welcome to the wild card podcast on your host jerry and my co-pilot's on this journey to wherever are my good friends jeff kurtis hello and the treasure of harden county ronblaire alone you know i had to be here somewhere even i can escape it episode it's been a year and i can't escape it when when people started podcast they have to tell the listeners what the podcast is all about go for it uh... exactly it's it's really about jerry is it jerry coming up with a concept in us destroying it that sounds through through snark and uh... and our own our own uh... general service matrices excuse for the three of the other top and have a right back that's what's going to unite this is every week it's going to be a conversation about something well it'll be the one it has been since i began the old people uh...
ridiculing the young people and really dashing their spirits i may be younger uh... i think that's why i was young any longer well compared to jeff your young okay compared to me younger compared to jeff i'm younger alright so every week we're gonna have a conversation about something whether to be a research topic whether we've got a list of topics is something so this week i'm gonna start with a question are we prepared for this which restaurant chain is the second largest as measured by sales behind mcdonald's with twenty thousand locations globally in one hundred twenty countries and territories uh... i'm gonna go with subway it is neither of those two though what is it so my next is it i went to australia when i was in i'd read and when the natives as a prisoner as a prisoner as a political prisoner and they found out that our group was from where we are from uh... one thing came to their but can tell you that it is to tell you that initial thoughts on kentucky fried chicken um...
well i have a lot of thoughts on that being from kentucky i have a great deal of uh... of thoughts about kurtell sanders yep his work at home his racism since that's not improving i think that's a hotly contested he was a man who had strong opinions about he was from he was from he lived in what corbin that's what that's what the restaurant open the restaurant open in corbin he was like an old man when he opened the restaurant was four years old when i originally opened the restaurant open that's true that's true that jim and i are all men but it is it is late in life to start it is late like to start your business but what what about what year was that that was nineteen for sure fifty thirty nineteen thirty okay so he opened his restaurant in nineteen thirty you can convince me that harlan sanders was not racist from quit living in corbin kentucky of course he was it was nineteen thirty that's like i heard a story about Walt disney where they had hired a Hindu person to come in and this was in the fifties and he was uh... he was an artist and Walt Disney after he had met the guy he goes over to one of his his associates whatever he says uh... you know who's this guy he says oh this is uh...
i don't know what that my office and he wasn't in this but to him it wasn't racism it was nineteen fifty yeah that's the logic behind it so Walt Disney in the nineteen nineteen nineteen sixty wouldn't let any man with long hair into it he parks yes i'll fuck him i'm in yeah there's the only guy in the room that could go to disney world in the city of the world in the city comparatively and i'm not going to try to convince either of you that he's a good man i'm just going to give you a little background and i'm going to give you a little background racism thing we could do an episode of episode of who's racist why in the nineteen fifties or or whatever you're going to answer the live old goldie will never be mayor because it's nineteen fifty five alright so we've given you a good idea of kurt here it was it was fine when i had this time but i as a teenager yeah the last time i had it it was right that he's kind of crudgy i mean this was in color maybe they did a bad job of it i still can't be fried chicken but it's like i don't know what either do you have an version to to fast food fried chicken or just that because i want it to is a ranking of rest fast food fried chicken oh okay okay well your pop ice this is very interesting to you and i've never been one to pop up every time i've ever had to stop the podcast we're on a road trip to the kurtals really so no fast food chicken for you except for you except for you to take a fried chicken not unless you can sit here the chicken at uncrackerville i don't know that's not fast food because they actually act like they put care into it and they pretend to you know you're like i know it's real it doesn't come into part of the chances of high quality no see when it comes to something like cracker barrel okay i had i had relatives in tusco luis alabama and uh... they were oh i've got a story about that tangent of tangents uh yeah my my uncle he was ninety six or seven when he died he was my dad's great uncle he was a world war one calvaryman he was in world war two korea was the last where they fought and he was this tough old bastard entertaining as hell he was great uh... but you would walk into their old house in bermingham or not bringing up tusco luis alabama and it would smell like ham like as soon as you walk in a town like pineapple and country ham and you know cornbread beans it always smelled like i feel like cracker barrel is pretending to want to smell like you're like i was a star i walk in there and i go well it's not my aunt luisie's house so fuck you but you know it's but the country fried steak's not bad the idea of entertaining bastards in your family and your family thinking about it so we we've obviously gotten away from it but sure i like your opinion since you have as i was saying as far as i know this shocks me though this is a shock because i would love us because i can give a definitive ranking and obviously it's definitive because of my opinion sure sure we have opinions so i would put papa's at the top for me i would put chick-fil-a not far below that how they hate they hate the homos though so i hate chick-fil-a you know here's the thing though you're you're getting how many how many little nuggets and how many little waffle fries for eight bucks i'm getting the chicken sandwich not nuggets thank you sir okay okay how much is it though with the cookies and cream milkshake it's like honestly it's like seven it's like seven it's not like seven nuggets in there well they hate the homos i hate the same but it's not that okay even they are affordable in the soup please chicken is one i think highly but lee's has a range of quality oh they're never heard of lee's one racquet you know they have the worst marketing on earth they have zero marketing and they're like and it's like a spicy or chicken but they don't say work age in or we're spicy which depends on which version of the breading you get because no that's right right but i use pepper but i think the thing about lee's is you you walk you walk in and you know every chicken place has something to say like papa is like we are cajun and kfc is we're like we're real southern and chick-fil-a is like we hate bags yeah and uh that's what they have to say right that's what they have to say on the sign and you walk into lee's chicken and they're like hi yeah hi we're lee's we must be the last stop you would have made it this now if you need directions we're here for you we also have fried chicken like hi we're lee's this is the last exit we apologize yeah this is all you're gonna get put it is it's really it's i was absolutely really good but that's incorrect it's good no it can't be really that's fine i think it has the widest range of quality i do think that but the chicken is very good there it's good kfc i would typically put below that with the exception of they have a national hot chicken right now but i particularly i tell you what it's good in the first five minutes when you're eating it but as far as food that stays with you in an unpleasant way well my digestive system is probably a little wrecked after years of abuse but uh yeah the national hot chicken i do love it i do want to eat it i need to use that sauce and elotion hot burning pain pollution um my pores are screaming hallelujah that's right oh i can't i'm very dear i think i've got the last word of zaxne's fall into this oh this is this is this is not a popular opinion it would be at the bottom oh i can't i can't drive behind please i at least was in the wall for me where i grew up zaxne's was not so least was the one that we went to for a treat okay uh zax i never heard of zaxne's so i went to western Kentucky university it was one in bollong green and it was the coolest place because they have all the shit on the walls and it's all cute yeah it has a decor and it's beautiful and it's beautiful bollong is the first place i'd be as well and what did you think then oh i know my stepfather loved it oh yeah i again have a history eating fried chicken so we got a lot to live up to it for me it didn't quite reach leaves zaxne's the least least i would have put about kfc until the national hot chicken exfoliants please we walk in and they're like howdy we need just mediocre chicken we're sorry here's chicken yeah we're sorry here's your chicken you put zaxne's below that when i when i first walked into zaxne's and i like i would eat dip it in the sauce oh that's sauce oh my god and i took a bite in the choirs of angels thing behind me i swear to god like it was a light come through the window where i was sitting and i felt like zaxne's is the funnest chicken i'll ever eat understand and uh you know the crinkle cut fries which i was sucker for yeah there's some well but i don't i'm not a big fan of crinkle cut i'm here in this a lot lately and this is a whole other episode because french fries crinkle cut are not just crinkle cutters because crinkle cutters take in the back of my head are your friends i think soggy oh i want to soggy starchy fried white is crinkle cut means soggy because many of the ones i have not been cooked well i mean end up soggy no but when they're cooked correctly i saw man i love them there's potato inside but there's a grisly on the outside of french fries oh i think i think i think i'm a connoisseur of french fries but to get back on topic okay Kentucky fried chicken more commonly known by the initialism kfc is an american past food restaurant sure i'll watch it flies in fried chicken okay i'm with it so far okay the chain is owned by yum exclamation point brand so i want to talk about talk about talk about kentucky fried chicken was founded by american business internals harlan sanders yes why is he kernel uh because the kentucky kernels are not actually military kernels that's true and that's why he's not an actual military kernel he could be a kernel i could be my uh my filmmaking partner is a kernel because he delivered costumes to some because he is because he's unhopped because he's unhopped jesus uh so he called himself the kurtl he did he did a good thing he did a mitzvah for another kurtl uh yeah they don't call it a mitzvah that's how you do a mitzvah for the kurtl well not in kentucky because i don't know what that is that may be the kurtl i should be i really share all it takes is you have to have um like another kurtl who is active in the kurtl's little club active there's a cycle i lift this up i lift this up because i was like hi hell i need to be kind of and i know all you need is like a recommendation for another kurtl and my body has been a kurtl for years and years and when i'm like you really think of it doesn't it really does it's not here's the thing i'm like hey man you've been a kurtl nominate me he's like you're a mitzvah that's probably true i just thank you long so i'm not eligible for this stuff they don't love me or the jews in their little vlogs that's not fair because i might be both i can tuck kurtl in 1935 check out this name by kentucky kentucky kentucky kentucky kentucky governor ruby lafoon ruby lafoon ruby lafoon ruby lafoon ruby lafoon who was a guy i'm sure was i'm sure ruby was a guy there's a never-looking name for you ruby lafoon ruby lafoon at the special kind of name for bull account from what was he from bull account he was commissioned by the governor just on the title yeah the kurtl was gone kurtl so that is he some guys have to get over it but here the treasure get the treasure hard and county sure treasure outright kurtl em pirates i think it's a pirate i do have the booty i got all the booty the kurtl was born in september dike 1890 on a farm about three miles from henry valindiana okay he gave up on school in the seventh grade i love this book sure no more schooling for him this is a quote from kurtl say one room's too small you know this when i started to class that fall they had algebra in arithminton the kurtl had recalled well i couldn't conceive any part of it the only thing i got out of it was that x equals the unknown quantity and i thought oh lord if we got a wrestle with this i'll just leave i don't care about the unknown quantity so my school days enter right there in the green will be in the end and algebra is what drove me off no idiot i'm i'm gonna agree with jeff here because all right he left algebra because he was like i know i'm gonna be algebra when he had ten seasonings wasn't wasn't the eleventh when x x was this ten equals secret recipe bet his life is a businessman didn't he need anything doesn't he need any doubt what's his way to hear his job before he owned the restaurant i don't understand how much i was he was like he worked on the railroad just wait he worked on the railroad he was a jack roller which means he broke this is an explicit time this is a term jack roller is a term and it's absolutely true when there were bombs on the sidewalk of London all these people passed out from gin outside the gin joints a bomb roller is a person who is some truth rolling and so jack roller upside jack roller is somebody who would come and start rolling the bombs down the street colonel center rob our bombs he did not but let's look up let's look up jack roller looking this up right now we're gonna look up jack roller when you tuned into the wild card but if you weren't aware that you would hit the jackpot oh my god and uh yeah let me let's just stop this right here and look at what a jack roller is while he's looking this up jeff um i you know algebra is what drove the kernel away from school i'm either thoughts on algebra or was there a subject that made you want to leave school i like school my mom taught algebra so i didn't have any choice i had to like it i had a great time math was my best subject and french was my best subject i hated both of them oh god french is so goddamn hard i remember reading a book in the my 11th grade year of school and it was called a separate piece and one of the characters said jeune given him paulifromsé and i thought that was some of the greatest mention of the word in life jeune given him paulifromsé and his thoughts on french and we uh concurred in high school well he was my least favorite but i was mercifully out of that when i was like so being small and not great athletes i hated p.s yeah okay yeah showering especially having shower in the shower with other men or we didn't shower we were freshly living in shower we stank through the day and i didn't give a damn i'm not i'm not showering in front of a bunch of boys i'm not being naked in front of a bunch but you can't force me as a government to make me go naked because that's my choice so what i'm not doing is you love jickelele i am not there in jickelele no homo goes to jeff lemme tell you okay a jack roller here we go in 19th and this is according to urban dictionary great in which i actually dismese surprised you i have an entry i have an entry in urban dictionary uh jack roller in 19th and early 20th century america i was wrong i thought i was english a jack roller was a guy who hung around the skid row sections of big cities and robbed those unwise enough to get visibly drunk by beating them up and stealing their valuables oh that's not all what you said he rolled a junk he rolled a drunk and was called a jack roller a jack roller scram is also called strong arm robbery jack rollers is an old term still used on san francisco in seattle's waterfront so you know the term because you were one because i was you beat up bums finally i beat up bums and rolled them down the street i swear i remember this from a class i did 25 years why was that in a class maybe only was on juvenile delinquency oh oh you're thinking of when you worried you know what i was right when i was 19 or 20 but then no and i guess because i pictured them just rolling the bums down the street when they said jack roller i didn't pay attention a lot oh you didn't call it bros you know what i'm saying i'm rolling that that's why i lose a life i have now it's because i i would sit there and imagine jack rolling and you're thinking jack rosled jac rosled terriers and well back to the colonel back to the colonel for the next 28 years after leaving algebra the colonel had a very career he worked farms until he was 15 between ages of 15 and 40 he worked as a street car conductor in walvaney indiana shout out to help me turn it home to him served in the army in cuba got married had three children this marriage ended in the forest three nine years later in 1947 he worked as a fireman i feel like the timeline is just it's jumping here and it's jumping over there he worked as a fireman who was in alabama tenoncy arkansas in virginia when did he do i start making chicken or what yeah because well that's why i was a spoiler alert yeah he studied law by correspondents and practiced in the justice of the peace courts in little rock well that's what would have made me sleep in school but i didn't like all the damn rules the law made mayor paula he sold insurance in kentucky in indiana yeah he offered a steamboat ferry between jefferson villainy and lulah kentani i picture that i picture him being on a steamboat reciting mark twain uh even pretending to be mark twain on the steamboat he worked on insurance and then gambling and then he sold insurance while he was gambling with other people's money and he was like this is a good time let's go make y'all some chicken is this how it happens oh we're so close he worked as the secretary of the columbus indiana chamber of commerce i mean i use a math yeah as long as there's no unknown quality what was the y exponent in that one now okay he manufactured a settling lighting systems for farmers in columbus indiana that actually sounds fun to me i want to do it he sold tires in kentucky and ran service ran away from his responsibilities and co-urban kentucky and co-urban kentucky and co-urban was the longest job like seriously here it's the year it's the year it's the year that's what he has to be and it's like every six months how many jobs have you all had because up until this point like this teaching is the longest job i've had not been for five years everything else has been like a one-off i've had a lot of one-off jobs worked out for a year in the mood done i worked at a veterinary clinic worked at landscaping i worked at hollywood video and those existed and all yeah i worked at an homage restaurant no one homage worked there the entire kitchen staff was a spare so it was a farce absolutely it was a complete couple parts it's a lot of work i did i did catering there well i'm sure i'm sure the bottom is good it's probably really good butter i mean either still far is it still not even it's like we had a horse and buggy out front there's no different over that and then cracker barrel like come on in the zoon and all bullshit from bogs we made look like a grandpa first of all please grandpa's house yeah let's play some checkers like he was dead long before i was born but i'm pretty sure he never played checkers on the porch my racist uncle in alabama certainly he never played checkers no you reread this round i don't feel like saw it in my fingers so that's just some strange jobs but that made the man who he was in 1930 at the end wait wait let's talk about racist old men in the cell let's talk about tenon seawheams for a minute because i think you just directed to tenon seawheams ministry we were just talking about kennonahut in roof where we know were we yeah no we did we did mention kennonah yeah something like old men other memories i feel like every i feel like every Tennessee Williams plays starts with a woman holding bourbon to her head going long it's so hot in the style so that actually almost a direct quote from the class of the class medians when i wasn't sure but i always have this image of Tennessee Williams like oh it's so hot and i'm gonna put this out with my ear i saw where somebody young and walking that doffa change i feel like that's essentially every Tennessee Williams way right then i like so hot and yeah i can't get myself a minute i meant jula i read something the other day that was like if you're from kentucky and you drink nim julips you're bullshit one time a year that's well very even like if you're from Kentucky you don't drink this you learn the suckers and to come and drink it and get drunk off of it and get drunk in the streets then you brought them then you roll them down the street and jack roll them you've done all that you're forgetting an autobiography from ungway here it's called jack rolling my journey thus far my life is a jack roller yeah that's what you do the horse races every week every week i get those drunks off the i roll them into the mafia lane i remember as a kid going to the church hill downs and you could you can roll bombs right on the track you would sort of i had watched an ftv by that point because my generation is the one that was completely brainwashed by television thoroughly you know being in the late 70s early 80s and so i had seen enough tv to know the guys in the plant pants were the guys who were like in the mall that's what this is the age of four five and the age of four is the age of five is when i put together yeah i would go to the racetrack and be like i know those guys oh yeah they're making bets right now they're shaking people down i saw that on cojack or the rockford files i saw them on them thank you for that the racetrack is much like it's only way before yeah it's not a hot year the racetrack it's only place you can still wear plant pants and you can only wear plant pants and people are not yours or bring it back oh god damn the answers well thank you for that negative wisdom speaking of chicken in 1930 at the age of 40 years old at the Corbin station where he sold tires the colonel cooks for his family in a back room and to make a little extra cash he began selling a meal now with interstate travelers who were crazed with hunger after the greasy spoon died at the open road and this is the way he was surrendering the gas for his tires selling tires selling tires and then he said he got some towels and chicken down at pyranels and the moment he's just a bird the old one never the special day of the gun that's what i use while people that's my 13th birthday my third season plain delicious fair pan fried chicken country ham string beans hot biscuits and so on do they just call country ham plain oh no no no what do you mean it's just not listen all right let's get started here on ham all right there's something i happen to be an expert in uh there is no simple fair like ham ham is a delicate beautiful creature it means between it it's a delicious kind of a poor creature former creature at the most i saw an ad for an i bierco ham the other day was 1900 dollars i bierco ham for an i bierco ham what's an i bierco ham i hope so because i mailed him 1900 dollars and i get an envelope i bierco ham it's it's it's delivered to you like christmas karaoke what i'm thinking it needs to be like a bull fire and calms and he's like we have come with you i'm i can't do a spanish accent like that here it is on your sword like on his sword yeah i've killed the pig for you but then i'll be able to ham is one that they feed with like acorns and a special diet and they really take that they really well they really take it since it was in 1900 dollars for the ham got back and get acorn i'm not saying i was i'm not saying i would pay a 1900 dollars but i'm certainly not somebody else feeling right here okay i would jack go quickly for an i bierco ham oh goodness let's get it some pig and put it out back i love that idea i'm an i bierco pig wait we haven't we didn't finish the other hands it was a delicacy it was oh i was the delicacy we got sidetracked on i bierco ham no not so much it's just it's a it's just the most beautiful of meats why ron why because it's beautiful bony bony because there's the flavor yeah and i was just talking to my wife michael earlier about the next time we have a ham um i know i know i'm trying to get my wife joe makes great ham herself i bet she does i'm not married jeremy single it makes his own ham and it's okay you have ham you're like poor okay i'm not working i'm not working i know what do you think i'm not married i know yeah i'm gonna bring you new plan is important i'm sorry sweetie i don't care i don't care i didn't work no i feel that ham is the greatest uh it's salty and it's it's fatty and it's fanny and i feel that way about bacon or sausage i used to feel the same about sausage bacon all all agree with you on all day long will eat bacon together in agreement i feel like they can bring the world together let's eat big platter make it together instead of popcorn and bacon that's great that's great there are restaurants that do that i like it is actually so red stick i bake it all over it and those are all that that's bacon on their don't make it make it make it make it make it sound fantastic just as word is spreading about bacon words spread about the kernel for his reputation of the quality of fried chicken he was already refining his secret chicken recipe of 11 herbs and spices which is the way today and a little bit of rubber cone and though he had chicken that was finger looking good sure as he did have problems pan frying wasn't fast enough if he cooked the chicken after all was placed because of 30 minute wait if he cooked a batch of advanced he had chicken for a minute dried out but if you immerse it in hot oil the alternative was french frying french frying immersing the chicken in a wire basket in deep fat this was backed by half and pan frying but sometimes his chicken has also dried crusty and evenly done then in 1939 the kernel made what is regarded in chicken circles chicken chicken circles circle your chicken circles circle your chicken circles on this date as a historic breaker he hit on the idea frying his chicken under pressure and a new thing called a pressure cooker all the old pressure and now im always wanted to fill that with oil you would tend to do that i would think well im just blowing up with that so i wonder because my mom would do the you know green beans in the pressure cooker and it would start to whistle and hop up and down and you would think with oil that would be dangerous really dangerous i would put oil in the middle of the kernel did it well and that date is not a part of the account 1939 when 1939 that was about 30 years before me and i'm gonna constantly resume you were 25 years i just 30 hundred that's not a coincidence the year that kurtell sanders discovered pressure cooking and had perfected his chicken was the last year of the depression and it was because uh kurtell sanders kurtell sanders saved the united states in 1956 to the troubles he was having with highways what happened between 1939 he had that one restaurant he was written on that doesn't matter but don't you know the solters coming home for break didn't want their there was very little thing in the land of their chicken i was thinking to have a hard time getting chicken during world war with all the rushing well the ball chicken restaurant there was chicken circles so they supported one another much like the clown and rodeo union sometimes but since 1996 troubles he was having with highways moving away from his restaurant much like merman baits and psychics auctioned off the restaurant okay however in 1952 before he was prior sanders franchise his secret recipe can be fried chicken for first time to pete farmen of south south salt lake utah oh i'm here with the brain see i'm right on that city's largest restaurants so they could start selling kentucky fried chicken at their restaurant it was not a kentucky fried chicken but they get cell kentucky fried chicken at the restaurant very great in the first year of selling the product restaurant sales more than triple for pete farmen with 75 percent of the increase coming from sales of fried chicken that's good at how much of this did the kernel get a cut of what's coming up what percentage did he get a centric almost there telly died he was making the commercials yeah what you have to do for my episode absolutely what you guys are ahead of me don't understand for no reason at the end of the day i was in a sign painter hired by pete harmen in salt lake point the name kentucky fried chicken it was the sign maker who made the sign who named it what what had the kernel called as chicken chicken chicken chicken yes fried chicken have my fried chicken the kernel fried chicken just fried chicken fried chicken fried chicken fried chicken well doesn't have the same ring i don't like that sound after harm and success several other refra owners franchise the content and paid sanders four cents per chicken four cents per chicken four cents per chicken well millions of chicken that's right oh wait one more couple of restaurants in utah by 1960 eight years later there were perhaps 200 outlets in the country and about half a dozen in canada and the kernel's profit before taxes was a hundred thousand dollars a year in 1960 yeah no these are actually buildings specifically 4k a year not they're not that sell food that's pan-conquing fried chicken on the menu so he was contracting his chicken out correct to these restaurants it wasn't like it wasn't like here's a kfc restaurant that's correct we'll get one kind of one of those so he's just they're using his recipe and when the recipe gets more expensive exactly the start really yeah in late 1963 after less than eight years in the business the kernel had more than 600 franchise outlets for his chicken in the country and canada which put him well ahead of other fried chicken operations check out these names in these other chicken circles such as chicken delight and chicken in the rough how did chicken in the rough day oh no how did that go out of business how's that chicken it's a little rough it's a little rough it's a little rough i'd like where you like to get i had something off at the golf course the other day i had some fried chicken at the clubhouse the other day while we were watching the bj tour and it was a little dry a little rough around the other world but while prefer fairway trick while this is going on the kernel did all his own bookkeeping and other paperwork no no alzberg but his wife handled all the mixing packing and shipping of the spices and herbs they were still making their spices and shipping it yeah 17 employees and he put up an office building behind his house however he felt that he was almost getting out of hand over the years really there's 17 people driving me off the wall but think of all the businesses all the businesses they are the the unknown care in the manner over the years he turned on several men he wanted to buy the company but now at 74 he was well fixed financially worried about what would become the company after his death while john brown jr for wind john brown jr and jac macy called him from Kentucky and shelbyville around jr once one's mayor but in october 19th of the day they're offered to buy the company the kernel answer without hesitation that a sale was out of the question he made mildly disparaging remarks about city slickers i need to know where to work i don't know what this man says what are these mildly i don't have access to this they're probably locked in the vlog for my chicken recipe i think he said y'all jus get off my front lawn while shaking a cane but while shaking can be vlogged yeah before i'm placing brown and nasi argued that the kernel should have time to enjoy life now and that if he died before selling out much of his estate would probably go for taxes how much course shit is that right there they would be like well before you die we would just want to make sure you have a good time with all that y'all have 79 y'all just have a level of incurrence and it was like i'll do what i want i'm going on tv they offered him two million dollars some stock in the proposed new company and a continuing relationship with kintucky fried chicken as the company's advisor and living image they promised that quality control would be their byword and they swore that no one would ever tamper with the chicken recipe okay and today today that has that's true that's true although i have the recipe really it did get leaked last year at some point i still haven't tried it yet it's a while i'm gonna try this eventually it's my inbox because i got i just need a pressure cooker and the courage to put away later yeah no honey pressure cook it's impossible to burn you if you put away later it's impossible it's just something else you can do it well as it turns out sander is sold and brown put four steps shortly after the sale that proved important in the company's subsequent row in brown there's four steps and die and die and die and point right the right the right the check the kernel's answer first you're promoting the kernel you promote the kernel the kernel made himself something of a minus the letter years before this is interesting when he grew the moustache and go to get out of the all-white outfits but he never fully explored his promotional possibilities brown felt that possession of a symbol who's both authentic and alive unlike Betty Crocker and Jemima is one of the company's greatest assets because he had not a lot of murders i swear to god's words he's a good animal and is snuck into their bedroom one night while while miss butterworth watch from the corner smoking a cigarette as he slaughtered and Jemima in her bed oh god i was soon popping up in new york on the tonight show and the murmur other network programs where i heard he held his own against actual like you know movie stars i'm sure well here's the thing if you take you know what you're getting insane southern racist crazy person yeah it's gonna be good it was like let's pour some water in the pressure cooker and i'm doing this work it yeah you know we're either gonna all burn together we're gonna eat back to him you don't even know how crazy he is we're gonna do it you don't even know how crazy he's made it but second other steps around he decided the company must have a vigorous unified advertising campaign local and national by the end of the 1960s the company and the franchisees together spent more than 24 million dollars in advertising compared to less than half a million spent per year in the early 60s when the colonel on the company the third thing grandad was he negotiated new contracts with the franchisees under which the company received a percentage of sale instead of five cents the colonel raised it for four cents for every chicken cook this served to protect the company against inflation also give a cut on the sale of accessory items such as salads and beans and ghost law oh my god finally and very significantly brown biscuits halted the franchising of restaurants and insisted that all new outlets be take home units housing free standing buildings and standardizing appearance and menu the take home program that started in 1959 about colonel and one of his daughters miss margar atoms who owned the kfc franchising operation in florida but throughout the colonel's regime most of the alatine restaurants in which Kentucky fried chicken menu and a few dozen exclusively take home units and store fries in freestanding buildings and the new freestanding buildings Kentucky fried chicken would be more visible in public this is a pre-naked like there was a chance that i was laughing at him in his pattern back point to it where he was the youngest for chickens i'm now you're proud to be white i'm purnell sanders i'm aware of all my secrets i feel real bad about picking up the raises once i was just initiated but um but here's a quote for this oh that was 1969 by the way is he singing now? anybody?
he's saying like uh Marty Robbins in these new freestanding buildings that uh brown decided to protect fried chicken would be more visible public and the take out form up in suit here's a quote the increasing number of american housewives who were often in a mood to eat in or at home without cooking at themselves wow from lazy housewives they're cooking up for their homes oh my god so different times man different times you thought that was a leap in time where we're leaving from the mid- yeah we're leaving from the 60s to july 1986 after changing hands and other businessmen that was the year for a gorn ksc was sold to pepcico for 850 million dollars everything was sold to pepcico for about two billion dollars in our time pepcico made the chain of part of its restaurant division alongside pizza and taco bell in 1991 the ksc name was officially adopted as opposed to katepci yeah because it was too many syllables to say katepci right when we did appreciate it yeah they're reading it now the ksc name was adopted because although it was already known by the initialism while we know it greg president of ksus admitted the change was an attempt to distance the chain from the unhealthy connotations of fried i remember i remember hearing those news stories when we came out that he was like no it's not for any more of course it's right it's still contorted they tried to get real chicken with that's not what you go no no you go so that you can skin the chicken and try the skin the breading throw the chicken out of the bums you brought with you you're drunk oh we are now reaching the portion of the the show which i giving you Kentucky Fried Facts okay i want you to rank these are we at a point of no return because i never made my top five list i mean you can i feel underrepresented when it comes to giving my opinion you did interrupt me several times at any point in time you could have been like i did but i have attention deficit disorder so it was never one time that's why i need to look up this kurtlesanders commercial just to see the validity of what you were saying what is your top top my top five and i need an order we're going five to one one to five uh no no no we're going to one to five i'll start with the bottom great number five i'm gonna put um please you know our here's the thing are we kind of like church's chicken i've never had that we're counting no i've never heard of canes well it's right it angles has been so long since i've been there but yeah it's i've been to several of them but i don't remember a whole lot of them but i will put um i'll put these at the bottom of my list please chicken welcome to lee's welcome to lee's right you can never leave here's uh here's a vintage lee's commercial from the 1980s welcome to lee's that's pretty much it you're supposed to say more than i don't have anything else to say about this chicken ah okay so above lee's uh i'm gonna i guess i'll put chick fillet because they're open they're open they're live i'm just like you dislike lee's more than you dislike actually yeah let me just let me switch those up i'm gonna put i'm gonna put them at the bottom uh chick fillet because i feel like they're overpriced they don't like homosexuals and at least once in our town in the last six months who sings that crowded house i don't either that's not the talking has they did burning down the house so anyway um i'm gonna put there are people listening around going crazy yeah they're going nuts on our town to our house we didn't know who sings it and i'm screening at their life on the floor and while they're wrote our town yes in the middle of the street and so and so and i do know that there was an asian family that was verbally attacked at our local chick fillet really uh yeah told to go back go back to where you belong by employees or not no no other patrons other patrons that were there wearing wearing uh you know either camouflage hats or the riddle flag on their hats so like the so the rednecks yes we're be raiding this asian family and um and then my daughter the other day was like i'm gonna go to chick fillet and i was like sweetie you're not safe she's a lesbian and so i was like no don't go there and i kept picturing the same two guys as you would like the rednecks from the water like that like yeah like these characters of the rednecks be raiding my daughter and the meatbusting in the door like china or else like really well i would like another two convo on a lesbian no it depends on if she's wearing flannel or not okay that's how i uh that's how i tell from from lesbians we're on number three right now let me know i love lesbians let me make that they'll have the homestep not tonight they don't but uh hopefully to regain their favor i'm gonna put chickly at the bottom there we go there's chicken and then these chicken at number four so i have three more this is why i went first by the way because i had a definitive ranking i just wanted to talk i just want to talk a little bit uh and then i'm gonna put up um uh the chicken strips at the gas station near where we live because they're pretty good if you put unnamed gas station i think it's a marathon or a chevron but all i can tell you is that if you um if you put a little salt and a little texas peed on it it's so effing good okay it's all a touch of seed on anything it's so i'm getting a shoe that is the delicious we could now i can easily name the top five hot sauces yeah we're not there yet uh however i have the top two and i need to decide whether i'm gonna put kfc first or zaxby's first you want to do it i'm definitely gonna put zaxby's first and i'll tell you why because you go up to kfc and sometimes they have boneless original recipe and sometimes they don't i'm going to demand consistency on this because i don't like eating off the bone i'm with you i don't like pulling the tendons off and then looking at it and sometimes it's purple up there and you go why is this chicken purple it's ridiculous uh and with one of those chicken breasts it's juicy you've got the skin on the outside it was a short run of that and they did the strips too they took away the original recipe strips well yeah original see if the original recipe that's if it's not if it's not original recipe of bullshit i don't want it i know i'm gonna get away from him so i don't this is what's personal it had to have been personal because kfc takes me everything i love that one of the last time i was long here i don't need this time he thinks he's the gingerbreads with the gingerbreads on county and number one is take his but and number one is zaxby's the decor is perfect the dipping sauce is perfect the or the the prequel cuts though with the apricot and the paxas toast i tried their coleslaw the other i'm in a phase right now where i'm trying different coleslaw because for years i would always double fry it yeah i'm gonna double fry instead of coleslaw oh yeah except for kfc so recently i've been trying captain bees long john silvers uh zaxby's any of them that usually come with coleslaw and i'm just essentially finding that i do like coleslaw okay i wish i had a lot of rich and for so long yeah tomato base summer mustard base but tomato mustard for coleslaw yeah really no i wasn't wearing there was some variation i did not know that oh back to our confederate chicken right back to our chicken my forum i had a number of chicken and wondered if it was really chicken though no i just enjoy it uh you know with the uh the chicken nuggets or chicken straws or whatever you like sponge on the inside where it's like sponge yes but i don't want to make eat it if i don't know what you know i'll make fun of i'll make fun of chicken nuggets with you all day long but if somebody goes hey you want this last chicken i can i like oh yeah i want that chicken nugget and then i'll like peel the skin off and eat that and then like play with it and eat a little bit of it and give it inside sweet and sour and i'm like oh god they still have sweet and sour honey honey is the best thing to get your chicken strips in i in my opinion so any so basically any meat that seems poultry like that's covered in the special sauce and the breading you will dip and eat and assume it's chicken excellent i will assume it's me and be a victim of it you know what i love heroes but i don't know what the hell that means is it lamb is it beef is it is it a child is it human i don't care it's the most delicious meat i've ever had you know what if that's what it is keep on serving the bones we can't roll outside of it exactly that mama's is carving it off as it spins i love it if i can just lean below it and let the meat fall into my mouth all day if that were my job i would die so happy they finish it off with the with the bread just got something out is it is it making your cone and we drink the juice the grease the meat drippings okay i'm raining you guys in okay raining you end because i have a number of facts now you're going to rank two i have a number of facts i want you to rank these or give them a rating i should say okay i have two options either as zero to ten okay or or one through a million or one through a million given random numbers one through million as how fun the facts are okay okay okay we're rating the facts how about this was the second one a color rating like yellow is the lowest color in the blue i was just a school like they're in school a oh okay okay as i interesting you think the fact are there minuses and plus i have to run their way through that oh wow oh wow you can do a 317 minus if you want well i'm let's do that i'm excited our first Kentucky fried fact uh-huh only two people know the exact urban spice of the land for kacie's original ticket unless we're on is correct everyone that was the recipe uses 11 herbs and spices but the exact ingredients and measurements are protected like something you'd see under the oceans ranchers behind a vault that's walled in with concrete blocks with motion sensors and security cameras running around the clock to protect that yellow slip of paper bearing sander's original recipe only two company execs can know the recipe at eight given time and ks you won't even release their names or titles the huffington post reports how do they blend it then if only two people know it it's they make it and they ship it to each of these employees make all the spice those two old ladies yeah actually i've got their old ladies i say we go sit out at the young the young center in the young center and we roll two two random old women who have done their fingers right yeah well i was going to say that i rate that fact as a five until it started getting the vault and yeah i said right yeah i had two people know okay yeah the vault is cool you're like because it's it looks like it's smart i have to show get smart whether yeah or oceans oh i'm not the seal the recipe so that's the first fact i really want to seal some at the rest of the i need to know it here's one of my favorites when kentucky fried chicken advertised meals in china it's finger licking the slow people was actually translated as we'll eat your fingers off that's a ten out of a thousand we'll we'll eat your fingers though and then we'll add that to our chicken and then we'll and we'll brought to you by texas p all right here's another good one the kernel has his own comic book he battled his evil doppelganger from earth three kernel sundor with the help of the flash and green lantern in the kernel of two worlds a limited edition comic book distributed at new york comic con in 2016 oh i went this so bad 2016 i want to copy you know i want to copy but i'm having trouble supporting these there's more there's more earlier that year he started another comic at san diego comic con but he's far from a newbie and battling lookalike evildoers what's this kernel status also started in 1960s comic book where he foiled an imposter from stealing his secret but what are his superpowers he throws hot oil on you throw that out of my kitchen like that's in your eyes that while the hot oil he's got his beaver lines like lasers uh i gotta say on a scale of zero to ten this is a 15 okay i agree i agree it's a 15 out of ten right it's a great easel uh well we're getting everybody told you earlier to wait about how crazy kernel sanders is okay i'm looking at the sound by the way sanders once shot a man over a business we kernel harlan sanders we're in parland sanders when sanders painted a sign directing people to his shell station the very same one we first started selling fried chicken it riled up the owner of a nearby gas station matt steward who promptly painted over it sanders painted back over it and it wasn't long before snoor headed back to the side to cover it back up as soon as sanders heard his rival was painting over a second time he and two colleagues decided to catch them in the act a gunfight ensued which killed one of sanders co-workers oh my god sanders shot steward in the shoulder and this is true i looked at myself there is a video depiction of this fight on the ksz website do you feel like anyone went to jail do you feel like elvis was watching at the time from nearby that's like something elvis would be going to watch and be like what about the kurtleson? but the video on kfc's side of the right side of the board we had to that fight yeah it was just a bible homicide i'm looking up a sound fight i'm looking up a sound fight i know there was uh yeah let me see the kurtleson world it was uh you know i totally forgot what i was gonna look at it but it was relevant okay i believe you definitely should have watched that you go to the comic con on the comic book or the comic book or the kurtleson remember how they promised they wouldn't change the chicken recipe they promised they would change the gravy and the man called the gravy who won the body uh is complicated as like historic lore and it was more difficult to make almost anything so they changed the great recipe to make it easier to make so they could sell it to the places so they bought brown gravy i became essentially added oil to it better and mix it up whatever they do it's great thank you keep it up in 1976 sanders visited a gridditch village location with a critic the new york times and declared it the worst fried chicken i'd ever seen he called the newly formulated gravy wallpaper paste oh for their part ks and it was another duel just wanted to keep statards as high as they had been when it was a small business this may have been true but it didn't stop sanders from trying to open a competing restaurant named claudia sanders the kurtles lady after the second one kfc sued kurtlesanders kfc sued kurtlesanders and the senate outcourt for one million the restaurant that will exist today is claudia sanders dinner house what i mean where is that it's in quite i think it's in court oh okay there's a place in luval that's like a uh it's a big restaurant that looks like a plantation and it has something to do with the kfc but i was like did you like what they did with that so we opened a competing restaurant and got sued it i don't know he was the most met image for it i think it was a gun fight yeah no i feel that's what was lacking yeah more gun fights that's eight eight okay and my final eight out of four five five kids right back in japan kfc is a traditional christmas dinner the first kfc location in japan opened in 1970 soon after company officials found out that many people in the country where christmas is not a national holiday had defaulted to fried chicken when they couldn't find turkey and at exact suicide to run with it in 1974 kfc had a campaign proclaiming here we go kiru samasu niwakentaki which transitive kentucky for christmas that was so successful it launched a national tradition that kids later japanese families ordered their buckets of christmas chicken months in advance or face hours long waits for a taste of quintessential americanness well i want to go that far but it's fantastic well it's kentucky fried chicken that's what the australians knew about kentucky was that we had fried chicken okay can i please sound clip now i need to play sound clip please play his trunk on the leash country mother my daughter's this conferring the getties the left child's i'm kennelson is before they went tensile i hated that colonel with his we bdi's i'm not smug look at his bit oh you're gonna buy my chicken oh then how can you hate the colonel because he puts that dict of chemical in his chicken that makes you click it for a nightly smart ass i'm very that's murder so i'm very the next man i mean it makes sense though that this illuminati would have been because of these vast chicken circles that are going around yeah all right the final some odd kfc offerings okay i'll stop on the menu exactly and so i want to know would you eat it okay okay yes okay so here's the first one you'll be familiar with the kfc double down yes the kfc double down i didn't want to try that because i stand to it second things bacon two different kinds of melted cheese the colonel's secret sauce pinched in between two pieces of original recipe chicken fillet so the boneless chicken yeah with the buns with cheese and bacon and the middle two yes i would absolutely eat that and actually i was upset when taco bell took away there what other it was a taco but it was made out of a out of a piece of chicken fried chicken and and taco stuff inside of it so the shell of this taco was fried chicken amazing and i got there like the day after it went away i was so angry because i was great so the philippines answered to the double down the double down dog because i hot dog covered in a combo of mayo and cheese wrapped with a piece of crispy fried chicken no that sounds a little repot of mayo i love hot dogs but not together no no the us double down obviously made some pretty big ways over this first release while the philippines were busy creating the double down dog korea was busy with a very intubarone the zinger double down made with two pieces of crispy chicken patties as buns the zinger featured a hamburger patty with bacon so hamburger bacon between two pieces that's meat meat meat like that in your mouth oh it can be done oh yeah for the right foods my jaw is on hinge like a like a shark or a snake i don't think i would try that one that's the one i don't think hamburger with chicken uh i like both but i don't like both but i don't like both but i don't like both but i don't like both is that what is that what is there mixing it in the processing no no the chicken is on the buns of the burger okay yeah i would try that would do that it's the first one so i would try it but because if somebody bought it okay hold on can we clarify whether we're purchasing the sweet or not like if i have to buy the korean equivalent then maybe what price okay i bought it forty i'm all sure i try that yeah uh like i paid six dollars for the uh crispy cream burger okay with buns or crispy cream and i would pay four four again but not six okay but it was actually quite delicious it was really good i know it sounds crazy and i put all the vegetables on mine except onions so there was that cold hot helmet and you would think this is nasty you would eat it and i'd like mustard on it it was so good at the state fair at the state fair that's pretty common that's received are they yeah that's uh that's grown now that has grown that's crispy but you can get anything the fair it's all delicious because it's all deep right now k fc china debuted the shrimp burger featuring a deep-fried patty that exposed tiny pieces of whole shrimp once been into come with cheese lettuce and a special sauce that sounds appalling i'm not a big shrimp fan imagine shrimp you know hamburger yeah i don't care if i don't care if i don't into hamburger in a piece of shrimp that's just yeah i would write a strongly worded letter should i find that in my sandwich otherwise like if you know you're sleeping in your burger it's not a surprise i i would try that i mean it doesn't sound any worse than the hot dog stuff you were talking about no that's so gross that sounded awful and i love every ingredient individually but here's one that's that just it's not so much that it's disgusting as it's just a little odd the cheese top burger was pretty much just a burger top of cheese kfc filipines creation there's an actual slice of cheese on top of the bun the burger itself is made with a fried chicken patty covered in parmesan dressing sauce just then buns and a piece of cheese on top of the bun well we try but why that's what i'm saying yeah i'm like i'm i don't want my fingers to get too busy in greasy and all that that's why we put it in the bun like human being most of it not like sandwiches in the islands out there we're not savages we don't roll we're civilized people we don't do that we keep our fingers clean of cheese and now we got a few other just for the most part of the audience there's a very popular corn soup in japan a very popular corn soup that's not because of their kfc snack from japan features a special japanese corn soup that's breaded then from the deep fryer what comes out as a bite-sized piece of fried corn soup uh i would try i think i would enjoy it but i'd be like this is interesting i see i don't know why they have that in japan and they don't have any here there's a lot of things they seem to have a lot of restaurants they'll try these weird crazy depending on the local cuisine uh like i think donalds had uh uh crazy stuff what we would think of as crazy on their asian menus and stuff like that but none of these seem to be normal it's like oh corn soup but none of this seems distinctly foreign like i've said like kimchi or anything it's all like american stuff just that i guess we don't make strangely yeah yeah exactly here's my favorite name of green corn cream cheese chicken sandwich the chicken sandwich topped with cream cheese cream corn was one of our puzzling kfc items made with the philadelphia cream cheese the sandwich made as they view in mexico in mexico in mexico and green cheese chicken sandwich because they do a lot with corn and then the okay let's throw some cake so let's go on it yeah i can see the cream cheese the cream corn i can't tell the odd with the cream cheese i don't know it's one of those things where i'm like i love every ingredient individually but to put together i don't think i can handle that yeah i have a cream corn in general honestly give the cream cheese a try it seems strange but cream cheese you know i put on bagels and stuff like that's right not on the burger but yeah you should be able to put that with cream corn on a bagel yeah that's weird the green corn uses cream cheese it's cream corn that has cream cheese oh that's what makes the cream exactly oh okay that's not like two separate things i thought it's too different yeah i barely like cream corn as it is yeah so uh kfc united kingdom oh they notice their problem with folks going through so many disposable cups when they get their coffee fix so they offer edible coffee cups made with a heat resistant form of white chocolate patrons can buy in their coffee oh my god you know i've been in the plaza hotel in new york and i feel like i should have been exclusive to that if i had to buy this one yeah that's how i wanted to end my kfc report that's the end of the kfc report i don't want to buy this one but i don't want to delicious oh my god it doesn't melt with hot coffee no i guess it's probably like got so many chemicals in it yeah it's just changing you're not going to melt in your belly that's shortening your life everything that's just created it's you know from the little stone that never gets hot and they shave that into the into the mix and then you mix that all together so it's not all organic what stone is this that never i don't know i went i went to what hunsville or cake quinabra when i was like seven years old and i remember them going look at the super heated rock and they were like put a vlog torch to it and like heat it up real hot and they throw it into child and they grab it with their hand that never happened when that was exciting if they heated it up and they're just paddle up the space shuttle it's yeah they were like they were like this is what we could really know and this is like 1981 but they were like look at this and it was like a glass or something like that it was no i wanted some of this stuff but of course nasa wouldn't let you have it because it was because i thought it was because i was having to throw out the other two it was five billion dollars per square and right because they just super heated it and then they said look at me put it in my regular hand oh it's nice and that's a good number well that includes the kfc report i thank you thank you that is an excellent report for that chicken and you know yeah i don't know i don't know i don't know i really won't i'll never think about it the same way also be angry not so that's true that's true i'm usually irritated with most restaurants businesses corporations politicians human beings situations yeah most things that's true so is there anything as we kind of bring this discussion to it goes that you all would like to plug it oh events that are happening oh we're plugging things yeah you guys go ahead and plug because i'm i'm involved in both of them okay well my uh we're doing a workshop at the heart and county playhouse of my new musical garotas on april 29th it's got a great cast it's got great music i wrote it so you know it's bad and all right everybody should come in it it's well coder and it's free it's well it's well coder acted by these and it's free it's free the best price for entertainment uh one bran belair and i are co-starring and the elephant man right 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mean enough if you're mean enough and crazy enough you're well you can make it really willing to have a shoot out with cities like rissa too that's right i think he succeeded where most men failed yeah that's always been my hand i refused to drop down right right and check my competitor yeah right if you would like to get in touch with us uh you can send us a message at the wild card pod at gmail dot com if you'd like to suggest anything we can discuss a topic or whatever i would love to promise you that this is why our show will be like everything i certainly cannot be in the wild card it is doubtful and i will fight it every step of the way with every uh you know tool it might as well so literally so until next time dear listeners say wild