Ep 183: I Can Fight Cancer w/ Organizer Steve Hayer, Recorded at Moksa Brewing

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
They call it functional alcoholism.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
But if you know anything about Ben, he's got vision
with precision microphones and the tinkle love derision. Here about
to hear what can be. It's time for Barley and Me.

(00:27):
Welcome to Barley and Me. I'm your host, Ben Rice.
We're here today for episode one eighty three in Rockland,
California at Maxa Brewing with me today as part of
the I Can Fight Cancer Broofest. It's I Can Fight
Cancer founder and uh, hard working guy Steve Steve. Thank you,
Take me higher, Steve. All right, we did an episode

(00:51):
a year ago, but as you were kind enough to
point out, it was only six episodes ago, showing I
don't do any work well at all, and I'm sorry
to you and the listeners.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
The work that you do is that phenomenal. You don't
have to do a bunch of it.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People stick around, they come
back for more. They're like, oh, there's a new one,
and it takes a while for to kind of click in, right,
there's a new one, because it's there, hadn't been for
a while, but we're doing it. I'm back. Like I
just told you before we start, I said it. I
sent out emails last night looking to schedule more. Instead
of just waiting, I'd be like, I don't feel like
it anyway, let's go on.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I don't know this year your hanging out with you.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, it's my third podcast with you now. Yeah, we're
gonna we're talking about the beer fest.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, we'll do it. We'll do a short brief recap,
okay of what happened last year.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Great, that'd be great.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
If there's a first time listener out there right now.
I'll ask my mom to cancer. In twenty nineteen, tried
to get the Fuck Cancer Initiative going COVID hit twenty twenty.
Fast forward to last year where we actually partnered up
with Forbery's Flat Lie and Brewing, Claimstake Brewing, Urban Roots Brewing,
and Crooked Lane Brewing. We partnered up with All be Aware,

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who is breast cancer Awareness for the greatest Sacramento Area,
and we raised almost ten thousand dollars last year for them,
which was fabulous. With four breweries that was that was
pretty incredible. Yeah, I get I think I knew. Like
the very first event that we did last year at
Urban Roots, I was like, next year, I'm doing a
beer Fest and.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Here we are.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, and it's happening. It's insane.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah. And I think when we talked last year, it
was like, what can we do to one up last
year this year? Yeah, And I was like, because I
felt like it was going to be successful, right. I
think you had your trepidations about it, right. And you also,
let's point, let's call this out on the podcast, you
worked your ass off on those four days I did.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
That was a lot of work.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
You were there from open to clothes right every day yep,
for those getting online, doing the handshaking, right, hearing stories,
telling stories, so it's a lot of most from a
labor as well. Yep. But yeah, I think I went
to it. Definitely went to the crooked Lane and I
definitely went to you at three. Yeah, I think I

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missed claimstake. I think claims is huge.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
That was huge.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah. But what I missed, of course classic.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
And if you were in and out, you were there, bro,
you had the kid duty and everything, So yeah, it
was it was huge.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
It was very very.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Taxing, very emotional. It was awesome to see all the sport.
So yeah, this year's coming together.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, and it'll be a lot of it's just one
day of emotionally taxing and it's definitely very long day
and there's no other work leading up to it or
anything like that.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, there's absolutely no planet involved.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
No, you don't.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I just said, hey, I want to have a brow vest.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
And then then you just named a date and no
one fought back yet.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
All No, it's perfect.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yea, yeah, because you don't want anybody to say they're
the ones that said I can fight I can fight cancer. Yeah.
So yeah, City of santracordover rolled out the red cart.
They're like, we'll take care of the paperwork, Steve, don't
you worry about it?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I mean not in so many words. The Rancho City
Hall was very excited about this event. They said, we
have this is one of the events we've been missing. Yeah,
elthough I heard I've heard they did have a beer
fester the I don't know when that was or what happened,
but I have a feeling that this one's going to

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be very successful. The park cisterc has been very cooperative. Honestly,
I just met with them a couple of weeks ago
at the park. Very cooperative, very like they literally told
me like, we want to see your event be successful.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I mean it's a pretty hard sell. You know, Hey,
we're gonna get a bunch of people to drink beer
from fantastic breweries, and the money we raised will go
to cancer research and to cancer patients to help with
their bills and things like that. So I'm obviously no
one's interested. So the fact that you even.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Got yeah, I can't believe anybody's joined me on this
is kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
It.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, we'll get through it.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, So what are the realities that faced you going
from We're going to do four events to I'm doing
a brew fast that you did not think were going
to happen.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Uh, I knew it was going to be a lot
of work.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, but I did not know it was going to
be a lot of work. This this this thing is
it's insane. Like there's there's so many there's there's so
many different aspects of this venue to tackle.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
It's like and the permits and.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Getting the breweries on boarde which which hasn't been too bad.
Most of the breweries have jumped on rather easily. But
it's a it's a lot of constant emails, like the
same emails back back and forth. So the Fire Department
and the Sack County Health Department, and I mean getting
all your vendors lined.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Up, what the tear the setup and the tear down,
and it's just.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's the core nation of everything has to come together perfect.
But yeah, I think it's I'm at the point where
I'm starting to get excited about it. So tickets are selling.
We got to pass a lot of big hurdles.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So I mean, yeah, you're still adding venitors right aready.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'm working on it.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm working on I think I have a possibility of
three more breweries right now. I have technically signed up
to poor I have thirty two breweries right now, but
I have five other breweries that are donating beer that
we will be pooring, which is fantastic. I mean they're like, hey,
we can't be there, but hey let us send you
some beer.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, a little tenth that's like that.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
We're actually going to set up a couple of Sacramento
Beer enthusiast tent nice where some of my volunteers will
be pooring.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
So and you already have those volunteers picked out ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I actually have thirty I have a list of thirty volunteers.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Right, so yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I mean I feel hopefully that's going to be enough.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, so I can just kind of like walk around
chat with everybody, kind of like soak everything in a
big deal to me, So you know, yeah, it's a
lot of work.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, let's get down to the things that we haven't mentioned. Date, time, location,
how they can buy tickets.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
The date is October fifth.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
The venue is the Village Green Park in Cho Rancho, Cordova, Cordova. Sorry,
that's sometimes it's harder to say than you think. Yeah,
so that's thirty one forty one Bridgeway Drive in ran Cordova.
VIP starts at one pm. It gets you special glassware,

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early access to the VIP beers, which I have about
nineteen breweries bringing special beer for VIP hour. Yeah, so
that's gonna be a great time. And then general mission
is from two to five. I have four food trucks.
The food trucks are Red's Pizzeria, Soul on a roll
food truck, I have Stoner Burger and I'm drawing a

(08:02):
blank on the third one.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh I'm West Coast Tackle Bar.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Sorry.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh, I don't know how I leave that out there,
but get Yeah, there's just a lot of information inside
my head and it's hard to bring it out.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, yeah, what I mean, it's only four food trucks, yeah,
thirty two to thirty seven breweries, Yeah, possibly forty I
think if i'm yeah, I can.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I think the max I can do out there is
forty ten.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Then you have thirty volunteers. Yeah, then seventy five rubber stamps. Yeah.
How many glass wears? You gotta juggle in your head there,
because I got specialty glassware and you got normal ass
class work.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, so VIP is gonna get special glassware. Those tickets
are are very close to being sold are right now.
So there's one hundred and fifty VIP tickets in there,
and those are the ones that are pretty close to
being sold out right now.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
But I think I'm I have like I'm gonna do
like three three fifty for general admission.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
So it's about five hundred people.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, so about five hundred tickets being sold. That's awesome, Yeah,
which I think is plenty.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a bit decent size.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
The crazy part is like when I originally thought about
doing this, I was going to keep it this like
a small like a small venue and only you know,
a handful of berries or whatever, and then it just
it just started growing and I couldn't shut it off,
Like why not?

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Why not just make it bigger?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, because this will be probably one of the one
of the one of the coolest beer fests around here,
I'm thinking. So, I know, the Rockland Roof Fest is
pretty cool. Yeah, I've been to that one a few times.
Really great venue. I'm open to get up there. I
got some really great breweries shown.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Up, so yeah, I think as your first go through,
that's pretty incredible, right, And you want to make sure
that you can control it because there's like insurance costs,
oh that stuff. So you're like, I don't want to
have a thousand people running around, that's yeah, adds, yeah,
more things, more security, more personnel. Right, You're just like, hey,
we don't know what this is yet. We want this
money to go to the charity as best we can, right,

(09:57):
keep those costs down as far as all that is.
And then you never find out what it is. I
think I think you're gonna see a sell out, Steve.
I'm just gonna guess. I'm open, So I'm gonna guess
this podcast serves no purpose other than to have it
on record, because it'll just you're doing great, You're killing me.
You're doing great, that it's going well.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, I'm excited. Still still stuff to nail down, but
I mean it's.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
You got a month and a half. Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
And I started on this super early, yeah, like six
months ago at least.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, like February at least, right, Yeah, yeah, So I
mean you just finished up this first around what October
last year, Yeah, October last year, so you had like
three months to kind of think about it. Then you
had to get work. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
If you don't, if you this thing, if you don't
start on it earlier, you're screwed because it takes so
long to get certain items that you really need for
the beer fest, like the ABC license and stuff like that, insurance,
the okay for the fire department to set up the fencing.
I mean it takes like, yeah, there's a lot of
back and forth, and there's a way period you turn

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your applications in and so if anybody out there is
thinking about doing.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
A beer fest, absolutely do it.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
But hire hire a professional, hire a committee, a team
of trusted individuals.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, yeah, with experience. Yeah, maybe connections. Who can speed race?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's the thing is now, I'm going to have a
bunch of connections next year. Yeah, and it will be easier,
I'm hoping, which will allow me to add on more
stuff to the beer fest, like live music and some
other cool things.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know I'm already thinking about.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
So, yeah, the connections are really important this year, and
I've learned a lot.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
You've learned a lot, and next year it'll be easier.
But you're like, I'm gonna start earlier, so it's even easier. Yeah,
but you'll know the traps.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, Like, hey, I'm doing this again the same time
next year. You just have my permit. Yeah, just give
me my permits now.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I know the forums just heading over. Yeah, I'll
get it taken care of.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I made copies of the last time you sent me,
and I'll just fill the mountains in.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
The back of There been any changes, Yeah, that I
do aware of. What are they? Okay? I could still
do that right. There's no deal breakers in this change
is the contract? Yeah? Man? How does it feel? How
do you feel having done what you've done.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
It? At right now?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
I have a big monkey off my back, like I
feel like I've gotten through a big part of actually
putting this event on, but it has been very overwhelming.
Like I've actually lost sleep over this because I wake
up in the middle of the night and like, oh,
what could I what could I be doing? You know,
and it's crazy in it. I don't regret any part

(12:39):
of this so far. I absolutely love putting all this together.
Next year, I'm I'm gonna get more help putting this
together because I just have a hard time like asking
for stuff. Yes, but that's fine because it's it's this
thing means so much to me. It's actually easier than
probably I'm making it sound right now to just.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Well you do get alone. It's always harder. Well you're
not doing it alone alone, but.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Totally not alone. But I mean, there's there's different aspects
of this. I could have like asked for help and
and it's hard to Yeah, it's it's hard, and you.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Also like if you ask for help, you gotta explain
what the help is. It's like, all this time of
spending doing that, I could have just done it right.
And there's that part. But it's like the work you
put in now helps for next year because the person
understands it. Yeah, done it. And then next year's like,
oh yeah, the thing I did last year, I'll do
that again.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, this is my baby. So this is like you
want my project.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's your perfect thing.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, it's super important to me. I'm going to do
this every year until I can't do it.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
But but you need people that can take that rain
from you. Yeah. Yeah, I think you know, I've been
doing this podcast a long time. A lot of brewers
that start up, they're like, yeah, I'm gonna be the owner, operator,
and brewer and immediately like, oh shit, yeah, I actually
can only do one of those things more work. Yeah yeah,
And so you eventually like have to find somebody who
can you can trust to do the thing. Is that

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they're more suited for than you are, or that like
you know, they maybe maybe you're like I've advanced past this.
It's a little bit easier, and you can do that, right,
and then you can learn what I'm doing and I
can hand off that, and you can hand off that
and just you just build it. And I think one
of the things we talked about last year on our
podcast about this exact same thing is how scalable this
project is, right, the fact that you could be doing
this nationwide, helping to put that movement out. And I

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think last year was fuck cancer, which is a little hard.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Very very hard to promote. Last year, I couldn't get
anybody to promote it.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's very strange. But now you have this incredible logo. Yeah,
the fight cancer what you initially called it the eye
and can Yeah, it's like it became this whole it
became a whole different thing.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Was done by my best friend wrestled Kay. He's that
He's the one that came up with the logo.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
So that was that was huge.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
That's huge because there were certain things that I was like,
I wanted to do, but I had to come up
with the name of the event. So he's like, here,
what do you think about this?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
And I was like, nailed it. Did this goes straight
to the point. The logo is great. So I just yeah, just.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Now, did you have the idea of I can fight
cancer or just fight cancer? Oh?

Speaker 3 (15:05):
I had the idea of fuck cancer, right, but then
you have to change it? Yeah, No, he's he saw this,
he saw this kind of in a pattern somewhere, and uh,
he kind of reincorporated it into the logo, and I
was like, that's perfect, let's use it.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
It's so because is it? Is it?

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm like, don't change anything.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Don't you believe it?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's perfect?

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Good.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, it gets right to the point. It's super simple.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, it gets you use two words as you use
four words. Yeah. Yeah, you get the known colors for
cancer research and cancer support. So it's built it into that, right,
It's it's yeah, like you said, you see it. You're like, no,
we're done.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, And it's very The logo itself is very interchangeable,
like next year, we could add another kind of cancer
into it, you know, we could support two different kinds
of cancer and so on and so forth.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
So it's yeah, you could.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, super malleable. Yeah, recognizable. It's a great right. And
I'm like, did you know you nailed it and think
you did well?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
He did a great job on the logo.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, And like I said, that was very important to
move on to some next step. So we'll just get
back to where you can actually buy tickets.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
I don't even have it on me.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh you know who does?

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Do you have it on your site?

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I have it right on me all the things. Now
I forgot to put my phone somewhere. That made sense.
But you know, give dot Allbeaware dot org.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh that's easy.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, yeah, you could also buy shirts.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, so you can click on that and if you
scroll down, it gives you all the information of the
beer fest. It also gives you a link to the
our beer page website where shirts are for sale. The
proceeds are going to go back to I'll be Aware also,
but really cool, really cool shirts. I think they came
out great women's v NEX men's shirts both available and

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pink and black. So yeah, it's just a I you
want to, you know, wear your shirt. That's what I'm
trying to do, is there's an end to order your
shirt is twenty third of this month, because I'm trying
to get them made and shipped out to you so
you can actually wear them to the beer fest if
you want to wear them.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, as spell as I should spell it. Give dot
allbeaware dot org, A L B I E A W
A R E dot org, give dot illbeaware dot org
for tickets, shirts, all those things in other ways to
support just A'll be were in general.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, and even if you can't make it out to
their beer fest there's a donate button right there. You
can click on that donate. You know, whatever your heart
feels like is right for you. So there's tons of
way to give back. So great little organization they do.
They do a ton of you know, if you can't,
if you can't afford to get something done, they'll help
you out. They'll they've got a ton of great advice

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where to go. They'll help you get to the place
where you need to get. I think, you know, I
said a bunch of this last year, but it still pertains.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
It still pertains every year.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, they just had.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Their twentieth anniversary, so I mean they've they've been around there.
It's a super small organization. One of the reasons why
I chose them, so I know everybody there in the office.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
So yeah, I kicked this around in my head earlier
today just thinking I'm like, it is an incredible thing
that you're doing right, But also it's kind of depressing
that we're still in a space where we have to
do things like this to get people to stay afloat
while they're fighting a thing that is destroying their body,
their finances, and their family at the same time. Sure,

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when it should just be Hey, there should be like
governmental support for this type of things that we don't
have to do this. We can still do this, but
it would should not be hey, we're going to help
you stay afloat. It's like, hey, let's get you back
on dry land. And so that's I think a frustrating
part of this whole thing, as you can tell for
me violently beating my microphone stand.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, quick reflexes good.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, but yeah, I think I love that this concept
exists and that you're doing it, and it's also secretly
frustrating that it has to happen like this, like that
there's a need for it.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh yeah, it's super frustrating.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, But the older I get, the more I want
to give back. I mean, I don't I don't care,
it just it just feels right, like I don't know,
this feels like something you should be doing.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
You should be doing anyway.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I've fashioned this idea with this fuck cancer event.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
And it's and to be fair, fuck cancer.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, fuck cancer for sure.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, And it's like eight times bigger than it was
last year, maybe even more. But I think it's this
is how I'm giving back. I'm going to keep doing it.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
So yeah, and I think, yeah, like I said, even
if even if that wasn't true that everything was covered,
you still do it because you still want to help
people like be better than they were, right, you know,
or like make things easier even if they have not
been affected in the way that like.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Extremely lucky if you haven't been affected by cancer and
runway or the other.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
But yeah, but if you're not being affected by like
our terrible healthcare system, for instance, but you'd still need
this because there's like the humanity aspect of it, right. Yeah,
I just I really I love this concept, and I
think every year it's gonna get bigger and you need
a lot of people to help you, and there's gonna
be people that will help you.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Steve, Yeah, I've got but I've had so many people
reach out to me about this beer fest. It's like,
excuse me and the people that people I don't even know.
But you know, i started another profile page for the
beer page, and then I've got all these friends on there,
you know, over eight over eight hundred friends on the
on the beer fest page. So yeah, and they've a

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majority of them are reach out to.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Me like what do you need? What do you need?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
I'm a I'm a cancer survivor, or I've lost this person,
or I've lost this person or this this person's battling
it right now. So that that's why I'm saying, like, uh,
if you if you've lost somebody, come out, let's celebrate him.
If you know somebody who's a cancer survivor, bring him out,
let's celebrate him. I mean, that's that's what this vent's
all about. Like, if you know somebody who needs help,

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reach out, reach out to all of you where like
they'll they'll help you out. I mean, they are breast
cancer awareness, but they'll I have a feeling.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
That they they're like, well, I'm sorry if they no
help here.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
If they can't if if they can't help you personally,
they're going to point you in.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
The right direction. So yeah, I think it's a cool thing.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, Hey, I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah. Well at times I'm proud of myself too.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
I think you know, you get caught up in the
work and you might forget that, you know, or you
make a mistake and you kind of forget that. Right.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, it's very it's very uh, it can consume you.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
It's very consuming. Yeah, So.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Like I said, I think I'm at a point now
where I can kind of take take a step back
and take a breath and just like Okay, we're we're
this is going to happen now, we're you know, because
there's there's hurtles you got to get over, so certain
things that you have to have in order for beer
Fest to come along. So fencing and volunteers.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, right, and now these volunteers are they putting up
the fencing or is the fire department required to do
that on their own so that they can serve.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Fire departments not fencing, they're just making sure the fencing vendor.
So when I when I when we tried to get
the okay through the fire fire department, we had to
make a site map to show the fencing go around.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, yeah, did you have to have proof of vendor
already or a proof of a company that's doing it
or no.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
No, no, they just wanted to see the site map
and then they look at it for a couple of
minutes and then they charge you.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
And like, see, the fence goes around the whole thing.
But there's also entrance ways and exits.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, that was the big thing.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
The exits.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, the big.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
The main entrance is actually the main entrance to the park,
and then I have two exits going.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Out the backstones just in case.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, and I have there's gonna be security guards out
there and the whole the whole kit and kaboodle.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
So you mentioned no live music this year?

Speaker 2 (22:50):
None this year?

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Do you have like a DJ playing?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I Am going to set up some speakers out there,
some like Bluetooth speakers or something, because I need I
want to have some background.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Okay, so you're making your own playlist.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, okay, I'm not sure how that's gonna work out yet,
but okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Just just using all your friends bands. Yeah yeah, hey
you wouldn't you mind donating your whole album? And I
was played on Random, just on Shuffled.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Just just go for it.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, I'm gonna have some I'm gonna I'll have some
kind of music out there because you gotta, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Part of it. Like it's kind of weird, exactly in
a movie where there's no background music, like wait, wait right,
Like I know it's they're not they're not.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Maybe I could just get you to spin some records
out there.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, I'll bring all my records out. Yeah, you go
DJ bin Uh. Yeah, we will use that because my
college DJ name is not for air. Oh. You know,
you're younger, you're stupider, You're more likely to say dumb
things right as a name for your right. It's fine,
that is. Yeah, I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Is there anything that we're missing here?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I mean we're probably missing a lot. Yeah. I mean,
first of all, I've noticing in my glass there I'm
missing it this thing called beer. Yeah, so I had
you brought me over a Westcast pills there, yeah, axial
tilt from from Maxa yeah, Maxa there. So I think
I'm there right now.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Oh my god, I think you're right.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
I think I want to thank them for letting us
use this.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Familiars. Yeah, yeah, they were pretty okay with it.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah. I feel like like we both have connections to
the space that they were like a little bit easier
going with us doing it. But what we think about?
What what we forgot? Should we get another we hit?

Speaker 2 (24:33):
We're back now. We got some beer in our glass,
so that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah. I got a Capaid Lemonade sour.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, and I got Catching Waves, which is a collaboration
with Machinehead Brewing in Clovis.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
California. Rob's a pretty good guy down there.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, I like him. Yeah. Speaking of music, Machinehead as
a band, there's also a song by Bush, so we
actually get why.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
He named his bury. He's a big he's.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
A big machine Head guy. Okay, so nice. So Rob,
you said his name is Rob? Also, but so is
Rob from Machinehead? Are you the same person they are?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Not?

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Okay? Sure, two Robs machine Head, Rob it open up
a brewery. But I think you would, maybe you would,
you know, because one dude from this Red Sox he did. Okay,
so what's what's his name? Oh? I don't know Red
Sox third base. I don't do baseball. Oh yeah, yeah,
not at all.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, no baseball.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
You're like, I'm not talking about the Red Sox on this, Mike,
Absolutely not. That's what I feel like that thing. Yeah
all right, fine, I tried to get an angle.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah I'm not the baseball Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Feel like you are, and I feel like you're lying
to be Okay, I.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Don't watch baseball at all.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Great.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
I don't mind going to games though, Oh yeah yeah,
games are fine.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Games are fun. Yeah, that's an experience.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's a get a nice foot long yeah, and a
beer and a dollar beer.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, nineteen dollars beer. You sit there, you're with community, right,
you get to see all the cool things the stadium
has done, and then you get to watch. You don't
have to pay the US attention because you'll know when
the patent because it'll be like a roarer. No, right,
something happened.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Every every thirty seven minutes, I missed it.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
It's like Nascar.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, well they do it. Turned left. It turned left? Yep, yeah,
definitely turned left. Yeah, okay, great, so not baseball machine.
We've done it. We've done it all right. I think
we need to let the cattle of the bag on
the steve. I think your connecting with Moxa might be financial.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
I have no financial ties to MAXA.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I mean it feels like maybe they have financial ties
to you.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, I definitely do work here. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I definitely do work here. I've gotten the nickname of
Scott No no, because we have the we have our
in house carbonated water that we make different different fruit
flavors profiles, but it's called moxic greeno and I've actually

(26:56):
had people order the moxic green goo that's what I've seen. Yeah,
so I just tell him that's me. Yeah, I'm not
available to listen to go Glass.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
I see where the name comes from now, the original name,
but I always thought it was gringo. Also, yeah, it
is not. No, it's based on the water Average company.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, but yeah it does.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's for you, yeah, I'm the MAXA Greeno, so it
makes sense. Yeah, I'm pretty white.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah. And then for me and you, your nickname is
Scott it is yeah. Yeah, you gave me that one
one time. I just said Scott instead of Steve. Yeah,
and I didn't even know. I doubt it.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
And I gave your beer tenders, Paul and Scott around
of applause the beers they poured tonight.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Famously, Scott is the manager here or whatever you want
to title. He has CEO CEO.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, and he's great at getting the mail.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah. And then I am also financially tethered to Max
oh yeah, and that I run their monthly comedy show
every final Tuesday at seven pm for free, unless, of
course we get something googled on the line and maybe
we do tickets. Yeah, and then you often have to
work those and I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I often have to work most of them. That's fine,
that's a bummer.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, well you don't make the schedule.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
No, no, no, it's true. You can't just ask out.
I guess No, it's just because they hate you, Steve,
that's why you're working them. Yeah, but uh, I think
they're going pretty good. I think it's fine.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, I like the comedy shows here perfect.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
You know, I run a lot of shows. If you
you didn't know they're available, you can check them out
at barnybepod dot com if I remember to update that
website at all. You can also find their availability on
my Instagram, at my Facebook yeah yeah, or on event
bright dot com.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Listen to them through Spotify, which is where I was listening.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
To Yeah, Apple Apple podcasts significantly fewer places than you could,
like three years ago. But if you listen to it now,
you know how to find it. Yeah, you found it because.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
You're crazy, too crazy. I was listening to the last
year's podcast earlier today.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
So yeah, it's also super easy when it's still in
the top, you know, first scroll right back. Yeah, so
like it's the front pant. It turns it was the
last one, right how does you I was gonna ask
you a question, and it's a tough one. How do
you feel about pursuing passions while also having to live

(29:25):
in a reality that balance between the things that make
bring you joy and the things you have to do
in order to have joy.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
I don't think there's a lot of things that I
have to do to have joy, if that is.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
I don't know if that makes any sense.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
I mean so some people doesn't. Some people doesn't.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Well, the older I get, the simpler life seems to
be to me. Like the things I I wanted and
I felt like I needed when I was.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Younger are not the important to me anymore, if that
makes sense.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, And the more the more I want to give back, Actually,
I mean it just it's gotten simpler. Yeah, So I
don't I don't need a lot to make me happy.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, you figured out what that is, right, I don't
need a lot. So. Yeah, there's a time when you're
would you say you were ever a collector, a person
who just gathered stuff, just needed stuff to have, just
so you could say that you had it.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Sure, Yeah, there were there were times when I was Yeah,
I mean like I needed to have the latest whatever,
it was that was out sure, absolutely, yeah, yeah, I
used to went back when.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
I was younger.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I used to collect Jordan's that one time, I had
like fifteen or twenty pairs of them because it was
the newest thing.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
I mean, but I'm like, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I like my Chucks. Yeah. Yeah, and yeah, I used
to have a lot of hobbies, a lot of things
that took up time, money, space. And then you're like,
well those are those were fun for a while, but
they're actually like, well, these are the three things that
I kind of want to focus my energies on. I
think that just comes with with time.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, certain things are not that important.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
I think helping people out it. So I don't I
don't have a lot. Why do you have a lot
going on right now?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Just the beer fest?

Speaker 1 (31:11):
But but it's because you're trying to help people out. Yeah,
so so it's part of the thing that makes you happy.
So it's not does it feel like work or does
it feel like I mean so as it probably does,
but generally speaking, I.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Mean generally speaking, no, because I can see the finish
line and I can already feel the end result that's
gonna happen. So I'm like there's the nights, the days
that I feel overwhelmed are not outweighed by the filling.
I'm going to have that day of the event, when
the air horn sounds and everybody can start pouring, is

(31:42):
going to be Everything else is going to go to
the back, and it's just going to be a great
feeling of joy and know that I'm giving back to
somebody that needs it.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah. I think. I think even just seeing people loading
in is going to do that.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
I can lining up freaking wait to see the line
start forming and you know this, this whole thing is
just buzz coming through.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
I'm actually thinking about letting the VIP people in maybe
twenty to thirty minutes early before one pm, so they
can I don't care, this is fine, so they can
go where they want to the brewers they want, and
then at the one o'clock hours so they wander. Yeah,
I'm gonna sound the air horn to let everybody know
they can start porn just you know, something fun, just.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
You know, get your information beforehand. Yeah, you're serving, Yeah,
to make your choices. Yeah, I think it's just yeah,
figure out your angles, Yeah, to get everything set up
and then to see people actually start lining up and
to know that people are gonna come in, it's gonna
be a great thing. Yeah. I think that's actually a
great idea because also it gives you maximum time on
an hour, right and also you know, being able to

(32:44):
formlin as you can see that and be like, okay,
I'm gonna go one a lesser one so I can
make sure I can get that and then move to that.
And also you get your because at the VIP and
just to beer faster gutle, people want to talk. They're like,
what's this thing? Tell me about this? Tell me about you?
And so if you have that half hour extra where
you kind of want tond me get that out of
the way without interrupting the flow of.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, and there's if you know, there's like nineteen breweries
bringing VIP beers. Let them let people go where they want,
you know, without rushing over there.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
So oh yeah, and then them come in mingle with
each other a little bit, you know, and then when yeah,
when the.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Time hits, we'll start porn. Yeah, and everybody can have
a great time.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I love that. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, you should definitely do that.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, I'm probably gonna do it. You should definitely do that.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, and I'm and I'm selling the designated driver tickets too,
so I I've actually sold about ten of those, which
is great because some people don't drink and they can
bring their you know.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Partner whatever, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, and then they got to say Fried home and
that's probably that's something that their beer page is always promoted,
is safe Fried's home. So yeah, it's it's important. I
don't want anybody getting hurt. So, yeah, there's a there's
actually a Lows not too far away from there. It
wouldn't be a bad walk at all. So the huge
part can a lot over there. You can literally just
park there and walk to the park.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, and then get a party van home.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah whatever, Yeah, say rides man. No, I don't want
anybody getting hurt. I want this to be the best
event possible.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
I think. I think guess people get more used to
beer festivals. They get used to that part first of all,
probably drinking less, adam sure, and then also making sure
that they have a way home, because I think when
you're young and it's your first like when you're starting out,
you're like I'm gonna get I'm gonna drink the heaviest things,
and I'm just gonna let the tip's fault where they may.
And I think, right we all mature into like, you know,
this is a fun thing, but like we're still to

(34:34):
be concerned about it, I mean, actually have consequences.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, I mean what it boils down to is you
you you still.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
And should be responsible. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
If you feel like you're gonna overdrink, just get it. It's
gonna uber or lift. It's that simple. I mean, it's
way better than whatever, taking chance and driving home.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, especially when police know there's a brewfest.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Until all, I guarantee you they're gonna be.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
They'll be, they'll be around and actually he'll be on site. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Well I think we're actually going with off duty officers,
so yeah, the security will be off duty officers, so
probably not somewhere are you want to mess around, but
enjoy yourself, but just just make sure you got to
say fry at home.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
It's it's easy. It's super simple.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
I mean, you got a twenty dollars uber or a
ten thousand dollars dui or possibly.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Billing yourself or somebody else, somebody else your car.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
You would never live with yourself if you did that.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
So we're here to help save lines. We're not trying.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
We're here to help people in need, not create more
more disaster.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah all right, if I've gone down some negative avenues here,
because that's fine, but I need to be talk reality
of life and business and the beer. I think. So
it's gonna be fucking awesome. What I think.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
I have tried not to overhype. I don't know if
that's the right word. I'm not a huge at yourself
on the back person, but I feel like it's going
to be pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah you're pretty you're pretty low key, like you don't
need a lot of that that stuff, the self aggrandizement
or even outside a grandizement. I feel like you're like,
I know what I did, and.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yeah, I appreciate it, and I feel like it's going
to be a cool event. Then I'm trying to make
it the best experience for everybody. I've been to enough
of these I know the aspects of what needs to
be there and happen, So yeah, I think be.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, years of experience, Yeah, being put to
the test, right, years of networking put to the test.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
I do have a great connection with people as far
as the beer industry.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
I think that's helped me out a lot.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
So it's a lot easier when I starting from actual scratch.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah. Sure.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Can you imagine like not being in the beer industry
and trying to get breweries.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
I mean I've I've worked with people who are not
that came in as like marketing or whatever, right, and
then like we're trying to get this thing off the ground,
I'm like, well, you came in completely wrong, right, Like
you have no history in this, Like no, we've ever
done this week. Yeah, you can tell that, like you
have no experience in this, because when you're trying to
come in and you don't know, Like you see a
brewery seats full, You're like, oh, this is they're probably

(37:12):
just in the back drinking. It's like, no, they're doing work.
So you can't send an email that's like not clear
on what it's for in the first two sentences. They
get demands for donations, they get job like you have.
If you're somebody don't know, you better be to the
point or you're not getting a response.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's the thing about breweries, and you're trying to do
They get asked for this stuff all the time, the
donations and everything, And I got to tell you, these breweries,
for the most part, have been fantastic. Some of them
have been overly excited about this is the kind of
fest I want to do. This is this means something
like this is given back to somebody.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, you'd be hard pressed find a brewery it doesn't
have some sort of association right with the need for
what this brew fest does, right, So they're gonna want
to be involved. Right.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I've had some private messages from people that actually are
battling cancer right now, and it's it's it's hard to
it's hard to read that stuff for me because I've
lost people. So you know, you just got to try
to give them like words of encouragement and you know
you're gonna be fine.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Just keep fighting. That's what we're doing this for.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah. So yeah, it's tough, but your job is to
make sure, well, not make sure, but do your best.
It's on you every single time, Steve. Yeah, Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Monkey on your back.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, you're doing your best to make things as fine
as you can make them. Yeah, and to make things
a little bit brighter for a very dark time for
a lot of people. Right.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
That's tough.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah, because cancer is just I mean, there's a lot
of there's a lot of horrible diseases out there, right,
and stuff that you can get.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
I just I don't know, it just it hits some
with me.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Oh yeah, it's because it's it's like we know so much,
but we know so little, right, and what the sheer
devastation it does to the human body, right, and the
human psyche and like how it tears apart family even
like it's just it's one of those things that like
you can't really quantify to a person who hasn't experienced it.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, it's tough, but we're we're doing something. We're trying
to make a difference. I think that's well, we'll do it.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Yeah, yeah, anyway little way you can every it's better
than nothing.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yeah, I mean it's yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
And demonstray better than nothing. Yeah, it's like pretty great.
Ten thousand dollars last year almost almost. I know you
won't even take You're like, no, we're not rounding up.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
I kicked myself because I feel like I should have
just donated that a little bit more, just ten thousand, but.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
You'd know, you would know it was all a shame,
I know. But let's just round up. Let's just what
if we just rounded up, Steve. Yeah, but if you
just rounded up and.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Cold ten, yeah, I mean it was super close.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
No one's yeah, no one's gonna be like it was
nine point eight three. No one's going to do that
and sixty Oh you're way off.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah yeah yeah, what's your problem? What are you been
doing this?

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no one's ever rounded up nine point
five to ten, Steve, I've ever done that?

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, it's actually closer to ten than nine, right because
sixty six.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
So you just round it up.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, you know that's fine.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Like how tall you Steve?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Approximately five nine?

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okayhen you say five to nine? How five eight are you?

Speaker 2 (40:18):
I think I'm closer to five to ten than five eight.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Oh so you were one of those people you actually
rounded down to the thing. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, So
like I'm like, I was six y three, but it's
like six two and a third. But I'm like it's
more than sixteen, So six three.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, you're pretty six foot is up? There, you're up there.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, yeah, it's been it's been a while. I feel
like I also had like didn't stand up straight for
a long time. Anyway, The point is you can you
can lie, and it's reasonable to round approximation to five.
And you know, do you want to say nine thousand,
five hundred sixty six. Do you want to say ten
thousand thousands?

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Sounds cooler?

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Sounds cool? Yeah, it's short and it's shorter.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Yeah, and it is.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah, it's technically not untrue. Technically, I mean, it is
technically untrue, but it's also technically not on.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
It's a white lie. Is that a white lie?

Speaker 1 (41:01):
It's just it's just how numbers work. You round it up,
you know, unless you need to be exact, which you don't.
I know, when it comes to your taxes, you should.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
The checks out there.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
When it comes to like how much raised you when
the irs involved, you got to be exact. But for
general like hey I'm pitching, Hey I'm looking for you know,
vendors or you know, promotion, you just be like generally speaking,
I mean, ten thousand dollars right on my own, no
help from anyone.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Super close, Yeah, yeah, super close.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
And that's how numbers work, yeah, Barley, and yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Not the what is that common core math? No common
core math there, it's pretty close, pretty simple.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah. Yeah. So nine plus five plus six plus six
is twelve plus seventeen. You made twenty six thousand dollars.
That's what I found.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, I was only ten. But if you do that,
but if.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
You do it that way and everything every number is
it's on a thousand, and you've done great.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Wow we did a lot last year.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, yeah, but it was not only one hundred each.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
This year it's going to be, according to your math,
is going to be so much.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
It's going to be. Well, let's ask this question. How
much are tickets?

Speaker 2 (42:11):
VIP are eighty? In general are fifty fifty.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
So it seems like generally speaking that's going to be
more than last year. But there's also a lot of
more expect.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
It should be.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
But there, Yeah, there's definitely our costs. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know they are donating to you. No, no, no,
there's there are some costs. I put out some money too,
I purchased some more glasses, but I don't care.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
It's not a big deal to me.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
This is all this is well worthy event. So yeah,
there's definitely.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Costs that you have additional donation buckets planned for the venom.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
I'm gonna I'll probably leave that up to all be
But they can also do that when they buy the tickets.
I guess, okay, cool, they could buy a ticket. I've
no I know a few people that have bought tickets,
bought a shirt and donated back.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Okay, so you can, it's really yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Right on the site. You can donate too if you so.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Basically, it's it's essentially a minimum request of donation, and
then you can pay what you want.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, yeah, you can do whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
You want. Yeah, you could pay eighty dollars for regular tickets, That's.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
True, you could, Yeah, could lots of ways to donate.
You win, somebody wins, Somebody that needs to help hopefully
is going to win.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Somebody gets a little bit of help. Yeah, that wasn't
going to be there in any other.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Way, right, I mean, I don't I don't know all
the what it costs to get a test and or
have a test ran or or get treatment. But I'm
just thinking, like I mean, just like last year, ten thousand,
how many how many people is that helping?

Speaker 2 (43:44):
You?

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Like?

Speaker 2 (43:45):
I hope a bunch.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Yeah, but I I don't know, I don't know, but
maybe that's something I should find out. Maybe that's something
I should ask more of. And then actually really great, but.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Then you have to face the very cold reality of
the realities of ours.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
But you know what if it's it's just if it
just helped one person, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
That's all you need. You just need the one. You
just need the one. If it turns out to be two, yes,
twice as good. Yeah. So and if it was, yeah,
you definitely helped one person. We know that for a fact,
because you didn't raise zero dollars. Right here was ten
thousand dollars, right, so you at least helped one person.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Let's just leave it at ten. It sounds nice, Yeah nice.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah so yeah, and then again, this is year two,
year two, so then you've got year three.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Let's just let's just focus on year two right now.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
We're we gotta jump ahead. Yeah, no, I'm I know
it's gonna be great this year, and I know next
year is gonna be great. I know that you're gonna
start building a team because I know you'll realize you
need one. I know you'll realize, well.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
I probably could have used one this year, Yes, I
could have.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
That's not let's take the probably out of there next year, yeah,
because actually, if I do the same venue, I'm gonna
I'll take the Amphitheater and I'll have live music and
I could actually what sounds really crazy, I could actually
add on more breweries, which seems like a lot, which is.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
How this goes. And then you get to the point
where you've got too many breweries and you're like, well, what.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Is Well, yeah, I think there I honestly, I think
there is a point where it's too many.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
But at the same time, I've been to some of
the bigger beer fests, like I think it was last
year or the year before I went to Firestone Walker, And
if you haven't been there before, that thing is it
is huge.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
And you literally have to pick where you're going. I
mean that's you got a plane ahead, you have to Yeah,
there's this whole, whole, whole site map and you just
pick where you're going.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah. Yeah, same thing with Boonfield. You would get that
map day actually be like okay, yeah, okay, here's the layout. Well, right,
do I want to hit Yeah? I remember doing that
back in the day because yeah, they're like I think
it's on the website. You have a map, like a
few days before before the things were you just be like, okay.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
That's that's one of the things I know I'm going
to have, like, well, we'll see between thirty two and
forty breweries.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
In my head right now, I still have time to
do it.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I kind of want to make a site map, yeah,
and then just have them at checking so people can
grab them and it tells you where the beries are.
It's not a gianormous park, but it's pretty decent sized,
and there's gonna be there's a giant walkway going down
the middle with that's covered in trees.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
It's actually pretty.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
And but then on each side of that there's gonna
be like, however, many breweries set up on each side.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
But are you telling this could be shade?

Speaker 3 (46:27):
There is there's a beautiful walkway. Is that with benches
and trees covering?

Speaker 1 (46:32):
No? That doesn't sound right. Yeah, I know that doesn't
at all.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
There's so many places to set I mean you could
you could bring your own chair and just kind of
hang out, or there's there's an actual a couple of
places with like seating in it already, It's not a
lot of seating, but yeah, it's it's a pretty cool
little park.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Yeah, and a way out of the way the heat
if you need it. It's October, it might not be
that bad, but it also could be. Well.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
I remember last year at Urban Roots on the seventh
it was kind of very well even they had their
mysteries going on the patio. But you know, it is
what it is, like, it's at the end of the day,
it's it's for a great cause.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
I actually had one of my good friends, uh she
works for I Believe, Pepsi and Freedom A and they're
donating a whole pallet of water.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
So I'm like, I didn't want to do water bottles obviously,
but running the thing that I was trying to rent
wasn't going to work out either. And she's like, well,
we're just going to give you a pile of water.
I'm like, how do you turn that down? Like it's free,
it's free water.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Yeah, and the park is super good about it too.
They're like they're going to make sure I have extra
garbage cans. I mean, they're the park has been incredible,
So yeah, it's all it's all coming together.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
So I got one more meeting with the park on
September thirtieth.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Okay, oh yeah, just let's picture were all.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
The final they're they're letting me, uh, which is incredible
too because this was the cheapest. The cheapest quote I
got for fencing was to set up on Friday before
and tear down Monday after.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
That was it.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
They said, as long as the park is accessible, fine
do it. So I'm like, all right, I'll make.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Sure you're still going to be able to get in
and use the park, and that thing's going to be you.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Know, so so the the opening will be an opening, yeah,
will be exits yep, yep, even when we're gone. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
So yeah, they're like, hey, as long as you can
tell us that's going to happen, you can do it.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
I'm like, all right, cool, So yeah, it's all come together.
I'm pretty I'm pretty excited.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
That's cool that they make their concession for you, because
I'm sure that if it was something else they'd be like, no,
get it out of here, right, But they're like, it's
your first year, right, it's a cause that we want
this money to go where it needs to go. We
don't want to take more than I have to.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
And I'm using their their fins fender that they've worked with.
I think that made it easier on them.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
You think they would pull the strings, make that vendor
come in and just say just do it, just do
it Saturday night, just come by.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Well, but yeah, I mean it's not it's labor.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
It's not that simple. Overtime, overtime. Yeah, so I know,
saying city for antick it over, just digging the coffers
a little bit, fine, a few bucks with it, overtime
or you know, or the easier just let it be
okay till Monday.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yeah, which is what they're doing. What they're doing, it's
pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah. Yeah, all right, Steve, I think we've talked about
everything under the sun for this festival. Yeah. Anything you
think we've left off the table, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
So it's a very very important cause, grab your tickets
before they're gone.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Oh yeah they're gonna by I'm dropping this thing Monday.
It's gonna be too late. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Well well yeah, we're.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
We're what you could have experienced. That's what this episode
is about, what you could have experienced if you've just
known sooner get in there.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
It's a great cause. It's a great cause.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
It's gonna help somebody out, hopefully a bunch of people.
And then the year for that, even more people, yea,
and even.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
More every year we're gonna hopefully make it better.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
I think you've got it. You got that special sauce.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Do you just sit here and talk to Ben every year?

Speaker 1 (49:51):
That's the worst part of it.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Hey, once a year with Ben is perfect?

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Okay, one time? Yeah, that's this kid exactly.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Ben's a good Ben's a good guy.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
The most I can do podcast production.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
She check it out. He's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Yeah, it's all right, all right. You want to be
ready to get out of here.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Yeah, I'm going to finish my beer, but me too.
We will get out of here eventually.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
So before I go, any working people follow you, keep
on touch with what Steve Fire is doing, just in general,
and where can they find out more about I Can
Fight Cancer brew Fest.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Yeah, well I created another profile on Facebook. Just look
up I Can Fight Cancer brew Fest on there. Actually,
all of the information that you will need for the
beer fest is on there, and the link to click
on and buy tickets is actually on the pin post
at top.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
So you've done, I'll be word dot org. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Super.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Just give back, yeah, give back, enjoy some great beers
and company and great food, and yeah, you're giving back.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
If you get lost and you're like this is too
much information Sacramento beer enthusiasts on Facebook, there will be
so many pin posts.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Yeah, that's a reminders decent sized page.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Yeah. Yeah, there's as many members as there were dollars raised. No,
that's so that's such an old staff. I don't even
know the memberships at this point. Thirty thousand, no, just
over twenty one thousand. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, but I
remember when you guys celebrated the ten thousand yeah ye
forever bak yeah yeah yeah, but back then that was
a huge number. Yeah, And one day you look at
this and be like, back then, that was a.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Huge number, back when we first came out at Arta Beer. Yeah,
I think we're at fifteen hundred people.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
So yeah, yeah, and then you're like, you know, the
first year of a fuck answer, we raised ten thousand
dollars and I was like, wow, that was pretty cool,
but then it's a tiny number. Now.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yeah, I think we're gonna do a lot better this year. Yeah,
it's a way bigger.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Event, so that helps. And it's only one day.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
And that's the way I kept looking at it, was like,
this is gonna be one day. It's gonna be a
lot less work.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Except for all the work. The work. It's a lot less.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Work getting to it, not a lot less work.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a this is not for
the well, it's for the episode, but it's you know,
to say the thing. Do you have a special email
that you created just for this event so it's not
bothering you when you're checking your RAISAR emails? Nope?

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Oh, Eve, I know next year, next year specific email, Yeah, maybe.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Separate email maybe maybe? Yeah maybe? And I fight I
can't I can fight cancer email? Yeah, yeah, I think
I could fight cancer.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Dot yeah dot com. Yeah, that probably would have been
a pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Ideah you can there's still time. Yeah, I think you'll
need that next year. And also nice parties. You can
give pass reus other people so they can access it
and do work on your behalf man. You should.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
You should be on my committee next year.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
I got time. My kid's gonna be uh three soon,
so she's pretty much independent, all right, as long as
she stops breaking everything that she throws on the ground,
you know, when she learns to just set it down,
so throw it. I'm I'm available, right.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
I think that's I think we nailed it.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
I did.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
I did get flyers down, just so everybody knows. And
I will be passing those out at the all the
breweries that will be pouring at the event. So if
you're at one of your favorite breeries around here, most
likely they're gonna be pouring.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
So yeah, And if you see Steve at Marsa just
pouring beers and you see a stack of flyers, like,
what once have you not hit yet? Steve? Let me
take some. I'm going there next. Let me drop these
off for a great idea, because I heard there's forty
brewers you have to travel to individually.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Well some of them are coming from out of town.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
So yeah, so you gotta go. I'm not gonna you're
gonna drive a long way, that's my point. Yeah, yeah, no,
let's save let's save you some work. If you have
them here, just be like, hey, who's heading to this
place next? Takes take fifteen with you, right, or you
can mail them. There's also that's also a thing you
can do. You could also just like here's the pdf,

(53:41):
you print them fuckers, and then well.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
They're getting them all glossy.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
So they don't have a glossy thing. Yeah they can,
they can print a glossy.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
I got them all, don I'm just gonna go past
as as I can.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
And yeah, but what if people helped you?

Speaker 3 (53:53):
If people help me, I would take them up on it.
At this point, I feel like that would be cool.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Yeah, right that song, you're helping people? What can help you? Right?

Speaker 3 (54:03):
Yeah, I've I've gotten this all the way there. If
they wouldn't mind pulling into the driveway for me, that.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Would be great. Yeah yeah, yeah, not so good with
the parking, parking, parking, I suck. Yeah, all right, Steve,
this is a episode Barley and Me. Thank you so
much for appearing once again. Yea man, only six episodes later.
Now again, I can find cancer breof Fast on Facebook.

(54:29):
Probably other things coming soon because next is going to
be bigger, better.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Yeah, like I said, probably, but let's just get through this,
get through this one. But also it's gonna be a
good time. I've we've worked really hard putting this thing together, so.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Yeah, it'll be good. And if any any assholes asked
for press passes, tell them to it's for cancer. Buy
your ticket.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
I will give you a press No, no, no, that's
what I'm not.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
I will not accept it. I know it's fine. I'm
not gonna accept it. So that's even bother. Is what
my point was. Don't let okay, okay, don't just tell
him that.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
If ben Rice asked me to again, and I'll probably
let him.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
In, but don't also don't. Okay, thank you, all right,
all right, and then for Barley and Me, you can
find that across social media a Barley me pod, bartymeepod
dot com, Barley Me Podductions, barleymepod at gmail dot com.
Comedy shows, we got one right here at Walks a
final Tuesday of the month. This month's headliner is in

(55:26):
My Head Wendy Lewis Wendy Lewis Creight the Awkward Cougar
at Awkward Cougar on Instagram. Meow, Steve, thank you so much. Yeah,
you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Thanks for doing this, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Yeah. And for our listeners, thanks so much for listening.
As we talked about earlier, Get home safe. There you go.

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