With multiple restaurants in Missouri and appearances on some of tv's biggest BBQ cooking shows, Brad Leighninger has been around. Find out his thoughts on what the world of competition bbq looks like in 2025, which celebrity chefs are some of his favorite to work with, and how he was able to take is massive success in bbq competitions to the brick and mortar world of restaurants in today's episode of Shootin' The Que!
0:00 - Start
0:12 - Meet Brad Leighninger
5:30 - Traveling With Competition Meat
8:04 - Getting Into BBQ
11:20 - The Big 4 Contests
16:14 - Opening Gettin' Basted Restaurant
23:23 - Best Celeb Chef To Work With
31:45 - Thing That Should Be Changed In Competition
42:35 - What Are You Cooking?
50:55 - Naming Today's Top Tier Cooks
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