Welcome to good news York. I'm your host Matt
major joined by my I Don't even have a good look
alike name today. I know it was vanilla ice and
then I'm gonna be mark McGrath It's really it
should stick with mark. We should just call you
mark someone tell me I looked like You know what,
what if we just went on and on and talked about
how you're Mark McGrath and you're Mark McGrath
is the co -host of my show and we went on and
on about that and we put out like hundreds of
videos where we call you Mark McGrath. Okay.
Do you think the actual Mark McGrath would respond?
I think if it caught, you know, if it got enough
legs, I think... Or would you just morph into
him? Well, I think I would become him. And one
day I'd show up and you're just singing fly.
I just wanna fly. That was the first song I ever
learned and I played at the coffee bar in Herkimer,
New York over and over. I was the fly guy. So
it's kind of funny that you brought that back.
I mean, look, I think we live in a society now
where I think you could probably make people,
I think they would believe I am Mark McGrath.
There's a sector of people that would do that,
but I'm not. I'm Mike Brindisi. Considerable
number of children don't even know who Mark McGrath
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Ray, sir. Dude, last week I slept in your office
after the Dave concert. I thought we weren't
gonna tell people about that. No, but what's
funny is I was still late for work. Like I woke
up and I was getting ready and I'm like, holy
shit, like we're gonna start shooting in a half
hour, I'm not even ready yet. Also, Amanda and
I, our assistant Amanda, who we love, Realized
today that whenever you're not here and Danny
does it too whenever you're not here first thing
in the morning We all immediately catastrophize
like we're like, where's Matt? She's like, oh,
I haven't heard from you immediately. I'm like,
oh my god He's facedown in his cereal. He had
a heart attack Who's gonna call Kristen? Like
it's just like we I don't know why I immediately
go to you last time I had a heart attack. I made
it to work. Maybe that's part of it I just want
to put that out because you have had a heart
attack. He has had a heart attack Didn't really
slow me down. No, certainly didn't but I was
updating a client's website code from the hospital
bed, actually, that day. Dude, you're such a
badass. I think it makes it sexy. What the fuck
else am I going to do? Makes it sexier that you
had a heart attack and survived, and we're still
doing work during it. Like, you have a scar.
I don't really wear that as a badge of honor.
That sounds like I'm one of those work -loving
boomers. No, no, no. No, you're not that I was
half dead and still put in a 17 -hour shift I
pulled up my shelf up by the bootstraps three
dollars an hour if you don't work I was happy
about it if you don't work 40 hours a week You're
a bum 40. What are you a lazy slacker work 60?
No time for my kids and when I know I smack them
around Health insurance, you know what I want
to talk about. Listen, we need a fucking band
-aid It couldn't be possibly my fault for my
shitty life situation. It's everyone else's anyway
We're not supposed to talk about that stuff because
it's good news York and yesterday was Tuesday
Which is usually Tuesday Newsday is but we've
had a busy We've got a busy couple weeks a lot
of guests coming in we have a lot more coming
in so we're gonna do We actually had a guest
not able to make it today, and we thought why
not since we missed Tuesday Newsday will do a
Wednesday News day, can I mention something?
Can I yeah build a little deep tease here for
us? This is really gonna excite the listener
This is episode 49. Wait, what are you being
serious? That means tomorrow Provided that I
show up to work and don't end up down in my cereal
like you mentioned This will be episode 50 of
good news York Matt. That's amazing. Actually.
I didn't know that it is I genuinely am caught
off. I knew we were getting close. Danny had
mentioned it the other day. Yeah. So do we need
to do something? I don't know. Probably. I mean,
we have a guest tomorrow, right? I think we have
a guest. Yeah. We'll have to think about that
tomorrow. I mean, remember that stat? What was
that stat you laid out that most podcasts? It
was like 97 or some percent do not make it to
episode 20. Out of the ones that do, still another
97 percent or so don't make it to episode 100.
So what he's saying we're halfway there 60 %
of the time it works every time we're halfway
there Here's a little news. Hold on. Oh, sorry.
Sorry I know the fight you were just dawned on
me and we didn't talk about this but fuck it
I'm gonna break this news right now. Okay, because
as we're talking about everything we're doing
here in our 50th episode of Good News York You
know, this is part of a strategy that is part
of growth mode content. The point of growth mode
content is to help great local businesses and
brands get their name out there to capitalize
on this social media world. There's great TV
advertising, radio advertising, great billboard
folks. We're not doing any of that. We're trying
to do the thing that nobody else is doing, which
is this social media spot. And we're trying to
focus on that and 49 episodes in, uh, the month
of May just ended. We started doing our numbers
and I'm very excited to say that we had over
half a million views in the content that we put
out in the month of May. Oh, shit. Are you serious?
Yeah. This is not an act. I'm just finding this
out, too. Half a million? I mean, I can tell
you this. This shouldn't actually be news to
you. But to everybody watching, this should be
news. ADHD. This is an incredible thing. And
what it shows is, A, that our model is working.
But be the kind of most basic concept that ain't
our model It's something that everybody in the
content business will tell you is that consistency
is the key We are not necessarily the best and
most interesting podcast in the world yet and
our you know Everything is getting better along
those lines as soon as I get but the reason we're
putting up these massive numbers Already only
a couple months in shit is really because of
that consistency No, you're right. You have said
that you've preached that from the beginning
and it just keeps showing itself Yeah with our
clients and and obviously now with with Good
News York over half a million views I mean, that's
amazing, dude Yeah, you know one of my one month
in one month and one of my favorite quotes was
from Jerry Seinfeld and ironically I'm probably
not quoting it correctly. But basically the gist
was who are these people? But why are we getting
half a million views on oil change now? He said,
he's like, I wasn't always the funniest comedian,
which I could have told him that. But he said,
I lasted, I stuck around consistently while all
the other comics I was coming up with were giving
up or dropping like flies, I just stuck with
it consistently. And I'm not saying Jerry Seinfeld's
not funny. I mean, he's one of the most successful
entertainers in the world. Jerry Seinfeld's like
a virus, I get it. Sure. And what is a virus?
But he, yeah, I mean, and it's kind of the same
deal. Consistency is key and we have been consistent.
And we can you know listen and every time you
think we think that we figured out the algorithms
We we just can't because our what's our most
famous video to date? Still our oil change our
oil fucking change video. It was a question.
I just came up with on the spot when we had Dan
Dan Garcia yep from The Garage of 3100. I don't
remember anything. The Garage of 3100. He was
on here, and I just on a whim thought of the
question, you know, is it true, you hear about
3 ,000 miles for an oil change, but then I've
heard 5 ,000. Can you dispel that rumor? Next
thing we know, you're emailing us, dude, this
thing's got 10 ,000 views, 20 ,000, all the way
up to 130 ,000 views. Everybody's arguing, well,
if it's a Chevy, of course it needs an oil. You
know, people are fighting, which is what you
want. you don't want people fighting but you
know what I'm saying interacting and it just
goes to show you like how we didn't plan that
wasn't even supposed to be a thing and that's
what blew up is really the whole purpose of what
we're doing here Yes, but I'm saying like but
you're really shouldn't act surprised when what
we're doing works well No, but what I'm saying
is like for it to be the cut that The oil no
I mean like for that to be the the oil change
to be the thing that you know It just shows you
it's something that everybody has to deal with
you know that drives a vehicle It's something
that everybody apparently has a fucking opinion
on yeah, and it's it's something that has a lot
of a lot of possibilities I guess of ways you
can go so what you know we're doing our thing
pretty exciting that is exciting short time in
we're putting up some some great numbers and
listen you might go oh yeah well my favorite
youtuber gets a million views a video yeah well
and you're right and what you should do is probably
scroll back and see how many videos they have
because chances are it's in the thousands and
chances are if you scrolled back to their first
49 None of them videos have millions, you know,
it's this steady continual growth and this is
the thing that again we've we've just tried to
drill into people's minds, but In almost everything
you do in business, you know, I am a very hyper
I got great ideas and I got I can see the goal
and I want to see that tomorrow, right? Nothing
ever happens as quickly as you want it to This
is something that requires building and momentum
But the cool part about that is once you get
that, it's way easier to keep the ball rolling.
And like you talked about, we've had this one
video go super viral. We've had a number of others
that have done incredibly impressive numbers
as well. And those all drive each other. And
that's the part that is really cool is it's not.
Can I get a million views on one video? But can
we start to consistently get our message out?
And of course, we're seeing it in the real reactions,
right? Yeah, yeah. We're getting people that
come on the show, people that we see out and
around town. That freaks me out. Commenting about
stuff. The wildest part is when they comment
about something they heard on the show without
any context. Yeah Yeah, they don't start with
hey, I was listening to your show. They go Oh,
I heard you you don't like doing your lawn or
some shit. I'm like, how'd you know that about
me? Oh, right. I talked about put this shit out
in the public. Right. Well, it's because we live
in a world right now, this bubble, that there's
not immediate, it's not live, right? So we don't
know. You know, when you're performing on stage,
you get immediate feedback. For me, people fall
asleep, they throw shit at me. You know, I know
they don't like me. But now, I have to wait till
people come in to tell me they don't like me.
And that's the beauty of podcasting. I guess
if we did really bad, people might like egg the
studio. That'd be cool. We've never had just
throw tomatoes at the outside. I probably shouldn't
encourage that but no, please don't my landlords
What's going on with these tomatoes? Wacka Wacka,
I think I think the big thing though, you know
how you're talking about purely with my favorite
YouTube subscriber gets a million views You know,
I think what that stems from is kind of like
our generation's version of like when I was up
and coming Here coming up and doing music or
comedy. It was always We gotta, we gotta get
that one hit, you know, if you just get that
one hit, you know, and that happens overnight.
And we have this thing, you know, and there's
been cases where people have blown up overnight
and songs have gotten popular overnight. But
my dad always said, like the fastest, the faster
you climb the ladder is as fast as you can fall.
So it's, it's almost better to have a slow rise.
And cause I mean, I can, I can think of probably
a million times in my life where I wanted something
the next day. And thank God that that dream didn't
come to fruition. Cause I I would not have been
ready and I would have fucked it all up. I can
guarantee that. I would rather have 500 views
from people that, like for our clients, I would
rather have them get 500 views on something of
500 people that could be potential business partners
than a million views of people that are just
gonna watch it. That's the other side of it,
too. And it's also why I sometimes even hesitate
to brag about when we have big numbers because
the reality is exactly like what you just said.
It's not necessarily the point. The point is
not, you know, we provide a service primarily
here in upstate New York. So when five million
people see our shit in California. Yeah, that's
cool. Yeah. But when we're talking about growing
our business, does that. Really have that value
and the answer is not necessarily no But when
you're you know, maybe there's like you said
500 potential clients in this area in the region
those folks seeing it and that's what you see
more and more and and that's what unfortunately
some of the numbers don't Lend themselves to
because some of the stuff that I feel like nobody
watched is the stuff that people comment on.
I know. It's weird. And those are the things
that don't have the record breaking numbers.
Yeah. And don't get us wrong. We're not sitting
here like Cremujans like, yeah, that's why we
don't want a million views. Of course, a million
views would be great. We're not saying we don't
want our clients or ourselves to go viral. It's
just it's more about quality than quantity. And
it's the whole thing. This organic thing. Podcasting
in general is about getting to know a person.
It's not about selling the product. It's not
about doing anything else exactly. It's not even
selling you, I wouldn't say. I don't even know
if that's accurate because it's... You're introducing
yourself. It's letting people get that real...
View with that real perspective that you have
that you can normally only get when you're around
another human, right? Right, whether they're
your co -worker whether there's somebody you
interact with you know, you see politicians you
see the president on TV you get clips right and
and you sort of get an idea but Until you work
with somebody so you can spend hours with them
Which is what I sort of and this medium allows
you to do and that's what's great about this
medium too is and again We totally are pro radio
TV billboard advertising all of that stuff works,
but what's great about podcasting is You can
introduce yourself and show who you are to people
and not have to cram it in a 30 or 60 second
spot. And it's just much easier to convey that.
And, you know, talking about views, I think I've
said this before. You know, the reason why less
view quantity over quality with views and likes
is because imagine opening a restaurant and then
you decide to pay for advertising over in California.
But you have a but your restaurants right here
in Syracuse, New York. Well, that's great that
you have a million views on that commercial in
Cal, but nobody's gonna be able to come. So,
you know, again. Millions of views are great,
but it's more about the quality of the views
and likes that you're getting. And as much as
we're downplaying that, I'm pretty fucking happy,
dude. I could not agree more. I'm glad the hard
work is paying off. You gentlemen are kicking
ass. Our editors behind the scenes are kicking
ass. We've got a great team. And the guests.
You know, that's the other thing is people...
People enjoy our banter a little bit. Yeah, they
tune in to hear the guests They tune in to learn
about these things that they don't know anything
about and so we can't thank them enough and We
got an incredible roster of more and we will
continue And you're the you're the GM you're
the coach and we're just the players Yeah, but
you're the man trying to deliver man and all
that all that booking is is really completely
Something that you've done and just as a quick
side note if you want to join us on the show
Yes, if we haven't reached out, please don't
be offended. It's not personal. We're not we
don't have like a priority list We just kind
of know we haven't gotten to you So if you have
something happening or you just have a business
that you think people in New York State might
want to hear about anything reach out and if
you want to comment about anything we're talking
about you know this isn't the editorial page
but yeah anything outside of that I'm glad that
has some positive energy to it I'm glad you mentioned
that because I've been thinking that we should
we should mention yeah if you do want to write
into the show even regarding like what we're
talking about and you want to just write the
show producer at growth mode tech comm is the
email Anything if you want to suggest someone
to come on the show if you want to be on the
show or again If you want to comment about something
we're talking about a news tip positive story
We should cover all right or if you want to send
us food We have an address and speaking of that
don't get that I used to do that dude What back
in the day we used to have a podcast and it was
midday So it was around lunchtime and some of
our listeners would send us food and I got so
fucking fat dude I It was literally a problem
because I do that podcast every day and I would
just do nothing but eat and of course eat the
worst shit ever and Stop at McDonald's on the
way there. And you know, it was look at you now.
You're getting svelte. I don't know about all
that but uh I'm kidding if folks want to send
some free food. That's cool. But I got you not
massive pizzas We used to have a listener back
in the day and I'll let us get to what we actually
planned we used to have a listener back in the
day who everybody who was on our regular show,
they would send him a birthday cake. Jesus. And
they were from, I think this gentleman was in
Georgia. Really? So he found a bakery in Syracuse
that worked well for him. Dude. And he would
call up and order a legit locally made cake.
For every birthday? For every one of our... Kind
of show cast members birthday. What a nice dude.
That's like a complete opposite of a troll. Oh,
yeah Yeah, he's the it was all I don't know what
the opposite troll is some great listeners and
and we still do we got some great fans Yeah,
going in on this show We also got some news.
Yeah, yeah stuff happening. So Bear with us again
because we've had so many again. This is good
news York brought to you by ads on the go It's
not Tuesday Newsday. We had to slide it to Wednesday
Newsday. We are going to zip through these relatively.
We are going to zip through these, yes. But I
know some of you are going to think this first
thing is a little bit of old news, but it'd be
ridiculous if we didn't mention it, especially
because we are Good News York. We got some championships
going on, buddy. Cornell Lacrosse, in my digs
of Ithaca, New York, just won their first national
title since 1977. And that was led by their absolute
star, Mr. CJ cursed who is Just tied the NCAA
record for most goals in a season which is 85
now. I will admit. I'm a I love sports. I'm a
sports guy But I you know lacrosse is not my
strong suit, but that is a lot of fucking goals.
You know I Don't know. I mean lacrosse is bigger
than you think It's well this the thing is like
you hear about this and obviously you talk about
national champions This is a major school and
and this is a major win for them and congratulations.
I just wonder why You know, there's not like
a pro lacrosse league there is Oh, and that's
my second story. Oh, see you there. Well, that's
a good point, though, because I mean, the fact
that I don't know the fact that you didn't even
know that the Buffalo Bandits are celebrating
their seventh national lacrosse, the NLL championship.
They did it at Alumni Plaza. That's their seventh
title and their third title in a row. Three Pete,
which is a Bills fan. I mean, I'm not following
across, but. I don't, again, I don't want to
be obnoxious or to shit on lacrosse, but like,
is that because their league is only three teams?
Okay, well, I don't know how many are in the
league, but, I mean, you really didn't shit on...
It's a fun sport, it's fun to watch. Listen,
it's action -packed, it's a... They sort of have
a weapon, you know? The indigenous people are
the ones that started lacrosse, and somewhere
along the way, of course, we stole that idea
and... And we've made it into a professional
league and it's in college But I do think it
is more of a regional thing and we live in an
area that is well, that's a huge Indigenous descent.
So I the National League, but I really wonder
you know, it's Yeah, are there lacrosse teams
in all 50 states? I don't know. I don't know
Some other news gonna go a little bit local here.
Do you remember? You know the show diners. What
is it diners drive -ins and dives Guy Fieri,
that's the The guy whose blonde hair is slightly
more spiky than yours. Oh god you comparing me
to fucking Guy Fieri No offense to God. He's
got the he's got the blonde goat. He's just very
it's very sharp Very spiky here very spiky. It's
very like 90s metal, dude. Yeah. Yeah, he's very
like the memo that Like if Smash Mouth and Limp
Biscuit had a baby. Exactly. Did I nail it? You
did. I did. Well anyway, Smash Mouth and... Don't
you have a stylist? Isn't there somebody at the
Food Network who's like... Sure. You can't get
tips like that. You're getting a little old to
rock the fucking Limp Biscuit. Yeah, I don't
know. To be fair, I haven't really seen him.
Isn't he wearing one of those ball chain necklaces?
Oh my god, you're talking about the choker with
the silver balls? Yeah. I don't know. I mean
you can't tell me the guy fury doesn't rock around
and Jenko's on the weekend Oh for sure yeah,
and he's got an air walk tattoo on his ass, right?
Top of the flavor town to you Syracuse pub returns
to diners drive -ins and dives that's right kitty
hoines Irish pub in downtown Syracuse everybody
knows kitty. Yeah, it was on the show in 2012
and It said that they wanted to come back They
told they told them that they wanted to feature
a couple of their new dishes and so they came
back this past Friday They featured it, but you
can check that out on the Food Network. Have
you been? Have you been to it? Chitty Hoynes,
of course. See, I don't live in Syracuse, so
I'm late to the party. It's the place you go
if you want an Irish adult beverage. It's also
the place you want to go if you want some legit
Irish food, like the shepherd's pie. It's awesome.
Right in the heart of downtown. Great family
owned local place. Do you remember off the top
of the menu to you? Do you remember off the top
of your head, is there something on the menu
that it's like you got to get that? I mean, honestly,
I think people really love the shepherd's pie.
It's one of those deals where they got a lot
of traditional dishes. And also, I don't think
there's anything that's bad. It's that sort of
place. Yeah. Well, shout out to, I want to say
it properly, what's the proper full name? Kitty?
Kitty Hoins. Kitty Hoins. Kitty Hoins. Shout
out. We love you. Congratulations. That's amazing.
So you can check out that episode. The recap
or the the reprise of them on diners drive -ins
and drive -throughs or whatever it's called on
the Food Network Our friends from hidden level
here in Syracuse are growing rapidly. Yeah so
much so That they are getting noticed by venture
capitalists with a recent infusion of a hundred
million dollars in new investor funding So they're
on track to grow even more right here in Central,
New York They were founded in 2018 to develop
a system for detecting and tracking Hard -to
-see drones that pose a danger in midair collisions
and things like that. The drone businessman is
a business It's a thing for those people don't
know if you're not from the Syracuse area, which
you might not know even just folks that are There's
been a massive investment in drone technology
specifically in our area and The Air Force base
right behind us actually is one of the main Spots
for government drone testing and things of that
nature. So I think that's part of it, but Lots
of organizations public and private investment
specifically in the drone industry have taken
place here. So you're seeing a lot of that rise
up I think hidden levels probably the biggest
and most successful story of all that deal, but
they're doing Awesome stuff. It's just and rapidly
growing creating a lot of very high -paying good
jobs It's good. I you know Good news York. We've
said from the beginning is not just about central
New York It is about everywhere Long Island,
New York City Adirondacks Western New York and
we do talk a lot about things going on here,
but that's because This place but we all know
about micron and that is gonna be humongous,
but there is so much going on otherwise. Everywhere
I go, there's cranes. That's a sign you're in
a good spot when you see this constant building
going on. Micron, hidden level. It almost feels
like it's too good to be true. The amount of
growth going on. It's exciting, dude. We had
been on the other end of the cycle for a long
time, and now it's our time. But people will
still find stuff to bitch about, though. Our
weather sucks. Bitching is our number one export.
No one is better at it than we are. I'm waiting.
We're in that window where, um, people bitch
about how cold it is. I'm so cold. I want the
water. And now we should be, we're a few days
away where someone's going to bitch about how
hot it is. Yeah. Yeah. It is hot today. I can't
deal with this humidity. Uh, well. This is old
news, the beginning, which is, if you remember,
one of Syracuse's biggest hotels closed October
20 to 24. That would be the, um, Syracuse, uh,
the Plaza, Crown Plaza Hotel. Kind of looks like
the Leaning Tower of Pisa would look like if
it wasn't leaning. See, I always said it looks
like the Capitol Records building. I'm a music
guy and I was always intrigued and I told my
wife big round tower It's a big cylinder tower
in downtown Syracuse It looks like the Capitol
Records building and because I'm a child just
because of that I've always wanted to stay there
You know the windows and now I'm finding out
first of all I can't because it's closed and
second of all turns out the 279 room Crowne Plaza
has stopped all operations because they're going
to be converting it into apartments. And I've
been driving by on my way in every day, and they
switched from that really crappy hospital mint
green on the outside. I noticed, it looks like
they're doing maybe new windows. Yeah, it's like
a sleek black, dude. It looks real, like, as
far as just aesthetically for the skyline. The
window frame and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know why I attribute, like, that minty,
bluish green to, like, psychiatric ward. Well,
here's, first of all... I didn't like it. I don't
think it's supposed to be that color. I think
that's sort of the patina of age. So that's one
of the challenges with that. Yeah. Because I
think that was white at one time, what you're
talking about. Probably. You know. Yeah. It's
gonna look pretty sharp as a soon look great.
Is it all but I didn't know they're doing anything
like that Oh, dude, it looks good. It's gonna
look it looks brand new place So I can't stay
there unless I sleep over someone's apartment
So if you're gonna live in the new Crowne Plaza
building and you want me to sleep over there
you go producer at growth mode tech comm I snore
but I have a CPAP One upstate New York County
was in the top 50 nationwide for pay growth and
this is where I want to ask you girl This means
people in that county are getting bigger paychecks
and they were getting less. I will tell you this
The U .S. rank by the percentage of change is
six. They are now sixth. And it is a change of
about 9 .5 percent. Wait, let me make sure I
got this right. Hold on, hold on. Here we go.
Here we go. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. OK. Can you guess
which county in New York has made the top 50
nationwide for pay growth? I'm going to. Yes
Just because it's where we're on in Daga County
on in Daga is incorrect how they however They
are in the top four percent or the top four on
the list The answer my friend is blowing in the
wind. It is Broome County, dude Broom County.
Binghamton area. What is happening down there?
I don't know. But their average weekly pay in
New York counties was $1 ,000. Well, now it's
$1 ,175, the average weekly pay for Broom County.
Suffolk's up there, Dutchess, Onondaga, Westchester,
New York, Oneida, Monroe. But yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pretty exciting. Pay growth is the greatest thing
ever. And a lot of employers like me It's not
something you'd normally hear them say. Yeah.
But I'm with it. Yeah. Looking at this list right
here. Now on there, it looks like Suffolk is
the winner, but it was - Suffolk? Suffolk County?
Suffolk County? Suffolk. Suffolk. Suffolk. Did
I just - Suffolk? Did I just - is that what I
said? Are you Canadian? I think so, eh? How long
have you lived? Sorry about it. Sorry about it.
I uh So folk so folk listen. I know the thing
i've been seeing it is skinny atlas I know it's
tecanic park. I know it's tecanic No, no, i'm
talking about tecanic state park in in ithaca
and the tecanic is the highway. Yeah parkway
I know all the proper pronunciations in new york,
but I don't know what just happened There either
had a stroke or maybe I have been saying it wrong
I think we got to do this bit where we named
towns in new york. Uh, not right now, but not
now So folk so folk wait, no, you don't put this
dress on the folk so folk. It's so folk Suffolk,
it's Suffolk Suffolk Suffolk Suffolk County.
Yeah, it's a folk. Did I really? God damn it
And now I just want to call it that because that's
actually way more interesting. That was number
one. The average pay there was fifteen hundred
bucks a week. That's up nine and a half percent.
See, but Suffolk is listed as the number one.
But when I read the article, it said that Broome
County was the winner. So when I pulled this
chart out, it threw me off because Suffolk Suffolk
is above. Technically, technically, Broome. I
mean, if you want to call it upstate counties,
then OK, maybe that's what it would definitely
be Suffolk. Yeah. I just like it because I feel
like Broom gets a real bad rap, that county.
No, it's great news for them. And I'm happy for
them. I really am. It's great news for them.
I've performed a lot down that way in the way
of comedy, and I've got friends down that way,
and we've been to Binghamton Mets games in the
past. Number three is Dutchess County. Dutchess
County. That's where my grandparents, I think,
were from. Where is that? Peekskill, Westchester.
Peekskill, Fishkill, all that. And then Onondaga.
Interestingly enough, Dutchess and Onondaga are
sort of tied for the... the third spot. They
changed or they grew 5 .2 percent. So I would
say they're sort of tied. No, I just thought
this was interesting. It is interesting. New
York County, which is obviously the city of New
York, they grew by 4 .8 percent. So what that
is telling me is upstate is growing, especially
by a massive higher number. We're growers and
showers up here. It is. I'm see this is what
I'm talking about just a few minutes ago. Look
at all the growth going on man Oneida County
right up the road. They're very high up on the
list. They grew 4 .6 percent. Where's her come
around there? Okay, this is where I grew up.
Where's the opposite list? Where's the? Pay the
decline. I mean the shit on no, we're not only
that's where we grew up Yeah, we're from there.
We can do that. Yeah, we're actually allowed
You're not allowed to shit on Herkimer County
unless you grew up there like us And we're lovingly
shitting on them. It's like an easy poo. This
is interesting. Easy poo. The really interesting
part about this is that this whole massive list
of all these different counties in New York,
all of which are showing sizable, measurable
pay growth. That's huge, man. People want to
knock our state. You can come to almost any part
of it and make more money. And now it's time
to piss off closed -minded people. Yeah! It is
Pride Month. Yes it is. And two institutions
that we love, the New York State Fair and the
Syracuse Mets, are celebrating Pride nights and
Pride days. New York State Fair announced their
Pride Day lineup. You've got Lily Rose, 1 p .m.
at the Chevy Court. This is on August 22nd. Technically
that's not for this month for Pride Month, but
that's their actual... True! It is Pride Month,
but this is... They have a Pride Day during the
fair. Thank you. Thank you, yes. The Pride Day
is during the fair, August 22nd. Lily Rose at
1 p .m. at the Chevy Court. The Neon Trees, they
had a couple hit songs. 6 p .m. at the Chevy
Court. Jesse Murph, 8 p .m. at Suburban Park.
And I don't know how I feel about this, but there's
a Lady Gaga tribute band at 9 p .m. And I just
feel like, is that not kind of like playing into
the stereotype? Like you may as well have like
a Barbra Streisand like. tap -dancing class,
like, you know what I mean? Is it okay? Okay.
Why not? All right. And then our - Who doesn't
love Lady Gaga? Who doesn't love a fake Lady
Gaga? Listen, I love - Just like Lady Ga? Listen,
I fell in love with Lady Gaga when I heard her
on an interview. Or would it be Lady Gaga Ga?
And she said - Lady Gaga goo -goo. She said that
she her ideal night out is going to a dive bar
shooting whiskey and playing the jukebox And
I'm like, that's um, wow, I love my wife, but
that's yeah, she's awesome but also our I did
want to say just along those lines of the Pride
events, if that is something you're into, almost
every area here in upstate New York, every local
area has some kind of event going. There's some
kind of organization that's putting it on. Check
that out. There's parades. There's festivals.
It's awesome. There's cool stuff to celebrate
things. Absolutely. A little note for those that
get very upset. Yep. You should probably understand
that Pride started as a protest. That's right.
It is not something that is a matter of we're
just we just want everybody to know about our
yeah. It is literally a remembrance of people
fighting and losing their lives for the right
to exist. That is not a joke. You know, when
you when you you knock some of these things or
you think it's just somebody selling a break
celebrating what they walk away for fun. Why
don't we get hetero month? It's like, dude, every
fucking month is hetero. Yeah, you're missing
the point. The whole other story. But as always
again, there's some history to it beyond just.
We want to celebrate absolutely and our boys
at the Syracuse Mets tomorrow night Thursday
June 5th is Syracuse Mets pride night At the
stadium they have the pride jersey giveaway deals
on dogs and brews and great music on the deck
So a lot going on in the way of celebrating The
Mets are always doing so many cool events, man.
I wanted to ask you, before we go, of every style,
it doesn't matter what you're into, it seems
like the Mets will have a night for you. The
Syracuse Mets are just... We've had Jason on
the show, the GM, and look, they could fall in
line with many other minor league clubs and,
you know, have ball games and have food, and
every now and then give a giveaway. That place
is a party. Year round every game. There's something
going on and it's not the normal stuff, you know,
like coming up But obviously pride night we just
talked about They have little league night where
anyone who has a kid who plays t -ball or little
league can come and they get to walk around the
field There's Jason always says that blue Tuesday.
There's always I mean, there's always something
going on there and I just I love them man Yeah,
was it was it yesterday or Sunday the Joey chestnut
Joey chestnut. That's right. Thank you Tonight
is that tonight there you go Joey chestnut at
the sucking on some glizzies at the ballpark
is he gonna do his thing there oh? He's eating
wings oh He can't eat other hot dogs he's he's
that's fucking fast. There's a glizzy band you
remember that thin glizzy He's so good at that
the industry says you're not allowed to touch
anyone's hot dog unless it's our approval. You
know what though? You're the star. It's almost
like NASCAR going, you're not allowed to drive
a car. Right. Unless it's on our track. If you
think about it, though, from a business standpoint,
I think that's very fair. Well, yeah, of course.
100 % fair. It's their brand, yeah. Can't go
be giving that away for nothing. But boneless
wings, huh? I don't know. Is that as exciting?
Do you think every meal that gentleman eats is
a competition for him? Does it work? Listen,
we tried to get him on here. I had millions of
questions. How does he train you around? How
is he not fat? Do you think that he like, you
know, it's just like lunchtime and they put a
sandwich in front of him and he he just takes
it to you. You know, what would be crazy is watching
him just eat one hot dog casually, like he's
at a ball game and he does he only eat at competitions
and like he just fasts the rest. Yeah, these
are all valid questions. Normally I would laugh
at that. But I mean, why is 40 ,000 calories
in 12 minutes? You're good for the month, right?
Is that the way it works? Yeah, well they also
need to study his body. Because we need to know
the long term effects of this competitive eating.
And what happened to Kobayashi, man? He got dethroned
by... Listen, I realize he does speed eating,
but I guarantee there's a few of us that have
eaten more hot dogs than that fella. If you did
the hot dog eating, would you do the dunk the
bun? No. Me either. No. I think that makes me
sick. We were talking about this yesterday. That's
fucking gross. It's disgusting. It's really gross.
But is it necessary, though? Well, I mean, it
speeds it up. I mean, you know how bread... The
biggest part is, you know, you're eating bread
and it gets... You can't eat dry bread. I mean,
in your mouth. But the way they... So if you're
trying to jam it down, you know, they wet it
so it just slides down your gullet. That's how
I eat on first dates. I just take my food, I
dunk it in water, because then if they stay with
me, I know they really love me for who I am.
Boneless wings, though, man. Is that as exciting?
Boneless wings. And imagine if they're spicy.
Yikes. I don't want to say this. Just say it.
I feel like I could out eat almost anybody when
it comes to boneless wings. Why did you just
say that? Maybe not speed. Definitely in volume.
Are we going to have to do this? No, because
I'll die. Oh, I don't want you to die. I won't
die. It's chicken. No, you'll just show up. Here's
the thing. In reality, I feel like I would be
somehow doing a disservice to my fat kinsman
if I were to eat the fake... Fat kinsman is a
great band name. The fake... chunks of chicken
known as boneless wings. We all know they aren't
fucking wings. They don't have anything to do
with a wing. They're just a cheap chunk of chicken
that somebody cut up and called wings because
wings got expensive. And somehow they still cost
as much as wings. I don't understand that part
either. But anyway, if you're going to do a real
contest, it has to be real wings. You got to
navigate the bone. I could do a pickle eating
contest. I think I could do pickle eating contest.
I don't even want to get into that. OK. Before
we go though if if there was a wing -eating contest
and this is the lead Danny's like I got fucking
I got game systems to my Mother Danny's excited
because the switch is coming. Yeah, we shouldn't
tell we're not gonna break. Oh, don't gonna make
his line longer I'm sorry. Don't go as if nerds
don't already know this go eat hot dogs What
was I talking about before I was making fun of
Danny? Oh, oh bonus wings bonus wings. Yeah wing
-eating contest. Yeah Would you get the choice?
Oh Would it be random? Or would they provide
an even amount of one bone and two boner wings?
I just love that you said two boner. But, um...
I don't know what you're asking. What are you
asking? Different types of wings. You know how
they got... Oh, you're talking about like...
Like flats and drums? I call it one bone and
two bones. My wife and I are... We like flats.
If we both like flats, when we get wings, I'm
nice. For every paddle or flat I take, I take
a leg, to be fair. I feel like that is the more
popular wing, but I personally am a one -bone
guy all day long. Listen, this could spark another
oil change debate. Let's throw it out there.
So hold on. Aside from my personal preference,
just to answer me this question, if there was
a wing -eating contest that you were to set up...
Would you give people the choice of one or the
other? Would you give them a random assortment,
or would you make sure it's an equal number of
each? So, Mike Brindisi says, who gives a fuck,
just make sure they're all the same flavor and
it's the same number. Just same as you'd get
from the pizzeria, random assortment of 20 whatever.
My producer mind says you're right. It should
be the same, the equal amount. You're right,
because the flats are a little bit thinner, easier
to pull the meat off. You don't want to give
someone too many legs. So I think you do. I think
you're right. I think you have to have the exact
amount of flats to, what is it, legs? To make
it fair, yeah. Yeah, knuckles, legs, whatever.
Yeah, I think you're onto something there. So
I will leave you on this. The one thing that
is very interesting to me is here we get the
regular, we get the bone, and we get the two
boner. things, right? Please, back in the day
when I lived down south, you'd go to a lot of
the restaurants, you'd get wings and the, sorry,
Two Boner also had the extra wing piece. Do you
know what I'm talking about? It's not a piece
you can eat. It's literally just a chunk that,
we're lucky enough most people just lop it off.
I don't. But... I will tell you that down south
when they had those, it was ideal because you
could take that and break it off like a key,
and the meat would slide right off the two bones.
You could do it in one bite. Maybe this is just
a fat kid tip that I'm handing out. There was
a viral video going around where people, this
girl in front of this young man who has eyes
lit up in the background, where she would eat.
Like that. It was a method of pulling the paddle
out. So that's what it allows you to do with
this, because you just break the one end. And
there it is. Literally just one bite the whole
wing. That's some serious... Your Fat Kinsman
would be proud of you. They would, yeah. Which
by the way, that's a great band name, and we
have to go, but I was going to say, because of
the Pride lineup, what are some of the best band
names of all time? Would there have to be like
five guys who look like Drew Carey or something?
He's not even fat anymore. Oh, you're talking
about the Fat Kinsman? Yeah. I'm trying to think
of what they gotta look like, the fat kinsmen.
I think they look like a bunch of Sam Kinesins.
The fat Kinesins. I don't know. Ah! Ah! No, I
won't do that. Blow Danny's ears. Blow Danny.
Oh. We should probably go. Earphones. Two boner.
Um, yeah. Um, wing -eating contest. We might
have to... 50th episode tomorrow. So are you...
50th episode tomorrow, write in producer at growthmodetech
.com. Are you a wings? Are you a paddle or flat
one bone or two bone one bone or two boner? Let
us know I'm interested in that I bet you people
will I feel again I feel like I'm in the minority
on the one bone side, but maybe I'm wrong No,
because I've talked about this before and I thought
for sure that I was gonna win with the flats
You know that people were gonna be like flats
hands down there were a lot of The leg because
there's something about holding it and by the
way people judge wings on the sauce obviously
That's the front door right you should But it's
more it's also look it's got to have the cook.
Is it is it fluffy and coated crispy, you know
all that stuff? That's why it's a gal house.
Shout out my favorite how they pack them. Oh
how they pack them is a very big deal It's like
people judge burgers People don't forget the
bun is a very big part of the burger that could
make or break it Dude, there's a drummer could
make or break a baby. We should actually just
do a whole podcast on wings. Are you kidding
me? I'm a Bills fan. I fucking love the wing
cast wing cast I don't know the fat wingsman.
Yeah Let's go home. All right. See you tomorrow.
Bye. Peace out.