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Hitman Talks to Brian From Battlin BBQ · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Of course Christy's Classic Kids, a big ninety three to nine.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? It is hipman with you, and I've
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  Speaker 1: got Brian on the phone right now. You know it's
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  Speaker 1: coming up in just a couple of days. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about battling barbecue. Now, this is an annual event and
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  Speaker 1: it's for great Craus, you know, Brian, I got you, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: tell me if people have been living under a rock.
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  Speaker 1: This has actually been an annual event now for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about Battling Barbecue.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's basically twenty eighteen. He started. We had a
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  Speaker 2: friend in high school, of course, as we graduated back
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  Speaker 2: in the day, of course, but he ended up having
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  Speaker 2: one of his sons ended up having a brain tumor,
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  Speaker 2: which is cancerous. And you know, we would try to
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  Speaker 2: think any ways you can help a friend, right, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we could do barbecue plates, but you know, how much
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  Speaker 2: is that raise? And like my friend, one of my friends, said,
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  Speaker 2: don't you do barbecue competitions? I said, yeah, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Not that good, but we still do them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And she said, well, why don't you figure out how
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  Speaker 3: to get it to where we can do one and
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  Speaker 3: just have a barbie competition for him.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, well, that's a hey, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: I've never heard of people doing that before. So we
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  Speaker 2: had one and ended up having like twenty teams and
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  Speaker 2: had a great turnout, and so I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we did raise a great amount of money. I figured
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  Speaker 2: that was it. And all the teams over there were like,
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  Speaker 2: you got to keep doing this, this is fun, Like
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  Speaker 2: we got to keep going. You need to figure this out.
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  Speaker 2: And so I thought, well, I guess I got to
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  Speaker 2: get a board together. And so ever since then we
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  Speaker 2: had had a bunch of close friends of mine we
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  Speaker 2: all be team board members, and twenty twenty four we're
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  Speaker 2: still doing it. So every year we raise funds for
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  Speaker 2: children of battling cancer in the Coastal Bend area and
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  Speaker 2: we do you know, barbie competitions, cornhole tournaments, live bands
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. Because we've came the long way from just
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  Speaker 2: a you know, sit in a parking lot with nineteen teams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can tell you that much. Yeah. Of course
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  Speaker 1: this is a free event happening in Engles side. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: where else are you going to get besides the barbecue competition,
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  Speaker 1: live music and for the past couple years you've had
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  Speaker 1: pro wrestling there. It was kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Every year we have progress there again. It's it's one
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  Speaker 2: of our favorite things to do. All the kids love
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  Speaker 2: it and a lot of adults love it too. I
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  Speaker 2: have a couple of board members that are like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: great time, I want to see this met real quick.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, go watch.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine, no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's really entertaining men.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And of course by this barbecue competition is a
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  Speaker 1: state championship cookoff, right that it is?
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  Speaker 2: That is that is correct?
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  Speaker 1: So if people want to get involved with this, can
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  Speaker 1: people still enter into this right now?
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  Speaker 2: That is correct? So basically you just go to our
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  Speaker 2: website Battling Barbecue dot org and you'd click away. Right
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  Speaker 2: when you go to the frontal'll ask if you want
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  Speaker 2: to join the cookoff competition. It's doing a dollar buy in,
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  Speaker 2: but it's seventy five hundred dollars total in winning, so
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  Speaker 2: it's a good chunk of money to win. So if
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  Speaker 2: you you think you're good, see what you got? You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Enter and like I said, all
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  Speaker 2: the proceeds we're making it's goes straight to the family,
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  Speaker 2: so that we keep zero. We keep nothing. All my
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  Speaker 2: board members and myself, we don't take a wage of
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  Speaker 2: any kind.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such a great cause. I've gone in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years and actually the food is really good,
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  Speaker 1: especially you know, if you ever need a judge for
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  Speaker 1: the brisket competition, you just let me know. I will
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  Speaker 1: be there. It's good, it's going to be tell me
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be over it. What's the park name again?
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  Speaker 1: Over there in Engles Side, So it's in.
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  Speaker 2: Ol Simmons Park. It'll be Saturday at Intel Simmons Park
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  Speaker 2: and Engle Site. So that's basically right off the highway
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  Speaker 2: and it's from noon till nine pm.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So and of course if you want to
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  Speaker 1: find out more details go to Battland Barbecue dot org.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a great cause for it. It's
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  Speaker 1: for a great cause and also it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a great competition and much much more looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to pass on to
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  Speaker 1: the people wanting to know more about Battle and Barbecue?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so we have our you go to our Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: check out our Facebook. We have Instagram, you know our website.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're still like I said, we're always looking
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  Speaker 2: for teams. We're looking for, you know, people that want
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  Speaker 2: to compete in the the Coano competition, and people just
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  Speaker 2: come out and join themselves. It's a free admission. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to pay to get in. You can walk
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  Speaker 2: around do whatever. You know. We got vendors, tons of
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  Speaker 2: vendors there, kid activity, so just come on by. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great time and a great cause. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, thanks a lot for calling in
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  Speaker 1: today and looking forward to seeing you this weekend, budd
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's see you there.