How Long Can You Talk About Brisket?

[image error]From left: Nick Solares, Billy Durney, Jake Dell, Daniel Vaughn and John Tesar.

After over a decade of attending and planning and participating in panel discussions, I’d become pretty convinced that a) panel discussions suck and b) there’s no reason for them to ever go longer than 25 minutes. But last night I sat through a panel that ran a little over two hours and I didn’t want it to end.

The topic was brisket. Yes. That’s right. Two hours about brisket.

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