🎟️ Get tickets to Lockhart Rising: https://lockhartrising.com/

What does it mean to dedicate your life to the craft of cooking?

In this episode of Live Fire, host LC sits down with chef, pitmaster, and teacher Shane McBride—a lifelong student of the kitchen shaped by discipline, mentorship, and curiosity. From his early days in restaurant culture to the philosophy that guides his work today, Shane reflects on the moments that define a career in live-fire cooking—including the idea of “joining the right pirate ship” and committing to something bigger than yourself.

This conversation explores the realities of coming up in professional kitchens, the importance of passing knowledge forward, and the connection between storytelling and food. It’s a look at what separates good cooks from great ones—and why curiosity remains the most important tool in the kitchen.

This episode is part of Live Fire Season One, a series built around one idea: community through curiosity. The season leads toward Lockhart Rising on April 9th, 2026, where pitmasters and chefs gather in Lockhart, Texas to cook, connect, and push the craft forward.

In this episode of Live Fire, LC sits down with chef, author, and teacher Jesse Griffiths of Dai Due.

Jesse has built his career around a radical idea: if you want to understand food, you have to understand where it comes from. From whole-animal butchery to hunting and wild game cookery, his work reconnects modern cooking to something older, deeper, and more essential.

This conversation explores the responsibility of cooking, the ethics of sourcing, and the disappearing knowledge of how we feed ourselves. It’s about craft, curiosity, and the relationship between people, land, and fire.

Season One of Live Fire is leading to Lockhart Rising — May 9, 2026 in Lockhart.

Get tickets: https://lockhartrising.com/

Tuffy Stone — World Champion Pitmaster | Live Fire

Barbecue Hall of Fame pitmaster Tuffy Stone—known across the BBQ world as “The Professor”—joins LC for a conversation about competition barbecue, live-fire cooking, mentorship, and the craft behind championship BBQ.

Tuffy shares lessons from decades on the competition circuit, the evolution of kitchen culture, and why the best pitmasters remain lifelong students.

Live Fire Season One is building toward Lockhart Rising on May 9th, 2026, exploring the people who dedicate their lives to cooking with fire and building community through curiosity.

Live Fire is a documentary-style interview series about the people who dedicate their lives to making things that last.

Hosted by American actor Lucas "LC" Calhoun, the show features long-form conversations with chefs, pitmasters, writers, makers, and cultural figures whose work is built on craft, discipline, and curiosity. Through their stories, the series explores the deeper ideas behind creation—how traditions are formed, how skills are passed down, and why certain work endures.

The first season begins in the world of live-fire cooking, speaking with some of the most influential voices in barbecue and culinary culture. But the conversation goes far beyond food. At its core, Live Fire is about community through curiosity—the belief that asking questions, sharing knowledge, and learning from one another is how meaningful work is made.

Season One builds toward Lockhart Rising (May 9, 2026) in Lockhart, Texas, where many of these voices gather around the fire.

Because whether it’s food, ideas, or culture, the most important work is the kind that leaves something behind. 🔥