Welcome to Good Mythical More. People refer to things differently in different places like pop versus soda versus Coke. – But which one’s correct? – We’ll decide. – Because there is a correct answer. But first, we’re going to donate $1,000 to the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas. Human Rights Initiative provides legal and support services to refugees and immigrants who have suffered human rights abuses and HRI represents immigrant victims of violence and provides them with social services, including job search assistance, direct advocacy, and more. Please join us in giving at hrionline.org – Mm. Thank you for being your mythical best. So we’re building on the pop soda regionality with other phrases, terms… – [Stevie] Stuffs. – Monikers. – [ Stevie] Yeah, monikers specifically. – Well, with the pop and soda, I mean, we didn’t say either of those growing up. Again in the south, you call most of it just coke. – [Stevie] Maybe in the south, south where you grew up. – So you call it soda? – [Stevie] Yeah. – [Stevie] In Greensboro, in the big city, we called it soda. – Isn’t Greensboro technically more south than Buoys Creek? – [Stevie] Um, I don’t know. – I guess it’s not. – No. – Okay. All right. That’s fine. So you go up and over to the west that far and you guys called it soda. – I also think just kind of getting a little bit closer to a Metro area. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Yeah. – Maybe. – Coke.. – [Stevie] I’m sure there are people… – …a cola. – [Stevie] …in Greensboro that called it Coke. – Because it didn’t make sense, of course, to call everything coke. – [Stevie] Yeah. – “I’m going to go get a coke.” “Oh, what kind ya getting?” “A Pepsi,” you know. – Yeah. – That was the common conversation. – Or even like, “Give me a coke.” “Okay, which one?” “Sprite.” (laughing) – It did cause problems. – Many of them. – Well, I think we’ll readily admit, right up top, that there’s some problems with that, with our choice. So would we choose pop or soda? – I’d definitely go with soda. I will never say pop. – Something about pop is just… … Yeah, it’s just dorky. – Well, you get confused with granddad. You know what I’m saying? – Right, right. – Yeah, I’d rather drink a Coke when I wanted a Pepsi, then like, uh… – [Stevie] Be a nerd. – Get someone’s granddad when I was thirsty. (laughing) – Well, I brought granddad. You said you were thirsty. – No, I said I wanted pop. – Oh, okay. – Why would you bring me your granddad if I said I was thirsty? – I thought you were thirsty. – [Stevie] Okay. How about the… Well, what would you call the channel changer? – The remote. – [Stevie] What have you heard people call the channel changer? – Well, I’ve heard… – Some people call it clicker. – I’ve heard people call it the channel changer, like. – [Stevie] Really? Like I’ve heard it like the changer, the channel changer. – Oh, you know what my dad called it? The channel thing. – The channel thing? Really? – (laughing) Yes. Now that you said that, he was like, “Where’s the channel thing? I can’t find it.” – Channel thing. – The channel thing. – Because he, and we, experienced an age before the channel thing existed in most homes. – Yeah. – I mean the first time I got a channel thing, I remember what that thing looked like. – Did you call it a channel thing? – I mean, I… – Has anybody else ever heard of channel thing? – I never… – [Stevie] I have a weird name for it. I and my family, we always called it a flipper. – A flipper. – [Stevie] Yeah. – A flipper. – [Stevie] And then I realized nobody else calls it a flipper because you flipped through the channels. – It’s not bad. It’s better than channel thing. – Remote. I think we called it remote. And then when Lily was young, she would call it a fa-moat. – [Stevie] A fa-moat. – I mean… – She’d call it the fa-moat. – I mean, we’re probably the only ones old enough here to remember to actually- – Feminine remote. – …remember vividly the transition to the remote. – Oh yeah. – I remember getting the remote and for our first Zenith television. – I remember this remote. It was freaking huge. – It was the size of a brick and it had, it was all metal on one side and then black plastic on the other side. And all it had was power at the top. And then up and down channel and up and down volume. That was it. – Five buttons. – And… – Did you have a wire version? – …it was so powerful. No, it was so powerful, and it was probably like cancer causing, because you could take this thing into the other room and go through the wall and it would change the channel. Like it was so powerful and we called it the channel thing. And I remember it was the transition to be like, well, I can sit here on the couch and make the TV do my bidding. I mean, of course it’s only gonna be four channels, but I felt like such a king. – Yeah, ’cause before that we had to walk, we got cable before we got a television that had a remote. So, and the cable box didn’t come with a remote. It came with a, it was a box and it had all the numbers across it. And then it had a slider, like um, like, what’s that thing called where you like, you’d slide across to the numbers. I don’t know. A number slide. I go to 34 and watch Nickelodeon. – [Stevie] I’m trying to envision, I’m trying to picture what you’re talking about. A number slide. – Um… – [Stevie] An abacus. (laughter) – An Abacus! – Yeah. It was kind of like an Abacus. – I was going to say a meniscus. – So what do people… – As I slide my meniscus around like it’s an Abacus. – Your kneecap. So what do they call it? – [Stevie] Um, so in New England they call it a clicker and everybody everywhere else, they call it a remote. So, channel thing is not an option. We can choose channel thing as the number one thing. – I’m not standing up for- – [ Stevie] We have that authority. We could also choose flipper or fa-moat. – Let’s go with channel thing. – [Stevie] Okay, channel thing it is. Everyone, channel thing. – Nostalgia. All right. – [Stevie] Candy pops. – Sucker. – Okay, ’cause it could be lollipop I guess. – We called it– I mean a sucker is what we called it in the south. Everybody. – Yeah. – No matter what it was, no matter what, whether it was a Tootsie-roll pop, or it was when you got at the dentist, where there was little circle disc. – Never once called a lollipop. – [Stevie] See, I called it a lollipop. – Yeah. You’re too citified. (laughter) – Okay. – Yeah. Yeah, Greensboro changed you. – Is there any other options? – [Stevie] No, just sucker and lollipop. Sucker is South and Midwest and lollipop is Northeast. – Okay and yeah, we’re seeing an image now. Thanks Matt of the– – [Rhett] Oh, yeah. – [Stevie] Oh. – [Link] That was not the exact one I had. – [Rhett] I remember seeing that at your house. – [Link] The one that I had, the plastic shifter went over. It went around the numbers, at least in my mind. – So it was dialing in cable using an analog switch. – I guess you could have used that. You could have stretched that out and put it under the rug and had it like beside the couch but we didn’t do that. Yeah. So we’re going with sucker. Sucker is the correct answer here. Sucka. – [Stevie] Okay, I will accept that. – [Stevie] Bugs that light up. – Lightning bugs. – Well, what else could it be? Light– – [Stevie] Come on. – I can’t even think of what else. – [Stevie] Really? – Lightning bugs. – [Stevie] These are interchangeable. – Fireflies. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Oh, fireflies. – [Stevie] These are interchangeable to me. I don’t recall, I don’t recall using one over the other. I recall like using both. – Well, we said lightening bugs exclusively, but I think firefly is clearly superior. – It’s superior. I don’t know. I actually remember someone referring to fireflies and I was really intrigued and excited. And then when I found out they were just talking about lightning bugs, I was disappointed. – Oh, been there, done that. – [Stevie] I’m trying to remember, and I know I’ve talked about it on the show. One of the first soccer team I ever was on. – Fireflies. – [Stevie] I think it was called the fireflies. – That’s cool. – [Stevie] Not the lightening bugs, but it had like the, a black t-shirt with glow in the dark lightning bugs all over. – Well first of all that– – You played in the dark? – [Stevie] Yeah. – That would be a really good name for– I’m surprised there’s not like a pro franchise that has fireflies or lightning bugs as their– I’m sure there’s like a minor league baseball team. – Right, right. – But that’s a really good, that should be a pro. – [Stevie] Greensboro’s team is the Grasshoppers. Greensboro Grasshoppers. – I don’t like that. – Well, then there’s a Carolina Mudcats. The Durham Bulls. – The mudcats? – Kinston has a team, right? – South , oh. Columbia, South Carolina fireflies. – Or is that the Carolina Mudcats? – No, Kinston I think it was Indians but I think they changed their name for like, you know. – Yes. – For the– – [Stevie] Columbia, Columbia, South Carolina fireflies. – Yeah. – [Stevie] That’s the name of their team. – There you go. – [Stevie] So fireflies are West coast apparently. And lightening bugs are East coast. So it’s not like a Southern thing. That’s the differentiator. – Let’s get our Northeastern people to confirm that. Ben, is that true? Did you call them lightning bugs? – [Ben] I did. – So, okay it’s true. – Interesting. – [Stevie] Yeah. Okay, so we’re going fireflies. – It’s great. A great name for a television show too. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – [Stevie] A submarine sandwich. – Okay. There’s lots of names. So you got… – We didn’t call it a hoagie. – We called it a sub. We never called it a hoagie. – We didn’t say submarine sandwich, we just said sub. – Sub blimp. A blimp. – A blimpie. – A grinder. – That was all weird to me, all those. – A long and– – A longie. – A long and bready. A, um, a long and meaty. – Yeah, seaman’s delight. (laughter) – Seaman’s delight. – [Stevie] Hoagie, grinder, hero, po’boy, which I just thought it was a different thing. – It is a different thing. – [Stevie] And a sub. So the hoagie is Pennsylvania, the grinder is New England, the hero is New York City, and the sub is everywhere else. – I like hero. – But that gets confusing — – But then you got like, gyro.. – Yeah, the correct pronunciation of gyro. – Yeah, so we can’t go with that. – So that doesn’t make sense. – Grinders? Interesting. – I only– Where’s the first time you heard of grinder? Besides the site. – The first time? – Yeah. There’s one specific place where I heard it for the first time in my life. And I was like, I have no idea what this person is talking about. – It was in like the school dance rules. Don’t bump and grinder. – No, it was an Adam Sandler’s, ♪ [Together] Hoagies and grinders ♪ – I was like, what’s he talking about? I barely knew what a hoagie was. – Yeah. – A lot of masturbation jokes on that album. Like he was obsessed. – Was that the lunch lady song? Was that with the hoagies and grinders was? – I think so, yeah. But the album. There, I mean… – I didn’t get the album. – Makes me think of virginity. – [Stevie] I don’t remember like, subs in my childhood for some reason. – We had them at Little Dino’s – [Stevie] Yeah, yeah. It just wasn’t like, I think sand– just sandwich was like, do you want a sandwich? – A long, thin sandwich. (laughter) – Stevie A long, thin sandwich. But, so, subs? – I like grinder. – [Stevie] No? – Let’s reclaim grinder. – I think it’s going to be tough to do that at this point. – Yeah. (laughter) – I think it has to be really tough to fight that battle. – What about jack’d? (laughter) – [Stevie] What? – It’s another, it’s another app. My friend told me about it. – Yeah. – It’s like, he’s on grinder and jack’d. – Our gay friend, the other day, went through all the websites with us. And so we, it is a very fresh knowledge. – Yeah. He was like, well… – Grinder, jack’d… What was the other one? – Um. – [Stevie] I– – [Rhett And Link] Seaman’s delight. (laughter) – Thank you, man. – Yeah. That comebacks not gonna get old. – If you like conversations like this, but with a tinge of sincerity, then you should listen, or watch, our podcast, Ear Biscuits, if you never have. You’d be shocked at how raw it gets. – There was a third one. – Talk about it’s… – [Crew Member] Grizzly or something, with a bear. – Scruff. – Scruff, scruff. – Yeah. – You can learn a lot about people on jack’d. (Rhett laughing) – They share a lot of themselves. – They’re very open. – Yeah, it’s like, I mean, the… As me, in this world, looking over his shoulder, scrolling through that app was just, it was like, it was like an exploration. Uncharted territory. – Yeah. – Yeah. Anyway, follow me on grinder. – [Stevie] I was looking for, uh, I was looking for answers amongst our gay crew. And I realized, perhaps that would be inappropriate. (laughing) – [Stevie] Jack’d is not something that us lesbians use. – Yeah, yeah. – [Stevie] Scruff. Scruff we also pass on. – Yeah, I didn’t see any women on there. – [Stevie] Uh, athletic shoes. – Like tennis shoes. Tenny shoes, as I called him as a kid. – We called them tennis shoes no matter what they were. – I literally call them tenny shoes. – I did not. – Um, tennis shoe. – I remember the first time I heard sneakers and I was like, is that something else? – It’s so weird that, that we called them tennis shoes because… – [Stevie] Yeah. – And we didn’t, we never thought about the sport of tennis. – But I did play tennis. – [Stevie] Sneakers and tennis shoes. – But I never thought about the shoes I had on. – [Stevie] Sneakers is Northeast and South Florida and tennis shoes is everywhere else. – It’s so weird that like, I mean, with all the specialized shoes today, and I know that they have specialized tennis shoes. – Well, okay. – Do they look like… – Now that you’re mentioning this, – Did the tennis shoe start… – I literally am wearing– – …as a street shoe? – A tennis shoe. – How do you know? – Cause this is Stan Smith, a famous tennis player. And this was the shoe that he wore when he played, the Adidas shoe that he wore, when he played tennis. So this is a actual tennis shoe. – Can I see this? So there’s a, um. It’s got his visage on it. – Yeah, these were like really popular– – [Stevie] It’s because the bottom of the shoe is first off tennis courts. It’s flat and it doesn’t have a lot of ridges. Yeah. That’s a tennis shoe. Like, that’s why when you go to the tennis courts, if you are going to like a nice tennis court, and it’s a soft court, they will have signs that say tennis shoes only. But if you’re going to a hard court, you can wear just whatever sneakers you have on. ‘Cause it won’t damage the court. – None of that is clay, right? Like when you say soft court… – [Stevie] Clay is is a soft– Yeah, that is a soft court. – Was that the only soft court? – There’s grass. – [Stevie] Um. – [Stevie] No, yeah. But a hard court is more like– – Like a playground tennis. – [Stevie] Yeah, yeah, yeah. – But the thing is that we used to wear… – That is cool. – …basketball shoes around casually. Like we would wear a high top basketball shoes that definitely, and they feel different. And I don’t really do that anymore. I was trying on some shoes around the time that I bought these and I put them on and I was like walking around the store. And I was like, “These feel a little bit weird and a little bit heavy.” They were low top but they felt a little bit weird and a little bit heavy. And then I was like, “Oh yeah, those are basketball shoes.” They’re low top, but that’s a basketball shoe. And then he explained the difference to me and I wasn’t really listening, ’cause I’d already made the decision that I didn’t want to put it on my foot. I’m a tennis shoe, man. – Right. – I’m ready to play tennis on a soft court at any time. – [Stevie] So… – Sneakers makes more sense. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Sneakers is better, but tennis shoes is what’s in my brain. – [Stevie] I did, I did say tennis shoes all the way over in Greensboro. – Let’s go. Let’s go, rapid fire. – [Stevie] Well, we only have two more. – Okay. – Well, let’s just do those like this. (Rhett snaps fingers) – [Stevie] Yeah. – Let’s just get it over with. – [Stevie] Flat cakes. – Pancakes. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Or flapjacks. – [Stevie] Yeah. This is weird. So what did you say growing up? – [Rhett And Link] Pancakes. – [Stevie] Yeah. Okay, so it says pancakes almost everywhere. Flapjacks, North Carolina. – No. – [Stevie] No way. – I was thinking that’s like a lumberjack thing. Like a Maine and Oregon. Big tree place. – Maybe at some point in the distant past, but not recently. – Now, I love the name flapjack. I just, I wish I could say it. Like I’m so jealous that I can’t say it with sincerity. – It’s just seems like I’m saying it to be ironic. – Yeah, I love it. I love the idea of saying it. – But pancakes is so indicative of what it is. – [Stevie] Is hotcakes a different thing? I thought hotcakes was also pancakes. – I think they’re just a little bit hotter. (laughter) – But I’m voting for flapjacks. – [Stevie] Okay. – I’m voting for pancakes just because it’s, it’s a perfect representation. – [Stevie] Okay, I’ll note both. – Too on the nose. – [Stevie] Drinking fountain. This is the last one. – [Rhett And Link] Water fountain. – [Stevie] There’s one. – [Rhett and Link] Bubbler? – [Stevie] Yeah. So drinking fountain, water fountain and bubbler. Drinking fountain is North and West. Bubbler is Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Eastern Massachusetts. And water fountain is everywhere else. – What was the first one again? – [Stevie] Drinking fountain. – Oh. – Drinking fountain. Drinking fountain, makes some sense. We actually would say water fountain. – Water. – And we would get you, you come in from PE and you get into the water fountain line. Everybody be so, just like that kid sweat. Oh, it’s nasty. – I was very fixated on, I would watch every kid that I could see and how they would use the water fountain, – And not get behind that person? – And I would, yeah. I tried to get in the front of the line because some people would, they would, I mean… – It’s like they put their whole mouth on it. – This is the thing, like the water is coming out of this and that’s the thing around it, it would be like… – Yeah, like it was a teat. – Yeah. It’s like they didn’t want to lose any bit of water. And I’m like, and then it would, you know, the condenser or something would crank up and it would be like, it would be like, and then it would go, and it would be go real short. And you get down there. And it’ll hit you in the eye. – And I don’t want to touch the nipple. – I hated the bubbler. – Man. – Never. – But that was the only way we got water. I mean, they don’t really use water fountains in schools that much anymore, do they? I mean, I know they’re in there. – [Stevie] Of all people, you would know the answer to that question in this room. – I think, yeah. I think it’s still probably public requirement, but I mean, they got all the kids are carrying their little water bottles around, aren’t they? I know the Neils are. – [Stevie] You guys would know. – The Neils are. – My kid just takes a lunch box, which I guess has some sort of drinking thing in it. (laughter) – I never looked in it. – I’m willing to bet that Lando has never used a water fountain, bubbler, or a water guiser. Whatever the other thing– – [Stevie] Drinking fountain. – Drinking fountain. – But that water tastes so good out of them. – It would get hot if you were at the end of the line. – [Stevie] Not the new ones. – It would be hot. – [Stevie] I remember that the new, like when the new ones came out that were like actually cold. Those were cool. – I’ve never experienced that. – [Stevie] Okay. – Takes me back. – Let the spirit guide your mythical destiny with the Mythical Oracle T, available now @mythical.com.