Fried Chicken Fries

We've loaded up the wheel with some new topics and hoped for a nice, gentle start to 2026 - but the wheel had other ideas. Find out how we dealt with these particularly hot topics.

It's Fried Chicken Fries - as heard on the BBC! Matt and Rick follow up their Big BBC Breakthrough with some spins of the wheel on our way home. We were in high spirits until the wheel brought us crashing down to earth, easing us in gently with some hot dog chat before hitting us with Alan Barnes. Maybe we could have vetoed that...

Matt and Rick pay the ultimate price for an early veto with some jeopardy - this is the wheel at its most brutal. There's also some news of an upcoming charity challenge...

Richard and Matthew are on their travels again, managing to bring you a few spins of the wheel while on their way to and from a pop concert in Gateshead. On today's episode, they discuss public transport stalwarts, agricultural pandemics and shopping centre funfairs, in between slurps of some absolutely terrible cider.

A big, bumper episode for you this week, featuring Matt's Chaos Wheel which promised so much, but delivered very little. Also features a veto that we'll definitely come back to one day. But just not today...

Rick and Matt are back after an unintentional hiatus and drop a bombshell right at the top - the Wheel is OFFLINE and we've had to use a Wheel Replacement Service. Normal service soon resumes with chats about takeaways, vetoed teapots and a tenor at the King Power Stadium in 2016.

Time pressures ruled the roost for this episode. Your heroes had meetings to make, but time to spin the wheel. Could we get three spins in before we had to nick off? The answer is, clearly, yes. Of course we could.

To celebrate our one-year birthday, we have had a good old-fashioned spin of the wheel, generating a bevy of subjects for us to tackle. What links Sex Pistols to Rizzle Kicks? Find out here!

We're back! Apologies for the unintentional hiatus, but we are back now. We explain why in this episode, hence us only having time for one spin. But what a spin!We discuss our coast to coast effort, including an EXCLUSIVE admission by Richard, while there's lots of chat about the best of all the fast food outlets. Enjoy!

Matt and Rick are on location as they fit an episode of Your Favourite Podcast around a trip to see the great band Pit Pony in Sunderland. There's time to spin the wheel before and after the gig but sadly not during, then Rick buys a McDonald's for Matt, where we make an Anonymous Celebrity Sighting (redacted for legal purposes)

Rick and Matt have been asking for jeopardy, and boy, do they regret it now. An early veto set our heroes up for a big fall, having to discuss the fairly meaty subject - sorry - of Mad Cow Disease. There's light relief in the form of everyone's favourite snacks but then there's an important conversation about just why Michael Barrymore's career dried up in 2001.

Is this the week the wheel started to bite back? A couple of tricky subjects for our heroes to skilfully navigate, but we open the show with a howitzer of a subject - our farewell to the People's Princess herself. Remember us for this, and not the athlete's foot chat which, in hindsight, we should have vetoed.

A rich seam of subjects spewed forth by the wheel today - Matt and Rick discuss if they should be worried about painful hiccups, become aviation experts (again), talk about work (again) and discuss the art of fibbing.

Life has got in the way of putting a podcast out in recent weeks and this is explained in this episode, before your hosts get back to the business of spinning the wheel, throwing up a novelty snack, a surly quiz show host and a much-loved fast food chain.

Matt and Rick return with tales of Cornwall, before the random topic generating wheel spits out a veritable trio of very different subjects for the lads to get their teeth stuck into.

We are back in the studio for the first time in 2025 as we let the wheel decide our subject matter once more. Up first, it's a much-maligned masterpiece, our first steps in employment, boring adult stuff, and a God-tier meal. If this doesn't get you yearning for the past and for a delicious beige foodstuff, then we don't know what will.

We are back for 2025 with a brand new episode filled with subjects decided by our random topic selector. In true Fried Chicken Fries tradition, it's a mixed bag, there's tangents, and flat whites...

Rick and Matt present a very special festive episode, with a one-off wheel to discuss some Christmas topics. As always, there's tangents. There has to be tangents. Enjoy!

A heady mix of nostalgia and jeopardy on this week's wheel, while we experience something that has never happened before. Join us!

We're back in VISUAL form to discuss a mixed assortment of topics, including twins that dress the same, the tricky situation of having tradesmen visit your home, a fond look back at a musical quiz show - and we rip into a much-loved snack. Bon appetit.

After last week's disastrous outing, Rick and Matt were left hoping for a better deal from The Wheel today. And they were rewarded. Kind of. There's chat about Clarkson in his better days, a tree that's seen better days, and, erm, pasta. And another veto.

The random topic selector sometimes reminds us who is boss, which is the best way to describe today's episode. There's a knowledgeable chat about allergies, a sensible veto, trunk road chat and dreaming of pickled herring. Something for everybody. We did our best.

In this audio-only episode, Rick and Matt spend 20 minutes talking about their favourite biscuits then misuse a veto, which gives them just ten minutes to discuss a topic that, on any other given day, would make an entire episode. Don't hate the players, hate the game.

Matt and Rick talk sauces, send-offs, send-ups and summer breaks in this chaotic episode, recorded while all hell broke loose at Rick's house. Available in SOUND and VISION.

Now available in both audio and video forms, your New Favourite Podcast moves into a new era. To mark the occasion, Rick and Matt discuss the futility of road rage, East Durham's dearth of food options, and a cautionary tale of ordering an uber for your mates when they are all steaming.

A zero-jeopardy week from a random topic selector either atoning for previous weeks, or lulling both Matt and Rick into a false sense of security. Either way, the lads talk about a famous Irish stout, chlorinated fun, saddling up and their days at school. There's also room for a cheeky veto.

Richard and Matthew are back with some more randomly generated subject matter. Lots of talk about Smol, more landmine chat and an unfortunate outburst at the funeral of a much-loved TV star.

Matt and Rick are at the behest of a worryingly sentient random topic selector today, with three of the subjects today having aviation links. Four, if you include Stag Dos. There's also a little time to pay tribute to a doyen of North-East broadcasting, while the lads get their whites and pads on and chat about cricket.

13 is unlucky for some, and it proved to be very unlucky for Matt and Rick as the random topic selector generated a very, very mixed bag this week. We begrudgingly talk about Cornwall, discuss washing machines, how to play Three Blind Mice while once again, regrettably, the conversation comes back to land mines. Oh, there's also a veto.

The random topic generator has produced a broad church of subjects for Matt and Rick to discuss in this week's episode, where there's memories of the first records we owned (one is pathetic, one is quite cool), cooking in the kitchen with your favourite lager, DIY mishaps and discussing the merits and drawbacks of the humble all-inclusive holiday.

An episode of contrasts here. Matt is in Menorca, Richard is not; Richard likes The Beatles, Matt has no real opinion; Richard tuned into Keith Chegwin's Naked Jungle in 2000, Matt did not (as he was only eight at the time). Enjoy!

Matt waxes lyrical about electric eels, Richard shares his mobile phone woe, there's a veto in the midst, Richard reveals the multiple nicknames he had growing up and there's very little love for Blur. All jam-packed into 45 minutes of fun and laughter.

Some nice things for us to discuss this week, after the Random Topic Selector took a huff with us last week. We deftly tackle three subjects with a swift veto thrown in for good measure…

The random topic generator is a cruel mistress and it has hit us hard for this episode with some difficult subjects to tackle. But, do you know what, dear listener? We did it. And we did this for you. TW: We try not to get too far into the weeds of talking about blisters, but if you're having your tea while listening, please be warned.

For the first time ever, we manage to pack FIVE subjects into one chaotic episode! The random topic selector spins out Pilots, The Royle Family, David Gest 'dying' in Celebrity Big Brother, the long jump, and 'people laughing'. We also meet Matt's new dog. Enjoy!

The boys are back in their barracks after the disastrous outdoor episodes to discuss The A1, Tim Henman, Sausages and Gigs. There's also a cheeky veto for good measure.

Richard and Matthew are on the road again for this week's episode, this time they're in The Pub with the random topic generator at their side. This week, we talk about Christopher Reeve (real), Alan Partridge (fictional) and books. There's a shocking confession from Matthew and Richard live commentates on someone tuning a guitar. Enjoy! NOTE: Because we've recorded this in the pub, and because Richard bought perhaps the wrong microphones off Amazon, the sound quality isn't great for this episode, but the content is by no means dulled.

Matthew and Richard are back, and this time they're in the car as they take a drive around the North-East of England with the random topic generator in tow. On the agenda this week is dogs, Australia (the country) and Airline (ITV show) - while there's a little trip down memory lane for Richard. NOTE: Because we've recorded this on the road, and because Richard bought perhaps the wrong microphones off Amazon, the sound quality isn't great for this episode, but the content is sublime, as ever.

Richard Easterbrook and Matthew Keeling talk landmines, Lidl and the Sinclair C5, while there's the first VETO of the series. Join us!

Join Matthew Keeling and Richard Easterbrook as they spin the random topic generator once more and discuss The Tide, Eric Cantona, Eating Things As You Walk Around The Supermarket and The Blind Lad From Big Brother Being Hit In The Head.

In this pilot episode of Fried Chicken Fries, Richard Easterbrook and Matthew Keeling set their stall out, explain where the title of the podcast came from, and spin the wheel to generate their first topics of discussion - Definitely Maybe and Only Fools And Horses!