Welcome to Good News York and I'm Mike Brindisi,
Matt Mazur. We have a special guest today, very
special. We always say special guest. This one,
she's actually special. Explain it. Here's the
thing. Now let's, do we get to call her a guest?
Because the reality is. Now that is. The reason
that she's here is to announce that she's joining
the team. Yay. Danny, can we get like a fake
applause? Real applause? Cheers button there.
We need one of those. You just took Danny's job,
he's fired. You have a sense. Never mind, you're
rehired. I love the sad trombone. Jackie Vidler
is joining us, bringing her incredible talents
and you shouldn't listen to me talk about her.
We should listen to her talk about her. Jackie,
say hi and... Tell us who you are and what you
do. Yeah, yeah. Jackie doesn't talk about herself
very well, but I'm gonna do my damnedest. See,
this is like professional therapy. 100%. Yeah.
Make everybody better at everything. That's it.
I shouldn't say I don't. I'm trying to talk better
about myself. There you go. But yeah, I'm Jackie
Viddler. I own Infokate Images. It's a photography
and videography studio in Solvay. And met Matt
through our mastermind group. And I was like,
I want to be on board. I want what you got. I
want what you're doing. Funny. I wasn't invited
to the mastermind group. Anyway, proceed. We're
starting our own now. It's called growth mode.
Check my junk email. She's got it. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm excited to be joining growth mode and this
amazing team because They already are hitting
the ground running with this podcast and We're
trying hard man. I'm we're very excited to have
you with us for sure What's great is as we're
growing this business and going out in the community.
Everybody knows you you're like the most popular
photographer in Syracuse so When we're like,
oh, by the way, Jackie's going to be working
with us. They just, they sign on 10 times quicker,
which is awesome. Did my face just get red? Cause
I didn't think that was a thing. I didn't think
your face could get red. You have a very fair
complexion like me. We've been working with the
lights. But that's, that's been my goal from
the beginning and knock on something here. I've
been incredibly lucky that the timing was right
to grab the most talented people I've known.
Don't make me cry. Mike was the guy. I've said
this before. Mike was the guy that I pictured
for this position as I built this thing. I said,
I need a producer. I need a guy who's got at
least enough smarts and education to run the
board when we need it. But also I have the personality
to jump in and help our clients as they make
stuff. And that's, that was Mike as I've known
him for years. And then I needed the social media
piece and the best social media guy I know happened
to be on the job market right around the time
that I needed to hire somebody. And we were able
to land Danny and then. I think once we got Danny,
you were like, damn, that's legit. Jackie, like,
I want to end on this. We'll take you immediately.
Very excited, Jackie, to have you on board to
the Growth Mode Content team. Thank you. Excited
to be here. Same. We're very excited. One of
the things that's really neat and what other
people should know is you're not necessarily
just more hands -on here in the studio, but one
of the things that you bring to the table now
and we now have is capabilities of Growth Mode
Content. is doing a lot more outside of our studio.
So we focused real hard in the beginning in kind
of building this space and we're still very much
dialing it in. But most of what we're doing is
taking place right here in this room for our
clients. You now have the capabilities, you've
got the equipment, you've got drones and then
the know -how. We're gonna be able to go out
and shoot some real content out in the field,
out in the real world. And that's the part I'm
really excited about. Same I'm excited to be
able to offer to the clients being able to create
genuine out of this space like the podcast is
amazing, but to be able to go into other small
businesses space and create genuine content that
resonates with their clientele and then having
the posting schedule like all of it just yeah
comes together just seamlessly and I think it's
gonna be gonna be big for a lot of It is for
everyone that signs on what's wild is just as
our very beginnings with everybody is showing
results and I know we've talked about this before
the first couple of videos that dropped For our
number of our clients turned into business for
them already and they're already getting the
compliments out in the world Hey, I saw your
videos and that's the type of thing that we're
going for and build that personal connection
and like you said we're going to be able to get
out there and you're going to be able to see
what they're doing. And the podcast is great.
And we talk about a lot of these things, but
we'll actually be able to see them in action
and even record some podcasts eventually on site
and people's place of business or even random
locations. We got some fun things planned where
we're going to take the team on a field trip
and record some cool content in beautiful places
in New York state. We also have clients that
look, Having a photographer of your caliber,
I would say photographer, videographer, right,
is great to have anyway, right, just to shoot
B -roll. But in our situation, a lot of our clients
do some really cool shit. The pest control, the
all pest cast, all of our clients that are realtors
showing the homes and the buildings, and being
able to do that is great, but being able to do
it with the podcast clientele that we have. It's
just going to be killer. Yeah. Cause we're listening
to these episodes and the things they're talking
about. And I'm thinking before we had Jackie,
I'm thinking, man, I can't wait till we can actually
go do that. And now we can. Yeah. It's very exciting.
And we're going to, we're going to definitely
keep her busy. We're going to do a lot of cool
stuff, but also she still has her own incredible
business, her own incredible studio in Salve.
As she mentioned, do you want to talk a little
bit about the type of stuff that you like to
do there as well? Sure. I appreciate that. I'm
here for growth mode. It's a team effort. We
look forward to shooting some stuff at your studio.
We're going to put that to yours too. I've been
in business for over 15 years and I started pivoting
realizing that there's so many things to photograph.
There's so many video opportunities, but I realized
over the past few years that my passion really
is empowering people. So I have narrowed it down
to empowering small businesses with the content
that we're creating and empowering women. So
the other side to my business, which is like
more of my passion project, which is boudoir
photography. So our studio on State Fair Boulevard
is 2 ,400 square feet. I've got bedroom sets,
heels from a size five and a half to a 12. I've
got over 350 outfits of lingerie. So we do everything
in -house, hair and makeup, we have a glass of
champagne, and it's a whole experience. I know
what I'll be doing with Danny on lunch break.
You had me at lingerie in high heels. Oh sorry,
I thought I was thinking. Go ahead. That's awesome.
If you could just tell us a little bit about
that because I know that's something that's become
more and more popular in the past few years.
For sure. Who is your typical customer? What
type of lady comes in to do that sort of thing?
I have to say, I've done a few men, but typically
it's a woman. I have a lot of women who are in
the same boat as me who come in and they're good
with the nineties, aren't being rap. But mostly
it's women who are either engaged and they're
doing it for their husband or spouse to be, or
if they're doing it for Christmas gift, Valentine's
day. But I have such of, they say, what's your
target market? I have such a broad. spectrum
of my target market because I just had a woman
come in a couple months ago who was 70. And she
was celebrating, she was just doing it for herself,
celebrating her 70th birthday and we just had
so much fun. But then I have the young girls
who are engaged and I actually had a girl who
was going through... nursing school or medical
school. And she was just, I'm so spent. I need
a day for myself. And that's what she did. She
came in to do just to make herself feel empowered.
I can do this. I still got this. I am like all
over the spectrum as far as - It sounds like
it's a little, almost like a spa day where you
really pamper yourself a little bit. Yep. Women
come in, like I said, you have a glass of champagne,
we pick out outfits and - We have more fun than
anything and you get your hair and makeup done.
And it's just a day to reflect on yourself and
empower yourself. And for me to show you what
everyone else sees around you, how you look,
because we look at ourselves as women, even men,
not to look at you, Mike, but we look at ourselves
in the mirror and we see all our imperfections.
We don't see the things that other people see.
That's the unique beauty in each of us. Mirrors
actually break when I look in them. Yeah. I doubt
that. It's a weird thing. I've photographed you
before, it hasn't broken. You use a mirrorless
camera. That was good, but a bunch. I hate looking
in the mirror. I just, is it me or? Yes. I feel
like I look better. There's a certain mirror
in my house that makes me look so good. Is that
a thing? I think a lot of it has to do with lighting,
but I think some mirrors are bowed and have a
different, because I know it's like going to
the circus and you go and you see yourself. It
is very much like going to the circus when you
see me naked in a mirror. That's very true. They're
like, oh, is that the bearded lady or the, I
know. Are you using a fun house mirror? I might
be. Let me ask you. My nose is not nearly that
big. I don't, so what was the term you used?
Say that again. Oh no, go ahead. I was trying
to lead you there, like a horse. You're close.
Boudreau? Boudreau? Boudreau? Boudreau? Boudreau.
Boudoir. Boudoir. Boudoir. Is it boudoir photography?
Is that, clearly here that's not what you're
doing, but is that your main, the main thing,
or do you also do wedding photography, do you
do all sorts of different photography? So I used
to, as I was saying before, I used to just take
whatever I can. But after so many years of just
trying to hone in my focus, the empowerment part
of it is really small businesses doing headshots
and doing branding contests. You've niched down.
Yes. Significantly. And is it, do you find that
photographers have to be videographers now? It
goes hand -in -hand, right? Or can you just still
do straight photography? It really depends on
the photographer. If they're willing to, and
this goes along with any business, you want to
do what you can to see in business. And I feel
like now, what's the word I'm looking for? Boudoir.
No. You just want to say it. I know, I do. Can't
wait to go home. His new favorite word. Yeah.
Honey, look what I learned. Boudoir. Yeah. With
the drone because I know you do operate drones
and that's like a kind of a thing now Do you
have to have a license? Training or do you just
buy one and mess around with it and you're good
to go? So when you're shooting commercially,
you definitely have to have a license you have
to have a part 107 to the FAA and It's not an
easy like process. I bought myself a flight suit
when I passed Because I just thought I was like
I'm a I got License good for you. That's all
it's top gun. Let's go. Do you wear that every
time you fly the thing? I have yes. Yeah good
for you. That's awesome That is awesome. We have
to shoot a video where she steps out and talk
to me go let's Recreate the top guns. Yeah drones
there would be talk to me goose. Yeah, we'll
dress up an airline Or whatever you call them
air pilot. Yeah And with that, with the drone,
I actually do construction as well. So I have
a woman minority certification through the state
and federal, so I can do all that and, but on
construction projects around the state. That's
nice. So those companies use that to track the
progress of their projects and stuff like that?
Yep. That's cool. That's pretty neat. Yeah. These
drones man. Crazy man. It's funny because like
my kids watch these YouTube videos and some of
these high -end content creators, they've got
these gorgeous shots that in Hollywood, you might
know, I don't know how much you would spend to
get a helicopter to get that shot. You could
do it yourself now. When I went back to school
at Ithaca College, shout out to the Park School,
there's college productions using drones and
we're talking the sweeping coming out. It's unbelievable
what's going on. It is sexy. It is very boudoir.
Did you have to take like a test? Did you have
to like demonstrate the thing in front of somebody
or something? Aeropark it. I didn't have to take
a physical test. It's literally all so you have
to know. the wind. I'm going to butcher this
right now because it was a couple years ago that
I took it. We don't know the difference. You
just make it up. Totally. You have to be able
to read the maps. You have to know all the things
about ATC. You have to know the different wind
currents. Oh, wow. Things like that. Jesus, some
legitimate flying things. That's why I bought
myself a freaking... Yeah. It's like sniper training.
I assumed it was just a matter of, will you not
fly in the path of an airplane? And that's the
whole thing. I have to learn. There's more to
that. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Because you're
not able... to, you know, there's the weight
of the plane. You're not able to fly above 400
feet when you're flying an unmanned aircraft.
What are you doing? The lights are blinking.
Keep going. It's driving me nuts. They are blinking.
I noticed that too. Our remotes, Danny must have
hit something and it triggered the lights and
now I'm... Danny just wanted us to... And I've
never been epileptic before, but I think today's
the day. I want somebody to fix it. Leave me
alone, okay? I have ADD and it's... We have high
-end quality production here. Wow. That's wild.
I don't know why I did that. You can see it now.
All right, you know what? Let's not look into
my mind. I can't even. You can't look behind
you. You have a third eye for colored lights.
Like in the back of your head, you could tell.
The color temperature changed three degrees.
Hold on. My head says it's 2 ,800 Kelvin. Stop
the press. Stop. Anyway, back to you. Oh, shit.
I can't even operate an LED light, let alone
a drone. It's absolutely amazing what you can
do. How long did it take you to... Try to make
you get a license. Like, how long did it take
you from the first time you flew a drone to when
you were like, okay, like, I got this? So I actually
borrowed a buddy of mine's drone and he taught
me how to use it. And then once I got like my
first gig, I'm like, okay, I didn't charge for
it. So I wasn't doing it commercially. So I didn't
need my license. And it was like for real estate.
It was for a friend. And then I just went and
got, I studied for a year and a half for the
test and failed it first time. Damn. Really?
And yeah. Is it written and? It's just written.
It's just written? But it's not, it's multiple
choice. There's some, but it's all on a computer.
So it's not like physically written. There is
no actually, it's like cosmetology school. They
teach you about everything else, but how to apply
the makeup. That's cool. Yeah. So I had to learn
how to. She's actually qualified now to be an
astronaut. No way. Might get drafted. Yeah. It's
gonna be part of the next time I get it. I was
excited. I was like, what do we have? I used
to love that on the late night shows where they'd
be like, actually, Bob, I brought... And I was
like, what is this? Yeah. It was good. We gotta
do that. We do have to do that. We have so many
things. We have so many plans. Way too many.
That no one's eating. I unfortunately have. You
ate one. You ate one. Yeah. Listen trying to
think donuts are like you know crack to me a
and help it want to so bad But I'm trying to
be good trying to be good and work out again
now that I'm on this crazy hit show, I don't
want to Eat too many donuts. That's where I'm
getting that. I will say jumping on that Like
the amount of views That the podcast has had
and the snippets like it is incredible just going
through yeah That's one thing. I'm excited to
be a part of this. We're excited to have you
for real We're very lucky and I know I've said
this before but I think we're really lucky that
we came into this right as these algorithm changes
have hit the whole internet and In this new world
where the quality of the content matters more
than anything else It used to be all about the
followers. And it was, you could make the coolest
video in the world, but absolutely nobody would
see it if you didn't have a million followers
already. And so of course, getting to there was
always the nightmare. And it led to these real
douchebags being the ones that dominated the
internet, for lack of a better term. And they
had this following. So it just kept continuing
to grow while actual quality information, education,
entertainment, it all just sat with zero views.
Today, everything has been tick -tock -ified.
And it uses what made them really successful
was their radically different algorithm that
goes out and shows your video to a bunch of people.
And if a bunch of people like it, it shows them
to more people. And it lets it grow based on
the quality of what's in it. And that's how we've
had some of our first posts, 10 ,000 views on
one clip. You know, like... My stupid llama thing.
We didn't even show the video. I just talked
about it. And I mean this tongue -in -cheek,
but I think if you had asked me a year ago I
don't think this would have lined up for me because
as someone who's I'm not trying to sound like
I'm too good but as someone who spent his entire
life on stage and also didn't have done radio
I've worked so hard at honing my craft and getting
better and there used to be hard to get into
to get on the air and so It was like these content
creators like you said it used to be it would
drive me nuts that there was this Oversaturation
of bullshit to be honest with ya And it's what
we call organic content now. So for me to say
that and to be working here seems contradictory.
But because of kind of that filter that's been
naturally created by at least TikTok's algorithm,
it's weeded out that bullshit. They've all stolen
it. And the cream's kind of rising to the top.
Because I was always like, I don't want to be
a part of giving these people that don't belong
having a microphone near their mouth a microphone.
And now I think it's where it should be, thankfully.
It's getting there. It's getting there. There's
still no shortage of people that shouldn't be
in front of a microphone, but the opportunities
are growing and people are seeing the value in
it. And that's why we've jumped on this organic
content. Jackie's done for years and she's got
the skills to shoot you an incredible commercial
that you could have seen on television for decades.
It's amazing. And there's still a good place
for that, but that's not necessarily the best
thing on social media world where they want that
organic. They want that real. And that's what
we're doing. We just signed up a new client over
the weekend, actually, who has a variety of businesses
and does a variety of different things. And we
are. Interestingly enough, just like everybody
else going to focus on her as the person. And
that is the more we go through this, all these
different businesses and different business models
and people's different goals. At the end of the
day, the strategy for everybody's pretty much
the same is we're going to focus on you and let
people get to know you as the human. After that,
all the business stuff is just gravy. It's almost
secondary, which sounds crazy, right? When you're
like, hey, we wanna, you get a podcast once a
month, we chop it up, and that's your advertisement,
but the business is secondary. You're like, but
that's what we're advertising. But it's true.
We've said it a million times. I've said it ad
nauseam that people are gonna fall in love with
you and then go, oh, wait, what do you do? Sure,
I wanna do that. People do business with people.
Yeah, and you made a great point, too, with some
of our clients, like All Pest, and I can't think
of the others off the top of my head, They go
into your homes. That was something that was
such a huge thing. Yeah, them in particular,
they're a service business. So you want to be
able to trust these people. And Googling nowadays,
you can't tell, you know, what's what. The reviews
help, but this is better than a review because
you're going to use your own vibes to... You
can see the humans, and in their case, the husband
and wife who are deeply involved in this thing,
and you get an idea of the actual people, like
I said, in their case, that's going to actually
be in your home. Yeah. And be around your home.
And that's something that I think is absolutely
huge for those types of local businesses more
than anything. Nobody knows who you are or they
think you're a faceless corporation and people
aren't really into that. It was a long time ago.
Oh God. I'm gonna make myself sound old. Back
in the day when I was your boy. When there was
Yellow Pages. When I was a kid in the Yellow
Pages. Remember that shit? And I remember my
parents specifically. Businesses used to spend
so much money on that. And... And I don't know
if this is good advice bad advice or what but
whatever I retained it I remember some people
in my family saying if you're looking for a service
Don't go to the big full -page ad because they're
like a corporation They have a ton of money that
you want to look for the smaller name That's
what we're doing the mom and pop the husband
and wife that they're not out just to make a
buck They really care and I don't know if that
but that's like the new what we're doing is the
new age version of that Yeah, it's not the full
-page ad you're getting to see Go for the quarter
page. The quarter page. That's the one. That's
the. So here's the thing is as crazy as it sounds.
Those was wild. This is funny. You're going to
take me down bad business memory lane. Yes. But
the way these worked, I don't know if you're
familiar at all, but the phone books typically
came from the phone company. So they would have
sat on a bunch while they would roll in the advertising
price in your phone bill. So it'd be locked in
and it was all under contract. So you could never
cancel. And by the way, if you couldn't afford
your advertising, you can't have a phone anymore,
but it was so insanely expensive because for
many businesses that was a hundred percent. I
remember there was no Google. There was no anything.
So if I'm a plumber, the one and only place people's
going to go to find a plumber was that book.
So if it cost me in the nineties, a thousand
dollars, $2 ,000 a month for that ad. That's
something you're going to pay and it's going
to pay for itself. Wow. At the same time for
the business, could you imagine that today? Like
there, there was technically like two phone book
companies. Most people only got one, but even
if you had two, you could spend money to be in
two spots and everybody in your area would have
your ad. Like today you can't pay for that on
Facebook. Show my ad to everybody in the city
of Syracuse. Like you, you can't. Back then it
was that one spot. So it was worth top dollar,
but usually. At that price, the only people that
could afford the full page was either the company,
the big corporate, or the lawyers. People. I
mean, now we have Clipper. Yeah. I don't know
what Clipper is. Did you ever know? Like a Penny
Saver. Oh, the little coupon. The coupon magazine.
Yeah. They still have those. Yeah. The yellow
pages was a hell of a thing back in the day,
man. It was something. They made a lot of great
calls. Their salespeople made some great money,
too. You want to talk about a good commission
sales job back in the day? Those, the ones that
were good at it, and they stuck with it for years?
Because like I said, it was locked in. Everybody
had to keep paying. So as a salesperson, you
get some good clients under your belt and you
had really good guaranteed commission for a long
time. It was an interesting time. Growing up
in the Mohawk Valley, originally, your phone
book was like this. I remember going to visit
my mom's side of the family that lived in Westchester
County in New York City. And their phone books
were like the Bible. And I just remember being
fascinated. By that, like what? In those areas,
it was so big that it was technically a separate
book. Cause you remember ours wasn't. That's
right. You had the white and yellow pages. That's
one thing. They had the white. For those that
don't remember, the white pages were the homes,
the residences. There was every person in town
had their name, address, and phone number in
this fucking book that they distributed to every
house in town. That's true. Think about how crazy
that was. That is crazy. It was wild. But yeah,
you had the white pages that were the people.
and then the yellow that were business. In the
bigger areas, they separated them, so they were
two different books, but. I'm a glass half full
guy, so if they didn't have the name and address
in the phone books, there would have been less
murder, and we wouldn't have had Unsolved Mysteries,
60 Minutes. Dude, it made for some good stuff.
It did. It made for some good stuff. The other
thing you used to do, and it just reminded me,
we went out, you guys are gonna see a video and
a little bit of a phone system install that we
did. Danny went down and shot some stuff with
us. But interestingly enough, the... old phone
system we replaced was sold. In fact, that it
had no sort of display and no caller ID. So they
were answering phones like it was the nineties.
And I don't know if you guys remember that shit.
Yes, I do. No idea. It was completely blind.
Whoa. The wall would start ringing and you just
had to grab it and then speak to whoever you
unfortunately picked up. Was your grandmother
or a bill collector or the police. Is it the
ex -girlfriend? Fuck, I gotta talk. Yeah. That's
the way. You remember that? Answering blind.
Do you imagine doing such a thing these days?
Remember party lines? Oh my gosh. Wow. That's
wild. Party lines. Or I remember the old dial
up modem. I'd be on AOL. And my sister would
pick up, get off, I'm on AOL. Pull my chain.
Get off the phone line. Yeah, people don't understand
that. We used to have to tie up our phone lines
to get online. You guys don't understand what
we went through. Kids today. I've seen one of
these videos that they showed some teenagers
today some like typical 90s stuff and tried to
ask them like dial -ups. What's dial -up? And
they're like, what? The kids didn't get hardly
any of them. Yeah. What's a Zima? Oh, man. Never
got that one. Now, I don't remember if this was
like just the circle I ran with or if it was
a thing. When I think of Zima, I remember some
girls in my life that would put skittles. Yep.
Okay. Yep. But you and I are from the same area.
Yep. That was the thing. So we grew up in the
Mock Valley, and they would put Skittles in the
Zima, which would flavor it more, but it would
make it change colors. And change the color.
Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I don't know if it was
cool then. It's like a wine cooler. Whoa. I think
I was like 14 when I started drinking. Me too.
I didn't say that. Zimas were expensive, though.
We didn't drink those. Oh, that was bougie. That
was boudoir. Boudoir. We were drinking on PBRs
before then. Hell yeah, Old Mill Bar Bottles,
let's go. Drinking in the middle of a park. What
was it? Natty Ice. Natty Ice. Came in with a
30 -pack cube as the cheapest beer you could
get. And it honestly wasn't horrible beer. No,
not for what we were doing, no. Not that anybody
cared. Do people still party in the woods? I
was wondering that. I think so. I really hope
so. Because I am telling you, if you're out there
and you are an underage drinker, You don't do
it, but you are missing out like some of the
best memories I have before cell phones before
we would go to a gravel pit to a state land to
a back dirt road I remember it would be a Friday
afternoon. I think I just spit all over you.
I'm sorry. I was very excited We'd be a Friday
afternoon. No cell phones. So we would have to
find out in school Where's the party and I know
the party and then? It would be like three o
'clock bell rings all the guys in the pickup
trucks would go up to East Herkimer and they
would load it up with pallets, drop it off at
the place we were partying, and then later that
night, light the pallets, and it was Garth Brooks,
Alan Jackson, and beers, and it was the best.
It was the best. And I hope kids still do that.
So here's the thing, I don't know if they do,
and this is gonna be my real hot take, I'm gonna
get canceled for this, but kids drink considerably
less these days, and part of me fears that's
a bad thing. For exactly the reasons that you
point out because I don't know that they're having
those experiences. I know now at the same time
like One out of every 200 high school kids died
at one of those parties somewhere along like
you can hear those stories Oh, yeah, I have a
cousin who got drunk and fell down a cliff He
was stupid so it's better that nobody does anything
ever because of that Well, people are just more
hermits nowadays. And that sucks. There's also
a lot. We used to have, now tell me if it was
like this and now for those who don't know, we
lived in neighboring small towns, which by the
way, hated each other. Yeah. Cake eaters and
pizza pusher. That's it. I was a pizza pusher.
He was a cake eater. Damn cake eater from way
back. But we had these party spots in the woods
where the two groups of kids that didn't like
each other would share the party spot because
that was the only place to go party. So it was
the weirdest thing. that they didn't like each
other, but they would coordinate on where we're
gonna party this weekend and who's gonna bring
the booze and shit. The craziest shit. I ran
in with some guys from Illion and I've been to
a few of the party spots. There was a guy, I
don't wanna say his name on here, I'll tell you
off the air, but his family or dad owned a very
big towing company. I know Bill. I remember partying
on his legs. That was some shit. I could tell
you some stories. That was a wild time. Wild
time. Yes. And that's the thing. I want kids
to experience that. I guess to answer your question
half -assed, it would be... I do think it is
a bad thing that people aren't drinking as much.
I want them to be able to experience that, but
then at some point in their life, be able to
say, I'm not gonna drink anymore. I'm cool with
less of the danger shit. Don't get me wrong.
Don't think that I want kids to be drunk and
reckless. Absolutely not. But I just worry about
the other experiences that went through that.
Like you said, was like the... I want you to
be able to say, oh my God. Remember that time
we were partying at such -and -such, and we were
carrying all the beer on our way home, and it
ripped, and then I fell, and my underwear came,
you know what I mean? That's the stuff. Where'd
you guys used to go in Herkimer? Oh, God. The
state land, it was called, which was in the middle
of nowhere. There was Brote Road, which was a
dirt road. There was the gravel pit in East Herkimer,
which was... Like a very the team you version
of a quarry was it remind me where that was that
was like the gravel pit was like behind bothies
Yeah, okay. Got it. Yep. There was Brookwood
Park. Yeah, that was downtown near the high school
right around the corner from the high school
I see other there was so many and then there
was always the East Herkimer Hicks as we would
call them They would probably call themselves
that that had their own land and we would party
on that like a like bill Yeah. That we won't
say as last night. That's wild. It's so funny
how the narratives change, too, because, and
I don't know for you, again, because we grew
up in the same area, but it was like back then,
if you got caught drinking alcohol underage,
whether it was the cops or teachers, well, boys
will be boys, or kids will be kids. And if you
got caught, like, just taking a puff of a joint,
you had to stop hanging out with your friends,
you got to go to drug counseling, you're going
to go nowhere in life. And what's funny... is
the irony is that nowadays it's flipped like
science and just life reality has taken hold
weed is so much safer than alcohol but man that
stigma that i don't think our generation will
be able to shake because it's like they pounded
it into our heads that like we're going to hell
you're going to jail got what i smell is that
the devil's lettuce don't you smoke the devil's
lettuce you know what i mean it was just like
sorry i apologize Smoke a joint and calm down.
There's always the people that need it the most.
Yep, point the finger. 100%. Listen, man, before
we get out of here for today, this has been a
great Monday, by the way. Very great. This is
one of the best Mondays I've had. Not very often
that you have a good Monday, but when you start
out with somebody awesome, like Jackie B., joining
the team, joining the show today, it's pretty
awesome. I just gotta ask you about this, buddy,
because we're getting through the month of March.
I'm seeing all these sports people who I am not
talk about. March Madness. Yeah, I'm one of those
sports sports fanatic. I don't is this a soccer
thing. What is oh wow? I don't rate that was
a great lead -in It is far from a soccer thing
March Madness. I don't know anything about sports
March Madness That's just the name they call
it because it's in March and it's Matt. It's
usually March sad It was a car so everybody's
bracket gets busted, but essentially what happens
is 64 so I don't know the exact number, but there's
200 and something D1 colleges, okay with basketball
programs and basketball yes, and The reason you
probably don't know about us. That's the orange
one sucks for the first time in life. Yes That's
the orange ball with the net I'm wearing a Syracuse
head. I'm good. Yeah So essentially 64 teams
make it into this bracket, okay, okay? And there's
one through 16 seeds. So the teams that just
squeeze in are the 16 seeds. So this is like
the finals for the season? Is that what's happening?
So it's a big tournament that goes for the half
of March. And usually the championship is at
the beginning of April, I believe, the national
championship. And it starts on... And this is
what dudes in office jobs bet on, right? Yes,
all the time. And this starts this Thursday.
And the first weekend's the best, because it
starts on a Thursday at like noon. And it is
four different... channels, I don't know if I'm
calling them channels anyway, TBS, TNT, CBS,
and whatever. True TV it used to be. And there
are games on from noon until 10 o 'clock at night
for the first weekend, because there's so many
teams. And then as the weeks go on, it gets spaced
out more, but it's just, and you fill out these
brackets, and what's fun is if you have no idea
what the hell it is, like you guys have claimed,
it's still a blast, because you are - It's like
bingo. It's like bingo, but it's like - You're
going to be the one that wins, because you're
going to be like, I think a Cavalier would beat
a Coyote. You know what I mean? I'll pick that
team. I don't even know what a Cavalier is. The
first and only time I ever played fantasy football,
I sat through the draft, and I had some handout
that they gave that showed the best draft picks.
And I grabbed the best one I could get when it
was my turn every time. I never traded a single
player, and I won. There you go. And it's just
fun. If nothing else, it just gives you... If
you for a guy like you, if you have to be around
it, like if you know you're going to be around
people talking about it or you know it's going
to be on and you're not into it, just do the
damn bracket. So it gives you a rooting interest
because then you'll go, oh, cool. I hope Kentucky
wins. And it gets real funny because there's
always upsets. That's what makes it so much fun
is there's always a 16 seed. Not always, but
sometimes there's a 16 seed that knocks off a
one seed and it's fucking mind blowing. It just
breaks everybody's brackets. But it's just fun.
It's fun. OK. Okay. So who's, I don't know if
we're giving anything away here, but who's your
one to win it? So here's the thing. I wish I
had known we were going to do this. I have in
my phone calendar today to go through and fill
out my brackets, but I'll say early on time to
do it early on. I hate to go chalk, which means
you're just going to go with the one seeds, but
it's hard to bet against Florida. It's hard to
bet against even Tennessee, even though they
lost to Florida yesterday, but that's a whole
different story. I like Texas tech. They're a
three seed. I really like Rick Pitino and St.
John's. Rick Pitino. Coaching, especially in
basketball, makes such a huge difference behind
left cues. Right. It's been shitty since then,
right? Like, in other sports, sometimes... Is
it fair to say that in college basketball, the
coach is the big celebrity versus, like, the
big name players at the NBA? You know what? That's
actually pretty fair. Yeah. Guys like Bill Self
are in it. Rick Pitino, I think John Calipari,
like, those kind of guys. Those are the big names.
And sometimes, that was my method, I'll give
it away, is sometimes when I'd get down in the
bracket and I'd go, I can't decide, I would go
coach versus coach. I'm like, he's a way better
coach. Because in my opinion, I think in basketball,
you see a really immediate correlation between
the quality coach and the team. In other sports,
it's like you can have a shitty coach and a really
good team and they could squeak by. And it's
almost like the reverse in college. But yeah.
I have to look, but if you're asking me now,
Florida is one of my favorites. I really like
St. John's, Texas Tech. I don't trust Houston.
Should I be taking notes right now? I should
be looking. If I could look, I'd be able to give
you a better answer. Okay, you can take us through
this. That's a tease. So since I don't know anything
about this, you can continue to take us through.
Well, it's through March, so we can... That's
what I'm saying. You can let us know how it's
going. Yeah, and I can let you know if I have
any upsets that work. Tell me what goofy things
and let me know when the Bills are in the playoffs
and we'll figure it out. Yep, yep, sports ball.
Right. Sports ball. Yeah. I should give you a
shirt that just says sports. Here's the thing.
Like I have had Syracuse football season tickets
for three years now, and I've never been a big
football fan and I enjoy that. So you're there
and you're like. It's almost like a live concert.
A live sporting event is just a fun people activity.
I think we're going to go to baseball game sometime
soon. Not something I'm super. I'm not one of
these guys that knows the stats of the teams
or any of that. And I don't give a shit to be
completely honest with you. Sure. But to have
a good time with people, that's where it's at.
Just never gotten into basketball. To me, it's,
it just reminds me of ping pong and like any
sport that gets up to the hundreds of points.
I feel like, come on, this is, this is too much.
It's a lot of points. It is a lot of points to
sit through, but look, we need people like you
that don't give a shit. You know what I'm saying?
It's okay. I always hear, I can't stand when
people do the thing where they're like. Oh my
God, remember that part in Braveheart? And you're
like, I never saw Brave... What? You never saw
Braveheart? You should stop. To be fair, that's
a whole nother story. But I'm saying like...
You don't watch basketball? What's wrong with
you? Dude, fuck. Different strokes, different
folks. I've had a lot of strokes. What? Springsteen?
I said Go Sports Team. Oh, I thought you said
Go Springsteen. I was like, okay. I'm debating
if we should get into ripping you apart for not
seeing any... good television ever in your life.
What are you talking about? What good television
haven't I seen? Trailer Park Boy? You told me
you haven't seen Parks and Rec. Shit. You got
me there. Yeah. Look, I... Here's the thing.
Now, I'll be fair. I don't want to break your
balls on this too much because I was a very late
comer to Parks and Rec. It's been a few years
now, and it was after it was over that I got
into it. It's probably the best comedy ever made.
I believe you. And I'll watch it. And I'm telling
you... It's almost, I'm a little bit, I'm almost
jealous because it's one of those things. You
wish you could go back. I wish I had something
that awesome to look forward to. Have you seen
Brooklyn Nine? So I am about to start that. And
by the way, Parks and Rec is in my queue. Brooklyn
Nine -Nine is in my queue. I just started. What's
the guy there? Sudeikis, the soccer coach. I
know who you're talking about. Thank you, Danny.
Ted Lasso, I just started. So when I'm done with
Ted Lasso, I will move on to Parks and Rec next.
I just don't have the time. I guess I have the
time, but I have a lot of other things going
on. So it's not because I don't care. It's just
because I don't have the time. I'm really defending
myself. Have you seen Brooklyn? I know you're
so serious about that. Here's what hooked me
on Brooklyn Nine -Nine. I saw a clip of the lineup
where they do the boy band thing. Where they
sing, I want it that way. And it was one of the
funniest things I've ever seen in my life. And
I was like, OK, I'm going to watch that. Yeah.
I will re -watch it. after I'm done with it.
Some of them hook me in. I've watched The Office.
That's one of my favorite of all time. I've watched
Stones of Anarchy, Breaking Bad. I'm just always
late. I understand. You know what I mean? If
you haven't seen 99, that's a good one to follow.
That sounds good. The one that I have not seen
that they've been hooking me real good with these
commercials, I got a... What is it called? Righteous
Gemstones? Is that what it's called? Oh, no.
Yeah. Walton Goggins. He's like a preacher. Maybe
that is it. Is that the right...? But see, here's
my point. It looks awesome. I love that dude.
I haven't seen that. Oh my god. This ties into
what we were talking about earlier, when you
were talking about the way organic contents come
along and drone shots and everyone can do it.
There is, and I must say this is a bad thing.
There's just a complete over saturation now in
the TV and movie market. I just can't keep up.
You gotta watch White Lotus. You gotta watch
Parks and Rec. I'm gonna get there. What's ironic
about that is every time I go to watch, I feel
like there's nothing to fucking watch. That's
the other thing and we have every damn streaming
service through this I the end of the night is
when I that's for me Yeah, that's when I finally
have time kids are in bed. All right, here we
go. Then what do I do? I scroll through whatever
it is Hulu Netflix for an hour trying to pick
one and I fall asleep with a goddamn remote my
100 % and nothing gets done That's why I get
really excited when I find one of those. So here's
the thing. I Have less time than probably anybody
ever bought that If I don't break away from work,
my brain will never stop and it'll just fucking
drive me in crazy and I'll never get to sleep.
So there's, I designate time. Like I have to
be mindless and invest myself in some goofy TV
show for a couple hours late at night. It's nice
once in a while. You get in some of those. Last
year I found suits. I got fucking obsessed with,
I watched probably all of the seasons and very
small amount of time. Name one show maybe two
one show or two shows that Not a lot of people
know about and it or have been canceled that
you have to go back and watch before I want to
do that But before we do that, I want to ask
Jackie. Have you seen and I want to give you
a recommendation to Mike Have you seen letter
Kenny? No, that's in my queue trailer park boys.
Yes, okay See, I'm trying to give him of the
two great Canadian shows. Which one should we
watch first? Trailer Park Boys is older. It is.
You know what? You got to watch that one first.
Which one? Trailer Park Boys. Okay, done. Yeah,
that's the one you've been pissed about, so I
got it. Bubbles. Maybe I'll just stop watching
Ted Lasso and just be like, I'll go back to it.
I'll watch this for my boss. I don't know, Ted
Lasso is pretty good. It is good. It's good so
far. I'll tell you what, one of the things that...
I find most endearing about trailer park boys
is when I was first introduced to it many years
ago. It was so long ago actually, that it was
being passed around on bootleg CDs. Oh Jesus.
And it was like, here's this Canadian. They were
all rips from that. Cause it was on Canadian
television. That makes it cooler. Like here are
the rips from the actual Canadian TV long before
Netflix bought it or anything. So we used to
have these cool, when we used to hand out bootleg
CDs of shit. It was old episodes. It was probably
like 400 resolution or the bull. TV capture shit,
but. We found floppy disks in our new house,
it was crazy. All right, so we're gonna be putting
them on the walls. Either underrated show that
you have to watch, or a show that got canceled
too early and you want them to bring back because
it's amazing. I'll start. Go for it. There is
a show that went three seasons in 2015 I think,
14, 2014, and it was called Lily Hammer. with
Stevie Vanzant of the E Street Band. And he essentially...
Sylvio Dante. That's right. But he essentially
plays the same character, which is hilarious,
and it's not a good advertisement for it because
you're like, why would I want to watch it? I'm
telling you. I don't think his acting chops are
that far and wide. He's basically playing the
same character. Most of those sopranos guys weren't
really acting. Well... So the idea is he's a
former mob boss that goes in witness protection,
and he goes to Lily Hammer... because he saw
it on the Olympics. It's the name of a town.
It was the Lillehammer... Oh, God, help me. I
don't want to sound like an idiot. Yeah, I think
Norway. Somewhere in Europe? That's where they
had the Olympics. Anyway, he saw the... Because
there was the Olympics in the 90s. And he saw
the Olympics. He loves the Olympics. And because
he saw Lillehammer and it looked cool and he
loves the Olympics, he decides that's where he
wants them to place him. Fair. So now he's in
the middle of... It's winter all day, all night,
and he starts trying to blend in, but he can't
help it. And he just starts kind of getting back
into the mob life, but in Norway. And it's funny.
It's action packed. I have no idea how it got
canceled. Interesting. Lillehammer, check it
out. How many seasons are there? Three. Three
seasons. All right. It's really quality. That's
mine. That's my bring it back. You got one, Jackie?
I really don't. How about an underrated one that,
like, is not crazy popular, but like, I'm telling
you, it's awesome. If you want to go full girly,
I feel like. Bring it. Virgin River. Virgin River.
Yeah, that was. That is, that's the name. What
is that on? That's the name of Danny's bathtub.
Just kidding, Danny. It's on Netflix. I love
it. Okay. It was just a girl who lost her husband,
moved, she's a doctor, moved to this small town
called Virgin River, ends up falling in love
with the guy who owns the bar. Sounds like a
Hallmark movie. Yeah, basically, but it's, I
don't even know how many seasons. Like it's one
of those things that I put on while I'm editing.
Is it one of those kind of like Gilmore girls
where it's a guilty pleasure for men too, or
is it like total like girly like? No, I think
it'd be good. Yeah, I think so. I get into that
shit. I love girly stuff. I watched The Bachelor
for a long time. I don't anymore, but. See that's
one thing I can never get I can never get into
We'd go more viral if we did like bachelor analysis
content be completely honest with you I don't
want I would rather not go viral to be honest
the more you've talked the more answers that
I've come up with you can say them all yeah Fucking
own this place. It's true. No when you say a
show that got canceled too soon. There is always
one ultimate answer Which is my life. Oh my god
The best show ever. Jared Leto. What a, what
a dude. Fucking hate that guy still. I know.
If you were in the 90s, so that was big in the
90s. Fuck Jordan Catalano. Dude, Jordan Catalano
was you, if you were, it's that old, if you were
a girl, you wanted to sleep with him. If you
were a boy or a man, you wanted to be him. Like
Jared Leto, and still he's one of those guys
that doesn't. Still a douchebag. You think he's
a douchebag in real life? I'm positive. Oh, do
you have a experience? Look at the dude. Not
excited. He's now a 60 year old fucking rock
singer still. How are you not gonna be a douchebag?
I'm glad I don't play music anymore. He broke
into his car. He did broke in. Who was the girl?
Rhea? Who was the girl with the colored hair?
She was so... Rhea? Ree? He just totally lost
it too. You have no idea what we're talking about,
do you? You never watched My Soul Called Love?
No, I did. It was a staple of 90s pop culture.
It is 90s pop culture. It's the best. But keep
going. You said you had more. I still love Claire
Danes. Let's see. Alias. Did you ever watch the
show Alias? Heard about it. It was on ABC back
in the day with Jennifer Gardner. That's how
she got her start. Really? It was an action show
mixed with sci -fi. Bradley Cooper was in it
in the beginning. Big name. It was fucking awesome.
And it got canceled abruptly when she got pregnant.
They couldn't figure out how to deal with it.
They're like I will just end the fucking show
Wow That's a it's a great way to pull out. It
is. What was the third one? I had a third one.
Oh Not really got canceled Ended too soon. No,
it's just good. Just totally blanked on the fucking
name of it It is an incredible British one. They
just did a new spin -off of it Orphan black orphan
black. I've seen that team. This is awesome So
the whole thing, it's about cloning. And this
girl discovers that she's a clone. And then it
goes through the story and she finds a couple
other clones of her and they band together and
they do all this shit. But the wildest part about
it is all of the clones are played by the same
girl. And so the same person is like eight different
characters. And that's a nutty professor. You
look at them and you're like, that one's super
hot. That one's not at all. They're the same
person. That's cool. It's wild, but it's also
a really good multiple seasons. All about like
genetic engineering and like cloning and all
this crazy shit. That's cool. Mysterious. It's
pretty cool. And then just recently, there's
just been one season of a spinoff that's, I don't
know, 20 years later or something where the woman's
daughter is now the star. She's an adult scientist
and it's a whole nother thing. Just really good
the fact that it has a spin -off gives you more
validity because that means the show must have
been good enough to do it Dude, it was solid.
I want to say it's four or five seasons Have
you ever have you ever witnessed in a show or
movie? Where the care there's like these supporting
characters that were so strong that you were
like They should do a spin -off of those characters,
but they don't that happened to me in you probably
never watched the league It was like about fantasy
football, believe it or not. It sounds terrible.
Like how can you have a show about fantasy? But
it was fantastic. It had like Trailer Park Boy
vibes. Very indie. But it was on Netflix or whatever.
Yeah, hilarious. There were two characters in
this episode. They were guest characters. It
was like Seth. Who's Seth? Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen.
And I forget who the other actor was in A Lister.
And they were in only for one episode. Where
it was a dream sequence and they were like these
big... I don't know. But anyway, drug lords,
but they were, it was hilarious, and I was like,
I would watch an entire show based, like, Itchy
and Scratchy. I wish Itchy and Scratchy from
The Simpsons became its own thing. Big, it's
heavy, it's wood. Oh, Ren and Stimpy. Yep. Ren
and Stimpy. They're classic. Love that. Has some
classic art to it. Talk about this all day. It's
true. But we should probably stop. We should
go. We should go. Jackie. There's some actual
work. Viddler. Jackie, got any, like, website
or? Welcome to the growth mode team. Welcome
to the team. And it feels weird saying that cuz
you've been hanging around here for a while,
but this is the first Do you have any Website
phone, what do you got? Yeah, I got stuff. I
got stuff. I got the stuff So I have the family
-friendly side, which is and folky images calm.
It's e n fo q u e Images calm and then oh, yeah
Sorry, you know how many people There's such
a hacky like I thought of that first I know the
boudoir side is in folk a intimates calm try
to keep those separate and phone number three
one five four zero seven one seven four two real
quick Jackie Tell us what and folk a means so
and folk a means in focus in Spanish and a boudoir
Boudoir. Boudoir means a woman's changing room
or dressing room in French. So everyone thinks
Enfoke is French, but I'm not French. I'm Puerto
Rican and Irish. All right. I have a plug. This
Saturday, I'm going to be selfish. This Saturday,
I have a stand up show, Homebrewed Comedy in
Dryden, New York, right outside of Ithaca. You
can go to Eventbrite for tickets to that. Wish
I knew the name of the venue. I feel bad, but.
Look up Homebrewed Comedy. Put it in the text.
Yeah, we'll put it there. Mikebrindisi .com.
You can link from there or Homebrewed Comedy.
So Saturday, March 22nd, I'll be doing some stand
-up. And it is a whole weekend of comedy. It
is. Because on Friday night, we have got our
man Ryan Neemiller in New Hartford Comedy CNY
show. Check that out. ComedyCNY .com. Yeah, Ryan
Neemiller from AGT is going to be at the Burr
Stone Inn on Burr Stone Road this Friday night,
March 21st. Yep. Again, I'll be doing stand -up.
March 22nd in Dryden, and Sunday, my wife and
I are going with some friends. Colin Jost from
SNL is coming. Really? Yeah, he's coming back
to Cornell. He did Cornell a couple years ago,
I went. He's coming Sunday night, so tickets
are available. You're gonna have a hilarious
weekend. It's gonna be a weekend of laughs. His
tits are gonna hurt. Hilarity. Yeah, so a big
comedy weekend, I'm excited. Sweet. And you can
check us out, goodnewsyork .com, new episode,
Monday through Thursday, 5 p .m. Eastern Standard
Time. Or as close as we can get. Or whenever
it gets up there. Check. We'll see you tomorrow
guys. I love you. Peace out.