Pete Stroke, what's happening?
What's up?
Happy Friday.
We got an awesome, awesome episode today.
If you guys have any questions or statements or comments
or suggestions or you want to talk some shit,
go ahead and drop it down in the comments,
and we'll make sure we share that.
Nick, how are you, my brother?
How's everything going?
Doing good, doing good.
I'm glad to be hanging out with you guys tonight.
Oh, man, we're going to have a good time, that's for sure.
Drop a comment and a question down there,
and stick around for the answer, because we'll make sure
we get back to you guys.
But coming in here pretty soon is going to be Slick Willie,
AKA Adventures of a Fat Guy.
What are you guys doing this Friday night?
Anybody sipping on something already?
What are you guys drinking?
What are you guys cooking?
You're sipping on some modellos and chewing on some rib eyes?
That's what's up.
How'd you cook those rib eyes?
What were you cooking those on?
That Santa Maria over some bread oak?
Ooh, that's what I'm talking about, yeah.
Mike Willie is, he's getting all cleaned up.
He seen me with the fresh shave, he had to get one too.
Go ahead and grab yourselves a cold one.
This is going to be a fun episode tonight, boys,
I'm telling you.
Slick Willie will be in the house tonight.
Everybody, without further ado, allow us to welcome
the homie Willie, Adventures of a Fat Guy.
Got a lot of cool shit going on.
What is happening, my brother?
How are you doing tonight?
What it do, what it do?
Man, we just out here living, baby.
Salud to you.
Thank you for making the time to come out
and getting all lined up for us, bro, bro.
Man, it's all love, man.
I had to get, I mean, I had to make sure that,
how we looking, how we looking at it,
make sure the fade was right.
Bro, you looking dapper as a mug.
Yeah.
How's the audio, we good?
Man, you sound amazing.
You sound amazing.
Let me hear you sing something real quick.
Carmiasada on the block, no, sorry, my bad.
Yeah.
But guys, so we got somebody here to suit
someone everybody loves, man.
He is your favorite barbecue guy's favorite barbecue guy.
I'll tell you that for sure.
Adventures of a Fat Guy absolutely kills it.
Willie, he brings nothing but heat
when you're talking about cooking.
But the jokes, man, he will have you laughing.
Your ribs will be hurting.
I'm telling you, this guy's one of my favorite guys
I ever had a chance to hang out with.
So thanks for coming on, letting us all get to know you
a little bit more, my man.
Hey, good looking out, guys.
Hey, man, I'm glad you got ribs.
I don't need, like, I think, theoretically,
I should have ribs, but I don't know where they're at.
I mean, I've never really felt them.
But I kind of know where they should be, you know what I mean?
So what's going on?
Oh, man, let's just kind of jump right into this thing, man.
You got a lot of stuff going on.
You got some amazing partnerships, right?
You're another one of the jealous devil boys.
You know, you are doing your thing with the scrub daddy
guys, too, you know what I mean?
I mean, it's been.
And you're out there, you're showcasing products.
You're out there on the stage.
Tell me a little bit about that.
What's that like being on stage in front of people?
Are you already comfortable with it, or are you still
working through that?
No, actually, you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to bump up the lights here real quick.
Hold on.
Yeah, go ahead, do what you do, brother.
And that's how you dodge a question, boys.
No.
So check it out.
So funny story, a lot of things people don't know about me,
and I'm just getting my voice back since Memphis,
so my apologies.
But I've been a DJ for, like, over two decades.
So that's kind of been my side gig.
So I've done a lot of radio stuff, a lot of local stuff.
On there with big boy, my boy ODM from 1991,
like some crazy stuff.
Owned my own mobile DJ company for like two decades.
Well, about 17 years I was pro, 17, 18 years.
And so being on a stage and being in front of people
is just like nothing to me.
I'm just so used to it, right?
So being on a mic was kind of nothing to me.
But I didn't know that that was going to carry over into this
because I just never connected the dots, right?
So I was kind of like a lot of us.
I was doing a lot of pictures, right?
A lot of that type of stuff.
And then I recognized that, well, actually,
it was my videographer, my boy Ernst.
He was like, yo, check it out, bro.
Like, if you're going to be adventurous, a fat guy,
we need to see your adventures, homeboy.
So you got to be in front of the camera,
and you got to do, you know, we got to do videos.
So it just wasn't my thing.
I wasn't into videography.
I wasn't any of that.
But eventually, we transitioned over into videos.
And that's just kind of where the brand kind of took off.
So I'll give you guys a little bit of backstory
on how the brand even started, right?
So I'm not gigging as much.
I'm not doing what it is that I normally do.
My daughter's getting older.
And I'm like, man, what are we going to do?
Pandemic kicks off, right?
And so obviously, I'm not gigging.
People aren't hiring DJs the way they were.
And I'm like, man, what am I going to do with this?
So I was like, OK.
I came up with the idea, and I came up
with the name sitting right here, exactly where I'm at,
right now, in this exact seat.
And I was actually pissed off, because I was like, man,
there is zero chance nobody has this.
So I'm thinking underscores, dots, abbreviations, right?
So I put it in IG, and it said, the user not found.
Nice.
I googled the domain, and nobody had it, which is super rare,
right?
Because we all come up with ideas and concepts and shit
that we kick around.
But I was like, man, it's just meant to be.
So I told my wife, I was like, you know,
I think I'm going to flip my page.
She was like, for what?
And I was like, well, I mean, everybody,
because it's the pandemic, right?
So everybody started posting their cooks there, all the shit
that they were doing in the house.
And I was already doing that since I was 18 years old, 17.
And I was like, man, what if I start documenting my stuff,
how I do stuff?
And that was the whole concept behind it.
But when I came up with the name,
and I came up with the logo, it just took off, bro.
It was like wildfire.
People loved the concept.
They loved the name.
They loved the logo.
And they're like, yo, there really
is a fat dude behind this brand.
And yeah, man, and here we are four years later.
Damn, the rest is history, as they say.
The rest is history, brother.
So I'm still fighting this cold for Memphis in May.
I'm just now trying to get my voice back.
So on that note, because you guys are such amazing people,
we got a little Henny White.
Oh, that's what's up.
Look it.
Shout out to the white folks in the room.
So we're going to drop a little Henny White to you guys
and to all these amazing people that follow me.
Man, yo, I ain't shit with you guys, but cheers, guys.
Salud.
I feel you want that voice, also, brother.
I'm over here.
I'm recovering from bronchitis.
I've been struggling, man.
I don't know if you caught any of last week's episode.
I'm sorry, Mike.
Half that time, I was holding in a cough.
Man, I felt like I held a coffin for a good 40 minutes then.
For real, like people don't understand the struggle, right?
So man, but shout out to you guys in the continued success,
everything you guys are putting together,
and just highlighting just the local community.
A lot of people, I should say a lot of people,
some people don't realize this grassroots effort is
what we do, right?
We support each other, try to build each other up.
Dude, I see constantly how many reposts
you're doing of people that are using your seasonings on.
That is just so dope, the way you guys support each other.
And to me, that's what all this is about.
How do we raise each other up?
How do we lift each other up?
And how do we continue to grow as a community?
So the people and the brands that have supported me,
when I first started out, a good friend of mine,
she reached out through a crazy, crazy turn of events.
We started talking.
She was actually the person who hires all the social media
people for Scrub Daddy.
She said, yo, we have this new product that's
getting ready to drop, and I think you're
the right man for the job.
So that was the birth of Barbecue Daddy.
They hit me up.
They said, we want you to drop it.
So I hired my videographer, Erns.
Shout out to life with Erns.
People were tripping out on me, because I was one
of the first people back then, this
was a little over four years ago,
using an actual videographer, right?
And there were times where he was making more money
than I was.
I mean, he was making money, and I wasn't.
But I didn't care about that.
Honestly, at that time, I was literally
just trying to build a brand.
And he needed to get paid what he was worth, right?
And so shout out to Erns for believing in me.
And we did some dope videos.
And between three videos, he did over 20 million views.
He went stupid viral.
And people started paying attention to me,
and they started paying attention to Barbecue Daddy.
And next thing you know, I have the owner, Aaron,
himself from Scrub Daddy, call me.
And he's like, hey, I don't know if you know who this is.
And I was like, who doesn't know who you are, brother?
But how'd you get my number?
He's like, hey, man, I got my ways.
And he says, hey, I need you to not make any Barbecue Daddy
videos for the next 90 days.
And I was like, I thought I shit the bed, right?
I was like, what did I do?
He was like, listen, man, you sold this out.
You can't keep up.
And I need you to not create any content so that we
can build up enough inventory so that we can set ourselves
up for summertime.
And that was how the relationship started.
So eventually, I kind of evolved into the Barbecue Daddy, right?
So it's kind of crazy.
And there's a new venture that we're just
dipping into right now at Scrub Daddy.
We just did the Las Vegas show with them.
I was there for four hours, and the execs from Home Depot
were texting me.
And they were like, yo, I'm not sure if you're aware of this,
but you're going to Memphis in May.
And we're going to send you.
We're going to send Chuck.
We're going to send Mike, Blazing Star.
You already know, right?
And they're like, we're just going to do it.
And I was just so honored, right?
Because that's the big dance, right?
Who the hell am I, and why should I be at Memphis in May?
So we did an onstage demo, me and Chuck.
It was just bananas, the opportunity
of a lifetime for me.
So a little bit of a backstory, kind of where we're at now
and how things have come to fruition from Scrub Daddy,
Jealous Devil, now Home Depot.
It's amazing to me that these global brands have
wanted to reach out.
And I don't have the biggest platform, man.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
I'm definitely not talking shit on what it is that I got,
right?
I'm blessed to have a little platform that I got.
But it's nothing like Chuck or my boy, Tone, TFTi.
These guys are monsters.
But here we are still representing
some of the same brands on the same platforms
in the same arena.
So I just get excited that I'm even here, right?
It's like you walk into that party where all the big dogs
are at, and you're like, shit, here we are.
Yeah.
You're one of them, my brother.
You're definitely one of them.
You definitely deserve your spot at the table.
There's no doubt about that.
And it's cool to see these global companies that they
don't focus purely on quantity, but they also
focus on quality, right?
And that's something that someone like you has, right?
Even if you're talking your overall numbers, right?
Your numbers may not reflect the same
as what you'll see with some of these other guys.
The quality absolutely does.
So the people that are.
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
And it shows when you can represent a product
like that Barbecue Daddy and immediately
affect the business, right?
Shout out.
I noticed Nick just shouted out Famous Dave's, right?
Famous Dave's in the house.
They actually follow me because of my,
who's now my business partner.
I'm going to drop something here shortly.
But Eduardo from 187 and we're BlackSmokes187
from Barbecue Showdown.
Shout out to my boy.
Just killed it.
But again, these are the connections that we have, right?
We're all this tight, tight, close knit community.
Alex, she was just on Next Level Chef, right?
These are my people.
I cook with them side by side in Texas
in all these different states that I'm in.
And you know what, Tone's Pad.
All this crazy stuff that these people
that we're able to meet and then to see them transition
over to these dope opportunities.
And we're still the homies.
They still shout me out.
That part is just amazing for sure.
Who's this fucking nerd?
Hold on a second.
Who's this fucking nerd in here?
It's E.G.?
Who's that fucking nerd talking shit about Ed?
It ain't fucking whack.
Shut your fucking mouth.
Get out of here.
So I'm gonna give you a little insight
that's actually Ed's brother.
Oh, shit, nevermind, my bad homie.
I'm sorry about that.
Fuck all that shit you want.
So that's my boy Oscar.
Sorry, Oscar.
My apologies, Oscar.
Oscar's the shit, bro.
I think you're gonna appreciate it.
I'm just scared enough for your brother, man.
Man, I thought you got me on that shit.
You got me.
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Ed gives him all the credit.
So like Oscar, he's got his other brothers.
He comes from this family of cooks,
like classically trained chefs.
And these guys cook their asses off.
So when people see what it is that Ed's doing,
and they're like, yo, you don't even know
what my carna is doing, like my bro Oscar, my bro.
Like all of his brothers, they're just,
they're next level.
One of them owns a sports bar slash pub,
you know, in the Santa Clarita area.
Like it's crazy, like the amount of talent
in this family, right?
But it just so happened that his little platform
took off, right?
And then he wound up nailing a barbecue showdown,
and you'll hear it in the show.
You'll hear it in a constantly,
he's always giving his brothers, his jefito,
his brother, Matt, or his pops, mad shout outs,
because that's where he got it all from.
So yeah, it's funny that you,
but see, just what you just did right now
is how we are as a family, how we are as a community, right?
Like who's this buster right here
talking shit about my boy, because that's what we do,
we get each other's back, right?
Because without each other, yeah, we could stand up,
but only for a little while.
But collectively, we're like an amazing power of people.
And that right there is a perfect example.
So shout out Oscar, I love you bro, bro.
I'm sorry, Oscar.
No, and actually, hold up, was it Oscar?
Was it his brother?
Hold on, let me see, it might've been his brother Eric.
Let me see.
E.G.?
Let me see who it was, was it, it's E.G.?
Yeah, it's E.G.
Oh yeah, that's his brother Eric.
That brother right there, that broke cookie's titties off,
let me tell you.
Eric is a freaking, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what's up, Eric.
Good to see you.
The funnier one.
So Eric is a freaking beast, but it's a trip, right?
So we got Oscar and Eric, like to see what it is
that they've done as a family,
and the way that they've carried the tradition on
is beautiful, man, I just, I love seeing it.
Those are my people.
And now Eduardo's my business partner, so.
Oh, sick.
It's pretty dope, man.
That's, you know what, I'll tell you,
when it comes to that shows, and Ed specifically,
I love the way he represented for himself,
for his family, like seriously.
I thought he was really transparent.
You know, a lot of times you'll see people,
they'll get on TV, and obviously none of our guys, right?
A lot of our friends have made it big on these shows
and stuff, and they've done really well for themselves.
But some of these other folks, they get on there,
and it's like their time to shine,
so they put on a little bit, so to speak,
you know what I mean?
But he really remained humble.
He was an amazing representative for not only the community,
but also his family.
That was my big takeaway in watching that show,
it was just the way he carried himself.
I was supposed to be on that series with him.
No way.
Yeah, so Netflix had reached out to me like three times,
and I turned him down like twice.
That one right there, I did, I followed through.
Towards the end of it, I was like, man,
because I don't compete, right?
I'm not a competition cook,
and I'm not professionally trained,
not to say Edwigs or any of these other dope ass people,
right, but I'm not classically trained,
and I'm like, man, I'm gonna be the fat kid
for me, Stella, are they gonna make me into,
you know what I mean, the sucker that's in there
with all of these people, all these dope ass people, right?
So I wanna pull him back on it,
and win, lose, or draw, that was my choice.
I did it, I pulled back on it.
I was like, listen, I'm gonna dip out
at this phase in the game,
but I had already made it to like third or fourth round.
So yeah, we were really close,
but it's dope to see how many in my family,
you know, to see like Eduardo, you know,
Budden, I've shot, there was a lot of people
that made that cut, and shout out to them,
and they made the best, you know,
look at all these dope people that we chop it up with,
and that are like now gone on to these shows,
and to see their platforms blow up,
it's just, it's amazing to me, it's just hella dope.
It is really cool to see, man,
and that's why they say, right,
take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself,
because you never know when the next one's gonna come.
You just don't know, look at Michelle,
money Michelle, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So we got to know each other, we were doing our thing,
and then I was like, listen,
I remember she reached out to me when I followed her.
She shot me a text, and she was like,
hey, listen, I know you don't follow very many people,
I'm just honored that you would give that to me,
and thank you for following my journey.
And I was like, I was super humbled,
like I'm just a nobody, like what the hell,
like why are you honored that I'm following you?
But I, and I told her, I said, listen,
we all have a purpose, we all have a route
that we're gonna drive down, right,
and a road that we're gonna go,
and you never know, you're gonna hit it big on something,
and people are gonna look up to you.
My favorite saying in life is,
the toes you step on today could be connected
to the ass you got to kiss tomorrow.
So never shit on anybody, because whoever the hell it is
that you shit on today might be the next person
you're reaching out to going, hey,
could you give me a hand with this, right?
So, and I shared that with her.
So when she landed the show, I was like, shit, yeah,
that's my girl, congratulations to you, Alex, right,
she just did next level chef, like all these people
that are just part of the community that we're in,
and to see them growing and expanding their brands is,
it touches my heart, bro, like that's what this is all about.
And those two women that you're mentioning right here,
Michelle and Alex, man, they know their way
around the barbecue, man, they can cook
with the rest of them, man, I'm telling you.
So I've cooked elbow, like shoulder to shoulder with them
in the pits, bro, and they will cook your ass off,
let me tell you.
Alex is right there doing, shoveling coals,
doing a whole cow, a whole steer that we did in Texas,
and just bust their ass, doing it, making it happen.
Like that's just dope to see, and Michelle as well,
like she's just super humble, but she's a beast,
she's a sleeper, you don't realize what it is
that she's capable of, and shout out to her
for doing what it is that she did on the show.
So part of me is like, eh, should I have pulled out,
but the other part of me is I did it my way,
the way that I wanted to do it, and they still reach out,
there's still more opportunity coming,
and we'll see where we go.
Absolutely, man, and honestly, everything happens for a reason.
So if that's what you felt was the right thing for you
in that moment, that was the right thing to do.
No regrets, you can't have regrets.
Zero, man, you gotta write this out to the fullest, right?
Because people hand this up all the time,
hey, would you do this different, or they kinda,
I'm sure you guys hear it all the time, right?
Like what's the pathway, like what's the direct path
of doing what it is that you're doing,
and traveling the country, and getting paid
to create content, and I don't know.
The only thing I could tell you is I held true to myself,
which is I wanna create the best content I could,
which to go back to what you were talking about, Nick,
which was the quality, right?
And this is where I gotta bring in my boy, Ernest,
shout out to life with Ernest.
Like I mentioned, you know, there was times
where he was making more than I was,
but I saw the potential with brands like Scrub Daddy,
major global brands that I saw were reaching out to me,
like how can we function together?
And I was like, well, he had always told me,
listen, I think you got the raw talent,
but what's gonna extend to, what's gonna bring all that out
is quality content.
So you have to do quality,
and I think we're able to help you with that.
So again, I brought in a professional videographer,
and we were off to the races.
And before you know it, you know,
Smithfield was reaching out, like major brands
that I just signed on right now with Stacom.
Shout out to my people at Stacom.
They're an old school brand, we probably grew up on it.
You know, it's a frozen, it's a frozen meat.
But if you grew up the way I did,
and you grew up with a lot,
like A, it was something that we used, right?
Household stable.
Facts, so those are the brands that I try to partner with.
If you see something on my page,
there's a connection to someone.
It's somebody that I know with the product that I used,
it's something that I grew up with,
and that's the way I try to incorporate their brand
into what I do, because the minute I lose that,
that sincerity, right, or that connection with my audience,
they call bullshit immediately, you know, man.
100%.
Your brand's, your followers call bullshit,
and as they should, they should call me out.
But you know, when they, when they,
I try to keep those instances few and far between,
and that they know if it's on my page,
it's something I'm using, it's something I believe in,
it's a partner of mine, they see me post
some big seasonings, they see me post,
they're gonna know, yo, this is good shit,
and he's using it for a reason, you know what I mean?
Absolutely, yeah.
It results in more genuine content, ultimately, right?
And that just resonates better with people.
Nobody likes seeing just commercials,
you know what I mean?
If it's not genuine, if you're not loving the product,
if it's not something that you will confidently recommend
to somebody else, then it's just gonna come off
as some commercial, you know what I mean?
But when you truly believe in the product,
you can comfortably recommend it to other people,
it comes off real genuine, and people are real quick
to jump on board and show support
like they did for Barbecue Daddy with you, you know?
Because that's not what you want, right?
You don't want people to be like, yo,
what's this fool showing me now?
And shout out to the people who do that.
I mean, if that's how you make your cheese,
I ain't mad at you, Claire, like, do you.
The only thing I can speak on is how I'm trying
to do me, and how I'm trying to do me is keep
that sincerity, keep that direct tie where people know,
when they come to my house, guess what?
There's Scrub Daddy sponges in that sink over there.
When they go over there, there's blazing star seasonings
right over there.
When they see me fire up the grill,
guess what I'm loading with?
Jealous Devil Charcoal.
When they, you know what I mean?
Like, the genuine connections that they see me use,
when they come over, I've had people come over
that aren't used to what it is that I do,
and they're like, shit, you really use this?
You're damn right I do.
This is what I provide for my family.
We believe in this.
This is what it is that we do.
It's not just a paycheck.
The minute, in my opinion, you sell out
and you think that it's just gonna be a paycheck,
people will call bullshit.
Your audience will call you out,
and they're gonna be like, hey, man,
I see what you're doing, and God bless the people
that get away with it.
It's just not for me.
My purpose isn't here to talk shit on those people.
It's just to share with you how it is I've done it,
why I do it, and why it is that such major brands
have blessed me with wanting to make a connection
with me and my brand, even though my platform
isn't as large as, it's crazy,
because we sit down, we have these little talks with,
man, TFT.I, right, Chuck's Flavor Trade,
these are my boys, my brothers, platforms
that are three, four, five times as large as mine,
and here we are in the exact same negotiation
with the exact same companies,
spitting out the exact same numbers.
That's an honor to me.
That's an honor that they see these type of brands
and they look at me and go, yo, I hold you on that level.
Shout out to that man.
Oh, absolutely, man.
Tone, Chuck, all of those guys,
and even more that have yet to be mentioned, man.
There's a lot of heavy hitters out there
that are doing great things.
Al Fragoni.
Al Fragoni, legend, of course, man.
I'll never be able to repay him for spending that time
with my son and working with him and showing him the ropes.
Remember that?
You talk about heartfelt moments, man.
I was definitely, I was in my fields for sure
over at Tone's House when I was going down.
As a father, I saw that and I was like,
this is what it's about.
This is beautiful.
And the fact that Al recognizes that,
and is like, yo, this is a pivotal point.
He doesn't fake the funk, right?
He ain't doing it just for shifts and giggles,
but the fact that he recognizes that and embraces it
and is like, yo, I might be able to reach out
to the next generation here
if I'm able to make that connection
and let him know that this young man is welcomed
and is a part of us.
He's gonna carry that for the rest of his life.
That is a core memory between Al, yourself, and him
that he's gonna carry on for forever.
That's beautiful.
That is what it's all about.
Exactly.
The next generation, 100%, man.
Let's, obviously we can keep riffing and going for days,
but I wanna make sure we can get to some of these questions.
I know people have asked some questions.
So what do we got, Nick?
So first question from Blazing Star Barbecue.
Does Willie have a special edition
scrub daddy for the shower?
Aye, so it's something we've been cooking for a minute.
I really wanna do a limited edition.
It's something that the owner from Aaron,
I know him as Aaron, right?
It's crazy the fact that they're this billion dollar company
and just call him Aaron,
but this last trip that they invited me out this last October,
we did what's called Scrubtoberfest.
So I actually, I just got invited
as a quote unquote influencer, right?
Part of the team to go and do what we do.
And they had reached out and they were like, check it out.
Would you be down to cook for us?
That's what I do.
What are you talking about?
Would I be down?
What do we got?
So we're at this, it's like a mansion, bro.
Literally like a mansion.
I was like, shoot me some pictures
of the equipment that you got.
I'll figure out a menu accordingly.
And shout out to a lot of the brands that backed this, man.
There was Snake River Farms came in sick.
We've done some little stuff here and there,
but shout out Snake River.
They supported that project big time.
And they literally had an Argentinian style grill
that the homeowner had just had installed.
So he had that, he had a big green egg.
We had my boy One Stop Chop.
We had my girl Kimmy, Kimmy's creation.
Like these major influencers and we're like,
yo, how can we help you?
So these guys were my Sous chefs, believe it or not.
Nice.
Helping me Sous while I was doing live fire stuff.
So I mentioned all of that because those ties
and those connections are what's taken
these business relationships to a personal level
and for them to want to continue to invest in my brand.
And so we have talked about it for a minute.
So the long answer is yes.
We're trying to work on Adventures of a Fat Guy,
Scrub Daddy Collab.
But we want to do kind of like a limited edition.
So kind of like a signature series,
but it is in the works.
We are trying to put it together.
It's that vessel is, it's a steamer, right?
It's a big, big vessel.
So it takes a lot to move that ship, right?
So we're trying, they do believe in me.
They are trying to work on something
and hopefully we're able to make that come to fruition.
Oh, it's gonna happen brother.
It's definitely gonna happen.
Just everything happens at its right time.
You know what I mean?
Something can take a little bit longer.
It goes down.
Yeah.
Just stay patient and everything's gonna fall into play
exactly as it should.
So Mike, there you go.
There's your answer.
We got the Shower Daddy coming soon.
Adventures of a Fat Guy Shower Daddy.
There's so many things that people have spit at me
and they were like, they just add daddy at the end.
I'm like, shit, here we are.
That's it, that's it.
We've been using Scrub Daddy sponges in my sink
for a long time, man.
I need to get me a barbecue daddy though, for sure.
Definitely need to go score me one of those.
I haven't seen them at my local Home Depot.
They got the spot for him?
Oh, he disappeared.
He didn't like that I don't have a barbecue daddy.
That's how he let me know.
They are legit, man.
They work like freakishly well.
Absolutely, I've seen them, man.
I've seen his.
Sorry guys, I was letting that out since he ain't here.
I've seen his videos.
They showcase them very well, man.
Those things look awesome for sure.
But he'll be back in here, boys.
Stay in here.
Throw us some more questions if you can while he's gone.
He'll come back and we'll get to your guys' questions.
So there was actually a question for you.
Let's go ahead and address that while he's gone.
Do you ship to Australia?
Oh, ship to Australia.
I have not shipped to Australia.
I'd be happy to look into pricing for you though on that.
See what it costs.
It's probably gonna cost similar
to what it cost to ship out to Canada,
which is an arm and a leg.
It's worth it.
Yeah, it's great.
If you wanna have a conversation about that,
if you're still in here, brother,
either shoot me a DM or you can go right on my website,
chat with the chat bot and that'll be me
and I'll get back to you.
I'll give you some answers.
Just make sure I can get your address
and I'll look up shipping out to Australia.
It'd be an honor to have some of my products
out there for you.
Sorry about that.
Oh yeah, shout out, guys.
I don't know what happened.
It just kicked me off.
No, I know what happened.
Shit happened.
I told you I didn't have a barbecue daddy
and you were out.
That was the last one, right?
So. Yeah.
So I put together a little bit of a,
I'll let you guys in on this.
So I put together a little bit of a program,
a proposition, if you will, with a scrub daddy.
And I said, hey, listen,
most people are using scrub daddy
back of the house anyways, right?
They're cleaning their dishes with it.
They're scrubbing their cast iron with it.
They're like, most people are using it in some capacity.
So I'm like, what if I were to make the connection
with my barbecue people with scrub daddy?
So that's actually how this, everything came to fruition
for the Las Vegas event, for Memphis in May,
for a couple of other things
that are gonna be happening this year.
So I have people like Brooke, like Robin,
like Brooke is the owner of the shed.
Her and her brother own the shed, right?
Shout out to them grand champions at Memphis in May.
Right?
So we meet up at Memphis in May
and I'm like introducing myself.
Like I'm just, this is our first time meeting in person
and I'm just over the moon, right?
I'm just like, the fact that I'm even
in this woman's presence, she reaches out
and she was like, I know exactly who you are.
What the?
Who doesn't?
How do you know who I am?
Stop.
Cause you're the guy.
I'm like, bro.
I'm like, I'm nobody man.
But the fact that she knew who I was, right?
So it was that, it was that connection with Robin,
with all these amazing female cooks.
Like don't even bring in gender, right?
The fact that they're just amazing cooks
and chefs in and of themselves.
But the fact that they're raising the bar
and showing people the love for the female community
as barbecue pit masters, shout out to them, right?
But they were like, yo, we love barbecue daddy.
Like I was manning the tent and they're like,
we love everything about barbecue daddy.
So lo and behold, they wound up winning the whole damn thing.
Whole hog, grand champions.
So they shot me a DM.
I actually shot them a DM after the fact
and I was like, hey,
y'all were talking about it before I even knew
that you guys are gonna pull off the grand championship.
If you guys want, let me get you guys,
let me show you guys some love.
So I reached out to the scrub daddy team.
We got some stuff coming, stuff like you folks
that you guys been wanting to try barbecue daddy.
Trust me, it's coming.
I'm networking and scrub daddy is backing me on the call.
Scrub daddy is doing everything they can
to make that connection between how amazing
their cleaning tools are because we already use them
and bring in the barbecue community
along with them and go, yo, we got stuff like scour daddy,
which is a stainless steel scour pad, no bristles,
no issues of anything breaking off, but guess what?
Use it on your dribbles, use it on your cast iron,
use it on your stoves, right?
So all of those little things are coming
and I promise you it's grassroots.
It's something that I can say that I'm blessed enough
to help implement with scrub daddy
and I got their backing.
The owner is behind me, scrub daddy is behind me
and there's more stuff coming.
We're gonna build a barbecue community with scrub daddy
and it's gonna be amazing.
So stay tuned for that and shout out scrub daddy
for y'all believing in me, but there's good stuff coming.
So we're gonna get you a barbecue daddy.
There's a lot of stuff coming guys, trust me.
They believe in the community
and not just for the monetary stuff, right?
Of course, like it's bad ass because, you know,
it raises sales forever, but that's not it.
They wanna be able to show genuinely
that we got products that can cater
to what it is that we do.
100% man, well, I'm stoked.
I wanna make sure I get an ordering too.
I'll get a pretty hefty order in
so I can kind of spread some of that love out too.
Oh, sure.
Share some of that stuff with my guys.
Use my discount code.
That way they can see that the order
came through from you, right?
What's our discount code?
Actually, so check it out.
So all bullshit aside, I make nothing from it.
100% transparency, I literally make nothing off of that code.
It's literally to help my followers
with shipping costs and things like that.
So it's only like 10 to 15% off,
but if you use AOAFG Adventures of a Fat Guy 10,
AOAFG 10, it's in my bio.
It at least saves you guys something.
It's the least that I can do, but it beats, you know,
if you can run down to your Target or your Walmart
or anything like that and buy it direct.
But if you can't, there's something special that you want.
They've afforded me that opportunity again.
I make zero.
I don't wanna make anything off of it.
It's for my followers.
I feel that.
I understand what you're saying.
And I'm happy to do that
because I know as a business owner, right,
I've got coupon codes for my guys too.
And so I can track that.
I know who's done an amazing job
of being able to push some product based on, you know,
whose coupon codes have been used.
So I typically don't use coupon codes because I don't,
I'd be happy to pay full price,
especially for small business.
But knowing that it's gonna be able to be tagged to you
and they can say, oh man,
that's another deal that came through from Willie.
You know what I mean?
So. Appreciate it.
Any other? Absolutely, brother.
No, I appreciate you guys.
Like all of that for us as a community
means so much more than people understand
because it just shows the connection, right?
And it shows the raw support that we show each other.
And to be able to show big brands
that we're not just here spitting out shit.
Like we're literally, we're supporting each other.
We're really doing it.
So any other questions, anything that's come up?
Yeah.
We had a nine sack.
When are you coming to Meat Stock in Australia?
Man, so Mel's been killing it out there, right?
Mel's been doing the meat stock.
Shout out to Mel, Dark Side of the Grill.
My brother, I love that man.
He's been killing it.
That's my next step.
I wanna do international stuff if at all possible.
So I'm praying that that comes to fruition next.
I'm actually something on high on my list,
which is to reach out to Mel
and see if we can make that connection.
But it's hard, right?
Because you want it to come from a genuine spot,
which it is.
I don't wanna ride his coattails per se.
I don't wanna ruin his gig, right?
Because he's got shit going on
and I'm nowhere on his level.
Mel's a freaking beast, but long story short,
it's coming, it is in the works.
I am in talks.
Something that I definitely wanna do
is do more international stuff
because I'm recognizing more and more
that there are people on an international level
who know who I am, which is mind blowing.
Yeah, it's just crazy.
Well, it's all, like I said already, bro,
it's all very well deserved.
Everyone really appreciates your energy.
I know we haven't cracked too many jokes this time, man,
but if you get around Willie, I swear to God,
this man is gonna have you in splits, bro.
I mean, shit's happening.
I don't wanna say it, but it's happening.
So outside of that, right,
you've developed a lot of great partnerships
with a lot of these brands and stuff.
You've also got a really cool beer collab.
Shout out to Kings Brewing, right?
You guys dropped that.
I mean, you only cracked one open.
Cracked that thing, baby.
All right, hold up, don't go nowhere.
Let me grab it, hold up.
Yep, he's heading out real quick.
He's gonna go grab that beer.
It's absolutely delicious.
Shout out to TFTI for bringing some home to me.
Meant a lot to be able to share that,
but we got Willie, you got Chuck,
you got Crazy Gringo, you got Ed.
Go ahead, you can let these guys know.
Butternife Shoddy, you got a lot of people came together.
The Barbecue Kings, they couldn't have come up
with a better name for the beer
with all of you guys on that thing, man.
And it tastes amazing.
Crazy Gringo, we got Barbecue King,
we got the 187 Pham Vam, we got Butternife Shoddy,
we got Kings Brewery, and the fact that Jeremiah,
who's now my business partner,
we're gonna drop that one, from Kings Brewery,
back to playing, was like, yo,
we gotta do something to help represent
what it is that you guys do, and that's Barbecue Kings?
Like, stop, man.
It's just, so this is actually what people don't know.
For me, personally, this is my fourth collaboration
with Kings Brewery.
Oh, no way.
So, this is my fourth beer.
My very first one, Jeremiah, the owner from Kings Brewery,
now my business partner, he reaches out,
and he was like, yo, we're gonna do
a trivia night at the bar.
So I tell you what, I want it to be me and you versus the bar.
Okay, run it, let's do it.
So randomly, every team had to come up with a name.
He jots down, because the genius that he is,
he jots down Adventures of Kings.
And I was like, bro, that's the sickest thing
I've ever heard in my life.
We have to do something with that.
So that transitioned into our beer collaboration,
Adventures of Kings, which is essentially
a chocolate-covered banana that I wanted to do Chocomil.
So growing up Mexican and growing up Latino,
you guys kinda know what Chocomil is.
It's a powder, the chocolate-powdered-based mix,
if you will, that people would add a banana into,
maybe milk if you had it that way, right?
But you know, an egg sometimes,
and you would make what's called Chocomil,
which is actually slang for chocolate milk.
So it was a Latino version of chocolate milk.
So I said, if we can incorporate that into a beer,
actually have one out in the fridge.
You might have to bust one out.
I do have one.
And that's how he asked me, hey,
what's your flavor profile?
And I'm like, well, I don't do a lot of sweets.
It was real heavy into Froze's.
And I was like, could we do a chocolate-covered banana?
He said, say less.
So we want them coming up with Chocomil.
So that was the first one we did,
which is gonna, I'll break that one out here in a second
when we have time, is we did a paloma.
So paloma is tequila, grapefruit, little citrus, right?
So shout out to Jeremiah at King's.
He said, that's hella dope.
I think we can make a beer out of that.
And he did.
We came up with, he used fresh grapefruit puree.
He used all fresh ingredients,
and we made a paloma, but beer-based.
So that one was called, it was literally called a paloma.
And we did that twice.
We did that in 12-ounce cans.
We did that in 16-ounce cans.
And then for our fourth one, it was Barbecue King's.
So cheers, guys.
Salute, brother, salute.
Here's to many more.
Just the beginning for you, my man.
Shut up, see you, bro.
You got like three beers under your name already.
Three, four, stop.
I got two.
We got two, and the third one's coming.
Hell yeah.
We got all the supplies for it.
It'll be brewed here pretty shortly.
They got a brew schedule, right, as you could imagine?
Oh, facts.
So we're going to be seeing this one probably mid-summer.
The next beer's going to drop.
I think I've given some hints before on what it's going to be.
I have blessed enough to try the first round.
I think I might have tried this last one.
I'm not sure.
We got the blueberry one this time.
If you had it, it would have been at Tom's house.
I definitely brought some.
OK, yeah.
I'm not sure if you got to them before they were all gone,
though.
They went fast.
I think I might have got somebody's backwash.
There you go.
It went fast.
There you go.
Yeah, no, but this next one's going to be a strawberry wheat
beer.
That's what we're doing for the next one, strawberry wheat.
So I love the fact that you guys do that.
That's got my heart.
Some of the first beers that I got into,
there's a local brewer out here called Hangar 24.
Oh, yeah.
It grew like national recognition,
and they kind of did wheat beers, right?
And that's kind of what got me into it,
and I love that flavor profile.
So shout out to you for doing that.
It's something that I don't think enough people play off of,
and it's a great profile.
Hell, yeah, man.
I appreciate that a lot, man.
It means a lot.
Pro show.
And we need to work out some more of your seasoning,
so I'll be reaching out to you here shortly,
because I need to incorporate those more into my cook.
Oh, man.
I'm all about supporting the community.
Whenever the time is right, brother, you know where I'm at.
I'm always right here.
I'm always on the backs.
Hell, yeah.
Yeah, you guys are, you know, between you, Blazing Star,
like Alfie, those are my core group of people
that I want to support.
Like, I don't feel obligated to.
I want to support.
So shout out to you guys for continuing to do what it is
you guys do to build a community.
I wish you guys in here, anyone that's in here,
and anyone out there in the real world right now understands
what it feels like to even be mentioned among those guys.
You know what I mean?
Like, it never gets old to me.
I get goosebumps every time.
Mike is a very special person, man.
I was very, very lucky to have some good times with him,
shared a lot with me.
Al Fragoni, obviously, you seen, you were there with me.
Man's an absolute gentleman.
You know, what doesn't need to be spoken on
doesn't need to be spoken on.
But Al knows what he's done for me.
And it's not a lot of people would go as far as what he did
for me to try to make sure that I was OK
and protect me from some potential risks
I was going down.
So that part right there, that statement in and of itself
is the beautiful part of the family that we've built.
Because guess what?
The people that are shitheads, we weed them out immediately.
Right?
Well, we're at Tone's Pad, and we're all kicking in
and fortunate enough to get that invite, right?
Yeah.
People always ask, I had somebody offer 10 racks.
They're like, yo, listen, if you could put me
in connection with the right people, 10 racks, bro.
I just want to be there.
It's not about the money.
It's about the camaraderie and about the family.
And we immediately weed those people out
because it's not about the cheese.
I'm not saying we all got it like that.
What I'm saying is that that's not important to us
in those type of situations.
It's about building these relationships
to have somebody like Al Furgoni, the legend that he is,
and be like, hey, I probably wouldn't do this if it weren't
you.
Here's my recommendation, right?
He does that to me constantly.
He's like, hey, Willie, I would do XYZ.
Or he'll reach out to me and go, hey, I love what it is
that you're doing.
How can I be a part of it?
And to me, that's just an honor, right,
to have somebody on that level reach out to me, who I still
tell everybody, listen, I'm a fat man with a camera
and a dream.
I'm nobody.
Don't ever put me on a pedestal.
Don't ever say I'm better than anybody else.
My rig just got detailed today.
So shout out to La Sierra Detail.
Came through for me at the last second
because I have an event tomorrow, right?
And he came up to me.
And I mean, he was just, it was wild to see the look
on his face.
He's like, yo, I've been following you for years.
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
I'm just blessed to even touch your vehicles.
I'm like, bro, listen, man, the man you think of
or whoever it is you believe has a higher power,
that's the person you respect.
I'm nobody, bro.
I'm just a man with a camera and a dream.
I hold myself above nobody else.
I respect, I appreciate what it is that you guys offer me
because it allows me to do these amazing things for myself
or for my family.
But at the end of the day, I'm just a regular guy
like you guys, just a fat man with a hope and a dream.
And we're just all here trying to help each other.
That's what's up, man.
And it shows, it definitely shows, man.
So outside of all that, man, business stuff aside,
obviously you've dropped a couple of tips for us.
Maybe some cool stuff is in the works.
I don't know, there might be a comment pinned down below
that you might want to check out if you're in here.
But outside of all the business stuff, man,
what is it that makes you tick?
What is it that keeps you going?
You know what I mean?
When you're not cooking, when you're not creating content,
and it's time to unwind, where would we find you?
Are we finding you at a movie theater just killing some time?
Are we gonna see you at some concerts?
What are the things you like to do
when you're just trying to chill?
So I do like concerts, I do like all of those things.
I've been very fortunate enough.
This room behind me over here is actually part of an expansion
that we did in our home.
My personal, my home is my sanctity.
It's my inner sanctity that the people
that have been invited here,
that have been able to experience it with me,
again, it's nothing special, right?
But it's something that I've built
that is important to my family and I.
So to answer your question, it's being here with my family,
it's being able to spend some time with my mom, my dad,
which by God's grace, they're still with us.
Those are the moments that I treasure the most
because those are the things that we reflect on, right?
You look back on and be like, yo, I remember that time.
There's a video I did, I might drop it again
for Father's Day, we did for, with my pops,
we did some Japanese A5, he never had A5,
but I went stupid, I spent a stupid amount of money
at a local butcher shop, I got a bunch of crazy cooks,
but for Father's Day, I wanted him to experience that.
I wanna be like, yo, this is Australian white goo,
this is American white goo, this is Japanese A5,
try it pops, tell me what you think.
So those little moments are the ones that I'm just,
I'm so grateful for because this little platform
that I've built has afforded me those opportunities, right?
And I'm so, so grateful for that.
I never take it for granted.
Those are the moments I cherish,
the moments I reflect back on,
the brothers that I'm able to have here
when we're doing crazy cookouts and just having a good time.
And honestly, it's not about the value of the meat,
it's not about the fact that it's Japanese A5,
it could be some stuff from a local freaking supermarket,
it's the time that I get to spend with my brothers
and sisters in the community, just in the back,
burning some coals, burning some wood
and just experiencing that with each other.
So those are the things that make me tick,
those are the things that bring me value,
those are the times that I truly cherish
because there's been some very, very low times in my life,
very low, some very, very dark times in my life
that only my inner circle knows about,
that I'm very, very grateful that I've been able
to get out of and that I'm here for.
So every time I get to light up the grill,
every time I get it, I'm able to crack a beer with my friends,
it's a true blessing for me and a true honor
because we could be in a much, much, much worse situation,
right, but here we are doing what we do
and loving what we do.
Absolutely, man.
Well, it goes without saying,
I'm really happy that you were able to come out
of those dark times, man, and be a better man for it,
you know what I mean?
I'm a firm believer that tough times
make very, very strong men
and you're not alone in that, brother,
you're definitely not alone in that.
Appreciate it, man.
Thank you so much for the support.
Again, just honored that you guys would even consider me
to be on this and to do some stuff with you guys.
What's pinned is my next project,
so anybody who stayed this late into the game, this is cool.
This is something different.
So, it's the first time I've ever said this on social media,
King's Meat and Barbecue Supply Co.
Shout out to my business partners.
So, you got Eduardo from 187, so BlackSmokes187,
and shout out to Jeremiah, the owner of King's Barbecue.
Those are my two business partners.
And the three of us have teamed up
to bring something extremely unique to the Inland Empire.
This is the first time I've spoken on it.
I was waiting until our lease was officially inked,
but we're super close.
So, thank you guys for the support.
I'm gonna need everybody who's tapped in right now.
We're gonna need all of their help to be successful,
but it's gonna be something cool,
something the Inland Empire hasn't seen,
and something I believe we're gonna be able
to use all of our experience on
and bring something really cool to the community.
Man, I'm so, so happy for you guys.
Appreciate you dropping a little bit
of an exclusive for us here.
Means a lot.
I know, obviously, everyone likes their own way
to be able to announce the next big step,
and especially when it's a real pivotal moment.
So, appreciate you dropping the exclusive here,
but you let me know anything I can do
to help show some love, show some support.
I'm there, my man.
I'm a busy man myself, too,
but I have a way about carding time out when it's needed,
you know, for sure.
It's gonna happen, and shout out, you know,
Sonny and Sonny Zapata.
These guys have been huge supporters.
So, it's amazing to me, right?
Like, we've had all these amazing people
that have supported me and my brand
and everything that we do for such a long time
that it's very rare that I reach out for anything.
I'm always there supporting other people.
So, it's dope when those other people are like,
hey, we got you this time.
We got you.
Let's figure out how we make this happen
and try to help support you
no matter where we're at in the country
or what it is that we're doing.
So, it's gonna be a dope opportunity,
I believe, not just for myself,
but for the barbecue community.
And we're genuinely so hyped
to be able to try to bring this
and bring the community,
just put the spotlight on the community
because I believe what it is that we do is just so unique.
And it's something that our families did, right?
Our parents, our grandparents,
we're not doing anything nobody did 100 years ago, right?
Cooking over live fire, cooking,
whether it's a live fire, gas grill, pellets,
me personally, I don't give a shit what you cook on.
I really don't.
As long as it isn't you're bringing good times
with your family and you're enjoying that,
even if it's you in your backyard by yourself,
if that's what keeps you sane,
if that's what keeps you on the right mindset,
I can cheers to that.
That's what I'm here for.
Yes, sir.
I'm not here for any of the big brand stuff,
any of saying you have to cook on this grill or that grill.
Me personally, I don't care about that
because we were just in Memphis,
my first time getting a chance to meet Benny Kendrick
in person, slap hands with him.
He's been a supporter of mine since I dropped this page.
He cooked on Santa Maria for two decades, right?
He cooks for a completely different company now.
Our methods are completely different.
But at the end of the day, when we were in Memphis,
it didn't matter whose name was on our shirts.
True.
You had Captain Ron who was cooking for Fogel.
I'm cooking for Jealous Devil Home People and Scrump Daddy.
You got Mike who's cooking with Nextgrill and his brand.
You got The Shed.
You got Mel and everybody else cooking for Big Green Egg.
And guess who was all there during our onstage demos?
Every single one of those people,
Barbecue Buddha, all of the grill dads,
they were all there supporting us
because at the end of the day,
what mattered is our love for cooking and serving
other people.
So those are the moments that I wish I could share
with everybody because you don't experience it
until you're there.
You're on this little ass stage and you look out
and your idols are sitting there in the damn audience
supporting you.
Man, that is a moment like no other.
And shout out to all those people.
And shout out to all of you because I know a lot of people
look at us, right?
Us meaning people that have a small platform, right?
Us that are producing our own products.
And they look at us like they hold us on a different level.
Guess what?
We're people just like you are.
We're just people with hopes and dreams, a brand,
and maybe a few more followers than some people.
But at the end of the day,
man, we're out there just trying to live the dream
like you are.
So chase that shit.
Chase that dream.
Build that brand and do what it is that makes your heart
tick because at the end of the day,
that's what's gonna drive you.
Don't follow me.
Don't follow Nick.
Don't follow my boy Nick over here.
Like don't do it for any of that.
Do it for you.
Build your own brand and your own purpose.
But if I drive you and I help you do that,
thank you for that.
I'm honored that you even mentioned my name
in a cook or in anything that it is that you do.
For sure, man.
Take that risk, man.
That's the only thing I would add
to what you just said, everything about go after it.
Make sure you take that risk.
A lot of times people, they've got amazing ideas,
big plans of what they wanna do,
but it's just really hard to take that final step
and to take that risk.
Like you guys are doing right now.
But with no risk, there's no reward.
You really need to, you really gotta just grab yourself
by the balls and just go for it, man.
And the worst that's gonna happen is
you're gonna learn from it.
And maybe the risk that you take doesn't pay off tomorrow,
but it may gear you up to take another risk in the future
that will pan out for you.
So take that fucking risk, guys.
Live your dream, man.
Live your dream.
There's, we only get to do this once, man.
We only get so many circles around this.
Like it's such a limited amount of time.
And this next venture that I'm in right now,
it took a lot of soul searching, a lot of prayer,
a lot of trying to figure out whether or not
this is what it is that I wanna do,
but I'm not getting any younger.
I wanna try to figure out how I utilize
what it is I've been blessed with
to try to continue that legacy for my family and I.
So that's what it's all about.
And man, we haven't given my boy Nick any love.
My boy, he chokes like he's been down there
doing his thing, but-
He's the young Jamie, my man.
He's out here, he's rocking and rolling,
getting a ton done.
Here's real quick before you get moving,
Chuck, I see you just joined in here.
Man, we gave you so many flowers.
I'm sorry that you missed them all,
but just know, man, that love is so mutual.
And we've talked about you quite a bit tonight on here.
You've been a big influence and an inspiration
for myself, for Willie and Nick.
And we can't thank you enough for paving the way
and doing what you do to show us that it can be done.
So sorry about that, Willie, go right ahead.
No, man, I just wanna give Nick some love
because he's reached out a few times like,
yo, what do I do with my camera settings?
What am I doing wrong here?
How do I adjust this shit?
Something ain't looking right.
And the fact that people look to me
for that type of information is like,
I have to take a step back and go, man, I was that person.
I was that person reaching out,
trying to figure this shit out, right?
And so the fact that people reach out to me
is just mind blowing.
But the fact that he's so humble and is like,
yo, anything that you give to me,
and guess what, any tips I give him,
immediately, that fast.
He's making adjustments, he's doing this,
he's doing that, and that pushes me
because that in and of itself is like,
yo, it's not just expelled gases, right?
This person is truly taking what it is
that I've learned and going, I'm gonna apply this shit,
whether or not it works for me or not,
but I'm gonna give it a shot.
And you see it immediately in their next video,
man, shout out to you, bro.
That's dope.
And for your videos, it's amazing to see
everything you guys are doing.
Believe it or not, you may wanna admit it or not,
you guys inspire me, you guys inspire,
behind the scenes, Chuck and I are talking about
people like you guys, and I don't mean that
as like a subcategory.
I'm talking about people who don't value what it is,
how big of an influence you are,
tone, all of us, we're all talking about the stuff
that you guys are doing, and you guys inspire us
and lift us up and make us wanna expand even more.
So shout out to everything you guys are doing.
And I appreciate you.
I know I've bugged a lot of you guys
just trying to ask questions and getting to it.
Because I see what you guys do,
and everybody has their own little style, right?
And I really, what if we had this,
and kind of implemented it here,
or this doesn't look as sharp as this video,
what is they're doing?
Or the audio sounds better over here than what I can do.
And a lot of the stuff,
like you guys have already kind of navigated it,
you've been doing it longer and whatnot.
So I am honored and blessed to be able to have you guys
in my corner to be able to put me there
and help me get to that next level.
And yeah, anytime you give me a recommendation,
I'm gonna implement it and I'm gonna listen
and we'll put it right away.
You know what I mean?
I have, you know, we're hungry, we're hungry.
You know what I mean?
So, I appreciate you.
I've seen it.
And God bless you for doing that, man.
Like the stuff that we share is,
it comes from a genuine spot.
I think Chuck just commented earlier,
what did Chuck say?
Let me hold on, let me scroll back here a quick second.
I know you got a hard stop here, Nick,
but I love you all boys means a lot.
The inspiration is truly mutual.
We're all gonna ride this beezy to the moon.
He's absolutely right.
So those are my brothers that understand what it is
that what this ride is all about, right?
We're gonna ride this out for as long as we possibly can.
We're gonna do everything we possibly can.
And we're gonna bring as many people with us as possible.
All those other people that talk shit to you,
all those other people who put you down
and what in your post,
those are the people disconnect yourself from.
Don't beat yourself up for that.
There's plenty of us out there
that are willing to help you, willing to share with you,
willing to put you on game.
We don't claim to know it all,
but anything I know, you're gonna know.
And if it comes from a genuine spot
and all you're trying to do is build your platform
and feed your family, I got you, I promise you that.
Fuck yeah. Appreciate you, dude.
What a legend, Willie, solid dude.
Heart of gold.
We do have a couple more questions.
So let's get some rapid fire questions out real quick.
There you go, Nick, do it.
All right, so Big Sexy, Tasajo or Ranchera?
I don't know if I butchered that.
Tasajo or Ranchera?
So Big Sexy always call it,
between him and Uncle Chico call me the Tasajo King.
So Tasajo, if you get the ranchera, right,
if you get the skirts that you're gonna make
your ranchera out of,
so they cut that really thin, right,
and they make butterfly cuts out of it, right,
which is your ranchera.
And you'll see it, it's kind of this dope,
little like heart shape, right, butterfly shape.
When you cut that across the grain
into thick like one inch strips, that's Tasajo.
Tasajo isn't a cut of beef,
it's how you cut the beef.
So you can do Tasajo the ribeye,
Tasajo the ranchera, Tasajo,
there's a bunch of different cuts
you can make Tasajo out of.
Tasajo the ribeye, chef's kiss, bro.
But my favorite is Tasajo the ranchera.
So it's a thick cut strip out of ranchera,
and it's the most intensified carne asada taste
you're ever gonna experience, and it's pillowy soft.
So shout out to Chuck, excuse me,
who else has had it?
Pun, you know my boy Pun, Pun versus Food.
I've had him pass out at my kitchen island right here
eating Tasajo tacos because it's such an intense flavor.
So Tasajo all the way, if you can get it
in your local butcher, let them know,
in ranchera cut into thick like one inch strips
across the grain, it'll change your life.
Oh, hell yeah.
Oh yeah, I know where I'm going this weekend.
For real.
Next question's from Dan's Dirty Dishes.
What's your guilty pleasure?
Doesn't necessarily have to be food,
but you have like a certain drink
or maybe I'm sipping on a mocha right here.
That's my thing, I love coffee.
Right.
Guilty pleasure, I don't know
that there's anything in particular.
It's a guilty experience, if that makes sense.
So it's sometimes that guilty pleasure is
me having a really good old fashioned.
My wife and I, we just had a really dope as date night
not too long ago and it just happened to fall upon us.
I had a really good old fashioned.
We had some good pizza, Bar Cuso in Upland, California.
That was like a guilt.
It was just such a, it's about the ambiance, right?
And sometimes that guilty pleasure is a good drink
and a dope cigar.
I'm a cigar geek.
I love those opportunities.
So for me, it's not necessarily just the action,
but the experience.
Who's there with me?
Who am I experiencing it with?
Or is it just a personal opportunity for me
to take it all in and just try to separate myself
from the world in that particular moment,
if that makes sense.
Hell yeah, most people would have said donuts or something.
That was a great fucking answer.
Before you hit the next one, make sure you catch that comment
from Black Tie Syrups, Willie.
Check him out, go to Black Tie Syrups.
He wants to know what your address is
so he can send you some old fashioned syrup.
It's incredible stuff.
I'm telling you, you'll see them.
They got an episode coming up here pretty soon.
So reach out to him, shoot him your address
and he'll get you taken care of.
Next question, sorry.
So I do have something coming with Bar Cuso
in Upland, California.
Let me just tell you what this little pig
is gonna be involved.
It's gonna be epic.
So this might be something you wanna be involved in.
Shoot me a DM.
You might not wanna miss this one.
Hell yeah, hell yeah.
Go ahead, Nick, I'm so sorry.
No, you're good.
This last one's not really a question, but it's a comment
and I kind of saved it towards the end
because I think it's a good comment,
kind of what we've been talking about.
This one's from Justin Jelkins.
Willie, we can't thank you enough for your partnership
with Home Depot and our Barbecue Daddy tool,
you are the man.
There you go, brother.
Damn.
Whoo, I was not expecting that one.
Give me a quick sec.
Man.
So Justin is very high in the pool of people at Home Depot.
Justin is one of the people that reached out
when I was in Las Vegas.
I was there four hours and Justin was texting me like,
yo, I'm not sure if you're aware of this,
but you're going to Memphis in May,
we're bringing Chuck with you.
We're bringing Mike from Blazing Star.
We're gonna build this shit.
I promise you, we're gonna do something dope.
So thank you for sharing that, brother,
because you didn't know who he was
and for recognizing the importance of a comment like that.
Justin, thank you, brother.
Thank you for believing in me.
Shout out to Home Depot.
Again, this is a little bit what it is
that I dropped on you guys earlier.
Man, I was not expecting this, guys.
I try my best to keep it 100
and this is a promise to you, 100%, 100.
This is from the heart.
These are brands, major, major global brands
that are watching lives like this,
that are representing global companies
and tapping in going, hey, we're watching you,
we're supporting you,
and whatever it is that you do, we got you.
It doesn't get any better than that, guys.
Salman, Willie, you're so well-deserved, my brother.
We're all fucking rooting for you, brother.
We're all just over here enjoying the ride
just as much as you are.
Seeing you get all, everything that's coming your way, man,
you deserve it and more so.
And guys, I promise you, we were gonna laugh
and have an amazing time here tonight
and turns out we all need tissues, man.
So plot twist, plot twist, we gonna catch you
on the next one.
The next one will be full of jokes.
We're definitely gonna get Willie back on here again.
We have to.
There's not a chance in hell
that we can just end this off right here
and this is the last that you guys have seen
of the adventures of a fat guy.
We'll book him again.
We'll get another interview for him.
And man, a pleasure and an honor having you on,
shooting the shit.
I had some more questions for you,
but I know we got the hard stop for heat stroke here.
So man's gotta get to work
and provide for the family this evening.
For sure. Indeed.
Were there any other questions
that you haven't had a chance?
Do you wanna keep this going, you and I, you let me know.
If this is a collaborative effort, you let me know.
I just want you to know I'm committed to you
and your platform.
So you let me know what works for you.
Yeah, if you guys wanna keep rocking it, that's fine.
I do have to hop off for a work call,
but if you guys wanna keep rocking, I'm completely good.
All right, Nick.
Will you have a good night, my brother?
We're gonna keep this rocking and rolling
for everyone that's in here.
Cause I know you guys want it.
You ain't done with Willie just yet.
Nick, peace out, brother.
For real, you are.
Let's have a good one.
Love you, bro.
It doesn't even need to be said.
Love you guys. Happy Friday.
See you tomorrow.
So Willie, let me just tell you real quick.
Heat stroke, you're exactly right, man.
He's such a solid dude through and through.
I don't know if you know this or not,
but this big unk in the nephew is Heat Stroke's brainchild.
He's the one that brought this about.
He's the one that told me, you know what?
We need to do this, you know?
And so I'm doing everything I can,
putting everything I have in me
to make sure that this succeeds and it does well.
But this whole thing was his brainchild.
And he does so much work behind the scenes.
He's an unsung hero.
People come in here and comment, kind of crack jokes.
Nick, you ever gonna say anything?
You know, but the real truth is like,
his role that he wants to take with this
is just kind of navigating through,
making sure we hit the questions
for me to navigate through the conversation
and keep the conversation going.
But there's so much work that Nick does behind the scenes
from creating the platform,
from pushing these things to all everywhere, right?
You're gonna be able to find these episodes on Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Nick is the main man
behind all of that.
So Nick, I know you're not here.
You're missing all this, but we love you, brother.
Thank you for everything.
Cheers to that.
Hey, listen, man,
we all need those types of business partners, right?
We all pull our weight in different forms.
And learning that now, like I said,
I got a new business venture,
which is wild to me to even be coming out of my mouth.
But again, a new business venture,
and we all bring something different to the table.
So it's cool when you respect that, right?
I mean, like, yo, this is my business partner
and he does XYZ and you do XYZ, right?
So when you put those two things together,
it becomes something really special.
And shout out to him, we've got to give him his roses
because I know he's kind of a bit
of an unsung hero sometimes,
but shout out to him.
He's been an amazing person.
He's a hell of a cook.
He's super, his ingenuity,
the stuff that he comes up with
and the fact that he'll reach out to me and be like,
yo, I got this shot.
What do you think about this?
Yeah, man, let's do it.
Let me help you work through this.
So are there any, the one thing I did want to mention,
are there any comments that we're missing?
Is there anything that we can hit?
Let me see, we may be able to.
You know, I have a hard time saying
on top of the actual comments that come in
because I'm trying to focus on the conversation.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Think we're just giving-
Mine is a cognac and a cigar.
Shout out to Rayulin.
Cognac and a cigar, hell yeah, that's my shit right there.
Let me see Rayulin.
Also giving Heatstroke some love.
Shout out to him.
Big Chicken, Big Barbecue, what's up Playboy?
Thank you so very much.
A boy in a grill, yes.
Give Heatstroke all the love.
Please shoot him a follow.
5280 Barbecue, shout out to my boy right there.
Looking forward to meeting me one day.
Mike Mendez, bro, you just figure out
how we're in the same place at the same time.
I got you.
Let's figure it out, man.
It's amazing to me again, just like today,
like I was talking about with detailing my rig,
the ultimate adventure.
The gentleman who came out has been following me
since 2020.
Like it's crazy to me.
That is literally when Inventors of a Fat Guy dropped.
We dropped in April of 2020, April 26 to be exact.
So the fact that he's been along this whole time
and is like, he was just so honored.
It was crazy to see the look on his face
when he came out and we got a chance to slap hands
and he was able to detail my rigs.
And I'm like, man, this is not about me.
It's about you, bro.
Like, thank you.
Thank you for supporting me.
Thank you for affording me with this dream
and being able to do what I do.
So shout out to all of you guys.
Mike Mendoza, man, thank you.
This isn't about me.
And it's more about you guys
because without your guys' support,
Big Unx brand doesn't do what it does.
My brand doesn't do what it does.
Like it's because of you guys
that we're able to do what we do.
So don't believe the bullshit.
Don't believe the hype that anybody else gives you.
It's because of you guys that we do what we do.
So we really appreciate you.
The G flavor, met Willie at Barbecue Kings event.
Man, thank you.
Thank you so, so very much.
That means a ton.
Thank you guys so very much.
Welded Horn was joking about the onion
with me at Memphis in May.
That's funny.
A bunch of people were telling me that
because that was the joke, right?
That was an ongoing joke
with Barbecue Daddy versus the onion.
That was one of my crazy viral videos on TikTok,
which was Barbecue Daddy versus an onion.
Being Latino, we all use an onion on cleaning our grill,
right?
Especially down south, a lot of people do.
So yeah, a lot of people have that joke
and that comment.
Sonny Zapata, thank you.
No, we appreciate you.
Thank you for your time.
Mendoza's too busy winning the Bing Ugg challenges
these days.
What?
He won, he's a three P champion.
No way.
He won three of them in a row, man.
He just, the last one he took home a gold championship ring
this time, he won a championship belt.
Six pounds of gold, baby.
Geez, man, look at that.
So yeah, so shout out to you guys.
Shout out to everybody that supports.
Nick has elevated all of us and he's so humble.
Facts.
So I will back that comment 1,000%.
He's super humble.
Both Nicks, you guys might not know,
these are two different Nicks here.
Shout out to both of you guys for being so humble,
being so supportive.
You know, the events that we go to
and the shit that we do together.
It's cool because we're able to support each other, right?
But on top of that, we're able to build relationships.
Now, don't get me wrong.
It's not all rainbow and unicorns.
I've gone to some of these events.
I slapped hands with some people and was like,
maybe not the person I wanna associate my brand with.
I'll never put them on blast.
I'll never call them out.
But it helps us differentiate, right?
Who is it that we wanna function with
and who is it that we don't wanna function with?
And I feel like ourselves as a community,
now we weed those out easily.
Absolutely.
You're able to know right off the bat.
When you're slapping hands with somebody
and drinking a beer with somebody,
you know within the first 15 to 30 seconds,
maybe not so much.
Not my kind of guy.
And God bless you.
I hope that you, I wish you nothing but the best.
But for those people that are on the same page,
which is just be selfish, man.
Like it's all gonna come.
If you've got somebody who's got however many followers,
it doesn't matter.
I have more people that have way more followers than me
reach out and go, hey,
how do I team up with a brand like that?
Guess what?
I'll tell you, thousand percent.
This is how I did it.
I don't know that it's gonna happen for you,
but I'll tell you exactly how I did it.
And that community right there
is how we continue to build each other up
and show other people that they can do it too.
Absolutely.
So you, obviously you've got other hobbies and stuff too.
You're a big car guy.
Have you experienced a lot of that too in the car culture?
Are you like kind of, are you rooted in the car culture?
Do you ever go to car shows and do things like that?
Or are you kind of like a one man band?
Just do your own thing.
So is my new handle live now?
Shoot that, just tap into that new handle.
All I can say is request it.
It's private for now.
Request it.
And I promise you it'll pay off later.
So we'll leave it at that.
But tap in for now, more stuff to come.
We're just a few days away from dialing this in
before we can officially launch it.
Before the logo is officially done,
there's a lot of cool stuff coming.
So that being said, and I'm so sorry, brother.
You were asking-
Car culture stuff, right?
Obviously you're into cars.
Do you-
I'm a big time hot rodder.
We actually have a 56 Bel Air.
Oh, sick.
Yeah, a two door hard top,
which my father has fortunately gifted me, right?
He's blessed me with,
but my father is still here.
He's still alive.
So by God's grace, he's still here.
And that's his car.
That'll never be my car.
When the Lord says it's my time to own that car,
that's when we'll call it my car.
But until then, it's my pops is 56 Bel Air,
two door hard top.
Oh, that hits home, my brother.
That really hits home.
So we do do that.
I have family members who have incredible vehicles.
They're all show quality vehicles.
So my heart is really deep into the car culture
and the car community, both cars and trucks.
So I'm just really, really deep into,
hey, Don Peters, shout out Don Peters in the house,
show Don Peters some love.
Amazing people.
But we have deep roots in the community,
which is kind of what transitioned into my truck, right?
So my new truck.
Before any of you guys saw that,
I had a 92 suburban square body on 35s,
everything you could possibly do to it done.
A 99 front clip.
Like I've always been into customizing vehicles,
Acura Integra's, I was into the street racing scene
for a long time, all of that stuff.
And I'm just into customization.
So it's been cool because that kind of transitioned
into what it is that I'm doing now, right?
Which is now with the new truck.
But at the end of the day, I love customizing stuff.
I love making it my own.
And it's just an honor,
the fact that people wanna follow along.
But if you don't mind, bro,
I would like to grab another beer.
Would you afford me maybe a minute or so to do that
and kind of get some more questions from people?
Exactly, that's what I'll handle.
You go ahead, go grab that beer.
We'll see you back in just a second.
All right, Willie, he's gonna be right back.
He's gonna go take a short break,
grab something to wet the whistle.
Why don't you guys drop some more questions
down here below, or maybe tell us about some of the cars
you guys are into.
1985 and a half Toyota Supra?
I'd have to see that one.
I don't know what that one is actually just off the year.
I'm a big car guy myself though.
Love cars, have always loved cars.
Muscle cars, trucks, everything.
Ed, Eduardo.
Okay, first and foremost, let me tell you,
I apologize, I kinda went bad on your brother on accident.
I didn't know he came in here
talking little shit about you,
just doing some brotherly love, giving you some shit,
and I didn't realize he was your brother.
So if you hear, I apologize.
I jumped on him pretty hard,
called him a nerd for talking shit on you,
and then I found out he was your brother,
just fucking throwing you a little shade.
So I'm sorry, brother.
I didn't mean to jump on your brother like that.
Yeah, it's a old school sweet body style, huh?
Yeah, I'll definitely take a look at that.
Cause I'm into muscle cars, I'm into imports,
I'm into trucks, I'm into low riders, I'm into old schools.
I love everything, man.
All right, brother, you have a good night, okay?
If you gotta head out of here.
I'm into all kinds of cars, man.
I always have been.
I don't think I'll ever stop.
The reason I started bringing that up was that
I think that there's a common ground,
just in the sense of, you know,
like what he was talking about
when he was at Memphis in May, right?
Even though he might be a jealous devil guy
and cooking on what he cooks on,
he's getting love from the Traeger guys, right?
Benny, the Traeger guy.
He's getting love from people from all over the place,
doing all sorts of different things.
Doesn't matter what you cook on.
The same thing kind of happens in the car culture, right?
You might be a Chevy guy at heart,
but you're gonna be hard pressed to not sow some love
to a guy with a Mustang as long as it's clean, right?
People respect clean.
People respect good builds.
People respect good barbecue.
Doesn't matter what you cook on.
Doesn't matter what you're cooking.
As long as you put your heart into it
and you show passion through what you're doing,
it's gonna resonate with them.
So I think there's a really cool parallel, Willie.
I don't know if you heard any of this.
I did.
But I was making the parallel between
the barbecue culture and the car culture
in the sense that, you know,
you might be a Chevy guy or an old school guy
or a lowrider guy, but you'll definitely,
you can respect something that's in a different avenue,
whether it might be the import that's really clean.
Like it's really hard to not show love
to something that's really clean or really done well,
you know?
Facts.
And that's actually what carries over
into what it is that we do now, right?
Yeah.
Because you're open-minded like that
and you're able to respect somebody else's hard work
and what it is that they put into it.
I can get it, man.
I'm old school.
My parents, my family are all diehard Chevy guys, right?
But at the end of the day,
like if somebody else's heart and soul is into this,
I got an uncle like we're all diehard Chevy,
he has a 56 Ford pickup truck.
Jesus, I'm talking hydraulic hood.
Everything you could possibly think of, it's gorgeous.
It's won stacks of awards.
But I just love the fact that he,
that was what he chose.
That was the truck that he wanted
and he built what it is that he wanted, right?
So to your point, you're absolutely right.
Like, you know, when I was in Memphis,
you know, for Benny to walk up to me
and he's been supporting me since day one,
he didn't give a shit what I cook on.
I don't care what he cooks on.
At the end of the day,
we've both been up at three o'clock in the morning
and hey, you're on a cook?
Shit, guess what?
So am I.
And we've been going back and forth.
I've been in the kitchen,
going back and forth, I've been in the middle of a stall
on some pork shoulders going,
Benny, I don't think this is gonna happen, bro.
This shit has been stalled out for three hours
and he'll be like, listen, stop.
Throw an aluminum tent over that bitch
and crank that bitch up to 300 degrees and just wait.
And sure enough, eventually she cracked, right?
So those little things are the relationships that we build
that we've all experienced.
It doesn't matter what grill you're cooking on.
At the end of the day,
when you've done this long enough,
you've experienced it in some way, shape or form
that that stall is a bitch
and you gotta figure out how to get past it.
So.
Absolutely, I just got that text last night from a buddy.
He's an old high school homie of mine
and he recently bought his first grill, jumping into it
and he's like, dude, I'm cooking a pork shoulder.
It's been stalling for two hours.
Something's wrong.
What's going on?
I'm like, brother, we've all been there before.
Just go ahead and he didn't have it wrapped up or nothing.
I said, wrap that bitch now, crank that thing up to 75.
You're gonna break right through that thing, no problem.
Eventually it's gonna happen.
Shout out 5280.
My first car was a turquoise and white 57 Chevy, exactly.
So you guys understand like those are vehicles, right?
Core memories and shit that you remember.
Dad seasoning.
Hey, I appreciate you.
Dad's always reaches out to me.
Always sharing a lot of cool posts.
Shout out to Dad's.
I wanna make sure we give Dad some love.
Small Mom and Pop Seasoning Company,
just like a lot of us are, puts out a great product.
His chili dulce.
Like he's got a lot of cool products
that are really, really good.
So shout out to Dad's.
Always supportive, always commenting.
Appreciate you.
I gotta check some of those out, man.
Haven't had a chance to use those yet.
And I think everyone that knows me knows.
I don't discriminate, man.
I show love to everyone.
I use everyone's stuff, man.
I'm not out here trying to get rich with Big Unk, man.
I'm just trying to fulfill my passion
and enjoy myself along the way.
Bring up some people with me.
So people will see me, man.
I'll use some Big Unk
and then throw some Blazing Star over the top.
Like those combinations are like,
damn man, this is pretty damn dope.
And then you come up with another
whole different flavor profile that you're not,
that you wouldn't have never thought of, right?
Exactly.
And building those flavors is everything.
So shout out to Dad's.
Nobuono Crew had the honor of riding
in the Ultimate Adventure.
So much space in that ride.
So shout out Nobuono Crew.
Nobuono Crew is a small local clothing company.
And what I tell you, he is an amazing individual.
So follow Nobuono Crew.
Really, really dope products.
He's all about locally sustained.
Just again, really, really good products.
And we were happy to be at King's
when I just got in the Ultimate Adventure.
And I named it that because I was like,
what the hell am I gonna name this damn thing?
So I figured the right way is the Ultimate
because it's a Chevy Denali GMC Ultimate Dually.
So we tied in the name and called it the Ultimate Adventure.
So shout out to Nobuono Crew.
Friggin' phenomenal.
Always follows, always supports.
If there's something that I'm doing,
King's is doing, Earns is doing, he's there.
He's supporting it.
Shout out to you brother.
For sure, I'll throw him that follow.
I just tried to do it while we're in the live.
I don't have like a quick follow access.
Nah, it's all good.
I'll hit you after this live is over Nobuono.
Nobuono. G, have a good night brother.
Yeah, Nobuono.
Shout out to him.
And anybody else that you guys are that are watching
that have been with us, we still got a good amount of people
that are in here for a live that we've been on
for an hour and a friggin' half.
Thank you guys.
Like the fact that you guys show us the support,
man this is why we do what we do.
This is why we love what we do is just to share
any platform that we have, any information
that we can give you guys.
That's what we're here for.
Absolutely man.
Rob, you take care brother.
Big sexy, have a great night.
Rob, that's what Rob is for you.
Absolutely. Holy man.
Legend brother.
I love to cook so much that my dog's name is Pepper.
That's what's up.
Dude, that guy is awesome.
That's Matt, he's such a solid dude.
That's the guy I was talking about with the cocktail syrups.
He wants to send you that old fashioned syrup.
He's got a lot man.
He's got a blood orange, he's got an espresso.
He's got a- Oh, you're lying.
Oh bro, I'm telling you, they are incredible.
Run that.
These guys, he puts on a series called
Couple of Drinks with the Clarks.
And they go out and they make cocktails in their backyard.
And when I say they make cocktails,
I mean they make incredible, incredible cocktails.
He's also a standup comedian.
So you could imagine like the personality just shines.
He's gonna be on here soon.
We've already got him booked.
I wanna say he's in mid August
is where we've got him booked out too.
Okay, that's kind of dope.
Congratulations to you guys for being booked
that freaking far out.
That's amazing dude.
Man, we had to stop it dude.
Honestly, when we were at Tones,
what was that a few months ago now, right?
I think that might've been March.
It was.
Yeah, at that point we had been booked out till August.
So we stopped booking because people kind of got,
we're like, oh man, not until August.
So, but we're gonna start opening up the books again here
pretty soon as a matter of fact.
Justin.
So Justin.
Pleasure.
Thank you brother.
Again, a super, super integral.
I know he doesn't like the spotlight shine on him.
A super integral part of Home Depot.
The experiences that we built together
with him and Scrub Daddy.
Justin, thank you for believing me.
Thank you for being such a genuine person
and such an honor and a pleasure to have met you.
So thank you so much for the support.
You have a good night brother.
Hopefully you enjoyed yourself tonight.
But it's people like that man that like, it's wild.
We had some cool people from Home Depot come through
the Jealous Devil tent when we were in Memphis in May.
And we had some people roll through and we're like,
hey, we gotta show some people some love.
They were still hungry, right?
So we had Scott from Jealous Devil.
A couple of other people were like,
hey, can we make it happen?
So shout out to Bama, Bama Grommaster, you know Bama.
You of course.
I mean this dude is a world champion steak cook.
Like literally world champion steak cook.
So we pull out some amazing Australian Wagyu steaks.
We tell Justin and the Home Depot team,
bitch stop, chill right here.
Give us a second.
We're gonna fire up the grill.
World class steak.
Bama fires off these steaks.
Good God, bro.
Amazing.
But it was, I have some video
and I might've dropped it into a story.
One of the, shout out to Justin.
Justin knows what's up.
So one of the security guards was like, hey listen,
I watched him cook his steak for like 15 minutes,
20 minutes, 25 minutes.
And I was like, yo, I don't know how this
is gonna work out, right?
I mean, cause you know how it is.
I mean, as cooks, we know, we know, right?
And he banged out a competition,
world class competition style steak
that I should you not blow your damn doors off, right?
So shout out to Bama.
We sliced it up and between our execs, Justin
and a lot of the people from Home Depot
and our security personnel, they were just blown away.
We had a young lady that walked through
through the tenant area where we were at
and it was probably 8.30, nine o'clock at night.
And she thought there were gonna be samples
throughout the whole night.
And it just so happened we had sliced into this steak, right?
And Chuck, Chuck turns around immediately.
He's like, listen, we don't have much to offer
but I'd like for you to try this.
This lady, she was a little leery at first
cause it's a beautiful medium rare steak,
perfectly good medium rare steak.
And she looks at it, she puts two slices
of this meat into her mouth.
I thought she was gonna, I literally thought
she was gonna pass out.
She was like, this is the most incredible meat
I've ever tried in my life.
And I said, ma'am, you may not know this
but the man who made this steak for you,
the gentleman who cooked that is literally
a world-class winning chef
who's made this steak for you.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity
and God bless you, I'm glad you were able to experience it.
So dope ass story, but shout out to Bama.
And it was amazing for me to be able to experience that
with this young lady like for her,
her eyes rolled back in her head.
It was the shark experience.
It was so dope to see her do that.
So yeah, it was amazing.
So shout out Justin, I'm telling you,
when you have that kind of support
from people that rep global brands
and they're taking time out of their personal day, right?
To tap into a live and be like, yo, this is my guy.
And I wanna follow, I wanna see what it is that he's doing.
That's incredible.
Thank you, Justin, for coming in
and checking this out and hanging out,
watching Big Uncle the Nephew with our boy Willie, man.
Means a lot, means a lot.
Yeah, man.
But you got me locked in, bro.
Any other questions?
Yeah, I got some more questions for you, brother.
Obviously we could talk barbecue and cooking
and all that stuff all day long.
But I like to get into some of the other stuff,
some things that maybe people don't know about.
So obviously you got them nice rigs,
you got them trucks, you're doing some traveling.
If you're gonna go out on a road trip,
say you're gonna come up here,
come to Tones next birthday bash,
what are you gonna get when you stop at the gas station?
What kind of snacks are you getting on your way out?
Ooh, gas station, gas station eats.
Okay, that's a good one.
Shout out to Beatdown Barbecue.
So let me take a second.
Beatdown is phenomenal.
When it comes to barbecue, his ability to make sausages,
Beatdown is, he's amazing, man.
He's a master of his craft,
really, really good at what it is that he does,
been a huge supporter for a lot of years.
And shout out to him, he literally just taught a class.
He's real big on culinary, teaching,
doing all that sort of thing.
But the fact that he does what he does,
it still does awesome barbecue.
So shout out to Beatdown Barbecue.
Wait, Beatdown Barbecue, that's the jujitsu guy.
Okay, I know exactly who you're talking about.
I follow him.
He was just doing a watch how fat,
watch me trim this brisket in X amount of time,
I believe, right?
Yeah, yeah, what's up, ooze homie, what's going on?
So look at this, right here, we're gonna do the Cains.
Ooh, the Paloma.
Adventures of a Fat Guy, Paloma.
Oh, man.
Cheers to you guys.
Salud, brother.
Let's do this.
Salud, wish I had got a chance to get my hands on that one.
You didn't get, oh.
I'm gonna hit the next one.
I'm gonna hit the next one, don't trip.
I know how it goes too, especially after the run's over,
man, you only got a couple more left,
so you gotta keep those close to the heart.
Oh, sure, but shout out Beatdown,
and I'm sorry, I forget where we're at right now.
So the question was,
you're heading out on a road trip,
you're gonna stop at the gas station,
what are you picking up for your road trips next?
Facts.
So I'm a big, I'm a savory dude,
I know it doesn't look like it,
but I don't mess with a lot of sweets.
So beef jerky, right?
Beef jerky, peanuts, that type of stuff.
So funny story, it's actually a post
I've been waiting to put up.
On the way to Vegas, there's that really popular stop,
oh my God, what's the name of it, Ed?
I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
I picked up some beef jerky there.
How much do you think their beef jerky was a pound?
Ooh, for a pound of beef jerky, $14.99.
So you got it?
That's what I'm guessing.
$100 a pound.
Holy shit.
So I just picked a few pieces and I was like,
let me have a couple pieces of this, couple pieces of that.
Well, lo and behold, there's no prices on any of this.
So we get to the gas register,
something was like 70 bucks a pound, $74.99 a pound,
and something else that I chose was like 99 bucks a pound.
I'm like, whoa, you realize I do this for a living, right?
How are you gonna charge $100 a pound?
I'm like, I don't know, I don't know.
I don't care if it's a pound, I don't care if it's a five.
What the, $100, it was $99 a pound.
So Eddie's World, I think is that what it's called?
Okay, I'm not sure.
I've never actually made the drive to Vegas.
I think it's Eddie's World,
but yeah, it was regular old beef jerky, but it was great.
I wanted to buy in like, I don't know,
it was maybe three quarters of a pound
and it was like $78 worth of beef jerky.
I remember getting into the truck and my wife was like,
hey, so what'd you get?
And I was like, $80 worth of beef jerky.
She's like, what the shit?
What the, what is this?
So yeah, but so my guilty pleasure, long story longer,
I love seeds, sunflower seeds, peanuts, beef jerky,
that type of stuff.
I'm not really big into sweets,
I don't know if they look like it, but yeah.
So long story longer, that's what I'm into.
You have a brand of sunflower seeds you go for
or does it not really matter?
So typically bigs, but the new brand,
the one that's coming out,
the one that's beating everybody up on TikTok right now.
I can't remember the name of them.
I think they might've reached out once,
but there's a really, there's a cool brand
that's real big into like Major League Baseball.
And that's- I've seen those guys.
I've seen those guys.
Yeah, so I wanna give them a shot,
but typically, so I was diehard David.
David's sunflower seeds,
I grew up as a little kid.
That's what we liked, what we all used.
And then bigs came along, they got some dope flavors, right?
So I was kind of into that for a little while,
but I really wanna try this new brand,
the one that's out on TikTok right now.
If y'all are watching this,
I'll let you boy, I wanna give you guys a shot.
For sure, yeah.
I think I've seen those videos,
they go out to the baseball games,
they offer them up to the players and stuff.
That's the one.
They've got flavors like churro and stuff like that, right?
Yeah.
Bigs is my preference, you know?
The salt content is kind of just right for me.
David's is just a little too salty, man.
I like to, on a road trip,
I'm gonna be eating them seeds for a long time, man.
Those David's ones, they start getting to me,
all that salt.
They will, dude.
They'll tear up your tongue, right?
Yeah, for sure.
Especially when you got a long road trip.
We head up to Tahoe a lot, and I'm in Southern California,
and we make that run, it's an eight or 10 hour run.
So that's the last thing you wanna do.
But yeah, any more, any other questions?
Anything else that I can help the people out with?
I don't know if we had any more coming popped in here yet.
I think people just kind of shooting the shit with us,
talking along the way with us.
What do you do when you go to Tahoe?
Where do you guys go?
So South Lake Tahoe, we're South Lake Tahoe geeks.
We're down near Cam Richardson.
We're down near Emerald Bay.
We really like going into there.
So I love tent camping.
So I'm just a big fan of old school tent camping.
It's kind of how I was raised.
But as we get older, my wife's like,
man, she wants an Airbnb, she wants a trailer.
So, and I respect it, man.
And I mean, now that we have the new rig,
that was the reason why I went so big.
A lot of people say, do you have a toy hauler?
Do you have this?
Right now I don't, but I've always been the type
to where I wanna set myself up for whatever I wanna do.
I'm capable of towing it.
If it's a house, it doesn't matter.
I can tow anything that I need to tow right now.
So that being said, you never know.
We might not go on that route,
but South Lake Tahoe is our shit.
We like to go fishing.
There's a fishing company, a charter that we go out of.
It's just amazing.
So we charter a boat every time we go out there.
We do some lake trout.
It's amazing.
Oh yeah.
Sonny's asking, what was your biggest struggle
when you first got started?
Biggest struggle, probably the mental game, I would say,
cause you always question yourself, right?
Like, what are you doing right?
What are you doing wrong?
It's hard not to wanna just stare
at the speedometer all the time.
You just always stare at Tahoe Meetup,
cooking in the yard.
That's what I'm talking about, playboy.
So we're actually supposed to do something
with Live Fire Republic.
We were supposed to do something before he did
this major drop that he did,
and it was supposed to be done on Lake Tahoe.
So shout out to Live Fire Republic.
We do have something that we've kind of had earmarked
for a little bit to do a Live Fire Cook.
What we wanna do is take my fishing guide,
meet up with him, catch some lake trout, some Mackinaw.
Lake trout is called Mackinaw,
and do some Live Fire cooking with that.
So you're onto something there cooking in the yard.
Sounds amazing, man.
Sounds amazing. Absolutely.
You guys need some extra help?
I'm glad to head up that way.
We're all about that, bro.
We're all about having a good time.
You know how it is, we check our egos at the door,
we're just there to stoke a fire, eat some food.
That's how it is. That's it.
My biggest struggle when I started, again,
probably mentally, because you see everybody else
that you see kind of quote unquote doing it, right?
Doing the stuff that we're doing right now.
And it's not hard to look at those people
and be like, hey, I wanna be a part of that.
What is it that they're doing?
So I would say that's probably the most difficult part
is trying to separate yourself from that
and create your own lane.
Realize that you can create your own platform,
your own lane, doing what it is that you like to do.
And you don't necessarily have to follow
what other people are doing.
I mentioned this the other day
because somebody else had asked about,
I might've been in a private group chat,
but somebody was asking,
I had a very distinct bite shot loop at the end of my video
that came stupid popular.
And I'm not saying I invented it.
I'm just saying that it evolved into the thing to do
like Tone's, it's money bite shot, right?
With his wings, all of that stuff.
So it was a variation of that
that came to fruition before Tone started doing that.
But nevertheless, it kind of became a thing.
So I kind of pivoted away from that after the fact,
consciously, because I just wanted to do something
a little bit different.
So that's probably one of the most difficult parts is
finding your lane, your brand,
and what's gonna make you pop, if that makes sense.
So, excuse me,
find out what's gonna help you and your brand along
and build off of that.
It might be something completely different
than everybody else has done, right?
Look at his name, are you kidding me?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cooking with Daryl.
Yep.
Finally got a chance to meet him in Vegas.
Sweetheart of a man, amazing, knew everything about me.
Knew all about my cooks, like it was phenomenal.
But that's his thing, right?
Are you kidding me?
But it's genuine, it just comes across, that's his thing.
So that's difficult.
I would say that's the most difficult part is
finding your own lane, finding what works for you,
and building off of that.
You wanna do that, you wanna separate yourself
from the pack if you possibly can,
because just following along,
they're not gonna look at you for,
hey, this is the adventure of a fat guy.
They're gonna be like, oh, that's that move that TFTI does.
If I were to hold up a chicken wing
or whatever it is that I'm doing every single time
and say that's money,
people are gonna know where that came from, right?
And that's not my goal.
My goal is to maybe pay homage or play off of that,
or maybe make a joke off of that at some point,
but it's not to make it my own.
So that's the most difficult part.
Find your lane, find out what works for you,
and it's gonna take some trial and error.
It's gonna suck at some point,
but eventually you're gonna go, this is my shit.
You're gonna find that thing that just works for you.
We got a question that came in
from Black Tie Cocktail Syrups.
Wanted to know what was your favorite kind of MacGyver meal
that you just threw together and really enjoyed it?
Oh, let me see.
Probably hard to pick one, but maybe you got a couple?
MacGyver meal.
I really like,
I just wanted to kind of build off of the Tahoe stuff.
Shout out to that.
We'll get back to Tahoe for you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no.
MacGyver meal, I would say some of us may or may not
have been incarcerated in their life.
Hell of a spread, huh?
There's a hell of a spread that you can do,
but there's some cool stuff that you can do
with everyday ingredients, and it's funny
because even early on in my life,
I remember when all we had were sopas, right?
All you had were top ramen or some cup of noodle
or some matoochon, and I remember a time in my life
where my parents would throw a little corn in there,
a little bit, dude, if you were doing it big,
you had some spam, right?
Just some chopped lunch meat, some hot dogs,
and just kind of make a real hearty type soup out of it,
just to kind of warm your soul, fill your belly,
that broth and all that fills your stomach, right?
So there's times when all of those things come to place,
and I know that right now, people are talking about
what's healthy and is there MSG,
like you know all this stuff that people are talking about,
but everything has a point and a time
and a place in your life.
There's a time when that comes across
where you just need to fill the gap
and you need something warm in your stomach
because you gotta go to sleep
and you gotta do it all again tomorrow.
So don't judge people for that type of shit.
There's sometimes people are eating that
because that's all that they have in their cabinet.
So don't be so judgmental talking about MSG
and carbohydrates and fat and sodium.
Sometimes that's all that people literally have
in their cabinet, and they're just trying to share
because they wanna be a part of this community.
So don't be a dick, give them some love,
let them share what they're sharing.
There you go, good point, man.
I don't know if he's still in here,
Mel just dropped in real quick.
Mel, you got a bunch of flowers delivered to you
from Sweet Willy over here earlier, man.
Wish you were able to hear all the nice things
he said about you.
Shout out to Mel.
Mel is a freaking sweetheart.
I love that man, legitimately love that man.
He is such a genuine down to earth, honest,
what you see on screen is what you get person.
He's just amazing.
So he pulls no punches.
He'll not, he's, if he talks shit to you behind your back,
he's gonna talk shit to you in front of your back.
That's just the way Mel is.
So shout out to Mel.
He's a beautiful human being.
I did see somebody earlier ask something rather different,
which was Donner Lake for South Lake Tahoe.
So only people that know know.
So there's a pass that kind of goes through
north west side of Lake Tahoe,
which kind of takes you up through Truckee.
And there's a place called Donner Pass.
There's a lake there called Donner Lake.
We actually took our boat there one time
and I should you not, it is,
I mean, you could look down 40 feet
and make out every single pebble and structure
on a rock in the bottom of lake.
It's melted ice water.
It is, it'll take your breath away.
It's gorgeous.
And we frigging dropped anchor there one time,
trying to fish and it got lodged between two rocks.
And no matter what we did,
we fought with it for like two hours.
That bitch wasn't coming out.
We cut the line.
We looked, we hooked up the damn boat
and we went back down the hill over to South Lake Tahoe.
So with that question,
I would probably say South Lake Tahoe
because frigging Donner Lake ate my anchor,
that son of a bitch.
But it is a gorgeous lake if you're ever in that area.
It's life changing.
That's what's up.
So I lived in this little tiny town called Wheatland.
It's not so tiny anymore.
Now they've got a hard rock casino out there.
There's a concert venue out there.
It's kind of blown up quite a bit now,
but I lived out in the country just on the outskirts.
And so you go through this town
that only had two stop signs, not even a stoplight in it.
You could take this country road out to the lake,
Camp Far West Lake.
And along the way,
there's a monument out there for the Donner party.
The Donner party made their way
from wherever they were up at Donner Lake, right?
Made their way down on their whole trek
and came through Spenceville Road.
And so they have a cool little monument out there,
just kind of piggybacking on that whole Donner Lake,
Donner party situation.
But it was a little bit eerie, you know what I mean?
For those of you guys,
if you don't know the story of the Donner party,
just do a Google search and read up on it.
It was some crazy times for sure.
That's wild, man.
That's a story right there,
because you're absolutely right.
Somebody else just commented,
Mackinaw are big in Donner.
You're absolutely right.
So Mackinaw are giant lake trout for people who don't know.
So my brother, we have been going to,
I wish I could show you, let me see, maybe I can.
Let me see.
So that right there is a photograph.
A photograph.
I know where that is.
Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe.
And we actually had a photographer
who was selling his art in town.
And I've never purchased this type of art
ever before in my life.
But having seen that throughout my entire life
of Emerald Bay, I knew that I had to have it.
So funny story about Emerald Bay.
But so I mentioned that because we go fishing there
all the time and there was one year in particular,
I couldn't make it.
Just schedule didn't work out and it was my dad,
my pops and they hired the same charter we always hire,
which is, I'll have to tag him later.
Skip my mind right now.
But anyway, his name is Mike and amazing, amazing boat charter
boat captain.
He takes my brother out and he catches
this championship Mackinaw.
It was like 28 pounds.
The length of it, it was like 42 inches long.
There's video and pictures of it everywhere.
And it was the opportunity and the catch of a lifetime.
My brother said he didn't know what to do with it.
And he was asking Mike Arturi, he was like,
Hey, what do I do?
He's like, Hey, listen, man, at the end of the day,
you're paying me to be here.
Me personally, that's probably a 50 year old fish.
You want that to sustain the fishery.
And my brother made the call at that particular moment
and he released it.
So he got some pictures, some measurements,
they measured the girth of it.
It's still a potential record at that point.
But nevertheless, one, an amazing, amazing memory
that South Lake Tahoe continues to give my family and I
because it's just, it's breathtaking.
It doesn't look like it belongs in the state of California.
Oh God, no, it doesn't.
It's absolutely beautiful out there.
The wife and I hope to retire out there one day.
Right?
It's one of our favorite getaways.
Yeah, 100%.
That what you're talking about right there,
at Emerald Bay, have you ever gotten off a boat
and climbed up on there and checked out like that little
fort on the top of the little island out there?
So funny story.
We've been going there for so many years.
That one year, I think two years back to back,
we finally decided to tow our boat up there.
And it was just a blessing that we were able to
because you already know the quag muscles
and all the different inspections that you have to do.
But the boat was super clean.
It's only been on the river down here in Laughlin
and Havasu for a lot of years.
They inspected it.
They're like, hell yeah, you're good to go.
So we drove it.
We were able to take our own personal boat
after all of these years and tour Lake Tahoe
on our own personal level.
And we actually went into Emerald Bay on our own boat
because there's the castle that's down there at the bottom.
So many amazing things.
There's the small tea house that's in the middle
of Emerald Bay, right?
So we were, we were able to pull up to that.
We were able to walk to that and to experience all that
and be a part and be on our own boat
and do whatever the hell it is that we wanted to do
was just, it was amazing.
Something I'll remember for the rest of my life,
but yes, we've been there.
And to say that we've been able to do it
on our own boat is just bananas.
That's awesome, man.
We do like to go out and when we go out there,
we like to run a boat.
Every once in a while, we'll go run a boat out there.
And it's an absolute must stop place.
You gotta go over there, you know?
Mandatory.
You guys ever go over like Zephyr Cove area?
You guys ever stayed up there?
Zephyr's beautiful.
I don't know that there's a part of the lake
that we haven't really visited in some way, shape, form.
Back in the day when Ponderosa Ranch
was still up and running, we would always take
the run across to the northeastern part
and go into just south of Reno
and head into that area there which was where
the Ponderosa was.
So the Ponderosa was back in the day of
the Ponderosa Ranch.
It was part of the television show
and it was just a part of my childhood
that holds such a special part to me
and the reason why that photo even exists
and why it's hanging on the wall.
I mean, it's not that I don't love art.
There's very few things that connect with me
on that level and that was one of them.
So yeah, it's such a beautiful place.
You know, Chuck lives up in the Bay Area.
So Bonanza exactly, shout out to Randy Brun.
That's where Bonanza was filmed.
He's able to go there all the time
and he caters and does all kinds of dope shit.
So I tease him all the time, like bro,
are you really there?
He's like, yeah, I was just there
cruising through South Lake Tahoe.
It's not too bad for us to get up there, man.
Honestly, it's like a two and a half, three hour drive
to get to Tahoe.
It's not too bad at all.
I wouldn't be right.
I would constantly be there.
Oh, and Mike is a Tahoe top liners.
Oh, there you go.
So if you ever want a quality fishing company,
Tahoe top liners.
He's been around for a lot of years.
He'll put you on the meat, he'll put you on the fish.
If you ever want to fish Lake Tahoe, Tahoe top liners.
Yeah, it's just amazing to have been experienced
and done the stuff that we've done.
There are some older pictures.
If you look at my page early on,
you'll see my pops and I limiting out on Mackinaw
and kokanee salmon, which is kind of what was part
of how the page came to fruition,
why it was adventures of a fat guy.
So many people would ask me,
hey, what adventure are you guys gonna go on this week?
What adventure are you gonna, so my dad, myself,
and my three of my uncles, my brother,
we worked together for a lot of years.
Oh, cool.
And Friday night, they would always ask us,
at the end of the day,
hey, what adventure are you gonna go on this week?
What are you guys gonna do?
What's the Soto crew gonna do this time?
So that's kind of how the name came to fruition,
which was just adventures of fat guy,
because there's so much stuff that was going on pre pandemic
that a lot of people weren't able to see,
which is why it's part of my logo now.
You'll see the helicopter, the plane, the tent.
There's a smoker, there's a smoky mountain
in the background of my logo.
There's trout jumping in the back of my logo,
because all of those things, they're not just made up.
It's generally a part of what it is that I do
and what I grew up doing and what it is that I love.
Just unfortunately, the pandemic was in the middle of it,
so a lot of it's been on hold,
and now we're getting back into it.
There you go, so big outdoorsman, right?
Yeah, definitely, man.
That's my thing.
I love that, and it's part of the reason why
with the ultimate adventure when I bought it,
so many people ask me,
why do you want such a big ass truck?
Why do you want a fifth wheel?
Because I don't know what I'm gonna get into next, right?
If the Lord gives me the ability,
and maybe I pick up a toy hauler,
and maybe I'm able to do that with my family,
I wanna be able to pull that.
I wanna be able to enjoy that with my family.
So travel trailer may be coming up, who knows?
But at the end of the day,
I love spending time with my family
to go back to the earlier comment,
which is what is it that I'd love to do on my personal time?
Spend time with my family, man, at the end of the day.
And that family isn't always blood family.
That family sometimes is you guys,
is Tone, is big Chuck, is Captain Ron,
is the people that I've been able to meet throughout the years
that are my legitimate family.
Man, come on up.
If you got my address and you got my personal cell phone
number, you know you got a personal place in my heart,
and we just gotta make a couple phone calls
to get you down here.
That's what's up, man.
So speaking of your vehicles and stuff,
is this truck, is this your favorite vehicle
you've ever owned, or do you have something
like near and dear to your heart,
maybe something that you'd let go
and wish you had never gotten rid of?
That's a tough one, that's a great question.
Probably one, yeah.
So I had a 62 Nova two-door R-top,
which is such a beautiful vehicle,
but it was sitting, we were in a different point
in our life, you know, my wife and I,
and we were in this house.
We purchased this house in like 99, 2000.
So we've been here an awfully long time.
I was much, much younger back then,
but I had just picked up the vehicle
and I was like, man, I could do so much more,
and it was just sitting here.
But that's one of the ones, it had a straight six in it,
it had four on the floor.
I really wish I would have kept that one.
And then that in my Suburban,
I kinda wished that I would have kept.
But I also believe that there's,
everything has a purpose, right?
Everything's got a cycle.
Yeah.
Sometimes you just gotta let that go on
to the next person.
You know, my Suburban, excuse me,
that I had talked about earlier,
it had a big block, 454.
I took off the belt driven fan.
I put dual electric B-cool fans in it,
aluminum radiator, regeared the rear end,
everything you could possibly do to it.
And that bit still overheated on me
on the way to the river.
So, but it was just part of the big block of that year.
So I wanted to get off of it.
And when we actually got to the river that year,
I told my wife, I said, hey,
when we get back, I'm buying a new truck.
I'm gonna order a new truck.
We're going diesel.
And everybody out here is pulling,
is running diesel for a reason.
And I was the first one in my family to do it.
So we did, we ordered my 06LBZ.
And that's kinda how that came to fruition.
So I feel like everything,
there's some favorites in my life.
Some ones that I wish I hadn't sold.
My father had a 1956 Bel Air.
He was very, very young.
I have some dope pictures at the end of our block
down in East LA in the heart of Montevideo,
which is where we're all from.
And he wound up having to sell it.
Some family members would get into it.
They would get a little intoxicated
and really tear shit up.
He was just really afraid that eventually
somebody was gonna kill themselves.
He had a cool, you know, 427 in it
and a lot of work done to it.
I have pictures of it,
but he wound up having to get rid of it.
So eventually at a different point in his life,
he searched for another one that we were able to,
actually searched for the same one.
I tried to find it through some friends
in the law enforcement community.
We did some searches and it fell off the,
it essentially fell off the earth in like the late 70s.
Nobody could ever find it since then.
But nevertheless, we wanted to pick it up another one.
So that car right there,
besides what it is that I've built throughout the years,
I had the very, very first
Ford or Acura Integra GSR in a forest green
that was here on the West Coast.
I was really big into the import scene for a lot of years.
Street racing and all that stupid stuff.
But that one plays a big, big part.
Just, you know, things that you're gonna realize
throughout your life that play a part, right?
They all have a story.
They all have a chapter in your life.
And I think at some point I used to always be
a little bitter like, shit, I wish I had done this
or shit, I wish I'd done that.
But at the end of the day, it was a point in my life.
And you know, the same way with what it is that I have now,
I'm fortunate enough to have what I have.
And who knows how long I'm gonna have it.
But in the time, for the time that I got it,
I'm gonna enjoy it.
For sure, you're gonna create a bunch of memories
with it, man.
That's exactly what that is.
That's built for memories, you know?
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
And you know, we've built a lot of memories
off of it together.
I don't know, I'd like Tone to share this story himself,
but when I launched the Ultimate Adventure,
you know, he reached out to me personally.
Tone, TFTI, T-F-T-I, Barbecue, everybody knows Tone.
He was like, listen, man,
you living out your dream just inspired me.
And I wanna live my own dream.
And he wanted to buy his dream truck,
which was, you know, a TRX, which is so badass.
He came down, he drove it down right after he got it.
He had to park the driveway.
Like, it was a very, very pivotal and special moment for us
to be able for both of us to be in the same place
at the same time, live in our dreams.
Like, it was amazing.
So those are the moments that I carry with me in that.
You know, they may not mean a lot to other people,
but to me and to Tone,
it's gonna be something we're gonna remember forever.
And at the end of the day, that's what this is all about,
whether it's barbecue, whether it's cars,
whether it's aviation, whatever it is,
man, invest your time and your effort
into what brings you pleasure
and how you're able to disassociate,
whether it's the weekend,
whether it's the middle of the week.
If your day is off or Wednesday, Thursday,
man, find some shit that helps you
bring your, break your mind away from the nine to five
from those Wednesday, Thursday nights.
Absolutely, man.
It's super important to,
no, that's why, I mean, I think it's without saying
a lot of men in general have a lot of different hobbies,
right, like it's nothing new, but it's,
I think a lot of times people are just trying to find
the things that they're incredibly passionate about.
A lot of times they'll maybe try to go down a path
that their friends are into and see if they're into it.
Not everyone's into cars.
Everyone obviously for the most part has cars,
but not everyone is really into them.
So I think it's a super healthy way to kind of pass some time
and spend a lot of your energy and your time
into the car stuff.
I jumped away from it.
I still have cool cars, you know what I mean?
I still love them.
I still spend a little bit of time with them,
but the thing that I love so much about the barbecue
in comparison to the car culture stuff
is my family gets a little bit more enjoyment out of it too.
I felt like the car stuff, building the cars
and going to car meets and going on cruises
and things like that, my family would come,
my family would do it, my family would be a part of it,
but they didn't enjoy it like I did.
You know what I mean?
They definitely didn't get the same bug that I had,
but barbecue, man, they love the barbecue.
They love the people, you know?
So I've since transitioned a lot of my time and energy
away from the cars towards this stuff.
And I'd say do the same thing
for a lot of you guys that are in here now.
Find a passion, drive towards it.
If it's something that you think is working well for you
and your family, then keep pursuing it.
Rock with it.
That's a great, great advice.
Rock with what it is that works for you.
You know what I mean?
You know, just like, you know, kind of what it is
that we're doing now, you know, the vehicles that I have now
and the stuff that I'm doing.
We had a show in the morning, a cool little car meet.
A lot of people may not know, but I'm into cars.
I'm into shoes.
I love shoes.
And I'm into wrist pieces.
I'm a big watch collector.
And I got invited to a really, really cool event tomorrow.
So, which is the reason why
the Ultimate Adventure got detailed today.
So if you're in Southern California,
you may or may not know of Heng Wai Lee.
Heng Wai Lee is an amazing wrist piece watch distributor
in the city of industry slash Yorba Linda.
And he's having an event tomorrow.
David Lee, who's the owner,
has an 85 to $90 million Ferrari collection.
He's the number one Ferrari collector in the world.
So he's gonna bring out some of his pieces tomorrow.
If you follow anything about Ferrari.
It's Mr. Ferrari Guy or something like that?
Is that who that is?
Yeah, David Lee, Mr. Ferrari Guy.
Mr. Ferrari, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, he's frigging amazing.
His family has owned Heng Wai Lee since like 1965.
Oh, wow.
So when I kind of got into collecting
and kind of expanding my collection
and trying to pass my legacy on to my family,
I knew that that's where I wanted to go.
So I was very, very fortunate
that I was able to pick up a couple pieces from him.
And there's one event going on this weekend.
Next weekend is a special invite only,
but this one tomorrow in the city of industry
slash Yorba Linda, if you're in the area,
it's called Chronos and Cars.
It's about chronographs
and those type of collections of watches
and cars, and he's going to have a huge amount
of his vehicles out there tomorrow.
So I'm excited to be a part of that.
It just helps me break away,
take my mind off of things.
I have some stuff I gotta film,
some stuff I gotta do tomorrow,
but you gotta find stuff,
you gotta find time for yourself.
What is it that brings you some sort of peace,
some sort of enjoyment?
Because if not, just like anything else,
you're gonna get burnt out.
If you're a project manager,
which kind of what I do from around nine to five,
and you're buried in that thing 14, 18 hours a day,
you're gonna get burnt out, man.
Find time for yourself.
Find time to make yourself happy.
There's things that my wife likes that I know she's into.
She loves handbags, she loves traveling,
she loves those types of things.
And I try my best to use my platform
and the things that I do to try to afford
some of the things that I know bring her pleasure, right?
And help her out and bring her some sense of fulfillment.
It's not about the money, man.
It's not about any of that.
It's about trying to bring some joy to your family
whenever that is.
If that joy is going to a park, going on a jog,
going on a run, taking the dogs out, man, find that shit.
Give yourself that time.
All of this stuff and the fact that you guys
have been online with us for this amount of time
is amazing and we can't thank you guys enough.
But once all of this is said and done
and you're away from this,
find something that brings you joy, no matter what it is.
And I call it exploit.
Some people don't like that word, but exploit that shit.
Exploit those things that bring you pleasure
and that granted maybe doing blow all the time
is it something you wanna exploit, right?
I'm not condoning that.
Yeah, don't exploit that.
What I'm saying is if you're into jogging,
if you're into working out, if you're into coffee,
if you're into antiquing, whatever that is
that brings you joy, man, exploit that shit.
Run with that, travel, go fishing, go camping,
whatever it is that brings you joy,
spend some time doing that and bring some more fulfillment
because at the end of the day,
this shit could all be over tomorrow.
Yeah.
And you wanna be able to look back and say,
I did what I could when I could
and I did as much as I could when I could.
So exploit that shit, live your life.
Don't let the monetary stuff hold you back.
So many people look at us and the things that we do,
the places we travel, the people that we slap hands with
and like, well, if I had that kind of money,
I would do that too.
It's not about that, man.
You could go down to Walmart right now
and pick up a $99 Weber kettle.
And I promise you, I will teach you
and I will show you how to put out some of the best
grilled meat you've ever had in your life
that will probably surpass any restaurant you've ever had
or you've ever been to.
But spend that 99 bucks if that's what it is
that you wanna do, learn how to do that shit.
It doesn't take a lot of money.
Just enjoy your time and invest in what it is
that makes you happy.
It's not about my five or six or $7,000 smoker.
It's not about any of that shit.
It's about figuring out how you can do what you can do
what it is that you could possibly do
with what it is that you have to work with.
Absolutely, man.
Willie, I gotta tell you, honestly,
I've been looking forward to this episode
since I met you over at Toms.
Well, I didn't meet you at Toms.
We met at the Embers event.
But since hanging out with you at Toms,
we got to spend quite a lot of time together.
And I've been so looking forward to this.
I thought it was gonna be nothing but laughs
and there's nothing wrong that we didn't,
we weren't cracking jokes and all that.
It's, this has been, you're like,
the word, the oracle's popping in my head.
That's not what I wanna say though.
But I love the advice that you're giving.
I love the fact that you're focused on trying
to give people an amazing message.
I really appreciate your message.
I appreciate you sharing it with us.
I appreciate you being incredibly generous
with your time with me tonight too.
You've been here for quite some time,
going on two and a half hours, man.
It's Friday night.
I know you got a lot of stuff going on.
So thank you so much for coming by
and hanging out, telling your story,
a piece of your story, I should say.
And I would really love to have you back on again.
Obviously you got some big moves going on right now.
Give you some time, kind of knock out some of those,
you know, big ticket items that you got to knock out.
But man, we'll get you back on as soon as possible.
If you'd like to come back on,
we'll put you on here, brother.
It'd mean a lot to me.
Let's make it happen.
Thank you so very much for the opportunity.
Thank you.
And again, it's pinned.
For those of you guys that have been here
throughout this time,
follow Kings Me and Barbecue Supply Co.
I promise you we're not gonna disappoint you.
And thank you, Nick.
I really, really appreciate the time.
My family's here, my wife and my daughter in the back.
They do their best.
They keep quiet.
They'll hide out in the back room, right?
And thank God bless them for doing what they do.
Because it's a joint effort.
All of this, as you know, you're married,
you have a family, it's a joint effort.
Your wife does stuff behind the scenes
that people will never understand.
And the same thing with my family here,
up to and including something like just going live
for a couple of hours.
It takes the dedication of even my family to be like,
hey, we're gonna go kick out, we're gonna go kick back
for a few hours.
Dad, you do what you do.
And so shout out to my fan band
because this is not a one man show.
This is just as the same way I'm sure it is with you.
It's not a one man show.
There's a team behind us and there's people that support us.
So shout out to all them.
And all of you guys that think you can do it,
bullshit, I promise you, you can do it.
Pull the trigger, keep doing what it is
that you think that you love to do
and don't feed into the bullshit.
Just do you, stay in your own lane.
Don't worry about the numbers,
don't worry about the likes,
don't worry about the follows.
At the end of the day, do what's fulfilling to you.
If you put out a dope ass video
and four people watch that bitch,
but at the end of the day, you had a really,
really good time and you had a dope ass meal with family,
that is money and time well spent.
And four other people watched it
and rode along that ride with you.
And eventually that's gonna turn into 400,000
or 4 million people that are gonna watch
and they're gonna go on that ride with you
and they're gonna remember when you only had four viewers.
So keep doing what it is that you do.
Don't believe the hype, don't buy into the bullshit,
believe in yourself and do what's right for you.
Absolutely, man.
Well, again, thank you for your time.
Make sure you extend that thank you
to your wife and me as well.
Giving you this time to come out here
and put this on and keeping the whole household quiet for you.
I know how that goes.
Tone just joined right now.
I will.
Tone, you're late, man.
I'm sorry, brother.
You missed out on a ton of flowers, sent your way.
We all love you, brother.
Willie had the best things to say about you,
as did I, as did Heatstroke.
Man, it already goes without saying, man.
You're such a pivotal person for all of us.
Someone that we all look up to, someone that we all adore
and just wholeheartedly appreciate.
So thanks for coming in and rocking out
and checking out what we're doing now.
We're getting ready to sign off right now.
For sure.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
Let me give Tone one more time.
TFTI BBQ, let me give him his flowers.
That man right there, he's amazing.
He reached out to me early on and was like,
hey, we shared a lot of very, very deep,
in-depth conversations about the business side of this
that not a lot of people share with each other.
And I was like, hey, yo, listen,
my personal opinion, you need to do X, Y, and Z.
When I purchased The Ultimate Adventure,
he reached out to me and he was like,
yo, you inspired me to do something.
And just hearing that was like,
it was almost like an out-of-body experience, right?
Because I love him and respect Tone so much.
And he wound up buying his dream truck,
which is a TRX, right?
It is gorgeous.
Yeah, dude.
It's a beast, but he wound up doing it.
And it doesn't matter what level you're on, quote unquote.
There's no levels in this shit.
You can have 19 followers and inspire somebody else
who has 19 million followers to pursue their dream.
So never forget that shit
and never forget the power that you have,
no matter how many followers you have.
And shout out to Tone for always believing me
in everything that is that I do,
popping his head in.
And shout out to you, brother.
Thank you for everything that you're doing.
Thank you for continuing this, to build this community
because it's something that we need.
You know, there might only be sometimes 10, 20, 30,
40 followers, right?
But when we save these things for our platform,
hundreds and thousands of other people are gonna see it.
And I pray that just one person is inspired by our stories
and be like, yo, I'm gonna keep posting this shit
and I'm gonna live my dream.
And maybe I'm on something like this
and I'm able to share this with my family.
And this one definitely, this episode right here
with you on it, it's definitely gonna stick with me
for a long time.
Hands down, my favorite episode I've ever done so far.
The most insightful, the most helpful, the most encouraging.
Oftentimes we do a lot of just shooting the shit
and making sure that people kind of get to know the guy
behind the username, the screen name, what have you, right?
But in this case, man, you took your opportunity
while we were here together to influence and encourage
and truly be community first, man.
We expected to share some laughs, we shared some tears.
And that shit fucking, I hold that shit near and dear.
It means the absolute world to me that you came on.
Had a blast, brother, can't wait
till we get to hang out again, my man.
Everybody that's here, if you're still in here right now,
I know there's not too many people left,
but at King's Meat and Barbecue Supply Co,
a ton of amazing things are coming.
I can't wait to see it all unfold.
There's no doubt about it that this is gonna turn out
to be the next biggest thing in barbecue.
So I can't wait to see you guys just put on and shine
and make your families proud, make us all proud
and keep doing what you're doing, my brother,
because I said it at the top of the show
and I'm gonna finish off the show with this.
You are everybody's favorite barbecuer's favorite barbecuer.
So you keep rocking it, brother.
Keep that energy, keep doing what you're doing, man.
Absolutely love you, man.
Thank you so kindly for coming on and sharing some time
and sharing your stories and telling us to keep on
keeping on, man, because a lot of times
that's all somebody needs to hear.
So thank you.
I love you, man.
Thank you so very much.
Tone's still in the house talking about
he's gonna be there at our grand opening.
There's so many of you guys that I want to be there.
It's gonna be a grind.
It's a bit of a process, but it's gonna be something that,
shout out to Jeremiah from Kings Brewery.
He's been telling me for years, believe in yourself,
believe in your brand, build your brand,
invest in your brand.
And we've been doing this for so many years,
building other people's brands,
which is why one of the many reasons why I respect
what it is that you do, Nick, is you have a brand,
you're inviting other people along that ride,
and you're building yourself up something
that is exclusive to you, but also bringing
other people along the way.
So congratulations for the continued success.
Please, anything I can possibly do to help out,
you already know I got you.
Tag me and everything.
Call me out if I'm a dick and I don't repost something.
You got my personal number.
I'm human just like everybody else.
I miss a lot of things, but please continue on that journey.
Fight the good fight and bring everybody along the way,
because there's somebody out there that's,
including myself, that's looking up to you going,
hey, I wonder if I can do this one day.
And they're gonna do it, and they're gonna remember
that pivotal moment.
So let's continue to raise the bar.
Let's continue to reach our hands out
and bring people up with us
and help them recognize their potential
and that this isn't just for the big dogs.
You're a big dog too.
Do that shit, make it happen.
Thank you, man, appreciate it.
Thank you so much for the kind words, man.
You guys all that came in here and joined in,
hung out from top to end, even those of you
that just joined right now,
thank you for stopping in and checking us out.
We love you guys.
Big unk from the nephew.
We'll be back again next Friday.
Love you guys.
Cheers, brother.
Cheers.