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Hey folks, Matt Major from Growth Mode Content.

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Welcome to Tuesday Newsday on Good News York,

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joined by the Hulkster Jr., I guess. Yeah. My

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buddy, Mike Brindisi. Hey, buddy. Yeah. And Mike,

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you got a fella today. Do we ever have somebody

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with us? Good News York sponsored by ads on the

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go get ads on the go dot com. Bring to you a

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legend. in the wrestling, not this kind of wrestling

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in the real wrestling world. If you are a wrestling

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fan, you know who he is. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Mean Gene Mills is here and Gene, welcome to

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the show. And thank you so much for taking the

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time to to come here. So a little quick backstory.

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The way I got hooked up with Gene was we had

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Diana on from David's Refuge. They had mentioned

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that they were doing a charity golf tournament

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and the NFL Alumni Association, the Upstate New

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York chapter. They choose a different charity

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each year for their golf tournament, you know,

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proceeds to go to. And David's Refuge was that

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recipient. So the wheels started turning and

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I thought, well, that would be great to shoot.

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And so we went and I shot some footage there.

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Gene happens to be the, is it the head of the,

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what's the proper term? The event director. the

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event director of the golf tournament for the

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NFL Alumni Association. And, you know, before

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we went, I like to do a little research and I

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typed in Gene Mills and holy hell, man. Hmm.

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Listen to this. I'm going to do this for you.

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Here's his record. One thousand three hundred

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and fifty six wins, forty six losses. One tie.

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New Jersey state champ, high school national

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champ. NCAA career pin record, 107 pins, two

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-time NCAA champ, four -time All -American, 1980

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World Super Champion, 1980 USSR champion, 1980

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U .S. Olympian Athlete of the Year, National

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Wrestling Hall of Fame, Greater Syracuse Sports

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Hall of Fame, a coach, and yeah, the NFL Alumni

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Upstate New York. You're amazing, man. I mean,

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it is... What an unreal resume. This isn't even

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like just like a local. No, no, no, no. His credits

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go around the world. Around the world, man. Jean,

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I've got to start by asking you. You got the

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name Mean Jean. How did the nickname come about?

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Well, I think I like it. I should probably ask

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that. Well, yes and no. I felt like I got a bad

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rap when I was wrestling. People thought I was

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mean. Wasn't mean. You're actually the nicest

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guy I've ever met. Yeah. I would get on top of

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people, I would make them uncomfortable, so they

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wanted to get pinned. And when they wanted to

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get pinned, I should have been nice guy, the

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pin machine, because I would let them get pins.

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No, true. That's a positive way to spin it now.

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Again, I never wrestled, but I'm friends with

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many wrestlers who, you know, don't have your

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resume, but did very well at Ithaca College and

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Cornell University. And one thing that people

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don't realize because, you know, people that

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watch the entertainment wrestling, you know,

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every match usually ends with a pin. But is it

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is it true that in actual wrestling pins are

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a tough thing to get, correct? Yeah, they it's

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I know it's it's obviously a point system, but

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pinning is kind of a rare thing. So for you to

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have one hundred and seven career pins, which

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is your NCAA record, that was just college. That

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was just college. Sorry. Sorry, I apologize.

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He's going to pin me right on this table. What

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did you is this something that does every wrestler

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kind of set out to like the ultimate thing, which

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do you always want to get a pin or is it something

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that as you're going, if it prevents itself,

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you go for it? Well, I think that most people

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go out there to win the show and I didn't. I

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went out there to beat the living daylights out

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of them and make them want to get penned. And

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then when they wanted to get penned, I would

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then and if they didn't want to get penned, I

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would change their mind. So they wanted to get

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penned. So I think you're amazing. I love this.

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Absolutely amazing. So tell me, how did it all

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start out for you? Like, when did when did you

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start wrestling? How did you find your passion

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for it? When did you know you were like, Whoa,

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I'm good at this and I love it. Well, I really

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didn't start until I was a freshman in high school.

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And I remember after about two weeks of practice,

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I remember going home for dinner and my father

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asking me, you know, so how do you like Brussels?

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And I was like, you know, I really like it. I

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think I'm going to be good. My father was kind

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of an instigator. And he was like, well, how

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good is good? I said, well, I think I could be

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real good. He goes, well, how good is real good?

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I said, well, I think I could be the best. And

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he's, my father looked me at the eye, looked

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me in the eye, pointed his finger at me and he's

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like, let me tell you something. No matter how

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good you ever get to be, there will always be

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somebody better. That pissed me off. So I was

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out to prove my dad wrong. So basically I was

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a four foot 10 88 pound butterball. And I mean,

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I literally just went on a mission. That's my

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mission was to. Crush kill and destroy. Yes,

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and you did it sounds like maybe your size was

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an advantage to that, right? Well, no, cuz I

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was I was small for back then the lightest weight

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was one 98 and I was 88 So I got thrown around

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pretty good. Okay, once I got the feel of what

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they were doing how they were doing it. I started

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using Their strengths to my advantages. So when

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they would push me instead of pushing back, I'm

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gonna lose I they want to push I'll pull they

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want to pull me I'd push and so I would always

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try to use their strengths against them. There's

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definitely a lot a lot of strategy involved.

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It's not just pure strength and things of that

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nature. No, obviously, yeah, no strength. I mean,

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it can hide a lot of a multitude of mistakes,

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but it's not going to ultimately make that decision

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unless, you know, you're at the same level. You

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know, growing up, people always thought I wrestled

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or I was a horse jockey because I'm so short.

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You know, you mentioned you were for 10 or whatever

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it was. And all the wrestlers that I spoke to

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about you coming on the show, which they're going

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to be watching this and and shout out to them.

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They are also kind of smaller guys. Is that a

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how? Why does it seem like most wrestlers are

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are kind of smaller guys? Well, I think they

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look smaller just because they're so wide. They

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don't look as tall. But if they were skinny,

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they'd look taller. Yeah. Well, that's a good

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point. Wrestlers usually are not. I mean, they

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get lean, but they're not skinny because they're

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usually buff, ripped. I I've said on this show

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many times, I always I thought, you know, people

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say you don't want to get in a fight with a with

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a motorcycle guy or I've always said you don't

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want to get in a fight with a wrestler. Do you

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believe that's true? Because I feel like you

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either have to knock them out while they're standing,

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because once once you guys get us on the ground,

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that's it. Right. I mean, yeah, it's cold. Done

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It is called done I uh, I got a question for

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you as as we look at this resume We were talking

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about how you've competed it all around the world

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Are there different things about different places

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in the world that maybe surprised you they do

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it differently in different countries anything

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like that that That really stood out as you you

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made your travels A lot of a lot of countries

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had different I don't know, flavors, techniques,

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whatever. And so they would, you know, like one

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country might be known for just headlocks and

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another country might be very, you know, disciplined

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and trying to get what they call leg laces and

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all. So it was good because you got to wrestle

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all these different styles. And it would, overall,

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it just helped. So when I got to travel around

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the world, I think I... competed in over 30 countries.

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It was fun. Any, any, any favorite out of all

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of them? My favorite was probably Hungary. Okay.

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And, um, especially when we'd go, I'd always

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go to this place called Miskolc. We probably

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went there like 15 times and we'd go to Budapest

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and when we'd go to Budapest, I would, back then

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it was. the fifth I'm not here partying on the

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Daniels. I was all lit up. It was beautiful.

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Did you play other sports growing up? Because,

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you know, do you think like today's young athletes,

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they need to dedicate themselves to a single

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sport in order to succeed at the high school

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and college level? Like, what's your take on

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on so many young athletes going all in on on

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on one sport on a single sport? Because that's

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kind of a debated topic these days. It is a very

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debated topic. I'm a phys ed teacher. I've been

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a phys ed teacher for years now and. Well, I

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should have just retired last week. Oh, congratulations.

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Thanks. I'll add that to the resume. Tired phys

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ed teacher. But, um, we always try to preach

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to the kids and do three sports. So, you know,

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number one, it does give you a little break and

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you're, oh, usually work in different muscle

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groups when you are doing different sports. And,

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um, I mean, I think wrestling can help with anything.

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You know, I mean, the hand -eye coordination,

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it's pretty amazing what can do to help. other

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sports, but, um, I think it's good that they

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do that, but I don't think it means you totally

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go away. So what I mean by that is I encourage

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my kids to do football. So a lot of kids are

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like, well, I'm doing football. I can't, I can't

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ruffle. Well, well, well, football practice got

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done at five. You know, we're going to go from

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seven to eight. Why don't you just come in and

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learn something because you can still make serious

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gains in any sport by still doing it. a couple

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of times a week. And that's what I'd like to

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see the athletes to do, you know, two, three

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days a week. Um, and all, but some kids are like,

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Nope, they're all in for one sport, then all

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in for the next, then all in for the next. So

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they, they always get to this good and then they

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never get great. Um, I think you still need to

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do whatever your passion sport is. You need to

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do that. kind of year round, even if it's two,

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three times a week. And so I got a lot of kids

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to do baseball. I'm like, OK, after baseball,

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I have some kids that come in and I'll still

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try and get better. Other kids are like, I can't.

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I had baseball today. What do you mean you had

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baseball? Yeah, but now it's seven o 'clock.

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There's more hours in the day. I mean, you don't

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want to get better while I do it, but I'll do

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that when the season comes. OK, so kids, I don't

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think kids understand. Is that a generational

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thing or you mean it's always been that way?

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Um, like is it the newer generation that the

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young, you know what I mean? That's not, there's

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two letters that I think explain the younger

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generation. I think the first letter is lay last

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one to see lazy. I got you. Okay. And it's, uh,

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yeah, they're always looking for excuses. So,

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but when the season comes, you know, they're

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going to be wondering why they didn't win. And,

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you know, off season stuff is optional, but so

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was winning. Well said. That's fair. So what

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was your pre -match like mindset and routine?

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You know, like what was your day to day training?

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What did that look like leading up to the conference

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and national championship conference finals and

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national championship? Well, my biggest thing

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is I used to go out there to wrestle. A lot of

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kids go out there and they want to be strategic

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and they want to get the W and they don't want

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to lose and they don't want to lose. and they

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don't want to lose. I never thought of it. I

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went out there to go after him and go, go, go,

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go, go, go, go until they couldn't breathe anymore.

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And wrestling has a lot to do with, you know,

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your cardio. Yeah. You know, and if you can push

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somebody and you can get them to gas out, no

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matter how good they are, you can turn them into

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a plus. Just couldn't last them. Oh yeah. That's

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right. I mean, I remember I asked the U S team

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coaches if I could, uh, I want to go 136 wrestlers,

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two time Olympic champ. And they're like, Oh,

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nobody, nobody can beat that guy. I'm like, and

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I said, give me a minute. And then I will have

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them so tired and be able to breathe. And I said,

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give me 90 seconds and I will push that guy so

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hard. And after 90 seconds, that guy was done.

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Wow. Toast toast. And it was only for nothing.

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He beat me for nothing. Make how am I not gonna

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come back and beat this? You know, it's like

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I scored like seven points in any taking So I

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think I know I think I know what you're talking

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about because this was a question that one of

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my buddies wanted me to ask you It's 1981. You're

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in the EIWA championship at Princeton. You're

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wrestling Bobby Weaver who is known as your Kind

00:14:05.259 --> 00:14:09.980
of your arch rival, right? Oh, well, that's very

00:14:09.980 --> 00:14:12.419
nice. You get put on your back, you go down 5

00:14:12.419 --> 00:14:16.100
-0 to start the match. 4 -0? He took me down,

00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:19.299
let me up, let me down. My friend set me up for

00:14:19.299 --> 00:14:21.559
failure with this question. No, but he was beating

00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.519
me 6 -2. Okay, so what's going through your mind?

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Like, as an elite athlete, how do you overcome

00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:28.340
that adversity in the moment? I mean, you're

00:14:28.340 --> 00:14:32.299
down, you said 6 -2. What goes through your head

00:14:32.299 --> 00:14:34.899
at that moment? That was the first minute. That

00:14:34.899 --> 00:14:38.059
was the first minute? So that's what you're talking

00:14:38.059 --> 00:14:41.679
about. It's just sticking in it. Yeah. And then

00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:46.360
when I was like 27 to six, I wasn't worried anymore.

00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:51.120
Yeah. What's there to worry about? We were we

00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:53.960
were good friends. I think we both know who is

00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.059
going to win. I mean, that wasn't an issue, but

00:14:56.059 --> 00:14:58.799
he kind of caught me off guard. And the first

00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.340
minute of every match, every match, if they were

00:15:02.340 --> 00:15:05.419
halfway decent, I would be losing after the first

00:15:05.419 --> 00:15:09.529
minute. Big deal. I didn't care because I knew

00:15:09.529 --> 00:15:12.269
my cardio. I knew my mentality I knew I was gonna

00:15:12.269 --> 00:15:13.830
keep going and going and going and going until

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I was gonna make them fold I was gonna make them

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quit and I was gonna make them say I don't want

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to be here Then maybe give them a little bit

00:15:20.809 --> 00:15:23.509
of false sense of security. Yeah, and he's a

00:15:23.509 --> 00:15:27.710
friend of mine I mean, you know when he's scored

00:15:27.710 --> 00:15:32.210
that that last take down to go up six two and

00:15:32.210 --> 00:15:38.090
No, let him know it I love that this guy knows

00:15:38.090 --> 00:15:40.250
every detail of these match. Oh, they know you

00:15:40.250 --> 00:15:42.889
don't hear I was born. This is a lot. I finally

00:15:42.889 --> 00:15:45.929
you get interviews with NFL players that haven't

00:15:45.929 --> 00:15:49.129
played in 30 years and you can go tell me what

00:15:49.129 --> 00:15:51.629
happened in that Raiders game in 1971 and they'll

00:15:51.629 --> 00:15:53.889
rip off. Yeah, you know that you just you don't

00:15:53.889 --> 00:15:56.789
forget that. That's amazing and it just shows

00:15:56.789 --> 00:16:01.450
you how much the mental aspect of athletics is

00:16:01.450 --> 00:16:04.509
so much not more important, but just as important

00:16:04.509 --> 00:16:07.200
as your physical. condition. I mean, every story

00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:09.320
you're telling, it seems like you're like, I

00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:11.700
didn't care or I had my focus on that. And I

00:16:11.700 --> 00:16:15.639
just think that mental toughness is so, so important

00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.139
in anything you do, but especially in what you

00:16:18.139 --> 00:16:21.919
did. Now, you were part of the 1980 Olympic team,

00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:25.580
but that was the year we boycotted the Olympics

00:16:25.580 --> 00:16:29.279
because of the Russia thing there. Does that

00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.460
is that something that I mean, you get a goal

00:16:31.460 --> 00:16:34.379
by default? Yeah, well, that's a great question.

00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.750
But also, Was that something that you look back

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on and you're angry or upset about or you just

00:16:39.610 --> 00:16:42.190
wish it could have happened? Or is it water under

00:16:42.190 --> 00:16:45.970
the bridge? It is what it is. Well, I wish that

00:16:45.970 --> 00:16:49.509
happens. I had wrestled the guys, the top four

00:16:49.509 --> 00:16:51.809
guys in the Olympics that year, and the guy who

00:16:51.809 --> 00:16:54.350
was fourth in the Olympics, I was beating 15

00:16:54.350 --> 00:16:56.929
to two within a minute before it bends. The guy

00:16:56.929 --> 00:17:01.970
was third of being twenty seven to two. And second

00:17:01.970 --> 00:17:05.079
period and then. I, who was second in the Olympics,

00:17:05.099 --> 00:17:08.799
I was beaten 24 to three. When I pinned him in

00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.579
any Olympic champ, I beat three times. And the

00:17:11.579 --> 00:17:15.160
one time I had second period, I scored 14 points

00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.400
in like 50 seconds before I pinned. So, I mean,

00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:24.019
it wasn't like. There was anybody out there.

00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:25.680
Well, that's what I'm saying. You won the gold.

00:17:25.980 --> 00:17:28.740
Yeah, pretty much did. Yeah, but we didn't get

00:17:28.740 --> 00:17:33.079
to go. So I joined that long list of. Billions

00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:34.900
of other people on this planet called should

00:17:34.900 --> 00:17:37.160
have what it could have club. Yeah. Yeah Well,

00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.440
I think we're all part of that in some way now.

00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.099
I know the movie Foxcatcher was an incredible

00:17:42.099 --> 00:17:45.500
movie Which kind of centered around that that

00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:48.519
era, you know, did you were you training at that

00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:53.240
facility? No, I would he he would have he would

00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.359
send the layer jet up to pick me up and go down

00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:04.529
and teach him Wrestle for him. I told him why

00:18:04.529 --> 00:18:07.210
and I said, I don't mean to sound rude, but I

00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:09.190
told him I felt like I was my soul to the devil.

00:18:09.529 --> 00:18:12.369
And if you watch the movie, you were right. And

00:18:12.369 --> 00:18:15.630
I, you know, I am somebody who will call a spade

00:18:15.630 --> 00:18:19.130
a spade. And I didn't I was not very comfortable

00:18:19.130 --> 00:18:24.549
when I was around them. And I told him I would

00:18:24.549 --> 00:18:26.269
not wrestle for him. And he offered me a lot

00:18:26.269 --> 00:18:28.670
of money. And I wrestled for the New York Athletic

00:18:28.670 --> 00:18:33.029
Club. And I was kind of. I didn't make a penny

00:18:33.029 --> 00:18:34.809
with New York Athletic Club. They paid for my

00:18:34.809 --> 00:18:38.029
flights, my food and my hotel. I was good with

00:18:38.029 --> 00:18:40.490
that, but I would have had that with Foxcatcher

00:18:40.490 --> 00:18:44.890
and a lot of money, but I was not comfortable.

00:18:45.150 --> 00:18:48.289
I respect that so much. Yeah, you followed your

00:18:48.289 --> 00:18:49.730
heart and what your gut was telling you and your

00:18:49.730 --> 00:18:52.549
morals. And my loyalty. And your loyalty, yeah.

00:18:52.970 --> 00:18:55.470
So New York AC was always good to me and the

00:18:55.470 --> 00:18:58.369
people were great and I'm not gonna do that for

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money. When that movie, when that movie came

00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:03.920
out, it was a big movie, a credible movie from

00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.039
my point of view. Was that something that you

00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:07.900
you were able to watch or is it something you

00:19:07.900 --> 00:19:09.599
were like, I don't I don't know if I want to

00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:11.839
see that. And if you did, is it was it accurate?

00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.900
Well, it was hard. Was it accurate? No, I was

00:19:15.900 --> 00:19:18.539
actually in the movie. You were in the oh, you

00:19:18.539 --> 00:19:22.299
were like in the film. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't

00:19:22.299 --> 00:19:24.319
know. Like, I don't know if you remember when

00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.339
Channing Tatum did the back flip after he won.

00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:31.420
Yeah, I was the referee. Oh, my God. That's amazing.

00:19:31.460 --> 00:19:34.819
I did not know that. Oh, that's fantastic. Well,

00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:36.839
you said you said it wasn't accurate. What what

00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.079
what parts of it weren't weren't? Well, there

00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:40.960
were a lot of little things that they changed.

00:19:41.380 --> 00:19:44.740
So they actually asked me to come because Mark

00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:46.940
Schultz when he was talking to Bennett Miller,

00:19:46.980 --> 00:19:49.759
the director, he asked if I could play me in

00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:52.759
the movie. So the one part where Mark had to

00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:55.259
lose 12 and a half pounds in the minute story

00:19:55.259 --> 00:19:57.799
is on the bike and he's yeah, they're just like

00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:02.400
said pushing them. So after Mark was sitting

00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.359
on the bike for 45 minutes, Dave came running

00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:09.660
into the Pensacola Athletic Center down in Pensacola,

00:20:09.660 --> 00:20:12.220
Florida, and was yelling for me, yelling for

00:20:12.220 --> 00:20:15.220
me, Gene. I'm like, what? He goes, Mark's 12

00:20:15.220 --> 00:20:17.900
and a half pounds over, and he's got 45 minutes,

00:20:17.900 --> 00:20:23.099
and he's not doing shit, basically. And he said,

00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:25.420
you're the only person he'll listen to. So I

00:20:25.420 --> 00:20:27.859
ran out there, and I started talking to him.

00:20:28.589 --> 00:20:32.089
Next thing you know, we had this puddle of sweat

00:20:32.089 --> 00:20:34.950
underneath. I actually have pictures of the real

00:20:34.950 --> 00:20:38.990
life. Wow. And he lost 12 and a half pounds in

00:20:38.990 --> 00:20:41.890
45 minutes. What? Yeah. It was kind of like a

00:20:41.890 --> 00:20:45.029
rocky scenario. What? At first there were like

00:20:45.029 --> 00:20:48.069
six or eight of us. And I'm like, come on, take

00:20:48.069 --> 00:20:50.710
it, take it, take it, take it. And then back

00:20:50.710 --> 00:20:53.589
then. So he was one eight hundred and eighty

00:20:53.589 --> 00:20:55.450
pounds. It's one ninety eight to twenty to eighty

00:20:55.450 --> 00:20:58.720
five. So as those weights get done you have 90

00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:02.460
minutes to make weight, but 198 gets done You

00:21:02.460 --> 00:21:05.259
know in 220 285 now people are leaving it's called

00:21:05.259 --> 00:21:08.220
athletics So as I'm screaming it now dig it dig

00:21:08.220 --> 00:21:10.299
it dig it dig it I was getting them on the bike

00:21:10.299 --> 00:21:12.160
and I told them we were gonna go 30 seconds as

00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.019
hard as you can 36 30 seconds as hard as you

00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:18.000
can 30 seconds those 30 seconds I was doing 50

00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.339
tens not telling them good We didn't have much

00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:24.900
time. So as we're doing it And I've got him with

00:21:24.900 --> 00:21:26.579
his head down. He's going as hard as he can.

00:21:26.660 --> 00:21:28.200
I'm going like this to the crowd. Next thing

00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:30.099
you know, there's, you know, 20 people, there's

00:21:30.099 --> 00:21:32.339
30 people, there's 50 people. Next thing you

00:21:32.339 --> 00:21:35.799
know, I got 150 people and I've got all these

00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:38.920
people cheering Mark on to make way. And so he

00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:42.420
wanted to kind of recreate that for the movie.

00:21:42.660 --> 00:21:46.180
And then they just, Mark Ruffalo ended up just

00:21:46.180 --> 00:21:50.539
doing something. Which, look, from a production

00:21:50.539 --> 00:21:53.089
standpoint, They should have went with what actually

00:21:53.089 --> 00:21:54.990
happened, because that scene was very intense

00:21:54.990 --> 00:21:57.630
and it was amazing. Your point of view from what

00:21:57.630 --> 00:21:59.730
really happened was actually, I think they did

00:21:59.730 --> 00:22:02.710
themselves a disservice. It was way better. That's

00:22:02.710 --> 00:22:06.109
amazing. It was pretty cool. And then at scales,

00:22:06.849 --> 00:22:08.890
like when we got on the scales, you know, we

00:22:08.890 --> 00:22:11.630
got them, we dragged them to the scale. I had

00:22:11.630 --> 00:22:13.269
to wake them down with towels and he got on there

00:22:13.269 --> 00:22:14.990
and they had the thing turn the other way. So

00:22:14.990 --> 00:22:17.450
I couldn't see it. And there was like, all you

00:22:17.450 --> 00:22:20.609
hear is, holy shit. Oh, my God, I can't believe

00:22:20.609 --> 00:22:27.559
it. 0 .3, and he broke down crying. He was under

00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:34.799
by 0 .3. So he thought he lost 12 .2. Wow. It

00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:37.519
was pretty emotional. He broke down crying, and

00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:40.440
he was really happy that he did it, and it was

00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.099
pretty cool. And then he had to go out and wrestle

00:22:42.099 --> 00:22:46.960
after that. Yeah. So I just gotta ask you a question,

00:22:47.000 --> 00:23:01.640
because I'm not... yet once once officially weighed

00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:21.819
in Well, I I remember in high school in the 90s

00:23:21.819 --> 00:23:25.240
a lot of wrestlers would chew tobacco all day

00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:29.180
and a lot of the teachers and and Coaches would

00:23:29.180 --> 00:23:31.059
turn a blind eye to it because they knew they

00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:33.200
were trying to make weight for that night Is

00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.900
it was that something that was just where I'm

00:23:34.900 --> 00:23:36.720
from in Hurcombe or New York? Or is that something

00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:39.720
that was in the in the wrestling culture? No,

00:23:39.740 --> 00:23:42.960
you lose water weight from spill saliva so you

00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:46.019
see but I see if you fill a bottle 16 ounces

00:23:46.019 --> 00:23:50.809
of 16 ounces Yeah, so it was something in wrestling

00:23:50.809 --> 00:23:53.990
culture. Yeah. Well, we used to chew gum. Okay.

00:23:54.309 --> 00:23:57.529
Back then they had this sour gum. You do it and

00:23:57.529 --> 00:24:01.450
you spit up and fill up a water bottle of saliva

00:24:01.450 --> 00:24:04.349
that's a pound. That's wild. I'm gonna vomit.

00:24:04.569 --> 00:24:06.569
I know when I came to college, you know, some

00:24:06.569 --> 00:24:09.549
guys on the team were doing tobacco. Yeah. So,

00:24:09.549 --> 00:24:12.809
yeah, it was real nasty. Well, one more question

00:24:12.809 --> 00:24:15.410
for me, at least when we'll talk about your the

00:24:15.410 --> 00:24:18.630
Wrestling Foundation. I'm wearing a Hulkamania

00:24:18.630 --> 00:24:20.890
shirt. All right. And, you know, listen, I grew

00:24:20.890 --> 00:24:23.730
up in a great era and I used to love that as

00:24:23.730 --> 00:24:25.589
a kid. And in some ways, I still watch it. My

00:24:25.589 --> 00:24:28.589
son's into it. What from from someone who is

00:24:28.589 --> 00:24:31.150
as decorated as you are in the actual sport of

00:24:31.150 --> 00:24:33.869
wrestling? What was the I know everybody's different,

00:24:33.930 --> 00:24:35.849
but what was the general consensus towards that?

00:24:35.869 --> 00:24:38.269
Was it like, oh, it's cool. It's fun. Like. Or

00:24:38.269 --> 00:24:39.930
were you like, why are they doing this? They're

00:24:39.930 --> 00:24:41.430
they're they're kind of tarnishing the name of

00:24:41.430 --> 00:24:48.329
wrestling. Well, it does kind of put it like

00:24:48.329 --> 00:24:51.009
a negative impact for the rest, because with

00:24:51.009 --> 00:24:53.309
the U .S. Wrestling Foundation, we do surveys

00:24:53.309 --> 00:24:57.869
throughout the country and. When we survey all

00:24:57.869 --> 00:25:01.230
these, you know, kids and families and throughout

00:25:01.230 --> 00:25:02.829
the country, they're like, well, we don't like

00:25:02.829 --> 00:25:05.930
when they smash the chairs over their head. It

00:25:05.930 --> 00:25:09.559
seems violent. I'm like. Are you? Oh, my God.

00:25:09.940 --> 00:25:11.900
I mean, people don't understand. I mean, there's

00:25:11.900 --> 00:25:14.059
it's crazy. There's wrestling and then there's

00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:16.299
entertainment. Yeah, there's it's a big difference.

00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:18.140
Seems like they should have come up with some

00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:20.400
kind of different term for that. You know, looking

00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:23.259
back, you know, as an adult, absolutely. Absolutely.

00:25:23.539 --> 00:25:25.599
I mean, I guess at its core, it's supposed to

00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:28.859
be a little bit of I would say wrestling inspired.

00:25:28.859 --> 00:25:31.619
Yeah. But not enough to where it should really

00:25:31.619 --> 00:25:35.059
share that name and radically different. I know

00:25:35.059 --> 00:25:36.960
it's like. It's like if someone came in and they

00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.819
said, I'm a podcaster. And you find out they

00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:40.519
just sit on a CB radio all day. You're like,

00:25:40.539 --> 00:25:42.900
that's not the same thing. I guess men's soap

00:25:42.900 --> 00:25:44.960
opera doesn't sound quite as cool. But that's

00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:48.200
what it was. It's literally what it is. So, Gene,

00:25:48.259 --> 00:25:51.400
this is incredible. First of all, obviously,

00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:53.180
we've been over your resume talking about your

00:25:53.180 --> 00:25:56.319
wrestling career. Got into coaching P .E. teacher.

00:25:56.539 --> 00:25:59.140
You're part of the NFL Alumni Association. If

00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:00.779
you want to talk about that, you're the head

00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:02.819
of the Upstate New York chapter. But. You do

00:26:02.819 --> 00:26:04.940
a lot with the U .S. Wrestling Foundation. I

00:26:04.940 --> 00:26:06.400
want to talk about that a little bit. Tell us

00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:09.180
about it. Well, one of my buddies, who is the

00:26:09.180 --> 00:26:11.759
executive director of the U .S. Wrestling Foundation,

00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:15.759
Jack Clark, he had a vision of doing these posters

00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:17.640
and sending them to every high school in the

00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:24.740
United States. But he didn't. So, you know, I

00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:27.559
like the idea. So he was saying, you know, like,

00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.000
what if we got a Super Bowl guy before I won

00:26:30.000 --> 00:27:06.829
a Super Bowl? I wrestled. Wow. And then, I remember

00:27:06.829 --> 00:27:10.490
when I called Mark Ruffalo, I answered the phone

00:27:10.490 --> 00:27:12.849
in the background and I heard some guy yell at

00:27:12.849 --> 00:27:17.029
me, what are you doing? And he's like, hey, my

00:27:17.029 --> 00:27:21.029
name's Gene Mills, you answer. Nice. And I'm

00:27:21.029 --> 00:27:23.910
like, Mark, what's going on? He goes, you know

00:27:23.910 --> 00:27:26.430
what, like 30 some years, I've never yelled cut

00:27:26.430 --> 00:27:28.630
in the middle of a scene. I'm like, you're filming

00:27:28.630 --> 00:27:32.809
right now? And he's like, Yeah, I said, yeah,

00:27:32.809 --> 00:27:36.089
you killed cutting metal scene for you. Yeah,

00:27:36.089 --> 00:27:37.829
he said I got so excited when you were calling

00:27:37.829 --> 00:27:40.630
Goach stuff. That's you know, I feel like an

00:27:40.630 --> 00:27:42.890
asshole because Jean called me last night and

00:27:42.890 --> 00:27:45.349
I was like I was in the middle of like dinner

00:27:45.349 --> 00:27:47.130
and I saw it and I was like, I'll just call him

00:27:47.130 --> 00:27:50.130
right back. Mark Ruffalo cut a scene in a movie

00:27:50.130 --> 00:27:52.349
to talk to you and my stupid ass didn't pick

00:27:52.349 --> 00:27:53.869
up the phone when you called. That's why he's

00:27:53.869 --> 00:27:56.210
a superstar and you worked for a pocket. I guess

00:27:56.210 --> 00:28:00.529
that's a good point, Matt and depressing. Gene,

00:28:00.529 --> 00:28:03.690
that's absolutely amazing. So regarding the US

00:28:03.690 --> 00:28:06.250
Wrestling Foundation, what do you guys got going

00:28:06.250 --> 00:28:12.269
on now? So we're continuing to do that. And we're

00:28:12.269 --> 00:28:15.069
trying to get, you know, celebrities before I

00:28:15.069 --> 00:28:18.210
did whatever I wrestled. And, you know, we've

00:28:18.210 --> 00:28:20.930
got one guy who was a two -time world champ bull

00:28:20.930 --> 00:28:24.150
rider. Before I rode a raging bull, I wrestled.

00:28:24.470 --> 00:28:26.250
And I'd be a guy who won the I Did A Rod six

00:28:26.250 --> 00:28:30.450
times, who was a... you know, a wrestler in the

00:28:30.450 --> 00:28:33.390
U S nationals. And before I, when the, I did

00:28:33.390 --> 00:28:37.309
a rod, I wrestled where you take that sled dog

00:28:37.309 --> 00:28:42.490
sled 1600 miles across Canada, six times. Um,

00:28:42.490 --> 00:28:44.430
I don't know. It's just cool. And so people are

00:28:44.430 --> 00:28:48.230
looking at this saying, Oh wow. And they did

00:28:48.230 --> 00:28:51.890
that before they wrestled. So it builds interest.

00:28:52.069 --> 00:28:54.950
And we asked every high school coach in United

00:28:54.950 --> 00:28:57.569
States, please do not put in your wrestling room.

00:28:58.549 --> 00:29:00.869
Put it in the gym, put it in the camp area, put

00:29:00.869 --> 00:29:03.910
it out. Put it in the hallway, put it where the

00:29:03.910 --> 00:29:06.730
rest, any, you know, people besides wrestlers

00:29:06.730 --> 00:29:08.670
will see it and maybe they'll draw interest.

00:29:09.710 --> 00:29:14.190
So when we crushed it going, you know, with our

00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:18.269
goal, raising participation numbers, 3 % a year

00:29:18.269 --> 00:29:21.490
for the next 10 years, you know, a hundred percent

00:29:21.490 --> 00:29:25.630
in two years and 32 .8 for men and a hundred

00:29:25.630 --> 00:29:29.140
percent for women. Um, we just. crush the numbers.

00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:33.039
You know, it was a very expensive, um, thing,

00:29:33.180 --> 00:29:36.160
but we did a lot of, you know, great promotion

00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:39.700
fundraising in order to be able to make 13 ,000

00:29:39.700 --> 00:29:43.880
posters times 10 posters a year and every high

00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:46.319
school in the United States. Unbelievable. Yeah.

00:29:46.700 --> 00:29:48.599
Um, all right. Is that a campaign that's still

00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.880
going, Gene? Yes. So, um, yeah, I, you know,

00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.420
if you go to, um, wrestling changes lives .com

00:29:56.420 --> 00:29:59.339
or let's wrestle. or hashtag let's wrestle dot

00:29:59.339 --> 00:30:03.420
com. There's all those posters up there. I don't

00:30:03.420 --> 00:30:05.720
want to. I don't want you to have any competition

00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:09.839
here, but I feel like you've stumbled on a brilliant

00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:12.539
campaign here for any sport. Looking for some

00:30:12.539 --> 00:30:14.779
attention is really just, you know, highlight

00:30:14.779 --> 00:30:17.740
some of the superstars and what it could do for

00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:20.740
it. It's brilliant. It is. It is. It's great

00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:23.839
to see that those big names were also able to

00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:26.839
step up for you and you know. Originally, when

00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:28.359
you were talking about it, I thought it was just

00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:30.539
a, you know, a general ad campaign. You should

00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:33.059
wrestle. It's fun, you know, right? Um, I didn't

00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:34.859
realize that you had the celebrities involved

00:30:34.859 --> 00:30:37.259
and you got that sort of endorsement that really

00:30:37.259 --> 00:30:40.180
showed them the path. Well, and I now know as

00:30:40.180 --> 00:30:42.920
posters, we have a QR code so kids can take their

00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:46.680
phones and put the QR code and. And it will be

00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:50.359
a video of them and saying how wrestling helped

00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:54.160
change their life and help how it helped them

00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:57.559
be successful. And it's amazing some of the stories

00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:01.299
that some of these people have. What a brilliant

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:03.440
idea it is. We got to get you out of here. I

00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:05.579
know, but I just have a couple of lightning round

00:31:05.579 --> 00:31:07.579
questions because I have so many things I wanted

00:31:07.579 --> 00:31:12.019
to ask you quickly in your era of US greats were

00:31:12.019 --> 00:31:14.359
competing today. Who do you think you'd be wrestling

00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:19.619
on a live pay -per -view event? Who would I be

00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:22.339
wrestling right now? Yeah, would you be? Who

00:31:22.339 --> 00:31:25.519
would you be going for? You mean? against the

00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:54.029
current guys yes from this year yes brother What

00:31:54.029 --> 00:31:56.690
do you think of Kyle Dake? Because Kyle takes

00:31:56.690 --> 00:32:00.029
a Kyle Dakes a big name. I live in Ithaca. So,

00:32:00.029 --> 00:32:03.329
you know, he went to Cornell and he he's phenomenal.

00:32:03.869 --> 00:32:07.329
Yeah, I mean, he a lot of people don't realize

00:32:07.329 --> 00:32:11.950
that he moved up 30 pounds this year. Jesus,

00:32:12.369 --> 00:32:15.809
because he didn't want to make his weight for

00:32:15.809 --> 00:32:18.430
the Olympics. It was a hard cut. But if you go

00:32:18.430 --> 00:32:21.529
up one weight class, that's not an Olympic weight.

00:32:21.529 --> 00:32:24.299
So. For the World Championships, there's 10 weights.

00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:27.059
For the Olympics, you have the first weight,

00:32:27.180 --> 00:32:30.519
the third, the fifth, the seventh, and the ninth.

00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.000
It's like it skips every other weight. And so

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.200
that that weight is not an Olympic weight. So

00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:39.380
he went up. That's a 30 pound difference. So

00:32:39.380 --> 00:32:41.599
he went up and he was given up phenomenal size.

00:32:41.619 --> 00:32:44.779
So he did not make the team this year. But is

00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:48.079
he great? Absolutely. He's phenomenal. And if

00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:49.339
he had trained with you, he could have gained

00:32:49.339 --> 00:32:53.509
30 pounds in 45 minutes. That's less than that.

00:32:54.349 --> 00:32:57.349
Last question. What was your I mean, your accolades

00:32:57.349 --> 00:33:00.369
are insane. Do you have a proudest moment? I

00:33:00.369 --> 00:33:02.470
mean, I don't know how you pick, but what do

00:33:02.470 --> 00:33:03.769
you remember? Was there ever a moment where you're

00:33:03.769 --> 00:33:06.529
like, wow, like this is this is the moment where

00:33:06.529 --> 00:33:09.869
I feel like, well, I mean, I was proud. I wanted

00:33:09.869 --> 00:33:13.829
it that most healthy and wrestler at the NCAs,

00:33:13.930 --> 00:33:18.130
which is basically the where they call the SPS

00:33:18.130 --> 00:33:21.900
like a. like Ernie Davis. So I won the Heisman

00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:25.440
of my sport. I won the Outstanding Wrestler Award

00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:27.859
at the World Super Championships. And then I

00:33:27.859 --> 00:33:31.960
won the Outstanding Wrestler Award in the hardest

00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:33.920
tournament in the world called the Tbilisi tournament

00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:36.519
in Russia. And the reason that was the hardest

00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.460
because back then you had one person representing

00:33:40.460 --> 00:33:46.519
the USSR. It's a big country. And that tournament

00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:50.240
you had. The top three guys in the country from

00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:52.759
Russia, the top three guys in the country from

00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:56.619
Georgia, the top three guys from Ukraine, the

00:33:56.619 --> 00:33:59.220
top three guys from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, all

00:33:59.220 --> 00:34:03.319
the other stands. I mean, you got the best guys

00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:06.259
in the world. And like we had Olympic champs

00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:08.420
go over there and they would go over there and

00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:10.440
they'd get like seven matches and get pinned

00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:14.239
all seven times. Because you're wrestling the

00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:17.139
best guys in the world. Back then, if you had

00:34:17.139 --> 00:34:18.980
a... guy from russia and you didn't get him to

00:34:18.980 --> 00:34:20.860
like fourth fifth or sixth round they were not

00:34:20.860 --> 00:34:23.360
in shape the americans were always in shape so

00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.960
if you can get them at the end they were easy

00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:29.579
to beat wow you know so we'd have you know three

00:34:29.579 --> 00:34:31.559
four olympic champs because we were in such good

00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:36.079
shape but then when i wrestled i was the fifth

00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:40.320
american to ever win it in 22 years in a row

00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:44.019
wow so and then i just you know kind of set a

00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:46.500
world record i just Must be an everybody like

00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:49.119
20 when I pinned them except the world champion.

00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:56.119
Well gene Your can I just point out because I've

00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:58.340
been admiring this guy not only he's a world

00:34:58.340 --> 00:35:00.679
champion But he's also got some incredible style

00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:03.619
and I just been noticing you He's got Syracuse

00:35:03.619 --> 00:35:06.420
colored glasses on. I did notice that when you

00:35:06.420 --> 00:35:08.480
sat down. Those are just so awesome. I just love

00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:11.360
the blue and orange glasses. I do it. I'm glad

00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:13.280
I thought about saying something and I was like,

00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:14.960
that's not relevant. I'm not going to say it,

00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:16.940
but I was admiring those glasses and he's got

00:35:16.940 --> 00:35:19.440
the circus. You're gene stylish and representing.

00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.440
This has been not only. Not only an incredible

00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:24.380
interview, but you have done a great job of making

00:35:24.380 --> 00:35:26.940
Matt and I feel like we are losers because we

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:29.099
don't we can't compete with this resume. No,

00:35:29.099 --> 00:35:31.380
you're absolutely amazing. Give us before you

00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:34.619
go. The plugs, what websites, anything for yourself

00:35:34.619 --> 00:35:39.340
or the foundation? Well, for the US Wrestling

00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:43.480
Foundation, US Wrestling Foundation dot com wrestling

00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:47.260
changes lives dot com. And then I work with NFL

00:35:47.260 --> 00:35:51.000
alumni, so it's nflalumni .org, but you have

00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.539
to go to the Upstate NY chapter, New York chapter.

00:35:55.780 --> 00:36:00.539
And with that, we try to raise monies for charities

00:36:00.539 --> 00:36:05.320
in Upstate New York. You're amazing. That's awesome.

00:36:05.530 --> 00:36:07.630
Gene, thank you so much. Gene Mills, thank you

00:36:07.630 --> 00:36:09.929
for coming on Good News York, sponsored by ads

00:36:09.929 --> 00:36:12.369
on the go get ads on the go dot com. And you're

00:36:12.369 --> 00:36:14.369
a legend, man. And we wish you the best of luck

00:36:14.369 --> 00:36:16.949
in any time you want to come on the show. Yeah.

00:36:16.969 --> 00:36:19.809
And we actually can't say no, because you'll

00:36:19.809 --> 00:36:23.969
pin us. And if Mark Ruffalo caught a scene episode.

00:36:23.969 --> 00:36:26.929
So what if we did a scene where he just walks

00:36:26.929 --> 00:36:29.769
in middle of the show and he just lays us out

00:36:29.769 --> 00:36:33.090
right here? Right on the table, right? Amazing.

00:36:33.510 --> 00:36:37.190
All right, Gene Mills. He's a legend for Tuesday

00:36:37.190 --> 00:36:43.329
News. Tuesday Newsday coming up next. We are.

00:36:44.190 --> 00:36:46.190
It is Good News York sponsored by ads on the

00:36:46.190 --> 00:36:49.230
go get ads on the go dot com. Mike Brindisi and

00:36:49.230 --> 00:36:53.050
the great Matt Major, the leader of the kingdom.

00:36:54.710 --> 00:36:58.650
Matt, it is Tuesday Newsday. I think I have one

00:36:58.650 --> 00:37:00.650
or two stories, but we have so much more to talk

00:37:00.650 --> 00:37:03.230
about because we didn't shoot an episode yesterday.

00:37:05.070 --> 00:37:08.829
So we have a lot to catch up on the weekend.

00:37:09.949 --> 00:37:11.969
Well, first things first, I posted something,

00:37:12.210 --> 00:37:15.329
a funny thing on the weekend. First things first,

00:37:15.389 --> 00:37:19.349
I'm the realest. That is, what's your name? Okay.

00:37:20.510 --> 00:37:22.590
So over the weekend, has this ever happened to

00:37:22.590 --> 00:37:29.079
you? So my wife and I You know, we're home and

00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:31.219
it's Friday and I said, all right, hey, what

00:37:31.219 --> 00:37:33.199
do we got going on today? We got this business.

00:37:33.260 --> 00:37:34.780
What do we got going on Saturday? We got to go

00:37:34.780 --> 00:37:37.039
here. We got to go to this. What's going on Sunday?

00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.960
We have nothing, baby. High five. That's amazing

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:42.699
because I told you I'm at a point in my life

00:37:42.699 --> 00:37:43.880
where I just don't want to day off. I want to

00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.360
day off with nothing to do. Well, Sunday morning

00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:48.260
rolls around. We get to about nine thirty in

00:37:48.260 --> 00:37:52.920
the morning. She comes out and gives me the old.

00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:56.900
What do you think about rearranging the basement?

00:37:58.009 --> 00:38:01.449
I went here, we fucking go. Next thing you know,

00:38:01.550 --> 00:38:05.010
we're knee deep in purging the kids' toys, moving

00:38:05.010 --> 00:38:07.429
furniture around. Now we're moving a foosball

00:38:07.429 --> 00:38:09.630
table into storage and it gets stuck in the doorway.

00:38:09.769 --> 00:38:12.750
I've got to find tools, take the leg off. Why

00:38:12.750 --> 00:38:16.869
does this happen? Do you think it's like, women

00:38:16.869 --> 00:38:19.469
unnecessarily mean it or do you think they go,

00:38:19.829 --> 00:38:22.690
I'm, like, because I'll be honest, from my point

00:38:22.690 --> 00:38:24.809
of view, I don't think my wife meant, like, she

00:38:24.809 --> 00:38:26.869
wasn't like, I'm gonna get them. It's a day off

00:38:26.869 --> 00:38:28.510
because she wanted a day off too with nothing

00:38:28.510 --> 00:38:32.309
to do. I think it's like she can't just sit still.

00:38:32.429 --> 00:38:37.829
Do you just say no? No, well, no, I mean, I could

00:38:37.829 --> 00:38:42.110
and she would be fine with it, but. I guess the

00:38:42.110 --> 00:38:43.969
sad part is I really I was kind of like that

00:38:43.969 --> 00:38:45.650
is a good idea. We should do that. I just didn't

00:38:45.650 --> 00:38:48.250
know we were really going to like do it, do it.

00:38:48.289 --> 00:38:50.190
I don't know. It's one of those where you get

00:38:50.190 --> 00:38:52.789
tricked into a massive project. Yeah, basically.

00:38:53.530 --> 00:38:56.250
I will shift boxes around for 15 minutes. Next

00:38:56.250 --> 00:38:58.929
thing you know, it's five hours later. Correct.

00:38:59.190 --> 00:39:01.289
And that is what happened. And I'm happy because

00:39:01.289 --> 00:39:02.630
you know, I go down there now and I'm like, okay,

00:39:02.690 --> 00:39:06.329
it looks great. But anyway, um, you want to come

00:39:06.329 --> 00:39:09.309
clean my base? I will. For you, buddy. I'll do

00:39:09.309 --> 00:39:10.889
anything. There's not much down there. I bought

00:39:10.889 --> 00:39:12.929
this off. I bought my first so you know, even

00:39:12.929 --> 00:39:15.070
getting me onto the tick tock shop stuff you've

00:39:15.070 --> 00:39:17.230
been talking about. Yeah, by Chinese. Yeah, I

00:39:17.230 --> 00:39:20.869
did. And my wife hates this, but I love it. So

00:39:20.869 --> 00:39:25.199
it's a hand. Okay. And comes with a remote. and

00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:28.019
you stick it to your window. Oh, and so look

00:39:28.019 --> 00:39:32.000
at this. I can do a waving sign or someone pisses

00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.659
me off. I can give them the finger. Wow. Or you

00:39:35.659 --> 00:39:37.840
can give them like the horns like, yeah, rock

00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.780
on, brother. So I I'm very excited about this

00:39:40.780 --> 00:39:44.000
purchase. Have you seen this work? Well, I haven't

00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.460
tried it yet. Actually, I really have. Let's

00:39:46.460 --> 00:39:49.519
try it. I charged it all last night. Make for

00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.619
a better bit. Well, strike one last night, I

00:39:53.429 --> 00:39:57.610
I charged it, and it did not charge fully. Well,

00:39:57.610 --> 00:40:01.150
no, the light didn't turn on to turn green to

00:40:01.150 --> 00:40:02.889
know it's fully charged, but it would charge

00:40:02.889 --> 00:40:06.489
for like eight hours. There's no way. Tell me

00:40:06.489 --> 00:40:08.969
it doesn't work. No, it works. All right. Hold

00:40:08.969 --> 00:40:13.530
on. Anyway, so my daughter goes, oh, I have the

00:40:13.530 --> 00:40:15.969
battery in backwards. My daughter goes, Dad,

00:40:15.989 --> 00:40:18.929
I've been seeing that on TikTok. People have

00:40:18.929 --> 00:40:21.409
been getting arrested. What would mean you charged?

00:40:22.010 --> 00:40:25.489
There's like a USB. It's a fucking empty battery.

00:40:25.809 --> 00:40:35.889
No, no, no, watch. Fuck. Oh, wait, it needs batteries,

00:40:36.510 --> 00:40:40.389
but it made me charge it USB. It does have a

00:40:40.389 --> 00:40:42.369
USB port, I'll give you that and it says it changes

00:40:42.369 --> 00:40:46.559
to green when it's fully charged. I think they

00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:48.639
intend you to use maybe rechargeable batteries

00:40:48.639 --> 00:40:50.699
or something. No, because I plugged it in and

00:40:50.699 --> 00:40:52.219
the light was orange and I was waiting for it

00:40:52.219 --> 00:40:53.900
to turn green and it never did. And I'm like,

00:40:53.900 --> 00:40:56.139
well, it's funny. I was plugging in here and

00:40:56.139 --> 00:40:58.079
then this tablet right here and see if you can

00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:04.960
make it work. What? You must be on. One standby.

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:13.139
OK, OK. So maybe it's got it. Let's see what

00:41:13.139 --> 00:41:15.989
happened. Whoa! Yeah, so you can plug it in.

00:41:16.050 --> 00:41:17.929
Hello. But I think you otherwise need batteries.

00:41:18.190 --> 00:41:20.050
Fuck you. So you could like plug that in the

00:41:20.050 --> 00:41:21.789
car. It's not charging. It's just a power cord.

00:41:21.969 --> 00:41:24.210
So that's that would be why I never saw the green

00:41:24.210 --> 00:41:26.250
light. Correct. After charging it for eight hours.

00:41:26.449 --> 00:41:29.309
OK. Well, anyway, my question is, where do I

00:41:29.309 --> 00:41:31.230
put this? Do I do it on the back window side?

00:41:31.309 --> 00:41:35.289
That's typically. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Good to know.

00:41:35.449 --> 00:41:37.269
And I'll let you know, my daughter said there's

00:41:37.269 --> 00:41:39.230
people on TikTok getting arrested for them because

00:41:39.230 --> 00:41:42.000
they're driving distractions. So. That's not

00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.179
I mean, I drive to Syracuse Monday through Thursday.

00:41:44.179 --> 00:41:48.039
So and there's a lot of assholes. So I'm probably

00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:50.940
going to be using it. I wanted to let you know,

00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:56.000
we are officially getting backstage credentials

00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:01.679
for the K Rockathon. Yeah. Oh, yes. We did it.

00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:06.000
We did it. We are next week. I believe yet media

00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.219
creds. We have legit media creds. We're going

00:42:08.219 --> 00:42:10.000
to be baking them. We're going to be doing an

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.300
episode. of Good News York at the K -Rockathon.

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Candlebox is going to be there. I forget who

00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:19.019
else, but we're going to we're going to be backstage,

00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.119
buddy. And that's a bigger deal for us than people

00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:24.420
think, because when you were growing up in the

00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:27.239
90s in upstate New York, you know, especially

00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.559
your teenager, dude, for me, K -Rockathon was

00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:32.619
my Super Bowl every year. We would load up the

00:42:32.619 --> 00:42:34.900
car. Or in your case, you saw us. We got a U

00:42:34.900 --> 00:42:37.659
-Haul and put furniture in the back. I used to

00:42:37.659 --> 00:42:40.260
sneak backstage at all the K -Rockathons. I remember

00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:42.519
I told you I made fake backstage passes online,

00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:44.840
and I would hand out my demos of whatever music

00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:46.599
project I was involved in. I was on tour buses.

00:42:46.699 --> 00:42:49.119
How'd that work for you? No, not great. I'm here.

00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:53.960
I mean, I didn't get signed at the time, but

00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:58.179
I'm glad I didn't, to be honest. It is the Sweetgrass

00:42:58.179 --> 00:43:02.239
K -Rockathon reboot, Saturday, July 26th, and

00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:04.599
Chevy Court at the Great New York State Fairgrounds.

00:43:04.750 --> 00:43:07.329
Oh, yeah, there's going to be nothing more candle

00:43:07.329 --> 00:43:11.989
box drowning pool, which, incidentally, last

00:43:11.989 --> 00:43:14.570
time I was at a K Rockathon, I saw drowning.

00:43:14.750 --> 00:43:16.750
That was the last K Rockathon. Alien Ant Farm.

00:43:16.849 --> 00:43:20.570
Yeah, I open it off. It's going to be a great

00:43:20.570 --> 00:43:23.349
time. You go to KRockathon .com to grab your

00:43:23.349 --> 00:43:27.070
tickets. This is going to be a good time. K Rockathon

00:43:27.070 --> 00:43:31.190
is like a it's like just a local. It's just I

00:43:31.190 --> 00:43:35.380
don't know, staple. Yeah. And look, this is the

00:43:35.380 --> 00:43:37.400
reboot. They're bringing back some some classic

00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:41.380
things. They have a very vintage 90s computer

00:43:41.380 --> 00:43:45.460
look to their their theme, which I have to love.

00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:48.139
You have to love it. It's awesome. Which we should

00:43:48.139 --> 00:43:50.840
post that. We'll post that picture. Of course.

00:43:51.579 --> 00:43:53.900
Yeah. So definitely grab your tickets. It's going

00:43:53.900 --> 00:43:56.460
to be great. I'm very excited. I got to dig up

00:43:56.460 --> 00:43:58.500
all the old footage on my eight millimeter tapes

00:43:58.500 --> 00:44:01.559
of me backstage. Honestly, the last K -Rockathon

00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:04.179
I went to was with Drowning Pool. And it was

00:44:04.179 --> 00:44:06.539
the original singer who died of a drug overdose.

00:44:06.780 --> 00:44:08.219
I remember I was the one you and I are at together.

00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:09.880
We've talked about this. Is that the one? Yeah.

00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:12.300
And he ran across coming off stage. I was on

00:44:12.300 --> 00:44:15.440
the side of the stage taping. He ran by and slapped

00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:19.460
my hand so hard. I felt like it caught on fire.

00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:22.719
And did it almost make your body hit the floor?

00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:27.139
It did. And we opened for Alien Ant Farm at the

00:44:27.139 --> 00:44:29.480
Lost Horizon. My band did. Did you really? One

00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.739
of our last shows. We opened for Alien Ant Farm.

00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:34.289
I really like them. As well as we were talking

00:44:34.289 --> 00:44:36.590
about this yesterday, Candlebox. Candlebox is

00:44:36.590 --> 00:44:39.110
a band from the 90s that I feel like might be

00:44:39.110 --> 00:44:42.789
a little underrated. They are very under. Spectacular

00:44:42.789 --> 00:44:46.070
talent. Great music through people, mutual friends.

00:44:46.170 --> 00:44:48.769
I'm actually friends with the singer on Facebook,

00:44:48.769 --> 00:44:52.170
but I don't know him personally. I saw Candlebox

00:44:52.170 --> 00:44:55.309
in 1996. They opened for Aerosmith at the Pepsi

00:44:55.309 --> 00:44:57.329
Arena in Albany. It was the first time I saw

00:44:57.329 --> 00:45:01.150
them and they were great. But yeah, you're right.

00:45:01.210 --> 00:45:03.320
Candlebox is a great band. Phenomenal. Great

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:05.099
man. And we're going to get to see him. Yeah.

00:45:05.739 --> 00:45:08.400
And on the 26th at the Sweetgrass K Rockathon

00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:11.579
reboot. Right at the Great New York State Fair,

00:45:11.940 --> 00:45:14.860
Chevy Court. I think you'll find you don't necessarily

00:45:14.860 --> 00:45:16.679
even have to know where Chevy Court is. I feel

00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:18.960
like if you just pull up to the fair, there's

00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:21.519
the old guy that sits in the booth. And for some

00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:23.840
reason, no matter how big the event is, you're

00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:26.019
still supposed to stop and say hi to the fella.

00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:28.900
Like, hey, I'm going to the giant event here.

00:45:28.980 --> 00:45:32.260
OK, and he acts surprised. Oh, like, oh, oh,

00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:36.000
is that what this whole line of? But no, I love

00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:38.219
things at the fairgrounds because you got all

00:45:38.219 --> 00:45:41.000
the room in the world and you can have a great

00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.860
time. So I'm I miss, you know, my my fondest

00:45:44.860 --> 00:45:50.280
K Rockathon. I guess venue is I loved when it

00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:52.599
was at Vernon Downs. That was my absolute favorite.

00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:55.420
I did the Weed Sports Speedway. That was cool.

00:45:56.659 --> 00:45:58.159
but Vernon Downs is just... There's something

00:45:58.159 --> 00:45:59.960
about it. Maybe just because that was the OG.

00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:03.780
Maybe. Maybe, but... Yeah, maybe it's Regency

00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:07.179
bias. If that's the thing. It was local to us

00:46:07.179 --> 00:46:10.119
at that point. It was local. Real to us, damn

00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:13.559
it. Also this weekend, we've got Mafia Con for

00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:16.079
you Bills fans out in Buffalo. Bills Mafia Con.

00:46:16.099 --> 00:46:18.139
Forget about it. And remember we went to... Oh,

00:46:18.239 --> 00:46:20.079
different Mafia. We went to Clovers and Skinny

00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:22.000
Atlas. We shot an episode. I thought those men

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.699
in suits were here for a different reason. No.

00:46:24.739 --> 00:46:27.360
We went to Clovers and Skinny Atlas. And if you

00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:29.599
remember, I'm a huge Metallica fan. I was looking

00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:33.440
for Jason Newstead. Jason Newstead is performing

00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:37.860
this weekend. I wish I had more details. I probably

00:46:37.860 --> 00:46:40.500
should have looked. No, not at Clovers, but either

00:46:40.500 --> 00:46:43.460
in Skinny Atlas or around the area. I believe

00:46:43.460 --> 00:46:45.559
it is in Skinny Atlas. Not in his own backyard.

00:46:45.699 --> 00:46:48.079
It's somewhere. He's performing Friday and Saturday

00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:51.070
night. It's two different shows. So I might go

00:46:51.070 --> 00:46:52.449
to that. I feel like he heard that you were looking

00:46:52.449 --> 00:46:54.349
for him around town and he's like, I'll show

00:46:54.349 --> 00:46:56.929
this dude. I'm going to perform when I know he's

00:46:56.929 --> 00:46:58.949
not coming. Yeah, you know what? I'm going to

00:46:58.949 --> 00:47:00.969
hide out while he's here. And then when he leaves,

00:47:01.070 --> 00:47:04.489
I'm going to put a two night banger on. Well,

00:47:04.789 --> 00:47:10.469
I'll take it. Anyway, Tuesday Newsday. Tuesday

00:47:10.469 --> 00:47:12.659
Newsday. Let's get, you said you had a new story.

00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:14.420
I want you to, you never give us a new story

00:47:14.420 --> 00:47:17.639
on Tuesday News 8. You do yours. I woke up way

00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:20.920
too early and turned on the TV, which I almost

00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:22.880
never watch television in the morning, which

00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:28.760
is weird, but I encountered the today show pre

00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:30.840
-show. You ever seen this? There's like a show

00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:33.079
before the today show. Is that the yesterday

00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:35.539
show? No, it's, you know, it's just where they

00:47:35.539 --> 00:47:37.940
take like their D -list anchors and let them

00:47:37.940 --> 00:47:39.679
host something for people like me who woke up

00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:43.920
too early. In any case though, they had this

00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:46.480
story, and here's the thing. It's about a plane

00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:48.840
crash. What the hell? And it's out of Florida.

00:47:50.099 --> 00:47:52.659
Oh, so it's... This sounds like I'm breaking

00:47:52.659 --> 00:47:55.019
all my rules. Yeah, it has nothing to do with

00:47:55.019 --> 00:47:58.760
New York and it's not good news. But stick with

00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.460
me for a second, because spoiler alert, all four

00:48:02.460 --> 00:48:05.340
passengers of the plane are okay. Good. They're

00:48:05.340 --> 00:48:07.119
at the hospital. I'm sure they've got some cuts

00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:12.059
and bruises, but they're fine. Why is that sad?

00:48:12.340 --> 00:48:13.519
Well, they got cuts and bruises. That's good

00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:16.099
news. Okay. They got cuts and bruises. All right.

00:48:17.019 --> 00:48:19.659
They crashed into a tree. There's video of this

00:48:19.659 --> 00:48:24.440
on the news story. Wait, hold on. Sorry. I don't

00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:28.000
mean... A plane doesn't crash. A car crashes

00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.599
into a tree. No, no. A plane crashes and whatever's

00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:32.760
in its way gets taken down. Trees, houses...

00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:36.860
You don't say, oh, I was in a... plane crash.

00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:38.960
We hit it. We I was driving. I was in the plane

00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:40.900
and we hit a tree. It's literally like that.

00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:44.079
They were they were going. Apparently this this

00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:49.559
is near a local airport and a pilot miss, I guess.

00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:52.800
I don't fuck. But in any case, he hit a tree.

00:48:52.940 --> 00:48:57.840
OK, and in this local neighborhood. Took out

00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:01.099
the tree crashed. All the neighbors flocked to

00:49:01.099 --> 00:49:02.719
this thing. And this is the positive part of

00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:04.219
the story. This is the part that sort of gave

00:49:04.219 --> 00:49:09.300
me a little a little pride in humanity. The neighbors

00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:13.400
saved these folks. They immediately went to work.

00:49:13.940 --> 00:49:16.000
They grabbed garden hoses and started putting

00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:18.059
water on the thing so it didn't explode. And

00:49:18.059 --> 00:49:19.860
a bunch of them started hacking the thing apart

00:49:19.860 --> 00:49:23.320
to pull people out of this plane. And it was

00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.380
just incredible to me. And in the days we hear

00:49:25.380 --> 00:49:27.179
about, you know, nobody wants to help anybody.

00:49:27.260 --> 00:49:29.469
People just want to stand around and and take

00:49:29.469 --> 00:49:32.530
out their phones. It looked like damn every neighbor

00:49:32.530 --> 00:49:36.030
in this neighborhood came to aid this plane crash.

00:49:36.190 --> 00:49:38.570
First of all, I love this. Second of all, Matt,

00:49:38.730 --> 00:49:42.750
are you breaking news that if people work together?

00:49:45.110 --> 00:49:47.230
There's the plane in the fucking tree that it

00:49:47.230 --> 00:49:50.070
did hit a fucking tree. You're right. And somewhere

00:49:50.070 --> 00:49:52.730
not all the trees will see one tree. Yeah, we'll

00:49:52.730 --> 00:49:54.369
see if they got the clip. Somebody's ring camera

00:49:54.369 --> 00:49:57.630
caught it like. Has it going into the tree? I

00:49:57.630 --> 00:49:58.670
don't know if that's going to be in this clip.

00:49:58.909 --> 00:50:02.070
Are you saying if we work together, we can do

00:50:02.070 --> 00:50:05.309
better things if everybody unites? Hmm. Oh, wow.

00:50:05.610 --> 00:50:08.869
Incredible. What a con. You know, that's just

00:50:08.869 --> 00:50:10.809
the thing. That's that's that's the way things

00:50:10.809 --> 00:50:12.449
are supposed to work. It's supposed to be a community.

00:50:12.630 --> 00:50:16.010
It's supposed to be, you know, this guy. Something

00:50:16.010 --> 00:50:18.869
occurred. Pref record. You don't worry about

00:50:18.869 --> 00:50:22.690
Karen who steps on your your side of the lawn.

00:50:22.789 --> 00:50:25.860
Right. You know, you. You grab garden hoses and

00:50:25.860 --> 00:50:28.519
tools, and you help these strangers. Look at

00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:31.260
this. Who appeared on your lawn, quite literally.

00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.920
You know, that is wild. Imagine something similar

00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:38.059
like this happened to... Hold on a second. Danny,

00:50:38.099 --> 00:50:40.519
can we get a little audio just so we can... I

00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:42.739
was watching dishes. I like that the onlooker

00:50:42.739 --> 00:50:44.980
stories are the best part of any local news story.

00:50:45.179 --> 00:50:49.039
Of course. Sorry, I didn't mean to throw a wrench

00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:55.500
at you, buddy. that over the last five years,

00:50:55.539 --> 00:51:01.400
we've had over 35 crashes here. Jesus. The time

00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:06.320
has run out. This community wants to feel safe.

00:51:06.699 --> 00:51:09.019
Broward County, and I'm calling on the Broward

00:51:09.019 --> 00:51:11.699
County Commission. Can you zoom back for us,

00:51:11.780 --> 00:51:15.940
buddy, or rewind? We've had 35 crashes in the

00:51:15.940 --> 00:51:20.239
last few years. They were just like, neighborhood

00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:23.559
watch, assemble. That's what I'm telling you.

00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:26.679
These folks might be prepared. They're like,

00:51:26.860 --> 00:51:39.739
ah, John, we got another one. I heard a big boom.

00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:44.000
And then we heard the chk. And we knew like that

00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:45.860
was a plane. They almost sounded like a semi

00:51:45.860 --> 00:51:47.920
-target. I love this guy. And we just saw this.

00:51:49.190 --> 00:51:51.469
According to Pembroke Pines officials, the plane

00:51:51.469 --> 00:51:54.150
was arriving at North Perry Airport Sunday evening

00:51:54.150 --> 00:51:57.050
with four people on board when it crashed into

00:51:57.050 --> 00:51:59.989
a tree in a neighborhood on Southwest 14th Street.

00:52:00.449 --> 00:52:02.949
I noticed that the plane was like making a dip

00:52:02.949 --> 00:52:06.590
and the dip got lower and lower and then there

00:52:06.590 --> 00:52:09.530
came the crash. Officials say all four people

00:52:09.530 --> 00:52:12.269
on board were treated for minor injuries. Dude,

00:52:12.590 --> 00:52:14.570
you are so... See the people like banging the

00:52:14.570 --> 00:52:17.280
window trying to break it open. to get the people

00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:22.539
out. So the story that I watched this morning,

00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:24.199
it must have been on a different news channel,

00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:28.000
had footage of the crash and of the people helping.

00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:30.179
So I'm sorry that I failed you with wherever

00:52:30.179 --> 00:52:33.239
I linked this from. But listen, but you made

00:52:33.239 --> 00:52:35.139
up for it with, like I said, give me faith in

00:52:35.139 --> 00:52:37.900
humanity. Civilian interviews are never disappointing.

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.340
They always include sound effects. I heard a

00:52:40.340 --> 00:52:43.300
crash and then a boom pow. Now we're doing the

00:52:43.300 --> 00:52:46.119
dishes. That's classic Florida man. I've had

00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:47.900
something similar happen in our neighborhood.

00:52:47.980 --> 00:52:50.840
So there's a guy that has like this hot air balloon

00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:54.139
company in Ithaca, in the Ithaca area, and he'll

00:52:54.139 --> 00:52:57.739
take people out. And so what I learned is, so

00:52:57.739 --> 00:53:00.699
one day we're, same thing, I'm washing a dish

00:53:00.699 --> 00:53:04.860
and you hear like the kids screaming, look, look,

00:53:05.179 --> 00:53:07.519
everyone's running outside. The hot air balloon

00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:09.440
landed in the middle of the road in our neighborhood.

00:53:09.699 --> 00:53:11.039
Yeah, you can't necessarily control where they

00:53:11.039 --> 00:53:12.760
land. That's what I found out. I didn't know

00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:14.739
that if you're in a hot air balloon when it's

00:53:14.739 --> 00:53:16.639
time to go down, it's time to go down. You just

00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:18.940
have to find a place that's big enough, whether

00:53:18.940 --> 00:53:22.300
it's a neighborhood or a field. If you ever see

00:53:22.300 --> 00:53:24.400
any of these hot air balloon festivals, you will

00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.260
see that there are chase cars or literally people

00:53:27.260 --> 00:53:29.599
will follow the hot air balloon in a vehicle

00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:32.960
to retrieve it whenever it comes down. Would

00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:34.920
you would you do it? Would you go in a hot air

00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:37.539
balloon? I don't know. I don't either. You know,

00:53:37.900 --> 00:53:39.940
I don't like the idea of floating in a basket.

00:53:40.019 --> 00:53:43.539
I don't. I'm not super like in the heights. I'm

00:53:43.539 --> 00:53:46.039
also not so like nobody airplane doesn't bother

00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:49.800
me. Then I feel like I could be mistaken, but

00:53:49.800 --> 00:53:52.500
I feel like I would feel secure enough in a balloon

00:53:52.500 --> 00:53:55.599
and that maybe that's foolish of me. But I feel

00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:57.860
like as I've seen these things go up and down,

00:53:57.860 --> 00:53:59.960
like they don't, they don't drop like a rock.

00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:03.159
Well, they, they do if the balloon pops. Yeah,

00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:05.190
but like. Has that ever happened? Well, it's

00:54:05.190 --> 00:54:07.690
funny you say that. I just saw a video recently.

00:54:07.869 --> 00:54:09.710
I can't tell if it was AI or not, but it was

00:54:09.710 --> 00:54:11.949
like the fire caught the balloon on fire. Oh,

00:54:11.949 --> 00:54:15.070
yeah, that'll happen. And then it was a deadly

00:54:15.070 --> 00:54:19.750
plunge. So you know, that's another thing. I

00:54:19.750 --> 00:54:22.909
hate when people go, oh, I do not like heights.

00:54:23.110 --> 00:54:25.929
I'm like, who does? Who's like, I love being

00:54:25.929 --> 00:54:29.090
50 ,000 feet in the air. Nobody likes it. Can

00:54:29.090 --> 00:54:32.690
I tell you something weird, personal? Yeah, I

00:54:32.690 --> 00:54:35.239
don't. I don't really have any sort of issue

00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:37.280
with heights in terms of like I could stand on

00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.579
a real tall building and look over and that's

00:54:39.579 --> 00:54:43.179
that's fine with me. I have an issue with stairs

00:54:43.179 --> 00:54:47.400
and like steep stairs. Don't know why. All right.

00:54:47.659 --> 00:54:51.239
But I have more of an issue with that than being

00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:54.320
at the roof of a. I can't make funny because

00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:58.940
I am completely OK with roller coasters. Ferris

00:54:58.940 --> 00:55:00.739
wheels. Go fuck yourself. I'm not getting in

00:55:00.739 --> 00:55:03.710
a Ferris wheel. Yeah, I don't like. Going up

00:55:03.710 --> 00:55:05.849
and down and then stopping. I'm not really I'm

00:55:05.849 --> 00:55:07.929
not down for either to be completely honest with

00:55:07.929 --> 00:55:09.550
you But if I had to choose I'd take the ferris

00:55:09.550 --> 00:55:11.489
wheel would you I want no part of these fucking

00:55:11.489 --> 00:55:13.769
rollercoasters Well, I mean that that's the reasonable

00:55:13.769 --> 00:55:16.230
answer you remember at the Herkimer County. Well,

00:55:16.230 --> 00:55:19.130
not even just her all fairs remember the Herkimer

00:55:19.130 --> 00:55:22.610
County fair Remember the uh, so it was like a

00:55:22.610 --> 00:55:25.510
ferris wheel But in addition you were in a cage

00:55:25.510 --> 00:55:28.610
that would spin independently on its own like

00:55:28.610 --> 00:55:31.099
little like gondolas sort of Yeah, but well,

00:55:31.099 --> 00:55:32.920
they were still death traps to me. They just

00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:35.280
have like a great that you could see out of and

00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:37.719
you had a bar over you and you were just independently

00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:39.880
spinning while also I don't know that I ever

00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:42.780
went on. Yeah. Yeah. Hated it. I never went on.

00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:44.880
I think. Oh, no, I did. I went on once and it

00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:46.780
was the worst experience of my life. So I never

00:55:46.780 --> 00:55:49.420
went on again. But I always liked what's that

00:55:49.420 --> 00:55:51.260
one. Was it like the Gravitron, the one that

00:55:51.260 --> 00:55:54.000
like spins? Oh, yeah. Where you were you were

00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:56.019
in a spaceship and you would lay down and you

00:55:56.019 --> 00:55:59.780
couldn't move because of the gravity. Remember

00:55:59.780 --> 00:56:01.400
the first time I went on that with my buddy we

00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:03.219
got on and like we weren't totally sure what

00:56:03.219 --> 00:56:05.920
was gonna happen and These kids next to us obviously

00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:08.059
knew what was gonna happen So right before you

00:56:08.059 --> 00:56:10.139
get to the point to where you can't move they

00:56:10.139 --> 00:56:12.480
like jumped and did poses. Yes Yeah, that's what

00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:15.239
I used to do and like the whole time. I'm there

00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:18.480
like that's fucking cool, man I wish I had understood

00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:21.280
how this thing works. But yeah, I would go upside

00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:25.000
down But then you're screwed. It didn't it didn't

00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:27.460
feel like I don't know as fast as it moved you

00:56:27.460 --> 00:56:30.139
I didn't feel like I was gonna die in any way.

00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:32.519
Right, right. And you know, back then there was

00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:35.280
no social media. So the only way to really find

00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:36.780
out what the ride was like, because it was in

00:56:36.780 --> 00:56:39.500
you're literally inside a spaceship. You had

00:56:39.500 --> 00:56:42.480
to go look. There was no like going online and

00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:44.780
looking it up. I remember right next to that

00:56:44.780 --> 00:56:47.679
at the Herkimer can affair was the flying bops.

00:56:47.780 --> 00:56:50.139
Now that was my favorite or flying flying bops

00:56:50.139 --> 00:56:52.219
flying bops. It was the one where they would

00:56:52.219 --> 00:56:54.760
play music, and it would just go in a circle

00:56:54.760 --> 00:56:59.440
and music would like the lights go in. It had

00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:02.400
like a winter theme. Yes, yes, yes. The Flying

00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:05.239
Bops. Like a snow. Yes. I never heard it called

00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:07.440
that. It's called something else, but I know

00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:08.719
exactly what you're talking about. Maybe I'm

00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:10.760
thinking of like a tag team. We're the Flying

00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:14.960
Bops. You sit like a bench. Yes. Yeah, I love

00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:17.880
that. Yeah, I'm down with that one. And I also,

00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:21.679
here's a little personal one for me. I am terrified

00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:24.099
of haunted houses. And I don't mean that's the

00:57:24.099 --> 00:57:26.039
intention. I don't mean the elaborate ones that

00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:28.119
like nowadays it's like a real life horror movie.

00:57:28.139 --> 00:57:30.960
I'm talking about just your simple old haunted

00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:32.960
house where there's mirrors and every now and

00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:35.239
then a guy in like a crusty suit that hasn't

00:57:35.239 --> 00:57:38.159
been washed in 30. I can't do it. I get scared

00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:41.940
very easily. I don't like I'm not like right

00:57:41.940 --> 00:57:44.699
now if we were at a fair at my age and you said

00:57:44.699 --> 00:57:46.280
go in that haunted house by yourself, I'd say

00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:50.500
I am too scared. So I wouldn't say that I'm scared

00:57:50.500 --> 00:57:53.619
of those sorts of things, but I don't find the

00:57:53.619 --> 00:57:57.559
entertainment value. No. You're trapped. You

00:57:57.559 --> 00:58:00.500
don't know what's going to happen. It's the Herkimer

00:58:00.500 --> 00:58:03.239
County Fair, by the way, so who knows if they're

00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:06.659
a local hire, which could be more dangerous than

00:58:06.659 --> 00:58:09.360
a national hire, because the county fair are

00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:11.699
scarier than any haunted house. You bet your

00:58:11.699 --> 00:58:13.480
ass, my friend. They're probably like Billy.

00:58:13.800 --> 00:58:15.820
I don't know why you would pay to go see a haunted

00:58:15.820 --> 00:58:18.429
house at the county. Yeah, it'd be like that

00:58:18.429 --> 00:58:21.230
was the price of admission. Yeah, Billy. Yeah,

00:58:21.630 --> 00:58:23.909
get in there. What costume you want me to wear?

00:58:24.269 --> 00:58:27.030
Nothing. Wear what you're wearing games. I did.

00:58:27.530 --> 00:58:31.329
I used to do the one where it was a spiral and

00:58:31.329 --> 00:58:34.449
it would also spin and the spiral thing would

00:58:34.449 --> 00:58:37.010
spin and you had to take the thing. A boring

00:58:37.010 --> 00:58:39.349
game they had, you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And

00:58:39.349 --> 00:58:41.769
then there was one that I was good at the water

00:58:41.769 --> 00:58:43.610
gun where you hit the target. That one's gold.

00:58:43.739 --> 00:58:45.519
Yeah, that was the one I was always good at.

00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:48.099
The rest I sucked. So I took my daughter to the

00:58:48.099 --> 00:58:50.380
state fair, my youngest, and she wanted to play

00:58:50.380 --> 00:58:54.820
games. And we played that one first and she won

00:58:54.820 --> 00:58:58.360
it. God, that was a nightmare. Yeah, because

00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.300
now you're screwed for every time you walk by

00:59:00.300 --> 00:59:01.800
it. Now she assumes she's going to win every

00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:04.900
game. So now we're playing all these other carnival

00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:07.639
games. Yeah. And they're not as easy. And she's

00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:12.050
like, what the hell? I don't know if I was exceptional.

00:59:12.210 --> 00:59:13.889
You set the bar absolutely the wrong way. You

00:59:13.889 --> 00:59:18.050
did. I might be one of the best water gun carnival

00:59:18.050 --> 00:59:20.050
game players ever, because I always would win.

00:59:20.389 --> 00:59:22.250
But maybe I'm just average on a national scale.

00:59:22.309 --> 00:59:24.849
I'm reasonably sure that there's a little dealer's

00:59:24.849 --> 00:59:26.989
choice control on that particular game. There

00:59:26.989 --> 00:59:29.070
is. You can look it up. There's a whole community

00:59:29.070 --> 00:59:32.929
online. I didn't know this. Where you get there.

00:59:33.170 --> 00:59:35.570
They have YouTube channels, social media channels

00:59:35.570 --> 00:59:38.750
dedicated to beating carnival games and exposing

00:59:38.750 --> 00:59:43.179
the tricks. It's actually. There's one with the

00:59:43.179 --> 00:59:45.340
crane machine, but I tried it and it didn't work.

00:59:45.380 --> 00:59:47.619
I don't remember what it was, so you gotta be

00:59:47.619 --> 00:59:48.900
careful because some of its problem with claw

00:59:48.900 --> 00:59:51.699
machines. I used to be a claw machine connoisseur.

00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:53.679
They don't squeeze hard enough intentionally,

00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:57.719
right? It's like one in five. The tension is

00:59:57.719 --> 00:59:59.800
controlled. That sounds about right, because

00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:02.019
every fourth or fifth time I would win. Yeah,

01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:04.320
but even then you even that time when you grab

01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:06.059
it, then you have to grab it from the right end.

01:00:06.199 --> 01:00:09.519
You know it's. You know, I've been seeing videos

01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:11.699
of kids going up in there and getting stuck,

01:00:11.960 --> 01:00:15.159
and I'm going to promise you, I mean this, I'm

01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:17.280
jealous. I wish I had thought of that. I wish

01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:19.460
I had gotten stuck in a stuffed animal. I don't

01:00:19.460 --> 01:00:20.840
know how we got the claw games, but since we

01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:22.380
did, I got to ask you. I saw this video the other

01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:28.000
day of a restaurant that had a lobster tank clogging.

01:00:29.260 --> 01:00:31.039
Wait a minute. So you know how you go to like

01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:33.360
Red Lobster and you want fresh lobster and you're

01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:36.079
like, give me that guy out of the tank. Same

01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:39.280
deal, but it's a clogging. Hold on. Are you telling

01:00:39.280 --> 01:00:41.119
me they're like, not only do you get to pick

01:00:41.119 --> 01:00:42.980
your lobster, but you make a game out of it with

01:00:42.980 --> 01:00:45.360
a claw and it's a live lobster? Oh, yeah. This

01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:48.139
is amazing. Where is this? I don't know exactly.

01:00:48.619 --> 01:00:51.039
I'll find the video. Oh, you didn't go there?

01:00:51.179 --> 01:00:53.659
No, no, I fucking did not. I thought you meant

01:00:53.659 --> 01:00:56.920
it was local. I want to go there for lunch. Yeah.

01:00:57.300 --> 01:00:58.820
Here's the thing, though. I got to ask you. So

01:00:58.820 --> 01:01:02.179
the debate in the comments was how cruel that

01:01:02.179 --> 01:01:04.400
is. Oh, here we go. What do you think? You think

01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.949
that's cruel? Okay. Or even how about just cooking

01:01:07.949 --> 01:01:10.809
lobster live? All right. Here's what your thoughts

01:01:10.809 --> 01:01:13.670
on that? Okay. That's a fantastic question, by

01:01:13.670 --> 01:01:17.090
the way. Where do I fall on this? First of all,

01:01:17.190 --> 01:01:22.510
I'm a big animal lover. Overall, do I think the

01:01:22.510 --> 01:01:25.889
way we pick lobsters out and then set them in

01:01:25.889 --> 01:01:27.949
boiling water and listening to them scream? Do

01:01:27.949 --> 01:01:30.650
I think that's horrible? Absolutely. But I walk

01:01:30.650 --> 01:01:33.369
away for that part of it. I think it's really

01:01:33.369 --> 01:01:39.800
scream. However, What I think is making a claw

01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:42.900
game out of choosing them to go to their death.

01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:46.199
I think that's probably their last fun ride before

01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:50.400
they go. I don't I don't think considering what's

01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.400
about to happen to them. I don't think the claw

01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:53.980
part of their day. It's the best part of their

01:01:53.980 --> 01:01:57.519
day. And I and I don't I don't think that kind

01:01:57.519 --> 01:01:59.639
of size is up to putting them in boiling water.

01:01:59.659 --> 01:02:02.539
Like at that point, I mean, the whole the whole

01:02:02.539 --> 01:02:06.059
thing may be may be inhumane. But you can't just

01:02:06.059 --> 01:02:07.940
cherry -pick the crane part of it and say that's

01:02:07.940 --> 01:02:10.420
inhumane I mean the whole process is fair, you

01:02:10.420 --> 01:02:12.340
know, I mean, I'm just thinking out loud But

01:02:12.340 --> 01:02:14.380
I think some people some chefs will tell you

01:02:14.380 --> 01:02:18.900
that they'll knock out the thing first Hmm. I

01:02:18.900 --> 01:02:20.539
don't know if that's throw it in the pot. You

01:02:20.539 --> 01:02:23.239
never heard him scream I'm reason I could be

01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:25.320
mistaken. I'm reasonably sure it's not a scream.

01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:27.900
It's more of the steam That's that was where

01:02:27.900 --> 01:02:29.960
I was going which is that is another debate that

01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:32.719
some people are claiming now that they don't

01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:34.230
scream If they did, they just say, don't put

01:02:34.230 --> 01:02:38.670
me in the fucking pot. Under the sea. Yeah, I

01:02:38.670 --> 01:02:42.250
don't know, man. Look, I'm not I'm not for hurting

01:02:42.250 --> 01:02:46.570
animals. But if you're going to hurt a lobster,

01:02:47.150 --> 01:02:48.550
you may not hurt them if you're going to if you're

01:02:48.550 --> 01:02:51.650
going to eat them. I don't think the crane part

01:02:51.650 --> 01:02:56.969
of it adds any sort of worse. We got video. Oh,

01:02:58.409 --> 01:03:03.119
we're going to put it up. Yeah. All right. While

01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:04.960
he's doing that, let me just do this real quick.

01:03:04.980 --> 01:03:06.960
It is Tuesday Newsday. I thought this was awesome.

01:03:07.340 --> 01:03:10.280
This is from the Finger Lakes. They're opening

01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:13.260
cooling centers. They're available because of

01:03:13.260 --> 01:03:17.079
the heat wave. You call ahead and they have certain

01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:19.739
hours. Can I get some of that cooling? Yeah.

01:03:20.420 --> 01:03:22.659
I'm talking Seneca County, Schuyler County, Stubend

01:03:22.659 --> 01:03:25.599
County, Tompkins County, Wayne County and Yates

01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:28.099
County. And under each county, there are 10 to

01:03:28.099 --> 01:03:29.900
15 places. I'm not talking about like one or

01:03:29.900 --> 01:03:32.860
two places. They have done widespread cooling

01:03:32.860 --> 01:03:35.440
centers, which I just thought is such a great

01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:36.820
idea. You're working in the heat. You don't have

01:03:36.820 --> 01:03:38.519
air conditioning at home, things like that. It's

01:03:38.519 --> 01:03:42.280
what an awesome idea, right? I love that. All

01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:43.980
right. What do we got? So speaking of the opposite

01:03:43.980 --> 01:03:48.239
of lifesavers, let's let's go to the videotape.

01:03:48.360 --> 01:03:53.420
Don't tag PETA on this. Oh, my God. So what they've

01:03:53.420 --> 01:03:54.920
done is they've taken looks like a traditional

01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:57.760
claw machine and they've they've now waterproofed

01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:00.250
it because they're not. Wait a minute. Danny,

01:04:00.349 --> 01:04:02.530
can you roll that back just to like the end?

01:04:03.230 --> 01:04:05.929
I want you to notice something though. Now in

01:04:05.929 --> 01:04:08.690
a normal claw game, right here, it would drop.

01:04:08.849 --> 01:04:11.489
They actually went ahead and let you... Well,

01:04:11.550 --> 01:04:14.070
these have control. So you can, if you have one

01:04:14.070 --> 01:04:16.889
of those machines, you can set it to full strength

01:04:16.889 --> 01:04:18.710
every time. Yeah. I don't know if that makes

01:04:18.710 --> 01:04:20.929
it better for the crowd that's saying that's

01:04:20.929 --> 01:04:24.150
inhumane, but I will say bonus, they don't let

01:04:24.150 --> 01:04:26.880
it free fall. Yeah, you know, they set it down

01:04:26.880 --> 01:04:29.000
gently. No, here's my question though Do you

01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.079
think it's the same the same rules apply where

01:04:31.079 --> 01:04:33.260
like you try to get the lobster a couple times?

01:04:33.260 --> 01:04:35.019
It doesn't and then on the fifth try it's strong

01:04:35.019 --> 01:04:37.800
enough or you think it's just it every time That's

01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:42.539
a great question my thought was that it was one

01:04:42.539 --> 01:04:45.579
of those deals where like maybe it's a Sale a

01:04:45.579 --> 01:04:49.260
deal. Hmm. So like you get five bucks to try

01:04:49.260 --> 01:04:51.719
to catch a lobster Otherwise you pay that 20

01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:53.380
bucks a pound or whatever the fuck it is great.

01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:55.559
I don't know if that's what they do What if they

01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:58.539
did this? What if they mixed in like crayfish

01:04:58.539 --> 01:05:02.239
and like, I don't know, something else. And then

01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:04.260
like, if you don't, yeah, if you don't get the

01:05:04.260 --> 01:05:07.199
lobster, looks like you're eating crab or crayfish

01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:10.099
or the issue might be just bird lobsters might

01:05:10.099 --> 01:05:12.280
eat the other. Well, that's true. They banned

01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:14.960
their claws. So here's the thing, though. I didn't

01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.059
see any. Was there water in there? Oh, there

01:05:17.059 --> 01:05:20.320
was. OK. Yeah, they they clearly took a regular

01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:22.880
claw machine and like sealed it like a fish tank.

01:05:22.920 --> 01:05:26.219
It's wild. You think this is one place that does

01:05:26.219 --> 01:05:29.280
it? Or is this kind of a thing that I love it?

01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.159
I think it's great. We love animals. It's just

01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:37.099
an efficient delivery system, right? I have no.

01:05:37.860 --> 01:05:40.119
I love everything about it. I think from a marketing

01:05:40.119 --> 01:05:43.440
fund standpoint, from a logistical state, I think

01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:46.860
it's all. I think it's great. But you know if

01:05:46.860 --> 01:05:50.219
we don't like your email to send your hate mail

01:05:50.219 --> 01:05:54.960
to goodnewsyork .com. Alright and. I think I

01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:56.679
think that's good. We've got a we got some great

01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:59.460
guests coming up this week. We do. We do. We've

01:05:59.460 --> 01:06:02.039
got some mind blowing stuff from Dr. Jennifer

01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:05.119
Shiabi, who I've worked with. She is a mental.

01:06:06.300 --> 01:06:09.599
She's she shows she she is a doctor and she I

01:06:09.599 --> 01:06:11.840
forget where she worked, but she left. She was

01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:14.400
I said, when is that? Oh, when is that? I don't

01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:17.940
have hand I think tomorrow. Let me look. Let

01:06:17.940 --> 01:06:19.920
me tell you who's coming up. You got to tune

01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:22.909
in for that because She is doing some mind blowing

01:06:22.909 --> 01:06:25.789
work in the mental health world, and I am a part

01:06:25.789 --> 01:06:28.070
of it blowing and it has changed my life. It

01:06:28.070 --> 01:06:30.849
is not a joke. It is unbelievable what's going

01:06:30.849 --> 01:06:33.829
on. If you are struggling, I'm being dead serious.

01:06:33.929 --> 01:06:37.510
There is hope. There is hope. There's always

01:06:37.510 --> 01:06:39.750
hope, but there's definitely hope with her. She's

01:06:39.750 --> 01:06:41.789
coming on Thursday. Tomorrow. We have your boy.

01:06:41.809 --> 01:06:44.050
We have a double header. Dylan Wirtz is coming

01:06:44.050 --> 01:06:46.829
in. Dylan Wirtz is the man who's putting on a

01:06:46.829 --> 01:06:51.070
great comedy show coming up soon. All right.

01:06:51.289 --> 01:06:54.090
And if that if that doesn't tickle your fancy

01:06:54.090 --> 01:06:57.409
right after that, we've got Gabe from Home Chow

01:06:57.409 --> 01:07:00.050
coming in. Do you remember what Home Chow was?

01:07:01.469 --> 01:07:04.610
The pizza vending machine from the Canna Con.

01:07:04.650 --> 01:07:07.909
Oh, snap. Oh, yeah. And here's the thing. It's

01:07:07.909 --> 01:07:10.909
we it's not just pizza. Is he is he bringing

01:07:10.909 --> 01:07:13.070
us a machine? I don't know. I don't think you

01:07:13.070 --> 01:07:15.269
can. They're from Rochester. They're coming here.

01:07:16.070 --> 01:07:19.260
So that's quite a trek. I don't know if you can

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travel with them. I mean, if you can put lobster

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in a crane machine, my landlord, let us put one

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out front. I'm going to say yes, because I want

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it. What if this is the first location of an

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actual pizza vending machine? If you get a pizza

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vending machine, dude, I will. I don't even know.

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We're going to have to ask him this. I wonder,

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can you put them outside, though? Like, is that

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is that safe? Well, when he showed me how it

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worked, you keep. And by the way, they know it's

01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:43.480
like a regular vending machine. They have also

01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:46.460
other meals like chicken parm and. But anyway,

01:07:46.579 --> 01:07:49.380
they keep them on these metal trays that keep

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them warm. So I don't see. I'm just wondering,

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like, do you have to worry about people like

01:07:52.920 --> 01:07:54.659
breaking into it or something? Oh, of course.

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I mean, you got to work about worry about people.

01:07:56.260 --> 01:07:57.539
I'm sure you got to worry about people breaking

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in the lobster claw machine. That's maybe what

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we have a lot. That's why we can't have nice

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things. Just like in the front buildings on Main

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Street or something. Gone are the days of when

01:08:07.400 --> 01:08:09.460
you would get a pack of M &M's and have to smash

01:08:09.460 --> 01:08:11.760
on the glass to get it to fall. You know, those

01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:14.239
days are gone. Those machines still exist. Have

01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:15.139
you seen, when's the last time? Is there nothing

01:08:15.139 --> 01:08:16.760
like a pizza vending machine, which we're gonna

01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:18.720
hear all about tomorrow and go to New York. My

01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:21.279
favorite, oh we should have ended there, but

01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:23.159
I gotta say this. My favorite dive bar in the

01:08:23.159 --> 01:08:24.779
world, and I love it. My favorite bar in the

01:08:24.779 --> 01:08:26.800
world is the Fall Creek House. No, the Creaker

01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:29.600
in Ithaca, New York. They, I believe to this

01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:31.579
day, still have a cigarette vending machine.

01:08:32.020 --> 01:08:34.159
When's the last time you saw? In Herkimer. Yeah,

01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:36.800
it did actually. I used to smoke then. So gross.

01:08:38.539 --> 01:08:40.300
When's the last time you saw a cigarette vending

01:08:40.300 --> 01:08:43.670
machine? Recently at a casino in Vegas. Oh, that's

01:08:43.670 --> 01:08:45.829
right. Blew my fucking mind. It's crazy, right?

01:08:46.010 --> 01:08:48.149
Legit old school cigarette vending machine, just

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chilling there like it's 1972. Right. Maybe it's

01:08:53.270 --> 01:08:54.930
not as obsolete as I thought because... Fully

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functional with new cigarettes in it. New York

01:08:57.170 --> 01:09:00.130
State has a law, you know, you can't smoke indoors.

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And I don't know what other states do and don't.

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So maybe there are a lot of vending machines

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outside. Aside from Brownies, which I'm reasonably

01:09:05.909 --> 01:09:08.649
sure wasn't kosher at the time. But aside from

01:09:08.649 --> 01:09:10.430
the machine there, I always remember the bowling

01:09:10.430 --> 01:09:13.170
alleys had them. Oh, yes. I don't know why in

01:09:13.170 --> 01:09:15.710
particular. Well, I feel like the way fishing

01:09:15.710 --> 01:09:17.829
and beer goes together. I feel like bowling and

01:09:17.829 --> 01:09:19.930
cigarettes for kids who want to smoke was they

01:09:19.930 --> 01:09:21.189
got them out of the vending machine at home.

01:09:21.470 --> 01:09:23.270
Yeah, bowling and cigarettes go together like

01:09:23.270 --> 01:09:26.449
beer and fishing. Fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling

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Merica. Peace out.