Welcome to Don't Drop the Tongs. April third. Yes, we generally put
our podcast out on Wednesday. It's late Wednesday nights. This will probably go
out. How many you are already in bed? So? Yes, but
it has been a week. I know that I'm busy. I know Kyle's
busy, and clearly Phil is busy, because yes, who's not here yet
or maybe not coming at all? Phil the grill? Because why because he's
filled the grill? Phil's doing Phil things. I guess, dude, that
is the truest statement that needs to be a T shirt. Phil doing Phil
things. That is a good T shirt. That should just be a I'd
rock that. I mean it kind of like remember back in the day that
baseball payer Manny or Mires, Yeah, and Jim Rome. Jim Rome goes
Manny being Manny and you're like Manny being Manny. That's Phil being Phil,
Bill being Phil, Phil doing Phil things. That's what I'm saying. If
you ever want Phil anywhere, like, if he has to be somewhere,
you always tell him an hour earlier. So if you got to be like,
yo, we were gonna do this here at seven, we were gonna
do this at seven and then I got tied up and I was like,
shoot, we'll push back to seven thirty. But I give you, guys,
like forty five minutes. Notice, I didn't want to keep people waiting.
You figure Phil would respond, no response. Yeah, all right,
so let's get into yeah right, let's get into this today. Yeah,
if you're if you could see this or if you do see the video of
this. Kyle is sitting in the dining room of his restaurant Birds and now
you are just over one month open as you open on March first. Yeah,
all right, one month in? Are things getting better? Are things
more chaotic? What's the story? One month in? Like I have to
cook more? Like? What do you mean more? Well, I mean
every every week, every week, we're cooking more as far as like a
case more, case here, case there, because you're selling more. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean we're running I'm you know, we're running into this
problem now that like we need frigerator space. You know what I'm saying,
What do you do? Well, I gotfrigerators. We're good, Like life's
good, but like any more you know, any more than this the than
like we're gonna have to figure something out. Hey, I mean maybe you
could reach out to some of those hospitals that during the COVID pandemic that hebre
getting those those more trailers. Yeah, I ran into it. Where we
can go maybe a hospital's got like a leftover one. Yeah, I ran.
I ran into a buddy at a restaurant depot and he was like,
yeah, dude, you need to just rent a You know, I really
wish we had a walk in. A walk in would be absolutely would solve
all my problems. Could you put a walk in in? No, no
space, there's zero space here, and you know that brings you know,
that's another good point. I got my first one star review. Oh no,
one star baby from a yelper. Yeah, so I'm reading this one
star and it's as when to visit the place. It was a two hour
wait to get in for the dining room. So I went to go and
try to get takeout and that was an hour wait. This place is too
small. This place needs to be bigger, They need to expand they need
to do this whatever. So I left. So they deserve a one star?
How and the hell is any of that my fault? I'm so sorry
my place ain't big enough. Well, you know, I'm sorry. There's
a two hour wait for people that want to dine in, and there's our
weight for takeout. Like, what do you want me to physically do about
that? We should get our boy, Aaron Franklin on the phone from Franklin's
Barbecue and Austin where they wrap around the building and the guys open a couple
of days a week and he's there until he's there until he's gone because guess
what, I gagine he's gone some one star reviews and he's laughed all the
way to the bank. Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean I don't know.
Yeah, talked about it. It fired me up, and it's like,
dude, if this dude would have just came and talked to me,
like, hey, what you know? Instead you got to write a review,
bro, a one star review. But here's somebody. You know why
he didn't come talk to you because he's a keyboard tough guy. Yeah yeah,
well he doesn't come to you exactly. There, So funny story about
the one star yell reviews and getting karma. So I have a buddy of
mine doing some restaurants in old town Scott Steele, And if you don't know,
we record this podcast in Arizona and Old Town Scott Stie, if you're
not familiar, is a very busy area of shops, restaurants, bars,
et cetera. Well, buddy of mine o's about three different bars down there,
and he got dreaded on this yell review. I mean, this girl
just lit him up. So he's reading the yell preview and he's like,
man, this doesn't make sense. And like this yell review is calling out
servers, it's calling out bartenders, it's calling out drinks. I mean it
is brutal. Yeah, so he's like all right, So he goes to
a staff. He's like, guys, WTF, like what happened here?
And the staff's like, oh, beep her. That woman is crazy.
She walked out on her tab, this whole craziness right, and they're like,
My buddy's like, okay, well hang on here, and they're like
no, no, pull the tape. She storms out on her tab all
this. Pull the tap. My buddy pulls the tape and he's like,
dude, this chick does walk out on her tab like he like knocks a
drink over on the way out, like she is straight diva. So my
buddy reaches out to her and says, hey, you know, i'm the
owner of this location. I'm really sorry about what you experienced. Please come
down to the restaurant. I'd like to talk with you about this. And
the woman agrees to come down. Wow. He comes down to the restaurant.
He sits down and my buddy's like, all right, you know,
reading the reviews, like I'm really sorry about this, and he goes,
hey, he goes, I want to show you something if you have a
second woman goes okay, and he pulls up his iPad and it fires the
security film of her walking out on her tab and he goes, is this
you because I think you just walk down on your bill And the one was
like and he goes, I can call the police right now for larceny because
you're here, or you can go ahead and take down your yell review.
Yeah, she took down her yell review. I was like, good for
you. And he's like, man, he goes, for all those people
that are warriors keyboard, he goes, I got one. He was so
proud, like he was calling and like telling people like keyboard. Tough guy.
He's like, I got one. I got one. Yeah, I'm
sure I'm gonna get that. Yeah. Other than that, like reviews,
everything's been positive, like not. And so you're cooking more What are you
cooking more of? We're cooking more brisket, more pork buts. I'm how
many briskets? How many is? What does the weekend look like? We're
at ten briskets right now and ten pork butts right now for every for a
Thursday, So ten pork butts, ten briskets a Thursday, ten briskets,
ten pork butts Friday ten and ten every day. So you're doing for the
course of the weekend Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you're doing it.
Yeah, forty pork butts, forty briskets minimum. Yeah, yeah,
Wow, that's what we're doing. And then we're we're probably I think we
just did account the other day. We're probably close to four thousand wings a
weekend. Wow, smoke, right, I mean, everybody come and you
know the ribs. I can't keep ribs in here to save my life.
And I've tried to double it, and you know, I just don't like.
I don't like keeping them in the hot boxes. We got hot boxes
here, and I don't like, you know, if I cook a hundred
racks. I don't want to store them all in the top. You know.
I got two hot boxes. Yeah, and they just get bad.
I just we don't. I won't serve that. So I'll do ated number
of ribs and I what I always help you. You know, people show
up here at like seven six thirty seven o'clock and expect to get you know,
ribs and all this other stuff. And so I brought like we sell
out by like two o'clock. Are they camping out? Are they camping out
front before? Now? I know they did for the grand opening. Yeah,
there's a there's about a crowd of three or four people a day that
are waiting out the time. Dude, that has to be feeling so damn
good for you. Yeah, but it yeah, it does, it does.
But I don't really sit down and like take it all in, like
I am a fricking mad man. Like everybody that's came and like visited me,
they're like, how are you still alive? Like one minute we're talking
and I take a drink. Now you're behind the bar. Now you're over
here, you're whipping up meals. Now you're doing that. You're all over
the place and I haven't really sat down to soak it all in because it
has just been a mad house here. Sounds like it in a good way,
but I mean it is, you know, constantly putting out fires com
you know, and then cooks don't. If a cook don't show up,
well now I'm you know, I'm the hefe now. But I got you
know, two three solid cooks that are like that pretty much I can trust
to run the kitchen. But it's just like they there's a chef name for
him. I don't know what the hell they're called, but so they call
it a soux chef, the soux chef guys or just the knobber that walks
around and you know, fills everything, makes this and I preach pretty plates,
and it's kind of an open kitchen, so there's no like hidden area
where like I can't talk as loud as I talk. But everybody, you
know, the other day, a lot of people, a lot of customers
are making fun of me because I was telling everybody it was like pretty plates
gets you a date. So that's our thing in the kitchen. They send
me a plate. I touch every plate that goes out, and if it
looks like crap, I send the crap, I send it back. I'm
like, bro, I'm not serving that next. You know, he's got
it. They got to make me another one. So I'm always telling him
pretty plates. It gets you a date, man, Pretty plates gets you
a date because I want, you know, people eat, so when the
plate gets to their table, I want to wow people. So it's going
good. It's going good. We're getting stuff. We got the liquor licenselling
some beers. I saw you were serving beers. Yeah. I got moonshine
here. Now we got box wine for pops, but we sell box box
wine. Yeah, dude, it's it's it's it's just I don't know.
And this is supposed to be a big weekend. It's called Road to Country
Thunder. So this is like the pre party before Country Thunder. Yeah,
and then you got Country Thunder next weekend. If you don't know, Country
Thunder is a gigantic four day country music festival that takes place in the town
where Kyle's restaurant is. And if you're again you're not familiar with Florence,
Arizona, is I want you to think that town twenty years ago that had
one stop light and the only other thing in that town was a prison and
a gigantic country music festival. That's the only thing people know Florence for is
that it's a tiny ass town with a prison and a big old country music
festival. Well, now the city is growing, but Country Thunder is massive.
I mean, we're talking thirty forty thousand people that are that are me.
I just don't know. I don't know how much people you're going to
get at the restaurant. Because you and I have been for multiple years,
almost fifteen years in a row. For me, you never you never go
to Longtown. You would never leave. That's the thing I shouldn't say that
we went into town. We went into town one time because legitimately I had
gotten out there on Tuesday to help set up and do stuff, and you
know, and I was like it got like Friday, and I was like
I need to get out of here or I'm going to lose my damn mind.
And we went into town and I don't know where we even went.
We went somewhere and just ate something. Hell, we couldn't even at your
old restaurant. For all of them. It was like we ate there and
was like, okay, now we can go back into the mad house.
See, yeah, I know. And that's the thing. Everybody's like,
you know, the people that are telling me like, oh man, you're
gonna be so busy and this and that. Those people, obviously, I
don't think have been to Country Thunder because now, because Country Thunder is a
camping festival, you're you go there, you're in. You drink too much
to get behind the wheel of a car because props to the Sheriff's Department,
they are they're popping to you as if you're dumb enough to get behind the
wheel, they're gonna light you up rightfully, so as they should. So
there's not that that much and there is not that much commuter. I mean,
there is commuter trafficking in and out, but they're not coming to you.
Where I see you getting an influx off a Country Thunder is the people
that are working Country Thunder. The everything from your parking attendance to law enforcement.
My gosh, they bring out. There's cops for days out there.
So I can see you getting an influx of sheriffs, law enforcement, EMTs,
firefighters. Wherever they get off a shift, they're like, wait,
there's somebody that has hot food or around here. Damn, I'm gonna go
there and get that, because that is one thing as a person who has
worked out there. Yeah, it sucks nothing more than when you finish working,
you want to get out, you want to go get something to eat
and get out, and you're like, there's nothing for like thirty miles.
So then you end up saying, all right, screw it, I'll stay
here. Then you start drinking shitty beer and you start eating a hot dog
that's disgusting in between some bun that's got dust on it. That was the
younger US bro. That was the younger US. Because you know what,
I'm out of the fifty I think I'm on. It's like seventeen years that
I've gone every year, but I've missed the past three. I've only left
my campground to go into town once. Yeah, and that is because I
got straight hammered at like nine am, straight ham like straight. We do
this thing. It's called Philly igloo. Basically think of jungle juice. So
everybody in the campsite brings bottles and I fill up this big, massive igloo
and nobody can leave the camp until it's gone. Well, we decided to
play this at nine am bro By one or two o'clock, you could just
sit back and people are falling down. I went to bed. I woke
up at like nine, and they're like, oh, let's go to the
concert. I'm like, no, get me out of here. So I
jumped in my truck and we went down to some pizza place out here and
we sat in eight pizza bro. That was the only time I ever left.
So I mean, think about how many years you and I were both
there and never crossed paths because neither one of us left our camps. Yeah,
exactly. I'd be like, be like, go walk around and be
like why I was? They could come to me. I'm like, they'll
come to me. Yeah, I'm like And also, that's one place where
I'm kind of redneck Jesus, and I'm like, I don't really want to
deal with people right now. I just want to recognized. I just want
to sit in my motor home and drink my beer and close the door and
pretend I'm not here. I mean, I was the king of that.
People be like Barrel's gone, and be like, no, Barrel's here.
He just got his motor home with all the blinds closed and the door closed.
And I was like, if you don't text me and know that I'm
in here, I'm not letting you in. I mean, I was notorious
for that. But yeah, and see what I'm hoping for too. There's
a Mexican food spot out here. I'm friends with the owner, and he
says a lot of the country acts go into his Mexican food restaurant during the
day and then sometimes at night because they want to get away same thing they
want to You know, I can definitely see you very well, could get
something where they're like, dude, I just because and again I can't guarantee
what you're gonna get. I don't think you're gonna get some of the big
headliners because a lot of those headliners are just coming in and going out.
They got the private jets out. Yeah, they're they're pj and in and
they're doing their thing. They're escorting and they're leaving. But I will tell
you, I could definitely see you, and I hope you get I hope
you get Eric Church to walk in there. I will I will bone my
my life is over. If Eric Church walks in here, it's game open.
Or I hope you get Jelly like with Lady Wilson, who walking in
there? That would be a melro you, Lady Wilson. So I've been
tagging them in every damn post that I do, and tagging Country Thunder and
all why not on Instagram. I've been going to day it's smart marketing.
You should be now. I will say this now, whether or not you
get one of them in there, that would be amazing for you. I
would love that for you. But I don't. I don't see it that
I could see you getting members of the crew whatever else. Because I have
a lot of friends of mine that are on these bands, these tours,
and you talk to these guys, and you know, everybody thinks it's this
glamorous life. Dude, it is a life of just rough. They ride
in a bus, they sleep in a bus, they get to a city,
they leave one city, they wake up in another city. Yeah,
especially when they're doing these festivals or wherever else. They're excited. If they
can go get not showering a trailer or not shower like somewhere, they're like,
they don't care. And if it's warm, good food, they're like,
I don't care. I just want I want something different than backstage catering
people like, oh, backstage catering is awesome. No, backstage catering is
rubbery, gross, Yeah, chicken that you hope you don't get food poisoning
off of in powdered freaking eggs and just where you're like, ugh, this
sucks and oh yeah, by the way, you've been doing it for twenty
five years of your life. Yeah, And I tell you so, you
very well could get crew people. And if you do, I would just
say this that anybody who you think is with the tours, the bands,
whatever, treat them like gold, because what you want to have them do
is say is to go back to the bus and be like, dude,
I had some freaking banging ass barbecue. Yeah, and the people like really
where? And that will spread like wildfire once you get one or two and
then go back and say it, it'll spread like wildfire. And then you
will get a headliner that's like, yeah, oh, well, let's go.
I want real ast food, let's go. I mean yeah, because
he the owner of the Mexican food place, was showing me that. I
think it was Luke Bryan here last year anyways, Luke Brian was eating lunch
at his at his and it very well could be a situation where Luke Brian
came in early and he's on his bus and he's like, I just want
to go. Let's go get some Mexican fool I got. I gotta get
out of here. I want to get out of here, and I want
to have a conversation with random like I want to talk to random people.
I'm talking to my randoms, not only randoms, but in some situations it's
hey, I got to call my wife and kids. And I'm not saying
Luke Brian's kids, but they gotta call my wife and the kids. My
kids being a shithead, and I need to lay the law into my kid
for being a punk. And I can't do that backstage because, by the
way, when I'm backstage, a lot of times I have to be on.
I have to be seen. Yeah, I need I need somebody to
go drive me out of here so I can FaceTime my kid and tell my
kid he's being a shithead. Yeah that I mean. They're real people,
And that's what I don't think people understand. So often they think like,
oh, they're glamorous, somebody else raises their kids. No, country artists
are real ass people. Who got real things they're dealing with, So you
very well could get a headliner walk in. But that's why what if every
single person treat them like gold, because you need that word to get back
to camp or back camp, to backstage. When people were like, dude,
there's this banging barbecue place right over there. I'm all over it.
And then that's what you get, because I will tell you I went I
went on. I've been on a few different tours, but I remember being
with El Dean in Chicago and there's this thing called bus food. When the
buses all get ready to leave at the end of the night, somebody there's
usually a local restaurant that brings food for the buses, so it's whatever.
And I remember this local pizza place in Chicago. It was the best Chicago
pizza I've ever had. And I was like, how did you find this?
And they're like, oh, you know, so and so knows about
it, and they every time we come to Chicago, this is what we
get for bus food, and I'm like, damn, this is amazing.
But again, it wasn't like a big chain. It wasn't a loo miildoddies,
it wasn't It was some of the local shop that somebody had had an
experience it was close to the venue, reaches out to and says, hey,
can you make sixteen pizzas and twenty orders of wings? And I was
like, yeah, sure, boom and now they're there, go to And
that's what I hope happens for you. And I'm gonna be pushing, especially
during country I'm gonna be pushing, like, come pick up ten racks of
ribs, cort of this court of that, blah blah blah, you know
whatever for even if you know, if it's a random country thunder people that
it's like, yo, we can go get a rack. You know,
we get ten racks of ribs and we can pick it up, bring it
out here and call it a day. Because I was gonna do delivery out
there, but I'm you can't sign. That's a need on a haystack of
insanity and hundred percent not ready for that. Yeah, that's just that's just
a that's just insanity. And and that line to even get Yeah, the
traffic's chaos, it's everything. Now the one thing that again, you can
do whatever you want with it. But I would, I would I would
try to feed also feed those cops working traffic and hundred because the one working
traffic out on the street, out on the road, they can make it.
Yeah to say, well, I'm bust. You know, any cop
that walks in here, I'm cool with anyways, Like I sit them down,
like here, let me get your drink. I'm cool with all you
know, law enforcement, first responders, all the other stuff. Well it's
funny. As in Detroit where I grew up, everybody always used to say,
you want to know where the best restaurants are, look for the cop
cars. They're like, they're like, they ain't eating it. They they're
eating out every single night. They're not eating a garbage Oh you know what
I mean. They're they're going where it's good. They're going where it's safe.
They're going often where it's family yelped. Yeah, yeah, soully on
board of that. So that's awesome for you. So all right, you're
a month into the restaurant. What has been the part that you underestimated the
most and what was the part that you were worried more about that does or
has not come to play or hasn't come to I would say underestimated. I
would say, uh, what did I underestimate, well, you know,
staffing, and I underestimated that I could literally sit here twenty four hours a
day and just cook, cook, cook, cook. Well, I mean
it's I'm still doing it, but it's I'm underestimating that the how much I
can really do. And I'm very hard headed on letting other people do things,
yeah, because it's like, you know, I like touching everything.
I like cutting the potatoes, I like making the beans, I like doing
you know, all this stuff. And you know, it's it's still taking
me a while that like, hey, like let them do it. And
I have a head cook here. She's she runs the entire show. She's
I put her in charge. She's the head. You know, she trains
everybody. Now, she's the head HAFE. But she like literally has to
look at me, and you know it's I don't know, it's funny different.
I don't know how to say this, but like how you talk to
women and compared to how you talk to a dude. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying, it's different. So I'm like real nice around her,
and like she'll just look at me and say, Kyle, shut the f
up, let's get this done. Let him do that. You do you're
doing this or you need to go talk to customers. I got this,
this is my job, you know, it's just this whole thing off.
I'm very happy that you have that, I know, and I'm so thankful
that she like and she was the number one girl that was constantly blowing me
up. When do you open it? When do you open it? I
would like to apply, I would like to apply, and you know so
yes, so me trying to try to get hands off is very hard for
me. But she is on me pretty tough about doing this, doing it,
and she wants to learn. She wants because I haven't taught anybody my
wing sauces yet, Like she's like, I'm I want to know how to
do that. I also got another guy that she brought in that is uh,
he's another killer. He wants to learn the smoker. He wants to
be here at three am when I'm pulling meat wrapping me. He wants to
put ribs on at four am. He wants, you know, he wants
to learn all that. And I've taught him the wings and it's just difficult
for me, Like because I don't see a day I know it's I know
it'll happen. But I just personally don't see a time where I'm gonna be
like, like, I don't have to get up at three am to go
wrap. You know, it's not ultimately the goal. That is the goal.
Yes it is the goal, but damn, I'm hard headed and I
can't let anybody. I'm just hard headed, man, And it's I just
I don't under I know, I know I gotta do it. My dad's
on me about it, Koffini's on me about it, but it's I just
gotta you know, it's gonna be. I gotta live and learn. Bro,
I'm down like fifty pounds. Bro, I don't eat. I don't
eat, you know, cook it all day and I must get funed.
I mess get thirty forty fifty thousand steps in a day, bro in and
out, just do with things. But I gotta stop, like I gotta.
I don't know, I don't know it. You gotta find your chipsy
what's your name? Is that? Her name for the total laity in sexis
or she's a legend. I know she's like ninety eighty seven whatever she is,
and she's just swinging man. She but you know, this girl's a
rockstar Bro. She wants to do everything and she's and I get it,
and she's putting people in charge, like, hey, you're making the ranch
today, You're doing this, you're doing that, you're cutting the onions,
you're deap but you know, and which is good. I love it and
it kind of you know, because I've been slacking on my social media game,
like I haven't done no videos, I haven't done anything. But I
mean, I guess the cool part here is now that you know, I
get to make a video when I can, and then I get to sell
it. And then if people are like, you know, oh man,
that looks so good or that you know blah blah blah, you can come
down to birds and Bones and come eat it. You can come get it.
So I'm coming up with crazy wing sauces all the time, you know,
just different special and j wings. Bro. They are life. They
are so damn good. I got a Florence Blue It's like a blue cheese
buffalo sauce. If you're a blue cheese fan. I have yet to give
anybody that. Well, one person has the recipe. He listens to this
podcast. He knows it. But that's a kill bro, Like and I
cannot wait for like a wing contest that I can sneak to and like either
pull like a PB and J wing or pull my Florence blue out or but
that, you know, Other than that, that that's that's the cool part.
Like I get to experiment now and like do cool things and listen to
the customers, like, hey, like I post a YouTube video and they're
like, oh, it's just going to be available at the restaurant. I'm
like, well, it's going to be a special because you know, everyone's
on me about hallapenio poppers, so this week we're going to be doing brisket
stuff jalapenio poppers. Oh, and you know, it's the way I do
it. It's an absolute pain. It it's the longest, it takes forever,
and you know, when it's out, it's out. But yeah,
that's that's the cool part. I get to do cool things like that,
come up with crazy sauces and uh, you know, stuff like that.
But you know, barbecue, it's still the same. The ribs are you
know, ribs are ribs or ribs, porks, pork, briskets, brisket.
But these wings though, are just they're just fine. And then I
got this burger, Bro, this burger. If you ever come visit the
damn restaurant, you, I'm going to make sure you get a burger.
You know what ribs taste like. You know what pork tastes like. You
know what risk it tastes like. Screw all that, you're coming to get
burgered and you're getting some wings. All right, Okay, I will make
it down there. I will make it down there. That's my goal.
Just let me know, though, Like, give me a heads up.
So I got over the table and put you at the bar or wherever I
will, I will. All right, So what's something that you were worried
about that you were like, dude, I did not need to worry about
that. Oh I constantly worry. I mean one thing, I would say,
looking at it from the from the chelly, say the aerial view.
You were worried people weren't gonna show up. Well, I get like that.
Yes, one hundred percent, you are one hundred percent correct. You
got people camping outside your restaurant. I know, I know, I know.
I was really worried about it because you know, you're in a new
town. Bro, nobody knows who you are. No, you know regardless.
I mean that was just like coming out with the green Chili bacon rob
But I'm like, who the hell is gonna buy this? Nobody, Nobody's
gonna buy you know. It's the same kind of philosophy I had. But
yeah, bro, it's been you know, and it was it's been crazy.
And I know a lot of people showed up for the first day,
and but you know, people got to realize that was my first day and
things have gotten better, things are getting good. But yes, I'm pumped.
I mean shit, I had a two hour wait to get in on
Saturday, and Fridays are killing us. Saturdays slammed here. Sundays is like,
you know, it's slow in the beginning, but as soon as church
lets out, we got a massive, you know, massive crowds of like
people, a party of ten, party of twelve, party of seven,
you know, stuff like that. But yeah, no, I'm pumped.
A lot of people show up here, A lot of people support us,
as town supports us. Everybody, you know, I got. I got
a couple of customers that just wait for my wing sauce to come out when
I drop it and then they say, okay, pick the day and they
come in every weekend. I mean I've had people here every weekend just to
try the wing sauce. Yeah, it's just whatever, crazy, you know.
And that's why I got to keep pushing these crazy specials. And I
got some crazy ones this weekend. But I keep pushing that, and that
drives people to keep going. I gotta have that. I gotta try that
drives people to come in. Have you had any have you had any technical
mechanical smoker go down? Internet go down? Like oh shit, where this
was not good moment? Umm? No, no, knock on wood,
nothing like that. We have a toast. We use Toast as our POS
system. Yeah, that is like a total different dimension for me to even
comprehend on how you're not a very tech savvy person at all. So Koffeini
handles all that. So we're constantly calling each other like, hey did you
put this on the menu? Did you do this? And then the girls,
the servers, they come and ask me and I look at them.
I'm like, I don't know what you want me to do, you know,
And then they're screaming at me, Hey, we need this, order
this, this, this, and I'm like, look, so we gotta
sign we got some head quote unquote head waitresses here that they're very savvy with
toast, they know how to use it, blah blah blah. So I
kind of send the newer training slash younger to them to let them handle it.
And if they can't handle it, then they come see me or we
get you know, Coffeini involved to put all the you know, to figure
out the toast system. But other than that, no, nothing, knock
on wood. Has nothing gone out good? Thank god. I mean,
we got an ice machine. Ice machines have been given us problems. That
thing can't keep up, but it hasn't gotten down. But I think that's
kind of an m in Arizona. Ice machines never can keep up. Yeah,
I know, I know this. We're all right. So it's a
four thousand pounds, you know, it's it's supposed to put out four thousand
pounds of ice. Well, I'll run through that and you know, half
a day maybe more, and then the damn thing can't keep up, the
damn and so then now I gotta go buy bag's ice. And that's the
only other that's that's the only thing. Other than that. Now, life's
been good, all right. So you're month in, what is your goal
for six months? What is your goal for a year? Goal is to
have a pitmaster, have somebody that I can trust, which we're getting there
that I can trust. That's like, Okay, you're gonna be here at
three am, You're gonna round so you won't have to sleep in the restaurant.
Then yeah, yeah, you'll be able to be a human correct And
literally I have Mondays Mondays, I come in, I got two people that
come in with me. We clean the smoker, We do a big deep
clean in the restaurant, and then I'm out of here by noon and I
finally get to go to Waddell, do some laundry, clean all the rags
and all the other bs that I got to take from the restaurant. Then
I'm back. You know, sometimes I'll hit restaurant deepot that I'm back out
here on Tuesdays and I'm here till till Monday. Sleeping at the restaurant.
Got me a nice little cot. But yeah, it's driving me crazy.
But we're we're getting there with the pitmaster. What are the goals we got,
uh pitmaster? And I got to learn to just let people do their
thing. But I'm very like, I just touching plates like that's big to
me. Like I like touching the plates. I like looking at them,
making sure life's good it. You know, the pretty plates gets you a
date. I wanted to make you look pretty, the toppings, you know,
stuff like that. I enjoy, you know, going out talking to
the customers, making sure everybody's happy, everybody life's good, blah blah blah.
And you know everybody wants to talk. Where'd you get this trophy?
How how did this turn out? Why? Florence? You know, stuff
like that. So okay, I don't know. Yeah, and now the
five year question, do you see yourself ever opening another one? Uh?
Hold, somebody's at the door, so can we talk? This is kind
of awkward. We're gonna do this. So somebody is at the door right
now. I'm gonna describe this. Somebody's at the door or Coyle's Restaurants,
Real Quick's the dining room. Somebody's knocking on his door. It is eight
o'clock on a Tuesday or on a Wednesday. Excuse me, he's unlocking the
door down to tell somebody, Like literally, Kyle's downplaying how popular his restaurant
is. It's eight o'clock. He's clearly not open. He barely has a
light on inside this place, and people are banging on the windows and doors
to try to get this barbecue. I mean, Kyle's very very humble,
he's very very proud of this stuff, but he's not showing off with success
like the dude legitimately is standing there right. No, he just came to
the door and now he has pizza in wings. So now it looks like
people may be trying to bribe him to open up. Brouh, did somebody
just bribe you to open up? Yeah? They brought me a pizza.
What is this for? So they sent me a free pizza? Who did
the pizza owners here? I guess stage He was like, yeah, we
see you driving. We drive by here every day. We see in here
working at all hours. My husband works somewhere, I don't know, somewhere
at three a m. Somebody just brought you pizza. Just brought me a
pizza because they saw me sitting here and said, you look like you need
to eat, dude. Perfect, Perfect, that's all I need to look
like a bum because I'm always at this damn place. Perfect. I just
I just got pizza. Free pizza, baby, I'll take it. That
is awesome. I was describing, Hey, whatever, I'll take it's free
freeze free, free is free, my brother. Hell yeah, anyways,
where were we? You got free pizza? Bro? So I got this
massive window here and I have this big blackboard kind of covering the window so
I can kind of hide, and I push it towards where I sleep,
so nobody knows I sleep here. But you know, I leave the lights
and not leave the lights on, but I got you know, the lights
are off. But I'm up, you know, constantly making sauce or whatever
the hell I'm doing. But hey, let's go free pizza baby, free
pizza. Gotta love that now. Would you ever open another way? Yeah?
Yeah I would, but you know, five ten years down the road,
yeah, one d percent you know, because I got there. Yeah
I would. I would, but you know, I think things would be
I don't know. We have to see if I gotta get through one year,
but yeah, yeah I would do it. I love doing this.
This is fun. This is fun to me. Like I don't have a
boss, I don't have I do what I want to do. You know
what I'm saying, Like I'll hate coffeini up, and I'm like, Yo,
Brody, this week I want to do bacon wrap ribs or this week
I want to do hall opinion. Body, you know, nobody cares do
what you want. It's that's awesome, no boss, all right. So
the next question that I I wish Phil was here. By the way,
if you're wondering where Phil is, so are we no text back? So
no text back, no callback. He's supposed to be going to a contest
or something this weekend and he's in Connecticut some ribs. Yeah, I don't
know Connecticut. I don't know if it's an sea or if it's a casebs.
It's eight o'clock on a Wednesday and he's looking for ribs and that's eleven
o'clock Connecticut. By the way, that's really good. Yeah, and I
actually want to talk to Phil. Phil made my Detroit style pizza, used
my dough recipe. I saw that, so it must be an sea if
he's playing, if he's practicing that. It looked good. It looked good,
the doe look good, the crust look good. Phil and I were
talking about that. But I love to talk about the podcast with all of
you. But Phil's not here. But so we're good, he's gonna listen
to this. Well, he doesn't do anything. Where I was going with
this is so you know, he said, you want to open another one?
But I have to ask this I would? I said, I don't
know about if I wanna, you would. So we're gonna set the We're
gonna set the table. Here. Kyle is in a old building. One
was building built early nineteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds.
He's put a lot of time, he's upgraded it, He's done a lot
of stuff to it. The building does have a downstairs basement in it.
It's for Kyle's sleeves because the guy is working. Not anymore. But yes,
okay, well you have slept there. Yeah, but here's what is
interesting. The place has a ghost. Yeah yeah, I haven't seen some
sort of some sort of outside little spirit. Some weird stuff has happened.
Things have turned on randomly, Toilets have flushed randomly. Let's see. I
can kind of explain the toilets flush because it's like it's an old building,
like whatever. But this is like one of those super flushers, Like when
you flush a toilet, it's like Yeah, it's like like it could like
take a watermelon down. Yeah, it's not like a home like a home.
Yeah you know, okay anyways, but yes, so it flushed.
Yeah, you've had other stuff happen. Has there been any recent updates with
No? No, there hasn't been anything. I mean, like, I
mean, who know nothing. Do you think the ghost is retired? You
think the ghost is cool with you now? No? I think we're on
the same page. Yeah, like I don't mess with him her and he
don't hear she don't mess with me. So wh Yeah, so you guys
are good. You think you've made the ghost I hope. So he's probably
pissed he didn't get fretey pizza, but whatever, ill maybe he maybe he
did, dude, if you maybe that wasn't I. Oh, I will
if you leave a piece out and there's a bite out of it, I've
never come into your place. Oh, I will lose my shi. No,
I would run, I would lose away. I would. I think
I'm out because how would to explained that? Oh? Did I Maybe I
sleepwalking? Maybe I sleepwalk? I don't know. I couldn't explain that.
All right, Well, since Phil isn't here, we've kind of grilled you
up on your restaurant. We'll let you get back to eating your pizza.
How was your well, hold on, how was your easter? My easter,
dude, my easter? Oh thank you for that. So so guy
on my show. I had this bright idea that he was going to order
a honeybake ham twenty four hours before. Guess what. That didn't happen.
Yeah, So he came to me and was like, hey, can you
make two hams for me? Smoke two hams? So I got the spiral
cut ham. I reached out to you, Kyle, I took You're fine.
I took a spiral cut ham, slapped it up a little bit of
mustard to get a binder on there, and I seasoned it up with that
apple pie seasoning. Yeah. Oh, put that all over the bat on
that thing. Rolled, smoke on it for about three and a half hours.
Did some Cosmos maple bourbon glaze, put it all over that rolled it
for another fifteen minutes. And he thought I was a culinary expert. I'm
like, bro, that is the easiest cook of all time. But he
curveballed me because he was supposed to come get it that night. He's like,
I want to come get in the morning, and I'm like, oh
shit out, this is gonna be good. He said it was good.
People loved it. It was great. Good. My Easter, though,
dude was super mellow. I didn't have to work, but I had to
work the days leading up to it. Yeah. So I got to Easter
Sunday and I was like, I am done. Yeah, sit on the
couch and do nothing. They talk about people, you know, Jesus rising.
I was lucky. I rose out of bed that day. I was
like, I am judge. So we did it. We did pre ordered,
were order. Yeah. I saw your instagram, dude, you were
slinging bro twenty four hams, six briskets, eighteen racks of ribs, and
a crap load of sides. And un lesson learned that. You know.
I of course, I think everybody's a nice person. And I'm like,
yeah, cool, I got you down. Blah blah blah, cook for
it, you know, blah blah blah. People didn't show. One person
didn't show, and I waited till like twelve thirty one o'clock. I'm like,
all right, nope, So I got an extra ham that I cut
up. I had my own little Easter festival right here on this bar,
watching TV and uh did my thing in the rain. It was good,
it was good, but I had the one person that show up. Would
you next year take a credit card to hold it? I'm gonna have to.
I'm gonna have because I want to do big, you know, a
big Thanksgiving thing. Yeah. I want to do smoke fried turkeys, heck
yeah. And then I want to do you know, prime ribs for Christmas.
So I want to do all that because you know, I think because
people out here in this town no offense anybody, but there's nothing like that
at all now, even to like some people do Tomali's. But I'm gonna
blow the Tamali game up when it's Tamali time out here. My employees are
gonna hate me. When it's like, oh, they're gonna come in to
make Timully's, I'm like, ha ha, come on in. So yeah,
but people don't do that, they don't do that out here. So
and people were jacked up, like wow, I've never had like a ham
that I could just order because you know, there's no honey baked ham or
like, no, there is. I don't know any other places that you
can like go and order a ham like you do in like a like a
metropolitan area. This place, you know, there's nothing like that out here,
so I'm gonna take advantage of that as long as I can. But
yeah, no, it was killer, It was good. It was good,
well good. I'm glad to hear that. All right, So we're
gonna wrap it up. Good luck to you, keep slaying, keep thank
me. I'll be out soon to try the burger. Just let me know,
give me a heads up. You know, I might just come and
have a two hour away and then why I'm in line, just start blasting
you and this guy's an ass by streaming. It's chaos. What bro?
How are you going to write a one star review because you the place is
too small, because we couldn't sit you, because you're a keyboard tough guy.
You're a keyboard tough guy who lives in your mom's basement and you've got
cowous poems. Okay, just that, just it gets me fired up.
Bro, Andrew, I'm so nice. I don't fire off on I don't.
I will tell you. I will tell you that is one thing that
I have struggled very hard with my job is Unfortunately, in my job in
the radio industry, there are changes, changes happen, and people take to
social media after a change happens, and they love to just let it be
known and just say the worst things they can about you and just cut you
down. And you're like, why are you so angry? Like why So
I had a situation there was when we made a change about eight years ago,
go to our from our old morning show to a new morning show where
I had a bigger role on it. It was tough, man, I
mean it was change is never easy. That was a huge I mean that
was a huge morning show too. Yeah. Yeah, good people change,
It's shit happens and it sucks. I hate it. Yeah. Anyways,
dude, people there were some people that were upsets, people were happy.
It was it was just a mess. Well, there was one person that
was extremely mean. I mean every single day for like weeks straight, like
we could post, oh my gosh, look at the beautiful sunset, and
it was you suck, I'll never listen again. I'm like, it's a
sunset, Like it was just even you could not win. Right. So
fast forward about I don't know three four months in I run across. I'm
a I'm at a ticket stop giving away tickets for one of our concerts,
and up walks this person and I'm eyeball eyeball of them because I saw their
social media photo every single day with a notification and so says, you suck,
and I'm like, okay, So I see this person walk up to
me. In my head, I'm like, I want to just I want
to. I walk up to the table and they enter and I looked right
at him and I go, thank you so much for still listening. I
know that you said you wouldn't, but it's clear you still do and I
appreciate it, and I welcome you to the family. Thank you. And
they were like like did not know what to do, like they were on
their heels. And I was like, I go, we're all human,
and I said, we all have feelings, we all have emotions, and
I for true and I would choose to just be kind. I can't and
they but dude, being so kind. I'll be honest. I was almost
patronizingly kind. Guess what it did. It completely put them on their heels
and it completely made them be like, Okay, he knows who I am,
and he should be an asshole to me, but instead he's being so
nice to me that almost he's being a bigger jerk because he's nice. But
I can't. That person couldn't react because I'm so nice to him, completely
put him on their heels. And I was like, I could do it
good for you, but I would I can't, dude. That's why I
like these one star reviews. Bro, there's no profile picture. Of course,
there's no profile picture. And don't be surprised, Kyle. And this
is crazy to say this. When you start getting popular and you start rolling
and you start getting random negative reviews that don't make sense, believe it or
not, there are bots out there that you can pay. You can sign
up and pay a fee for that will write negative reviews about something in order
to try to drive down your star review your competition. We'll do that.
Oh I'm sure, I'm I'm I'm sure that's coming. And people are like,
that doesn't exist. I'm like, no, it does. When you
click on the profile and the person doesn't exist, the photos are stage,
they're random whatever. I'm like, that's a bot. That is a computer
generated AI bot that whole job was to just bash you because that's what the
service does. It creates us to drive down, to create negativity, to
try to make a negative thing pop up in the algorithm, to try to
do these things. And people are like, are you serious. I'm like,
yes, the world is sick that we love and think that we got
to bring people down, but we don't have the guts to even try to
do it ourselves. To fight it. We have an ai bot bash.
It's like, come on, yeah, no way, yeah, yeah,
I know. So if you get a random one star from somebody and you
look at it and you're like, they have no photos, they have no
other views of restaurants, they just exactly no other, exactly other. It
just smoke me on a Tuesday. They just decided to there's violence on a
Tuesday. You're like, exactly cool. I just hope, I just hope.
I'm not having a bad day when I read them. I just because
you get you get emails, you get notification, hey, blah blah blah,
you gotta you know, and my you know, during service, my
phone's down and I'm all over the place. So after everybody's gone, I
put the meat on meets ready to roll. Now I'm relaxed, I'm calm,
then I pull up the Then I pull up the email. Yeah,
the emails or the you know, the whatever. I answer people back the
whole thing, So then I'm more calm. But if I'm like in the
middle of it and I get this thing I don't know, that might get
a little rough. Don't don't, don't no to react because that's what that
negative reaction will go much more viral because it's they always say, it's it's
an old saying. You could meet a hundred people and be the nicest can
be that hundred people, maybe ten them talk about how nice you are.
Ye, if you meet one hundred people in your mean to ten of them,
a thousand people will know how mean you were. Yeah. People love
to talk smack. They love to say how much they sucked. You hate,
Oh I got the owner pissed off and he's a psycho. Man.
They're not gonna talk about how the owner came out and talk to him and
was super cool and super nice and sat down. Now they don't care about
that. They want to hate. We live in people just want to talk
smack. No. I mean, let's be real though. Look at sites
like TMZ, what is their job they're billion dollar companies whose only job is
to expose people's skirts, drama, dirt, whatever. Exactly how often is
teams are in a story like, oh my gosh, Mel Gibson walk the
puppy across the street. No, no, they want to run the story
Mel Gibson trips over dog in Hollywood Street. You're like, oh gosh,
you know what. I gotta be honest. I'll read the story. Yeah,
I know, right, I know, I know because they got some
good headlines. All right, all right, brother, will be good.
Good luck. So if you hear this on your flight to Connecticut, good
luck doing whatever you're doing. It was nice talking with you, Phil.
Thanks thanks for showing up, Phil. Thanks, Phil, appreciate it.
Thank you. All right, all right, peace