- Do we know when Mountain Dew was first dewed?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good mythical morning.
- Okay, Rhett.
Do you remember your first cold one?
- Yeah, you were there.
I was a good model citizen.
I waited until my 21st birthday
and we had a Colt .45 on a camping trip.
(guffawing)
Four people shared it with one another.
- I remember that, but I was talking about soda.
- Oh.
- Today's not really about the first soda
we ever tasted anyway, so forget that,
but it is about the first time famous sodas were tasteable.
It's time for Year Eye with Two Straight Guys- Soda Edition.
- Welcome to the Shuffle Zone.
(mimicking fanfare)
- Each round, we're going to reach into our cooler
for a popular soda that was invented
during a particular decade.
Now we're going to taste that soda
and then we're going to guess which decade
the soda was invented in by shuffling our puck koozies
down to that exact decade.
We're not going to miss at all.
- That's right, and whoever lands closest
to the right answer wins the round.
That's revolutionary when we play a game,
and the loser of the game has to chug an ice cold soda
super fast to get a brain freeze.
Let's shuffle.
Let's see what we got first.
- Okay.
- Whoo hoo.
This is my wife's favorite beverage.
So in honor of her, I will drink it.
- Well, hey, it's your best friend's favorite beverage too.
- Is it?
- [Rhett] Yeah.
- Cheers.
Dr. Pepper.
Hmm, hey, that sucks, man.
- I love it so much, and you know what?
Not an ad but, not a sponsor, I'll say that,
'cause that's what we always say.
- You don't need to say not an ad.
- Diet Dr. Pepper tastes exactly like
regular Dr. Pepper in my mind.
That's why I love it so much.
- Oh, so medicinal and I think there's some
sort of medicinal qualities in that a lot of these sodas
started in that way.
You're going first 'cause you won last time,
which gives me the advantage at least on this first one.
- I what last time?
- You barely won last time, I think.
- I think I won on a technicality technically.
Okay, Link.
I believe you're right.
Dr. Pepper was a medicine and Coke had cocaine in it.
I've watched the movies.
This feels like a late 1800s thing, right?
- [Link] Well, the earliest you have is 1890s,
and then the latest you have is 1980.
- Well, the earliest we have is 1880 actually.
- Oh, yep.
There it is right there.
- Something about 1890 feels better than 1880.
(sighs)
I have no reason why.
See what I can do.
- A gentle shuffle by the Rhettster takes him
all the way to 1890.
- Woo, woo.
- All right.
Well, you know, you've put yourself in a corner
which backs me into a corner.
- Don't put baby in a corner.
- 'Cause now I just got to play the vicinity.
It's not about the dates.
- What about 1880?
- Yeah, I'm going to play.
- Oh, you're saying just go for the center
of the Christmas tree.
- No, I'm, I'm going to block you out.
- Well, don't screw it up.
- [Link] Here we go.
- [Rhett] Uh oh.
- [Link] Come on.
Oh no.
I've made it a tad bit interesting.
- Well, if it's 1880, you might be closer.
We might have to measure.
- [Stevie] Okay.
Although the recipe for Dr. Pepper is a secret
and is rumored to be kept in two halves
at two different banks in Dallas, Texas,
it's no secret that Dr. Pepper was first invented
in the 1880s.
- Oh, oh, oh, okay.
- We gotta measure, Chase.
Oh, you're closer, man.
I don't know.
Let's just measure just because.
- [Chase] 28 1/2.
- 28 1/2.
- [Chase] 30.
- 30, all right, Link takes it.
- Can I just point out that the established 1885
is on the freaking cans?
- And I was looking at the can,
but I was reading the 23 flavors.
- And I'm a connoisseur and didn't even know that.
I feel so, so much shame.
- Rhett, take yourself a Sprite, my friend,
and don't look at the cans, but don't,
don't look, if there's any dates.
- I saw a lemon, I saw a lemon.
- Dink it.
- Lime.
- Sprite.
That's it?
I mean, it's a classic crisp cola.
It's definitely not as old as,
it's definitely not as old as a Dr. Pepper
because apparently Dr. Pepper is the oldest thing
on the entire taste list today.
- Taste list.
- Well, let's see.
Lemon and lime.
- Play with those in your head.
- Yeah, that's an edgy combination.
- Two different citruses.
- Yeah, I think that's edgy when you,
you don't know if that's going to be explosive.
- Or is it citri?
- I'm really thinking that it was, shoot, man.
I have nothing to go on here except that not 1880.
I think this one's much later.
1950, you know?
Everybody's like, oh, look at me.
I have some citrus.
This is how everyone talked in the '50s.
- Yeah, the citrus age.
- For no good reason, I'm going for the 1950.
Could be '70 though, I don't think it's earlier than that.
So I'm gonna split the difference.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
What happened to you?
Seriously?
- You're a little too aggressive.
- Dang it!
- You're not used to Dr. Pepper.
You got a little Pepper in you.
- Why is it sliding so much?
- And you get a little extra power.
- So what do you think?
I mean, you got free reign in the board.
What's your answer?
- Link, I think you're wrong.
I think that 1930s is when I'm going for,
because I feel like what happened was what used
to be a different soda, and then when the Depression,
they like ran out of the stuff that makes soda
have a color and it became clear and they were like,
well, it's a depression, Sprite.
- So you think Sprite was the first yellow soda.
- You think it's yellow?
- Is it white?
- It's clear, dude.
Have you not seen a glass of Sprite?
- I thought it was a little yellow.
- As you said, it doesn't really matter
because you're off the board.
So all I have do is just get closer.
So I'm going to go right on the edge of you.
- [Link] Oh, Rhett, you've done a bad thing, man.
- Oh, that's a good thing.
- So now, hold on.
I could win.
- [Rhett] If it's 1980, you could win.
That's the only way you could win.
- [Stevie] Well, people have been obeying their thirst
with Sprite ever since those ads in the '90s,
folks in West Germany first invented the Lymon soda
all the way back in the 1950s.
- Oh, you were right, but you were wrong.
We're tied.
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Crack it open, Rhett.
- Oh, pride of the Carolinas.
- Pepsi Cola.
150 calories per can.
Dink it.
- Did you say that by memory or by reading?
- Oh man, now.
You're going first and I should know a lot about Pepsi,
'cause I was born in the Carolinas, along with Pepsi.
I don't know about you.
I don't think you were born in the Carolinas.
- No, I wasn't born in the Carolinas,
but I spent quite a lot of time there.
- Yeah you did.
- I never went to the Pepsi plant.
I never took a tour.
- Have you been to the Pepsi museum?
- No, not interested.
- I have, so I should know everything.
JC Bradham, inventor of Pepsi.
I think that's his name.
- Are you kidding?
- Nope.
- Well keep telling me information.
- [Link] Now, down east.
- And what year was that?
- He worked, I think he worked in a drug store.
You know, he was like a soda jerk.
- So here's, here's the deal.
I think that Pepsi was a response to Coke, right,
and Coke feels old because of that whole cocaine thing,
and they didn't really understand
what was happening with the cocaine.
So I feel like this is either 1900 or 1910.
- [Link] All right.
- I'm going to go with 1900.
- Oh, that's a good,
you really got this game.
- I got this hot.
Yeah, that's right.
I've been thinking a lot about shuffle boarding.
- Okay, so see, my answer was 1940.
What I've got to do is I've got to knock you away and still
try to stay on the board, but my answer is 1940.
Oh, yeah!
That was it!
- Hold on.
Well, if it's 1910, then I'm still in business.
- I think it's 19, I just feel 1940 really strongly.
- [Stevie] Pepsi was created in New Bern, North Carolina
by Caleb Bradham.
He called it Brad's Drink and sold it
at his drugstore in the 1890s.
- [Link] No!
- Hey, look at me.
- 1890s.
- I ended up in the right answer.
- How did that happen?
- You did it.
- You're welcome.
What do we have here?
- Oh, the Dew.
- Mountain Dew it to it.
- We should always pop and then toast.
- Yeah.
- Pop and toast.
- I got a special bond with the Dew ever since
we took the mountain out of it, through the filter.
- Right, but we also have a little bit of a hangup
with the Dew because we're Mello Yello boys.
- That's right.
That's right.
I love me some Mello Yello.
- And they do not taste the same.
I don't care what you say,
how many times you make that argument.
They don't taste anything like each other.
- Mello Yello has more bite.
- But when is it from?
- When is it from?
First of all, Mountain Dew sounds like
a name for moonshine, right?
Like, like a creative name for moonshine.
♪ White lightning and a mountain dew ♪
So it feels like, ooh.
- Oh, you thinking something?
- Prohibition, my friend, remember that?
You weren't there, neither was I.
- I don't think I was either.
- But it was in the '30s.
I think it started in the '20s, lasted into the '30s,
and so it feels like they were like,
hey, we can start calling non-alcoholic beverages
the same names as alcoholic beverages,
because people want them so bad
and they can't get 'em, 1930.
- Oh, that's pretty good, man.
- Too hard, too hard.
Bounce back, come on.
- [Link] Way too hard.
- Bounce back.
Dang it.
- I like your reasoning.
- Yeah, well you can take it.
- I mean the board is mine.
I actually think based on your reasoning,
it was a little later, you know.
That would have been too soon.
That would have been like,
you're trying to glorify drinking in a Prohibition age.
- So you think '40s?
- But you know, I've thought it was '40s before
and I've been wrong.
I'm just gonna try to box you in right here.
I'm sorry for my unentertaining defensive play,
but I gotta do what I gotta do.
- [Rhett] Oh, oh yeah.
- [Link] Oh, stop, stop.
Okay.
- [Rhett] I can't win.
There's no way.
- [Link] Can't win.
- [Rhett] Okay. Tell us.
- [Stevie] Even though it started out as something
for the Hartman Brothers to mix with their bourbon,
people have been doing the Dew
ever since Mountain Dew was first invented in the 1940s.
- Okay.
- So, hey, we worked as a team.
- Yeah, we did.
- To come up with the right answer, but it doesn't matter.
- You still lose cause we're not a team.
- Right.
- It all comes down to this.
- Ooh, Diet Coke.
- Diet Coke.
Bam.
Cheers.
Let's see.
- I have a lot of Diet Coke in my life.
- I'll bet you Diet Coke came out after regular Coke,
but before New Coke, remember that?
- Yeah, it was short-lived.
Wasn't very good.
I'm a Coke Zero fan myself.
Now I go first because we're tied
and I won the last time we played this on an episode.
So giving you a slight advantage.
- But I am not going to do any, any knocking bumpers.
- You're not allowed to on that final round.
We're not allowed to bump each other.
Now, Diet Coke.
Man, when did they start thinking about this aspect of life?
- Caloric intake.
- So we go from 1950 to 1970 and I feel pretty strongly
it's not 1980 because I was around in the '80s
and I would remember the introduction of such a beverage.
We would have had like a celebration
at school or something.
- I don't think we would have cared about Diet Coke.
- No, it's like a shuttle launch.
- Okay.
- So I'm going to go with, I think '50s is too early
to be worried about your waistline.
I think it's the '70s, but if you agreed to that,
but you can't knock me out.
I just have to make sure that I land on '70
and don't go too far, if that is indeed the right answer.
Come on, Rhett.
- Ooh, light touch.
Still overshoots it.
(screams)
Ah, a good margin.
- You cannot hit me now.
- I don't want to hit you.
Now, here's the thing.
So you, you, so you thought it was '70s.
- But it might be '50s and I'm pretty close to both answers.
- I think it's '50s.
I think it's '50s and now I ain't going to touch you,
but I'm going to go for '50s on the '70 side,
you know what I'm sayin'?
'Cause I don't want that brain freeze.
- Very precise.
Can you do it?
(laughing)
Whoa, whoa, way-oh.
- [Link] Okay, all right.
- First of all, if it's '70, you win 'cause you're closer.
If it's '50, I win 'cause I'm closer.
- [Link] Stevie.
- [Stevie] While it's true that unlike
a regular can of Coke, a can of Diet Coke floats in water,
this does not mean that Diet Coke is actually a witch,
but rather that this artificial sweetener based soda
was invented in the 1980s.
- [Link] What?
- Yeah, I don't remember it, but I win!
- Oh man.
- Ice cold and chug it, man.
- I got a brain freeze.
- Chug it, Link.
Chug it, chug it, chug it, chug it.
Don't give up, don't give up.
Don't breathe, don't breathe.
Keep going.
You gotta keep it going.
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