- 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. (upbeat music) - 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. - Grag. - 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) (upbeat music) 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. - Thanks for subscribing, clicking bell. - 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. - Cool mom. - Click the top link to find out the worst gift to get
your non-paleolithic mom this Mother's Day in "Good Mythical More." - And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. - 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.
