Welcome to Good Mythical More. I got news for you. Sodas exist in regions. They’re called regional sodas. Regional sodas. And, we’re going to taste sodas associated with certain regions and then, see which ones we think are the best by filling out our own. I said that we were going to, we were going to guess where they come from. Burp Bracket. You know, I lied. Well, you can guess where they came from. I lied to the people on the main show. No, just, just don’t, don’t look at this and we can guess where they come from too. But first, let’s, let’s name a pet. Let’s name a pet from Eden using hashtag GMMReadyPetGo, hashtag. Let’s see it. That is a, is that a gecko? I think it’s a gecko. Wow. Is it, is it alive or is it taxidermied? Well, it’s a photo. Oh, is that why it’s not moving? That’s why it’s not moving. I thought this was a live video feed. I requested live video feeds of all the pets. I actually didn’t, so I think they listened to me. Okay, okay. Look at the eyeballs on that thing. They’re kind of like googly eyes. Like it’s, they look glued on. Rick. Rick. Rick. It doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s a reptile. It doesn’t love you and it doesn’t care about you. Gary the Gecko. The name that you give to your reptile is for you. Gorgeous. It’s not for the reptile. Gorgeous the Gecko. Sorry, and when you hug your reptile. Like that guy that has a snapping turtle that, on TikTok, and he hugs it and stuff, that turtle doesn’t care about him. It’s got something wrong with it. That’s why it doesn’t bite. Well, there’s tortoise that will, that will follow people, like if you have a tortoise. Yeah, to follow you, yeah. Well. They think you got something. They either want to have sex with you or they want to get some food from you. Well, I mean, no, there’s a, there’s a tortoise that wants to go for a walk. Okay. I’ll believe it when I see it. He goes for a walk on the streets of New York City, I think. Okay. – Yeah. – He has a grand old time? And he’ll out live his owner. Oh, I’m sure he’ll do that. But if there’s a, well, I, I’m going to say Gorgeous. Ziti. Okay. Ziti. There’s no way we could have gotten that. Ziti. There’s no way we could have gotten that. No, we could have been here for a long time. But we use our scientific process. Come on in, Gwynedd Gwynedd has, you’ve got a, a mathematical geometric shirt on. Yes, I do. Which is interesting. It’s very complex. How is that going to behave on camera? It feels like it might be the Incredible Percentibles shirt. Do this. Do this, is this? Moiré Moiré? You’re giving me a headache! Oh my god. I’m so sorry. It’s a funky little find. I’m a funky little lady. Where’d you find that? At company called Fashion Brand Company. Fashion Brand Company? They couldn’t think of anything more, more inventive than that. Their name sucks, yeah. Fashion brand. Ouch. Alrighty, so we’re not, I know that the bracket over here, which we’re going to fill out collectively. Well, Rhett, you can inform. Yeah, I want to see what you guys think about these various regional sodas that people will hopefully be voting on. In the Burp Bracket at sporked.com Yeah, go over there, you can fill out your own bracket, and what do they win? Pride. It’s fun. It’s just fun. You asked me the wrong question. I don’t think we’ve established that yet, but we will. What’s the right question? I don’t know. I’ll come up with a prize. I’ll come up with something real good. But they’re predicting. We’re trying to predict what you guys, at Sporked are going to say as the winner? No, so, people will be coming to the website our readers will come to the website and vote for their favorites or whichever soda represents which region they are from, and every week it’s going to get whittled down a little bit more until we have a final two, and then we have a final one on April 5th when it will be announced. So, you can vote for your favorite which will impact, the proceedings. It’s about wanting to see your soda succeed. And I don’t know where these come from and I’m not going to look at the bracket. I’m just going to taste them and try to guess where they come from. Okay? I’m playing my own little game. This is black cherry, Boiling Black Cherry. Didn’t like it at first, but then it’s got, Oh, I really like this. I like black cherry flavor in general. It’s, it’s very tangy. It made my, it, it made my cheek muscles, lac, lac. Lactate? Lactate. No, it made, it made them have lactic acid. I, yeah, it has a little bite to it. It feels a little bit North, east? Northeast. How’s that? Let me see the, label Boylan. Black cherry. I actually didn’t know where this is from until we did this. Yeah, I think this is a, I think this is a New England brand based on the logo-age. Okay. Okay, so what are we saying? This is Mid-Atlantic apparently. What does Mid-Atlantic mean? So, that’s like your Maryland’s and your Virginia’s and what not. Okay, that’s pretty close. But I don’t remember where Boylan is from, I’m sorry. It’ll probably say on there. But I know where this next one is from. Faygo is what. But we really liked that one. That’s so good, right? Faygo is what the. Well, I just read that, so now I know. The Insane Clown Posse folks drink. Yeah. So, that must be from Michigan, right? They’re up there in the Midwest. Yeah, so this is. Oh, you got it, Rhett. Michigan sauce. This flavor that we’re gonna try, we asked, we asked on social media, like, what flavor of Faygo people liked the most. And this was the winning flav, and it is Rock & Rye. It has a cream soda thing going on which I did not expect. Very much. It’s almost like, a slightly fruity cream soda. Which, I don’t like it as much as the black cherry. Me neither. So, what we’re doing is we are moving, we are moving the, what was it called? The Boylan. Boylan. Boy, that’s what I’m gonna say. Perf. We agreed right there. Yeah. That’s, it’s good. Yeah, the, Rock & Rye, I didn’t know what to expect, but yeah, it’s like a, it’s like cream soda. Now, I know that Cheerwine is from North Carolina, because I’m from North Carolina, and we honestly never really got into it. It is, so we tasted these in office, obviously, and this is a startlingly sweet little beverage. My kids love it, and they drink so much of it when we go home. Isn’t that wild? I never, I never drank it growing up. Like. Every once in a while. But never thought, oh I gotta get more of that. It wasn’t better than Mello Yello. Is it strawberry? What’s it? Cherry. It’s cherry? Yeah. I’m just not big into cherry flavor, that’s why the Boylan was so surprising to me. So. I mean, I feel bad that we don’t, that we don’t push Cheerwine. I feel okay because I like Pepsi. I have a hat that says Pepsi. Oh, you have a Pepsi hat? – Yeah, you’ve seen it. – I forgot about that. You’re doing your job. Is that controversial? It says Pepsi Free on it. It’s a, it’s a failed version of Pepsi. That’s pretty cool. I’m having to go into more cups. What was, so, Pepsi Free was what? like just like a diet? Yeah, yeah, it didn’t work, then Pepsi Clear that didn’t work either. What’s your soft drink of choice? Like if you’re gonna? Definitely Crystal Pepsi. You’ve never had it. Maybe I have, you don’t know. All right. Yeah, I don’t know. Like, if I was going, if I was going up to a Coke Freestyle machine that also had everything besides Coke, Pepsi and everything else. What would you want? I don’t know. I think that, okay, so I really do like a Coke Freestyle machine and I’ve been dabbling in the raspberry flavored Coke recently. Raspberry Coke? Yeah. I always go for Mello Yello Zero because that’s the only place I can get it, and Mello Yello is my nostalgic soda of choice. We drank it religiously growing up. Do you find that it tastes much different from Mountain Dew? Yes. Yes. Okay. They’re not even comparable. – Yes. – Okay, that’s so interesting. I’ve never tasted them. There’s a softness to Mountain Dew that I don’t prefer. Okay. Shasta? Like, you know how Coke has a, has like a bite to it that Pepsi doesn’t have? That’s the difference between Mountain Dew and Mello Yello. That’s so interesting. And Mello Yello is made by Coke, so it correlates. Mountain Dew is not made by Pepsi, though. Okay. I think it’s made by Dr. Pepper. Am I right? Yeah, that sounds right. I’m gonna try it the next time I do my Freestyle at AMC. I’ve always thought Shasta was a West Coast thing. You’re right, Rhett. He did it. I accidentally looked again. I’m not looking. It’s just like Shasta’s in California. Tiki Punch. So is this like Hawaiian Punch? Ooh, this is like fruit punch. Yeah. Carbonated fruit punch. It’s basically fruit punch. I like this. I’d really like it, but I don’t know if I should. I wanna put it in a, in a bowl at a party. What is that, big bowl of punch at a party called? Sangria? Just punch? Punch bowl. You could just put this, and then you could spike this. That would, this would taste good with alcohol in it. If you just had a Shasta party? It’s been so long since I’ve like, like, I think back, like, I went to like, like, wedding showers. When Christy and I were getting married, and it was like, in the basement of the, the Roatan building, or in like the, the, what’s, what’s that room called in the church, where everybody, the Fellowship Hall. The Fellowship Hall. The Fellowship Hall, and then you, at the end there was the big bowl. And it had a big ball of ice. And then it had all the punch around it. I’m talking about a punch bowl. And you spiked it. At church. I have not had that with the ladle, In such a long time. There’s not a lot of ladling going on since COVID. Oh, that’s so true. Oh my god. What if our punch days are behind us? Why are you ladling drink anyway? I mean. I don’t know anything about Big Red, but it feels like it’s from Ohio. It just feels like something that Ohioans would come up with. I mean, it feels like a drink. I mean, I mean, a gum. Big Red, Ohio State, Cincinnati Reds. It’s just, there’s a lot of red in Ohio. We’ve got lots of red sodas. Where’s it from? This is from. Well, hold on, we didn’t say the winner of this, which is Shasta. Okay. Shasta beats Cheerwine. Okay. Sorry. That’s cool. Yeah, I thought you guys would really go to bat for Cheerwine, but I understand why you did not, because it’s. Well, if they pay us, we would. Okay, all right. I did not hear those A’s correctly. I don’t like Big Red. It almost tastes like bubblegum, doesn’t it? Well, chewing gum, Big Red is a chewing gum. It does taste like gum, and I don’t want to drink gum. It does not taste like Big Red chewing gum. It tastes like, as they’ve already said, bubblegum. Bubblegum. I can vouch for that. Alright, Link, we’re gonna need you to be on, pour duty over there. Oh, yeah. Pour duty. So, this is from Texas. That’s where Big Red is from. Big, big, big. Everything’s bigger and redder in Texas. And this is, this is a cream soda we’re moving into now? This is Dr. Brown’s Dr. Brown’s. I’ve heard about Dr. Brown. I don’t. The original cream soda? Flavor favorite for generations. So, this is since 1869. Wow. I don’t know if he’s a real doctor or just a soda doctor, but. Well, the doctors used to dabble in sodas. That’s true, yeah. How they used to treat people. Yeah. It was like pre kombucha. Careful when you put those two words together. That’ll be on Wheel of Fortune in a couple of weeks. What is pre kombucha? I mean, sorry. Oh my god. That’s not great, guys. Alright! I love cream soda. And I feel like the one that tasted like cream soda, this Faygo is better. Okay. It’s not bad at all. It just doesn’t. It doesn’t really taste like. It doesn’t have fruit. It doesn’t do a lot. I like it. It’s too subtle. Yeah, I think it’s subtle too. But it’s better than Big Red It is better than Big Red. Big Red was actively bad. So, we’re gonna move. Better than pre kombucha? Dr. Brown Dr. B on. All right, doctor. Okay. All right. So, now we’re to, Jones. Jones is. They don’t do anything. This is specialty soda, that’s all over the place, but where did it start? What region are we at? Twist off it says. This is, I feel like just from looking at the bottle you can guess this one. Let me look at the bottle. – Sorry. -Does it have a state on it? You burping? Yeah, I can’t, I’m a really burpy person. Cream soda This is testing me, okay, but this is like, what do you think? I don’t know, it’s actually not doing too much for me. Okay. Midwest? Give it a pour. It’s, I think it’s from like, Washington. Like, state. And I think it just looks like, it looks grunge. It has a grungy, it does have a grungy thing going on. Jones soda is grunge soda. It looks like, right next to the Voodoo Donuts place you’d have the Jones. The Jones, soda place. Exactly. What is that, a cat with bubbles in front of its face? Yeah, I think so. Okay. It’s cute. It’s cute. It’s an angry cat. There you go. So, another cream soda. We have a lot of cream sodas. It smells like cotton candy. Whoa. Really does. It tastes like cotton candy. Okay. It’s a little overpowering. I do not like it much. I could not drink a whole bottle of this. I’m just not much of a, yeah, like cream sodas and. Sweet sodas in general is not my, isn’t my thing. They’re out of my, they’re out of my world. I think it’s hard too if you’re not getting any caffeine out of the deal. Like it’s just. That’s true. Yeah. Yep, yep. Why am I having this? Good point. All right, so that is going up against our final contender, which is Izze. Sparkling Blackberry. Let me see the front of that. I predict I’m going to love this because. That’s very nice. I love, I love blackberry flavored things. Just the idea. I feel like these are like the two, like, 90’s kids going head to head with one another. There’s a lot of, there’s some design, there’s a design factor to that one. Which makes me think, is it California? This is actually Colorado. Oh, okay. Nice. Okay. Uh oh, uh oh. Just keep them together. Okay, I’m gonna keep them together. There you go. I gotta double cup. Alright, take that. Thank you. Oh, boy. That smells strong. Wow! Okay. That tastes like it’s got real juice in it. Is he happy? I like it. I actually do like it. I really like this. Yeah. And it’s very juice like. Woo! It contains 60 percent juice, homes. That’s a lot! Yeah, yeah, that’s got some real juice in it, you can really tell. 100 calories. That’s taken out, Jones, and, easily. It’s got a lot of apple juice, more than blackberry juice, which, and then less raspberry juice. And then some grape juice. And I would say, unless you’re gonna oppose me in this, that it quickly moves past Dr. Brown’s. Cream soda to the finals. Okay. Because I don’t even want, I mean, the cream soda, Doctor Brown’s cream soda was just too weak. Yeah, I know. I know, I agree. This, I know this is more, it’s more sparkling juice than it is soda, but. Yeah, it feels like it’s cheating a little bit. Yes, but it’s its own thing. All right, so it, it’s moved on. Okay, so now we’re back to? Shasta and. Boylan. Boylan. Boylan was. Boylan. Boylan. Boylan was very surprising. We didn’t really keep up with our cups, so we need to go through more plastic. Okay, here we go. Alright. I’m actually really excited to have more boylan soda because it’s so good. That says a lot. I think so. So I think it’s gonna, I mean, the Hawaiian Punch of it all. We were drinking a lot of soda. You guys don’t have to burp yet? I’m like, just bursting. I like holding it all down. Oh, okay. There we go! Delicious. Still good. I don’t like cherry, and I don’t like cream soda, and this is pretty, pretty great. So, I don’t even, I don’t even care to try this again, but I’m going for it. The Shasta? It’s good, but it’s a little, it lacks sophistication. Can I just drink it right out of the can? Yeah, go for it. So I’m voting to move on the boy. I’m fine with that, cause this is, this is great in a punch bowl at your church party. Yeah. With some vodka thrown into it. So, there we go. If you’re at a Presbyterian or Catholic church. We’ve got the, we’ve got the. So, now we’ve got Boylan versus Izze. Izze gonna win. Izze gonna. I mean, I think I’m going Boylan. if this is. That’s not it. That’s more Boylan. What we’re, what we’re down to. Let’s see. Because you think this is not really a soda, that’s what you’re saying. It’s more juice than soda, but it’s really good. I’m voting for the Izze. All right. Oh wow. It’s gonna come down to me then. But the fact that the cherry, the fact that the cherry really surprised me says a lot. I ain’t gonna hate it. I ain’t gonna hate it if it wins. These are tough decisions. I think if you’re expecting a soda, you’re gonna want Boylan. I think Boylan, if you’re coming into the, if you’re, if you’re entering this experience with a soda expectation, Izze may disappoint you cause it’s so juicy, so I’m gonna say Boylan. So ladies and gentlemen, we are declaring Boylan our personal favorite in our bracket. You gotta try your own. Nice. And, fill this thing out. Represent your area at sporked.com in the Burp Bracket. But Mid-Atlantic has done it. Nice! What? Create your own Burp Bracket over on sporked.com and check out their soda rankings while you’re there.