- Welcome to Good Mythical More, let's talk French, shall we? Something in my eye, that's the only reason I was doing that. - We're gonna give a motivational speech to a very particular
person, and that person is someone who just found out
they're having octuplets. - All right, listen, you know what, I know you're overwhelmed
because you were just told that you're gonna have eight kids. - But here's the deal, here's the deal, you're gonna have an incredible year, because you're gonna be on Maurie. - If you don't know who
the dad is, definitely. You're gonna be on... - Sally Jessy Raphael
doesn't do it anymore, Phil Donahue doesn't do it anymore, Oprah doesn't do it anymore.
- Wow, you're really dating yourself, brother. Think about all the crops that
those kids can tend for you. - You need to get a farm. - Milking cows, and-- - And it's kind of a thing now, the straight farm to table thing. Yeah, right, so you can do that, you can do farm to table. - Free labor, that's what children are. We're dads, we can say that. We're gonna learn about France, because apparently Stevie knows everything about French stuff. - I think that she took French, right? - I think she takes a lot of flack. - Stevie took French
in high school, right? - [Stevie] I didn't, but
I did take two languages back to back in high school, which is very confusing. - And I know what they are, Latin, and they were Latin and
then you went Japanese. - [Stevie] No, Spanish and Hebrew. - I was gonna say, and Hebrew! - Oh yeah, 'cause you're Jewish. - [Stevie] It's confusing. French dressing. - You went to Hebrew school, right, it's different school. - [Stevie] Well actually, in high school, I went to public high school, but they offered Hebrew, and
there were a couple of years where I literally took
Spanish and then I took Hebrew as the next class in the day. - Wow, so you got your Spanish
and your Hebrew mixed up. - [Stevie] I did, I actually, one time I was at a Mexican restaurant and ordered in Spanish
except for one word, that was in Hebrew, and
I got very frustrated that he didn't understand
what I was asking for before I realized.
- That sounds like the beginning of an incredible joke. - I'll take a chimichanga
with some shalom. - I mean that sounds like the beginning of a workshop of what
the punchline would be. Give me some time. - We're about to talk a lot, and if you wanna hear us talk more, check out Ear Biscuits, some people say they just like to listen to
it, 'cause we talk on it. That was a little promo,
sometimes we put those in Good Mythical More just to remind you that we have other crap.
- It's a podcast. And it's available--
- so you said French dressing is the first one. - [Stevie] French dressing, yeah, so you're guessing if these things are actually French.
- That's France or fat chance. - That is not French,
man, that's just ketchup, with some ranch. - Why would they call it French dressing? - 'Cause somebody went to France one time, and was like "I can't
remember exactly what it was, "but it was that color,
I call that French." - It's kinda watery. - [Stevie] You're both saying fat chance? - Yes. - [Stevie] It was
allegedly made in America. - Yeah, right, surprise.
- Many believe that the red, tangy and sweet French
dressing gained its popularity from Mrs. Rorer's Cookbook,
which called for taking regular old vinegarette and punching it up with ketchup and Worcestershire sauce, all the way back in America in 1902. - Why you gotta call that French? Marketing, marketing. - And Stevie, how do you say the v word? - [Stevie] The what? - The v word, you know
what I'm talking about. - [Stevie] I have no idea
what you're talking about. - The v word, the dressing
that you said earlier. - [Stevie] Oh, vinegarette? - That's a extra syllable.
- She adds a syllable, it's vinegarette in
Hebrew, that's what it is. - [Stevie] Oh my gosh, I say it weird. - It's vinaigrette. - [Stevie] Vinaigrette. - You never knew that? - [Stevie] I've never said,
I've always said vinegarette. - How do you say the little white sticks that you smoke? - [Stevie] Yes, that's
another one I do weird! - Little white sticks you smoke? - What do you call 'em? - [Stevie] Cigarette. - Yeah, but you all say cigararette. - [Stevie] No, but I
did say that word odd, am I not saying it odd anymore? I am. Cigarette. - That's right. - [Stevie] No, but remember, I did say it incorrectly before. I remember that's one word that I said that you felt like I said it incorrectly. - I don't think it was cigarette. - Vinegarette, cigararette. - [Stevie] You know what,
it should be vinegarette, because it's a tiny vinegar. - You know what, it may be vinegarette, she may be right, I can't spell it. - There's vinegar in it. - Is there an a before the last r, or does it go from g to the r? - [Stevie] Well it's spelled oddly. The French horn. - Oh, the French horn. - There's no way you get a horn, and call it something that's not itself, and not be that thing. - Now don't fall for this. - You seen how many turns
a French horn has in it? It's so beautiful and it's so eloquent, it's so over the top. You know French, it's like a French cake. - You know Jenny, I'm not
saying last names anymore, Jenny from our childhood, your neighbor, whose older siblings were twins. She played the French horn. You remember that? - Did not remember that 'til right now. - Jenny played the French horn. - I like to watch a woman
play the French horn. (laughs) - They don't call it the French horn, they just call it the horn. But it is the French horn. - [Stevie] Oh, French
people call it the horn? - They just call it le horn. (Link speaks French) - [Stevie] Okay, you're
both saying it's French. It is from Germany. - The French horn is from Germany? - [Stevie] Despite being
known as the French horn, this instrument was actually
developed in Germany, and many experts say that its proper name should really just be horn. - That's what I thought.
- I thought you were gonna say German horn. - Our French teacher in high school, she got married, and she
hyphenated her last name, but before that her name
was just Miss Slaughter. What kinda last name is
that, think about that. - She was tough.
- Then what was it? - Slaughter-Sool. - She was one of the best
teachers we've ever had. - She's sweet, sweet woman. - [Stevie] You just said you
weren't gonna say last names. - But I didn't say her first name. I had to say last name
'cause that's the point. - When giving compliments. - I'm giving compliments,
she was the sweetest woman, but she had a hell of
a last name, Slaughter? Gosh, I mean when you get married, that's the opportunity
when your name's Slaughter to not hyphenate it. - She just wanted to
hold onto that Slaughter. - There was a road named
Slaughter Boulevard. - James Slaughter. James Slaughter Boulevard. - She's probably related to him. - I rode down that last
time I went to Fuquay. - She lived on that road. She was one of those cool teachers that, she would throw a party
towards the end of the year, and all of her students
would come to her house. - And if you didn't show
up, she would slaughter you. - What kind of teachers do that now? I mean teachers don't throw parties. - You ever been to a teacher's house? - You ever been to a teacher's party? - [Stevie] French doors. - French doors, you know
what a French door is? I'll tell you, 'cause
I know you don't know, don't act like you know. I grew up with French
doors, I know what they are. - Where'd you have French doors? - In the house with my stepdad, before we divorced him. - That was a sliding glass door. You've gotta go out to be French, man, it's gotta be on the hinge. - Do you remember that house? It had two doors that
opened up, French doors. And remember what was
on the other side of it? - The foyer. Which is also French. - No, no, no, the house had
a deck in the middle of it and the house went around the deck, there was a courtyard that
was a deck at my house, you remember that? - Yeah, it had to add one opening. - The house, if you're
looking down on the house, it went like this, and then
there was a garage here. So it was just like this. And the house was all out here, and so you could come out of the bedroom, come out of the kitchen, and
come out of the French doors of the dining room. - Courtyards are French, I know that much. - And the deck had two levels to it. Right in the middle, it was
like there was a deck there, and then somebody built
a house around a deck. - That's what I always thought. - That the deck was there first? - This deck must've been here first, why else would you
build a house around it? - Well, it must've been
a historical landmark. They put a house around
it, couldn't take it down. - Sacred, sacred deck. - I'm saying... - Something's gotta actually be French. So it's gotta be the doors. - [Stevie] They are from France. Outside of French doors being from France, there are no other fun
facts about French doors. - You know what, Stevie, what do you think about me
talking about that deck? What do you think about it? Did it make you wanna see it? Were you interested in it? - [Stevie] Yeah, I was super
interested in your deck. - You know what, we could
go on Google Earth right now and descend upon that deck. - But lemme tell you something. You know what we learned? It's not a good idea for a deck. You want a deck to overlook something, you don't want it to be just a walkway to the other side of the house. - How often did you
sneak out on that deck? - Never, never.
- Exactly. Everybody thinks they're gonna spend so much time on their
deck until they build it. - Unless if there's a pool
in the middle of the deck. We could've put a hot tub
in the middle of that deck, that would've been the ticket. That's where we caught
smoke in the bottle. - [Stevie] French dip. - French dip. - No chance. - You know, it's like a gravy
that you dip a sandwich in, yeah, that's, I mean, cuisine. - It's cuisine. - [Stevie] It is from America. In fact, it's from LA. - It's from Philippe's. - [Stevie] Correct, yeah. - I went there recently, I took my son. - I took my son. - I took my son to the
original Philippe's, because everyone had been saying "You gotta go to the original Philippe's. "When you're in LA, you gotta go there, "that's where they
invented the whole thing." - French dip this, French dip
that, I kept hearing about it. - I go in there, of
course this is pre-COVID, so there's a lot of people. There's long lines, I'm like "Whoa, this place must be a big deal, "because there's so many
people who are there. "They want this, they must have heard." - I had heard, I've heard. - We stand in line. - Forever, probably. - Much faster than you would expect. - Oh yeah? - Yeah, I thought "I'm
in for a long haul here, "this is at least an hour." 30 minutes later? - You got a French dip. - I got a sandwich in my hand. - Oh, you're happy. - Yeah, little dry. - Well did you dip it? - I did, I got, there's
different levels of dip, I thought maybe this is just wet or dry. No, this is not wet or dry, this is dry, and then there's four levels of wet. I don't want it to be too wet, 'cause I don't wanna embarrass
myself in front of my son. - Oh, they dipped it for you? - If I have to pick it up when
it's been dipped too much, and it falls apart, then I lose
all credibility as a father. - That's right. - So I said half, I want it in the middle, and they said "There is no
middle, there's four levels, "you have to pick one
side of the four levels." I said "I wanna go right in the middle," and they said "That's not
an option, you gotta go "a little bit drier or
a little bit wetter," I said "Don't wanna embarrass myself," I went dry, screwed the pooch. - Yeah, you gotta go all the way wet. What did your son do? - I wasn't paying attention to him. - You don't even know what he did. - I'm not, you know, now
that I think about it, I might have left him there. - [Stevie] French toast. Hey, you just had that. - French toast is not French. Man, people, what I'm learning is that people use France for clout. And they're thinking
the French won't notice. - There's technique to this, though. - And the French don't know because they don't speak English. - They're isolated in their language. - Right, they refuse, they get mad, when you go to Paris
and you speak English, they wanna wring your neck. - You ever been to Paris?
- No. - There's a little sliver
of Canada that's with 'em. Just about it, though, I think. There might be some-- - Montreal, they call it. - I think this is France, 'cause
there's technique involved. - [Stevie] It is from ancient Rome, and the original French toast recipe calls for white bread
with the crust cut off. - Uh-huh, just like the Romans would do. - [Stevie] This is the last one, the one we've all been waiting for. French fries. (laughs) - Everyone thinks that French fries were invented in America, but
in some weird twisted way, they're actually from France. That sounds like it would be right. - I think French fries... (Link hums) Nope, not France. - [Stevie] They are from Belgium. - I mean that's almost France. - [Stevie] They do
speak French in Belgium. And they say vinegarette. - And they put mayonnaise on 'em. - Rhett, congratulations,
you won a signed photo of... French Stewart. - He was on what show? - A sitcom.
- He was on a sitcom. Was it Two and a Half Men? No, Third Rock From the Sun. - 30 Rock From the Sun? - Man, look at that guy, this is, I feel honored, I mean. This seems certified and everything. - Is this for real, guys? - Yeah, this is one of those deals like he was getting off
the plane in Dallas, and one of those guys that just
stands in the baggage claim and gets people to sign things. Hey, be careful with my French thing, hey. - Look. - Oh, no, the value's gonna
go down if you do that. - The value's gonna go down. - If you expose it to
oxygen, the value goes down. - I want you guys to
know that this is real. This is real, look at that. - Listen, French Stewart,
is that his name? French Stewart has been in
contact with this paper. He touched it, well he touched
a thing that touched it. He might've been holding it, I don't know. - Is he French?
- Side of his hand? Yeah, that's France. Join the Mythical Society
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