{"id":71476,"date":"2025-11-06T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/?p=71476"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:47:32","slug":"the-shipping-smackdown-where-hot-wings-meet-hot-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/blog\/the-shipping-smackdown-where-hot-wings-meet-hot-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shipping Smackdown: Where Hot Wings Meet Hot Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Austin, Rick Watson (RMW Commerce) and Nate Skiver (LPF Spend Management) joined Auctane’s Chris Worley for a four-wing gauntlet. Each wing hotter than the last. Each question spicier than the menu. By the end, we weren’t sure if the tears were from ghost peppers or the state of retail logistics.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can tell a lot about an industry by how its leaders eat wings. Some nibble like accountants reviewing invoices. Others dive in like they’re trying to bury their last bad forecast in buffalo sauce. But the ability to navigate the Scoville scale<\/a> has been thrown into the limelight by Sean Evans and the American YouTube show, \u201cHot Ones.\u201d Guests are asked to complete a 10-wing challenge. Sean interviews celebrities, actors, musicians, athletes, comedians, and entrepreneurs while they both eat a lineup of progressively spicy chicken wings (or vegan substitutes). The sauces start mild and gradually intensify to brutal levels of heat, usually culminating in “The Last Dab,” a sauce made with one of the world’s hottest peppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The genius of the format is that as the spice level increases, the guests’ polished media-trained facades tend to break down. Between the sweating, swearing, and desperate gulps of milk or water, the interviews get rawer, funnier, and more revealing than typical press junkets. Over a text message, Nate Skiver said to me (Rick Watson), I can go hotter than you. Skiver had forgotten that my roots are buried in spice and food. I am a NOLA native, born and bred. Skiver was not prepared. Or was he?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either way, here’s what we learned while the napkins piled up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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