11/24/25 - A Royal Winner - Jason Wagner

About this episode

Jason Wagner shares his experience winning the American Royal Open Championship and discusses Wag's Backwoods BBQ.

On this episode of Pitmaster, an Old Virginia Smoke podcast, we reminisce with Jason Wagner, aka Wags from Wag's Backwoods BBQ, who won the American Royal Open Championship a few days ago in Kansas City. Luke and Wags chat about sharing the stage together and get into some of the things that makes Wag's Backwoods BBQ tick.

People in this episode

Host: Chris Sedenka

Guest: Jason Wagner

Topics covered

• BBQ
• competition
• cooking
• food culture
• interview

Keywords

• BBQ
• American Royal
• Kansas City
• Wag's Backwoods BBQ
• competition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wag's Backwoods BBQ

Places: Kansas City

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