. – Or happy. Alright. Let’s see what else we got. – [Stevie] This next product is called the electro, Electro-Shock Exercise Machine. This was an old fashioned circular treadmill from the late 1800s that had to be operated by another person using a hand crank. The metal bar that you held onto would give you a quick jolt of electricity, a high enough voltage that shocked you into continuous movement. – Oh, okay. – No, that would shock you into never using it again. – Who got a better workout, the person on it or the person running it? – A lot of stupid exercise devices that involve like electricity and stuff. – Yeah. I like this idea. I want to see it. – I think this is real. – [Stevie] Fake. – [Link] But Zach, you did it. Oh, it’s a hamster wheel. – [Rhett] Doctors advise against new exercise. Yeah. That’s good. – [Link] Mitch Byline. – [Stevie] This looks so cool. – [Rhett] That would be difficult to ship. – [Link] Son, get over here and shock your daddy. – [Rhett] You’d have to– – [Link] With a record player. (laughs) – [Rhett] You’d have to assemble that yourself. – Zach, did you use a phonograph without the top part? – Now, okay, hold on, not to take issue with this, but Stevie, what time period did you say this was from? – [Stevie] Oh, 1800s. – Okay, so, we got a lot, there’s a lot of 1800s things, but that fashion is distinctly 1970s. – [Link] I did not hear 1800s. – [Rhett] I mean, you definitely, I mean, I mean those socks and those shorts. Yeah, that guy, unless he’s also, unless this is also a time travel machine. – [Link] Time traveled. – This is not from the 1800s. Again, you got to listen to all the details, Zach. – [Zach] 1800s kids sitting around. – Yeah. It’s not gonna work. – Yeah, I mean, you didn’t even have to do anything, but the fact that you did, now we’re gonna, we’re gonna talk about it. – Right? We’re gonna shred it like a dog. – Just so you know. – Did we have another? – [Stevie] Next we’ve got the kiddy door, K-I-D-D-Y door, advertised in the ’40s, the kiddy door was basically a doggy door, but specifically for young children who would return home from school before their parents did. This was a door with an opening only large enough to fit a young child, so they’d simply crawl through and be safe inside their home while they waited for their parents to return. – You ever heard of a key? I feel like. – Yeah, this is fakeness. – I don’t know, there’s something about this that makes me think it maybe happened. – Fakeness. – [Stevie] Fake. – Yes, Zach is back with the kiddy door. Rest easy leaving the little ones alone. Pa, look at me! I came in through the kiddy door. – Yup, and now what year was this supposed to take place? – [Stevie] The ’40s. – Okay. That’s okay. – That’s a kid from the ’40s. – [Rhett] That kid is from the ’40s. He was definitely from the ’40s. – I think that the big door could be from the ’40s, but that little door is definitely from the 1989 range. – [Rhett] And the font of the kitty door and the rest easy leaving the little ones alone, it feels, it feels a little ’60s, ’70s to me. (laughs) – Yeah. Yeah. – I’m having a lot of fun. Sorry, Zach. – [Stevie] Okay, this is the last one. Last but certainly not least is the Stuff Girls’ Heads. Yes, you heard that right. Specifically made for excitement and conversation, these stuffed girl heads were exactly that. These were female heads, three fourths the size of a real female, available in brunette, blonde or red head. – Just like females. – [Stevie] These were made for skin textured plastic and for every man to boast of his conquests. So basically. – When you slept with a woman– – When you acquire some noggin. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, yeah. First of all, great idea. First of all, we definitely need this in society. – I don’t, I think we’re putting Zach in an awkward situation if we’re asking him to Photoshop this, you know? So that’s why I think this is real, for no other reason, as we’re not, we don’t want to put Zach in that position to where he’s having to make those choices about women’s heads. – Yeah, right. Yeah. – [Stevie] It’s real. I’m trying to, I don’t have a date on this. – [Rhett] Oh my goodness, and they’re on like a fricking, like it’s like a deer. – [Link] Oh this is, so this is like full misogyny. This isn’t even, this is unabashed. It says conquest underneath it. – Whoa. (Link groans) Oh, so they had a bunch of women that looked like, like you could get to the, the closest to the woman that you had conquested. – Oh gosh, I’m sorry. – When did this happen? Zach, I’m not asking. – [Stevie] I don’t, I can’t read that fine print if that’s– – [Link] I can read it, but it doesn’t say. – [Rhett] The first realistic likeness of the exciting women who play an important part in every man’s life. Yeah, the part where they just have sex with them and that’s it. – Saucy glittering eyes, full sensuous mouth, and liquid satin complexion combined with radiant hair colors give astonishing realism to these rare and unique trophies. – Could you imagine going someone’s home and they like, did someone really have these up in their home? – As a, it’s a gag thing? It’s a joke, but it’s a, it’s completely poor taste. – Of course. – So it’s like, but yeah, there’s people who would do it today. – There’s probably some modern day version of this. I don’t even want to know what it is, so don’t tell me in the comments. – Can we wipe that image from our mind by showing the toe stretcher to ourselves one more time? There we go. Good job, Zach. – Talk about a conquest. – That big toe is so long. – It’s only $14. You really peaked on that one. – Now we can continue with our day. Add some scientific magic to your mythical mug collection with the GMM heat activated mug, available now at Mythical.com.