- Could we survive the ice age?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good mythical morning.
- Love it or hate it,
the paleo diet is still a hot topic of conversation
from every top-knotted, big-quadded bro
this side of Pangaea,
but is the paleo diet we know today
really what humans ate in paleolithic times?
- Eh, not quite.
You see, the basic guidelines behind the modern paleo diet
avoid any processed food or food created
with the use of modern agriculture.
- Agriculture.
- That's how you say the word.
And this includes stuff like dairy, grains,
anything with added salt or sugar.
- But that's not really paleo,
because many of the plant and animal species
from way back then either don't exist anymore
or are at least very unfamiliar
to the modern American palette.
So it's hard to know if humans today could even stomach
the real paleolithic diet.
- Yeah, let's get real.
- That is, until now.
It's time for eating like the Flintstones
ain't all fruity pebbles.
So let's try caveman diets like some time traveling rebels.
Welcome to the paleo zone.
- Yes, in every round there's going to be two dishes.
They're both going to be paleo,
but one of them is going to be kind of palatable,
the other one's gonna be straight nasty.
- We are going to draw spears.
The caveman who draws the shorter spear
has to peek at once under his cloche.
Ooh, that's heavy,
while the person who won the longer spear
and the power of choice gets to observe his reaction
and then decide if he wants to (groans) switch.
- It's made of stone, it's very, very heavy.
- Switch it around to the other guy.
And then we both have to consume,
or at least take a nice big whopping bite
out of what's under there.
Boom, boom, boom.
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- Ug.
- Eat.
- Eat?
- [Link] Eat. - Eat.
- Me eat.
- [Rhett] Food.
- Hungry.
- Ah.
- [Stevie] Okay.
What if you were an actual paleolithic human
and you wanted to be vegan for some reason?
Sure, you would annoy all the Gronks and Grags in your cave,
but what would you find to eat?
You're about to find out.
- Vegan paleo.
- Grog, Grag.
- Me Grog.
- Grag.
- Greg?
- [Rhett] No Greg.
- Hello Greg.
- Oh, Greg? Greg seems cool, let's do Greg.
- Grog.
- Greg. - Greg.
- [Stevie] Gentlemen, please choose your spears.
- [Rhett] Chose wisely.
(groaning)
- Me longer than you.
- Ah, short.
- Yes.
Okay, so you get, are we going to keep this up?
I don't know, it hurts my voice.
- Yeah, we just do it at the beginning each time.
- [Link] All right, so you--
- So I get the power of peeking.
- You take a peak there and I'm going to look at you.
Greg make no reaction.
(grunts)
Greg manufacturer reaction
for Grog to respond to.
- Oh, Greg a good actor.
- Okay.
Grog turn stone.
Grog rotate Susan.
- Grog strong, Susan?
- [Link] Susan.
- Susan? Susan?
- No, this is Susan. - Susan's here?
- This, we call this Susan.
- Susan's here.
- Okay. I did not switch.
(crew laughs)
- [Rhett] Oh, we did switch. I'm glad we did because--
- [Link] What is this, freaking incense?
- [Rhett] That's cattails, man.
- It's an incense stick. - It's a straight up cattail.
- [Stevie] Yeah, the cattail,
because modern agriculture didn't exist yet,
early humans had to eat whatever was around,
including cattails.
They'd also eat smaller quantities
to lessen the risk of poisoning themselves.
- Oh, so eat a little bit.
Hold on, and I got just like cherries.
- [Stevie] You got pine nuts, hazelnuts, and yeah.
A trail mix basically, cave man trail mix.
(spitting)
- Oh my gosh, this stuff gets everywhere.
- Don't breathe in.
You're getting your cattail all over my trail mix.
(upbeat music)
- Still hungry.
- [Stevie] These next dishes are made of meat,
but not from mammals.
No mammal meat here, enjoy.
- Who is that woman talking? Is that Susan?
- That's God.
- Ah.
(laughs)
- I was going to pick that one, put it back.
- I picked it.
- Put back! - No!
- Put back for me to pick!
(both groaning)
Just a bit shorter.
- All right, peek, my friend.
(laughs)
- Grog just invent reverse psychology.
- Yeah. So I know what just happened.
I know, oh, that much heavier than I thought.
- Susan very heavy.
(groaning)
- All the way back to you.
How do you feel about that?
- How do you feel about reverse reverse psychology?
- I'm happy with this.
- [Link] Me too.
- Back to where it was.
Oh, me too.
Oh, you got beetles.
You got beetles.
- I thought reverse reverse psychology would work.
- Reverse reverse psychology--
- [Link] Because I basically told you.
- Hasn't been invented yet.
- [Stevie] In 2016, researchers in Alaska found hearths
with traces of cooked salmon residue
dating back nearly 12,000 years,
but not all ancient humans had access to freshwater fish.
Some had to get their protein
from whatever was crawling around, hence those beetles.
- First of all, I mean, I know he's eating beetles
over there but I mean, this isn't great.
I mean, this is just, this is just some fish on a rock.
(crunching)
(groans)
Grog like?
- Grog does like, Grog like.
- Grog like?
- [Link] Grog like a lot.
- Is that Grog liking?
(coughing)
Hold on, is Grog acting?
Because Greg exhibited acting.
- Grog acting.
- Ah, Grog acting.
- Grog liked acting from Greg.
- Grog good actor.
(upbeat music)
Since we're going back in time to the caveman days,
we want you to go back in time
to the early, early days of Josh, the Mythical Chef.
You know, in 2016, he actually created a burger for us,
a chicken fried cheeseburger,
the first thing he ever made for "Good Mythical Morning."
And he's recreating it over on the Mythical Kitchen channel
in 2021 style, and that's not the only thing
they're doing over there, all kinds of stuff.
They got their own channel
with multiple things going on and a podcast.
Go over there for good laughs and food hacks,
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- What is channel?
- Mythical Kitchen.
- What is Tuesday Thursdays?
- Uh, I don't know.
- [Stevie] Although carbs and sweets are discouraged
in today's paleo diet, archeologists in Morocco
discovered human remains from nearly 15,000 years ago,
and almost all of them had cavities in their teeth
from getting their sweet on.
So let's get your sweet on, shall we?
- Sweet sweet.
(groans)
Me get long!
- There's no way.
There's no way I can get a longer one than that.
- Okay.
- Right, so I'm a peeker.
- [Link] You peek.
(laughing)
You stupid.
(kissy noises)
(table grinding)
- I don't know what you've got in front of you, man.
I don't know which thing it is.
- Please, yes, no. What?
(crew laughs)
- Mine looks like honey.
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- [Link] What do I have, a rotten apple?
- [Stevie] I think, Link, "oh no"
is the proper response to yours.
Yeah, you have some, some fermented fruits
and some worms that are amongst them perhaps.
Yeah, that's early days of getting, getting drunk
and then Rhett, you have the honeycomb,
and there's actually ancient rock paintings
portraying humans smoking bees out of caves
to retrieve honeycombs to eat.
- Oh, smoke bees?
- [Rhett] Man, straight honeycomb.
- You smoke bees?
- Oh yeah.
- Me smoke bees. (laughs)
Oh my gosh. What, what is this?
Like a dried up grub?
Dang it.
- You get the grub?
- Yeah.
- Grog got grub.
Grog got grub, Grog got grub.
Greg watch Grog as Grog got grub.
Greg watch Grog, Grog eat grub.
Greg eats nothing but honey.
I like what just happened.
- Ah, we make band.
I got drunk.
(laughing)
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Me not hungry no more.
Me satisfied, me full, me not eat anything.
- Grog, Greg feel sorry for Grog.
Never felt before.
I invented sorry. (laughs)
- [Stevie] Okay, according to AmericanScientist.org,
human skull sizes increased after
the first methods of cooking meat began.
One way of prehistoric cooking included putting,
included putting meat--
- Pudding?
- I love puddin'!
- Pudding? This is the puddin' round?
- Man, been waiting for this.
- I didn't know puddin' was paleo.
- [Stevie] Included putting meat on burnt rocks.
So let's find out what the rock's been cooking.
- Okay.
- Oh, that's a short.
- What a short spear.
It's not the length of the spear, it's the choppiness.
- So I'm going for the queen sweep here.
So you better figure out what your psychology you're doing,
forwards or backwards. (laughs)
Oh, he's going with the no reaction.
(grunting)
- Good.
(laughing)
Grog happy.
- Really?
- Very happy. (laughing)
You must eat long.
- [Stevie] Yeah, during the ice age.
- Turd-looking.
- [Stevie] When vegetation was scarce,
finding an herbivore carcass whose stomach was full
of plant-rich nutrients was a lucky two course meal.
So you're lucky for finding those intestines,
and then Link, that is a bison meat.
- Bison meat very much better than,
what is that, chitlins, did you say?
- [Stevie] Intestines.
- It's just straight up intestine.
- Oh my gosh, yes.
- All right. (groaning)
- Good technique. I like it.
- That's awful.
Literally.
- Very good.
- [Rhett] Very chewy.
- Give you protein.
Swallow!
Swallow or I beat you with sticks.
- Greg bet he would choke if he tried to swallow.
- You want Grog to poke goodies
while you eating the dooky chute?
Grog poke good.
- [Stevie] There's this is one closeup shot
that I have on my monitor that just looks like
naked Rhett thigh, intestines on a rock,
and then a spear coming in to his crotch.
- That's right.
Yes! Yes, yes, yes.
(both grunting)
Grog and Greg invent special handshake.
- Special handshake, Fresh Prince.
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- You know what time is? I don't. (laughs)
- I'm Rachel from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I'm on here to embarrass my sons
and it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- You know what?
I'm not going to say mission accomplished,
because you seem cool.
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- I think, you know, your body craves
the chicken fried cheeseburger.
The way I look at it, evolutionarily speaking.
Also anyone who ever starts a sentence
with "evolutionarily speaking,"
probably run from that conversation.
It's not gonna be good.