Speaker 1: On Thursdays, we like to do our small business shout
Speaker 1: out and once again revisiting here is Axiom Kitchen, Smoked
Speaker 1: Meats and Barbecue. Welcome back, Keanna Williams and Ian Mafnas.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming back in you guys, we appreciate this.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having us again.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that you're here is the the
Speaker 1: third annual now third annual Long Beach Barbecue and Music Festival,
Speaker 1: and you guys are helping host it.
Speaker 2: This is a fun weekend. It's this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yes, next weekend.
Speaker 2: Next weekend.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, I have my days mixed up some anyway,
Speaker 4: not important, so next weekend. So this is like you
Speaker 4: can bring the whole family, you bring the kids. It's
Speaker 4: a whole weekend Old Day event.
Speaker 2: Tell us about it.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 5: So it's gonna be Friday and Saturday, May twenty third
Speaker 5: and twenty fourth, from twelve to nine pm at Shoreland
Speaker 5: Aquatic Park in downtown Long Beach. We're gonna have a
Speaker 5: free kids area, We're gonna have whiskey tasting at.
Speaker 2: The kids area.
Speaker 4: Definitely help with naptime adjacent to the kids for sure.
Speaker 5: And we're gonna have live performances by local artists. We're
Speaker 5: gonna have thirty of the best barbecue vendors in Sokel
Speaker 5: representing all the different types of barbecue, Southern Carolina and
Speaker 5: Keli barbecue.
Speaker 4: I go to Kansas City once a year, and I've
Speaker 4: heard the comment of, well, don't you get sick of barbecue? No, because,
Speaker 4: like you're stating, and which is the case. Barbecue has
Speaker 4: done so differently in so many different ways that it's
Speaker 4: kind of like a different food group depending on where
Speaker 4: you go to get your barbecue.
Speaker 3: And the best part is everybody has like their idea
Speaker 3: of what like the perfect barbecue is, so they'll.
Speaker 2: Be like these arguments like, no, we like it with sauce. No,
Speaker 2: we like it without sauce.
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the most beautiful things
Speaker 1: about barbecue is that it's like so diverse.
Speaker 4: Well, sometimes, like on a Tuesday, I don't want the sauce,
Speaker 4: but by Thursday, I'm in a sauce mood. You know.
Speaker 2: Tell us about the history of Axium Kitchen.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 5: Axium Kitchen is a restaurant Keanu and I started back
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two. It was we got married in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, and then I smoked a brisket and
Speaker 5: I brought it to her and she was like, where'd.
Speaker 3: You get you?
Speaker 2: She married you before she had the bristol.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, Wow, I thank you.
Speaker 2: Keeping it secret? Okay, yeah, how do you keep your briskele?
Speaker 2: It's an advanced move.
Speaker 5: So and then she was like, where'd you get this?
Speaker 5: And I was like the backyard. And she was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god. We got to do something with this.
Speaker 5: So we started Axiom, and we started as a pop
Speaker 5: up and then we got a shared kitchen and the
Speaker 5: barbecue Vessel was a birthday for Axiom and we had
Speaker 5: it at Trademark Brewing in Long Beach and too many.
Speaker 3: People showed up.
Speaker 2: This looks a good problem to.
Speaker 3: Have, right definitely.
Speaker 5: So the next year we had it at Shoreline Aquatic
Speaker 5: Park and that was last year and we had thirty
Speaker 5: five hundred people show up on one day.
Speaker 3: Wow. And I told her, I said, we got to
Speaker 3: do two days next year.
Speaker 5: So this year it's two days and it's also hosted
Speaker 5: by a Nozark Foundation, which is a nonprofit we created
Speaker 5: to honor our late son, Noah, who passed away by
Speaker 5: gun violence. So all the proceeds will go to Nose
Speaker 5: Art so we can continue to help in the just
Speaker 5: experiencing homelessness, families and transitional age youth as well.
Speaker 2: How long do you smoke your brisket for?
Speaker 3: Sixteen hours?
Speaker 4: Sixteen hours? That is dedication. You can almost taste it.
Speaker 5: He was a pecan wood, upple wood, and white oak.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: I think I'm partial, but I think his is the
Speaker 3: best brisket I've tasted.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what you're supposed to say, but it sounds
Speaker 2: like it. Did he talk about the brisket at all.
Speaker 2: Before you marry a little bit, you're start.
Speaker 4: Like I am, like, I cannot get over this.
Speaker 5: He literally sprung it on me and he was like
Speaker 5: here it tastes, and like, wait, who made this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I did.
Speaker 4: I was like, because like, if you do a good brisket,
Speaker 4: that's part of your personality, right, you know, like that's
Speaker 4: something I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: That would be a first date thing, right, second date maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So I mean this idea that putting together this thing
Speaker 1: for now two days and again it's next Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: next Friday and Saturday, the twenty third and twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: twelve to nine down at the shoreline, Aquatic Park. You
Speaker 1: have some buy in from some amazing rather restaurants in here.
Speaker 1: I mean all second to Axiom in terms of there's
Speaker 1: taste and stuff, but still very very good. How do
Speaker 1: you convince them to come out if everybody's barbecue, aren't
Speaker 1: you kind of flood in the zone at that point,
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised.
Speaker 3: Last year everybody sold out. It was wow.
Speaker 5: So apparently people really love barbecue, and people love the
Speaker 5: different types of barbecue, and everyone has their own signature
Speaker 5: that they do. Like we have Smoking Rubens doing brisket
Speaker 5: bombs and Texas Twinkies. We have Kleifa's Barbecue doing his
Speaker 5: version of brisket and crispy pork belly. We have mcgea's
Speaker 5: who's been in the game for a long time bringing
Speaker 5: his signature brisket, and I guess.
Speaker 1: We have vegan options too, Oh yeah, right, right, of course,
Speaker 1: it's Southern California kind of at this point.
Speaker 5: Actually fresh off the yacht bringing the vegan fair for
Speaker 5: the vegan individual so that way can be inclusive as well,
Speaker 5: because that was one of the problems last year's we
Speaker 5: didn't have any vegetarian or vegan so I think we
Speaker 5: would have some gluten free options as well.
Speaker 4: I'm shocked that somebody would go to a barbecue place
Speaker 4: that was a vegan and be like, what are the
Speaker 4: options for me? Like, that's wild, that is freaking any
Speaker 4: but any place else other than California. If you're old, like,
Speaker 4: look at you like you're crazy. What is a Texas twinkie?
Speaker 5: Texas tinky is a halopenion that's been split up in
Speaker 5: stuff with brisket and wrapped with bacon.
Speaker 2: Stop twinky about that? Oh my gosh. They do us
Speaker 2: all the time in Texas.
Speaker 1: So that's like a big Texas style hallopen you'll popper
Speaker 1: plus Yeah, that's amazing plus plus.
Speaker 3: Plus I'm personally looking forward to trying it now.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say that, Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 4: It's funny how you hear things and you just know
Speaker 4: you're you're meant to hear them. I was meant to
Speaker 4: hear that.
Speaker 1: Texas a couple of quick websites to tell people about.
Speaker 1: Obviously Axiom Kitchen bbq dot com. That's your website, but
Speaker 1: tickets for the third annual Long Beach Barbecue Music Festival
Speaker 1: Long Beach bbqfest dot com.
Speaker 2: This is where you can get tickets.
Speaker 1: You can just search forard as well and find it
Speaker 1: there again next Friday and Saturday, Shoreline Aquatic Park there
Speaker 1: in Long Beach.
Speaker 4: This fool's driving through downtown LA on the fives.
Speaker 2: Going the wrong way.
Speaker 3: An idiot.
Speaker 2: He was not listening to the show. Obviously. I'm excited
Speaker 2: for this barbecue festival.
Speaker 4: I will be in town that weekend, so I will
Speaker 4: I will definitely go to this Shoreline Aquatic Park. It
Speaker 4: is May twenty third and twenty fourth, Saturday Friday and
Speaker 4: Saturday Friday and Saturday twelve to nine pm. You can
Speaker 4: check out Long Beach Barbecue Fest dot com for your
Speaker 4: tickets again. Long Beach Barbecue Fest dot com barbecue, live music, community,
Speaker 4: fun place you can just dump your kids.
Speaker 2: Well, you go have the whiskey. It's a whole thing.
Speaker 2: It's old to do.
Speaker 1: Uh keana Ian. Thanks for coming in, good to see you,
Speaker 1: and best of luck next weekend.