Doughboys - Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 2 with Andrew Ti

Episode Date: August 29, 2019

In the midst of a nationwide craze for its new chicken sandwich, we return to Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen with writer and podcaster Andrew Ti (Mixed-ish, Yo, Is This Racist?) to determine if the sandwich lives up to the commotion. Plus, the debut of an all new segment, Snack to the Future.Sources for this week's intro:Interview With the Vampire': Ann Rice's casting quibbles by Erica Kornberghttps://ew.com/article/1993/10/22/interview-vampire-ann-rices-casting-quibbles/The Battle of Nouveau Orleans by Jesse Katzhttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-25-mn-2255-story.htmlWhen Anne Rice battled Al Copeland in 1997: Bites from the Past by Todd A. Price https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/article_0cfca6b8-8812-5553-a391-8b0522eb10b2.htmlPopeye’s Chicken Sandwiches Get $23 Million Free Advertising From Black Twitter by Arthur Villasantahttps://www.ibtimes.com/popeyes-chicken-sandwiches-get-23-million-free-advertising-black-twitter-2817992Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom Cruise is no more my vampire-less stop than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler. This was author Anne Rice in 1993 after Cruise was cast in the film adaptation of her breakout novel, Interview with a Vampire. A native of New Orleans who'd recovered from a life filled with personal tragedy to become a best-selling author of genre fiction, Rice has a reputation for being outspoken to a and prior to the film's release, she repeatedly displayed open contempt for the casting of diminutive Brunette Cruise as her tall, blonde listot. But after the film's release, perhaps partly due to its box office success, Rice's opinion

flipped a full 180. She even took out an eight-page ad in Hollywood trade publication Variety at a reported cost of $6,000 per page to heat praise in the movie and specifically, Cruise's performance. Then, in 1997, a very different listot-related controversy inspired Rice to make another full-page ad by, this time in the New Orleans Times Picayune. The issue? A newly opened eatery from restaurateur Al Copeland, himself a local Big Easy celebrity. In 1997, Copeland opened sit-down restaurant Straya in the shell of a historic building

on New Orleans St. Charles Avenue, a structure that was coincidentally a key setting in Rice's 1995 listot novel, Mem Knock the Devil. A year-long war of words ensued between the two titans that led to Copeland suing Rice for libel, a suit Rice won with aid from the ACLU. Though in a way, they both won, as the restaurant space remained, managed by his son after Copeland's death in 2008. Copeland's original claim to fame, his interview with a vampire if you will, was a Cajun fried chicken joint he founded in 1972 and grew into the second largest chicken chain in the

country. And in 2019, his restaurant took aim at the third largest Southern institution and purported inventor of the fried chicken sandwich, Chick-fil-A, with a launch of their own version of a breaded bird hand-held. The response was overwhelming both online and IRL, making the sand dough into fast food's biggest must-have item in years. According to Apex Marketing Group, the social media bonanza, driven largely by Black Twitter, was worth $23 million in free advertising.

The demand was so unprecedented that the chain announced it was temporarily discontinuing the sandwich on Tuesday, August 27th. So is the sandwich worthy of the hour-long queues and rapturous reaction videos? Or is it as disappointing as the 2002 film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned? This week on Doughboys, we return to Popeyes for their new chicken sandwich. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, alongside my co-host, Goron Ramsey, Mike Spoonmitchell. I like that too, actually.

Matt Perez Stable sent that in, roastspoonman at gmail.com. We have an insult you like when you use a Mitchell on the top of the show. That's a good one. Yeah, Gordon Ramsey is a good guy. I mean, he's a jerk on the show, but my understanding is that he's a people like working for him. A sweetheart. A sweetheart. And off camera.

A secret sweetheart. An OC sweetheart. Yes. Which, by the way, it's kind of like me. I'm an off pod sweetheart. You are the villain. We're both villains. I'm not a villain.

You don't want to accept that you're a villain, which makes you the villain. That's complete opposite. Villains don't, like, there's always the, I feel like the villain monologue always like rationalizes why he's doing what he's doing and it's for the good of other, like, they try to, they have a utilitarian justification for it. What am I doing? What is the thing that I'm doing that I'm trying to rationalize? Get away with murder.

You're not, you're five minutes late all the time. That's what I'm saying. So I'm a villain. You're getting away with slacking on the job. That's what you're getting away with. Superman has to start. I'm not slacking on the job. Did I not help with this tour?

You helped some. Hey, you helped in a big way. What the fuck are you talking about? I helped some. You helped in a big way because Mitch, we should tell everyone this, you got yourself a new job. I booked a role in a movie. That's very exciting.

I don't know how much I can talk about it. I think I can say I booked a role in a movie. Yeah. Let me just, I'll just, I'll just say for everyone out there, if you ever want to see Slimer's origin story, start getting excited. It's not Slimer beginnings. Oh, it's going to go with Slimer year one, but. All right.

Slimer year one is good. That's better. You did a lot of stuff for the tour. You fucking sat back and relaxed. You did a lot for the tour. Me and you saw her. We're exhausted. Oh shit.

What happened? I got a phone call. You now know that my, you saw you were on top of that so quick. Your ringtone is you are, you're in tour mode, or maybe it's because you had a sip of, of, of Pepsi that you're now a hummingbird and are immediately on top of everything. Uh, uh, no, you song, you're in tour. You song is ready for this tour to end. What is your, it was your ringtone, the, a drum fill from Birdman?

My ring, my, my ringtone is, when Levy breaks, do, do, do, do, do, do, I don't know, even the next line of the song. What is that song? Led Zeppelin. Grandpa. Do-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Noon. Needle.

NoBee. Me. NTT. Nee-nee-nee-nee. Screenless. He did. Nee-nee-nee-nee. Jazz.

Oh. Joe. What? guy. I don't know. If he keeps on ranging, anyway, gonna break. He's gonna be a really bad day. That's not the words.

If the levy breaks, it's gonna be a really bad day. I mean, it sounds like I should be the words. That's pretty good. It's from when the levy breaks. I don't know it. I don't know a lot of Led Zeppelin. No? No.

I figured you'd be a Zeppelin guy. No, I'm not a Zepp head. Going to California, you don't like that one? I didn't. I mean, I like it now. I didn't know they had a California song. Made up my mind, I'm gonna make a new start. I'm going to California, what a breaking.

I don't know what that word is in my heart. Making. That sounds like you're doing like an Adam Sandler impression. I like both of those people. It makes sense. The only Led Zeppelin songs I know are that stairway to heaven one and then that one. Oh, yes, that stairway to heaven one. And that one that Diddy sampled.

Come with me. Been in it. Cashmere? Yeah, yeah, cashmere, yeah. Yeah. And they didn't. I don't know. You don't know about Led Zeppelin.

That's crazy. I don't really know. I have big blind spots. Wow. Yeah. No, I don't know anything about Led Zeppelin. That's crazy to me. But I know the Beatles pretty well.

Oh, OK. And I know Pink Floyd. All right. So I know some bands of roughly of that era, 60s and 70s. Which, what, what Pink Floyd do you know? What was it like when all these albums were coming up? I was born in 1980, my contemporary of Roger Waters. I like, I know, dark side of the moon, obviously, the wall.

All these are big ones, animals. That's a Pink Floyd album I really like. People and I were yelling it because I said that I wasn't a millennial. I'm not a millennial. I don't fit in with millennials. What do you mean age? Well, I don't like to eat ass. It tastes like dookie.

I don't like that dookie flavor. Mitch, I hate to tell you, you've been eating the wrong asses. Asses you've been eating are nasty. Yeah. I know that you were running around town eating ass like Pac-Man for God's Sakes. The super pellet is a big tasty ass. We can just gobble them in sequence like Pac-Man, Pac-Man pellets.

Got to spend some time in there. Mitch, let's, you got a drop, don't you? Yeah. Oh yeah, I should do that. I mean, how to how to spoon nation. I mean, I kind of did my own drops just by singing, but I will play a drop. My mom was like, I'm getting in the shower. She says like, I'm getting in the shower.

I was like, and she's like, no peaking, no peaking, no peaking. Particularly disappointed in the breast. The breast was not juicy. The breast wasn't necessarily super dry. But it was, it was, it was, it wasn't as juicy as I would have liked it to be. No peaking, no peaking, no peaking, particularly disappointed in the breast. No peaking, no peaking, no peaking, the breast wasn't necessarily super dry. Oh God.

That one's, that's on you for not prescreening that. I didn't prescreen it. And I mean, it just is, I mean, it just as makes me feel bad. Yeah. It said Doughboy's chicken, and then it said S-H-A, and I was like, Doughboy's chicken shack, Doughboy's chicken shake. How could I possibly find out what's inside? I certainly couldn't take 45 seconds.

So we had to start the episode. Okay. Hey, I played it on the air. Hey, the spoon. I'm not called that anymore. The artist formerly known as spoon. I created a new drop for you. It's very calming and we'll bring a smile to everyone in the room.

That's from Ryan Inman. Well, guess what Ryan? You're more like Ryan Outman. You're on the outs with me. Oh boy, shit. Wow. Making me think about my mom's titty like that. Great.

Now I think about my mom's supple titty. Like you would ever find it less than perfect. Yeah. The drop's inaccurate. Mitch, we didn't- And she's still lactating if you want to know. Good God. We didn't get closure on, we brought up that you have a,

you booked a big Hollywood movie. And what? Yes. You've made jokes about how I'm in big Hollywood productions, all false every time you've done it. This time it's true. You are in a big Hollywood movie. It's true.

But also they're not jokes. You're in a bunch of a, you're a success. You're in a bunch of big Hollywood movies. Why is I going to say that you were very understanding when it came to this because it is, and I want to apologize to all of our listeners. There are some dates that will be affected by this. Yes. I must, I must say that Mitch, perhaps we should call you Gerard Butler

because due to you, London has fallen. We will not be appearing at the London podcast festival. So I'm sorry. I'm sorry to everyone out there in the UK. You, a thing that you wanted to pull out of a long time ago. Well, now we have a legitimate reason to- Now it's a legitimate, this is legitimate. We have to pull out of London.

Yeah. I'm very sorry. We might be, don't, don't, if you're in like another date that's like after London, don't be like, Oh, well, they're coming to me though. At least like don't get comfortable there. No, those, those dates might get canceled too. Those dates might get canceled. Let me just say-

We got to, we, we're taking a Brexit, Nick. We're doing a little Brexit. We're doing a little Brexit. I'll just say this to, to hear, let's just say who's safe. Okay. DC, safe. DC, you are safe. Philadelphia, safe.

You are safe. New York, safe. Boston, safe. Always, baby. Everything else, everything else in danger. I, but I know I'm laughing at this, but I truly, I do feel very bad. It's a really great opportunity for me. I'm very excited about it.

Mitch, Mitch really, yeah, Mitch is excited about this movie and he regrets having to pull out of these shows. I do. And that makes one of us. Mitch, let's introduce our guest. I do, I, I've generally, generally feel very sorry. We're going to make out to you guys. Everyone will get refunds for the tickets.

We're going to try to do, uh, we're going to try to do something there at some point in each of these areas soon. Also read like whatever you fucking ticket master agreement is cause maybe you don't get a refund. I don't know. That's not, we didn't process your money. So Jesus Christ. Hey, our guest is a writer and podcaster.

I'll pay him back myself. Don't commit to that. Fuck. What would you do that? A writer and podcaster from mixed dish and yo is this racist. Andrew T. What are you guys? Hey, Nick, you know, this is, this was our second ticket intro

because you fucked up. I said a word wrong. I was trying to say, I read podcaster as producer. You said a union mandated word wrong. I said, yeah, that's when it became a problem. That was an issue. That's what it became. Didn't want to get in trouble with the guild.

Yeah. Andrew, we were taught the topic of Atlanta came up. Hot Lanta. I call it. You have a, you've spent some time in Atlanta and you were talking about Atlanta's food scene. Yes. I love it.

Um, to think, I think, I assume everyone in Atlanta already knows about antico pizza, antico's pizza. I think I don't know if you guys have heard of this. Um, so my sister moved down there, uh, to, she got it. She got a job for the federal government. Wow. Under the Obama administration and figured this is going to be dope. And then things changed rapidly.

Oh my God. She still has the job and she's down in Atlanta, but it is, uh, I guess we'll say it's wild. Is that too hot out to political a take? No, I think that's fine. It's wild up in there now. Um, don't get Nick start on his political takes. You know what he thinks of Trump?

It's a guy I call the orange buffoon. Oh, that's right. How, what is that? What do you think is the statute of limitations on or, or I feel like we're in a weird time, especially on Twitter where otherwise funny people still kind of use some sort of like either Cheeto or yes. Right, right, right. Yeah, and it is a very good, but you're spot on here.

It's, it's really rough like I, you know, cause I'm just like, oh, you're a funny person in nor or Trump. Yes. I'll hold on to Trump. There's a weird thing where I'll see. I'll, I'll read it on awful, terrible Trump tweet. Yeah. And then I'll like look at the comments and I'll see like the comebacks to

when I'm like, oh fuck guys. Yeah, we're supposed to be there. We're supposed to be good at this. We're supposed to get and then it is embarrassing. What the, what's going on? I know one thing I noticed is a lot of people like to use because you remember there was that North Korean statement that was like, they called him a dotard, which is like a very obscure word,

meaning like a doddering old person. And I noticed a lot of people start to say that to Trump now. They always thought that was pronounced dotted might be dotted. Oh, really? I think you might be right. I don't know. I don't think dodered might be dodered. I don't know how to pronounce it.

Yeah. However it is, it is truly a word that you've only ever read. You've only, why would you, if you are with someone who speaks using that word, you're going to punch them. You're, yeah, or you're talking to like Mr. Burns. Like, I don't know who you're talking to. Okay. I think of the three of us.

Not surprisingly, Andrew is Chris dodered. It looks like dodered an old person, especially I was second place. You fucking asshole. I think I would. I had the first syllable, right? Hmm. D.

It starts with a D. It starts with a D. I said, I said, Doddard. Yeah, I think you guys both got a syllable. We both got part of it, right? Yeah. I'm pretty sure you guys got a syllable. Both of our heads put together equals one Andrew.

That's correct. But that's insulting to him. That checks out. That checks out. That feels right. But a lot of people say that to Trump and like, I feel like just like it's, this is you, like it's, it looks like the R word. You just want to say the R word to him, but I get away with it, right?

Yeah. It's kind of what's going on there. Yeah. I see that. The other thing is like, I feel like I, I see like a, like a tangerine dream. That's a band. You're the tangerine nightmare. Like people kind of have like elaborate.

It's like, what? You spent time crafting that. Like set up mention, mention the thing. Clarify what it is. Like manage to somehow squeeze too much information in like six words. Yeah. It's the Nick Weigler school of joke writing. Look, I'll tell people how you really get to Trump.

You do a great impression of them. And I'm Mr. Trump over here. That's Trump. All right. Always saying Mr. Trump over here. Mr. Trump over here. Give me a big Mac over here. Always saying over here.

How many times in a stump speech have we heard Trump say over here? Hey, get over here, everybody. Trump and Scorpion for Mortal Kombat. They both say over here. Over here boys. I feel like the thing I've been trying online and the times I do argue with Trump supporters, which I guess is more than the average person. I feel like this is a good one that is underexplored, which is just like

sort of a two-parter. Set it up, call them stupid in some way. That's the dumb part. And then when they kind of get back at you or talk about how great he is, just ask them point blank. Like, do you think you are smarter than Donald Trump? Like if to a Trump supporter, it's like a real like it's a real conundrum for them because they want him to be the best.

But then anytime. So, you know, the dilemma for them is anytime they say, no, he's a genius. You can point all this dumb stuff. And then when they say yes, you know, it's like, oh, you're, you know, or you're dumber than the guy that said all this. Yeah. I think that's it. Those are both cases.

Anyway, look, I do know what I honestly think would work. It's just a politician, some Democrats is being like, hey, you're a fucking prick and you got a small dick. Yeah. So like just being a huge, like someone being Trump like to him and being like, fuck up by the way, small things are fine. Yeah. I'm going to say that out loud.

But to him, they're fine. To him, they're just, yeah, just saying stuff that like being like, shut the fuck up. You're an idiot. You were, you were dumb. Like someone has to have balls and yell at that man. Someone just go out there and roast him like Bill Burr. Yeah.

Bill Burr would help be a Burr would be helpful. Yeah. I wonder because I don't, I also don't know if that would just like make, I feel like he'd be, God, I don't know. You think you would turn on him? But then I just don't know. If you went out there and you're like, you want to fuck your daughter, you're a fucking freak.

But then everyone, then everyone, because like, if you look at the media, the way the media reacts to these things, there's such an, there's incentives or try to like feign like there's the both sides are equal and to try and like, so I think something like that would backfire media-wise. I think people would say like, oh, there's the media. They're stupid to his level. Or they're made.

His whole thing is that all his shit was supposed to backfire with the media. That's true. Yeah. I guess front fired. I don't know what the opposite of that fire is, but you know what I mean? It just works. It is. It is crazy that no one has figured this how to, how to, to get to this man who's

such a fool. I'm telling you, I call him an orange buffoon. I think honestly the first candidate who has the like temerity to just swear at him on TV. Yeah. I think we'll go a long way. I don't think our media will be able to catch up to that. Yeah.

Just call him a motherfucker. Yeah. Just this motherfucker. I think that, I think that's, I think someone just has to be like, shut the fuck up. You don't fucking prick. It'll be, it'll be Biden, but like the, the swear he'll use is like a slur against Portuguese people that like Jesus Christ from like the 1920s. People have to look it up.

Yeah. But we were, we got. Yeah. We're talking about a lot of food. Oh, right. And also to all our Republican listeners, we still love your baby. As long as you're still live to that. We'll take your money.

Yeah. So the, the, I, so I'd been trying. Last time I was down there, I was trying to eat a little healthier. So my, the rubric I came up with was I was cutting out white people carbs. Like I wasn't going full like, like a keto or anything like that. But I was like, I just need to cut back a little bit. So I cut out white people carbs, which functionally turns out it meant hamburger buns and spaghetti. But like,

I'd say mashed potatoes felt like a white person. Oh yeah. Although I'm not, I don't like, I, I, I didn't, it didn't, it turned out I wasn't eating that much mashed potatoes. But yes. Your diet is very different from ours. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, but I was just like, you know, I'm, I'm not going to stop eating like rice and Asian noodles and shit. But like, okay, I should, I should chill a little bit. But I went to visit my sister in Atlanta. We went to Antico's, which is like this, like, so it's like a big ass like hall and they have, I think like three wood fired ovens in the back of it, which I imagine in the summertime is probably pretty unpleasant in there. But we went in the fall.

It was really nice. It's like a BYOB. So we brought some nice wine. And the pizzas are so fucking good. I went twice in like a four day trip. I was like, we have to go back. Wow. There's so much good shit down there.

And then the other. Sorry. What kind of pizza is it? I don't know enough about pizza to say. Is it like a thin, thin crust? Very thin crust. Like super thin. Yeah.

Super chewy. It's the kind that like it's very, it's, they put it in the oven. That's so hot that it cooks in like four minutes. Oh, love it. Yeah. Yeah. So that kind of, and they, it's, it's like, um, they just got like, uh, like bottles of Calabrian chilies.

Oh yeah. I love that. Oh, it's so fucking good. Um, so that was, I guess for anyone, I imagine everyone in Atlanta either has an opinion on what I just said one way or the other, but if you're not from Atlanta, go. Highly recommend. Kind of like that. Yeah.

I think that's, I think that's a blister. Very chewy crust. The crust are really good. You dip the crust up in the Calabrian chilies. Mitch just held up his lock screen. Um, and then, and then, uh, we, we hit up JR cricket, uh, from the hit television show Atlanta. Oh, the wings place.

Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, they go there. I, uh, and then, um, I did not go to, uh, was it Saxby's? Is that the Saxby's? Yeah.

Uh, did not hit up that place, but I did go also to a, um, like, uh, I don't know if through your listeners, they can't all know this. Uh, there's a place, uh, I think I should start in Texas, but it's, it's, um, also in Southern California called boiling crab. It's one of those like seafood in a bag places, basically put the seafood in a bag with a bunch of butter and Cajun stuff. Um, and they, they boil it. I realized actually the other day I was like, why does this restaurant exist?

And I was like, Oh, because they finally came up with bags, like plastic bags that were cheap enough that wouldn't kill you if they boiled them. Like clearly that's their entire business model is we put this whole bag in boiling water for like fucking four and a half. Think of how unappealing the idea of like a boiled bag is. Yeah. Yeah. But the right spices.

Um, what's the, what's the place out? Uh, oh, fuck that place. It's, it's, uh, fuck. It's the same concept that's over on in West Hollywood. I've been to what the fuck am I thinking of boiling shrimp? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I know what you're talking about.

The, uh, oh God. I can't remember hot and juicy. Yeah. It's the same business model. I think right. There's that. That's the one that's on the kind of by the arc. Yeah.

It's like in the target. It's in the target. Oh, I'm thinking. Okay. I'm thinking of a Gower Gulch. Oh yeah. There's one of those in there. There's the one.

It doesn't matter. I had that place that hot and juicy crawfish as a work lunch one day. And that was a mistake. So fucking heavy like crawfish. Yeah. So smelly too. The room, the room got it or like we got, we went out of the, this is a walk away.

We went to the restaurant. You know what? We did it for birthday boys one day too. Cause we were on the lot there. Jesus Christ. Fucking mess. The lot is the name of the lot. Um, um, I, I, uh, I want to go back to something first.

Yeah. Yes. Rice. Oh yeah. My family split right down the middle. My mom and I potato fans, my dad and sister team rice. Really? Yeah.

And my mom would always be like, right? It has no nutritional value. It's not. It's not good or whatever. And I was like, I mean, like now regarding potatoes or regarding rice, but I'm like potatoes are worse for you. Yeah. They're pretty similar.

They're pretty. Yeah. They're probably pretty simple, but I think rice is pro. I mean, like it's probably, I feel like people who eat rice are healthier than people reading potatoes all the time, but maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about starch, but I mean, Hey, there's so many ways you can cook a potato out here. I eat a lot of rice. I've now, I'm now kind of in the middle. I love potato. I love a mashed potatoes.

Yeah. I'm a good, I'm a big mashed potato guy, but I eat rice so much more out here because like Mediterranean food or just have it at home. A lot of Asian food, just a lot of, a lot of rice. Yeah. Easy to have at home too. Yeah. Yeah.

I think, I think potatoes, the prep, it's not worth it. You're not mashing potatoes for yourself. Yeah. That's my mom makes it mean mashed potatoes. That is, that is a, that's, but it's a lot of work. Compared to rice. Compared to rice. Yeah.

It's like rice, you just put in the thing and they just don't worry about it. Yeah. You can put it in the microwave. Yeah. Yeah. Hello sharks. Have you noticed how easy it is to cook rice? What if it was that easy to cook potatoes introducing the potato cooker?

And it's like the rice cooker, but for potatoes, just put some potatoes in to make mashed potatoes. You could probably make one that's like the size of like just bigger than a Pepsi can for one potato. You plug it into a USB port. I assume steams. I don't know how you cook a potato like this. Can you steam a potato? You could steam a potato.

I think that would take forever. Yeah. I mean, I think boiling is more common, but you could steam it. I, you know, you could bake them. You could, I'm going to sound like, I'm going to sound like a fucking bubblegum. Bake potato, French fried potato. We were talking about a, oh God, we were talking about my mom and dad mutually masturbating with their backs to each other.

Yeah. You need to bring that up again. There was a confirmation online that the Forest Gump book. Well, we got it. We got it here. The Forest Gump. There was a Forest Gump sequel. Yes.

Yeah. Where he's like still gumping. Yeah. Where he's like one of those like very, you know, he just goes and like continues to like, you know, he's at like Obama's inauguration and shit like that. It is. It is kind of like that. He's like, he's in building seven.

He's like. Five can't melt steel. So here's the, here's the, the, the, the, so the, the writer. So there was a Forest Gump sequel and then there was also a, there was a. Gump and company. The Gump and company was the novel, which, which the author Winston Groom wrote. And then the, the writer, Eric Roth of the, of the adaptation also wrote a sequel. And, but the sequel apparently did not have as much to do with the book.

It was more just like, more like the film, but the sequel, here's, here's from, from this article. Literally I turned it in the day before 9 11. 9 10. Yeah. They turned in, they turned them September 10th and then they got together after 9 11 were just like, well, this movie has no meaning anymore in that sense. That's the quote.

So yeah, but yeah, it was, it would have been, you would have learned that Forest Gump junior Haley Joel Osmond's character has AIDS himself, which is a thing that's. We got to get Haley back. Ask him about this. I wonder if he was ever attached or if it was just a thing that was in a speculative phase or if they, they were going to maybe, you know, because sometimes it happens with adult with child actors. They recast him as adults.

Unfortunately. What is, what is sad? Well, he's a, he's a very good actor. He's a very good actor. He could, he could do it now. Yeah. What a sad, like I think I want to say terrible idea to have his, have the young boy have be HIV or I guess maybe it's a good thing.

I don't know. You see a character with that, but I wouldn't have AIDS, but I guess maybe by then. Yeah. I have no idea. It's just a sad, it's just a sad to think now. It's a sad topic to think that at the end of that movie that boy has AIDS is sad to me. Sure. Yeah.

Yeah. But it was, it was like, but the book very quickly pivoting from AIDS, the book was a sad subject. It is a sad subject. We'll go on the record and say that the pivoting from that. The, the book is like the, the author wrote, and I guess he wrote it partly because it was screwed out of so much money from the movie. And so he just, he kind of did it as a cash in, but the, but it has great.

I think he's involved in the OJ like murders. Like that's like, cause it was written in the nineties. Yeah. It's fucking weird. Hell yeah. Yeah. So he's like, like Kato Kalin's friend. Yeah.

That's fucking, I mean, I guess the whole movie is crazy, but or the whole concept is crazy. The whole idea is insane. Yeah. Jesus Christ. But I think there needed to be one forest scum. They didn't need to extend that franchise. And also, by the way, the way things are, that movie will definitely be made still. I feel like it's going to happen.

Oh, they'll just make a forest. I think they're going to make it to eventually, you know, there's going to be a new gun. I mean, the air of franchises. Yeah. They'll, they'll milk everything. Yeah. I think gump three is where it's really going to come. That's really going to fucking finally shine.

I'm looking for when they do the fourth series, they add a new cast member and make forest gump international. Oh yeah. Chinese gump. Yeah. That would be fun. Yeah. Make it, make it worldwide.

Why not? Basketball. I don't know what else they do in China. I don't know what else they love in China anymore. I'll love her now. There, there, there, there, there hasn't a, I want another Yao Ming level player. They're there. You mean a play Chinese national who just is an NBA All-Star.

Yeah. Yeah. It'd be great. Yeah. The NBA is very popular over there would be cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And if you're popular over there, it would be cool.

I think it's, I mean, it's definitely going to happen like law of humongous numbers. Like it's got to happen eventually. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Anyone who's remotely tall or remotely quick is playing basketball over there. There was a player drafted this year from Japan, right? Wasn't that the first? Rui Hachimura.

Yes. Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah. And he was drafted by the Wizards and we'll see. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully you'll have a good career. But hey, we want the best for everyone drafted in the first round.

Who knows? There's a reason it's called the draft lottery. Who knows who's going to hit? What the fuck is going on? It's going to hit NBA gold. That's what we need. A little little John Tash underscoring test. John Tash, John Tash.

John Tash. The hell? It just kind of settles in there for a little bit. Bob Costas is like... We're here. Chicago Stadium. Chicago Stadium? Basket.

Ball. Great. So you're from... We talked about Atlanta. You're only from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Yeah, that's right. College town. So this is a college town.

What was the food like growing up when you were in... Home of Domino's. The first Domino's. Yeah. I remember some shit from this podcast, Nick. Domino's. We had your friends... With the first Domino's chef.

Yeah, your friends, yeah. The first Domino's chef was on the show. The first Domino's, yes. Home of the first Domino's. Yeah. Domino's... My parents live right by a place called Domino's Farms, which is a...

I believe it is the corporate headquarters, but also there is an insane sports medicine complex in there for reasons I'm not totally clear about. Interesting. I hurt my knee when I was a kid, and that's where I did my physical therapy. Oh, wow. And they also...

And it was a... That was like Fab Five era kind of like... Oh, yeah. You know, so like those dudes would be around. Like, you know, just fucking doing shit like that. Fixing their broken bodies for our entertainment. They're college students. Yeah.

They were children. They were like 20 years old. Yeah, that's just... Getting zero dollars. It's fucking crazy. Yeah. By the way, Domino's farm sounds like something from... That I dreamt up last night.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a thing instead of corn, and there's slices of pizza coming out of the ground. Coming out of the ground. But it's also... I think it's Tom Monahan, I believe is the owner, I think, of Domino's. And he is like a sort of like...

We'll say virulent Catholic. He's one of those like fairly bad people. Sure. So that was always a little weird. And then... It never really came out how Christian he was, except for Domino's farms every Christmas has like the most insane display.

That's like very Jesus focused. Oh, right, yeah. Yeah. And then I was like, oh, yeah. You know, that Southeast Michigan, that's where Little Caesars is from. Damn. Hungry Howie's is not national, right?

No, I don't know what Hungry Howie's is. You know what? New York, Chicago, these places, they're trying to take the pizza crown. From Detroit Pizza, baby. But from Detroit, look, you got Domino's, you got Little Caesars, you got Buddy's Pizza, which I've tried,

which Buddy's is amazing. Buddy's is good. The breadsticks are the best. There's really... Detroit is really underrepresented in this pizza battle. Loudmouth, Chicagoans. You heard me. You fucking Chicago fucks.

Call them out. You green river pieces of shit. I ragged them, Mitch. Dave Matthews should dump shit on the entire city from his jet airplane. And then fucking New York, Loudmouth, you fucking assholes. I wish fucking Stay Puff destroyed your city.

We were still, we were going to New York in like a week. Oh my god. We can't wait to be there. Shout out to the people of New York. There's also... Sorry, real quick on the topic of Hungry Howie's. I looked up Hungry Howie. He looks like me.

I'm glad you said it first because I was just about to say he looks a little bit like a Hitler youth, but also a little bit like you. Yeah. Cut a, you know, six of one, half dozen or another. There is an actual... If I need to go underground and investigate the alt, right? I could slide right in.

Oh my god. You have to. That's a real, a real twist for Doughboy's slide. Have we put a black Klansman? You get fucking killed so fast. Hey, I got a podcast. Oh god. There's this dork.

There is a such thing as Detroit Pizza, though, which is a different style. It's like sort of like focaccia, basically. I think it's square, the square style, right? The, but the rectangular, it's like a Sicilian. Yeah. I should use the right shape when I say it. A rectangle.

Well, no, because there also is a square. The people say the real Chicago pizza is the thin crust bar pizza that is cut into squares. Yeah. That's cause people in Chicago drink too much. That's like a real, but then each slice of that, it's like the size of like two tortilla chips. Oh yeah.

Basically, you know, like kind of, it's the real tiny and you just kind of like knock them back. Yeah. You need a doormat's worth of starch to suck up all that alcohol. Yeah. I talk about bar pizza all the time here. And I confused the hell out of you the first time I brought it up.

Bar pizza is a very common thing in the Boston area. The terminology I hadn't heard used out. Yeah. It's just like the little, like the size of this plate right here almost and like a little pizza in that size that, that like just you, you generally find it in bars and it's delicious. It's great. It's the thing that I missed.

That's not out here. A lot of Greek pizza too. There's a lot of Greek pizza on the east coast. That's like a feta and like a pepperoncini, maybe an olive. They'll have, a lot of times there'll be like a little, there will be a pepperoncini will make a little cameo appearance somewhere in the box or something like that, which also the asshole.

Papa John's place does as well, but yeah, but, but no, the Greek pizza is like kind of like a, I always feel like it's a little thicker crust, a little buttery. Okay. Yeah. It's a, it's great though. Nick, when you're in Boston for like 36 hours, maybe try some out.

I'm working. I'm more interested in the beans. You want to try some beans? Yeah. What are Boston beans? Boston baked beans. There's a little candies and then like the candies, right? Okay.

Yeah. The Boston in that motherfucker. I think there is a peanut in it and also I think you're treating it the right way. Okay. I'm not. I don't know much about Boston. Okay.

All I know is that Tim Cow Pack has brought me back Boston baked beans when he went to Boston one time and he thinks that he for a long time he thought it was funny to say that I like loved beans. It's funny. No, it's not. It sucked, but it's not. They are. It was funny.

Is it known for actually having had beans at some point? I think so. I don't know. It's like baked beans. And then no, there is like there are Boston baked beans. It's like baked beans. I don't know. Yeah.

Molasses. Well, yeah. Okay. A Pinto bean. What the fuck is the bean in a Boston bean? I think it's maybe is it a kidney bean? Is it? What is it?

Is it a kidney bean? I don't know. I don't know. I don't feel like it. Well, I think maybe just take your hands off that fucking keyboard. No, I'm not looking at this. We're not looking this up. Yeah.

We're going to sweat through this. We're going to figure this out. Okay. No, I don't know. Well, bean town and the only beans I know are the candies. I've never known that there was actually, but I guess if they just as Chicago had slaughterhouses at some point, it was just like they were Chicago was a big meatpacking plant like a hub.

Did that happen after the cow? Mrs. O'Leary's cow? Is that who it is? Mrs. O'Leary? I think it was around that same era. Yeah. Yeah. They were mad.

They got revenge. Yeah. They just started killing cows. Monstrous. Is that? Okay. Wait. So all the cows in the nation were in the middle of it, and then

they would go to Kansas City and then up to Chicago, something shit like that. Yeah. I mean, I don't know the exact pipeline, but my understanding that there was a lot of that going on, all that, the center of that production was all in the Midwest, major cities. I accidentally got put on one of those cow trains once. Fucking wild drive.

One of the cows is sucking on all the udders. It's getting out there. The weirdest cow. Oh, well. So you went, you grew up in Michigan. Yeah, Michigan. You find yourself in New York City for college. Yeah, I went to college.

I went to Columbia and didn't do comedy at all. Right. I went to college with a bunch of comedy people who are famous now. I'm not going to name any of them. Fuck them. No, but then I worked for Comedy Central for many years. And they are the ones that moved me out here. And then very tangentially, I did work on some of those

birthday boy sketches you guys did way, way back when for Comedy Central digital. Oh, really? Yeah. This was the first year learning of this. Well, it was like, you know, I was like uploading them. I wasn't like part of it. I still though.

Ferguson might know this, not me. I don't know that. I don't know this sort of thing. So I haven't seen Ferguson's child yet. Should I text him about this? Yeah. Yeah. Bring this up.

Have you said congrats about his child yet? I have an email in my draft. Yeah. You'll get it. You got to get it right. Yeah. Writing is about revising. I think Ferguson's kid already has an email address in the

calendar. He has his changing scheduled out. Yeah. Send them a Google request. Yeah. Kid, tell your dad congratulations. Yeah, but I worked for Comedy Central for a long time. Wow.

Like adjacent to comedy. And then I started doing Yosas racist. Right. And then I started writing and somewhere in their Comedy Central moved me out here. And then I, as basically soon as I was contractually able, quit that job. And then, yeah, I'm doing this bullshit.

So this bullshit specifically referring to Doble. Yes. Bullshit. But having lived in New York City, L.A., I mean, like, like, you know, these are big food towns. Yeah. What was your... Oh, right.

Do you have any food go-tos in the big Apple? The big Apple. Empire State of Mind. It has genuinely been a long time since I've been back there. Oh, okay. And... Or not since I've been back there, but since I lived there. So, like, I have this thing.

It turns out where I, like, just end up only getting the hits when I go to New York now. Got it. So it's like, you know, the thing I really miss is actually bodega, egg and cheese. American cheese, egg, the world's shittiest sausage patty. Kaiser roll. Right.

A foil. I hear that from a lot of people. They're really good. They're really, really fucking good. Eatin', standing up when you're late for work. There's certain contexts where, like, and you specifically American cheese and, like, bad meat is, like, what I want. Yeah.

Like, that's just, like... Yeah, yeah. I got a question for you. Yeah. If we were to have our New York restaurant squared away, what would your choice be for the New York chain to do? Good question. We got a lot of...

God. What's the number one right now? I don't know how to pronounce it. It's Sian Famous Foods. Sian Famous Foods. But I don't know if that's... Yeah. Oh, that...

I actually have been there. I was blanking, but thanks for bringing that up. That is... That place is great. Yeah, and they have three locations. Should we lock in Sian as one of the places, Nick? Sure. I think...

I haven't done any research, but sure. It's really, it's really fucking good. I'm trying to think. Actually, the chain that no longer exists, probably for many years now, someone brought it up on Twitter the other day. There was this place called Dojo that had two locations. It was like a...

I think that was the first time I ever had a veggie burger. It was very like, oh, I'm in a big city now. Carrot dressing. I mean, there's... What's the fucking barbecue place that's horrible that's by the old UCB... Dallas Barbecue. Dallas Barbecue is a chain.

Wait, what is it? There's Dallas Barbecue, which I've been to like a number of times because it's just like... And it's not good. It's shockingly bad. It's a really shitty barbecue restaurant that's very popular in New York City.

It's packed. It's packed because I think there's no place else to get barbecue and they have a full bar and a pretty big floor space. But yeah, I've been there multiple times. It's gonna stay open longer than UCB. Boom. Which I love.

You know, I'm a loyal UCB man. Oh, well, yeah, big time. You're more loyal to the... I think they have like a 36 ounce margarita at Dallas Barbecue. It's like a fish bowl. It's humongous. Now I know why Nick's been there. I was doing...

So when we were doing the Delcl... Yeah, but you're saying my high-functioning alcoholic. When we went to the Delcl... Say high-functioning. Functioning. Medium to low. So we were at the Delcl's Marathon, which is this annual improv festival,

which is as embarrassing as it sounds. I was there one year with one of my improv teams and we were eating at Dallas Barbecue and one of our friends came in there and was just like, why are you eating here? Like, incredulous. It was such like, just like, what are you doing? But it's just like...

They were right. They were right. It's not good. It's just convenient. It's really good. Oh, the answer is Grace Papaya. Oh, Grace Papaya. That's right. I was filibustering. The answer actually is Grace Papaya.

That's a good one, too. The little... The hot dogs and then the juices. The juices? I think they have Jamaican beef patties there. Oh, nice. Grace Papaya is the most New York shit on earth. Wait, is it gone?

You said it's closed? No, no, no. Dojo's closed. Dojo's closed, sorry. I would be shocked if Grace Papaya is closed. There are different Papaya places, right? Yeah. I mean, if you're willing to kind of fudge the definition a little bit, they are all identical.

They get their shit from the same place. They do everything the same way. So it doesn't really matter. I don't know much about these at all, but they sell hot dogs, right? Yeah, hot dogs, beef patties and juices. It's like a combo 7-Eleven and Jamba Juice. It's like really weird.

Yeah. But like the 7-Eleven Calibers, because that's actually not it. It's like Wiener Schnitzel and Jamba Juice. It's like a hot dog shack plus. But less good than Jamba Juice. Less good than Jamba Juice and maybe less good than Wiener Schnitzel, but...

Yeah, but it's open. It's indisputably open. We've decided that one of the restaurants is going to be the restaurant at Trump Tower. Oh, boy. Get over here and get yourself a sandwich. You could probably... Man, yeah.

I'm trying to think, you know, the bagel places are all kind of like... Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if there's like a channel on that. They are really good, though. They are good. I mentioned before that I went to a New York bagel place once

and it was just like super early. I just did my normal bagel ordering routine, not realizing there was this elitism behind it in the New York bagel scene. But I asked for a salt bagel toasted with cream cheese. Fuckin' idiot. And this guy says... The guy behind the counter says,

we don't toast bagels, bro. And then he turns around and points at his shirt and his shirt says... In quotes on the back, we don't toast. The no bro, though? Yeah. No bro. It's just that we don't toast.

I should say the whole thing. It really should. Yeah. Or it should be like an LCD screen on his back. They just repeat the last thing he said. Also, is this the first time you ever met Gabriel? Again, if you're willing to kind of like push the definition a little bit, I believe H&H bagels is a bakery

that supplies the good bagel places. So you could maybe kind of work that in there. If you're willing to do that. Also, I think they have at least two locations. So there's an incredible fish place called Barney Greengrass that is the most Jewish place you could pod. I've ever been to. I'm sure people have been to more Jewish places, but not me.

Yeah. We found out at Susser's house. But that place is like... It's like the bagel and sturgeon plate is like $28, but it's fucking great. That sounds awesome. I went to Carnegie Deli before it closed, which made me happy that I tried.

But now it's open again. Yeah. I think a lot of those places turn into essentially like warehouses because it's also that stuff like, you know, barely needs to be refrigerated. And it's like smoked fish and like, put them in an airtight bag or fine. Right.

It seems like so much, there's so much delivery or shipping stuff out. And you know what I don't realize is that we will not be able to enjoy any city we go to. No, we're there for like, this is why this is going to be a nightmare. It's going to be crazy. We're going to be there for like 24 hours a piece

and each of these different cities we're doing two shows in every city. It's going to be awful. It would be so fun to like go to cats or something. Yeah. We're not going to get to do that. Oh, you can pretend to bust the nut when you have the soup or whatever.

In the Weigur's case, there's not much pretending. Or they eating sandwich or something. I guess major or not. Yeah. Major Domo's or no, not major Domo. Momofuku is technically a chain. Damn.

That's good. I've been to Momofuku. I've been to the Vegas Momofuku. I've been to the Momofuku in LA. Oh, how about that? The one, the actual noodle bar, the first one. You know what? I remember it being really good,

but I first had it before I'd lived in LA so I hadn't had probably like really good ramen before. I remember my mind was very blown. It was very, very good, but... Major Domo, by the way, sounds like a cool character from like an army movie too. Major Domo? Yeah.

Sounds fucking badass. I feel like he slapped someone at some point. We'll take a break. We'll be back with more Domo's. Welcome back to Domo's here with Andrew T. Our restaurant this week, Popeyes, and there's a reason we're returning to it. They rolled out their chicken sandwich nationwide.

Just this past month, Popeyes founded in New Orleans in 1972, over 3,000 locations worldwide currently. Andrew, do you have much experience dining at Popeyes? Uh, not a ton, but I forgot how much I loved it actually. Wow. Also, this just popped into my brain.

I'm pretty sure, unless it's my family just talking weird, in China they pronounce it Popeyes. Oh, interesting. I like that. Which might've just been nothing but my weird grandpa. But, um, like as I was preparing to say it, I was like, well, this definitely isn't real,

but I have to say it. It does cute up in the mouth train. Sounds like a goose bumps. Yeah. Popeyes. Something that something a minion would say. Popeyes. But what about fried chicken in general?

Yeah, I love fried chicken. I'm trying to think. Um, it feels like fried chicken's like really on in LA these days. It is. It's kind of the gastropub burger has been, we've talked about this has gone is on the way out and the, the elevated fried chicken is on the way in. Oh, sure.

Yeah. Yeah. Although what my, I think my favorite one is the one from son of a gun, which is like, oh son of a gun has a great fried chicken sandwich. 11 or 12 years old now. Yeah. Yeah.

They do a great, and I never think of that because it's, it's a seafood show. It's a seafood show. Oh, show. Jesus. It's a seafood restaurant. Oh boy.

Dr. Showbiz is in the house. Um, yeah. It's a seafood restaurant. A seafood restaurant that has an amazing. It's the guys for, for people who are, for some of the listeners who probably, and we've mentioned these restaurants before, but the guys who do John and Vitties and animal.

Yeah. That son of a gun is from them too. And they're, they're kind of famous, uh, restaurant tours. Right. Yeah. I, uh, have you guys been to Jesse boy?

It's like Korean fried chicken. It's, it's really good. But I went, I went to Jesse boy and, uh, our, our friend Libby, Libby Watson, who was on, uh, was,

was in town and me and her and, and Rob Wiseman and some other people. But again, we all, uh, we were hanging out and we ordered Jesse boy. And I thought it was like, like, I'm going to fucking,

I'm going to be a cool dude. I'm going to cover everyone. And my car got rejected. It's such a, it's such a fucking reversal of like status from like, like, like, like,

like, I'm going to cover this tab to just like, oh, sorry guys. Yeah. Someone else. I can Venmo you. I think. But Jesse boy is good. It's good as hell.

And it's just, you know, it's just fried chicken over, over rice or salad. It's very, it's got a very simple menu. Bonchon. Have you had Bonchon?

I have not. Hmm. Is that an international chain? I think that is. Yeah. I've had Bonchon in LA. I believe, right?

Yeah. Kyo-chon. Oh, I'm not Korean. So I'm sure there's something more subtle to it, but as far as I can tell, they're all the fucking same. They all taste similar.

They're very good, but they're all the same. Shoot. I can't remember the name of it. There's a new Japanese fried chicken place in little Tokyo that is a chain. I mean, Japanese fried chicken is called Karaage. So it's something like that.

Yeah. I'm not going to look it up, but it's really good. Oh, right by the staples. Oh, right. Not center staples.

Oh, the staples. Oh, okay. The staples thing. I haven't had a lot of Japanese fried chicken, but I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Style of chicken.

I think it's like rice starch and double fried. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, like the good one is like chopped up, you know, fried chicken thighs, I think,

and then chopped up over rice and some Ponzu sauce and like a, like, like the kind of cabbage, like that's mandolin so thin, it's like each one is like a dental floss. It's like actually crazy. It's like angel hair coleslaw. Oh,

man. That sounds fun. Great. I was, I was going to say that the, what I, when I have Japanese, I always feel like it's a thinner cutlet, right?

It's like kind of like a, it almost feels like a chicken fried steak ish in, in like the kind of that it's thin. Oh, sure. I know what you're talking about. Does that make sense? But I mean,

I, I don't have a ton of experience with Japanese fried chicken. Yeah. A lot of times with that context, it is like more of a, more of a cutlet, I think. Oh, okay.

Karayama, it's on central, I think maybe. Yeah. I think it's so, and they're often, it's dark meat.

So it's a little more flavorful and like pounded down. And yeah, it's like tender as fuck. And like, it's really good. Life is a big time. Dark meat. I'm a dark meat fan.

Oh yeah. Yeah. I just, I like it. I like it. There's more, there's more flavor and it's juicier. I understand that people have an allegiance to white meat,

but like, if I have to choose, I'll choose that one. Are you a motherfucking white meat guy? I'm not, I'm not necessarily white. Here's my issue. I think that white meat,

like, I think, I think like the big part of the breast and the white meat chicken can get too dried out and is not, but like, for instance, I'll segue right into it with the Popeyes chicken sandwich.

I want, I want that white meat. I want, I love that style of, of fried chicken that's like this juicy white meat. I see. But if I'm, if I'm eating fried chicken,

I'll get in there and I'll, I think, I think with dark meat, there's sometimes there's stuff that you don't, that's like, not as pleasurable. That's it gets in there. I like all that shit.

I like it too. I like kind of like grisly sort of stuff. You're not, you're not always supposed to eat. I think the, I will say that, I think my favorite way, I should say,

I like, that's what I was going to say. I think my favorite way to get chicken is either in a bucket or a whole bird where I can like have a little, you know, I could have half chicken if I want to, I can have a little white,

a little dark, but I do like if I, if I'm going to pick one or the other, yeah, I'm a dark meat guy. But so yes, Popeyes and Mitch, you and I,

we reviewed Popeyes previously. It's been a while. I will just say that I've been on the Popeyes train from day one. I, I give it four and a half forks, our initial review. What did I give it for forks?

You were, I think when the three and a half range. Three and a half. Yeah. You really want a little lower, but my first experience with Popeyes, there weren't, there weren't many Popeyes in the Boston area,

Massachusetts, grown up. And then I remember getting it on the way up to New Hampshire one time. Right. I had like a, one of like the rest stop areas, and it made me feel so sick after I ate it.

And I, and it kind of soured the experience. I have definitely come around big time on Popeyes. By the way, the AC has gotten to the point in here where you sung just put on a jacket. Do you want me to turn it off? No, I'm fine.

However, if you're comfortable, let's stay comfortable. Oh yeah. I mean, we can, we can turn it higher. No, I mean, I mean,

I mean, we can, we can make it warmer in here. You can turn the heat on for a second. You can turn the heat on next to the AC. It's, it's, it's,

it's, if we can turn the heat on next to the AC and pump that out. Yeah. And then we'll find the happy medium. And then there's a fireplace. We can get a fire going with you song. Is always Franklin fire,

you song is always having issues with the AC. He's also always over on the couch sitting under it. That's true. But how do you feel Nick? I'm comfy. We keep it to it. We see keep it at a certain temperature because there's this little coven here,

and we want to cool you down. That's right. Oh yeah. And I don't care. I am, I'm an ice man. I can, I can,

I can, I can, I can go to zero. I'm with you. I'm with you. Yeah. No, I'm an ice man.

No, you're not. I'm an ice man. No, you're not an ice man. I'm wearing shorts and sandals. Your furthest away from the AC. Yes.

Yeah. No, I was saying it's the AC was on. I noticed you song put on the jacket. Well, you song's not a night. Why would you say that? No,

I'm not an ice man. Oh, I think I said I'm not a nice man. Dude, I'm a nice as hell dude. That's not it. That's not like a fucking threat. I'm not a nice man.

Yeah. It's under like a heel turn. I'm not a nice man. Very disappointed. Someone stole Liam Neeson's nephew. I'm very cold. You songs. Glasses are frosted up from the AC.

Yeah. But no, I'm comfortable. I'm sorry. I'm getting caught up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm not helping you. You got caught up. You got caught up on that tangent. You fucked up. You were talking about your bad Popeyes experience. I don't want to use song the freeze to death during a recording. Like Jack Nicholson at the end of the shining after we finish a fucking record.

But if that does happen, he's technically employed by head gum. So, yeah, where, can I pitch a piece of merch for you guys? Yes, please,

just half tone picture of usong's face in three quarter profile. I would say orange shirt black thing and just the words free you song underneath. I don't know why I thought of that. And I've all recording basically been trying to think of a way to suggest that. That's really in a natural way, but I'm just going to do it. That's really good. Throw it out there.

Just throw it out there. Um, okay song like he works for us for free. Is that what that means? Or you like we want to let him out of the house, let him out of the house. Yeah. He's busting out.

You songs busting out. There should be an episode where if you guys are sick or something at the same time with just you song, call you song busting out. I, you know what? I, I gotta go.

I gotta go shoot for a while. Yeah. There's a, there's a chance Nick, there's a chance there may be a few songs. You song may bust out a few times. I can't wait to see the fucking ratings drop. When I walk away from the show,

you think you can do this on your own. Nick, your piece of shit. What did I say? I could do it on my own. I'm just, I'm just having fun with you. I'm having fun with you.

You know what? I could do it on my own. Nice. We'll see what happens. Yeah. We'll just see. Well, most importantly,

listeners tune in to find out what I'm off shooting. Gump and company. I know I said I couldn't say it, but I mean, it's Gump and Company. It's company company. You're the company. Yeah.

Listeners, listeners tune into the exciting solo. Yeah. Wait, here's my question though. Off the, off the three, three and a half forks.

Great Popeyes below or above KFC. So in the, not just in absolute terms, I think above KFC. Okay. On the fried chicken table. Yeah. Is there a fried chicken fast food?

You like more? Not me. I will say that the, the one that maybe that, that comes close actually is Vaughn's grocery store. Like the Vaughn's grocery store chicken is good. You get that shit at the right time. Yeah.

Holy shit. It's very good, but I never done grocery store. We haven't done it. It's a source object. We'll figure that out at some point. Span off. Span off.

Second Patreon. Second Patreon. Jesus. But I think, I think of the chains, Popeyes is my favorite of the, of the fast food of the, I mean churches is good.

You know, churches is, churches is better than I realized when we went, when we revisited a couple of times. It does seem to be the, it does seem to be the more budget friendly version of it, of all of it, but it's,

it's legitimately good. And KFC is no slouch. I just think there are better options. And some of the regional ones, like your Zaxby's I haven't had or Bojangles I haven't had. And those are big omissions, but I love Popeyes. I'm a huge Popeyes fan.

I'm going to save my thoughts for the review wrap up. Okay. But I was very excited to try this fried chicken sandwich. Oh my God. Which, let me, I'll just read the description. I went,

I went and I had it twice and actually ended up having it three times because I split you song sandwich today. Free you song. But for you song. You songs busted out. No free you song, free you song. Oh,

I thought we were saying for you song. No free you song. No, like we're doing it for you song, like in his memory. No, for you song. If you do pass away,

we'll send you, we'll, we'll definitely send you a double or family double. Yeah. Yeah. We're also going to write up a fake will that says you want to be buried in a double. Sure.

And only a double issue and bottom part of the casket open. So the chicken sandwich is a buttermilk battered chicken filet, crisp, barrel cured pickles, your choice of spicy Cajun spread or mayo. So there's a spicy one in the original one and that the sauce is the entire difference on a buttery toasted brioche bun.

I mean, let's just jump into it. Andrew, you had it for the first time before the record. Yes. What did you think? I thought it was really good. Um,

was it? Well, how are the pickles described? Barrel. Barrel cured. Barrel. No, they were not.

Did you know that they were not in a barrel? That is ludicrous. Look, it's not going to doubt the copy of this Popeyes menu. Um, I think it was definitely worth. Well, okay,

here's the thing. It lived up to the hype for me, but I think I've been trying to like eat a little bit less fast food in general. Right. So I think there's a definite part that like any kind of like bleached white flour bun would have been just a fucking six out of five for me. It was so fucking good in that sense. Um,

yeah, is it? I mean, it's, it's clear. Uh, the, the,

the meta narrative is that it says now you can have a fried chicken sandwich without all the homophobia. Right. And I missed the homophobia. Yeah. It's not, it's not as good for that. But,

uh, no, I mean, yeah, I think it's, I think it's like in the, in the sense that you can have a fried chicken sandwich, but you can't have a fried chicken sandwich.

It's better than Chick-fil-A. Yes. Um, and I think that's all that matters. I guess that was a big part of it. That was an easy call for me. Like, and I'll say that I didn't grow up with Chick-fil-A,

but having had Chick-fil-A a number of times and having this Popeyes chicken sandwich, I've had it, I mentioned about it. I've had thrice, including twice a fresh dining in. Um, so there wasn't any delay in consuming it.

I think this, this is the way you mentioned the bun and I'm something, I'm a, I'm a bun skeptic and especially a brioche skeptic. That brioche bun works really well. It's like, it's like soft in a delightful way.

It kind of melts into the, it melts with it together. It's weird. It melts into the crunch of the, of the chicken. And the heat from the fried chicken truly also makes the bun like melt. Yes.

Oh yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's really, it's really well composed. Like it feels like they put a lot of thought into how they are going to select these individual components and in what proportions to put them in.

I will say that I, the, the big thing for me and Mitch and Mitch, I, you know, you don't, you don't have to say what you think now. Maybe this, this comes later in your review, but the big thing is that you and I are big.

Partisans of the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich. I love it. I love it. That's our favorite Wendy's one, our chicken tournament. It was down to Popeyes and Wendy's as the, as the two finalists. And this was before the Popeyes chicken sandwich.

I will say speaking for me, if this chicken sandwich had been, wow. In the chicken tournament, Wendy's might be in trouble. Damn. I, I love the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich.

And I think always for me, it will just be something different. I think it is also like very unique in that it's, like it's, it's close to a buffalo chicken patty, but it's not really a buffalo chicken patty. It's just that spicy weird. And with this fried chicken patty,

it's, what's spicy is it is the spicy sauce. It's not the actual chicken. Yes. It's spicy. And there's some people who just don't get the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich. They truly don't get it at all.

Like the people will be like, Wendy's fucking sucks. I will look in the reddit on Twitter. People will be like, I just don't like, I can't believe that they think that that shitty sandwich is good. I truly love it. Maybe it's cause I grew up on it.

I love the Wendy's. No, I think it's, I think it's a good sandwich in a backyard. It's, it's a Wendy's one. It's like kind of thin though, right? Yes. A lot of breading and the breading is very flavorful.

Yes. I haven't had one in a while. It's, it's, it's not, it's not like super thin. It's not way for thin, but it's a lot fit. Like this is a very substantial piece of meat. You're getting in the Popeyes sandwich and you're not getting

another Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich. You're not getting that in the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich, but it's still for a fast food item. It's not bad. You're still tasting the chicken. I think that I like that level of chicken that's in the Wendy's sandwich because a lot of places aren't going to have the quality of chicken that this,

that this Popeyes chicken sandwich is, which the quality of the chicken is fucking great. It's great. It's really really good quality chicken. It's, it's crazy how it, I mean, like, particularly the one I had cause they, I went to the one in Hollywood on Thursday and I clearly got one that they had just pulled it out of the fryer cause it was like

piping hot and that meat was so juicy. It was just so, it was fucking, that one was delicious. Howlin' Ray's rules and I, Howlin' Ray's the local LA spot that does very spicy, I've only been there once, but I feel like Howlin' Ray's, if we're doing that, I think Gus's is good. I like Gus's is good.

I like Gus's is a lot too. I think I was like the experience of eating at Gus's way better cause Howlin' Ray's is as bad as it can get experience wise. That's, I was going to say, I love Howlin' Ray's. I think they have a great sandwich. I don't like to wait an hour for it. And honestly, it's crazy that with this whole thing that's going on

with Popeyes that people are waiting forever to get them. They're selling out. Yes. But um, but they Popeyes experience happening right now in the midst of this, this cultural moment where it's this, everyone wants to try it. That's what Howlin' Ray's is like every single time you go there.

You're never going to get there. Get out of there in less than an hour. But that's the thing for a fast food restaurant to have a sandwich that I, and I do think it's good to have a sandwich that's this good is, is really crazy. Nick, do you want to talk about what, can I talk about what happened when I went? Yes.

I want to hear it. Okay. Mine's not as interesting as yours cause you have a very funny story that you haven't told yet. Oh, I have a couple of them. Um, I mean, they're also neither of them will be funny. I was going to say stream of cocky for a second there.

Team me up to be very funny. Oh boy. I'm not TBS. Yeah. No, I was going to say in the TBS sense. Um, I, so I went to the one in Glendale, which is actually where our sandwiches were from today. Shout out to Glendale.

Shout out to Glendale. Shout out to, it's, it's, wait, what are you going to shout out to Armenians? Yeah. No, that is it. No, there's a lot. My trainer is in Glendale.

Hey, how about that? In fact, I left my trainer and I went over to Popeyes. Did he know you were going to Popeyes? I told him I had to eat the sandwiches at some point. I don't think he knew I was going directly after. Got it. I was training. He would have given you a little extra couple extra sets.

He probably wouldn't punish me a little bit. I swear he would have Jason. Great guy. He's going to come on the podcast at some point. Hey, I'll be fun. Um, now maybe he won't come after that reaction to it. He's a hunk, right? What are you going to do?

Just like a like a bowl of broccoli. How is the broccoli this week? That is like he get. He does. He I've gone out to eat with him and you'll be like, can I get that with like no sauce and nothing and then he'll just be eating like plain like salmon, just like or like a piece of chicken that's just like plain and dry.

Yeah, and I don't know how the fuck he does it, but rock. It's fuel to him. Yeah, it is fuel to him. He said he was. He said he was going to try the Popeyes chicken sandwich. So this is very much a thing of this. Like I said, everyone's there. I went to the restaurant.

I pull into the parking lot. This is my tip. I gave you song today and I want half. The weight in the parking lot was like 15 minutes just because I pulled in. It was a tea and like a tea shape where you could exit one way. There was a big car that just blocked everyone and I was yelling at him.

I was like, go like go forwards or backwards so I can get around you and he would and he just wouldn't do it. He was just waiting and it was insane. I was like, I had to yell at this. I was yelling at I got mad. I couldn't help myself. I was right. He would have clearly kicked my ass.

We got out of the car. Mitch, you pantomime and yelling briefly was the most Boston moment. It got very Boston for a second. I was like, oh yeah, he is from. He was he was just sitting there. He and he also was blocking me so that there was a spot opened up, but I couldn't move around him and then another car came and took it. It was insane.

It was just a terrible and I was like this is all because of Popeyes. There was there was no doubt. It was because of Popeyes. Another car came in front of me. I was like, what are they doing? They put on their flashers opened up the trunk. There was a bunch of buns and people from Popeyes came in. And took them.

They were buns for the chicken sand. They were resupplying. Hell yeah. It was fucking chaotic. Black Market buns, baby. It was like a Grand Theft Auto episode. Yeah, it was insane. It's like Dunkirk.

Yeah, they got the community bringing in buns to the Popeyes reinforce them. I mean, it's true. It was it was and also by the way to be clear. I didn't I didn't really yell at this person. I was scared in my car, but it was it was it was fucking chaotic in the parking lot. You sang was it like that for you when you went up there? Yeah, absolutely chaos.

Yeah. I told him and I ended up just parking on the street. But we're but what was the disposition of being because I noticed in my experience that I going to two different stores and spending a lot of time in the restaurant. I don't feel like it was like chaotic inside. I feel like people are just excited and I feel like the employees at these two Popeyes, God bless them because they are so overworked right now. Yeah.

And tip them if they got a tip jar. They they were they were so nice at both places and so like good at like managing the line and like being like I may have just been those two locations. I would say mine were seemed over it, but not in like rude, but they just seemed over it. They were I got in there and there was like I'd say six or eight people in front of me. The the line wasn't the issue, but as soon as they got in, they were like after the

lady was announcing this like every like three minutes. She was like after you order, there's a 40 minute to an hour wait. They were warning people. They were warning people at the register. Yeah. Yeah. So we had a I told people at work that I was I had to get the sandwich because I was doing this podcast and we weirdly had a long ass conversation about this at work because you

know, woke room. Right. A lot of people were like the service at any given Popeyes is so bad that I would prefer to go to a Chick-fil-A. Oh my God. Even even with the homophobia and I was throwing out and I think this has been born out that that, you know, it's just that you rise to the occasion. Like if everyone like shits on Popeyes, the employees get solid and over it. And then now that they're like stars, I feel like they're stepping up and acting like

superstars. Seriously, they did it. They did a great job. I will say that my my I that I had a lot of stuff to do because because of a because I'm going to boot camp in a day. But but but but I so I was like, I don't care. I'm going to wait. But a lot of people were in there and they were like, hey, like 40 minutes to an hour.

And then the people were like fuck 40 minutes to an hour and they would just walk out. So that happened that happened with like three people in front of me so that the line went pretty quick. Yes. There wasn't that much of a line, but they were just like taking people like as they took them. They were like next and then someone would order and then like it would be no one at the register and they'd be like next.

They were just doing it in that way. But a lot of people I saw come in and be like 40 minutes to an hour. A lot of here are not waiting for that. I saw that like three or four times while I was in there, if not more. And it's possible by the time this episode is out that even that will have started to dissipate because I don't you know, I don't know how long the hype is going to linger here or at what point they're going to fix their supply issues. But but then there were a ton of people who were like, OK, there were a ton of people

were like, let's do it. Like there was a group of friends that was like 40 minutes to an hour. All right. And they were just they sat there and waited. It was crazy. Also, there's got to definitely be like at least three a three day period in the next probably two weeks where supply ramps way up and demand just falls out. Yes, right.

There's going to be so many. You're going to be able to get them on sale soon for like a couple of days. Those funds are going to go stale. I will say so I went to the I went to the I will say I went to the Burbank location one of the Burbank locations today and there was one guy who waited in line and then he just got strips. What are you doing? Was there a long wait for strips?

He still had to wait in the line. He still had to wait in the line. He still had to wait a little bit. So they were they were saying to everyone that like no matter what you order is right 40 minutes to an hour. Yeah. Which is which is which is crazy. I was amazed because like this guy even know this they have the sandwich now.

Like was he just there? Yeah. I mean, sometimes you're just you're part of a pop culture moment. You don't even know. Right. The guy that got fucking strips. Fucking fool. But OK.

So I went the when I went to the Hollywood one, it was the longest wait. It actually took me about 20 minutes to get through the line and then another 40 minutes for me to get my sandwich. And I was when I heard my name when I heard Nicholas called, I stood up for my chair. I guess with enough speed that this guy because my table was right next to where the line was. I was like against the wall and I stood up, I guess with enough speed that as I was walking to the counter, I heard this guy in the line say, Dan, that dude can't wait to get that

sandwich. That rule so much. So it's very self-conscious eating it. But I did. I did love it. And this one was delicious. And this this was the one with a spicy sauce. And it was fucking fantastic.

I went back today with Natalie. We went to the Burbank location. I got the the the mayo. I prefer the spicy Cajun spread because I'm as I've said before, I'm something of a heat seeker. But the even though it's not that spicy, just a little bit of extra flavor gets, I think works better than the plain mayo. One thing that happened at the Burbank location, the way it was not as was not as bad.

The sandwich was not quite as fresh. So it was like an A instead of an A plus. But two guys wearing Chick-fil-A shirts and name tags came in and they started then they had bags of Chick-fil-A and they were just started like shit talking the Popeye sandwich and started being like, like, like, like, oh, we're from Chick-fil-A. Oh, Popeyes is is whack. We like Chick-fil-A. And we're like, we're like handing out sandwiches, Chick-fil-A sandwiches to everyone.

And then there was a dude with a fucking camera there. And he realized these are a couple of YouTubers. They were doing a YouTube prank. And everyone was kind of on board with them because they were like, oh, it was just kind of boring to wait. And we're is like, okay, this something's happening. But then they started cussing. And then they lost all the kids.

They lost all the families. That's a that's a that's not a daytime prank. Yeah, they shouldn't have done that. But they started saying like, like, oh, they're they're chicken tastes like pussy or something. It's just like, oh, man, we had a hard turn into going blue. What is what was the group? Do you know? I don't remember the guy's name.

But yeah, a couple of young guys were in Chick-fil-A shirts. Yeah. And then they had one older guy boys. They started up again without me. And it was two young guys. And then one older guy, one like, like Scooter Braun type, who was just like kind of there observing. And then there was like a dork with like a camera, a wiger type who was filming everything.

Imagine being the fucking manager of I know they were clearly just exhausted. Oh, so terrible. Yeah. But anyway, that was like that was like five minutes of my experience. And then when we finally got it, oh, but my sides, I'll mention coleslaw. I got one of them. I think I just tweeted that. I think coleslaw is back.

They're coleslaw is good. Red beans and rice. My favorite side at Popeye's had to do it to him today and it fucking delivered. I got I got mashed potatoes and gravy. I panicked when I ordered the. So I ordered both sandwiches and I ate both of them when I went there. I got a spicy chicken and a regular. I ate them both right monstrous.

No, that's fine. I got a diet coke. No lemonade at this one and and I got the. I don't know if there is. I thought there was lemonade, but and then I got mashed potatoes and gravies just because they were like what do you want? And I freaked out and I just ordered that because I got a combo for please. I want with taters.

Yeah, a guy was standing waiting for sandwiches. He said can I sit at your table with you? I said sure. Go ahead. Yeah, we were waiting. We were bonding a little bit. My sandwich came out in thirty five minutes. Nick, that's not bad.

It didn't even. It wasn't even the forty minutes that she said forty minutes to an hour. It was it was not it was not that it was not that bad. It's that's pure profit right there. It is crazy. It's what's going on with it is is crazy. It's it's a sensation. You song you you and I split a sandwich.

I watched you eat half a chick a Popeye sandwich was just the most food I've ever seen you consume in a single sitting. What did you think of that? It was fucking incredible. I loved it. I will say at the Glendale location that I went to today right before the record, there were also YouTubers there. There were just like a group of four people with cameras who were

filming the line and everything. And you know me. I'm a huge coward. These people seem like bad people. They just like, you know, they didn't even they weren't even doing it discreetly. They were just like filming people's faces. And it was just like and you whipped out some royalty free music.

Oh, man, I should have. Yeah, I should have a birthday or whatever. Man, that would have been great. I was too cowardly to do it. But you're just saying, uh, she'll be coming around the mountain. This quietly 1812 overture, please. Um, but yeah, it was really great. I didn't have any bonding moments.

People too many tank tops were in that chick full. I mean, Popeyes. I'm sorry. And that Popeyes. It was just too much of a there was just too many people. Not what the building was ever designed to do. Great sandwich. It really is awesome.

It's really good. Well, I guess I guess we should get to our final thoughts. Oh, wait, my quick thing I wanted to throw in, which is like, uh, I would say the thing that elevates all the like nice restaurant, um, fried chicken sandwiches that you touch on already, I think got a side of coleslaw put a little bit of coleslaw on that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That's a good move. Well, I'll get into that with my final thought. It works well on a pulled pork. It works well on a chicken sandwich if you want to throw a little slaw on there. So, uh, so Andrew, we're each going to go around and give a summation of our thoughts on this chain and then give it a fork soul fork score rather from zero to five forks.

We will begin with you. Okay. I'm going to give it, uh, I'm going to give the sandwich four and a half and the chain four. Wow. Wow. I think it's the, I think partially it's cause in Los Angeles there's so much good non chain fried chicken.

Sure. I mean, given the current circumstances probably just as fast or faster to get. Uh, I didn't mention Crawfords. Crawfords I think is my favorite fried chicken experience cause it's a bar. And you say you can just drink and have the fried chicken. That's really good. Um, but yeah, that sounds really good. My one big note is that, uh, for some reason my pickles like didn't look

like they had seeds in them. It was like a full like disc of just the flesh part of the cucumber. Oh, interesting. That just seemed weird. So more pickles, uh, more just some seeds to prove that they're real pickles and, uh, throw some coleslaw on there. If you can, that's a, that's, that, that doesn't affect the grade, but in general, um, I, there's not a Popeyes near me.

So I think that's, that's also why I don't go there very much. Um, or, you know, trying to not eat that kind of stuff in general, but I would go there more if it were near me. Um, I think actually the, the kind of very weird side, and this is just as a me problem. Um, the green beans with turkey. Oh yes. Surprisingly good in that like mushy Cisco systems, like,

right. You know, just a, just a little top non-top word, little, little, uh, half pint container of like green bean water. I, I love that shit for some reason. Yeah, that's not, I mean, and that's like, especially if you want a lighter side, that or the slaw, I think we'll, we'll do you right. I think that's actually the least caloric of all the side options.

It's surprisingly good. And, and someone then, and then I brought it up at work the other day and they were like, Oh, the reason it has turkey is cause, um, like, I don't know if the whole restaurant is Halal, but it's, they don't put pork where they normally would put pork. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Well, there you go.

Uh, Mitch, I'm going to go because I think you're, I've been a little bit more, a little bit less coy with how I feel about this. And I think my score is going to be easier for people to predict. I gave Popeyes four and a half forks prior to this. This sandwich is fucking great. And I think it elevates the chain. And I, I think there's no reason for me to fuck around. I think that that Popeyes is now a five fork chain because of the sandwich.

And I think the sandwich is fucking great. I think it's the fast food. I'm not the first person to say this. Many people have said this. Don't accuse me of just copying black Twitter. I think though this is the fried chicken sandwich to beat. This one is, it's, it's the best fast food fried chicken sandwich. It's the thrones Wendy's spicy chicken, which is my previous favorite.

Uh, five forks for Nick Weiger, Mike Mitchell. It hinges on you. Well, things have changed since we've, since we reviewed Popeyes for the first time. That's true. We had the chicken fight after pop the first review of Popeyes. Didn't we? Yes.

We reviewed Popeyes pretty early on with our friend Leslie Arphen, who was very excited to review Popeyes and then was less excited about Popeyes food than I expected. Yes. Yes. I think that the sandwich is fantastic. I think it's, I think it's such a, I love everything that's going on with it. I love the people going to the restaurants and trying out and being excited for the

sandwich. I think it's fun. I think that it's great to have a place that has this quality of a sandwich that isn't a howling rays or right, you know, like howling rays and like some of those quality fried chicken sandwiches. The plan check fried chicken sandwich and we're talking about local, local spots. I mean, there are fried chicken sandwiches that are better. Don't get me wrong. For sure.

But this is such a great sandwich. I love the Wendy spicy chicken sandwich. I don't think it could ever be to thrown for me. That's understandable. Popeyes is a little bit more inconvenient. You got it. It's hard to find one with a drive through. They're kind of spotty in the areas anyways.

They're not, they're not around as much as Wendy's or other fast food chains. I mentioned this before and I'm sorry for interrupting your thoughts again, but the, the Popeyes near us closed and turns into a Starbucks. Yeah. And then the KFC near us turned into another Starbucks. Yes. That's fucking bullshit. Hell yeah.

Shout out to Starbucks. Shout out to. That fucking macchiato. This fucking sucks. The worst. Both of our fried chicken options within a mile radius just. If Starbucks shut down as a chain, I would not care at all. No.

Truly. So, I mean, it is kind of a go to drop a panic doos. Yeah. You guys are going on the road. I'll find once you're out of your bubbles that you're going to appreciate the Starbucks a little bit more. I know this place will have a bathroom that locks. Yeah.

That got the one person stalls though. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Thank you. I so here's here's here's like my complaints about is that the spicy chicken sandwich I think can be spicier. Yeah. I think that the bun like you were saying, I think it does work really well

for it, but I do. I wonder if there was a different thing you could do with the bun. Look, that's a should be a very soft critique. I don't care. I'm like, I'm just a fair quibbles though. And then the pickles, the pickles really aren't like sour. They're just like a very mild. Yeah.

Oh, I didn't touch on my pickles thing real quick. I didn't get. I did get two pickles on my on my first one. I had and then the the other two were were pickle crazy. I had more pickles on those, but they were barrel cured, but sorry. Sorry. Go ahead, Mitch. No, that's fine.

I also I'll take your apology. I I thought that the pickles were just they couldn't have a little bit more of a kick or something. That's why I like the idea of coleslaw or something that would be that would be great on there. That being said, it's a five fork sandwich. Wow. I think it's I think it's a really great sandwich.

I like what it's doing and I think that when people describe to me what Chick-fil-a was this is what I pictured in my mind. Beautiful. That's beautiful. This is this is beautiful. This is what I thought it was going to be. Thank you, Wacker. This is what I was saving, by the way.

That's what when people told me they described this unimaginable Chick-fil-a sandwich. It's a rapturous tone. It's in and then there's a spicy version of it too and has pickles and it's just very simple and that's it. This is what I pictured in my mind. Yeah. This beats the Chick-fil-a sandwich.

Hand down hands down. I like a Chick-fil-a's trash to me comparatively. Wow. I also have. I also have never. I feel like experience the Chick-fil-a of the south, which people really love. So maybe that's the thing we'll find out when we when we tour down south, or if you ever tour again, Nick, we'll go down there.

We'll figure some stuff out, but we're canceling some dates, but future dates that aren't even scheduled yet. But you can just not schedule them. Just throw it out there. That's what I've been saying. But this this sandwich is a it's a fantastic sandwich. Wendy's is always number one in my mind. This is this is up there.

It's really, really good. It's it's way, way up. There's a five fork sandwich. And you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to get five forks to pop. Wow. Five and five.

Wow. That means with our scores combined, Popeyes is in the golden plate class. Yes. Wow. What a knot. We're at right. Because the fried chicken.

I mean, fried chicken is great through the tournament and having Popeyes. It was really, really good. It's delightful. Every time I have it, I love it. And a good boneless meat patty like that is it works really well. And I you know what? I want to experiment with kind of like the the tenders. What that guy did.

I should. I should experiment with the tenders a little bit more. But the sides are great. Yeah. How can it not be a five fork chain? Oh, and they got fried shrimp there too. They got shrimps. Yeah.

Hey, know what? I love that chicken from Popeyes. I too love that chicken from Popeyes. He didn't sing it though. Love that chicken from Popeyes. Hey guys, that was our review of Popeyes chicken sandwich. It's time for a brand new segment. We've got a classic snack.

And it's time for the moderners take. We're going snack in time with snack to the future. Snack for the future. Snack to the future. Snack to the future. Snack to the future. Snack the future. Love that chicken from Popeyes.

So we came up with this idea just before the show. What happened? I didn't have time to write a theme song. I told you just all you had to do was go snacks. Snack, snack, snack, snack, snack. Can we do it again and you can do what your idea was? Fine. Okay, here we go.

Snack, snack, snack, snack, snack. Snack to the future. Snack to the future. Snack to the future. How's that? That's good. I mean, it's not all that different from what I was doing. But it was also good.

We'll keep them in. You vote for Nick's or mine. Yes. Nick's is going to win. Everyone loves Nick. No, they love you. Just tweet in number one or number two. Yeah, number one or number two.

Also, what's your favorite between number one and number two? Are you a piss fan? Or a shit freak. So we've got these planner's cheese balls. These are one of my favorite snacks from childhood. And hey, the container, I'll take a picture of this right now. The container says it's back. Wow.

Because this was a snack that was taken off the market for a while and it's been brought back. I don't know on a limited time. I don't know if it's going to be based on sales, but cheese balls are back. They really are just like, you know, they have Cheetos cheese balls as well. These are basically just Cheetos in ball form or cheese puffs in ball form. Andrew, have you had these before? I definitely have. I remember the little cardboard container.

Do we crunch them on Mike? Yeah, feel free to crunch. Some people like that. Some people hate it. It's all right. Whoever in the audience right now has a boner. You win. Okay.

People either get hard or turn off the podcast. Liger wins, I guess. I did not realize these were planters brand. Yeah. That's bizarre to me. It is weird. It's like they're one non-nut snack, basically. And it's basically just cornmeal and cheese coating, but I fucking love them.

It's like Cheetos, but with the proportion of a, I guess it's the same logic as donut holes. Right. It's like so much more covering. Yes. More cubic unit of corn. Yeah. Right. They kind of collapse in your mouth too.

Like you bite into them. They kind of like, it's like a packing peanut. It just sort of dissolves. They're good as hell. They're really good. They're good. If there's a big bowl of these at our party, I'd be snacking on these here and there. Oh man.

I would take one of these things to the dome routinely. What is a kid? Now that they're in front of me, I for sure, as a kid, one time, just to see what it was like, put them in a bowl and ate them like cereal with milk. I ate the whole thing. I didn't use, I didn't feel like a whole bowl, but like, you know, probably a regular size kid cereal bowl, at least two layers deep of balls. I had a roommate who did that.

I had a roommate who did that with not the cheese balls, but with cheez-its or rich crackers. He did crackers and milk. He'd put them in a bowl with like cereal and poor milk over a medium spoon. Nasty. Yeah. It's really, yeah. It's bizarre. It's gross.

My friends aren't so fucked up. Did you, did you, did you drink the cheese milk after? I must have. Yeah. You guys are fucked up. It's just, it just brought back such a visceral memory when I ate that. I was like, oh, I remember, I know what this tastes like with a big spoonful of milk. And I shouldn't.

It's, that's so gross. God. I'm paraphrasing someone else's Twitter joke, but I work, because the can, if you look on Nick's Twitter, presumably, or you'll find a picture of it, a picture of Mr. Peanut. So this is my favorite Twitter joke, which is that like Mr. Peanut is the most, you know, there's nothing more capitalist than a peanut that sells other peanuts to people to be eating. Right. So fucked up.

Anyway, fuck Mr. Peanut. Tear down, tear down the capitalism. Yeah. Give me this fucking monocle, this rich piece of shit. Peanut and Tifa is here. He's a fuck this up. He's a peanut. He's a one percenter peanut.

Yeah. He sure is. Yeah. He's got a fucking cane. He's got little spats. Look at his goddamn. Look at his goddamn feet. He's too.

Yeah. He's, he's intentionally being fancy with his feet there. I don't like it. He has like a little, little cocky heel on that shoe. Damn. That's fucked up. Damn, Mr. Peanut. So you're gonna do other peanuts like, okay, sorry.

I fully read. I read out of steam about 30 seconds ago. No, how dare he do other peanuts like that? He's a real piece of shit. I was trying to find, I got buried in my laptop for a second because I was trying to find who wrote that tweet because I knew the tweet you're talking about. And I wanted to, oh, we'll shout about it on social media. But yeah, it's, it is like Mr. Peanut is a fucking monster.

Yeah. I, I'm trying to figure out how to, if these, if we like them, do they go into the, into the, the time machine? Do we? Yeah. Do we do? Oh, do we feed them to Biff? Do we put them in manure?

I don't know what to do here. Why? Oh, that's good. Yeah. Biff stomps them out. If they're bad. If they're bad, Biff stomps them out. And if they're good, Marty feeds them to his kids.

Oh, what about they, they can go in, I guess it's for trash. They could go to a fuel. Oh, there you go. Yes. Yes. They'll fuel the DeLorean. All right. Do these fuel the DeLorean or does, does Biff stomps them into the, do they go to the,

do they go to Biff world? Biff's alternate future. Are they flushed down the toilet in Biff's casino? Wow. I think these, these power the, the fucking Mr. Fusion. I agree. These, these, these absolutely do. These absolutely keep that DeLorean traveling back in time.

These are right at the edge for me. They're like objective. I think it's cause I can again, taste the milk. Right. So that is bringing back a mildly unpleasant memory, but I think they're. It's okay. You, hey, you can disagree with us. We, it's fine.

Well, no, but I'm, I'm trying to be honest cause I for sure would eat this entire can, but the whole time I would be like, I shouldn't be doing this. Yeah. Cause there's shit I would like more. Right. But so I would give this like on a, on a zero to 100, like exactly 52. Oh, wow. You know what I mean?

Like I don't hate them and I a hundred percent will eat them, but I like almost every snack that I don't hate more. Then maybe you could give it to a, what's Biff's friend? Who does Flea play in it? Oh, I know you mean he's got 3D glasses. Yeah. Flea's character in part two. Yeah.

Can you look it up? You got a laptop for God's sake. Okay, hold on. Flea, the train back to the future. How do the train maybe give, I would give it to people in the old West times. Oh, that's fair. They'll be blown away by it. Yeah.

But yeah, they'll probably, they'll probably suggest to put it in milk. I'm guessing. Yeah. Just cornpone cheese, just way, way in cornpone. That's what they would say. Hand me my bridal. What the fuck else do they do in cowboy times? Spurs?

Oh, yeah. McFly is like a little Irish guy in the, in the alternate. Oh, right. His character name, you're going to remember it when I say it. I know I am. Needles. Needles. Needles.

How do I forget needles? Needles fires them too in the future. That's right. I'm going to go back and watch all these. These are good movies. You can. We've got to go back. To watch the movies.

That was snack to the future. It's like a restaurant. Your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Today's email is from West from Omaha at Crawley shore on Twitter. West writes, would love to hear your thoughts on the hard seltzer revolution. I am a regular water guy and have never been until a Croy or any of those, but recently had some hard seltzers and I think I may be converted.

Andrew, are you much of an imbibor of alcohol experience? Yes. Uh, I had one. What are they called? White claw. And then there's a four local one now. Yeah. Yeah.

I had one. I think I'm a person that at, at your, uh, you know, summer just finished. So summer's done. Summer. Put the fucking surfboards away. It's over. Go back to school. Hit the books.

The fucking books, you nerds. I got detention. Um, I, I'm a person that I think at parties, I think I got on that like just keep adding soda water to whatever the fuck you're drinking when you're at a, when you're at a red cup party and then like add more booze to it and just kind of go back and forth to that for a while. So I feel like I've kind of been on the, the hard seltzer train for a while. Um, so they're fine.

What I will say I did at a, at a party the other day, like two weeks ago, maybe, which is I, I had myself a little glass of white wine and I was like, Oh, I'll just pour a little seltzer in here, but I poured a white claw in there to make an extra booze surprise. That's cool. It was a little too strong. But it was a little like, Oh fuck, what is this? You know, one of those moments. That's fun though.

Yeah. I've had, we had some, we were over at our buddy Evan Susser's place. We drank some white claws while we were watching NXT takeover, the wrestling. You song, did you have one? You song, stop by. Uh, no, I didn't. I was too distracted by what was going on on the screen. You song was fascinated by the wrestling.

It was, it was, it was great. Are you guys big wrestling heads? Uh, yeah. We got, I've gotten back into it in the past few years, Mitch and I both have. I just met, I met the guy that, that did the suck it motion. Oh yeah. Badass Billy Gunn or the road dog or X-Pock, X-Pock, X-Pock, I mean, I should have thought X-Pock first.

He did it the most. Is that his thing? I don't, I didn't know enough about it. Yeah. No, no. My friends who I was with were very excited. He did the suck it thing. Yeah.

Sean, is it Sean Walt? Wow. Sean. Yes. Yeah. That sounds right. Very nice dude. That is exact.

Sean Waltman. I think I'm close wise. I think you're close. I called him Dr. Suck It. It is Sean Waltman. You are, you had a dead on. Yeah. That's, that's X-Pock.

So real name. Um, uh, yeah. We, you know, speaking of which I got Bola tickets to sell anyone out there in the Los Angeles area who wants some Bola tickets. What? It's not a bad idea to try to sell them. This isn't your Craigslist. It is now.

All right. Mitch is just selling his personal things he needs to get rid of. Oh shit. I don't sell the sonic pop figurine that's on your, on your table. No, we're keeping that. Okay. I do have a coffee table though that I can also get rid of. Can get, just get rid of.

You can have it for free. Oh my God. Just come, just walk the streets of Los Angeles listening for Mitch's voice. And when you hear it, you'll know that coffee table is nearby. Yeah. I don't want to give out my fucking address. Getting murdered by some dough boys fan. There's no real dough boys fan.

I mean there, but there are people who would kill you. He does. You should, you guys should pedal one personal item every episode. I agree with that. I think we could do all right with that. How many personal items do you own, Nick? Like three? I got my laptop, my switch and my phone.

And then the clothes I'm wearing. No, I don't. I don't, I think I've owned some books. I own some Minions figurines. Try to think of what else I got. I got some stuff. People send me stuff. I have things.

I have possessions. Wait, did you read the email yet? Which email? Do we do? Do we do? Oh, wait. Oh, you're right. Yeah.

That was what I said. The hard cells are revenue. That's a question. Oh, I forgot. Yeah. But we, that's what we were talking about. Yeah. I had three different flavors.

The seltzer ones are, I don't know. They're fine. How many flavors are there? I think there's like the, we got a variety pack. I don't, I don't, I don't love them, but I love like a, like a soda water, like a tequila and soda water. I would rather have that versus these, these canned ones. But if these canned ones are available, a hundred calories.

Hey, it's like drinking a spin drift. It's like drinking an La Croix. It's fine. I'll totally take it. But presumably those are cause they're, they're sold. They're like, like a malt liquor type thing. Right. Yeah.

A tequila. Take this tequila. Yeah. I'd rather just have like a spirit and some, and some, some seltzer water, but if that's not available or if it's not a bar situation, I totally take this. What about a 12 and 12 ounce can just full of vodka? Like that's the next nightmare.

That's the next thing. I think the older, the owner of our old podcast company would have, would have been into that. Moving on. That's his Arnold Palmer. You're, you're, I love spin drifts, Nick. Yeah. They're good.

I drink two of them. I know you drink two of them every time you're here. You take them down to recording two episodes. I get parts. I know you do. I'm just giving you, I'm just giving you a little, I'm needling you a little bit. You fucking go spin drift crazy.

He flee from back to the future. Needling me. Yeah, I am. Spindrift is the one with just like a little bit of juice. Yes. They're like 10 calories are under. And I think they're great. They are like one of my favorite drinks.

Now I love spin drifts. And yo, to me, Nick, I turned you on to them. You did death. I appreciate it. I like the spin drifts. I also don't mind the bubblies about the bubblies. Those are fine. Oh yeah.

But yeah, I'm pro whole hard seltzer. I'm glad this exists. I like it. I like it because they're great, but whatever. I don't think they're great, but the beer alternatives for so long were just things that were just so sugary. Yeah, there's like, there's an alternative that doesn't have a ton of sugar.

There's something that's just more, just sort of a, a subtler flavor and it's, it's more alcohol forward. But yeah, let us know your, let us know your thoughts on hard seltzer. Uh, hashtag, uh, a hard seltzer to swallow. And if you have a question or comment over the word, I'll chain restaurants. You email us at always podcast.

Do you have it on the column or leave us voicemail at 830 Godot. That's 8304636844. And to get the dough boys double our weekly bonus episode during the golden or platinum plate club at patreon.com slash dough boys. Go ahead. I was just going to say for real again, I just wanted to

say that, uh, I apologize for people who are affected by the tour. I know some people are looking forward to it. Nick, this is real. Yeah. I'm very excited for what happened. So I, I'm very excited to go and do that, but I, I do feel, I do feel sorry, but I can't, I don't know if I can talk about it.

I don't even know what I can say about it, but also I don't even know what I'm doing really. Can you even say this? I don't know. I truly, I have no idea. What should I say? I got to go see an old friend. We got to patch something up with an old friend.

That's what I got to do. There you go. So you got to settle an old score. I got to settle an old score. That's all I want to say. I truly apologize to, uh, to people who were affected on the tour. That said, we're still going to, we're going to have, we're

going to do eight shows in the East coast. We'll see. Your tickets will be refunded and we'll have those episodes. Again, don't say that. Uh, they, they, they have, they'll have to, I think it'll have to. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know legally what we're on the hook for, but anyway,

I would say the, we're, we're going to do eight episodes in, uh, on the East coast at minimum and those will are all going to be released. Uh, you know, we'll either release them on our, on our Patreon or on our normal episodes over the month of September. There'll be plenty of new dough boys for you guys to listen to while Mitch is off, uh, selling an old score and Andrew T. Thank you so much for being here with us.

Thank you for this topical episode. Thanks for the motherfucking sandwich. Oh my God. Thank you for your insight now. I don't know. You can do contributions. You can wait and then go and get it when it's not like a crazy.

I know. No, I know. I'm just visualizing the demand versus. We didn't even say that that you went and it was sold out. Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah. I went, I tried.

So I literally, I created all of you song stress this morning because I tried to go on Thursday and it's sold out two people. I think one and a half or two people ahead of me, one and a half. Like we're somewhere in there. There was a couple of people ahead of me. I could see the fingers typing on the register and then they

just yell like, we're out of sandwiches. God, that sucks. It sucks. And it was not, it was like, it was probably like six 15. I went straight from work to the thing. So yeah, it was like six 15 and it was like, gone. That's insane. It's good.

You got to get it. It's madness. It's really good. There's a reason they're in demand. Andrew, what would you like to plug? Oh my gosh. Well, I guess listen to, uh, Josie's racist. Um, everyone tune into mixed ish.

Uh, it's on either before or after black ish. I don't know what that is. It's what, uh, I think it's Tuesday. I don't know. It's coming up soon. Um, but also, uh, we, uh, me, uh, and my, uh, podcast co-host, uh, Tony Newsom are going on a couple of, uh, dates. Uh, we're doing a couple of West coast dates, uh, September 6th,

7th and 8th on, uh, let's see, we're going to South. So we're starting in Seattle, Portland, and then San Francisco, uh, 6th, 7th and 8th, uh, the Portland show. Uh, I, uh, the website says sold out. That seems impossible, but apparently it's sold out. Wow. Um, so yeah, I guess Seattle on the 6th and San Francisco on the 8th of September, please come see us.

Check those shows out. Tony Newsom, past dope boys, guests, and I'll have to have both of you guys back. And we thank you guys for, I realized the last time we did Portland, it was, uh, a significant number of our audience were just there to see you guys. Oh, it was so great. Wow. Seriously. They're fools.

Butts and seats. It was awesome. I can't believe that. I can't believe that's true. You guys, you're both very, very funny guests. Thank you. Thank you for doing the show. God bless you.

Thank you for doing the show. And hey, thanks for listening. And that'll do it for this episode of Dough Boys. Until next time on the road for Mike Spoon Mitchell. I'm sorry, Mike, the artist formerly known as Spoon Mitchell. I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating. See ya.

Sources for this week's intro include interview with a vampire and rice's casting quibbles by Erica Kornberg, the battle of Nuvo Orleans by Jesse Katz. When Anne Rice battled Al Copeland in 1997, fights from the past by Todd A. Price. Popeye's chicken sandwiches get $23 million free advertising from Black Twitter by Arthur Villesanta. Link's available in the episode description. Double. Double.

On the next Dough Boys Double, writer Adam Chandler joins to discuss his new book Drive Through Dreams, a journey through the heart of America's fast food kingdom. And we give ourselves the rumblies by eating every remaining snack in Mitch's kitchen in another edition of the Snack Log. Get the Dough Boys Double every Tuesday only at patreon.com slash Dough Boys.