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Hitman Talks to Matt Lawson Texas Food Championships · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? It is Hitman with you.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the countdown to the Texas Food Championship
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  Speaker 2: is officially on. And I have Matt Lawson with me
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  Speaker 2: in the studios. Hey, Matt, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Wonderful. How are you, bud?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Now, tell me a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: this because it's not just a festival. It's like literally
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  Speaker 1: an event, right? It's a full-fledged event. Music.
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  Speaker 3: food, beverage, everything, kids zones, everything you could possibly imagine.
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  Speaker 1: And this is also a nationally recognized competition?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're the official state qualifier for the World Food Championships,
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  Speaker 3: which is the largest culinary competition in the world with
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  Speaker 3: the top 1,500 chefs. To be able to make it there,
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  Speaker 3: you have to win a regional qualifying event of which
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  Speaker 3: we are the exclusive for Texas. So any Texas-based chef
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  Speaker 3: that wants to compete at Worlds has to come through
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  Speaker 3: our event here in Corpus Christi. to make their seat
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  Speaker 3: to worlds.
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  Speaker 2: So that means not only people here from the coastal bend,
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  Speaker 2: but people from upstate can come down and compete.
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  Speaker 1: In this, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. We have a little over 150, almost 200 chef
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  Speaker 3: teams from all over the state of Texas competing in barbecue,
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  Speaker 3: live fire, youth categories, 12 to 17, everything, every possible
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  Speaker 3: category you can imagine where All coming here to Corpus.
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  Speaker 1: So what food categories are going to be for this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, um, overall, like I just mentioned, you have barbecue, um,
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  Speaker 3: pit masters, which has four turn-ins brisket, um, a mystery meat,
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  Speaker 3: a chicken, and then also a, um, pork ribs.
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  Speaker 1: We have a live fire.
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  Speaker 3: So if you've ever seen those really cool, amazing looking
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  Speaker 3: pits that have the hogs that are rotisserie.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So that is live fire. We have a competition where
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  Speaker 3: they have two different turn-ins there. We have a seafood division.
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  Speaker 3: We have a desserts division. um, a collegiate. So it's
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  Speaker 3: all high school or college students. We have a high
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  Speaker 3: school division, the Texas culinary high school culinary championship that's
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  Speaker 3: going on with all of our local and then also
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  Speaker 3: statewide high schools that are competing. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I'm, I'm kind of interested on the, when
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  Speaker 2: you said the mystery meat, I'm thinking like Austria, like while,
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  Speaker 2: while game, like Austria.
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  Speaker 3: So I say, I say mystery as in, um, we
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  Speaker 3: will be giving it to competitors on Thursday afternoon and
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  Speaker 3: they have no idea what we're presenting them. And they
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  Speaker 3: have to figure out a way to be able to
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  Speaker 3: cook it and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But it is still... In the same realm of what
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  Speaker 1: you just said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I was going to say like, you know, wild,
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  Speaker 1: wild pig. I've seen, I've seen people cook that and
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  Speaker 1: that stuff is so good from wild pig.
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  Speaker 2: And then I've, I've actually eaten at a restaurant like
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  Speaker 2: wild ostrich and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great product. It's crazy. And it's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, deer meat, who could say no to
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  Speaker 2: deer meat, but you know now if people want to
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  Speaker 2: buy tickets for this, where can they go?
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  Speaker 3: So texasfoodchampionship.com, you can click on just get tickets. It's
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  Speaker 3: all over the front page as well as pretty much
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  Speaker 3: all over the website. We do have three different really
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  Speaker 3: ticket options for you. General admission. We have broken down
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  Speaker 3: by day. Kids 17 and younger are free across the board. Right.
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  Speaker 3: So they can all get in for free. And then
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  Speaker 3: we also have a Taste of Texas Pass. What that's
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  Speaker 3: going to get you is the availability to be able
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  Speaker 3: to eat at every single food truck that we have,
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  Speaker 3: as well as all of the different vendors. Wow. So
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  Speaker 3: they are producing a signature item that only the Taste
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  Speaker 3: of Texas Pass, uh, ticket holders will be able to get.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And you can use that all at one time, or
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  Speaker 3: you can space it around the whole entire weekend. So
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  Speaker 3: you will not get go empty. And then you also
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  Speaker 3: have an elevated experience, which is our attempt to bring
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  Speaker 3: a Michelin style restaurant into a festival.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And that's our VIP champions club. So that inside there
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  Speaker 3: will have unlimited food, a full open bar with all
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  Speaker 3: of our bar partners. It's an AC, um, nice luxury restrooms,
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  Speaker 3: everything like that inside there, plus their own series of, uh, demonstrations.
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  Speaker 3: So We'll have samplings and mixology classes and eating classes,
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of other different kinds of things inside that
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  Speaker 3: Champions Club. So three different ticket prices available. Or if
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  Speaker 3: you simply just don't want to pay for a ticket
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  Speaker 3: and you want to go in for free, you have
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  Speaker 3: multiple options there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You can volunteer for four hours with us. That four
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  Speaker 3: hours is going to get you a full entire three-day
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  Speaker 3: general admission plus an eating pass and a T-shirt. You
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  Speaker 3: can go donate blood with Coastal Bend Blood Center.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be there. Right.
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  Speaker 3: You'll get a full– free day entry as well. So
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  Speaker 3: multiple different things you can do.
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  Speaker 1: So basically people need to go with an empty stomach.
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  Speaker 3: Come with an empty stomach. There's going to be ample
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  Speaker 3: opportunities to be able to eat and drink. Absolutely. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to find more details, you can
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  Speaker 2: also find out on our calendars right now. It's got
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  Speaker 2: all the information there. And of course, give us the
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  Speaker 2: website one more time.
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  Speaker 1: Texasfoodchampionship.com. And it is spelled out T-E-X-A-S. Yes, sir. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, you could also find it on Facebook, Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: Facebook, Instagram, all of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Matt, for coming in today. Appreciate it.