Yes! Good Monday morning! It is Good News York
and I am Mike Brindisi here with you, coming
to you from my Ithaca studio, my home studio,
my bunker, if you will. I'm shot out of a cannon
today. Danny and Matt are off doing a push -up
contest for charity. I'm kidding. They don't
care about charity. They're just doing push -up
somewhere. So you're stuck with me. I'm in a
great mood because the weather's nice, okay?
The weather is nice. I am. I've got shorts on.
So that's that you know, because I wait till
the last second to do shorts. And then once I'm
in shorts and flip flops, I stay that way for
the entire season. But I am. I did a lot of landscaping
and lawn work this weekend, which, by the way,
man, I have fought it for so long. Like, I just
I feel like I'm sliding into my 40s perfectly,
you know, because I I've just accepted that.
I like to do old man shit. I love taking care
of my lawn, seeding it, watering it, weed whacking,
mowing. I love it. And, you know, I used to fight
it. You know, I remember I was at a restaurant
once, like five, six, seven years ago, I don't
know. And I saw a commercial on television for
a mulch. They were doing like a mulch blowout
sale. Where it was, you know, whatever, like
ten bags for five bucks. I screamed and pumped
my fist like the Yankees had won the World Series
or the Bills won the Super Bowl. And I was like,
what has happened to me? I am an old, old man.
But once you accept it, it's glorious. Because
I've heard from other men and women, I'm sure.
I haven't heard from women, but I've heard from
other men that they, too, just love mowing the
lawn and then looking at it after. And I've decided
this sector of people, us, Our idea of heaven
really is just eternally riding on a mower with
headphones on, drink in the cupholder on a sunny
day, preferably sunny in 73. That's my sweet
spot, by the way. Any hotter than that, and I'm
like, any cooler than that, and I'm like, ooh,
a little chilly. That's my sweet spot, sunny
73, baby, okay? And I'm on a mower for eternity,
just zenned out, you know? Got a drink in the
cup holder something else And we're just cruising
with that being said there's a guy that lives
in my neighborhood It reminds me like the episode
of friends where they were like naked apartment
guy or whatever We have a lawn guy in our neighborhood
now when I say lawn guy I don't mean like me
just like loves mowing the lawn and I'm talking
This dude, okay, whenever my wife and I drive
by he's always out there if it is spring or fall
as long as it's not raining or snowing he's out
there and he's Manicuring his lawn and I don't
I'm and I mean every time we drive by it's something
different first of all He's got an electric mow
like lawnmower, which is red flag like it's got
a long cord and it's plugged in I'm like hmm
might have some bodies in that garage, but He's
either mowing or he's on his hands and knees
and he's just like fidgeting around you know
mulching and planting or he's just standing out
there. I mean, I guess he's kind of I'm kind
of describing what I said I do. But here's the
difference. We have caught this man on hands
and knees cutting his grass with scissors. That's
next level. That's level five lawn master. But
here's the thing. That's also level one serial
killer. Possibly. He seems like a nice guy. What
do I know? But then we thought there's got to
be more to this. Nobody takes care - and by the
way, his lawn, I'm so fucking jealous. You know,
our lawns, you know, the snow melts, everything's
brown and bald, light green. His is like a fluffy
carpet ready to go. And listen, he puts the work
in and when you put the work in, you get results.
So I can't be upset. I'm very jealous, but I
don't have that kind of time. So we decided,
this dude, he must be like a Cornell, you know,
I live in Ithaca. He's got to be like some sort
of I don't know botanist is the right he's a
professional and Recently we saw like kind of
the hydroponic lights in his window and we're
like, uh -huh. Yeah, so I'll keep you up -to
-date it on long guy I get some footage of this
guy and I'm not making fun of the dude. I am
I should just you know what I should do. I should
just interview him for the show That's what I
should do. I should interview him for the show
Because he is absolutely fascinating to me. Shout
out to long guy. Okay, I had my weed whacker
out this this weekend I can't can someone help
me. I just I Start to weed whack everything's
fine and then the spool thingy shoots out and
I have to rewire it and it shoots out So I'm
doing something wrong. I don't understand how
it's 2025 and we don't have some sort of in it
We have an innovation for everything, you know,
I mean Amazon can pretty much bring a spoon to
your mouth and drop food in there if you order
it. Why are we still wrapping nylon around a
fucking weed whacker? I actually posted a video
about that. What else? After I get done here,
I will be out there on the rider for the first
cut of the season. I'm very excited about that.
Man, I wanted to talk too. I am alone here. You
know, I'm kind of speaking it into the air. But,
uh, you know, over the years, I had, you know,
my, like anybody else, I had my handful of shows
that I was into, whether it be Breaking Bad or
Sons of Anarchy or The Soprano, whatever, right?
So I've got my daily sports shows that I love
to watch. And then I had whatever series, Ozark,
sure. Um, with the oversaturation. You know,
between Prime Video, Netflix, Disney +, Peacock,
Hulu, I... There's so many goddamn shows, everyone's
like, how are you not watching Billy? Or, you
know, how are you not watching The Restaurant?
I'm just making names up. And I'm like, because
I have a life. I've got a lawn to cut. No, it's
just, it's a beautiful time as a viewer to consume
media because it's everywhere and there's so
much of it. But man, I'm having such a hard time
finding like a show because by the time I'm searching
on Netflix, if it's the end of the day and I
have like two hours before I fall asleep to actually
just like catch up on some shows, by the time
I decide what I want, I'm too tired and I fall
asleep with the remote in my hand. But listen,
I'm not breaking any news here. Rotten Tomatoes
has been around for ever. And I finally decided,
you know what, I've got like five or six shows
that I want to watch on Netflix. How am I going
to whittle this down? They all look equally good.
So I went to Rotten Tomatoes, and Rotten Tomatoes
has this feature where you can click Netflix,
Hulu, Prime, all the things. You can click one
of them, you can click all of them, and then
a genre, and it just whittles it all down, and
you get good reviews. So, highly recommend that.
but man I am also I talked about becoming someone
I'm not with the lawn I'm becoming someone I'm
I wasn't as a viewer I'm getting into these crime
docs I'm a middle -aged white woman and sometimes
I eat yogurt while I'm watching it if I do avocado
toast just stick a fork in me but man there are
some good let me tell you I watched last night
I was just getting there's four up Four episodes,
three episodes, doesn't matter. I was going to
watch one episode, maybe two, and then go to
bed. Hooked. Watched the whole thing. Gone Girls
is the name of the documentary about the Long
Island, Gilgo Beach killer. Holy hell. This documentary
is next level. I was blown away. And to give
you a frame of reference, another one to watch
that I think... might even be a hair better than
Gone Girls. Probably the best crime doc I've
ever seen, even though I'm new to the game, would
be American Nightmare. These are both on Netflix.
Check it out. Honorable mention to the deadly
American marriage. That's new. There's a lot
of dead in the title and nightmare. Well, I guess,
you know, it should be. It's a crime doc. Deadly,
a deadly American marriage. Good. Really, really
good. But when I'm talking next level cream of
the crop, you got to check out Gone Girls and
you got to check American Nightmare. The trailer
doesn't even give it justice because it gives
you the basis of the movie, right? That's what
a trailer does of the docu -series, whatever.
It doesn't even scratch the... The trailer tells
you about the first part. There are so many twists
and turns. I think I even had an audible, holy
shit at one point. For me to just have an audible,
holy shit, you know it's good. So I am all into
the crime docs. I'll take your suggestions. But
for me, my bar has been set with American Nightmare.
Yeah. Talk about sports real quick. I'm not gonna
get heavy into it. We got heavy into it last
week. We had Del Reed, co -founder of Bill's
Mafia. Uh, thank you again for coming on Dell.
Got a lot of feedback on that. Um, since then,
I do want to mention, cause this is something
cool, whether you follow sports or not, I think.
Um, so Derek Carr is the quarterback of the Saints
and he had a shoulder injury and, uh, it was
rumored he was going to miss some time, if not
the whole season. And the Saints, you know, late
drafted Tyler Shuck from Louisville. But there's
been this theory floating around even before
the draft that the Saints were gonna tank which
means You know just Completely blow the season
and not win as much as they could so they get
a very high draft pick if not the number one
draft pick Because the rumor is that they want
Arch Manning Arch Manning is the oh, I should
probably know exactly He's basically the nephew
of Peyton and Eli Manning to Hall of Fame Quarterbacks
that are retired. He's their older brother Cooper
who he's got the short end of the stick poor
guy Well now is his time to shine his son plays
for Texas and is of course. He's a manning He
is outstanding. I don't know if he's get projected
to be the number one pick. I think Is Caleb Downs?
I forget the guy's name. I haven't done any looking
at the next year next year's track, but my point
is Here's the catch the reason why the Saints
the people are saying that they might tank For
arch is because Archie the grandfather Peyton
and Eli's grandfather Was a quarterback who is
Was the franchise quarterback for the New Orleans
Saints way back in the days before long before
I was born? And so Peyton and Eli and Cooper
all grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. And therefore,
it lines up the Saints, depending on how Tyler
Shuck works out. Tyler, they're looking for a
quarterback. Unless Tyler Shuck is like somehow
the second coming. It would be absolutely amazing
to see. a quarterback who grew up in a city play
for that city. Now I say that because as far
as my knowledge goes, I have looked it up. You
can correct me right in if you want. I don't
think there's ever been a franchise like a star
quarterback. There might not have been any quarterback,
but I know there hasn't really been a star quarterback
who grew up in a city and then played for that
team. And this could be the first. And not only
that, but it's full circle because this kid's
grandfather was the franchise quarterback for
the Saints. So all of that to say, I need, we
need that to happen. We really do. It's something
that whether you're a Saint, I'm not a Saints
fan, you know, I'm a Die Hard Bills fan. We need
that for sports. That is the coolest shit. I
think the closest thing we had If you want to
count this I in in my research I found that oh,
who was it? Kosar Kosar for the Browns Bernie
Quarterback for the Browns. I think he was a
Cleveland native and and played but Didn't have
the the greatest career, but didn't have a terrible
career Anyway, my point is it needs to happen
Arch manning to the Saints. It would be good
for the fans. It would be great for the NFL and
it would be amazing for Saints fans in particular.
So look out for that. Keep an eye on that. Shador
Sanders, you know, everyone's keeping an eye
on him. Let me just say this. Look, there's going
to be so much coverage about Shador Sanders because
his father is Dion and he's a high profile player.
Let's just let's just leave it at this. I'm not
going to get too far in the weeds here, but the
man had reportedly terrible interviews with teams
and he had gone on record as saying that he purposely
tanked some interviews so that teams wouldn't
pick him. He carries himself with there's a line
between arrogance and confidence. I learned from
a buddy of mine who was a sports psychologist.
that if you don't go out onto the field or out
into the rink or on the court, whatever sport
you play, if you don't truly believe that you're
the best out there, you're already losing. You've
already lost. You have to believe you're the
best. But there is a fine line, and let's be
honest. His father, Dion, one of the greatest
athletes of all time, especially one of the greatest
football players of all time, he was known for
being cocky. And he said that, I'm cocky. I'm
the best. And his son exudes that same kind of
energy. And that's fine, because when you come
from that lineage, I feel like you kind of get
a free pass. But you can't play the victim when
you call yourself legendary and you haven't thrown
a pass in the NFL yet. When you treat some of
the teams that are interviewing you like you're
too good for them. So then when you get drafted
into the fifth round where he got drafted and
act like, what's happening? That's what's happening,
dude Sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
I've said that before on here regarding Shador
Sanders, so I Think it's great for all parties
involved that this happened that he slipped to
the fifth round because This is going to be Less
of a financial investment for the franchises
less of a risk Especially where he went because
they have a quarterback room of like five guys
that It's a it's mind -boggling what's going
on there, but that's the Browns and He What I'm
trying to say is I'm losing my train of thought
because I'm just cluttered with should or Sanders
BS lately I'm trying to say is it's great for
all parties involved because He will now truly
have a reason to grind. And what I mean by that
is I don't want to say he's been spoon -fed because
he worked to get to where he did in college and
to where he is now. There's no denying that.
With a little help from his dad. But he's got
talent. It's not like he's got zero talent, right?
It's more about He's never had a really grind
right or at least in his mind and on top of that
He is also He's also making NIL money right these
players make money in college now So they don't
have as much drive to really grind and and and
and get to where they want it not all some I
think this was such a humbling experience for
him. He needed this because I think this is what's
gonna make him work even extra hard, especially
because he's in a QB room with five other potential
starters or whatever it is. So, man, this could
be great for him as a player because he's gonna
feel like, I'm pissed. It's a chip that he didn't
know he would ever have. And I think that's great
for him as an athlete. as a competitor, as a
player, as a QB. And I think it's great for the
organization because they're going to get the
best out of them, or at least as close to, right?
So that's my thought on that to wrap up. Just
to recap a little bit of the sports thing. Moving
along, before we go, I mean, I'm not going here
in the next few minutes, but the last thing I
want to talk about, I thought I'd do something
fun, man. I'm kind of... For those of you that
do know me, know that I'm at this weird intersection
of music. You know, I had a band called the New
York Rock. I love writing and performing music.
I'm a comedian, right? I love comedy. I love
performing comedy. I love watching comedy. Life
is a comedy to me. And sports... especially NFL,
but all sports, I've always loved sports. So
I'm at this intersection of sports, comedy, and
music. And along the way, I never really knew
how that all fit together or if it could fit
together. And, you know, thank you to my partner,
Matt, my guy, not my sexual partner. Well, not
yet. No, my friend, my boss, my guy, my co -anchor
on this show, Matt, gave us a platform where
I've kind of been doing all three of those, talking
about all three of those, just giving me a place
where it all makes sense. And I'm so thankful
for that because I love all three very much,
almost equal. So with that being said, I thought
I would do a little bit of on this day in music.
All right. So I don't know if this is going to
be a recurring segment, but I just thought it
was pretty cool. Now, I'm a big rock guy. Alright,
I love rock and roll. But over the years, it's
such a boomer thing for me. I love rock and roll.
It is just so great. I only have 10 minutes left
on this. There's actually a countdown on this
recording. But anyway, I thought I would just
bring this up because it's fun, it's cool. I
love rock music, but as... As time went on, I
found out a good song is a good song. Good music
is good music, whether it's country, rap, hip
hop. I mean, you listen to my Apple Music library.
I mean, you could go from Alanis Morissette to
Pantera to Frank Sinatra. You know what I mean?
It's just good music is good music. And I feel
like nowadays that's kind of more of a thing
anyway. People are listening to everything and
by mood. because all the great stuff has been
done already as far as I'm concerned. But on
this day, in 1967, Jimi Hendrix's... Are You
Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix Experience was
released in the UK. Widely regarded as one of
the greatest debuts in the history of rock music.
I mean, it's Jimi Hendrix. The album features...
Jimmy's approach to songwriting, electric guitar
playing, which was, at the time, unlike anyone
had ever seen. Some songs on there you would
know, you know, Voodoo Child and others, but
Purple Haze, I think Voodoo Child was on that
one. But there were two on there that are my
favorite Hendrix songs, and that's Red House,
which I would play, which maybe I'll play in
post -production, I'll put it on there. Red House
by Jimi Hendrix is my favorite Jimi song, and
then Castle Made of Sand. Check those songs out.
Those are your songs of the day today. But in
1967, on May 12th, the Jimi Hendrix experience
came out, which is really mind -blowing, because
also on this day, in 72, The Rolling Stones released
Exile on Main Street. What? How are two iconic
albums released on the same day, obviously years
apart. But yes, Exile on Main Street, that was
their second album on their own label. It was
a double set, featured two singles, Tumbling
Dice and Happy. And in 2003, the album was ranked
number seven on the Rolling Stones magazine list
of 500 greatest albums. That's outstanding. And
by the way, well, let me round it out with this.
And then in 73, a year later, Zeppelin had come
out in March with Houses of the Holy, but today,
in 1973, they started a three -week run at number
one on the U .S. album charts with their fifth
album, Houses of the Holy. Had no quarter, had
a bunch more that I'm blanking out on, but it
doesn't matter because they went on to sell 11
million copies in the U .S. of Houses of the
Holy. And I got to thinking, and then I went
to the album while I was looking this stuff up.
There was eight songs on that album, which was
your average. A lot of times albums had, you
know, went by minutes, but sometimes they'd have
eight, sometimes they'd have 12. I'd say eight
to 12, somewhere in there. But I'm thinking of
the way that the music business is now and the
way that the business model is set up. Barely
a business. It's mind blowing to me. the difference
in how much money people made back then to now.
I mean, it was eight songs. You could record
eight songs right now, throw them out there,
and nothing happens. Doesn't get a sniff. Or
you might get one of your songs becomes a hit.
Even then, you're gonna make a couple bucks,
man. Back then, 11 million albums off of eight
songs. They put out eight songs and 11 million
copies were sold. It's just, look, it's the sign
of the times, right? It's just the way the world
consumes things now, but it's just mind -blowing,
you know, what it took then to become an icon.
Eight songs on an album and they sold 11 million
and now can barely sell a song. But here's the
thing, you know, the one thing that I used to
love and that I feel bad my kids are going to
miss out on is I remember when, like, Load and
Reload came out for Metallica or the new Dave
Matthews band record. I don't know. Anything.
Lit. We would get out of school. I remember the
day Dookie came out. I remember... I feel like
it was also the same day as Four by Blues Traveler.
There's a day in 1992 that'll blow your fucking
mind, by the way. It was like Pearl Jam. Everybody
came out with the most amazing records. Anyway,
my buddy Brett and I went to his house. We had...
We went and bought the albums, we went to his
house, unwrapped them and listened to them. Over
and over. And I remember when Load and Reload
came out. It was a little bit older. We were
teenagers, you know, smoking cigarettes, riding
around in the Mohawk Valley, just playing those
albums over and over while handing each other
the liner notes. And I know, I sound like an
old man. I don't care. I feel like it sucks for
people coming up now that they won't get to experience
it. Yeah, sure, they can listen to it on their
phone and read whatever, but it's just... It
was an experience, man. It was like when you're
passing a joint, man. It's the experience. Anyway,
so on this day in music, again, you had in 1967,
Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced came out.
In 72 on this day, Exile on Main Street and in
73, Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy started its
three week number one run. Which by the way,
speaking of the stones real quick. Like I like
the Rolling Stones a lot. I'm not a hardcore
fan. I'm a hardcore Beatles fan, but with that
being said It's purely out of taste. I don't
believe in the whole well, I'm a I'm a Beatles
guy I'm a Stones guy. I why can't you be both
or I'm a dog person. I'm a cat person I like
dogs and cats. I don't know. I'm not trying to
be too much of a diplomat here I just feel like
why does it why can't they coexist? Anyway, that's
my thought And I will say this, I'll finish it
on this one on this Monday edition of Good News
York. Regarding Hendrix, if you go back and watch
Hendrix, like literally go back and watch, not
the stuff you've heard in the Woodstock performance,
those are great. I'm just saying go watch him
on different shows he was on. Sometimes I feel
like we have to say like, oh, he's one of the
greatest guitarists, but you don't really feel
that. You feel like you're obligated to say that.
He was one of the greatest guitarists. His style
even today holds up. For me, I've always said,
people try to go, who's the best guitarist of
all time? That's fucking impossible, man. But
I believe there's best, you know, some of the
best, and then technical -wise, and then I believe
there's the favorites, right? Your taste. So
for me, I think, pound for pound, the best, in
my opinion, Beattie Van Halen, technical -wise.
Hendrix is up there, too. All of them are up
there. But for me, it's him. Favorites? That's
so hard. Slash. Why slash? because you could
sing every solo he ever wrote. Same thing with
David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, one of my favorites.
Slash, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page. Iconic riffs
and solos. But anyway, that's on this day in
music. I'm gonna head out, I'm running out of
time here, I am on a timer today, too much to
explain, but this has been a Monday edition of
Good News York, Mike Brindisi flying solo. Be
back tomorrow in studio with Matt Mazer. The
dynamic duo, we will be back for Tuesday Newsday.
We got a lot of guests coming up in the next
few weeks. Very excited about that. Shout out
to our producer Danny Tripodi and Malachi Mazer,
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media. Get out there, mow your lawn, throw your
headphones on, and you know what? Listen to the
three albums that came out today in music history
that were released on May 12th. Jimi Hendrix's
Are You Experienced? Exile on Main Street by
the Stones? And Houses of the Holy Began, it's
number one, three week, number one run on the
Billboard charts today. So there's three albums
for you to listen to while doing your lawn today.
Get out there, enjoy the sun. We love you. Mike
Brindisi, see you tomorrow.