Welcome to Good Mythical More. We got some weird sodas here that you might have seen on a shelf, but in a place, and thought, do I wanna? I don’t know if I should. Right. And now we’re gonna make all your dreams come true and taste each one of them and give you definitive things because as we’ve proven at least one of us can taste. Lemonade Legacy But first we’re going to donate one thousand dollars to Human Rights Watch to aid in their mission to defend the rights of people worldwide. They carefully investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. And you can join us in giving at hrw.org/donate. Thank you for being your Mythical best. All right, send one of those packing for a moment, And, then choose which one you want to start with. I’ll start with this one. Now, y’all got me drinking carbonation, and I was, you know, I’ve been telling you this. You’ve been telling me, yeah. I’ve been conducting an experiment on myself, Because I came to the realization that, You’re farting a lot. I’m farting a lot. I had a lot of gas. I spent some time with Link this past weekend, with some friends. And, we were hanging out in our creative house, as we, as we call it. – Yeah. – As we do from time to time. Yeah. And, we were all talking and. Having a good conversation. I would say that over the course of a 45 minute conversation, approximately, on average, every 11 minutes. You would go to the door, the sliding glass door, open it, stand in the threshold, and relieve yourself out, thank you for this, relieve yourself directly towards the backyard. Yeah, I didn’t, because I wanted to be able to hear the conversation. Yeah, we wanted to be able to hear the conversation too. Right. You know what I’m saying? And I was like, man, this has really gotten out of hand. Yeah. And, I was having some stomach issues for a while, and, I got those straightened out, for the most part. Yes. But the, I had this lingering effect of, gaseousness, and then I was, I realized, you know what, it might be the fact that I’m drinking three, four, five, maybe sometimes six, carbonated waters. Like a LaCroix or a, you know, every night I treat myself to a Topo Chico. But on the weekend, I might go hard. with like, I might hit a half a. Half a case? Half a case. So yeah, so you’re ingesting all this carbonated, And I don’t burp a lot. Carbon dioxide. I just kinda push it on through. And so for the past three days. It’s gotta get out somehow. I have been carbonation free. And it was that simple. Well, I think you could probably still give yourself a nightly Topo Chico. I know, I’m gonna, I’m gonna go back on it, but I wanted, like, I wanted to totally know that that’s what was happening. This is a mystery flavor. You know how I feel about Mountain Dew. Trying too many things. Mountain Dew Voodoo, is this one of the ones that we tried with Gwynedd too? We tried some mystery flavors. That’s got some weirdness going on. Now it’s completely clear. It tastes kinda Dr. Pepper-ish. It’s medicinal. It’s got some sort of a root in it. I think it has a. We don’t know the flavor, right? – [Stevie] I just thought it was, like, Voodoo is the. It says mystery flavor on top. I think it has a strawberry. It’s almost like a strawberries and, well, there’s a Dr. Pepper Strawberries and Cream that might be influencing our. I like the colors of it. That’s fun, but, oh man, I hate it. I absolutely hate it. It’s not great. – [Stevie] Oh! There was a lot of speculation online, but it’s been revealed. what Mountain Dew Voodoo 2023 is. It’s Airheads Cherry flavor. Cherry, yeah. – [Stevie] So they would do? Yeah, like a Cherry Coke, that’s what. – [Stevie] I guess the parent company then owns, they did like a mystery collab where they buried the other brand. That’s interesting. I think if you like Airheads, you’ll probably enjoy this show. Well, if you like Cherry Coke. You know, like, we’re a couple of Airheads. You might like, yeah, Cherry Mountain Dew. Yeah. It’s basically what I think is happening here. So, right now it’s in first place. Let’s go to this one because this is an interesting. Can. Can. I mean, it’s giving Pepto Bismol. Is it not? Yeah, which I’m not complaining about that. Sprite Lymonade Legacy. 1 percent juice. I’ll get a little bit of Pepto just for kicks sometimes. You shouldn’t do it. You shouldn’t do it. But just sometimes, just to remind myself that I’m alive, I’ll take a little swig. Lymonade Legacy. Celebrating 50 years of hip hop. Okay. Celebrating 50 years of hip hop. I wonder what this tastes like. How are we doing that? Oh, I kind of, I sort of like the smell. Well, this is, this is Sprite, you know. Sprite was already lemon lime. It’s got strawberry in it though. More emphasis on the lemon. I keep tasting strawberry. There’s no strawberry. Yeah, there is. Where? Lemon lime, strawberry, and lemonade flavored soda. Oh. It tastes like strawberry. Lemon, lime, strawberry? It has a very, like, strawberry, lemonade flavor. Yep. Now that I’ve read it, and you’ve told me three times, and I’ve breathed out, I can taste the. – [Stevie] You can taste, Link. I can taste. – [Stevie] Yeah. I do not taste the strawberry until I breathe out. As an internationally known disc jockey, who is a fan of hip hop. Have you been celebrating 50 years of hip hop? I never stopped celebrating hip hop. I don’t need, I don’t need any anniversary to do that. Would you have said that we were celebrating 50 years of hip hop, though? In 73? Was that Sugarhill Gang or something? Like the seven, we go back to 73? I mean, I’m not a disc jockey, so I, I mean, I can’t, I couldn’t tell you. Yeah, I think that’s when, like, Kool Herc, like, started doing the, you know, doing the two turntables. At the block party. Yeah, or in a basement, it was in a basement. It was a basement party. And he was like, you know what, why am I just playing this record, when I could then play a, get another turntable and play another record, and then I could, instead of just seamlessly transitioning from this record to the next record like any good DJ would want to do at a party. You don’t want the music to die while you’re taking the record off. This is the whole thought process. Putting a new one on. So you have another turntable. Celebrating 50 years of this. You can then crossfade to the other song, you know. Why wouldn’t you do that if you could? Well, you gotta have another turntable. Yeah, but now you gotta do that. And you gotta have this, like, fader equipment and stuff. But then when you do that, you’re like, you know what? People like to dance to the breaks in the song, the drum break, so why don’t I just cue up the drum break over here and let that play. And then over here, I’m gonna, and when the drum break’s about over, I’m gonna have this drum break ready, so I’m not going from song to song. I’ve got two of the same record. And I’m just transitioning from the break on record A to the break on record B of the same song. Extending the break, they say. Extending the break. That’s the breaks. Thank you for that history lesson. One of the things that you may have not ever really thought about is the lens that we use for this show is relatively wide. It’s wider than what you would typically experience on, other television shows. You talking about this? The field of vision, meaning the distance that we are from the lens and the field of view is, the ratio is different. So what that does, is it creates an exaggerated effect on how big cans are as they get closer. I mean, just like, look how, look how big that can is getting. And now if I bring in an equally sized Coke can, and I move it further away. Good gracious, isn’t that amazing? I mean, look how small that looks. It’s absolutely amazing. And it’s weird, it’s weird because. It is the same size. It is the same size. So, if you, If you do this, so look at that, let me, look at, I mean, look at that! Whoa, look at that, what the lens is doing! Whoa! Now, now make the other one bigger. If you concentrate hard enough, you can keep the bigger one smaller as it gets closer. It’s hard to, it’s hard to out, and see, look at that. Now I got it to be the same size. Wow. As soon as I stop concentrating though, it goes back. And then they are different. This is my number one. This is your way of introducing our next one? Yeah. It’s a cool visual trick. Y3000 Limited Edition Coca-Cola Creations futuristic flavored co created with artificial intelligence? Can we stop? Can y’all stop? This was, this was the year of artificial intelligence discussion. And just when we all get tired of talking about it, it’s gonna take over in 2025. Oh yeah, it was just a little blip, and then we all, some people started using ChatGPT, and then some people are like, I’m not gonna do that, and then a lot of people are like, I guess it isn’t gonna be a thing. That’s exactly where they want you. They’ve got you by the short hairs. AI’s got you by the short hairs right now. See, they don’t tell me what the flavor is, they just say it’s futuristic flavored. It’s definitely still Coke. So AI wants me to enjoy this? Is it floral or berry? This is like sucking directly on the teat of a robot. That is making things that are just designed for your brain to enjoy. I’m not opposed to it. It actually is really nice. I was gonna say that. Yeah. It could be a lot worse, I mean it could be straight motor oil. I’d drink this straight from a teat everyday. You know? I don’t love it. – [Stevie] The, when I, when I Googled what’s the flavor, of course, Sporked.com popped up for me. Oh, nice. And they describe it as, it’s a little like the liquid from maraschino cherries mixed with grape cough syrup. Yeah, and I love both of those things. Yeah, they do, they do a better job than us of explaining it. Did they say that you might enjoy this from a robot teat? – [Stevie] Yeah. That’s what we bring to the table. We say things like robot teat. Now, I’m not opposed to it. Yeah. And then they say what it actually tastes like. So go over to Sporked.com if you want to know what, they’ve rated all types of sodas. If you’re interested in that, there’s a carbonated beverage bonanza happening over there. Sporked.com, new Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Coke, more than we’re just tasting today. Mark my words, I’m just gonna, you’re just gonna isolate this and you can clip it and you can keep it in your little digital safe so you can access it at any time in the future. There will come a time in the not too distant future where there will be a robot that’s rolling around your house with a single teat. And anytime you’re thirsty, you’re gonna suck on that robot’s teat. And it’s gonna feel weird at first, but then it’s gonna become something that you look forward to, and you enjoy, and everybody’s gonna do it, we’re gonna stop talking about it, and you’re gonna go back to this moment, and you’re gonna be like, as you’re sucking on that robot teat, you’re gonna be like, man, he was right. You’re welcome. How low is the teat? Because I might have news for you. It adjusts by height. Mine’s real tall. Okay, good. Next one. Dr. Pepper Strawberries and Cream. Now we’ve had this here in the office. And we’ve had the diet version that I’ve enjoyed. I actually, sometimes I go to the other side of the building hoping I can find a diet Dr. Pepper. And then they’ve got Diet Dr. Pepper Strawberries and Cream, and I’m like, better than nothing. This is not diet, though. This is regular. But it’ll taste just like diet, you know why? Because that’s the marketing? Yep. Diet Dr. Pepper tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Morgan, you said you love these? He likes them. Don’t put words in the man’s mouth. Yeah, but yeah, you’ll settle. It’s better than regular Dr. Pepper. To me. But it’s still horrible. I just don’t. It’s pretty nice, but it’s not as good. I do not like a Dr. Pepper. It never ceases to amaze me how much I like kissing a woman who likes to taste this stuff. What does that say about what I taste like? You know? Do I not like my own taste? I’m not particularly sure this is how it works. Can I taste myself? – [Stevie] I don’t think this is what you, I think we need to flip it and reverse it, you know? Let’s just rewind. Can you taste me? – [Stevie] Uh, no. That’s not what I meant. That’s not. Can I taste my wife? – [Stevie] Please. Please. But she doesn’t taste like Dr. Pepper. Yeah, well that’s typically because you don’t usually taste like the things that you eat. Unless you eat it exclusively like. I mean if you just eat it. An Iberico ham. Yeah. You know, if you eat nothing but acorns. – [Matt Carney] She’s just at home sipping on Dr. Pepper eating Zero bars? Yeah, yeah. That’s pretty much it. Yeah. That’s pretty much it. When she wants to treat herself only. It probably would change the taste of her milk. Yeah. To bring it back to teats. I’m just saying. Right. So if you ever have the privilege of reversing your vasectomy and having another child and. Never gonna happen. If you just gave your wife nothing but Dr. Pepper and Zero bars for the entire pregnancy, which I would not recommend for science’s sake, because I don’t, you don’t want to deal with that kid. Right. You know, it’s already going to be old sperm anyway, you know, so, but if you happen to do that, it probably would taste different. Her milk would be a little, have a little flavor to it. I knew it would. ((Laughing)) I know it would. You didn’t have to tell me. What is this? All right, we’re bringing Jones into the chat. Jones has got. Jones has got. Jones Special Release. Oh, orange chocolate soda. Special release. This is a Reel Labels. Reel Labels, like movie reel. It’s a, what is this about? It’s got a little movie reel. You know, they’re kind of, I’m gonna read this bottle to you. Read it. They’re kind of kindred spirits of ours. Oranges and chocolate in a soda? They said it couldn’t be done. Yeah, we like to say that a lot. But here we are again, creating new flavor combinations others only dream of. Part Juicy Fruit, part I mean, if you read our Mish Mash cereal, it basically says the same thing. We’re kindred spirits. Putting things together. We like to put things together. Can I have a bottle opener? How about one that we sell? We’re still selling this. How about a Mythical bottle opener? You know what time it is. It’s time to. Why don’t we just do this? Oh, yeah, it does say twist off, doesn’t it? But, we got to sell this for a second. You know us. Oh. We don’t force you to buy anything. The chocolate is very strong. You know how you can get those little chocolate oranges? That come in pre sliced, pre sliced? I’m typically not a fan of these. Chocolate and carbonation is the issue I have. New fangled. Well, what about? Not the, the orange is fine. I’m just trying to get over that carbonated chocolate, like a carbonated Yoo-hoo. It’s like a. Yeah. Kinda like it. Second sip you get more orange. It’s an interesting little journey. To, be hit with chocolate in the first sip. Very little orange. And then the second sip, you get hit with orange. And then a little chocolate. Yeah. What does the third sip do? I sort of like it. I mean, I actually, Dr. Pepper, we gotta use both of them. It’s strange, but it’s not bad. I’m putting the Dr. Pepper there. You’re putting your Dr. Pepper there. I’m making my own thing over here. In what direction? What’s number one? My number one is opposite of yours. I don’t know why, but it is. My number one is your number one. Yep. Sprite. I went robot teat. I didn’t love the robot teat as much as this because this is interesting. This is the first Jones weird thing. Well, hold on. I’m thinking of that other weird soda brand. Whatever. This is good. It’s weird good. Do you know that their bottle caps say. I wouldn’t say it’s good weird, but it’s weird good. Their bottle caps say things. This says, put yourself in their shoes. I love that. What about, how can you move forward if you keep regretting the past? Well, Jones. I kinda like their, I like their ethos. You didn’t have to get so real. Let’s start working with Jones Soda. Let’s do something with Jones Soda. We can call it Robot Teat. Forget Coke. Leave them in the dust. Robot Teat Extract. There you have it. Mythical and Jones collab. A definitive ranking of the strangest sodas of 2023. Oh, and now I’m gonna go over there and fart with this. Yep. – [Rhett] Thirsty for more? Well head to Sporked.com for a roundup of even more sodas that hit stores in 2023.