Welcome to don't drop the tongs. Remember, boy, we got Kyle,
you are behind barbeque. We got Phil the Grill in the house. You
you Yeah, Phil, I'm glad to see Phil decided to join us.
So we are running little late because Phil, you know, missed the call
time again. Yeah, and came in looking like Bob the Builder. Literally
you got your vest on, bro, Yeah, I got my vest my
fifty Yeah, just so that that's that's so, that's my excuse. Best,
like if I'm late, not going on up like, oh my god,
that's gonna he must be he must be working hard. The stops on.
That's my excuse. Vest That could be the greatest line of it.
All right, so let's get rolling on this. No, but hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, Let's backtrack the last week
because I got when you didn't show up. Yeah, when I got some
attraction. So I was in that other room. You're in my studio because
you had to take a call. Yeah. You said it was gonna be
ten minutes, and it took the whole hour. So I apologize Radio and
LAMB, but these guys did fabricate that I caught a table on fire and
burnt up stuff. Okay, you caught a table coffee, burnt up food
and was serving burned up food. Now, let me tell y'all, your
food was a little you know, I was doing this for years, I
said, by my guiver, and I could come up and build anything out
of any situation and make it happen, right, And so I did.
I didn't have a shafing dish, which is true, but I did put
one of those little propane things underneath my pan full of water with two half
pans in it, and everybody ate and was married. Now I did I
have a whole smortgage board that Kyle had, Like Kyle was running a whole
golden kerral you had, he got golden corral. Yes, yeah, I
have a question. Why did you have a chafing dish? And I understand
because I, first off, this was a voluntary like set up. This
was this was a you know, it was it was a volunteer setup.
But it allowed you to showcase your rubs and sell your rubs. So in
a way it did get paid. I'm kind of with that. The more
you had sold the life because I contributed the food, I contributed my time,
I contributed my labor. I contributed a lot of things, and I'm
not usually used to going to my great friends of Barbecue Island and not them
already providing perfect setups. Because they did have perfect setups for a lot of
other vendors. But we didn't have a perfect setup. We had to bring
all of our own stuff. But that was that was out of the ordinary
when Phil the Grill goes to Barbecue Island and I love you guys Barbecue Island,
but I did not get my perfect setup that I normally, you know,
go in and do so out of my own pocket. I did contribute
to the marketing plan of selling rubs, which I did. It was only
two left on the shelf when I left. It was twenty five when we
first started, and we got that done. But at the end of the
day, no did I did not have a shafing dish. I did go
to Shamrock on the way in and they didn't have shafing dishes. So I
said, you know what, I'm gonna go down there. Somebody should have
an extra shafing dish. When I found out nobody had a shah let's talk
about that phone call. He yo, you got a safing dish. Yeah.
Yeah, But but what did you tell me go to Shamrock? You
said, go to Shamrock? Yeah, yeah, I went to share.
Did you think about going to the target that was in the parking during the
holiday season? Look, look, did you know I think that they would
have did go to target? I went and I got bers. I got
a six pack of bit no twelve pack of Stellars, And at that time,
my shafing dish was working. My makeshift shafing dish, without burning tables,
without burning tablecloth, without burning food work. You gotta admit, you
gotta admit, you gotta admit your setup did work. It worked, but
it did not work well? It worked? You did? You did have
You did have a small table fire. Did your tablecloth not get tablecloth?
You're because I threw everything away. It's no hole in no tablecloth. I
was not putting out no fire. I was you were putting out. We
didn't say you served burnt food. We said the food was. The food
was watering. You didn't have enough water. You didn't have enough water.
You put water in there, but you built your stands alide. Did the
flame evaporate on the water out? I had hands, so there was no
way anything, but the flame was high enough that it was burning. That's
because the table cats on fire. I'm staying out of it. Yeah,
we have video evidence. If you want to go to the tape, we
are gonna We're gonna bring the tape. So what's that. I want to
see the throw the flag, throw the flag through the challenge flag. I
need to see the replay. And not only that, just because of that
fabrication, I have Hello, hello radio man. They're giving me a choppy
mic now too. Now keep I keep jingling the court watching mouth bow.
So just because of the fabrication, I do it be Since I am the
developer planner of this show. Now right, I'm setting up all the guests
coming in. I have a special guest coming in for you, and I
have a special guest coming in for you. It all lined up. Once
I come back from this World Food Championship, we're gonna put it on this
surprise. I have to be able one that managed getting him in the buildings.
Don't know. We're just gonna call. We're gonna make calls. You
gotta do research now, Yeah, don't worry. All the research is done
because they actually want to speak to you guys individually. It's not the same
person, but the one person wants to speak to you, and the one
person that I have wants to speak to you. I don't know if I
I just want to let you know it's Phil, though he probably won't be
able to lock it down. He'll be like, I'm gonna lock it down.
Oh it's locked. It was, it's locked and loaded. I just
couldn't do it all today because I didn't know if off my phone we call
it. Oh, no, you're not going to have that. He has
the unplugged button. But no. So if it looks bad on me,
I'll take it out. But I have nothing to hide. If you did
catch the table off, explain the hole in the tablecloth. There was no
hole in no table cloth. You know why I know there's no hole in
the table cloth because I cleaned the table off and there was no hole in
the tablecloth. All right, is that hole? Time out? Yeah?
Okay? Are you ready for wild foods? Baby? Ye? That's this
weekend? Right? Yes? Yes, it's actually I leave Thursday morning.
You're flying out. Yep. I saw my brother today, you know,
so I went to the house cooler because he told me He's like, Phil's
only love to have one toe. You're gonna tell you that, bunch.
I wouldn't tell you that. I got a little space. So I get
this Smitty's house, and I'm like, oh man, I got a cooler.
I got two tables. It was the higher tables, right, so
countertop height tables. So I got I had the cooler, two countertop height
tables, and a C four Right. The C four is a backup type
truck. Right. And then John is meeting me out there. He has
weber, a tent and another table, and I'm good. I got all
my stuff packed in my corner in the live fire right, live fire,
baby. So you have to put on the show, right, I'm putting.
I'm filled the grill, baby, I am the show. I'm the
show. I'm the show. I'm the show. Disclosed. What kind of
what you're gonna make? Or what's the first? First round is surfing turf,
So you have to make any dish surfing turf, yep, yep,
okay, and it has to go on a platter. It has to go
yep. So you have one presentation plate and five little small side plates.
Yeah, those are the tasting plates. Okay, so yeah, I'm I'm
ready basic, You're ready, though, I'm ready. Question, do you
have a timeline? Yes, I do have a timeline. I'm proud of
you. With pictures, with pictures, what I put there? I put
this is what they're supposed to look like on the plate, because sometimes I
get to the end and I'm like, damn, I'm gonna just this.
Yeah, so I got what it is supposed to look like. I did.
It's on my coffee table. I'm gonna tape it on my tape.
I'm proud of you. Yeah, yeah, looking proud of you. Thank
you, sir. Okay, I've been I've been working hard at this.
I don't say working hard. I don't know. I've been seeing I've been
seeing pictures. I'm proud of you. Then, so go there and win.
I'm gonna do my best, play like a championship. I'm up.
I'm gonna play like a champion. Des So you got to get into top
ten? No, top seven? Yeah, okay, there how many contestants
are there? Twenty one group twenty one, twenty one. I gotta be
in the top third. You have to be in the top seven. Why
isn't it not top ten? I have no idea. They shortened it,
so okay, top seven, top seven, this is two so this master
judges that come around and they view your style of cook and yeah, what
how you're doing it, what's your method? What you're putting together? They
get to pick three contestants. The judges are blind judges, so they go
through in eight, three or three come from them. That's whoa too.
They only they get to pick three, but if the three is not part
of the seven, two of them get to move up. Their top two
get to move up into that. Make that happen? Putting that that the
or or just the technical technical wave you're putting together this dish because the dish
is supposed to be one uniform or one unified dish, right, so SURF
and DIRF is supposed to be just one uniform dish. It's not supposed to
be sides and this and that and you know what I mean, So it
has to all blend together. Okay, they're going to walk around all these
twenty one tenths and just see what you're doing, like say, if you're
hanging a tomahawk or if you're I don't know what you're hanging a lobster tail
in an hour and a half. And what's your live fire source going to
be? Uh? A weber kettle? Is that considered a live fire?
Though? Put your hand over a barrel? I get it, but I'm
saying though, but you still go with it. I get it's a live
fire, but what's not live about it? Yeah? That's that's that's kind
of a question. Could put a Santa Maria, But why would I need
to put a Santa Maria? Isn't it more? Don't you kind of get
greater on the presentation of the plate of the plate? So they don't.
Judges do come around, but they want to see the show. You talking
about money. I'm going to pick the trust and believe I'm giving them a
show. But you see what I'm saying with this, like you don't want
to see a show and you're gonna use a weber kettle like anybody can do
in their backyard. That is the show. But it's the technical things that
I'm cooking on the weber cac and how I'm doing it in that hour and
a half. Yeah, I just don't see a bunch of people having these
because they have these live fire tables set up Yeah, that is so so.
So that's the female So they do have a Ladies five Women Challenge and
that's like the top four women in this in the country that go and do
the live fire yeah presentation. So they'll be out there, you know,
and doing their thing and and hey that this is totally different. See how
twenty one people they are from all over the country are going to have live
fire setup. So I think if you got the Santa Maria set up on
your weber, it kind of shows that you're trying. You're there. I'm
from Arizona. Couldn't get all my stuff here. Yeah, exactly on my
weber kettle and you just got to put on a put on it's off my
little on what you're doing. Of course, just give him that filled the
grill. I'm a gill. I'm killing that show. Baby. They look
they it's gonna be a show. Hey, if he needs a live fire,
he gets set a tablecloth on him. Okay, So if you make
top seven, you go into the kitchen. Now, go in the kitchen.
So they got that's where I want to go. This is where I
want to Everybody gets a what twenty twenty kitchen. So there's an oven.
There's all kinds of things set up in these little kitchens. Yeah, so
what is the dish for the top seven people that have to cook in there?
The secret ingredient or the infused ingredient is shrimp. Shrimp. So you
could cook any dish you want, doesn't it doesn't It doesn't have to be
to be shrimp. But you have to showcase shrimp. Guess why I brought
with me shrimp? Oh, I heard the story. Are we talking about
the Okay? Never mind what you bring with you a walk, did you?
Well, that's all I'm gonna give you. No, Okay, let
me give you a little little pointer here. When I cooked with Mike Johnson,
he wanted he needed help, so he put me in charge of French
fries. So I was supposed to I was supposed to deep fry French fries
right when the thing goes on. We turned the thing on and let the
oven go right that hour and a half. Did not get that oil hot
enough to I know. I'm sure he did not get it hot. I'm
sure it was. It was a wreck. I'm looking at Mike like I
just screwed this up for you, and he's eating it and He's like,
no, Bro, it's like water burger French fries. He would get hot
enough. Okay, just be careful with the No. That's why I brought
my own walk. Yeah, I get that, but you're gonna have to
use an oven. The oven. He got an electric walk. When I
put oh, got you, got you, I'm thinking you're putting this on
the oven. I'm like, Bro, I wouldn't be doing it. Thank
you, Barrel. You see what I'm saying. Say I'm saying, but
don't give away all my stuff. Man. People are still listening and they're
gonna go out there and they're gonna do nothing. You're nothing, all right,
yoh wait, hold on, cannot go to I had a whole week
off of not getting into my brother Kyle. So give me plenty of exactly
yep. So so I'll get there. But let's go back to Barbecue Island
real quick, just real quick, because the Bender demo right now, I
was sitting there and Barrel was sitting there, and there was just a lot.
Okay, I got a fans, like fans, but but I think
his fan base is like in Sun City, some of them, some of
them may or may not be swingers. Well, I was trying not to
say that correctly, but yeah, but I think they are swingers because one
said this podcast. Yeah that what they said. They's like, Oh,
my wife just loves this bacon green chili rub Can I take a picture with
you? She wants to meet you. You come by the house, and
yeah, he didn't the house. Yeah, but but but but but they
did want to go down to the bone, the basement of the bones.
They admit of the bones they wanted to go. Would agree, I agree.
I think some of Kyle's fans were and I don't know what the blue
cheese thing was. It was like he's got some he has some fans.
He has some fans that I will say maybe belong on a watch list.
I mean they may have to they may have to register with the county when
they moved places. Watch I mean, if you told me that someone had
to move or that they have to go to uh, they had the register
with the county in the state when they go places, maybe I would be
almost happened to me by using the bathroom behind the dumpster and tape yo yo
yo. Look, yeah, they all have their lights off on Halloween.
Yeah, because they're supposed to not because they have they're not allowed to,
all right, So we're gonna move from there, all right, So let's
go to this week. This was a great week, all right, speaking
about world foods, right, I said, I am not because you guys
were teasing me. You was like, hey, Phil, we're seeing your
name on vending at this Mesa. Right. The dm JA sent me a
dm He's like, yo, Phil's vending here. And he sent me a
picture and it shows a list of all the competitors in Mesa and then it
shows who was going to sell food and said filled the grill. I said
yeah. I was like, I was like no. So the promoter was
chasing me around and I was like debating, can I do it? I
didn't really have enough people. And then you had to all trailers out,
and uh, you had all my trailers. Oh I heard that. I
was on the text train. I saw food trailer. I sorrow your food
trailer. Food, but you were already using your trailer. No, it's
taken, yo. Then you took all my help. You tell Tyler you
took Pops to you took Pops and Tyler, you took all by my good
help. So so I decided I decided to reneeg on doing the vending and
take it light and just get my mind ready for World Foods Uh Friday,
and went to go see my big brother Smith over in Masa. That was
great, Yo. You know that's weird. Hold on, you know they
have not posted any Oh he was going to get into that. Don't don't
get Barrel. Look at Barrel's eyebrows already. I have it. It's not
because I've been looking. I've been trying. I want to. I wanted
to see too. A competition was It was a CACBS. You know that
says for now late results, So so I go visit them. It was
great, Barrel. Look, it was like old school against new school.
And you know, I got my brother Smid fired up, right yo.
So so we're out there. Ray's out there, So Ray from California's out
there. We're all over there by Smith's joint and I said, Yo,
got you know what this reminds me of like the old school crew that we
all started with right in caseybs. You had you had Tom Glenn, you
you had Vince right yo, you had Ray, you had Smitty Rob Dodge,
like you had all of these old school competitors. Then you had the
new guys like Gabe right, and then like b Mac and you know,
so that's crushing the game. I'm not taking away from but it's like,
you know, old school fish new school right. I got smid fired up.
I was like, so you know what that means? Yeah? Yeah,
well he told me. He told me. He told me the shut
up. He told me the shut up he said, he said, you
know what, Phil, You're not competing, so you don't have nothing to
say. You shut up. But basically I told him, I said,
so what does this mean? He said, you're gonna let one of I
said, you're gonna let one of these new cats whoop your ass? And
he was like, Phil, that's when he told me. He said,
Phil, bad things. So he wanted he want gz, you want the
whole thing. Then I got up first or second in the Soy I think
it was first, and so they had a soy wait, hold on,
soy what chicken. I ain't going to do it. I don't know.
Carry on, They're making soy burgers alright. So then I woke up Saturday
and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna go visit the other
half of my family. So I Barrel. I drove all the way out
to Florence. I got a little scared on the trip because I got to
sixty and it says you're about to end the highway right, and I was
like, it was wait, hold on, what's gonna happen next? Like,
and then it still says another twenty miles. I was like, how
is the sixty ending? And I still got a whole another twenty miles that
goes down the highway. Yeah, So I go. I get out there.
Then who's the first person I see? Tyler? He's like, hey,
yo, yeah, I'm going and so so so Kyle thinks his brother's
just imitating being dead. He sees me. So you went out there.
I went out there, I saw my other half of my family. Uh,
Kyle was out there already in his groove killing it. They were how
was the restaurant? Don't rat too much? Who yo? The restaurant is
nice, bro, good for nice? The rat do you think it?
Do you think it's like a like show, say, like too nice to
open? Is that white? It hasn't opened yet? Yeah? Yeah,
because yeah, yo, the restaurant is real nice. They put a lot
of hard work in it. You know, a lot of hard work went
in there. Did you want to pull a fire alarm just to make sure
it works? No? I wanted to fry. I wanted to fried chicken
outside from about the grill. But but yo, it was it was closed
like they had paper on the windows. You couldn't see him. That's what
I want to Nobody can see big reveals coming the big girl field. No,
but it was real nice. Uh Sharon uh Coffi's the Kofinis was out
there, Pops was out there. It was a lot. Yo. Kyle's
gonna be in trouble out there. Yo. So yo, when I go
there, we're gonna keep this PG. Okay, I'm gonna just say there's
a lot of well, if they're doing another Real Housewives, it should be
the Real Housewives of Florence because there's a lot of housewives. There's a lot
of I'm not doing too much of done out in Florida. And they dick,
they Dickory not go forbid, all right, So okay, so you
go not only did you how'd you in your comp We won the whole thing.
So you took GC and that was that. Three years in a row.
Three years in a row three years a Grand Champions. So good to
you. But the biggest thing is this. This was the the town of
Florence's first opportunity to experience yeah, birds and bone technical first experience. That
lasted for forty five minutes and we were done. So we had a bunch
of food man and we got there. Thursday, we had a fire Marshall
deal. That's off air we'll talk about. So then I had to set
everything up and I had to cook food all night Thursday, and I learned
that you cannot buy beers for a public official. I loaded yep, it's
just a bribe. So I loaded the smokers up and then my dad and
I and brother were like, let's go get let's go pound some drinks.
Caddy corner from me is a bar called the Irish Cowboy. It's a cool
little Irish bar. We go in there, it's my first time there.
We started drinking and then I get a tap on the shoulder and this very
dressed, well professional woman comes up to me. She's like, Hi,
my name is you know so and so I'm the new city manager. I
was like, oh cool, and she's like, well, I heard that
I need to have a beer with you, and you know, my eyes
I'm there. I'm just like all right, yeah. So she sat down,
got a beer, sat down at our table, and we talked for
two hours. She wanted to know the whole dilemma and everything that was going
on. And so the waitress kept coming over and like, yeah, I'll
take another one, get her one, and this and that, and she's
like, no, I get my own. I was like, Noah,
I'm buying any one. And so I kept doing this and she's getting frustrated
with me, and she's like, no, you can't buy a public official
of beer for food woopsie. And I was like, you know me,
I've been drinking. I was like, oh, why not. She's like
because if people see that, they're gonna think that you were bribing me.
Yeah, And I'm just like he was trying. He's trying to bribe us.
So we did all that. We cooked a bunch of food. H
let's see all night Thursday night for sold for Friday. Stayed up all night
Friday, sold some food. The Kofinis took care of the trailer, Justin
and I took care of the contest. My dad was running back and forth
from the restaurant into the trailer because we got the big smoker in the restaurant,
So raise your prices so you guys crush. Good for you guys.
That's good. So good local buzz for you guys. Any idea when this
damn place is going to open? U put a date on it, but
it is, It should be open. Life is coming. Life's gonna smack
min. If you think it's over by Christmas film, it's not the problem
next year. You know what I learned, He's not. They they're just
playing around. You know why. This is why, And I'm not gonna
give too much away, but this is what needs to happen. They need
to go and get Pops a nice makeover, like take them to like what's
that, what's that nice barber shop? Mister b No, because he just
needs to be cleaned up just a little bit right and get him, Yeah,
and get him, get him a nice journey suit, journeys man suit
and a dozen roses and you have him go down and deal with the official
that's giving you problems, the lady official has given you problems from opening it,
and and just take him off to a nice dinner, a nice a
nice uh. I think Friday out in Florence's fried fish right all you could
eat fried fish. Oh you could eat fried fish. Get them a nice
fish dinner and get clean. Pops. You might need to take one for
the That's what I'm trying to say. Get him clean up, get him
cleaned up, nice, get him a nice you know, cut a nice
little shave, and it Pops. And this is why I say Pops,
because you and your brother y'all don't have to give the gap now. Pops,
on the other hand, heat he has gave. Pops has gave you
and toller they got no game, y'all gotta come out and mess it up
and say something. But the Pops has all the games. And then when
he comes out with a box wind, it's like, hey, Mama,
you want to come and get a little box wine? You know we're trying
to go for this ribs wings, yeah, you know, yeah, try
to start this whole thing. Oh that's not gonna happen. Go full barbecue.
Meant to talk to you. I'm meant to talk to you about that
because people are craving it. People, that's all people want this brisket,
full blown. Keep it. Don't make them change you, but I'm not
gonna get crazy with it. Yeah, please don't just take a brisket sandwich
and a pork sandwich, yeah, or a brisket play certain days, bro,
keep it, keep it, keep it, because I'm telling you that's
when you get the fluctuation of cross priced talking. You know you're gonna get
brisket is seven dollars one week, and now that's just on your menu every
day. You got to eat it and then and then next week is pork
that's up, and then brisket and if you got too And the other thing
is when you're constantly buying a certain and out, you can lock in with
your food vendors and be like, look, I'm buying ten cases a week
from you right now. Of this right, I am not paying no more
than two dollars and twenty cents per pound. Lock me in. They're gonna
lock you in. So now they got a hole kid with your name on
it at their facility that all of that stuff goes twenty. So now if
the number goes up and down, you're still at twenty. Yeah, your
locked. But you can't do that if you're selling all this other stuff.
I got a good I got a guy I can lean on. I got
a guy I can lean on about this. It's true. I was telling
him on Saturday. I was like, I wanted to tell you to talk
to you about after Friday. After Friday Night's experience with everything, so people
were craving. No people they love the pulled pork sandwiches. They wanted the
brisket sandwiches. We had barbecue nachos, we had all this stuff, and
they were asking for ribs, but we didn't have ribsons. I wanted to
showcase another side of the menu. But yeah, dude, I think we're
gonna have to be a full blown barbecue restaurant. I can see that.
I mean, there's not it's not. There's nothing out there, dude,
I know, yes, I mean say it. There's nothing out there and
it's something new, and I hate to say it. You're hate. It's
a good thing for you. You're gonna be the only dog in town for
a while, and you can build up lifelong clientele if you offer what they
want, and then when somebody else does come in, because you know,
competition will show up potentially, and when it does show up, the people
are gonna then be like, no, we're loyal to him because he's had
this. You don't want people to be like, well he's never offered that.
Now this guy's offering it. We're gonna go there to get that.
Yeah, so that's good for you guys. People were I mean raving about
it. Well good, I got some Mexican food down there, and there's
nowhere. There's nowhere for like, if you wanted to go on a date
with somebody, you're driving to Gilbert. You're driving forty five minutes exactly dinner
unless you want them to eat out the Mexican food spot. I would take
a special lady to Birds and Bones. Man. Okay, So here's the
whole experience, the vibe, the plan, I mean, it's gonna be
okay. So you're gonna open Are you gonna have a big grand opening party?
Massive? Massive are going to shut down their hotels out there? Yes,
because I whisper the whisper in the street, unlocked the whisper and say
go they're locking down the street, DJ Beers tables, it's gonna be.
We could get the honeymoon sweet at at the Blue Oyster. You can get
the honey They're like a holiday and out there at least. No, it's
called Golden Tree. No, green Tree. It's called Green Tree, Yo,
and we we it's the nicest. It's a nice hotel. Yeah.
They rant by the hour, like how many hours that you can rent by
the hour? But the one down the road is it's nice. How many
hours do you good? Massive party? Good? I look forward to that.
I mean opens, yeah, yes, bro, it's a nice drive.
I'm not doing it again. We got we got, we got a
group. I gotta go up the hill, I gotta go down the hill.
I was like, I got to keep telling him I'm going back,
I'm going back down. How was how was it going through customs? Exactly?
They was like, do you have I was gonna say something, but
you was gonna edit you. I'll go say, all right, so you
guys are all dialed. Then you won? You served? Did you help
Kyle when you went there? No? I was only out there for a
couple of hours. I did. I did drink some of his beers.
I did do that. So you pulled to fill the grill yet oh oh,
but I showed up with ten uh sausage MC muffins. No eggs,
No, because what eggs? Who wants the nasty eggs. Who doesn't you
like the he don't lie. You got the sausage ones because they were because
they're cheap right now? No, No, honestly, I don't. I
don't eat the egg Who wants that nasty egg for McDonald's. Can you see
you seen them frying eggs? Do you see them? No? You're absolutely
right. You know who else makes the worst worser eggs? Wor wors Denny's.
Denny has powdered eggs exactly. The reason why when is the last potential
debty sponsors? Well, the stop serving powdered eggs. Yeah, yeah,
well good. So let's let's talk about Oh Nascar. Did you see shaking
Baker was here for nascarha? Oh yeah because yeah, no that that Yeah,
they were here. Yeah they were compete. No, they were here
for NASCAR, just here for Nascar because there was something there was there was
something. There was a little barbecue thing going on in NASCAR. But it
was like a very close close knit I think actually Smitty got invited to go,
but he competed and Baker yes, and I told I said, I
said, yo, Smith, there's no way you're gonna go there. And
then go drive to Dallas. The next day. He has said, we
threw down. Oh god, it was rough. I mean it was great
times. So we started setting up on Tuesday, and my first night out
there was Thursday. I had friends flying from around the country. You did
the morning show out there? Yeah, we did our show out there Friday
morning. What I can do to get you guys, come do it morning.
We'll see yea. Yeah, country Thunday. Down that block. I
just that's out there. It's over by the prison. Okay, okay,
got it. So we went and we basically just uh went on Tuesday or
excuse we went out. Thursday was the first night. Went to dinner.
We actually went to dinner in Litchfield Park. I thought of you, I
met I met some friends because one of the race teams stays at the Wigwam.
So we went to Old Pueblo, went Old Pueblo and had uh had
dinner, I will say, and we had quite the experience there. I'll
say reunion in that place. I will say that they have Mexican foods,
good drinks were cold. So we walk in and a buddy of mine,
his nickname is Doodoo because his last name is brown and he's been full of
blank his entire lives to call him Doo Doo. So anyways, Doodoo walks
into the bar and he tries to order a bush light from the bartender.
She doesn't have bush light, which throws him into a tizzy. We drank,
oh exactly, trust me. Well we've seeded to drink that place good
and dry. That night got him Friday morning, did the show Friday morning
from camp. We have a lady who comes by who brings us Bloody Mary's.
He's Bloody Mary. She makes dude, y'all, her recipe could win
a world foods I'm telling you to the when I say this. She has
a way that she infuses the vodka with her own custom bloody Mary mix.
Oh wow, I mean these things are incredible, so she could probably make
a lot. She probably could, Yeah, probably, I mean she uh
so, I don't. She doesn't sell it. She just does it like
it's their own, like side hobby. She does. And she she's known
as the Bloody Mary Lady out at NASCAR, I mean, and she she
brings them in. Dude, it crushes. I mean, I am I
like Bluddy Mary's, but like I know those people who are not bloody Mary
fans. I'm like, just try it. They're like, yeah, oh
my god, this seems incredible. Yeah, it's awesome. So we had
that. That was other Friday. That was Friday, and Friday night we
got out. We got on the gas pretty good. Friday night not too
horrible, but we definitely got on the throttle. But Saturday, let me
explain to you. Saturday. Let me explain to you Saturday. So Saturday
morning, Saturdays is the day where everybody comes. Friday is kind of a
yeah good. But Saturdays, when everybody comes, we get race teams that
show up, like we had probably had about eighty people come roll through.
Did you have to cook for these people? Yeah? So I do.
Four. I get up at like five am, hungover as a beast,
cook four big old pork shoulders. We did mac and cheese, We did
beans, we did salad. Put it all out. I mean, good
looking spread, shape, picture right now, good looking spread, but the
drink. So I was up at five am. Only pulled his photo of
the spread here. See it's I had a little spread for me being an
amateur. Oh nice, nice. So we threw down on Friday versus is
Saturday. I'm up at five am, and I'm just I'm cooking. Also,
my buddy taps me on the shoulder and I'm like what. I look
at him and he's already drinking At five am. I'm like, oh,
boy, dude, I'm the throttle. By nine am, when everybody was
kind of getting up and getting rolling we started breakfast back or about eight,
he was already sauce. I mean he was drinking every beer he had.
He had a drink, had a glass of moonshine with as well. So
this dude proceeds to get just rottled up three o'clock, everybody shows up.
He makes it about four o'clock. In between the hours of three and four
o'clock, he f two bottles of fireball himself. That's yeah. Well,
let me tell you what. He proceeds to start getting sick. I'm sure
we have to put him like in his own little secondary in his trash can,
so we get his puke, his guts out, pass out. He
gets alcohol poison. He didn't like need to go to the hospital. He
probably should have, but that night we were counted up. That night we
went through over seven hundred beers. Seven hundred beers, Yes, hust Brewing
brought out a ton of them. We drank those. It was hust Brewing
Coors Lights. I mean we went through over seven hundred beers on Saturday night
alone. I mean you got to figure we had between seventy seventy eighty people.
Oh yeah, but race that wasn't start till two o'clock. You guys
go to the races. Oh yeah, of course, So then that's what
I added even more to it. So going to the race, actually my
buddy ended up winning, which was great to be there for that. It
was awesome. But Saturday with Sunday morning though, it was like the Walking
Dead, just zombies of people, just like shells of humans walking around.
I was like, oh, this is brutal. But now we had a
great time. It was awesome. It's always a good time. I didn't
think it was interesting though, it was interesting to see the amount of people
that have bought smokers. And we're not going to bash a brand. I'm
gonna leave that brand out. But if you can read between the lines here,
I hope you can't. Who in the previous years have bought a brand
that has sold at Costco, who now have went out and purchased other brands
because the brands that they purchased at costco the dang thing doesn't work anymore.
And people were like, why did mine break? I don't use it that
a few times and I'm like, well, there's a reason why. I
was like, it was just interesting. But then Jason Baker rolled through Saturday
night with Green Mountains. It was great to see him, and it was
also great to see people who had questions of why their smokers broke go to
him and Jason was like, let me tell you I have a new product
coming out. That was great. So it was great to see Jason get
to talk about his product out there some but it was awesome. Did you
have any of his gmgs out there? He he did, but I didn't.
He didn't. He didn't pull it out because when he got there was
a little bit later. He was just more or less just talking word of
mouth about it. But here was the coolest thing about all. They didn't
ask her this year. So there's like seven thousand campers, eight thousand campers
that they put out there. You figure you got four to six people,
We got fifty thousand people camping. They built a grocery store in the middle
of the campground. The built They built a Walmart inside the camp ground.
And this Walmart was legit. It wasn't big as a full size everything Walmart.
No Walmart prices. Wow, you could get a thirty rack for nineteen
bucks. You could go in there and be like, oh, you want
to get some vegetables. Yeah, we made pork fright, but it was
great. We made pork fried rice, so we always do on Saturday night.
And my buddy said that the frozen vegetables seemed like the frozen vegetables,
so he went and got some salary and some red peppers and cut them all
up and so that I was like, that's up there. I mean,
they had a meat section, they had everything, which is a smaller condensed
version. But dude, it was insane to see this, and I thought
to myself, I was like, there's a there's a there's a market for
that of doing a traveling grocery store something like that and going to American Royal
and setting that up and being like boom, we're here with this. You
know, we're going to big festivals, going to imagine one of those a
country thunder. You know, how many times, how many times like that,
but there's something very there's a market, but they're always they're always marked
up. This was a Walmart and do this Walmart because we weren't camp very
far from there all the time, they was semis backing and dropping stuff off.
And I was like, dude, they are selling so much or because
their price bag of ice seven pound bag ice was a dollar thirty nine waiting
gold out there, Dude, you're going through ice like I was going to
stop a thirty nine selling it. I was like they had everything that you
could want at Walmart prices, and I was like that is legit. Yeah,
I mean yeah, because I mean think about it, right, I
mean, I know Nascar is way bigger than like the Royal, but when
you're in those type of events, you locked in. You're locked in.
Yeah, you're coming locked in. You can't. Can we prepare and bring
out everything? But we still have things were I don't have the accessibility.
Oh you know, my biggest thing is food. Yes, someone a food
truck like a French fry yo food food. And how many how many times
bro we were at look, we were we were at the American Royal and
we were you know, delayed, right, butday on Sunday. But I
was trying to drop a pin for Domino's drop every and it was Sunday night
and everything. I could have probably sold pizza pods for like fifty dollars a
pop. That's kind of what this was. So for example, they had
a frozen food section that had frozen pizzas in it. Yeah, granted we
had so much stuff, but the amount of people you saw come walking out
with a couple of yours, I was like, again, I was like
they thought of stuff. You know, the one thing I thought that I
was great that they had. Again, they they you really used their brain.
You know, like when you park in RVY, you need those little
orange lego leveling blocks. Yes, they had they sold those. Wow.
See so you're like, crap, I need these. Walk in there boom.
They sold leveling blocks, they sold gas cans, they sold everything from
like you know, obviously camping stuff. But I mean you'd go down the
aisle and you're like, okay, uh I got upset stomach. You know,
they had pepto. They had all that stuff that you would need out
there. I literally I think myself, I was like, there is a
market for this if you although they again, they had pd like, they
had gator rades. They had all these different things that you're like they did.
I thought it. I was like, there is a market for this,
whether or I did'say a semi trailer that you pull that folds out into
like a store, or you build these things places like dude, this would
crush because the amount of stuff they sold was wild. And again, they
didn't gouge you, And that was what It's funny the not gouging words spread
so fast because when I saw it set up up there, I was like,
oh, god, right, whatever. My neighbor I don't really know
out there, comes by, comes walking by and he's got three thirty racks
and looks at me and goes, do they're nineteen bucks up there? And
I was like what he said, Yeah, they're not gouging you. I'm
like, no way, which caused me to walk in there and be like,
holy cow, they're not. And I was like they had a line
out the door every day. That's part. Also, they had it fast.
They took credit cards, they did it was just flawless. So that
was a cool thing. I was like, wow, this was great.
But I mean we served it up and we had a big old feast.
I'll yesterday was I was a zombie yesterday. I know I'm better to better
today. But I have the I have one of these chairs. I've had
it for like ten years. It's like a it's like a chair that you
sit in, but it folds all the way back. What are those called,
Yeah, the zero gravity chair. Gravity chair. I've had it for
like and he's zero gravity. I'm it's literally probably one it's probably it's probably
ten and eleven o'clock. Food's on, you know, everything's prepped. Now
I can get a couple hours of sleep before I have to get up,
wrap the food and everything. So I go to I'm going to bed,
laid down. I snapped the whole freaking chair, bro and like when you're
in a dead sleep, chair snaps My heads against the ground feeder in the
air, and I'm like, like you have to just sit there as my
feet are in the air, and I'm just like looking around like what just
happened? And I like roll out of my chair and I'm looking I'm sleeping
in the restaurant. I'm looking at the thing and it's all broke. I'm
like, screw it. So one am, I was up, wrapped the
meats, did my whole setup. Just chill bro, watch TV, relaxed
in my boxers. But uh yeah, dude, I was dead tired after
I got I can imagine slammed it, which is good. It's good that
it's good to see that people are excited for you guys to come. Yeah.
Yeah, that's awesome. And I mean because I'll give you example,
like it's it's glad to see there's a buzz about it because they're opening a
Rudy's barbecue by my house. Nobody really can nobody cares and something's Rudies.
Yeah, yeah, just like because they look at this plaza that it's in
and I'm like, okay, I'm sitting here looking at this Rudy's a crossway.
There's a Chick fil A yeah, and then there's a salad exout,
and then there's this, and there's this, there's this, and there's this
way, there's this. I'm like, there's ten things around it, and
I'm like, Rudy's is good. Again, nothing agains Rudies. I'm not
bagging Rudi's at all, but I'm like, there's just no buzz about this
because there's so many options. You you're the only dog in town. And
people out there love the sport, local, love a smart small business.
Yeah, you check all the boxes. So I think you may have lightning
in a bottle here. So for you, I want I want to I
want to drop a gem that Scott uh gave me in the beginning, Yeah,
that I didn't really pay too much attention to. I was kind of
going off of a different route, but off of his decision making. He
stands behind it. He told me, he's like, hey, you know,
find a spot, right, find a spot where the rent is less
expensive and you know, grow. And that's kind of like what he did
with the university spot and his first in the university. That's not a nice
neighborhood. Yeah, and not only that, he was the only It wasn't
like you could make up your mind like, oh, you know what,
the longest the lines along, I'm gonna go court' right. He wasn't.
He wasn't the nicest the neighborhoods. But there's a whole lot of steel yards
and trucking yards, exactly, certain airports, the warehouse stuff around there that
are employant people that are hungry. That okay, great, example, where
this radio station says, yeah, yeah, there's nothing, there's nothing around
here, but you know what we heard about that place coming. We were
one of his very first customers. They were because we just hopped him one
forties screen went down there because it was like, oh my gosh, there's
a great local news spot. That was I remember going to the first couple
of times. But if you don't have to wait. And then also the
word got out here was like the way but it was the excitement, right,
So it was the excitement of the new spot coming. Right. So
when I went downtown, I was like, Okay, well, at least
I know when I opened my doors, I'm going to have immediate customers because
I'm already in the spot that that was there. Then it grew up around
it, right, and then now you got choices, You got so many,
you know, different avenues. But it's funny, and I don't mean
it in a bad way, but it's funny that you know, he was
in project with where Honey Bears was on Central and he pulled out right because
when he talked about the loan costs and everything going up, and that was
the problem, part of the problem why I closed down because after my landlord
was hit me with property tax and this was going up and my cams were
going up, and I'm like, bro, I can't afford this, especially
with all of the different meat prices and the labor courts and all this stuff.
So you're in a great spot. You own. You're in a smaller
town to where people are gonna support you. The buzz is great. So
I mean you're following the blueprint. You have nothing but success until I buy
the building two doors. Now, I hope you do, Seck, but
no, I think he definitely got a good thing going, which is good
for you. All Right, So we're gonna wrap this up today. What
you guys got coming? I know you got World Foods this week? Your
World Foods. Come on, guys, you know, come yo. We'll
send me positive, send me positive. I got a question, bro,
what are you doing Sunday? You got you got positive? We'll have a
conversation. So check us out. There's a butcher shop in Phoenix. Yeah,
they won't carry They've been dodging me on carrying my rubs, right.
Yeah. So they're hosting a state contest. Not a not a, not
an s c A, nothing like that. Just a regular store. C
A. They're gonna provide everybody with tomahawks. Wow. And you gotta,
you know, make it look good, presented to judge. Just do a
little song and dance. It's the middle of the hood. Yeah, I'm
thinking about doing it. Bro Sunday. Yeah, it's on a Sunday.
Where's the cook of steak? It's like forty third in Indian school. Oh
okay, okay, bring a grill and bring a gun. You have,
Phil, Yeah, take your damn timeline. Yes, take it to your
Yes, I will, and come focused. Don't talk to your neighbors.
I don't care who your neighbors. Don't drink. No, I'm gonna be
chilling the drinks. I'm gonna be I'm gonna kitchen the but wise. Yeah,
if you had those barro that'll cheat the but wise and not the butt
light ones. But the butt wise those are pretty. I was, I
was, I was questioning it to I can have one. I was like,
Okay, have one of those relaxed crappy beer. Get one crappy beer
that happens at seven o'clock. Got you seven on your all right, let's
do it, all right, do it? Go do it? Phil Thank
you sir. Dates coming next week yo yo. Remember I got special guests
for both of y'all. Look forward to it. I'm not looking for that.