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.