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[country rock music]
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[2 Chainz] All right here I come, comin’ in hot
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2 Chainz man.
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Ritch. Kevin, nice to meet you man.
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What’s up man, what’s up Kevin?
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What’s up Ritch, what’s going on boy?
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[country rock music]
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Oh, we’re just grilling and smoking
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and doing what we like to do so–
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Well I like to smoke too.
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I bet you do.
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[laughs]
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Y’all supposed to have
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some of the top notch grills around,
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or something’ like that.
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Yes, we do, yes we do.
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Yeah, tell me about the Gator Pit.
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Gator Pit is a custom pit shop.
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Custom pit shop?
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Custom pit.
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Just like a custom car shop, except we trick out pits.
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Like, like, not, not, like in–
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Not NASCAR, but this kind of way, you know flip ’em.
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Exactly, exactly. Yeah!
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Smokers, grills.
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And what you do to ’em?
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We take ’em from raw steel,
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Yeah.
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And we actually turn them into this finished product.
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Raw steel?
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Raw steel.
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None of this– Pipe,
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All custom.
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Plate.
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Angle.
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[Ritch] Lot of–
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Raw steel.
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So, so, each one is a one of one?
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This is the only one you’ll ever see like this.
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Yeah, so when you out tailgating,
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you gotta worry about somebody having the same grill
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and the same make-
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Nobody. The same makeup as you.
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How long does it take to make one?
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This one was two months.
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Four to five welders on it at one time.
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You need welders. Welders.
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You got to put this together.
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Because you got 2,888 feet of welds on it.
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That’s a lot m-, that’s a lot of metal.
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[hardcore Metal]
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Everything’s custom-made by hand, from the
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stainless to the pipe to the plate you see right here.
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We custom paint everything.
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Paint job on this was right at six grand.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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[laughter]
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This is- , and you got a big heavy thing man.
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They’re heavy.
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Oooo look at that bird!
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Some good-looking yard bird there.
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[2 Chainz] Good old, good old bird in there.
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[chicken clucks]
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So what made you start doing this customization and stuff?
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When I was in high school I started welding in FFA
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and I was building barbecue pits for the high school.
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A little side hustle, right?
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A lit, a little.
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And then it just went from there, and I just
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turned it into a hobby and into my job,
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what I do, it’s what I’ve been doing.
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Been talking about it every day man.
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All you gotta do is find something
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that you’re good at, find something that you like doing,
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find a passion that you can capitalize off of.
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So where’s Gator Pit name come from?
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I`m from Louisiana!
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[upbeat Jazz]
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South Louisiana!
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[2 Chainz] I shoulda known.
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[upbeat western]
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Grew up with ’em,-
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That Louisiana cash.
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hunted ’em, ate ’em.
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Hunted and ate ’em?
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Y-y-you didn’t catch no gator and eat one?
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Oh yeah.
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You did? Oh yeah.
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You caught ’em –
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We used to go out there and catch them
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just for fun and play with ’em.
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Yeah?
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Oh yeah.
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And then we’d eat ’em.
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[laughter]
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Y’all crazy around here in them parts.
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[scary beat]
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I’m scared to ask, I ain’t gonna lie I’m scared to ask.
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[laughter]
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How much this cost Ritchy?
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This right here, this one?
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You’re gonna be minimum thirty grand.
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For a barbecue smoker.
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Man, black fools don’t buy that.
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[laughter]
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We got that little red grill,
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[laughter]
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and sell the hell out of it, you know?
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This?
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Thirty grand?
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[Ritch] 30,000 starting out.
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Damn Ritch, man, that’s a lot of money man.
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How many of these you sellin’, you doin’ good?
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I got a one-year waitin’ list.
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You order anything from here, it’s gonna take
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a minimum one year to get it from me.
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Oh, so you doin’ really good?
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I’m doin’ excellent.
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Really man, in here?
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God’s been good.
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So where you stationed at?
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I’m in Houston.
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You in Houston.
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We ship ’em all over the world,
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And you got some satisfied customers overseas?
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I got ’em in Australia, Russia, Finland,
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Hong Kong, Thailand.
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I got three going to Korea this month.
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How you get so popular
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you ain’t been on my show yet?
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I’m the one to get you popular, you don’t need me!
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You don’t need me!
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[laughter]
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What else you got bud?
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Not only can you smoke with it, but you can grill with it.
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Ah yeah, them look good.
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[laughter]
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Oh you see that salmon?
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[Ritch] Get you some!
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I want some of this!
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There you go.
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Y’all, y’all knew I like this type of stuff
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Yeah, we asked what you want, what you want to eat.
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[Ritch] Yeah, yeah, we cooked it for you man.
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[2 Chainz] You guys know how to grill too now, you can’t
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just be making these when you don’t know how to grill.
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We teach cooking classes.
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That’s an excellent idea.
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Yeah.
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I got a website.
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GATORPITBBQSCHOOL.COM
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So you teach ’em how to grill?
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And they come, it’s a one-day class.
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So how much for the class?
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How much would that cost?
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It’s 500 a hit.
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500 a hit. For one day?
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For one day.
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And we’ll have 20 or 30 students a day.
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What’s the lifetime-
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20 or 30 students a day?
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Yeah, times 500.
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[mumbles] Maaan..
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[laughter]
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So look, I think that’s a great idea,
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so not only do you get a 30,000 dollar grill,
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you can go get class for 500.
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We gonna teach you how to use it.
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Man you put gas in the truck and everything,
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you’ll be down?
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Oh yeah.
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Almost- whew- that’s expensive man.
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And they get uh, they get a big thick book.
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Over sixty pages.
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Colored pictures in there.
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Come on.
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Come to the class.
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Gimme, gimme, gimme uh, free, free, uh trial to claim.
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It’s 500 a hit.
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I ain’t good at grilling.
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[Ritch] Come on.
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We got you a gift box right here.
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Aw man, see how they gonna- ask for it, just ask.
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Yeah, I appreciate this.
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I appreciate the experience.
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I appreciate the good energy man.
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Where the hell is your jacket at man?
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[lighter clicks]