Aaron Franklin

I was actually just, we just made a beer with Uptown Sports Club last year.

And we made it with Aaron Franklin who did that and Franklin Barbecue.

And he was in the band whenever I got that first CD.

He was in those Peabody's.

We were talking about that just like a couple months ago.

Who

was in those Peabody's? Aaron Franklin.

He

He's been a contributing photographer for Texas Monthly for over 35 years.

He was there shooting Aaron Franklin back when Franklin Barbecue was just a tiny sweltering trailer.

He's the guy who's also shown up at 2 a.m. to photograph Miss Tootsie shoveling live coals in the complete darkness.

And we are incredibly honored to have him.

Mm-hmm.

And that was Aaron Franklin's turkey at Franklin's.

So smoked turkey is delicious.

Yep.

Smoked turkey is good, I would say.

Uh, only, that's the only smoked turkey I've had that I've enjoyed, too.

[laughs] So you don't, you won't even come with me on generally smoked turkey is good, only Aaron Franklin's.

No, it's just like just eat chicken.

And I'll give you an analogy.

People go down there and sit in line with Aaron Franklin, go to Franklin barbecue, go through the line, travel out of state into the Austin, sit in the line, go eat barbecue.

And they just wow moment.

They had an epiphany.

Yeah.

But Aaron Franklin, who runs one of the most best...

Most popular barbecue joints in Austin, Texas.

Yep.

Okay.

I love that dude.

But anyway, Aaron Franklin, he had a show on PBS for a while about barbecue.

He's a local celebrity down there.

I've got the last leg of my book tour coming up in September, October with some amazing chefs in Texas and Arizona.

The last leg starts with Aaron Franklin and ends with Chris Bianco.

It's incredible.

I'm always so blown away by the kindness of people in our industry.

Nobody's injecting.

Aaron Franklin, who's cooking 100 briskets a day, is not injecting each one of them with anything before he puts them on the smoker.

That's more of a competition thing.

You know, I'm going to piggyback on what Jeff said, because it's true.

[laughs] I agree with that.

"I've been into Franklin's Pit room and I saw these smokers working."

Right.

"I've been into Laroy and Lewis, Terry Black's," name the place.

... full tilt.

I'm gonna do whatever.

I'm gonna go research what Aaron Franklin does-

Right