WEBVTT 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:13.060 Welcome to Wednesday a Wednesday edition of Good 00:00:13.060 --> 00:00:16.800 News York. I'm Mike Brindisi Matt is off. I don't 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.179 know chasing tornadoes or something who knows 00:00:19.179 --> 00:00:22.100 so it's just me today, but I'm not alone and 00:00:22.100 --> 00:00:23.660 For those of you that have been listening or 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.440 watching the show you understand why this is 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:31.730 such a special episode I a while back talked 00:00:31.730 --> 00:00:36.229 about my favorite viral video of all time. Fast 00:00:36.229 --> 00:00:39.649 forward, we find out as we're watching the video, 00:00:39.810 --> 00:00:42.369 someone recognized the sign. I think it was Matt. 00:00:42.990 --> 00:00:45.369 And he said, dude, that looks like that's in 00:00:45.369 --> 00:00:48.369 Syracuse. Long story short, it was. My favorite 00:00:48.369 --> 00:00:52.009 viral video was not only shot in Syracuse, but 00:00:52.009 --> 00:00:56.030 we found the guy and he's here, Mr. Steve Peterson. 00:00:57.150 --> 00:00:59.710 He's much more talented than just the llama guy. 00:01:00.130 --> 00:01:02.469 We'll talk about that. But to me and my world, 00:01:03.030 --> 00:01:05.950 dude, you have brought more laughter and joy 00:01:05.950 --> 00:01:10.810 to me and my family than you realize. I can tell 00:01:10.810 --> 00:01:13.450 you that, you know when people say like, what's 00:01:13.450 --> 00:01:15.549 your top 10 favorite movies or what's your favorite 00:01:15.549 --> 00:01:17.349 viral video? It's like, dude, there's like 10 00:01:17.349 --> 00:01:19.989 million. I don't know. I can honestly say I have 00:01:19.989 --> 00:01:22.200 a bunch of favorites. But my absolute favorite 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.879 viral video is you and that llama and I'm going 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:27.280 to explain why but first I want to I want to 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.060 play a video Danny our producer Danny Chipotle. 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:33.760 Love you play the first video. So here's me Steve 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.239 talking on the show About this this is how to 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:40.680 really have the video that I think is the funniest 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.359 video of all time And we found out that that 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.799 the video was actually shot in Liverpool. I'm 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:48.480 gonna hunt this guy down I want to interview 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:52.269 him on the show just I need to know what was 00:01:52.269 --> 00:01:54.670 going on that day and why there was a llama just 00:01:54.670 --> 00:01:57.189 running at his car. I did a little digging. I 00:01:57.189 --> 00:02:00.750 think I found through comments and stuff of kind 00:02:00.750 --> 00:02:03.629 of why it was happening. But I do want to explain 00:02:03.629 --> 00:02:06.010 to you first why I think it's the funniest thing 00:02:06.010 --> 00:02:09.610 ever. First of all, there's the obvious, right? 00:02:09.870 --> 00:02:13.370 You're getting out of your car in a urban area 00:02:13.370 --> 00:02:19.009 and a goat walks up and you are like... Anybody 00:02:19.009 --> 00:02:21.409 kind of like what the hey buddy and you're so 00:02:21.409 --> 00:02:23.430 sweet to this goat and then around the corner 00:02:23.430 --> 00:02:25.490 comes this llama And we're gonna play the video 00:02:25.490 --> 00:02:31.590 in a second for me it is Your reaction is is 00:02:31.590 --> 00:02:35.349 I hear it in your voice. It is this like What 00:02:35.349 --> 00:02:38.210 the fuck is going on? But the thing that makes 00:02:38.210 --> 00:02:40.849 me laugh the hardest is it's also there's this 00:02:40.849 --> 00:02:43.370 childlike excitement in the tone of your voice 00:02:43.370 --> 00:02:46.020 It's like the perfect mix of What the fuck is 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:48.419 going on? And oh my god, I'm so excited I get 00:02:48.419 --> 00:02:50.659 to see a llama. And I just thought it was so 00:02:50.659 --> 00:02:54.259 funny. So let me - let's play that clip. And 00:02:54.259 --> 00:02:57.240 uh, and we'll get this thing really started here. 00:02:57.659 --> 00:03:17.879 So here it is. I found the original. Oh my god, 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:25.180 who's a vikri llama? What is going on? I just 00:03:25.180 --> 00:03:28.340 got back from a service call and I go to my truck 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:31.719 and a goat and a llama run up to me. What are 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.939 you guys doing out here? You're not supposed 00:03:34.939 --> 00:03:43.300 to be here. It is sup sup. Oh Steve, you know, 00:03:43.300 --> 00:03:45.580 I should have said this first. Welcome to the 00:03:45.580 --> 00:03:49.580 show. Maybe I should have said welcome and did 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:51.580 some pleasantries before I played that, but I'm 00:03:51.580 --> 00:03:54.840 just overexcited. Thank you for coming in. I 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:56.939 know it's a bit ridiculous that someone is this 00:03:56.939 --> 00:03:59.840 excited over a video, but I think it's the way 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.639 it played out that, first of all, it made me 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.919 laugh harder than I've ever laughed, and second 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.500 of all, just the way it unfolded and we found 00:04:06.500 --> 00:04:08.319 out that it was shot, you know, it happened right 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.479 here in Syracuse, and then finding you was amazing. 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.719 But it turns out that there's way more to this 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:18.810 story than we thought, which is you actually 00:04:18.810 --> 00:04:22.009 come from a background of broadcasting, and let's 00:04:22.009 --> 00:04:29.250 talk about that. Yeah, I went to college in Aswego, 00:04:29.370 --> 00:04:33.629 SUNY Aswego. Nice. Graduated with a communications 00:04:33.629 --> 00:04:35.730 degree. Didn't really know what I wanted to do. 00:04:35.810 --> 00:04:37.470 I thought I wanted to make movies, turns out 00:04:37.470 --> 00:04:39.670 at the time. Sure. Syracuse wasn't great for 00:04:39.670 --> 00:04:43.689 that. Now it's great for it. Yeah. And I was 00:04:43.689 --> 00:04:46.550 actually an extra in one of the Adrian Brody 00:04:46.550 --> 00:04:49.250 movie. Oh, no shit. Was that the American High? 00:04:49.850 --> 00:04:52.110 It was through American High, I think. Okay. 00:04:52.370 --> 00:04:56.189 I stood outside a crucible for 12 hours. That's 00:04:56.189 --> 00:04:59.730 awesome. And then the scene got cut. Yeah, so 00:04:59.730 --> 00:05:03.410 yeah, worked at Channel 3, worked at WSYR Radio. 00:05:04.370 --> 00:05:10.370 When the society collapsed in 2008, I... I didn't 00:05:10.370 --> 00:05:12.029 really know what I wanted to do, so I started 00:05:12.029 --> 00:05:15.050 working at my family's plumbing company. So you 00:05:15.050 --> 00:05:16.930 see in the video, that's right out there. Shout 00:05:16.930 --> 00:05:19.730 out. Is it Peterson Plumbing? Yeah, we're going 00:05:19.730 --> 00:05:22.670 to definitely make sure we throw in graphics 00:05:22.670 --> 00:05:25.529 contact. We definitely want to make sure we plug 00:05:25.529 --> 00:05:28.709 the family business for sure. Yeah. And that 00:05:28.709 --> 00:05:34.639 day, it was after hours. I had... Like, the stars 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.420 completely aligned to make that video happen. 00:05:36.660 --> 00:05:39.160 It's amazing. There was a service call. I had 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.779 to go do a service call after hours. And my parents 00:05:42.779 --> 00:05:45.819 invited me to go out to eat. So I had to decide 00:05:45.819 --> 00:05:48.180 what I wanted to do. We could go out to eat and 00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:49.839 then do the service call. I could do the service 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.220 call, then go out to eat. I decided to do the 00:05:52.220 --> 00:05:55.759 service call, meet them at Luigi's in the valley, 00:05:56.019 --> 00:06:02.100 rest in peace. And yeah, then I got back. After 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:05.220 that, so yeah, I just parked my truck, locked 00:06:05.220 --> 00:06:08.439 the gate, and came around to my pickup truck. 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.800 And I thought, I thought it was a dog. I thought 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.819 I was about to get attacked by a dog, so I was 00:06:15.819 --> 00:06:17.660 ready to jump in the back of my pickup truck. 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.300 And oh, that's a goat. So I get my phone out, 00:06:21.459 --> 00:06:23.750 and it's filming, and... That's where you see 00:06:23.750 --> 00:06:27.430 you know the magic happens, and it is magic and 00:06:27.430 --> 00:06:30.170 that fucking llama comes wheeling around the 00:06:30.170 --> 00:06:33.509 corner Yeah, and again what am I right was your 00:06:33.509 --> 00:06:36.189 was it a mixture of like what is going on? And 00:06:36.189 --> 00:06:39.509 also like this is like like a child like you're 00:06:39.509 --> 00:06:42.589 like this is amazing Yeah, it was I was really 00:06:42.589 --> 00:06:45.790 excited as you can tell from yes as you should 00:06:45.790 --> 00:06:48.470 I was also scared I was worried that I was about 00:06:48.470 --> 00:06:51.360 to get attacked well And I didn't know how much 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.800 damage a llama can do, but this thing was charging 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.560 at me. You hear about these stories of animals 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.160 that you think are very loving animals, and you 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:01.740 find out they're like, no, actually, they could 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:04.759 slit your throat in 3 .2 seconds. And let's be 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.680 honest, there's not a lot of info out there about 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.660 llamas, right? So I too would be like, this is 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:11.980 great, but is this thing going to charge at me? 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.949 Is it going to kill me? So we gotta know I'm 00:07:14.949 --> 00:07:17.250 assuming you found out what was going on and 00:07:17.250 --> 00:07:19.250 this is this is great because I want to put it 00:07:19.250 --> 00:07:22.069 to rest I I heard that it was they got loose 00:07:22.069 --> 00:07:23.810 because of a filming of a movie. I don't know 00:07:23.810 --> 00:07:26.529 if that's true. What is the story? No, there 00:07:26.529 --> 00:07:36.009 was I so I Face timed my my girlfriend at the 00:07:36.009 --> 00:07:38.579 time now my wife We'd actually just started dating 00:07:38.579 --> 00:07:40.459 at the time. Yeah, well, when she saw that video, 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.480 she was like, I gotta marry this guy. I live 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:44.819 a very strange life. I need to prove, dude, this 00:07:44.819 --> 00:07:50.180 is real. It's, uh... Yeah, after that, I called 00:07:50.180 --> 00:07:53.199 my dad, and he's like, oh, yeah, so -and -so 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.480 has a little, like, pen that he keeps some animals 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:59.399 in. Oh, like a local... Yeah, I don't give it 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.160 away because I don't want people to go and try 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.680 and find it. And I know it's old news now, but 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:05.379 at the time, I was worried that people were gonna 00:08:05.379 --> 00:08:06.930 try to, like... hunt these things down. Yeah, 00:08:07.129 --> 00:08:09.009 I'm never gonna make it as a reporter because 00:08:09.009 --> 00:08:11.110 I'm having you on, like, five years after this 00:08:11.110 --> 00:08:12.949 happened. Ten. Ten years after this happened. 00:08:12.990 --> 00:08:14.949 Just hit the ten -year anniversary. That's amazing, 00:08:14.970 --> 00:08:17.230 actually. Okay, then let's call it that. I knew 00:08:17.230 --> 00:08:18.769 that it was the ten -year anniversary, and I 00:08:18.769 --> 00:08:21.170 wanted to have you on. Dude, that is wild. So, 00:08:21.430 --> 00:08:23.750 did you call the guy who came and got him? No, 00:08:23.750 --> 00:08:27.750 I played sheepdog, and I literally, like, corralled 00:08:27.750 --> 00:08:31.569 them back. You are the best. Yeah, so there were 00:08:31.569 --> 00:08:34.659 these guys in the building. It was like a big 00:08:34.659 --> 00:08:37.120 warehouse, and they were all working on these 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:42.019 trucks of some sort, and they... I've got these 00:08:42.019 --> 00:08:43.580 animals back there, and I walk into the building, 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:47.100 and they come at me, like, mad. They're, like, 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:48.720 ready to fight me. Like, what are you doing in 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:50.960 here? Like, I just brought you a goddamn animal. 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:54.460 Like, all right, I'm... Guys, I got a llama and 00:08:54.460 --> 00:08:57.059 a goat. Chill. This has been quite the ordeal. 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:01.139 Yeah. So, yeah, I got them back home safe, and 00:09:01.139 --> 00:09:05.039 then, yeah, that's... That night, I texted the 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.820 video to some of my friends, and I was like, 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:10.000 hey, this just happened. They're like, you have 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.340 to post that. And they were right. And so you 00:09:12.340 --> 00:09:14.220 did? Yeah. So you were the original one that 00:09:14.220 --> 00:09:17.360 posted it? Yes. OK. And so was this like an overnight, 00:09:17.460 --> 00:09:19.659 you woke up, and you're like, holy cow. Yeah. 00:09:20.100 --> 00:09:28.100 So I posted it on Instagram and YouTube. OK. 00:09:28.659 --> 00:09:31.679 Yeah. Both the full length videos on Instagram 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:36.600 and YouTube. And I went to bed. I don't know 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.299 how, I don't know who found it, but somebody 00:09:39.299 --> 00:09:41.580 reposted it to Reddit. Ah, there it is. That's 00:09:41.580 --> 00:09:45.480 when it blew up. Yep. So I woke up, I posted 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.580 it, no views. A couple comments from some of 00:09:48.580 --> 00:09:51.399 my friends. I woke up to 5 ,000 views. And by 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.559 the end of the day, I had like 250 ,000. That's, 00:09:54.700 --> 00:09:57.840 and by the way, I mean, 250 ,000 views now is 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.639 a lot, but those can happen. Like we just had 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.340 a video about an oil change. just got like a 00:10:03.340 --> 00:10:06.120 we hit the hundred and twenty mark ten years 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:09.039 ago that that is viral that is you know that's 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:13.360 a lot of views and so did what was life after 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:15.860 like a few days after were you getting calls 00:10:15.860 --> 00:10:19.580 emails or anything like that yeah it went pretty 00:10:19.580 --> 00:10:24.200 crazy for a while for a few months I I hooked 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.539 up with a company for licensing yep I don't think 00:10:28.539 --> 00:10:31.360 they did a good job yeah I should have went with 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:37.289 a different one but Oh, well. The problem, well... 00:10:37.289 --> 00:10:39.750 I was trying to remember it all. I know. Well, 00:10:39.750 --> 00:10:43.169 it was 10 years ago. That's when it started hitting 00:10:43.169 --> 00:10:46.649 TV shows and stuff. But the big problem was it 00:10:46.649 --> 00:10:51.629 got stolen. So at the time, there was no way... 00:10:51.629 --> 00:10:54.190 You weren't making money off Facebook. Right, 00:10:54.269 --> 00:10:56.950 they didn't have... It wasn't monetized back 00:10:56.950 --> 00:11:01.740 then, yeah. So Ladd Bible stole it and... That's 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:07.019 when it got billions of views. Like I would put 00:11:07.019 --> 00:11:09.360 the hits probably somewhere in the billions at 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:11.899 this point from how much it's been circulated. 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.620 Holy. But my video on YouTube only has a million 00:11:14.620 --> 00:11:20.399 hits. The original. So yeah, like, you know, 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:22.860 I license it out. I made a little bit of money, 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.440 but nothing crazy. Today if it happened today, 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:31.259 I'd probably own an island somewhere So that's 00:11:31.259 --> 00:11:34.840 frustrating now You weren't able to contact it. 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.879 Is it Danny is it Ladd Bible or LAD Bible? I 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.639 never know. Yeah, whatever who cares now They 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.139 should there's no repercussions for that at the 00:11:44.139 --> 00:11:47.259 time. No, they didn't Nobody. Yeah, there was 00:11:47.259 --> 00:11:49.840 nothing you can do. I actually contacted a media 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.090 lawyer and they absolutely they said You're up 00:11:53.090 --> 00:11:55.309 shit creek. There's nothing in writing. Yeah. 00:11:55.750 --> 00:11:57.129 Oh, man. I'm sorry to hear that I'll tell you 00:11:57.129 --> 00:12:00.389 this if it helps we will not promote Vlad Bible 00:12:00.389 --> 00:12:04.250 and I will not follow them dude that is such 00:12:04.250 --> 00:12:09.070 a great story and I just I love the way that 00:12:09.070 --> 00:12:12.429 you were so kind to the animals and but also 00:12:12.429 --> 00:12:17.009 just a hilarious reaction and I I can't thank 00:12:17.009 --> 00:12:20.940 you enough, but Forget that I Know the feeling 00:12:20.940 --> 00:12:23.820 of like being known so I've been on stage or 00:12:23.820 --> 00:12:26.059 in front of a microphone my whole life I remember 00:12:26.059 --> 00:12:29.779 my sister got her own tick -tock and she got 00:12:29.779 --> 00:12:33.720 tens of millions of views of Videos of scaring 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:35.559 me and I'm like, you know, I've worked my whole 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:38.740 life at honing my craft You know in in radio 00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:41.139 and film and music and now I'm gonna be known 00:12:41.139 --> 00:12:42.600 as the guy that got the shit scared out of him 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.100 So there's way more to you than the guy that 00:12:45.100 --> 00:12:48.750 saw a llama. I want to be fair So you worked 00:12:48.750 --> 00:12:53.129 in, you said, TV, and so when you graduated, 00:12:53.830 --> 00:12:55.470 I know you said you didn't really know what you 00:12:55.470 --> 00:12:57.730 wanted to do, but were you more of like a behind 00:12:57.730 --> 00:12:59.409 -the -scenes guy or more of on -the -air guy? 00:12:59.529 --> 00:13:02.850 Yeah, no, I'm a behind -the -scenes guy. I actually, 00:13:03.529 --> 00:13:06.230 I wanted to be a video editor. You've got a great 00:13:06.230 --> 00:13:08.850 voice, by the way. You do have a great radio 00:13:08.850 --> 00:13:11.909 podcast voice. Yeah, no, I do voice acting. Oh, 00:13:11.909 --> 00:13:15.710 there you go. I do freelance, so. Look him up, 00:13:15.809 --> 00:13:19.409 Scott Berkstein, freelance. Steve Steve, what 00:13:19.409 --> 00:13:21.450 did I say? Oh Scott Peterson's the murderer. 00:13:21.509 --> 00:13:24.149 Yes. No, that's another funny thing I get called 00:13:24.149 --> 00:13:27.110 Scott all the time. I just do my entire life 00:13:27.110 --> 00:13:30.289 like Everywhere everybody calls me Scott. I am 00:13:30.289 --> 00:13:33.809 so sad. I also knew and I have a acquaintance 00:13:33.809 --> 00:13:36.169 who's a Scott Peterson I promise I know your 00:13:36.169 --> 00:13:38.230 name is Steve. Obviously. I'm your biggest fan 00:13:38.230 --> 00:13:40.389 Steve Peterson. Look him up freelancing. But 00:13:40.389 --> 00:13:46.230 anyway, yeah, so I After I decided I didn't want 00:13:46.230 --> 00:13:53.480 to do TV anymore. I thought about being a reporter. 00:13:53.700 --> 00:13:56.759 I went out with a reporter. I can't remember 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.779 his name now, but I actually did like the, you 00:13:59.779 --> 00:14:01.919 could shadow a reporter and they'd set you up 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:07.419 and shoot. That's cool. Get some like test reels. 00:14:09.310 --> 00:14:11.730 We're set up, he goes, okay, ready, go, and I 00:14:11.730 --> 00:14:14.870 just freeze. I can't do it. I can't be the guy 00:14:14.870 --> 00:14:17.830 on camera. I'm much better behind the scenes. 00:14:17.850 --> 00:14:21.309 Well, that's okay. That's a good thing that it 00:14:21.309 --> 00:14:24.929 happened that way and not, you know, live on 00:14:24.929 --> 00:14:27.169 the air or something like that. Yeah, so then, 00:14:27.169 --> 00:14:30.309 you know, I took a, excuse me, I took a detour 00:14:30.309 --> 00:14:32.929 for a few years and ended up plumbing. I thought 00:14:32.929 --> 00:14:35.940 I was gonna take over the family business. Then 00:14:35.940 --> 00:14:38.700 I realized that I hated it. It really did not 00:14:38.700 --> 00:14:44.639 want to be a plumber at all. Yeah So I took some 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.960 odd jobs. I was a screen printer for a while 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:52.259 I Did yeah, I worked for a screen printer then 00:14:52.259 --> 00:14:55.419 I started my own shop in my basement worked literally 00:14:55.419 --> 00:14:57.919 across the street of VP supply for a bunch of 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:02.240 years and Then I got a really great opportunity 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.730 where I am now working for government contractor. 00:15:06.090 --> 00:15:08.509 Good for you. It's been quite the adventure. 00:15:08.909 --> 00:15:12.610 I can relate, man, because I always talk about 00:15:12.610 --> 00:15:15.330 this. I don't mean to, but it just keeps coming 00:15:15.330 --> 00:15:16.950 up. But I did. I went back to school late. I 00:15:16.950 --> 00:15:21.169 went back in my 30s and I graduated in 2022 from 00:15:21.169 --> 00:15:22.830 Park School of Communications at the college. 00:15:23.090 --> 00:15:27.470 Shout out. And, dude, I had two years where I 00:15:27.470 --> 00:15:30.509 couldn't. I mean, I probably applied for 75 something 00:15:30.509 --> 00:15:33.360 jobs in. what they call, I guess, digital media, 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.159 which is the new term for television radio, what 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:38.820 we did. And I got to a point where I'm like, 00:15:39.139 --> 00:15:41.559 I guess I'm not just, I'm not gonna work in this 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.559 business. And I worked as a long -term substitute 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:47.399 at an elementary school and bartending, you know. 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:51.019 So I know that feeling of being like, God, I, 00:15:51.340 --> 00:15:54.019 this is what I'm good at. I just can't find a 00:15:54.019 --> 00:15:56.909 gig. I think, honestly, if you want to look at 00:15:56.909 --> 00:15:58.970 Glass Half Full, I think you were lucky that 00:15:58.970 --> 00:16:01.289 you have a family business that you could fall 00:16:01.289 --> 00:16:04.929 back on. You know, I mean, that's a great thing 00:16:04.929 --> 00:16:07.129 to have, and look, everyone needs plumbing, you 00:16:07.129 --> 00:16:11.429 know? So... I don't... I definitely, like, changed 00:16:11.429 --> 00:16:16.549 my life. Sure. I was directionless after college 00:16:16.549 --> 00:16:18.549 and after Channel 3. I didn't know what I wanted. 00:16:19.210 --> 00:16:23.120 The day I got laid off... I had a show with my 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:25.200 band at Dinosaur Barbecue, and then we were leaving 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.940 for tour that day, so I got my severance package, 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.600 and then I had three months off, and yeah. So 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:32.480 you do music as well? Yeah. I was in a band as 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.720 well. What was the name of the band? That band 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.500 was the Andrea Doria. That was a long time ago, 00:16:38.539 --> 00:16:42.649 but you might know my so -called band. Yeah, 00:16:42.769 --> 00:16:45.429 we were yeah, I was the bass player and vocals 00:16:45.429 --> 00:16:48.009 in my so -called band the 90s cover band. That's 00:16:48.009 --> 00:16:51.190 so great We did that for ten years that happened 00:16:51.190 --> 00:16:53.929 like we started that right after the llama video 00:16:53.929 --> 00:16:58.830 So yeah, 90s cover band did that for a long time 00:16:58.830 --> 00:17:02.470 It's fun and it's fun until it wasn't fun anymore. 00:17:02.470 --> 00:17:05.670 Yeah, that's I had a band I had a band as well 00:17:05.670 --> 00:17:09.599 and we did pretty well for ourselves Our last 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:11.599 show we played was in Ithaca. That's where I 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.779 live. And we opened for Tim Reynolds of the Dave 00:17:14.779 --> 00:17:17.420 Matthews band. He has a band called TR3. And 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:20.779 we got off stage that night. And at that point, 00:17:20.779 --> 00:17:22.619 we'd been spinning our tires because things have 00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:24.759 changed so much. You know, we were three albums 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.779 in. It's rock music. People aren't consuming 00:17:27.779 --> 00:17:30.359 rock music like they used to. It's hard to make 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.279 a living doing it. We finished the show that 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.299 night. And because it was we weren't traveling 00:17:34.299 --> 00:17:35.759 together because we weren't on the road. It was 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:39.289 at home. We all kind of like... just said like, 00:17:39.470 --> 00:17:41.789 we all left out of different exit and never like 00:17:41.789 --> 00:17:43.410 said, hey, I'll see you at practice this week. 00:17:43.710 --> 00:17:45.809 And when Wednesday came, we just never just kind 00:17:45.809 --> 00:17:47.569 of ran its course. And I think we were all feeling 00:17:47.569 --> 00:17:50.470 like, just not fun anymore. Once it's not fun 00:17:50.470 --> 00:17:52.769 anymore. Yeah. You're not in it for the money. 00:17:53.289 --> 00:17:56.150 But see, I knew there was way more to you than 00:17:56.150 --> 00:17:59.650 just the llama video. What do you do? So you're 00:17:59.650 --> 00:18:01.750 still working at the at the family home place 00:18:01.750 --> 00:18:04.650 now or? No, no, no. OK. Well, government. Yeah, 00:18:04.710 --> 00:18:11.299 I do a hybrid. Remote stuff cool and a contract 00:18:11.299 --> 00:18:17.839 we What I can say yeah, we make sure that drones 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.700 don't blow people up okay. Yeah, I love that 00:18:20.700 --> 00:18:23.720 It's it's it's good work. It's yeah, it's interesting 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:27.819 Kind of you know, it's It's work. Yeah, I mean 00:18:27.819 --> 00:18:30.279 look work is work. That's what I had, you know, 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:32.720 I always had my decide gigs I always did the 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.960 I do the voice acting freelance. I did the band 00:18:36.299 --> 00:18:39.079 kind of like helps me stay creative. It's your 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.279 creative outlet. Yeah. Yeah, I understand. When 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.660 you're creative and you're not per se working 00:18:45.660 --> 00:18:50.279 in a creative field, you want to scratch that 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:52.299 itch, you know? And so it's important to have 00:18:52.299 --> 00:18:54.559 those outlets or else you go crazy. Yeah. You 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.700 know, until I found this gig, I was just about 00:18:56.700 --> 00:18:57.980 on the verge of insanity because I'm like, I 00:18:57.980 --> 00:19:00.160 don't know what to do. What am I doing here? 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.259 Let's talk real quick before we go about the 00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:04.740 voice acting. How'd you get involved with that? 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:07.420 I mean like I said you have a great voice. It 00:19:07.420 --> 00:19:13.839 was always something I wanted to do and it was 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:17.880 It was tough to like break into it was you know 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.460 Unless you know somebody right unless you like 00:19:20.460 --> 00:19:22.980 have somebody gives you I don't know It's tough 00:19:22.980 --> 00:19:26.119 to like it's a niche opportunity. Yeah, so I 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:33.759 finally I My friend Sarah texted me and was like, 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.500 hey, you're a voice actor, right? And I'm like, 00:19:36.819 --> 00:19:40.380 absolutely. Yes, I am. Yep. Yep. Oh, yeah. My 00:19:40.380 --> 00:19:43.539 friend needs somebody to start narrating these 00:19:43.539 --> 00:19:46.960 audiobooks. No, they were educational courses 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:52.440 for a local company, Pro Literacy. And I narrated 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:55.019 a ton of their started narrating a bunch of their 00:19:55.019 --> 00:19:58.500 courses for English as a Second Language students. 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:02.559 And, yeah, they kept coming back. Then they referred 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.519 me to, like, other branches of it. So I started 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:07.240 working for Pro Literacy of Boston for a little 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.519 while. And then I went on one of the pay -to 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:14.440 -play sites, voices .com. And basically, you're 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.579 just auditioning, audition, audition, audition, 00:20:16.579 --> 00:20:18.940 audition, and maybe you'll land something. I 00:20:18.940 --> 00:20:21.819 had a little bit of luck on that. Good for you. 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:27.059 I paid my subscription back. And then, yeah, 00:20:27.180 --> 00:20:31.700 so... It's slowed down now a eyes. Yeah, I know 00:20:31.700 --> 00:20:34.380 I know a little bit, but I know it's still it's 00:20:34.380 --> 00:20:37.079 still something I do for fun That's great, man. 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.680 So let me let me ask you this It's a perfect 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:43.500 in a perfect world I'm sitting here with you 00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:46.819 and I say you know what you can have your dream 00:20:46.819 --> 00:20:50.019 gig right now in whether it's music voice acting 00:20:50.019 --> 00:20:52.700 Production what what is it that you would ultimately 00:20:52.700 --> 00:20:55.960 love love to do man? You know I would love to 00:20:55.960 --> 00:21:02.839 be That's tough. I know I threw a hard one. We 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:04.940 can edit this so don't worry about don't worry 00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:07.380 about taking your take your time I had honestly 00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:12.160 I love the media Like the media aspect of what 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:18.819 I was doing I miss I Miss Voice acting I miss 00:21:18.819 --> 00:21:22.819 I loved editing videos and it is you know the 00:21:22.819 --> 00:21:25.720 stuff like that I really enjoyed like being like 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:29.450 part of production and creating you know creative, 00:21:29.490 --> 00:21:32.589 creative, creative. Just being in a creative 00:21:32.589 --> 00:21:36.109 environment. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, you know, 00:21:36.809 --> 00:21:41.289 I'm blessed. I'm very thankful for what I have, 00:21:41.690 --> 00:21:45.589 but it's tough to, like, find that now, especially, 00:21:45.690 --> 00:21:49.289 like, with the band done. Well, I still do have... 00:21:49.289 --> 00:21:51.589 I work with my friend Mark on Summer School Electronics, 00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:54.210 the local guitar pedal company. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:21:54.349 --> 00:21:56.450 So yeah, I do all the artwork for that. We do 00:21:56.450 --> 00:21:58.569 some building. We get to travel around. So I've 00:21:58.569 --> 00:22:01.089 still got like my part there. We're going to 00:22:01.089 --> 00:22:04.190 start doing some more long form content. But 00:22:04.190 --> 00:22:06.269 yeah, in a perfect world, it would just be me 00:22:06.269 --> 00:22:08.490 getting to be creative. That's it. You just nailed 00:22:08.490 --> 00:22:11.329 it because before I took this job, you know, 00:22:11.329 --> 00:22:13.529 you know how it is over the years. It was like, 00:22:13.529 --> 00:22:17.150 ah, I'd love to, you know. sell millions of albums 00:22:17.150 --> 00:22:19.390 and get to tour the world or I you know my dream 00:22:19.390 --> 00:22:22.549 was always I want to be on SNL you know and and 00:22:22.549 --> 00:22:24.970 things I've learned that preconceived notions 00:22:24.970 --> 00:22:27.109 really can kill you because I had it all planned 00:22:27.109 --> 00:22:28.890 out how it was gonna happen and as you know life 00:22:28.890 --> 00:22:31.069 it just doesn't happen that way one day you wake 00:22:31.069 --> 00:22:32.609 up and there's a fucking llama running at you 00:22:32.609 --> 00:22:35.829 but uh but what I do know is that I found along 00:22:35.829 --> 00:22:37.690 the way that I was like you know what I just 00:22:37.690 --> 00:22:41.089 want to be paid to do what I love and that's 00:22:41.089 --> 00:22:43.569 to be creative in some capacity and and like 00:22:43.569 --> 00:22:46.339 you it was like You know, I love music. I love 00:22:46.339 --> 00:22:49.160 acting. I love voice, you know, doing radio. 00:22:49.740 --> 00:22:51.619 So listen, we don't know where this is going 00:22:51.619 --> 00:22:54.039 to go. Um, but we're, you know, we're growing 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:58.019 day by day and I can promise you, Mr. Steve Peterson, 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:00.779 that, uh, if there is a job opening, we'll have 00:23:00.779 --> 00:23:02.980 to look you up because, uh, you're a great guy 00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:04.880 and you have brought, I mean, if you go into 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.220 my house right now, and if I said to my kids, 00:23:08.299 --> 00:23:12.079 kids, this is, this is Steve. This is the llama 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:14.700 guy. They'd be like, Because, you know, my son's 00:23:14.700 --> 00:23:17.299 five and this morning I said, I said, bud, I'm 00:23:17.299 --> 00:23:19.400 gonna go meet the llama guy. He goes, you are? 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:22.099 I go, yeah. He goes, can I say one swear word? 00:23:22.220 --> 00:23:24.579 I go, I looked for his mother. Yeah, go ahead. 00:23:24.660 --> 00:23:27.440 He goes, it's a fucking llama. That's great. 00:23:27.900 --> 00:23:31.980 So, dude, you're much more than just the llama 00:23:31.980 --> 00:23:34.700 guy, but I mean, it must feel nice to know that 00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:37.579 that silly little video brought so much joy to 00:23:37.579 --> 00:23:40.200 my family, dude. And we need more of that these 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:43.920 days. Yeah, it's... You know, the hype has died 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:48.519 down, but I'm really glad, like, that I can reflect 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:50.819 back onto all the joy that it's brought. Yeah, 00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:53.160 well, and look at that. And I didn't get killed. 00:23:53.339 --> 00:23:54.900 Yeah, and you didn't get killed. Although, I 00:23:54.900 --> 00:23:56.880 think, do llamas spit? Yeah, that's what I was 00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:59.220 really worried. Like, when I got, like, real 00:23:59.220 --> 00:24:00.819 up close to it at one point, I was like, I'm 00:24:00.819 --> 00:24:03.240 gonna get spit on. Spit on. That might be, like, 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:04.779 you know, the way hockey players love when they 00:24:04.779 --> 00:24:06.700 have a tooth missing. Maybe if you're a llama 00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:08.680 enthusiast, it's like you get spit on a llama. 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:11.119 Maybe it's good luck. Listen, before we go, last 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:13.769 thing. Are there any plugs? I mean, obviously 00:24:13.769 --> 00:24:17.450 your social media handles, the pedals, anything 00:24:17.450 --> 00:24:21.009 you want. You got something coming up? Check 00:24:21.009 --> 00:24:24.309 out summer school electronics, local guitar pedals. 00:24:25.750 --> 00:24:29.009 But yeah, we're growing. It's been a really great 00:24:29.009 --> 00:24:32.849 adventure with one of my oldest friends. And 00:24:32.849 --> 00:24:34.569 he was actually in the band with me. Awesome. 00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:37.960 Yeah, then there it is. You can find me on Instagram, 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:40.880 but it's kind of boring. I just mostly post pictures 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:44.099 of guitar pedals. That's great. People love that 00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:47.059 stuff. Steve Peterson, thank you so much. You're 00:24:47.059 --> 00:24:49.420 a busy guy. Thank you for coming in and taking 00:24:49.420 --> 00:24:52.660 the time to meet me and talk about this silly 00:24:52.660 --> 00:24:55.500 video. And I really do wish you the best of luck. 00:24:55.779 --> 00:24:57.779 And maybe we'll be working together eventually. 00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:00.019 Steve Peterson, what's the name of the pedal 00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:01.880 company again? Summer School Electronics. Summer 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:03.839 School Electronics. We'll make sure we get all 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.529 that stuff. On graphic and put up for you. Thank 00:25:07.529 --> 00:25:10.549 you for taking the time and Good luck with everything 00:25:10.549 --> 00:25:12.049 man. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Thanks 00:25:12.049 --> 00:25:14.470 for watching good news York. Thank you for tuning 00:25:14.470 --> 00:25:14.769 in