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Episode Post Date: March 25, 2026
GMM Episode Number: 3008
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It feels like everywhere you look, two brands are teaming up to create some crazy new collab snack. But the brands have been so busy making snack collabs. They haven't stopped to ask should they make these collabs, so leave it to a collab between ol' Rhett and Link to answer that question for 'em. It's time for Collab-solute Chaos. Oh, first we've got Dr. Pepper, Jack Link's beef jerky. Mm-hmm. And we can compare it against, um, Dr. Pepper and Jack Link's un-Dr. Peppered beef jerky. Now, I know you don't like Dr. Pepper, but you also know sometimes like a Dr. Pepper barbecue sauce or something like that. Yeah. Covers it up in a way that maybe even you would love it. Yeah, I could like, I could like this. I don't smell Dr. Pepper on it. I taste it, but it's subtle. It's certainly sweet. Wow. Yeah. It's accurate though. You're not gonna like it. I don't. Which is a, uh, an endorsement kind of, I don't like it, so I endorse it. I mean, how often does that happen? I can be the spokesman for Jack Link's Dr. Pepper, because I don't like Dr. Pepper, and I can tell you that. Well. It is very much in there. You should be the spokesman for Jack Link's. That's gonna. Have you never thought about this? It would get a little weird. No, I never think about that. I mean, you've never thought about that? I've never once thought about it. And what, what would make me think about it? Nothing. And, and just think about it. Think about the campaign for Jack Link's. He wants me to think about it. No, I'm just thinking, it's one of those, it's a little bit subtle. You never acknowledge the innuendo. And you're just like, I'm Link. I'm the Link of Jack Link's. It's not a command. Yeah. Or a request. It's a product. That's too far, leaning, leaning too far into it. Okay. There would be some subtle, uh. I don't even like it. You would do some subtle jerking. Why don't you. Of different things. Why don't you take it off my hands? Okay, um. Because I don't like it. Is this a dip or is it a eat and pour situation? Well, there it's, it's kind of hard to dip, so I think you're just gonna have to marinate, just a little post marination. Marination is normally pre. I mean, are there people out there who are taking their Jack Link's and dipping it in Dr. Pepper to the point where. Well, first of all, I will say Dr. Pepper and Jack Link's together. I see where they came up with this. Look at how it's. Because that's very nice. The, the fizz has turned into like these like translucent bubbles that are kind of, looks like a, the dead marshes or something. The dead martians? Dead marshes. You know, remember in Lord of the Rings when the dead, dead people were under the water? Yep, okay. Except dead people, it's this instead. Flavor accuracy, it's on point. A hundred percent. Is it justified or back to the lab? I, as a Dr. Pepper lover, and a Jack Link's, as a beef jerky lover. Okay. I think that. Drinking the beef. Yes. Drinking the Dr. Pepper and eating the beef jerky was a more satisfactory experience, than doing this. This made me want to do that, and then I did that and it was better than this. But you never did this until you had that. I would not have known this without this. But now that you've done that. But you know, so. To do this. Like I had a girlfriend. Instead of that. I had a girlfriend in sixth grade who introduced me to my girlfriend in eighth grade. Yes. And I would never have dated that girl in eighth grade with, now I was in sixth and eighth grade at the time, it wasn't like I was, you know what I'm saying? Sixth grade and then what, you understand. And it's also happened to be your first girlfriend as well. But you're not gonna do this with your girlfriend. I'm just tell, you don't know what I'm gonna do with my girlfriend. And she was, and the first girlfriend was still our friend. Yeah, but I would never have known this without this, but that doesn't mean I have to like this more than that. You broke up with the second girlfriend after I broke up with her. I'm, I don't know where this is going. I, I think it's going to a place where I do not think this is a justified collab. I think they gotta go Back to the lab. So Reese's put Oreos inside of itself. And the other is also true, but that's not what we're talking about here. But didn't we have that? Yes, we had. We had Reese's Oreos. Oreo with a Reese, with peanut butter Reese's kind of inside, and we weren't that impressed. But why isn't that called, why isn't this called Oreo Reese's? Because we had a Reese's Oreo. Right. But this is called Reese's Oreo. So the name is backwards, at least Reese's is bigger. This is just as confusing as my sixth and eighth grade relationships. Mm-hmm. Which was my seventh and eighth grade relationships. Yes. I'm just saying. Just saying. Alright, lemme break this open for us to see what's happening. There are, um, dark pieces of Oreo inside of there, and the cream is the top of the, the cup. And that's just regular Reese's chocolate on the bottom. Hmm. It's quite good. Mm. Quite good. I like it a lot. Now, how would we go about this. Exactly. The, you're just telling me that you've never even thought about doing it. Yeah, but I mean, you can't think of everything. I can. Oh, no. If I open my cabinet and both of these are in there, rest assured I'm thinking about doing this. I would, I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna pull this apart. Travesty there. I'm gonna, I'm gonna put that on there. A travesty. Well, I just didn't get all of the cream off. It's not nearly as pretty. There's something to like about it. But if, but if you walked in on me in the kitchen with this, your eyebrows would raise. Your mouth would open. Oh, it is good. You'd say feed me buddy boy. Oh my God. Oh my God. What. You love it? Again, it's so much better than this. It's like, I don't, I just feel like I know where collabs come from, but collabs are just doorways to collab yourself. As we are proving here. This is doing nothing, but making us realize that we can already do it. A collab is a gateway to just do. Personal combinations. Yourself. Personal combinations. Yeah, private combination. So I'm grateful to this. This is corporate, this is private. Yeah, I'm doing this alone. The ratios are obviously different. You got a lot more of the cookie. And the cookie is, it's a saltier experience. The cookie. Why does the cookie seems salt? The cookie is really working in a way. Neither one of them are overpowering the other. You know what we really need to do? Double stuff. With this, could you imagine that? Not enough cream. There's not enough cream right now. Not enough cookie in the collab. Even though I really do like this. If you're out and about and you are in public, you need to do the public thing. But if you're in private, you need to do it this way. So this is a tough one. These are both great. I just don't know how to think about this, 'cause is this gonna keep happening? I just think if the putting them together is that much better than the, than the collab, we cannot give it to the collab. Nope. So we're gonna say Back to the lab. Okay, we got some Funyuns that are Maruchan hot and spicy Chicken ramen flavored. Is that something you thought you needed in your life? Well, I didn't know I needed Funyuns in my life until like a, two years ago. Yeah, but then recently. Maybe a year and a half. You tasted them again and it was like. I am just. Whew. They're so good. I'm on Funyun train on a weekly basis now. It's a problem. I like to put a cheese ball in the middle. A big cheese ball. And then it becomes a, a onion cheese UFO. When have you, you mean a cheese ball, like a crunchy cheese ball or a piece of cheese from a cheese ball? Um. A crunchy. A crunchy cheese ball. A planters. Mm-hmm. Yeah. When have you been in the room where there was Funyuns in those and why wasn't I there? Yeah. Well, I mean there, I've stocked them at the creative house. Where has Jack Link's been? Just open the right, open the right cabinet, dude. You got too much junk in that house, man. Yeah, we. Well, you're like, you're like, where is it? I wanna know about it. It's right there at your office. We eat so much junk on this show, I can't have junk at other places, man. Well, you've done a good job forgetting about that entire cabinet. You're a bad boy. Alright. So I just ate a Funyun. By itself, but I didn't eat it with the ramen. Well, why didn't you eat the ramen Funyuns? Okay, I'll do that. Well, where's the Funyun flavor? It's covered up by ramen. There's no, it doesn't taste like onion at all. It's spicy. It's under there, it's just subtle. Is this a, is this a dip? You could do that, but. Putting the ramen, you can't, like the last round, you can't do that. You can't put the. I made a mess. You can't put the ramen. I made a mess. Inside of the Funyun. You can crumble up Funyuns into ramen, which might be a good thing to do, but that's not what this is. It's kind of the entire opposite. Oh, this is awkward. Okay. You okay? Hmm. I kind of like what I just did. Is it hot? It wasn't elegant, but it was nice. I think maintaining the crunch. I think I can grab, oh, a broken one grabs. Huh? It's like a hook. It's like, oh. That's fun. It's like ramen fishing. You're fishing. But that has nothing to do with that collab over there, right? What? There's no fishing involved. No, but it has everything to do with this, the same two products. See, the problem is I don't, I can't twist 'cause my Funyun will fall off. What I tasted was good, but you, you can't soak the Funyuns 'cause that is soft as a baby's thumb right there. So if you want to keep the crunch. You gotta keep it out. Right. And do the, you can do the fishing thing. All of that's fun, and the taste is good. When you come back to this, if you're me, you will recognize that the flavor accuracy is not accurate. But this is fun. It's fun, but. Yun. Yun think so? But I would get very tired of that, and I would be embarrassed to be with someone doing it. In fact, I'm a little embarrassed right now. See. I mean, look at that. Yep. Mm-hmm. Yep. See, it's still happening. It's still going. Yep. And I'm sharing it with him. So I would say that this is not a wow situation for me. This isn't like, no, what we had last round. But neither is this. But this, yeah, so I don't really know. Can we just say, can we call it a draw? What do we do? No, what we have to say is it's not justified collab. It's not back to the lab. It's just like. N/A. For a limited time only, Cheez-It now has Wendy's Baconator on it. Or in it? Or. Around it. Something. A hundred percent real cheese, that's, that's, that's nothing news for a Cheez-It. I love a cheez-it. Okay. I love a baconator. Good thinkin', Cheez-It. Never had 'em before. Mm-hmm. Okay. When you get so attached to. I taste the bacon. A Cheez-It. I didn't think Cheez-Its needed improvements. I don't know if you can improve on a Cheez-It, except if you do the extra sharp, the white cheddar. Uh. Have you had those? Uh, on this show, I believe I have. And I think that I flipped. Don't you remember when I did a flip? Yeah, you did a flip. Um, these get better. The second one's better than the first one. You have to prepare your mouth for bacon flavored smokiness. It's like your mouth becomes acquainted with the idea. If you told me that this was a Mezcal Cheez-It. I'm not gonna tell you that. Because it's got smokiness. Okay? But a baconator. Just a straight baconator. Could you deposit some Cheez-Its on there, friend. Tell me when. Yeah, I, you can do that. But I think what they did was. I mean, if you go to the manufacturing facility. Well, hold on. Oh my God, that's good. Because the one thing that baconator doesn't have is crunch. Everything's soft, even the bacon. I think what they're doing is they're essencing Cheez-Its with Baconator. There's somebody, there's somebody at a certain point in the line before they like close up the box. A rubber. Yeah, there's a, there's a Cheez-It rubber who then rubs it on the Baconator. The official rubber? Is Jack Link's gonna be the official rubber of cheese, of baconator Cheez-Its, because that's too many brands, man. Yes. You're like Shaq now. Okay, well that Cheez-It just had, it had a lot of mayonnaise on it. Okay. Um. How do you get Baconator essence? Well, I was trying to get the bacon essence and the beef essence and I was, well that destroyed. I was. I think you gotta stick it in and pull it out. Stick it in, pull it out. That's a good idea. I was a little hopeful that when I started to do that, it would like play a song or something. You're getting too hopeful. You need to bring, you need to bring your life expectations back down to. Uh, I did get a little bit. Yeah, that, that was actually worked. I like a Cheez-It that's not been rubbed in baconator better than a, better than a Cheez-It that's been rubbed in baconator. That's step one. Step two, I think I like a Cheez-It better than a baconator infused Cheez-It. There is no step three. Step three is we vote. Yeah. What is the conclusion of your two steps? That I am saying it's back to the lab. I'm not gonna disagree with you because I just love a regular Cheez-It so much. Exactly. Back to the lab. For many years, you may know or may not know, we had a podcast called Ear Biscuits where we would talk about the things that were going on in our lives. Last year we stopped doing Ear Biscuits indefinitely, an indefinite pause. Mm-hmm. But we still have lives, and we still have things that are happening in those lives and we talk about them on Good Mythical More. In fact, today's Good Mythical More, I'm gonna tell you about a little trip I took to do some cave diving. Complete with pictures and videos. Woo. So if you like that Ear Biscuiteery type thing, then you should watch Good Mythical More. Today. We've got Trolli? Or is it Trolli? I would say Trolli. We're saying Trolli. 'Cause Link would say Trolli. Trolli, Mountain Dew flavor. What? Well, I wanna try regular Trolli first, just to make sure I, I know what's up. Remember it? Well, first of all, they're very different colors. Yeah, you got, you've got green ones, blue ones, and you still got red ones. And they have, uh, they have a spotted pattern. Totally different pattern. I've always liked the, the Trolli pattern. There's only two patterns that, no, here's the third one. The third one is blue. Okay. Blue and red. I'm gonna go with that one. These are good in the, I think they might be even better than Sour Patch Kids. 'cause they're, I don't, there's something about them, but. The fruit flavor of the actual gummies, um. More, more gummy. Is good. Hmm. You like that? Mm-hmm. Try this. And I know what a Mountain Dew tastes like. I'm gonna take the one that looks like a mountain dew. Whoa. Whoa. That's good. It's definitely very lemony and limey. Wow. In terms of accuracy, I don't. It doesn't taste like Mountain Dew. No, there's no Mountain Dew at all. Well let's find out. You tell me, because then. It is, actually, it is kind of similar. Yeah. Isn't that nice? And. Oh, more. Yeah, there's actually a. More. Yeah, there's an indicator back here to tell you when it's full. That's what that's for. Yep, let me tell you when it's full and I'll be ready. Well, I think you just give it a whole can. I could have poured it in there, but this is so much easier to carry around. I mean, this is why they put Trollis in these sacks. And if you do that, zip it up, take it into the movie theater in your trench coat. You do not have to buy a drink or candy. Right, because in. And I'm, and I'm currently, in protest to AMC, I am doing that. I've been taking in all my candy in my drink. I know you have. And I'm gonna be putting it all in one bag. But you want to test the zipper strength by holding it over your lap, or your head. Okay. Well let's just test it like this first. I mean, that's good. Yeah, I'd hold that. I'll hold that over your head. What, what. What? Why, why did it start to come out? You squeeze? No. What if I did that? Give it back? I would not squeeze it. I would not do that. Okay. Um. I would. Okay, well, I'm gonna use a fork. I'm gonna use chopsticks. Oh, you are? This, this makes this a whole more, more of, of a fun endeavor. Hm. You can take, you can still, oh I bet that's good. Let me have that. Mm-hmm. We're having so much more fun. They took the fun away. Oh. But again, we didn't know the fun was to be had, until they created it. So, we had to date this in order to wait two years to date this. Yes. And now we're in a, we're making love to this. But we're still in middle school, um. And you knew that already. I don't know what to think, man. I've confused myself so much. These are not as good as the original. But this also, it looks like they made a Mountain Dew Trolli soda. Yeah, we did. I mean, we basically created a whole new product. Well, we're marinating it. Like they, it exists. Oh, I thought we, oh, thank you. I thought we did it. Oh. You're saying it already exists? They collabed both ways. No, they didn't. Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. There's a can of Mountain Dew that has Trolli on. It is a, I'm looking at a bottle, but I'm sure the can exists. Well. What. What does that mean for us? That means that makes what we just did not as cool. It means they're both tops and bottoms. I think something has to be a justified collab, right. I think something has to be a justified collab, and I really like these. Oh yeah, we haven't done that yet. We wouldn't have this without that, now that's the new. Standard. Standard, if this leads to that, and no one's here yet except us and you need to join us. Well then we have to say. But hold on, you're saying if this leads to that, but that already exists, then we can't be happy about it. No, we can't. Is that what you were going with? Yep. We have to say justify collab. Oh, what? No, no, no. This already exists. Yeah, and this was good. Okay. Alright. How about, forget what I say. How about N/A? No. No. No. A/N. Okay. No. Justify collab. Finally, we asked the Mythical kitchen to invent a brand collab that doesn't exist yet. What? And we present to you Wingstop Ranch flavored Auntie Anne's pretzel. Look at that. Because Wingstop Ranch. Is the best Ranch. Is the best ranch, it's amazing. Matter of fact, you can just order the Wingstop Ranch from Wingstop. $4. Get this right there. Okay. I'm gonna try this first. It's the collab of the century, potentially. It's got all of the powder, the dried version. Hmm. I like the taste, but you know what it's making me want to do. Dip into that. It's making me wanna, I just see, when I see a big tub of ranch, I've been thinking about it the whole time. Ever since it was sat down. You can't put a tub of ranch next to me and not expect me to dip something in it. But you can't dip that, which it does taste phenomenal. Like the, the bite of the ranch comes through. But look at that. Yeah. Look at it. That is a nice savory pretzel. Just look at it, just look at it the way it jiggles. It's a great idea. Make a wish. Already did. Yeah, and you're about to get it. Yeah. That's what, that's the noise I make to my dog when he shouldn't be doing something. Mm-hmm. Er. Oh my God. I've never done this, do they have ranch at Auntie Anne's or just cheese? I don't know. Do they? There's no ranch. No. Nope. They should have ranch. Well, that's, that's our assertion. Looks like they do have Hidden Valley Ranch Dip at Auntie Anne's. Oh. Well they need Wingstop. So it's just not good enough. Well. Hmm. There's something about the wetness of a dip. That you can't get with the dryness of a powder. If it's a chip though, if it's a, like a, a ranch flavored chip, I would much prefer the Wingstop ranch 'cause it's the best ranch on a chip. Versus dipping. But, but, and I think I would prefer that over dipping the chip. Mm-hmm. In ranch. It's the pretzel of it all. But the pretzel is already dipping and they're dipping it, they're just dipping into the wrong ranch. Mm. So that's really what we're trying to tell Wingstop to do is get over, get in that Hidden Valley and put a Wingstop to it. You know what I'm saying? That's gonna be, I mean that you think we have the power to make that happen? I don't know about that. I mean, they need to sell this in the stores. I know that. Is what we're asking. Yep. I just don't think we have the power. No, we don't. So by you even saying it, I'm already pre disappointed. By the fact that they're not gonna do it. Okay. They're gonna keep Hidden Valley. But you're not yet disappointed. Good. I'm not yet disappointed, but this is not a justified collab then, even though. No, it's a, this is a special case. Uh, so we're gonna go asterisk special case. Back to the lab. Should be Wingstop ranch. What? At Auntie Anne's. As a dip. Which is not one of the options. Okay, but that's what we've decided. Okay, so, I mean, we weren't really on the team, uh, collab in this one. But we could be, so let us know in the comments what other ones you think we should try. Yes. Thanks for commenting and sharing, you done? Yep. Yep. I was gonna say thanks for sharing the video. Yeah, I was gonna say that. Okay. Sharing the video. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How about, you know what time it is? Hi, I'm Liz. I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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