Welcome to Malcolm Reed's How to Barbecue Right, a podcast where we talk about barbecue, share recipes, and discuss all things delicious.

And now here's your host, Malcolm and Rochelle Reed.

Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast.

And y'all, we got a familiar face back with us here today in studio.

We've got our buddy Dave William, aka Meet Dave.

I'm sure you've seen him on the podcast before.

But if you don't know, Dave, he is a professional touring comedian.

Been on Netflix.

We saw you open up for Burt Kreischer, Memphis.

You've been on the road.

You've been keeping it busy.

But besides the comedy stuff, which that's your main gig, now you've been into barbecue for a while. You got a barbecue podcast going and you're been cooking a ton. You're heck of a pit master. But now I've got rumors that you got a bar and grill going, man. Yeah, I didn't listen to anyone's advice, and I've gone into the barbecue space brick and mortar style.

And then it's so funny, a couple months in, like, everyone who knows, like, says the same thing.

They're just like, how do you like the restaurant business?

And I'm like, you were right.

It's, there's a lot of stress and a lot of sleepless nights, but it's so rewarding. It's so fun to have like a home for my barbecue, you know, because people for years have been like, where can we have your barbecue? When can you? And I'm just like, well, you got to come to this show. I do once a month, I do barbecue at this show or you got to come to a competition or you got to do a, like a catering event or whatever. Every now and then I

random. I do once a month I do barbecue at this show or you got to come to a competition or you got to do a catering event or whatever. Every now and then I randomly sell it out of my front yard. Like, you know, it's like I never really had an answer for it. And it's kind of fun to be like, yo, come to the old town patio, El Segundo, California, you know, seven days a week. You can get my barbecue on the menu and, and I have an answer

for people now, you know, that's awesome. So it's rewarding. Thank you, brother. Thank you. I know how hard it is. Yeah. I mean, so it's like being on the road as a comedian has to be hard, but you're tied to a restaurant. I mean, are you seeing that you have to be there to get it to turn out the way you want it to go? Well, it definitely out the gate for sure.

And still, you know, I'm still there any day that I'm in town.

But luckily, the only reason why I said yes to this is because of the guys that are involved.

And it's a couple really cool, you know, local dads who I'm known because they have another bar down the street.

Riley and Zach are the main guys and they're there every day and they really know this business.

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