What’s the best of the ‘bucha bunch? – Let’s talk about that. (cheerful music) Good Mythical Morning. – Kombucha, or fermented fizzy tea, has really grown in popularity over the years, due to its supposed cure-all health benefits. Everything from hair loss prevention to weight loss, to constipation? Did I say constipation? Yes I did. – I am against that. – Link is against constipation. – I’m anti-constipation. – I’m pro-constipation, but I didn’t wanna say it, but now I feel like I gotta say it. – I hate it, man. – The actual health effects are still being studied, but people seem to think it’s really good for ya gut. – I like to think it is. And if it’s good for your gut, that means it must be good for a Gut Check. – Yeah, I was hoping that you would pick up on that gut, brother. – Yeah, gut brother. – A Gut Check for one of the top kombucha brands in the world, not to mention the brand that we named the best in our kombucha taste test episode a few years back, GT’s. – Not a sponsor, but I am ready to taste every flavor that GT’s got. It’s time for Gut Check, GT’s Kombucha Edition. – Stevie, help us get ready to get buched. – [Stevie] You know how this works, the Mythical Crew has acquired every available flavor of GT’s kombucha, specifically from their SYNERGY line of drinks. After you try each flavor, you’ll give it a score of one to 100 based on your gut reactions, then you’ll taste the top four to determine which kombucha flavor deserves the top title of The Most Royal Duchess Buchess. – Oh, yeah, like a duchess. – [Stevie] Yeah. – We’re gonna be burping. – Boy, yeah, we’re gonna be not constipated, though. Which, you know what? I’m not happy about. ‘Cause I’m pro, I gotta… I’m not a flip flopper. I’m pro-constipation, I always will be. – I am anti. Always will be. – [Stevie] And you have a little scoring aid, Link, that you… – Look at this. – Yeah, he sure does. Look at that thing. Got a freaking awesome wordplay. Linkombucha. – Gulgulgulgul… – Looks like a big bottle. I’m guessing that this folded up sheet of paper right outside of my field of vision… – Let’s see that, Rhett. – Wonder what kind of wordplay you got. Oh, mine’s a bottle, too. – Oh, see, look! – Rhettatide. Rhettatide. – [Link] There it is. – Rhettatide, do you understand? Rhettatide? – Nope, nope, nope. – [Stevie] Is this like a Tide pods thing? Is this like a poison thing? – [Crewmember] Big fat Rhettatide! – Rhettatide. – [Stevie] If your palates need a refresh at any point, we have some unfermented water ready for you in our sip ‘n slide sippers. Are you ready to begin this probiotic party? – I’m a fan of the ‘buch. – Yeah, yeah. We’re both ‘buch boys. – [Stevie] Let’s start with the citrus category, beginning with Blood Orange. – Oh. – That first sip of kombucha always gets ya. – Oh, the citrus really complements the already acidity thing happening. Not really complements, but like boosts it a little bit. – 61. – I’m just going with a straight 66. – [Stevie] Golden Pineapple. – Oh. – Ooh, pineapple. Woo! – The sweetness on the back end of a pineapple, but still with the citrus, 71. – 42. – [Stevie] Guava Goddess. – Okay. Is there a little bit of- – Guava’s so specific. – There’s some armpit in guava. – Yeah, yeah, but it’s like the good kind of armpit. It’s like pheromones. It’s like licking somebody’s pheromones right outta their… Yeah. – It’s sexy. It’s a sexy boosting? – It’s making me horny. – Okay. Well, I just boosted my number by 10, which brought it to 50. – I quite like guava. – Yeahehehehahahahahaha. – 69. – Okay. – [Stevie] Island Bliss. – Ah. – It has a cleaner taste. – Yep. It’s horrible. – Whoa. Seven. – You know what? I’ll see your seven, and I’ll lower it to a six. – Vote me off that island. – That was bad. – [Stevie] Mystic Mango. – Okay, now. That’s pretty sweet. – That’s nice. That’s nice. – 82. – 70. – [Stevie] Peach Paradise. – They’re all like sipping vacation. – Peach is a tough flavor to nail. 50. – And that’s as low as you went for it? – It’s just like, I wanted to like it. – Big four oh, for me. – But I’m just completely deadpan about it. – Yeah, you are. – [Stevie] Pure Love. – Pure Love, okay, this is a conceptual flavor. – This is stupid. It’s rose. – It’s rose. I like rose-flavored things. It’s polarizing. 68. – 10. I’m on the other side of that polar ice cap. – [Stevie] This might be a good time to remind everyone watching that we will also reveal both Rhett and Link’s flavorites at the end, so. Sublime Lime. – [Rhett] Mm-hm. – Never had it. That’s weird. – There’s something else besides lime in there, like a… – Tangy. – I kinda don’t like it. 48. – I don’t like it, either. 32. – [Stevie] Tangerine Dream. – Okay, back into citrus. – Something’s wrong with that one. Do we need to cleanse or something? – Might be time for a cleanse, ’cause I’m gonna give that a 41. – Oh, yeah. 35. – [Stevie] And that concludes the citrus category. Next up is the berry category, beginning with Cosmic Cranberry. – All right. UTI, say goodbye. Woo! – That really works together. – I might give that one a 78. – 74. Okay. – [Stevie] Lemon Berry. – This might go too far. – What’s a lemon berry? – That tastes like a fake berry, like a berry that doesn’t exist. – Well it tastes like a SweeTart. – But it tastes a little too energy drink, not kombucha, you know what I’m saying? – It’s very Red Bull. If you like the Red Bull… – Yeah. It’s not what I’m after with the ‘buch. – Don’t like constipation? – But I do. – 28. – Let the record show that I do. – Yeah, you got to. (Stevie laughs) – [Stevie] Passionberry Bliss. – Passionberry. – The sweet helps. – Is there armpit? I think this is the back of the knee. – I think this is pretty good. 72. – 48. – [Stevie] Pomegranate Power. – Oh, sexy. – I like pomegranates. – Hold on, that’s a good kombucha flavor. 80. – I think this one has brought me back to “Oh, yeah, we’re drinking kombucha here.” – Oh, you lost the plot for a while? What’d you think we were drinking? – They weren’t as fizzy as they needed to be. This one’s strong in the fizz department. 73. – Hm. – [Stevie] Strawberry Serenity. – Mm… It’s like taking a nap in a field of strawberries. – It’s almost just too fruit. But it’s still a pleasant thing. 59. – 52. – [Stevie] Strawberry Lemonade. – It is what it says it is, I think it’s true to the flavor, I just don’t like it. 41. – Straight 50 on that one. – [Stevie] Trilogy. – Oh. I get this one at the grocery store. – This was all over the place, yeah. – It’s so like, “This is kombucha.” Do you know what I’m saying? – Yeah, it’s like “This is the real deal.” – It’s kombucha without trying anything else, and it makes me happy. – Tastes a little vinegary. – But it’s not like, the flavor doesn’t make you too happy. It makes me 74 happy. – It makes me a 68 happy. – [Stevie] Watermelon Wonder. – Mm-hm. This one’s usually next to Trilogy at the grocery store. – 15, is my prediction. – It tastes like watermelon juice. – I don’t like it. Hm, what should I give this? 15. – I think it’s a little bit better than bad. 51. – [Stevie] That concludes the berry category. – Better than bad. – [Stevie] The next category is herbal and floral, beginning with Bloom. – Oh. – This one’s gonna be tough for me. – I like floral things. That’s better than the rose one. Oh! – What flower…? It still tastes- – It’s multiple flowers. – It’s like eating a funeral. – No, but, it’s really well-balanced. That’s a 77 for me. – It’s almost honeysuckle. – Yes! Yeah, exactly, yes, you’re right! – That moves it up. 62… one. 61. – [Stevie] Carrot Turmeric. – This is healthy. – It sounds healthy. – That tastes like a health shot. – Yeah. Which, that’s kinda what, you wanna feel that way with a kombucha. – It’s not bad. I liked that. 76. Wow. The carrot is really coming strong. – I’m really gonna give it a 64. – Oh, really? – [Stevie] Elderberry Juniper. – Oh. – [Link] Mm. – Oh! – Good gosh, that’s bad! – You gotta be an elder to like that. – Oh! – Your taste buds have to be dead. Your tongue’s barely hanging on. “Just put something in there!” – It’s a 20. – Just hang on by a thread. That’s what happens when you get old, the tongue loosens. – Excuse me, here comes the burp. – [Stevie] Still waiting on your score, Rhett. – 12. – [Stevie] Oh. – Getting some bloatage. – [Stevie] Gingerade. – Okay, all right, mm-hm. That’s something they give you after the spa. – This is to help with nausea. – Yeah, right, before you get on a boat. – It’s a little too medicinal for me, I’ma give it a 39. ‘Cause I’m not on the boat. – I’m picturing myself on a boat. 61. – [Stevie] Gingerberry. – Mm. – Ginger goes good with a kombucha. Hoo. When you, ooh. – I feel like that got better. I like the ginger, I think that ginger is in the family of kombucha. 68. – It’s like a double punch, like a double shot. – Yeah, this is a double boat. This is like a flotilla. – 50. – This is two boats tied together. Maybe a catamaran. – [Stevie] Hibiscus Ginger. – I was not on that catamaran that evening. But… – This is better for me. – I hate constipation. I love constipation, that’s right. – I am against constipation. – Something went wrong on this one. 47. – Huh. – [Stevie] Lavender Love. – I’m hopeful. – Ooh, okay. – Soothing. – I like a lavender latte. I fall for that every time. – You know what? I’ve gotten into those. – If it’s on the menu, especially if they do it in purple chalk. Oh. – And a lot of people still don’t do it. – I go for it every damn time. “Oh, they did it in purple chalk, Rhett’s gotta get it.” – This is a good one. – “Give him a big one.” – I’ma give you a big 72 on it. – 79. I like that lavender. – [Stevie] Multigreen. – Okay, okay. – Okay, healthy time. – Ah! – Tastes like- – Ah! – It tastes like an aquarium somebody forgot to clean. That’s like you got your cousin to watch the fish. And then when you came back- – They fermented. – Yeah, and it’s just like “I think they’re in there somewhere, you’re gonna have to get the net, though.” – Oh, god. Three. – I’ll see your three and make it a two. (crew chuckles) – Oh, gosh, that… – [Stevie] They also didn’t try and cover it up with the name. That concludes the herbal and floral category. Onto the final category, miscellaneous. Beginning with Grape Chia. – Oh, we like grape around here. – Oh, and look, it’s full of the chia seeds. We were on this kick for a while. – [Rhett] Mm. – The chia, it takes away some of the bite, and replaces it with this gelatinous goo. – You get a lot of fiber. – Hey. That’s gonna hurt your constipation cause. – Yeah, but, yeah, I’m of two minds here. – I like slimy chia. – And grape is good. – I’ma give it a 80. That’s the highest, no, I can’t… It’s not the best one I’ve had. – 75 for me. – 77. – [Stevie] Raspberry Chia. – Oh. – I do like a good… – I like the way I feel all the little seeds going over my lip when I suck on it. – You know drinking is like the… It’s like the bookends. You drink the chia seeds, and then you poop ’em out. It’s like the bookends of the bowel experience. – Yeah, really you’re just talking about the digestive system here, not really chia. – I’ma give that one a 77, too. – It’s also good. 74. Not quite as good as grape. – [Stevie] Pink Lady Apple. – Pink Lady Apple? Is it a pink lady apple, or a pink lady apple? – I think it’s a pink lady apple. – It’s a pink lady apple. – You really don’t have to say pink, ’cause you know all lady apples are pink. – Right. Yeah. I kinda liked it. – 60. – Boy, it’s sour but sweet, and appley. – Why is my head hurting? – 72. – I think I just need to relax my head a little bit. – Yeah, you’re thinking too hard, I can tell. – [Stevie] Pure. – What is pure? Just kombucha? Yeah. Just tastes like vinegar. We made some kombucha in my house for a while, and, you know, from mother to mother, you keep the mother, it was like this… – Where’d you keep the mother? – Under the sink, I think. – Oh, she didn’t like that. – That’s tough, you might as well just drink vinegar. I’ma give it a 20. One. – I kinda liked it, 66. – 21. – [Stevie] A what? A one? – 21 and a 66. – [Stevie] Oh. Sacred Life. – Okay. (crew chuckles) You gonna overpromise and underdeliver on this one? – It’s the color of your glove. It’s horrible. What does it taste like? What is that? – [Stevie] It’s raw coconut water, blue spirulina, and ginger. – I was gonna say, there’s definitely ginger in there. – 19. That’s a mushroom. – I think it’s an algae. – I think it’s an undiscovered people group. I don’t know. – 37. – [Stevie] And that concludes the final miscellaneous category, you’ve now tasted all of the available GT kombucha flavors, your scores will now be tabulated so you may more closely judge the top four flavors. – And I will be burping. Hey, you wanna get our new record? It’s a vinyl, and it’s the song that you’ve been wanting. The My Hair Song, written many many years ago when our hair went in opposite directions, has been updated completely. A new production where I’m singing the part that should be mine now. – Hair goes up. – Yeah, and you’re singing the part that should be yours now. – Hair goes down. – It’s kinda like the new song we’re working on, which is constipation, and anti-constipation. – Well it’s Prostipation and Constipation. – Oh, okay. 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And of course, the one that you hated the most was Multigreen. – Let’s move these into the middle. – Aquarium water. – That was crazy bad. All right, so we each have our things here. Only one of the chia made it into the… Let’s wait to retaste the chia. Maybe let’s start here. – Okay, which is Pomegranate Power. – Mm-hm. It’s good. – It’s very kombucha, but with a hint of sweet. – Yeah, ’cause it’s got that sweetness of the erotic fruit of a pomomegranate. – A pomegaranate. – Pomomomegranate. Pomomomo. I like the orangeness of this mango. – Boy, I still really like, was that my favorite? ’cause it’s still better than the first one. In my mind, I just, I really like the sweetness. The mango works so well with it. – ‘Cause mango is mild, and you still have the bite of the kombucha, but it gives it more of a juice experience. – Mango has a rounded flavor, like, just like a mango. – It’s slimy and silky when you eat it. That’s what comes across, it just slide down your gullet. Cranberry comes strong. – [Rhett] This is still good, this is still good. – Yeah, top four, baby. – But I kinda think that there’s something about cranberry that almost competes with it. Like they’re both in the same lane. – Yep, yep, yep, it double down. – Yeah. – Chia. Grape. The fizziness is gone. – I think it’s just been out for a while. I will say that, now that I’m tasting it in this lineup of our four favorites… – Too mild. Is that what you’re gonna say? – I was gonna say that the grape flavor tastes a little bit like kids flavor grape. – This is good for kids. – You know what I’m saying? – If you wanna introduce kids in the world of the kombucha. – I hate to say this, but I’m ready to kick the chia grape to the side. – I wanted to put it in third, but I’m not gonna argue. ‘Cause I was gonna say that we should do it third, and do this fourth. – Well, I don’t feel that strong. You really liked the cranberry the first time it came around. I’m liking it not very much. To me, it comes down to these two. – Let’s put this at third, let’s get rid of the chia, even though I’m still, and I’m prostipation. No, you are. I’m constipation. – I’m prostipation. – I’m pro-chia. – That’s my whole platform. – All right. I know where you’re going with this, and… I think this juice varietal is not mainline kombucha, and I think this one is the classic, which I’m… – Listen. – I’m leaning towards it being number one. – I’m willing to, I completely agree that this is not… I think this is a better tasting drink, when you’re just measuring drinks out there. But when you’re in kombucha land, I feel like you might need to do something that is a little bit closer to what kombucha is, so that when we’re sending people out there to the grocery stores to make this thing sell out… – Yeah? – We gotta, that’s a burp. But I’m still prostipation. Don’t get me wrong. I’m still prostipation. – You’re not anti-burp. – I think we gotta put Pomegranate Power number one, man. – There you have it, guys, we’re in agreement, giving a strong rec for the Mystic Mango, but the most royal duchessness… – Duchess. Duchess buchess. – Look at that sash. – Pomegranate Power, look at that! Pomegranate Power. It tastes like regular old kombucha with something sweet on the side. – GT, we’re an internet duo. Can we hang out at your house so we can look at your fridge that has nothing but this in it? Come on. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Sarah from Delaware, and this is the 225th puzzle I’ve completed since March of 2020, and now, it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – What kind of magic does this woman yield? – I prefer that the magic’s in the thing that we sold her. – Okay. No promises, we don’t do that on every puzzle. 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