Smoke Ring Syndicate

Kunchi Lattore is a Jack of many trades, a TikTok star, sales & marketing professional for Reggae Spice Company and growing social media presence…. Kunchi stops by the pit to chat about his sales and marketing adventures as well as the current cross country ground pounding marketing you do when you’re newer in the market. With the curiosity for spice levels with this flavor profile, you have to fe...

Going through your local grocery store I’d bet you’ve seen at least one of the Sweet Baby Rays products on the shelves. Founded on the bbq trail at a Chicago Ribfest in the 1980s Duces Father and Uncle cemented the family name in BBQ sauce. Duce continues the namesake with his culinary innovations with his restaurant and catering business. All the while bottling and selling his own new sauce too!...

Ed Reilly is the sales guy responsible for so many BBQ products in your home, Bc he’s the reason you see the BBQ products on shelves. If you’re going into the industry, He’s the sales rep you need to help get your BBQ product in stores. With the experience he has, the knowledge and right stuff help the products come off the shelves and into the homes of your adoring fans! Ed represents a variety o...

Salt and Pepper! And not the late 80s early 90s hip hop group, the 1st cookbook released by Chef Shawn Cooley! Find your copy here: www.coolenk.com/cookbook for your copy! From working his way through country club kitchens, hospital kitchen head chef, hanging out with Junior Urias, Harry Soo and myself cooking BBQ in Midland Tx. All this experience needed to be in a book. It’s a cookbook you can a...

Smoke Ring Syndicate presents: our guest Chris Marks; who has over 600 completion wins, including 50 national championships and 8 American Royal Grand championships! Chris Marks owner of Three-Little-Pigs-BBQ.com. A Rubs and Sauces empire! We spoke about the consumable BBQ: rubs and seasonings business. What’s the process to bring your personal rub or sauce to market. From one of the best in the g...

Shawn Bevins owner of Hellrazr outdoor cooking from Canada joins us for this week’s episode. The beginning of a BBQ grill company. New products, development of them. The formal introduction to the US market later this year. Shawn you May know from his Hammerforge Days. Now this Canadian is building grills and smokers with ROBOTICS! Individually numbered grills that are for the novice or advanced B...

What happens when we end the episode. Super secret conversation. Stuff we wouldn’t share on air? We let it fly in another installment with Chef Michael Williams. Trade secrets and non disclosure items removed for legal reasons.

Chef Michael Williams is an accomplice chef from New Mexico now residing in Texas with a new rubs and seasoning line based out of Texas with his southwest flavor flare influence available to you at the kitchenflavors.com

This week we head down Under to speak with Ben Arnot. He is the owner & creator of Smoking Hot Confessions, a BBQ podcast as well as Barbe Con the online presentation most recently.

From his very humble beginnings on the reservation selling fry bread & venison sandwiches to creating an international barbecue restaurant franchise and beyond!

In this episode we talk with Randall Bowman of Deep South Smokers. Find out the real story on what brought him to Georgia his time with the KCBS. As well as his barbecue cup competition and so much more!

The Horsemen of BBQ return. Maine’s member Josh Enos deals with technical issues, Dyno Dan goes on record, Davilla left his partner, & I think how much catering has changed but miss it. Maine BBQ Summit 2022…

Back again with this episodes guest Dyno Dan. We talk pop up bbq, flying under the radar pellet envy and what BBQ really should cost!

Joey Machado, the marketing genius behind many fuel brands & other BBQ needs walks us through his background & how he ended up here. House brand, the road to his BBQ empire launches now!!!

Horsemen of BBQ join us to chat in this quarterly installment of BBQ business. Introducing Josh Enos - Maine, Dan “Dyno Dan” Rodriguez - California, James Davilla - South Carolina, Wes Phillips - Georgia. Start the chat about brick & mortar vs trailer vs underground catering. What’s your biggest BBQ FAIL?

Championship BBQ Pitmaster and famed YouTuber Harry Soo joins The People’s Pitmaster on Smoke Ring Syndicate episode 1 kickoff. We trace his start in the BBQ world to a stretch goal for a self proclaimed IT nerd that transformed from cooking his first BBQ competition winning chicken, into a growing Rub and Sauce business, FB, YT, and Patreon creator “Spreading BBQ Love” with his black belt tips on...

Smoke Ring Syndicate is your podcast for all things BBQ. Competition BBQ, a rub and sauce empire, cooking BBQ for friends and family or a franchised BBQ spot. Smoke Ring Syndicate explores BBQ with industry pros and up n comers to the world of BBQ.