"Little Caesars 3 with Johnno Wilson" is Episode 477 of Doughboys, hosted by Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell. "Little Caesars 3 with Johnno Wilson" was released on January 9, 2025.

"Tomorrow… with Johnno Wilson" - @doughboyspod
Synopsis[]
Johnno Wilson (@johnnowilson, Twisted Metal) joins the 'boys to talk Massachusetts eats, Twisted Metal Season 2, and big names before a return visit to Little Caesars Pizza. Plus, another edition of Slop Quiz.
Nick's intro[]
“I was expecting like four of my friends and my parents to buy the game and that would have been awesome, so no, the entire past year has been a series of crazy events.” This was solo developer LocalThunk reflecting on the unexpected success of his indie game, Balatro.

Balatro
On February 20th of 2024, the pseudonymous LocalThunk unceremoniously released Balatro, a deck-building roguelite that remixed the rules of poker in a sooth-core aesthetic, on the Steam store. With vibes aided by a looping chillwave score by composer LouisF, the ingeniously addictive design would become one of the breakout hits of 2024, selling over three million copies by year’s end, and winning Independent Game of the Year at the Game Awards.
In Balatro, a core gameplay mechanic involves collecting and utilizing “jokers,” wild cards that alter the rules of a run and in so doing, guide the player’s deck-building strategy. And while many might reasonably assume “Balatro” is one of those made up video game words like “ReFantazio” or “Revengeance” or “Undiscovery,” it’s in fact a brilliantly fitting name with historical origins, because 'balatro' was the term for a jester — or joker, if you will — in Ancient Rome. No doubt Julius Caesar, and his grand-nephew, Augustus Caesar, were amused by the jokes and japes of balatros in their imperial courts, where they also gorged until they puked and then fucked everyone.
In 1959, partners Mike and Marian Illitch opened a Detroit-area pizza parlor that’s the namesake of both the last Roman dictator and the first Roman emperor. Its mascot would become a diminutive simulacrum of toga-clad Roman rulers with signature catchphrase “pizza pizza” — no relation to the Canadian chain of the same name. The company’s success led to a footprint as sprawling as the Roman empire itself, and today, it has grown to the third largest pizza chain by sales in America. In 2024, mere weeks after the release of Balatro, the chain debuted Crazy Puffs, cheesy saucy bites with the form factor of cupcakes, and the once limited-time offering has since become a regular menu item.
Balatro seems set to be a time-sink fixture on smartphones and Steam Decks for the foreseeable future. But will the Crazy Puffs sold at the Roman pastiche pizza-pie purveyor have similar staying power?
This week on Doughboys… we return, once again, to Little Caesar’s.
Fork rating[]
This is the third visit to Little Caesars by the Doughboys. First, in 2019, Nick gave it 5 forks and Mitch 4.25, and it made the Golden Plate Club. They would return two years later, when Nick gave it 4.5 forks and Mitch 4 forks, but it was demoted from said Golden Plate Club.
Little Caesars was also a part of The Slice Is Right pizza tournament, where it won a round, but then lost to Costco, before finally losing to Domino's in the loser's bracket. They also tried the Pretzel Crust Pizza in this episode.
guest / host | ordered | rating |
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Nick Wiger |
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4.5 forks |
Mike Mitchell | 5 forks | |
Johnno Wilson | 4.5 forks | |
shared |
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Nick went on his own to a Little Caesars for lunch, before the whole group shared an order together.
With these scores, Little Caesars returns to the Golden Plate Club!
Slop Quiz: Chew or False: Movie Tie-In Menu or Movie Lyin' Me-No edition[]

Howard Johnsons 2001 Children's Menu
In this segment, Nick presents a food-related exam and Mitch and the guest compete to see who gets more questions right.
For this episode, Nick reads the description of a movie tie-in menu and they have to decide if it was chew (true) or food (not).
clue | Mitch's guess | Johnno's guess | correct | score (MM - JW) |
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IHOP's Grinch menu:
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Chew | Chew | Chew | 1 - 1 |
Baskin-Robbins' Mitchell vs the Machines menu:
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Chew | Food | Food | 1 - 2 |
Johnny Rockets Kong: Skull Island menu:
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Chew | Food | Chew | 2 - 2 |
Howard Johnson's 2001: A Space Odyssey children's menu:
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Food | Food | Chew | 2 - 2 |
Cracker Barrel's Hillbilly Elegy menu:
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Food | Food | Food | 3 - 3 |
Wendy's Harry Potter menu:
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Food | Chew | Food | 4 - 3 |
Five Guys Fantastic Four menu:
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Food | Food | Food | 6 - 5 |
Mitch wins!
Roast Spoonman[]

Obi-Wan Kenobi
“ | Obi 10-1 Kenobi | ” |
–Andrew from Charlotte, NC |
Quotes[]
“ | Johnno: [Wiger] has a bigger mouth than 99% of human beings on the Earth. Nick: I'm in the top 1% of mouth size. |
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–Nick's mouth |
“ | Mitch: I had to change three litterboxes last night. Nick: Wolly's, Irma's, and your own? |
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–The Doughboys |
“ | Who wants to sex The Spoonman? | ” |
–Mike Mitchell |
The Feedbag[]
“ | I've been listening to videos of rug cleaning and lawnmowers to help me sleep. What would be some good food prep sounds that would be good listening? | ” |
–Jerry from Kingston, PA |
guest / host | cool food sounds for sleeping |
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Nick Wiger |
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Mike Mitchell |
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Johnno Wilson |
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Emma Erdbrink |
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Drops and Plugs[]
reference | notes |
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"No Pecan / Choking on a Cheez-It" | in Mitch's drop (by Kenny, the winner of Drop Off 4) |
Twisted Metal season 2 | Johnno's plug |
Related Episodes[]
Little Caesars episodes |
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