7-12-24 McElroy & Cubelic in the Morning Hour 1: Nick Saban is ICONic; Remembering Monte Kiffin; State Fair food looks amazing
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Alright, welcome in. McElroy and Kubelik in the morning. It is Friday, July 12th. Glad to be with you. No McElroy today, so we will be McElroy-less. But, a lot of college football to discuss. ESPYs last night. Who watched? Based on the clips being shared on social media, everyone. Okay. In this state watched. Makes sense. But I'm not sure how that went. I didn't see the tape on it. I don't think I've ever watched an ESPYs. Never? Come on, there was a time.

When it was close to must-see TV, everybody wanted to know who got, like, best trick, right, in the X Games? I also feel like, okay, I'll watch that or found out later because I'm sure it was on SportsCenter. But then you don't see Peyton's jokes or anything. Like, how could you do it like that? I don't understand. I'm not sure I believe you. Well, I don't recall it being appointment TV. I'll say that. I'm not saying I didn't stop down to watch and enjoy, but I don't remember it.

Well, last night Nick Saban picks up the Icon Award. Okay. We knew that's a thing, right? Yes. Feels MTV amazed a little bit, but had this joke to say about having so many players in attendance as well, former players.

It's an honor for me to have two of our former Heisman Trophy winners be here to present this award to me. And it's also I'm very thankful for the other players, former players who played for us that are here tonight. We have a good group of guys here, enough that we could actually have practice after this show. So Coach Saban getting a little publicity there before you will see him at SEC Media Days next week. Okay.

That release came out yesterday from ESPN PR that Coach Saban is going to be on the desk. And I think that will give us a little early peek into what college game day is going to be like. Saw some of that at the draft. But you'll see him also next week on SEC Media Days. I think it's going to be cool to see him. I'll be there with McElroy, Roman Harper, Jordan Rodgers, Ben Watson, Chris Doering, Ocho, Dvorak. Tessitore is going to be there.

Talk some suplexes and DDTs. Maybe not. Maybe a headband of some sort. Dari Noka, Peter Burns, Alyssa Lange, Laura Rutledge. So full coverage of SEC Media Days all next week. We will be there live. McElroy and I are doing the show all next week. So anything you want to discuss as far as that's concerned, you can get that in today as well. We'll recap a little bit of Big 12 Media Days for you today.

As that wrapped up, the Pac-12 media cocktail hour also took place this week. Yeah, that makes sense, yeah. We'll discuss that a little bit. Mountain West media days. Some interesting thoughts coming out of that one. But, yes, last night at the ESPYs as well, Coach Saban talked about just being a part of so many special teams while being the head coach at Alabama. I can only accept this award on behalf of all the other folks that contributed to it.

which there's a thousand of them. And every time I look at this, I'm going to see the faces of all the people who worked so hard to help us be successful and the relationships that were able and forged in those teams that made it so special. And it would also be the thing that I miss most about coaching. There's a lot of athletes in this room. There's a lot of coaches in this room. There's nothing like being part of a team. That's what I'm going to miss. I've been part of a team since I was nine years old.

So with all this help and success, all I ever was, I was the conductor of a process. And our process was to help every player be more successful in life because they were involved in the program. It's so cool that we give Coach Saban so much credit for how he morphed, adapted, adjusted, which is true. It's real. He deserves that credit. But also on the flip side of that, the more things changed, you just heard it there, the more things stayed the same.

What were some of the first takeaways from Nick Saban that he said publicly? Process, right? Like that's the one thing that started and never really stopped, never got away from. And here in retirement, you still can hear how important that was to him. But we know offensively, defensively, personnel wise, we know he had to adjust throughout the course of his career and he did. But then also cool to just hear that some of that foundation stayed there with him forever. Never really changed for Coach Saban and why he kept Alabama successful as he did.

And then as we've also heard throughout his career, one of the things that obviously very important to Nick Saban, his father, had this to say about something very important that his dad told him early in life. And the one thing my dad told me when I was a young kid in West Virginia, that was the most important part of your character is have compassion for other people. People aren't going to remember what you say. They're going to remember how you made them feel.

Solid advice from Papa Saban there, and I think something that we all probably should take into consideration a little bit more as we move ahead in our day-to-day. So coming up on the show today, Jake Rowe will talk Georgia with us at 8 a.m., get the situation with things happening off the field, obviously talk about how that might impact this team heading into media days, Kirby Smart's thoughts on it, apparently a speaker that addressed the team on Tuesday.

before these transgressions took place. Ross Dellinger will join us at 8.15. Florida State and Clemson leaving, plain and simple. We will ask Ross at 8.15 as he has an update on realignment and how it potentially will move forward.

Robert Allen gives us kind of a final thought on Big 12 media days at 9 a.m. this morning. We've got our top three at 745, Super Sofa, Game of the Week coming up at 945 as well. Phone's going to be open, 800-239-9569, 800-239-WJOX. You can text into the show, 205-834-9450, 205-834-9450, tweet in at Mac and Cube. It almost brings me to, John, our...

What awards show are very watchable anymore? We talked about watchable college football games. Kelly Ford had his list of most watchable college football games yesterday. I couldn't tell you the last time. I used to love award shows. VMAs were must-see TV for a while. Oh, absolutely, yeah. I mean, Britney and Madonna. Yeah. I feel like I had to see that. ESPYs early on, had to see that. There was a time when the Grammys...

You would sit through a lot of the charades to be able to get through some of the other things that you would get. Yeah, because that was in your wheelhouse. All right. But Oscars and Grammys, the in-between, it almost goes back to what we talked about with pre-Kentucky Derby. Yeah. Just don't need all of the in-between. A lot of lettuce in that salad. A lot. Just a giant bowl of lettuce, a little bit of bacon.

A little bit of dressing? I just need a comparable amount of chicken. That's all. A protein or something. A couple grams of chicken. It's good. It was good when you got to it, but you had to dig. More than two bites. That's all I need. Are there watchable award shows anymore? I guess I feel like no, because even of the things you absolutely love, it feels like those award shows aren't. We don't even watch the Heisman anymore. One, because...

We kind of know who it's going to be generally. And two, it's an hour long when it really needs to be four minutes. Lettuce. Yeah. And not even lettuce, like probably kale, like bad tasting lettuce. Maybe we just need to push our lettuce game philosophy into all aspects of entertainment and try to help people understand that nobody wants more lettuce, whether it's a sandwich, a salad, whatever that is.

We need more of the good stuff. I want more croutons. I want more candied pecans, pecans. I'd even take hard-boiled eggs. I'm a fan of hard-boiled eggs in my salad. Even just maybe a few extra onions and tomatoes. Just something else. Get it in there. Give me extra salmon, extra chicken, whatever that is. Nobody wants more lettuce. Nobody asks for more lettuce. And the award shows are just shoveling lettuce. It's a lettuce wrap.

What's bigger than a wrap? I don't know. Burrito? Yeah, it's a lettuce burrito as big as your head. Yeah. It's a Chicago term if you didn't know. I think you get that at Jimmy John's. I don't know, man. It feels like it. Yeah, but it's too much lettuce. You don't need it. Don't need all that.

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Some of it been dinged up at times. Don't know if he comes in and maybe starts right away, but he'll give you some numbers.

And you look at the linebacker position, too. They're punt cover, punt return, kick cover, kick return. They're going to be on most of your teams, so you're going to need extra bodies there as well. So I think it's a good pickup. It's a sort of surprising pickup because it's late. And I think it's one that a lot of people thought that Auburn was even still really looking for. But Hugh Freeze adds that to D.J. Durkin's defense. Somebody with a ton of experience has played a lot of football, and you'll be able to add that in right away.

I've got a couple of commitments coming up for you as well. Something that I want to get to when we come back, a massive loss in the world of football. We will discuss that. And I don't know if you saw this, John. The Texas State Fair has announced its new menu. There are items that we need to discuss. Okay, yeah. Plain and simple, would you?

That's it, would you? We'll get to that later this hour and get to your calls, your texts, your tweets next right here on McElroy and Kubelik in the morning. Catch up with all things McElroy and Kubelik in the morning by subscribing to the podcast. Mythically, he's grown. He's almost like a little bit bigger than a player, right? Like the myth of Bo Jackson. Like, rate, and download the show from the Jock Tap or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, welcome back in. McElroy and Kubelik in the morning.

Tough loss yesterday in the world of football. Get to that one in just a moment. 800-239-9569 if you want to get into the show. Can always be a part of the show that way. You can always tweet into the show as well. At Mac and Cube, easiest way to be a part. If you're thinking about selling anything online these days, you know it can be dangerous, no-shows, hagglers, scammers. It could be a hassle. I listed my old pickup truck on Facebook. Don't do what I did.

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Won two national championships as a coach at Nebraska. Was a head coach at NC State at some time. Longtime NFL defensive coordinator, most notably of the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ring of honor and somebody who is widely respected across all levels of football.

An incredible human being. I've had a chance to visit with him a couple of times, covering lane at FAU, at Tennessee, at Ole Miss, and seen Monty around and been able to talk to him a little bit and

Just a pure gentleman. And somebody who I know, everybody that had a chance to play for him, be around him, coach with him, has said the exact same thing. Had an enormous impact on all football at all levels. Played at Nebraska. Coached at Nebraska for a long time. A lot of people don't know, was the head coach at NC State for a little while. Won a Super Bowl in the NFL and...

Somebody that a lot of defensive coordinators out there will tell you had a great impact in what they do, how they do it, and how they run things. So somebody who was just a statue in the world of football at a lot of different levels, Monty Kiffin has passed away. Hate it for the Kiffin family. Obviously hate to see it for Coach Kiffin over there at Ole Miss. And knowing what he's going to probably have to deal with over the next couple of days and then head to SEC media days, it's a very unfortunate situation.

And you don't want to see anybody lose a parent. But Monty Kiffin passes away and just somebody who meant a lot to a lot of different people at a lot of different levels of football. South Carolina gets a four-star commitment from Lex Cyrus, a wide receiver, 5'10", 175. So I have to figure speed is going to be a big part of the process there, playing the slot a little bit. Florida gets a commitment from 2025 linebacker Miles Johnson, 6'1", 220-pound linebacker out of Brewton, Alabama.

And Jared Smith, one of the top-edge defenders in high school football, announces that he will commit August the 3rd. Thompson High School, 6'6", 250. There are some questions about...

things with him and maybe what offers are actually out there and not, but he is highly sought after by a few. And I know a lot of people will be excited to get him to sign and see if they can get him to roll in. I mentioned a little bit earlier that the Texas State Fair has some new menu items out. Right.

I feel like it's fair for us to just kind of roll through this and say, would you or would you not? Now, we've all heard about fried butter, fried Oreos, which those have actually become a little bit mainstream, I feel like. Correct, right. Yeah, I had them at a weird pumpkin patch a couple years ago. I'm sorry? Yeah, the things you do. Why was it a weird pumpkin patch? Oh, the weird part of the state. I don't remember where it was. It was some podunk little something, but they had fried Oreos. Those are usually the best, the ones out in the middle of nowhere.

Maybe in daylight, but I don't know about at nighttime. It would be a little troublesome. I've seen enough movies to know that that doesn't end well. Eighty-four new foods at the Iowa State Fair this year. They include, and quite simply just, let's not even say would you, because I feel like that's just like would you force yourself to. Would you want to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're a fan of egg rolls? Yes. Yeah. Damien? I'm not opposed. Bacon cheeseburger egg roll. Yeah.

I'm in. I give it a shot. I'm in. Okay, so Damien almost can't make himself answer if he would eat an egg roll. Correct. Yet when you say bacon cheeseburger egg roll, it's an immediate yeah, I'm in. So it's more of the bacon cheeseburger aspect of it. There's a lean. So we could go like bacon cheeseburger anything and you'd probably be in. Bacon cheeseburger pickles. Okay, there it is. Candied bacon gnocchi.

We actually had gnocchi for dinner last night. Really? Okay. I'm in. You had me in candy, and then you got better with bacon. Gnocchi is incredible. At that point, I didn't need the next word. Three things I'm a fan of, candied, bacon, and gnocchi. Just put them together. Sign me up. Damien, you probably have no idea what it is. What is gnocchi? Okay, great. Okay, all right. Etiquette cause playing off. Or you can answer the question. Deep fried hot Cheetos pretzel.

All right, so I'm assuming we're going soft pretzel here. I hope so. And we're going to take all the hot Cheetos dust that we make that with, put it on that, and then we're going to put it in the deep fryer. I'll give it a shot. I haven't tried any of the hot Cheeto, Flaming Hot, whatever, any of that because I feel like I don't want that in my life. I don't feel like I need this. I'm not going to say that I wouldn't try it if the person next to me got it and said, hey, this is great. But I don't think I would go order that. What's the dipping sauce?

See, I don't need the dipping sauce in my soft pretzel. If it's flaming hot, maybe because, I mean, not that I couldn't handle the heat, but something like a ranch or something could accentuate it. Damien deep fried hot Cheetos pretzel. I'm in. Okay. Garlic ranch pickle pizza. No. Absolutely not. Pickles do not belong on pizza. At all. There is a...

Popular chain right now that's trying to start a cheeseburger pizza. And it has pickles on it, Damien. But you said cheeseburger, you're in for anything. Not with the pickles. But you said you were. No, not with the pickles. So that's the line, okay. Absolutely. I don't need that. At all. This would be interesting as to just how this would even go. Deep fried bubble gum? What? You take a piece of gum, you drop it in the deep fryer. I guess you have to bread it somehow?

I'm going to say no because there's nothing more annoying than when you have gum, they're little like chunks or something, whatever, in it, and it's stuck in there. Like if you have a piece of gum after eating like a – or something, and there are bits that you forgot about. Yeah, there's nothing more annoying than that, so I'm going to pass. The hard part with this would be –

The deep fried portion of it, you feel like you're eating. Right. But the gum obviously is – Keep rolling. You're keeping that there. So a lot of portions that are supposed to go down with the majority of it that's going to stay. That just doesn't feel like it works. No. I'm going to say no. Cookies and cream ice cream nachos. Now, before you – I actually have a little bit of an advantage here. I actually showed this to my wife the other night. Somehow this came up on my Instagram feed. Someplace up in like Rhode Island or Maine. Yeah.

Some influencer lady got into my feed and showed these ice cream nachos. And essentially what it was was soft serve ice cream with – Waffle cone? What are the little – basically waffle cone chips. Okay. I was going to say what are the little –

The little Belgian waffle things that our guys like, hey, white people. Stroop. Yeah, the Stroop, those things. Yeah. He was mad that we were hiding those. I guess the German people were hiding those from us. Not my fault. Not everyone. The Croatians were hiding those from us. But they had those. And then there was like a caramel sauce acted as the nacho cheese. And I was just like, you talk about in.

A thousand percent in on that. Want that, actually. So I think we think nachos and we're like, man, tortilla chips with ice cream? No. But if it's that type deal, absolutely. I would be in. So you know there's some cookies and cream cheesecake ice cream in the fridge. Yeah.

Don't. I'm going to stay away from that. Okay. I'm trying not to go that route right now. But you just said you wanted the cookies and cream nachos, though. Yeah, but that's like an offshoot somewhere else where I'm not worried about not being huge. When I have it, not in front of me and do I have to have it. That's actually it. And finally, tequila funnel cake. I give it a shot because... No, listen, I'm not... Obviously, I don't drink anymore, but...

I would imagine that – tell me if I'm wrong. Tequila make things taste better?

I feel like it's always worked the other way around. Anyone who wants to drink tequila usually has to have other things with it to make it not taste better but even be acceptable. You've got to have the salt to kind of choke it down. But I think what they're going for is trying to make the sweetness of a funnel cake kind of tart or a different taste, and I don't want that kind of taste in a funnel cake. Exactly. I know it's sweet. I don't need salt or I don't need anything else. That's why we want it because it's powdered sugar and fried dough essentially. Yeah.

That's a little much. I would feel like that would probably be a no for me as well. I don't feel like that would be something that I would be in on. All right, just a couple of the menu items that are being thrown out there at the Iowa State Fair. Now, I think some sound great. Some probably no, not so much. But listen, the whole fried anything, I feel like we've gotten a little carried away. Dog, they have deep fried ranch dressing.

I'm honestly curious as to just how you do it. Yeah. I don't know. Do you just dump the ranch in and then like use it? It's literally just. But, okay, so it's almost like a jalapeno popper with ranch in it. You have to have the casing. You need something solid. Right. Like someone's got to carry that. Unless if you froze it and then breaded it and then threw it in. Because then at that point it's almost like those Lindor's chocolates where you bite into it and then the ranch would ooze out.

Like, I like ranch, but I don't know if I could take that much, man. Other new foods. Apple fries. Yeah, sure. Apple fries? That's not hard. Slice them up. I'm assuming they come with, yeah, or peanut butter or something. Yeah, that's easy. That actually could be good, maybe. I love all the crazy things that we have, and then we just have calamari.

Now we're getting fancy. I'll say this. While I don't mind calamari, I don't know if I'm having it at a fair. Lord, no. How about a BLT on a stick? Kind of want to know how. Feels messy. Almost feels like you take the BLT ingredients, mash them together, and make like a corndog out of it and just fry it. Probably, yeah. Barbie-era funnel cake. Don't know. Don't need to know. It's a funnel cake, so I'm in. Once again here, when certain flavors come together, butter, beer, ice cream. That's going after the Harry Potter nerds.

Don't really need that. Okay, Damien, here we go. This is for you right up your alley. Cheeseburger corn dog. Why are you waiting? You said you specifically said if it's cheeseburger, you're in. Yeah, as long as there's no pickles. We can work around it. But like it's just a corn dog. Yeah. I actually think it could be really good. Cinnamon crunch apple taco. That might be divine. What do you even think that is?

It's probably a white people's stroopwafel or maybe a waffle cone with apple as the taco ingredients. And then you top it with cinnamon like it was cheese. Now, of all this other stuff that we've got, this is just an option that's there. And I want to know how many people you think are actually ordering this. Corn in a cup. It's Iowa. It is Iowa. I get it. I get it. Corn in a cup.

And by the way, what do you think is better, the Iowa State Fair or the barnstorming days that we talked about that all the Iowa offensive linemen win the bail-throwing competition? Does that barnstorming, do they have this kind of food variety? I don't know. I want to go. I feel like it would just be simple chicken tenders and whatever. Yeah, I mean, I would love to try it. But, yeah, I don't even know how you would – deep-fried PB&J? Yeah.

Yeah. I'm in. I'm in. Deep fried pepperoni chips. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? If we'll eat fried pickles, we'll eat fried pepperoni. Correct. Right. I'll try that. Pink lemonade whoopie pies.

Excuse me? You heard me. All right. Didn't Harry Styles sing a song about that? What's Your Wanton is an option. Oh, okay. Do you have to answer before you answer? Is that the name of a food truck? Like, what are we doing? That's the Jeopardy truck. What's Your Wanton? Bacon brisket smash burger. Are you guys in on the smash burger craze?

I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying, like, I don't understand why it's so much better than a burger. Like, just give me a burger. Yeah. The jacked up price. All right, here we go. Iowa street corn specialty pizza. Let me just tell you this. Corn and pizza don't belong in the same room.

And I know back in the day, the cafeteria, pizza day, they had corn as an option every time. It does not belong. I get it. It shouldn't even be in the same cafeteria. It's not a good mix. It's not. It's not good. And I don't know why anyone thinks that that should be a side when you're having one or the other. Like if I'm having corn, I don't need pizza. If I'm having pizza, I damn sure don't want corn. Exactly. There are vegetables on the pizza. I don't need others. Now this could be interesting here. Funnel cake burger.

I'm just going to tell you guys, on multiple occasions, once on television, to the chagrin of one Greg McElroy, I have tried the donut burgers. It is exceptional. I know people look at it and say it's gross. There's no way. It doesn't look good. It is incredible. That's not surprising. I've had a PB&J burger, and those are surprisingly good. Is that a burger with two PB&Js? No, it's a burger with peanut butter and jelly also? Yeah. I'd do it. Yeah. That came across wrong.

Garlic ranch pickle pizza. We hit that. Hot Cheeto float. No. It's ice cream. Why do you want something hot? That's what I'm saying. You'll stumble. Oh, my God. Puppy chow. All right, Iowa. Just when we think you're in our good graces.

You've got to go do something like this. Now, there are certain things that you hear and you say, nope, not going to do that, not here. They also offer a tornado. I don't know if they can just whip that up out of nowhere. If you want to cancel the whole thing, you just order that. That feels kind of dangerous. Well, maybe it's a tie-in with twisters coming out. Sometimes there are things that you immediately look at and say, no, absolutely not, get away from that, never do it. But then when you think about it,

It might actually be incredible. The perfect meme of that British lady. Ragin' Raspberry Ravioli. On the surface, sounds terrible. Instant. I have a feeling, though, that there could be a way that that could be incredible. Maybe fried ravioli, not like with meat inside of it, but like just the doughy ravioli with some powdered sugar and some raspberry sauce. Like now I'm in. That could work. Now I'm in. See, I can make about anything good.

Now, we had a conversation about these one day on the show, and I'd be interested to see how this one went. Handheld charcuterie.

And hail. So, sandwich? I don't know. It's like your personal pan pizza. Lunchable. That's basically what it is. You're right. But do they just give you a bowl and put it all together? Technically, it's a charcuterie, but we just kind of mix it all in there together. Fancy little piece of wood? I guess, potentially. You get your own two-by-four when you come here. It's right with the price of admission. Creme brulee.

Stuffed French toast. Okay. Heavy. That feels like a lot. Heavy. You're not getting a lot of that down. No. I want to see Chestnut try to knock out ten of those in five minutes. Heck, one. But that could be exceptional. All right. Just a couple of options there at the Iowa State Fair. Would you not? Golden fried veggie Samoas? I feel like fried and veggie are oxymorons.

Not always. Fried okra? Still. I want one. I don't need the other. Okay. All right. You give us salted beef bagel. Bagel and beef. Not – I mean, a bagel burger maybe. I could see that. Right. But it doesn't – Bagel breakfast sandwiches ain't bad. Oh, no. Bagel breakfast sandwiches are legit. It's just for some reason burger didn't sound like it went with that, but burger with donut's good. Knock yourself out.

Figure out gnocchi. Damien, you're going to want to know that for the rest of your life. I see. I'm going to go ahead and give you a heads up on that. It's legit. You will like it. Also, you can get the regular biscuit. You can get the party biscuit. You can get the hot mess biscuit. I'm not going to turn any of those down. I don't know what they are, but I'll take all of them. You can get a whole chicken nest. You get the nest, not just the chicken. Every bit of it. I'm assuming they give you eggs with that.

Leg, wing, drum. I'm with it. Feathers and straw. You've got to pluck it yourself. Sticks. That's it. It's part of the fair experience. The one string they found. Do you think it's like a lobster tank? Like you go and pick out the chicken you want? Yeah, whatever it is. All right. We'll talk some college football on the other side. Yesterday we had a...

We had some interesting numbers on a couple of different teams. I have a few more of those that I want to get to. Top three coming up at the end of this hour. Jake Rowe talks Georgia at 8 a.m. And just going around to a couple of different teams in the league, some different numbers of kind of would they, could they, should they. We'll keep that going on the other side when we come back. But now I'll tell you about Airport Marine quickly because I want you to know that it's Alabama's Bass Boat and Mercury headquarters.

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All right, welcome back in. McElroy and Kubrick in the morning, Friday, July 12th, 738 a.m. right here on JOX 94.5. 800-239-9569 if you want to get in. Text in 205-834-9450. Before we move through some football notes, some of the best new food contest winners at the Iowa State Fair. 2015, the Rib Shack won with the Ultimate Bacon Brisket Bomb. 2018, Apple Egg Roll. Okay. Okay.

2021, the chicken egg salad with fry bread. And last year's winner, deep fried bacon brisket mac and cheese grilled cheese. Literally a mouthful. Right. Can you shorten that?

Deep fried. Okay, so we're frying all of it. Bacon. Got that. Brisket. Make some mac and cheese. Make a grilled cheese out of that. So I guess we've got to actually go backwards. That's a lot. Make the grilled cheese with mac and cheese that's already made. Bacon on it, brisket on it. Drop it in the fryer. Heavy. Blood pressure, man. They don't care about it. I don't blame them, though. Gained five pounds of that sandwich right there. I don't blame them. Listen, bro. Okay, we've got a text message.

Guy asked, have you ever had PB&J hot dog? So we're saying let's just take a normal hot dog instead of ketchup, mustard. PB&J. You put peanut butter and jelly on it? I guess so. It sounds horrible, but it's like the PB&J burger. It's surprisingly good. There's a place in Las Vegas that serves them. He gets one a couple times a year.

I've never tried it. No, I've never heard of it, actually. But I never would have thought to put it on a burger either. It's also not something I think I would do on my own. Correct. It would have to be. It would have to be. You're at a place. Oh, they have this. It's really good. Okay, cool. I'll try it. Maybe. Yes.

Ethan McMullen is tweeting into the show, I love how fat we're being this morning. Sometimes you can't help it. It just comes with territory. Especially when the skinny member of the show is out, we just get fatter. Not including Damien. Sure. Just on four tweets in, PB&J chicken wings at Trailer Park Hitch restaurant in Savannah, Georgia. That's on brand? I almost could.

I'm going to be honest. I think it could be good. No. Yeah. No. I think it could be. Peanut butter and jelly chicken wings? Yeah. No. Absolutely. I think it could be good. I think it's easy if you make the peanut butter in the sauce and make the jelly the dipping sauce, like it were ranch. It could be done. With chicken? No. No. No. I'm not. No. Absolutely not. You put ketchup on your SpaghettiOs. You have like zero room to talk here.

Chicken and peanut butter. Our boy Who'd Have for Life Chris Fields tweets in, saw a video someone ordered fried chicken from a chicken joint and their order discovered that their napkin had also been deep fried. I'm not sure that's the one that you want to give a shot. That's big back energy right there. LT tweets into the show, forever scarred by pizza corn combo. Some kid puked it up in the school hallway every time and the visuals still haunt me. It just doesn't go together. It's not worked.

Marshall Gilliam tweets in, I worked at Bonnaroo one time. That in and of itself would probably be an entire episode. Yeah, man, have him on the show. And our booth was bowl of corn, literally cooked yellow corn off the cob. I thought it would be an easy night. We couldn't keep it scooped out fast enough. I'm in Tennessee, and we're all like, what in the world? Yeah. That'd be far from my go-to. Yeah.

A music festival or anywhere else is just, you know what, my bowl of corn seems legit. I'm going to want the funnel cake. When I was at the Ohio State-Penn State game a couple years ago, you walk around, there were people everywhere. And they weren't really like food trucks and stuff, but there were a couple people handing out flyers. Oh, hey, go see this. Hey, go see that. But then they had a booth and people just giving out hard-boiled eggs.

Like, here you go. And I was like, okay. Now, they were individually wrapped. They weren't just like, here, have that. But I'm like, okay, I get it because it's protein to have it, but also –

This is what you choose to give out? Hard-boiled egg on my salad, yes. Handed to me by someone else. That's right. Correct, correct. It's cold, too. The only time I'm accepting that is the One Grateful Dead concert I attended as a freshman in high school, and there was a lady handing out grilled cheese for hugs. She got a lot of hugs. I actually offered her more hugs. She couldn't make them fast enough. Grilled cheese for hugs. Yes. I would have taken them all.

You didn't even care about the hugs. She did it on her first dollar. She'd have been rich. Not just from coal, just period. I made one a couple of days ago. I was convinced to go. Chip Lovell convinced me to go to that. He lives in Huntsville now. He was super hipster at the school. I was like, fine, I'll go check it out. It wasn't my thing. When I saw that, it became my thing pretty fast. When's the next one? No.

The unhipster tweets in, don't sleep on deep fried napkins. Somebody will throw buffalo sauce on it. It'll be in the menu next year. Iowa State Fair might. Dan Connor tweets in, actually ate trailers in Savannah Monday. I did try the PB&J wings. Solid eight and a half out of ten. Okay. All right, so that's a go. And Alex Page wants the name of the place in Savannah. Trailers.

T-R-E-Y-L-O-R-S. Like Traylon Burke, but just remove some of the letters? Trailer Park Hitch is the name of the restaurant. I would try PB&J Wings. That sounds pretty legit to me. I'm okay with that. Sorry. I know Damien's anti, but we know you and your wings. My God, nobody can. I'm just saying, but not once have I thought about putting peanut butter. I mean, he went to Buffalo Wild Wings on a Wednesday on an all-you-can-eat boneless night and chose bone-in.

I stand by my decision. I mean, right there was all you need, Mr. Struggling Radio Guy. Rebecca tweets in every Sunday after church when I was a kid, we'd have lunch and us kids would eat Publix chicken fingers with hot fudge. And it was surprisingly really delicious.

But when you're a kid, anything with hot fudge is legit. Like you just want the hot fudge. Like my son literally eats the queso off of the chip and uses the chip like 15 straight times until it just evaporates. So, yeah. One of yours is like just eat butter, like you put butter on top of something and ate the butter. Yeah. But chicken and chocolate doesn't sound like it really – That does seem a bit hot. That doesn't feel like it goes together much. No. Chicken and peanut butter does? I've –

See, I think you're envisioning a chicken wing and peanut butter slabbed on top of it and then like jelly on top of it also. I think it's more the flavor of what it is. Correct, right. And so they have a way of flavoring it as peanut butter. That's why I thought the wing sauce would be like a peanut butter based on because you can get that. Correct, and you have like a jelly that you can dip it in. Yeah, yeah. What's like the more runny style jelly? It's not jelly, but whatever that stuff is. Yeah, I could see it being really good.

Yes. I'm going to take your word for it. Open your mind. All right. Enough food for today because I'm actually hungry now. But when we come back, we'll get to our top three. Will it be useless?

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Trailer Park Pot Pie. I'm just going to tell you, I bet it's amazing. You just don't get pot pies much anymore. No. Man. Well, they were good back in the day. Shepherd's Pie back in the day? You ain't lying. We just let that go. Hey, white people. Why do we let Shepherd's Pie get extinct? You bring it back like Jurassic Park. They need to. They need to. How about this? Southern. I'm sorry. Let me get Southern Sloppy Joe. I'm here for it.

I haven't had a sloppy Joe. And I went on T Bob's podcast a couple of weeks ago and he hops on and we're having a little, you know, just kind of shooting the expletive before we start. And he's like, he goes, he's like feeling, feel heavy this morning. My wife made her special sloppy Joe last night. I was like, hold on. What? And he was like, oh yeah, it's a whole ingredient. This, that, whatever. I was like, she's got her own sloppy Joe recipes. Like, oh yeah. He goes, I get it about twice a year. I was like,

All right, let's go. How about a bacon, egg, and cheese flatbread? I'll take one. How about chicken and pancake tacos? Oh, that's just. If you're telling me that the chicken. Now, I've told you guys about my specialty Waffle House sandwich taco that I make out of a waffle. If you're telling me you take a pancake and you put some chicken in there, fried chicken. I'm here for it. Yeah, I'm about that life.

Let's go. I know you don't, so this won't appeal to you, but the party animal that is Damien, they also have shots. They have a great Kool-Aid or cherry Kool-Aid vodka shot. I feel like that's dangerous, but also awesome. That could get you in some trouble. Correct, yeah. They have fried Oreos. They have a bacon brownie.

I actually spoke to a gentleman a couple days ago about potentially speaking to a group in Savannah after the season. I think I'm in. This just solidified a little bit. And you know what? I'll take payment in trailer park hitch gift cards. That's all I need. That's it. We will be good.

Oh, man. We don't even have time for a top three now. I mean, like you're going. I'm still actually just on force that the picture of the PB and J wings. It's they have a sandwich. OK, this is keep in mind. This is in the sandwich section. Oh, boy. Grilled apple pie with chicken. That's a sandwich now. Yeah. Grilled apple pie with chicken.

Chicken breast, cheddar cheese, but then cinnamon roasted apples and bacon on top. Yeah, that's – Yeah, I'm in on that. I'm actually going to go for that. We're going to do that. Yep, let's go. They also have Savannah hot chicken and waffles, so not just the chicken and pancake tacos, but – Their breakfast burrito with sausage, eggs, onion, cheddar cheese, fresh pico, chipotle cream, freshay, and chimichanga style. Oh, wow. There's not enough room for all this. I know, I know.

Is this like a food truck? Legit. Probably was. And then they've blown up too. I'm going to this place. I can't. And once again, we sit here and we've been talking about food for the first hour of the show. Now I'm starving. I need to eat now. And that's not going to happen for a couple hours, but goodness gracious. Thank you, Just On 4, for sharing this story.

Beautiful place with us. We've got to save that for McElroy as well. His parents are moving to Savannah. That's got to be a regular stop.

Go check that out now. Russell Terry does tweet in to the show at Mac and Cube if you want to be a part. Boneless wings are just nuggets with sauce, at John Sabier. Wings have bones in them. Not a debate. Okay, I wasn't debating on the fact of their existence. More so, if one is all you can eat and one is normal price, I think right. It makes fiscal sense. Just because you owned a restaurant, you don't need to be all high and mighty up here, Russell. Damien, are you...

Are you against the comparison or are you actually against the eating boneless wings? Do you just get mad because people call them wings? Right. That's it. They're not wings. They're literally just chicken nuggets. But couldn't it just be slang or just what they're called or a term? Correct, correct, yeah. Boneless wings? Yeah. I'm sure we could find some other food items that aren't necessarily what it's called since we just call it that. We just call them chicken nuggets. I feel like that's easy. It's easy to ask.

Nuggets are smaller. Correct, yeah. Popcorn shrimp doesn't really have popcorn in it. It's just small deep fried shrimp. But it's still just chicken nuggets. Keep going, John. What else do you got? Last I checked, buffalo wing is actually chicken, not a buffalo. That's a dagger. When we come back... It's a nugget. Fair enough. Jake Rowe is going to talk Georgia Bulldogs with us tomorrow.

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