Nanobrew (the Podcast) is hosted by Jason Wuerfel, owner/operator of Books & Brews, a combination used bookstore and nanobrewery in Indianapolis, Indiana. Join Jason and his trusty brewers Joel and Bryan as they give you an insight into what it's like to start a nanobrewery, give you small business…
The gang is back! Holy hell I love this podcast so much! Thank you so much to Bryan, Lauren, and Pete for coming back and joining me on this crazy thing called Nanobrew: The Podcast. On this episode, the gang talks about "manifesting" success along the lines of Matthew McConaughey's memoir "Greenlights." This episode has a little bit of everything - old business, new business, art in your face, beef of the week, and everything in between!
Back in the day Murder Shoes Max leads "Reviews by a 21-year-old" for our review for Brass Monkey. Per the Funky Boss, "This tastes like something Jonah Hill would give a girl in Superbad."
This clip comes from Nanobrew's 6th episode ever back in 2015 with the super-original crew of Jason, Joel, and Bryan. In this throwback micro-content Jason describes one of the big motivators of the original concept that helped defined the Books & Brews business model.
In this micro-content throwback clip, Jason tells the story of when he heard a speaker that would alter the course of his career. This clip is from the early days of Nanobrew: The Podcast circa 2015.
This micro-content throwback from 2014 highlights our concept "Doing business on the Nanoscale: Win Aggressive, Lose Aggressive." The net change is always positive. Shout out to Brad Sprauer one of the original supporters of Books & Brews that helped get us up and on our feet.
The gang is back talking about the #1 reason most entrepreneurs fail. We were pretty well behaved on this podcast until the beer started to kick in for the second half.
The Funky Boss brings up an interesting topic of Timecop and Ugly Pete: who are we as people? How do we measure self worth? How do we judge ourselves? If people deny the way we identify ourselves does that lower our self worth? This sounds very technical but most of the time it's fart jokes like you're used to with Nanobrew. Cheers!
Timecop and The Funky Boss welcome the Hoffmeister to the podcast to beef on people who say they want to be trained but actually....don't care (to put it lightly). If you're a round peg in a square hole? No amount of square training is going to make you a square. Move on, be happy, cut your losses, and stop being a crybaby about being a square world WHEN YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY A ROUND PEG.
If you hang in there until the end of this episode you get to hear Jason cry his eyes out talking about how much he loves and appreciates his employees. Side note - he doesn't need to drink to get emotional but it helps. The back story is the gang forgets to eat lunch or dinner then proceeds to drinking way too much and sprawling, long-winded shenanigans pursue. We cut out a large portion of this podcast and it's still insanely long. I hope you get a few giggles and gives you some insight into the history of B&B and how much we love we what we do.
Originally recorded in the summer of 2017 when Books & Brews was blasting off, the Funky Boss gives his #1 advice for starting a business and making a money, which is, to quote Timecop, "Ballin on a Budget!" This is the tip: 90/10 rule - 90% of your time brings money into the business, 10% of the time saving money. Listen for more ridiculous shenanigans, beat boxing, and a blast from the past.
On this episode of Nanobrew: The Podcast, the Funky Boss talks about the book, "This is Marketing," by Seth Godin, Timecop gives his review of the reality show Love at First Sight, and Burnsie comes by to once again beef on Pistol Pete. The gang also solves the question - who would win in a Celebrity Deathmatch: the Blue Man Group or the Jabbawockeez.
The Funky Boss, Timecop, and Murder Shoes Max wax intellectual about business, life, movies, and hip hop, as per usual. Jason talks about how dumb people are making lots of money and how much business owners have no idea who their real competitors are.
The dynamic duo of the Funky Boss and Timecop are back to chat about sci-fi movies, having radical candor, really bad dreams, and plenty of other small business shenanigans. Jason describes how learning to deal with owning a business while being a literal person is difficult.
Throwback episode from March 6th, 2016, where the original trio of the Funky Boss, Timecop, and Murder Shoes Max give shout outs to the guests that helped get Books & Brews reach the starting point of their explosive growth in 2016. Jason tells the story of taking regulars Guy, Pete, and Komal, to go see the Zionsville space that become B&B's 2nd location.
The gang is back with the Funky Boss, Timecop, and Burnsie to discuss why the boss is always a dick.
Ben from Zionsville stops by and the Funky Boss and Timecop immediately derail any sense of coherent conversation (sorry, Ben). We do get a chance to be serious for a hot minute in the middle about charisma - and how most think it's a wasted stat in both D&D and life. Oh boy, then Ben has to go and Ugly Pete comes on for the second half of the show. I had to cut a solid 30 minutes out because this went long as we are terrible people (sorry, mom).
Books & Brews Operations Specialist Tyler Danner drops by the podcast and discusses why it's important to have a competitive edge in life, business, and baseball (everyone drink)
Nanobrew: The Podcast's Reunion tour continues with our #2 most frequented guest ever, Sarah Burns, returns to the show to talk about Super Heroes, Disney movies, heavy metal, and Mexican candy. Shenanigans, bad words, beer, candy, Disney, Marvel, stuff. A Nanobrew classic.
Nanobrew: The Podcast is back with all new small business shenanigans featuring Ugly Pete from Water Performance Technologies. We talk about old business, new business, mobster movies, Aladdin the horror movie, and so much more. Keep checking back for more new episodes every Friday morning just in time for your weekend. I apologize to my mom for all the cuss words.
We talk about Holmes & Watson, and the staff learns a little about Hair Metal.
On this PARTY IN TE BACK episode of Nanobrew The Podcast, we talk about movies, art, and breakfast cereals.
On this episode of Nanobrew The Podcast, the gang talks about Product Vs Distribution.
We bring back deadpan music for Stump The Brewer with an 80's hip hop theme.
Back in 2015-2016 when we used to get -super- drunk every episode (sorry, mom) we would beatbox into every segment and always mix up the different styles (kind of). Here is just a small sample I put together to relive the glory days when things were much simpler around here! I hope you enjoy!
This is a late posting of an old episode of us having some fun and kicking around our feeling on the re-emerging sports card marketing amongst other things. Come join us for some small business shenanigans.
Jason, CEO of Books & Brews and Flat12 Bierwerks, AKA the Funky Boss, lays out Operation Roadhouse - be nice, to everyone, all the time. Listen carefully, we're about to do something no one else is doing.
We talk candidly about "I think you should leave" and movie brands
We talk about the show "I Think You Should Leave" and 90's Hip Hop
We take Social Media, Being Nice, and Falcons!
For the BUSINESS IN THE FRONT, the crew talks about branding themselves on social media.
Have you seen the GOT Starbucks cup? We have an idea why it was there.
The group talks about their nano stories, and what small thing or meeting made them who they became.
We had some technical difficulties in the first part of the Words Matter episode so this is a very brief Party in the Back segment we recorded where I tell a funny story about embarrassing Bryan's work ethic and beef on getting old.
This is part 1 (Business in the Front) of our Words Matter podcast where we discuss why the words that we use are so critical in the communication and systemization of our business and how they have a psychological effect on us every day.
This is part 2 (Party in the Back) of our Customer Service Techniques podcast where we talk Game of Thrones, I beef on basketball, and we Stump the Brewer.
Our new format on Nanborew: The Podcast is break our "business in the front" and "party in the back" parts of the show into two separate podcasts. Now you can enjoy releases coming every Monday and Thursday. Also be on the lookout for our new Nanborew Network podcast website - we will have daily content coming at you very soon! Until, listen to this episode and learn how to talk to people. Cheers!
Short staffed for the podcast, but we still had a great episode thanks to a surprise visit from Zack. Within the first few minutes, Zack is given the coolest podcast nickname.
Shorter podcast today, but we definitely packed in a lot of content.
Little rushed with the recording this week, but we had a very fun show. We go over last weeks podcast with Old Business, and we talk about winning at little league doesn't set you up for success.
This is a fun episode that I don't have time to write a synopsis but it's hilarious, I promise.
We say bye to Faren on this BONUS TRACK.
The crew talks about what is Team Chemistry and iconic characters.
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