Papa Johns 3 with Steve Sladkowski

Doughboys

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Fast Food, Healthfitness, Mike Mitchell, Snacks, Chains, Restaurants, Comedy, Ucb, Arts, Spoonman, Doughboys, Fastfood, Nick Wiger, Food

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Steve Sladkowski (@sssladkow, Pup) joins the 'boys to talk touring, fried chicken, and Canadian pizza chains before a review of Papa Johns. Plus, a new edition of The Family Food.

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Sources for this week's intro:

https://www.mashed.com/407168/the-untold-truth-of-papa-johns/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/19/the-inside-story-of-papa-johns-toxic-culture/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIoOvSRRXU0/

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628284744/papa-johns-founder-quits-as-chairman-after-using-the-n-word-during-conference-ca

https://www.wendys.com/en-gb/todd-penegor

https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/why-todd-penegor-came-out-of-retirement-to-lead-papa-johns

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:05.5	Want to watch this episode?
0:07.1	Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to YouTube.com slash doughboys media.
0:12.2	At Matalan, the one you've been waiting for is here.
0:15.8	The big sale is now even bigger.
0:18.1	With up to 70% off in the final reductions. It's your chance to save big
0:23.9	across women's men's kids and home. Shopping store now or online at matelan.com.uk.
0:31.0	Seasoncies apply.
0:34.9	The ranks of fast food royalty, much like real royalty, are filled with ghouls.
0:41.0	McDonald's Ray Kroc, who brazenly Mark Zuckerberg to weigh the rights to the restaurant
0:44.8	empire founded by the McDonald brothers.
0:47.3	Chick-fil-Ais, Dan Kathy, who opposed same-sex marriage and funneled money to support
0:51.3	conversion therapy.
0:53.1	Carl's Jr. Hardy's Andrew Puzzder, who graduated from lawyer for the anti-abortion lobby
0:58.0	to Burger CEO overseeing a famously sexist marketing campaign.
1:02.7	But perhaps none is more notorious, not to mention more physically ghoul-like, than John Schnautter,
1:08.3	who opened his eponymous pizza restaurant in Jeffersonville, Indiana,
1:11.4	in 1984, and began franchising almost immediately. By the 2000s, this upstart Hoosier
1:17.9	pizzeria had grown to compete with National stalwart's dominoes, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars.
1:23.2	And Schnauter was not just the founder and CEO, but, like a darkest timeline Dave Thomas,
1:28.1	it's on-camera mascot. However, the combination of commercial fame and immense wealth
1:33.0	rotted the man from within and or shed the superficial layers concealing an already rotten
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