Welcome to Good Mythical More. I feel guilty because I expended some effort spinning that wheel, Not happy about that. – There was really no way around that. – We have a phone book from the year we met, but it’s not from a place that we’ve been. Toledo, Ohio. Probably the, I think they thought this is the most boring thing we could do with no prep or production from the team. I have been told that Chase did look through it because he has relatives from the Toledo area. – Oh. He’d been sitting on that for a while. ((Laughing)) – [Chase] Yeah, I wanted to hold on to something in case you guys were, like, starting to feel like I was not doing so hot and like, oh, well, let me pull this out of my back pocket. I got family. – You wait, like, a decade. Before you tell us that you got Toledo folk. – That’s because he’s only been doing hot, man. He’s doing so hot. Before we get into that exciting. – Never not doing hot. Chase Hilt right there. – We’re going to guess what this word means. Mugwump. Maybe you should just guess – Who me? – Them. – Mugwump. Let’s see. I mean, typically put the answer up there, but don’t do it. I don’t want, it’s not worth it. – Yeah. Mugwump, I guess we’ll never know because no one ever cared. You know, it’s kind of like what I said about Ohio. It’s like anything goes because no one cares. Ohio Remember that? – Ouch. – Yeah. You’re looking sleepy now. – Yeah. – Are you feigning sleepiness? – No. Just because the lack of effort, just drained. – I’m so bored right now. – This. I mean, I will say that this is kind of a portent of the future, which is now our present. Every square inch of this phone book is an ad. I mean, even the very top, it’s just an ad for a funeral home. The first thing, it doesn’t even say phone book. It says funeral home. – The best ad on the whole thing is the printed on the stacked pages on every side of the stacked pages. – Oh, you mean this? – Yeah. Like there’s a life insurance company they got to stamp. – Hutton Life. – And the top and the bottom. Look. Oh, my goodness. Is this Hutton, too? I can’t read that. – I wonder if you had to pay more or less for the page ads. I think you had to pay more for it, because it stands out. – And then depending on which way it goes, I mean, they literally sold every square inch. – Why not? – I mean, even look at this. The side is a construction company. I mean, so the only place where you would know what this is. – Y’all complaining about mid-rolls. – Right. – This is what we had to put up with. – City Directory, like this, right here. – You couldn’t even look up grandma’s number. without running into 15 ads. – Credit bureau right there on the spine is just an ad. Expanding your horizons. – It’s hard. I never had a hard back, never had a hard. You see the different colors? Because you’ve got the yellow pages, which is business. – First page is. – Oh, hey. – Cemetery ad. – Wow. Urn garden. – This says 1876 to 1983. So the actual cemetery died a year before this is? – I think it was still going. – Yeah, but, why would they put the end date? And it was a year before. – So you think that this is the headstone for the cemetery that closed? – Yes. Yeah. – Why would they pay for the primo space? – I don’t know, some sort of grant. – This is interesting. This Imperial Roofing and Sheet Metal Incorporated since 1950. It’s only 34 years. – Right. – Big whoop. Big whoop on that. Okay. And here we have a Pontiac, Honda and Mazda dealership – Good God. That’ll make you want to buy a car. – Trans Am. – Look at that if you didn’t want to buy a car and you were and then you, but then you ran into this page. – Look at that. – Think about what it would do to you. – Trans Am, are you shopping for a car? Yeah, you’re going to. – We’ve got three. – We’ve got three sketches of three cars. – I mean just think about the way our brains work so differently than a kid’s brain works now. Think about if you’re trying to sell a car to a kid, now. you try to, and of course, kids don’t buy cars, but, you know what I’m saying. Think about the way. – YouTubers. – Our little brains. – YouTuber children. – When we were seven years old when this thing came out. – Yeah. – We would have seen this. All we needed to want a Trans Am. – And you just call them up Firebird. – Call up Brown. – Keep going. This is a. – We got a. – Low lift. – Oh, now we’re getting into the city directory. We got a publisher’s note. Could you read that? – This directory contains public information gathered by an actual door to door canvass. – With two S’s. I think is a “can-vass”. – “Canv-ass”. – It’s a canvass. – And is compiled in a way to ensure maximum accuracy. – Okay. – And it shows a picture of, you want to show them that? – Yeah. So this is. – This is an illustration of how this book was made. – So, what would happen is. – It’s, this, it’s two women at a door. One lives here. – This woman lives here. Right? And then this woman is making sure that everything that this woman says is true. – Writing it down. – And basically everything that you see in all these pages, there is a process like this that ensured that. And also what kind of process do we have going on? – This is a canvass. – What’s happening down here? Because it looks like these are two men. – Men can canvass. – Well, I don’t think these men are canvassing. – Turn it towards me a little bit. – These men are inside. They sent the women outside. – Maybe turn it towards me so I can read it. – And then the men were inside. – Maybe just turn it towards me. So I can read it. That’s good. The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the correctness of all information furnished them, nor the complete absence of errors or omissions. Hence not responsible, no responsibility for same can be or is assumed. – So they’re shirking responsibility. – The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention. Oh, this is someone bringing to their attention. – Okay, so what happens. Okay, so what happens if you go through this phone book and you find something – The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention of any inaccuracies that it may be corrected in the next edition of the directory. This man, is I think this man in the dark suit is telling this man he’s writing. – And I have an idea what he’s saying. – Not this man, this man. – Yeah. – This man is telling this man who’s then writing. – But you know what he’s telling him? He’s like, Well, yeah, I found an error on the first page. It says that the cemetery died this year. ((Laughing)) And so he’s, then he goes and he says, okay, all right. Let me write that down. We can fix that. – Literally, they’ve literally provided an illustration. – Well, how would you do it otherwise? How would you know how to do it? If you didn’t see it then? – Why do I need to visualize the discrepancies, being correct. – And just think, somebody. – They could’ve sold 18 ads. – Somebody came to an artist and said, okay, we need you to draw something for us. Okay. What’s the scenario? Well, we need you to draw. Well, we get two drawings. The first one is we need you to do something. Where like, it’s door to door, canvassing. And we need. – Women. – Yes, both women. – Okay, good. – We send the women out. – Is the woman wearing some sort of headdress? Yeah, something, something on her head just to mix it up a little bit. And she’s canvassing and making, and there’s this blonde lady in the door and she’s clarifying something and she’s writing it down. – So the women, they’ve, you know, they created misinformation. The women have screwed up, and then the men have to fix it. – No. – I’m just, is that? – No, that’s not what happening at all. – The men sit back indoors, they fix the problem with creative elements. – Well, I mean, if that’s what you want to read into it, but I choose to believe. – I’m role playing as the illustrator. I’m just trying to tell you, is this what you want? – Why did he choose two women for this? And I would have I would make a note, what I’m going to do next year. I’m going into the city planner. I’m being like, hey, next year on the sketches. Can it be a man and a woman in each one. So we don’t we’re not sending a weird message about who’s responsible for what. Okay. – But now we’re to the general index and introduction. – So R.L. Polk and Company publishes more than 1,400 city and suburban directories presents to subscribers and the general public. This the latest edition of the Toledo City Directory. Confidence in the continued growth of Toledo’s industry population and wealth and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of the directory are consulted. For the City Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Toledo to the world. This is pretty ambitious. I’m going to skip down a little bit. Let you know about the four major departments. – Self-importance happened here. They were. This is like a huge deal for them. – These are the four sections corresponding to the colors of the pages. So this is the yellow section which we call the buyer’s guide. That’s what we call the. Yellow Pages. This is where you figure out, oh I got a plumber. I need a plumber. So you go to P. – Go to P, then you go to P-L. – This is literally how we did things. – Yeah. And then once you get to P-L, you go to P-L-U. – When I first got married this is how I would find a “plutter”, a “plutter”? A plumber. I wasn’t using the Internet. – Okay. – Welders, creative products. What? – Plumber. P-L-U. – I don’t see. – M. – I don’t. I don’t see any letters. – All I see is letters. – Hold on, but what? – You’re in A. – No, I’m not. Eddie Lee’s restaurant? – Okay, well, you’re in a rentals, equipment. How many Church’s Fried Chickens do you think are in Toledo? – Uh, four. – Six. – Wow. – Might be more now. – You can’t even find it. You literally can’t find a plumber. Well. What? Where am I at? I don’t know where I’m at. Shoe repair? S? But see, but then. But then P? Taverns? – S, S, T comes after S. You’ve gone too far. – But what are all these other things? – One, I think that the. – These are subheadings? – Yeah, and then those are alphabetized. – Pathology. – After that. – Photographic See? Photographic equipment is before pathology that doesn’t make any sense. Pharmaceuticals. – Physicians, you’re in. – Pizza! Printing? – Pizza? – Where’s the freaking plumber? Okay, here we go. I’ve hit the plumber jackpot. – Okay? Yes. – Ringland Scott Plumbing and Heating. – Okay. What’s the number? – Uh, well, I don’t know the, I don’t know the area code, it is implied. – They don’t even tell you the area code? – Because you’re supposed to know. Well, I guess it’s 419. – 419. – And then it would be. – Just point to it. – Right there think Ringland and Scott still around? We’ve got another option after that. – [Phone] The number you have reached has been disconnected or is no longer in service. – Didn’t make it. – That’s a shame. – What about Row Plumbing and Heating? – Okay. – Again, 419 and then that. – 419. – There’s only two plumbers in all of Toledo? I refuse to believe that. – That can’t be true. – I refuse to believe that Maybe you pay more to get up in this. – [Phone] The number you have reached has been disconnected or is no longer in service. – There’s no more plumbers. – It’s tough to keep a plumbing business going in Toledo, because the people do it themselves. – The only way for there to be plumbers in Toledo is if the two plumbers that were in Toledo are still in Toledo. – Okay. You want to, we got ahold of a plumber. – This is almost too much effort. Junk dealers. – Yeah, let’s call a junk dealer. Let’s call somebody who paid for a good ad. – Let’s call the front. Let’s call the first one. – You’re paying for the top. – Funeral home. – The funeral home there you go. You know, they’re still open. They never close. – They never close. What’s the? – We’re going to go with 419. – 419. – Let me just make sure. – It might be the 419 is the problem. You might have done away with that. – Oh, 313. 313? Let me see this. – [Phone] Sorry, you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. – But see area code 419. – Yeah, Toledo. – Okay, so call, did you call that? 419. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Did you call Trilby Chapel? The other one. – You want me to call that one? – Call that one. Maybe they kept one chapel open. ((Laughing)) Four seven. We got to get hold of somebody. ((Ringing)) Tell him how I found him. – I’m gonna tell him. ((Ringing)) – We should leave a message. ((Ringing)) We’ll do it together. ((Ringing)) – I guess a lot of people are dead. ((Ringing)) – Well, a funeral home is not a prompt business, you know what I mean? Right? They’ll be there when you get to them. – [Man] Memorials. Cremation and burials. – Hey, I didn’t understand what you said, but I was hoping that you were the. – H.H. Birkin Camp Funeral Home, Inc. The original. – Is this you? – [Man] Well, this is ((Bleep)) Memoriasl and Cremation and Burials. – Oh, okay. So you’re still a funeral home. We. – That is wild. – I’m Link. This is Rhett. We’re talking to you. And what we’re saying is we found, we have a – Phonebook. – A phonebook. From. – 1985. – 1984, and it’s the Toledo area phonebook. And. – Y’all put an ad right at the well, not y’all, but who y’all used to be. Put an ad right at the top. – Right at the top. – We were trying to get ahold of a plumber first. That didn’t work out. So we moved on to funeral homes. – Are you, you’re in still in Toledo? – [Man] We’re located in Toledo. – Okay. – So interestingly. – Do you still run ads in the phonebook? It’s an antiquated. – [Man] I wouldn’t be able to say. – Okay. Well, it’s interesting because when you call the number for H.H. Birkin Camp Funeral Home, Inc., established in 1950, 1858 from 1985, located in. ((Bleep)) Tremens Ville Road, at Alexis Road you get, you get y’all. – You get you. – Isn’t that something? – [Man] We have the same address there, yes. – Okay. There must have been a change of hands. – You’re in the, you are in the same place. – [Man] I’m not on site currently. I’m actually just with their answering service. – Okay. – Oh, really? So you don’t touch the dead bodies or? – Well, thats. – [Man] Not personally, no. – Yeah, that’s a personal question. – Okay. I didn’t mean it in that way. – We were just. – I meant it in a professional way. – It was just, we were just a little fascinated by this. – Just a little bit, yeah. – [Man] Did you say it was Rhett and Link? – Yeah. – Yeah. – You heard of them? – [Man] From Good Mythical Morning? – Yeah. ((Laughing)) – [Man] No way, I’m a huge fan of the show. – Okay. ((Laughing)) – There we go. – Well, you’re on it right now. – Happy Thanksgiving. ((Laughing)) We are really not working hard today. – Yeah, right. We’re literally reading the phone book and you’re the first person we called, so. – Well, you’re the fourth person. – Well, yeah, the first person we got in touch with. Yeah. – [Stevie] Can I talk? – Yeah, and Stevie’s here. Stevie. – [Stevie] Hey. – What’s your first name? – [Chris] My name’s Chris. – You still sound really hesitant. ((Laughing)) – [Stevie] Hey, Chris, can I ask you a question? – Stevie, Stevie has a question for you, Chris. – [Stevie] Can you hear me, Chris? – [Stevie] Chris? – [Chris] Yes. – [Stevie] Okay, you can hear me? – He said yes. – [Stevie] Well, there’s a delay. I was just wondering if we had your permission to use this call in an episode of Good Mythical More? – [Chris] Sure. Sure you can. – All right. – [Stevie] Thank you so much, Chris. ((Applause)) – Thank you. They’re clapping for you. – The crew hasn’t been this excited since I got up and left to pee during the Main episode. – Yeah, well, you know what? Thanks for helping us out. What you got. What you got going on the rest of the day? – [Chris] What’s that? What you got going on the rest of the day? – [Chris] Just answering for the funeral home. – Yeah. – All right. It’s good, noble work. – [Chris] It sure is. – Okay, well, it’s been a pleasure and. All right. – Thanks, Chris. – [Stevie] Bye, Chris. – [Chris] Thank you. – Bye bye. All right. – All right. Bye. – You know what time it is. ((Laughing)) – What could you do? ((Music))