VOODOO BREW PUB AND 7 YEAR ITCH PARTY HERE IS TODD WITH DETAILS 4/30/26

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

The Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers, bringing you the voices that make you think right now on Talk 94.5.

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All right, we were lucky enough to meet with Todd. I think it was Patty Kane that introduced us. Todd is the owner of the Voodoo Brewing Company in Myrtle Beach at Broadway at the beach. Good morning.

SPEAKER_02 0:19

Morning, guys. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Yeah. So I have to ask you the first question. Some people think you were located somewhere else.

SPEAKER_02 0:25

Yes, there this is a franchise, so there was another owner down in Myrtle's Inlet.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Oh, okay. That explains the mystery.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

Yep. He had opened um about a year ago. Unfortunately, he had to close and rebranded as uh something else down there.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Okay, all right. So your Voodoo Brewing Company is at Broadway at the beach, and it's right by the Dave and Busters. You can see it from the street. You can park right there on the street. It has outdoor dining, indoor dining, entertainment, and um you are a veteran.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

Yes, I spent 22 years in the Marine Corps. Uh grew up in New Jersey, and after 9-11, my brother and I went to the recruiter's office, signed up, went back home, told our parents, and left for boot camp.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

Now, this is something that it runs in your family, right? The military service.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

I've got several people who serve throughout the years.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Yeah, because that would give me a heart attack as a mom. If both my sons came home and said, We did it.

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They're very proud, but uh happy we did it.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Yeah. So what did you um what did you and what did your brother do?

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Uh I was in reconnaissance. Uh my brother was an electrician. He spent uh one contract in the service, then he he got out, moved back home. But I enjoyed it, just kept on going. And eventually 22 years later, uh, hung up my hat and tried something different.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Okay, excellent. So uh we spoke to Tom Winslow yesterday of Winslow Law Firm, and um they're doing a Kentucky Derby event, uh, Hooves, Hats, and Hearts. So I just want to give them a shout out one more time because it's for Helping Hand. That's an organization we helped with our spring food drive. That's happening this Saturday at 4 p.m. Uh rain or shine, and um admission is free, but they'll have all sorts of uh derby-inspired games and they are collecting food during that event. And then when we asked you, hey, would you be um interested in supporting uh movers for moms for moms staying at the family shelter down in the city of Myrtle Beach? You said sign me up. So why do you like to do these uh community events?

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Well, I think it's important to give back to the community, um, to get involved in the community. Um there's plenty of places around here to eat and drink at, so it's sometimes tough to stand out, but you know, there's a lot of different um organizations uh that just need some extra support, so we're just happy to give back.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Absolutely. Well, I love that. Um so we always tie our anniversary party to the Movers for Moms because it's always before Mother's Day. And Two Men in a Truck does this event every year where they collect toiletry and beauty items um for moms uh to make gift baskets for Mother's Day, and then they let the kids pick out the gift baskets uh the day before Mother's Day, and then on Mother's Day morning, the children give their moms the basket they picked out, which I think is so cool. That's sweet. So, yeah, it really is. So Wednesday, May 6th, we're gonna be at the Voodoo Brewing Company at 5 30 p.m. And uh you're gonna be putting out a little bit of a buffet for us.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Yeah, we'll have some of our um food items there, um, our wings, our bang bang shrimp, and our pub pretzels served with our beer cheese, our beer mustard that we make in-house.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

That's awesome.

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My wife had it says great.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Oh, I I can't wait. I love listen, I'm from New York and I miss those pretzels on the street.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

Yeah, I love those pretzels.

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Do you do dirty water dogs?

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Someone asked about that the other day. Uh we thought about bringing it in for a special because that is uh I love hot dogs.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

Oh my gosh. I love Do you ever have a dirty water dog in Manhattan?

SPEAKER_01 3:54

No. Remember we went there to go to the gene thing? We were going to, but we were late into the mustard? We did. Yes. We did have a property.

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Did you put mustard on it? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Did you have a kanish?

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No.

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Do you serve canishes?

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Not yet, but we always have specials, so it might be a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I'm asking me about things I don't have on the menu list. I'm just asking. Welcome to my world.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

It's always about what you don't have, not what you do have.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

So annoying. Uh, but you do have a signature drink. We had talked about a seven-year-itch drink, and you came up with one.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Yeah, my bartenders came up with uh the seven-year-itch drink. It'll be seven dollars, and it'll be vodka-based with elderberry and uh strawberry syrup.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Wait, so it's so it's health kind of based.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

We try to stay healthy.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Right. So when I come the next day and I'm half in the elderberry, I'm gonna give you anti-itch cream for a gift.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

Alrighty. Because you know, seven-year itch has a lot of negative connotations. It does? Yeah.

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Okay. All right.

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Have you been married seven years?

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Can you can you make can we double that?

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Okay. Yeah. See me too. Can you make a drink with Calamine or something? That'd be great. I mean, you know, come on. We could try.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

All right. So um, by the way, HTC is presenting this event, this Conway Ford Talk La Melodage event, and they're giving us an iPad to give away, Nick.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Yeah. Isn't that awesome? I know. Sorry, I'm dealing with multiple things going on here.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

So we have an anniversary party, but you get a chance to get the gift. From HTC. And you have a box set up there already.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

We already have the box. We can start collecting items right now. So um stop on in, uh, drop it off in the box.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

All right. Maybe this Friday when you go to karaoke.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Yes. Every Friday we have karaoke, starts at seven, so bring a gift, drop in the box, and then sing a song.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Okay. And um how how are the singers that are coming in?

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Surprisingly very good. Um there's a lot of great singers that come in here. We have this really old gentleman that comes in. He's he sings really like Frank Sinatra songs, older songs. Uh-huh. He belts it out, sings a few songs, and leaves. It's it's great.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

He just scratches his itch. There you go. To be a performer.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Probably Frank in display.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

I wonder if it is. You never know. You never know. All right. And uh, you're having your own anniversary party as well.

SPEAKER_02 6:17

Yeah, we open May uh 10th of 2024. So we'll be having our two-year anniversary party on May 9th, right before Mother's Day. Um it'll be an all-day affair. We've got uh DJ from two to five playing 90s and early 2000s music.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

Oh my.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

That's my that's my era. Um my wife and I love that. We love that type of music. And then we have a live.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Wait, do you dance?

SPEAKER_02 6:40

I can't dance, no.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Okay, so what nineties and two thousands, like like dance club music? Club music? Well, it's like house music?

SPEAKER_02 6:47

A mixture of stuff, you know, in sync, some you know, some wrap. Wow. All the good stuff. They have some snap bracelets, some glow sticks.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Oh my gosh, yes. That's so funny. Yeah, it's a little it's a little um, you know, I kind of grew up in the 80s, early 90s. So um, but but you know what? We had all those slap bracelets and everything too. Okay, so that's going on, and then you have a classic rock singer from six to eight.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

Yep, yep. So Keith, he's played at our uh place a few times. He's also played at uh other breweries around the Grand Strand. So cool. He's great.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

All right. That's happening on May 9th. It's a Saturday, so it's kind of an all-day thing. Two to five with the DJ, six to eight. Do you have any specials going on that day?

SPEAKER_02 7:32

Uh we'll have uh food and drink specials all day.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Okay. All right. So tell us what is on your menu. Like what can people expect? I mean, sometimes people go to a pub and they look for that traditional pub food.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

So I like to say we have upscale pub food. We make everything in-house. Um, our burgers come in fresh. We actually came in second place for best burgers at Broadway at the beach.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

Um, it's a fresh patty, uh, not frozen. Come it's an Angus beef, ground brisket, ground chuck, and we get our buns from Benjamin's bakery. So a nice fresh product. We like to support local businesses. They've been doing this. They've been doing this for 30 years, so they know what they're doing.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Um, so our burgers are great. Um our pickle pizza is the most popular pizza that we saw.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

All right, now you have to explain this because as a New Yorker, we don't put pickles on our pizzas.

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If you like pickles, this is definitely one to try.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

It's are they fried pickles?

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Uh they're dill pickles, uh, but we bake them you know on the pizza. Oh. Um so it's pesto based sauce, mozzarella cheese. We put the dill pickles on top, put it in the oven, and then when it comes out, we dust it with some dill seasoning. Oh and it pairs very well with beer, of course.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

See, I was always taught that the pickle and Italian stuff don't go together.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Well, when you bake it, listen, it's high. I will try it. No, no, I'm not really knocking. I know. I like it. I think we're gonna have to order that because you can still order from the menu when you come to our party. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Let's order that and try it.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

All right, that's a deal.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Well, we have a couple of seven-year-itch drinks.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Well, you know what? When I had the bagel store, we had pickle soup. And it was the most popular thing ever. And the previous owner had it, and we didn't have it, and they were like, why don't you have the pickle soup? So we had to make the pickle soup.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

So there's pickle fanatics out there.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Yes, they're good for you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

All right. All right. What else do you want to highlight that's on your menu?

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Uh, we're just happy to have people stop by um for all these events. Just follow us on social media. You can check out our events on our website. Um, we're always um, you know, doing different things.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

Yeah, I love it. And uh you have a great bar there to watch um games.

SPEAKER_02 9:39

We do have a big projector that shines on our wall. So, you know, whether it's a big game, the horse race coming up, or just watching music videos.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

Okay. Very cool. Tell us about the beer end of it. So you have the connoisseur of the beer, and Voodoo Brewing Company is the basis of the model.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

Correct. So Voodoo uh Brewing Company is a franchise. They brew the beer for us in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Um I have 20 taps.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

Have you been there?

SPEAKER_02 10:05

I have not been to this to the site where they brew the beer. Okay. Um, one day, hopefully.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Uh we have 20 beers. Half of them will be about voodoo beers, and then I bring in guest taps from local breweries in North and South Carolina. Cool. Um, so they're always rotating. Um, we have our signature beers are always on tap, and then we have our uh voodoo beers that are seasonal ones as well.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

This one sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

The amber beer?

SPEAKER_00 10:30

Yeah.

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From uh Side Hustle. Yeah, they're down in Hilton Head.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

Cool. It has a caramel maltiness.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

I like caramel.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

Me too. I love caramel.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

I like the IPAs. What are the IPAs you have IPAs you have again?

SPEAKER_02 10:44

We have five different ones on tap now. Again, they're always rotating. Um my favorite is our good vibes, one of our flagship beers that we always have on tap. It's a West Coast style IPA at 7.3%. Um Thunder. What is this blue one? That blue one is the blue quencher from Low Tide Brewing Company down in Charleston. It's a seltzer, and people go crazy for it. It's only 5%. It's dangerously good. You can drink.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

I was gonna say only 5%. That would knock me out, a couple of those. Okay, and she's a cheap date. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Don't judge by her.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

No. Oh, what's this? Munkel Pilsner.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Uh yeah, Munkel Brewing Company, they're down in Charleston as well. And we've we bring in some of their uh different style beers. Right now we have the German Pilsner on tap.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

Do you do like flights where people can try different things?

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Yep, we have uh flight boards. You can choose up to six different ones. They're four-ounce tasers, so it's a good way to kind of sample a few before you commit to a full pour or share it with your significant other.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

All right. Um and the Voodoo Love Child?

SPEAKER_02 11:47

That's another one of our flagship beers. It's a triple uh Belgian beer uh with notes of strawberry, passion berry, and raspberry.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

All right. Well, if you plan on engaging and uh partaking in some of these beers, you know.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Somebody's already looked ahead on the menu and said, Hey, I want to try this deviled egg flight thing you got going on.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

That is very popular.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

Yes, so um, you know, my my cooks are fantastic, and they they started this in December and it just kind of started taking off. And every month we come up with a signature egg flight. You get four different flavors, um, two of each flavor. And this month they were dyed different colors because of Easter. Um we'll be we'll be posting, you know, the new flavors probably today or tomorrow. Um and they're available all month long. And yeah, it they actually outsell our wings to believe it or not. I when I looked up our product mix, I'm like, you know, we're selling more eggs than wings. That's crazy. It's kind of crazy. And our wings are good, they're baked and fried and different sauces. But um I'm I can't wait to try the wings.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

How many different sauces are available? How many different like flavors?

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Uh we have a dry rub, a chili lime dry rub, and then we have four different um sauces.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

Teriaki one of them?

SPEAKER_02 13:02

No. You know, that's okay. We have a standard buffalo, uh, we have our good vibes barbecue, which we do add our good vibes beer to it and a few other.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

I'm getting hungry.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

I know. Me too.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

I'm looking at this Pasta La Vista baby. No, I'm talking about wings now. Looking at his pizza.

SPEAKER_01 13:19

What else with the others?

SPEAKER_02 13:20

Uh a kickback, which is another spicy one that the my cooks came up with. Okay. And then a sriracha ranch.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Oh, you said the magic word for my wife. Sriracha. Sriracha, sriracha. Yeah. All right, I'm gonna try them all. Yeah. I'm not gonna eat the whole day so I can try a lot. Blue cheese or ranch. Ranch. Blue cheese.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Todd? Yeah, ranch. Blue cheese. I go both. I like to dip them both. I get both of them.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

I don't dip wings in any any sauce. What? No, I eat them just as is. That's weird. No, it's not. You dip the fries in the ranch. No. I'm just telling you, that's what I do anywhere else. Anyway, I don't care. I don't care about that. I just want to try all the wings. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

All right. So I saw here you can join the VIP club. Tell me more about that.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Uh yeah, it's based it's on our website. So if you join, you know, you'll get uh offers, you know, to your email or or text message to you. And then you know, the more you order um online, you know, the more you can save.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

What do you mean order online? I can order online.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

Well, yeah, we have uh online ordering, so you can uh have DoorDash, you can order through DoorDash, or you can go to our website and order through our website and then uh either pick it up yourself or have a delivery uh to you for a small charge. I think it's like maybe five bucks.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Wow. Okay, I'm signing up as we speak right now because you get What are you gonna sign up? I gotta sign up then.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

Come on! You get a free pub pretzel, I think, with your first order.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

Yeah. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

Your first online order.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Yeah. So we get a code, you put a punch of code on the code. I'm putting in my code. Just fill in the blanks while we're doing this.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Yeah, once you sign up with your cell phone and you uh um you'll get that code sent to your phone, and then when you place your first online order again, you can come in and pick it up, or we can deliver it to you uh for a small fee. Or you can I think it's like five bucks for the delivery.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Really?

SPEAKER_02 15:19

Hey, it's it's weird. So DoorDash will still deliver to you, but if you order through my website, DoorDash delivers it to you for a small fee. Or you go to DoorDash and order it and pay higher fees. It's it's weird. I I know. Wow. Don't tell DoorDash, they'll cancel their deal. Hey, what is this? Did you already listen to us? No one listens to the show.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

We got like 10 people. We've lost the original eight. Um, what happened when 500 bucks by entering? Do we win a by writing a dish review? What? There's all kinds of fun stuff on your website.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Yeah, that's through Pop Menu, who who creates our website. So they're the ones who would um give that$500 uh gift card.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Where are you, Nick? I didn't see that. Oh, right up there. I see by writing a dish review. Oh, so we'll all have to write a dish review when we come.

SPEAKER_02 16:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

All right.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

I think every month it it comes out. I know it says 5-1, it'll probably be 6-1 next month, but Okay. Um it's all through pop menu. What is it?

SPEAKER_01 16:13

What is all this fine print stuff? Do I have to give you my firstborn and all that?

SPEAKER_02 16:16

Yeah, we just need your social security number and bank accounts.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

Okay, X out of there.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

A lot of great reviews here. Pulled pork, mac and cheese. That sounds amazing. All right, we're getting all distracted. I think we're hungry, Nick. Yeah, I know. How dare you come here with no food? Sorry. Well, they're not a breakfast place. What are you, Ed?

SPEAKER_02 16:37

My wings are for breakfast. I checked the rule book. I know, right? You can have cold pizza anytime.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Yes, I love cold pizza for breakfast. So um, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

For hours, uh we open every day at 11, and then during the week, right now we're we close at nine. Friday and Saturday, we close at 11, and Sundays we close at 8. But as we get busier, we might extend that you know a little bit to the right.

SPEAKER_01 16:57

Oh, you even want the wedding anniversary, so we get little prizes for our wedding anniversary.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

Yeah, a little invite. I like that. Yeah. Um, so if I came and sang, would you throw me out?

SPEAKER_02 17:08

No, I sang and I uh no one threw me out.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

So what did you sing?

SPEAKER_02 17:11

Well, my business partner put me up to it. Um and so it's uh it was a Madonna song. Tell me it was like a virgin.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

It was you totally turned in your man card.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

It was the longest song. I felt like I was up there for a half hour.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

That is so funny.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

One and done, that was it. Never again. I I don't think I want to have discussions with you. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

That is so funny. Well, Todd, it's really great getting to know you. We met you over at the Veterans Cafe. Was that where we were?

SPEAKER_02 17:45

The food drive is a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Oh, the food line, right, right, right. That's right. Uh the food. I'm signed up. Yep, I'm signed up. All done! So go to the uh Myrtle Beach Voodoo Brewery. Uh you can go just search Voodoo Brewing, Myrtle Beach, and you'll get to the website. Sign up for the VIP before you come. And uh, you know, hey, listen, you could be a winner. You can uh get your pretzels, and they have lots of things. These these reviews, you can get all sorts of cool stuff. Um, delivery. I mean, you got a lot going on over there. You got karaoke, you got a big DJ party coming up on May 9th, but we'll see you there May 6th. We're gonna be there for the Conway Ford Talk Llama Lodge event. HTC presents. Uh, we need you to to RSVP because I gotta give you a head count.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

It'd be nice.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

Yeah, it would be nice. So if you can text us on the Budget Blinds text line and let us know you're coming.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Nearly 40 people.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

798-8255. That's for our seven-year itch anniversary party. Always a great time. Wednesday, May 6th, next Wednesday at 5 30 p.m. at the Voodoo Brewing Company at Broadway at the beach. So when you see the Dave and Buster sign, you just look to the right a little. You see Voodoo Brewing Cub Company or Voodoo Brew Pub. Just park right there. Come on in. HTC is presenting this amazing event, and they will be giving away a free iPad to um, you know, you just have to show up and I give you a ticket for it. Now, the Conway Forward Talk Llama Lodge event is in honor of Movers for Moms with two men in a truck. They're collecting beauty items and toiletries to put in the Mother's Day baskets that they dispense um over the weekend for Mother's Day. And it's so great. The kids get to pick out the basket and present it to their mom on Mother's Day. Uh, that's the those are the moms that are staying at the family shelter for new direction. So we want to thank Conway Ford, HTZ, and Voodoo Brewpub, uh, who's going to be putting out a special buffet for us. There is a a cash bar available for you. And also our seven year itch signature drink will be just seven bucks. And uh, we're looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Thanks guys for having me.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

All right, thank you.