Updates from my world
Podcasts and website work
Like I mentioned on an earlier podcast, we’ve been at work on the BrianDOLeary.com website for most of the week.
We’ve streamlined the front page. I like things as basic as possible.
We built a new website for the conversations we’ve had with the folks from the Tom Woods School of Life. You can find that at
There is a clearinghouse of all our podcast projects over at
You’ll find our archives of The Brian D. O’Leary Show, The O’Leary Review Podcast, and Sportlanders the Podcast and more over at O’Leary Digital.
We had the good fortune of recording a few more podcasts this week for The O’Leary Review Podcast. These shows will drop early next week and I definitely consider them Conversations that Matter.
Southside Market & Barbecue
Authentic TEXAS BBQ, FRESH from the PIT to your DOOR
Our favorite pit-smoked meats from Texas get shipped right to your door.
We’ve done entire holiday meals with the meats sourced from Southside. I highly recommend this move, especially with Christmas upcoming.
I got some bad news yesterday, however. Christmas delivery is no longer guaranteed.
But why not make lemonade out of those lemons?
Texas barbecue is perfect for New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day!
Our favorite snack is the Sausage Slammers.
A slammer is a de-seeded (i.e. way less-spicy) jalapeño, stuffed with high-melt cheddar, covered with an oblong ball of Southside’s ground pork sausage, which is, in-turn, covered with strips of bacon, then smoked until edible, packaged and sent on its merry way to ravenous customers across the nation.
The jalapeño is somewhat of spicy on my scale, but I am a notable lightweight when it comes to discerning how spicy something is. As far as the Scoville scale goes, the stuffed pepper is much milder than a typical jalapeño—certainly a raw one—but still imparts that nice flavor.
I love the Slammers so much that I made some videos for the world to see:
What else?
The Whole Smoked Brisket is phenomenal … and carnivore.
The best beef sausage I’ve ever eaten is the Southside Market Original Beef Sausage.
And if you’re still in the market for gifts—maybe giving gifts for the 12 Days of Christmas, perhaps?—take a look at Southside Market Gift Sets. You won’t get the standard sausage stick-plus-cheddar stick (or wheel) that many of your friends, relatives, or office mates will saddle you with. With Southside, you can get or give any number of delicious combos.
Do not forget your delightful barbecue sauce! In our family, BBQ sauce is not only cherished, but it is critiqued. Consider the Southside Market Sauces.
Might as well go ahead and use code TXBBQ15 for 15% off your order sitewide. Code is valid through the end of 2022.
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