Welcome to don't drop the tongue. That is April ninth, and we are doing it again. We being Kyle from your behind Barbecue, Birds and Bones in Florence, Arizona. Myself, I am Waddell Restaurant, your restaurant down there. Don't be so offensive. I'm on one tonight. I know I'm
very you're very angry. I got another question, though, Can we get a substitute teacher, like you know how like when teachers can't show up like Phil, can we get a substitute that's just like, hey bro, can we call you in or hey you Because once again, as we get ready to get started, by the way, I'm barrel. As we get ready to get started, once again, Phil is not here. Though we do know Phil has surfaced because you may have seen the clip that was all over
social media of Phil accepting an award. It looked like somewhere on the East Coast professing his love for the East Coast. But yeah, was that it was? I don't know what it was. I got it, but he didn't get a golden ticket. I know it was at first it was quite the thing. And also I'm curious whether or not he's gonna give me my flowers if we do talk to Phil, because he used my mother's pizza do recipe. Yeah, I think he did on social media, but I don't
know. But is he actually going did he actually say it in the competent. I'm just curious because it's Phil. I know it's Phil. You never know though, and he made a social post, but you never know of Phil. I could see Phil claiming that you know, this is the Phil. The grips like the Philly crack wings are supposedly never nobody never ever, never done before for doing them. But well, I mean, nobody's ever done a smoke fried wing before. But I can't claim that this dough is
strictly mine because well it's been done before. But anyways, so we don't know whether Phil's joining us. We did call him before we began this podcast. He said he was jumping on a couple minutes and bringing a special guest with the boy. You never know. No, So while we while we wait for Phil and his quote unquote special guests, you show up. Let's getting up there in the restaurant world, Kyle, you how was this past weekend? Slam slammed, absolutely slammed. They had a road to Country Thunder
out here. So it's like a big pregame before the big game, which is this weekend. And you know, we got our liquor license and all that, and I got the Hillbilly gatorades. Those were flowing. People were leaning out of here. I mean it was like, what's a Hillbilly gatorade?
So Hillbilly gatorade is blueberry moonshine mixed with berry red bull And it's like my all time like go to when I go to these country bars back in the back at my prime, I go to these country bars and they have like Hillbilly Gatorade, but they'd have some stupid name for them, and it would get me. I mean, these things get you feeling, right Like people think I'm not touching that until they try it and they're like, huh, it's pretty good. My limits four And there was like people in here
having them. They were leaning. Then we started the country dance thing going on in here. I'm like, you don't really have much of a dance floor in there, not at all. No, I know, it was packed, bro, it was absolutely packed. These people are two stepping and stuff. I'm like, all right, and you know, thing with the liquor license, bro, Like you're in charge. Like yeah, so I'm
sober as hell in the back, you know, whipping up stuff. And I got a watch and it's like, you know, And then I got younger high schoolers that are that are my servers, and I always tell them, I'm like, look, if anybody pops off or anybody starts doing something, you know what I'm saying, like the creepiness, you know what I should say, you know, let me know so I can go handle the situation. But thank god, none of that went down this weekend. So
life was good. So no, it was a good week license another day. Yes, I know exactly exactly what you sell this week everything everything completely. So here's my thing. Saturday Road to Country Thunder. The thing started it like five and it was over it I think nine thirty or ten, and this place and we close it eight. But this place was so freaking packed, people drinking, people eating. I said, I made the call.
I said, screw it, let's keep cooking. So I cooked up a bunch more stuff and we kept slanging, and I think our last meal went out at like ten thirty. Eleven o'clock was the last plate so we're pretty normally close eight wow, but we were packed, and I made the calls like dude, let's just keep going, Like I'm not kicking these people out. They want to drink, they want to do this, they're eating and they're ordering, and I'm like, screw it. Well, I'll worry
about Sunday, you know, Sunday. So I knock you know, we knock all this out. I think I like I said, I think our plate went The last plate went out at like ten thirty. People are drinking, having a good time. Country music's playing. Life's good, Life is fine. So I started doing inventory and I'm like, oh, well, we don't have this. We don't have that, we don't have this, we don't have that. So I said, okay, no problem, play
and b is I call Cooffeini. Coffeenie's the rescuer. So I say, hey, you're going to have to hit up restaurant depot, which basically is a home depot for restaurants. You buy everything there, you know. So we needed wings. I had to smoke win and you know, we needed more ribs. We needed you know, all kinds of stuff. So I gave him a whole list He's like, no problem, blah blah blah,
I'll be there at six. I'm like cool. So six thirty seven o'clock runs, you know, rolls around seven thirty eight, and I'm like, okay, something's wrong. Coffeini calls me and he's freaking out and somebody pulled out in front of him. Oh no, and he totaled his vehicle. Oh no, somebody. He's fine, he's fine. I was. I busted his balls about it, but he's fine. Everything was good. Well, he's fine. His truck's totaled. The old man that pulled out in
front of him, his car is totaled. That's a whole different story. But Coffeeni's fine. But Coffeini had all the food in his truck that got demolished. So what Thank god, Coffeinie's fine. Everything's good. So I'm thinking, I'm like, okay, well he's in a wreck. Maybe I can send somebody to co pick up the food. The could be struck. Yeah, but you know with accidents, bro tow trucks are there and cleaned up, in truck gone, everything's gone. And like so it is there
rotting food in the back of his total truck? Yes, yes, there's food, but it's in it. It's in It's not his problem anymore. It's in the tow trucks, but it's in the open that door, and be like woof yeah yeah. So I was out of everything. So now I'm thinking, what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? So I came up with a bunch of specials of the food that we had. So I made like a barbecue trio, which is like a bunch of I had a bunch of what do you call those little slider
buns? So I made a bunch of slider things, cooked as much wings as I could. Randa Walmart drained them of, like the wings, and because I needed chicken wings and we were completely out and I wasn't I wasn't stopping Saturday night. So it was good. We survived. It was good. I noticed that you sent an elderly gentleman here. Uh in his family
they said, no, boy recommended this place. And I said, okay, awesome, perfect, And he's like, well, I really wish you had this in this And I was like, sir, let me tell you exactly what happened. So I told him exactly what happened. I told everybody. You know, I really wish I had your wings or this or that, but you know, I told him and I was like, look, you know, we're you know, we're still new. We're a month and we're getting there. We're getting there, but we're getting better every day,
We're learning. Every day, we're getting better. I'm cooking more food. I think we're at probably forty eight forty nine racks a day and I and those are gone. Those are gone by two o'clock. So people get mad at me, and I'm like, bro, listen to me, like just get here early, like if you want. I literally have a line of probably six to ten people waiting in line every day or Thursday through Sunday getting in here because they know the food goes quick. But you know, we
cook as much as we can, but it is what it is. The weekend, the weekend was good. It was a solid, solid, solid weekend. Well that's good. See you ready for thunder here? Yeah? So bro check this out. So there's a girl that her name's Caitlin. She owns a it's called Desert. It's like a T shirt women foutique place. It's a very nice building. She's got a huge following she's got I mean, she's massive online store type thing. Anyway, she's Caddy corner for
me, and she makes this jewelry where she like solders. I don't know, I don't know how it works, but they sold her jewelry and like it's like hillbilly type stuff, you know, like women things. I have no clue. Anyways, Yeah, she does this so as girls are FBI agents, I think I think all girls should work for the FBI, because she's talking about them on her show this morning. Yes you know what I'm
saying. Wow, I one hundred percent think they should. Like I don't know what the government's doing, they need to hire all chicks because they figure everything out. Anyways, So this girl tracks down Laneye Wilson's brother who lives in Tucson. She sends Lanye Wilson's brother all this jewelry to send to Lanie Wilson, and somehow she gets this dude's number. I don't know. She's telling me all about this Saturday. So she's the jewelry or he you know.
So the brother gets a jewelry sends it to Laney. Laney went on like three I think it was three three shows all over the country wherever she performs, wearing wearing this chick's jewelry. And now chick Caitlyn has all these photos of Lanny Wilson wearing her stuff on stage, on stages at these three things. How she found these? I have no idea. That's awesome.
And she's like freaking out and she's like, I'm in. The whole family's in Tucson and they're all coming out here for her show obviously, and they're getting Laney Wilson to go shop at her shop. So I haven't talked to her yet, but awesome tomorrow. And she's a big fan of the place too. She eats here every weekend. She's, you know, Caitlyn, the girl that owns the store. She's a big fan of us. Like, yo, like if she comes in, like, I will shut the
restaurant down. You tell dump truck to come on in. That's funny. Yes, we're ready, We're ready, We're jack all right. Well, if you're ready, if you're ready, I bring to you. Oh no, Phil live from Yo a car. I'm straight I'm straight out of the I'm straight out of alleged Connecticut. Baby, you know what I mean. I'm on the East when you got hey, you haven't religions? Go hey, hey, Phil, though, I have a question for you. No, I got a question for you. Cannot ask my question first, No,
I went first, I said, I led first the question. So you are you're you clean? You claim to quote unquote be a Yukon graduate. Okay, Yukon played in the national Championship in the final four this weekend here and you here hurt me. I know it hurt my feelings. And you know what else? I found out, Barrel, you cannot bet on
the home team if you're in the same state in Connecticut. Because I was betting on Yukon last night and I went on my app and it was like, the law is that Connecticut you cannot bet on college a college team in your home state. I was like, this is some bull, Barrel. I should text you and say, yo, put my money on here. Oh you would have had been a lot to win much because those odds weren't trust me. I was all bout it. All right, So you are
you are in Connecticut? What what what has you? Back East? Yo? All right? So back East? I got two grand babies in Groton, Connecticut, and a daughter and my older granddaughter and you here chuckling in a passenger seat. I can't wait to I'd rather talk about in my in my uh yeah, it's de spring break and I found then sc a comp that I was able to pull up in over the weekend, you know what I mean? And how did you do? Yeah? We made a family
trip. We made a family trip. Did family out there to the contest? Me and so, me and son, me and me and her. Yeah, man, yeah, I can't wait till you give her the phone. So we have to know, though, how did you do? Yeah? What happened? All right? All right? You want to you want to hear. You want to hear what happened? How did you do? I don't want we don't want to know. Bs. All right, okay, don't drop the tongus because all right, first off, I want to
say we got so much love out there. Everybody was like, yo, don't drop the tongs you missed last episode. I'm like, how am I in on the other side of the nation and people know that I missed last episode, Like it just dropped like on Thursday night or something like that, And everybody already know on Saturday boarding that miss last episode. But he was getting mad love respect to them East Coast. Was it a state mob East Coast or something like that? Yeah? Yeah, Yo, it was mad
love out there. So I had a game plan, right, I've been I've been hitting up Barrel. I was asked Barrel for his mom this dough recipe for Detroit pizza. I've been home flipping dough. Don't call me dough boy, but I make dough, you know what I mean. So I was doing all the mama Barrel's recipe, And did you follow it correctly? Like the water temperature? No? No, Bro. I was like a
scientist. I had right, I had I had a I had a scale out, and I'm weighing the work and putting the dough together, and I'm like, yo, it's insane, right, and it's like stir in this direction for this amount of time, then counterclass exactly, Yo, kneeling for this amount of time, letting proof of this. I'm like, bro, this is a lot of directions. No way, Phil, use this recipe. No way, I will I attest. Yes, he did. For
once he followed someone's recipe. Wow, I was gonna say, no way, Phil's out there doing no way, No way, he's doing that, yo. So so Barrel, I'm coming back with the third place trophy for mob dukes. She gotta take it. She got she gotta take it. I'm bringing, I bring and yo. And we was only away from second place, like eighth above. How many people were in the cop It was fifty. It was like fifty one, fifty people. Fifty one people at
this back Yo. Yo, it was crazy. I love East Coast like competitions, but Kyle, I know they all do the same thing, right, and it kind of brings out what a lot when we had our last guess on and it was like, yo, you gotta, you know, when you're in the area, kind of stick to what everybody else is doing because it becomes unfamiliar. My taste scores was point on steak my done.
This was like forty nine forty eight and I couldn't understand it because me and Sonny did a test steak out there, split it open, bro and it was dead nuts. So and all of them, all of everything I did, tryhards. I did it the same temp. I pulled it, you know, one rested to like you know, thirty eight, like the one we ripped open, and then the other one rested to like one forty one. It should have been dead nuts. But this is the deal that I
noticed that these cats do out here. They make perfect circles of this steak. Yeah, and East Coast and even talking to the judges, Yo, they told me, they was like, yo, you know, we want to see a steak. We don't want to see you know, something made into a steak. We went so, you know, I give them the natural beauty, like cop saying, but you trimmed, Yeah, you trimmed the tail off. You did all that. Now, remember they got to they cut the steak in half before it even gets to a judge's hands.
So there's no way they're going to know if that, you know, if they want it to look like a normal steak. Bro, what I'm saying, I know what you're saying. Everybody's steak was perfect circles. Wow that that bro, That East Coast moteak they don't even play. I'm not hating. I'm not hating at all. I loved it. I loved my scores
because I wasn't far off and and my ribs. I went through my rib practice, but we I had ribs on and we was also doing stake selection, and I didn't put them in the bottom of the pan and it got dark on the bottom. But I still came in like twelfth place. What kind of rich did you? Did? You do? Normal ribs? I did? I did Perry Fresh, competition pet yeah yeah yeah, competition style yo, damn money my yo. I got the top taste score yo. And in my texture and what else? I didn't hit it. Everything was
fifties. But it was just so it was such high of a point, you know what I mean, anything could have knocked you off. You know what I mean. Your you had to turn the red mountain immediately from ribs into like for the pizza. Yeah, I had one cooker out there. Yeah yeah, So I had to finish my ribs before I could even put the pizza joint on it. Pizza was in first, So I cam Bro, you know you know how I do Oh yeah, I know I know
how you do it? The bixed Moidel bix Ologies of the Joy. But all right on, so give the phone, give the phone to Sonny. Now it's Sonny's turn. No, I don't know if I bout like this, I don't know, all right, So we're gonna set the table here. We're gonna set the table here real quick. We've we've mentioned this lovely woman, We've called her a saints of God. You uh, we've said that you were a professional, like I don't know, like a circus handler.
I mean you you handle kill the grill. We are talking to his lovely wife Stunny who me the grill exactly. I don't sendy. I don't know how you do what you do. I don't and I only know why not know how you do. I have to ask why you do. It's a lot barrow, you know what I will have to say, Thank you Beryl. First of all, thank you Kyle, because Kyle lesbian and I love Kyle, I love Pops, I love Tyler, I love everyone.
It is a lot of work. He's like the mad scientist and I love him so much, and it is I can't explain what it's like at home. I couldn't. I drive on you know, ten eight twelve hour trips with him. I couldn't handle it. I'm double phil after the car. I spend ninety minutes a week with him, and that I'm done. You Pops have had a glimpse into my life, so I am what is the
Sioux chef, the jack Ball trades the mind reader. So while he's coming up and he's like thinking and he's his mind is like one hundred miles ahead of me, and I had to catch up. This is like on a daily basis. So I've seen it. I've seen it in action. You've seen an emotion, you see the action. I will say that the people this weekend, they were so lovely. There was so welcoming. It was
like it was a really great experience. It was extremely extremely cold, and the people around us were like so giving and you know because of course, and Kyle, I was going to ask you that was my next question. This was my next question. We were there were some things we were missing, of course, I know, so we had to do we had to make do so. But I had to say the the host of the competition
was so well Scotty Scotty. Scott Scotty like provided us with so many things, and we did, I have to say t s A. Yes, we did have to have a lot of items come through T say, and we did get We did receive a love note from TSA, so you know they did comment on what was in our bin. But like it was such a great experience. It was really really cold, but so many people were so nice and so welcoming, and it was a great experience. I will
say this, all of our competitions it's the same. So whether it's Kyle, it's Smitty, it's whomever it is, that like fills in the blanks. It is such a great experience because you're competing, but everyone is. It's it's a family affair. So although you're competitors, like whether you know you're like your flavor profile, your technique, whatever it is, that's so similar, but it's different and it's like it just comes out to the expertise
of the pitmaster and I love it. It's good. Well, you know that's why they call it there exactly, there's that big saying sca family, barbecue. Family, there's that whole thing. Every contest, it's every he's welcoming and everybody's I know what you I know exactly what you're saying. Everybody's cool. It's not like it's a cutthroat type deal you would see on TV
or something. It's not even like that, not at all. And then you have like the people by position, the sou chef slash wives slash teamers. You don't get all of the love. But I'm the background person holding up agree, Yes you are. Everybody whoever has been in our circle knows that I'm back in the I'm like in the background holding it up right. Oh, we know, we're well aware. We're well aware. Do you do you dress Phil? Do you do you pick out his clothes? I
was gonna say concerning I don't think the guy can sometimes dress himself. Yes, yes, Beryl, I have my angel wings. Everyone knows that my angel wings are always flying angel wings. I think you need a whole I think you need a whole fleet of angels. I mean, you know how they talk about like Mother Teresa in her day, which she was like like out of world and was like that's you, Like you were like, what should be up for st there should be Saint Sonny the grill, Holy biscuits.
I don't know how you do it. Now, all right, since since we're since you have the phone right now, we need to know a story of when Phil was in a competition when you just literally not just did a one palm into the face, just did put your head in your hands, and what is going on? We need one of those stories because I know you got an encyclopedia, then just give us. I think Reno would have been were fighting like cats and dogs in Reno. That's one of the
first kind of mine. So perfect. Oh my god. So I have to tell Beryl, like everyone Kyle Pops justin h smitty Molly, everyone knows that, like I'm so patient, Like I like, I'm that's just my disposition. But in many years, we've been doing this a long time, and every now and then has come the time where I'm like, I am about to kill commit murder blah blah blah blah blah. So we're in Reno and we're and my niece, my lovely niece, and my my niece's daughters
and her husband all drove up to Reno. We all like made the road trip. We bought Gooch. Gooch's cousin dog was there. Yeah, it was a great time. But however, tensions, as everyone knows that competes, whether it's like friends, wife and husband, whatever the case is. You know, you have certain experiences as the clock tics, it gets very very tense, and it's tense when it comes time, when it's come when you know you have to box and you know, it's just it gets very
very tense. So Phil and I were in the the RV. The tenses, the tense was very high, and his his disposition and his demeanor was becoming very very tense, and he was saying things. And as a wife, I'm like, okay, I'm I'm trying to be nice and accept that, but as a human being, I'm like, I'm about to kill this person. So at a certain point I had to tell him, like, either you calm down, or we're gonna have to go behind this RB and
we're gonna have to have a discussion. Discussion was going to be I was going to lay my hands on him because, as everyone knows, when you come to that moment and the clock is ticking, and I get it because he's a mad scientist. He's like, you know, making everything happen. But at the same time, like you have to keep everything into perspective.
You know, it's it's tense, you're plating, You're like trying to find the right like whether it's the right pork pieces, the right ribs, the right chicken, like, you know, it's just but it was a learning experience, was that really? It wasn't a learning experience. It was a moment in time where you have to realize that your mouth can overload your ass, my mother says, And so you have to be as my mother would say, So you know, you still have to be cognizant of your counterpart.
And he had lost his mind and I was going to kill him in Reno, but disposition. Yes, yes, the murder almost happened in Reno, but we did GC, and I almost killed him the story. That's what it takes fulfill the grill, the GC. My wife got to be almost ready to kill you because at that moment in time, you know, there's so much on the table. You know, you're so concentrated on the product, the cook time, the taste, the tenderness, the appearance,
and it becomes so intense and you want to make sure everything's perfect. So emotions are heightened and you're you're, you're, you know, you're so hyper focused on ensuring that your product is the best sentation of who you are. Yeah, and at that moment, you still have to be respectful all of the fucking person next to you. So, yo, look all right, that's enough, that's enough sunny talk, bro. My cut off. Yoah, check this, but check this out. I love you guys. I'm
on vacation, so I'm I'm going to sign off. It's me and Sonny's fourteen years. Oh congratulations, congratulations? Hold up? Hold up? Where's where's Phil taking you? And right now he's got her in a car. Where are the casino? The casino? Fourteen years? You're taking her to a casino? Yo, Look, Towns is in this casino. I got
why didn't you why didn't you dress up? He did know, because this is not okay, Tomorrow's are anniversary officially right now, we just pregaming for the anniversary and we got to watch the babies in the morning, so really quick, we were in Okay, this is not barbecue related, but we did a pre game in San Diego and he was really kind. He was about to flow find out all my friends. Gordon Ramsey was there that weekend and he got me incridly drunk on Friday night. I was so hungover on
my birthday. I couldn't even celebrate it. I was disgustingly hungover. We pray game so hard it was bad. So, hey, what time? What time was Phil's first beer this weekend? On Saturday? What time was his first drink, maybe eight am. And we did shots. No, we did shots, and yeah we did Kyle Kyle, and I'll pass the phone back to Sun. I'll pass the phone. Look. Look, look I wasn't drinking. I didn't have not one bottle with me. She just said, yeah, yeah, but that was the nine to eleven shot.
You know, everybody had to do it. Look, they hosted me. They had my head set up. I'm gonna be like, oh, I can't do it, bro Like Matt from Australia was next door to us. I forgot his team name, but Matt, he was really good. Like he also the same thing. He was like by the end, he's like, I need to drink. But every we were all sober next everyone all right, yeah, I get my egg game, Brodie. I'm just saying I know, because I know how it goes when then you get But I
gotta go freaking talk to my brother. I gotta go talk to my brother. Why my ribs came in twelve place? If these are the same ribs, I'm trying to cook that smoke slam and let him and let him give me a pass on this one, you know, because it was it was right, But yeah, we're gonna go into this U casino, Yo barrel. What's the first number on Roulette twelve? Now green double Zeros? Hit it big? Now all right, I'm going with it. I'm going with
it. I'm going I'm going with both. All right, go celebrate your anniversary. Appreciate y'all. I love y'all, I love ya, Thank you. Tell Malma, Tell Malma Barrow. We got her war coming to him. I will let her know I love him. Yes, I will let him know. Oh, that's just living the life in New York or Connecticut. Must be nice, must be nice, must be nice. The grill. He's the most beautiful soul. I know. I've always wanted to get Sonny on here. Just no podcast she got. Oh, it'd been great,
it'd be great. That's awesome. Well, good for film. Glad he got a call. Thank you, Beryl for hooking him up with the
I just really don't see him out there. That's well, that's what I'm saying to her and doing what I'm saying, Like that dough, like that recipe is intense, Like yeah, that camera, I have to look at it, but it's like the water temperture needs to be like, yeah, you said it to me degrees and it's I looked at it and I was like, nah, it's like seventy six degrees, and like your yeast is
X amount of grams. Yeah, and like your flowers X amount of grams of flower and like you know everything, and you like turn you spin the the mixture one way for like ninety seconds another way. It's like and it ain't no joke. I mean it is intense. But hey, if he did it, it works. I mean I saw the videos and the pictures that he sent, and I mean it looked dang good. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know, clearly he's clearly he did it.
He did it right. And and if he did the trick that I told him to, which I'm not going I'm gonna turn up soup and on it, that crust really really browned up, which judging by the photos, I think he did. So you did. I mean, he he did the he did the turn up soup or you know, he turned up soup to
it, like I was saying, so good on him. All Right, I got a question, bro, Yeah, what what's the what's the what's the latest thing on social media that's been driving you crazy, like food trend wise, Yeah, like anything popping off kind of driving you a little bit nuts because I got them. I got one that's just like, come on, you sent it to me. I sent it which which was it? So it's okay. So there's these influencers, right and god, you know, oh about okay, Yeah, the brisket one, God bless them.
They can do it. But these people that are just like throwing videos together now that are just like it's almost like there's this trend of like I don't know what to do next, so they just get a briskuit and trim it half assed and that trim that brisket video. And again I'm not gonna call the person out because you know what, they're making a living doing it, so God bless them. I was like that trim is god awful, you know, and just you're in your you've got influence on like you're like you're
an influencer. You have to have influence of like showing people how to trim a brisket and like this will make it tender, Like what part is that? I just don't get that's gonna make it tender by trimming it that way? It was man, but have you seen this, You've seen this latest? Uh, everybody doing poppers these days. Poppers is like really popping off right now. So I'm running. I'm running. Uh. We got about five hundred and fifty fifty poppers made ready to hit the smoker tomorrow night that
we're going to be popping off at the restaurant, so we'll see. Speaking of videos, did you see uh the ig food with bare hands his uh, bro, his stuff's his videos. You're not following him masterpieces? He cooks on a GMG. He's got an alligator, he smoking a GMG. Twenty million views, Yeah, of course, Yeah, dude, the guy. The guy is on you know, because MG's asked me to do videos and stuff for him, make them content. And I'm just like, Bro,
I cannot compete with the guy with bare hands. I can't do it. Like his stuff is immaculate, Like it's literally watching like a commercial commercial. You know what I'm saying. Incredible. If you're not following him yet, make sure your food with bare hands, dude, stuff is legit. I okay. You know one thing that I will say that it's a really annoying me on social media that okay, I know we've we've given grief to people who with flat tops that type, so I don't fill has had issues
with that, right. Yeah. What I am getting sick and tired of is people who are trying to everybody's trying to be like the Tepanyaki chefs, which again, that's one of the great things about a flat tips. You can do that, yes, but everybody is like throwing like you know, hot oil and everything else on it and making these big fireballs over this. I'm like, dude, these people are gonna blow themselves up. And they're like, oh, you know, they make it look in these videos like
it's so easy. I'm like, no, oh, yeah, it's easy to make a fire. Yes, I mean it's not hard to make a fire, but they make it look safe in those videos. And now you just feel their backyards trying to do this. And I had a buddy of mine that was like, yeah, I'm gonna do a Tepaniaki. Ninety's like I'm like okay, He's like you're downe the volcano and like, well, yeah, the volcano's not hard, like you just it's like, I can't do it. It's not it's easy. Stack it. You put vodka in
it. You put it and I was it goes oh, it does its thing. Yeah. Well he's like yeah, but I saw this thing where you knocked the volcano down onto like this whole pool of oil and it like flares up. I'm like, you're creating a grease fire and he's like, well, yeah, it burns out right. I'm like, yes, it burns out when the oil goes away. But you talked about making a puddle of oil and I'm like, bro, like, no, that's not gonna
work. Well, Like, so that's one thing I would say is I mean, I'm all for the flat typ for being creative, but if you are going to be doing any of this Tepaniaki style and going to be doing playing with fire and oil in alcohol, yeah not a good mix. Please be smart. Please make sure you're not doing it under the overhang of a house. Make sure you don't have children around, Make sure you don't eat your eyebrows anytime soon, Like come on people. Yeah yeah. But so
so I'm in a county. It's called Panal County, right, It's not Maricopa, it's Panal. So there is a they do this March madness bracket. So they get all the businesses in Panal County. I think it's over five hundred businesses, maybe more. I don't know, I could be wrong. I didn't count at all, but it's massive, this massive bracket. So we're they asked me, they asked us to be a part of it.
So you know, we're a part of it. So the deal is they post they post the storefronts of each business and you're you're ranked you know, one through or whatever it is, and so then you go head to head with these businesses, and the people of social media or anybody that's online can even give a heart for one business or a thumbs up for the other business, and you get like three or four days and then whoever wins, now you move on to the next thing. So I was not aware that
we were in this in this tournament. They kind of we were already in it, and then they kind of reached out and said, hey, you're in this tournament blah blah blah, and I was like, okay, cool, So I kind of like checked it out and we were in the I don't know, I think it was the sweet sixteen by the time he told me, and people were just I mean, we were crushing, crushing, crushing, crushing, and I'm like all right, and he's like, well,
you should probably post about it and do this and do that. And I'm like, you know, I'm not that big of a you know, let the people speak to I don't want to just put it out there anyways. So we made it to the final four, right, and we're going against this uh what do you call it, one of those Mexican markets, like a Carnissiria market. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a Carnissiria. Yeah. And they're posting all over the place, pumping votes, just doing this, doing that. I'm like, oh boy, all right, So I
put out a nice friendly post. I said, hey, you know, barbecue, you're behind barbecue fans. Please, you know, if you like us, please give us a you know, help us vote. Blah blah blah blah blah. And we crushed it all the way to the championship. So we were in the championship against the business. So the final four, no, the final eight, the final eight was all businesses in Florence, which is pretty cool. I mean, you know, because Panow County is
huge, you got all you know, it's all over the place. So we made it to the you know, the eight, so we got to the final four. Now we're into the championship. We are going against a business it's called the Fudge Shop and they are absolutely fricking amazing. They make sandwiches, they got fudge, any kind of fudge you need they got and family, you know, family owned operated the whole deal. Very awesome place. They've been there for fourteen years, massive, huge following. So we're
up against them, bro for the championship. So I had to put a post out to get some votes and say, look, you vote for us, I'm gonna put something special on the menu to celebrate, you know, if we win and bringing home a championship and blah blah blah blah blah. So that's that's my dilemma, right, not my dilemma, but that's how do people vote for you? So you can give the photo on your Behind Barbecue a thumbs up. You can click on the original post and it's got
one hundred and ninety seven likes and loves. So as we stand right now, it is ninety one for the Fudgshop and it is a one hundred and seven for Year Behind Barbecue. So you do it. Where do you do it again? You do it right on Facebook, right on Facebook, on my page. I put a post out that said, you know, we need you know, we made it to the championship, we need to win this. Blah blah blah blah blah. You click on that post and you
can you can vote. But I know that sounds kind of bad for me getting on here kind of promote that you got to do, buddy, But first time business. I really really, really really want to win this. The whole crew here, the staff, everybody wants to win this. Will have a big celebration next week if we can pull this off. But we're going against heavy hitters, bro, Like these guys are the town of Florence,
you know what I'm saying. So, but you know, and there's also people that are like, I can't vote, Like I'm not voting because you guys are both amazing. I can't I'm not voting for you. I can't vote. So anyways, that's my dilemma right now. We're working that out right here live at the restaurant. There you go, buddy, Yes, sir, that's your dilemma. Well, you'd be good, you'd be safe, you survive yourself country Thunder hopefully since starting rolling through. So bro,
hope you'll be the first time. You'll be the first one FaceTime, dude, look at the dump truck on lady sleing some food, get some photos, posting on social, post up in the restaurant. Man, all good things coming away. I'm proud of you, brother, Thank you, sir, Thank you all right, and thank you to Phil for the first appearance in two episodes. Glad we were able to steal him for five minutes out of his busy schedule. I mean, it must be hard being Phil
the grill. But most importantly, thank you to Sonny his wife for coming on. My gosh, that woman deserves like there should be a Saint Day or like that all the time. We should like like give her a day, like I don't know what that day looks like, but like there's like, you know, she's a sweetheart, bro, Like yeah, her and I bonded at Memphis in May because Phil and Pops had to drive back and
I had to take my ass to work. So Sunday and I stayed an extra day in Memphis and we went to the uh where do we go it? The Elvis Presley whole we went to that grace, we went to that whole deal. We had Jamaican food rank our ass off like it was. We had a bonding experience and I'm like, how are you putting up with Phil? Like what? What's sweetheart? She's awesome, she keeps feeling check. I love it so all right, Well, thank you everybody, We
appreciate You'll be back next week with you guys. Thank you. Be safe later.