April 25, 2024 • 30 mins
iHeartRadio spoke with Big Brothers Big Sisters about their upcoming fundraiser Beerfest, and were joined by Ruell of "Nick, Ruell, and Ned the Band" who are playing the first ever Beerfest After Party!
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Good morning, and welcome to iHeartthe Ozarks. A chance that your Springfield
iHeart Radio stations take every week totalk to organizations and people in our community
that are helping in a big way. That's why I'm so excited to have
Lizzie with Big Brothers, Big Sistersof the Ozarks here this morning. Lizzy,
how are you? I'm great?How are you? I'm doing great?
And we actually have another special guestthat we'll introduce here in a second,
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because before we get to just bigBrothers, Big Sisters overall and ways
that the community involved, you havea big event coming up, So tell
us all about Ozark's beer Fest.Oh I'd love to all right, So
Ozark's Beer Fest is the region's largestbeer event and it's beer samples one out
samples of beer. But all youhave to do is pay for the ticket
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and you get unlimited samples for thewhole event, which for VIP is noon
to four or for general admission isone to four, so you can get
a lot of drinking done in thattime. Yeah, and our special guest
likes that because he's going to bea part of the Ozark's beer Fest after
party. So rule with Ozark MountainDaredevils, and of course Nick Rol and
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Ned the Band. Right, thankyou so much for joining us this morning.
How are you doing it. I'mjust fine, just I'm really excited
about getting the band back together.Yeah. So we're I feel like we're
gonna kind of do this a littlebackwards because let's talk about the after party.
This is a new thing for Ozark'sBeerfest, So we'll get more into
the details of beer Fest so thatyou can make sure and attend that and
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make sure you're benefiting big brothers,big sisters that way. But this is
the first time you're ever doing anafter party with this event, right,
Lizzie. Yes. Yeah. Beforeprior we used to do like a backyard
bash the night before, and thenwe turned it into a poker tournament the
night before, and ultimately that pokertournament just wasn't taken off like we wanted
it. So we were looking forother opportunities to have another event connected to
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beer Fest, and when we gotin touch with Nick Rule and Net the
Band, I mean, we wereso excited to have them and bring them
on for a first time ever afterparty out Rule. You guys are gonna
be performing a concert after Ozark SpirarFast, what can we expect? What's
the plan? We are gonna hardcharge through an hour of just laughing and
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goofing around. I mean, youknow, that's what made this band so
much fun was we were never thatserious about anything, you know, and
just we joked with the crowd.We laughed with the crowd, We got
people out there, played, youknow, we gave away things. Lizzie's
finding me some some gifts for namethat tune, and so you know,
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it'll it'll just be so fun.It was. It was the only place
besides the Daredevils. They're much alike, but Nick and I need I mean
we had we played for forty fiveyears, you know, and and just
had a ball every day. Soyou know, that's what we're gonna do.
Now. What made you decide tohelp out with this event? Is
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big brothers, big sister something thatis important to you or you know you
all are from this community, sowhat does giving back mean to you?
Right? Well, actually the reasonLizzie just called, you know, or
Dwight right and when they said,well we want Nick and ruling Ned the
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band to play again, I thoughtthat's really cool. We're going to have
we'll have a ball, you know. So any I think I have to
give the credit to Steve Drury.He was the first one to speak up
and say I want Nick Nick RulanNet the band to come yes, and
he was like, I know,dw I I know how to make this
happen. I'm going to make thishappen before I retire. And he did
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it. So I just have togive him a shout out. It was
sweet. And so anyway, we'relooking. We have a lot of people
used to come see us and they'reall old now, you know, But
that's okay. I turned seventy yesterday, Nick, seventy one, so you
know, age is just a number. Well it is today. I mean,
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I don't feel seventy, I don't, you know, But I think
it's what I've been doing with mylot that's helped me not do that.
But anyway, as far as thesampling of beer, I don't do that
anymore, but I'm sure gonna havefun watching other people do it. I
was gonna say, how do youfeel about your crowd is going to be
having free beer samples for hours beforethey come to see you play? People
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drink beer? You know around usall forever, and they be kind of
you know, they have a goodtime. That's all we want for them
to have a great time. AndBig Brothers Big Sisters. By the way,
I was actually on the board,were you really Yes, that's amazing.
Yes, back in seventeen hundreds,I was on, and that's truth.
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I was on. And I alwayshad a thing for Big Brothers Big
Sisters because it's about kids. Andcurrently I have play at Forward, which
is a charity where we give instrumentsto kids that can't afford them. So
we give away about thirty thousand dollarsworth of instruments a year. So I
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love doing these things. I lovedanything, and especially if it's kids.
You know, rule, Do youhave a story about how you have seen
Big Brothers Big Sisters have an impacton a real life kid? Oh well,
I mean I probably more than one. A lot of the people in
Big Brothers Big Sisters, the kidsthat remembered us went ahead to come see
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us play, and I can't remember. I mean that was a long time
ago. I can't remember any exactnames, but I can guarantee that we
have kids that have grown up betteroff because someone kind of thought they were
special and talked to them and itmade all the difference in their lives.
Well, that leads in perfectly toanother thing I do want to talk about,
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and that is the importance of BigBrothers Big Sisters as an organization.
Because obviously Ozarkspearfest is so fun andits event I look forward to year.
But what the cause is what we'reactually helping by showing up and drinking these
beer samples, Lizzie, Let's talkabout that, Like, what's the mission
with Big Brothers Big Sisters? Right, So, Big Brothers Big Sisters matches
children with adult volunteers in one toone mentor relationships and so, like rule
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touched on, it really ultimately helpsthe kid feel a lot better about themselves,
have a better outlook on life,just knowing that, like, hey,
if this person you know is wherethey're at, and like they're not
just a parent, they're a friend, there's somebody else who's taking that time
to invest in them and tell themthat they are special, they are important,
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they are heard, and that theirpotential is limitless. And that's all
we're about at Big Brothers Big Sisters. We defend potential and we ignite it.
I love that phrasing. Yeah,good phrase. Yeah. Now someone
listening right now say there may bekind of like, oh well, that
sounds important. I would like tomake kids feel that way. How can
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they get involved and be a volunteer. What is the time commitment, What
are the requirements? What does thatlook like? Yeah, so we do
have a lot of requirements, butthey're pretty straightforward. Obviously, just don't
be like a criminal, be olderthan eighteen years old, be living in
this area, but ultimately just bewilling to be a friend to a kid.
It's really not that big of acommitment. I think for community based
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it's like four to eight hours amonth, you know, so just meeting
up a couple times a month andfor lunch buddies thirty minutes a week.
You just go to their school,have lunch with them once a week and
that's it during the school year.So like it's such a small commitment,
but it's such a big deal inthe kid's life. Where does someone go
to apply to be a big bigbrother or sister. Yeah, absolutely so
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it's big bro dot com, Supereasy, big bro dot Com. You
go there, you apply to learnmore and essentially there's a rigorous interview process,
so you might not get matched fora month or two, but once
you are, like it's it's alittle slow, maybe at first because you're
just meeting that person for the firsttime. But I've seen some of these
relationships last a lifetime and it's justbeautiful to see that now for someone who's
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maybe not even though it doesn't soundlike as big of a commitment as you
might think, you know, withjust you said the thirty minutes a week
for lunch buddies or a few hoursa month for the actual mentor but maybe
someone's not ready to quite take thatstep, but they still love what Big
Brothers Big Sisters does. Are thereother ways that people can help? Absolutely
absolutely so, by coming to eventslike Ozark's vere Fest, or signing up
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to be a monthly matchmaker and youknow, just give monthly, even five
dollars a month. It makes adifference because the littles in our program,
they don't pay to be in ourprogram. The adults they don't pay either,
and we don't expect them to payfor everything for the kid while they're
hanging out out in the community,So we try to provide all that funding
for them to go out and todo things at no additional cost to them.
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Do you also have volunteer opportunities,say at Ozark Spearfest. Yes,
thank you for bringing that up.We actually need a lot of help.
Being the region's largest beer sampling event, we are looking for at least fifteen
to like twenty more volunteers, Soif anybody is willing, definitely head to
Ozarkspearfest dot com. There's a volunteertab where you can look at the shifts
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and sign up. There's some shiftsthat are part of the event, So
if you want to like work thefirst half and then drink the second half
of the event, we'll throw afree ticket your way. I'm happy to
do that. And for those whoare willing to be a beer poor for
the event, don't worry. You'llstill get a chance to sample the beers.
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We just asked that all volunteers aretwenty one are older. Well,
and let's talk about Ozark Spearfest againbecause it is coming up Saturday, April
twenty seventh, and this year it'sover at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds. So
you know, if people have beenattending in years past, I know I've
tried to go every year I canwhat can we expect, what's going to
be different, what's going to bethe same. What do we have to
look forward to? Yeah, soone big difference, like you mentioned was
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the fair grounds. We are movingfrom the ExpoCenter to the fair grounds will
be at the Eplex East Hall.So when you get there, free parking
nice, right, and then youhead on in, we'll get you through
check in and then yeah, Ithink we've got a little bit bigger of
a space, so gonna put somemore booths in. There're gonna have some
extra games. We're actually introducing casinogames this year, first time ever,
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so there'll be a few tables toplay some casino type games I believe,
like craps and roulette, and thatway you can earn more Raffle tickets to
put into the Raffle, which wehave like probably eight to ten prizes lined
up that are over two hundred andfifty dollars value, So yeah, you
could pay to play and then turnaround and win a big prize from that.
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So that's really cool. We'll havemerched there and then for VIP they'll
be in the Center Hall kind ofremoved from the East Hall. So that's
a new and one thing that's actuallyreally different this year. We won't have
any food sampling out in general admission, So if you buy a general admission
ticket, just know that you'll probablyhave to spend some money to buy food.
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However, the concession stand will behelping to go back to Big Brothers,
Big Sisters of the Ozek. Soyou know, even when you spend
money at the event, you knowthat all that additional money is coming back
to our organization. That's cool.But on the other hand, VIP,
you spend a little bit more,food will be included and okay, there
will be a couple of different selections. Okay, So just as a reminder
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of VIP tickets gets you access atnoon all the way through the event at
for and you have that special VIParea with food. General admission is going
to be one to four and youhave access to all the sampling and then
the concessions that you can. That'sawesome that the concessions are gonna give back
to Big Brothers Big Sisters too.I love to hear that. Now with
the after party where Nick Rule andNed the band will be performing, how
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do you get access to the afterparty so you can go go ahead and
pre buy your tickets right now forten dollars each, and if you wait
until the day of the event,they're actually going to be twenty dollars each.
But essentially, just make sure tobuy your ticket. You'll get an
extra risk band for that after party, and at four we'll start kicking everybody
out except for those people with therisk bands to stay for the after party.
Is the after party going to bein a different part at the euplex.
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It'll be in the VIP area thatcenter hall. Yeah, And I
had a question and it left becausenow I'm just really excited about the thought
of the after party. Oh isspace limited? Yes? Yes, space
is limited. So just like withVIP, we only have an limited supply
of tickets, so after party wealso have a limited supply. I think
we've already sold about fifty tickets andwe'll max out at six hundred. So
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now, can someone just get ticketsto the after party? Say they've got
something else going on earlier in theday, they can't make it to beer
Fest, but they really want tocome and see nikerel and Ned the band
play. They can do that.Yes, And furthermore, if somebody that's
under the age of twenty one wantsto come and see the band play.
They can just come for the afterparty, okay, but since that space
is limited, I would get yourtickets for the after party now, and
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tickets for any and all tickets dowe go to Ozarkspearfest dot com. Yes,
can you buy them in person anywhere? Technically, if you come to
the Big Brothers Big Sister's office,I could issue you some tickets, but
all the tickets are virtual this year, so I highly recommend if you can
navigate the website and buy your ticketsonline, please do that. If you
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are desperate and cannot figure it out, please feel free to call our office
or stop buy and we'll help youout all right. Ozark Spearfest, coming
up April twenty seventh at the OzarkEmpire Fairgrounds, is a fantastic way to
help Big Brothers Big Sisters of theOzarks because your ticket goes back. If
you buy concessions, it goes back. If you can make it to the
after party, that ticket goes back. And then again, don't forget that
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there are those volunteer opportunities, soit's a chance for you to help that
way and then also get access toozark Spearfest h just for your the price
of avolunteering, so ozrespearfest dot comfor all the info. I'm really excited
about the after party this year.Rule is there. You've already been telling
us so many stories before we crackedthe micros and started the show this morning.
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What what is something that you lookforward to about performing live? What
is something that you love about beingable to perform here in Springfield in your
community? Like? What are youlooking forward to about this autum? Oh?
I'm looking forward to see all ourold friends. I mean, you
know, there's still people alive thatcame to see Nick and I and we
hope that they all show up.And you know who you are. Don't
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make us come get you and weyou know, we'll just have a good
time. We'll just do a Nickand Rule and ned the band thing.
What can you give us a littlesneak peak of what might be on the
set list? Oh well, wellone more minute? Uh of course,
we uh, we haven't decided yet. If you know, if we're going
to do that, you catch it, you keep it. Thing. That's
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where we we push appliances off theroof and if people can catch them,
they can keep them. But soand then we'll be doing everything. We'll
be doing Audrey and mister Hammond's andall the goofy songs we used to do
and had the band on parade.I'm sure, and it's gonna it's gonna
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be a ball. Well, I'mlooking forward to it really a lot.
Are you do you think? Areyou gonna try anything new? Or you
know what? We never script Wehave never scripted a night ever. We
just start and you know, thenwe between the three of us, we
come up with good segways and youknow, and it's just one of the
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That's why I love I love theseguys, Nick, and that is because
they we were. We had funevery time we played, Like the Daredevils.
We have fun every time we play. That's you know, if you're
not doing it, you need toget in another line of business, you
know. So, But yeah,come out, yell, let us a
song. We'll try it, andif we fail, big deal. You
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know. That's that's the way weplay. I don't think we ever played
a song from front to end inour entire career of forty five. Somewhere
between forty five and fifty years.I don't know somewhere. Well, I
was so excited. I know yousaid that you won't be partaking in the
one ounce beer sampless leading up toyour show, But do you think we
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can expect to see a nick Netor Rule appearance at all at beer Fest?
Will you? You think you'll kindof walk around ahead of time and
maybe Iglore? Oh yeah, nextSibley. Look out for him. If
you see him wandering around, don'tmake eye contact. But yeah, shoot,
I want to see everybody. Imean, you know, when you
get to be seventy years old,every day is and you know that's a
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big deal if you get to seesomebody and have a good time. So
that's what we're doing. Yeah,and you know, honestly, there's other
things to sample too, Like ifyou don't drink beer, there's seltzers,
there's ciders, there's non alcoholic beersfor people to sample. This year,
for the first time ever, we'regonna have a kombucha booth. Yes,
kombucha brewery here in Springfield reached outto me and they're called spring Branch.
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I was just gonna say because that'smy favorite brand of kombucha, and actually
I believe they serve that at likewire Road and some of the other brewery.
Brewery also, I've never had whatyou like. Kombucha is like vinegary
right, Like it's kind of tart. It's like a carbonated kind of tart
beverage. But you can like there'slike they do like a lavender one.
They do these kind of unexpected flavors. It's very neat, it's very good.
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I enjoy it. So I'm excitedthat they'll be there to sample so
other wise I can try it.Yeah, first time ever having a kombucha
booth, but that'll be really exciting. And then I know, like Monster
Energy Drink, they'll be there withtheir line of hard like teas. I
think I didn't even know they hadthat, right, Like, I didn't
know either until they're like, hey, we want to be at beer Fest,
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and I was like absolutely yes,Right. What are some of the
other local breweries that we can expect, Oh, pretty much almost all of
them. We have wire Road,we have Banter Brewing, Great Escape,
Gosh, Springfield Brewco, Bricktown Brewery, I mean pretty much all the local
ones you can think of, They'regoing to be there. Okay, that's
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exciting. But then you'll also havesome like bigger brands, some more you
know national brands. Yeah. Yeah, we're working with our distributors, will
Fisher, Heart of America, BreakthroughBEV, and they're they're going to provide
some national brands. Let's give ashout out to some of the sponsors because
I know a lot of the sponsors. They come to meetings leading up to
they help find prizes for the raffles. They are providing the beer that we
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get to sample. So who aresome of the other sponsors that we need
to say thank you to? Oh, big, big thank you to Price
Cutter, our ultimate and presenting sponsor. They are just amazing in everything they
do. I believe their booth isgoing to be in the VIP area this
year, so just another reason togive VIP no. They're really great to
work with. We also have amazingsponsors such as Commerce Bank VIP area sponsor.
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Let's see Springfield Auto. They're KeiaNissan formerly Young Blood Industrial Services Company,
Relics Antique mal there. It's justthere's so many sponsors. Cool to
hear how many great organizations and companiesin our community show up to help big
brothers, Big sisters, in thisway, and I know you can see
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a full list of the sponsors atbeerfest dot com. Are you still taking
any sponsors or can someone reach outto you if they maybe want to get
involved next year? Definitely, definitelyreach out If we can pull it off
this year, I'll try, butwith the event being so close, it'll
probably be next year. Ozar Speerfestdot Com. You also have you know,
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this is I hate to pick favorites, but Beerfest is my favorite event
that you throw. But you dodo some other things throughout the years.
So will you just kind of giveus a quick overview of that so we
can start planning for other ways toand help Big Brothers Big Sisters. Yeah,
so, Big Brothers Big Sisters doesa lot of events. One of
our biggest, longest running events isbull for kid's sake. We work with
specific companies such as like SRC,John Dee or Walmart. We recruit teams,
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we go to andy Bee's and wejust have two hours of fun while
we're fundraising, and we end upmaking a lot of money that way.
We also have our annual gala Tasteof the Ozarks. Businesses can or individuals
can buy a table at this galaand attend and we basically at this event
it's a sampling, a food samplingevent, and we also recognize our Bigs
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of the Year, so that's areally fun one. I do also love
Chast of the Oosarks. That's wyIt's hard for me to truly pick a
favorite because you've also done a themewith Chas of the Ozarks the last couple
of years. I know last yearbecause it was your fortieth anniversary as Big
Brothers Big Sisters, so we wentback to the eighties and we had an
Eighties night. The year before itwas the Roaring twenties. Do you have
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a theme picked out for this yearyet? Yes, we have decided to
go with a glamorous, Hollywood likekind of Oscars theme. Oh okay,
so red Carpet's going to be veryglamorous, very I mean, just a
lot of fun. But yeah,no, I'm really looking forward to that.
And now tell us the website againso someone can go again if they're
interested in becoming a big if they'reinterested in making a donation or even a
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monthly donation, or if they justwant to stay caught up with more info
on these events, where should theygo to find that big bro dot com.
And then how do we find youon social media? Look up big
Brothers, Big Sisters of the Ozarks. We're on Facebook, We're on Instagram,
TikTok, LinkedIn, follow us everywhere. We're posting about our matches,
our match anniversaries, we post aboutour events, just all the volunteer opportunities,
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everything you could look for. SoI imagine you'll be able to see
some photos and videos from Ozark's Beerfeston the social media accounts too, if
you can't be there in person,but you should definitely try to be there
in person. I do want togo back to we were talking about some
of the new samples that'll be there, like the NA beers and all that
are there. Do you know howthat's working. Is there gonna be like
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a section of that or is itlike different breweries that provide INNA. Will
it just be there? Do wehave to look for it? What's that
going to look like? Yeah,you have to look around for it.
I actually usually organize the event basedon the distributors. So I have like
a booth area that's the independent brewersand the home brewers, and then I
have another area that's Will Fisher breweriesand then another area heard of America Breakthrough,
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so you kind of have to lookaround for those, same with the
Seltzers too, uh huh. Okay, So it's all kind of mixed in.
So that's good to know if you'regoing in, because you know,
I do have a lot of friendsthat aren't the biggest beer drinkers, but
I know they like the Seltzers.I know they like the ciders. So
that's kind of nice that it's kindof all mixed in together because then you're
still getting the same experience of gettingto go to all these different booths and
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seeing all the different local breweries andall the so okay, I like that.
So it's a good opportunity to walkaround. There's gonna be casino games.
Are you doing the beer walk again? I know, you a beer
walk like basically think of a cakewalk, but it's for six packs of beer.
That was super fun. Yes,yeah, yeah, we'll have the
beer walk again, and we'll alsohave the steinholding competition. Yes, I
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almost forgot about the traditional beer Festgames. Those are like a big reason
to go to beer Fest. Yes, and then we have the People's choice
voting and from last year, ourfirst second and third winners are the breakout
session leaders this year. So forVIP, we offer thirty minute educational breakout
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sessions and so those are spaced outthroughout the event and they're only available to
VIP, and they're also very exclusive, like thirty people can attend one breakout
session, but we'll have one ledby wire Road, one led by Turkey
Creek, and one led by BanterBrewing. So and do you know what
they're covering it what their breakout sessionsare going to be. I'm still getting
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that information confirmed, but basically they'regoing to be bringing a sample of beer
and some of them will be alsopairing with food and talking about like I
don't know the ins and out ofbrewing or pairing, honestly, it's totally
up to them on what they wantto present on, but I know that
it has to do with beer.And for anybody that's interested in like brewing
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or home brewing, they should definitelyget the VIP tickets and be there.
I'm basically thinking of any brewery tourI've done, like at Mothers or like
you know, I'm from outside ofSaint Louis. They're doing the big ones
up at Anheuser bush. I feellike, if you love that kind of
thing where you're learning about it,these breakout sessions are going to be for
you absolutely, all right, Ozericspearfestdot com. So you can get those
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VIP tickets. Do you still like, where are we at? Are there
still plenty of VIP tickets available forpeople to buy for now? For now,
that week of the event leading upto the event is when like fifty
percent of people buy their tickets.So do not wait because we will run
out probably before the event starts.And don't wait on the app party tickets
because I would hate to miss outon seeing Nick Rule. And are you
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coming? Oh? I'll be thereall right, Yeah, I'm gonna be
there. Do you guys have anythingelse planned after ozark Spearfest or is this
kind of like the one opportunity wehave to come and see a show in
the near future? Well? Actually, uh, Ned of course lives in
Florida now, so he's going tocome down. We're going to play this
gig and then we're going to talkabout it. You know, I mean
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why not? You know, we'vewe've been playing together for years and years
and years and years, and youknow, we might do it again.
It's fun. Do you have awebsite or social media where people can come
follow you and stay updated on whatyou guys decide to do. Oh of
course not. No, we know. Well you're personal. You'll post about
it, right, Yeah, I'llpost about it. I'll post about it.
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But Nick Sibley doesn't believe in theinternet and it exists, no,
he well you know, and soyeah, I'll make sure and let everybody
know. Fantastic, it all befun, It all be really fun.
And then you mentioned it briefly earlierand we got right back to big brothers,
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big sisters. But Play It Forwardis your organization that helps give instruments
to kids? Well, yes,I don't want to. I don't want
to usurup any momentum here. Areyou sure? Absolutely? Every charity deserves
the time. Well, and thisis really weird because while I've been sitting
here listening to Lizzie and you talk, I uh well, as last year
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Rick Snelson or year before last RickSnelson that used own CARFI started our local
Play It Forward Southwest Missouri is whatit's called. We operate under the auspices
of Saint Louis. Play At ForwardSaint Louis. Our goal is to one
put instruments in the hands of childrenthat cannot afford them or you know,
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their parents can't afford them. Andthat's pretty much it. And you know,
because I know from seeing kids growup, Well, look at Ned,
he's brilliant. You know, peoplethat study music they learn a lot
of things that people that don't don't. Yeah, you know, I mean
it's you think spatially, you thinkpredictively, you think you know, I
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mean, there's just a music's agreat thing. And you know, if
you find a good musician, they'resmart too. Oh yeah, you know,
we heard that you were almost amath teacher. So now I know
that brain is working in a waymine doesn't. So but yeah, and
actually, what I was thinking aboutwhile hearing about Big Brothers Big Sisters was
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the opportunity maybe that we can helpwith some of your kids that may need
an instrument. Potentially we serve allthe kids, and a lot of them
have different hobbies and interest but Ican definitely, Yeah, ask our program
if we have any kidd ohs thatyeah, we qualify through through teachers.
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We don't you know, a momand dad can't call me up to say
we want an instrument because they youknow, we just want to make sure
that the instruments are going where theyneed to go because they're expensive. But
if you have someone that absolutely youknow, would like to play an instrument
and they can't afford it, giveme a well, now, how can
the community help play it forward makesure that they're getting these instruments to kids?
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Is it? Can we give youdonations? Is there a website?
I am well yes, and butbe watching for it because we are re
upping after COVID shut us down.I mean that we couldn't go see kids,
couldn't deliver instruments, couldn't do anything. So we're just now gearing up
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for this fall. So I'll postit on my social media. And thanks
for letting me talk of it.Yeah, thank you. Okay, how
do we find you on social media? I know it's rule is are you
e? Yes? Is it justlook for rule on Facebook? Well,
no, it's it's rule Chapel.It couldn't be any harder. And you
know it's are you e l L? Last name? C ch A P
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P E l L. All right, we'll find you on Facebook so we
can stay caught up with play itforward and so we can stay caught up
with Nick, Rule and Ned theband because after Ozark's Beerfest, we want
to know if you're performing again.We are coming to the end of our
time this morning. Rule and Lizzie, thank you so much for joining me.
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of theOzarks. Go to their website to
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make that donation or to become amentor ozark'sbeerfest dot com to get your beer
fest tickets before those are gone.Lizzy, is there anything else that we
need to let the community know aboutbefore beer Fest? Yeah? Last thing.
A lot of people are scared tosign up to be a big.
So if you know somebody that wouldmake a great big just tell them.
It's so easy. But like thatlittle bit of confidence from one person to
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another can inspire them to sign upto be a big. So yeah,
yeah, just when you're looking around, when you're talking to your friends and
family, let them know if theywould make a great big because it makes
a difference. Awesome. Save thewebsite one more time, Bigbro dot com,
Big Bro dot com. All right, we'll see you at beer Fest.
Good morning, and welcome to iHeartthe Ozarks. A chance that your Springfield
iHeart Radio stations take every week totalk to organizations and people in our community
that are helping in a big way. That's why I'm so excited to have
Lizzie with Big Brothers, Big Sistersof the Ozarks here this morning. Lizzy,
how are you? I'm great?How are you? I'm doing great?
And we actually have another special guestthat we'll introduce here in a second,
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because before we get to just bigBrothers, Big Sisters overall and ways
that the community involved, you havea big event coming up, So tell
us all about Ozark's beer Fest.Oh I'd love to all right, So
Ozark's Beer Fest is the region's largestbeer event and it's beer samples one out
samples of beer. But all youhave to do is pay for the ticket
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and you get unlimited samples for thewhole event, which for VIP is noon
to four or for general admission isone to four, so you can get
a lot of drinking done in thattime. Yeah, and our special guest
likes that because he's going to bea part of the Ozark's beer Fest after
party. So rule with Ozark MountainDaredevils, and of course Nick Rol and
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Ned the Band. Right, thankyou so much for joining us this morning.
How are you doing it. I'mjust fine, just I'm really excited
about getting the band back together.Yeah. So we're I feel like we're
gonna kind of do this a littlebackwards because let's talk about the after party.
This is a new thing for Ozark'sBeerfest, So we'll get more into
the details of beer Fest so thatyou can make sure and attend that and
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make sure you're benefiting big brothers,big sisters that way. But this is
the first time you're ever doing anafter party with this event, right,
Lizzie. Yes. Yeah. Beforeprior we used to do like a backyard
bash the night before, and thenwe turned it into a poker tournament the
night before, and ultimately that pokertournament just wasn't taken off like we wanted
it. So we were looking forother opportunities to have another event connected to
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beer Fest, and when we gotin touch with Nick Rule and Net the
Band, I mean, we wereso excited to have them and bring them
on for a first time ever afterparty out Rule. You guys are gonna
be performing a concert after Ozark SpirarFast, what can we expect? What's
the plan? We are gonna hardcharge through an hour of just laughing and
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goofing around. I mean, youknow, that's what made this band so
much fun was we were never thatserious about anything, you know, and
just we joked with the crowd.We laughed with the crowd, We got
people out there, played, youknow, we gave away things. Lizzie's
finding me some some gifts for namethat tune, and so you know,
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it'll it'll just be so fun.It was. It was the only place
besides the Daredevils. They're much alike, but Nick and I need I mean
we had we played for forty fiveyears, you know, and and just
had a ball every day. Soyou know, that's what we're gonna do.
Now. What made you decide tohelp out with this event? Is
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big brothers, big sister something thatis important to you or you know you
all are from this community, sowhat does giving back mean to you?
Right? Well, actually the reasonLizzie just called, you know, or
Dwight right and when they said,well we want Nick and ruling Ned the
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band to play again, I thoughtthat's really cool. We're going to have
we'll have a ball, you know. So any I think I have to
give the credit to Steve Drury.He was the first one to speak up
and say I want Nick Nick RulanNet the band to come yes, and
he was like, I know,dw I I know how to make this
happen. I'm going to make thishappen before I retire. And he did
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it. So I just have togive him a shout out. It was
sweet. And so anyway, we'relooking. We have a lot of people
used to come see us and they'reall old now, you know, But
that's okay. I turned seventy yesterday, Nick, seventy one, so you
know, age is just a number. Well it is today. I mean,
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I don't feel seventy, I don't, you know, But I think
it's what I've been doing with mylot that's helped me not do that.
But anyway, as far as thesampling of beer, I don't do that
anymore, but I'm sure gonna havefun watching other people do it. I
was gonna say, how do youfeel about your crowd is going to be
having free beer samples for hours beforethey come to see you play? People
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drink beer? You know around usall forever, and they be kind of
you know, they have a goodtime. That's all we want for them
to have a great time. AndBig Brothers Big Sisters. By the way,
I was actually on the board,were you really Yes, that's amazing.
Yes, back in seventeen hundreds,I was on, and that's truth.
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I was on. And I alwayshad a thing for Big Brothers Big
Sisters because it's about kids. Andcurrently I have play at Forward, which
is a charity where we give instrumentsto kids that can't afford them. So
we give away about thirty thousand dollarsworth of instruments a year. So I
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love doing these things. I lovedanything, and especially if it's kids.
You know, rule, Do youhave a story about how you have seen
Big Brothers Big Sisters have an impacton a real life kid? Oh well,
I mean I probably more than one. A lot of the people in
Big Brothers Big Sisters, the kidsthat remembered us went ahead to come see
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us play, and I can't remember. I mean that was a long time
ago. I can't remember any exactnames, but I can guarantee that we
have kids that have grown up betteroff because someone kind of thought they were
special and talked to them and itmade all the difference in their lives.
Well, that leads in perfectly toanother thing I do want to talk about,
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and that is the importance of BigBrothers Big Sisters as an organization.
Because obviously Ozarkspearfest is so fun andits event I look forward to year.
But what the cause is what we'reactually helping by showing up and drinking these
beer samples, Lizzie, Let's talkabout that, Like, what's the mission
with Big Brothers Big Sisters? Right, So, Big Brothers Big Sisters matches
children with adult volunteers in one toone mentor relationships and so, like rule
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touched on, it really ultimately helpsthe kid feel a lot better about themselves,
have a better outlook on life,just knowing that, like, hey,
if this person you know is wherethey're at, and like they're not
just a parent, they're a friend, there's somebody else who's taking that time
to invest in them and tell themthat they are special, they are important,
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they are heard, and that theirpotential is limitless. And that's all
we're about at Big Brothers Big Sisters. We defend potential and we ignite it.
I love that phrasing. Yeah,good phrase. Yeah. Now someone
listening right now say there may bekind of like, oh well, that
sounds important. I would like tomake kids feel that way. How can
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they get involved and be a volunteer. What is the time commitment, What
are the requirements? What does thatlook like? Yeah, so we do
have a lot of requirements, butthey're pretty straightforward. Obviously, just don't
be like a criminal, be olderthan eighteen years old, be living in
this area, but ultimately just bewilling to be a friend to a kid.
It's really not that big of acommitment. I think for community based
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it's like four to eight hours amonth, you know, so just meeting
up a couple times a month andfor lunch buddies thirty minutes a week.
You just go to their school,have lunch with them once a week and
that's it during the school year.So like it's such a small commitment,
but it's such a big deal inthe kid's life. Where does someone go
to apply to be a big bigbrother or sister. Yeah, absolutely so
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it's big bro dot com, Supereasy, big bro dot Com. You
go there, you apply to learnmore and essentially there's a rigorous interview process,
so you might not get matched fora month or two, but once
you are, like it's it's alittle slow, maybe at first because you're
just meeting that person for the firsttime. But I've seen some of these
relationships last a lifetime and it's justbeautiful to see that now for someone who's
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maybe not even though it doesn't soundlike as big of a commitment as you
might think, you know, withjust you said the thirty minutes a week
for lunch buddies or a few hoursa month for the actual mentor but maybe
someone's not ready to quite take thatstep, but they still love what Big
Brothers Big Sisters does. Are thereother ways that people can help? Absolutely
absolutely so, by coming to eventslike Ozark's vere Fest, or signing up
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to be a monthly matchmaker and youknow, just give monthly, even five
dollars a month. It makes adifference because the littles in our program,
they don't pay to be in ourprogram. The adults they don't pay either,
and we don't expect them to payfor everything for the kid while they're
hanging out out in the community,So we try to provide all that funding
for them to go out and todo things at no additional cost to them.
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Do you also have volunteer opportunities,say at Ozark Spearfest. Yes,
thank you for bringing that up.We actually need a lot of help.
Being the region's largest beer sampling event, we are looking for at least fifteen
to like twenty more volunteers, Soif anybody is willing, definitely head to
Ozarkspearfest dot com. There's a volunteertab where you can look at the shifts
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and sign up. There's some shiftsthat are part of the event, So
if you want to like work thefirst half and then drink the second half
of the event, we'll throw afree ticket your way. I'm happy to
do that. And for those whoare willing to be a beer poor for
the event, don't worry. You'llstill get a chance to sample the beers.
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We just asked that all volunteers aretwenty one are older. Well,
and let's talk about Ozark Spearfest againbecause it is coming up Saturday, April
twenty seventh, and this year it'sover at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds. So
you know, if people have beenattending in years past, I know I've
tried to go every year I canwhat can we expect, what's going to
be different, what's going to bethe same. What do we have to
look forward to? Yeah, soone big difference, like you mentioned was
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the fair grounds. We are movingfrom the ExpoCenter to the fair grounds will
be at the Eplex East Hall.So when you get there, free parking
nice, right, and then youhead on in, we'll get you through
check in and then yeah, Ithink we've got a little bit bigger of
a space, so gonna put somemore booths in. There're gonna have some
extra games. We're actually introducing casinogames this year, first time ever,
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so there'll be a few tables toplay some casino type games I believe,
like craps and roulette, and thatway you can earn more Raffle tickets to
put into the Raffle, which wehave like probably eight to ten prizes lined
up that are over two hundred andfifty dollars value, So yeah, you
could pay to play and then turnaround and win a big prize from that.
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So that's really cool. We'll havemerched there and then for VIP they'll
be in the Center Hall kind ofremoved from the East Hall. So that's
a new and one thing that's actuallyreally different this year. We won't have
any food sampling out in general admission, So if you buy a general admission
ticket, just know that you'll probablyhave to spend some money to buy food.
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However, the concession stand will behelping to go back to Big Brothers,
Big Sisters of the Ozek. Soyou know, even when you spend
money at the event, you knowthat all that additional money is coming back
to our organization. That's cool.But on the other hand, VIP,
you spend a little bit more,food will be included and okay, there
will be a couple of different selections. Okay, So just as a reminder
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of VIP tickets gets you access atnoon all the way through the event at
for and you have that special VIParea with food. General admission is going
to be one to four and youhave access to all the sampling and then
the concessions that you can. That'sawesome that the concessions are gonna give back
to Big Brothers Big Sisters too.I love to hear that. Now with
the after party where Nick Rule andNed the band will be performing, how
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do you get access to the afterparty so you can go go ahead and
pre buy your tickets right now forten dollars each, and if you wait
until the day of the event,they're actually going to be twenty dollars each.
But essentially, just make sure tobuy your ticket. You'll get an
extra risk band for that after party, and at four we'll start kicking everybody
out except for those people with therisk bands to stay for the after party.
Is the after party going to bein a different part at the euplex.
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It'll be in the VIP area thatcenter hall. Yeah, And I
had a question and it left becausenow I'm just really excited about the thought
of the after party. Oh isspace limited? Yes? Yes, space
is limited. So just like withVIP, we only have an limited supply
of tickets, so after party wealso have a limited supply. I think
we've already sold about fifty tickets andwe'll max out at six hundred. So
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now, can someone just get ticketsto the after party? Say they've got
something else going on earlier in theday, they can't make it to beer
Fest, but they really want tocome and see nikerel and Ned the band
play. They can do that.Yes, And furthermore, if somebody that's
under the age of twenty one wantsto come and see the band play.
They can just come for the afterparty, okay, but since that space
is limited, I would get yourtickets for the after party now, and
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tickets for any and all tickets dowe go to Ozarkspearfest dot com. Yes,
can you buy them in person anywhere? Technically, if you come to
the Big Brothers Big Sister's office,I could issue you some tickets, but
all the tickets are virtual this year, so I highly recommend if you can
navigate the website and buy your ticketsonline, please do that. If you
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are desperate and cannot figure it out, please feel free to call our office
or stop buy and we'll help youout all right. Ozark Spearfest, coming
up April twenty seventh at the OzarkEmpire Fairgrounds, is a fantastic way to
help Big Brothers Big Sisters of theOzarks because your ticket goes back. If
you buy concessions, it goes back. If you can make it to the
after party, that ticket goes back. And then again, don't forget that
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there are those volunteer opportunities, soit's a chance for you to help that
way and then also get access toozark Spearfest h just for your the price
of avolunteering, so ozrespearfest dot comfor all the info. I'm really excited
about the after party this year.Rule is there. You've already been telling
us so many stories before we crackedthe micros and started the show this morning.
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What what is something that you lookforward to about performing live? What
is something that you love about beingable to perform here in Springfield in your
community? Like? What are youlooking forward to about this autum? Oh?
I'm looking forward to see all ourold friends. I mean, you
know, there's still people alive thatcame to see Nick and I and we
hope that they all show up.And you know who you are. Don't
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make us come get you and weyou know, we'll just have a good
time. We'll just do a Nickand Rule and ned the band thing.
What can you give us a littlesneak peak of what might be on the
set list? Oh well, wellone more minute? Uh of course,
we uh, we haven't decided yet. If you know, if we're going
to do that, you catch it, you keep it. Thing. That's
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where we we push appliances off theroof and if people can catch them,
they can keep them. But soand then we'll be doing everything. We'll
be doing Audrey and mister Hammond's andall the goofy songs we used to do
and had the band on parade.I'm sure, and it's gonna it's gonna
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be a ball. Well, I'mlooking forward to it really a lot.
Are you do you think? Areyou gonna try anything new? Or you
know what? We never script Wehave never scripted a night ever. We
just start and you know, thenwe between the three of us, we
come up with good segways and youknow, and it's just one of the
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That's why I love I love theseguys, Nick, and that is because
they we were. We had funevery time we played, Like the Daredevils.
We have fun every time we play. That's you know, if you're
not doing it, you need toget in another line of business, you
know. So, But yeah,come out, yell, let us a
song. We'll try it, andif we fail, big deal. You
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know. That's that's the way weplay. I don't think we ever played
a song from front to end inour entire career of forty five. Somewhere
between forty five and fifty years.I don't know somewhere. Well, I
was so excited. I know yousaid that you won't be partaking in the
one ounce beer sampless leading up toyour show, But do you think we
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can expect to see a nick Netor Rule appearance at all at beer Fest?
Will you? You think you'll kindof walk around ahead of time and
maybe Iglore? Oh yeah, nextSibley. Look out for him. If
you see him wandering around, don'tmake eye contact. But yeah, shoot,
I want to see everybody. Imean, you know, when you
get to be seventy years old,every day is and you know that's a
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big deal if you get to seesomebody and have a good time. So
that's what we're doing. Yeah,and you know, honestly, there's other
things to sample too, Like ifyou don't drink beer, there's seltzers,
there's ciders, there's non alcoholic beersfor people to sample. This year,
for the first time ever, we'regonna have a kombucha booth. Yes,
kombucha brewery here in Springfield reached outto me and they're called spring Branch.
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I was just gonna say because that'smy favorite brand of kombucha, and actually
I believe they serve that at likewire Road and some of the other brewery.
Brewery also, I've never had whatyou like. Kombucha is like vinegary
right, Like it's kind of tart. It's like a carbonated kind of tart
beverage. But you can like there'slike they do like a lavender one.
They do these kind of unexpected flavors. It's very neat, it's very good.
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I enjoy it. So I'm excitedthat they'll be there to sample so
other wise I can try it.Yeah, first time ever having a kombucha
booth, but that'll be really exciting. And then I know, like Monster
Energy Drink, they'll be there withtheir line of hard like teas. I
think I didn't even know they hadthat, right, Like, I didn't
know either until they're like, hey, we want to be at beer Fest,
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and I was like absolutely yes,Right. What are some of the
other local breweries that we can expect, Oh, pretty much almost all of
them. We have wire Road,we have Banter Brewing, Great Escape,
Gosh, Springfield Brewco, Bricktown Brewery, I mean pretty much all the local
ones you can think of, They'regoing to be there. Okay, that's
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exciting. But then you'll also havesome like bigger brands, some more you
know national brands. Yeah. Yeah, we're working with our distributors, will
Fisher, Heart of America, BreakthroughBEV, and they're they're going to provide
some national brands. Let's give ashout out to some of the sponsors because
I know a lot of the sponsors. They come to meetings leading up to
they help find prizes for the raffles. They are providing the beer that we
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get to sample. So who aresome of the other sponsors that we need
to say thank you to? Oh, big, big thank you to Price
Cutter, our ultimate and presenting sponsor. They are just amazing in everything they
do. I believe their booth isgoing to be in the VIP area this
year, so just another reason togive VIP no. They're really great to
work with. We also have amazingsponsors such as Commerce Bank VIP area sponsor.
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Let's see Springfield Auto. They're KeiaNissan formerly Young Blood Industrial Services Company,
Relics Antique mal there. It's justthere's so many sponsors. Cool to
hear how many great organizations and companiesin our community show up to help big
brothers, Big sisters, in thisway, and I know you can see
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a full list of the sponsors atbeerfest dot com. Are you still taking
any sponsors or can someone reach outto you if they maybe want to get
involved next year? Definitely, definitelyreach out If we can pull it off
this year, I'll try, butwith the event being so close, it'll
probably be next year. Ozar Speerfestdot Com. You also have you know,
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this is I hate to pick favorites, but Beerfest is my favorite event
that you throw. But you dodo some other things throughout the years.
So will you just kind of giveus a quick overview of that so we
can start planning for other ways toand help Big Brothers Big Sisters. Yeah,
so, Big Brothers Big Sisters doesa lot of events. One of
our biggest, longest running events isbull for kid's sake. We work with
specific companies such as like SRC,John Dee or Walmart. We recruit teams,
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we go to andy Bee's and wejust have two hours of fun while
we're fundraising, and we end upmaking a lot of money that way.
We also have our annual gala Tasteof the Ozarks. Businesses can or individuals
can buy a table at this galaand attend and we basically at this event
it's a sampling, a food samplingevent, and we also recognize our Bigs
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of the Year, so that's areally fun one. I do also love
Chast of the Oosarks. That's wyIt's hard for me to truly pick a
favorite because you've also done a themewith Chas of the Ozarks the last couple
of years. I know last yearbecause it was your fortieth anniversary as Big
Brothers Big Sisters, so we wentback to the eighties and we had an
Eighties night. The year before itwas the Roaring twenties. Do you have
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a theme picked out for this yearyet? Yes, we have decided to
go with a glamorous, Hollywood likekind of Oscars theme. Oh okay,
so red Carpet's going to be veryglamorous, very I mean, just a
lot of fun. But yeah,no, I'm really looking forward to that.
And now tell us the website againso someone can go again if they're
interested in becoming a big if they'reinterested in making a donation or even a
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monthly donation, or if they justwant to stay caught up with more info
on these events, where should theygo to find that big bro dot com.
And then how do we find youon social media? Look up big
Brothers, Big Sisters of the Ozarks. We're on Facebook, We're on Instagram,
TikTok, LinkedIn, follow us everywhere. We're posting about our matches,
our match anniversaries, we post aboutour events, just all the volunteer opportunities,
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everything you could look for. SoI imagine you'll be able to see
some photos and videos from Ozark's Beerfeston the social media accounts too, if
you can't be there in person,but you should definitely try to be there
in person. I do want togo back to we were talking about some
of the new samples that'll be there, like the NA beers and all that
are there. Do you know howthat's working. Is there gonna be like
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a section of that or is itlike different breweries that provide INNA. Will
it just be there? Do wehave to look for it? What's that
going to look like? Yeah,you have to look around for it.
I actually usually organize the event basedon the distributors. So I have like
a booth area that's the independent brewersand the home brewers, and then I
have another area that's Will Fisher breweriesand then another area heard of America Breakthrough,
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so you kind of have to lookaround for those, same with the
Seltzers too, uh huh. Okay, So it's all kind of mixed in.
So that's good to know if you'regoing in, because you know,
I do have a lot of friendsthat aren't the biggest beer drinkers, but
I know they like the Seltzers.I know they like the ciders. So
that's kind of nice that it's kindof all mixed in together because then you're
still getting the same experience of gettingto go to all these different booths and
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seeing all the different local breweries andall the so okay, I like that.
So it's a good opportunity to walkaround. There's gonna be casino games.
Are you doing the beer walk again? I know, you a beer
walk like basically think of a cakewalk, but it's for six packs of beer.
That was super fun. Yes,yeah, yeah, we'll have the
beer walk again, and we'll alsohave the steinholding competition. Yes, I
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almost forgot about the traditional beer Festgames. Those are like a big reason
to go to beer Fest. Yes, and then we have the People's choice
voting and from last year, ourfirst second and third winners are the breakout
session leaders this year. So forVIP, we offer thirty minute educational breakout
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sessions and so those are spaced outthroughout the event and they're only available to
VIP, and they're also very exclusive, like thirty people can attend one breakout
session, but we'll have one ledby wire Road, one led by Turkey
Creek, and one led by BanterBrewing. So and do you know what
they're covering it what their breakout sessionsare going to be. I'm still getting
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that information confirmed, but basically they'regoing to be bringing a sample of beer
and some of them will be alsopairing with food and talking about like I
don't know the ins and out ofbrewing or pairing, honestly, it's totally
up to them on what they wantto present on, but I know that
it has to do with beer.And for anybody that's interested in like brewing
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or home brewing, they should definitelyget the VIP tickets and be there.
I'm basically thinking of any brewery tourI've done, like at Mothers or like
you know, I'm from outside ofSaint Louis. They're doing the big ones
up at Anheuser bush. I feellike, if you love that kind of
thing where you're learning about it,these breakout sessions are going to be for
you absolutely, all right, Ozericspearfestdot com. So you can get those
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VIP tickets. Do you still like, where are we at? Are there
still plenty of VIP tickets available forpeople to buy for now? For now,
that week of the event leading upto the event is when like fifty
percent of people buy their tickets.So do not wait because we will run
out probably before the event starts.And don't wait on the app party tickets
because I would hate to miss outon seeing Nick Rule. And are you
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coming? Oh? I'll be thereall right, Yeah, I'm gonna be
there. Do you guys have anythingelse planned after ozark Spearfest or is this
kind of like the one opportunity wehave to come and see a show in
the near future? Well? Actually, uh, Ned of course lives in
Florida now, so he's going tocome down. We're going to play this
gig and then we're going to talkabout it. You know, I mean
(25:25):
why not? You know, we'vewe've been playing together for years and years
and years and years, and youknow, we might do it again.
It's fun. Do you have awebsite or social media where people can come
follow you and stay updated on whatyou guys decide to do. Oh of
course not. No, we know. Well you're personal. You'll post about
it, right, Yeah, I'llpost about it. I'll post about it.
(25:47):
But Nick Sibley doesn't believe in theinternet and it exists, no,
he well you know, and soyeah, I'll make sure and let everybody
know. Fantastic, it all befun, It all be really fun.
And then you mentioned it briefly earlierand we got right back to big brothers,
(26:07):
big sisters. But Play It Forwardis your organization that helps give instruments
to kids? Well, yes,I don't want to. I don't want
to usurup any momentum here. Areyou sure? Absolutely? Every charity deserves
the time. Well, and thisis really weird because while I've been sitting
here listening to Lizzie and you talk, I uh well, as last year
(26:33):
Rick Snelson or year before last RickSnelson that used own CARFI started our local
Play It Forward Southwest Missouri is whatit's called. We operate under the auspices
of Saint Louis. Play At ForwardSaint Louis. Our goal is to one
put instruments in the hands of childrenthat cannot afford them or you know,
(26:55):
their parents can't afford them. Andthat's pretty much it. And you know,
because I know from seeing kids growup, Well, look at Ned,
he's brilliant. You know, peoplethat study music they learn a lot
of things that people that don't don't. Yeah, you know, I mean
it's you think spatially, you thinkpredictively, you think you know, I
(27:21):
mean, there's just a music's agreat thing. And you know, if
you find a good musician, they'resmart too. Oh yeah, you know,
we heard that you were almost amath teacher. So now I know
that brain is working in a waymine doesn't. So but yeah, and
actually, what I was thinking aboutwhile hearing about Big Brothers Big Sisters was
(27:42):
the opportunity maybe that we can helpwith some of your kids that may need
an instrument. Potentially we serve allthe kids, and a lot of them
have different hobbies and interest but Ican definitely, Yeah, ask our program
if we have any kidd ohs thatyeah, we qualify through through teachers.
(28:03):
We don't you know, a momand dad can't call me up to say
we want an instrument because they youknow, we just want to make sure
that the instruments are going where theyneed to go because they're expensive. But
if you have someone that absolutely youknow, would like to play an instrument
and they can't afford it, giveme a well, now, how can
the community help play it forward makesure that they're getting these instruments to kids?
(28:26):
Is it? Can we give youdonations? Is there a website?
I am well yes, and butbe watching for it because we are re
upping after COVID shut us down.I mean that we couldn't go see kids,
couldn't deliver instruments, couldn't do anything. So we're just now gearing up
(28:47):
for this fall. So I'll postit on my social media. And thanks
for letting me talk of it.Yeah, thank you. Okay, how
do we find you on social media? I know it's rule is are you
e? Yes? Is it justlook for rule on Facebook? Well,
no, it's it's rule Chapel.It couldn't be any harder. And you
know it's are you e l L? Last name? C ch A P
(29:12):
P E l L. All right, we'll find you on Facebook so we
can stay caught up with play itforward and so we can stay caught up
with Nick, Rule and Ned theband because after Ozark's Beerfest, we want
to know if you're performing again.We are coming to the end of our
time this morning. Rule and Lizzie, thank you so much for joining me.
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of theOzarks. Go to their website to
(29:33):
make that donation or to become amentor ozark'sbeerfest dot com to get your beer
fest tickets before those are gone.Lizzy, is there anything else that we
need to let the community know aboutbefore beer Fest? Yeah? Last thing.
A lot of people are scared tosign up to be a big.
So if you know somebody that wouldmake a great big just tell them.
It's so easy. But like thatlittle bit of confidence from one person to
(29:56):
another can inspire them to sign upto be a big. So yeah,
yeah, just when you're looking around, when you're talking to your friends and
family, let them know if theywould make a great big because it makes
a difference. Awesome. Save thewebsite one more time, Bigbro dot com,
Big Bro dot com. All right, we'll see you at beer Fest.
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