Hold on to your foot longs. We’re about to travel through Subway history. – Let’s talk about that. (soft rock music) Good Mythical Morning. – Subways are everywhere, and I’m talking about the restaurant. You can probably look out your window right now and see one. – We don’t have any windows in here. – But have you ever thought about how long Subway has actually been around? It’s the type of thing that keeps me up at night. – Well, what about how long that specific Subway smell has been around? Like, is it always there or did they add it right before I show up? – I’m willing to bet it’s just a trick on you. – I knew it. – Let’s get historical with Subway, shall we? It’s time for the shuffleboard game, Subway edition. Welcome to the shuffleboard game zone. – You know how this game goes. We’re gonna be presented with a menu item from some point in the Subway’s history and then guess what decade it was first added to the menu by shuffling our pucks down the board. Whoever’s close to the right answer wins the round. – I won two in a row. If I win today– – How’s it feel? – They had to tell me, Rhett. You know, it’s not even– – Oh, you’re not even thinking about it. – If I win today though, that’s three in a row. And then you would get the pity help that I’ve experienced needing with a lifeline. – I’m kind of looking forward to possibly getting the pity help. – Also, whoever loses today will have to be the winner’s subordinate in Good Mythical More. – I get it, sub. (triumphant music) I got a little something for you. – What? – Knock, knock. – Who’s there? – Subway! – Thank you for having that for me. – You like that? – That was great, yeah. Sub. Sub. – [Rhett] Sub! – I read this word first. – Sub. – Sub. – Sub. – Meatball sub. – Sub. Hey, this is my go-to as a child. – Is it? – Does that give you a hint? – Yeah, yeah. Get lower if you wanna eat it. – The way you eat meatball subs is you just go like this. You just get the meatball. – Man. – Have you ever gotten the meatball sub at the Subway? – I go through stents. I had a meatball sub stent. – You know what I did last time I went to Subway? – You ordered a meatball sub with ham. – With pepperoni. – Oh, pepperoni? – Yeah. – That’s better than ham. – Okay, Link, you won last time. You go first. – Don’t mind if I do. Okay. When was Subway started? – [Rhett] Isn’t that the question. – I mean, in 19 freaking 40? How could– – You don’t know that? Why’d you think that? – Anything from Subway be in the forties? Now this is a hot sub. I bet you they started with cold subs, but if they wanted to go to hot subs, this will be the first one they would’ve gone to. Maybe even before they added other hot subs. Definitely before Quiznos started getting all up in there junk saying, well, you better start toasting. – There’s a lot going on. There’s a lot to take in right now. – I feel like the meatball sub was the only hot sub. Man. I think it’s when they introduced hot subs. And I think this was the eighties. Nineties. I think is the nineties. That late. – Okay. – I know it sounds weird. That’s what I think. But I’m gonna stick with 1960. See, you gotta know how fast the board’s moving. And lemme tell you, not fast enough. – Well, it’s moving a little slow for you, I guess. – Maybe it’s 60 then. – You know what? I don’t think that 60 is a bad guess. – Maybe you need to bump me. – Because I’m almost 100% sure I had a meatball sub in the late eighties. And again, the logic that we usually apply to this is if we knew about it in the eighties in Buoy’s Creek, it had to have happened at least in the seventies. And it may even be the sixties. So I think sixties is a pretty good guess. You’re really close to it. I’ve gotta get past you, but not too far past you. Too far past you go. – Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. – Okay, so I think I’m closer to everything except the sixties. – Pretty much don’t have a chance here unless it’s 60. – [Stevie] The meatball marinara made up of meatballs delectably drenched in marinara sauce topped with Parmesan cheese on bread toasted to perfection was a step apart from the menu’s traditional classic cold cuts. The saucy sandwich made its strong debut in the 1970s. – Yes! – Oh. – All right, you get the point, and your rationale was correct. So that’s still just one point. – One point. (triumphant music) – I got something for you. – Okay. – Knock, knock. – Who’s there? – Not you. – What? – Not you. – Okay. – Nobody’s home. – Except Subway! – We got the cruise. – Man, this could be a whole Subway ad if the execs are watching. – Oh look! $5 was in this one. $5 foot long. – [Rhett] $5 foot long. – You remember that. – Now, hey, I’m not gonna bite this ’cause I’m not that hungry right now. You go first. – I feel like you have to bite it. – Feel like you gotta bite it in order to play. That’s part of the game play? – That is a, hold on. I think that rule should be added to the scroll. Each opponent must bite thou item. – Bite the boot. And eat it? – Just bite it. Just bite it. – Each opponent must bite thine item. – Thine item. $5 foot long. Man, this was quite a campaign. – Quite a campaign. It took the world by storm. It brought people in troves back into the Subways. – But did it happen? – Troves or droves? – I think it was droves. Did it happen in the nineties or the 2000s? The nineties or the otts? That’s the big question in my mind because it had to be one of those two. I think it’s the nineties. I don’t think it’s two thousands. – See, you went light too. You did the same thing I did. – [Rhett] Shoot! – Isn’t it upsetting? – It’s upsetting, but I mean, I’ll be okay. I’ll be okay. – I have never been more confident. – That what’s right? – That the nineties is right. – [Rhett] Okay, so maybe I did a little thing by putting myself in the way. – I’m gonna have to bump you. Now I’m gonna have to bump you, and then land on the nineties. I’m gonna get ballistic on your foot long. – You better be careful. I don’t know how these subs are gonna react. – Yeah, I don’t either, man. Hut! Oh shoot. – [Rhett] Oh! – [Link] Oh shoot. – Oh man. – Oh shoot, I should have gone ginger. – This is gonna be a measuring situation. – Should have gone easy. – [Rhett] We’re gonna have to have a measuring situation. – [Stevie] The five, $5, $5 foot long deal was deemed one of the most successful promotions in the history of American fast food cuisine. While you unfortunately cannot get a foot long for $5 anymore, you can always look back on when Subway took the world by storm with it in 2008. – Whoa! Thank you, Link, for knocking me right into the right answer. – Two freaking thousand and eight? – 2008? – What? No, no. The younger version of us lived that, Stevie. – That was a high school thing, Stevie. – They were coming in in troves with droves. (triumphant music) – You know what, I don’t– – Two freaking thousand and eight? – Yeah, I mean, I’m surprised. I don’t have anything. – I don’t have anything either. – All right, let’s just Subway. – Flatizza? – I just thought this was called flat breads. – Flatizza. – They, well. – What is? – What’s happening here? – Can we make it more clear that we’ve never seen or ordered this? – [Rhett] What is happening to Subway? – [Stevie] Well, to be fair, this is no longer on the menu. It is a recreation. – Okay. Y’all recreated the Flatizza. Well, who’s winning? Rhett, you go. – Thank you. – Ooh, that was gross. That recreation wasn’t great. But it, hey. – You know what? – Hey, but the original probably wasn’t great. – It’s accurate. – Okay. – If you were talking about flat bread, which is a thing that’s on there now, I think, ’cause you can get, they got all kinds of breads now. I don’t know what year they did that. There’s no way they did this in the nineties. I don’t know. I think this is in the 2010s and it kind of flew under the radar a little bit, and then they were like, we can’t call it Flatizza, let’s call it, let’s just use the same type of bread and just let people kinda roll up a sub in it. – Okay. – 2010. – [Link] That’s a nice approach. Still came up a little short. – Little bit slow. Little bit slow. – How long has the flat breads been around? – In the world? They’re probably, the first breads were probably flat. – At Subway. Hmm. – My best guess is 2010. – Yeah. Only thing I gotta do is get more in 2010 than you and kind of have the run of the board. – So you gonna bump again? – No, I’m gonna nestle. – Oh, the old, oh, nestlings hard. – Nestle quick. – Yeah, I get it. I get it, I get it, I get it. – [Link] Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. – [Rhett] Whoa! – Yes! Yes! – That was one heck of a nestle. – I’ve redeemed myself, Stevie. Now, redeem my redemption. – [Stevie] While the $5 foot long was one of Subway’s greatest successes, the Flatizza was viewed as one of its greatest flops. The mini flatbread pizzas came in pepperoni, cheese, veggie, and spicy Italian varieties, but they were quickly taken off the menu after they debuted in 2014. – Okay, wow. Hey, that was very impressive. Very impressive. – Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes. We were both right, but I got the point. – But you were more right. (triumphant music) – Hey, very excited. Vote like a beast is active. I’m talking about the website that we made, votelikeabeast.com because midterm elections are coming up November 8th. The way that you vote like a beast is you’re informed. You’re engaged. You’re voting with meaning. We’re gonna help you do that. Go to votelikeabeast.com to register. Check your voting status register if you need to. If you’re not already. Stay informed on the midterm elections. – And you know what, we’re actually selling stickers over there. A hundred percent of the profits go directly to our partners at vote.org. So be your mythical best, support a great nonprofit that helps all Americans exercise their right to vote. Votelikeabeast.com. – I just can’t bring myself to do it. – Just do it. – I would like for you to do it. – [Rhett] Subway. – Tuna sub. Tuna sub. Oh, look at that. They did the tomatoes only on your side. What happened? – I don’t know, man. We really made a mess. – It’s hard to get through that. – Oh gosh. – But the rules now state that we have to consume. – The rules don’t state that we have to do it like that. – No. – And that was completely on us. – That was just us. We shouldn’t have done that. I apologize. – We did it though. – You didn’t have to watch that. Stevie literally went (gags). – I’m gonna close my eyes next time. – Okay, Link. Man, I’m a little shaken by that nestle. Let me just say, that could be your peak athletic moment of this show that you called out a nestle. You did a little slight bump, and then you nestled perfectly. Like, wow. – I nestled quick. – Okay. Not a sponsor. I would assume that the tuna sub was on the menu at the get. When did subway start? I don’t know. – [Link] You can go back as far as 1940. – No way it’s 40. I think it’s either fifties or sixties, and those are separated by quite a bit. Ey eye ey, I don’t know. Fifties or sixties? – There’s so many Subways. – Maybe they started the Subway in the fifties and then they added tuna, ’cause if they did, ’cause I’m tinking about, I’m tinking about. – You tink about it? – I’m tinking about what Stevie said earlier when she said that it was cold cuts to begin with. So maybe it was just cold cuts to begin with and they added tuna. So it might be the sixties. Sixties. I’m doing it ’cause it creates a little bit of a challenge anyway for you to have to get around to make a guess. I’m going sixties. – Looks like you’ve nailed it. Oh man. – Nice! I think it might be wrong though. Might be the fifties. – I mean, every sub shop has a tuna salad sub sandwich. – You’re right. – So I’m kind of agreeing with you here. I was definitely thinking fifties. I’m thinking is there a way, see, the bump is so erratic. I gotta get you off the sixties without pushing you towards the fifties. I can do that. I can do that. – Yeah, you can do whatever you want to, man. – I’m the Linkster. – Within the rules. Within the rules, you can do whatever you want to. So you’re gonna bump me where? – You know what? I’m gonna bump you towards the nineties. I’m gonna try to push you into the nineties. – Okay, yeah. Listen, the nineties were great for me. If anybody pushes me back there, I’m fine with it. – I want to stake a strong claim of the sixties and the fifties. So I’m closer to 60. – But you’ve given me, you’ve you’ve taken forties and sixties, you’ve given me fifties if it’s fifties. – Crap. – So, you know, I don’t know, it was hard to do any better than that though. I mean, how are you gonna get closer to fifties than me? That was impossible. – I was hoping for mine to travel a little bit like right here. – [Stevie] Subway was originally called Pete’s Super Submarines, and along with salami, ham, and mixed cold cuts, tuna was one of the first proteins that you could put on your sub all the way back in 1965. – Dang it! I was right and you were right this go. – I’m back in this! (triumphant music) Back in my day, a foot long was too long. No bready bowls. – Who are you talking to? – That’s just something old people would say. Back in my day, a foot long sub was in the, was just an abomination. – Abomination? – Okay, so we’ve got, we got a situation here, Rhett, because we are tied. – We have salad. – We are tied. Well, they call it a bowl. They don’t call it a salad. – Which is interesting. No bready bowls? – Rhett’s walking over there to go first because he lost last time. We’re tied now. So he earned the advantage, which means going first because going second, you cannot bump. – That’s right. Hopefully they put in a sick baseline while I was doing that. – And if I do bump you. – I get to place yours where, I put mine back where it was. I get to place yours on any eligible decade. Salads. I’m just gonna say salads. And I know that we’ve already done 2008. We’ve already done like 2012 or whatever that was. So this has to be the eighties or the nineties. Everybody was doing healthy kind of stuff in the nineties. That’s when McDonald’s started doing their like– – McLean. – McLean stuff. It might be the late eighties, but I think it’s the nineties. I’m gonna try to nestle into the nineties and favor the eighties side because you can’t bump me. I’m at an advantage here. This is mine to screw up really. – [Link] Coming in hot. Coming in hot. – Exactly what I wanted to do. Exactly what I wanted to do. Okay. But I’ve left the eighties open for me. But if you bump me, I get to put yours wherever I want. – All right, so, I mean, what you said was compelling. I was thinking 2010s, which like you said, has been taken. That actually pushed me into 2020, but I know that can’t be right. So you’re right, yeah. Yeah, it has to be nineties or eighties. Shoot. I hope it’s the eighties. I feel like I can get on the eighties more so than you and win this thing. But of course I can’t bump you, but we need to define a bump because if I were to touch you, but not move you, that’s not a bump. That’s a touch. – Okay, hold on. So if I am in line with you for something, and I make contact with you. – And I don’t move at all. – That’s a light bump. – You’re touching me, you’re not bumping me. A bump implies movement from the recipient of the touch. – Okay, I’m gonna get down here, and if mine moves at all, it is a bump. If you make contact with mine and it literally doesn’t move even like a micro millimeter, which is not a real thing. – Can you see micrometers? – Yes. – Micro millimeters? – Yeah. – All right. I have to go for 1980. That has to be the right answer. – Okay, well then make it happen, captain. – This was gonna require some finesse. Oh gosh, I stopped. – [Rhett] Short. I don’t think it bumped it, Link. I don’t think it bumped it. – Me neither. What’s that over there? – There’s no way it’s the eighties. – Well, I’ll move it back where it was. – There’s no way, you know what it is, Link? I did not see 2020 until you mentioned it. And I believe that it’s the 2020s because it says no bready bowls. So I actually think you actually had the wide open window into the 2020s and I just didn’t even realize it was a thing. I didn’t know it was on the board. – 60 isn’t taken. – [Stevie] Huh? What an interesting revelation you’ve just had. You know, these were originally called protein bowls, but for some reason, their name changed to no bready bowls almost a year after their introduction. The name change seems to be a purely cosmetic way to assure customers that there’s absolutely no bread in the bowl. Regardless of the bizarre name, the bowls have managed to stay on the menu since their debut in 2021. – Dude, I didn’t even. – Yeah, but it’s just– – I knew that was the answer when you said it, I was like, oh crap, I didn’t even see that. – It’s just a salad. – He’s gonna see this ’cause no, but it’s the fact that it’s no bready bowls. This is like low carb stuff, man. Like of course we weren’t thinking about that in the nineties. – Leave it to Subway to sell the lack of something. – Man, that was a close one, man. – You have escaped a three in a row. – Dang it. – All right. You get a prize. I’m your subordinate in Good Mythical More. – Yes! Thanks for describing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hey, this is Frank. – This is Brandy. We’re here celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. – Off the coast of Lisbon in the Atlantic ocean. – And now it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality. – Congrats, guys. – That seems like it’d be the best part of a cruise is the shuffle board. – No, no, no, no. – Click the top link to watch us figure out if these wild Subway orders are real or fake in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the wheel of mythicality is gonna land. – [Rhett] Go to votelikeabeast.com to check your voting status, register if you need to, and stay informed for the midterm elections.