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- 0:00Corpus Christy's Classic Kids Big ninety three nine hip Man with you and I have
- 0:03on the phone Brian Yoder, who's with Battling Barbecue Benefiting Children Battling Cancer.
- 0:08That's coming up on Saturday, October twenty first over in Ingles Side at n
- 0:11O. Simmons Park. How are you doing, Brian? I'm doing pretty
- 0:15good about yourself. I'm doing great now. Of course I remember this from
- 0:19last year. This has become an annual event. How long have you been
- 0:22doing this since twenty eighteen? However many years that is? I can I
- 0:26can't remember. Wow, Well, the one thing I do remember because I
- 0:30went last year and we were out there. Of course, besides the barbecue
- 0:35contest for every chance to win lots of great prizes. But you have lots
- 0:38of other great stuff going on, including pro wrestling and let's see, it's
- 0:42a kids activities, corn old contests and much more. Tell us a little
- 0:45bit more about it, that's right, that's right. So at noon we
- 0:49have a professional wrestling that's underneath the pavilion. Then you got two thirty to
- 0:54five mistaken scarecrow people. Then six to nine thirty is going to be Seattle
- 1:00Rising. We have a corner. Competition starts at eleven, So if you
- 1:03want to do that, get there a little bit early eighty percent payout on
- 1:08that. Other than that, everything is free for the public to come.
- 1:12We have kid activities, got like a rock crawl. We've got like little
- 1:17kid games too. We've got you know, beer vendors, regular vendors,
- 1:21barbecue vendors, all that kind of good stuff. Now, this cookoff that's
- 1:25going on, I know it's six thousand dollars in cash prizes. Can people
- 1:27still enter right now for the cookoff? Yes, they can. Actually you
- 1:33enter through our website at Batlanbarbecue dot org. As long as you sign up
- 1:38by Friday afternoon, you can compete. Okay, all right, now,
- 1:44tell us about you said its benefiting children battling cancer. Tell us a little
- 1:48bit about the charity on that. Basically, you start in twenty eighteen with
- 1:52a friend of mine I went to high school with. So I had cancer
- 1:57and we decided something different, some different friend to raise some money. So
- 2:00we had a little cookoff, end up having nineteen teams, I believe,
- 2:05and so we say, you know, let's let's keep doing this. Let's
- 2:07see if there's other people that need that want some help and wouldn't mind,
- 2:10you know, doing this, And sure enough it just kept going and going
- 2:14and so you know, it's we've been doing this since twenty eighteen and we
- 2:16have no plans on stopping. Wow. Yeah, So we're talking with Brian
- 2:20Roder. He's a part of Battling Barbecue benefit Children's Battle Cancer happening on Saturday,
- 2:24October twenty first, is happening in Ingleside over at n O. Simmons
- 2:29Park. You want to find out more details, go online www dot Battling
- 2:32Barbecue dot org. That's b A T T l I n BBQ dot org.
- 2:38That way, people don't go battling, you know, and it's Battling
- 2:42barbecuet. Yeah. Yeah, so of course, like you said, this
- 2:46is a free event. Tell us more about the one thing I'm interested in.
- 2:51It's a lot of people have great events and stuff like that, but
- 2:53you're the only one that I know of that has pro wrestling. Can you
- 2:58tell us a little bit about the federation that's that's doing that wrestling event?
- 3:01Yeah. Basically, so these guys they come down from I believe the Dallas
- 3:06area and they had reached out to us mm hmm. Somehow they found out
- 3:10about what we do and he said, hey, man, how would you
- 3:13like some pro wrestling over there? And I just thought to myself, you're
- 3:15kidding, right, He said, no, man. He goes, here's
- 3:19a video of what we do, and they, you know, they got
- 3:21to go all over in the Texas area. He said, we would love
- 3:23to come down there and wrestle and show you what we got. I said,
- 3:27well, I don't have an arena. He goes, no, man,
- 3:28we got our own stuff. We have our own stage, we've got
- 3:31all the roads, we've got all the wrestlers. All I got to do
- 3:34is have a big space for us, and we're going to entertain everybody.
- 3:37So all right, and shirt up man. Every year it's a lot of
- 3:39fun. It's so cool to watch them, man, it's awesome. Yeah.
- 3:43I saw it last year and I thought that was so cool that you
- 3:45were doing that. And of course, like you said, you got live
- 3:46music and much much more. And you said, people can People can still
- 3:51enter right now for the cookoff, but they got to go. They have
- 3:53to do by Win again Friday by Friday evenings. You know. Sometimes sometimes
- 3:59people you know, like when we do cookoffs, they come we come in
- 4:01Saturday morning because traveling and all that, and I totally get it. But
- 4:05as long as I sign up by Friday afternoon evening, they are actually signed
- 4:11up. We just can't have people walk up Saturday and say, hey,
- 4:14we're here to go. We're you know, already all the rolls, everything's
- 4:15been passed out. So as long as you're signed up by Friday afternoon,
- 4:18you're good to go. Okay, And what are some of the categories?
- 4:21I know you probably have brisket on one? Is there like chicken? Is
- 4:25there other types of meats and stuff like that? Right, So we're doing
- 4:28three meats, so it's going to be chicken, it could be however you
- 4:30want. As long as it's not shredded. Then you'll have ribs. It
- 4:32can be any type of ribs. It can be baby back, spare.
- 4:36Uh, you know, Saint Louis. If you want in brisket is of
- 4:40course brisket. You know what I mean. You can do You can do
- 4:44your your flat, you can do your point however you want to want to
- 4:46do it. Long as long as you win, you win, you know
- 4:48what I mean. So, yeah, we have but we do CBA sanctioning,
- 4:51so they have a little more leniency on some of what you can do,
- 4:54and you can actually kind of se them do and just have chicken.
- 4:57You do thighs, you can do wings, you know, whatever you want.
- 5:00Well, if they need to taste tester, you just let me know.
- 5:03I'll be there for that because that's what we have people that are open
- 5:09to judging. You know, we actually will. We'll have we need twenty
- 5:12four judges per and you know, we don't mind having some of the people's
- 5:15spectators. If you arrived, So you go turn into at June one and
- 5:18two o'clock. If you're there at Simon's early and we have some spots open,
- 5:23ask us, hey, man, can we be a judge? And
- 5:24I'll look, well, hey we got a spot. Jump on in there.
- 5:27Let's see what you got. No, there you go. It's happening
- 5:29Saturday, October twenty First Battling Barbecue benefiting Children's Battling Cancer in Ingleside at n
- 5:34O. Simmons Park. Make sure you make it on out there. Everything
- 5:38starts at what time exactly. Everything starts basically at eleven am, So eleven
- 5:44am. The first thing is the cornhole competition starts, So that's technically the
- 5:47beginning, all right, Okay, so if you want to find out more
- 5:49details www. Dot Battling Barbecue dot org. That's b A T T L
- 5:56I n BBQ dot org. Brian, thanks all for calling in and uh,
- 6:00you know, looking forward to seeing you pretty soon. I'll see you
- 6:02Saturday. I'll help everyone comes out