Doughboys - Munch Madness XI: Buffalo Wild Wings vs Popeyes with Mary Sohn

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Mary Sohn (Hey Randy, @maroldswan) joins the 'boys to talk 80s sitcoms, ET, and Chicago eats before continuing the Quarter Pounder Final round of Munch Madness XI: The Tournament of Champions: Reheated Rivalry with The Fit Bird Region.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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And next Thursday, we're going to be in Des Moines, Iowa. And both shows, we're going to have as our guest, the great Paul Rust. Oh, my God. Paul Rust on the road with us, Wags. Things might get a little silly. Things might get a little silly. so be prepared for that. We're certainly going to be prepared to have a great time in two places I've never been before.

Alexander Payne's Nebraska. Wow. And Iowa. And also Iowa. We'll be in Omaha and Des Moines, March 18th and 19th, come out to one or both of those shows. And we'll be happy to see you there with Paul Rust, with Emma, with Amelia, and most of all with Mitch and Weiger. See you there, buddy. Tickets at birdfuck.com slash live.

Midwest, mid-best. In 1972, eccentric entrepreneur Al Copeland founded a fried chicken chain slash Louisiana Kitchen down in Dubai of Nowlands. A decade later, James Disbro and Scott Lowry opened a large footprint sit-down chain based around the signature foods of Buffalo, New York, wings, and also the Wex sandwich, but they quickly Sean Parkered that off the menu. It's cleaner. Today, these two iconic American food cities, home of the Super Bowl champion Saints and the

perennial gut punch also ran bills, respectively, square off not on the gridiron, but in the dining room. Both veterans of Bunch Madness 2 chicken fight, with the big easy red beans and rice purveyor making it all the way to the championship, while the Buffalo sports bar with its countless dry rubs and wet sauces was bounced in the first round by Wingstop. Which Burb broker will best the other in this Battle of the Feathers? Who will live to clock another day in its single-minded pursuit of redemption by way of winning the Dave Thomas Cup? This week on doughboys, we continue the quarter-pounder final round of Munch Madness 11, the tournament of champions, reheated

rivalry, fit bird region. It's Mitch's Buffalo Wild Wigers, Popeyes. Ring the bell. Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Tiger Wiger, along with my co-host, serving hunts. The Spoon Man Mike Mitchell. Did you try to get the music to hear me when you said the punchline?

No, I didn't. I mean, I was expecting us to edit that out so we could just not. acknowledge it, but I guess it's staying in now. Serving hunts. Like serving hunts. Like serving the C word, but it's hunts ketchup. What's that C word? Why don't you say it? Cunt?

You're not a Brit, mate? I'm a Brit. Isn't it? Serving hunts. Serving hunts. I love it. But they don't say plural. No one's just serving cunts.

But if they said serving hunt. then you'd be like, what does that mean? Sure. You got to, you got to pluralize it. I liked it, too. I liked it. We all liked it. Everyone had fun.

Everyone had fun. And every woman in this room liked us both saying the C word. I love it. I thought him saying it was a green light for me to say it. Thought of this in the shower this morning, which seemed appropriate. Thanks for being the funniest thing around. Best Chris from Lakewood. Hey, Lakewood.

How about that? All right. Rose at BirdFuck.com. One of the most common city names in the, country, so who knows it could be Lakewood, Illinois, could be Lakewood, Colorado, could be my hometown of Lakewood, California, tomorrow's city today. Oh, right, that is a part of you were a future town. We were a future town. America's First Plan community. And you might have been the, uh, look who it is. Well, well, well, well. Wow, wow, wow. Um, she can come in and say

hi if she wants to, man, whatever. She's here for another podcast. Yeah, she's doing a different podcasts. Um, good things to do. Were you like a little AI robot boy in that, the city of tomorrow? No, I wasn't a part of the city of tomorrow. Wasn't a fucking small wonder Robot child Built by my That reference is They don't know small wonder

Our audience knows small wonder Yeah I mean we have an older audience I think I'm saying the dais I do the dais judgment Small wonder was a was a sitcom About 80s maybe early 90s About a robot little girl

It was like a dad Who was an inventor And he made a little girl Oh I thought I was a nickname For Mitch's Hawk Yeah That's what I thought too You

You turn your back on me When you call him Small Wonder I was like, says who? No, no one calls him Small Wonder. It's about a dad who created, Yeah, he created a robot daughter. Then that, he ended up on the Epstein list, didn't he, the robot?

The robot daughter? You do wonder about the motivation of someone who's making a robot little girl. That's like a little like, yeah, yeah. What's going on here? Small Wander guy, we got our eyes on you. Mitch, we have live.

Is anyone in that cast? I wonder if anyone is like famous from that cast. Can we look up the small wonder MTV? I've got the cast Tiffany Brissette. She was probably the, she was Vicki. Vicki is the small wonder. Jerry Supyran was Jamie Lawson. I assume that's the dad.

Yes, yeah. And then Marla Pennington. No, I don't have never. John Lawson. Dick Christie was Ted Lawson and Emily Shulman was Harriet Brindle and then Paul C. Scott, Reggie Williams. Yeah, I mean, like in the principal cast, none of them are necessarily in terms, but they probably were all working actors. They probably have a bunch of credits. I mean, in the sad way that we talked about Hollywood being destroyed. I'm sure that they still live comfortably maybe from from that work. I hope they do. Me too. I'm not, I'm not wishing ill on the small wonder cast. Of course. He was on the air from 1985 to 1989. Okay. Four seasons. I remember it being airing in syndic and watching it after school, like, maybe in the 90s.

Also, what a different time because, like, let's be honest, that's a dog shit show. It was a bad show. For a show that was off for four years. Four seasons of small wonder is crazy. I mean, it was like contemporaneous with Alf, right? It was the same sort of thing. It was like, oh, we read our science fiction thing. Alf was not good.

That show sucked. Alf is pretty damn good. It was bad. I mean, I hate, I hate Alf. Have you watched any Alf in recently? It's not, like, great. No, the only thing I know about Alf is that the dad on the show was when, a little kooky.

Yeah, he had a drug problem. Yeah, yeah. And then Alf, sorry, well, that just makes it seem, that just makes me feel like, seem like a bad guy. He went a little. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's a crazy story about, there's a crazy story with that guy. Yeah, he had some wild time. Just look it up if you want to see it.

Yeah. And then Alf eats cats. I don't like an Alf eats cats. Right. So I hate, I've said before on the podcast that I would snap Alff's neck if I met him. Do you remember? If he, if he's trying to eat Wally and Arm, I'd fucking snap his neck. the thing. I will say, I will maybe

can see that Alf was probably a better show than Small Wonder, which was not a great show. But do you remember the Alf theme song at all? Because I'm realizing I remember the Small Wonder theme song. Oh, man. I don't remember the Alf theme song like one. Oh, wait. Is the Small Wonder one is it something like that?

No, it's... She's a small wonder. That's what it is. Pretty and bright with short curls. She's a small wonder. By the way, these are his written lyrics. He's improvising.

She's magic And I'll hope you Something like that And then I don't know where the rest of it goes Yeah Yeah pretty good That was pretty damn good And I

We should double check those of the lyrics And I think you made them up The Alf theme song is The Alf theme song is I don't And that's like a show I watched a lot And I can't remember I cannot remember that at all

Yeah I don't think it's sticky So the small wonder One at least had a theme song You remember I remember the Family Matters theme song Family Matters probably I wonder if our guests Well we should get

I mean Our guest is in common We should ask about, we should, also, we can talk to our guests. Unlike the doughboys, our guest is in comedy, so that will be helping things out. I'm going to ask our guest, were you a fan of Family Matters? Family Matters was huge to me. Erkel was a revelation to me in many ways. I loved Urkel.

Yeah, Urkel was a revelation in many ways. Erichol is, I mean, it's a great, it's a great performance. The thing I don't like about Joliel White is, like, he was so concerned, and I get it, this is a guy who was playing. the nerdiest character in the world when he was like coming of age. Can you imagine age like 12, 13? You're at your most vulnerable. You're on TV and you're playing like a huge nerd who everyone's laughing at. Of course you'd be self-conscious about it.

And I think he's very, I think he was like, like, I'm actually cool and like, I actually play basketball when it's not shoot. Like I think he was like very concerned about like not being. And how did it work out when he became Stefan? That's true. And I think Stefan was an angle. I think he was like pushing for himself. I'm sure he was.

But he should have kept with his true dorky self because that's what we all love. That's what I'm saying. That's how I always felt about Urkel's like. I'm like, I like Urkel more than I like Stefan or the way you act. And I think he was like, I mean, every child actor, if you get through it, God bless you. It should maybe be illegal. We've talked about this before. It is, it's complicated.

In 50 years or 100 years will they be like, hey, like child acting is like illegal. and we look back on it and like that was a bad time and like I could see that happening right every child actor is a small wonder in the future go on about the curls again that's the part that was most concerning pretty and bright with with short curls something like that nice curls I don't remember calling Wager in 2005 I just got a small wonder Oh, interesting. Family Matters huge. I loved Urkel.

And such a great, a great character. I mean, like a, but that perfect strangers, empty nest, my grandma love golden girls, but like, I really do think that Family Matters was the top. Of those kind of cheesier sitcoms, it was Family Matter was the top. Yeah, it was great.

I love Family Matters. Yeah, yeah. So, Scott. Aunt's name? Harriet? Oh, no. Harriet's the mom. No, Harriet's a mom.

And then, oh, shit. That's not Aunt Jackie. No. No. But the actress who plays her... Aunt Una? No. No, you're thinking of Una Chaplin who plays Verong and Avatar, a fire and ash.

The on was great. And then she... I mean, the mom was replaced. It went on for... That show went on for, like, way longer than I think people who didn't realize. But Scott Gierner did a great remix of the opening of that. of family matters. Oh yeah.

I love that video. It's a great video. What was the original? It was It was Achequer Dood Dood Doodoo Doodle Dool Dittle Dool

Dittle Dittle That's he's doing The remix right now. What are the lyrics though? It's a rare tradition This day and age Read any good news On the newspaper page

Of course Love and tradition of the grand desire Some people say It's even harder to find Well then there must be some Magic clue Inside these gentle walls

Because all I see Is a tower of dreams Yes sir Real love Every scene Stay with us As days go by Is this

Did we look like we're in a nursing home To those two I remember days go by I remember the chorus. I just don't remember the lyrics to the rest of it. It's the bigger love of the family. And then the piano outro. A great... Dill da, da, de la.

Or, yeah, and then Scott has fun with it. Right. You're doing the remix. We're singing the song. When does the pretty and bright with short curls part come in? I really want to read the small wonder lyrics, and I pray to God that's not in there. Short curls? I don't think it's short curls.

I think it's something else. Nice curls, maybe? You got pipes. You do got pipes. You got pipes too, Mitch. Thank you. Well, now is Bradby. Mendo's what sucks.

Mitch, we should mention, before we get to our guests, before we get to your drop, we have live shows upcoming next week. We're being Omaha on March 18th and Des Moines on March 19th. Were you snapping for that? I thought you were snapping for our show. Yes, I am. I love it. We're going to the Midwest. We're going to Nebraska and Iowa for the first time.

Omaha, March 18th, Des Moines, March 19th, with our guest, Iowa's own Paul Rust is joining us. So please come on out to those shows. It'll be a lot of fun. After that, we're going to be in Florida. So if you're in the Sunshine State, mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're the Golden State. They're the Sunshine State.

If you're in the Sunshine State, come on out. They'll both be fundraisers for DeSantis. Yeah, right. Yeah, we're getting the money to DeSatis no matter what. Do you want the Small Wonder lyrics? Yeah. All right. She's a Small Wonder, Lovely, and Bright and Soft Curles. Soft curls.

She's a small wonder. What did you say brown curls? I said short curls. I said, I said, Cubs. I did not say Pube. I didn't say Pude.

Also, that would be a choice to give the robot low girl pews. Well, you know, what are the motivations here? She's a small wonder, a child, unlike other girls, she's a miracle, and I grant you,

she'll enchant you at first sight. She's a small wonder and she'll make your heart take flight. She's fantastic, made of plastic, microchips, and there. She's a small wonder, brings love and laughter everywhere. And we're the last one that's easy to clean. Okay, that's too much.

That's maybe possibly, well, we're fine. We're fine. Fantastic made of plastic. I forgot about that. Microchips here and there. That's a nice little sequence. She had magic in the show. There was a lot of magic going on at this point. Well, I mean, she didn't have magic. She had robot powers that were effectively magical. No, they were mad. I mean, she was causing magic. She could fly in shit. She could freeze time for fucks sake. No, no, that's a different show.

Really? Freezing time was a different show. I think she could freeze time, too. No, I don't think she was freezing time on that show. Emma? What was the sitcom where they're freezing times? My search history is going to look fucking insane. You're asking these two, what's the sitcom where they froze time?

I don't know. It's maybe Googlable. The 80 show, out of this world, they could freeze time, but no, the robot, Vicky and Small Wonder could not freeze time. Yeah. But she did have superhuman strength speed and could compute data instantly. Yeah, she had like robot powers. Looks like someone's been watching it recently. The rewatch.

Emma's search history is a podcast jobs Los Angeles. Small wonder and then immediately podcast jobs. Family Matters, good show. That's the bottom line. Yeah, good show. A lot of nostalgia for that show. A lot of, a lot of, out of this world I do remember as well. I had not thought about that show in probably over a decade.

I got back when I was 20, I mentioned this before. I got a quote tweet from Jaliel White. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's right. Because I was at the Trader Joe's, and they had a Pilsner or Kell, and I took a picture of it and posted it with, did I brew that? I remember this tweet. And then Jaliel White quote tweeted it with, you sure did, Nick. I was like, that's, I'm retiring.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to say this to you Embrace the Urkel That's what I say I think he has I think he has at this point I mean I think it's I think it

Of course it was very hard Like we said coming a page or whatever Yeah I mean like think about how you're always cast You always cast us like a dumb piece of shit Look at this idiot who's fucking dumb And I'm an actor It's hard for me to get there It's fucking hard to get to that place

It's not easy I'm the same I'm the small wonder You got a what? You got a drop to play at some point Oh, am I hit him with a drop? You might have a clown ass dad Clown ass dad

My dad's a cyclist It's really exciting What type of bikes is your dad drive Unicycle? Fucking clown ass Fucking clown ass You know you get the seltzer You get the flour, get the pie in the face You get the seltzer, you get the flour, you get the

high in the face. Your dad lives at McDonald's. I ordered you the clown Sunday for dessert. Do you think when Nick's dad is listening to this episode they'll be like, not for me, and then he'll change to his playlist and it'll go. Perfect ending to the drop. Pretty good. We're embarrassed

by that. We're sorry. No, that was incredible. Drop for today. Hey, D.K., I made this clown-ass drop from shit my friend Cody sent me and told me, we'll be good drops. I hope he's right. Thanks. Count Dropula. Wow, Count Dropula with signature Fart Soundoff. That's right. Sign off. That is his trademark. His fart, sign off. We were just

watching a very dirty sketch. Can I say it? Yeah. Because I'm afraid it's going to happen to me. I'm afraid I'm going to creosote. We watched the Mr. Creosote sketch right before this because we have eaten a lot of we've eaten a lot of food today. The Mr. Creezo sketch is from Monty Python meaning of life. And this was a sketch movie where there was a bit where I believe Terry Jones was the actor who is a gigantic fat guy who keeps gorging and puking from all the food he's eating until eventually he has one final mint and then he explodes. He explodes.

And we were laughing at some of the barfing stuff. Some of it's pretty funny. And then at the end it's very weird and you're seeing his heartbeat with an exploded chest. It's a lot. It's just body horror. Yeah, it's body horror. Yeah. I was shocked at how much we were laughing at the barfing time.

That's the thing. I was making fun about it. I was like, I think like the, like, this is back when a sketch just had to be a fat guy. I mean, Monty Python, they made good sketches. I'm not going to shit up. But I was like, like, I don't think it's a great sketch. I think it's just a fat guy like wobbling in and eating. But then we were watching it.

We were laughing. No, it's a well, well-time sketch. Yeah. It's got some good lines. Seeing an elder woman just get blasted out the bag. That just covered her was just like, feel that's funny. It was funny. He barfed in the menu and he.

The Lowe's the Men. It was funny. There was some good stuff. Drops at BirdFlock.com. That's comedy history there. You should watch that stuff. Oh, bye-bye. I grew up with that stuff. My dad had all the albums.

Yeah, but I like to be a mentor in a minute. I mean, it was my first time seeing it. I left. There you go. Yeah. I was Emma. You're a freak. That's like up your alley, I feel like.

Emma, I think our dad's would be fast friends because my dad also a big Monty Python fan. That was the first sketch comedy I saw. There, every time I watch a different Monty Python sketch in adulthood, I go, oh, Oh, that's where dad got that. Like the way for thin mint thing he used to say that all the time or like, get me a bucket, whatever the line is about the bucket. He would say that. And I'm like, oh, that's where it came from.

I love that. A dad just bombing and the family would be like, what the fuck is he talking about? It was. He's just like, I'll wait for thin mint. I'm like, what is this guy you happen? I think to our parents' generation, like, if you're a guy, like quoting Monty Python is like, you know, being an Ace Ventura guy. You know what I mean? Or being an Austin Powers guy.

It was like that generation's version of all. Your dad's or Ace Matera guys, basically? I guess basically, yeah. It's fun. Sounds hot. Hey, you know, both still got laid. We're proof. Here we are.

Damn. Okay, short curls. Our guest returned to the show. One of our favorites from APA Bio, work in progress, Freak of your Friday in the podcast. Hey, Randy. Mary Stone is here. Hi, Mary.

Hi. I think you guys hear it all the time, but I genuinely am honored. Oh, my goodness. We're honored. We're honored to have you. Also, we'll say this quickly. It's not an honor to do Munch Madness.

It's bad. We've tricked you into doing it. It's maybe worse than a normal episode because there's double the eating. Oh, yeah. I feel so sick. I feel fucking horrible. Yeah. Rough.

I feel bad after eating way too much of my favorite food, fried chicken. A baby is the only way to prove you got laid is to have the baby. Or like video evidence, although I guess in the age of AI, that could be faked as well. Okay. Yeah. So don't have a... I won't have a kid then. You got nothing to prove.

Yeah, I got nothing to prove. Mary, have used this, the basis of this particular bunch madness is reheated rivalry. Have you seen heated rivalry, the inspiration? What do you think? I know this can be deeply unpopular, but I didn't really like it. Oh, no. I love the love story. But there were just certain times where I was like, he's.

Is that asshole like 16 times in one scene? There's just like little things that you can do better. I was like a prude in many ways where I was like, I don't like to watch sex at all. And they really, it is like, it is kind of soft core porn. So like, there's a lot of fucking going on. There's some fucking, yeah. And so I, and I like my, I like a celibate film. No, don't, I don't want to, I.

It was too horny for me. You like a wholesome film like E.T. There's no fucking in E. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not fucking E.T. They're not fucking E.T. They're not fucking E.T. It goes on behind the scenes.

I don't see any of it. I don't even know about it. Yeah, I don't know about it. You feel that way, too? No, I actually loved heated rivalry. No, but you like a celibate film? No, I'm down for a horny movie. I mean, I watched the housemaid with my mom, and that was too much, too.

It was too much. Yeah. My beef there with heated rivalry is there are such beautiful moments where they are, like, the speaking in Russian part. It really was beautiful to me. And then there'd be times where, like, personally, and this listener, sorry, this is going to get raw. But I love a scene where somebody is, like, on the phone and they're getting head and they have to behave differently. Yeah.

But this one in heated rivalry, it wasn't for me. Oh, man. Something about the execution. I was like, I don't feel it. Yeah. I was watching, I've said this to your, but like, I was watching Housemade with my mom. And she continued as like, do you think Swinney-Sweeney is pretty? I was like, yeah, I guess she's pretty.

She's like, and then asked me this seven times. And about five minutes after the last time she asked it, Sidney's getting railed by some guy. And we're just both watching it together. And I was like, I need to, I just need to turn this off. And now she knows you think she's pretty. She knows I think she's pretty. Then I'm watching her.

I'm watching, I'm watching this, them go at it. And I didn't, I didn't feel comfortable. I didn't like it. It wasn't fun for me. That's why, like, maybe it's because I watch so many movies of my mom that I, like, I don't like to, I don't need to see. That makes sense. Were you so embarrassed you, you climbed out of bed?

I'm going to say this and you're will laugh at me yeah we literally were watching it in my mom's bed I knew I knew you were it's cute I think it's sweet yeah it's really sweet it's not cute it's disgusting it's it's wholesome I was watching Sydney Sweeney get railed sitting on my dad's side of the bed after she asked me a hundred times over that I thought she was pretty and I said yes and it's just a nightmare why do you think she asked that yeah yeah why do you think because she was like Like, I don't, she was, she was being like, I'm not sure what the big deal is about her. She was being, my mom was, my mom was, uh, nagging Sydney, you hate her. Yeah.

My mom was being a bit of a, I think she was like, she's pretty, but I don't know what the big fuss is. Like, that's what she was, she was doing. I think she had only just heard of Sidney Sweeney before. She's, she's quite bucksome. I think that's a big part of the appeal. Sydney, we can get back at her by me bringing you home. My mother. But, but, uh, the, I think that she wasn't enjoying, the movie is like,

very much like a B. It's like a lifetime-ish kind of movie. Yeah, it's very... If we were watching Heater robbery, I think I would be equally as it's, it's maybe almost, uh, housemaid and that are kind of similar.

There's just more of it in Heater rivalry. Heated rivalry is, I think, more explicit. Yes, yeah, yeah. Housemade, I like the housemaid. It's like, it's dumb, but it's fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it knows what it's doing. Sometimes you need that.

Well, I'm curious about your thoughts on heated rivalry, why you did like it. You know, it's just a really, I thought the romance is a fucking hornball. Yeah, made me kind of horny. I don't know. No, I mean, like, I thought the guys were hot and they were great, and I thought the acting was really strong.

I think they clearly had no budget, and I'm kind of impressed what they were able to do, given that restriction. And I don't know, I just kind of like this, like, hey, they don't make shows like this. There isn't a lot of boy romance that you'll see on the TV. I think that's a plus side about it. I'm 100%.

I changed my mind completely. It's so good. Oh, my goodness. is it Wow What's up? I just popped her head in Hi

Keep this or don't Whatever you want We're keeping it Are you kidding me? Guess what I just ate What's that? Pop-ice chicken In the little

In the get you today Like spoil it? No, that's what we're doing You stole our fucking chicken Heard a rumor That it was up for grabs Yeah Yeah, we told some chicken

And it was great Yeah, a lot of fun Yeah We miss you, come back on Whenever you want Guys, the ball's in your court Oh right Because I want to, and I've told you that.

We'll email some days. Yeah, we'll see you some days. Yeah, okay, I love you. May I see you, Darcy? You know I love you. Too. So funny. I mean, I can't wait to listen to this episode.

We've got to make the episode. Nick and I have to step up our game. You're doing great. We suck. We suck. We know Darcy's going to listen. Darcy's going to listen. Oh, shit.

Darcy, start from here. Mary's on the episode, Darcy's going to listen. There's too much fucking pressure. Yeah, I know. Amelia, have you watched Heater Rivalry again? Not since we reviewed it. Not since the third time. Yeah.

And the fourth for the pilot. In the fourth for the pilot. But you, why did it get its hooks into you so much? The same reasons as you. Yeah. It was horny. I like the acting. I like just seeing a queer love story.

Yes. And yeah, it's nice. After rewatching it, it's nice. Actually, I don't want to spoil anything. But it is very broad, to your point. It's like, it's like, it's not. I don't think. It feels lifetimey in a way. There's there's there's there's there's there's that angle of it too and I like I look I I love that it's a gay love story and you know what

horniness should come around more there should be more horniness in movies I don't want to I don't want to you know talk people out of being horny and chibi and film I like I like that too if E.T wants to fuck he should fuck on camera let him fuck they should let him fuck. They should let him fuck when E. When E.T was gray they should have fucked him and he should have turned back Brown. Poor gray E.T. How old is E.T now? I think he's an adult, right?

I mean, he was born in, he was 82. He was alive. Yeah, but was he when he, in the movie E.T. Is that an adult alien or is he also a child like alien? I think he's an adult, right? Well, no. Maybe, I mean, Grogu is 70 or, right? Isn't Grohl?

Who knows what, who knows what the alien age is? E.T. is over 10 million years old. Wow. Okay. Well, there you go. He's getting up there. He almost dies, too. Can you imagine the stakes of that? 10 million years? You almost die? Fucking crazy. 10 million years old. I didn't see a single pub on them.

Just to be fair. Mary, we've talked to Chicago a bunch before. We were just back there for a series of live shows in January. I'm curious if we can get your take and your fork scores on some Chytown chains. Now, some of these may post-date when you moved out to L.A. E.T's over 10 million years old. What the fuck? Yeah, what's your source of this?

He's not 10 million. He's like 300. All right. Yeah, no source on this. The AI said it was 10 million. The AI said it was 10 million. And then I scrolled. I saw that it took it from a New York post where it was like, although EIT looks 10 million years old, he blah, blah, blah.

He's like 300. I saw you looking at the laptop more. And I was like, wait, ETI's not fucking 10 million years old. I guess so. but A.A's so fucking good. We're so lucky to be alive. Something else is saying he's 43.

He's 43? That's really funny to think of just He's my age? He's my age? That's when it came out, you fool. The movie's 43. The movie's 43. E.T. is just like a middle-aged dude.

E.T. is now as old as the character. The movie is now as old as character. Maybe that was the first year of his life. It could have been. been what it is. It could be. But hey, what a good, a good, 82 the year I was born, E.T. Pretty good. A pretty good one. Yeah. What's yours? What's yours? Uh, yeah, the train coming at station. I was, I couldn't, I couldn't even do it. I was too excited. A voyage to the moon. We were in Chicago. Can we get your take and your fork scores on some shutdown teams? What was the

biggest movie your year? Do you know? It was a talkie, right? I think Empire Strikes. back. Okay. Yeah, it was a talking, okay. Empire Strikes Back, that's fucking really good. Oh, shit.

But I don't know if that was number of the box office. It is. That's true. Wow, how about that? And ET was number one to the box office,

82, right? There are a few other websites to say, according to the novelization, he is probably around 10 million years old. Can we trust the novelization, though? I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah. Yeah, ET's number one. Tutsi number two. Okay. Forget about Tootsie. Don't forget about Tootsie. An officer and a gentleman. Oh, yeah.

That's a horny movie. That is a horny movie. But I'd say like... Richard Gear railing Deborah Winger. Is that what it is? I think it's Richard Gear and a gerbil. Okay. Did you just hear this?

Didn't you tell us that you just heard this recently? No, I think I knew about it. Oh, you knew about it. Oh, you knew about it. Okay, all right. I thought that you had heard about this like in the last year. What a bizarre urban legend. And it was so sticky for Richard gear.

Poor Richard Gear. Who I don't think is ever... I did it's dick. I have no idea. It's just salacious enough. I guess so. It's so specific. Siri was going to look it up.

She heard us, she heard us talking about the Richard Gear thing. It's not true. The Richard Gear thing is not true. Okay. It's not true. You can't even do that. Yeah.

You can't fucking do that. Red Hot Ranch. Have you been? No. Okay, Red Hot Ranch probably like, it became Team to Providence after you left for L.A. How about small chival? There was ah chival or al chival.

Oh, God, I'm really biffing it. No. No. You've been in, how long have you been in L.A.? For a minute? Like 13 years. Yeah, so I think some of these came around after you were already out of here. How about Pita Inn?

Because I knew you grew up in Illinois. Sure, sure. Yeah. Was it champagne? Yeah. Oh, what a memory on you. I'm going to give that three forks. We gave it three forks as well.

We gave it three forks as well. Solid Mediterranean food, but, you know. What about the men of you? milk place we went to. Oberweiss. Oberweiss. I'm going to give that two and a half stars. Wow.

We heard that they went MAGA, so people got, but then someone else said that they hadn't gone MAGA. We had heard an update when there was a new owner where they didn't go MAGA. What do you want? I don't fucking know. I'm just letting the world know. No, I'm not talking about you. I'm just exasperated at the fan base.

Like we're going to, you buy products, you go to restaurants. Just let us be MAGA. Is that what you're saying? Let us be maga and let us fuck eat Please You can't do anything What about the Give that guy pubes

We're crying out loud He's 10 million years old Wait what did you guys He should update that damn movie We got ice cream and milk And the milk was fucking good The milk was good and the ice cream was pretty good We didn't actually review it though

We just went for our fat asses We're fucking there reviewing Four hundred restaurants And then we all We did a side mission to get ice cream. Ice cream and milk. We needed something for our Cheerios. The milk was fucking good.

The ice cream was fucking good. The ice cream was fucking good. And we housed that ice cream. We did. We did. It was good. Oberweiss. I would give Oberweiss maybe four forks.

I really liked Oberwerex. I would get their politics four forks. I would give them three forks. I gave Red Hot Ranch five forks. I believe I get small Cheval four forks. Pita and three forks. And then the last one we did is McDonald's International Cafe, which opened in 2018.

But you probably remember the rock and roll McDonald's in Chicago. Is that what it replaced? No, the rock and roll McDonald's has been remodeled, and then the international cafe is in a different location. What do you remember about the rock and roll McDonald's? Well, I just remember it was open by, I used to work at Bob Gumshrum Company on the World Famous Navy Pier, and that was one of the things that was open late, so we would go there a lot. And also right across, we're not far from the place that we love in Chicago. Portillos?

Portillos, right? There's a portillo's right near there. Sorry to be basic, but I fucking love Portillo. Nothing wrong with that. Man, you like the cheese sauce? You know, my memory is I do enjoy the cheese sauce, but we didn't get to have it this time. You like the chop salad? You know, I don't, do we get the chopped salad?

You're blowing it wise. Every item we haven't, we, I don't think we did get the chop sauce. That's my order. Whenever we go to Portillo's when we're in Chicago, I get a chop salad and a large fry with cheese sauce. Yes. It's the best. That's the order. It's so good.

When my dad was sick, we went to Chicago. That was one of the trips. We went to Ireland and we went to Chicago. Those were the two places we went. And we saw a Cubs game. It was a very nice, a very nice trip. But we went to Gibson's Steakhouse, which I love Gibson's. And I love that giant turtle ice cream pie.

Do you know what I'm talking about? Oh my God. It's so fucking, it's maybe like a macadamia nut turtle pie or something. It's huge, why. So you've never, I don't think you've gone to Gibson's. No, we didn't get to go out for like a big. We had one nice meal at. Doves Luncheonette, which we had a lovely time there.

But that was like the close. we came to having to have a, like, a fun group dinner that wasn't for content. I heard, I talked to some Chicago people that are so-so on the lunch net, so, like, which I was surprised by. It got the job done for what we needed, which I think was hangover food. It's a great food city. And then we went to Portillo's my dad and mom and sister and I, and I think it was the first time I got a chocolate cake shake, if I remember correctly, which I think so many people

are like, it's a gimmick. And I'm like, no, it's not. No, it's fucking rules. I love it. Are you, I mean, you lived in Chicago, so maybe you're like, it's a gimmick. but I fucking, they cut a big slice of chocolate cake and they blend it up with a milkshake. I love it. Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with that, Wags. It rules. Put it in there. That is a fat. I mean, that's a Mr. Creosso thing to put a slice of chocolate cake to put it into a shake. But it's fucking, it rules. Portillo's I love. It might be my favorite, I know it's basic like you're saying, but I think it is like my favorite Chicago spot.

Jimmy's being really cute. She's like rubbing her face. Yeah. It's too bright. Oh, okay, I get some z. Aw, I know. Oh, my God. You get that little seal.

He's so nice. He's such a nice girl. What was the French dip place we did? Wasn't there another place we did? We went to owls. Ows, beef. What did you think? So here's the thing.

We went to one really bad owls. And then we went to a different owl and we had a good experience. That first owls was like the meat was like blackened. And it was like something was very wrong with that place. Something was wrong with it. It felt like it was about to close because of health code violations. I've never been I've never gone to a what's the hot dog place where it's kind of crazy at night

Wiener Circle I never I've never been to Wiener Circle. Weiner Circle owned by the same team as Red Hot Ranch. That's right. Oh really? Yeah. So my guess is Wiener Circle is probably pretty good. Red Hot Ranch has a fucking great burger. I had a great time at Red Hot Ranch.

I love that place. That was my favorite I think, but chain we hit up. Shytown got some good food. Chitown's got some great food. Undeniable. Undeniable. Here's a McDonald's question. Here's a Chicago question.

Which is, you know, people know about the Italian beef, the hot dogs, the deep dish. But we were informed of something which was new to me there, the pizza puff. Did you ever get a pizza puff in Chicago? Oh, yeah. I would get that a lot in college. And the reason why I like it, besides it being cheesy and crispy and delicious, is it comes out lava hot. Yeah. Yeah, it's burning the inside.

You're having Freddie mouth after that. Like, your mouth is getting fucking destroyed. Absolutely. Ours had cooled down a little bit. It did taste like a big hot pocket in a way. But I like that's a compliment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they were good.

It's kind of, it's kind of Calzone adjacent, I guess, is one way to character, Strombole, you know? But the pastry is sort of flaky. Yes, right, yeah. A lot of fun. They were good. And they serve those in bars? Is that like a, like, are they in a lot of bars or something?

Is that that, that's what we... Not that I know of. Okay, maybe we gathered it from a bar, though. We did order it from a bar. Okay, so maybe that's why I think that. Yeah, right. It's definitely a good drunk food Oh yeah

It's like a Totino's pizza roll And a hot pocket had a baby And we had them and we were like Yeah 100% And we were eating them We're like this is pretty good And then that audience member was like Those aren't real pizza pops

So like oh boy We got a lot to learn Then we went to the Dave Matthews bridge And we extinguished all of it We visited the Dave Matthews Bridge And it was I think you really wanted to go Yeah I made us go in negative

It was negative 18 It was so cold. I'm glad we did it. Me too. It was fun. The only picture from the entire trip where we're all cheesing ear to ear. Yeah. We were having a blast.

I took down my pants to like pretend to be pooping. And I got a frozen hole for a couple seconds. Right. That's tough. Rose. Would that make your diarrhea like solid? Yeah, it's slow. down.

Only way to defrost that bad boy, pizza puff. We had a great time. We had a great time in Chicago. It's a great city. It's a great city. Wait, how long did you live there? Because I know you're there for a while. You obviously worked at Bubba Gump.

You were in school. Grew up in champagne, as we mentioned. I shouldn't have mentioned a frozen hole. Sorry. This little pillow puff. Oh, my goodness. Oh, God. Oh, goodness.

Oh. Is there like a medical pillow, basically? Is that what you're doing? All right. We had to just, we had to like, we went into like a weird storage building. Remember it was so cold. We had to like hide in a building. We went into like a delivery bay for some, yeah, like storage facility or something.

while we're waiting for the Uber to come. Yeah, to hide from the cold. Everyone here is some, you're all from the northeast, and obviously you're from the Midwest. You did all right. You did it. You did well. I'm not built for that. I can't really handle that level of cold.

I actually truly genuinely loved it because it snowed, when I was leaving, it was, it was so beautiful. It was beautiful. And it was, I liked, I like weather stuff like that when it's not dangerous. Yeah. Fires in L.A., not fun. Freezing cold temperatures in Chicago, if you're, you get the power, if you have power still, that's fun to me.

I like that. It's fun. It makes you feel alive, Wig. Yeah, it is one. Did you feel a little bit alive? Maybe for the first time. First time in your life? I am curious, because you don't obviously go to those temperatures a lot, do you have a proper winter coat?

I did not. No. I brought a light jacket. We warned you, we were looking at the weather and we were like, why, is it going to be negative? We were trying to warn you it was going to be bad. Yeah, well, I look, I'm dumb. That's part of what's going on with the podcast is that Mitch and I are both dumb. What the fuck?

We're both dumb pieces of shit. What the hell? Anyway, I mean, he's dumber, but like... What the fuck? So I look like a genius in comparison, but I'm also very stupid. I'm not that dumb. No, but I think people... Don't label me as dumb.

You're not dumb. You're a smart guy. This is the secret of the podcast. I want to go up against you and, well, we'll never get on celebrity jeopardy. And we're not going to get on regular Jeopardy. I can't get on Jeopardy now. I'm legally disqualified because I've met Jeopardy writers. Wow. So there's still quiz show laws.

For whatever reason, one of the few things in America that still regulated is quiz shows. I never met those writers. I would never met him. You could go on it. You should go on. To Boys was a clue on Jeopardy and it was truly a treat. It was a great moment for us. What was the guess?

These two fat fucks have the shittiest podcast. What is that one? Everyone said dope boys in unison. It was comedians, Nick Weiger and Mike Mitchell review fast food and chain restaurants in this podcast whose name evokes World War I Infantry Men. And the guy did get it. Yeah. Based from the infantryman thing. But I actually was to say comedians is in quotes there.

Yes. Wait, was it? No, no, it's not. No, it's not. It wasn't. one of these two co-hosts is the biggest collector of small wonder member billi yeah Mitch gets a it's you played up in the podcast but you're a smart man and you're a hardworking man no I don't no you're you're smart man you're hardworking man thank you Wags and those qualities often

don't come through and your care the caricatures that are presented on dope we're characters we're actors this is this is a performance all the world's a stage a 10 11 year performance we've done this for 11 fucking years that continues all off the podcast as well. Kind of a lifestyle. You're method. Yeah, we're method. Here's a question for you.

Best chicken in Chicago. I was just going to bring up. Best chai chicken. I was just going to bring up Heralds. I'm not sure if you've had Heralds. I've had Heralds as well. Yeah. We've had Harold.

Our buddy Jockees took us to Herald. That's what was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you had Jollaby? It's not in Chicago, but. I love Jollaby. We like Jollaby quite a bit. Yeah, I like the small Krispies.

It's really. The tight crisp. Really good, really good fried chicken. Delightful. The spaghetti, the sweet sauce is a little different, but I still have fun every time I go there. The banana ketchup. Yeah, it's just not as accessible Jollybee. There's one on like, there was one on maybe Melrose or something.

And it was like, Beverly. It's very hard to get into. It was very, very hard to get into. It's like right near an intersection, which is like, it just seems dangerous to go in there. And there's one in a mall in Glendale. But I mean dangerous to go in there. Yeah. That's the other one.

And that's where we went with Jonah Ray. Yeah, back to the day. But I'm hoping for their, like, Jollybee is doing very well. I hope they expand more in the States because I really like it. Yeah, me too. Great fried chicken. Is there any other Chicago local? Because we're, like, look, it's Munch Madness, 2006, the tournament of champions.

That's right. We've already established it. It looks like I'm nutting here. Yes, we have our new logo, which is us angry with our fists up. When you nut, you historically. show all your teeth. And this is definitely a nut in the jeans. Yeah, I just, yeah.

Wow. Got an angry face to overcompensate for it. But I got a hot load in there. March Madge Maddo's 26. It's MVW, Mitch versus Weigr. We're taking all the losers from past tournament of champions

and they're going up against each other's, our favorites. And we got a chicken heavy episode. Yes, we're talking chicken today. Where is chicken in your hierarchy of proteins? It's really up there. Yeah, I think it's my number one, probably, for animal proteins. I mean, I like beef more than chicken, I guess, but I eat chicken way more than I eat beef. Chicken is so versatile.

And fried chicken is my favorite overall food. I mean, fried chicken is not healthy, but yes, chicken in general, I'm probably a little healthier. I don't know. But it has a much lower floor than beef, I think we've talked about it. There can be, like, some bad chicken is really, really fucking bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But I, I mean. Like airport salad chicken is like, that's horrible. Any sort of cold chicken. Yes. Is a brutal. Usually. Yeah. Yeah.

I like a warm. I need some warm chicken. I don't, I like a, like, I need some warm chicken. I don't need the fucking, I don't need a cold chicken. I, like, it's rubbery. I mean, why even have cold? I don't even understand cold chicken. The one exception for cold chicken is like a chicken salad. I do like a good chicken salad.

Okay, I do like that. You've won me over immediately. I do like chicken salad. But like you're saying, it's just the idea of a cold chopped up chicken in a salad sucks. Like a chilled chicken breast. I don't need that. But it feels like it's not even just a chilled chicken. It's always like infused with too much wetness.

Yes, right. It changes the texture. 100%. Yeah. Rough stuff. Yeah. And so like beef, I'm always like, because you're not getting cold beef. You're always getting hot beef.

Unless you're getting a roast beef sandwich. But that's a different thing. It's a different thing, Mitch. Don't confuse me like this. Chicken is up. Chicken is right there. Beef is maybe my number one, but chicken is right there. And fried chicken...

Beef is your number one? I think beef is my number one. But my question is, is it because it's more specialty? I just love burgers and steaks so much. Yeah, I mean, that's, look, those are huge. Those are, like, two my favorite foods. I love a burger and a, and meatballs. Fuck.

Meatballs, but I mean, like, that's a little pork, too, I guess. Depends on the meatball, but yeah. Meatballs, meatballs. Some hot dogs. Burger, hot dogs. Man, I mean, like, that, that, it beats out everything for chicken for me. Right. Love wings.

I love fried chicken. Fried chicken's really good. I love a good chicken sandwich, but beef, beef wins out. Do you, the, the, Amelia, I know you're, we've talked about this, before, but you always roll the dice on fish. I believe is, yeah, but... Fish is your number one. Yeah, fish is number.

Wow. Do you have a specific creature of the sea? Salmon. Salmon. Yeah, I think that's a good call. Man, that's funny because that can also be so boring. But you get a good salmon. You get like a good, like, salmonagiri. Like, it's like, like, a sushi.

It's like, that's really fucking... Salmon is my favorite sushi. I like... Delightful. Any protein is boring if you don't season it. Great point. So, like, a chicken could be boring. It's true.

It absolutely can be. Relax, Mario, That's such a cool girl thing to be like, I like fish the most. For me, I'm just kind of a fish gal. Like, that is, like, I like pork. That's a very cool thing to like. That's so sweet. I'm going to disagree with you.

It's not, she's a, she will, like, she would eat like a big, big pot of old fish, I feel like. I mean, see, look at her face. I would make a chowder out of it. Mitch said big pot of old fish. And you were like, mm, okay. Now we're talking. She's like, I got a recipe for that. Emma, what's your number one protein?

I feel like we had this discussion pretty recently. I feel like if I went by what I eat the most, it's probably chicken. Yeah, sure. Yeah, chicken. Is that Jemmy's favorite? Yeah, Jemmy has chicken thighs for dinner every night. Okay. Oh, rich.

Yeah, we roast our chicken thighs from Costco, and she gets a cup of kibble and a little bit of chicken sprinkled on top. What a spoiled baby. Yeah, she's working. I saw what she had a bunch of chicken. what she was all cream today from when I saw. Yeah, she. She had a big mound of cream.

Yeah, she did have a big mouth of cream earlier. And then she had a crispy cod skin while we were eating our chicken. Mitch was conditioning her to get comfortable with a white substances. Jesus. I don't do anything with Jebby. I've never done anything with Gemmy. I joke about it too much. I won't leave her alone with him.

No, yeah. I love her as a whole. friend. I said this before. We're friends. I also love Jemmy as a friend. Yes. She's such a good friend. She's a great friend. So going into this, I gotta say this. Yeah. I just, you know Mortberg. Forkberg. Forkirk. Fork fucked me. Fork fucked me in the last episode. I got fucked by forked forked. I got forked. This was our Patreon episode we did this past Tuesday. The combatants were Costco pizza, which I love.

I love Costco pizza too. Versus Panda Express Chicken. Orange chicken. Now, the Pan Express orange chicken is great. That is a really, really elite fast food dish. Here's the thing you don't know about Moore. Ward is a vegetarian. Right. Well, you maybe did know this.

She probably does know that. She knows them well. Look at the first things you know about more. I'm just going to say it like she doesn't know it. Mort is a vegetarian. The first thing you don't know. Last name is Burke. From Chicago.

See, here's the second thing. He's off sugar. He doesn't eat sugar now. Yeah. Wow. So he can't have the orange chicken. from, so, but he can eat the cheese pizza from fucking Costco. And so my number one seed is the orange chicken.

He gets a side of chalemain and fucking greens. And the, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, he made an effort to have what he could have as a vegetarian from Panda Express. And if Pandexpress still had the Beyond Orange Chicken, which he said he loved, he would have just say it. They don't have it. They don't have it anymore. You know that fork fucked me.

Just say it. I'm just saying fork was, we wanted to get fork on the, on the episode. We want him on the show. We wanted him on the show. We can still fuck me. He fucked me over. I don't think he fucked you. I think he may have fucked you by way of being like honest by saying what's in his heart.

But I think he genuinely liked that Costco pizza more. He's lactose intolerant. He ate like four slices of them. He's lactose intolerant. Yeah, what the fuck is going on here? He ate four slices of fucking pieces. The pizza was that good, Mitch. That's why it won.

I got fucked by fork. Yeah, you get fucked by fork. I did. I got fucked. I didn't set a trap for you. Now, here's the thing. Would have orange chicken going up against Popeye's chicken? Orange Chicken from Panda Express against Popeye's.

Still a tough battle. I think that Popeye's chicken is... Against Popeyes or against B-dubs. These are both strong chains. These are both places I frequent. These are both places I enjoy their offerings. Mary, are you a fan of either of these restaurants before coming into this episode? I am a big Popeyes person.

Wow. B-Dubs has a place in my heart that is much older, very ecology. But I got to say, B-Dubs really surprised me tonight. Buffalo Wild Wings and Wack was its original formation, a formulation. It was, yeah, a beef sandwich. And then they dropped the whack. It's cleaner. It's now just Buffalo Wild Wings made the focus of the concept expanded nationally.

But yes, B-Dubs, I really do love going to a B-Dub. I rarely get takeout from it, but had a strong showing today. It did. I'm sorry, a whack? Beef on whack. W-E-C-K. Yeah. It's like a beef sandwich.

I thought he would say whack, too. I thought that I... It's from Buffalo, New York, I believe. It's thinly sliced rare roast beef on a Kaiser roll, basically. Cool. And this sandwich was developed 10 million years ago? Yes. No, I'm sorry, 42 years ago.

It is Munch Madness 11, the tournament champion's reheated rivalry. The rules of this year's tournament of champions as declared by Commissioner Susser. They're looking up how old the movie E.T. is again. That's how they got it? Roast beef on Weck I've heard of before. I have heard of that. Weck is technically from

the name of the role. It's a Kamalek role, technically, is what the fuck you, what's going on over there? It's not that, yeah, it's Wikipedia. I'm living at the name of it. Cummoleck. Come a whack? Does it sound dirty?

It says it sounds like cum. You know what? It does have come as the first syllable. All right. We've recorded too much today. We can't do three episodes anymore. We can't do three in a row. You've lost your mind.

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It's really good. This thing does clean up pretty easily. Wow. Just give it a quick wipe and store and go. It is much madness 11. The Tournament of Champions reheated rivalry. Here are the rules of this year's tournament of champions as declared by Commissioner Susser. Number one, losers only.

Choose your fighter. Mitch and Wager each pick four past tournament losers to enter the bracket. Number two, for whom the bell doesn't dough, since it won mouth of the border, all of Taco Bell is disqualified. Oh, God. We put on another episode of Small Wonder, and this is fucking going to take 20 minutes. Next rule, you're eating heart. Since he previously won the Heart of the Champion Award, Armand Whiteman is not disqualified. That rule was already enacted on the first episode where he was a guest.

Number, the next one, tie goes to the dinner. If the match ends in a tie, the tiebreaker is whichever chain the commissioner decides you could get a better actual dinner at. Hmm, I wonder what his answer would be today. is a good, because it's more of a sit-down experience, certainly at B-dubs. I would, I would think that gets the nod, but I wonder, you can get a complete family meal at Popeyes as well. For instance, I-Hop would win the tie-a-breaker over Starbucks, because you can get a proper

meal at's I-Hop as opposed to Starbucks. What would you think is more of a problem? I don't know what I'm saying B-dubs. Maybe. I think so, too. Yeah. Like, we're going to go out, we're going out for dinner afterwards. If I was like, let's go to Popeyes. You'd be like, alright, or maybe I'll just go home. I was like, we'll all go to B-dubs.

Then just like, yeah, well have fun. Sit down, you can get like a starch of veggie and protein. A skillet cookie. You're not going to get that over at the ice. 100%. And also, you know what? Here's a big one. You can get a salad at B-Dubbs.

You can get a salad B-Dubbs. I think it's, that's... But you can get red beans and rice at Popeyes. That's true. Excellent Cajun Fry. Yeah. God, those are so fucking good. Uh, wait, where were we?

I just did Tygos the dinner. Oh, Jesus. Christ, don't start over again. I'll kill myself truly. Should I just start from the top? Jesus. Next rule, you got to dance with the one who brought you. If the restaurant qualified in a cat

specific tournament, only items for that category can be considered for this tournament. That means that both of these chains, which entered by virtue of the tournament chicken fight, are competing in the chicken category. Next rule, Eaton ain't cheating. Enough said. No, it's not enough said. I'm just reading the rule. But Amelia and I decided today that not eating is cheating.

Yeah. Eaton ain't cheating and not eating is cheating. So Armin cheated in the first round. Yeah. Interesting. So is his vote disqualified? Is he banned again? Yeah, Armin's banned again.

Armand's banned again. All right. Next rule, mild card. The commissioner gets one pick that he can introduce in any single match to turn it into a triple treat match. I'm really, this is one of this, because Susser just sent me these rules and they just copy pasted it on this. They have typos. Because it says get on pick. I got to change this to gets one pick.

There we go. Let me just fix that in my notes. Also, how did you get mustard stain on a digital document? I don't know how that's possible. whichever host chain wins the cup will get a bonus mystery prize from the commissioner so if it's a Mitch chain if it's I don't know I pointed myself why I said that well it's a Mitch chain or a Wyger chain yes uh if if your chain wins you get a mystery prize if I my chain wins I get a mystery prize a mystery prize from Susser from Susser so it's not going to be good

it's probably be something making fun of us or whatever uh you know like a toddler size condom for Mitch or something like that what the fuck why did you only use me as an example I don't know It would be just kind of thing that he would be like, hey, let me get that for Mitch to make fun of him, you know. Yes, yes, yes, a toddler-sized condom for the toddlers that are fucking. The fuck are you talking about toddler-sized condom? I meant toddler, like toddler fit. It's not like four toddlers. I don't think a condom would ever use toddler fit.

Probably not. You're right. You know, that's a good note. Not about that hotline ring. If Mitch's ring alarm goes off during record, he is disqualified from voting. I turn my phone off now, actually. rule has already been nullified by Mitch. I think that this rule is stupid. Oh, fuck, I'm just taking screen gap.

I can't turn my phone off. And now Siri is, I, I, is it hard to, is it hard to turn off your phone? Do you have to hold the power and the volume and you just hold them? Hold both of them? Yeah, until the thing pops up. They changed it now in an iOS update. They did? It is like, hit the up button, then the down button.

That's what I thought I was too. Up volume, down volume and then hold the side button. I just did it, Emma's way and it worked though. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Maybe neither of us have updated in a while because I, Damn it. This is the Fitbird region, Buffalo Wild Wings versus Popeyes.

Both of these entrants are from her second ever tournament of champions 2017's chicken fight. Fitbird, like a British guy saying it. Yeah. I think you have to say it in a British accent if you're going to do that. It's a fit bird, isn't it? You know what? Never mind. Don't do that.

We should have got it. We should, yeah. It's fine. It's fine. I did a good job. You should congratulate yourself. I did a good job. All right.

I quit acting because I'm too good at it. That's the problem. 11 years out of the improv game, this guy over here. 11 whole years. Not that long. I think it's just 10, right? You said it was 2015. So now it's now when you're 11.

You're in year 11 now. But it's only been 10 years. Sharp as ever. Sharp as ever. Oh, what a thing to stay. Stay out of the game. Stay out of the game. He would never, he never would go back again.

No, I won't go back. Driving to the east side to do an improv. We would never do that ever again. No, I don't want to, no. Yeah, and Amelia would think less of me. Amelia's seen a lot of my improv, and when she brings up her favorite improv, has never said my name. Yeah. It's Zach Cherry.

We know. We know you love Zach Cherry as an improviser. I do, too. He's funny. He's a funny guy. You're my second favorite. Oh, fuck off. More of an insult to call him your second favorite.

I hate all improv. There you go. Great stance. Thank you, Emma. Great stance. That's correct. Mitch, so, okay, your pick was Buffalo Wild Wings, which lost in the first round of the wing region,

a two Wingstop. And you actually voted for Wingstop in that match. I did. But you've come around to Buffalo Wild Wings. I've come around to Buffalo Wild Wings because I think it's a good experience altogether. I think Wingstop is very like you pop. And you know what? The world has changed since.

The world has changed and Wingstop has actually declined a bit. And Buffalo Wild Wings, because of the pandemic, such a sit-down concept has upped its game in terms of delivery and takeout. And there is just like, I want to go and sit at a Buffalo Wild Wound. now more than I want wingstop to go or whatever. 100%. I do like wingstop wings, but I think that they have slid a little bit. They've declined a little bit. Look, this

is my fourth seed. This is my weakest opponent in the entire thing, I think. But I think they did do a good job today. We'll get into it. My pick was Popeyes, which lost in the finale of that tournament to the winner Wendy's, although this, again, predated the existence of Popeye's chicken sandwich. And also missed, I mean, at the time we said Wendy's isn't a decline, and then it's gone into such a decline since

that. We were a fan of Wendy's at all over? I loved Wendy's. What happened? They got bought by venture capitalists or whatever the fuck happened, right? Was that what happened? They did. They changed hands a couple of times.

And it's just one of those things where they're just, they're making all these, like they switch to shredded lettuce. They changed the fries again. They're just making these little alterations, these small little declines and quality. They're charging more and the quality of their food is, they're getting cheaper quality food. It's like the thing that, oh, it happens with every place in the place in the the world. We're in a bad spot. It's a

bad spot. I'm glad actually you're saying this because I was like, am I wrong? Because the jacket potato was like my favorite thing and it's really gone downhill. Spicy Chicken sandwich also gone downhill. Yeah, I know. Spicy chicken sandwich, which I, to me was like, one of my favorites, an Alzheimer. One of, one of the top fast food items and I'm like,

you're destroying, it's like, it's like someone going in destroying the Big Mac. It's like you fucked up the big, like, the Big Mac has been the same for however, what, like 40 years or something? I think it was a little later from, it wasn't like an original item, right? No, they came out. 40 or 50 years old. It's an old, old menu item. It's like, could you imagine like destroying that and changing it? Why would you ever do that? And they did

that to the spices you can sandwich. The lettuce is gone. They put they put shredded lettuce on it now. It's fucking sucks. They found, they found a way to like save like four cents per unit and decided it was worth it. It's just like always the fucking hyper-optimization of these companies. I like business and four cents per unit does sound very enticing. So I don't, but, but to destroy my favorite savings. And way, it's such a bummer. I'm sorry to go back, but I am so curious at Wingstop. Do you like the corn?

I'm not really a corn guy in general. Do you get the corn there? I love the corn there. Okay. I like the, I like, here's the issue with corn and I found out in my life. Corn gives me the rumbly swipes. Yeah. Corn gives me, I get like a, I love popcorn.

I love corn on the cob. And I like the corn at Wingstop, but I'm always getting rumblies from it. So I try not to do it as much. I don't know why. I like Wingstops fries. I think they are good. You do. You like their cheese sauce.

And I do like a... I think overall... You get a lot of veggies with their orders. You get a lot of celery and carrots. Well, there was a very interesting revelation today. Should I say it now? I should say it now. Yeah, say it.

Mary? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I am doing good. I'm doing good. There was a revelation today that you made. You're doing good.

Thank you. Thank you, Emma. Oh, fuck off. Second. I like it. Fuck off you. You do good. There was a very interesting revelation today.

I think that this is maybe why, I think that Wingstop cooks its wings really well, and they have a good fry on their wings. Yes. Wingstop also does do a lot of dry rubs. There was a revelation today for Mary that she loves a dry rub on her wing. I also love a dry rod. And I think with Buffalo Wild Wings,

when you're getting sauce, and Emma, I think you maybe said this too, they just get a little bit, they get a little bit soggy. They get sogged out. You said Wingstop a couple of times, I think you did mean Buffalo Wild Wings, but Wingstop does offer dry rubs as well. I'm sorry. I think I did.

I'm not doing well. I was not doing well. I ordered two dry rubs myself and, you know, I've said it before. I'll say it again, dry rub. Bad hand job, great wing. You have. You know that I love a dry, I, I, I, that's how I prefer it. I like a dry rub.

Yeah. I go home tonight. I put Wally and Irma in their bed. Right. I go to the bathroom. I see there's some lubiderm. I say, no, thank you. A dry rub, yes on wings, no on self-hand jobs or any sort of hand job.

Yeah, Jacking off, that's kind of a self-hand job. Yeah, Jacking off is a self-hand job. I have really come around. I wanted to get the Buffalo dry rub today. And there was, look, not to say that you're trying to tank me here. I'm absolutely not trying to tank you. Fork fucked me, and you did kind of set that up in a way. I didn't set that up.

You were trying to fix stuff. I know you were trying to fix stuff, but it did kind of end up fucking me. And then today, you told Amelia for my order to get me boneless. Now, hold on. You said wings. I specified bone in wings for mine. You never, you did, like, you've never ordered, I've never seen you order bone in wings. You always order boneless.

So this is me as your podcast partner and a longtime friend being like, I think Mitch likes boneless, so why don't we make his order that? I said this in the group text that you are a participant in. You did not see it. I was moving and shaken. I was doing business. I was trying to save us four cents per unit on the dough boys bumper stickers.

I was, it's been chaos in that fucking group text. Yeah, I know. I was doing a podcast this morning, and hold on, now I get to yell at you. We're doing this episode at 6.30 p.m. motherfucker.

You could have asked me if I wanted bone and wings in the studio. We set up scheduled all the orders before we started today. Yeah, I scheduled them before we started. Because it's a pain of the ass to do it. It's a logistical nightmare. Also, I will say I put the order in, like in a big text a couple times throughout the day.

And it says boneless. I'm looking at it right now. It says, Mitch, boneless wings. Hold on a second. I said boneless. No, no, her checking up on the list. Like, here's what's being ordered today. It was not specified.

You fucked me. All of you fucked me. No one's trying to fuck you. Everybody's trying to fuck me. I'm trying to fuck this. whole bracket. You're doing a good job. Because there's no fish?

Yeah. That would be nice if we get some fish in here. A fish tournament would be fun. Yeah, that would be fun. Jesus Christ. Where we go? The fish tournament? I don't know.

I guess we could do like sweet fin, long John Silver's. Any pokey? Yeah, any pokey. We have a pokey division. You could go to like, you could go to like, uh. Sweet. You said sweet, did you see sugarfish? We could do sugarfish.

Yeah, we could do sushi. We could do sushi. Sugarfish. maybe wins that. All right. What's a Kazunori, the hand roll play the same chef? We've never even reviewed Kazuari, have you? No, we have. We reviewed it with our friend Joanna Kahlo. I don't remember. Oh, right.

I do remember. That was fun. You went to one Marina Del Rey. I remember that. I went to Marina Del Rey. Did you go? Yeah, I was there. You all went. How do you remember none of this? I remember that they had parking, the I remember Joanna being there. Yeah, I was there. Yeah, it was very, very fancy. I do remember that.

I do, I do remember that. I do, I do remember that. There was grass in the bar. It was very Marina del Rey fancy. Right. It was a long drive for me that you do every day. You were a little late because you accidentally went to Lana Del Rey. I wish. She married a gator guy.

I know. She married a gator guy. I'm a piece of shit. Why not me? I don't think he's a piece of shit. Well, I don't know. Who knows? He's a gator guy.

I could have got with... Are you a gator guy? Here's the thing, Mitch. It sucks the gator guy. has a better personality than me. I don't know. I mean, he looks better, too. There's a lot of things.

Love isn't just based on if you're a gator guy or not. You're such a successful actor and comedian, but there are times maybe you think, and I think we all have these thoughts that, like, hey, if I stayed back in Boston and been a duckboat operator, maybe it would have gotten more Poon-Tang. Yeah, probably. At least I would be able to take some ladies out on the duck boat, at least.

I'm a mentor. I love to mentor you. Miss, please. Once I take that duck bottle off dry land into the water, the ladies go crazy. They're going to love that. No more dry land. It's actually, yeah.

What is that thing when you're out in the water and it's, anything is legal, anything goes? International waters. I don't think the rivers in Boston are international waters. It's like many miles off the shore into that. pretty clearly part of America's territory. I was like, I don't even know what we're trying to say here. I don't know.

Driving a boat full of women into international waters because anything goes. That's not. International wonders. This is not. Epstein's planet. All right. First of all, deis, calm down over there. You got too wild.

I'm just going to turn our mic off. I do not need to take women to international waters. I like being, I like the laws of the land. to be clear. Mitch, Mitch, I was just trying to say that. I just like, I just say that I think that the ladies would like when you go off the, the hard road into the water, I think that's a bit, it's a big moment.

It's cool. I've been on a duck boat tour. They're very fun. Yeah. I've never been on one. I'd like to go. You should, I can't believe, you've been to Boston multiple times. I can't believe you haven't done.

We should get you on one. Yeah, let's make it happen. We're never going to do a live show there again. Why not? It's too much work. It's honestly too much work for me. I felt like the 10-year one just felt like, we can't top. that in Boston.

We'll never go to Portland, Maine or something. There you go. And then we can have you, yeah, we'll go down for the, yeah. I'll take you on to international waters.

Brato me? 100%. Mary, you got the bone in wings medium and cellular with rent. You know we're talking wings. First off, I mean, I take it from your order

that you prefer bone into bone list. Oh yeah, always bone. Do you like the drumette or do you like the flat? I'm so glad you asked always flat. Yeah, me too.

I love the flats. Wow. Always flat. I love a drumette. I know, I think, like, to me, it's sad because it's like the wing eater, there's a thing with wing eaters where they're like, the flats are actually the more sophisticated of, of the wings. And it kind of draws. Thinking man's wing.

I thinking man's wing, why? Because you have to eat inside of it. Yeah, I mean, it's a little more work to it. What are you talking about? I just like the proportions of it a little bit better. Me too. I love the drummets are good. A drummets just always very well, it's crispy.

Like, there's things I really like about the drumette. I agree. Yeah. Part of what's fun about wings to me is that you get both. So it's like, even though I like flats more, I like that you get both. And I'm not one of those people who gets all flats, though I certainly respect the all flats or the all drums people. I've been friends with both. Good wings on both sides.

To me, it's just a lot of work of eating out the, the, um, the, uh, I think you oppose in general. Oh, DJ Callet over there. And another one. I, uh, I, I don't. I, as far as love making goes, sure, yes, I will do that for a lady. It's very nice of you. I'll do that. If she really wants that, I will do that.

If she really wants it. As far as eating the wings go, like, you're going to push the meat out and it's a little bit more vainy in there. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's a lot. There's some vascularity. There's some vascularity. Yeah, I guess that's a grosser way to say it. You're becoming aware that you're eating an animal a little bit more.

Yeah. And the drummats are just like, they're crispy, the crisp is perfect, you're biting into, I'm a big fan of the drummers. I like the flats too. I like them both. And also it's fun to see Gaborst do his thing where he just puts a flat in the house. It's a really good technique. It's cool. It is cool.

Can you do that? Probably. But I don't try, I haven't tried it. I've tried it. It does not come off as easily as you'd think. I think you could do it. He's very snake-like in many ways. I've got a huge mouth.

He's got a huge mouth and a huge tongue. It's true. I mean, the top 1% of jaw sizes. Show off the tongue in the mouth. I don't want to... Just show it, show it, show it. All right, let me open the mouth. And now extend that tongue.

It's pretty big. Wow. It's substantial. I think the mouth is bigger than the tongue. But my tongue's pretty long. Yeah. No, but I saw... The room is in stunned silence.

You chilled us. I mean, it doesn't... I'm enjoying Mary's reaction to that. I was like, okay. Oh. Oh, wow. Yeah. It also doesn't help when you're like, it's, I mean, like, it is very, it is a very freak showy where you're like, fine, I'll open the mouth and then you pushed your mic away.

And then like, you made a whole show of it. I'm trying to be a showman. I know. It was a whole show. It's crazy. It's a big, it is. He has, he is in the top 1% of mouth sizes. It's true.

I got measured. This is because I was having a severe jaw pain and I saw a specialist and he, like, measured my jaw as part of it. He was like, you're in the top 1% of jaw sizes. You're one of the largest mouths I've ever measured. my career. Wow. Isn't that wild? So are you just...

And then he retired. I've done it all. I can't help me. Can you house like a very large sandwich then? I guess I can. But we like it's not a thing like I don't like test it often. But I guess I sometimes just don't realize this is my mouth size. I've seen him eat an apple.

He just, he just puts the whole thing in his mouth. Do we pitch that format on here that the, the, doing an episode where we'll just see if I could fit something in my mouth or not? We did in Chicago. You pitched, uh, you pitched, uh, you just, tried putting your fist in your mouth on side and you're like we should do an episode okay yeah we'll figure out of you put it out of your mouth I said that you pulled a gun out of your mouth I it is impressive it it does it changed the

tone of the room changed after that happened let me say this all of the wings were great desert heat was my favorite but I just like that's a go-to for me every time I go to B-dubs I think it's like the right intensity and your bone in wings and oh I'm sorry we're I'll get ahead of myself. We'll talk about the Popeyes, which was a little bit different. You did not go super hot with this. You got medium. But I thought those were good wings as well.

Well, sauce. I'm so sorry. Everyone was saying how good they were. I found the sauce to be overwhelming. Oh, interesting. I felt like it, obviously, it's not going to travel as well, sure. But I felt like it thickened and it intensified in salt. Yeah, definitely.

Certainly, I think that's fair. And again, another reason the dry rub is just a little bit of a safer bet. They were great. The salt and vinegar dry rub, Mitch, not a go-to for me, but those are yummy. Why? I'm going to say this. Yeah. A happy accident getting boneless wings. That was maybe my bite of the night.

They were beautiful. Those are great. The salt and vinegar nugs or maybe my bite of the night. Crispy, very crispy. They were? Had a good taste to them. Just a little kick of vinegar. Maybe it swung things for me.

Those spicy garlics I like quite a bit too. Those are a little saucy. They were a little saucier. I mean, and the travel factor, I think, didn't help much. Those more suffered from what I would. was talking about from what Mary was just mentioning. Conover's here. Oh, Conover's here? Okay.

Was that Conover? Yeah, it was. Great. Oh, how about that? You're just going to come in and take over a studio? Actually, if you squat a studio, you completely recording it. All right, well, man knows law. We love him.

He's love it. He's actually here because they're going to raise the height of all the doorways in here to fit his hair. They're going to keep the doorers the same size, but then they're going to just cut a thing apart for us hair. Great guy. Great guy. We love him. I hope he's eating some Popeyes in there. I hope so, too.

Speaking of, should we get? Well, how would you, lemon pepper also would go to for me. I really like the lemon pepper. You know my thing with lemon chicken is that I was sick a long time ago. My mom was making lemon chicken, and I got sick. And I, like, have always had that. Like, I remember she was cooking it in the kitchen. I smelled.

I wasn't even that I ate. I smelled it and then I got sick. And it's always been tough for me. But I do eat it. I am an adult. I still eat lemon chicken. Like, it's not a thing that I'm like, forever it's done for. Lemon pepper is intense.

I think it's a little, and I thought it was the most intense flavor of all the flavors we got. That wasn't sourced. It wasn't my favorite of the bunch. But I didn't think it was bad. I'd put, I put Desert Heat 1 for me. I'm just talking my own. Desert Heat 1. Salt and vinegar 2.

probably lemon pepper three, and then the bone in medium, and then the spicy garlic after that. I think just the dry rubs were better than the sauces. But they're all really well-fried wings. They were good. They were excellent. Yeah, because with a flat, if it's not fried hard, don't let that into your bard. Don't let that into your bard. Bards famously sing in their mouths and barred a...

Finally, an intellectual. A slang term for your old, we'll call it there. Your old pie hole. Don't let them into your bard. I'm with you. Don't let them into your bard. Don't let them into your bard. I'm going to say this.

I love that chicken from Popeyes. Love that chicken for Popeyes. I love that chicken from Popeye. Can they say one more thing about B-Dubs real quick? Yeah, sure. They give you a nice big, like a fucking cup of soup of ranch. We had so much ranch, like an ample amount of ranch. I would have liked some blue cheese.

Kind of a bummer they didn't include that. I played Amelia. I think she maybe forgot it. But I did order it, it just didn't come. Okay. But a lot of ranch, and I think they have a high quality ranch. Yeah, that's good. So I was pretty satisfied with that.

I love that chicken from Popeyes. I really do like, I like Buffalo Wild Wings. I love the Bard and Jake. He's my favorite character in Shakespeare. The Immortal Bard. The Immortal Bar. Oh, wait. He is Shakespeare himself.

Yes. In a way, my favorite Shakespeare is my favorite character. Because without Shakespeare, where do you don't have King Lear? You don't have McBeth. We're not supposed to say that inside. 11 years out of the game and it's still in him. Wow. Yes, yes.

This improv scene would be killing. You said his, you said the name of that play and then the tournament could go sideways after you said. I said the name of the Scottish play. You said the name of the Scottish play. I think you could say, like I don't, I think it's like in a theater. I don't think the podcast. Well, let's see what happens. with the rest of the tournament.

Yeah, I guess, look, I don't, I don't know if it's a bad omen me saying the name of the Scottish play. And I don't think it depends on if this is technically a theater or not, which I don't know if it is. Oh, I think this is a, I think this counts as a theater. In 2006, I think a podcast studio is a theater. Wow, that's depressing. I quit. What does become of our industry?

Right? We started doing this. We're like, this is what we're going to be doing? Does Shakespeare make cameos in his plays like Alfred Hitchcock? Does he do that? It's more of an Mnite-Shamele-on thing. He's not very good. It's really distracting.

He's clearly an amateur. Let me finish my damn thought. I love that chicken from Bupyes. I thought that Buffalo Wild Wings had a good outing today. And I'm happy that we're just doing it on the chicken because we had some sides and the sides did not travel well and felt pretty. The pickles were not great. Had some fries, had a brownie. Did you have the brownie yet?

No. Yeah. No need. We were so stuffed. I was feeling really sick. Take the brownie. Take anything you want. You can take anything.

Honestly, anything in the studio, including equipment you can take. Yeah, you can take all that stuff. Yeah. We're kind of doing a mafia bust out on Higgum Studios. Um, actually, that's not yours. Why am I roasting? He's a nice guy. He's a nice guy.

Quick, run through the exit. That doesn't have the hair cut out. I get, uh, ah, ah, ah. Sorry, Tammy. A very nice man I was wagging my legs He was stuck his hair got him stuck in the doorwell Anyways the doorwell

Whatever this is my fourth podcast of the day I'm trying as hard as I can here And I think we're knocking out of the park Back to the chicken Yes I love that chicken from pop-bice The sides were bad The sides are bad

I think the wings This is such an underdog battle here with Popeyes versus B-dubs? You think so? I think it is. I think it is. I think you love Popeye so much. I absolutely love Popeye's too.

Popeyes is great. And I think that B-dubs came to play today. That's all I have to say. They came to play. Very solid outing from Buffalo Wild Wings. Let's talk Popeyes. We split all this we were kind of sharing because we're just having chicken,

you know, a whole bunch of bone and chicken and some chicken sandwiches. We got an eight-piece classic signature chicken box, 50-50 classic and spicy mixed. I like the spicy because I'm a bit of a heat seeker. We got classic chicken sandwich times two and a spicy chicken sandwich times too. We split all of those. And we also got the Mary, you got the six-piece ghost pepper rub bone-in wings. I was really excited for these because, again, I'm a bit of a heat seeker.

And it's a dry rub, which is nice. And a small side of fried pickles, which weren't great. I'm going to say this. I didn't care too much for the wings. Really? I liked them. I thought they were just okay. I thought they were good.

Well, again, I just said if it's not fried hard, you're not coming to the bard. But I can't believe if I'm saying this, I felt like the Popeye's wings fried too hard. They were pretty crunchy. They're pretty crispy. Yeah, like I lost the meat of it. You know what's crazy to me is I think that Popeye's has great fried chicken. Yeah. But those wings to me tasted like a fast food item as opposed to Buffalo Wild Wings wings, which tasted like a restaurant's wings.

Yeah, they're not a specialty. Calm down. They're not a specialty. Period. They're not like a specialty wing place. You didn't like that I was emphasizing it, Wags? I don't know. You're just beating the hell out of the couch.

Yeah, it was. I'm mad as hell. You're going to be doing that. Why are you mad as hell? Oh, yeah, I don't know. It's a good question. I thought we're having fun. Yeah, I am.

I think it's fair. This is not a wing restaurant. And Buffalo Wild Wings' wings should be better because that's what they do. That's true. They only fairly recently started offering wings. Now, maybe they shouldn't have done it to begin with. That was up to them. But I don't think they should be offering basically like a standalone, like, fried chicken version of wing because that's just a completely different thing than a Buffalo wing.

You know, it's just not what you exactly expect. And so it's too breaded. I'm going to say this. I thought when I went into this, and I'm genuinely not sure anymore that I was going to when the intense music played and you asked me if I was going to change my vote. Yeah. because we're going in with something that we're going to vote for Nick, and then we're going to ask ourselves, will we change our vote?

I thought I was going to change it to Popeyes. Now I'm not too sure. Let's say this. We just critique the Ghost Pepper Rub, Bone, and Wings. I still like them, but yes, I could have used a little bit more heat in them because I'm a bit of a heat seeker. Couldn't the spicy chicken use a little more heat? Hold on.

Hold your horses. We critique the small side of fried pickles. The classic chicken, the signature chicken, is great. It's well fried. The meat is tender. It's juicy. And the classic chicken sandwich, and especially the spicy chicken sandwich were delicious. I thought those were both fucking great. I loved that side of the menu I thought was really, really yummy. Do you disagree? I don't disagree. Okay. It's very good. I'll say this. My non-spicy, I had the chicken.

chicken breast is the non-spicy, it was a little dry. That was my only critique. The chicken breast. The thigh I had was good. I had a thigh, a classic thigh that was juicy as hell. It was fucking delicious. And the spicy drumstick I had was also just fucking great. It had a good, decent amount of heat to it.

And, you know, like I mentioned, I'm looking for that because I'm a bit of a heat seeker. The classic chicken sandwich I like, it's got like this, you know, it's got like this cummy mayo on it. And then the spicy chicken sandwich has like a redder sort of the sort of hotter sauce, which, you know, I would tend to lean towards because I'm a bit of a heat seeker. And I really like that spicy chicken sandwich a lot. Like that's a go-to for me. I thought those stuff was fucking great. And I think it was a good execution of it.

And in fairness, we are the Buffalo Wild Wings first. So you talk about fork fucking you, Mitch. This is maybe Mitch fucking me. How? Because we all got full on Buffalo Wild Wings. oh, now it's time to eat Popeyes, and the Popeyes have been sitting for a little bit, and the Buffalo Wild Wings is a little fresher.

The Buffalo Wild Wings was actually sitting more than the Popeyes was. I'll take it away. The Popeyes, I put in a Yeti cooler or thermos. What the fuck? No, no, it's the cooler that does, it keeps these hot or cold, depending on what you put in it. No, I know. What did you do with the Buffalo Wild Wings?

There was no more room left, so the Buffalo Wild Wings went outside. This is insane. Well, one got here first, right? Yeah, the one that got here first, I put in the cool, or the warmer. This feels fair. This feels like the way to do it. What was the difference in timing between them coming? Ten minutes.

Well, we ate them pretty much, pretty just quickly after they arrived. We ate them like a half an hour after they were like that. It was not a half hour. It was not a long. No, no, no, no. No, we had them pretty quickly after they arrived. I think you're, I think this is bullshit. We also ate, what, hold on.

But what, but what this comes down to is the Buffalo Wild Wings arrived later and we ate it earlier. So that is a little bit of a tactical advantage on its side. Oh, God damn. Just a little bit. I'm just saying. It didn't get the Yetty bag treatment. Yeah, didn't get the Yetty bag. I know.

You have the other Yetty bag at your house. Bring it. Wait, what do you have? The red hot one from the Taco Bell thing. Yeah, that's my own personal Yetty bag. The hell? Don't be like that. Zach Cherry would never.

He'd be getting everyone personalized Yettie bags. You want us to get you personalized the Yeti bags? No, no. another, I have, you spoiled, Deyes. Where are my Yeti bag, my Taco Bell Yachtie bag go? There was, we got two of them. Amelia took one for pickup. Okay, so that one was, yeah.

And they used his to carry one home and he was like, I'll bring it back. But I do. No, I know, that's not true. I plan on keeping that forever. Oh, you said you were going to bring it back. You said I'm going to use this to carry my stuff home and I'll bring it back. Oh, no, I was going to bring back another Yeti bag. I like that, I like that Yetty bag.

It's, we were given the Yetty bags. It's fine, yeah. I just wondering, yeah. yours. No, that's fine. It's a good use for it. I was going to suggest that. Don't we have another Yetty bag? It's not a Yeti. It's another one, but I didn't expect to need it

today. We did have another Yiddhi. We did use to have another like Yetti brand bag years ago, but it went missing. It might be in the storage unit, but we haven't seen it for years. So before we buy you 10 more Yettie bags, we don't Jim Carrey.

We don't normally have two changes of the thing. This is a special part about Munch Madness. So Amelia, understandably, is not prepared for it. Two chains himself. Two chains. Of course. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know what you were saying. You still got it. That improv stuff. Over is now leaving. Maybe he just came to use the bathroom with Amelia and I will do it from the bar. I like my Yeti bag. You don't touch it.

You don't touch it. I'll bring in another. You're feisty. You're being feisty. The daze is out of order. And everyone in American agree, sometimes you've got to yell at your footies. It's true. No.

Got to enforce discipline. Assert who's boss. We got Taco Bell Yeti. We got Taco Bell Red, Mike's. Oh my God. Franks. Franks Red Hot. Mike's Red Hot.

Franks Red Hot Yetty Coolers. They're cool as hell. Yeah, they're very cool. Yeah, they're a jetty coolers. The Yeti coolers. You can use them as a cooler or you can put hot stuff in it will keep it warm or you can put cold stuff and it will keep it cold. They brought us a whole bunch of stuff when they were doing their Franks Red Hot promotion. Yes.

And they dropped it all off. And, you know, they were like, you're the hot ones guys, right? And they're like, uh, yeah. Yeah. Well, what they don't. I mean, I also remember, I thought that it said Mitchell on the, they had jerseys for us. said Taco Bell. Yeah.

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Anyways, I didn't know, I didn't know, you fucked up really bad, you probably ruined the tournament, it's fine. No, the Buffalo Wild Wings got here later. Yeah. It wasn't sitting out as long as the Pop-U-I-I.

It's fine. I think made the right decision. Look, the way it happens, it happens, we can't count on that. We still had a good outing, and despite us being pretty full on Buffalo Wild Wings, we still got to have a good Popeyes experience. So I think this was, as much as you can kind of side by side these things,

this is an exercise in excess. We are going to be a little bit overstuffed. And that's just the nature of it. But I think given all of that, I think we can still be objective and declare which one is superior, which one is the winner, which one is going to go to Miles Corridge to give to his son's spider to persuade him to join the villainous Ash Navi of the Monquan. I was pointing, I was pointing it. Oh, first of all, there's some.

million different insane things happening. Yeah. That's insane already. And then I pointed at Emma to get the music ready and she looked at me like I, like, like I, you looked at me like I was a piece of shit. No, I didn't mean that. I wasn't sure. I was pointing out her and she was looking at me on.

You're scared. Basically. Well, I was going to say, Millie and I did our own experiment with the chicken sandwiches. We should talk about this. Oh, please. I want to hear about this. We got the spicy chicken sandwich from Buffalo Wild Wings and from Popeyes and we split them. Whoa.

To do a little side by side. So we did not get the spicy chicken sandwich from Buffalo Wild Wings. You need to tell us these things. I'm living. We did our little side experiment. So you got an item that we did not have, which is the Buffalo Wild Wings spicy chicken sandwich. I don't think I realized you guys didn't have that because you did have the Popeyes one, right? And I will say this, you guys were like, our sandwich is pink in the middle for the Buffalo Wild Wings. And I said, I think it might be the plate.

There was a pink plate. And it was reflecting on, there was an optical illusion reflecting onto the chicken sandwich. Yeah, it was. So it was not undercooked. So it wasn't undercooked. But we split them. And I think we had the. Same thought.

We had the same decision on which one was better. Should you say it? What is it? Popeyes. Yeah, of course. The Buffalo Wild Wings one compared to Popeyes was like not spicy. It was like basically a regular chicken sandwich. And then the Popeyes one had like genuine spice and crisp to it.

I'm just going to say this. The Popeye's chicken sandwich might, I mean, especially with Wendy's going downhill, it's probably the best thing. We loved, we loved the Wendy spicy chicken sandwich. I think the Popeye's chicken sandwich and this is a whatever, this is like a very basic opinion. I think it's just the best chicken sandwich out there right now. It's so fucking good.

and like, it was so crispy. I will say the Buffalo, I thought the Buffalo Wild Wings bun was nicely toasted, like it had a crisp to it, but the chicken was far superior on the Popeyes. This goes back to what I was saying about the wings from Popeyes. It's just like, you know, Popeyes does the chicken sandwich and they do their bone in chicken. Like, that's what you go there for, as well as the red beans and rice, some of their choice sides. Buffalo Wild Wings does wings, and then that's what you're there for. And they have a few other things that are good.

You know, I think that's some pretty good, what's the word I'm trying to look for? Curds. There's some pretty good cheese curds. I was going to say wings. They have some pretty good wings. That's what I was trying to say, wings. They have good cheese curds, and they have, they have a few good apps. They have, I like their burger quite a bit, actually.

They got Beck Bennett as a spokesperson. They got Beck Bennett as a spokesperson. He's the big buffalo. Yeah, I think it's fucked up. He took that job for a round as easy. After, after, we lost. him in 9-11. It's just so...

It's so sad. He died in 9-11? Yeah. It's a shame. God bless you, Steve Ranazizi. God bless him. I have a question for you. Which is pointing again.

Amma, next time he does that, just have a fart sound cute up. You just make that? That was pretty good. That was pretty good. Nick Weiger. Yes. In the battle between Popeye's chicken and Buffalo Wild Wings.

Your choice was Popeye Chicken. Popeye's chicken. Yes. Are you changing your vote? Buffalo Wild Wings far exceeded my expectations today. As a to-go proposition, I would be like what's going to lose some of its magic,

even though we've had to go B-Dubs in the past. To-go proposition, okay, go on. Like, to me, this is a dining experience, and you're losing a lot of its, what's so estimable about, this place by removing that element. But the chicken stands on its own. The wings were high quality.

They were no doubt superior to the ghost pepper rub bone in wings from Popeyes. And I will say, a bit of a heat seeker. The desert heat bone in was the spiciest thing, the spiciest most satisfying thing I had today. Okay. Truly delightful bite. But. Popeyes brought it. I'm not throwing a butt in there.

And Popeyes brought it. Popeyes did what they do. They had great fried chicken, well-prepared, delicious, well-seasoned, and quality chicken sandwiches, in particular that spicy chicken sandwich. Which I prefer to over the classic because I'm a bit of a heat seeker. Oh, right. So when it comes down to it, am I going to stick with my original vote, Popeyes? my candidate, which I brought to the convention,

or am I going to flip over to B-dubs? Yes. Mitch, no, I'm not changing my vote. I'm sticking with Popeye. Wow. Mike Mitchell, the Spoon Man, you brought in Buffalo Wild Wings. Yes.

Your candidate. Your number four seed, though. That's right. Are you going to change your vote? I'll think I'll reveal that when we count down from three, and I say my answer with my guest. Wow. You want to say this with,

with Mary together. We will both reveal it at the same time. Mary, do you have a decision? Yes, I do. You do have a decision. All right. Ready?

Are you ready to do this? Before you do this, have you seen Avatar Fire and Ash? No, I haven't. Have you seen the other Avatar films? Of course, yeah. You saw Way of Water? Yes.

Way of Water's great. But I heard that Fire and Ash is exactly the same movie. It kind of is the same thing, but the thing is you have Vron. Brong is... You got a tattoo of Vron. I got a tattoo of Vrong from Fire and Ash.

Show it. Show it. I'll show it to you. It's above my tattoo of power from chainsaw man. Let's see if I can pull. This shirt's pretty tight. There we go. Wow.

They're the old sister wives. We're wrong in power. Wow. Yeah. It's his fourth tattoo in a year. We're not worried about him at all. He's going great. Yeah, you said you're better and I believe it.

Exactly. Wow. OCD cured. Can't wait for your face is tattooed like a dragon. No. I'm not going to do that. Don't become a lizard man. I'm not going to become a lizard man.

I'm not going to tattoo myself into a Nalbri will fall for you, I'm sure. I'm not going to post Malone. Here we go. Should we count down from three? Mitch and Mary are going to count down from three. My winner is rocked in Popeyes. So whoever they vote, whoever gets a third vote, or a second vote, rather, whoever gets a second vote, we'll advance to the next round.

It will be decided in three. Three, two, one. Buffalo. Wild Wings. Buffalo Wild Wings upsets Popeyes. Oh my goodness. I never did. I didn't think you would do that.

What an absolute shocker. Popeyes out of the tournament. Who could have possibly imagined? I thought Popeyes was headed to the finals. But no, it is out. Cast away by our guest Mary Sohn. I just liked the wings better today. Popeyes is really good.

I just like the wings better. I didn't know that was going to happen. I'm shocked. I'm shocked. I'm shocked. I was ready to vote for Poppies. Popeyes before I walked in the door and when I sat down. Wow.

B-dubs brought it today. They did. B-D-D-D-D's brought it. Popeyes eliminated. Wow. Wow. How about that? Oops.

What's the oops? I didn't know that was going to happen. What did you think was going to happen? You voted for it. I know, but I thought I was going to be the outlier. I didn't know. I had no idea. Well, okay.

Well, there you go. He's pissed. I'm not pissed. You're the one who's like furious at fork burp, Mort Burke because... Yeah, he fucked me. It doesn't matter. None of this matters.

I do like, I did think Popeyes was great today. I would much rather have Popeyes than Buffalo Wild Wings in a vacuum. I think it's fair to vote for Buffalo Wild Wings. I thought B-dubs, I thought B-dub's had a better outing today. Man, I don't know. The chicken breast being a little dry for me with the fried chicken didn't help. And then those, ironically, the salt and vinegar of nuggets were fucking good. Nuggets were fucking good.

Nuggets were pretty good. And that's not what I wanted, but then it fucking, they were. won me over. I was going to change my vote to Popeyes today. That's what I'm saying. You were planning going in. I was planning going in that I was going to change it. I swear. You had the B-dubs and you're like, well, fuck, this is pretty good. Well, Buffalo Wild Wings moving on. How about that? He's pissed.

You should see Fire Nash. Our producer is Emma Erd Brink, our associate producer, Emilio Marino, our editor's editor's Mike Dorfman. Doe Boys merchandise. Can we put on an episode of Small Wonder, calm them down? Yeah, yeah, I got it alone. I'm doing great. Okay, okay.

I mean, look, I would have liked Popeyes to continue on. I'm a big fan of Popeyes. There might be a bad chance of perception. There's always a chance. No, we don't have room for it in the schedule. Poppies is out forever. Jesus. He's pissed.

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April 2nd. Awesome. Check that out, Florida. We'll be in the Sunshine State. I love it. A lot of fun. Birdfuck.com slash live or doboyspodcast.com slash alive. What an episode. And the tournament making news all munched along

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It gets intense in here. You've now experienced it. You've experienced the heat. Do you ever want to do it again? No, probably not. Why? I'm so sorry. I didn't even understand what was on the line. It's okay. I mean, like, this is the thing. It's probably good you voted for

Buffalo Wild Wings because if you voted for Popeyes, Mitch would have been so mad. No, I wouldn't have been mad. I thought it would have been fair. I thought I was going to be the one vote for it. Okay, all right. Well, you're no, you weren't. He's saying it's fine. He's going to come back with a big neck tattoo tomorrow. He's going to get a Popeye's chicken sandwich, tattooed on his cheek. Just the Popeyes woman. The ghost face mask tattooed onto your face. Meeted up with a middle school teacher.

Mary Sohn, one of our absolute favorites. Thank you so much for doing this episode. Thanks for being such a delight. So funny. Always so fun. Come back sooner rather than later, always. Would you have anything you would like to plug? Nope.

Our favorite answer. Until next time for the spoon, Matt McChryl. I'm Tiger Wiger. Happy eating. See ya. That was a hate gum podcast.