There is a name that most of us know from personal experience or have at least heard of through the grapevine. We associate him with some of the best award winning sauces out on the market and we associate him with greatness. He is a hero and a humanitarian and he is greatly admired for all of his humble yet remarkable feats. I’m talking about Jim Campbell, owner and manufacturer of the Mild to Wild Pepper and Herb Co.
Three Hot Tamales had the pleasure of being able to spend time with Jim at Zest Fest this year and got a glimpse of the man we had read so much about. A man we had gained great respect for during his most recent charitable action, Stairway to Heaven. Even if one was able to forget, even for a moment, the selfless acts and genuine caring that Jim has for others, you would still know somehow that you were standing in the company of an icon. Jim is as regular of a guy as you’ll ever meet and humble beyond compare and yet his actions show greatness.
Three Hot Tamales have placed two bottles on EBAY so that we could help, in whatever way, however Jim see’s fit. We will donate 100% of all monies to Jim and have faith that it will go where it is most needed. We have put two bottles, both mislabeled and now signed up for auction. One is a twelve ounce bottle of Make Me Moan Mango and the other is a twelve ounce bottle of our Garlic Lovers Steak Sauce.
The Ebay auction started on Sunday October 8, 2006 and ends Sunday October 15, 2006. Please help us help others by clicking on this link eBay: Three Hot Tamales (item 250037324929 end time Oct-15-06 17:07:56 PDT). Let Jim inspire the goodness in you, read about him here:
Step Up for Charity.org
Meet Your Maker #13 – Jim Campbell
Stairway to Heaven
The Danny Cash crew has decided to generously donate thier NOS Prototype bottles in an effort to help Jim Campbell’s Step Up for Charity. Read the HSB for exact details, but this auction is for 1 of only 2 bottles that will be available. This is the FINAL bottle available.
Please Note: This is a hot sauce collectible – it’s a prototype bottle to the NOS Hot Sauces the Danny Cash Crew first released at Zest Fest 2006
106 responses to “Auctions for Step Up for Charity”
Its nice to see Jim has, and continues to touch so many people, and inspire them to take a look around at what really matters. And in turn, getting them to help out so many causes. Be proud Jim!
Nice job THT!
and Danny Cash too 😉
First time on the blog in several days and what do I find? 😛 I’m truly touched folks! I don’t know what to say other than ‘thank you’ but that just seems so lame and inadequate. The hotsauce world has stepped up beyond measure! 95% of the funds raised have come through the great folks found here at the blog.
It will be several days before i can get back to the blog again- I’m out wandering around in California, staying as far away from computers, email & business as I can get 😉 Wife’s orders 😛
Have fun Jim! Enjoy some of that Calirfornia sunshine! One of my favorite places to be is god old Cali! You deserve a break! Let us know when you get back to business, so to speak!
Adios for now amigo. Just thought i would break you in to the language most spoken in California. Glad the pepper season is over? Once again, I thank you for you generosity in the past weeks. 🙂
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Who said pepper season is over!? Jim is out takin’ it easy while we process all that is in at this point! We are still goin’ until Ol’ Mr. Freeze (not the blogger from N Indiana) comes blowin through! Although this crop is small compared to last years, it’s still pepper season here in the “peppacenter” of the Midwest! Now, back to stemmin’, grindin’ and cookin’ these babies!
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Not entirely fair. As a San Diego native, we have our fair share of red necks, surfers, and hippies (PEACE!).
Way to go THT’s !!! This is awesome to know that the chilihead’s are such a great gang. AzRich and I were lucky to have been able to spend so much time with Jim at ZF, and with all of you HSB’rs. Nice to see a community do great things for a great cause. Rock on Jim and the THT’s !!!!!
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Just stating the facts Rob. Census shows 51% of California is of Hispanic background. I work as a Landscape Architect here in Phoenix. The only people that work around me on the site are non speaking illegals. It is a good day if there is one Gringo for me to associate with.
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if y’all ever think of doing business down here in the land of great places to grow habby’s, let me know, i can set you up with some really good farmland. my commission would be official taster.
Hello all… Whats happening
Hey BLANE! How’s it going bud!?!
Hi all!
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Good, hows the pink eye…lol You know what the value on a R/W label (Old) Blair is going for?
How goes it with you buddy.
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Hey Jodie..
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No I don’t know the value, it’s so hard to tell those things……
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Hey Jodie, how R ya……
I am going crazy as usual! LOL How’s it all hanging around here these days?
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The answer is: however much someone is willing to pay for it 😛
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$1.50 and a autographed picture of myself
Concuerdo con el hecho cualquier alguien pagará. Diviértase con éste las gente, Enfermo los ve en una semanas de cpl, me desean suerte en la mesa de juego, yo jugaré un juego grave de dinero en Detroit.
Have fun gang, we here in AZ also must speak spanish to get thru our daily activity!!!
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Yo Quiero Taco Bell 😀
Ok gang, Im feeling great, I will sponser a contest. Whoever transalates my broken Spanish the best will win 1 # of jerky. Here goes another one. See ya when I get back.
Jim, Bigshow y yo pondré también la subasta para el Deathmatch botellas calientes de salsa cuando vuelvo y después que usted los ha firmado. Véale en una semanas de cpl mi amigo.
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Jim, Bigshow and I will also put up for auction for the Deathmatch hot bottles of sauce when I return and after he has signed them. see you in a couple weeks of my friend
Jim, Bigshow I’m going to put the Deatmatch bottles on ebay, after you sign them. So you can look at them next week my friend.
Huv, fooker, you are even luckier than those Mets !!!!!! Now translate my Mets comment on how the Tigers are going to teach them a lesson !! You left that out for some reason? Usted tiengo una problema con de el Tigre’s?
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I had my translator do it and he said that was some jacked up wording.. But above is what he said..
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Whats up AJ
Where did everyone go
Blane, ahhhthat the secret?
I was wondering how you guys got it so perfectly. 15 years in Arizona will do that to anybody, you learn by default. Blanes meatballs ruled, El Jaffe de meatballs, Im packin my bags for fishing, I’ll keep checkin back. General Lee, you get the bargain of the year tommorow at lunch.
Fun Fun Fun, I feel like play9in a Beach Boys song in the ipod, lol.
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I can translate Vietnamese also… lol
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Yep… internet is great 😀
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We’ll see my friend. We’ll see. Mets are the team to beat.
That was too easy, now Im gonna do it in Ebonics, winner take all. All contestants will get jerky.
Yo JC, whattup ho? Check it bro, Bigshow da man, gonna back yo ass, word brotha, no need to wine, we make it shine, yannow wha Im sayin? When the treat hits the street, JC can’t be beat !!! Brotha is a playa !!
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LOL – I’m new york…. I hear this everyday.
Sorry Huv, Cardinals will win in 6… got that pallet of Fat Kids Sauces headed out to JJ’s tomorrow…
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Im tryin hard to shake my Detroit roots Huv, throw me a bone here dood !!
AJ, you’ll feel right at home at our place “in da hood!”
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Woah…..AZ Jack in da hiz-ous!
I am in for this one……….bee’atch! 😎
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Never! We just wont pitch to Puljos – he’s the onyl guy that can hit. Capenter just pitched so he at MOST will get 2 games…. CArds are in trouble.
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DEtroit has actually surprised me. They are crushing the A’s right now.
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What’s up John
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Thanx for shipping the sauce!
Hey huv
Got the sauce today, thank you very much…. I’m going to make you 1 meatball…lol
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others going out tomorrow. got jambed at work!
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Cards win in six…GO STL
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Hey eman
What’s up BLANE? eman, I was trying to humor Huv by saying it would last 6!
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Whats up dude?….Michelle and Isabella are both asleep…I get to play for a while.
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OK, there si something wrong with me…I SO got that and not only that could pronouce that perfectly!!!!
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I would say a sweep, but they almost choked as bad at the Yankees in the last series……ok, let the hate mail begin
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LOL…. Stop making me laugh…… Mets will out slug the Cards. Mets bullpen is Far superior. The only chance the cards have is to hit the Mets starting pitching early. Glavine vs Weaver games 1 – Weaver is a JOKE, and Glavine is pitching well.
We just need to walk Puljos just about every at bat. He’s incredible.
Yo jodie, here is one for you
Hmm, I love this game coz this game love me back
I’m pushing a lac, smoking sacs like a mad mac
Bringing me back, banging the 8-track track
The Dramatics and Battle Cat and Snoop like that
Big stars in big cars we pull up at the big clubs and sit at the big bars
Sippin’ champaign with a bowl of cavier
Hell yeh you are, yeh you are
Say it say it, coz they all deny it
Player play it, coz you cant deny it
As fly as it get, as fly as I spit you know its the s**t
It’s so gangsta, gangsta b**ch
Like a star slipping out of place
Sliding from the sky
Tumbling through space
When you touch my hand
I swear I feel like I’m ballin’
(Ballin’, Ballin’, Ballin’, Ballin’)
Yeh ballin’
(Ballin’, Ballin’, Ballin’, Ballin’)
Like a wheel
Whirling round and round
Rolling down a hill (rollin’ down a hill)
Spinning on the ground (rollin’ down a hill)
Your kissing makes me dizzy yeh
In the head (ooh yeh)
And I’m ballin’
I’m ballin’
Switch back to the old school, old fools know
This here thang we do so original
I got to have it, lavish
Is how we establish
On the real love one it feels good to have
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Not bad eman, my little guy has been sick so little sleep, only at work…lol
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Yeah, it seems like if Puljos has an off day, they all do. He is the team. Our pitching has always sucked.
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i am from the ATL. home of where they brought ebonics in.
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Yeah, I here you about the sleep at work thing. Thank god for caffine(sp)
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must give props to my braves. 14 in a row til this season. ooohhhhh oooohh oo oo oohhh ooo ooo oohhhh oo ooohhhhhh!!!!!!!
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I guess you know all about freaknick?
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I say walk Puljos no matter what – even if the bases are loaded! He’s like a machine!
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the tide has turned my friend. That atlanta run was incredible – but over. Cant stand Chipper Jones!!!!! Talk about a met killer
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They were talking on the radio today that if he keeps the numbers he has been getting for 5 years or so he will be considered the best to ever play the game.
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Who in the world names their kid Chipper anyway…..do they own a tree service or something?
🙂
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He certainly is the best this year…. Should be NL MVP – but who knows how they’ll vote. Howard from the phils had a great year but they didnt make the playoffs. No Met deserves it, close, but not good enough.
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LOL – you should be at Shea when he gets up… the WHOLE stadium chants LARRY… LARRY… YOU SUCK….
The wierdo named his kid SHEA cuz he hit si mayn homers at shea staduim 😯
si mayn
translated means: “so many” I really should use spell check.
I’m out everyone. Laptop battery dying. .. See ya!
o crap…isabella is crying…got to go
see ya all
eman out
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know it too much. the f*&^in interstates slose down in downtoen atl and all them folks jus dance in the middle of the dang road. i could go on but i will pass…
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playa hata. that record is one of those that shall stand for many a years mi amogo. tomahawk chop!
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CaJohn, Im just giddy the Tigers made it !!! I can get freaky when my Tigers are doin good, so many years of sucking will do that to ya
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I’m, lookin for a 1968 replay, Tigers beat the Cards again !!!
I know DK’s lurkin out there.
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Eman, I will let you record in my studio, any time, any day.
Word G, that was good. And I dont even like hip-hop !!!
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Dk is thinkin up a gator rhyme i bet
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Good to hear from you Jack, sorry I hadn’t gotten back to you, was outta town for a few, hope all is well.
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just got a visual of you getting freaky. going to have to go get a drink now.
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Lurkin’ no, workin’ yep. Got some irons in the fire curently so I have only been checking in on occasion. I’ll get back in here soon, I promise. Maybe spout some gator rhymes for ya, we’ll see.
Oh, by the way, GOOD MORNING!
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GOOddddd MORNING HSB Bloggers
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Good morning all.
Hey Bret, I saw you were feeling neglected so,
XO
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NOW THAT HOW YOU START A DAY. BACK AT YOU,( XO )
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DK, got your package yesterday, The Createss is now calling everyone she meets “window lickers”. It’s just too funny.
Thanks again man. Oh, has the ZERO jerky eaten a hole in your floorboards yet?
Im out for 2 weeks, have a great time friends…Good luck Huv with the Mets, Go Tigers, see ya gang. General Lee, I’ll see you at lunch, then airport for me !!! Bret and CaJohn, see you both soon !!!
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LMAO!!!! Tooooo funny!!
Glad you guys like the Short Bus! As for the Zero Jerky, still working on getting it right. I’m afraid to just dump it in, so what I have tried so far has been a little weak. I’m thinking it’s better to work it up gradually to the final version. Means more jerky for me right now too! I’ll let ya know when the perfect combination is done, the floorboards are shakin, so it’s close! Loving the Zero man, mostly using it to shut people up that think they know what hot is. 😉 I love the stuff straight from the bottle. 🙂
Oh, I forgot to say:
Good Morning Everybody! Creator, Bret, Kristi, AJ!
Ok, back to work for me. I’ll be checking in later.
Morning all! Won’t be here for long…damn day job interfering with my blogging!
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Have a great time. See you soon, later
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You better get back to work. LOL
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not mine—compliments of Snoop Dogg
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We will hold our breath until you show back up…
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Exhale! Just in for a blink, gotta get dinner ready. Back later. 🙂
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Thank God…. If you hold it too long you just pass out, The good thing is no damage to the helmet….lol
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But what about the Brain
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Just a couple of tic’s thats all, it will give people something to talk about in NM…lol
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I’m glade the helmet is ok
The second NOS bottle auction ended for $280! That’s a total of $541 raised on those 2 NOS prototypes alone! You guys are killer, man!
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That’s a Killer bottle!
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NICE
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So good to hear you guys were able to raise so much money. THT’s auction just ended at $201.50 so we are real happy about that. You bloggers are more than generous when it comes to a good cause, thanks to all who bid!
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Glad to be of help
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Thank you so much Henryk, so glad you won and hope it makes a nice addition to your collection! Thanks for the generosity, enjoy!
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Way to go THT! And Congrats HenryK! There is no short supply of generosity around here, that’s for sure! 🙂
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Dk only 18 days left
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Woohoo! Can’t wait Bret. You see my pics in the Boiler Room? Don’t let Leroy see, that’s not my dog and I don’t want him to think I’m bringing him with me! 😉
Pics are under “Take a Hike” thread in General Spiciness by the way.
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DK Whats the dogs name he cute
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Leroy he said it was not his dog. Great pictures Dk. We have some land in Ind. We sold 30 acres of timber this summer and more next year. The gov helps with the ploting were a register tree farm.
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You guys are real gents… no matter what huv says 😛
Thanks again to all. Just back from California. Harvest appears done *way* before John & I are ready for it to be done 🙁
[Comment ID #63063 Quote]Thanks Jim- it was that or try to break your stair climbing record, and well, have you seen us???
Glad they raised some cash for a great cause-
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Great Job on both of the auctions….