Chef Donny isn't new to The Yak. He's a recurring guest with a track record of turning up and completely hijacking an episode, the kind of appearance that usually gets its own highlight reel afterward. But Tuesday's visit was different. By the time it wrapped, the show's own account wasn't hedging.
"BREAKING: @chefdonnyy has thrown the first perfect game in Yak history. What a performance." That's not a bit you write about a normal guest slot. And the run-up backs it up — before he was even back in the chair, there was reportedly a real scramble behind the scenes just to get him on camera.
Behind-the-scenes footage shows an agitated moment on set as producers worked to get Chef Donny back on the show.
Once he was in the chair, the wheels came off fast. Between a story about French sex, a rambling bit that got him tagged as "probably the best nanny you could have," and a self-own about not being able to make up names on the spot, the episode turned into a highlight reel in real time.
Chef Donny cracks up on camera admitting he's bad at improvising names during a bit.
It got to a co-host physically bailing. One clip shows an empty chair mid-recording where a host had been sitting moments earlier, with the caption claiming he "couldn't handle it anymore." That's the kind of image that sums up a Chef Donny episode better than any recap could.
A host's chair sits empty mid-podcast after reportedly walking out partway through the segment.
Somewhere in the middle of all this, Chef Donny also delivered one of the more quotable lines of the day: "I look good as a baseball." No further context needed — that's just where the episode was by that point. Longtime viewers are already noting the arc, joking that everyone thought he was normal for his first 5 years around Barstool before "the dam broke." Tuesday's episode is the strongest evidence yet for that theory, and it's the new bar every future Yak guest has to clear.