Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Uh, let’s just hang out, shall we? We got another mystery box to open. It’s a box of decades. Stuff from all these decades in one box, to be sure, to be sure that’s not true. But first, we got a random disturbing fact. When threatened, the greater short-horned lizard can shoot blood out of its eyeballs up to four feet. True. That is a true thing. They inflate their bodies up to almost twice its size as a defense mechanism as well. That’s not as interesting. But that shooting blood thing. Out of his eyes? Four feet, and think about it, they’re probably this long. So that’s like you shooting blood 30 feet. Out of your eye. Out of your eye. Wow. Would you take that as a superpower if you could? If that was my only choice? No, I’d probably let Nicole have it. Okay. It’s all, everything’s now just down to me and Nicole. Yeah, that’s how life works. I have to sneeze and if I do I’m gonna do it into this paper towel that I put in my pocket. Oh, you got a little hankie. I can just feel it coming on. So this all comes from one box, Stevie? Yeah, it’s the decades box. We’re gonna bring out one item at a time. You’re gonna… Don’t be shy. You’re gonna determine what decade each thing is from. Look at this box. Now I, I’m just trying to, I know I asked you on the show, but I feel like you, you know, I feel like you didn’t really consider it. I feel like you gave me a jokey answer and I don’t think we’ve really considered it at this point. How do we actually feel about these mystery boxes? Because I honestly don’t know how I feel about them. And I know that a lot of people feel strongly about them. But is it not true? Like strongly in what way? Like, would I… There’s apparently, there’s a market for this. Like, people are like, you know what, I’m gonna do this. I’m gonna, like, first of all, I’m very happy about that, the sausage and cheese box, but it cost what, $190? Yeah. If I were to go out and curate that box myself, it would be less than $190, right, I mean? I would have to assume, although Nicole was making like some pretty extreme faces at the specific cheese value. But as a business, it does not work unless the sum of the parts is more expensive. You’re paying for the curation and the surprise as part of it. I mean, I mean. If you wanted, like, are you gonna, somebody who has never gotten a mystery box out there, you, you’re going to buy a mystery box just because of this episode. You’re gonna be like, oh, I think I’m gonna do that. Or I’m gonna get so-and-so for that for Christmas and we’ll all sit around and watch him open it. I, I mean, I did notice that I was really enjoying the auction, so I think I might be into it. And I, my armpits smell a little funny. Like I think it engaged. Did you shower? Yeah, I showered this morning, but now my arm, I’ve sweated. I don’t smell great. You wanna smell? You’re saying that auctions, no, no. Smell that. You’re saying that auctions make you stinky? Stinky, but that’s a sign that I’m into it. Let’s see the first thing. I’m not going to an auction with you. Well, to be clear, the auction part’s really not a part of most people who buy mystery boxes. Yeah, that was a weird thing to latch onto, I will agree with that. I just didn’t know if it was the surprise of the box and the pressure of the auction combined, or maybe it’s just… We could start that as a holiday situation for people watching the episode, they could recreate what we just did in their own homes. Or you could do secret Santa meets mystery boxes. So everybody brings a mystery box to secret Santa. Mm-hm. On the back here, you’ve got an ad for pimples fought while you sleep. And then there’s, and that. Wait, so what was the first word you said? Pimples. No. Fought while you sleep. Fought. Fought. Do ugly red disfiguring, this is an old monthly magazine. Well, I feel like our best clue is from this woman’s hair right here. I mean, we’re definitely in this territory. That is no earlier than ’30s, no later than ’50s. Any other pictures? Well, do you notice something about, like read the, not the ads. Is it real? Oh yeah. I think it could be. Read the not, oh the, I see there’s lots of pictures in here. There’s some movie stars. Yeah, read the words that are not the ads. They’re not articles. The gang’s all here. Benny Goodman and the boys. So this is like big band. It’s music. Well, I know that. The journey to a star would not be very far. It’s a songbook. As long as I’m alone with you. Keep going though. Is the whole thing about music? Yes. Yeah. Oh, and this, look at this one. She’s in a two piece. This is ’40s. So these are– This is ’40s all the way. All right, so we’re going with, we’re going with ’40s for this. I’ve seen enough, I’ve seen enough. So it’s just the lyrics to songs. But that’s it. Yeah. It’s a song book and it’s a, has popular song lyrics and ads. Look at all these– Do you want me to confirm your decade choice, or do you wanna do a situation where you can switch-a-roo? Mix and match. Yes, switch-a-roo. So. Okay, so you’re gonna– Do you feel good about ’40s here? I mean, it can’t be ’30s, right? It’s too old. It could be, it could be. It could be ’30s, but I don’t think it’s ’50s. No, it’s not, it’s definitely not ’50s. It’s ’30s or ’40s. So once we see ’em all we’ll lock in our answers. Oh yeah, “The Nutty Professor.” Hercules. I mean we know that’s ’90, right? Jada Pinkett! Miss Purty, Miss Purty. I watched this recently. Hour 36 minutes of pure comedy. I watched this recently. This is a good… Not something most people when handed a “Nutty Professor” VHS say. It’s a good movie, it’s funny, y’all. Did your kids laugh at all the farting? Kids still laughing at farts? Yeah. Good. Yep, yep. Lando was a little uncomfortable. He’s very conservative. He’s got a conservative disposition. That’s the ’90s. Yep, and “Nutty Professor 2,” I think it went a little too far. ’90s, you’re right. It’s definitely ’90s. It could be 2000, I’m not gonna. Well, they’ve marked it out, but I’m not gonna look anyway. There is, they’ve marked out the dates. They’ve geeked out the dates. Yeah, they geeked it out. Look at that, Rhett. Now that is just– I’m so close to it you’re gonna have to describe it to me. Well, is that a Shirley Laurence? I believe it is. Oh yeah, okay. Shirley Laurence, I see it now. Yep, yep, you were right, you nailed it. Yeah well, she does a lot of vegetation art is what they call it. I think this is– Vegetarian art. I think this is her famous work known as Twigs. Well, that, but those are still intact though. So that’s, I would call that branches. No, it’s not, look at that, it’s not intact. Oh you’re right, it’s a falling, it’s falling. It’s in the act of falling. The thing is, it’s dying and it doesn’t know it yet. That’s the melancholy that this piece presents. I’m actually, I’m using, I’m actually using this right here as the clue, the font, Early Springtime. This choice and this– It could be ’60s. I was saying ’60s or ’70s. And so you go with ’60s, that’s what your instinct is right there. You want the honors? Oh, we have a floppy? We have a floppy disk. We have a floppy. This is a Jandel Scientific utilities diskette. Does it have Oregon Trail on it? No, it’s a microcomputer tools set for the scientist. Oh, okay, this is for scientists. Now, how many of you crew– It could be ’70s, but it’s definitely ’80s. Ever, not as a joke, but as like for real, put one of these in a computer? Yeah. Okay, all right, okay. Oh, wow, they hung around. Yeah, clap for yourself. Long enough for both Chris’ to put floppy disks in a computer? Is that the? I can’t tell the size of it, because there was a smaller, a slightly smaller one. Not the hard ones, the literal, this is floppy. They called the next iteration floppy, but it was actually plastic, and it was about half the size. And then after that, they called ’em hard disks ’cause they weren’t floppy. This is what I remember in Miss Everhardt’s class, in fourth grade. The slightly smaller one was, I certainly have memories of that. Yeah, that one– I don’t remember that because I was in the– Yeah, they didn’t put you– The not smart class. They didn’t let Link’s class use computers. Oh, and trust me, I didn’t. We had to use the Abacus. So this is ’80s, this is ’80s. I mean, it could be like ’79. They could be tricking us, but yeah, that’s gotta be ’80s. Uh oh, we have another periodical. Now this is, is a newspaper considered a periodical? I mean, it is periodically published. Northern Virginia Daily, amateur hour. Well that says 1955 right there. Whoops. Whoops, Lucas. I mean, they found this, this system was en Vogue, and edited, and edited, but has since been charged for the worst. So I think this is probably from the ’50s. I helped us out. But I will say, I was gonna say ’50s based on the picture. Oh God. Look at how much is edited out of this side. And the first thing I saw, was that. Hey, but you know what? I’m sorry, Lucas. I was gonna say, I don’t expect you to read this whole thing. No, I just yelled at Caitlin already. So Caitlin read this whole thing? Redacted. And redacted all of it. The whole thing. Hey, but we don’t know. Maybe that’s, maybe it’s a future cartoon. Maybe there’s a reason she didn’t take that one out. Yeah, maybe it’s looking back, looking back to 1955 from the ’60s. We don’t know, but I’m pretty, I think safely, we’re safely in the ’50s. Wow, after all that work. This is a really cool box. I like this box. ‘Cause you know like roughly what you’re gonna get, you’re gonna get something from every decade. Some periodicals. I would recommend this box. A picture of the Pentagon. Pentagon. What details do you see there? You see cars. The cars are from the ’70s. I can see that from here. I see an El Camino right there. That’s good, that’s good eye, man. That’s the ’70s. Now this spire right here is the, that is the old model of the Washington Monument that was torn down in the ’80s. And then rebuilt exactly the same. Right. They were just like, you know what? It’s not quite smooth enough. Right, make it smoother. They called it a remodel, but it was a complete redo. A complete redo. And then it was the exact same afterwards. Yes, a lot of people– Most people know about it. ’70s. It’s gotta be ’70s. Yeah, I don’t see any ’80s cars. Well, look closer. It… I am. Yeah, that’s not ’60s. Because this painting is from the ’60s. And how many sides does the Pentagon have at this particular decade? In the ’60s it had five. They went to four, I think, and then they brought it back. They brought it back. Most people don’t… That was weird. It was a weird year. Right, so this is ’70s. We haven’t had to switch anything. Okay, I got you a little card. It could be from the ’20s, the ’30s, or the 2000s, if we’re correct about everything. You’re guessing which decade the cartoon is from. If you’ve aspired to be, if you’ve aspired to be admired, please note this true reflection. Good health, good looks. The Campbell cooks are aged to this perfection. I don’t understand. The Campbell kids illustrations you see on each card were taken from the Optimist. This periodical. Wow! Of cheer was published monthly from blank for the benefit of Campbell Company employees. It could be ’20s or ’30s. Gotta be. Oh man, I’m just looking at any sort of details. ’20s or ’30s, but I don’t know. I don’t have a way to know which. Well, we can switch it. Let’s just go ’30s for now. And hey, if you want the last quarterly collectable item of the year, I’m talking about the talking Rhett and Link plushies. These are from the 2020s. What? You couldn’t do that in the ’70s. You know what time it is. What are the chances? We’re still good. Would you like some what? Be your mythical best. Golly! Hello, sheeple. You gotta sink it. Good mythical morning. You know what time it is. We’re still good. Nope. Be your mythical best. And sink it. There we go. Sign up for 3rd degree quarterly or annual by December 31st, quarterly or annual, 3rd degree, December 31st, mythicalsociety.com for deets. Uh oh, this may throw people off here. I mean, here’s the thing I don’t like about this box. It’s just a lot of paper. Too much paper in this box. I mean. Now see if you can find a cartoon that they didn’t take the date out of. This is The New York Times. But this doesn’t, is this what The New York Times was? You’re saying– That is super old. New York Times. That’s ’20s, man. Baldwin’s strategy is winning strike for government. West now demand senators summon Gary. Coolidge sends hardiest congratulations. So Calvin Coolidge. He was pre-depression. British industry crippled by nationwide strike. Millions walk to work in huge London traffic jams. Some rioting in slum areas. Oh my gosh! Country generally calm. Country generally calm. They just don’t give a crap, do they? The Brits, it’s like, oh, there’s rioting in the slums. People are walking to work. There’s a nationwide strike. Keep calm and carry on. Britain to aid fight on liquor smuggling from The Bahamas. Ooh. So that might be the ’30s because liquor smuggling took place during the depression. Yeah, but this is not America, they’re talking about. Oh, is it? Is that, are we still in the British? Are you in the same? I think Britain is aiding in the fight of liquor smuggling from The Bahamas, liquor smuggling to America. So all of a sudden that makes me think. Coolidge, when was Coolidge? Man, see this is it, man. It’s either, this is in the ’30s or this is in the ’20s, and that’s in the ’20s or this is in the ’30s. I kind of feel like based on the fact that, when did they, when did prohibition start? When did George F. Peabody adopt a daughter? Oh, that was definitely… The ’30s. The ’30s. ’33, he adopted his first daughter. Then he got addicted to adopting daughters. Right, yeah, it was a problem for a while there. Well, it was good. He was a good dad. All right, so we’re not gonna switch. Oh, we got one more. This has gotta be, oh, this is a tape. “The Charlie McCarthy Show.” Guest Spencer Tracy. You’re guessing the cassette tape, not the recording on the tape. The world’s greatest old time radio shows is what’s on here, but the tape itself. Yeah, what decade did cassette tapes come out? What? So “Nutty professor” might’ve been 2000. Oh, so you need to move, no. I think you need to move the floppy disk to the ’70s and then put the cassette tape in the ’80s. Or is it the other way around? There’s one like major mistake that you’ve made and it’s not your fault, but there is an image of something. And the image might have been taken at a different time, but it was sold for sad reasons at another time. So you’re saying that, ’cause we don’t have anything that’s obviously 2000, unless “Nutty Professor’s” 2000. There’s no way “Nutty Professor” was 2000. That’s a solid ’90s. That’s correct. So that means… I’m gonna put this at 2000 because it was sold in an estate sale. We’re gonna move the floppy to ’70s and we’re gonna put the… Whatever your sad reason is, I’m putting it at 2000. Hold on, but. We’ll put the floppy at ’70. Is that backwards though? Should we have the cassette in the ’70s? Mm-mm. 8-track was ’70, like when I was born. It’s not an 8-track. It was just 8-tracks. No, it’s ’80s, can’t be ’70s. The floppy is before the cassette. Okay, we’re locked in. Roughly. All right, we will start at the ’20s. The correct answer was The New York Times. Dang it! Yeah, the ’30s. So those two switch. So Campbell kids is in the ’30s. So Coolidge, when was Coolidge president? And in the… The ’20s. Don’t answer that. Then the ’40s. The song book is from the ’40s, you got that correct. And then the ’50s we got, because it said… Virginia Daily is in the ’50s. And then Shirley did all her work in the ’60s, we’re right about that, right? Shirley did her work in the ’70s. Oh no! And cassette tapes were invented in the ’60s. Oh my goodness. Invented? Invented? What? How in the heck did that happen? So you’re saying that this painting is what? ’70s. Okay. And then the floppy disk is the ’80s. Yeah, correct. And “The Nutty Professor” in the ’90s. It’s over. and the Pentagon pic in 2000s. But I gotta say, I mean, that was a picture of the Pentagon in the ’70s, correct? Oh yeah, that picture of the Pentagon really gets me going. It really gets me moist in the areas. Whatever, remember that? I, unlike some people, haven’t watched “Nutty Professor” in the last three weeks. So. I do remember the moist part though. There we go. We did it. Bye-bye, see you tomorrow. To get the Rhett and Link plushies join 3rd degree quarterly or annual by December 31st. 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