Tailgate Guys BBQ Show, Episode 72: Blane Hunter, David Bouska

Blane Hunter of Porky Butts BBQ (Photo courtesy of Ryan Cooper)

On episode 72 of the Tailgate Guys BBQ Show Podcast, we chat with a pair of World Champion pitmasters, back-to-back – Blane Hunter of Porky Butts BBQ and David Bouska from Butcher BBQ.

Porky Butts BBQ was the 2016 KCBS Team of the Year and 2017 American Royal Open Grand Champion. The fixture on the competition circuit took a break the last couple of years to open Porky Butts BBQ restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska last year. On a hunch, Hunter returned to competition last weekend at a double in Rodney, Iowa and showed he hasn’t lost his touch. Blane tells us what it was like to be back.

Bouska, the 2018 Jack Daniels Invitational World BBQ Champion, has a line of products as legendary as his cooking prowess. He tells us about his “BBQ Mud” which is new to market, just this week, and how the pandemic has affected his competition cooking and business in 2020.

Meanwhile, Lyndal discusses his new status as Certified Steak Cookoffs Association BBQ Judge and Steve previews his big holiday weekend of cooking.

Thanks to our sponsors/marketing partners who make the fun possible: Blues Hog, The Butcher Shoppe, The BBQ Central Show, Royal Oak Charcoal, Code 3 Spices – www.code3spices.com, Affordable Income Tax & Payroll, DDR Fabrication DDRFab.com, Colaw RV Sales and The BBQ League. Special thanks to Vietti Marketing Group and In the Garden of Eden for supporting our competition efforts.