The Rambling Gypsy

Grief, Grit, and Good Fest

• The Rambling Gypsy • Season 2 • Episode 5

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On this episode of The Rambling Gypsy Podcast, Tiffany sits down with special guest Corey Dement, who started his music career at River Road Ice House in New Braunfels, Texas, and went on to work with renowned bands like Shane Smith and the Saints. Corey’s story is a testament to the importance of connections, hard work, and surrounding yourself with passionate individuals to achieve success in the music industry.

We also commemorate the life of Alan, a talented musician whose journey from Anaheim, California, to Texas was marked by both triumphs and profound challenges, including a rare cancer diagnosis. Through personal stories, we shed light on the incredible community support that rallied around Alan during his health crisis and the lasting impact of his legacy. This heartfelt tribute extends to the origins of Good Fest, an annual charity event that emerged from a tragic loss. 

Mark your calendars for August 4th in New Braunfels, Texas, at Billy's Ice, as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Good Fest, a testament to the enduring spirit of community and collective effort. Join us in making a difference and be part of this incredible journey! 

The Rambling Gypsy podcast is a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of real Texans doing real sh*t. We're pulling back the curtains on our daily lives - and you're invited to laugh and learn along with us.

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Speaker 1:

All right. Hey everybody, welcome to the Rainbow and Gypsy podcast. My name is Tiffany Foy. We are fortunate to be portunate. We are on my porch and today I have Corey Dement. Yes, very cool dude I've known for a very, very long time. Welcome to my porch, yeah this is crazy. Yeah, it's pretty cool huh.

Speaker 2:

You told me you had a studio and I was. Yeah, when I walked in I literally told them. I was like only Tiffany, only Tiffany could shit a porch in the side of a little tiny closet. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I did. It's pretty cool. It's pretty fun. It all kind of came about me and Kel, my buddy Kel Kel. We sit on the porch and we talk, and that's how we solve the world's problems and we decided to kind of bring it to fruition. And here we are so that's, amazing so here's my porch yeah, yeah yeah, so cory and I've known uh, known each other a long time, um in and out of the music scene. Let's tell everybody who is who's cory tell everybody.

Speaker 2:

How'd you get?

Speaker 1:

started in this whole deal. Let's, man, let's go way back when the whole.

Speaker 2:

Oh god, all the way back would be. I was barbacking at river road ice house uh nick's a slant, you know nick. And then back back when, uh, there were good venues in new brownfield.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there you go, owned by good people um.

Speaker 2:

He gave me so many opportunities and I started barbacking there and um, I knew I always wanted to work in music and never really knew how to get into it, like I thought you had to be born into the band basically Born into the industry right and then worked every type of gig Nick would give me, whether it was merch or show running or stage managing whatever for whoever. And it was like people coming through River Road were like Everclear and Night Ranger and Tanya, tucker and Tracy.

Speaker 1:

Lawrence and all these people. Good old days, yeah, the good old days.

Speaker 2:

Good old days, yeah, yeah back when it was very much like the new Nashville here.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then, over the course of the time, it's like you know, like when you get into music, you meet one person who knows another person who knows another person Right? And if you do a good job, they recommend you, and then it's just this trickle effect this circle of life, kind of in the music world. Yeah Right, I was dating Alan for a couple of years, who you know we're doing Good Fest for and I met a lot of people like Matt Briggs and Zach.

Speaker 1:

Walter through him.

Speaker 2:

I met, oh my gosh, tony Taylor, gillum, austin Gillum, I'm going blank, because there were so many people, there's so many, so yeah, so let me.

Speaker 1:

We'll just back up a little bit. So you guys know that I'm from New Braunfels, texas, and that's what we're talking about. So we have a venue, river Road Ice House, which is on the corner of River Road and kind of the way the River Road goes, it comes out on the loop and then if you go to the right, right there on the corner is River Road Ice House and that turns into Waco Springs Loop, so it kind of splits, so it's kind of awkward. But right, there is a music venue that has been owned by several different owners at the time, but he is talking about kind of the middle guy that had it at the time, nick Sasoyan, and a very good friend of both of ours and the whole family and what have you? And that's where Corey started, and that's where Corey got to really meet, and how old were you then?

Speaker 2:

I was 18 when I met Nick, and then, when my sister got married, I was 20. And then when I met so like my current job is with Shane Smith and the Saints. And I met Shane through, like having met all these local people and working so many events. I met Dale Martin, the writer for the Herald, who introduced me to Judy Hubbard, who's Ray Wiley's wife, and for years and years, like I always worked full time I would do.

Speaker 1:

I mean, you remember I would, yeah, bar back I did shows I'd work full-time I worked, you know, five jobs at a time.

Speaker 2:

You did, but I never have never went full-time into music because um because it's scary as shit.

Speaker 1:

First of all, no, because I'm not an idiot you know, right?

Speaker 2:

yeah, I just I needed to uh if I knew if I was going to do it like it had to be with a project I believed in. Right, because you have to watch the show every night.

Speaker 1:

You are very dedicated to what you do. Definitely Every project that you do and I've met a lot of people in different avenues have a bunch of businesses and help and do along the way. But that's one thing I can say about you is when you go, you go hard and you put in not 100%, 200, 300, 400, 500% and that's really epic. Your work ethic is very impressive.

Speaker 2:

Well, I mean you know, like that core group of New Braunfels people from when we we've known each other at least 10 years. Oh, yeah, and that core group of us from all these years like it's not like competitive among us but it's when you're around those, like when I'm around you and I see what you're doing, when I'm around you and I see what you're doing, I'm like I can go harder. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

It's like you got to surround yourself with that, because if you surround yourself with, which I've done in my past. If you surround yourself with, are we allowed to cuss on the podcast? If you surround yourself with fucking bullshit, your life is going to be fucking bullshit.

Speaker 2:

I got the big E on there.

Speaker 1:

And yeah, you're going to need to check in situation.

Speaker 2:

Yeah and blah, blah blah. So yeah, it's just tell us your feelings, son. Tell us like I got a lot. I had a lot of offers in my early 20s to go out with bands but, to be honest with you, I didn't like them as people, right, I just and that's a huge factor and anything in my life like money's never really been a driving factor for me. I've always legitimately been like what's cool or what can help people passionate, or what do I like you?

Speaker 2:

know, because I, you know, if I pull out of here today and get hit by an 18 wheeler, did I do what I want to do. And honestly, yes, I'm talking to you on a podcast, hell yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's so funny, that's that is a very, very valid point, because I had.

Speaker 1:

I do it on the on the weekends at the river, when I talk to kids. I was just telling them because we drink Hampton water, we love Hampton water, which is Bon Jovi's rosé, and I have that on the resort and we've come up with this amazing recipe and we have frosés and I'm working the bar down there and I'm making this mixture and I'm writing it down and because our machines are so big it's we've had to come up with a concoction that can come in. You know, that could go in this. They're sending these recipes to me and I'm like, yeah, that's like for a party of four. I've got a party of 400 that I'm trying to build this to and I tell the kids all the time. I said you know, if I get hit by a truck or a train, y'all need to know how to mix this.

Speaker 2:

I mean, I'm trying this is a full-on thing, so I need a recipe.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yes, it's like my hidden deal, but you guys need to know how to do and and you know what do you want to be known for when you leave here, what are your, what is your story, what are you leaving everybody with? And that's one thing, that, yeah yeah, I talk about it all the time I feel like I'm I think about it, I'm all right.

Speaker 2:

If that happens in terms of I talk to, like the people I love the most about this. All the time it's like I'm not really trying to leave, like I don't really care about my name being talked about when I'm gone because it's like you know, like who really fucking cares what I did yeah but I hope that my name like we're doing with Alan with Good Fest is like I hope the name Corey could be synonymous with like we could use his name and people would want to use his memory to help other people exactly you know and that's all.

Speaker 2:

I think that's all you can ask for as a person, in all honesty.

Speaker 1:

I agree a million percent um, it's the biggest.

Speaker 2:

the biggest thing we can do while we're here is help people, and it's people always ask like they probably ask you too, like where do you get the time?

Speaker 1:

It's like well.

Speaker 2:

I fucking wake up and I do it yeah. Like you know that two hours that you're sitting on your ass doing something.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I was doing six fucking tasks.

Speaker 2:

I've already moved. Yeah, I've already moved. I will always be five step ahead of you.

Speaker 1:

I'm already moved on to the. Yeah, I totally get it.

Speaker 2:

You've got that mentality or you don't, and it's, you know, I've. I've separated myself the last few years from a lot of people that don't, and if any of them, if people take offense to that, then they probably should take a look inward, honestly, because I agree I've done a lot of self-reflecting the last few years. Yep, you've known me at my worst like lowest points and you know me now and I'm 100% changed yeah, to watch you.

Speaker 1:

Blossom has been a true, yeah, it's been a true honor and I'm so proud of you for, yeah, thank you for watching you grow, I mean you and you've always just been like a champion of anything and supported since the first good fest absolutely any project ever.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so you guys have heard me mention the last couple of times, the last two weeks on the podcast, we've talked about Good Fest, we've kind of started spreading the word, and so you reached out to us again and said, hey, look, it's time to bring it back, and the guy that Good Fest is in honor of is Alan Goodman. And so tell everybody about Alan Goodman and how, how you guys fit into the whole how this started because it's a beautiful story.

Speaker 2:

So Alan was um man. He is truly, and this is not because he's gone, I'm saying this. I, to this day, have never heard someone say a bad thing when they speak about him, never, never. Like and it because I know like I'll walk out of here and somebody will say, like, what a fucking idiot you know, like nobody's even said that about him.

Speaker 2:

No, but like I you know, so my sister and alan met because my they were. They just met when he was playing a show and started dating and then, um, like I was saying, where was he from? He's originally from, I believe, uh anaheim, california.

Speaker 1:

Okay like la, okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's originally from cal, I believe, anaheim, california. Okay, like LA. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

He's originally from California and then moved here to pursue music because he'd heard you know about the Texas music scene. Right At the time he had. You know he was pretty popular locally. He'd play back in the day when the best bar in town besides Billy's Tavern was open, yep, when George owned happy hours. I'll never forget those Thursdays five to seven, you'd be sitting in a corner like that Every time I'd walk in.

Speaker 2:

when he started dating my sister, the thing me and him bonded on was Motley Crue. I'm an 80s hair metal junkie I know I look like I listen to Kidz Bop or something.

Speaker 1:

We all know that we talk about my looks and how they change all the time. You can never judge a book by its cover.

Speaker 2:

You and how they change all the time. You can never judge a book by its cover. You do not know. Oh God, no, yeah, it's all right. If people only knew how gangster it was. I'm going to get you a wig, corey. I'm going to get you a big hair wig.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm down. We're going to rock it. I'm down with it. Yeah, get the bow and everything.

Speaker 2:

Hell started dating and then I would go watch him and we got to be pretty close. But I used to love watching him at thursdays at tavern because every time I'd walk in he'd be like mid-song and one of my favorite memories was some old lady was listening to him playing. I walked in. He would always stop mid-song and just go oh shit. What's up, cory?

Speaker 1:

and then start playing home sweet home. Right, he would literally just go to another song and this, oh damn, I'll tell you that story off podcast.

Speaker 2:

But yeah, basically, like I mean, he was dating my sister, they got engaged, got married, everything was good, um, and then when he was uh, you know I'm thinking about a year into their marriage, he just, uh, his appendix ruptured and he didn't have health insurance. So he'd been waiting and waiting but he had the pain. So when it ruptured they went to the ER. And the crazy thing was, when his appendix ruptured, I guess he had some super rare form of cancer on it. And when the appendix ruptured. It went all over his stomach.

Speaker 2:

Gotcha so it spread, so the community organized an event called Psychopathy. Red Responds, which is his favorite video game, was the Halo series on Xbox Okay, okay. So they would do the Master Chief logo and who's the main character of that? And they had like Adam Hood, cody Kanda, roger Krager, rick Bowen, brie Batch, like it was insane, the damn quails. Yeah, and this isn't like you know, like this is when it was prime. Right, it was like when Texas music was like the.

Speaker 1:

Thing.

Speaker 2:

And it was like to the, I think until actually until Miracle Jam last year. It was the single biggest day that we did.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we did.

Speaker 2:

It was the single biggest single day charity event in history.

Speaker 1:

It was.

Speaker 2:

So my sister and him used that money. He went and got treatment and was told that he was in remission. So we were all like, oh, that money. He went got treatment and was told that he was in remission. So we were all like, oh, and then I think it was two weeks after that he they're like it's come back way more aggressive. And then four weeks later, um, I was on a plane to murfreesboro, tennessee, running down a hallway and turned the corner and he was dead, you know. And so when he passed away, my sister, this was uh, 24, is it?

Speaker 1:

This was 10 years ago, now 10 years ago, fuck yeah, I know.

Speaker 2:

My sister, like I was 23 when Alan passed away.

Speaker 1:

How far apart are you and your sister in age Three years?

Speaker 2:

Three years, okay, got you, but you know me and my sister. We fight like cats and dogs. Right, I'll fucking kill somebody for her. Yeah, she's the same way with me, we're just two very similar personalities, but I had never known devastation in a human's life. I saw my sister to where somebody's completely broken, like where their soul's broken, you know losing your husband. You know there's different types of loss, but that one was pretty insane. There is different types of loss.

Speaker 2:

You know I'm not weighing one against the other, but I know that I've never heard a sound like what my sister made when he passed away right ever again, and I hope I never do right but, um, you know, when I saw that and then like the medical bills piling up, I I, I flew back, my parents stayed in murfreesboro with ashley and then I flew back um and I met with like briggs and zach walter and all them and I was like man, we should do like a.

Speaker 2:

You know, we're gonna do a memorial, we do a fundraiser or something, and we're just call it good fest and just throw a fucking party party for this and the whole idea was between his parents with the funeral expenses and my sister with the remaining medical bills was to raise enough money to help to help pay off exactly and so 2014, like good fest was born, and it was meant to be like a one-time thing because it happened a month after he passed away in j out of.

Speaker 2:

River Road Right and we did it and it was a big big thing and I remember the thing that night at the end of the night. We always kind of get a little crazy at the end of the night, oh yeah, but I remember everybody leaving we accomplished so much, doing that whole thing yeah.

Speaker 1:

I mean, we all came together, like I've said several times, when we were talking about it watching. I don't know that there is a place in the world that comes together like our town does there's not, there's not.

Speaker 2:

I mean I've got chills just thinking about I have literal goosebumps.

Speaker 1:

Well, you're talking about different kinds of loss and talking about when you and Zach Walther talked and met. You know they also had a huge loss in their family. The next year, which the next year it was linens, so that two years was so crazy because it was like literally I'm gonna have to go home and shave my legs after this podcast, because y'all are not gonna feel the pines coming out.

Speaker 2:

Settle down, yup yeah, but uh, yeah, like. So, good fest 2014. It was meant, like I said, to be a one-time thing right thing at the end of the night of that first one. People kept saying like you should make this a regular thing, like like this could help a lot of people a lot of thought about it I was like, yeah, we should keep it going because, um, like a, why not? But also it's like god, we raised 25k, that first one like right, can we do if we?

Speaker 1:

what could we actually do if we?

Speaker 2:

so then it became like a yearly thing where it was like we knew it was like june of every year, everybody was like yo, what's the date, was it? Yeah, take off four days, let's go, let's go, yeah, and then it became where it was like a pre-party at tavern and then billy's, and then it was like the gypsy river floating pre-party yeah, then it was like I had by year five.

Speaker 2:

I had fucking honky yeah metal band and billy's with like 500 bikers the night before just right, you know, and it and again, it all just came from doing it yeah, you know, and I I still, to this day, don't have a fucking clue what I'm doing, but I know I know like what I, what I am good at is like I can relate to.

Speaker 2:

I've had so many different life experiences, especially in my job field, that like I can relate and talk to anybody, and I also know how to put stuff bluntly to people like yes when you know I'm very conscious of like sponsors are required for um these types of events unless you have, unless you're well off and can afford to do it right I like to bring in like good fest.

Speaker 1:

Has always used sponsors that knew alan right, like that it's always it's always been a very personal event right, I don't just like reach out to here's like good fest presented by fucking goldman sachs right, fuck that right. No, like presented by gypsy, you know I, like the personal, feels that everybody ever supported him and um and it makes us on sides, because I'm on both sides of the deal, being on the business side and being a sponsor and then also being a part of helping and putting together the thing.

Speaker 1:

It really coming from a business side. It makes us feel warm and fuzzy and even a stronger connection, knowing that it is somebody that we knew. It is somebody that we know and that we are taking what he's known for and his everything that he went through and the family went through, and we're, and we're still pushing, and we're in his name, and we're still pushing to help somebody else.

Speaker 2:

And it still just makes you, just makes you feel. So I've been to so good yeah, and, and I've been to hundreds of charity events and and it's not because I like, because I do good fest. That I think is different, but I think with when you have your sponsors and the people and like the bands everybody plays has a tie to him, right? You know, it's like when you, when you have that many people coming together for a memory of their friend, of who they knew.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

It makes. It makes everybody work a little harder at it, it does and it makes everybody focus a little more.

Speaker 1:

It's literally like a really really cool epic family reunion type deal so to speak.

Speaker 2:

You know what I'm saying, like.

Speaker 1:

Miracle Jam last year.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh, I went out back mid-afternoon and cried because I hadn't seen that group of people in the same room in five years, since the last Good Fest it had been five years and I was like me and kel were talking about it on the porch we were talking about good fest.

Speaker 1:

We were talking about how we threw that thing together. You, you're the inspo pride. We, we all love mike and joel's and it was two weeks and we did 61 something thousand dollars. We threw together in two weeks and we all came together and and she was like oh yeah, and you were just had your hip surgery.

Speaker 2:

Remember me walking around with a cane and going shit.

Speaker 1:

I was supposed to have all this deal and it was just like we did, and it was mind-boggling. I mean it was just a rush of so many emotions and so so many things. And I mean I hadn't seen Mike in so long and Mike and I had been super, super close. And then with the baby and just him, and Mike and I had been super super close. And then with the baby and the you know just him going around and passing out the stickers to everybody, and so crazy to me about when you're just unreal.

Speaker 2:

Like I hadn't probably talked to Mike in a couple of years.

Speaker 2:

Same since I stopped? Well, mainly since, you know, my job, like my boss, got a lot more popular, so I'm gone a lot more. But I I remember Ben Hampton came up to me like two weeks prior to us doing it and told me about Julie Right and I felt horrible as a friend that I hadn't even checked in on Mike and so I had a sketch pad because I was actually working on some Shane stuff and I literally just I still have the. I need to show you this.

Speaker 1:

You need to. It looks like a fucking serial killer's notebook. It's so crazy. It sounds like several of mine.

Speaker 2:

So crazy yeah, it's insane. Just arrows everywhere yeah, but it's like we planned it out at billy's in like 20 minutes and then we just texted everybody like yeah, let's get the game. Let's go, you know and then we did it. Yeah, I remember what was crazy about that was mike and julie were such big supporters of good fest and they were good friends with alan for years before, even before my sister was with him and he, bob Wilson, who still owned Billy's at the time, before he sold it to John and Adam and all them.

Speaker 2:

But like he was going through the safe at Billy's one day and do you remember that poster we auctioned off at the end of the night? It was from Psychologist. Yes, so he just happened to be cleaning out Billy's.

Speaker 1:

Yes, this is the craziest story. This is no BS.

Speaker 2:

No story, this is no bs, no, yep, so he's cleaning out the uh safe at billy's, in the back or whatever, and he goes. Hey, he texts me randomly like the day after we decided to miracle jam, I hadn't even told bob yet, yeah, and he goes. I think I got something for you and I was like, okay, cool. And I go to billy's next day and he hands me the psychopathy red response with alan's signature on it. He's like it's in the safe and you're the only person, I thought. And then in my head I was like donate it.

Speaker 2:

Yes for mike, like that's, like that's you can't put a price on no and then that that 11 by 17 flyer wound up going for 18 grand. Yeah, it's still like I'm mind-boggling I think, like, like I definitely drank a little too much at it last year, but like but we had so much to celebrate.

Speaker 2:

I mean, we were all just like my last memory, my last memory I was standing around stage was I was holding that poster I just saw some dude in the corner shut up because that's a little lit, whatever. Yeah, and um, I was telling the story of it and um, he, uh, I think it was. I'm not gonna say his name because you know whatever, yeah he bids 18 grand and I swear I blinked and then I I woke up on our bus the next morning I was like, oh fuck.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I had no clue. And Randy, big Randy, just like rubbing my leg, just like hey buddy, it's OK.

Speaker 1:

It's OK. We raised a lot of money. We set a record. Here's a water. We did a good thing. You need a ride home.

Speaker 2:

I'm like, yeah, and it was. It was just one of those things. And the cool thing about that poster was like it had been, I guess this time last year, been four years since the last good fest and I, you know I think about at the time I've been thinking about alan off and on. You know you always do right and I was like that's so crazy that alan even in death can come back and help his friends.

Speaker 1:

You know it's not so, so wild right, yes it's the most alan heard of Right.

Speaker 2:

You know, like you've been dead for nine years. Yeah, and you're like oh, I got you homie.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know it's like such a Watch this, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Watch me just surprise the hell out of you guys. Yeah, yeah. And then the cool thing was the guy. Anytime that money is needed, you take that off the wall and auction it, but it stays here. So it's kind of one of those like if you go into Billy's Ice and you go to the right side of the bar that poster with Alan's signature is hanging there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And it's going to be bid on a lot but it'll never be, never, right, you know? And if somebody does bid a lot and takes, it with them. I just hope, and if it needs to be brought back, that they bring it back for someone who could actually use the help. And then, yeah, fast forward a year, and here we are again getting ready to do GoodFest.

Speaker 1:

We're so ready. Yeah, it's so exciting.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, what you were saying earlier when we were talking about how handling losses and how I learned a lot from so, when you said you met Zach, you reached out to zach walther and so they also um had a very tragic loss, their third. Their third little um passed away and she. We have linoleum, which is another big festival that we come together.

Speaker 2:

Amazing what they turn tragedy into.

Speaker 1:

It is insane and I learned so much because I call her mouse and her name is Marcy, and Mouse and I are very, very close and I learned so much between those two going through what they went through. Like you're saying watching your sister and you've never heard that kind of a sound before, yeah, and watching those two talking to Zach about how he handles and handled the loss.

Speaker 1:

And you know they had two other children that were young and are still young and still needed to be taken, and still need right and so, and then me and mouse talking about it at the same time and she would handle it so differently and most people in a marriage don't survive things like that. Most people in a marriage don't survive period.

Speaker 1:

Then you're going to throw something in there like this yeah, and then you ask yourself, you know, I mean you can't help but wonder why things happen, for why they do. Come on God, what are you doing? You know, I mean it does make you, it does make me, it makes me second guess things and think that why are you taking this little from us? Why are she was six months old, why, why?

Speaker 2:

I tell you, like I, I used to question that a lot and I've really stopped doing it because it's, it's's I think of even something simple, like take away, like something huge, like death, like that right something simple in the morning where, like you're walking out of your house, you forget your keys, like oh shit, yeah, I'm gonna be late, and you run in and that extra 30 seconds you get in your car and then five minutes down the road you're driving and there's a wreck exactly right right I think about that every day now and that's how I've kind of helped clear my head right with zach and marcy's situation when lyndon passed away.

Speaker 2:

Um, it's like, it's like. You said this. I think the statistic is like 90 of couples don't survive that right. They got closer they became closer they formed a foundation called linden aid, which yes, you know it's huge aside, like if please look that up yes, and we will definitely do.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's coming about. We had to take a couple years break for yeah for coven. What have you as? The world took a break from everything, but it is um coming back and and we're coming back stronger than ever, just like the good fest deal, and we will definitely, definitely talk about it on the porch, and I will have both of them on here as well, and it is another big deal, but it does. It makes you it was watching them and learning from them and learning you, you learn I've learned so much from them.

Speaker 2:

I don't, I don't. I think if you were friends with them back when that was going on, every single person learned the definition of what true strength is by watching them go through that, because something that um that I you know I've, I love, I love marcy.

Speaker 1:

Yes the best human I haven't, she just look at her and you her, and she just lights the whole room up. She lights the whole world up and her children are just, oh my gosh, they're like my little tiny spirit animals and I just love them so much. The whole family on both sides and everybody is just. I cannot say enough good things about them.

Speaker 2:

They're just amazing, Marcy. I don't think I've seen her in person and it's been at least two years.

Speaker 2:

But, I hope she comes out to get a fetish I'll give her the biggest, biggest hug on earth you know, but she, um I just something I really respect about her is you know, for them it would be, you know, now I think this should be nine years since Lennon passed and, um, she still talks about it quite often and I think that's a really beautiful thing, cause it's like people always tell you you know, like you know, you can grieve at this time and then eventually get over it.

Speaker 1:

And I don't think everybody grieves different, everybody does that differently, and that was one of the biggest learning things that I learned from both of them was how and honestly, that it's okay they lost their newborn of her life.

Speaker 2:

You're goddamn right. She fucking can't. You got an issue with that? Take it up with me, not the fucking mom.

Speaker 1:

You know what I mean 110 and do not judge what she's doing or how she's doing it or what he's doing or how he's doing. And that was one of the most unique and it was really, it was really cool because it was very hard for them. I mean, I can't, I can't imagine I did. Life in general is just hard, a relationship in general is hard, and and then you're going to throw this big, huge wrench in here. That is unimaginable and those two have. I mean, if anybody can. I feel like there needs to be a movie and that the entire world needs to understand that they have so much to teach. All of us.

Speaker 1:

So from patience to that, it is okay. If you can have an opinion about Coreyory, you can have an opinion about me, you can have opinion about you know. So what if I get up and have a mimosa at 7 30 in the morning? I don't give a fuck.

Speaker 2:

If that's what I want to do. Enjoy it. You damn right if I'm still kicking ass and taking names.

Speaker 1:

That is my prerogative and you cannot that, if it is your opinion to judge. But if you do it, but don't how they acknowledge that it is okay for him to handle death in his way and that it's okay to her to handle this in her way, it's okay to grieve in different ways, it does not make you a bad person. It does not make you unacceptable. It does not make you unacceptable. It does not make you it and, first and foremost, it is no one's fucking right right to make that decision about somebody else. And how dare you even remotely shame on you if you do that, if you even remotely think or I cannot believe that she's out there going out to dinner and oh my gosh, this just happened and her blah, blah, blah, or you know that goes for anybody and anything.

Speaker 2:

It's just, they've got those strong personalities where it's like off the shoulder. We probably get more mad than they do because they don't even see it, but it's like. I mean no, it's not anymore like, but it's like with anything. You know people had opinions on me doing good fest. You know like well, I knew him fucking seven years. You only knew him for four and blah, blah and they sit at fucking blackwell and talk shit while they were fucking getting drunk, not even being at the event.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

And I never really gave a fuck about that. But what pissed me off was I was like we always did it for a different family every year and I was like you know if you get. You've got to talk shit about me all day. Bring it, because I promise you it's not gonna be worse than the shit in my head. I say that to myself.

Speaker 2:

Right, but so you're gonna you're gonna take it out on me because I took the initiative to do something for someone I loved. Right like, go fuck yourself yeah, exactly like, literally, exactly.

Speaker 1:

You know. They should be absolutely ashamed on yourself and I wish them I'll tell you after this podcast. Like those names, but like all those fucking rats, all those new braunfels sewage rats like in sewage fucking new brumple yeah, yeah, every single one of them.

Speaker 2:

They're there texted me again and I I told multiple people no on sponsors. I told multiple people I don't care if you fucking come, yeah, like I, I want good fest. Good fest has always been done for the right reasons, for good people, for, for good exactly there. There's no like. Like, yeah, I come up with the idea and I do it, but it is a team, probably 30 to 50 of us, and it all comes together.

Speaker 2:

It's no egos involved, because we're all doing it for the same reasons to help this family right, and people that try and hinder that and try and hinder you from helping people are are fucking pond scum, but it's scum, fucking pond scum at the bottom of the bottom, yeah, of the bottom, yeah yeah, it's, and you experience. I mean, you've probably get, you've probably heard enough shit talks about you. I've had a god. I got divorced four years ago in new brunfels and I was born and raised here.

Speaker 2:

That was a fucking blast you know how many rumors I heard about myself I didn't know I was doing that.

Speaker 1:

Motherfuckers. Oh boy, if I got that t-shirt, in fact I got a whole fucking closet full of them yeah I'm telling you what the shit that this town can come up with yeah, they like to talk about others and not themselves.

Speaker 1:

We have such a beautiful town and such a beautiful small community, which is now large, we can come together and we can do amazing things like good fest, like linen aid and so many other things that we do in this town, right? But then there's that little, what coach engler used to call and and come on, come on on everybody from New Braunfels. Y'all know who I'm talking about. He used to talk about that 2%. There's that 2%, that is so true, yep.

Speaker 2:

There's like that old.

Speaker 1:

So there's the good 2%, there's the bad 2%, but there's always that 2% fucking percent.

Speaker 2:

You know, and it is and that's going to be everywhere, but I you know, and it is like that's going to be everywhere, but I just I don't know. Like I said, I've been here my whole life and I've near the city before the boom, before everything and you know my family's always been very involved in the community, like one, two city championships in the little league here you know, always done every like you've graduated. I'm a fucking unicorn same right here I'm sitting right here like I tell people that all the time, that's right what was your high school math?

Speaker 2:

on my unicorn they laugh.

Speaker 1:

I'm like literally the only one in the world.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is pretty fucking special, yeah, and we can make him look real mean and he's kind of buff from time to time yeah if you're, if you're from here, you know what it means you do here just like anywhere you know and um it is. It just makes me laugh now when people try. And you know, like I already doing this good fest, I was telling my girlfriend brio's like it's like, the one thing I'm not looking forward to is everybody's opinions on how I should run it right considering that now I have 15 years of experience and planning.

Speaker 2:

I've done this shit for 10 years and and, of course, right as I did it, I started having people be like so are you doing like a 30 cover charge? And I was like well, I work for an international touring act that charges 22 50 from, so no we're not charging $30 at fucking Billy's.

Speaker 1:

You fucking morons. I know.

Speaker 2:

Get out of my way. And the thing is, of course, you want to raise as much money as possible, right, but you don't want to force people. What I want is I want people to come enjoy music. We want it to be organic.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and so just a little thing and I hadn. We want it to be organic, yeah, yeah. And so what? We've just a little thing and I hadn't even talked to you cause I know you guys have been on tour and um, just so I've got a guy that I do a bunch of business with. He I met him during before right when COVID first hit. These guys all came from dripping Springs and kind of a cool story. I get this random text one day and the scrolls. Her name is Stephanie and she was like hey, you don't know me. I got your number from whoever, whatever, it doesn't matter, my number's plastered everywhere for a reason. And she was like look, I know the rules have all changed and because of COVID and we're not supposed to come, and of course they changed our rules at the river and the resort because you can only do long-term rentals. We couldn't do short-term, blah, blah, blah. They wouldn't let.

Speaker 2:

I mean god forbid if you should sneeze outside and, you know, infect my trees or whatever the fuck.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, oh my god, so well, I'm gated entrance. And so I said she said look, we are, we're being judged for sitting outside in our front yard. We have a very tight subdivision and we're all really good friends. And she said and everybody's just running around, they're all we're drinking in our front yard. We have a very tight subdivision and we're all really good friends. And she said and everybody's just running around, they're all we're drinking in the front yard, kids are playing and we're just tired of people talking shit about us. So we just want to know if we can come and hang out at your place.

Speaker 1:

And I was like well, fuck y'all, come on here's the gate code, I don gave him the gate code, and so we all became really good friends and that's how I met this gentleman and so since then we've been doing really good, but we've ton of business together. He owns a business in Dripping Springs and he is the one that makes all of our jello shots and all of our.

Speaker 1:

He's does all his. He's got a great a daiquiri machine and he's. He does the pickle pops for Bob's and the pickle potion and does all that. He does packing. He's got an amazing plant. We've become really good friends and I had just I took Nick to the plant in Dripping Springs so she could kind of see where it was at, and then um picked up a big shipment and we came back and I said hey, look, I, we did a promo deal. One of my customers was at the resort and we were talking about it and I had gotten up on stage and one of the musicians was playing. You know we do live music out there on saturday nights and and I did a promo and he said look, let's. We were talking about the festival and he said, um, we did, and we do it every saturday out there. So from the time the band starts, every jello shot that we sell, we match it, and then I challenge one of my customers to match the proceeds and all the money goes to Good Fest, that's awesome.

Speaker 1:

So I was telling David about it and David said, well, what can I do to help? And I said, well, I'm totally out of mix. I need my whole shipment, but I need you to double it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And he said I'm donating the shipment.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh shipment.

Speaker 1:

so he has donated all of our product. He had it brought, we didn't even have drive to dripping springs, sent his guys from dripping springs to the resort, brought in it was like 1200 worth of product and every bit of it is donated. And we did it again last weekend. We did, um, we did 750 dollars last weekend. I don't know what the proceeds were from the time before, but every bit of that is going to raise for the Good Fest for 2024. And you guys, we've told you all, it's August 4th, billy's Ice House. What was really cool is I had some people that were like, we're really just not kind of into jello shots, but can you just take this cash? And so people were donating. I had one guy come up and said here's $300. Can you just put that towards the little boy that we're raising the money for? And so super, super cool.

Speaker 1:

And I haven't been able to tell you that, and so this weekend is Craig weekend at the resort, and so they're all there. It's a. It's a annual trip. He sells out green hall four days. It's his birthday weekend, of course it was my birthday weekend and then another guy that comes down with him, jerry, and so this is a big weekend for us at the resort, and so my goal was, from last Thursday to make 2,000 jello shots by Thursday. We did that. This weekend we're going to. We had lots of leftovers. This weekend we're going to slay it again, and so I'm super stoked, we've got four days, we've got.

Speaker 1:

Thursday, friday, saturday, um, where everybody's there full time. So I'm super stoked, so all that's going to good fest and we're raising, raising money for a for little boy. Let's tell everybody about this kid, this, how tell us. How do you find the families? How does that go into, how does that come about?

Speaker 1:

because that's one thing that I guess you and I've never really. I mean, you just called me up when a couple weeks ago and you're like, hey, we're bringing it back. It's 10 years, so you guys have always been such a huge part, what do you think? And I'm like, you know me I'm like hell, yeah, let's fucking go so yeah, let's do this.

Speaker 2:

I'd say let me do red rocks in seven. I had the idea at the end of may to do this and it was jokingly. So I knew this year was 10 years since alan passed right and uh I and I had just randomly matt briggs asked me to come speak at. Uh, he was doing that, uh, like some youth camp out at fry height for his students.

Speaker 2:

Okay, yeah and he wanted me to come in and talk to him about the industry and stuff like that and I hadn't seen him in years. And so we're talking. And then I was texting him and I've been texting alan's old band out of california. He used to fly in and play and I was like man, like yes, I love that.

Speaker 1:

What would it take to get?

Speaker 2:

like, uh like, just do like an alan set like his music. It's been years since I've heard his music in public. You know this year's 10 years, kind of big deal and I told him like I don't really know if I have the time, honestly, right good fest, uh, but like, would y'all be willing to fly in? And then marcus, the singer from that band, is, literally, because this is his voice, he goes. Man, I'm only coming if it's a good fest. And I was like hold tight, hang tight.

Speaker 1:

Okay, what's gonna happen? So go ahead and book your ticket, yeah his band is flying in and playing I love it.

Speaker 2:

That's good, that's good so then, I'm not kidding you. This is how you know believe in god or believe in whatever you want this is when I knew we had to do.

Speaker 2:

It was derrick mayfield. Yep, I had not texted with or talked to him in probably two years, not like we weren't friends, we just. And he texts me that same night and goes hey, I know you're crazy busy with Shane. Um, I I met this lady and, uh, you know he goes. You know her brother like his son's sick or something. He's like I don't really know the details, but like they live in universal city. She was asking if I knew anybody that could you know help point them in, like some treatments or whatever?

Speaker 2:

in the area and I was like yeah, give me, give me this lady's number or whatever. So I talked to her, she tells me and she's like yes, my, my brother's, uh, my nephew keen, he's 12, he has, he got diagnosed with leukemia on january 1st and I'm just like wait, what whoa? I go okay and then yeah and I'm like okay, and so I go okay, well, can you send me? Would you mind sending your brother's number? So she sends me ken's number um call him. Get the story and uh I didn't realize.

Speaker 1:

I didn't realize they were in our backyard yeah, it's, it's uh.

Speaker 2:

I mean this all happened within, I think, 24 like, not even 20. It was like probably 12 to 15 hours right quickly.

Speaker 2:

It just went from like can we do an alan set till we're doing full we're doing, doing full, yeah so after I talked to his dad, ken, and he explained it to me, he, you know, he told me, you know, you got diagnosed with leukemia. He's had, uh, multiple brain surgeries to relieve swelling and stress and all this. And you know, and, and I'm just immediately, my heart, I, I, I was like, hey man, like I want to do an event for you. I used to do an event called good for you. I was like, hey man, I want to do an event for you. I used to do an event called Good Friends. I was like I go. Ironically, this year is 10 years. It's time.

Speaker 1:

It's time.

Speaker 2:

And I go and I'd love to do it for y'all Great.

Speaker 1:

I'm so glad I don't have mascara on right now because I'm about to lose.

Speaker 2:

I'm going down to meet Ken for the first time in person and Keen and Tara's mom. This week I'm going to take them dinner and just kind of I told him I texted his dad and I was like I just want to bring y'all dinner and so y'all can put a face to this psychotic kid.

Speaker 2:

who's been texting you for a month and um and he didn't know who I was or like what I did, which is where it gets even crazier, and so we're talking to me. That's just all right. So you know I do all I would do merch for Shane Smith and the Saints. So I was like okay, I can't do this. You know, like we, I just got back from a month long tour and I was like okay, so we do. Whitewater, august 3rd, august 4th Perfect Hometown show.

Speaker 1:

We'll just move the bus from Whitewater to Billy's and good to go.

Speaker 2:

And so I was like okay. I was like well, I'm going to play it on August 4th. You know I go, my work schedule is kind of crazy and I don't really talk about what I do, because then people like want to talk about that more. Which obviously Ken and them didn't, but he and then he was just like man, this is so crazy that you want to do like a concert for my son Because we took him to his first show.

Speaker 1:

Out, actually out at Whitewater last year.

Speaker 2:

And I was like no goes. But luckily it was like his favorite band and I go. I was like no kidding.

Speaker 1:

I was like who's, who's king's favorite band? And he goes. I swear to god he goes stop shane smith and the saints stop.

Speaker 2:

I swear to god I swear to god, and I literally sit there and it was silent for like probably 30 seconds and I was shut. I was like I like literally did you just yeah I looked up and I was like fuck, I like literally looked up, did you just? Yeah. I looked up and I was like fuck you. Yeah, like it was like this is a little too much.

Speaker 1:

This is all at one time Right.

Speaker 2:

And then I was like well, Kim Wow. Just so happens that the reason I'm doing the event August 4th is because my boss plays the third.

Speaker 1:

My boss happens to be your son's favorite band.

Speaker 2:

Shane Smith and the.

Speaker 1:

Saints and you're gonna.

Speaker 2:

We're doing my charity event is gonna be for your son and, if y'all want, I would love to host keen at whitewater the night before, so we can hang out his favorite bag.

Speaker 1:

Yes, it was there goes the leg hair.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm just like shaking, yeah it was the wildest just meant to be right and then it was like, once I told him we were doing it, uh, I did not realize how busy shane and I were about to be on tour and stuff right and it was like, oh shit, so we really only have like this week and next week to do, which I'm not worried about. No, it's gonna be great.

Speaker 1:

That's when we were actually everybody come when yeah if this would have been thought out and we would have thought about this six months ago to a year ago yeah that's never had been how it'd be like lollapalooza downtown, or about a clusterfuck that would never, yeah, no, but this is when it really but it was. This is when the good things happen it was. This is when shit gets very real.

Speaker 2:

And yeah, I just saw it like as like 10 years after the fact of like. It was like the culmination of like. You know, because I'm like a lot, when I did the first good fest I was a fucking kid yeah, I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

Speaker 2:

And I was like I was a fucking kid yeah, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and I was like I was a wild child, you know. And I I've been really like talking to myself this time. I was like I want to, I want this one. I told Ken. I was like, well, you know, obviously I want like y'all. They're that good, obviously we want y'all there. I was like we'll make you comfortable Like Shane's, letting us for the family to get out of the heat.

Speaker 2:

You know, it's very like there's. I told him, like we'll make y'all anything y'all need, We've got somebody for it that day, right Yep. And. But what I want to do with this one is like I want it to be a good fest. I don't want it to be focused in on Alan's memory, though you know I want. Obviously we're going to be part of this, which you are and, like I am, we're focused on helping Keen.

Speaker 2:

It's a 13 year old little boy that has acute T-cell leukemia and is going through a worse hell than any of us have been through in our life Like if we have our health and you haven't been through health. That's just me.

Speaker 1:

Exactly, and that's what I was telling people when I get up, david, you have, you've given us, I mean, a large amount of product to do this and we're taking all the money in the proceeds that we have done and sold from our customers, the resort, and that's all going to this, and he goes. I just don't feel like that's enough. And once he found out who we were doing this for and he said you know what I'm, I pretty sure, um cowboys poster merch deal, it's like a big magic, um shadow box type deal. He said I'm gonna go check it out tomorrow. And he said and if that is the least that I can do?

Speaker 1:

and I was like, like now he's bringing in donation items and I'm like you know, and it's it's these people that just in in us, when we just we feel like we can never do enough. We can never do enough. What else can we do? What else we can we do? And this one is.

Speaker 2:

It's there and, like I said, it's like it's. I've done a ton of charity events but, like with good fest is like I think people know how personal it is to me because, um, it's my way of giving back to alan everything he gave me exactly.

Speaker 2:

It was for years, and then not having that for a few years like I'm not gonna lie, it really like I had to figure myself out for a few years there. But like now that the last three, I really feel like I've come into my own as a person and I have a clear found yourself a little bit. I have a clear understanding that, like like you didn't do charity because you were trying to hold on to a memory, you did charity because your parents raised you correctly, right, you know like.

Speaker 1:

It's that simple and it's like because I'm surrounded by amazing people like you and like bob and like that makes my heart so happy, you know my girlfriend brie, and just all the you know the band I work for and just everybody.

Speaker 2:

Everybody around me in my life now is exactly who I would want in my life. You know, I love that and it takes a long time to get to that point and I think like I'm not the best at like because I'm I've got 400 things going on at all times like you, I'm not the best at like when I when I type something out um like making it look professional, but you'll feel the passion at least yes I think I just realized that's called job security for people like nick, for people that just realized that she texted me about my grammar, but I also.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, as I said I go.

Speaker 2:

I did type that whole thing in fucking caps see that's right.

Speaker 1:

Then they send me back and they go. Why are you yelling at me? I'm like shit, because I don't know how to make them be the lord, the little letters or whatever, yeah, no, we get it, we get it but it is it's.

Speaker 2:

It's like a passion. Passion is yeah always you know, go ahead of like trying, I think, passion ahead of planning because, like, if you do something out of passion it's it's gonna be way better than if you try and over plan it.

Speaker 1:

I agree and I'm not. I'm not a planner, I'm not. I've talked about this.

Speaker 2:

I remember when you were talking about doing the whole gypsy thing when, like this is like way before all this yeah, a long time ago. And you've spoken into existence, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And that's like good for us.

Speaker 2:

you know what let's do? Y'all want to watch this?

Speaker 1:

yeah, and I do, but like I said, it's not a not a planned deal. I'll go sit in a room and I'll go. You know what?

Speaker 2:

yeah got it okay, let's go and I'll have it done I need a short time span.

Speaker 1:

Don't give me too much time. I'm renee was on my, we were in my she shed and we were talking about it steve trevino's wife, captain evil, and she is this woman's brilliant. She's got a. She's just smarter than the fact that she can hold a conversation with me is just very impressive in itself, because we are not on the same Like I.

Speaker 1:

I don't. Yeah, she's. She is brilliantly smart. She said no, I'm a, I'm a planner, I've got to, I've got to lay it all out, I've got to have a maps in three to four months. And I'm thinking oh my goodness, there's no way I said you know, people come to me and they want to have a festival or a wedding or whatever at the there's. If you want to do this three months from now, yeah, then would you need to call me two weeks ahead of time because, if not, I'm gonna get lost.

Speaker 1:

I'm gonna run it, I'm being yeah squirrel or I'm gonna get.

Speaker 2:

I'm there's nobody home, but when it's crunch time and you want me to throw something together in two weeks, shoot yeah, like let's freaking go like when I'm home, I start my days about 4 or 4 30 in the morning and I just go until I fall asleep.

Speaker 1:

Honestly, my window. If sleep is like 12, 30 to 2, 30 yeah and 2 30 I'm like all right, that's exactly what I was thinking about.

Speaker 2:

I don't even have to set an alarm anymore I have like an internal clock of just get up and go. So it's, it's nice, but but yeah, I just like it's. It's crazy seeing like, like this spoken into existence in good fest, but like the way, I mean just the way it all came together right short amount of time.

Speaker 2:

It was like it really is meant to be. And, um, when I, and before I like, had reached out to like you and everybody to sponsor, I reached out to the musicians first, um, that I wanted to play it and and I don't care anybody says like I wanted to play yeah um, before I filled out the schedule, I, uh, I reached out to him. I said y'all, do y'all want to do this or do y'all think it's a good idea? And all of them, literally, were like I've been waiting for this text.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so it's.

Speaker 2:

It's cool and there's like a, there's a big hype and, like I was looking at the engagement just from like because I still got to get.

Speaker 1:

Like I think by the time this airs, I'll have the Facebook event and the GoFundMe finalized finally, so I'll have like links for everybody, yep, and it'll be on all of our pages.

Speaker 2:

you guys, We'll have it on Rambling Gypsy. We'll have it at the liquor stores, we'll have it at the resort and we'll have it everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, that was the best thing for everybody involved last year with Miracle Jam was if you set it up with GoFundMe, you can do those high dollar donations because people's credit cards can go online and they get the tax form they get the write-off and nobody has to mess with it.

Speaker 1:

The family doesn't get affected, so the GoFundMe.

Speaker 2:

If you are going to donate and you're not able to make it, that is by far the biggest way to help. And it can be, you know, $1 or $5. And it was like I I have these. I'm a big dreamer yeah and I sit there and I have ideas in my head of like okay, if this person shares it, if every single one of their followers donated one dollar, that's thirty five thousand dollars, and it's a huge thing, you know, and it's a huge thing and it's, and it's people don't realize truly like.

Speaker 2:

It's like one dollar, one share yes post about. It is like that could make something nowadays go viral it is.

Speaker 2:

If we could make this go viral for this family, by all means, like, let's do it, you know, because this kid is going through hell and the thing that like has gotten me the last two times I talked to his dad is, you know, I'll send him the lineups and the art. And he's like man, just show keen. He started crying and I was like, why is he crying? He's like, why is he? Why is he crying? He's like he just. He looked at me and asked like well, there's people who actually need help. Why are they doing this for me? And I'm just like holy pickles.

Speaker 1:

So the kid's, like you know there's, there's adults.

Speaker 2:

I know that don't have that type of selflessness. No, and it's like this kid is, does it probably? I mean he's, he's 13 now. I just turned, recently turned 13, 12 and he got diagnosed.

Speaker 2:

But like he understands, like, um, I don't know it's, there's something weird with, like I've always said, like the, the special cases like alan and the people that get sick and the ones that stick with you and the people whose memories stay on, is like there's a certain like thing to those types of people and like that attitude, like that response from keen, like the reason it took me back a little bit was I hadn't heard someone talk about disease like that since alan right like I remember when they threw psychopathy red response before you know, before all all the stuff happened to him like.

Speaker 1:

Right, what the fuck is anybody like? Why are all these people here? Why yeah?

Speaker 1:

and it's like because you were the guy that every time I remember that you remember the backdrop fires yes, oh yeah he was the first person to call whoever was putting that event on and say I want to play right and he played the whole time right like he's like I'll just be the house band and he just went out there and played, just play, you know right and um, I had, like I said, I hadn't heard like that type of stuff right since alan and it just it put it in perspective it does put things in perspective and is a solid reality check and some people are going to get it and most aren't. Yeah, exactly, and he.

Speaker 2:

And he's, you know, they say he's in good spirits Like he. He obviously, if he's down, he's down.

Speaker 1:

There's not much you can do with it, but I just I really wanted everybody goes.

Speaker 2:

it's like I want you to have everybody have a good time and all that, but I really want this good fest. I'm hoping to have like a jump castle and like a dunk tank and some kid-friendly activities. I want us to be family. Well, I've got the castles. I will talk to you after this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, cool you know where to go, too, I do. Yeah, I've got that. Uh, you know, I want to do a dunk tank, like a dunk the dog type of thing, like five, five throws or just one push, whatever, I don't care you know just something, um, but I already talked to john and adam over at billy's.

Speaker 2:

What they're going to do is they're going to put that fence up. They do for turkey fry and we're gonna put all that stuff over there it's like a family area I think ron hewlett might uh do some of his famous turkeys that he does for turkey fry that's epic. Um, I know they've got the taco truck, but um yeah, I really want everybody coming to be. Like you know, it's a family-friendly event the bar has already told me that uh kids are allowed until 10 30 that night perfect and uh.

Speaker 2:

Lucas has already said he's not gonna to do the uh the regular regular saturday because the last band going on is alan's band and I told they have a set plan. And then I said and y'all, y'all have from 7 45 to 8 45, but if y'all want to just go, after that just go, you know I don't think anybody in that building is going to argue. If y'all want, to know jammy?

Speaker 2:

no, probably not, so yeah um, but yeah, it is all ages. It is um. I don't know how many times I got to tell this to people. It is free at the door.

Speaker 2:

Cash donations are accepted, or I don't want to say suggested, because I'm not going to suggest what you should do with your money. Ever Right, it is appreciated. But we also will have a silent auction. We'll have a live auction. I'll have some pretty I can't say one of the guitars because I'm not sure if it's going to happen. If it does, it'll be this Friday, which I'm really stoked on. But I do have two Fender Telecasters that Fender sent me to get signed One.

Speaker 2:

I will get signed by Shane Smith and the Saints Marty Stewart and Jade Patek at our show. It's going to be like this cherry sunburst it's sick. Yep, yeah, it's pretty awesome, see, but then, uh, you know like we'll start posting donations and like the in the in the facebook event that we're going to create today and all that, um, but you know, live sign auction.

Speaker 2:

There's music from one till 8 39 ish, I would assume, way after that, with all those boys hanging out, yeah, during the day. By the time it's done, everyone will end up on stage.

Speaker 1:

It will turn into the most amazing thing you've ever seen.

Speaker 2:

But and yeah and uh, one one cool thing uh, the billy's sponsorship we're gonna do is, I think midway through the event we're gonna, we are gonna pass around a tip jar and billy's is gonna throw in uh five. They will match up to the first five hundred dollars going into that. So that would be a thousand dollar donation, just like that in the afternoon. But yeah, it's like any dollar goes out. We're not trying to sit here and go like we need 20,000. It's like you know, if we can get them, this family, a couple thousand dollars, that's a couple thousand.

Speaker 2:

They didn't have to you know that right and every I know you know like it's medical bills are no joke, and that's a burden that I don't think those families should have to shoulder. So hopefully, I agree.

Speaker 1:

I'm a million percent. I'm so proud of you and everything that you've done, and I'm just honored to be a part of it.

Speaker 2:

And thank you for having me. Wouldn't be a good fest without us working together. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1:

I'll do it every single time, Every single time and yeah, today time and yeah, today was a lot of fun, you guys. Um, we will have all the links on the podcast page. They'll also be at gypsy liquors. They'll be at gypsy river resort. I've got some big name people. Steve trevino is going to also jump in and help and share, so that will be on on his information and his page as well. So we will share that and and keep blasting it. Um, you guys are welcome to drop off any kind of donations at any one of our businesses. Come and hang, like I said, and like share, follow. This is Corey Dement. You guys, thanks for being on the porch today.

Speaker 2:

It's Good Fest. Thanks for having me 10th anniversary. Let's show, let's show everybody what we can do for this little boy, and let's uh absolutely let's bring him home, and bring him home safe, and let's let's show him a good time and we're gonna throw him a party, and we're gonna throw him another party once he kicks cancer's ass.

Speaker 1:

Damn right, you damn right august the 4th, new brunfels, texas, billy's ice let's do this yes, it's been a pleasure.

Speaker 2:

I love you. I love you guys we'll see you soon.

Speaker 1:

Take care, peace out.