Today we let our mouths be our GPS.
Let's talk about that.
( theme music playing )
Good Mythical morning.
Mythical Beasts, if you like vending machines,
and also eating the things that are vended from said machines,
then you're in luck 'cause today we're gonna be eating an entire meal
- made only from vending machine food. - Yay?
Plus, we're going to be kidnapped and dropped at random locations on Earth
and try to figure out where we are.
Virtually, that is.
But, first, your food is lying to you.
It's time for...
All right, here's what we're gonna do, Rhett.
We're going to taste a well-known dish
that either claims to be from
or would seem to be from a certain place
but actually is not.
Then we will guess where it was actually invented
by throwing a dart-- yes--
- Don't do it yet. - ...at that place on the map.
And then Chase will do what he always does.
He'll measure who was closest to the actual place.
And, Chase, I gotta say, your already-small shirt seems to have gotten smaller.
( laughs )
Yeah, you know, it's a small world.
Oh! ( laughs ) Chase.
Chase was sittin' on that one.
He's incubatin' that egg for quite a while.
Okay, again, the lowest cumulative distance wins, like always.
And the winner gets an all-expense-paid trip
to another part of the room!
Ooh, look at that.
- Wow. - Rhett: That's enticing.
Link: One seat in solidarity over there.
- Get a little alone time. - Oh, yeah.
Also, since I am notoriously bad at this game and have never once won--
is that true? I've never--?
No, no, no, I think you've--
- Yeah, that's right, I've never won. - Stevie:
- You won once. -
- That's what I thought. - But you've lost a lot.
Well, today, I brought a secret weapon.
Oh, Caesar salad.
You know, we don't have to eat...
- But, you know. - ...but we should.
You know, it's a great breakfast food.
Now, Caesar salad, you would think it was from Rome, right?
But that would be wrong.
That's because these are misleading foods,
so that's why they put Italy up there.
Link: So you're not going for Italy.
Now, I know that, traditionally,
they put anchovies in the dressing.
A lot of people don't know that.
They put anchovies in the dressing.
( chuckles ) Fun fact.
Who are you looking at? You're looking for some sort of support.
I'm just looking at-- I'm looking at the people who care about fun facts.
Um, and that-- I don't know.
It-- golly.
This feels like it could have, like, a Latin America
influence with the anchovies.
Like, a Latin American country that has access to the ocean.
Right.
Brazil.
Going for Brazil, huh?
Ooh, leanin' in, going a little high.
- Okay. - Right into the ocean.
All right, now, for me... hmm.
Rhett, I want to introduce you to a friend of mine
before I throw my dart.
Russ, come on in here. I want you to meet my friend Russ.
- Right over here. Hey, Russ, good to see you again. - Good to see ya.
Me and Russ been hangin' out. He's just a friend of mine.
Why does he have a shirt that says "Championship Darts Corporation" on it?
Well, because-- he's just a friend,
but he does happen to also be a professional dart thrower.
Oh, come on, Link.
This is what you've resorted to?
I was just curious if I could let my friend
who might just happen to know how to throw darts really well...
Okay, you deserve it. You deserve...
He might've even brought his own darts,
- better than our darts. - Oh, really? He brought his own freakin' darts?
- To throw the dart. - Okay, I'm excited to see this.
Do your worst, Russ.
All right, Russ Lyzak,
my best friend, good old buddy, old pal,
where do you think we should throw?
- Wherever you want. - I'm thinking France.
I think it's just a slight deviation
from what the normal expectation would be.
Now, that's small, man.
- It's small. - ( Rhett laughs )
Ready?
All right, go for France.
Oop, you were a little low.
A little low, but closer than him.
( laughs )
And a lot closer than I would've been.
I'm not being picky.
- All right, so let's see. - What do we got?
Stevie:
According to legend, he invented it on the 4th of July in 1924
when he ran out of most ingredients
and had to make something with whatever he could find...
...in Mexico.
( laughs ) Whoo!
Off to a great start.
Are you freakin' kidding me?
Rhett, you had 21.
Link and Russ, you had 35.
- ( laughs ) - Oh, Russ!
21's less than 35.
- Hawaiian pizza. - Pizza. Okay, Hawaiian pizza.
- ( chuckles ) Yeah. - Not just pizza. I see that now.
Okay.
This is a controversial pizza.
That you would think was from Hawaii.
- But that's not even a choice. - Not even an option.
We'd have to throw it right at Chase's nipple to hit Hawaii.
No.
Rhett: Do you have a Hawaii tattoo on your nipple, Chase?
- I don't. - I can do that.
No, no, 'kay.
Um... I'm going first.
You mean Russ is going first.
Old buddy, old pal, Russ?
- Hey, man, good to see you again. - Good to see you, too.
- Thanks for coming back. - No worries.
- I'm really glad you're here. - Yeah.
You know what I'm thinkin'?
I'm thinking the closest thing to Hawaii is Australia.
But I think you need to go the Western edge of Australia,
if I'm being specific.
So if I'm wrong, at least I'm closer to all the other stuff on the board.
'Cause that's a risky place.
All right, so you want Australia, on the left side.
- Yeah. - Western Australia.
Link: That's good. That's what I wanted.
Okay, great.
- Perfect, Russ. - ( laughter )
Me and Russ go way back.
Man, I think you're on to something with Australia.
They got some upside-down decisions down there.
You think I'm right, huh?
I mean, I feel like a good guess
would be Australia or Canada, actually.
Australia just has the-- it feels right.
It feels right to me.
Now it's just-- are you better...?
But I'm gonna do it with confidence.
I'm gonna hit Western Australia
and it's actually gonna be Western Australia.
That's fine, try it.
- Oop. - I'm gonna hit Southern Australia.
Dang, Russ. I hope I'm wrong.
Stevie:
at the Satellite Restaurant by Sam Panopoulos...
...in Canada.
- Oh! - Oh, yes!
We got it, Russ!
We didn't look good doin' it.
"We got it, Russ!" ( laughs )
"We're really wrong, but less wrong than Rhett!"
All right, Link and Russ, you had 70.
Rhett, you had 84.
- Ooh. - So that ties us right now at 105?
- Ooh, the suspense. - Whoa.
( laughs )
- Mm. - This looks good.
I'm not supposed to have this.
You guys need to take a class on what not to give Link.
- Okay. - Chicken Kiev.
- Now, Kiev is a place... - Both: In Russia.
All right, Rhett, you're gonna go first.
What do you think, at this point?
Russia's a big spot. Maybe they're trickin' us.
- Exactly. - Oh, yeah?
Exactly!
I feel like there's one of these
that's gonna be from the place that it is
- as a curveball. - Mm-hmm.
- But... - Curve dart.
So I think this is from Russia.
Because who else is gonna be like,
"Let's get in on this chicken Kiev thing"?
Right? But I could be wrong.
What are you talking about, Rhett? You could never be wrong.
I'm going to do the left side of Russia.
- They call that the west. - West Russia.
Because it could also be a European country
that this kind of slipped into, you know what I'm saying?
And this is a protective throw.
It's a protective throw.
- Strategic throw for the Rhettster, going for... - West Russia.
...left Russia.
- Rhett: Okay. - Okay, there it is.
Okay, I'm gonna grab this dart, even though--
'course, I'm not gonna throw it 'cause I'm bringing in my good friend Russ...
- Yes. - ...Lyzak comin' in.
- Okay. - All right.
Russ, since you guys are such good friends,
what kind of stuff do you guys do together?
We hang out all the time, almost every weekend.
( laughs ) Every weekend, huh?
He throws darts, I read poetry.
All right, he went for left Russia.
Let's go bold or go home, you know what I'm saying?
- I gotcha. - Back to your home. You got a great pad.
There you go.
Um, I'm thinking this looks like French cuisine to me.
I think there's some Frenchness in this.
- Oh. - So you want to go France?
I want to go France.
Okay, here we go.
- Whoo! - Rhett: He frickin' hit France!
- Yeah, there we go. - What? No, he hit Italy.
He hit Italy? Okay, but very close, Russ.
You did not let me down. But did I let us down?
Stevie:
and, by the way, Kiev is the capital of Ukraine.
- Whoops. -
Russian Empress Elizabeth sent chefs
over to a certain country to study their cuisine,
where they learned how to make this dish.
And that country is...
-
- Okay. - I did my part, you did yours.
We take the lead. ( vocalizes )
( laughs )
I'm sorry, Ukraine. Kiev is yours.
Yeah, we just made a lot of people mad.
All right, Link and Russ, you had two.
- Rhett: Oh, that's pretty good. - And, Rhett, you had 14.
- Ew, fallin' behind. - Boom.
Oh, you know what they say. "As American as apple pie."
But we've been wrong all along, Neil.
Yep, MacLaughlin.
Mm, that's a good pie. It's nice and warm. Thank you for that.
Yeah, thank you for getting it warm.
Doesn't always happen on this show.
Mm-hmm. ( smacks lips )
Get the crust. That's the best part right here.
I think the crust is the best part, too.
Not that crust, but the crust where the apples are
if the apples weren't there.
I'd love an apple pie if it didn't have apples in it.
Oh, gosh. Here we go again.
I like an applesauce pie.
Um, y'all go first, right?
We go first. Russ?
- Yeah. - There he is.
I'll just sit over here and eat the pie.
Um, man, Russ, I mean, it's just apples in a pie.
That could be anywhere on the globe.
Ha! That's what you think.
Link: Where do apples grow?
Apples grow in, like, cold weather.
Mm, there you go.
Link: You know what? I think this is the big ol' Russia.
The big ol' Russia.
- The Big Apple. - Lots of-- yeah.
A lot of apples in Russia.
Uh, so, all right, I think you need to go for left Russia.
Oh, you're gonna do the old left Russia trick.
- Now, don't go for Great Britain. - In between the two?
- Link: I want-- - Rhett: Oh, he's gonna point now.
I want you to hit right there.
- Okay. - Rhett: Oh, okay.
You need me to keep my finger here?
Because I can ask Chase to do that.
( Russ laughs )
All right. Southern, western Russia.
- Southwestern Russia. - Yep, it's a great place.
Link: Boom, he nailed it!
- Rhett: Wow, okay. - Link: Yes, Russ!
All right, let's see what he can do.
- ( sighs ) - Yeah.
- Don't taunt me, Russ. - ( laughter )
He just did. "Let's see what he can do."
- What are you thinking? - I can see this being Italy.
You know what? I can see this being Great Britain, too.
Because we get a lot of things from Great Britain,
probably a lot of things we now claim as our own.
In fact, they probably were like,
"Let's start calling apple pie American just to rub it in their faces,"
you know, back in the Revolutionary times?
That's a sound argument.
You can't say that about your own arguments.
There-- there's no way I could actually hit Great Britain,
but if I sort of just aim at France,
I'm either gonna hit Italy or Great Britain, which are my two guesses.
So I'm aiming at France.
Link: Ooh. Little shy of Great Britain,
a little to the east, but...
Stevie:
and first mentioned in a historical document
written by poet Robert Greene who said,
"Thy breath is like the steam of apple pies" in...
Great Britain.
Yeah! ( laughs, whoops )
But they're better in Russia.
Much better there.
All right, Rhett, you had five.
Link and Russ, you had 25.
Oh-ho-ho. ( laughs )
- It comes down to this. - Both: Ice cream.
You scream.
When I hit Chase with a dart, he scream.
Chase, have you been much more at ease with me not throwing any darts?
Yeah, I really like having Russ here.
( laughs )
Very nice for me.
You should hang out with him on the weekends.
Italy seems like a really strong guess because of the gelato-ness.
Gelato seems like it could've been, like, a precursor to ice cream.
That would make a lot of sense to me.
Neither here nor there.
It's not gonna be an Asian country
because dairy is, uh, only recently--
in fact, in China, for instance, the milk industry is booming.
- 'Cause it's a new thing? - Booming.
Because they're discovering it, and new ways of appreciating dairy.
I'm glad you told me that 'cause that was gonna be my answer.
- Really? - Yeah.
This is the kind of thing that could've squirreled
its way down to Australia or South Africa as well.
And I feel like because I'm in the lead, I need to, like, triangulate something.
I'm just gonna throw it in the Indian ocean.
( laughs )
It's not the first time I've said that.
Okay.
( sighs, grunts )
- ( Rhett yells ) - You're a little north.
Yeah, this is just a-- it's a protective guess.
- Just super protective. - Man, this is tough.
- Russ, come on in here. I need some emotional support. - You got it.
Man, this is-- here we are again, Russ.
- Yep. - At our wits' end.
I have no clue where ice cream was actually invented.
( Rhett laughs ) Yeah, that's a problem.
So we're gonna play the field here.
- Okay. - Just aim for Italy,
right in the middle of the board.
Aim for Italy.
- Rhett: Ho! - Link: Oh, crap!
- Dang, Russ! - Dang, Russ!
All we can do is hope that was the right answer.
My boy aimed for Italy.
I think you're right. Italy makes the most sense, but...
- ( groans ) - Stevie:
An ice cream-like food was first eaten around 618 AD
when King Tang of Shang had 94 ice men
make a dish of buffalo milk, flour, and camphor
in the country of China.
- ( laughter ) - China?!
I freakin' was gonna say China!
( laughs )
You're a mindbender!
Hey, Russ, come in here.
All right, you guys enjoy yourselves.
I'm gonna go sit in my space.
There you go.
Make it official, Chase. What is the freakin' score?
Rhett had 16 and Link and Russ had 28.
Well, it's all good.
( groans )
Link : Russ, you know what?
We don't need a vacation over there.
- We have each other over here. - That's true.
Friendship's more important than vacation.
Now keep watching to see us make an entire dish
from just items from a vending machine.
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