Evan: Welcome back to another episode of the Choose 954 podcast, episode 95, for a very special episode here with the guys from Bruise Beats and Eats here at Orchestrated Mind Brewery. If you didn't know about Choose 954, myself, Evan Snow, and my business partner, Mr. Andrew Martino, started a social movement to cultivate culture and community here in Broward County, where I'm very proud to be born and raised. We're working to keep people here with all the great things that are going on and make this a better place to live, not just a better place to vacation.
The point of the podcast is to connect you with interesting people like them, who do important things in the community and cover quite a bit. So without much further ado, why don't you tell us a little bit about who you guys are and what you do?
Hey, my name is Luis Cotto. Initially, I started with beer, brews, and food, but I got this gang together, and now we are the pressure of the podcast.
Michelle: Hi, yes, Michelle. Hi. Happy Florida girl on Instagram. You'll see me out running the streets of Fort Lauderdale, paddling the waterways, and drinking some good beers along the way.
Luis: Don't get in her way.
Ed: Hey, bruise beats and eats, longtime podcaster. You got me, you can call me Ed. Team IP n we don't want that over here. And yeah, I was able to combine with our powers combined. Captain Planet didn’t show up, no, not yet, not yet.
Evan: How did this all combine? How did this all come together?
Luis: Perfect, I’m glad you asked. So Evan, this actually was birthed—I got into podcasting in 2017 and doing that for a while. Then, around Christmas time in 2022, we all decided to jump on an advent calendar containing a beer advent calendar with 24 beers. It’s funny because we got the advent calendar at that time. Craft Beer Cellar was open, and it was actually the first place that I met them. Then, months, almost a year later, we came up with this idea—let's all grab a calendar. Since we were all buying the calendars, I figured, all right, well, you got me being the podcast guy. I was like, you guys just want to talk about this while we drink one? Like, each day we open up the calendar, whatever the beer is, and then we'll share our thoughts. We’ll drink it, do a Zoom thing, and that's how we started getting into conversations as far as beer and our tastes in beer, and so on and so forth. I'm glad that they weren't expecting financial compensation because there was none of that. But down for not yet, that and Captain Planet. So we decided to just talk beer and do it on a regular basis throughout those 24 days leading up to Christmas.
Michelle: Great, did I get it all mostly? I was going to say, but then you missed the key part. Once those 24 beers were done, we were like, well damn, we don't want this to end yet. Like, what can we do? So we, you know, literally just went out to eat at one of our favorite places, Billy Jack, over in Lauderdale by the Sea. Shout out to Billy Jack. We went over there and were like, let’s figure this out. Like, how can we keep this going? And we were like, let’s just start a podcast. So we got a plan together. We decided to do what we're calling an audio bottle share. We have physical bottle shares, and everybody gets together at a different brewery, you bring your favorites. So now we just do that once a week at his place. We all bring something different to the table, talk about it, what’s going on in the world, how’s your life—just a lot of like, you know, chitchatting about what's going on and all of that. It’s been fun, though, and it’s wild that it kind of stemmed from that. I definitely didn’t think it was going to be anything more than those 24 beers, and now we're at what, like 75, 74 episodes?
Luis: Local, national.
Michelle: We do national, yeah. So we go to any brewery, or if we find something unique, we’ll buy the beer and bring it to the podcast, and then we'll just chitchat about the beer. It’s just three friends having a good time over beer—that’s what beer is supposed to represent.
Evan: And why do you love beer? Why do you love craft beer specifically?
Luis: Many reasons, so many reasons. I mean, especially the hangovers, ever? I just love the complexity of flavors when it comes to beer and how unique beer is. I guess you could have... oh man, and there’s another reason why I love beer—it attracts gats, um, protein. So there are different styles to the beers, and not all flavors, not all styles are favored. It just depends on your palette. But I just love beer because it’s a little bit more complex than just like, say, I love bourbon, but I like it a little bit more than beer. I mean, you could sip beer almost on a daily basis. To me, bourbon is just like that unique time that you could enjoy.
Evan: It’s been a unique time for craft beer, for the craft beer scene. People are always innovating, coming up with new flavor profiles. From your guys' experience, who are some of your favorite breweries?
Michelle: Okay, obviously we're in the right place—we’re at Orchestrated Minds, and I’m not saying this just because they’re here. They do amazing beers. There’s always something different. There’s a good consistency with all the types of beer—you can get a sour, you can get a triple IPA, you can get a lager, it’s going to be amazing. I think hands down what Orchestrated does best is stouts, though. They’re my favorite stouts in the world, I don't care. I love them; they’ve always been amazing. Especially like wintertime, when it cools off a little bit, you get something nice and roasty, curl up on the couch, and watch.
Luis: And then one of my go-to’s also is Invasive.
Michelle: So, Invasive Species was one of the first—well, not one of the first breweries in Broward County, but one of the first that I was really, really excited to go to because every single time that I go, same thing, it was a new beer. Especially when they first started out, they had what was called, like, Blue, Blue something, named after Jack, I think he named it. It was like a blueberry, it was called Bluebird, yeah. And that was really good. Salmon Pants was another one, another sour. They’ve done a lot of really good beers over the years, and again, it’s been cool to see that come out of like, Laser Wolf, and to see the scene evolve. There have been a lot of memorable moments.
Evan: Any other noteworthy or favorite breweries that you’d like to give a little shout-out to?
Luis: Um, if we’re going to... she scratched the top two off the list, no. Actually, I've always enjoyed Three Sons, yeah, oh yeah, Three Sons, and yeah, right by the airport. If you got to pick somebody up, just pull up early because instead of waiting off the side where you know you’re not supposed to wait in your car, just pull up to Three Sons. But no, Three Sons was one of the early ones for me when it came to the Broward scene, where the food was phenomenal, the beer was great.
Michelle: Yeah.
Luis: And I want to say it was Three Sons, but then through time, we've gotten to know and expand, you know, expand at least for myself, expand my palette, try different places. And like Michelle said, it's like you really can't go wrong no matter where you land, especially in Broward. And I know a lot of people like to flock to Miami. They could choose 305 if they want to, but this is Choose 954, so if you’re up here, there’s definitely, you can make a lot of headway trying different breweries, and they’re all quality stuff. I mean, from Yeasty Brews to Pompano Beach Brewing, right down to Broward Boulevard, where we’re at now, there are definitely spots you can pull up to. But Three Sons has been the one that I always keep an eye on what they got. It’s kind of heavy and a secret to becoming one of my top breweries. If there’s a hip-hop theme, if it does anything hip-hop related, if your cans have a hip-hop name, I’m there.
Evan: Well, I'm glad you mentioned that because why don’t you give us a little bit of context behind the Bruise Beats and Eats and kind of what you guys like to talk about?
Luis: All right, so yeah, Bruise Beats and Eats started because I originally, when I first found out about podcasts, I was really interested in the space where you kind of play music while you talk or introduce people to new music. That became a little bit of a difficulty when you start monetizing and whatnot. So I'm like, all right, I got to switch that around. But Bruise Beats and Eats came from the fact that it's like I wanted to have conversations about mostly music, but then I felt like I didn’t want to exclude other people who maybe just weren’t the nerdy audiophile that I am when it comes to hip-hop. So I’m like, well, what else do people—what else do I enjoy that’s a connecting factor? Food and beer just happened to be something that I was navigating into and starting to get to know a bit better and the different unique styles that Luis was describing earlier. So I was like, I think I should combine these three together. So that’s how Bruise Beats and Eats came to be. I sat down for like the first four or five people, just kind of feeling it out. It’s funny because I was telling everybody around me in my circle that I had this idea for a podcast, and I talked about this idea forever. It got to the point where they were getting annoyed, and they’re like, when’s this thing dropping? Like, when’s your first episode? So I was like, all right, I have to do something. But the point that I found out that there was an app on your phone where you could record, edit, and then put it out and publish, I was like, all right, I really have no excuse. I know I want it to be a certain way, but if I don’t have to go through all those hoops, and it’s made it easy for me to put together, then I’m running out of excuses here. I’m just going to put it together. So I sat down, spoke to my youngest son for the first episode. He was home from spring break. He couldn’t drink beer; he wasn’t legal at the time. So we got root beers, ginger ales, so on and so forth, and that was the first episode, and it kind of just like, it balled from there. So yeah, that’s pretty much Bruise Beats and Eats in a nutshell. I had them as guests on before we did Beer Pressure, okay? So it was like a—you had to do it, you got to be on Bruise first, and then we'll talk.
Evan: I appreciate you mentioning that because it’s tough nowadays to discover new music. It’s not like the old digging in the crates days or even the SoundCloud days. I find new music from a guy named Joe K with Soulection Radio.
Luis: Okay.
Evan: And he’s always doing future beats and forgotten sounds and gems. But it’s really tough, and people appreciate finding out not only new music, new culture, and beer. So from this experience, you’ve spoken to a lot of people. You’ve covered a lot of things. What are some of your favorite episodes along the way?
Luis: My favorite episode is the episode when we interviewed Sam Fenor.
Michelle: I knew you were going to say that.
Luis: The best episode because he comes in representing his Savage Life beer. We had a couple of beers or whatever, but at the end, he had a pocket full of… oh, it was at the beginning, it was early on.
Michelle: It was early on, yeah.
Luis: Okay, it was early on. All right, all right, either way. So he pulls out a mason jar of this liquid and then pulls out some shot glasses from the other pocket and just serves it to us. And it’s like he’s been the only guest that has done anything like that on the podcast. And you know, when we bring or when we vet our guests, we try to tell them, hey, you know, this is what Sam Fenor did; you got to do better than that. So yeah, I think it was like episode five, something like that, it was early on. Yeah, it was one of our first episodes that Fenor was on.
Michelle: Well, and fun fact about Sam is on our last day of recording the Advent calendar, Jingle These Hops is what we called it. Sam was actually—he kind of popped up and surprised us and kind of joined our last recording because we were at CBC. And that’s really where we had already started talking about like, okay, where is this going to go? What are we doing here? And I think talking to him too, we were like, well damn, we have something with this. So he was part of the evolution of us, and I think that’s why that was probably a memorable episode for you.
Michelle: Coincidentally, we were just at Pompano Beach Brewery, where Sam also is now. And we got to talk to one of the brewers there, Will, about basically like—I like the education side of brewing, like learning about the process and what goes into their mind when they're trying to come up with different beer profiles and things like that. Will really got deep into the sours, how he picks these different fruit profiles, combinations, flavors to be able to put them together and really produce something really, really amazing. Because a lot of times, like when sours—when you’re blending a bunch of different flavors or a couple of different flavors, I feel like a lot of times, like one of them, well, more often than not, will just be more prominent. And I don’t know what Will is doing back there, but he blends them so perfectly that you get like hints of the two different flavors, but you can’t quite rule one out. You know what I’m saying? Like, I forget what it was, like raspberry and blackberry, I think was one of the combinations. And there, I think on their own, if you eat a raspberry, if you eat a blackberry, very distinguishable, you can tell the difference. And whatever he did, like perfectly blended it, that it captured the best parts of both fruits. So I was like, this is amazing.
Evan: I’m glad that you mentioned the education part of it because unless you really go tour breweries around the country, traditionally, you might not get that exposure to all of what goes into it. I’m going to just say, I think New Belgium back in 2014 was the first time I ever tried a sour in Fort Collins, Colorado. I gained a much larger appreciation for sour beers from that experience. Not that I couldn’t have gained the appreciation at a local brewery, but being there in the moment. And that’s one of the things that, if you didn’t know, we kind of came together from the FemAle Brew Fest, which my business partner's wife, Frances Martino, created as a platform to give a platform for women in the craft beer industry that either brew their own beers or own breweries. It became the pioneering craft beer festival celebrating women in the industry. But it’s not just sampling beers and having a good time; there’s an education component because you get to hear from the brewers. You get to hear, and there’s also other educational components at workshops and other tours, and so on and so forth. So that’s why we wanted to do this here at Orchestrated Minds, which is one of the participating breweries in the upcoming FemAle Brew Fest. It’s September 14th this year; it’s the seventh year. It’s going to be at the Loop on Las Olas and A1A. This is pretty cool. It started in humble beginnings right over there in FAT Village, moved around a couple of times—Gulfstream Park, you know.
Michelle: So can I tell you, I've been going since the first one. So I think I missed one somewhere in the middle there. And for me, because we had Frances and Andrew join us for an episode too, and I am just beyond thrilled to see how that evolved as well. I mean, obviously, as a woman, it’s great to see other women doing something I love; I think it’s wonderful. But then on top of it, to see how she’s really brought more women from the community, from around Broward, into getting into beer. Because I think it can be very intimidating for a lot of women to walk into a very male-dominated industry. A brewery like this isn’t very girly, if you will. But to have that entrance into it, where you’re like, all right, I'm learning something about this, I know what it is, I'm interested, and I want to keep—I want to know more. Because Frances was also doing Girls Pint Out—that's where I met her.
Luis: The Florida Chapter.
Michelle: Right, right, right. And so we came here when Orchestrated first opened. We had a meet-up here, we had a meet-up at Invasive, we've gone all over the place. But again, to see the evolution of FemAle is—I think it's—and reading between the lines and connecting the threads, this is community building. Pink Boots has done a phenomenal job of that for women, to bring women together in a—like you said, in a traditionally male-dominated industry. It is what it is, you know, you can't sugarcoat it. But also bringing people together that love a certain thing—craft beer, art, culture—you know, nobody wants to live in a place where they don’t have people they can resonate with. You want to have that community vibe. So I really appreciate you highlighting that. And you mentioned Broward—I’d like you guys all to kind of give me your take on the Broward craft beer scene because for those that might not know, and I'm going to say this with all due respect, it’s evolved a lot more than just Funky Buddha.
Luis: Yes.
Michelle: Much love and respect to them.
Evan: Well, and you've been around for a minute, so why don't you just give us your take on the Broward beer scene, craft beer scene, and maybe some hidden gems? Because we've mentioned some of the usual suspects, and they deserve the love too, but maybe some other guys that not everybody knows about.
Luis: All right. First of all, I’d like to say that my favorite episode was with Andrew and Frances. I found out that I could make friends with our guests because Andrew made it a point where he’s like, “Oh, we're not friends, I guess,” because I said they were special guests. And he kind of gave me a little ribbing about, like, “Ah, we're friends.” So I was like, great, I made a new friend. Shout out to Andrew. But no, going back to your question, yes, besides just the spots that we mentioned, that most people know as Broward beer spots—Three Sons, Orchestrated Minds, those are great. What I like is the fact that now their influence has stretched out to just regular businesses, where you're going to find their beers there. If you go to Satellite Pinball, you're going to see something there. If you go to... where else? Now you're put on the spot.
Michelle: 10th Level Tavern.
Luis: Yes, shouts to 10th Level Tavern. You pull up there, you're going to have beers there, and not just their beers, but from all around. I like the influence that just the craft community has here, reaching out beyond. As far as hidden gems... Michelle doesn’t like the word hidden gems.
Michelle: Lesser known places.
Luis: Lesser known places, yes. I'm going to steal one, I'm going to steal their thunder. And it's not necessarily brewery-related, but it’s just food-related. Eat BMC, hey, Eat BMC, yes. Oakland Park, by the time you hear this episode, I'm sure they'll be in full swing open. Eat BMC, smash burgers, they’re opening up in Oakland Park. They've already done a soft opening. Definitely a secret jewel.
Michelle: Nice.
Luis: A secret... oh, even Satellite Pinball, that’s like Satellite, and it’s right next to Satellite Pinball, and people are starting to get—it’s starting to come out. And it's cool because it's another way. We're big on support local. So to give these local businesses the support because these are also dreamers too—passion pursuers, creative entrepreneurs—that if this is your passion and this is what you want to do in a place like Broward County, you should be able to do it. Now, unfortunately, you know, we can't control the cost of rent and some things, and unfortunately, as we've seen in the news recently, some of the OGs have since recently closed. And you know, that just comes with it. But hopefully, by podcasts like this, like yours, we can give some notoriety, we can give some knowledge to new people in the community, so now maybe they could patronize those small businesses. And that's another reason why I love the FemAle Brew Fest because it's not just the big guys, and also it's not just local. They're bringing in people from all over. So I appreciate you mentioning that.
Evan: Any other lesser-known establishments?
Michelle: I have two. I have Yeasty Brews in Lauderhill and I have Dangerous Minds in Pompano Beach. And I'm a big fan of anything that follows the Reinheitsgebot, the purity law of beer. So, god bless me, yeah. They're true to their nature; they’re true to the beer nature when it comes to that German purity law. It's one of my favorites to go to because it's like 10 minutes away from me anyway. So it's one of my favorites to go to. Yeasty Brews is also another favorite to go to because they have a bunch of cool nights that they advertise out there. One of my other favorites, and again, you know, it's one of the places that closed down recently, was Odd Breed. Odd Breed was solid to me. Matt was one of the better breweries in South Florida, maybe in Florida. He was a mastermind; he was a genius. He was a genius behind that brewing system.
Evan: Not everybody can reach the level of success or really the level of revenue. And I mean, we've seen, like, Jay Wakefield and like Riverside Market, whoever would have thought Riverside would close? But it happens.
Michelle: Yeah.
Luis: But that's why, once again, give love because not everybody knows about Yeasty Brews in Lauderhill, and they're super solid. They're solid. Their beers are solid over there. Dangerous Minds are solid over there.
Michelle: Something that they have in common too—I don't know if this is whatever because Riverside did not do so hot there in this department—but Yeasty Brews, Dangerous Minds, Three Sons all have amazing food. I think that is really, really killer. Three Sons, if you go, get the swordfish BLT or whatever it’s called. I think it’s the swordfish—no, swordfish Reuben but add bacon. Oh my God, that's what it is. That is amazing. Also, we haven’t mentioned Gulfstream. Gulfstream is another one. Gulfstream’s really, really solid. They, I think, have one or two beers over at Billy Jacks too. But again, the food component—if you can knock it out of the park with beers, but then you want to bring food into the mix too, I'm there all day.
Evan: And I give respect, and I think kind of people in the know, kind of give respect to Funky Buddha, but not for nothing. They started off in very humble beginnings in Oakland Park before people knew what Oakland Park was, blew it up, sold it to Constellation Brands for 40-something million dollars, and then they recently bought it back. So that's kind of an American dream right there. And they’re a staple in Oakland Park, and they really—I mean, however you want to slice it up, Oakland Park’s blowing up right now, but they really helped Oakland Park get on the map.
Michelle: No, they did. And I think, wasn't their first location in another area code? But when they came here, I remember that being a little bit of a shakeup. It was like, oh my God, there was a real brewery—they’re legit. And people were very excited because I went to one of their first—first or second, one of the early anniversary parties for them. And I was like, this is amazing. I didn't know this was a real thing because you never think of Florida, and definitely not Broward County. I grew up here my whole life, so I was like, I never thought of breweries being in my backyard. I always thought of them in Colorado and California and wherever.
Evan: St. Pete, Tampa.
Michelle: Yeah, not even Florida. I thought they were definitely farther away. But when I saw it at the same time, like I had already been introduced to the craft beer world through other friends and stuff like that. So I was like, all right, this is actually really cool that this is right here, and it kind of snowballed.
Evan: It is really cool because we deserve to have nice things too in Broward, you know what I mean? And that is a great success story. I did want to give you guys, if aside from your favorite episodes, any... I've had some cool things come from doing a podcast. Somebody hears about something, they reach out, and they're like, "Yo, I didn't know that was in my backyard. I met this person that changed my life. I met my partner at this event that I found out about." Any cool success stories or things that came from the podcast?
Luis: I think I'm going to echo their sentiments. We’re going to be the official podcast of the FemAle Brew Fest, so yeah.
Evan: Yeah, this is normally why I would put the applause sound, but that's different. There you go.
Luis: So that's a great experience. Also, breaking news sound. But also, to give shouts to Exit One Tap Room, because they invited us to our first Beer Fest, where they said, “We like what you guys are doing. Come through.” We went to the Pine tober Fest last year and were able to attend that. They took care of us, very hospitable, it was a great time. That's also coming up soon, you guys keep an eye out for that. Even the owners, Audi and Breezy, were even nice enough to invite us to the Doral, uh, prison palace and get on the podcast shortly after they invited us. So I mean, it's those connections. You have a podcast based on arts, community, and all that good stuff that comes... it's all balled into one. And that's my favorite part, is just the connectivity, right? The community that happens. Even if it's just you catch someone off glance at a bar, and the next time you see them at the brewery, like it’s happened before. We've done brewery hopping in other areas, and they’re like, “Those people are the same ones that were at the last brewery.” So a community.
Evan: Correct.
Luis: So when that happens in your own hometown, there’s a level of appreciation because it's not going to be the last time.
Evan: Well, this kind of came out in a little bit of a random cool way because I know I've known you for a few years, volunteering and helping out, supporting the beer festival. But we were at the airport both going on the same flight to San Francisco with Andrew, and Andrew's sitting there talking. I never—I didn't know you, you know? And he's like, “Yeah, you got a podcast.” And like, oh, we start chopping it up. Our flight got delayed. We were going to go see some empty space in San Francisco, and here we are. And I love when it kind of comes full circle, and we're all doing the right thing. We're all trying to help people. We're doing what we love, you know what I mean? We don't have a formal sponsor for this podcast either, but I do it because it's the right thing to do. Hopefully, by continuing to do it, staying authentic, staying genuine, supporting good people, good things will come from it. It doesn't have to be a million dollars or anything like that.
Luis: The only cool thing that happened, one time, beer camp. One time, get beer camp. No, the only cool thing is the fact that I'm hanging out with my two best friends. I think that's...
Michelle: You should have known this already.
Luis: Right? I mean, it's cool just hanging out with my two friends and just grabbing a beer and talking crap throughout the entire time.
Evan: My favorite things to do.
Luis: Yeah, we fill like 120 minutes of just crapola and beer drinking. But I mean, it's a fun time; it's a really good time. You can catch us on Beer Pressure, the podcast. You can also check out our merch store—check the merch store right here. Look right here. But besides that, I do beer, brews, and food. Haven't done so...
Michelle: Yeah, exactly what it sounds like.
Luis: Yeah, beer, brews, and food on Instagram. Same thing, I do have a website now, beerbrewsandfood.com.
Michelle: Happy Florida girl. You'll find my running adventures there, sometimes my beer adventures for sure. And find us at FemAle Brew Fest coming up next month. Should be a good time.
Luis: Definitely. Lewis was being real modest; he does a lot for the damn podcast.
Michelle: That's right.
Luis: I just—I'll just say that. He's the one that acquires guests for us. So if you're interested in being on Beer Pressure, the first and only audio bottle share that hasn't been contested yet, hit up Lew at Beer Brews and Food. We're going to have Evan on there sooner than soon. And as far as my IG handle, it's Bruise Beats the letter N Eats. Got new episodes on the way. They don't like to hear about that podcast. Shouts to Quick the Poet—that episode’s dropping soon.
Evan: Former guest of ours, Quick the Poet, former Creative Zen speaker at our event, and all-around solid dude. So I'm excited for that. I'm hoping you guys are excited for that. Yeah, I think that's pretty much us.
Michelle: You covered the merch store.
Luis: From the merch store.
Evan: Okay, Bruise Beats and... the what store?
Luis: The merch store.
Evan: The merch store.
Luis: We got some models representing. You can find them at the FemAle Brew Fest, September 14th, Los A1A at the Loop. 7th annual installment. Say what's up. Come say what's up to us. We're going to be behind microphones, and we don't mind if you come over and say hello. Maybe we'll ask you a couple of questions.
Michelle: Yes, definitely.
Luis: So we're looking forward to it. Thank you again to Andrew and Frances and Andrew for making us part of that. That's a great feeling. We were talking about accomplishments, things like I said, we said earlier. It doesn't hurt to say it again—these are accomplishments that when we set off to crack open three beers and talk that crap for an hour and 20 minutes, and a one-hour bag, that wasn't what we thought we were going to get to.
Evan: Whoever would have known.
Luis: Whoever would have known, exactly. And here we are. So, shouts to every brewery, every craft brewery from Broward to Dade, who's putting in the work and accepting us as just some locals.
Evan: It’s good to feel a rising tide. Rising tides raise all ships.
Luis: That’s it.
Evan: Which is the wave in the logo, if you didn’t know that Andrew created.
Luis: Evan, thank you.
Evan: Mostly, thank you, Evan.
Luis: Thank you so much.
Evan: Hey, man, we're doing the best with what we got. Got more cool stuff. We just had the Mescal Lauderdale Festival, which I saw you at—the third annual celebration of Mescal that we know of currently in the country. We do have an omakase dinner coming up with Andrew's brother-in-law, Frances’s brother, Jay, and Twan at Miso right over here this Monday, August 26th, which is going to be cool. They're actually going to pair it with Mescal. So you can find out more about that.
Michelle: Mescal. Can't wait for that invite.
Evan: Hey, $200 dinner, you know, I got it.
Luis: That’s it.
Michelle: We’ll take it out of the budget.
Evan: More cool stuff where that came from. More cool stuff where that came from. You can find more cool stuff at Choose 954. We still do tours of the Downtown Hollywood ArtWalk every third Saturday night of the month, free event. We have our monthly breakfast lecture series, our mini TED Talk every second Friday morning of the month. We do potlucks for artists, for creatives, quarterly. The next one—we just had it last week—the next one will be around Thanksgiving time. And we're still doing our thing with Zero Empty Spaces, activating vacant storefronts to provide studios for artists to create and collaborate. We're up to 31 in the last five years.
Michelle: And you guys are national, right? It's not like...
Evan: Now we're in four states.
Michelle: Yeah, that's awesome.
Evan: We're starting to grow. And so, yeah, if you know an artist looking for community or a space to create or anything, don’t hesitate to reach out. I'm an open book at Evan Snow 13, Choose 954. Follow at FemAle Brew Fest. Follow these guys; they're doing great things. Also, shout out to Orchestrated Minds, who will be at the festival as well, and all the guys in Broward. I mean, it’s been really cool to watch, even from when I used to go to Untapped in Pompano when Pompano was really...
Luis: That’s still one of my favorite things to do. I mean, like it's shut down for the summer, right? But like during the fall and winter, it’s one of my favorite things to do because of all the different food trucks and all the different art vendors out there. There’s a nice little art gallery that’s set up. It’s an amazing time.
Evan: So yeah, you can find out a bunch of cool stuff like this on Choose 954. We support Pompano and the Bailey Contemporary Arts Center and Untapped. I'm from Coral Springs; my address technically said Pompano, so it’s so cool that I never would have imagined I'd be going to see art and drink craft beer in Pompano when I was growing up. But once again, these businesses wouldn’t survive if we do not patronize them and support local small businesses. Budweiser, Coors, they're going to be all right, but your dollars go a lot further at Orchestrated Minds and Invasive Species and the Three Sons and the Yeasty Brews. So thank you guys for tuning in, supporting local. If you know more cool people in the community that are doing important things, we're always looking for more guests. We do this because it's the right thing to do, and vice versa. So we’ll see you at the FemAle Brew Fest. Cheers.
Everyone: Cheers.
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