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This program is designed to provide general information with regards
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to the subject matters covered. This information is given with
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the understanding that neither the hosts, guests, sponsors, or station
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are engaged in rendering any specific and personal medical, financial,
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legal counseling, professional service, or any advice. You should seek
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the services of competent professionals before applying or trying any
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suggested ideas.
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Hi, welcome back to the Sound of Gold. Happy labor
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day out there, Wishing everybody a very peaceful, enjoyable day
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with and family. I know many of us will get
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a break from working, so it will be very good
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day to take a break from our regular routines. Well,
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we're here today and we are well. Let me back
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up a little bit. Let me if you haven't been
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here before, Just to introduce myself and the show, The
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Sound of Golds. We are here to talk about music,
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music venues, music teachers, music schools. We want to keep
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music alive. We love to go to live events. We
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love how we get to be entertained at home. We
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love concerts. We love all the venues that supply that
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help bring music to life or keep it alive. I'm
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here in my home studio, I have my piano, and
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I do enjoy doing online concerts for you. If you
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haven't seen some of my performances, you can log onto
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my Facebook to see worms is I have online. And
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in addition to that, I'm not here for me. I'm
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actually here to promote my friends and my family members,
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my extended family members who I call friends, because so
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many of you are so talented and bring so much
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to the table when it comes to playing instruments, singing,
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or whatever you're playing. Today, I'd like to welcome a
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very special guest in our community here in Florida. In
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Lake Park, we have a place called Coastal Karma, and
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Coastal Karma is I find it to be a very
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eclecticol brewery that friends and families do come together and
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hang out and listen to live music and also get
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to enjoy the brews that they brew there. And so
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let me I should say, help me welcome Charlie, the
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owner of Coastal Karma. Welcome Charlie, good morning, How are
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you doing good? How are you good?
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Thanks for having me?
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Yes, of course, of course I've been to your place
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several times. I have many friends and family that play
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instruments as well as myself. And I have so many
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questions for you, but let's I would like to start
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at the beginning, kind of like you're the owner of
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this place, what inspired you to do this? To bring
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it bring the community together.
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Basically, I had a best friend who wanted me to
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brew with him one day, and so I did, and
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I liked it, enjoyed it, and so I started homebrewing myself,
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and then after a couple of years of home brewing,
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decided this was the industry I kind of wanted to
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be in now, and so then I set myself forth
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to know every aspect of this industry to get started
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and eventually starting my own brewery. So I did the
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whole aspect of starting out world of beers to learn
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more about the beers and serving them properly and everything
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like that along with home at the time. Then I
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became a beer repped around so I learned how to
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distribute beer and sell to customers and then eventually open
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to my brewery after that. So kind of learning all
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aspects of the gearing before I opened, so I knew
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what I was somewhat doing before I opened.
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So I don't know I don't drink beer myself. I
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know I have friends and family that's too. What kind
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of beers do you make and serve?
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We grew a little bit of everything, so we do
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American styles, we do IPAs, we do Belgian styles, German styles,
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We make sours. We also do big stouts, so we
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do a little bit of everything. Some breweries nowadays are
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more specialized in certain styles, but we find doing a
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little bit of everything it fits a little bit more
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of how we'd like to present beer. Instead of being
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like a one trick pony and just doing one thing
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really well, we try to do everything really well.
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But people like our variety.
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We get a lot of people that come in here
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and it's always like they like one of the main
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things they like besides the good beer, is just the
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variety that we have. There's always something different and always
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something new on and so it brings them in a lot.
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Okay, And then do you also serve wine or just beer?
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Well, we serve wine Selcer's beer wine slush for certain events.
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Okay, and then it's been a little while since I've
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been back there. Do you also serve food or is
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just a brewery? Pretty much?
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We use a food truck mostly okay, So if you're
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looking for food, it's best to call ahead of time
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to see if we have a food truck.
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If not, you can bring in your own food. Nothing
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against that.
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Well, we do have a caterer opening up next door
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who's supposed to kind of help us out a little
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bit with food, but right now we don't know when
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he's going to open.
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But the word on the street is that we have
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a cater moving in next door.
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Nice. Nice. Now you're located in Lake Park? Correct?
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Yes?
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How would people find you? Are you? Do you have
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a website?
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We have a website, We have Facebook on Instagram. Uh,
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we're right off tenth Avenue, right behind the auto zone
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here in Lake Park. The main street in Lake Park
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is called Park Ave and so the Park Avenue N
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Street intersection, we're kind of on the corner of that almost,
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you know, right next to the advanced auto So pretty
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easy to find, really easy to get to. So we like,
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but I'm sorry, like where we're located.
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Yes, it's a it's a great place on your busiest nights.
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How many people do you bring in or what's the
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capacity in your.
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Venue legally or not legally?
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Well, when we know, we know what the rules are,
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we know how to break it.
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Yeah, we can hold up to two hundred people.
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Uh, we've had one hundred person or slightly over one
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hundred person parties in here and no shoes with it
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being too crowd or anything of that. And that's how
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we designed this place was the upfront section is for
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people who want to sit hang out. The middle of
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the back section is more for people who want to
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stand and hang out. But it gives you a lot
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of room to walk around and you know, play games
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because we have cornhole indoor cornhole and stuff like that,
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and a shuffle board table as well. So and we
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just added a couple pinball machines, so there's a lot
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of things to do. We kind of make it, like
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you said before, a very relaxing place. You want people
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to feel like they're in their own living room to
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a certain point, you know, very comfortable, very relaxed environment.
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But also give place a place for people to go
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to and chill out and have fun with their friends,
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say as playing cornhole or pinball or shuffle board or
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these kind of things.
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Sure, I will say and this is a huge compliment
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to you, and maybe it's my thing too, Like I
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love clean places. A place like it's got such a
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cool vibe to it, like the energy and it is
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just like, yeah, come in, just have a seat on
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the couch or or you know, a chair at the bar,
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and just like hang out. There's no the energy is
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just so so open and relax and the environment is
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just so clean, Like I love to come in just
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feeling like like it's not too dark in every You
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ever go into a restaurant where it's dark and it's like,
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I'm I'm afraid if they lift the lights, I'm not
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gonna want to be here.
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So yeah, that's that's all.
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My wife I like things a little bit brighter inside
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because of beer.
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You want to see the color and all that. She likes.
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Chat's a little bit softer.
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So we came to an agreement on a little bit
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of a softer lighting but still bright enough in here
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that you know, you can see the colors of the
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beer and you can see everything in here, and we are.
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Staff does a good job cleaning up.
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It's funny that you just say that, because just yesterday
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we had the guy come in to clean all the
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furniture and the synthetic or synthetic turf and all that.
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So everything's been extra cleaned as of yesterday.
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So nice.
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You have to clean the furniture once in a while, because,
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believe it or not, it's amazing. My furniture at home
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never gets dirty for some reasons somehow here the furniture,
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you know, people still things and stuff like that. I
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get it, but it's amazing how much dirty or the
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furniture gets here and we have to we have to
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have it cleaned every once in a while.
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Understood, understaid. So I might have mentioned earlier my show
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is the Sound of Gold, and so I'm a musician,
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I'm also a music teacher, and I came up with
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this idea that like we're in this generation where like
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we're not sure what the next generation is going to
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bring to the table when it comes to music. We
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have so much and I know you could probably agree
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with this. We have so much talent in our communities,
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and I am like an activist to wanting to keep
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us alive, to keep the originality of music alive and
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keep it going. And it's so important to have and
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to offer, like you do in our communities a venue
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where musicians can come and play can you know, sign
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up to play on various days of the week or
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the month. Tell us a little bit about that.
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So we'll take me wrong. It's a little bit of
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a give and take sometimes with the musicians. We have
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a lot of music and we love the musicians.
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The problems sometimes we have as a brewery and this
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is not restaurants. Restaurants are slightly different. They can a
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restaurant can bring in someone who's going to play music
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for them and pay them no matter what the music
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is the ambience of that place, and so they're not
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worried about how many people the musician brings in. They're
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more worried about the musician keeping people there, okay, and
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then so that's how they can afford to pay the guy.
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Like we're going to be packed anyways, we're gonna have
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a music and that's the ambiance for Friday Saturday night
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here at this restaurant.
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That's what we're gonna do. I don't agree.
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We're looking to draw people in and so sometimes we
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have to get. We try to get. We try to
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help everybody. We give every very band a chance here.
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But the bands that bring the most people in for
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us are the ones we keep going back to because
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at the end of the day, if I got to
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pay you four hundred dollars to one thousand dollars, but
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you only brought me twenty people, I'm losing money at
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that point. So it's a little bit of a give
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or take. Like some bands say like, oh, we have
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a we have a you know, three thousand followers or whatever,
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and then they come in here and I only see
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like fifteen people, and I'm like, well, what happened to
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all your followers? Like, you know, But we do have
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some bands that will come in. They we had a
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band here that would play every Friday. They were kind
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of like an open mic thing. They did it for free.
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We would pay them a certain percentage of the sales
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from the time they came on to the time they left,
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even though they were playing for free. We would you know,
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pitch in and help them out and give them a
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percentage of the sales just so that thank you. We've
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had other bands come in and if they feel like
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they weren't worth the money that we had to pay
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them because they didn't bring in enough people, they would
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actually give us, you know, the money back or half
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the money back or be like, hey, we don't earn
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this much. We didn't earn this full take, so don't
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worry about it. Because in a way where the breweries
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are still somewhat struggling. Even though we're doing pretty okay now,
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we're still not making money hand over fist or anything
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like that. We're still trying to build a consistent following,
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even though it has gotten better over the.
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Last two years.
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But every Wednesday, we have a bluegrass band that plays
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here from one to three and they come in here.
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They play for free.