Well, she describes, she said, "When I was a child" she met a man who was a "genuine hobo " and that's how she said it. And she gave him a potato. She knows you shouldn't talk to strangers "but sometimes a stranger is merely an angel unaware and if you don'ttalk to strangers you won't meet the angel." This is basically how Betty led her life.
Sure. So Hoboken, like I was saying, all the towns and cities have their own unique ordinances about vending. And Hoboken's one was really weird. It was that you had to move your food truck after every single sale.
So I sold them all, came to Boston, determined to open up a place, and that's where we opened up Lord Hobo . And Lord Hobo turned eight years old this week on Monday. So eight years in the restaurant business, long time, so it's pretty cool to have that kind of legacy.
There was a bathroom in my house. I live in Hoboken across the river. And when I would sit on the toilet and look down on the floor, there was a tile, and it was cracked.
And I was just like, oh! to be in Hoboken-- I used to have some old boxes on the wall, and that was really interesting.
It's very simple. I didn't have any money then to spend on food and I had grown up in New Jersey on, you know what, New Jersey cuisine was like in the '50s. It all just came in, in cans to Hoboken. You know, they did, they did a lampoon, a Harvard lampoon piece on the, on New Jersey cuisine--New Jersey cooking. And, it was one of those that, that was exactly like the Time Life Series and so there were these little pictures every step was, was
I am the CEO and founder of Lord Hobo Brewing Company, as well as a half dozen other craft beer bars over the last 15 years. I'm titling this talk today Lord Hobo Brewing Company and the fairytale towards the first billion dollars, OK? I'm going to tell you a little bit about my background.
The policeman opened it, riffling through the main compartment, opening the interior zip, then moving to the exterior pockets. It was a Marc Jacobs Hobo , and there were a lot of them. The policeman extracted a brown paper packet, folded, a square the size of a lopped off business card.
And he brought Sinatra to my grandfather back in 1942 and said, hey, Patsy. I got this skinny kid from Hoboken. I want you to fatten him up for me.
So my name is Daniel Lanigan. I am the CEO and founder of Lord Hobo Brewing Company, as well as a half dozen other craft beer bars over the last 15 years. I'm titling this talk today Lord Hobo Brewing Company and the fairytale towards the first billion dollars, OK?
The challenge that we do have is that talking about jobs is great. But when you're trying to sell a hobo bag, talking about jobs doesn't really help. It doesn't mean that women don't care about creating jobs.
Can you talk about that? Sure. So Hoboken, like I was saying, all the towns and cities have their own unique ordinances about vending. And Hoboken's one was really weird.
for hippies. "It's not the hippie, it's the hipbo." Come again? Hipbo comes from three things, first hobo , second, the combination of hippie and bum, third from Lifebuoy soap. Remember that commercial with the fog horn blowing?
I see. So it seems like the bureaucrats, the policemen, they can either be your best friend or your worst nightmare. In "Street Vegan," you tell an interesting story about an experience you had in Hoboken with a police officer who gave you a hard time. Can you talk about that?
So like it is in New York where you have to find this balance of where to park, where nobody's going to call the police on you, and these types of things, in Hoboken, it was like you had to find a spot where you could stay, and had good enough foot traffic, and nobody was going to bother you-- somewhere on the outskirts of town.
By the way, he's also an executive producer on this show. OK. By the way, Billy said "hobo " just now and "hillbilly" yesterday. I just want to mirror back your folksy wisdom.
And this is in perspective. submersible that we fit with a GoPro camera, and a few HOBO data loggers.
So that really helped me hone things. Yeah. OK, when I was in Hoboken, and he was just a council member.
"It's impossible to make a computer that works the way that you think it does" or "Corporate policy prohibits you doing it." Back in 2006, there was a 314-car Robotic Parking model RPS1000 garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, whose owners believed that they were up to date on their software license payments
Not literal suits, but the very corporate types-- in my life, I mean. Usually, I've hired people who-- I mean, my manager is here somewhere, and you would think he was a hobo . I'm joking. But yeah, that's the kind of guy I'd hire, yeah.
And I had a lot of reverence for those places and I thought well in 2006 we won Best Beer Bar in the country, But we were in the middle of nowhere. So I sold them all, came to Boston, determined to open up a place, and that's where we opened up Lord Hobo . And Lord Hobo turned eight years old this week on Monday.
Maybe a rare Belgian bottle is $25 bucks. But when you do down on the street, when you pay $10 for a pint at Lord Hobo , you're getting a world-class offering. You know, you can't say that about yachts or wine or even steaks or homes or cars, whatever.
my my early years, my teens was all spent in trying to get out of South Texas. I was desperate to escape South Texas. Wanderlust literally pumped through my veins. My great great uncle Jake was a hobo who saw all of America with his legs dangling over the edge of a freight train. My father was a drummer for the US Navy band and he drumed his
The first day we were shoveling feet of snow off the roof of our truck when we were opening. And it was so slow on this one waterfront block that I had found that was kind of safe that I started venturing deeper into the downtown area of Hoboken. And this one morning I set up, and after making a couple sales this cop came in full Gestapo leather.
And they then sort of trail around, and I thought this was actually kind of interesting. Know, I think, I think really fast because I - I'm always, well, yeah, actually, that might be why I speak fast. I also, I also have this terrible accent, I'm from Hoboken,