- Do we know beans about beans?
- Hope so.
Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning.
- I love beans, and I'm not just saying that.
Beans have already changed my life.
I am so excited about being able to taste
multiple different types of beans.
And you know what?
Beans are the future, people.
That's already you're gonna be eating
a hundred years from now.
Bean paste, and bean powder, and whole beans if you're lucky
and not being attacked by some alien civilization.
- Bean curd.
- But today we're gonna figure out just how good we are
at tasting beans that we've never tasted.
- 'Cause you're gonna need to be able
to identify said beans.
- Key.
- It's time for us to play beans, beans,
they're good for your heart.
So many kinds, can we tell 'em apart?
- Okay, here's how this is gonna work.
We're gonna be presented with six different types of beans.
There'll be a lightly salted cooked version of the beans,
and then a dried version just for looking at.
- So we gotta see if we can identify the Scarlet Runner.
- The Flor de Mayo.
- The Bird Egg.
- The Christmas Lima.
- The Adzuki.
- And the Calypso.
- All right.
- Now we have a little bit of information about these
that we're gonna be going on because we haven't had
these beans before, but this is just who has
more bean intuition.
- Me, you, us?
- I don't know. - We.
- We're gonna find out.
- [Rhett And Link] Round one.
Okay, Link, here's the first bean.
- Hmm, right there.
- Now you're not much of a bean man.
Let's just get that outta the way.
I mean, you started off life, hating beans,
but you've slowly grown to like them or.
- I like like black beans,
I like garden peas.
Are those beans at all?
Those are like Oreo beans down there uncooked.
Got a tanginess to it.
- It's definitely a bean.
I'll tell you that right now.
I could have tasted this one blindfolded
and known it was a bean.
- Wait, this is not, is it a bean or not.
You have to get a little more specific.
- You know what?
Let's play that game.
Is it a bean? Yes.
Something tells me
that things would've turned out differently
if we played games like that.
Very distinctive.
I mean, it's a good bean, but I don't know
what kind of a bean parsing like taste skills
that I personally have.
- I'm just gonna go with the fact
that it's a mostly black bean,
and the only black beans I've ever had
were in Mexican restaurants.
So I'm looking at the Flor de Mayo,
which is a small bush bean native to Mexico.
- Oh, it tastes like it could be from a bush.
- It got the most outstanding bean
in the blindfold bean taste test.
- I taste it. Yeah.
- [Link] And I'm just going for it.
- Well, and I'm gonna go with Bird Egg
because one of the beans is a Bird Egg,
and I've seen plenty of bird eggs
that are spotted like that.
- [Link] Ooh, that's a good guess, man.
- [Rhett] Yeah.
- [Link] It's like a Robin's egg bean.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Went with the bird egg.
Hopefully I'm right.
Let's keep going.
- [Rhett And Link] Round two.
- Hmm, now we got some brown beans up here.
- Is this a bean?
- It is a bean, I believe.
Bean leaf. It is a bean.
All right, now this is getting closer
to the type of beans that I don't love.
But it's a very meaty bean.
It's like eating the turds of a meat animal.
- An animal that just poops meat?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- So a meat eating animal?
It's like eating the turds of a carnivore?
- Yeah, that's how beans are made, right?
- Yeah.
- I mean, I've made some turds that look like beans.
I didn't then taste them.
And if I did, I wouldn't tell you.
- It's so...
They're so hearty.
This is a hearty bean.
- [Link] This is like a bean that I would pick out of chili.
- Well, you know, I was gonna go with the Scarlet Runner
because this one said it was great
for like baked bean dishes,
and it kind of feels like it's that size.
- But so does the Calypso and the classic chili bean.
- But the problem is the Scarlet Runner.
It says it's one of the best bean,
and this is not the best bean.
- To you?
- I feel like the Calypso is the proper guess on this one.
- Does that taste like a potato to you?
- Potato flavor?
- Yeah, a meaty potato.
Like, if a carnivore crapped out a potato,
that's what it would taste like.
- That does happen.
Well, you know, when carnivores eat potatoes,
they just crap 'em right out.
'Cause they're like why is this in my system right now?
- So we're in agreement in how certain are we
that we are both correct?
- 2%.
- [Rhett And Link] Round three.
This is a large bean.
I'm not even...
It looks like if you just went to like a brook
and you just grabbed the rocks off the bottom.
There's no need for a spoon here.
- This is like a organ from like an animal.
What's it called when you cut open an animal for science?
- Dissect.
- Yeah, man.
This is like if you-
- Yeah man, dissect, man.
- It's like if you dissected a bird
and pulled out its kidney, it would be like this.
- Is this a bean or a bird kidney?
- We have a bird egg, well, bird egg.
- Yeah, we don't have a bird kidney.
- We have one that looks like a bowl of dead wet bugs.
- Dude, I love these.
I'm on my like seventh, eighth, and ninth bean right here.
Whoa, all at the same time.
Question for you though.
What was it about beans when you're growing up?
Why were you scared of 'em?
- Well, 'cause they looked like bugs.
They were mushy inside.
- And then what changed you?
- I think refried beans.
And then I was like, what if they weren't re,
they were just fried?
And then what if they weren't fried,
they were just beans. - Boiled.
- Yeah, so I kind of backed-
- Refried beans is the gateway beans.
- Beans, beans, beans into it.
That's how I got into it.
- Well, I'm gonna go on this one.
I feel pretty strong that these are Christmas limas
because it's a big bean.
Like a meaty texture. - They're shaped like a Lima.
- And it was first cultivated in the US around 1840,
and this has like a 1840s kind of taste to it.
Don't you think?
- You know what?
I think you're right.
I'm agreeing with you 'cause Lima beans are nasty.
They're like what I call butter beans in the south.
- I just can't stop eating them.
- I'm agreeing.
Lima, and I've had enough.
- I might wanna try one just dry.
Let me try that.
- That's a good idea.
Is it better?
- That was not a good idea.
- See if there's something in there.
- I broke a tooth.
Just kidding.
- [Rhett And Link] Round four.
- Kind of starting to look like we're like
at a booth at the farmer's market
and we're asking people to sample things.
- Sample our beans.
Sample our beans.
- You know, there's a bean.
There's a-
- Would you like to sample our beans?
- There's definitely bean sample guys
at these farmer's markets around here.
Or we could be those guys.
- We could beans those guys.
This is more my speed 'cause they're small.
- Yeah, but it's still the same amount of bean.
That's the thing I don't understand.
- I don't like a big sheath.
Man, that smells like a field peas what I call it.
- Yeah, it smells like a field, period.
- It does smell like a field full of peas.
- [Rhett] It has a black eyed pee earthiness to it.
- Hmm. Beans, beans.
Good for your heart.
The more you eat, the more you-
- Love 'em and want more of 'em.
- Fart.
The more you fart, the better you-
- Feel.
- So eat.
- Beans.
- At.
- Every meal. - Meal.
- Hmm, this beans are so good though.
- Now this is kind of red flavor.
So I'm thinking some Scarlet.
- It has a red flavor?
It takes like red number five?
- Red color, I mean.
It has a red color to it.
So that leads me towards Scarlet.
But that's tough 'cause it says that they produce
beautiful Scarlet flowers,
which means they don't have to be red at all.
- But do the beans turn into the flowers?
How do flowers work?
- They attract bees, which makes beans.
- Beans are not in the ground, right?
Beans are not roots, right?
I feel stupid right now.
Beans are on the plant.
- They're on the bush, man.
- But aren't beans seeds?
- Isn't a bean a seed to grow another thing
that grows the same bean, right?
Isn't a bean a seed?
- A bean is an edible seed.
It's typically kidney shaped,
and it grows in long pods on certain leguminous plants.
- Yeah, Eddie just sent you some Google stuff.
Now listen, so that means that these could
turn into a red flower because it's a red bean
that might turn into a flower.
- Right.
- But I feel like it's-
- I'm leaning towards the Scarlet Runner for me.
- I'm gonna go on with the Flor de Mayo on this
because it tastes a little bit like mayonnaise.
Not really.
Just because it does have a smoky flavor.
It does have an unusual texture,
and I could see this being winning an award for best bean
'cause it did.
- See, it says the bird egg is really aromatic.
That's not aromatic, that's earthy.
So I don't know.
Adzuki is 4,000 BCE.
Does it smell that old?
- Bean smellers, now we're bean smellers.
- You like to smell our beans?
- What if we just let people smell the beans?
- You like to smell our beans?
- At the farmer's market.
No, you can't taste 'em but you can smell 'em.
No, no, don't make any contact.
You can smell 'em though.
- I'm going with the Scarlet Runner.
Red beans make red flowers.
- Well, they might.
We don't know that.
- [Rhett And Link] Round five.
- Wow, look at that huge beans.
- That's the biggest beans so far.
- Bigger than that one, but not as dark as that one.
These are amazing.
- You really know your beans.
- It's bigger, but not as darker.
- Taste that bean.
That bean tastes like coffee.
Tell me it doesn't taste like coffee.
Is it coffee?
Are we now playing is it coffee?
- It's a coffee bean.
- [Rhett] It's a freaking coffee bean.
- Wow, that's a good taste for a...
I might have turned over a new leaf
and found a huge bean that I liked under it.
- This might be the Christmas Lima,
but I've already used that one.
- You think just 'cause it's big it's a Lima?
- This might be a Chestnut flavor.
- Well, I don't have it.
You're talking about Christmas Lima?
Hmm, I got Bird Egg and Adzuki to go.
- And I've got Adzuki and Scarlet Runner.
This doesn't seem like the kind of bean
that would go in a baked bean dish is what they say
the Scarlet Runner would.
- I think that this could come from a big bird, man.
- Link, it's called a Bird Egg.
That doesn't mean the beans come from birds.
- I know that.
- And don't think birds make beans.
If they do, we should invest.
- We should give 'em some money
to help 'em out a little bit.
I don't care what you say.
I'm saying this is a bird egg bean.
- It's a good bean.
I mean, I haven't had one that I don't like.
- I'm saving the...
Oh, you're going for the Adzuki?
- I am.
Just, I think I'm wrong and I'm gonna-
- You think you're gonna switch it up?
- Hopefully, we can only switch one this time but, you know?
- [Rhett And Link] Round six.
- All right, last bean, Link.
- Right here.
Now these are like boiled peanuts.
- [Rhett] I'm coming back in with my utensil.
- I mean that could be a peanut.
- But it probably is a bean.
I like to get a good eight bean mouthful.
- I could convince myself that these are peanuts.
Try to do it.
- Boiled peanut?
- Yeah.
- It tastes just like a boiled peanut.
Have you ever had a boiled peanut?
- In North Carolina, they'll do that.
They'll boil peanuts and then you'll eat 'em,
and you'll be like tastes like a bean.
You sure that's not a bean?
- That is a good bean.
Wow, that's a good bean.
- [Link] What?
- You know what?
I'm a man who's never met a bean he didn't like.
- That is a good bean.
I'm a man who just started liking beans.
Now I only have Adzuki to put in this thing.
- I only have Adzuki.
I only have Scarlet Runner, but I think it might be correct.
- I'm told that the-
- That's a good bean.
- That the Japanese since 4,000 BCE
cultivated these and boiled them with sugar
and made them into paste.
- I could see that happening with a peanutty type bean.
So I'm gonna vote with confidence for Adzuki.
And I have to.
- Yeah. Right.
But you know what?
That's a good thing to do in life
is when you're forced into a decision,
make it with confidence.
- Yeah.
You know what?
I have no other choice.
- I am so sure that I'm right about this
even though it's the only option I can choose.
I'm so sure that that is the Scarlet Runner.
I need another one of these right here.
- All right, so now we have an opportunity
to make one switch.
You can grab two flags and swap them with each other.
You can't do any more switching than that.
But first, Daniella is gonna tell us where we stand.
- [Daniella] Okay, so Link, you have zero right.
(Rhett laughs) (buzzer buzzes)
- Wow.
- [Daniella] Okay, and Rhett, you have zero right.
(Rhett and Link laugh) (buzzer buzzes)
- Man.
- You're joking.
- Maybe we shouldn't switch.
I don't know.
- [Daniella] Okay, so I know we said one switch, but-
- You give us a pity switch?
- [Daniella] Yeah, we'll give you some more.
You can...
We'll give you two.
- Oh really?
- [Daniella] Yeah.
- First of all, I gotta look at everything you've got.
No one's right about anything.
- Can you believe it?
- I have to switch something with something
that you haven't guessed.
All right, I'm gonna switch these two,
Scarlet Runner and the Bird Egg.
- And I'm going in here for the Christmas Lima,
and I'm coming.
And so that's one switch.
And then I'm going to switch-
- We know we were wrong on this one,
and I'm gonna move this one here just 'cause it's close
and I have no other rationale to start guessing about beans.
- And I'm bringing the Bird Egg into this one,
and coming out and going...
Oh, you know what?
- You gotta put that one in there, brother.
- [Rhett] Yeah, you have to.
- All right, has anybody gotten anything right?
- [Daniella] Yes.
New score, Link has two rights.
- Yes.
- [Daniella] And Rhett has one.
- Yes!
- Oh, I wanted to be the beanius so bad.
- I'm the beanius!
- What two did he get right?
- It doesn't matter.
- [Daniella] The Calypso and the Flor de Mayo.
- Yes, yes, of course the Calypso and the-
- You're telling me that neither one of these
is a Christmas Lima bean?
- [Daniella] No, you're Christmas Lima, you got it right.
Christmas Lima you got right.
- Oh yeah, I got it right.
- All right.
- Merry Christmas to me.
- Eat your beans, people.
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