Doughboys - Bojangles with Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale (LIVE)

Episode Date: April 28, 2022

Jesse Farrar & Mike Hale join the 'boys to discuss their preferred celestial objects and Nashville eats before a review of Bojangles. Recorded live at Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville on 4/20/22. Sources for this week's intro: https://online.maryville.edu/business-degrees/americas-gilded-age/ https://www.american-rails.com/cornelius-vanderbilt.html https://kathmandupost.com/columns/2019/11/16/philanthropy-and-conscience-laundering https://www.biltmore.com/our-story/estate-history/ https://www.becajun.com/our-company/history/ https://www.zippia.com/bojangles-careers-1644/history/  Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This was the nickname of one of the wealthiest human beings in history adjusted for inflation, a Staten Island-born Dutch American named Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt Vanderbilt his fortune by constructing a vast network of rail lines in the late 19th century, putting him in the elite company of Gilded Age contemporaries like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, praised as captains of industry by bootlickers and vilified by the working class as robber barons. Like hoarders of wealth past and present, Vanderbilt fancied himself a philanthropist, a practice that Warren Buffett's son Peter Buffett decried as conscience laundering, of which the most

visible effort was his eponymous Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. And Vanderbilt's no doubt rich shithead grandson, George Washington Vanderbilt II constructed another landmark, the largest private home in the country, the 250-room Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. But while tourists still flock to the Biltmore, it's another more recent North Carolina institution that's had more impact in the South. A chicken and biscuit restaurant founded in 1977 by entrepreneur Jack Z. Folk. The fast food concept fast became a regional fave, expanding into adjacent states in subsequent

decades and today numbering north of 450 eateries, including some a short drive from Vanderbilt University. Today, the generational wealth of the Vanderbilt family persists not just in land holdings but in celebrity. Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt is a descendant, as are CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and actor Timothy Oliphant. And while the equivalent of robber barons still exists in the form of obnoxious tech assholes, much wealth and political power is now concentrated in faceless holding corporations

and equity firms like the Jordan Company and Durational Capital Management, which together own Folk's Carolina Chicken Chain that snakes across the American South, like the Commodore's Railways. This week on Doughboys, Bojangles. Welcome to Doughboys Live. How you doing, Nashville? The two of you have the best seats in the house, so you guys facing directly away from the stage.

Thank you for coming out. Thanks everyone. It's so, so great to be back here. It's been too long. What a thrill. We have a great show for you today, but before we go any further. This week's roast is courtesy of Jack. Let me introduce my co-host, the original Nashville Predator, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell.

What's up, Nashville? Yeah. Celtics, baby. That's all right. I don't give a shit. What's up? That made me gasp at the original Nashville Predator. Good.

Jesus. Nashville, there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be, except in front of a TV anywhere watching the Celtics game. This sucks. Is anyone following the game on their phones? All right. Get them out. Yeah, get them out.

Get your phones out. Start live streaming. Look for anything cancelable and upload it immediately. We had the chance. We could have used, what are the bags called? What's that? What are they? Kinder?

What are they called? Yonder. Yonder bags. Yonder. We have the opportunity, but I do want to know the Celtics score, so we said no. We want to hear what it is. Thank you. That's helpful.

Someone just showed their phone screen to Mitch from 15 feet away. It was a picture of him and his dog. Now handing the phone over. I guess incapable of speaking. That's fine. I'm in his text. Get out of his text, Mitch. I'm in Adam's social media.

How's that? Wow. This show I'm at right now sucks. There's bunch of wordle scores there. Yeah, it's the wordle. Okay. All right, I'm going to text, is your mom saved as mom? Yeah.

Oh, boy. Here we go. Mom, just wanted to say, I love you. Aw, that's sweet. You guys are in good terms, right? Okay, good. Does that be weird otherwise? There you go.

Good sport. What's your name? James, thanks so much. James, what is the Celtic score? It's 45 to 37, Brooklyn. Wow. Okay. Close the gap a little bit.

We'll be all right. So it smells like barbecue outside. And is that normal? Is it a normal thing? That's the pig pen cloud following the Dope Boys audience. My mom said, is something wrong? Oh, no. His mom said, is something wrong?

You should say yes about the Dope Boys live show. Oh, no. Jesus Christ. What did we do? What did you do? I guess it was me. Yeah, it was 100% you. Why is it got a stress reliever here?

It's been a wild trip for us. It's been a wild trip. It's been a really wild trip. Mask mandate repealed just in time for our float. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Some dude in LAX yelled out to everyone, you don't have to wear your muzzles anymore.

Like as soon as I got there, I was like, all right, sure. I got off the plane and walked into a man coughing in a Bucky's t-shirt. This is the truth. Greeting people with coughs at the door. I'm tired. I shouldn't say that on the stage, but I'm very tired. You're doing great.

You're doing fine. We're doing good. It was very chaotic. It was very chaotic getting here. A lot of things happened. A lot of things happened, but we're here safe and sound, thrilled to be back. And Mitch, we're not just in Nashville for the first time

in a few years. This is also a special occasion. Happy 420, bro. Yeah, bro. God. Has anyone here smoked a little wacky tobacco in advance of the show? A few people.

Okay. Get them out. Yeah. This is a sting operation. Yeah, it's a good day. Look, I don't mess with the reefer anymore, but I know our producer Emma does. Emma's standing and waving.

Have you ever messed with the reefer? Yeah, I've inhaled a little bit. Jesus. Bill Clinton-esque. What do you mean? I did. I did inhale. When and where and why?

I actually do want to know. I don't... Unlike Bill Clinton, I did inhale, and I've never gotten my dick sucked. So... I believe it. Yeah. No, I haven't smoked in many years.

Last time I had any sort of weed intake, it was via an edible, and I had a panic attack and pacing around my apartment for four hours, and I was just like, I can't go back to this, but I was trying to use it to relax for a little bit. It didn't have the same effect, though.

It usually makes me more anxious. Yeah. What did Natalie think of all this? Your lovely wife. She's just always so exasperated in general. Yeah. So it was just like this shit was kind of her attitude.

This shit now. Just walks out of the house. Yeah, exactly. Happy birthday to Harris Whittles. It's his birthday today. We love Harris. H.B.D. Whittles. Yeah.

Gonna say that. Nice to meet you, honey man. Yeah. Nick, when you were coming to L.A. Wait, L.A., I'm tired. When you were coming to Nashville. That's right. The night before,

tell everybody what happened. I stepped on a nail. I said, I made the joke that he was trying to break into Kevin McAllister's house. And I just wanted to say it again. It's a good joke. Yeah, they were,

originally the Doughboys were stunt cast in the Home Alone remake with the Wet Bandits. And then they CGI'd us out like Kevin Spacey and all the money in the world. It's kind of a preemptive thing. It's like,

we don't want footage of these guys trying to break into a child's home. We were gonna be the Wet and Sticky Bandits. First of all, how the hell to Spoon Nation? No, you don't have to clap that. Can we put a TV in the front row where the guy who gave me his phone is sitting

and just watch the Celtics game? I got a little drop to play, right, Emma? Let's hit him with it. Wow. Wow. He's doing it. He's doing honky-tonk. Damn.

Emphasis on honky. Damn. I was surprised you didn't fall over with that fucking. I hurt myself a little bit. Wow. Yeah. Well, I remember starting a live show with someone else's drop.

Just terrifying. And it's like a minute long. You know, you don't know what you're getting. I didn't listen to it. Yeah, I mean, that's on you, though. Yeah, okay. Fair enough. Howdy, Dough family.

We threw together this Brooks and Dunn spoof drop in anticipation of the Nashville show. Kevin wrote the lyrics and Mack performed and recorded it. Thanks for the laughs and safe travels. Kevin and Mack, Kev Tron and TN Pizza Freak in the Dough Squad. Are you guys here? Wow.

Wow. Get them out of here. Also earlier, Jack, who's sitting in the roast. Are you here? Jack's here. What's up, Jack? Pleasure to be here. It's Jack Nicholson.

Well, Lakers have been eliminated from the playoffs. Where else is he going to be? I see it front row at the fucking Doughboy show instead. Wow. Speaking of front row, I love this couple right here, Mitch. Just basically sitting next to me. Facing away from the stage. That fucking sucks.

Sorry. What are your names? Matthew and Sarah. Hi, Matthew and Sarah. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming out. Yeah. Sorry.

We'll refund your money at the end of the show. Can I move this? Would that help with your eye line? Okay. I'm going to move this table that's next to me. Mitch Bamford once. Oh, Emma's going to help out. Thanks, Emma.

Thanks, Emma. Put it right in front of this guy who gave me his phone. There it goes. All right. Now it's looking good up here. Now the show is going to go smoothly. Now the show is going to go smoothly. I think you guys should just co-host the show.

That's what it feels like. You're basically sitting at the table with us. They'll do better. Why? Do you think we should get our guests out? I don't know. Of course we should get our guests out. We're very lucky and you guys are very lucky.

You know, in a just world, the entertainment industry absorbs these two talents and they're working in TV, they're working in film, they're out in Hollywood because they're two of the funniest guys around, but we don't live in a just world. No. They're heads of the studio, I say. They're heads of the studio. Move over, Bob Iger. Let these guys take a crack at it.

But it's not. It's an unjust world. It's an unjust world, but the world's loss is your collective gain because they are here to do Doe Boyz Live. That kind of means to them that they're like, they could be doing better stuff, but they're stuck here with our show and you guys. Well, yeah. Yeah, I have to say it's mean.

Is this your first choice career wise? No. We're all backup plan. I think everyone here probably is on a backup plan. Fuck. Kid Rock's comedy gym is booked up. I guess it's the fucking Doe Boyz. We got to do Doe Boyz instead.

Our guest host of the hilarious podcast, Your Kickstarter Sucks, please welcome the original Kings of Nashville, Jesse Farrar, Mike Hale, wow, wow, wow, this is awesome. I love the table is good. Good table. This is cool. I might as well sit next to the people next to you. It's kind of it's got one leg sticking out from the fucking side of the table. Thank you guys for being here.

Hey, thanks for having us and thanks to John Gabriel and Carl Tartt and Betsy Sotaro for having car trouble on the way to the airport so we could be here. That was great. Speaking of the way to the airport, you very generously gave us a lift. You picked us up from the airport. This guy picked us up from the airport last night. Unbelievable. And Mike was there as well.

They were both there. Yes, we're both there. Mike took our bags and put our bags in the trunk, truly. It's absolutely true. I didn't have a lot going on. So it was very nice. You missed a lot of exits. Probably gesture.

No, I don't think it was. No, I think it was. Was it even one? Was it even one? I think it was. I think three total. I didn't tell you, but after we dropped you off, he missed another exit. What the fuck?

What is the issue there? I don't drive at night. I don't like to go out at night. Sure. So I'm all disoriented because it's nighttime. It's like dark. I'm with you there. It used to be bright.

Now it's dark. It's weird. Pick up your mind. Yep. Every day with this crap. Yep. It sucks. The sun or the moon?

Better. Sorry. Wow. You paid for this, but we'll get into it. I'm a moon man personally. You're a moon man. The nighttime is the right time, etc. Move.

There we go. Wow. There you go. Hey, how about this? How about this? I like the moon when you can see it in the daytime. That is fun. Underrated, underrated.

That is fun. It's like an Easter egg. Bullshit answer. Bullshit. Fuck you. That's a bullshit fucking answer. D.B. You go sun or moon.

Oh, I don't like either one of them. You don't like either. Okay. I think I am allied with the sun most of all. I like the daytime. And yeah, I like a morning sunrise. I like waking up with the sun. That's a lot of fun.

Yeah. Yeah. Like getting vitamin D. Yep. You brought up this topic. I know. I think it's going great. Hey, what other celestial bodies are you guys into right now?

I'd say probably if I'm doing my Mount Celestial bodies more. I'd say sun is on there. I probably would put the moon on there. Sure. Just because it's so... I think honestly, this sounds like I'm being... Yeah, I'm being too much of a home body, but I think I'd put earth on there.

No, you don't put earth on there. I think earth is on there. This is the worst one. Earth? We've proved it. Earth sucks. It's Gaia, the mother of life. Oh, that's fucking...

We're all here because of earth. Earth is definitely on there. That's bullshit. That's a stupid opinion. Fucking Captain Planet bullshit. Get the fuck out of here. Then I think I'd throw Neptune on there because I like that movement of Holst the Planets.

So... Mm-hmm. What? Gustav Holst composed in the early 20th century his Planet Suite, best known as Mars the Bringer of War, but he also, you know, did a bunch of them, Jupiter the Bringer of Gelidity.

Neptune the Mystic is like the last movement, and it's kind of like tranquil and ethereal. It's great. But people really know Mars because Mars inspired. Why? A lot of mass shootings start on 420. You're scaring people. Sounds like a diatribe before you fucking unload.

I'm gonna talk about the Planet Suite, then I'm gonna list some people who've wronged me. Go with me on this journey. I hope they make... Is it Journey to the Moon? It's Journey to the Moon. Journey to the Moon. If they ever remake that,

I do want to play the fat moon face that gets angry. The rocket hits them, right? Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Is that just the Tonight Tonight? It's... No, they did it. No, it's based off a real thing.

Yeah. I didn't know. I didn't know if it was the video. Sorry, everyone. You don't have to apologize for anything. I'm tired. Look, I couldn't hang out last night. I had a big...

Boo! He didn't want to hang out with us. Let's get him. That does suck, man. Well, I was gonna rally when you guys said, we're at a really bad bar. Yeah, it did kind of suck, yeah. But it's been a wild trip.

What went on last night? I still don't know. We were trying to watch the Memphis Grizzlies game. First of all, you ever seen the hangover? It was basically like that, but even crazier, so... Even crazier? Yeah, a little bit, yeah. Imagine the hangover with three Barthas?

All Barthas. Not a Justin Bartha crowd. He's the guy who gets stuck on the roof. Oh, they knew. They just didn't care. They just didn't like it. That's okay. No, they didn't know the reference. It's not that it was a bad joke.

They just didn't know it. But you guys came home like 1130, right? Yeah, I got back to stay out too late. Yeah, I got back to my house at about 1140. There was like a lady singing Shania Twain very loudly. Yeah, we were eating like that. Was it your reality star or something? There were two contestants from The Voice, yeah.

Wow. Which kind of waters down being on The Voice, I think. I guess. Everybody's like, this one's on The Voice. They were on The Voice. Hey, who's not on The Voice? I mean... Who in the audience isn't in The Voice?

No claps. Okay, wow. Tire cast and crew of The Voice. Wow. Yeah, it was kind of a shitty bar. I mean, it was there. Clearly, the thing there was live music. And, you know, they were very talented,

but just like the vibe of the overall bar was not great. And they didn't have the fucking Grizzlies game on. Yeah, that sucks. Yeah. That's bad. Yeah, we kind of wanted like a Dave and Buster's vibe, I think, and it was like a bar for grown-ups. So that sucks.

That sucked. I haven't done anything here. I have had something with work come up, and it's been very... It's been crazy. I'll just say that. But I ate my first meal before the show, and I didn't even go outside today.

So, you know what? I feel fine about it, fuck Nashville. Wow. I've been to Broadway Street, is it? It sucks. Broadway does suck. Broadway is gnarly. This is what matters right here.

My feeling on having been to Bourbon Street, the Vegas Strip, and Broadway is that Broadway is the worst of the three of them. Wow. Just absolutely uninhabitable for more than a few minutes. Clapping for that. Really, really gnarly. We saw.

You know, Mitch, you're about to take a little trip abroad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Mitch, you're about to take a little trip abroad. You're going to Costa Rica. That's right, Weiss. I'm going to Costa Rica with the family. It's going to be a lot of fun. Going to maybe see a monkey. Oh, that's fun. Going to maybe see a bird.

Just that. Just a one monkey, one bird. That's it. Hey, that sounds like a heck of a vacay. And you know what? Mm-hmm. Knowing some Spanish might be helpful down there. Weiss.

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I got delivered. Well, Mitch, that's a good entry point to the topic of hot chicken, which is what Nashville is known for nationwide at this point. Now, I know you guys are probably sick and tired of here and talking about fucking hot chicken at this point. Probably anytime you're like, we're from Nashville and we live in Nashville,

people are like, oh, hot chicken. He's like, yeah, fucking whatever, you know. I get it. But also, it is what people want to know about. Mm-hmm. Yeah, is it kind of that sort of thing of like, you don't have to say hot here. If you just say chicken, is it just hot chicken?

Implied, yeah. It's implied. Is that true or no? No. No, okay. So we were wrong. That was crazy. What are you talking about?

I don't know. Where'd you fucking hear that? I thought it could have been a thing. It just turns out it wasn't. So you're guessing? I don't know, it happens in other places, doesn't it? If you ask for pizza in Chicago, they give you a deep dish pizza or some bullshit.

I don't fucking know. No. All right, well, I was wrong. Fuck you, Mitch. Hey, a guy over here by the side of the stage of facing everyone. Do you want to swap in for Mitch? Because he's kind of flailing right now.

Okay, you're good there. All right. He doesn't want to be compared to me. Thank you. All right, whatever. I was fucking wrong. I got a low spice from Hattie B's. I got myself a chicken sandwich,

and I got some pimento mac and cheese. And then I got a, what is it called? What's the banana pudding? I got some banana pudding. What's it called? Makes a digging motion with a spoon. Gee, let me guess, Mitch. That's kind of my pre-show ritual.

Chicken sandwich, pimento mac and cheese, and banana pudding. That's why I'm killing out here tonight. You're doing great. Right on my feet. You're doing great. Everyone loves you. By the way, do we got an update on the score

for the Celtics game for Mitchy here? I know it's mentally preoccupying him. Or a text from your mom. Yeah. Also, how's your mom doing? She's very worried. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, boy.

Like, go ahead and resolve that. 65, 55 minutes. Jesus. Wow. Where are we at? We in the third quarter? Half-time. Okay.

That's an L, Mitch. Let's get into the fucking chicken. That's what we're trying to do. It's a hot chicken. You gotta add the hot to the fucking chicken. Yeah. You Nashville snobs. Um, let's get into the chicken.

I gotta say this. Bojangles, which you said very weird in your intro, by the way. In what way? What do you mean? Bojangles. I think you said something strange like that. I think I said Bojangles. All right.

Then you emphasized Bo a little too much. Bojangles. Yeah. Bojangles. He said it weird. He said it slightly weird. Bojangles. Oh, boy.

Here we go. Bojangles. There's a trailing apostrophe, which they've removed. But at one point it was Bojangles trailing apostrophe. Mm-hmm. Get your drinks and stuff if you'd like to, guys. It's gonna be a few minutes. So anyway, the Uranus movement is really interesting.

You went to Bojangles last night on the way back from the airport. We had boy. What a fucking weird experience. That sucked. And I don't want to say which location it is. I don't want to identify, make the workers identifiable, because they were super nice to us. They were super nice.

They were great in accommodating, but it was fucking weird. I wonder if people will know it when we describe our experience. Maybe this is a thing that happens at this place. Yep. In Nashville, we know where all the Bojangles are. Oh, come on. Yep. That's just Nashville, baby.

I'm saying that our experience was very particular. Very strange. Bojangles, first off, we're covering it because the fans demanded it. We were saying, we're coming to Nashville. What should we cover? A Nashville original chain was not what people were talking about. Everyone wanted us to cover Bojangles, because we're not in the South that often.

Any Bojangles fans here? By applause. People like Bojangles? Zaxby's fans. Anyone like Zaxby's? People who like Zaxby's. Should we have done Zaxby's? Should have done Zaxby's.

Okay, we'll come back and we'll do Zaxby's. We're not coming back. This is it. This is it? This is it. This is the last show. This is the last show. Yeah, I'll make sure it's the last show.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Founded in, not from Tennessee, founded in Charlotte, North Carolina, is Bojangles' famous chicken and biscuits in 1977. 450 locations across 14 states. I'll also use whatever. Why should I just quickly say, any Patreon subscribers out there,

you actually get the first round of Wyger's Bullets. It's a little, it's a Patreon tier. So we showed up to this location, and it appeared to be, it was supposed to be open, it appeared to be completely closed. But, all right, so yes, it appeared to be complete, it appeared to be open, it seemed completely closed, but I did walk up to the drive-thru window,

and there was a vat of fried chicken, and no one else in there. Yeah. And then I got stuck in the drive-thru window, like Winnie the Pooh. What fucking joke do you want to say, Jesse or Nick? That was great. Piece of shit.

I was going to say you did Mitchy Want Wingy, and we all got in there. There was, there was no one, it just seemed completely abandoned. But there was food there, so it was very confusing. So we were about to abort Mission, and go to a different location. And what exactly transpired,

because I didn't see the guy come out and start talking to you, but... A guy came over the window, he pushed me out, he got me out of the drive-thru window, and he was like, what's up? And we were like, we were going to come in, but it seems like you're closed, and he's like, look, it's just me and like one other guy here. Yeah, understaffed.

It's understaffed, it's tough. And I was like, oh, no big deal, we can go to different places. He's like, I got you. And I was like, no, we are going to order like too much food. You need more than two people for this job. Yeah, Mitch was trying to give him multiple outs. I gave him multiple, I swear to God, I was like, don't let us in. It's the vampire's code, you don't let us into the fucking restaurant.

But it wasn't like reluctant either, it wasn't like, ah, yeah, I can make some food for you guys. He was like, now come on in, I got you. And I was like, all right, but then I was like, all right, look, we're talking like like 16 piece chicken, the sides, and he was like, I got you, I got you. He kept saying I got you over and over again. It seemed like he was like, oh, no.

Yeah, he did. He got bummed out for sure. He got bummed out. The subtext was don't hurt me. So yeah, maybe I was aggressively yelling. He's at him. All right, but it's a 16 piece chicken. That's what tails, but he was like, I got you.

I got you and he let us in and yes, we went in and we were the only people in the Bojangles. Yes. Everybody else there got COVID and got sent home, but he was like, come on in. We're cool. Yeah, two guys working in the entire restaurant and we went in there and we took a moment to order

and we ended up ordering a 20 piece chicken meal to share and a bunch of some extra sides, chicken sandwich. And he accommodated everything and you know what, made the food fresh for the most part. Fresh fried the boat meal rounds. What do you mean for the most part? Well, somebody made the chicken. He made everything fresh.

Okay. Well, like the chicken was like ready. Okay. Like a coleslaw was like ready, but like stuff that he had to put in the deep. I disagree. I disagree with Nick. I think that guy worked really hard.

He did work really hard. We love the guy. Just just say his name. Let them fucking say his name. Let's get this guy out of his job. The guy was great. The guy was great. And so yeah, accommodated everything,

made us some sweet tea fresh. Let's talk about the chicken because I never had the chicken before. I love fried chicken. It might be my favorite food. You know, last year I didn't have any animal proteins. No meat shell I eat. And this year I started eating poultry and fish again and man, did I miss fried chicken.

And this was some damn good fried chicken. I really enjoyed it. I liked a little bit of spice to it. You know, it's not super spicy. Yeah. And I do have a reputation as something of a heat seeker, but it's not super spicy, but it's just a little bit of a kick to it.

Well, interestingly, Nashville, we ordered chicken and it came fucking hot. Oh, interesting. All right. Fucking rag on mitts for 45 minutes. And we ordered regular fucking chicken and it came Nashville fucking hot. All right.

Maybe I'll put my own little 420. Anyway, I know I won't kill you guys. I love you all. It was good. It was spicy. I'll say this. My one critique was that it was very salty, but it had a nice, it had a nice heat to it.

It was, it was, and it was crispy. We were saying when we're eating it, it's that sort of thing of like our best chicken in LA is what? Popeyes is the best you can do in LA. Well, as far as chicken chains. This isn't, you know, your Zach Speys, your Bojangles aren't available out there. But mostly KFC and much, much, much better chicken than KFC.

We all agree. Definitely better than KFC. Yeah. And I think in, you know, I think in a similar tier with Popeyes, at least based off of this experience. Now we should say some of the locational weirdness made us, made it be like he didn't have any breakfast. So we didn't get to try any breakfast.

But hold on. Don't get too sad. Also didn't have any tenders. They were out of tenders. So no tendies. Relax. Hold on. You have a fucking riot on your hands.

But he did make us some bowberry biscuits. Yes, which we'll talk about. But yeah, that was one thing that was, look, let me name drop a little bit here. I'm on texting terms with Ike Shahada, the founder of Ike's Love and Sand, which is, and I told him, you know, he'll tell me when a new store is opening.

And friends with a guy. And friends with a guy. But I mentioned he was like, what are you doing in Nashville? And I said, we're doing Bojangles. Is he keeping tabs on you and stuff? I mean, I told him I was going to Nashville. It wasn't like I was following my location.

Why are you texting Ike's from Ike's Sand, which is more than anyone else? He's a good friend. He had to drop a pin when he landed safely. So he said that, and I mentioned Bojangles, and he was like, he was like, oh, big fan, loves Bojangles and said, got to get the bowberry biscuits. We were planning on getting them anyway,

but that was an endorsement from a guy who's got his own successful restaurant chain. So he speaks to their reputation in the industry. Just like everything else when I said that guy, I was like, can you make bowberry biscuits? And he was like, I got you. He did do that for everyone. It was great. He was very funny.

It seemed like he did not want to do it. That seemed like the one thing that was a big pain in the ass. But no regrets in terms of actually getting them, because, well, we'll talk about those in a second. Let's start with chicken. I mean, Jesse, my understanding is that you're not a big Bojangles guy, but Mike, I got the sense that you are a Bojangles fan.

It's insanely good. The breakfast, the chicken with the fucking pimento cheese and stuff, so good. Wow. It's insanely good. And it's only like 6,000 calories. It's insanely good. Yeah, it's not bad.

I don't care anything about it. I don't think I've ever had it before. Never had it. I don't think I've ever had it, because we were also a KFC family growing up. You know, we didn't know no better. We were also... Whoa, hey, hey, hang on.

Neptune is really good. You thought that's what they liked? I don't know. I don't know what they liked. But we had Miss Winners a lot growing up as well, which I don't think really... Miss Winners is good. I don't think it really exists very much anymore.

Miss Winters. Miss Winners. Winners. Miss Winners. Yeah. Miss Winners? I don't know if she's married, and I don't know...

Miss Winners. Yeah. Single, you say? Mike was going to bring down, so you said today you were going to bring down some cool local fried chicken, and then you didn't do it. Yes, what?

Don't say I didn't do it. You didn't do it. You didn't do it. Slow Burn in Hendersonville. Like Slow Burn. Holy shit. It's the best hot chicken in Nashville. Yeah.

Wow. That's the best one. Well, thanks for not bringing it down. That's the best chicken in Nashville? To me, I think. That's our favorite hot... Yeah, that's our favorite. There's a lot of good...

They're all good. Every one of them is good. Let's support our small business owners. No, no, no, no. Some of them got to go down. Yeah. Yeah, I thought the chicken was great, Nick. Like I told you better...

Like Popeyes is the best we got in L.A. For sure. For chains. For fast food chain. Yeah. There's some local spots like Hotville, and which does like a hot chicken concept, and then Helen Ray's of course.

Helen Ray's, yes. Like all those places are great, but as far as a fast food restaurant that serves chicken, that's kind of it. I thought the chicken blew it out of the water, and how did we feel... And we'll get to the Blueberry...

Blueberry, but... Blueberry biscuits? Uh-oh. Write that down, Mitchy. Bowberry biscuits. Bowberry biscuits, yeah. That's... It's blueberry.

It makes sense. Blueberry is the apparition who appears around Halloween on breakfast boxes. That's right. That's what you're going to turn into when you die, man. I visit Wyger, and he's like,

you're a blueberry, Gus. That's basically what's going to happen to me. I mean, you were Frank and Barry in life, so... It's all tracks. So... Podcast bad. Let's talk sides. Mike, as our resident Bojangles expert,

you were advocating for the potato rounds, and you did not steer us wrong. Those were fucking great. Insanely good. Really, really good, and they were fried up fresh, which goes a long way. Hash brown, oniony taste, too.

Insanely good. But they're big. They're really big. They're big boys. Yeah, you get... I think so, right? Are they more than one size? I don't know.

But they're good. They're fucking... You get like a large... And again, it's like 8,000 calories. Right. So bad. Because it's just like grease in your mouth. You like bite into it,

and you feel the grease. That's so good. It rocks. That gives me life. Yeah, that is... That's what we're looking for. You said for us to get them, and it was kind of a last-minute order,

and those were my favorite side. That was the last-minute order. What does that mean? He said we should get the rounds. Weigher didn't order them, and I came and I said... The guy was like, shh, I guess.

Yeah. He didn't... I guess. I got you. It was another thing where... But Weigher didn't order them at first, and I threw it out to the order. That's right.

That's my favorite side of the entire night. Really glad we got them. Yeah. I do really like fries with fried chicken, like as a side. You ordered some and we didn't get any. Yeah, but this is a scratch

in that same sort of itch. Yeah. That crispy potato texture. The other side is coleslaw, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy. I mean, I honestly think the coleslaw was the standout here. We had some coleslaw at that awful bar

we went to yesterday, and it was like the fucking Bojangles' coleslaw was better. Easily better. Yeah, the coleslaw's pretty good. A lot of times, coleslaw is just mayonnaise, which is good. Sure.

And then there's also another type of slaw that you can get at real country places. The vinegar slaw which is sort of in an old school type of slaw that's good. But it had a little spice to it. It was like the chicken. I'd have something, there was something to it, you know.

There was something in there. There was something. There was something in there. I think there was. There was a little something. I noticed that as well. Yeah, there was a little yeah. You guys again.

Is there a little something in there? Is there it might be a little something. greatest nothing We're an ASMR podcast. Yeah, the coleslaw was really good. I thought all the sides were decent. The mac and cheese and the mashed potatoes were kind of on the same.

Yeah, so so level to me a little pasty the mashed potatoes. The term I'd use is replacement level which is like a sports term of just like it's like very, very average, you know, like what you'd expect in terms of the gravy was pretty good. But and I and hey I did dip one of them best

them biscuits in that gravy and that was quite nice. But then you shot the gravy like a shot. Yeah, I didn't do a shot of gravy. Yeah, the gravy was great. I mean that that made the mashed potatoes. Yeah, I thought the gravy was was like you were saying Jesse was decent. Yeah.

Yeah. And then what else we did that was it for sides. Right. Well, we also got I mean we could talk about biscuits a little bit. I like their biscuits. Biscuits are good. Yeah, let's all the biscuits for a second.

If we could gang. Let's get into it. Yeah, you know with the biscuits. I'm like there's like a little something in there. The biscuits are really good. I did. I dip my biscuit in the mashed potatoes and gravy. Is that what you're supposed to do?

Is that a normal southern thing? No, that's very weird. That's really weird. That's actually psychotic. I know. I know it's normal. It's normal. Mitch, are you okay?

We really need you buddy. If you want to come swap in for Mitch. Okay. All right. I slept three hours last night. That's the total truth. That's the total truth. That's the total truth.

That's the total truth. That's the total truth. That's the total truth. That's the total truth. That's the total truth. That's the total truth. That's the total truth. I'm losing my mind.

Yes, that's why the show is bad. It's my fault. That's fucking bullshit. You're doing great. You're doing great. Well, and the guests are bad too. They have nothing else going on in their lives. Right, Nick?

I mean, these guys freaking sting. The biscuits were good. But Nick, Jesse, you asked me in the in the restaurant and I thought you were a true dork for asking. Okay. Well, you said were those blueberry? What? What was it?

What did you say? What did I say? You said were those bowberry biscuits your bite of the night? And I said, I'm going to save it for the show. And yes, they were my bite of the night. And you know what? I also had a sip of the trip. We'll talk about that in a little bit too.

So the bowberry biscuits for people who are less familiar with Bojangles, perhaps listening to this podcast later, they're made from scratch buttermilk biscuits and reading their copies stuffed with bowberries and topped with sweet icing. The bowberries are clearly blueberries. Oh, yeah. These were fucking great.

They were great. They were so good. Honestly, I'd say this is like an S tier fast food dessert. And I don't know if this is supposed to be thought of as a dessert, but like that's how I viewed it. Because it was, it's fucking, it's like a donut. It's like, it's like a warm, delicious donut. I don't know if they always come out this warm,

but these were fresh glaze and piping hot. They came out, I received them. I got them and there was no glaze on them. And I said, it's missing the glaze. And he said, I got you. Yeah. You walked into the bathroom. They were fantastic.

It like very, very weirdly dessert. Mike was making a jack-off motion to explain the joke to Jesse. Jerk. He jerked off. Yeah. The guy was jerking off. The guy jerked off. He was jerking off. That was what the glaze was.

On the bowberry biscuits? Yes. The bowberry biscuits. Rock on. Both great as a dessert and a nice little breakfast treat. It could go either way. I was going to ask, do you think you'd like it better for breakfast or better as dessert?

Because now Nick, you had yours before we had the chicken, right? You took the bite of it. I'll oftentimes have a sweet treat. If I have everything together, I'll be like, okay, you know, I'm going to have a little sweet treat now because then I can cut it with some salt. He also was saying this out loud as he does it. Okay. I got this all together.

I might have a sweet treat now. Everyone's just eating quietly looking at him. Oh, that's when he was pacing back and forth in the empty restaurants? That's right. I just thought these were fucking delicious. They were good. I think they were just the regular biscuits, but then with the glaze and stuff on them.

Or were they different biscuits? They seem to have the berries in the mix. It could be wrong. Berries in the mix. That's what it seemed like to me. Okay. Do you know, Mike? Oh, Jesus Christ.

I thought you were asking me. I have no fucking idea. Mike, do you know? Yeah, I know exactly what it is. Great. No, those little fuckers are in there. They're there. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Because they were fresher than the, because the regular biscuits were, I thought, they were not that fresh. They were not as fresh. Not as fresh. We showed up later on the wrong day or whatever. It's fine.

We showed up at a weird time for dinner. It was like seven o'clock, seven thirty. Yeah. It was strange. Guess what, everybody? I thought last night I didn't have enough Bojangles. So today I ordered it on Postmates. That's right.

Yeah. And I ordered a steak biscuit. I ordered the chicken pimento biscuit. I ordered tenders, a four piece with all, like all the sauces. I got all the sauces. And there was one other thing. Oh, biscuits and gravy.

Wait, did you get, did you get all the sauces? Are you laughing at the order? What's that? That's my biggest laugh of the night. He got too much food. That's the staff. This guy's fucking hilarious. It's kind of a small order for me, actually.

Well, because you, you, you texted us and asked, what one sauce should I get? Which I thought was really, it was cheap. That was the, I didn't. 40 cents. It was weird. Like just added on the thing. I don't know.

I couldn't. That was door dash and they wouldn't let me add one more sauce. They, so I waited. He said it was Postmates. I changed to Postmates and I got more sauces. I got every sauce. I went over to Postmates and I got every sauce. And I ordered it and I was waiting.

What's that? She was alive when you got there. And I was waiting for it. Yeah. And I saw the driver pull up. And then I saw him disappear. And then I saw a new driver pull up. And I saw him disappear.

And then I saw a third driver pull up. And this is over the course of an hour and a half. And my order was finally canceled. And I realized that I ordered from the same restaurant. We went to last night. Wow. I post made it from the weird ghost. Wow.

Place is fucking empty. It's haunted by. Boo berries. That Bojangles closed down 10 years ago. So I never got to try it again. I had had Hattie bees before the show. That's why I had Hattie bees. Wow.

Yeah. We only get to go once. I did want to go back and we didn't get a chance to have no excuse. Really. You could have gone back. I mean, I wanted to go. I had some stuff to do. What did you do all day?

I went on a walk on a nice walk. I got myself a parfait. I got a salad. I set up shop at Panera a little bit and typed up that little intro. I ran up top. So your excuse for not getting Bojangles again is that you got other food. I got other food. Okay.

You came back to your hotel room. I wasn't there watching ESPN. This is true. I went into, so bitch, for a lot of reasons. For a lot of reasons, Mitch was using the Wi-Fi in my hotel room for this professional thing. Jack off. Pre-show Jack off. Well, it's the thing.

I walked into my hotel room. I didn't realize you were still there and you pretended to be jacking off. I did pretend to be jacking off. I want to turn on the golden girls or something. No, you pretended to be jacking off and you said, oh, I'm jacking off to first take. Oh, that's what it was. ESPN's first take was on. But you could have gone to Bojangles again.

We both could have gone. I could have literally. I tried. Well, okay. Guess what? I didn't try. So I guess I have less of an excuse. I went this morning.

Holy shit. Wow. DP went this morning. DP went this morning. Incredible. That's awesome. That is. That rules.

Above and beyond. Guess what? I ate fast food two days in a row. You are the king, man. I wish I could remember which day I'm on for that. Mike, what did you get this morning? I got the chicken biscuit with the pimento cheese. I wanted that bad.

It looked good as hell. It's fired. It's insanely good. I do want to try it. Was that it? Yeah, that was it. Yeah, that's good. You can just you can go to a fast food place and there's order like one thing.

It's crazy. Walk out of there with like one bag. One bag is not worth the trip. Multiple bags that even my own Denny's or Denny's order. You had Denny's too. Oh boy. Was it from Postmates or Door Dash? A lot of holes in this story.

Thumbs not adding up. Why is we got drinks at Bojangles? That's right. Because we also got the Bose chicken sandwich, which we haven't talked about. And I thought this was good. I mean, it was, you know, I'd rather this is my issue and this is also even the case with the Popeye's chicken sandwich, which is great, which is terrific. But I just rather get the fried chicken.

That's just a personal taste thing. I'd rather have it. You're talking about this. Jesse and I, it's easier to just eat a sandwich. It's easier. Sure. And also, I don't know, like I don't want to order like if I have five pieces of fried chicken, I'm going to try to eat all five pieces.

That's what I don't. That's what I don't like about it is because you have the num, the number of pieces of chicken in there are weird. Then you got to decide like what kind of chicken you want. It's fucking crazy. It is crazy. Like I agree with them. This is it's fucking crazy.

I think this is why I think the KFC's and all those places should go back to the like the buffet style where you say just give me, give me that and give me that and give me that and then I'll be on my way. I don't have to do all these fast food chains. They should go to some sort of sit down restaurant, come to restaurants, transition to the sit down restaurants. Yeah. And there's a big buffet at all times.

Yeah. And it's free. All right. All right. And the water phone is soda. Speaking of which, why, because you might be thinking, oh, that sweet tea was your sip of the trip. Uh oh.

No, no, no, no, no. No. No. No, no, no, no. Yes, that's right. It was Mountain Dew fucking. Get ready for a Southern shock. Southern shock.

Mitch's by the trip. Mountain Dew Southern shock. Southern shocker. The Mountain Dew Southern shocker. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's a different thing.

Yeah. Oh, I think there was a little something in the shocker too. Do you know something? Uh, Mountain Dew Southern shock. Southern shock. Uh, and I southern shocker is opening for Kid Rock. Southern shock is, yeah, it's and that they have that in the fountain there. I'd never had it.

Why would we? We live in the West or in your case, Mitch, the East. Yeah. You know, it's a, but I thought this was fucking great. I really like this. It was great. It's a fruit punch. Did anyone else have it?

No one's had it. It's good. It's good. All right. See the true Nashville people out here. I loved it. I thought it was great. That sweet tea is really good.

Good sweet tea. In a, in a very much a COVID has ended moment, we were passing around the, the bottle of sweet tea and sipping from it and sharing a chicken sandwich and sharing a chicken sandwich. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever the fuck you say. Yep.

Yep. And then we jumped on the back of the train car and we were off again to a new city. That sweet tea is very good though. I like, I like their sweet tea quite sweet. I thought it was just okay. I know you didn't like it. Why? Why didn't you like it?

Can you explain yourself now? Uh, it wasn't that good. It wasn't that good. I thought it was the thing that was my main project. That was my issue. That was my issue. Yeah. I'm not going to criticize you for that critique.

Yeah. I'm going to criticize here because Mitch, you say it's good. Yeah. Jesse says it's not so good. Yeah. But I think we're actually not that far apart. I think we're actually pretty close. I think we're closer than we might think.

Yeah. Yeah. And that's how Congress passes bills. Thank you. They don't know. They don't know. They don't know. They don't know.

Uh, what, what was the Southern shock supposed to be? Because all of the different places have different mountain dues now, right? You got to, you got to go to all these different places to try the mountain dues or else you're going to get FOMO. Right. I think it's a good strategy for Mountain Dew, honestly. Yeah. Like I like that they're them having these limited edition sodas that are specific to

certain chains. And I think this one's a fucking home run. But what is it? What is it? It's fruit punch. That's what it's supposed to be. Yeah. It's like a fruit punch.

A little fruit punch. Yeah. Okay. Did you make it? What are you? Matt, he's mad about it. Why are you pissed off? No, it's just fruit punch.

I don't want to complicate it. Fruit punch. Fruit punch. Great. I got fucking FOMO from my Mountain Dew. That's what happens nowadays. It was it was great. The sweet tea I thought was good.

Did you think it was too sweet or not sweet enough? Or what was the deal? I think I think I like more tea flavor in the tea. And it's I don't know if it's just not steeped long enough or you know, we also it was also hot. We were drinking it hot out of the jug. That's true. Yeah.

It wasn't that cool. No. Actually fairly disgusting what we did come to think of it. The Southern shock was also really hot. Anyways, I was going to try to make a Southern shock joke. I couldn't think of one. No, let's do it. What is it?

What is it? Come on. Yeah. Yeah. So you were kind of doing a Southern accent there. Yeah. That's what I'm going to say now. How about Yee-haw.

Yee-haw. That's good. That's really good. He's going to say Yee-haw, but he says Yee-haw. He gets shocked. That's really good. That's great. That was really hard.

Yee-yee-yee-yee. Like it should have been. That's good. I still like the ouch though. Yeah. It works with Yee-haw. Yeah. We'll get it.

We'll get it. We'll figure it out. We'll get it by the end of the show. Well, look. We should get to our final thoughts on Bojangles. This is a big one. This is a big one we haven't covered. Hold on.

Celtic score? James has put his phone away. Taking it out again. It's a 79-72 net. Oh. Okay. All right. Oh, wow.

Within striking distance. Okay. From your mom. What did your mom say last to you? Can we please hear? She said, I said, I'll call you later. She said, are you sure everything's okay? Oh, my God.

Are you sure everything's okay? All of the dancers just can't talk now? Oh, my God. Wow. She said, no, she said, I love you too. Just hoping everything is okay. That's not right. Oh, boy.

Ooh. That's my dad. His dad texted him too. Dad texted you. Don't talk to my girl like that. What the fuck? Now, Mitch, what was the last thing your mom texted you? What's that?

What's the last thing your mom texted you? I'll check right now. I miss your scent. Oh, my sad. Cheered for John. Did you watch the video? John's at Masha's. You could call if you like.

My cousin John ran the Boston Marathon. Wow. Congrats to John. Very exciting. That's cool. I sure run it too. I just decided to pass this year. You don't want to upstage John.

We ran it in three hours and 11 minutes. Fuck, really? Yeah. That's an amazing time. Us Mitchell's are fucking fast. You see that move? I didn't even see it. I didn't even see it.

Yeah. We're fucking fast. You did the Postmates Door Dash in under four hours though, didn't you? All right. All right. Let's get to our final thoughts on Bojangles. So, Jesse, Mike, veterans of the show, you know how this works, but a refresher will each go around.

Give a closing argument if you will. And then assign this a score from zero to five forks. Jesse, sit at my left. We'll begin with you. So, I think I'm done eating fast food fried chicken. I don't need it. I don't need it anymore. It basically ruined my night and my day.

Y'all can't be eating this shit. The show made up for it or something. This is fun. Good to hang out with you guys. I don't think it's good to eat that. I think I'll just eat it hot. I just want hot shit, which there's a difference, Mitch. I want hot chicken only moving forward.

I don't need just regular chicken. That being said, the chicken sandwich was, I think, pretty much as good as Popeye's chicken sandwich. I think the chicken was maybe better, if saltier. And the sides were actually good. I think normally the sides are no good at any of these places. I think they're just sitting around all the time. Sure.

And we maybe got lucky with the bowberry biscuits. That's right. We got lucky with those. Not a traditional side, of course. But overall, I think pretty good. The Southern Shock was a massive hit. But I don't want to eat there ever again because it made me feel like hell.

That's fair. So, I think I'm going to nail it right at... It would be four forks, but it's four and a half for the bowberry biscuits. Wow! Fourks. Very good score. Mike, clearly a fan of the chain.

What do you think? It was very good, despite the circumstances and the weird... There only being two people in there and me worrying about whether they have COVID or not. Yeah. The whole team got COVID or something. Right.

But it was very good. But they didn't have the chicken and the pimento cheese and breakfast things or whatever. But I'm not going to count that again. So, I think four and a half forks is good. Wow! Four and a half forks. Four forks, two times.

Great score so far. It falls to you, Spoon Man. Wow. All right. Pressure is on. You want me to get this guy? Let's see what he's got. Okay, wait.

Head on the mic. Do you have a rematch to your name again? Matthew. Matthew, do you have a fork score you would give for Bojangles? I just want to say get Brandon out of the White House. Oh, shit. Sorry, one more time, but Matthew.

To be a contrarian, let's say two forks. Two forks! They love you all night. They felt bad for you until this moment. What a heel turn. You like Zaxby's. Dear Lord, two forks. Two forks for Matthew.

That guy's awesome. It comes to a show, doesn't even fucking watch it. That guy made up for the whole thing last night. That guy's awesome. His eye line, I can see what it is. It's just a giant head shot of Jay Leno. Oh, you get Seinfeld to look at. There you go.

Yeah, those guys are entertaining. Man, imagine a conversation between the two of them. The song Mr. Bojangles. I like it. Mr. Bojangles, don't know if it has anything to do with the chain, but a nice song. Sammy Davis Jr. saying it at one point. That would be something to look up later, maybe.

That would be cool. Could have done it before the show. Or before the show. Look, it was a weird experience last night. Very weird. We were there. It was closed down. Jesse kept mixing all the exits.

It was like four exits because I told you I couldn't hang out and I feel like you want to hang out with me a little bit. So you're just missing exits left and right. We went to a weird broken down Bojangles. No one was in there and I got to be honest with you. My score. When I was finished with everything was like a three point five. Oh, but then I had the bowberry biscuits and it pushed it into

the four fork club. It's a four forker. Wow. It was very good. I almost want to give it an incomplete because it was fucking weird and people were making us like stuff to order. And didn't want us there. Also, by the way, we were eating and some other guy came up and was

like, do, do, do, do, do. And we just kind of like looked at him and we're like, I didn't ignore him. Sorry. Yeah. Oh, you can't get into the club. We know it's weird here. And it was it was a very strange experience.

Truly strange experience. I don't know why they opened up. I think your thing is right. Maybe I just. Looked like I'm knocking on the drive through window looking for fried chicken. I guess you let him in. Yeah.

But what we had the food was was really solid and yeah four forks. It was good fun fun experience. The food was was very good. The service was great. Given the circumstances. I mean, I do feel like the two people that I'm talking to, the two people that I'm talking to,

the two people that I'm talking to, the two people that I'm talking to, the two people that I'm talking to, the two people in the living room, the two people in the living room, the two people in the living room, the two people in the living room, but we had a whole lot of long-term circumstances.

I mean, I do feel like the two people working there. And we know this is just a thing that's. It's just we see this everywhere in the fucking fast food sector, is just all these places are under staff because no one wants to pay, you know, a living wage, I'm going to say Mitch, I think you kind of stole the angle that I was going to have,

which is that I had the same sort of, and you didn't know you were going to steal it, but this is where I was going, is that I think this was a three and a half fork, three fork, two time experience. Staff has called the cops on you before you could be off. It's preemptive. They know it's coming.

They found what you wrote backstage. No, I want him here. I want the world to see this. Fair enough. I feel the same way. I think the bowberry biscuit was so good. Yeah. That it elevates this chain.

Bojangles into the hallowed halls of the Golden Play Club, which I will welcome it to with a score of four, four for Bojangles. Bojangles. Wow. We got you. We got you. Oh, yeah.

Also, yeah. Yeah. I actually forgot. Matthew gave it to fork. So it's not in the Golden Play Club. Sorry. Sorry. But if, if you do beat him into a coma,

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That's wildgrain.com slash dough boys or you can use promo code dough boys at checkout. Do it. Hey, hey, that was our review of Bojangles. We got a food stuff. We're going to set up something. Hold on a second. Do you guys agree?

All right. Yeah, I think so. Very like Luke where I'm like, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of good. We don't really care. They want to get home before it's dark outside. They're going to drive in the dark. We got a food stuff.

We're going to set up something you should put in your mouth. It's snack or whack. And hey, we have a very, very special treat for us on stage and for everyone here after the show, which is that natural zone black box ice cream truck is here. And they have brought us some wares of theirs to sample. We have ourselves the stepping on stages. I believe Alex from black box.

Hi, Alex. Holly is also here. Last time we were in Nashville, they were working in someone else's truck. And in the interim, they have started their own truck, which is pretty rad. It's all theirs. All theirs.

Go get some ice cream out of the show unless you guys are trying to leave. All right. They'll stick around. OK, great. You guys are sticking around for Kid Rock show afterwards? OK, great. They'll be here anyway.

This is snack or whack cream dream or nightmare edition. So we've got a couple of flavors from black box ice cream truck. We got some vanilla and we got some ube. Ube ice, a purple sweet potato. You motherfucker, they have so many good flavors. You got vanilla. This is exactly what I would have gotten as well. Nick, great job.

Thanks, Jesse. I talked with them before the show and I was like, let's get us some great flavors. And they were like, the ube is good. And I was like, great, we'll get the ube. I'll trust you. And then I, look, I may have asked for vanilla because I like vanilla.

Vanilla is a flavor. But if you do a good vanilla. The tang flavor, the tang creamsicle. You guys do a good vanilla, don't you? Tangsicle, get the tangsicle. Tangsicle, you wanted the tangsicle. I wanted the tangsicle. Can I, Alex, before I said,

because Alex mentioned tangsicle and he said probably the only tang that Mitch would get. Jesse's explaining the joke to Mike. I actually did bring some tang. A little container of tang at the hotel. You're right. Tangsicle is my favorite flavor. Alex, well, you guys were both nice enough

to send this to us during a pandemic. You sent me... That's right. Yeah, we sent you, I think, four flavors. Yeah, yep, yep. And I shared them with mother. We enjoyed them. But now I'm happy to share with you guys.

Let's do it. I'm excited. There's one. The ube is purple. Michael, do you think they could make some ice cream with my milk? Jesus. There was a thing on Instagram

about legalized mother-son marriage. Yeah. And I got tagged in it so many fucking times. It sucks. Don't do that. Like a popular meme and like my friend's old scrolling, I'm like, why is Mitch tagged like fucking 100? They know why, they get it.

All right. You guys are tasting the... Jesse, it looks like you've tasted both flavors. Have you had to taste one? This purple one only could describe it as Grimace's load, I'd say. These are fire. These are really good.

Grimace's load is a secret ingredient. Now, ube, I heard the security guard was eating it outside, letting people go in and out of the theater, just eating the ube ice cream. And he was saying that it's supposed to taste like cookies, but it's a sweet potato. It tastes exactly like cookie. Definitely has like a cookie flavor to it.

It's truly wild. It's really, really good. Really delicious. The color is so vibrant too. Yeah. That was delicious. If you guys had this kind of stuff before, like the ube or like...

If I had ube. Is taro also related to ube? They're the same thing, just different cultures call it different things. So ube is a purple sweet potato in the Philippines. In the USA, we call it Grimace's load. That ube is fantastic. It's really good.

It's really, really good. Have you told me that? If you were like, it's a sweet potato, but this is going to taste like shit, tastes great. Tastes great. Tastes really good. The vanilla.

Yeah. How's the vanilla? Look, I love vanilla. I've said it before. I'll say it again. Vanilla is a flavor. It's an exotic bane. What I like about this one is that you can see

the little bean fragments in here. And so we're getting a lot of real vanilla bean. You can tell that. I really like that just like... He's got a microscope out. He's got a microscope out. He's looking at the... I got a jeweler's loop

examining each individual bean. That was on you guys' writer for backstage. Microscope. We both use it. I use it for a different reason. This is delicious. I mean, the texture is so creamy and smooth. Vanilla flavor is really strong.

Yeah. I mean, this is a fucking home run as far as a... As far as a... Consider it a conventional flavor, but this is a really good execution of it. Really, really like it. I know.

What do you guys think of them flavors? I think they're great. I like vanilla as well, Nick. When I used to get milkshakes, I don't do anymore. I turned over a new leaf. No more milkshakes. What's a good rhyme for that?

Like, no meat shall I eat? No shakes shall I take? No. No shakes shall I take. Part take is good. I think we'll stick with take. But vanilla was always my thing. Vanilla, vanilla malt,

I think that's the best type of shake to get. But this purple doodad here, this would give it a run for its money, for sure. I'd like to get this in a big... Like a big 32-ounce. It's fucking great. Travel cup, yeah. Really good.

Do we have any more spoons over there? I took... He used the fucking all three of them. Yeah, Jesse used all the spoons. You used three of the four spoons. How did you use three spoons? There's two flavors. What did you do?

Here, Wags, just use this. It's either... Actually, use mine. You and I have basically... No, no, no, I'm good. I kissed you before the flight. Here we go. You could just use your vanilla.

Why would you use... I know, I was gonna have a... It's for a different purpose. Oh yeah, just use yours. That's what I've been doing. Never mind. I was gonna do fancy. It looks like a real weirdo holding that spoon though.

I'll taste some of your vanilla. Yeah, also good. His is good too. This is also good. All right. So a lot of consistency between the batches. Love that. And guess what?

I will get some tank tonight for real. I will... We got forks. Forks are fine. Forks will get the job done. Let's not bring Emma on a 420 show ever again. Mitch, send the forks out. I got a knife for you, dude.

Send both over. I'm sorry about the whole spoon thing. It's like... He deserves them. And the flavors over to Matthew. You guys don't have to have those, because we had some. So if you're worried about germs...

He has to eat it. He has to eat it. Mitch, not getting clean utensils, handing him both the James. Hey, if I got it, you got it, baby. Let's roll. Let's roll with it. Yeah, you will have some news to tell your mom now.

Tomorrow, I'm not okay. Yeah, these are great. Congratulations. This is awesome. And yeah, you guys enjoy Black Box Ice Cream Truck after the show. What were we supposed to judge? What was the question?

Cream or dream? Cream dream or nightmare? Cream dream. It's a cream dream. It's a cream dream. Both of them are cream dreams. Snacks all around. Snacks all around.

Support local businesses. Hey, and just like a restaurant, I've got your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. All right, so Emma, you've got some questions that you've screened and we are going to take some from some audience members. Actually, Amelia screened these from LA for me

because she's the MVP. I got Amelia later when you're listening to this. No, it's her job to listen to it. She was listening to it. She was listening to tomorrow's episode and she was like, I don't get it. This was true. Yes.

She texted us this. She said, I don't get it. I don't get it. You'll see tomorrow. She'll never understand. It's okay. I hope she doesn't. So I got Ryan.

If I said that right, Mr. Viper from the Dose Gourd, Zach G and Bill T. All right, so come on. Step over here. Say hi to Emma. Big hand for Emma Erdberg every time. What's your name?

Ryan. Hey, guys. What's up? Thanks so much for doing the show. This is great. You got Mike and JF, man. That rules. Two of the greats.

Two of the funny. How the fuck do you know this guy? What the fuck's going on here? My wife and I flew out here from Charlotte for this. We're so excited for this. You flew out from Charlotte? Yeah. The home of Bojangles.

Was it because of Bojangles? No, it was because of this shit. I'm sorry. Tell us your name again. Ryan. Ryan. Yes. So your favorite band is in town

and before their show, they're stopping by your place for dinner. What are you cooking for them or picking up from a nearby restaurant? It's good that you know the Kid Rock is my favorite band. Wow. Wow. That's tough, huh?

Gustav Holst in my home. You'd want a feast of some kind. No, that's a great question. Thank you, Ryan. Boy, in your case, it's got to be Dave Matthews, right? Pink Floyd is probably my favorite band. Pink Floyd? Yeah.

Wow. So Roger Waters, David Gilmore. Yeah, I'd have to have a meal so good it would reunite Waters and Gilmore. Wow. Wow. They're like, we want Hasty Pudding or some bullshit. Hasty Pudding.

They want Hasty Pudding, yeah. Hasty Pudding is an award, isn't it? Yeah, it's like a Harvard fucking bullshit award they give out. So basically a meal that would impress my favorite band. We're picking them up. Picking them up, yeah.

Yeah. So you're picking up Roger Waters from the airport like Jesse did with the Doughboys. They're hopping in to your Nissan Altima. Yeah. And you're going back to Mommy. Your mom's house. Your mom's house.

And what is she going to prepare? You know what? Mitch, you have a showstopper dish you can prepare. Your bar pizza. My bar pizza. You got to do your bar pizza. It's fucking great. It's a home run.

Yeah. And I could do something funny, but like, if you don't eat your bar pizza, you can't have any pudding. They would love that. They love that so much. That's from our record, mate. That's lovely.

It's wonderful, mate. That's lovely. We love that. I think I would make my bar pizza for you. You got it. Why? As you've had it now. You enjoyed it.

I've made it for a few people in LA now. I'm starting to make it more and more. I love it. It's great. I'm going to make bar pizza. You know what? If I'm in LA, I'll get him some rustic wings. There you go.

Pick up some rustic wings and then on the East Coast, some fat cat wings. There we go. Done deal. I'm done. I'm done with my answer, baby. Good job, Mitch. That was insane.

Yeah. Jesse, do you know what? If DMB was coming over, you know what I pick up? A little Wendy's. That was good, too. That was really good. That was good. That was good.

Yeah. Something they can shit out over a bridge later. Man, free the apartheid war. For real. Dave Matthews is a good man. I like Dave Matthews. He's a great man. And everyone remembers him for the shit truck.

That incident wasn't their fault. That was the driver. You are lucky to get the shit fucking poured on you. These fools complaining about the shit. Dave Matthews, shit it on. Rain it down on me. Look, if you're going to be shit on while you're in a boat, wouldn't you want to find out later on that it was from Dave Matthews?

It would be great. Versus like a random tour bus filled with senior citizens headed to a casino. It's like, no, that Dave Matthews tour bus. Like Dave Matthews shit got on me. That's way better. It's great. Yeah. Lawsuit.

Lawsuit, sure. But also just the story. I'd pay them. I'd pay them money. I'd pay them money to sit a squat under a glass table while they shit onto me. Why so? Yeah. First of all, you're going to come up with a band.

I know this is going to be a, you had a joke answer before. Yeah. So actual Metallica. Metallica. Metallica, boy. That would really be something. So we got Rob Trujillo. We got Kirk Hammett.

We got Jason Newstead isn't going to be there, but maybe he shows up. Awkward. That would be weird. Awkward. Yep. And they got both bases there. Newstead left over under his own accord. So it's probably no bad blood there.

They get in the car and then you turn on Napster. Oh boy. Lars is going to lose it. Lars is there. James Hadfield, of course. Boy, what the fuck does Metallica, what do I make for Metallica? Some kind of Mealster. Some kind of Mealster.

Honestly, I do. I'd fucking, I'd pan sear some rib-eyes for them because I think they'd like that. I know how to cook a good steak and I could whip up some potatoes. They all eat meat? I actually don't know if they all eat meat. This is your favorite band. Well, I don't know their dietary habits. I like them.

I don't know what they, I don't know if they eat, oh shit. Kirk Hambert is sober right now. So you know what, it will be a dry occasion. I still know whiskey in the jar. Oh, that would be fun. Like a whiskey in a jar, mocktail. Yeah, yeah. What else, what else, what else?

Jesse, Mike, you guys got a favorite band? Favorite musical artist? No. Fair. Good, good, good. Yeah, I don't know. I like a lot of stuff, but I think I would probably take them to Slowburn, get them some fucking hot chicken.

There you go. You got a band shirt on, don't you? Yeah, I do, I guess. You got a black flag shirt. Wow, very cool. You were wearing a black flag shirt yesterday. It's the only shirt I have. Yeah, I don't know.

And then I'd probably get them out of my house as soon as possible. Yeah. Yeah, smart. That's a good move, yeah. Hey, speaking of cool shirts, next questioner wearing a dog-do-bark-fest T-shirt. Wow. You're the one.

That's the one we sold. The one we sold it to. Hi, what's your name? What's your question? Bill T. Hi, Bill T. I've seen you guys in Huntsville, Boston, and now here. Wow.

Hopefully you'll come to Memphis one time, maybe? I don't know. You got to go to Memphis. You got to go to Memphis, yeah. An awful version of following the Grateful Dead Around. Exactly. Now, has there ever been a restaurant maybe defunct that you missed the chance to go and now you regret it?

Oh, that's a great question. That's a great question. That's a fucking great question. Defunct restaurants no longer exist. You missed your opportunity. I'll say it right here. I mean, I've been to the one in Disney, but it would be fun to... I always wanted to go to the Brown Derbies in LA.

That don't exist anymore. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah, they're fun. The big hat. One of them looks like a hat. Yeah, the original is gone. There's other...

There's more that I was just thinking of because of the pandemic that have closed. Right. That was very... I'm racking my brain. One that I've never... You know what? Fuck.

But Godfather's Pizza is still around and I don't think it's necessarily that good. What's one that's closed? Boy, this is a real head scratcher. There was a place over in the Rivergate area here. It was like a Caribbean jerk chicken place that I went to one time. You know what I'm talking about?

I don't know what that is. Okay, so maybe look fucking stupid in front of everyone. There's like a chain that does jerk chicken and stuff like that. I don't know what that is either. Okay, I'll go fuck myself. I'll be out back. Calypso Cafe, maybe?

Is that what you're talking about? What? Calypso Cafe. Is that what you're talking about? Hell no, it wasn't Calypso Cafe. When Grumpy Whites was closing, which you said was like the mascot of Quincy or something. It wasn't Quincy.

I tried to get it one last time and it did close before I got it. That's a bummer. That is like the closest I could remember to a place that closed down that I couldn't get. The defunct fast food chain part of it or defunct chain restaurant part of it is what's tricky because a lot of these are just still

just hanging on by a thread, you know? There's still just like a handful of locations. Like I mentioned before, there's defunct chain spoons that I used to go to as a kid. And apparently there's still like two spoons in Orange County, California. There's still two of them. So yeah, one that's completely wiped off the map.

What was that fucking one we talked about? Not Captain D's, but there was another chain that was at one point in Florida and it used to be a bunch of places and now it's completely off the map. We talked about with our friend Stoney Sharp for a bit. Look what you've done. Everyone's answering.

Yeah, I don't remember which one it was. There's a place Louis' Lunch. It's like the oldest burger stand. Uh-huh. Do you know Louis' Lunch? What the fuck? Oh, there's some Massachusetts people or New England people. Yeah.

Came with a brown derby guy. Louis CK's lunch closed down after everything happened. His biscuits were really good though. Pollo Tropicol is the name of the restaurant. It was very good. I think it's in, maybe it's just in Florida, but it's really good. Delia's Deli, I want to check out.

Yeah, what the fuck? I'm looking at a list of defunct burgers. This is scintillating content. Well, this is bad. You're spiraling. Here's one called Chicken George. What the fuck is that? That'll be my answer. I wish I'd gone to Chicken George.

Yeah. You know, I wish I'd gone to Chicken George too. Chicken George is our final. He's gone. Chicken George, he's gone. There's just a Doughboy's hot dog shirt. Gave up and went home. What's up?

Hi. Our next questioner. Hi. My name is Zach George. Hi Zach. Chicken George was my grandfather. Oh boy. Wow.

No, I do have a theory about Bojangles. I think you guys walked in on a robbery. I think they were robbing the restaurant, and that's why it was closed. Wow. That's eerily similar to what happens in Ambulance. People have seen Michael Bay's Ambulance. Life imitates art.

My favorite movie of the year so far. It's a fucking whole month. It's so fucking good. It's so fun. It's so great, but there's like, that spoiler light, it's in the first act, but that same sort of thing happens in a bank. Yeah.

Where they're just like trying to do business as usual in the midst of a robbery, because the people that have taken them hostage are trying to do that to like look natural, like act natural. I don't think that's what happened to this Bojangles. If it was, that guy was acting so unbelievably natural.

Above and beyond. Yeah. He was good at his job. Yeah. He's like, just cool it, man. Cool it. We gotta do this. We gotta make them their meal.

It's the dough boys, damn it. Ambulance, great. Great way to wash the taste out of your mother this show. Head to the theaters right after this. Check it out. It's great. Go and see it. It's great.

So I did have an actual question. What chain restaurant? The fuck? All right. Let's relax. Fucking attitude. So what chain restaurant would you want to see the founder style movie about?

Oh, fuck. This is a great question. Maybe like a show like the Jinx about the Pinkberry, maybe, something like that. I don't know. The Pinkberry story is fascinating, because that, you know, and like all these places are owned and founded by monsters,

Zach stepping away. Are you being held hostage? Is that what's going on? Just ask the dough boys a question. The, yeah, the Pinkberry story, I think I said this on the podcast back when we covered Pinkberry, is that the fucking owner,

who's a legendary piece of shit, got arrested for beating up an unhoused guy with a tire iron. He like just like beat the shit out of this poor dude and then like went to prison for it. Oh, that was a bad part? Yeah, that was a bad part. Oh shit, sorry.

That's awful. No, that's awful. They're all pieces of shit as we find out. But that's like a, but, you know, does that invite a Jinx style docu-series? Maybe it might also be just like a one-off thing, because it's like one incident. You know what my actual answer is?

Rocky Aoki, who is the founder of Benihana. Benihana, that's good. Also the father of DJ Steve Aoki and actress Devon Aoki. And he was just an amazingly eccentric dude with a wild life, founded the Benihana. The Beatles went to the original Benihana. That's how iconic it was at one point.

And he also got really into racing speed boats. They're cooking it in front of us. I was doing a Beatles. That's good. How does he balance the egg? Fuck. That was good. That was really good.

The onion's a little volcano. There's steam coming out of it. I should have left it on the egg. But look, here's what I think we should do. The Doe Boys movie. Wow. Bruce Valanche and Bruce Valanche doing like an army hammer thing with you and me.

That's great. Playing both roles. We see the fucking origin story of Doe Boys. What do you think? I think we got the casting right here. Jesse Ferrar is Nick Weiger. And Matthew is Mike Mitchell. At the end, when the movie's ending,

he goes, two forks for this piece of shit. Guys, that's our show. Thanks so much for coming out. Thank you. Jesse Ferrar and Mike Hale from New York Kickstarter sucks. Checking out hilarious podcasts. Celtics Update. Big thanks to our production from our team,

Emma and Amelia. Yeah, let's get a Celtics Update. 99, 94, Celtics. Wow. Wow, Mitch is excited. Hell yeah, bye. Next is a disaster. Next time on this movement,

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