(rooster crowing) (lion roaring) – Welcome to Good Mythical More, let’s see what kind of bullcrap is being served up to us about Jack in the Box. Not from Jack in the Box, but from our crew. – Let’s play “What’s the Word?” Where we guess the definition of the word snollygoster. Snollygoster. – Snollygoster. It sounds like something within the context of a profession, it’s a professional term. And I think involves water, it might be on the ocean, I’m just getting a sense, like a snollygoster is like, it’s when the sea swells up in the midst of a storm, and it swallows your boat, but then you’re okay. – Okay. I was thinking just like a awkward handshake. You know? Like one that doesn’t quite settle in. – Oh, it’s like… – Like, oh! Oh, do we fist bump? Are we just? Snollygoster. And you call it off. – Oh, it’s like an abort handshake terminology? What is it? – “A shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.” Oh, he’s a snollygoster. – Oh. Well, we were both wrong. All right. So we’re gonna learn more about Jack in the Box, and also learn what our crew has lied to us about. Let’s say our team, kinda like Kardashians do. Our team’s gonna lie to us about Jack in the Box. – [Stevie] Guys. For this More, there is a prize. You could win a Jack in the Box bobble head, if you win. So take this extremely seriously, please. – Okay. – After what happened to Jack in the Box in that game… – [Stevie] Yeah. Well, they try to do too much. – You mind if I? – [Stevie] Too much. In the 1980s, Jack in the Box changed their name to Monterey Jack’s in an effort to rebrand. – In the 1980s? – [Stevie] Mm-hm. – Why would they do that? – Sometimes it happens after there’s like, an E. coli scare or something like that. I don’t know if that happened to Jack in the Box. – I think they had one, but… – It happened to PD Quix, remember PD Quix? – Yeah. – There was some sort of… – Watch out now! – Food poisoning thing. – That was the first place I ate a nicely seasoned fry seasoning. Well, they have it at Bojangles. At a burger joint. Burger joint, they would season their burgers, too. – I don’t think this happened, I don’t remember this happening. I wasn’t really fond of Jack in the Box. – I’m gonna say yeah. Yeah, Monterey Jack, they wanted to get away from the box. – [Stevie] Yeah. In the mid 1980s, Jack in the Box in order to boost sales did some rebranding. This proved to work incredibly well until 1985, when they changed their name to Monterey Jack’s. This actually for whatever reason made sales nosedive, and people hated it. So it barely lasted for a year before it was switched back. – Monterey. What about Monterey? I think people just associate it with the cheese. When you think Monterey Jack, then all of a sudden it’s like “Are they too cheese forward? That makes me nervous.” – It seems like a weird choice now. – Do you think that Jack in the Box people watched what just happened on that main episode, and is there like, do you think action is taken? I don’t wanna say that we’ve got that much power. – [Stevie] We’re gonna get an email that says “We’re so sorry for Rhett and Link’s experience with the food, in order to make up for it, we’d like to give you these pieces of paper that give you free breakfast at Jack in the Box so you can have a different experience.” – You think that’s gonna happen? – [Stevie] I wouldn’t doubt it. – Well, but I just wanna know that like, when they look, do they know? – I feel kinda bad, but we gotta do our job. – But the people at Jack in the Box, who make the food, the actual chefs who make the food. – Oh, you’re talking employees. – Are they saying things like, no, not employees, the people at the food science place that develop the recipes. – Okay, yeah. – So I’m saying, when we put those two breakfast sandwiches, ’cause a lot of times we put the breakfast sandwiches next to each other, and it was clear that Burger King had a lot more heft and height. Thickness is probably the word that I should use. – Heft, height, and thickness, use all three. – Do you think that they’re like “Yeah, I know, our sandwiches are too thin, I’ve been saying it for years but corporate won’t let us go thicker because of the margins.” But like, “We’re being exposed.” And then there’s a meeting about making things thicker again. – [Stevie] I think that somebody’s walking into a board room, and they’re not saying anything, and their feet are (tapping) and then they turn, they turn on the TV, then they just play the video and they go “What’s this?” – And then they stand there beside the video. – I hope that’s what happens. – I mean, I think anyone who has a vested interest in Jack in the Box is probably hating us, picking us apart first, and then secondarily, picking these particular sandwiches apart. But are they owning the fact that we’re trying our best to be as honest as possible, and this could be constructive? – Something on the right side of your face. Yeah, maybe they’re like “Oh, you guys got a flat Jack in the Box, they didn’t do it right, you guys have a flat location.” – Flat in the Box. – I don’t know. – [Stevie] In 2005, a customer at a Destin, Florida Jack in the Box claimed to find a part of a bird’s beak in her Jack’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich. However, it turned out to be just a piece of an employee’s fake fingernail, which is only slightly less gross. – Gross! – Destin, Florida. My family, we went on vacation to Destin one time. Swam out into the Gulf of Mexico with my brother, really really far, so clear, and we just swam down in 12 feet of water with no waves, and picked up sand dollars, which we probably should’ve have done, don’t advise that, and brought them back to the shore, set them on the shore, and we’re like “We’re gonna take all these sand dollars home!” Of course we weren’t. Just let ’em die on the beach and then left ’em there. I feel bad about it, okay? – That’s a sweet little image, though. – Very sweet, until the part where they all died. But you know, I bet you somebody came along and picked them and put ’em into a store. True. ‘Cause you would mistake a bird beak as a fingernail. – I forgot we hadn’t, I was thinking true the whole time. – [Stevie] It’s fake. – Oh, man. – [Stevie] I mean unless it happened but nobody reported on it. In which case it would be true, but for this game it’s fake. – Rhett winning? – No. – Am I winning? – Yeah. – Okay, it’s on my side. – [Stevie] When Jack in the Box first opened its doors, a burger only cost 18 cents. – They’re not that old. – Yeah, they’re not that old, I’m going with you, Jack in the Nah-X! – [Stevie] It’s true. – 18 cents? – What? How old is this place? – [Stevie] Opened in 1951, first location in San Diego was also the first fast food restaurant ever to have a two way intercom drive-through, so it also revolutionized the drive-through experience. – Jack in the Box came up with the intercom? – Two-way intercom. They put a mic in it. – Man, they’re so innovative, and they’ve been around for a lot longer than I realized, ’cause we didn’t really have much, any, in North Carolina. Are there still no Jack in the Boxes? There are Jack in the Boxes in North Carolina. – Well, I haven’t been back in a while, but I don’t think so. – [Stevie] In 1998, a woman tried suing Jack in the Box after being admitted to the hospital in order to remove a Jack in the Box car antenna topper from her bum. – Definitely. – So that would be one of these. – I wonder, did she climb up on the roof of the car, jump off and try to… Did she try to become the topper of the topper, or did she take it off and…? – I mean first of all, this totally checks out. If you put this inside your butt hole, it’d be difficult to get out, but this little nose would be a problem. So I don’t think this happened. I think she was smart enough, she said “Oh I thought this was a good idea until I saw the little nose.” – Rhett, Rhett, Rhett, we’ve talked to plenty of ER doctors. We know that anything that can go in the rectum, does. – Does. – [Stevie] That may be true, but this story is fake. – Aw, y’all are taking advantage of me. – [Stevie] And the clue was that “A woman” at the beginning. – Oh, you don’t think women stick things up the booty hole? – [Stevie] I’m just kidding. No, no, no, you know what? No, that’s not what I’m saying. – Probably not as much as men, you’re right. – [Stevie] In 2019, Jack hosted a week-long AMA, I’m just saying that women, if they were to stick something up their butt, they calculate it better. – Right, right, right. They look at all the edges and they find the noses. – [Stevie] In 2019, Jack hosted a week-long AMA on Reddit where he encouraged fans to ask him anything, which is what an AMA is. – For a whole week? – [Stevie] One fan said “Your egg rolls are amazing and addicting. Just how much crack do you put in them?” – That it? – [Stevie] That’s all. Did somebody ask that or not? – Did a Reddit user ask about crack? I mean I felt like after seeing those tweets that there would be a response. – This happened. – And by the way, the answer, probably yes, they are amazing. – [Stevie] Wait, you’re saying no, Link, or? – Oh. Thank you. – Thank you. – [Stevie] Yeah. It was posted by Reddit user karlsmission, and Jack responded with “0% crack, 100% proud of you.” – Oh, that’s sweet. – I did not eat at Jack in the Box until we started having him on the show, and when you did the episode about the tacos, now I’m hooked on the tacos, and the egg rolls. – Oh, you did the egg rolls, huh? I don’t think I’ve done the egg roll in a while. – I do egg rolls, tacos, and chicken fingers. I don’t buy any burgers, and curly fries. – When do you do this? And your whole family eats it? – When Christy’s not involved in the process. I’m just like “Hey, you wanna get some Jack in the Box? Sampler platter?” – Do you get the mini tacos? – No. – Yeah, the mini tacos are not good. ‘Cause me and Shepherd got a whole thing of the mini tacos, I was like “This is not what I remember.” – Do the bigguns. Big tacos, big egg rolls. I mean those are some hefty egg rolls. – [Stevie] In 2012, Jack in the Box ran a promotion to win a free Mustang convertible. The eventual winner turned out to be a district manager’s son, who they found out fixed the competition. – That’s incredibly hard to do, especially at the district level, and also, if you’re just related to the person, I mean I know there’s that whole McDonald’s Monopoly documentary series that was incredible, but… – That’s probably where the lie came from. – Yeah, yeah, but it’s harder than you think. The FBI has to get involved, and… – [Stevie] Yeah, it’s fake. I love that you were like “District manager? Psh, no.” (Rhett laughs) – You gotta have somebody more on the inside there. – Rhett’s taken the lead, Stevie, if I may, I just… I wanna promote some Mythical Society stuff, because August is our Mythical Society Friendship Month, and we got a lot of exciting promotions going on there. For one, we got a buy one get one option for first degree, that’s through August 16th, you buy a first degree, you get the second one for a month. And there’s a ton of content over on the Mythical Society, you can get even more from us this summer with bingeable series like “Rhett and Link React.” – Yeah, we react to our old stuff. – And brand new series “Friend Science,” with Mike McHargue, tell ’em about it, Rhett. – Well this is when Mike, who’s very smart, just analyzes our friendship and then gives you some tidbits, almost from a psychological perspective, on what makes a long term friendship work, or just what makes a friendship work. – So you can become a better friend. – Yeah. Join second or third degree to watch and find out, plus, again, that first degree buy one get one free through August 16th. Friendship Month, MythicalSociety.com! – Yes. – [Stevie] In 1996, Jack I. Box, which I guess that’s his official name, that dude. – Hold on. No, you’re talking about Jacki Box? Jacki Box is Jack in the Box’s aunt. – [Stevie] Ran for president in a national independent virtual poll, and wound up beating Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. – A national, independent, virtual poll in 1996, easily hackable. I believe that this happened. – Virtual poll. – I mean that’s how we won that radio contest in North Carolina, is we just got a bunch of people to cheat. – Yeah, but that wasn’t 1996. – No, it was like 2004, or something like that. – They weren’t trying to do internet marketing. – And it wasn’t cheating, it was you could vote as many times as you wanted to, so we had some dudes who just made a computer just constantly vote for us, because it was within the rules. And we won, and that’s really why we have a career. It all is based on a lie. – Whoops. – [Stevie] It’s real. – It’s real? – [Stevie] Yeah, he had a campaign commercial, it’s a skeleton campaign commercial. But I agree, it’s interesting that it was an internet situation, ’cause in 1996, I believe that was the year that I accidentally went to Fantasy.com when I was assigned fantasy as my genre project. – Fantasy.com? – They had gobbled up Fantasy.com back then? – [Stevie] Lot of boobies. – Only thing that Fantasy.com sells is just Jack in the Box heads that you can put in your butt hole. But different sizes. You start with small ones, and you work your way up to big ones. – Just hush on that. – Just hush on that, don’t (indistinct). – Just hush. – [Stevie] A Jack in the Box in Vegas has a chapel that ordains hundreds of weddings every year. – I’ve been to Vegas, I’ve seen the chapels. I don’t believe I’ve seen a Jack in the Chapel. – I bet you they’ve done it. – [Stevie] It’s fake, but Jack in the Chapel is pretty good. I think after they watch the main episode, they’re gonna come over here, they’re gonna hear all the nice things you said about their tacos, their egg rolls, and then they’re gonna have Jack in the Chapel in Vegas, and that’s when we’ll know they watched the episode. – Yeah, but you shouldn’t Jack in the Chapel, because… – Hush, man. – No, but I’m just saying. – Hush! – That’s not a thing, they’re not gonna do that, ’cause they’re gonna think about what I just said. – What type of person do you wanna be? – I’m helping them out, just in case they thought it was gonna be a good idea. Not in the chapel. – [Stevie] Jack in the Box holds a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest coupon, or coupon, as some people say. – Definitely a real thing, this is totally the kind of thing Jack would do. – This is fun. I wanna see it. – World’s largest coupon. – And I hope it’s the largest value, largest amount off for the coupon. – [Stevie] It’s real! 2015, it was eight stories tall, here’s a photo. I mean, that kinda just looks like a regular advertisement to me. – Yeah, it really does. You gotta rip it down and take it in? – [Stevie] Well, in order to qualify, it had to be redeemed, so they brought it through a drive-through in West Hollywood and gave a bunch of people free Buttery Jack burgers. – Is the Jack in the Box guy… How many guys is the Jack in the Box guy? – Only one guy, you need to look at the hands. – I mean, I think that… 15, at least. – [Stevie] I mean, all of the people we’ve had on the show that wear helmets are totally the real guy. – Yeah, definitely, 100%. No doubts about that. – [Stevie] Jack I. Box is a part of a heavy metal band called Meat Riot. – So… – Yes, they’ve tried. – They do a lot of promo things, but… – From a marketing standpoint, they have really buttered the- – Is it Jack, or is it the guy who plays Jack? – Buttered the buttery. – Does he wear his head? – [Stevie] Wait, so you’re… – I’m saying it’s not real. – [Stevie] Okay. It’s real. – Oh, it’s real. – [Stevie] They performed their song “Hot Mess” in a 2013 Super Bowl commercial. Still… – Ah, yes. Okay. – [Stevie] yeah. – Hot Mess. – [Stevie] I can play the song for you after we wrap. I know that you really wanna hear it. – “People also asked, ‘Who is the mascot of Jack in the Box?’ ‘Did Jack in the Box serve kangaroo meat?’” – [Stevie] What’s the score? – I am up by two points. Six to four, I think. – [Stevie] It’s the final round. What do you wanna do about it? – Make it worth 18 points. – Okay, final round worth 18 points. – [Stevie] Why don’t, it’s worth two points, if you tie, you have to split that. – Okay. – [Stevie] Did you hear what he said? – I don’t wanna repeat it, ’cause Link’s gonna get mad at me. – Hush. – [Stevie] Once a year in Wylie, Texas, Jack in the Box holds an event called “Night in the Box,” where adults can buy alcoholic drinks. – Once a year where? – [Stevie] Wylie, Texas. – Why there? – Jack in the Box becomes Night in the Box. Now in order to do this kind of thing, you’d have to get corporate approval. Why would they just do it in Texas? – Because the local laws and ordinances about alcohol sales. – You’ve convinced me. (Rhett sputters) – I can’t change it, ’cause I feel that strongly about it, but I can’t win, unless I change it. Or you change it back. Go with your gut, man. – I’m sticking with my answer. – All right, didn’t happen. – [Stevie] It’s fake. – Ha, I won! 18 points. – Oh, it is 18 points, okay. – Puts me over the edge. – Don’t do that. How are we still friends? – I don’t know. Let’s ask Mike. – Join me as we enter the magical, mythical world of “Friend Science.” (upbeat music)