June 22, 2026 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to you, Dakota morning.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Ans.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am your host, Michael Bell.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
We are joined on the phone by Tiffany Steiner, Coke
founder Backing Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What Tiffany, thank you for taking the time to join
us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you very much, Michael, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What a tremendous event.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I want to thank you, and I want to thank
Jackie for all of your hard work and efforts and
all the volunteers and the sponsors and everybody put on
what a sensational event.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Thank you. We could not be more proud of our
community for you know, supporting our events and coming out
and making it, you know, making what it is today.
We never expected that fourteen years ago. But our committee
of seventeen people, they work their butt off. We have
a couple of hundred volunteers throughout the day that make
sure our event runs. You cookers, you have, I mean,
(00:51):
it all just comes together so nice, and that's what's
you know, what is all about.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
One of the I love the entire concept around the
back and Barbecue, and I got to see it up
close this year. It was the life of One of
the things that I want to highlight is that the
back and Barbecue is a celebration of hope, unity, and generosity.
That is that couldn't be a better characterization of the event.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It really truly, that's what our event is all about.
It's from day one, it's giving back to the community.
It's including everyone. It's a family orientated event. You know,
kids are there with third tattoos and that they have
all these cool you know items that are given away,
and then you have the adults there and they're having
the time of their life trying all these different foods
(01:40):
and it's just a I don't know, it's a different
feeling the day of the back and Barbecue. Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The enthusiasm is palpable throughout the event for the entirety
of the event. And you guys always have to open
the doors a little early because of the crowds, and
I deeply appreciate that. Who how much.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Money was raised this year and where did it go?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So we are just determining. We don't release our amount yet.
We wait about a month for invoices to come in, Okay,
but we can say that this year, we know for
a fact that we had a couple hundred more people
than last year, and it could have been even more
than that. You know, sometimes it's hard because we don't
the eight and under. We can't out work. But we
(02:26):
definitely had more people this year, which was insane. Like
you look out across that crowd and it is possibly
the coolest thing, especially when we're doing the national anthem
and no one's moving. Yep, that was pretty neat.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, that was that was legit. I deeply appreciated that.
Ok So, and I understand that you want to get
you want to have accurate numbers going into the event
you had, the Buck and Barbecue had donated about nine
hundred thousand dollars to local families and charitable organizations.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Did we clear a million dollars? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So? Last year we cleared a million dollars After we
got our thirteenth annual. We cleared a million dollars last year,
which was huge for us. You know, there were some
years we didn't make more than sixty thousand dollars and
so finally we hit it and it was like we
kind of became a big event, you know, like it
was a very exciting thing for us because we do
(03:22):
work hard. So, yeah, we're past a million and we
give back to everything from make a wish to we
donate palace of snacks to the surrounding schools in Dickinson
and that's just to help teachers out so teachers aren't
paying for those, you know. We also do veteran related items.
(03:43):
We also do Women Empowering Women, which helped elderly women
afford their monthly you know, necessities that they can't afford.
So it's really just giving back to our community for
people in need. And that's why we have our event.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And that's why one of the things that I want
to highlight about this is giving about And I'm not
saying that that these you know, women empowering women to
type of situations are not are overlooked. I'm saying that
you make it a focus and it really brings it
really brings philanthropy to a whole new level.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, and that's the thing. I think. There are so
many people in need in our community and people aren't
aware of it. You know, we just don't know. And
that's where we really try to find out who needs
the money. You know, we want to help as many
people as possible and we can do that. You know,
I can tell you we raised over one hundred thousand
(04:40):
this year. Okay, that's awesome. That's going to go back
into our community. You know, we pay our bills and
that's all. Everything else goes back to our community. And
that is what we're so proud of and why we
work so hard.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And if we can talk for a little bit about
here or here about some of the big winners, I
had to I was a I had to cut out
a little early. I appreciate, you know, the time and
effort you guys put into this and the care that
you guys put into this. So if we could highlight
some of the winners across the categories, that would be great.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah. And I know Jackie and her team, they do
a wonderful job of making sure it's a blind judging.
She's been working on this with Hope for a very
very long time to make sure it's legit, because these
companies do put a lot into that, and you know,
we want them to also feel that we are legit
when we're judging everything. I mean, we had the beef category.
(05:36):
J E. Customs took first place, took second in the
chicken category. Marathon Petroleum, their renewable diesel facility, took first.
Wood Wireline took second, and then pork and the Energy
took first. Monico took home a second trophy as second
(05:57):
place there and then in the other category they had
I know, lamb, there was alligator, there was all these
different meats, but Grizzly Energy Services took first and then
Bell Energy took second place.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well it's good to see Bell Energy. You know, that's
my last name, so I have a personal affinity with them.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They also had great cookies.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
By the way, I was a judge on the pork
table on the pork side, and I gotta tell you
I didn't eat.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
For like twenty four hours after that judgment.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You guys do a wonderful job. I don't know how
you do it. I see some of the judges come
now with coolers so they can take their food, because
that's how much food you guys have to eat. That's
a task in itself. And like I said, I don't
think people understand how much goes into that judging aspect.
So it is legit because you know, the companies spend
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a long time and a lot of money to be
in this competition. You know, to yes, they do, they do,
they do, and we want to make sure you know,
we're aware of it, and it's pretty cool to be
a part of it. I am sure, because this is
your first year being a part of it, right.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It was, yeah, And I borrowed one of your bags
and I took I took all my leftovers home with me,
which I ate over the north the course of the
next few days with my family.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So it was it was awesome for us.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh yeah, every food there was good. You know, you
have anything bad at the back of barbecue, And that's
what's crazy to me. It's just good food after good food,
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And and and the women's hockey team that the facilitated
are are judging these various categories. I want to give
a shout out to the women's hockey team because they've worked,
They've worked their tailoff to get it to get these
uh get these boxes to everybody in a timely fashion.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Oh my gosh. That's the thing our volunteers. I don't
think people understand. We love to choose uh kids sports
and then that way they help us and then we
donate back to their program. But I think we have
ten to twelve different groups that we pay to help
us out, and we could not do it without them.
(08:16):
They run back and barbecue because there's so many different aspects. Yeah,
we have people helping in the kitty area. We have
people doing trash and judging and the entrance and like,
it's so much work and these kids they love it
and they kick butt at it and it's fun to
see them enjoy their time while working, while volunteering.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, and it's sorry, go ahead, no, it's it's really
neat to see kids enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Helping and making a difference. And I always go up
to and say thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You do make a point of that, and I want
to I want to highlight that as well. I'd like
to shift a little bit to your longtime sponsors. You
had so many great sponsors of the event. Can we
talk about them for.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, we have some wonderful sponsors that sponsor us year
after year. I mean, Dakota of Fence is one of
us that big a lot back to us because something
obviously is a huge part of our events, and they
are wonderful to us. They support us every year. We
have gravity power rentals. They supply all the generators. You know,
without those two, we don't have an event. And then
(09:31):
you know, go down from that, Conicco, Phillip Denny's Electric,
Hall Trucking, Mplic, Martin Construction, Fucked Energy Solutions. Those are
just a few of the top sponsors that sponsor us
every year. Devin Energy. You know, it's amazing these companies,
even through tough years, they're still supporting our events because
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they love it so much.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And so given that it was such an incredibly successful
back and Barbecue this year, are you looking forward to
next year as you do every year?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
We do, and we already put out we're turning fifteen
next year, which is kind of crazy, but we're looking
for themes. Give us ideas on themes, what can we
come up with? And so we did put it on Facebook,
but if anyone has suggestions, that's what we love. That's
the most fun part is picking the theme. And as
you can tell, so many companies get into that theme.
(10:29):
We actually had a tie for the Back and Spirit
the best booths between Peak Automation and Cored Energy. I
mean they just go all in and people, you know,
their outfits, they're theme, the food they put into it,
it all just coordinates with what we choose. And so
we really like people's opinions on what we should do
(10:51):
for next year.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think you need to factor in some sort of
dinosaur category and see what people come up with on that.
But I do want to give out backing B A,
K K, E, N, BBQ dot net. Go take a
look at the website, folks, uh and come up with
your suggestions. I'm sure that the thousands and thousands of
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people that are going to be flooding to your website
are going to have some great suggestions.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'm trying to think find it.
But there was a few really good themes already, and
so I'm excited to see what we come up with.
Never failed. We have so much fun picking a theme
and we don't even realize that we're already planning next
year right away, you know. And our committee is wonderful.
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They all have a task and they just they take
it on and they do it and it's just amazing
because you know, seventeen people is what it takes to
run that, and they all do such a wonderful job.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Let's talk a little bit about the breakdown, which I
was really really impressed because the focus on the breakdown
and the cleanup was readily apparent from you know, moment
one that I walked through the doors or that I
walked through the gate, I should say, you know that
that is a Those are the unsung heroes, the ones
that stick around and help the breakdown and the cleanup.
(12:20):
And I want to give those people a shout out
since we've got a minute here.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, we have DSU Cheer Team and then the DSU
power Lifting. Without them, I don't know. By the end
of the day, our committee, we are tired, right, but
they are there. They are taking down the tents and
the flags, and it's just amazing to see that they've
been with us for so long. They just say know
exactly what to do, and before you know it, our
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event is tore down. And you know, it takes us
two days to put it up, and it takes about
an hour to tear down. And it's just one of
the DSU cheer teams. They are some wonderful human beings
and they kick butt and then all of a sudden
they're up there dancing for us, putting on a show,
and it is so fun to see that.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We need to go to a commercial break.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
This is Dakota Morning Zimer host Michael Bell KFYR five
fifty AM, then a nine point seven FM. We are
joined on the phone by Tiffany Steiner, co founder Bach
and Barbecue. We're talking about what an incredible success it
was and we will be back after this short commercial break.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Welcome back to Dakota.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Morning Zimer host Michael Bell KFYR five fifty AM, then
a nine point seven FM. We were joined on the
phone by Tiffany Steiner, co founder Back and Barbecue. We're
taking it through the numbers, a little bit of an
after action report. Tiffany, I'd like to talk about Let's
let's talk about some of the numbers, because they are
truly impressive. They're featured front and center on your website.
Forty four barbecue masters, one hundred events sponsors, five thousand attendees,
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three hundred volunteers, fifty in kind sponsors. These are numbers
that are staggering in a testament to the hard work
that you and j put in throughout the course of
the year.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It is really truly amazing to see those numbers because
when you're there, you don't really know, you don't know
the number of cookers and the volunteers. But without you know,
without the community this event would be nothing. And that's
what you always tell people. Without the volunteers and the
cookers and the people coming through the door, we have
four thousand people come through that entrance in what four hours?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, it's such a short time.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, and that is what is so incredible, is I
mean you really stopped to see four thousand people within
three and a half four hours and Karen and her
team and Nicky they run the entrance area and you
wouldn't know. You may wait ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Now, yeah, at most, No, it's not a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And they just do a wonderful job getting that many
people through and not having to wait, and so they
can get in and enjoy all the fun that we
have there.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well, and then you know after the d when the
DJ gets going and the dance teams start rolling. I
noticed that you had a little bit of an impromptu macarna.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yes, yes, we always have all the fun stuff with
the music, and that is kind of why we switched
from a band to a DJ one because DJs were
a little on the last expensive side. But that way
we can have the fun music that gets the crowd going.
And you wait till you see those cheerleaders up there.
Dancing it. It gets all the kids up there and
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everyone watching them, and it's a really fun part of
our events.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And that is deeply appreciated by Jake our boardop here
at Dacota Mornings. He's a DJ of one of his
nineteen side hustles that he has going on, so he
deeply appreach appreciates the transition from a band.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
To a DJ.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh and it's just so fun to be up there,
to be able to dance, and we had all the
little kids up there. You know, they're having the time
of their life. And that's really what this is about.
Because I know a few kids that ask is there
baking Barbie you a ken today? And we're like, no,
it only happens once a year, more than one. But
they love it so much that they look forward to
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it as much as everyone else does. Well.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And and then you know, talking about your website, the
interactivity of the website, and it's.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Just it's it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
It's so professionally done and it highlights all the best
parts of the Bacan Barbecue.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It really does. And like I said, you know, I
don't think people realize how many volunteers it takes to
run your case. Yeah, you know, we could not do
it without volunteers. I mean we put up that fencing.
We have the DSU athletics group and they're throwing those
sand bags like they're two pounds, and you're like, okay, well,
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I'm glad you guys are doing that, not us. But yeah,
they put that fencing up in record time. I think
every year it gets faster, and the code defense is like,
we have never seen fencing go up the facts before.
We have fifteen twenty football players. Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Takes care of that problem in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh yeah, And that is what is so cool is
just to see, you know, it's really neat. Like you said,
the hot girls hockey, they just kill it because no
one knows what's so hard it is to make sure
you bring that food in and it's correct. And I
mean I had to go. I had the task of
getting another company's food for the second judge time, and
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that was hard work. I had to make it through
the crowd with a huge toad and everyone moved for me.
But yeah, I was a little intimidated. I'm like, I
don't want to drop this food for the judges.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Well, and I do want to give a little inside
baseball here. They didn't have to do much in the
way of throwing food away for the judges because the
judges we ate everything in front of us. And there
were like fifteen rounds.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh yeah, it's a lot, and it's so cool that
you guys enjoy it and you want to be there,
and that's what you know, that's what makes sure events fun.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Tiffany Steiner, co founder Back and Barbecue, Thank you so
much for taking the time.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Thank you, Michael. Have a good day.
Welcome back to you, Dakota morning.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Ans.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am your host, Michael Bell.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
We are joined on the phone by Tiffany Steiner, Coke
founder Backing Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What Tiffany, thank you for taking the time to join
us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you very much, Michael, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What a tremendous event.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I want to thank you, and I want to thank
Jackie for all of your hard work and efforts and
all the volunteers and the sponsors and everybody put on
what a sensational event.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Thank you. We could not be more proud of our
community for you know, supporting our events and coming out
and making it, you know, making what it is today.
We never expected that fourteen years ago. But our committee
of seventeen people, they work their butt off. We have
a couple of hundred volunteers throughout the day that make
sure our event runs. You cookers, you have, I mean,
(00:51):
it all just comes together so nice, and that's what's
you know, what is all about.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
One of the I love the entire concept around the
back and Barbecue, and I got to see it up
close this year. It was the life of One of
the things that I want to highlight is that the
back and Barbecue is a celebration of hope, unity, and generosity.
That is that couldn't be a better characterization of the event.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It really truly, that's what our event is all about.
It's from day one, it's giving back to the community.
It's including everyone. It's a family orientated event. You know,
kids are there with third tattoos and that they have
all these cool you know items that are given away,
and then you have the adults there and they're having
the time of their life trying all these different foods
(01:40):
and it's just a I don't know, it's a different
feeling the day of the back and Barbecue. Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The enthusiasm is palpable throughout the event for the entirety
of the event. And you guys always have to open
the doors a little early because of the crowds, and
I deeply appreciate that. Who how much.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Money was raised this year and where did it go?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So we are just determining. We don't release our amount yet.
We wait about a month for invoices to come in, Okay,
but we can say that this year, we know for
a fact that we had a couple hundred more people
than last year, and it could have been even more
than that. You know, sometimes it's hard because we don't
the eight and under. We can't out work. But we
(02:26):
definitely had more people this year, which was insane. Like
you look out across that crowd and it is possibly
the coolest thing, especially when we're doing the national anthem
and no one's moving. Yep, that was pretty neat.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, that was that was legit. I deeply appreciated that.
Ok So, and I understand that you want to get
you want to have accurate numbers going into the event
you had, the Buck and Barbecue had donated about nine
hundred thousand dollars to local families and charitable organizations.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Did we clear a million dollars? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So? Last year we cleared a million dollars After we
got our thirteenth annual. We cleared a million dollars last year,
which was huge for us. You know, there were some
years we didn't make more than sixty thousand dollars and
so finally we hit it and it was like we
kind of became a big event, you know, like it
was a very exciting thing for us because we do
(03:22):
work hard. So, yeah, we're past a million and we
give back to everything from make a wish to we
donate palace of snacks to the surrounding schools in Dickinson
and that's just to help teachers out so teachers aren't
paying for those, you know. We also do veteran related items.
(03:43):
We also do Women Empowering Women, which helped elderly women
afford their monthly you know, necessities that they can't afford.
So it's really just giving back to our community for
people in need. And that's why we have our event.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And that's why one of the things that I want
to highlight about this is giving about And I'm not
saying that that these you know, women empowering women to
type of situations are not are overlooked. I'm saying that
you make it a focus and it really brings it
really brings philanthropy to a whole new level.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, and that's the thing. I think. There are so
many people in need in our community and people aren't
aware of it. You know, we just don't know. And
that's where we really try to find out who needs
the money. You know, we want to help as many
people as possible and we can do that. You know,
I can tell you we raised over one hundred thousand
(04:40):
this year. Okay, that's awesome. That's going to go back
into our community. You know, we pay our bills and
that's all. Everything else goes back to our community. And
that is what we're so proud of and why we
work so hard.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And if we can talk for a little bit about
here or here about some of the big winners, I
had to I was a I had to cut out
a little early. I appreciate, you know, the time and
effort you guys put into this and the care that
you guys put into this. So if we could highlight
some of the winners across the categories, that would be great.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah. And I know Jackie and her team, they do
a wonderful job of making sure it's a blind judging.
She's been working on this with Hope for a very
very long time to make sure it's legit, because these
companies do put a lot into that, and you know,
we want them to also feel that we are legit
when we're judging everything. I mean, we had the beef category.
(05:36):
J E. Customs took first place, took second in the
chicken category. Marathon Petroleum, their renewable diesel facility, took first.
Wood Wireline took second, and then pork and the Energy
took first. Monico took home a second trophy as second
(05:57):
place there and then in the other category they had
I know, lamb, there was alligator, there was all these
different meats, but Grizzly Energy Services took first and then
Bell Energy took second place.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well it's good to see Bell Energy. You know, that's
my last name, so I have a personal affinity with them.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They also had great cookies.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
By the way, I was a judge on the pork
table on the pork side, and I gotta tell you
I didn't eat.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
For like twenty four hours after that judgment.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You guys do a wonderful job. I don't know how
you do it. I see some of the judges come
now with coolers so they can take their food, because
that's how much food you guys have to eat. That's
a task in itself. And like I said, I don't
think people understand how much goes into that judging aspect.
So it is legit because you know, the companies spend
(06:54):
a long time and a lot of money to be
in this competition. You know, to yes, they do, they do,
they do, and we want to make sure you know,
we're aware of it, and it's pretty cool to be
a part of it. I am sure, because this is
your first year being a part of it, right.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It was, yeah, And I borrowed one of your bags
and I took I took all my leftovers home with me,
which I ate over the north the course of the
next few days with my family.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So it was it was awesome for us.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh yeah, every food there was good. You know, you
have anything bad at the back of barbecue, And that's
what's crazy to me. It's just good food after good food,
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And and and the women's hockey team that the facilitated
are are judging these various categories. I want to give
a shout out to the women's hockey team because they've worked,
They've worked their tailoff to get it to get these
uh get these boxes to everybody in a timely fashion.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Oh my gosh. That's the thing our volunteers. I don't
think people understand. We love to choose uh kids sports
and then that way they help us and then we
donate back to their program. But I think we have
ten to twelve different groups that we pay to help
us out, and we could not do it without them.
(08:16):
They run back and barbecue because there's so many different aspects. Yeah,
we have people helping in the kitty area. We have
people doing trash and judging and the entrance and like,
it's so much work and these kids they love it
and they kick butt at it and it's fun to
see them enjoy their time while working, while volunteering.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, and it's sorry, go ahead, no, it's it's really
neat to see kids enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Helping and making a difference. And I always go up
to and say thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You do make a point of that, and I want
to I want to highlight that as well. I'd like
to shift a little bit to your longtime sponsors. You
had so many great sponsors of the event. Can we
talk about them for.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, we have some wonderful sponsors that sponsor us year
after year. I mean, Dakota of Fence is one of
us that big a lot back to us because something
obviously is a huge part of our events, and they
are wonderful to us. They support us every year. We
have gravity power rentals. They supply all the generators. You know,
without those two, we don't have an event. And then
(09:31):
you know, go down from that, Conicco, Phillip Denny's Electric,
Hall Trucking, Mplic, Martin Construction, Fucked Energy Solutions. Those are
just a few of the top sponsors that sponsor us
every year. Devin Energy. You know, it's amazing these companies,
even through tough years, they're still supporting our events because
(09:53):
they love it so much.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And so given that it was such an incredibly successful
back and Barbecue this year, are you looking forward to
next year as you do every year?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
We do, and we already put out we're turning fifteen
next year, which is kind of crazy, but we're looking
for themes. Give us ideas on themes, what can we
come up with? And so we did put it on Facebook,
but if anyone has suggestions, that's what we love. That's
the most fun part is picking the theme. And as
you can tell, so many companies get into that theme.
(10:29):
We actually had a tie for the Back and Spirit
the best booths between Peak Automation and Cored Energy. I
mean they just go all in and people, you know,
their outfits, they're theme, the food they put into it,
it all just coordinates with what we choose. And so
we really like people's opinions on what we should do
(10:51):
for next year.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think you need to factor in some sort of
dinosaur category and see what people come up with on that.
But I do want to give out backing B A,
K K, E, N, BBQ dot net. Go take a
look at the website, folks, uh and come up with
your suggestions. I'm sure that the thousands and thousands of
(11:13):
people that are going to be flooding to your website
are going to have some great suggestions.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'm trying to think find it.
But there was a few really good themes already, and
so I'm excited to see what we come up with.
Never failed. We have so much fun picking a theme
and we don't even realize that we're already planning next
year right away, you know. And our committee is wonderful.
(11:43):
They all have a task and they just they take
it on and they do it and it's just amazing
because you know, seventeen people is what it takes to
run that, and they all do such a wonderful job.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Let's talk a little bit about the breakdown, which I
was really really impressed because the focus on the breakdown
and the cleanup was readily apparent from you know, moment
one that I walked through the doors or that I
walked through the gate, I should say, you know that
that is a Those are the unsung heroes, the ones
that stick around and help the breakdown and the cleanup.
(12:20):
And I want to give those people a shout out
since we've got a minute here.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, we have DSU Cheer Team and then the DSU
power Lifting. Without them, I don't know. By the end
of the day, our committee, we are tired, right, but
they are there. They are taking down the tents and
the flags, and it's just amazing to see that they've
been with us for so long. They just say know
exactly what to do, and before you know it, our
(12:48):
event is tore down. And you know, it takes us
two days to put it up, and it takes about
an hour to tear down. And it's just one of
the DSU cheer teams. They are some wonderful human beings
and they kick butt and then all of a sudden
they're up there dancing for us, putting on a show,
and it is so fun to see that.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We need to go to a commercial break.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
This is Dakota Morning Zimer host Michael Bell KFYR five
fifty AM, then a nine point seven FM. We are
joined on the phone by Tiffany Steiner, co founder Bach
and Barbecue. We're talking about what an incredible success it
was and we will be back after this short commercial break.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Welcome back to Dakota.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Morning Zimer host Michael Bell KFYR five fifty AM, then
a nine point seven FM. We were joined on the
phone by Tiffany Steiner, co founder Back and Barbecue. We're
taking it through the numbers, a little bit of an
after action report. Tiffany, I'd like to talk about Let's
let's talk about some of the numbers, because they are
truly impressive. They're featured front and center on your website.
Forty four barbecue masters, one hundred events sponsors, five thousand attendees,
(13:51):
three hundred volunteers, fifty in kind sponsors. These are numbers
that are staggering in a testament to the hard work
that you and j put in throughout the course of
the year.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It is really truly amazing to see those numbers because
when you're there, you don't really know, you don't know
the number of cookers and the volunteers. But without you know,
without the community this event would be nothing. And that's
what you always tell people. Without the volunteers and the
cookers and the people coming through the door, we have
four thousand people come through that entrance in what four hours?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, it's such a short time.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, and that is what is so incredible, is I
mean you really stopped to see four thousand people within
three and a half four hours and Karen and her
team and Nicky they run the entrance area and you
wouldn't know. You may wait ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Now, yeah, at most, No, it's not a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And they just do a wonderful job getting that many
people through and not having to wait, and so they
can get in and enjoy all the fun that we
have there.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well, and then you know after the d when the
DJ gets going and the dance teams start rolling. I
noticed that you had a little bit of an impromptu macarna.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yes, yes, we always have all the fun stuff with
the music, and that is kind of why we switched
from a band to a DJ one because DJs were
a little on the last expensive side. But that way
we can have the fun music that gets the crowd going.
And you wait till you see those cheerleaders up there.
Dancing it. It gets all the kids up there and
(15:29):
everyone watching them, and it's a really fun part of
our events.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And that is deeply appreciated by Jake our boardop here
at Dacota Mornings. He's a DJ of one of his
nineteen side hustles that he has going on, so he
deeply appreach appreciates the transition from a band.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
To a DJ.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh and it's just so fun to be up there,
to be able to dance, and we had all the
little kids up there. You know, they're having the time
of their life. And that's really what this is about.
Because I know a few kids that ask is there
baking Barbie you a ken today? And we're like, no,
it only happens once a year, more than one. But
they love it so much that they look forward to
(16:10):
it as much as everyone else does. Well.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And and then you know, talking about your website, the
interactivity of the website, and it's.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Just it's it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
It's so professionally done and it highlights all the best
parts of the Bacan Barbecue.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It really does. And like I said, you know, I
don't think people realize how many volunteers it takes to
run your case. Yeah, you know, we could not do
it without volunteers. I mean we put up that fencing.
We have the DSU athletics group and they're throwing those
sand bags like they're two pounds, and you're like, okay, well,
(16:52):
I'm glad you guys are doing that, not us. But yeah,
they put that fencing up in record time. I think
every year it gets faster, and the code defense is like,
we have never seen fencing go up the facts before.
We have fifteen twenty football players. Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Takes care of that problem in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh yeah, And that is what is so cool is
just to see, you know, it's really neat. Like you said,
the hot girls hockey, they just kill it because no
one knows what's so hard it is to make sure
you bring that food in and it's correct. And I
mean I had to go. I had the task of
getting another company's food for the second judge time, and
(17:35):
that was hard work. I had to make it through
the crowd with a huge toad and everyone moved for me.
But yeah, I was a little intimidated. I'm like, I
don't want to drop this food for the judges.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Well, and I do want to give a little inside
baseball here. They didn't have to do much in the
way of throwing food away for the judges because the
judges we ate everything in front of us. And there
were like fifteen rounds.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh yeah, it's a lot, and it's so cool that
you guys enjoy it and you want to be there,
and that's what you know, that's what makes sure events fun.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Tiffany Steiner, co founder Back and Barbecue, Thank you so
much for taking the time.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Thank you, Michael. Have a good day.
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