1 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: Let's trust here from Smoky Tea's and you're tuned into 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: Barbecue Basse. 3 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: Welcome back to anotherpisode of Competition Time from Barbecue Base. 4 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 2: I am Alex Lawson, captain of the Illustrious Beginning's team 5 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,919 Speaker 2: and your esteemed host, and I must remind you, of 6 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 2: course of our show partners Rum and C Gilmore's and 7 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 2: Hunting and Fishing Hot Valley. Thank you for your support 8 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: and also Jack Daniels. We love all of your guys 9 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: support and super excited to be joined today. Bit of 10 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: a well, he's become a bit of a traveling New 11 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: Zealand legend because he's come over quite a bit recently. 12 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 2: He competes usually with a kiwi, so we always love that. 13 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: In Aussie it is Nate Blackledch and Triple B Barbecue. 14 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: Welcome Nate to Competition Time. 15 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: Thank you Alex, much appreciated and great to be here. 16 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 2: We're very happy to have you here. And I saw 17 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 2: you on Friday obviously you were cooking at King of 18 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: the Mountain and we're recording this the week after and 19 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 2: we did get very brief chat but you had to 20 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 2: shoot off again. I think you were a busy man 21 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 2: that weekend, I think you were. 22 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I racked up a fair few fragrant fly miles 23 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: on the weekend. Yeah, it was a whole lot of traveling. 24 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, now, remind us how did you do because 25 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 2: you cooked the double steak at King of the Mountain, 26 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: how did you do it that? 27 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: I got an eleventh in Steak A and a fourth 28 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: in Steak Bright, So yeah, I was happy with that. 29 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: I don't think you can argue with it fourth and 30 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: it was a pretty strong, yeah, strong lineup. 31 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, and look whenever you look at the New Zealand 32 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: yeah SCA. So there's always a lot of strong competition there. 33 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: There's a you know, there's a lot of depth of 34 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: talent in the in those comps. 35 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there certainly is. That's kind of why I 36 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 2: don't do very much stick to the NZBA and yeah 37 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: kick there. So let's just get a quick intro for yourself, 38 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: a little bit about Triple B, how that came to 39 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 2: be and obviously, yeah, you mostly compete in the ABA 40 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 2: and Aussie but tell us about some of the other 41 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: bits and pieces that you do. 42 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. So obviously, you know when I first started competing, 43 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: which I think was in twenty twenty one. I think 44 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: I had my team which was called smoke On's Barbecue 45 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: and my teammate Dan Barrington, he was competing with his 46 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: wife Jess Barrington. They'd been around till three years, longer 47 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: than I had. They had a team called Smoke Beyond 48 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: Smoked and and we're working with each other at a 49 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: barbecue supply co. You know, he needed a little bit 50 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: more consistency with it with the camps and we did 51 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: actually a comp together under his team name up in 52 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: McKay and Queensland. We the very first comp we did together. 53 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: We are g seed it obviously Dusty Qkan first, which 54 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:28,399 Speaker 1: is which is a normal occasion here in Australia. And 55 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: then when we joined up our own team we called 56 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: a Triple B Barbecue. We went to our very first 57 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: camp of forty one team camp at Condari in Harvey 58 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: Bay at the beginning of twenty twenty three I think 59 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: it was, and we seed our first camp and from 60 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: then on we stick together. We you know, we're complete opposites, 61 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: the way we cook, the where we go about it, 62 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: and it works. It works really well. We have a 63 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: lot of fun. 64 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: And you did pretty well recently the Full Throttle Aussie Invitational, right. 65 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we had some mixed results. I mean, 66 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: if we had struggled together, I mean we we had 67 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: a bit of a bit of what we consider a 68 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: Paul showing on the on the Saturday, kept our hand 69 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: in to let us down, and the ones that are 70 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: all down on day one will up on day two 71 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: and vice versa. So had we struggled together, you know, 72 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: but once again, a lot of great competition there with 73 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: obviously Troy Bilber taking out to two our new season, 74 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: like you know, I mean that dude was just like 75 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: one or two points off each day, and you know, 76 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: and with the you have a look at the caliber 77 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: competition obviously, you know, Dan Barrett not much more to 78 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: say there. I mean, like I's just been a legendar 79 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: over here for for years, and obviously Phil Breden and 80 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: his wife Carmen from LC Barbecue. I mean these guys 81 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: just clean up over and in the States. 82 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 2: So now I thought that was a pretty impressive thing 83 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: for Phil Breden to come up, because it's hard to travel. 84 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 2: I mean, between A and Z, most of our flavor 85 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: stuff's fairly similar. It's not we're not massively different. But 86 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: Texas and Ossie New Zealand is really different, so I thought. 87 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: I thought he would. I thought the Americans may struggle 88 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: a bit more with our proteins, you know what I mean, 89 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: we have different top pork, you know, the I don't know, 90 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: we don't know as big a pigs, and our our 91 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: beef is a lot of grass fed beef and and 92 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: those types of things. But when he got a third 93 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: place at a lead up compet in Penrith, you know, 94 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: Triple B were fortunate enough to get an RGC rendered 95 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: got first place there. And when I saw Phil Bridy 96 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: get a third place there, I thought, these guys are 97 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: going to be really tough to be at the Invitational, 98 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: and true to form, they definitely were. 99 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 2: Yeah. I figured that he had because he didn't really 100 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 2: do much on the Saturday. Right watched all and I 101 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,559 Speaker 2: didn't hear his name a lot. I reckon he he 102 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 2: did that thing which is just beyond me, where he 103 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 2: just went right, change it all, do it, work out 104 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: what's what was hitting and make it so for the Sunday. 105 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: And then he just yeah, these guys are really slick. 106 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: You know. You watching watching Bill Purvis from Chicken Fried, 107 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: and he had a kit poke helping him and obviously 108 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: Phil and Phil and Krma Breed and do this every weekend. 109 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: I mean they they are slick, like, they have their 110 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: methods and they stick to it. Yeah. 111 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very impressive. Well that leads us, you know, 112 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,119 Speaker 2: because that's a very impressive thing from Phil breden Don 113 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 2: what he did. Troy obviously very impressive doing it. But 114 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 2: what is the most impressive or the thing that you're 115 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: most proud of in your competition career? And that can 116 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 2: be s C A A B A ends up. 117 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: Well, I mean obviously from a personal perspective, you know, 118 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: s C A is A is a personal you know event, right, 119 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: it's an individual event. So you know this year when 120 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: I got to the World in March, my goal was 121 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: to make the finals and I was fortunate enough in 122 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: my group. I was in a very difficult group and 123 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough to finish seventh in that group, 124 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: which got me into the finals. You know. The finals 125 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: were a little bit of a different through a bit 126 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: of mixed results there. And then my other personal challenge 127 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: this year was I wanted to win this while I 128 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: want to win the Australian Championship. I want that ring. 129 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: I want to chase points that's probably hence why you 130 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: see me in New Zealand a fair bit and currently 131 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to fairly healthy lead, but it can always 132 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: be reeled in. But you know, Australia doesn't have that 133 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: many SCA comps and that's why if you are chasing points, 134 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: that's why you've got to do a fair bit of trouble. 135 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean that's what Troy is doing. 136 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: Well right, Yes, he's exactly doing the other way he's going. 137 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: And we see not only Troy, we see Chris Toultcher, Scott, 138 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: Josh Fash. You know that these guys come over to Australia, 139 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: not not all the time, but but often enough. And 140 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: you know, and and sometimes I was telling someone the 141 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: other day, sometimes it's as cost effective for me is 142 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: to fly to from Brisbane to Auckland as this day 143 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,119 Speaker 1: from Brisbane to Melbourne. And the hospitality is the same, 144 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: you know, like the kiwis. You know that they all 145 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: help out with with grills and tents and and everything 146 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: you need, and you know it's it's all reciprocated. 147 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 2: I dare say it's the same for us to get 148 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 2: to christ Church. It's the same Sydney, absolutely, ya So 149 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 2: what over over the time that you've been competing, what 150 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 2: would you say, what's the thing that you've learned the most. 151 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 2: What's been your biggest learning moment in competition. 152 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: I think learning is as far as stay cookofs is 153 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: being methodical with you with your timing, blocking out interferences 154 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: and those types of things, and having a plan and 155 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: stick to it and more in barbecue. You know, I'm 156 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: learning that every day. I'm blessed to have a teammate 157 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: like Dan and his feel for textures and the like 158 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: way beyond myself, and you know, you learn those types 159 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: of things as you go along. Sometimes you've either got 160 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: the feel or you don't, and you know those things 161 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: that come along with tom as well. 162 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I learned fairly early on, or 163 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 2: maybe not early enough that you know that's sticking to 164 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 2: your plan. I used to. I used to take a 165 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 2: whole heap of rubs and things and I'd be like, well, 166 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 2: just in case I need them, and they got me 167 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 2: into trouble so many times that now I don't take 168 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: anything that's not a pre mixed, labeled and literally so 169 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: I can't mess around with it. 170 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: At the end, I did a I was fortunate enough 171 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: in christ Church last year to share the tent with 172 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: Tim and Sandy Brown at the Let There Be Meat 173 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: competition and I basically got front row seats pretty much 174 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: the best showing town when it comes to steak. And 175 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: you know, once again, when I got over to the 176 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: world in March, they put on a small group masterclass 177 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: and you know, and they drilled into us, you know, 178 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: that the need to have a plan and stick to it, 179 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: and you know, I hated their advice and so far, 180 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: so good. 181 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I definitely agree with that one. Now, 182 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 2: you know, we're always there's always something right, We're always 183 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 2: trying to always trying to do something better. What are 184 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 2: you working on right now? What's that thing where you're like, God, 185 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 2: I want to get that better? 186 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I was actually just talking to 187 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: a mate just a little bit earlier. And I am 188 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: getting consistent results in my stakes, but I feel I 189 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: don't really have like a killer puns. So you know, 190 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: maybe I'm going to consider some different techniques, as know, 191 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 1: whether to try the SUV or different brinds, and you know, 192 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 1: maybe mix up my maybe mix up my seasons a 193 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: little bit to suit the different regions. I've got to 194 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: be a little bit more experimental in those ways. I 195 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: feel my steaks are good but not the absolute mess, 196 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: and so I accumulate points, but not at a rapid ray. 197 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 2: So that's interesting. Do you think there's a difference for 198 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 2: steak seasonings between states in Australia and New Zealand? Would 199 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 2: you change between Yes? 200 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think when you go to stay 201 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: Sydney and Melbourne, you're doing a meat stuff in Sydney 202 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: or Melbourne, you know that inner city culture. You know, 203 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: they want maybe a little bit more heat in their 204 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: in their food, those types of things. And then when 205 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: you go out to places like Armadale and up north 206 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: in beef country, you know, they want their steaks to 207 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: taste like a real beefy steak, you know, and so 208 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,599 Speaker 1: you do you do need to mix up your you 209 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: see these things a little bit to suit those areas. 210 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: And it's probably not something I've put a whole lot 211 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: of focus on, but I am going to start trying 212 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: that a little bit more. 213 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool, that's a you know, like you're you're out 214 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 2: in the lead, but you're still you're still trying to 215 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 2: get better, You're still trying to Yeah, something right. 216 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: Well, there's always you know that these guys who you 217 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: know who like Dan Barrett's won the church the last 218 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: two years before him, you've got like say, uh, you 219 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: know Jay Sheepy Becker and Shane Harris, these guys are 220 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: still gun steak cooks. You know, it's just that I'm 221 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: either hitting up more competitions or these guys have backed 222 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: off a little bit. You know, so these guys decide 223 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: to you know, go hard again next year. You know, 224 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: I've got to keep an edge as well too to 225 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: be able to compete with these guys because these guys 226 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: are still guns. 227 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Now you're probably have all sorts of answers 228 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 2: for this one because you travel so much. What does 229 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 2: your comp set up look like? And this could be 230 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 2: you know, your A B A set up. 231 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we've got a porch trailer basically exactly the 232 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: same as Cook cartels, certainly not as lavish. 233 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 2: Not a sound written, not as I mean he did. 234 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:21,319 Speaker 1: Do the artwork, but but together with ground zero Victoria. 235 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: But look we I've got a porchs trailer like that, 236 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: and you know it gets absolutely cannibal during a competition 237 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: and it gets cleaned out on a Monday and and 238 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: hose down and but yeah, so we basically have that 239 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: which which gives us a good space to to box. 240 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: And when you're doing as many camps. We're doing as 241 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: many comps as possible here in Australia, so we do 242 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,839 Speaker 1: need the other right equipment. I guess. 243 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 2: What about for s c A. Do you have a 244 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 2: setup that travels with you or you literally like whatever 245 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 2: I can get my hands on, I'm going to cook 246 00:13:59,720 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 2: on it. 247 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: I've tried to you know, I've tried to simplify my life. 248 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: So in Texas, I've got a storage in it over 249 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: there that I share with Tim Aseraki. That's another competitor 250 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: here in Australia. Meat Stop win the last year and 251 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: we have a storage sit over there and that shit. 252 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: I've got Hasty Bakes and all sorts of things. So 253 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: if I want to compete in the US, I've got 254 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: grills already there. I have a Hasty Bake sitting down 255 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: in Christchurch and I've got a couple. We've got one 256 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: down with Dan Barrett in Melbourne, one in Sydney with Tim. 257 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: So when I travel typically i've got a grill there 258 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: and song as I'm going to shelter and a table 259 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: and at a bag of chuk of I'm good to go. 260 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 3: Ram and Q have always had a knack for making 261 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 3: things taste better, and their latest creation is no exception. 262 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 3: They've incorporated their famous blend of delicious flavors in the 263 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 3: world's first barbecue run. It's the culmination on all the 264 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 3: things they've learned on their journey. Rumbo give to barbecue 265 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 3: lovers to be shared and great company. 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You know, I feel what 272 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: I do, do it on the fly that I'm out 273 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: of sorts as far as aba goes, you know, on 274 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: a comp starts on a Wednesday, you know, like we're 275 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: we're picking up our proteins, that we're trimming chicken, all 276 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: those types of things. Sometimes it's a you know, we'll 277 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: mix up our injections and the sauces and all that, 278 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: like on the day or you know, those types of things, 279 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: but all the other things we're trying to have organized, 280 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: you know, as far as steak goes, I've got a 281 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: container there with all my steak things and a that 282 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: I need. It's sort of a different setup to ABO, 283 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: and all my things are in one little spot. And yeah, 284 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: apart from a few little consumerbles here and there on 285 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: the actual day, I don't really need much. 286 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 2: Else with the A BA stuff, like because you work 287 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 2: with a team, like when I do it, I've got teammates, 288 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 2: but I do all the trimming prep because yeah, I 289 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 2: think partly it's because I'm the one who wants to 290 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 2: do it and I love the control of it. I 291 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 2: don't like, do you and Dan split the prepice? Yeah, 292 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 2: do you have things? 293 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll usually do, say the brisket and the lamb. Yeah, 294 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: mainly the pork as well. I'm definitely the chicken guy, like, 295 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: you know, like we were just switched to thighs and 296 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: I'm pretty comfortable. Yeah, sitting at the kitchen table for 297 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: the next couple of hours and doing it. It's it's 298 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: quite relaxing sometimes as well as being frustrating at the 299 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: same time. And then the yeah, roobs, I've got the 300 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: bands or here, so I trim up the roobs here, 301 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: but then Danill usually finished them off on site, so 302 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: it's a bit of a joint effort for Mattilmas. So 303 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: I'm usually the one who packs the trailer. Can stand 304 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,959 Speaker 1: working on a Friday. I have a little bit more 305 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: flexibility with running my own business, so I usually pack 306 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 1: the trailer and make sure we've got everything and then yeah, 307 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 1: then we usually head off together. 308 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 2: Well oiled machine. 309 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, well we try and then then we get there 310 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: and it all falls apart. 311 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 2: To of getting there, like what about I think everybody's 312 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,239 Speaker 2: got Everybody says no at first and then they go 313 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 2: but there is this one thing that we do. What 314 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 2: what are your rituals or superstitions at competition that you have? 315 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: Like what what? What do you what do you know? 316 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 2: What can't you forget? What? What do you go? Oh shit? 317 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 2: I forgot my socks the warm fifty eight times? 318 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. I usually like to have the same pair of 319 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: like inner gloves. I don't know why. And I've got 320 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: a million packets sitting in Garra that we we sell 321 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: through Barbecue Supplico, but were the ones for c I 322 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: keep putting them through the washing machine and get dirty 323 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: and yeah, but for some reason I hanging onto those 324 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: same gloves and I don't know why there was a 325 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: pain sense, but yeah, And as you know, being in barbecue, 326 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,439 Speaker 1: we would drop a whole lot more than that on 327 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: a variety of different things. 328 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 2: Well, if you can get away with eighty cents on 329 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 2: gloves and they're gonna last you multiple times, I would 330 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 2: definitely I think it's good. 331 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. 332 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 2: Now, if you know, we're we're of a similar ish generation, 333 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 2: so you'd have grown up watching, you know, back to 334 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 2: the future, if you if you if you suddenly found 335 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 2: yourself in possession of a Dolorean, and you could go 336 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 2: back to Nate competition oneself and give yourself a piece 337 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 2: of a piece of advice that you learn from Nate. Now, 338 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 2: what would that piece of advice be to Nate con Lordie. 339 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if I can narrow 340 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: it down to a single piece. But I drank my 341 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: very first camp. I had a buddy drag a big 342 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 1: offset from my backyard onto a trailer and we tied 343 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: it down to that Condarry Barbecue festival and I was 344 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: trimming the brisket there on site, and there was about 345 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: thirty five degrees in the shade. And yeah, that wasn't 346 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: a I've still been packed by my first camp. I 347 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: think I finished about sixteenth out of yeah, thirty two 348 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: thirty three. But it was hard work, and I think 349 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: my wife went so were worse about seventeen times between 350 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: about eight am and about twelve pm. Yeah, there was 351 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: all sorts of things I'd forgotten, But you know, I 352 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: knew when I started that, Yeah, I never had my 353 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: name called, you know, And it was about five or 354 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: six comps, and then I started to hear different calls, 355 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: different things, and and it was that, you know, the 356 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: more I got defeated, but the more I wanted to improve. 357 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I always think like, if I think back to 358 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 2: when we started, like the first I don't know, seven 359 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 2: eight comps. As soon as handing started, it just felt chaos. Yes, 360 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 2: for like three hours, right or four hours of it's 361 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 2: a five hand in comp and you're just like you 362 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 2: just felt like you had no time. And then as 363 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 2: you got better and you got more disciplined and you 364 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 2: actually worked out some plans for each thing and you 365 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 2: stuck to them, suddenly I was going, oh, and then 366 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh, no, hold on, I've got like 367 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 2: forty minutes. What am I going to do? And I'd 368 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 2: be like, oh, I don't actually know what I'm going 369 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 2: to do. I'll just sit down for. 370 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: I mean, like whenever, like Dan and I have a 371 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: late you know, if chickens in at twelve o'clock, for instance, 372 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: Like we just find ourselves with so much time on 373 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: our hands. Now we get a bit bored for a 374 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: couple of hours when it goes back to ten o'clock. 375 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: You know, we're we're busy all morning. You know, by 376 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: the time here, things are coming off the pit, things 377 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: are getting boxed up, and we're a lot more precise 378 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: now without without timing, and we know exactly how long 379 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: things are going to take, and you know within region, 380 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: you know. 381 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, and so I'm assuming you guys are pretty hot 382 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 2: and fast. 383 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: Well certainly not as hot and fast as as some 384 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 1: of the keys. Yeah, but look we're running out. We're 385 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: running our drums at you know, three hundred, you know, 386 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: three twenty maybe you know, wherever they sit, we don't 387 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: get too fast. And I mean if it's sitting at to 388 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: eighty or three twenty, we don't really care. We know 389 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 1: what it's going to cook at Yeah, so we're not 390 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: as we're not, you know, the drum isn't concaving because 391 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: it's running at five hundred and fifty. But yeah, I think. 392 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: Which I've seen. I've definitely seen that here. 393 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen it, and I've seen brisket trapped after 394 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: fourteen minutes and I'm like, yeah, and they seem to win. 395 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how I know. And 396 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: I said to Jared McDonald, I said, man, I don't know. 397 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: I don't know how to. I don't know how can 398 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: we bring ourselves to do it? And every time Dan 399 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: and I talk about doing it, we get to we 400 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: get to the day. 401 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 2: We're like, yeah, we ran a brisket at three fifty 402 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 2: on the weekend and that was probably the hottest that 403 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 2: we've run it. And actually I didn't really mean to 404 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 2: run it for three fifty for the whole time, but 405 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 2: then I was like, I'm just gonna beat it. But 406 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 2: I know. I was talking to Troy. Troy was next 407 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: to me on the weekend and he said, he's funny. 408 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 2: He said, my food is the ugliest food you'll see 409 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 2: until it goes in the box. Yeah, and he's like 410 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 2: it's black, it's burnt, it goes in at like four 411 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 2: point fifty, you know, all this kind of stuff. But 412 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 2: when it goes in the box it will be pretty. 413 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 2: But until then you wouldn't want to eat it, which 414 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 2: I thought. 415 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 1: I mean, it must taste good because that the guys 416 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: who are doing who are and they're winning, you know, 417 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 1: and whether it's a Jay Mark or Cook Cartel Troy, 418 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: you know, like and I mean do those do discovery? 419 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, what if you could wave a magic wand 420 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 2: and you could change one thing from either A B 421 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 2: A or S C A and there was one thing 422 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 2: that you said that is never changing. What would those 423 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 2: two things be. 424 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: What I thinks, I don't want it to ever change. 425 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 1: I don't want to ever not be fun, you know, 426 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: I want you know, the reason I started doing this 427 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: was you know, for the mayship and the friendships, and 428 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 1: you know, the friendships were formed I've formed over the 429 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: last few years have been enormous for me and environ 430 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: mental health and no stuffs these So that's certainly one 431 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: thing I don't want to change. Yeah, I'd love to 432 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 1: be more competitions and things like that, and you know 433 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,239 Speaker 1: that's work as a commune did to get more camps up. 434 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: And it's not really one thing that I can dismissal. 435 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 2: I guess now, one one thing I noticed, I've only 436 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 2: competed in Aussie once I came over from meat stock 437 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:19,719 Speaker 2: Sydney fences together, that's right, we were to get in it. 438 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: I was a little bit frustrated that morning, Yeah you were. 439 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 2: And I think that previous night, if I remember, I'd 440 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 2: spent four hours in the Sydney Royal Hospital getting my 441 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 2: thumbed basically reattached to itself because I managed to slice 442 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 2: through it on the Friday night while trimming a money 443 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 2: or the Saturday. On the Saturday and then it was 444 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 2: a Sunday morning we were jumping fences together. But yeah, 445 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 2: so I had my thumb all wrapped up with stitches. 446 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: Collected that morning as opposed to himself. So it must 447 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: have still been the more female thing i'd given you. 448 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 2: I still jumped up. But so the one thing I 449 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 2: really noticed with a few people sides up or sides down, 450 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 2: do you lock yourselves away or are you an open 451 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 2: because we're not sides up here right over here, everybody's 452 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 2: just like what. 453 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: We're becoming more of a sides up, same right, not 454 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: from the like shaking or anything like that. It's just 455 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 1: that we do like to have fun, we like to 456 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: socialize and those types of things. But you know that 457 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: there's times in the place when when we need to 458 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: concentrate and you know, we're trying to do really well 459 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: and you're kind of gotta block out some Yeah, some 460 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: of those noises from outside. I guess you know, And yeah. 461 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 2: Tell you the only time that we you'll know, you'll 462 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 2: know if we're sides up, which we don't actually have 463 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 2: sides that we put up, but if like the hatch 464 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 2: on the trailer is shut, you can't see outside, I'll 465 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 2: tell you the only reason that it's probably because it's blown. Yeah, 466 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 2: trying try not have everything. 467 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: We're trying to be hospitable. Dan is one of the 468 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: nicest human beings you'll ever meet, and is it is 469 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: a kind soul, and he talks to everyone. I'm more 470 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: of a right get out, shut everything down. It's lovely 471 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: talking to you. We'll see it. So, but Dad's so 472 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: nice to do that. So I'm usually he's the key. 473 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 2: He's the y. 474 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: On the on the bouncer. 475 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 2: Okay, thinking about purchasing, like we all we love to 476 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 2: purchase things as as barbecue, which is good for you 477 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 2: running a barbecue supplies business, right, will you want us 478 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 2: to buy more things? But what's the best value item 479 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 2: that you've ever bought for? 480 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: It was that far long ago I took. I took 481 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: one of the courses online just have to be a 482 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: Bill Purvis's masterclass on Bobby hit Champs Academy. And he 483 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,400 Speaker 1: had these two dollars pair of tongs and they're called 484 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,479 Speaker 1: like sausage tongues, and they've got the little roundings at 485 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 1: the end, and you buy for about eight bucks off Amazon, right, 486 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: and they're perfect for picking up chicken thighs and you 487 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,400 Speaker 1: just pick them up off the rack and into the box. 488 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: See I'm putting your big smudgy fingers all over him. 489 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: And I think they're a home run. 490 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 2: I think I've seen those on Facebook. There's an old 491 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 2: guy has the video and spin. 492 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so there's a special you've I looked at 493 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: that class. I think I've about eight things off Amazon 494 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: that night, which all came to probably about thirty bucks 495 00:27:54,320 --> 00:28:00,080 Speaker 1: in total. And and yeah, I bought the tongues and 496 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: I use them. Dad sometimes forgets that we have them, 497 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: and the his big fat hands around the chicken thives 498 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: and the next minute where it looks like a doctor 499 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 1: Seda in the box we're trying to repair the glaves. 500 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 2: But yeah, now did you buy out of all those things? 501 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 2: Because this something I bought after listening to Luke Darnell 502 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 2: on Old Virginia Smoke Rattle on about it and also 503 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 2: Reagan Reagan can't remember his surname from La Pasadita because 504 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 2: I was watching his videos. Did you buy a buttercutter. 505 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: A butter cutter? No? I didn't. 506 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 2: All right, you'd know if you bought a buttercutter, which 507 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 2: is like a little it's almost like those avocad Why 508 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 2: I read a frame and you like the yeah yeah, 509 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: and you but it cuts all your butter into slices 510 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: for you. Right, So I bought one of these thinking 511 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 2: that was going to be the greatest trip times. I was, 512 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 2: it's going to be so good. I am ahead of 513 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 2: the game here. I've got stolen a march on anyone 514 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 2: using a Knight cut butter, and then found the American 515 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 2: butter is a different. 516 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: Size sticks, which is probably about one of our blocks. 517 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: So a block of West Goold or something like that. 518 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 2: So the first time I went to cut butter, I went. 519 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,719 Speaker 1: Well, I have bought what I have gone through, and 520 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: for some reason, I haven't had any luck at all. 521 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: Those speak stupid digital clocks. I bought of them from Amazon. 522 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: They all had the wrong plugs, they weren't the right size, 523 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: and then while the time I finally got one that worked, 524 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: that fell off the wall and smashed into a million bits. 525 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: So now we're just either someone else's clock if we 526 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: could look out the trailer, or we're using our phones. 527 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: Because I've given up given up on the digital. 528 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 2: Clocks, I'm exactly the same we and because the right 529 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 2: if you order them off the you know those large 530 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 2: Chinese websites, you think you're ordering a certain color and 531 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 2: then it turns up and it's completely and you're like, 532 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 2: I can't even see it. It's We got one that 533 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 2: was green, and I was like, I can't even see it. 534 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 2: So we just literally have a round clock and it 535 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 2: sits on the side of the trailer and we take 536 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 2: the battery out back in each calm, greaking mouse clocks. 537 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: Because every time I saw the pictures on Amazon would 538 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: come in and it would be like the size of well, 539 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: like a stick of butter, right, and then I'm expecting 540 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: something to be like the size of a shoe box, 541 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: and this thing looks like a miniature version. And I'm like, 542 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: I cannot get this right. And i don't know how 543 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: much money I've gone through with digital clocks and I've 544 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: given up. 545 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 2: I'm with you, I'm with you clock, And yeah, if 546 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: you think what your school clock used to look like 547 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 2: in your classroom, that's exactly. 548 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: That's what we need for the trailer. How to not 549 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: read a digital right? 550 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 2: What what is your competition goal? We know your s 551 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: c A goal is to win the win the series 552 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 2: this year and you're on your way to that. 553 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: What should with abuh? You know, we we want to 554 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: win the Australian Championship. You know, currently we've got you know, 555 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: absolute legends like Jeff and Amanda from Dusty que in 556 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: front of us, and Dan Barrett right there and you 557 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: know other really good teams you know right up but 558 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: as well, so you know, we need to keep getting better, 559 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: we need to keep working on things and we want 560 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: to win the Australian Championship and and from there we 561 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: want to go on to you know, being able to 562 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: go over to the States and you know, get into 563 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: the jack you know, qualify for the not only qualified, 564 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: but actually compete at a high level, you know, things 565 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: like the Royal you know, some other CBA events, k 566 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: CBS events, and over the next couple of years, barbecue 567 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: will be the goal for us, I think so. And 568 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: just to keep and just to keep getting better, you know, 569 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: like it's it's hard work. You're going to keep evolving, 570 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: and it is hard work. Everyone nothing's nothing's going to 571 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: come without putting in those outs. 572 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and I think, well on your way to 573 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 2: those goals. Now, where can people keep up with you? 574 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 2: Where can they shot? 575 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: The more shoppers the better. But obviously our business is 576 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: Barbecue Supplyco dot a U and and obviously a triple 577 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 1: B barbecue Facebook page. I think there's an Instagram page, 578 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: but I'm not a bit old for Instagram. I think 579 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: so Dan does that. And yes, so obviously bub you 580 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: supply Co is on Facebook. You we we obviously have 581 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: a lot of New Zealand customers. We try to you know, 582 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: we try to maintain friendships as well with the suppliers 583 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: in New Zealand. You know, girls I can and the others, 584 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: and yeah, we definitely don't sort of trail in their space. 585 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: If there is something that keeps goodbuile locally, we encourage 586 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: those guys to go seek out those people all the 587 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: time if there's something that we carry, and obviously we 588 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: use Troy as a as a career and that works 589 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: very well. 590 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 2: Fantastic, Well mate, thank you so much. 591 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: For making love And I listened to the podcast all 592 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: the time, so I was pretty tough to be asked 593 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: to be honest. 594 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 2: Well, we're we're happy to have you, and we'll have 595 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 2: to get both down onto a normal show because this 596 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 2: is obviously the end of the second episode of Competition Time. 597 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 2: We've had a good time. I hope you guys have 598 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 2: had a good time too, and come back as we're 599 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 2: going to keep doing these is because I'm just a 600 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 2: sucker for competition and that's my passion, and you know, 601 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 2: I think we just have to have a dedicated competition 602 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 2: podcast out there, so let's have it. So let's come 603 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 2: back next time. We'll be back in a couple of 604 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 2: weeks in your ear holes. But in between that we'll 605 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 2: have another full show, So come back for that one 606 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 2: and we'll see you next time on Competition Time.