The BBQ Central Show

(November 12, 2019 - Hour One) While the 2nd Tuesday of the month usually brings a visit from Meathead at Amazingribs.com, tonight we change it up! Meathead is taking high level meetings with TOP MEN in the industry and will be unavailable. So we will load in Mike McCloud, creator of the World Food Championship, to recap the 2019 contest as a whole. We will also specifically talk about the BBQ sec...

Episode 97 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to November 10, 2015 – This episode is a patented Jon Solberg double-header.  Noah Glanville, the founder of Pit Barrel Cooker, talks about his background and how he got into the live-fire business.  It is a really unique business and one of the most successful cookers in the segment!  By the way, the Pit Barrel Junior is out for sale right now as well......

(November 5, 2019 - Hour Two) In the 2nd hour, I will be joined by 1st Tuesday of the month regular guest (although he has been MIA the past 2 months) Sam The Cooking Guy. Our agenda tonight will cover topics such as steak, Santa maria grills, Salt Bae costumes, being besties with the King and Queen of Jordan, how he sets up videos to shoot and more...There is a great chance that we will go long i...

(November 5, 2019 - Hour One) First up is good friend of the show and YouTube sensation, Malcom Reed, from How To BBQ Right. Tonight we will talk a lot of turkey because he has been diligently putting together those type of videos for his website. We will also hit on beef cheeks and his experience at the 2019 World Food Championships! After Malcom we will chat with Chris Becker, owner of Cookin' P...

Episode 96 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to October 29, 2013 - LOTS of Thanksgiving/turkey talk in this episode.  First up was Meathead from Amazingribs.com and we hashed out all the turkey talk...if that wasn’t enough we backed Meathead up with BBQ Hall of Fame’er Steven Raichlen and we talked more turkey and mixed in some apples and Thanksgiving talk as well.   As always, if you would like to...

(October 29, 2019 - Second Hour) In the 2nd hour, I will be joined by CEO of the KCBS, Emily Detwiler. It has been a few months since we broke the news on this show that Emily would be taking over as the new Chief. This is a busy time if year for them as they are going into board elections, year end meetings and wrapping up the 2019 competition season. I will also get Emily's take on "how the hous...

(October 29, 2019 - Hour One) During the 5th week of October, we will take time to chat with the 2019 Jack Daniels World champion, Travis Clark of The Clark Crew BBQ Team! If you follow competition BBQ to any degree, Travis is a name that has become synonymous with winning (a lot) events and overall sanctioning body titles the past handful of years. We will talk about adding the JD GC to his title...

Episode 95 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to October, 20 2015 – Segment one of the show is a BBQ Round Table  - Chad Warren, Bill Minnihan and Robyn Lindars.  In the second part of the show, Daniel Vaughn also stopped by to talk about being the Texas Monthly BBQ editor and also about the Jack Daniels competition event.   As always, if you would like to hear something specific on an upcoming show,...

(October 22, 2019 - Hour 2) In the 2nd hour, I will be joined by my monthly contributors for the ever popular "Embedded Correspondents" segment. Tonight we weigh in on WFC 2019, breakdown fast food brisket sandwiches, talk about the terms sponsorship/sponsored, chat about social media and MAYBE us men weigh in on if women in the industry are hurting each other more than helping each other. BBQ Cen...

(October 22, 2019 - Hour One) The World Food Championships wrapped up this past weekend. Joining me to recap their time in Dallas is Jackie Milligan. Her team had quite a successful trip to include winning the EAT barbecue portion of the BBQ contest, 3rd overall in the IBCA portion of the BBQ contest, winning the Firewoman Challenge and taking 8th overall in the BBQ finals on Sunday...WOW!! Lookin...

Episode 94 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to October, 20 2010 - Pitmaster of the Tippy Canoe BBQ Crew, Joe Beland joined me and we were talking about his trip to the then pending  to the Jack Daniel’s World BBQ Championship. In the 2nd portion of the show, Favorite guest Ted Reader visited with me and we were talking about cold weather grilling and also about an upcoming trip he was getting ready...

(October 15, 2019 - Hour Two) Podcast Rant: (03:24) In the 2nd hour, I will be hosting first time guests and BBQ journalists Ryan Cooper and Sean Ludwig (15:25). These guy have put together and launched "The Smoke Sheet", which is a weekly online publication that covers the BBQ and grilling industry in a very complete fashion. We will get some background on these two guys, find out how they met an...

(October 15, 2019 - Hour One) We are almost thorough October!! Making his 3rd Tuesday of the month appearance is the creator of The Barbecue Bible, Steven Raichlen (14:23). Steven is a big believer in seasonal cooking and tonight we talk about the fall harvest and what you should be trying on live fire! We will also answer some questions fans have submitted through Facebook.  We specifically talk...

Episode 93 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to October 16, 2013… And this is a Jon Solberg "Double-Header".  BBQ Central Show Guest Hall of Fame'er (And BBQ Hall of Fame'er) Dr. BBQ, Ray Lampe joined me on that show.  In these segments, you will hear us talk about everybody's favorite BBQ topic...BRISKET!  This show is unique, because at this time, I was also doing a "Wednesday" show in addition to...

(October 8, 2019 - Hour Two) In the 2nd hour, Steve will visit with Pitmaster of Fat and Dumb BBQ, Mike Peterson. Mike and his team were crowned GC at the Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship in September with an incredible score of over 714 - the third highest score ever in KCBS Competition history. That feat included perfect 180 scores in chicken, pork and brisket...WOW!! Mike will recap th...

(October 8, 2019 - Hour One) *Programming Note: Steve Ray of Owl's Nets BBQ Fills In For Me Tonight* The 2nd Tuesday of the month brings a visit from Meathead from Amazingribs.com. Steve and Meathead plan to chop it up on any number of topics tonight! If you have a question you would like Meathead and Steve to discuss, please send an email or make a post on the Facebook page! They will be sure to...

Episode 92 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to October 2011…First up, BBQ Central Show Guest Hall of Fame'er (Class of 2019) Robyn Lindars and the conversation we had about team names.  Robyn is always a fun conversation and this one did not disappoint! Following Robyn, another Guest Hall of Fame'er, Myron Mixon, joined me and we talked a lot of book writing and what all goes into that! As always,...

(October 1, 2019 - Hour Two) First up in the 2nd hour, one of the most respected journalists in the BBQ/Grilling industry, Derrick Riches, joins me. Derrick was also selected to be enshrined into the BBQ Central Show Guest Hall of Fame - Class of 2019. We will talk a bit about that life achievement, take a look back at his career and how he got started and what he is up to today. We will also talk...

(October 1, 2019 - Hour One) We begin the 4th quarter of the year (if you can believe it) in grand fashion. Joining me up front is 1st Tuesday of the month guest, Malcom Reed from How To BBQ Right. Tonight we talk about a number of topics to include competition chicken thighs, brown sugar chipotle flanken short ribs and hot to buy a competition BBQ trailer. Malcom is on the hunt for one and was ta...

Episode 91 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to September 2014 …Jon Solberg puts together a patented "Double Header" show with former NFL great and successful food entrepreneur, Reggie Kelly.  This was Reggie's first time on the show and I had him on to talk about his products.  We also talked about his NFL career and how he set himself up to transition from playing to running his KYVAN business.  T...

(September 24, 2019 - Hour 2) In the 2nd hour, I will be joined by my crack team of Embedded Correspondents and sometime show contributor Stover Harger III, will join me for a special edition of the embedded Correspondents segments. Tonight we plan to cover 2 items on the agenda. Up first, we will usher in the class of 2019 - Best Guest of The BBQ Central Show Hall of Fame. The layout changes this...

(September 24, 2019 - Hour One) Tonight we close out the month of September in grand fashion. We kick off the first hour with a conversation with America's foremost hamburger authority, George Motz! George has written a number of burger books, done a burger movie and may or may not be working on a burger musical! We will find out how one becomes THEE burger authority, where the best burgers are, r...

Episode 90 What’s on tap:  Taking you back to September 2011 ...the first portion of the show brings me back to a dark time...a time when nefarious activities were going on at my place of work...a time when I had to call out a co-worker on this global broadcast and introduce you all to someone called “The Lunch Thief”...you know the lunch thief...that PIECE OF CRAP that goes into the community fri...

(September 17, 2019 - Hour Two) In the 2nd hour, I will be joined by the brand new KING of the American Royal Open BBQ Contest, Fred Robles of Rio Valley Meats. If you didn't know, The American Royal BBQ contest (almost 500 teams in the open this year) took place this past weekend and Fred took down the crown. He will now rule the BBQ landscape for the next 12 months where he will look to repeat....

(September 17, 2019 - Hour One) September is quickly coming to a close and we bring the 3rd Tuesday of the month regulars through in the 1st hour. BBQ Hall of Fame'er, Steven Raichlen, joins me in his usual spot to chat about what's new in the live-fire scene and what he's been up to since August. Buy Steven's Best Selling Books RIGHT HERE. After Steven, resident live-fire expert, creator of the G...