Welcome to Good Mythical More. We’re so excited about the release of the Mythical Cookbook. We’re gonna eat a couple of dishes with the author himself. Mythical Chef Josh. But first, let’s list them all. Okay. Thrill seeking activities. Squirrel suit diving. Tying yourself to a railroad track. ((Laughing)) Parasailing. Jump rope can be dangerous. How big? Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. – Okay. – Have you seen you do it? Sword swallowing. Rock climbing. Darts. Fire breathing. Fire breath smelling. Getting in one of those cages with, in the sharks. Feeding alligators. Walking piers late at night. Stretching real hard. Race car driving. Pull my finger. ((Laughing)) If you had said pulling my finger, it would have fit grammatically. That’s what I was, pulling my finger really hard. Come on in here, Josh! I just couldn’t wait to get you in here, so I asked him to pull my finger, Josh. I also like tying myself to railroad tracks. Oh, you do? You’ve done that? Just to feel something. Oh my gosh. You brought it in on the book. It’s a good day. It’s a real good day. This recipe right here, the Fruity Pebbles Pancakes, it’s on the cover. Look at that. It sure is. There’s a lot of stuff on the cover. And I ate almost all that food on the day. That was a, that was a great day. Yeah, as somebody who loves eating scraps, that are about to go in the trash can, I was just guarding the trash can, shoveling it all into my mouth. It’s beautiful. Ten simple rules for cooking deliciously, eating happily, and living Mythically. That’s great, Josh. Yeah. That’s great. Everywhere I turn in this book, I giggle a little, I get giddy, and I get very hungry. Why does my cheese sauce suck? That made me giggle. We answer that question for you. You know all about, like, sauces being broken. Yes. And I don’t really understand that. Well, so, sauce breaking is when the emulsification doesn’t come together, which, means the proteins and the fats and the water have all, you know, created, a heterogeneous mixture and you want to. Yep. There’s a lot more fun stuff than that in the cookbook. Yeah, let’s start with this. No, but that’s the thing. The thing about this is that when you’re somebody like me, who’s like, I’m an amateur cook, you know, you’ve competed with the three of us here together, with Gordon Ramsay watching very closely. I’m a, you know, I’m a hobbyist when it comes to cooking. And I like to be told why I’m doing what I’m doing. And this is not, I mean, it’s fun, yes, but it’s just like, for people who actually, if you want to make the recipes. Like, you’re actually going to use it. You can make actual recipes. Link, it’s not a coffee table book! If you want people to make the recipes, you can give them the book. And then you can eat it. Like, this is from the party chapter. Yeah, correct Perfect party food. Anything that you can just grab the stick and then just put it in your mouth. Especially when it’s the trifecta of pork. Tell us about it. 100%. So, we got a lot of history wrapped up in these recipes. These are called Habausage Bites. And if anybody will entertain me really quickly, on Mythical Kitchen we made, we wanted to make a pork version of the turducken for the holidays. And so we made a sausage wrapped, bacon wrapped ham. Yeah. Called the Habausage It was quite huge? It was quite huge. You tell the story right here. We sure do. It’s a portmanteau of ham, bacon, and sausage. And so, we wanted people to be able to make smaller versions of that at home. And while you do it, you have to do the Habausage chant. Y’all know the Habausage chant, right? Habausage, Habausage, don’t take no one hostage. It was actually originally a hostage negotiation chant. Okay, good. So, Link is kind of right. But at some point you have to do a dance with knives and go, Habausage! Habausage! Habausage! Habausage! Habausage! Habausage! And then you get increasingly sort of more deranged with it. Oh, there it goes. Down the hatch. Now, is that sauce to do something with it? It’s so hot. See, when Josh waves knives around, there’s a comfort level to it. Like, it feels like he’s okay. – Yeah, because they’re butter knives. – Because of that. Well, I just trust that he’s okay with knives. Dang. I could have been a surgeon if I wanted to. That’s really nice there. There’s a ham chunk, there’s a sausage thing, and there’s a bacon thing. It’s very easy to make a nice party appetizer, and it’s glazed with honey and balsamic vinegar. That will please the people at the party. It will. Now you got some endorsements on the back of the book here. You know, did you know when you befriended Matty Matheson that he would become an actor on an Emmy winning series called The Bear? And producer. And executive producer. I did not know that, but Matty Matheson is incredible. He’s an incredible actor in that show, too. He is. Very believable. He just plays himself so good. Yeah, which is perfect. Well, what he said was, this one is for all you freaky deakies. Wait, you gotta do the voice. This one is for all you freaky deakies. If you want to take a classic, throw in a bit of nostalgia, F it up. And then end up with something better than you started with, this is your book. Matty Matheson, actor of The Bear, chef and cookbook author himself. This is a real behind the scenes story on how. We actually had to cut out, like, the second half of his endorsement because it would have been too long. And it did reference my abs, which I was very flattered with. That is a real thing that happened. Wow, do you remember what he said? No, I don’t. I’d have to look it up in the email, but I can find it. Matty, thank you so much, friend of the show, and just a great guy. He’s a good man. Oh, look, I opened right to this recipe. I wonder how. Fruity Pebble Pancakes. Fruity Pebble Pancakes! This actually came from Will It Pancake? This is round one, Will It Pancake 2017. If you guys need someone to write the official history of GMM, I can kind of, I feel like I have it all up here, you know what I mean? I’ve watched it all, like Alex DeLarge at the end of A Clockwork Orange, you know, eyes taped open. Anyways, this is, we have Fruity Pebbles mixed into a pancake batter. Very simple recipe, super delicious, serve it with condensed milk, because that’s like a bowl of cereal that you’ve really condensed into some cakes. And then if you turn the page, another example of a really good pancake hack, with egg whites. Beating egg whites separately for pancakes? Huge. Huge technique. We’re not, we’re not, we’re not gonna tell you. We’re not gonna tell you, you need to get the book for that. So, like, you got, we have the nice picture, we have the, the backstory, we have the recipe, and then we have this, like, little culinary tidbit. I’m seeing the pattern here. We added the culinary tidbits, they’re color coded yellow, in case you don’t want to learn, which I fully understand, skip the yellow. Skip the yellow parts. Alright, I. See, first you watch the green, Link, and then you watch the yellow. And then I, I want to do this. Yeah, that’s smart. I only have a knife, but that’s fine. And Link and I had breakfast in bed together in this chapter. We rented a home, and then got in bed together and took a bunch of pictures because we were told that people would be into that. So good. It’s so fruity. And then we invited Josh into the bed with us. They said, hey, me and my boyfriend saw you from across the bar and liked your vibe. This is when I was like, do you want to invite Josh into the bed? And Link was like, that sounds like a good idea. I’m pouring my milk. I saw him drinking a glass of whole milk and I was like, that’s my vibe. When I go on like a little vacation or excursion, that’s when I switch to whole milk. Oh, that’s fun. Like a little treat? Yes, my little treat. So, 2 percent at home, whole milk on the road. And then Josh showed up and laid down in the bed. This is really painting a picture of something that did not happen. Put that on your coffee table! And then on the next page I brush my teeth, so. You know what my treat on vacation is? Like, don’t drink water. Just coffee and alcohol. Oh, really? Uh huh, yeah, yeah. That’s true. Really? Six days in New Orleans, no water, just beer. You know what I mean. The main ingredient in beer is water. See, when I go places, I don’t go out that much. I just buy all the snacks that I feel like I can’t eat at home. And then I just hold myself up in the hotel room and just drink whole milk. And, you know. Is this what your 40s is like? Tater chips. Yeah. This is what you have to look forward to. So good, dude. Yeah. Recently, we went to the same place with different people. And I was like. That also works. I was like, what restaurants did you eat at? And Link was like. I didn’t go to any. What place did you go? I mean, it’s not like where we went, Mammoth Mountain, had like a lot of great restaurants, but. He’s like, I got some groceries. But, you know what? He cooked his own food. No, he didn’t cook his own food. I cleaned. Oh. This reminds me of Mr. Bill. My, grandma’s neighbor. He would be cooking hamburgers on a big grill, but he would have some smoked sausage that he would put on the grill and cut up, and if you came up to the grill and started talking to him, he would give you a little piece of sausage. Yeah. Was that his sign of like, hey, don’t talk to me, and like, kind of stuff your mouth with sausage? I don’t know. I think it was just his way of making friends. Well, that is actually. This really goes well together. The title of this chapter is, How to Trick People into Being Your Friend By Giving Them Food. Which is something that I have a generally distasteful personality, somewhat of a misanthrope, definitely an introvert. I’ve only made the friends that I do have through food, and so now you can learn how to do that, too. So, what are you gonna do to, to like, celebrate the release day? Like, do you, do you have plans tonight? And when I say tonight, I mean the day it actually releases. I’m familiar with that. I had to put myself there. Yeah. The future present tense. I’ll tell you what, I am not a big celebrator. You know what, we. Change that. When we wrote the Book of Mythicality, we actually wrote in the book what the celebration was going to be because we’re not big celebrators either. We tend to just reach a milestone and then you’re just like, whoa, what’s the next thing? And so we said in the book that we were going to go to a steak restaurant with the book and just like the two of us just going like a steak date. With the book We’re taking the book. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was written in the book and then we went to, what was that steak? It was one of those nice, was it? Morton’s. Morton’s over there. – Yeah. – Yeah. Will we have already had the party? We have an official celebration. We will have already had the party. Remember the party that we’ve already had? That was a great celebration. That was huge. – Yeah. – Oh, yeah, yeah. That’s what we’re gonna do. Yeah. We’re gonna do that. That’s what we’re gonna do. Yeah. Uh, no. After my, after I wrote my first book, I did the same steak celebration, and I spent $500 on a steak dinner, and it was terrible, and I was so sad. Oh. And so if you don’t have expectations about anything ever, you’ll never be disappointed! No. No. Yeah! Come on! Habausage! Alright. You need to stop and celebrate, but maybe not drop $500 on a steak that was rough. No. How could you even? Josh. That’s a good picture. Of us. Look at us. Did you know that you’re wearing my shirt in this picture? I do know that, in fact. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually stole that out of your personal closet. It looks good on you. It looks better on you than it does on me. Yeah, I stole your cologne, too, and so I’ve just been smelling like you for the last three or four years. Oh, that’s not cologne. I don’t know. You just do with that. It smelled so minty and it was blue and it was in your bathroom. What else could that have been? I don’t recall. Let me see this shirt. Yeah, I have that shirt. It’s back in my, it’s back in my rack. Oh, you still have it now? Yeah. I don’t recall you ever wearing that. A full on, like, children’s story inside. Oh yeah, yeah, there is. I saw that. I flipped past that. Get like a special reading or something. I feel like you should pick something to, something to. I can read the children’s story. I’m very proud of it. The children’s story was written about Link and it came about completely organically. I wanted. Look, there’s all of us. Isn’t that a good picture of all of us? I wanted like a lot of our own lives to be reflected in there. Like we have, you know, your favorite recipe for southern fried chicken that we had for your last meal. My smoothie. And we have your smoothie in there. But the smoothie was so different from everything else in the Breakfast chapter, like this, that I had to address it and I addressed it via an entire children’s story where you are painted as a Grinch like character who drinks a green smoothie every morning. You want to read that right now? And yeah, Stevie is somewhat of like an agent of prophecy from hell. There’s a robotic vulture. I can read, I can read. Can you find it? It’s in chapter one. Yeah. It’s a very easy table of contents to follow and find the page you’re looking for. He’ll find it in the next four seconds. One. Two. Three. Just look faster, just look faster. Four. There it is! He found it! So here’s my smoothie page. That’s the one where I’m pouring my thing. And the fun thing about working with, like, a publisher whose job it is to actually make a book is you present them with an entire children’s story and they go, where is this supposed to go? And you go. So, I wrote it. Next to that picture of Link. Alright, so let’s, let’s do it. Let’s hear it. The Tale of Horrible, No Good, Grumpy, Old Smoothie Man. Every morning the villagers rejoice over breakfast. Burritos with grease stained tortillas that barely, just barely, hide the cheesy treasures inside. Omelettes so fluffy they look as if they should float among the clouds. Coffees and teas and juices and donuts and cakes and oh, how you wouldn’t believe the array of schmears, and dollops, and drizzles. Oh, shmears. The maple syrup river is flowing. Yes, it’s a Jewish community. The maple syrup river is flowing. The bagels roll freely down the lush green hills and everyone sings merrily for they are eating breakfast. Well, not everyone, off in the distance past Ham Steak Hill, And over the tippy top of Bacon Forest, you’ll see the scowl of a lonely man who ceased his morning merry making long ago, he growls and frowns and winces as he lifts a cup of thick, gray, green sludge to his lips. Link? Can you read this part For no reason? Breakfast shouldn’t be fun. The angry glasses man says. Can you read this next? Breakfast is about routine. Breakfast is about practicality. Breakfast is about nutrition. He takes another long, self-assured slurp. A spinach smoothie is the only proper breakfast. He feels a gentle tug on his dusty brown sweatshirt. Can you play Stevie Swoopy? Yep. But, Mister. My mom said that if every villager doesn’t eat a delicious breakfast, then RoboVulture will snap us up in his talons of steel and drag us to the Gray Place. It’s little Stevie Swoopy, the tiniest villager of them all, who climbed all the way up Mount Marmalade to spread the message of breakfast cheer. Stupid children’s stories! Glasses Man says as he swats Stevie Swoopy’s tiny hand away. Almost as stupid as eating a bowl of sugary cereal for breakfast. Glasses Man is interrupted by the horrible shriek of a million nails scratching a million chalkboards. The ground shakes and the granola grass stirs beneath his feet as a terrifying shadow descends. A voice booms from beneath the beating metal wings. Horrible, no good, Glasses Man. Your sins cannot go unpunished. Glasses Man drops his smoothie and stares up at the monstrous robotic bird. No, no, no! It’s simply not possible! But his protests are drowned out by the sound of the villagers as they ascend the ridge. Gray Place, Gray Place, Gray Place! They chant, panicking, Glasses Man looks down and sees Stevie Swoopy’s eyes glowing red. Gray Place, Gray Place, Gray Place! We got a little carried away writing this book sometimes. Yeah, right. I love it. Wow. Link takes you to the Gray Place. I love how you needed to contextualize his smoothie recipe. Cause he gave you, he gave you exactly what he does every morning. Yeah, and it literally sent me to the Gray Place, where the only way that I could contextualize it was a robotic vulture dragging you to a sort of Dante’s Inferno like place. You also said that my biceps weren’t as big as yours. Are they? Well, no, but I mean, that’s tertiary. We’re speaking truth in this book. You know why your cheese sauce sucks? Why Link’s biceps aren’t as big as mine. Right. Well, I was gonna say that there’s a bunch of different spreads and there’s a bunch of different illustrations and there’s a whole thing about, you know, different bacon from different animals that you did. Like, there’s just so much. Kitchen safety, a kitchen safety section. Yeah, this is the kitchen safety. Shout out to Chappie for my favorite illustration in the book, which is wearing properly the attire in the kitchen so you don’t get a sleeve caught in like a meat grinder. And, Link, I think this is, one, I actually really love your style. I think you really evolved it. But this kinda looks like the natural evolution. Yeah, that’s where I’m going next. My sleeve in a meat grinder. I’m gonna walk around with a meat grinder. Just for the clout. And Rhett looks like the handsome American in like an anime. Hey, listen, that’s the look I’m going for. Yeah. Yeah. I’m really trying hard. It’s gushing fun. Order yours today, mythical.com/cookbook Get one for a friend. Get two for yourself, a stained one and an unstained one. Yes. Well, you can’t buy a stained one, but there’s one for you to stain. You can stain it. This one’s got a lot of Habausage on it right now. Yeah, it does. Now every kitchen can be a Mythical Kitchen. The Mythical Cookbook is available now, so go to mythicalcookbook.com and get yourself a copy today.