- People have invented some really dumb weapons.
- Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning!
- Now, for whatever reason, since the beginning of time,
people have had a tendency to want to hurt one another.
Sometimes it's just one person hurting another person,
sometimes it's a whole group of people wanting
to hurt another group of people, we call that war.
- What is it good for?
- Oh yeah, that's a song. - Absolutely.
- Nothing, and then in the context of war,
people come up with really creative and almost sometimes
stupid ways to hurt one another,
and I'm gonna see how well you know those things,
and how stupid they might be,
- But not celebrate them.
- No, no, no, we hate them.
As we play, Hope you Been Preppin'
to Guess These Dumb Weapons.
Okay Link, here's how this is going to work, I've got
- Ain't not half-steppin'
- I got eight of these for you, if you get five
of these right, you're a winner, man, you're just a winner.
- But what do I win?
- You don't win anything, it's if you lose,
you get a nuclear surprise in Good Mythical More.
- A nucular surprise?
- Nucular, it's nucular man.
Are you ready Link?
- Do it, do it, true or false it.
- Yeah, that's all you gotta do is tell me
whether this is a real weapon or not.
- Yep, I excel at few options.
- Developed by the US during World War II,
the Bat Bomb was a bomb casing containing
1,000 hibernating bats carrying napalm.
The bats would be released and
start small fires over a wide area.
Unfortunately, unfortunately, development was halted
in favor of the atomic bomb.
- Why'd you say unfortunately twice, is that a hint?
- No, it was just because - Weird
- it's just, you know, - You did it on purpose?
- Because it really doesn't make sense.
- The whole thing doesn't - It was a joke about
- None of it makes sense.
- Is it real or fake, though?
- It's totally fake, you can't have
hibernating bats deliver napalm.
- You don't think so?
- No.
- You're wrong, it's real.
- What?
- It was real man, now I will say.
- How?
- I will say this, none of these actually ended up
being used, but they were all in development,
they were all seriously in development at a time.
But they abandoned this one before it became a reality.
It's the craziest thing I ever heard of,
it sounds like something Shepherd
would come up with, my son.
- No idea, yeah it does, it's a bat idea.
- Put bats inside a bomb, and put em on fire dad,
and release em in the woods, dad, newborn baby's heart.
- No idea is a bat idea.
- Schwellenwaft or Swell Weapon was a German chemical
weapon developed in the 1970s that caused
enemy soldiers' extremities to swell as much as
three centimeters each direction, making wearing shoes
and walking extremely painful.
- Depends on where it hits ya.
- The chemicals proved extremely difficult to administer
as they had to be swallowed in large quantities
in order to work.
- Oh, so like you're yelling at,
Alright enemies, open your mouths, I'm about to fire a pill
that's going to make you swell up, what,
Open wide, (machine gun sounds).
- Yeah, yeah, you can see why it didn't work.
Real or fake?
- Like coat it in peanut butter
and I'd be swallowing them things, man.
Makes parts of your body swell up?
They sell that. - They do.
- Man, the other one was true, I thought it was false,
I think this one's true, so I'm gonna say false.
- You're right Link, your instincts were wrong,
which makes you right, it's fake.
But if it were real,
the foot sweller would be called pregnancy.
- In World War II, or Wor War II, as we used to say,
the US needed a way to guide bombs to sink German ships.
They decided to try attaching a bomb to a cat,
and releasing it near a ship, hoping it would naturally
guide itself to the deck to avoid getting wet.
- Cause cats, oh, in the water, a swimming cat?
- They would drop it, no, they would drop it from a plane
near a ship, and hope the cat could guide itself
to a ship because cats don't like to get wet,
and they always land on their feet.
Of course, when they landed, they would blow up.
Unfortunately during the testing,
cats kept passing out mid-drop.
- That's an interesting tidbit.
It makes it seem true. - Yeah, exactly.
- Which makes me say false again.
- It is real, Link, the cat bombs were real.
Although I'm more of a dog bomb person myself.
Who?Me? Was a sulfuric stench weapon used
by the French Resistance to spray onto Nazi occupiers
in an attempt to demoralize them.
Only problem is the guy who did the spraying
also ended up smelling like poo himself,
so after only two weeks Who?Me? was deemed a failure.
So a stench spray to demoralize the opposition.
- Who me?
- No you, that's who.
- No, the Nazis.
The Nazis, the ones that stink.
- Nasal warfare, I've heard of this.
- Yeah you have.
- False.
- It's real man.
It's real. - Man I'm gonna get
that nucular punishment.
- Yeah you are, you gotta sweep the rest of em.
- I'm just playing psychology here,
I thought it sounded real.
- Well it does sound real, and actually it's not a new idea,
it was originally conceived in Sun Tzu's
famous book, Fart of War.
- Not real.
- Oh, I wanted to say that so bad.
- You know, I was thinking, what, you know,
when you fart near somebody,
- It is like a biological weapon sometimes.
- It should be called, I nearted.
- Okay, put that in your pocket.
- The Krummlauf, or curved barrel gun, was invented
by the Germans in World War II, it was designed
to shoot around corners, but it had some
significant design flaws, bullets would shatter as they
rounded the curve, - Ya think?
- And then there were multiple cases of friendly fire
casualties among German troops who couldn't see what
they were shooting at. - Ya think?
True.
- You're right Link, that's right, it's real.
- I've got one of these.
- Yeah, there's a bit of a learning curve.
In Project Saltwater, the Russian army attempted
to train octopi, that's multiple octopusses,
to cling to the carbon monoxide release valve
of enemy submarines, thus clogging them
and slowly poisoning the crew inside.
The program was abandoned when the trained octopi
failed to perform consistently.
- I'm not putting my mouth on a muffler.
- Right, they're smart.
- Do it, do it, suck on the muffler.
You'll like it.
Oh man, there's some cruel people coming up,
I mean if you're gonna kill humans, you might as well kill
animals too, bats, cats, you wanna kill dogs and octopi.
- I don't want to, who said that?
- Sadly, this is true-sies.
- You sure about that?
- Yes.
- It's fake Link.
Dang, you're gonna get punished,
now it's just for pride, man.
It was fake, but if it were real, it would have
been called the clogtopus.
In the 90s, the US government experimented
with using pheromones as a non-lethal chemical weapon,
the idea would be to spray enemy soldiers, male soldiers,
with female pheromones, thus making them attracted
to each other, and incapacitating them.
Cant fight anymore.
- So a love potion. - Yeah.
- Bomb - Love potion number nine.
- I just got a text.
- Okay, deal with that on your own time.
- False.
- Link, this is real.
- That sounds so stupid.
- Our government, in the 1990s,
- Thanks for the text, it didn't help.
- Yeah, you're getting cheat texts over there.
No, they actually thought, there was somebody
who worked in the government who thought
you could spray someone gay.
There was a dude sitting there,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I got
and then people listened to him, and they almost did it.
What is going on?
- Gay Spray, good title for a bad idea.
(crew laughs)
- Link, you got one more and there's no hope for you.
- Pride, this is for pride man.
- In the Congo Civil War of 1665, the rebel army
sent lions ahead of battalions, to terrify,
maim, and kill the enemy.
- Who? - Lions.
- Who sent them?
- The Congo Civil War, the rebel army.
Unfortunately, lions are not trainable as weapons,
and would often just play with each other,
find a warthog to eat, or occasionally even attack
the army that sent them, so fightin' with lions.
- That's the risk with the lion, true.
What are you laughing at, it's true.
- It's fake, I was lyin'.
- I was lyin', alright man.
- Link, woah, you got quite a punishment
coming in Good Mythical More.
- You know what, I'm real, this is me guys.
- This is me, this is me, wrong about most things.
- Punish me, I will gladly be punished.
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