Barrel Is Sick

All right, welcome to don't drop the tongue. Oh barrels get you sick to Yes, thank god we're on video, is am? I am sick? This is our third take of this because pil can't behave himself. Yeah, I keep talking about improper because look at barrel Barrow was out there kissing those hs is that horse? No, I was not out doing any of that. Yes, sliding sliding around open mud sliding with their beer in the going down open. I I wish I was doing all that for the way

I feel, but that is not the case, thankfully. It's so that was the open though, because y'all got in a lot of serious trouble. I don't even think Phoenix or Scottsdale, you know, is going to even have an open next year. Oh there's gonna be an open. Stop with that craziness. And here's the deal. Yes, there was some people that like fools, but you know what, there was also a lot of really great things that happened. The organization that puts it on makes a lot of

money for charity's a lot of things. Social media, exactly, the social media in the world, tries to make everything seem so much more dramatic than what is Yes, was it. Did they get a little chaotic, did they over have more people? Did people act like fools? They had to make some adjustments. Yes, But at the end of the day, it was a great, great event, great weekend. It looks like a great time. Like I'd been all over that. That's that's my kind of party.

There's just there's just things you missed. That one I would have swore I would have saw you doubt. Oh yeah, oh yeah that I'd have been that guy for sure. All right, So enough about the open. Let's get into uh, let's get into obviously, we had the big game this past weekend. I wonder what did you guys cook for it? We were talking before what we were gonna make. What did you guys go with? And because if you file Kyle on Instagram or any social media, I

mean, my gosh, how many videos did you put out? Like like thirty forty I did one every hour leading up to Super Bowl? Leading up Super Bowl? Super Bowl? What an hour for every time zone? I mean it looks I mean like every time I went out, there's a new video for you. I mean, props to you. You were putting them out. You were turning the content out. Some of this stuff looked really really good that I know you had talked about it on a previous podcast.

That pull chicken slider you made with the green chili on there bro that looked amazing. I almost thought about making that, but I ended up pivoting and going with something else because I was not in peak optimal performance on Big Game Sunday. So you went to the open Friday and Saturday with the open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and you know it rained its hold on right. It didn't rate. It didn't rat all Friday, it didn't rain Friday,

Friday was great, Thursday was wet, Saturday was wet. We had concerts. It was you were just you were just hung over the whole time for Super Bowl. Uh No, I ended up getting I ended up. I was. I was actually Saturday night we called it kind of. I just was just tired. I mean just tired. I can feel like this head cold that I have coming on now, I can feel it coming on Sunday. You got COVID. No I tested. I did the test. It wasn't rectal, no, No, it was not. It was the the

nose spop test. Did that negative let's go back to the big game. Let's go back to the big game. All right, I left, I lost a parlay, right, and Barrel, I think it's fixed. But before I got into my parlay that I lost, let's go into why I'm on there betting right on one of those apps, and I see one of the parlays is how many times they work on the show Taylor Swift on TV? It was like, what was It was like over under, it was going to be twenty or better and then yeah you had to bet, so

twenty was over there? Over or under? It was it was even you would have been over you had been over on twenty. Well, no, no, that she's showed way less than twenty. Yeah, it was fifty. It was like fifteen times. No, it was counted, No count it did you? No? I counted because my brother wanted to do shots every time they showed Taylor Swift. Yeah, it was nine during the game and then it was postgame pregame it was under twenty total. Yo. You

can I say something with that? Can I say something with that? Yeah? Because this is don't drop the tongs, right. So it came out that your boy Kanye wes right, Kanye wes right, he put he bought the box right in front of he bought the he bought the two seats right in front of Taylor Swift's box. Yeah, it's so the reason he had to wear mats. And then he got escorted out because yeah, Taylor shut that down. She was like she was still she's still mad about the Grammys

or whatever. Let's be real, let's be real. He's he's trying. He's trying to latch onto her rocket ship because he's hold on, he put her on, He put her on once. He wants to shine light on her at Grammys. You said that he's supposed to do, and it was. And first off, first off, first off, it wasn't the Grammys. It wasn't the Grammys. And second of all, you're just gonna sound foolish, and we don't want you to sound foolish anymore. So let's just

move past that. We're not a music podcast or a barbecue podcast. So oh wait, hold on, let me tell you about my parlay. Hold on, can I tell you about my parlay? So my parlay was three people had to score a touchdown, right, yeah, and like ten dollars was gonna get me like fifteen hundred dollars. It was a white parlay. The last person that was supposed to score was Debo. Yeah, so you hit the other two? Yes, but why why why did Debo get pulled out like he was? He was hurt, She was hurt. He pulled

his hamstring. Yeah, he was hurt. He pulled his hands every every first out, every yo, come on a three to four parlay, Brody, and and and now you the one that's going to get everybody paid is now ordered for sudden hurt. And that was actually when Homeboy hit that touchdown in the uh A zone. Phil, you selling every person who loses bets. It's red. It's every better, every better says that every better. All right, So let's get back to it again. What did you guys

make? What was your what was your dishes? What'd you go with? Kyle? I did? Uh? I didn't do anything from the videos that I made? Uh we first time ever? We? Uh? I ordered gold Belly. Oh yeah, I was. I've been on this diet right like you order from gold Belly, bro I never even knew about it. And this is pretty cool. This chick was telling me, she's like because I was showing her she was going to Vegas and I was like, Oo, there's this pizza place. You gotta go check it out, Pizza Rock.

Blah blah blah blah blah. She's like, you order Pizza Rock on Belly? Yes? I did. You're horrible, horrible. You used go Belly for Pizza Rock Bro three pizzas for a hundred bucks. It's actually not bad. It was great. It was it was I smashed. I smashed a pizza and a half. I used gold Belly. I used Go Belly to send like stuff to my granddaughter. Send you order something and send it. Yeah, yeah, just send it like donuts and like whoever got the ill is pastries or dessert? Yea, I am a I am a gold

Belly fan. It's pretty under. I love that is the Is the bird and Bone gonna be on go Belly? It might is it gonna Is it gonna be yours? Or is it gonna be a little missus? Uh Belly, It's gonna be a little missus birds and Bones. But I'm telling you, Go Belly. I'm telling you, dude, I love it. You could get you could get stuff from all the Pizza Rock. I loved weird thing. That's the best pizza in the world. Bro, Like you, we get stuffed nation wide and you go with pizza rock. Yeah, I

was craving it. I was craving it, and I saw it and I was what did you give it? Pizza pizzas. I don't know the names, but it was Pepperoni, sausage, mushroom money and thins thin crust. Now, I didn't do the thick the thick. I don't even think they had the thick on there. It was just the thing. But I'm a thin I'm a thin fan. Pause. All right, that's why. That's why you like to that? That and some What else did I do? I did the smoke fried wings. I made some tereso queso dip and yeah

that was it nice? How about you? My dip dip was fire fire. I made a I made a hot crab dip. But I smoked my cream cheese. And guess what, Kyle, I used that green chili bacon rapp baby video coming out video, coming out video, coming out. It's good on cream cheese. Yeah yeah, yeah, No, I made a video. Yeah no, I did a video. And guess what else I did? And look how late I am posting it, right. You ain't see I haven't seen nothing. Yeah, you don't post anything. But but

I did smash burgers the grill. Smash burgers, unbelievable that. Yes, I don't wait to see the video of that, because I'm smashing him on that, smashing him on that. Yeah, after after we post this podcast, I'll post my smash burger feel the grill because y'all were doing it wrong. I'm gonna show you the real way of doing the proper. Look forward to seeing it. I hope it's good. I'm smashing you big time on that. Why, I mean, you listened to go back and listen,

you go back, go back, here's receipts. I'm hey, you know what. It just goes to prove the point that Phil tries to be an outlaw, but he can't do it. He gives in and he follows. That's a sheep. Oh, he's all following this. H Once you start wrapping your sandwiches and bacon jump on that night, or getting a blue jack, I'm sure that's coming next. I'm sure your blue checks coming neck blame it paying for a blue check. Yeah, I'm sure it's coming next.

I wouldn't be on the ground. I'm still underground. I know you're not ground. Yes, you don't post anything. I know. The only post I see is you at the gym. The whole philosophy. If I don't hit this bike, if I don't hit this bike, right, yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Bike in the gym while everybody's sleeping. Yeah, New York, Connecticut. Yeah, Yo, I did, I did. I did do a bacon rap. Hold on, hold on, bacon rap. Explain this dip. I'm interested because I made this true cheese Christo

cheese dip. Yo. So I smoked, I smoked the cream cheese and I was hit some sour cream on it, right, and then what else I had? I had like some shallots in it. I put a little white wine in it, and then I hit it with a little bit of a crab, the lump crab meat, and then threw some cheddar on. No, bro, I'm not canning nothing big bottles. I only do bottles bottles of crap. Got it? No, but but at to Louis Louis,

Oh, yeah, that place is awesome. Yeah that's why. So, so you know, anytime I get meat now and stuff like that, right, because even even my burger right, the burger meat. I grounded my wag gu from like comps and I had some uh some filet doing there and I grounded the wag goole and I had the eighty twenty ratio on that. So the videos coming out, videos, videos about to be released. I got a EP coming. Did you use your glasses? Yes, I use both. I use my glasses and I got a new gimbal. Who's

who Okay, well whos Yeah, who's who's editing this? So I am? I am the director, I am the promoter or we'll be like if this video comes out by it's that's why I'm asking. That's what I'm out of the other. Yeah, that's what I'm There's no chance, zero chances zero we'll see another gym video before that. Yeah, no, it's coming out once this podcast drops. So now everybody can look forward to seeing my new because you got to drop them in quarters. You know, you can't

just be dropping stuff every day. Nobody's looking that stuff every you are you selling product? Not not yet? So you're not selling products not yet? How much? How many times are you on your phone a day all day? Bro? Yeah, exactly exactly, that's why. But looking at crap, I'm answering calls and you at answering you. I called you three times slacking messages. I called you three times today there was no answer? What what? What that was? Then you have three hundred and fifty six?

Was it after five? Yes? Okay, you had three? Group? Then you go in that group after five group after five had You've got three hundred and fifty six missed text messages? Carry on, carry on. That's it. Look new Phil, New year, right, new year, New Phil. Don't worry about it. It's almost March. Look, I'm still at it. I'm still at I'm still at the gym. I'm still got a bunch of videos I put. I used my PK, I did have a flat top on top or a skillet on my p K. And it's

it's awesome. Everybody loved it. Everybody loved it. It's on flat top. You were just no. I used a cash iron skillet as your flat top as my flat top, and and I bacon wrapped something. Please post that one, would you? Bacon rap? Let's go keep going. I can't because I'm I was practicing for something. For what you got? Big coming up. Oh yeah, well, I what do you have coming up? I was going to go to Yuma or I was I was deciding if I was going to go to Yuma or I was going to go to s

c A in Utah, And then I hoped out. I opted out for smoke Slam and in Memphis. How are you you driving? He ain't going, Maro? What did you make? I did? I did a few different things. Like I said, I wasn't exactly operating at peak opt performance, So I uh drop my friends at the airport the Sunday morning at like nine ish, and then I picked up. Uh that's always the worst drive,

by the way. Oh it was brutal, brutal. I did h halopeno Uh poppers with the cream cheese and the breakfast sausage in them, super easy basic? Did those? I did smoke cream cheese. It's always money, dude, It's so money. So money smoked cream cheese. What did? What did? What seasoning you used? Because I used Cow's and it was awesome to Well, I'm gonna be fully honest. I like I said, I was in a I thought I had more stuff around than I did, and I did not, So I used uh Oh, I didn't have

to go look. I use a sweet barbecue rub that I had that I used on ribs sometimes I had to go look. I used that on it. And then I use some the blues Hog, the the the blueberry, the Chipotle Chipotle. I was like, somebody came out, I would a blueberry, let me find out. You know what I'm saying, raspberry raspberry full. I use that on it, and then uh. And then I had just was looking around and I had leftover stuff from the weekend of like

you know, like snack food and whatever else. And I had some bacon leftover, and then I had uh crackers because you know, if people over you had crackers. And I was like, oh, I got a little hollowpen you left over here the most stupid basic thing I've seen them on TikTok and everything. And made those candied bacon ritz crackers. Oh dude, I want to try that so bad. Bro so easy, It's so easy, it's so stupid. So basically, no, you take a cracker, a

ritz cracker or a club cracker, whatever you want. Got your ritz because it's got that butter in it. Yeah, but club crackers do too, But take it you put the bacon across the top of it. Put a piece of uncooked bacon on top of it, put some brown sugar on top of that. Do a little spg on top of that. Put a holopano on top of it. Put it on your smoker three hundredgrees for like twenty twenty five minutes. Cooks that bacon up again. It is the most ridiculously

basic, stupid thing in the world, right, TikTok? Right now, I show up to the Super Bowl party. I got smoked cream cheese, I got the poppers, I got this. People were crushing those stupid rich crackers like they like those gracing ever and I was like, what am I missing here? But I mean again, it was something different. And then people went to the smoke cream cheese were loving that stuff. Everything was well received. But I said, I was trying to do it as not as

low power as I possibly could. Like I had seen the idea, Kyle, like I said earlier of your which I could make those pulled chicken sliders chicken bacon ranch sliders. Gosh, b higher, that's it's a game. I'm telling you, dude. I never realized you well, I guess I did. Realize that you can season your chicken with a ranch packet. Yeah, bro, that's that's that's like, that's like backyard barbecue one on one bro. Yeah, why do you marinateure chicken and Italian dressing? I used

to do that. That's that's old school and that it's good. It is good, though I'm not. Here's what I love. How sometimes we try to overcomplicate things and try to make it too fancy. Like, let's be real, that stupid rich cracker thing, I'm doing that the most basic thing ever. It took me thirty seconds to make. I literally took the bacon, cut it in half, laid on the crackers, handful of brown sugar, salt, pepper, garlic, smoker. Done. But but but how

thick was the bacon barrel? No, you gotta get the thin stuff you got that? I want some fairly thin stuff on there. And it crisped up and it kind of soaked down into the cracker. I'm telling you, the most basic thing ever, and people just crushed it. Dude, I'm gonna make. I think you should make candied bacon. You put can't you put? You get syrup o bacon, brown sugar, thro some Chipotle mango on there, put a jalapeno on top, and bro, I think that

would be it was my next TikTok. I'm doing that. Like I said, it was so basic, was so good. So have you guys seen the Have you guys seen the trend with the the in and out burgers? They yeah him that. I don't know the dang name, but I see it everywhere. You get an out burger instead of getting a bun, you use onion as the bun. It's a grilled onion grill. People are making them at hunt at home. So you get a grilled onion, you cut it in half and you cut a big you can't get it. It's one

of their things. But have you seen the video of the guy who does it on the job site? No, this is crazy, this is pretty cool. So he takes a front endloader of a bucket off of a off a track track on a job site. He cleans it. He cleans it all up real good. He explains that cleaned it all up real good. And it's it's an older bucket. It's got all the paint scraped off of it. Again, he does it all. He takes a blow torch or butte torch puts it underneath of it and gets that bucket of the of the

tractor screaming hot and makes it all right on the job site. Again, whether or not it's he actually ate it or not, but the creativity of whether or not that was a barrel of uh uh, and I mean bucket. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disrespect you, barrow, but whether it was a bucket of a plaster or spackle, Bro, that's a U said. I want to try that, Like I don't really make a lot of burgers here. I think that's something. I think that's something that could

be a new trend. It's already trending. Bro. No, no talking about burgers of cooking things in weird ways, different ways, Like I know we talked to you want to you want to go to your boy? When I when I'm going barflying, going into hotel back, I'm talking about cooking things like for example, I don't everybody talks like you were talking about having a electric skillet or a gay you know, you know, a black stone plastic Yeah, yeah, I don't think some people realize that you can just

do it with a cast iron on your barbecue grill. That's what I did. That's what I'm saying. I think that sometimes showing people that they don't need to have the fancy, latest and greatest thing, it might be a cool way to kind of get go viral. It is doing stuff. That's all right. I definitely my video is gonna go viral. I'm putting she beats or something. Ain't gonna you ain't gonna pay the money to get a blackstone or all the other stuff. Get a get something to like a what

is it called cast iron pan? Yo? You're talking to fill the grill? Yeah, I know. I grew up in New York. You know where barbecue? Yo? You know where? I know where. I started barbecuing. On my fireplace. I had a little bati grill. Put. No, I don't believe fire escape. I don't believe any of that. I don't believe any of it. No, he was on in a in a mid in a mid the guy went to Yukon. Save it. They saved all their money, so you can go to Yukon. Yeah, I

don't know. I didn't have anybody to say, but yeah, you can believe that one, or you can believe my story. Yeah, So that's all right, so Phil, let's talk about this. Wait wait, wait, wait, hold on, Let's go back to the burger part again, because it is so okay. Look the reason okay, I'm I'm gonna be honest. The reason why I'm so against yeah, you see, might be you're all serious now, got it? So the reason why I'm so against smash burgers. Right, even though I did my smash burger, it wasn't

like paper thin. It was probably like a quarter of an inch, you know what I mean. We got receipts so so. But but here's the deal. Burgers and sandwiches is a work of art. Absolutely. I hate okay, I hate one of the sandwich spots because I don't know if I can say names, but I hate one of the sam spots because you go in there and you start off on one line. They get you your bread and they say what do you want on it? And then they put it and they make the sandwich backwards. I'm like, no, hold on,

go to the dressings. First dress my bread and then put the cheese the toppings, and then put the meat in the middle. And like that's like okay. So there's so many names for sandwiches. You have sandwich. You have heroes, you have grinders, you have subs, you have hogies. There's so like that's a whole another like artistic like what I'm looking for. Cuisine, cuisine cuisine. Sandwich is a cuisine. It's a whole cuisine. It's not and burgers. It's the same thing. You could make burgers,

you know, smash burgers. You can make like you know, patties, right because you just learnt about the press, right, but I blew my mind, boy, I must be That's what I'm saying. So just to take a ground meat and putting it in a ball or patty and then just smashing it down on the just because you feel like you cooked it on. Have you ever heard of deep frying your your buns? Why would I want to do that? I've seen people use the the in and out part of

the Krispy Kreme donuts. Nope. Yeah. So I have a book that just came out and you can read, No, I cannot read? Yeah I do. Actually, And there's this burger I was like, dah, and he's a burger World champion. You got everybody knows his name. He's a Burger World champion and he has a special bun that he makes, so he puts tampura, he makes a tampura batter. He dips the top of his bun because ye yes, throws it in the deep fryer. Bro I've

seen that. I've seen it. Just blew my mind because then I'm thinking like O, like if I was ever in a burger contest, you could do that and then when it comes out, you throw some more parmesan cheese on there, you throw some bacon crumbles on there, whatever it is, and you let it sit and let it dry. That this year at World War No, I'm not going championship. I ain't going to I can't go. Yo, let me trailer. If you're not going to anything, here we go. I need no, no, no, absolutely not, absolutely

No contest is here. We got our final. Our final inspection is on Thursday. Yo. Really that yo? But barrel, barrel. Did you get your invite for the the parties testing party? Did you get one film? No? I didn't. Yeah, the cool So here's the deal. Here's the deal. We're not having one at least right now. We're opening. We're opening the doors. The doors are open. All the talk of the big party. But no we're gonna open. Can we can we shut

his video off? Can we shut this video off? We're gonna open the doors, We're gonna we're gonna sell our food. And then I'm going to plan a couple of weeks later to have the official grand opening because it's getting I'm getting I'm getting roasted. Yeah, Facebook, right now it's open. It's it's like one of those shotgun weddings, right, you just get married and then you do your honeymoon like five years later. That's what That's what

this is. So it's like this, somebody just to open. Somebody posted, somebody posted in the Florence group chat or not group chat group group thing and was like, hey, is the barbecue place open yet? And on Main Street? And these people went in on me in like one chick was like, Nah, he doesn't care about us. He's out in different states cooking, posting cooking videos and doing all this and doing all that. He

doesn't want to be here and blah blah blah. Then some other guys like, oh, well, if you don't want his bs barbecue, why don't I cook you barbecue? And then I'm like holy, like I gotta do something like and then all these people come to my defense though, but like they're all they're all defending me. And then I had to put a statement out that look, yo, who wrote your statement? Pops hates Ai? NONBD even gonna started with Pops or AI. Pops writes your statement. I

heard him have what's that job conference? Calls in the car on the Memphis No. He's very smart man, Yo, as Pops. If he's available to you, he's not. Nobody's available. You have to drive your No. So after you submit your paperwork, there's nothing you can do with the restaurant. I mean, you can practice your menu. I got a staff, they're hired, they're ready to roll. We're training again Saturday. But Thursday the guy called me when I was on my way out to you Mone.

He's like, hey, you know, I just went over your paperwork. Everything's good. He's like, but I can't be there until the twentieth or not twentieth, the Thursday, the seventeenth or the fifteenth, And I said, okay, perfect. So all my paperwork, everything was good. The drawings are blueprints. I've never went through this process, so I don't really know what he's going to look for. But He's like, yeah, it's gonna be really easy. He's like, I'm just gonna go through and

make sure everything matches to the drawings. And this is the health inspector. Health inspector. Yeah, it's the same dude I've dealt with before. He seems cool and he's been in the restaurant. I actually brought him in like three or four times during the remodel process. Yeah, so I think everything's gonna be fine. We'll see. And he's like, well, you know, and legally you can open the doors that day once I give you your yeah, your payperack h Yeah. And I was like, oh, don't

tell me that. And then yeah, there's a massive car show going on this weekend. The whole staff is on Saturday and weekend. No, no, what are you waiting for? I don't want to jinx anything. So if you get your green tagger, you're going to open this week Yes, not this weekend. No, what are you waiting for? No? No, we're shooting for Okay, wow, this is good. March first, we're shooting for Friday, March. You gotta go sooner, You're you already

got people getting pissed. Now, this car show coming to town and the word gets out. You got a certificate of occupancy and you're not open. Bro, it's not good. You gotta go. You gotta go. Rip the you gotta rip the band aid. Come on, man, I get it. You're scared, and I'm not scared. It's it's no barrel. He's scared people. Why are you? You got a car show, you got everything? Go. Yeah, but Saturday is when the whole staff is going to be there. We're gonna do a final training lesson. We're gonna

go through everything but the fire. Bro. No, I don't want to do that. I don't want to rush anybody, you know, because I'll be I'll be a freaking hot head in there. That's not how you do it. I don't want that. You don't have to be you're gonna you're gonna potentially get your your certificate. I don't want to jinx potentially on the fifteenth, and you're not going to open for two more weeks after that, probably a week. But I'm just saying right now because I don't want to

jinx myself. Bro, it could be next weekend. You'll never have enough money for that. Unwanted baby. It's true. It's not that. It's just yes, it is, yes, it is, Bro. Get that a pop up this Saturday? What time is the car show? I don't know. Me and Svidio come up to him and knock it out the park for you real quick. I don't need that. No thing is man. This staff I have that. Everything relies on them too. Yeah, you're always gonna rely. Look, look, look, gotta go. Look Look

Kyle, your staff. Listen, Kyle, listen to your brother. Have your staff there, have him trained. This is going to be a training period for him. But you have enough friends and enough family to back you up. I'll come out there. I'm sure if Smitty's not doing nothing this weekend, he'll come out there. Bro. We'll help you and not get out the park. So I'll come out and do pr for you. Yeah, come on, man, let's go. Bro. I just don't want

to say. I just gotta wait till this damn health inspector gets and then check this out. One thing with the health inspector, right, this is something I learned, right trial and error. If he finds anything like because the worst time for me for health inspection was in the middle of the summer when it was liked and ten degrees, and everybody's going in and out the refrigerator, and he wants to take yes, you were fully stocked, fully

stopped. And and when when I when he would put his thermometer in the bottom of the refrigerator, it would be like forty one degrees forty two degrees right, It's like it has to be at forty right for them to leave your mom. Come up with the way. He cannot tell you of how to fix the problem, but come up with a way up front and say, oh, you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna put a forty of ice down at the bottom, the cool things off. We're gonna take

this out and put it in refrigerator. He'll mark that down if he has to tell you, then that's a recommendation. And then he's gonna score you less anytime. So just keep that in mind for that. That's the thing, like, Okay, why I put want to push it out like that of the following week is because like, what if he comes in there. I've had nothing but problems with the city to start with. What if he comes in there he finds I am ready to go. I'm already paying these

people to my staff to be here. It's it's go time. And he comes in there and he finds, I don't like this. I don't like that. Yeah, obviously that's the day before. That's the day before. That's no excuse. Yeah, that's okay. This is this is what I don't understand is if he comes and say he finds something, Uh, there's cocking missing over here next to uh, next to the you know, is he doing a construction walk through or is he doing a health inspector walk through?

Health inspector walk through, health inspector walk through. All he's going to do is go to your coolers. It's like chance, Yeah, it's gonna yeah exactly, it's a but I think I think it's both because I had to send him the whole blueprint of the building, and then he wanted the sheet the cell sheets of each appliance that's in the building, and he wants to make sure it's commercial grade, you know, the whole restaurant grade.

He wanted serial numbers. Did you get your Certificate occupancy? Yeah? Your CFO. Yeah you're good to go. Yeah, you're good, bro. He's only coming to check temperatures and wash his hands. You see, okay, but I just don't understand. Yeah, norction, Bro, I get I'm telling you you're good to go. I know, I get it. But the only thing is I don't. I don't know if he is he stuttering right now? He's gonna nicer without cussing, Kyle. If you get, if you get, if you get your if you get your green tag

on Thursday. You can't wait two weeks, bro, No, no, wait it, he doesn't. He barreled. This is what you don't understand. He already has his cf O, he's green tag past. He just needs to show the health inspector that he has all his food at the right temperature and he's storing everything in his right correct. That's what I'm saying.

If he gets, If he gets that and everything is good to go, and the health inspector says thumbs up, you can't wait two weeks, Kyle, because I'm just saying that barrel, because I don't want to jinx myself. I've had nothing but bad luck. I'm a very superstitious person. Wait so wait, but yeah, but here's the deal. Though you say you've had nothing but bad luck and you're superstitious, but you're still a Cowboys fan. So wow, yeah, I know, I'm don't worry once you've seen

it this year. I'm not cheering nobody on. It is what it is. I'm done. I'm helpful. I just think, all right, well, hopefully ripped it out so you can get this damn thing open. We'll see, So just be ready for the text when it's like, hey, guess what we're open. Hey, hey, guys, I gotta tell you y'all something. Uh oh, all right, So we've been, you know, talking to our friend Jason Baker, right, yeah, yeah, and

Jason Baker has a new model of Green Mountain grills coming out. Yep, yo, why don't we go to Barbecue Island and do his reveal when those things shipping that weekend. I thought they're already there, not yet, not yet, but let's go in there and help them out. Let's go. Let's go and do a reveal, a revealed party, and go off the phone with them today. It should be in like another week or two once

once, but you know we're playing a date. Accordingly, let's do a reveal party for Green Mountain Girls. Because I want to do a I'm gonna do a YouTube video on like a like unboxing and putting the Green Mountain Girl together and all them. That's your backyard I'm talking about for the public. Yeah. Yeah, Well we're gonna cook on them or they're already. Yeah, we're gonna cook on them and we're gonna just do Yeah. I'm all in for that. Yeah. Absolutely, you got to bring your barrel though,

you have to. Why do you guys call that's why he got cold? Because he got cold in there? It is he was. That's literally, that's literally he was out there in the rain. Everybody that can't they can't see yet. We're on YouTube, but Beryl just lifted up this barrel. Boy, that's what he wears around. That's exactly what he wears. That's how I met him. I just got I just got an email. I'm gonna have cardboard, life sized cutouts and all grocery stores coming. I'm

stealing one. What for? What for? What hust Brewing is gonna do? Uh? Life sized cardboard cutouts of me gonna be in grocery stores. And then I thought, I just literally just got an email about it, and now they want to do the photo shoot for it tomorrow and look at this, I'm steal do a photo shoot. You want me, you want me to be a stunt double barrel. I'll go in there and be a stunt out. Yeah, sure, Phil, you'd be late to it, but I will show up and it would be the best photo shoot ever.

Yeah. Well the photos, the photo people will be going away because you'd be thirty minutes late. I don't know where he is. That we all know how this goes very true? That at all? That at all? All right, So what we got coming up? Well, what's talking about Kyle? Kyle? Wait? Hold on? Where was you at last weekend? You must I seen you tongue kissing alligators and bro, it was a good time. It was a good time. Yeah, who was that dude you was standing next to? That was the dude that I forgot his name.

I think it's Jimmy. He's a professional sausage roller or something. Yeah, he's got he's got he's got like six cookbooks. I forgot his name. It's but he was a cool dude. And uh, now this this promoter that runs this RV park or it's like a retirement center. It's a it's a what do you call it? Yeah, it's like a retirement resort. Place, but you bring your RVs in there. And they got little casitos and stuff in there, and they got a pool, and they got

a big old a live bands and all that. He was putting on like a pit Master Classic or Pitmaster show. So he took he brought seven of us out there. We're in charge of one meet and you know, do whatever you want with it, and you're gonna go on stage for thirty minutes, do a demo in front of all these people. Well I got I said, Wow, I'm gonna do I'm gonna do bacon wrapped ribs. I'm gonna blow people with just because you know, other guys were doing like just

ribs. And then Smitty was doing brisket, which let me tell you about this. So Smitty shows up on Friday and he puts his we got to the show starts on Saturday. So he's got like six briskets to cook, and we got there's a trigger and there's a big old massive offset. Smitty looks at that. He's like, I ain't cooking on that. He's looking at the offset that we were on then my dad and I were using, and he's like, yeah, I'm gonna do that I'm gonna jump on with

you guys. I was like, look, bro, I'm gonna be done for maybe four minutes, maybe an hour. And it was like two o'clock. He's like, hey, hey, yeah, no problem, there's the temperature gauges on. This offset does not work, no temperature gauges. So we're throwing wood in there, and I'm like, I have no idea what the temperatures. I'm putting the therma pen on the exhaustack just to see what the what the smoke's reading. So it was like two forty five three hundred

degrees and that's a big range too for it. Yeah, I know, I know, I know it's crazy. So we're doing that, and so Smittie throws his briskets on, and then you know, I get tasked. I got to cook two alligators. And then he brings over too many little whole hogs. He's like, oh, yeah, we need to cook this too, and I'm like what okay, Like I got all we got all this stuff to cook. So Smitty's brisket, he puts his briskets on and he's looking at the brisket and I'm like, yo, what temp you pull?

When are you pulling that up. Yeah, I don't know, probably one eighty one sixty one eighty whatever it was. I'm gonna wrap it and then I'm gonna put it in his hot box and let it go overnight, and then I'll pull it out and done. Like he had the easiest, easiest job. Mine was. I had to cut the ribs individually, wrap them. I went TikTok live for the first time. That was that was crazy. So he's looking at his brisket and Smithy's like yeah, He's like,

you got a thermapan. I was like no, and he's like yeah, the brisket's probably like one forty. It's like, how do you know that? So just look at him and he's like I can tell it's about one forty. It's speaking to me. I'm like, BS, and I pulled this thermopan out and I thermapen his brisket. Bro, that's that was one forty right that He just knew. He just knew. Yeah, Bro, the guy. The guy is a he's a jet like he is just he know, he just knows his stuff. And I'm just like, how

the hell did you know that? Anyway, So we did our we did the demos, bro We sold a crap ton of rubs, like a bunch of rubs, and Smitty sold out of all the sauces. It was. It was a good weekend. It was good. We went down downtown Yuma, did our thing, snapped out. I'm gonna I'm gonna censor myself. I was gonna say, if you wanted some pepper in your show up there, but that's all, well, if you want to, you have any

rubs to sell, yeah, pepper pepper. So this offset, this offset, after you know, Smittye put his briskets on, I put the two whole hogs on on Saturday, right, and I had no more room because now I had the other side of the the offset that I had the bacon wrap ribs on. And that only takes about an hour, hour and a half to get Just get the bacon crispy, right, because then I'm wrapped, and then I'm putting them in a pan. I'm wrapping it and I'm putting it in a hot Wait, hold on, hold on, say that

again, Kyle, say that again. So you put your ribs on. I'm taking notes. You put your ribs on with the bacon wrap. How long does it take? Our hour hour temperature atature. I have no idea. There was no temperature gage, so there's no for these alligators. So the promoters like okay, So he takes the he takes the alligators up front to the Santa Maria grills. So he puts these alligators on the Santa Maria grills and he is on my case, Hey, I need you to cut

up this alligator. I need you to cut up this alligator. You know what a carbon alligator? I was like, I mean, I've watched it. I've watched it twice. I helped. I helped ferg once in Denver, and then I always watched the Dinga do it all the time. I figure it out, Craig, I sell So Saturday, after you do your pit, after you do your your show, your song, and dance up on stage doing everything demo in the bacon, rapp ribs and all that.

Then they have a meet and greet with the pitmasters. And these people pay a certain amount of price and they come in and they get to sample all the food and you get to meet and greet, take pictures, shake hands, kiss babies, do all that. Well. Then I sold that around autographs, some bottles, maybe box wines. He was exactly exactly. So, so the we sold out and I'm like, all right, hey, we're gonna sneak out of here, let's go home. Smithy's already hitting the

tequila. He's like, I'm standing, he's doing tequila stocks broa He's like, why no, I don't get that smitty. That's probably only because he ran out of butt. So so my dad and I are getting ready to sneak out and the promoter comes up. He said, hey, said, I got these alligators. This dude had more food, more food than he know what to do with. He's like, I got these alligators that need you to cut them up. I'm like, uh, you want me to

do what? So he have his skin on it had the skin on it, skin was off, just the skin was on the head, the legs, head and the legs. Okay, because I was going to say, skinning the alligator is the hardest because like skinning eel and all those other type of animals, like you were you were catching me skinn alligator flyers and all, yeah, you ain't catch me. You ain't about that life in rot down, bro. He brings he brings these alligators on a platter, and

he's like, now everybody's like whoa. Everybody's like freaking out of my holy crap. So he brings them over to my table, and all these people, lights and everything. It's just all these alligators, right, and my dad's looking at me. He's like, what the hef am I going to do with this? I'm like, we're gonna figure it out. So we start pulling meat from the tail, right, pulling it. Yeah. Yeah, I was pulling all the meat out, getting all the getting the getting

the veins and all the other stuff out, pulling it out. My dad's chopping it up, handing it out, handing it out. I get to the next alligator. I pull off some of the meat of the tail. Bro it's raw. It's bloody raw because y'all cooked it on the Sam Marine. Not y'all, not y'all, not y'all, because I specifically told every single part I did not cook this. I'm just here to shred it up. We're gonna just do our thing. So yeah, and then the uh god, I wish I knew that guy. I forgot that guy's name name.

He came over. He had guys. Yes, I saw you ate something. We're gonna have some pig eyes, and I'm like, and the whole crowd is big eyes. B Yes, they're the real freaking no bro, it was out of the smoked pig. Would you why would you eat that? I was cow co co co co Manaicatti. Did you eat one? No? Hell no, he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't do it. But the dudes like you have to have it because now everybody's looking at

eat it. Do it for TikTok. You know, look, look, look if you were eating pig eyes, next time Gary, uncle Gary brings you a sample, you better eat something from Uncle Gary's trailer. It's you know, half the time it's a mechanical trailer where they're fixing and changing oil to track, and then the other time it's a trailer in the state trailer. Check this out. So there's this there's this guy, local Arizona guy. I love him. He's a good dude. Name's Gary. He's got

a smoking with Q or Q smoking something. I just know him. His uncle Gary the beef that he his nephew the bev. Yeah, so he had he bought a freeze dryer and what this does you put food? You put food in this thing? And it dehydrates the food. You could put tomatoes, you could put literally anything. So the last two years ago, we go to the World Championship and I made I'll drop the tongs on it. I made our You were supposed to make a dish using Wampler sausage,

right, So I made a blueberry sausage cheesecake. So the sausage was layered in the middle of this cheesecake and then I put more sausage on top of it was straight fire. So I didn't get a call, so I didn't make it to the next round. So I had an extra cheesecake and the freezer at our Airbnb and he's like hey, He's like, is it cool if I take that cheese cake home and I'm gonna dehydrate it. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, bro to take it. That's fine. Took

it home. I don't see him at another contest for like a year, maybe year and a half. He shows up with a zip lock and he's got my year and a half old blueberry sausage cheesecake rehydrated, and he brings it over and he's like, oh, once you eat it, once you have some, once you have something. I'm like, I can't, Bro, I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. And he's handing it out. Everybody's eating it. Oh my god, this is so good. I'm like, Bro, that's a year like a

wedding cake. You know, the top half of the wedding cake. You supposed to put it in the freezer. And Bro, that was a year and a half old, year and a half old, yo, the wedding cake, the top half you supposed to put it in a freezer. And then on your first year and the birse were you supposed to take it? I was like, I ain't need that. Wasn't it good? I didn't try it. Try But he's leaving out the best part. I love you, Uncle Gary. Wait, hold on to me. Cheers uncle Gary,

let me cheers chairs, Uncle back, Yo. But he drops the back half of his trailer that he cooks out of. He has extension cords tools like like he just got finished cutting somebody grass tires. Hey. I like Uncle Gary. You would because he's cool. We should have a bond. There's some funny stories. I will I will drop the talks until we get a ball. Then we'll drop the dog. Yeah, Yeah. Anyways, so that was my you a weekend. It was a cool town, bro, No, I love it. You know what. You know what's crazy?

There was a lot of Canadians there. Yeah, because it's the lake. But why why would they pick? Why because the property value is cheaper there than it is in the valley and they can get warm Nope. Yeah I found out why. You know what, because they're right next to Mexico. Yeah, they go to Mexico. They get all their medications and whatever whatever they're getting free. It's free and in Canada, right, So it's free in Canada. Canada's got standard of health care. That's whole other story.

Yeah, alright, but all right, so here's the deal. Yeah, what do you got coming up? Let's hear about I was going to go to Yuma. I was going to go to Utah. Yuma was a k CBS contest, and I was going to go to Utah because I've been doing uh bro, that's a five, that's five. They got the two steaks, two ancillaries, plus they added the round. Yeah. I was gonna do ribs and I was gonna do uh steaks, but Sonny said I had to pick one, so I canceled both and I'm gonna go to the

uh Smoke Slam. Yeah, Memphis. How many teams are signed up for that? I'd be interested to know, since Memphis and May is going Memphis and May is happening that weekend. Plus, look, I hope all loyalty for all veterans, they go to Memphis a bay and I could just sneak in in and win a nice little championship, you know, I think, I hope so. But I think I think a lot of the teams are gonna split up. Yeah, yeah, I think they're gonna split up,

and both they will. And I know Carrie Pringle from Pig Lake Porker, we need to have him on the show, yo. He well, hold on, you're in charge of guests, by the way, So I mean you're not doing a very good jobs because I was told not to. But Barrel, Barrel, I you know, he's the one who does the editing and he does the approvals. So my my uncle, Carrie Pringle, Yeah, he got bit by a uh he went swimming with his friends in a

lake. You know, he's out there in Tennessee and he got bit in the ankle by a beaver and it got infected and they had to amputate his leg. So he's the only pit master out here cooking with one leg. And this is a true story. He told me. Is so that's crazy bit by a beaver and that was okay. When he told me that story, he was sitting right next to the Toughy Stone right and we was backstage and I was like, YOUO what yo. We was in the back of

Bobby Flay. We was in the green green room at the Bobby Flay Joint. And I was just like yo, because I was believing it. Bro. I was like, yo, you said right there, I did, right you did. But that's that's the story he tells in the beginning. So I gave it to half of the you know, radio land or YouTube land. But yeah, but Cary Perringo has uh peg Lake Porker's and he has split in uh No. But I hear sugar Fire and smn he might be going to that joint too. Don't be thrown. Don't be throwing names

out. Don't be throwing names out. Okay, don't be throwing don't be calling nobody out. But I personally think if it was me and I was grandfathered into Memphis and man, guess I'm splitting the damn team up. The other half's going over there. Why wouldn't you do that? How is that not allowed? Yo? I'm hold on, how is that not allowed? I'm so, I'm just so, No it is allowed? Yeah, I am. I am so amped. I'm not even care. I don't even care. I signed up for ribs. I do not care about. Okay,

So what I'm looking for? The ancillaries? What is this? Okay? So what is it? Okay? So you're doing ribs. You're in the rib category? That is it the same process where the judges come to you and all that? Yes, but it's uh, what's the n B A, n B, NBN, NBN rules. But guess what? They took the fool fool out of it? This is why I did it? You know that? That? Okay? So they took the food food out

of everything Memphis and May does. So you know how, like you gotta do the garnish and your grill and you gotta put the piece of no garnish allowed allowed allowed, So you're putting your protein in the instruction thrill. I did think I had to pay a good amount of money. I won't say anything because you know, but but you put you put your protein in the grill. No garnish. Right, there's three categories. There's ribs, there's pork. No, it is his shoulder, it's said, and then it's

at whole halt. So I took rips because you know, my boy Kyle like left me stranded. My designated driver left me stranded. So I gotta go out with the restaurant. So so, but but yeah, no garnish. And then what happens with the restaurants that open in May? Whill you will you go? THI if? What if the restaurants that open in May? Where you go with Phil? If it's not open, yeah, it'll be open. No, I don't know. It's gonna be open next week, all right, I don't know. We'll plates, plates, plates,

paper plates, disposable plates for the judges. Uh they took No, it sounds perfect to me. Take the fool food out of the barbecue. Why do I need to be shopping around for Kyle, I mean for kale and all of that other crap. You know. Plate you when you and I, when you and I did Memphis and May, we had people garnishing. We had people. We had a we had a n plates, we had

a nice bar, we had a very nice place. You know, we're probably one of the smallest teams there when we did it, and they walked judges walked in and you know and show gun yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And we did well. I enjoyed. You know, SCA was the same way. It was like they never did garnish. And you know what my my thing was. I garnished every box, Phil, I garnished every box. I'm not saying that's what made me do well, But guess what

you eat with your eyes? I just don't see they they're coming to the tent. The only boxes you're going to turn in is blind blind. Okay, so there's you don't have to turn in a rib box. It's all about story and and how many how many judges? Is it? Like one at a time? Just like yeah, one at a time? Took all the out? Okay, yep, yep yo all right side signed up for wings? Uh? Was it duck seafood? This beef poetry? Time out? Why wouldn't you Why would you do duck and not beef because everybody's gonna

do beef. I don't think people know how they're cook duck properly. I don't think have you ever cooked duck all the time? Come on, yo, okay, come on. Part of my journey in New York, Flushing, New York, Flushing Queens, right, And I grew up around at very Asian background where that pecan pecan duck, pecan duck, pecan pecan begin begin, begin picking duck. Yo. But wait, they used to have

they used to have the whole. I felt bad as a kid because they had the whole goose with the head markets the same ways has has them all hanging it they wait? Okay, so duck chicken wings? What are you doing Philly crack wings? Yeah? I got one in them. Yeah, but you did the same Are you doing the same wings you did in Memphis? And may No, okay, I'm doing what I did in Bullhead? Okay, okay, okay, So you got wings, you got duck, what's the other one? And seafood oh yo, seafood yo, And and

you know what, you know what you need to do. I signed up for bacon, Hold on for bacon. Okay, we're gonna get come, come, come and get this bacon. Seafood seafood. How do you do you present these to judges or do these turn into the box? Box? Okay, I got an idea for you. What do you well, I guess we can't talk about it, but I gotta. We'll text about the seafood. No, come and do beef fly in, fly in with your sister Sonny. Because Sonny's flying in and I'm getting the Airbnb. We're going

to be right there on this trip. And that's how I know it's not that crowded this year, Kyle, because there's a lot of Airbnb's right there on the property. Huh. When is this? This is in May? Baby? Come on, baby, come on, it's in May, right, yes, first week in May. First week. I've just got to

plan for seafood kinda. But let's talk. But I'm just hoping it's not interrupting because usually it's the same weekend as uh, Cowboy John's joint, and I always like supporting Cowboy John. Yeah, but yeah, you got you gotta do that. We didn't go. We didn't go that one years. We went to Memphis and May. He's dying, he's ready for us to get off. All right, all right, we're done. We're done rambling barrel who d go barrow barrow? Yo, I think your COVID test was

expired. I think, Man, I don't know, no, no, but here was here was the deal. Okay, barrel. Remember the week before when I missed the podcast. Yeah, I had a bad head cold, right, And it's that exactly. But you know when it gets worse when it's over. That's when I was like, okay, I'm just letting you know you ain't get there yet. All right, let's end this. See all right,