Chef Donny's Barstool Big Boys takeover sparks BFW blocking uproar

Barstool Big Boys, the podcast T-bob, Dana Beers, Ella Grif and Mike Katic run together, dropped a Headbands episode on Aug. 18 with Chef Donny sitting in as the guest, and it went about how you'd expect for a guy who cooks for a living but apparently can't play a guessing game to save his life.

Dana Beers

@danabeers

Hilarious new @barstoolbigboys Headbands video with @chefdonnyy out on YouTube now. So many laughs

That episode was just the appetizer. A day later, Dante the Don teased that he and Chef Donny had spent the morning cooking up meatball sliders, with the rest of the Big Boys crew reportedly "crawling out of the woodwork" begging for a taste. Dante called the episode this footage is headed for a banger.

Dante 🇺🇸

@DanteTheDon

Still thinking of the unreal meatball sliders @chefdonnyy and I cooked up this morning. We had the big boys crawling out of the woodwork and begging for us to let them have them. This episode is gonna be a banger when it drops

The full podcast, which normally drops new episodes every Thursday, put out a fresh installment on Aug. 19, with the hosts thanking fans for helping push the show "to the moon." Chef Donny wasn't done cooking, either — later that same night he posted a segment of Brandon, who goes by the handle @BFW, ranking 3 different hot dog styles from best to worst.

Chef Donny

@chefdonnyy

Brandon ranks 3 different style hot dogs from best to worst @BFW 🌭

But the BFW tag didn't just draw laughs about hot dog rankings — it reopened an old wound. A tweet noting that Brandon had blocked a wave of fans on Twitter blew up to nearly 1,000 replies, with people swapping their own stories about getting cut off by him.

Stoolies Clubhouse 🏴‍☠️

@StooliesClub

Almost 1000 replies already, filled with stories about how @BFW blocked them

None of it seems to be slowing the show down. Katic, a former Indiana Hoosiers offensive lineman and team captain, and the rest of the Big Boys crew have leaned into the chaos rather than away from it, and Chef Donny's back-to-back cameos suggest he's becoming a recurring fixture rather than a one-off guest. Whether the meatball slider episode lands on the usual Thursday drop or gets held for a bigger rollout, it's shaping up to be the one fans are already talking about.