Hey guys, welcome to good news York from my car
Cuz you know we get bored I'm Matt. That's Mike
Brindisi. Nice to see you Yeah, we're gonna do
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what we're doing. We're gonna take a ride to
the beautiful, skinny Atlas Lake. Yeah, I'm excited.
And maybe grab a bite to eat down there. And,
you know, just enjoy what's great about New York.
Even when it's a little cloudy out today. Yeah.
Did you know? I think I mentioned to you, did
you know at home? That some famous people that
live in skinny atlas obviously Jim Bayheim is
as well documented Jason Newstead former V's
player of Metallica wife you have been on the
planet lives there So there might be some slight
stalking going on. Well, did you say lives in
skinny atlas? Oh that dude from Mary's most wanted
there you go John something There's a bunch of
other there's there's ballplayers. There's yeah.
Yeah, there was a rumor that They're occlusive,
scrap metal billionaires. There's all kinds of
people like that out there. Oh, really? Well,
it's a good town. It's a good town. It's beautiful.
A lot of money. You gotta have a lot of money
to live there, I've heard. Nah. I went there,
um... I went there once with my wife's family.
During Christmas, they turned the whole town
into a Christmas carol. Yeah, it was like a Dickens,
uh... Whoa! I did not know where you were going
with that. That's really pretty best Dickens
very loudly and abruptly. Uh, yeah, it's a it's
a Dickens the Christmas. Yeah. Yeah, dick themed
Christmas. It's your get your Dickens Christmas.
Uh, get your dick in. Um, yeah, it's great. They
all dress up. They they Christmas Carol. There's
like horse and buggies everywhere, which You
ever see a horse crap? Yeah, it's massive. It's
unbelievable. Yeah, they have a bag that just
catches it. Yeah, I want one for myself. I knew
you were gonna say that. You did? It was Guaranteed.
Yeah. Well, I mean... It'd come in handy. Yeah,
but before that, you see, you know, they don't
always have that. Like, you see a parade, you
see the animals walking by, and sometimes there's
some poor schlub who's got to walk behind them
with a bucket and just shovel the shit. Quite
literally. In public. It's like a modern -day
public shaming, I feel like. It kind of is. What
do you do? I shovel shit. In parades. I've seen
many horses poop in parades, but Skinny Atlas
was actually where I saw someone walking behind,
just as you described. I feel like every parade
must have been like right after breakfast or
something. They all just let it fly. Yeah, or
they all have celiac disease. I don't know, but
I'll tell you this. It's a massive amount, and
whatever they're paying those people that scoop
it, they need to double it. You think the horse
is doing it on purpose? I'm sure. You think he's
like, you're making me put on this show, I'm
just gonna shit all over the place. You know,
if you're gonna make me march in this parade,
I'm gonna make it a real shitty time for you.
I just gotta wonder if a horse normally shits
that much all the time. That's a great, that
is a valid question. Or do they only shit at
parade times? And unlucky for us. And maybe does
the perc, or does the perc, parade? Provoke more
shit because they're nervous because there's
so much noise and people I mean, I mean these
are could be scaring the shit out of these horses
These are questions that that matter to America.
They do Merica Merica Well, we're gonna find
out because we're not really gonna find anything
out about horse shit Well now we're not not with
that attitude. What if I find someone, you know
in our travels today and I'm like, hey, I mean
There's a good chance we might encounter a horse
farm on the way to Skinny Atlas, but I feel like
anything we could possibly do to approach them
would get you kicked in the nuts by a horse.
You know, that's something that annoys me right
there, by the way. Horse kickings? Folks, if
you're going to run alongside a road... How dare
you exercise in public? No, no. Or walk. Do it
on the left side of the road. Facing oncoming
traffic, it is... It is basic safety. That way,
if someone's distracted by their phone. You can
tell this kid's dead with a cop. You can see,
yes. You are supposed to run against traffic.
He's right. Not by law. I'm saying for safety.
Because if someone's coming, you'll see them
swerving. If they're behind you when they swerve,
you're fucked. You're horse shit, literally.
You're smashed. Now, a bicycle, on the other
hand. You're supposed to be on the right, which
I don't care. You've got to ride with traffic,
because you're like a vehicle. Yeah, but. Annoying
as fuck vehicle, but you're like a vehicle. Bikers.
Got an argument with a bicyclist the other day.
Yeah, pretty sure I was in the wrong, but I was
In the middle of an intersection and everyone
in the other cars were like what to me and I
was like, I think I made the wrong move in anyway
Bicyclists I don't under my whole thing is this
is why I'll never hmm. I will never own a motorcycle
because When you're on a motorcycle or a bike
right and you get in an accident, right? At the
very least, you're going to be very, very sore
and scraped up. And then at the very worst, you're
going to be dead. In a car or some sort of closed
vehicle, you have a chance. And I'm also 5 '6",
so I can't operate a motorcycle. Would you ever
drive a motorcycle? No. Yeah, good. I don't want
to. No, here's the thing. My dad does. My dad
recently had a motorcycle. He had a license since
before I was born and hadn't owned one for many
years. And in his retirement, decided he'd get
one again. It's never been my thing and here's
the thing when I was a kid I rode my bicycle
like everywhere I went I was I was one of those
kids that put a hundred miles a day on their
bicycle Jim pegs and no, but I also took I Don't
know how many epic spills on that bicycle my
legs were cut to shreds and all times every summer
right and so When I think about that and I think
about that same thing, but it's 60 miles an hour
Like I'm just gonna be dead like it doesn't it
don't make no sense it That's correct. That's
right. That's a microcosm of what your whole
body would look like if it was And by the way,
I tell my kids all that falling at one mile an
hour onto the sidewalk is a little different
than you know at 60 you could stop at a stoplight
and fall to the side at zero miles an hour and
get hurt I tell my kids all the time though.
I said listen, you know, my son will come in
crying Oh, I scraped up my knee and I was like
listen you're gonna If your knees are not scraped
up for 90 % of your childhood, you're not doing
it right. So, I mean, I mean... I'm with you
on that, actually. You ever had your bicycle
seat fall off by accident and then it goes up
your... No, you fucking weirdo. I know. Mine
was not on purpose, believe it or not. Did you
do the cards and the spokes? No. Me either. I
could never figure those out. It was like a 70s
kid thing. Who fucking does that? I know. It
was kind of a... It was a... I didn't. So here's
the thing. I was a nerd. I was. Uh... I had every
type of gadget attached to my bicycle, including
an alarm. I had a bike alarm on my bicycle that
I used to ride to school when I was a kid. It
had a fucking T -pad and a security unlock code.
If somebody moved it, it was like a car alarm.
The alarm would go off. It was meant to be literally
like a steal my bike alarm. Oh, wow. But it also
had like a PA speaker. And like a siren and shit.
Yeah, it was the coolest thing. That is wild.
I don't know if it was really that cool, but
Remember the club in the cars. Yeah, that's the
big thing so on our way to Skinny Atlas. Yeah,
I might as well do Tuesday Newsday, right? Yes,
which by the way that reminds me Did you see
there was a social media video making its rounds?
I love when people turn right on the left plane.
That's great Where I got so they they list off
all these names of towns in New York State. Oh,
that's the best part I know exactly what you're
talking about. Yeah, so skinny Alice. He was
like My favorite I will always call it because
of one of those videos skinny delis skinny delis.
It's the best I thought that person was pulling
up from I love that. That's wild. They have a
tough time with skin neck We definitely have
to do this, because here's the thing, as much
as there's a bunch of those names that I see
and I'm laughing at these people trying to figure
them out, there's some other names in New York
State that I don't know how to say right, and
I look just as stupid, and we should pick into
those. One of my favorite is Cocksacky. Oh yeah,
I've always been a big fan of Cocksacky. Yeah,
someone played a prank on us, I'll tell you that.
But anyway, listen, it's Tuesday Newsday. I didn't
forget, I brought some news stories. I love it.
And I have this idea, I wanna see what you thought.
I decided, because we talk about how it's good
New York, obviously our studio's in Syracuse,
we talk a lot about Syracuse, but the whole idea
is we talk about all of New York State. The Adirondacks,
Western New York, Southern Tier, Capital Region.
We're leaving the county as we speak. We're leaving
the county, so obviously I'm not full of shit
completely. And uh... So today I went through
and I found news from each region. I think I
want to do it that way. Noice! But here's the
sad part, and honestly would just... Did you
bring the trombone? I didn't. Fuck, that's probably
good for all of us. I need a sad trombone for
not bringing the sad trombone. But yes, I think
this justifies why we exist. It was so hard to
find positive news stories. Like when we do actual
Newsday, Tuesday Newsday. And I just think to
myself, this is frustrating. And then I realized,
well, actually, that's why Good News York exists.
Because 100%. There's a lack of it. But we're
just talking about bikes. And no BS. There happens
to be. This is our first Tuesday News Day story
from the Southern tier, Finger Lakes Reason.
Hornell, New York. Have you ever heard of Hornell?
I think there's a college there. I'm thinking
of Cornell. Yeah. That's an easy mistake to make.
Everyday heroes don't always wear capes. Sometimes
they quietly go about their business. Larry Pelkey
refi - refired? Retired a few years back, and
he knew he had to stay busy, so what he's been
doing, he's become a bike repair shop. But he
doesn't sell any. They're all free, like a hundred
percent. And he - Rebuilds these bikes and gives
them away to children in need of bikes. He gave
noise one thousand one hundred and five free
bicycle day old children over the last Three
years Larry the bike man was recently wrecked
like a bike a day. Yeah, thank you doctor away
Was recently recognized by Cornell's mayor people
often send them letters of thanks At least take
it to he's taking in more than 150 donated bicycles
from the nonprofit our community bikes of Rochester
so You can look him up. He's finally filed as
a charity, so you can actually donate money to
help him out, because he invested $10 ,000 of
his own money to make this happen, and he does
it out of the goodness of his heart. And I absolutely
love that. So I thought I would pull that story.
You ever work on your own bike, Mike, when you
were a kid? No. Well, yes. You had to. My main
gig work working on my bike as a kid was getting
my shoelaces out of the ball Yeah, tie around
the pedals or the chain and my chain falling
It was the worst and we had to put it up, you
know upside down. Yeah. Why did it happen so
much? I feel like that shouldn't have happened
as much. Yeah, I feel like I Think if there was
one thing when they were building the bike. They
were like, let's make sure the tires don't fall
off and the chain stays on and yet the tires
neither occurs Usually I mean my tires stayed
out thankfully, but yeah Yeah, so I mean look
riding bike was riding bikes were worth it. I
don't see that happening very much I don't want
to sound like you look at this look at this guy
with the leaf blower blowing off the edge of
the road Yeah, that's great. That's how nice
skinny outlets. That's we're not in skinny atlas
yet, but yeah It's just somebody taking good
care of their property. You know what's the worst
is when you see people usually it's the opposite
They're blowing their shit into the road which
is illegal Because it's ridiculously dangerous.
Yeah. Because you think about a motorcycle comes
by. We were talking about a bike. Yeah. They
hit that wet stuff and, again, crash at how many
miles an hour on a bike and you're fucked. What
are your feelings on in the winter? You're snow
blowing your driveway and you blow snow out into
the road. Yeah, that's a big no -no as well.
Yeah. Because from From a snowblower's perspective,
it's like, well, what am I going to do with it,
right? I got it. I'm sorry. I got to put it somewhere.
To a driver? It's terrifying. It's like little.
Yeah, it's horrible. Like slippery patches of
snow. Right. Right. Which, man, I've saw. Snow
blowing's no joke. It's snow blowing. It's also
a horrible thing to do. Like, I don't know. I've
made that mistake as an upstate New Yorker. I
don't know. I would never do it again. I enjoy
it. But the price of one snowblower is like four
years of paying a plow guy, and I don't have
to get out of my bed Yeah, there's an app. No,
you can just like order a plow plows and mows
mows and plows guys and Manliest created. Yeah,
that'd be a good band name plows and plot like
Crosby still plows and mows. I Don't know about
that. Wait, what was it? What am I thinking?
You know what? What was that band? Two names.
I'm blanking out. I know the song now, too. Who
is it? Hall and Oates. There you go. Hall and
Oates. What I got? Well, anyway. Actually. Is
there more to this story? No. I saw once. There's
this band from Pennsylvania. Before the pandemic,
they came to Ithaca regularly. I don't know what
happened. Hopefully they're alive. No bullshit.
They were called, I believe they were called
Hall and Motherfucking Oats, but it was like
the abbreviation. Okay. This is wild. They were
a Hall and Oats tribute band. Yep. Okay. But
they would open by being a tribute band for talking
heads. Or maybe it was the other way around.
They were Talking Heads tribute band, and they
would open up for themselves as a Hall and Oates
tribute band. So they were two tribute bands,
and they would do both shows. That sounds borderline
psychotic. It was borderline psychotic. And the
singer dressed up just like David Byrne from
Talking Heads in the suit, and he moved like
him, and he sang like him. Because here's my
thing. You really owned the part, huh? If you're
going to be a tribute band, I want the whole
thing. I want you to look like them, sound like
them. I can respect that. You know, like there
was a member of Brownies and Herkimer back in
the day. I lived there. Yeah, me too. That's
probably where we saw each other a lot. Yep.
There was a band called the Soft Parade. They
were a Doors tribute band. And they went as far
as to the singer who looked exactly like Jim
Morrison. He would have a bottle of Jack Daniels.
He actually overdosed. He actually overdosed.
He had a... I mean, he would drink it on stage
like Jim Morrison did. I'm assuming it was like
iced tea, but... They went the full gamut. And
I don't know about you, but if you're going to
be a tribute band, you got to really play the
part. Yeah, like that's just you can't because
then it just looks weird. You know, in some cases
you can't help. You don't look like them, but
at least make the effort. You know, I'm with
you there, buddy. I don't even know how we got
here. We start talking about bikes, you know,
and look where we are now. Yeah. We're on our
way to Beautiful Skinny Atlas. Do you think we
have a chance to see Jim Bayheim? No. Or Jason
Usta? Probably not. Way to be negative. We might
run into somebody from Profound. It's about our
best chance. I mean, that seems to happen everywhere
I go with you guys. Well, they do own half the
skinny ass. That's where Jeff is. We should have
messaged Jeff. Oh, I think he's out of town.
Jeff's gonna say that Jeff Lambfear lives here?
Yeah. Skinny. Yeah, it moves. Carman Dan's got
a boat out here, too. You invited me out on it.
That's cool. I haven't met you yet. Years ago,
my sister graduated from Kyuka College. She's
got her master's there. And we were driving from
Ithaca to Kyuka College for the graduation. And
there was, so it would be going from the Finger
Lakes going from from Kewka Lake all the way
over to Kewka Lake and in between Seneca and
Kewka Lake I drove by this field and There had
to be 30 Amish kids full garb, you know, they're
cute little outfits which I love suits and suspenders
and bonnets and all their bicycles were in a
pile because they all went there girls and boys
playing laughing playing baseball No cell phones.
Like real humans. Like real humans. And that's
when it dawned on me. The fucking Amish got it
right, man. All these years growing up, we'd
be like, oh, Amish, you don't know how to use
a toaster. Right? Meanwhile, look at the hell
we're in because of social media and misinformation.
And they're happy playing stickball in a fucking
field because that's what life's really about.
Human social connection. No, that's just all
anybody ever shows. Yeah. Well, whatever. But
it's funny how we used to think - Just wait till
Rumspringa, bitches. Yeah, Rumspringa, that's
crazy shit. Uh, but wait till, you know, we made
fun of them. Growing up. Not me. Well, I'm sure
I didn't even know that. But, you know, people
would make fun of them for being weird and it's
like, now we're weird. Look at us. I mean, we
are weird. We're all fucking - You got me there.
Coming up with conspiracy theories and wild shit.
We should be playing stickball in bonnets and
suspenders, man. I'm with you. I mean, I don't
know about the wool, but you know, sometimes
that shit gets a little warm, but... Yeah, wool.
I wouldn't do well with that. I don't want to
wear wool anything. Right? Like, who decided
wool was it? Same thing with wicker on. I don't
want a wicker table. Total other side of the
world, but I'm with you on that too. Why do you
want a table that has no flat surface? Yeah.
Doesn't make any sense. No, I don't need wicker.
My mom had a... The whole rule of wicker stuff.
Oh dude, you and me both. God. Wicker. Wicker.
Anymore news? Oh yeah, fuck. We're five miles
from scan. Uh, this is a good one. Oh, here we
go. On Tuesday news day, keeping it rolling,
we went from the southern tier to now we're going
to the capital region. Which, side note. Man
out of all the new capital city out of all the
news. I read today's, you know farming stories
out for good news Not a lot of good news coming
out of the capital region they need it so we're
gonna provide it That's not even a political
no, it's not Girl Scouts give back 17 K blocking
yourself in cookie boxes That's right. What do
you mean give back several local nonprofits and
active service members around the capital region
received boxes of Girl Scout cookies During the
annual cookie season, officials with the Girl
Scouts of Northeastern New York said 17 ,719
boxes of cookies were donated through the council's
Gift of Caring program. That's a lot of cookies.
They let customers buy cookies that are later
donated to local nonprofits, military support
organizations, and food pantries. And I got to
tell you, these are the charities that benefited
from it. St. Luke's. So just to be clear, people
donated or the Girl Scouts donated? The so the
gift of caring lets customers buy the cookies
that are later donated Let me see the American
Red Cross, where is it shipped 5 ,000 boxes?
So this is a group effort that's a group after
They benefit a bunch of charities. But to me
the real story is it's 2025 we've seen so many
things change Girl Scout cookies are still fucking
king. And they're still making a difference.
Because you know, there's a lot of things that
are now outdated. You know, with social media
and everything. But not capitalism. And not when
a little girl comes up and says, would you like
to buy some? Well, you know, it doesn't hurt
that the cookies themselves are like crack. What
are your go -tos? As a parent of Girl Scouts.
And my wife does the whole cookie thing. So we
had, you know, truckloads of cookies around.
But, you know, we had to buy in cases ourselves.
Finmints will never not be the best thing ever
made. You're the only one that's ever agreed
with me. What? No. They're the most popular cookie.
Period. They're so good. They're the best. I've
grown to love Tagalongs. What was the... Like
the brown... With the dark Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, you know anything hold them. Yes. Yes.
I always shit on those I'm just blanking out
of them. Those are like the second most popular.
Yeah, I used to hate those now I love them. I
love them. They're they got some coconut of them,
you know Look a blanket on what they're called
a bad girl. Come on girl scout dad What is the
etiquette for you on like let's you know You
own two companies at this point Sharpie. What
is your etiquette on bringing the Girl Scout
thing to work? Do it. Yeah. Why not? And hitting
your coworkers up. Because a lot of people bitch
about that. They're like, oh, you put us in a
terrible position because we can't say no. And
then if one guy does it. You can't say no. So
first of all, that's a you problem, right? I
agree. Because you 100 % can't say no. And nobody
has to buy anybody else's shit. And I would say
don't buy it just to buy it. But, you know, again,
that's what I'm saying. Like Girl Scout cookies
are good. There's a lot of people that sort of
look forward to those. So you're, you know, if
you're offering them, take it or leave it. It's
totally cool. But, you know, I've seen a lot
of people in workplaces and, you know, maybe
a quarter of the people buy it. That's totally
cool. All right. So what happens? What's the
etiquette on? You know, and here's the thing.
I'll give you this. If you want an easy out.
My niece, I bought from my niece. I got somebody
at home that that's the out is selling. Is that
the Girl Scout cookie version of, oh, I'll catch
you on the way out to the salvation? Yeah, sort
of. And the other thing is, though, it's almost
very frequently true. You know, you have a close
family member, you already bought him or some
kid fucking beat you to knock it on the door.
And you're like, all right, I already got a case
of Girl Scout cookies. I'm not ordering more.
That is the valid. It's a valid move. If you
care enough to give an excuse. I personally...
Because what happens when... I'm the same way
at, you know, the checkout. You know, you're
going to the checkout. Like, do you want to donate
a dollar to whatever? No. Sure. Like, it's okay
to say no. You're right. You're right. And I
don't always say no. What happens when coworker
A comes up and says, hey, my dog... And then
coworker B comes up, I don't know, maybe a couple
hours later? God, do you have to buy Coworker
B's cookies because you bought Coworker D's?
You don't have to. You could. No. You could split
the order between the two. You could just say,
uh, you are slower than Jimmy. Yeah, that's true.
Early bird gets the worm. Welcome to capitalism.
Welcome to capitalism. What? No, you - Too slow,
little girl. Listen - You fail. Somebody else
got the sail. Early bird gets the worm. Teach
it. Grind harder. Teach me how to - Tie a knot.
You're gonna starve now. Go hock your cookies
for a discount. We're talking about the Salvation
Army bell ringers. They must be struggling because
nobody carries cash anymore. They must do a credit
card thing now, right? Can they? Oh, I don't
know. That's a great question. Why does that
truck look like a dog? I don't know, it's a...
What is that famous white cartoon dog that it
looked like? I'm trying to think of the name
of it. You know what I'm talking about. Oh, geez.
It looked like a specific dog. Are you thinking
of Clifford, the red dog? No. It's a white face,
like a cartoon. Uh -huh. I know where you're
going. Droopy. It is droopy. That's what I was
going to say. Droopy dog. Droopy dog. Are we
in? By the way, are in. Beautiful, skinny ant.
Let's rapidly approach downtown. Skinny -dallys.
Skinny -dallys. Thank you. German for a whale's
vagina. I don't think that's true, Bob. No, it's
not. It's Anchorland. This is a beautiful little
town, man. It reminds me of, like, Cooperstown
meets Geneva. I don't know. That's a weird combination,
but I think I understand what you're trying to
say. I'm going to aim for the parking lot. Hey
-o! Okay. The nicest part about Skinny Atlas,
big old parking lot right in the middle of town.
Question is whether or not there's any spots.
Just kind of like... Cooperstown. It is very
much like Cooperstown. Yeah, I'm getting the
Cooperstown vibe. I've been here before, but...
Well, you know, it's affluent touristy. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. So it's a very similar... Less baseball,
more boating. That'd be a... You know, I'll tell
you what. That'd be a fucking... Day trip for
good news York. Yeah, we're going on that way
Got a lot of good restaurants there We were they
filmed we should we should pack up Jason's moral
and go to the baseball all would be fucking awesome
actually So they filmed a legal part of a league
of their own or even a couple imagine if we can
get a couple You Syracuse Mets and just bring
to the hall Do you remember? Do you remember?
21st. Well, you didn't really follow sports,
but every summer they would have the Hall of
Fame game in Cooperstown where they would take
two baseball teams and they would bust them wherever
they were from up to Cooperstown to play like
a preseason game. And you would just wait out
in the parking lot and shag fly balls with your
glove and your friends. That was great. All right.
Sounds like a blast. So we are here at Clovers.
Yes, we are in Skinny Atlas. Sorry. This place
is awesome. Dude, this place is fantastic. I
think I got, I thought I did. Oh, I got it. You
got it. Perfect. Thank you so much. So they got
free Wi -Fi, which is cool. Yeah, and they give
you the password on the menu, which sounds kind
of the point. Yeah. You know, some places are
just like, you ever notice like some public places,
you're like, hey, what's the Wi -Fi for the right
girl? You'll never find it. As an IT professional,
I strongly recommend that people don't provide
public Wi -Fi. There's an old man down the road
next to the old oak tree. You talk to him, like
it's almost impossible. I got, I got this really
cool service with my phone that gives me internet
wherever it goes. It's really, it's super handy.
Where you are against Wi -Fi. Yeah, you shouldn't.
No business should provide public Wi -Fi. Oh,
I can't argue with that. It's just not. You should
want Wi -Fi, no, right? You don't have service.
For one reason. You don't have any service. I
have great service. I do not. Well, you have
a fucking iPhone. Do you have Verizon? No, I
have an Android. How do you have Verizon? Uh,
anyway. But if it's a matter of no service, wouldn't
you get more Wi -Fi? Wouldn't you get Wi -Fi?
I mean, I guess, but... Yeah, well, that's one...
still would never put my phone on some random
public network anyway. That's fair. And it's
like, I won't tell you what that's like. So back
to the restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This place
is awesome. This place is awesome. It's a great,
I don't know, it's, well, it's Clover's Cafe,
right? So it is, and it's that kind of cafe diner
-ish vibe. What a great lunch and breakfast spot.
It's got, here's what I love about it. Well,
there's a lot of things. First of all, it smells
fantastic. It's clean. It has a diner feel, but
it's contemporary. It's very modern. But not
one of those jam -packed diners. No. I love it,
man. That's almost like a... You ever been to
one of those places that it's good, it's great
food, but it's so packed and it's so small that
it's like a concert where you can't hear the
people at your table speak? Yeah. That is a problem.
It's a great place. This is great. It's busy,
but we were able to walk in at like a little
after... Probably the biggest lunch run. Yeah,
but we have a walk right in credit table Pretty
excited about what we got coming. It looks really
good. This is big with me Breakfast all day.
I love that. Yeah, I Love that. I don't know
that you did and I didn't know that and I probably
would have ordered breakfast But you know what?
I'm glad I ordered the weights. Here's the thing.
You ordered chicken I was thinking about chicken
wings. I'm glad one of us got them so we can
find out The kind waitress who, by the way, has
been phenomenal. Yes. Spoke very highly of the
wings. Yeah. So I am a wing connoisseur. So am
I. I may regret. We might just have to switch
meals. That's fine. Yeah. You can have some of
mine. We're like a couple. I am a wing burger
guy. I'm not feeding you, though. That's fine.
Really? Not baby burgers. No? No. I uh, when
I go to a new town or a new place, I like to
try a burger or wings. I like to jug. I consider
myself a pizza wing burger connoisseur. So what
the wings are? Good old American boy. Well, see,
people get hung up in the, oh, sauce is so good.
Yes, of course the sauce matters. But if you're
doing traditional buffalo, you know, the sauce
should relatively taste the same. It's the quality
of the wing. Is it coated? Is it? you know with
starch or or I mean that's half bread crumbs
that's half I think you're you're right that
the cook is the cook is the cook is as if not
more important than the sauce it's underrated
people will talk about the cook enough you're
right but a good wing sauce it's not gonna make
a bad cook good correct but it'll take a decent
wing and make it phenomenal right but a bad a
bad cook can take it that'll ruin everything
100 % It's like a drummer in a band, right? A
great drummer will make a bad band sound good.
A great band with a bad drummer make you sound
horrible. Kind of. Something like that. But yeah,
it's not. But it's the quality of the wing itself.
Is it very meaty? Did they coat it with red crumbs?
Did the chicken go to school? Was it well -rounded?
Was the chicken a family man? Was he a piece
of shit? What did he vote for? Was he free reign?
Right. These are all the things we want to know
right and in here at Clover's they hand -picked
the best chickens all the time You think Jason
used to never eat here? I don't know maybe You're
very obsessed with this guy. Yeah, then the Talbot
said almost almost danger There's not like an
order to keep you away from his home. I think
we should yeah, right I don't know where he lives.
I googled it. Yeah, big fan. Yeah Once he was
gone skinny Atlas is a beautiful town full of
very successful celebrities, all kinds of, and
lots of great everyday families. How often do
you think so many of those big names are seen
around town? I'm going to say almost none. Well,
hopefully, what's the date? Hopefully July, it's
a big day for celebrities to come downtown. Well,
because here's the thing, right? Part of the
reason they live here is the lake, and we're
going to take a look at the lake once we leave
here. And they have big places and a lot of land.
And I think the whole idea is to just kind of
Be on your own and not be bothered, right? This
is a very... Someplace beautiful where you don't
have to deal with the people. I don't know, that's
my idea. Maybe I could be wrong. This town very
much has the vibe of like... We know you're here
to relax and we're not gonna bother you. Yeah.
It's a good call. It's a good... It's nice. It's
very nice. Everything about this town is clean,
quiet, nice. No riff -raff. God, I'm getting
old. That is a riff -raff. No riff -raff. No
ruffians about? None of those ne 'er -do -wells
running around the streets? I don't know what
you just said, but it worries me. You never heard
of a ne 'er -do -well? Nope. You know, when Danny's
filming, I can see how many times he does this.
Yep. Not when we're in the studio, so he does
that a lot with me. That's true. That's fair.
He's not judging you, he's just, you know. Could
be judging. Younger and easily shocked. Think
it'll be funny. Let's uh, why don't we take a
break? Yeah, we'll come back with some food in
front of us. We'll do it. Hold on One two three
poop that So We got our food do your wings smell
they smell great incredible your your plate the
eggs look amazingly cooked I Got the meat lovers
omelet It's got hash. Love me some hash. Corned
beef hash. Look at the steam coming off mine.
Now, I will say, one of the first things I look
at, as I talked about, is the wing itself. Now,
these are a little smooth, which makes me nervous,
because I like texture on my wings. I like them
to be either coated or... That's weird. Wings
aren't supposed to be coated. No, you know what
I'm talking about. You spent too much time at
Hooters. Never. I went once. Their wings were
terrible. Um... Alright, dig into the wing first.
Absolutely. The cook, the sauce, everything we
talked about. Very good. He likes it. He likes
it. Mike, he likes it. Mike, he likes it. Buffalo
sauce is perfect. Nice. Believe it or not, you
can mess up a medium sauce very easily. You won't
realize it. Proper hot sauce is nothing but hot
sauce and butter. Mm -hmm. Try to get fancy with
it, you've failed. Well, there's other things
like garlic powder and vinegar that goes in it
very little, but this is great. Awesome. All
right, let's see what we got on the breakfast
side here. What do we got? I'm gonna dig into
my omelet here. It's very full of meat, which
is everything I love in life. These are nice
and crispy too, by the way. Very full of meat.
Use a knife like a civilized person. I 100 %
made the right choice to go on breakfast. I can
tell. Yeah, yeah. This is actually, swings are
getting better with every bite. I couldn't be
happier. Crispy Clover Skinny Atlas breakfast,
lunch. Just come here and eat. A plus. So this
has been a great little road trip. This is awesome.
We're going to do more of these. Skinny Atlas
is beautiful. Yeah, it is. And it's close. And
it's a great reason to hop in the car and come
visit. As you can see, we just kind of scratched
the surface, but they've got gorgeous boat rides
you can take out on the lake and bring your own
boat on the lake. Don't mess with me. We took
a nice walk down the pier. That's not like a
euphemism. We really did. People fishing out
there just enjoying. the summer in central New
York, and it's also bad. Watch out for Judge
Ben Wiles. Yeah. It's apparently his boat. Yeah,
I guess so. And yeah, they say Jason Houston
lives in Skinny Atlas. I haven't seen him one.
Yeah. Luckily, we got to get out of town before
we get caught for stalking. But great lunch at
Clover's. Great time in Skinny Atlas. Going to
take the short ride back. And Finger Lakes. That's
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