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Ep. 61 - Bourbon, Charity, and Community: A Special B-Team Podcast Episode
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In this lively and heartfelt episode of the B-Team Podcast, hosts Josh Saffran, Matt Marrs, and permanent guest Rob Nelson shake things up with a celebration of generosity, community, and, of course, bourbon. This week, they are joined by special guests Lisa Brewer and Gina Koch, who earned their spot on the show through a charity auction at the Gentsgiving event. Normally centered around bourbon and business in Bentonville, today's episode focuses on the incredible success of their recent fundraiser, which raised an astounding $100,000 for the Cancer Society and veterans' organizations.
Listeners get a behind-the-scenes look at the Gentsgiving event, a traditionally male-focused bourbon night that evolved this year to welcome more women - leading to a richer, more inclusive experience. Lisa and Gina share how their feedback from previous years shaped the event, including the addition of wine selections and plans for future auction items aimed at female attendees. The conversation highlights how small changes can create a big impact in community fundraising and charity engagement.
Of course, no B-Team episode would be complete without some lighthearted ribbing and fun discussions. The crew dives into hilarious stories about vacations, bourbon room designs, pink wine rooms, and extravagant ideas for next year’s charity auction - including luxury trips, spa packages, and high-end fashion accessories. The episode perfectly captures the spirit of the B-Team: blending bourbon-fueled camaraderie with meaningful charitable work.
In between the laughter and storytelling, there’s a genuine celebration of friendship, community building, and giving back. Listeners will hear about heartwarming personal stories, like Lisa’s and Gina’s adopted friendships in Mexico, and the fun chaos that ensues when passionate people rally behind a great cause. Whether you're a bourbon enthusiast, a charity supporter, or someone who loves good conversation, this episode is packed with entertaining and inspiring moments.
Join us for a heartwarming and hilarious ride through Bentonville’s best charity night, bourbon rooms, pink wine rooms, and more.
B-Team Hosts Welcome Special Guests
Speaker 1Welcome to the B-Team Podcast. I am your host, josh Saffron, with my co-host, matt Morris, and our permanent guest, rob Nelson. We're here every week to talk to you about all things Bentonville, bourbon and business the B-Team Podcast Be here. Welcome to the B-Team Podcast. I'm your host, josh Saffron, with my permanent guest.
Speaker 2Rob Nelson and our co-host Matt Morris.
Speaker 1And we're here every Thursday for all things business, Bentonville and bourbon. But today we're not talking business. We got beauties right. Beautiful women right. Yeah, I had to change that up a little bit. I was thinking of the right bee. Yeah, beauties is the right thing to say. Right, we don't have bourbons, we're not bourbon today we got switched up.
Speaker 2We got some of the damsel. It's called some rosé. This is one of your finer ones that you have at home. This is uh.
Speaker 1Well, this is lisa requested that we get some rosé for now, lisa, just to be clear, we never provide anything special for the guests, so you must be special, because normally we're drinking bourbon. He's special, that's right.
Speaker 3Dance to him to stress.
Speaker 2I'll fill yours first.
Speaker 1Also, very generous, he always takes care of himself first. Yeah, who is this guy? Who is?
Speaker 2this guy's right, I mean, and for our other guests, gina, who's with us today. So today is going to be a little different. Well, that's a pour. Yeah, that's like we have. I mean, they don't like to be up. I'm going to take care of myself here.
Speaker 1So we're not featuring a business today. This is an interesting episode. I think we should do the whole backstory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but normally somebody comes in and they're pitching their business. Right, right, we did our gents giving event. Shout out to emily yep. Shout out to the, the charity fundraiser in november yep. And these lovely young ladies bid on being on our podcast. Yeah, right, and we raised a bunch of money, a bunch of money so thank you for your generosity cheers.
Speaker 2It was a great event that's why we had to break into the vault for this rose egg and then we said what are we going to talk about? I don't know, but we'll figure it out it's like we're all out on a Friday night at dinner. Anyway, I figured we'd just bust some chops right off the bat. Let's talk about the event. It was a great event. We were raising a bunch of money for the cancer, the cancer, the cancer society. Not can't. We got a can't paint can't, yeah.
Speaker 1And veterans yeah, we raised a hundred thousand dollars. Net that night, net that night, yeah, which was amazing. We split it between the two charities, yep and, and both of your husbands and you guys fantastic, you guys come to the event every year and you guys help us raise a lot of money. So thank you for your generosity.
Reflections on Gents Giving Charity Event
Speaker 2Coke family and the brewer family like they couldn't be happier to have you guys as part of our events and I figured we just kind of opened up and put you on the spot and be like. You know, this was the first year out of what. This was year three, year three, and this was first year we had a lot of wives and females there. Usually it's like a guy's bourbon event, right, yep, but it really brought it to a whole nother level. So I figured, you know, maybe you give josh some feedback on for next year. Oh, what would you like?
Speaker 1to see. Start with a positive sandwich like what did you like before? You do like a rob and matt hit me over the head I'll start with this.
Speaker 4So this was was the second time for Gina and I to attend. Ah, okay so we attended the year before. A lot of perspective With our husbands and it was definitely a dude event, yep.
Speaker 1Yeah, and you provided feedback.
Speaker 4I did, I provided feedback.
Speaker 1Saying what?
Speaker 4Because there was no wine, correct?
Speaker 1There was only bourbon, and then I would give it to my husband. To finish, shout out to Michael.
Speaker 4So I was really pleased to see that you took the feedback this year and there was lots of wine to enjoy and to drink and it was just a beautiful event the venue, the food, the items to bid on like this podcast fun, it was a really great event.
Speaker 1And shout out to Mike Hodges because the location was great at the Hodges Barn but we noticed a lot more people felt comfortable bringing their spouses this year.
Speaker 4Yes, there were a lot of women.
Speaker 1Dave brought Jenny right, angie came for the first time, carrie came for the first time Everybody had a good time.
Speaker 2Well, I think it's as it continues to grow. We keep on saying like, oh, it's such a great time, it's such a great time. People are talking about it, and then, of course, you know, the wives want to come. Why wouldn't we want to? You know, it just makes it better.
Speaker 1Well, part of it, they were making sure there's no shenanigans going on. You know that this is a real event.
Speaker 2We're raising money casino actually.
Speaker 1So half of it was checking up to make sure it was above reproach.
Speaker 4And since you had such a great turnout of women, I think for next year you need to have some auction items that speak to the women.
Speaker 1So see, I have to ask your feedback in advance, because we already heard that from you and we're already working on having purses or shoes or some sort of look at the eyes, some kind of something, cause there was, it was very dude, centric on the. You have the bourbon tasting and stuff.
Speaker 3So yes, I, don't know, I got a nice table on it.
Speaker 1Two years. Well, you've bought stuff from from Dave and Jenny both years, right, yeah? So whatever Dave does this year, they're just going to bid on it like it can be like poop in a bag, like hey, it's david jedi poop in a bag.
Speaker 2Five million dollars, maybe this year. Yeah, I just need to ask gina, it's not only fans, that's, that'd be great yeah, we'll price it up. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so yeah, I think, purses or, like you know, some shoes or spa, yeah uh, can you procure some of these things?
Speaker 4or like, like a closet organizer, you know, you know the organizer people have oh, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2That's a good one. That's a great idea.
Speaker 4Yes because every woman needs help with that.
Speaker 1You know what we should do, bobby? Like pretend we're not saying this out loud. This is like you and I talking on air Like say they're not here. We should go to Chinatown in New York and get like it's an authentic. Oh no, I can stop, yeah.
Speaker 2Be careful, yeah, but if we have like two, or three bottles of wine in you.
Speaker 1You won't know the difference at the moment. Yeah, at the moment.
Speaker 4Maybe not at the moment, but when I wake up the next day.
Speaker 1And you know who'll get the feedback. I'll be calling Josh. Yes, I'll get the feedback.
Lisa's Pink-Themed House Construction
Speaker 2Exactly, yeah, I don't want no part of that. A few businesses in town that does some stuff with some purses and shoes and some high-end accessories maybe we get involved maybe we get the blakeman group to put it together some kind of yeah yeah, purple bag, maybe like a mystery purple bag wouldn't that be nice? Yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 4Maybe some david yerman yeah what do you think I like it?
Speaker 1you like that, emily, if you're listening. We got feedback for you already. Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, we already got our first meeting handled. Emily didn't even attend.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'll get feedback from her. The feedback goes downhill. I like it yeah.
Speaker 4Anything you want to see next year.
Speaker 3I love jewelry. Oh my God, I'd love to see some jewelry.
Speaker 1Anything in particular.
Speaker 3I am baskets of wine, anything, in particular high end baskets of wine that's a good one that is a good one.
Speaker 1You got a nice wine collection at the house. We could donate some good bottles of wine as a tax write off trip to Napa yeah, trip to Napa would be nice.
Speaker 2That would be good. I'd love to get a trip to Big Cedar that would be fun trip to Big Cedar because they got a great, great dinners, bars, restaurants, wine rooms. I think that would be fun. Trip to Big Cedar because they got a great dinner bars, restaurants, wine room. I think that would be really nice. Nice package, bob.
Speaker 4That's what she said, you are going to raise so much money next year.
Speaker 1Yeah, can we go backwards a year, though, too, because before you guys won this, the year before you guys won a big trip to Bimini.
Speaker 4We did.
Speaker 1Which was epic right.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was a fun trip. That was epic, yes. Yes, it doesn't feel like it's been that long ago though Two years in April. Time flies when you're having fun.
Speaker 4No a year. It'll be a year in April.
Speaker 2That was when I figured out that I would be good in the hospitality business. I mean Bart helped take care of everyone, bart did, but not in a good way.
Speaker 3I think somebody beat you when they had to jump off the boat and swim after my hat that flew off.
Speaker 2Was that Todd? I don't even remember that. So what does Michael and Tim think about you all doing the podcast today?
Speaker 4You know Michael was so supportive and encouraging, like he literally.
Speaker 2Because Michael's been on here before.
Speaker 4Yes, he's been on here before, talk about the history of Bittenville. But he literally sent me a laundry list of topics that you could talk about. Let's pull up the list.
Speaker 1Do you have the list?
Speaker 4with you. Yeah, let's talk.
Speaker 1It's on my phone. Oh, go get it, because I'm yeah, I'm sure michael told you what to say and what not to say yeah, it'll be fun just to hear michael's list. Now, gina, what? What feedback you get from tim any?
Speaker 3have fun yeah, have fun, you know how to speak, so he's like just be you.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, I could, I could tell michael he was. He was, you know, worried about her a little because he texted all of us and he's she's really nervous and I was like she speaks in front of a lot more people than we do all the time.
Speaker 3Tim just said good luck.
Speaker 1I don't even think Tim knew about it, because I texted him yesterday. I go hey, gina's podcasting tomorrow. He's like I don't know.
Speaker 3I told him today.
Speaker 1So let's hear what's on the list.
Speaker 4Yeah, I on the list, yeah, I want to hear this, I mean it is long.
Speaker 2All right, let's go through this if I well pick out your favorite, let's see, oh yeah, just kind of yeah. Let's see, give us some good ones. Holy cow, you keep on scrolling I know I don't look, yes
Speaker 4got health and well yeah, it's like health and wellness with this group relationships and community. Uh, career, who sent this to you?
Speaker 2my husband did michael brewer yes, michael brewer I mean we started every side of michael too, when he was on the podcast he had the serious tone, you know.
Speaker 4Yeah, you couldn't.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4You know. So he gave me all this like serious stuff.
Speaker 2What's like the craziest one Legacy and impact. Legacy and impact.
Speaker 1Well, he doesn't realize. It's the B-Team podcast. We don't do a lot of serious stuff here.
Speaker 2Well, but to be fair, we did tell you guys that this is your 45 minutes to talk about what you want, so we've kind of pirated the beginning. Yeah, if you guys have something you want to talk about.
Speaker 4As much as I love his laundry list that he sent me, it was all a little on the serious side. Yeah, and you want to have fun here.
Speaker 1I want to have fun. Yeah, Like I want to talk about that jacket, Like let's just get into the pink because wearing and can you show the boots too?
Speaker 4yeah, I'm going to show uh, lift it.
Speaker 1Whoa, those are nice so I love pink tell mike we talked about your boots today. When he asked what we talked about, we got rid of that. Listen right to the boots. Yeah, my boots.
Speaker 4So I love pink, love fashion. Um, I'm actually building a house and we'll have a pink wine room in my house.
Speaker 1Did Michael have any say in that or no?
Speaker 4With a pink toilet. Yes, I have a pink toilet Hold on hold on Hold.
Speaker 1on hold on A pink toilet.
Speaker 4Yes, a pink toilet and a pink sink in my wine room.
Speaker 1So, as builders, where do you go out and find a pink toilet and a pink sink? Any idea?
Speaker 2I've never had a source, one of those but we are going to do some pink floors as well Pink floors.
Speaker 1I can't wait.
Speaker 4Yeah, we may have to come film the podcast down there.
Walmart's New Campus Experience
Speaker 2That would be really cool. That would be fun. Where did you find the pink toilet?
Speaker 4At a supplier here in town.
Speaker 2Okay, I guess. I mean it's only time and money, right, you could order and find anything you want, yeah.
Speaker 1I'm sure I was just sitting there in the back collecting dust. Somebody probably ordered it for like a strip club 10 years ago. It's been sitting here.
Speaker 2But you say that and and I know you guys will do a great job, like if you, if it's put together, yeah, it's gonna look so good like we painted Carrie's that. We painted her office pink and she absolutely loves it, like hers. You almost had to put sunglasses on to go in there because it's so bright in there, isn't Angie's?
Speaker 1new office pink yeah, Angie's new and.
Speaker 2Angie's office is super pink as well. She's got her rosé all day.
Speaker 1Now is it a Barbie thing, or you guys have always been a pink fan.
Speaker 4I haven't always been a pink fan.
Speaker 1I think it really has been since Barbie.
Speaker 2Now you started wearing more pink, since Barbie too no, I mean not that I know of it looks like you do.
Speaker 1Well, you know I love pink. Hopefully I get the pink toot or shout out to Ben Blakeman if he's watching. That's what I'm going for.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4It just seemed to become such a hot color from that movie. You said I love fashion, so there's lots of cool things in pink.
Speaker 2We just ordered pink Nikes. Have you opened yours up yet?
Speaker 1No, not yet.
Speaker 4Michael just got a pair.
Speaker 1Yeah, yes, he got the pink, he got the Air Force Ones.
Speaker 2We'll be like bros, we'll do one box. We'll see who opens it first, tim or Bobby. We need Matt to get a pair. They were all out of them, or I would have gotten them.
Speaker 1They still have some in size 11. They were fresh out.
Speaker 2Matt's afraid to you know.
Speaker 4Afraid to venture out of here, I'm not afraid.
Speaker 1You have a house full of women If you dropped a pink Air Force One.
Speaker 2I'm just not a big Air Force One fan, but I like them.
Speaker 4But you would wear pink shoes.
Speaker 2Yeah, you would. I have a pair of pink shoes I'm going to have to gift you now. Yeah, we're the same size. I mean, I've been waiting Perfect. And I've been and Not to sound weird, but I've been in Josh's closet because he has 4,000 pairs of shoes in there. That did sound weird right and Josh 100% needs the closet place to come to the auction so he can buy it and to organize it, because Emily has this much space because he has 50 shoe boxes in there.
Speaker 1This podcast was not supposed to be about me. This was supposed to be about Lisa and Gina. This is not the time to talk about my terrible shoe habit.
Speaker 3Lisa can relate because Michael's the same.
Speaker 1Michael has a lot of clothes, a lot of shoes, a lot of shoes, a lot of shoes that's me, yeah.
Speaker 4Shoes and coats Shoes that he hasn't ever even worn, but he had to have.
Speaker 1Had to have From Hubbard's there had to have them From Hubbard's.
Speaker 4There is a pair from Hubbard's sitting in the box that he's never worn.
Speaker 1Probably cost like five grand. Shout out to Hubbard's yes.
Speaker 2Oh Donnie, oh Donnie.
Speaker 1They're comfortable though. Those shoes, you have a pair from Hubbard's too, Mm-hmm, but you probably got them at the 75% off discount sale.
Speaker 2Yeah, I have some that I didn't get there, but I have something that I got there. So I missed my pair of sneakers today, the salt, the sole spot falling off. Which shoes? The ones I have on right now and just like you've had those for five years and you wear them to work almost every day, I think it's time for a new pair of work shoes. Well, I mean, you could probably have less. You can wear those pink ones now not to work sure you can.
Speaker 1But one day less at heirloom is another day that you can get shoes, because that's true. Right, have you guys been to heirloom?
Speaker 4yet no, but it's on my list yeah, yeah bobby knows the owner.
Speaker 2Now it is oh, bobby knows the owner. You have to get them on to the podcast. It's good they change the menu once a month. It's great date. Yeah, we should all go, it'd be fun. Well, you would have to be able to get a reservation. Yeah, yeah, I could try. Matt's got the inn as well too. Go for it. Yeah, it's a good place.
Speaker 1Can we talk about Walmart a little bit and you guys working? Are you guys at the new campus just yet? I am, you are, yes, and do you love it? Yes, and do you love it.
Speaker 3Yes, love it, everybody loves it. Nothing, really, but positive feedback. We're having a sculpture of a dog and they're doing the grand opening of the sculpture.
Speaker 1Wait, wait. Grand opening of a sculpture.
Speaker 3Yeah, they're like doing a presentation.
Speaker 1They're just partying for the sake of partying over there.
Speaker 2Yes, well, I'll tell you what, Now that 8th Street's open all the way through, you drive through there and the energy is unbelievable. As you're driving through on 8th, there's people on their bikes and walking and on the corners. I mean it feels like New York City. That's the kind of energy just driving through, Never mind.
Speaker 1I mean, I haven't walked it or anything, but I heard like once you get off, the main roads.
Planning Spring Break in Puerto Vallarta
Speaker 3Is there any question that he hasn't walked it? I? Mean not even a question like um for saint patrick's you're a smart ass, josh. Oh, okay, and they're gonna have dog treats and people treats on friday for the unveiling of the dog sculpture where is the dog sculpture relation, everything for eighth and plate for me.
Speaker 1Where is it?
Speaker 3where's so um?
Speaker 2our building is called old roy I know, so is it's old roy.
Speaker 3The dog is old roy yeah, so they've got dog tags. You can put the name of your dog like submit them and then they make dog tags and it's all over the steps right like on the.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's super cool. Yeah, I had a chance to tour that building. It's really well done.
Speaker 3So they're doing lots of fun things just to kind of keep the energy going. There's usually always Scooby Snacks.
Speaker 1Yeah, for adults.
Speaker 2Yes, let me get.
Speaker 1Scooby.
Speaker 2Let me get Scooby Snacks, scooby-dooby-doo.
Speaker 4So I move into my building March 31st.
Speaker 1Oh, that's quick. And I'll be in the hula building. So I'm thinking you know hula hoop. Yeah, now the hula building. Is that from when Sam was on Wall Street and did the hula dance? Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 4They got great names for the buildings yeah, so I can't wait to see what that building looks like. You know how they've decorated it and kind of what the vibe will be um in there. But I've been with Walmart for 28 years so I have been in the main home office with no windows and I was thinking about it. I'm like I've literally been in this building for 28 years and never had windows. I'm a little nervous about going to a building surrounded by windows nervous why?
Speaker 4because I'm used to not knowing what it's like outside, because I don't leave the building and I may just get distracted a lot.
Speaker 3We do get distracted. They had this cool little machine that was doing the sidewalks when it snowed. They have a what's that thing called?
Speaker 2The drone.
Speaker 3Drone. It washes the windows.
Speaker 2I'd be good. What's the name of that game?
Speaker 3That was good. What's the?
Speaker 2name of that game. That was good.
Speaker 3What's the name of?
Speaker 2the game. Pictionary, pictionary.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Drone that washes the windows.
Speaker 1Yeah, there you go. Wow, and the windows, the way it's explained to me, like the east side of the building and the north and the south, like the windows have different tints tied back to the. It's super cool, right. So like the sun's never blaring in you, but you can go out three or four hours from meeting and come back and the windows in front of you are tinted very differently based on where the sun is. Yeah, super cool. Yeah, yeah, it's high tech right there. They did I mean the campus they did a nice job, it's amazing.
Speaker 4It truly is like a community and they really wanted it to be part of the bittenville community where the public can experience the trails and as they're driving through and they really feel part of the campus that's awesome.
Speaker 1And I want to talk too much Walmart because obviously you have to be careful on types of stuff. You say about the comms group here but you're an HR like the morale has to be just like through the roof, like people so excited yeah yeah, number one thing you hear is windows yeah, yeah, that's awesome, that's huge.
Speaker 1AES scores up yeah, because I was just at the home office of the day for a meeting and I've been going there for 13 years and it is what it is and you like, you just kind of like, but actually have parking, like for the vendors that have to show up, like you want to get in that front parking lot, otherwise you could just circle around for hours or have to go across street, and so it's like the fact that you can go to the spot and have parking and the welcome center at the new campus is super cool retail.
Speaker 3I heard there's going to be a gents place coming chance.
Speaker 1Yeah, and with the energy there too.
Speaker 2I mean I'm excited for the walk-in traffic absolutely, yeah, I haven't walked it yet, but but we kind of assume that yeah, tell us about the hotel, because that's for associates only during the week.
Speaker 1Is that right? During the week, okay, they have a rooftop bar. Ooh Important things. I like to check that out Now. Can anybody go to the rooftop bar? Do we know?
Speaker 3Anybody that can go.
Speaker 1Like Walmart folks, I can't show up.
Speaker 3It's open to the public. Interesting interest kids.
Speaker 2You just can't I think emily just told you that, so you wouldn't be over there, you'd be working at I can go from the gents place across the street to the rooftop bar.
Speaker 1I would think they are going to have a restaurant there too, probably, yeah, that'd be cool very cool, yeah, so going back to your house, when is it going to be finished? Fingers crossed, early july of 2025 or six, I'm just making sure so we'll be able to get into the pool before.
Speaker 3That's the important question.
Speaker 4That's right. So we're building a pool, so it's under construction right now. So, mike, you can get that pool done like now, and I can just come out while you're still doing construction. On how? The pool gonna likeby's like the big giant mass pool with the deck, and then the the hot tub giant, but um, we've got a sun deck on it like rob's, uh hot tub similar to his and a swim up bar swim up bar.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, I have a swim up bar you never have to leave the pool that's amazing except to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4You do have to get out details, details.
Speaker 2They still be like josh, you haven't got out of that pool. From up there, you never have to leave the pool. That's amazing, except to go to the bathroom. You do have to get out Details.
Speaker 1They'll be like Josh, you haven't got out of that pool, we got to go. All of the purple liquid flying around. I'll pee in the pool if I'll turn purple.
Speaker 2The design on the home is beautiful. I've had the opportunity to walk it a few times. Oh, you walked that not the campus. Walk it a few times. Oh, you walk that, not the campus.
Speaker 3Yep, that's true, it is going to be gorgeous. Yeah, it's going to be super, super neat.
Speaker 1I hear you and walking in the same sense I get excited.
Speaker 2Yeah, got to keep my steps in. Got to keep your steps in. Get the steps in, yeah.
Speaker 4So Michael's putting in a bourbon room.
Speaker 1Nice In the new house. What is that going to look like?
Speaker 2Very dark.
Speaker 4What is that gonna look like? Very dark and moody, just like Michael Michael's not moody yeah, I would say you're more moody.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, these two are both yeah. So maybe what we do is we do is we do like an on-site podcast In the bourbon room. It could be like bourbon room and go down.
Speaker 4At the wine room. The wine room Experience two completely different worlds.
Speaker 1Male.
Speaker 3Female.
Speaker 2I like that.
Speaker 1That'd be cool. I do like that.
Speaker 4When Michael's not allowed in the wine room, I'm allowed in the bourbon room.
Speaker 1So how did that dynamic happen? Like you just said, this is my room, you're not allowed in.
Speaker 4Well, the bourbon room's on the top floor, on the first floor, my wine room is beneath it, so you know, naturally I have to go through his bourbon room. But I said I don't want you in my wine room messing up my pretty pink.
Speaker 1So is there like a pass code or like a thumbprint or something that will prevent it from coming out? No, just my voice. We should think about this, that's enough.
Speaker 2They're on the honor.
Speaker 1Michael, if you come down to the wine room, you're on the couch tonight. Okay, right, that's the husband's safe, that's plenty enough.
Speaker 3It's a spiral staircase, though, so it's not safe for him?
Speaker 1Well, it is safe for him if he's not 13 bourbons in right, you have to stay to the outside.
Speaker 2It's when you get on that inside it's when you get problems, spirals yeah.
Speaker 3You miss them with your heel. We said that, yeah, make it up the steps.
Speaker 2That's fair. I'm sure you'll have a couch. If you blow up mattresses, it'll be fun.
Speaker 3Yeah, it'll be like a slumber party.
Speaker 1Emergency kit yeah, and where is the house? Is it downtown Bentonville area?
Speaker 4No, it's between Bentonville and Pea Ridge.
Speaker 1Oh nice, so you've got a lot of land then.
Speaker 4So about two and a half acres out there.
Speaker 1Which is also on the way out towards the bourbon charity event. Right, You're headed out to yes.
Speaker 2Kind of no, yeah, not really, it's more northern. No, I'm trying to find a safe way to get you guys home. Uber, uber, uber With Jason. Yep, james, james, we're James. Shout out to James. Shout out, yep, good driver, good driver, gina.
Speaker 1Gina, what's going on in your world? What's happening with you?
Speaker 3Nothing much. Lisa and I are getting ready to go to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Speaker 2Let's talk about that. I love that.
Speaker 1Just the two of you.
Speaker 3No, our families.
Speaker 1It's spring break, it's not a ladies' trip.
Speaker 3It's spring break, it's a family trip.
Speaker 1So the brewers on the coast are going. Uh-huh and a few other people okay, yes, so Ian's going, that'll be fun. Ian's going solo.
Speaker 4Yes, look out ladies there we go, trying to find him, a senorita, oh he'll do good on his own.
Speaker 2Yeah, ladies ladies, ladies, that'll be. You know, that's Mazatlan. That's my favorite two places to go in Mexico. You have a house there? No, but I've been there a lot. I don't know.
Speaker 4The Pacific side to me is more authentic we've been going every year for spring break for probably the last three spring breaks so connect through where. Dallas. So American to Dallas, dallas or.
Speaker 3VNX so we go through where Dallas Depends on which, so American to Dallas.
Speaker 1Dallas or VNX, so we go through Atlanta.
Speaker 3Yes, okay, because we're so.
Speaker 1It's a long day of travel.
Speaker 4No, not really Like. We leave Saturday at 6. We arrive at 10, 10.09.
Speaker 3My husband booked a fabulous flight home for us. We leave at 3 in the afternoon, oh boy, and we fly to Los Angeles and then we take the red eye to Atlanta and we get in at 5am and then we take an 8 o'clock back to Northwest Arkansas.
Speaker 1Shout out to Tim Well done.
Speaker 2It must have been a deal on the points then.
Speaker 4Battery's trying to hit a status.
Speaker 2Battery's trying to get a certain number of miles.
Speaker 1Do that one more time for me.
Speaker 3We're going to go to Europe on the way home 3 o'clock from Puerto Vallarta and we fly to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2Stop one.
Speaker 3And then from there we take the red-eye to Atlanta and get in at 5 in the morning.
Speaker 2Stop two.
Speaker 3And then at 8 o'clock we fly to XMA.
Speaker 1So it's almost 24 hours.
Speaker 4But eight o'clock we fly to xma so it's almost 24 hours, yeah, but it's only two stops, so it's not that bad.
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Speaker 1If mr brewer were to do that, I would strangle him and he would be on the couch permanently I mean, I'm sure it was a good deal, but unless you're flying to like australia, like that's, that's a lot of time.
Speaker 2Timmy, you got to do better than that I he's gonna hit his status that he's trying to get. That's pretty smart.
Speaker 3And he thought we're doing global entry. So when we get into XNA, I mean. Lax, we can do our interview at the same time All right, that's much better, tim.
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3Thank you.
Speaker 1So, all right, let's forget about the list that your husband gave you to talk about in the podcast. Let's talk about the list of what you're going to do in Puerto Vallarta. What do we got lined up for the week?
Speaker 4Man, really simple Wake up, have a Bloody Mary, have some breakfast, lay by the pool, drink, drink. Take a nap, drink, drink, get some dinner and repeat.
Speaker 2Yeah, that sounds like vacation to me. Enjoy the sun and no schedule, no worries no schedule.
Speaker 4That's what makes it so good. I hate having a schedule.
Speaker 2Me too, because then you get home and you feel like you need another vacation.
Speaker 1I go on vacation with these people and it's like, okay, we should plan on going out to visit some cruise ship or some yacht ship and I'm like I just want to hang out by the pool, like I don't really want to get pulled away from the resort to go do those things. You know, I'm saying bobby, yeah that's not beds.
Speaker 1So we get a bed and then you just look straight out into the ocean I mean, you know like you don't need to leave the resort to go look at cruise ships are you talking about our text message from this morning?
Speaker 2No, I was just thinking it's not looking at cruise ships, yachts, no, it's one of the best island bars, beach bars on Antigua. Oh, you don't have to go.
Speaker 1But I was thinking like Lisa, get up, drink, hang out by the pool, drink some more, take a nap, yeah, but if we want to go out and look at other people on boats, I mean a wave- to them.
Speaker 2But if we want to go out and look at other people on boats, I mean a wave to them. Are you taking the boat over? No, Not yet. We're working on that. I was going to say I think you need to get him to come here. I'm all about hanging out at the resort, but you know it's kind of cool to see some other cool beach bars and stuff. After seven days let's sit, I'm ready to go see something else.
Speaker 1Alright, seven days by the pool is not a bad thing no relaxing, I'm with you.
Speaker 2The beautiful thing about being an adult is you have choices to stay exactly where you are or not.
Speaker 1I was just talking about. Well, you brought it up twice.
Speaker 2So I figured you were trying to start some shit.
Speaker 1So no, I just I was going to fire off at you who said I was even talking about you, I was just talking about on their trip.
Speaker 2I think it's amazing. Yeah, I mean Jim and Corey are in, so I think it'll be nice. Yeah, we'll send you pictures.
Speaker 1So nice meals planned. Do you have anything like you guys do at the restaurant there?
Speaker 4We'll eat at the resort, but we do like to go out into town and experience. You know the weather.
Speaker 2Oh, I thought we were only sitting by the pool the entire time During the day, during the day. Okay, so we went. We went to Puerto Vallarta when I was for my senior trip. I did too, you did I did?
Speaker 1Did you guys hook up there by chance, like no? No, no, not like, not like hook up like that, like hook up and like hang out. Why?
Speaker 3are you going?
Speaker 1there Just not like hook up Like for a tank.
Speaker 2How do you say that Were you at?
Speaker 4Carlos and Charlie's.
Speaker 2Yep, oh, I was too 92 so my yeah, that's when you were there. It was close to that whoa, but uh, but we, so we went there, we went to this fair or this circus, a circus I wrote a mechanical bowl and won drinks for our whole class. It was a whole. It's a wonder that I'm alive after that trip it was.
Speaker 4We had so much fun you know what, when I got home from that trip, I got mono'd the mono's the kissing disease.
Speaker 3Right, we're digressing. No, no, no, but is it mono the kissing disease?
Speaker 1yeah, did you get sick on that trip too I didn't get sick.
Speaker 2You, okay too much tequila. I think the tequila that when you know, when you you're 18, it was blowing down there. I went to my first foam party, your first. Alex and Charlie's had a big foam party.
Speaker 3Mexico loves those foam parties.
Speaker 1Can you explain what a?
Speaker 3foam party is for the viewers I've never been to one.
Speaker 2Well, you get out. You're like out on the dance floor, and they have these foam machines that are blowing bubbles out in there. Before you know it, you're neck deep in the toe.
Speaker 3It kind of sounds like fur.
Speaker 2It's fun. Was it a strip club? Yeah, was it regular? I bet you you could find one when you guys go down next week.
Speaker 4Yeah, I bet, we can. I bet the boys, my boys would love that.
Speaker 1Michael and the group of the boys. You're talking about the boys.
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, I have three, so I wish I remembered there was this bar that you could get in. They had a cage that they'd lift you up in. Did you go to that on your trip?
Speaker 4She was on the pool. I missed that one.
Speaker 2A friend of mine got in there and he had his Charlie Brown shirt on and he was locked in there and they raised you up in the middle of the club, I mean it's Was that at the. Melaton, I don't even know where it was.
Speaker 1So how long was he up?
Speaker 2there for, oh, probably 30 minutes. He was up there dancing and doing all this stuff.
Speaker 4Hmm.
Speaker 1We need to find that place for Michael.
Speaker 4Yes, he would love it.
Speaker 2He would love that.
Speaker 4Yeah, he would love it, his clothing stays on, he would be the star of the show.
Speaker 1Oh, it would be the Michael show I've seen him dance.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, yeah, we've all seen Michael dance. We've all seen Michael dance.
Speaker 3He was the star last year when we were on the boat he was. I know we're giving him money.
Speaker 4Yes, he made money on the boat.
Speaker 1So in Mexico.
Speaker 4Yes, we took a boat over to see a show and you know they do a party thing on the boat and of course he had to get up and show his moves and women were literally stuffing dollar bills in his shirt.
Speaker 1Thank God you stopped and said shirt because the viewers were trying to figure out where we were going there To PG-13 rated, didn't he?
Speaker 2have to do that when we were in Kentucky as well too. Remember when we came home late that night.
Speaker 1Yes, he was at the table and we were all sitting there, three guys and he came down in silk boxers and Bobby was putting dollar bills in his chest and we were like, hey, Bobby, whatever floats your boat.
Speaker 2I mean, he was dancing for you.
Speaker 4We were also in Vegas a year or two ago, maybe a couple years ago went to a drag queen show and while they were off of the stage for a moment, he jumped up on stage and started dancing and he made 20 bucks.
Speaker 1Lisa, I'm very confident none of this is in your approved list to talk about for. Michael yeah.
Speaker 2I feel pretty strongly Michael's going to watch this. He's like what about the list? You went off the script. You went off the script.
Speaker 1You went off the script. When did the wheels fall?
Speaker 2off.
Speaker 4We had a list. Sorry, babe.
Speaker 1Didn't stick to any of it. Now, how's Tim on this trip? Is he quiet, calm, relaxed, or does he go with the flow?
Speaker 3Yeah, he's, let me just plop down somewhere, give me a drink, then I'm just going to chill.
Speaker 2He's probably like on the Bimini. You know, you and him sat up frowning in those seats and we never saw you guys.
Speaker 1It was like the scene from Titanic when we were up by the front of the boat.
Speaker 3And then some sore muscles, and I'm not sure how that happened. What are you trying to?
Speaker 1say I don't know. I'm just saying I'm not sure. But what are you trying to say? I'm just saying I'm not sure. I mean, the boat was bumping up and down and we had to lock in to ensure we didn't fall off. What else do you think was going on?
Speaker 1Nothing, I just was like wow just making sure, matthew, some quality bonding, quality bonding. I learned a lot about the Coke family on that trip. I got to spend a lot of time with Tim. I about the Koch family on that trip. We got to spend a lot of time with Tim. I mean that was a good. What hour each way. Yeah yeah, we learned a lot.
Speaker 3We talked about a lot of things.
Speaker 1Somebody had to take one for the team. We did yeah.
Speaker 2So how long are you in Puerto Vallarta for?
Speaker 3For a week.
Speaker 1That sounds fun.
Speaker 3A little bit longer we're Friday to the following Tuesday, but are you, though?
Speaker 2I'm not.
Speaker 1I'm not Sorry.
Speaker 2Gina, but are you? No, I'm not. They're leaving a day before.
Speaker 4By the time you recover, it'll be a few days later and I'll be well rested because I got the Brewers have seven days in the hotel.
Speaker 1You only have six, but you're getting home two days later.
Speaker 2He's like I am. He's thrifty. It killed him to spend that extra yeah but you know how many miles you're going to earn. On that you'll go like you'll maintain your top level for the next few years well, yeah, I hope so.
Speaker 3It better be worth it.
Speaker 4I better get that upgrade yeah but you know, by the end of next week Michael will have like 10 new friends he will have met everyone at the reason.
Speaker 2Well, don't you have an adopted son down there? Tell us about that. It's a great story.
Speaker 4So we went to, I guess, puerto Vallarta a few years ago for our first time and we had our boys with us. They're 19 and 16. And you know they were kind of bored and you know like we need something to do. So they hooked up with the activities director, who was there, whose name was Andres, we got to give the girls some.
Speaker 2That's good.
Speaker 4He was like 19 years old or so, so you know, fit right in with the boys, hung out with them every day, played games with them, and we got to talking to him and you know, he was just a just a great kid um and he worked for the resort.
Speaker 4Yeah, he worked for the resort. Um doesn't have any parents, lives with his grandma, like you know, just a great kid. So every year we would go back, we would, we would meet him, we would go, we would go out with him, like take him to dinner, you know at night, when he had a night off or something, and just became friends with him and he calls us mom and dad. Oh, wow, and so last year we took a family vacation to Cabo and we took Andres with us.
Speaker 3How cool is that he had never, been out of Puerto Vallarta.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 4You know never been on a plane and has never been a guest at a resort. So he went from working at a resort to getting to be a guest at a resort.
Speaker 2Big difference.
Speaker 4And he was just. It was so cool to watch because he was just in awe the entire week. He thought everything was just amazing.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 4Yeah, we talked to him like once a month, so we're looking forward to seeing him.
Speaker 1That just goes back to the generosity of your family, like just it's very kind and you don't have to do any of those things and you want to give back. That just speaks volumes to who you guys are. I know Tim would do the same thing, of course.
Speaker 3Yeah, we have a little adopted son ourselves.
Speaker 2I love that.
Speaker 1That's amazing.
Speaker 4You took the port of my heart. Yes, I took the port of my heart.
Speaker 1Now what we're thinking is why don't you guys adopt us and take us?
Speaker 2to the port of my heart. Yeah, exactly. How do?
Speaker 1we get adopted to go.
Speaker 2That's amazing. Got status with Delta, yeah, no status.
Speaker 1Now have we flown this adopted son to Bentonville, yet we flown this adopted son to Bentonville, yet no, that would be cool.
Speaker 4It's more difficult for a citizen of Mexico to come travel to the United States.
Speaker 2They have to get a visa. They have to get a visa, yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, so we would love to. We just have to figure out how you know, really how to do that.
Speaker 1I'm going to get Michael to bring him into Blakeman's. I mean it would be amazing, Pick up a little Rolex for him to bring back home.
Speaker 2A little souvenir, lisa's, like we have a house in the pool.
Speaker 3We have to finish.
Speaker 4Yeah. I just was kind of stirring.
Speaker 1Don't give Michael any ideas that's not on the list either to talk about. I'm certain we can't talk about that.
Speaker 3Then we have Mario, which Mario is great.
Speaker 4Yes. Mario, he's our other buddy in Puerto Vallarta. And you know the other thing we do when we go to Puerto Vallarta and this may sound crazy, but we take a big bag of blow pops you know, with a gum in it and we pass those out. Do you want to talk about them?
Speaker 3I'm just joking.
Speaker 1Sounds R-rated.
Speaker 4We pass them out to the staff. Yeah, to all of the pool waiters and everyone and all day. You'll see them walking around with these blow pops in their mouth and they love them because they can't get them there.
Speaker 2Josh, you might need to borrow that idea for Antigua or your next Caribbean trip. Maybe you could let Bobby and Jim take it to the island bar. It's kind of cool that it's something so simple to us. Could let Bobby and Jim take it to the island bar. They could take it to the island bar.
Speaker 3It's kind of cool that it's something so simple to us but in so much detail.
Speaker 2Yeah, big deal.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2What do you get them at Sam's?
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, we just get a great big bag that is cool. Hand them out through the week or they'll let. Can I get another blow pop, sure.
Speaker 1That's amazing. Now I gotta tell you something cheaper than dollar bills. Now I got a list from Michael too. He asked me to talk about some things on a podcast, so he said make sure that you convince Lisa to get me a boat so the boat.
Speaker 1I said, alright, well, we'll talk about that because he knew well, he knew that last time we were down in Bimini he wanted a boat and you said no. So he said he said make sure that you guys can pull the approval for a boat out of Lisa on camera today.
Speaker 4So Not going to happen.
Speaker 1Yeah, but Nope, it's a hard. No, it's a hard.
Speaker 4No, maybe We've had a boat before and the best day was when we sold it. Yeah, but you haven't had like a Helios boat. No, not a Helios boat, that's what he's referring to.
Speaker 3He's not in the budget.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, you do realize that he never texted me, but we just went through that. Yeah, oh, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2We had that right when we just got over. Oh, because you had me going in Bimini. Oh, he was buying that, but no, that wasn't us having you going.
Speaker 1He was buying that thing once you guys walked into the like the the lift room, where they had all the boats and Rob looking at all the boats up on the wall up in there, I was like, oh, this is not going to end well at least one of my favorite moments on the benny boat was when I told tim that he broke the armrest and she was like no, I did.
Speaker 3I'm like, well, tim, you're the only one sitting up there, you broke it, and I'm like you're gonna have to talk to rob about it and like just ask him what it's gonna cost to replace so tim didn't break the head of that on a must-break no no, I think that breaks.
Speaker 2It was the night before we had a little dance party on the boat. I think I slipped and I broke it. Oh, you did. Yeah, it was me.
Speaker 3But I think Tim Maliki did it.
Speaker 1Yeah, because money on this flight home from Puerto Vallarta.
Speaker 2He's got to get money in the bank account. That's why he always robbed money for the boat. Tim, I know you're listening to this right now and I know you're probably getting mad because we keep talking about this, but it's fine, we're just having fun. But I did break the armrest. That was me.
Speaker 3Yeah, but he was so happy with me. He's like that is not funny. I'm like we're. I kind of thought it worked.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1That was a fun trip because that was our first time all going on vacation together.
Speaker 2Yes, that was a fun trip.
Speaker 4I think that was the first time I met you.
Speaker 2Matt, yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 4Yeah, so you were a dangerous bartender.
Speaker 2Yes, matt likes pulling that deal out of the.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 2Todd is like the.
Speaker 3Everyone loves Todd. You have, we will. Yeah, he was great, he was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2We're trying to plan a trip for them to come down, so that'll be good. My wrist is still fractured from you. It's funny because even our neighbors in Florida, they're all like when's Todd coming down? I'm like I'm here.
Speaker 3What are you talking about? I'm like, oh, that guy.
Speaker 2That guy is such a nice guy, but no, he's, he's a great. It's hard not to like Todd.
Speaker 1Oh, he's very likable. And the two of you together are like cause you guys didn't you guys share a bed? And you guys were, and then, and then you had an opportunity to shift to another room Each had your own beds and you're like, no, we're good together sharing a bed, yeah.
Speaker 2I mean, I mean for you know why change.
Speaker 1So for the podcast viewers, was it like head to toe, was it like one above the blanket, one below, or like what was the arrangement? Just making sure that we're clear.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, we just built a little bridge between us, a little culvert.
Speaker 1A little bridge in between.
Speaker 3A little swell.
Speaker 1Anything else you ladies want to cover. See, I told you we would just riff on stuff, yeah. And then we'd go by we're out of time. We went through a fire.
Speaker 2I know I feel like you didn't even get to talk about any of what you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 4You know, I don't really have anything.
Speaker 2We didn't hit the list, that's what's good, lisa never has an agenda that's what we love about you and have a cocktail and a glass of wine. Did you guys have?
Speaker 1fun, yeah. Good, nice and easy, yeah. So what did we learn? What did we learn? We learned that Tim doesn't like to spend money on flights.
Speaker 2Or make sure he hits the top status Top status.
Speaker 1Yes, that's what I meant. We learned that you have a son, yeah, in Mexico, in Mexico, right, yeah, yeah, I mean we got some good learnings out of it.
Speaker 2We learned that Josh is a little bit hurt because we might leave a resort that we're sitting there for seven days for and go see a cool beach bar. I don't think Josh is going to leave, though, with you. That's fine, he's going to keep the camp.
Speaker 3I was just throwing out options.
Speaker 2You know it was crickets all day. I was busy preparing for the podcast. What were you doing? Picking up all the stuff you needed me to bring here?
Speaker 1bourbon glasses well, thank you for coming in. You're like be here at?
Speaker 2245. Josh wasn't here at 245, I most certainly was. You were not. I was cleaning my single first. I was sitting in the parking lot and this is not true cheers.
Speaker 1Ladies, thanks for coming in. Have a wonderful trip thank you for your friendship thank you for being part of everything that we do for james giving yeah.