Channel: Good Mythical Morning
YouTube Video ID: xKpJJKG-0Sg
Episode Number: 3101
Transcript
- How cheap did stuff use to be? - Let's talk about it. (laid back theme song) - Good mythical morning. - A lot of the stuff we buy used to be way cheaper not that long ago, and it makes us so mad, we wanna hit something! - Yeah! First, we tried hitting the books. - Hmm. - Then we hit the hay. - Yeah. - But none of that was enough, so we did what we do best and we made a game to take out our anger. - It's time for "Penny Punchers". (intense music) (bell rings) We're on the same team. - Mm-hmm. - [Rhett] Oh. (crew laughs) - Oh, yeah, I'm ready! - Sorry about that. - Look at this, we got us a boxing machine. - So the art team built this. - Penny Punchers, look it. Way to go, art team. (crew applauds) - Or did we rent it and put our own branding on top of it? - Dang, look at that. I think we rented it. - I've seen these on the internet. I've never actually punched one. I'm excited because now, we're on the internet and we get to punch it. - Ha! I haven't punched much of anything. Jenna, what are we doing? - Yeah, how does this work? - [Jenna] We're going to show you an item and its current retail price. You'll work together to guess how much it used to cost in a specific year in the past. - Okay. - [Jenna] Then you'll punch the machine to bank your dollars and cents and you have to alternate punches until you lock in your guess. - 'Cause we're teammates. - [Jenna] Yes. - And we're locking in our guess. Don't damage the puncher. - That's right. I'm might have to go lefty. - All right, what's our first one? - [Jenna] A five pound bag of fresh roasted brand coffee beans, right now, it goes for 70.95. - Good gosh! - [Jenna] But how much did it cost in 2016? If you guess within 20% of the 2016 price, you win the round. You need to win three of the four rounds to win this fight. Oh, and no more than five total punches per round. - All right, that's enough stipulations. - This is the thing- - I just can't handle any more. - This is the thing they do to get the lymphatic system. - The limp? - Okay, that's expensive. - $71 for coffee? What happened? - But it's five, it's five pounds, so do the math on that. - The good news is- - It's quite a few dollars per pound. - We lived in the past. - I was alive in 2016. I almost remember it. - Oh, gosh, we were so alive. - Now- - We were still kind of old, still kind of middle aged. - So, there's inflation that has contributed to this price increase, but there's also, like, the coffee regions are moving because of climate change. They're moving. - Hmm. Don't look so happy when you say that. - Oh, no, I'm just like a science teacher. They're moving. - Okay, okay, yeah. - I'm just trying to engage you. - I'm engaged. I might... Watch out, I might punch you in the face by accident. (Rhett chuckles) - So I think... (Link chuckles) Well, let's me just, let's just go with-- - Turn your head next time I do this. Sell it. - Okay. Go with your instincts. What do you think? What would you say, 10 years ago? And let's just see where you end up. - $48. - Okay. - Based on what you said, $48. - I mean, I was gonna say 45. - Oh, all right. - So we should do 46.50. - We're going for 46.50. - Hit the green button to bring it down, Neal. - Well, first, we have to decide where the decimal goes 'cause right now, it's hundreds of dollars. Stay back, stay back. - I mean- - You don't want me to punch you. - The people on the internet, man, they go to, like, 900 and something. So if you put the decimal right there, then you might get $90 and we've already blown it! - Thanks for that vote of confidence. So you just want me to do ones of dollars at a time? - Yeah, 'cause I think you can't do it at 900. - Okay, all right. - Look at you. - See what happens. Just push this, huh? - I believe in you. - Okay. - Don't punch it as hard as you can though because we're gonna hurt ourselves. - Right, right, we don't wanna hurt ourselves. - Just a nice solid, like, "Hey, buddy. You trying to take my wallet?" - Punch me. (crew laughs) Give me a jab, give me a jab. Ugh. Oh, oh. - Yeah, see that's why- - I don't wanna do that again. (crew laughs) - That's why I didn't wanna do it. I don't want to hurt my neck. - Yeah. - [Rhett] Hey, buddy, don't take my wallet. - All right, I'm okay, but I'm not gonna do that again. - [Rhett] Okay, all right. - [Link] Oh, God. (crew laughs) - [Crew Member] What? - And I stretched this morning. - I haven't even punched the thing. All right, I'm good. I'm good. My neck's too long. - Yeah. - That's what my physical therapist told me. - Well, we're looking at getting it shortened. - I'll just have surgery. (crew laughs) All right, so just go up here and then. - [Rhett] Okay. - [Link] So that was, I just felt kinda- - Oh, look at that, effortless 322. - [Link] Wha... Okay. - So that's $3.22. - So if I would have gone... If the decimal would have been there, we'd have been so close. - We've been at 32 already. So I feel like I should leave it at that just to get a... I got to get a feel for this. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - 322, effortless 322. - But go hard now. - Hey, buddy. - I would... Why are your hands down? Okay. All right. That also looked effortless, but it was a lot more than my punch. - Okay. - So I don't know how that makes me feel. - [Rhett] All right, so now, math. - [Link] What are we at? - 3.22. Do we have to do... Oh, they're doing the math for us! - Yes, 7.86! (crew applauds) - Okay, Link, I think... (crew laughs) I think- - Move it. - We have five of these, so I think you got to go here. And now, it gets really tricky. So I wanna go less. - Wow. - Okay, hold on. So what do you wanna get? If we're at $7 and we're trying... We need a, we... If you want me to be able to punch again- - You don't have to. - I don't have to. So if you do a $40 punch, we'll be almost directly at our number. Do a $39 punch. - So a little harder. - So a little bit harder than last time. Oh, that was way harder than last time. What in the world? (crew cheers and laughs) You have no sense of... - I don't know my own strength! - You have no touch. (Link chuckles) - [Link] So- - All right, so- - [Link] $48. - We're screwed. - No, no, no, no, no, no. We could have just been wrong about the number. - Okay, so we're dialed in at 56.66. - [Jenna] Okay, your bank total has 56.76. - Okay. - [Jenna] Your target total for the five-pound coffee beans from 2016 was 39.95. - Whoa! - [Jenna] Which means you're 42% away, (buzzer blares) so you do not win this round. - It was so much cheaper a decade ago. - I think 46.50 would have done it though. I think it would have been just underneath. (upbeat music) - [Jenna] Next, we have the Weber Genesis grill. Currently, the average retail price is $1,299, but how much would it set you back in 2015? - Weber. I used to call it Wee-ber. - No, you didn't. - Yeah, for a couple years there. - The Genesis. So this was the first of its kind. - Yep. - [Jenna] Now let's talk about your prize or punishment 'cause you're already one down. You need to win three of the four rounds in this price fight. - Yes. - Uh-oh. - [Jenna] So if you win, you get to drink a refreshing, delicious punch. But if you don't- - [Link] Oh. - [Jenna] You have to drink Mythical Kitchen's nasty knockout punch. - [Link] All right, and I do see some- - [Rhett] Eggs? - [Link] Nasty onions- - [Rhett] Oh, onions. - [Link] Floating in that sucka. - Okay. - That's an expensive Weber. I thought they had the cheaper grills, you know? - I think that stainless steel with the four knobs- - That's the high end. - Probably got a rotis inside. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah. - What do you think's driving the price here, all that stainless steel? - I think there's component parts. Now that ship... Shipping got screwed during COVID, and what ended up happening is your component parts are much harder to find. And I would assume there's, like, specialty parts in here. - But I don't think we're in coffee territory. Like, the supply chains of coffee and- - Climate change. So, what, $800? 850. 899? 875. - I like 899. - 899. - He's punching first. - So where do I wanna put my decimal for this? How many... We get five punches. I feel like I got to go tens of dollars here. - [Jenna] I feel like if you're going for hundreds, the decimal is not in the right spot. - No, I'm not going for total hundreds. - [Jenna] You go for tens. - Oh. - [Link] You need to go for 100s. - Yeah, I need to go for 100s. - [Link] Yeah. (crew laughs) - [Jenna] Okay, there we go. There we go, okay. - Yeah, all right. - That's what I was thinking, not what I was doing. So I wanna get like a third of the way. Keep it interesting. - Just bust it, man. Okay. - I mean, that was less than my last one! That was less than the one where I was just up there like that. - Yeah, 'cause you just kinda walked up to it. - It's something about... It's something about timing. - All right. - 435. - So now, I need to match what you just did. - But I would say- - I'm gonna do an impression of you but I'm gonna go a little lighter. - I think this thing's a little tricky because that was less than my punch when I was just right there. I don't know. I don't know how much I trust this thing all of a sudden. - I'm just gonna go easy because we have more punches, and I went too so hard last time. - Went too so hard. (crew laughs) - Well, listen, I'm getting a feel for it. - I mean, that's crazy. - So... - It barely pushed up, and it went to 244. - I know. (chuckles) - [Rhett] So I got to do a little baby punch just like you did. - Oh. That's what we wanted. - What does that put us at? Oh, 891. You know what, Link? - 891. - I got an idea. You come in here, give us a 800 punch, and then maybe $8. Give us everything you got. Hold on, hold on, I got an idea. I brought something. I know you hate this. That's why I took a picture the other day. (crew laughs) I took a picture of a man who was talking on speakerphone in public. - Oh, my God! - And I know you hate it, so I want you to punch that sucker! - Why, why? - Punch that sucker! - Why? Why, why, why? That's not how you talk on a phone. Come on. - Yeah, you're mad now. - Gah! - 800 punch! 800 punch! 800 punch! (Link grunts) - It sounded like something 'cause (crew laughs) when you hit that paper, boy. Did I not follow through? - I mean, it looked good to me. - [Link] All right. - [Rhett] You wanna stick there? - Add $4, yeah. Come on. - You wanna stick there? - No, we're getting a feel for it. Come on, add a little bit to it. Come on. Add a couple dollars. Add a couple dollars. Yeah, there we go. Oh, you got another one? - Yeah, I put something that really ticks me off, when somebody just puts their dookie bag on the street. (laughs) You know? - Is that a human dookie bag? (Rhett chuckles) (crew laughs) Yeah, why you got to do that? (crew laughs) (Link laughs) You did, you did the lowest... It didn't work, man. - It was too wide. It was too wide. I couldn't see my target anymore. - I think that what happens is when you put that printer paper on there, it just slips off. - Was that one cent? - No, that's 1/10 of a cent. - [Jenna] No, that was one cent. - That's one cent, one cent. Yeah, yeah. - I know how to read that. (crew laughs) - Hold on, I feel like we should embrace destiny. - This is 1/10 tenth of a cent. Oh, I lost the decimal. - Let's embrace destiny and stop with 895.74. - [Jenna] That was also your fifth punch, so- - Okay, let's embrace the rules. - [Jenna] Destiny has decided for you. - Okay. - [Jenna] Okay, so the retail price of the Weber grill in 2015 was actually $699. - We are over blowing. - [Jenna] Which means you are 28%- - Okay. (buzzer blares) - [Jenna] Away. - We got to re-center. - [Jenna] So you have lost. - Okay, all right. First of all, now, we can't win, so here's my proposal. The next two rounds, we got to get within 10% on both of them. And I feel like with everything we're learning, we're gonna do that. - Yeah. - Okay, Jenna? - [Jenna] I approve, yes. Producers approve? Yes, yes? - Yeah. - [Jenna] Everyone approves. - Okay. (upbeat music) - [Jenna] Next up, concert tickets. - Oh, now, this is crazy. These are getting crazy. - [Jenna] The average price of a standard ticket to Madonna's recent Celebration Tour was $208. How much was a standard ticket to her Blonde Ambition Tour in 1990? - Standard ticket? - That's a lot better tour, you know? (crew laughs) I mean, I think her- - You mean the new one? - No. - The new one. You mean 2025. - I mean, I think that was the- - Tell us what was better about it. - Well, the bras were pointier, the brassieres or whatever she was wearing. I mean, look at that outfit. Good gosh. - Say more, Link. (crew laughs) - I mean, poke your eye out with that ninny. - What else you got? - I mean, no running around the pool, Madonna. - Okay, you should have stopped short. - Because you might run into my face. And I would bleed, but I wouldn't complain. - There you go. Okay, Link. - Yes, I'm trying to intercept Madonna running around a pool. - This is- - On my face. - This is a lot of years. This is 35 years, so this is a completely different timeframe. And we were so far off, we underestimated. I think we're talking less than $20. There's no way it's more than $20. We are in teens of dollars for a standard ticket to a concert in 1990. - $20? - Okay, no more than $30. $25. - It can't go over $30. - It's $25, how about that? We got to be within 10%, Link. - And I'm not punching hard anymore. It's like my wrist hurts. - It's starting to hurt? - Yeah. - So hold on, so hold on. Whoa, don't... - Just let me. - Yeah, but if we're going for $20, you don't need to be already in the double digits. Come on, brother. - Yeah, thanks for stopping me. - Come on, brother. (crew laughs) - We're having trouble with these decimals. - Well... - You did too. - Yeah. - See, look at that, just nice and easy. We're dialing it in. - Okay, so you got 2.67. I mean, we can do more than that. I mean, I just wanna kinda... I wanna figure this thing out. I think the running is definitely not working. - Don't run. - [Rhett] Okay. - [Link] Gracious. - [Rhett] Whoa! - $5.49. - Okay. Okay, $6.49. Come on. - Oh. (crew laughs) From my angle- - Come on now! - From my angle, I couldn't see that little thingy there. - So hold on now- - We're at $9.16. - So we're not gonna get to 25 at this rate, but I don't really trust you. - Just let me move this and give you just like 10. - Oh. Oh, God. I don't know. I don't trust you, man. - All right, I'll stay here, but then you got to dial it in. You see, that's 3.92 just right there. - This is a cheap ticket. - Okay. All right. So we're at 13. So I'm gonna try to do... Basically, I need like a 20... I need, like, 2,200 here to get to, like, 220. 220, what does that feel like? Visualize. - It's just a slow train coming, popping all the way through. - First of all, that's not what I'm trying to get. I need to get $12, 120. - That's a really slow train. - How do you do that? I mean, no one- - Don't turn your shoulder. - No one has gotten into the 100s. - Do this. Dink it, just dink it. Go a little less than you think. (crew laughs) Hey, I know what that feels like. That's the type of thing that I do on occasion. - Okay, Link. Ah! - It's up to me. - I can't believe this has happened. - You've just added- - I think if I had to go with my instincts- - 10 cents. - And not your instruction, I would have done it. - Well, you did ask. I felt like I had to say something, but I don't even remember what I said. - See, this is the thing that screwed me up, changing my technique, because I've dialed in my technique to know how it feels. I should have just gone with 1/6 of my punch. So, Link, you need to do 120, which is lighter than anything you've done except for when you did the one. - Ha! That's okay. I went over, but- - Okay, well- - That's not... I think we were- - Now, we're up, we're over $30. - This might be the first one that we underestimated. - Maybe it was 29.99. Who knows? - [Jenna] The retail price of Madonna's tour in 1990 was $30. - Ah! - Yes! - Okay. - [Jenna] You are within 9%! - Yes! - [Jenna] You're back, y'all. - So now, we're still in this- - We're still alive! - In our updated rules. (crew laughs) I wanna invite you to listen to my dad's podcast with me, "Dispatches from Myrtle Beach". He's in Myrtle Beach. I'm here. We talk to each other every week. It's sweet. It's funny. It's off the rails. You listen to it, right? - Oh, yeah, I love your dad. - And he loves you? - And he loves me. - Less than he loves me? - I mean, I'm not gonna say that, but you did say it. - Good. (upbeat music) We got this. I said we got this. (crew laughs) - Yeah, we got this. - We got this. - We got this. - [Rhett and Link] We got this. - We got this. - We got this, dude. - We got this. - [Jenna] You, you're doing great. Oh, dear. (crew laughs) - We're not trainers, okay? - [Jenna] Okay, you're- - 10%, we got this. - [Jenna] 10% on this last one. But here's the thing. There's a twist. - No, no. - [Jenna] Uh-huh. You can't see. - Yes, we- - [Jenna] Yeah, neither guy can watch the other punch or know the score. - Oh, God. - [Jenna] You got to guess how hard to go based on sound alone. - All right, what's our item? - [Jenna] These days, a base model Ford F-150 will set you back $39,000 just to start. How much would a base model Ford F-150 cost in 1995? - That's a good looking truck in '95. - It looked good, man. It looked so good. - That's the one I would want now. - Why did they change it, man? Aerodynamics? - They're all the time changing things, and you get far enough away from it that then it looks cool and you think it was better what it used to be. - The wheels could be a little bit bigger. - I remember when that body style in '95 came out, I didn't like it. - Oh. But you like it now. - But I like it now. Uh-huh. - Okay, all right, okay. Well, we can't just... There's no discussion. This is all within the hits, the respective hits. - I'll just, I'm gonna use this as my- - The thing you will know... I'm gonna go first. The thing you will know, Link, is where the decimal... Wherever I leave the decimal is where I had the decimal, okay? - I think you should probably be all the way to the right. - [Jenna] Also, a reminder, there is a comma instead of a decimal. - [Link] Oh. - Oh, yeah, well, we need that. - [Link] Yeah, throw that up there. - [Jenna] And you all can discuss the price you think ahead of time as well. You just can't know- - [Link] 39,000. - Ah, all right. - [Jenna] What each one punched. - Well, we're back. we're back! - [Jenna] There you go, you're back! - I remember looking at the 1995, I specifically remember... Now, I wanted a Chevy S-10. Sorry, Ford, but I remember- - They looked cool. - Going to the lot and looking at those new S-10s when I was... In '95, I was 17 years old. I was thinking about the rest of my life in an S-10. I didn't ever... I never got it. - No, because- - I was handed down the dynasty. - Yeah, you went to the lot alone. - Oh, yeah, many times. (Link laughs) And I believe that at that time, these were between... The base model of a S-10 was probably 13 to $14,000 in 1995 just based on just a blind guess. - But this is- - And I think the Ford would probably be about the same. - This would be a Silverado, not an S-10. This is a F-150. - Oh, F-150. So we're gonna go to 17, 18,000? I mean, it's only 39. Is that with rebates? (crew laughs) - It's just starting price. - Trucks always have rebates. - It's just starting price. - What do you wanna say, 17,000? - Okay. - As a target? - All right. - So that means I need... Now, I got to do some math here, 'cause if I put the comma here, what does that mean? That becomes a zero. - [Link] Don't make any noises 'cause I wanna to listen to the machine when you hit it. Oh. All right. Silence. Can you reset it? - I will. - Got to reset it so I can't see it. - [Rhett] It's reset. - All right, hood down. I mean, you went hard, and so I'm trying to do the same thing. - [Rhett] Oh, gosh, that sounded weak. (crew laughs) That was week AF, man. - All right, you see what that is? And I was looking for the total, but I don't see it. Reset, your turn. - I would guess that he just did 320 or so based on that sound. So that would be like 3,000 up from where I was. I'm not gonna say my number. - [Link] It's the third punch. - [Rhett] So- - [Link] We've got some work to do. - There is a strategy that I could employ where I could do the same thing that I did the first time, and then my buddy could do the same thing that he did the second time, and we could get approximately to the number that we talked about. But that would require my buddy listening to me right now and doing the thing that I am prescribing, (crew laughs) which is always a big question mark. (chuckles) (crew laughs) Okay. - [Link] Was I drinking out of your water earlier? - See, he's drinking. (crew laughs) All right, listen up. - [Link] Yes. Gracious! Wait, you got something to prove? - That was pretty dang good, Link. - I feel like that was an aggressive punch. - Now, I can watch because I'm not gonna punch... No, I can't watch. - Can't watch because- - I'm planning on not punching again. Let me just tell you that, Link. - We've always overestimated. - [Rhett] Just stick with the plan! - So I'm gonna go a little lighter than I was. - Go to the plan! (Link chuckles) Ugh. - Not far. All right. - Okay, that feels right. - Let me reset it. - I looked at it, but I was done regardless of what you did. - You were done because I thought I gave you an opportunity if you thought I was weak. - Nope. - All right, fine. So what did we do? - [Jenna] You all did... (laughs) This is such a... The number that you all punched was 17,950. - Yes. - Yes. (laughs) - [Jenna] Which is what y'all wanted. The past retail price from 1995 for this Ford F-150 is 14,500. - [Rhett] Oh. - [Jenna] Your percentage was 24%. (buzzer blares) - Yeah, we should- - [Jenna] You didn't, you didn't do it. - We always overestimated, man. - So my S-10 of what I said was 13 to 14,000 was actually the price of the F-150. - Yeah. - [Jenna] Yes, yes. So you have lost, so now, you have to drink Mythical Kitchen's nasty knockout punch. - [Rhett] Ah. - I'll bring it up here. - Oh, man. Hey, but I feel like we got a lot better at that game as we went. - There's one for me, and here's one for you with some onion in it. Dink it. - And sink it. - Oh, baby! - Oh, God! (crew laughs) Oh! Oh! - Ugh! - Oh! - Hey, and listen. - Oh, we earned it! - And of course, because we're celebrating season 30, we're going to have 30 seasonings. Let's bring in the 30 seasonings. And we have to eat 30% of these 30 seasonings, which is about a third, Link. - Oh, my God. Now, I feel like I need to drink more of this. (crew laughs) I need more of this. (Rhett coughs) - [Crew Member] Don't you have water right there? - Oh, yeah. (crew laughs) Thanks for being your mythical best. - You know what time it is. - I'm Nicole. - And I'm Rachel. - And we're in The Bahamas airport, headed back to San Francisco. - [Rachel and Nicole] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. - Oh, yeah. - They must had a good time in The Bahamas to be that happy on the way home. You know? - Yes, sir. - I'm typically sad when I'm in the airport, but... I'm gonna go to Bahamas with y'all next time. - All right, we're gonna think of a number, okay? - Three, two, one. Six! - Three! (crew laughs) Why do you look more disappointed than me? Because you're the one who was wrong. (crew laughs) - That's how it works. - Join us in "Good Mythical More" to watch us craft the perfect airport experience. Join my dad, Charles, and me as we talk all things under the sun in our latest episode of "Dispatches from Myrtle Beach".