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- speaker-0: Welcome back to this week's episode of the Wash Co. Insider. You know them, you love them. They're Washington County celebrities. They are the reigning foodie king and queen of the region. They are out and about. Today, we are welcoming none other than Carol D'Angelo and Nate Mass back for their second appearance on the Wash Co. Insider for an inside look into Corkson Cakes, Washington County's biggest beer, wine, and spirits vessel that's coming up in just a few weeks. We'll get right into it when we come back. Alrighty, Nate and Carol, you guys are back for your very first second appearance on the podcast. I hope you're honored. ⁓ it is. speaker-1: Listen, are we the the only ones that have been back two times? I feel like there should be a sash. See special. There we go. And it's on. ⁓ speaker-0: You are. speaker-2: I always told you you were Well we thank you guys for this. speaker-0: We have something big to talk about because I can feel in the air when you guys walked in just how pumped you guys are for this year's quarks and kegs. Tell us all about it. Where is it and when is it, first of all? speaker-1: Pumped. Well, you know where it is. I don't know. It's at the one and only Hollywood Casino at the Meadows. We have moved the date this year a little bit later to accommodate our friends at Pony and the Washington County Fair. Because you know me, I'm all about I Chase can tell you. I text him every time, When is this? When is that? When's this going on? 'Cause I wanna make sure we are not competing, we're supporting. Family. That's right. So this year it is on August twenty eighth, twenty ninth, and thirtieth. So you'll notice we added a day because we wanted to support our friends at racing. So it's starting on Friday night, five to nine. Saturday, it's a little bit crazy. It's twelve to eleven, twelve PM to eleven PM because why wouldn't we try to have something for eleven hours? Agree. Why not? Yeah. And then Sundays eleven to seven, however, they've got Grand Funk Railroad closing out the event. speaker-0: They're pretty. speaker-1: Listen, they are pretty big and we're pretty excited. So you can come hang out. If you've got something you want to do the rest of the weekend, you've got one of three days to come support it. So we're really excited about it. Super pumped. Yeah, we are pumped. speaker-0: Well, can come one day or you should come all three days. speaker-1: Listen, we have actually I'm gonna tell you guys something that's really cool, and this is definitely the best part about tourism. This event has become something that people will come out of town, and we're talking multiple states. So we pull the data because we all love the data. So it's West Virginia and Ohio, of course, but we've got Maryland, we've got Virginia, we've got New York. So the overnight stays are something that we definitely like to promote because we want people speaker-2: We always say that. speaker-1: If you if you wanna come one Saturday, hang out with us Saturday, spend the night, and then go visit Tanger. Go visit some of the other things that are happening in our amazing county. That's what this event is about. So Food Truck became that, but Quarks and Keg started it. ⁓ speaker-0: Yeah, and it's also closed so can visit all of those. Yeah, we can't tell we can have fun speaker-1: You know I love Washington. You know how I'm the beauty of it all work. speaker-0: Okay, ⁓ so we got people coming in. We also got a lot of vendors coming in. We have a lot of vendors. many vendors do you have this year? It's a pretty big year for you guys. speaker-1: Well, we're you know, my team loves when I do this. ⁓ we are up to ⁓ forty some. Forty two hundred. Did you hear me clearly? Forty two hundred? Just a couple. Just a few and we have twenty now we're up to twenty two food trucks and I got a text on the way in that there's a taco truck that wants to come. ⁓ that was my surprise gift to you. We're gonna try I knew you'd be excited. Well th yeah, there's tell yeah, we could talk we can talk about it. See what I did there? speaker-2: One you just told me about, I'm pretty excited. speaker-1: I'm so full of puns. speaker-0: We're going to get into it. OK, so we'll get into vendors in a little bit. we got, the name is Corks and Kegs. But tell me, can people bring their families? speaker-2: This is definitely a family friendly event. Everything we do in Washington County we try to incorporate the family. I mean it's it's something that ⁓ Washington is known for and we wanna keep it family roots, you know. We wanna keep this a a fun festival for everybody. Carol, I think you and your crew do a great job of keeping things like this family oriented. Thank you. And ⁓ I mean it is a lot of fun for everybody. You don't need to have any corks or kegs to have some fun. There's alcoholic beverages as well as all the food and shopping you can get. I mean and obviously not to mention the music. Let's not speaker-1: Yeah, nothing. We can get into that later because there's so much music. But that's that's the part about it. And when we first started Corks and Kegs ten years ago, it was do we you know, how do we want to do this so that families can come? And it's everything that we do, like Nate said, has become family friendly because You know, certainly the the gals can come out with their girlfriends. The guys come out and want to, you know, taste the taste the alcohol and have a cigar. Yes, I'm But it's n it the thing about this event, it has never been something that we were concerned about too much drinking. We've never had an issue. I hope I didn't just jinx it, right? I hope I didn't. But yeah. But you know the casino has an entire lower level of nothing but games. Yes. It's got a full-on arcade. So speaker-0: Yes. speaker-1: This definitely has become even more fam family friendly just because they did that. So absolutely bring the family one hundred percent. speaker-2: Yes, the bowling alley's down there as well. That's right. My son loves the bowling alley. We we go down to Starport Arcade a lot. I mean it's great. My son's got me in some of these great places like that because again, there's plenty of times where I want to just bring the family and have fun. The casino is a place where we go even without the festivals, we go there for the bowling, the arcade, and they actually have, you know me food. I like food. ⁓ they have a themed ⁓ like bar down there that has a restaurant. It's all video game themed. speaker-0: That's really nice. speaker-1: Listen to him. Video game Yeah. It's pretty cool. It's really cool. Yes. Yeah, I mean, and that's that's the whole point of this. Obviously when we started this event out, we started it with the Meadows Casino. And the team at at now Hollywood Casino at the Meadows is absolutely amazing to work with. And it's grown every year. You know, we've got the most robust beer list we've ever had. So we're we're encroaching, we're knocking speaker-0: The food is really good. speaker-1: We're knocking right on that door of a hundred ⁓ a hundred craft beers, and that's what we want to that's what we want to aspire to. But none of these events would be possible if they were not on board and they are just amazing to work with. So the you're taking a look right now at at the layout, which, you know, when I look at it, I get a little excited, a little nervous at the same time because how we pulled this off is beyond me, but it wasn't me. It was a whole team of people. So they're excited about it, we're excited about it, the team is fantastic and we're ready to go. speaker-0: excited about it. Well, so you just hit on it's been 10 years of Quarks and Cakes, right? Yeah. So I want to hit on the origin story because not a lot of people know it. I feel like I don't even know the details of it. Shame on me. Why start a beer, wine and spirits festival here in Washington County? I want to know. speaker-1: That's okay. That's why we're here. Well, I'll tell you why. We when we sat down as a team and talked about what what don't we have here? Right? What does Washington this is ten years ago. So what does Washington County not have? Right now, you can't ask that question because you guys with tourism have done such an amazing job. It literally is a matter of what's not happening this weekend and there's always something. But ten years ago we talked about, ooh, a craft beer and wine festival and spirits weren't so hot. Ten years ago. Think about it, Nate. Like you'll you know that. So we partnered with our buddy Chunk at Beverage Distribution and we asked him what he thought about this. And of course, Miller Light, Miller, Line and Kugel, they were on board immediately. And it started off very small, just like everything that we did. So the beer the beer list was, you know, maybe around thirty. The wine list was around maybe five to seven. At the beginning there were maybe twelve food trucks. And it was so amazingly well received that it like grew double, double, double. And we wanted to focus and highlight what we have in our region. That's what all these big events started with. What do we have here that we could tell the community, this is why you should come to Washington County? That was the origin of it. Okay, craft beer and wine, this is a popular thing, and there are some food trucks around right now, and that's how I sounded without Weird little high pitched voice that just came out. Because 10 years ago there weren't that many. Yes. Right? And so that was the start of what became a regional event. And people, I will tell you, shameless plug for Vintage Grace boutique that we own, we get customers every single year that come to this event and will come find the boutique. And they are not local. None of these people are local. We're talking Parkersburg, Huntington, Maryland. I'm not kidding. That will come to Quirks and Kegs and will then come to the boutique, or have come to Washington County to spend the night for other events after the fact. So literally it's textbook perfect for tourism. But that's how it started. Okay. No, but I'm serious. Like I I did a job at the I am not a good liar. They will all tell you on my team, but it it was the seedling of an idea that just literally landed perfectly and has grown every year. And we are so proud to highlight. speaker-0: I'm here just to make my tourism hard. speaker-1: Washington County. Absolutely. speaker-0: Because if there's anything we do really well and you both know this, it's spirits. We have very deep heritage with the spirits here. There's some really nice wineries that have been on my list forever. Like lot of breweries. like if there's anything Washington County really does well, it's all. speaker-1: That's right. And and it's also it started a little bit when we started talking about the farm to table movement. Like this farm to table movement has been in our conversation in our wheelhouse for a very long time. You know, the folks at Emerald Valley, they were a part of this with us and she's living her best dream at her farm. So they're getting really speaker-0: I've been excited for this. speaker-1: She's all she's also crazy in the best possible way. And I hope she hears me say that because that's a compliment. But that's how it started. It was it was what can we do to celebrate and highlight our local craft beer winery and food? And it's just blossomed. I mean, this this new food truck that we're gonna talk about is from New York. And they found out about us from our buddies at Dirty Birds. And they were like, We know you guys are crazy. Can we come join us? I'm like, come join our crazy. speaker-0: Come on in. Yep. Okay. Well, so next question. want you imagine you're standing in the festival like you're deep in it It's day two day one, you know, you're ready Tell me about what you're smelling what you're seeing what you're hearing Give us the full experience for people that are listening right now that have never been to quarks and kegs speaker-1: So what do you smell? ⁓ speaker-2: You gotta smell the barbecue coming from wood. speaker-0: I associate Nate with barbecue. speaker-2: My favorites. Southside barbecue. I mean things like that. The smell through the whole event. I mean, you can smell the delicious Gills pit beef. speaker-1: We know it. And what about what about Patty's pastry? So you may not be smelling. Well, if you get close enough, you can smell that chocolate. And they make a please let me say it, bacon. ⁓ here we go. speaker-2: Well this isn't bacon maple bourbon. That's it. That was the one we had a problem with. Is that the one? It's hard to say. I'm not even sure. Tested and tried and sampled. ⁓ speaker-1: It is the one. That's it. Yeah, he made me drink last year. speaker-0: I made you drink. speaker-1: I'm a light I'm a lightweight. Listen, I'm a lightweight. So tell them about the bacon speaker-2: Did her own very soft Maple bacon bourbon cupcake. And actually I had a friend there who was helping us with the ⁓ the whole thing and we act some I wanna say it was from Wiggle ⁓ wine or wiggle whiskey. We had some bourbon that was spilt onto the cupcake as well. So absolutely delicious. But yes, it was a mess. We we split it, we loved it, we couldn't say it, but we told people. speaker-1: Yes. You were a mess. Yes, we sure did. So so you're smelling you're smelling all that. We also have our friends from Tambolini's back this year. Yes. So you're smelling a little bit of sauce. Yes. You're smelling a little bit of sausage. So that's what you're smelling. And what I feel is my feet starting to move. music is No, it's there's like no other festival you're going to. speaker-2: Because the music in there can't help denying. Not to mention I don't know if you're like me, I enjoy with food, you know, look at a little happy dance. You got some music in the background. speaker-1: He does do a happy dance. It's not not Yeah. Eat more. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. ⁓ speaker-0: It helps to adjust as well. speaker-2: I like that. Yes. speaker-0: Okay, so we'll get into food in a second, then you'll be up, so I need you to prepare. But... I want you to roll through the vendors in the other two categories. Walk me through some beer, wine, spirits vendors, anyone you're super excited for, and then also crafts, we got apparel. You have quite the list. speaker-1: Yeah. It's I have to say that it's the most eclectic list of any event that we do because there's so much shopping. It's really unique how pe and people have like sort of trained themselves that they know, okay, this is the strategy. We're gonna eat a little, we're gonna sample a little alcohol, we might have a little bit of coffee because you have to have coffee because it's my event. And then we're going to do a little bit of shopping, and then we're gonna do a little bit of dancing. I have some friends who literally carve out From the afternoon to the evening on Saturday. That's their girl time. They've come back the next day with their spouse or their family. ⁓ Yes. All right. So you can't have a food event with alcohol without cigars. So you can't, right? I mean, even I like a good cigar. So Ashes to Ashes comes every year. They have a great speaker-0: Let's talk vendors first. speaker-1: He makes them himself, so he buys some, he makes some and it's like a very eclectic mix of cigars. If you like a fruity cigar, if you like a woodsy cigar, he's got a cover. Now we've got a few new ones. We've got beaded soul jewelry and accessories. I cannot wait for that 'cause clearly I don't like any jewelry at all. My other one of my other fan favorites is Country Creek furniture. speaker-2: Yeah. Definitely. That's something to check out. speaker-1: So have you seen their stuff? I'm not. This guy makes all the furniture himself. So you can get a charcuterie board, you can get a side table, you can get a dining room table, you can get a chair. He makes it all himself. And you can hear and feel. I like that handmade product aspect because it's all about supporting local, right? We also have Cross Creek cigars, because I'm gonna stay with the cigar theme. We have a new vendor who came to Food Truck Ever Poly Furniture. So it's the poly resin furniture. You might have seen him. He was also also at the Whiskey Rebellion. Fantastic. Yeah. So it's like a Adirondack chair effect and it's very affordably priced. He's a local guy. Love him. I like it. ⁓ also we've got the Forgotten Glass Candle Lady. She makes all of her candles herself. She's also crazy and we love her. ⁓ some other new folks, well newish, Lady D's Treasures, sells a little bit of everything. We've got painted palettes. She handmaker herself. Perfectly Imperfect, who is all leather goods, amazing stuff. I might have something on myself here. ⁓ Scoop Dog Creamery. Yes. Do we know about Scoop Dog Dog? Yes. And Title Candle, because I mean you gotta have the fall candles ready to go. So we've got two candle vendors. And I guess I'd be remiss if I didn't say Vintage Grace Boutique as I might get divorced. So and we've actually got a bus this year, so you have to come check this out. We bought a whole bus. Betty the bus is coming. speaker-0: We sure do. speaker-1: Yes, it's a whole boot seek experience on a bus. ⁓ my goodness. Yes. All right, where do you want me to go next? Well I could talk for days. Do you want Nate to talk about food? speaker-0: Okay. We're gonna do fitness. speaker-2: You want to do beer? You want me to talk about beer? You want to talk about beer? So five different Oktoberfest beers that's gonna be there. That's not one, not two, not three, not four, five of them all in one place. Oktoberfest beers, pumpkin beers are the thing. People love those kind of beers. Because fall's coming. Fall's coming, exactly. So you got five right there in one spot. The local breweries like Helltown, ⁓ Penn Brewery, Blockhouse, Brew Gentlemen, all those favorites like that will be there. New Trail Brewery. speaker-1: ⁓ you talk about beer. speaker-2: ⁓ from William Sport PA will be there. Neil new yes, that's what I thought. I was looking into them a little bit I looked up their websites I was checking on. speaker-1: They're new, literally new. ⁓ Maybe. I think. I think they did. But they're new speaker-2: And then Evergreen Brewery. One of my buddies at work was talking about Evergreen Brewery, he said it was really good. They're out of Camp Hill PA. That's a newer one I'd want to say as well. ⁓ IPAs, Lagers, Fruit Beers, there's all kinds of different porters, ⁓ stouts, the typical your regular beers are there, four different non alcoholic beers, which is a good thing. Like we said, family friendly. Yes. Non alcoholic beers right there for you to try. ⁓ some other favorites, gumball head from Three Floyds and American White Ale. speaker-1: What do even mean? What's that mean? Gumball head. That's the name of it. Is it taste? speaker-2: All of their cans have like ⁓ kind of I wanna say skulls or heads or certain things. So that one has this bunch of little heads on it and stuff. And I was like again, I was looking up the websites. Look up the names of these ⁓ brewing companies. Their websites are very entailed and very detailed. I like that. Like the pictures of them, the seasonal beers, the ones that they have, you know, all around. speaker-1: Okay. And it also helps you pair with the food. Yes. Because that's something that's super important to us. Right. So we want to have something different. We want to have your traditional of course we've got Miller, Miller, Leighton, Line and Google, which we would never have an event without BDI, of course. But it's really cool to pair it. So what is your favorite on this list? Do you have a favorite speaker-2: So I know Helltown's gonna be there. Storm Starbreaker is one of my favorite beers that they have. I am a hazy beer guy. I like the hazy beer. speaker-1: You made me drink that last year. You made me you Yeah. And he did make me because typically I have a long I have a very long three days at this event and so I put up a little bit of a fuss, but he made me he made me sample some and speaker-2: problem was I think you found a double time a two time IPA that you liked. I kept looking and you were sipping here and there. speaker-1: I did. He watches every move I make. If I have two bites of a fry, he calls me out. You've had two fries. admit it. speaker-2: She shares good but not well enough. So I gotta make sure that she doesn't take everything. speaker-1: ⁓ huh. Right. Mm-hmm. ⁓ speaker-0: I didn't know the costs were going to be at Corks and Kegs. ⁓ speaker-1: ⁓ no, Yeah, ⁓ yeah. It it gets messy, you should come. Yes, yeah. The observer reporter trailer literally gets messy. Everyone's crammed in, it's hot, it's messy. Yeah, with the answer under control. Yeah, okay, we're passing. speaker-2: Join us in the trailer. ⁓ Whatever. That might have been my fault ⁓ though. speaker-0: You should take the blame for that. speaker-2: That's what you got me for before the last time. Well normally half of it is because she's shoving food down my throat. That's how she likes to do that. She likes to feed me on camera and then forcefully feed me. speaker-1: I it it it's on camera on several different occasions. speaker-0: Well, you guys are celebrities. You gotta provide some entertainment for the people. speaker-1: Yeah, that's what we are. ⁓ speaker-2: I both they don't see the trash can underneath my legs anymore that I have to use. speaker-1: Just in case because it's just stuff falling. The best part it would be coming behind the scenes to watch this. You should do a podcast from behind the scenes one year. That's that's where it gets messy. All right. Speaking of messy, do you want to talk about the food? speaker-2: Do we have the food game? Let's talk about the food. speaker-0: Let's talk about the food. speaker-1: Yeah of course as usual I'm not paying attention to the agenda. speaker-2: Well, I mean it is corks and kegs. It's similar to the Food Truck Festival. Not quite some food trucks. There's ⁓ twenty, over twenty a little over twenty. speaker-1: No Yes. So yes, ⁓ speaker-2: Favorites. Okay, favorites. Bamma's house, Dirty Birds, Chicken and Waffles. We brought them up. They are absolutely delicious out of New York. ⁓ E B wings, ⁓ breaded wings, they're absolutely amazing. I've never had a breaded wing quite as good as his. Not many people do that much effort to bread their wings, and that man does a great speaker-1: All right. This is only thirty minutes. Let's move on from the web. speaker-2: Embers Wood Fired Pizza, you gotta talk about them. Hollywood Casino at the Meadows owned their pizza is really good. I like it. One of the days I'll get like the meat one instead. I always get the tomato one for you, the margarita so you speaker-1: Really good. Nice. Yeah. ⁓ Mm-hmm. speaker-0: Yes speaker-2: We get these foods, we share. Gil's Pit Beef will be there. Again, everybody that's listening, Gil's Pit Beef will be there. speaker-0: Two minutes to go. speaker-1: Yes. ⁓ speaker-2: ⁓ hot dogs, one of my favorites. Been ⁓ been with you since the beginning as well, right? speaker-1: They were my very first They were they've been with me since day one. My A one since day one. They thought I was crazy and here we are still crazy together. speaker-2: ⁓ if you can't wait for corks and kegs, you can always go see them up at Tanger Outlets. Shout out to Try to keep it local and support our our people. Johnny Seafood Shack, again, local. Patty's pa Patty's Pastries. Patty's pastries. Mm-mm. Maple bapin maple bacon bourbon. Never say it the first time. It's so hard to say. Say it. I want you out there to say it and see what you get out of it. Yeah. Say it fast, not slow. speaker-1: Very nice. ⁓ Are you good now? I did it. There we go. All right. Thirty minute show. Hey, those are really good. They are really good. They're cr like crunchy and flaky and yummy, and I want one right now. I mean, we love him. It's very formal. Thomas. I call him hubby. Hubby. Yeah. So yes, he's my hubby. Listen, let me tell you guys something. I love a good pretzel. speaker-2: H Hollow truck, Rolly S Fried Spring. ⁓ Santelos. ⁓ Thomas is a great guy and I love him Tommy. Tom speaker-1: Okay. I'm gonna talk about it a second. I love all types of pretzels. I don't understand what he puts in it, on it and around it. Am I speaker-2: No, you're not wrong. Owen went crazy the first time he had that pretzel twist. speaker-1: Please come and I will share a pretzel with you. I'll even share a little bit of beer. I'm not kidding. It's it's it's flaky and I mean not that big. You'll to come to see it. I think it is. Okay, go ahead. I hijacked it again. ⁓ speaker-2: Three feet long pretzel twist. ⁓ Southside Barbecue, Tambolinis will be there as well. The rustic lemonade. I've said this before, I have a lemonade problem and the rustic lemon speaker-0: I've seen your Facebook posts. ⁓ speaker-1: Listen, here's my pro tip. Are you all ready? Rustic lemonade, flavored or regular. Regular. Get a little tequila in one and a little vodka in the other and let me know what you think. Well sh speaker-2: She also had a tea menu I've seen the last time. She did. She did. So that would go great. speaker-1: Let's do that. Let's make our own. Okay, we're taking over. What else? ⁓ you skipped over Twisted Pot Twisted Potato. Sorry. The coffin bean and co coffin bean. speaker-2: Potato. Sorry, that's my bad. speaker-1: I know. Do you do you see that it says coffin? speaker-2: I d I do see that. I had to look it up to make sure it wasn't a I thought maybe there was a typo and there was not a typo. speaker-0: Is it really? speaker-1: Purse. See how he's calling me out? Cla typo is n no. Typo typo's a no sometimes, but no, it's actually a hearse. Now tell them about the brand new one that you're excited about. speaker-2: No. Dark side of the crust. So I am a Star Wars fan. I love anything Star Wars and Dark Side of the Crust, first of all it's a Star Wars theme and that crust better have a little darkness to it 'cause that's what makes a good pizza. I'm excited where they find so that's the one from New York. speaker-1: And they're from from New York. They're from New York. So we've got people coming from New York. They don't they're gonna know it very soon. So there is literally something for everyone. And if you check back in a bit, we might have a brand new taco truck on there as well. So this is what happens, the word is out that they know that this is New York. I mean, listen, I'm pretty proud of it. speaker-2: I don't even know that they're one of my favorites. All the way in New Well let's come back here to Washington. Uncle Louis G's ice cream. First time. First time. Me and my son have been going up there and checking that place out. That's right. He loves it. Yes. They have ⁓ Italian ice and they have regular ice cream and everything. The Louis blue is my favorite, but it turns your whole mouth blue. I don't know what is in it. speaker-1: First. Dad I can't wait for you to have a blue mouth. Because typically the the event ⁓ weather is hot with a percentage of rain. That's what we get here in southwestern Pennsylvania. So it doesn't matter because it can be warm, you can go inside and cool off. And that's what we want people to do because the casino experience is so phenomenal. So we're hoping, we're really hoping for the folks who come out with their girlfriends, come out with their with their husbands or significant other. Spend the day, spend the evening, go into the casino, come back the next day and dance with us. That's that's how I feel about this. Right? Okay. I jumped ahead again. speaker-0: Tell me about sampler tickets. We almost skipped sampler tickets. speaker-1: Well, I wasn't gonna skip it. It's highlighted in yellow. So what I recommend for those of you who want because there's so such a large selection, you can get the sampler ticket which which allows you to have five samples of either the beer or the wine and spirits ahead of time is fifteen dollars for pre-sale. At the door it's only seventeen dollars. And let me tell you what that's done. It allows you to have the tastings, right? And then you can if you're not sure of what you want to drink. You can sample, obviously, and then you can get your glass. So this also includes the wine and spirits and the selection of wine and spirits is fantastic. And let me give you a little lay laydown, rundown of of how it works. You come in and you're gonna have two giant beer tents. There's two giant tents, two giant areas where the beer will be. That is on the apron. Then you go on the racetrack and there's two giant wine and spirit experiences. And what we're doing a little bit differently this year. There's a lot of different seating. So it's hot, we're gonna have a misting station, we're gonna have additional seating under tents. Right. So what's gonna be And let me tell you something, and I'm gonna brag for one second. Do you know what we didn't get this year after the Food Truck Festival? Complaints about the seating. Do you wanna know why? We brought twenty additional picnic tables and we're bringing them back this for this event. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-1: Perfectly as well. It's all about the experience, folks. So sampler sampler tickets are available on the website or at the or obviously at the event itself. And we're doing something a little different this year. We've got the People's Choice Award. Yes, so it's sponsored by CFS Bank. And you can go on and vote for your the favorite winery, best distillery, spirits vendor, and food truck. speaker-2: Yes, that's right. speaker-0: Okay, speaker-1: Yeah, I love giving away a good trophy. So that's happening. So that that has actually been launched already. You can find it on our website. You can find it on our Facebook page. That has started. And I would be remiss if I didn't thank South Hills Lincoln because without them, we wouldn't have this event. So you can also come and shop for a brand new car. ⁓ I'm not gonna go through all the sponsors because it's plentiful. When Sunday evening. Yes, you know how pumped up we are on Sunday around six o'clock because it's speaker-2: You've given that trophy away for Sunday evening. speaker-1: Almost over. Are you gonna do the what are you gonna quiz us and do the funny fast thing? Today. Okay, no quizzes. speaker-0: We don't speaker-2: Now that we brought up Sunday, what else is Sunday? Sunday is the classic car. I am excited. Listen, like you said earlier, I like to come on Saturday with you, spend some time with you on Saturday, have a couple corks and kegs, a lot of food, and then Sundays that they have bring the family. Sundays that they typically Owen and Laney and Rachel will come with me and you speaker-1: I did not forget about it. ⁓ Both you're both mine readers because it's my favorite part of the event because nothing is cooler. One year we actually had eight hundred cars around that I'm not kidding around that racetrack. It was phenomenal. The overhead shots were stupendous because it doesn't matter what age you are, you can bring a classic car, you can bring a hot rod, you can bring a vintage, whatever you want to call it, bring it and hang out with us. That's definitely a family event. Yeah. speaker-2: And that's registrations at nine AM for that. First hundred and fifty cars receive a commendative or commemorative dashboard. That is awesome. I like that there's 'cause that's that brings people out to obviously get there. They like those. There's green spaces, you know. speaker-1: Yes, we do. Thanks to First Federal. Thanks the first Federal Savings Alone. And it is my favorite part because they come up and they line up and they're all the way around. It's it's fantastic. So yeah, so the bands, we you want to talk about bands? Yep. All right. We've kind of done before ⁓ speaker-0: You guys are just mind-readers on the internet. speaker-1: It's controlled chaos. That's how I have the chaos coordinator hat. So like I mentioned this year, it's our first year of having live racing from five to nine. And then Saturday starts off. We got a little country. I don't know what that hand gesture was, but we got a little country at noon. The Michael Christopher's Coastal Country Band. If you haven't heard them, they're fantastic. These have all been vetted out by the casino. Because if it's one thing that casino does well, it's the entertainment, let me just tell you. Next up At three from 550 is the Daytona Beach 2000 band. Then is one of my fan faves, Jeff Jemerson and Airborne. Do you know about Jeff Jemerson? I do. Okay, so he is He's a big deal. He's the national anthem singer for the Pittsburgh Penguins. And he is good. He's amazingly good. I've known him for 30 years. I met him when I was eight. That was a lie. speaker-0: I know who's speaker-1: ⁓ I have known him for thirty years, but I didn't meet him when I was eight. I was just seeing if you were paying attention to ⁓ to the age difference there, but he is literally one of the absolute best. Do you want to go on to Sunday? Do you want me to keep going? You wanna do Sunday? Yes, because you know people get tired of hearing my mouth. No, no tired of you. ⁓ wait, I lied. I'm not done. ⁓ see. At nine o'clock because it goes to eleven is my so called nineties, which is my favorite time of of my life. Y ⁓ yes speaker-2: I can do Sunday. Is vibe open that weekend? That's right. So again, on top of all of this, when you're done here, vibe open. speaker-1: She vibe it up. Were you born in the nineties? I was not When were you born? speaker-0: 2001 Yeah, I know I know I'm sorry speaker-1: It's okay. It's okay, go ahead. It's fine. It's okay. At least you ⁓ at least you didn't say you were born twenty twelve or something. Go ahead. Yeah, no, that's bad. All right, go ahead. No one was speaker-2: Sunday starting at eleven o'clock till one thirty, you got six whiskey revival. I know that's a good favorite band of your speaker-1: It's one of my favorite. Because you wanna know why you wanna know why? Just quickly, because these bands are all so talented and so amazing and they're all looking for a shot and here they are at the casino performing at our big events and it makes me so happy because everyone needs a shot. Yes, I and that's how I feel about it, and they're all good in their own way. speaker-2: Great spot in a shot to have. speaker-1: It is a great sport in a shock. He's using his British voice. speaker-2: So from two to three thirty, the silent partner band. Mm-hmm. Kara, will you be silent for that one? speaker-1: I was just waiting for you to say it I will not. If she will not. Mm-mm singing. Get it? Get it. Tom Petty. Teddy. I love it. I didn't get it at first. I'll get it. And then speaker-2: Will not. I will. Four to six. Get petty. Did you get it? All right. I love Tom Pet. Seven PM to close it all down. speaker-1: Is the Grand Funk Railroad, the OG Grand Funk Railroad. Now that will be in their event center. That actually is a ticketed piece of it. So once you're done having a great time at the Quirks and Kegs Festival, you can go right up into the quality, controlled, cool. So it doesn't matter what it's doing. Mother Nature and I are not talking right now. We're ⁓ we're it'll be okay. You can head up there to the event center and listen to Grand Funk Railroad. Okay. Phenomenal. speaker-0: It's gonna be a pretty big finale. Speaking of finales, I'm getting pretty sad, but it is the end, yes. Before we wrap up, is there anything we missed? I'm pretty sure I heard something about a rib cook. speaker-1: It's the end. speaker-2: I yes, you know, we were talking earlier about the smells of the corks and kegs of the event there. Let me talk to you about Steel City Harley Davidson's rib cook-off, the event you can smell for miles. It's true. True. Yes. It's true. Six competitive rib vendors, three live bands, ⁓ jewelry, cigars, knives. The vendors there are hilarious. They're awesome. They're great people. And they have like I mean it's the homemade stuff that they make is really cool. I mean, it's they put a lot of work into what they do. Yep. The people that work at Steel City Harley do amazing for this event. I mean, one of my favorite things is they have a frozen t-shirt contest. Have you heard of this or seen this? ⁓ It's hilarious. So they literally freeze a t-shirt, tie it into a knot, and put it in the buckets and freeze it like into a ball. You, your job, your mission is to unthaw this by whatever means possible, get it untied, and put the shirt on. It sounds easy, doesn't it? Stop. Sounds kind of easy. It is speaker-0: I've not heard of this. speaker-2: ridiculously hard. You see there is grown giant men, I mean, beating this thing off of the ground. Okay, that's whatever you can think of to unthaw this frozen t-shirt tied into a knot. That's it's one of the funniest and best events I've ever seen, honestly. Like I love it. I love it. speaker-1: Hilarious. So what's the what's the winner get? Were you gonna ask that? speaker-2: Have different kinds of prizes. ⁓ It's normally like gift certificates or different things that they have, but that's undetermined at this point. You have to come to figure it out. Okay. I think anybody anybody could do it. You just need to get there and try to do it. You got a lot of body heat, unthaw that speaker-1: I don't know why you looked at me like that when you you know that I do. This is how we're gonna end this podcast on body heat. I think it's a I mean it's a great ending. speaker-0: Pretty good way to end it. Yeah. Okay. Tell people where can they keep up to date with all things Corks and kegs, where can they buy tickets and learn more information about the event. speaker-1: Corks and Kegsfestival dot com. It's that simple, brand new, beautiful website. You can follow us on Facebook. We are posting regularly with all the fun and we are very excited to see everybody come and and hang out with us that weekend. Hollywood Casino at the Meadows. speaker-0: Absolutely. Well, I'm gonna have to see you there. That bacon bourbon cupcake sounds pretty. speaker-2: Bacon bacon maple barbone. speaker-0: I can't say it. Nope, we gotta go now. We're so excited. Problem. Well everyone, thank you for watching and listening and we'll see you soon on the next episode of the Wash Co. Insider. Quarks and Gags is August 28th through the 30th at Hollywood Casino at the Meadows. Thanks so much and we'll see you next time. speaker-1: Don't even try. Thank you guys. Thanks for having us. Awesome. Yep, thank you. speaker-2: Really means a lot.