i'm pj spinella this is my brother frank spinella
we're at the carl wolford nationals and this is the snake bite behind us
the important factor is just being about the member always putting the member first
we were founded in 2014 with uh with three guys we used to go do regular cruises out on the weekend
and then we decided to expand we wanted to make sure we kept the chaos but kept the fun but we
wanted the family environment where everybody was welcome to come and it's literally caught
on like a bonfire and we didn't want to be the a typical club we wanted to be something more
so this is our fifth year in in carl in 2017 we started an apocalypse theme 2019 was the jail
cell 2020 was a little bit of an off year due to covet i believe everybody knows that
21 was mardi gras that's the year we uh we captured first place for the first time ever
and then uh 22 we decided you know what it was our fifth year anniversary let's pull out our guns go
full blazing and we decided to do a full pirate theme we really want to make people that are
part of this community very proud of us so that's what we go for in our goal so now we have uh we
have a chapter down in mid-atlantic we have uh two down in uh florida in the uh the north end florida
and then uh another one based out of orlando we have a central mustang one that's actually
uh carlyle area and then we have also have one in cleveland as well when we sell our
shirts all the money that we sell throughout the year we put it into a display like this
all the chapters all the families come together and this is where we can all sit down we treat
this as our super bowl where all the chapters come together and we can all be one and we are invading
how this came about is my brother gave me the idea hey we should do a pirate ship for this
year and i said you know what that's a really kick-ass idea two weeks after the show of last
year was when this cannon was first started this is actually the prototype this is what kicked off
the idea there's actually seven of these laying around and then before you know we ended up it
caught on like a bonfire and we pretty much just throughout the whole year just continued to build
as you can see we kind of went a little crazy some may even think uh we have problems but it's okay
as you're sitting inside or outside and you watch the people actually stop
and then they're walking up going oh my god are you guys crazy what is this about and then you
know we bring them inside and show them exactly what we're about we walk them around the tent
we show them everything that we've been building two weeks after last year and the reactions are
oh my god how did you come up with this vision like who who comes up with this how did you do
this and it all started last year two weeks after carlisle you know the kids are the kids are going
crazy with this with with this display they're they can't believe it they can't believe the
12-foot skeleton the the cannons are going off and the kids are really really really happy to
to be here today so for next year i already have the scheme in my head of being outside of this
this is going to be a very very difficult tent to overcome but i already have an idea of how we can
either come really close to this or top it and uh the vision is always starting you know you're
walking around you're getting ideas and the the creative juices are already flowing for next year
you know because i want to bring everybody back that we gain from this year you know there's new
members new people walking by that want to join and i want to give them the best experience for
next year you know and for years to come and just keep keep the venom family you know growing and
and make sure that everyone enjoys and feels like oh my god you know i'm part of one i'm part of the
huge family that's called the venom invasion and i'm proud of it and when somebody says to
them what do you mean what's venom invasion well come with me let me show you where my tent is and
you know everybody feels the excitement and that's that's what we're about
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