it started as a college football fan s plea for beer money. everybody wants that. it became a game winning touchdown for a local children s hospital. carson king went viral after holding this sign at espn college game day, asking people to send him money for beer. guess what? people started doing it. when king announced he would donate it an iowa children s hospital, busch beer said and venmo said they would match contributions. joining us now is the sign sn holder himself and iowa legend, carson king. you wanted the money for one case of busch light. a fine beer indeed. you raised how much total money? with matched contributions we re at $822,000. starting with one case of beer and now over 800,000. yep. that includes tell us
where the donations came from. originally they came in from just people watching college game day. we shared some social media posts with my intentions which were to donate everything but the cost to cover one case of busch light to the university of iowa children s hospital. peel caught wind of it. they started donating. busch and venmo will now match whatever donation we make. we had a chance to meet your parents before they came on. it sounds like at first they were mortified. my mom heard the yaind she s like oh, my gosh, my son is going to be on national television, asking for beer money. proud mom moment. i think it turned into her being okay with it at this point. given all you ve done, helping a lot of people. why is children s hospital what does that mean to you? children s hospital, they do so much for everyone around the country. the stead family they re revolutionary in what they do, do such great work with the kids
ask your doctor about vascepa. prescription power. proven to work. i guess we don t need beer money. there s beer out there on fox square. look at that. don t venmo us because we ve got it. there s beer out there. we re going to celebrate and kick off oktoberfest. beer and brats and lederhosen. is that how you say that. have you ever been to an oktoberfest? this is going to be my second one. i m excited. we went to one in munich. we thought it would be tou tour.