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Gwynedd bent over to pick up her chair and her, your rear, My big Crocs. Your rear hit the, um, the thing over there. Are you okay? I think everything’s okay. It’s all gonna be okay. Yeah, yeah. And we’re gonna drink caffeine now. Everything’s okay because I’m on, Because I’m on drugs. Just kidding. Vacation. Vacation. That’s not how it goes. It’s okay. It’s okay. We have a large body of work. We have a very, very large body of work. I have my own things. I guess. We’ll send it to you. Thanks. Vacation. We have a song called I’m On Vacation. Yeah, I know. God. Alright, so we, we’ve got some glasses here. We’re gonna be pouring these. Energy drinks. Are you an energy drink user? No. I’m not, so this is like, okay. I will tell you, these are all energy drinks that came out this year. They were all our favorite ones. And by our, I mean our very professional energy drink reviewer. We actually have a freelancer who’s like an energy drink expert and tries all these things, and reviews them for us. His name is Griffin. You can follow him @sodaseekers on Instagram and he’s, he knows what he is talking about. But now we’re gonna. Hopped up all the time. We’re gonna judge what he, It just goes to show you how committed to helping you figure out what you need to buy the Sporked team is. Correct. That’s right. Yep. You know I, they’re doing such a service over there at Sporked.com. You really should benefit from it. I mean, it’s free. Good God. It’s free. Um, so this is a new Alani Nu. Alani Nu the new in Alani Nu stands for nutrition. Did you know that? New? No. No. Now I do. Good. New, I do. It has 200 milligrams of caffeine in this whole thing. So that’s, so that’s like two coffees maybe? Exactly. That’s what I was gonna say. Cheers. So we’re just gonna taste a little bit. Cheers. Sorry. Sorry. Cheers. Okay. Well, I’m gonna be real high after this. Wired. You’re gonna be wired. Wired. Get the terminology right. That’s what I meant, because I’m on vacation. There you go. Vacation. How does it really go? It, um. It’s more “vacation”. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Vacation. I don’t want Rhett and Link to copyright strike us. Different channel. Yeah, that’s true. That was, that was good. It was very, um, pungent. Tarty, sweet tarty. So this is sherbet. Swirl. Oh, so it’s supposed to taste like sherbet. It does. Okay. Rainbow. Yes. Oh, yes, it does have a rainbow sherbet, But it also tastes like artificial sweeteners, I think. Don’t you do it. Don’t keep going. Now we gotta drink other ones. Just a taste. It’s good though. I would drink that. Yes, it is good. And I would immediately take a nap. A loaded one. Good can. Good can, good can. That’s in our number one position now. We’re bringing in the Celsius. Celsius does not play when they pack in the caffeine. This one, um, is the fizz free pink lemonade. Caffeine content… I feel like these are around 200 as well. That’s my recollection. That tends to be standard for this size of, uh. Energy drink. Yeah. Which is that’s, it’s a lot of caffeine to have all at once. [Stevie] I thought Celsius was more than the other ones. Thought it was too. I wish they would. I find it actually always genuinely hard to find the caffeine on these cans, and I don’t know why that is. I know. [Stevie] No, no. It says 200. Because I don’t think they have to disclose the exact It is 200. [Stevie] Oh, some of them have 270. That’s crazy. Dang. Um, and this is a fizz free, this is a pink lemonade and it’s fizz free. And I think that’s nice because most of them are fizzy and they make you belch if you’re me. No belching. You what? Belch. “Belch.” We make you “belch”. We said burp where we grew up. I know, I always say burp too, but. So we like this because it’s like, it doesn’t taste that much like pink lemonade, but it’s very lemonade-y. I like this one quite a bit. It’s light. It’s light. It doesn’t taste like an energy drink, I don’t think. No. The first thing I tasted, I thought it was a hot pepper. It’s like before a hot pepper gets hot, there’s a little something that. I didn’t, that didn’t, I didn’t have that experience. Now, have you ever tried to go no caffeine? No, I didn’t. I didn’t have it that time. No. I used to not really drink coffee very much, but now I like to have it in the morning as a little treat, but. Only in the morning? How close to after waking up do you drink it? Mm, 30 minutes probably. Okay. I, I’m not answering this. Why? Because you’re gonna tell me that it’s not good for me. No, I drink mine almost immediately. There are, there is a school of thought that you should wait. Because your, like cortisol is going up and you’re… But then I heard another guy who was a doctor who said, don’t worry about it. It’s like, really, it’s not a big deal. Exactly. But do you drink it? Is it the first thing that you put in your gullet? No. Uh, as I’m walking to the bathroom from my bed. Pee right in your mouth. That’s the first thing in the gullet. Recycle it. Gotta recycle it. That morning wood gives you the perfect angle. Oh, come on. It was, it was. Come on. Oh, you’ve been talking to Carney. I mean, you’ve been talking, you’ve been calling that hotline. I don’t know who it was. I’m taking strays back here, just working. Um, yeah. I drink wa, I drink water. Yeah, I have water before coffee I drink a lot of water and then I drink enough kefir. Oh yeah. You love that stuff, huh? To swallow my pills. Hold on. You take pills before coffee? Yes. ’cause the pills are the most important thing in my life. I take pills before coffee too. ’cause mine’s a heartburn pill, so I have to take it before coffee or I die. And I guess the fact that there, there’s healthy fats in the kefir is, is enough. Kefir is what we call it. I know. Is it? Is it? I know. Does the kefir make you belch. And then I drink my coffee. Uh, and I’ve probably been up for eight minutes. Huh. I do water. I’ve already had water, kefir, Water with some electrolytes, sometimes some creatine. Coffee by 10, 8, 10, 10 minutes into my morning. Yeah. Straight water with some of that stuff in it. Then coffee. Then kefir goes in my smoothie after I work out or just stretch sometimes. Like today I just stretched. Which is quite a workout. And uh, and then I take my pills with the smoothie and I don’t even take it out of the carafe. Pill. Mm-hmm. Pill. That’s efficiency. And I don’t have many pills anymore. I’ve cut way back on that. That’s good. Now this one, that’s why I’m like, damn, this one got carnitas in it. Carnitine. Yum. Carnitine. And I thought that was her tongue. Is it not? No. Wait. Ew. That whole- you thought that whole thing was her big fat tongue? Yeah. I mean, oh, lemme see. I wasn’t, I wasn’t looking straight at it. I just thought. I was looking in her eyes and I thought, You know, if you look, look at the top of her head, it looks like a big tongued woman. Yeah, yeah. Yes. And it’s coming. It’s like coming out Pretty gross. Yeah. It’s a weird can design too. I think it’s really 90s for a new energy drink. This is a new Monster flavor called Bad Apple. And I think this is one of the only ones that we’re tasting that has lots of sugar in it for you. Oh, then it’s probably gonna be good. Exactly. 170 calories. 41 grams of sugar. 82%. Oh, tastes like a candy apple. It’s so good. It’s, this is like sparkling apple juice. Wow. There there are folks. There are folks. Don’t do it though. Who will drink multiple of these in a day. Try not to do that. 82% of the sugar And then their heart will stop. It’s crazy. Crazy. That’s crazy, man. But it tastes really good. It tastes really good. But we, we gotta put this down here. Big tongue lady. We don’t wanna promote the big tongue lady. You gotta go over here, lady. We’re talking, I mean, we are just talking about using our rings to help us like be better people. I know. Better to ourselves. Funny timing, isn’t it? Celsius Live Fit Snowball Frost. Ooh. Alright. It says it has to say alcohol free on it. Snowball frost. People think that it might have alcohol. I guess. Does it say that on every one of them? It would be. This is a spritz vibe. Right above nutrition facts right there. Does it say alcohol free? It doesn’t. The reason it doesn’t have to say it is because that one has to say it because it’s got gold top. It’s got a gold top. It’s because it’s called, I think it’s also because it’s called spritz vibe. And spritz is, it’s like an Aperol spritz. Or maybe it’s just because gold top. It’s because of the gold top. Of the spritz. It’s just a gold top, obviously. Yeah, because gold top is, uh, but this is supposed to taste like Aperol spritz. Do you like Aperol spritz? I don’t know if I do. I don’t know if that’s gonna make a very good energy drink. I like that. But usually because of the alcohol, I like it. It has a little bit of that bitterness. I think that tastes really good. Oh, actually it’s really working. Mm-hmm. And it reminds me that that is a very good drink. Mm-hmm. I didn’t even have one until like two years ago. I didn’t, I I don’t, it’s too much for, I didn’t know about that. What’s too, I don’t love it. Really? The taste of it is too much for me. I’m sorry. It has a lot going on ’cause it’s very citrusy. But it’s also, If you had had the Aperol spritz in the way and it created a little callback in your brain. I’m gonna leave that here in third place. You’d love it. Okay. I’m gonna put that in third. I don’t know, but there’s two of us. Yep. Y’all can decide to move it up if you want to. We both. It’s tasty. Starbucks. Zero sugar iced energy. Sparkling Energy Drink Tropical Peach. I think this was a whole new line this year of Starbucks energy drinks, and we tried all three of them. Griffin tried all three of them, and this was the winner. The Tastiest. Is it tropical peach flavor? I appreciate that they put their caffeine content front and center in a little circle, like literally right there. Hydration. 160 milligrams, plant-based caffeine. Mental clarity. This thing has mental clarity. Plant-based caffeine. Well, what is there a horse caffeine? What? Yeah. That’s a good question. What kind of, where do you get caffeine from? Taurine. And I think that is like something weird. Am I right? Is that right? Is that from the brain of an animal? From the brain of an animal? I don’t know. I’m just making things up. The, the balls or butt of an animal. Is it from the balls or the butt of an animal? Google it? Yes. No. Tropical peach? No. It’s involved in the production of bile acids. Ooh. Oh, okay. Okay. So that sounds like that’s not a plant. It’s not plant based. Animal products such as meat, seafood, and eggs, amino acid. How do you get caffeine from animals? Google that. Do you like it? I don’t think I like it. I, I’m not a huge fan of this. Okay. It’s like, um, I’m tasting the zero sugar of it all. I know. Mm-hmm. It’s pretty strong. I think it’s okay. I’m not loving that one. I mean, I kind of wanna go back to the first one, make sure that we still love it, but we’re gonna move forward first. Has that got a big tongue lady on it? Let’s put that down there. Monster Energy, Ultra Black. These are sugar free ones. Their whole Ultra line is sugar free. That’s look at, that’s a mean looking can. Look at the top of that can. I love Monster Energy drinks so much. That is one taste test I have done. I did like all of the Monster Energy drinks. We did a long form video for Sporked, um, and it like. By the end of the video, I’m a whole different person. Oh, yeah. It’ll do it to you. Mm-hmm. Is this great? I like me better when I’m high on, when I’m, uh, You’re not, you’re just caffeinated. Yep. When you are, you’re wired. When you’re on vacation. Ah, exactly. Whoa, that’s nice. In like a, really non-offensive way I like that. It has got a little bite to it. Woo. What flavor is it? I have no idea what flavor it is, grape? I have notes. Even the flavor wakes you up. I don’t have that note. Ultra black. It doesn’t say, it just calls it ultra black. Is it like a cherry flavor or something you might have to read. Why are you stroking it? Because this part right here, the can is rough, and then that part’s smooth, where the mirror is. It’s a whole textural experience. It’s amazing what they’ve done to this can. Mm-hmm. Like I want this just for the collector part of part of it. The collector in me. The collector in me wants this. Just wants to rub it all. The collector in me wants me to sit in my room alone and rub this can. What flavor is it, homie? Does it say, what flavor it was? On the words of all the words it says on it. No, and I can’t read small letters anymore. Maybe I can, lemme look at it. I got some readers. But I put ’em on at a restaurant and Jesse was like, they don’t look good. [Stevie] Those eyedrops are supposedly coming. Eyedrops that take away the readers needing? [Stevie] I thought I told you about that. The need for readers. [Stevie] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m waiting on them. What is it? Read it. Oh. We’re here for you. 24/7. 555-449-8729. Yeah. Yeah. When you say that number it. [Matt] You’ve reached the sexy monster hotline. Press one for a super sexy monster. Press two for a sort of sexy monster. Okay. Plus three to be taken to Sporked.com. Oh, wow. A bunch of sexy monsters. Uh, three bing beep. That’s good. Now hang up because that was a good promo, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was. Say hang up. Hang up. Okay, good. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He wasn’t, he wasn’t happy about that. Natural caffeine. Ghost. Sorry, I still wanna know. Cherry capital of the world. It’s cherry. Okay. Yeah, it’s good. I think that’s why I liked it. It’s tart cherry flavor. I like it too. Okay. Are we making that one number one? Yeah. Push it. I think it might be. Yeah. Ghost Raspberry Cream. Doesn’t that sound good? I think it does. Ghost will do things. [Stevie] Is it protein too or is it just energy? Good Q. Zero. It’s got Carnipure though. Carnipure. [Stevie] Oh, so they don’t. I thought Ghost just did protein powder, protein cereal… No, they do, uh, they do pre-workout. Mm-hmm. I had some Ghost pre-work. Well, Loch had some Ghost pre-workout when he was in high school, and I like took it one morning. I did my workout and then I’m driving to work and I just started itching all over. All over like my chest and my shoulders and my neck. And I was, I thought I was dying on the way into work. What? Like why? And then I read that one of the ingredients in a pre-workout at the level that it was at in that stuff can cause that to happen to you. That’s crazy. Eventually you get used to it, but. I stopped doing it. I stopped doing the pre-workout. Had it ever happened to Loch before? He was like, yeah, it’s called the so and so, like, it’s like there’s like a name for it, you know The pump itch. It means the so-and-so, so-and-so’s working, Dad. Let’s rank these things. Uh, this one, it’s just the, it’s… I don’t like this Too much. Too much flavor. It’s sensory overload for me. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It’s just the, the flavors are just, up to 12. Sometimes we judge these things based on like how accurate they are to what they’re supposed to be. Mm-hmm. And I, that’s a, for an energy drink, that’s a really accurate raspberry cream flavor. Right? And the can is way too smooth. No texture. I need to go back to this one ’cause I think it’s my favorite. And I just wanna certify now that I’ve done everything. Oh, did we do all of ’em? We did all of ’em. Yeah. Mm-hmm. We made it. We made it. I’m vibrating. This one has, it’s so much more effervescent. It’s big on texture. Mm-hmm. No, this can is big on texture. Big texture guys here. This Sherbet Swirl Alani is still my fav. You guys weigh in. I’m going with the Monster Energy Ultra Black. Me too. I’m a Monster monster, and I approve this message. Today is the last day to get your order in so it arrives in time for Christmas. Enjoy free domestic standard shipping today only. Plus, check out the new mythical quarter zip while you’re there. Mythical.com.