Which Country Eats The Most Cheese?

Today we make data exciting. Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. You know, I think it's time we had a little chart to chart. A heart to heart? No, no, no. I think we should go through a series of odd and or interesting bar chart races. I love these. Competing to see who can guess the outcome. Like this one, which charts how many actual babies were given Game of Thrones names over.

the course of more than a decade. Okay. Oh, this is, like, the best part of a race. A lot of Summers, but then. Jon's kind of went down with Summer. Come on, Sansa, get on the board. Oh, Arya. Look at. Arya's making a surge. She's gonna do it. No, she's at number one. Is she gonna. Khaleesi? Twenty-two Sansas down there at the bottom. See how exciting that was? So, Arya. Especially if you felt strongly about it or if there was,

like, something. at stake. I actually knew. I know a Khaleesi. Yeah, a little girl. Yeah. Well, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, it does. One of the five thirteen. I know her. Yeah. Tyrion. I mean, I guess he is the best character. I'm pretty excited. Let's get to it. It's time for. Chart Break Feels Good in a Race Like This.

We're here at the races. Welcome to the bar chart derby, boys. That's how they sound at the Derby. This is how we look at the Derby. Yeah, you look really good. I hope that your views are not obstructed. Are you. ready for your first chart? I think so. Yeah. Okay. Well, the derby wouldn't be the derby without some. betting going on. So you're going to each start with a hundred Mythical derby dollars, and you can wager as much as you like.

in each race. Okay. The first chart. shows the timeline of the biggest fast food chains. by number of locations. across the world. And here's where it looked, where it looked, in nineteen sixty. Dairy Queen. And then A and W. are just killing it. So are there ones that may enter the list that aren't currently. on the list in nineteen sixty? That's true. Because your question is which restaurant will claim the number one spot.

when it hits the year nineteen seventy-seven. Nineteen seventy-seven. Yeah, because I was already like, there's no Subway on this list. Because I think Subway. Subway is number one right now. I don't know. Does it include? Do you consider Starbucks a fast food chain? Anyway? It's nineteen seventy-seven. Dunkin' is. Okay then. Yeah. There was only eight pizza huts in nineteen sixty.

McDonald's. Twenty-five dollars. It seems obvious. You're ahead of me. Because you bet more. Unless you're wrong. I don't know. Seems like they wouldn't have chosen McDonald's as the first one. Is that too obvious? Right. That's why I didn't go hard. That's why I didn't go hard. You went pretty hard with twenty-five. Come on, McDonald's. Okay, let's. start the chart. Weirdly, I want McDonald's to win, but I also don't want it to win because you're the one who. guessed it.

So I don't really know where I stand. The A and W's moving down. They're actually. You'll lose more than me. Yeah. Go, KFC. Go KFC. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. KFC. No, no, no. You better catch. Give them people the chickens. They want them chickens. Get up in that chicken, Ronald. Oh, look at those chickens, go. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. No, we're at sixty-eight. Oh, yeah. Come on, KFC. Come on, McDonald's. Get up there. You know, McDonald's is gonna make a run in the seventies, man. Baskin-Robbins. Big run. But KFC. Here comes Pizza Hut. Here comes Pizza Hut. Take it Don't you. Yeah, push McDonald's up.

Oh, yeah. Push McDonald's up. I feel like we're safe here. No, no, no. McDonald's, McDonald's. Come on. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Yes, yes, yes! Okay. We both did it. But I did it more. The last second, McDonald's pulls it out. Ronald, put it back. Nineteen seventy-seven. Yeah, that totally makes sense. I was feeling like I should have chose the KFC, or as it was known then, Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Well, let's see. So you get the twenty-five, but I kind of want to see. the rest of it play out. So let's. Oh, I do too. Watch for funsies. See, I predicted. McDonald's is gonna go real, real big. And then Subway's gonna come on the scene. Dairy Queen about to fall off the chart. Look at Subway. Look at Subway. Look at Subway coming in. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Really took it. See, Starbucks. McDonald's. See, Starbucks. What? McDonald's won again? And Starbucks beat Subway? I've been giving out bad facts for years.

Look at that. And what is that? Mixue Ice Cream and Tea? What is that? Well, remember, this is all over the world, too, not just in the US. We gotta go to Mixue. We gotta go there. It seems like it'd be easy to find. Okay, that was quite exciting. McDonald's is back. Can it get more exciting? Yes, I think so. This next bar chart race tracks the population. of US. states. over the years. And here's what it looked like in nineteen hundred.

Everybody was in New York City. Nineteen hundred. One hundred years ago. Pennsylvania. So your question is, in what decade. did California. surpass New York as the most populated. state? In what decade? In what decade. I'm trying to access all of my. almond farmer. data. When did the almond farmers really start really shaking their trees,

so to speak? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's what did it. The almond farm. I think we have some geopolitical. stuff going on here. We're talking about the. Long Beach imports. I think that's the main driver. You gotta have people unloading all those ships. diverted from New York City. to Long beach. This is a tough one, man. This is a real tough one, Link. Okay. Not that confident. Me neither.

So what'd you say? I said the seventies. for fifteen dollars. Oh, we could just do a decade? Yeah. So whatever decade you chose is. what we're gonna. Well, I didn't realize that. So I'm gonna change it. Okay. You can't change your answer. Well, I said nineteen fifty-nine, but I would have said sixties. So now I'm saying fifties? Well, crap. Yeah, because that's the year. I'm closer to the sixties. No, you're. No, you're not closer to the sixties. You're in the fifties.

Do you not know how this works? You might be right, because. I was. Like. All right, ten dollars. The fifties is when things really started booming. in California. But. I think it may have taken all the way to the seventies before they passed New York. All right, let's see. Okay, let's start. that chart. Okay, come on. Texas. Slow down a little bit now. Texas and Ohio. are really pushing. Hold on. We're still. Okay, this is just nineteen ten. Wow. Is really. I haven't seen, oh, the twenties.

Okay, this is gonna happen. California's starting to make a push. You're gonna be closer. It's starting to make a push. You're gonna be closer, man. Because look how. I mean, it's already up there. It's passing Texas in the thirties. Oh, no. So is this just about immigration basically? Like, is this borders? Is this border? No, it's about people moving to. Oh, you're gonna win. You're gonna win. You're gonna win. Yes, yes, yes. We get it. Nineteen forties. Oh, crap. Oh, crap. Pennsylvania. What a loser. Slow down, Cali. Slow down. No, it's gonna blow past it. It's gonna do it in the sixties. Yes, yes.

Oh, slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Okay. Nineteen sixty. We're both wrong. But we're both. wrong by the same amount. So we're both right by the same amount. So once. Once we got to twenty twenty, that's when everybody from California moved to Texas. Right? I don't have the rest of the play out of this particular. Nobody cares about the rest of this one. All right. That's fair. Yeah, maybe. All right. I'm glad that we got all that settled. I'm gonna start betting more, I guess.

Next chart. This is the biggest social media platforms measured. by monthly active users. This is what it looked like in two thousand and four. And Friendster. I never had those accounts. But by the end of the chart in twenty twenty, Friendster was nowhere to be found. What about Orkut? What? Don't think so. Here's twenty twenty. So I showed you two thousand and four. and twenty twenty. Your question is, in what quarter,

of what year. did Friendster get pushed out of the top ten, never to return? Friendster? What quarter? Why do you care so much? Well, because, see, it says Q one, twenty twenty. Q one in the little corner there. Let's see. What quarter of what year. We professionally lived through the death of Friendster. Don't you remember when we. attended the funeral? No, I don't.

There was a bunch of influencers there. I had on a veil. I didn't see anything. Okay. For thirty dollars, I said two thousand and nine, quarter. two. Wow. For twenty dollars, I said two thousand and eight, quarter three. Oh, we're tight. Tight on that. On the physical map. Were you thinking the same thing I was? It's, like, okay, you got, like, people joining Twitter, like those early years. Right. That was all I was thinking. I don't have any other data points. Let's start that chart.

Okay, Friendsters. A little bit faster than you. Flickr. We were on Flickr. High five. Never did that. Well, Friendster is. So, MySpace blew up in two thousand and four. Friendster is really coming down. Two thousand and five. Oh, wow. It is falling. Qzone. Go, Friendster. Fall. Qzone just took number one. Fall. Okay. I think it's gonna happen earlier. Wait, why don't we know what Qzone is? People need to be coming up with something. Oh, look at YouTube. Oh, thank. Thank you, YouTube.

Yes, yes, yes, we were. That helped. This is, all right. This is when we started getting popular. Come on. Twitter. Twitter's about to blow up. Facebook. Facebook is going. Friendster made a little run. Come on, Friendster, fall. Fall. Why are you joining Friendster in two thousand and seven? Come on. I'm telling you right now, YouTube surging. But Qzone was in number one for way too long to not know what it is. Wait, hold on, hold on. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Tumblr. Twitter. Go, go, go. Oh, no, we're in two thousand and eight. Oh, it's back up.

Oh, gosh. No. Friendster. Why are people joining? Here comes my quarter. It's gone. What happened? Why? Yeah. Okay, so now. Past me. Past me. Two thousand and nine. This is me. This is me. It past me. This is me. You're gonna be right on it, man. Yes. Right there. Is it dropping off? There it is. Wow, you missed it by one quarter. One quarter. One quarter, guys. That's only three months. That's pretty good. And it could. I could have been off by less than one month.

Technically. Yeah. If had said the month. I'm closer to the. quarter. I wasn't. Why didn't you just say the day? I should have. Can someone tell me what freaking? Qzone is. Chinese. I'm guessing that's what High Five is? Should have known. There's so many people in China. High Five is American, and I. never heard of it. YouTube's number one. In two thousand nine. We bet on some. Already.

We went in on all on YouTube. Yep, we did. "You-Two-Tube". All right, give me my thirty dollars. Okay, now we are getting somewhere. I'll buy you lunch. This next bar chart tracks the consumption of. cheese for every country in the world as measured by kilogram eaten per person. per year. Here's a screenshot from two thousand and one. France be eating that cheese. Hold on. United States is not on it?

We got too many other things to eat, man. We've diversified. So your question. France eats nothing but cheese, I think. Is what country will be at the top. when we reach twenty twelve? Twenty twelve. Twenty twelve. Who got into cheese in a big way in the early two thousands? Or who produces cheese and then was like, geopolitically locked out due to tariffs. from getting anything but cheese?

Butt cheese? I keep saying butt cheese. It's the. Come on, man. It's the second time I've said it. It's a family show. Butt cheese. Which. How could this be shaken up that much over the course of eleven years? Right. Geopolitical, I'm sure. What is France gonna do that suddenly they're like, nah, no cheese? Butt cheese. No cheese. Butt cheese. Okay,

I gotta make a big move here. I'm way down here. Oh, God. I just wet myself. All right, all right. What did you do? Besides that? I don't know why, but I feel like the US came on the scene and became number one. Thirty-five dollars? For thirty-five dollars. I feel like we weren't on there. And then something about string cheese or American cheese or nacho cheese. Something happened. No, no. What happened was Kim Jong Un.

Oh, come on. I think, I think that North Korea. Hopefully you didn't go too big here. Their diets shifted to be so much cheese for geopolitical reasons. And I. think four dollars. Okay. Wait. What is the geopolitical reason that you're citing? Nuclear stuff and. You know, it's nuclear stuff. And isolation. Isolation. And they, they had gotten a.

bunch of cows, so they're like. They have a lot of cow land, pasture land up there. Cow land. And so they're cheesing it up. Okay, let's start that chart. Come on, USA. Come on, North Korea. Iceland. Where's the US? Come on, we love cheese. Iceland. We eat so much cheese. And now. If I had chosen any country on the list. I would. Greece is holding strong. I could have chosen any country on the list. Everybody's catching up with Greece.

We love cheese. Their economic system was collapsing. We love it. Nope. North Korea, are you there? Iceland, why do y'all? Are you there? Why do y'all love cheese so much? Is that it? So Iceland went to the freaking top. Hold on. But USA stands for the United. States of Iceland. sometimes. "Aceland". Iceland. Have you been to "Aceland"? All right, so. neither one of our picks even showed up, dude. Right. Like I said,

I could have chosen any country on the list. if I'd have known you were going North Korea. Why did they start? If I'd have known you were doing the nuclear option. Why did they start eating so much cheese in Iceland? Cold. It got cold. It got colder? Yeah. Yeah. Global cooling. Yeah, it's happening. Well, that was a letdown. Wow, you got me doubled up. All right. Hey, quick reminder. Good Mythical Evening is coming up. That's right, it's less than one month until one of my favorite nights of the year.

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Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Metallica. Okay. So, who was the first. artist. that broke through the three M's? And. as you know, the answer might not be on the chart currently. I don't think it's Phil Collins. Because he really. He really. He really developed a complex. Garth Brooks.

Oh, you're gonna just say things out loud? Well, I'm saying people who. might could have surged, you know? Nineteen ninety-two, Garth Brooks definitely surged after that. He was surging in ninety-two. The first person? Yeah. Is that hat too tight? You're doing. You're doing great. It's weird. Because you've been so on point until right now. Well, I'm just thinking. I'm thinking of people who've surpassed it, but, like,

who would be the first? I said Nirvana. for $40. I think it took all the way to T. Swift. Fifty dollars. You think the first person to get higher than Madonna, Michael Jackson and Metallica was Taylor Swift? Well, I'm not clear on. what the numbers mean. The first person or group to sell more records than any of those three. at any time between.

My first guess was NSYNC. Okay. But. But that wasn't what you. I didn't write that. Okay. Let's start that chart. I thought you were gonna say Garth Brooks, because Garth Brooks is a great guess. He's gonna. There's Nirvana. There we go. Come on, Nirvana. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. I can't root for Taylor Swift. Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks. You better slow down, Garth Brooks. No, Garth Brooks. Whitney Houston's gonna do it. Oh, no, no, no. Whitney. Whitney. Whitney. No, no. Here she comes. No, no, no. Here she comes. Here she comes.

Oh. I knew it was a woman. Wow. Dang. It only took a year. It only took a year. Whitney, really? In ninety-three? Can I just say, Nirvana entered the list. I mean, you're closer. Taylor Swift did not. There's no T Swift on here. She wasn't even born yet. I believe she was. maybe. five years old? Yeah, she was singing somewhere. That's true. So, yeah, I'll give it to you. Thanks. That was a pretty big swing there, Link. That was, by a dollar.

I don't feel like I deserve it, but that's how this game works. Yeah, that was a dumb. I went a little dumb on that one. The hat's too tight. I'm telling you, you were doing so great. Loosen the hat. Blocking the vitamin D. Okay. Okay. This is the last one. Oh, crap. Wow. Comes down to this. Rhett and Link are both fairly uncommon names, but this next chart shows us the most popular boy baby names in America. by year. And guess which name does crack the top fifteen?

Charles. Here it is in the number four spot in eighteen eighty. Charles stayed in the top fifteen. all the way until nineteen sixty-one. When it was finally pushed out. But. in what year did Charles re-enter. the top fifteen. most popular baby boy names? Out in sixty-one? Out in sixty-one. But then it came back.

What year? This is gonna be. Whoever gets this is gonna win, of course. I mean, if you get wrong, this is, like, Jeopardy. And I never understand how it works at the. Well, it's how much you bet. Yeah. What year did Charles start coming back? What year did Charles re-enter? All right. I said nineteen eighty-six for thirty-nine dollars. Because I'm trying to, like,

put this with the Princess Diana. before she died. Because Charles was not a popular name. the years leading up to her death. So, like, when did she first come on the scene? Okay. I'm thinking that's nineteen eighty-six. I said nineteen sixty-nine for zero dollars. Because. Okay. Right or wrong. Well, let's see.

Right or wrong. If I was wrong. If you're right. Well, if I'm right, I win. If you're right, you win. If I'm wrong, I lose. All right, come on. Let's start that chart. Eighty-six, baby! I want it to happen real fast. All right. Real fast. Who's going up? Michael went up in sixty-two. Okay, who's making a surge? Michael's taking a big lead by sixty-six. Oh, no. Where is Charles? Where. Oh, Charles better hurry up. Chris is.

You better hurry up, Charles. Jason's coming up in seventy-five. Oh, Matthew's making a big jump. Chris is back up there, nineteen eighty. And then. Come on, I'm looking for Charles. You're good. Eighty-four. You won, regardless. Eighty-five, eighty-six. Where's Charles? Later? Maybe it was the, maybe it was. Dispatches. When Dispatches from Myrtle Beach came out? Oh, man, we're all the way in ninety-five? Maybe it happened this year, Link. Ninety-six, we graduated from high school.

I see a Jerry down there and a Richard. Chris. Chris just went off and Charles came on. Ninety-eight. Ninety-eight. One point one three percent of the population. Charles kicked Chris to the curb in ninety-eight. Link, you pulled it off. It wasn't pretty. And actually, the team went through. the GMM records to find one of your strongest formats, and they created a bar chart representing those wins.

So this is your shuffleboard victory. bar chart. Oh, thank you. Oh, it's two to three, five to three, seven to four. You had quite a street. Hey, Link, hold on. What's happening? I'm still in the lead. What's happening? Hey, hey, hey. No, no, no. I'm trailing, but I'm still paying. I'm still paying the price. Hold on. You had such a good run there. What happened? It's very competitive game. It might be almost as competitive as the most competitive game. in Good Mythical Morning. Which, which?

Mystery Countdown Theatre. It might be bar chart madness now. Because. everyone's gonna be talking. I lost, but I had fun. Let's do it again. Thanks for subscribing and clicking the bell. You know what time it is. Hi, Rhett and Link. I'm Daniel. And I'm Christina. And we're here on our honeymoon in French Polynesia. And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. French Polynesia just look like an ocean. Yeah, man. Click the top link to watch us decide if we have what it takes to run the Krispy. Kreme race in Good Mythical More. And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality's gonna be land.

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