What's up everybody welcome to good news York,
I'm Matt major. I'm from vacation joined by my
Buddy who looks the same as he did when I left
Mike Brindisi is sitting to my left. Yeah, buddy
chillin. What's up, dude? We're back. We got
a new mic on yeah. Yeah, we do Thanks, Danny.
We have these are like how I leave town and come
back and you guys have bought real equipment
Yeah, we don't mess around around here It is
good news York sponsored by ads on the go get
ads on the go comm get ads on the go. Dude, it
feels good to be back. And again, you know I
love when we have guests and we have a bunch
of guests coming up this week. But I love these
shows when you and I can just shoot the shit.
And there's a lot of stuff that happened while
you were on vacation. But it's true. Before we
can get into that, let's talk about your vacation.
Come on. How was your vacation? We didn't really
get to talk about it. It was all right. Yeah.
The kids had a great time. We went to a nice
place down south. You know, it was a good time.
OK. I feel like that's the proper middle -aged
dad answer. You know, it's like, eh. It's more
for the kids and the wife. And it's like, you
know what I mean? It's like, what do you guys
want to do? You want to go down to the boardwalk?
You want to get ice cream? Cool, let's go. You
know? Had I paid attention at all to the planning,
it might have been a radically different trip.
But that's a whole other story. Well, you look
great. Well, thanks. We're so happy you're back.
Danny and I, Annie. I sat in the sun for... Is
that tan? Can you tell? Yeah, I guess you do
look a little bit tanner. I told my wife, we
went to the beach for maybe two hours out of
that entire week. But as I was there, I said,
am I the whitest thing on the entire beach? And
she looked around. She's like, yeah. Yeah. I
was like glowing. Yeah, like when you have your
bare feet, it looks like you have white socks
on. Oh, it's incredible. Yeah, I'm the same way.
I catch on fire. I'm actually not wearing a shirt
right now. No shit. Yeah. You've got a flannel
skin. That's amazing. That's crazy. The tan lines
were wild. Listen, we had a talk a week or so
ago about vacations and how it's like you want
to do nothing. Look, I love beaches. And I'm
not even going to go as far as to say that beach
vacations are overrated. But there are just some
things. I can only spend so much time on the
beach staring at the water. And then the part
that really Bugs me the most is I'm cleaning
out sand from my ears my shoes anything I took
to the anything that I took on vacation not even
things I took to the beach like I'll like you
know open up my suitcase and take out my you
know headphones that I didn't even bring to the
beach and there's sand in them you know I'll
be honest I enjoyed the beach more than I probably
would have even though it sounds like we we didn't
get there very much the one issue that I Take
with it, and I don't really understand is there
are zero amenities at the beach. What I mean
by that is, like, we didn't plan well. We probably
should have eaten a meal before we went to the
beach, but we didn't. So we're sitting there
for a while, and it's like, I'm hungry. Can I
grab a hot dog or a burger or something? No.
Nope. There's not a single vendor of any sort
anywhere near the beach. Yeah. I don't understand
this. I've been to many beaches. It blows my
mind. And it's not... You're right. It's not
even a, like, a... beach -by -beach thing. I
would say the general consensus, they don't really
have... Well, there are a lot of other places.
Like, I years ago lived in Clearwater, Florida,
and the Clearwater beach is one of the best ones,
they say, in the country, right? You can easily...
There's a hundred bars that you just walk right
off the beach, and they're right there, and you
can sit on a stool in restaurants and all these
other things. This North Carolina, it's just...
It's gorgeous. But, like, I don't know what you're
saving, because there's still millions of people,
so it's not like you're, you know, I just, I
was shocked that there wasn't, you know, a guy
with a cooler walking around selling drinks or
some kind of anything. Yeah. You would think
that someone would jump on that. Like, a guy
like you would. You'd be like, hey, what about,
like, a hot dog cart? That's what I'm saying.
You'd make a freaking killing. Or just a drink.
It's fucking 90 degrees out. 90 degrees. Sell
some bottles of water to somebody that didn't
bring one. See, for me, I would have to carry
so much shit. I pee and poop a lot. And when
you're on the beach, that's another thing. A
lot of times any sort of bathroom is so far away.
With sand. Well, I mean the ocean. Yeah. Well,
that's what I mean. Everyone's just like, oh,
go in the ocean. Obviously not number two, but,
you know. Oh, I'm not pooping. You would poop
in the ocean? I mean, no. You're a fucking rebel.
But like, I don't. I'll pee in the ocean. Yeah,
I'll pee in the ocean. What do you think you're,
like, what's the difference? Well, because here's
the thing I hate about swimming in open water
is when it goes from hot to cold, hot to cold
when you're swimming and you're treading water.
And then all I think of is, oh, God, that's some
old guy's piss. That's some old guy's piss. You
know, there's like sea creatures that shit in
that water all day long. Yeah, but sea creatures'
shit compared to human shit seems wildly different.
Think so? Yeah. Also, cruise ships just dump
millions of gallons of people's shit in the ocean
all the time. Remember years ago when the Dave
Matthews band accidentally Unloaded their septic
tank on a bridge and it hit people underneath
on a boat. I don't but it was a national story
Hey Hey, speaking of peeing and pooping you think
you'd have to wipe What I don't know because
I would never shit in the ocean but Probably
not. Well, like if you're completely submerged
in water. Yeah, but what if it's like a real
pasty? Jesus Christ. What are we talking about?
I mean, I guess you could twerk and like get
the water washing around, you know? I got a more
important question. Oh, okay. Has nothing to
do with shit. Good. How often should you mow
your lawn? Oh, buddy! You, my friend! You just
happened - my wife and I just had this conversation
in the car the other day. Actually, it might
have been yesterday. I mow my lawn once a week.
We have Fridays off here, so Friday is my mow
day. I am very particular about my lawn. Now,
my neighbor, not so particular. He takes care
of his lawn, but sometimes he'll go like two
weeks, and it looks like a cornfield compared
to mine. So I came to the crossroads yesterday
or the day before with my wife. I said, you know
what? I'm starting to think maybe it's less about
how much he doesn't mow his lawn, and it's more
about like how much I do. You know, even like
last week, I mowed it because it was on a Friday.
Probably could have went a couple more days.
Yeah. But I like a nicely groomed lawn. And then
we have Lawn Guy, which is down the road for
me, which when I did my... When you weren't here,
I did an episode of GMY where I talked about
Lawn Guy. That's a whole different story. But
why do you ask, though? What do you... I just,
you know, this seems to be a controversy, you
know? And I personally don't give a fuck. Right.
Like, you know, let the grass grow. That seems
like nature, but... But people have a problem
with that. So I wanted to know what your opinion
was on how often or what should happen. Well,
I mean, look. So are you saying you just let
your lawn go like a hippie chick with her armpits?
Like you just let it fly? I mean. How often do
you mow your lawn? So we actually have a lawn
service that now comes weekly. OK. You've earned
that. Before that, the reason that we had to
get a lawn service is we'd go, you know. a couple
weeks, maybe longer, just as a matter of time
to be able to get out there and do it. And the
worst part is the rain. So, you know, it's like,
I get this one day when I can do it and then
it happens to be the rain day. Well, it's going
to be another fucking week. And the rain just
made it shoot up another foot. That's fair. I
mean, I think I think I would like to believe
most of the people that don't mow their lawn
regularly, it's because of time work, things
like that. But if you have the time and you're
like, man, fuck it, come on. And so here's the
other challenge. At one point, I sort of did
it. I don't wanna say out of spite, but almost
as a fuck you. So I've got neighbors who are
phenomenal people, but they're retired. And they're
able to do lawn care multiple times a week. And
their lawn looks pristine. So no matter how much
we do, I always look like that shaggy dog. Even
when I'm doing it at a regular basis. See, and
that is the tough part, because... You know,
there is kind of this unspoken back and forth
that goes between neighbors. Like, the first
time the weather broke for the spring... And
listen, I'm not knocking them. They're great
people. And listen, if you got the time, that's
the whole issue, right? And they got the time,
so... When I first did the first cut of the season,
because I get out there early, as soon as the
weather breaks, I'm gonna get excited, you know?
It's, you know, you can tell that the other guys
on each side of my house come out and they're
like... Fucker, Brindisi mowed his lawn, now
I have to. It's kind of like in NASCAR, the first
guy that pits, and everyone's like, I guess I
should pit since the lead guy's pitting. A little
NASCAR reference there. My point is, once the
first guy mows, now all the other guys in the
neighborhood's wives are like, honey, you should
get out there, you know, because your lawn looks
like shit now. So I get it from my perspective,
I'm like, hey, if my neighbor forgets his lawn,
it just makes my lawn look better. But on the
flip side, that neighbor's like, oh, he mowed
his lawn a second fucking time before I mowed
the first. It's tough. It's tough. But I like
a nice manicured lawn. I'm very into it. I have
sprinklers. I like to seed. Damn. Yeah, no, I
really just kind of slid in. You are full dead.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I slid into my 40s like
a champ, like the way it should be done. I love
a good lawn. This guy down the road from my house,
man, lawn guy. We are trying, my wife and I call
him lawn guy, we keep tabs on him, the neighbors
write me cause they, I have a neighbor that watches
the show and she loved that I talked about lawn
guy cause they're baffled by it too. This guy,
he must work at Cornell because if you look in
his windows too at night he's got like hydroponic
stuff, he must be involved in some sort of agriculture
because this motherfuckers lawn, this motherfuckers
lawn is like heaven's carpet. I've never seen
anything like it. Dude, and every time we go
by, he's doing something to it. And the ultimate
was one day I came by, he was on his hands and
knees with scissors, dude. I mean, this is next
level. I got to interview this guy. No, I'm not.
I'm not lying, dude. I wouldn't make it up. I'm
telling you. And I don't know if I should be
envious of this guy or if I should check his
hard drive or his basement for bodies, because
it is it is a I am committed to my lawn of sorts.
But this guy is next level, man. So you don't
ask that guy about it because I don't know what
he'll say to you. Great stuff. Love it. You can
get as into it as you want, or you can just mow
it every now and then. I'm kind of in the middle.
I know a lot of people that are into grass. So
a couple things. Speaking of, we were talking
about peeing in the ocean a few minutes ago.
Oh, were we? I thought about this last week.
Where is the coolest place you've ever peed?
Cut to Matt. I've never seen him laugh. I Thought
of this last week. I did I've had I've been sitting
on this for days You're on vacation and there
was a post gotta know there was a Post -it note
on my desk for over a week that has said coolest
place. You've peed. Oh my god. I employ these
people I Can tell you mine if you need see well
now you got me thinking cuz yeah, well, yeah
Get back to me on it. I want it on my desk. All
right. I want your answer because my answer is
Remember, I think it was 2008 or no. No had to
be 2009. What's the year? I won a contest with
the New York Yankees They wanted you to send
in a picture of yourself at the game and all
the cool all the like the the the best pictures
you got a chance to go to the ballpark when the
Yankees were not there they were traveling and
you got to hang out in the dugout, take batting
practice and get a tour of the locker rooms,
the whole thing. And I won. I was one of the
winners. So I took batting practice. I was horrible.
But in between batting, because everybody there's
like 12, 15 guys that won this and women as well.
And I said, I got to go to the bathroom. They're
like, just use the bathroom right there. Dude,
I peed in the Yankee dugout bathroom where the
players use that the players use now. At the
time Jeter was still on the team and I'm like,
holy shit I'm peeing where Jeter peed and I believe
Posada was still on the team and I'm like There's
a whole story about Jorge Posada the catcher
that he used to pee on his hands before every
at bat Anytime he had to pee because it helped.
No, you can look it up. That's not a that is
a fact And he would you can look at over your
hands. No, I not at all my mouth No, but it's
supposed to help him grip the bat and so yeah
it was like a stainless steel toilet it was almost
like almost like a jail cell kind of toilet which
was kind of weird but yeah i got to i got to
pee where greatness peed what's that like the
troughs at the dome yes but a toilet you know
oh yeah it was a toilet like it's like they have
in the prison the stainless steel like prison
toilet there was no toilet wine in there but
weird i tasted it uh but yeah that that's mine
i know that's a high bar i set but yeah Don't
answer it if you can't you just think about if
you remember now or in 15 episodes just bust
it out um Just trying to decide whether or not
that's even something I want I found out that
my name is pronounced we have an Italian family
that lives down the road from us and they They're
from it. They're from Italy and when we were
talking they said you know you're saying your
last name wrong Which checks out for me, and
that's what do you mean? They said it's brindisi
So I'm asking you guys from now on I want you
to roll your Rs. When you say my that's not I've
never heard an Italian pronounce anything like
that. Well, I think that's fun There's one in
Ithaca. It's Britain's always one in it. So please
roll your Rs. When talking about me Wow Let's
talk about k -rock dude, so Matt and I went to
the k -rockathon reboot. Thank you k -rock and
everybody involved that got us credentials, allowed
us to come there and shoot. We met Jesus. We
did meet Jesus. We met a human Jack Daniels bottle.
Also true. And we saw Alien Amp Farm and set
it off and candle box and drowning pool and nothing
more. That's the name of a band, not... Yeah,
no, yeah, we saw more, but the band was nothing
more. We had a great time. It was a great time.
Everybody, I think, had a great time. Despite
what some people say, I think everybody had a
good time. The local paper does what the local
paper does, which is shit on everything. OK.
Their perception of that event, I don't think,
was one shared by anyone else who attended. Because
listen, we were there. I didn't see a disgruntled
anybody. And I've been to shows that are kind
of shitty. They got problems, whatever. The audience
never hides their feelings. Right. I saw nothing
but people enjoying themselves. Everybody, even
if you weren't there to see every band, everybody
had one of these bands that they were really
looking forward to. And from what we could tell,
they all felt like they definitely got their
money's worth and had a great time. The weather
was great. They had a very intelligent setup
for the whole layout of the whole thing, which
is not always the case at a show. Like... It
was great. Yeah, you know the food the drink
bathrooms. Everything was within walking distance
Yeah, one thing I can tell you that the the local
newspaper definitely got wrong He said the real
feel was like 90 something degrees. No. No, it
was 90 something degrees I thought it felt like
it was 75. I didn't it was shockingly comfortable.
Yeah because that area if you're familiar and
the Chevy court Chevy court there at the State
Fairgrounds. There are a lot of trees. There
are some big shade There's also the bathroom
area also has a big, like, pavilion. So there
was lots of access to shade in that whole spot,
and I agree with you, it didn't... It was more
comfortable than you would have expected. Yeah,
and I get it. I did help, you know, staying cool
with a wine slushie. You sure did. You snuck
that one, I didn't even see you drink it. You're
a sneaky little slushie drinker. I got to agree
with you, man. Listen, I understand that... look
the bands that were on the bill mine i guess
nothing more charts now but i mean i get it there's
not a lot of bands that are still you know play
i mean they're still playing but you know they're
not what's going on right now but hello the rock
genre is not what's going on right now and the
whole thing is called the k rockathon reboot
so the idea was to bring back bands that had
played there before so listen the other thing
i want to make sure i say i don't want to shit
on the newspaper for giving them shit because
i think it's important that we do have truthful
press that doesn't hide the truth. I want people
to say, hey, that sucked. But I don't know. I
didn't feel, like you said, I didn't get the
vibe that they got. I mean, look, it wasn't like,
whoa, but it was great. It seemed like, in fairness,
the reviewers, it wasn't their taste in music.
And that's... You know what I mean? And that's
kind of a weird thing where you walk into a review
and you're like, well, listen, I don't like this
to begin with, but now I'm gonna find reasons
to justify that. Right. As I stand here and look
at a crowd of folks who couldn't be happier and
having a better time. Yeah. I mean... It's a
weird thing. Did you see how happy the Jack Daniels
bottle was? He couldn't have been happier. He
was... Not even sure he knew where he was, but
he was very happy. It was his Super Bowl, man.
He was fucking... He got mentioned in the article.
So did Jesus. He did. And so that means we interviewed
the two most important people in the crowd. We
did. We did. And not on purpose. They came to
us, really. Literally. We went to Jesus. Oh,
we went to Jesus. We found Jesus. We found Jesus.
We found Jesus. Guys, we found Jesus. We found
Jesus. And it was at K. Rock. Yeah. Do you feel
different? No. Me either. But the Jack Daniels
bottle found us, which is also sort of a... Yeah.
It's kind of like our high school years. Sort
of a thing right there, too. I feel like whiskey
finds you. Yeah, it was great and and honorable
mention to the guy that recognized hold up Yeah,
I was gonna hold on to the full on day. We can't
gloss over I hate this. I love it the greatest
thing that's ever happened In our short history
So we're walking through the crowd and We will
put out we got a full. I got like five minutes
of video of this. Yeah counter. Yeah We're walking
through the crowd And this dude comes running.
Mike Brindisi! He said your name a weird way.
He shoulda said Brindisi. Brindisi. Yeah. But,
and we're like, oh shit. And then, so this dude
comes up, and Mike and I are both like, is this,
does this dude like me, or is he gonna fight
me? Yeah. Because the vibe was weird. It was
a very weird vibe. He wasn't getting to the point,
so it was almost like he was being a smart ass.
Yeah. But then he was not, and I'm like, trying
to figure it out. Well, he was trying to be coy,
right? Yeah. We get to, Mike's like, I think
you look familiar. Dude's like, you don't, you've
never seen me before. Yeah, and then I was like,
oh boy. Oh, what the fuck is going on now? That's
when I got the fucking camera out and like, this
is interesting. Come to find out relatively quickly
that he recognizes you from your appearance on
the Howard Stern Show. Yeah. Yeah, he does. He
recognized me from Kakioki. That's one of my
favorite credits on your resume. I'm not gonna
lie. It is not mine, but listen, I am not ashamed
of it. But, you know, it's not like I celebrate,
it's not, you know. Look, Howard's - Without
even going into detail, I think that the interesting
part, how old is that bit? That was 2010. So,
15 years. 15 years ago. Wow, that's fucking crazy.
And this bro recognizes you. Not only does he
recognize you, and again, you'll see in the footage,
he goes on to explain that it's his favorite
clip and he keeps it queued up. So when friends
come to his house, he makes them all watch it.
The queued up part really got me. Because I go,
why is it queued up, dude? I'm honored. Because
it's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Now,
listen, it was obviously funny. Funniest thing
he's ever seen. I mean, come on, bro. We got
to get out there more. I mean, listen, I loved
it. It did wonders for my career in the moment
as far as album sales. And I got a manager out
of it. And it was fun. And to be honest with
you, I was relieved when I found out that we
had to sing into a penis because I thought, Howard
Stern, if you're a listener like me, you know,
I could have got vomited on, which I wouldn't
have done. It could have been way worse. I was
like, this is easy. I'm, you know, two feet away,
three feet away. I'll sing into this thing. Anyway,
it was a lot of fun. It was hilarious. But for
someone to be like a fan of that, that's like
being like, oh my God, season six American Idol.
I love the guy that came in seventh place. You
know, like it's just a very niche thing to love.
And thank you. I'm actually a fan of some Some
very niche folks along those lines. So I think
it's interesting. I would love imagine you see
those people I know you have a doctory tattoo,
don't you? Okay So that was a lot of fun and
we have a lot of footage that's gonna come out
Maybe I don't know if we'll play any in this
episode. But yeah, it was a great day. I had
fun with you, man It was a good time. It was
a good time also into K rock Yeah, thank you
to the K rock and Syracuse and Utica and and
all the people involved And Matt, I'm blanking
on your last name, but thank you so much for
everything you did for us. We do appreciate it.
Also, while you were gone, I wanted to get your
thoughts. I did a little tribute with Danny.
Hulk Hogan, Theo from The Cosby Show, and Ozzy
Osbourne died, which, again, goes back to that
theory. It happens in threes. Any thoughts on
it? Anything you want to say? That's a couple
of people to be sad about. It's actually three
people. Couple would be two. Are you not sad
about one of them? He catches wait wait wait
it took him a second, but he caught on hold on
fuck Mary kill Ozzy Theo from the Cosby show
or Hogan Mary or any or killing. I don't want
this is a bad game. I'm a straight man No Hulk
Hogan was a piece of shit. It's the thing I know
and listen I know I know I posted a tribute to
him and there were a couple people that were
like what the hell man I was like look This guy
was my fucking hero when I was a kid. If you
were a kid watching wrestling in the 80s and
90s, there was no bigger presence in the world.
I'm paying tribute to the character. I don't
know what he did off the air. I'm not one of
those people that, like, I'm not gonna give somebody
shit for being a fan of a fucking fake TV character.
You know what I mean? I was paying tribute to
the character. How dare you, like, Cobra Commander?
You know, like, what the fuck? I'm just, at the
same time, not gonna pretend that I give a shit.
Yeah. Sorry. Brother. It's fine. And that's fine.
Just like it's fine with me saying, hey, man.
Hey, brother. Going to miss you, brother. Here's
the thing. It's OK to say I don't give a fuck.
Pro was a union buster. He was a backstabber.
Was he? A union buster? 100%. 100%. Man. Go listen
to Jesse Ventura talk about how Hogan ratted
out Rattlers to Vince McMahon and stopped their
unionization. There's a lot of stuff that's come
out. Yeah. Yeah. He's a very, very, very. Self
-centered dude at the expense of anyone including
his own family. Yeah, piece of shit. Well rest
in peace. I'm sorry. I asked you brother One
line of beer that's going on clearance soon Good
you deal on real American. What is it? Really?
It was it wasn't that way It was I think it was
called real America. Yeah, cuz that was his song
Couple more things I'm sorry, am I not supposed
to shit on dead people in Good New York? You
can do whatever the fuck you want. It's your
show. Oh, that's right. I own the place. Yeah,
man. You can do whatever you want. So I have
this group chat. I want to get your opinion on
this. So I have this group chat with some of
my high school buddies. And one of our buddies,
we will talk about something and fire off 30
texts over it, you know, over the span of sometimes
10 minutes, sometimes four hours. Sometimes our
buddy does not get back to us after two or I'm
that guy days two or three days. Yeah Is that
is there an unwritten rule? Do you think like
what's the word I'm looking for not ethic? I
don't know the answer to that cuz I am literally
I'm that guy Okay, well, then let me take me
into your brain. Are you like fuck these guys?
I'll get back to him when I get back to him or
you just like I haven't looked I haven't looked
I do it to you all the time. I don't I read like
30 % of your message. That's fine. I I'll take
it It's literally a matter, here's the thing.
It's a matter of capacity, right? And not even
necessarily like time. You go, well, you got
three seconds to look at a fuck, I do, but am
I in the fucking mental space to not just look
at that thing, but think about what it is, properly
respond and do that. And honestly, like I just
am not. So there's all the time and I feel bad,
it sucks. Like I have a lot of friends. that
I have nothing against, and I would be more than
happy to immediately just respond to whatever
the fuck they ask me, and I don't for a week.
Like I don't, I'm not proud, it's not like a
point of pride, but it unfortunately is the reality.
Well that's fine, because I don't get mad at
him, because look, I actually envy people that
aren't able to be attached to their phones all
the time. Like I love that he's like, I get to
my phone when I get to my phone. But at some
point, what the fuck man? You can't crack a joke
and reply to something from three days ago. No,
I can understand that, too. I have a good chat
group of friends that we really kind of came
together around COVID when we were all much more
free time. And a lot of them still work from
home and stuff, so they're able to still kind
of keep up the conversation more than I am. And
I feel like an asshole. And I miss them, honestly.
Like, I enjoyed that, you know, friend group.
Yeah. So again, it's not like, I'm not saying
I'm proud of it or anything like that, but unfortunately,
I think it's the reality for a lot of people.
All right. Well, that's settled. We have a ruling.
It worked. It worked. First time. Awesome. Before
you jump into something, I want to talk. I was
going to say, I have like one or two more things
in the fanny pack. Let's do it. Yeah, let's talk.
So sitting in front of me is this super fashionable
fanny pack. Which are back in fashion, by the
way. Yeah. It's our man, Dakota, rocks it. And
he's the coolest guy I know. Yeah, Sophie does
it. He's wearing fanny packs. Clearly, they are
on trend. I created this thing, right? So we
are, in full disclosure, here at Growth Mode
Content, we are moving heavily into the live
social shopping world. And this is, in many cases,
modern day QVC, or really just the next evolution
of e -commerce. You know what I mean? But to
do that, we're trying some things. And so let
me try to create some products. So I actually
made this design, this space pattern. And I threw
it on a couple things. You can get it on Fanny
Pack. We also have Fanny Packs in a bunch of
other patterns. Or you can get this design on
a shirt, which I was just talking to Amanda about.
She thought it was pretty cool. That is cool.
That is by far the coolest Fanny Pack I've ever
seen. I genuinely love these things. They are
available right now on the TikTok shop. They
will hold thousands of dollars. Like, the capacity
of this fucking thing is just off the charts.
It's also got a separate little wallet compartment
inside. Look at how freaking awesome is that.
That is cool. It's adjustable. It's got dual
zippers. I don't know. I think it's a cool product.
If you want to check it out, you can hit the
TikTok shop at Matt Major. It's my TikTok shop.
or you can visit buyny .shop. We haven't talked
about that at all, but buyny .shop is our online
store that we've started to put together, and
that is something where you can shop for all
kinds of things, including one -of -a -kind Good
News York merchandise. We have a button -up with
both... I didn't know this. Mike? Oh! And Danny's
face on them that are super goofy. They are goofy.
It's the worst picture of me, too. We've got
hats. We've even got Good News York sneakers.
Dude, I will shit myself if I'm walking somewhere
and I see myself on a shirt. That would be the...
That would be like I arrived. Yeah. Next to having
your song in a karaoke library. Buyny .shop.
That's it. Check it out. All kinds of cool...
Random, goofy things. Again, it's something that
we're kind of dipping our toes into or playing
with. On that site, you'll find lots of goofy
things like meme candles. We got a lot of candles
that make fun of memes. And so I can create stuff,
too, right? 100%. And do I put it in the same
shop or do I start my own? We'll probably throw
it in the same shop, yeah. But we'll link it
so folks can get to it for a minute. This is
exciting. Yeah. That's a very nice fanny pack.
I remember growing up in the 80s and 90s, my
uncle always wore a fanny pack. And a lot of
my friends would be like, dude, your uncle wears
a fanny pack? And secretly, I was like, I know
it looks weird, but, like, it's so, so convenient
and handy. It's like being a kangaroo. Women
figured out purses long ago. Yeah. Us dudes,
we gotta just make do with cargo shorts, and
sometimes that doesn't hold all the cargo. No,
and cargo shorts are out now, no offense. Fuck
they are. I mean, you do you. Harder shorts will
never be out. I know, I don't make the rules.
I'm a dad. I don't know who does. You are a dad.
Cargo shorts are in if you're a dad. Also, I
feel like all of that shit is back in. We're
back to 90s fashion, dude. It's come around.
And music is starting to... Pants that aren't
skin tight are back in, like... Yeah. You can,
you know, grunge. Grunge a little bit? A little
rock. I was driving around the SU campus this
spring here before they let out, and I saw a
couple kids that just made my heart flutter because
they looked exactly like 90s Nirvana grunge kids
that we grew up with. I miss those kids. They're
back. They're back, baby! The children will...
the children will be okay. Yeah. Well, I'm excited
about the TikTok talk shop thing. And that is
just more proof that you are always a step ahead.
You know, you are always good at kind of knowing
what's the next thing. And, you know, this is
a new world for me, the selling thing. I don't
know if slinging fanny packs is the next thing.
But I appreciate the idea. The whole idea. I
think it's awesome, dude. I appreciate that.
I forgot to give Danny, I got like two things,
and I forgot to give Danny a link to one of them,
but yeah, I know, I fucked up. We'll do it. We'll
do it, fuck it, we'll do it in post. Well, you
kind of need to see it. I mean, I guess if you
go to my Facebook, Danny, just click to the other
story then. All right, skip to, go to my Facebook,
it's the last thing I posted about Metallica.
But in the meantime, while he's looking that
up, this is kind of cool. Amanda, our assistant,
who's amazing, dropped this in my... Email inbox
off to throw this picture up on the on the screen.
Yeah, so check it out You know the Baldwin brothers
the actors, you know the whole family. They're
from Syracuse I know this and there was a rumor
going around that they named Baldwin's will because
of them, but I don't believe that it's false
Okay, thank you Two of the famous Baldwin Brothers
are set to face off in the Central New York Pickleball
event. Alec Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin are gonna
play against each other in a friendly competition
at the first ever Burnin' Baldwin Brothers Celebrity
Pickleball bash in Skinny Atlas August 22nd and
23rd at 1957 Pine Grove Road, Lake Skinny Atlas.
There's gonna be other celebrities there. There's
going to be, player registration actually is
$1 ,000 which includes access to all weekend
events and dinner. To attend as a spectator tickets
are only 50 bucks proceeds are going to the Baldwin
fund, which is their fund After their mother
Carol Baldwin who passed away for breast cancer.
Yeah, huge Huge charitable organization. So check
that out and I reached out to I think it's Beth
Baldwin the sister who is the chair the head
of the Baldwin Foundation Trying to get her on
the show to talk about that. We love that. So
Yeah, pretty cool Funny story, I was at a charity
event earlier this year, and Stephen Baldwin
was there. Really? Casually, just like everybody
else. I didn't talk to him. Here's the thing.
It was one of those things where I'm just standing
there talking to folks, and you see somebody
out of the corner of your eye, and that looks
familiar. And you look over, and you're like,
holy fuck, that's Stephen Baldwin. And if you
saw a back draft, then he's a huge star. And
it was like... Oh, okay, that's Stephen Baldwin.
He lives around here. I guess that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't want to go harass
a guy and do any of that sort of shit. I didn't
speak to him or anything, but it was just fun.
And I'm sure he saw me looking at him, and I'm
sure he gets that from a million fucking people.
Sure. But it was one of those things where it
wasn't even the initial, like, oh my god, there's
a celebrity. It was one of those things where,
out of the corner of my eye, someone familiar
just clicked. And it took me a minute to process,
as I'm staring at him, I'm sure. Like, oh shit!
But yeah, no, that's pretty cool. It is strange
seeing celebrities out of the Hollywood element
and just, like, in the middle of Syracuse. Well,
you know, one of the things that's great is,
locally, they are the most famous for this foundation
that has done great things. It's one of the areas
probably... So you're aware. ...well -known,
cherished, and well -respected. So it's pretty
cool. Well, I don't know if we can get her or
anyone from the foundation on, but we want to
try. And not because it's a Baldwin, because,
I mean... It's a good cause, and that's what
we do here at Good New York. And it's pickleball,
which I've played pickleball. I don't get the
craze. I don't shit on it. It's fine. It's fun.
I'm not understanding this craze. It's like human
paddle ball. Here's the thing. I don't know if
I totally get it, but I will say that I have
the utmost respect for folks who have pulled
this off. Because you think of all the little
different types of games, things that come and
go. This has become a sport that has been embraced
in a very short time. They're building courts
all over the place. It blew up. I don't exactly
understand how or why, but I tip my hat to them,
because this is a unicorn, as we would say in
the business world. You're right. ESPN did a
story on it a year ago, a piece on it. Some family,
like a guy and his son. created this game, I
want to say, during COVID. OK. And they didn't
want they couldn't play tennis at home. Sure.
So they they played like a smaller vert. And
I don't know how it caught on. I'm assuming in
the pandemic, a lot of us were tied to social
media and it just it took off. And between that
and the Savannah Bananas. Holy shit. That's a
whole nother story. It's the future, man. Yeah.
Last thing. You got it. So I saw this last night.
I'm a huge Metallica fan, as you know. And I
saw this random post. And I'm waiting for it.
There it is. Oh, you sent me this, and it was
way too much to read. Yeah, I did. Here's the
gist. So years ago, this freelance photographer
was at Madison Square Garden in New York City
shooting stuff for the Rangers of the Knicks.
I'm assuming the Rangers. OK. And Metallica.
No, no, I'm sorry. It was the Rangers, because
they were playing against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
All right. The dude looks over and he sees Lars
and James from Metallica, and he's like, what
the hell? And he starts talking to him, and they
said, yeah, we're here to see Yarmir Yager play.
He's a very famous, what do you call it, very
famous hockey player, Hall of Famer. And so he
was kind of, they were his guest. I got you.
And so, you know, he's shooting the thing, he
talks to them, and then he says, hey, you mind
if I get a picture of you guys? And Lars being
Lars, this is such a Lars thing to say. And I
don't even know what this means. Maybe you can
help me. Due to promotional reasons, it can't
be just a picture of two guys from Metallica.
We need another person in here. So they grabbed
some kid that was walking by. Kid didn't even
probably know who they were, and he snapped the
picture. And he said, for years, for decades,
he's had this picture. And social media wasn't
really around. And so he goes, I think about
this kid every time I see the picture. So he's
asking that we find this kid. He wants to give
him the picture. And I was like, first of all,
it's a great story. And I was like, you know,
we kind of have a little bit of a platform where
we can spread it a little bit. That's incredible.
It is incredible. What the fuck does that mean?
How long ago like this was so I can I can actually
I didn't look, but I can tell you because I know
when Jagger played and when Metallica looked
like that. So this is probably mid 90s, probably
95, 96. All right. So that kid's got to be like
almost our age, maybe. What does he look like
10 always the number I can't read it from here,
but oh it is I know it so that kid is maybe a
Little bit younger than us. Yeah the ballpark
of our age. I'm gonna guess If we found llama
guy we can find this guy. Yeah, but isn't that
cool? Do you think that kid? Did he even know
who he was taking a picture with no, that's the
thing he said he goes I he goes I can't confirm
that he knew or didn't know, but it didn't, the
kid was just kind of like, okay. You know, he's
like, whatever, I'm here for the Rangers. No,
I could see that though, because here's this
thing that promotional reasons or whatever. Yeah,
tell me what that means. They're a brand. Definitely.
Photographers like, like paparazzi, the reason
they exist. is they get paid for high quality
photos of celebrities. And that's why at any
moment they're trying to grab that photo so you
see them in the magazine and it's just the celebrity,
it's just the whatever. He didn't want the guy
making money off them. That's exactly what it
is. It's like a commercial thing. So it's totally
fine to take a picture with a fan that you're
not gonna try to use in an ad or sell to someone.
To get an autograph. Right. Right, right, right.
But otherwise it's something that... You know,
Lars, I get it, right? The guy... Also, that
might have been something that Lars just said,
because he didn't want to take a photo, and they
didn't imagine they would grab a kid and chuck
him in the picture. For promotional reasons,
we just can't take a picture with Metallica.
We're going to have to find a kid. That is the
most Lars thing ever, but... It's so Lars, but
here's the thing about Lars. He's not the greatest
drummer, okay? Yes, did he sue fans over Napster?
Napster, but... But he was right. Look what happened
to the music business because of illegal downloads.
But anyway... Say what you want about the guy.
He's a fucking brilliant business and marketing
person he I've never seen a band more zipped
up tight branding marketing Monetizing the Metallica,
and you know, it's all yes. Oh to Shay That's
different though. That means I'm in time off
so so that Lars could run my friend I'd like
to monetize toilet paper and uh Gene Simmons
will sell tickets to his own funeral. He probably
will I'm that's not a joke Oh, I know. I watched
his reality show. I kind of liked it. It made
me like him a little bit, because I just think
he was a giant ass. No matter what you think
of him, like I said, as you talk about that promotional,
the business side, the merchandising, all that,
nobody matches his game in that. You are 1 ,000
% correct. If it wasn't for all that branding,
just purely the music, and Kiss has some fucking
bangers. But if it was purely the music and they
looked like, I don't know, Cheap Trick or something
like that. Sure. Right? Would they be the household
name they are? You know what? I say no confidently
because if you remember, they came out with an
album, No Makeup. Yeah. Didn't go so well. Yeah.
So I'm going to assume. And like I say, they
got some great songs that I think probably would
have been hits. Yes. In their day, just like
so many other bands. Yep. But, you know, are
they that iconic as they are today, if it wasn't
for all that branding? Yeah, I don't know. I
mean, like I said, confidently, I don't think
so. I think that the whole thing... But there's
no shame in it. Because that whole thing... No,
no, I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying... No,
I know. That whole thing is brilliant. I was
never a Kiss fan. Like, I'm not, you know...
Because it's like, you're either all in or you're
not. There's no in -between. Let's be honest.
They're not, you know, purely in the music game.
They are in the entertainment game. Correct.
And they put on... Anybody who wants to go see
a concert... Anytime you hear somebody say they
went to a great concert, they'll say they put
on a hell of a show, right? It's not just that
they sang my favorite song. That's right. It's
that, you know, they had some kind of shit going
on. That's right. It made it interesting and,
you know, so... Let me ask you this before we
go. You just made me think of a question. What
is the worst concert you've ever been to? I actually
have one, and I hate singing. I won't say that
it's... Well, I don't know if it counts as...
So, at Woodstock in 99... Okay. That concert,
as a whole, was phenomenal, but... obviously
had different artists, different things. Wyclef
Jean. Really? Performed. I wouldn't say I'm like
a Wyclef super fan, but he's got some songs that
are good. Woojies were sick. Somebody that I
sort of was looking forward to seeing perform.
He was piss drunk. Oh. And did no more than half
of each of his songs. Maybe cut it off and go
to the next one. It's wild. He would just stop?
Yeah, pretty much like fade out. It wouldn't
be like a hard cut. But they'd sing, like, the
first verse of the song. That's wild. I would
rather you cut your entire set, like, cut five
songs, rather than do all 12, but only half of
them. That is a wild technique. It's just the
shittiest, like... Yeah, dude. Like, why are
we... You could've just skipped to another artist.
And you could tell, like, listen, for you to
be at an outdoor festival with 100 ,000 people
and someone's able to tell you're drunk... You're
drunk, dude. Oh yeah, he was. I used to get drunk
on stage by accident sometimes. Super. The worst
one I ever saw, and I'm gonna take shit for this
online, and I don't care, because I know he's
a legend, I know he's an icon, but I'm telling
you, and I think it was 2013, I went and saw
Bob Dylan at Cornell University, okay, and Dawes
opened. Dawes was great. It was fucking awful.
And it's because, for a couple reasons. First
of all, he was never known as a great singer,
but by that point, so he can barely sing. I didn't
know any of the songs. And you're not getting
harmonica acoustic Bob Dylan. It was Bob Dylan
standing there with a mic or kind of behind a
piano. It was just like, I was looking at my
watch for it to be over and I've never done that.
And again, no disrespect to Bob Dylan. The fucking
guy is a legend for what he did for just society.
But look, I'm just being honest. It was not a
great show. Let's flip the script. What's the
best one you ever went to? Motherfucker. I was
hoping you wouldn't ask this. All right. It's
honorable mention to Green Day. I can't believe
I'm about to say this. This was before 2016.
Kid Rock surprisingly put on one of the greatest
shows I've ever seen. Really? But Aerosmith honorable
mention. But I've got to go. I absolutely have
Green Day. Oh, I said Green Day. I gotta go Metallica.
I've seen them seven or eight times, any one
of those shows. Metallica is just incredible.
Fair enough. I think there's one I'm missing,
though. I think there's one I'm missing. But
it's hard to pick, but it's hard to beat Metallica
for me. I'm gonna sound like an old man, but
still my all -time favorite will always be that
Woodstock 99, that whole festival. And I honestly
don't... go to enough festivals or anything like
that since, which is a regret of mine. But if
I had to pick a single concert, that's a whole
weekend thing, right? So if I had to pick a single
one, I gotta say it's gotta be Dead in Company
that I saw at the Sphere a couple months ago
in Vegas. With Mayor, John Mayer? Yeah, yeah,
that is just, and I'm not even like a dead head,
but the Sphere is probably the most incredible...
Dude, bucket list for me. ...thing that I've
ever seen. on its own, but then you take The
Dead and their classic, you know, jam music lends
itself to being submersed in graphics more than
any other kind of music you could imagine. If
there ever was a perfect venue, or I'm sorry,
if there ever was a perfect band for that venue,
it's like Pink Floyd or The Grateful Dead. And
here's the thing, we got there and we're like,
we learned it was a four hour show, and my wife
and I are both like, we're not huge Dead fans,
like are we gonna, is this gonna be fucking painful
to sit here for four hours, you know? No. It
flew by like that. Sure. And I gotta say from
a nerd, I'm sitting there watching these things
and you know, they've got graphics and things
and even you go to all kinds of shows and they've
got background graphics that they've pre -produced
and they're doing all these different things.
The graphics there at the Sphere went with the
music. So it was tied to that and in the pre
-produced animations and the crazy shit that's
happening on the screen, they're mixing in live
camera feeds of the musicians. So you see the
musicians floating around in the screen. At one
point, they did this thing where they took the
live video feed and built it out of dead bears.
You know how they make pixels out of other images
to do that sort of thing? They did that for all
of that. It was incredible. That's amazing. That
is next level. It's like John Mayer playing the
guitar, but made out of is that bears? Did you
see anybody getting like sick? I heard there
was like a that each show There's like a portion
of people that have to like it's like causing
migraines or people to pass out I will say that
like if you're somebody that has an issue with
Heights You know or steep things like if you
go to some of these stadiums and they're real
high and you feel uncomfortable You're really
not gonna like the higher sections of this Yeah,
which unfortunately are some of the best views
because it's like sort of the middle sort of
the the higher up It's very steep. Okay, so if
you're one of those people that gets eerie about
sort of steep The only time that happened to
me is I saw in 06 I saw Billy Joel at the the
carrier dome. Yeah, now the JMA wireless dome
That was before they renovated, and we were way
up, and it felt like this. I don't like that
at all. I don't get comfortable in that. But
here's the thing in the Sphere, if you want,
you can have phenomenal seats on the slightly
lower level, as long as you aim towards the middle.
And the reality is, when we went to the Dead
Show, we were actually way over to the side.
It was probably the least good view, and it was
a phenomenal view. Yeah. That's amazing. You
know, that question has ruined my day because
now, as soon as we go off the air here, I'm going
to think about 10 other bands I could have mentioned,
like Foo Fighters, another honorable mention.
Foo Fighters? I can't get away from Metallica,
but I know there's one I'm missing. I know, but
there might be one that topped them. I feel like
there was one, for a while, believe it or not,
I can't believe it, it was Kid Rock. It was just
absolutely incredible. We'll just have to save
that for another edition. Absolutely. Anything
else, buddy? Nope. All right. Well, thank you
for joining us here on Good News York, sponsored
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we love you. Zach Primo. And we'll be back tomorrow
and Thursday with guests and all sorts of shit.
Peace out.