- What's better than ketchup and mustard on a hot dog?
- Let's talk about that.
(curious intro music playing)
(flames whooshing gently)
- "Good Mythical" summer.
- We're about to see what curious new toppings
actually belong on a good old-fashioned hot dog.
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Now I do not know about you, but I do know about me,
and I'm glad that today is the day
that ketchup and mustard get its reckoning.
- Yes!
- We gon' give ketchup and mustard its reckoning.
I am sick and tired
of waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night,
wondering what the best thing is on a hot dog
besides ketchup and mustard!
- Well I can't say that I'm losing any sleep over it,
but I'm always excited
to slide a bunch of glizzys down my gullet.
- Alright, let's make both of our dreams come a reality.
Come a reality? That's a saying.
("Mythical" crew laughing amusingly)
It's time for
"Next Best Thing: Hot Dogs and Ketchup and Mustard Edition."
- Alright, we're gonna dress our hot dogs
in a series of substances to see what works best
when ketchup and mustard are taken out of the equation.
- Take them out the equation!
- We may one day face a world
where ketchup and mustard have gone the way of the dodo,
and then what are we gonna do?
- When they get their reckoning.
- Today, we're gonna find out.
- But bring in those hot dogs
'cause we're gonna set the bar-
- That's some pretty wieners.
- With the ketchup and mustard,
just to remind ourselves what we're up against.
That is nice.
Yup.
- It checkses all the boxes.
- It checkses them.
- It checkses all the boxes, y'all.
- I don't know what we're gonna do.
- Can you get better than that?
(dramatic music playing)
Alright, we're going hard right outta the gate!
Or I guess, soft, with applesauce?
(Rhett laughing gently) Cinnamon applesauce.
- Cinnamon applesauce, man.
This is a staple in my lunches growing up.
- But, not on hot dogs. - I never put it on meat.
But, you do put applesauce on meats.
- On pork chops sometimes, like-
- Oh yeah, pork chops.
- You know what I'm saying?
Like a fruit sauce mixed with like a pork product,
but I believe that these are all beef hot dogs.
No, these are pork hot dogs.
These are pork hot dogs, right?
- Yup.
- [Josh] There's a mixture of animals.
- Okay, alright.
That's all I needed to know.
So there might be
this complimentary/savory sweet thing happening.
(Link laughing gently)
(Link slurping enjoyably)
- Mmm. (Link laughing gently)
- Don't slurp like that again.
- There it is, man.
(Link slurping loudly)
- Don't do that again.
- Remember when I would eat my applesauce
outta the little container, and then-
- Yeah, I've tried to forget it!
- I'd lick around the whole lid.
- Don't remind me!
- I got every last bit of that applesauce.
(Rhett laughing amusingly)
- You got on every last bit of my nerves for doing it too.
- This is nice, don't you think?
- Surprisingly, pretty good.
- You know what we have to compare it to?
'Cause we don't put ketchup and mustard up here.
We start with nothing.
I like it.
- I don't like what it's doing to the bun though.
- "Mythical" branded cinnamon applesauce
is not too sweet and not too cinnamony,
it's just the right amount of appley.
- Flavorwise, I like it.
Texture wise, it makes me second guess what's in my mouth.
Like, it doesn't feel like something
that should be on top of a hot dog
and soaking into some bread.
But, the taste is good.
- I'm only positive.
(dramatic music playing)
You know, there was a craze for the Everything Dip.
- [Rhett] I remember that.
- In like the "Everything but the bagel" thing.
And so this is kinda like that, but it's the dip.
It's not just the sprinkle.
- How could this not be good?
It's cheese, it's got all this seasoning in it
that seems like it would be complimentary to a hot dog.
I like the smell.
I smell like a typewriter.
- I like to push my dog all the way to the end, you know?
I don't wanna get too much of the bun in it.
- Push the little wiener out?
- Yeah, just let the wiener peek.
- There you go.
- Good gracious, that's good.
- That's really working.
And again-
- Whoo-hoo-hoo! It's salty!
- Consistency.
- Mmm!
- Because it's like a cheese product,
it's not soaking into the bun.
Which again, I know I'm making a big deal out of that.
- I hated that about the applesauce.
- Yeah, you can stop talking about it.
- You can stop being negative about it.
This is better than applesauce,
but it had a better beginning taste than aftertaste.
- Well, that's just because it makes your breath stink.
That never stopped you with garlic, my man.
Some days, Rhett will show up
and it'll just be coming out of his pores.
I mean like, "Where were you last night?"
- Garlic for health, man.
You know you do it on a pretty regular basis,
I just don't point it out.
- Make a skin cloud of garlic?
- I just figure it's not worth pointing out.
- I don't...
- You want me to start pointing in every time I smell it?
- Yeah!
- Alright, well this morning... (Rhett laughing jokingly)
What'd you have last night?
- I did not eat garlic.
- What'd you have last night?
- Alright so, this is so much better
and I don't wanna shortchange it, it's amazing!
Would you go that far?
- Uh.
- You're playin' it a little cool.
- No, I'm saying that I thought it was amazing at first
but then there's an overwhelming quality
to that much on a hot dog
that I don't think the average pallet would appreciate.
- I got nothing negative to say.
- Oh look at Link, turnin' over a new leaf.
(dramatic music playing)
You ready to horse around?
- Sure, man!
- With some horseradish sauce, no horses.
- I do not put horseradish on anything.
- I don't either.
- So, should I put it on a hot dog?
(signal whirring suddenly)
- Okay, when am I?
- This is episode 2216.
- That's still too late.
Okay Link, can you help me?
I really don't understand.
- Well we're kinda...
Yeah, but we're in the middle of this first, Chase.
- Yeah, settle down a little bit.
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah I'm in the same boat, man,
I don't put this on anything.
Even like prime rib. - We're both on the same boat?
- Like, prime rib I don't even do it.
- Huh. (signal whirring suddenly)
He'll be alright.
- He'll figure it out.
- I consider horseradish
the wasabi of the prime rib accoutrement.
- There's a similar thing that does something to the-
- Yeah. - The back of your nose and-
- Josh, what's in a horseradish that makes it wasabi?
- [Josh] So actually,
almost all wasabi you get in the United States
is just horseradish that is-
- Don't ruin my dream!
- [Josh] I'm sorry, you asked!
- Wasabi is horseradish?
- [Josh] Yeah.
- Well then, what's horseradish, wasabi?
- [Josh] That's like a philosophical question,
I don't know how to answer.
- Well, get back to us.
- [Stevie] As soon as you said wasabi,
I saw Josh, like his head popped up, he rose from his seat,
and he like-
- He's like, "I have knowledge about this."
- [Stevie] Yeah. (Stevie laughing gently)
- I told him I wasn't gonna ask him anything.
- [Josh] That's why I sat down.
(Link laughing gently)
- He's over there, sulking.
I'll ask him about horseradish!
- Okay it's better than I thought it was gonna be,
but it's not better than Everything.
- No, it ain't better than Everything.
- [Rhett] Yup!
- 'Cause it's got everything.
Is there horseradish in Everything Dip?
- Well technically,
I think horseradish is part of everything.
Huh, conundrum.
(dramatic music playing)
- Hot dogs are usually introduced
pretty early on in a child's life,
so why not combine it with something else
that's introduced early on, baby food?
And of course, you know, the "Mythical" crew does research
and they test a buncha things,
and they put 'em out here to us thinking-
- Somebody liked this.
- I think somebody liked it.
- Somebody liked it.
Well, there's that banana ketchup thing
that happens in certain places of the world, Josh, right?
- Ooh!
- [Josh] That is correct, it's from the Philippines.
- And it tastes like ketchup,
but it takes a little bit like bananas.
- [Josh] That is correct.
- Is that the inspiration for this idea?
- [Josh] Sure.
(Rhett laughing amusingly)
- I mean to me, I'm back to the applesauce.
- It's better than the applesauce.
It's way better than I anticipated.
Please, don't ruin it for me though.
(Rhett and Link laughing gently)
- I agree, it ain't better than Everything though.
- You should try it.
It's not better than Everything.
- Is baby food in Everything Dip though?
- Yeah well, it is technically part of everything.
(dramatic music playing)
Next up,
we have the officially established Thanksgiving dessert.
But, what do we do with it throughout the rest of the year?
Maybe, we put it on our wieners!
- Maybe we do.
Do we, Josh?
(Josh sighing coolly)
- Listen man,
I think you can put anything you want on a hot dog
because you'd put anything you want on a sandwich,
and a hot dog is a sandwich.
- Oh, we're going the-
- That feels like a very definitive claim.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- This is your passion project.
- This is my passion pro...
I think that capital "T" truth exists in the world,
and I think there are rules if we wanna live in a society.
And leavened bread with meat in it equals a sandwich.
We have all lived under that assumption for forever.
And I believe this to be true,
and you can tell because I have it on my shirt.
Can you see it?
- This is what it feels like to be-
- Can you see it?
- On Josh's podcast with Nicole, "A Hot Dog is a Sandwich"-
- It truly is a nightmare.
- Which he is now promoting.
- You have some very strong opinions about this, I see.
Are there other conflicting opinions
that may be entertained on your podcast?
- Yeah, but none that truly matter, a hot dog is a sandwich.
But no, we are interviewing a philosopher-
- You have to be open.
A philosopher?
- (Josh laughing happily) A historian-
- A historian.
- A lawyer-
- A lawyer. (Link laughing amusingly)
- A business person-
- A business person. - And then yeah, you know,
they actually have emotional stake in this fight.
And then we're actually taking the debate to the streets,
we're gonna challenge random people to a debate
to try and really get as many opinions as possible.
- I love taking things way too seriously-
- Yeah! (Rhett laughing amusingly)
- And I love your podcast.
- Thanks, man.
- Especially Nicole's part.
- I love you, Dan.
(Rhett laughing gently)
- But, I'm gonna be watching-
- Good!
- With my ears.
- Yes, so for the definitive determination-
- I dunno know why I started that with "but."
- Of whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich,
you need to watch this series or listen to this series.
- So, that's four different episodes?
- Five, in fact.
- Dang, you're really giving it its due.
- We are, we're trying to officially end the debate
and I think we can do it.
- Hmm, I'm not so confident.
- Alright, "A Hot Dog is a Sandwich," check it out.
Five episodes, extremely personal series to him and Nicole.
- Smooth promo, y'all, I like it.
- Um, I dunno about this, man,
it feels like a pumpkin spice kinda thing.
- They keep wanting to go with like the sweet and the meat.
- The sweet fruity.
This is the first time I've realized that pumpkin pie
is really just pumpkin sauce.
Apples are to applesauce as pumpkin is to pumpkin pie.
- I mean, it's not as good as the applesauce
or the 'nanner baby food.
- It's not.
- In that order.
So, this is not the next best thing.
Everything Dip stays up there,
but isn't pumpkin pie mix in everything?
- I think technically, it is encompassed in everything,
so another conundrum.
(dramatic music playing)
- When you poke a wiener, what happens?
- It jiggles.
- And what else when you poke it does it jiggle
that you can eat?
- Are you talking about cherry gelatin?
- That's right, Rhett, (Link laughing happily)
cherry gelatin, cherry gelatin.
So we're putting the poke and jiggles together to see-
- Oh God, I'm poke he's jiggles.
- To see if it creates something.
- You were complaining to Trevor
who was dressing the hot dogs...
- He wasn't going to the end of the wiener.
- So, that's why your side's so messy.
- Yeah 'cause I don't wanna have to, you know,
I don't want to have to really like do an insertion.
- Oh gosh, look at the bottom of my Wiener.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, we've got a serious leakage.
- Yeah, it's like a...
- This gelatin really gets through the bun.
- It's bloody.
- That's just definitively awful.
- This is the worst one we've had all morning.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So cherry gelatin is not moving on,
but isn't cherry gelatin in everything?
- I believe that it is, which again presents a conundrum.
(dramatic music playing)
This last round goes out to the bees!
- What, what!
- Bees are important.
You know without bees, we would be screwed.
Honey, honey is what it is.
- Honey, "Mythical" branded honey.
- And this looks like a glistening wiener,
you wouldn't even know something was on that.
- A glistening glizzy, perhaps?
- You're just like,
"Whoa, that's a really shiny wiener that you got there."
(Rhett clearing throat readily)
Let me get ready for it. (Rhett laughing amusingly)
Okay, I've got-
- Create a rumble in my throat to get ready for the glizzy.
- I've got hopes for this. I kinda feel like
it might need to have like honey and something else,
not just honey.
- Like more honey?
- (Rhett laughing gently) Not more honey.
- Oh, okay.
Why are we both smelling it?
- 'Cause you gotta smell something
to know it won't kill you.
- I don't know if that's honey that I smell.
- Okay.
- Nothing's sweeter than honey.
And we've been complaining about the sweetness,
but something about this.
- I disagree.
- You think things are sweeter than honey?
- I think that there's things
that are nastier-sweeter than honey,
do you know what I'm saying?
- Like that cherry gelatin.
- It's a pure sweetness that really-
- It turns out that's what we needed.
Not that it not be sweet, but that it be purely sweet.
- [Rhett] We need pure sweetness.
- 'Cause I like this.
I mean, like you got a honey roasted nut,
you got a honey roasted honey cereal.
- Honey glazed ham.
- See that's what's happening here,
we've recreated honey glazed ham in a hot dog.
- [Link] Huh.
Is it gonna dethrone everything?
- Listen, it might.
Listen, here's the Everything.
- Bring out the Everything.
- I feel like this is worthy of another taste here.
- I freaking love it.
I mean, you know,
as long as your lover also chomps down on one of these-
- (Rhett laughing briefly) Your lover?
- Yeah.
Then you don't have to worry about the garlic,
and that was your main objection.
I'm lobbying for this to stay,
even though I will make a note
that this is something to think about.
- Hold on, am I your lover in this scenario?
I don't understand the situation.
- Don't worry about my breath, man.
("Mythical" crew laughing amusingly)
- Because we're lovers?
- We're not lovers!
- Oh, I was just trying to-
- How often do I have to tell you, Rhett?
We are not lovers!
- I'm trying to follow the plot.
- We've never made love!
("Mythical" crew laughing amusingly)
- Okay-
- And you know what? At this rate, we never will.
- We never will.
("Mythical" crew laughing amusingly)
(Rhett laughing amusingly)
- Okay.
- So, get off it.
- Honey is really, really good,
but Everything Dip just has the right consistency,
and the cheesiness, and then all the flavors,
including the things
that you'll be able to share with your lover
if they also have it? I don't really understand.
- Right, right, right, right, right.
- How it works.
But, I do agree that nothing is dethroning Everything Dip!
- Nothing is sweeter than honey.
- But, isn't technically honey a part of everything?
- I think it is.
- So what do we have ourselves?
- I think we have a conundrum.
("Mythical" crew laughing impressively)
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