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Chris Young - Breaking Ribs; Daniel Vaughn Hates Meat Squishing Too! Dec 18, 2025

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(December 16, 2025 - Hour Two)

10:14pm - Leading off the 2nd hour is Chris Young from Combustion, Inc. Is he the best YouTube cooking content creator at this current moment in time...???

10:35pm - The close of the show will have the final visit from Texas Monthly's BBQ editor, Daniel Vaughn. What was the Best, Worst and other in BBQ (in Texas and beyond) in 2025?? Tuner in tonight and find out!

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The Chicago Trip Recap; Wes Wright Says Squeezing Meat Is Bad! Dec 17, 2025

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(December 16, 2025 - Hour One)

9:14 - The Chicago visit recap!

9:35pm - After the recap,, we are joined by Wes Wright for the final time in 2025. Get the latest business updates and predictions!

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The Best Moments of The BBQ Central Show in 10 Minutes or Less Dec 12, 2025

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Episode 411

Taking you back to - 3/23/2010 - Competition Pork Butt Round Table

#1 2009 KCBS - Little Pig Town - Scott Kee

#5 2009 KCBS - The Slab’s - Kyle Laval (The BBQ Pimp)

#7 2009 KCBS - Butcher BBQ - Dave Bouska

Continuing the multi-week look back on "Round Table" shows for fan Tyler. This week, learn how the best of the best were doing their pork butts back in 2010 (2009).

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Original Air Date: 3/23/2010

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Fireboard Has At Least @ New Product...And More Coming!! Dec 11, 2025

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(December 9, 2025 - Hour Two)

14min in- Meathead - Amazing Ribs(.com)

35min in - Robert Moss

1:14:00 min in - Ted Conrad - Fireboard

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Meathead Is ALMOST Leaving Social Media; Robert Moss Says There IS a Florida Style BBQ! Dec 10, 2025

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(December 9, 2025 - Hour One)

14min in- Meathead - Amazing Ribs(.com)

35min in - Robert Moss

1:14:00 min in - Ted Conrad - Fireboard

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The Best Moments of The BBQ Central Show in 10 Minutes or Less Dec 05, 2025

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Episode 409

Taking you back to 3/16/2010 - Continuing the many weeks of “BBQ Round Tables” as requested by fan of the show “Tyler”...this time around we do a competition round table - Chicken Style - with Kelly Wertz - 4 Legs Up BBQ (4th in 2009), Joe Amore - Smokin MT. Smokers (5th in 2009) and Troy Black - Learn 2 Q (7th in 2009). The Round table shows were some of the most downloaded shows ever in show history…

But if I might be honest as it relates to this particular one…the success of these shows was the free exchange of information by the experts that were on the panel…in THIS show…none of those pitmasters decided to freely share their processes…leading me to be very pissed off…and mandating that, going forward on BBQRT Shows…you had to agree to be 100% open with your complete process of how you did the protein we were discussing…this ended up being the only one that was like this…but I was pissed…and you could hear these guys trying to gauge how much info everyone else was sharing and what they were going to share…

Not the way the round tables were supposed to work…and we fixed it!

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Original Air Date: 3/16/2010

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Sam The Cooking Guy's Beef Story - NY Strip Is Trash! Dec 04, 2025

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(December 2, 2025 - Hour Two)

10:14pm - The first Tuesday in the 2nd hour brings a monthly (and last) visit from Sam The Cooking Guy. He will bum in a little later than normal as he will be finishing another job earlier in the day. That being said, we should have plenty of time to talk about his Thanksgiving and what gifts he's recommending this holiday season.

10:35pm - The close of the show will have me recapping the Thanksgiving holiday at my house, what we did, what we had to fight through to get food on the table and how it all ended up.

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Open Fire At Memphis In May 2026; Mike Lang Says "Hard Pass" To Pulled Ham Dec 03, 2025

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(December 2, 2025 - Hour One)

9:14 - Last week it was Rasheed Philips and this week it's Al Frugoni! The king of open-live fire cooking joins me to talk about the Meat Up in Hondo, TX but, more importantly, we will discuss how the Open Fire Memphis In May deal came together for the 2026 version of this event. You might be surprised how this all came together...and who dumped on the idea to begin with!

9:35pm - After Al, Mike Lang from Another Pint Please, joins me for the last time in 2025. We will talk about cold weather cooking, how to set up your fires properly, how to account for time in cooking when the weather sucks and what gifts he's recommending for the holiday season.

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The Best Moments of The BBQ Central Show in 10 Minutes or Less Nov 28, 2025

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Episode 409

Taking you back to...3/9/2010 - This week we feature what is going to be a multi-week series of “BBQ Round Table” shows. First up is a technical nightmare…one that I don't recall actually ever doing…but I must have because Jon has it queued up and ready to go…Fan of the show Tyler has requested these and Jon has accommodated him fully and for many weeks to come…and you get to enjoy these upcoming shows too!!

Ready to make a “BEST OF” show all your own?? Email Jon Solberg and let him know what you would like to hear on a future episode!

As always, thank you for listening!

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Original Air Date: 3/9/2010

Original Full Show Link: CLICK HERE

Embedded Correspondents - November 2026 - Where's Jon!??! Nov 27, 2025

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(November 25, 2025 - Hour Two)

10:14pm & 10:35pm - The 4th Tuesday of the month in the 2nd hour brings a visit from the Embedded Correspondents. We are only a few days away from Thanksgiving at this point, so why not have a special edition of the "100% Assurity Statements". There will be a number of Thanksgiving related statements and there will also be a number of unrelated statements as well. It's always fun, it's always unpredictable and there is no better way to finish November than with these guys!

There might be some special sit-in guests as well...so stay tuned!

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