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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

246 - MEAT MITCH BENJAMIN | BBQ Revolution

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Mitch Benjamin aka Meat Mitch. He is a world champion BBQ pitmaster from KC. He is known for his competition sauces and rubs which have been used by BBQ competitors around the globe and for his affiliation with the sports world, especially with Barstool Sports and the Kansas City Royals. In this episode, we discuss how he originally got into the world of BBQ, common mistakes that novices make when smoking meat, what BBQ competition judges are looking for, which BBQ meat is his favorite, his pick for greatest pitmaster of all time, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links: https://www.undaunted.life/podcast/meatmitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast on your host Kyle Thompson.

0:22.3

Let's get into it.

0:23.3

Our guys today, we got a special interview for you.

0:25.0

It is with my buddy, Mitch Benjamin, otherwise known as Meet Mitch.

0:28.6

So this is a fun palette cleanser episode, guys, because I know we talk a lot about

0:33.2

you super heavy subjects and things that are very, very important, but you know, they

0:37.0

kind of wear on you a little bit.

0:38.6

That's not what this episode is.

0:39.8

This one is 100% fun because Meet Mitch is a barbecue world champion from Kansas City.

0:45.7

So one of my favorite subjects on the planet earth to talk about and to experience is barbecue.

0:50.2

So this guy, he's super impressive.

0:51.9

So he has a line of sauces and rubs that I pretty much use exclusively whenever I'm

0:57.1

smoking meats and those sauces and rubs have been used in barbecue competitions all over

1:01.3

the world.

1:02.3

I mean, from, you know, basically my notes, we've got France and Australia and Switzerland

1:06.0

and New Zealand and the UK and Brazil and Canada, his stuff is used all over the place.

1:10.8

And he's had a tremendous amount of barbecue competition success.

1:15.2

So he's done really well just in the backyard, you know, entertaining people, but he's gone

1:18.5

everywhere.

1:19.5

And one, basically every title that I can think of that you could win in the world of barbecue

1:23.2

including, you know, he won, you know, the Memphis and May world championship.

1:27.6

So barbecue sauce several times like just a super impressive resume and guys, whenever

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