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Dave Raymond

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Sep 24, 2026

Freddy BellHOST
0:59
It's about perseverance and the role that faith can play along the journey.
Freddy BellHOST
1:04
Joining us now is Dave Raymond, co-founder of Sweet Baby Ray's Yes That Dave.
Freddy BellHOST
1:10
Say hello and welcome to the Barbecue Radio Network, sir.
Freddy BellHOST
1:14
Glad to have you on.
Dave RaymondGUEST
4:05
That's what floated my boat then, and that's what floats my boat now.
Freddy BellHOST
4:09
That's incredible.
Freddy BellHOST
4:10
Everybody, we're talking with Dave Raymond.
Freddy BellHOST
4:12
Now, I'm still trying to put the pieces together, David, of Sweet Baby Ray and your nickname and the name of the sauce.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:11
... funny little, funny little expert from that, excerpt from that.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:16
Um, so I'm sitting next to Dave Raymond, who was inducted with me from Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue, and they had told us, when you're sitting up in front of this crowd at the Royal, right, uh, they wanna keep these Hall of Fame speeches, like, to a minimum.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:31
They want like two minutes.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:33
'Cause the crowd, it's, they're doing it before awards.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:44
Anyway, they do it, and people just wanna get this done.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:46
They don't give a shit about the Hall of Fame, they just wanna get it done.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:50
And so I'm sitting next to Dave Raymond and they're like, "Hey, have your comments ready to go," whatever.
Darren WarthGUEST
39:55
And Dave Raymond has like four pages of notes he's gonna read off.
Matt GilhoolyHOST
0:29
Today's guest spent the first several decades of his life in what he calls blissful ignorance, and honestly, not a bad thing.
Matt GilhoolyHOST
0:38
Dave Raymond grew up as the son of a legendary college football coach, stumbled into becoming the original Philly fanatic, and spent 16 years making hundreds of thousands of people fall in love with a character that he always knew, deep down, he was born to play.
Matt GilhoolyHOST
0:53
Life felt pretty close to perfect, and then, in the span of just a few weeks, it wasn't.
Matt GilhoolyHOST
0:58
His mother's terminal diagnosis, the end of his marriage, a newborn son, it all arrived at once, and Dave found himself in the darkest place he'd ever been.

29 MINS LATER

Dave RaymondGUEST
30:23
I wasn't sharing it with anybody, Matt.
Dave RaymondGUEST
30:24
As you know, it's not something, whether you're a high performer or just somebody that doesn't like to share this vulnerability, I wasn't about to do that.
Dave RaymondGUEST
30:33
And When I went to that final appearance, I, I recognized a couple of things that I kind of knew was going on then, but I-- In that time, I was so ingrained in the Fanatic's personality that when I put my super suit on and snapped the last few snaps, I became the Fanatic, and Dave Raymond was gone except for a, a, a bystander.
Matt GilhoolyHOST
30:54
Mm-hmm.

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