(majestic chime) – Hi, I’m Ryan. – And I’m Shane. – And welcome to “Top 5 Beatdown,” a show where we compare top fives for topics that seem completely asinine yet somehow garner strong opinions. And to add some credibility to the mix, we compare our top fives with that of an expert in the field. Today’s topic is US Pizza Chains, and today’s experts are renowned tasters of pizza and hosts of “Good Mythical Morning,” Please welcome to the void Rhett and Link. (audience clapping) – Hey hey hey. – Hello. (Rhett laughing) – Wow, you made it sound very official, I hope we deliver. Ha! Get it, deliver. (Ryan chuckles) – Aw… We’re off to a great start here. I think it sounds official because it could be argued that you guys have the most traveled buds in the game, and I’m talking taste buds. (Ryan laughing) – People say our show is now a food show, uh, it’s the sore subject. Let’s not, let’s not talk about it. – [Ryan] Before we get into our top fives, let’s talk about the rules and there’s only one rule, and that rule is that the pizza chain must be in the United States. – You never know where this is gonna go and that’s why this show is so fun. – That all being said… – [All] Let’s list! – That was the best one yet. (triumphant music) – [Link] Caesars dropped off of our list so that we could put at number five. – [Rhett] CPK. – [Link] California Pizza Kitchen. – [Shane] Oh ho! [Ryan] Okay. Okay, all right. (Rhett laughing) That’s, I like this, I do like this. – It wasn’t originally on the list until we had to collaborate. – And again, this is also being informed by a recent experience. We were doing an episode that was about something tangential to pizza, but we tasted this pizza that was just a regular like margarita style pizza. And we were like, whoa! That’s… What is that? That is good, and it turns out it was CPK. And ’cause I’m not. ’cause listen, I don’t go there on a regular basis, but since tasting it again for the first time uh, in probably 10 years, I recently we had we did get lunch and we both got the barbecue chicken pizza, which they’re known for. – They say, – It’s good. I think they say that they invented the barbecue chicken pizza or certainly popularized it. – Ooh. It’s, it’s still good, they bring it, you can also get a pizza that has shrimp on it. I mean, they’re trying really hard, it gives you it gives you some variety. And if you don’t live in California, I think it’s legit. Here it’s a little sus going there and I, you know, I don’t want to admit to that. – You know, I respect them for for putting weird stuff on it. You know. It is truly Californian. They’re– – Trail blazers. – Ryan, you probably ate this. This is probably your Thanksgiving growing up, right? (all laughing) – Fuck You. (beep) I would say that these folks were the ones who really brought that artisanal craft pizza onto the mainstream. And as you guys said that, I regretted not putting it on my list. – Oh. – Hey hey hey. All right. (tense music) – [Shane] My number five is, California Pizza Kitchen. – [Link] What! (Rhett laughing) – [Link] Hey! Yeah! – [Ryan] Oh, wow! Oh man! – [Shane] Now this is… I was just, this is the second time it’s happened where I’ve had the same number five as a guest, and I’m not just doing this to earn a little good will with the guests. – Clearly it is ploy. – That is not what’s happening here, I’ll say this. – Blatantly transparent. – And Ryan I want you to know I really enjoy Southern California. Uh, you. It’s a great place you’ve propped up here. Um, I think California Pizza Kitchen chain wise, you know, it might be the best pizza you can get in California. – Oh my. – Um. – It’s really It’s really a, a desert. It’s, I call it a pizza desert. – There’s so many good pizzerias and So Cal. – It’s a rough town for pie. – [Ryan] My number five is (ding) Pieology. Now I don’t know if you guys have heard of this place. – [Rhett] Uh, yeah. – [Shane] Oh. – But Pieology is part of that uh, create your own individual pizza craze. Now it was not the first on the scene, that was MOD. MOD was the first to do that. In fact, the creator of MOD also created Pieology in 2011. – Whoa! – Why? Why would you recreate the same thing? Did he not like the name. – Yeah, that’s kinda odd. – You really just set me up there, you set me up there. I’m glad you asked. – Oh, okay. – 40 different choices of toppings at Pieology, sourced locally when they can be, and they have excellent crust varieties. They have this very thick crust, this thick premium crust, and they have their very thin original crust which is what they started it with, which is beautifully crispy yet fluffy at the same time somehow, while still being thin. I also don’t like a garbage monster when I eat one of these individual pizzas myself. Their specialty pies which is like, you could go into the shop, you could make your own, or you could build off a base that they give you and their specialty pies I think are the best in the artisanal individual pizza game. – I think it’s a solid choice to take one of those because they have shaken up the be pizza game so much. – Yeah. Yeah. – And it’s really up to you which is a lot to screw up. – Yeah, it’s like when you go… I mean, I always say this about the Mongolian places where you go and you’re making the decision about what you’re gonna put together. There’s such a delicate balance– – Don’t go overboard. – That could really happen. – (chuckling) Don’t go over. – When you do these build your own pizza? – Yeah, I mean when I’m there and going down the line, I’m constantly saying, “No, stop me if I’m wrong, correct me if I’m wrong. (Ryan and Shane laughing) just step in here if you need to.” – That’s putting way too much trust to do that person. – Please, please intervene. – If they just hit me with a nice little subtle… – Yeah, just a little wince. – Yeah. – You sure about that? (Rhett laughing) You sure about that? Okay. – Pizza critic to just follow your journey. (tense music) – Our number four comes with its own disclaimer, Papa John’s. (ding) – [Shane] Oh! It made it on the list as a testimony to it’s pizza, but not– – [Link] Let’s say it’s ingredients. – [Rhett] It’s ingredients, but not it’s uh… (clicks tongue) – Former spokesman. (Rhett laughing) – Yep. – Oh yeah, yeah. – Yeah. – That’s fair. – Papa John’s that is our number four. If we were going on taste alone. I mean, I had this thing at – You had it higher. – up like number two, but in good conscious, we just can’t keep it up there. They’ve cleaned house, Papa’s out, I don’t even– – Papa’s gone. – Their sauce is sweet. Their cheese is thick and they’re… I mean, it’s… – They go hard on the cheese. They. And they also do the thing that I do whenever I make a pizza for myself at home, which is, there’s cheese, there’s ingredients, and then there’s another layer of cheese to hold everything in place. – Oh, I see as an adhesive. – That is a great technique. And I mean, more cheese is better, but it also just creates this like uniform thing that no other place really does in the same way. – I believe that they’re very consistent too. You know, its no matter where- – That’s fair. – There’s other things on our list higher, but, but it’s a bit more of a crap shoot uh, when it comes to your front door. – I’m very curious, because I’m surprised this didn’t come up right off the bat, but one of the most commendable things about about Papa John’s to me, is that they provide you with a butter garlic dipping sauce. – Yes. – Yes. – Yes. – Yeah. It is revolutionary. Not a lot of other people do it. We actually did an episode where we tested out different dips of pizza. We’ve gone from pizza all the way to dips and I do think garlic butter, it may have won or it was very, very close to the top. – You know, you guys might be living up to the title of renowned tasters of pizza. (both laughing) I’m just saying. – Oh, are we? (tense music) – [Shane] Okay, moving along my number four is… (ding) Sbarro. – [Ryan] You put Sbarro on your top five. – Yes, yes I did. (Ryan laughing) – And let me tell you why, because I love the mall. (Rhett laughing) – Oh my God! – I love the mall. I know Sbarro look it gets a bad rap as being low quality pizza. – Yeah it does. – I frankly have never had an issue with it. I know what I’m getting when I go to Sbarro. It’s kinda like going to McDonald’s and getting a cheeseburger. You know you’re not getting an incredible cheeseburger, but you’re getting a McDonald’s cheeseburger, And the same can be said for Sbarro’s pizza at the mall. I love a pizza place that, you know, it’s just got it sitting out and it’s probably a few hours old, and then they just pop it right back in the oven for you and heat it up a little bit. – Yeah, that’s sounds about right. – I love walking along the window. It’s not to build your own pizza place, but it’s sort of like, you just point at stuff and they’re like, “Okay, here you go.” (Ryan laughing) – Uh… And it’s not a good pie, but it’s a, it’s a pizza pie. – It’s not a good pie, but it’s a pizza pie. – Okay. – If the only place you can get it is at a mall food court, what does that say about it? – Frankly, well one, I would ask you to respect my list. (Ryan laughing) – Uh… Politely, I’ll ask you politely, and next time not so polite. – Listen Shane, I’m, I do respect your list. I respect the fact that the only reason you could come up with for liking Sbarro is that it was in a mall. (both laughing) – That’s not the, I mean… (Shane laughing) – No, he said the point thing too. He said you can point. – Oh yeah, he said you could point. – Point at stuff. Don’t forget you pointed stuff. – [Ryan] This is not a newcomer here. Everyone knows this guy, everyone’s good friend (ding) It’s Pizza Hut. You know, one of the more iconic pizza chains out there in terms of look, their slice of the market share pie… (laughing) (Shane scoffs) – is not as big as it once was. It used to dominate, and now unfortunately it’s number two behind dino- Dominoes in terms of sales. But I still think that Pizza Hut, when you’re talking delivery, hard to top it. I have a lot of pleasant memories associated with Pizza Hut. It was always the pizza of choice at sleepovers growing up. So I think maybe that nostalgia is perhaps factoring in here. – Pizza Hut is not afraid to throw toppings on there. They will. They’ll, they’ll hit you with some top. – And they’re super experimental in the way that they, you know. I think they came out with the stuff crust which is super solid choice. – Exactly. – And before that meat lover’s pizza, I’m gonna give that to Pizza Hut as an originator. – Yeah. – Don’t know for sure. – Well, and I think the reason that they didn’t hold onto that market share is because they miscalculated how important it was to have the ability to go in and sit down, right? And they held onto – Right. – that idea for too long. You kind of felt just a tad bit Regal when you were eating Pizza Hut ’cause you were like, “You know, this is delivery but I could be sitting down in a restaurant eating it.” You know, that is part of this. – They put way too much stock into the hut, and not to the pizza. – The biggest hut I’ve ever seen. Go into any town and you’ll still see these huts. (Ryan laughing) Now they’ve been turned into like, that pizza has now a sushi place– – Or there’s a podiatrist in that Pizza Hut. – That Pizza Hut is a podiatrist. (Rhett laughing) – Yeah, forget about the pizza, let’s just talk about the hut here. Ten out of ten hut. (Rhett laughing) – The hut endures. – All right, let’s move on to number three. But before we do that, let’s have a word from our sponsor. – [Ryan] This episode of “Top 5 Beatdown” is sponsored by Bright Cellars. Now Bright Cellars is a unique wine service that uses a quiz to determine your taste preferences, and then from there they send you a list of your tops six based on those preferences from around the world. I consider myself a very casual vino drinker so I was pleased to see that the questions on the quiz are non-snobby, very easy. Things like what kind of chocolate do you prefer? What kind of fruit do you like? And then from those answers, they give you the suggestions of the wines you should be drinking, and then they send you this box. As you can see I already drank one with my girlfriend, uh, buttery is how I would describe that. Very, I guess match to my preferences. 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During that episode, which again in was a blind pizza taste test, we knew the five different places that we were tasting from. And what we did is we tasted something that was not good. I believe that it was Little Caesars. – Yes, that makes sense. – And we were like talking so much trash. We were like, “this is so bad. This has got to be Sbarro.” – Yeah. – Like in our minds we just thought Sbarro was bad, so we thought we were ranking it really low, but it turns out. – Because malls are bad. – But it turns out, I think it ended up being like the second best tasting pizza in that blind pizza taste test for both of us. – Yeah. Yeah, it was great. – And so Sbarro it’s. (Ryan laughing) Yeah, listen, I thought it was bad to, but listen, in on a side by side test, it proved itself. – Whenever you go to the mall, just put on a blindfold first and then eat that pizza. – But how can you point if you have the blindfold? – No, you go to a mall with a blindfold, it’s gonna, the vapor’s gonna travel through the place and you’re gonna float to it like Yogi bear smell and a picnic basket. – I think if you’re gonna eat Sbarro in a mall, you might wanna make that blindfold even bigger and just call it a mask because you don’t want anyone to see that you’re eating Sbarro, it’s embarrassing. How much do expectations play into our enjoyment of things? Because you said it yourself, you thought Sbarro was bad. Maybe I perhaps think Sbarro is just bad. And if I were to do it blindfold I would enjoy it. – The value of the blind taste test. It’s knocking down prejudices. – Tell that to Papa John’s. (both laughing) – Jesus. (Ryan laughing) (tense music) – [Shane] My number three is, (ding) uh, it’s Papa John’s uh, and with all the necessary excuses up front. – And Shane, I’m gonna stop you right there because my number three is also Papa John’s. (ding) – Okay, all right. Well it’s all out there then. Look, we’ve made the statements that we need to make here. Papa John, a vial human. Yeah look, this is not an endorsement of that man, I think he’s out of the picture now. But for all the things we were saying before, I love that they’re giving you a pizza, but then they’re also giving you a lot of elements to spice it up with the dips and the peppers. Uh. It’s a delightful experience. And frankly, one that is one of a kind. – I mean, let’s just say it Shane, when it comes to condiments best in the game, best in the game. – Best in the game. – That garlic sauce is crack. I don’t know what’s inside of it, but it is amazing, so damn god damn good. – Don’t forget to shake it up before you open it though. – That’s true, that’s a rookie move. That garlic sauce, man. I think if I could just rank that on the list on its own, I probably would. – I would drink it. I would drink. – I wouldn’t go that far, but I my sip on it. – May I chefs kiss that? (siren roaring) – Yeah. – You know what? – You know what? I’m gonna tandem that. – I think it’s all that going all around. We’ve never had a tandem like… (kisses blowing) – You can’t chef kiss yourself, can you? (all laughing) – I guess we just did. I chef kissed Shane’s and Shane chef kissed mine, which taken outta context could be great. – No, it’s all for the sauce, it’s all for the sauce. (tense music) – [Link] We’re going back to the Hut. (ding) – [Rhett] Pizza Hut is our number two. – [Shane] I gotta put it out there right now, it’s also my number two. – Wow, Shane oh nice! – All right, all right. – Wow. – First of all, our list so far is not completely in order, but the same four are out of four, right? CPK, Papa John’s, Sbarro and Pizza Hut. – Whoa, freaky! – Yeah, you’re right, wow! – This is crazy. – I see there’s a coalition forming here and I don’t like it. – You know, we talked about this already, but the inventive nature of it, it’s just a solid tasting pizza, but there is a nostalgia factor for us. – Personal pan pizza, that was just magical as a kid. I didn’t have to share, you know, it’s like– – Book club. – You know– – Remember that. – We had the book club. – It was called Book It. – Oh yeah! – And then for every book you read, you’d put a sticker. And then when you got a certain number of stickers, you’d go get a personal pan pizza. – I don’t know how how long that program continued, but it was certainly around when I was a child and it really endeared me to reading because uh, pizza’s great. – I forged my entire button, it just endeared me to pizzas. I’m not a well-read person. – You’re a well fed person. – I’ll say what we wanna talk universally panned. Talk about their pan pizza, it’s marvelous. I don’t know where else you can get a pan pizza. That’s mass produced like that, that’s really good. Also, I don’t know how universal this is, but the Pizza Hut in my town was a Pizza Hut buffet. Which meant… – Yes. – Mm. – for lunch you pay, like I don’t know. It was probably like fifteen bucks, twelve bucks. – Yeah. – You can eat until you were sick. – Yeah, ours was to. – Now let’s move on to my number two here. It’s a bit of a wild card and outlier. – Ooh! – But it is available around the states. (tense music) My number two is (ding) Shakey’s Pizza Parlor. – [Shane] Ooh man. (Rhett laughing) – Oh yeah, that’s right. – [Rhett] All right. – Now made in 1954 here, they uh, I went on their website. They appeared to have trademark the phrase, “World’s greatest pizza.” It has a big TM after that, I don’t know how they did that, I don’t know if that’s even true. I think some crazy intern just put TM after world’s greatest pizza. (all laughing) I believe it though, it’s very good. Understand a lot of this is caked in nostalgia. – Yep. – Sure. – Shakey’s for me growing up, I used to be an a AYSO soccer. And if you would win or if you would perhaps, you know score some kind of a scholastic achievement in class, you would get a pizza party, and the pizza party of choice usually was Shakey’s. And Shakey’s as you may or may not know, has arcade games in there, they have beer for the adults and just a very fun environment. It’s like a pizza community that they’ve built under Shakey’s. (Rhett laughing) And I also enjoy the fact that they’re a buffet. One of my favorite things on earth, and once I am a garbage human so with that disclaimer. – I wish I would’ve saved my chef’s kiss for that admittance. (Rhett laughing) – Let’s go ahead and mute Shane. – What? – Oh! – Oh yeah, look at that. (Ryan laughing) – One of my favorite things on earth is their Bunch of Lunch which is another thing. That’s the name of their lunch buffet, ’cause hey, it’s a whole bunch to lunch. (Rhett chuckling) So it’s $8.99. You get their buffet, which is unlimited access to pepperoni pizza and their famous mojos, perhaps the best side item available. – What is it? – What is that? – I’m glad you asked? It’s a hockey puck of a potato skin. It’s like this, it’s fried, it’s crispy, yet it also still tastes very much like a potato. It’s an incredible thing. You owe it to yourself to have a mojo before you die. Also the wings, not bad. All of this included in Bunch of Lunch. I’m not in the pocket of big Shakey’s here, I just really love their lunch special, Bunch of Lunch. – I can’t safely say or confidently say that I’ve had it. – I’ve never had it ’cause I didn’t want to eat at a place called Shakey’s. It just seems like they’re not confident in themselves, but they may not be capable of putting everything where it needs to go. – [Rhett] Right, yeah. – It’s like, I can’t think of any positives just in terms of what I’m seeing from the outside. – My point at all– – So I haven’t given it a chance. – That’s a good point. My point of reference for this type of place is Round Table. – Yes, yes. – Which I do not enjoy. Like that’s where I like my kids– – Round Table. – Some sort of sports thing and the same deal like at the end of the season we went there, and I was just like, “Ah, this is, I’ll just eat something after this.” – Yeah. – [Ryan] Shane is no longer talking, he’s looking around as if he’s lost something. – Let’s unmute Shane, I’m actually curious what he wants to say here. – Well, thank you. Um… I would like to say that we worked in an office that was on the same block as a Shakey’s for two or three years, and every time we walked past it, Ryan would say we should get lunch at Shakey’s. (Rhett laughing) And we never once did. – Right? (Rhett and Link laughing) – Most people in that restaurant looked like they were sleeping. – Yeah, because they just had a bunch of lunch. – Let’s move on to number one here. – So our number one puts us right in line with the palette of America. (tense music) – [Shane] I think we might all be on the same page, that’s my prediction. (ding) – [Rhett] It’s Domino’s. (Shane sniffing) – [Shane] Aw yeah! – [Link] Shane are you with us? Number one for Shane. – It’s not Domino’s. (all laughing) – What, Domino’s ain’t on your list at all? – Whoa! – Left at the alter. – That’s incredible. – Ryan is not… Is Domino’s your number one? – Left at the alter. – Ryan. – Nope. (Rhett exclaims) – Domino’s is not on either one of you guys list? – That is incredible. (Rhett clapping) – Okay, listen, Domino’s– – Okay, all right, we got a lot to stand up for here. – I’ll say it before you guys get into it. I will say it almost made the cut. – Almost for me too. – I didn’t think Domino’s was any good, but that’s because I was thinking of the old Domino’s from years back. – Yeah. – Domino’s. – Domino’s has truly transformed themselves in very big ways over the past decade. – Yeah, the pizza. – It would not have been on my list 10 years ago honestly. – I see, so this is the opposite of I like the old Kanye. You like the new Kanye. – Exactly, right, this is. – We love the new religious Domino’s. (all laughing) Lots of, I mean the pizza itself is really good and– – Yeah. – I don’t think it has the consistency at your doorstep over Papa John’s, That being said, the ingredients are just as good. – And they have completely nailed the delivery game. – That’s true. – No, I’m not necessarily talking about consistency which I haven’t really experienced inconsistency with Domino’s but. – It gets some bubbles. – Timing. – Timing. – Pizza bubbles. – And their app. – Yeah, yeah. – Listen, they’re not a sponsor. I know we’re talking about them like they’re a sponsor. They’re not a sponsor. – This happens often on the show, we get it. You know, we’re here to shill. – We’re act. Hey. Believe it or not, we’re actually in Shakey’s pocket. (all laughing) – That’s why Ryan is not is not in the pocket. – He didn’t even make the list. – Yeah, but just. I mean, I, listen, When. And I’m sure there’s other places that are doing this now, but when I see something where it’s like, “Mark has just put your pizza in the oven.” And I see that… – Yeah that’s. – and it’s happens. – It’s fun. – Oh, that’s cool. I did not know – Four minutes after – they did that. – I’ve ordered it. – I mean, the precision that their pizza tracker has is very respectable. I wouldn’t be surprised if at this point they’ve gotten down to like, “Mark has placed the fourth piece of pepperoni on your pizza.” – Yeah, it does relating to the minutia. This is the number one pizza chain in the world in terms of sales. It actually passed Pizza Hut a couple years ago. – Listen, we’ve chef kissed each other up and down and all around about Papa John’s garlic butter, but Domino’s has that. – (laughing) – Domino’s also has like eighteen other types of dips that if… – Yeah they got a lot of dips. – That you can try too. – Got a lot of dips. – Yeah. You could order a flight of… of dips that would stretch clear cross this table. – Well it could also be argued that maybe they don’t have a lot of confidence in their dips. – I would agree with that. If they have dips – If they are giving – why are hiding them? – you that many options. – Get those bad boys out in the open, I haven’t heard about these dips. – You know Papa John’s they just throw it in there. They’re like, “This is our dip and you’re gonna love it.” – Right, that’s good point. – Domino’s is like, “We got some dips in the back. Whole bunch of them.” (all laughing) – Yeah, okay, all right. Domino’s is our number one, We’re sticking to it. – And I’m just disappointed that we didn’t have a five for five with Shane. – I can’t believe we were right with Shane. (gentle music) We were wishing – Left at the alter. – everything and this didn’t even make. What is your number one? I don’t– – Let’s hear Shane, what is your number one? (tense music) – [Shane] My number one is (ding) Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria. It’s available in several states. Look, I understand that this is not an every city all over the world. I will say, you can order it online and they’ll ship some – He’s done it. – frozen pizzas. – He did it. They’re incredible, I didn’t even. This was a happy accident. – No way. – But now. – There’s no way. – It was. – Ryan I’m not gonna mute you – How can that be? because I want you to be a part of this conversation. (Rhett laughing) – It’s unbelievable. – I will not give you the pleasure of muting. Look here is a thing guys, as someone from Chicago, if I turned my back on deep dish, uh, look, I’d be, I’d be laughed outta town. They’d never let me back in the city limits. And look, there’s some deep dish out there that’s straight up gnarly. But Malnati’s pizza has been there since I was a child. I have some in my freezer right now, I’m probably gonna make some right after this. If you are not a fan of deep dish, I would recommend trying Lou Malnati’s if you haven’t had it, because it’s a work of art. – We love this place, and we, I mean, we took a tour years ago. – That warms my heart. – They took us in the back and they showed us how they made the pizzas. – And the big freaking sausage that covers every single square inch the pizza. – Okay, if you guys love that, then I love to hear that. That is not my cup of tea. – You two, see what happens Rhett and Link? What happens when you extend an olive branch to Shane Madej? He sets it on fire, right in front of your face. – No, no, no, come on. – It’s like the one thing we love he doesn’t even like. – Glad you guys like my pick, hate what you just said though. – No, no, no. I’m, I’m… I’m saying, nowhere else in the pizza business are you gonna be able to get a hub cap of sausage on your pizza? – Yeah. And that’s, that’s worth mention, it’s very commendable. – Is it perhaps generous to call this a chain Shane? – I do think so. – Yeah. – Yeah. – I mean, We talked about the– – You don’t have a number one. – Lou Malnati’s is clearly the best tasting pizza that has been mentioned by a long shot I think, – I agree, probably. – But I just feel like we couldn’t go there because it just… Yeah, There’s multiple locations, but… – Well because of the… (Ryan laughing) topic of this video, you know, because of the assignment. – We follow the directions. – We follow the directions. – Is that what your saying? – I know I am sometimes controversial. Uh, but – Oh my God. – Fifty-seven locations. – Now let’s move on to my number one, and I’m sure this is going to delight you folks ’cause it’s been mentioned already. – What? (Ryan laughing) (tense music) My number one is (ding) Round Table Pizza. (all laughing) – What? – Okay, all right. – What is? – [Ryan] Yeah. (Ryan laughing) – Round table pizza. – [Rhett] That is crazy. – [Shane] What is wrong with you? – You have any idea how hard I had to hide my smile when you guys were shitting on Round Table Pizza? (Rhett laughing) It was so hard. – For the record we cannot we cannot mute you on your own choice, right? – I even some fun facts for you guys, here we go. – [Shane] Oh oh. – [Rhett] Oh, boy. – I got some notes here. – I hope their fun. – Love the king Arthur theme, that’s not a fact, that’s just an opinion. I think it’s very novel. Started in the late 1950s. They got a, this is also not a fact. I don’t know why I said I’m reading my facts, but pretty decent Caesar salad there. (all laughing) – Fact. – And that’s a Fact. – Their Caesar salad is decent. – Write it in stone baby, that’s a fact. Number eight in sales in the United States as well. Be surprising. – That’s actually pretty impressive. – All that to say, this was my number one destination when it came to pizza parties after a sporting event, a sporting game in which I played in or some sort of scholastic achievement. Shakey’s was number two. Round Table was the cream of the crop for me when I was a, when I was a kid. I was so excited to go to this place, they had my favorite tasting cheese and they had these tiny little adorable pepperoni on there. They’re not big– – They have little pepperoni. – They pack a lot of flavor and they’re. And they’re dough… I, I loved it. This was one of the few places where I ate the crust as well. – Have you had it recently? – I have not. The last time I had it was like five years ago ’cause I don’t eat public pizza. I’ve had it as an adult, still great. And that could be like when you go to Disneyland as an adult and you ride a ride that you rode as a kid, and you’re like, “Still got it.” And if you got that. If you got on that ride with blind eyes or fresh eyes, you probably wouldn’t think it’s that great. Maybe that’s happening here. But I do genuinely think this is the best tasting chain pizza I’ve had. – I’m having so much trouble now because (Ryan chuckling) moving forward– – Your having trouble. – As I watch, as I continue to watch your videos, I’m, the whole time I’m just gonna be thinking, you know, before I was like, “You know, when it comes to paranormal stuff, I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m gonna try to be open minded. This is fun, I’m into this.” Now I’m just gonna be thinking, that guy’s favorite pizza place is Round Table. (Ryan and Rhett laughing) Like I can’t believe anything this guy’s saying. (Rhett laughing) – That’s, see… Here’s the thing though, it’s not my favorite pizza place, it’s my favorite pizza chain. Now there’s plenty of other pizzas that taste far superior to this. – Okay. – Round Table Pizza is great, ghosts are real. I just, you know, it’s I don’t know what to do with it. (Rhett laughing) – They go together like… – Cheese and pepperoni. – He did it to himself. – You did it to yourself. – They go together like cheese and pepperoni. – You know what? I think I might do it to myself after this. I mean going to get pizza. (all laughing) I’d realize I made it seem like I was gonna go beat it, but I’m not. (all laughing) – I’m gonna go get round table pizza. (beep) Do I realize this is a hot take? Absolutely, but I stand by it. I’ll put Round Table against Sbarro any day of the week. Also for Pizza Hut, Domino’s, any of those cats, I’m putting Round Table above them. – You’re sticking by your list and that’s… I respect that. Uh. You know what, Ryan for you, I’m gonna give it another shot. – Yeah, you know what Shane, why don’t we eat that after this video and we’ll compare notes. – Oh, okay, all right. (all laughing) – You guys do that. – Make sure you guys chime off in the comments if you agreed with our lists or thought our lists, were garbage, or maybe you thought somebody got a little more flack than they needed to, you could do that too. (Shane laughing) I’m not saying you should, but you could do that. Uh, Rhett and Link do you guys have anything to plug? – Check our show, “Good Mythical Morning,” check out our podcast, “Ear Biscuits.” – We do so much food on the show that we actually created a channel uh, with our mythical chef, Josh it’s called “Mythical Kitchen.” So if you’re into food content– – Ooh! – He knows more than we do, that’s so true. Yeah. He actually brings not just an opinion, but like some insight and some experience to the food world. So “Mythical Kitchen,” check that out. – And Steven Lim was on that show, right? – Yep. – Yes. – You could see Watcher’s own Steven Lim on that show, go check that out and check out the most recent episode. – [All out of sync] That’s the list! (triumphant music)