WEBVTT 00:00:08.940 --> 00:00:10.960 What's up everybody welcome to good news York, 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:16.440 I'm Matt major. I'm from vacation joined by my 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:19.420 Buddy who looks the same as he did when I left 00:00:19.420 --> 00:00:22.100 Mike Brindisi is sitting to my left. Yeah, buddy 00:00:22.100 --> 00:00:24.699 chillin. What's up, dude? We're back. We got 00:00:24.699 --> 00:00:27.019 a new mic on yeah. Yeah, we do Thanks, Danny. 00:00:27.019 --> 00:00:29.460 We have these are like how I leave town and come 00:00:29.460 --> 00:00:31.199 back and you guys have bought real equipment 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:34.420 Yeah, we don't mess around around here It is 00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:36.619 good news York sponsored by ads on the go get 00:00:36.619 --> 00:00:40.670 ads on the go comm get ads on the go. Dude, it 00:00:40.670 --> 00:00:43.450 feels good to be back. And again, you know I 00:00:43.450 --> 00:00:44.990 love when we have guests and we have a bunch 00:00:44.990 --> 00:00:47.429 of guests coming up this week. But I love these 00:00:47.429 --> 00:00:49.070 shows when you and I can just shoot the shit. 00:00:49.250 --> 00:00:50.969 And there's a lot of stuff that happened while 00:00:50.969 --> 00:00:53.990 you were on vacation. But it's true. Before we 00:00:53.990 --> 00:00:55.409 can get into that, let's talk about your vacation. 00:00:56.170 --> 00:00:58.409 Come on. How was your vacation? We didn't really 00:00:58.409 --> 00:01:00.670 get to talk about it. It was all right. Yeah. 00:01:01.289 --> 00:01:02.789 The kids had a great time. We went to a nice 00:01:02.789 --> 00:01:07.310 place down south. You know, it was a good time. 00:01:07.590 --> 00:01:11.560 OK. I feel like that's the proper middle -aged 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.120 dad answer. You know, it's like, eh. It's more 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:17.120 for the kids and the wife. And it's like, you 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:18.799 know what I mean? It's like, what do you guys 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:20.280 want to do? You want to go down to the boardwalk? 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:23.040 You want to get ice cream? Cool, let's go. You 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:24.920 know? Had I paid attention at all to the planning, 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:26.260 it might have been a radically different trip. 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:28.200 But that's a whole other story. Well, you look 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:30.099 great. Well, thanks. We're so happy you're back. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.799 Danny and I, Annie. I sat in the sun for... Is 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.060 that tan? Can you tell? Yeah, I guess you do 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:40.120 look a little bit tanner. I told my wife, we 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:42.920 went to the beach for maybe two hours out of 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.219 that entire week. But as I was there, I said, 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.599 am I the whitest thing on the entire beach? And 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.359 she looked around. She's like, yeah. Yeah. I 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.359 was like glowing. Yeah, like when you have your 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:57.840 bare feet, it looks like you have white socks 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:59.640 on. Oh, it's incredible. Yeah, I'm the same way. 00:01:59.859 --> 00:02:01.859 I catch on fire. I'm actually not wearing a shirt 00:02:01.859 --> 00:02:05.659 right now. No shit. Yeah. You've got a flannel 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:08.020 skin. That's amazing. That's crazy. The tan lines 00:02:08.020 --> 00:02:14.819 were wild. Listen, we had a talk a week or so 00:02:14.819 --> 00:02:16.780 ago about vacations and how it's like you want 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:21.020 to do nothing. Look, I love beaches. And I'm 00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:22.960 not even going to go as far as to say that beach 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:24.960 vacations are overrated. But there are just some 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.699 things. I can only spend so much time on the 00:02:27.699 --> 00:02:31.460 beach staring at the water. And then the part 00:02:31.460 --> 00:02:35.120 that really Bugs me the most is I'm cleaning 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.939 out sand from my ears my shoes anything I took 00:02:38.939 --> 00:02:41.379 to the anything that I took on vacation not even 00:02:41.379 --> 00:02:44.000 things I took to the beach like I'll like you 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:45.919 know open up my suitcase and take out my you 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.000 know headphones that I didn't even bring to the 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.219 beach and there's sand in them you know I'll 00:02:50.219 --> 00:02:52.539 be honest I enjoyed the beach more than I probably 00:02:52.539 --> 00:02:54.560 would have even though it sounds like we we didn't 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.680 get there very much the one issue that I Take 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.990 with it, and I don't really understand is there 00:03:00.990 --> 00:03:03.669 are zero amenities at the beach. What I mean 00:03:03.669 --> 00:03:07.069 by that is, like, we didn't plan well. We probably 00:03:07.069 --> 00:03:08.810 should have eaten a meal before we went to the 00:03:08.810 --> 00:03:10.509 beach, but we didn't. So we're sitting there 00:03:10.509 --> 00:03:12.469 for a while, and it's like, I'm hungry. Can I 00:03:12.469 --> 00:03:14.830 grab a hot dog or a burger or something? No. 00:03:14.969 --> 00:03:18.030 Nope. There's not a single vendor of any sort 00:03:18.030 --> 00:03:21.610 anywhere near the beach. Yeah. I don't understand 00:03:21.610 --> 00:03:23.990 this. I've been to many beaches. It blows my 00:03:23.990 --> 00:03:25.610 mind. And it's not... You're right. It's not 00:03:25.610 --> 00:03:28.250 even a, like, a... beach -by -beach thing. I 00:03:28.250 --> 00:03:30.550 would say the general consensus, they don't really 00:03:30.550 --> 00:03:31.210 have... Well, there are a lot of other places. 00:03:31.669 --> 00:03:34.509 Like, I years ago lived in Clearwater, Florida, 00:03:34.710 --> 00:03:37.030 and the Clearwater beach is one of the best ones, 00:03:37.030 --> 00:03:41.069 they say, in the country, right? You can easily... 00:03:41.069 --> 00:03:43.629 There's a hundred bars that you just walk right 00:03:43.629 --> 00:03:44.930 off the beach, and they're right there, and you 00:03:44.930 --> 00:03:48.110 can sit on a stool in restaurants and all these 00:03:48.110 --> 00:03:51.990 other things. This North Carolina, it's just... 00:03:51.990 --> 00:03:54.780 It's gorgeous. But, like, I don't know what you're 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:56.400 saving, because there's still millions of people, 00:03:56.460 --> 00:03:59.199 so it's not like you're, you know, I just, I 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:01.599 was shocked that there wasn't, you know, a guy 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.680 with a cooler walking around selling drinks or 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.319 some kind of anything. Yeah. You would think 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:08.000 that someone would jump on that. Like, a guy 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.500 like you would. You'd be like, hey, what about, 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:12.120 like, a hot dog cart? That's what I'm saying. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.580 You'd make a freaking killing. Or just a drink. 00:04:15.900 --> 00:04:18.800 It's fucking 90 degrees out. 90 degrees. Sell 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:20.959 some bottles of water to somebody that didn't 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.759 bring one. See, for me, I would have to carry 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.199 so much shit. I pee and poop a lot. And when 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.800 you're on the beach, that's another thing. A 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.319 lot of times any sort of bathroom is so far away. 00:04:34.779 --> 00:04:37.600 With sand. Well, I mean the ocean. Yeah. Well, 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:38.879 that's what I mean. Everyone's just like, oh, 00:04:38.899 --> 00:04:41.560 go in the ocean. Obviously not number two, but, 00:04:41.779 --> 00:04:43.800 you know. Oh, I'm not pooping. You would poop 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:47.060 in the ocean? I mean, no. You're a fucking rebel. 00:04:47.339 --> 00:04:50.759 But like, I don't. I'll pee in the ocean. Yeah, 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.519 I'll pee in the ocean. What do you think you're, 00:04:53.660 --> 00:04:56.220 like, what's the difference? Well, because here's 00:04:56.220 --> 00:04:58.839 the thing I hate about swimming in open water 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.560 is when it goes from hot to cold, hot to cold 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:02.839 when you're swimming and you're treading water. 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:04.579 And then all I think of is, oh, God, that's some 00:05:04.579 --> 00:05:06.899 old guy's piss. That's some old guy's piss. You 00:05:06.899 --> 00:05:09.560 know, there's like sea creatures that shit in 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:11.519 that water all day long. Yeah, but sea creatures' 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.240 shit compared to human shit seems wildly different. 00:05:14.420 --> 00:05:16.939 Think so? Yeah. Also, cruise ships just dump 00:05:16.939 --> 00:05:18.779 millions of gallons of people's shit in the ocean 00:05:18.779 --> 00:05:21.050 all the time. Remember years ago when the Dave 00:05:21.050 --> 00:05:24.750 Matthews band accidentally Unloaded their septic 00:05:24.750 --> 00:05:27.209 tank on a bridge and it hit people underneath 00:05:27.209 --> 00:05:30.490 on a boat. I don't but it was a national story 00:05:30.490 --> 00:05:39.810 Hey Hey, speaking of peeing and pooping you think 00:05:39.810 --> 00:05:43.170 you'd have to wipe What I don't know because 00:05:43.170 --> 00:05:47.279 I would never shit in the ocean but Probably 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.139 not. Well, like if you're completely submerged 00:05:49.139 --> 00:05:51.879 in water. Yeah, but what if it's like a real 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:54.240 pasty? Jesus Christ. What are we talking about? 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:56.860 I mean, I guess you could twerk and like get 00:05:56.860 --> 00:05:59.540 the water washing around, you know? I got a more 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:02.879 important question. Oh, okay. Has nothing to 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.800 do with shit. Good. How often should you mow 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:12.600 your lawn? Oh, buddy! You, my friend! You just 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:14.720 happened - my wife and I just had this conversation 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.250 in the car the other day. Actually, it might 00:06:16.250 --> 00:06:19.269 have been yesterday. I mow my lawn once a week. 00:06:19.829 --> 00:06:22.029 We have Fridays off here, so Friday is my mow 00:06:22.029 --> 00:06:25.110 day. I am very particular about my lawn. Now, 00:06:25.110 --> 00:06:27.889 my neighbor, not so particular. He takes care 00:06:27.889 --> 00:06:29.750 of his lawn, but sometimes he'll go like two 00:06:29.750 --> 00:06:31.790 weeks, and it looks like a cornfield compared 00:06:31.790 --> 00:06:35.670 to mine. So I came to the crossroads yesterday 00:06:35.670 --> 00:06:37.250 or the day before with my wife. I said, you know 00:06:37.250 --> 00:06:40.430 what? I'm starting to think maybe it's less about 00:06:40.430 --> 00:06:43.750 how much he doesn't mow his lawn, and it's more 00:06:43.750 --> 00:06:46.420 about like how much I do. You know, even like 00:06:46.420 --> 00:06:48.800 last week, I mowed it because it was on a Friday. 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:50.980 Probably could have went a couple more days. 00:06:51.100 --> 00:06:53.920 Yeah. But I like a nicely groomed lawn. And then 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:55.660 we have Lawn Guy, which is down the road for 00:06:55.660 --> 00:06:57.819 me, which when I did my... When you weren't here, 00:06:57.920 --> 00:06:59.480 I did an episode of GMY where I talked about 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.720 Lawn Guy. That's a whole different story. But 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:04.199 why do you ask, though? What do you... I just, 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.860 you know, this seems to be a controversy, you 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:09.899 know? And I personally don't give a fuck. Right. 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.420 Like, you know, let the grass grow. That seems 00:07:12.420 --> 00:07:14.509 like nature, but... But people have a problem 00:07:14.509 --> 00:07:17.350 with that. So I wanted to know what your opinion 00:07:17.350 --> 00:07:21.110 was on how often or what should happen. Well, 00:07:21.250 --> 00:07:24.149 I mean, look. So are you saying you just let 00:07:24.149 --> 00:07:27.350 your lawn go like a hippie chick with her armpits? 00:07:27.370 --> 00:07:30.949 Like you just let it fly? I mean. How often do 00:07:30.949 --> 00:07:33.149 you mow your lawn? So we actually have a lawn 00:07:33.149 --> 00:07:36.110 service that now comes weekly. OK. You've earned 00:07:36.110 --> 00:07:40.069 that. Before that, the reason that we had to 00:07:40.069 --> 00:07:42.540 get a lawn service is we'd go, you know. a couple 00:07:42.540 --> 00:07:44.740 weeks, maybe longer, just as a matter of time 00:07:44.740 --> 00:07:46.420 to be able to get out there and do it. And the 00:07:46.420 --> 00:07:48.259 worst part is the rain. So, you know, it's like, 00:07:48.259 --> 00:07:50.000 I get this one day when I can do it and then 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.139 it happens to be the rain day. Well, it's going 00:07:51.139 --> 00:07:52.920 to be another fucking week. And the rain just 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:56.240 made it shoot up another foot. That's fair. I 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.240 mean, I think I think I would like to believe 00:07:58.240 --> 00:07:59.800 most of the people that don't mow their lawn 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:02.180 regularly, it's because of time work, things 00:08:02.180 --> 00:08:04.160 like that. But if you have the time and you're 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.459 like, man, fuck it, come on. And so here's the 00:08:06.459 --> 00:08:10.899 other challenge. At one point, I sort of did 00:08:10.899 --> 00:08:13.399 it. I don't wanna say out of spite, but almost 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:18.120 as a fuck you. So I've got neighbors who are 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.199 phenomenal people, but they're retired. And they're 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.339 able to do lawn care multiple times a week. And 00:08:26.339 --> 00:08:31.519 their lawn looks pristine. So no matter how much 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.539 we do, I always look like that shaggy dog. Even 00:08:35.539 --> 00:08:37.679 when I'm doing it at a regular basis. See, and 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:40.259 that is the tough part, because... You know, 00:08:40.259 --> 00:08:45.059 there is kind of this unspoken back and forth 00:08:45.059 --> 00:08:47.320 that goes between neighbors. Like, the first 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.059 time the weather broke for the spring... And 00:08:50.059 --> 00:08:51.419 listen, I'm not knocking them. They're great 00:08:51.419 --> 00:08:53.679 people. And listen, if you got the time, that's 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:55.700 the whole issue, right? And they got the time, 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:59.480 so... When I first did the first cut of the season, 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.220 because I get out there early, as soon as the 00:09:01.220 --> 00:09:02.580 weather breaks, I'm gonna get excited, you know? 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.159 It's, you know, you can tell that the other guys 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:08.299 on each side of my house come out and they're 00:09:08.299 --> 00:09:11.080 like... Fucker, Brindisi mowed his lawn, now 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.759 I have to. It's kind of like in NASCAR, the first 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.039 guy that pits, and everyone's like, I guess I 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:18.860 should pit since the lead guy's pitting. A little 00:09:18.860 --> 00:09:21.080 NASCAR reference there. My point is, once the 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.500 first guy mows, now all the other guys in the 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:25.059 neighborhood's wives are like, honey, you should 00:09:25.059 --> 00:09:27.159 get out there, you know, because your lawn looks 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.600 like shit now. So I get it from my perspective, 00:09:30.659 --> 00:09:32.360 I'm like, hey, if my neighbor forgets his lawn, 00:09:32.460 --> 00:09:34.500 it just makes my lawn look better. But on the 00:09:34.500 --> 00:09:36.279 flip side, that neighbor's like, oh, he mowed 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.240 his lawn a second fucking time before I mowed 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.860 the first. It's tough. It's tough. But I like 00:09:41.860 --> 00:09:44.639 a nice manicured lawn. I'm very into it. I have 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.519 sprinklers. I like to seed. Damn. Yeah, no, I 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.139 really just kind of slid in. You are full dead. 00:09:50.179 --> 00:09:52.559 Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I slid into my 40s like 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.059 a champ, like the way it should be done. I love 00:09:55.059 --> 00:09:57.840 a good lawn. This guy down the road from my house, 00:09:58.139 --> 00:10:00.720 man, lawn guy. We are trying, my wife and I call 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.139 him lawn guy, we keep tabs on him, the neighbors 00:10:03.139 --> 00:10:05.220 write me cause they, I have a neighbor that watches 00:10:05.220 --> 00:10:07.299 the show and she loved that I talked about lawn 00:10:07.299 --> 00:10:09.700 guy cause they're baffled by it too. This guy, 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.480 he must work at Cornell because if you look in 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.779 his windows too at night he's got like hydroponic 00:10:14.779 --> 00:10:17.320 stuff, he must be involved in some sort of agriculture 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:20.820 because this motherfuckers lawn, this motherfuckers 00:10:20.820 --> 00:10:24.620 lawn is like heaven's carpet. I've never seen 00:10:24.620 --> 00:10:26.820 anything like it. Dude, and every time we go 00:10:26.820 --> 00:10:29.320 by, he's doing something to it. And the ultimate 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:31.899 was one day I came by, he was on his hands and 00:10:31.899 --> 00:10:36.000 knees with scissors, dude. I mean, this is next 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:38.980 level. I got to interview this guy. No, I'm not. 00:10:38.980 --> 00:10:41.659 I'm not lying, dude. I wouldn't make it up. I'm 00:10:41.659 --> 00:10:43.759 telling you. And I don't know if I should be 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:45.759 envious of this guy or if I should check his 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.039 hard drive or his basement for bodies, because 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.320 it is it is a I am committed to my lawn of sorts. 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.279 But this guy is next level, man. So you don't 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:55.960 ask that guy about it because I don't know what 00:10:55.960 --> 00:11:00.440 he'll say to you. Great stuff. Love it. You can 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:02.759 get as into it as you want, or you can just mow 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.259 it every now and then. I'm kind of in the middle. 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.039 I know a lot of people that are into grass. So 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.340 a couple things. Speaking of, we were talking 00:11:12.340 --> 00:11:14.059 about peeing in the ocean a few minutes ago. 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.340 Oh, were we? I thought about this last week. 00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:22.500 Where is the coolest place you've ever peed? 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:32.159 Cut to Matt. I've never seen him laugh. I Thought 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.460 of this last week. I did I've had I've been sitting 00:11:35.460 --> 00:11:38.360 on this for days You're on vacation and there 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:42.120 was a post gotta know there was a Post -it note 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.960 on my desk for over a week that has said coolest 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.100 place. You've peed. Oh my god. I employ these 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:53.440 people I Can tell you mine if you need see well 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.580 now you got me thinking cuz yeah, well, yeah 00:11:56.349 --> 00:11:59.289 Get back to me on it. I want it on my desk. All 00:11:59.289 --> 00:12:02.889 right. I want your answer because my answer is 00:12:02.889 --> 00:12:05.629 Remember, I think it was 2008 or no. No had to 00:12:05.629 --> 00:12:09.509 be 2009. What's the year? I won a contest with 00:12:09.509 --> 00:12:11.470 the New York Yankees They wanted you to send 00:12:11.470 --> 00:12:14.250 in a picture of yourself at the game and all 00:12:14.250 --> 00:12:19.029 the cool all the like the the the best pictures 00:12:19.029 --> 00:12:22.169 you got a chance to go to the ballpark when the 00:12:22.169 --> 00:12:24.269 Yankees were not there they were traveling and 00:12:24.269 --> 00:12:27.559 you got to hang out in the dugout, take batting 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:29.659 practice and get a tour of the locker rooms, 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:31.419 the whole thing. And I won. I was one of the 00:12:31.419 --> 00:12:34.220 winners. So I took batting practice. I was horrible. 00:12:34.860 --> 00:12:37.519 But in between batting, because everybody there's 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:40.720 like 12, 15 guys that won this and women as well. 00:12:41.379 --> 00:12:43.740 And I said, I got to go to the bathroom. They're 00:12:43.740 --> 00:12:45.620 like, just use the bathroom right there. Dude, 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.740 I peed in the Yankee dugout bathroom where the 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:53.690 players use that the players use now. At the 00:12:53.690 --> 00:12:55.529 time Jeter was still on the team and I'm like, 00:12:55.529 --> 00:12:58.549 holy shit I'm peeing where Jeter peed and I believe 00:12:58.549 --> 00:13:01.929 Posada was still on the team and I'm like There's 00:13:01.929 --> 00:13:04.610 a whole story about Jorge Posada the catcher 00:13:04.610 --> 00:13:06.370 that he used to pee on his hands before every 00:13:06.370 --> 00:13:08.570 at bat Anytime he had to pee because it helped. 00:13:08.649 --> 00:13:11.129 No, you can look it up. That's not a that is 00:13:11.129 --> 00:13:14.330 a fact And he would you can look at over your 00:13:14.330 --> 00:13:17.990 hands. No, I not at all my mouth No, but it's 00:13:17.990 --> 00:13:19.779 supposed to help him grip the bat and so yeah 00:13:19.779 --> 00:13:21.419 it was like a stainless steel toilet it was almost 00:13:21.419 --> 00:13:23.500 like almost like a jail cell kind of toilet which 00:13:23.500 --> 00:13:25.620 was kind of weird but yeah i got to i got to 00:13:25.620 --> 00:13:28.019 pee where greatness peed what's that like the 00:13:28.019 --> 00:13:31.740 troughs at the dome yes but a toilet you know 00:13:31.740 --> 00:13:34.100 oh yeah it was a toilet like it's like they have 00:13:34.100 --> 00:13:35.960 in the prison the stainless steel like prison 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.039 toilet there was no toilet wine in there but 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:40.940 weird i tasted it uh but yeah that that's mine 00:13:40.940 --> 00:13:45.370 i know that's a high bar i set but yeah Don't 00:13:45.370 --> 00:13:47.350 answer it if you can't you just think about if 00:13:47.350 --> 00:13:50.830 you remember now or in 15 episodes just bust 00:13:50.830 --> 00:13:53.509 it out um Just trying to decide whether or not 00:13:53.509 --> 00:13:56.509 that's even something I want I found out that 00:13:56.509 --> 00:13:58.929 my name is pronounced we have an Italian family 00:13:58.929 --> 00:14:03.750 that lives down the road from us and they They're 00:14:03.750 --> 00:14:06.929 from it. They're from Italy and when we were 00:14:06.929 --> 00:14:08.509 talking they said you know you're saying your 00:14:08.509 --> 00:14:12.029 last name wrong Which checks out for me, and 00:14:12.029 --> 00:14:13.909 that's what do you mean? They said it's brindisi 00:14:14.220 --> 00:14:17.740 So I'm asking you guys from now on I want you 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:20.600 to roll your Rs. When you say my that's not I've 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:22.799 never heard an Italian pronounce anything like 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.000 that. Well, I think that's fun There's one in 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.820 Ithaca. It's Britain's always one in it. So please 00:14:28.820 --> 00:14:34.039 roll your Rs. When talking about me Wow Let's 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:37.200 talk about k -rock dude, so Matt and I went to 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.159 the k -rockathon reboot. Thank you k -rock and 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:42.279 everybody involved that got us credentials, allowed 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:44.779 us to come there and shoot. We met Jesus. We 00:14:44.779 --> 00:14:47.299 did meet Jesus. We met a human Jack Daniels bottle. 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:51.779 Also true. And we saw Alien Amp Farm and set 00:14:51.779 --> 00:14:57.539 it off and candle box and drowning pool and nothing 00:14:57.539 --> 00:15:00.860 more. That's the name of a band, not... Yeah, 00:15:00.940 --> 00:15:03.340 no, yeah, we saw more, but the band was nothing 00:15:03.340 --> 00:15:05.259 more. We had a great time. It was a great time. 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.179 Everybody, I think, had a great time. Despite 00:15:08.179 --> 00:15:10.179 what some people say, I think everybody had a 00:15:10.179 --> 00:15:12.840 good time. The local paper does what the local 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:15.139 paper does, which is shit on everything. OK. 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.059 Their perception of that event, I don't think, 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.259 was one shared by anyone else who attended. Because 00:15:22.259 --> 00:15:25.259 listen, we were there. I didn't see a disgruntled 00:15:25.259 --> 00:15:28.399 anybody. And I've been to shows that are kind 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.960 of shitty. They got problems, whatever. The audience 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:36.159 never hides their feelings. Right. I saw nothing 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.919 but people enjoying themselves. Everybody, even 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:41.879 if you weren't there to see every band, everybody 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.519 had one of these bands that they were really 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.399 looking forward to. And from what we could tell, 00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:48.820 they all felt like they definitely got their 00:15:48.820 --> 00:15:50.919 money's worth and had a great time. The weather 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.000 was great. They had a very intelligent setup 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.700 for the whole layout of the whole thing, which 00:15:55.700 --> 00:15:58.899 is not always the case at a show. Like... It 00:15:58.899 --> 00:16:01.559 was great. Yeah, you know the food the drink 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.620 bathrooms. Everything was within walking distance 00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:07.820 Yeah, one thing I can tell you that the the local 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:10.820 newspaper definitely got wrong He said the real 00:16:10.820 --> 00:16:12.919 feel was like 90 something degrees. No. No, it 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:14.620 was 90 something degrees I thought it felt like 00:16:14.620 --> 00:16:17.440 it was 75. I didn't it was shockingly comfortable. 00:16:17.580 --> 00:16:20.200 Yeah because that area if you're familiar and 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.820 the Chevy court Chevy court there at the State 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:24.259 Fairgrounds. There are a lot of trees. There 00:16:24.259 --> 00:16:27.409 are some big shade There's also the bathroom 00:16:27.409 --> 00:16:30.490 area also has a big, like, pavilion. So there 00:16:30.490 --> 00:16:33.110 was lots of access to shade in that whole spot, 00:16:33.129 --> 00:16:35.710 and I agree with you, it didn't... It was more 00:16:35.710 --> 00:16:37.049 comfortable than you would have expected. Yeah, 00:16:37.090 --> 00:16:40.190 and I get it. I did help, you know, staying cool 00:16:40.190 --> 00:16:43.370 with a wine slushie. You sure did. You snuck 00:16:43.370 --> 00:16:45.269 that one, I didn't even see you drink it. You're 00:16:45.269 --> 00:16:49.029 a sneaky little slushie drinker. I got to agree 00:16:49.029 --> 00:16:52.700 with you, man. Listen, I understand that... look 00:16:52.700 --> 00:16:55.220 the bands that were on the bill mine i guess 00:16:55.220 --> 00:16:57.980 nothing more charts now but i mean i get it there's 00:16:57.980 --> 00:17:00.799 not a lot of bands that are still you know play 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:02.340 i mean they're still playing but you know they're 00:17:02.340 --> 00:17:05.519 not what's going on right now but hello the rock 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.599 genre is not what's going on right now and the 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:10.539 whole thing is called the k rockathon reboot 00:17:10.539 --> 00:17:13.059 so the idea was to bring back bands that had 00:17:13.059 --> 00:17:16.140 played there before so listen the other thing 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:18.299 i want to make sure i say i don't want to shit 00:17:18.299 --> 00:17:20.339 on the newspaper for giving them shit because 00:17:20.339 --> 00:17:23.490 i think it's important that we do have truthful 00:17:23.490 --> 00:17:27.390 press that doesn't hide the truth. I want people 00:17:27.390 --> 00:17:29.450 to say, hey, that sucked. But I don't know. I 00:17:29.450 --> 00:17:31.970 didn't feel, like you said, I didn't get the 00:17:31.970 --> 00:17:35.410 vibe that they got. I mean, look, it wasn't like, 00:17:35.450 --> 00:17:39.529 whoa, but it was great. It seemed like, in fairness, 00:17:40.490 --> 00:17:44.849 the reviewers, it wasn't their taste in music. 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:47.259 And that's... You know what I mean? And that's 00:17:47.259 --> 00:17:49.500 kind of a weird thing where you walk into a review 00:17:49.500 --> 00:17:51.160 and you're like, well, listen, I don't like this 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.700 to begin with, but now I'm gonna find reasons 00:17:54.700 --> 00:17:57.940 to justify that. Right. As I stand here and look 00:17:57.940 --> 00:17:59.859 at a crowd of folks who couldn't be happier and 00:17:59.859 --> 00:18:01.859 having a better time. Yeah. I mean... It's a 00:18:01.859 --> 00:18:03.759 weird thing. Did you see how happy the Jack Daniels 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:05.700 bottle was? He couldn't have been happier. He 00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:07.799 was... Not even sure he knew where he was, but 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.180 he was very happy. It was his Super Bowl, man. 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:12.599 He was fucking... He got mentioned in the article. 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.250 So did Jesus. He did. And so that means we interviewed 00:18:16.250 --> 00:18:18.029 the two most important people in the crowd. We 00:18:18.029 --> 00:18:22.029 did. We did. And not on purpose. They came to 00:18:22.029 --> 00:18:24.210 us, really. Literally. We went to Jesus. Oh, 00:18:24.250 --> 00:18:26.690 we went to Jesus. We found Jesus. We found Jesus. 00:18:26.690 --> 00:18:29.950 We found Jesus. Guys, we found Jesus. We found 00:18:29.950 --> 00:18:32.890 Jesus. And it was at K. Rock. Yeah. Do you feel 00:18:32.890 --> 00:18:37.190 different? No. Me either. But the Jack Daniels 00:18:37.190 --> 00:18:39.890 bottle found us, which is also sort of a... Yeah. 00:18:40.470 --> 00:18:41.710 It's kind of like our high school years. Sort 00:18:41.710 --> 00:18:43.710 of a thing right there, too. I feel like whiskey 00:18:43.710 --> 00:18:48.559 finds you. Yeah, it was great and and honorable 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:50.960 mention to the guy that recognized hold up Yeah, 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:53.759 I was gonna hold on to the full on day. We can't 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:56.759 gloss over I hate this. I love it the greatest 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:01.920 thing that's ever happened In our short history 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:06.960 So we're walking through the crowd and We will 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.799 put out we got a full. I got like five minutes 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.039 of video of this. Yeah counter. Yeah We're walking 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.500 through the crowd And this dude comes running. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.480 Mike Brindisi! He said your name a weird way. 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.240 He shoulda said Brindisi. Brindisi. Yeah. But, 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.319 and we're like, oh shit. And then, so this dude 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.359 comes up, and Mike and I are both like, is this, 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:31.859 does this dude like me, or is he gonna fight 00:19:31.859 --> 00:19:33.740 me? Yeah. Because the vibe was weird. It was 00:19:33.740 --> 00:19:35.880 a very weird vibe. He wasn't getting to the point, 00:19:35.900 --> 00:19:37.980 so it was almost like he was being a smart ass. 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.279 Yeah. But then he was not, and I'm like, trying 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:41.180 to figure it out. Well, he was trying to be coy, 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:44.680 right? Yeah. We get to, Mike's like, I think 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:46.220 you look familiar. Dude's like, you don't, you've 00:19:46.220 --> 00:19:48.019 never seen me before. Yeah, and then I was like, 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.400 oh boy. Oh, what the fuck is going on now? That's 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:52.000 when I got the fucking camera out and like, this 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.319 is interesting. Come to find out relatively quickly 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:58.740 that he recognizes you from your appearance on 00:19:58.740 --> 00:20:02.759 the Howard Stern Show. Yeah. Yeah, he does. He 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:04.980 recognized me from Kakioki. That's one of my 00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:06.480 favorite credits on your resume. I'm not gonna 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.900 lie. It is not mine, but listen, I am not ashamed 00:20:09.900 --> 00:20:12.579 of it. But, you know, it's not like I celebrate, 00:20:12.740 --> 00:20:15.359 it's not, you know. Look, Howard's - Without 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:17.700 even going into detail, I think that the interesting 00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:23.460 part, how old is that bit? That was 2010. So, 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.859 15 years. 15 years ago. Wow, that's fucking crazy. 00:20:26.940 --> 00:20:30.960 And this bro recognizes you. Not only does he 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:32.900 recognize you, and again, you'll see in the footage, 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.220 he goes on to explain that it's his favorite 00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:40.039 clip and he keeps it queued up. So when friends 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:42.319 come to his house, he makes them all watch it. 00:20:42.460 --> 00:20:44.799 The queued up part really got me. Because I go, 00:20:44.980 --> 00:20:48.119 why is it queued up, dude? I'm honored. Because 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:50.059 it's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Now, 00:20:50.180 --> 00:20:52.180 listen, it was obviously funny. Funniest thing 00:20:52.180 --> 00:20:55.220 he's ever seen. I mean, come on, bro. We got 00:20:55.220 --> 00:20:57.799 to get out there more. I mean, listen, I loved 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:01.259 it. It did wonders for my career in the moment 00:21:01.259 --> 00:21:03.880 as far as album sales. And I got a manager out 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.299 of it. And it was fun. And to be honest with 00:21:06.299 --> 00:21:08.119 you, I was relieved when I found out that we 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.059 had to sing into a penis because I thought, Howard 00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:12.680 Stern, if you're a listener like me, you know, 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:14.460 I could have got vomited on, which I wouldn't 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:16.400 have done. It could have been way worse. I was 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.299 like, this is easy. I'm, you know, two feet away, 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:20.420 three feet away. I'll sing into this thing. Anyway, 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:22.700 it was a lot of fun. It was hilarious. But for 00:21:22.700 --> 00:21:24.799 someone to be like a fan of that, that's like 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:27.339 being like, oh my God, season six American Idol. 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:29.700 I love the guy that came in seventh place. You 00:21:29.700 --> 00:21:32.640 know, like it's just a very niche thing to love. 00:21:33.100 --> 00:21:36.700 And thank you. I'm actually a fan of some Some 00:21:36.700 --> 00:21:38.819 very niche folks along those lines. So I think 00:21:38.819 --> 00:21:40.480 it's interesting. I would love imagine you see 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.640 those people I know you have a doctory tattoo, 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:47.119 don't you? Okay So that was a lot of fun and 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:49.460 we have a lot of footage that's gonna come out 00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:51.200 Maybe I don't know if we'll play any in this 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:53.660 episode. But yeah, it was a great day. I had 00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:55.220 fun with you, man It was a good time. It was 00:21:55.220 --> 00:21:57.859 a good time also into K rock Yeah, thank you 00:21:57.859 --> 00:22:00.819 to the K rock and Syracuse and Utica and and 00:22:00.819 --> 00:22:05.029 all the people involved And Matt, I'm blanking 00:22:05.029 --> 00:22:06.789 on your last name, but thank you so much for 00:22:06.789 --> 00:22:08.910 everything you did for us. We do appreciate it. 00:22:09.430 --> 00:22:10.990 Also, while you were gone, I wanted to get your 00:22:10.990 --> 00:22:12.769 thoughts. I did a little tribute with Danny. 00:22:13.990 --> 00:22:18.150 Hulk Hogan, Theo from The Cosby Show, and Ozzy 00:22:18.150 --> 00:22:20.849 Osbourne died, which, again, goes back to that 00:22:20.849 --> 00:22:24.250 theory. It happens in threes. Any thoughts on 00:22:24.250 --> 00:22:27.210 it? Anything you want to say? That's a couple 00:22:27.210 --> 00:22:29.390 of people to be sad about. It's actually three 00:22:29.390 --> 00:22:32.359 people. Couple would be two. Are you not sad 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:35.119 about one of them? He catches wait wait wait 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:37.819 it took him a second, but he caught on hold on 00:22:37.819 --> 00:22:42.160 fuck Mary kill Ozzy Theo from the Cosby show 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:46.500 or Hogan Mary or any or killing. I don't want 00:22:46.500 --> 00:22:51.599 this is a bad game. I'm a straight man No Hulk 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:53.759 Hogan was a piece of shit. It's the thing I know 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.079 and listen I know I know I posted a tribute to 00:22:57.079 --> 00:22:58.519 him and there were a couple people that were 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:01.259 like what the hell man I was like look This guy 00:23:01.259 --> 00:23:03.539 was my fucking hero when I was a kid. If you 00:23:03.539 --> 00:23:05.420 were a kid watching wrestling in the 80s and 00:23:05.420 --> 00:23:07.819 90s, there was no bigger presence in the world. 00:23:08.099 --> 00:23:10.519 I'm paying tribute to the character. I don't 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.500 know what he did off the air. I'm not one of 00:23:12.500 --> 00:23:14.859 those people that, like, I'm not gonna give somebody 00:23:14.859 --> 00:23:17.640 shit for being a fan of a fucking fake TV character. 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:18.859 You know what I mean? I was paying tribute to 00:23:18.859 --> 00:23:21.140 the character. How dare you, like, Cobra Commander? 00:23:21.579 --> 00:23:24.640 You know, like, what the fuck? I'm just, at the 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:27.259 same time, not gonna pretend that I give a shit. 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:32.710 Yeah. Sorry. Brother. It's fine. And that's fine. 00:23:32.950 --> 00:23:35.210 Just like it's fine with me saying, hey, man. 00:23:35.450 --> 00:23:38.589 Hey, brother. Going to miss you, brother. Here's 00:23:38.589 --> 00:23:41.269 the thing. It's OK to say I don't give a fuck. 00:23:41.609 --> 00:23:44.250 Pro was a union buster. He was a backstabber. 00:23:44.309 --> 00:23:47.390 Was he? A union buster? 100%. 100%. Man. Go listen 00:23:47.390 --> 00:23:50.230 to Jesse Ventura talk about how Hogan ratted 00:23:50.230 --> 00:23:53.690 out Rattlers to Vince McMahon and stopped their 00:23:53.690 --> 00:23:55.710 unionization. There's a lot of stuff that's come 00:23:55.710 --> 00:23:59.529 out. Yeah. Yeah. He's a very, very, very. Self 00:23:59.529 --> 00:24:01.309 -centered dude at the expense of anyone including 00:24:01.309 --> 00:24:04.569 his own family. Yeah, piece of shit. Well rest 00:24:04.569 --> 00:24:08.990 in peace. I'm sorry. I asked you brother One 00:24:08.990 --> 00:24:12.430 line of beer that's going on clearance soon Good 00:24:12.430 --> 00:24:15.549 you deal on real American. What is it? Really? 00:24:15.589 --> 00:24:18.009 It was it wasn't that way It was I think it was 00:24:18.009 --> 00:24:20.289 called real America. Yeah, cuz that was his song 00:24:20.289 --> 00:24:30.599 Couple more things I'm sorry, am I not supposed 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:32.220 to shit on dead people in Good New York? You 00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:33.539 can do whatever the fuck you want. It's your 00:24:33.539 --> 00:24:35.019 show. Oh, that's right. I own the place. Yeah, 00:24:35.059 --> 00:24:38.900 man. You can do whatever you want. So I have 00:24:38.900 --> 00:24:40.319 this group chat. I want to get your opinion on 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:43.140 this. So I have this group chat with some of 00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:46.400 my high school buddies. And one of our buddies, 00:24:46.940 --> 00:24:50.460 we will talk about something and fire off 30 00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:53.519 texts over it, you know, over the span of sometimes 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:56.970 10 minutes, sometimes four hours. Sometimes our 00:24:56.970 --> 00:24:59.650 buddy does not get back to us after two or I'm 00:24:59.650 --> 00:25:03.710 that guy days two or three days. Yeah Is that 00:25:03.710 --> 00:25:06.210 is there an unwritten rule? Do you think like 00:25:06.210 --> 00:25:08.509 what's the word I'm looking for not ethic? I 00:25:08.509 --> 00:25:10.009 don't know the answer to that cuz I am literally 00:25:10.009 --> 00:25:12.990 I'm that guy Okay, well, then let me take me 00:25:12.990 --> 00:25:14.769 into your brain. Are you like fuck these guys? 00:25:14.809 --> 00:25:16.069 I'll get back to him when I get back to him or 00:25:16.069 --> 00:25:18.309 you just like I haven't looked I haven't looked 00:25:18.309 --> 00:25:21.289 I do it to you all the time. I don't I read like 00:25:21.289 --> 00:25:24.309 30 % of your message. That's fine. I I'll take 00:25:24.309 --> 00:25:26.680 it It's literally a matter, here's the thing. 00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:30.619 It's a matter of capacity, right? And not even 00:25:30.619 --> 00:25:32.680 necessarily like time. You go, well, you got 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:36.420 three seconds to look at a fuck, I do, but am 00:25:36.420 --> 00:25:38.380 I in the fucking mental space to not just look 00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:40.299 at that thing, but think about what it is, properly 00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:43.420 respond and do that. And honestly, like I just 00:25:43.420 --> 00:25:47.579 am not. So there's all the time and I feel bad, 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:50.640 it sucks. Like I have a lot of friends. that 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:53.279 I have nothing against, and I would be more than 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:55.240 happy to immediately just respond to whatever 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:57.559 the fuck they ask me, and I don't for a week. 00:25:58.359 --> 00:25:59.880 Like I don't, I'm not proud, it's not like a 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:02.900 point of pride, but it unfortunately is the reality. 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:05.480 Well that's fine, because I don't get mad at 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:08.839 him, because look, I actually envy people that 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:11.579 aren't able to be attached to their phones all 00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:13.519 the time. Like I love that he's like, I get to 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:15.339 my phone when I get to my phone. But at some 00:26:15.339 --> 00:26:18.190 point, what the fuck man? You can't crack a joke 00:26:18.190 --> 00:26:20.910 and reply to something from three days ago. No, 00:26:20.990 --> 00:26:24.690 I can understand that, too. I have a good chat 00:26:24.690 --> 00:26:26.589 group of friends that we really kind of came 00:26:26.589 --> 00:26:30.329 together around COVID when we were all much more 00:26:30.329 --> 00:26:34.089 free time. And a lot of them still work from 00:26:34.089 --> 00:26:37.150 home and stuff, so they're able to still kind 00:26:37.150 --> 00:26:38.769 of keep up the conversation more than I am. And 00:26:38.769 --> 00:26:40.609 I feel like an asshole. And I miss them, honestly. 00:26:40.670 --> 00:26:45.750 Like, I enjoyed that, you know, friend group. 00:26:45.869 --> 00:26:49.630 Yeah. So again, it's not like, I'm not saying 00:26:49.630 --> 00:26:52.269 I'm proud of it or anything like that, but unfortunately, 00:26:52.349 --> 00:26:53.730 I think it's the reality for a lot of people. 00:26:54.089 --> 00:26:57.190 All right. Well, that's settled. We have a ruling. 00:26:58.150 --> 00:27:01.549 It worked. It worked. First time. Awesome. Before 00:27:01.549 --> 00:27:03.349 you jump into something, I want to talk. I was 00:27:03.349 --> 00:27:04.910 going to say, I have like one or two more things 00:27:04.910 --> 00:27:07.549 in the fanny pack. Let's do it. Yeah, let's talk. 00:27:07.849 --> 00:27:11.289 So sitting in front of me is this super fashionable 00:27:11.289 --> 00:27:13.750 fanny pack. Which are back in fashion, by the 00:27:13.750 --> 00:27:17.029 way. Yeah. It's our man, Dakota, rocks it. And 00:27:17.029 --> 00:27:18.809 he's the coolest guy I know. Yeah, Sophie does 00:27:18.809 --> 00:27:21.150 it. He's wearing fanny packs. Clearly, they are 00:27:21.150 --> 00:27:25.730 on trend. I created this thing, right? So we 00:27:25.730 --> 00:27:28.470 are, in full disclosure, here at Growth Mode 00:27:28.470 --> 00:27:31.930 Content, we are moving heavily into the live 00:27:31.930 --> 00:27:35.670 social shopping world. And this is, in many cases, 00:27:35.930 --> 00:27:38.930 modern day QVC, or really just the next evolution 00:27:38.930 --> 00:27:42.380 of e -commerce. You know what I mean? But to 00:27:42.380 --> 00:27:44.839 do that, we're trying some things. And so let 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:47.700 me try to create some products. So I actually 00:27:47.700 --> 00:27:52.980 made this design, this space pattern. And I threw 00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:55.180 it on a couple things. You can get it on Fanny 00:27:55.180 --> 00:27:57.339 Pack. We also have Fanny Packs in a bunch of 00:27:57.339 --> 00:27:59.720 other patterns. Or you can get this design on 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:02.039 a shirt, which I was just talking to Amanda about. 00:28:02.059 --> 00:28:04.319 She thought it was pretty cool. That is cool. 00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:07.299 That is by far the coolest Fanny Pack I've ever 00:28:07.299 --> 00:28:10.240 seen. I genuinely love these things. They are 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:12.680 available right now on the TikTok shop. They 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:16.619 will hold thousands of dollars. Like, the capacity 00:28:16.619 --> 00:28:19.299 of this fucking thing is just off the charts. 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:22.619 It's also got a separate little wallet compartment 00:28:22.619 --> 00:28:25.539 inside. Look at how freaking awesome is that. 00:28:25.539 --> 00:28:28.079 That is cool. It's adjustable. It's got dual 00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:31.079 zippers. I don't know. I think it's a cool product. 00:28:31.859 --> 00:28:34.500 If you want to check it out, you can hit the 00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:37.680 TikTok shop at Matt Major. It's my TikTok shop. 00:28:38.320 --> 00:28:42.940 or you can visit buyny .shop. We haven't talked 00:28:42.940 --> 00:28:47.000 about that at all, but buyny .shop is our online 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:49.599 store that we've started to put together, and 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:51.539 that is something where you can shop for all 00:28:51.539 --> 00:28:56.440 kinds of things, including one -of -a -kind Good 00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:01.720 News York merchandise. We have a button -up with 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:05.480 both... I didn't know this. Mike? Oh! And Danny's 00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:07.859 face on them that are super goofy. They are goofy. 00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:09.960 It's the worst picture of me, too. We've got 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:13.059 hats. We've even got Good News York sneakers. 00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:16.319 Dude, I will shit myself if I'm walking somewhere 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:19.779 and I see myself on a shirt. That would be the... 00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:22.599 That would be like I arrived. Yeah. Next to having 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:25.460 your song in a karaoke library. Buyny .shop. 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:27.259 That's it. Check it out. All kinds of cool... 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:28.759 Random, goofy things. Again, it's something that 00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:30.740 we're kind of dipping our toes into or playing 00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:32.900 with. On that site, you'll find lots of goofy 00:29:32.900 --> 00:29:35.900 things like meme candles. We got a lot of candles 00:29:35.900 --> 00:29:38.259 that make fun of memes. And so I can create stuff, 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:40.359 too, right? 100%. And do I put it in the same 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:42.079 shop or do I start my own? We'll probably throw 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:43.539 it in the same shop, yeah. But we'll link it 00:29:43.539 --> 00:29:44.900 so folks can get to it for a minute. This is 00:29:44.900 --> 00:29:47.460 exciting. Yeah. That's a very nice fanny pack. 00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:50.140 I remember growing up in the 80s and 90s, my 00:29:50.140 --> 00:29:52.019 uncle always wore a fanny pack. And a lot of 00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:53.279 my friends would be like, dude, your uncle wears 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.549 a fanny pack? And secretly, I was like, I know 00:29:56.549 --> 00:30:01.369 it looks weird, but, like, it's so, so convenient 00:30:01.369 --> 00:30:04.009 and handy. It's like being a kangaroo. Women 00:30:04.009 --> 00:30:06.490 figured out purses long ago. Yeah. Us dudes, 00:30:06.490 --> 00:30:08.390 we gotta just make do with cargo shorts, and 00:30:08.390 --> 00:30:10.430 sometimes that doesn't hold all the cargo. No, 00:30:10.569 --> 00:30:12.390 and cargo shorts are out now, no offense. Fuck 00:30:12.390 --> 00:30:14.230 they are. I mean, you do you. Harder shorts will 00:30:14.230 --> 00:30:16.150 never be out. I know, I don't make the rules. 00:30:16.170 --> 00:30:18.470 I'm a dad. I don't know who does. You are a dad. 00:30:19.009 --> 00:30:20.930 Cargo shorts are in if you're a dad. Also, I 00:30:20.930 --> 00:30:24.089 feel like all of that shit is back in. We're 00:30:24.089 --> 00:30:25.910 back to 90s fashion, dude. It's come around. 00:30:26.309 --> 00:30:27.849 And music is starting to... Pants that aren't 00:30:27.849 --> 00:30:30.829 skin tight are back in, like... Yeah. You can, 00:30:30.829 --> 00:30:34.089 you know, grunge. Grunge a little bit? A little 00:30:34.089 --> 00:30:37.809 rock. I was driving around the SU campus this 00:30:37.809 --> 00:30:40.250 spring here before they let out, and I saw a 00:30:40.250 --> 00:30:42.970 couple kids that just made my heart flutter because 00:30:42.970 --> 00:30:45.710 they looked exactly like 90s Nirvana grunge kids 00:30:45.710 --> 00:30:48.650 that we grew up with. I miss those kids. They're 00:30:48.650 --> 00:30:52.529 back. They're back, baby! The children will... 00:30:52.589 --> 00:30:55.069 the children will be okay. Yeah. Well, I'm excited 00:30:55.069 --> 00:30:57.809 about the TikTok talk shop thing. And that is 00:30:57.809 --> 00:30:59.930 just more proof that you are always a step ahead. 00:31:00.109 --> 00:31:03.309 You know, you are always good at kind of knowing 00:31:03.309 --> 00:31:06.450 what's the next thing. And, you know, this is 00:31:06.450 --> 00:31:08.029 a new world for me, the selling thing. I don't 00:31:08.029 --> 00:31:09.710 know if slinging fanny packs is the next thing. 00:31:09.869 --> 00:31:12.809 But I appreciate the idea. The whole idea. I 00:31:12.809 --> 00:31:14.769 think it's awesome, dude. I appreciate that. 00:31:16.210 --> 00:31:19.069 I forgot to give Danny, I got like two things, 00:31:19.289 --> 00:31:21.529 and I forgot to give Danny a link to one of them, 00:31:21.690 --> 00:31:25.430 but yeah, I know, I fucked up. We'll do it. We'll 00:31:25.430 --> 00:31:27.349 do it, fuck it, we'll do it in post. Well, you 00:31:27.349 --> 00:31:29.210 kind of need to see it. I mean, I guess if you 00:31:29.210 --> 00:31:32.029 go to my Facebook, Danny, just click to the other 00:31:32.029 --> 00:31:34.130 story then. All right, skip to, go to my Facebook, 00:31:34.269 --> 00:31:36.009 it's the last thing I posted about Metallica. 00:31:36.609 --> 00:31:38.369 But in the meantime, while he's looking that 00:31:38.369 --> 00:31:40.730 up, this is kind of cool. Amanda, our assistant, 00:31:40.809 --> 00:31:46.059 who's amazing, dropped this in my... Email inbox 00:31:46.059 --> 00:31:48.160 off to throw this picture up on the on the screen. 00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:50.599 Yeah, so check it out You know the Baldwin brothers 00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:53.119 the actors, you know the whole family. They're 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.039 from Syracuse I know this and there was a rumor 00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:57.279 going around that they named Baldwin's will because 00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:58.460 of them, but I don't believe that it's false 00:31:58.460 --> 00:32:00.930 Okay, thank you Two of the famous Baldwin Brothers 00:32:00.930 --> 00:32:03.450 are set to face off in the Central New York Pickleball 00:32:03.450 --> 00:32:06.569 event. Alec Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin are gonna 00:32:06.569 --> 00:32:08.470 play against each other in a friendly competition 00:32:08.470 --> 00:32:10.509 at the first ever Burnin' Baldwin Brothers Celebrity 00:32:10.509 --> 00:32:14.230 Pickleball bash in Skinny Atlas August 22nd and 00:32:14.230 --> 00:32:17.950 23rd at 1957 Pine Grove Road, Lake Skinny Atlas. 00:32:18.650 --> 00:32:21.569 There's gonna be other celebrities there. There's 00:32:21.569 --> 00:32:25.089 going to be, player registration actually is 00:32:25.089 --> 00:32:27.329 $1 ,000 which includes access to all weekend 00:32:27.329 --> 00:32:30.950 events and dinner. To attend as a spectator tickets 00:32:30.950 --> 00:32:33.690 are only 50 bucks proceeds are going to the Baldwin 00:32:33.690 --> 00:32:36.549 fund, which is their fund After their mother 00:32:36.549 --> 00:32:38.549 Carol Baldwin who passed away for breast cancer. 00:32:38.569 --> 00:32:42.250 Yeah, huge Huge charitable organization. So check 00:32:42.250 --> 00:32:45.789 that out and I reached out to I think it's Beth 00:32:45.789 --> 00:32:47.910 Baldwin the sister who is the chair the head 00:32:47.910 --> 00:32:50.109 of the Baldwin Foundation Trying to get her on 00:32:50.109 --> 00:32:53.569 the show to talk about that. We love that. So 00:32:53.569 --> 00:32:57.880 Yeah, pretty cool Funny story, I was at a charity 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:00.839 event earlier this year, and Stephen Baldwin 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:05.660 was there. Really? Casually, just like everybody 00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:07.180 else. I didn't talk to him. Here's the thing. 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:09.799 It was one of those things where I'm just standing 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:11.220 there talking to folks, and you see somebody 00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:12.180 out of the corner of your eye, and that looks 00:33:12.180 --> 00:33:13.440 familiar. And you look over, and you're like, 00:33:13.460 --> 00:33:15.660 holy fuck, that's Stephen Baldwin. And if you 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:17.839 saw a back draft, then he's a huge star. And 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:20.809 it was like... Oh, okay, that's Stephen Baldwin. 00:33:20.910 --> 00:33:22.089 He lives around here. I guess that makes sense. 00:33:22.309 --> 00:33:23.769 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't want to go harass 00:33:23.769 --> 00:33:25.289 a guy and do any of that sort of shit. I didn't 00:33:25.289 --> 00:33:26.549 speak to him or anything, but it was just fun. 00:33:26.710 --> 00:33:28.329 And I'm sure he saw me looking at him, and I'm 00:33:28.329 --> 00:33:30.170 sure he gets that from a million fucking people. 00:33:30.190 --> 00:33:32.849 Sure. But it was one of those things where it 00:33:32.849 --> 00:33:35.430 wasn't even the initial, like, oh my god, there's 00:33:35.430 --> 00:33:36.970 a celebrity. It was one of those things where, 00:33:37.109 --> 00:33:39.049 out of the corner of my eye, someone familiar 00:33:39.049 --> 00:33:41.789 just clicked. And it took me a minute to process, 00:33:41.869 --> 00:33:44.470 as I'm staring at him, I'm sure. Like, oh shit! 00:33:45.660 --> 00:33:48.119 But yeah, no, that's pretty cool. It is strange 00:33:48.119 --> 00:33:50.900 seeing celebrities out of the Hollywood element 00:33:50.900 --> 00:33:52.420 and just, like, in the middle of Syracuse. Well, 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:53.680 you know, one of the things that's great is, 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.660 locally, they are the most famous for this foundation 00:33:57.660 --> 00:34:00.240 that has done great things. It's one of the areas 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:02.779 probably... So you're aware. ...well -known, 00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:04.859 cherished, and well -respected. So it's pretty 00:34:04.859 --> 00:34:07.240 cool. Well, I don't know if we can get her or 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:08.860 anyone from the foundation on, but we want to 00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:11.679 try. And not because it's a Baldwin, because, 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:14.420 I mean... It's a good cause, and that's what 00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:17.559 we do here at Good New York. And it's pickleball, 00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:20.539 which I've played pickleball. I don't get the 00:34:20.539 --> 00:34:23.119 craze. I don't shit on it. It's fine. It's fun. 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:25.960 I'm not understanding this craze. It's like human 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:28.199 paddle ball. Here's the thing. I don't know if 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:32.480 I totally get it, but I will say that I have 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:35.440 the utmost respect for folks who have pulled 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.179 this off. Because you think of all the little 00:34:37.179 --> 00:34:39.079 different types of games, things that come and 00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:42.199 go. This has become a sport that has been embraced 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:43.920 in a very short time. They're building courts 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.599 all over the place. It blew up. I don't exactly 00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:51.019 understand how or why, but I tip my hat to them, 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.780 because this is a unicorn, as we would say in 00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:55.780 the business world. You're right. ESPN did a 00:34:55.780 --> 00:34:59.840 story on it a year ago, a piece on it. Some family, 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.719 like a guy and his son. created this game, I 00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:06.019 want to say, during COVID. OK. And they didn't 00:35:06.019 --> 00:35:08.099 want they couldn't play tennis at home. Sure. 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:11.079 So they they played like a smaller vert. And 00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:13.320 I don't know how it caught on. I'm assuming in 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:15.139 the pandemic, a lot of us were tied to social 00:35:15.139 --> 00:35:18.059 media and it just it took off. And between that 00:35:18.059 --> 00:35:20.659 and the Savannah Bananas. Holy shit. That's a 00:35:20.659 --> 00:35:23.179 whole nother story. It's the future, man. Yeah. 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.260 Last thing. You got it. So I saw this last night. 00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:31.960 I'm a huge Metallica fan, as you know. And I 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:35.320 saw this random post. And I'm waiting for it. 00:35:35.340 --> 00:35:37.820 There it is. Oh, you sent me this, and it was 00:35:37.820 --> 00:35:40.780 way too much to read. Yeah, I did. Here's the 00:35:40.780 --> 00:35:44.420 gist. So years ago, this freelance photographer 00:35:44.420 --> 00:35:46.559 was at Madison Square Garden in New York City 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:49.480 shooting stuff for the Rangers of the Knicks. 00:35:49.579 --> 00:35:53.820 I'm assuming the Rangers. OK. And Metallica. 00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:55.420 No, no, I'm sorry. It was the Rangers, because 00:35:55.420 --> 00:35:58.179 they were playing against the Pittsburgh Penguins. 00:35:58.219 --> 00:36:01.920 All right. The dude looks over and he sees Lars 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:03.619 and James from Metallica, and he's like, what 00:36:03.619 --> 00:36:05.760 the hell? And he starts talking to him, and they 00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.099 said, yeah, we're here to see Yarmir Yager play. 00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:11.500 He's a very famous, what do you call it, very 00:36:11.500 --> 00:36:15.000 famous hockey player, Hall of Famer. And so he 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:17.619 was kind of, they were his guest. I got you. 00:36:17.940 --> 00:36:21.320 And so, you know, he's shooting the thing, he 00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:23.699 talks to them, and then he says, hey, you mind 00:36:23.699 --> 00:36:26.679 if I get a picture of you guys? And Lars being 00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:29.090 Lars, this is such a Lars thing to say. And I 00:36:29.090 --> 00:36:30.489 don't even know what this means. Maybe you can 00:36:30.489 --> 00:36:33.869 help me. Due to promotional reasons, it can't 00:36:33.869 --> 00:36:35.909 be just a picture of two guys from Metallica. 00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:38.670 We need another person in here. So they grabbed 00:36:38.670 --> 00:36:41.650 some kid that was walking by. Kid didn't even 00:36:41.650 --> 00:36:44.869 probably know who they were, and he snapped the 00:36:44.869 --> 00:36:48.030 picture. And he said, for years, for decades, 00:36:48.409 --> 00:36:50.889 he's had this picture. And social media wasn't 00:36:50.889 --> 00:36:54.050 really around. And so he goes, I think about 00:36:54.050 --> 00:36:56.989 this kid every time I see the picture. So he's 00:36:56.989 --> 00:36:59.449 asking that we find this kid. He wants to give 00:36:59.449 --> 00:37:01.349 him the picture. And I was like, first of all, 00:37:01.349 --> 00:37:02.710 it's a great story. And I was like, you know, 00:37:02.710 --> 00:37:04.550 we kind of have a little bit of a platform where 00:37:04.550 --> 00:37:06.650 we can spread it a little bit. That's incredible. 00:37:06.690 --> 00:37:08.369 It is incredible. What the fuck does that mean? 00:37:08.590 --> 00:37:12.789 How long ago like this was so I can I can actually 00:37:12.789 --> 00:37:14.650 I didn't look, but I can tell you because I know 00:37:14.650 --> 00:37:17.070 when Jagger played and when Metallica looked 00:37:17.070 --> 00:37:20.230 like that. So this is probably mid 90s, probably 00:37:20.230 --> 00:37:23.570 95, 96. All right. So that kid's got to be like 00:37:23.570 --> 00:37:26.619 almost our age, maybe. What does he look like 00:37:26.619 --> 00:37:29.119 10 always the number I can't read it from here, 00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:35.880 but oh it is I know it so that kid is maybe a 00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:38.559 Little bit younger than us. Yeah the ballpark 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.719 of our age. I'm gonna guess If we found llama 00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:44.440 guy we can find this guy. Yeah, but isn't that 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:47.320 cool? Do you think that kid? Did he even know 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:48.820 who he was taking a picture with no, that's the 00:37:48.820 --> 00:37:51.320 thing he said he goes I he goes I can't confirm 00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:53.500 that he knew or didn't know, but it didn't, the 00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:55.539 kid was just kind of like, okay. You know, he's 00:37:55.539 --> 00:37:57.820 like, whatever, I'm here for the Rangers. No, 00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:59.179 I could see that though, because here's this 00:37:59.179 --> 00:38:01.179 thing that promotional reasons or whatever. Yeah, 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:05.920 tell me what that means. They're a brand. Definitely. 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.360 Photographers like, like paparazzi, the reason 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.579 they exist. is they get paid for high quality 00:38:12.579 --> 00:38:15.980 photos of celebrities. And that's why at any 00:38:15.980 --> 00:38:17.860 moment they're trying to grab that photo so you 00:38:17.860 --> 00:38:19.840 see them in the magazine and it's just the celebrity, 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.519 it's just the whatever. He didn't want the guy 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:23.360 making money off them. That's exactly what it 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.480 is. It's like a commercial thing. So it's totally 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:28.300 fine to take a picture with a fan that you're 00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:30.460 not gonna try to use in an ad or sell to someone. 00:38:30.460 --> 00:38:32.239 To get an autograph. Right. Right, right, right. 00:38:32.619 --> 00:38:35.659 But otherwise it's something that... You know, 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:39.719 Lars, I get it, right? The guy... Also, that 00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:42.539 might have been something that Lars just said, 00:38:42.659 --> 00:38:43.820 because he didn't want to take a photo, and they 00:38:43.820 --> 00:38:45.900 didn't imagine they would grab a kid and chuck 00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:48.079 him in the picture. For promotional reasons, 00:38:48.179 --> 00:38:50.099 we just can't take a picture with Metallica. 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.500 We're going to have to find a kid. That is the 00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:54.500 most Lars thing ever, but... It's so Lars, but 00:38:54.500 --> 00:38:56.820 here's the thing about Lars. He's not the greatest 00:38:56.820 --> 00:38:59.920 drummer, okay? Yes, did he sue fans over Napster? 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.159 Napster, but... But he was right. Look what happened 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:03.980 to the music business because of illegal downloads. 00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:06.480 But anyway... Say what you want about the guy. 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.619 He's a fucking brilliant business and marketing 00:39:09.619 --> 00:39:12.739 person he I've never seen a band more zipped 00:39:12.739 --> 00:39:16.920 up tight branding marketing Monetizing the Metallica, 00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:21.199 and you know, it's all yes. Oh to Shay That's 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:23.280 different though. That means I'm in time off 00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:26.219 so so that Lars could run my friend I'd like 00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:29.800 to monetize toilet paper and uh Gene Simmons 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:32.719 will sell tickets to his own funeral. He probably 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:36.750 will I'm that's not a joke Oh, I know. I watched 00:39:36.750 --> 00:39:38.469 his reality show. I kind of liked it. It made 00:39:38.469 --> 00:39:39.590 me like him a little bit, because I just think 00:39:39.590 --> 00:39:42.869 he was a giant ass. No matter what you think 00:39:42.869 --> 00:39:45.349 of him, like I said, as you talk about that promotional, 00:39:45.510 --> 00:39:48.070 the business side, the merchandising, all that, 00:39:49.269 --> 00:39:54.010 nobody matches his game in that. You are 1 ,000 00:39:54.010 --> 00:39:57.210 % correct. If it wasn't for all that branding, 00:39:58.210 --> 00:40:00.989 just purely the music, and Kiss has some fucking 00:40:00.989 --> 00:40:04.500 bangers. But if it was purely the music and they 00:40:04.500 --> 00:40:07.059 looked like, I don't know, Cheap Trick or something 00:40:07.059 --> 00:40:10.880 like that. Sure. Right? Would they be the household 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:14.760 name they are? You know what? I say no confidently 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:18.019 because if you remember, they came out with an 00:40:18.019 --> 00:40:22.059 album, No Makeup. Yeah. Didn't go so well. Yeah. 00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.619 So I'm going to assume. And like I say, they 00:40:24.619 --> 00:40:27.139 got some great songs that I think probably would 00:40:27.139 --> 00:40:29.320 have been hits. Yes. In their day, just like 00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:32.809 so many other bands. Yep. But, you know, are 00:40:32.809 --> 00:40:35.230 they that iconic as they are today, if it wasn't 00:40:35.230 --> 00:40:37.510 for all that branding? Yeah, I don't know. I 00:40:37.510 --> 00:40:39.610 mean, like I said, confidently, I don't think 00:40:39.610 --> 00:40:41.170 so. I think that the whole thing... But there's 00:40:41.170 --> 00:40:43.250 no shame in it. Because that whole thing... No, 00:40:43.250 --> 00:40:43.929 no, I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying... No, 00:40:43.929 --> 00:40:46.070 I know. That whole thing is brilliant. I was 00:40:46.070 --> 00:40:47.909 never a Kiss fan. Like, I'm not, you know... 00:40:47.909 --> 00:40:49.530 Because it's like, you're either all in or you're 00:40:49.530 --> 00:40:51.389 not. There's no in -between. Let's be honest. 00:40:51.389 --> 00:40:53.650 They're not, you know, purely in the music game. 00:40:53.730 --> 00:40:55.289 They are in the entertainment game. Correct. 00:40:55.449 --> 00:40:58.190 And they put on... Anybody who wants to go see 00:40:58.190 --> 00:41:00.699 a concert... Anytime you hear somebody say they 00:41:00.699 --> 00:41:02.199 went to a great concert, they'll say they put 00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:04.960 on a hell of a show, right? It's not just that 00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.179 they sang my favorite song. That's right. It's 00:41:07.179 --> 00:41:09.000 that, you know, they had some kind of shit going 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:10.219 on. That's right. It made it interesting and, 00:41:10.420 --> 00:41:12.820 you know, so... Let me ask you this before we 00:41:12.820 --> 00:41:14.679 go. You just made me think of a question. What 00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:17.360 is the worst concert you've ever been to? I actually 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:19.880 have one, and I hate singing. I won't say that 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:21.739 it's... Well, I don't know if it counts as... 00:41:21.739 --> 00:41:26.440 So, at Woodstock in 99... Okay. That concert, 00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:29.980 as a whole, was phenomenal, but... obviously 00:41:29.980 --> 00:41:31.940 had different artists, different things. Wyclef 00:41:31.940 --> 00:41:37.079 Jean. Really? Performed. I wouldn't say I'm like 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:39.360 a Wyclef super fan, but he's got some songs that 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:42.639 are good. Woojies were sick. Somebody that I 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:44.400 sort of was looking forward to seeing perform. 00:41:45.019 --> 00:41:49.659 He was piss drunk. Oh. And did no more than half 00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:52.420 of each of his songs. Maybe cut it off and go 00:41:52.420 --> 00:41:55.019 to the next one. It's wild. He would just stop? 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.599 Yeah, pretty much like fade out. It wouldn't 00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:00.179 be like a hard cut. But they'd sing, like, the 00:42:00.179 --> 00:42:03.739 first verse of the song. That's wild. I would 00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:06.739 rather you cut your entire set, like, cut five 00:42:06.739 --> 00:42:10.420 songs, rather than do all 12, but only half of 00:42:10.420 --> 00:42:12.579 them. That is a wild technique. It's just the 00:42:12.579 --> 00:42:15.039 shittiest, like... Yeah, dude. Like, why are 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:16.840 we... You could've just skipped to another artist. 00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:19.159 And you could tell, like, listen, for you to 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:21.619 be at an outdoor festival with 100 ,000 people 00:42:21.619 --> 00:42:24.320 and someone's able to tell you're drunk... You're 00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:26.300 drunk, dude. Oh yeah, he was. I used to get drunk 00:42:26.300 --> 00:42:30.440 on stage by accident sometimes. Super. The worst 00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:32.440 one I ever saw, and I'm gonna take shit for this 00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:34.780 online, and I don't care, because I know he's 00:42:34.780 --> 00:42:37.239 a legend, I know he's an icon, but I'm telling 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.320 you, and I think it was 2013, I went and saw 00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:46.679 Bob Dylan at Cornell University, okay, and Dawes 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:51.360 opened. Dawes was great. It was fucking awful. 00:42:51.550 --> 00:42:53.849 And it's because, for a couple reasons. First 00:42:53.849 --> 00:42:55.929 of all, he was never known as a great singer, 00:42:56.010 --> 00:42:59.710 but by that point, so he can barely sing. I didn't 00:42:59.710 --> 00:43:01.829 know any of the songs. And you're not getting 00:43:01.829 --> 00:43:04.989 harmonica acoustic Bob Dylan. It was Bob Dylan 00:43:04.989 --> 00:43:07.349 standing there with a mic or kind of behind a 00:43:07.349 --> 00:43:09.230 piano. It was just like, I was looking at my 00:43:09.230 --> 00:43:11.170 watch for it to be over and I've never done that. 00:43:12.449 --> 00:43:14.570 And again, no disrespect to Bob Dylan. The fucking 00:43:14.570 --> 00:43:17.909 guy is a legend for what he did for just society. 00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:20.840 But look, I'm just being honest. It was not a 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.699 great show. Let's flip the script. What's the 00:43:22.699 --> 00:43:24.579 best one you ever went to? Motherfucker. I was 00:43:24.579 --> 00:43:30.699 hoping you wouldn't ask this. All right. It's 00:43:30.699 --> 00:43:33.599 honorable mention to Green Day. I can't believe 00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:37.539 I'm about to say this. This was before 2016. 00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:41.840 Kid Rock surprisingly put on one of the greatest 00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:45.679 shows I've ever seen. Really? But Aerosmith honorable 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:49.530 mention. But I've got to go. I absolutely have 00:43:49.530 --> 00:43:51.849 Green Day. Oh, I said Green Day. I gotta go Metallica. 00:43:51.929 --> 00:43:54.030 I've seen them seven or eight times, any one 00:43:54.030 --> 00:43:57.989 of those shows. Metallica is just incredible. 00:43:58.349 --> 00:44:00.269 Fair enough. I think there's one I'm missing, 00:44:00.630 --> 00:44:03.650 though. I think there's one I'm missing. But 00:44:03.650 --> 00:44:08.550 it's hard to pick, but it's hard to beat Metallica 00:44:08.550 --> 00:44:11.170 for me. I'm gonna sound like an old man, but 00:44:11.170 --> 00:44:13.070 still my all -time favorite will always be that 00:44:13.070 --> 00:44:17.510 Woodstock 99, that whole festival. And I honestly 00:44:17.510 --> 00:44:20.429 don't... go to enough festivals or anything like 00:44:20.429 --> 00:44:25.889 that since, which is a regret of mine. But if 00:44:25.889 --> 00:44:27.670 I had to pick a single concert, that's a whole 00:44:27.670 --> 00:44:29.190 weekend thing, right? So if I had to pick a single 00:44:29.190 --> 00:44:31.190 one, I gotta say it's gotta be Dead in Company 00:44:31.190 --> 00:44:33.010 that I saw at the Sphere a couple months ago 00:44:33.010 --> 00:44:35.489 in Vegas. With Mayor, John Mayer? Yeah, yeah, 00:44:35.489 --> 00:44:37.949 that is just, and I'm not even like a dead head, 00:44:38.929 --> 00:44:43.309 but the Sphere is probably the most incredible... 00:44:43.309 --> 00:44:45.909 Dude, bucket list for me. ...thing that I've 00:44:45.909 --> 00:44:50.360 ever seen. on its own, but then you take The 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:54.199 Dead and their classic, you know, jam music lends 00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:57.920 itself to being submersed in graphics more than 00:44:57.920 --> 00:44:59.599 any other kind of music you could imagine. If 00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.199 there ever was a perfect venue, or I'm sorry, 00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:04.659 if there ever was a perfect band for that venue, 00:45:04.820 --> 00:45:06.159 it's like Pink Floyd or The Grateful Dead. And 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:07.820 here's the thing, we got there and we're like, 00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:10.400 we learned it was a four hour show, and my wife 00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:11.900 and I are both like, we're not huge Dead fans, 00:45:12.019 --> 00:45:14.440 like are we gonna, is this gonna be fucking painful 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.480 to sit here for four hours, you know? No. It 00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:20.639 flew by like that. Sure. And I gotta say from 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:22.800 a nerd, I'm sitting there watching these things 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:24.559 and you know, they've got graphics and things 00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:26.239 and even you go to all kinds of shows and they've 00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:28.659 got background graphics that they've pre -produced 00:45:28.659 --> 00:45:29.800 and they're doing all these different things. 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:33.440 The graphics there at the Sphere went with the 00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:36.840 music. So it was tied to that and in the pre 00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.260 -produced animations and the crazy shit that's 00:45:39.260 --> 00:45:41.820 happening on the screen, they're mixing in live 00:45:41.820 --> 00:45:45.199 camera feeds of the musicians. So you see the 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:47.980 musicians floating around in the screen. At one 00:45:47.980 --> 00:45:52.440 point, they did this thing where they took the 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:58.039 live video feed and built it out of dead bears. 00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:01.460 You know how they make pixels out of other images 00:46:01.460 --> 00:46:05.340 to do that sort of thing? They did that for all 00:46:05.340 --> 00:46:10.710 of that. It was incredible. That's amazing. That 00:46:10.710 --> 00:46:13.090 is next level. It's like John Mayer playing the 00:46:13.090 --> 00:46:15.849 guitar, but made out of is that bears? Did you 00:46:15.849 --> 00:46:17.449 see anybody getting like sick? I heard there 00:46:17.449 --> 00:46:19.769 was like a that each show There's like a portion 00:46:19.769 --> 00:46:22.130 of people that have to like it's like causing 00:46:22.130 --> 00:46:25.909 migraines or people to pass out I will say that 00:46:25.909 --> 00:46:29.230 like if you're somebody that has an issue with 00:46:29.230 --> 00:46:34.550 Heights You know or steep things like if you 00:46:34.550 --> 00:46:36.190 go to some of these stadiums and they're real 00:46:36.190 --> 00:46:38.090 high and you feel uncomfortable You're really 00:46:38.090 --> 00:46:41.309 not gonna like the higher sections of this Yeah, 00:46:41.389 --> 00:46:43.030 which unfortunately are some of the best views 00:46:43.030 --> 00:46:44.849 because it's like sort of the middle sort of 00:46:44.849 --> 00:46:47.550 the the higher up It's very steep. Okay, so if 00:46:47.550 --> 00:46:50.389 you're one of those people that gets eerie about 00:46:50.389 --> 00:46:52.389 sort of steep The only time that happened to 00:46:52.389 --> 00:46:55.909 me is I saw in 06 I saw Billy Joel at the the 00:46:55.909 --> 00:46:58.670 carrier dome. Yeah, now the JMA wireless dome 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:01.059 That was before they renovated, and we were way 00:47:01.059 --> 00:47:04.679 up, and it felt like this. I don't like that 00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:07.559 at all. I don't get comfortable in that. But 00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:09.019 here's the thing in the Sphere, if you want, 00:47:09.420 --> 00:47:11.519 you can have phenomenal seats on the slightly 00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:13.719 lower level, as long as you aim towards the middle. 00:47:14.300 --> 00:47:16.059 And the reality is, when we went to the Dead 00:47:16.059 --> 00:47:18.099 Show, we were actually way over to the side. 00:47:18.219 --> 00:47:22.659 It was probably the least good view, and it was 00:47:22.659 --> 00:47:26.260 a phenomenal view. Yeah. That's amazing. You 00:47:26.260 --> 00:47:29.139 know, that question has ruined my day because 00:47:29.139 --> 00:47:31.699 now, as soon as we go off the air here, I'm going 00:47:31.699 --> 00:47:33.480 to think about 10 other bands I could have mentioned, 00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:35.320 like Foo Fighters, another honorable mention. 00:47:35.860 --> 00:47:37.519 Foo Fighters? I can't get away from Metallica, 00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:40.179 but I know there's one I'm missing. I know, but 00:47:40.179 --> 00:47:41.880 there might be one that topped them. I feel like 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.039 there was one, for a while, believe it or not, 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.619 I can't believe it, it was Kid Rock. It was just 00:47:47.619 --> 00:47:48.780 absolutely incredible. We'll just have to save 00:47:48.780 --> 00:47:51.699 that for another edition. Absolutely. Anything 00:47:51.699 --> 00:47:56.570 else, buddy? Nope. All right. Well, thank you 00:47:56.570 --> 00:47:58.349 for joining us here on Good News York, sponsored 00:47:58.349 --> 00:48:01.030 by Ads on the Go. Get ads on the go .com. Zach, 00:48:01.449 --> 00:48:06.630 we love you. Zach Primo. And we'll be back tomorrow 00:48:06.630 --> 00:48:09.949 and Thursday with guests and all sorts of shit. 00:48:11.489 --> 00:48:11.929 Peace out.