- Is a soft bite better than a crunchy bite?
- Let's talk about that.
(cheerful music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- 40,000 people cut their mouths on hard food every year,
according to my imagination,
so soft foods are obviously better.
- Well, according to my own research that I just made up,
anybody that eats soft foods
eventually turns into a toothless grandparent.
In other words, hard foods are objectively better.
- Soft foods are better. - Hard foods.
- Soft foods. - Hard foods.
- Soft foods. - Hard foods!
- Soft foods! Soft!
- Hard. - Soft!
- Hard! - Soft!
Stevie, tell him it's soft.
- [Stevie] Let's just let the Mythical Beasts choose.
- Okay, it's time for Incredible Edible Percent-ibles,
soft versus hard edition.
- [Stevie] We asked the Mythical Beasts to pick
between the soft and hard versions of a series of foods.
In each round, you will taste both versions of the food
and work together to guess
how the little beasties voted using our-
- We've got to work together?
- I'm a hard guy! - I'm a soft guy!
- [Stevie] I'm a hard guy? You'll also notice-
- You're asking a hard guy to work with a soft guy?
- I'm the softest guy! - Our new and improved
Incredible Edible Percent-ibles chart
that's just directly behind you, it's beautiful.
- I've noticed it. - Beautiful.
- It's both soft and hard. - Yes. Mostly hard.
- [Stevie] If you correctly guess
the majority's preference, you win one point.
If you guess within 15% of the actual total,
you win an additional three points.
There are 16 points up for grab in this game,
so if you earn nine or more points-
- I love it.
- [Stevie] You win some super cool percentage posters.
- Percentage posters? - Super cool!
- My favorite. (exciting music)
- It's that good old
soft pretzel versus hard pretzel debate.
- Now- - Now, Link.
- Which one would you be,
just without even thinking about it?
Would you be a soft guy? - I think I would be-
- I was a hard guy for the bit,
but I'm a soft guy for this in reality.
I'm a soft guy when it comes to a pretzel. I mean.
- Hard pretzels, you know,
pretzels don't have a place in my life.
When I go to the mall, I just want to get out of there.
I don't want to buy a pretzel.
This doesn't make the mall better.
Well, it does, but it doesn't make it good enough.
- That's not what we're debating.
If you're making a choice between pretzels,
like it's a pretzel night,
this is not anything to get excited about.
You get yourself a soft pretzel, you're treating yourself.
You know, it changes your whole day.
- It might make the mall better?
- It makes the mall awesome.
- Maybe that's what I need to be doing.
This is clearly, you're right, it's awesome.
I take back everything I said about the mall,
but not about softness.
- But I don't think it's a huge, huge percentage.
I think it's soft.
- You think most people agree with us, but it's like 60%?
- Well, that would be making hard 60%.
- Oh yeah, I'm pushing it towards soft,
and that confused me.
- I was going to say 60/40 soft,
but I might be willing to go 65/35, I don't know.
- If we're within 15, we get more points. A lot more.
- People love hard pretzels too, though.
But people are passionate about soft pretzels. 37 1/2.
- Let's do 37 1/2.
- Official answer, 37 1/2.
- The fidelity on this new Percent-ibles board
is just off the charts. - We could sell these.
- [Stevie] Of the more than 86,000
Mythical Beasts that voted-
- Oh my god. - 13%-
- Some people don't have enough to do.
- Said hard pretzels were best-
- Only 13. - While 87%
prefer their pretzels soft.
- So freaking 13%?
All the way there, look at that.
- That's hard to believe. - Look how yellow that is.
- That's hard to believe that that's a real stat.
- But I love the fact that soft
is getting the love that it finally deserves.
Sorry that we didn't believe in you.
- Sorry, hard ones. (exciting music)
- Wings?
- You know what, I know it's more respectable
to like the bone in wing,
and these aren't even really wings, but I don't know
if it's just I'm getting old and I'm getting lazy,
I've started really liking the boneless.
I realize it's just a nugget. - These, actually,
they make it really look like a wing.
Then you're just biting all the way through it.
- They're so easy to eat. - People are looking over.
That man's eating through the bones!
- He must have metal teeth. - Hold on.
- What?
- I thought that the softness was whether,
because if you order a wing that's not fried hard enough,
I call that a soft wing.
- Yeah, it's whether or not it's got bones.
It's like that dog. Bones day, no bones day.
- Yeah. - Died.
It's definitely bones day. It's bones day every day now.
- He's nothing but bones. - That's right, yeah.
- Is what he's saying. - Yeah, that's the joke.
- It's not like if you order wings from Domino's Pizza
or any of the pizza delivery joints
and they're all soggy as all get out?
That's a soft wing.
- That's a different day, we'll talk about that.
- I don't need to bite that again.
So you said that you like them boneless.
- I don't know, some people are grossed out by bones.
You're a little bit grossed out by bones, right?
You represent that part of the population.
- But if I'm going to get wings,
I don't want a glorified nugget.
I felt sure you were going to be over here with me.
You're mellowing in your old age.
- I've moved closer to boneless, and I enjoy boneless now.
I used to make fun of people who got boneless,
and now I realize sometimes I want boneless.
That's all I'm saying.
I think more people still prefer bone in,
because if you like wings,
you're going to like the bone in wing a little bit more,
and there's that respectability thing,
but a lot of people don't like bone in things in general.
People get wings, it's an option.
It's been added to every popular wing place for a reason.
- But they don't want to call it a tender,
because then no one will order it at a wing place.
- Boneless wings. - Mm-hm.
- So we underestimated last time.
- A boneless wing is a tender, sorry.
- Essentially, yeah.
So we're definitely in the bigger, we're more red,
but is it a 60/40 thing?
- So what you're saying is that you're in the minority.
I agree with that.
- They're so easy to eat, though.
- I didn't know that the Mythical Beasts,
there could be so much consensus
as there was on the last round.
I mean, that's freaking, that's unbelievable.
If we go...
- That was highly unusual.
- Yeah, I think a lot of people are on this train.
That's why it exists. - I think it's probably 60/40.
- The demand for it.
- I mean, It's not going to be 55/45, right?
- You know, let's do 59. - 59?
- 59%. - Maybe we should do 61.
- Let's just do 60. - Okay.
- We're locked.
- [Stevie] 39% of the Mythical Beasts voted
in favor of bone in wings. - What?
- [Stevie] While 61% voted for boneless.
- Didn't we do it right? - We did it opposite.
Don't you listen, bro?
- I'm listening! It just doesn't make sense!
- Yeah, we were exactly wrong. More people prefer boneless.
In fact, 61%. I said the number.
We got the whole thing wrong. - All the way over here?
- Yeah, there's a reason they're growing in popularity.
You know what, I'm just a part of the trend.
- I know, if you can be swayed, and you were such
a hotheaded chicken wing man, we should've known.
We should've known. - We should've known.
- We got no points for that. - No points. Boy, miserable.
(exciting music)
Hey, guess what, y'all? - What?
- The Let's Talk About That Mythical Society special
is out today! - You mean to tell me
that we brought back Let's Talk About That the show
for one special episode exclusively on the Mythical Society
for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree members?
- Can you believe it? Stevie, you were there.
- [Stevie] I was. It was a blast.
- We surprised Link. That was very special.
It blew his mind. - Yeah.
- We had a special musical performance.
- Yep. - You just won't believe,
the surprises just keep on coming.
- Any degree, you can watch this thing.
Sign up at the mythicalsociety.com.
- Yes. - Okay, guys.
So in order to win this whole game,
you not only have to be correct about your guesses here
for the next couple rounds, you also have to be
within that 15% mark. - Wow, okay.
- We can do it, man. - I have full confidence.
- Now, everybody's been on the soft side so far.
- There's a clear answer here
in terms of which one's actually better.
- Soft taco, hard taco. - Once you move to California
and you have incredible tacos, better than anywhere
in the United States, you know that the answer
for what's actually better is soft tacos.
- Is hard tacos. - But if you live
in the Midwest or the South
and you grew up and your tacos
were just the Old El Paso section
of the grocery store, now that's actually changed.
I mean, going back to North Carolina these days,
they've got really good taco trucks, really good.
Legit taco trucks rivaling Los Angeles.
But that wasn't the case.
- You're saying the taco trucks don't have crunchy tacos?
- Not usually. It is not a traditional thing.
That's why it's not normal. - I never noticed that.
- This is an Americanized thing.
- Because I'm always ordering the soft taco.
- Yeah, so when have you ever gotten
a hard taco from a taco truck?
- I haven't ordered it, but I assumed they had them.
- They might have them,
but I've never seen anybody order them.
- That checks out. - But because this is
the more traditional American choice-
- [Link] I think more people are on soft.
- I think people are waking up
to the fact that soft is better.
- That's mine. You're eating mine.
You want one with tomatoes?
- I don't want to waste it. I want to take this one home.
- Stevie, what are you laughing at?
Nothing funny is happening on this side.
- [Stevie] This whole episode, I have been holding back
any opinions because I don't want that to sway
what you think the Beasties voted, and for some reason,
I held back, I was saying, wait wait wait wait over here
but not on the mic, because he was grabbing
and eating your taco. - Yeah.
- [Stevie] Also he was lightly tapping it
before for a little bit, and I thought
that was interesting, then he just went all in.
- That's something I'm trying. - I told him it was mine.
- I didn't know if anybody would notice it.
- I didn't stop him.
- I made a decision last year, late 2022.
I sat myself down. I said, boy.
If you eat any hard tacos in 2023, you tap them.
You tap on them before you eat them, and also,
if you get a chance to eat after Link, do it!
So I just fulfilled both of my wishes.
I think the soft tacos
are definitely the preference, but not by much.
- Oh, and again, I'm going the wrong direction,
so not by that much.
- Children like soft tacos,
and our audience is actually much older than people think.
You know, we meet people on the street.
I'm just going to go ahead and say it, okay?
One of the most common things that I hear
when I meet you in public is, I used to watch you!
It's not the best thing to say.
- But the thing is-
- I know it's great that you watched us at all,
and I should be grateful that you ever watched us.
- But the thing is, you are watching us.
- Yeah, but one of these days,
you're going to remember this, one of these days you,
I'm talking to you, you're going to see one of us in public
and you're going to have stopped watching this show.
Don't tell us that.
- Yeah. - Don't tell us that.
All that to say that some people think
that they grow out of the show, but what the data shows,
Link, is that people grow into the show.
- Oh yeah, that's right. - Yeah.
- Right, when your brain gets big enough,
you realize this show is awesome.
- Not a lot of kids watch this show.
That's why we say things like hard guy!
- You think that's it's nowhere near 20%.
You think a lot of people like the hard shell.
- I think it's 70/30. - No, I really think-
- I think it's 70/30. - You want it here.
I want it here. - There's no way it's 80/20.
- We have to get within 15. - Let's go 70/30.
That may not even be conservative enough,
but I'm just going to say 70/30.
- Why? Give me an argument.
- I tapped your taco and everything, twice.
- [Stevie] I tapped your taco.
- Because.
Because people love hard shell tacos. America.
Listen, I'm just saying there's so many places in America
where they're still loving those hard shells.
They haven't been infiltrated by real tacos yet.
- I'm not willing to go past 30, though.
- Okay, 70/30. If I'm wrong, you can tap my taco.
- All right, locked in.
- [Stevie] 29% of the Mythical Beasts
voted for hard shell tacos. - Yeah!
Hard guys!
- [Stevie] 71% soft, and that means you're still good.
- Why am I so confused? Even what you told me.
- You might need to get checked out.
- Let me tell you what I'm thinking right now.
- You might need to get checked out.
- What I'm thinking right now is, why is he celebrating?
We lost, and here's why.
Because this says soft shell.
More people prefer soft shell tacos than hard shell tacos.
- She said 29% of people prefer hard.
- Oh yeah, 29%, yeah yeah yeah.
Yep.
Yeah!
We're still in this!
- He was number one in his class in engineering,
which should make you fear for your life.
If there's an industrial engineering graduate
from NC State out there from the year 2001-
- And I'm speaking at the commencement address.
- Just check up on them. Check up on them.
(exciting music)
- It all comes down to this,
floppy pizza versus crispy pizza.
- Okay, so over here I've got floppy.
Now, floppy is a negative word.
People might think, you mean like soggy pizza?
No, we just mean like you can fold it,
it gives under its own weight a little bit.
This is like- - Most pizza is floppy.
- Most pizza is floppy. - Unless you get, I mean,
if you get an overcooked pizza, or one of those-
- Cracker crust. - Cracker crust.
- Thin crust pizza, cracker crust pizza,
it is popular, it has grown in popularity
as carbs have decreased in popularity.
- It's a specialized thing, though.
- I think floppy's definitely the winner.
I think the fact that they use the term floppy
confused about 7-8% of the audience,
so you're going to have to take seven or eight
away from whatever answer, okay?
- Okay. What would you have said?
If it wasn't floppy, you would've said normal.
- Normal pizza.
If I was like, hand-tossed or cracker crust,
I think it would've been 75/25,
but then I would take eight away from that.
- More than that, I think less people
would've said cracker crust.
- 75/25? You would say 80/20?
I think we say 72.
- No, I'm saying 85/15. - That's too much.
- No, but then I was taking seven away to bring it to 22.
- And I was saying 20, and then take eight away
to put it at 72%, so it's 28%,
so putting this at 28.
There's a lot of people who,
they don't like that crust, man.
That crust got a lot of carbs in it.
They want that thin crust.
- I don't know, I think it could be even more, dude.
I think it needs to go even more.
- You were up here a second ago!
- I know, and now I'm switching because people think
they want crispy, they just didn't think through it.
I think that's more than a 7% adjustment.
- I said it was an 8% adjustment.
- I think it's more than that. - Go 70/30.
- All right, we're going 70/30 exactly.
- Okay, I feel good about that. 70/30.
- [Stevie] 41 percent of the Mythical Beasts voted
for crispy pizza, which means 59% voted for floppy pizza.
- You can rely on me.
You can rely on me to know whether or not we got it right.
- We got it! So, 41%.
- We would've been right even if we had gone
with the other one, because it would've been 28, that's 13,
we would've been within 15, it would've been fine.
- Whew, we made it out alive, y'all.
- [Stevie] Which means you get those posters!
- Let's do it! - Bring those posters in!
- Look at these percentage gains.
- 100% made in Argentina.
- Yes, where'd you get that?
Argentina?
- I've forgotten the setup for this joke.
- [Stevie] They're percentage posters
that have percentages on them.
- That one's got Argentina on it, too.
- Where am I going to use this one?
- I wouldn't suggest
that you put that up anywhere in your house.
- I don't know, yeah. - You know what I'm saying?
I think you might need to find a friend.
- An Argentinian? - An Argentinian friend,
and give it to him. - Yeah, yeah.
I'm going to do that now. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Go look for an Argentinian friend.
- Now, I'll put this up in my house.
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I didn't think you were active on Twitter anymore.
- Well, see, I posted it.
- You never responded to my pet the dog date tweet.
- I think she did, eventually. - I did, I did.
- Eventually. By then, I was not on Twitter anymore.