"Tournament of Chompions: Full Bird Region with Eugene Cordero" is Episode 93 of Doughboys, hosted by Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger. "Tournament of Chompions: Full Bird Region with Eugene Cordero" was released on March 9, 2017.
Synopsis[]
Eugene Cordero (Kong: Skull Island, The Dumbbells podcast) returns to help officiate the third match of the first round of Tournament Champions: Chicken Fight, as the 'boys reveal the competitors in the Full Bird Region. Plus, it's a shake down, as the trio tastes the limited edition King Kong sweet treats from Johnny Rockets.
Nick's intro[]
The Louisiana Purchase
The end of the 18th century saw the Haitian Revolution, an uprising where slaves on the island of Hispaniola, who had been tortured and brutally worked to the bone by their French masters, overthrew their overlords and declared self-rule. It drew a straight line to the Louisiana Purchase which, while widely credited to the genius of Thomas Jefferson, had as much to do with Napoleon's desperate desire to ditch the French Colonial presence in America and the aftermath.
The massive U.S. territorial expansion of the 1790s gave us portions of the home states of America's tri-force of mega fried-chicken chains a century and a half later: Kentucky, where Colonel Harlan Sanders, a Frank Abagnale-style huckster, who worked countless careers founded his famous eatery; Texas, where a restaurant called Texas Chicken was opened by George W. Church, Sr., who didn't live to see its success or its name change; and Louisiana, where an eccentric businessman named Al Copeland began his chicken shack named after a popular cartoon to which he didn't even own the rights.
This week on Doughboys, the third match-up of the Quarter Pounder Final round of Munch Madness: The Tournament of Chompions: Chicken Fight: Full Bird Region: Church's v. KFC v. Popeyes.
Let's a-go!
Chicken Fight: Rules[]
- Only focus on the chicken.
- Sides stay on the sidelines.
- Drinks are in the Gatorade jug (also on the sidelines).
Cock Fight: Full Bird Region 🐓[]
This year, The Doughboys decide which food is so good that when it gets sent to the Devil, it will turn him into an angel.
In this episode, they give the best food to Kong, who punches his way down into hell and delivers it to the Skullcrawlers, who burrow down further to visit the Devil, who will like the chicken so much his horns become a halo.
| guest / host | Church's | KFC | Popeyes |
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| Nick Wiger |
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| Mike Mitchell |
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| Eugene Cordero |
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The three of them seemed to have shared the KFC order, and made their own individual trips to Popeyes and Church's.
The Doughboys all voted for something different!
So to break the tie, they offer their rankings of the three restaurants, and since Popeyes had the most second place votes, it moves on to the next round (i.e., given to the Skullcrawlers to deliver to the Devil).
| guest / host | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place |
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| Nick Wiger | Popeyes | Church's | KFC |
| Mike Mitchell | KFC | Popeyes | Church's |
| Eugene Cordero | Church's | Popeyes | KFC |
Shake Down[]
Eugene, star of Kong: Skull Island, brings two promotional Johnny Rockets Kong shakes: a peanut-butter banana shake and a chocolate banana shake. They rate the two shakes out of 100 (since Kong in Kong: Skull Island is 100 feet tall).
They all loved the peanut-butter banana shake, but were more indifferent to the chocolate banana one.
| guest / host | Chocolate Banana Shake | Peanut-Butter Banana Shake |
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| Nick Wiger | 33 feet of Kong (to Kong's nutsack) | 100 feet of Kong (to the top of Kong's dome) |
| Mike Mitchell | 52 feet of Kong (to Kong's pubic hair) | 90 feet of Kong (to Kong's lips) |
| Eugene Cordero | 65 feet of Kong | 78 feet of Kong |
Quotes[]
| “ | Mitch: Villa Rosa is one of my favorite restaurants in Quincy. It's now closed. Nick: Did it close because you moved? |
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–Nick breaking the no-roasting rule | ||
| “ | I'm bananas for bananas and nuts for nuts. | ” |
–Nick Wiger | ||
| “ | Eugene, no spoilers, but does anyone get killed by Kong squishing them with his nutsack? | ” |
–Mike Mitchell | ||
| “ | Eugene: Your head does look like this Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket upside-down. Mitch: The Mitchells just have bucketheads. |
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–Eugene & Mitch | ||
#hashtags[]
- #IceMan vs. #Maverick
- #FoodToFilm
Restaurants[]
| official visit | location | notes |
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| Church's Chicken | Long Beach, CA | Nick went to a location in Long Beach |
| Church's Chicken | Pasadena, CA | Mitch went to this location |
| Church's Chicken | Pacoima, CA | Eugene went to this location |
| Popeyes | Burbank, CA | Nick went to this location |
| Popeyes | Hollywood, CA | Mitch and Eugene went to this location (separately, but ran into each other there) |
| restaurants referenced | location | notes |
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| Villa Rosa | Quincy, MA | Mitch mentions this is one of his favorite Quincy restaurants |
| Popeyes | Hanoi, Vietnam | Eugene talks about going to Popeyes at the Hanoi airport |
Plugs[]
| movies / tv | notes |
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| Kong: Skull Island | Eugene's plugs and Johnny Rockets Shakes |
Related Episodes[]
| Chicken Fight episodes | Eugene Cordero episodes |
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| Church's episodes | KFC episodes | Popeyes episodes | Johnny Rockets episodes |
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Photos (via @doughboyspod)[]
