Hey folks Hey, welcome to good news York. I'm
your host Matt major founder growth mode content
joined with me by my luckily clothed friend Yes,
Mikey B. I chose clothes today. Some people thank
you wake up and choose violence I choose clothing.
All right, so that reminds me I got to tell this
story I wasn't gonna tell this story, but now
I have to all right So last week I brought the
family to a Syracuse crunch game nice go local
sports team sports. They lost but they were in
Competition with the Rochester Americans. Yes,
Amarix Amarix. That's how you because apparently
people in Rochester can't spell the entire word
of our nation. No Why Americans is so difficult?
I don't know anyway worst team name ever And
they won so listen I can shit on them a little
sure right you know what I mean, so anyway. We're
sitting there and My family my girls wanted to
go to a hockey game, so we're not a huge sports
family But yeah, you know that sounds fun and
out of all live sports as we've talked about
I'm a huge sports guy of all live sports hockey
to me is the one that I am most easily talked
into It's fun. It's interesting. It does move
relatively quickly with the exception of the
20 minute breaks between periods It's a good
game, right? Yeah. So anyway we go my wife actually
got us real good seats We were literally three
rows back From the glass great great view We
get in we sit down. We're sort of the middle
of the row my kids go in first my wife me I sit
down and right next to me is This lady who was
a big americs fan, right? And whatever the fuck
their shitty name. I'm trying to help you She's
got the jersey on And she is very enthusiastic.
I mean she is one of these Screaming at the top
of her lungs every time her team comes to our
end of the ice yelling Helen. Oh my god like
Whistling got this high -pitched dog whistle
that I'm pretty sure made the glass crack in
front of us It was it was insane. But anyway
this woman biggest fan Rochester has sure She's
going crazy for the team they score Right they
score in front of us and now she really goes
nuts. She stands up She starts screaming and
she grabs the Jersey. No, she doesn't and I'm
just oh My god, this woman's gonna pull her top
off or something. Like I got children here. Like
what the fuck is happening? Yeah, she's gonna
dump them. It was just the Jersey She had a tie
-dye t -shirt on underneath and apparently the
thrill of their first point was too much for
her to handle and she just had to to shed the
Jersey Wow Craziest shit I ever saw sits down
in the tie -dye for the rest of the game still
hooping and hollering wildest part We get to
the break in between periods, you know Zamboni
comes out She whips out a novel. No and casually
quietly reads pages from her book It was the
most fucked up thing I'd ever seen in my whole
life. Yeah, you know I'm at a loss for words
go Rochester. I mean that is such This dichotomy
the right word it was the weirdest thing I like
to go from I'm so inspired by a goal being scored
that I'm gonna potentially scare all of you into
thinking I'm going to flop my boobies out it's
till like I'm just gonna catch up on a few chapters
of my book in between I It was so weird man.
Yeah, so weird. I went to but clearly the biggest
she must have You know season tickets, and she's
following the team obviously So I don't it's
wild is it fair to say you were you became more
interested in her than the game I was more scared
by her How close was she to you like couple literally
the one sitting next to me. Oh, she was next
to you Yes, I shared an armrest with this woman.
Oh Jesus right next level right because I mean
that can be It can be scary when you're a few
rows away let alone Right next to you like I'm
like what what is you know the whole time? We're
that close my only concern was like a puck coming
over the glass and and Bonkin one of my kids
on the head or some shit I did not expect to
be concerned about some woman. I have going buck
wild next to me I have it's not really you think
I'd be into but yeah I have a theory on this
and and you know I I'm a rain New York Rangers
fan, but because I follow the bills I listen
to bill sports radio and occasionally they'll
talk about the Buffalo Sabres the Buffalo Sabres
are I mean really really bad organizationally
but like not just on the ice the decisions they
make I feel bad, you know As a Rangers fan, I
don't give a shit. But you know as a Bills fan,
I feel cuz it's the same fans They've been talking
what usually on days where they talk about the
Sabres they've been talking about the Amherst
Rochester and okay And I've come to the conclusion
that the Sabres are so god -awful, and that city
and that area loves hockey so much that the Americks...
for the time being have kind of replaced the
Sabres for them. So I think... Well, they're
close enough. Yeah, they're close enough in the
market. I think what you're seeing is a very
passionate fan who normally would be doing this
at Sabres games that has to just take all of
this frustration, excitement, all of it all together.
You think this is a displaced Buffalo fan? There
it is. That's a better way to put it. That's
what I think. It's got to be. I mean... It's
got all the makings of a Buffalo fan. Might be.
Might be good luck charm. I mean they won right
that's sure that's You know who knows you think
I'm glad you know what but you are she knows
that she's one of the ones that's like Yelling
the players names as they're skating by and shit.
Well, there's also an element of every single
minor league team that I've ever Visited and
into a game too. There's always at least one
lifer that everybody knows It wasn't Utica Devils.
Was it the Comets? There was the Chicken Man
in Utica? I vaguely remember this. Right. Yeah.
The fact that you even vaguely remember it means
that's what it was. He was the chicken. Like,
there's always the one fan in the minor leagues
that becomes the... At Syracuse, there were some
dudes with hard hats. Exactly. That was a fan?
Exactly, yes. I don't remember exactly the whole
deal of that. So I think what you're witnessing
is somebody who is or is really trying to be
that fan. And I'm not... Pooping on that at all
listen, but we need those she clearly was having
the time of her life and good for her I don't
know about the book thing that kind of ruins
all of it. It's so weird that is very so weird
like Trying to think of a second weirdest thing
is there a Is there a weirder place to read a
book? I'm trying to think I don't like I understand
you know you're bored whatever you don't feel
like getting up you don't I don't know you use
a restroom get a drink whatever but like as a
as a sports fan as a hockey fan like isn't there
enough going on that you're interested in to
oh let me read the next chapter of You know and
to go from that level of excitement down to the
other end of the spectrum borderline psychotic
professional opinion But listen you also just
did me a huge service and I I love you for that
And that is I was just talking the other day
about it might have actually been on here To
me the greatest live sport is hockey bar none
and the toughest athletes in the world are hockey
players those guys will get stitched up after
lacerating their throats and head right back
into the game and you who Openly said I'm not
a sports fan Like dude, I love hockey. I mean,
you know if they're if you're gonna get me to
go to a live event It really is. It's it's non
-stop action. Like I said, it moves along. Yeah,
and it's interesting Yeah, you know as much as
it's fun going to the Mets Here because it's
local and and we can actually get there like
watching a baseball game is Painful to me like
it takes eight years between every swing Listen
we talked you know we had Jason Smorrell for
GM of the Syracuse Mets on the show last week
We didn't really get into it, but I was alluding
to That's what why baseball is going through
such a struggle right now with keeping the game
relevant because Dude baseball was invented long
before distractions it was that it was America's
past time was to be You know your afternoon of
entertainment there you go not not you know One
of many things you do or watch and trying to
keep a three -hour event that moves the pace
of a snail relevant in a time where we have Cell
phones and if we're being honest golf moves faster
than baseball it honestly does yeah, that is
Almost I got to look at but pretty factually
true right there I mean I have an old roommate
who used to say I could watch golf on TV, but
I'd rather be bored That's a great saying and
with that Tuesday Newsday, but it is Tuesday
Newsday I have You have a whole list I had really
not really breaking news, but great news that
I'd love to share for oh my god If we if you
don't mind listen, this is your news day to tell
it is true. All right. I do own everything You
do Today Danny and I were very honored to go
visit OCC, Onondaga Community College, for those
aren't familiar, for a great ceremony put on
by the Small Business Association, the SBA, which
is a federal organization, but they have local
branches. And this was an awards ceremony for
the local region SBA. And they handed out a number
of awards to small businesses, including the
biggest award. It was like a Golden Eagle statue
thing. It was aggressive. Was awarded to our
very own growth mode content content creator
shauni davis from luminary electric and who deserves
it more There is no one on earth who deserves
Any any award you come up with? You know give
her a tony. She's never been on stage give her
a tony anyway She should be an egat winner. She
uh is just one of the most incredible humans
one of the things that I love about shauni the
most is how she uh is the most humble like Best
resume, one of the most impressive humans you
will ever meet, and you will never pick that
up if you meet her. Should give you a big hug.
Casually hang out and just be the most. Chill
person on town and yeah, she's most important
person in town Shawnee Davis her company is luminary
electric We are so blessed to have her as a client.
You can check out her podcast Here at growth
mode content The current conversation yeah, and
she's got a lot of cool things coming up in that
podcast planned unique things About innovation
and technology and that's the type of thing that
they gave her an award for is not just because
she's an incredible businesswoman and broken
so many glass ceilings if they will on so many
different levels but because her whole goal is
to continue to move things forward and make the
industry better for people that come after her
and for young people and for other women and
you know just awesome in the right approach and
it's working and she's building this massive
business you know she's one of the contracts
they work and she's helping build your new build
stadium yes she is I've been picking her brain
about that. How impressive? Because I'm the idiot
that's like, can you get me tickets? Can I go
see this? She's like, shut up. I do the electricity.
But we make the lights work. Yeah, we make the
lights work. Shut up. You know, what impresses
me, one of the many things that impresses me
about her is that she, I mean, she's been recognized
by President Biden. She's been recognized. She's
gotten many awards and all well deserved. You
know, she's. It's a milestone just for a female
to do what she's doing in the electrician's field,
if I said that correctly, let alone to be a person
of color, to represent the LGBTQ, plus she, but
she's not, she's not doing it with the sole purpose
of I wanna be the first person, I wanna be the
first female. She's just doing it because this
is what she wants to do. And all that stuff.
Secondary sort of a bonus. It's a bonus and what
she's doing for other women And she's doing it
she's just doing it right man, and we're so proud
of her I Love it. I'm so glad you guys were able
to go. It was a good time I looked like an asshole
cuz I just stay here and do work. Yeah. Well,
you know, somebody's got to pay the bills So
anyway, I knew Shout out to our friend Sean and
a bunch of other people. Annette Peters, who
we haven't talked about, great. Also local businesswoman
was recognized there. She owned Syracuse Boat
Tours. We got to get her in here because she's
got just expanded to an even bigger boat. So
you can go on a really cool local ride with food
and drinks. And she's got I've heard nothing
but great things about her business as well.
I'd like to push back on that. I don't think
we need to have her in here. I think we need
to go on the boat She would take us there and
we do the interview on the boat. We will Add
that to your list lieutenant. Mr. Super producer.
Oh, yeah super producer. Okay Let's see boat
ride check got it. So let's kick off the what
do you got for me? Not much because I'm gonna
tell you what Talk about super producer. It is
very hard to find positive news, which gives
us all the more reason to keep doing this. That's
why we're here. Yeah, but you know, I mean my
works cut out for me, but I do want to. Mention
as we get started some big events happened this
this weekend. Yeah The Kentucky Derby is that
on your radar in New York. It is not at all in
New York. It is in in Kentucky That's why it's
called the Kentucky Derby Danny clip this and
send this to Kentucky news. Yeah, Kentucky New
York. Yeah can fucky I just wanted to say that
one. I guarantee there's goofy horse names, right?
There are goofy horse names my friend I should
have the list of horse names in front of me if
I was a super producer, but I actually forgot
to do that, but Remember there was I don't I
don't remember the name of the winner, but there
was there was a journalism there was oh Yeah,
we're gonna play a game in a second. There was
journalism there was Luxor cafe there was Sandman
One I can't pronounce There's how they come up
with these names well Horse names, I don't know
how they come up with them I do remember years
ago. I don't know what I was listening to There
was a big deal about someone named their horse
hoof, hoof, right? H -o -o -f, hearted. H -e
-a -r -t -e -d. Who farted? And there's an announcer
going, who farted? Who farted rounds of turn?
And who farted? And I'll never forget that. How
many people bet on that because of the name?
Oh, god. Does that go into it? Does that go into
the naming process? Is that thinking about the...
The betting when it comes to race. I'm sure that
would play a part in it You got to find something
catchy that casual fans like myself will just
go. Oh, I like that name I'll bet on that they
don't know how to read the stats or anything.
They just want who farted Yeah, who farted but
that was like decades ago. So I thought we would
play a game There's there's a chart if our our
producer Danny Tripodi I found this while I was
reading about the derby. It's what's your derby
horse name? All right, so it's got A to Z. This
is how to make the name. This is how to make
the name. And this is from the Kentucky Derby
website, I believe. And this is based on your
initials. So it's based. So it's got A to Z in
the first. So it says first name and then it's
got different names for each letter, A through
Z. And then it's got last name. And from A to
Z, we don't know how names work. So let's start
explaining it for listeners. Fuck them. Alright,
so let's go with your horse name first. So okay,
Matt mazer. We're going to M your horse name
is tiger your last name starts with an M and
That is going to be julep tiger julep. Oh, that's
sexy. It's a little southern a little southern
No, southern horse the tiger to the tonic though.
I'm I I I am also tiger But I'm tiger whiskey.
Hey now Tiger whiskey tag a julep is just gonna
run all over your ass. Yeah tiger whiskey Danny.
Let's check you out Danny Tripodi. Oh, yeah coming
in to the gate is American Pharaoh that's a horse.
I think that's an actual horse that won American
Pharaoh years ago That's the winning name. That's
no fun. You got like a legit. All right, Amanda
You're in here is the prized horse Amanda Miller.
She's hiding in the back chief Uh, where is it?
She is chief julep. This is boring. We all have
too many of the same initial Yeah, I thought
this was gonna be way fun. No, it's not I should
have went with an unsanctioned lady still the
winner though Danny is the winner American Pharaoh
was an actual if you had to pick a name for a
horse That wasn't on that list. What would you
call it? Oh my god? Well, I'd want who farted
but that already yeah, that's already taken.
I don't know. Maybe the mobile homie About General
Herkimer. Oh, dude. That's great. Actually, that's
great Yeah, that would work. Um, calm Nick for
short. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a history joke
dad. Oh We'll get all the sound effects on that
one, I don't know I mean mobile homie General
General Herkimer I'm trying to think off the
top my head you caught me off guard. I should
have had something prepared. That's all right
enough horse talk What else we got that's horse
shit the Met Gala? Happened are you familiar
with the Met Gala is that is that a Jason Smarrow
event? No, that's that's Caterday the Met Gala
is A really pretentious event that happened for
real like I hear about this thing all the time
when it happened I have no idea what the fuck
it is I I'm sort of only half joking when I ask
if it's any association with the Mets. I love
you for that because last night I decided What
the fuck is the Met Gala? And I hear about it
every year I watch the highlights and I go why
have I never actually checked? So I did what
I'm about to do to you. All I know is it's got
a hell of a red carpet. It does. I asked my wife
Is that the whole thing? What do you think the
Met Gala is? And she goes I don't know does it
have to do with the Mets? She's a Mets fan. So
she had the same reaction. Turns out From the
outside all the Met Gala looks like to me and
many others is a bunch of celebrities Rich people
party rich people get dressed up in very pretentious
costumes, and they go to some event Turns out
and I'm not I'm semi -paraphrasing This is what
it is, but I don't know the exact ins and outs
other than it is a Fundraiser okay, okay for
the Metropolitan Museum of Arts costume department
Just a particular department not the whole museum,
right? Therefore that's why everybody dresses
up in those outrageous costumes because it's
it has to do with costumes And I'm pretty sure
it's a metropolitan of art either way. It's a
costume department So it it gives a little below
validity to all the pretentious over the top
and it is over the time Yeah, you know, what
would you would you wear a sweatshirt? Probably
you probably wear a hoodie. Yeah. Yeah, you would
dress it up you put like a what are these to
call those boutonniere some shit You know, I
mean just a hoodie with a boutonniere you're
like, yeah, I dressed up What if I had a hoodie
printed like a tuxedo t -shirt? There's just
a tuxedo hoodie now you're talking see now you're
talking I could pull that off No, I you know
for an event like that, you know, I'd dress up.
I'm not John Fetterman I know how to play the
right part when it's time. Yeah Yes. Listen,
you clean up nicely. I've seen it. I wouldn't
go that far, but I appreciate it. No, listen.
Look, that's your style, and I appreciate anyone
that has style, whether it's a hoodie or whatever,
a sequin dress. I come from the 90s when the
grunge area, when dressing like a homeless man
was on trend. Yeah. Was remember when the worst
thing man the thing was I used to wear the t
-shirts with these long -sleeve shirts underneath
100 % and then sometimes you would cut the holes
in the sleeve so your thumbs would stick out
I never did the thumb thing cuz it just annoyed
me But I 100 % know yeah, and I would wear air
walks and I get yelled at cuz I didn't skateboard
and I was a poser It was a whole thing true.
Did you have the gate there the gate the the
chain? Oh, buddy deal. I Listen to this. I wore
a chain wallet up until about five six years
ago, so and Ironically enough Anthony, and I
were talking about this recently apparently he
was the same he had the whole That was honestly
a great idea for a security purpose. That is
why I couldn't lose your fucking wallet You can
call me a poser for everything else The reason
I wore a chain wallet was because I lost my wallet
so many damn times my grandfather I'm surprised
you don't strap everything important to yourself.
Oh fuck dude. I should be walking around with
chains hanging all over me I my grandfather used
to wear a chain he wore dickies and a chain He
was a union electrician in New York City, and
I thought it was the coolest thing so yeah when
I first saw it I was like I want to wear a chain
like my grandfather gotcha, and then I actually
started losing my walk So I wear this chain for
for decades. Yeah, and then I decide at some
point about five years I go, you know what? I'm
done with the chain. Yeah, I just I don't know
I take the chain off That week we go to Myrtle
Beach on a family vacation as well. I Get pickpocketed
which I didn't even think was a real thing, dude
How do you know you got pickpocket and you didn't
just well? So I leave the hotel at night to meet
a buddy of mine who was down there at the same
time We're gonna meet at this bar. I'm walking
to the bar I because I always keep patting my
ass to make sure the wall it's there especially
now that I'm going chainless, right? I'm unguarded.
I'm worried So I start walking down the sidewalk
this guy kind of scoots up next to me and he's
really nice older guy and we're talking and we're
talking and You interact it wasn't one of the
quick no, I like you know, he's walking with
me We're interacting whatever and then I keep
walking I go to the bar I get to the bar to show
my ID my wall. It's not there and I'm like I
just had it I get back so I we look all over
the place. We retrace my steps. I end up going
back to the hotel I can't get a drink anywhere
because I don't have my ID So you look like you're
12 next morning. Yeah, that too. I wake up The
next morning I decide I'm gonna call my bank.
I think I lost my wallet my oh yes your credit
card was tried Someone tried to use your bank
card at an ATM multiple times yesterday, so I
Go back in my Rolodex, and I go holy shit this
guy pickpocketing me and by the way I didn't
feel it at all obviously smooth I was honestly
impressed, but here's what I'm not impressed
about if you were to take a bank card Why the
fuck would you go to an ATM and try to? Countlessly
guess The probability of my pin number instead
of just going and buying a pack of smokes at
a store But thank God he did to be fair the chances
of your pin being one two three four solid I
mean that is and I do look like someone that
would but anyway I don't know how to sing along
those lines I've never lost my wallet or been
pickpocketed but have also been equally paranoid
my whole life Yes, and I've recently solved this
problem and I don't know why it took me so long
I've moved to a front wallet. Mm -hmm. So I have
a much smaller It's no longer the fucking fat
Rolodex with every card I have in the world like
I can just grab the ones that I use most often
and it's in my front pocket Where I always know
it's right there. It's not easy to slip out like
it's it's made me much less paranoid So now everyone
knows What pocket to grab when they're talking?
Yeah, I mean if if somebody wants to try to take
my wallet from my front pocket I sort of welcome
the challenge except they're gonna grab that
fat hog of yours. Jesus Christ. I'm sorry Danny
hates when I say that stuff I too have a wallet
and I'm gonna show you something. Yeah, see this.
It's a fucking binder. It's a binder clip This
has been the most solid thing I've used since
I got rid of the chain wallet a friend of mine
Hank shout out Told me one day. I was fumbling
around I go. I got my god pickpocket. It was
right after I got picked I don't know what to
do You know every every money clip that I use
that I got at a wedding bends, and he goes dude
use a giant paperclip I I Look at this. I highly
recommend this it looks like I don't know what
it looks like I look at that fancy leather shit
forget that fancy leather shit This has been
the most truck it carries my cards apparently.
I only have a $5 bill on me right now $10 yeah
That I will endorse the giant paper. There you
go. There you go. I don't even know how we got
here. I don't either. What else? We got some
news. So, we got some news. Because it is Good
News York, we cover everything, right? Western
New York, Central New York, Southern Tier, Adirondacks,
Capital Region, New York City. Let's head to
New York City real quick. They are doing something
in the middle of Central Park called the Davis
Project. Now if I was really a legit producer
I would have done my research and figured out
what the project is as a whole but Essentially,
I'll cut to the chase. They're they're renovating
a part of Central Park. Okay, check this out,
man I got a picture for you. So this is the before
picture. All right. Okay, so during I don't know
the fall spring There's people doing yoga on
the feet. It's just it's beautiful oval field
park. Yep There's an overlook you can see you
see security. They're watching now when the summer
hits Oh Danny, if you can click to the next picture,
it turns into a pool. Oh, a pool. And then they're
going to turn it into an ice skating rink in
the winter. So you've got a hybrid pool ice skating
rink field. So they're adding a new public pool
to Central Park, which. Makes me think are there
other public pools and so can you swim in Central
Park? That's a great question. I'm not a New
York City or the bigger question Do you want
to swim in some of that was gonna be logical?
Are there enough chemicals inclusion to keep
the water clean in Central Park? I mean, I love
New York. Don't get me wrong. I Mean, I you know
what goes on there at night interesting thing.
I think I have a diving board That's a great
question great liability, right? But that was
the best part of the public pool was the diving
board. It was the best part. You remember? Did
you have a... Well, your school had a pool. My
school? Oh yeah, we had an indoor pool. Yeah,
you had an indoor pool. We did. We did. Which
is a big deal. We did not. We had a public pool.
That had nothing to do with the school. We didn't
do school swimming, none of that shit. Yeah.
Ironically, the public pool was near the school,
but it didn't open until school was closed anyway,
so... And I'm pretty sure they destroyed that
since anyway. They tore it down or... Yeah. Not
there anymore. They renovated. I mean if I go
to Herkimer High School now, it's like I don't
even recognize it So it's like I never even went
there as well do I'm happy. It's great. It looks
great There was an indoor pool. I do remember
There was a thing I think it was a 90s phase
where kids we were daring each other to do spank
the baby off the diving board Do you remember
this? I'm not sure that I do spank the baby is
where you would you would jump on the diving
board land on your butt and then fall in Okay,
and so I've seen that move. I'm not sure I've
ever heard it called that Yeah, it was called
spank the baby. I was too afraid to do it, but
we talked my buddy Matt Bates into it who used
to call like a relatively Harmless oh no no it's
very harmful really and our friend Matt Bates
who we called master Bates Would get up onto
the diving board he so we dared him to do it
because we were all too afraid to do it Poor
kid does it Comes down and hits his elbow and
a lifeguard has to come in and save him because
he shattered his elbow doing spanked the baby
So it was it, you know spank the baby It became
break the elbow, you know, it was less about
spanking the ass and it seems like you had to
really try to do that Yeah, I mean, I don't know
how he did it. I was right there and I still
I'm like, how did you get your elbow down? But
like yeah, that's that's not the part that's
supposed to hit the board. No, it's not but remember
that scene in Was it Sandlot where the kid purposely
drowns so he gets kissed by CPR by the the lifeguard
anyway moving on that was a little Central Park
thing I want to talk about Something that happened
to me here's some news I'm curious your opinion
on this Matthew. Oh Yesterday I got home And
I got out of the car my wife was in the driveway
with my son there playing basketball my wife
says so hun Where were you on May 28th at? 10
11 a .m. I said, I don't fucking know. I don't
know where I was five minutes, right She goes.
Oh, well, you might want to go check the mail
because you were speeding I got a ticket in the
mail from the New York State work zone speed
enforcement program Here's a picture of me. I
was going 58 in a 45 mile an hour construction
zone. I see that And look, I take full responsibility.
Clearly, I did it. But here's why I'm bringing
it up. When the fuck did this become a thing?
And I don't hate it because as the son of a retired
police officer, I think it's important to enforce
speed on the roadways. But I kind of feel...
I don't know what I feel. Entrapment? I'm no
attorney. You are right now. But if I was one...
Only play one on podcasts if I was one I would
have concerns for the fact. This is what I'm
for Yeah, this is weird so so typically when
you get a ticket You'll get a ticket. That's
correct. You was the licensed driver, right?
This is basically giving a ticket to your vehicle
that is I mean Don't see me at all in those pictures,
and it says you are the registered owner of a
vehicle that exceeded the speed limit so it's
not saying you sped and I'm not sure that this
is a like points on your license I that's the
first thing I said by my wife goes. Oh, it's
okay It's only 50 bucks, and I said only 50 bucks.
I said fine But what about the points on my license
or I'm on thin ice with my insurance company
And she's like, I don't think I don't think it's
going to apply. I don't think they can because
well, hey, you have to be caught like right.
This is your innocent until proven guilty for
you. But I think I just admitted it is you. Well,
that's because you're dumb. But that's not wrong
in these photographs, which people can't see.
And I don't I don't think we should not put it
up there. But in the photographs, it clearly
shows your vehicle. They got a close up of your
license plate. But they actually blank out the
windows. I didn't see that. So they're going
out of their way to hide who the actual driver
was so I could say so in any normal ticket again
That you would get they would have to prove you
were driving the vehicle They're not trying to
do that at all. They're trying. This is a straight
-up like This is almost like a parking ticket
sort of deal. It's crazy where they found a unique
way to And how do I fight that other than it
wasn't me those things? Yes, I mean That's one
of those deals because I wanted to be like hey,
it was Danny Tripodi and that's what they're
just borrowing my car It doesn't matter. We're
not gonna put any points on your plate, but we're
going to but here give me 50 bucks fine you this
Remember which in the grand scheme of things
for speeding in and we're kind of reminds me
of dirt cheap remember the movie demolition man
where you would swear and it would go actually
would go and Then a ticket would pop out of a
terminal that you were standing next to like
because swearing was illegal in the future I
mean obviously it's two different things, but
you can dispute it $50 you want you to talk about
a money grab This isn't normally our typical
content, but uh You can dispute it if you got
some options the vehicle is leased to someone
other than the registered owner And you got to
provide an agreement copy the vehicle or license
plate were stolen And provide a police report
the vehicle was sold prior to this date Provider
I want to see Danny stole it But I don't want
him to get in trouble. I'd be like he stole it,
but we're fine like Before they did it so years
ago. I had an interesting thing, okay? I got
a ticket in the mail from Herkimer What was wild
as I've been to Herkimer in fucking decades,
right? They're like you owe us this ticket from
2003 or something what year was this that you
I don't know 2019 or something. Oh my god. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, it was insane. You were a insane
fugitive So no what it is is they hire these
companies that go through old shit to find revenue
To find anybody that they have they don't have
all the paperwork for okay So then they tell
you you got to come answer for this right now
which any Basic lawyer will tell you there's
such a thing called statue of limitations, right?
At some point, if they ain't done their thing,
they ain't got you. Time expired. Very typical
thing in the law. But these guys, they want you
to just pay it. And again, it's another one of
those things where you can just cut us a check.
Well, like, I don't want to do that. Like they're
doing you a favor. Yeah. And what was wild is
that was the last time I had been pulled over
literally in 20 years. I hadn't been stopped.
I don't have a ticket. I have nothing. And they
want to You know basically give me this ticket
as if I just got it get the fuck out of here,
dude Forget statute of limitations. There's also
a thing called. I don't fucking remember because
it was 20 years ago exactly so We're gonna have
a trial So I go to court no way fuck. Yeah. Oh
my god, and I said to the judge sir This is way
beyond any statute of limitations and he's like
Yeah, you're probably right My god like What
do you want to do? He's like I'll let you You
can dismiss it right here for a hundred bucks
and and we'll just go away and we don't have
to argue about anything And it was one of those
like okay. I'll fucking do that. It's easier.
So they got the money out of me, but the reality
is Straight up if you want to fight it, but you're
gonna spend five times as much to fight it Do
you so they get you do you think it's less about
the justice and it's more about like hey, let's
go 100 % thing I was gonna say it's it's there's
no can you go? How can we get some money? You
know, let's comb through small records and there's
companies that sell this as a service to the
municipalities like your your budget is tight
Let us dig through your shit to find money for
you and then you know, we sort of harass citizens
for that, you know This is something that I had
taken care of years ago, but they didn't have
the right paperwork They didn't have the right
whatever so it's like oh you never responded
to this ticket If I didn't actually respond to
that ticket you would have came looking for me.
You know what I mean? That is wild but Wild well
listen before we wrap up news dad. I want to
end on a funny note, but before we do that I
Think you should make the you know we have kind
of an exciting new segment. We're We can't really
say we're doing, because we have to try it out
first, but go ahead. We're very excited to announce
this segment. We're going to do something called
Every Town in New York. Yes. And the idea here,
Good News York, as we've talked about many times,
is a show highlighting the positivity of all
things in New York state. We're based here in
East Syracuse. We talk a lot about the greater
Syracuse Central New York region, but we really
are here to celebrate all of our friends and
fellow New Yorkers. Adirondacks, Capital Region,
Western New York, Southern Tier, New York City.
You got it. And, you know, as we think about
that, how do we how do we really celebrate that?
Let's literally. talk about every town in New
York state. And as you can imagine, this is not
going to be a short term venture. This is something
that we're going to keep as a running segment.
But we're really excited to learn about all the
cool little things in all the cool little towns.
Let me ask you, Matt, if you wanted to go and
spotlight a random town in New York. Who's the
person that you should go to? I'm glad you mentioned
that, Mike. Because our initial approach to this
Every Town in New York segment is we're inviting
every mayor in New York state to join us on the
show and give a fun little pitch about their
town. And I'm glad you said fun. 100%. Because
I can imagine being the mayor of any town, any
city is very daunting and you're going to do
a lot of interviews with a lot of hard -hitting
questions. But that's... not what we're going
to do. Nope. Complete softball Jones here. And
we're getting very upfront about that. Our goal
is not to discuss anything of controversy. We're
not talking about politics. We're not talking
about campaigns. We're not talking about. crime
or laws regulation. We don't hear about any of
that stuff. This is not the time for that. What
we're doing here is we would love somebody to
come in and sort of cheerlead for their town
because what's interesting anybody who's done
any exploration in their hometown here in New
York or any neighboring towns know that each
one of these many municipalities has so many
cool little hidden gems. That's right. They've
got an incredible public park. They've got some
other incredible amenity they've got businesses
that are booming they've got opportunities to
start things these are the types of things we
want the mayor's to come and tell us all about
maybe they have hey you got to hear about this
restaurant not many people know we got the best
wings we got the best burgers right maybe it's
a fun fact here's a small example I live in Ithaca
a lot of amazing things I could rave about Ithaca
for hours here's a fun fact did you know this
is on record Kurt Cobain's ashes part some of
his ashes have been spread at the Buddhist monastery
in Ithaca Did you even know there was a Buddhist
monastery in Ithaca? Did you know that the Dalai
Lama's headquarters in the Northeast is in Ithaca?
These are things that we could talk about with
every mayor and it doesn't have to be something
mind -blowing like that We just simply want to
know what's going on. What's something cool about
the town if I go there? What do we got to eat?
What do we have to try? Where do we have to go
100 %? It's gonna be a fun and an informational
segment that I think will fit perfectly right
here in good New York And we look forward to
reaching out in booking all of these There's
a redic we started looking at there's a ridiculous
number so It is more we get the more of a championship.
This will be and as much as we're gonna be reaching
out You're watching or listening to this and
you know the mayor or you are the mayor and you
want to reach out to us Yeah, please and we're
talking every kind of whether it's a village
a city It doesn't matter how big how small we
want to hear from you and we want it we want
to learn because There is such a false pretense
that for people especially that live in New York
City that it's New York City and then I'll upstate
There's a lot up here and so many incredible
things so much to highlight and we're gonna explore
them all and then the last thing I'll leave you
on this particular segment is you know, we're
starting out with this sort of interview format
where we're meeting these mayors and either bringing
them in the studio or they can join us remotely
for this You know 20 minute interview not a huge
long thing But the next step in the progression
of this is we will take this show on the road
and we're gonna Mike and Danny and I and and
whoever else we can stuff in the car will actually
take you to some of these really cool places.
So got to start with some mayors giving us some
good ideas of where to go first. And that's what
we're going to do. Every town in New York is
the segment coming your way here on Good News
York. And we can't wait. Yeah. Now, with that
being said, I would like to show you I would
like to end this segment on something random,
because that's who I am. Oh, dear. My wife, my
wife, my wife. She's a very nice. No, I am. People
used to ask me if you had a million dollars,
what would you do? And it's like such a broad
question I said, you know, there's a lot of things
I do one thing I would really do and I don't
even need a million dollars for but my wife says
no Is I want a fainting goat farm. Do you know
what a fainting goat is? I Do you do don't you
for those of you that don't know what a fainting
goat is? Well, let's just say these things I
do Do and here's the reason why first of all
I love animals second of all not only is it a
great way to Just have a pet right the kids will
love it you get the enjoyment of having a pet
But it's wild entertainment because if you have
a party you go out you scream and scare these
things and they literally when they get scared
they freeze and they fall over as a Natural defense
mechanism to play dead With that I feel like
that bit would get old pretty quick. No wouldn't
cuz watch this I got two videos for shit watch
this you tell me came with you I came with video
mother Vaga watch this Tell me you wouldn't love
this That one just went nosedive oh Look at that.
How do you not love that? Fainting goats everybody
fainting goats here Danny do the do the one with
the UPS truck It's like 15 seconds long this
one. This is where the real enjoy because this
guy's just doing it with a bell This is when
you're not even trying. I mean look at this The
sound of the truck just stopping just made them
keel over Love fainting goats, so if anybody
has a fainting goat farm out there Or not even
a farm just has fainting goats because I don't
know where you find them or what region they're
from Please contact the show and please let me
come visit and please let me scare the shit out
of them because it is just You're gonna make
you just come true most amazing things ever and
with that This has been good, New York. We will
be back tomorrow and Thursday Big deal if you're
a Bills fan. Bills Mafia, the Don, the creator,
the man who represents Bills Mafia, Del Reed
of 26shirts .com and Don of Bills Mafia gonna
be coming in remote for a GNY interview this
Thursday. So we're very excited about that. Goodnewsyork
.com. It's like the godfather of the mafia. He
literally is. He coined the phrase. Bill's mafia
by getting in a fight with Adam Schefter from
ESPN on Twitter and it turned into a whole thing
Are we gonna owe him a favor now? I'll tell you
might be wearing concrete bill shoes and Sleeping
with the fishes in Central Park. See how I brought
everything back Wow and the fainting goats will
rescue you Please make it stop. Yeah, please
just hit stop. Thank you