(rooster crows) (lion roars) (impact slams) – Welcome to Good Mythical Morning. Let’s learn about some of the most “That has to be fake, but isn’t” fishes swimming in the waters. – But first let’s donate $1,000 to The Jed Foundation to aid in their mission to protect emotional health and prevent suicide for teens and young adults. The Jed Foundation partners with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance abuse, and suicide prevention programs. And they work to equip young people with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other. Please join us in giving to this very important organization, The Jed Foundation, at jedfoundation.org. – Yes, thank you for being your mythical best for checking out the charities that we highlight and support on the wheel. Let’s do a little fishing. (fishing rods cranking) – You know, these work just like conventional rods. (laughs) – Yeah? – They don’t really. – So each of these fish has the name- – Ope! – Has its name on the bottom. You’ve caught one, and then reel that puppy in. It’s not a puppy, it’s a fish. And then you’re gonna have to decide if that is a real fish or one that the Mythical crew made up. – Blammy Zinger. A Blammy Zinger. – A Blammy Zinger Hm. – When you say official name of a fish, do you mean, like, if you were to find, I actually had a fish book as a kid. You know how you’d have like a bird book or a fish book that just had a bunch of pictures of things in it? – Yeah. – I had a fish book. – Especially a, I had a tree book. I was actually really into fishing, you know, me and Ben Greenwood fished all the time. And I don’t know if Ben gave me that book, but anyway, I don’t recall seeing Blammy Zinger or names like Blammy Zinger. – So you’re saying fake? I’m saying real, and I think it’s an Australian fish because you know how the Aussies- – Zinga? – They say things like, “Blammy Zinga”. – Yeah, yeah. I hear ’em say that kind of thing all the time. – Like Wallaby. – I feel like I got to change my answer now. – It is fake. (Rhett grunts) – Oh, it’s fake, huh? All right, let me give it a shot. (fishing rod ratchets) All right. I’m gonna to try to catch what to me looks like a stingray. Ope, got it! Oh, I got it, I got it, I got it. (fishing rod ratchets) Bastard mullet. – A bastard mullet? Well, a mullet is a fish. A bastard mullet, just, he wasn’t intentional. – A fish born out of wedlock? – I’m gonna say- – I think that’s most fish. I’m gonna say real. – I’m going to say this is also fake. – [Stevie] It’s real. – Oh. – It’s also known as the threadfin fish. – [Link] Oh, well, why didn’t you say so? The thread been fish, look at that thing. – [Stevie] They are known to breathe air by gulping at the surface of the ocean, and they use this technique to survive an oxygen-poor water. They are popular angling fish and they’re edible, but they aren’t a prize catch. – Not a prize catch. – So a popular anglin’ fish. Does that mean you catch ’em and you kind of wrestle with him? Is that what that means? – I think it just means it’s a popular fish to actually fish for as an angler. You really missed out some of those summers, man. – I would hear about ’em. Wasn’t invited . – It wasn’t that you weren’t invited, it was that you were weird about stuff like that. You were- – Well, hold on. We don’t know the reason. – (laughs) You were scared of the fish. You were like scared of the take the fish off and to deal with the fish. And we were like, “Well, we don’t want to upset him.” – And I do remember all the stories of like you would catch a carp, but then it would take the line down the stream forever and then you would run down the stream beside it. You would angle it. – Well, there’s so many memories, but one of them is the summer of the bowfin. You remember the summer of the bowfin? And I think it was 1986 for some reason. That was too early though. Maybe ’87. – I don’t know what you’re talking about, something about the bowfin. – Okay, so basically the way it’s set up, and you may remember this, if you watch some of our the Buies Creek, Going back to Buies Creek videos from last year, whenever that was, but so you’ve got the Keith Hills, like, golf course area where the Creek comes through and makes the lakes and then it turns into the creek that then goes into the river. And when things get really, really flooded sometimes weird fish would swim all the way up from the river to the creek and the lake below that last spillway. They couldn’t go up the last spillway. – Yeah. – In that little pond at the bottom of the spillway one summer, all of a sudden, we started catching these crazy fish called bowfins. If you look these things up, they are literally prehistoric. Like they have not changed since prehistoric times. – Oh. – So they have crazy teeth. They’re like shaped like an eel, have these big scales that look like something prehistoric, like a body armor type thing. And we would just catch so many of them and they were so big, but they would literally- – That big? Wow. – This long. This big around. Yeah, see? There’s, yeah. – Yeah, that’s scary. – We didn’t catch any that big, but- – That’s crazy, man. – We got some close to that. But their teeth were so sharp that, you know Ben, he figured everything out. He ended up creating a lead line that was metal because if they bit a regular fishing line they just broke it, they just completely severed it. So he created these little metal lead lines that would be like the last six inches of the line would be metal, a wire. – Oh wow. – With a bait on it. And then we’d bring ’em in. All we’d do is look at them, be like, “That thing’s awesome,” take the hook out of its mouth with like, I don’t remember how we did that- – Take a picture with your cell phone. – Nope, no pictures, and then just threw it. The we threw it back. – Threw it back. – Yeah. They’re not good eatin’. – But I remember you would catch fish and then you would run down the bank and like… – There was a couple, yeah. A couple of times where that happened. – Let’s each catch one. (fishing rod cranking) You’re kinda makin’ it easy. You’re supposed to… (fishing rod cranking) What you got? – I have a Ding Dong Dilly. – Ding Dong Dilly. I’m gonna say real. I hope it’s real. I wanna know that the Ding Dong Dilly is out there. – I actually- – Dingin’ his dong, and- – I agree with you on this. I think the Dilly definitely seems real. It’s Ding Dong Dilly, why not? – [Stevie] You are both wrong. – (groans) Okay. What about the Sarcastic Fringehead? That’s fake. – Come on y’all. – You’re not gonna put sarcastic. – That’s fake. – No, they’re real. – No! – Oh my God! – Yeah, they’re small saltwater fish with the large mouth and aggressive territorial behavior. When two Fringeheads have a territorial battle- – That’s awesome. – They wrestle by pressing their open mouths against each other as if they were kissing. This allows them to determine which is the larger fish, which establishes dominance. – Who’s mouth is bigger? – Yup. – And they live off the coast of California. – It looks like they’ve got a bat taped to their face. – That’s how kissing got started was whose mouth is bigger. (crew laughing) – Sarcastic- – That’s how French kissing got started. (groans) – Sarcastic Fringehead. – Fringe kissing. – I don’t know, (Stevie laughs) I think you win. And then people were like, “You know what? This is kind of fun.” – I got another one! – Let’s do it on purpose. – Cookie Cutter Shark. – There’s a Cutter Shark. Is there a cookie cutter shark? No. Fake. Sharks, I mean, if there’s a Hammerhead then there’s a Cookie Cutter. Real. – It’s real. Yes. (groans) (Rhett groans) – [Stevie] Yeah. – What? – That looks like a- – That one’s desiccated. – That one’s been in some liquids inside a lab for a long time. He’s literally coming out of the jar to smile at us. – Man, that looks like a saturated tater head. – It looks like a deep, okay, you know about those Greenland sharks that are like they’re discovering that they’re hundreds and centuries year old. Somebody look that up. How old is the oldest Greenland shark? It’s a shark- – That’s crazy, man. – That’s old, like older than our country. – I also want you to look up Mythical Kitchen Channel. Check it out, or if you’ve checked it out, check it out again. They fancify foods, they munch myths. I like that series, you know? You think he knows something about a burger or a pizza or a whatnot- – You’re wrong. – And you don’t, or maybe you do and they prove it. They make the studio smell good too. Every week Mythical Chef Josh will teach you something, like how to draw a big booty penguin. – Check it out over there, listen, before we- – It’s a whole other channel, y’all. – Look at that. 392 years old plus or minus 120 years. – Okay. – A fish that’s just swimming around in very, very cold water. – So it could be over 500 years old? – Very, very slowly. I mean, what can we learn from the Greenland shark? You should be taking ice baths, y’all. – Don’t rush it. – A frog fish. I mean, that’s not even creative, so I hope it’s real. Frog fish, real. – Fake. I’m saying fake. There is no frog fish. You think there would be, but there’s not. – [Stevie] They’re real. – Okay. Oh! It’s got feet. – Look at, what on Earth? – Hold on. Is that feet? – It’s got four legs. – Yeah, they’re pectoral fins, and they do allow them to walk along the ocean floor. – It looks like a crazy dog going like it just got groomed in a weird way. – That’s like a, I mean, that’s a Muppet. That’s an underwater Muppet. – I like to have that as a pet. – Man, those deep sea realities. – Deep sea realities. – I do not want it to end. – That’s my favorite show. – I got one. I got one. Got it. Ope, got to get it again. (fish rod cranking) You ever caught the same fish twice? – Probably. The stupid ones. – Got one. Got one. Flamboyant Cuttlefish. Flamboyant. – Well, cuttlefish we know. I mean, if a sarcastic fringehead is then a flamboyant cuddle fish must be a real name. – I think they get flamboyant down there. They got some real eye-catching fins. – Yeah. – I’m saying real. You’re saying real. – [Stevie] Yup, they’re real. – Oh, that’s a- – Oh yeah, a cuttlefish. Have you watched cuttlefish videos on the net? (laughs) So they can change color like an octopus. – They do all the cool stuff that octopuses do. – [Stevie] They have two tentacles and eight arms, and when they’re threatened they release a cloud of ink. – Yeah, so do I. – So are they an octopus? – [Stevie] No. – Or is it a fish? – [Stevie] And it doesn’t change color, I guess it just, like, depending on the angle that you’re looking at it. – I thought they could blend in just like a- – I’ve seen some cuddle fish videos. Maybe I was watching the octopus videos and I didn’t know it. And finally, Whomping Dangler. (Link laughs) That was my nickname in high school. I had to say it. – If it dangles, you must whomp it. – Whomping Dangler. – That, I mean- – This is fake. This is not a thing. – I hope it’s real. It sure would be disappointing for the last one to be fake, wouldn’t it? – Yeah, but fate decided it. Fake decided it. It’s fake, man. It’s not real. Don’t get your hopes up. – Yeah, it’s fake. – Oh, it’s fake. Well, you know what? What we’ve done is we’ve ended on a low note here. – Yeah. – And we’re gonna send you off into the rest of your life for today, until tomorrow. Is it Friday? I hope so. (Rhett scoffs) If it is then- – Just lower your expectations. – Then just come back Monday. – You know what? Yeah. – If not come back tomorrow, okay? Don’t worry. You don’t need to know what day it is. He doesn’t. – Yeah. – Is this hot Josh? Don’t touch it. No, don’t touch it. – Look, I have a burn scar on me. I was doing a grillin’ and chillin’ night, and I chilled a little too hard and grilled my hand.