Welcome to Good Mythical More. Can we identify the type of water just by tasting it? Of course we can, right? Yeah, sure we can. But first. We’re donating $1,000 to “The National Alliance to End Homelessness”, to aid in their mission to prevent and end homelessness in the United States. They work collaboratively with the public-private and nonprofit sectors leading to stronger programs and policies that help homeless individuals and families make positive changes in their lives. Please join us in giving at endhomelessness.org. Thanks for being you mythical best. Yes. And joining us in contributing, or contributing to whatever causes resonate most with you. Huh. Huh. We have these- Yeah, you never said that before. That’s a nice little addition. Yeah, yeah. Yep. It’s an addition. Sometimes I say things that you never heard me say before. That’s true. Like, I gotta tap that- Water. A mineral what I said. Okay, I’m interested in the rest of these. I have a sparkling opinion of you. Okay. All right. Distilled earth is ready to be planted. Ah! Purified, sanctified, glorified. Oh, amen. And… Alkaline. Watch out for that. And what about.. Spring! Spring gets a special little, gets a special little label. What happened to spring? It got smaller. It’s a little spring. This one was left out in the sun. It’s dried up. Let’s taste. Let’s taste and identify. Let’s taste and identify. What is your level of- Well, I don’t know about alkaline. That’s a good water. ‘Cause it’s like a pH thing right? Yeah. Yeah. It makes, you know. I think it’s a myth that it actually does anything to you. It just tastes good. There’s machines where you can dial in the pH, right? Do different people want different pH’s? Hmm. What machines man? Never heard of this machine. I thought I’d seen a machine. You talking about the Coca-Cola Freestyle? Oh, man. Yeah. I mean, it’s an awesome thing. And I want one in my house but- PH stands for flavor. Yeah, man. It can be- I told Jessie, I was like- Sprite. It can be Coke. It could be Pepsi. I was like, when I retire… That’s what you want? I want a Coca-Cola Freestyle in my house. When you retire? Yeah. I was like, that’s my retirement gift to myself is a Coca-Cola Freestyle. You come over for movie night, it’s like, “What do you got?” What don’t I got? It’s a lot better than a pinball machine, I’ll tell you that. Oh yeah, pinball machines grow old so fast. You know people are like, “you know what I’ma get, I’ma get a pinball machine”. Nah get a Coca-Cola Freestyle. Dang. We’ve looked into this for show ideas and there like tens of thousands of dollars. Tens? Oh, I bet. How much? How much is a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine? Tens of thousands of dollars. But how many tens? Multiple. It’s like a car. It’s like buying a car. It’s probably $43,000. I was gonna say 30 if I remember. I’m not getting a sports car. I’m getting a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine. Carney, you looked into buying one of these for what? The writer’s room? No I thought it’d be fun to play with on the show, like the episode ideas. It would be. Yeah, I’m gonna start a new channel. It’s just me and my machine. ‘Cause I’m not gonna stop working in retirement. Rhett and his Freestyle. It’s like, what is he gonna make today? I don’t know. I will be on that channel. Yeah, yeah. Link will be there. If there’s a Freestyle, I will be there. Link will be there. But I’m not gonna be maintaining that thing. Just imagine the amount of hoses. You have a guy that does that. Like there’s a- I don’t want to think about it. Think about how, you know how big that thing is? It’s ’cause it’s full of hoses. Oh, there’s so many hoses. And the hoses need to be like, maintained. There’s syrups. Lots of syrups. Lots of syrups. And then the lots of soda. Canisters of carbonation. I’m gonna get inside mine. It’s probably- That’s what I’m gonna do when people come over. I’m gonna get in there and play tricks like “The Wizard of Oz”. I’m gonna have to scratch my nose with this. I don’t know the difference between purified and distilled. How could that- Distilled is the process by which water is boiled and the steam is collected. But purified is probably just a very advanced filtration. So I don’t know if you- You’re saying distilled is they just, they collect the vapor and you drink that? Well, that’s why they call it a still man. Like the, the proper, you know, alcohol is distilled. There’s a boiling thing and then it goes up- Through the pipes. Yeah. You’re exactly correct on both things. So purified is usually tap or ground water which has been treated. And then yeah, distilled is boiled and the steam’s collected. All right. So let’s go with A. What you don’t want is demineralized water that will kill you on contact. And I used to, when I was an engineer for those couple of years that I did that. What? So I’ll see if I can remember this. But I had to route the pipes underneath the power plant, right. Demineralized? And there was demineralized water that is used in some sort of process that as a civil engineer I didn’t have to understand. I had to get demineralized water to it in a pipe. This is water that is literally been, all the minerals that are natural to water have been taken out. So it’s just straight up H2O. And H2O, that doesn’t have any minerals in it, is hungry for minerals. And you got a lot of minerals on your mouth, in your mouth, down your esophagus. And as that demineralized water goes into you it pulls all the minerals out and just shreds you and kills you. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can’t come in contact with it. This is what they told me. Maybe they were right. Wow. I know what this is. Well, I thought it was tap. If it’s LA tap it’s not tap because it tastes too good to be tap. This could be purified, alkaline or distilled. Yeah, there’s not much to it. So let’s just put all three over here and then we’ll pull from the options. Okay, let’s go with B here. Google, “Can demineralized water kill you?” That’s what we really want to know. Find a video of a person drinking it. Ooh, this is softer. Isn’t it softer? Yeah, it’s better. And it’s better. It’s one of these. I’m gonna bet you it’s alkaline. Let’s move alkaline over ’cause I think Stevie’s right, I think alkaline it really makes it taste nice. Not mineralized. Demineralized. Yeah, mineralized water is safe. Demineralized. No, deionized. It’s not deionized. This is the kind of thing that might not even be on the internet. “What happens if I drink demineralized water? Other studies that were published in the WHO report show evidence to support the assertion that low mineral water or demineralized water can pose many health hazards including higher risk of cardiovascular disease, motor neuron disease, increase in risk of pregnancy disorders and even types of cancer.” That’s not what they told me. That sounds like long-term effects. I was like told that like, don’t come in contact. Can you touch demineralize water right there? The next one. The next one, the next. Pull down. “Yes, you can handle it or drink just a little like any clean water.” They lied to me. But then it says “distillation is just a way to clean any impurities out of the water.” “Can I drink demineralized?” “Not suitable for drinking.” “Demineralized water has a pH level of seven.” It’s neutral. “And this can lead to a number of health risks, particularly if you consume it regularly over an extended period of time. Human body needs several minerals to function correctly. Sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium. Demineralized water has most of these removed.” I think they told me this ’cause I was a junior engineer and they thought it would be cool to lie to me. But it’s not, you shouldn’t drink it. But it won’t kill you in the way that they told me it would. This is softer. So it’s for like processes, like in a plant. That’s why you knew about it. We need water for this process and this machine and we don’t want any minerals to mess it up. I’m calling that alkaline because it’s softer and maybe that’s right. Yeah agreed. Okay, so C. That’s tap. It’s not bad though. It’s not bad enough. It might be tap. No, you’re right. It’s not horrible. LA tap is usually really obvious. I think we’ll know it when we taste it ’cause it could be spring water. Oh, we forgot about spring. Ah. So it could be spring water. Those are tough. Here you go. Cheers. Oh, that tastes like nothing. That might be distilled. That’s so like, so like clean. Yeah but isn’t the word pure. It could be purified. It could be purified or distilled. I think if it’s got a little bit of a taste to it, it’s gonna be spring. Okay, let’s go with this one. So this one’s got carbonation. So it’s either mineral or sparkling. Mineral. That’s mineral. Now I drink a Topo Chico very often. It’s mineral water. It does not taste this mineralized. This is like marketed as mineral first water. It’s like very mineralized. Now, I did recently tell you, and I don’t know if you’ve adjusted your lifestyle. I’ve thought about it and you’ve ruined- I watched one of those TikTok’s where it talk- You know, a TikTok that gives you information that you don’t want to hear about something. And this was… Swipe up, quick man. That a bunch of different mineral water, or a bunch of different sparkling waters have a chemical in them that is somehow used in the manufacturing process that is bad for you. And it ranked the worst ones. And the one with the highest level of this chemical was Topo Chico. And LaCroix was up there but Topo Chico had like five times. La Croix is not a mineral water though. Look up what that is. Let’s give some more misinformation. What is the chemical in sparkling water that’s bad. I have information updates on the Freestyle machine. Oh. Oh, I’m interested in that too. We got so many irons in the fire in this Good Mythical More. Hey, we’re educating ourselves all the time. Let’s keep tapping into this. Someone on the staff sent me bad information and I’ll find out who it was. Don’t worry. The minimal price. Minimum price about $2,000. Affordable for a Freestyle. That’s like a scooter. Think about the hoses and you gotta get somebody out here to take care of it. So 2000 to get it, but then there’s maintenance. It’s like a scooter. It’s just like a scooter. Y’all want a freestyle? Where are we gonna put it? We’re going have to get rid of somebody’s desk. I thought you were gonna say “we’re gonna have to get rid of somebody”. All right. Who volunteers his tribute to be replaced by a Freestyle machine? You can sit on top of it where your desk was, but we don’t have a lot of room. And the hoses good gosh. The hoses is gonna replace another person. All right, so this is sparkling. This is sparkling. What happened to you? “Well, I was replaced by a Freestyle machine.” Okay, Rhett, I bet this is gonna be tap. Nope. Yep? This is wild. Did y’all get the tap- Wild water? Y’all did the tap that came through the filter didn’t you? Or was this straight tap? The tap that’s on the desk, that I’m not gonna tell you which one it is, is not through the filter in the sink. Just through the sink. That’s Burbank water? We’ve had tap water on this show before and it was horrible. Okay, so that means we thought that this one was tap. Let’s go back. It’s pretty bad. It’s definitely not that one. It could be green. Tap is green, aftertaste. There’s an aftertaste on A too. Let’s go with- But it might be from- I think this is from minerals or spring or something. Like, it’s not necessarily bad. That’s spring. We know tap water does have like municipal additives. Oh yeah, they’ve got the mind control stuff. The stuff that messes with your pineal gland. So what- So that you’ll wear a mask. So purified is- All right, it’s a bit of a crap shoot at this point. Before we reveal these answers we wanna remind you, check out the Mythical Kitchen podcast, “A Hot Dog is a Sandwich”. Mythical chef Nicole, mythical chef Josh. They debate stuff related to food. And there’s a video version that comes out every Friday. So audio is releasing wherever you get podcast. What day does that come out? Wednesday? Audio comes out on Wednesday. Video comes out on Friday. Video comes out on Friday, youtube.com, “A Hot Dog is a Sandwich”. Subscribe to it. Check it out. Here it is Link, from “The Fullest”, which we don’t, I don’t know, I can’t vouch for this website, but I will say that they say that “the following sparkling waters have been shown to potentially contain trace levels of PFAS.” Trace levels. “According to the consumer reports study”. And then I guess that’s PPT, parts per trillion. So Topo Chico has 9.76. Parts per trillion. It’s not a lot of parts, and it probably doesn’t have any effect on it, but you drink one every single day. Yeah. And then some nights on the weekend I’ll drink two or three. Same time? No, just like over the course of an evening. Right after another. Like it is just so superior. And I think it’s that PFAS. It’s the PFAS. I’m PFAS man. PFAS. Crap man. Crap. I think you’ll be all right. You drink enough- If you come over and drink enough of my Freestyle machine it’ll undo all the bad stuff that you put in your body with Topo Chico. “Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in drinking water are a large group of human made chemicals that have been used in industry and consumer products worldwide since the fifties.” I would discover every single drink that you can make. That’s what my channel is. Hey guys, Rhett here, welcome to the channel. Today I’m gonna be having caffeine free diet Dr. Pepper. Fanta Zero. One third vanilla, one third cherry and one third orange. Can you do thirds? Yes. You can do whatever you want as long as you got a measuring cup. Oh, so you’re sitting there dispensing it into measuring cups and then doing your own Freestyle? Yes. Okay. Well. This channel’s gonna be around for a while. My whole retirement. All right. It’s gotta support me in my retirement. I gotta have a video everyday. What are you saying? You’re gonna retire early? I’m gonna live a long time man. Stevie? Retire at 70 live to 95. How many do we have right? Can you do that? Oh, I can’t even, I don’t know. I’ll reveal the ones that you got right though. All right. Which one do you like? Did you say that there was one that you liked the best out of the Non-sparkling selection. Okay. Good question. I believe the alkaline. Not the ones that we thought were tap. Yeah, we were guessing alkaline based on what you said. I believe the alkaline- B is the best. In my mind. Well, I agree it’s the best. And you also got it correct. It is the alkaline water. You helped us out there. But let’s go back to A. A surprisingly, well maybe not ’cause Rhett you said there was an aftertaste, that’s just tap water. That’s Burbank water. Yep. Okay. C. Do do, do. Is distilled. Oh, distilled has a taste. It has an aftertaste. It tastes a little metallic, doesn’t it? Yeah. Uh-huh. D is spring. Okay. Yeah. And it’s actually Evian. So should be- I mean, Evian’s good. Spring. D’you know what Evian spelled backwards is? Naive. Naive. Hah! Is it? People just buying water and bottles when you could just get it straight out of the tap? So naive. This is what they said in like 1993. E is indeed mineral and- Yep, that was easy. Specifically Topo Chico. Oh, this is Topo Chico? Yep. Hold on, you talked a little trash about it. But it’s been out for a second, you know. That is not Topo. Why does it not taste right? ‘Cause it’s been- You drink it straight from the bottle. Yeah, it was purposely left out a little bit to make it less sparkly. It de-sparkled. It’s interesting how you can really taste the minerals and the PFAS. F is obviously sparkling and G is purified. So you, I mean, not bad. Not too bad. You got one, two, three, four correct. Was it out of a plastic Topo Chico bottle? It was. Okay. Thank God. That that was it. Now I’m not crazy. That was it. All right. That’s what it is. Tastes different. Yeah. Yeah, it’s not as good out of the plastic. I wonder if it’s got more PFAS. I bet it does. “A Hot Dog is a Sandwich”, Josh and Nicole’s podcast about food debates now has video. Episodes are out every Friday, so make sure you subscribe. youtube.com/ahotdogisasandwich.