Video/TV: Popeyes Runs Out of Chicken, Rochester News Runs Out of News

My favorite radio show to listen to in the afternoon is The All Out Show with Rude Jude and Lord Sear on Sirius' Shade 45, weekdays 4 to 8e. It's a great mix of the latest in relevant rap with hilarious, no-holds-barred hiphop/pop-culture commentary.

Lord Sear is a fat black dude, and Rude Jude is a skinny white guy (which comes as a huge suprise if you've only heard him and never seen him).

Yesterday they played a local news story out of Rochester, NY about a Popeyes that ran out of chicken way too early after promoting a big special. The discussion that followed questioned whether that news report was covertly racist.



Rude Jude hilariously pointed that even if he was there for solely for the big chicken special, as soon as he saw news cameras he would have pretended he was lost and didn't even want chicken just so as not to feed the stereotype.

One Rochester caller said he was there and saw the cook working his ass off in the back. "They were selling it faster than he could make it!" Another said he got "three of them chicken deals" at 3:30 in the afternoon, before they ran out. "That's something you gotta take off work for!"

I'm thinking that while this report wasn't intentionally racist and they were just trying to fill time on a slow news day, the executive producer at that station should have realized how incendiary this subject can be and pulled the plug on the story.

Regardless, I must admit that it made me laugh. It's one classic line after another.

But if a crappy local TV news story incites laughter, or even gets any kind of attention outside of that market, then they must be doing something wrong. (See Bubb Rubb and Leprechaun in Alabama)

And "clucking their disapproval"!? For realz? Even as an unabashed dispenser of terrible puns, this line gave me spine-tingling swabchills.

Your thoughts?