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July 22, 2025 16 mins

In today's discourse, we delve into the intricacies of culinary preferences and personal anecdotes that shape our identities. The salient point of this episode revolves around the whimsical yet profound exchange of questions that illuminate the nuances of our daily lives, from the triviality of ice cubes on the floor to the deeper reflections on memory and lost moments. I engage in a dialogue with my esteemed co-hosts, wherein we explore our favored flavors and the peculiarities of our culinary experiences, revealing the subconscious connections we share with food. Notably, the conversation traverses the realm of music, examining the emotional resonance that certain songs evoke as we navigate our daily routines. Ultimately, we invite our audience to reflect on their own experiences while enjoying the symphony of flavors and sounds that life has to offer.

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(00:11):
Welcome to Barbecue Nationwith JT and Leanne After Hours.
The conversation thatcontinued after the show was done.
Hey, everybody, it's JT andthis is a special version of Barbecue
Nation.
It is brought to you in partby Painted Hills Natural Beef.
Beef you can be proud to serveyour family and friends.
That's Painted Hills Natural Beef.
Hey, welcome to After Hourshere on the Nation.

(00:35):
I'm J.T.
along with M. Whippen hall ofFamer Brian Lee from BT Le Sauces.
There's a few new questions.
Don't try to recycle the sameones every time you do this.
It's a little shorter thistime, but if you're up for it, we'll.
We'll get going.

(00:56):
And I want you to know thatthese are Leanne approved questions.
Leanne approved.
All right.
There's one in particular I like.
Yes, we'll start with that one.
How do you know the ice one?
I like the one that you like.
The ice one.
That one I just kind of cameup off the cuff with the other day.
Yeah, you asking the ice one.

(01:19):
All right.
If you're getting ice out ofyour refrigerator, you know, your
dispenser, and invariably afew pieces fall on the floor, are
you wanting to pick them upand throw them in the sink, or do
you kick it under the fridge?
Oh, I pick them up and I throwthem in my dog bowl.
Oh, you're the second dog person.
Yeah.
That's something.
Yeah.

(01:39):
Leanne and I have cats, so we don't.
We don't.
Yeah, we don't do that.
I kick.
Yeah, I kick, too.
I'm sure there's probablyprehistoric looking outlines of ice
cubes that melted under therefrigerators or something like that.
I'm sure.
I'm sure that's the case.
I'm sure that's the case, too.
If Leanne Brian gave you a boxwith everything you'd lost in your

(02:03):
life, what's the first thingthat you would reach for?
My mind.
Oh, gosh.
My mind.
Is it gone?
There are days.
There are definitely dayswhere I feel like my mind has just.
Yeah, I get that reach for time.

(02:29):
You know, because I feel likeI lose that all the time, too, you
know?
Yeah.
I came up with a saying notlong ago.
The lady I work with downtelevision station, she goes, wow,
that's deep.
Where'd you read that?
I said I actually made it up.
I said we actually existbetween the bookends of time.

(02:50):
And I don't know where thatcame from.
It just once in a while,something Intelligent comes out.
But I.
Then I thought about it.
I thought, that's really true.
We're just kind of there.
Anyway, not to get Phil toofar down the philosophical road.
So here's one that's not too philosophical.
What's your favorite lifesaver color?
Oh, can I do winter savers?

(03:16):
I can.
Can I.
The mints?
Whatever you want.
Sure.
Yeah.
I'm.
I'm a mintaholic.
I can't be trusted with mints.
If you give me, like, a box ofAltoids, any of them, any kind, they're
gone.
I'll eat them all in the same day.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, I. I like.
Will stuff them in my.

(03:38):
My.
Like in between my gums like asquirrel and just.
So do you like the wintergreen or which one do you like?
I like the wintergreen.
I like the spearmint, but Ilove the cinnamon.
Altoids are my.
Because it's not good unlessit hurts, right?

(03:58):
Yeah, that hurts.
But if I didn't have to domint flavored lightsabers, I think
it would be watermelon.
Okay.
All right.
What's the oldest item in yourrefrigerator at home?

(04:19):
It's probably a bottle of Rand D sauce that I made like three
years ago that I haven't hadthe heart to get rid of yet.
Okay, that makes sense.
Okay.
Truthfully, we got a prettygood churn on our fridge.
You know, we recently.
We clean it out every two,two, three weeks, it feels like.

(04:41):
Yeah, we do that with ours,too, for the most part.
But there's that one shelfthat you keep putting one bottle,
some sort of condiment in theback, so you don't really see it
all the time.
We got Lazy Susan's in our refrigerator.
Yeah.
So we.
We put all the sauces and thenwe can, like, churn through them.

(05:02):
Yeah.
You know, my wife also made meget a sauce fridge to get rid of
all of the sauces that Inormally have and put them out in
the garage.
Some people have beer fridges.
We got a sauce fridge.
I can.
I can see that.
Tell me.
I'm a sauce manufacturer.
What's the.

(05:24):
When you get in the car or thetruck, what's the first song you
want to hear on the radio orSiriusXM or whatever.
Whatever you listen to.
What's the one song that youwant to go.
I know it's going to be a goodday because, you know, Black Sabbath
just came on or whatever.
That's a tough one because mymusical pool is deep and varied.

(05:50):
So I was really into.
So I woke up this morning andI had Drive by the cars in my head.
But it was the Deftones coverof it.
I don't know if you've heardthat one.

(06:11):
Yeah, But I tend to wake upwith a song every day in my brain
rattling around.
And that will extrapolate over tomorrow.
Yeah, I tend to get fixated with.
With.
With a single thing for alittle while.
Do you take that as an omen?
Like, if you're thinking ofthe song and you get in the car and

(06:32):
the song comes on the radio on10, you think, man, this is gonna
be a great day.
Yeah, I guess.
I guess it depends on thedrivers around me.
How about that, Leanne?
Do you take it as an omen when you.
Something you.
You're thinking something, andtelepathically it comes through the

(06:53):
satellite and you're there andyou're thinking.
Yeah.
It just elevates your mood alittle bit.
Yeah, because, I mean, there'sso many millions of songs out there.
What are the odds of that?
Yeah, that's true.
One thing I don't like is whena song comes on and I'm not that
crazy about it, and it juststicks in my head the rest of the
day.

(07:14):
What's a group?
And I'm going to ask this toboth of you because I've never asked
Leanne this question.
What's a group?
You automatically turn downthe volume when you hear it.
Come on, Beach Boy.
Beach Boys is a good one.
That's definitely there.

(07:38):
Emf.
Yeah, you know that.
Oh, dude.
Dude.
Like that song.
We just.
It goes down every time.
Also tends to be Bruce Springsteen.
I don't.
Not a huge Boss fan, actually.
I know that that's going to bevery unpopular with a lot of my.
Friends, but mine would be you two.

(08:04):
Okay.
I loved Tom Petty for thefirst 143,000 times I heard it.
Any.
Any of his songs right?
In Portland, they seem to playa lot of.
They play Tom Petty, StevieNicks, like that, and then they jump

(08:27):
from there into, like, Nirvanaand Foo Fighters.
Back and forth like that, and so.
And then right in the middle.
This is my favorite.
That I cannot.
I have to turn it down.
If it's either Boston orKansas, volume goes down for me,
period.
Can't do it.
And being an old DJ like that,it's like, I can't play that.
You know?
Dust in the Wind.

(08:48):
Yeah, Dust in the Wind.
I was just thinking, Leanne,you know, for the Beach Boys, they
could go, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee.
Leanne.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
It's worth a shot.
Oh, hold on a second.
Sorry.

(09:10):
Did you lose your list?
No, I didn't lose my list.
My phone was ringing from theradio station.
You know, they had a.
They have a golf tournamentcoming up, this little sidebar, and
we'll get on with this, calledthe Pastor's Masters.
Right?
That's for all the clergy.
And it happens to be thestation that this show airs on in

(09:33):
Portland.
This part of the show, though,does not air on that station.
So I can say this here, butthey wanted me to host a hole for
my golf show.
Grilling at the green, right?
And I'm like, you sure about that?
You know who you're talking to here?
You know the Pastor's Masters.
There could be some biblicallightning storm or something on your

(09:56):
golf course that day like that.
But they were like, no, I've.
I've actually done it before,and it's very fun.
Deal.
Brian, what's one thing thatyou could erase?
Erase from your past that youjust like to say it's gone completely.

(10:20):
You don't know about it.
Nobody knows about it.
It's just turns into a littleblip on the screen.
Well, I started this barbecuesauce company.
No, that's.
That's a joke.
Although there are days.
There are days where I would.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I would pass it over for astick of gum and $20 bill.

(10:41):
Man, that's a tough one.
That's a really tough one.
I think I. I don't think Iwould change anything because that's
the recipe that's gotten me towhere I am.
Yeah.
Like, you really want to getdown to, like, some deep existential

(11:05):
stuff, like what happens ifyou remove.
No, we don't.
No Life changing moment, you know?
Right, right, right.
No, no.
That's a deep question.
What is your least favoritefood to eat?
Avocado.
I'm with you.
Avocado.
I love it.
But I think I have a mildavocado allergy.

(11:28):
It always makes me queasy.
I grew up on a farm.
We raised cattle, so I don'tdo guacamole.
Okay, we'll just leave it at that.
And I battled guacamole a fewtimes when I first left home in the
bars in Arizona.
And I lost.
I didn't even make a good showof it.

(11:49):
I just lost.
So I just leave it at that.
It's hard to play guacamole.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
And we were talking about heatand golfing and stuff before we started
the show.
The Next day I was out playing golf.
It was New Year's Day, and Itwas like 95 degrees that day on the
golf course.

(12:10):
And I still had guacamole.
So, no, it's not a good thing.
What's one last question, Brian?
What's one thing you want todo that you haven't done yet?
Oh, man, I've lived a prettywild life.

(12:35):
Start a line of salad dressings.
I'm going to hold you to spicy Sicilian.
No, I.
Actually, we.
So we moved into snack foodfor a hot minute.
We did popcorn with all of ourspice blends because that was how
we were sampling them when wewere going to shows and.
And that kind of stuff.
And everyone was like, oh,this is amazing.
I want to buy the bag of popcorn.

(12:57):
So we did it.
We partnered with a guy, Mark,from Big Popcorn down in Portland,
Tennessee.
It's right down the road from us.
Makes the best caramel cornI've ever had, by the way.
Just there.
But we found that peoplestarted thinking we're a popcorn
brand than a sauces and spiceblend brand.

(13:23):
But I would love to do peanutsand popcorns again and pretzels and
all that kind of stuff.
Eventually you could doBrian's Cracker Jack.
BT Lee's gourmet food.
There you go.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I. I don't really think Ihave anything that I'd really like

(13:45):
to, like, do.
I'd like to go on another cruise.
I'm sure that'll happen.
I'm sure that'll happen.
And what's thing.
What.
What do you want to do thatyou've not done yet besides meet
me?
I'll agree with the cruise.
I've never been on a cruise.
Oh, you've never been on a cruise?
No, I have not, man.
We.
The first time I went on acruise, we.

(14:07):
It was like it was cursed, right?
We booked this cruise beforethe pandemic.
20, 2019, we were going to go,and a hurricane settled over the
Bahamas, right?
Where we were canceled twodays before we were going to embark,
right.
So they pushed the cruiseforward, and then we booked another

(14:30):
cruise.
And then the pandemic happened.
Got canceled again, moved offagain, and my wife and I both ended
up with COVID and we werelike, now's the best time ever to
go for a cruise, because, youknow, the immunity and all that jazz.
So we ended up.

(14:50):
The first cruise I ever tookwas on a 6,000 passenger boat with
33% capacity.
It was the first time RoyalCaribbean actually went out.
Oh, my goodness.
So spoiled.
We had hot tubs to ourselvesfor, like, the whole.
The whole cruise line.
But you, you don't have tomake any decisions.
There's no decision paralysis whatsoever.

(15:13):
You just got to figure outwhere you're going to eat, where
you're going to go lay in thesun, and what you're going to do
that evening, what showsyou're going to see.
You're going to go to the casino.
You're going to just watchsome band somewhere.
Perfect.
It's nice.
There you go.
Perfect.
Brian Lee from BT Lee's.

(15:34):
Thanks, buddy.
I appreciate.
Absolutely appreciate it.
It's a pleasure to talk to youagain and miss Whipping.
Always a pleasure to talk toyou, my dear.
You too.
I know we'll be back next week.
Actually, we might not be next week.
Right.
You've got stuff and I got stuff.
I think.

(15:54):
Is that a yes or.
Yeah, I'm doing QVC again.
There you go.
She signs autographs everyother Thursday in the Tampa Bay Airport
there.
So, anyway, anyway, thank youall for being with us and listening
to this part of the show.
So for lan and Brian, myself,go out there, take care, have some

(16:16):
fun, cook some great food, andremember our motto, turn it, don't
burn it.
Take care.
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