- Can we guess the first product your favorite company ever made? - Let's talk about that. (cheerful music) Good Mythical Morning. - Now anybody who was alive in 2007 knows, you were not cool if you weren't wearing a moose on your shirt that was so tight it cut off
all circulation to your nips! I'm talking Abercrombie and Fitch, folks. Now what was your stance
on the A&F back in the day? - I was more of a cheaper
American Eagle guy. 'Cause I mean, the shirtless buff dudes that smelled like Abercrombie, I never got past those guys, literally. - The lights were on in American Eagle, so you could, I was like "I
can see what I'm buying!" - I can see the clothes, I can see that the price tags
are a little more reasonable. - Okay. Well did you know that when Abercrombie, and I can't say the word. Abercrombie. - Amberncrombie? - Abercrombie and Fitch, it
started over a century ago, they actually started as
a sporting goods company that marketed to affluent outdoorsmen, selling things like
fishing poles and rifles to stuffy aristocrats. Here's a picture of a vintage A&F rifle that a nobleman on safari may have used. - Okay, so they're, Abercrombie, it was kinda like Remington, or Bass Pro Shops. - Yeah, the very first Bass Pro Shops. - Well, as it turns out, a lot of giant corporations we know for selling
specific products today, actually started by selling something wildly different at first, and it's gonna be up to us,
Rhett, working together, like Abercrombie and Fitch, to guess what those items were. It's time for, "What if Fisher-Price Once
Sold Big Shiny Knives? Would it Be No Surprise or
Would it Fill You With Strife?" Stevie is going to school us
on a variety of major companies whose first ever products
are incredibly different from the kind of product that
we associate with them today, and we're gonna guess
what that product was, and much like a barbershop during wartime, we're gonna be given two options. The best part is, we have that product, or a close recreation of the product, right here, hidden in this box. Well, it's not hidden now, we weren't- - Oh, hey, Link, high five. Okay, that didn't work too well. Okay, if we need help guessing, we have three lifelines available, and once you use a lifeline,
you can't use it again. We can one, stick it, where we get to poke
the item just one time. Two, we can sniff it, where
we take a big ol' whiff of the inside of the box, or three-
- I'm demonstrating this so you understand what he means. - Swipe it, we can swipe a
metal detector over the box and see if that helps us at all. If we get four or more correct,
we get to win a framed photo of the very first time we ever won a game on
Good Mythical Morning. What is that gonna be? And if we lose, we get a framed photo of our very first loss. That'd be upsetting. Let's play. - [Stevie] First up is a fast food joint you both know all too well. Before they were the
big boss of fire sauce, Taco Bell built its fast food kingdom by selling one particular item. Did they begin as a modest
little hot dog stand, or a modest little kabob stand? - This is so strange.
- Hot dog or kabob. - Were they called Taco Bell, or you're not gonna answer that question. - [Stevie] I am not going
to answer that question. - See, Rhett, we got the little tour at the Taco Bell
headquarters that one time. - With the timeline in the hallway! - The timeline in the hallway. - I think they took this
part out of the timeline. - 'Cause we're working together here, and I have this flag
that we're gonna place. Let's see, which one do I have? I got the hot dog.
- I got the kabobs. - I'm pretty sure it's a hot dog, man. - It's gotta be hot dogs. They started so long ago. - Don't you remember that
we had a conversation about "Man, they started with hot dogs?" - Hm, well, if you remember that, you definitely should
put the flag over that, because I don't. - We think it's hot dogs. I mean kabobs is so specialized. - Yeah, it makes more sense that you would start with hot dogs and maybe move on to tacos. - [Stevie] Taco Bell founder Glen Bell opened a small hot dog stand
in San Bernardino, California in 1946. Once Bell introduced tacos to his menu, they became such a smash hit, he switched focus and got rid
of the hot dogs altogether. - Screw those hot dogs! - But did he call it Taco Bell? - [Stevie] That couldn't
have made any sense. Next we've got LEGO, the company that quite
literally built an empire. Way back when LEGO was just another word to shake the neighborhood
dog off your ankle... - Ha, leggo!
- Haha, Stevie. - [Stevie] What product
did the company sell first? Was it tabletop radios or wooden toys? - Well, the transition from
wooden toys to plastic blocks feels pretty natural. - I mean we could poke it, but I don't wanna waste
my poke at this point. - I'm good at smelling wood. - I watched that episode of, yeah. - If there's wood in there, I'll smell it. - [Link] I'm pretty positive- - I don't think we should waste a lifeline on this one,
this can't be radios. Come on, now. - [Stevie] You guys are
feeling so confident today. - Yes. - [Stevie] Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen began manufacturing wooden toys in 1932, and officially named his
company LEGO in 1935. - Oh, I could've totally smelled that. - [Stevie] The first plastic bricks weren't even marketed until 1949. These are actual early wooden LEGO toys, built in the 1940s and 1950s. - No they're not, are they? - [Stevie] They are, we got them off eBay. The boat you'll be sad to hear cost 199 dollars and 99 cents. - Whoa, let me see that wooden boat! - What if I'd have done
something stupid to it before you told me that? I would've felt horrible right now! - Hundred and what, almost $200? - I don't know, like bit it,
or, I don't know, peed on it? I don't know what I would've done, probably drop it.
- I was just thinking about peeing on this truck. That's the weird thing. If you like the idea of collecting
old vintage collectibles like that old wooden boat, well, it's not exactly the same thing, but we've got a vintage
lunchbox and thermos set that you can only get if
you are a Mythical Society third degree member. But you got to join third
degree quarterly or annual by March 31st in order to do that, okay? MythicalSociety.com for details. We should maybe do a wooden boat. - Yeah, we could do that. That's one of the fun things
about the Mythical Society, is that we get to create collectibles. - Yeah. Collectibles. - [Stevie] Today, we know Samsung
for their flat screen TVs, and those with iPhones cringe
at the ghastly green messages sent by their cell phones, but way back when,
Samsung started by selling something else entirely. Was it fine jewelry,
or packages of noodles? - Either one of these is
a little bit unusual, but, in jewelry, you're kinda dealing with precious metals already, and every piece of electronics has some sort of precious metal in it. - Yeah, and many electronics are precious. We could sniff it to make sure
there's no ramen in there. - I think we should, 'cause at this point, I feel like we're going
for the Queen Sweep. We both gonna sniff it? - Yeah, we can both sniff it. Close your eyes, open your nose. - You smell jewelry? - I'm smelling the slight hint of jewelry. - I definitely don't smell
ramen, so, I think jewelry it is, which is mine over here, if
you wanna hand me that flag. - Oh, there it is. That is our official answer, jewelry. - [Stevie] Founded in
1938, Samsung Sanghoe was a small business that
shipped its own brand of noodles. - [Both] No! - [Stevie] To customers
in Manchuria and Beijing before expanding into the
global electronics giant we all know today. - Well those noodles
don't smell like anything! Y'all got smell-less noodles to trick us! Don't ever do that again. - [Stevie] These days you
thank Wrigley for fresh breath and something to chomp
on when you're bored, but as it turns out, gum
wasn't the first product sold by the mega-company. Were those actual first
products soap and baking soda or bras and pantyhose? - Bras and pantyhose? - Chewable underwear. - Well that's, I mean where
did edible underwear come from? - You gotta chew it before you can et it. - Yeah. - I mean, we could sniff
to see if it's underwear. - No we can't sniff it,
because we used the sniff. - Oh, shoot. Not that I like to sniff. - But you kinda do. - I didn't say that. We could poke it. Nothing like poking underwear. - Okay, baking soda and soap, move to gum, not that big of a transition. Bras and pantyhose? Like why would you go from
trying to secure body parts to then "Hey, have some gum." You know what I'm saying? Like, what's the logic there? - I can't come up with any connection. Do we wanna use the poke it? Stick it? - Let's poke it. - All right. - Just one poke. - [Link] One poke. Three, two, one. Feels like you.
- Okay, I mean that's hard. I mean, unless that's pantyhose
that feels like a box. I think baking soda and soap it is, right? - [Link] Yes, yes, it's gotta be. - [Stevie] William Wrigley, Jr. started his company in Chicago in 1891 selling soap and baking soda. - Yeah he did, we poked you, man! - It's vintage, dude, this is the actual stuff.
- [Stevie] Listen to this. Free gum was offered with his
products to entice customers, and soon the gum itself became
the company's main draw. So, yes. - It's like baseball cards
being offered with free gum. Free gum was a thing back in the day. - [Link] Scour and polish. - [Stevie] This is a real bar of Wrigley's mineral
scouring soap from the 1890s. So please do not pee on it. Today, we all know Nintendo
as the king of video games. However, long before siblings
were fighting gladiator style over who got to play Mario
and who got to play Luigi, what product did they sell first? Bamboo mahjong sets, or playing cards? - I mean, playing card is kinda boring. I mean I say, you got the thing? I'm gonna vote for the bamboo mahjong set. - But you have a metal
detector over there. We gotta use it at some point. - But neither one of these
things would be metal. - Right. (crew laughs) It's just to feel like, yeah, it's a little bit closer to a console.
- I think they're baiting us. You know what, I think
they're doing that to bait us. So let's switch it on 'em. - The playing cards. - Yes. - I like the way you think, man. - Yeah, we think. - Ha! You think you can outsmart us? You think "Oh, let's put the, they don't even know how to say this, they'll definitely think it's Nintendo." - Go ahead, Stevie.
- We're not idiots. - [Stevie] While Nintendo did eventually market mahjong sets, they began by manufacturing
Japanese playing cards in Kyoto in 1889. - Is this the real deal? - [Stevie] Yes it is. Nintendo eventually expanded-
- We're acquiring some old, vintage stuff!
- [Stevie] to manufacture other games in 1963, and finally arcade machines in 1974. - Feel how hard they are. - We might need to open
our own eBay business. - Look at, yeah, let's start an eBay store and get all the good ratings! I'm gonna get a 99.9 score! - We've already won, but
there's plenty more to learn, right Stevie? - [Stevie] Of course. Always. Speaking of eBay, which
you did in the last round, that's what I'm gonna
use as my transition. - Yep, throwback transition. - [Stevie] eBay is now the place to buy virtually everything your
little heart desires. It had to start somewhere. Back when it was known as AuctionWeb- - Oh, yeah, I was a big fan then. - [Stevie] What was the
first product eBay ever sold? Was it a broken laser pointer, or a Kermit the Frog bobble head? - [Link] Huh... - Well, the broken laser
pointer is so specific and weird and who would buy it? - Why would that be the first
thing to launch a business? I mean, the frog, of Kermit variety- - Yeah, right, that's how they say it. That's how it was described on AuctionWeb. - It says to the world, "We're collectables." - And you also have the metal detector. And I don't think it can detect Kermit, but it can detect a laser pointer. (detector beeps) - Oh, yes, yes. Yes. - Hold on, Link, there's metal
on the corners of this box. - Oh, okay. - [Rhett] So what if you- - Here, you try, Rhett. Nothing in the middle? Reach around in front. All right, this is leading me to believe that it's gotta be the Kermit. - Okay. - 'Cause it bobbles without the use of- - Well hold on, it just detected the air! There's metal here in this air. - Okay. Hm. It's suspicious. - There's metal in the air! I don't think we should
be breathing this air. - [Stevie] Okay, you sticking with Kermit? - Turn it off! It's got a switch. We're sticking with Kermit. - [Stevie] The first ever
item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. - [Both] Why? - [Stevie] And this is the
lucky guy who purchased it, there's a photo. This is Mark Fraser, and
he bought it for 14.83 back in 1995. And I guess that at the time, laser pointers were over $100, so he was thinking, "I'll just get this
broken one and fix it." - Oh. But why would
that be the first thing? And why is the picture framed
to emphasize that wreath? - [Rhett] Well, because
it's a beautiful wreath. - [Link] It's a beautiful wreath. - [Rhett] Matches his shirt. - [Stevie] So guys, even though
you got that last one wrong, I do believe you won the game, which means you each get a
framed photo of your first win, and again, we'll probably hear about this in the comment section, but we went back to what we
thought your first win was, based on like, points and stuff. Your first win, Rhett, was
season three, episode 20, "Walmart Brand vs Name
Brand Taste Test: The Game." and Link's was season three, episode 40, took you 20 episodes, the "Super Word Game of Abbreviations." - But I haven't lost since. - Haven't lost a game since,
that's the story of Link Neal. - Thanks for subscribing
and clicking that bell. - You know what time it is. - What's up, Mythical Beasts? Brock here from Defiance,
Ohio, in my semi, in the snow, getting ready to unload. And it's time to spin
the Wheel of Mythicality. - I'm glad he wasn't moving. (indistinct) I'm stationary right now. Click the top link to watch us guess what weird first job our
Mythical Crewmembers had in Good Mythical More. - And to find out where the Wheel of
Mythicality's gonna land. Get the latest quarterly collectible item, the Mythical Snackiverse
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Wait, they released the video earlier today?
Their videos always come up at around 8am for me. It is still 7:55.
Edit: Nevermind. Daylight savings.
Edit 2: The game was kinda meh. I prefer when they compete against each other. More was really nice because of the "guess the mythical crew" game.
I hope they put those toys in the background. They would fit right in.