Welcome to Good Mythical More. We are here to eat some struggle meals. What’s a struggle meal? Well, you’ll find out along with me. When we try to match these struggle meals to the crew members who struggle with them. Exactly. But first let’s donate $1,000 to Oxfam America to aid in their mission to fight inequality and end poverty and injustice by offering life saving support in times of crisis and advocating for economic justice and gender equality and climate action. Please join us in giving at OxfamAmerica.org/donate Alright, come on in guys. Bring your chairs. Don’t be shy. So, a struggle meal is defined as. A delicious meal. That you eat while you’re struggling? That you eat while you cry. Okay. You guys, come all, Jessie, come, come all the way up there to, then you guys move that way. There you go. Jordan, you gotta get in there. And I’m gonna come back a little bit. There we go. We got it, Jordan. So, do you have to be sad to eat a struggle meal, or do you just have to be, like? I gotta get, like, is it like a comfort meal? Is that really the idea? Because I’m also, I keep hearing people say it, but I, I’m afraid. You’ve never struggled. I’ve never, well. I struggle a lot. I’m constantly comforting myself with food. Sure. Pretty much constantly. What, what, what type of struggle are we talking about? Like, is, I don’t understand still. I think, yeah, I think you could not have a lot of time, or money, or mental capacity. There it is. I think those are. Or a loved one to make something for you. Yeah. All right. Sorry. I wasn’t looking at you. I’ll make you something disgusting. I don’t want you. I’m just kidding. ((Laughing)) What’s wrong with me? You’re married. Yeah, but as friends. I want someone of my own. Okay. Let’s start here. Because it is the first one. Now, we’ve got string cheese with basil. That’s just spinach, dude. Is it just spinach? Oh, I thought this was like halfway to a caprese. ((Laughing)) It kind of is. It kind of is. I mean, it’s like halfway there on the vegetable and there’s no tomatoes. – [Matt] Yeah, it’s a very dry caprese. – [Jordan] It’s a nouveau caprese. – [Link] And it is just spinach and it’s, and it’s string cheese. Who’s really liking string cheese? You’re making me cap, crazy. For a mouse. Now that does remind me that like, you know, if you’re just going to snack on string cheese, you want to make it healthier. Spinach is the easiest way to make something healthy. When Lincoln lived in my house, he, first of all, by the time you’re like 16, 17, 18, the majority, 19. The majority of his meals, when you’re that age, is you just open the fridge and you start eating everything. Yeah. Without, just leaving the fridge open. And I noticed that he would do that, and then at the end, he would reach in the spinach thing and just grab, like as, as if to make up for it, like a whole handful and just shove it all in his mouth and eat it as fast as he could just to say that he got his veggies. Yeah, your body just forgets about everything that just happened when you give it some spinach. Oh, that resonates with you, Jessie. ((Laughing)) Gotta move these around. Jessie was like, mm hmm. See, how easily she just went in there for the, for the spinach? You’re not even going for the string cheese. I haven’t had any greens today, yet. And how does it, see, see how she’s just eating that? I’m not gonna do that. See, and Emily’s a little bit turned off by it. Is this for sharing? If you want to, I mean. Okay, what do we have here? How is that? It looks like we’ve got Neither one of them are struggling to eat that. We have a pickle and mustard and cheese sandwich. And the cheese, has not been spread out. I don’t know if that is trying to mimic what this person actually does. It’s a slice of the block. When you just don’t have the energy, to really finely slice or grate cheese. Or buy it pre sliced. Yeah. Right. – That seems like a little. – That’s so many ingredients. I’m going off a few things that I know about Jordan here. And that is, Jordan, I like to think, it seems like we’ve resonated a little bit in our palate choices. Sure, yeah. You like pickles. But Jordan also likes pudding. And that’s with me. Well, okay. They don’t have everything in common with you. They both have a crush on me. Okay. ((Laughing)) What’s the other thing we both like? We like our onion, scrambled egg, cheese. – Yep. That’s it – Soft scrambles. We like that too. I like that too. ((Laughing)) Mustard and pickles. Great. And Jordan likes that cheese too, so I just feel like this is. That’s solid. Whether you, whether it’s yours or not. You would like that sandwich. I know that. It looks like potato bread. I would eat this. Are you going to, though? Sure! Is that what we’re doing? We’re all showing off? – [Rhett] Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re showing off. – [Link] You didn’t get any cheese in that one, but how was it? I didn’t, but a lot of mustard. But what is this? This is like a sliced, little smoky? Or like, this is like a, a frank without the beans? – [Jessie] Like microwaved hot dog slices. Where do you get these hot dog slices like this? They’re so thin. They’re skinny, skinny boy. Yeah, they’re little boys. It’s like dehydrated, kosher hot dogs, you know? You can like slice them up and. I know that because I tried making a knife out of a kosher hot dog. Did you say a knife? – Yeah. – Yeah. Wow. For? We did a Will It Knife? Oh, sure. We’ve tried to create knives out of many things here. Very cool. So, you’re saying that these are sliced by the struggler. I think so. It’s Jessie’s assertion. How uniform is this? So, it’s just a hot dog. Burned. Sliced and charred. They are different. This is not machine sliced, this is human sliced. Confirmed. No robot was involved in this. Emily, you got nothing against hot dogs. Heck no. You like a good hot dog. I love hot dogs. And some ketchup. Yeah. You just keep it simple, but you keep it bite size. I love it. Maybe this is true. First of all, can I just say, as someone who likes hot dogs, I’ve never in a million years have I thought to cut them up and like put them on a griddle, put them in a pan. The surface area, what’s happening there, that’s genius. That’s the best hot dog I’ve ever tasted. This is very good. I gotta do that. I gotta do that. Just prepared in that way. Yeah, go for it. Yeah, it’s very, very good. Anybody, go for it. I’ll try it. I just, I’ll try it. I’m gonna try it. I’m gonna dip it a little bit. Alright, so this one, there’s a, there’s a English muffin. And, what kind of egg is that? Over easy? Over hard? Uh, that looks, well? Find out. – [Rhett] I just think that’s pretty much a fried egg. – [Link] And then, special garlic sauce, beside it from Papa John’s, the, I can see that the garlic sauce is all in the egg. So, this egg, fried egg, and the bread, are cooked and toasted in Papa John’s leftover garlic sauce. So this is somebody who’s, first of all, enjoying Papa John’s. Which we just determined is not quite as good as enjoying Domino’s. Is that what we just determined? Yep. We did just determine that. – [Rhett] Okay. I know a guy who works at Domino’s. He’s gonna be happy to watch the episode. Yeah. If he believes in his product. Yeah. Are you talking about Dirk? Yeah, I was trying to be sneaky about it. Oh, okay, okay. How’s he doing? I don’t know. Matt, you can hold this. Struggling. I feel like. But I don’t think this is it. This feels like. You guys know nothing about me! This feels like too many steps for Matt Lieb Yeah, I mean this is like. What is that? What does that mean? ((Laughing)) Matt’s too lazy to cut an English muffin. ((Laughing)) There’s one thing we know about Matt. I mean, he’s got a newborn. You’re a young father. You’re a young father. You’re not doing anything that takes two steps. Yeah, I mean, I’m not bringing out a pan, that’s for sure. I mean, this, this is, this has like. It’s bringing out a pan. Simple execution, but like, principled foodie opinion. Which leads me to Jordan. I don’t disagree with that choice. Like I said, I know that Jordan would like this sandwich. I don’t know if they made this sandwich because this is, it almost feels like we’ve got like a chef in the making kind of situation here. Emily knows her way around the Mythical Kitchen. I’m not a bad cook. It just seems like it. ((Laughing)) It just seems like it. What do you cook? It’s a part, it’s a part. I don’t want to get into it. ((Laughing)) It’s more about the costuming. – Yeah. – Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I make good stuffed mushrooms. So, I think, I think that was, we could be locked in here, or we could switch these two, but I’m feeling good about the fact that Jessie has eaten almost all of that spinach. Yeah. No. Okay. I feel good about this. You feel good about this? Jessie, are we right about you? Yes. Yes! Do you call this? I do the same thing. I go like into the fridge and just stand there and eat spinach, and then I’m like, I should probably get something else in there, so then. Wait, you start with the spinach? Yeah. And then you’re like, I should also have something delicious? ((Laughing)) Yeah. That makes sense. You’re not a, you’re not like big into eating? Big into eating? Yeah. Yeah, you don’t like do it every day. I love eating. You love eating? I very rarely have, yeah, that’s when I like it. Thank you. Straight out the bag. When you’re just eating spinach out of the fridge though, it’s like, it seems like the type of thing that a person, kind of like, like. Yeah. Yeah. Very rabbit like. Rhett loves eating. It’s so good. Why no flavor? I get hung- It’s not that I don’t get hungry, it’s just that I don’t love eating as much as Rhett does. So like I can just, I would care more about just being able to grab something to eat and get it done with than preparing something. Yeah. That seems like your. That’s what I meant Yeah. Yeah. I think that’s a fair assessment. I think I like to balance it with like. Going out to dinners and having, like, and buying, like, an appetizer and an entree and just, like, you know, really going out, but, you got to balance it with the two extremes of, like, barely eating. You gotta struggle bust. Like, what’s usually going through your mind when you, when you have this meal? Like, what are you struggling with lately? This could get dark. Probably irons. Yeah, definitely irons, yeah. ((Laughing)) How are your bones? I haven’t been diagnosed for that. The string cheese is for the bones. Oh, yeah, sure. I just think a lot about, like, being creatively fulfilled, and whether or not that’s like a something I’m achieving or not. Oh, wow. Things got very real. We want that for you. And you know what? You do have it. I’m just gonna take care of it. You have it. You are. Nice. No, you’re happy. ((Laughing)) You’re happy. You’re creatively fulfilled. That is a good question. We should all be asking that question. Matt Lieb, are we right about the hot dog pieces? 100%. This is me. This is me. How do you cook it? A toaster oven. Yeah, you take a couple of hot dogs, you put it in the toaster oven. You forget about it for a while, and then they come back burnt to a crisp, and then you cut them up into little bits. So you slice the dog in half, in order to, like you? No, you put it in straight. You don’t even put little fork holes in it? No, whole dog straight into the thing, you throw it in, you almost chuck it in there. Oh, I don’t think that’s what they did here. No, they did a little bit more fancy dancy. They cut, they sliced, and they cooked. I was picturing a toaster. Oh no, no. Don’t do that. ((Laughing)) Not like a, you mean one that pops up? Yeah. Two hot dogs in the. I was like, do you cut, how do you do that? Just throw all the cut up hot dogs down in there. I mean, we would do that on this show, but don’t do that. No, the one with the door, the little oven. Okay. Yeah, yeah, a toaster oven. Yeah, toaster oven. Yeah. Yeah, I get it! Okay. ((Laughing)) But, yeah, you should do that. You should cut. Now, is your kid at a hot dog eating phase yet? Not quite yet. She’s mostly at the purées of disgusting phase. And, but she is eating broccoli. And she’s eating beans. And very soon we’re gonna start introducing, You have to. These are chokeable, though. You have to do the long cut. You have to do the. Right. You can’t give them the circle cut. Yeah, too dangerous. Cause it fits right in the esophagus. It’s like literally perfectly sized. Number one cause of choking for children. Did you just dip? Sorry, did you just dip the spinach into the ketchup? Jessie, get a grip. ((Laughing)) I’m trying to spice up my life. I wish I loved spinach as much as you. You could put a little lemon on it. Here you go. Now that’s how you do it. That’ll be good, yeah. Get some garlic. Emily, are we? No. Oh. I’m just, I’m now lotioning with the garlic sauce. We’re backwards? Oh, I was right! So, Emily, you, this is innovative. How did this come about? I don’t know. I had gotten Papa John’s and I ordered a bunch of extras of the butter sauce and I keep them in the fridge. And I was making eggs and I just went, what if, What if I was bad? ((Laughing)) It’s genius. What if I was bad. A little bad. And I took a video of it actually, and posted it and it was like, but it, it sizzles really good in the skillet and stuff. And then. Because it’s like oil, it got oil and butter in it, right? It’s really good. Really good for cooking. This doesn’t look right, this one. I like it when it’s liquidy, you know? It’s kind of that. Oh, I thought that was better. It’s because you don’t shake it up, right? What? If you don’t shake it up. It’s more, it’s more oily. Oh, okay. I didn’t know that, mine was just more watery, buttery. Maybe it’s cause it was hot in my apartment. I don’t know. It’s cause you got it in your back pocket. Yeah, it’s true. But yeah, I don’t know. And then I usually also put the English muffin in the pan too and let it sop up some of it – Oh, my God – Yum as well. And if you want to, and if you want to do something real fun, you can put, if you have any marinara sauce in your fridge, you can just put a little bit on top of that. Whoa! Nope! No. No! Also, if you sauté spinach in that butter, it’s pretty good. Okay. Sure. You got to cook that spinach. So Jordan, we were wrong, or I was. Yeah. You were almost right though. You were almost right. Yeah. Is the cheese slab accurate to your technique? No, of course not. ((Laughing)) Of course not. It is, I would fully cheese this bad boy. But it is like cut off a brick or whatever. And this is what I used to eat when my parents had to work and I was home alone when I was a child. And then I still eat it as an adult, when I’m sad. Or money is not too good. ((Laughing)) Right, okay. See, that’s my favorite sandwich other than, I, I would put bologna instead of pickles, but the pickles is a nice touch. It’s nice. My parents don’t eat meat, so we didn’t have meat in the house. Okay. So this was just kind of a quick and easy thing, but it’s nice. It’s like the, the bread is soft, the cheese is fatty, the mustard and the pickles cut through that. It’s nice. You want a bite? No. It’s um. No. But it’s the four food groups, huh? Yes. Bread, pickles, cheese, and mustard. – Yep. There we go. – Nice. I would eat it, but I, I had a lot of pizza. Well, we’ve learned a lot. Oh, we didn’t ask you all. Really quick, we need to continue. What are you guys struggling with? Oh, a baby who won’t stay asleep. I get it. Just crying and crying. A hangover usually. Okay. And choking on my own spit. I guess. I’m getting mouth watery over this. Sure. My feet are all messed up. Oh, you’ve been hiking a lot? No. Show feet on main. No. She’s got some jacked up feet. I got some jacked up feet. Can we do anything about it? Show everyone. I’ll show all you guys, when the cameras are off, or if you Venmo me $20. Yeah! Oh! Yeah. Feet on Mythical Society. I mean, honestly, why not? Why not? – [Link] Grab January’s Be Your Mythical Best Pin of the Month today only at Mythical.com