074 NBBQA Conference - Day 1

The Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast

This is Episode Eight of Season Six, my U.S. Road Trip Part II. This episode sees us hit up Kansas City for the NBBQA Conference. The full event was four days long. There was a pre-event on the Wednesday where we hard core BBQ junkies jumped on a bus and headed to Plowboys, Slaps and Joe’s. That was an incredible experience and I was super excited to find the person sitting behind me on the bus was none other than Meathead from amazingribs.com! Thursday and Friday were the Conference days with sessions delivered by numerous experts within the BBQ industry. The annual Excellence Awards Gala was on the Friday night, and Saturday was the Steak Cookoff Association’s NBBQA BBQ Classic competition where they actually ran two rounds in one day!

In this episode, you’ll find a collection on interviews I recorded on the Thursday - the first day of the conference sessions. The beauty of these industry conferences is that attendees are the most hardcore BBQ professionals who as also keen to network and share their knowledge and skills with others and I definitely found that to be the case here. I’m excited to be able to share these stories and lessons with you.

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So without further ado, grab yourself some homemade bacon and some brown liquor and join me at the NBBQA Annual Conference!

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