As Kansas City-based celebrity charity event Thundergong! heads into its eighth year entertaining fans and raising money for nonprofit Steps of Faith Foundation, CEO and musician Billy Brimblecom Jr. still can’t believe the amount of support it’s received.
Since the first Thundergong! in 2017, the concert and comedy show hosted by Brimblecom Jr.’s friend and “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis benefitting amputees has raised over $3.9 million for the foundation, allowing them to provide prosthetics to more than 1,800 people across the United States.
Music and comedy are two things the friends love, and it’s how they bonded in high school, when Brimblecom Jr. attended Shawnee Mission North High School and Sudeikis was a student at Shawnee Mission West High School…