We Saw The Future!!

Let's get this rolling today. Don't drop the Tongs podcast on Barrel. We've got Phil Johnson, Phil the grill with us. Kyle, you're behind Barbecue, Birds and Bones, his restaurant coming soon. It'll happen, Buddy, positive thoughts for you. It's gonna happen. So the three of us are super excited because we got to see the all new Green Mountain Grills. I saw it yesterday. You guys saw it today. And now when we say all new, we've If you're in the barbecue world, it all you're familiar

with the Green Mountain Grills. They're awesome. Yes, take the current Green Mountain Girls, take the peak and the ledge and all those different models. Take it and go ahead and as I said, give it a good old shot of testoster. Yeah, that thing. These new grills awesome the world. Yeah, Jason Baker, Green Mountain Girls had us out and you just put the world on notice. I'm telling you, these smokers are amazing. Black on black, yeah, exactly. The colors of them, the colors

of them are gorgeous. They look awesome. The new features, I don't want to give it all away, but I'm gonna tell you the new features coming. Everything about these smokers are incredible. By the way, we are not sponsored by this, We are not getting any money on this. Weird is giving you an honest review of this. These new smokers from Green Mountain

are absolutely amazing. Every feature, in my opinion, everything that you've liked about all smokers, Green Mountain, Rectech, Tregger, all the difference. You take them all and you take all the positives of those and you put it in a blender and you pour it out, and you made the new Green Mountains that are going to be coming out here in Q four. The way everything goes as planning me when the world can always change. But we're

hearing coming in time for the holidays, holiday shopping. I'm telling you they are absolutely think in every backyard should get one. Right. So yeah, like the typical builder right coat was that you should have a propane grill and a side burner outside, right, But I feel like this will replace it. This will totally replace it because it's all in one. And guess what, barrel, there's no island that needs to stay standard in your backyard.

You can pull it in your shed or your backyard to just put a cover over it. Yeah, and again I don't know what we're really allowed to share regarding features coming because I know allowed it's supposed to be a surprise. But I'm going to tell you the features of this. Yeah, I want to talk about that grill. Yeah, they're absolutely amazing. It's gonna you're gonna see it on social media. There's gonna be he's gonna shock the world.

Bright Yes, there's gonna be people saying snock in the world. He's putting the world unnoticed. It's one hell of a comeback story. I can't wait. I don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years. I'm so excited for it. And you know, the thing that I'm looking forward to the most about these is to see people's reactions to them. Yeah,

because when we it was where we saw it at was. I was at a house in a backyard and there's doing some social media shots and I walk out there and I was like, wow, like there was no having a fake you know, like you know, you open the ugly sweater on Christmas and you go, oh, thanks and so and so, this is awesome. No. I was like, dude, I turned to go out there and look at it, say no, no, no, no, No, they right here, dude. They are incredible. Dude, it's

gonna shock the world so excited before Green Mountain. They're gonna be awesome. And you know it's funny, is I know all three of us have a Green Mountain. I went home. I like, I said, I saw it yesterday and I went home yesterday and I was like, I look at my old one. I was like, it was a good run, buddy, I know right. I was like, it was a good run.

But the new one's coming and it is absolutely awesome. You don't do what your buddy does and sell it from like two hundreds, know what I actually what I'll do is so I have had my original Green Mountain that has kind of become like my my project. I've customized it, like I put I put all new uh, I put bigger tires on it. I got a bottom rack I got. I built my own front rack for it, or actually my dad did built my own front rack for it. It's got a

cutting board. I mean, this thing is like set up to go like tailgating. But my current h my current one that I got about a year and a half or two years ago. I will take that one when I replace that one, and I will give it to a buddy of mine and get him into smoking. But here we go, I'll give it away because I'm telling you, this new GMG coming out is gonna have people talking,

buzzing. And I know people are loyal to certain brands. Some people love Trigger, some people love Rectech. And you know what, you can cook on whatever you want. Just enjoy cooking, get out, have fun, experiment, do stuff. But I'll just say this, It's kind of like if Ford comes out with a great truck and Chevy, people go, oh, I won't look at that because it's a Ford, by the way,

but take the on those blinders on this. And when this new Green Mountain comes out, go to your local barbecue store and check it out with an open mind and you're gonna go wow. And you know, ls, what's cool about it. This thing's gonna come out and it's gonna take the bar that is set here and the but it's gonna it's gonna and I'm exciting. You know what it's gonna be great is Tragger's gonna step up, reck TeX's gonna step up. People are gonna step up. The bar is gonna keep

getting risks. The industry needed this. When we talked to Mike from Barbecue Island, what did he say. He's like, he goes, I want to see smokers and this type of stuff step up. I want to see the I want to see the evolution. I want to see it grow. And he did. And he did, but and Green Mountain was like, Okay, we listened, bam. So we're super excited for it looking forward to this. Yeah, you know, and and I just want to say this. You know, I've actually met Jason early on, you know,

and did some the older Jason Baker. Yeah, I did some b row with Smitty from Loon Booty, me and him, and it was like the first videos. If you go back, it's like we got some got a ton of views on it. Yet we got some power chicken power power music in the background and and me and some video they're doing ribs or that. I'm just calling that out because just going back in history from that to what

I just saw it today. He deserves it. Bro. You know, he's a hard working, hardworking business man, and he's honestly and he's is passionate about what he's delivered. Yes, I mean he's when he's just talking about the product. You can see the passion in his face. And that's I'm gonna say again, you can buy whatever you want to buy. You We're not going to tell you what to buy. But we believe in supporting honest, loyal, hard working, good people and people that you can see

put their blood, sweat and tears into it. And you can see looking at these new gmgs the hours spent not just designing, but listening to consumers. Yes, yes, all the comments that people make on social media saying I wish you had this, those comments have been listened to, those comments have been understood, those comments have been formulated into ideas that have been implemented

into this new smoker. It's absolutely incredible. And I know, you know everybody will say, oh, well, you know, a smoker's a smoker. Yeah, you know what. That is true to a point. But there's features that are gonna be on this new one that you're gonna go, Okay, I need this. It's absolutely awesome. And again, Jason Baker Greenmount one of the best dudes out there, Such a charitable, honest man.

I mean I know a few people, a few situations personally where I'm like, hey, man, this person, this organization, whatever, this is what they're cooking on, this is what they need. And within seconds I got a new GMG showing up in my doorstep. The guy's amazing, so absolutely awesome props to him. Let's get into the next chapter going on, Phil, you went to a competition. Last time we talked, we did the podcast. You were heading to California, Yes, for a Famous

Days compas. Ye. And you're still trying to get the golden tickets. Yeah, trying to get to the happen. Let's talk about this. What happened? So, so I went out there. There was what how many teams? Yeah? It was about six six six teams? Right. I went out there and I was game game face, right, So I did hear from Kyle. Kyle was like, yo, you know, I'll come in and help, but blah blah blah. I was like, bro, it's only like three turnings, Like how can I not make three turnings?

And he was focused. I was checking on him. Yeah, I'd see some of his some of his stories. What you typically everybody does that you got to you got the headphones on. He's not talking to nobody. I know, I know, I know, Phil, you got the headphones on. He was talking. I'm like, yo, get out of my way. But but I already knew, you know, Barrow. And this is

what I always call out. You know, I get mad at myself when or I get mad at comps when I feel like I did the best of everything, and I get like low calls, right, but low scores. But this this time, I knew exactly what I did. The chicken came out. The texture was bad, you know, I left it in bad and it was in mushy it was and it was because I left it in my butter bath too long, so that butter started taking It was just chicken. I did wings, and I didn't even put the wings in there because

they weren't even worse. They were worse. It was just in that butter bath. And that was because there was so many steps at my wild card that I was. I was setting alarms to come back, to do this, to come back and being by myself, and then people coming in because you were told in the beginning, it's like, hey, you know, people really want to talk to you and they want to understand what you're doing.

I mean, you've seen the one in California. We did right on the board walls three of us. Well I don't know, but I mean some people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so I was like, you know, I can handle it. Once Chicken comes out, I'm gonna put it in a box, Once ribs come out, I'm gonna put it in a box. And wild cards. So these are thirty These are thirty minute turnings. Yeah, it is this hour and a half, ninety minutes and it takes you what, how long does it take you to put a

box together? Like wait, maybe like like cutting it and putting it, placing it seven minutes, So you're already into like the next twenty minutes into your next turnam right, especially ribs because now you're slicing and reglazing and do it so and also building a whole wild card that you got to get in and wild card which is it doesn't have to go into a box. Yeah,

you get a plotter. Yeah, and you have to decorate this plotters, you know, Phil went with I did a Porterhouse pork shop with a look sweet sweet potato bacon puree underneath, and then I did a brandy peach barbecue sauce on top, and it was killing it was posted. No not yet, I think, yo, No, I am. I gotta get back to posting. I kind of took two weeks off because I just had a lot going on. But I got to get back to my social media. That's one of the things that I wanted to do is post that picture.

Okay, hold, let's go back. So how'd you do in chicken? Chicken was like fourth brook off and then I got two second place calls. Would get ribs for second, and then my wild card was second. So you know what if that Chicken was one of two? Yeah, yeah, if it got too I would I would have I would have had to go to ticket. I would had a ticket. And that's what I went

out there for. I didn't even want the cast. I wanted. I noticed when because Famous Dave's post their results, and I noticed that wild card plays a major factor. Yes, in your in your overall Yes, because we were remember on our drive home when I did it first Chicken, first, ribs, third, wild card and I got reserved. Yeah yeah, you know, and then as you're studying these results, the wild card is like so when he told me he hit second in wild card, remember it

might be all right, yo, because you remember. All right, let's go back to the story because we ain't shared that part because it was two weeks ago that it was coming back to me. Barrel. I was so pissed that I went all the way I heard. I heard about all the way out there, ten hours right, driving by myself, ten hours driving by myself, went out there, and I was like, yo, I'm not even wanting four awards, I said, I said yo, I said yo, Pop, I said pop, I said pop. So so my

man Timiko out there shouts out the pops barbecue, I said. I said, bro, if I went anything, just send it to me. I'm out. Did you help him clean up? I? Yes, I did? You helped him put things? I took everything down and sept the tent. They were still using the tent, but I took everything down and then cleaned it. Yes, I cleaned it and and I brought it because we know your reputation. I wasn't going there. I was just helpfully clean because okay, did you He called me from the contest, and I'm like,

damn, it's it's like two o'clock or something right. Thing he calls me, and I can hear it. It sounds like he's in a car, so bro. I was like, dude, awards are over already. He's like, nah, I left. I was like, what did you turn everything in? He's like, yeah, I turn everything in. I left. It's like, Phil, come on, man, you can't even gonna stay for wards. No, bro, Yo, I was already. I was already playing in my route back. I was in a circle K getting

gas. I was in a circle K getting gas and there was a Popeye's chicken next go oh man, I was going to get I was getting my drinks. I was gonna go get my chicken, and I was hitting the road forget that cop right. I was like, I got ten hours. I want to get a lot of this night. Now wait, hold on, now, hold on. Kyle's texted me, yo, bro, really you left, Like what did you get caught? I was like, oh no. At the same time, Tamiko's hitting me. He's like, yo,

bro, you got second place ribs. And then I'm hitting Kyle. I'm doing all this in circle K line. I'm like, yo, I got second place. And then he's like wild Cart. I was like, what you get for wild Cart? I was like second place. He's like, bro, where are you on an overall. Now I'm getting excited. I'm like, wait, maybe I got a check. So Phil goes out to his car with the pump still pumping right the cases. I drive off with the pump still in my car, and I'm like, and I go,

hang the sucker back up and then drive back to the competition. You drove back. You did it because I left my Jetti cooler too. I was so miserable with that comp and I met your chicken. So I got my comp I got I mean, I got my uh, I got my cooler, I got my checks, and then I drove back. So where's the nozzlet? During this? Is it dragging down the highways? You go? As soon as I pull As soon as I pull off, I heard

it, and I was like, oh, And then I looked. There was one lady coming out the bathroom and she saw me, and I just hung it right back up on the gosh us. All right? So that was what you finish overall? Uh? It was like third, third or fourth, I think, So what's the next competition? Chicken? Yeah, Chicken tore me up. I knew that from the beginning. I tasted. I didn't even want it. I was looking to borrow somebody's chicken and put it in my pock. I was like, bro, you ain't gonna use

they just don't because these are horrible. These are better than yas, is better than whatever I cooked right now. But no, So what's the next comp? Next comp? I wanted to go to Utah, but I didn't make it up there. I uh, I don't know. I think it's gonna be but I think I'm out of the world foods. I don't have a wow. This is what I was gonna yo, So I'm gonna need the sus chef I got Pops. It's right now. It's just Pops and

listen, hold on this. The only thing I'm asking hold on is you need to come sush chef me. Smitty listens every single one of these, and we need to go after Smitty's bleep that weekend. Smitty won the whole thing already, I know, so wait, so why don't we team up and go after the teacher? Why are you poking? Why are you poking? My brother? So I know, but Smith, I didn't call you

out on that. I don't want to you go out there with your calm, cool, collective way with nobody poking him because if you poke him, then he's gonna get upset. And he's there's zero poking here. That I'm saying is he won the whole thing. Of course he'll be back. Why can't you and I team up with it with Pops and go and well, guess guess who I just gets smitty a little up. Guess who I just saw too? That's looking on coming? Yea Andy from roof House. I

hope he said. I was proud of him. Yeah, he's cooking, Uh, California. He took the year off of competing. So I just want to go over something real quick here, Phil. You maybe Kyle sous chef, So that means Kyle is going to be your boss. Look Kyle be your daddy. Ye look at how was my daddy in Long Beach? And I gave him some good grit. I told him. I was like, I was like, chef, just tell me what you want and I'll give it to you the best way. I don't meet that at all.

Yes, chef, yes, chef, Okay, yes, first that's all I'm gonna say. Yes, No, I'm not Jeff as crap hold on as much crap as I give Phil and all the crap that I talked to him. I mean, I ride Phil all pretty bad, right, but it's all love. I get it, you get it right. But Yo, you put us two together and it's like, listen, Philop, of course you know how much they raised is really you know how to us what they made raised it? I think it's one hundred and fifty thousand. Okay,

So what are we doing? Man? All right? I mean, are you guys getting the boys back? The boys? The way? Are you saying right now on this podcast that you are gonna join Kyle and Pops? Pops, Yes, we're gonna win this damn thing. I mean, let's go after Smitty Sleeve. Smitty's no smites about, you know, because it's like this, we go to contests. Smitty's the king of barbecue, right, He's the king, especially at Arizona. And I'll just tell him I'll pick a meat. I'm like, go, chicken is my day?

Like I'm beating you Today's chicken. Oh, bring it, bring it, bro, And I'm just like, let's go. You know, you gotta have confidence and you're and you're also talking about a person and good friend of a very good friend a person who gets competition, but at the same time doesn't take a personal and would and if you needed something or whatever, he would be there to help. It's friendly competition. It's friendly. It's it's friendly competition. But he uses a motivation. Of course, I know what.

Let me recap on why he takes this his motivation. So we had this team ys B barbecue, right, and so Smitty cooked his luten booty last year at American Royal and just coffini and I cooked as YSB kofini and I take fourth place overall, Okay, Smitty comes over, He's hugging us, He's so proud of us, He's this and that, and he's fuck, he's just so happy. Right. He walks out of the trailer and I look at Justin. I was like, you know what we did,

right? He said, yeah, we just took fourth place over. I was like no, no, no, no, no no. I was like, we just poked the damn bear. You motivated? What do you mean? I was like, you watch what happens to Smitty tomorrow. And I didn't call it. I just said, you watch we poked the bear. And what Smitty do? He Archie sees the damn American Royal opened the next the next day. Yeah, it's it's like it's like the Kobe Bryant thing. Or they used to talk about where when barbecue and let me take

second. We're good, We're good. It's like the Kobe. It's like the Kobe Bryanting. They said, Kobe back in the day, somebody would beat him and he'd be like, congratulations, you beat me. I give you credit. I'm proud of you. And then they said Kobe would be in the gym for the next like umpteen hours and wouldn't leave until, you know, made X amount of shots in row. And then the next time he faced you, he went out and dropped seventy. And you're like,

You're like, I beat you once once. So I mean it's that mom mentality of just I'm just great. So so Phil, Yeah, do you want to come be Pops andized Sush Chef Yea at the Food Food and When a World Fits November in Dallas. November. Oh, it's the second week in November. Second week. Rische always busy and we always try to get you know, that's another thing we should bring up too, Like we try to get a busy person. I get it. It's a busy person.

Narrow becomes our unicorn. Hey, that's true. I'm a busy person. People probably think eventually I will make it to it, but it's like every time, Well then you guys be like, oh, we're leaving on Thursday, Dude, I gotta I got a job. I gotta do. I mean, we sprag about these miles you have up at the airports, all good, but it's the fact of, like you guys are turning it on Friday. I'm like, I wouldn't be able to get there till Friday night. Yeah, well, American Royal, let's go to that for a second.

America Royal. We don't turn in anything when is Royal. That's the last week in of September in October, Craig. Craig Carter has been calling you out September, September, the last weekend of September into October. I think October one is like a Sunday or something like that that possibly could work. Well, we'll look into it. That's fine flying on a Friday night, there's nothing going on. The parties are Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We'll look into it. Maybe we can make that happen. So so are

you gonna be at the Royal the film. Yes, yes, I'm gonna be cooking Phil the Grill at the Royal with my little uh RB. We're gonna have to talk about transportation too, by the way, that's a that's a off the off the record conversation. What smokers we're gonna have We'll talk Oh boy? Okay, So speaking of parties, right, it was Phil the Grill's birthday last week. Yeah, thanks to invite. Now, did

you get any invite to anything? No? And I'm gonna tell you this, but hey, if it's my birthday and we gotta do a podcast, cool, let's do a pocket. By the way, who texted? Who texted you? And staid in the morning? Hey ahead, birthday, love you boys, appreciate yo. That was it. I said. I was waiting for the left, yo, Like, what time you guys done for the day. Yeah, but we didn't get We didn't get in by ten of your gigs. No, I didn't go an come on, we saw

we saw your Instagram? All right. That was the pre game put me out for the whole rest of the week that time. You know you're old preseason, the pre game put me out for the rest of the preseason. Do finished Uly kept it light. I knew my daughter. I had to help my daughter that next week to move to Denver. That's been going and then I'm leaving tomorrow actually tomorrow afternoon to Saint Louis. What St Louis? Oh yeah, I saw this. Yeah. So so it's a a music

food festival. I saw this, and it's called Evolution. I excuse supposed to be there, black bro, let's see me and Mike Johnson. I saw that. Yeah, youn Mike Johnson. I saw that. That's awesome. Yeah yeah. So so I've just been kind of game. My future baby mama or my future xife is gonna be there. Yeah, I know what's going on. So Phil has one job and if he does not do this job. I saw this festival. It looks legit not it is,

it's but it's the first time runner. So and also did you see I saw the headline on the news today they said Middle America under a heat shield, Like Middle America, like specifically Missouri, that are getting like record breaking heats and humidity. People. Yeah, like I'm playing on Facebook Enjoy that joined outdoor festival with breaking and then my brothers are already saying, Yo, we ain't got nothing to do tomorrow. We're gonna tear this town apart.

I'm like, that's not good. That's when when Mike Johnson tells you that. Nope, what's the When are you there? Phil? I'll leave it tomorrow afternoon and then I'll be back Monday morning. Oh yeah, give me nice and cold good one hundred, one hundred and two. That's what happened in Denver. I'm out in Denver, bro and it's one hundred and one hundred two. I was like, I came one hundred and two, one hundred and two with fifty eight percent humidity, feels like one ten. Oh

you want to come out? No, no way, no how getting near that. But hey, you enjoy that, buddy, that You're gonna have all kinds of stories. You're not gonna you're not gonna eat any smokers, sleep it out. Feel's gonna have some great stories that we'll talk off. Have we taught you? Have we taught you anything? Phil? Don't ever put it on video video, especially drug fild put on video, don't put on social turn the phone off. Yep. So I was a diva yesterday

with a diva. Yeah, I played my diva role. Let's say that I played my diva role to the fullest yesterday. Let me take some guesses about what this would be about. Yep, I'm hungry. Okay, that was the beginning part. Because you wouldn't help your daughter moved. Yeah, I'll got t I put together book shows and I took the trash out. I played with luc because I hear about this, I'll drive. So where we go and we go car shopping for her. We go out shopping.

Yeah, she's yo, she's stepping up to the plate. I was like, I was like, you know, because she's so conservative, right and and I told her, I said, you know what, Sadie, I said, do this for me because you want to buy a new car, and you want to give them half of what they want for the car right in cash. And I'm like, okay, great, but treat yourself. Don't get the model that doesn't have nothing, no bells or whistles. You rather get something with the lesser model, with your best in your means.

I'm not saying go over your budget, but denver have a little heated seats, have up, but do do some windows? You know, what I mean, like, make sure it has because you're gonna be with this car, you say, making her and has some creatures of comfort. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Because she's been so conservative all through school, all the way to this point. She's sitting on a nice little bag. I'm just saying, treat yourself as so, how are you a diva?

Diva? This all right? So we went on two car drives. Yo, the streets. I hate the streets. And I'm like, my daughter can't really drive as well as I would like her to drive. And so now I'm tense. I'm ready for drinks, shots foot. She brings me. She brings me, Yo, she brings me to this place called Boba Brewery House. Right. No, I'm in it because I'm like, oh, it's Asian, it's got drinks, it's got beer, my kind of place. I go in there and then they have a special and it's downstairs.

Upstairs. Downstairs is more of like a barish rustic, but they have upstairs with a little more you know, swinky type deal with. There's a bar, some seeds and it's dark, and they got the special all you could eat on Tuesday, dumplings. All you could eat Tuesday dumplings. Right. As soon as we get to the door, he says, up, we're sold out. All you could eat dumplings upstairs. We've been sold out for months. Every Tuesday it sells out. We can't get any reservations.

But I could put you downstairs, all right? Cool? Was there dumplings upstairs? It was everything pretty much downstairs, right. But I'm facing a brick wall, like I'm sitting at this tablet on a bar stool with us half of a counter, and the brick wall is right here, and I'm supposed to have dinner on my last day with my daughter. So this was deva phil I go, I go, this is not good. I go to the dude. I said, hey, listen, I was good with

you selling out of the dumplings upstairs. I'm good. I would sit in anyway down here, But bro, I'm I'm a restaurateur. I've been on Food Network, I've been on certain shows. I would like a better seat than where I wanted to. I wanted the best. I got a better seat. I needed that shirt, yo yo. So I went. They sat me at the bar, and then so I sat at the bar. They gave me my food, everything was okay. It wasn't okay. But there was this guy sitting next to me. That's how you know he's serious.

You're standing up with us, this guy, this guy sitting next to me. Noticing he's like, oh nice shoots, Oh nice shirt, Oh nice shirt. I was like, bro, you wanted a date, like, I'm talking to my daughter over here, like yo, He's like no. I was like where you're from. He's like, oh, I'm from Illinois. I was like, oh, Chicago. He's like, no, some little poke town right somewhere. Right. So I'm like, okay, you're here with your date, but you're talking to me and I'm here with

my daughter. Something's wrong. He's like, oh, I didn't mean to offend you a break up your conversation. I was like cool. Then he's still going on about nothing. I was like, bro, you're like a real like wise guy, right, it's a wise guy. Right. So he says, I guess you can look at it some way like that, but I just like to, you know, talk computer ky. I was like, yeah, I could be arrogant, so don't excuse me too. And then so Sadie says that I think it's good. She knows that you

like this. Who blows nobody too? Its people like people like to poke atch you. I know, bro, you're you're six six four broad me. I think I think two forty. That tells people to come talk to me, like, I think part of your problem though, tell me, but no, let me say this, Let me say me say this one thing. I'm a big fan of jay Z. Right. No, if I if I see Sean Carter all to the side and I tried to approach him, I'd be like, oh snap, Sean Carter jay Z what and

he gives me a look that he doesn't really want to be invited. I would just throw up my pieces side and keep walking. Right, I'm not gonna keep engaging. But I think part of and don't take this as a compliment. Please take this as a compliment. I think you have a great sense God for having a fashion conversation enough, but you have a great sense of style. You out your your Jordan's always matching the shirt. I mean you've come in here before and warn Gucci phil head to toe outfit of stuff.

Wronm, Like where did he find this? You're attire and you're very outgoing charismatic personality. Are magnets for conversation. And I say that if I saw you somewhere, I'd be like, I got, I got You're like, you're like an onion, or I'm like, I gotta peel back some layers don't know what's going on here. I mean like, and I say that, I say that as play as possible, Like it's not it's not great that this guy could have just been a jerk and just could have been

poking forar But people come up and talking you randomly. Dude, this happens all the time. I say, just some one time at the bar. Happens all the time. I'm like, right now, I'm looking at you, and you're first off, you're wearing true religion, but and you got true religion short time. Firstly, i'd be like, where where did he find true religion? Still, and then you got Jordan's on that are matching

the shirt with something. I'd be like, I just got questions. You're gonna ask him a question, right, Like you have a personality and a persona that is a magnet for questions. Yeah, but there's also sometimes like dudes will come at him, like at him because he has Phil has a very large persona very large that makes people, makes people I would say intimidated, but you could some people who aren't confident themselves or neither. It would be like, oh, whoa, you know, they get the little man

syndrome. They gotta they gotta go try to poke something. So I say that now we've had way too much Phil talk here. Yeah, I gotta transition. I'm uncomfortable. Listen to something else that I know is near and near to your guys' heart. Memphis in May. And if you've seen the news, but Memphis in May, who knows where it's going to be because where it was at at the park that it was at, down by the

river. So they have they have, they created a lot of damage, not like you know, like they're saying that there was damage done to the ground and the tunes over a million dollars. Always it always is okay. So here's the deal with Memphis in May competing there. It's always been on the river, and it's always been on the river until they remodeled, uh and that and that was the first year that we competed Kyle at Memphis and

it was at a fair grounds or something like that. And I like it because every time you compete it at the river it always rains, right, and when it rains and you're on grass, what does that have? It's mud. So now you're just just just by the lake, you got the mud, you're traplin. I mean, it's it's a mess. Right.

So now that they remodeled down at the riverfront, now they put Memphis in May back there last year, and of course you you're building all of these big statues of of party stations, and then you got rain coming in and people are dropping pellets and charcoal to just try to absorb a lot of this mud. Of course you're gonna have damages, but it's not really damages. Like take a lawnmower, drive able lawnmower and grade that grass and recede like

just put that And that's what people are. A lot of people are saying that some Memphis may relate the statement. They released this to w rig which is a news outlet in Memphis. Most of the damages have been done in the past was fifty semi thousand dollars. So to go on from fifty thousand dollars to over one million is a shock to my colleagues and all stakeholders.

In Memphis. They go on to say the damages resulting from Memphis in May was assessed and confirmed by an independent arbitrator appointed by the City of Memphis and charge the festival according to its least agreement. There's insurance claims going on, There's all these things, and then Memphis and May says that the damage resulting has really caused financial hardship for him. I mean, they got a one point four million dollars essentially, you know bill they gotta pay and insurance claims

anybody else. So they haven't said that it's going to be the end of Memphis in May or anything like that. They're just trying to figure out where they move. And also you gotta pa but you also got to settle up on one for you know, insurance isn't gonna pay so much. So okay, well they charge all these teams I would say probably hundreds of thousands of works all that people, and some people didn't get this security deposit back,

right, so that's got to be in the pot. But my thing is this again, like we liked it there and we're the end user, right, but the festival like have a vote, Like let's just go back to the fairgrounds, and let's do it at the fairgrounds. Forget that river walk, because here's the deal. When you have a standoff like that, that's when you get attention because now you don't took you took away revenue from the downtown businesses that are used to having it, or even just the hotels in

that area. I'm sure when they didn't have it the year before, they were crying. Yeah, you know what I mean. So so now like yo, that's how you do it. You don't go back, you say, Okay, you know what, keep your little stadium. I'm going back to where we were before. And I just hope they getting figured out because it's a great competition, it's great for the local economy. You want to ready to get it figured out, I mean, And I'll go from there.

So we also need to talk about another thing coming that is, shall we say, in the works. You guys have some new rubs coming out. Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit. Like I'm excited because I have tried. I had when we did our one year anniversary party at Barbecue Island. You made some wings, Kyle, using your new rub, and oh my gosh, they were great. Where are we standing on it, and then Phil, I love you, But you've been talking about fruit

fly rub or whenever you call that. You've been talking about the new rubs and the sauce is like boys, I mean, you don't have to throw anybody under the bus. But I know a certain company that uses the same cold packer you use and their rubs have been taken for ever. So are there other co packers you can go with? They bounced, they left old world and they went to there's a place called internet something. I don't know

what, So can you guys do that? I'm good. Mine's coming out in like two weeks, so yours is coming out in two weeks maybe less, maybe less. Yeah, all labels are approved, the ingredients are done. They just gotta put it in bottles and so when when? When? And where? Week and a half two weeks I'll have it. And can you are you comfortable saying what it is? Yeah, it's a hot honey

garlic rub. Hot honey garlic what should be used on everything? So I recently just did ribs with it. I've done it with fish, I've done it with a bunch of things. Dude, put it on salmon. I don't know what about that? Are you a salmon fan? No? I hate salmon. Okay, so I don't like it on salmon, but yeah, no, you can literally put it on everything. That's the reason we're coming. It's coming out with everything due to be out and then Phil all

right, so my rubs is still in the works. We need trouble with it. No, I'm just waiting for it to go through the process of the company. Right. But the reason why I'm not really pushing them so hard is because I'm good with the timeline they gave me, which is going to probably be September October. September isn't two weeks, yeah no, but like September. So basically what they do for me is they bring my product

to the buyers. So not only do the package my goods, right do they bring it to the buyers and then they show so so they're trying to do they're trying to work your distribution. Yeah so so once so basically they sit down with all new buyers around that time in November, and my product is going to be one of the showcases. And so one of those showcases, they'll have it ready for that next showcase for next year. That's when they'll buy all of this stuff for next year. So I'm good with that

part of it. Now the great part. I've got some samples that I've been using on my steaks, and every steak that I have used my new but a blackout rup has been over fifty in taste, over fifty in taste. And then and then and then I got second at Famous Days and and and uh used that on your I used the fruit fly, uh fire fire frou fire fruit fire fruit fire. It's got this firefly stuck in fruit flies. So are you having any no troubles with the co packer? Yeah,

it's okay. So here's don't want to no, no, no, here's the deal. I get it. The company was sold and it was older uh company, right, meaning that you know, they probably still had doctor Matrix like printing invoices and stuff like that. So now there's a new younger group that came in. And so now the younger group and the new group is trying to work together and a lot of the older ones are having issues, you know, condating, adapting, you know, so they're having growing

pains with the new change. But there's nothing but good things coming out of it. You just got to be patient because now they have source companies, they have a lot more a lot more buyers. So your rubs are they gonna come? They're gonna come in a box. I'm working on that. Oh yeah, the Trio Triffected effected Triffected. No, they come in singles, but I'm working on putting them in as a package. Yep, that'll be awesome. And I'm hoping to have that on shows by holidays giving here

before we know it. So it's crazy. It's almost September, Septembers and yo, because I had some time to watch some TV and they're showing like Christmas episodes. Yeah, I'm like Christmas episode. Yeah, I mean Hallmark Channel will charge Christmas. Raid to walk into a Walmart because I'm sure they're already blacked. They have they haven't put up Christmas yet, at least that I've seen in Walmart's or costcos you like that. But they do have the

Halloween stuff up, and it's hard to it in Halloween. I understand. Halloween is just started this year. I'm in September. Bro, well, it's yet a week from Friday. Boom, it's here Labor day week from Friday. Damn. It's still hot out here. No rain due? Yeah? What what what were doing for Labor Day? We're going out on the boat. I'm going to I'm going NASCAR Darlington, South Carolina. Oh you want to come to Darlingtonville. You would be a trip. You can meet

my friend Dudu Brown. Oh, Duda Brown. You know he knows how to do the brown. He's a trip. So I'm been doing that over Labor Day. You guys are in a cop, aren't you. No, I was going to are not doing anymore. It's Springerville up in Uh it's a like ac barbecue. I still have nightmares of Springerville. I just want to do that. Sell some rubs I walked through there. Yeah yeah, yeah, but let's see. I'd say let's take the boat out to Lake Pleasant. You don't have a boat. I got to borrow. I got

ball cops. Dude, it is it is too hot. It is too hot. I mean mother nature has not been nice to us. It's actually cool down. He just jinks. You see next week seem like one ten again. No way to go with with no rain? Awesome? Yeah, all right, let's wrap you wash your car again, Brot. We had like a little bit when you did that. Yeah, go get that car washed. We had, I got my challenging. Now I'm gonna go watch that. So it's fast and furious, steel, fast and furious. All

right, let's wrap this up again. Before we conclude, we want to say thank you to our friend Jason Baker of Green Mountain Grills for giving us a sneak peak of him. When these do come out in a couple of weeks, a few weeks, months, whatever, it'll be exactly, do yourself a favor. I'm not telling you to go out and buy it again.

We never would tell you what to buy. We're just gonna say, do yourself a favor and go check them out, look at him online, go do whatever, but go to your local barbecue retailer and the true experiences you gotta. You gotta touch it, you gotta feel it. The first time you open that lid, you're gonna go, wow, wait what it's It's legit. So props to him, Thank you to him. We appreciate you guys so much, and we will be back next week with a Labor

Day edition. And Labor Day, we all know everybody be firing up there smoke or some people certain parts of the country. Some people certain parts of the countries. When the last weekends, you can do it because it starts to get cold and wet and raining. Was I was talking to Daniel Barrett from Australia. Yeah, we were talking. I don't I know we're starting to end here. But he's like, yeah, it's like when is it nice there? And I told him it's like, oh cool. He's like,

we're just coming out of winter. And I was like, yeah, I was blown away, bro, I totally forgotten the different you know, hemisphere. I was like, what winner, Yeah, bro yo, speaking of that. Hold on, let's not end this yetld On one more thing, So what del just got put on the map? What happens? You'll get running water? We happen. So did you guys watch the UFC fights this weekend? I was getting into this UFC fighting thing. I did not watch UFC, so Sugar Sean O'Malley. Yeah, do you know he's a

resident of Arizona? Yes? I did, Okay, did he live he bro? He lives in wad Dell, Arizona. He said he probably lives there because he wants to be off the grid. He listened, bro, So that's where I'm going. He used to live in Scottsdale. He said it got too crazy for him, and he's like, dude, I had to get out. So he went and lived in the most remote, random place in the world. I live on this little farm and Wadell Arizona, Say what you live in Dell, Bro, I am on a mission.

I've been on a mission with the past week. Well, he's not hard to spot. He's got no easy hair. And then he talks about going to this target all the time because he's in an open relationship. And then like he can walk. Look, look look at you, bro, But he's in an open relationship. Target. He goes to this set right, and I'm like, I know where this target is, Like I can find him there, but I'm on a mission to find him. Bro, I'm on a mission. That's great, dude. I'm putting a year behind barbecue

patch on him. Yeah. For a half million dollars, not that much. Give me a couple hundred grand. No, I'm just down, bro. I'll just be your personal cook. A couple hundred grand, I'll cook for it. Yeah, Okay, that's it. I hope it works out for you. I hope Waddell. I'm glad to hear that you guys have running water. I do know that. And when I go there, when I go there, I still need my passport and make sure all my mediation. We get football talk next week too. I know this is a barbecue

podcast. I don't know if we should talk football. No, well, yeah, if we match it up with a dish, I agree. If you if you think of Dallas Cowboys, what do you think about? What dish? Do you feel? Think about it? But I know I college football starts this weekend. I thought we should have like college football, Yeah, we should just I think we should talk about the best tailgating dish. I think we should bring that up, like what's the best tailgating dish?

We should do that. I do feel back something good. That's good, I mean good. I keep cutting you off because I hope I hope that. Well, we'll talk about the next week, we'll talk about Labor Day cookout recipes. We'll also to talk about some football tailgating recipes. And Kyle, we don't want to talk football. We don't want to depress people because you're a Cowboys fan. There's nothing to be depressed about. YO. When I think when I think dishes, cowboys, dishes like fried hog mogs like

you know, you know what I think of. There's a lot of things you guys, can I can see it. Your face is also I think of a lot of donuts that Ezeke Elliott eight when he tried to be center on the last play of that game, when he got absolutely steamroll. That is what I will think of is how bad he looked and out of shape and just getting crushed. That was his last play of being a cowboy. Correct. It was embarrassing. So now now he's he's with the Americans team,

he's with the Patriots. He's with the Patriots series. He's with the Patriots, Patriot Country, America. Moving on, all right, he's talking politics. We gotta go