On May 11, 2005, the Pals for Life guild huddled outside the Rookery in Upper Blackrock Spire, calculating a 32.33 percent chance of survival for a plan to win a modest piece of paladin armor. Then Ben Schultz returned from his kitchen, ignored the briefing, screamed his character's name, and charged into a room carpeted with dragon eggs, wiping the entire raid. His only defense: at least he had his chicken. This deep dive treats that moment as the biography of an internet legend.

The hosts explore the hyper-serious playbor culture of early World of Warcraft raiding that the video was mocking, how the clip was seeded on forums disguised as a genuine complaint asking for a developer response, why the internet believed it was real until the creators released a dry run in 2017, and how Blizzard canonized the character with an NPC, a trading ca ...