Speaker 1: We also have to fear not getting delicious local barbecue.
Speaker 1: And we have an awesome, awesome barbecue joint that sponsors
Speaker 1: this segment. It's called her Tito Barbecue. Locations in Hurst, Mansfield,
Speaker 1: Fort Worth.
Speaker 2: To look, is that right? Is it?
Speaker 1: It's Mansfield fort Where it's Arlington Arlington.
Speaker 2: I just put one in Hurst. Sorry about that. I
Speaker 2: just put one in Hurst.
Speaker 1: There's one in Dallas though, now, yes, at the Farmers Market.
Speaker 2: Two at Globe bally Field.
Speaker 1: And I'm a little rattled because we love talking about
Speaker 1: Brandon Hurtado and her Tato's amazing barbecue. It's a big,
Speaker 1: big deal to us. You know, They've got a ton
Speaker 1: of media publicity with their you know, two locations at
Speaker 1: Globe black Field, and Brandon's become a good friend of ours.
Speaker 2: And I'm nervous because he's joining us now. Brandon Hurtado
Speaker 2: is on the benin schedule. Brandon, did I just freak
Speaker 2: you out? Think you needed to hurry up and get
Speaker 2: a Hurst location going?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: You know, I started having PTSD for a minute there.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I'm not listening because.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, So so let's get it straight from you.
Speaker 1: Where are all of the Hurtado Barbecue locations in town.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So the original location is in downtown Arlington. That
Speaker 4: is our staple. It's been open since twenty twenty. We
Speaker 4: also have a location in Fort Worth over off Rosedale
Speaker 4: and Eighth Street. We have a location in Mansfield now
Speaker 4: over off of Broad and Walnut Creek. And then our
Speaker 4: newest location, which I'm super excited about. It's literally the
Speaker 4: size of our other three locations combined, is at nine
Speaker 4: hundred South Hardwood in the middle of downtown Dallas, right
Speaker 4: outside the Farmers Market. It is gorgeous.
Speaker 1: This is I think I know exactly the spot that
Speaker 1: I think I know the restaurant that it used to
Speaker 1: be before you guys took it over. So you guys
Speaker 1: are just basically right across that little street from the
Speaker 1: farmers Market.
Speaker 2: Correct, yes, sir, okay, And.
Speaker 1: It's right there on the corner. And you're right. That
Speaker 1: is a big, bad Mammagama. And so you guys are
Speaker 1: officially opening February twenty second with your big opening, but
Speaker 1: you're open now for lunch and weekends, right.
Speaker 2: People could come by right now.
Speaker 4: Right, So our grand opening, where we're going to have
Speaker 4: set hours, will be open daily from eleven to nine pm.
Speaker 4: We're going to do that in late February. However, we
Speaker 4: are open right now seven days a week. We're greasing
Speaker 4: the wheels, trying to get all of our staff trained.
Speaker 2: Ups.
Speaker 4: You can come right now from eleven to five pm,
Speaker 4: seven days a week and get her todd to barbecue
Speaker 4: in downtime Dallas and Brandon.
Speaker 1: How would you describe her, toado? Like, how do you
Speaker 1: describe the type of barbecue you have? If somebody's like,
Speaker 1: kind of interesting, I've never heard of this place? What
Speaker 1: are you guys?
Speaker 4: So we call it Mexecue. It's basically Central Texas barbecue
Speaker 4: with a text Mex twist. We use post oak wood,
Speaker 4: we use old fashioned smokers like they do in Austin
Speaker 4: and Lockhart, and a lot of elbow grease, a lot
Speaker 4: of hard work, and we combine that with some flavors
Speaker 4: that I grew up with being from a Hispanic household.
Speaker 4: We do have some really cool things in Dallas. We've
Speaker 4: got a couple sides that are not on the menu
Speaker 4: at other locations, and then we also have some features
Speaker 4: on the weekend where we're doing like these bougie barbecue
Speaker 4: composed dishes like quill and grits, and we've got steak
Speaker 4: features that you can get. It really really is a
Speaker 4: special place.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to ask you. I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: you something else, but then you just piau my interest there?
Speaker 1: What can you give us a hint on what these
Speaker 1: special sides are at the Farmer's Market location.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so. At ore the locations, we have tater talk Castrole.
Speaker 4: That's kind of our potato cheesy dish. At the Farmer's Market,
Speaker 4: we have a cheesy Jlopino potatoes. It's kind of like
Speaker 4: potatoes are grotten, but it's got roasted halopinos in it.
Speaker 4: It's got housemade potato chips on top for a little
Speaker 4: bit of crunch.
Speaker 2: That is awesome.
Speaker 4: We also have a couple other staples. We have our
Speaker 4: Hatch chili mac and cheese. We have our brisket of Lote.
Speaker 4: We've also got Coleslaw creamy red Coleslaw. There you can't
Speaker 4: go wrong with just some really really awesome stuff going
Speaker 4: on in downtown Dallas.
Speaker 1: We're talking to the great Brandon Hurtato, he owns Hertato Barbecue.
Speaker 1: We just talked about all the locations. There is another
Speaker 1: fun fact about you guys like I love the show Yellowstone.
Speaker 1: Obviously I learned about four Six's Ranch through that show.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about your special ties to
Speaker 1: that show?
Speaker 4: So we are the biggest consumer of four to six's
Speaker 4: beef that I know of in the world. All of
Speaker 4: our beef comes from the legendary four Six's Ranch in Guthrie, Texas.
Speaker 4: Last year we went through about eight hundred thousand pounds
Speaker 4: of brisket alone. There location a lot of beef, a
Speaker 4: lot of beef. So we have this awesome relationship with
Speaker 4: Taylor Sheridan, who most people know from Yellowstones Sons of Anarchy,
Speaker 4: And we also run his kitchen at his ranch out
Speaker 4: in Weatherford when they do horse cutting events. I'll actually
Speaker 4: be there next week and we sell her Toddle Barbecue
Speaker 4: out of a satellite location there to all the cowboys
Speaker 4: that are there competing in his horse cutting shows.
Speaker 1: Wow, can you get kat On land Man or one
Speaker 1: of those other shows?
Speaker 4: We could probably do an extra I think we could
Speaker 4: probably figure something out.
Speaker 2: He actually wants a speaking role. Is that gonna be
Speaker 2: harder to get? I'll put in a good word.
Speaker 1: Wow, Uh, Brandon, we love you because you're one of us.
Speaker 1: And uh, you're way more talented than us, have more
Speaker 1: skills than us. But you're one of us, and you
Speaker 1: chase a dream and you're making it happen, and the
Speaker 1: whole Metroplex Dallas Fort Worth is behind you one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on all the success of hur Tato Barbecue. Congrats
Speaker 1: on the new location, and and man, we look forward
Speaker 1: to getting some of that barbecue soon.
Speaker 4: Hi, thank you, guys. I appreciate it. If you all
Speaker 4: come out there and visit us in Dallas, you probably
Speaker 4: send me washing dishes or wiping down tables. So come
Speaker 4: visit us soon.
Speaker 1: I might see you Saturday, dude, I might get my
Speaker 1: ass down to the farmers market.
Speaker 4: Let's go go, all right, guys, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: Thanks Brandon tick care all right bye. Here he goes
Speaker 1: the great Brandon Hurtado of hur Tito Barbecue. Man, go
Speaker 1: get you some of that. But right now it's time
Speaker 1: for some of this.
Speaker 2: Listeners. Here comes Kat fun Tweets. We're the round.
Speaker 1: Now, let's go around the sports.
Speaker 2: K Tuck Tweets has all the sports.
Speaker 5: I had a speaking role on Land Man. I would
Speaker 5: call Billy Bob Billy Bob rather than Tommy. His character
Speaker 5: name on the show.
Speaker 2: Call him Tommy Bob. Tommy Bob. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: Great Tommy Bob.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, y'all see Tommy Bob and hey, my
Speaker 1: name is Tommy Bob Landman. You know I bought Male
Speaker 1: Camino from Tommy Bob and them. Tommy Bob land Man.
Speaker 5: You can see a lot of Deans these days either,
Speaker 5: but one Dean is Dean Blandino, the former NFL head
Speaker 5: of officiating, I believe are you asking?
Speaker 2: I think VP or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know he was in the mix now
Speaker 5: if you don't know who he is, he's the guy
Speaker 5: who ruled by looking at the rule book that Dez
Speaker 5: did not catch it in the twenty fourteen NFL Divisional
Speaker 5: playoff game, and so he has to make the rule
Speaker 5: and then everyone in Dallas hates him. Ben writes a
Speaker 5: song about him, then bumps into him at the Bowl
Speaker 5: two weeks later. Weird because Ben had to see the
Speaker 5: Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: That was that was crazy when Ben was a big
Speaker 1: gay pop star at that time. Yeah, and he wrote
Speaker 1: that beautiful song with his soaring voice. It was the
Speaker 1: gayest I'd ever been at that moment. The song is
Speaker 1: a heater though it is a hitter.
Speaker 5: So people saw it, and fans of our show were
Speaker 5: sending this to Dean, So Dean saw it.
Speaker 2: We meet Dean. He's the nicest guy in the world. Incredible.
Speaker 2: It sucks. This guy is too nice, sugar, and he's funny. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I hadn't talked to Dean in a while.
Speaker 5: I figure, you know, he probably jumps on our ear
Speaker 5: waves once a year or so, it seems like. Uh,
Speaker 5: and then I see a headline with him involved in
Speaker 5: it last night and I couldn't help but click it.
Speaker 5: So you got these couple.
Speaker 2: Uh New York guys interviewing him.
Speaker 5: But uh, it's about the Chiefs. There's a big controversy
Speaker 5: about the Chiefs getting a lot of calls and you
Speaker 5: know what they are, like, the stats show that they are.
Speaker 5: You had a first down the other day that should
Speaker 5: have been called a first down but wasn't. But we
Speaker 5: haven't micro chipped the balls yet. But you got a
Speaker 5: real go out on a limb. If you think that
Speaker 5: the league is rigged, and I'll tell you why, it's
Speaker 5: because the Dallas Cowboys would be in the playoffs every
Speaker 5: single year if the league was rigged. Okay, because that's
Speaker 5: what's best for ratings. The Cowboys and the Giants both
Speaker 5: sucked this year. Had the highest rated regular season game
Speaker 5: of the year, Thanksgiving. Like, if you think it's rigged,
Speaker 5: you're an idiot, because the Cowboys would be in the playoffs. Yeah, Christina,
Speaker 5: So Dane tells these radio guys this. I know it's crazy,
Speaker 5: but what do you say to that when everyone goes, well,
Speaker 5: how come they get all the calls?
Speaker 2: The Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs have gotten the benefit of calls, right, But
Speaker 3: good teams make their own breaks, right. You think about
Speaker 3: the Patriots. My brother who is convinced that the league
Speaker 3: is rigged, that is convinced that I signed an NDA.
Speaker 3: I signed an NDA when I left the league office.
Speaker 3: That I cannot tell anybody that it's rigged because I
Speaker 3: was head of officiating. We grew up in the same household.
Speaker 3: By the way, Wow, I said, listen, there's no conspiracy
Speaker 3: the officials. There's too many variables. There's too much going on.
Speaker 3: They're a good team and they make their own breaks. Yes,
Speaker 3: have they gotten the benefit of calls? Sure? I just
Speaker 3: think right now, the narrative is so is so out
Speaker 3: there that anytime any close call goes for the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: it's it's all here we go again, Here we go again.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure Super Bowl Sunday, you know we're gonna
Speaker 3: hear it for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2: This is blowing my mind.
Speaker 1: I would think if you have somebody in your family
Speaker 1: that you've seen work as an official, and that'd be
Speaker 1: the furthest person that would assume the game is rigged.
Speaker 3: Well, you don't know my brother. I mean this who
Speaker 3: we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the league is rigged.
Speaker 3: The league is rigged, and that I can't say anything
Speaker 3: about it. And my brothers like they want Taylor Swift
Speaker 3: at the Super Bowl. I'm like, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: million people are gonna watch the Super Bowl regardless of
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift being there. Like enough stop.
Speaker 5: So I texted Dan this morning and I was like,
Speaker 5: does your brother Vick conspiracy gat He's like yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, next of you in Dallas, bring him
Speaker 2: to the JFK Mews in Well get.
Speaker 1: Dean sounds like I never thought this until now, but
Speaker 1: he sounds like a slightly more evened out Bill Burr.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, he looks like and I realized that
Speaker 5: he looks like Joel McHale a little bit crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting. I don't think there's a conspiracy. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you why they're continuing to get calls. I do think
Speaker 1: there is energy that happens in these situations. Like I think,
Speaker 1: here's what I mean. I think when Cuban was down
Speaker 1: on the baseline yelling at officials, I think that created
Speaker 1: negative energy for the Mavericks. I don't think the league
Speaker 1: was twisting their mustache saying all right, how can we
Speaker 1: make him pay and let's have a meeting and now
Speaker 1: we're going to stick it to Cuban. But that energy exists,
Speaker 1: and if it's a fifty to fifty thing, maybe the
Speaker 1: human nature was to make it go against Cuban.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's why they say teams.
Speaker 1: Have home field advantage or homeboard advantage, because on a
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty call, the energy that's of the crowd
Speaker 1: might push them the other way.
Speaker 2: There's things like that as well.
Speaker 1: So with regard to Dwayne Wade in the two thousand
Speaker 1: and six NBA Finals, I don't think there was a conspira,
Speaker 1: but it sure did seem like they were trying really
Speaker 1: hard to get him to the free throw line, and
Speaker 1: he was the future star of the league. That's the
Speaker 1: one I'm not just not positive about. NBA is a
Speaker 1: little different, right, NBA is a little different. Not obviously,
Speaker 1: donnahe made it even worse. But I will say that,
Speaker 1: you know the reason rookie don't Rookies don't get calls
Speaker 1: because the referees are unfamiliar with their game. And so
Speaker 1: you don't think these referees that are out there on
Speaker 1: the field know how great Pat Mahomes is or know
Speaker 1: how great Saquon Barkley is or Tom you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Great players get calls because they've quote, you know,
Speaker 1: the idea of you earn it. Well, it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be completely, uh, you know, fair and unbiased. Nobody lives
Speaker 1: an unbiased life. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 1: like referees are not impervious to someone else's excellence to
Speaker 1: where they can just wash.
Speaker 2: It out of their brain.
Speaker 1: They're gonna give the benefit of the doubt to the
Speaker 1: person that's done at a bunch and is great. And
Speaker 1: so I think, to Ben's point, a lot of things
Speaker 1: kind of just start happing happening based on history, and
Speaker 1: they kind of Snowball. I don't think the rest are
Speaker 1: going well, we've got to give Pat Mahomes team every call.
Speaker 2: They're just like, man, Pat Mahomes, what a beast? Right?
Speaker 1: And I also think if there was a conspiracy relative
Speaker 1: to that game, it would be to to probably get
Speaker 1: somebody else in the super Bowl, right, because because it's
Speaker 1: the same thing every year with these guys, and.
Speaker 2: We're starting to see a little Chiefs fatigue. Now there's fatigue,
Speaker 2: but is it? Is it because Taylor Swift is It's
Speaker 2: all part of it. It's all of it.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, like, is that would that be the
Speaker 1: reason they would if there was a conspiracy.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's get Swifties to the super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Could be or if you really want to get in
Speaker 1: on conspiracy world, they put Kelsey and Taylor together because
Speaker 1: they knew the Chiefs were going to be so great
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 2: Just added to it. Oh my god, that you like that.
Speaker 1: I was having Kelsey fatigue before Taylor Swift entered the future.
Speaker 1: Yeah you were, and so like, I get it, but man,
Speaker 1: there is I go to these things where like when
Speaker 1: teams get older and players get older and.
Speaker 2: They still get it done.
Speaker 1: It amazes me like I appreciated Michael Jordan way more
Speaker 1: after his prime.
Speaker 2: I'm pulling hard for the Chiefs, Yeah, are you? Oh yeah?
Speaker 2: I hate Philly.
Speaker 1: I hate Philly. All right, There you have it that
Speaker 1: is around the sports