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Subject: Re: [OM] BBQ was You know you are in Iowa...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:52:21 -0400
Thanks for the story.

Chuck Norcutt


Ken Norton wrote:
>> A future episode on zone-10 perhaps.
> 
> 
> Back in the '90s I worked with a Wayne Wilke (KB5MDO for you Hams,
> originally from Palestine Texas), who installed equipment and trained users
> on digital audio systems used in radio broadcast.  He spent about two years
> in Prague setting up what was then the world's largest single digital audio
> system for Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty.
> 
> Well, some guy decided he wanted to open up a BBQ joint in Prague.  Wayne
> tried eating there one time and was so extremely disappointed that he
> offered to help him master proper Texas BBQ.  For the next year, Wayne spent
> as much time in the BBQ joint as he did at the office building (oh the
> stories there).  By the end of that year, this place was absolutely the
> cat's meow in BBQ.  I don't recall the name of the joint, but I think it was
> only two blocks away from RFE/RL headquarters.
> 
> Wayne was an award winning cook and for years either won or was top two or
> three in chili cookoffs in Texas.  He knew his stuff.  I can attest to the
> fact that his chili was far beyond anything I've experienced before or
> since.
> 
> Alas, he was a chain smoker and that caught up to him in late 1999. He
> passed in early 2000, not three or four months after being diagnosed with
> lung cancer.
> 
> Wayne had the same personality as our own Walt.  Both were essentially
> identical in nearly every way.
> 
> One sad side note about Wayne.  He played a mean pedal steel guitar.  After
> years of longing for a top-notch steel, he finally bought a custom-made unit
> that took many months to get delivered.  Yes, you guessed it.  It arrived a
> month before he died.  He did manage to tune it and he even turned it on for
> me to hear a note or two.  But by that point he was so weak that he couldn't
> play it.  It broke his heart in one sense. Other than his wife, I was the
> ONLY person to have actually heard him play a single note on it. We were
> good friends, and by that point not even I was able to recognize him as the
> cancer (and treatments) had ravaged his body.
> 
> But Wayne, lived a dichotomy--he drank, cussed, smoked and lived what
> APPEARED to be a hard life, but was actually devoutly religious, a gentle
> man (and a gentleman) and was one of the best Boy Scout leaders you've ever
> seen.  Wayne did EVERYTHING in life.  When asked what he never accomplished,
> he said "Nuclear Scientist--I always wanted to be a nuclear scientist."  But
> the sparkle in his eye betrayed that. Wayne did everything from riding
> broncos to being a professional musician playing in orchestras.  A natural
> talent that succeeded in everything he touched.
> 
> So, when in Prague, and if you come across some Texas BBQ joint that makes
> the most awesome brisket and chili, now you know the back story.
> 
> AG
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