Bojangles with Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale (live)

"Bojangles with Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale (live)" is Episode 347 of *Doughboys*, hosted by Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell. "Bojangles with Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale (live)" was released on April 28, 2022.

## Synopsis

Jesse Farrar & Mike Hale join the 'boys to discuss their preferred celestial objects and Nashville eats before a review of Bojangles.

Recorded live at Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville, TN on 4/20/22.

## Nick's intro

The Commodore: this was the nickname of one of the wealthiest human beings in history (adjusted for inflation), a Staten Island-born Dutch-American named Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt vanderbuilt his fortune by constructing a vast network of rail lines in the late-19th century, putting him in the elite company of Gilded Age contemporaries like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, praised as captains of industry by bootlickers and vilified by the working class as robber barons.

Like hoarders of wealth past and present, Vanderbilt fancied himself a philanthropist (a practice that Warren Buffet's son, Peter Buffet, decried as "conscience laundering"), of which the most visible effort was his eponymous Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. And Vanderbilt's no-doubt rich shithead grandson, George Washington Vanderbilt II, constructed another landmark: the largest private home in the country, the 250-room Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.

And while tourists still flock to the Biltmore, it's another more-recent North Carolina institution that's had more impact in the South - a chicken-and-biscuit restaurant founded in 1977 by entrepreneur Jack Z. Fulk. The fast-food concept fast became a regional fave, expanding into adjacent states in subsequent decades, and today, numbering north of 450 eateries (including some a short drive from Vanderbilt University).

Today, the generational wealth of the Vanderbilt Family persists not just in land holdings, but in celebrity. Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt is a descendent, as are CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and actor Timothy Olyphant. And while the equivalent of robber barons still exist in the form of obnoxious tech assholes, much wealth and political power is now concentrated in faceless holding corporations and equity firms like the Jordan Company and Durational Capital Management, which together own Fulk's Carolina chicken chain that snakes across the American South like The Commodore's railways.

This week on *Doughboys*, Bojangles.

## Fork rating

* Mtn Dew Southern Shock
* 20pc Chicken Meal
	+ Biscuits
	+ Cole Slaw
	+ Macaroni & Cheese
	+ Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
	+ Seasoned Fries
* Bo's Chicken Sandwich
* Bo-Tato Rounds
* Bo-Berry Biscuits
* Pimento Cheese Chicken Biscuit (Mike's breakfast)
 Mike Mitchell
 Jesse Farrar
 Mike Hale

The four of them went together the night before the show and shared the order. Mike went to Bojangles again for breakfast the morning of the show. Mitch actually ordered another full order from Bojangles on his own, but it never arrived, so he ordered Hattie B's instead.

**Spoonman's Bite of the Night** went to the Bo-Berry Biscuits. **Spoonman's Sip of the Trip** went to the Mtn Dew Southern Shock.

With these scores, Bojangles joins the Golden Plate Club!

## Snack or Wack: Cream Dream or Nightmare edition

In Snack or Wack, the Doughboys taste a snack item and rate it either 'snack' or 'wack.'

In this episode, they try ice cream from the Black Box Ice Cream Truck (specifically, the flavors, Vanilla and Ube).

They loved both flavors.

 Mike Mitchell
 Jesse Farrar
 Mike Hale

## Mt. CelestialBodiesMore

* moon
* Earth
* Neptune

## Quotes

**Nick**: That's the Pig Pen cloud following the Doughboys' audience.

## Live Feedbag

 Mike Mitchell
 Jesse Farrar

 Mike MItchell
 Mike Hale

 Mike Mitchell

## Photos

Bo-Berry Biscuits20pc ChickenBo's Chicken SandwichMashed Potatoes & GravyBo-Tato RoundsMacaroni & Cheeseempty Bojangles