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72 Hours in Kansas City, Day 3: Meeting Mad Max

Posted: May 15, 2009 10:17am ET

Mad Max is Stan Peterson’s huge, red, four-ton pig-shaped smoker, which he introduces in the accompanying video. The $25,000 apparatus sits on a trailer platform so it can be towed wherever it’s needed.

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