Hey guys, welcome to Good News York. Yes, it's
Wednesday. You're getting better. Hump Day? Yeah.
Is that a thing? I guess. I mean, I'm kind of
- It's become a thing. I feel like it wasn't
on my radar until like 10 years ago I started
hearing Hump Day. What? That's like a 90s thing.
Is it? The Geico commercial. Whoa, with the -
The camo, the camo. They really put some boost
behind it, but it was a thing before. All right.
Well, it is. That's what it is. It's Wednesday.
It's true. And we got our good buddy coming in.
I'm pumped about that. I'm excited. We got two
good buddies. I got here for you today on Good
News York. If you saw yesterday's show, you should
have an idea what's coming up. We were with our
buddy Ryan Neemiller talking about this awesome
comedy show that he's going to be on in Utica.
Yeah. And we got the folks that are going to
tell you more about that. So stick around. We'll
pull them in here. Have some good news. Coming
up next, right here on Good News York. Hi guys,
welcome back. We are here with our very good
friends. We got Phil Farda and the lovely Helly
Beer here in person. I'm very excited. A clip
for that. For those who don't know, Phil here
is my podcast bestie and I've never done anyone
without him before, so it was weird. I felt like
I was cheating on Phil when we started the show
with Mike Peace and I. Tough shoes to Phil. We're
here to talk about a lot of cool things. I'm
excited for a lot of people to learn about your
business, Phil, because everybody knows Phil
is the comedian. The reality is he's a brilliant
businessman and he's turned entertainment into
a full -time job, not just for himself, but a
whole group of people. Absolutely. I think that's
pretty awesome. Nice of you. You were talking
about how Phil is your podcast bestie. Phil is
my stand -up comedy bestie. I go back further
with Mike, to be honest. The first guy I started
with was Phil and then a kid, Blair, who I don't
know where he is. Is he alive? He's doing really
well. He's doing forestry now. He's done with
lawn care. He's doing forestry. He moves quick,
yeah. God damn. Yeah, man. I started with you,
Phil. I don't know how to explain this, but I
think you'll get it. Like, when you're in a band
with somebody or you work in some sort of creative
project with somebody, There's a bond that happens
for the rest of your life. And I'm being serious.
It's called an NDA. Non -disclosure agreement?
Oh, right. Well, there's that part of it too,
but I've always had this tremendous bond with
Phil because we started together on the front
lines. We didn't know what we were doing. Do
you remember? So I did the open mic, right? You
were hosting the open mic. Got my first show,
about 200 people, went on stage. The mic didn't
work. It just didn't work. It pulled out of the
wall or failed or something. Shit, I mean I really
hate shit and then I went back stage like at
the back of the club and I cried You came back
and gave me a pep talk. Do you remember that?
I don't Yeah, you were really sweet. You came
back and you were like, hey man happens everybody
is okay. Like it's just a fucking pep talk, you
know That made me keep going cuz I was do I can't
do that every night. That was I think the reason
I don't remember is cuz I don't ever remember
seeing you bomb you were just My first time,
everything went wrong. It was a nightmare. I
know. Well, that's how you close to TED Talk.
Yeah. Well, anyway, yeah. I mean, look, I loved
you. I was like, this kid is so funny. You were
great, man. When you were hosting that mic, I
was like, oh, this guy's really, really good.
Polished, funny. And I was like, oh, maybe you
were great. If I didn't see somebody doing it
well, I don't know that I would have kept going.
I just saw it in you right from the start. You
inspired me too, man. Oh, that's sweet. I love
you, buddy. So that's a little love on the show
here. If I could reach over this table, but I
can't. Set up our Bobblehead. I didn't dust him.
Bob Ross is my favorite. That's right. Do you
want the Bob Ross? Steal their shit? Like, hand
me the Bob Ross. Today is my brother's birthday.
Bob is his favorite. It came with an easel, but
I lost it. Among many things that we're here
to talk about. Is this show that you've got coming
up with the awesome Ryan Ney Miller who we had
to listen talking to? You guys just had him on,
yeah. He's great. We made it very clear, by the
way. that Mike was already booking Ryan to do
the show. That is true. But, Maury, you booked
him on this event, so it just happened to work
together nicely. Perfectly. How did you time
that, though? He told me that. He said, oh, I'm
doing a mad show. I was like, because I thought
it was because of this. I was like, they got
you quick, dude. They got you within, like, 20
minutes. He reached out to us first. Wonderful.
We're just starting, and to me, this guy's a
celebrity. He's a big star now. So I was like,
Jesus Christ, it's my first week, and I got an
email from this Ryan emailer from AGT to be on,
and I was like... Yeah, man, we're not really
up and running yet, but we'll get you on as soon
as we can. Matt mentioned you set up a show with
him. I was like, well, fuck yeah. So I wrote
him back. I said, we're up and running. Your
show's going. Let's do it. I would love to give
you the history of Ryan real quick. He was friends
with Will Phillips, who was also on the show
that we're doing. He's like, oh, my buddy Ryan's
real funny. You should put him on. He was touring
everywhere. He's the hardest working dude in
comedy. So he would come to Utica area about
once a year. I would put together six, seven
shows from where we do a run. And we did that
for about six years. The shows would vary. Some
would have 30 people, some would have 100. It
was just like local comedy at that point. Nobody
knew them. And we had some crazy, we did like
an abandoned mall. We did a failed restaurant.
We did a lot of great comedy spots. The last
show we did was it was Nicole's in Camden, a
defunct restaurant. And he leaned into us before
the show was like, listen, I can't really tell
anybody this, but I'm going to share it with
you guys. I got America's Got Talent. And we
were like, that's amazing. Cause that's just
a good career thing. No matter what. Not even
assuming that he was going to become a finalist.
You just think you're on the show. You get the
exposure. He is funny enough. He definitely could
have won the whole thing. But he tell us we're
excited and then it errors and everything goes
on. He explodes, you know, goes like a million
followers. And I'm like, Hey, everybody in Utica
loves you, man. And he's like, Hey, since we
ran these tours all these years, can I come back
and do a show? And at that point, he could have
did theaters and shit. You know what I mean?
And I would have totally understood. He could
have done anything else. And instead of doing
theaters, we did four shows at Cavallo's. That's
amazing. We sold out the banquet room four times,
and it was dope. He gave back, because that paid
our mortgage. That was a great time. I think
that's the first time I saw him. He actually
talked about that. He said, you know, when you
get on AGT, become more of a star. He's like,
but I still wanted to go back and do small comedy
clubs and things like that. Because he could
have been like, thanks for the, thanks for nothing.
And he never talked to me again. And I would
have understood. What's that Halloween place
that pops up in abandoned places? That's what
Phil is. Spirit Halloween. Yes. Phil is the spirit
Halloween of comedy. He just pops up in abandoned
restaurants. And I love that. I had to pick him
up. We were doing a show. Messina. My car breaks
down. I had to go to the airport, get him at
Hancock, right? So I go to Syracuse. I got a
rental minivan. It's a blizzard out. It's the
worst day of the year. The temperature was negative
43. And it was May, by the way. We get to the
car. I'm watching him struggle with his bag.
Because I don't want to be like, you need a handbrake.
I'm like, he's perfectly capable. And I'm just
going to let him carry his own shit. You know
what I mean? There's a line. It's just a dude.
You don't focus on the disability in any way.
He carries the shit out all the time. He doesn't
need my help. We got frostbite going from the
car. Loading all this equipment. It's gonna be
a great show, but it was a nightmare. He'll never
forget that coldest day I've ever experienced.
That's insane. So the mall was completely abandoned.
There was a Wendy's and then just a warehouse.
Like a place where you would do drugs. They filled
it with chairs and we set up the show and it
was a hit. The guy that ran the show, his name's
Elijah, he's still around. He got divorced, I
think. His wife is like, I'm not dealing with
this. That was pre -AGT, by the way. It's so
great. Doesn't bother anybody in Messina. But
yeah, shout out to anybody that sees some success
and then feel humble. Returns tickets are already
selling good for the show the room we're in sells
200 Hopefully we could sell that out the show
that Phil is talking about is right Orion E Miller
the great Phil Fardell will fill up So we we
both know and love Friday March 21st 8 p .m.
At the Burstone in Stone Road, New York They
got a banquet room. The beer garden is a bar
attached to the front of that cool So it's all
connected first event there. We're gonna give
away tickets for sure. Will they tell us the
legend of the great Burstone? What is the law
traffic? I just thought that was your birthstone
I didn't know I thought birthstone was it was
your birthstone, but we'll talk about it another
time This place the burr. There's a lot of birthstones.
There's an animal hospital the road They had
to come from oh you were serious. Oh shit. I
don't know the legend of personal somewhere There's
gotta be a stone. I like I like you saying Burstown
instead of Burstown. It's like if you want it
to appeal to the upper you say it's on Burstown
Road. That's how you pronounce it. That's right.
But we should also give some love to Josh Wilbur.
He's also a comedian. He's a comedian, great
funny dude. He's also one of our trivia hosts.
He hosts two of our absolutely jam -packed trivia
nights every Monday and Thursday. It's part of
why he's on the show. I was like, he's in bringing
a lot of people. Yeah. Let's put them on there.
Yeah. The dude is legitimately funny. I've, I've
enjoyed any that shows that he's a good dude
and love his trivia nights, which we should mention.
So we're talking about these comedy things, but
really it kind of everyday operation is this
stage time trivia. Yeah. The bread and butter,
man. And that one I owe to Will Phillips a lot.
Cause he was the first trivia host that I saw
hosting. Do he was doing comedy with trivia?
And I was like, Oh, this is fun. I don't even
like trivia. You have a script to follow loosely.
You can kind of riff on it. He killed it. I was
like, oh, this is a brand. You want to team up
and make this a brand. And he was like, OK, what's
the pay? I was like, it's going to pay good.
We're doing great. We're in eight locations weekly
in the Utica area. We got one in Syracuse now.
We're at ALOF. We've been there for a while.
We have 62 locations nationwide that run our
game. That's amazing. That's the website. We
offer a content subscription service. Matt helped
me design. He built the original website. Genius.
Go figure, right? That's the thing where I mentioned
at the top how Phil is a genius in business.
He had this great bar trivia business going around
town and you see these all over the country.
He had this idea. How can we take this and expand
beyond what I can physically go to every day?
their secret sauce is the actual comedy a lot
of folks might not know it's not random like
trivial pursuit questions you guys actually write
a custom full package every week of multiple
rounds and topical things and that content is
gold so the picture round is always my favorite
because you never know if you're gonna get something
you know on the naughty side People have like
ten different balls. You gotta identify the testicles.
I love that. The old testicle test. The porn
star. That's why I love this business model specifically
for you because Okay, so this is your bread and
butter. You don't even like trivia, right? But
it's not like you're sitting there going, yeah,
I got to do this to pay the bills and then I
do stand -up. It's scratching that stand -up
itch for you. You're still performing. I think
it's the perfect gig for someone like you. Oh,
this is it for sure, man. Comedy is somewhat
taking a back seat to this. Which explains my
depression now. I'm just sunken into the couch.
But for me, like, looking at it that way, I think
it would scratch that itch for me. I don't necessarily
think that the stand -up's taking a back seat.
I think it's another form. Like, you're doing
stand -up. You're just doing it as the host of
a trivia thing. I think it's great. Yeah, you
get a built -in crowd. It's almost like if you
did comedy with an audience and good pay. This
is great and this is the only way to go. This
is what it could be like. That was the original
business plan. I was going to pitch this to comics
as a way to improve, make some money, pick up
gigs on weeknights that where you'd normally
would not have any work. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah.
The only reason I didn't is because I was really
heavily considering taking that leap. There's
a lot of great folks. What we learned was comics
are lazy and flaky and terrible people really.
So we just started selling it to bars. Listen,
if there's ever a more honorable customer, it's
a bar. Yeah, we need them. So hot. So let's say
We're a bar preferably a gay bar. We want to
do the stage trim to stage time trivia thing
Take me through it. So you're gonna visit stage
time trivia comm The website is undergoing a
facelift right now. So that's gonna look different
sort shortly, but there's a free game download
There's a try it free button. You can click that
try a free game. You just print it out It'll
give you all the materials questions handouts
instructions everything. We have an online tutorial
on there as well teach you how to run the game
pretty easy to walk through if you like it you
want to keep running it every week you subscribe
it's a hundred dollars a month works out to be
less than 25 dollars a game and every sunday
we email you a complete new game got some topical
questions on there all original content and it's
not all testicles by the way mostly testicles
but it's not all testicles the real problem that
it solves is creating the game people will start
a trivia night and they'll come up with questions
After the first two weeks, you're like, this
takes a ton of time to come up with the good
questions. You got to create the handouts. There's
graphic design involved, a lot of stuff to do.
That could take six hours. Put a full game together.
If you got a bar or if you're hosting, you have
other stuff you got to do. So that part's done.
The work's done for you. How do you find new
material, like new questions and things like
that? So Phillips is our head writer. He does
all the content creation. We source some questions
from the internet. We utilize chat GPT. Sometimes
you're just like, ah, I wonder if Napoleon had,
how many wives he had. So you think of something
and it becomes trivia. So it's not the typical
cookie cutter trivia questions. You can play
one of those games and we'll get a couple of
questions. They're like, oh, I know that. And
you'll get another one. That's just like, why?
They're typically too hard. People are like,
oh, this sucks. I don't know anything. Yeah.
So we find just the right balance. Sure. It's
for bars, too. It's for, like, guys like us.
Idiots. Stupid. Morons. Fat idiots. Yeah. Wait
a minute. You're the smartest. Smelly, dumb,
stupid. Ugly. That's our customer. The last time
I played at the Aloft, I won the game. Well,
that doesn't surprise me. I think I got a free
gift. I found that with karaoke in my travels
and performing over the year, karaoke and trivia
has this sect of culture. And I'm asking if you've
encountered this. Where there's people that show
up every week and they are very serious about
diehards. Die hard. You got that? You get that?
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's part of what makes
the business work. Oh no, our guys are cool.
Our regulars are cool. But yeah, in a typical
trivia night, people do take it too seriously.
We discourage that. We use comedy to do that.
Stop being an idiot, smart asshole. It's meant
to be fun. You're drinking, you're hanging out
with your friends. You don't want to leave feeling
stupid. It's not that serious. I love the diehards.
So we should talk to this... Lovely young lady
who's sitting right next to us. Scoot right up
to the mic. Can I scoot the mic to her? Oh, that
works better. Yeah, because I'm not going to
reach this table. Little. Our good friend Kelly
here has recently joined the ranks of the business.
How long since you opened? Almost. I opened April
1st. Tell folks what you do and please. Well,
I'm a licensed esthetician. I worked for the
state for 20 years and hated my life and decided
to go back to school. She was a corrections officer.
I did work at the prison with the sex offenders.
I got fed up with the day to day, the mundane
and went back to school. It was a four month
program. Good for you. It was like super convenient,
appealed to my ADHD, you know, like quick done
to the point. Like, you don't got to mess with
all the extracurriculars and shit. I decided
that after that most estheticians don't do this
and I don't recommend it for anyone. But I jumped
right into it and opened my own place. I'm located
within a larger entity, which appeals to my more
witchy side. I get to do the holistic kind of
stuff. I work out of a new attitude in Barneville,
which is a very small town, but I love it. I
like being the local hometown esthetician. And
I can also offer like the infrared sauna and
the halo salt therapy room. We even got a two
person giant. Salt tank flow anti -gravity. It's
wild. Look great. Yes, men can come and get their
face. Stop using your shampoo. You look glowing.
What is this? I even rub his head. I do his head,
too. It's nice to get your beard all cleaned
out and stuff. You wouldn't believe the funk.
I'll say this. I've never considered it as a
man, ever, to go and get spa treatment. Oh, no.
Absolutely. Oh, dude. It's glorious. I saw my
friends open a place. Let me go check it. Oh,
it's beautiful, dude. Yeah, she does waxing.
I mean, why don't you list your services? I can
do pretty much anything. I do all -natural lash
lift and tints. I'm a more natural girly myself.
I can't deal with the extensions. It's too much
upkeep. I could do that too. I don't want to
sit there for three hours monkeying with lashes
one by one. The lash lift and tints appeal to
me. I do waxing, a whole slew of facials. I like
the science part of it. I like the gadgets. I
like learn about the science behind it all and
how it works. So I do chem peels and nano -needling.
I would love to do micro -needling, but New York
State won't allow us to do it. And they kind
of revoke that on us. If you don't know what
you're talking about, it's okay. What are the
three best guys you could talk to about? Is that
like acupuncture? Acupuncture is more like trying
to target a specific nerve. Nano -needling, micro
-needling, you're trying to really As we age,
we lose our collagen and everything. So we want
to really preserve that by creating these micro
injuries in the skin. It's like when you get
a deep tissue massage and you're trying to purposely
inflame the area. But I do it within a nice sterile
environment. So I never had one in my life. You
go to Barnaval, right? You walk in the door.
This place smells amazing, dude. It's lavender.
And eucalyptus. Smells amazing. I love it already.
I don't know if you smelled Kelly, she smells
like this. I feel like she was having it. Yeah,
the spa is very warm, and you get in there, you
start sweating, you sweat out all the gunk. It's
a dry sauna, so yeah, you might sweat and detox.
You get in there, and that lasts for 20 minutes
or something? 30 minutes. You last until you
think you're going to die. It's unbearable, and
it feels like the depths of hell. And then when
you open the door, you get hit with cool air,
and you're totally refreshed. And revived. Can
we shoot the three of us going there? Oh, yeah.
We'll do the full, the full. You guys can try
each one of the services. My facials are anywhere
from an hour to an hour and a half. Once you
get in the facial, you go in the smaller room.
It's like a bed that you lay, but it's a bed
chair thing. And you get in, there's the most
comfortable chair I've ever been in my entire
life. Three layers of foam. Three layers of foam.
Hand -caught. That's a lot of foam. Yeah. Yeah.
And when you're in there, you're looking up.
at kelly right which you're already that's already
pretty good yeah he's the only one that keeps
his eyes open and i keep telling him please don't
do that i'm very meticulous but i might get soap
in your eyes you can close your eyes fell and
relax i don't want to it's so relaxing i've fallen
asleep in the setup multiple times it starts
with this face scrub and then there's a massage
thing and that you don't know what's happening
But you're feeling, like, lotions and fucking...
Oh, there's a towel. Tell them about the towel.
The hot towel. Yeah, everybody likes the hot
towel. Hot towels are everything. When I go to
the barber, that's the best part. She's got so
many hot towels. I go through, like, six of them.
And they're so hot. It feels like you need to
go to the hospital afterwards. It's just so hot.
It burns. It's like your skin starts to peel
off, dude. Like that scene from Indiana Jones.
I try to shake it off, but sometimes I like to
burn them on purpose. It's so nice. Sometimes
I have to ask her to show me what she's using.
Cause I'll feel something and I'm like, I try
to show people now, you know what I mean? I explain
what it does. It's the ultrasonic skin scrubber,
which I love. You don't need to understand it.
That's what I'm telling you. It's so glorious
and relaxing. Is it all sorts of different processes
or is it one full probably? So my number one
seller, and this is probably because I like to
do custom facials. So I can really gear it towards
anything. So I can use any of my modalities like
my high -frequency wand or the ultrasonic skin
scrubber, which I call the BT Micro because that's
the brand that makes it that I like. I can do
a vast variety of things and I customize it all
the way through. What would you do differently
from one person to another? Oh my God. Are you
kidding? There's so many different skin types.
This is where my ADHD comes as a perk within
this job because everybody has a different routine.
Not everybody is going to go home and want to
do a 10 step skincare routine. Those people,
I try to find things, keep it as simple and basic,
like all in one cream so I can make recommendations.
I'll go all out in the treatment room because
that's what they're there for. As far as like
home care and that sort of stuff, you know, I
try to make recommendations based on their lifestyle,
diet. I mean, there's so many different factors.
So there's a consulting. Oh God, yeah. Very big
on the consultation. Yes, very big. And my regulars
that come in, you know, I know them, I usually
ask, has there been any significant changes?
But yeah, I always creep people out because if
you've got breakups in this lower trim area,
I'm like, you've got your period, don't you?
Oh, Chris. They're gonna get it soon, huh? They're
like, how the hell do you know? And I'm like,
well, it's in this little area. You got GI issues
going on. How's your diet? Like, I can tell by
its face. Could you look at our skin and be like,
IBS? No, not that. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But usually,
you know, people ask me. Everything you do is
skin -based. Do you do anything with hair or
massage or anything like that? No, there's so
many different technicians and things that New
York State really doesn't like us to bleed into
anything else. And they're very strict. That's
why I can't do the microneedling right now, because
it's more of a medical thing at the moment. Although
I can do anything with the epidermis. Your skin
is your biggest organ. It covers your whole body.
So really... It's all in how I word things. I
can't necessarily offer a hair treatment, but
I can offer a scalp treatment. I see what you're
saying. My scalp has never been nicer. Dude,
you look three weeks younger. He's been brave
enough that we've done a couple of compials on
this little dark spot right here. You actually
do look good, though. I haven't seen you in a
while. You look good. You should look at his
nose. It's weird. He's a regular customer. They
really want to take good care. How often is that?
Do they come to see you weekly, monthly? How's
that work? Once a month. If I have clients that
are really consistent with their skincare, I
usually have them come once every six weeks,
but I also take their budget into consideration
too. I understand you got responsibilities and
I'm a luxury. I get that. It's really healthcare,
but not everybody can be afforded that luxury
to take care of themselves. I'm telling you the
self -care aspect of it. I see such a difference
in my clients when they finally start paying
attention to themselves for once. A lot of them
are moms. They got busy lives. They're working.
They're finally at that point in their career
where they got true responsibilities too. It's
like tug and pull and usually you let yourself
go. One day you wake up and you're like, oh shit,
I look old. I should do something about that.
I've been going through that. Is the idea to
kind of... intervene on the aging process or
is it just more of a look -good -feel -good,
a mixture of everything? It depends on person.
My spiel is healthy skin. I just want you to
have healthy skin. Nobody's skin is perfect.
I would rather teach people how to utilize ingredients
that are actually beneficial to their skin. I
like my clients to leave knowing something about
themselves and how to truly help themselves.
Some of them don't even know their skin type.
How are you choosing products? Not knowing your
skin type. You don't just buy a bar of soap?
I'll teach you, Nat. Lever 2000. Yeah, you got
a lot of Lever 2000. Zest fully clean. So I guess
I compare it to kind of like with mental health
therapy, right? People think you go in and they
fix you and you leave. It's like, well, there's
a lot of work that has to be done. They give
you some tools to use outside. So it sounds like
you kind of do that too. Yes. You talk about
diet and stuff like that. So if you really want
your skin to look amazing, it really comes down
to you. Yeah. I can only handle about 20 % of
it, you know, an increase to your benefits. But
the other 80 % is honestly, because consistency,
you have to be consistent. And most of us aren't
in our lives right now. You know what I mean?
We don't wash our face before bed. I'm too tired.
I don't want to do it. I don't want to deal with
it. But I tell you, it's going to make a difference
if you do. To be washing my face? I use the pads
before bed. Is that bad? The hydrocolloidal pads?
The acne pads? I don't know if it's oxy. I think
it's the peel ones or the hydricals. Those are
fantastic. It actually is just protecting your
skin barrier. It helps draw a little bit of fluid
in there. But it decreases scarring. I mean,
there's so many different benefits. So, what
are some basic things that the everyday Joe could
do for their skin? Please wear a screen. Please.
I feel like there's so many great sunscreens
out there now. What number? What would be a good
SPF? You want a 30 SPF and you want it broad
spectrum. So it covers all the rays. UVA is aging
rays. Thought that was like a brand name. You
just knew you were on the spectrum. I always
knew I was on the spectrum. UVB is burning. Okay.
And then there's UVC, which are the cancer causing
or ozone kind of takes care of that for the time
being. But, you know. Geez. I just want to emphasize.
I never would have thought it was for men. I
was like, oh, this is a service for women. It's
awesome. I go every month. It's a treat. Have
you ever had your face massaged? There's a part
where... You got sinus issues. You're feeling
puffy. The massage purr is one of my all -time
favorites. You took some massage with the...
So usually I start out with a double cleanse.
Okay. Then I go into extractions. I do it very,
very gently. It's luxurious. And then I go in
when I exfoliate. It's usually an enzyme type
mask, which I love. We should do one. Get on
a table. You got a little bit of that steam going
and hot towels and all that. Oh, I forgot. Steam
machine? Yeah. So you lay down and it puts hot
steam. right into your face. Let's say you've
been out drinking all night, right? And then
it's like two in the morning, your buddy's got
some toots. You're like, uh -oh. Now you're all
clogged up. You go see her the next day. It's
like sinuses clear, head congestion gone, hangover
helped. Like, it's so nice, man. It's really
great. Sunscreen's one thing we can do on our
own. And you think watching your face before
bed, is that another thing? What are some other
regular loads? Not to have to wash their face
twice a day. You can do a rinse in the morning.
I suggest double cleansing at night at the very
least. You mean double it? Like you clean it
and then clean it? You have to use an oil -based
cleanser and then a water -based cleanser. Do
you learn? Yeah. If you wear makeup, double cleansing
really helps to eat away at the oil without stripping
your skin. Gene Simmons must be a nightmare for
these people. Do they wear makeup like that?
I would hate to do a gig where you had to go
full makeup every time. Yeah. The thing with
celebrities meet the kids. Yeah. It's like, oh,
Gene, you got to go meet this kid. He's dying.
I need eight hours. I just, oh my god. Just let
the kid die. I could not put full makeup on him.
No, I know. What if he never takes it off? I
would just leave it on. Just be easier. That
would drive it crazy. You gotta wipe off the
juice man. Dr. Pimple Popper. That's a whole
world now. It is. There's a whole culture of
people that... Like, wear gloves. Please don't
pop your pimples. I always say don't pick. Oh,
I'd do my whole life. Your hands have been everywhere.
Do you really scrub your nails all crazy before
you go and pop your pimples? So yeah, please
don't do that. wear gloves or use Q -tips. That's
my little trick. Or come to me. Get a nice, deep
clean. Danny's back there doing everything you're
saying. He's exfoliating right now. It's amazing.
What's the craziest pimple you've ever had? There
is a question I don't think we ever had. Oh,
that was in school, actually. So we used to,
for real. What grade? In duty school. People
could come from up the street and we would get
to practice. You got a boil? I wasn't sure what
the hell this thing was. I called my teacher
over, but it was a blackhead that had basically
tunneled underneath and connected to another
one next to it. It was wild. And I knew it was
a blackhead, but I was like, am I going to pop
that thing? My teacher came and I loved her.
Miss Rita, she's the best at Continental Store.
But she was like, yeah, and you should have seen
the crap that came out of it. Dr. Pimple popper
anesthetist. No, no, they can. do all the things.
Okay. You can say Esty too. We just got a crash
course in skincare. That's more than I've ever
learned in my entire career. That's true. You
started right where I did. I didn't know anything.
Yeah. You're going to touch my face for an hour?
All right. Let's go. I think guys like the pampering
aspect. Everybody does, but you know, but I feel
like I'm speaking for all men when it's like,
it's not that we don't Believe in your services.
I just we don't think about our skin other than
I gotta get rid of work, you know Yeah, usually
you go to your girlfriends or wives and say hey,
can you look at this? Yeah, exactly. Who's checking
your skin that thoroughly though? You know what
I mean? There's lots of skin cancers Especially
if you don't wear sunscreen. I go to a dermatologist
once a year. That's great I hate it because they
always free shit or inject in and scrape it off
Wow. Yeah, I look like I have infatigle on my
chest right now. They Chopped off a thing. I
don't know. They're just like, it could be cancer.
So I'm like, skin cancer? Everyone survives that.
Do I really need to hack it off? Yeah, if you
do. I shouldn't say that, actually. I should
be sensitive to people out there. No. I would
chop off anything if I thought it had cancer.
No, same, same. And that's why I do. This finger?
Okay, let's get rid of that. Cancer? Chop it
off. For sure. Women chop off their tits. They
do. I just as a precaution. Yeah. Get rid of
them early on. Stop complaining about your Lyle
Manchel. He did it. Let's trade back on the tracks.
America's Got Talent's famous Ryan E. Miller
is coming to you from New Hartford to be technical.
Friday, March 21st, 8 p .m. on Burstone Road
at the Burstone Inn in New Hartford. I'm starting
to turn. Doors open at 7. Show starts at 8. You
got Ryan E. Miller who we interviewed yesterday.
Phil Farta, Will Phillips, who we all love. and
Josh Wilbert. So that's going to be awesome.
It is. It is. We're going to be there. We're
coming. It is. You guys are coming to that? Wonderful.
I didn't know if you were available. That's all.
I'll make myself. Let's do some. We had this
whole talk. You guys are on the flyer. You sponsored
it. We'll do live mentions at the show. Yeah.
I could have put Mike on the show. I didn't even
know what was happening. We'll do something for
you. It'll be great. It all came together once.
And I'm glad it was. We were already talking
with Ryan to have him on the show and then you
announced this. I'm like, this is awesome. Let's
sponsor this. It happened so fast. Dude, don't
ever worry about putting me on the bill. I want
to come support you and I want you there to hold
me when I cry. That's what I've always done.
I've been on in a minute. I'm going to go up
there and eat shit again. Just for old time's
sake. When was the last time you did a comedy
show? Immediately bought tickets because I did
one with you years ago. The door is closing.
Oh, that was a good one. That was fun. We're
in that wet room. It smelled like yeast. Beer.
It smelled like a bar after a rugby team was
there all day. Yeah, I mean it's supposed to
smell like that. We got this big bar area. Let's
take the hottest part of the entire thing. It
was so humid in the middle of the summer. These
shows are notoriously the worst possible environments.
Put them in the back of a bowling alley. Yeah.
Or like in an alley outside. I have such a pet
peeve. I was managing a venue years ago, a music
venue, and Phil, I know you're totally going
to get this. We had this owner that was like,
let's do a stand -up comedy during happy hour.
I'm like, you can't just throw someone up there
to tell jokes as a secondary. People are there
to drink for happy hour. If you're going to do
stand -up, you have seating and you make it an
event because what people don't realize is subconsciously,
if you're on your way to a comedy show, You're
already mentally ready to laugh. You're in laugh
mode. You're in comedy mode, right? If you are
on your way to a bar and you're hanging with
your buddies, even if you love comedy and someone
starts telling jokes, you're like, what the fuck
is this? Like, yeah, get this crowd of drunks
and make them listen to one guy as a surprise.
Oh no. And people don't understand that you'll
see Phil and shout out to Mike Peters who does
great things with homebrewed comedy. Love Mike
so much. You can do a pop -up show in bowling
alleys and weird places, but you can't just do
it. There's got to be a plan. There's got to
be a scene. He does it well. You know? Comedy
can't be a surprise. It cannot. That's an important
rule. People don't get that. So, uh, what's happening
with the open scene? I know that was really decimated.
Any responsible comic would know that. I have
stopped paying attention. I'm so explodingly
successful. I don't have time. I used to go in
every Wednesday at the uptown theater. I think
the schedule changed or they either stopped doing
it. Something happened. There was a little Uptown
drama. That was fun. I like a little local drama.
I did a show at Uptown. I might have done it
with you. I don't know. Because Ramon Harris
was on there. And you were there again. It was
you and Ramon. You're so supportive. It was like
a throwback show to Fat Cats. That was the whole
theme of that show. At Uptown? At the Uptown
Theater, yes. Right. I had Beth Coulson on there.
I remember that show. That was fun. I love Ramon.
Ramon is a beast. Dude, he... Those kind of comics
piss me off, and I don't mean that in a negative
way. Like, I'm jealous. I'm nervous as shit before
a show, no matter how much I rehearse, no matter
how long I've been doing it. This guy sat in
his car smoking pot listening to music and three
minutes before he goes on he just walks in and
lights the place on fire. He's that good. He's
always DJing lives. He was working. I watched
him drive Uber for an hour and it was fully entertained.
I just watched him drive Uber and do karaoke
in his car and I was like, oh god, dude. Black
guys are so funny. They are. They're the best.
Those were great shows. And Ramont is a black
guy if you didn't figure that out. Ramont's walking
around. Not a ton. Not a ton. Phil. Did you know
his brother was on Last Comic Standing? He's
got a he's got a more famous brother. So he's
like Charlie Murphy. He's somewhat right in the
shadow because he has achieved more commercial
success. Ramont is an A -lister to me, man. He
is the funniest comic. Dude that I have ever
seen in my life. Yeah that I've ever hung out
with the brother Ramon Ramon Yeah, he actually
never seen his brother. He's played funny bone
and stuff. Yeah, they don't get a law LS I knew
they weren't like buddy buddy for whatever reason.
I don't know that history happens But if there
if there's some dispute, I'm on team Ramon. Yeah,
I have to be by default I have I don't even know
the other guy to do the box step. That's a dance
move We went out after fat cats one night taught
me how to dance as stereotypically does it all.
I mean it is what you do after a comedy show
sure many times I'll teach you guys I'm all up
for that you know I know the Charleston Charleston
Charleston look what they've done for you Charleston
that's all I got yeah I'm white and this is a
macarena oh wow I'm ashamed to admit it but I
don't know how to do any of the popular wedding
dances like the cha -cha slaps and everybody
I watch the most diverse demographic run to the
dance floor. It's like white old grandmas. There's
children. Everybody knows how to do that. I'm
like, where did you learn this? I understand
that the instructions are in the song. Where
did you learn this? I can't follow. How many
hops? To what direction? To the right. Oh, shit.
I'm still lost. How big of a slide? Two feet,
three feet. Give me measurements. I have this
thing. And I feel like everybody does. My buddy
and I used to say one of our favorite things
on the planet. is white people dancing at weddings.
And I don't mean just the dancing itself. What
we love about it is the beginning, right? So
always in the beginning of the wedding, there's
the nervous, like everyone's quiet and pleasant.
You fast forward to the end of the night when
Uncle Tom... He's got the tie on his head. I
just love not only the terrible dancing, but
the progression from the pleasantries to like
the wheels come off. And we have to send videos
to each other. Yeah, the confidence too. You
can tell based on what hour and what the bar
is open. And specifically white people, because
we're not very good at dancing. Just dance. Just
dance on the side. The kids are all, well, cute.
A buddy of mine was ordained, and he married
my wife and I. Well, end of the night, he had
the tie on his head. and he's dancing my best
man's mother comes up to me and she goes oh my
god michael and i said what she goes that priest
is grinding with those women and i was like no
he's not a priest yes i love everything about
that it makes me miss joe boogie dude because
joe boogie would dance anywhere he would just
start dancing even if there was no music he'd
be like joe we're at the deli dude just a non
-dance scenario that was his purpose was to get
the party started He'd go to events and Saranac
Thursdays, just like you're saying, before anybody's
really here. Before the thought that you even
could dance at this thing, he's out there and
you're like, oh, I guess we could dance at this
thing. Setting the trend. Fans are in the first
warmup chords. Equipment in. Like those couple
of dollars you put in your own tip jar just to
give people the idea like you should tip. He
goes out there and starts dancing like... Joe
Buggie's no longer with us, but boy. I tell you
what, Joe Buggie, we love him. He died, yeah,
he's dead. They can't shut down all Utica. Well,
he's dancing in any afterlife. He's looking down
on us right now. Like, why aren't you dancing?
Yeah. Your skin looks great, but you're not dancing.
The fact that we haven't put on a memorial dance
-a -thon yet for Joe. Well, it's in the works,
man. We're slacking. Because I love that, too,
when you walk by a silent and you can't hear.
That's a good idea, man. Yeah, it's trendy. A
lot of people said I should do something with
that, so stop thinking about it. Clearly, we
are solving all the world's problems right here
today. That's what we're here for. The good news
and the positivity and the cool local businesses
that people don't know are here. Phil, if people
aren't in the greater Utica area and can't make
it to one of your trivia nights, where can they
find you and what other kind of special things
do you do? Yeah. So the comedy has turned into
a full -scale entertainment business now. So
we offer karaoke, we have music bingo. We're
a licensed single provider. We do the official
single music bingo nights. We also do a feud
time, it's called. It's like a family feud take
on trivia. We had a pretty full calendar, a full
menu of services. You could find them on the
stage time trivia .com. We're in the process.
I got the websites getting a refresh. So I think
maybe within, I just got the proposal. We're
going to be done by the end of May. Awesome.
And you, in addition to these public events,
restaurants and venues, we also do corporate
events. I'm glad you said that. Cause I forgot.
Yeah. We do corporate events. We do fundraisers.
That's a big. business lately. A lot of fundraisers,
if you're raising money for dance groups, schools,
any kind of charity, we did a lot of animal shelters.
If you need a great fundraiser, we sell the music
bingo cards at the events. There's a lot of revenue.
We did Center Stage Dance Studio in Utica raised
$4 ,300. Jesus. That was clear too. That was
like, I got everything covered and they donated
$4 ,300. Good for them, man. They did a lot of
work on that. I give credit where it's due. The
organization did a great job. It's a great fundraiser
solution as well. All that stuff will be available
online. If you're local, you can go to ComedyCNY
.com. We're going to combine this. We're taking
that. We're going to turn, we're going to put
all on one website. Our company is now StageTime
Entertainment. And that's what we do now. Awesome.
And that's also where you can get tickets for
the Comedy CNY show. March 21st, 8pm, Burstone
Road in Utica. It's the great Phil Farta, Will
Phillips, Josh Wilbert, and Ryan Neemiller from
AGT. Please do that. I want to shout out Kelly.
Can you tell us calls to action? Where would
they go? Yeah. Where can we find all your stuff?
We're located right on route 12 going north in
Barnaval. So it's a really convenient location.
Your new attitude? I honestly don't know. Oh,
you don't know. Well, what's the name of your
business? By Beer. And I'm on Facebook and I'm
on Instagram. Most all of my things are located
on there. The official esthetician of Good News
York, Kelly. What hours, what days are you available?
I work every day. Appointment only though. Yes,
because there's certain things that you have
to do beforehand, you know, if you got a retinoid
that you're on or something. I don't want to
rip your face off. Right. I try not to. Yeah.
Cool. That's awesome. Your wife came in to see
me. She loves it. Yeah. No, it's great. Every
time she does it. She comes home beautiful, right?
Either come home happy or you want a nap. Yes.
That's usually how it goes. I do love napping.
Beauty by Beer, StagetimeTrivia .com, ComedyCNY
.com. The links will be in the description, so
you can just click them. Can we come on again?
I want to keep doing this, man. Are you kidding
me? The drive was closer than I thought. This
feels like old school. This is what we used to
do man. This isn't lost yet and that's not to
disparage you by any means. Isn't it weird when
your ex meets your new piece and they get along?
Nah, this has been awesome. Like, you wanna start
your own podcast? When I leave here, I'm gonna
be an esthetician. I'm gonna have my own trivia
and my own podcast. But honestly, and I'll say
it right on the air, you don't ever have to ask.
You're a friend of the show, buddy. You just
go up, dude. His job as producer is to fill this
place. He'll make my job easier. I don't go anywhere.
I gotta look good everywhere. I'm so glad. You're
such a man, dude. I know. Like, there's people
that try and there's people that just are. And
you are. That's what happens. Yeah? Mike. Phil.
Yeah? Everybody. Kelly. Danny. It's good news,
Yark. We will be back tomorrow with another one.
Tomorrow, we're gonna talk about the first Wegmans
opening on Walmart. That's right. People down
there are losing their minds. Yeah, and where
do I get these cucumbers? And we do have a guest
on the show tomorrow from the Giving Bean coffee
shop that's doing some amazing stuff. So I'm
excited for that. Yeah. Oh, we know. Dude, actually,
how much I meant to ask you this. How much coffee
do you drink a day? All of you probably know.
I just see it's almost like you remember when
chain smokers would light the cigarette with
another. Well, it's like you're constantly and
then you leave it. Yes. And I set it down and
don't aware that there's a couple drops left
at all. And I'm just wandering around with the
cup. But in general, when I think about it. I
don't know. When do you stop drinking coffee?
When I fall asleep. I have a better question
though, real quick. When you take your first
coffee in the morning, what's the time frame
before you have to shit? Cause it's like, it's
real quick for me. The whole world wants to know.
I can usually get about half a cup. Cause I can't
get, I can't get half a cup. Crazy, right? So
you've built up your coffee tolerance. I have
a cup at like 10 PM cause I don't think about
it. And then suddenly I wonder why I'm awake.
Clenches your thirst. I'm moments from shitting.
Yeah, I know. If I want anything with any sort
of flavor, it's just gonna be coffee. I wait
to switch to Decast. It's kind of like it's plain
alcoholic beer. Well, I quit drinking. So any
beer, I'm glad that it's not just old duals anymore,
because I do still want to have the taste of
a cold beer. You know, here's the thing. I subscribe
to Arnold Schwarzenegger's mailing list all about
health and... It's been a huge 180 in the coffee
study world. Coffee is good, no. There's a lot
more benefits than the negative size. The study
was done by Juan Valdez. Sorry. And with that,
this has been New York. Thank you guys. This
is awesome. Kelly, we love you. Stage time trivia.
Beauty, buy beer. And March 21st, Burstone Road
in Utica, New York. Great comedy show. ComedyCNY
.com.