- Today's episode is part of a complete breakfast.
- Let's talk about that.
(Theme song plays)
- Good mythical morning!
- I love cereal.
You know this.
I would go so far as to say, cereal is my love language.
Cheerio, Honey Nut.
You want to Captain Crunch my Lucky Charms with your
Alpha-bits until I Corn Pop?
- Please don't ruin cereal for me or for anybody else.
- Sorry.
- We've been enjoying cereal, some more than others
apparently for roughly 40 years.
But, How well do we know
when these cereals were invented?
It's time for Year Eye with
Two Straight Guys, cereal addition.
Welcome to the shuffle zone.
- In each round we're going to be given a cereal.
Yes!
We're going to taste it and
then we're going to indicate
what decade we think that the cereal was created in
by shuffle, shuffle, shuffling.
- Yes, and whoever is closest to the actual year
wins the round.
The loser of the game will have to
pour cereal down their pants.
Woo!
- A classic.
Cheerios.
- Cheerios without the Honey Nut.
- It definitely tastes like something's missing.
- This is for babies, man.
(Stevie laughs)
- Yeah.
I have to assume that Cheerios came before
the Honey Nut version.
- Where are you going, What you're trying to do?
Hey, hey, hey! - Hey, hey, hey!
- You wanna fight?
- What you wanna do?
I want to go first!
- I want to shuffle.
- I want to go first because last time I won.
- Well go!
Which means I get the disadvantage go by going first.
Because if you want to go - Just do it!
- It gets intense up in here!
- Do it man.
It gets intense.
We take shuffleboard seriously?
Now I gotta think about when it, when this happened.
If you were to ask me,
"Rhett, what's the oldest cereal?"
- What's the oldest cereal?
- I'd be like, I don't know, Cheerios?
You know what I'm saying?
- [Link] 1900 is the oldest.
- I don't know something about 1920.
It's like not all the way at 1900,
which is our oldest decade.
Is that how you use the term?
1920 is a little bit closer.
- All right, Let's see the speed of
the shuffle zone today.
- 1920, Here we go.
- Oh, he's done it.
I, oh, Nope.
- [Rhett] I got to say, I feel like
I hit something on the board.
- So you, is there a little cherry?
- I hit a little something right there. I mean,
they're not gonna-
Call the judges!
- Let's see.
So you're right in between 1900, 1920.
I got, I got to just knock you away from that zone.
- Oh, come on, man.
What are you going to knock me out?
- 'Cause Rhett, That's the game.
- Okay.
- I got to knock you into that back right corner because I
want to be where you are, man.
- All right.
Well, let's see about that.
- Whoa, look at that!
Cheerios going everywhere!
- Okay, well.
- And I did not land where I wanted to.
- I don't know exactly what you accomplished, but
we're gonna find out.
- [Stevie] Before they were called Cheerios, they
were known as CheeriOats.
- Okay.
- [Stevie} And CheeriOats were introduced in 1941.
- Oh, that's you.
You're, you're very close.
And I think maybe some of my Cheerios are in the square.
Stevie, does it count if I got Cheerios in the square?
- [Stevie] It does not.
- Dang it.
Okay, we determined this to be the best cereal ever.
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
So much sugar.
- It's so much better than plain Cheerios, man.
- I'm gonna sit here and Imma eat this
whole bowl before we start playing.
- And you will start playing because
you just took the lead sucker.
- Mhmm.
- Man, it's so good.
- Oh they're good!
Okay!
- I may finish the bowl, warning.
- No.
When with cinnamon toast invented because
that wasn't around forever.
I think that happened in like 1950.
Sprinkle a little cinnamon 'cause
when was cinnamon invented?
- I think like 1890 cinnamon was invented.
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch definitely
has an eighties vibe in my brain.
- Okay, So you're going for 80.
- Could be 70, 1970.
- Yeah, Imma go for 80 man.
Nice and easy.
- That's too aggressively.
(Rhett laughs)
Chase, I told you not to put so much
dirt on the board.
Man, that was too aggressive.
Right from the bay, right from the beginning,
Right from the beginning,
it was too much.
- So much fidelity to this.
You know what Link?
I liked the way you think.
I don't like the way you, you slide your whistle.
What is this?
- I mean, you have run of the board.
If you lose this round,
- Then I'm just a sucker. - You suck.
But pride should dictate that you
should try to be accurate.
- Hold on. But listen.
You're not that far from 1960,
we know it's not 1940 or 1990.
Basically, I need to be on this side of you.
I think that it's 1970 because this never really works, but
the logic I usually apply to this game is if I remember
it from a decade, it must have come from before that decade.
So I think 1970's good.
- [Link] Can you hit 1970?
- No, because it might be 1960 and then you'd win.
So 1960 is what I'm going for.
- So you, so you went real aggressive too.
I like that.
- Oh gosh.
Oh man!
- All right.
See, I told you.
- Yeah.
- it's a fast board today. - Its a fast board today!
Fast board.
- [Stevie] So it looks like,
I just Googled this, and the term cinnamon
sugar as in cinnamon sugar toast was
first coined in, like, 1890.
But Cinnamon Toast Crunch was introduced in
1984.
- Oh man!
I'm a little bit closer.
- I was right in my brain.
You were right on the board.
- We've got a podcast.
It's called Ear Biscuits.
We don't just record the audio.
We record the video.
There's a YouTube channel and it's
available wherever you get your audio podcast.
Check it out.
- It gets real.
- Cornflakes. - Cornflakes.
These are really not my favorite.
- When's the last time you had them?
I had him at like a hotel.
I'll tell you the one thing I haven't
done is I haven't had them right after
eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
I think I've only had these at a hotel.
Like when you go down to the Motel Six-
- Little Continental?
- And they're out of everything
except Corn Flakes and you
get one of those little boxes of it.
I kinda like it.
- The crunch is nice.
The taste, would you call it corny?
- It's better than Cheerios.
- All right. You're up first.
- Hmm.
Okay, Link.
I know a thing or two about cornflakes.
- Hmm, seems old.
- I'm saying this and this is totally
historical and scientific.
Mr. Kellogg invented cornflakes
to stop people from masturbating.
- No comment.
- it's true.
Too many people were doing it.
And he was like,
"I think cornflakes will make them stop masturbating."
- I took the tact of not talking
in hopes that you would just move on.
And it seems like that was the wrong strategy.
- When was it frowned upon to the point
that they thought they had to
make cereal make it go away?
And when would they have thought that was even possible?
It's either the 1900s or the 1920s.
So I'm going to land on 1900 and hope for the best.
- [Link] Gentle stroke.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- You made a good correction there with
the speed of the, of the board today.
You know what? I'm going to go around you,
but only slightly, because I think the answer is 1900.
But it also keeps 1920 in play from me.
- I'm gonna eat as many of these as I can.
- Oh yeah, your wife's out of town.
(Stevie laughs).
How do I do this?
I got it, I can't get too excited.
I've got to just relax.
- Just relax.
(Rhett laughs)
(Link yells)
- I get so frustrated!
- Hey, hey, hey!
- I need to have some sort of release!
I got something that'll make you release.
It's called Corn Flakes.
(Link yells)
- Let me punch the Corn Flakes!
(Link yells)
I feel better now.
- Maybe that's how they stop masturbation.
- [Stevie] Okay.
Corn Flakes was the first cereal to
feature a prize inside the box shortly
after they were first introduced to the public in
1906.
- Oh 1906, I'm very close to that.
You almost didn't get past the line.
- The board is just screwing with it.
(Rhett laughs)
Again, I'm, we're gonna be
talking about how there's not enough
sugar in this one, right?
- But these have a much more fun texture.
- And sound.
I mean, the marketing on this is great.
- I like Rice Crispies.
- The snap, crackling, and pop.
I definitely like this over the Corn Flakes,
if I'm giving up the sugar.
- There's more sugar than you realize.
Four grams.
I don't know what that means.
(Stevie laughs)
- Okay.
Again, when you're playing this game,
the first question you gotta
ask yourself is when was rice invented?
- Well before any of these dates.
When was the idea of crispy invented though?
Crispy is pretty recent.
Things were soggy for many years.
These have sort of a,
I think they got a 1950 feel.
- [Link] Oh yeah?
- Snap, crackle, pop, man.
1950s.
Snap, crackle, sock hop.
See, that seems like it's going to be short.
Is that where you wanted it?
You said 1950?
- [Rhett] I said 1950, right on the top of the pyramid.
- All right.
I think this was before 1950.
I can see in my mind,
vintage ads for Snap, Crackle and Pop.
So I think this is 1920.
Cause 1900 has been taken.
I'm in the same position I was last time.
I don't want to bonk you.
- How about you just land right around here,
around this line.
- Shut up.
All right. So I'm going to go to 19,
the corner of 1970 so I can
split the difference between 30 and 20.
= All right.
Do your worst.
- Already done that.
I'm going to do better now.
I'm going to bank off the back and
then Imma land right in the middle of the board.
Come on!
Not quite.
- [Rhett] 1920, 1920.
- Okay, shoot.
That was it.
- The cereal kept the momentum going that way.
So it didn't get as clean of a bounce.
I'm giving an educated, I'm getting a little better.
- [Stevie] Okay, So Rice Krispies are
cooked with a steam method that
creates air pockets inside.
So when cold milk hits the cereal,
the kernels break causing them to crackle and pop.
And they've been crackling and popping since they
were first introduced in 1928.
(Link claps)
- Yes!
The snap, crackle, and pop gods have smiled upon me.
- We're tied.
Okay, it all comes down to this.
Cap'n Crunch.
- Yeah, it does.
- This has never, I didn't go to this too often.
- It's a dangerous cereal to eat.
- I mean, the Cap'n` wasn't lying about the crunch.
- it can really mess up the roof of your mouth.
- Okay.
- Got a good taste to it though.
- We're tied again.
- You can go first, but I won last time.
So I think I have to.
- Ha ha ha!
Got you!
But it doesn't matter really because I can't-
- I want to beat you fair and square.
- The gentleman's agreement is you can't
hit another guy's bowl in the final round.
- Ah, well Imma use that to my advantage.
Thanks for reminding me.
Let's see.
The Cap'n probably came along in the seventies.
In the seventies, They just love talking about Cap'n's.
I think this is when Cap'n Morgan came about
Cap'n Crunch, Cap'n Kangaroo.
- Captain Hook.
- Captain and Tennille.
- Captain Phillips.
- Captain Underpants.
- There's quite a few captains.
And they're not all from the seventies
as we just demonstrated.
- Imma try to go for the middle of the board
just to play it safe.
My answer is 1970.
Middle of the board, huh?
Stop, stop, stop. stop, stop, stop, stop,
stop, stop, stop, stop, Stop. Stop!
No whammies!
Okay.
- All right.
Well, so you're on 1960, which I actually think
that 60 is-
- If I played this game for like three more hours,
I might be able to put the puck where I want it.
- Well, you know what, what are you doing this afternoon?
We could open up your schedule.
- I don't want you to be here for me doing that.
- Oh, okay.
- I'm definitely in the sixties and seventies.
- Well you have an opportunity.
- Here's the thing. - To take seventies from me.
- You're on the sixties right now.
And if you're right, well you win.
- Yeah.
- But if I get on the sixties as well, I cover your answer.
And then we would, in that event, we would tie.
- We've never had a tie.
What happens then?
What is the sudden death?
- I think you do closest to the
black bumper in the back without hitting it.
- Mhmm.
- Okay, so I think 1960 is a great answer.
It might be 1970 and I'm
trying to go on this side of you.
- Go for 1960.
- But I cannot hit you.
If I hit you. I disqualify myself.
- So you're going for 1960.
- But I'm not gonna hit you.
- But you're not going to hit me, which could set up a
sudden death if we're both right.
He's aiming.
Oh, that's way too hard.
(Rhett yells)
You touched me.
- [Stevie] That was, you didn't mean to.
It's, we're good.
Did you know that due to the number of
stripes on the Cap'n's uniform,
he's actually a commander?
Cap'n Crunch or should I say, Commander Crunch
was first introduced in
1963.
- [Link] Whoo!
I have done it.
- Okay.
- Rhett- - I gotta put the-
- You gotta put the crunch down-
- I gotta put a captain in my pants.
Let me unbuckle.
- You gotta put the Captain on your commander.
Or the Commander on your captain.
Okay.
I don't like that you undid your belt.
That makes it stranger.
leave it there for the rest of the day.
- I mean, is it back up?
Okay. All right.
- Have you unzipped?
- I had to, man.
When you want to get the Captain in your pants,
you got to unzip.
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