Carl Ruiz Survived the Memphis BBQ Orgy - Best Last Year of Radio

Opie Unfiltered (Opie Radio Podcast)

Gregg "Opie" Hughes

Entertainment News, News, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Improv

4.0 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Carl’s back from the family road trip to Memphis in May BBQ Championship and he did NOT hold back. Sherrod Small in studio as Carl spills on 17-hour drives with angry-wife speeding, tricking the kids with alligator “chicken fingers,” Bass Pro Shops pyramid fishing, getting blackout on blue Hawaiian fishbowl drinks, Winner’s Row BBQ with Michelin-star pitmasters, and the unsettling VIP Graceland tour where Elvis is buried in the backyard. Grateful Dead doc talk + Southern pie debates included. Absolute chaos.

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0:00.0	Opie is here and his show starts now.
0:05.0	We're in two different worlds on this Monday.
0:14.0	I was looking, I was Googling Grateful Dead songs to start the show today because I saw a four-hour documentary over the weekend called Long Strange Trip. We got the director coming in later. And then Sherrod's like texting me, I got today's song, man. Yes, baby, rock, box. That's how you're going to run. Run DMC, right? Big shout out to run. Big shout out to DMF to J. Right. To piece jam after J. I was going to play throwing stones. Just for the people that are wondering which dead song I was going to run. Big shout out to DMC. Right. It's a piece of Jam Master Jay. I was going to play throwing stones.
0:39.2	Just for the people that are wondering which dead song I was going to play. Oh, yeah, we can play that later. A little later? It's a long song, but... Is it longer than a documentary? The documentary, you know, when I saw it was four hours long, I'm like, oh, my God. That's a good.
0:51.6	What the fuck.
0:52.8	This thing could have been eight hours long.
0:54.6	It was good.
0:55.1	Oh, really?
0:55.6	Yeah, I enjoyed it.
0:56.4	I don't know if you're a deadhead or a grateful day. Oh, my God. That's a commitment. What the fuck. This thing could have been eight hours long.
0:54.6	It was good.
0:55.1	Oh, really?
0:55.6	Yeah, I enjoyed it.
0:56.4	I don't know if you're a deadhead or a grateful dead fan or whatever, but. One of the greatest crowds that I saw for a concert was when I was up state visiting my boy, it's connected. Right. He was in college, Rand Ball over there. Yeah. It was a dead concert at Knickerbock Arena.
1:11.6	Right.
1:12.2	Holy shit.
1:13.4	Yeah.
1:13.7	I never saw that many people for a concert. of there. Yeah. It was a dead concert at, um, at Knickerbock Arena.
1:11.6	Right.
1:12.3	Holy shit.
1:13.4	Yeah.
1:13.7	I never saw that many people for a concert in my life. Yeah. We was just driving through trying to go to some girls' house. Right. And it was fucking, it had to be 10,000 people off. Well, did you see the people outside? Yes, the people outside. It was already packed inside. Yeah. Outside, stuck outside.
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