- Today, we unearth the strangest stuff ever dug up.
- Let's talk about that.
(cheerful music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- Rhett, if you were not an internettainer,
what would you want to be?
- A paleontologist.
- That's right.
I knew that.
You want to be a studier of stuff
that's been dug up.
- Well, specifically fossils and not just anything.
I have my tastes, my preferences.
- If we were to wind in a little bit
to the weirdest stuff ever dug up--
- A big dinosaur.
- I'm gonna present this to you as a qualifier test
to see if you even got what it takes
to potentially be a paleontologist one day.
- I'm not gonna be digging?
- No, but you're gonna be answering and filling in blanks.
It's time to play.
♫ Under da ground
♫ Let's see if you stank, sir
♫ At filling these blanks, sir
♫ Under da ground
So you're gonna be filling in blanks,
and hopefully you won't stanks at it.
Now here is the deal,
these are some of the weirdest/strangest things
ever unearthed from the ground,
or found underneath the--
- All fossils?
- Earth's crust.
Not fossils.
- Oh okay.
- But if you can't fill in these blanks correctly,
then you got no business studying fossils.
You can hang that up.
- I don't think that's how it works.
- It is.
This is the National Paleontology Board test.
- Oh gosh. - I'm just administering.
- I'm nervous now.
- If you get three of these right,
then you do not have to be buried alive.
- I need to be wearing my beige outfit, my beige onesie.
That's what I wear when the paleontologists are watching.
- Yeah, I do miss that.
In Jolly Ranchers.
The loser, which will be you if you don't get three,
or me if you get more than--
- You continue that sentence.
- Gets buried in Jolly Ranchers.
- Oh that's not a punishment.
- Your mouth has to be open--
- Unless you're naked.
- You could die.
You could die.
- I won't be naked.
- No, Rhett.
I'm not asking you to be naked.
- Gotta keep the Jolly Ranchers on the exterior of your body
unless it's your mouth.
- Are you ready for the test?
- Yes.
- In 2012, Australian scientists discovered a massive,
ancient grave full of 20-foot poisonous lizards,
eight-foot kangaroos.
Eight-foot kangaroos?
- Yeah, things were big back then, man.
- And marsupial blanks the size of Volvos.
Marsupial blanks the size of Volvos.
- Lots of things were big back there
'cause of the oxygen content in the atmosphere.
- And the isolation of Australia.
- 'Cause it's an island.
- Evolutionary isolation.
- I definite have heard
there were marsupial wolves in the past.
The size of Volvos, that's big but--
- Polar bears.
Did they hatch back?
- That I have heard that they existed.
Maybe they existed in Australia.
I don't know.
It's the best answer I got, wolves.
- Marsupial wolves?
- That was a thing.
I know that for a fact.
- Really? - Yeah.
(Link laughs)
- Let's just talk about that.
There is the episode there.
- Yeah, yeah.
They're little wolves
with a wolf house. - A wolf with a pouch.
- Yeah.
- But you're wrong. (buzzes)
It's a wombat.
- Oh, that makes more sense. - Check it out.
- The size of Volvos?
- Well, they're adorable now
but this is what they looked like then.
They're over three tons,
had a pouch capable of carrying a small human.
- Did you get in there?
- I do wonder if you'd gotten there
if she would accept you as her own.
Is there teeth in there?
- If you smell like wombat.
You gotta wear some wombat fragrance,
which is available at rhettandlink.com.
- [Both] /store.
- So it's wombat.
Volvo-sized wombats or Wolvo-sized vombats.
- Got it.
- In 1978, two kids were digging in their backyard
when all of a sudden, they struck metal.
They'd hit the roof of a blank worth $65,000.
- Is it that funny?
Just thinking about it made you laugh.
There must be something funny.
- Well, I'm not laughing.
It made me happy.
- Funny things with roofs.
- It made me.
(laughing)
- It made me happy.
- Red roof ends.
- Oh it could be red.
- Really?
$65,000, that sounds like a vehicle.
People bury cars.
Car!
- You've gotta be more specific.
- Oh what?
(laughing)
- I'd bury you halfway but come on,
just go for the gusto.
- $65,000.
What would make a good story?
It's a sports car.
It'd make a good story.
You said it was red.
Red sports car.
Iconic red sports cars,
there's three choices.
It's not a Mustang.
Who cares about that?
Lamborghini, no one would bury that.
It's gotta be something that was out in like '50s or '60s.
Ferrari.
(claps)
Ferrari.
- It is a Ferrari.
(Rhett laughs)
- Kids, that's how you do good at school!
Right there.
That's how you do good at school!
- You could be a paleontologist, man.
- That's right.
Are you all watching?
I'll put the beige on if you want me to.
- Interesting backstory.
It took about 30 years to solve the mystery
of how beautiful 1974 Dino Ferrari
wound up buried in a backyard in West Adams, Los Angeles.
It turned out to be an insurance scam
where the thieves were in on it with the owner
except they were supposed to scrap the Ferrari,
and get the money from that and the insurance company
but instead, they buried it,
and hoped to come back and get it, which they never did.
- They never did.
- I can't remember exactly where we put the Ferrari.
- The boys found it.
- Here or here.
Back in November, a group of construction workers
were digging the foundation for an apapert, apartment--
- Apapert?
- Complex, yes, in Tallahassee, Florida
when they made a rather lively discovery.
It was an active blank.
- Florida, it could be anything.
Person eating someone else's face
while wearing no clothes.
(laughing)
Active, it make it sound like it's a volcano.
It was an active volcano.
There's no volcanoes in Florida
but with that look on your face
makes me think I should go with it.
No way.
There's no geothermal activity
in Florida. - What's your answer, Rhett?
- I'm not gonna say volcano.
That would be wrong.
The paleontologists would shun me.
Active.
Okay, volcano.
(laughing)
- That's a bomb.
(Rhett laughing)
It turns out there was a rather large
Air Force training ground during World War II,
and somebody forgot to clean up the bombs.
Clean up your bombs!
- Yeah.
- How many times I gotta tell you?
Clean up the bombs after you sail.
- It's a problem.
- In 2013, a London neighborhood was nearly flooded
with sewage when a giant 15-ton ball of blank
was discovered blocking the pipes.
- It didn't say, you didn't put an S on it
'cause I would have thought
that it would have been lady products
because the ladies just flush that stuff
a lot, and especially in London.
(laughing)
I haven't been there but I heard.
- What do you know?
- Okay.
- 15-ton ball of non-lady products.
- Toilet paper?
That's too obvious.
Poop?
No.
What do people flush?
You know what people do,
people put, they put a lot of food
into their garbage disposal.
That's what they do, and not supposed to.
That's not, it's for scraps.
It's not just don't put a whole orange in there.
You're wrong.
It's food.
- I'm not gonna give it to you.
It is fat.
Very specifically fat.
- You can eat fat.
- Yeah, but that's not it,
and this is not a one-time thing.
Fatbergs, as they are affectionately known,
are a consistent problem in London sewers.
Look at that, man.
It's huge.
Makes me never want to eat a fat burger again.
- Those London people,
the ladies with the lady products,
and the boys with the fat.
(laughing)
That's where I'm not going!
- It's an accumulation
that clogs up the arteries down there.
- Yes.
I'm not doing well.
- Didn't get it right with that.
While on a training exercise
in the catacombs underneath the Palais de Chaillot, Paris,
police made an entertaining discovery.
A modern secret society had been using one of the caves
as a private blank.
- Entertaining.
- Private bath.
- Private blank.
- Private.
That just means that only the secret society was there.
Secret society.
Club?
Club.
We hit the club in a cave in Paris.
That's entertaining.
At the club.
Club.
(laughing)
How many times do you want me to say club?
- No more because that's wrong.
It's movie theater.
- Ah that is more entertaining.
- They had a professionally installed projector,
a fully functional bar, and an amphitheater seating.
When the police returned to investigate,
all that was left was a note on the floor
that read, "Do not try to find us."
- Oh.
- Then they found them.
- Yeah. (laughs)
Of course, they did.
- They're a secret society called UX
that sneaks around restoring old stuff in Paris,
which is pretty cool.
- Yeah, that's really cool.
- They restore old stuff.
- As a paleontologist in training,
I can assert, that's really cool.
- Okay, Rhett.
- You already lost but--
- You're gonna be buried alive in Jolly Ranchers
but let's just see if, for paleontological knowledge--
- Whatever.
- You get this last one.
- Four-year-old Texas native, Isaac McFadden,
had a slippery surprise when he woke up to use the bathroom.
There was a blank in the toilet.
When a company came to remove it,
they discovered 23 more under the house.
- 23 more.
- 24 total.
- Okay.
- One in the toilet.
- Slippery.
Slippery?
Slugs?
No.
Something in the toilet that would scare you.
Are you one of those people
that thinks that snakes are slippery?
Because that's a myth.
When you touch 'em, you're like, "It's not slippery."
I thought it was
but when I touched it, I realized it was scales.
- I don't know.
(laughing)
I'm just waiting for his answer.
- Slippery.
I don't know, snakes, man.
That's all I got.
- That's right.
They're slippery.
- They're not slippery at all, man.
- If they're covered in toilet water,
I think they're pretty slippery.
- No, they're not.
It's a myth, man.
- When asked by reporters
what he'd learn from the experience,
four-year-old Isaac said, "If you find a snake,
"go get an adult."
(laughing)
- That's right, Isaac.
Somebody is listening. - Oh man.
- [Link] Look at that.
Is that an actual photo of a snake in the toilet?
(shouts)
- Probably yes.
- I didn't want to see that
but I do want to see you buried in Jolly Ranchers.
We're gonna do it very soon.
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