Hey folks, I'm Matt major from growth mode content.
Welcome. It's Tuesday Newsday. Welcome to Good
News York I'm joined again by my coffee drinking
co -host Mikey B. Yes, and we got a guest dude
We have a great guest and I can't take credit
for this one. This was all you and well, you
know and Mr. Jim D. I want to make sure I say
right. Yeah, correct. Nice or nice Whoa! You're
Mikey B. Mikey B and Jimmy D? There you go. That's
it. I don't think the world's ready for that.
I'm just going to let you guys go. This is perfect.
D and Mikey B. We need a podcast. There you go.
Just based on that. That's awesome. Jim is the
head of an organization called TDO, Train, Develop,
and Optimize. Did I get it right? You got it
right. So so officially though, our name is Central
New York Technology Development Organization.
Wow. And then probably five or six years back,
some somebody wasn't me, somebody brighter than
me asked the question, what technology does TDO
develop? And we were like, hmm, we really don't
develop anything. So we rebranded. And that's
where the Train Develop Optimize came from. That's
awesome. So why don't you tell us, let's dive
right in. Tell us a little bit about what you
do do at TDO. Sure. So I'm the CEO and center
director for TDO. TDO is a nonprofit coaching,
consulting, training organization. We work primarily
with manufacturers, but the stuff that we deliver,
the services that we deliver, aren't exclusive
to manufacturing. You know, we really break down
processes and get into the... inner workings
of organizations. So a lot of the the stuff that
that we get into could be applicable, you know,
in any industry. And in fact, we've worked with
health care practices, streamlining like the
paperwork intake process. Wow. We've worked with
warehousing, distribution, banks, insurance,
you name it. So, yeah, so TDO currently there
are 10 of us, including myself. We are all, except
for one, degreed engineers and we like to say
do -gooder nerds. I love that. And recently,
over the last year, we brought an HR consultant,
a people specialist aboard the team. She's the
only non -engineer on the team. And we can talk
about that a little bit more later. But yeah,
the solutions that we provide are we do a lot
of lean Six Sigma consulting. We do supply chain
management, environmental health and safety consulting,
quality management stuff. Wow. And like I said
with our hire a year ago, now we can get into.
people, talent management, you know, how are
you, what kind of strategies are you developing
to retain employees, attract employees? So, you
know, we like to think that, you know, in our
swim lane, we've got a pretty wide set of services
that you know, appeal not only to manufacturers,
but really to anyone looking to, you know, be
more productive, grow their business, help with
people issues, things along those lines. That's
incredible. You mentioned manufacturing, and
I know that's, you know, one of your core kind
of demographics there, and as well as a number
of others. Are there are there sizes of businesses
do you work with? Do you work with a startup
versus do you, you know, 100 employee company.
Yep. So so typically we work with the small to
mid -size folks. We're not opposed to working
with larger manufacturers, but what we find most
of the time is that the larger manufacturers,
they have their own resources. They have their
own engineers, their own HR specialists, supply
chain folks. So yeah, really where we're best
suited is for those small to mid -size folks
that either don't have the resources or they
don't have enough of them and just need a little
extra expertise there that's that's incredible
and and so you're you said you're a non -for
-profit so how does that how does that work do
you charge for your services is there is there
grants involved like how does all that happen
so yes and yes okay so so we are non -profit
but we say you know we like to say we're not
for free yeah But with that said, there are a
tremendous amount of grants right now. You know,
I'll tell a little story. Prior to my time at
TDO, I was a plant manager for a tier one automotive
company. And, you know, we were doing, you know,
a lot of training. We were paying for a lot of
consultants and I had no idea that TDO existed,
nor did I have any awareness of all the grants
and pots of money that are out there. And so
when I was recruited to TDO and I found out about
all the different programs and funding and grants,
it really ticked me off. And I still, even seven
and a half years later, I still have a chip on
my shoulder from that. And so we do a tremendous
amount of just awareness when you know we take
we go out on visits we go to networking events
and my number one priority is making folks aware
of just what's out there all the grants the funding
of course I tell them about TDO but we we have
we do not have a pushy sales model sure folks
are they're not ready or they don't need what
we have to offer but we at least want to make
them aware of all the different pots of money
that are out there. If I may, because I find
that when I went back to college and people were
telling me, you know, make sure you look around.
There's a lot of different, you know, scholarships
and things. And there's so much money you can
find. So if I'm starting a new business. where
are some of the places you can go to look for
them? Because you're right, it's not very transparent.
It's not like they advertise, hey, we got all
this money for you. So like a regular guy like
me, what's a good first step? Yeah, and so that
that is a big part of the problem. There isn't
like a one stop shop to find all this stuff there.
So every county has a workforce board. So they
get money from Department of Labor, other sources.
So they have training dollars. So, you know,
that's one source there. Uh, in our five county
region, which, you know, our nonprofit, we cover
the five counties, Onondaga, Cayuga, Cortland,
Madison, Oswego, uh, every, all, all of those
counties and all the counties across the state
have a workforce board. Um, uh, but in addition
to that, the utility companies have manufacturing
dollars. So national grid has a manufacturing
productivity program. NYSEG RG &E has a manufacturing
accelerator program to help manufacturers. So
that's another source of money. Our utility bill
is probably funded their entire month this past
month for NYSEG. Check out your bill in the real
fine print at the bottom and you'll see an economic
fund that we're paying into. So that's another
pot of money. There's CNY Works. mentioned the
workforce boards. Onondaga County has CNY works.
Oswego County has, you know, their workforce
board, all the counties do. Workforce Development
Institute, WDI, that's another pot of money.
Geez. So like it's it really is dizzying. And
from time to time, there are other, you know,
one off isolated grants that, you know, we met
and I've talked about some related to like cybersecurity,
you know, sometimes the feds or even the state,
they really support hot money specific for cyber
security, CMMC type stuff. But what we tell folks
when we're meeting them with them is, please
don't try to remember. all the different pots
of money that are out there. It's dizzying. There's
a ton of stuff. Just let us know. We don't take
a cut. We don't mark it up. We're happy to connect
you with the funders. We exist as a nonprofit
to help those manufacturers out. And there's
nothing in it for us other than helping out those
manufacturers there. And a lot of folks, like
when we tell them that, they're like, There's
more to it. There's got to be a catch. Well,
guess what? The 100 or so clients that we engage
with every single year, they learn pretty quickly.
There isn't a catch. And we really are a bunch
of nerdy do -gooders. I love that. That should
be the new company name. We're the forget TDO,
nerdy do -gooders. I love it. I love it. I guess
should be the name of your podcast. NDG. Jimmy
D. NGD. I love that. I love that. Jim, I want
to I want to get into the weeds just a little
bit, because I know from the IT world that any
time you're doing anything, even an improvement,
if you're changing a process in the slightest
way, there's there's pushback and hesitation.
And in many cases, it makes that fail as you're
working with folks to improve their processes.
How do you navigate? those sorts of things. Yeah.
So another excellent question. Um, so the people
person, the HR consultant that I brought aboard
last year was brought aboard for that reason.
So, you know, when we'd be working with the manufacturer
and we're delivering what we know are really
excellent top notch solutions, we're fixing processes,
we're relaying things out, we're making them
leaner and more productive. But the problem we
found was not all the solutions would stick.
We would check in with a client three to six
months later and find out, oh, they had turnover.
Oh, they rearranged this, or things kind of fell
by the wayside. So along with the consulting
engagements that we do now, we plug our HR consultant,
our people person into those as well so that
she can work on the culture, work on the people
side of it, and make sure that whatever solution
we deliver, it's gonna stick. We get measured
on that. And that's another thing that I wanted
to mention to you guys is, you know, we, so TDO
is part of an organization, a national organization
called the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
It is currently housed and funded through the
National Institute for Standards and Technology,
NIST and IST. Gotcha. So NIST MEP is a national
network. All 50 states have an MEP presence plus
Puerto Rico. So there's 51 state plus Puerto
Rico centers there. And then every state has
its own derivation. They figure out what they
do with those funds. New York has also all of
the the MEP funds are filtered through Empire
State Development through NYSTAR. NYSTAR opens
it up and says, we have 10 economic regions of
New York, so we have 10 regional centers, TDO
being one of the 10 regional centers, and then
we have one statewide virtual hub called Fuse
Hub there. And so the MEP network has impact
metrics that we are held to. So every quarter,
we get a report card from the federal government.
And yeah, so every manufacturer that we work
with gets a survey when they're done working
with us. And the survey asks very objective questions.
Did TDO help you retain sales, grow sales? retain
jobs, grow jobs, cost savings, investments, all
these very objective categories. And every quarter
we get a report card from the feds that tells
us how well we did with all those categories
there. I'm happy to say for the last. five years
running, we've gotten perfect hundreds on our
report card. Wow. Look at you. We're going to
put it on the fridge. There you go. Got to put
it on the fridge. We put it on our fridge at
TDO. But also, though, that helps with our sales
pitch. Again, back to the comment I made earlier,
people think, oh, there's got to be more to it.
Well, we have skin in the game with this as well.
I mean, that's a big part of it there. And it's
almost like the anti -consulting model, too.
We have skin in the game, which most consultants
can't say that, whatever they deliver, they're
still going to get paid and they'll walk away.
If we deliver a less than optimal product or
service, we're going to get the impact metrics
are going to reflect that. And ultimately, our
funding could be affected by that as well. So
when we go in and sit down with the manufacturer,
we tell them, if we don't deliver what we say
we're going to deliver, you'll reflect that in
the survey results and, and, you know, we won't
be back. So you have the ultimate locked in advertisement.
If you think about if you want to spin it positive,
like, oh, it sucks. We get a report card every
year from from the feds. What better advertisement
than, look, here is facts and numbers. If we
don't deliver, we're out. Exactly. All these
businesses these days live and die by their Google
reviews and their Yelp reviews and things of
that nature. You're literally getting those five
-star reviews from every client. That's, to me,
what a great selling. I want my internet provider
to have that. How do I know you're going to deliver
for me? Because we've literally delivered for
every other client. And if we don't, I'm out
of a job. Yeah, right. So yeah, that certainly
helps with the sales pitch there. Sure. But with
that said, we do hear all the time, like the
story I mentioned earlier from my previous employer,
I didn't know TDO was out there. And we hear
from manufacturers all the time, oh, jeez, I
didn't know you guys existed. And that still
hurts, despite our best efforts. And that's why
I appreciate the invite today. Absolutely. The
more folks we can reach, and at least to make
them aware, Us but also all the different programs
that are out there And you know even folks that
tell us maybe we're not ready for TDO. That's
fine Yeah, but I guarantee you're spending money
on training. You're spending money on a third
party of some sort Let us help you get money
for that. There's nothing in it for us other
than helping you guys So let us help you like
that's sure what we do That's that's an incredible
place to be honestly like what a good way. Yeah
So Jim, tell us a little bit as well. You've
got your organization acquired another organization,
right? You've expanded a little bit. Can you
talk about that a little bit? Yeah, for sure.
So yeah, about a little over a year back. You
know, one of the services I mentioned that TDO
provides is within the realm of quality management.
So when a business wants to get ISO certified,
you've heard of ISO 9001. So ISO 9001 is a requirement
for a lot of different industries like aerospace
and defense. You know, if you want to be in that
supply chain, Lockheed and Boeing, they say you
have to have an ISO 9001 certification. And that
proves that you meet. some certain criteria.
Yeah, you're basically a reputable company. You
have your act together, right? Procedures, you're
structured, you have processes. So TDO had always
provided those consulting services in the past.
But TDO could not go in and certify a company
and say, Yes, you meet the standard. Here is
your ISO certificate. So about a little over
a year back, we met for many years had had been
doing work with what's called a registrar. So
when a company is ready to be ISO certified,
we would connect them with this, you know, really
one of the only local registrars called DLS Quality
Management. I reached out to the DLS folks and,
you know, just wanted to check in with them.
We were getting a lot of questions from our manufacturers
about the succession plan for DLS. Sure. And
so when I reached out to the owner, Yeah, at
the time, Dwayne, who's a great, great man, Dwayne
said, I think I knew your grandfather. I said,
I don't think you did. My grandfather passed
away in 2005. He said, no, he retired from GE.
I worked with your grandfather. So I started
doing the math and I was like, Dwayne, I'm gonna
deny that I ever asked you this, but how old
are you? And he laughed and he said, well, he
said, you know, it's a good thing we're talking.
You know, we started to get into succession planning.
They didn't have one. So long story short, we
worked with them over the better part of last
year to work out a purchase agreement. So TDO,
the corporation, CNY TDO, acquired DLS Quality
Management. DLS is its own separate entity. It
is a for -profit business and the way we have
our business model set up now is that all the
profits from DLS quality management are filtered
back into our nonprofit work so that we can do
more of that. That's awesome. Yeah. And so we
love it. It was a natural fit. Um, you know,
it's ISO 9001 is, is one of those growth services
that is still, uh, you know, in high demand with
manufacturers. We're looking to grow that business
as well, uh, do more, not only with ISO 9001,
but also to get into aerospace. Aerospace has
its own certification called AS 9100. And there
are a slew of others. There's an automotive standard.
There's a medical standard. There's environmental
so ultimately, you know, we'll look to pick up
some of those other certifications so that DLS
can go out and be that certification body for
those others. That's incredible. This might be
a dumb question, but I represent the population
that is not immersed in this world. So forgive
me, but does that affect your government funding
when now that you have this business kind of
you know, supplementing for you guys, or are
you still able to do that? Yeah, we're still
able to do that. They are two separate entities,
two separate tax IDs. But yeah, we we were sure
to dot the I's and cross the shears with our
lawyer on that. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's it's a great
way to go in a perfect partnership. Is that something
that that that certification? Is it a one time
thing or is it something these facilities have
to do on a very? Yeah. recurring basis it is
a recurring model there so there is a you know
the first time certification and then you know
there's a surveillance audit the following year
another surveillance the year after that and
then the cycle starts all over again oh wow yeah
so it is a it is a three -year rotating cycle
there that's incredible yeah So Jim, listen,
I will get thrown out of Syracuse if I have a
conversation with a manufacturing guy and I don't
ask him about Micron. So how does their coming
to town and everything that has to do with it.
affect what TDO does or offers? Yeah, so really,
it's affecting us on a couple of different planes,
one of which we're trying to help our existing
manufacturers prepare for that, you know, almost,
you know, if you will, like a tsunami, we know
that Micron is going to employ what 9000 direct
employees, it's going to be like another 30 or
40 ,000 in the supply chain. those people don't
exist today here, you know, in central New York.
And so we've been telling our manufacturers that,
listen, at least for that first wave, they're
going to be, Micron's going to be looking to
pull the best and the brightest from all your
companies. And so that's why right now, you know,
we preach, you know, really developing those
retention and attraction strategies. Most of
the manufacturers we work with now already have
vacancies that they're trying to share. It's
going to magnify and multiply once micron starts
breaking ground there. So that's, that's the
first piece we're trying to help these folks,
um, either fill vacancies or. How do we automate?
How do we invest in different technologies that
will make you more productive and kind of get
you ready for that tsunami? So that's one thing.
The other piece that is exciting for us at TDO,
We are the recipients of part of the tech hub
funding the tech hub money that you probably
read about so Buffalo Rochester Syracuse are
What's known as a federally designated tech hub
region? And it was something we won right and
we had to do some work to win that designation
exactly We're I believe and I'm gonna get crucified
if I get this wrong, but we were the first semiconductor
tech hub. And so yeah, we so we're working locally
here with center state CEO, partnering with them
on semiconductor supply chain work. So we're
doing prospecting scouting work. Ultimately,
when we get into the next phase of this, this
project with them, we'll be reaching out to companies
that are interested in jumping into the semiconductor
supply chain there. That's awesome. Yeah. And
so we're running a parallel path. We're identifying,
working with Micron and their folks and also
other folks like Wolfspeed and Global Foundries
and Infocon and others that are already in the
semiconductor space. Sure. We're working with
them to understand what that supply chain need
is so that we can have those meaningful conversations
with manufacturers that really want to get into
semiconductor supply chain so you know that's
really where you know we've kind of got our foot
in both of those areas you know with existing
clients trying to prep them for for this you
know big boom that's gonna happen but also on
the micron side trying to help develop that identify
and develop that supply chain for for micron
Jimmy Jimmy D I would get thrown out of here
if I didn't ask this because you were talking
about automation and things like that Obviously
AI is at the forefront of everything and I feel
like that is gonna be a big part of your life
How do you because personally it's so hard to
keep up with trends and what's changing How do
you keep yourself up to date on that? Yeah, so
you're not alone. It is overwhelming right now
And I feel like we haven't even begun to scratch
the surface I mean, the way we try to stay abreast
of all that is really just attending as many
classes, networking events, as we possibly can,
trying to stay up to date on all of it. But like
you said, it's literally changing daily. Yeah.
And it must be more pressure. But for me, it's
like, OK, I don't get it. But you have to advise
these companies on that. So I mean, it must be
a little bit of pressure on you. I got to figure
this out. Yeah. And it's, it's, it's difficult
right now. Um, I don't know that there's an easy
button for that. Yeah. Um, really, especially
right now, because it's, it's evolving so rapidly
that I don't know that anyone, even the best
and brightest in the IT world, like Matt here,
um, probably really, really difficult to stay
on top of everything. Like when I hear Macco.
get it. I'm like, great. Matt doesn't get it
with that. Who's gonna get it? Yeah, it's everything.
It changes so rapidly used to used to say the
IT industry reinvented itself every six months.
And now I feel like it's maybe six weeks or less.
But it's you have to stay up and we see too many
people in my industry who don't want to. And
then you're in real trouble. Because you get
left behind real quick. And Not a place you want
to be. Yeah, we're we're lucky at TDO and with
DLS because we do use Matt and his IT team for
our third party IT support. So we've got the
best and brightest here to help us stay on top
of all the mode technology. Shout out. Yeah,
appreciate that. Yeah. We love working with organizations
like you. Anytime, my goal in business is to
help people. And when we can help people who
help people, as you do in your organization,
that just sort of makes my day. So it's been
great to work within your team is great. I can
attest to that. When people have technical issues,
you kind of see their true colors. And even in
which we haven't had any major crises. But even
when there's an issue, all of his folks are nothing
but polite and courteous and calm. And and I
wish I hope you can extend that in some of your
training, because lots of folks could pick up
on that. We were joking last week that, you know,
we realize like IT is one of the only industries
where you have a problem. The IT guy shows up
to fix it and you get berated like it's your
fault like you'd be like wait No, I'm here to
fix it. Why are you yelling? Yeah to Matt's point,
you know, we You know, I've got an incredible
team at at TDO You know, I brag on them quite
a bit, but they're all you know, wonderful people
and You know where it Over the years as we've
expanded the team when I when I first took over
TDO There were just three of us including myself
and now like I said, there's ten but as we've
if as we've added Each of you know, the employees
over the years We we look for like certain DNA
and one of those is that that professional moxie
and makeup there. Yeah You think about the work
that we do and connecting with CEOs and presidents
and C -level folks. I need someone that's got
a little polish. They're calm under fire. And
really, they've been there, done that. All the
folks on my TDO team, they've been directors,
they've been plant managers, they've been in
these lofty positions. So yeah, so to your point,
you know, when these issues come up, they've
been on the other side of it. They know how they
want to be. And they they extend that same courtesy
I get nothing but respect to people that understand
that concept. Yes treat others as you'd like
to be treated You don't hear enough you don't
hear enough of it, but But but anyway before
we get on a completely different tangent Jim
how do folks reach out? So let's just give them
the basic information. They want to start with
you They want to take advantage of everything
we've been talking about where should they go?
Yeah, so our website www .tdo .org so you can
start there. There's all sorts of contact info
on that. My email is also very simple Jim at
TDO org you just won the email championship that
really is Phenomenal one. Yeah, is your password
like one two three? Hey now Matt change that
hey quick Here's actually to follow up that question.
I think more importantly When do you feel it's
the right time to contact your company? That's
a great question. Yeah, so I don't think there's
a bad time. Even if you're at the very beginning
stages of setting up your business, at least
becoming aware of all the different programs
that are out there. Again, that's not a bad time
to reach out. We work with a lot of... other
third parties folks like the tech garden, which
is now what inspire uh, innovation hub. We do
a lot of work with them coaching, you know, a
lot of the startup folks, but we're aware of
a lot of other like incubator programs and stuff
like that. So even if you're at the very initial
stages of your, your company, that's not a bad
time or on the flip side, you know, you're, you're
a mature company. You've been around for many,
many years. You're kind of stagnant. you're,
you know, looking out, you're unsure about tariffs,
you're unsure about all of this other stuff.
That's not a bad time to reach out to TDO as
well. Um, at least to, to, you know, start to
get a different perspective, maybe to get some
ideas, uh, do some strap planning, things like
that. Um, so really I don't think there's a bad
time to reach out to us. Jim, let me ask you,
I got two last questions for you. The first is,
we talked about the manufacturers. What about
somebody that comes up with a thing? Say I invent
this thing and I want to have it manufactured.
Are you the type of person I could reach out
to and go, where can I find a factory to do this
sort of thing? Absolutely. So I mentioned earlier,
one of our skill sets is supply chain management.
We do a lot of what we call supplier scouting.
So you reach out with your device and you say,
first of all, you reach out with your device
and we. can help with our engineering resources,
we can help with what's called design for manufacturability.
So before you even talk to the manufacturer,
we can look at it and say, well, you could probably
buy this part off the shelf. If you remove this
feature, you can do this or that. So we can help
with DFM, design for manufacturability. But then
when you are ready to connect with a manufacturer,
We have, what, 1 ,600 here in the five county
region. Wow. And because of our involvement with
the MEP program, we've got a national network,
a national scouting database that we can tap
into. And we're actually in the final stages.
Right now we're administering a grant for NIST
MEP, a supply chain grant. It's gonna sunset
later this month, but we've been doing, I don't
know, dozens of scouting requests nationally
over the last two years or so. So yes, absolutely.
Even if you wanna just do some research, you
have an established product, you have an established
supply chain. You want to kind of shake the the
branches to kind of yeah, what else is out there?
Yeah, absolutely reach out to us. That's incredible
and and Jim the last thing I'm gonna ask you
is In your time at TDO, is there a favorite project
that stands out? The right answer well, I mean
honestly every single one of us all ten of us
I think have In most of this aligns with like
our skill sets, you know, we have our kind of
our pet Services if you will, you know for me
I grew up Coming out of college my my degree
is in mechanical engineering and I got my MBA
after I've always gravitated towards Well, my
first couple of jobs out of college were in quality
engineering. So I've always gravitated towards
quality management type projects Gotcha. I love
the ISO 9001 engagements, especially with the
new company we bought He wasn't kidding about
that nerd stuff. Yeah. But honestly, for me,
the most rewarding part of my job is the people
side of it, connecting with these manufacturers,
really helping identify the issues, helping to
provide resources. So for me, in my role, that's
the most rewarding part. And I love it. And if
you would ask everyone on my team, everyone would
have a different answer to that. Our safety person
loves the environmental health and safety stuff.
Our supply chain folks love the matchmaking that
they do, helping folks improve supply chain or
find a new supplier. Our HR and people person,
she loves people, which is a good thing, I guess,
for the role. But she loves the matchmaking.
She loves making a successful referral and helping
train someone, grow them. a supervisor leader.
That's awesome. So yeah I mean honestly we work
with so many different manufacturers and all
of us have such different skill sets that I think
you know we all just we have our own little issues
and pet projects and demographics. That's awesome.
Jim you're the man. We're rooting for you. I'll
tell you what, if you send your federal report
card every year, we will hang it on our bridge.
I like that. No, we're going to. I like that.
That's great. And I'll pay attention to the comments.
A little disruptive in class, but he's doing
OK. Yeah. He's a do good nerd. There you go.
I love it. He tried. Jim DiAgostino. TDOTDO .org
is the website, probably the best place to get
some info and the contact, the phone numbers,
all that fun stuff. And his email, I remember
it, because it's the most simple, Jim at TDO
.org. You're going to get emails in the middle
of the night from him now, just because you're
the only person he can remember. It's just so
easy. Like Jim, can you call Matt for me? Appreciate
it guys. Hey, thanks for coming on man. Thank
you and hey guys We will be back in just a minute
with Tuesday news day We got some news stories
and fun stuff that Mike and I are gonna talk
to you about so stick around. We'll be right
back Hey folks, welcome back Mike's not ready
So I'm just gonna roll without him because I
think it's funny I Really am yeah, I'm not even
kidding So I want to mention I think we mentioned
last week on the show that our good friend and
creator here at growth mode content Shawnee Davis
was winning an award I Think I think we mentioned
that I don't know we talked about a lot of things
I don't know if we she won the SBA the small
business administration small business person
of the year For our local region. She got this
incredible trophy and Danny and I attended the
award ceremony We shot some video. We got some
great interviews With some of our good profound
friends and Shawnee's biggest supporters She's
the coolest person on the planet and I just wanted
to give a little shout out to that We'll roll
the video that Danny put together from our time
there. And just another, again, tip of our hat.
Yeah. And it also makes us. Shawnee Davis gives
us a little validation because we've been raving
about her since this started. And, you know,
maybe people are like, oh, my God, they just
Shawnee Shawnee Shawnee. Well, now you see why
this is a prime example. I I said somewhere.
and one of my posts that I don't think they actually
make enough awards to properly recognize all
the way Shawnee is awesome, but I appreciate
them trying, you know? Yeah, absolutely. It's
a valiant effort. Absolutely. The other thing
I want to mention quickly is this week, later
this week, we are going to drop the first episode
of the Where's the Money in That podcast. Yeah.
So this is a fun thing that that I did. And we
started the first episode with my buddy, Joe
Doherty. It's been on Good News York. And the
idea is, is we just look at these random business
ideas, and especially like on TikTok, on the
internet, there's these people that are like,
here's a business idea, you can get rich. What
we're doing is we're taking some legit business
people and we're watching those and having a
little fun with them, discussing the business
model. talking about business a little bit. It's
a very light hearted, but professional show.
And I think you're going to love it. There's
a trailer that we just dropped on the growth
mode content sites that you can check out right
now. And later this week, that podcast will be
out and everywhere you get your podcasts. So
you ready? I'm ready. I'm ready for your stories.
I'm ready. What's going on a Tuesday Newsday,
Mike? Tuesday Newsday. Here it is. This one really
just I want to get right to this one. All right.
No pun intended. It jumps out at me. The Kool
-Aid Man challenge is being blamed for vandalism
trends. Oh, yeah. New York state. A viral TikTok
trend is being blamed for a vandalism spree in
New York state. Pause. Hold on. Hold on. I know
it's good news, York. A viral TikTok trend. Is
this one of those bullshit media things that
they completely made up and they just claim as
a viral trend? Mean, I've not seen this trend.
I think it's a tick -tock trend viral. Mm -hmm.
I would say baby AI is viral I would say a hundred
gorillas that's a viral, but I don't know about
this you be the judge or tell me more so live
or si live Excuse me multiple homeowners on Staten
Island have reported damages to their property
believed to be part of the Kool -Aid man challenge
Social media users have posted videos of themselves
Busting through fences and yelling. Oh, yeah
Is Staten Island I know how can they tell I that's
Did you took my joke? That's kind of where I
was going. Yeah Besides being annoyed by late
-night disruptions homeowners say the human -sized
holes in their fences cost hundreds of dollars
to fix Property damage over $250. No way. This
is a real story This is a very real story according
to the post the Kool -Aid man challenge first
emerged in 2020 with 15k How is it a viral tic
-tac trend if it started in 2020, you know, but
it take off any day now And it emerged in, of
all places, 15 cases reported in Omaha, Nebraska.
At least four incidences were reported in Westerly,
New York in 2021. They went from cow tipping
to Kool -Aid manning. And then another 2021 and
another five occurred. All right. Listen, listen,
this is a hot take. And I want to put out a disclaimer
that I do not advocate for property damage. No,
this is the coolest thing I've ever heard. Yeah,
it's Kool -Aid. Oh, yeah. If you're going to
damage property, do it as the Kool -Aid. Yes.
Yeah. It's almost acceptable. Almost. Not quite,
but almost. It is almost. I mean, look. If somebody
Kool -Aid -ed through my backyard fence, I would
laugh my ass off. And then make them pay. And
then hand them the bill. Absolutely. You got
it exactly. You stole my thunder. I was going
to say, if someone Kool -Aid manned my property,
I'd be like, you, that was good. So you know
the bill. This is the nerd in me because I'm
thinking analytically now. How does this actually
work because are you are you wearing a Kool -Aid
man suit? Which is I'm assuming it has to be
like a giant like sumo suit with lots of cushioning
in which case how the fuck does it break through
a fence? That's a great or are you just a fat
guy in a red shirt? It was like cannonballing
and in which case how is that? Just not an average
drunk night instead I suppose I should have had
videos queued up for us to check are there videos
of this well apparently it's a viral tick -tock
trend yeah, well I still I mean, I don't know.
I think you just fuck it. You find we could live.
Fuck it. We'll do it live. Fuck it You're gonna
look it up. I'm gonna look it up. Well while
you're looking it up that segues me, too I was
thinking of like I've always wanted to start
it like I don't Care to be a tick -tock trend
starter, but I was like, I bet you I could come
up with some Maybe a little I I I have some ideas
for tick -tock trends. Hold on We'll put this
video on afterwards All right. All right. All
right. Yeah. We'll put this video here, but I
just want to point out that what I can see in
this video is the first one I found when I looked
for Tik Tok or Kool -Aid Challenge 2025. It's
just a bunch of kids in black hoodies who jumped
through the fence. That's bullshit. So technically
they are red hoodies. They are technically Kool
-Aiding through the fence. But there's absolutely
no commitment to this bit whatsoever. See, that's
bullshit. Fucking kids. If you're going to do
it. At least have red sweatshirt. Right. I would
say it's only funny if you dress or at least
make an attempt to look somewhat like Kool -Aid.
Otherwise, you're just an asshole jumping through
a fence. When I was a kid in college, I worked
at this pizzeria. And there was this dude who
also went to college in the local area, stayed
in one of the dorms. And this is a typical drunk
college kid thing. His dream... was to get drunk
enough to run and jump through a glass window
like in a movie. That was his college aspiration.
And that was 1999. Did he? Is he alive? In all
honesty, I think he did try and the window was
too much. He didn't break it. He just hurt himself.
It's like jumping into a wall. Yeah. But again,
you know, this is a trend? I don't know, man.
I'm noticing a trend. Maybe I'm wrong. And this
is alarming. Kids breaking fences is not new.
No. Have you seen... Like, suddenly there's cars
driving through business windows? Does that seem
like that's catching? It does seem to be a rash
of those. Like, it started off with the dude
at the dealership, right? And I was like... Oh,
most recently? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the
big one. Now, while I was looking for news today,
I saw someone in Vestal drove through, like,
a restaurant window. What the hell is going on?
I mean... Dine and crash? Dine and dash? I don't
know. Some of those, I think, are folks that
either had a medical event, you know, or they're
old folks who confused the gas for the break.
Or young kids. who, you know, in a pinch freak
out, hit the wrong pedal. And the most amazing
part of it, and I knock on wood, is that no one's
been killed or seriously hurt yet. Like it just
worked out. Sure. Yeah. So let's not. Can we
stop that trend? I don't I don't like that trend.
Here's a couple of ideas for trends. I just want
to I just want to tell you real quick update.
OK. Breaking as I'm flipping through the talk.
Breaking. Every video I see is that same sort
of kids run into a fence and the fence breaks.
This is bullshit. I'm I'm really I'm sorry I
even brought this up man fucking horrible. This
is not news damn kids Do they not watch Family
Guy? I know yes Yeah, if anyone needed a trend
it's Family Guy. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah Kool -Aid
man. It's like a little bit. It's like not so
much. We just came through the wall right now.
That'd be sick and then we'd give them the bill.
All right, what do you think of these TikTok
trends, all right? All right, here we go. What
if the TikTok trend is ASMR screaming ads, okay?
Where people are watching ASMR. Is that considered
ASMR if it's screaming? No, like in the middle
of the ASMR, you break in with an ad, you pay
for an ad, and it's like, ah! And it scares the
shit out of them. That's not that good. This
is the one I'm really banking on. Is that a trend,
or did you make that up? I just made it up. I
wanted to wedge it in. But here's what I actually
thought of with my daughter last night. What
if we start a trend to see... if you look like
your mom or dad, like who do you look like more?
You hold their cell phone with the face ID up
to your face, and if it unlocks to your face
on your mom's phone, you know you look more like
your mom. I think you just came up with a good
trend. Or if you come up... I was ready to shit
on it, but that's not bad, right? Thank you.
Your kid came up with that one. No, no, no. I
did. She didn't bite on it though. I go, wouldn't
that be a sick trend, Addy? And she goes... So
it sort of reminds me of this other trend that
I've seen with siblings. they'll put two siblings
like with a door between them so they can't see
each other but the camera can see both sides
you know what I mean there's a slider between
them and they'll go How do you sip your coffee?
And they both make the exact same gesture. How
do you wave hello? And they both do the same.
Without seeing each other, it's one of those
bits. And you see how incredibly similar they
are. I like that, though, with the face lock.
Who do you look like? Do you look like them enough?
I feel like Apple will have us beat up if that
works. True. And what happens if you don't be
a great bit? is then the milkman walks in and
then you unlock his phone. Oh shit. And then
you find out, oh, that's why my parents, you
know, never mind. The new Apple paternity test.
Yeah. And then my last idea was the you know
how they they pick the pope when you see white
smoke. I do know how they do that. Yeah. Yeah.
What if we do like it's white smoke and we go,
oh, I think they found a new pope. And then it's
just someone smoking weed. All right, you know
what? Let's skip this bit and move on. I want
to talk about, uh, well, first, let's let's do
this red suit. We're almost out of time. What
do you got? Well, are we? Okay. We got like a
couple of stories left here. All right, guy.
You're rushing me through Tuesday Newsday. Uh,
where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where
is it? Uh, it's more fun when he's flustered.
I know. I got it right here. What do you got?
A lot of things highlighted. What's on the paper
there, buddy? I know. I know. Hold on. I must've
mixed it up. Okay, well, we're gonna skip that
story. All right, good. And we're gonna just
get right to... Please. The New York State Fair
concert lineup has been announced. The Great
New York State Fair. The Great New York State
Fair. And Red Jumpsuit App Erratus is coming
on August 25th at 6 p .m. at the Chevy Court,
okay? And the reason I'm bringing that up is,
and I lost the story somehow, is that... One
of the band members went to school in Cicero.
And so it's the homecoming. Yeah, they had a
couple hit songs. No, I'm questioning that because
I feel like they're like amphitheater style.
Are they not I think pretty big? I mean, like
real big. I think they're at state fair level
at this point. There were there were early 2000s.
They had a couple hits. All right. Here's what
we got, though. August 21st Chevy Court. You
got cheap trick. Later that night. Oh, you don't
want me in case you wanted to feel like you were
at a bar in Florida, smoking cigarettes. Steve
Miller Band is going to be at the Suburban. Hold
up the real Steve Miller. Yeah, the Steve Miller.
I thought Steve Miller died like a decade ago,
dude. I could hit Steve Miller with my car and
I wouldn't even know. I don't know what he looks
like. I agree. He's underrated, though. He's
a great song. Phenomenal August 23rd. OAR is
coming. Los Lonely Boys on the 24th at 1 p .m.
And then if you're feeling crazy, Busta Rhymes
is at 8 p .m. on the Twitter. Busta? Yeah! Hell
yeah! Got you all in check. I legitimately love
Busta. Sister Hazel coming, August 26th. I'm
giving you the whole concert right here. August
27th, our boys, the Red Hot Chili. PIPERS are
gonna be at the Chevy court at 6 p .m. and then
August 31st Blippi will be there if you have
children or if you're a psycho you can go see
that and then August 31st we're closing it out.
Hold on, hold on. I see one you didn't highlight
there. What's that one on the 29th you didn't
highlight? I almost did. Yacht Rock Review? No.
Oh. Oh, DJ Pauly D? Paulie D. Oh, is that the
dude from Jersey Shore? Jersey Shore, let's go!
There's a reason I didn't highlight it. Because
you didn't want me to do that. Smells like Red
Bull. It's probably for the best. Yeah, August
31st. The hot take, I genuinely like Paulie D.
I just lost every ounce of respect. I don't know
if I want to see him DJ at the state fair though.
That's the dude that had the rectangle hair.
Yes. I didn't want he's a legitimate DJ though.
Here's the thing like that's that was his sort
of career before that So I give I got to give
him credit. So he's not like he's not one of
those dudes It's like I'll go into this after
he got fame from the show I respect you obviously
it propelled him. But that makes sense. Shout
out to Paulie D and then Okay, it's at night
though. That was my other concern. Like is he
gonna DJ in the middle of the afternoon? that
just feels like a weird vibe, but Nine o 'clock.
Yeah. No, it's it's late night. So I will be
it'll be t -shirt time. I will be Jager bombs
Also, I wanted to mention a couple things. One,
in sports real quick, Q's football kickoff. They
did announce one Q's football game time and date,
November 22nd at Notre Dame 3 .30 PM. That's
going to be a big one. And also, big news. We've
got about three four -star recruits that have
committed to Syracuse Orange football. Amari
Goff, wide receiver, four -star. Jarius Rogers,
edge, four -star. And Javion Cooper, offensive
tackle, four -star. So look, the coach got hired.
They said he would bring a lot of, he would do
wonders for recruiting, and there's three or
four four -star guys coming in. I do want to
mention, Danny, I got a pick on the, You just
want to pop it up here. Take a look at this pic,
man. I want to see what you think this is. There's
a picture. Yeah, I want to see what you think
this is. Should be there. He's working on it.
Give the man a second. Listen, Danny Tripodi,
we love you. Wow. Is that it? Yeah. What do you
think that is? Is that Micron? That is Micron.
That is a rendering. And I should have them,
you know, if it was actual if I was an actual
newsman, I would have done the work I want to
say it's the rendering of what it's gonna look
like. I think that's the finished. Let's go 2040
2044 something like that, but that is fucking
massive. It's a big place As we just heard from
our guest earlier 9 ,000 employees are gonna
put in that place just directly 9 ,000 and then
some and finally I wanted to talk about Have
you been to Darien Lake? Not in a while, but
yeah, either remember the mind eraser. Nope.
All right, the mind eraser one of the many They're
just the one that spins you like a no. This is
the one where your where your feet are dangling
You're suspended that kind of okay, you're you
know, and you're going oh, yeah, they are getting
a gigantic makeover for safety purposes So they're
gonna redo that one ride or new not just a different
ride No, that's the only one that is getting
safety upgrade. So I say this With peace and
love because I you know, I don't want people
to be afraid to go on some of these roller coasters
I'm a big roller coaster guy. It's getting an
upgrade. However, you're supposed to be a little
afraid. Isn't that the draw? Yes, you have to
be a little afraid, but don't worry. It's safe
anyway, so That's pretty much it for news See
you tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow on Good
News York. Peace out I thought.