It's time for Barbecue Nation with jt so fire up your grill, light the charcoal, and get your smoker cooking.
Speaker ANow from the Turnito Burnett studios in Portland, here's jt.
Speaker BThis is an encore.
Speaker AHey, everybody.
Speaker AWelcome to the nation.
Speaker AThat's Barbecue Nation.
Speaker AI'm JT along with my co host, co commander, and co golfer on the new show we've got coming out a little later.
Speaker AWe'll talk about that more in the show.
Speaker ADave and Chris are doing whatever they do in the back.
Speaker AWe'd like to thank the folks at Painted Hills Natural beef.
Speaker ABeef the way nature intended.
Speaker AAnd we've got a real treat today.
Speaker AWe've got Tina Cannon with us.
Speaker ATina, if you watch barbecue on tv, if you will, she was the winner of the Netflix American Barbecue Showdown.
Speaker AShe's been on Food Network Discovery.
Speaker AShe's a celebrity chef.
Speaker AShe's got 35 years in the culinary industry.
Speaker AAnd the most important thing, she's been an executive chef and an owner, but she's been a sous chef.
Speaker AAnd I think that's really important.
Speaker AI do.
Speaker CI'm just saying they do all the work.
Speaker AThey do all the work.
Speaker DI have even dishwashed.
Speaker DSo, you know.
Speaker AWell, first of all, welcome to the show.
Speaker AIt's a pleasure to have you.
Speaker DThank you.
Speaker AWe'll get to kind of Tina's historical stuff a little later.
Speaker ABut what was your experience like on.
Speaker AOn Netflix?
Speaker ALeanne and I have both done reality shows.
Speaker AWe have kind of mixed emotions about them, more mixed than emotion.
Speaker ABut tell us about your experience on that.
Speaker DWell, it was a long, hot 21 days.
Speaker DI know that's right.
Speaker DBecause, you know, we filmed it in months.
Speaker DThat didn't appear to.
Speaker DWhen it is, you know, that's tv.
Speaker DBut, you know, I think overall it was a great experience, honestly, even though, yes, it's considered reality.
Speaker DYou know, you can always come up.
Speaker DThis is a few years later now that, you know, since it was filmed, you can always take away more positive than bad.
Speaker DYou know, it's like, I guess, childbirth.
Speaker DEven though I don't have kids, you know, you don't remember the pain because it was long days and it was very, very hot and very grueling, that when they edited it, it actually made it seem very Kumbaya ish.
Speaker DYou know what I mean?
Speaker CWhat's so amazing to me in the shows is that you pretty much have a dedicated camera person on each person, right.
Speaker CSo it isn't like they're going around with one camera.
Speaker CSo the how they edit these shows with all of the footage especially 21 days.
Speaker CI doubt they film the whole 21, but even say it's 10 days of 10 pitmasters, 12 hours a day, and they got to get it down a one hour show.
Speaker CI'm just amazed that they can edit the way that they do and capture like the cool moments.
Speaker CTo me, it's a really incredible job.
Speaker CThey do.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DWell, you know, I was on Barbecue Brawl too, like you were, and it was very different.
Speaker DFood Network and Netflix.
Speaker DNetflix had a lot more camera operators.
Speaker DThey had those little mounted cameras above us.
Speaker DWe had two people on us all the time.
Speaker DThere was a lot more involved in Netflix.
Speaker DI mean, they had.
Speaker DIt was unbelievable.
Speaker DThey had the cameras that are on the wires like you said, football game.
Speaker DThey had some things that they did not, did not air because Covid happened after that.
Speaker DAnd I think they were.
Speaker DThe world was wanting something different.
Speaker DLike we all got along and everything was great, you know, but, you know, it's very hard when you have to be sequestered with the same people of all different types of people for 21 days.
Speaker DBecause even on what's called the dark days, which means that's the days of their union, they have days that they.
Speaker DPeople have, you know, can't work on those days.
Speaker DI guess it's like air traffic controllers, the same thing.
Speaker DYou know, we have to eat everything but sleep in the same room.
Speaker DAnd that was discouraged, but.
Speaker DBut you know, you have to do everything with a breakfast, lunch, dinner, right?
Speaker DAnd then you have to worry because you're miked up all the time.
Speaker DLike, what if you just, on your dark day, you just wanted to stay in your room and veg and watch tv, you know, you're so keyed up, you don't want them to use, you know, that be against you.
Speaker DYou want to be very positive.
Speaker DAnd all the time, because you don't really know what to expect.
Speaker DYou just know.
Speaker CAnd that I find that when you're miked up, you forget the mic is there after a while and catch yourself like, oh my God, I mic'd up.
Speaker DYou know, I. I know I've said this on podcast before.
Speaker DI think I. I was on a show in 2014 which if you took a potty break, they turned it off, even though they were in there with you and they turned it back on.
Speaker DMy experience with Netflix and I don't know if this is their policy.
Speaker DI don't know.
Speaker DI'm just saying what happened to me, it was on all the time.
Speaker DAnd the very last day when I was waiting to see, you know, who won?
Speaker DWhatever happened, I went into the ladies room and while I was in there, I said a quick prayer and it was so crazy after it was over and they filmed me and I found out I won and I was outside and I went.
Speaker DHe said, my producer, you know, you know, you're assigned to somebody that's with you all the time.
Speaker DSaid that prayer worked, didn't it?
Speaker DSo I was like, oh my God, you know, they've heard me in the bathroom.
Speaker DThat was the last day, the 21st day every time I've been in there.
Speaker DAnd I didn't even think about it until then.
Speaker DI went, yeah, oops.
Speaker AI guess, I guess that's why I didn't do very good Leanne on my reality show because, oh, I probably did the opposite, you know.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ABut she was saying, you know, I.
Speaker DDidn'T pray for a win.
Speaker DI prayed that, you know, just get me through this.
Speaker DBecause I was like, when at the end of it, that was like, true.
Speaker DThat was not acting.
Speaker DWhen I kind of fell and Rashid caught me, I was like, I was so exhausted.
Speaker DWe'd been up 24 hours and I, I was just totally exhausted and stressed out to the max.
Speaker DI was at the, my very end of my rope for sure.
Speaker DSo that was not like, act.
Speaker DI'm not a, you know, actress.
Speaker DSo it was not acting.
Speaker DSo I was really, really surprised and of course happy.
Speaker AYeah, well, of course.
Speaker DHard to get.
Speaker DWoo hoo.
Speaker DYou know, when you're exhausted.
Speaker CRight.
Speaker ASometimes though, when you're producing something, that's when you get actually the best reactions is when people are pressed to their absolute frayed limits.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DAnd then you're right, because with Ashley, he, he, when he ripped his sleeves off of his shirt, that was all real.
Speaker DI mean, you know, they feed you stuff to try to get you to egg each other on and stuff.
Speaker DSome people go for it and some don't.
Speaker DI really didn't because that's just not me to be mean to somebody.
Speaker DBut he was really, really exhausted, I think at the end of his rope when that happened.
Speaker DAnd he kind of like, I thought he was going to leave.
Speaker DI mean, it was, he was very stressed out.
Speaker DSo that most everything on there, I think was real.
Speaker DYou know, they did, like I say, egg a few things on and a couple cast members, I think they asked to do certain things, but I wasn't asked to do anything.
Speaker DThey wanted me to kind of badger a little bit, you know, that's just not really me.
Speaker AMy producer asked me to tell the truth and I looked in the camera.
Speaker AAnd I said, you really want me to tell the truth?
Speaker AAnd the camera guy who I'd made friends with went, no.
Speaker ASo that.
Speaker AThat was the end of my reality series right there.
Speaker DPeople don't really realize, you know, that.
Speaker DI mean, I know y' all do, but they are talking to you the entire time.
Speaker DSo when you're talking out loud, you're really talking to someone, but they, you know, people just don't see that.
Speaker DAnd then when they.
Speaker DThe hardest part really too, was to.
Speaker DThree days later when they ask you about a certain dish.
Speaker DOkay.
Speaker DI was like, what?
Speaker DI don't even.
Speaker DWhat did I make?
Speaker DI mean, I had to.
Speaker DI had to ask them so I could like, remember that day.
Speaker DOr they would have to show you on their phone.
Speaker DSay, this is when you buy.
Speaker DOh, okay.
Speaker DYou know, to remember because you're so tired and have to be so keyed up all the time and on your toes because, you know they're filming from above.
Speaker DThis show did from the sides.
Speaker DThey had one on the table.
Speaker DThey had somebody right here, like right on you some when you're cooking.
Speaker DI don't think I was ever on less than three cameras.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AYeah, but that makes it.
Speaker AThat makes what they can produce and edit into a great show.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker AInstead of just a single camera and one poor camera guy running around with his tongue hanging out trying to catch everything.
Speaker DYeah, that would be difficult.
Speaker DThey had some.
Speaker DIt was.
Speaker DI can say I learned a whole lot about that end of seeing all the special equipment.
Speaker DThey had these cameras that you actually wear.
Speaker DAnd I kept calling a guy RoboCop because he wore.
Speaker DAnd when he walked.
Speaker DI mean, it moves like on a geosphere or something like that.
Speaker DForget it's the wrong word.
Speaker DSorry, but y' all know what I mean.
Speaker DIt would move it, I guess, keep things level.
Speaker DIt was Roman Ronan or something like that.
Speaker DThey called it.
Speaker DIt was really, really, really cool.
Speaker AIt's called a jib.
Speaker DOkay.
Speaker AYeah, they have.
Speaker AThey have jibs you can wear.
Speaker AThey're like a Steadicam and you can.
Speaker AIt goes like that.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker DYou know, more than me.
Speaker DI'm just a cook, you know.
Speaker AIt'S.
Speaker AI had to learn too.
Speaker ASo that's an.
Speaker AGoing to get a big lesson here in about a month.
Speaker ASo it's a good thing.
Speaker AIt's a good thing.
Speaker ADon't worry there, co pilot.
Speaker DYou're good.
Speaker AYou're all good.
Speaker DShe'll be ready.
Speaker DYou know, I was on.
Speaker DThe first show was on in 2014, was on the Travel Channel.
Speaker DYou know, then I.
Speaker DThis I think my fifth show.
Speaker DSo it's kind of cool that I've been on different networks to see how different they operate.
Speaker DLike the first show was on, you have an attorney sitting with you all the time.
Speaker DThat's the way they did it.
Speaker DAnd it was classified as a game show because we won money, you know.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DSo maybe that.
Speaker DSo that was very different how they sequestered, how long they filmed it, that kind of thing.
Speaker DAnd then I go and I did the, the Bamacube thing for like three seasons.
Speaker DAnd that was more of a very budget, more operation kind of thing.
Speaker DThey only had, you know, a couple of camera people and editors, you know, and then doing did a recent one on one of the country networks and you know, that was a very shoestring type budget too.
Speaker DSo I did some higher end.
Speaker DAnd then of course barbecue broth and network.
Speaker DBig, big budget.
Speaker DBut they were real, all very different.
Speaker AYep, yep, they'll do that.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DI learned something from each one and got to meet a lot of cool people.
Speaker AThere you go.
Speaker AWe're going to take a break here on Barbecue Nation on USA Radio Networks.
Speaker ALeanne and and Ms. Tina Cannon will be back with you very shortly.
Speaker APlease stay with us.
Speaker EReady for a new ride?
Speaker EChoose from over a thousand vehicles at Weston Kia.
Speaker ELike a new Kia Sportage, Soul Forte, K4 Sorento Telluride or Carnival Gas electric or hybrid.
Speaker EOregon's all time leader in Kia sales.
Speaker EEveryone wins at Westin 1994-2023.
Speaker EWestin Kia has sold more new Kias than any other Kia dealer in Oregon.
Speaker EReported by K.
Speaker BHey everybody, it's Jeff here.
Speaker BI want to tell you about something really cool.
Speaker BHeritage steel cookware.
Speaker BI just got mine.
Speaker BI do a lot of cooking and it's got five ply construction, stay cool handles.
Speaker BIt's titanium strengthened.
Speaker BIt's got all the great stuff.
Speaker BJust go to Heritage Steel US and find out more.
Speaker AYou'll love it.
Speaker BI guarantee it.
Speaker AThis is an encore.
Speaker AHey, welcome back to Barbecue Nation.
Speaker AI'm JT along with Leanne Whippen.
Speaker AIf you want to contact us, call Leanne.
Speaker ADon't call me.
Speaker AYou can just go to barbecue nation.
Speaker AJt.com There's a thing there, a drop down box.
Speaker AYou can fill it out, send it in and we will respond.
Speaker AAlso, we're on Facebook with Barbecue Nation and our respective personal Facebooks and Twitter.
Speaker BLeanne's on Twitter.
Speaker AI'm on Twitter.
Speaker ATina's on Twitter.
Speaker ATina follows me now and I follow her.
Speaker AWe do all that.
Speaker ASo very easy to get a Hold of us if you have a question or a comment.
Speaker AWe're very fortunate to have Tina Cannon with us today.
Speaker ATina has been on a number of challenging TV shows over the years, and she's got a.
Speaker AShe's got a really cool history here, and we're going to talk about that.
Speaker AHow did you get started?
Speaker AI don't mean in the television aspect, but when Leanne was on the show the first time, man, I had to pry it out of her.
Speaker ANot really how she worked.
Speaker AWorked with her dad coming up and got her involved in barbecue and all that.
Speaker AHow did you start?
Speaker DY'.
Speaker DAll.
Speaker DY' all are gonna just really laugh, but, you know, I grew up eating everything burnt on a.
Speaker DWhat my dad cooked.
Speaker DBut I would say what really got me into the competitive part of it was watching a show called Pitmasters.
Speaker AThat's her right up there.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DSo when I.
Speaker DWhen I saw the show, I had already been cooking because, like, my 10th birthday gift was a web.
Speaker DCan I say a brand.
Speaker DSorry.
Speaker DOkay.
Speaker DA Weber grill.
Speaker DThat's what I asked for when I was 10 years old.
Speaker DSo I had always kind of, you know, grilled.
Speaker DAnd I used to go to Girl Scout camp and asked to go cook with the boys on the Open Fire just because I liked it.
Speaker DYou know, my grandfather was a great cook, so I have that history, but nothing like Liam, you know, with the.
Speaker DThe family business and.
Speaker DAnd all of that.
Speaker DMom was just a light barbecue.
Speaker DMy papa did it.
Speaker DMy dad burned everything, kind of, but I really liked it.
Speaker DAnd when I got the opportunity to start going to, like, Girl Scout camp, back then it was Girl Scouts.
Speaker DWe would.
Speaker DThey would let me go over because I wanted to cook, and I was trying to earn a badge, so I would go every year until I was higher up in the Girl Scouts and got, I guess, too old for that.
Speaker DAnd.
Speaker DAnd I just love to cook on Open Fire.
Speaker DYou know, we.
Speaker DYou know, for that, you don't do anything too.
Speaker DToo technical.
Speaker DWe always hot dogs, hamburgers, sausage, stuff like that.
Speaker DBut when I saw the show Pitmasters on tv, I was like, I mean, you know, we just watched it.
Speaker DMy husband and I watched it all the time, and it was just a freak time when I decided to go and compete.
Speaker DI know I've told this story before.
Speaker DIt's kind of.
Speaker DI'll try to shorten it, if you'd like to know.
Speaker DBut I was cooking a bunch of barbecue for a bunch of workmen and work woman that was at our house because there were some storms that came through, Lynn, like, you've experienced recently, but it ripped our roof off.
Speaker DSo we, you know, and did a lot of damage.
Speaker DSo we were having to have a new roof put on.
Speaker DSo they were working really hard because there was another storm coming through.
Speaker DSo I just got that old.
Speaker DIt was a Brinkman, if I can say, a brand that we got free with points off a card or something like that.
Speaker DAnd the guy thought that he's, gosh, this is really good barbecue.
Speaker DOf course, he says to my husband, which is from New Jersey, and sorry, land barbecue to them is, you know, put the hot dog on the grill.
Speaker DThat.
Speaker DThat's what they call it.
Speaker DNorth is barbecue.
Speaker DWe down here, we call it, you know, that's grilling, you know.
Speaker DSo he mentioned how good it was and talked about a contest, and he gave my husband the application, and I filled it out, went and won.
Speaker DAnd then you get the bug.
Speaker DGet that, you know, a little bit of money.
Speaker DAnd the trophies I actually have on the other side of the room here, because it was the first ones ever got, and I won, like, a hundred dollars a category or something like that.
Speaker DWell, then I got the bug.
Speaker DYou win once.
Speaker DWell, so I started competing, and that was that.
Speaker DAnd, you know, I. I got some calls, but I never got, like a.
Speaker DAnything better than 10th place for, I think, a couple years at least.
Speaker DAnd then I had a really good year once I went pro, like, 2015, I won the Georgia State championship across the board, all categories.
Speaker DSo, you know, that was a good year.
Speaker DAnd I wanted a firewoman challenge at World Food, and that was a good year.
Speaker DYou know, earned quite a bit of money.
Speaker DAnd then in the last year, I haven't really competed in, like, KCBS or any of FBA or any of that.
Speaker DI haven't.
Speaker DHaven't competed because I've been really concentrating on more teaching people.
Speaker DSo I think it's a lost art.
Speaker DYou know, people aren't low and slow cooking anymore.
Speaker ANo, that's true.
Speaker AAnd that's one thing that is kind of interesting to me and Leanne.
Speaker AWe've never actually talked about this with each other.
Speaker AYou know, barbecue, traditional, low and slow, that type of thing, smoking, whatever.
Speaker AAnd everybody would kind of preach it.
Speaker AAnd then this is kind of one of the dichotomies.
Speaker AAnd then they try to figure out how to cut the corner on the time as they go forward.
Speaker AYeah, yeah, they're a little hot and fast on them there.
Speaker AWhat you've never told me about your thoughts on that, Leanne.
Speaker CI am still low and slow.
Speaker CTrue blue.
Speaker CI've tried Hot and fast.
Speaker CMaybe I just don't know how to do it properly.
Speaker CSorry, Myron.
Speaker CBut I feel like he's the one that really brought it to the forefront in competition and through the shows.
Speaker CIt doesn't work for me.
Speaker CI can cook a little bit hotter, you know, rather than 225, go 275 with success.
Speaker CBut when, you know, the briskets at 350 or whatever they're doing, I, I just can't wrap my head around it.
Speaker DYeah, I'm not Super.
Speaker DI'm like 235 in a competition.
Speaker DI'll do 2:35 at night for my big meets and then ramp it up earlier in the day and I'll go to 275.
Speaker DNow.
Speaker DI guess I know how to do it because on Netflix, everything was hot and fast, but it's just not my thing.
Speaker DIt's just not my favorite thing.
Speaker DAnyone in competition now, instead of just hot and fast, they're cutting the meat down.
Speaker DThey're changing some of the rules.
Speaker DAnd I'm not saying that's bad or good.
Speaker DJust making comments so people don't get all upset.
Speaker DThey're cutting it like where you can cook a four pound butt, you know, whereas, you know, that's just, you know, whatever.
Speaker DI don't do that and probably never will, you know, but, you know, they're making it where it is, less and less time.
Speaker DAnd to me, part of barbecue and part of the art of it, in my opinion, is that low and slow breaking down that, you know, meat.
Speaker DI, I just like it better.
Speaker DIt's just me.
Speaker AYeah, I, I'm, I'm with you on that.
Speaker AI mean, if you're.
Speaker AI have no problem firing up a gas grill to, you know, cook something on it like that or my pellet grill or the charcoal grill.
Speaker AI mean, we all can use all of them, but I always find, I just have always kind of thought it was strange that people would talk about the low and slow and then do something else.
Speaker AGod, we got to take another break.
Speaker AWe're going to be back with Tina Cannon and Ms. Whippen and yours truly when we get back from this commercial message.
Speaker AOf course, foreign.
Speaker BIt's JT and I have eaten, if you've ever looked at me, you know that.
Speaker BBut I have eaten seafood all over the world, and I can tell you there's no place better than here in Oregon and our Dungeness crab.
Speaker BIf you want to learn more about Oregon Dungeness crab, just go to oregondungeness.org find out how to cook it, how.
Speaker ATo catch it, where to buy it.
Speaker BAnd the sustainability of what they're doing there in the Oregon Crab Commission.
Speaker BCheck it out.
Speaker AThis is an encore.
Speaker AWelcome back to Barbecue Nation.
Speaker AI'm JT along with Leanne Whippen and Tina Cannon.
Speaker AToday, we'd like to thank you, the folks at Painter Hills Natural Beef.
Speaker ABeef the way way nature intended.
Speaker ADon't forget, you can go to their, their website and go to their online store and you can type in the code BBQ Nation.
Speaker AGet 15% off.
Speaker AI've heard from a couple of folks lately that bought some product from them.
Speaker AThey were very happy with it.
Speaker AI'm.
Speaker AI've been happy with it for 20 years.
Speaker ASo please do that.
Speaker AAnd also, drum roll, please.
Speaker APig powder.
Speaker AThat's this.
Speaker AThis blonde lady sitting across the country from me looking on your screen.
Speaker AShe has a little website called Pigpowder.com and it's one of the few places, not one of the few places, but one of the original places that you could buy pig powder, which was developed by her father, Trim Deb, and passed on now to Ms. Leanne.
Speaker AAnd she sells it.
Speaker AShe even chipped it.
Speaker CYeah.
Speaker CIt won best drug on the planet, amongst other awards.
Speaker CA lot of competitors use it.
Speaker CAnd I'll be honest with you, I haven't had one person complain to me about pig powder.
Speaker CNot one.
Speaker CEverybody loves it and it's so versatile.
Speaker CAnd I'm not just saying that.
Speaker DIt's true.
Speaker AYou want me to.
Speaker AYou want me just to make up some stuff and tell you?
Speaker CI mean, I was at a coffee shop today and people were asking me about it.
Speaker CI need it.
Speaker CMy family's coming in and I must have it.
Speaker CI have another palette coming in another week.
Speaker CI said, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker ASo go to pigpowder.com and do that.
Speaker AWe've got Tina Cannon with us today.
Speaker ATina, of course, well, she's a winner in 2018 at the World Food Fire and Ice Challenge.
Speaker AAnd she was a reserve grand champion in barbecue there, and she was the original Netflix winner.
Speaker AShe's got a long history of being especially on television competitions and doing very well.
Speaker ABut one of the things that Tina does that I read about now, we've never talked.
Speaker AI think she and Leanne have talked before, perhaps, but I have not talked to her is she volunteers for Meals on Wheels and she also volunteers at a local culinary school teaching different various culinary classes.
Speaker AI find that great.
Speaker AI like to do a lot of volunteer work myself.
Speaker AI do it more in the golf world than I do in the barbecue world, because that's just what I do.
Speaker ABut how did you, like, get involved?
Speaker AYou.
Speaker AYou're there in Kawetta.
Speaker AIs that Kawita?
Speaker AExcuse me.
Speaker DThat's all right.
Speaker AHow'd you decide to jump into, like, Meals on Wheels?
Speaker DI used to donate.
Speaker DYou know, if you compete like Leanna, there's a lot of waste involved.
Speaker DAnd I just, you know, food waste is kind of like one of my pet peeves because we have so many people in need in our country, and I knew a few other cooks that no longer are competing, and I said, what are you doing with all your coals, you know, or your extra meat?
Speaker DAnd they told me.
Speaker DSo I started donating all of my coals, all of my cooked.
Speaker DI would vacuum seal it, and I would donate it to them.
Speaker DAnd one day I got an email from them saying, hey, do you know anybody that can help us cook?
Speaker DBecause you're always seeing them weekly.
Speaker DBecause at the time, I was competing a ton, practicing a lot, or if I was catering, I'd have, you know, leftover that extra that I had made.
Speaker DAnd I said, well, what about me?
Speaker DAnd that was several years ago.
Speaker DSo I've been cooking for them ever since.
Speaker DAnd I'll probably hit.
Speaker DI'll be over.
Speaker DI'll be probably close to 60,000 this year.
Speaker CWow.
Speaker DAnd I finally actually got an official helper for debt.
Speaker AReally?
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DI got my stirring and my flipping arm.
Speaker DI got good.
Speaker DBut.
Speaker DAnd.
Speaker DAnd what is amazing is she came in to volunteer and.
Speaker DAnd she's a Johnson and Wells graduate, so we got two culinary people, you know, backgrounds, and she's in baking and pastry, which is not my thing, and mine's, you know, more entree, saute meats, so.
Speaker DSo we're going to make a really good dynamic duo in there so we can really cook, you know, a lot more.
Speaker DBecause I have a lot of travel plans and events coming up, so she can handle when I'm not there.
Speaker DThis is the first time I've actually.
Speaker DBecause I'm going on a business trip to Austin, Texas, tomorrow, and I'm letting the.
Speaker DRight.
Speaker DShe's actually going to be by herself tomorrow.
Speaker DAnd I'm, like, flipping out because I have never, ever let someone, like.
Speaker DI mean, well, there hasn't been anyone that could, you know, come in and.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker DDo that.
Speaker DSo I'll probably be at the airport, like, texting or making sure everything's okay.
Speaker DBut she only has to fix, like, 250 meals tomorrow.
Speaker DYou know, we normally do five to 800 a day, so.
Speaker DAnd we could do a lot more, but there's just.
Speaker DWe don't have enough donations, and, you know, we just don't have enough grants or anything to feed anymore.
Speaker DAnd not enough woman power.
Speaker AThere you go.
Speaker DNot that we won't have.
Speaker DYou know, guys, I'm in the kitchen, but typically we have a couple people, you know, guys that help, like, pack the food.
Speaker DAnd we have a lot of.
Speaker DWe have, like, a hundred people that deliver all of our meals every week.
Speaker DWe feed people seven days a week.
Speaker AGood for you guys.
Speaker AYou can always get Leanne to bake for you.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker CI am not a baker either.
Speaker DYou're not?
Speaker DYou know, when you go to culinary school, it's so funny.
Speaker DAlways tell a joke.
Speaker DYou can.
Speaker DWhen you arrive, they go, do you like to get up early?
Speaker DAnd I'm like, no.
Speaker DThey go, chef, if you say, yes.
Speaker DBaker school.
Speaker DThat's not true.
Speaker AI know, but so is Leanne baking?
Speaker ANot that what she makes is a joke.
Speaker AShe just doesn't like to do.
Speaker CI can bake, but it is not something I enjoy.
Speaker CI don't like precise measurements.
Speaker DMe either, girl.
Speaker DMe either.
Speaker DSo, Leanne, do you remember?
Speaker DYou probably don't, but I remember the first time I actually met you in person.
Speaker CI. I'm terrible.
Speaker DAlso.
Speaker DIt was 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker COh, the world.
Speaker DYep.
Speaker DYou were cooking lamb right next to me.
Speaker DYep.
Speaker CThat was.
Speaker CI made it to the final table.
Speaker CYeah.
Speaker CThat was my final dish.
Speaker DYeah, almost.
Speaker DAlmost made it.
Speaker DAlmost.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DBut that's where I met you.
Speaker DI actually cooked right next to you with Scott Smith.
Speaker DYou and stewing and brewing.
Speaker COh, you remember I was cooking with my daughter then.
Speaker DYes.
Speaker DYes.
Speaker DThat's the first time I actually met you.
Speaker DI mean, you were very focused that we didn't have, like, a lot of chitchat because, you know, world food is quite busy.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DSo that's the first time I actually met you in person.
Speaker DAnd you probably didn't know, but I was super excited.
Speaker CThank you.
Speaker ADid she offer to sign an autograph for you?
Speaker DNo.
Speaker DAsk, you know, because, you know, she was really obviously busy and had made it through.
Speaker DAnd, you know, you don't want to mess with somebody, really, when they're trying to win, you know, I know you've been to a contest and people walk up right in the middle of your turn in.
Speaker CIsn't that the truth?
Speaker DAnd you have to be nice, especially when she, you know, appeared on TV and things like that.
Speaker DYou don't want to come across because everything comes across worse.
Speaker DRight.
Speaker DThan you intended to be.
Speaker DSo I usually will go in, you know, try to do all my prep as much as I can inside, you know, when it's box turning.
Speaker DYeah, it's a great event.
Speaker DThe world's.
Speaker CYeah, I. I like to go every year.
Speaker DIt's.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DYou know, I haven't been since I won there, and I'm actually going back this year.
Speaker COh, I'll see you there.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DBut guess what?
Speaker DI'm competing in the fire again.
Speaker DNo, I'm doing something totally different.
Speaker DSushi baking?
Speaker DNo, no, I am doing seafood.
Speaker COh, good.
Speaker AGood for you.
Speaker DHaven't made any announcement yet, but I've taken on a new sponsor that I'll probably be announcing next week, and they've offered to partner with me, and hopefully I can produce something.
Speaker CWell, good luck to you.
Speaker CThat's awesome.
Speaker DThank you.
Speaker DBecause I haven't announced that I was going.
Speaker DI was like, I'm so glad that I was on here with y' all tonight.
Speaker CIt's right around the corner, right?
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DAnd I haven't told anybody, but, like, my family and Meals on Wheels.
Speaker DHey, it's gonna be gone for, like, four days in November.
Speaker DFive days, you know, So I haven't told anybody yet.
Speaker DSo now y' all know and whenever.
Speaker CAll right, well, best.
Speaker CReally?
Speaker DEverybody will know.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker AAre you.
Speaker ALeanne, Are you judging or are you competing?
Speaker CI'm judging.
Speaker CI'm a master judge down there.
Speaker DAh.
Speaker CI used to compete.
Speaker CI used to compete.
Speaker CI won first place in potato salad of all thing back in the day.
Speaker CYeah.
Speaker C$10,000 and good prize money.
Speaker DYeah, I did have.
Speaker DYeah, they have good.
Speaker DThe good prize money.
Speaker DBut I just thought, you know, I'm gonna get back into competing.
Speaker DI'm just gonna do that.
Speaker DI'm gonna do that.
Speaker AGood for you both.
Speaker AGood for you both.
Speaker AMaybe I'll.
Speaker AMaybe I'll have to hop a plane down to Vegas and see you both.
Speaker ABut by the time Dallas.
Speaker AExcuse me.
Speaker DThey were in Vegas years ago.
Speaker DThen they moved to Orange Beach.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker DAnd they were in.
Speaker DWas it Orlando?
Speaker CYeah, I think so.
Speaker CThey bounced around, and then they went.
Speaker DTo Orange beach or vice versa.
Speaker DAnd then they've been in Dallas now, you know, for a few years.
Speaker DSo I just, you know, don't want to drive my bag of barbe big out there and spend that much.
Speaker DI mean, you know, you got 10 days involved in something, and, you know, I've got.
Speaker DI'm cooked for so many people at Meals on Wheels.
Speaker DI mean, there's.
Speaker DIf there's nobody that I know can do that much maybe now I have somebody.
Speaker DBut I've already committed to seafood, so I'm sticking with it.
Speaker AThere you go.
Speaker AThere you go.
Speaker DRight.
Speaker DMe, if you got any good tips on anything, you know, since you're in Tampa now, you might have some great things that you think I should try for seafood.
Speaker DSo I.
Speaker CYou can use some pig powder.
Speaker DYou know what I mean?
Speaker DNot that y' all didn't segue into my product, but I'm probably going to use my.
Speaker AThere you go.
Speaker AI saw that.
Speaker CI want to see hear about it.
Speaker DEuropean blend called European blend.
Speaker DAnd it's what I actually used on my ribs on Netflix.
Speaker DBut they wouldn't let me.
Speaker DI had to mix it up and put it in something because you can't put your own product on there, you know, if you wanted to do how much was it going to cost to put your product on a show like that, you know.
Speaker DSo we mixed it up in the herbs to province bottle because they knew somebody in their right mind would not use herbs to province and.
Speaker CRight.
Speaker CI was going to ask you if it had.
Speaker CI was going to ask you if it had the same profile as that.
Speaker DIt has some similar, very similar profiles.
Speaker DJust a little bit different.
Speaker DMine only has like 20 milligrams of sodium forces gluten free.
Speaker DI'm either going to use that or I'm going to use my brine.
Speaker COh, there you go.
Speaker CVery nice.
Speaker DBecause I use this as a dry brine or wet brine.
Speaker DSo once I decide, once I talk with my sponsor stuff about what things that I'm going to cook, I can decide.
Speaker DAnd then I got a hot sauce.
Speaker DI'm just going to give all plugs, y'.
Speaker DAll.
Speaker DNo hot sauce.
Speaker DSo I've got three products out plus other merch on my website.
Speaker DSo what is your website?
Speaker DDinacannycooks.com Very good.
Speaker DAnd all of the proceeds goes to Meals Home Wheels.
Speaker AOh, excellent, excellent.
Speaker AOkay, we're gonna take.
Speaker DNo, I made a commitment to meals.
Speaker AGood for you.
Speaker AWe are going to take a break.
Speaker AWe're going to be back with Tina Cannon.
Speaker AWrap up the show and I don't have to ask her what her website is now, but we will anyway.
Speaker ASo we'll be doing that.
Speaker ALeanna 19 will be back right after this.
Speaker EReady for a new ride.
Speaker EChoose from over a thousand vehicles at Weston Kia.
Speaker ELike a new Kia Sportage, Soul Forte, K4 Sorento Telluride or Carnival Gas, electric or hybrid.
Speaker EOregon's all time leader in Kia sales.
Speaker EEveryone Wins at Weston 1994-2023 Weston Kia has sold more new Kias than any of the Kia dealer in Oregon.
Speaker EReported by kcor.
Speaker BHey everybody, it's jt.
Speaker BYou know, I talk about Painted Hills all the time and we always say beef the way nature intended.
Speaker BBut it's more than that because each bite of Painted Hills will make your taste buds explode.
Speaker BPut a big bright SM on your face and whoever is at your dinner table will have a big bright smile on their face.
Speaker BAnd you can thank me for that later.
Speaker BJust go to paintedhillsbeef.com and find out more.
Speaker AYou won't regret it.
Speaker BHey, everybody, J.T.
Speaker Bhere.
Speaker BI want to tell you about Hammerstahl knives.
Speaker BHammer Stahl combines German steel with beautiful and functioning designs.
Speaker BThey're part of the Heritage Steel Group, which also does their pots and pans.
Speaker BSo go to heritagesteel us Check out the Hammer Stahl knives.
Speaker BIf you're really into cooking, I think you're really, really going to like them.
Speaker BThis is an encore.
Speaker AWelcome back to the nation.
Speaker ABarbecue Nation.
Speaker AOkay, so now I get to tell people we talked about it with Meathead was on last week, but this is more serious.
Speaker ANot that Leanne and Tina are very serious.
Speaker AThey're sincere, but they're not overly serious.
Speaker ALeanne and I are going to be doing a new television show together called Grilling at the Green, which is named after my golf show, my radio show.
Speaker AAnd we start filming in October and we are going to have some fun with it.
Speaker AAnd then I think if I can con Leanne into doing it either towards probably right after Thanksgiving, get her back up here and we will film some of the, quote, winter segments up here.
Speaker AAnd it is going to be aired on Apple, Amazon, Roku, Pluto and I got a couple other channels, but we'll, it'll be on the Golf News Net complete channel.
Speaker AAnd so we're contracted to do about a dozen shows.
Speaker ASo I'm one, I'm looking forward to working with Leanne on that and giving her a hard time, which is part of my, part of my job.
Speaker DOh, boy, here we go.
Speaker ABut it's going to be a little bit of a different type of show.
Speaker AWe're going to bring, we're going to, yes, we're going to be doing a lot of grilling and stuff, but we're also going to bring some very easy, fun things to cook.
Speaker AIf you're having your friends over after you play golf, we'll do some long term.
Speaker AWe're not going to do too much low and slow on there because golfers don't have that kind of patience, I don't think.
Speaker ABut we're going to be doing a lot of fun stuff.
Speaker AAnd we want to thank Gorilla Grills and what's that outfit you work for, Leanne?
Speaker AOh, yeah.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AWe want to thank both of them and the Oregon Crab Commission and a few others for supporting our show.
Speaker ASo we'll keep you posted.
Speaker ABut that's kind of a big announcement.
Speaker AAnd also Leanne and I are going to be in Tennessee in October.
Speaker AShe's going to be judging the jack.
Speaker ABut before that, we are broadcasting live from quote unquote, the party and Byron's Chisholm's outfit there.
Speaker AI'm coming into town.
Speaker AWe're gonna do a live two hour show with everybody there and we're gonna watch Leanne dance and do the swing and the two step with Byron.
Speaker AYeah, yeah, I'm gonna get you committed to that.
Speaker AAnyway, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker AAnd as we get closer, we'll tell you all the streaming channels that you'll be able to see that and you can watch it afterwards because it, you know, once you put it out there in the interweb world, it stays forever.
Speaker ABut it is going to be live.
Speaker ASo it ought to be interesting and ought to be fun.
Speaker ANever been done like that before.
Speaker AAnd Ben, Byron's never invited anybody before to do it.
Speaker ASo there you go.
Speaker AAll right, let's get back and talk with Tina some more here and all the stuff you've done in the last 15 years or whatever.
Speaker ATina, what's the biggest thing you think you've learned, especially about barbecue and then just cooking overall?
Speaker DOh, I'm.
Speaker DGuys, you put me on the spot there.
Speaker DThe biggest thing I've, I've learned.
Speaker AWait till you get to after hours, kid.
Speaker DYeah, there's really, there's been so many different type of cookers I've been able to cook on and, you know, accomplish really good flavored food by trying different types of cookers.
Speaker DI remember when I started, I was cooking on bullets.
Speaker DWeber bullets.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker DAnd I remember, you know, being a. I'm cooking on stick burner.
Speaker DI'm going to cook on stick, you know, always.
Speaker DAnd then who would have thought that I would end up competing on a gravity fan?
Speaker DI thought, I'll never do that.
Speaker DSo I've learned to say, never say never.
Speaker DThat's good.
Speaker DYeah, never.
Speaker DBecause, you know, until you experience cooking on that.
Speaker DAnd I had a stint where I was working with Grilla Grills a while back because I won one at World Food and I really, I Loved it.
Speaker DBut they, you know, I don't know.
Speaker DI think they sold out or to a different company a while back, and then I haven't had a pellet grill since, and I actually really loved cooking on it because I could leave and go do my thing, you know, go to whatever.
Speaker DI wanted to go visit mama, you know, and come back, and I thought I would never do that.
Speaker DAnd I actually really enjoyed it.
Speaker DAnd then I had an OG at the time, the original Grilla.
Speaker DAnd I actually have to say I really, really enjoyed cooking that.
Speaker DThere's some old videos I did for them, y'.
Speaker DAll.
Speaker DSo if y' all go and watch them, you know, they got.
Speaker AThey got bought a little over a year ago by American Outdoor Brands.
Speaker DYeah, I thought it was longer than that, but I knew that they did.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker DOf course, I don't have.
Speaker DHave one anymore.
Speaker DI just have.
Speaker DI cook on.
Speaker DI have a couple big green eggs.
Speaker DI have another, like, combo grill that I think is no longer in existence, but I still use it until it breaks.
Speaker DAnd then, you know, I have my gravity fed and have a couple kettle grills.
Speaker DI have a tribal grill.
Speaker DYou know, I got a lot, but I don't.
Speaker DDon't have a pellet grill.
Speaker DSo if anybody's listening.
Speaker AWell, I'm sure somebody will hear this.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker DI hope that I did.
Speaker AI'm sure somebody will.
Speaker AWill hear this.
Speaker ADo you have anything that you want to accomplish in the barbecue world that you have?
Speaker DNot yet in the barbecue world?
Speaker DOh, my gosh.
Speaker DYou know, I give classes, and I just really want to continue that because I really.
Speaker DI think it's a lost art, so I want to teach as many people as I can the lost art of love.
Speaker DOh, and slow.
Speaker DGet some flat.
Speaker DThat's not a lost start.
Speaker DI still do it.
Speaker DMore people cook hot and fast now, or they like to go to a big box store and buy it already done.
Speaker DThey don't have the patience and the joy of, you know, spreading that joy of, you know, hanging out.
Speaker DIt brings back family time, you know, when you're sitting around and doing that and serving.
Speaker DAnd, of course, I want to continue serving people in my community through barbecue.
Speaker DThat's something.
Speaker DAs long as that.
Speaker DI, you know, can.
Speaker DI will do.
Speaker DYou know, I'm fixing to be 60, y', all, so I got a good 20 years left, right?
Speaker DI got 20 years, too.
Speaker DYou got 20.
Speaker AYou got.
Speaker AYou got 20 plus there.
Speaker AI will tell you.
Speaker CTootsie.
Speaker CLook at Tootsie, right?
Speaker DI know.
Speaker DI got to meet her last year.
Speaker DMatter of Fact, it was October.
Speaker DI went on a trip with a group of other lady barbecue cooks, some of them, I'm sure, you know, and we got to go and actually meet her and talk to her, make pictures and eat and hang out with her, even though we still had to wait in line for.
Speaker DIt was only 10 hours rather than more.
Speaker DYou know, some people wait more.
Speaker DSo.
Speaker DBut we met so many cool people in line and got to tour her pits and.
Speaker DAnd talk with her about.
Speaker DShe answered everything we wanted to know.
Speaker DSo that was excellent.
Speaker DHe's very, very frank and direct.
Speaker AOkay, Tina, we got to get out of here, but we're going to go right into After Hours.
Speaker ABut again, real quick, where can people find you and.
Speaker AAnd your sauces, seasonings, and other merch?
Speaker DAll right.
Speaker D@tinacanningcooks.com and I'm on all social media under Tina Canning Cooks.
Speaker DAnd y', all, I answer all of my own stuff.
Speaker DI don't have people.
Speaker AI got Leanne.
Speaker DYou know, a lot of people assume that you have people filtering all that.
Speaker DYou know, I do get things that aren't always sweet, and I, I try to answer even those in the.
Speaker DIn the nicest manner I can.
Speaker DSo if anybody has cooking questions or any questions, I really, really do love for people to.
Speaker DTo write me and ask me.
Speaker AExcellent, Excellent.
Speaker ATina Cannon from Tina Cannon Cooks.
Speaker AThank you for being with us, Ms. Leanne.
Speaker AThank you as always.
Speaker AGreat job.
Speaker AAnd we're going to jump into After Hours for those of you who leave us now.
Speaker AWe thank you for listening.
Speaker AAnd don't forget our motto, turn it, don't burn it.
Speaker ATake care, everybody.
Speaker ABarbecue Nation is produced by JTSD LLC Productions in association with Salem Media Group.
Speaker AAll rights reserved.
Speaker DIt.